McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, December 20, 1928, Image 1
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Twenty-Seventh Year
Santa Claus Ready
For "Christmas Visit
NORTH POLE, Dec, 20,—Santa
Claus is ready to start on his an
nual tow of the world. He will visit
all the gocd little boys and girls in
the world th's Christmas, carrying
gifts to be left in their stockings and
on their Christmas trees.
He will arrive in McCormick this
afternoon at 2 o’clock and hopes to
meet the little children of the town
and county and give each one a pres
ent He then will depart for other
parts of the country and come back
to bring more presents on Christmas
e night.
Pretty blue, green and red lights
ve been swung across streets in
the town’s business section and plac-
td in the lovely codar trees erected
or the streets, and a number of the
merchants have beautifully decorat-
ad show windows in honor of Christ-
mas and Santa Claus’ visit to Mc-
ick. All out of town children
e invited to remain in town unt : l
r dark of come back tonight or
e o thei' night before Christmas
cec the pretty lights on the
ts and in the show windows.
i cannot descr.be the beauty of
lights and other decorations, so
see them. The lights swinging
frdm the lines across the streets
beautiful kwg mixed rays to
e looking through the wind
shield :f an automebile and are
very pretty from any angle.
-'gjjifeta chuckled today wh^n he
look* at the huge stack of letters
from boys and girls telling him how
good tbjey ate and naming the gifts
desi
*EaeH year 1 brings a greater rum-
bet* of letters” he said. “I’ll have a
lot cf sVops to make this trip. My
reindeer Uurely will have to go fast
for me ti< get around before dawn.
Hut I won’t overlook a single one.
The boysJknd girls have been good
this yeaj^Rid I want to make them
happy. is what I live lor, you
sed in a new :*ed suit, fur
boots, m ttens and* h->d, bis rosy
cheeks shinning, his blue eyes twink
ling mterrily and his hair and whisk
ers whito as snow, Santa will cut a
swell figure Christmas. He has just
applied a coat cf bright red paint to
his sleigh too and put new slver bells
on the harness for* his eight reindeer
who arc prancing eagerly to be off
on the long journey <«/cr the snow-
dad h'lls and housetops. He said he
wouldn’t much mind if seme boy or
girl were awake to see him come
down the chimney in his new suit.
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Receiving Orders
For Fruit Trees
8 Pages — All Home Print
Star MJail Route
McCormick-Anderson
Now In Operation
THANKS TO CONGRESSMAN
FRED H. DOMINICK
McCORMICK, S. C., Thursday, December 20, 1928
Taxable- Values
Show Increase
OVER THREE MILLION DOLLARS
HIGHER THAN LAST YEAR
AH farmers planning to put out
home orchards should get their trees
:n the ground as soon as possible,
advises Thos. W. Morgan, county
agent. Trees set early in the fall
and winter take a deeper root be-
f. e -spaing, and make a much larg-
•c-:* g' owth during tin first year than
tr'es set later in the season. Often
times, trees set early in the season
wi’l bear fruit a year earlier than
those set later on in the spring.
Tree" are v< ry cheap in price at
the present time, and any farm can
afford a good home orchard. Good
sized pj'can trees of :^commended
var eties and from reliable nursery-
nen, can be had fer art-and 60 cents
each. June bud peach trees are
around 11 to 12 cents, apples 20 to
25 cents, and othc^ trees and shrubs
ate priced in proportion.
Orders are now being placed by, Since its mid-November announce-
the county agent for trees at deliv-j -nert of the six, Chevrolet’s 18,000
e?ed prices, and all who are plan- salesmen have been confronted
ir.rg to put out trees this year are an unprecedented influx of busi-
The star mail route between Mc-
Cc-"mack and Anderson wient into op
eration Monday, 17th instant, with
Mr. J. P. Deascn cf McCormick as
caif'er at a salary of $1,925.00 an
nually. The contract dates from De
cember I7i 1928, to June 30, 1932.
The carrier leaves McCormick at
12:45 p. m , arrlv’ng at Anderson at
3:45 p. m., and leaves Anderson at
4 p. m. and a:<rives at McCormick
at 7 p. m., making st r os each way
at Willington, Mt. Carmel Calhoun
Falls, Barnes, Lowndesville Starr
and Iva. Connection is made at Mc
Cormick with the 12:30 train from
Augusta, which is very satisfactory
so far as that ma l is concerned but
delivery of mail at McCormick is not
made from the route in time to catch
the 5:50 p. m- train ^or Augusta
Bordeaux is not served by the
route, due to bad reads and the fact
that the post office is two or more
miles off the highway. It is hoped
that sone arrangement can yet be
made to extend this service to Bor
deaux.
On behalf of those served by the
rente, The Messenger extends thanks
to Congrcsrman Fred H. Dominick
for the splendid work he dd in
bring .ng ^bout the establishment cf
the *oute. Mr. Dominick is due much
praise fo* this service. When his
aid v/9s solicited he immediately
took the- matter up with the postal
authorises in Washington and d’dn’t
let up until he was assured that the
route would be established at the
earliest practicable date. And we
highly appreciate the excellent serv
ice ho ’.pridered in this instance, how
ever, rendering good service to his
4’st:ict and State is nothing new for
Mr. Dom'nick.
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Chevrolet Company
Has Busy December
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DETROIT, Dec. 20.—Wth just a
Tittle more than one full week re
maining of 1928, the greatest year
in its 16 years of existence, Chevro
let Motor Company, impelled by the
largest volume demand it has ever
faced, is experiencing its bus'est
December.
For the past seven days prepara-
tirns have been under way at all as
sembly plants getting ready new car
consignments for shipment to Chev
rolet’s moie than 10,000 dealers.
Satuiday, Dec. 29, dealers in all parts
of the country arc scheduled to have
1929 cars on d ; splay, and on that
da*i too, deliveries are to begin.
Another instance of Chevrolet
December activity is to be revealed
during the forthcoming week when
at Kansas City a huge new assembly
plant is to go into operation. This
will bring the number of Chevrolet
assembly plants in this country up
to n'ne.
The Kansas City plant will have a
capacity of 350 cars a day, and will
cover 32 acres and will include five
buTdings. The Fisher Body Corpor
ation will occupy a plant corering
mere than 120,000 square feet of
.oor space- in which to build their
Mncus bodies for Chevrolet closed
cars.
The Kansas C'ty opening signifies
•dded strength to the already enor-
m **s productive capacity, which en-
ilej Chevrolet during the present
'•car to r.anufacture over 1,000 000
cars in less than nine months time.
The total taxable values >n the
state of South Carolina in 1928 are
$425,54;; 764. according to a state
ment given out Saturday by A. J.
Beattie, comptroller goneral. The
taxable values this year aie some
thing more than $3,000,000 greater
than in 1927, The total for 1927 was
$42|[ 169,895.
Taxable values in the individual
Cotton Ginned In
S. C. Counties
COTTON GINNED PRIOR TO DE
CEMBER 1, IN SOUTH CARO
LINA. CROPS OF 1928
AND 1927
count'es are:
Linters are not
included..
Abbeville
$ 5,318,751
The State
682,099
Aiken
11.777,540
Abbeville
14,222
Allendale
3 915,476
Aiken
17,170
Anderson
_ _ 19,735,580
Allendale
6,734
Bamberg
3,679 680
Anderson
_
54,858
Barnwell -- -
4,495,890
Bamberg
_ — — —
Q 311
Beaufort
. ... 4122,550
Barnwell
_ _ _ _
13,563
Berkeley
4,262,357
Berkeley
_ _ _
1,771
Calhoun — —
3,188,970
Calhoun _
10,952
Charleston -
36 208,661
Charleston
—
977
Cherokee --
9,382,792
Cherokee
15,707
Chest e:’ — —
10,666,309
Chester
16,352
Chesterfield -— --
5 649,410
Chesterfield —
211025
Clarendon
3,939,120
Clarendon
8.313
Colleton
4,556,810
Colleton _
5,435
Darlington - -
IQ 006,547
Darlington
15,756
Dillon
5,445,705
Dillon —
11,825
Dorchester _
4,122,150
Dorchester
_ _ —
3,669
Edgefield
£800,520
Edgefield
— — — —
8 660
Fairfield
__ ,7,948-,905
Fairfield
: 7.047
Florence -—
12,846,300
Florence
— — — —
7,392
Georgetown --—
4 707,608
Gieenville
__
43,015
Greenville —
31,123.475
Greenwood
__
13,477
Greenwood
10,455,794
Hampton
3,730
Hampton _
_ 7 __ 3,767195
Horry
—
956
Horry
4,169,816
Jasper
855
Jasper —-- —
3,496,022
Kershaw
15,332
Kershaw —
7.701,566
Lancaster
«
11,930
Lancaster -
5j780,380
Laurens
23,0119
Laurens - -
9,674,022
Lee _ .
21,404
Lee - -
_ _. 5,356 380
Lexington
11,888
Lexington --
7371,905
McCormick
_
5,918
McCormick
2,428,365
Marion _ _
5,243
Marion
5187,350
1 Marlboro
33,102
Marlboro __ .
7,578,535
Ncw’berry —
15,001
Newberry __ _ .
... 9,536,440
Oconee -
17,328
Ocoiee --
6,405930
Orangeburg —
_ _ __
37,932
Orangeburg
11 799,500
Pickens _
15 761
Pickens _
7,327,741
Richland
. 8,398
Richland
__ 2£ 976,150
i Saluda --
6,301
Saluda _ _ _
3,124,8691 Spartanbui'g
_ _ _
63,569
Spartanburg _
37,299,320
Sumter _
20,573
Sumter - -
9,698 193
Union --
-
15,081
Established June 5, 1902
Many Make Bids
On Road Projects
THE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
NAMES LOW BIDDERS
Nui
i Union 8,782,310
Williamsburg 5,932,360
•York IS 793,515
The Department of Commerce,
through the Bureau of the Census,
announces the preliminary report on
coton ginned by counties, in South
Carolina, for the cnops of 1928 and
1927, The total for the state was
made public Saturday December 8.
(Quantities are in running bales.
701,175
12,699
17.657
6,321
50,603
11,087
13,367
2,185
12 668
664
17.382
>44,886
£4,512
9,141
4,330
2C* 082
18 277
4,217
9,278
6,126
12,248
34 184
12 530
3,230
1 778
761
23428
12,429
2a 173
23,168
11.571
5,488
7,924
37,739
13 166
14,776
41,002
15,067
7,626
6,182
57 699
18,599
13.571
7,677
30.485
194
Williamsburg — — 3 544
York _ 26,238
All other 745
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Total $425,543,764 Qf Interest
Georgia Power Co.
Buys Augusta-Aiken
ATLANTA. Ga., Deq 8.—An
nouncement that properties in Geor
gia of the Augusta-Aiken RaTway
& Electric corripany have been bought
by the Georgia Power Company and
will in future be operated as an in
tegral part of that system was made
here today by P. S. Arkwright, pres
ident of the latter company. Coupled
with the announcement was the
statement that F. B. Culley vice-
president and general manager of
the Augusta-Aiken company, will
continue in charge, with the t’tlc of
To The Farmers
Mrs. L. M. Mason of Meriwether
advises the county agent that she
has three two-weeks cJd heifer calves
for sale at $30.00 each. These calves
are from Mrs. Mason’s herd, sired
by l\er registered Hood Farm bull,
and are a splendid fe^y ^ or anyone
at this price. Anyone interested in
buying one or more of these calves
wTl get in touch with Mrs. Mason
c-' the county agent at once.
The county agent wishes to remind
all farmers who have cotton seed for
sale that Clemson College is making
ge: mination tests of cotton seed,
urged to get their orders in> early.
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ness. Every place the car has been
displayed at advance showing's it
*4-* ^ as ^ >GOr *° accompaniment of
Edgeiiela Association vast Qn.Ards SiM a deluge of orders.
And now, w th the cars actually
in the hands of dealers or scheduled
to be there before next week elapses,
the volume of orders is reported to
have assumed even larger proper-
division manager c*? the newly creat- 1 free of charge. A sample of one
ed Augusta division of the Georgia j (• • two pounds from each lot of seed
Power Company. | should be sent for the test. Bring
Union Meeting Is
CaUed Off
-ax-
The churches comprising the Third t,ons
■niu-iaimv of the Edgefield Association * " * l
Sn please take notice that the Un- Th e old fashioned tramp who used
Meeting appointed to be held to oat his meals out of a can, now
at the Red Oak Grove Church the rldee ir ^
fifth Sunday in this month has been • • x
ailed off by request of the church. Robbers who stole 700 dynamite
C J. W. JOHNSON, caps the other day, probably lived in
% • Moderator. ; Chicago.
The utilities involved in the new
expansion of the Georgia Power com
pany system supply electr c light
and power service to Augusta and 30
other Gec.rgia communities in that
section. Street railway service also
's supplied in Augusta. Announce
ment of the acquisition of the Au
gusta properties follows by only a
week the acquisit on by the Georgia
Power company o«? the Macon Rail
way and Light company and other
utilities seiving Macon and eight oth
er Central Georgia communities
bringing the total number of cities
and towns seived by the Georgia
Power company to approximately
200.
Georgia municipalities formerly
served by the Augusta utilities which
now are served by the Georgia Pow
er company are: Augusta, Evans,
Grovetowiv Campania, Harlem, Dear-
your samples to the county agent’s
<.~fice and he will send them in. An
official germination test will gzeatly
help in selling cotton se^d, and there
will be a st:':ng demand for plant
ing seed of good quality and germ-
nati(-i in the spring.
ton litters of hogs were
Orangeburg County ir
in
Three
weighed
October. The 32 pigs averaged 264
•funds each at the age of six months
rd the corn that they weie fed
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bowed an average return of $2.29
•>cr bushel. Another South Carolina
farmer living in Marion Cointy sold
20 hogs at a price that netted him
$7 08 per 100 pounds. He had the
hogs on a 34-day feed test, and they
gained 2.2 pounds per hog per day
for the 34 days. He and e ; ght of his
neighbors made up a carlot ship
ment which gave them a net icturn
The State of 13th instant says:
Many contractors submitted bids
on the road and br'dge wc-’k to be
done by the state highway depart
ment during the coming year. The
bids were opened Tuesday but the
work of tabulation was not complet
ed until yesterday. Contracts have
net yet been awarded though usually
they are given to the low bidder.
Low bidders on the various pro
jects were:
Greenwood county: For paving 1.03
miles of route 24 at Ninety-Six, low
bidder, Slattery & Henry. Greenville,
for $29,689.98.
Jasper county: For paving 7.5
miles of route 17, between R’dgoland
and Coosawh^tchie, low biddev C. G.
Fuller, Dover Ohio, for $l6l.814.09.
Kc shaw county: For paving ten
miles of route 1, from Camden to
wards Bethune, Carolina Contracting
company, Spartanbu g, for $240 -
381.7(1
Kershaw cointy: For paving 10.2
miles of route 1, from Bethune to
wards Camden; low man, R. G. Las
siter & Company, Raleigh for $221,-
517.47.
Kershaw county: For paving 14 7
miles of route 26, between Camden
: and Kershaw, Robert G. Lbssiter &
company, Raleigh, fo:» $292147.97.
I Lexington-Richland count es: Fc
j paving 9.7 miles of Saluda ciSun road,
i from the dam to Irmo and from the
, dam to Ballentine; R G. Lassiter &
, company, Raleigh, for $20Q 401.93.
| Greenville county: For construct
ing 11 miles of route 284 fn.ti
Travelers Rest to Cleveland, W. J.
Turner, Hendersonville, for $87-
861 30.
Lancaster county: For grading 7.7
miles of route 26, from Twelve Mile
creek to North Carolina line; A. S.
Barron, Chester, for $30 983.16.
Marion cointy: Fc-r surfacing with
gravel 9,4 miles of route 57, from
AriaiPs cross roads to Mullins, J. W.
Gwin, Birminghair, Ala., for $40-
157.60.
Lancaster county: For construct
ing 5.1 miles of route 9 fiom Lan
caster towards Catawba, C. B. Hes
ter, Greensbcro for $49,129.22.
Lexington county: For placing
guard rail on various roites, George
M. Hughes, Florence, fon $22,550 57.
Aiken county: For widening con
crete culvert and br'dge on route 1,
between Aiken and Edisto river; L.
S. Mitchell Walterbc.ro, for $2,529 -
20.
Qhester county: For extending
bridge on :*oute 21, between Chester
and York county line; D. M. Ricken-
j baker, Union, for $7,097.
Greenville-Anderson counties: For
construction of reinforced concrete
br’dge orer Saluda riven on route 20;
J. G. Scott & company. Greenville,
for $39,915. ,
McCormick county: For construc
tion of treated fmber and steel
bridge on route 82, between McCor
mick and Abbeville county lire; A
S. King, GreenWocd, fo:< $5 660.73.
Spartanburg coanty: For furnish
ing and installing girder railway
span for Lyman underpass on route
29. Atlantic Bridge company,
Greensboro, for $6 265.
Lancaster county: For construc
tion of a reinforced concrete bridge
on route 12, between No th Caro
lina Pne and intersection with route
26; George M. Hughes, Florence, for
$5,499.24.
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Expedition has started out to find
Noah’s Ark. The next thing you
know, some one will start out fish
ing for the whale that swallowed
Jonah.
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Scientists are attempting to cal
culate the age of the sun, and they
will no doubt attribute its longevity
to the fact that it never stays out
at night.
ing Thomson Warrenton, Camak, | of $2,036.21.
Norwood Crawfordville, Sharon, 1 —...xxt'— -
W ashington Tignall, Lincolaton, Men of science say that hair grows
Martinez, Union Point, Gracewood, after death, but there isn’t any con-
Hephzibah, Blythe, Keysville. Mat
thews Stellaville, Lquisville, Wrens,
Avera. Stapleton, Gibson, Mitchell,
Noco and Zebina.
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Clean and oil tools and machinery ... . .
and stpre under cover before winter. W1 th ^ umea
sc.’ation in that for a baldheaded man.
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Then too, probably the trouble with
those scientists might be due to the
fact that they associate too much
Makes 75 Bushels Of
Com To The Acre
ORANGEBURG, Dec. 18.-Jeff
Early, member of the vocationr’
ricultural class of the Orangeburg'
High School, made 225 bushels of
corn, an average yield of 75 bushels
per acre, on his three-acre p: »jcct
in agriculture this year, records kept
by his teacher, Robert Ga nson,.
show. When it is considered tb?+ the
average yield of corn per acte r or
Orangeburg county in 1927 was only
16 bushels per acre, and for the
whole state 17 bushels, young Early’s
feat stands out as rather rena-vab’e
in the opinion of local agricuKura!
leaders.
Young Early is the son of J S.
Early, a prosperous farmer who
lives about, five miles-east of Orange
burg. The corn was grown on a
light sandy loam soil with the ciay
veify close. It was fert'lized v v; th
stable manure valued at $8. which
was broadcast over the land before it
was plowed; 350 pounds of - com
mercial 8-4-4 fertilizer per acre ap
plied at time of ard ^75-
pounds cf Chilean 6*
plied per aefre^as a tep-dr^ssei, --
soda be ? ng applied in throe o n ual
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applicationr,
.The project cf young E?ri ' dem
onstrated that intensive cull .-tion
pays as he has figures to sfc .v that
he made a total profit on the three
acres of $166.85, an average profit
per ac:o of $55.61 and an average
profit per bushel of 74.2 cents. A
very careful cost record was kept
$20.88 being charged to labor, $14.37
to fertilizer, $15 to rent of land apcl
fifty cents to seed, making a total
expense of $80.67. While yc;_ug
Early did not sell his corn o ri in
tends to market it through bog*, he
cculd have sold :*t locally for $1.' , 0
per bushel; tho total leceipts from
225 bushels at $1 10 per bushel would
thus have netted him $247.50 .• q.
net total profit on the thne ires
of $166.85.
“From my project of threr acres
of corn,” said young Early, “I learn
ed that much more corn can be r ade
to the acre than the average for
Orangeburg county and South Crr^*-
lina. The average yield for Orange
burg county in 1927 was otuy 16
bushels * to the acre and for South
Carolina it was only 17 bushclr,, I
learned also from my project’that a
good yield can be made from a very
little fertilizer as I only used 350
pounds of a commercial 8-4-! fertil
izer per acre w th 275 pcn.iu; of
Chilean nitrate of soda per as *
a top-dresser; an applicative of
stable manure valued at $$ w is
broadcast cveii the land befor it was’
turned. Another lesson I learned was
that it is essential to top dre«i corn
with ammonia.
“I feel sure that I would hive
made much more corn to the acie if
the’ cut worms had not att^c-’ ed it,
also the cold spring, the sto^m and
:he excessive amcu.it cf rain!ail that
we had went to reduce the yield
quite a b't.”
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Rooster Suffering ;
From Insomnia
Gets In Court
It is said that there are some folks
in our country who are such radical
pacifists that they are even opposed
to making war on the European corn
borer.
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tFbe country spent—or rather the
women spent — over a hundred mill
ion dollars this year on rouge and
face powder. That is quite a bit
thick.
It took more than an-hour ox heat
ed legal wrangling in city cc-irt Sat
urday afternoon before disposition in
tho case of a southside -vc-ian,
charged with “maintaining and cp-
o'lat ng” a crewing rcosttr, i.as.
reached.
The rooster in question, acr. "ding
to testimony, was afflicted with in-
scnviia. and broadcast an al^rni at
all hours of the night. “We wouldn’t
mird if the animated tim.enloce
would start to crow at dawr. ” on r of
f.ho ff.npla’nnnts said, “but lu in
sisted on crowing at the moon in >•
weo small houife of the morning.”
The complications in the roistered
neighborhood came to a head Frid \y
afternoon, poli.ee said, when the reen
ter broke loose from its mr wrings
and made an impromptu tour of the’
neighbourhood. At each house, it was
alleged- the rooster would rer.dei a
serenade.
The city attorney asked one of the
witnesses if the “rooster crowed in
transit.” He replied: “No, undo” f he
house.”
Judge Frank Houghton ord^—d
the rooster to be put in escrow rn
some other section of the city qi n
the stew pot ’ or roasting ps i im
mediately. “Ten dollar fine suspend
ed.” the judge said. “On e mete
crow and I’ll assess the fine.”—St..
Petersburg, Ffeu, Times. •
Whooping cough is breaking
in England, but who gives a v 1
over here?
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