Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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1 McCORMlCK MESSENGER, McCORMIGK, SoutK Cerohnm. Pape Nunr.ber Font Thursday. July- 10, 1930 Ml. CARMEL NEWS RED ROW NEWS 6-0-1 school law. Reviewing his efforts in the Sen- “The statewide levies should be ate in behalf of good roads legis- taken off by constitutional amend- lation, Blease touched upon the ment so that the counties will feel state’s $65,000,000 highway bond safe to adjust their valuaions. The farmers are certainly having act. | “What will this result in? Some of the Mt. Carmel people some fine weather to get their j “I would not mention this here “it will leave local property for enjoyed a picnic down at the Mill cr °P s clean. Many of the farmers except that I was asked to do so,” local taxation and each county can on Little River on the 4th. Among have had lots of grass but are he said, “but as to the recent then raise its values and lower its the out-of-town guests were Miss about to get rid of some of it. j $65,000,000 bond issue in this state, rates. BUzabeth Hester of Anderson, Mrs. Misses Willie M. and Maude Lee while I strenuously opposed xt, I “it will enable each county to John Williams, Misses Frances and Wideman spent Wednesday night believe more in state’s rights than equalize values in that county. Uoxn&e McBride, Mary Lou Williams very pleasantly with Mrs. Selma I do in roads and when our own “it will simplify the tax plan so and Mr. Scott of McCormick, also Wideman of McCormick. [State Supreme court passed on the that every man who pays his tax Miss Carolyn Tarrant of Green- Miss Reba Findley spent Friday constitutionality of the bonds, I at the court house will know that wood, the house guest of Miss night with Miss Maude Lee Wide- would not be a party to going be- it is spent in the county where Gladys Scott. man - * fore t !} e Supreme court to upset paid. Mr. Dode Philips of Moultrie, M r * and M 18 - Wallace Reynolds what our own court had said was “it will relieve a part of the Ga., spent the past week end with 8<nd children from Honea Path legal. heavy burden now carried by the wife and baby at the home of spent the Fourth with Mr. and Byrnes reviewed his 14 years as home, the farm, the store and the her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Mrs -John Bowick. They also a member of the national House of factory. Soya. called to see Mr. and Mrs. Bub Representatives. He declared that “And it will eliminate friction Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Wells and Shannon Saturday morning and “in the present crisis agreiulture between the various sections of the Mr. Barnard Smith of Greenville returned home Saturday after- sections are giving too much state and give us state unity, spent the 4th with relatives in Mt. noom , thought to political and not “it has been done with success in ^oael' " j Mr. and Mrs.. Oscar Butler and enough to economic problems.” other states and it is the only way Mr. and Mrs. Kirby Smith of At- children from Troy spent the week Cites Remedies out of the tax jumble we are now jspent last Friday ^^ith their end vrith A/ir. and Ddrs. Napoleon He offered as a remedy the elec— in. mother, Mrs. Mary Smith. Wideman. tion of representatives from the “No central office can possibly Mis. Cecil Gilliam, Miss Juanita Mr - and Mrs- L 6011 Wideman and South who “know the needs of the equalize taxes all over the state Curtis and Mr. Willie Hester were children spent Sunday with Mrs. agricultural sections” and “who- and the way out is to take off the guests Of Mr. and Mrs. Rollings- Napoleon Wideman. will strive to bring about a thor- state wide levies, and let each worth on the evening of the 4th 1 Miss Lizzie Mae Edmunds and ough co-operation between the county handle its own rates and at the Edgefield playground. [Miss Mattie Mae Spence spent South and West.” valuations. In other words, take Capt. and Mrs. William B. awhile in Laurens with, Mrs. Char- Byrnes said that this move the hand of the state out of the Sharpe of Fort McPherson arrived Pulley. would “cure the greatest political pocket of the county. Leave local in Mt. Carmel last week and will 1 Misses Willie Mae and Maude tragedy of America” which he said property for local taxation.” July visiting relatives here. Lee Wideman spent last Sunday has been brought about the enrich- | x This Week ty Arthur Brisbane You Have a Rich tin chi Tired of Iraq Mellon and Lord Chatham Whiskers the Fashion Secretary Mellon, keeper of the pub lic purse, announces a satisfactory financial year, and u surplus of $184,- 000.000 in Uncle Sam’s pocket. Mr. Mellon reduced by $746,000,000 the public debt, which now totals $16,- 185,000,000. Not much for such a rich country. Business might be better if bonds were not paid olY so rapidly. But Sir. Mellon probably knows best. STATEMENT OF CONDITION OF THE PEOPLES BANK located at McCormick, S. C., at the .close of business June 30, 1930. Several years ago, you remember, all the world was excited about man dates. France took one, England, i absent-mindedly swallowing German j colonies, took others, including Iraq. ! An effort was made to “wish” Turkey as a mandate on this long-suffering nation. Thanks to providence, we escaped | that To be Hemal's tutor would * be a job. % RESOURCES Loans and Discounts. Overdrafts Bonds and Stocks Owned bv Bajik, Furniture and Fixtures, . Banking House, Other Real Estate Owned, Cash on hand and due from Banks Checks and Cash Items,. Other Resources, Viz: Livestock account, $221,444.72 NONE 11,273.53 4,963.42 7.983.14 37.393.57 29,478.82 1,883.72 977.03 Gapt. Sharpe has recently been transferred to Clemson College and they will make that their home for tfce next four years. Their many friends are delighted to have them back in South Carolina once more. Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Russell and Mhabeth spent last Saturday nfglit with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Boyd, en route to their home in Atlanta, after a pleasant visit to their mother, Mrs. Russell. Miss Irene Boyd, who has enjoyed a visit home, returned to Atlanta with them. The thermometer climbs over the 100 mark these days. We are hop ing this drouth will soon be re- with Mrs. Henry Mosley. We are sorry to report little “the Republican tariff’ at the ex Mary Sue Wideman'ill, but hope pense of the South and West. she will soon be well again. ment of New England states by TT f r j A “thfi Remiblinan tariff* at. thp ov- -I-JCtllll .rxl Id Flying 553 Hours Harris, after saying he “accept- Mr. Henry Mosley of Troy was a ed” Blease’s invitation to examine welcome guest in the home of Mr. f his record, attacked the junior’s and Mrs. Napoleon Wideman Sun- democracy and his claims of up- day. holding white supremacy in the Miss Alice Wideman spent a few state, hours with Mrs. Kittle Creswell “Blease tells you he has been Thursday afternoon. elected to more offices than any Mr. Ralph Wideman spent a few ; other man in South Carolina,” days with his grandmother thfe Harris shouted “but I tell you he jpast week. (has been defeated more often than Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt Bowick and any man in South Carolina except children from Greenwood spent John T. Duncan. Friday in Red Row with relatives, j Harris charged Blease’s vote had The people in Red Row enjoyed seated “a negro” instead of “Moise SKY HARBOR AIRPORT, CHI CAGO, July 5.—Twenty three days from the June afternoon when they roared out of the dust at Sky Harbor—just a couple more would- be endurance fliers, unnoticed by anyone but a few mechanics—two Sparta, 111., farm boys skimmed down into that same dust last night to hear thousands hail them champions. John and Kenneth Hunter had been in the air for 553 hours and 41 1-2 minutes, and even then Now England tells Iraq, in sub stance: “Go in peace, join the League of Nations, run yourself.” That blessed word, “Mesopotamia,” ancient name for Iraq, has cost the British many millions of pounds. Aik that Britain wants now is to keep, without expense, the right to “British imperial communications and air routes” through the territory of the Tigris and Euphrates. Washington says Secretary Mellon will devote his vacation to teaching banking and corporation management to his son, Paul, back from a post graduate course at Cambridge. An attentive son can learn more from his father than from a thousand professors put together, if his father knows. And Mr. Melton does know. TOTAL $315,407.95 LIABILITIES Capital Stock Paid in, __$ 42,600.00 Surplus Fund, 4,000.00 Undivided Profits, less Current Expenses and Taxes Paid, 9,911.05 Due to Banks and Bankers, NONE Individual Deposits Subject to check, 86,977.92 Savings Deposits, 23,933.98 Time Certificates of Deposit, 87,419.60 Cashier’s' Checks, 565.40 Notes and Bills Re-discounted, NONE Bills Payable, including Certificates for Money Borrowed, ___ 60,000.00 lleved. Upland com and gardensfine fish fry on the Fourth on White of Sumter” in a state po- ^ . . o mr ruined and grass for cattle is the creek. The men went in sein-; litical contest and alleged the y g g , o a getting scarce. tog the women carried lunch. Senator had “moved to table a bill Miss Irene Boyd and Mr. Buck MeLane enjoyed the pleasant (fence in Abbeville last Tuesday evening. Mr. Bever Williams of Winnsboro was a Mt. Carmel visitor Sabbath. Mrs. Joe Curtis spent several days last week vteitihg her daughters Mrs. Ben DuBose of Lisbon Ga., and Mrs. Henry Dun away, of Tignall, Ga. Sam Dun away returned home with her on Monday. A* few weeks ago a colored man ’ was hilled in an automobile ac cident near Mt. Carmel and last S^tiirfay night a young colored hoy was cut to death by another ytzang boy almost in Mt. Carmel; A very nice time was reported. Red Row. *X* Byrnes Discusses Economic Issues CANDIDATES FOR U. S. SENATE SEAT ARE HEARD BY CONWAY VOTERS ’ . in the Senate providing for the segregation of the race on street cars in the City of Washington.” He declared the chief issue in the campaign was whether or not a “Democrat is to be elected” and declared that “no ope would ever question” his democracy. X Herbert Outlines / Tax Reform Plan In Charleston Meet 4X*- Fourth Of July Brings Death • To 178 Persons CHICAGO, July 5.—With the dead totaling 178, the injured list raxming into hundreds, and thou sands of dollars in property dam age, America yesterday celebrated the 154th anniversary of its inde pendence. The number of deaths in the southern states due to automobile accidents, drownings, and fire- wesks, was 33, as compared with 21 In 1929. Deaths in the nation due direct or to fireworks totaled 12. CONWAY, July 5.—Senator Cole L. Blease and his two opponents for the seat assigned to South Car olina which he occupies in the United States Senate, came to Con- CHARLESTON, July 7.—Beverley way today to present their claims Herbert, candidate for governor, in to the voters of Horry county. |his speech here tonight outlined A crowd of approximately 500, his program for tax reform, with a generous sprinkling of j He said, in part: women, heard Blease defend his “The tax system of South Caro- official record; listened to Leon W. lina and the proposed changes do Harris of Anderson, assail the same not appear to be fully understood, record, and James F. Byrnes of so I shall set them out again. Spartanburg, discuss economic I “In South Carolina we have put questions. property on the tax books at a low Claud N. Sapp of Columbia, 1 valuation but have taxed it at a chairman of the state Democratic high rate. Every county knows executive committee, came here that if it puts its property on the from Myrtle Beach for the speak- books at a fair valuation its peo- clogged screen filter prevented their getting oil and they had to make a hurried landing, touching earth at 5:21:30 Central Standard time—more than 133 hours longer than the “St. Louis Robins” prev ious record. Their second-hand monoplane still was serving them well at the end and the motor still was dron ing out the monotone it had kept up through the long days and nights of flying in darkness and light, in fair weather, in wind and rain. But the frequent pouring of oil into the engine had clogged up the screen and when the last con tact was made five minutes be fore landing, no oil would enter. There was no choice but to come down and they pulled away from the faithful “Big Ben” the refuel ing ship piloted by brothers Al bert and Walter, and swung down to the field. The holiday thousands, who packed the grounds back of the ropes, became excited. As the sturdy “City of Chicago” whirred to the hangar ropes fell before their onrush and police were help less to control them. So dense was Id a grave in Westminster abbey a father and son lie side by side—Pitt, who kept Napoleon out of England, and his father, the earl of Chatham. Pitt, a del Irate boy, was taught in youth by bis father, and later studied statesmanship at his father's dinner table, listening to Chatham and other older men. He entered the house of commons, and was chancellor of the exchequer at twenty-two and prime minister at twenty-three. If. you plan a trip to London and want to look fashionable, let your beard grow in cave man fashion. Young Oxford men and the “young set” generally are doing that. Britain decides that whiskers are necessary to Celebrity; a man cannot look convincingly eminent clean shaven TOTAL $315,407A5 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, j County of McCormick. Before me came P. G. Fooshe, cashier of the above named bank, who, being duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement is a true condition of said bank, as shown by the books of said bank. | P. G. FOOSHE. I Sworn to and subscribed before me this 8th dav of July, 1930. * ROBT. L. DENDY, Notary Public for S. C. Correct Attest: J. J. DORN, J. T. FOOSHE, % J. E. BELL. DIRECTORS. ing. In a brief speech. Chairman pie would pay more than their the rushing mob that John, at the Sapp urged voters to “stay at home, share of state taxes. So the ac- controls, had to do a ground loop and live within our means” as a cepted plan is to make the valua tion low and the rate high. This “measure of cure for the hard- times cry.” / Blease Sees Victory Blease again voiced his predic tion that he would be renominated They overlook at least three—Alex RELIABLE man wanted to run amler, Caesar and Napoleon. They McNess Business in McCormick were clean shaven and quite con- County. Wonderful opportunity, vincing. Make $8 to $15 daily. No experi- c, i. . , i , , , . . ence or capital needed. Write to- Some, disturbed by depressed busi- . ness, may find comfort in news that da y* McNess Company, Dept. M, our “best” people are happy and gay Freeport, Illinois. as ever. j : -ttst More of them are in Europe this OATS—Feed Oats per bushel, 65 y^r than last, more of them at do- | cents j B Blackwe irs Store, sirable United States resorts, espe- « r, dally Bar Harbor and Newport. McCormick, S. C. All this you learn from the Social Register of New York, the real one. not the Imitation registers that organ ized “to supply exclusiveness to the )Re ii e ves a Headache or Neuralgia In 30 minutes, checks a Cold the First day, and checks Malaria in 6 6 6 masses. Williams, Boyd and Connor plan Have w deeds, having down from New i inree aays * to avoid hitting them. He taxied off again toward the hangar, with has gone on until rates have got' the milling thousands in pursuit, j unbearably high, being more than All around the ship they crushed,^ 16 per cent in some of the leading while observers for the national: communities for city, county and aeronautical association battered new York to Bermuda and buck, non-stop, in 17 hours and 1 minute, and Doro thy Hester, nineteen-year-old girl In Portland, Ore., does an “outside loop” after one year’s flying. Three times, with two failures in five tries, the young western girl did what few men have ever done and no woman ever attempted. 666 also in Tablets Interest Lagging In'Enrollment by “thirty-five to forty thousand state purposes—the highest rate their way through to get the ‘ This was the largest number of guards.” votes” despite what he termed the in the United States. “falsehoods and vituperation scat- ! “Naturally when the rates are so tered by blatherskites and black- ! very high every one tries to keep barograph. X as much of his property off the tax! Schedule Of Home > For Next Week size'h deaths recorded in the three | “Whatever may be the outcome books as possible and to cut the DpillOIlStrcltioil ^^Ork years the Associated Press has been of the election,” the junior senator value as low as possible on such keeping a nationwide check upon said, “nothing is going to keep property as is left on the books. Independence Day fatalities. A Horry county from giving me a People simply will not be taxed 10 year ago there were seven deaths majority as she has always done.” per cent if they can possibly help 1 Monday. July 14th, 4:00 p. m., frem fireworks. In 1928 there were j A few minutes later former Con- it. So more property will go off Bellvue H. D. Club at home of Mrs. gressman Byrnes, who ran against the tax books which means that j. r. Watkins. The automobile, however, took Blease six years ago, thanked the the rates will go still higher. ^ ! Tuesday, July 15th, 4:00 p. m., the most Mves—81. In the past voters for “giving me a majority j “It is obvious that very high Rehoboth H. D. Club at home of three years its holiday toll has of 320 in the second race six years rates are hurtful to progress be- Mrs. J. E. Winn, steadily increased. In 1928 it took ago.” cause we cannot hope that such Wednesday, July 16th, 4:00 p. m., 54 hves. Last year, 70. j Byrnes and Harris as well as capital will come into invest in the Bordeaux H. D. Club at school There were 57 drownings yester- Blease predicted they would be face of such rates. Also the system house, day, a decline of 14 from a year elected. is very unfair to the small taxpay-| Thursday, July 17th. 4:00 p. m., ago and of 49 from 1928. This was Blease, after reviewing his po- er because the big fellow is often Buffalo H. D. Club at school house, attributable, to much cooler weath- litical record, said he had “re- influential and can get his prop- Friday, July 18th, 9:30 a. m., er generally. Iceived all of the honors” he had erty on the books at a low valua- Plum Branch 4-H Club at school Deaths from fireworks were con- asked the people for and “that tion, while the small man, with- house, eentrated yesterday, as in the two democracy could bestow” on him, out influence, cannot do so. What j Friday, July 18th 4:00 p. m., Mo- prevlous years, in the New Eng- adding that “under the present can be done about it? I advocate doc H. D. Club at school house. *® nd » Middle Atlantic and Middle- regime no South Carolinian could , the taking off of the statewide lev- X Western states. These sections al- hope to be either vice-president ies and the support of the state [ «a had lengthy lists of injured. In or president of the United States.” (government by such indirect tax-i New York City, where the sale i Praises Own Record i ation as we now have, supple-; of fireworks is forbidden, 275 per-1 After paying his respects to mented by a reasonable tax on! sons were treated for bums from newspapers for “creating in Wash- j stocks and bonds. All but th ^ | bootleg firecrackers, roman candles ington an advance idea of him.'five mill levy is spent in the coun- i pin wheels and rockets. At least Blease said he had done more-in ty where raised, so it will only be | 11 persons were seriously injured my first term than any other sen-1 necessary to take it off and ad-i in Ctdcago. ' ator ever sent from South' Caro- just the distribution under the| Go put your name on the club roll of your voting precinct if you intend to vote in the primary this summer. Tuesday, July 22nd, is the last day for registering. COLUMBIA, July 5.—A lack of interest in enrollment which Gen- Dr. Harvey \v. Wiley is dead in Ms eral Wilie Jones, treasurer of the eighty-sixtii year. He ren-dercHi public state democratic executive com- service and proved the soundness of m ittee, • described today as alarm- his theories on diet. He did not. noticeable throughout the however, equal the record oi the fa- ® . i. 4. i inous Italian Comoro. The latter state, if Columbia may be taken specialized long ago in light eating, as an indication. In a statement He lived to one hundred and four, in given out Friday, General Jones good health, and his wife, upon whom said: ho urged his theories, lived post one | ..g outh Carolina men seem to lu,ni] ' P ' L have joined with women in evi- Mussolini adds $20,000,000. a large fencing an apathetic interest in sum in Italy, to his annual military enrollment which is necessary in expenses. The people patriotically order to vote in the approaching accept more taxation when Mussolini primaries. tells them lie is “meeting the increns- . “including the women, there are ing military expenditures of neigh- 400 000 pers()ns eligible to vote, and hors," referring to the heavy French • ’ , , f border guard. j re P orts received from those in charge of enrollment books in the A woman complains that Jugo-! c ^y Columbia and from other slavian otlicials beat her brutally and points throughout the s^ate, it is frequently to get political confessions | apparent that less than fifty per from her. ( cent wil i ^ave qualified by July 22 Poland exhausts her resources, keep-j when enrollment ceases for the ing in futile readiness for what Russia . . may do. Only a match is needed in y ear law. that situation. j “Under the teims of an ameno- [ment to the democratic rules ad- The Russian newspaper Pravda opted at the 1928 convention, every urges Communists in America to “in- i vo ter must enroll every four years tensify their activities among negroes b barred from participating in and workers of foreign nationality. ; The advice is not sound. Negroes and primary, workers foreign born are usually will ing to work for a living. A patriotic duty can be render ed by newspapers and candidates for public office if they will but . Lack of employment is the Com- i stress the necessity for enrollment I 7«irt>lr e V riCnd ’ ° f C( T e ' and labor for participation in the In ordinary times propaganda w^uld j . .. - .. be most effective among those that primaries of at least three fourths think the world owes them a Hiving, of the eligible voters, men and wo- with tittle or no work. 'men.”