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McCORMICK, S. C., Thursday,
January 9, 1930
Established Jane 5, 1902
Number 32
Citizens Meet
With Delegation
The annual meeting of voters
of McCormick Co1 ^^ | Editor McCormick Messenger:
county legislative delegation vya, ^ ^
held at the court house Monday
Citizen Inquires Of
Chain Gang And
County’s Standing
erty to ask that through your col
umns another matter of import
ance be clarified.
May I ask v/hat disposition was
made in regard to the chain gang
discontinuance? At a former citiz
ens meeting held at the October
term of court, the body went. on
record as favoring the abolition of
the chain gang. The matter was
then referred to the grand jury,
then in session, for investigation
and said body was requested to get
up figures in regard to operating
expenses of the gang, make report
on same and make recommenda
tion to the delegation.
So far as I am able to ascertain,
these figures have never been pub
lished. We have been told that
there are now four convicts on the
chain gang, with a half dozen
bosses, guards, etc., whose salaries
alone aggregate around $700.00 per
month. As Senator Robinson is in
position to know or ascertain these
operating costs, I am going to ask
As a citizen who attended the
momins at' attend- citizen-taxpayers mating held
ed by approximately 150 represen-; here Monday I am taking the hb
tative citizens from the several
sections of the county.
Many important matters we're
discussed and much interest shown
in the talks. Mr. J. L. Bracknell
was elected chairman and Mr. John
M. Bell, secretary, in order that
the meeting might be properly
conducted and requests made by
tax payers or other citizens reduc
ed to writing and signed before
being submitted to the delegation
for consideration.
The following is the report of
the secretary:.
McConnick, S. C.,
January 6, 1930.
At a citizens-taxpayers meeting
held here in the court house today,
the following resolutions and mo
tions were adopted:
After the statement of the fin
ancial condition of the county by
Treasurer T. J. Price, W. K. Charles
made motion as follows:
That the school debt be reduced
at the rate of $5,000.00 per year, if
possible, and the trustees of the
schools be instructed not to ex
ceed state rates, except as to sup
erintendents and principals. Mo
tion carried.
W. E. Sheppard made motion
that the delegation be requested
to provide funds to have the coun
ty books audited by a Certified In
dependent Auditing Company: that
ah audit be made annually and
that the delegation qnd foreman
of the grand jury be authorized to
employ same. Motion adopted.
Motion of W. K. Charles that the
meeting* go on record as backing
the sheriff in collecting delinquent
taxes with as much dispatch as
possible, was carried.
W. K. Charles made motion that
the boards of trustees of the
schools in the county make item
ized statements' of expenditures
and file in the office of the super
intendent of education. Motion
passed.
W. K. Charles made motion, that
the county delegation be requested
to select such laws as are necessary
to govern McCormick county and
that they be enacted into legisla
tion; that a committee of five (5)
be appointed to help formulate
such laws, said committee to be
named by the delegation.
J. L. BRACKNELL,
Chairman.
JNO. M. BELL,
Secretary. -
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Edgefield Baptist
Association To iHave
Training School
EDGEFIELD, Jan. 6.—Churches
of the Edgefield Baptist association
will join hands in a Sunday School
B. Y. P. U. training school January
13 through 17, 1930. The school
will be directed by Rev. B. W.
Thomason of Edgefield, who is the
training leader of the association.
The sessions of the school will be
held in the First Baptist church of
Edgefield. The officers and teach
ers of all the Baptist churches, and
all B. Y. P. U. Members and work
ers, have been invited to attend
and join in the study. The pro
gram each evening will begin with
a lunch at 6:30. Class periods fol
low with a fellowship and worship
period between. The sessions close
each night at 9 o’clock.
The courses to* be offered in the
Sunday School training school are:
“The Sunday School Manual” (Div
ision I), Rev. J. P. Sheffield, North
Augusta; v “The Sunday School
Manual” (Division II), Rev. C. E.
Vermillion. Spartanburg; “Winning
to Christ,” Rev. G. C. Seidenspin-
ner, Edgefield; “What Baptists Be
lieve,” Rev. H. B. White, Saluda;
“The Departmental Sunday
County Agent
Outlines Last
Year’s Work
next week’s issue. A great many
seem to think that the gang is ijow
an expensive luxury.
May I ask the Senator also to
give a brief resume of the bonded
indebtedness of the county as out
lined by Treasurer Price at Mon- t
day’s meeting and state whether
in his opinion an extra levy will
be necessary.
Citizen.
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Federal Farm Board
To Have Conference
him to give us these figures in your School,” Rev. G. W. Gurley, Calli-
son.
In the B. Y. P. U. Training
School, courses will be offered in
the Junior, Intermediate and Sen
ior Manuals and the General'S. Y.
P. U. Organization.
Edgefield association stood high
i nthe rank of associations in the
state in training school wbrk last
fall and this school will help to
maintain their high standing for
the spring of 1930.' v ’y£v : v _.
The training school will take the
place of the quarterly B. Y. P. U.
rally of the Edgefield association.
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Workmen’s Com
pensation Bill To
Be Introduced
In his annual report for 1929 re
cently sent in to the director of
Extension work at Clemson College,
County Agent Thos. W. Morgan
outlines one of the most successful
year’s work since he has been in
McCormick county. The report
shows that extension work was
conducted in 16 communities in
the county, and that 817 farm vis
its were made during the year to
476 different farms. The number
of farmers calling at the county
agent’s office for information was
1814; number letters written, 953;
number bulletins distributed, 122;
number newspaper articles prepar
ed and published, 105; number cir
cular letters prepared by county
agent, 81, of which 27,000 copies
were mailed; number days spent in
office ,74; number days spent in
field, 239; number meetings held
27; attendance at these meetings,
1,145; number farmers cohipleting
definite demonstrations, 69.
In addition the county agent or
ganized four 4-H boys clubs, with
an enrollment of 92 boys, 62 of
which completed their work and
handed in records. The total value
of the products produced by these Greenwood, also survives.
Mr. I. N. Coleman
Passes Away
Mr. I. N. Coleman passed away in
death here at 9 o’clock last Thurs
day night at the home of his son,
Mr. H. N. Coleman, following an ill
ness of about six weeks. He was 78
years of age and had enjoyed good
health practically all his life un
til forced to take his bed a few
weeks before the end came.
Funeral services were conduct
ed at 11 o’clock Saturday morning
by his pastor, the Rev. W. H. Bar-
field, assisted by the Rev. Leon T.
Pressly of the A. R. P. Church and
the Rev. J. A. Bledsoe of the Meth
odist Church, and interment made
in the Bethany Church cemetery.
Mr. Coleman had been a life long
member of Bethany Baptist Church
and a prosperous farmer and
prominent citizen of that commun
ity, whose death will cause genuine
sorrow among his many friends
throughput the county and state.
He is survived by the following
children: Mr. A? L. Coleman,
Greenwood; Messrs. W. M., H. N.,
L. C. Coleman and Mrs. Cortielia
Witt, McCormick; Mr. A. W. Cole
man, Greenville; Mrs. S. G. Touch
stone, Columbia; Mrs. J. C. Penn
and Mrs. P. P. Penn, Greenwood.
One brother, Mr. J. M. Coleman, of
Half Breaks Two Show
Window Glasses
Early yesterday morning—before
Aay break—Chief of Police Craw
ford was summoned to Mr. J. B.
r 'lackwcl!’s Store on Augus'a
Pt.rcet to inv^tieote a crash of
glass cn the sidowa'k. and while he
wos in the store making search Mr
Blackwell appeared on the seme
and aided in the hunt for the
wouM-be-robber.
Dn~in<r their rounds in the s ore
a calf, which had been left in a
m-al! crate in the back end of the
the night before, become
frightened and made a lunge
through the other front window,
•^'^ich ran his total up to two plate
glass windows in one night to the
tune of about $200.00 worth, all
told.
The supposition is that when the
calf broke the first glass it be
came frightened and went back
into the store instead of coming
outside. But there’s no supposi
tion as to how the second glass
was broken.
The calf never got even a scratch
or “skint” shank, and Mr. Black-
well says he believes one of those
crazy things could break out a
The Federal Farm Board an
nounced recently that representa
tives of various co-operative or
ganizations handling fruits and
vegetables have been invited to
Washington January 14, 1930, for a
conference with the board to dis
cuss the question of “how to pro
ceed in making effective to the
fruit -and -vegetable industries of
the United States the benefit of
the Agricultural Marketing Act.”
The letter calling the meeting,
which was* signed by C. C. Teague
and Charles S. Wilson, Members,
Federal Farm Board, representing
fruits and vegetables; emphasized
that it is the opinion of the Board
this “can only be done by creat
ing national co-operative sales
organi?3t4pns.”
“The question, therefore,” the
letter continued “is how can the
fruit and vegetable industries be
most effectively organized? There
are three groups—apples, potatoes
and deciduous fruit other than ap
ples—that it would seem are large
enough in volume to warrant na
tional organizations
A workman’s compensation act
that probably will provide for pay
ment of two-thirds of the actual
earnings of an injured employe,
not to exceed $25 per week, with a
principal payment not to exceed
$7,500 will be introduced at the
next session of the General As
sembly by Senator R. M. Jefferies
of Colleton county.
After the principal sum has been
expended in payments. Senator
Jefferies said, the bill pftibably
will provide for smaller payments
over as may be permanently and
totally a longer period for such
employes disabled.
“The bill will provide for an ad
ministration by an industrial com
mission, composed of three men
appointed by the governor, one
from Industry, one from labor and
the chairman to be affiliated with
neither labor nor industry,” Sena-
We have been holding confer-I tor Jefferies declared. “In all
?nces from time to time with rep- 1 probability I shall introduce a
esentatives. of those groups and \ companion measure providing for
there seems to be sufficient inter- j the creation of a labor department.
est in this subject to warrant the
^ailing of a conference for the
purpose of getting the combined
judgment of these groups on the
following:
“1. Whether or not it is advis
able to attempt an organization of
two or more of these groups into a
national sales organization.
“2. Whether it is advisable to
organize these groups separately,
by commodities, into national co
operative sales organizations.
“3. Whether or not some plan
for production loans may be work
ed out. that will enable co-opera
tives to secure a larger per cent-
age of commodities which are now
controlled through production fin
ancing.
“4. To discuss the problem of
making more effective by-products
avenues for removing surpluses
from the fresh fruit or vegetable
the commissioner of labor to be
chairman of the industrial com
mission.
. “This department will have
charge of the administration of al’
of the labor laws of; the state, such
as factory inspection, etc., which
duties ate now performed by the
department of agriculture, com
merce and industries. If this V
carried out, it will probably be
wise to combine the department of
agriculture, commerce and indus
tries and the warehouse commis
sioner, setting up a separate de
partment of agriculture, with
strictly agricultural duties, which
duties would involve warehousing.
I strongly favor a separate de
partment of labor, and I feel sure
that labor and industry will be
benefitted materially thereby.”
Another bill Senator Jefferies
said he will introduce will pro-
vide means for state departments
Mr. Blackwell hopes to never see j attcnd i n g the conference j to borrow from one another at
x, — — same ra te of interest the $tate
boys amounted to $3,748.74, of
which, $1,736.23 was profit. One 1
club camp was held at Rocky Bot
tom, in Pickens county, with an at
tendance of 48 boys, and one live
stock judging team composed of
club boys was trained. - j
Twenty-six farmers of the 34
enrolled completed their demon- I
strations in the cotton contest, pro- I
ducingan average of 526 pounds of
lint Mftton pey acre on their five-
acre fields, at a total cost of 8.4
cents per pound. Two farmers
completed their demonstrations in
the sweet potato contest and three
in the com contest. Full figures
will be given on the results of
these contests at an early date.
Around 10,000 pounds of hairy
•vetch and Australian peas - were
placed with farmers for planting
during the year, and also 3,000
pounds of pasture grass seeds. Re
ceipts at the McCormick Cream
Station - amounted to $9,326.98,
which was paid for 22,000 pounds
of butterfat. Receipts from poultry
shipments amounted to $10,591.00,
and the total value of products
bought and sold by the county
agent amounted to $29,435.63.
Ten poultrymen of the county,
with a total average of 4,500 birds
kept complete records of their
flocks during the year, and aver
aged $2.25 per bird profit above all
expenses.
TheSe demonstrations, which,
according to Mr. Morgan, will be
outlined completely and published
at an early date, show that Mc
Cormick county farming can be
made profitable if done right.
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Mr. T. W. Morgan
In Columbia This
Week At Conference
Game Wardens Do
Good Business
Official figures show that up to
December 13th, Fred K. Ashley
game warden of Abbeville county,
collected a total of $1,984; F. W.
Little, of Laurens county, $4,570.50
L. N. Chamberlain, of McCormick
county, $1,069, and George Lomax
of Greenwood county*, $3,131.
South Carolina sportsmen to the
number of 69,849 and non-resident
to the number of 314 had purchas
ed hunting licenses as of Decem
ber 13th. Total receipts of the de
partment, including non-resident
fishing license fees, fines, and eth
er items, amounted to $112,228.99-
Of the total license sales In
South Carolina, 56,740 were issued
to citizens who desired to hunt
in only one county, and 13,108 were
to persons who may hunt in any
of the 46 counties. County licenses
are sold qt one dollar each, the
state licenses cost $3.00 and the
ndn-residents must pay $15.00.
Richland county led the state
in total purchases, with receipts
of $6,161 and fines ran the total
to $6,570. Anderson county was
second with receipts of $5,433.25
and Greenville was third with a
total of $5,14538.
lundred glasses and never get cut. t marirpt
Mr. Blackwell hopes to never see ThoS€
hat calf again, nor another one j a j| Ua j n - were urged to be pre- me ocunt ml mbcicai, wic
ike it, and is thoroughly convinc- parefl [ 0 rem ain in Washington ! receives on its deposits, instead of
id that a china shop is no place (<as much i ong er as is necessary paying a higher rate of interest to
’or a bulk i to help work out some plan of ac- j some outside agency.
Home is not what it used to be tion. This is of great importance j
ipeause it eets lonesome staying to the fruit and vegetable Indus- are urged and earnestly requested
J t tries 01 the a «* nd " ■
County Agent Thos. W. Morgan
is in Columbia this week attending
the annual conference of South
Carolina agricultural, extension^
workers. This conference is i held
^ach year in January, and plan?
are made for county agent work in
each county of the state for the
coming year.
The meetin • will be presided over
by Dr. W. W. Long, Director of Ex
tension, and all county agentf
and specialists engaged in the
work will be present. A banquei
was given on Tuesday to the state
winners of the cotton, corn, and
sweet potato contestants in the
state.
County Agent Morgan is on the
program to discuss the results of
the cotton contest in McCormick
county, with which, according to
Mr. R. W. Hamilton, who is in
charge of the contest, the McCor
mick county farmers have been
very successful during the past !
four years.
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Many a small boy is kept in after
school because his father didn’t
know how to work the problems
the new fangled way.
THE TOWN DOCTOR
DOCTOR OF TOWNS SAYS:
TO MR- AND MRS. AVERAGE CITIZEN OF McCORMTCK
Regardless of what I think, irresnective of your opinion,
there is indisputable proof that no individual, business. in-_
dustrv or community ever got any place doing the samo
old thing in the same old way.
We are al! humans, subject to our own oec^iarittes
ohleet to ebaree. and most of us detest orraching and d-s-
like being told: vet every one of us Wi^h^s to be health''*,
wealth* ard wi«*. We ab get in a rut more ox less, and
true it is that the only difference between a nit* and
grave ir the depth: and the longer we st\v in a ni* the
deeper it gets. How readilv we discard the oM and ex
cept the proven new depends on how deep we have sunk.
Great educators have said that the most difficult under
taking today is to get the people to think—one goes far
as to sav that of evefy one hundred persons, two of them
do ell the thinking for the other 98. Maybe that’s right.
BUT I maintain that you and I will do our share if we are
shown and given a reason why we should think, esnecial-
ly about that which affects our fun and our pocketbooks.
In sixteen years experience I have found that you are
alwavs willing to listen: and although you do not alwavs
act, I lay that to the fact that you have not been given
the proper incentive. It is my further belief that you are
willing tp thiqk' about MoCormick and willing to do some
thing FOR McCormick if you are given good and sufficient
nroof that doing either or both will put money hi YOUR
pocket.
You and I—all of us—have been told by civic groups and,
through the columns of the papers we read, hundreds of
times, that we should do this, and we shouldn’t do some
thing else, all for the vague reason that it’s good for the
community. But if I know you and know my own re
actions to such, yon are not “sold” on the idea that it’s to*
YOUP particular advantage always to practice what they
preach.
You cannot be sold on anything that you. know noth
ing about—the only way to know about anything is to
THINK about it. A cow in a pasture gazes at a speeding
rail road train, but does not really see it; the alarm clock
rings in the morning, but the house cat goes om sleeping;
a crawfish feels and a billy goat smells, but because they
never think about it, it doesn’t mean anything. If you
could ask them they’d tell you that they did not see why
they should be any different:
If you have never got down to brass tacks and tried to
think out where you’d get anything out of taking an ac
tive part in community affairs, you don't know whether
or not there is anything in it for you. If you have never
offered to do anything along with other fallows, you don’t
know whether you’d even get a kick out of it. The only
way to find out is to try.
You dent have to be one of the big toads in the puddle
in order to “do something.” It isn’t always money that
counts, nor are days of time away from work necessary.
The big thing is to get right mentally. THINK about Mc
Cormick as a business—YOUR business. Don’t holler about
it, just think about it as you go along doing whatever you
do to make a living.
The fellow who never trys, never knows; and he Is the
fellow who misses the real fun and the good things of life.
TRY THINKING ABOUT McCORMICK!
Read The Town Doctor Article In The January “Lion”
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in whole or in part.)
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