McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, November 15, 1928, Image 1
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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.
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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.