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I Thursday, January 23, 1930 McCormick MejuaKnoKK, Mccvrm iy*bi'ttift <. i»> onn*. 7 • v • • •. i\ umber Two m. McCormick High School News STAFF Editor-in-Chief Louise Remsen Assistant Editor Welboume Schumpert Business Manager James Blackwell -Stenographer Nina Edmunds Special Editors Sport Archie Langley Socials Selma Walker Fun and Humor Mabel Lyon Clubs Ellen Bosdell Features Lucille McGrath Class Reporters | Eleventh Frances Lee Cowan 1 Tenth Ruby White Ninth Louise Vaughn Eighth Elizabeth Lake Reporters Dollie Rankin, Pearl White, Myrtis Dillashaw. Faculty Advisor _j. Miss Atkinson Demand For Sargon Breaks All Record Famous Medicine Rapidly Becom ing Household Word Throughout America—24 Carloads Sold in 25 Days in 27 States—Over whelming Demand the One Great Outstanding Proof of Its Wonderful Merit HOW TO PROPOSE TO YOUR BEST GIRL (By James Willis “The flowers that bloom in the spring—tra-la have nothing to do with the case” but nevertheless we’ve heard that in the spring a young man’s fancy often turns to love. Has yours? Now supposing that it has— young men what are you going to do about it? Taking it step by step I’ll tell you laow to propose to your best girl. Let us begin! FIRST—When you enter her house be sure that’you look your best—no girl wants an ugly suitor. SECOND—Be prepared to meet her mother or father at the door. Your girl won’t be there because she’s afraid you’ll think she’s too anxious to see you. THIRD—When her father asks you if you have any money tell him that you did have some but spent it at the comer for some cigar- nettes. • > FOURTH—When her mother wants to know if you think her precious child is better looking than all ihe other girls be sure to tell her that she looks all right but is not as good looking as Isabelle, your old girl. But then cover this mistake by adding hastily that she looks very well considering the looks of her parents, and is really an improvement. FIFTH—Now for the climax! En ter the girl! When she says: “Oh —Darling—you are so marvelous,” tell her that is what all the other girls say. Follow this up by tell ing her that you would have brought her some candy if you had mot thought she was too fat al ready! When she realizes the wis dom of this statement she’ll say “Oh you wonderful creature.” Now boys! Easy there—slide your arm around her waist and hug her real hard. Then if she looks like she expects to be kissed tell her that you would kiss her but your mother always warned you against kissing strangers. SIXTH—Now wait until her mo ther and father are listening at the door and say that you want to marry her but you refuse to run a borne for old ladies’ and gents’ likewise. SEVENTH—At this point, boys', a strange thing happens. You feel yourself being led to the door by a hand on your ear—you feel a severe kick of a foot in- the seat of your pants and when you rise from the dust and look back for the tempest you’ll see the old gent in a rage shaking both his fists. EIGHTH—Now, boys, this is all. You know how to propose to a girl —you can get all the thrill of pro posing with the guarantee that you’ll never be troubled with a wife. Most medicines are sold by the iozen or by the gross. A few are sold in larger quantities, but think of a medicine that sells in such onormous quantities that whole sale dealers are forced to buy it in solid carload lots to supply a de mand that has been so phenomen al as to almost stagger the imagin ation. That’s just what has happened with Sargon, the celebrated new medicine that is now sweeping the country like a great tidal wave. Not only is the trade buying it in car load lots, but they are buying car load after carload, each car con taining over 20,000 bottles of Sar- •?on and Sargon Soft Mass Pills. Twenty-four carloads in 25 days sold in only 27 states is the amaz ing record recently made by these wonderful medicines. In the State of California where Sargon was introduced in April of last year, it has required 21 car loads to supply the ever increasing demand in this one state alone. Texas dealers required 9 carloads in only four months. A single New York firm, with wholesale branches in leading cit ies, is selling at the rate of over a Million and a Quarter bottles a year. “Phenomenal and bewildering” is the way one of the big drug job bers of the country describes the marvelous demand for Sargon. It’s the greatest seller within the memory of the oldest members of our organization,” said another. “We are selling more Sargon than any other ten medicines put together,” said still another. And so it is everywhere Sargon has been introduced. From Coast to Coast and from Gulf to the Great Lakes, Sargon is known and honored. Millions upon millions have used it and have told other millions what it has done for them. When suffering men and women find a medicine that helps them, they naturally want to tell their friends about it and in this way Sargon is fast becoming a household word throughout America. Stroms’ Drug Store, Agents. A box of Sardines. Please return if found with key and directions for opening. FOUND—A box of She-needa Crackers—Lucy Franklin. LOST—One heart seeming to be long to somebody whose initials are B. W. and last seen near the class room of Billie Britt—Dan Cupid. FOUND—One dark-haired, brown eyed maiden near Troy who meas ures up to all my requirements for a sweetheart. If anyone has any claims on M. Burnside meet me be hind Fooshe’s barn after school.— R. J. Talbert. man had already been around and they didn’t need any more. News Item—3. Since marriages have become so popular among the faculty the idea is being taken up also by the high school set. The following letter has been written by a mem ber of the fair sex of the 8th grade. To any good-looking boy: I’m a very pretty little girl and my name is something precious, I would like a good husband who will know how to cook for I haven’t learned yet. My brother , who is in the tenth grade is a very desperate person and shouts at any boys who come to see me. I have blonde curly hair and mischieveous brown eyes, v Signed, Lonesome. News Item—4. A certain set of boys in high school have decided to wage war on vanity cases due to the fact that they like girls sweet and natural. Therefore, they have resolved at he first signs of a powder puff in class to bring out a razor and give themselves a shave. THE SCANDAL SHEET OF McCORMICK HIGH (By John Morrah) News Item—1. It is rumored that a high school boy is desperately in love with the famous Clara Bow. He has writ ten her the following note: “Lady of My Dreams,”—your red, red haif has captured my fancy—r although we have some good look ing red-haired girls in our school. Yours makes theirs pale in com parison. Clara, I’m a senior with very curly, black hair and beautiful eyes and the girls say I : m some little lover.” Yours, Desirable. LOST—Several perfectly good lov ers as well as love-letters. If there are any boys who are free and un attached—see Mable Lyon. WANTED—The new Agriculture teacher to come soon as all are /ery curious to see him. Coins have :ten tossed and the now man falls ,o Miss Ramsey. The Ladies of The Faculty. LOST—My beautiful tenor voice, f anyone who has one that can ing and isn’t cracked please rent t tc—James Lyon. News Item—2. A terrible accident happened on the highway to Edgefield last week. Two high school boys were speed ing along the road in order to vis it their girls. Due to the slick roads they hit a cow. On arriving —the girls father met them at the floor and told them that the milk There will be special stunts at ichcol at a near date: Watch your .’riends to the following: Louise Remsen will seize her op- 1 portunily. John T. McGrath will ! keep his resolution. Rodney Rus- ! ^ell will stake a boxing bout with ’ Roy Calliscn. Robert Wiggins and Leonard Blackwell will sing a duet Come where my Love Lies Dream ing.” Latest Song Hit: Favorite of James Dorn. “All the birds in the trees—seem to whisper Louise.” LET US FILL YOUR AUTO NEEDS 4<s -M Poem found in possession of Nick Bradley: Of all the girls who ride in Fords and have been loved by Bradley. Blue-eyed Hettie of Dan McGrath. To the one I want so badly— High schol gossip: knows all. Sees all— SENIOR STATISTICS. Prettiest girl Nina Edmunds Best looking boy, Edwin Henderson Best sport, girl Thelma Reames Best sport, boy “Bub” Blackwell Cutest girl Virginia Strom Cutest boy Andrew Giles Most attractive girl, Louise Walker Most attractive boy, J. T. McGrath Smartest girl Maude Dowtin Smartest boy Mark Dowtin Most conceited, girl, Louise Remsen Most conceited, boy, Emory Bentley Wittiest girl Parrie Watkins Wittiest boy Edwin Henderson Most original, girl —Nina Edmunds Most original, boy, Archie Langley Most in love, girl __Lucile McGrath Most in Love, boy __ Emory Bentley Best nicknam, boy “Peanut” Jennings. Best nickname, girl “Sticky” McGrath Most modest Maude Dowtin Most popular, boy __ J. T. McGrath Most popular, girl __ Louise Walker Best athlete, girl_-Lucille McGrath Best athlete, boy __ J. T. McGrath Most optimistic—_J. W. Jennings Most pessimistic — Emory Bentley Most musical Emory Bentley Most dramatic, boy, J. *11. McGratH Most dramatic, girl, Nina Edmunds Most timid, boy James Britt Most timid, girl __ Helen Burnside Least timid, boy — Luther Rankin Least timid, girl Louise Walker Man hater Helen Burnside Woman hater James Britt Biggest flirt, girl ___ Helen Sheriff Biggest flirt, boy __ J. T. McGrath Biggest giggler, girl--Selma Walker Biggest giggler, boy --B. Blackwell Most dignified, girl--Maude Dowtin Most dignified, boy — Mark Dowtin Sweetest Virginia Strom Best all-around, girl Thelma Reames. Best all-around, boy John Wesley Jennings Most independent, girl Maude Dowtin Most independent, boy — Archie Langley For safe, dependable winter driving see us for Prest-O-Lite Batteries, as good as the best. Goodyear Tires, the greatest name in rub ber. Weed Chains for wet roads. Denatured Alcohol, for your radiator’s sake. We are ready and anxious to serve and please you. si r5v> I’d better buy another one,” said the dusky swain after some con sideration. “They ain’t three dol lars difference ’tween them two gals.” “If you love me as I love you I guess ycu know that we are through.” ‘How many Milton Walker: clauses are there?” Miss McGee: “Three—adjective, adverb, and noun.” Milton: “There are four includ ing Santa Claus.” X Safety Essay Awards Go To State Pupils Frizes For Highway Education Board Contest Sent to School Authorities Throughout the Country for Distribution To Successful Competitors Notice Of Election \ PIG’S PEN (By Mable Lyon) A colored man got his nerve to gether and took a flight in an air- olane. As he climbed out of the ship on its return to the field, he urned to the pilot and said: “Suh, ah has to thank you fo’ both dem rides.” “What are you talking about? said the aviator. “You only had one.” “No such,” returned the passen ger, “Ah done had two—mah fust an mah last.” GULF SERVICE STATION J. T. FAULKNER, Prop. Igiu0ia|| A SPELLS OF | BACKACHE *T have used Car* dui at intervals for sixteen years, when I suffered from weakness, and it always helped me,** says Mrs. J. W. Jinright, R. F. D. 2, Troy, Ala. "Mostly I was afflicted with bad spells of backache. At times I felt as if my back would break. I would drag one foot after the other, in a helpless sort of a way, and once I got down in bed. My husband urged me to take Cardui, and I soon found what a fine medicine it really was. "When my second child was little, I was in very bad health. I did not pick up as I should have. I was weak and sickly. I do not believe that I would have come through, but for Cardui.** fi Take Thedioitfa BLACK-DRAUGHT r for Constipation, Indigestion and BiSousnes* b-m ’ body gets shot.” A colored preacher was describ ing “the bad place” to a congrega tion of awed listeners. “Friends,” he said, “you’ve seen this here melted iron running out of a furn ace, ain’t you all-white, sizzling and hissing, well—the preacher pointed a long, lean finger at the frightened crowd. “Well,” he con tinued, they use that stuff for ice cream in the place I been talking ; about. Woodrow Callison: “Honey, would you love me any less if I told you I was broke?” Sarah Price: “You aren’t, are you?” Woodrow: “No.” Sarah: “Certainly not, darling.” Teacher: “Now, Bobbie tell us when is the harvest season.” Bobbie: “From November to March.” Teacher: “Why, Bobbie, I am surprised that you should name mch barren months. Who told /ou they were the harvest season?” Bobbie: “Dad—he’s a plumber.” WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 20.— Gold, silver and bronze medals, and checks for $15, $10, and $5, are being distributed to successful contestants in the eighth annual safety essay contest conducted last year by the Highway Education Board, Washington, D. C. Medals and checks are now being sent to State and municipal educational authorities to be presented by them. The safety essay contest has been conducted by the Board dur ing the past eight years in every state in the Union, children of the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades, fourteen years of age and under, being eligible. First prize is a gold medal and check for $15; second prize is a silver medal and check for $10; and third prize is a bronze medal and check for $5. Each state and territory is entit led to one first and one second prize, while the number of third prizes depends upon elementay school enrollment. Thus, while Nevada receives one third prize, Pennsylvania receives 23 and New i York 25. The best essay from each state is entered in a competition in which three are chosen by a com mittee of national judges. First prize in this contest is a trip to Washington with all expenses paid, at which time the winner is pre sented with a gold watch. Second and third prizes are gold watches only. Conjointly with the essay con test, the Board conducts a safety lesson contest open to elementary school teachers of the eighth and lower grades. While no state prizes are awarded in this contest, the best lesson from each state is en tered in a contest in which the winnner receives a trip to Wash ington with all expenses paid, and a check' for $500. Second and third prizes are checks for $300 and $200. Prizes are donated by the Na tional Automobile Chamber of Commerce. Names of the state winners follow: South Carolina state winners in the 1928-29 National Safety Cam paign. First Prize—Gold medal and fif- ten dollars: Sidney Petit, Bennett school, Charleston. Second Prize—Silver medal and ten dollars: Sara Bobo, Woodruff high school. Woodruff. Third Prize—Bronze medal and five dollars: Elizabeth Harris, Florida street school, Clinton; Mar jorie Mann, 137 Calhoun street. Charleston; Louise Kinder, Kings- tree; Nancy Young, Clinton; Julia Telford. Greenville street school, Abbeville. The essay by Sidney Petit will represent South Carolina before the national judges. The best lesson was written by Miss Margaret Emma McNinch, a teacher in the Woodruff high school, Woodruff. Highway Educational Board. 1723 N. Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. * . x Forest Tree Planting In South Carolina Carl Winn—“Let me kiss you un- | der the misletoe.” Annie Belle Langley: “Say, 3 , wouldn’t let you kiss me under ar. i anaesthetic.” Visitor: “Can ycu spell ‘horse’?” Hostess’ little girl: “I could if [ wanted to but what’s the use jf spelling anything so out of style?” LOST—By Frances Less Cowan- Frances Lee Cowan: “I nevei pet anything but animals.” Edward Strom: “All right I’ll be the goat.” < Miss Lancaster (grammar class): “Howard, tell me what it is when I say I love, you love, he loves?” Howard Watkins: “That’s one of them love triangles where some- Two hours after a Muskagee, Okla., negro had obtained a mar riage license he returned to the court house and asked the license clerk to substitute the name of an other girl, explaining he had just quarreled with his first lady love. “I can’t do that,” said Theo j Frazier, clerk. It already has been recorded. All I can do is sell you another license.” “I don’t guess STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of McCormick, Town of McCormick. In accordance with the provis ions of an ordinance of the Town of McCormick, a Primary Election will be held on the Second Tues day in February, 1930, (being the 11 day of February) at the Court House in said Town of McCormick for the purpose of nominating candidates for the office of Mayor and Six Aldermen for the said Town of McCormick, S. C., for the term commencing April 6th, 1930, and said terms of office to be for two years, and also for the purpose of nominating a candidate for the office of .Commissioner of Public Works of the Town of McCormick for the term commencing April 6th, 1930, to succeed Commissioner J. C. Brown whose term of office ex pires on said date, said Commis sioner of Public Works to be elect ed for a term of six years. J. C. Corley, Clerk; J. M. Brown, H. C. Walker and T. J. Sibert are appointed Managers of said Pri mary Election. A second Primary will be held on Tuesday, February 25th, 1930, if same shall be neces sary. Managers of said election shall open the polls at 8 o’clock a. m., and close them at 4 o’clock p.. m. All candidates for the above named offices of the Town of Mc Cormick shall file with the Clerk of the said Town a pledge in writ ing to abide the results of the Pri mary and to support the nominees thereof. All candidates for Mayor shall at the time of filing said pledge pay an assessment of $5.00 each; all candidates for Aldermen and Commissioner of Public Works shall at the time of filing their pledges pay an assessment of $2.00 each. All pledges and assessments* of candidates must be filed and paid on or before 12 o’clock Merid ian of the last Tuesday in January next, preceding the primary elec tion. No vote for any candidate who has not paid his assessment nor complied with the rules shall be counted. G. C. Patterson is the duly ap pointed Supervisor of Registration of the Town of McCormick and the place for enrollment of voters for said Primary Election and for Reg istration of Voters of the Town of McCormick is hereby designated as the store of Patterson’s Clothing Company on Main Street in the- Town of McCormick. AUSTIN ABERCROMBIE. • Mayor. C. K. EPTING, J. W. CORLEY, L. N. BROWN, C. H. HUGULEY, C. R. STROM, J. L. JENNINGS. Town Council of the Town of Mc Cormick, S. C. ATTEST: J. O. PATTERSON, Clerk. Jan. 6, 1930.-3t. This year more than 1,200,000 forest trees will be planted on idle lands in the State. The State For est Tree Nursery established in June, 1928, was wholly inadequate to care for the demands of timber- land owners this year. There are now growing in the nursery 600,000 Irees. some of which will be plant ed this spring. Next, year the Commission will have available for planting in the State at leas 1,500.000 forest trees of differen opccies. Longteaf pine, slash pine shortleaf pine <Pinus echinata Department of Commerce esti- and loblolly pine will be growr nates commercial air transport in rather large quantities. Othe for 1929 to be in excess of 25,000,- trees. Jess desirable for timber pro- 000 miles. In 1928 mileage was duction, will also be available in 10,673,450. small quantities. There are more than 11,000,000 acres of land in the State that must grow trees if anything of value is produced on them. At least 2,500,000 acres are being farmed at a loss on which trees will grow wood at the rate of $2.00 to $4.00 per acre every year. Con trast this value with the millions of acres that are not paying the taxes now. Many wood-working industries will look to South Car olina for a supply of timber, be cause it can be grown here at less cost than in the northern states. Tree planting in South Carolina is being practiced by several of the best business men ov/ning property i nthe State. They have studied the value of reforestation and what timber means in dollars and cents, and have begun plant ing on a large scale for profit. There will be no question whatever about their success in the work. Cheap land is a fundamental fac tor in growing timber and South Carolina has plenty of it that should be set in trees and millions of acres that are now being burn ed where fires should be kept out. Most of the land will reforest it self if burning the woods is dis continued. Be sure your cigarettes and tobacco contain no fire when discarded. See that your camp fiTe is out before leaving it. If this is done nearly fifty per cent of the forest fires in South Carolina will, not be started. LEWIS E. STALEY, State Forester. -X-