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Old Auto His Weapon
in Fight on Drouth
Independence, Mo. —C. S. Ris
inger, truck farmer, whipped this
year’s drouth with an S3O second
hand motor car.
Learning his lesson from the 1934
drouth, Risinger decided to irri
gate. He bought a 1923 model car,
drove it to a creek on the edge of
his 37-acre farm near here, and
used its motor to power a water
pump.
The water was pumped directly
from the creek bed to feeder canals
which conveyed it to smaller canals
between the rows of plants. Now
Risinger has four men working for
him and is pumping water 10 hours
a day.
Sturdy, fast-growing coin stalks
sway in the hot dry wind on the
15 acres of his farm which slope
suitable for irrigation. Cucumbers,
squashes, peppers and tomatoes also
flourish, while only a few feet away
unirrigated patches of the same
vegetables are parched and stunted.
“Pumping water produces a
crop far above normal during a
drouth,” said Risinger, “but it
isn’t really a question of how much
it increases production. Without ir
■■ rigation there would have been no
crop.”
Novel Tomb in Ohio
A novel tomb at llnn'jin;. Rock In
Lawrence county. Ohio, the middle of
last century attracted so many of the
curious that it had to be removed
along with the corpse. At his own
(♦quest a wealthy iron-master was in
terred in an iron coffin that was placed
two feet above the ground on iron pil
lars, and around the coffin was built
a wooden building. Crowds poured in
from all directions to see this strange
tomb until the building was finally
removed and the coffin buried in a
grave near the place.
SLAP COSTS SIOO.
NORRISTOWN, Pa. William
Rupp, 17, was awarded SIOO dam
ages in his suit against a school
teacher, charged with slapping him
on the head so hard it punctured his
eardrum.
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Adventure
xrtru " ogTres in
Many odd vogues in tipping, or the
giving of a gratuity for some personal
service, have, come and gone through j
the ages, including the one in which a !
condemned man gave a gift of money
to his executioner as thqy mounted the
scaffold. But the most absurd, which
was fashionable in Austria as late as
1915, was the tipping of street car
conductors. —Collier’s Weekly.
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114 LIVING DESCENDANTS.
PHILIPPI, W. Va.—With 114 liv
ing descendants, Mrs. Jane C. Moore,
who observed her ninetieth birthday
on Sept. 19, claims the title of hav
ing the most living descendants. She
has eleven children, thirty-seven
grandchildren and two great-great
grandchildren. Her oldest daughter
is the mother of twenty children,
fourteen of whom are living.
Wesley Chapman is recovering
from diphtheria.
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1936.
Maine’s forests are the home of tin
lordly moose, the graceful whlte-tailei
deer, the t’ack hear, beaver, Canada
lynx and wildcat, fox, and numerous
other species of furbearers. Maine’s
principal upland game bird Is the ruffed
grouse, which is numerous throughout
almost the entire length and breadth
What’s the Difference?
“I has heard,” said Uncle Ebon, “dai
politics makes strange bedfellows But
dar don’ make much dilTunce when
dar’s sech a rumpus dat nobody kain’t
sleep, nohow.”
fear
“A man dat s easy scared,” said
Uncle Eben, "not only hears all tie bad
news, but imagines twice as much
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Miss Nell Pilkenton is visiting in
Molena, Ga.
jHMjmse
"When anger comes in at the door,
wisdom leaps out of the window"
NOVEMBER
s —Rogers makes fi»*st air
flight across continent. *9
..... . _ days. 1911.
A Jt. •* 6—John Phillip Sousa, great
& band leader, born. 1854.
7—General Harrison licks In
e, dians on Tippecanoe Riv
er, 1811.
ft J! B—Conqueror Cortez reaches
Mexico City, 1519.
9—Cincinnati Sentinel, first
western newspaper, starts
publication, 1793.
gets, gets charter. 1766.
f\ 11—United States monument
to Unknown Soldier dedi
.jjJss. cated. 1921 ® ,VNI
TWO CHATTOOGA GIRLS AT
STATE WOMEN’S COLLEGE
Ipeeial to The News.
Milledgeville, Ga. —The Georgia
State College for Women reports j
-tudents from 148 counties and 121
other states as comprising her 1,270
students.
Chattooga county is represented by !
two girls: Misses Mary Broom and!
Mildred Fowler.
The county leading the list was
Baldwin with ninety students.
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FLIES 3,700 MILES TO DOCTOR.
PHILADELPHIA.—Benjamin Mou
chette, Jr., 3, was brought 3,700
miles from his home in Portland,
Ore , to have a six-penny nail remov
ed from his left lung.
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FINED FOR 7-MILE SPEED.
MUNCIE, Ind.—Reversing the us
ual order of things, Dallas Bush wa
arrested on a charge of reckless driv
ing and fined $5 for poking along a!
seven miles an hour in heavy traffic.
FINDS MOST WIVES
OUTLIVE HUSBANDS
Men don’t have nearly the chanc
of becoming widowers as thei,
wives do of becoming widows. And
the chance of a wife becoming a
widow is increasing.
According to a report issued by
statisticians of a leading life insur
ance company, notes a writer in
Pathfinder Magazine, the wife’s
chance to survive her husband is
on the increase despite the steady
increase in the average Length of
life of both sexes. The statisticians
explain that this is due to the fact
that the mortality improvement has
been greater for women than for
men. For a couple of the same age,
they point out, the chances that the
wife will some day become a widow
are about 55 to 100. On thi other
hand the chances of a husband sur
viving his wife have diminished
since 1920. For a man five years
older than his wife the chances of
his becoming a widower are only
35 to 100. If he is 10 years older
the chances are only 27 to 100, and
if he is 15 years older the chances
are only 20 to 100.
Footprints of Fly
The footprints of a tty are not im
possible to see. If one is made t«
walk across a elPfin glass plate wiped
with a sterile gelatin solution, foot
prints in the form of colonies of bar
teria can be plainly seen, within a few
hours, under a microscope.—Collier's
Weekly.
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The Value of Esteem
Esteem has more engaging charms
titan friendship, and even love It cap
tivates Itearis better, and never makes
ingrates.
Postage Stamps Used for Money
During 1915 postage stamps were
used as money in Russia These were
printed on thin cardboard and bore in
scriptions on Hie reverse side
ELECTRICITY is an essential ser
vant, yet it greatly raises the insur
able value of your home. Figure the
value of your electric equipment and
compare this amount with the fire
insurance you have on everything else
Ask us to insure your household
goods and personal belongings in the
Hartford.
Summerville Insurance Agency
OFFICE: Chattooga County Bank. Telephone 364
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City Registration
Notice
!
The City Registration Books are now open. In or- (
der to be entitled to vote in the Municipal election to ’
be held on the first Saturday in January, 1937, you
must register before Dec. Ist. It will also be neces
sary for you to have all past due taxes paid for the
years 1933, 1934 and 1935 in order to become a quali- j
tied voter in the Municipal election. '
Registration Books can be found at the Chattooga
County Bank and the Farmers & Merchants Bank. I
Be sure to register and pay your past-due taxes I
before December Ist. 1
FRANK THOMASON, City Marshal.
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would nauseate me. I would Just
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sluggish feeling was gone and the
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