Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Thursday, January 2, 1930 McCGRMICX MESSENGER, McCORMICR, SoutM Csftlnm. Page NumEe? TEfHh S. C. WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW Tlie following record of indus trial activity lists items showing investment of capital, employ ment of labor and business activ ities and opportunities. Informa tion from which the paragraphs are prepared is from local papers, usually of towns mentioned, and may be considered generally cor rect. Beaufort — Sanitary Market be- in^ remodeled. Charleston — Efird’s branch store opened for business at 269 King Street. wxAion — American Legion Post No. 32 and Legion Auxiliary to have new quarters. Paving of U. S. Highway No. 1 between Camden and Bethune completed and opened to traffic. McCormick — Work started on rebuilding of telephone lines and outside plant of McCormick Tele phone Company. Belton — Dress factory to estab lish in this city. Ridgeland — Garbade Store changed hands and will do busi ness under name of Freeman and Harvey’s Grocery Store. Camden — Kershaw Annual fair held here recently. Bamberg — Hiers Drug Store formally opened in Folk building on Main Street. Hampton — Hampton County ginned 5,284 bales cotton from crop of 1929 prior to November 1st, as compared with 3,484 bales ginned to same period last year. Lynchburg — War Department approved plans for construction of bridge across Lynches River here. Greer — Boyce Midway Station on Hill Street operating under new 16&S6* Walterboro — Construction of $10,000 storage building for Texaco Company near Atlantic Coast Line Depot, nearing completion. Sumter — Iodine Products Store opened doors to public on comer of Liberty and Sumter streets in building formerly occupied by Hud- sex Motor Company. Greer — New Sunday School building of First Baptist Church completed and in use. Walterboro — Colleton County Fair opened recently. Sunday services for star mail route from Charleston to George town will be instituted within near future. Sumter — Palmetto Pigeon plant shioped 500 birds, which brought in more than $2,000. Belton — Dixie Store No. 24 op ened on Breazeale Street in West Belton in building formerly oc cupied by Lollis’ Grocery. Greenwood — Plans underway for establishment of cheese fac tory here. Sumter — National Bank acquir ed by Peoples State Bank. Belton — See-wee Manufactur ing Company started operations in building formerly occ^ied by Con way Sewing Fachjyy. Georgetown y Preliminary sur vey started^or oridge across bay. St. George — Spann’s Hardware changed hands and will do busi ness under name of Myers Hard ware Company. Summerville — Improvements made to Railroad Park. Kingstree — 5c-10c Store opened in building on Hampton Avenue formerly occupied by Mrs. R. B. Smith. Abbeville — Palmetto Cafe open ed for business recently. Laurens — Automatic dial tele phone system inaugurated in this place. Union — City fire alarm now in order. Dillon — Everybody’s Theatre re-opened with talkie equipment. Union — Liberty Fabrics Corpor ation, first plant in South manu facturing silk underwear, changed hands. Clover—Construction of new high school building nearing comple tion. Union — Stevenson Theatre changed management. Abbeville — Abbeville County Memorial Hospital installed new electric elevator. Allendale — Allendale County Board of Commissioners celebrated opening of bridge at Hughes Cross ing on Jackson Branch. Camden — Canning factory as sured here. Allendale — Community fair held here recently. Union — Union County Fair op ened here recently. Allendale — Allendale Grocery Company erecting two-story ware house for storage of grain. Greenville —Approximately $13,- 500 being paid out weekly to far mers of this city and surrounding counties for home-grown hogs, an nounced by Louis Balentine of Bal- entine Packing Company of this city. Sumter — Construction, of air port progressing rapidly. Sumter — National Bank ac- PAINFUL INDIGESTION *T suffered from indi gestion — everything I ate gave me heartburn,” says Mrs. Mattie Mul lins, of Pound, Va. *Tcr months, I did not see a well day. I wor ried along, but never feltwelL *T got a package of Thed- ford’s Black-Draught at the store and began taking ft—a dose every night before going to bed. I had been having an awful pain. After I bad taken Black-Draught, this pain en tirely stopped. I began to gain in weight, and rested well at night. In a few months I was feeling fine. My health was bet ter than it had been in years. *T keep Black-Draught in our home, and we all take it for constipation and upset stomach.” Insist on Thedfbrd’s lack- CONSTIPATION, INDIGESTION, BILIOUSNESS WOMEN wU i '«-»-wr50 : quired by Peoples State Bank of South Carolina. Newberry — From crop of 1929, up to November 14, 13,791 bales of cotton ginned as compared with 12,659 bales up to same date in 1928, according to Government agent. Lexington — W. P. Rose Build ers Supply Company of Goldsboro, N. C., acquired valuable sand land holdings in Dixiana section of Lex ington County and plans to begin operations there in near future. Ridgeland—Display room opened in building next to post office for Frigidaire Company. Pickens — 1,828 more bales of cotton ginned in Pickens County up to November 14 than at same time during 1928. Georgetown — 5 and 10 cents Store changed hands. Bamberg — Newest enterprise in this city is manufacture of fresh salted oeanuts. Brunson—Eighth Annual Hamp ton County fair held here. Hartsville — Marigold Exchange opened for business in old National Bank building. Columbia — Radio broadcasting station, operating on. 1010 kilo cycles and 500 watts power at night and 1,000 watts until sunset, plan ned for this city and construction expected to begin soon. Sumter—$16,000 contract award ed for remodeling of county court house. Beaufort — Brannen Brothers took over Palmetto Filling Station and Lunch Room. Abbeville — Ramey and Gilliam store moved to building formerly occupied by Parker and Reese store Camden — Surveying and re locating portion of State Highway from here underway. Abbeville — 400 more bales of cotton ginned in Abbeville County up to November 14 of this year, as compared to crop of November 14, 1928. Camden — DesChamps, Inc., dry cleaning plant, established here. Clumbia — $65,000,000 highway program in State of South Caro lina will start in near future. Union — New Salvation Army Hall located on North Pickney St., dedicated recently. Hartsville — Postal Telegraph Cable Company opened new office at 1231 Fifth Street. Georgetown — Valley Bowling Company opened modem bowling alley at 705 Front Street. Sumter — Brody’s Department Store on West Liberty Street changed hands and will operate under name of Brody Bros. Kingstree — LeRoy S. Epps Hardware and Sporting Goods Store, changed hands. Sumter — Decorative lighting system installed for holiday sea son. Charleston — Book store opened at 36 Queen Street. Conway — Quattlebaum Light & Ice Company reduced rates for electric current in this town. Florence — Contract let for con struction of proposed $500,000 ho tel building. Columbia — Petition filed by Peoples’ State Bank of Carolina to increase capital stock from $500,000 to $1,000,000. Belton — Pinson’s Cafe improv ed. Columbia —- South Carolina wfll spend $35,000,000 for construction of 500 miles of paved highway, building of secondary roads and maintenance of State Highway system in 1930, according to of ficials of State Highway Depart ment. Beaufort — Local post office building renovated and new equip ment installed. Columbia — Newly constructed home of Association of Blind on Confederate Avenue just east of Confederate Home, will be official ly opened and dedicated after first of year. Estil — Parnell’s Ten Cent Store opened for business next door to Wiggins & Son. Walterboro — Repairs to Stokes’ bridge over Edisto River complet ed and bridge now opened to traf fic. Newberry — J. H. & I. T. Cous ins held grand opening of grocery store recently. Waterboro — Tip Top Cash Shop No. 2 opened for business in Witsel building. Camden — J. J. Newberry Com pany to establish chain store here in future. Newberry — G. S. Stores opened to public here. Camden — Binding formerly oc cupied by Baruch-Nettles Company being remodeled for occupancy by J. C. Penney Company. Ridgeland — Furniture Store opened in Perry building. Construction of temporary bridge over Saluda River on Route No. 19 between Newberry and Saluda, completed and now open ed for traffic. Rock Hill — $2,000,000 textile plant at Rock Hill Printing and Finishing Company opened and now operating. Sumter — Contract awarded for construction of new Tuomey Hos pital building. Abbeville — Calco Manufactur ing plant of this city instaling 15 additional sewing machines. Rock Hill — Mathews Hardwood Company, capitaized at $1,000, granted charter of incorporation. Florence — Turner and Gasque, Inc., capitalized at $10,000 T grahW papers of incorporation to deal in peanuts. Columbia — Door-Stop Corpor ation will open offices In this city after first of year. X- 16 Exchanges Be come Part j Of Great Telephonic Company GENERAL OFFICES OF S. C. CON- TINENTAL TELEPHONE COM PANY LOCATED AT ABBEVILLE —company Incorporated UNDER LAWS OF DELE- WARE. —■■ ■— 4 State Highway Bonds Will Pay States, Says U. S. Roads Chief Sixteen telephone exchanges in South Carolina are merged into one company, the South Carolina Continental Telephone Company, a subsidiary of the Continental Telephone Company with’ offices at Kansas Crty, according to an announcement today by O. A. Knell, General Manager of the South Carolina Telephone Com pany stated that his organization now controls the plants at Sum ter j Laurens, Woodruff, Fountain Inn, McCormick, Manning, Bishop- ville, Summerton. Kingstree. Lake City, Olanta, Conway, Lamar, Winnsboro and-,Abbeville. Under the plan of organization the state will be divided into two districts. The headquarters of District No. 1 will be at Abbeville with the stations controlled from this point and the headquarters of District No. 2 will be at Sumter under the direction of Mr. H. C. Tucker as District Manager. A charter has been granted the South Carolina Consolidated Tele phone Company by the state of Deleware and officers of the or ganization will be recruited from the personnel of the parent organ ization at Kansas Cit;' A program of* improvement and extension was inaugurated several months ago and durin| the past year more than $100,009 has been expended in the rebuilding of plants in this state. Although the plans of the couipany are not de finite at this time it is expected that at least tlrice that amount will be expended during die next year. The organization has more than 125 people! employ The general offices ok tie com pany were established \ at Abbe ville when the company mrtt came into the state ahd purcha^s sev eral small exchanges. The flee has been enlarged a: bookkeeping department ploys a large corps of bool and stenographers.-Abbevi and Banner of December ^rd. Today every State could issue bonds profitably, either for pri mary road building or some of the integral or auxiliary construction needed, such as grade-crossing elimination, bridges, by-passes around traffic congestion, and continuous-flow routes without cross-traffic hazards and inter ruptions, says Thomas H. MacDon ald. chief of the Bureau of Pub lic Roads, U. S. Department of Ag riculture. “There is not a single valid ar gument against the issuance of bonds for road improvement as a fiscal matter,” he says. “The issuance of road bonds, in telligently and scientifically ad justed to the needs of the State, is he only way public credit can be exchanged for physical properties better roads, among them, which are income producing and , which io have the ability to pay for themselves.” In the States which have made the most rapid progress in road improvement, and which have ad vanced a part to the costs from bonds, there is not a single unfav orable situation or circumstance to support anti-bend arguments, he says. By statistics he shows that in the 17 States that have issued no bonds for State highway purposes, the electorates of which are sup posed to frown upon bond issues on general principles, high-inter est local bonds have actually been issued in considerably greater proportion to local highway in come than in States which pre sumably favor the issuance of bonds. He proposes that there be more scientific and business-like fin ancing and administration in highway improvement, which, he says, should start with a selection of roads to be improved according to their relative traffic import ance and an allocation of author- ityto"^5tate and county authori- ies on the s&me basis “The differencesrin the per cent- ages of total mileage included in the State systems of ftcigh^o -1 States of approximately the general culture and development are too great to be accounted for upon any reasonable basis,” he says. “Also, the differences are too great between the annual ex penditures per mile of State sys tem in States that have systems of approximately the same extent and average traffic density ap proximately equal. The traffic survey is a reliable means of de termining how large the State system should be and how much money should be spent on the several parts of the system. It should be more generally employ ed in planning and budgeting. There is no excuse for inequitable allocation of funds or wasteful expenditure,” he says. “The merry-go-round of income transfer now existent between the States and the counties should be abolished; the counties are rather generally the losers and they can ill afford the loss,” he says. “The question of indebtedness for high way purposes should be more frankly faced. The public loses and loses heavily when, to avoid a State debt, the counties are thrust into debts on which they must necessarily pay a high rate of interest.” Mr. MacDonald says honest and competent highway officials should have reasonable security in their tenure of office, that highway administration should be business luce, that there should be complete end correct accounting of highwaj expenditures, and that roads in W^ich the public capital is invested!should be adequately maintained -IXI The person who is not wanted any place m^st envy the man who is “wanted” in several places at one time " txx ;ea m '-4 THINGS WORTH KNOWING The native oyster of California is quite small compared with east ern oysters. Both tea and coffee were intro duced into northern Europe in the seventeenth century. The only places in the world in which geysers appear are Yellow stone National park, New Zealand and Iceland. A dentist’s patient coming out of gas after having a tooth extracted remembered where he had hidden a sum of money eight months be fore. Gypsies wander at times to coun tries as remote as Iceland and Australia. A Boston cigar manufacturer has speeded up production by placing radio loud speakers in his factory. Turquoise was mined extensive ly in ancient times because it oc curs near the surface and is read ily cut and polished. The Amazon river and its tri butaries have twice as many miles of navigable water as the Missis sippi and its tributaries. Southern Canada is in the same latitude as Italy. Lettuce contains a feeble nar cotic, which will produce heavi ness and sleep if eaten in large quantities. Thousands of letters each year are addressed to Sherlock Holmes, a fiction character of Sir Conan Doyle! Women house painters and dec orators are planning a union in Britain as they have become so numerous. The marble quarries at Carrara were first worked by the Romans about 173 B. C. / THE SHADOW OF FADING BEAUTY Don't you be afraid of advancing- age. For nature endowed each baby with a delicate, velvety skin. Properly cared for, its freshness remains long after hairs are white. Soap and water will not do, for tho secret of permanent beauty lies in 'ORIGINAL. jmoit Cleansing Cream J. Butler Blackwell’s Store, Dealer, McCormick, S. C. Highway ^ construction through out the United States approached its peak in 1928, remained about the same in 1929, and indications point to an increase for 1930.— Samuel Eckels, President, Ameri can Association of State Highway Officials. Dries Up Colds In a Few Honrs The most disagreeable and em barrassing part of a cold is that constant, nasal discharge, which, you can now stop in a few hour* with Aspironal, the latest and moat scientific “Liquid Cold Remedy.** Aspironal is guaranteed to stop, the irritation that causes sneezing and nasal discharges; dispel tfc* congestion and relieve, grippy. neu ralgic pains, at the same timfr causing a gentle and complete evacuation of the liver and bowels. All druggists carry and guarantee Aspironal, the largest selling liqukl cold remedy in the world. (adv.> STROMS’ DRUG STORE The average motorist in the United States spent $293 last year operating and keeping up his Tomato seed, o!IB^->£egarded as a waste of the catsup ^ia^ustry, now are used as food and a; soap ingredient. The timber yoke of the Liberty bell, which was weakened by dry rot, has been saved by a re inforcing of strong steel. Sap travels at the rate of thirty to forty feet in an hour in some trees. V Nearly 70 per cent of homes and 50 per cent of factories are sup plied with electricity by power companies. Estimated 500,000 farms are electrified. 6 6 % . is a Prescription for Colds, Grippe, F^u, Dengue, . Bilious Fever ahd Malaria. / % It is the most speedy remedy known Labor and capital really consti tute a partnership. One cannot get along without the other, and as this fact is becoming better and beter known, a more friendly feel- exists, and conditions general ly art improved.—William G. Con ley, Governor of ^West Virginia. V Louisiana is the leading state in production of hardwoods. A chemist defines glass as “a liquid whose rigidity is. great enough to permit it to be put to certain useful purposes.” Eyes ed. Specif Eye G and Artificial iCyes fitted wjbout Drugs, Drops or Danger* DR. HENRY J. GODIN . Optometrist! 956 Broad Street -— August Ga. ffj' ' . 14 The city of Buenos Aires has one-fifth of tjie entire popula tion of Argentina. Experiments *. have indicated that bats are not effective in the war against mosquitoes. They call them school te4exs as a matter of politenes^, bj in reality it is the kids they Trespass Node A thornless blackberry and a thornless dewberry are being rais ed successfully in some parts of the south. Trespass Notice ni It may be true ■ that lightning strikes only once, but some people are thunderstruck almost every day. XXt* Things that we don’t know, are usually the ones which cause us the most worry. XXI — The great trouble with golden opportunities is the iAct that they seldom tarry long enough for us to catch them. \ X Some folks object to following the footsteps of others, because they w$nt to make bigger foot-> steps themselves. All persons are warned jnot to hunt or trespass in any manner on the lands formerly kno ~ lands of Mrs. M. E. McIntosh in the Bordeaux section of McCor mick County. Guilty parties will be prosecuted for trespass after notice, and held liable for damages to property caused by such trespass. Mrs. H. M. Zeigler. W. M. McIntosh. Jos. W. and Mary Allston. G. C. McIntosh. Mrs. Louise M. Long. Dec. 17, 1929.—4t. All persons are hereby not to hunt or trespass in upon our lands. Mrs Mrs. CaUie Kirksey, S. C., Dec. 2, 1929.-3t. ss in atap . J. hI Self Q. iu 0o- stiaibe- The possession of au bile is an aid to Christ cause it removes the* excifor cussing others who have or •- One nice thing about opportunity is that it usually knocks, but is not considered a knocker. IXt Virtue never draws any weekly salary, probably because it is its own reward. X Public utilities absorb one-fourth of all money invested each year in the United States.—New Eng land Utility News. X Many people overlook the fact that marriage ties arf only beau knots. ; die complications, hast The man X-mas must ha he managed to one ten dollar Hr FORD Bm