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f Thursday, April 19, 1928 McCURMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, Soul* CsroTin*. Page Number Fiv# PERSONAL AND LOCAL IHKi Mr. J. L. Martin of Pelzer was a business visitor here last Friday. town were seeing friends here Sat urday afterndon. This is the first time the former has been well enough to come to town in several months, and his many friends were glad to see him and learn of the im provement in his health. into one of the Talbert Brothers’ store room on upper Main Street. It is not known who will occupy the Fooshe building, but we are told that some one is to move into it at an early date. Miss Elizabeth Harris, teacher in McCormick School^, visited rela tives and friends at Belton the past week end. Mr. R. L. Boddie of Plum Branch was a business visitor here yester day. Mr. W. B. Hayman of Parksville "Was among the business visitors here Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. F. Hardy and. Mrs. Louise Lang and two children from Lincolnton, Ga., were visitors here a short while Saturday after- notn. Mrs. J. A. Talbert has returned home from a visit of ten days to her sistei*, Mrs. Roy Talbert, of Winston- Salem, N. C. Mrs. P. A. Cheatham from Abbe ville spent the past week here with I>r. and Mrs. M. W. Cheatham. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. McGahee of Port Royal were recent visitors here in the home of Mr. and Mrs. John T McGrath. . , Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Smoak, Mr *tndL Mrs. McDowell, Miss Gladys Way and Miss M C. Smoak of Spar tanburg were recent visitors here in the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Mc Cain. Sheriff M. R. LeRoy and Mr Claude Walls spent several days' of the past week in New Smyrna, Fla., with the former’s brother, Mr.\ Al bert LeRoy. Misses Emmie and Annie Black- well of Augusta spent several days of the past, week here with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Black- well. Prof. S. P. Clemons and Mr. W. M. Strom were recent business visitors i n Spartanburg and Rock Hill. Chief of Police B. D. Brown and family visited relatives in Elberton, Ga.. Sunday and Monday. Messrs. J. J. Collier and E. C. Rice of Plum Branch, were among the business visitors here Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Self and Mr. G. H. McCain and family visited relat : ves and friends in Spartanburg “Sunday. Mr. J. L. Jolly, Mr. Louis Jol ly and Miss Lillian Jolly of near Mr. L. L. Rankin of Aiken was here for the week end with rela tives. Messrs. W. O. Graves and Dan A. Bell visited relatives and friends in and near Lincolnton, Ga., Tuesday. Mrs. A. J. Hendrix visited rela tives and friends in Greenville dur ing the past week. Mrs. Joseph Hernlen has returned home from a visit to relatives in Augusta. Mrs. A. S. Sims of Leverett, Ga,. was seeing friends here a short wh’le yesterday morning. Washington High School News Bootlegging No Myst ery To Children ART EXHIBIT AT WASHINGTON. Copies of masterpieces will be seen here May 2-4. Beautiful carbons and photograv- uors will be shown at Washington High School cn May 2-4. This is an educational opportunity with a two fold advantage. Recognizing the educational value of seeing good art, the School Im Mr. J. M. Garnett of near Plum' provement Association of Washing- Branch attended to business matters here Tuesday. Mrs. J. W. Wj'lkins and daughter, Miss Virginia Wilkins, have returned home, after a pleasant visit to Mrs. Wilkins’ parents, Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Bussey, cf Augusta. Mr. Walter Perryman from Bor deaux was among the business visi tors here Tuesday. ton District have arranged with the Elson Art Publ'catibh"* Co., of Bel mont, Mass., for an art exhibition of two hundred masterpieces. This collodion, consisting in lai*ge p&rt of carbon photographs!, photogravur es and prints i n full color, made d : - Get a little sunshine. Lander Col- !rectl y P cm original masterpieces, lege girls presenting “Sunshine,”,' s sel-cted by experts and should at- Plum Branch School, Saturday, Apr ; l' tract lar &e crowds. A small admis 21st, 8:00 p. m. Adnr'ssion 15 and Mrs. E. O. Dukes of Augusta and Miss Lettie Mae Faulkner of Spar tanburg spent several days the past week here with their father, Mr. L. T. Faulkner, who is recuperating from his recent severe illness. 25 cents. Mrs. J. E. Bradley spent the past week end with relatives and friends i n Chester. Lander College girls present “Sunshine,” three act comedy at Plum Branch School, Saturday 8:00 p. m., Apr ; l 21st. Admission 15 and 25 cents. Messrs. Dan A- Bell, W. N. Smith, C. H. Fooshe and C. H. Huguley at tended a Masonic meeting in Augusta last night. Mr. W. H. Parks of Plum Branch was a business vis tor here Tues day. Mr. Paul C. Lee of Wilmington, N. C., spent several days here last week visiting his sister, Mrs. W. G. Jones. Dr. W!. G. Blackwell and family of ! s:on will be charged, the entire pro ceeds of which, except expenses, will bo used in the purchase of pictures for the school. The purpose of the exhib'tion is clearly two fold: First—To give people an opportun ity to see a collection of the world's famous masterpieces of painting and sculpture. Second—To make it possible for the school to own a few of these pictures in order that our children may learn to appreciate good art. Why should this exh'bit interest you ? Because, everywhere, people are awakening to the importance of The evangelistic meetings are still go : ng on in the tent in McCormick each night, except Saturday. It is hoped that many more will avail themselves of this opportunity to hear the gospel of God’s grace. Mr. R. E. Coleman of Plum Branch transacted business here yesterday morning. Mr. T\|. C. Wilkie of Plum Branch attended to business matters here one day this week. York. There will be preaching in the Method 1 st Church Sunday evening, April 22nd, at eight o’clock. The pub lic is cordially invited to attend. Attenfon is called to the announce ment of Mr. W. M. McCue for county supervisor elsewhere in this issue in the “Pcrttical Card” column. After completing a commercial course at the Greenwood Business College, Miss Frances Deason has accepted a position as stenographer with Bemis Brothers Bag Company of Ware Shclals. Corley Brothers have moved their stock of merchandise from the J. T. Fooshe building on Augusta Street Look After Your Subscription Now -o- COMING TO THE -o- -DIXIE THEATRE” FRIDAY AND SATURDAY April 20lh and 21st, at 3:30 and 8:20 p. m. You’ll Never Forgive Yourself If You Miss “THE SHEPHERD OF THE HILLS” WITH MOLLY O’DAY ALEC FRANCIS, JOHN BOLES, MATTHEW BETZ Down from the lonely hills comes this man of mystery. Millions are waiting for a sight of him. For years they have heard and read about him. Now at last they can see him. For he is THE SHEPHERD—“the stranger’’ to the hill people but a stranger that 10,000,000 people know and love With him are coming all the other famous characters of the greatest best-seller of America’s best-liked author, bring ing the loves, hates and heart breaks that have made them world-famous! ALSO -PATHE WEEKLY Shows Will Start at 3:30 and 8:20 p. m. Admission to 3:30 shows 11 cents and 30 cents. Nights 8.20—Admission— 15 cents and 35 cents. Coming—Next Friday and Saturday, Richard Dix in “Paradise For Two.” MONDAY AND TUESDAY April 23rd and 24th, at 8:20 p. m. MARIZ CORDA IN "THE MOO/V OF ISRAEL" Don’t miss this picture for wherever it has been shown no theatre has been able to accommodate the crowds. You will see acting you never saw before. _See the parting or the Red Sea and then thousands of people perish; greater than the pic ture the “Ten Commandments.” Admission—Only 11 cents and 30 cents. Never shown at this price before. Parksville visited relatives and good art as creative of a refining friends here one day this week. influence and inspiring atmosphere— and just so surely as people become familiar with the best in art, just so quickly wTl they appreciate the best ; n life as well as in art. I^e do not hope to become com- After spending some time here' petent art critics simply through with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. D. C. | studying the exhibit, but we do hope Wrenn, Mrs. Paul Miller and child to cultivate a large measure of ap- have returned to their home in New’ | preciation. One of the leading crifcs of our own time, John C. Van Dyke, says: “You must look at pictures stud iously, earnestly, honestly. It will take years before you can come to a full appreciation of art,, but when at last you have you will be possessed of one of the purest, loftiest and most ennobling pleasures that the world can offer you.” One great object of pictures study is that of opening the eyes to beauty around us—Jbeauty that is m’ssed by us but that is perceived by the train ed eye of the artist. This is the essential service of all great men to draw us up in some measure to their own level of ins'ght, enjoyment, and inspirat ; on. Besides the art exhibit, we expect to have a May Day Festival on Thursday May 3. Th‘s is tne day for the public exhibition. We urge every pei son in our d ; strict to come and invite all others who desire to take advantage of this opportunity to see something worthwhile. “Sunshine,” Junior Class Lander College, Plum Branch School Audi torium Saturday, April 21st, at 8:00 p. m. Admission 15 and 25 cents. SPOKANE Wash.. April 7.—Sixth grade school 'children apparently know more about bootlegging than any other social problem of today, if a recent survey made by Professor W. H. Burton, of the department of education, University of Chicago, is a good index. Divorces, alimony, sheriffs, juve nile courts. jaTs and juries come next in the minds of the children who fig- vred in the survey. Addressing the inland Empire Edu- catKn association convention here, Burton discussed the test of the knowledge of 9,000 children. One thousand w'ere chosen from the finest homes. 1,750 from the m'ddle classes, 500 negroes, 500 Russian Jews, 500 Italians and 500 Polish children. “We choose the sixth grade,” Bur ton said, “because it is from that grade that they either go out into che world to work or into a new en vironment, the junior high school. “The six things they all knew the most about, in their order of knowl edge, were: bootlegging, divorce, ali mony. sheriff, juvenTe court, jail and jury. Now you may say that of course they w’ould in Chicagcv but the same examination was given to the child: on of Salem, Ore., schools, capital of the state where sixty-three per cent of the people own the’r own homes. The result was exactly the same.” Next in order. Burton averred, the children knew most about “mayor, eluetion, pdlling place, ballot, taxes and insurance” and third on, “bank, deposit, rent, bankrupt pioneer and sanitary inspector.” “We found that the Russian Jewish children in the poor districts knew all about a savings bank but had never heard of a charge account or the installment plan. But the chil dren fiom the middle class homes knew nothing about savings banks, but were well informed on charge accounts and the installment plan. “We fdund that while 98 per cent knew all about bootlegging, 40 per cent had never heard of prohibition.” xxx Famous Harold Bell Wright Novel Reaches The Silver Screen Ozark Dwellers Speak Dialect That Is Scarcely Under stand- able As English Retains Customs And Traditions In Screen Drama Household Hints Mr. R. F. Morris of Clarendon, Texas, is attending to business mat ters here and in Willington. While there has been too much rain the past week in and around McCormick, and in most places between here and the Texas line, Mr. Morris reports a great portion of Texas lands too dry for preparation and plant’ng of crops. The play, “Hero Comes Arabella, ’ sponsored by the local chapter of the U. D. C., was thoroughly enjoyed by a large audience at the high school auditor um here Tuesday night, and a neat sum was realized for the chapter. All participants acquitted themselves well, and many congratul ations are being extended our local actors and actresses. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Dorn an nounce the birth of a son to them last Friday. txt DOWTIN-SISK To keep potatoes a good color, add a teaspoonful of lemon juice to the w’ater in which they are cooked. Rice will remain white, if treated in the same way. Serve horseradish sauce with cold pot roast. Oysteis baked in their thorough ly cleaned shells, are delicious. A fruit salad is more delicious if cut-up dates are added. Too much pressure when rolling pastry makes it tough. Wfrap a piece of waxed paper around your knife before cutting butter into squares for serving. It will make much neater pieces of but ter. The following announcement is of interest to a wide circle of friends throughout the State: Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A- Dowtin announce the marriage of their daughter May to Mr. Cecil Conrade Sisk On Tuesday the tenth cf April nmeteen hundred and twenty (eight Troy, South Carol'na. tXl Fit To Be Seen Ozark folk get their “Sunday best” suits from mail order houses, ’tis said. So several actors in “The Shepherd of the Hills,” First Na tional’s big film production of the Harold Bell Wright novel, showing at the D'xie Theatre, Friday and Sat urday, ordered their “dressup” clothes for their parts the same way. IN CHAPEL. Last Tuesday Mildred Blackwell read a poem, “Work While You Work,” on Wednesday Viola Wilkes read “The Pansy.” and on Thursday Louise Mallet gave a number of health rules. Each rule was number ed on the fingers and Louise empha sized the fact that what finger num ber one, or finger number four or any number, sa d do must be done if we would be healthy. Two or three marshmallows make a good substitute for cream in a cup of coffee. REV. WILKES TALKS TO STUDENTS. Last Friday morning we enjoyed having our Methodist minister, Rev. Wilkes, talk to us in chapel. After reading the twenty-third Psalm, he found in Revelation a verse from which he took the subject “Are you hot, cold, or lukewarm?” Instead of applying this to church affa : rs. Mr. Wilkes spoke in terms of school work and urged us to be satisfied, with nothing below the honor roll. He helped us to see that it is always worthwhile to do our best and to keep our ambition upon a pedestal that is growing higher every day. In closing he read Edgar A. Guest’s pcem, “It Can Be Done.” d Colds Relieved with Vapors Snuff Vicks up nose or . melt in hot water and inhale vapors CLEMSON MAN MEETS WITH FARMERS. On Friday evening, April 13, the farmers of Washington School Dis trict met to discuss the problem of dairying, especially the problems of breeding and feeding. Extension ; dairyman from Clemson, H. D. Wat- | err,, led the discussion He showed j qu te clearly that most all the feed needed for the dairy cow can be i giown on the farms cf this section. | The men attending the meeting were, : W. McDaniel, J. O. McDaniel, H. A. Bailey, J. M. Reese, M. M. Marshall, B. F. Parks, W. P. Parks, R. A. j r <?/VAPOR UB i Buchanan, Odell Buchanan, W. N. i A good sandwich spiead: Mash cold beans to a paste with catsup and horseradish. Add onion, chop ped fine, to taste. Moisten with cooked salad dressing. When baking pies have the upper crust a little larger than the lower one and roll the upper one under the lower. This will prevent the juices from running out' over the oven. If you will let American cheese dry out and then grate it for your au gratin dishes, you will find it will go further than if sliced thin when fresh. Dry cheese will cook very much better than fresh cheese also, and it is much less inclined to become gummy. The combination of dates and ban anas, lemon juice and French dress ing forms a fine salad. sop T. R. Cartledge and Fred Bass. May Day and Art Exhibit May 3, come! TEST WEEK Once more the time for tests has come and even the laziest of us is showing a spark of interest in class discussion and a desire to make a good grade. Next week reports go out and then we can fairly well de termine who, with continued good work during these last weeks, will be exempt from final examinations. We are already thinking how grand it will be to have a few holidays during the last week of school. _ _ Plan to attend May Day Festival Over &M/LUON JARS USED YEARLt Edmunds, J. M. Bussey, J. P. Brun-'and the Art Exhibit on May 3. Dixie Theatre Friday and Satur day, at 3:30 and 8:30 p m. “Jawn, keer ej yu put thet pone in a poke.” “Right skart hot today, hain’t hit?” “I low I hain’t so peert. M’s’ry bin pestin’ me s'nee typhoid sickness hit got me a year come last month. A- arms a-been doctin’ me uth sass,> fras tea, pokebeery root an’ sma-art grass, but ’tain’t no use. Yestiddy evenin’ come dark, I seen a hant! So I air gonna die.” The foregoing snatches of conver- sat ; on, picked up by a famous author from the crowd in a small “cross roads” country store in Arkansas, is a fa'r sample of the language spok en in the Ozark backwoods, just a few years ago. It isn’t Kentucky or Tennessee mountain talk. It isn’t Carolina backwoods talk. It isn’t Southern or negro er Western dialect. Ozark language is something qujte apart from all of these, because it is com pounded from a weird nrxture of di alects, and modified during the hund red years that the Hill country of Northern Arkansas and Southern Missouri was a world by itself, un touched by progress. Truly phonetic Ozark language such as that which fills the note books of its most famous fiction chromcleer, Harold Bell Wright, sel dom goes into print because of its obscurity. The use of “uth” for “with,” for instance, might cause confusion in the mind ctf any reader. As picturesque as their dialect are the people of the Ozarks’ elder generation, Wright’s “The Shep herd of the Hills,” which topped the list of fiction best-sellers, and “The Calling of Dan Matthews,” are con sidered to be the finest ^ word-pic tures of the Ozarks in the language. Something of the primit : ve beauty of the country, as well as the equally primitive simplicity, passions and customs of its picturesque inhabi tants were given the public through Wright’s works, written from inti mate knowledge of his subject mat ter. It remains for the screen, however, to bring ths Ozarks of the recent past before us with all their beauty, quaintness and quality of the pic turesque. “The Shepherd of the Hills,” produced by Charles R. Rog ers for First National Pictures on an elaborate and realistic ^cale and which will be shown at the theatre here soon, immortalizes in celluloid the epic of America’s most primitive people and country, now almost en gulfed by c : vilization and lost. Ozark Life While the film story, like the book, contains a plot that reaches high dramatic climaxes, a love story of except'onal appeal, and much comedy, its outstanding feature is its won derfully accurate presentation of Ozark I'fe. The veritable mine of rustic beauty, picturesque characters and quaint customs afforded by this backwoods locale was fully exploited by the director, A1 Sogell, the art’st- cinematographer, Sol Polito, and their assistants. Great pains were taken to bring to the screen even more Ozark color than Wright’s famous novel con- ta'ns. For instance—the selection of Marion Jackson, noted scenarist, to adapt the book, resulted not only from her ability as a writer, but her familiarity with the story locale. She knew the country and people of “The Shepherd of the Hills” at the time Wright knew them. Hand-picked Cast A hand-picked cast of the best character artsts available in the mdtion p : cture industry bring Wright’s characters from the pages of “The Shepherd of the Hills” to the screen. Tho title role is enacted by Alec B. Francis. “Sammy” is por trayed by Molly O’Day. “Young Matt” comes to life as depicted by John Boles, and “Old Matt,” by Will Walling, Matthew Betz plays “Whsh G bbs,” Edythe Chapman plays “Aunt Molly.” and the other roles by equally qualified art : sts. “The Shepherd of the Hills” is an excellent motion picture offering, regardless of its historical signif icance and local color. But it is as a moving, truly living document that will immortalize the most pictures que, primitive and interesting phases of Ozark life, that it should be re membered and treasured.