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Thursday, May 1, 1930 MeCORMICK MESSENGER. MeCORMICK. SoutR Carr’in,. Washington High School News CLARKS HILL NEWS away from us for several weeks, in i /t*.-. s s the government hospital in Plor-, i>0rCleaUX S l ,ia y |ida, returned looking better. Jeff! | is one of our finest young men and | much beloved. Little G. C. Sanders was on the For Late-Blight CLEMSON COLLEGE, April 26.— ' ! y’ * ^ Late-blight, the most spectacular L Such a long time since Clarks honoi roll in ns un ay s„ too an£ j destructive disease of potatoes, £j Hill was heard from, I am believ- class last Sun ay. did much damage to the early crop; ling she is quite forgotten. I Mr. and Mrs. John Dallis Bussey in South Carolina last yeai% de _ Time passes swiftly in its flight from GeenvUle are on a visit to clares Dr Q M Armstrong plant Everyone is quite busy at school and years go by with only mem- their parents, in Clarks Hill, t re p athologist> who now ad vises that these days, for we are now rap- ories left us of those who played Mays and Mrs. G. A. Bunch. Ihey | ate _ b | i g2 1 |- should appear during idiy progressing on the last six upon the stage of life on our lit- have with them their two beauti- a p eriod of cooi n i g hts and corn- weeks. Plans for commencement tie communities. fnl children, Jno. Dallas, Jr., and p arative j y warm days, w’ith dew,i cie being made, and the seniors : A few weeks ago, Clarks Hill v/as little Billie. fog, or a cloudy period, it w’ould havj started to w r ork on their surprised by the homo coming of | Pat Frankling, Jack and Jr., destroy a i arge par t 0 f cr0 p i n play. As time for the closing of three who played in boyhood and Bass, George and Addie Bunch, days> so a 4-4-50 or 5-5-50 Bor- senooi gradually gets closer, it is girlhood youth upon this stage. Earle and Flack Bridges, J. I. deaux mixture spray should be ap- hoped that no one will forget his Lieut. Louie Muldrow, Dr. Tillman Cosey and G. C. Sanders are th~ p lied immediately, duties, but that everyone will be Sharpton and Agnes Rowland (now Sunbeams of Clarks Hill. ( frequency and number of faithful until the end of this term. Mrs. Robt. Richardson). Louie! The Young Peoples Auxiliary, aDD ii ca ti ons w iii de r>end unon the / Icamewith Agnes to visit his ances- 1 with Miss Lake Middleton as severity of the disease. Two important events are to take | tral home, where they as boy and president and the Woman’s Mis- and stage of development of place at the school building this | girl friends, spent happy days to- sionary Society, with Mrs. Joe the p lants> a com plete coverage of week. On Friday evening, May j gether. The Rowlands having been Wood president, meets once a the pj an (. s ’ un ^ii maturity being 2nd, Miss Bobo will present her! very dear friends to those living month, at Lar Bun Hall, the home necessary at ad times,” explains music pupils in a recital. • . Miss in this old home. of Mrs. Bunch. Dr Armstrong. “A 20-80 copper- Bobo has done excellent work as The Meriwether Home, now The home of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. lime dust> w hiie somewhat less ef- head of the music department and known as “Lar Bun Hall” and Fox was made glad at the home fec ^ ive may U£]jd j ns tead of the her recital is an event of much im- owned by Ms. H. E. Bunch. Louie coming of their daughter, Hattie, Bordeaux mixture if the dusting is portance. Muldrow was trained for service in and son, Edgar, bringing with him done when there ig practically no camp, and went over seas and was his bride of a few months. wind and the vines &re wet with in France at close of the World! Mr. Thomas Meriwether has a dew or rain A powdered Bord e a ux the Junior-Senior reception will War. Returning to locate in At- thousand babies (white leghorn). ussd ag a dugt ^ not recommended be given and much fun is being'lanta and is now a fine business He is so proud of this. Mrs. Meri- since it jg cons i de rably more ex- anticipated. man of that city. He has married wether also grows beautiful flow- enslve than the CO pp er _ lime dust there and has a little daughter, ers of which he is so proud as he somewh at less effective Louie is a nephew of Mr. Thomas is of his babies. Mr. Tom is the, „ The fungus causl " , ate : blight only descendant, except his broth- Clarks Hlll-a wonderful Mr. Tom ; bloLm-p^ceir 1 'Tim On Saturday evening. May 3rd, The chapel programs during the P ^r. k Bn,,,,* Merlwether of 411,3 immunity, the teacher of the Adult Bable class ''"'^ av ° s “ p e ^T^ Monday morning, Mrs. Roun- — j *— *■ i - 1 - 1 —xmi c tvas- T'rtm 1 ^ ■er, Jno. J. Muldrow of Georgia, of he is. ! lesions usually first appear on the the learned and distinguished fam- Scripture—Jewel Willis. ‘ Spring”—Fifth grade. “Five Flowers of Springtime” Sixth grade. . jijOUie aim Agues again, Agues xiuimicu vu uuc J “ ou Imanrin a pn- ‘Easter Bible Verses’—Sixth and more beautiful in motherhood than 1 across from the curve near the fil1 " !i ar gm C ’ rapidly to include the Mrs. Bunch is making a special- lower leaves though occasionally ily of Dr. Nicoles Meriwether. ty of growing of growing gladiolas first on the floW e r -p e dicels. The It was just wonderful to see this year. A garden of several infect , 3d leaflet ghows along the Seventn grade. Tuesday morning, Miss John son’s room. v Scripture—Nina Bussey. Health Playlet—3rd grade. Original poems— “The Cedar”—Mildred Gilchrist. “Birds”—Mary Bell Jennings. “A Lonely Tree”—Marie Stone. “Poor Me”—Mamie Willis. / Wednesday morning, Miss Wood’s room. Scripture—Myrtle McDaniel. “How The Robin Got His Red Breast”—James McDaniel. when she left us sweet, young end ing station. Mrs. Bunch's beautiful hole leaflet It may then dry German Iris are now blooming Mr. and Mrs. Marshall ha\ 0 had . is p i eildy 0 f moisture in the air, it boarding with them quite a num ": m ay rot away entirely and while her of nice young men from North ' dolng so em , t the characterlstlc Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and' potato odor by whlch the ]ate . South Carolina, helping in the blight may be detected in the field, construction of the Fureys Ferry As the lesion is enlarged recurring Vihridge. It has been a pleasure to we f^ s 0 f xvhite mold appear adja- - 1 C Iarks HiU t0 havo had with them cent to the healthy tissue on the several fine young men and regret underside of the leaflet.’ The les- to see them leave. Though we . ions on s tems, pedicels, and are very glad to see the bridge p e ti 0 i es are similar to those on the “Winter Storms Have Passed Away”—Henry Bailey. Thursday morning Miss McKin ney’s room. “Rhymes”—Second grade. x 317 Convicts Perish In Ohio fair years ago on her mission to China.' She has a little daughter and two sons, born in China. They are spending their vacation of a year with her parents, the Rowlands, in Augusta. Her hus band, Rev. Richardson, is . now taking a special course in New York. They will return after ex piration of a year for seven more years in China. Agnes always wonderful, shed- ■ding all around her sweetness and | are going to lose some of our neighbors. Rumor says Mr. Robert Middleton has sold his beautiful old ancestral home and will move to Columbia. The handsome Mrs. Middleton’s two attractive daught ers, Lake and Blanche, will be missed too. Mrs. Middleton and their fine boys and the two baby girls ,Vera and Billie. Though they pass out from our community, our good wishes attend them. Well, I thought when asked to give Clarks Hill happengs, there was nothing to tell, but on enum erating events, I am afraid of be ing asked to stop. In twenty years Rip Van Winkle may wake up again. Clarks Hill. blacken and shrivel up, or if there thoughtfulness of others, coming from the heart of a consecrated beautiful life, much of it given here in our li.tle community years be fore we knew her path led to China. The home coming of Dr. Tillman Sharpton, the son of D. W. Sharp- ton, of Sun Luis Potoci; Mexico. Dr. Sharpton gave Clarks Hill a wonderful surprise. He too was visiting his ancestral home at Clarks Hill, also his relatives here, Mrs. Bunch, Mrs. J. O. Marshall Prison Fire and The Tillman relatives. Dr. Sharpton was born in Mexico and came to Clarks Hill quite a baby, COLUMBUS, O., April 23.—The and dearly loves the old home of lives of 317 Ohio penitentiary con-! his father and memories of the victs were snuffed out by flames poet, so much so he said, there and smoke while they were locked is no place like it, not even Cal in their cells last night, according could boost over his homeland to the official casualty count made which was quite a compliment as leaves.” -txt- FASCINATION OF THRIFT GROWS WITH MOUNTING ACCUMULATIONS (By S. W. Straus. President Ameri can Society lor Thrift.) today by state officials. More than 130 other prisoners were in^the penitentiary hospital and from sixty to seventy of these were in a critical condition from burns and from smoke they in haled while fire raged in parts of lour cell blocks. Dr. Sharpton has spent years in different places, North Carolina for months, a year in Washington, D. C., then sent by Uncle Sam to Hon- olula for four years and then sta tioned two years in San Antonio, Texas, doing hospital work and (taking a special course in surgery. -X- Negro Lynched Near Walhalla On August 16, 1819, a deposit of $10 was made in a New York sav ings bank. On the 26th of the same month the next year a de posit of $5 was made. No other depcsists have ever been made for this account. The original deposi tor never returned to claim his money. The account still stands but through the processes of com pound interest it has grown to more than $2700 or 180 times its original value. An office boy on an errand lost merchandise v/orth $110. Ten years Inter the boy found himself able to I make restitution although it v/as WALHALLA, April 24.—Allen not compulsory. He gave $110 to Green, 50 year old negro, charged the man whose merchandise he with criminal assault upon a white had lost. The amount really lost, woman last Sunday, was taken however, was $193.67 for that is from the Oconee county jail at what the $110 would have become Walhalla by a mob last night and had it been invested at 6 per cent | lynched near West Union, two compounded semi-annually. In miles south of Walhalla, accord- fact, if the office boy had waited ! The penitentiary housed 4,300 it is from there Uncle Sam is send- convicts, some 2,500 above the cap- ^ing him overseas to France for sev- acity fey: which it was intended, 1 en months, accompany Gold State when the fire, behoved of incendi- Mothers, to visit the graves of their! ing to advices from Walhalla early one year and 263 days longer it ary origin and fanned by a stiff j sons. Dr. Sharpton’s wife will ac- 1 this morning. would have been necessary for him ; wird, swept through the upper company him. j The negro was tied to a tree and to return $220 if he had taken in- i tiers of the four blocks, spreading Little Clarks Hill feels real proud | shot to death by members of the to consideration the compound in- death and suffering in its wake. |in these young people, and may mob. most of whom were said to terest which the $110 had earned. l.ie flames were discovered life’s pathway be filled with worthy have been masked. The attention of the writer re- shortly before 5:30 p. m. Within things yet to come to them. j Sheriff John Thomas, who with cently was called to the illustra- stveral hours the fire had been | There are other day by day hap- his son, Eugene Thomas, were over- tion of a Roman child’s bank 1900 brought under control but the suf- p en j n % s among us. Our boys and powered, was severely beaten by years old with this explanation: treating smoke continued to take g irls of day are pi ay i ng their members of the mob and was car- “One cent if saved in this bank its toll among convicts. In the p ar 4. on the stage of life. Soon we rted to the Anderson county hos- and kept at 3 per cent interest ad oining cell blocks men seream- are h ave graduates from our Pital this morning. Sheriff Thomas compounded annually until now ed to be released. And when the S pi e ndid consolidated school was said to have suffered a frac- would amount to twenty-four sex- pr son officials capitulated to their Washington High. tured skull. His son was unhurt, tillion dollars—$24,000,000,000,000,- demancs the wide penitentiary Amorg these cr n? duat''s ther' 1 will' The mob appeared at the jail 000,000,000—more money than r? rr “ Streamin8 maSS ° f ^ r. fine "young man Robert Mid- shortl >' a * ter 11 o’clock last night there is in the world." | g^y cjo.ned men. ‘dleton. They are netting read- for and demandecl the prisoner. Upon If you can save $90 a month hours had. passed ^ j unior _s enior ^; ece p ti o^ A11 refusal the sheriff and his son during the next twenty-five years thk> mass of men, picking their . f , h i-.o nr t~ k-no-vino- ^ were overpowered, and the jail and invest the income at 6 per: way among countless bodies * py kn ° vVmg ono spread over the yard, became a threatening menace. Some of them es ^ of fine young «>iris Do vou and n2 S r ° carried away. A One continually is hearing stor- cut the fire hose which continued j. now at the a-e of 16 or 17 sin 8de shot was fired at the jail ies about the fabulous accumula-! to play upon the flames that ho i ds the office of Sunt of Clarks and S3veral shots were fired as tion of money through some brill- spread to the prison cotton and Sunday school? ’ the mob carried the negro through iant scheme or lucky break but woolen mills. Others hurled stones i Walhalla and on to the point of there are no financial fairy tales and slugged the guards that were ere are a e1 ^ ° w ? n v '. 1 u ,the lynching near West Union. more absorbing than those based trying to maintain order. In the min s * anc ’ w 10 J s pian- G re en, who was said to have on the wizardry of compound in dining hall dishes and tables were 18 m c _ urc an * °y ce n ges served a chain gang sentcnc; some terest. The piling up process may upcct- I an 1 ie ajS ’ eac iers ' ! years ago for an attempted sim- seem slow and prosaic enough at Every available policeman in; Then there comes oO Clarks Hill ji ar offense was alleged to have first but as time goes on we catch Columbus was summoned on duty a lovely little baby boy—guess who ( assulted the woman who was about the spirit of the magic spell, both within the prison and on the ( ^ e is? ; 18 years old and married, last Sun- Thift in theory is a dry subject outside. A sub-machine gun was William Middleton Rich, first day in the outskirts of V/aihaJa. but when it comes into our lives, set up in the prison yard. and only son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis He was arrested shortly afterward enriching our hopes and giving Scenes of confusion and terror Rich. Everybody goes to see him—. and given a preliminary before point and purpose to methodical accopipanied the outburst of the he is so darling. a magistrate Tuesday. He was routine, we feel in ij, a tense and flames. ■ j Mr. Jeff Sharpton. who has been!bound over to sessions court. ever growing fascination. more year will make them seniors keys taken from the -Ider Thom- cent compounded semi-annually and the negro carried away. Page Number Fonf CITATION OF LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION Among these is Byri Bass, the fin- as ' ce H ' vao un.ccked c.icii you can then retire with $61,975. Arthur Brisbane Birds and Men Women Always Pioneers 48 Years* Work. Thanks A New Planet At the lied Bank (N. .T.) railroad station, two larse flag baskets and two pasteboard boxes with holes to admit air were filled with carrier pig eons. A railroad man opened them, freeing four or five dozen birds. “I don’t know where they come from or where they are going,” said he. “They are often sent here to bo turned loose. I suppose they go home.” The beautiful birds, descendants of Wild iiock pigeons, found in steep Swiss canyons, fiew up in two groups, and for more than ten minutes circled round and round, regaining their sense of direction. Presently the two flocks, united, flew off together over the roof of the S. S. Thompson General Contractors’ building in a northeasterly direction. “They always go over that building, after they fly around ten or fifteen minutes to make uji their minds,” said a bystander. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of McCormick. BY L. G. BELL, PROBATE JUDGE* | WHEREAS, Mrs. Sallie Bello Blackwell made suit to me to grans T. B. Wood Letters of Adminis tration of the Estate and effects of W. G. Blackwell; THESE ARE. THEREFORE, to cite and admonish all and singular the Kindred and Creditors of the said W. G. Blackwell, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at McCormick, S. C., on May 16, 1930, next, after publication hereof, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. GIVEN under my hand this 30th day of April, Anno Domini, 1930. L. G. BELL, Probate Judge. 3t. Presently flocks of young humans, released from their educational cages, will be turned loose in the world. It will take them more than If* minutes to decide on direction, and many will never reach the destination. Some day whoji men shall have lived on earth as many million years as birds have lived here they, too, will !>3 born with a sense of direction and know which way to go. Oklahoma unveils a tine statue to the pioneer woman. Women have al ways been earth’s real pioneers, in ideas and in action. For hack in the Stone age they had produced ail the grains we know by developing the seeds of wild plants. They tamed female buffaloes to pro vide milk for their children, planted gardens, changed human beings from a nomadic to a settled life. They are the pioneer of the fron tiers and pioneers in ideas and in religion. The influence of mothers on their sons in the last million years has changed men from prognathous can nibals to semi-civilized money-grub- Ikers. It is a great improvement. discourage “Yes, sir. William Manck, forty-eight years a letter carrier, absent only one week in forty-eight years, retires. His su periors shake hands with him and are photographed doing it. That’s kind, but Uncle Sam might do more. He might give Wiiiiam Manck and #fher faithful servants of the post office a generous [tension on which l they could live comfortably when their hard work is done. And without waiting for them to l»e worn out. he might give them gen- ( erous pay, which he does not do. Professor Shapeley, director of the : Harvard observatory, hears from Can ada that another planet, sailing around our sun, hitherto unknown to us, has ! been discovered. How many are there in our celestial family? How far out to space does tlie family reach? Our ignorance proves the extreme 1 youth of our “thinking race." Only a very young and ignorant baby is un- ‘ able to tell how many sisters and brothers it has. * Our newly discovered planet neigh bor. circling around the sun, far out beyond Neptune, is the most interest ing thing in the news. We are only a little more than 90,- 000,000 miles from the sun. This new planet, about the size of our earth, is 1,330,000,000 miles from the sun. Multiply that by six and you will know approximately the length of the far-olT planer's journey around the sun. On that planet you must live 3,200 earth years in order to be one year old. To see the new neighbor, look now. It will be visible with earth’s tele scopes only about a hundred years longer, and then be hidden for 3.000 years, while it finishes one of its own years. Minister: “So you saw some boys fishing on the Sabbath. Did you try to them?” Small Boy: , 1 stole their bait.” While you are away on a fishing trip, a business trip or just a holiday outing, burglars may break into your home or place of business and steal valuable property. Locks and holts cannot keep them out, hut a depend able burglary policy writ ten by this agency of the Hartford Fire Insurance Company will give abso lute protection. / Frank C. Robinson Insurance Agency PHONE 66 McCormick WANT ADVS. FOR SALE—Two Jersey Milcji Cows or will trade for dry cows. J. J. Collier, Plum Branch, S. C. Itpo. FOR SALE—Cook Stoves, cash or credit, and new sewing ma chines, cash or credit. Buying chickens and eggs. J. B. Black well’s Store, McCormick, S. C. FOR SALE—Few fresh Milch Cows. Buying all kinds of cows and Veal Calves. Few cars cord wood wanted. J. B. Blackwell’s Store, McCormick, S. C. . Japstneso custom compels cacli per son to spook with great humbleness of his own achievements. The clever Japanese statesman, Wa- kasuki, who got everything for Japan that be wanted, gave nothing that lie didn’t want to give, writes his govern ment lamenting his “inadequate abil ity,” calling bis work “regrettably in sufficient.” and winding up, “I am ashamed.” Interesting news from Russia. Sta lin, boss of Bolshevism, celebrates the new commercial treaty with Britain by ordering nine British automobiles, costing from thirteen to fifteen thou sand dollars each. When Stalin and other Russians feel that a .Sto.OOO car is necessary, that’s a sign bigger than a man's hand. It means that somebody is be ginning to enjoy wealth, and means nothing good for Communism. All the powers, you are told, agree that it is desirable “to humanize sub marines.” Very desirable, but how? The young lady In the comic opera sung: “Shoot Him Gently, Oh, So Gently," but you can’t do that In war fare. t$'.. 1930. by Kiue Features Syndicate, Inc.) TAKEN UP—One hog, which owner can get by describing and pay ing costs. J. W. Marshall, McCor mick, S. C. WANTED—Reliable man about 30 years old with car to call on far mers in McCormick County. Make $8 to $15 daily. No experience or capital needed. Write today. Mc- Ness Company, Dept. M, Freeport, Illinois. Itpo. FOR SALE—Cleveland Big Boll Planting Cotton Seed, germin ation test shows 84 per cent good, at 75 cents per bushel. J. R. Cor- ! ley’s Store, McCormick, S. C. FOR SALE—High grade Cabbage and Potato plants. H. R. De?.~ json, McCormick, S. C. COTTON SEED—500 bushels good sound planting seed $1.00 pei bushel here. R. W. Cowan, Wili- ington, S. C. tJ CATTLE—Am paying highest mar ket price for beef cattle and hogs. See me before selling. A H. Faulkner, McCormick, S. C.