McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, May 24, 1928, Image 1
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
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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*
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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