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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, South Carotin*. Page Number Eight Thursday, July 3, 1930 POLITICAL CARDS FOR MAGISTRATE I hereby announce my candidacy for re-election as magistrate of the McCormick Magisterial District, subject to the rules and regula tions of the Democratic party. Having had 14 years’ experience, which Is a valuable equipment, I feel that I am qualified to fill the office, and I shall highly appre ciate all suppoprt and influence I receive in the coming primary. J. B. HOLLOWAY. FOR MAGISTRATE 7 I hereby announce my candidacy for the office of Magistrate of the McCormick Magisterial District, subject to the rules of the Demo cratic primary, and shall highly appreciate the ^iffrage and influ ence of the voters. H. C. WALKER. FOR PROBATE JUDGE I hereby announce my candidacy for re-election to the office of pro bate judge for McCohnick County, subject to the rules and regula tions of the Democratic party. I highly appreciate the splendid sup port I have always received at the hands of the voters and trust that my honest efforts to faithfully per form the duties of said office meet with your approval, and that I again receive your support and in fluence. L. G. BELL. FOR PROBATE JUDGE I hereby announce my candidacy for the office of probate judge of McCormick County, subject to the rules of the Democratic party. I shall highly appreciate the suf frage and influence of the voters In the coming election. JOHN C. CORLEY. FOR TREASURER I hereby announce my candidacy for the office of treasurer of Mc Cormick County, subject to the rules of the Democratic party. Due to varied business experiences I feel that I am fully competent to handle the affairs of the office, and if elected I shall conduct the same in a fair and impartial man ner. I am a World War veteran, having served my country two years, one year in France and Italy. I shall highly appreciate the support and influence of tye vot ers. f * r * YANCEY E. SEIGLER. FOR COUNTY TREASURER f I hereby announce my candidacy for re-election to the office of County Treasurer for McCormick County, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic par ty. I highly appreciate the splendid support I received at the hands of the voters four years ago. Since elected to this office, I have en deavored to discharge the duties in an economical, courteous and ef ficient manner, and if re-elected will continue to prptect the inter ests of the taxpayers of McCor mick County to the best of my ability. I earnestly solicit your suffrage and influence in the com ing primary. T. J. PRICE. FOR TREASURER I hereby announce myself as candidate for Treasurer of McCor mick County, subject to the rules of the Democratic party. I feel that I am capable of handling the affairs of this office, and if elect ed, promise to do so in a fair and business-like manner. I shall high ly appreciate the suffrage and in fluence of the voters in the com ing election. PAUL J. ROBINSON. FOR AUDITOR I hereby announce my candidacy for re-election for county auditor, subject to the rules of the Demo cratic primary. Your confidence and support will be appreciated. You have been very kind to me, for which I feel grateful. If possible, will try to give even better service In the future. C. W. PENPAL. POLITICAL CARDS FOR STATE SENATE I hereby announce my candidacy for State senator from McCormick County, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic par ty. I highly appreciate the en dorsement received in the past, and earnestly solicit your suffrage and influence in the coming pri mary. W. K. CHARLES. FOR STATE SENATE I hereby announce myself as candidate for State senate from McCormick County, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. I shall highly appreciate the vote and influence of the people in the coming election:. R. G. KILLINGSWORTH. FOR STATE SENATE I hereby announce myself as a candidate for State senator from McCormick County, subject to the rules of the democratic party. Your support will be highly appreciated. J. J. DORN. FOR HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES I am a candidate for house of representatives from McCormick County, subject to the rules of the democratic party. If elected, I pledge myself in defense of those principles which promote the wel fare of county and State. I earn estly solicit the support and influ ence of all the voters of the coun ty. D. LESTER WIDEMAN. FOR HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES I hereby announce my candidacy for re-election to the House of ! Representatives from McCormick County, subject to the rul«s and regulations of the Democratic par ty. I greatly appreciate the won derful vote given me two years ago, and earnestly solicit your suffrage in the next primary. j. o. mcdaniel. FOR HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES I hereby respectfully announce my candidacy for House of Rep resentatives from McCormick County, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. The support and influence of the voters shall be highly appreciated in the coming election. W. D. MORRAH. FOR CORONER I hereby announce my candidacy for re-election as Coroner of Mc Cormick County, subject to the rules of the Democratic party. I shall greatly appreciate your sup port in the coming election. T. J. LYON. FOR CORONER ' I hereby announce my candidacy for Coroner of McCormick County, subject to the rules of the Demo cratic party. I shall highly ap preciate the suffrage and influ ence of the voters in the coming primary. M. L. B. STURKEY. FOR CORONER I hereby announce my candidacy for Coroner of McCormick County, subject to the rules of the demo cratic primary. I shall greatly ap preciate the support and influence of the voters in the coming elec tion. T. B. GOFF. FOR MAGISTRATE I hereby announce my candidacy for re-election as Magistrate of the Parksville Magisterial District, sub ject to the rules of the Democratic primary. I shall highly appreciate jyour support in the coming elec tion. A. V. MORGAN. FOR COTTON WEIGHER I hereby announce my candidacy for re-election as Cotton Weigher at Plum Branch, subject to the rules of the democratic primary. I highly appreciate the support received in the past, and earnestly solicit a continuance of same in the coming primary, i ' S. W. WIDEMAN. Speed Up South Carolina Road Building Program PROGRAM UNDER BOND ACT TC BE PUSHED AT MAXIMUM SPEED UNDER LAW COLUMBIA, June 27.—The State Highway commission in session Thursday passed two resolution: outlining future policies. The first resolution announcec that contractors who had receiv ed projects be asked to use South Carolina labor and purchase South Carolina materials as much as pos sible, and declared that in the future all contracts would be lei with the stipulations included. The second proposed to “build lour roads expeditiously, without cessation in any direction.” After referring to the depressed business conditions and to the $65,000,000 bond .issue as “the one great source of relief, the first res olution continues: Great Achievement “Whereas, heretofore, as now, it is the rule of this commission to open wide our doors to the ut most competition of responsible bidders from wheresoever they may come, under which rule our state has been able to boast that it builds the best roads for the least money, and this commission has spent for construction work since 1924 through 1929, $53,631,228,- 02 without even one taint of graft the cost of roads falling under this rule from $38,562.10 in 1924 per mile to $25,509.20 in 1929 per mile, while at the same time the type of roads haif been raised to the high est standards under specifications written by an engineer whose hon or and skill are celebrated, and “Whereas, at the recent letting competition was, so widespread and bids were so low that not even one j South Carolina contractor was suc cessful; “Whereas, this circumstance has given rise even to some complaint especially because at this time of distress these welcome though out side contractors have felt free to import much of their personnel and some of their material from beyond our borders; and “Whereas, it is the earnest de sire of this commission to give employment to our own idle peo ple and to encourage the purchase j of material from our home mer chants, thus plowing back into our jown soil the wealth that we ex- ,pend: Two Propositions Resolved: 1—That all contract ors to whom contracts have been heretofore let be requested to em ploy as many of our unemployed and buy from our merchants as much material as they can without injuring themselves. 2—That it be declared and is hereby declared to be the estab lished and determined policy of this commission (while still con tinuing to invite the widest com petition among contractors from everywhere) to impose as a part of all contracts to be let the stip ulation that successful bidders give preference in employment, except as their organization heads, and so far as is not inconsistent with federal aid statutes, to citi zens of South Carolina, and that they buy material and supplies, prices being the same, from our merdhants, dealers, manufacturers and producers, to the happy end that many of «our people who have lost their livelihood by conditions on the farms, in the cotton mills, and other industrial plants, or otherwise, may again be able to earn their daily bread, and our merchants, dealers, manufactur ers and producers be helped pro portionately.” The second resolution pointed out that each county seems “impa tient in its desire to have its road? built at once” and that the high way department was anxious “tr oblige the reasonable demands o' each county” and continued: To Spread Work “Whereas, it is perfectly saf for the department to handle th maximum sum of money obtain able for road building under th terms of the highway bond ac' the accounts of this departmen showing that under the able di rection of the chief highway com missioner there has been returned to the various counties the sum of $484,046.43 by* way of interest re*- ceived on depbsits up to March 16, , 1929, and since that date the de partment has received on deposits land added to the construction | fund interest account on the state- I OPERA HOUSE ABBEVILLE, S. C. WEDNESDAY and THURS. July 2-3 LEE TRACY MAE CLARK STEPIN FECH^T in “BIG TIME” Added News and Comedy. FRIDAY and SATURDAY July 4-5 RUDY VALEE SALLY BLANE MARIE DRESSLER in “THE VAGABOND LOVER” Added Cartoon and Comedy. MONDAY and TUESDAY July 7-8 RUTH CHATTERTON FREDRIC MARCH in “SARAH AND SON” Added News and Comedy. WEDNESDAY and THURS. July 9-10 BASIL RATHBONE LIELA HYAMS RAMYOND HACKETT POLLY MORAN in “THE BISHOP MURDER CASE” Shows 3:15; 7:00; 9:00 Breeding For Egg Production NEW PUBLICATION HAS VALU- ABLE MESSAGE CLEMSON COLLEGE, June 30.— Extension Circular 105, Breeding for Egg Production, by P. H. Good ing, extension poultryman, says that breeding stock offers the best opportunity for increasing the pro fits of South C a rolina poultrymen. It gives facts to prove that the best practices in housing, feeding, disease and parasite control, and management are limited unless high quality stock is used. Circular 105 gives complete de tails on caring for breeders and hatching eggs, pedigreeing, use of breeding pen, the breeder’s job, value of trapnesting, a nd records. The circular may be secured free of charge from the Division of Publications at Clemson College, or from county farm agents. wide program the sum of $135,055.- 05, and so surrounded these de posits with safeguards that not one penny has been lost; and “Whereas, notwithstanding the fact that money is safe and in good use while awaiting appropri ation it is always* best used when building roads; Resolved, that this commission proceed at once to call for bids and let to contract enough work U> constantly absorb available funds, give employment to the un employed and build our roads most expeditiously, without cessation in any direction.” The commission authorized the hardsurfacing of 17 road sections totaling approximately 285 miles. The sections authorized were as follows: Route 2 from intersection of Routes 2 and 45 northwest of St. Matthews to Orangeburg, 18 miles. Route 9 from end of pavement east of Dillon by way of Lake- view to Nichols, 16 miles. Route 9 from Cheraw to Ches terfield, 13 miles. U. S. Route 21 from Orange burg to Branchville, 16 miles. Route 26 from a point 4 miles southeast of Manning by way of Kingstree to Andrews, 41 miles. Route 39 from Edgefield to the Saluda county line, 9 miles. Route 64 from U. S. route 21 to Walterboro, 13 miles. U. S. Route 78 from Montmor- snei to Barnwell county line, 13 miles. Route 94 from Lake View to the North Carolina line, 2 miles. U. S. Route 601 from Darling ton to route 30 near Society Hill, 15 miles. Route 9 from Chester to Un ion county line, 19 miles. U. S. Route 176 from Union south to U. S. Route 76 near New berry, approximately 36 miles. Route 19 from Edgefield coun ty line near Johnston through Sa luda to Newberry county line, 28 miles. Route 9 from Lancaster to Ches terfield county line 18 miles. Route 192 known as the cut-off near Newberry 3.5 miles. Routes 4 and 40 from Summer- ton to Clarendon county to Route 45 in Orangeburg county, 11 miles. Route 30 from Sumter county line to Summerton, 11 miles. Mills Of State Running At Good Clip For May COLUMBIA, June 28.—North Carolina, the second textile state in the Union, continues to see its spindle activity decrease. At the :ame time the spindle activity in South Carolina continues in the lead among the prominent textile states. A report of the census bureau on textile operations in May puts Tennessee in first place in spindle activity, though that state has on ly about a half million spindles. South Carolina’s spindles, num bering nearly six million, were al most all of them active last month the census bureau’s report, received here, shows. South Car olina’s spindles averaged 266 hours per spindle. The activity report next to South Carolina’s is Georgia’s, whose three million spindles aver aged for May 260 hours of oper ation per spindle. Next came Vir ginia’s, her two thirds of a mil lion spindles averaging 252 hours per spindle. Then came Alabama, with an average of 249 hours per spindle. Alabama has nearly two million spindles. In sixth place is North Carolina, with more than six million spindles. These averag ed in May 231 hours per sipndle. Next in order came Mississippi, Texas, New Hampshire, Connecti cut, New Jersey, Maine and Mas sachusetts, tying, New. York and Rhode Island. Massachusetts, the leading tex tile state, with nearly eight mil lion spindles, saw only five and a half million of them active last month, the average number of hours being only 132 per spindle. While Massachusetts spindles show a low rate of activity, one of the lowest of the textile states, that state is also losing ground as a textile state, census reports show. In two years the number of spindles in place in that state has decreased nearly twenty per cent. In May, 1928, there were 9,- 608,446 spindles reported in Massa chusetts. Last month there v/ere only 7,902,866 spindles in place. Both months, May of this year and May of 1923, the number of spin dles operated was about the same, but many spindles are being re moved from Massachusetts, the report would indicate. — x Tolls At Furey’s Ferry Over $600 Tolls on the Furey’s Ferry bridge near Augusta through June 24 have amounted to $608.50, accord ing to the official figures announc ed by the South Carolina highway department. On June 3 tolls ran up to $112.24 dropped on June 9 to $34.50 and on June 10 to $29.00; tolls on other days in June were as follows; June 11, $31.20; June 12, $22.75; June 13, $28.00; June 14, $25.15; June 15 $72.25; June 16, $24.50; June 17 $16; June 18, $23.60; June 19’ $21.75; June 20, $27.75; June 21. $27.85; June 22, $59.50; June 23 $23.50; June 24, $26.25. So it is seen that the average daily toll amounts to about $25. Vehicles passing over the bridge: automobiles, 2,210, at 25 cents; vans, 41, at 25 cents; vans, 3, at 5C cents; trucks, 33, at 25 cents* trucks 74 at 50 cents; motorcycles. 10, at 15 cents. Department officials hesitate tc venture a guess at a date when thr bridge will be toll free. It was said originally that some eight or nine years would be required, but with the building of additional highway? and the growing popularity of the route, this time may be reduced. Reports on tolls collected are made daily to the department, but they are normally about a day late in being checked in. txt Men and women who fail to exercise their right at the 'ballot box should • never complain over the kind of government that follows. You have a per fect right and it is a duty—to vote for the men of your choice; so, write your name on the club roll in your precinct on or be fore Tuesday July 22nd. — ■ - A bootlegger was recently cor • victed for violating the pure foo' law, but since when did moon shine take a place in the catalogue of foods? Signs Of Better Times Are Seeii BUILDING IS ONE OF LINES LOWER THAN DURING LAST YEAR WASHINGTON, June 28.—A study cf the present state of na tional and international business which was explicitly divorced from prediction or interpretation, v/as issued today by the National Busi ness Survey conference, through Julius H. Barnes, its chainnan. The organization set up last fall at President Hoover’s sug gestion, has previous recorded find- .ng as to commerce and finance fluctuations, since the stock mar ket panic last fall, and the state ment today declared that it was mtended to submit facts in order that “interested individual judg ment should form its own opinion. See Improvement Easing of interest rates on short ;ime credit, plus a resumption of long term lending on bonds and mortgages, was said to characterize the money situation. Foreclosures on mortgages in May, and declines in New York state savings bank de posits were said to have been “negligible in May and much less than a year ago at the same time.” “Improvement in the financial state of building and loan associ ations continues,” it was added, while installment selling and re tail collections 'were described as showing little change since early spring. Life insurance policies is sued in May were less than last year, as were fire insurance poli cies. Construction was foitnd to be running at a slower pace than last year, though road building is ahead of 1929 records. A number of industries associated with con struction and furnishing were reg istered as having a less volume of business during the period this year, than last. Car Loadings Off Car loadings, real estate sales and electric railway passenger traffic were among the factors of business also indicating decreased volume as compared with last year. Telegraph, telephone and cable communication was holding close to former standards, though electric \ power consumption was lower than last year. Price de clines as to a number of commo dities, and decreased automobile with a recession in miscellaneous manufacturing were also record ed. General employment during May was set at about the same as in April. “Although business depression continues to be world wide,” the fcutomary concluded “there - are some signs of recovery in a few countries. Hopeful signs are ap parent in France, Sweden, Czecho Slovakia, Jugo-Slavia, Switzerland and Denmark.” X Good Yields Of Oats On Fertilized PJots CHILEAN NITRATE OF SODA ED- UCATIONAL BUREAU CO-OP ERATES IN DEMONSTRATION On a five-acre oat top-dressing demonstration conducted in co operation with the county agent and the Chilean Nitrate of *Soda Educational Bureau, W. E. and T. L. Britt, of the Saildover section of the oounty produced 38.4 bush els of oats per acre with the use :f 150 pounds Chilean Nitrate of Soda per acre, as compared to a neld of 15 bushels per acre on a :heck plot in the same field re ceiving no soda. This shows a clear gain of 23.4 bushels of oats per acre from the use of 150 pounds of nitrate of soda. At a meeting held the latter pa-t of May a guessing contest was held on the yield of this field of oats. This contest was won by Mr. W. H. Britt, of the Sandover section, who ?stimated that the field receiving the soda would average 35 bushels per acre, and the plot receiving no soda would yield 17 bushels, giving him an average of 26 bushels for the two plots as compared to an average of 26.7 average actual yield for the two fields. His near est competitor was Mr. S. H. Tal bert, with an average estimate of |27.5 bushels per acre for the two i fields. Mr. W. H. Britt will receive ; the $5.00 cash prize offered by the Chilean Nitrate of Soda Education- jal Bureau for the best estimate on the yield of the two plots. txt The U. S. treasury reports a bal ance, and this will be too bad if congress hears about it.