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THUS TO OURSELVES, OUR NEIGHBORS.' OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD. Twenty-Sixth Year 8 Pages — All Home Print McCORMICK, S. C.. Thursday, May 24, 1928 Established June 5, 1902 County Democratic Mr, Thos. Meriwether Executive Committee Wants To Grade The To Meet May 26th l Furey , s Ferry Road Called For Purpose Of Making Provisions For The Opening Of Books Of Enrollment There will be a meeting of the Cc*unty Democratic Executive Com mittee at the Court House on Sat urday, May 26th, 1928, at ten o’clock, a. m., for the purpose of making pro visions for the opening of books of enrollment, so as to pdrmit those ^ who are now entitled to enroll to enter their names thereon. Under the rules of the Democratic Party, a general enrollment will not be necessary for 1928. The enroll ment of 1926 will be sufficient to entitle those whose names appear thereon to vote in the primary elec tion for the year 1928. Any person becoming qualified to vote, dr whose name does not appear on the enroll ment for 1926, will be given an op portunity to enroll, and books for that purpose will be opened in the regular manner. The enrollment books for the fol lowing precincts have not been lo cated: Clatworthy’s Cross Road, Clarks Hill, Modoc, Plum Branch and Willington, and the secretary of the respective clubs is requested to send them to the county chairman, or bring them with him to the meeting on Saturday, May 26th, should he know their whereabouts. If they cannot be located, this information .shc*uld be immediately reported so that new enrollment books may be made up from the certified list on file in the clerk of court’s office. It should also be borne in mind that each voter will be required to vote in the precinct that he or .she is now living, and if the name ap pears on the enrollment book of an other precinct, application for a certificate of transfer should be made in ■vyriting to the secretary of the former 'club, who shall certify in writing to the secretary of the precinct club where such enrolled voter desires to enroll, to the effect that such voter was duly enrolled in his club, giving date of enrollment, name, age, occupation and address. At the same time the secretary shall note in ink on the enrollment book, the transfer so made. Upon presen tation of the .certificate of transfer to the secretary, the applicant shall be permitted to enroll in his new voting precinct club, provided he is in all other respects qualified un der the rules of the party. The meeting on Saturday will be very important, and the full commit tee is urged to be present. W. K. CHARLES, ‘ County Chairman. J. M. BELL, Secretary. —tXI Ostracize All The Reckless Drivers An authority o n traffic problems says: “Every traffic accident is a symp tom of something wrong. Something wrong with the driver, the pedes trian, the street or highway, the con trol system, the vehicle, the ordin ance, the police department, or the community. I n cities, two-thirds of the victims of fatal motor vehicle accidents are pedestrians. Our great est problem is to define clearly the proper use of streets by vehicles and by pedestrians and the obligations of each to the other.” He ’urges “an organized campaign of ostracism of the motorist who en dangers self and every one through nonobservance of traffic signals, boulevard stop signs and the like, and"who is generally the same fel low that pulls across the crosswalk, makes elderly people jump out of his way, splashes mud on pedestrians and generally behaves himself like a ho*-” He says public officials promote violation of traffic signals, when they put signals “at places where they are not needed, ru n them at times when they are not needed or run them on too long a cycle.” X < The felloW who can be a public benefactor will be one who fixes things so that only one weed grows where two grew before. Would Use The Overplus Of Bridge And Road Bond Money For That Purpose Editor Messenger: The people from Plum Branch, or McCormick, to the new Furey’s Ferry bridge should stand solidly to gether to get officials to agree to grade at cnce the road from the Furey’s Ferry bridge to McCormick to standard state grade. Every state road in the county is now graded to state standard, or is being so grad ed, except this one. This should now be graded. There is such a thing as justice and this should be demanded, and an appeal should be made to every lover of just dealing in the county to co-cperate to have this important road graded as the next project. This work can be done with the approximately one hundred thousand dollars now in bank idle, as surplus from the Furey’s Ferry bridge bonds and the Calhoun Falls highway bonds. This sum should be able to grade a magnificent road from the bridge to Abbeville and Greenwood lines. Why is this money lying in bank? The county is paying interest, on these bonds every day. It is said this money is being kept for the purpose to use it to pave different roads out of the town of McCormick fer a little ways. We do not think that even the majority of the best people of McCormick would stand for so great an injustice, while such an important road as this remains not even graded. We call upon lovers of fairness in the county to stand with us against such an injustice as this and to have this important road now graded to state standard. We believe we can confidently call upon the majority, even in the town of McCormick, in this matter and they will stand with us. A hundred thousand dollars is now being spent to grade the road to Calhoun Falls as should be done. Now, stand with us in spending this hundred thousand down here. Our present county authorities could use this money now, without waiting, to have a grading contract given for this road from Furey’s Ferry bridge to the Greenwood and Abbeville lines. Why do they not do it? Will they do it? This road running for forty-two miles through the length of the coun ty is the most important road in it and everyone knows it. It connects to Abbeville, Greenville, Ashevile and the West; with Anderson and Knox ville, and on the south to Charleston, Savannah, Florida with a paved road almdst from the bridge on the edge of McCormick County to the tip of Florida at Miami, 650 miles. Yet it is not graded through McCormick County. Last week, Mr. Editor, in your paper it was stated that Green wood County has arranged to pave down to Troy right away. This will give a paved road soon all the way from Troy to Chicago and Detroit. But this connecting road in this county is not even graded—the one road between Chicago and Miami un paved—but not even graded. This important road should be graded to standard, similarly to the other roads in the county, and without de lay, with the money already in hand and this money should not be used for any other purpose—at least for paving until all the roads are grad ed. This road, if graded so as^ to con nect to the roads north and south of us, will bring a great stream of trav el through the county, enabling out side people to see the county and in vest and settle in the country and towns. Getting in they will be able to go all over the county o n the oth er good roads. The bridge at Furey’s Ferry was essential to this connect ing road. This costly bridge is be- i ing built ,but it is useless—in fact, ! foolish—without a properly improv ed road to it. WHll any say that this bridge is enough for this “part of the county?” We have heard some thing of this kind, as a n o.euse for spending money < Isev/hcrc than ji. this road. But this bridge cannot be charged to this “part of the county” | it is for the State and the remotest Bank Cashier Lodged In Jail Accused Of Taking Nearly Thirty Thousand Dollars To Own Use Items Of Interest To The Farmers YORK, May 19.—Charged with ap propriating to his own use funds of the First National Bank of Sharon, to the amount of $29,640, Paul Fer guson, 29, assistant cashier and di rector of the institution, was arrest ed at his home early this morning by federal officers and lodged in the Spartanburg Cdunty jail. Officers present at the arrest say Ferguson admitted his guilt and ex pressed a willingness to serve time to atone for the embezzlements, which cover a period of two years. He showed no surprise when United States Marshal Joel T. Townsend, accompanied by county officers, awoke him at 1 o’clock this morning and tebk him in custody. He is said to have given as $29,000 the amount of money he had taken from the bank, which is only $640 below the figures arrived at by two national bank examiners after a day and night of auditing the records. He is further quoted as saying that $2,500 was the largest sum he took at one time. Asked what he did with the em bezzled money, Ferguson is said to have stated he used some of it in tiding ever a financial crisis a live stock firm of Sharon and York con ducted by near kinsmen. These rela tives, however, have promptly and emphatically denied that any finan cial assistance was received from him. Sharon people state that they saw no evidences of extravagant liv ing on the part of Ferguson and his family He is married and his wife is a teacher in the Sharon schools. The arrest of Ferguson created a sensatic'n in the village of Sharon about five miles from York. He had been i n the employ of the bank for eight years and enjoyed the confi dence of his employe/s and the pub lic generally. It was only a month or two ago that officials of the bank became doubtful of his honesty and they kept their suspicidns strictly to themselves until they obtained what they consider convincing proof of his guilt. Ferguson’s defalcation will in no wise affect the operation of the bank, accoi’ding to Dr. J. H. Saye, presi dent of the bank. X One of the interesting sights con nected with last year’s floods in the Mississippi Valley, according to a Department of Agriculture entom ologist stationed in Louisiana, was the migration of countless numbers of ants. Almost all the plants in the flooded fields were covered with great numbers of ants, which climb ed up as the water rose and gather ed into balls at the tops of the plants. The ants finally formed into compact masses which floated away, and were drowned after the water engulfed the plants. Certain ants are the great- ets natural enemy of the boll weevil in the Mississippi Valley, and in for mer years when -Tlbods have occur red the most striking after-effect has been unusual boll weevil injury for several years following, apparently due to the disastrous effect of the overflow o n the ants. X We know a fellow who has toured 100,000 miles during the past two years and claims he has seen more sign boards than any other traveler in America. parts of it and of the nation at large. And this highway, No. 20, is a State and Federal highway, and the county is under obligation to improve it as such. This is a road for the whole coun ty. The upper end around Mt. Car mel, Willington, Bordeaux, Abbeville, Troy, will use it as much as anyone else to get to Augusta, etc., and all will benefit from the development it will bring the county from inter state travel. Again I say let the people from McCormick or Plum Branch stand solidly together on this matter to get justice for this end of the coun ty and appeal to all righteous think- Mr. A. I. Root, head of the A. I. Root Company, Manufacturers of bee equipment, Medina, Ohio, will be present and make an address at the meeting of the McCormick Beekeep ers Association at the McCormick Court House on next Tuesday after noon, May 29, at 2:30 d’clock. Im mediately after the meeting a trans ferring demonstration will be given by Mr. Root and Mr. E. S. Prevost, State Bee Specialist, at Mr. H. C. Walker’s place here in McCo? mick. Mr. Root is one of the foremost authorities on beekeeping in the United States, having spent many years in the study of beekeeping and the manufacture of bee equ'pment. The public is cordially invited tc hear Mr. Root, and especially all those who are interested in beekeep- ing. Remember the date, next Tuesday afternoon,' May 29, at 2:30 o’clock. The McCormick Cream Station bought 475 pounds butterfat on last Saturday, May 19.. paying 43 cents per pound for same. The net re ceipts to patrons was $204.25. This is the second hfghest day on record at the cream station, 505 pounds be ing the highest the receipts have gone on any one cream day. The Cream Station is now being operated by the Georgia-Cai’olina Dairy Products Company of Au gusta, Ga. Cash is paid each day from butterfat brought to the cream station. Cream day is changed from Satu:day c“f each week to Wednes day of each week. No more cream w’H be bought on Saturday. Owing to the failure of the Elbcr- ton Creamery to meet its obligations one shipment of cream was lost to the patrons of the cream station. The county agent deeply appreciates the splendid attitude of the_patrons re garding this unfortunate occurence. He has done his best and will con tinue to make every .effort to recov er this amount in case there is a possible chance. Education Board Of Baptist Church Will Be Abolished The fourth carlot shipment of poultry from McCormick County for this year was made on Wednesday, May 16. According to an announce ment by Thos. W. Morgan, County Agent, 6,466 pounds live poultry was loaded into this car at McCormick, netting the farmers of the county $1,410.32. Regular monthly shipments of poultry have been made from the county since Februray, and to date 30 953 pounds live poultiy has been sold in this way. The total rece pts from these car sales this year has amounted to $6,495.35. In addition to these sales the county agent has shipped poultry by express to the value of $853.87. The next car will be run some time during the first part of June, and will probably be the last car run un til fall. The prices have been very good this year, and the regular monthly advent of the poultiy car, not so long ago a curios’ty in Mc Cormick, but now a regular method i of marketing poultry, has meant much to the farmers of the county in furnishing them a regular, and de pendable market for surplus poultry. 4X* Mr. G. W. Carroll Died Last Sunday I to V' l.-y After an illness of about a month’s duration, during which time he was confined to his bed the great est portion of the time, Mr. GeoYge W. Carroll died at his home about two miles southeast of McCormick at 10 o’clock last Sunday morning. He was a member of the McCormick Methodist Church, and a good, quiet industrious citizen, and was in the 65th year of his age. Funeral serv ices were conducted at the grave by his pastor. Rev. J. A. Bledsoe, and interment made in the city cemetery at 3 o’clock Monday afternoon, G. P. McCain, local undertaker, in charge. Mr. Carroll is survived by his wife and the following children: Mrs. J. | W. Brown, Mrs. J. W. Banks, Vince, i Luke and Edward Carroll of McCor- -..•v a ° rf Abhe- CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., May 18. —A two-year battle to remove the education board from the permanent program of the Southern Baptists as a “useless piece of machinery” was terminated successfully today, when the Southern Baptist conven tion voted overwhelmingly to abol ish the arm of the church and re place it with an unpaid educational commission. A day and a half of earnest de bate that disrupted the convention program much as it did last year, was culminated in adaption of a res olution offered by Drs. C. E. Mad- dry, of Raleigh, N. C. which in ef fect dispensed with an expenditure of $20,000 annually, and placed, with the convention’s execiItHe commit tee some $350,000 in debts contract ed in the name of the church by the education board. Instead there will be a commis sion consisting of 18 members, one from each state, limited to $2,500 annually in expenses, but endowed by the convention as “both eyes and mouth of southern Baptists in al matters pertaining to education.” Under today’s resolution the ex "cutive committee will henceforth be considered as “successor in law” of the education bdard, and will devote the same per centage of the conven tion’s funds now received by the board of discharge of the debts con tracted by that board. The change will be effected as soon as practi cable. Duties of the newly created edu cational commission which has not yet been chosen and which will or ganize itself, were designated tc be stimulation of interest in Christian education and a striving for develop ment of “educational conscience among our people.” The Maddry resolution supplanted a plan of the conventions’ efficiency committee to retain the board with full powers, and was adopted on recommenda tions of a committee of ten headed by Dr. E. Y. Mullins, president of the Baptists World alliance, who yes terday tried to effect a compromise by a suggestion to retain the board with limited powers as to expendi tures. Dr. Maddry had previously offered a resolution to abolish the board outright. The abolitionists pointed to displacement of the board as a complete victory, but the Mul lins backers cited designation of the commission as eyes and mouth of the Southern Baptist Church, as evidence that “the outside world” would not misinterpret action of the convention. X Number 51 525,158 Bales Of Cotton Were Spun During Last IV^onth Of Which Nearly 400,000 Bales Were Consumed In The South. Lot Of Statistics Why Storms In crease At Night WASHINGTON, May 16.—Cotto r consumed during April total W 525,158 bales of lint and 51,515 bales of linters, the census bureau announced today edmpared with 581,318 of lint and 61,410 of linters in March this year and 618,279 of lint and 67,745 of linters in April last year. Cotton on hand April 30 was helct as follows: In consuming establishments 1,- 507,592 bales of lint and 22,374 of linters compared with 1,593,486 of lint and 222,374 of linters on March 31 this year and 1,891,137 of lint and 230,487 of linters on April 30 last, year. In public storage and at compress es 2,921,306 bales of lint and 63,- 400 of linters compared with 3,510,- 534 of lint and 64,580 of linters on- March 31, this year and 3,669,083 of lint and 71,360 of linters on April 30, last year. Exports for April totalled 485,219 bales including 17,901 bales of lint ers compared with 614,428 including i8 220 cf linters in March this year and 55,449 including 30,618 of linters in April last year. Imports for April totalled 18,19(> bales compared with 41,433 in March- this year and 38,058 in April last, year. Cotton spindles active during* April numbered 30,965,404 compared with 31,412,820 in March this year and 32,886,984 in April last year. Statistics for cotton growing states included: Cotton consumed during April to taled 396,566 bales compared with 431,495 in March this year and 417,— 127 in April last year. Cdtton on hand April 30 was h?lcT as follows: In consuming establishments 1,- 018,738 bales compared with 1.079,- 634 on March 31 this year and 1,— 271,035 on April 30, last year. I n public storage and at compress es 2,668,637 bales compared with 3,237,064 on March 31, this year a..d 3,298,083 on April 30, last year. Cotton spindles active during April numbered 17,822,160 compar ed with 17,830,552 in March this year and 17,670,432 in April last year. tXt We know that foods containing rancid fat are unpalatable, but how can fats be prevented from beedming- rancid? The precautions are very, simple. The main thing is to keep air away from the fats as much aa possible. Fats in cans that have been sealed in a vacuum or in completely filled containers with airtight cov ers, such as fruit jars, w T ili keep in definitely without becoming rancid. I n some instances, as in case of lard in pails, the fat itself may seal the* 1 cover and reduce the exposure of the | fat to’ the air. If it is impracticable to exclude the air entirely from the. fat, refrigeration and darkness will delay the development of rancidi y.. Heat, light, and costact of a fat with uncoated metals hasten the develop ment of rancidity, so that under ex ceptionally adverse conditions a fat may become rancid in a few hours.. While the first steps in the develop ment of rancidity are not apparent to the senses, the keeping quality of a fat suffers with exposure to the- air until finally the fat acquires a disagreeable, tallowy, penerating odor and flavor which w’e call :ancid— JXJ Experiments in feeding alfalfa hay as grown under irrigation in Jie Yakima Valley in Washington show ed that the hay was most digestible and had the highest per centage of protein if cut when the plant was in one-fourth bldom. But the highest yield of digestible protein per acre resulted from cutting when the plants are in one-half bloom. If al lowed to grow until the bloom i* it-’vl’JL . * •_ * -» » ...j %/ V v'L*. Your respectfully, THOS. MERIWETHER. Meriwether, S- C. roll and Mrs. A. M. Mercer of Green wood, and George Carroll of Ala bama. It is an interesting fact, according to the Weather Bureau of the United States Department of Agriculture, that winter cyclones moving north eastward in the United States, and doubtless similar storms also in oth er parts of the Avorld, increase in size and intensity more rapidly by night than by day. This is because the cool section of a cyclonic area is relatively clear and the warm sec tion cldudy. At night, thex-efore, the clear section gets colder, or at least colder than it would otherwise be owing to the great loss of heat from the surface by radiation, while the clouded side moi'e nearly maintains ! its temperature. During the day time, on the other hand, the clear side warms up by means cf the sun’s rays, while the clouded portion agair changes but little in temperature. During the night, therefore, the tem- j perature contrast between the warm and cool portions of the cyclone be comes or tends to become more and more pronounced, and during the day less and less so. Furthermore, there is greater interference to the flow of the colder air during the daytime, owing to thermal convection caused by the sun’s rays, than at night, when there is no such convection, three-quarters developed the hay is Hence, owing to the greater temper- wore desirable for horse feed but :he ature contrast at night than during! protein decreases and the indigestible day *jiu less obstruction to w’ind| ll t >er increases. A booster is all right so long he sticks to his home town. movement, the cyclone normally | grows, or tends to grow, more rapid- J ly af night than during the day. j