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Tbuwday, Fdbrnary * W23 ' McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCOKUtCK South Carolina. ’'41' / LET THE HESS DOVOUR —4X)— —00— —00— We are prepared to do various kinds of job printing neatly and promptly and solicit your orders for 1 V. Ruled Letterheads Typewriter Letterheads Noteheads •a >w ' t < - > . . ' i • i Billheads Statements Envelopes Posters Circular Letters Folders Business Cards Visiting Cards ' j • Special Invoices ' ~ Day Books Receipt Books ' Tally Sheets Lumber Tallies Notes Chattel Mortgages « Crop Mortgages And many other special forms of printing or rule work. ! Our prices are reasonable, and we i;; i i guarantee satisfaction on every piece of work we do. * v . » » —00— —00— -00— -■k*- McCORMICK, S. C. McCORMICK HIGH SCHOOL PAGE there are many \Uerest : ng French stories in the library. To increase our knowledge of French we are go- mg to read some of these stories. We get extra credit for reading Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame in Warner’s Library of World Literature, which also in cludes some fascinating French stor- 'es. GRACE DUNLAP, FRANCES LANGLEY. GIRLS TO PLAY GREENWOOD. * The girls of McCormick High School, will play their second main basket ball game with Greenwood on Friday, February 3rd. The game is to be played at Greenwood. The girls have been putting in a gicat deal of their time practicing ~~~~ and are in fine trim for the game. MEMBERSHIP OF THE DEBATE They all have h ; gh hopes of winning EI?S CLUB INCREASES, the championship this year and we Th e debaters club s very good to think they have started in the right report that it has five new members way by defeating Ninety-Six. Most students do not like debating,- he J ’s everybody boost them as so we find it hard to secure enough much as we can and let them know members to make our club interest-* that we are backing them in all their :I, £> with these new ones, we are LEGAL MASTER’S SALE undertakings. FOSTER WARDLAW. NEW BOOKS FOR THE LIBRARY. From the money we received Christmas by donation of the stu dents and faculty, we have been able to buy some new books for the li- b:ary, mostly biographies and books on science. The students will find these books helpful in almost every department. Though there is no fiction among these books, the students seem to like them as well as novels. Some of the more popular books receiv ed are: 1. The Heart of Lee. 2. The Heart of Washington. 3. The Heart of Lincoln. 5. South Carolina. 6. Modern Great Americans. 7. Seven Great Statesmen. 8. Fights That made Our World. 9. Famous Discoverers and Ex- porers. 10. Science Remak : ng the World. 11. Jilusirated Manual of Myth ology. now expecting to have some red! enthusiastic debating. The club is, of course, mainly for preparing the pupils for interschol astic debating, so the fact that ’a larger number of contestants will be competing, will encomage every one to do better work than he would if there were only a few to compete with. Our club now has fourteen mem bers. The new ones are: Annie Kate Campbell, Mary Ellen Morrah and Foster Wardlaw from the Senior class, Curtis Bradley‘from the jun ior class and Louise Remsen who de- serves congratulations for being' the only sophomore w th grit enough to join this club. We are very glad to have these new memb'ns and hope that they will enjoy the work and find it bene ficial. LILLIE MOSS AGRICULTURE CLASS TO STUDY FERTILIZER PROBLEMS. In addition to the study of farm crops and soils the agriculture class will, take the study of fertilizers. Th's is one of the greatest problems of the farmers of the south and the solving of fertilizer problems will be a great step toward profitable farming. The boys will learn what amounts of what fertilizers to use in mixing fertilizers of the analysis wanted. After mastering the problems they will know what fert : l ; zers furnish certain elements and in what amounts they*are furnished and will then know what to buy.. They will not have to buy a fertilizer just be cause the agent suggests it. Many farmers buy fertilizers that they do not need because they do hot know how to mix the kind they want. If they only knew how to home- mix a fertR zer of the required an alysis they could buy raw material and save several dollars on every ton they use. DECLAMATION AND EXPRESSION CONTESTS. Much merest has been taken in the various high school league contests this year, but perhaps the most pop ular ones are Declamation and Ex pression. Mrs. Adams and Miss Joyce are coaching the contestants. The fol lowing students have entered the contests: Expression Mildred Below, Harriett Sturkey, Annie Louise Talbert, Lillie Moss, Carrie Mayson, Gertrude Chamberlain, Elizabeth McAlister, Anna Vieve Blackwell. Declamation Frank Corley, Wallace Talbert, „Cowa n McBride, Jack Rheney, Benton Talbert, Welboume Schumpert, Joe Dukes, Foster Wardlaw, Curtis Bradley, James McCombs. MARY ELLEN MORRAH, LEE STROM. ECONOMICS CLASS HAS NEW MEMBERS. The economics class has acquired three new members. This makes a total of sixteen. Wc are beginning a new textbook; this will give the new pup Is an equal chance to start in the new book. We hope that each one will enjoy the new subject, as we think it will be interesting. SCIENCE CLUB TAKES UP NEW STUDY. The Science club is studying a very interesting subject—astronomy They are learning the four phases of the moon and how the seasons change. When this study is completed the members will take up a chapter on soil. They- are expeefng to find this very interesting since the soil will be studied in detaiL SUE LUDWICK, ANN COWAN. EIGHTH GRADE GIVES . PROGRAM. The eighth grade of McCormick High School gave a very interesting Longfellow program, Thursday, dur ing assembly period. The program was as follows: B ble reading—Ruby Cothran. Prayer—All. Biography of Longfellow—James Patterson (original composition printed below.) Village Hlacksmlth—Mabel Lyon. Saint Filomena—Louise Davis. Robert of Sicily—Mildred Deason. Psalm of Life—Morrison Merritt. The Famine (from Hiawatha)— Elizabeth McAlister. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of McCormick. Court of Common Pleas. ALONZA SEIGLER WIDEMAN DOZIER, ET AL. Pursuant to judgment of the court and a decree of sale i i the above en titled cause, I will sell at public auc- tioh on Salesday in February, 1928, (the same being the 6th day of Feb ruary), in front of the Court House Door, in the city of McCormick, County and State aforesaid, during the legal hours of sale, on terms specified below, the follownig de scribed real estate, to wit: All of that certain piece, parcel or tract of land, with improvement^ thereon, situate, lying and being in Plum Branch Township, County of McCormick, and State of South Car olina, measuring and containing Ninety-Five and Sixteen One Hun dredths (95.16) Acres, more or less, bounded on the North by lands of W. O. Sturkey: on the East by lands of Harley heirs, Augustus Tompkins and Benefield Creek; on the South by lands of J,. D. Seigler and J. W. WH- lis, and West by lands of L. W. Lyon. Said tract of land being a part of the Dr. Joseph Jennings tract. Terms of. Sale: Cash; purchaser to pay for papers and stamps. L. G. BELL, Master. January 14, 1928.—3t. N MASTER’S SALE STATE OF SOOTH CAROLINA, County of McCormick, Court of Common Pleas. SOUTHEASTERN LIFE INSUR ANCE COMPANY, A CORPOR ATION, Plaintiff, Still s£ E. B. LEWIS, P. O. LEWIS, J. L. KENNEDY, J. E. BRADLEY, AND J. A. TALBERT, Defendants. Pursuant to judgment of the Court and a decree of sale in the above en- t : tled cause. I will sell at public auc tion on Salesday in February, 1928, (the same being the 6th day of Feb ruary), in front of the Court House Door, in the city of McCormick* County and State aforesaid, during the legal hours of sale, on terms specif ; ed below, the following des cribed real estate, to wit: All that certain tract or plantation of land situate, lying and being in the County of McCormick, State of South Caiolina, containing Six Hun dred and Twenty (620) Acres of land, mor - ! or less, and bounded on the North by L. J. Wili ams, J. A- Wall, Langley; on the East, by lands of L. J. Williams; South, by lands of O. D. White and others; and on the West, by Big Stevens Creek; the said tract being known and designated as Tracts Nos. Ono (1), Two (2), Four (4), Five (5), and Six (6),. as shown on a plat made by W. D.. Neves, re corded in Plat Book No. 1, at page 38, in the office of the Clerk of Court for McCormick County, and being the same tract of land conveyed to us by Dr. W. S. Pack by deed dated Au gust 11th, 1920, and recorded in the office of the Clerk of Court for Mc Cormick County, in Book No. 6, at page 65. Terms of Sal 0 : Cash. The success ful bidder is required to deposit with the master a certified check, or the cash, in the sum of Five Hundred ($500.00) Dollars, as evidence of good faith. If he fails to comply within ten (10) days from the day of sale, the master will resell the land at the risk of the former pur chaser or purchasers. Purchaser to pay for papers and stamps. L. G. BELL, Master McCormick County. Jan. 17, 1928.-3t. SENIOR FRENCH CLASS HAS NEW PLANS. Since we found that we were so far behind in French our teacher, Miss Joyce, has decided to try a new plan for this semester. We found that we are farther behind in trans lation than in grammar. We thought that if we would divide our class in to groups of about three, and each of us study hi s part of the lesson thoroughly we could cover more ground than we could by each one translating the entire lesson. After our lesson has been read if we do not understand it, we ask questions until we a e . ure that v./' v>vderstand the whole lesson for we are respon sible for knowing any part then as well as ours. Our class has discovered that J patience and noble purpose into THE LIFE OF LONGFELLOW. Longfellow, the most widely read of American poets, was born in Portland, Maine, 1807. His father graduated from Harvard College. His mother was descended from John and Pricilla Alden of Plymouth. Longfellow started to school when he was three yeais old and he was pub lishing poetry at the age of thirteen. H’s first poem was, “The Battle of Lowells Pond,” which was published in the Portland Gazette. He spent a happy boyhood in Portland of which the memory returns often in his poems especially in “My Lost Youth.” Longfellow would have gone to Harvard but his father was a trus tee of Bowdoin and' he went there. After Longfellow had finished col lege he married and his wife’s fa ther bought the Cragie House wh'ch had been Washington’s headquarters in Cambridge, and he gave it to him as a residence. In 1861 his wife’s summer dress caught on fire and she died the next morning. So many of his poems are sad after that trag edy. Longfellow loved children and he wrote poems for them such as, “Hia watha” and “The Childrens Hour.” He wrote a poem about a chestnut tree and when the tree was cut down the children had a cha ; r made out of it and gave it to him as a present. Longfellow was an inspirational poet, too, some of his best known f O' »•> * ‘ T’'o Lidlde::-.” “The Rainy Day,” and “The Psaiifi ol Life.” Its lines are the essence; of simplicity, but they have instilled Automobile Industry To the sup time assess: dates fi er of of filing sessment of $2j and assessments of candid be filed and paid on or l .o’clock Meridian of the last in January, next preceding the pr mary election. No vote for any candi date who has not paid his assessment nor compped with the rules shall be counted. W. N. Smith is the duly appointed Supervisor bf Registration of the Town of McCormick and the place fbr) enrollment of voters for said Primary Election add for Registrar tion' of Voters of the Town of Mc Cormick is hereby designated as the store of McCormick Mercantile Company on Augusta Street in the Town of McCormick. AUSTIN ABERCROMBIE, Mayor. C. K. EPTING, H. G. SANDERS, L. N. BROWN, C. H. HUGULEY, C. R. STROM, M. T. TRAYLOR. Town Council of the Town of Mo* Cormick, S. C. ATTEST: J. O. PATTERSON, ’ Clerk. Jan. 17, 1928.-3t. American manufacturers are pro ducing between four and five nrllion cars and trucks annually, with a wholesale value considerably in ex cess of throe billion dollars. It takes more than ten billion gal lons of gasoline annually to feed these cars. There are over 52,000 automobile dealers in tb s country. More than 3,365,000 persons are directly employed in the industry. The capital invested in the busi ness as it was shown by statistics a year ago exceeded two billion dol lars. The gasoline tax for the United States is over $187,000,000 and the kcense tax in excess of $288,000,000 each year. Over half a million miles of sur faced public roads have been built in the United States. Practically all of this automobile miracle has developed in the past twenty-five years. One of the by-products shows that more than 38,000 “offending motor ists” were arrested in a single city in 1927, and that the city has a pop ulation of less than a half million people. * * ' : Notice Opening Books Of Enrollment For Primary Election In Town Of McCormick many a humble human soul. Longfellow wrote of common peo ple one poem is, “The Village Black smith.” No other American poet has equaled Longfellow’s longer nar rative poems. It is unusually dif ficult to write long poems that will be r-'"d, l**Jl ' i the case of ' ’ line, ’ ‘•iiiawrttha, ’ and the ‘ CouvL- ship of Miles Stanish,” Longfellow pioved an exception to th's rule. JAMES PATTERSON. Notice ?s hereby given that the enrollment books are now open afc the store of The McCormick Mer-* cant’Ie Company on Augusta Street in the Town of McCormick for the purpose of allowing all persons qual ified to enroll for the purpose of be ing allowed to vote at the Primary Election to be held in said Town of McCormick on tho 14th day of Feb* ruary, 1928, to nominate candidates for the Mayor, Aldermen and Com missioner of Publ : c Works, of the Town of McCormick. Said books of enrollment to remain open up until the 4th day of February 1928, at which time they will be closed. W. N. SMITH, Supervisor of Registration of the Town of McCormick, S. C. Jan. 12, 1928.-4t. 1 1 ^ DR. HENRY J. GODIN Optometrist Thirty Yeaa Experience. A Specialist Examining Eyes and Fitting Glasses at Your Service. 956 Broad St. AUGUSTA, GA. 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