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Thursday, June 14, 1928 McCORMlCK MESSENGER. MeCORMICK .«» i.aru/mo I’aae Number Eight MM LOCAL HOIS Mr. and Mrs. H. S. LaGroon and| baby of St. Petersburg, Fla., are on' a two weeks’ visit to relatives near McCormick and Plum Branch. They expect to leave early SatuiVlay morn ing* for their home. > The W. M. S. of the Baptist Church will meet next Monday at 4 o’clock. All the ladies are request ed to be present. Mrs. A. J. Andrews and son, Mr. Luther Andrews, are spending this week with relatives in Atlanta, Ga. / Miss Pauline Ballinger of Belton is spending some t ; me here with her sister, Mrs. J. S. Strom. Mr. G. W. Sharpton Of Clarks Hill was a business visitor here Tuesday. ; v Mr. A. S. Sims of Leverett, Ga. was a business visitor here yester day. «■» Mr. J. K. White of Greenwood spent several days here this week with relatives. Rev. Leon T. Pressly left Monday morning for Lancaster, where he will help Rev. W. S. Patterson in a series of meetings in the A. R. P. Church through this week. Mrs. Pressly is spending the week at Great Fc" with Mrs. T. G. Castles. 'alls Mr. T. Garrett Talbert and two sons frdm Columbia spent last Thursday night hei<e in the home of his father, Col. W. Jasper Talbert. Mr. D. T. LaGroon and family were ^siting homefolks in the Call- ison section Sunday. Mr. R. A. Price of Parksville was a business visitor here Tuesday. Mr. C. W. Patterson and family from Greer and Miss Martha Moore from Greenville visited Relatives and friends in McCormick several days the past week. Miss Elsie Durham is spending this week with relatives in Greenwood. The Messenger is carrying the an nouncement this week of Mr. J. C. Mdrga n of Parksville for re-election to the office of coroner of McCor mick County. Mr. G. O. Hemminger and two grandchildren from Willington were visitors here a short while Tuesday. Mrs. A. B. Lyon is spending the week with relatives in Mt. Carmel. Miss Marian Sturkey is attending Peabody summer school in Nashville, Tenn. Miss Frances Britt is on a visit to Mr. and Mrs. John L. Kennedy of Grovetown, Georgia. meeting plans will be discussed for the child’s d : nic to be held here June 29th. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Rheney of Homestead, Fla., are spending some time here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Rheney. Mr. C. M. Carroll of Augusta was seeing relatives and friends here the past week end. Mr. W M Strom and family are visiting relatives in Anderson Mr. W. A. Mason .visited home- folks at Estill the past week. M'eses Winnie Thurmond and Laura Lowe and Mr. Claude Huguley were visitors in Augusta Tuesday. M ss Katheryn Scholl of Charlotte, N. C., spent the past week here in the home of Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Mc Grath. Mrs. F. E. Williams left today for Spartanburg. wher° she was called on account of the illness of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Williams’ baby. “The Fortunate Calamity” has been indefinitely postponed, we are asked to state. X MT. CARMEL NEWS Hollingsworth-Zinker Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth of MoCormick announce the marriage of their daughter Ernestine Linwood to Mr. Earl Zinker on Thursday June the seventh Nineteen Hundred and Twenyt-Eight Lex’ngton, South Carolina -IXt- Edmunds-McDonald WJe are sorry to report that Mr. J. L. Jolly of near town happened to the misfortune of fracturing a hip bone last Saturday mdrning when he fell on a stick of wood lying on the porch floor*. At this time he is get ting along as well as could be ex pected. Miss Emily Passmore, county nurse from the Child’s Health Bu reau, will lecture to all mothers at the court house Friday afternoon at 4 o’clock. All mothers ai»e urged to attend, and especially those of babies and pre-school age children. At this Mrs. Young and Miss Voncyle Young of Alexander City, Ala., are the charmine guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Williams. Mrs. Young, Miss Young, Mrs. Williams and | children spent the past week end visiting relatives in Spartanburg. Messrs. T. H. Seabrook, James Epps. Jack Hartley and Wyman Powell of Latta spent last Thursday night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Horton. They were en route home from a visit to Clemson Col- lege. Mis. Cecil Gillam, our very ef ficient P. M., spent the past week end in Calhoun Falls. Mrs. G. W. Tarrant and children visited her parents in Johnson part of last week. Mr. Tarrant was a week end visitor and accompanied them home Sabbath. Mrs. J. R. Tarrant spent the past week end in Edgefield. Mr. Bradley Moi.Tah of Green ville spent last Sabbath with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Morrah. Quite a number of Mt. Carmel people were Willington visitors Sab bath. Mr. J. F. Sutherland left Sabbath for a visit, to Mr. and Mrs. J. {T. McCrorey at Rock Hill. * Miss Martha Connor and Mr. Ted Barnett visited Miss Blanche Billard at Calhoup Falls last Sabbath after noon. Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Scott and Mr. J. J. White spent last Sabbath in Augusta with Mrs. White at the hospital. Mrs. W. A. Scott and Mr. J. J. White were Augusta vfsitois one day last week. Mr. Charles Bowyer and little son have moved to Elberton, Ga. Mrs. Bowyer is spending some time in Beaufort. Mrs. Abner Lyon of McCormick is visiting relatives in Mt. Carmel this week. We are glad to say that little Car olyn Hester is very much better. Mrs. Hester returned home with her last week. The latest news from Mr. Floyd Black, whd underwent an operation at the Roper Hosiptal in Charleston last week, is that he is slowly im proving. Mrs. J. J. White, who had an op eration at the University Hospital in Augusta two weeks ago, is ex pected home this week. This will be good news to her many friends. Mrs. Edward Hammond and son returntd to their home in Elberton last Tuesday. Saturday afternoon, June 9th, a party of young people from Parks ville and nearby towns motored to Plum Branchy Baptist Parsonage to witness the marriage of two of their number, Mr. Kenneth McDonald and M.ss Kate L. Edmunds. Rev. H. M. Hodgens performed the ceremony, and the young couple left immediate ly for a bridal trip to Ware Shoals, Greenville and other points. Mr. McDonald is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas McDonald of Plum Branch and is a young man of in dustrious habits and stei ling quali ties. The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Edmunds of Parks ville, and is a young woman of am iable and lovable disposition who has 1 .iust graduated from Washington' High School. The best washes of our community follow these young people. May their lives be successful, useful and happy. txt Yearly Honor Roll McCormick Schools • • • • • • • • • • • • 66 -o- COMING TO THE -o- DIXIE THEATRE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY ' June 15th and 16th, at 8:30 p. m. THE MYSTERIOUS RIDER” WITH JACK - HOLT WHO IS HE? This mysterious masked Lothario with flowing scarf and screaming steed. Riding through the stilly stretches of the night—where docs he go—whence does he come? Hoofs follow—nearer—near! _Wh a t has he done? Don’t miss Zane Grey’s latest master mystery melodrama! It’s headed this way! NO ADVANCE IN ADMISSION 11 AND 30 CENTS ALSO—PATHE WEEKLY MONDAY AND TUESDAY June 18th and 19th, at 8:30 p. m. LOUISE BROOKS AND A BIG CAST OF STARS IN “ROLLED STOCKINGS” As entertainment this one sure is there. You will say it is one of the best pictures you ever saw. A super fine cast and story. JUST DON’T MISS IT GRADE I— Charles Morgan Herbert Sturkey Charles Henry Williams Hazel Brown Bessie Mae Bosworth Helen Bosworth Murtice Hall Charles Owings Thomas Patterson Irene Shaw. GRADE II— Winona Below Eleanor Mae Bannsiter Doris Belchv Louire Blackwell Tench Owens. GRADE HI— Sara Frances Franklin Elizabeth Talbert Elizabeth Harris Helen Cheatham Rebecca Drucker Mary Sue Coleman Belle Hester John W iliam Bradley William Fooshe Effie Lee Crawford Elizabeth Brown Virginia Cheatham Dorothy Woodward Margaret Smith GRADE IV— Sara Lou Bledsoe Annie Laurie Sturkey Josephine Bowick Connie Lee Brown Margaret Robisson Mary Ellen Edmunds Matilda Wili ams. GRADE V— Whitfield Cheatham Alma Faulkner Frances Robinson Sara Louise Strom Sara Louise Smith D. B. Woodward Frances Watkins. GRADE VI— Annie Mae Bledsoe Kathryne Brown Eula Caudle Helen Crawford Annie Sue Graves ‘ Dollie Rankin Sara Schumpert Lorenzo Sturkey. GRADE VII— Charles Below Lois Deason Minnie Dunlap Hoitense Goddard Joh n WRliam Morrah Mary Moss Rosella Rankin James Willis. GRADE VIII— Ruby White Helen Talbert Ellen Bosdell. GRADE IX— Mark Dowtin Maude Dowtin Mary Edmunds Julia Jennings. GRADE X— Mildred Below Helen Brown Clara Lee McComb Carrie Mason Jack Rheney Harriett Sturkey Edna Duncan. GRADE XI— Kathryne Bledsoe Frank Corley Melba Deasdn Gladys Dillashaw Sophia Dillashaw Charles Pennal. BORDEAUX NEWS Mr. and Mrs. J. F. S'ngleton. Mrs. L. A. Hoffman, Mrs. W. R. McKinney and daughter, Bennie, were shop ping in McCormick Saturday morn ing. Miss Sarah Brown of Greenwood is v siting her sister, Mrs. P. B. Par nell. Jr. Misses Fannie Mae and Irene Hddges and Mary and Sud:e Wide- man spent awhile SattfiJday aftei*- noon with Misses Bennie and Pauline McKinney. Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Gibert and daughter, Sarah, were in McCor mick Thursday. Mrs. L. A. Hoffman and Mrs J. F. Singleton spent Thursday morning with Mi*s. W. W. M. Lindley. Miss Paul're McKin.:cy spent Sat urday with her sister, Mrs. B. F. Hedges. Mu. Dick Augary and Mrs. Annie Wright of Ware Shoals spent Fri day with Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Hodges. Mrs. P. B. Parnell, Sr., Mrs. Lillie Gibert and little daughters. Marie and Virg'nia Mae, spent Thursday with Mrs. George Wideman and children. Mr. and Mrs. David Young and childi’en of Greenwood spent the week end w’th Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Gibert and daughter, Sarah. The holme- of Mr. and Mrs. R. F. South was destroyed by fire Sunday moruing. The fire started from the stove and was beyond control when discovered. •Miss Lollie W deman enjoyed Sun day night with Misses Maltha and Lois Hoffman. Misses Bennie and Pauline McKin ney and Mr. Henry McKinney spent Sunday morning with Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Will s of Cedar Hill. Mi*. Jim Hughes and daughter, Miss Lucille, of Calhoun Falls are visiting Mr. and Mrs. R. F. South and chil dren. Several from here attended the dedication of the Presbyterian Chuich at Willington Sunday. Mrs. Maude Lee Anderson of Hod ges and Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Minor and baby of Greenwood spent Sun day w'th Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Lindley and family. Miss OlLe Wideman returned home Sunday, after spending a week with her cousin, Miss Christine Parnell, of Lowndesville. Mr. and Mrs. R. W. PerrymaP spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Perryman of Edgefield. Mr. S. H. Talbert, Mi. and Mrs. Lee Edmunds and children of Buffalo spent Sunday w.th Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Moragne and family. Mi5s Ruth Perryman returned home Sunday, after spend'ng a week with relatives in Edgefield. MODOCNEWS \Mell. we are having real cummer now; the weather is getting warm enough to run the boll weevil to the shade. Miss Maggie Bell Bussey and Mr. Claude Bussey from Greenweed are spending their vacation here in the home of Mi 4 , and Mrs. E. F. Bussey. Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Howie were the guests last Sunday to Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Douglas. Mr. W. M. Nash from Augusta' spent the week end here with home folks. Mrs. Pat McDaniel returned home Sunday, after a week’s stay with relatives at Avondale, N. C. Mr. R. E. Bussey, accompanied by Misses Lucy and Rosalie Bussey and Juliette McDaniel, were visitors to Greenwood Saturday. Misses Emily and Caroline Dukes from Spartanburg are spending the week end with their grandmother, Mrs. A. V. Bussey. Mr. and Mrs. W. McDaniel, Jr., were visitors Sunday to the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Bailey. Messrs. William and Claude Bus sey spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Dorn. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Bussey of Augusta were visitors here last Sun day to the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Bussey. Mrs. T. J. Stone has returned from a visit to relatives and friends at Macon, Ga. Mrs. W. E- Holson and sister, Mrs. Marie Florence, from Athens, Ga., have been at the bedside of their mother, Mrs. C. H. Stone, who has bee n very ill the past week. Miss Evelyn Bussey and Miss Mary Key were the week end guests to Misses Myrtle, Jennie and Jose phine Shumate. Misses Lucy, Rosalie and Maggie Belle Bussey and Georgia Ella Mc Daniel were the guests Tuesday to Mr. and Mrs. P. L. McDaniel. Modoc. X A Mask for a Face! Two Slits for His Eyes! Galloping^Evtei} Galloping! “The Mysterious Rider” 17 I. L D Hoof-Beats! On Wings of Night! This Modern Musketeer! “The Mysterious Rider” 50 bushels in ear, «| $1.00 per bushel, at any point in the county. W M. ROWLAND Meriwether, S. C. WANTED -Man to run McNess Business in McCormick County. No experience needed. Must have car—can make $7-$10 daily— no lay offs—no bosses—chance of a lifetime. Use our capital to start. Write FURST AND THOMAS, Dept. J. L. 9. Freeport. III. 1 too. Do ydu like mystery stories? Do you like Westerns? If so—“The Mysterious Rider” shouldn’t be missed! txt Galloway Off To State College Prof. J. R. Galloway, Jeanes Sup ervisor of colored schools for McCor mick County, leaves on the 16 in stant for the State College, Orange burg, S. C., to specialize further in the Jeanes work. All the Jeanes teachers of the state will be called there to specialize. The General Ed ucation Board will furnish the ex pert. txt If it’s true that every man is the architect of his own destiny, some S. C. WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW The One Fact That Distinguish es Our Civilization From Any Other, Is The Remarkable Extent To Which We Have Substituted Machinery For Physical Effort Greenville — Starr-Scales Circuit takes over Liberty Theatre here. Rock Hill—1928 meeti’er cf South Carolina Federation of Colored Wo man’s Clubs will be held here June 12-14. Road construction V S^uth Cc*— lina in 1928 will probably exceed highest mark recorued in any prev ious year. Belter.—-Southern Bell Telephone Company installs new line equipment to take care of increased number of subscribes here. Belton — New passenger train schedule recentlv i 'it'ated on Pied- mo t & Northern Railway. Belton—Contract awarded fer con struct‘on of sewer system here. Hampton—Livestock special train sponsored by A. C. L. Railroad and Clemson College will arrive here July 3. * Denmark—^Several sites being con sidered as location for local airport. Yemassee —Recertly consolidated school districts of Beaufort and Hampton Counties sell $28,000 bond issue for construction of 2 school buildings here. Spartanburg—9 textile manufac- turl'iig concerns of South Carolina ar.d Georgia fc'rm cotton purchasing department with offices here. Georgetown—Survey will be made of Silver Hill property which will be location of local airport. Georgetown — Parish Chverolet Company opens new display room on Front Street. Georgetown"—Local farmer picks 1000 crates of st.awberries from 10- acre tract. Columbia—Bids received for con struction of nearly 55 miles of state highway. Bedon—New school building here completed and in use. Walterboro—Burned EsDorn store to be rebuilt. Walterboro—New Chevrolet build ing under consti*uction opposite post e’ffice. Easley—Plans making for con struction of home for aged colored people near here. Conway—Livestock train of A. C. L. Railroad will arrive here June 21. Will’ston—Construction new Sunday School annex at Methodist Church here under way. Bamberg—New trailiic lights in stalled on Main Street. Orangeburg—(New courthouse here dedicated. Dillon—Planters Warehouse Co., will erect $20,000 building here. , Georgetown—One of heaviest lum ber shipments from this port made during recent week. Gaffney—Fire Department buys another fYe pumper engine. Gaffney—Plans approved by Gaff ney Manufacturing Company for re placement of old mill No. 1 with modern structure. Beaufort—Western Union Tele phone Company moves to new and larger quarters next to Hall’s Jew elry store. Charleston — Ground broken for construction of bridge across Coop er River. Yemassee—Concrete road between this place and Walterboro opened to traffic. Newberry—Contract awarded for construction of another building at Elisha school. Newberry—New Langley laundry being opened here. IX? Many Complain About Flea Beet les On Potatoes DAILY THOUGHTS 1. Prayers rave when medicine fails. 2. A liltlo girl of twelve years cf -.gc, “trusting in Christ,” made this; promise: 1. I w.ll take part in the Sunbeam meetings. 2. I w 11 do a kind deed every day- 3. I will read my Bible. 4. I w h p 'ay e . 'ry day. 5. I w uld do what He would like, /'he has *h e above printed in her Bible as well as her heart. “And a little child shall lead them;” “for of such is tho Kingdom of Heaven.” 3. “For me to live is, Chrirt.” 4. If a man be conscious of the shame and si. 1 c'f the past, he is filled with terror w th such conscious ness; and he will and can be remade by casting himself upon the infinite mercy n God. 5. College doors are open to any one who says “I will.” 6. There is a street in New York called Broadway. It is a street of lights, laughter ar.d ease. Every cne has a street in' life. Where and how does yours lead. “Seai'ch me O God, and know my heart; try me and know my thoughts, and see if there be any wicked way 'n me, and lead me in the way ever lasting.—Amen. E. A. WILKES. X\l Hair-Raising Holt As The Mysterious Rider New Zane Grey Thriller Gains Plaudits Of Theatre Goers CLEMSON COLLEGE, June 12.— Several people have recently com plained to' Prof. Franklin Sherman, entomologist, that small ,dark beet les are eating , holes through the leaves of their young sweet pota to plants ard injuring the ciop con siderably. He says this insect is one of the many kinds of “flea beet les” and probably the cne that has bee n injuring much young corn. When sweet potato plants are set late the beetles have often settled on other plants and do not bother this crop. At time of setting the plants will be protected if d’pped in a solu tion of one pound of lead arsenate powder dissolved in 10 gallons of water. When troubled in the field, sweet potatoes may be sprayed with this solution. Even a coating of dust, such as lime, ashes or road dust on the leaves gives consideiable protection. The flea beetles are very small and hop actively. Some species of them feed freely on potato, tobacco, egg plant, cucumber and other crops in addition to a wide variety of weeds. XXX The Bible still heads the list of best sellers, but even so, we would not offer much for the exclusive rights in some places we might men tion. tXl A fellow comes to the front row and says he has found a fie-' that can communicate, but as far ns most of us are concerned the on 1 " thing a flea can communicate is h s bite. XXX In elections, most of r.r, vote against people, not for peop’c. txt One of the best known cures for sea sickness is to see America first. xxx Three-fourths of the earthquakes are upheavals under the sea. The struggle of the government homesteader to wrest his lands from the deserts of the far west is grip- ningly portrayed in “The Mysterious Rider.” the Paramount picture from the Zane Grey story playing at the Dixie Theatre next Friday and Sat urday at 8:30 p. m. Jack Holt is the mysterious r'der and Betty Jewel, a captivating new comer to Paramount pictures, is his heroine. They make an appealing- and convincing combination and theiu “city g'rl-outdoor man” ro mance is logical ar.d wholesome. The st;*ry concerns a small colony of ranchers battlirg the rigors of the desert, the drouth, the heat, the sandstorms, then finally treacllery, o n the part of the lawyer pretending to guard their interests. This role is played by Charles Sellon. Disappearing ink, not the s'x-gun. of the standard outdoor villain, is his weapon and his receipt to Jack Holt for $25,000 of. the ranchers’ money is written in this fluid, with, embarrass'ng results to Holt, when as leader of the colonists, he pre sents the receipt to save the title to the homesteads. The ranchers are given the double- cross when Sellon sells them cut again to Mark King, a city capital ist, played by David Torrence, who wants tneir lands for his power com pany. Then comes the fateful order of eviction. The pathetic eviction of the men, women and children whose life’s blcod| had gone into their meagre holdings begins and the n the mys terious rider gets in his work. He gambles his own life to save the girl from a quicksand trap and eludes by a hair a lynching posse of his own ffiends who have become convinced that he has gone crooked. By a series of hair-raising rides, quick werk on the trigger, and quick er work with the “old bean,” the mysterious rider does everything necessary to save the s tuation. He wrests the secret of the ink from the dissolute lawyer, he saves the fortune of the girl’s father, wins her for himself and gets the ranchers back their lands. X The clown business over in France is considered a profession. The only objection to that is, there are so. many who can qualify. • . txt The greatest trouble about trying to kill two birds with one stone, is that we are very apt to miss both of them. txt Dan Cupid has Barnum backed off the map as a circus manager. He has two rings, the engagement and the marriage. X After the State Highway depart ment of New Jersey had subjected a fleet of fifteen Chevrolet cars to- a thorough test, an order was placed for 25 additional cars. XXI In Bois-le-Duc, Holland, the horse car is still in fading competition with the Chevrolet bus, an increasingly popular method of transportation iit over-seas towns. LOCUiET COTTON— Good Middling 20 3-4 Strict Middling 20 1-2 Middling 20 1-4 Cotton Seed, bu. 50 ct» 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. 50 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 Com per bu. $1.36 Fine Feed, 75 lbs. $2.25 Oats per bu. 90 cts. Wheat per bu. $1.60 Cheese per lb. 35 cts.