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.
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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.
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Land Sales Made
Here Monday
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. ^
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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\