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,n JS*A / /■* Campaign Meeting At Bordeaux Well Attended Tuesday CANDIDATES OFFERED OPPOR TUNITY TO GIVE PLATFORM THROUGH THE MESSENGER FREE OF CHARGE McCorm ck County’s first cam paign meeting for this year was held at Bordeaux cn Tuesday, 17th in stant, and attenri-'d by practically every vote:* of Bordeaux and con- tiguOus territory, with many com ing in from other scattered sections of the county. The meeting was called to ord»?r at 11 o’clock a. m. by . Mr. O. G. Cal houn*. who presided throughout, and the candidates addressed the voters m the following order: For Senat —F. C. Rob’nscn and W. K Charles For House of Representatives— W. D. Morrah, Jasper McDaniel and M. L .B. Sturkey. For Supervisor—W. O. Graves, T. A. Dowtin, G. H. McCain and W. M. McCue. For Superintendent of Education -^J. W. Johnson, R. G. Killings- worth, W. H. Parks and D. L. Wide- man. Candidates for other offices waiv ed their rights to speak. The Messenger shall net attempt to report the speeches, since decid ing to offer each candidate an oppor tunity to set forth his platform through our columns free of charge. This has been decided upon as the best method to »3t platfo:<ms and qualifications in a more concrete or condensed form, and is a plan which allows those who do not make ad dresses at the meetings an equal showing with those who do. It also removes the possibility of the paper’s missing some particular points can didates might wish stressed most. The only requirements for this ser vice are that candidates for senate and house of representatives are limited to 300 words, while all others are lim’ted to 200 words, and the copy shall reach our office not later than Fridayj July 27th, written out in full—no abbreviations—and sign ed by the candidate. Personalities and mud slinging should by all means be emitted, or the article will be recocted—simply state your plat form or qual>, ications and let the other fellow do likewise. The invita tion is extended to every candidate whose announerment appears in this paper. Typewritten copy is prefer red. The second campa gn meeting is being held at Hopewell today, while the next meeting is scheduled for Plum Branch on Friday, July 27. Speaking begins at each meeting at 11 o’clock a. .m. A barbecue dinner and supper, baseball game and a dance were also thoroughly enjoyed at Bordeaux Tuesday. In the baseball game, the Abbeville Mill Team defeated Md- Cormick 8 to 0. txt Buried In Suit He Bought To Be Married In ASHEVILLE, N. C., July 12.— A new suit tf clothes, which Satur day was to have been worn at a wedding served Tuesday Us the iurcral clothing for Lester Buckner? 18-year-old West Asheville boy, killed Monday afternoon when his body was caught between two cars in the Southern railway yards here. Young Buckner was to have mar- licd Miss Narnle Rice, of Flat Rock, on Saturday. 'Arirangements for the wedding had been completed and Buckner had asked for a short leave for a wedding trip. According to Coroner John L* Carroll who investigated the acci dent, Buckner employed as weigh master in the Asheville yards was riding on the ladder of a coal car as it was being drawn away from the chute. As the car passed close to another car where clearance was not sufficient because of converging tracks, his body was caught and roll ed between the gondolas. He was killed immediately. ixx After all is said and dono, though, nothing will push you ahead like a plain day’s work. Southeastern Power Co. Buys Augusta- Aiken Corporation BIG DEVELOPMENT PREDICTED; SAME COMPANY TO BUILD BIG DAM NEAR CLARKS HILL The Augusta Chronicle of Tuesday made the following announcement which is of great interest to McCor mick County: A controlling interest in the Au- gusta-Aiken Railway and Electric Corporation and the Georg’a-Carolina Power‘Company has bern acquired from F. Q. Brown of Redmond & Company and J. G. White of J. G. White & Company, both of New Yorkt by the Southeastern Power and Light Company, ^which repre sents a consolidation of the Georgia Powjr Company and the Alabama Power Company. The confirmation of the sale which has been rumored for several weeks was made yester day afternoon in a telegram from Colonel Brown to General Manager F. B. Culley of the Augusta-A'ken. The passage of the control of the local light and power properties into the hands of the Southeastern makes the Augusta company a part of the super-power system of the South east. Wilde physical connection was made with this super-povfir system three years ago by the building of a fine from Augusta to Tcccoa, the properties were owned separately until now. It has been known fo: 1 the past two yeais that President Preston S. Arkwright of the Georgia Power Company and a director of the Southeastern* has had* h s t yes on Augusta. It is expected that the local prop erties will be operated as subskliar- .cs of the Southeastern Power and Light Company just as the proper ties are at Macon, Atlanta, Rome, Bi-mi.gham and many oth»ir towns throughout Georgia and Alabama. It so happens that the ownership of the local power properties has passed into the hands of the same people who own the Savannah River Electric Company wh ch company will erect a $20j 000,000 hydro-elec tric power dam on the Savannah River just below the mouth ot Little River. Mr. Aikwr.ght is p: eside.it of this company. Thus all of the electric projurties :n this section of the state pass into the control of the super-power system of the South east, which has had such a marvelous part in the great industrial devel- jpnv'rt of North Georgia and North A.abama. The sale of the control of the Au- 'urta-Aiken is of widespread inter- st not only in Augusta but thipugh- •ut this section of two states. The deorgia-Ca. olina Power Company, which built the dam on the Savan nah River at the mouth of Stevens Cheek and which generates 27,000 hydro-clectric horse power, is really a subs.d ary of the Augusta-Aiken while the Gecrgia-Carolina Electric Company is another subsidiary. The latter company was organized for the pu:<pose of acquiring and operat ing electric light plants in Eastern Georgia and western South Carolina towns. The control of all these prop- •ites, o- course, also goes w.tn tne .ontiol of the parent Augusta-Aiken Jompany and among the towns that lave electric light and power furn- shed a:e Washington, Thomson, Lin eolrton, Warhmton, Harlem, Louis ville, Wrens Gibson and other Geor gia towns, while Aiken, Gian.tcv lie, Langley, Edgefield, McCormick and other South Carolina towns are own ed by the same interest. The Augusta-Aiken completed a high tension power line to Toccoa, Ga., to connect with the Georgia Power Company’s system thr<*2 years ago and since then a number of Georgia and South Carolina towns in this territory that had no electric light or ptfwer have been electrified by current furnished from here, while the electric light plants of numerous communities were pur chased outright. Expressions of wartn commenda tion in regard to the new owners of the local power and light com pany have been heard on the streets ever since the rumor of the transfer of the properties began to be cir culated. The popularity of the Geor gia Power Company, which with the Alabama Power Company largely makes up the Southeastern, causes the new ownership t") start eff Li Augusta with practically one hund red per cent good will. Roughly speaking, there are $9,- 090,000 of bonds against the Au gusta-Aiken and the Georgia-Caro- lii.a Power Company, with 22,500 shades of pre erred and 22,500 shares of common stock. The par value of each is $100 00 per share, which means that capital stock liability of the company is $9,000 000 in bonds, plus $2,250,000 preferred and $2,- 250,000 of common. The preferred has sold in Augusta recently as h gh as $92.00, while common is quoted at $35,00. It is estimated that there a:<e 2 000 shares of preferred held in Au gusta and there has been a good deal cf speculation in the stock on the part of various people of means dur ing the past several months, all of them believing that the properties were about to be sold ard that the stock would undoubtedly go higher. The:*e is some disappointment ex pressed at the pr'ce offered by the new owners cn the part of some of the px, ferred stockholders who point out that there are fourteen to sixteen years of accrued unpaid dividends on the preferred. The new owners have mad3 an of fer to exchange preferred stock cf the Southeastern Power & Light Company for the preferred stock of the Augusta-Aiken Railway and Electric Corporatidr, which would mean that the stock of the Augusta- Aiken would bring approximately $83.00 per share. Asked about the offer for the preferred stock, M:’. Arkwright, stated last night that the price of fered wms a fa r and just one and as liberal as could be expected in view of the liabilities of the companies, which include $9,000,000 in bonds. A great deal of gratification is expressed on all sides due to the fact that there will be no change whatever in the person nel of the officials cf the Augusta- Aikm. General manager F. B. Cull y and his able corps of assist ants who have conducted the affairs of the company for so many years a:'e understood td stand high with the officials of the Southeastern Power ard Light Company, and they will continue in authority. Augustans see in the transfer of the ownership of the Augusta-A’ken to the Georgia and Alabama Power interests a great industrial awaken ing for this section. It will also mean tb? rehabilitation of the Au gusta-Aiken properties including the street railway and electric light sys- :cni which will cause at least one half million dollars to be expended and the eafly beg.nning of work on the $20,00^000 hydro-electric devel opment above Augusta. President Arkwright’s Statement In connection with the acquisition of the Augusta-Aiken Railway & Electr c corporation and the Gecr gia-Carolina Power company, P. S. Arkwright, president of the Georgia Power company, president of the Savannah River Electric company and a dii^ctor in the Southeastern r wer & Light company, issued the following statement: “The offer made by the Southeast ern Securities Company, through which this company will acquire con trol of the Augusta-Aiken Railway and Electric corporation, will mean Ihat the Augusta company will be come a part of the group of operat ing companies controlled by the Southeastern Power and Light com pany. “I can speak from experience oi the advantages to the territory v/hich will accrue from the acqu's - tion of the control by Southeaster. Power and Light company. Control df the Georgia Railway and Power company itself Avas acquired by the Southeastern Power and Light com pany in 1926, and that resulted in much greater (enterprise and ag gressiveness in the improvement and expansion of the services of that company*, because of the resources, both physical and financial, thus placed at its disposal. “The corresponding result should occur from the similar acquisition of control by the Southeastern Power and Light company of the Augusta- Aiken company. The development and operation of the company will be co-ordinated with those of Georgia Power company in Georgia, and South Carolina Power company in South Carolina, and with the inter-. connecting system cf the Southeast; ern Power and Light company, ex tending through Alabama and Geer gia. While there is an electric tiarsmission 1 no connection at the present time, the full benefits are not realized under separate contiol any more than they w r ere realized by Georgia Power company Avhen Its control Avas separate from that of Southeastern Power and Light com pany. “The Augusta properties will re ceive the benefit cf close co-crdir.a- tion with the Georgia Power com pany and othei* subs diaries of the SoutHrastern PoAvc r and Light com pany. The improvement and stabil ity of service resulting from the co ordinated control and operation of the properties will contribute mater ially to the industrial progress of Augusta and the section immediate ly surround ng it. “The officers and the controlling element cf the Southeastern Power and Light company are in, and of the South. They are ambit.ous that the South shall achieve the position to which its natural advantages cf men_, material and climate entitle it. Naturally, they will bend every ef fort toward accomplish’ng this pur pose.” jXJ Grade-Crossing Toll Declines Four Per Cent For 1927 WASHINGTON, July 15.—Long I’eiteration of “stop, look, listen” has apparently begun to ha\ r e som»e ef fect. The number of persons killed in grade-crossing accider.ts in 1927, compared with 1920 declined 4 per cent, the American Railway associa- t on announced today, in spite of the fact that there Avas an increase of 5 per cert in the number of automo biles in. use and an Inerensp of 10 per cent in the number of fatalities due to accidents on highAA*ays. Persons killed in highway grade- crossing accidents in 1927 numbored 1 974, while there Avc.'e 2,084 in 1926. The report shoAvcd 23,497 fatalities on highways last year and 21,431 in 1926. There Avas one fatality for each in! 716 automobiles at grade cross ings and one for each 984 ch the highways in 1927. Reports from 23 states showed a reduction in gi’ade-crossing acc’der.ts compar'd with 1926. Wyoming Avas the only state to show no fatalities m either year, while Nevada and Rhode Island each reported one in 1927 compa:ed with nor«' the year before. The seven states with the greatest number of fatalities in 1927, com pared w th the preceding year, were Ohio, 251 and 20; Indiana, 1,661 and 153; Illinois 160 and 186; New York, 151 and 159; California, 110 and 111; Pennsylvania, 104 and 118. Michigan, 104 and 110. X Enrollment Books Close July 24th i BRING THEM IN IMMEDIATELY) TO COUNTY CHAIRMAN OR ! SECRETARY Party Leaders Leave Smith To Line Up Forces MEMBERS OF NATIONAL DEMO CRATIC COMMITTEE HEAR NOMINEE DISCUSS OUT LOOK IN FINAL HOURS OF SESSION Books of enrollment Avill be closed by the enrollment committee of the respective clubs July 2tth and should be mmediately t a remitted to the county chairman or secretary. This s M'ny important and the commit tees Avill please take due notice thereof. * W. K. CHARLES, County Chairman. X County Executive Committee To Meet Monday, July 30th ALL COMMITTEEMEN URGED TO ATTEND The Ccbnty Executive Committee will meet on Monday, July 30th, at ten o’clock a. m., at the Court House, 1 for the purpose of purging the rolls, j A full attendance is respectfully re-, ^ I quested. Every committeeman should be present so as to advise the com mittee regarding the enrollment of his club. W. K. CHARLES, County Chairman. NEW YORK, July 12.—After a round table d scussion of campaign strategy Avlth Al Smitl* members of the dcmociat.c national committee left for home tonight determined to lose no time in getting their state and local organizations in full speed operation. For. more than an hour in his campaign headquarters at the Bilt- more, thg presidential nominee dis cussed the outlook Avith the com mitteemen and Avomen, who yester day at his suggestion made John J. Raskob, financial director of General Motdrs, their chairman and entrusted to him the manage ment of the campaign. Raskob, who earl’er in the day had conferred with some of the committee members Avas present untd forced to leave to catch a train for his summer home in Mary land where he planned to spend the wq k end. In attendance also wa~ Herbert Lehman, the committee’s neAv dhector cf finance. Senator Gerry, of Rhode Island who has been placed at the bead of the cam paign advisory committee and George R. Van Namee, Smith’s pre- convention manager, who is expected to be in chargp of Eastern campaign operat’ons. Senator Robinson, the vice-pres’-' dential nominee, \A-as not on hand, as he left for Washington during the night. Hardly had Raskob been elected before he took over Avith a positive hand the duties o* his post. In the space of a few minutes he had ap- po.nted five \ r ice-cha rmen, includ- irg two women; Mrs. Nellie Taylor Ross, former governor of Wyoming, and Mrs. Florence Farley, national committee woman from Kansas; and designed a chairman for all of the sub-committees which will function in the campaign. Further, in h’s speech of accept ance he brought to the forpfront the questions of prchibltion and farm re* lief as two of the issues that must be met on the voting line in the im pending might. In regard to the former he stressed the right of Gov ernor Smith to work for a lawful change in the* d 'y statues which n the op.nion of the party’s pres - dential nominee Avould be conducive to a change for the better in th>' pich’bition situation. “If as a result of careful study, the new chairman sa’d, “he can evolve a pla n for the regulation and control of the question in a way that will absolutely prevent the return of the salorm, eliminate bootlegging’ with its accompanying evils—graft corruption and murder—and restore temperate life in our country.., then all fairminded men must admit his right if not h’s duty as president, to promote such plan, and to advocate such changes ir our laws and con stitution a= rnr y be necessary for ite adoption.” Raskob, chairman of the finance committee of the General Motors Corporation said that up to the p:cs- ent he had not been a partisan. He offered as an explanation of his being listed :n Who’s Who as a Re publican, his connection with the E. I. DuPont de Nemours company add ing that he twice had voted for Woodrow Wilson and then support ed tlr Republican ticket Besides selecting Mrs. Ross and Mrs. Farley a* vice-chairmen to work Avihi him in the campaign Raskob also picked Frank Hague of Neov Jersey, Governor Harry F. Bryd of Virginia, and Scott Ferris of Ok lahoma, as his other lieutenants. He appointed Senator Gerry of Rhode Island, to head an advisory sub-committee created by the na tional body to assist in working out details of the campaign and among other things confer.with the two nomimees as to the determina tion, of notification dates. This committee is expected to convene shortly to take up the latten ques tion. Raskob also picked Herbert H. Lehman, New York financipF, to take the chairmanship er^ the finance Normal Crop Of Cotton For Those Who Will Poison CONDITION REPORT SHOWS TWO DISTINCT BELTS WITH WEEVILS PLENTIFUL CLEMSON COLLEGE, July 16.— The boll wecv-1 survey for the week ending July loth shows two belts across the state in which the infes tation is heavier than in the remain ing territory. One belt includes the counties of Barnwell, Bamberg, Orangeburg. Calhoun, Clarendon, Sumter, Flor ence, Dillon and Horry, in which belt some, fields have enough infestaulon of squares to call for poisoning, and standard dusting for protection of squares is now beginning in this reg ion on those fames which are equip ped for it. Reports show that the first field-reared weevils for this year are now noticeable. Owners and managers should realize the im portance of combatting the weeArils to get a normal crop cf cotton. The data indicate that fields which show ed the highest nfestations vere us ually fields AA’hich had not boon giv en early poison.ng treatment. The other belt of high infestation crosses the loAyer Piedmont includ ing the counties of Greenwoc’d, Un ion and Lancaster in which belt no new weevils are yet reported but overwintered weevils ane still plen tiful. In this belt early-poisoning j is still in progress with reports^ of ; good results, and much cotton is still young enc’ugh to make this work feasible. Between the two belts specified, especially in the typical Sand Hills area, the average weevil infestation is reported to be rather low. X Robinson Meets Friendly Enemy WASHINGTON, July 15 —Two friendly enemies, Curtis cf Kansas and Robinson of Arkansas, met to- ? / day for the first time sif.ee their select on as vice-presidential . nom inees and wished each other all the success in th'* AA^orld except in No vember. Fcr years both ha\ r e been warm persoral friends despite the many verbal encounters in the sen ate, where Curtis is the Republican leader and Robinson the captain of the Democratic camp. And •so t n the verge of Robinson’s departure tonight for Hot Springs, Ark., to begin work’ng out campaign plans, the two renewed their friend ship and joked about the t.rist of circumstances that finds them again pitted against > ach other. In ail probability they will cross paths many times between now and November for it is expected that both will spend cons’derable time campaigning in the samn rectiens— the farm and border states. Robinson said he intended to go. ilrect to Hot Springs, where his family is, and that pending his for mal notificat or, the date of Avhich still is to be decided, )•»' wiuld lirve practically nothing to say. Curtis will remain in Wr.rh’rgton probably for a week or ten days be fore leaving ler his Kansas home. He said that in his formal speech acccpt’ng the nomination, wh ch will be delivered in Topeka Angus* 18, he proposed to stress several issues but decl.ned to say vhat they would be. 2nd Dividend For Bank Plum Branch The Peoples Bank off McCormick, receiver of the Bank of Plum Branch, is today mailing out a ten per cent dividend to depositors of the defunct bank. This makes a total of twenty- five per cent paid to depositors of the Bank of Plum Branch, a fifteen per cent dividend having beer, paid scA'eral months ago. committee which up to the present time has been held by Jesse Jones of Houston, Tlexas. After choosing Raskob as its new head, the nation al committee also unanimously re elected James W. Gerard of NeA* York as committee treasurer, and Charles A. Greathouse of Indiana, as secretary.