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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1929
Page
5
A dense column riffs on political figures and policy, railing at tariff wars and seeking moral renewal. It catalogues international tensions, labor questions, and postwar recovery, weaving in President Hoover’s Virginia camp and a stark SD mountain poverty vignette to urge national self-examination.
Prosperity is questioned as largely a stock speculation boom with little benefit to most workers. Dr William Foster cites 1927 average manufacturing wages at 1266 dollars, 118 percent above 1914, but with rising unemployment and weak real wage gains offset by increased production.
Five Junior Agricultural Club members in Aiken County who grow oat and legume demonstrations will receive free fertilizer through Sam Sherard of Ninety-Six for use with their projects. Selection will occur next spring from Aiken County members. eligibility requires ages ten to eighteen, planting oats with purebred seed, and accompanying peas or soybeans with purebred seed. Members must keep complete crop records and may harvest seed or hay for market.
According to the Census Bureau there were 264 bales of cotton ginned in Aiken County before September 1, compared with 140 bales ginned prior to the same date in 1928. The remark notes that trouble seekers are not the only ones who suffer consequences.
The Johnson family thanks friends for kindness during the illness and death of Herbert A. Johnson husband and father. Mrs. Herbert A. Johnson and Family.
On October 19 1929 Nelson Johnson will apply to Aiken Trust Company for a new stock certificate No 3 for sixteen shares. The lost certificate belongs to Nelson Johnson and if found should be returned to J W Ashhurst Real Estate Agency Aiken C MRS NELSON JOHNSON Sent 18 times.
A church notices list Sunday events led by Dr. P. J. McLean on the topic America First at 11:15 a.m. Sunday School at 9:45 a.m. BPU at 6:45 p.m. and an evening service at 7:45 p.m. The message is Whither Go? A song service precedes the sermon and a cordial welcome is extended to all. An insect flyer promotes Fly-Tox by Mellon Institute with Rex Research Fellowship claims.
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