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Thursday, September 13, 1928 McCORMJCK MESSENGER. McCORMICK, South Carolina. Page Number Four KeCOuMICK MESSENGER Whom They Fubliahed Every Yhurmd*j Enteblished Jane 6, 1902 EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner. CIRCULATION: 1,300, and gnminff DISPLAY ADVERTISING — 25 cents per inch for each insertion; nothing less than 4 inches accepted for double column display, nor less than 2 inches for single column dis* piny. BlSiNUSS READING NOTICES, • C'v: 4 ? j'er line for each insertion, average t»i* C words to line. WANT ADVS., G cents per line for each insertion, average of 6 words to line. • TRIBUTES OF RESPECT, G cents per I’ne, 6 words to line. All advS. set in body type, 6 cents per single column line; extra charges for Trig type on all single column advs., except head and signature. Positions given at ONE-THIRD extra charge. Would Support? (Charleston News and Courier.) wiToTwS to Improve 0 ^’Tepub- Irrepressible Fair- A woman who is poor and must earn a living for herself and depend ents held the office of postmaster in a country village, and her term was about to expire. She was approach ed by a person active in the Repub lican organizat’on in this state; it has gone down, do'vn, down to be con temptible in the view of all men ex cept candidates for the Republican nominations. The poor people who buy little offices from it hate it, and muted by their necessities, they cannot com plain. The News and Courier does not believe that the majority of per sens, including disaffected ministers, have 1 banks And His Stunts In ‘Don Q Fean party and told that her reap pointment could be easily arranged ^ an y no tjon of what they are doing' it would only be necessary to pay j when they give aid and comfort to $200. She was unw.lling to buy the Tolbert’s party—and, we repeat J postmastership for another term, and th ere is nothing here said that they j an “examination” for applicants fo" cannot cc . n fi rm by conferring with the place was about to be ordered, their congressmen This woman had recourse to a Dem- j ocratic member of congress who suc ceeded in frightening the postoffice department, so that the South Caro lina Republican bosses did not per- s : st in the effort in this paiticularj case. The 'woman, one of those who FAMOUS STAR AGAIN SEEN IN HAIR-RAISING AND HAIR BREADTH ATHLETIC ACT IVITIES SIMILAR IN TYPE TO HIS EARLIER SENSA TIONAL SUCCESSES Games Shortage Will Be Made Up Douglas Fairbanks is at it again After an interval o': more than a year, since complet ng his “Thief cf Bagdad,” he has turned his attention to earlier types of portray a., and has put cut what will doubtless be his most entertaining and finest piece cf Washout Of Track j Causes Three Deaths 1 Near The Capitol i COLUMBIA, Sept. G —Three fain- men dead, and seven injured was the | toll of the wreck of Southerr pass-1 enger train No. 16 which slid nto a| washout last night on the Columbia- Newberry and Laurens track three miles above here, it was learn.ed to day as wreckers and relief crews worked at the scene. The decapitated body cf r. ,, :-*licf fireman, J. F. Rattafce of Colum bia was found near the wrecked train today, shortly before the body of Engineer D. B. Poore <•' Colum bia was taken from the submerged cab cf his locomotive. Wedged In the cab below Pc'ore’s body was the Altered at. the Post Offke at Me* Cormick, S. C., as mail matter of the second cists. out on the Southern lino. Both bodies of Glenn and Poore SUBSCRIPTION RATES: — Strictly Cash In Advance — One Year $1.00 Six Months .75 Three Months AO •fe- Making A City Safe The sale of postoffice s by the RepuS- lef t in precarious state by an alleged “Don Q, Son of Zorro,” was the story lican bosses in the South goes on. million-dollar shortage in the ac- of that chivalrous Spanish gentle- •All informed persons know about it. counts of its missing treasure)-, man, Don Quixote. Nothing could be \ V ere bruised and scorched by flames Pdstmaster General New has noth- Clintdh S. Carnes, probably will be further removed frehn the truth, from the firebox, workers said, ing to learn about it. assured by vountary contributions, however. President Calvin Coolidge is not at Dr - Arc h C. Cree, acting executive The story itself is a colorful ad- all ignorant of th e general reputation secretary said in a statement today. * venture-romance set in a Spanish lo- ■%«•*'***•'i. The:ie are 1,500 towns in the Unit ed States having population in excess to 5,000 people, and of this number 300 of them have no codes or ordin ance regulations fCr promoting struc tural safety or restrictions for the spread of fire. A report of the National Fire Waste Council calls attention to the many cities and towns not having a building code, and they unge concert ed effort on the part of the citizens to improve conditions in this respect. There are cities of 12,000 to 15,- 000 with excellent building codes, ac cording to the report made to the Fire Waste Council. Tliere are, to • cities with populations of 40,000, 60,- 000 and 80,000 without building codes. “Eyery city which has developed without prdper regulatory building laws/’ bays the icport, “has created 'danger spots which it will take gen erations to eliminate and which are always a source of potent al hazard to its well-being and a cause of heavy taxation. The most common charac teristics of such lawless construction are the massing of wdoden buildings sometimes three to five stories high, with little or no separation and fre quently adorned with all their at tendant structural defects, all favor able to easy ignition and rapid fire destruction.” txt They Must Wear Lights (Charleston News and Courier.) work. Its McCo ’mlck premiere is scheduled for Friday and'Saturday at body of J. E. Glenn, Newberry, as- the Dixie Theatre, where it will show sistant road master of the Columbia- ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 7.—Suffi- for 2 days. j Newberry and Laurens Railway, who have escaped robbery, was reappoint- cient funds for operation of the “Don Q Son of Zorro’ ’Is the full was aC ting as pilot fee the Southern Southern Baptist Home Mission hp- title of this new picture. Various train being detoured over the tracks The case is not at all exceptional. ard » the finances of which have been reports have been broadcast that G f the other line because cf a wash RATES — 6 cents per line fo* each insertion, average of 6 word* to line, or 24 words or less 25 cent* 24 to 30 words 30 cent* 30 to 36 words 36 cent* . 36 to 42 words 42 cent* 42 to 48 words 48 cents 48 to 54 words 54 ce nts 64 to 60 words 60 cent* an! so on at the same rate. TERMS — CASH to accompany order for each insertion desired. At this low rate we cannot keep books for this department, so cash must accompany order in all cases. % OLD MATTRESSES—made over as good as new, furniture repaired and upholstered. Liberal discount on all work delivered to shop and called for. Local references, all work guaranteed. Casoi Mattress Company, Ferry St. at Wardlaw, Abbeville, S. C. Under the state law all vehicles are required to show lights at night on highways. "There are no exceptions and there should be none. This re quirement for lights has been dii-ct- ed to attention several times, but it W>uld seem that some drivers of buggies and wagons are careless in complying. - The driver of a buggy showing no light was fatally injured in Claren don county. His vehicle was struck from the rear by a motor car. The mo»tor dklver failed to detect the bug gy with his own lamps as a car with bright lights was approaching. His first inkling of the proximity of the buggy vva s when the smash occurred. It is with a sinking feeling that a motor di'iver suddenly. sees a buggy ©r wagon a few yards ahead of him. If no vehicle is approaching he can swerve, but if he must stay on the right side of the highway the chances of a collision are great-. Where the buggy c r wagon is lighted, th e motor driver, exercising ordinary caution, is unlikely to fa 1 to observe the ve hicle. s It is, of course, just as important of them are persons of high char- that motor cars show ruby or amber aeter. These have nohting to do with and methods of his friend Joseph Tolbert. Mr. Herbert Hoove:) as a member c<; the cab net and candidate for the Republican nomination was informed abcut Southern Republicanism. He obtained the support cf mosc of tne Southern delegates*, though, for rea sons satisfactory to Joseph Tolbert and probably understood by at least one of Mr. Hoover’s Southern man agers, rot the delegation riom South Carolina. The trade in federal offices in the South not on'y is well known to the master Republicans in Washington, but is tolerated and tac tly enccor- aged by them. The extortion of tri bute in Cincinnati in the days of Cox, the Republican, or in the days of Tweed, the Democrat, in New York, was never practiced more unblush- ingly than it is practiced in the South by Republican machines now. Now, Coolidge, and Hoover not seem to care. Of couise they cc*u’d put an end to it -in a week if they wished to do so. The Coolidge administration approves corrupt prr.ct ecs in the South, is fully aware of the infamies cf the system, and does nothing. The Southern state Republican ma chines are no cleaner, no better, than they were in 1875, and that the Soith is less troubled by them is due solely to the fact that they have not since 1877 been supported by federal gar risons. Exposures of these conditions have been made time and again) Stevcn- or, By:nes. Dial, Blease and other congressmen have made them, pre senting evidence in detail and abund ance. The people in the village do not know that their postmaster has been compelled to pay for his office, to buy It as he bdught a bedstead or a mule, but the postmaster knows. In Georgia recently this system of : xtortion drove a man to kill him self. The Coolidge administration hears of it—and looks on blandly. If in Soath Carolina be Democrats whj doubt the foregoing statements of The News and Courier deliberately made, they may obtain corroboration of them from Southern members of congress. Do these gentlemen, some of them 'xccllent gentlemen—min sters c«f the Jospel—who are arraying themselves tgairst the Democratic party under stand this Southern Republican sys tem ? Do they know how foul it is ? Engrossed in theii) passionate op position to Governor Smith, are they prepared to support Southern Repub licanism? It is nc«t charged that the Repub licans traffic in federal offices in New England, New York, and the West It is granted that the prac tices in those sectidns are decent as a rule. The Northern Republicans a’.'o self-respecting people, and they would not endure, it. Nor does The News and Courier say that all Southern Republicans are corrupt—on the contrary, many lights at the rear*. Just now com plaints indicate that a large number of motorists are indifferent to this! the management of the machines— invariably they are unceremoniously k’cked aside, and if they show a provision. The law allowing a speed disposition to purge the Southe:h or- of 45 miles an hour on open highway,! ganizations and build a respectable the margr'n of braking distance is en- Southern Republican party they re- dangerej if the driver must depend ceive scant assistance from the on his own lamps to pick up vehicles | Washington masters. Of these mas- ahead of him,, or worse, parked in the | ters Herbert Hoover has been one fc*r highway. -txt- eight years, and Dr. Woi*k, national Republican chairman, another Dr. The apple crop is good and many Work was postmaster general. a farmer is loafing because his cider is going to work for him, -X The Republican machine in South CaroFna is infinitely sorrier and meaner today than it was in 1876. Train conductors repoit the rising; Daniel H. Chamberlain had faults, generation t© be healthy. Many kids grave faults—/bat would one compare of f\e, look to be ton. j him with “Tislcss Joe?” There has E. Alexander, mail clerk, suffered two broken libs and H. M. Hoof of Columbia, express messenger, suf fered a broken arm. Flagman J. F. Glymph of Greenville, was silghtly injured in the arm, mail clerk J. H. Martin of Columbia had a rib broken. Baggagemaster B. D. Wright of Co lumbia suffered injuries to shc'alder and am* while J. F. Simpson, mail clei-k, was shaken up. Conductor J. B. Eskew of Green ville, despite slight injuries to leg and body made h s way through two miles rain and mud to telephone to Columbia the first news of the wreck. About ferty passengers, some doz en cJ them wh'lte, were on the/ train and were brought here this morning by a relief train. Negro passengers were badly shaken up as their coach left the rails and one woman com plained that her back was hurt. The crlptions of the missing man which'which i-equire the strictest attention white passengers’ coach did net leave Dr. Cree, who was loaned to the cale. It was adapted by Jack Cun- board by the Georgia Baptist con- ningham from the novel, “Don Q’s vention to assist :n reorganization Love Story,” by K. and Hesketh necessitated by the disapperance Prichard. of Caines on August 15, and sub-j “What we really do in the new sequent disclosures of irregularities story,” says Fairbanks, “is to carry in his accounts, said that checks and j cm the adventures of Zorro. Wo taka money orders began arriving by mail t him fre m the p eturesque California today from many sections of the I of the middle nineteenth century to couth in response to the board’s in- the even more picturesque Spain of formal appeal tc l its constituency for financial assistance. While the mission board held an executive meeting at its local head quarters to advance further its plans fo:* reorganization, steps were taken to follc-w every possible clue which the same period. There will bo all the Latin fire and dash in the pic ture which characterized its P-‘o- decessor and which can best be de:> cribod as a romantic-melodrama. “For ‘Den Q Son of Zorro,’ is most certa nly a melodrama and melo- might asisst :'n the apprehension of I drama, after all, is what the public Carnes and his return to Atlanta. The'craves. They are fed up c*n sex and police have been supplied with des-' psychological pictures, so-called, have been broadcast throughout the country with a request that he be ar rested on sight. Although no formal charges yot to understand. With pictures of this the rails, and no real injury to any type, it becomes a study to get their gist “What I am aim'ng to do is to ap- have been filed against him. it was ! peal to the emotions in a production c." its occupants was reported Wi'eck ng operations were stopped today when the 120 ton wrecker sent out from Columbia slipped into a FOR SI AI F^ 500 Bushels Of Hast- rUIi oALl!i ing , g 100 bushel Oats, at 90 cents per bushel f. o. b. Troy. W. R. Bowen, Troy, S. C. WANTED- Man to k™ mcncss Business m McCormick County. Make $7 to $10 daily— must have car. A 21 year old million dollar firm will extend you credit to start. Lifetime jco. Write FURST AND THOMAS, Dept. J. L. 10, Free port, 111. 1 tpo. FARM WANTED Want to hear from owner having good South Carolina farm for sale,. If bargain send price and description. F. B. G., Br-*:. 495, Olney, 111. said at the detect ve bureau that the that will appeal to the masses as well washout and was itself derailed half police department already has enough * as to the more sophisticated audi- evidence to warrant his detenticn u.)-' ence > and, at the same time, b« en tertaining. And I hope that ‘Don Q Son of Zorro,’ will be all that public desires in the way of a the di- til charges are placed. Rumors that Carnes had been seen in Richmond, Va , were discounted by members of the board, who said they, verting picture.” expected to receive many false re- In th‘s new offering, Fairbanks ports as to his whereabouts, but ner-[ will be seen in a dual role. In this eithelcss anticipated that he event- instanc.e however, he will play Zorro, ually would be apprehended. j the fathe:*, and Don Q, the son. The At the board meeting today mem- dashing Zorro, grown older but still bers were informed by D1 Cree of a sword-slashing demon is replaced ihe steps being taken by the new ad- by his adventurous, romantic son who min’strative machinery to rehab- inherits all the father’s courage, wit ilitate the board and conserve its as-1 and charm. sets. It was announced afterward The keynote of the entire produc- that the board elected Dr. Arthur J.' tion is summed up in the o’d proverb, Barton, Atlanta, as office secretary to assist Dr. C.'oe. The board also adoptc ] a or say rg, o;> some a mile this side of the first wreck It prevented trains from reaching the scene of the first accident. X The Immunizat on t." suckling pige for hog cholera has much to reeorft- mentl it in the way of decreased cost and increased protection, according to animal industry specialists of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. By immunizing ea ly, less serum *s ieouired and the p’gs arc protected sooner, and since the successful im- .munizatic*) of suckling pigs does not necessitate the reduction of feed, it is possible tha f this may enable the farmer to market the p?g*5 somewhat earlier Lhan if the immur’zation v/err FOR SALE- T p he WaU;r t Collie f r Farm, consisting of Thirty-Two (32) Acres, lying be tween the Spartanburg and Arderson railroad two m les from McCormick, S. C A real bargain; act quick. | Mrs. Martha Collier, 6562, Hartford Ave, Detroit, Mich. Phone Garfield 5219-R. I OW— Gold Bar Pin in Mc " Co tnick or Plum Branch. Reward if returned to Louise Brack nell, Plum Branch, S. C.. carried cut after weaning. If young such phrase, “Truth crushed to earth shall rise resolu- again.” tion disclaiming any connnectlon with j Fairbanks gees it one better, how- suit filed Wednesday by Col. Walter j ever, and adds—“if ycd have the ing;. oi ly an exceptional herd or R. Brow.;, a Baptist layman, in which yeast to make it rise.” Which is ju t 1 the board, the elder son t*J the miss-j another way of saying that the plot r.g treasurer, the company which deals with a fal^e accusation and tk- bended him and the auditing firm by ult'mate discovery of the tiiPli. which he formerly was emph.red were made defendants, resulted in the issuance Don Q Sor o*" Zorro, is sent by his This act on: father from California to Spain to rt a t'mnor-! complete h s education, and b^cn.ncs, pigs receive the serum-virus treat ment, the immunity as a rule 13 iast- "n- d vidual will contract cholera. In givi g this tin atment to young pigs, it is most impc« tant to be sure that they arc in good health at the t : mc cf treatment. tXt A’th^ngh iberal grain feeding to dairy cows results in greater milk STRAYFR— Gne Red pig ’ weighs Olll/\l£<l/ about 25 or 30 pounds> ah'* it two months old. Notify Morton Dorn, McCormick, S. C. 1 tpo. BANK STOCK--; ^ £ stock in good, strong bark for sale. Apply at Messenger Office. aiy injunction restraining th'’ young- th'ough a combination of circum- cr Carr.cs from disposing of any of stances, a national hero. Then, by ( proluctioh investigations carried on .r.s father’s property <- rd <n, chiing virtue of another combinatuxi of cir-jby the U. S. Department of Agri- the board from mak ng a settlement cumstances he is accused of murder, culture show that it usually pays to v. th the bonding company which In clearing his name he is aided by feed large quantities of grain only bonded him in the sum of $50,000. j his father. But not before an ex- [ in dairies obtaining a high price for Coi. Bre-vn also sought to the citing series of events transpire to thoir products. At the dairy exper- l onu iig company and the auditing thr’ll even the most blase audience, j iment farm at Beltsville, Md., rec- firm held liable for the entire One of the highlights of the pro-1 ords were kept on 23 cows for per- amount of Carnes’ purported short- Faction comes when the hero rescues iods ranging from 90 to 150 days, age alleging that they had failed to his enemy from the rush of a wild These cows were divided into two investigate his record thoroughly. 1 bull wh : ch charges into the midst of greaps, one group being fed the At the same time he made public a their swordfight in the street. Doug amount required as determined from letter which he addressed to Dr. Lu- barely escapes with his life. And a the feeding rrtandaids; the other ther R. Christie, president of the point of great interest will be Doug’s from 2 to 4 pounds of grain per cow mission board asking for information uncanny abil’ty to handle a huge a day more than the other group, as to whether “the board’s cupboard whip, some eighteen feet in length.. With grain at $40 a ton, it was found was bare, and if there is a bone left Some form of athletic skill invari- that the extra milk resulting from how much meat is on it.” X A FEW re-condition ed mowers, MeCor- I mick, Moline, Emmer- soii and Thomas. Per fect mechanical con dition at half price of new ones. Select yours early. Gambrell Hard ware Company, Green wood. S. C. W ANTED -Beef Cattle and Heavy McCormick, S. C. Hogs. J. L. Smith, This is the season the school boy thinks a little knowledge is a dang erous thing. txt ably characterizes each of his pic- the heavier grain feeding cost from tures and in this whip will be the > 40 to 80 cents a gallon, an amount featured weapon. • | somewhat in excess of the usual Mary Astor is playing the role of. selling price. Douglas’ leading lady. This sel ection, s>c presenting a decided triumph fo.- youtH was made after CATTLE -Am . , many of Hollywood’s best known — U. » — ~~~ 1 ~ — J U « , s3 • /u r\ cho’co beef cattle. McCormick. S. C. paying highest market price for A. H. Faulkner, A large apple crc*p is Now we can keep the doctor away*. J ' oun f , for the part and it is said that sm actresses had been considered XXI The most important thing about a political machine is the clutch. X Some wives will notice a blond hair on their husband’s coat and, notice a button off it. Perhaps the fact that “Zest” is so far over in the dictionary accounts for the inability of some people in finding it. txt Many people have discovered that blue is a wonderful oolor, but a ter rible feeling. is even mere appealing than usual as the beautiful Spanish senorita whose chaim urges the hero through many thrilling and romantic adventures. In addit'on to Miss Astor, the cast won’t! w iU include Lottie Pickfo’tt Forrest, Stella de Lanti, Donald Crisp, Jean Hersholt, A1 MacQuarrie, Jack Mc Donald, Charles Stevens and others. No alone will Douglas Fairbanks play a double role. His director, Donald Crisp, also has a very im portant part in the production. Crisp will be remembered for his excellent work as the ro*ugh and ready pugil ist, Battling Burrougs, in “Broken Blossoms.” Send us your order for Letter- Heads, Noteheads, Billheads, Statements, Tally Sheets, En velopes, Cards, Posters. 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