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TRUK TO OURSELVES, OUR NEIGHBORS, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD.
Twenty-Eighth Year
8 Pages — All Home Print
McCORMICK, S. C., Thursday, May 1, 1930
Established June 5, 1902
Number 48
William G. Blackwell
Dies Of Injuries
On the afternoon of April 24
our little town and community of
Parksville was shocked and grav
ed to hear of the accident which
occurred on the railroad about a
mile above town when the motoi
car of our section foreman, Mr. D.
F. Gaines, jumped the track and
injured all of its occupants more
or less seriously. As a result oi
this tragic accident our young
friend and neighbor whom we all
loved, Willie G. Blackwell, passed
away at the University Hospital in
Augusta Friday afternoon, at 3
o’clock.
On Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock
a sorrow-stricken concourse of rel
atives and friends gathered at
Parksville Baptist Church to pay a
last tribute of respect to Willie
who was tenderly laid to rest be
neath a mound of choice flowers
after a sad, sweet funeral service
in the church of which he was a
member. The beautiful floral of
ferings and large crowd, too large
to to accommodated in the church,
bore testimony to the esteem in
which Willie’s friends held him.
Willie wa^ in the 29th year of his
life and had been married several
years, his wife having been Miss
Sallie Belle Wood of Plum Branch
before their marriage.
Willie had served several years
in the U. S. Navy, but had made his
home in Parksville since his mar
riage.
He leaves besides his widow, his
mother, Mrs. S. B. Holley of Plum
Branch, two brothers, T. R. and 0.
M. Blackwell of Parksville, and a
sister, Mrs. D. W. Trammel of
Parksville.
To these and a host of other
grief-stricken relatives we extend
heart-felt sympathy, and com
mend them to the God of all grace
who will sustain them in oven this
dark hour.
A Friend.
Rural Population
Shows Loss Census
A report from Atlanta shows in
dustry in the South is drawing
heavily upon rural population, a
study of census reports from nine
states reveals.
Population of towns and cities
in Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina /Tennessee, Georgia, Ala
bama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and
Arkansas show surprising in
creases due largely to industrial
expansion in those states, authori
ties on the question said.
However, while the centers of
population grew rapidly from 1920
to 1930, the rural sections either
lost population or barely held their
own.
The situation is very much the
same' in all southern states except
Florida which had a general in
crease. Its urban centers almost
doubled their population in many
cases while its rural sections show
ed steady growth. Lakeland, for
ir nie Town Doctor
DOCTOR OF TOWNS SAYS:
ABOUT VACANT LOTS, STORES
AND FACTORIES
example, which is one of the few ;
cities cf more than 10,000 to report,
has a population of 18,544, an in
crease of 165 per cent during the
ten years.
Citrus Industry Aids
Growth of the citrus industry
and popularity of Florida’s cities
as reports are directly responsible
for the great increase, census su
pervisors said.
In other southern states, how
ever, the lack of growth of rural
sections and the amazing increase
of cities’ population are the early
features of census returns.
Southern cities have enjoyed
excellent natural growth and have
received a goodly share of foreign
capital. Annexation pfograms in
many cities also contributed. Many
■negroes, who left southern farms
[several years ago to go north and
I take jobs immigrants filled until
Wherever you find vacant
houses, vacant sioi-.s, and vacun.
factory buildings, you usually fine
vacant heads. Vacant lots al.
overgrown with weeds, rubbish-
heaped and otherwise generally
disreputable, near buildings where
people work, do business, or dwell,
is a symbol of “contemptuous fam
iliarity,” and proof that some one
or group of someones has failed
to apply known rules of good busi
ness.
Anything vacant, empty or un
tenanted re’pels, detracts, depresses
and looks bad. Anything vacant
casts a pall. It is too closely asso
ciated with things gone never to
return—apt to give an impression
too much like a skull and cross
bones—and that’s bad for business,
bad for happin ;ss, bad for every-
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Forty Registered
Jerseys To Be Sold
At Newberry
GREENVILLE, April 26.—Forty
sgistered Jerseys carefully select-
d by a sales committee consisting
f W. R. Gray, Greenville; John S.
latthews, Florence; R. D. Steer,
partanburg; and T. F. Cooley,
fewberry, will be auctioned at
[ewberry in the fourth annual
lie of “Palmetto quality” regis-
sred Jerseys at noon on Monday,
lay 5.
These animals, all from herds of
xembers of the Jersey Cattle Club,
re chiefly young cattle born in
929, and each has passed the
lists for contagious abortion of
aberculosis. Taese young animals,
ays Prof. J. P. LaMaster, chief of
be dairy division, offer a special
pportunity to boys , and girls
tailing in calf club work, and lie
nd other extension workers hope
bat many of them will be secured
y calf club members. It is a fine
pportunity also for Gaiiymcn and
aimers to add good sound indi-
iduals to their herds.
Breeders who have consigned an
nals to this sale are Dr. N. G.
,yers, Greer; D. A. & J. M. Bridges,
[eath Springs ;J. C. Bussey, Mo-
oc; C. T. Carson, Manning; W. P.
lonnely, Ninety Six; W. J. Du-
tose, Lamar; J. E. Faulkenberry,
[eath Springs; F. C. Fleming,
,aurens; C. B. Fretwell, Spar bun-
urg; W. C. Graham, Pamplico;
!. F. Hammond, Kershaw; Ray
linson, Heath Springs; S. E. Jef-
ords, Timmonsville; G. W. Jones,
treenville; J. D. Kemp, Edgefield;
l. S. Kirk, Heath Springs; W. H.
ficholson, Greenwood; John L.
>xner, Leesville; F. F. Rainsford,
’renton; G. D. Rankin, Saluda;
:iaude Rothell, Jr., Saluda; E. P.
iteele, Jr., Rock Hill; H. K. Stover,
[ershaw; Wheeler Bros., Saluda; I.
I. Wood, Greer; F. H. Young, Tim-
lonsville; Dairy Division, Clemson
Jollege; B. H. Bull & Sons, Brant-
n, Ontario.
| barred by government restriction,
[returned to the South and warm
1 weather. But instead of going
back to the farm, they went to the
cities to do public work. Lynch
burg, Va., for example, an ol(T
southern city, underwent an indus
trial revival during the ten years
and now shows a population of
40,559, an increase of more than
10,000. Roanoke in the same
state increased its population 18,-
254 and now has a count of 69,096.
Textile Centers
All textile centers in North
Carolina show remarkable in
creases.- None of the large cities
has reported. In that state rural
sections held their own generally,
possibly because of good market
for tobacco, authorities said, the
same situation existed in South
Carolina. Spartanburg increased
its population 26 per cent to 28,-
525, and other cities grew in pro
portion.
There were decreases in many
Georgia rural sections, but the
cities had a healthy growth.
Atlanta, excluding the boroughs,
j which form greater Atlanta, had a
[count of 266,557, an increase of
36.6 per cent. Columbus has 42.-
371 residents, an increase of 37. , i
per cent.
Preliminary reports showed Nash
ville, Tenn., enjoyed a growth tc
147.945, an increase of 24 per cent
while Jackson, a hustling little
railroad city in west Tennessee,
had 22.118 residents, an increase of
3,258.
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Plum Branch
Club Meets
The P/um Branch Democratic
Club met Saturday afternoon at
3:30. Tne following officers were
elected for the ensuing year: J.
W. Bracknell, chairman; S. J.
King, vice-chairman; W. M. Free
land, secretary; O. L. Sturkey, ex
ecutive committeeman.
Or. a motion by D. L. Wideman
the chairman appointed the fol-
If I lived in McCormick I’d go to
the first meeting of any organiza
tion I belonged to, or could get in
to, and say: “Folks, there are
some empty store buildings in this
town that tend to make our town
look too much like a grave yard.
They spoil the good stores' we do
have, and it makes it appear to
others that things are not so good
around here'. Now, I’m not a mer
chant, and I don’t own any busi
ness property; but anything that
hurts or takes away from McCor
mick is costing me money, and in
asmuch as it doesn’t cost any
money to correct this particular
liability, I for one, would like to
see those places cleaned uf>, and
the windows decorated, so that
they will attract people, and at the
same time make us all feel better
by not having something ugly
staring us in the face every time
we walk down the street.”
It wouldn’t make any difference
to me just what kind of a meeting
it was as long as there were some
people there. It could be a gath
ering of the Chamber of Com
merce, a service club or any other
civic organization; lodge, city
council, property owner’s associa
tion, or anything else.
And if I were a lady I’d do the
same thing at my Women’s Club,
sewing circle, ladies aid society,
study club; yes,‘I’d even say it at
my bridge, pinochle or flinch club.
And right here let me add that if
I were a woman I wouldn’t wait
for the men to take action on it;
for the looks, welfare and what
other people thought and said
about McCormick would be just
as important to me, as much of
‘ my business,” as that of any man
in town.
Perhaps you cannot take it upon
yourself to clean up a factory
building that might,be standing
somewhere in the outskirts of Mc
Cormick, all ghastly, spooky and
forlorn; but you CAN use your in
fluence to get somebody ’ else to
clean up around the building ,or
you can start the ball roiling to
put through a city ordinance com
pelling the owners, receivers or
whoever is in control of it, to keep
it from being an out-and-out lia
bility to you and all the other good
people of McCormick.
As far as vacant lots are con
cerned you can do plenty if your
town is spotted and pock-marked
with such. Get busy and clean
them up. If the lot is a walled-in,
barren plot down town, the best
and most inexpensive way to hide
it from view is to erect an orna
mental fence. A few vines planted
along it would help. If a lot is
exposed, or on a corner, get to
gether with a few other thinking
residents and spade it, rake it,
sow it to grass, add a fow flowers
and make it so that it will invite
business, and at the same time
make your days brighter, happier
and more content.
In every section of America there
Entertainment At
De la Howe May 8
The De la Howe State School
will give an entertainment in the
High School auditorium Thursday
nightf-May 8th, at 8:30. Please bear
in mind that this entertainment
will begin promptly. One of che
reasons for a sharp beginning is
that the school has little children
in the entertainment who, when
through with their parts, will re
turn immediately to the institu
tion in order that they may go to
their rest. It will greatly please
the management cf the institution
if all persons desiring to enjoy this
entertainment will be in their seats
by 8:30, the time of the curtain
rising.
It is hoped that the parts, in
cluding speech and song, will be
heard by the audience, and for this
reason it will be desirable that
there be no noise during the en
tertainment. The entertainment
will last slightly more than one
hour. Everybody in McCormick is
invited. It is designed to please
boht old and young. It gives the
superintendent of the institution
pleasure to present this entertain
ment free to any who desire to see
it. You will in this way observe
many of the older children of the
institution and appreciate the care
that is being given to their train
ing. Please, if possible, be in your
seats by 8:30.
Blease Talks Of
Coming Primary
CITIZENS WHO DIDN’T
FOR AL SMITH
VOTE
Minutes McCormick
Town Council 1885
WILL FIGHT ANY MOVE TO BAR IviR. J. O. PATTERSON, CLERK,
FINDS FORTY FIVE YEAR CLD
RECORD SHOWING SOME
INTERESTING EVENTS
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Board Of Directors Of
County Council Meet^
A meeting of the Board of Direc
tors of McCormick County Council
of Farm Women was held at the
court house, April 24th, with seven
members present.
The following chairmen of com
mittees were elected:
Religion and Welfare, Miss Annie
Lou Morgan, Bethany.
Health, Mrs. L. L. Rankin, Mc
Cormick.
Education, Miss Clara Wideman,
Bellvue.
Recreation, Mrs. R. A. Cobb,
Meriwether.
Music, Mrs. W. L. Acker, McCor
mick.
Publicity, Mrs. F. P. Rush, Will-
ington.
Citizenship, Mrs. G. W. Cade.
Bellvue.
Legislation, Mrs. W. H. Ryan,
Meriwether.
Agriculture, Mrs. Avis T. Britt,
Buffalo.
Exterior Beautification, Mrs. E.
C. Rice, Plum Branch.
Membership, Miss Emmie Shep
pard, Bethany.
Finance, Miss Irene Langley,
Plum Branch.
The directors voted to assist with
fair should the county put on one
this fall. It is hoped the club wo
men will make plans for exhibits
at the fair.
MRS. BOB DOWTIN.
Secretary, McCormick County
Council of Farm Women.
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“I am going to oppose to the last
ditch any effort to deprive any
white man or woman who is a bona
fide citizen of the state from par
ticipating in the Democratic pri
mary this summer,” declared Unit
ed States Senator Cole L. Blease in
Columbia a few days ago while
discussing rumors that efforts
would be made to prevent those
who refused to vote for Governor
Alfred E. Smith in 1928 from tak
ing part in the primary this year,
according to The S. C. Gazette.
In discussing his strong opposi
tion to the movement to bar cer
tain citizens from the primary, the
junior senator said: “I believe in
a white primary in South Carolina,
and in abiding by its results. We
have only one party and any per
son deprived of participating in
that party’s primary is virtually
disfranchised and is thereby de
prived of his or her privilege as a
citizen in selecting the city, coun
ty and state officials.”
Senator Blease expects to be in i streets properly laid out and drain-
South Carolina for the State Dem- j ed and put in thorough condition
ocratic convention in May. He j and supplying us with a map and
says he favors leaving Rule 32 just 'lamps;
as it is. NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolv-
Against Smith ed, 1st. That we gratefully ap-
The Democratic party could not preciate the kindness of Mr. Mc-
make a more serious mistake than
to nominate Governor Smith
again,” declared the senator and
adds the opinion that should he be | manifested towards us;
named it “will be a great deal more j RESOLVED 2nd. That this nre-
difficult to hold South Carolina in | amble and resolution be spread up
line than ever before.” ion our minutes, that a copy oc
“I think Raskob and Shouse furnished to the Advance for pub-
should never have been elected to lication and a copy sent to Mr.
the positions they occupy and they McCormick.
both ought to get out,” said Sena- Done in Council assembled this
The Messenger is indebted to Mr.
J. O. Patterson, town clerk, for the
following interesting article v/hich
he furnished the paper from the
McCormick Town Council Muiute
Book of 1885. The book, which has
not been seen in a number cf yeers,
was found one day last 'week by
Mr. Patterson, who promises to
furnish the paper with some of
the most interesting minutes, the
first of which appears below:
\ “McCormick, S. C.,
April 24, 1885.
Town Council in regular session:
S. B. Smith. Mayor Pro Tern,
called the meeting to order and of
fered the following preamble and
resolution:
WHEREAS. Mr. C. H. McCormick
of Chicago. 111., has constantly
manifested and testified his inter
est in the welfare and prosperity
of the Town of McCormick by his
many acts cf kindness and benev
olence; Notably: in having our
Cormick and that our thanks are
due and are hereby tendered him
for his many deeds of kindness as
tor Blease. “They have had their
! day in court and the American
j people have spoken in no uncertain
I terms, and in the face of this ver-
idict they should retire.”
Governor’s Race
“I think this race for governor is
anybody’s race so far,” stated the
senator. “There are some good men
mentioned. I propose to take care
of my own race unless I am op
posed to someone who wants to
draw factional lines. If they put •
up some man and say it is a Blease [
and anti-Blease fight we will con- [
centrate on some man for gover- !
nor, and I will fight for our crowd, j
I prefer to see the campaign con- j
ducted along high lines and every-
one work for the best interest of [
the state.”
Chance for Lewis
the 24th dav of April, 1885.
S. B. SMITH,
Mayor Pro Tern.
ATTEST;
T. A. ANDREWS,
Clerk and Treasurer.
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Miss Workman Wins
First Place In Essay
Miss Betty Workman of Troy
won first place in the county for
writing the best essay on the s ea-
ject “Why South Carolinians
Should Eat Home Grown Vege
tables.” Miss Workman is a Tim
ber of the ninth grade of the Mc
Cormick High School. Second
place was won by Miss Felicia Jef
fords, member of the 8th grade of
... .. .... . . ; the De la Kowe State School.
Asked regarding political devel- _ . n ... „
* • ti,- . „ . Each essay was well written and.
opments in Illinois, Senator Blease j . , ' . , . . ..
. , ^ ^ ’many interesting facts about gort-
declared that former Senator J j , _ TT ^ ^
TT , w _ . __ . . er m the United States and the
Hamilton Lewis. Democrat, has ~
wonderful chance to defeat M"s.
Ruth Hanna McCormick for * the
United States Senate at the gener
al election next November. Now
that Mrs. McCormick has defeated
Senator Deneen for the Republican
! nomination for the senate and Mr.
iodine content in South Carolina,
grown vegetables were orougnt out.
These essays have been forwarded
to Dr. Roc E. Pennington of Char
leston, where they will be entered
in the State essay contest.
The county prizes for these es-
lowing delegates to the county are people who are going to go
|convention: J. L, Bracknell, D. L. places this summer. Many of these
Wideman, R. F. Freeland, B. C. people will come to, and go
Sanders, W. E. Crawford, W. R. Itlnough, McCormick. All the way
Winn and W. M. Freeland.
J
from ten to twenty per cent of
This is the season of the year
when one may brush up his prem
ises by removing the brush.
these people are looking for, or
can be sold, a new location. Do you
want them to “get sold” on Mc
Cormick? Did you ever take a
fancy to anything that didn’t look
good?
If you are to make more money,
McCormick has to make more
money. McCormick can’t make
more money unless it grows. You
or no one else can make it grow
unless new people are attracted to
it, and you know and everybody
else knows that there are few bet
ter ways to interest people in any
thing, than to make it look good.
Whether McCormick looks “like
the deuce” or “like a million dol
lars” depends on what you are do
ing, and are going to get done,
from now on; and there is no bet
ter time to start than right now.
(Copyright, 1930, A. D. Stone.
Reproduction prohibited in whole
or in part. This editorial publish
ed by McCormick Messenger in co
operation with the Lions Club.)
„ . , , . ... iSays will be awarded at the annual
Lew* has been nominated by the commencement of the school in
faemocrats these two will face each, wh . ch th , winnlng essays origin .
other in the general election. ated and tl)ese essays win be pub .
I think former Senator Ham jjghed later in the local paper.
[Lewis has a wonderful chance to
[win in Illinois. I don’t think De-
neen has influence enough to hold
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Another sign of spring is when
, vou wonder whether you hear an
in line for Mrs. McCormick. Lewis air pi ane or a mosquito.
has a better chance to defeat Mrs.
McCormick than if he faced Sen
ator Deneen,”
Senator Blease returned
Washington Sunday afternoon and
was in the senate Monday when
the question of unemployment
savs Senator Blease ! lon Ser than 12 months if he decid-
; ed to remain here he should file
his application for citizenship. II
he did not he should not be allow
ed to remain in America.”
“Hard to Understand’
came up for discussion. Asked his speaking of efforts made by him
opinion regarding this problem he i j iave S onate pass a bill call-
, : i mg for registration of aliens at
j “I would put every man who is’the port of entry, Senator Bloase
] not an American citizen out of a 1 declared it was “hard for him to
|job, and put an American in his ! un d e rstand why on all occasions,
I pla.ee. And every man who has | regardless of what the resolution of
; been in this country 12 montnr, a bil i may w hen immigration
land nas not applied for citizenship J j S mentioned some are on their fset
I would put him on a boat a nd [ re sist any and all efforts and
i start him back home. I ready to fight for the foreigners.”
! “When a man comes to this j “I believe in fairness and pro-
i 1.— i-- —u i—. —i ...i.'',- tection for the foreigners but as
country he should be asked where
he is going and how long he ex-
! pects to stay. At the expiration
Sof his visit, which should not be
between him and the Amorican I
am for the American and I am
for America for Americans.”