McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, May 01, 1930, Image 2
Thursday, May 1, 1930
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Page Number v 'wo
Prominent Leesville ! Railroads Need All
Citizen Dies At His
Home Suddenly
JOHN PRESTON ABLE FATALLY
STRICKEN TUESDAY MORN
ING AT LEESVILLE HOME-
LEADING FARMER RIDGE
SECTION
(Twin City News, April 24.)
John Preston Able, one of Lecs-
ville’s beloved and most highly es
teemed citizens, died at his home
about 4:20 o’clock Tuesday morn
ing, after a brief illness of angina
pectoris.
He was the sen of the late Jbhn
G. Able and Lucy Ann Cullum Able,
of near Leesville, and was con
nected with several of the oldest
and most respected families of the
state.
Mr. Able was born May 5, 1858,
being in his 72nd year at the time
of his death.
On December 7, 1887, he was
married to Miss Martha Geraldine
Bodie, also of Leesville, who sur
vives him. He leaves the follow
ing children: Dr. K. L. Able, of
Batesburg; Mrs. A. L. Gunter, of
Spartanburg; Mrs. W. K. Charles,
of McCormick, and J. J. Able, of
Leesville, and six grandchildren.
The following sisters and broth
ers survive him: Mrs. Cora Salley,
of Salley; Mrs. Lou Quattlebaum,
Misses Maggie and Mary Able and
B. J. Able, of Leesville; R. Felder
Albe, of Washington, D. C.; For
rest Able, of Oklahoma; Willie
Able, of Texas, and Brooks Able, of
Pensacola, Fla.
Mr. Able was one of the largest
and most successful farmers in the
Ridge section and one of Leesville’s
leading citizens. He served his
town in various official capacities,
having at one time been mayor.
He was a loyal official member
of the Leesville Methodist church
and served on the building com
mittees of both the church and the
new Sunday school building. He
was always deeply interested and
most generous in all religious and
phllantropic movements. He was
a friend to mankind. It was a
source of the greatest satisfaction
to him to be able to help his fel-
lowman, white and. colored. Re
tiring, modest by nature, he made
no show of his activities, but peo
ple regardless of color or station
were constantly seeking him for
counsel and assistance in time of
trouble.
The esteem and respect in which
he was held by all classes was
best evidenced in the large num
bers that called immediately upon
learning of his death. Leesville
and the community has lost a val
uable citizen, whose place cannot
easily be filled.
The funeral services were held in
the Leesville Methodist church
Wednesday afternon at 3 o’clock
and were in charge of Rev. J. O.
Smith, pastor, assisted by Dr. A. N.
Brunson, presiding elder; Rev. C. E.
Peele, presiding elder of the Spar
tanburg district, and Rev. J. H.
Brown, of Whitmire. Interment
was in the family plot at Leesville.
The floral offerings were many and
beautiful, which were but a faint
expression of the love in which the
deceased was held.
Active pall-bearers were J. W.
Asbill, J. H. Bodie, R. H. Able, C.
E. Livingston, W. G. Duncan, H. A.
Meetze, D. D. Smith, L. T. Hite;
honorary ,J. L. Matthews, C. D.
Barr, J. R. Bouknight, C. M. Swy-
gert, W. D. Hendrix, J. N. McCar-
tha, Frank Hendrix, Dr. D. S. Keis-
ler, N. A. Derrick, F. Hamp Hend
rix, J. D. Langford, R. L. Allen, W.
A. Rose, J. B. Thompson, C. W.
Sollee, Sr., L. P. Steadman, M. E.
Rutland and J. L. Schumpert.
As a tribute of respect, all busi
ness houses in Leesville were closed
during the hour of the funeral.
Among the out of town friends
attending the funeral, the follow
ing were from McCormick: Mr.
and Mrs. J. A. Talbert, Mr. and
Mrs. L. N. Brown and daughter,
HerielJta, Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Fuller,
Messrs. W. E. Lake, C. K. Ep-
ting, W. T. Strom, J. S. Strom, H.
Drucker and R. L. Dendy.
Eyes examin
ed. Spectacles,
Eye Glasses,
and Artificial Eyes fitted without
Drugs, Drops or Danger.
DR. HENRY J. GODIN
Optometristi
956 Broad Street Augusta. Ga
Their Traffic
i A. C. L. Ry., Bulletin)
People who are interested in
bringing about the establishment
of motor truck lines that will com
pete for traffic with the railroads
usually argue that truck lines, far
from hurting the rail carriers, act
ually do them a real service. This,
they explain, is because the truck
lines usually handle only compar
atively small shipments that move
short distances. And, as everybody
knows, traffic of this sort is rela
tively much more expensive for
the railroads to handle than heavy,
bulky commodities that move long
distances in carload lots. By re
lieving the railroads of the bur
den of handling these small local
shipments, the truck lines, their
advocates explain, make it possible
fer the roads to use all their ef
fort to moving the heavy, long
distance traffic.
In similar fashion, the advocates
for Government subsidized water
carriers, *say that the development
of waterways at public expense is
necessary, not so much to com
pete with the railroads as to re
lieve them of part of their traffic
burden. The waterways, they say
can handle satisfactorily much of
the heavy, bulky freight, moving
in large quantities, that is now
transported by rail.
By relieving the railroads of the
burden of handling this traffic,
the waterways will, it is argued,
leave the railroads free to handle
other highgrade traffic more ex
peditiously, and to the Ultimate
benefit of the public.
It happens, however, that the
railroads do not want to be, and
do not need to be, “relieved” of
handling either class of traffic.
While it is true that the expense
of handling local, less-carload
shipments is higher than carload
through traffic, the railroads are
organized and have been develop
ed to handle this class of traffic,
in connection with their other ser
vice. Rail facilities are designed
for the handling of large volumes
of traffic of whatever nature. The
more traffic a railroad can handle,
other things being equal, the
cheaper the per unit cost of
handling. So long as arrange
ments must be made to care for
any traffic of a given sort every
additional pound of traffic helps to
reduce the overhead costs that
must be incurred to provide the
service. Every pound of traffic
lost to some other agency in
creases by that much the overhead
costs of handling the traffic that
remains.
The fact that some railroads are
using motor trucks to take care of
their local less-than-carload
freight between certain points does
not indicate that they want to get
rid of this traffic to motor truck
lines. It only shows that under
favorable conditions motor and
rail transportation can be success
fully co-ordinated.
The argument that waterways,
“By providing cheaper trans
portation for low-grade bulk com
modities, relieve the railroads of
this unremunerative traffic and
leave them free to transport high
rated traffic such as perishables,”
according to the Railway Age is “a
mis-statement that eontains not
even a half-truth.”
“The waterway,” it says, “pro
vides cheaper rates, not cheaper
transportation, and it has been
j shown repeatedly that total costs
of transportation by improved wa
terways, including the taxpayers
contribution, are not cheaper but
are considerably higher than rail
way transportation costs. Furth
ermore in suggesting that the rail
roads be ‘relieved’ of tonnage, the
! tacit assumption is made that
•railway facilities at the present
| time are greatly overtaxed where-
i as all railway men know that more
j tonnage and not less is what they
jneed if they are to continue im-
Over a Billion Deadly Germs
in a Single Drop of Water
Gerais are so small that there may
he as many as one billion, seven hun
dred million cf them in a drop of
v/atcr. And just a few cf these tiny
germs, if they get into your blood
through a cut in your skin, .may maice
you so sick you will be in. bed for
weeks—may cause the loss of a limb
through blood poisoning—may even
infect you with that most dreadful and
fatal of diseases, lockjaw.
Just because you can sce ne dirt in
a cut docs not mean that it is clean.
You cannot sec germs. The only safe
and sane thing to do, is to thoroughly
wash every cut, no matter how small,
with Liquid Bcrozonc, to kill the
germs, and then dust it wiih Borqzone
Powder, to hasten the healing. Liquid
Borozone costs 30 cents, CO cents, $1.20
and $1.50; Borozone Powder, 30 cents
and CO cents, and can be had at
STROMS’ DRUG STORE
A Year Without
A Summer
(Sovereign Visitor)
! proving
costs.”
service and lowering
FORD BATTERIES
$7.95
WHITTLE BATTERY
SERVICE
622 BROAD PHONE 1166
AUGUSTA. GA.
The real coal problem these days
is how to divide about 2.000 pound c
of coal into the rest of spring.
The ideal of some of our youths
today seems to be Atlas, they, too,
are trying to “hold up” the world.
txt
There is always room at the bot
tom, and any well digger will veri
fy this statement.
Known as the “year without a
summer,” 1816 was, throughout the
United States and Europe, the
coldest ever experienced by any
person then living. There are per
sons in northern New York who
have been in the habit of keeping
diaries for years, and it is from
the pages of an old diary begun in
1810 and kept unbroken until 1840
that the following information re
garding this year without a sum
mer has been taken, says the Dan
bury (Conn.) News.
January was so mild that most
persons allowed their fires to go
out and did not bum wood except
for cooking. There were a few cold
days, but they were very few. Most
of the time the air was warm and
springlike. February was not cold.
Some days were colder than any in
January, but the weather was
about the same.
March, from the first to the
sixth, was inclined to be windy. It
came in like a small lion and went
out like a very innocent sheep.
April came in warm, but as tho
days grew longer, the air became
colder, and by the first of May
there was a temperature like that
of winter, with plenty of snow and
ice. In May the young buds were
frozen dead, ice formed half an
inch thick on ponds and rivers,
corn was killed, and the cornfields
were planted again and again, un
til it became too late to raise a
crop . By the last of May in this
climate the trees are usually in
leaf, and birds and flowers are
plentiful . When the last of May
arrived in 1816 everything had
been killed by the cold.
June was the coldest month of
roses ever experienced in this lat
itude. Frost and ice were as com
mon as buttercups usually are. Al
most every green thing was killed;
all fruit was destroyed. Snow fell
10 inches deep in Vermont. There
was a seven-inch fall in the inter
ior of New York state, and the
same in Massachusetts. There
were only a few moderately warm
days. Everybody looked, longed
and waited for warm weather, but
warm weather did not come.
It was also dry; very little rain
fell. All summer long the wind
blew steadily from the north in
blasts, laden with snow and ice.
Mothers knit socles of double thick
ness for their children, and made
thick mittens. Planting and shiv
ering were done together, and the
farmers who worked out their tax
es on the country roads wore over
coats and mittens.
On June 17 there was a heavy
fall of snow. A Vermont farmer
sent a flock of sheep to pasture on
June 16. The morning of the 17th
dawned with the thermometer be
low the freezing point. About 9
o’clock in the morning the owner
of the sheep started to look for his
flock. Before leaving home he
turned to his wife and said, jok
ingly, “Better start the neighbors
soon. It’s the middle of Jqne and
I may get lost in the snow.”
An hour after he had left home a
terrific snowstorm-came up. Ths
snow fell thick and fast, and a
there was so much wind the fleec;
masses piled up. Night came am
jthe farmer had not been heard
1 from.
His wife became frightened and
j alarmed the neighborhood. All th
neighbors joined the searchin .
(party. On the third day the^
[found him. He was lying in a ho.
[low on the side of the hill with
both ftet frozen. He was half cov
ered with snow, but alive. Most of
the sheep were alive.
A farmer near Tewksbury, Va.,
owned a large field of corn. He
(built fires. Nearly every night he
and his men took turns in keeping
up the fire and watching that the
THINGS WORTH
KNOWING
Clouds are sometimes ten miles
thick.
The painter Titian lived to be
ninety-nine and worked at his art :
until he died.
Oyster shells dredged from San
Francisco bay are being used in
cement making.
Introduction of hardier varieties
of sugar cane into Louisiana is
proving of great benefit to the
sugar cane industry.
A novel little lamp attached to a
typewriter throws its beam on the
keyboard and does not shine in the
eyes of the typist.
Concentrations of mustard gas
so weak as one part in 3,000,000
will cause skin burns that require
many weeks to heal.
Trout thrive best in regions
where the temperature does not
rise above 68 degrees and where
the daily varietion is not great.
Germany has a network of 37,-
500 miles of motor‘buses.
Rabbits were given children in
Artern, Saxony, as prizes for the
best description of a rabbit show.
The vicinity of Donegal, Ire
land, is trying to encroach on the
Scottish domination of the rough
tweed and knitted wear trade.
A flaw in surveying notes made
by George Washington slfowing
30 per cent more acreage than a
plot actually contained, has been
discovered by a University of Wis
consin student. ,
For twenty years David Stitsel
has kept the homes of Bruners-
burg, O., clean. Stitsel is now sev
enty-one, but still makes brooms
to order, raising the straw and
performing all the labor.
Mt. Etna averages about seven
teen eruptions a century.
Undulent fever is so named be
cause the attacks of fever come
in waves or undulations.
The oldest city known to have
been continuously inhabited up
to modem times is Damascus.
There are 1,177 kinds of trees
in the United States and 137 of
them have known medicinal us
es.
About 75,000 new patients are
admitted to hospitals for mental
diseases in this country each year.
South Africa's diamond mines,
once the world’s chief source of
these gems, now yield only -on»
third of the annual production.
Although California produces
24,000,000 pounds of almonds a
year, the United States still im
ports large quantities from Eu
rope.
A Carnegie medal is sought for |
a four-year-old girl of McAllen, !
Tex., who saved a playmate from j
drowning.
1X t
Candidates should be cordial to
women. Most women control a
vote and a voter.
corn did not freeze. The farmer
was rewarded for his tireless la
bors by having the only crop of
corn in the region.
July came in with snow and ice.
On the Fourth of July ice as thick
\s window glass formed through
out New England, New York and
some parts of the state cf Pennsyl-
/ania. Indian corn, which in some
parts of the east had struggle,
through May and June, gave up
froze and died.
To the surprise of everybody
August proved the worst month oi
all. Almost every green thing ir.
this country and Europe was blast
ed with frost. Snow fell at Bar-
net, 30 miles from London, Eng
land. on August 30. Newspapers
received from England stated that
181G would be remembered by the
existing generations as the year
in which there was no summer.
Very little corn liper d in Now
England. There was great priva
tion. and thousands of persons
would hove perished in this coun
try had it rot been for the abund
ance ol fish and wild game.
FOR FIRST AID TREATMENT
Accidental injuries are more likely to happen in summer
time. Everyone is out-of-doors more, working or playing
where accidents art more prevalent and you should be pre
pared in case of emergency.
There are many common items that are indisnensable
for first-aid treatment which you should keep on hand.
WE HAVE THE THINGS YOU NEED
All of proven merit fresh and pure. Stock-up on these
items now: Bandage, Cotton, Antiseptic, Iodine Adhesive
Tape, Unguentine, Laxatives, etc.
Piescriptions carefully compounded day or night.
STROMS’ DRUG STORE
Main Street MeCormick, S. C.
§
*
EMENT
On and after May 1, 1930, we will sell strictly for
CASH. Below are a few specials for FRIDAY and
SATURDAY, I OR CASH ONLY:
JELLO, 3 boxes 25c
SYRUP, Mgple Log Cabin, 1 for _ _ 25c
TOMATOES, No. 2 can 10c
OCTAGON SOAP, 7 bars for 25c
GINGER ALE, Pleezing, 1 bot. _. 15c
SUGAR, 10 lbs. for 55c
GOOD FLOUR, 25 lb. sack 95c
SOAP, 3 bars 10c toilet soap 23c
SYRUP, Flint River, per gal. .... 60c
CHILI SAUCE, 14 oz. bot 23c
MAYONNAISE, Duke’s, 8 oz bot. 23c
LARGE MULLET, per lb 15c
We have decided to reduce every article in our
store in proportion to the above prices and sell
strictly for CASH.
A. H. FAULKNER
Main Street McCormick, S. C.
IE ONEV SAFE WAV
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It protects you against paying bills
twice by giving you your own receipt
in the form of your cancelled cheek.
It protects you against robbery. It
isn’t safe to carry money or to have it
around your home.
And last, but not least, a checking
account at this bank gives you the ad
vantage and prestige of a good bank
ing connection.
OPEN YOUR ACCOUNT HERE
We offer von the best service and
best protection available, coupled
with a friendly interest in vou and
vour business.
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Open your account here now and
enjoy the . afety and convenience that
U offered you.
irk. S. C.