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/»Ay Thurssday, Man* * 3, 1928 McCORMICK MESSEKGttR • / I A ath Carolina. Page N’nnilH^r ? McCormick high SCHOOL PAGE THE SCHOOL CHILD. I am the school child. Yesterday’s triumphs and errors both have endowed me— Tomorrow’s advances and failures \ will be my doing. My eyes are keen and my ears alert —little escapes them; ^ 1 Mj? hands arg restless, loving ex periment^ taking apart, and put ting together; My feet are swift and adventurous, Seeking new paths and new places; My mind is ever-questioning, eager to solve all mysteries; My heart seeks friendship with the throbbing heart of the world. I am pliant, and tender, and soft; how will ye mold me? I am the school child. LIBRARY CLUB ORGANIZED. } The student body changed.- clubs Tuesday and since the “Debaters Club” was discontinued, a new club ■was added. This club is under the supervision of Miss Dozier and is failed “The Library Club.” It is open to Juniors and Seniors ynly. The purpose of this club is to five a short course in Library man agement and Book selection.' In view of the fact that the South ern Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges has recently ruled that all southern, tygh schools must buy adequate libraries and employ train ed librarians before January 1, 1980, there is more demand for Librarians everyday, and we feel that this club will be very beneficial to those who are interested in librarianship as a profession and also to those who will gc to college and so have access to good, well-organized libraries. ONE STALK COTTON CONTENT. The Sears Roebuck Agricultural Foundation and the Southern Soil Committee are putting on > this con test. The purpose of this contest is to see who can prcduce the most cotton of good quality on one stalk. Those who enter will probably use different cultural methods. This stalk is to be selected from at least one acre. There will be valuable cash prizes awarded to the winners. MUSIC PUPILS ENTERTAIN. During the past week Miss Stew art’s music pupils have been play ing during assembly period. The following are names of those who took part on the program: May Night — Ruth Corley Shooting Stars Edna Duncan Moonbeams Frances Langley Twilight on the Rive'r, Roberta Smith Venetian Love Song Cornelia Winn Trovatore Helen' Brown and Mary Anna Bush. Sleigh Bells Annie Louise Talbert. Sctiia Mary Anna Bush Consolation Amelia Wiideman. Sea Gardens Harriett Sturkey. CLUBS CHANGED. The High School students changed clubs fer the next six weeks. Until this change they were not allowed to repeat a club, but they had permis sion to do so this time, if there was room for them after all new students had registered. The students have all realized that the clubs are a great help to them. PRACTICE GAME TUESDAY. The Town team played the High School team a practice game Tues day and was defeated with a score of 20-12 in a pitchers duel between John Thomas McGrath and Bryan Jennings fpr school and Hugh Brown for the town. James Blackwell knock- ec the only home run of the game. IMPROMPTU PROGRAM DURING ASSEMBLY PERIOD. Thursday during assembly period we enjoyed an impromptu program as the senior class were unprepared to prevent their program at the reg ular time. Miss Stewart being absent, Miss Joyce had charge of the singing per iod, after which two of the music students, Anne Lojiise Talbert and Harriett Sturkey, favored us with piano solos. Miss Joyce then in her usual en tertaining manner, gave three hum orous readings: Sam’s Letter, Co lumbus Discovers America and The King of Boyvillt. HONOR ROLL FOR 5TH TERM. ELEVENTH GRADE—s Kathryn Bledsoe William Moss !j T Gladys Dillashaw Charles Pennal ! ^ ’ Melba Deason Joe Dukes * ; Lee Strom Annie Kate Campbell j Frank Corley __ ' ^ Sophia Dillashaw Luther Drennan TENTH GRADE— M'ldred Below Edna Durcan Clara Lee McComb Carrie Mayson Jack Rheney NINTH GRADE— Kathryn Reynolds Mark Dowtin Thelma Reames NINTH GRADE—B-C.— Mary Edwards Maude Dowtin Julia Jennings EIGHTH GRADE—B-C— J. B. Baughman, Jr. FIRST A CLASS— Bessie Mae Bosworth Helen Bosworth •Winfred Dunlap •Murtice Hall Irene Shaw . Marion Swaney ' Sadie Brown FIRST B-C CLASS— • Oscar Cooper Carl Faulkner Charles Edward Fooshe Charles Morgan Herbert Sturkey . Carlisle Wharton ■ Charles Henry Williams Alice Blackwell Hazel Brown Thelma Brown Vanda Ludwick Lois Walker ' Margaret Holloway SECOND GRADE— Tench Owens Doris Below Cathrine Price SECOND B CLASS— W;inona Below Eleanor Mae Bannister THIRD GRADE— Mae Coleman Elizabeth Talbert Elizabeth Harris Elizabeth Brown Mary Sue Coleman William Fooshe William Bradley Effie Lee Crawford Belle Hester Andrew Henderson Nelle Fooshe Helen Cheatham Rebecca _ Drucker Mabel Wiggins FOURTH GRADE— Sara Lou Bledsoe Josephine Bowick Connie Lee Brown Henrietta Brown Juanita Chamberlain Doris Charles Sara Francis Duncan Mary Ellen Edmunds Mary Fuller Billy Morrah Margaret Robinson Annie Laurie Sturkey Matilda Williams FIFTH GRADE— Louise Smith J. B. Martin Francis Robinson Frances Watkins Sara Louise Smith Sara Louise Strom D. B. Woodward Benzie Rankin James Hester George Dorn Julia Brown Wiley Coleman SIXTH GRADE— Lorenzo Sturkey Helen Crawford Sara Schumpert Dollie Rankin Annie Sue Graves Kathryne Brown Annie Mae Bledsoe SEVENTH GRADE— Lois Deaso n Minnie Dunlap Hortense Goddard Nell Mathis John William Morrah Mary Moss Rcfsella Rankin Emmitt Sandifer James Willis X New Finish On Ford Models Passage Of Educa tional Bill Urged Before Committee Lights Required On All Vehicles The “proxylin” finish of the new model “A” Ford cars is the result of many years of experimental and testing operations in the Ford lab- ratories and paint shops. Pyroxylin is a lacquer finish with a cellulose base and, like most lac quers now used in the finish df auto mobile bodies, is a great improve ment over the old paint and varnish finishes that used to crack, “check” and fade under exposure to weather. But more than five years of ex periment and testing under all sorts of weather conditions have developed methods of mixing and applying proxylin so as to utilize to the fullest possible degree all of its natural advantages. The result is a uniform, smooth, durable finish in attractive and last ing colors which has attracted par ticular attention wherever the new WASHINGTON, D. C.,—The en- actme t of the Curt:s-Reed Educa tion Bill providing for the creation of r. Department of Education was urged by Representative William C. Hammer of North Carolina, at the hearings before the Educational Com mittee of the House of Representa tives. This measure is favored by Congressman Hammer because it would provide for the equalization of educational opportunity without in terfering with the principle of States’ Rights. “I am for this bill,” he stated, “be cause I want the people in the rural communities td have the same ad vantages as those in the big cities. Most of the experimental schools now are conducted either in connection with large city school systems, or else in high priced private schools. It is my desire to see some of the re sults of extensive research in edu cation made available for the poorer people in the rural districts.” “I am a Southerner, and as such, of course, would safeguard the prin ciple of States’, Rights,” the Con gressman continued, “but I cannot see where this measure, which would give the states the help of the federal government and leave the actual ad ministration of education strictly to the states, would interfere with state autonomy any more than the good roads act or the Volstead Act, and I am for both of those.” Attention Is Called To Act Passed At Last Legislature LEGAL MASTER’S SALE IDLE ACRES In proclaiming the eighth annual American Forest Week, the Presi dent of the United States said: “Every year, on the average, 80,- 000 fires scourge our woodlands, steadily undermining their vitality.” Mr. Coolidge added: “Public agencies rarely provide adequate protection against fire, the t ; mberland owner is too often indif ferent to his property, the forest worker is too often neglectful of the future forest, the average citizen is too often careless with fire in the woods.” " About forty-eight and one-half per cent of the land area of the United States is in farms, but the farm pop ulation of the Nation has dropped by three-quarters of a million during the past year. The potential forest land of the Nation is estimated at 355,000,000 acres. The lumbermen have made a sad havoc of American forests, and they are charged by ex perts with having wasted most of these forests through careless and unscientific methods of logging and lumbering that prevailed up to with in twenty-five years ago. As for ag riculture it too has had its ups and downs and it ,is amazing to behold the waste of farm lands,. New York State has embarked up on a program looking toward the re forestation of its 4,000,000 idle acres, which are said to consist prin cipally of abandoned farm lands. America is now using almost four times as much wood as it now pro duces, while New York State, for merly the principal timber producing State of the Nation, uses seventeen times as much timber as it produces. The State legislature has decided that something must be done about a rituation that is becoming worse each year. The productive farm lands of New York State have been decreasing at the rate of 250,000 acres a year for five years. A twenty to thirty years program of reforesta tion is being planned, and it con templates an actual investment of $5,000,000 a year of public funds. The sun will be used in acquiring land and planting it with trees. If this ambitious plan is carried out New York will doubtless lead the way i n a Nation wide movement of re forestation. This prophecy may seem a little difficult to digest except for those who have seen with their own eyes the reforestation in Germany, France, Denmark, and other old European countries. In the old world they wasted their forests just as we have done in America, and now Ahey plant trees that grow with such ex act regularity as to remind one of our Middle West cornfields. model “A” Ford cars have been seen. Long before the model “A” Ford car was designed, the Ford Motor company was experimenting with pyrexylin. For several years ap proximately 300 company service cars painted with various pyroxylin finishes have been under observation of laboratory in the Highland Park plant factory. On» of tho earliest • of ther--* " fi’"' -ears o’* •*:- » • I posure to ali sorts of weather, still ! has an excellent, fast color finish that shdws no trace of “checking” or ! peeling. W. P.. MeC.i'n, stnto highway '•'''mmiss’ohcr, has cM’d the et^o- + io' of the Lr.urers Advertiser t - ) the net pa~scd during the recent ses sion of the Lnri-laturo requ : r*ng tha* ‘i-hts cr suitable reflectors be plac ed on all vehicles traversing the highways of the state at night The law excepts motor vehicles because they are provided for in arc-*-her act. The act, approved bv the Governor n n March 9th, rerds as follows: SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina: That every vehicle df whatsoever kind, except automo biles, or other itiotor vehicles, while upon any of the highways of this state, shall display during the period necessary from or after sunset, a light, or suitable relector, suspended from the rear or under said vehicle so as to be visible at a reasonable distance from thrf frdht and rear of said vehicle. This Act shall not be construed to apply to automobiles or other motor vehicles, or to any law now of force relating to such ve hicles. SECTION 2. Any person found guilty of using such vehicle in viola tion of the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of * a mis demeanor and shall be fined not more than twenty-five dollars, or imprison ed more than ten days. SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval by the gov ernor. V ■ LEGAL NOTICE -tx»- College Boy Returns To His Farm Finishes At Wofford And Goes Back To Marlboro Farm McCOLL, April 28^While it may be true, as generally charged, that few young college men of the pres ent time, elect to return tc the farm. Marlboro County has a striking ex ception to this rule in O. J. Fletcher, who after graduating from Wofford College i n 1923 has returned to the farm and expects to make this his life calling*, That Mr. Fletcher is making good in his chosen field of endeavor is ev idenced by the showing which he made in the 1927 state-wide five-acre cdtton contest in which he won fifth prize. On his five-acre plot he pro duced a yield of 4,263 pounds of lint cotton of 1 2-32 inch staple. He has entered the contest again this year and expects to be among the prize winners again. Young Mr. Fletcher thinks that farming offers just as great oppor tunity to young men today as any other calling. It is his belief that sdund and progressive methods will win in farming as in other lines of business, and he can picture no more honorable calling than that of being a producer of food and clothing for the world. That Mr. Fletcher is applying sound and progressive methods in his farming is illustrated by his exper ience with his five-acre plot in the cottefa contest last year. On this plot he practiced intensive cultivation which agricultural experts are agreed is necessary in these days of boll weevil and Texas competition. Mr. Fletcher used 1500 pounds of home mixed fertilizer on this plot made up from 1,000 pounds 16 per cent acid phosphate, 200 pounds of nitrate of soda, 400 pounds of cotton seed meal and 400 pounds of Manure Salts. He also applied 400 pounds nitrate of soda as a side dressing to this cotton in two applications, the first side dressing after chopping and the second side dressing about the time of the first squares. Cokers’ extra Cleveland seed were planted on the plot. Mr. Fletcher is the son of Jasper Fletcher, one of Marlboro County’s most progressive farmers, so that the son has inherited much of his ability as a farmer. His father won fifth place in the cotton contest in 1926 and he, too, has entered the contest again this year. The elder M*. Fletcher says that he has learned from the cotton con test that liberal fertilizing under weevil conditions is just about as profitable as it was before the ap pearance of the weevil. “For the past two years,” said the elder Mr. Fletcher “I have used just about double the amount of my usual fertilizer application fer cottjon on my contest plot and the extra fer tilizing has paid good dividends both yej-’-s. ‘•As j resu'*: * my p.."t ’o years experience in the cotton contest, I will fertilize my crop more liberally this year. Every acre of cotton and corn on my farm will also be given STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of McCormick, Court of Common Pleas. THE FEDERAL LAND BANK OF COLUMBIA, . against W. H. KENNEDY, ET AL. Pursuant to judgment of the Court and a dec: ee of sale in the ab^ve entitled cause. I will sell at public auction cn Salesday in May, 1928, (the same be ; ng the 7th day of May), 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 be low, the following described real estate, to wit: All that certain piece, narcel o tract of land containing One Hund red Seventy-Five (175) Acres, more or lessi, situate, lying and being on Long Cane Creek, Waters of Little River and Savannah River, in Mc Cormick County, State of South Car olina, having stfch shape, metes, courses and distances as will more fulfy appear by reference to a plat thereof made by S. E. Rosenswik?. Surveyor, 26th May, 1919, and being bounded on the North by lands of Estate of W. K. Bradley, deceased; on the East by Long Cane Creek and lands of S. O, Young estate; on the South by Long Cane Creek and lands of Estate of S. O. Young, de ceased, and on the West by lands o* Estate of W. K. Bradley and Hunter Brothers. Before any bid shall be ccns ; dered. a deposit with the Master of the sum of $150,00, either, in cash or by cer tified check, is required; the same to be applied on bid should there be a compliance with the same, or to be forfeited to plaint'ff if the premises are resold thereafter. Terms of Sale- Cash; a purchaser to pay for papers and stamps. L. G. BELL, Master, McCormick Cdunty. April 14, *1928.-3t. I hereby notify all persons that H^\ wife, Mrs. Susie.Perry Hagen F^wr ler, has deserted me, and of her ow^. free will and without any fault om my part, has lef' - the horn 3 a.id sup port provided for her by me. ab^ moved to the Tow n of McCor^iick, S. C., and I will r.ot be responsible for any debts whatever contracted by h?r in her own name or in my name. J. W. FOWLER. Plum Branch, S. C. April 28. 1928.-2t. MASTER’S SALE Notice Of Sale STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of McCormick. Court of Common Pleas. THE FEDERAL LAND BANK OF COLUMBIA, against C. C. FOSTER. ET AL. Pursuant to judgment of the Court and a decree of sale in the above en titled cause, I will sell at public auc- t ; on on Salesday in May. 1928,, (the ■'ame being the 7th day of May), in front of the Court House Door, in the C ty of McCormick, County and State aforesa ; d, du.ting the leg ' hours of sale, on terms specified b low, the following described real es tate. to w ; t: All that certain pieeb. parcel or tract of land containing One Hundrec Fcur and Forty One, Hundredths, (104.41) Acres, rndfe or less, situate, Iving and being on Public Road about eight miles Northeast from the Town of McCornvck, ip Greenwood Town ship. County of McCormick and State of South Carolina, having such shape, metes, courses and distances as will mdre fully appear by refer-, ence to a plat thereof made by S. E. Rosenswike, Surveyor, dated July 16th. 1921, and being bounded on the North by lands of J. T. Scott, Jr., and F. R. Rush; on the east by lands of Clarence Lukewire and P. S. Babb; on the South by lands of Sun ny Miner and on the West, by lands of J. T. Scott. Jr. Before any bid shall be 'considered, a deposit w;th the Master of the sum of $200.00. either in cash or by cer tified check, is required; the same to be applied on bid should there be a compliance with the same, or to be forfeited to plaintiff if the prem ises are resold thereafter. Terms of Sale: Cash; purchaser to pay for papers and stamps. * L. G. BELL. Master, McCormick County. Apr ; l 14, 1928.-3t. MASTER’S SALE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of McCormick. EX PARTE A. S. FANT, STATIC BANK EXAMINER, IN RE TH® BANK OF MT. CARMEL, S. C Pursuant to an order of the court in the above matter. I will sell at public auction Cn Sales Day in .M y, v 1928, (the same being the 7th ray of May), in front of the Court House door in the Town of McCormkk, County and State aforesaid, all the notes and receivables held and own* ed by* The Bank* of Mt. Carmel an# all the equity of,The Bank of Mfe Carmel in notes and receivables heU - by or pledged to other banks, the 'agj gregate amount of the said notes anv receivables being the sum of $15,'- 487.62, approximately., A list of saw notes, and receivables may be see* by applying to Robert S. Owens. At torney, at his office at McCormick* S. C, Sale to be had during legal houi* of sale. Terms of sale: Cash. J. W. BOYD, Agent in Charge for A. . Si- FajjW State Bank Examiner, Liquidating Agent for Bank of Mt. Carmel. •• April 26, 1928.—2t, • ’ . •_ Citation Of Letters’ . 4 . '<x -. Of Administration STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, : , County of McCormick, By L. Q. Bell, Probate Judge: WHEREAS, Eugenia Scott ha* made suit to me to grant James Ml Jcnes Letters of Administration of the Estate and effects of ArcMa Scott; THESE ARE, THEREFORE, ’ ta cite and admonish all and singulac the Kindred and Cred : tors of the safl| Archie ScOtt,. deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the-Court of- Probate,, to be held at McCormick Court House on May 23rd, next, af ter publication hereof, at yd o’clock in the forenoon, to. show,.cause, if any they have, why the said Administra te n should not be granted. GIVEN under my hand thife 23rl day of April, Anno Domini 1928. L. G. BELL, Probate Judge, McCormick County. MASTER’S SALE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of McCormick, Court of Common Pleas. S. W. PAGE, against JOHN R. CHEATHAM, ET AL. Pursuant to judgment of the Court and a decree of sale in the above en titled cause, I will sell at public auction on Salesday in May, 1928, (the same being the 7th day of May) 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 be low, the following described real es tate, to wit: All that tract or plantation of land situate, lying and being in the Coun ty of McCornvck, State of , South Carolina, containing One Hundred Ninety (190) Acres, more or less bounded on the North, by lands of|* Mrs. R. H. Coney; on the East by Stevens Creek; on the South, by lands of J. H. and L. W. Lyon, and on the West, by lands of J. A. Lud wick. Terms of Sale: cash; purchaser to pay for papers and stamps. L. G. BELL, Master, McCormick County. April 17, 1928.-3t. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of McCormick, Court of Common Pleas. W. W. PINSON, CLAUD A. PIN SON, CLIFFORD M. PINSON. N- R. PINSON, AND ROOSEVELT (“BELTON”) PINSON. ANNIE MAY PINSON, MRS. LIL LIE V. PINSON, ET AL. Pursuant to judgment of the Ccuit and a decree of sale in the above en titled cause, I will sell at public auc tion on Sales Day in May, 1828, (the same be’ng the 7th day of May,) i* front of the Court House Door, in the Town of McCormick, County cC McCormick and State of. South Car olina. during the legal hours of sal^ on the terms specif ed below, the fol lowing described real estate, to wite All that certain tract or piece ot land situate, lying and being in Me- Cormick County, State of South Car olina, conta'ning Seventeen (17h Acres, more or less, bounded on tbm North by lands of S. H. Talbert* lands formerly known as the Bor Place; on the East by lands of J. EL Bradley; on the South by lands of J- side dressing of 200 pounds of nitrate of soda. I am planting my entire crop in closer rows and spacing the plants closer in the drill as a result of my past two years’ experience in the cotton contest.” Mr. Fletcher also believes in grow ing other crops beside cotton. He p* • his farm last year fifty acres of corn aud sixty acres of small grain and he plants velvet beans in all of his corn for soil building. B. Smith and old public road; anft on the West by J. B. Smith and pos sibly others. Ter As of Sale: cash; purchaser t* pay for papers and revenue stamps* L. G. BELL, Master, McCormick County. 1 April 16, 1928.—3t. jjbjl..,. ■■-..i. ,ar FORD BATTERIES $7.95' | WHITTLE BATTERY SERVICE 622 BROAD PHONE 1166 < AUGUSTA, GA. DR. HENRY J. GODIN Optometrist Thirty Yeass Experience. A Specialist! Examining Eyes and Fitting Glasss* at Your Service. 956 Broad St. AUGUSTA. GA. All kinds of guns repaired pistols fixed by G. T. BAUGHMAN, ^, MfiCfermick, S. C,