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i TRUE TO OURSELVES. OUR NEIGHBORS. OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD. Twenty-Eighth Year 8 Pages — All Home Print McCORMICK, S. C., Thursday, January 2, 1930 Established June 5, 1902 Number 31 Ginning Totals ' Given By Counties COTTON GINNED PRIOR TO DE CEMBER 13 IN SOUTH CARO LINA: CROPS OF 1929 AND 1923 The Department of Commorce, through the Bureau of the Census announces the preliminary report on cotton ginned by counties, in South Carolina, for the crops of 1929 and 1928. The total for the state was made public Friday, De- Taxpayers Invited To Meeting Called By County Delegation | Mr. Robert Boyd Killed In Accident cember 20. (Quantities are in running bales. Linters are not included.) County 1929 1928 The State 750,065 711,786 Abbeville 15,585 14,928 Aiken ___ 18,762 17,428 Allendale 6,271 15,805 Anderson 53,090 59,410 Bamberg 12,328 8,433 Barnwell 16,609 13,678 Berkeley 2,570 1,775 Calhoun __ __ 14,141 11,310 Charleston ___ 1,812 983 Cherokee __ _ 18,833 16,621 Chester 17.304 16.650 Chesterfield 20,892 29,722 Clarendon 13,594 8,347 Colleton J. 8,747 5,444 Darlington ___ ___ 12,776 16,138 Dillon 26,651 12,114 Dorchester ___ 4,913 3,682 Edgefield 14.62ft 8,843 Fairfield 7,195 7,283 Florence 13,387 7,562 Greenville 42,589 46,030 Greenwood 14,433 14,115 Hampton 5,507 3,768 Horry 2,100 960 1 Jasper 1,336 881 Kershaw 13,675 15,645 Lancaster 10,579 12,388 i Laurens 24,432 24,185 | Lee 15,190 22,000 > Lexington __ _ 14,373 12,429 | McCormick „ 7,330, ..., 6,053 j Illarion 9.012 5,546 ! Marlboro 31,286 34,390 i Newberry 17,986 15,617 | Oconee 15,083 7 18,776 i Orangeburg 53,861/' 38,587 i Pickens 18J>iO 17,300 : Richland y<861 8,595 | Saluda 9,528 6,685 | Spartanburg _ JL— 67,540 67,737 Unioif 18,928 15,622 21,242 15,650 Williamsburg . 11,910 7,555 York 25,563 27,757 All other 1,420 749 All the taxpayers of McCormick County are invited to be present' at the annual meeting of the leg- j islative delegation of McCormick ■County to be held next Monday, I January 6, in the court house. It; has long been the custom of the legislative delegations to have meetings of this nature every year before going to Columbia for the annual meeting of the General As sembly. Both members of the delegation will be present and the taxpayers of the county are invited to be present to hear the discussion of matters of importance. The meet ly around 11 o’clock a. nr. The members of the delegation plan to leave January 14th for Co lumbia where the General Assemb- , ly convenes. X Report On Water Supply McCormick Dr. M. W. Cheatham has received the following report on McCor mick’s water supply: . State Board of Health of South Carolina Charleston, S. C., Dec. 28, 1929. Sanitary Water Analysis No. 7702 Recorded December 26, 1929, from water supply, City of McCormick, McCormick, S. C. Part per million Color 20.00 Clorine 10.00 Free Ammonia 0.04 Albuminoid Ammonia _ 0.03 Nitrogen as Nitrites — 0.00 Nitrogen as Nitrates — 0.00 Total Solids 70.00 Bacterial Analysis B. Coli Negative Hem&rks: Analysis indicate water to be of good quality and free from contamination. . respectfully submitted, F. L. PARKER, M. D. IXJ Four pay days has January, and that is the month Christmaa billa come due. MT. CARMEL, Dec. 31.—When every heart was happy and glad with the joy of the coming Christ mas our joy was turned into mourning and grief when the news of the tragic death of Mr. Robert Boyd, which occurred in an Atlanta Hospital early Monday morning, reached us. Mr. Boyd was fatally injured by the reckless driving of a motorist in Atlanta Sabbath night and in the early morning hours he peacefully passed away. Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Russell were at his bedside. He was the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Boyd and was an ; honorable upright conscientious young man, with many noble traits of character. He had made his home in Atlanta for several years, where his bright cherry smile and winning ways had made a host of friends. Just in the prime of a glorious young manhood and life seemed so bright, happy and promising, it is hard, oh, so hard to give, him up and say “Thy will be done.” In early life he united with the A. R. P. Church in Mt. Carmel and has always been loyal and true to his church and his God. THE TOWN DOCTOR \; DOCTOR OF TOWNS SAYS: THINK—IT WONT HURT YOU ANY! Thomas Edison once said, “The American people will go to any extreme to avoid the necessity of thinking.” Notwithstanding that fact—think! This is the time of times to think. This week a year passes into “what used to be.” It’s through; it’s gone, and it will never return. Manv. mnnv things were accomplished in the last 12 months, but that’s ancient history. There are a lot *>f other things you could have done—that’s ancient historv. too. It Irn’t what vou did or didn’t do in ’29—it’s what you are to do in 1930 that counts now. And what are you going to do—same as in 1929? If you do. you going to go against every law* of progress. If ~.ou don ,f '•hrnge. you will bo through—not all at once, to be sure, but you can’t go forward standing still, and if you don’t do better in 1930 you’ll be where you were in ’29, and that’s standing still—or going backward. This reads like a sermon. It isn’t meant that way. It’s just my peculiar way of leading up to this— If. in ’29. you sort of went back on McCormick; if you leaned back with any of your 100-worn-out alibis and let the other fellow do the work; if you sat in the car while •tfie other boys changed the tire; if you let some fool petty jealousy keep you out of the Chamber of Commerce or Lions Chib; if you turned sour because everybody else couldn’t see things as you did; if you acted up like a school kid. and wouldn’t play at all, and tried to spoil the fun of others just because they wouldn’t play your way and let you be teacher; if you pooh poohed every attempt on the part of others to do something to build McCormick; if you spent your time pussy-footing, scandal mongering and rabbit-punching; if you kept your hands in your poc kets, leaning backward, while others were putting their shoulder to the wheel pushing forward—if you did these things, and knew you were doing them,’You were a civic moocher and deserve no consideration from neighbor or stranger. Maybe you didn’t know you were doing such things— that’s why I say think—it will do you good. ^Copyright, 1929, A. D. Stone. Reproduction prohibited in whole or in part.) This Town Doctor Article is published by The Messenger in co-operation with the local Lions Club. The remains home in Mt. 24th, and at day the fi ducted by Leon T. Pres F. Gettys, ai he was gently rest beneath ai ly beautiful flo| mel cemetery, large crowd ol and relatives. He ifr-survivedl and Mrs. J. W. mel; three sist sell of Atlant and Miss Irezti three brothei New York, Greenville Augusta. The he the loving the entire Mr. W. A. in charge. Weep n< For he We ah the And le en Where can [ought to the December At a mer Baptist/ decided] tist held 23. Inst ule ol gar tion. The ment. W. M. u7 June 18 wj special mi 22 for deno| Arrangemi a larger att camp and ment. The were new and the out group of Mr. J. L. assembly it I 'for the wh| Mr. Corzine very best all the unit gram anc terests re most dPQOI Hope Suggests | House Destroyed School Changes By Fire Yesterday MAKES RECOMMENDATIONS IN ANNUAL REPORT The Columbia State says: Standardization of elementary grades, financial assistance from the state for the transportation of pupils and higher standards for the certification of teachers are among the chief needs of the South- Carolina school system,- ac cording to the annual report of James H. Hope, state superintend ent of education. The report will be presented to the general as sembly in January. An appropriation of $12,000. to assist counties and school districts in providing adequate libraries and a state director of education con nected with the state department are also requested in the report. In recommending that element ary schools be standardized Mr. Hope suggests that the same sys tem used in standardizing high schools be used. Under this plan every county would be divided in to high school districts including every elementary school in the county. In this way state super visors would have their work as general supervisors supplemented by related supervision from the high schools. A statewide law re organizing the schools in accord- ,th_ these suggestions is rec- Hope. proposed law is :h county uni- >1 One of the Dorn cottages on Vir- ,ginia Street was destroyed by fire about three o’clock yesterday morning while the occupants, Mr. and Mrs. J. Frank Mattison, were at the bedside of a sick neighbor, Mr. I. N. Coleman, about two blocks from their home on Augusta Street, j The fire was of unknown origin | and was not discovered in time for anything to be saved from the flames. Insurance only partially covers the loss on building and contents. — ix t Quarterly Conference McCormick Charge The First Quarterly Conference for the current year will be held at McCormick Methodist Church Jan uary 12th. Rev. P. F. Kilgo will preach at 11:00 o’clock and the quarterly conference will be held ^immediately following the sermon. The public is cordially invited to these services. J. A. BLEDSOE. Pastor. lem. To them. is added the sug gestion that transportation be put on a stable basis by allowing the state to assume as its portion of the expenditure a penny per pupil per mile and the county or district assume the balance of whatever the cost of transportation may be in the individual district or coun ty. An average of 1,052 buses (not those operated in e and Pickens transport iken. Mr. J. B. McKittrick Dies In Augusta Mr. John B. McKittrick died Tuesday morning at an Augusta infirmary after an illness of one month.. Funeral services will be conducted at Parksville, S. C., this afternoon at two o’clock. Inter ment will be in the Parksville cemetery. Rev. W. H. Barfield of McCormick will conduct the serv ices. Mr. McKittrick is survived by one daughter. Miss Mildred McKittrick, Augusta. He was a cousin to Mrs. L. L. Rankin and Mrs. G. D. Price of McCormick and Mr., R. N. Ed munds of Parksville. He was 52 years of age at the time of his death and a member of the Craw ford Avenue Baptist Church of Au gusta. He was a member of Mc Cormick Baptist Church from early childhood days until about twenty years ago, when he moved to Metter, Ga. X Young Boy Seriously Hurt By Automobile Louis Carroll, 13 years old nep hew of Mr. A. N. Jaynes of near McCormick, sustained one broken leg and the other badly mashed just above the ankle late last Thursday afternoon when run over by a Ford automobile on the high way some distance from his home while he and several others were trying to get two cars out of a ditch. He is said to be getting along very nicely at this time. Ralph Freeman, a young colored man, who was said to have been driving the car that ran over Car- roll and kept going, was lodged in the county jail-that night. -X— Resolution itLSoon