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(K . Thursday, April 3, 1930 McCOJUAil f uK AlES&Kiv U&R, McCjOKAI 1CK., South Carolina. , r v s . * 1 7 |e Number Eight 26 Votes Cast In General Election In the general election held here Tuesday, 26 yotes were cast for mayor, six aldermen and one com missioner of public works, whose terms of office begin April 6, 1930, all being for a period of two years, except the commissioner of public works, whose term is six years. The ticket ,as voted without a scratch, is: Mayor: C. K. Epting. Aldermen: C. R, Strom, C. H. Huguley, J. W. Corley, L. N. Brown, J. T. Faulkner, J. L. Jennings. ^ Commissioner of Public Works: J. C. Brown. Seed Loans To • .Vf''** Be Made Soon In:; Four Regions Fund of $6,000,000 is Also Available for Buying Fertilizer for 1930 and for Feed for Work Stock Death Of Young Colored Man Willie Melton Hampton died at his home on Route No. 3 Monday evening after a brief illness. In terment was made at Zion Chapel at 4 o’clock Tuesday afternoon, J. S. Storm’s service in charge. He was 16 years of age and en joyed good health all his life and was sick only a few hours before his death. He is survived by his father and mother, Cal and Geor gia Hampton, and several brothers and sisters. xxi —^ Henry Thomas Dies, After Long Illness Henry Thomas, colored, (known as “Big Henry”) died at his home near town at 1 o’clock Monday af ternoon, following a long illness. He was 54 years of age at the time of his death, and was one of the county’s most substantial colored men and best farmers. He came here from Georgia when quite young and began work as a farm hand in the Bethany section, later renting land and finally purchas- ing a home and several hundred acres of land. For the^past sev-r eral years he has been running IS plows. He is survived by his wife and two daughters of McCormick and a number of relatives w^eorgia. Funeral, services were conducted Marshall aid inter- iade at Shiloh Chwrch at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon . J. S. Strom’s service in charge. FOR SALE I will sell to the highest bidder for cash at my home 5 miles south west of McCormick on Tuesday, April 8, 1930, at 3 o’clock p. m., the following: One horse, Cotton seed, Two cows, Corn and fodder, One buggy, Household goods. SAM MINOR. NOTICE Loans to farmers in storm, flood, and drought-stricken areas of the United States, for seed, feed for work stock, and fertilizer for 1930 crops, will be made by the U. S. Department of Agriculture under the authority of a Resolution pass ed by Congress and approved March 3, 1930, a fund of $6,000,000 having been provided in the Defi ciency Act approved March 26. This announcement was made to day by Dr. C. W. Warburton, Di rector of Extension Work, and Chairman of the Advisory Seed Loan Committee of the Depart ment. The Resolution authorizes the making of loans in areas in 15 States, where the Secretary of Ag riculture finds need for such as sistance exists. For the prompt handling of ap plications four field offices are be ing established at widely separated points. Applications for loans from Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, will be received at the Farmers’ Seed Loan Office, Co lumbia, S. C.; those from Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and Oklahoma, will be handled at a similar office in the Old Custom House, St. Louis, Mo.; those from Montana, North Dakota, and Min nesota from an office at Grand Forks, N. Dak., and those from the flood areas in the Rio Grande Valley in New Mexico, from an of fice at Albuquerque, N. Mex. The necessary forms have been printed and are now being distributed to committees in the counties in which loans are, to be made. L. Emory White, who handled the appropriation for loans in the Southeastern States last year, has been given general supervision of the operations. J. H. Lynch, who was associated with Mr. White in the Columbia, S. C., office last year, will be in charge of that of fice, from which it is expected that the larger part of the fund will be loaned. The St. Louis office will be supervised by TWeed Har vey, of the Office of Cro-operative Extension Work; that in Grand Forks by O. S. Fisher, also of the Office of Co-operative Extension Work, and that in Albuquerque by J. W. Park, of the Bureau of Ag ricultural Economics. Advances to borrowers will be made from each of these offices by temporary special disbursing agents assigned by the department for that pur pose. txi Used Cars Selling Well On Market DETROIT, Mich., March 31.—A marked indication of increasing business activity and excellent proof of the purchasing power of the country at the moment, is seen in the announctement by the Chev rolet Motor Company today that sales of used cars alone by its na tion-wide dealer organization are proceeding at the rate of a million TO THE STOCKHOLDERS OF MCCORMICK TELEPHONE CO. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That a Special .Meeting of the stockholders of McCORMICK j dollars a day. TELEPHONE COMPANY will be j Used car sales by the Chevrolet- held in Abbeville, South Carolina, j retail organization during the first on the 15th day of May, 1930, at 520 days of the month totaled 105,- the hour of 1:15 o’clock p. m., to - 907 cars, representing an invest- consider and vote upon the prop- , men ^ more than $21,000,000. osition of dissolving the corpora- | This showing exceeds by a wide tion, and for the transaction of , margin the best previous 20 day such other business as may prop- i use d car record in the history of erly come before the meeting. . ti le company and at the same McCORMICK TELEPHONE CO. (time is the greatest 20 day volume By RANDFORD DUNLAP. j 0 f use d cars ever sold by any au tomobile manufacturer. Factory officials predict that the total for the month will exceed 150.000 used cars, which would compare with 130,000 for May 1929 the best previous month in Chev rolet history. At the same time used car stocks in the hands of dealers are being reduced to a minimum, placing the dealers generally in excellent position to handle a large volume of new car business this spring. \ CITATION OF LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of McCormick. BY L. G. BELL, PROBATE JUDGE: WHEREAS, J. J. Collier has made suit to me to grant Mrs. Lillie E. Langley Letters of Administration of the Estate and effecs of J. J. Langley; THESE ARE; THEREFORE, to cite and admonish all and singular the Kindred and Creditors of the said J. J. Langley, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in Happy are the astronomers who go' on finding new worlds, while reformers arc trying to make the Court of Probate, to be held at | something out of this one. McCormick Court House on 16th ! x — day of April 1930, next, after pub- . One Indiana bank was robbed lication hereof, at 11 o’clock in the twice within a few weeks. The forenoon, to show cause, if any baby’s bank, however, still holds they have, why the said Adminis- the record. tration should not be granted. X GIVEN under my hand this 1st Now that a new planet has been ^y^Arthur Brisbane Where Are the Passengers? Germany’s Victory. Surprising the Greek. The Billion Dollar Age. San Diego, Calif.—Officials of tlie Santa Fe road, gathered in convention, were told by their president, Mr. Storey, that something is happening to railroad passenger business in the United States. In 19224be Santa Fe carried 15,000,* 000 passengers. -In 1928 the number had dropped to 4,200,000. That means a good deal to railroads, to owners of railroad stocks, and to the automobile industry. Automobiles, privately owned, and public automobile bus lines, have made the change. And Mr. Storey’s figures will change again soon, when fully developed air travel takes 90 per cent of long distance travel from railroad and motor bus lines. Washington High School News The chapel programs for this week have been very interesting. On Tuesday morning, Miss John son’s room was in charge, giving the following program: Scripture—Edith Robertson. A playlet—“Mary’s Lamb”—3rd grade. Wednesday morning the pupils of Miss Wood’s room conducted chapel. Scripture—Carolyn Dukes. Reading—“The Coast Guard”— Margie Reese. Do not hurry to sell your Santa Fe or other sound railway stock, however. Railroading now is really railroading, not stock jobbing. And better methods, bigger locomotives, longer trains, bet ter yards and a .thousand improvements, including.- especially, loyal co-opera tion by railroad union workers, have more than-madefor-the drop- in passenger travel. Freight is the thing now, and that depends on prosperity. Germany lost the war, but wins in other directions. Recently the German Bremen, lowering the- record across the Atlantic, took the “blue ribbon” from the British. Now the North German Lloyd liner Europa has beaten the Bremen's rec ord. The Europa, magnificent 50,000 ton ship, according to builders here ami in Britain, would be too expensive for American or British lines. The in vestment of $50,000,000 could not be profitable. ^ . Germany. beate,ji,' is able to do what the winners of the war cannot do. A Greek philosopher was exiled be cause he said the sun was probably bigger than all of the Greek islands. We know now that the sun is a mil lion times bigger than the earth, and in distant space other suns are a mil lion titaes bigger than ours, making them one million million times bigger than the cosmic grain of sand we live on. An Italian, Professor Bendani, announces discovery of the fact that our solar system is fifty times bigger than astronomers thought. What would the old Q£tek have said to that? This is the billion dollar age. The old plain million, once revered, is as unimportant as the extinct hansom cab. *$#3 Gen. W. W. Atterbury, president of the Pennsylvania railroad, foresees ex penditures by bis company in the next ten years amounting to ten billions of dollars. Ten thousand millions is a good many dollars. The Pennsylvania has already spent six thousand millions. On Friday morning the high school took charge with the fol lowing program: Scripture—Julian Stone. Prayer—Helen Gilchrist. Essay—“The Meaning of Polite ness”—Lucile Mathis. Essay—“Examples of Politeness” Marie Gilchrist. Essay—“Examples of Politness” —Blanche McDaniel. Misses Annie Jackson and Marion Herron spent last week end in Starr and Miss Bobo in Belton. Mr. Morgan, county demonstra tion agent was a visitor in our school last week. We are always glad to have him. *XI Radio Programs For 4-H Clubs The running time from New York to Chicago will he cut to fourteen hours within \ few years. Trains will carry passengers' auto mobiles with them as ocean steam ships now carry them. Radiophones will enable travelers to talk to their offices and to their homes. The house of representatives voted to increase the national contribution to good roads from $75,000,099 to $125,000,000 a year for three years, beginning next July. This will mean, in three years, $373,- 000,000 for better roads alone, good news for all citizens, for the automo bile industry, its employees and for the unemployed. day of April, Anno Domini 1930. L. G. BELL. * Probate Judge. discovered, it is up to someone to make plans for one of those rocket flights. On April 0 the Mormon church will be one hundred years old. Plural mar riage has gone, hut the church remains powerful, with numbers increasing, aft er a century of struggle and opposi tion. Nearly one million Mormons will celebrate the day; the main celebra tion at Sait Lake City, others all over this and nearly all European coun tries and in Mexico, Australia, Hawaii and the South Sea Islands. The late Lord Balfour was power ful in establishing and guaranteeing Jewish rule iu Palestine. To honor his memory, every Jewish child born in Rumania next week will he named for him, the boys Balfour, the girls Balfouria. Andrew Mellon, now seventy-five years old, is the head, through owner ship, of half a dozen of the greatest corporations iu the world. Under throe Presidents he has shown himself to be one of our greatest secretaries of th • treasury, reducing the public debt b> thousands of millions each year. If Mr. Mellon were a railroad con duclor they would tell him he wsis to*> old and he would have to give up his Job. If he were a workman, seeking em ployment, be. - would have to get his hair dyed block and lie about his age. The best years of a man’s I if**, for useful work and for intellectual enjoy ment, should come after seventy. At I ninety, a man should rest. t930, by Kip* Ventures Synjicaie, Lie.) Miss McKinney’s department gave a program on Thursday morning. Rhyme—“The Days of The Week”—1st grade. Reading—“A Busy Little Help er”—Amyelle Drennan. Reading—“Blowing Bubbles”— Frances Robertson. Reading—“Mary’s Cold”—Sara Howie. "r .,{ Reading—“Don’t”—Hazel Dukes. Song—“In The Sky Above Us”— Lorene McIntyre, Amyelle Drennan,' Addle Bunch, Frances Robertson and Annie Lee Robertson. Friends ®f Mr. Sam Jones will be sorry to hear that he has been j called home on account of illness of his father. We surely hope that !his father will soon be better and that he can return to school. The ninth of a series of national 4-H club programs to be broadcast over a national hook-up of 43 sta tions is scheduled for Saturday, April 5. The United States Marine Band will furnish the musical numbers and background, continu ing the series of music apprecia tion periods. The theme for the I day will be music from other lands 1 and the numbers chosen are, “In the Hall of the Mountain King”— (Norway); “Aloha” — (Hawaii); “Drink to me only with Thine Eyes”—(England). Mr. R. A. Turn er, field agent in club work for the Central States, will announce the numbers and discuss them. The speakers representing club mem bers will be, Doris Cole, of Ben- •nington County, Vermont, who will tell cf her “Four-H Club Experi ences” and Bruce Varney, of Rock ingham County, N. H., who will speak on “Why I Chose a New Hampshire Farm to Life in a Big City.” Alfred Despres from East Jaffrey, N. H., a former 4-H club champion, now engaged in farm ing, will also speak on this pro gram on “The Place of Leaders’ Associations in 4-H Club Work.” “What Do You Know About Club Work?” will be discussed by Mr. R. G. Foster, field agent in club work for the Eastern States, Office of Co-operative Extension Work. The time for the program is giv en below: Eastern Standard Time, 12:45 p ! m. to 1:30 p. m. All 4-H club members arc asked 1 to try to hear this program on Saturday. The Home Demonstra- ' tion Agent will appreciate any i help that radio-owners will give ; the 4-H girls in enabling them tc i hear this national program. : x i The thief in the night is fas* ! becoming a back number. Most ol j them work in the daylight v/hor j they can see what they arc dring -X- I i A young man may bo th? bulk! i er cf his fortune, but n :l„n serves a i Take a clol’ar bill for i'r. ao |It mav stretch a lie Ho, bat doesn't pvvse to yawn. filflNG GUIDE In her capacity as housewife, every wo man in charge of a household is its gener al manager. Upon her devolves the duty of making rather large purchases, which leads into another duty-that of economical expend itures of the household funds. The observing housewife has doubtless noticed that hpr husband reads industri- % ously what he calls his “trade papers,” pertaining to his business. He reads them to keep pace with his work and to help solve the problems that arise every day. The careful housewife will find that the newspapers are her “trade papers.” The advertisements tell her nearly everything about the purchases she wishes to make, that she should know . If she is a good household manager, like her husband, who spends many hours en grossed in his magazine and papers so that he may conduct his business more successfully, she will study with care the advertisements in the newspapers and find that they enable her to conduct her business more economically and success fully, and thus add to the comfort and joy of home life. After becoming a careful and thought ful reader of newspaper advertisements, this type of housewife will be able to choose the store that gives her the great est value for her mony. Her choice will inevitably he the store where she can get the advertised goods she asks for and where she has been assured in advance through advertisements, that the pur chases she makes will he as advertised. The thoughtful household manager will discover that any merchant who ad vertises will keep the contract lie makes with his customers in his advertisements. She soon learns that any retail dealer w ho advertises regularly will not betray her confidence. * I She knows that when the merchant in serts an advertisement in the newspaper, with his own name attached, he is speak ing to her. Tell the merchants with whom you trade that they should advertise their goods regularly so that you may know what they have to sell and keep pace with the introduction of new goods and fash ions. This paper is the medium for this coun ty and adjacent territory, and the cost of advertising is small; while the Ijenefits to the advertiser are large and will grow with regular advertising.