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\ 4 Cl ' •N 'utmicit TBUE TO OURSELVES, OUR NEIGHBORS. OUR COUNTRY AND f JR GOD. Twenty-Sixth Year 8 Pages — All Home Print McCORMICK, S. C.. Thursday, May 10, 1928 Established June 5. 1902 Number 50 County Democratic Convention Meets < ~r Fairly Well Attended And Orderly Meeting The McCormick County Demo cratic Convention was held in the cdurt house at 11:30 Monday morn ing, and was fairly well attended, despite the fact that a great quantity of rain had fallen during the previ ous night and made travel difficult from remote sections and a slow rain was falling at the time of the meeting. About seventy men were in attendance, including delegates from the various clubs and visitors. The inclement weather probably was J responsible for no ladies being pres- est. The meeting was very orderly and interesting and carried through without a single hitch. Mr. W. K. Charles, who has serv- ( ed several terms as cdunty chairman, _ was re-elected without opposition, as wets Mr. John M. Bell as secretary and treasurer. Mr. Charles briefly outlined the purpose of the conven- ^ tion and discussed a few points to be considered by the delegates, after which Rev. H. M. Hodgens of Plum ^ Branch made a nice talk on a mat-1 ter of prime importance at this time j —fthat of electing a wet cr dry man as president of the United States. Mr. Hedgcns spoke of the danger of our country’s returning to the old bar-room or dispensary system in case a wet president is elected, and he is quite sure we do not wish to make this backward step. He would not oppose a man on religious be liefs, but upon principles which would prove detrimental to the na tion as a whole and cause the Unit ed States to lose respect of other nations. He stated that prohibition ia the main issue in this election, and he would urge men and women the country c*ver to pray over and think over this great matter and do all in their power to keel) the country from again becoming wet. Next came the election of dele gates to the State Convention, the following being elected: Messrs. W. K. Charles, W. D. Morrafi, C. W. Pennal and Dr. M. W. Cheatham; with the following alternates: Messrs. T. J. Lyon, J. L. Bracknell, W. T. Strom and Rev. H. M. Hod gens. Messrs. T. J. Lyon and C. W. Pennal were nominated as candidates for State Executive Committeeman, Mr. Pennal receiving the election. Mr. R. S. Owens was also nominated, but withdrew his name for the rea son that he had served about six years in that capacity. Senator F. C. Robinson was nominated as a dele gate to the State Convention, but had his name withdrawn on account off having served as delegate some three or four times in succession. Senator Robinson’s suggestion that the delegates vote for Governor John G. Richards as a delegate at large to the National Convention, met.with favor. A resolution from wards 1 and 2 of the McCormick Club to change Mc Cormick County from the Third Con gressional District to the Second District was presented, discussed and killed by a big majority on a rising vote. Rule 32 was mentioned, only, and passed up without action, after which the convention was declared adjourn ed. Mr. Lewis To Address McCormick County Teachers’ Association All Teachers Urged To Attend The last meeting of McCormick County Teachers’ Association will be held in the High School Auditorium r.ext Saturday at 10:00 o’clock. Mr. D. L. Lewis, State Rural School Sup ervisor, will deliver the principal ad dress of the morning. Several matters of importance to the teachers of the county will be taken up and acted upon. It is hoped that every teacher in the county will attend, even though her school may have already closed. Items Of Interest To The Farmers The fourth carlot shipment of poultry for McCormick County foi* this year will be made from McCor-! mick on next Wednesday, May 16. j Loading-at the C. & W. C. Depot from nine o’clock in the morning un-I til three o’clock in the afternoon. The buyer for the car is Risser and Rab- inowitz cf Goldsboro, N. C. Look elsewhere in this issue of the Mes senger for their announcement of prices. On account of the lateness of the season and the unfavorable weather for planting, the final date of enter-j ing the State Five Acre Cotton Con test has been extended from May 1st, to May 20th, according to an an nouncement received from Clemson College by Thos. W. Morgan, County Agent. McCormick County has twenty- three entrants in the contest to date, and Mr. Morgan feels certain that this number will be increased now that the date has been extended. Interest has been good throughout the state in the contest this year, and many counties, as well as Mc Cormick, are reporting record en rollments. Mr. Morgan wishes to urge that all farmers who are inter ested in entering the 1928 contest send their application to him at once. McCormick Plays Silverstreet Friday Last Game For McCormick For The Season Mr. E. S. Prevost, State Bee Specialist, advises the county agent that he will bring Mn. A. I. Root of Medina, Ohio, to the May meeting of the McCormick Bee-keepers Associa tion, which will be held on May 29, at the McCormick Court Hc/use. Mr. Root is the head of the Root Manufacturing Company, makers of the famous Root bee-keepers equip ment, and is probably one of the greatest authorities on bee-keeping in the United States. It will be a great privilege for the McCormick County bee-keepers to hear Mr. Root, and everyone is urged to at tend the meeting, whether or not he is a bee-keeper. The exact time of the meeting will be announced later. McCormick High will end its base ball season by playing Silverstreet High School here Friday afternoon at 4 o’clock. Silverstreet comes with the reputa tion of having a good team. McCormick hasn’t enjoyed a very successful season but being the last, game that some of the players will 1 be seen in a McCormick uniform, they will try their best to mark up a win for their school. A good attendance would be ap preciated. A small admission fee will be charged. X Rewards are offered for finding most things—except those who find fault. . The McCormick Cream Station bought 457 pounds of butterfat on last Saturday, paying 42 cents per pound for same. This netted the 71 customers $191)94. The number of customers was the largest in the history of the cream station, and the number of pounds was three short of the highest day since the opening of the station. The price of butterfat will probab ly decline for a while now as the high producing season comes on, but will pick back up in the early fall. The price paid in South Carolina for butterfat has averaged 40 cents per p< and for the past ten years, and all indications point to the fact that it will keep this up for a good many years yet. Legal Sales Made Monday The Master, Judge L. G. Bell, made the following sales here Monday: S. W. Paige vs. John R. Cheatham, et al., 190 acres land, bid in by S. W. Paige at $1,000 00 Federal Land Bank vs. C. C. Fos ter et al., 104.41 acres, bought by W. K. Charles, attorney for $500.00. Federal Land Bank vs. W. H. Kennedy et al., 175 acres, bought by W. K. Charles, attorney, for $500,001 Pinson vs. Pinson, 17 acres, bought by Newt Pinson for $580.00. State Y. M. C. A. Camp Opens June Fifteenth Seeks To Help Build Boys Bet ter Physically, Mentally, Socially And Morally COLUMBIA, May 5.—Camp John B. Adger, the state Y. M. C. A. camp, will open its fifth season on June 5th, T. B. Lanham, state Y. M. C. A. secretary, announced today. The camp is located in Pickens Coun ty at the foot of Mount Pinnacle, the highest spot in the state. The camp is for boys 12 years of age and old er. From June 5th to 15th, the Hi-Y training camp will be held and after June 15th, there will be two weeks periods until August 31st, when the camp closes. A boy can enter the camp at the beginning of any of these two weeks periods. Mr. Lanham will again be the camp director and he has surrounded himself with a strong bunch of trained leaders for the camp, these including J. M. Spears, Jr., of Berea College, who will be in charge of athletic and recreation periods; Guy H.' Hill, Superintendent cf the Lib erty schools, H. M. Patrick, super intendent of the Aynor schools; Dr. R. N. Johnson, county secretary of Florence County Y. IV4 C. A., and W. B. Mulligan, boys work secretary of the Greenville Y. M. C. A. Prof. W. 0 Blake of the Spartanburg High School will instruct the boys in as tronomy and geology. L. J. Davis, student at the Medical College of Charleston, will have charge of first aid work and look after the health of the camp. Sewell Hawkins of the University of South Carolina will be swimming instructor. He will not only teach the boys how to svrim but will help them to win Red Cross life-saving emblems. Blake W. God frey, state secretary of Mississippi, will be at the camp during the Hi-Y training period. Ma Lanham said the camp was fortunate in having again as its chief cook, Tom Don^dson, known to every boy who has befrn to camp in the past five years. Tom, who is cook at Wofford College, is very popular with the boys in camp and the fact that he is to be back insures the fact that the best food to be had will be served. “Camp Adger is being run for a four-fold purpose,” said Mr. Lan ham. “We seek to help build boys better physically, mentally, socially and morally. WJe have many letters from parents of boys who go there which make us feel that our efforts are not in vain.” X Clemson Man Goes To Europe Professor Studies Textile Edu cation CLEMSON COLLEGE, May 6.— Prof. Chas. E. Mullin, head of the division of textile chemistry and dyeing at Clemson College left Clem son May 4, for New York, where he will sail for Europe to study tex tile education and related subjects during the entire summer. Upon arrival in France, Prof. Mull in will visit the University of Nancy and other schools on the way to Cologne, Germany, to attend the meeting of the Textile Institute of England. After a tour of the German textile and dyestuffs plants with this group, he will spend con siderable time in many of the larg er textile rayon and dyestuffs indus trial laboratories including the I. G. plants and visit the textile schools of Germany, France, Belgium, Holl and, Switzerland, Austria, Italy and England. Prof. Mullin expects to obtain a great deal of very valuable and in teresting information for use in his classes at Clemson College next year as well as data upon the latest Eu ropean textile and dyeing machinery for both industrial and educational purposes. He will return to Clemson College in September after attend ing the meeting of the Society of Chemical Industry in New York, and the American Chemical Society in Massachusetts, where he will speak before the dye division. 1 —X Statistics show that married men live longer—and probably oftener. Presbyterians Show Increase Churches Of South Carolina Add To Membership WASHINGTON, May 6.—Member-' ship in South Carolina of the Pres byterian Church in the United States showed an increase of more than 7,000 in the decade 1916 to 1926, it is shewn by figures fdr this denom- j ination published by the census bureau of the United States Depart-j ment of Commerce. The number of j churches of this sect in South Caro- j lina increased by one, from 286 to 287 in the same period. The 1926 membership of the de nomination in South Carolina was given as 37,604 as against 30,041 in 1916. With 283 South Carolina churches reporting, the expenditures of the sect in that state during the year 1926 were $1,038,442, and the total property value of church edifices re ported by 272 of the churches was $5,341,400. The Presbyterian Church in the United States continued to be almost entirely southern in its territory, all but three of its 3,469 churches and all but 1,900 of its 451,043 members in 1926 being located in the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina. Okla homa, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. This religious body showed an ur ban membership of 270,188 and a rural membership of 180,855 in 1926. Urban churches were 932 and rural churches 2,537. Sunday schools were reported by 2 958 churches of this religious body in 1926, with 37,498 cfficers and teachers and 367,735 scholars. The number of officers and teachers in the Sunday schools as reported for 1916 was 32,312 and the number of scholars 313,165. The denomination nearly trebled the value of its property in the de cade 1916-1926, the 1916 property figure of $23,924,915 mounting to $67,798,053 in 1926. , —X Superintendent Announces Com- . mencement Plans The following commencement pro gram for the McCormick Public Schools was announced today by Supterintendent S. P. Clemons: On Friday evening, May 25th, the grammar school will present “Under the Sugar Plum Tree,” a beautiful operetta. The Sen or play, Booth Tarking- ton’s “Seventeen,” a delightfully humorous four-act comedy of love, youth, and summertime, will be giv en Friday evening, June 1st, in the High School Auditorium. Dr. R. H. Bennett, president of Lander College, will preach the com mencement sermon Sunday morning, June 3rd, at 11:30. The class day exercises are sched uled for Monday morning, at eleven o’clock. The school was fortunate in secur ing Dr. D. M. Douglas, President of the University of South Carolina, to deliver the address to the graduates, on Monday evening, June 4th, at which time the graduation exerc'ses will be held, and diplomas and med als will be awarded. IXt Report Communicable Diseases Immediately It has been caljed to my attention that there have bee n numbers of cases of measles, mumphs and other communicable diseases in the town of McCormick and other parts of the county which have not been report ed;. I wish to call your attention to the law, which requires that all such cases be reported to the Health Department by the attending phy sician, and if there is no physician attending the case, it is required that it be reported by the head of the family. Failure to do this is punishable: t' T a severe penalty. This iaw will hereafi.21 be* strictly on forced, so please take notice. M. W. CHEATHAM, M. D., County Physician. Clear Paulding Of All Blame In Sinkig Of Subj Coast Guard Officials Oppose' Naval Board Of Inquiry WASHINGTON, May 6 —Dis- j agreeing with the original findings of a Naval court of inquiry, the Coast Guard board of inquiry in a re port made public today by Secretary Mellon absolved the destroyer Pauld ing of blame in connection with the submarine S-4 disaster last Decem ber. The board’s report, approved by Mr. Mellon and Rear Admiral Bil- lard, commandant of the Coast Guard, completely exonerated Lieut- Commander J. S. Baylis, commander of the Paulding. The collision of the Paulding and the S-4 occurred of; Provincetown, Mass., and resulted in the sinking of the submarine. The secretary and Billard recom mended that no further action be taken in the matter and that Baylis and members of the destroyer’s crew be officially advised that no respon sibility was attached to them for the disaster. , Previously a Naval board of in quiry had attached “serious blame’’ to the Paulding’s commander for failing to sight the submarine but Secretary Wilbur of the Navy de partment ordered the matter of the Paulding’s responsibility referred to the Treasury department which has supervision over the Coast Guard. The Coast Guard inquiry board re ported that the Paulding was not proceeding at a high rate of speed —18 knots an hour—along the Mass achusetts coast at the time she rqmmed the submarine and that the failure of the destroyer’s lookout and bridge officer to dbserve* the two periscopes of the submarine as she was rising to the surface was not negligence. “The officers of the submarine had every opportunity by observations to see the destroyer at a considerable distance,” said the findings of the inquiry board, “and seek immediate safety at a greater depth. A destroy er on the dther hand approaching a vessel admittedly designed to see and not to be seen and evidenced only by two periscopes a little above the water on a choppy sea with consid erable whitecaps, and those on the bridge of the destroyer having no reason to anticipate the presence of a submarine, cannot be held to be negligent in failing to observe the peiiscopes in time to avoid collision as they approached slowly through the water.” The placing of a submarine warn ing flag in the course where the S-4 was maneuvering would have advised Lieut. Commander Baylis of the presence cf submarines, the report said, advoiding a collision. A sub marine operating submerged shoutd make its presence known in “some clear and unmistakable manner.” said the report, “or to assume the risk i n event a collision results from its failure to do so.” The report added that the Pauld ing endeavored by “immediate and correct maneuveurs” td avoid the collision once the submarine had been sighted but concluded that the cast- astrophe was inevitable. X Rev. Pressly Attends Presbytery And Synod No preaching services at the A. R. F. Church r.ext Sabbath, May 13th as Rev. Leon T. Pressly 'V.’. be in attendances a t the meetings of Pres bytery and, Synod of his church. Presbytery meets May 8th, at Wood ruff, S. C., and Synod will convene the tenth of May in Charlotte, N. C. Mr. Pressly says he is going to these meetings with good reports, all financial obligations having been paid in full. Mrs. Pressly will spend the week end in North Carolina. Boy Kills 7 Because Couldn’t Get Auto Kansas Youth Enraged When Father Refused To Let Him Use Family Auto, Wipes Out Family, He Confesses EL DORADO, Kans., May 5.—En raged because his father denied him the use of the family car, Owen Cb- erst, 17, has confessed he shoj and killed his parents and five brothers and sisters, April 20, and then set fire ta..the home near Burns, Kansas in an effort to cqver up the spying. The youth told county authorities here today as he was ready to plead guilty to a chcarge of first, degree murder and District Judge Penson indicating he was willing to dispose of the case when a plea wes enter ed. County Attorney Taylor said he would insist on the maximum penal ty, life imprisonment. When taken before a justice of the peace to answer to seven counts of murder, Oberst said “it didn’t mat ter” whether he was given a prelim inary hearing. He was bound over to the district court. He seemed on the verge of tears in contrast to hi» sullen attitude during a grilling which followed his arrest yesterday. Suspicion had been directed at th» youth since the ’charred bodies ,,of seven members Cf his family were taken from the ruins of the burned home the right of the killing. At first he insisted he was attendant a motion picture at Florence, Kansas, when the fire started and knew no thing of its origin. After intensive questioning he ad mitted the slaying. Mrs. Bohler Dies At Double Branches. Ga. Mrs. R. G. Bohler died at her home rear Double Branches, Ga.’, Tuesday, May 1st, following an illness aboht a month. She was a member or Ari- methea Methodist Church and a con secrated Christian lady, whose death will be the cause of genuine sorrow to her loved ones and countless friends. Funeral services were con ducted at Lincolnton Methodist Church by her pastor on Thursday* morning and interment made in Lin colnton city cemetery. She was 42 years of age at the time of her death, and is survived by her husband and four clnidven, and two sisters and seven brothers, as follows: Mrs. Will Burd&shaw of Greenwood, S. C., and Mrs. G. H- Turner of Lcverett, Ga.; Iviessr:. J. F., W. T. and G. W. Brov.n of L n- colr.ton, Ga., J. M. and Manm.ig Brown of McCormick, S. C., H. C. Brown of Andersen, S. G., ard A. TV. Brown of High Point, N. C. Richards’ Constables Nab 68 Persons In Charleston Drive -*xt- Banks To Observe Memorial Day The local hanks will be clor.ed i Thursday, May 10th, the same being | a legal holiday. THE PEOPLES BANK, THE FARMERS BANK. CHARLESTON, May 5.—Sixty- eight persons were arrested in C! ar- leston today and tonight by Stat© Constables Poppenheim and Young after it was understood, on orders to clean up Charleston. Char ges ranged from gambling td violation o> tne prohibition law. Seizure of a quan tity of liquor, beer, and home bre\y : n connection with the arrests, also was reported. All except eight of the men made bond. They remained tonight in jail. In addition to the 68 arre ted, four were summoned to appear in court to answer charges of prohibition law' violations. Gambling charges were brought# the officers reported, against 'C.i of the men arrested. These were tak en in the same vicinity and when the officers returned to their automo bile after taking the men into • us- today, they found it was said, that the air had been let out of the t of the machine. Three men were lodged in jail on charges of operating lotterv. The^e with four of these chaiged vith gambling and one other const’tuied the number committed to jail. Wjith all due apologies to t’*e flor ist, it would be better to “say it w .h brakes,” and save the flowers.