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« • rw ‘ J ;v7| • „' . ' *K .'•. ' v :...<* u *«^ l czstnac TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR NEIGHBORS, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD. Twenty-Eighth Year 8 Pages — All Home Print McCORMICK, S. C., Thursday, February 27, 1930 Established June 5, 1902 Number 39 Final Decision In Bond Case At An Early Date . WASHINGTON, Feb.. 25.—Al though final decision will not be rendered until some time in the near future, probably next Mon day, it was generally conceded here today that the supreme court’s action in ending argument on the $65,000,000 road bond issue yesterday was a victory for the group seeking issuance of the bonds. Arguments by counsel for C. L. Johnson and other South Carolina citizens was abruptly halted and the court also declined to hear counsel for the state. While the argument that the bond issue was a violation of both the state and federal constitutions was being made, members of the court frequently interrupted, seek ing to bring out the attorney’s pre cise reason for contending that a federal question was involved. The refusal to hear further ar guments is expected here to be a dismissal of the case since it is almost invariably regarded as a sign that the court will take the course when it declines to hear the other side of the case after the complainant argument has been made. The case was brought to the su preme court here after the judges of the state courts*sitting en banc held,the bond issue to be consti tutional. It was explained here that when the case reached the South Caro lina supreme court, three of the five justices held the statute vio lated the state and federal consti tutions and that Chief Justice Watts, in writing the decision,, said the act arbitrarily and capricious ly whetted away the people’s pow er to govern the issuance of bonds.” The two dissenting justices then asked the hearing before state judges sitting en banc.. COLUMBIA, Feb. 25.T-South Car olina’s $65,000,000 highway bond act, apparently upheld by the United States supreme court yes terday, will be attacked again in the state supreme court, Represen tative Olin D. Johnston, of Spar tanburg, said here today. Representative Johnston said that plans are being made to car ry a second appeal of the case to the state supreme court on grounds that the obligations of bondhold ers under the old reimbursement plan- of highway building will be impaired by the issuance of high way bonds under the act of 1^29. The acrlon will be taken by cer tain persons holding bonds under the reimbursement plan. D. W. Robinson, Columbia attorney, was named as probable counsel for the bondholders in the appeal. i Representative Johnston stated that both a state and federal ques tion would be involved in the new action. He cited Article 1, Section 10 of the federal constitution and Article 1, Section 8 of the state constitution as the basis for the proposed court action. X Carolina Glee Club Here Next Thursday Next Thursday evening at 8 o’clock, the curtain in the high rchool building will rise on the best performance seen in McCor mick in many years. The Carolina Glee Club will be here in hilarious spirits, ready to entertain you. This group is composed of the estate’s best musical talent. They are not only famous in South Car olina, but are nationally known, having recently given their per formance before President Hoover in Washington, D. C. This entertainment is being sponsored by the ladies of the Susannah Wesley Bible Class of S. C. Will Begin Pav ing Program Soon A special dispatch from Colum bia to The Augusta Chronicle yes terday says: The South Carolina highway de partment is ready to let contracts for 562 miles of hardsurface and 95 miles of earth type roads, with necessary bridges, at an estimated cost of $16,000,000, it was announc ed today, after advice from Wash ington that the United States supreme court had indicated that it would dismiss the $65,000,000 bond issue appeal. The system will be built simul taneously in 14 judicial districts and work will be let under con tract as quickly as possible. It is announced that it will be the highway department’s purpose to provide first hard surface con nections between the centers of population and the necessary trunk line links. Included in the list: Allendale county: Hard surface route 26 from Allendale to Hamp ton county line,i six miles. Bamberg county: Section of route 78, Bamberg to Orangeburg county line towards Branchville, 12 miles including bridge over Ed- isto. Edgefield county: Hard surface route 43, McCormick county line to intersection with route 25, six miles; route 25, from Greenwod county line to Edgefield, 13 miles; route 39, Edgefield to Saluda coun ty line, towards jWards, nine miles. Greenwood county: Hard sur face, route 26, Hodges to Abbeville county line, six miles; route 25, end of present pavement to Edge- field county line, nine miles. Also grading route 246 from Ninety Six to route 24, ten miles. McCormick county: Hard sur face route 43, McCormick to Edge- field county line, eight mUes, also grading route 20 from near Parks- ville to Savannah river towards Augusta, 14 miles. Orangeburg county: Route 2, Orangeburg to Dorchester county line, 20 miles; route 78, from Branchville to Bamberg county line, two miles; route 3 from near Swansea to the Barnwell county line, 14 miles. Also bridge over Edisto, route 78, between Branch ville and Bamberg. Saluda county: Hard surface, route 19, Saluda to Edgefield county line near Johnston, 11 miles. The list also includes the follow ing projects on which surveys have not been completed. A section of route 29, from An derson to the Georgia state line. A bridge in Barnwell county over the Edisto river on route 39 between Williston and Springfield. A section of state route 33 in Beaufort county from Bluffton to the Jasper county line near Har- deeville. A section of state route 33 in Jasper county from Tillman to the Beaufort line near Hardeeville. x Fishermen Catch Owl On Line Zander-Gump Wedding Tonight Zander-Gump Wedding is here! Comicville stages their wedding Uncle Bim can no longer resist the charms of Widow Zander. Maggie. Jiggs, Mutt, Jeff, Barney Google and 30 other comic guests will be there in person for this great event. Don’t fail to see this hum- orus appearance of America’s funniest comics. A riot of fun and laughter for young and old; clean, wholesome entertainment. Tonight Febrtiary, 27, 8:00 o’clock. See and hear your comic friends at McCor mick High School Auditorium. Ad mission only 15 and 25 cents. iXt 62 Club Members Complete Records Schedule Of Home Demonstration Work For Next Week Monday, March 3rd, office. Tuesday, March 4th, 3:00 p. m. Bethany H. D. Club at Bethany school house. Wednesday, March 5th, 3:00 p. m. Plum Branch H. D. Club at the home of Mrs. J. J. Langley. Thursday, March 6th, 3:00 p. m. Willington H. D. Club at Willing- ton school house. . Friday, March 7th, 10:30 a. m. 3:00 p. m. De la Howe 4-H clubs. Saturday, March 8th office. ixt Prizes Go For Ten High Yields Cotton Messrs. Walter Andrews ’and Alex Lawton of Willington are known tc have made many good catches of the finny tribe in Savannah and Little Rivers in years past and to have produced proof positive along with reports of unusual catches. This time, however, they have done something \mheard of in these parts, but still they produced the proof with the report. On a trot line they were fishing in Little RiVer Monday night they caught an owl—homed owl, or what is commonly known as a hooting owl. The owl did not swallow the hook, but became en tangled in the short line the hook was tied to and was splashing around in the water when they got to it. The supposition is that the bird was trying to get the bait off Sixty-two McCormick County 4-H club members out of a total of 92 enrolled for the year 1929, completed their records for the year, producing crops and livestock to the value of $3,748.74, of which $1,736.23 was profit, according to an announcement by Thos. W. Morgan, county agent, who super vised the work of these boys. The 4-H club boys in the county were enrolled in the following list ed clubs: Cotton, com, beef, dairy, calf, pig, poultry, garden and bee clubs. Each boy carried out his work through the year, keeping records of all work done, and all costs and receipts from his projject. These records were turn ed in to the county agent in the fall, and summarized to show the above listed results. The most popular club with the boys was the cotton club, 25 boys completing their records on a to tal of 32 acres of cotton, and pro ducing an average of 370 pounds lint cotton per acre at a cost of 9.1 cents per pound. Records on the cotton grown include rent on land, labor, fertilizer, picking, hauling, ginning, boll weevil con trol and all other items entering into the production of a crop of cotton. 4 boys. completed their records in the com club’ producing 23 bushels of com per acre. Ten boys grew out pigs, making them gain an average of 1.1 pounds per day, and making a combined profit of $97.04. Five boys grew out beef calves, making a combined profit of $60.57. Two boys grew out dairy calves, making a combined profit of $62.80. Six boys completed their records in gardening, making a total profit of $151.65 on 2 1-2 acres of garden. A club rally day was held at Mc Cormick in the spring of 1929, and was attended by 75 club members, 55 of whom received certificates from Clemson College for 1928 club work. It is planned to hold a rally day some time soon, at which time certificates will be delivered to the 62 boys for their 1929 work. The McCormick County club boys held their regular camp at Rocky Bottom 4-H camp in thej mountains of Pickens county early! in August. Foryt-eight club boys. ‘ or over half the total enrollment 'n the county attended the camp, md spent three days in mountain •Aimbing, swimming, and attend- ■ng lectures and demonstrations on timely agricultural subjects. The annual encampment will be 'ield again this year, according to Mr. Morgan, though the place has not yet been definitely decided. It is the purpose of the club work to train the boys according to the 4-H’s or the head, heart, hands, and health, in order that they may be better fitted for fu ture life. The boys are given something to do, and are taught the right ways to do the job and. for this reason, the work is stead ily growing in popularity in the county. At Edgefield recently the prizes were awarded for the ten high yields in the tri-county cotton con test which The Kendall Company has conducted for the third year on the Clemson College Five Acre Plan. B. R. Smith of Edgefield with a lint yield of 5,770 pounds won the first prize, $125. His son, J. N. Smith of Edgefield won the second prize of $115 with 5,100 pounds. Other winners, county, amount of prize and lint yield on Five Acres’ were B. T. Boatwright, Edgefield, $110, 4,905 pounds; B. B. Bauk- night, Edgefield, $90, 4,325 pounds; H. H. Herlong, Edgefield, $80, 4,- 240 pounds; J. F. Cullum, Saluda, $70, 4,090 pounds; T. P. Lyon, Edgefield, $60, 3,985 pounds; George T. Swearington, Saluda, $50, 3,955 pounds; Ryan Fellars, Newberry, $40, 3,940 pounds; D. T. Mathis, Edgefield, $30, 3,780 pounds. Coker’s Cleveland No. 5 seed was used by the winners of the first three prizes and also by Winners Cullum, Lyon, Fellars and Mathis. Coker’s No. 884 was planted by Winners Herlong and Swearington. Winner Bauknight planted Dixie Triumph. The average cost per acre was $90.03 and the average profit per acre was $106.97. It was brought out that The Kendall Company’s experiences in using Carolina cotton have been satisfactory; that the Company always is ready, through its buy ers, to pay a fair premium for staple and likes to buy its cotton as near to its mills as possible. They are the Oakland and Mollo- hon Mills at Newberry, the Wat- eree Mill at Camden, the Addison Mill at Edgefield and the Thrift Mill at Paw Creek, N. C. Plans for The Kendall Com pany’s 1930 program to encourage more and better cotton will be an nounced within the next few weeks. XXX March Is Mission. Month In Baptist Sunday Schools The Baptists of the South are making March Mission month in their Sunday schools. All the Bap tist Sunday schools of South Car olina have been furnished mater ials for programs and have been asked to co-operate in the South wide missionary effort. Dr. C. A. Jones, general secretary-treasurer and Mr. J. L.- Corzine, state Sunday school director for the Baptists of South Carolina, are counting on a wide use of the materials being sent out. This program material provides special service for each Sunday in March, to be used in the opening exercises. There is also provided a special program calculated to take the whole Sun day school period jon the Sunday of March 30. All the periodicals of the de nomination are being devoted largely to missions for the month of March and, the result will cer tainly be a greatly increased inter est in the world-wide mission pro gram of the churches. A special offering for missions, through the co-operative program, will be made by all the schools co operating on March 30. The Baptists have a well , worked out schedule of missionary and benevolent instruction through the Sunday schools, by means of these special months for their var ious objects; and, according to Mr. Corzine, these programs are wide ly used for missionary teaching among the Baptist churches in South Carolina* Each year brings the following special months March, Home and Foreign Mis sions; June, Christian Education; September, State Missions; and December, Benevolence, Orphan age, Hospitals, etc. -txt- Bans Extension For Income Tax RETURNS MUST BE MADE BY MARCH 15 Cotton May Sell As Low As Ten Cents A Pound UNLESS THE ACREAGE IS VERY MATERIALLY REDUCED .... 4. c . oira was trying to get txic wait the McCormick Methodist Sunday the hook> which was probably School. * * . | floating near the surface of the The boys are to be entertained : water> and became entangled in In the homes of the town. the llne Come and we guarantee you 11, enjoy it. MEMPHIS, Tenn., Feb. 22.— Carl Williams, of the Federal Farm Board, here today for a meeting of the American Cotton Co-operative Association, predicted another “bad year” for southern cotton planters unless the 1930 acreage is greatly reduced. “Southern farmers face the nrospect in 1930 of no government aid of an effective character unless immediate steps are taken to re duce cotton acreage and yield,” he said. “Cotton acreage is on the red side of the ledger, and southern cotton farmers can’t make expenses so long as over production holds down the price. Unless the farmers reduce to 40,- Enrollment of Clubs for 1930 has | 000 000 acres, there will be no cot- been completed, according to Mr. | t° n profit in the south. Morgan, who states that around “Cotton may sell as low as 10 120 boys have signed up for the cen ts a pound, or less, if the same year, and a number of others are acreage is planted in 1930 as in expected to come in soon. 1929. If the farm board is to be ! :of help to the southern farmer, txt it must not have to deal with an Sailfish sought by fishermen off unwieldly surplus.” the Florida coast average seven The meeting was called by Al- South Carolina income taxpay ers will get no extension of time on account of the proposed legis lation changing the specific ex emptions, W. R. Bradley, director of the income tax state commis sion, announced Saturday. In the event that the pending bills become law, thereby reducing the specific exemptions from $2,500 to $2,000 for married people and from $1,500 to $1,000 for single people, the tax commission will re calculate the returns in accord ance with the new rates and ex emptions and will bill the taxpay er for whatever additional taxes are •shown by the returns. Returns must be made by indi viduals and corporations, whose fiscal year corresponds with the calendar year, by March 15. An extremely small per centage of re turns have been made to date, Mr. Bradley reported. “The commission had under ad visement the extension of time for filing the returns,” Mr. Bradley said, “but concluded that the business interests of all concerned would be served by requiring re turns as usual on or before March 15. • Individuals and new corpora- ticiis who have not received blanks should apply for the blanks im mediately. The commission furn ishes blanks to all individuals and corporations who filed returns the preceding year but it has no way of knowing when a taxpayer finds his revenue sufficient for returns. “Information returns are re quired as usual where salaries, rents, etc., are paid in excess of $1,000. These returns will be in sisted upon this year in view of the proposed change in the specific exemptions.” | Agents from the income division will visit every county in the state to ossist taxpayers in compilation of the returns. Third District Teachers Meet At Anderson March 1 The Third Congressional district eachers meeting will be held Sat urday, March 1st, at the Anderson High School in Anderson. M. B. Camak of Ware. Shoals, executive committeeman, has charge of the program. Miss Lucy Gage, professor of elementary education of Peabody College, Nashville, Tenn., will be the principal speaker at the meet ing. She has been secured by the state association to speak at each of the seven district meetings. : A well known authority on school problems, and having been in con tact with many schools of the South, the addresses of Miss Gage will be anticipated with special interest by South Carolina teach ers. Besides Miss Gage, leading edu cators of this state will also he in attendance. Dr. Harry Clark of Greenville, president of the state association, H. O. Strowecker of Charleston, newly elect president, J. P. Coates, secretary, and or,her leaders will be on the program for speeches. Counties in the district are: Ab beville, Anderson, Greenwood, Mc Cormick, Newberry, Oconee and Pickens. Approximately 1,590 teachers are in this territory. Only one county, Newberry, has a 100 per cent membership in the asso ciation. The rating of the others follows: Abbeville, 118 teachers, 103 members; Anderson, 491 veach- ers, 390 members; Greenwood 167 teachers, 164 members; McCor mick, 42 teachers, 34 meraoers; Oconee, 290 teachers, 219 members; and Pickens, 279 teachers, 166 members. Newberry has 199 teach ers. X Edison Working On Rubber Plan - | VA AV -A AW*. A Aiv UAAAf, ▼V**"*' See next week’s Messenger for Zander-Gump Wedding tonight feet in length and weigh eghty len Northington of Montgomery, D i 8 00 o’clock nnnnrts Al„ m.noirlonf nf tv»p nXSOfMation. {further details pounds. Ala., president of the association. Final organization plans, selection of a headquarters city, naming of a reneial manager and other busi ness is expected to be transacted. FORT MEYERS, Fla., Feb. 22.— The interest of Thomas A Fdk >n has been aroused recently in the possibility of producing paper and insulating materials through de velopment of a species of wood found near his South Florida win ter home. The trees that drew the atten tion of the aged inventi* some time ago, and again recently, are of a species generally known as “punk” trees. A grove of the va riety is located about 20 mixes south of Fort Myers, near Esteio, where it has thrived and grown wild for several years on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico. When samples of the wood and outer covering of the tree were presented to Mr. Edison, he called attention to the possibility that it , might be used for paper and for insulating material. Recently, t is understood he has taken time rrom his experiments with golden-rod, as a potential producer of rubber, tc examine the wood specimens. Likelihood that Mr. Edison’s energy would be centered on his rubber experiments during the im mediate future has been seen in the flowering of his experimental goldenrod plot here an'd the recent final adjustment of the mode! re duction plant, which Fred W. Ott, Mr. Edison’s “right hand man,” prepared for tests. The two acre plot of solidage leavenworth is the species of goldenrod which Mr. Edison found most adaptable to his experiments, after a test of nearly 70 varieties, will be in bloom shortly. After seed has been taken from the stalks for reproduction, the goldenrod stalks, leaves and flow ers will be fed into the reduction machinery where a series of chem ical actions will be co-ordinated with a series of sieving processes through a relay of pressure tanks. The goldenrod plants, chopped by a cluster of knives into small bits of organic matter, will emeige as rubber at the end of the lay out. While the reduction plant at present is a small one, it will be built on a larger scale if the ex periments with it prove success ful*