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TRUK TO OURSELVES, OUR NEIGHBORS, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD. Twenty-Seventh Year 8 Pages — All Home Print McCORMICK, S. C., Thursday, November 8, 1928 Established June 5, 1902 Number 23 Sen. Robinson Of Mc Cormick Head Senate Finance Committee COLUMBIA, Nov. 7.—Senator Frank C. Rob nscn of McCormick County is scheduled to be the next chairman of the finance committee of the state senate. He is the ranking member of the committee and will under the usual procedure, be elected by the committee as its chairman. Senator Robinson will succeed Sen ator H. H. Gross, who was not re elected this year. He was defeated with the “Bessie” L'mehouse fac tion’s ticket in Dorchester Countyv Senator Robinson sat with the state budget commission at several sessions last week and will probably sit at future sessions, getting ac quainted with the needs cf the state government as presented by the heads of the various departments and institutions. The McCormick sena tor was invited by the budget board to meet with it He and Senator Gross have both sat at these recent sessions. The other members of the board are Representative -Robert E. McCaslan, chairman of the house ways and means committee, re-elect ed to the house this year, and Gover nor Richards. Senator Gross, who su: renders the cha rmanship to Senator Robinson, has been at the head of the finance committee s nee 1922. He has been in the senate since 1913. Senator Grois is a prominent planter and banker at Harleyville. He was born in Brighten Canada but moved to South Carolina in 1884. He has, serv ed as magistrate and supervisor in h ? s county, as well as occupying an important business position. He has been prominent in many public af fairs of his county. Senator R • dnson is a banker at McCormick. He is the only senator his county has ever had. Before the county was created he was a member of the house serving from 1913 to 1916, and then as senator f.om the new county of McCo.Tn’ck until the present time. He was a delegate te« the national Democratic ccnvention in 1920. txt % Atlanta Man Kills Wife And Himself ATLANTA, Nov. 2.—Aurin Bug- bee 28, shot his estranged wife to death and wounded her young woman cempanion as they kn^lt in prayer at his order early today, and then turned the gun c-i h mself, inflicting a fatal wound. Mis. Cora Heckman 22, the com panion, was taken to a hospital with serious bullet wounds in the should er. She told police that she and Mrs. Bugbee were awakened by a noise at the window cf their apartment. In a few momenta Bugbee was at the’r bedside. “I am going tr. kill both of you ” Mrs. Heckman quoted him as saying, “so you had better make peace with the Lord.” She said she arose and ran when he fired at her, but that Bugbee shot his wife through the head as she knelt by the bedside. He shot him self through the head. Police reports said the couple were rnanied a 1 ttle over five months ago, and separated two* weeks ago, Bugbee taking up residence in a downtown hotel. Mrs. Bugbee had sued for a di vorce, Mrs. Heckntan said, and added that she had obtained a peace war rant in municipal court charging that her husband had threatened her life. Mrs. Heckman is expected to live. X Land Sales Made Here Monday J Sales made here Monday by the Mastei;. L. G. Bell, were as follows: The Federal Land Bank of Colum bia vs. E. L. Hollingsworth Jr., et al., 122 1-2 acres, bid in by W. K. Charles, attorney, for $1,500.00. The Federal Land Bank of Colum bia vs. J. L. Lesley et al., 515 acres, bid in by W. K. Charles, attorney, for $2,500.00. The Federal L~nd Bank of Colum bia vs. Q. C. Cheatham, et al., 81 7-8 acres, bid in by W. K. Charles, at torney, for $1,350.00. Herbert Hoover Is Elected President Herbert Hoover has been elected president of the United States. He is already sure of many more than the 266 votes in the electoral college, and every additional report adds to his majority. New York state, which in the early returns showed Smith a winner ap pears to be going for Hoover. Smith may possibly pull c»ut in his own state yet but it will do him no good. On the basis of first returns, from the western farm belt, it appeared that Smith’s challenge to their norm al republicanism had fallen short. All of them, including Nebraska and Wisconsin where Democrats were highly optimistic, gave impressive early majorities to Hoover. In the cast, cutside of New York and Massachusetts. Hoover went in to the lead at tHe outset in every state. He finally wrested Smith’s own lead from him when the gover nor’s majority in New York city fell below the 60G000 he expected. For a time Smith led of the tremendous votes df Boston in Massachusetts, but, with most remaining to be count ed, Hoover moved steadily ahead. The total vote in McCormick Coun ty showed, unofficially, Sm th, 615; Hoover, 20; Thcmas. 1. The official tabulation will be made next Tuesday and results declared. tXt A. R. P. Church Committees Named Church Comn^ittees which will con duct the Erskine College endowment campaign in McCornvck and vicinity v/e:e announced today from the cam paign headquarters at Charlotte, N. C. These church ccmm!tteeme.i will work with tho pastors, church chair men, group and Presbytery leaders in the work cf raising the $350,000 endowment fund for Erskire. the unified Associate Reamed Presby ter‘an Church college at Due West S. C While the intensive effort in the appeal will not get under way for- m,ally until November 18, a date set aside as Erskine Day in all A. R. P churches, the so’icitation of init’al or special gifts is already in progress in most cf the churches. These church committees, in ad dition to work : r.g among the A. R. P. members also will conduct the r ppcal among the alumni and alum nae of Erskine College, the Woman’s College of Due West and Erskine Thec-’ogical Seminary, the three in stitutions which have been consoli dated under the name of Erskine College. The Church Cc-mmittee in th’s place includes: McCormick—Geo. P. Watkins, chairman; Rev. L. T. Pressly, asso ciate chairman. ' M' Carmel—H. O. Watson, chair man; Rev. L. T. Pressly, associate cbali man. Lo: g Cane—W. D. Morrah, chair man, Rev. R F. Bradley, associate chairman; Wm. Cowan, Charles Dansby. Troy—<W. H. Robinson, chairman; Rev. J. H. Buzhardt, assoc ate chair man,; J. T. Robinson, Mrs. Lois Cud dy, Miss Daisy Gablq W. B. Price, and J. T. Creswell. tXt Boost Budget Of Red Cross WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.—James L Feiser, act’ng chairman of the American Red Cross today announc ed a budget of $4,798,000 for the fiscal year 1928-23 a substantial in crease over the past figures. The increase is due to the enor mous load of disaster relief work and to expansion cf many branches of Red Cross service, Mr*. Feiser said. Thanksgiving, a membership of 5,000,000 will be sought- an in crease of virtually a million over the past year. Although only four months of the fiscal year have passed, Mr. Feiser said $900,000 has been appropriated for relief work from general funds, in addition to large amounts collected by public subscription, and it appear ed certain that the relief expendi tures will total at least $7,300,000 for the year without inclusion of pos sible future disasters. Baptists Plan A South-Wide Sunday School Conference THOUSANDS OF WORKERS WILL ATTEND AT TULSA, OKLAHO MA, JANUARY 15, 16, 17, 18 Again the Baptist Sunday School Board is arranging a South-wide Sunday school conference. This time it will be at Tulsa, Oklahoma, Janu ary 15, 16, 17, 18. Thousands of earnest workers will want to attend this stupendous meeting. It will be a “five ring performance;” that is, there will be five great departmental conferences running at one time. Every phase cf Sunday school work will be discussed by experienced Sun day school workers from all over the South. It is fully expected that there will bo over 3 ; 000 pe: sons in a terdance. Over one hundred are expected to attend from South Car- .'ina. Many mere will want tc go, r ov this same meeting was held at Gr-'cnville, S. C., last y"ar and it was a great help to the hundreds of South Carol na workeis who attended. This is the third South-wide Bap tist Sunday school conference and probably the last annual meeting cf the corfcronce. In the future it will probably be a bi-annual meeting. Special cars will be arranged for repre~entativrs from South Caiolina, who will attend th s meeting and pos sibly the number requesting reserva tions may be numerous enough to war rant, a special train. If such is the case, the arrangements for the special train for South Carolina rep resentatives will be made. The program, while not yet issued, will be arranged on the bas s of de partment conferences for morning and afternoon, with mammoth mass meeting for the evening hour, when the greatest preache: s and Sunday -,'rhcol men cf the South will bring inspiring messages. A tranrpo'tation organizat.on for South Carolina has been built up by Mr. J. L. Corz’ne, Baptist House, Columbia, and in each region of the state and in each association in the regions there will be rep'esentatives who can give information about the pr'.rram and the railroad routes and rates. Mrs. A. J- Foster of Columbia : s arranging an exhibit of Intermediate poste’s, hardwork and materials from South Carolina for display at til's meeting. Miss Elizabeth Nuck- ols of Columbia is making a s’milar display for the Cradle R<*1, Begin ner, Primary and Junior departments of the state. Th'se displays gather ed from all the states of the South ern Baptist Convention will be one of the helpful and interesting feat- u:es of the conference. Prizes will be offered for the best poster^ hand work and notebooks produced by the pupils from these various depart- men's. Last year several of the prize winners were South Carolina children. All :ailroads will give special rates, which will amount to one- fourth of the regular rate. The fare both ways will, therefore, be equal to the usual fare one way, plus one- half the usual fare one way. All in terested in the special cars, or spec ial tra'n, should write Mr.. J. L. Corzine, Baptist House, Columbia, S. C. x Blazes New Route To Colombia Following an all-water route that is expected to blaze the way for fu ture commercial service, Lieutenant Benjamin Mendez of the Colombian Air Forces will take off from Rock- away Beach, L. I,, about November 12, for Bogota, Colombia. Seven stops will be made en route, according to the Standaid Oil Com pany of New Jersey which will fuel the plane at these points: Jackson ville, Havana, Puerto Banios, Almir- ante, Colon, Girardot and Barran- quilla are the cities scheduled. Lieu tenant Mendez will use a Cuitiss- Falcon biplane fitted with pontoons and powered by a Curtiss D12 400 h. p. water-cooled mot«r. The flight is being sponsored by the Tropical Oil Company and is the first to be made from New York to Colombia over an all-water route. Modem Industrial City Is Planned At Calhoun Falls PHILIP MINER, CLEVELAND MAGNATE, TELLS ANDERSON CITIZENS OF PROJECT ANDERSON, Nov. 4.—Philip Min er, of Cleveland, president of Cal houn Falls, Inc., owneis of 12,500 acres <•- lands in Calhoun Falls, where Mr. Miner and his associates including the wealthy publisher, S. S. McClure, plan the building of the model industrial city of America, Thursday night addressed an en thusiastic group of nearly a hundred local men, telling of the plans for the development. His most important announcement was that a $5,000,000 finishing mill will be built at Calhoun Falls and that work will be started within the next three months. Mtr Miner did not name the textile operators but intimated it as another of the oper ators of the east who has found a Southern plant site. Mr. Miner went into some detail with regard to the projected devel opment stat'ng that the “homelike” plant will be utilized in providing the residents with golf coarses. He said an 18-hole course would be provided for each thousand acres and that the homes of the residents would front on the fairways. Mr. McClure is scheduled to visit th : s section in the near future, he said, and added that the well-known publisher would tell local people more about the proposed develop ment, t xr Cut Out Grain Smuts CLEMSON COLLEGE, Nov. 7.— Experience has shown clearly that seed treatment for giain smuts pays handsomely, says Dr. Geo. M. Arm strong, chief of the division of bot any and bacteriology, who given br'efly the treatment advised. For oat smut use a fccmaldehyde solution as follows: 1. Fan the seed to remove all light seed and foreign material. 2. Mix one pint of formalin (40 per cent formaldehyde) with ten gal lons of water. Keep covered to pre vent escape of the gas fumes. 3. Place the grain on a tight floor or a good canvas and apply the solu tion with a sprinkling can, one to two pints per bushel. M'x rapidly and there* ighly to get every grain covered. 4. Pile the oats and cover with blankets, canvas, or bags.. 5. After two hours remove cover ing. The cats may then be diilled in the field. If not, they should be spread in a thin layer and stirred occasionally until all the gas fumes have escaped. For bunt or stinking smut c-f wheat the above formaldehyde treatment may be used, but the seed should be dr'ed rapidly and thoroughly after treating. A better method is the copper carbonate t: e.Ttment: 1 1-2 to 2 cuncrs of copper carbonate t' every bushel cC grain. Place the grain in a tight container, put in th'' mpper carbonate, and then roll or stir until the g:ain is thoroughly covered. The seed is then ready to plant. Loose smut cf wheat can be ccn- tr fled only by planting resistant varieties or by using the hot water seed treatment, which is hardly feas- bU under ordinary farm conditions and is nc*': recommended as a gen- e: al practice. For covered smut of barley the formaldehyde treatment as for cat smut is recommended; for loc^o smut, the same as for loose smut of wheat. txt Firm Pay $4,427 Fee COLUMBIA, Nov. 2.—One of the largest corporation filing fees re ceived by the secretary of state’s of fice in recent months was that for $4,427,50 paid today by the South Carolina Power company, of Char leston, the filing corporation repre sents a consolidation d" the South Carolina Power company!- the Edisto Public Service company, the Au- gusta-Aiken Railway and Electric corporation and the Georgia Carolina Power company. McCormick To Have Shuttle Mill Messrs. M. G. & J. J. Dorn are having machinery placed at the old McCorm'ck Land & Lumber Com pany’s planing mill site near the railroad tanks and will begin opera tion of a shuttle mill there within the next few days. A twenty horse power electric motor will supply power for the plant, which will be in charge of Mr. J. E. Haynes, an ex- per'erced shuttle mill man from North Carolina. Mr. Haynes has been in the business 35 years and is very optimistic over the outlook for the new plant. Ten men will be employed at the plant, while employment will be fur nished to a large number in the woods getting out dog wood for the plant to manufacture into shuttles for cotton mills. The manager is now ready to buy dog wood in any quantity, notice of which may be< seen elsewhere in this paper. txt McCormick County Farmers Improving Soil With Legumes Several McCormcik County farm ers are making good progress in soil improvement through the use of legumes th's year. Mr. W. P. Parks of Parksville is planning tc* put out around fifteen acres in hairy vetch and five acres in Austrian winter peas for soil improvement, Mr. W. L. White, of the L'bcrty Hill section is putting out around fifteen to twenty acres in hairy vetch and eight or ten acres in Austrian peas. Mr. White had around fifteen acres ir soy beans this year, wh'ch he is turning under for soil imprc*vement this fall. A new tractor is helping Mr. W T hite considerably in his op erations. Mr. C. E. Wilk e, of Plum Branch will put out around eight or ten acres in vetch for soil impiovement, and so will Mr. W. G. Mallett of Plum Branch. Mr. Mallett is alsc* planting some Ausrtian peas. Mr. W} K. Charles, of McCormick will seed around five acres to the w’nter peas, and Mrs. Rebecca Widernan of Troy will seed about the same acre age. Mr. J. J. Hester, of Ti'oy is seeding five to ten acres of hairy vetch. Mr. D M. Wardlaw, of Will- ington will seed seven or eight acres in hairy vetch, and Mr. Jack Gable c*’ Troy around the came amount. These and many others are seo’ng the- vision of the advantages of soil improvement, and are going about it in the most economical way in th? world. The county agent has hand led a:ound three tons hairy vetch and one ton of Austrian peas at cost to the farmers of the county this year ,and much of these seed will go for soil improvement. THOS. W. MORGAN, County Agent. txt Lions Club Has Its First Luncheon The McCormick L ; ons Club held its first regular lur.chec-i at the Connor Hotel on Tuesday, October 30, with an attendance of 19 members. Af ter the luncheon a delightful pro gram was carried cut, consisting of a vocal solo by Miss Francos Hill and several selections by the male ouartette. The club will hold its charter night on Tuesday night, November 13. This will also be ladies night with the ciub. District Governor Jas. A. Cathcart cf Columbia, Mr. Kenneth Ki'epps, President cC the Columbia Lions Club, and District Secretary Goldschmidt are among some of the visitors who are expected for the occasion. X Bank Closes Doors At Darlington DARLINGTON, Nov. 2.—The Car olina National Bank, the second bank in Darlington to close this week, sus pended business shortly after open ing this morning. A notice was post ed on the door of the bank and sign ed by the directors to the effect that it was deemed best to suspend busi ness. P. J. Boatwright is president of the Carolina National bapk. Holiness Church Ends Conference SUCCESSFUL MEETING HELD NEAR COLUMBIA A c t'r me reost r.uc-'js-fa! 'cikr.s :'n ‘'j hist ary, the Upper South Carolina conference cf the? 1 Pentecoital Holiness church closed its 13th annual meeting at 4 p. m- Monday. The conference which had bean in session at the Bethel Pente costal Holiness church located near Columbia on the Newberry highway, met according to announcement, Sat urday at 2 p. m. The usual routine deliberatiens were conducted by Geneihl Superintendent J. H. King with dispatch. The reports cf the churches and ministers indicated a very successful year of labor in the conference territory. One of the last matters of bnsi- ness attended to was the election offfC£rs^ior''the enduing year and of delegates to represufft? fcfcu ference at the general conference which meets in Oklahoma City next May. The Rev. F. L. Bramblett of Greenwood was re-elected conference superintendent. The Rev. O E Tay lor Laurens was re-elected assist ant superintendent The Rev. G. R- Thomas of Sandy Springs was re elected secretary and treasurer. The Rev. G. H. Montgomery of Irmo and the Rev. Ralph Taylor of Andersc-n were elected to complete the con ference official board. This conference is entitled to three clerical delegates ar.d three lay dele gates in the next general conference. The Rev. G. H. Montgomery, the Rev. O. E. Taylor, and the Rev. W. Ray Ander son were elected minister ial delegates. J. P. Long of Silver Street, B. C- Harb’n of Andersen and M. F. Finley of Abbeville were e’ected lay delegates. The report of the committee on division of labor is as follows: Anderson District Abbeville, Glenn Street and Ivu—- Ralph Taylor. Orville—JM. S, Pitts. Ware Shoals and Piedmont—R. M- Brewer. Belton ard Morgan’s Tabernacle— E. A. Horne. Greer, Barton’s Chapel, Pacolet Valley ard Landrum—W. D. Sraait. Tucapau—O. C. Griffin Holmes Memorial and McNeeley— P. F Beacham. Earley—G R. Thomas. Be ch Springs—-Clyde H. Herndon. Kcnca Path—Hartwell Beachaitfc. Iteedy Grove and Sandy Springs— J. W. Massey. Gum Springs—William E. Un- thank. Brcv/ertor—W. Ray Anderson. Saluda District McCormick ard Long Branch—O. j j- *• ler* Cedar Grove and Laurens—G. T. Batcher. Friendship and Levci’ett—J. H. Powell. Calhoun Falls—N. S. Pitts. Grendel and Pine Grove—P. P. Horne. Greenwood—F. L. Bramblett. Silver Street—Ha: twell Beacham. Oak Grove and Nin r ty-Six—W. H. Clark. Clinton, Newbcny a: d Mount Olivo—R. H. Cause. Bethel No. 1 and Bethel No. 2— G. H- Montgomery. Doable B - anches and Wear’s Chapel—L H. Sm th. Choppers—W Ray Anderson. Evangelists p. R. Br. v.M R. B. Hayes, D. V. r r; e', C C Merrit'i B T. Sanders, *L T. King, Lew's Sawgalsky, L W. '■-'v/i'i'. D McNeely, T. K. Wade, \V. P. Davenport. I. H. Webb, L P. Burton. John W. Warren, G. R. Cas on, C. C. Mullinix, J. H. Green, C. F- Overstreet, B. R. Nichols, I. L. Mad den, R. A. Burton, Mrs. J. R. Jones, Mrs. Ava Dunn. Mrs. Lula Ferguson, Miss Lois Cartee, E. S. Timmerman, William D. Butler, J. C. Gaymon, Vernon Ellenberg, Vinson Ellenberg^ W. A. Davis, J. E. Butler, J. H. Wil iams, John W. Motes. ^ X Baptist Bazaar December 13, 14 The Baptist annual bazaar is to be held on Thursday and Friday, Decem ber 13th and 14th. the place to be announced lafeei\