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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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said to be colder than the northpole.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 ____
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$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.
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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.
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