Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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' ^ £ . i H »■ .\. ■■'. ■' ■;. *: : •* vS?T «s Thursday, June 7, 1928 MicC’O/CA^/CA w/?y.N»V/S«i VCyiS/C. McCOKAl 1CK, South (Jarvitnu Page Number Eight REHOBOTH Sorry to report Mr. S. B. Strom and Mr. Marion Winn on the sick list this week. Mr. C. B. Strom came over from Atlanta to visit his father for a day or so this week. SANDY BRANCH NEWS We are still having plenty of rain and the farmers are behind in their crops. We were glad to see sc many at Mrs. Hulda Griffis and children! c hurch Sunday, however, there was came over for the day in this sec- ro om for more. tion Thursday; spent the morning in Mr. Winston Campbell and family White Town with Mrs. Ethan White J -,f Greenwood visited his parents, and the rest of the day at Woodslde M |-. and Mrs. A. B. Campbell, Sun- Cottage. ' day. • Miss Marie Gilchrist called to see Miss Nola Jenn ngs spent a very Miss Maggie Lou Winn one morning Lploa^ant night with Miss Marie this week while Mr. W. R. Gilchrist KWhite last Wednesday night, and Miss Helen Gilchrist were in Miss Melba Deason, a graduate McCormick. from McCormick high school, left Several froth here are planning to Tuesday for Gieenwdod, where she leave next week for the short course vv ]j take a business course. We wish at Winthrop College. So few applied f or h er a great success, for the trip, gave opportunity for a marriage of much interest to several to go from here. Mrs. E. M. their many friends was the double Winn,, who attended school there, wedding Saturday evening of Mr. expects to go, also Mrs. W. T. Strom, ^alph Chamberlain to Miss Elzia- Mrs. E. M. Morgan, and Miss Helen ijeth Seigler and Mr. Sanford Camp- Gilchrist. bell to Miss Gussie Seigler, which The friends of Mrs. WiHiam Winn took place at the Methodist parson- are sorry to know she is very ill at age at McCormick, Rev. J. A. Bled the University Hospital in Augusta. 30e officating. The W. M. U, president asks the Mr. and Mrs. Earl White and y W. M. U. to meet at the church Fri- f £m :ly of White Town spent Satur day afternoon before the third Sun- day night and Sunday in the home day, instead of the usual time. She of h i s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. has business of importance to attend white, and also Mr. and Mrs. George to before divisional meeting. Deason for the day Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Harling visited we are sorry to say the condit- homefolks Sunday and Mrs. Harling j on c f Mr. J. A- Deason does not worshipped at Rehoboth Sunday 1 1 : jnprove any at this writing, morning. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Hall visited \ Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Morgan and h n Batesburg last Sunday and Mon- Raymond Morgan, also Miss A. L. day. Morgan called to see Mrs. W. R. Mrs. Jim Cothran of Branchville Gilchrist and family Sunday after- came i ast Friday to spend a few no °h. days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. The B. Y. P. U» met on time Sun- j oe Deason. day night and held a good meeting. M r. and Mrs. Sanford Campbell The Senior group leader had charge are on a few d a y S ’ visit to rela- and carried out a good programme. t : ves and friends i n Anderson, S. C., Glad to see Mrs. Doolittle and Miss and High Point, North Carolina. Mary Christie at B. Y. P. U. Sunday M r. W. B. White has with him for night. awhile, his father from White Town. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Freeland were Mr. and Mrs. Tom Deason and Mr. out calling in this section Sunday af- and M rs. Sam Weeks ‘ and little ternoon. Mr. Freeland is making daughter spent a pleasant afternoon us a good Sunday School superin- with Mr. and Mrs. Bert Deason tendent. The nominating committee Monday. met just after Sunday School to Mr. Vince Walker and son and nominate teachers for the school. w jf e called in the home of Mr. and Sunday School meets strictly at ten M rs. Joe Deason Friday. thirty. Mrs. Bert Deason called in the Mr. and Mrs. Adair from Columbia home of Mrs. W. B. Wh'to Monday visited their parents. Mr. and Mrs. ev ehing. Jesse Stone, this week end. Mi*. Leonard Deason df Greenwood We will have preaching next Sun- ^ :oo j c sU pp er w jth his parents, Mr. day afternoon at 4 o’clock. Sunday an( j Mrs. Joe Deason, Monday night. School at 3 o’clock. The sunbeams held their monthly meeting Sunday morning. The at tendance was small, but carr'ed out a nice little programme. Goodi many from here attended the commencement exercises at McCor mick this week. Sandy Branch. -m- MT. CARMEL NEWS 4XJ- MODOC NEWS Mr. and Mrs. Jack Williams and family were Greenville vis.tors Sab bath. They went to Greenville to meet the mother and sister of Mrs. The farmers are cutting grain Williams who will visit in South Car- and chopping cotton this week in our olina for a few weeks, section, though they are yet behind The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. with their work on account of the Floyd Black will regret to hear of heavy rains. Some are not yet the very serious illness of Mr. Black through planting. at a hospital in Charleston. We all Mrs. M. M. Marshall returned hope to hear of a rapid improvement home Saturday evening, after a two at an early date, weeks’ stay with relatives in Char- Quite a number of the Mt. Carmel lottsville, Va. I.people attended the commencement Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Robertson from Avondale, N. C., spent the past few days here with their daughter, Mrs. Lena McDaniel. Messrs. E. F. and R. E. Bussey and R. N. Edmunds were visitors to McCormick Saturday evening. Mrs. C. H. Stone has been very ill the past few days. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Honrsby were the guests last Sunday to Mr. and Mrs. F. N. Shumate. Miss Sarah Cartledge from Lin- Colnton, Ga., is spending the week here with Miss Lillian Reese. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Jones of Au gusta were week end visitors here to Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Marshall. Mr. and Mrs. Waymon Corley from Cold Springs spent Sunday here among relatives and friends. Mrs. Lena McDaniel left Monday for Avondale, N. C., where she will spend sotaie two or three weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Rob ertson. Mr. Doc Smelly from Greenville spent the week end here among friends. Miss Georgia Reese was the guest Sunday to Misses Lucy and Rosalie Bussey. Mr. F. P. Bailey spent Monday here with his son, Mr. H. W. Bailey. Mrs. J. M. Reese and children spent Sunday with relatives at Lin* oolnton, Ga. Messrs. Hilton and Marion Horns- by from Clarks Hill were visitors here Sunday afternoon to Mr. and ,Mrs. E. F. Bussey. Modoc. at Calhoun Falls last week. Miss Juanita Curtis of M,t. Carmel was a member of the graduating class. Miss Reba Wells of Anderson spent the past week end in Mt. Car mel. Misses Sallie T. Cade df Converse College and Julia Cade of Johnson City, Tenn., are spending the sum mer vacation with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Cade Messrs. Francis Dean of Clio and James Dea n of Wofford College are at home for the summer. We want to correct a mistake we made last week. The name should have been Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Dean as the parents of Miss Sdphronia Dean. We stated it as Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Wells. Rev. and Mrs. Leon T. Pressly of McCormick were the past week end visitors in Mt. Carmel, attending the series of services at the A. R. P- Church. Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Seabrook and daughter of Latta spent the past week end in Mt. Carmel with Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Horton. Mr. Sea- brook returned to Latta Monday. Mr. Jack Seabrook of Johns Island accompanied them to Mt, Carmel and returned home with his brother on Monday. Messrs. T. H. Seabrook and Jack Seabrook were visitors at Clemson College Saturday. Rev. Mr. Buzhardt of Troy spent the past week end in Mt. Carmel preaching at the A. R. P. Church. Mrs. Buzhardt accompanied him Sab bath. Bishop Guerry Shot By Rev. Woodward Assailant Immediately Turns Gun And Kills Himself CHARLESTON, June 4.—Ciitical- ly wounded by a minister bearing a fancied grievance, the Rt. Rev. Dr. William A. Guerry 67, bishop of the South Carolina diocese of the Prot estant Episcopal Church, tonight lay in a hospital here with a gunshot wound in his left chest. H s assailant, the Rev. J, H. Wood ward, 66, of Brunswick, Ga., a re tired minister of the South Carolina diocese, was dead., having turned the gun on himself after felling the not ed bishop. Late today Di. R. S. Cathcart, at tending the bishop, said his patient was i n a “very critical” condition. He was still unconscious. An oper ation for removal of the bullet was performed late today. The attack and suicide occurred in the private office o*f the bishop at diocesan headquarters here. Just what occurred between the two men could not be learned but apparently there was some discussion of the retirement age of ministers and fi nances, as the Rev. Mr. Woodward before entering the office told Miss Henrietta F. Jervey, private secre tary to the bishop, that he wished to see his superior about the retixe- ment age of ministers. Check On Fioor When Miss Jervey entered the pri vate office after hearing two shots she found both men dn the floor, the Rev. Mr. Woodward with pistol in his hand. The bishop was unconscious and a check for $50 made out to the minister and signed by the bishop lying on the floor. Rev. Mi‘. Woodward, according to Miss Jervey.. was demented. She said that when about to retire to his private office the bishop asked her not to leave the adjoining room. This man is crazy and no telling what will happen,” she quoted the bishop as saying. The Rev. Mr. Woodward was for 20 years a minister in the South Carolina diocese. He was known as a man with f’xed opinions on the negro question in particular. In 1918 when Bishop Guei’ry sought a suffiagan bishop for work among the negroes of the diocese, the min ister made a number of public at tacks on him through public state ments and speeches. Killed Negro Burglar While serving as pastor of an Episcopal Church at Bluffton he shot and killed a negro burglar. He was exonerated following the kill ing, residents said, but never fully recovered from the nervous shock. After his difficulty with the bish op dver the negro-bishop question the minister was refred but retain ed a canonical connection with the diocese. For several months, a short time ago, he was a supply pastor at St. Marks Episcopal Church at Brunswick. His family is said to live at Darien, Ga. Bishop Gueny was born in Clar endon County, South Carolina, in 1861. He was ordained a deacon in 1889 and a priest a year later. Af ter serving pastorates at Florence, Max-ion and Darlington, S. C., he be came professor of homiletics and pastoral theology at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., leav ing the school in 1907 to become bishop coadjutor of South Carol'na. A year later he became bishop. t Xt One does net usually think of the oyster as having the habit of hiber nation. Yet if the temperature in the water surrounding an oyster bed falls low enough, the oysters enter a state of hibernation and cease feeding. Unlike the hibernation of terrestrial animals, which occurs at certain seasons, the oyster enters in to a state of hibernation when the temperature of the water falls to 42 degrees Farenheit or below. Most n|onmigratory animals hibernate in order to survive when their food supply fails, but the oyster clcres its shell and becomes physiologically inactive when the temperature s low enough, regardless of its food sup ply- Too often the mistake is made of building a small poultry he .so with a low roof, involving drudge y in the care of the chickens. Lai • is an important factor in the ma agement of poultry and the arrang .r.ent of the house for convenience add; great ly to the chances of success A house should be built so that the r tendant ca n stand up and do the w\ rk com fortably; and if from 3 to 5 square feet of floor space per fowl is al lowed, this will give enough cubic Hi- c -oace for the flock. IX+ Astronomers who are continually finding a new universe of stars have nothing on us when we accidentally bump dur heads. Items Of Interest To The Farmei-s First Co-operative Wool Sale Made Here Last Friday The first co-operative wool sale ever held for McCormick County farmers was arranged and held by Thos. W. Morgan, County Agent, on Fr'day, Jure 1. At this sale, 1094 pounds of wocl was sold to W. M. Wyrick Company, of West Jeffer son, N. C. r who sent a xepresenta- ,tive 'to McCormick to buy the wooL The average price received in cash by the farmers was 35 cents per pound. As this was the first sale of its kind ever held in the county many farmers had already sh.ppec their wool to the Northern markets It is cst mated that the total woo crop for the county this year wil xun between 3.000 and 4,000 pounds The sheep industry is growing rap idly in McCormick County. Plans are on foot to ship two carloads of lambs during June. For four years the lambs have been shipped to the Northern markets in carlots with ex cellent results. A list of the sheep raisers of the county is as follows: J. W. Morrah* Mt. Caxmel; J. Alle n Smith, Abbe ville; J. S. Stark, Abbeville; G. O Hemminger, Willington; G. W. Cade, Bordeaux; A. L. Moragne, Bordeaux; W. D. Mox-rah, Troy; E. Hanvcy Trey; S. A. McAllister, McCormick; Jack Gable, Troy; Jim Cox, Troy: J. P. Robinson, Troy; T. A. Dowtin, Troy; D. W. Dowtin, McCox-mick; R. H. Quarles, McCorm ck; M. G. & J. J. Dorn, McCoimick; J. R. Creswell, McCc'rmick. A. Jeff Davis Dies Suddenly Prominent Citizen Succumbs To Heart Attack Last Night (Greenwood Index-Journal of Saturday.) Pellagra And The Mississippi Floods (By W*. C. Rountree, M. D.) The McCormick Creaxxx Station bought 645 pounds Butterfat on last' Wednesday, May 30, paying 42 cents per pound for same, and netted the 85 patrons $271.90. This is the highest receipts on record for a buying day at the Cream Station, the previous high mark bo ng 505 pounds butterfat.-The Cream Stat on continues to grew in favor among the fa:mers of the county by fux-nishirg a regular market for but terfat at the standard market price. A number of farmers are buying cows, and many of them are making every effort to grow into the dairy business as a side line as soon as possible. Creamei'Ies paid $1,359,329 into one M ssissippi county last year for dairy products produced in that county. This county was Oktibbeha county, and is a county that not many years ago produced practical ly no money crop besides cotton. The people of this county are very enthusiastic over the dairy industry, and are making good money the year around from the daily cow. Bes'des this amount of x money paid into the hands of the farmers, the value of the by products of the dairy industry in the form of skim milk fed tc' hogs and chickens, and the manuxe that went back to the soil, made the actual returns of the farmers of this county almost twice the figures given above. And they are building up a permanent indus try that is better balanced than any- thig else they have tried as yet. There is no reason why McCormick County farmers cannot in time pro duce enough dairy products to equal this amount of money in one year. It will mean a gradual growing into the industry, and close co-operation from everyone interested in boosting the enterprise. When we fill the county with good dairy cows we shall fill the county with prosperity. —JXt LOCAL MARKET COTTON— Good Middling 20 3-4 Strict Middling 20 1-2 Middling 20 1-4 Cotton Seed, bu. 60 cts Breakfast Bacon 50 per lb. Eggs per dozen 25 cts. Bacon per lb. 12 1-2 to 18 cts Meal per bu. $1.50 to $1.76 Flour per barrel $9.00 to $12.50 Butter per lb. 60 cts. Green Coffee, per lb. 30 to 60 cts. Roasted Coffee, per lb. _30 to 55 cts. Rice, per lb. 7 to 10 cts Grist, per lb. 5 cts. Molasses per gal. 60 to $1.00 Corn per bu. $1.35 Fine Feed, 75 lbs. $2.25 Oats per bu. 90 cts. Wheat per bu. $1.50 Cheese per lb. 35 cts. XXX Most of the broomcorn used in America manufacture of various styles and sizes of brooms is grown in and aiound the western half of C XiiAiiOAna. Lrooiucoin *s one of the latest crops to be planted for har vest in the same year. In Oklahoma best results are obtained with plant ings from about June 15 to July 1. A. J. Davis, prominent citizen died suddenly from a heart attack in his apartment at the Morelanc Hotel last night at 11 o’clock. He had apparently been in his accustom ed health and had planned to go to Highlands, N. C., today to make preparations for the opening of his hotel there. The summons came as he was preparing to retixe for the night. The funeral services will be con ducted at Edgewc’od Cemetery to- moiTOw afternoon at 6 o’clock by his pastor, the Rev. F. T. McGill, of the Associate Reformed Presbyter ian Church and the Rev. James W Jackson, pastor of the First Pres byterian Church. Mr. Davis was a ruling elder in the A. R. P. Church for a number of years. Mr. Davis was 69 years of age on the 14th of last March and the son of George Austin Davis and Jane Morrow Foster of the Troy sec tion. As a young man he was en gaged in the mercantile business at Troy, having been a member of the film of Wideman, Davis & Ken nedy and later located at Bridge port, Ala. He always was a for ward-looking and progressive citi zen and was a pioneer in the farm realty business in this section, hav ing organ'zed the Davis Realty Com pany about 15 years ago. During the time he was active in selling farm lands he lived at Laui’er.s two or three years and then moved to Greenwood about 10 years ago. For the past several years he was en gaged in the hc'tel business here and at Highlands. Mr. Davis is survived by his widow, who was Mrs. Hatt e Mc- Kellar Alle.x, and four children by hi s first marriage: Mrs. J. C. Hemp hill, of Greenwood; George H. Davis, of Gieenwood; Mrs. F. L. Chestnut, of New Orleans, and Miss Mae Davis, of Greenwood. The following will serve as pall bearers at the funeral tomorrow af ternoon: W. H. Nicholson, S. H. Mc Ghee, E. I. Davis, R. F. Davis, F. I. Robinson, Geo:ge W. Long, F. B. Cook and W. C. Rob'inson. IXJ Strong Cast In “The Mysterious Rider With Jack Hold and Betty Jewel in the principal parts, the cast cf “The Mysterious Rider,” coming to the Dixie Theatre on Friday and Sat urday, is ore of the strongest Para mount has ever given the popular Zane Grey’s stories. Hold plays Bent’Wade, “the mys- te:ious rider,” who fights to save the homesteads of the desert ranch ers from illegal seizure, and Betty Jewel is Dorothy King, daughter of the city financiex*, who falls in love with the out-of-doors man. The Villain is Cliff Harkness, played by Charles Sellon.. and the role of his henchman, Tom Saunders, falls to Ivan Christie. Tom Kennedy, who clicked so well in “We’re i n the Navy Now,” and “Behind the Front,” has a comedy role, and Guy Oliver and Jane Keck- ley, two vetexan character players, sustain the pathos element of the story. Arthur Hoyt has one of the “shrimp’ ’parts for which he is dis tinguished, this time playing the secretary to Mark King, financier, who is personified by David Tor rence. Albert Hart plays the sheriff and some clever ch ; ldren and chai'- acter players caiTy the important “bits” of the production. Much of the picture was taken on the Mojave desert, where the com pany spent two weeks on location. NOTE:—Wo will run this picture at regular prices—children 11 cents; Aults 30 cents. X Extra ventilation for the poultry heuste in hot weather, particularly in the southern part of the country is very desirable. This may be se cured by having an adjustable vent ilator in the rear of the house. An opening of this kind is best made the entire length of the house below the eves. . If a large part of the front of the poultry house is of glr-^—as is usually the case in the N rth— the house will be too warm m hot weather unless a curtain < f un bleached muslin, light-weight duck, or burlap is put over the front. The cloth should be thi n enough t\. allow a slow circu1rt ; on of air without a draft. txt The girl who plays the ukelele be fore marriage doesn’t always pick on her husband. Pellagra has become greatly dis cussed recently because of its prev alence in the flooded districts of the Mississippi River. The urgent need for xelief workers brought to that are a many kind hearted doctors and nurses, who gave their time and skill toward the prevent on of diseases that are so common after such cat astrophes. To their astonishment they found Pellagra in almost, every home among the niral population. Not be ing residents of the South, there ! octt-rs at once came to the conclu sion that these victims of Pellagra had contracted the disease as a re sult of the flood. The lack of prop er nourishment to some parts of the body has been the popular theory as to the cause of Pellagra. Naturally the devastating flood caused starva- *on and self denial. Hence it was easy to' couple the two things and conclude that the deprivation caused by the extended flood caused the many cases of Pellagra. Pellagra is not a deficiency dis ease. It is caused by an infection which destroys thfe normal function ing of the digestive processes of the intesfnes. The flood had nothing to do with Pellagra as it now exists in that section. It had been there for years before the flood. These good doctors and self sacrificing nurses only discov ered what they had before not had the opportunity to discover-viz., that in the Southland one woman in al most 75 per cent of rural home is suffering with Pellagra. Pellagra is a disease that is ac quired through the skin. Contact by bare hands with vegetable foliage such as cabbage, beans, collards, etc., brings about the infection. It is detected by brown, rough skin, sunburn, nervousness, diar- rheoa, const'pation, aching in the limbs and back and funny feelings in the head. Unt.l we discovered a medicine that killed the Pellagra infection in the intestines we were pdwerless to relieve this type of patient. They just wasted away. Indigestion soon set up and the patient is unable to get sufficient nourishment to live. The Rountree Laboratories after years of study have been able to. compound this Pellagra medicine which is a sure relief and in almost all cases a permanent restorer of health to the Pellagra Sufferer. X Weather Bureau Records Show Where Droiight Occurs During the period of crop growth there is seldom a time when more or les s drought does not exist in some portion of the country. Improved methods of tillage and increase in the amount cf vegetable matter in the soil tend to retain considerable moisture that would otherwise be evaporated, or lost through seepage, thus affording a partial supply when rainfall is deficient. The amount of moisture conservable in this way, however, is limited, and extended drought periods finally exhaust the whole supply. Agricultural losses are in proportion to the time the drought cont ! nues or to the actual possibilities of damage, which depend largely on the stage of crop develop ment. The Weather Bureau of the Unit ed States Department of Agricul ture states that in the Atlantic coast districts more or less severe droughts occur for a period of 30 days or more from March tef September in nearly half the years. In the lower Ohio and middle and lower Missis sippi valleys drought is liable to oc cur during the same period in more than half the years. Over much of Texas and the western Great Plains drought is liable to occur in 70 to 90 per cent of the years, or even more. However, this does not indicate that all crops necessarily suffer. The drought may occur too late to in jure winter wheat or too early to harm spring wheat. It may come before the corn is susceptible to severe injury or after it has largely matured, and it may happen during the various stages of cotton growth, when lack of moisture, though re tarding growth, encourages fruiting and lessens insect depredations. The per centage of years with drought during the crop-growing season is lowest for the entire coun try in portions of the eastern plains and upper Mississippi Valley, not ably in much of Missouri and Iowa and portions of near-by States. This is on account of the preponderance of the \yearly precipitation occurring in the late spring and early summer months. Drought years are only 30 to 40 per cent in this area.