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TRUK TO OURSELVES, OUR NEIGHBORS. OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD. Twenty-Seventh Year Gov. Smith Named On First Ballot Single Roll Call Of States Brought Predicted Victory To New York’s Favorite Son HOUSTON, Texas, June 28.—Al fred E. Smith, four times governor of New York and long the favor-te son of the Empire state Democracy was nominated for the pitesidency tonight by the Democratic national convention. A single ballot was sufficient to break through the last resistance of the groups of candidates oppos ing him., although at the conclusion of the roll call of the states he was a handful of votes short of the twef-thirds needed to nominate, he was so near the mark that state af ter state broke away from the fav orite sons they had been supporting and voiced in u noisy band-wagon nushed the desire to be the first to lay theii* support at his feet. The official tabulation after all changes of votes in favor of the leader had been recorded gave the New Ycrker 849 2-3 of the 1100 votes in conven tion. He needed but 733 1-3 to nom inate. Announcement t'f the nomination was followed by loud and colorful demonstration on . the • convention floor with the Smith people parad ing abou^ the hall shouting to the skies the.'r happiness at their victory. In some parts cf the hall the bitter ness of the contest was carried along by heated arguments among divided Southern delegations, but for the meet part the defeat of the anti- Smith groups, forecast for days, was accepted philosophically. Missouri, the home state of Sen ator “Jim” Reed, who stood in the forefront cf the last ditch attempt to stop Governor Smith tided unsuc cessfully t'.< cii cam vent the rule-, a.id have the New Yorker declared nom inated • by acclamation a'lcr he had polled more than the number needed on the roll call and when he heard the f r.al result Senator Reed himself left for the convention to exhort his fellow Democrats to unite under the banner of his late rival. This all was apiece with the action of the wheie convention earlier iVi the day when it adopted the party platform without a roll call., The long discussion ^ovcp prohibition in com mittee ended in a report pledging the party to strict enforcement of the prohibition enforcement laws along with all cChers. Both wets and drys took the speaker’s stand to ask the convention to accept the plank as submitted and for the first time in years a Democratic platform was approved with' ut a floor f ght. Nomination of a running mate f"' the new party standard bearer will be accomplished at a final session of the 1928 convention tomo:row. As the delegates separated late tonight it was the expectation cf most of the leaders that the vice presidential choice would be Senator Robinson of Arkansas his party’s leader in the senate and chairman of this conven tion. It was the Ohio delegation that won out in the scramble to supply the votes that actually nominated Smith. As as the roll call had reached its end delegation chairmen in all parts of the hall mounted their chairs and shouted for recognition. Sc great was the disorden that for several minutes, none of those plead ing for a chance to go over to Smith could be hoard by the chairman. Ohio finally got recognition ahead of the others and changed 45 of her votes from Pomerene to Smith. Missis sippi, which at first had voted for her favorite son, Pat Harrison, fol lowed with a switch of 9 1-2 to Smith; Indiana came in next, giving the New Yorker 25 that at first had gone to Evans Woollen; then Ne- gave him 12 that had been cast before for former Senator Hitchcock. Kansas, voting on the first call for Representative Ayer, turned over 11 1-2 to the victor; Tennessee, leaving her favorite son. Representative Hull gave Smith 23. The one and only ballot, as final ly tabulated by the official conven tion clerks qfter all of these changes had been recorded, showed the fol lowing totals: Governor Smith, 849 2-3.. Senator George of Georgia, §2 1-2., 8 Pages — All Home Print 1 ■ ■ 11 r" Joseph Robinson For Vice President McCORMICK, S. C., Thursday, July 5, 1928 Established June 5, 1902 Number 5 Wins Nomination With Over whelming Vote HOUSTON, Texas, June 29.— Joseph T. Robinson, of Arkansas, was chosen today to battle for Dem ocracy side by side with Alfred E. Smith in the November elections. He was swept into the nomination for vice-pi'esident at the closing ses sion cf the Democratic national con- vent'on with an overwhelming vote of 1,032 1-2. The next high candidate on the final count was Maj. Gen. Henry T. Allen, retired, who had total of 21. Rut prior to announcement of the of ficial figures, many rtatss switched their allegiance in order to climb aboard the band-wagon of the Dem ocratic leader of the Senate. Robinson was permanent chairman of the convention which selectel him as the running mate for Governor Smith. Ldng before the convention assembled it was evident that he was the overwhelming choice of the dele gates. With the vote impending, he re tired from the platform, turned his gavel over to Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi and went to his hotel to be notified of his victory. In choosing Robinson fer vjee- president the Democrats pitted him against Curt’s of Kansas, the Re publican loader in the Senate and the second pla^e man on the ticket with Herbert Hoover. As in the case cf Curtis, friends of the Ark ansas leader said he would add strength to the ticket in the farm sections. Robinson voted for the Mc- Nary-Haugen bill at the last session of Ccngress and followed up by vot- ng to override President Cool dge’a veto of that measure. The f.nal day of the first Demo cratic national convention held in the South since the Civil war breath- id the sp.rit of harmony. Delegates whose high feei ng at p ^vious se.’>- yers has led to a number of f st- ghtr. shewed no incl.nation to clo anything except to shew a spirit of good fellowship. Southern rtate delegations, around whose stands disturbances bioke out during Robinson’s opening ad dress of the coavent on r voted for oim. In that address the vice-pres- ceutial nominee had sounded a call tor reiig.ou •» equality but if any of the eflects of that first outbreak :e- nained they were net noticeable on the surface. Instead, the convention adjourned ' a spirit of complete tranquility. The last act was a cheer for Gover- mr Sm.th, who had thanTccd the ’(legates by telegraph for nominat- ng him for president; had reiterated iis views as to the prohibition prob- «m, and had promised to stand on die platform prepared for him. Rail Commission To Hear Petition First Campaign Meeting At Bordeaux Tuesday, July 17th Speaking Starts At 11 o’clock A. M.; Barbecue, Ball Game And Dancing The first campaign meeting of the year for McCormick County is scheduled for Bordeaux on Tuesday, July 17th, at which place and time candidates for the several offices in the county will address the voters present. The executive committee has arranged for other meetings in various parts of the county and will make announcement in due time. The time for entering the races and fil ing pledges expires at 12 o’clock, noon, on Monday, July 16th. The speaking at Bordeaux on the 17th is to be started promptly at 11 o’clock a. m., and continue until the dinner hour, 1 o’clock p. m., and re sumed after dinner jf nrcessaiy. Mr. A. L .Moragne will serve a barbecue dinner from 1 o’clock to 2:30, and have, as added attractions for the occasion, a baseball game in the afternoon and a dance that night. Mrs. J. T. Fooshe Died Monday Charleston And Western Caro lina Would Eliminate Cer tain Trains The railroad commission in Colum bia issued an order Saturday for a hearing in its offices July 19 on the octition of the Charleston and West- ^i*n Carolina railway to eliminate a train each way on its Anderson branch and to make a mixed train of trains Nos. 5 and 6 and to elim inate passenger t^ain No. 54 and mixed train No. 51 from its Green ville branch schedule. The hearing will be held at 11:30 a. m. SenatCr Reed of Missouri, 52. Representataive Hull of Tennes see, 50 5-6. Jess Jones of Texas, 43. Evans Woollen of Indiana, 7. Former Senator Pomerene of Ohio, 3. Representative Ayers of Ohio, 3. Former Senator Hitchcock of Ne braska, 2. Hustcn Thompson of Colorado 2. Of 55 state and territorial dele gations in the convention. Smith in the end had the solid support of 35. Five states, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, South Carolina and Texas, gave him no votes up to the last. After an illness of about 18 months’ duration, Mrs. John T. Fooshe died at her home here at 10 o’clock Monday morning. She wa? 54 yea ’s of age, and was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Ouzts of Greenwood. She wns a Christ'an lady and a liicmber of the McCor mick Methodist Church, and took an active part in church and Sunday school t work so long as her health permitted. Besides her husband she is surviv ed by an adopted daughter. Miss Nellie Fooshe. and the following sisters a::d brothers: M:s. H. S. More head, of Greenwood; Mrs. T. E. Dukes, cf Bowman, S. C.; Mrs. E. E. McDowell of Fort Myers. Fia.; M’ss Ruth Ousts, Greenwood; M. E. Ouzts, Macon, Ga.; J. W. Ouzts Mrricn, N C., and J. A. Ouzts, Au- gu'ta, Ga. The funeral services were con ducted at the home Tuesday morn- ; ng at 10 o’clock by her pastor, Rev. J. A. Bledsoe, and Rev. J. G. Hug gins, c" Aik'n, forme * pa tor, and interment followed in EJgewood cemetery at Greenwood. Mr. W. W. Dowlin Dies In Florida News was received in McCormick late Friday evening of the death of Mr. William W. Dowt'n at his home in Bowling Green, Fla., that day, af ter a lingering illness. Mr. Dowtin was 60 years of age and a native of the Troy section, ;hc so n of Mrs. Sallio Dowtin and he late Mr. David W. Dewt : n. He 'ived for several years at Ninety-Six bofo:e moving to Florida about three and a half years ago. Mr. Dowtin is survived by his widow, who was Miss Mary Emma Mathis, of the Sandovcr section of McCormick Ceunty. and jfour chil-< dren: Mrs. R. M. Kerr, of Colum bia; Mrs. Jeff Kinard, of Ninety-Six, and Lillie ard Willie Dowtin, of Bowling Greer.. He also leaves h s aged mother, one sister, Mrs. W. L. Burnside, of Tidy, and six brothers, T. A. Dowtin, Kennedy Dowtin, Dav- il Dowtin, Robert Lee Dowtin and Paul Dowtin, all of the Troy section, and John Dowtin, of Miami, Fla. Funeral services were conducted at the old home place at 5 o’clock Sunday afternoon by Rev. J. G. Hug- gin of Aiken assisted by Rev. J. H. Buzhardt of Troy, and interment made in the Troy cemetery. Ice Cream Sup per At Bethany There will be an ice cream supper at Bethany school house on Thurs day bight, July 12th, given under the auspices of the W. M. U. of Bethany Baptist Church. The public is cordially invited. ' txx Wpmen without husbands, can us ually give the best advice on how to manage one. Items Of Interest To The Farmers Timely Topics For The Busy Man Four McCormick County boys are attending the State Club Camp at Clemson College this week, accord ing to an announcement made by Thos. W. Morgan. County Agent. These boys wo n fi’ee scholarships by doing excellent club work last year. Their names are listed as follows: Clifton Drennan, McCormick; J. J. Hester, Jr., Troy; Charles Osborne, Parksville and Emerson Bussey, Mo doc. The county club camp will be held at Rocky Bottom in Pickens County on July 17-20. A number of boys have signed up to attend the camp there, and arrangements are being made to transport them to the camp in school busses. Interest is widespread in the coun ty over the coming of the Livestock and Poultry Special train on Monday, July 16. The train will be in Mc Cormick from 2:45 in the afternoon until nine o’clock that night, and in dications point to the probability of j around 500 to 1000 persons being on ! hand to see the exhibits. Whoever the train has stopped during the first two weeks it has bee n on the road, throngs of people have come out to see the exhibits. These crowds have var'ed in number frdm 500 to 2500.' and high praise has been voiced over the excellent arrangement and quality of the ex hibits. Remember the train will be at McCormick on Monday afternoon, July 16th. The McCormick County 4-H Club Camp will be held this year at Rocky Bottom, in Pickens County, accord ing to an announcement made by Thos. W. Morgan, County Agent, who wishes to urge all club boys who ntend to go to send in their name? at once in order that reservation may be made for them at the camp Rocky Bottom is at the foot of the Blue R : dgc Mountains, and belongs to the Pickens County club boys and girls. It is through the kindness o*' these boys and girls ar.d Mr. T. E. Bowon, County Agent of P ckens County that the McCormick County boys are able to get the camp for the week. The Greenwood club boys are going at the same time as the McCormick boys, and all are expect ing a good time. Arrangements have been made with several specialists from th<" college to be present during the camp, end a course of instruction amd recreation is be ng mapped out for the teaching and entertainment of the boys while they are there. It will be a regular boys’ outing for all, and all club boys of the county should make arrangements to attend. Cotton Blossoms Slayer Of Teacher Sent In Past Week Prospects For Good Crops Are Brighter Than In Many Years Cotton blossoms from this year’s crops have been sent to this office the past week as follows: June 28th, a red blossom and a small boll from a field of Delta type Webber Long Staple belonging to Mr. R. M. Winn of Plum Branch. June 28th, a blossom from Mr. T. J. Sibert’s one acre patch in McCor mick. June 28th, a red blossom fibm Mc Grath Brothers’ farm at McCormick. 1 June 29th, a red blossom from Mr. Archie Willis’ farm in the <^edar Hill section. * July 3rd, red blossom from Rev. R. E. L. Campbell’s farm near Troy. This has been a rather hard year to get good stands, and the plants were small until about the middle of June, since which time they have made rapid growth and now glva promise of the best crops the cc-Unty has had in several years; some far mers claiming' the best prospects they have seen since 1911, while others say 1920. Visitors claim Mc Cormick County has the best crops they have seen anywhere in this State and many sections of Georgia. The fields are well worked and p txc- tically free from grass and boll wee vils except in a few scattered sec tions where there has been two much rain during the past two weeks. Since wr'ting the abcfve E. D. Gibert of near Mt. Carmel writes The Messenger to “please publish in your paper that I have cotton blossoms, g:ass and boll weevils a plenty,” and as proof sent along two red blossoms July 3rd. txx Must Control The Weevil Fairly good returns were received for the car of lambs shipped from i McCormick by the farmers of the) o'u ty on June 22. according to an! announcement made bv Thos. W. Morgan County Agent, who arrang ed the shipment. The tep price brought at R chmond for the lambs was 13 cents pe:* pound, and many of the better lambs in the car nes ted from seve n to nine dollars each to tho growers. Some of the lamb ■ were light and of poorer quality, and therefore, brought lower orices. The total net receipts from the car was $765.42, and the net average price per lamb was $5.38. The car 'contained 133 lambs averaging 60 pounds each in weight. This is the fifth annual carlot shipment of lambs that has been made from McCormick County, but the first that was ever shipped from McCormick. -XXZ- Circular 2-C, “Acala Cotton, a Superior Upland Variety from South ern Mexico,” recently published for free distribution by the U. S. De partment of Agriculture, desci'ibes j an excellent variety of cotton which is well adapted to a wide range of conditions in the principal cotton growing regions of this country. At present this variety is grown chief-1 ly in the southwestern parts of thej Cottop Belt. ) CLEMSON COLLEGE, July 2.— Begin dusting cotton with calcium ar senate when an average cf 10 per cent of the squares show weevil puncture, says P.*of. Franklin Sher man, entomologist, who states aga’n that for use on li’u’ting cotton (af ter pre-square stage) calcium arsen ate in dust form is the recognized standard, which can be used profit ably where the land would prcduce a half bale or more without boll weevil damage. The dusting procedure, as general ly alopted in the southeastern states, s summed up as follows: 1. Apply calcium a ’senate, c:us l form, with approved machines. 2. Begin dqst'rg when 10 per cent of squares are being punctured. 3. Dust when air is calm and foli age moist. Night applications usual ly give best results. In South Car olina most dusting is done from 6 to 10 p. m. and from 4 to 8 (or 9) a. m. Occasionally a whole day is favorable for dust’ng. 4. Use about throe to five pounds of calcium arncrate per acre each application. 5 If a wash-off rain occurs with in 24 hours after dusting, repeat that application at first opportunity. 6. Three applications at intervals of four or fve days will usually re duce infestation below immediate danger. Then stop until or unless the 10 per cent infestation is again leached, in which case three raor: applicat ons will usually be luff, cent. An infestation of less than te per cent, Prof. Sherman explains, 5: very apt to bo kept below seriouf damage by the hot dry weather of summer without poisoning at all, hence dusting when it is less than ten per cent may be wasteful; yet in view of the importance of protecting the early crop, one might be justi fied in starting even below the ten per cent point. Wihen infestation rises above ten per oent it is likely to reduce the crop, hence it is prud ent and usually profitable to dust when that point is reached—if it is reached before a full cro»p is set and matured beyond the probability of weevil damage. We have known fields in which.the infestation reach ed the dusting point in late June, others in mid-July, others in early August, and in some the dusting point was not reached at all. Gets Twenty Years John Henry Baker Found Guilty Of Manslaughter [With Recommenda- 'i tion To Mercy SALUDA, June 30.—John Henry Baker of Beech Island was found guilty of manslaughter, with recom mendation to mercy, this afternoon and was immediately sentenced to serve 20 years in the state penitenti- ary by Judge J. W. DeVoile, presid ing. Baker, facing a charge of murder for the shooting to death of his school teacher sweetheart, Miss Sarah Clark of Salley and Langley, had been on trial since 3 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. The case went to the jury shortly after noon today. Baker’s counsel, with Edgar Brown of Barnwell as chief and James J. Bush, H. B. Hare and Jeff D. Griff ith assisting, proposed a defense that Baker was : n such a condition with delirium tremens resulting from liquor drinking that he did not knew light from wrong at the time that he shot M ss Clark at the home of J. O. Jones in Ridge Spring at about 1:30 Sunday morning, April 22. Defense testimony was introduced to show that Baker and Mies Clark had entered into an agreement to regard each other as man and wife over a year before the shooting, though Baker swore, ;n the face of the introduction of letters from Miss Clark calling him “husband” and signed “wife,” that he had never had any illicit relations with his sv/eet- heart. Baker testified that he drank more when Miss Baker broke prom ises and when unpleasant occurrences happened between the two. ' Baker said on the stand that he had only faint recollections of hap penings of the night on which he sko* Sarah and test : fied he did not it member shootirg her at all. Ex- peit testimony was introduced to the effect that Baker suffered from de lirium tremens when he drank and that he had been ill from that cause the night before the shooting and al so the Monday afterwards when ex amined at the state penitentiary. The prosecution introduced testi mony in regerd to the sboot’ng and events for several hours preceding it when no peculiar actions were no ticed in Baker’s conduct by half a dozen people with whom he talked. The state proposed to prove that, though Baker was drinking and had been drinking, that he knew what he was doing before and mmediately ftor the .'hoot ng and did not ex hibit signs of having, delirium tre mens. Judge DcVor - ' in passing sentence on Baker, said that had it not been for the recommerdat’on accompany ing the verdict, he would have given him a sentence of 30 years but that he would give him 20 due to the rec ommendation. 7 —X — Rev. S. R. Bass-Dead Rev. S, R. Bass, paster, of the Baptist Church at McCotmlek a num ber of years ago, died at his home in Belmont, N. C., last Friday morn ing and "was buried dir Sunday. Death was due to heart failure. He was bom November 15, 1869, at his grandfather’s homestead in Laurens County, S. C. His parents were George Wu Baos and Mrs. Isa bella Nabers Bass. Mr. Bass was educated at Owens Academy, S. C., Fountain Inn. S. C., the Presbyterian College at Clinton and Columbia Theological Seminary. He began preaching at Langley, S. C., in 1897 and has held pastorates at Aiken, Barnwell. McCormick, Greenville and Spartanburg counties. He was pastor of the First Baptist Church at New Brookland and also chaplain of the state hospital at Co lumbia. He was called to the First Baptist Church of Belmont in April 1923. He was the first vice-presi dent of the ministers conference of Gaston County. txt A professor i n a university has figured out that the world is ten billion years old, in which case it ought to be old enough to know bet ter than tc’ do some things it does.