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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.
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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.
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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.
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Our English language is strange.
We attempt to prevent scraps by
scrapping our armaments.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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An auto with one light is an
every night nuisance.
THE TOWN DOCTOR
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(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
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