Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. BOBBY SOX “I want to transfer to another class. Miss Larrabee. I’ve taken psychology for two semesters now and I still don’t know how to handle Alvin!” CROSS TOWN By Roland Coe ‘Watch your car, mister?” NANCY tty Ernie tSmhmUler SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK Blue Ribbon Doily Easy to Crochet Blue Ribbon Doily. H ERE is a beautiful crocheted doily that’s a blue ribbon win ner in any language. This 21-inch centerpiece is a striking combina tion of the popcorn stitch and the classical pineapple design. You’ll find it simple to do, too! When washing men’s, and boys’ overalls lay them on the wash board or any flat surface and scrub them with a scrubbing brush and lots of good suds. It makes washing easier. —•— Hold artificial flowers a safe distance away from a steaming teakettle, and stSam will coax out the wrinkles. If edges are soiled, trim them down and ruffle them anew over the edge of scissors. —•— To grow ivy in water, put in one teaspoon of liquid plant food to each part of water used and let it alone. No changing of water is re quired. From time to time, as the water evaporates, add more of the plant food in proportion to the water added. —•— The dress you just bought will wear longer if you will take the trouble,to secure dangling threads. Pull the thread ends to the inside and tie securely. Or, run them through a needle and fasten with a few over-and-over stitches. —•— Book shelves should be cleaned and painted, and books frequently dusted, to prevent the breeding of moths, silverfish, or other book de vouring insects. —•— When the family tires of the usual breakfast food, serve big bowls of freshly popped corn with milk or cream, and sugar. It is a swell change. —•— You can make dress and apron pockets more sturdy by laying a piece of tape on the underside of the garment in line with the pock et top Stitch it in with the comers. —•— Remember how you fenced baby in with a flexible gate? Look the old thing up and put it to a brand new use in your garden or at the side of the house. Fasten securely as usual with fastenings at top and bottom instead of at opposite sides. Paint it the color of your house and let a climbing rose grow over it. —•— Small cuts, cracks, or scratches in the surface of linoleum can be partly healed by occasionally rub bing with boiled linseed oil. Have the surface clean' and dry before rubbing in the oil. Wipe off any oil left on the surface afterward with a soft cloth. Allow the area to dry 48 hours before washing again. To obtain complete crocheting instruc tions for the Blue Ribbon Centerpiece (Pattern No. 5632) send 16 cents in coin, your name, address and the pattern number. SEWI«:C CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK 530 South Wells St. Chicago 7, 111. Enclose 16 cents for Pattern. No Name_ Address- Rastus Sure Knew What Platform Was Used For! On a train going from one cotton picking job to another a couple of colored boys were talking politics. Rastus, who wanted to see one of the local incumbents re-elected, was giving his friend, Sam, a red hot sales talk on his candidate. “Well,” Sam agreed after lis tening for some time, “ah guess he’s all right — but ah sho don’t like his platform.” “Platfo'm!” snorted Rastus. “Platfo’m! Say, don’t you know dat a political platfo’m is jes like a platfo’m on one of dese yere railroad cahs—hit ain’t meant to stand on, hit’s jes meant to git in on.” CHILD’S Colds Most young mothers use this modern way to relieve miseries of children’s colds. At bedtime they rub Vicks VapoRub on throat, chest and back. Grand relief starts as VapoRub... PENETRATES to upper bronchial tubes with its special medicinal vapors, STIMULATES chest and back sur faces like a warming poultice. Often by morning most of the misery of the cold is gone 1 Remember— ONLY VAPORUB Gives You this spe cial double action. It’s time-tested, home-proved... the best-known home remedy for reiiev- * A m aj 0* ing miseries of m# f 9 children’s colds. ▼ VAPORUB TONIGHT TOMORROW AIRIOHT Deptndablt 4//-VIGKTML8 LAXATIVI CAVflOW. t«CI OMIT A* •••Kit* SCRATCHING LOOKS BAD Don't do it. When your head itches from dry scalp, do thia —rub in just a few dropa of MOWOllNa HAIW TONIC ONLY A MEMORY now-the days when you had to take "sec ond choice” flashlight batteries —or none! For "Eveready" Batteries are back! You can buy them. Ask for them at your dealer’s. The more important your flashlight is to you, the more this news will mean. For the world’s largest-selling flashlight battery has never had an equal. EVEREADY _ : y Ks / TRADE-IWI/vVlK The word "Eveready” is a registered trade-mark oj Katioaai Carbon Company. Inc. RENFRO VALLEY Jubilee... FEB. 20 to 24 RENFRO VALLEY Folks will broadcast an old-fashioned “play party” next week, Feb. 20, to start their 165th Anniversary Jubilee. It was just 166 years ago that John Renfro first settled this famous Kentucky valley. RENFRO VALLEY’S Blue Mountain Girls, Virginia Sutton, left, and Bernice Scott, show how their ancestors made biscuits when the famous settlement was founded. They’ll bake and serve biscuits before the old-time fox hunt Friday, Feb. 22. RENFRO VALLEY FOLKS ARE PRESENTED 6 MORNINGS EACH WEEK, WEDNESDAY THRO SUN DAY BY BALLARD’S OBELISK FLOUR. Elsie Behrens is showing her husband, Jerry, how they played the dulcimer, early American stringed instrument, back 165 years ago. These Renfro Valley sweethearts are beard each week over CBS at 7:15 a.m. CST, 8:15 EST, Wed. thru Sat.—8:15 a.m. CST, 9:16 EST, Sundav.