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be a man.
It takes a little courage,
And a little self control
And some grim determination,
If you want to reach a goal,
It takes a deal of striving,
And a firm and stem set chin,
No matter what the battle, *
If you’re really out to win.
There’s no Easy Path to Glory,
There’s no Rosy Road To Fame,
Life, however, we may view it.
Is no simple parlor game;
But its prizes call for fighting,
For endurance and for grit,
For rugged disposition,
And a “don’t-know-when-to quit.”
You must take a blow or give one,
You must risk and you must lose,
And expect that, in the struggle,
You will suffer from a bruise,
But you mustn't wince or falter,
If a fight you once begin;
Be a man and face the battle
That’s the only way to win.
COMMERCIAL STUDENTS OF
McCORMICK HIGH SCHOOL
RETURN FROM STATE CONTEST.
On Friday, April 27, the contest
ants returned from the Typewriting
and Shorthand Contest held in Co
lumbia, S. C.
Although our team did not win the
“silver cup,” they acquitted' them
selves well, this being the second
time McCormick school has serit rep
resentatives to the state contest.
The novice representatives were
Jack Rheney and Carlisle Merritt;
the amateurs, Gladys Dillashaw,
Sophia Dillashaw and Melba Deason.
Despite the fact that our learn re
ceived no awards, it must be remem
bered that in the typewriting con
test, Jack Rheney made the highest
number of strokes, but was thrown
out because of too many errors.
SOPHIA DILLASHAW,
BERTIE TUMBLIN.
SENIOR CLASS TO PRESENT
‘‘SEVENTEEN” ON JUNE 1ST.
•‘Seventeen,” the Senior play for
1928, is a comedy of youth in four
acts with one exterior and two inter
ior scenes. The costumes .are mod
ern and there is delightful humor ir
this story of love, youth and summer
time.
It is most amusing and delightfu*
to follow the incidents in Wm. Syl-
vanus Baxter’s wooing of the Baby
Talk Lady, and we are all in sym
pathy with William when he, con
sidering himself a grcVn up, is sent
on humiliating errands by his moth
er and must depend upon his father
for spending money.
The cast for the play is as fol
lows:
Jane Baxter Katherine Bledsoe
Lola Pratt Mary Ellen Morrah
May Parcher Melba Deason
Ethel Boke Evelyn Blackwell
Mary Brooks Carrie Lou Strom
Mrs. Baxter — Annie Kate Campbell
William Slyvanus Baxter Wallace
Talbert.
Mr. Baxter i Frank Corley
Jcfe Bullitt Raymond Remsen
Genesis Elliott Seigler
Johnnie Watson Forty Wardlaw
George Crooper __ William Robinson
Mr. Parcher Joe Dukes
Wallie Banks Luther Drennan
GLADYS DILLASHAW.
JUNIOR-SENIOR RECEPTION.
The Junior Class of McCormick
High School entertained the Seniors
w'th a reception Friday night, April
27 in the Grammar school building.
The auditorium was decorated to
represent a flower garden with run
ning roses. The ceiling was hidden
by balloons and serpentine which ex
tended from one side of the reem to
the other.
Several contests were held and an
interesting dialogue was presented
by Mildred Below and Curt s Bracf^
ley.
The flower scheme was used
throughout the evening, the room
cards being i n the shape of a tulip.
The refreshments were served in
a very attractive way. Chocolate ice
cream, which represented the earth,
was an a lily cup placed in a small
flower pot, with a red tulip stuck in
the ice cream. The punch bowl was
a large blcfck of ice.
There were about seventy-five
present.
MODERN HISTORY CLASS
HAS PICNIC.
Thursday night, May 3rd, the mod
em history class gave a picnic at
Chamberlain’s Mill.
Each member of the class had
the prlv’lege of inviting another and,
in this way, most of the high school
set received an invitation. The girls
brought lunch and the boys furnish
ed the ice cream.
Several games were played and
the picnic was enjoyed.
KATHERINE BLEDSOE,
FRANK CORLEY,
WALLACE TALBERT.
McCORMICK GOES TO DEFEAT.
McCormick was defeated by Antre-
ville at Abbeville on May 2nd, by the
score of 7 to 0. The McCormick boys
couldn’t get together, due to the fact
that many errors made, these errors
proved very costly. There were 3
errors made in the second inning and
4 in the sixth.
Little Hen went into the air and
waged a fly, caught a flipper and
swallowed a huge chew of kite. He
was the only man On the team that
didn’t have an error to his credit.
Although, we lost the game with
Antreville, we, the team, are pre
paring a strong fight for our last
game, which we play with Newberry.
LEE STROM,
FORTY WARDLAW.
SPRING FEVER.
“In the spring a young man’s
fancy Lightly turns to thoughts of
love,” so the poet said, but in the
spring a student’s fancy, seems to
turn to thought of vacation, for this
appears td be the sentiment of too
many of us as commencement time
draws near:
“I wish I was a little rock
A settin’ on a hill:
A* DOIN nothin’ all day long
But jest a settin’ still.
I wouldn’t eat, I wouldn’t drink,
I wouldn’t even wash,
I’d jest set still a thousand years,
And rest myself, by gosh.”
HISTORY OF McCORMICK.
McCormick County has an area of
379 square miles, with a population
of 16,444.
A number cf historic places are in
tho territory included in McCor
mick borders.. New Bordeaux was
settled by French Huguenots 94 years
after Charlestown was settled. Ore
of these settlers, Jeh n De la Howe,
left an estate of 1,700 acres and his
home place “Lethe,” to be used as
an industrial school for orphans of
the county. This, the John De la
Howe industrial school, near Bor
deaux, possibly the first of its kind
in the country, is now controlled by
fyuy with Confidence!
Jbr Economical Transportation
During the last ninety days more new Chev
rolet cars were delivered in this community
than in any similar period in Chevrolet his
tory—and most of these new car sales involved
the trade-in of the purchaser’s previous car. As
a result, we have at this time a wide selection
of used cars that have been thoroughly recon
ditioned—and which may be identified by
the red “O. K. that counts” tag. Come in
and make your selection while our used car
stocks are complete.
A few of
our exceptional Used Car values
“with an OK that counts”
GRAHAM BROS., Ton Truck
1924 model Reconditioned
bargain at—
$175.00
FORD 1 TON TRUCK with
Chicago Transmission. 1927
model. Good buy at
$125.00
USED BUICK Repainted in
good condition. 1920 model
$150.00
raillCK CHEVROLET CO.
McCORMICK, S. C.
Dependability, Satisfaction and'Honest Value
the state
The place cf Ihc C’lhcun Massacre
by the Indians in 1760 Is in the
Western part of the county. Promin
ent in the early days were the Cal
houn’s, Petigrue’s, McKie’s, Middle
ton’s and ethers.
McCormick County was firmed in
1916 from Edgefield, Greenwood, and
also Abbeville and was named in hon
or c e Ciyus W. McCormick, of reap
er fame, who owned thousands of
acres cf land in and around the pres
ent county seat.
Agriculture is the chief industry of
the county. Cotton is the principle
crop, with other crops, such as corn,
grain and hay. The lower part is
noted for its fine peach orchards.
Peaches are shipped south to Flor
ida and as far north as Canada.
McCormick County has two ac
credited high schools, one at Plum
Branch, the other at McCormick. The
McCormick school operates four
busses.
The undeveloped water power of
the Savannah and L'ttle Rivers offer
opportunities for manufacturing in
terests.
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The Problems Of
A Young Boy
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In the discussion just previous to
this we wrote about reproduction
among the animals. We saw that
with them a new life comes into ex
istence as a result 6{ the uniting of
the male and female germs. All life
begins in a very minute form and
comes into the world by birth. We
might call the breaking for.h of a
plant from the earth, birth; and we
do call the breaking of the shell by
a tiny, baby bird, birth. _
Up to the time that a little bird
becomes old enough to take care of
itself, all through the setting time
ard the period of infancy, the moth
er and father birds give, with teach
ing devotion, all their efforts to their
children. Everyone knows how the
father bird watches over the mother
as she sits in her nest so patiently
and how, after the little £nes are
hatched, the parents feed them so
diligently. For what reason do two
birds work with such care over a nest
c*f little, ugly, baby birds ? It is
because those little bits of flesh in
the nest are “flesh of their flesh:”
those babies are part of the bodies
of the parent birds and it is accord
ingly no wonder that the little ones
are loved by them. Like the little
birds each of us is part of the bodies
of his mother and father. When we
think of that, we realize why it is
that they love and care for us and we
understand and appreciate better
their love.
In very much the same way that
the animals just below man in rank
reproduce man reproducesi. A new
human life starts, also, when a male
and female germ unite. However,
with man, the period of growth be
fore and after birth is much larger
ihr.n with other animals. Some of
the lower animals are born and
reach maturity in two or three years,
but man requires from twenty tc
twenty-five years to attain fullness
of growth.
In order that the beginning of a hu
man may be more completely under
stood than we could make it, we are
going to quote a portion of a book
written by “Dr. Mary W(*od Allen, a
devoted Christian mother” This ex
tract contains the conversation be
tween a thoughtful little boy and his
loving, intelligent mother.
“Mama, how big was I when I was
made?”
“When you were made, my dear,
you were but a tiny speck, not so big
as the point of a needle. You could
net have been seen except with a
microscope.”
Why, Mama, if I were as small as
that, I should think that I would have
been lost.” ,
“So you would dear child, if the
kind Heavenly Father hadn’t taken
care of you. He knew how precious
little babies are and so He ‘has made
a little nest in the mother’s body just
below the heart where they can be
kept from all harm until they are
big enough to live their own separate
lives.”
‘But how did I eat and breathe?”
“I ate and breathed for you.”
“Did you know I was there?”
“Yes, sometime your little hand or
foot would knock on the wall of the
rc'om, and I would feel it and say,
My darling speaks to me and says,
‘Mother, I am here,’ and then I would
say, ‘Good morning, little one, mo
ther loves you;’ and then I would
try to think how you would look when
I should see you,”
“Hew long was I there, mother?”
“Three-quarters of a year, and you
grew and grew every day, and be
cause I wanted you to be happy, I
tried to be happy all the time, and I
■'-'a-, cr • ’ ~ • -..'.fi f-> ’ th"i +
you uiigiit faliui/o, and i ixied to
be gentle, kind, patient, persevering,
in fact everything that I wanted you
to be, for I knew that everything!
Cotton Shipments
Steadily Mounting
Shipments Continuing Later In
Season Than In Any Year
COLUMBIA, May 10.—With ship
ments continuing later in the season
than in any year of its history deliv
eries to the “Co-ops” are steadily
mounting was an announcement made
at the offices of the Association yes
terday.
In a letter the past week enclos
ing his signed contract Stanley F
Morse, of Dalzell, said in part, “I
take pleasure i n enclos : ng signed
copy of marketing agreement with
the South Carolina Cotton Growers’
Co-operative Association. I do not
see how any cotton grower can ex
pect to market his cotton to better
advantage than an organization
whose special business it is to know
the cotton market and up-to-date
sales method.” Mr. Morse is also
head of Morse Agricultural Service,
of New York, and a consulting ag
ricultural engineer.
D. W. Moore, of Woodruff, in
speaking of a sale recently made
under the daily pool plan of the As-
sociat on writes, “You sold my cot
ton anywhere from two and a quart
er to three cents per pound more than
my neighbors were getting for theirs
at the same time.”
R. M. Josey, of Lamar, J. L. Will
iams, of Camden; E. P Galloway, o:
Lamar; H. L. Johnston, of York, Rt.
6, and others, have visited headquart
ers and signed the contract in the
past week, all shipping cotton at
once.
The da ly number of visitors to the
headquarters offices is the largest
since the Association’s organization,
said L. M. Beacham field service di
rector.
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Broad Satisfactory
of
Demand For Cured
Sweet Potatoes
CLEMSON COLLEGE; May 10.—
The market for good cured sweet po
tatoes is much broader than it was a
few years ago, says D. W. Watkins,
assistant director of the Extension
Serv ce, in reminding farmers that
there is no reason why potatoes as a
supplementary cash crop should not
bo made a safe and satisfactory in
come producer on hundreds of South
Carolina farms.
The sweet potato crop is now fifth
in importance among crops of the
state, but of the six million bushels
produced fully one-third goes to
waste. An average production of 82
bushels per acre can easily be better
ed, Mr. Watkins believes, by pro
gressive farmers who can by proper
cultural methods produce a hundred
bushels per acre with 50 to 60 per
cent salable grades.
Right varieties, specialized meth
ods of production and curing, and
the market already developed be
cause of the fine quality of house-
cured potatoes wTl insure profitable
returns on Northern markets and lo
cal markets as well; and fortunately
the crop can be grown over the en
tire state.
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Statistics shew that only three
per cent of the motorists are care
less, and those three per cent are
usually out on Sunday.
LEGAL
Notice To House
Moving Contractors
McCormick, S. C.
May 5. 1928.
Sealed bids will be received by the
undersigned at the office of the State
H : ghway Department, McCormick, S-
C., May 15, 1928, until 12 o’clock
noon, for the moving of 4 houses, 1
barn, necessitated by the construc
tion of Highway Project S-670 be
tween McCormick and Calhoun Falls.
A certified check made payable to
Ben M. Sawyer, Chief Highway Com
missioner, in the amount of ten per
cent (10) of the total bid will be re
quired to accompany each bid as a
guarantee of performance upon
award of contract.
Right is reserved to reject any or
all bids, or to cut out of contract any
buildings not moved by success'til
bidden. The undersigned w : ll be gladl
to show any one interested the build
ings to be moved.
C. B. LONG,
Resident Engineer.
Court House,
McCormick, S C. ItJ
Notice Of Disolution
Of Partnership
Notice is hereby given that the
partnership composed of W. A- Scott
and W. L. Miller, doing business un
der the firm name and style of Scott
& Miller, at Mt. Carmel, County 'of
McCormick, State of South Carolina,
was dissolved by mutual consent bn
the first day' of May, 1928, and the
sole owner thereof is W. A. Scott of
the said former firm.
All persons indebted to Scott &
Miller will make payment Ho W. A.
Scott and all persons having claims
against the said farmer firm of Scott
& Miller will presest same to W. A.
Scott who' has assumed the Ipaypient
of all indebtedness of the sard for
mer firm of Scott & Miller.
wT A. SCOTT,
W. L. MILLER.
Mt. Carmel, S. C.,
May 2, 1928—5t.
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Notice Of Application
For Stock Certificate
that I did would help to make you
what ycu were to be.”
“But mama, how did what you ate
feed me?”
“My food was made into blood,
and the blood was carried to you and
nourished you, and when the time
came for you tc go out into the
world to live apart from me, the
door of your little room opened with
much pain and suffering to mother,
ar.d then you came into the world, or
were born, as we say. Whe n you drew
your first breath into your lungs,
you cried, and then I knew you were
alive and I laughed, and said, ‘Is it
a boy or a girl.’ After you were
washed and dressed they brought you
to me and laid you on my arm and,
for the first time, I saw the little
baby I had loved so long. And now
you can understand why you are so
dear to me.”
“Oh, mama, now I know why I love
you best of all the world,” exclaim
ed the little child with warm em
braces and with loving tears in his
eyes.
Perhaps this will help each one of
us to realize more clearly the inesti
mable debt he owes his mother. It
is hoped that we will get from this
a better knowledge cf the wisdom
and power of God. Reproduction is
most assuredly a God given gift and
no man can understand it. Further-
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
Certificate No. 8 for Four Shares of
Capital Stock in McCormick Tele
phone Company, dated December 27,
1910, issued to J. E. Britt, and Cer
tificate No. 9 for Eight Shares of
Capital Stock in McCormick Tele
phone Company, dated January 3,
1914, issued to J. E. Britt, have been
lost or destroyed, and the same can
not be found, and that the under
signed, as executrix de bonis non,
will, on the 8th day of June 1928,
make application to the McCormick
Telephone Company for new Certi
ficates of said stock in lieu of the
above, which have been lost or des
troyed.
MRS. JANIE BELLE BRITT,
Executrix, de bonis non, Estate of
J. E. Britt, deceased.
May 2, 1928.-6t.
NOTICE
I hereby notify all persons that my
wife, Mrs. Susie Perry Hagen Fow
ler, has deserted me, and of her own
free will and without any fault on
my part, has left the homo and r up-
port provided for her by me, and
moved to the Tow n of McCormick,
S. C., and I will not be responsible
for any debts whatever contracted by
her in her own name or in my name,
J. W. FOWLER.
Plum Branch, S. C.
April 28, 1928.-2t.
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