McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, May 31, 1928, Image 5
Thursday, May 31, 1928
McCORMlCR MESSENGER, MeCORMICK, South Curolinm,
Page Number Fiva
rraNAL *ND
LOCAL ITEMS
Misses Mabel Dcrn, Kate and Al
ice Britt., students of G. W. C M
Greenv'lle, arrived Tuesday to spend
the summer vacation at their homes
in and near town.
Messrs. A. B. and R. M. Barden
of Columbia are spending some time
here in the home of Mrs. N. G. Ran
kin.
Miss Kate Price, teacher at Bam
berg past session, is spending the
summer vacation at her home here.
Misses Martha and Mary Bell and
Judge L. G. Bell spent several days
of this week in Greenville with
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Bell.
Mr. W. W. Fuller of Edgefield
was seeing relatives and friends
here one day the past week. He is
offering for re-election to the of
fice of superintendent of education
of Edgefield
year.
County
Mrs. Elmer Creighton and daught
er, Mildred, and Miss Ernestine
Graves are visiting in Aiken this
week.
Miss Regna Finley has i eturr.ed
to her home here, after a visit to
relatives in Columbia.
Miss Alice Talbert, teacher at An- j
treville the past session, is spending
the summer vacation at her home in
Sand over.
Coroner Joh n Morgan of Parks-
vlllc was seeing friends here Tues
day.
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Mr. C. W. Patterson and family
from Greer visited relatives here
several days this week.
Miss Mary Connor, teacher at Iva
the past session, is spending the
cummer vacation at her home here.
Mrs. Sarah Matt'son. Mrs. A. J.
Andrews, Mrs. J. S. Dukes and Miss
Leon Sibert are attending the an
nual meeting of the Abbeville As-
N. G. BROWN & SON
MeCORMICK, S. C.
-WASH GOODS SAL
THE BIGGEST SALE OF WASH GOODS EVER ATTEMPTED IN McCOR-
MICK COUNTY; ALL NEW SEASONABLE GOODS AND PRICED LOWER
THAN ANY OTHER STORE IN THE STATE. BUY YOUR SUMMER
REQUIREMENTS NOW! SALE LASTS ONE WEEK, BEGINNING FRI
DAY, JUNE FIRST, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY EIGHT.
POlim CAD NEXT SEEK
LAST CAR THIS SEASON
A poultry car will stop at the following named
places in McCormick County next week:
Mt. Carmel, Wednesday, June 6, until 3 o’clock.
McCormick, Thursday, June 7, until 2 o’clock.
^PRICES
Colored Hens 21c
Leghorn Hens 18c
Colored Broilers 32c
Leghorn Broilers 27c
All Broilers under 1 1-4 lbs. and Barebacks 25c
Cox 09c
Stags 15c
Turkeys 25c
Old Toms 20c
Guineas _ 30c each
This will be the last car this season, so bring all
your surplus poultry. Cash paid at car door.
This car is run in co-operation with Mr. Thos. W.
Morgan, County Agent.
RISSER & RABINOWITZ, Buyers
Goldsboro, N. C.
- COMING TO THE
:silXIE THEATRE;
THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
May 31st, June 1st, and 2nd at 8:30 p. m.
HERE HE COMES.
Whee. HAROLD LLOYD
IN
“SPEEDY”
LET’S GO
Why do the kids rave about him?
him? Why do mothers laugh?
Harold’s got “IT” with a comic twist!
“Speedy” is here! A year in the making and worth it. A
hoarse car load of laughs. A tickling trip with no stop-overd
allowed to catch your breath. LET’S GO!
ALSO --PATHE WEEKLY
Notice Admission to this picture only 15 and 35 Cents
Why do the girls adore
Fathers howl? —(’cause
MONDAY AND TUESDAY
June 4th and 5th, at 8:30 p. m.
RAYMOND GRIFFITH
IN
“WEDDING BILLS”
Nuff-Sed—Just see it! A chaser for “Speedy!”
Admission 11 and 30 Cents
New line of Summer
Hats, the latest styles,
priced from—
$1.95 to $3.50
Ladies’ Full Fashioned
Silk Hose, regular price
$1.75, for one week—
All colors
$1.39
per pair
One Big Table Of New ~Voiles. Dimities,
Organdies, Prints, Large Variety Of Col
ors And Patterns, Plain And Fancy
Stripes, Dots And Figures, All Fast Colors
And Regular 25 And 35 Cents 1 fl P
Goods, For One Week Only 1 J U YD.
New line White
Shoes, the latest,
$3.50 to $4.9
Kid
Men’s new Shirts,
White and Colors,
priced at
$1.00 and $1.44
Each
Bear Brand Children’s
Sox, full line of colors
and sizes
25 and 50 cents
For The Sale
10 pieces fine grade
solid color Voiles, Hard
Twist, long staple Cot
ton, fully Mercerized,
a regular 60 cts. value,
for one week
39 Cents
36 in. Pajama Checks
fine quality, regular 20
cents goods, for one
week will sell this num
ber at per yard
10 Cents
Jersey Rayon Knickers,
full line new colors, for
one week
89 Cents
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1 Big lot Val and Torshon
Laces all at special
prices, of per yard
214, 5 and 10 cts.
$2.00 Wash Crepe de
Chine, all the new
shades, 40 inches wide,
for one week
$1.59 Yard
1 Big Table of Prints,
Ginghams, Chambreys,
all colors and styles, for
one week
10 Cents Yard
50 pieces of new Bat-
ister. Voiles and Or
gandies, large line of
new Dots, Checks and
stripes, all the latest
styles, for one week—
regular price 50 cts._
35 Cents Yard ,
39 in. fine Solid Color
made of long staple
cotton extra hard twist
with special Chiffon
finish, a regular 40 cts.
\ oile, for one week
all colors, per yard
25 Cents
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10 pieces Charmiise
Satin in a fine soft fin
ish and High Lustrous
coh>rs, a regular 50 cts.
value, for one week
only—
39 Cents
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sociation of the W. M. U. at Damas
cus Church, near Greenwood, today,
as delegates from McCormick Bap
tist Church W. M. U.
Miss Margaret Patterson has re
turned to her home here for the sum
mer vacation, after ' attending Coker
College, Hartsville, the past session.
The Messenger carries two new
political cards in this issue, viz.:
Messrs. Jasper McDaniel and W. D.
Morrah, incumbent, for house of rep
resentatives
Messrs. Wistar Harmon and Claude
Huguley represented McCormick at
the State Firemen’s Convention in
Rock Hill yesterday.
tertainment at the home 9f Mrs.
Wistar Harmo n the name of Mrs.
Grady Smith was unintentionally
omitted. Mrs. Smith and Mrs. R. G.
Killingsworth were joint hostesses,
and Mrs. Smith’s name should have
appeared in the article. This article
was put into type and the proof read
last Wednesday while the electric
current was off and the heavy clouds
had the sun light practically shut
out, and the omission not noticed un
til the paper had been printed and
put into the mail.
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Rogers-McCain
DEATHS
MRS. FRANCES MIDDLETON
Miss Mary Seigler of McCormick; al
so three sisters, Mrs. T. C. Wells and
Miss Essie Seigler of Millen, Ga.,
and Mrs. J. C. Williams of Fitzger
ald, Ga.
The T. E. L. Class will meet at
the home of Mrs. M. G. Dorn at 3
o’clock Friday afterndon, June 1st.
All members are urged to attend.
Mrs. Roger Williams and children
cf Spartanburg are spending some
time here in the home of Mr. anc
Mrs. F. E. Williams.
The Methodist Sunday School is
scheduled to ope n at 10 o’clock next
Sunday moming in order that those
attending Sunday school may have
ample time to reach the school house
to' hear the commencement sermon,
which is to be delivered at 11:30, in
stead of 11 o’clock as previously an
nounced.
Prof. Dacus P. McCain of McCor
mick and Miss Janie Rogers of
Spartanburg were united in the holy
bonds of matrimony at the Congre
gational Church in Tryon, N. C.,
Sunday afternoon, May 27, 1928, at
3 o’clock., the Rev. Dr. Clark offici
ating. A few relatives from Me
Ccrm’ck and Spartanburg and about
fifty friends from Spartanburg ac
companied the couple to Tryon and
witnessed the ceremony.
After a sojourn in several North
Carolina cities, Mr. and Mrs. Mc
Cain arrived in McCormick yester
day afternoon to spend the summer
at the home of his father, Mr. G. P.
McCain.
LOCAL MET
Miss Nell Dowtin, who taught in
the St. Matthews school the past
session, arrived Monday to spend the
summer vacation at her home near
town.
Mrs. Sarah. Mattison spient the
past week end in Augusta with her
daughter, Mrs. H. B. Grose.
Mrs. P. J. Robinson attended com
mencement exercises at Lander Col
lege, Greenwood, last Saturday.
Messrs. James Archer and Tom
Harrison from Sparta, Ga., visit
ed the former’s brother, Mr. W. B.
Archer, this week.
Miss Kathleen Brunson has return
ed to her home at Parksville from
Lander College for the summer vaca
tion. r
Last week in giving the account of
the Susannah Wesley Bible Class en-
COTTON—
Good Middling 20 3-4
Strict Middling 20 1-2
Middling 20 1-4
Cotton Seed, bu. 60 eta
Jreakfast Bacon 50 per lb
Eggs per dozen 25 cts.
Bacon per lb. 12 1-2 to 18 cts
Meal per bu. $1.50 to $1.75
Flour per barrel $9.00 to $12.50
Gutter per lb. 50 cts.
Green Coffee, per lb. 30 to-60 cts
toasted Coffee, per lb. _30 to 55 cts
tice, per lb. 7 to 10 cts
Grist, per lb. 5 cts.
Molasses per gal. 60 to $1.00
Corn per bu. $1.35
Nne Feed, 75 lbs. $2.25
Oats per bu. 90 cts.
Wheat per bu. — $1.50
Cheese per lb. 35 cts.
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A congregation in a \ small town
the other day gave thefts pastor an
automobile which is no indication
that they expect him to speed up.
Announcement is made of the
death of Mrs. Frances Meriwether
Middleton, of Meriwether, S. C., who
died at an Augusta infirmary Fri
day night. Mrs. Middleton was the
widow of the late Patrick Calhoun
Middleton and a daughter of the
late Dr. Snowder Griffin Meriwether
and Martha Rachael Lanham of Mer
iwether, S. C.
Mrs. Middleton was in her 71st
year at the time of her death. She
is survived by three sons, Messrs.
John T. Middleton, of Flint, Mich.,
Frank L. Middleton, of Meriwether
and Robert Middleton, of Athens, Ga;
seven daughters, Misses Tommie J.,
Mary M., Alice E., and Ruby L. Mid
dleton, of Meriwether, Miss Mar
garet Middleton of Augusta; Mrs.
Wm. O. Ayers, Nichols, S. C., and
Mrs. Charles Stephens of Fort, S.
C.; brother, J. Griffin Meriwether of
Allendale, S. C.
Funeral services were held at
Bethlehem Baptist Church at 3
o’clock Sunday afternoon, conducted
by her pastor, Rev. H. M. Hodgens,
and interment made in the church
cemetery.
MR. JAMES H. LANGLEY
MR. W. S. SEIGLER
Funeral services for Mr. James H.
Langley, who died at his home near
McCormick last Thursday morning
were conducted at the Troy Metho
dist Church Saturday morning at 11
o’clock, by Rev. J. A. Bledsoe, his
pastor. Mr. Langley had reached a
ripe age, and had been in bad health
the past several years. He was a
Christian gentleman and a prosper
ous planter and leading citizen of his
Community.
Besides his widow, Mr. Langley
's survived by two daughters, Mrs.
Vance Ellison, of Callison, and Mrs.
J. B. Moore, of Greenwood, and nine
grandchildren. lie also leaves four
brothers, M. H. Langley, Greenwood;
William Langley, Abbeville; J. F.
Langley, McCormick, and J. M.
Langley, Cleora, and five sisters,
Mrs. J. M. Matthews, Mrs. D. F.
Edwards, Mrs. W. G. Edwards, Mrs.
J. W. Edwards, all of Troy; and
Mrs. Carrie Whatley, of Edgefield.
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Well Known Aiken
Publisher Is Dead
Funeral services for Mr. Walter
S. Seigler were conducted by Rev.
J. A. Bledsoe, local Methodist min
ister, at Bethany Baptist Church at
11 o’clock Sunday morning and in
terment made in the church ceme
tery, J. S. Strom, local undertaker,
in charge.
A large concourse of friends and
relatives gathered to pay their last
respects to this departed friend and
loved one.
Mr. Seigler died at his home near
McCormick early Saturday morning.
AIKEN, May 26.—James Edwin
Kerr, well-known i n South Carolina
as a poet and veteran ' newspaper
man, was found dead in his home
here today. He was 60 years old.
For the past several years he had
conducted a news bureau for a num
ber of New York, Georgia and South
Carolina newspapers.
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The fellow who crosses the street
without looking in all directions, is
a close relative to the fellow who is
continually socking his hands on a
following a long illness. He was 72! b “|Wing where the sign says, “Fresh
years of age, and one of the county’s
mb^tl substantial citizens and best
planters. He was a life long mem
ber of Bethany Baptist Church, and
a true Christian gentleman
Besides his widow, he is survived
by four sons and four daughters, as
follows: Y. E. Seigler, T. N. Seig
ler and J. E. Seigler of McCormick,
J. M. Seigler of North Augusta,
Mrs. M. S. Mayson, Mrs. W. W.
Mayson, Mrs. Frank Holloway and
Paint.”
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A1 Smith’s published list of ex
penses were announced at $95,000
and he said he had^not done any cam
paigning. If mdst of us had that
much money we wouldn’t start to
campaign either.
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If the Senate had a few more
things to investigate, we’d have
fewer laws passed at least.