Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Tlitfrsday, November IS, 1920 MeCORMJCK MESSENGER, MtCORMICKrJSautK Carotin*.' •'%*4 Page Numto P (tntf MODOC NEWS — I The fine weather is getting such e kick in it until we are impressed with the fact that, the melancholy days are here, the sadest of the year, end also that it won’t be long before i the frost will be on the pumpkins. ; | Miss Mary Key returned,home Sun day, after a two or three weeks’ stay with her unde, Mr. Charley Key, •at Edgefield. | Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Reese of Au- •gusta npert Sunday and Monday w th relatiTes hoie and at Clarks TP11. Mr. jy^p-Mrs. T. D. Howie were - last Sunday to Mr. and ’ll's. E. P Bussey. Mr. N. W ‘McDaniel from Clinton s ent c, few days here last week rmong relatives and friends. Mr.yand Mrs. W. W|. Reese and Mr. H. J. Ree e of Augusta spent Sunday here wi h the former’s moth er, Mr* Georgia R^ese. Missos Belle and Julia Cartledge ■f.nd Mess: s. Clarence Hammond and ■ T Norman from Lincolnton, Ga., were the guests Sunday to Mr. and lers. J. M. Reese. We regret very much to report that M ss Fannie Kate Key, one of -our high school* girls, is very ill this wcefc-w’th pneumonia. Miss Lucy Bussey spent the week end with relatives and friends in • Augusta. i Mr. W. M. Nash of Spartanburg is spending a few days here this 1 Week with. homefolks. Me. H. J. Bussey and Miss Rosal'e Bussey, acccmpanicd by Evelyn and Nettie Thelma Bussey, spent Saturday evening in Augusta. Mr.* and Mrs. Talton Prince from Edgefield were Wfek end visitors here to the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. T. Bussey. Mrs. J. M. Stone spent a few days last week with relatives and friends «t McCormick.. We were glad indeed to have pro fessor L. V, Mayer, principal of Washington > School, to worship with Ws,in our B. Y. P. U. meeting Sun- 4*7 night. * • . ' Modoc. BARGAINS GALORE IN EVERY STORE TO MARK THE GREATEST FES Ask One Of The MERCHANTS For Particulars EVER PRESENTED IN ABBEVILLE, S a COME TO THIS CITY SATURDAY The merchants of Abbeville have inaugurated one of the most extensive advertising campaigns in ihc history of the citv. The attraction* offered here are the greatest in merchandising history. The bargains are greeter than any would expect, and in addition prize? aggregating over W _ STOCKS are COMPLETE $1,000.00 FRE ABBEVILLE. S. C. £ Slyle la The Watchword VALUE Is The Bin Word WILL BE GIVEN TO THOSE WHO TRADE IN ABBEVILLE FOR THE NEXT 2 MONTHS THESE MERCHANTS MAKE THIS EVENT POSSIBLE THE ROSENBERG MERCANTILE CO. PARKER AND REESE cason* and McAlister THE L. W. WHITE COMPANY McCANTY AND CHEATHAM T. A. ABLE F. E. HARRISON, JR. AUSTIN-PERRIN DRUG STORE BLANCHETT BROTHERS W. JOEL SMITH J. ALLEN SMITH. JR. PENNEY’S DRUG STORE B. T. COCHRAN AND COMPANY A. B. MORSE AND COMPANY LITTLE AND THOMSON P. B. SPEED DRUG STORE McMURRAY DRUG STORE W. E. JOHNSON, JEWELER COHEN'S PHILSON'S T. M. MILLER THE ECHO PATTERSON S BATTERY STATION D. POLIAKOFF J. W. McKEE ACKER BUILDING AND REPAIR CO. *. L * Mrs. L. L. Hester spent last Fri- •day in Anderson with Mrs. Lena* Hes ter. Mr L. L* Heater went up late m the afternoon and his wife retum- •ed borne with him that night. Dr. R. G. Killings worth of McCor mack was a business visitor in Mt. Gance! Monday. Messrs. Hollis Welcher and Hollis Connor were visiters in Calhoun Falls Sunday afternooi. Mr. and Mis. G. S. Mauld'n, Mr. and Mrs. Foaster Mauldin, Mr. and Mrs. W. T Mau’din and Mr. James Mauldin attended the fair in Ander- r-ja last Friday. Messrs. W. L. Miller and Robert Scott were- visitors at the fair in Anderson last Friday even'ng. Mrs. Mary Smith is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Loftan Jones, in Ala bama. Messrs. Buddie Smith of Greenville and John Dru Cade of Spartanburg spent Sunday in Mt. CaimeL Mrs. Roy Edmunds and Elsie of Augusta are v siting Mrs. P. K. Black. Ur. and Mrs. Payson White and Mrs. Turner of Gaffney visited the /ormer’s member and sister. Mrs. visited her brother, Mr. Tom Lane at! the University hospital while the; others attended the opera. Mr. Baker Tarrant and sons of Greenwood spent Sabbath in Mt. Car mel with Mrs. J. R. Tarrant, We were glad indeed that dear old South Carolina remained true to the DeiRre itic party in last Tuesday’s election. BETHANY NEWS Our B. Y. P. U. had a social at Mr. and Mrs. W. K. McDonald’s on Thursday night. Many interesting contests and games were played, af ter which a delicious couise of cand- w'ches and he*’; chocolate was serv ed. Later, peanuts were passed among the crowd, all of which was enjoyed. Everybody rr ported a good tim^ . r Mrs. E. L. Hollings^^^h and M r s- Joe Mann and little daughter Evelyn, spent Wednesday very pleas antly with Mrs. J. D. Dunlap. We ought to have some good music in oar community now since so many c? our pianos have been tuned re cently. We are sorry to report Mr. W. K. McDonald on the sick list. Hope he REHOBOTH NEWS Little Talk On Thrift WASTE THROUGH TRAFFIC DE LAYS SAID TO REACH TWO So glad to see Mrs. Kate Moultrie BILLION DOLLARS YEARLY home for two days this week. Mis. W. J. Talbert and Mr LEGAL NOTICE WANT A8VS, Notice :'s hereby given that be tween the legal hours of sale on Salesday in December, same being LOST—One pocket book. Finder please call cn D. M. McGrath of An-! (By S. W. STRAUS, President of nie Stone were in this section cne | American Society For Thrift.) .December 3, 1928, I will offer fcTr McCormick, S. C, for description and day last week visiting the former’s | sale in front of the Court House We are indebted to Mr. A. B. Bar- Door at McCo*mick to the highest two sisters, Mrs. Walsh and Mrs.! --- — - i bidder- Seigler. They also made a short call at W'oodside Cottage on their return home. Mr. John Griffis and family spent Sunday with Mrs. Ethan Wh te and cn return home spent the evening at Wiodside Cottage Mr. W. R. Gilchrist and family spent Sunday evening with Mrs. Janie Morgan and daughter. A handsome new radio has been installed in the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. W'nn. The radio is such a pleasure to country people who have her, of the National Conference on I All that certain tract cr plantation Street and Highway Safety, for some of land situato> a nd'being in data that gives a hint as to the vast proof o? ownership and receive re ward. lo-ses sustained by the public through traffic delays. He finds, for example that in downtown Boston delays in traffic cost the community $24,500,- 000 a year in addit'on to losses from the County of McCormick. State ofj LOST — 0n McCormick school ground South Carolina, and described as fol-{ one black B.adley Sweater with lows: containnig One Hundred orange ring around neck and orange triangle in fro it just below the ring; reward if returned to Billy Hanvey at school house. 1 tpo. so little real recreaticn. Radio is: day. like anything else, can get the best I Mr. Barber concludes that $2,000,- or wo-se out of it, is easy to tu:n 000 a year is a conservative estimate the radio* from anything cne doer, of the nation 3 b.ll _or traffic de- not care to hear; you can hear a goed sermon on Sunday night, and other entertainments as one 1'kes; the Sixty-Six and Two Thiids (166*2-3) Acres, mo.-e or less, and bounded on the North, by lands of James W. Wideman; on the East and South, by ... , . , . cn nnr\ lands of Brown and Holloway, and i . ■■■«■! accidents which approximate $2,000-j on the West, by lands of Walter T.! 000 a year. Chicago’s loss is ap- Lanham, and formerly known as the WANTED—To tiade a large beauti- proximately $220,000,000 a year and W. W. Banks tract. ! f u i building lot in McCormick fer New Yo-.k’s tribute to the traffic! : one pair muler wagon and harness by purchase money mortgage of the j kw? h. L. Braniblett Greenwood S. C. premises; deferred payments to bear 1 . 3tpo. interest at the rate of seven per cent per annum, with the opt'on to pay all cash. Purchaser to pay for papers. J. B. PARK, Nov. 13, 1928.-3t. T -^tee- problem is mere than $350,000,000 a year or approx mate’y $1,000,000 a lays. This figure docs rot. cf course, Tax Collector*? Sale FOR SALE—One very large hand some Roosevelt Be stop. Fern, also smaller ones. Lavender crepe myrtle bushes. If interested write Mrs. W. H. Horton, Mt. Carnrd, S. C. TAX EXECUTION to McCormick last Wednesday. M : ss Blanche Tarrant} District Home Dem- enstratibn Agent, met them there, trying to arrange for McCormick County a Home Demonstration Agent; however little was done to- ulations. w 11 soon be well. Alice and Miss Annie White, last: -j-jjg following persons from this ▼ « k. ‘community visited Miss Minnie Tal- We are glad to say that Mrs. H.’k 3rt s un day after nr on: Mr. B. P. G. Watson is improving. She return-j Miss Sara and John Nixon «d to her home here last Wednesday. Talbcit, Raymond McDonald ard Lawrence Hester, J^ and Billy, ^5 Ralph McDonald and childien of -iiharpe are improving rapidly now.; Boj^berg. We are so glad she is Eoch had their tonsils taken out. 1 -etfng along so well. Our last report from Mrs. Lena K h. QuarLs and daughter, at the Anderson Hospital is M 5 3S Lucia, also Miss Georgia Rich- *he * doing njpely. Mrs. Hester ar j sor] ^pent awhile Sunday after- t ok sick last Wednesday and wfts roon ; n t h e home of Mr. and Mrs carried to the hospital that night, j. D. Dunlap. 3Ier many friends hepe for her a jjjs.- Hazel Dunlap left Tuesday speedy recovery. ^ . resume her school duties. Mrs. W. A. Scott, M ss Gladys and Miss Gladys White has accepted a Mr. Robert Scott were visitors in position with The Farmers Bank in Abbeville Monday afternoon. MeCo: mick. We are proud that she Mrs. L. E. Connor, Miss Martha j s near enough to come home often. Connor and Mrs. W. H. Horton spent Mrs. W. K. McDonald and Mrs. Monday of this week in Abbeville. Ralph McDonald and children spent Messrs. N. S. and W. A. Scott and Friday with Mrs. W. J. Richardson. Tarrant Scott .were Abbeville visitors Mr. and Mrs. Jim Drennan were £*bbath. visitors in Augusta Saturday. Rev. and Mrs. L. T. Piessley of Miss Margaret McK nncy a teach-! prepa ^ nff the les ' McCormick were visiting the sick in or i n Washington School, spent j lor ^’t next and around Mt. Carmel one afternoon awhile at home here this week end. Kehoboth - The B ( last week. 1 “Red Bird.” help tif pas ^s and wife i. s putting om P-obiem WANTED—For McCormick County: Are you making $10 to $150 week ly? Dealers starting near you with- include losses from accidents which musi run high int„. the n/llions cf * dance music is on Sunday n’ght tov dollars. , but one can get just what he wants; There is, however, another side to; over a radio. So with life, we usual--the picture, for, as Mr. Barber points i ly J? e t out of it anything we put into out. “San Francisco found that its it ! new traffic cede resulted in reduc- Miss Lenora Whatley is visiting in tion of accidents ranging from 30 to Greenville. Ma and Mrs. Whatley 40 per cent n the reccids of corn- returned home from Greenville Sat- panics operating 50, 100 and 400 ^ w wiic n rBi „ V1 urday, after several weeks’ stay with motor vehicles. One street railway | Pubi c ^Auction, within the jeg a l lay ^ ffs ~ p f r " ianent their daughter, Mrs. B. M. Mayson.: company repoited a reduction of 24.7 Mrs. W. R. Gilchiist and Miss A.; per cent in pedestrian accidents. A L. Morgan accompanied Mr. Gilchrist saving of $2,000,000 a year in the cost cf automobile accidents is be ing made for San Francisco mc*tor- ists. Los Angeles reports an increase T. J. SIBERT, TAX COLLECTOR | out cxperirnce sellirg Whitme r Med- LUTHER AND \VILLIE SEIGLER icir.es and home necessities do. You By virtue of a Tax Execution t<v drive y;• ir own car cr team ard wag- me directed 1 I have levied on and on and do bus hess on our capita. No Publf Auctkilf, h witto D thf r ’leglli la y- ltfs -P'™ anent hours of sale, at McCormick Court fa mers, laborers, salesmen and House, on Monday, the 3rd day of o'hers. Write today for Whitmer’s December, A. D f 1928, the following; “Ryery-day-pay-day-plan” for you. e AH rtatTraefor ‘par^V of Land. ™E H. C. WHITMER COMPANY, situate, lying and being in School Columbu’. Indiana. Dept. K620K. District No in the County of Me- ’ 2tpo. . on „ . . - Cormick, South Caiol’n^ and known ■ 1 n. . . ■■ ■ ■ ■■■ - of 30 per cent in the movement of as Luther and Willie Seigler land and street traffic after revising its reg- containing Twenty-Four (24) Acres, FOR SALE—High Grade Cabbage- ward it. Pastor and Mr?. Gurley spent last Friday in the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Morgan. The W. M. U. held a good meeting after p: caching service Sunday even ing. The Sunday school was moved to two o’clock for winter months on 2nd Sunday afternoon to give time for the Wj. M. U. meeting. Mrs. J E. Reynolds makes us a fine presi dent and appreciates the co-operat or the mission study clacs gave her in is generally agreed that the traffic situation is one of our great problems. Few of us have thought of it, perhaps, in such definite terms (•: dollars and cents, but the figures here quoted give an idea cf the more or Jess, and bounded by lands; plant ,, 25 cents per 100; satisfaction West a t •A.V-te. ; a '1,n C d t o h n:«ua a„teed. CaU. write or phtoe. the South, by T. E. White and others. H. R. Deason. McCormrck, S. C. Levied on and to be sold as the ■ ■" . —.jeuv; ilul property of Luther and Willi > Seigler tt. satisfy the afore.a : d Execution and costs. Terms: cash. WANTED McCormick, S. C. ,—Milch Cows and Beef Cattle. J. L. Smith, heavy financial dra'n which these' T. J. SIBERT conditions art imposing 0:1 the pub- v 0 r fn^ 0 .' AL'Cormiek County, lie. . k H. ifcT 0 ** flf ^. CUY ycur piano Iron, J. S. Strom. It is a matter, therefore not only! - - . ' $23.00 cash and $ir#00 per nuoth for of public safety and convenience b;it : a' . (balance Ire^Dass iNotn* <•'. public thr'ft that tiaffic problems; be taken up w’th vigorous attsniico. 'pass ire passing cf all le nds i*e ?—Am paying highest Mrs. L. E. Connor, Miss Martha jmd Mr. Holhs Connor spent Monday •f last week in Abbeville. -X- two playlets that will be worth your wh’le to drive out to Rehoboth to Why lose valuable plant food from Mrs. W. H. Horton was a visitor the soil through erosion when much J- P- Talbert is on the sick list In McCoimick last Saturday. of this less can be prevented by a this week Misses Irene Boyd, Martha Con- winter cover crop? According to Rehoboth. -IX1- a or and Mr. Ted .Barnett were Me- he U. S. Department of Agriculture, Cormick visitors Idst Friday evening, soil erosion removes 20 times as much In the past 25 years, consumption ar d Mrs. Jack Williams, Mrs. pat food as is taken out of the soil o ? electric energy has increased at a ce Curtis, Mrs. Cecil Gilliam and by crops. A winter cover crop to rate about three and cne-quarter s JuanLa Cu tis were visitors in prevent warte is especially import-- times as fast as population has in- guuta Monday evening. Mrs. Curtis i t in the Sooth. jereas d. Thrifty communities will make a ser ous study of their traffic situa tions, fer, in doing so, they wTl ef fect a tremendous saving of money and prevent accidents that are costly to life and limb. IXt EXECUTORS. s:oi. There is rot an urban community in | fis h in .ete.ris htu'rby f^b^de^^L market price for ext Sunday night at ^* 16 United States or Canada today ‘ ands ot - q ^ Fuller- scat * in the c h°' c? beef cattle. A. II. Faulkner. B. Y. P. U. with the that is without a serious traffic Liberty Hill section Gu^ - r-orHps McCormick. S. C. ! will be prosecuted. ^ —•- —• i! - —" 1 Don’t let your nuint be tak- :n off our subscription list just for the want of One Dol lar. Send the dollar and or der the paper for another sear. You won't reqret it. Tre?pa8? Notice Hunt'ng or fishing, either by day or night, and all other fdrms e.f tres passing is hereby forbidden on all A fund of $10,00(1000,000 would lands of the undersigned. Guilty par have to be set aside and made to ties will be punished to the fullest earn five per cent to repay the an nual loss caused by fire in this country. extent of the law. Mr a. W. G. Blackwell. Parksville, S C. A part of southern India has the enormous rainfall of almost 500 inch es in a year.