Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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4 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1950 THE NEWBERRY SUN Be THRIFTY in FIFTY! Don’t Throw Your Old Shoes Away! Bring them to us for complete rebuilding from tip to heel. We use only the finest leather and we offer quality workmanship. New shoes are expen sive, so bring those old favorites out of the closet. There’s still bad weather ahead. Prepare for it now by having your family’s shoes repaired. Reagins Shoe Shop MAIN STREET PHONE 1278 AUDITOR’S 1950 TAX ASSESSMENT NOTICE Returns of all personal property and real estate, poll and road tax, are to be made at the County Au ditor’s Office beginning: January 1st, 1950 through February 28th, 1950 All able-bodied male citizens between the ages of twenty-one and sixty are liable to $1.00 pole tax; all persons between the ages of twenty-one and fifty outside of incorporated towns are liable to pay com mutation (road) tax of $1.00. All dogs are to be assessed at $1.00 each. All returns are to be made by School Districts. Your failure to make return calls for penalty as pre scribed by law. This is land year- It is very important that all tax payers make tax returns before Febru ary 28th, 1950. PINCKNEY N. ABRAMS County Auditor - Flowers and Gifts for All Occasions CARTER’S Day Phone 719 — Night 6212 TWO HEADS ARE BETTER There’s a sign in a Boston barber shop, reading, “We need your head to run our business.” If you need some advice about financing, you are always welcome to talk things over with us. PURCELLS "YOUR PRIVATE BANKER” . v > Phone 197 TEACH THEM THE IMPORTANCE OF SAVING Children — and adults — with the savings habit are always welcome at this Association. Our insured savings plan is ideal for small savers. Open an account now. FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. Eleazer Is It Goodbye Horse? It hasn’t been long since the horse or mule was a mighty important part of every farm. And we cherished the old crit ters almost like a member oi the family. We took care of them in old age too. When they wore out in the fields and on the 'road, we turned them out in the pas ture to graze out their Iasi days in contentment. And when their teeth got bad, W€ ground choice feed for them. 'No, sir, the dog food people didn’t get our worn-out crit ters then. Perish the thought! But in recent years the iron mule has been replacing the live one of hide and sinew at rapid rate. So much so that I have often seen more trac tors in the fields in a trip across state than I did work- stock. ^ I talked with a large farmer in the mid-state that had com pletely mechanized. He said the 400 acres of land used for growing mule feed on that place in the past now grows pastures and feed from which he sells beef cattle. And they more than pay his fuel bill for tractors. And this thing has been go ing on at rapid pace on small farms as well as large. Horse and mule numbers have been tumbling in a manner that would make one think that breeding had been stopped. To cap the climax, now we read that the Horse Associa tion of America has been dis solved ! Change usually works out for the best. And maybe this will too.. But I can’t help thinking a bit. How will it be when the hurricane of hard-times hits and motor fuel does not come down? In the past a fellow some how managed to buy a mule when he started out. Then, with fair luck, that was his farm power for a decade or more. And the fuel for that critter came largely from his strong right arm and the ef fort of that mule. The com post heap was largely his fer tilizer, and family labor did the work. So he could wea ther a storm that would sink a high powered farm of today But let’s not start worrying about that. Change is usually for the best. And that will likely work out all right too. These came back and started planting lespedeza in their counties. Chester, Lancaster, and Fairfield were among the first. The newspaper at Ches ter really crusaded for it when Ralph Coursey was the agent there. And it spread until now it is a major crop in the itate. As a hay crop, soil builder and soil holder, and as a graz ing plant, lespedeza is tops. A Good Service A pound of sodium flouride mixed in 100 pounds of feed is good in the control of worms in hogs, our hog man, Gus Du- Rant tells us. It is hard to properly mix one pound with 100 on the av- orage farm. But down in Bam berg they have solved that. County Agent Hubbard tells me that their local feed mill mixes it for farmers. And, with their mixing equipment, a good even job can be done. Boys Are Thai Way As kids, we looked forward to- butchering. One reason was, they let us stay home from school that day. But that wasn’t all. We jult liked to mess around when that job was going on. It was always a cold frosty morning. We all got up before day. A big fire was built around the washpots, and neighbors came to help. The most excitement for us was the killing of the hog. At first a good axeman tapped them in the head with an axe. But later we got a 22 rifle and that did a very neat job. As soon as the hog hit the ground, several men would jump in the pen, turn it on its back, and stick it so it would bleed good. Then the rail fence would be taken down at one place and all hands dragged the hog oqt to the leaning scalding barrel near • the pots of boilin water. It was toned down with a little cold water as it was put in the barrel. And about a gallon of unleached hardwood COLLEGE SINGERS TOUR GEORGIA AND FLORIDA The Newberry College Sing ers, an a cappella choir of fif ty voices, under the direction of Milton Moore left Newberry Wednesday for a ten-day mid winter tour of some two thou sand miles. The itinerary in cludes Wklterboro, Atlanta, Plains, Oglethorpe, Albany, Augusta, and Savannah in Georgia; Jacksonville, Gaines ville, Plant City, and Tampa in Florida. The Singers pre sent a program representative of the best in the field of choral composition from both classical and modern compos ers. The group has appeared extensively in the South and East, and was ‘recently fea tured in a coast-to-coast broad cast of the Mutual Broadcast ing System. The organization is composed of students regu larly enrolled in Newberry College, and is representative of the area served by this Lu theran institution. Their per- ashes added. The lye in that made the hog clean nice and white. First the front part was soused in, allowed to soak a bit, and turned a time or two. Then two strong men pulled the hog out. As it fell on a layer of rails, everyone, including us kids, lit in scrap ing and pulling hair. Feet and head were hard to clean; so the best workmen got hold of them. When the front was about cleaned, a good man took each foot and they slid the back part of the hog in the scald ing water. When it was pull ed out that time, we kids were all set to see who could get the tail. With one grab, ' it cleaned perfectly. Next week we will have to finish this. It’s already filled my space. The editor has some ads to get it. For he must live too. formance has brought praise from those who have heard their programs, together with commendation from leaders in the field of music. Some of the appearartces of the Singers on tihs tour are in connection with area gatherings in the in terest of the Christian Higher Education program of the United Lutheran Church in America, which has designated 1950 as a year of special em phasis for the educational in stitutions of the church. New berry College is the southern most of the colleges of the United Lutheran Church in America and is participating in the churchwide program of Christian Higher Education Year. INQUEST FOR JAMES DAVIS TO BE HELD TODAY An inquest will .be held this afternoon (Friday) at 3 o’clock in the Court House for James Davis, 47, negro who died from results of injuries received when he was run over by a car driven by William Leavell. The accident occured near the Post Office at Kinards about 11:30 Sunday night. Off icers making the investigation said that the negro who hod been drinking, was probably lyning or crouched on the highway. Officers investigating the ac cident were, Sheriff Tom M.. Felers, Patrolmen W. J. Martin, D. F. Smith and R. A. Raighley. Davis Has 10-Year Field Of Bicolor Lespedeza “I have never been through my patch of bicolor lespedeza during this season of the year that I didn’t find a covey of birds” says T. E. Davis who has a 10-year-old planting of this seed producing shrub on his farm. This particular planting was made back in the days of OCC camps when the soil con servation service was making initial plantings of this bird- foodi| and efosion control plant. Last spring the Newberry Soil Conservation Supervisors in cooperation with the New berry Wildlife Conservation Committee secured and allotted 50,000 of these Lespedeza bi- color plants from the §tate Fish add Game department. These were planted on 20 dif ferent farms throughout the county. Ellerbe Sease, Sloan Chapman, Francis Scurry and Horace Martin are a few of these 20 farmers who have al ready reported excellent re- -ults from plantings made last year. Each one of these plant ings haveing 1000 or more seed lings should produce enough seed to support a covey of quail throughout the winter months. * Lespedeza bicolor was de veloped primarily as an ero sion resisting plant for use around woods borders where crops are shaded out and ero sion severest, . and for use on other odd corners and idle areas on the farm. It’s ability to produce choice bird feed adds to its practical farm val ue. 37 Newberry Soil Conser vation district cooperators are planting 90,000 bicolor plants this season as a result of the State Fish and Game depart ment furnishing 50,000 plants to Newberry Soil Conserva tion district and 40,000 to the County Wild Life committee. These plantings will go hand in hand with the Wildlife committee’s activities in an ef fort t_. revive, restock and ade quately feed a larger number of erame birds in the county. v BASKETBALL GAME The Bloomer Girls and Sissy Gents vs. Prosperity High School Girls and Boys will be held Wednesday, February 8th at the Prosperity High School. Time 7:30 o’clock. There will be drinks, sandwiches, candy and peanuts on sale. Admis sion 20 and 35 cents. Spon sored by the Prosperity PTA. AV A’ Bobwhiie quail flying toward a field border of bioolor desa similar to those found on Sloan Chapman's farm. Of All Things Sometimes I’jn going to list a lot of the unusual things that I have known of county agents being called upon to handle. . I want to tell you this one now. A few weeks ago I was in County Agent Hubbard’s of fice in Bamberg. A lady in distress called. She wanted him to come out and prescribe for a den of rattlesnakes that she had found in a hollow tree in her yard. They had a few warm days, and the snakes had begun to stir. And Carraway’s phone rings frequently with the widest range of inquiries. One per son wanted to know what to feed rain frogs. And would you believe it, Carraway had the answer from an authorita tive source in short order! These county agents, men of many sides! NEWBERRY? Federal Savings AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF ffBWBERRY J. K. Willingham, Sec’y Newberry, S. C. Seed Lespedeza and Top Dress Grain February is the time to seed lespedeza and top dress grain In fact, both of these jobs can be done at the same time. Then run a spike-tooth har row over it. That kills small weeds, works the grain, ties the lespedeza seed in place, and does the same for the top dressing. Our acreage in South Caro lina hag doubled in recent years. And that has much meaning in livestock and poul try development. But that’s not all. Lespedeza now goes with most of our grain. And it carries a lot of meaning too. It is the greatest crop to come to us in our time. It has gon e far since a veteran county agent across the line in North Carolina went hog wild” on it about 30 years ago. Some of our agents carried groups of farmers up there to see it back in the twenties. Chevrolet alone in the low-price field gives you highest dollar value famous Fisher Body .. . lower cost motoring! • • * For Expert Repair Bring Your Radio GEO. N. MARTIN Radio Service SALES and SERVICE 1014 Main Street Opposite Memorial Square 24 HOURS SERVICE Telephone 311W l* 'i #: r; r ■ ■ ‘ ,,r Si FIRST... and Finest... at Lowest Cost! ^ The StyUlin* D« 4-Door ■ V > CHEVROLET AMERICA’S BEST SELLER . . . AMERICA’S BEST BUYI Here’s your buy for 1950 . . . for all the things you want in a motor car at lowest cost ... the new Chevrolet with Style-Star Body by Fisher! 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