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j / JtlcCormicn iXusscmcv 4 V yidK.fi i TRUK TO OURSELVES, OUR NEIGHBORS. OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD. Public Invited Mc Cormick High School Commencement Senator Robinson Explains Highway Funds Situation McCormick School Commencement Starts With Play June 1st De La Howe State School Commencement Much Delinquent Taxes Collected f i Out Of $1,730,894 Collected The public is cordially invited to the commencement exercises of the McCormick High School June 1st, 3rd, and 4th. On Friday evening, June 1st, at 8 o’clock, the Senior Class will pre sent “Seventeen,” a delightful com edy ol youth and romance. For this program only there will be an ad mission charge. Dr. R. H. Bennett, President of Lander College, will preach the com mencement sermo n Sunday morning at 11:30 o’clock in the High School auditorium. The class day program will begin Monday morning at 11 o’clock. Dr. D. M. Douglas, President of the University of South Carolina, will deliver the commencement ad dress on Monday evening, June 4th, after which diplomas and medals will be awarded. Thirty-six students will receive State High School diplomas on Mon day, June 4, as follows: Evelyn Blackwell Katheryn Bledsoe John Burnside Annie Kate Campbell Gertnide Chamberlain Ann e Cdwan Frank Corley Gertrude Culbreath Melba Deason Sophia Dillashaw Gladys Dillashaw Thomas Dowtin Luther Drennan Joseph Dukes Grace Dunlap Larkin Fooshe Kathleep Hollingsworth Frances Langley Essie L^c Langley Sue Ludwick Cowan McBride Mary Ellen Morrah Wjilliam Moss Lillie Moss Charles Pennal Raymond Remsen Will'am Robinson Elliott Seigler Rdberta Smith Cairie Lou Strom Lee Strom Wallace Talbert Bertie Tumblin Foster Wardlaw Eddie Wideman Carol Winn. Anderson Centennial June 13,14 and 15 Big Celebration And An Inter esting Program ANDERSON, May 25.—iEven the interludes in the la^ge historical pageant to be given here June 13, 14 and 15 as part of the Centennial program, will be brim full of color and action. About 500 lads and lassies will be formed into groups and will take part in gay and picturesque dances. There will be Virginia reels, square dances, of the period of 1876, dances of the victory maidens, citizens of the future etc. Seven groups of 20 girls each will represent the grammar schools of the city in a dance of the flowers and fairies, typifying South Carolina Beautiful. They will be dressed in robes of white. The period dancers will all be dressed in costumes appropriate for the year of 1876—hoop skirts and pantalettes for the girls, velvet coats, tight trousers and beaver hats for the boys. Back in 1876 warhoops and toma hawks, has little romantic appeal for the residents of the Piedmont section but now it is felt that the re-enacting of some of these by-gone days will be not only picturesque but instructive as well. It seems indeed fitting that the Red Mens lodges of Anderson should be chosen to take the part of the “red men” while a large number of “s<JuaWs tt -and “papooses” from their families \vnR^as«i«t in giving a true representation of the olden days. This unique feature will be a part of the large historical pageant that will be given at the Centennial cele bration here on June 13, 14 and 16. Says Not Likely To Have More Than $15,000 Surplus On Furey’s Ferry Bridge Project ■ ■ V Editor Messenger: Evidently there is a misunder standing about the highway funds in McCormick County, judging from the correspondence published in your paper last week. Wjith your per mission I will endeavor to give the situation as I see it. The highway department will de posit in the banks of the county sell ing read bonds, the money derived from the sale of the bonds, provid ed’ such bank will deposit with the highway department, liberty bonds or gilt edge municipal bonds in an amount equal to or gi eater than the amount deposited. Said deposit to be subject to the check of the highway department and to bear in terest at the rate of 3 per cent on daily balances. Some of the con struction funds of McCormick Coun ty is held by the banks of McCor mick on the above described terms. The “Pay-As-You-CA>” act, under which all of our agreements are made, provides that on roads that are in the pavipg prog:am, there shall be no expenditure by the high way department for top soiling. The point being that a hard surface road can be laid on a clay surface as well as a top soiled surface and therefore this expenditure is unnec essary. If a road in the hard sur face system is top soiled, it must be done at the expense of the coun ty. Therefore, if the road in ques tion is re-located before the paving program is commenced the county will have to pay the cost of topsoil. The paving program for McCormick County calls for permanent concrete hard surface of standard type. If we substitute surface treated roads for the standard type, the cost will be about one tenth as much and prob ably could be completed with'n the next two years. In my judgment there is great doubt if money raised by bonds for the construction of one project can be used for the construction of an other project without legislative action. I am attaching hereto a copy of a letter written to Mr. J. Frank Cars well, of Augusta, Ga., some time since that will further explain the matter. McCormick, S. C. May 22, 1928. Mr. J. Frank Carswell, Chairman, Chamber Commerce, Augusta, Ga. My Dear Mr. Carswell, I have your favor with reference to the highway leading from Mc Cormick to Augusta, and wish to thank you for the suggestions of fered and to say that I am in full agreement with you. However, your information with reference to funds held by the highway department for our account is incorrect. On the Furey’s Ferry Bridge pro ject, after the cost of building the bridge, cost of engineers accounts and building the road through the McKie estate is paid we will have probably not more than $15,000.00 surplus. On the Calhoun Falls Mc Cormick Highway if the bridge con templated in. the estimate over either Little River or Long Cane Creek is built, the n we will have no suj’plus there. As you know this small amount would do very little in the way of improving the highway mentioned, and too, our paving program will in all probability be put in operation next year. I am informed that this road will be almost entirely re-locat ed and while we would feel free to spend whatever surplus we have on its improvements, we would want it to count when the paving is begun. I can assure you that we are very much interested in this highway and will do everything that is hum anly possible to bring about its im* pr^jtfement as soon as possible. j I wish to thank y'/tt and others foj* the very pleasant evening the Partridge Inn a few weeks ago. J had a delightful time and remejhber it with pleasure. I shall be glad to advise with you at any time about \ Senior Class To Present Exercises Run From Fridayj ^ tat J^ $45,432.40 “Seventeen” On June 1st Was “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 in this story of love, youth and summer time. It is most amusing and delightful 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 grown up, is sent on humiliating enands by his moth er and must depend upon his father for spending money. The cast for the play is as fol lows : Jare Baxtor Katherine Bledsoe Lola Pratt Mary Ellen Mcvrah May Parcher Melba Deason Ethel Boke Evelyn Blackwell Mary Brooks Carrie Lou Stiom Mrs. Baxter __ Annie Kate Campbell William Slyvanus Baxter __ Wallace Talbert. Mr. Baxter Frank Corley Joe Bullitt Raymond Remsen Genesis Elliott Seigler Johnnie Watson Forty Whrdlaw George Crooper __ William Robinson Mr. Parcher Joe Dukes Wallie Banks Luther Drennan -JXt- Insurance Fees Go To Counties Checks Mailed By Commission* er To Treasurers Checks are being sent to the coun ty treasurers of South Carolina by the insurance commiss’oner in pay ment of the counties’ share of the 2 per cent tax on premiums collected by insurance companies with head quarters outside the state during the semi-annual period ending December 31, 1927. Of the tax, one-half goes to the county in which it is collect ed ajnd the other half to the state. Fees for this half year amount to $95,777.19., an increase of $5,230.26 over the fees collected during the period ending June 30, 1927. Following is a list of counties and the amount being sent to each: Abbeville __ $ 850’.44 Aiken 1,557.88 Allendale 411.02 Anderson 4,765.70 Bamberg __ 727.03 Barnwell __ 686.74 Beaufort 897.71 Berkeley 308.36 Calhoun ____ __ 489.10 Charleston 12,346.12 Cherokee 1,224.70 Chester 2,136.92 Chesterfield 1,161.22 Clarendon 818.85 Colleton 592.75 Dailington 2,576.37 Dillon 1,125.63 Dorchester 432.22 Edgefield __ 566.28 Fairfield „ 574.64 Florence 4,141.84 Georgetown __ 844.21 Greenville 8,646.07 Greenwood 3,186.24 Hampton __ 645.62 Horry 658.94 Jasper 200.19 Kershaw 1.274.27 Lancaster 1,106.53 Laurens 1,830.96 Lee __ 870.44 Lexington 1,185.03 McCormick 227.38 Marion 1,490.84 Marlboro 1,537.24 Newberry 1,473.65 Oconee __ 680.29 Orangeburg 2,567.20 Pickens 1,006.33 Richland 10,774.93 Saluda 413.04 Spartanburg 7,825.38 Sumter ’ 3,236.23 Union 1,937.89 Williamsburg — — — 687.20 York — 3,079.67 txt Parts of Siberia in mid-winter are said to be colder than the northpole. • gmmmvmmmm—mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmtmmmmmm u imm mmm > these things, and with regards, I am, Yours very respectfully, F. C. ROBINSON* Evening Through Tuesday Evening The De la Howe State School will hold its commencement exercises from Friday evening, June 1st, through Tuesday evening, June 5th. The following program will be car ried out: A music recital by the young ladies of the school will be on Fri day evening at 8:30. On Saturday there will 1>3 no exercise of a formal character. Sunday afternoon at four o’clock Reverend H. O. Chambers, pastor of the Abbeville Methodist Church, will preach the sermon be fore the high school. On Monday evening at 8:30 the annual enter tainment, or “Big Show,” as it is sometimes called, will be presented. Tuesday morning at eleven o’clock the board of trustees will meet in their quarterly session. The last exorcises of the commencement oc casion will be held at 8:30 Tuesday evening, when the eleventh grade of the high school will receive certi ficates of graduation. Professor M G. Woodworth, D. D., of the Pres byterian College at Clinton, will make the principal address. All the friends of the De la Howe School are most cordially invited to be present at all of these exercises. tX$ McCormick School Teachers Elected In McCormick County List Completed And Announc ed For Next Session COLUMBIA. May 23.—A total of nearly one and three-fourths million dollars in delinquent taxes has been collected by sheriffs and tax collect ors in the ten months ending April 30, 1928, i n forty-three counties, it is shown bv Comptroller-General A- J. Beattie from reports in his office made by county treasurers. Most of the delinquent dues col lected are 1926 taxes, said Mr. B?at- t'e, although a small part represents those due for preceding years. Reports on file in Mr. Beattie’s of fice came from forty-three icounty treasurers. No reports on these col lections have been received at pres ent from Dillon, Dorchester or Union counties, the comptroller-general stated. Of the total delinquent tax col lections of $1,730,894.78, Charleston County shows the largest item with $148,122.69. Orangeburg came sec ond with $146 600.09, while Will iamsburg reported a total collection of $118,003.49. Students To Spend Summer On Farm Fight Boll Weevil CLEMSON COLLEGE, May 28.— Ten Clemson College students, after completing a six-weeks intensive course of appropriate study, have se cured jobs on large plantations as cotton boll weevil control special ists. About 30 others have qualU’^d in this intensive course for sinrfUr jobs during the summer vacation and will doubtless be placed on farm ?. Dr. F. H. H. Calhoun, director of the agiicultural faculty, says that 22 other students out of the class of 73, completed the course primarily so they could go back home and apply their learning on their fathers* farms. When it was announced two months age’ that students were to be qual ified to help cotton planters with their weevil problems, great inter est was manifest throughout South Carolina and in Georgia as welL This arrangement, is mutually ben- efitting to both fai*mers and stu dents, Says Dr. Calhoun. The far mers’ weevil troubles come at a season when students are fiee for tempcYary employment, and these students reared on the farm, and with a background of two to four The smallest collection item re- i years of agricultural education, are S. The teachers for the McCormick Schools for the 1928-29 session are as follows: High School S. P. Clemons, Superintendent, McCormick, S. C. Mary Joyce, Coronaca, S. C. Sue Barrow, Auburn, Ky. Ollie Farm, Chapin, S. C. \ Evelyn Ramsey, Sumter, S. C. Beattie Young, Florence, S. C. Bonita Atkinson, Spartanburg, C. Sara McGee, York, S- C. Margaret Hill, Haitsville, S. C. W. A. Mason, Estill, S. C. Grammar School Garvice Taylor, Principal, New berry, S- C. Elizabeth Harris, Belton, S. C. Mrs. S. P. Clemons, McCormick, S C. Mary McCord, Hodges, S. C. Florence Burgess. Greeleyville, S. C. Mrs. Sarah Powe, Helena, S. C. Sedelle Ellis, Seneca, S. C. Elizabeth Dillard, Seneca, S. C. Mary L. Heustiss, Bennettsville, S. C. x— Grammar School Presents Beautiful Operetta May 25th On Friday evening, May 25th, 'the children of the grammar school pre sented “Under the Sugar Plum Tree,” a beautiful operetta in which appeared famous people from Story Book Land and fairies, goblins, and Squickicum Squees from the Land of Make Believe. The costumes were attractive, the music splendid; the production has been voted one of the best McCormick has was had. The teachers of the grammar school are to be commended for perfecting such an excellent presentation. X Services At St. Stephens Church, Willington, Sunday Rev. R. C. Topping of Anderson, in charge. There will be service at St. Steph ens Church, Willington, on the after noon of Sunday, June 3rd, at four o’clock. AH-«re invited. ported was that of Lancaster Coun ty. which shewed $164.72 collected. The collections of delinquent taxes from June 30, 1927 to April 30, 1928, by counties follows: Abbeville ____ ____ __ __$ 31.012.36 Aiken -- 26,806.42 Allendale -- 18.986.10 Ande:son __ — 71.520.44 Bamberg 8,484.21 Barnwell 15,082.30 Beaufort — ”— 34,284.42 Berkeley -- 4,898.78 Calhoun -- 16,035.87 Charleston 148,122.69 Cherokee 22 808.59 Chester 8,615.38 Chesterfield __ -- 40,000.00 Clarendon — 57,789.05 Colleton — 35,232.13 Darlirgton -- — 32.582.25 Dillon —__ No Report Dorchester -- No Report Edgefield 21,311.87 Fa’rfield — 19,244.27 Florence 94,029.88 Georgetown ____ -- 21,701.54 Greenville 47,927.27 Greenwood — — 28,002.67 Hampton __ __ __ 19,310.66 Her: y 38,736.68 Jasper -- 5,593.81 Kershaw 28,906.06 Lancaster __ 164.72 Laurens __ 38,984.52 Lee 46,819.74 Lexington __ 38,795.17 McCormick __ 45,432.40 Maricn ____ 21,989.09 Marlboro ____ __ 42,807.60 Newberry __ 34,804.49 Oconee 28,080.29 well qualified to lender valuable assistance. In most cases they will earn about $75 a month and board, while a few, with more exacting ye- sponsibil'ties, will earn more. The best of the men, of course, are get ting the first jobs, says Dr. Cal houn. X Two Interesting Cases In Laurens Court Orangeburg 146.600i.09 Pickens ____ __ __ 31,687.92 76,011.02 4.700.63 67,031.38 Richland __ Saluda __ Spartanburg __ -- Sumter 81,947.80 Un ; o n No Report Williamsburg 118,003.49 York __ 10,079.60 Total ____ r--i- $1,730,894.78 First Campaign Date And Assessments Set First Meeting On July 17th; Entrance Fees Range From $1.00 To $10.00 At a meeting of the County Demo cratic Executive Committee held Saturday, May 26th, July 17th was named as the opening campaign date*. Candidates far various offices were assessed as follows: State Senate, House of Representatives, Super visor, Clerk of Court, Superintend ent of Education and Sheriff, $10.00; Coroner, $1.00; County Commission er, $2.50; Magistrate at McCormick, $7.50; Cottdn Weigher, $2.50. txt Picnic At Young’s School June 2nd School Teacher Awarded $500 For Alleged Contrac. Breaking By Board LAURENS, May 26.—A new trial was today refused by Judge C. C. Featherstore in common pless court in the case of W. M. Hunter vs. the Charleston & Western Carolina Rail way company, a jury yesterday hav ing given a verdict in favor of the plaintiff awarding him $1,000 as actual damages as the result of a collision last September of a rail road motor car and the automobile of the plaintiff. Hunter was injured in the wreck, while the foreman of section crew who was on the motor car was fatally hurt. The accident r ecu: red at a crossing near Ora. Hunter brought suit for $6,000. The last case heard by the court before adjournment today was that of Miss Elise McNeil, now Mr::. H. F. Edwards, against the board of trustees of the Mount Olive schco!, Waterloo township. The suit involv ed an alleged contract between che plaintiff and the defendants as a teacher in the Mount Olive school for the session of 1926-27. Iostead of holding the place open for her, another teacher was elected and the school te:m opened without notice being given to Miss McNeil that she would not be needed. The jury gave a verdict of $509 in favor of the plaintiff. The school session to wh’ch Miss McNeTl claimed she had been elected was for a term of seven months at $90 per month. Two members of the board of trustees testified that they did not agree to the election of Miss McNeil, although they had instructed the clerk of the board, W. L. Cooper, >.l- i so a member of the board, to write her to' find out if she still expected to teach the school, Mr. Coono. hav ing notified the other members that she had ascepted the place fallowing the receipt of a letter he had sent to her telling her she had been elect ed as the primary teacher in the school. John Culbertson and J. N. Jones, the other members testified there had been a misunderstanding and that they did not agree to the employment of Miss McNeill. The plaintiff in the last mentioned case was represented by Mr. W. K. Charles of McCormick associated with Mr. Albert Todd of Laurens, while the defendants were represent ed by Messrs. Babb, Wilson, Black- well and Sullivan. Speedwagons! — A diet of beef h^irt and liver has* There will be a picnic at the caused a striking decrease in deaths Young’s School House Saturday, Speedwagons! — Speedboats!- of baby trout, experiments at hatch- 1 June 2nd. The public is cordially Speedlaws! —■ Speedometers!- eries show. \ J invited to come. i “Speedy” outspeeds them all. 1 i