McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, May 29, 1930, Image 2
Thursday, May 29, 1930
McCORMICR MESSENGER. McVORMICK, South Carotin*.
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McCormick High
School News
STAFF
Editor-in-Chief Louise Remsen
Assistant Editor Welbourne
45chumpert
Business Manager James
Blackwell
Stenographer Nina Edmunds
Special Editors
Sport —* Archie Langley
Socials Selma Walker
Fun arid Humor Mabel Lyon
Clubs Ellen Bdsdell
Features 11 Lucille McGrath
Class Reporters
Eleventh Frances Lee Cowan
Tenth Ruby White
Ninth Louise Vaughn
Eighth Elizabeth Lake
Reporters
Dollie Rankin, Pearl White, Myrtis
DUlashaw. *
take things as they come and you
will find that you will get along
oetter.
E. B.
SENIORS HAVE PICNIC.
Wednesday afternoon the Sen
iors had their annual picnic. They
left the school at 12:15, laden down
with food and looking forward to a
glorious time. Their destination
was Long Cane Creek; their meth-
^od of travel; all kinds of cars im
aginable. By one o'clock all had
arrived and the fun began. They
had with them a portable yictrola,
so that they could even have music
while they ate. The water was fine
for wading, and some who didn’t
mind getting their feet wet en
joyed this for awhile. Some of the
boys tried seining in rather a des
ultory fashion, but most of the
time was spent in just enjoying
the warm sunshine and relaxing
in the spring air.
But when eating time came, it
was discovered that the laziness
which was keeping them still had
net yet reached their appetites.
There was plenty of everything,
especially ice cream, which they
owed to Mr. Lake’s kindness. And
everybody a tel The only thing
which kept the day from being
perfect was the fact that Mr. Lake
was not able to be with the crowd.
But otherwise, it was a • perfect
day. ,
CHAPEL PROGRAMME.
For the last time this school-
year students and teachers gath
ered in the auditorium for a class
programme.
It was a very sad and solemn
| occasion for most of us especially
.jeniors.
The first number on the pro
gramme was a song to Mr. Lake by
the Seniors.
Speech—Archie Langley,
j Another song by Senior class—
‘Where O Where?”
Poem—Helen Sheriff.
School song—^‘Corne on McCor
mick Hi Let’s Fall in Line”—Sen
ior Class.
Poem—^Virginia Strom. «
Poem—Mary Edwards.
The programme was concluded
by a song, “Farewell to Thee.”—By
Senior Class.
PEARL WHITE.
LEAVES FROM A SENIOR’S '
MEMORY BOOK.
The time is drawing near when
we Seniors will ha/? to part and
elir minds are wandering back
over the four happy years we have
spent together in our dear, old
High Schopl building.
We entered High School, a crowd
of happy girls and boys with never
a thought that in four years we
would have to part. t5
When we became Sophomores we
studied and worked that some day
we might become Seniors. We were
not at all like the Green little
Freshmen that entered High
School only a year before.
hi 1928 we began our Junior
year in High School. This year
we had the Junior-Senior Recep
tion and the Junior play to think
of and we worked together plan
ning for them. Now we were be
ginning to watch the Seniors so we
could assume an air of dignity and
walk around with our heads in the
air like they did.
And now we are Seniors. Mon
day night will be the last time we
will be together in McCormick
High School. We have played to
gether and worked together but
now the time has come to say fare
well and the'best of friends will
have to part. We will leave our
school taking with us memories of
thfe good times we have had to
gether and we will always remem
ber our superintendent, our teach
ers, and our friends.
N. E.
COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM.
The Commencement exercises of
McCormick High School for the
year 1930 will begin Friday night,
May 30, when the seniors present
their play “Cinderella O’Reilly” in
the High School auditorium at
8:30.
iSunday morning the baccaulaur-
eate sermon will be preached.
Monday morning Class Day ex
ercises will be given, and Monday
night the graduating address will
be delivered. At this time the sen
iors will be awarded their diplom
as, and medals given to those win
ning them.
THE SENIOR CLASS PRESENTS
ANNUAL PLAY. 4
I On Friday evening. May 30, at
8:30, the Senior Class of McCor
mick High School will present its
annual play. The play is “Cinder
ella O’Reilly,’’ the story of an Irish
colleen who, in spite of the opposi
tion of her guardian, the wealthy
Judith Bohne, wins the heart of
the man she loves.
The cast, under the direction of
Miss McGee, has been hard at
work for the past few weeks, and
hopes to give a performance which
will please all those who come to
see it. The practicing has not
been easy work; it has taken self-
denial on the part of the cast to
give up every evening; but each
ene has worked faithfully at his
part, so that we feel confident in
declaring that the play will be a
success. . .
The cast is as follows:
Chang Fu John Wesley Jennings
Granny Bohne Elsie Durham
Judith Bohne Louise Walker
Willard Wood __ James Blackwell
Margaret O’Reilly--Louise Remsen
Alice Height Selma Walker
Gene Trayne Nina Edmonds
Lord Cyril Ballantrae Luther
' Rankin.
Jimsey Brayden -_ Archie Langley
Forrest Arnold Charles Acker
PIG’S PEN
(By Mabel Lyon)
If you want to know how to keep
young just ask the following:
Ida Lee Ellison, Sara Price, Mar
garet Price, Mabel Lyon, Mary
Moss.
Father: “I hear you are always
at the bottom of the class; can’t
you get another place?”
James Dorn: “No, all the oth
ers are filled.”
Azile Self: “Are mosquitoes bad
around your house?”
Frances Lyon: “Well, I never
saw any good mosquitoes, did
you?”
Sam Price: “Darling, in the
moonlight your teeth are like
pearls.”
Margaret Addy: “Oh, indeed. And
when were you in the moonlight
with Pearl.”
Janie Pearl Brown: “Is my face
dirty, or is it my imagination?”
James Patterson: “Your face
isn’t, I don’t know about your im
agination.”
Ellen Bosdell: “Father, I am
determined to have a career.”
Weary Father: “All right, pick
out one you like and I’ll buy it for
you.
James Patterson: “Would you
marry an idot for the sake of his
money?”
Virginia Strom: “Oh, this is so
sudden.”
Carl Young: “I will love you per
petually, eternally and everlast
ingly.”
Sara Gibert: “Yes, but how long
will you love me?”
MR. PRESSLY SPEAKS
IN CHAPEL.
Rev. Leon T. Pressly gave a very
interesting talk in chapel Wednes
day morning. This is the last time
that we will have a minister with
us this year.
He told us to always be useful,
agreeable, and cheerful.
Never kick about anything, just
Miss Lancaster: “Charles, give
me a sentence using deceit.”
Charles Blackwkell: *T wear
pants with patches on de seat.
Miss McGee: “Your theme should
have been written in order that
the simplest should understand.”
William Mayson: “What part
don’t you understand?”
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When the driver^in front of you
holds out his hand, all you need
is skill as a mind reader.
COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM
McCORMICK HIGH SCHOOL
CLASS OF 1930
MAY 30TH, JUNE 1ST, 2ND
FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 30TH, 8:30 O’CLOCK
“CINDERELLA O’REILLY”
(By Ted and Virginia Maxwell)
Presented By The Senior Class Of McCormick
THE PLAYERS x
(In Order Of Their Appearance)
Chang Fu John Wesley Jennings
Granny Bohne Elsie Durham
Judith Bohne Louise Walker
Willard Wood James Blackwell
Margaret O’Reilly Louise Remsen
Alice Height Selma Walker
Gene Trayne Nina Edmonds
Lord Cyril Ballantrae Luther Rankin
Jimsey Brayden Archie Langley
Forrest Arnold Charles Acker
Directed By Sara McGee
Produced by special arrangement with the
Walker H. Baker Co., Boston, Mass.
SYNOPSIS OF SCENES
ACT I.—Grounds of the Bohne Estate.
Two-thirty, fall evening. /
ACT II.—Same
later.
Setting.
Sunset.
Two weeks
The
ACT III.—Scene I: Same Setting.
Following Evening.
Nine-thirty. Curtain falls to denote pass-
. ing 6f time.
Scene II: Same setting midnight
SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 1ST, 11:30 O’CLOCK
COMMENCEMENT SERMON
Processional Hymn “Holy, Holy, Holy”
Invocation Rev. W. H. Barfield
Mymn “Come Thou Almighty King”
Scripture Rev. J. A. Bledsoe
“Lead on O King Eternal” 1 Nolte
High School Choral Club
Prayer Rev. Leon T. Pressly
“He That Dwelleth” Hosener
Mrs. W. L. Acker
Sermon — Rev. Paul L. Grier
Hymn “Blest Be the Tie that Binds”
Benediction Rev. Paul L. Grier
Recessional Hymn “Onward Christian Soldiers”
MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 2ND, 11:00 O’CLOCK
CLASS DAY EXERCISES %
Address of Welcome John Wesley Jennings
The Class History Selma Walker
The Class Statistics Louise Walker
The Class Poem Nina Edmonds
Music — Emory Bentley
The Class Troubles The Class
The Class Prophecy Lucile McGrath
The Class Will r James Blackwell
The President’s Farewell Message. John Wesley Jennings
The Class Song Seniors of 1930
MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 2ND, 8:30 O'CLOCK
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
Processional March Miss Hall
Invocation —— Rev. J. A. Bledsoe
Salutatory Mary Edwards
“Bird Song at Eventide” Coates
Miss Ellis
Address Rev. J. W. Jackson
“Mazurka” 1 Mlynarski
Miss Dillard
Valedictory Maude Dowtin
Awarding of Diplomas and Medals Supt. W. E. Lake
Benediction Rev. W. H. Barfield
Recessional Miss Hall
CLASS OF NINETEEN THIRTY
Charles Clinton Acker Leonora Marguerite Addy
James Edward Blackwell Helen Monteze Brown
Isabel Cothran
Frances Lee Cowan
William Mark Dowtin
Porter Caswell Dorn
Elsie Katherine Durham
Ida Lee Ellison
Annie Margaret Freeland
John Wesley Jennings
Archie Andrew Langley
Helen Louise Ludwick
Agnes Lucile McGrath
Luther Felder Rankin
Helen Louise Sheriff
Thomas Edward Strom
Fame Elizabeth Watkins
James Benjamin Britt
Myrtle Ruth Deason
Maude Chiles Dowtin
Clifton Henderson Drennan
Mary Eliza Edwards
Nina Rebecca Edmonds
Grace Miller Gilchrist
Julia Anne Jennings
Addie Lorraine Leard
Helen Mary McGrath
Sarah Aulene Price
Louise Patterson Remsen
Virginia Holloway Strom
Ottie Louise Walker
Thelma Irene Reames
Vick Chemical Co.,
Merges Drug Ine.
PHILADELPHIA, May 26.—An-
other chapter in one of the most
unique and striking examples of
successful American industry was
written here today in the merging
with Drug, Inc., of Vick Chemical
Company, a Delaware corporation,
with operating offices and plants
here and in Greensboro, N. C.. and
additional producing laboratories
in Canada, Mexico, Colombia and
Spain, all devoted to production of
its single product, Vicks VapoRub,
a cold remedy for which world
wide demand has been established
within a generation.
Vicks had its beginning in the
historic drug store at Greensboro,
N. C., where O. Henry—(William
Sidney Porter)—America’s greatest
short story writer, learned the pro
fession of pharmacy. Lunsford
Richardson, fellow townsman and
contemporary of O. Hmry and a
druggist of the old professional
school of scientific thoroughness,
made his discovery in the early
nineties of the last e ntury. After
development over a period of some
17 years of experiment and test
ing, he began intensive marketing
operations for the product in 1907.
With his two sons he organized
the original Vick Chemical Co.,
and began business with a capital
of $8000. He lived to see demand
for his product become nation
wide; and his two sons have car
ried it on to a success that has be
come world-wide. Vicks has at
tained leadership in its field with
a sale of over 26,000.000 jars year
ly in the United States alone and
has distribution in over 70 coun
tries abroad. Today, the 800,000
shares of Vick Chemical Company
stock is convertible into 456,000
shares of Drug, Inc.—in a ratio of
57-100 for 1—having a market val
uation of nearly $40,000,000.
This merger, it is stated, will not
affect the management personnel
or policies of Vick Chemical Co.,
which will maintain its individual
ity in the drug field. H. S. Rich
ardson, chairman of its board of
directors, and Lunsford Richard
son, president, sons of the founder,
will continue as its directing
heads; and H. S. Richardson will
be added to the directing board of
Drug, Inc.
The future policy of Vick Chem
ical Co., is outlined as one of ex
pansion. For a number of years
its program has included the de
velopment of companion products
of Vicks VapoRub, and one of the
controlling factors in entering the
merger is stated as the greater fa
cilities provided in distinguished
chemists and research facilities for
the perfection of such products. In
addition, the alliance with Drug.
Inc., is considered a stabilizing
factor for Vick stockholders
through a much wider diversifica
tion of interests.
Drug, Inc., headed by A. H. Die-
bold, is the world’s largest holding
company in the drug field. Besides
controlling a large number of na
tionally known trade-marked drug
products, it owns the Liggett Drug
Stores and a controlling interest
in Boots, largest retail drug outlet
of England and Continental Eu
rope. The action of Vick stock
holders today in voting to merge
with Drug, Inc., was a final rati
fication of a recommendation by
its directors a short time ago.
The Vick expansion program for
development of other products will
be carried out, it is announced, un
der the personal direction of W. Y.
Preyer, first Vice-President of Vick
Chemical Company and actively
associated with the direction of
the company for many years.
Eyes examin
ed. Spectacles,
Eye Glasses,
and Artificial Eyes fitted without
Drugs, Drops or Danger.
DR. HENRY J. GOWN
Optometrist!
956 Broad Street Augusta, Ga.
In 1914 no cheese factories were-
operating in the South. In 1928
'approximately 60 factories manu
factured more than 6,000,000
pounds of cheese, valued at more
than $1,000,000.
'An Unpleasant"Subject
/All of the functions of life are. not
pleasant to consider. Perhaps, this is
' why some mothers refuse to think that
such symptoms as restless sleep, loss of
flesh, lack of appetite or itemng nose
and fingers in their children, can be
caused by round or pin worms. Many
mothers nave proven, however, that a
few doses of White’s Cream Vermi
fuge, that sure and harmless worm
expellant, will make these symptoms
disappear. You can get White’s Cream
Vermifuge for 35 cento per bottle from
STROMS’ DRUG STORE
Plant Food For Com
SUGGESTIONS FOR PROFITABLE
YIELDS AND MAXIMUM
YIELDS
Selma Mae Walker
6 6 6 Tablets
Relieves a Headache or Neuralgia
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Make cinnamon toast by putting
a mixture of one-fourth cup of
granulated sugar and one teaspoon
of ground cinnamon into a large
shaker, and sifting it on hot but
tered toast.
An article in the April 12 issue
of The Weekly News Notes entitled
“Corn Producers Must Supply
Sufficient Food,” -has caused some
confusion as to what Clemson Col
lege is recommending for corn
fertilization.
In editing the story, which • was
written by S. L. Jeffords, exten
sion agronomist, certain changes
and omissions made to meet space
requirements in printing caused
the article to mislead some readers.
The article was intended as sug
gestions to those farmers who had
entered the 1930 five-acre corn
contest and wish information as
to fertilizing for maximum yield.
Maximum yield may or may not be
maximum profitable yield.
The fertilizer recommendations
for general com production as
worked out by the South Carolina
Experiment Station through years
of research work are: Where com
follows a crop that was liberally
fertilized with a material carrying
phosphorus and potash, any addi
tional amounts of these two ele
ments applied to the co:cn will not
give a profitable^ increase in yield.
On such fields the fertilizer recom
mended is 18 to 36 pounds of am
monia per acre derived from a
readily soluble nitrogen carrier.
Where phosphorus and potash
have not been applied to the prev
ious crops, 200 to 300 pounds of 16
per cent acid phosphate and 50 to
75 pounds of muriate of potash per
acre should be used under the corn
followed by side-dressing of 18 to
26 pounds of ammonia as given
above.
To those farmers in the five-
acre corn contest who desire to
fertilize for maximum yields the
following, additional suggestions
are made:
When water, phosphorus, and
potash are present in sufficient
amounts, increasing amounts of
soluble ammonia will give increase
in yield. How high the amounts
of ammonia may go under these
conditions and still give increased
yield is not known.
It is a principle of plant nutri
tion that when large stalk growth,
‘is forced there must be present
sufficient phosphorus, • potassium,
and other plant foods to cause the
plants to fruit properly and nor
mally. Therefore, it may be wise
on the corn contest plots to use
both phosphorus and potassium to
prevent either of these becoming
the limiting factors. Four to six
hundred pounds of 16 per cent acid
phosphate and about 100 pounds
of muriate of potash per acre
should, in most cases, be sufficient
for this purpose.
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Ten poultry diseases against
which no known drug or mixture
of drugs is effective are: typhoid,
cholera, coccidiosis, fowl pest, roup,
diphtheria, chicken pox, diarrhea,
and gapes, and blackhead of tur
keys, says the veterinarian of the
Food and Drug Administration.
The use of nostrums claimed to
cure these diseases merely gives
the user a false sense of security
while the disease may spread
through the flock. Proper precau
tionary methods will prevent some
of these diseases from getting into
a flock. Once one of them appears,
isolation of sick birds, sanitation,
and careful feeding are the best
known methods of control.