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Thursday, May 10, 1928 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, South Carolina. Wf, i Of gasoline and motor vehicle flliCijv/ii.uflWjl* , taxes and other sources of revonuo Page Number Four Pahllshed Erery Tkorsdsy Established JuaeJS, 1902 EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and oWner. Piedmont Carolina Spartanburg’s experience in indus CIRCULATION: 1,300, and growing DISPLAY ADVERTISING — 26 cents per inch for each insertion; nothing less than 4 inches accepted for double column display, nor less thai> 2 inches for single column dis play. BUSINESS READING NOTICES, 6 cents per line for each insertion, average of 6 words to line. WANT AD VS., 0 cents per line for each insertion, average of 6 words to lin* 1 TRIBUTES OF RESPECT, G cents per line G words to line. All rdvs. set in body type, 6 cents per single column line; extra charges for big type on - all single column ad vs., exc ept head and signature. it is practically certain that the ( trial expansion within the first four funds available to all State highway months of the year is entirely satis- departments for construction and factory. New plants have been add- maintenance of roads and bridges ed and enlargements are under way. 1 will exceed $750,000,000, and local The development is also reflected in revenues, expendable by county and lines allied with the textile industry, local authorities, will swell the high ways total to upwards of $1,300,000,- 000. Details are not available concern ing the work to be done by county and local authorities. It is antici- 1 New Slant Given On The Used Car POLITICAL CARDS FOR SHEFIFF I respectfully announce myself a candidate for Sheriff of McCormick County, subject to the rules and reg- pated that the year’s work under the Mr. Grant Points Out That ulations of the DemocraUc Primary State supervision will result in the Used Car Is Growing In election. construction of nearly 9,000 miles of ! hard-surfaced pavements, upwards of 12,000 miles of less expensive sur- ! ; faced roads, and 8,000 miles of road’ DETROIT, Mich., May 7.—An en- Importance I shall highly appreciate the sup port of the people. W. T. STROM. adequately graded and drained. X DAVID R. COKER (Anderson Dally Mail.) FOR SHERIFF Positions given extra charge. at ONE-THIRD tirely new slant on the used car, elevating it to its rightful place in the industry, was taken here by R. H. Grant, vice-president in charge of I hereby announce my candidacy sales of the Chevrolet Motor Com- for re-electicn as Sheriff of McCor- pany, in an interview just prior to mick County, subject to the rules of sailing for a month’s trip to Europe, the Democratic party. As evidence of the growing im-1 M. R. LeROY. portance of the used car, Mr. Grant POLITICAL CARDS FOR SENATE Graves Announces For Re-election 'g “On-' man who will net ^profit by the misfortunes of his fcllcxv men.” , ^ ^ ^ -r-w This was said of David R. Coker. P°' nted out that durinK u ^ fl ^ j FOR SUPERVISOR ,'he well known Hartsville. S. C., < l uarte r 1928 - when thc Chevrolet j fanner. For years Mr. Coker has dealer organization was moving 250,- | devoted himself to cotton farming ' 000 * ew cars > * also was delivering Corm.ck, S. C., as mail matter of He has been vcry success f u l and he at l ' e ' ai l ni - ore than 200,000 used cars. has accomplished a great deal in the Entered at the Post Office at Me ttle second class. fUBSCRIPTION RATES: ~ Strictly Cash In Advance — One Year $1.00 Six Months .75 Three Months .50 —- ■ - ■■ 9 ■?- ■ One Day All The Year We are coming again to the ob- use cf pure soed is essential, if the cotton farmer is to realize a maxi mum profit from his efforts. Mr. Coker has done much to broadcast this idea throughout South Carolina and many other states of the cotton belt, and in this way he has made a worthwhile contribution. But Mr. Coker has other ideas, and ^ . one of them appears to be that the servance or Mothers Day when our, -n . • > i • j i ., ., , ... . Golden Rule m one’s business deal- thoughts turn more especially to the • , , ,, • • . w ing , s with one » s f e n 0Ws is just as im- This was made possible by a development "of ~cottN"seedl~' It has | changing attitued toward the u-ed long been Mr. Coker’s idea that thc| car on thc P art af •>»«> ‘he automo- bile dealer and the public, Mr. Grant I hereby announce my candidacy for re-e’.ecticn as Stat- Senator f:on McCormick County, subject to the rules and regulations of the Demo cratic primary. I shall highly ap preciate your suffrage. F. C. ROBINSON. For Clerk Of Court » _ _ j w. O. Graves, Jr., is today an- I hereby announce my candidacy aoun(dn £ candidacy for re-elec- for re-election as Clerk of Court for t 0 on as . S «Penisor of McCormick McCormick County, subject to the ^ ount y ln the Primary election in W. O. Graves, Jr.. Again To Seek Office Of County Sup ervisor; Asks Re-election On His Past Record Since Assuniinj Office rules of the Democratic party. J. ARCH TALBERT. FOR MAGISTRATE one whom, of all living human be ings, we ewe the most—the one whore love is never failing and who pertant, as the every day rules of business and farming. The story is told by a well known Andersonian of I hereby announce my candidacy fev Supervisor of McCormick Coun ty, subject to the rules and regula tions of the Democratic primary. I felicit the suffrage of the voters on my mcr'ts and the faithful promise tc execute the duties cf said office fairly ar.d economically, if elected. I shall highly appreciate your sup- pert. W. M. McCUE. never knew tej great a sacrifice, • -j . i when the happiness and welfare of her children are concerned. Mothers’ Day is observed on the second Sunday in May, this year fall ing on the thirteenth, when everyone who, w$pts to do hoihage to mother- hcod will wear a bright flower for the mother living*; a white flower fpr the mother dead. The carnation is fayored over all flowers. Mothers’ Day was originated by Miss Anna Jarvis of- Philadelphia, Who founded the Mothers’ Day In ternational Association; and the six- ty-thjrd congress passed a resolution fixing the second Sunday in .Mhy Mothers’ Day and making it the duty of the president to proclaim it. The late President Wtil-on issued the first Mothers’ Day proclamation in 1-914. States also, have given rec ognition to the day. In 1913 Ne braska designated Mothers’ Day as a state.flag day; in the same year Pennsylvania made Mothers’ Day a state holiday and rince 1912 gover nors of Texas have annually pardon- which somehow makes David R Cok er stand out prominently among his fellows. v In the eastern portion of the state at this time a deplorable condition exists,; $s far as the fanners are concerned, according to this Ander- ronian. The weather conditions have been very unfavorable to the cotton crop, and almost without exception the farmers in that region have found it necessary to plant their 1928 crop of cotton a second time. And when this was found rccessary, they were faced with a grave problem. The scarcity of seed with which to re plant the crop has resulted in the present situation. Few seed were available. The price of seed began to soar, and indications were that re planting would be a rather expensive proposition for the average farmer. The price of the seed in the barns of David R. Coker did not increase, however. Instead Mr. Coker reduced the price from $2.25 per bushel to . , - . . „ . &2 per bushel, when he realized that ed deserving inmates of prisons on . ’ , . , ... . , nr ^ . t-U the farmers of his locality faced a Mothers’ Day. 1 The original idea of Mothers’ Day embraced the simultaneous observ ance in every part of the world of the day as an acknowledgement ofj „ ,1 dor similar circumstances, the love and reverence all men and women owe to their mothers. :x: serious problem. Mr. Coker’s act was a big and generous one. We wonder how many others would have done the same un- In addition, to the wearing of flow-| t i 4. ,* 1 r as tribute to their mothers, those, -lllClUStl. Icll Development •fan whose mothers are living, but from! whom they are separated, are urged by the promoters of the observance J to visit or write them upon Mothers’ Day. Though we stress the second Sun (Spartanburg Herald.) Fifty-five day in May as Mothers’ Day, it real- , , 1 been established m Piedmont industrial plants have Caro- ly rtiould be every day in the year, for it is a background in every, llna . w!thm ,he last slx mon hs ' a V heart. The love felt by a mother ‘ i ol . din e ‘o » made b >’ ‘ h * for 1 er children and by her children for her are things apart. They are proved by service and sacrifice, not by words. They need no special em phasis. txx An Enormous | Road Program : Duke Power interests and announced last week. The Duke interests’ survey showed that the new textile manufacturing plants a re listed in 12 classes, which is a diversity in that industry about as great as in the diversity in the development of general industry in Piedmont Carolina. This survey in cluded only the towns served by the Southern Public Utilities company, and the statement was made that In keeping with the increased « :t may be assumed that the devel- nurnber of motor vehicles, road con- oprmjn t j n these cities probably was struction throughout the United more rapid than in the average States promises this year to be on Piedmont town because they have an even larger plan than ever before b enefitted probably in a larger and a survey of all states reveals a measure from the industrial and ccnstruction program for this year to advertising campaign which has been include 20,000 miles of surfaced conducted by the Duke interests dur- roado and about 8,000 miles of grad- i nR the past 14 months.” ed and drained highways. Definite improvement in general FOR SUPERVISOR I hereby announce my candidacy for re-election as Supervisor of Mc Cormick County, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary. Your support shall be highly appreciated. W. O. GRAVES, JR. FOR SUPERVISOR I hereby announce my candidacy for. Supervisor of McCormick County, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary. I prom ise, if elected, to render honest and efficient service and give due con sideration to the needs and require ments of each section of the county. Your support shall be highly appre ciated. / G. H. McCAIN. FOR SUPERVISOR said. “Where the automobile dealer for merly paid little attention to the used car,” Mr. Grant declared, -“the proportion of used car tc new car sales has mounted so high that used cars are now an important part of his business. Today, practically all the direct dealers in the Chevro let organization have Ducoing equip ment with which they refinish used cars in a manner similar to the factory. Cars arc gone over from head light to tail lamp by skilled mechanics trained in approved fac tory methods. The reconditioned cars bear an ‘O. K. Tag’ showing that every vital part has been checked They arc then displayed attractively, and lenient time payments are made available to the purchaser. “The public owes directly to the used car the wide range of prices at which transportation may be pur chased, and the wide variety cf mod els from which selection may be made. If there were no such thing as a trade-in price, the owner of an automobile, instead of turning it in on a new model, would drive it him self until its usefulness was spent, just as he now uses his furniture or his farm or garden implements. There would consequently be no used car mart for the man who’ wants to buy a car at less than a new car cost. Millions of present motorists who were attracted by used car prices would not now own automo biles if there had been no used car market. “Every good automobile today is built with many years of service in it. The original purchaser general ly turns it in on a new model after he has driven it a few years. There remains in the car many miles of de pendable service which is available to the man who needs transportation on the basis of a low first cost. “Of some 25,000,000 passenger cars new registered in the United States, it is estimated that approxi mately sixty per cent are in the hards cf their second or third own ers. In other words fifteen million motorists are now riding in cars that wore purchased on resale. -“Eliminate the used car from the market, and a good share of those fifteen million people would be de nied the privilege of owning a car. And most of the remaining ten mill ion motorists would be driving cars that do not measure up to their ideas of k.tyle simply because they would i ot be able to get a trade-in allow ance, and would refuse to scrap their cars with unused value re maining in them. “The result would have been a great many less new car sales with in the past twenty years, and most of the twenty-five million present . . motorists would have either no car l^OUllty^ V ^0111111188101101* at all or a car that fell short of their, August. I am asking the people of the county to re-elect me upon my record since I took over thc office. In making the announcement I wish to make the following statement: I was elected County Supervisor I hereby respectfully announce my for McCormick County in March, candidacy for the office of Magis-| 1923, for the unexpired term cf Mr. tratc rf McCormick County, subject J. h. Lycn, and again elected in Au to thc rules of the democratic party. g US t, 192<, for a full term of four I shall highly appreciate the sup- years. I have served as County Sup port of the people. ervisor for about five years, and dur- H. C. WALKER. ing that time I feel that I have done a gicut deal toward improving the roads and bridges in every section of the County. McCormick County prob ably has more bridges and streams than any ether county in the State according to size, and the roads are hard to maintain on account of the number of streams, the hills in every section and the rough nature of the soil. In spite of this, our roads and bridges are i n better shape now than they have ever been. FOR MAGISTRATE At the request of my many friends I hereby announce myself a‘s a can didate for magistrate of McCormick County in the coming election, sub ject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic party. I sincerely thank my many friends and the vot ers who know me best fcfr their loy alty to me in the past, also for their promised support of me in the fol lowing election. R. L. BODDIE. FOR MAGISTRATE I hereby respectfully announce my candidacy for Supervisor of McCor mick County, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary. I shall greatly appreciate the suffrage of the voters. T. A. DOWTIN. For Supt. Education I hereby announce my candidacy for the office of Superintendent of Education of McCormick County, sub ject to the rules r.nd regulations of the Democratic party. W. H. PARKS. I hereby respectfully announce my candidacy for the office of Magis trate of McCormick County, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic party. Your support shall be highly appreciated. J. P. BRUNSON. WANT ADVS. WF PAY—dozen, sewing buiTgalow aprons at home. Spare tilde. Thread furnish ed. No button holes. Send Stamp. CEDAR GARMENT FACTORY, Amsterdam, New York. 1 tpo. FOR SALE 7 Bushels Whip- porwill Peas at §1.75 per bushel. Raymond Clink- scales, Willington, S. C. 1 tpo. SUPT. EDUCATION |7Ap CAT I?—S* x Room Dwelling rUli oALEj on ]ot j 00x 2oo feet; lights and good well. Mrs. Essie B. Herr.len, McCormick, S. C. 2t. PAINTM1— First Class Pair ‘ tin g 1 milllllU at reasonable p r i C es; work completed before pay; best of I hereby announce myself a candi- recommendations furnished from sat- date for Superintendent cf Education * s ^ ed customeis; 24 yeais experi of McCormick County, subject to the rules and regulations of the Demo cratic party. R. G. KILLINGSWORTH. Counxv Commissioner I hereby announce my candidacy for County Commissioner of McCor mick County, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary. If elected, I promise to execute the duties c‘f said office as fairly and economically as possible. J. H BANKS. present taste for style, durability and j hereby respectfully announce my! m i c j i 5 q performance. I candidacy for re-election to the of- J "Our dealers know that the used fj ce o: f County Commissioner of Me- 1 . car buyer of today is the new car C ormick County, subject to the rules WANTED _Ml Ch C ° WS B - 1 have given the people of buyer of tomorrow. They are anx- ; a nd regulations of the Democratic Cattle. J. L. Smith, ^ y £ b 0 best roads and bri iou? to satisfy him because it means p r j mary> j shall again greatly ap- m r ^ future business. By reason of the, prec i a t e the support of the voters in The State reports also indicate conditions involving tne textile man-j unpiecedented demand for the Blg "ithe race for this office s, a fact which basis b the textile industry of this| thafc represent better values, aveling public a territory is anticipated generally.: “There is every indication that C. C. MORGAN. For Congress our I am a candidate for re-election that at Uast 240,000 miles <rf the to- ufacturing industry apparently . U grer and Bett ® r Chevrolet, our deal tal of 288,000 in the State highway expected in manv well-informed I ers have a better variety of used systems will be maintained this year quarters in the Piedmont sectin .' cars lhan e . ver before—cars that are under the supervision of the State Continued expansion o n a scui u | better serviced, better finished and highway departments should insure the travel _ _ degree of road service. despite the difficulties experienced j used car tu rnover tbis year will es-j to Congress from the Third District, Fur.Js estimated as available for by t be industry in recent months,! tabbsb a new b *Kh record even sub j e ct to the rules of the Democratic expenditure during the year by the during which varying schedules of botb our new and used car , Party. Side highway departments are about curtailment have been in effect. 25 per cent greater in total amount Construction records show that, even than rimi’ar estimates indicated at with curtailment in cotton mill op- the beginning of last season. Al- erations in force, there has been no though ii is not possible, so early in important reduction in the rate of the seasm, to anticipate closely the new building in this industry in sales are bigger than ever before during this season of the year.” txt FRED H. DOMINICK. During the last few years, times have been hard in McCormick Coun ty, and the money available for keep ing up the roads and bridges has been reduced considerably. In 1925 and 1926 the appropriation for roads and bridges was $20,000.00 each year, and in 1927 and 1928 the ap propriation was $18,000.00. Prior tCf the time I assumed the office the appropriations for roads' and bridges in the county w’ere much higher and larger than ihese amounts. The num ber of convicts on the gang has also been less for the last two or three years, than formerly. | And yet with all this the people of the epunty know that I have kept pp the roads and bridges better than ever. Although most of the county is hilly and rough, our roads are now better and easier to travel than the cross coun try roads of other counties adjoining us. ; ' In addition to my record for main taining the roads of the county I would like to call attention of the citizens of the county to the fact that since I became supervisor I have had the road from McCormick to the Dowtin section top soiled; I have had an improved road built from Plum Branch to Moultrio’s Mill, a part of v/hich has been top soiled; I have built an improved road from Bor deaux to connect with the McCor- mick-Willir.gton highway; have graded, drained and top soiled the Court House grounds; and have re built or repaired the following bridges: Shinberg Bridge across Cuffytown Creek; McKittrick’s Bridge across Long Cane Creek; Chamberlain’s Mill Bridge across Little R ver; Bradley’s Mill Bridge across Long Car.e Creek; Calhoun Mills Bridge across Little River; Cedar Hill Bridge across Little Riv er; Gilchrist’s Bridge across Cuffy town Creelq; Dowtin’s Bridge across Hard Labor Creek; Price’s Mill Bridge across Steven’s Creek; Moul trie’s Mill Bridge across Turkey Creek; Key’s Bridge across Turkey Creek; Clarks Hill Bridge across Stevens Creek; and I have also re paired and rebuilt numbers of small bridges and waterways. And prac tically all of this has ben done out cf regular chaingang funds without additional appropriations. I am proud of the fact that since I became sup ervisor I have not had a single bridge of the county to fall in or cause a a accident. In conclusion, I wish to say that the coun- bridges pos sible with the means available. In buying supplies for the chaingang I ETIR CAf 17—World Star Paint have always patronized the taxpayers EUIi oALEj £ 0 se jj s KUaran teed | a nd people of the county whenever Paint for $2.25 per gallon. See G- i possible. I have tried at all times to T. Baughman, agent, McCormick. S. please the public and to be courteous 1 and fair to all. I have endeavored - - ■ 1 ■ -— m - ~ —lj—1—1:— 1 .■ : to handle the business of the county to the best interest, of the taxpayers and citizens. I am giving my full our subscription Ii*. ! time to the duties of the office and cnce on all kinds of work. T. L. Mims, Eagle Cafe, McCormick. S. C. FOR SALE-^X^J: mick, Si C. FOR SALE-^ “oH $3.00 per bushel. W". Li White, Route 3, or White Hardware Company, Mc Cormick, S. C. I?An CAI1?— 0ne New six Room EUli OilLEi Housej on two ac re lot; electric lights, good well, garden, barn, garage, etc.; on Augusta Street south of court house. Address, A. Z., cf. Messenger Office, MeCor- McCormick, S. C. The American child received a Don't let your tin me be 1 off , , T ! pi’Opose to continue to do so. I am just for the acurit of ()ne i 'oi j proud of my record and I believe the lar. Send the dollar and or- People of the United States spend larger cents worth in buying candy paper for anotliei one-third of their total income for in 1926 than during the preceding food. I year, a government survey shows, lygrr. You uon’t retjrc: .. people of the county will re-elect me in August for another term. If elected, I promise to give my best efforts to the duties of the office. W. O. GRAVES, JR.