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TBUE TO OURSELVSS, OUR NEIGHBORS, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD.
Twenty-Seventh Year
8 Pages — All Home Print
McCORMICK, S. C., Thursday, June 28, 1928 Established June 5, 1902
Number 4
More Money Comes
From Car Licenses
Report From Highway Depart
ment Shows May Netted
$58,000
Lincense collections on mentor ve
hicles during the month of May to
taled $58,988.25, which brought the
total for five months of 1928 up to
$2,173,540.45.
Giteenville County with $5,373.25
led the count'es for May collections,
followed by Richland with $4,932.75,
Spartanburg \yith $4,488.75 and
Charleston with $4,462.50.
Pet total collections to date dur'ng
the current* year, the same four
counties held the same relative posi
tion/ Greenville reporting $197,379-
26, Richland $168,794.45. Spartan-
buife $166,393.75 and Charleston
$149,789.
Collections of the counties for May
and for the first five months of
1928 follow:
Abbeville, $554,75, $22,406.50; Aik
en, $1,730, $59,933.73; Allendale,
$358, $12,691.75; Anderson, $2,248.25,
$103,540.25. Bamberg, $514.25, $18,-
554.25; Barnwell, $659,25, $22,688.75;
Beaufort, $683.50, $18,456; Berkeley,
$532 ; 50, $15,438.51; Calhoun, $347,-
75, $15,411. Charleston, $4,462.50,
$149,789; Cherokee, $1,099.50. $36,-
722.50'; Chester, $1,075.75, $37,354;
Chesterfield, $1016, $41,963 50?
Clarendon, $551,50, $21,230.50; Col
leton, $666.50, $25,061.25. Darlington,
$1,109.75; $49,951; Dillon, $650.50,
$28,753.25; Dorchester. $568.75; $21,-
788.75; Elgeficld, $561.25, $23,801;
Fairfield, $555.50, $20,440.25; Flor-
ence^ $2,027.50, $78,848.50; Geo'/ge-
town, $688. $22,048.75; Greenville,
$5,373.25, $197,379.25; Greenwood,
$1,715.75, $51,385.75; Hampton,
$553, $20,192,75; Kerry, $955.25,
$35,242; Jasper, $275.50, $8,025.25;
Kershaw, $930, $39,561; Lancaster,
$934, $29,313; Laurens, $1,245, $44,-
599; Lee, $517.50, $22,664.70; Lex
ington, $1,399.50, $60,375,130; Mc
Cormick, $360.75, $10,275.50; Marion,
$750.75; $27,611; Marlboro, $1,017.-
75, $37,822; Newbe:ry, $1,335, $47,-
623.75; Oconee, $958,25, $33337.75.
Orangeburg, $1,991.50, $76,963.50;
Pickens, $1,031, $40,557.75; Richland,
$4,932.75, $168,794.45; Saluda. $358,-
25, $19,588.25; Spartanburg, $4,488.-
75 $166,393.75. Sumter, $1364 25,
$52,046. Union.- $845.50, $30,507 50;
Williamsburg, $754.25, $22,079.75;
York, $1,609.75, $68234.70; out of
state, $597.75, $15,579.50.
X
Must Poison
The Weevil
Kellogg Invites
'Fourteen Nations
To Outlaw Wars
WASHINGTON, June 24.—Secre
tary Kellogg today made public the
draft of the treaty proposed for the
outlawing of war and his note in
viting 14 world powers join the
United States in signing the coven
ant in the form transmitted to the
governments at the respective for-
e'gn offices Saturday.
In making public the proposed
treaty,, which all of the 14 nations
have agreed to consider, Secretary
| Kellogg pointed out in his note that
I the text of the draft is identical
i with that proposed by the United
.States on April 13, 1928, except the
preamble now provides that the
Brit sh dominions, India and all par
ties to the treaties of Locarno were
included among the powers called
upon to s gn the treaty in the first
instance. He also explained in the
I note that the phraseology of the re-
I vised draft in the preamble had been
modified by the United States to
meet the objections ra sed by other
| governments and to expedite the
negotiations and added that the
change was in form and not in rub-
, stance.
j Identic notes and copies of the
multilaterial treaty were sent to gov
ernments of Australia, Belgium,
J Canada, Czechoslovakia, France,
Germany, Great Britain, India, the
Irish Free State Italy, Japan, New
Zealand, Poland and South Africa.
Secretary Kellogg’s r.o'.e recalled
the 14 powers’ atten.tlcn to the orig
inal proposal of M. Briand of France
on June 20. 1927, for a treaty for the
renunciation of war, and the * subse
quent negotiation during which the
United States submitted a prelimin
ary draft of a treaty representing
the form of a coVena.et th's country
was prepared to sign to ether world
i powers.
It continued with a neview of the
I circulation by the French govern
ment on April 20, 1928, of a propos-
| ed alternative treaty and Secretary
Kellogg’s explanation of the treaty
proposed by the United States for
. the renunciation of war, before the
American society of international
law, April 28, 1928.
X
Orphanage Gets i
Church’s Organ
Congregation Disbands And
School Benefits
Baptists Plan
Many Services
Between Two And Three
Hundred Revivals
Items Of Interest
To The Farmers
Between 200 and 300 evangelistic
meetings have been arranged to date
by pastors cr Bapt’st churches who
are planning to co-operate In the
statewide evangelistic campaign to
be corducted in Scuth Carolina dur
ing the months of July. Augurt,
September and October, it is an
nounced by the Rev. J. L. Baggott
of Columbia, who is aiding in the pro-
mot'on of the campalgr. The prin
cipal dates for the campaign aie
September 9 to 23 for the western
part cf the state, and September 23-
October 7 for the lower half.
Many preachers cf note from oth
er states have been obtained for help
in this campaign as well as the
evangelists and singers oJ the home
board rvangelistic staff. Many pas
tors will serve as evangelists in their
own ‘churches, said Mr. Baggott who
est’mated that 200 or 300 other
churches will announce their plans
fer the campaign within the next two
or throe weeks.
The 50-day period of prayer be-
glnring the campign begins July 22.
Thousands of prayer-cards will be
used during this period. Every
earnest Chrlst’an, said the Rev. Mr.
Baggott, is urged to join other thou
sands' in prayer for a spiritual re
vival in the state.
Sunday, August 5, has been set as
a day for exchange of pulpits over
the entire state, while the following
Sunday, August 12. will bo a day
ilbr the taking of census in every
church. Cottage prayer meetings
w‘ll precede evangelistic meetings.
X
POISON THE
BOLL WEEVIL
Prepared Especially For The
Convenience Of The Busy
Man
Due to next Wednesday’s being a
holiday, cream will be bought at the
McCormick Cream Station Tuesday,
July 3rd.
Careless Driving
Continues To Lead In
Cause Of Accidents
Third Weekly Report Shows
Need For Strong Fight
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CLEMSON COLLEGE, June 25.—
There has been a general rpread of
tho bell weevil in the Piedmont sec
tion since the repdrt for week ending
June 16. The newly reported area
extends rortboastward including
Greenwood *nd Chester counties be
tween.
The averag'' weevil population per
acre for the newly infested counties
are as follow": Edgefield 7, Green
wood 91, N''wber: y 12, Chester 188,
and Lancas'er 26. There was no
marked charge in the number of
weevils per acre found in the coun
ties cf tho Pee Dec section. There
was, howevor, an increase in the
squaiV; infestation in that section.
Very good results have been ob
tained from pro-souare poisoning,
but this method of control is now be
coming less effective, for in many
sections the plants a^e developed to
such an extent that the weevils are
feeding on the squares instead of in
the bud, which necessarily limits the
eeHJectiveness of that form of poison
ing.
The standard dust method should
now be used for control. Square in
festation counts should be made fre
quently and dust application begun
when the infestation reaches 10 per
cent. Information concerning this
method may be obtained, upon re
quest, for Extension Circular 95,
“Controlling the Boll Weevil,” fttm
county farm agents or the Publica
tions Division, Clemson College, £?.
C. , . *
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Chicago’s new acquarium is to
have salt water sent from the sea
for its salt water fishes to swim in.
GREENWOOD, Juno 26.—Connie
Maxwell Orphanage is the benefici
ary of a Baptist Church that has
gone out of existence, its congiega-
tion having been dissolved and the
buildirg torn down some time ago.
The current issue of the Connie
Maxwell, orphanage publication,
makes the following unusual an
nouncement:
“The Mount Carmel Church in the
Abbeville association has been dis
solved. One couple living at Mount
Ca mel were members of the church
and there were only eight others, al
told, and they were reatterd. It ha.
been mere than four yeans since ?
service has been held m the church
The bu.lding was gnng to ruin ant
sj .t was decided to wreck It ant
giv^ the nroccedr. to the orphanage
A nice c«: gan has been sent us and
’Iso the communion ret that was
formerly used by the church. Of
course one hates to sco a Baptist
Church disorganized, but it seemed
to be impossible to maintain its ac
tivity. We are grateful indeed to
the kind friends, Mrs. C. A. Grant,
and Mr. and Mrs. John D. Cade and
others who were willing for the or
phanage to be the beneficiary in dis
posing of all property.”
Quarterly Confer
ence Plum Branch
Charge Sunday
The Third Quarterly Conference of
Plum Branch Charge will be held at
Asbury Church, Meriwether, Sunday
July 1, 1928. Rev. J. R. T. Major
will preach and preside at the con
ference. Dinner will be served onj
the grounds.
XXX
There ace 6,000 kinds of grass.
T ast ~ r enr the boll wc'vil came to
McCormick County in August and
took at Past 3000 bales of (.'Ui* cot
ton. Th's year he is here in large
numbers in June, cur cotton is late,
and we keep having ra’n. How many
bales will he take this year?
This is a matter strictly up to the
farmers of McCormick County. By a
consistent and intelligent use of cal
cium arsenate wo can save our cot
ton crop from the boll weevil. Oth
erwise, he will take his part.
Poison your cotton with calcium
arsenate! The method you use in
getting the poison on is not so im
portant, just so you get the poisen
there where the weevil will get it.
At the present stage of the growth
of our crop, the 1-1-1 mixture, made
by mixing one gallon of molasses,
one gallon water, and one pound cal
cium arsenate, will control the in-
festafen in your fields. Apply this
mixture with a hand spray, a mop
and bucket or a quart bottle with a
V shaped notch cut down the side of
the stopper. The bottle is good be
cause it is light to carry and you
can shake the poison on each cottdn
stalk as you go down the row and
without wasting it. Anyway, regard
less of the method you use, get the
poison on the cotton and kill the
wqovils before they multiply by the
thousands.
Later >t may be necessary to dust.
This is when the cotton has grown
too large to be successfully poisoned
with the 1-1-1 mixture. According
to indications now, it probably will
be necessary to dust. However,
weather conditions and other factors
will determine this.
McCorm'ck CcVinty has the best
prospects for a good crop that I have
seen in the four years I have been
here as county agent. If we can
control the boll weevil, we shall,
providence willing, make a good
crop this fall. Therefore, fight the
boll weevil! ■
Yours fdr a good crop,
THOS. W. MORGAN,
County Agent.
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Revival At
Asbury Church
There will be a revival at Asbury
Church, Meriwether, beginning Mon
day, July 16th, and continuing
through Sunday, July 22nd. Rev. P.
L. Patton! of Lander College will do
the preaching.
All are cordially invited. i ** \ t
On June 22. the McCormick Cream
Station was one year old. Dur ng
the first year of operation, the far
mers of. McCormick County have
sold 16,043 pounds of butterfat
through the cream station for a to
tal of $6,908.07, or an average of
better than 43 cents per pound for
all butterfat sold during the year.
The cream station was organized
by Thos. W. Morgan, County Agent,
and began operation on June 22,
1927. On the first d£y th^ receipts
were 125 pounds of butterfat, for
which the farmers received $46.37.
The rectipts have steadily grown
since until at present the average
weekly receipts run around 525
pounds of butterfat each week, which
bring in a n>ot income of over
$200.00 each week to the customers.
On the li:st buying date the number
of customers was 23. This number,
however, at the present time runs
around 90 each buying day.
The cream station is being oper
ated by the Gedrgia-Carolina Da'ry
Products Company of Augusta, Ga. r
which firm sends a man on Wednes
day of each week to buy cream from
th,2 farmers cf the county for cash.
The cream is tested at the station
and each man is paid on the basis of
the amount of butterfat his cream
contains.
The cream station i s proving a
wonderful rt’mulus to the dairy bus- 1
incss in the county by furnishing a
steady market for butterfat. A few
farmers have added cows to their
herds and increased their butterfat
production, and many are growing
into the business by raising theiv
heifer calvco from purebred bulls, j
ten c£ which have been placed in
the county since the opening of the
station.
COLUMBIA, June 24.—Careless
driving continued to lead as a cause
of state highway traffic accidents,
according to a report of such ac
cidents during the month of May re
cently laid before members of the
state highway commission.
Of 39 accidents occurng in May
which caused three deaths, ten cases
of severe injury and 26 of minor in
juries, eight accidents were reported
as being due to careless driving,
against seven by reckless driving and
six by speeding.
“There were 18 collisions between
motor cars and two with other ob
jects” says the traffic accident re
port.
“Thirteen cars were overturned
and six were driven off road. Twen
ty-one cars were seriously damaged
and 25 were slightly damaged.
“Twe ty-seven the accidents oc
curred in the daytime and ten after
dark. Twenty-five were on straight
roads, nine on curves, 11 on paved
roads, 26 on unpaved roads one on
surface-treated road ar.d one on a
bridge.
“Eight of the accidents were re
ported as caused by careless driv'ng,
seven by reckless driving, six by
speeding, four by recklessness due to
liquor, four by defect of car, one by
skidding, and two cans caught on
fire and were completely destroyed.
“One person -rwas killed when
truck turned over into ditch, one
wb«3n radius rods came loose, causing
car to run into another, and an aged
pedestrian was ran into by a car and
killed.”
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Man Is Killed
With Knife At '
Baseball Game
Tension Said To Have Starlet]
When Son Was Choked
9 I
The fifth annual shipment, of
spring lambs was made from Me
Coimick County On Friday, June 22
The* shipment, which was organized
and sold by Thos. W. Morgan, local
ccunty agent, was made up of 124
head lambs and 15 of old cheep, and
required two cars to handle the load.
Shipment was to McComb ard Block
Livestock Commission Merchants :
Richmond, Va.
The lambs ranged in weight from
60 to 90 pounds each, and were in
very good shape for marketing.
A great improvement has fc'c-n
noted in the quality of lambs ship
ped during the past f‘ve years. This
is the result cf the use of purebred
lams on the flocks in McCormick
County. The average price has in
creased around three cents per pound
over the first shipment which was
made i n June 1924.
The ic turns of the shipment will be
announced when remittance is made
by the firm handling the shipment.
I
Interest continues tc grow among
the people o” tho county in the com
ing of the Livestock Development
Special train to McCormick on Mon
day, July 16. The train will be at
McCormick from 2:45 in the after
noon until 9:09 o’clock that night,
ard a large number of McCorm’ck
County people are expected to be
here to see the exhibits.
The train started at Camden on
Monday, June 18, and will make two
steps each day in the state through
July 19. Reports from other parts
of the state where the train has
been speak veiy highly of the qual
ity and splendid arrangement of the
livestock exhibits, and at each place
hundreds of people have inspected
the exhibits.
July 16 will be a big day in Mc
Cormick, and those who miss it will
miss a wonderful opportunity to
see some of the best livestock in the
state and meet people from every
section of the county, and from ad
joining counties who will be here.
Come out and look the train over.
IXX
Some of the candidates who advo
cate light wines and beers, should j
also embody in their platform a
move for wider sidewalks.
The Spartanburg Herald of Sun
day says: Tension that originated a
month ago when John Roper is- al
leged to have choked a son of Frank
Simmons is believed to haves, led to
the fatal stabbing of Roper by Sim
mons at a baseball game ten miles
from Woodruff yesterday at 4 y. m.
S'mmons claims he acted in self
def use. Roper, his heart pio hed
by a pocket knife as an autopsy lat
er proved, d.cd 15 minutes after be
ing v ounded.
Occurs In Pasture
When the stabbing occurred, ih'-
men were in a pasture of the Pan
Meyers farm about ten miles from
Woodruff where a baseball cont'st
between teams of Cross Anchor and
Libe.ty Ridge was about to begin. At
bo death u: Roper, the match was
called.
Simmons went to Woodruff sar-
<.ndercd to Constable M. E. Mc-
Abce. ard was brought to the county
■r. i here. He raid last night that
about a month ago his son and an-
Jther boy. net related to Roper, wore
'i cuing over a game of baseball and
hat Rcpcr seized his son ar.d choked
h’m.
Yesterday, he declared, just bc-fo'-o
the game, Roper passed a remark
x 1 cerning a statement bv Simmons
” connection with the treatment his
r; had received.
Struck By Reck
Roper, who had been drinking, ac
cording to Simmons, advanced and
Simmons picked up a rock to meet
his attack. As he drew back his arm
1 o throw, Simmons says he was
struck by Roper and thrown off his
balance but his rock hit his adver
sary’s head.
As Roper once more started upon
him with one hand in his pocket,
Simmons declared, he drew out a
pocket knife and struck an under
hand blow, which landed over Rop
er’s heart.
XXX
Grape juice makes a delicious hot
weather ice or sherbet. Flavor with
sugar and lemon to taste and freeze;
if a sherbet is wanted, add a beaten
egg white when partly frozen and
continue turning the dasher until
stiff. Remove dasher, cover the can
tightly, pack with ice and salt, and
set away to ripen for an hour or
more. , .
S. S. Convention At
Stevens Creek Church
Program Of Sunday Srhool
Convention Of The Edge-
field Baptist Association
To be held with Little Stevens
Creek Church Tuesday, July 10,
1928, at 10:00 a. m.
Morning Session
10:00—Devotional, Rev. H. B.
White.
10:15—Enrollment of Delegates
(Reports received and committees
appointed to digest and give a sum
mary report later).
General Theme—Bigger Sunday
Schools:
10:20—The field: Unreached Mul
titudes ard locating possibtihvies.
Rev. W. L. Coker.
10:50—Reaching the Unreached,
Rev. G. C. S.eidcnspinner.
11:20—'Holding your Gains, Rev.
H. M. Hcdgens.
11:45 to 12:45—Better* Sunday
Schdols, Rev. J. L. Corzine.
Dinner Hour—12:45 to 2:00 p. m.
Afternoon Session
2:00—Devotional Services — Rev.
G. W. Gurley.
2:15—The D. V. B. S.—HOW?,
Rev. J. L. Corzine.
2:45—The Real Sunday School
Problem. J. H. Ccurtney.
3:00—Report of Ccmmlttees.
3:15—Award of Seals and Banner.
3:25—Election of Officers.
3:33—General Discussions.
3:43—Adjournment.
M. B. HAMILTON,
For Committee.
X i
Claims Youthful
Bandit Robbed
Him Of $50,000
BLISSFIELD, Mich., June 23.—
An express messengers story that a
lone boy bandit held him up on a
tra'n and escaped with a currency
shipment ef $50,000 was under in
vestigation today.
The robber, described by the mes
senger zs being about 19 years old,
boarded the train at Adrian and
gained acce-s to the express car
shortly after the train pulled out of
the staticn. Holding the messenger
at bay with a pistol, the youth, the
messenger -said, ransacked a num
ber cf raiil bags, r'ncluding' one
known have contained about-$50,-
000 in bills cr" small denomination.
As the tra’n slowed down at the
station hero the messenger was hurl
ed from the car and the robber fol
lowing escaped in a waiting aute mo
bile, according to reports to local
official-.
Offic : a s professed ignorance as
to how the bandit gained access to
the car, according* to iaih*oad depu
ties. The car was not opened at Ad
rian and the messenger was supposed
to have been locked inride at the time
the robLu\ boarded the car.
Due r,o the presence of the ship
ment oj cum: cy, the usual precau-
tirns liad r. " o taken to safeguard it.
'fiie.leek; vv.re examined at Chicago
where the train was made up anl as
tY're was no eoi.sigr.rnont for Ad
rian they shrald not have been open
ed there.
Boy Scouts America
Plum Branch. S. C.
The sc tut 3 held the’r weekly meet
ing or. Saturday nlt rnocn, June 23,
1928, at tlvJee o’clock. Each scout
repeate 1 the scout oath and gave his
good turns for the last week. Prof.
Thomas Collier, who is now home
cm his vacation after teaching the
last term in a school at Moncks Cor
ner, S. C., gave us a helpful talk on
scouting, which wc all enjoyed
greatly.
The Troop Committee will r eet
soon tc make plans for our summer
camp. We are all looking forward
to this camp with joy. Patr^’g one
and two will stand the second class
test this summer in camp.
At the meeting Saturday the two
patrols decided the name they would
go by, Patrol No. 1 took the Owl and
Patrol No. 2 took the Crow. Our
scoutmaster will order these two pen
nants and a Troop Flag soon.
EDWARD HODGENS,
4 Troop Scribe. ’