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TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR NEIGHBORS, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD.
Twenty-Eighth Year
Teachers To Meet
Here April 26
LAST REGULAR MEETING OF
ASSOCIATION FOR THIS SES
SION. DR. EDGAR LONG TO
BE THE SPEAKER
The last regular meeting of the
McCormick Teachers’ Association
for this school session will be held
in the McCormick High School
building on Saturday, April 26, at
10:30 a. m. Doctor Edgar Long of
Erskine College will be with us at
that time and deliver the address April 1, survey, which com-
8 Pages — All Home Print
April 1, Crop Report
' COLUMBIA, April 14.—Cold
weather in March held back fall-
sown grain and pastures and dam
aged peaches, so that these crops
were below average on April 1, oats
being reported at 72 per cent;
Wheat, 67; Pasture, 65; and Peach
es, 59 per cent. The yield of grain,
however, is largely determined by
weather in April and May and it
is yet too early to tell just how
these crops will finally turn out.
For the United States a probable
Winter Wheat crop of about 530,-
300,000 bushels is indicated from
McCORMICK, S. C., Thursday, April 17, 1930
Established June 5, 1902
Number 46
Mayor Proclaims
21 to 28 As Clean-up
And Paint-up Week
That we may safeguard health,
promote thrift, further fire pre
vention, stimulate civic pride, and
make the homes and city beauti
ful, now, therefore, I, C. K. Epting,
mayor of the City of McCormick,
do hereby proclaim the week of
April 21 to 28 as clean-up and
paint-up week.
This date marks a real campaign
of persistent and constructive ef
fort in cleaning up our town and
oares with a crop ot 578,336,000 keeping It up. In this worthy
There will also be a very import- bushels harvested last year. Con- movement of cleaning, painting,
ant business meeting. The de- dit i 0 hs in the Plain States as a Planting shrubbery, repairing and
partmental groups are planning w hc>le are about average, but in seneral rehabilitation and beauti-
excellent programs. Let me urge j Ohio and upper Mississippi fixation, I arge and request each
every teacher to be present. We j valleys conditions are below aver-
certainly shall look for you and we a g e in all states except Kentucky
and Pennsylvania. In the Rocky
Mountain and Pacific Coast States
“The Town Doctor”
DOCTOR OF TOWNS SAYS:
SPRING HAS COME!
This is the time of year
when
to the teachers.
certainly shall miss you if you are
absent. Don’t forget, the last Sat
urday in April.
W. E. LAKE.
President.
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and every citizezn and every civic
service fraternal or patriotic or
ganization, the^ schools and
churches to co-operate with the
Democratic Clubs
Under the rules of the Democratic
party, each Democratic Club in the
County shall meet on the Fourth
Saturday in April of each election
year for the purpose of re-organ
ization and the election of officers
and delegates to the County Con—
conditions are below average, par- c ^y officials in their efforts to
ticuiarly in Washington. ! ma ^ e ° ur c ^y clean, healthy,
In ten Southern States Oats av- thrifty, safe and beautiful.
Poison Boll
Weevil To Save
Cotton Croj)
CLEMSON COLLEGE, April 16.— t ,
The boll weevil is already emerging most P 60 ? 1 ® th f ^ \° spruce
from hibernation in South Caro- U P- G ° mt0 ’most any store and
lina to attack the 1930 cotton crop, y ° u ® U1 s< f pe0 P le ?“ ylng a11 sor .; 5
declares M. H. Brunson, extension of th n « s ‘° ™ ake th f lr sarr0UM '-
entomologist, who says that most “ g ? look better-yard and garden
weevils emergmg now will die be-, tools ; sead ? of al * descriptions,
fore cotton becomes available but P aln >; anc ' lacquers, wall paper and
that their emergence is sufficient P orch furniture-everything to
evidence that the insects wll i be clean up and brighten up.
with the cotton farmers in consid- 1 , The )ad, “ are talking house
erable numbers this season. . cleaning. The men who not
“Every cotton grower,” continues talking and thinking gardens are
Mr. Brunson, “should prepare now anxiously watching to see how the
to fight the weevil by purchasing ^cens and fairways are coming
calcium arsenate, dusting ma- f 10 ?*- and everywhere there seems
chines, molasses and other neces- ‘° oe a sort of taking-on of a new
sary equipment. It is a certainty lea f. e on Ilfe '
that poisoning pays when done I J ne P^ TS are carrying column
right. It is imperative that pois- ! after colum n of copy on “Clean-up
oning be done right or not at all. | Campaigns. Yard and Garden
“Favorable results from poison- ! contests will be started and on
ing have been obtained in South cvery hand there will be a fresh
Five Farmers Join
The ( -ora Contest
THREE McCORMICK COUNTY
FARMERS MADE MORE THAN
40 BUSHELS PER ACRE
LAST YEAR
Carolina for many years. Six ex-
ness. light-heartedness and gener-
The scavenger truck and crew-
will be at your disposal all of next
eraged 71.1 per cent, compared
with 81.2 per cent a year ago and
77.4 per cent for the past six years, j week, and I ask that all tin cans,
QotiiivW 9^'while the condition is below aver- rubbish and scavenger in general
lUeei ^aiuructy, age in all of the Southern States, be put near the streets that the
it is especially low in Mississippi, scavenger crew can get same and
Louisiana, Oklahorha and Texas, j baul 'away.
The spring weather to date has ! During the last week of April the
been favorable to Peaches in all of i state board of health inspector
the ten Southern States from j will be here to inspect all premis-
which reports have been received, j es - Let’s see if we can t have one
Arkansas and Oklahoma report the J ^lie cleanest towns in the state,
crop to be nearly a failure, and the j D. K. EPTING,
other States report prospects poor- Mayor, McCormick, S. C.
periments at the Pee Dee Station f ° r Spring
in 1929, using 1-1-1 mixture once,
come.
That’s fine for everybody, busi
ness included. Too bad we don't
have spring more often; but then
if we did it would be like a lot of
Five McCormick, county farmers
have entered the South Carolina
Five-Acre Corn Contest for 19 D,
according to an announcement by
Thos. W. Morgan, county agtnt,
and others who are interested in.
the contest are urged to get in
touch with Mr. Morgan as soor as
possible and make entry.
The 1929 contest,'in which 3 Mc
Cormick county farmers made an’
average of over 40 bushels of com
per acre on upland was proof ‘
enough that we can grow com at a,
profit in McCormick county. ^Tie
cost of the corn grown on these
plots averaged around 50 cents per
bushel, including all laboi aid
other costs in connection with the
production of the crop.
The names of the farmers en
tering the 1930 contest are listed
as follows: J. M. Gibert, D. M.
iWardlaw. R. W. Cowan, W. E..
Sheppard, and H. T. Christian.
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gave a profit of $8.86 pen care,
seven experiments using four ap
plications of 1-1-1 mixture gave a
profit of $12.52 per acre, 11 experi-. ,, , * ' ^ rvr. ^
iinents using calcium arsenate dust p ther J- hi ngs—we would get used ^ i Ctt'IlSllS To Affect
after 10 per cent of the squares ^ whlch we ^ ct '
were punctured gave a profit of fai1 a P pre ^ iate -
$33.42 per acre; and eight experi- i The clean "Up Campaigns of
ments using one application of man y communities always remind
1-1-1 mixture and calcium arsen- ” ie 0 * a bttle boy taking a bath
| ate dust after 10 per cent of the! b e mi sses so many places. And a
House Membership
vention.
The County Convention shall ! er than at this date in either of
meet on the First Monday in May | the last two seasons. In the ten ^ ^ c 1 1
at the County seat and shall be states as a group, the condition of !^|)ellin^ 15ee oellOOl
cojnposed of delegates elected from the peach crop on April 1, aver-
squares were punctured gave
profit of $46.70 per acre.
town is just as clean, just as at-
the Clubs in the County, one dele
gate for every twenty-five mem
bers or a majority fraction there
of, based upon the number of 1927.
aged 52 per cent, compared with
83.3 per cent last year; 83.5 per
cent in 1928; and 55.6 per cent in
votes polled in the first pripiary of
the preceding election.
Every Club in the County is urg
ed to meet and organize on Satur
day, April 26th, 1930 and appoint
delegates to' attend the County
Convention, which will be held at
the County seat on May 15th, 1930,
at eleven o’clock.
_ # W. K. CHARLES,
* * County Chairman.
tAl‘
W. L. White Makes
Profit On flop’s date last y ear - ° n the same farms
x lUAxt wii 49 cent of the hens were lay _
Reports on the condition of early
Potatoes in ten Southern States
show tha^ prospects are no better
than they were a year ago, the
condition averaging 75.3 per cent,
compared with 76.0 per cent last
year and above 80 per cent in each
of the previdus two years.
On April 1, 59 per cent of the
milk cows on South Carolina farms
reporting were being milked and
the average amount per cow for
House Tonight
tractive, as the places that are left
It is important that cotton di ^y-
1 There are six places that most
towns overlook in their cleaning—
each of which costs thousands of
GREAT TREAT PROMISED ALL
WHO ATTEND. STARTS AT 8:30 '
I growers become acquainted With
ithe poisoning procedure recom
mended by the Extension Service. , „ . ,
1 Such information may be obtained
[free by writing ‘ the Division of
Publications, Clemson College, S.
.C., for Extension Circular 104.”
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All persons who pride themselves
on their spelling ability, from those
who studied the old Blue-Backed
spellirfg book on xlown through
the more modern spellers, are in
vited to attend the old-fashioned
spelling bee to be held at the Mc
Cormick High School Auditorium
by the local Anne Carter Chapter
FEEDS EIGHT SHOTES 41 DAYS
ON BALANCED RATION AND
PROVES THIS BEST WAY TO
MARKET CORN
of the U. D. C. tonight, Thursday,
that day was 1.89 gallons, com- April 17, at eight-thirty o’clock,
pared with 1.77 gallons on the same j Other features of the entertain
ment will be a popularity contest,
in which the most popular person
ing, compared with 51 per cent on present will be selected; a cake
same time lowers the morale of
it’s people, which is equally costly.
One of these is the highway en
trances to the town, which are to
, r . ^ i the community what the doorway
Miss bneppam and show windows are to a store,
wr 1 t» • l Every strange motor car that en-
i w orks Prize Garden ters McCormick has a cash busi
ness value of $5.20, and it takes
only one car a minute each way
during the traveling hours of the
day to make this traffic as valu
able to your community as a fac
tory with a payroll of two million
dollars annually. There are those
who will refuse to believe this, but
IS CHOSEN AS CHILEAN NIT-
| RATE OF SODA GARDEN CON
TESTANT McCORMICK CO.
Miss Emmie Sheppard of the
1 Bethany Home Demonstration Club
1 has been chosen as the Chilean
: Nitrate of Soda Garden Contestant j it is a fact nevertheless, and easily
of this county. This contest is put proved. x /
Mr. W. L. White of the Liberty
Hill section of the county recently
completed a hog-feeding demon
stration in which eight shotes were more plentiful than in recent
April 1, last year.
Farm wages in the State are re
ported about 5 per cent below last
year. By the month, with board,
the average is $18.50; without bo
ard, $26.25; by the day, with board,
90 cents; without board, $1.15.
The supply of Farm Labor is
FRANK O. BLACK,
Agricultural Statistician.
HENRY L. RASOR,
Junior Statistician.
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fed for 41. days on a balanced ra- years, according to the reports, the
tion of com and fish meal. During supply being reported as 12 per
the 41 days the 8 shotes ate 38 cen t; above the demand,
bushels of corn and 125 pounds
£sh meal, and gained a total of |
647 pounds, or 1.9 pounds per pig |
per day. Valuing the com at $1.00 •
per bushel, and the fish meal at'
$4.35 per 100 pounds the cost of o i i\/r* u
this 647 pounds gain was $43.27. oaiHliel Milled
The value of the grain at 9.5 cents, TV* T 11 A limi ota
per pound, for which the hogs were in jrxugtr.ici
sold at the farm, was $61.46, leav-
ing him a profit of $3.09 per 100 Mr. Samuel Miner died at his
pounds. Deducting the cost of the home ki Augusta Sunday morning
fish meal fed the hogs, Mr. White following a long illness. He nad
netted $1.55 per bushel for the been a resident of near McCor-
60m fed these hogs. This demon- mick all his life until last week
stratkm was conducted in co-op- when he and Mrs. Miner went to
eraiion with Thos. W. Morgan Augusta to make their home with
county agent, and J. R. Hawkins, their daughter. He was 74 years
Livestock Specialist. of age and had been a life long
McCormick county farmers could member of Republican Methodist
keep one or two brood sows per Church.
farm and grow out enough hogs in Besides his widow, who, before
this way every year to ship to the marriage was Miss Sallie Singleton,
northern markets to pay cash for he is survived by two sons, W .J.
the fertilizer used on the crops of Miner, Greenville, and Samuel
the county, according to Mr. Mor- Miner, Jr., Abbeville; one daughter,
gan. The limiting factor in hog Mrs. H. C. Miner, Augusta; one
walk, in which gay couples will
walk for a hidden mark to win a
cake, a bean guessing contest for
those with mathematical inclina
tions, home-made candy, for sale
for those with a sweet tooth, and
music by the McCormick Orches
tra for all.
A great treat is in store for
those who attend this event. It
has been a long time since a spell
ing bee was held in McCormick,
and many good spellers have been
waiting for a chance to try their
ability in a contest of this kind.
Remember the date, Thursday
night. April 17, at eight-thirty
o’clock.
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Skinner Steps Out
At A Glance
on by the Home Garden Depart
ment of the Chilean Nitrate of
’Soda Educational Bureau, Atlanta,
:Ga. This company furnishes free,
'one hundred pounds of nitrate of
1 soda, to be used in this demonstra
tion. There will be only one con
testant in each county and the
! prizes will be awarded to the three
! contestants having the highest
! records in the state. These gard
ens will be under the supervision
«f a representative of the Chilean
; Nitrate of Soda Educational Bu
reau, and Mrs. Dora Dee Walker
of the Extension Department at
Winthrop College and Mr. A. E.
Schlitter, Extension Horticulturist.
Mrs. Walker and Mr. Schlitter will
visit these gardens from time to
William Henry Skinner's charm
ing wife believes the sun rises and
sets in her husband, and is ambi
tious for his success. Skinner plays
up to his wife’s idea of him, and
tells her what an important man
he is. at the office, where in real
ity he is an unimportant employe
with a small salary.
His wife, distressed at his shab
by appearance, makes him buy a
dress suit. At a charity bazaar
she forces him to the front, with
the result that Skinner dominates
The first impression .is often the
lasting one, therefore, it is nothing
more than good business to see to
it that the highway entrances are
cleaned up and KEPT clean. Go
out on your highways and look at
the entrances to your city. If you
see a lot of unpainted, dilapitated.
cheap-looking road signs scattered
all along the road, make a list of
them. Then write, telephone or go
see those whose signs they are and
ask them to either fix them up -
or, better yet, eliminate them en
tirely.
Billboards and road signs are
proper enough, I suppose, in their
place; but they have no right to
stand where they will spoil and
clutter up an otherwise beautiful
time to offer helpful suggestions' roadside, and certainly they havf
and to watch the progress of them, j no right where they will detract
Miss Sheppard’s garden has been (from the business of a community.
well chosen, the soil well prepared
and the best of seed planted in it.
The young vegetables are begin
ning to make a good show and if
the seasons are favorable this
garden bids fair to be one of the
state winners.
The public is invited to visit this
garden and watch with interest
1 If there are any old tumble-
down shacks, open city dumps,
junk yards or other abominations,
go to the proper authorities, call
them up, write them a letter, and
keep it up until they do something
about it. Such things not only
drive business away from a com
munity, but actually cast a reflee-
the results of Miss Sheppard’s ef-;fi° n 011 y 011 . your family and your
production in the county is the sister, Mrs. Joseph Dillashaw of the affair and comes to the atten-
corn crop and the number of McCormick and three grandchil- tion of important people,
brood sows to raise the pigs. With drSn also survive. Skinner forces himself upon the
a reasonable season and proper Funeral services were conducted attention of his employer, and of
methods, we can grow forty bush- at McCormick Methodist Churchhis employer’s chief rival, whose
els of com or better p%r acre at a at 3o’clock Monday afternoon by, admiration he wins when he bluffs
cost of fifty cents per bushel, as the Rev. J. A. Bledsoe and inter- ! him out of a poker pot. Skinner
was shown by last year’s corn con- ment made in the city cemetery, | blocks a consolidation of the two
test, and with this and the brood G. P. McCain’s undertaking serv- firms — a consolidation which
enws 'here is no reason why hogs ice ip charge. Pall-bearers were [should, and later does, go through.
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forts to have a garden of which our
county will be proud.
Miss Sheppard lives at the old
; historic home of her father, Mr
W. E. Sheppard of Liberty Hill,
i The setting of this beautiful old
ihome and what it has meant to
iour state gives a unique and in
teresting back ground to both the
garden and gardener.
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Card Of Thanks
We wish to express our sincere
thanks to friends and relatives.
Dr. C. H. Workman, our faithful
physician, and nurse, Miss Frances
McGrath, for the many acts of
have in . t
where canot smiments a:
nv'db daily che p-.vrci
tfrV't'* Richmond gi?./.. v
10 to 11 c£ntS p:r p:>uncL
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Corrcct this statement: “My car
is old, ana another dent won’t
matter.”
dated firm.
Don’t miss this farce comedy of
love and fun, at Dixie Theatre,
Friday and Saturday at 3:15 p. m.
business. You do not have to tol
erate such things, but it’s up to
you. If you stand for it, you have
no one but yourself to blame.
While out on the highways look
to see if there are any “Welcome”
signs. Welcome signs are all right
if the community lives up to what
they say, but very often the oppo
site is the case. It is better to
have no sign at all than to say to
people who enter your community
“Welcome to McCormick.” and
then have them get a cold should
er.
r*know a town that spent sev
eral Thousand dollars erecting
beautiful arches with electric sign
read ‘Blankville is a friendly
town.” and you couldn’t get a
kindness and sympathy extended
to us during the illness and at the pleasant smile in the town if vou
death of our darling baby, Jessie ;paid for it. Welcome signs that
Mr. nid Mrs. T. C. Winn, i don't mean what they say had
lurs. Kate May god. ib-t-er be taken, down if the com-
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 16.—
Under the reapportionment act the
1930 census figures will cause six
teen states- to lose part of their
representation in the House of
Representatives, while twelve will
secure additional members, acced
ing to information from the Cen
sus Bureau. '
Jt is estimated by the mechani
cal estimator in the Census Bureau *
that the present population of ihe
United States is 122,187,533, and
since there is to be no increase Jn -
the membership of the House, eadi
member will be representative of
approximately 280,000 citizens Un
der the present apportionment Lhe r-
number of Representatives werdd .
have to be increased to 536 to oafce
care of the increase in populauon,-
but since this has been held *0 be-
undesirable, the reapportiqnment
must follow, it was stated. Under
the law this reapportionment wiH
be done by the states themselves,
through legislation, but in case any
state shall fail to enact such leg
islation, the new figures will be
come effective before the seccad
Congress following the reappar-
tionment.
California will gain more than
any other state by the new figimas,
it was stated, the increase in that
state in representation being _
while Missouri will be the biggrsfe
loser, having four less Represen
tatives than at the present &ne..
The total number of changes wfll
be twenty-four, which will be the
number to be divided between ^.he
states that receive increased rep
resentation. Michigan will be the,
second largest gainer, the repre- ^
sentation in that state being in
creased by four. Other states that
will receive increased representa
tion and the amount of tbe in
creases are: Ohio, 3; Texas, 2; :
New Jersey, 2; Arizona, 1; Con
necticut, 1; Florida, 1; Moritana,.
1; Washington, 1; Oklahoma. It
North Carolina, 1.'
The states that will lose by *he'
new apportionment and the num
ber of representatives lost ay t.cli.
are: Indiana. 2; Iowa. 2; Kentucky, .
2; Mississippi. 2; New York, 2; Ala
bama, 1; Kansas. 1: Louisiana, J; :
Maine, 1; Massachusetts, 1; Ne-
bvaska, i; North Dakota, 1; Ten
nessee, 1; Vermont. 1; Virgink., 1.
The other states remain the same
it was explained.
nunity can not be sokl on the ilea. .
of really extending a cordial wel—
come.
Gee to it that your highway en
trances are cleaned up—you aoi*t
have to take a pick and shovel aiid
do the work yourself, unless yiu
personally are responsible. Use '
your influence—public ppimon can
get anything done. Create pjbiie
opinion to SELL McCORMICK to *
the people who travel by motor.
(Copyright. 1930. A. D. Stone.
Reproduction prohibited in whete
or in part. This editoria 1 publish
ed by McCormick Messen cr in 'o-
operation with the local Lions
Club.)