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* itUCarnurU Will Inoculate For Special Speakers In Diptheria Here On | A. R. P. Churches Next Thursday Next Sabbath CLINIC AT COURT HOUSE FROM 2 to 4 P. M. FOR ALL CHIL DREN UP TO 12 YEARS OF AGE Election Results Declared Results of election held November 6, 1928, McCormick County, by pre- Special speakers will appear in the | cincts, as declared by Commissioners Associate Reformed Presbyterian 0 f Election are as follows Dem. Rep. Soc. Church in McCormick and vicinity next Sunday, November 18, to stress j ]yi c £; ornl j c i c 192 the importance of the Erskine Col- Bell’s Store 10 Dr. M. W. Cheatham, Chairman of lege endowment campaign for $350,- Rehobcth 20 Board of Health, makes the follow- 000. ing announcement: j The day will be observed as “Ersk- All of the doctors cf McCormick, ine Day” and will mark the formal in co-operation with Mrs. Grady opening of the intensive effoit in the j pi U m Branch Roberts, District Tra'ned Nurse, will campaign designed to assure retent- Parksville --- Modoc 15 Ycug’s School House 25 Clatworthy X-Roads 28 60 29 ho’d a clinic at the court house on ion by Erskine of its A Grade col- White Town S. House 20 Lyon’s School House _ 30 Talbert’s Store 43 L'berty Hill Store __ 24 Meriwether 6 Thursday, November 22, from-2:00 p. lege rating. m. to 4.00 p. n« | Leaders in many phases of relig- This clinic is for the purpose of ious and educsfonal work in the'A. giving diptheria tox n antitoxin to j R. P. church .will be the special children, especially between the speaker;* it has been announced by Bordeaux 25 ages of 6 months to 6 years, because Dr. R N. Orr, (.? Charlotte, and Willington — 64 more deaths occur from diptheria be- Prof. W. P. Grier, of Gastonia, lead- Carmel 24 tween these ages.- But this inocula- ers of the speakers’ bureau of the tit»i will be g'ven to children to campaign. twelve years of age. _ | Erskine College, located at Due Toxin Antitoxin is a sure and West, S. C., is the name given the permanent pieventive of the dreaded A. R. P. consolidated college which diptheria, deaths from which are combines the educational and busi- increasing iii South Carolina. If ness interests of Woman’s College everyone was inoculated with dip- of Due Wesij Erskine Theological theria toxin antitoxin, we would have. Seminary and the old Erskine Col- no more diptheria. I lege. Mothers are urged to bring their! Speakers for “Erskine Day” in babies and child:en to this clinic next elude: Thursday. The inoculation will cost McCormick Church—Prof. J. N. Bonnet, of Due W]est- Mt. Carmel Church—Prof. J. N. Bonner, of Due West The McCormick To Lincolnton Road 20 1 fifteen cents for each child. X Farmers Eaglerly Interested In Labor Saving Machinery Total 615 DAN A. BE LI*. Chairm'an. W. P. PARKS, R. W. COWAN, J. O. PATTERSON, Clerk. Commissioners of Federal Election of McCormick County. XXI * Death Claims Mr. P. L. Sturkey Senator Robinson, when discussing the rumored highway from McCco- mick to Lincolnton made the follow ing statement: The prospects of a capitol to cap- itol highway from Columbia to At lanta via McCormick are exceedingly bright. This route will be 27 miles shorter than either the Augusta or Calhoun Falls route. Senator Boykin of Lincolnton and I have had the matter under consideration for more than a year. The connecting link between McCormick - and Lincolnton and a bridge over Savannah River is a prospect of the near future. —XXX Death Of Mrs. Homer Brown CLEMSON COLLEGE. Nov. 10.—! ReDOrt Of CrODS J. T. McAlister, extension agricul- ^ • A J T • . 1 tural engineer here predicts that JLilVeStOCK. South Caroina farmers will use more| 1 Long Cane—Dr. Francis Bradley, Mr. P. L. Sturkey, who died at of Columbia, S. C. | Blakely, Ga., November 3rd, was a Troy—Judge W. P. Greene, of Ab- resident of McCoAnicl| from 1882 beville S. C. * 1895. He was one of the leaders with h’s brothers, W. O., M. B. and M. I* B. Sturkey, in incorporating the town, stipulating in the charter On last Thursday morning, at twenty minutes of eleven o'clock, th2 death angel visited the home of Mr. Homer Brcwn cl? Plum Branch and carried away the- sweet spirit of his wife, Mrs. Rebecca McGraw Brown, to the God who gave it. Survivors are husband and four dear little children, three girls and one boy, ages fron seventeen months to eight years, besides three step children and her father, # Mr. McGraw of Atlantr, and one ccusin, Mrs. Rufus McKinney of Bordeaux, and one uncle of Plum Branch, Mi*. G. A. Talbert. "Weep not loved ones as those whc» have no hope, we £eel she is at rest. How sweet when life is done. And a heavenly home won, And all Tfe’s trials and troubles past, Til Hadwin Caught In Columbia And Is Back On Chain Gang Til Hadwin, young white man who was sentenced at the October, 1926, term of court to serve 9 months on the county chain gang for car break ing and who made his escape on the 21st of the following month, was caught by Policeman Sligh in Colum bia last Thursday and brought to Mc Cormick Friday by Messrs. G. P. Watkins and W. C. Walls and is now serving the remainder of the sen tence. His apprehension was effected by Mr. M. Y. Fcoshe, special detective for the C. & W. C^ Railway Com pany, who had been on Hadwin’s trail some time. tXJ Cotton Ginned By Counties In State Road And Airport Program In South! States Discussed HIGHWAY OFFICIALS FROM THIS STATE TO ATTEND MEET ING AND HEAR PRESENTA TION OF LATEST PAVING METHODS EVOLVED COTTON GINNED PRIOR TO NOV EMBER 1, IN SOUTH CAROLINA CROPS OF 1928 AND 1927 The Department of Commerce, through the Bureau of the Census, announces the preliminary report on cotton ginned by counties, in South Carolina, for the crops of 1928 and NEW ORLEANS, La., Nov. 13.— From 1 500 to 2,000 a rpert aad state, county and city highway of ficials from Georgia, North and South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and other southern statesi. will visit.. New Or leans December 3, to participate in a five day cori'erence and hear from government officials a presentatkm of the governments’ program for air port construction and road buildinfT throughout the country and tke’ South in particular. , The occasion is the Seventh An nual Asphalt Paving Ccoference, to be held at the Roosevelt Hotel, un der the auspices of The National' Asphalt Association, New . York* Chicago, Albany. Toronto, Washing ton, Atlanta and New Orleans. One of the principal speakers will be Col. H. H. Blee. Chief, Airport Section, Bureau of Aeronautics, U. S. De partment of Commerce, whose sub ject will be ‘,The Airplane in-Amer- that the town would be dry for 99 years, and fc-r that reason, we never Gone ‘ yeg gone> w h e re there will be had a barroom, nor despensary in McCormick. Mr. M.' L. B. Sturkey is the only labor-saving machinery and lai ’ff er | Columbia, S. C. power units next year than ever be-; November 8 J928. fore. During recent weeks he has! A South Carol'r.a cotton crop of brother nc-w living here. He has one traveled well over the state giving 735 qqq tales of 500-pound gros:? j sister, Mrs. W. F. Sims and brother, mule team hitch demonstrat ons at weight j s i 1K ii ca ted by information | J. P. Sturkey, living in Lincoln Coun- received ircni correspondents as of ty. Ga. He and his brothers, W, 0 county fairs and the interest was un usual. “Farmers have seen an opportunity to better utilize their mules in pre paring land for fall crops by using six and eight as a team to a disk harrow and cultipacker or smooth ing harrow” he says. “All this is handled by one man while other la bor is busy gathering crops. By put ting more power in the hands of one man not only is more work accomp lished but a much better quality o~ work is done. “Tractors are being used more often and mo:e efficiently than ever. Companies sellirg tractors report larger sales 'n South Carolina than in any previous year. Interest in the machinery exhibits at fairs this fall has also been greater than usual. M. R. Slfnmons, Cf Aiken County, repc*rts that he has successfully grown a crop of cotton with one of the new general purpose type tract ors with the exception of a single cultivation with mules. A number g j ' farmers i.r lower sec tions of the state are planning t(- carry a crop through entirely with tractor power the coming year. This has been done two years in succession on the Clemson College Experiment Station Farm. No animals have been used and the land used had seve^ per cent ^lopn Mr. McAlister (."fers to explain the methods employed in the college tests to anyone writing him. According to Thor. W. Morgan, lo cal county agert. a number of Mc Cormick County farmers are using tracto s and other power equipment successfully in carrying cut their farming operations. Mr. C. E. Wilkie of Plum Branch does prac tically all his work of preparation, and much of h s cultivation with his tractor. Messrs. L. White, of the Liberty Hill section, and Y. E. Seig- ler of near McCormick have recently purchased new tractors. A number </* ether men have used them for years with success, among whom are C G. Calhoun. Bordeaux, The De la Howe State School, W. O. Covin, and James Gibert, of Willington T. M. Cochran, of the Flatwoods section, November 1, relating to condition, probable yield per cere, bolls safe, and progress of picking and ginning. The October 1 esfmatc was for 820,- 000 bales, and the decline in prospec tive productif-r Is aparently due to a poorer cut-turn than was expected a month ago. Last year the Stato produced 730,- 000 bales cf 500-pound gross weight; 1,008,000 in 1926; 889,000 in 1925; 807,000 in 1924; and 770,000 in 1923. On the estimate of 2,487,000 acres remaining for harvest this year a crop of 735,000 bales would approxi mate a y'eld t«f 141 pounds cf lint cotton per acre, contpared with 148 pounds last year and a five-year average rtf 167 pounds. and M. L. B. Sturkey, started the no trials, sickness, sc*.-row nor death where all is peace and happiness. She was laid to rest in old Plum Branch Cemetery Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock, J. S. Strom funeral di rector in charge, funeral services conducted in the Methodist Church by first newspaper published here known j h£r pastorr R e v. E. A. Wilkes, first as the McCormick Timer,. I , jxt- The ollo.ving is taken from the, Early County News of Blakely, Ga.; To StUCiy UppCl' Mr. P. L. Sturkey, aged 75, died early Friday morning at .the home of his daughter, Mrs. P. H. Fitzgerald, after' an illness of several weeks. j Mr. Sturkey, with his w’fe, came j to Blakely several months ago tOj make his home here with his daugh-, _ Ergk . ne Colle g e has instituted this ter. Since coming to Blakely he | year a course in the study of upper- had made friends of all these with ] air weather conditions with a view to adding further safeguards to avia tion, it was announced recently by Air Conditions At Erskine College DUE WEST, No/. 14.—(Special) whom he had come in contact, and although his health d : d not permit of any activity in public affairs orj Dj R c Gr i erf president, mingling with our people to any, Th;s course is believed to be the great extent, he soon learned many The Census repert shows 514,000 0 f the citizens of Blakely, and these running bales ginned* in South Caro- W ere greatly impressed with the lina prior to November 1, compared fj ne qualities of the deceased, with 599*000 to this date last year, sturkey was a traveling sales- 676,000 in 1926; 819,000 in 1925, man f or j^ny years and made his 535,000 in 1924; 02<,000 in 1923; an d bea( jq Uar t ers in Augusta. He was a 413,000 in 1^2- I member of the U. C. T., the T. P. A. For the United States a crop o an ^ G ^ eons> an( j a f a ithful mem- 14,133,000 baler, is indicated, which is ber of the Me t hod ist church. 14(|000 bales more than the October 1 estimate Materially reduced pros pects in North Carolina, South Caro lina, a; d Georgia arc more than off set by increases in the estimates for Alabama. Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. On the est’mate of 44,916,000 acres for harvest this year a crop of 14,- 133,000 bales indicate, a yield of 150.6 founds of lint cotton per aero. The final total ginnings for the leans season will depend upon whether the various influences, affecting the har vesting of the port’on of the crop During his travels he made hosts fin t of its kind in, the country. Its inauguration is looked upon as a rec ognition in college circles 6f the growing importance of aviation. . The course is under the direction of Prof. Frank T. Colo, meteorologist in charge of the U. S. aerological station at Due 'West. The Due West Aerological Station is one of five such stat ens establish ed in this country by the U. S. 1927. The total fer the state was made public Thursday,. Nc«vember 8. (Quantities are in running bales. Linters are net included.) Cornty 1928 1927 The State 513,767 598,649 Abbeville _ ____ 10,0&0 10,762 Aiken —-- 15,385 17,034 Allendale _ 6,100 6,099 Anderson _ 35 917 41,064 Bamberg _ 7,236 10,858 Barnwell - - 12,341 •13,112 Beaufort _ 781 (1) Bei*ke!»y _ — 1,50.3 2,0121 Calhoun - 8,895 12,006 j Charleston 848 598 Cherokee _ _ 10,751 13,602 Chester — __ __ 11,871 12 007 Cheste:*f'eld 22,884 28,432 Clarendon 7,549 8,985 Colleton -* r<126 4,270 Darlington IS 285 17,239 Dillon —. — — 9,135 16,609 Dorchester 3,328 4,161 Edgefield 7,019 8,8701 Fairfield _ . 5,216 5,221 Florence _ 5,510 10,823 Greenville 29,244 25,228 Gr eenwood 10,121 10,630 Hampton _ ■_ 3,484 3,143 Horry 634 1,394 Jasper _ . 740 756 Kershaw _ __ 11,940 20,509 Lancaster .. __ 8,324 9,230 Laurens 16,532 19,142 Lee 17,094 21,359 Lexingtc-1 9,577 10,624 McCormick __-4,852 5,179 Marion 3,804 7 005 Marlboro _ 25.859 32,717 10,654 Newberry 10,941 Oconee _ — 10,681 11,533 of friends throughout Southern ter- Wkathcr Bureau. This station war ritory, who will be grieved to learn j established in 1920 by Mr. Co e who of his death. Besides his wife, the deceased is survived by two daughters Mrfc. P. H Fitzgerald of Blakely, and Mrs. L. J. Farmer of Wrens, and by two sens, Dr. E. L. Sturkey of Chicago, and Mr. R. D. Sturkey of New Or- has been in charge of it since that time. Other stat ons are located in Texas, Oklahoma North Dakota and Indiana. Already a socrc of Erskine College students have enrelled in the course which includes lectures and practical work in elementary weather condit ions and in the study of air current ’ ard changes far abo.’e the surface of the ground. Mr Cole, a graduate of Gettys- Funcral services were held at the family heme Saturday morning, be ing conducted by Rev. Guyton Fish- sfll in the field will be more or less er, of the Methodist church, assisted’*" CollegG Pennsylvania and favorable than usual. ’ by Rev. J. S. Hartsfield, of the Bap-1 former student in astronomy at the Production in 1927 was 12,955.000 tist church. Rev. Mr. Fisher- paid University G f Kentucky is one cl bales; in 1926, 17,977,000 bales; in eloquent tribute to the character t .* the pioneers in this ae rological work. 1925, 16,104000 bales; in 1924, 13,- the deceased, stressing his loyalty to iWith huge box kitegf sounding bal _ 628,000 bales; and in 1923, 10,140,- his church, of which he was a mem- loons and cap ti ve balloons, Mr. Cole 000 bales. , her for nearly a half century, during and h : s gtaff are able virtually to The yield per acre in 1927 was that time serving in official capacity chart the upper air> long a mysteri _ 154 5 pounds; in 1926, 182.6 pounds., of steward, Sunday school teacher oug element holding hidden terrors and average for the ten years 1917- and other active work. ! f or airmen. These box kites are 25 1926, 156.3 pounds. I Inteu merit followed at the Blakely feet long. A weather recording in- According to the Census report 10,-! cemetery. The following acted as s trument is placed in them and they 161,000 running bales (counting pall-bearers Messrs. J. O. Bridges, are se nt aloft c.n slender, steel cables i D rath rounc * ba!es as kalf baU s) were gin * lF - A - Barham, Grady Holman, A. D. fj ve miles long. The instruments W. E. Britt, S. i,. umr, Mcwvn ^ from ^ crop of iy28 prior t o Roberts, W. Ij Rhodes, R. C. Howell, make a xe cord of Orangeburg — 31,958 Pickens 9|523 Fichland 7,165 Saluda — 4,333 Spartanburg — 43,648 Sumter -1 16,949 Union -- 11,204 Williamsburg -- 6,143 York 18,311 All other struction in the country, will disease roads, landing strips and runways at a rports and the best methods evolved for their construction. Numerous Southern highway Eb- gineers of outstanding reputatka will also* have places on the prograrw 1 for a discussion of the good roads program new under way in the Scuth^rn states, These speakexs will outline what is being done i» their respective localities. Antoag the Southern officials who will speak are, Wi. R. Neel, state highway en gineer o: Georgia; J. D. Waldrop, as- s stant state highway engineer of North Carolina T. C. McEwen, chief engineer; J. E. Moreland, state coa- struction enginee* and F. W. W<J»- ster, state maintenance engineer, Tennessee Department cf Highways^ J,. M. Fourmy, state highway en gineer for Louisiana; C. A. Browne, . ch'ef engineer of roads, Orange^ County, Fla.; L. M. Law, presiefnh Association of Asphalt Paving, Tech- . nologists, New Orleans; Brys<m Valias, city engineer of New Or- leass; O. J. Allen, chairman, Louis iana State Highway Commiss’cn, and; John Klcrer commissioner of publis property in New Orleans. Addresses will also be delivered by Governor H. P. Long of Louisiana and Mayor A. T.* O’Keefe of New-. Orleans. Among the U. S. Bureau cf Puhlie Roads offcials on the program are T. W. Allen, chief, Division of Man agement; C. A. Hogentagler, hlgH- way engineer, and E. W. James,, chief. Division o'! Design. At the same time and place wD’ be held the annual conventions of the- Association of Asphalt Paving Tech nologists and the SoAjr Centra? Dla- 17,358 1 j s j on 0; f t be National Highway Traf- - Association. Entertainment feat- ^7 | ^ Cl ’ ; ures include a reception* a boat trip” 39,570 11,314 7,085 5,526 43,480 23,315 I 194' (1) Included in “All other coun ties” to avoid disclosure of individual operations. XXX ^ on the Mississippi River, a day at the races at Jefferson Park, a maedi* gras ball, a luncheon and bridge party for the ladies in attendance^ and a golf tournament fox the mcro. The program w 11 present new aid far-reaching economic and technical' questions of vital importance to the* Lodges Pay Honor Prkrw#*volt’s Mpmorv gcod roads movement * The rlooseyeii s -neniorv ibilities in the surface tr e a t me nt er ■ ■ 'the many hundred thousand miles cf WASHINGTON. D. C., Nov. 10—J roads that constitute the secondary A series of memorial services for j highways of the country will he dealt Brothers, M. G. & J- J - I *’’ n and November 1. This compares w'th'j e. Chancy and A. T. Fleming. Hi Quarles, of McCormick; R. M. gr -- A . . . ..1 the varying condit Theodore Roosevelt were held by the Masonic lodges of this city in honor cf the seventieth anniversary of his birth. The first was held at the Northeast Masonic Temple where the Railroad Square Club sponsored » a gathering addressed by Dr. James S. Montgomery, chaplain of the House of Representatives. Rooievelt Lodge No. 44, df this city, entertained members of Matine- cock Lodge No ; 806, of Oyster Bay, N. Y., of which Roosevelt was a with from the economical technical* and practical construction stand point by a selected group of author- ities. Radical strides :n development have been made recently in the mechanical equipment and cpe:atioiMi involved in the construction of u- phalt pavements and in the technique of asphalt construction and these dte- velopmients will be presented by mm who have first-hand knowledge. JXI— ions and weather trends in the up-' member. A number of Masons of If all the savings accumulated li» yuarres. , 9,921,660 to this date last year; 11,-! The NeWs joins other fiends in per air. These records then are tele-' this city, together with members of yearly by people in the United States .r, o w e Woii of 254 000 in 1926; 11,207,000 in 1925; extending synipathy to the bereaved graphed daily to Washington for the .the Oyster Bay lodge, made a trip were to be invested at five per Seigler Brothers and W. S. Wall, of ^ ? 7l6 ^ jn iy24 Plum Branch; W. P. Parks, W. R. Gilchrist and C. C. Osborne of Parks- ville and W. M. Rowland of Meri- _ - . . ...... jirethw. ^ regular* attachments, plus a sheriff’s, as a faithful follower of the Savior, safeguarding of flying. ones who should be comforted by information of all who are interested • to Alexander to see the Washington the interest earned on such an ini j the assur ance that their lo/ed one in air travel. This research work is | Masonic relics, and later visited the ment would no more than pay 1 A great many autos have all of the is enjoying a justly earned reward said to have added greatly to the White House and were greeted by hill of the to.al annual fire loss J President Coolidge. 1 this country.