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v \ V \ \ r Replies To Inquiries Of “Citizen” McCormick, S. C., Jan.^11, 1930. Editor McCormick Messenger: , , f Repliying to the inquiries of “Citizen’ in the last issue of the Mes senger, I am inclosing herewith the statement of the Clerk of tne Board of County Commissioners which will show the bonded indebtedness of the county and the annual interest paid on the same. Of course ihis does not include the Highway bonds which are being retired by the Highway Department, however, we are paying the interest on them. I am also inclosing statement of salaries paid the chain gang force ioi the year 1929. . , _ _ . , ' . , With reference to the retirement of the conds, I do not think an ex tra levy will lie necessary for the year 1930. rt ^° 1 *s eve ^ a J.X ears w tin 3- tired $2,000.00 of the bonds each year, then $4,000.00 and this year $10.- 000.00 in bonds mature. Last year we paid the $4,000.00 out of the current funds, and we are fortunate this year to have approximately $5,000.00 in the amount set aside by the Treasurer in the Sinking Fund for this purpose, and we can divert an additional $1,000.00 in the sup ply bill to make up the $10,000.00. This payment however will exhaust the accumulated sinking fund and no doubt, if not otherwise, arranged next year an extra levy will have to be put on. Trusting that the above is the information sought, I am, • Yours ve^ry respectfully, p c ROBINSON. McCcrmick, S. C., Jan. 10, 1930. Mr. J. O. Patterson, Clerk, Board County Commissioners, McCormick, S. C., D ear gir* Complying with the request of “Citizen” made through the columns of the Messenger I wish to ask that you furnish me with your salary list, names and amounts of salaries of all employees m the Super visor’s office for the year 1929. - - * - Also will you give me the amount of bonds that are now outstanding, exclusive of Highway bonds. I will appreciate your attention to the above. Yours very respectfully, F. C. ROBINSON. McCormick, S. C., Jan. 11, 1930. Hon. Frank C. Robinson, State Senator, McCormick, S. C., Dear Sir’ Complying with your request of January 10th, I am enclosing state ment showing the amount of salaries paid employees for 1929, also statement of outstanding bonds and the amount of interest due on each issue and the amount of bonds to be retired April 1, 1930. Yours very truly, J. O. PATTERSON, Clerk County Board of Commissioners. - - - * Statement of Salaries paid by the Supervisor and the Bonded Indebtedness of the County Salary Account 1929 Geo P. Watkins $100.?$ W. C. Wall !25.00 W. R. McBride 75.00 Jno. A. Creswell £0.00 E. N. Creswell 50.00 Charlie Wall v— 65 00 per month $495.00 Salary Account January . 1, 1930 Geo. P. Watkins t $100.00 Jno. A. Creswell 80.00 . W. R. McBride 75.00 Charlie Wall 75.00 ■ per month $330.00 Outstanding Bonds of the County January 1, 1930 85,000 5 1-2 per cent Road Bonds Int. payable Apr. and Oct. __$ 4,675.00 65,000 5 per cent Road Bonds Int payable Apr. and Oct. 3,250.00 60.000 6 per cent Road Bonds Int payable Jan. and Dec. __ 3,600.00 40,000 6 per cent Court House and Jail Apr. and Oct. __ 2,400.00 TOTAL INTEREST $13,925.00 10,00 Bonds to be retired April 1, 1930 $10,000.00 TOTAL FOR 1930 $23,925.00 J. O. PATTERSON, Clerk County Board of Commissioners. Jurors Drawn For February Court Wants To Know Who “Citizen” Is Editor McCormick Messenger: As a reader of your county pa per, I only wish to ask the inquis itive “taxpaying citizen - why he didn’t sign his name to last week’s article. We would certainly like to know the name of such an in terested person and wish to com mend him. Perhaps he could give us some suggestions on how to run the county affairs instead of hold ing a “questionnaire contest,” but am sure Senator Robinson will be only too glad to furnish him with the history of McCormick McCor mick County. Wonder why this “unknown cit izen” didn’t give his views at the last taxpayer’s meeting? Another “Interested Citizen.” Editor’s Note: “Tax-paying citi zen” has the paper’s permission to make his identity kn»wn if he wishes to do so, and the same right is accorded you. However, neith er name will be disclosed by the editor without consent of the au* thors. Both articles were pub lished as submitted and the re quests of each author complied with. That’s as far as we can go. txt Card Of Thanks Supervisor Graves Loses His Father Mr. W. O. Graves, Sr., died at his home at Amity, Ga., last Thurs day night, after an illness of sev eral months. He was 80 years of age and one of the pioneers and most highly esteemed citizens of Lincoln County and was widely known throughout that section of Georgia and Western South Caro lina. Funeral services were conducted and interment made at Greenwood Baptist Church at Amity at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon, being ! attended by a large concourse of 1 friends and relatives. Mr. Graves had been very active up until several months ago, since which time he had steadily dec lined. He is survived by five sons: Sup ervisor W. O. Graves, Jr., McCor mick: Mr. B. F. Graves, Florence; Mr. J. B. Graves, Bushnell, Fla.; Mr. E. D. Graves, Amity, Ga.; Mr. C. E. Graves, Mauldin; three daughters. Miss Flora Graves. Bushnell, Fla.; Mrs. Selma Broome, i Amity, Ga., and Mrs. W. E. Rake- straw, Atlanta. We wish to extend our most sincere thanks to our neighbors md friends for the many acts of rindness to us during the illness md at the death of our dear fath er, Mr. J. L. Brown. May God ever sless each and every one. The Family. txt Our English language is strange. We attempt to prevent scraps by scrapping our armaments. 4Xt- Betliany School Honor Roll SECOND GRADE— Workman Goff THIRD GRADE— Frances Goff Estelle Hollingsworth FOURTH GRADE— M. D. DeLoach Vivian Jaynes SIXTH GRADE— Lorene Drenan Iris Jaynes Grand Jurors to serve during the year 1930, are: W. N. Edmunds J. B. Jennings*. L. W. Ridlehoover J. C. Talbert C. E. Wilkie T. W. Walker G. C. Patterson H. N. Coleman R. M. Pettigrew M. L. Gibert G. G. Palmer E. M. Morgan W. A. Scott J. Butler Blackwell I. C. Reams k. L. Faulkner W. L. White E. C. Rice Petit Jurors to serve, first week of February term, beginning Feb ruary 3, 1930, are: J. T. Lagroon D. E. Eckard J. W. Goff G. H. McCain M. L. Ramsey L. C. Reese Donnie Banks T. J. Stone M. C. White, McCormick Tommie Long Monroe Simpson H. R. Deason A. W. Lyon Jas L. Smith A. B. Andrews, Jr. L. C. Coleman W. W. Keown, Jr. D. M. McGrath D. A. Bell W. G. Brough C. B. Freeland Calvin Spence C. L. Williams W. A. Winn W. H. Gable W. Frank White Tillman Howie Zack Spence G. V. Shrine W. W. Hammond Willie Blackwell C.‘A. Stuart J. W. Lovelace Joe J. Link* Ollie Wideman Bryant Quarles Court of General Sessions will open at McCormick Court House, Monday, February 3, 1930, at 10 o’clock a. m. with Hon. Jno. S. Wilson, of Manning, presiding. I-I Valuable Stores In Warehouses Agricultural products valued at nearly $10,000,000 were stored in state warehouses December 31, afe- cording to a summary prepared by J. Clifton Rivers, state warehouse commissioner, Columbia. Baled cotton valued at $8,150,- 000 led all other products in the amount in storage. Other crops, valued at $816,409, brought the to tal to $9,966,409. Included in the products stored were 7,000 cases of canned beans and 800 cases of canned tomatoes, with a total value of $16,000. Products stored in state ware houses are being held, Mr. Rivers said, until they can be absorbed by the market or until better prices are offered. The amount of products’ stored and their approximate value are given by Mr. Rivers follows: 20,450 bushels of sweet potatoes, $20,450; 88,525 bushels of oats, $88,525; 7,- 534 bushels rye, $15,068; 6,665 bushels peas, $25,660; 4,289 bushelfc Soy and velvet beans, $25,734; 22,- 303 bushels corn, $22,303; 100 bush els barley, $225; 16,374 bushels wheat, $32,478; 6,000 gallons mo lasses, $6,000; 7,000 cases canned beans, $14,400; 800 cases canned tomatoes, $1,600; 688 tons velvet beans, $17,200; 1,329 tons feed ma terial, $93,000; 75,700 pounds field and garden seed, $35,140 ; 5,222 tons cotton seed, $261,110; 26 tons pea- vine hay, $1,040; 305 tons cotton seed hulls, $3,100; 690 tons cotton seed meal, $34,500; 1,190 barrels flour, $19,110; 21,969 pounds pea nuts, $2,196; 281,900 pounds tobac co, $84,570; 80 bales drill, $12,000; baled cotton valued at $8,150,000. x—^—•— Every time a year rolls in, it be gins to roll out again. Mr. Holland Writes Of The Great Possibili ties Of Dairy Industry Greenwood, S. C., January 10, 1930. McCormick Messenger, McCormick, S. C., Gentlemen: I have been considering the gen eral agricultural conditions of the country and my thoughts natur ally turn to my native county, and to those that adjoin it. Just what shall the farmers engage in that will produce a profit for their la bor is a permanent question in the minds of nearly everyone. I desire to present to your read ers some thoughts relative to the dairy industry as may be applied to McCormick County. This coun ty has approximately 405 square miles. There are 640 acres in every square mile which would give Mc Cormick County 259,200 acres. If there were one milk cow for each 10 acres in the county there would be 25,000 milk cows. If these cows averaged 1 gallon milk a day and sold for 25 cents per gallon the revenue for one year derived there from would be $91.25 per cow or $2,365,200 for the entire number of cows. If the average yield of milk from each cow were 1 1-2 gallons then it would bring $3,- 547,800 and if the yield could be gotten in the course of time to 2 gallons per day it would bring $4,- 730,400. Ten milk cows on a farm of 100 acres is not an unreasonable num ber to be sustained therefrom and still leave plenty of land to devote to other purposes. There are many thousands of acres in McCormick County that are well adapted to pasturage which with progressive enterprise and labor can be made to yield a fine income from milk cows. The fact that all of the dairy products of South Carolina contain a large per cent of iodine should greatly aid in finding a ready sale for them on the mar kets of our country. All the fore going is submitted for the reflec tion of your readers. Yours very truly, JOHN A. HOLLAND. X Will Promote Essay Contest A cash prize of twenty-five dol lars is offered by Dr. Roe E. Rem ington, Head of the S. C. Food Re search Laboratory at Charleston, for the best essay written by a high school student in South Car olina on tne general subject of “Why South Carolinians Should Eat Home Grown Vegetables.” In addition a first prize of five dol lars, and a second prize of three dollars is offered for the best es say from McCormick County. Any high school student in Mc Cormick County is eligible to com pete for both the county and state prizes, and all essays written may be sent to Mrs. Nell Stallworth, Home Demonstration Agent, er Thos. W. Morgan, County Agent, before April 15. Judges to select the best two essays from McCor mick County will be selected at an early date. The winning essay from the county must be read be fore the assembled school attend ed by the writer before it is sub mitted to state headquarters. Sen. F. C. Robinson, Chairman of the McCormick County Natura 1 Resources Commission, is very anxious that a number of McCor mick County boys and girls com pete for these prizes. Full details will be given to the high school teachers in the county as soon as possible. X — 12 Applicants for McCormick Post office Twelve persons, ten men and two women, stood the civil service ex amination for appointment as postmaster at McCormick, Charles H. Fooshe, who is acting postmas- |ter, being one of the number for , permanent appointment. The ex amination was held at the post- office here on Saturday’. It is ex- 'pected that the names of three persons making the highest marks will be announced at an early date.—Greenwood Index-Journal of Monday. . McCormick Teachers Meet Saturday On Saturday morning at 10:30 o’clock the next regular meeting of the McCormick County Teach ers’ Association will be held in the McCormick High School Auditor ium. A nation wide campaign is now on to try to reduce illiteracy among adults before the next census is taken. Ways and means of most effectively making the teachers’ efforts count in this great cam paign will be one of the major ob jectives of this meeting. Every teacher is urged to be present at this important meeting. Let it not be said that any McCor mick County teacher failed to do his duty in this great work. W. E. LAKE, JR., President. X— Fiddlers’ Convention Washington School Next Thursday P. M. All musicians and music lovers are invited to attend a fiddlers’ convention at Washington High School, midway Parksville and Modoc, on Thursday evening, January 23rd, at 8 o’clock. Pro ceeds to go to the basketball team of the school. Admission charges will be 15 and 25 cents. L. V. MAYER, Superintendent. Cheese Factory At Greenwood An Assured Fact Many McCormick County far mers will receive with interest the news that the establishment of the cheese factory at Greenwood is now an assured fact. Advices from Greenwood are to the effect that a site will be selected and work v.lll begin on the structure to house the plant at once. This plant will, in addition to the other markets near McCormick, furnish an outlet for all the whole milk that can t>e produced in this and other surrounding counties, and at a price in line with ether markets. McCormick County far mers should at once begin to make preparations to take advantage of, this market, which will probably upen up around April or Kay Prosperity has followed the dairy cow into every section of the coun try, and will follow her intc Mc Cormick County if the farmers will grow their own feed to feed to home grown cows. There is a steady year-’round income from the sale of dairy products, and, if any county in the United States needs a steady year-’round income, McCormick County does. X In modern da,y*apartment houses the average landlord has a heart as big as hjs kitchenettes. — x An auto with one light is an every night nuisance. THE TOWN DOCTOR J (The Doctor of Towns Says) ‘GOOD BUSINESS” IS “INVOICING” THIS MONTH A community is like a store—the citizens’ clerks and employees, business and professional men the department heads, and the police men the floor walkers. Whatever you do to make a living, you play as important a part in this “store” as does an employee in a mercan tile establishment, be the employee a clerk, bookkeeper, cashier, win dow trimmer, repairman, engineer, janitor, porter, delivery boy or any body else that works there. Every employee can and should SELL the store: Regardless of position, the work that each does is relative to and reflects on all other employees and the store. You know how easy it is for you to get “off” a certain place because some of the em ployees did or failed to do some thing—you hold the store respon sible for the attitude and conduct of all those who work there, and what is true with a retail estab lishment is true with this “store” which is your community. At this time of the year we hear much talk, see much advertising relating to “inventory” and “in voicing.” If at no other time, now stores everywhere are “taking stock” in order that they may know where they stand—if they have lost or gained, over-stocked, or short, and to lay plans for the new year’s business. You don’t think much of a busi ness man who doesn’t “take stock,’’ not only of the merchandise he sells but of his business in general You don’t think so much of a mer chant who year after year does the same things in the same old way in the same old unchanged store either, BUT if your town is a business—and it is nothing else— why shouldn’t it be “invoiced” and “inventoried” that YOU might know if it lacks something which is costing you money, or if it has something that would make you money. Take stock of YOUR department of this “store” with the thought uppermost in your mind that as you are, just so is the rest of your department and the entire “busi ness.” As 'you do, often the whele is judged. Here’s what you can do to start “invoicing” the “comer where you are”— If you work in a store or sell, you come in contact with many people. Get sold on yourself—make your self and your surreundings neat and attractive, sell your customers and associates on yourself, your line and him who pays' your salary, and in so doing SELL thore with whom you come in contact in Mc Cormick. If you work in an of fice you, too, meet many peorple and have opportunities to increase your own valuation' ahd your em ployer’s by creating an atmosphere that invites and holds business, prestige and good will for McCor mick. If you work in a factory you have every reason to want to make Mc Cormick a better place to live and work in, that you ’and ycurs may enjoy life and prosper: ^ Many towns are known by the products they make. If that part of the product you produce is just a little bit better, making the pro duct better known and in greater demand, YOU make money because McCormick will be more v. icfeiy and better known, which directly affects its growth, therefore affect ing YOUR prosperity. If you earn your living by the sweat of your brow, remember this —that whether you keep steadily employed or not, at good wages or poor, depends on whether others make money with which to have done that which pays you. The demand for work you do controls the amount of money you mike. Therefore, the more you do to cre ate interest in McCormick, putting forth every effort, regardless of how small it appeares to you, to make it look good, make other peo ple think well, talk well of it, the more work and more pay will it be for you. You can do none of these things without being sold on McCormick. You cannot be sold on it unless you think about it and KNOW all there is to know about it. Find out abo it it—go to the library and ask the librarian for facts; drop in at aie McCormick Messenger, Peoples Bank or Farmers Bank or if you prefer, write to these institutions. You will be surprised at some of the things McCormick has that you have forgotten or never knew about. TAKE STOCK—find out what McCormick has, what it lacks, and then fit yourself into the pic’u^o to take advantage of its of lacings and get together with others to make up for and get what it hasn’t, j (Copyright, 1930, A. D. Stone. Reproduction prohibited in whole or in part. This editorial publish ed by McCormick Messenger in co operation with local Lions Club.)