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SUFERVISOR’S MONTHLY REPORT
Claims Paid April 1, 1930, by Supervisor, McCormick County
Claim No.
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Payee
Purpose
Amount
50.00
70.00
25.00
J. O. Patterson, Salary — $
J. A. Talbert, Salary
L. G. Bell, Salary 1
W. O. Graves, Salary —, 108 ^
W. T. Strom, Salary
W. L. Brown, Salary
Jesse Reason, Salary
W. H. Parks, Salary
J. B. Holloway, Salary
G. P. Watkins, Salary
Jno. Creswell, Salary
W. R‘ McBride, Salary
fcharlie Wall, Salary
Emily Remson, Support
Sallie Wideman, Support
Amanda Blake, Support
Mary Carroll, Support
Sally Howland, Support
Ella Stroud, Support
Martha Turnage, Support
Mary Ferqueron, Support ,
Julia Davis, Support —
Mrs. Belle Holloday, Support .
Miranda Holsenback, Support
Jno* P. Wideman, Support
C. D. Cowan, Support
O. D. White, Support
G. W. Willis, Support
Miller Harmon, Support *
Delsie Goode, Support
Jim. Anderson, Support
Amy Edmunds, Support
Gulf Refilling Co., Gas and Oil •
T. J. Price, Salary
C. W. Pennal, Salary
Commissioners of Pub. Works, Lights and Water —*
McGrath Brothers, Supplies
Gulf Service Station, Supplies
W. T. Strom, Jail Expense
, E. M. Morgan, Supplies
F. E. Lesley, Labor
L. G. Bell, Lunacy Exam.
Holt Jones Co., Supplies
R. A. Price, Ferryage
W. R. Gilchrist, Wojk on Bridge 1
W. A. Winn, Road Work
Stroms’ Drug Store, Supplies
N. G. Brown & Son, Supplies
G. W. Cade,'Lumber
Happ Bros. Supplies
Carolina-Georgia Service Co., Coal
T. J. Price, Treas., Jury Tickets ,
J. L. Smith, Supplies
^ d. C. Morgan, Salary
R."N. fCdmunds, Salary
F. A. Wise, Salary H
T. J. Price, Treas. Note and Interest 21,537.50
W. A. Neal & Son, Supplies 385.11
T. J. Lyon, Salary Coroner — 25.00
W. S. Wall, Meat 25.62
A. V. Morgan, Magistrate Salary x 25.00
W. A. Neal & Son, Balance on Note & Interest 1,861.67
108.33
100.03
35.00
75.00
50.00
100.00
80.00
75.00
75.90
5.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
4.00
4.00
4.00
4.00
107.70
55.55
55.55
12.88
435.46
30.70
39.25
3.50
15.00
10.00
44.54
12.00
27.70
12.00
27.45
19.29
309.87
60.85
93.30
36.60
16.70
37.50
12.50
16.68
Ben Spence, Hauling Lumber
Mose Wideman, Milk and Butter
G. P. Watkins, Supplies and Labor
The Mt. Airy Overall Co., Supplies
Merrett Grocery Co., Supplies
McCormick Telephone Co., Rents
Jack Bradley, Support
Jack Norman, Support *
Stantex Service Station, Supplies
Carrie B. Freeland, Support
A. N. Jaynes, Lumber
F. C. Robinson Ins. Ag’cy, Premiums Officers B’ds. __
G. J. Sanders, Coal
Creswell Garage, Repair Work
The Bod^d of Equalization, Time Served
R. A. Price, Operation of Ferry
P. W. Roper, Work
Moriah Bussey, Support
Ann Marshall, Support
Tildy Sheppard, Support
Herbert Wideman, Support
Milton Garrett, Support
Caroline Green, Support
Lucy Morton, Support
Luke Morgan, Support
Sue Price, Support
Vic. Talbert, Support
T. J. Price, Treas. Postage
Gulf Refining Co., Gas and Oil
The Standard Oil Co., Gas and Oil
Stantex Station, Supplies
W. T. Strom, Expense Account
W. L. Brown, Expense Account
TOTAL
16.00
8.20
6.00
31.73
175.46
27.60
4.00
4.00
9.50
5.00
162.18
120.00
29.31
23.50
600.Qf)
12.00
13.50
4.00
4.00
4.00
4.00
4.00
4.00
4.00
4.00
4.00
4.00
25.00
160.46
145.99
17.90
7.98
24.12
The Greatest
Fire Menace
$ 28,064.26
The arsonist is an acknowledged
enemy of society. But arson might
be, to a large degree, controlled by
the judicial and police authori
ties of the nation if citizens would
co-operate with them.
A far greater menace is present
ed by those millions of Americans
who might be termed “unconscious
arsonists.” All of them have not
started fires. But many of them
knowingly take risks that may
produce conflagrations.
They are careless in disposing of
cigarettes and matches. They
throw piles of oil-soaked rags and
rubbish in comers. They allow
old wiring to go unattended. They
use pennies or wire for blown-out
fuses. They make hit-and-miss
repairs to defective electrical con
nections. They are careless with
gasoline and other explosives found
in the household.
The list of offenses could be con
tinued for pages. None of them
are illegal. None of these people
purposely start fires. Their faults
are carelessness and ignorance.
Mainly because of them, thous
ands of lives and millions of dol-'
lars worth of property are destroy
ed yearly. Workers are thrown
out of employment. Factories are
shut down. And the result is a
blot on our record of prosperity
and progress.
If each citizen would resolve to
do away with the every-day fire
risks existing in his home, garage
and place of business, the fire
menace would be conquered.
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Man .may be conquering the
world with science, as stated the
other day in an address, but there
are still a few mysteries left he
hasn’t solved.
Weather Man Explain
What “Cyclone” Mean
A “cyclone” in the science of me
teorology is not a violent and des
tructive twisting windstorm or
“twister” so greatly dreaded in
some parts of the Jnited States.
That sort of stoim is properly
called a tornado. A cyclone, weath
er forecasters explain, is an exten
sive system of winds'* over an area
of low atmospheric pressure as
•measured by the barometer. It is
representea on the synoptic charts
published by the Weather Bureau
of the Department of Agriculture
by arrows showing the wind direc
tions and a series of waving lines
resembling the contour lines on a
map. These lines pass through
points having equal barometric
pressure at the time indicated- by
the chart. Other similar sets of
lines represent areas of high pres-
su*'e of regions of “anticyclones.”
A cyclone may cover several States,
and as a rule moves in an easterly
direction across the country.
“The reason why cyclones and
anti-cyclones or the ‘lows’ and
‘highs’ of the weather chart have
such an important bearing on
weather forecasting,” says Alfred
Judson Henry, of the Weather Bu
reau, “is because of the pronounc
ed contrast in the weather asso
ciated with each. If it is known
that a cyclone is advancing upon
a region, it is 'assured within slight
variations, depending on the sea
son, that the winds will be strong
er than the average, the sky will
be cloudy and there will be rain
or snow according to the time of
year, and the temperature will be
higher than usual. After the cy
clone has passed and .the anti-cy
clone has come on, precipitation of
rain or snow ceases, the sky, as a
rule, clears, the winds shift to a
northeasterly or westerly qtiarter,
and the temperature falls. The
northerly component of the wind
continues for several days and
then shifts to an ^isterly or
southerly quarter, thus indicating
the approach of another cyclone.”
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If It Were Possible
To Magnify Pasture
If it were possible to magnify a
pasture several hundred or thous
and fold—and all the parasites in
the same proportion—so that
blades of grass would appear as tall
bamboos and small forage plants
as great jungle trees, it would be
easier to convince livestock grow
ers of the desirability of cafeful
attention to sanitation and of the
importance of coristant watfehiul-
ness in combating the ravages * of
parasites that live in the pasture
and attack the various kinds of
livestock.
Such a magnified pasture would
stand revealed as a place of life—
and of death. Many of the live
stock parasites are tenacious of life
and are able to withstand the most/
unfavorable conditions. Yet the
great proportion of them die with
out ever having the opportunity zo
attack an animal. However, many
of these parasites have powers of
reproduction and multiplication
that seem marvelous. Thousands of
immature forms will come from a
single adult parasite. Many live
through complicated life cycles and
may have one or more intermed
iate hosts on which they live be
tween their attacks on horses, cat
tle, Mieep, or swine.
Unlike the jungle hunters, many
of the pests in this magnified pas
ture would- seem sluggish and in
ert—barel£ alive, perhaps. The
stomach worm, that infests ths
sheep, for example, emerges from
the ground and finds a resting
place in a tiny curl in a blade of
grass. There it remains while the
grass develops. If no sheep bites
off the grass the stomach worm
in time dies. If a sheep crops the
grass, the stomach worm enters
and becomes active within the
sheep’s stomach, joins with other
stomach worms, and preys on the
sheep, which is likely to become
unthrifty and unprofitable.
Fortunately for the livestock
growers, most of these parasites
are able to live and reproduce only
when they, are able to attack do
mestic animals of the same or
closely related species. The dan
ger from parasite-infested pas
tures is by no means so great if it
is possible to use this year’s horse
pasture for cattle or sheep next
year and for hogs the third.
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Everything may have its place in
.the home, but it usually takes
j mother to find it.
Little Talk On Thrift
FOLLOWING ONE’S NATURAL
BENT A GOOD EXAMPLE
OF THRIFT
(By S. W. Straus, President Ameri
can Society for Thrift.)
Sometime ago a survey was nade
of men who had been out o f col
lege for a number of years and i:
was found that a large per centage
of them drifted from one position
to another for about ten years. At
the end of this period they seem
ed to “find themselves” and their
real progress in life then began.
One of those who made the survey
commented as follows: “We were
constantly impressed with their
average low earning power in
their first ten years after gradua
tion.”
It is likely that inquiry among
general groups of young men
would reveal the same tendency—
that is that numbers of them waste
many years before they finally set
tle down to the line of work for
which they seem best fitted.
One of the worst forms of waste
of time is to follow a profession or
trade for which you are unfitted.
The writer’s attention recently
was called to the story of a suc
cessful lawyer who began studying
law at the age of 41. He had wast
ed fully twenty years before he
finally* went into his natural pro
fession.
Almost every young person ej^ly
in life has a definite idea of the
line of endeavor they wish to fol
low. As a rule, these aspirations
are the result of natural aptitude
for the work desired. Too often
parental interference, financial
limitations lack of educational
backkground or some other cir
cumstance of life make it seem
impossible for the young person to
carry out his desires. In most of
such cases this means a serious
waste of time. Year‘s go by before
the young man or young woman
finally gets around to the type of
work for which nature seemed to
have fitted them.
Let us remember that herein lies
What could
(n of waste
than to spend 'years in a type of
*eihployment that does not har
monize with one’s ambitions? Sel
dom, if ever, is real progress made
by thoee who do not love their
work and loVe of work can spring
only from a natural aptitude for
the tasks being performed.
If you have a worthy ambition
for some particular line of work
and are spending your years in
come other form of employment,
you are wasting time and oppor
tunity. There can be no complete
concentration and efficiency of ef
fort where one has no heart for
one’s work. The ingenuity, zest
and indomitable determination
necessary to great success conie on
ly to those who are performing a
service which they love and for
which they were created by na
ture.
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Two Cents For Power
Hie Town Doctor
a great thrift lesion,
be a more serious,?«
* Last year, average expenditure
for candy amounted to slightly
more than 2 cents per day per
person. During the same period
the 84,000.000 people living in
electrified homes spent $604,000,000
for electricity, less than 2 cents
per day each.
This is graphic illustration of the
fact that cne of our most valuable
commodities is likewise one of the
cheapest. Electricity lights the
home, operates the washing ma
chine and refrigerator, heats the
iron and does a multitude of other
tasks, great and small, which are
necessary to maintain modern
standards of comfort and effici
ency in the home. Yet, at the end
of the month, the bill for this ser
vice is an infinitesimal part of the
family budget. •
The electric industry has made
every effort, not only to improve
j service, but to lower the cost to
.the consumer. Its record is one
of increasing economy of opera-
| tion. During 1919 the average
| steam generating station in this
j country required 3.2 pounds of coal
! to produce one kilowatt-hour of
j electrical energy. Due to the in-
I creased efficiency of plants during
jthe past ten years a kilowatt-hour
I is now produced by the average
steam plant with but 1.7 pounds
of coal.
Such technical achievements as
this may seem of little interest to
the general public. $et they bene-
‘fit every American home and busi
ness by giving better and cheaper
electric service.
DOCTOR OF TOWNS SAYS:
ABOUT “CASH DRAWER CASUAL
TIES”
In the conduct of a retail busi
ness there is a term, “Cash Draw
er Casualty.” 1 It means .something
that is done on part of salesperson,
or allowed done by the merchant,
or left undone by either, that
causes a loss of a sale: or some
thing that drives business away
from the store.
If you gq into a store and the
clerk stands in the back of the
place with a face a mile long and
finally, after you have walked half
the length of the store says, “did
you want somethin’?” and after
you had bought and paid for what
you came for (if you bought) the
clerk says, “ya didn’t want any
thing else did ya?” that's a cash 1
drawer casulaty.
In Community Business—and
your community is a business you
know—there are cash drawer cas
ualties also, the cause for which
can be eliminated; and this is a
good time of year to do it.
Some day when you arc walking
down a business street, look across
the street to the second and third
story windows of the building. If
you see any number of these win
dows that are dirty and cobwebbed
any with lettering half peeled off;
any others with panes broken and
stuffed with paper or old clothes
—if you find this condition, such
is a cash drawer casualty for Mc
Cormick.
If weeds and grass are growing
at the edge of the sidewalk or
around electric light posts, or in
old gratings in the sidewalks of the
business district—that is a cash
dcawer casualty.
If at any time in the past some
one said to you, “this looks like a
pretty godh town you have here,”
and you said “well, it used to be a
pretty good burg;'” or “yes, I guess
it’s all right, if a fellow likes it,”
or something like that—YOU made
a cash drawer casualty for Mc
Cormick.
If one of your policeman, being
a little grouchy for some reason or
other, bawls a stranger out for a
minor traffic violation, with which
said stranger is not familiar—that
is a cash drawer casualty.
If merchants and professional
people park their automobiles in a
space where customers’ cars could
be parked; if there is a parking
ordinance but not enforced; or
certain people are given “priv
ileges”—that is a cash drawer cas
ualty that affects all business of
the community.
If the business district is scarred
and blemished by wall signs, bill
boards and unrestricted store
signs, people will be repelled by
$5uch oppressive ugliness and auto
matically will buy elsewhere.
If the people of a community are
not “soM” oh their town; if they
stand back 'with a sgtjsfied-with-
things-as-they-afe attitude and
fail t6 get* tbgethet, pull together
and work together—that is the
worst of all cash drawer casual
ties.
If a community does pot grow
and make progress It is very likely
due in no little degree to failure
to recognize cash drawer casual
ties, and to do something to elim
inate them.
(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.)
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Kill The Barberry
Unintentional Suicide
Many people are slowly poisoning
themselves just as surely as if they
drank iodine every morning for break
fast. They are daily absorbing the
toxins, or poisons, created by accumu
lated waste matter in their constipated
digestive systems. Sooner or later
disease will conquer their weakened
bodies.
If you have dizzy spells, headaches,
coated tongue^ baa breath, insomnia,
no appetite, bilious attacks or pains in
the back and limbs, you are probably
suffering from self poisoning caused by
constipation. The surest and pleasantest
relief for this condition is Herbine, tho
vegetable cathartic which acts in the
natural way. Get a bottle today from
STROMS’ DRUG STORE
Level The Cornfield
Farmers in the corn-borer area
who plan to use the newly devel
oped corn stalk shaver and the
side-delivery rake in clean-up
work next spring will do well to
remember the requirements of this
machinery when cultivating the
corn crop this season, say the ag
ricultural engineers of the United
States Department of Agriculture.
The last cultivation should be ki
the direction of planting to favor
the best performance of the stalk
shaver, and the field should be
laid by with as little ridging of the
rows as possible to make raking
more satisfactory.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND
DEBTORS OF O. A. TRAYLOR
ESTATE
Notice is hereby given to all per
sons having claims against the es
tate of Dr. O. A. Traylor, deceased,
to present same, properly attested,
within the time prescribed by law,
to the undersigned, and all per
sons indebted to said estate will
please make settlement at once
with the undersigned.
DR. G. A. TRAYLOR,
Augusta, Ga.,
J. O. PATTERSON,
McCormick, S. C.
Administrators of the estate of Dr.
O. A. Traylor, deceased.
McCormick, S. C., *
May 10, 1930.-4t.
Kill common barberry bushes
with salt or kerosene and prevent
the spread of black stem rust to
small grains. The U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture is assisting
farmers in the wheat-growing
States of the upper Mississippi
Valley and Plains Regions to re
duce losses from stem rust. Twenty
pounds of crushed rock salt or a
gallon of kerosene properly applied
at the base of a clump of barberry
stems one foot in diameter will kill
the bush and prevent sprouting
which often occurs if bushes are
•dug. Keep livestock away from
salted bushes unless they have
been getting plenty of salt.
i\t
In changing from old hay to
new hay in feeding work horses,
do it gradually, using only a small
proportion of new hay at first and
increasing the proportion gradual
ly. The same advice is good in
making any change in the ration.
Quick changes may induce serious
digestive disturbances.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND
DEBTORS OF M. T. TRAYLOR
E STATUE \
Notice is hereby given to all per
sons having claims against the es
tate of M. T. Traylor, deceased, to
present same, properly attested,
within the time prescribed by law,-
to the undersigned, and all per
sons indebted to said estate will
please make settlement at once
with the undersigned.
DR. G. A. TRAYLOR,
Augusta, Ga.,
J. O. PATTERSON,
McCormick, S. C.
Administrators of the estate of M.
T. Traylor, deceased.
McCormick, S. C.,
May 10. 1930.-4t.
No other plant will furnish as
much grazing as a good stand of
sweetclover in its second season.
It is important to , put enough
livestock on second-year sweet-
clover to keep the growth' down.
Sweetclover that is not grazed
enough blossoms and gets woody.
If grazed closely the flowering
stalks remain tender and palatable
until the plant is nearly mature;
Eyes examin
ed. Spectacles,
Eye Glasses,
and Artificial Zyes fitted without
Drugs, Drops or Danger.
DR. HENRY J. GODIN
Optometristi
956 Broad Street Augusta, Ga,
A pale skin and pale linings of
the mouth and eyelids of sheep at
this time of year may indicate the
presence of blood-sucking worms.
Farmers’ Bulletin 1330-F, Parasites
and Parasitic Diseases of Sheep,
which may be secured by writing to
the U. S. Department of Agricul
ture, Washington, D. C., tells how
to treat sheep for external and in
ternal parasites.
FORD BATTERIES
$7.95
WHITTLE BATTERY
SERVICE
622 BROAD . PHONE 1166
AUGUSTA, GA.
Magicians can get a lot of things
out of a hat, but nothing compar
ed to the satisfaction a woman
gets out of a new spring headpiece*,