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Twenty-Ninth Year 8 Pages — All Home Print McCORMICK, S. .C. Thursday, July 31., 1930 Established June 5, 1902 Number 9 First Campaign - Meeting At Young’s Was Well Attended \ CANDIDATES MAKE INITIAL BOW TO VOTERS ON COUN TY SPEAKING TOUR The McCormick county campaign opened Tuesday at Young’s before a crowd of around four hundred. The speaking was done principally by legislative candidates and while no issues of importance were in volved six candidates gave their reasons for wanting to be elected to the general assembly. J* O. Mc Daniel, seeking re-election to the house of representatives, was not present. J. J. Dorn, candidate for the Biate Senate, made the opening speech. He feels that he will be in we n church, position, if elected, to help Me-' Oormick county come back. He be lieves in building- up assessed val uation and bringing new enter prises into the county. “Elect me, try me and I will show you,” Mr. Dorn saidT Dr. R. G. Killingsworth and W. K. Charles, also candidates for the State Senate, next spoke. Campaign Meeting • At Bethia Church Tomorrow, Aug. 1 HOPEWELL MEETING HAS BEEN ^HANGED TO BETHIA The campaign meeting on Au gust 5th at Hopewell Church has been moved up to August 1st at Bethia. This is upon request of the people living in that community, and all candidates will please bear in mind that they will be able to meet the citizens at Bethia Church, which is just across the McCor- mick line on the road to Abbeville, on August 1st., and a cordial invi tation is extended to each. Dinner will be served on the ground. This meeting takes the place of the meeting on August 5th at Hope- W. K. CHARLES, County Chairman. —XXX Mr. Parks Using Improved Machinery —v GOES LONG WAY TOWARD SOLVING LABOR PROBLEM ON HIS FARM Mr. B. F. Parks, of Parksville, one of McCormick county’s wide-awake Price Of Butterfat On Upward Trend 30 CENTS PER POUND WILL EE PAID AT LOCAL STATION SATURDAY The price of butterfat at the Mc- farmers, proves that he deserves Cormick Cream Station has taken this title by the way in which he is adapting the use of improved ma chinery to his farming operations. Through the use of his tractor in breaking and harrowing his another jump, according to Thos. W. Morgan, county agent, and W. E. Sheppard, Jr., manager of the station, who announce that 30 cents per pound will be paid on land, Mr. Parks and his two sons, next Saturday, August 2. Death Of Mrs. S. P. Morrah done a remarkably good job of the both of whom remained in school until June first, prepared and planted a much larger acreage of cotton, corn, and feed crops than they could have prepared with the one-mule plows generally used in the county. Then, to enable him and the boys to properly cultivate this large crop, Mr. Parks has used a two-mule riding cultivator throughout the cultivation of his cotton and com, and, as the con dition of his crop will show, has cultivation. Mrs. Janie Wardlaw Morrah, wife The county agent was on Mr. of S P Morrah, died suddenly at Parks’ farm last week and saw ICOUngsworth “"slated that her home in the Bellvue section of his son Hampton Parks^ putting true worth and merit alone should i McCook* county Friday night at four furrows to the row of com, irue worm ana merit aione snouia^ waist to sh oulder high, with the guide the voters In makmg their, J ocicck. ! ... i.. . i, ^ v. + choice for this office. If elected, he Mrs. Morrah was 69 years of .age riding cultivator, pulled by two would fight against the political and a daughter of the late David mules. This operation by one ring which It has been said made'J- and Bettle W. Wardlaw. Be ; man and two mules was taking the some of our laws in hotel rooms.her husband, she is survived Place of four men, four mules and He favors changes in our banking I by four sons, D. W. Morrah, of four plowstocks, was being done i J <.4.* i ii r-'-romcfnnrn N C • S P Morrah just as quickly, and just as good, laws and cutting expenses along all u-reensooro, i\. o., o. r. muiiitu, j ^ j & Jines Jr., of Winston-Salem, N. C.; J. W. Mr. Parks has, in addition, work- W K Charles f 'tated that if Morrah and Uel Morrah, of Will- : cd his entire crop of cotton in the elected he would do “his best to pro- Won, and two daughters, Mrs. M. W manner and will continue to mote the prosperity and welfare of ; E * Bradley, of Clemson College, o so un i i s ai y * McCormick. He discussed agri- | and Mrs. H. H. Jones, Elberton. Ga. | I could never have put in and culture, labor and taxation and! silc al£:o leaves one brother, W. W. hoiked the ciop that I have and stated that in view of the fact that Wardlaw, of Troy, and two sisters, ^ ^ ~ this county is an agricultural coun- 7 vIrs - W. H. Robinson and Miss Em- ty, relief must be given the farm- ma Wardlaw, both of Troy. ing' class. He favors bi-ennial Funeral services were conducted sessions of the legislature. Long Cane A. R. P* Church at T. A. Dowtin, first candidate for 12 o’clock Sunday and interment made m the church cemetery. Mrs. Morrah had been a consistent Farmers are urged to watch The Town Doctor” 4-H Club Girls Attend Short Course At Lander College DOCTOR OF TOWNS SAYS: SELL THE SALESMAN ON SELL ING McCORMICK i IN^^^^^TIN— One rainy day a few years ago | jqyed* J00 I called on a merchant in a town of some 5000 population in central Indiana. I had a brief case under my arm, and as I walked into the store someone exclaimed: “Ye RAM EN- OIRLS FROM COU'”"" 7 —> HHREE DAYS AT CAM? McCormick Countv 4-H Club , _ Girls, one hundred strong, attend- gods, another drummer!” Naturally ed the c , ub short Course at Lan _ I was somewhat taken back but ' r College> Ju , y 28 29 and 30 un _ the gentleman followed through der the dlrection of Mrs Njll A with: “There’s been sixteen sales- stallworthi Home Demonstration man in here today, and only one closely as to the quality of the customer. cream brought to the station. Dur ing the excessively hot weather we have been having, it has been very hard to keep the quality of the cream good, and some complaint has come back from the creamery receiving our product. All milk to be hand skimmed should be cooled as soon as possible in fresh water after it is milked. Those who have separators should separate the cream immediately after milk ing, and then cool the cream as soon as possible. Don’t mix warm and cold milk, or warm and cold cream, but first cool the fresh lot of milk or cream before mixing with the old. With, the coming of fall and cooler weather, the milk and cream will not be so hard to keep, and the price will come up closer to the standard price than it has been the house of representatives speak ing, said that we are spending too much money along all lines; too member of this church practically much for colleges and state insti- ail ^ er tutions and have voted too many bonds. He thought the people should not elect a politician, but a man "who is not afraid to do right. W D. Morrah, next candidate for the house, reviewed his former rec ord in that body. He favors the amendment for the re-classifica tion of property as well as bi-en nial sessions. He promises his best efforts for all measures in the in terest of McCormick county. D. L. Wideman, also candidate * for the house, proposes to repre sent all fairly and impartially. He does not propose to increase taxes on farm lands and believes that there is too much money spent for higher education. He favors bi ennial sessions and more stringent banking raws. Candidates for treasurer, T. J. Price, incumbent, P. J. Robinson and Y. E. S6igler, all made short kept my boys in school, had it not been for the tractor and the culti vator,” says Mr. Parks, and when one goes over his large fields and sees the clean crops, one wonders whether labor should really be such a proposition in McCormick county after all. X Honary pallbearers were: Messrs Albert Gibert, Oscar Covin, S. H. I Talbert, J. L. Perrin, T. J. Price, W. H. Britt, C. D. Cowan, J. J. Hester, Geo. P. Watkins, C. W. Pennal, Richard Sondley, Walter Andrews; Active: David M. Wardlaw, E. H. Garrison .W. L. Wilson, G. W. Cade, Billie Britt and Edward Funder burk. J. S. Strom’s service in charge. x y Kirk White Kills , i Alfred Mims Phone Exchanges Are Consolidated Immediately the mission of my Agent. In addition to these girls, twenty-one ladies from McCormick: County, Miss Louise Fleming, Hom^ call was forgotten, for here was a Demonstration A ge n t of Green- shoe man who had altogether the j wood Countv and Miss Harriett wrong slant on things. He is only Layton Assista nt Home Demon- one of thousands upon thousands I stration Agentj assisted Mrs . stal3 _ of merchants who do not recognize the salesman who calls on him as, first, a potential buyer ©f that which he has to sell; and, second, a walking, talking advertisement for his town. Any salesman who is trying to sell you something is easier for you to sell something to than any of those whom the shoe man chose to call customers. Every salesman buys what ‘most every merchant sells, but how many merchants ever try to sell him anything? This shoe man passed up an op portunity. Here he was, with no thing to do, and 17 people came into his store, only one of whom during the summer. From all in- he tried to sell, when in reality he dications, the period of excessively ; had 17 live customers but he did low prices is over, and by fall and n ot know it. winter the price for butterfat should approach normal again. tXt 4-H’ers To Hear National Program Alfred Mims, 43, of 2161 Greene street, Augusta. Ga., was shot and fatally wounded near Modoc, S. C., late Monday afternoon by Kirk E. White. 41.' The shooting occurred at the home of Mrs. W. Bussey. White’s mother-in-law. and Mims talks, Mr. Price standing "on his diefl f” route to August^ White record and. Messrs. Robinson and county laii. at McCormick. Seigier giving their qualifications.' According to information given with out Mims was told to leave the Bussey home, and on failing to do so v/as shot by White. Mims, it i* understood was in an automo- The meeting wound up speeches by candidates for Pro bate Judge, L. G. Bell, incumbent, and J. C. Corley. ,J. A. Young presided over the “c which was parked about 25 meeting. A sumptuous picnic and L eot fro f the f ™ nt P° rch of th „ e barbecue dinner was served free. |Bu f ey ^^me. Mims, it was said. The next meeting is scheduled ™ * a " tom omle. for Bethia tomorrow, after which Shortly after the shooting took the itinerary will be: place Dr ’ Blackwe ll summoned ABBEVILLE, July 28.—Twenty- one telephone exchanges in the state of Georgia were consolidated today and hereafter will be known as the Georgia Continental Tele phone Co., a sister corporation of the South Carolina Continental Telephone company which oper ates 16 exchanges in this state. The new organization was in corporated under the laws of Georgia and has an authorized capital of $750,000. General of fices of the corporation are located here and both offices will be sup ervised from Abbeville. The war over in China is said to be over, but no one over here seems to know what it was over. CLEMSON COLLEGE. July 23.— The thirteenth of a series of na tional 4-H club programs to be broadcast over a national hook-up of 45 stations is scheduled fot Sat urday, August 2, at 12:45 p. m. The United States Marine Band will furnish the musical numbers and background, continuing the series of music^appreciation periods. American light opera music will be the feature of the day, and the numbers chosen are from “Babes in Toy land,” by Victor Herbert, “Robin Hood” by Reginald de Kov- en, “Prince of Pilsen,” by Gustave Luders, and “El Capitan,” by John Philip Sousa. R. A. Turney field agent in club work for the Central States, will announce the numbers and discuss them. The States co-operating in this program are Connecticut, which will be repre sented by a 4-H club girl, and Maryland, which sends a 4-H club boy and a member of the exten sion staff. Miss Gertrude L. War ren, Organization, Boys’ and Girls’ Club Work, Office of Co-operative Extension Work, will also speak. Parksville, Friday, August 8th. Elliott’s ambulance from Augusta WiUlngton, Tuesday, August 12th. ^ pl ? u ced in «* e , Plum Branch, Friday, August and , started t fo t r * e h ° splta1 ’ but died en route to Augusta. McCormick, Friday, August 22nd. X JXJ Schedule Of Home Officers Get Still Demonstration Work Sheriff W. T. Strom and Officers For Next Week C._M. Foster and J. M. H. Ashley ——.— seized a 60 gallon still and a quant- Monday, August 4th, office, ity of peach brandy about a mile Tuesday, August 5th, 4:00 p. m., above the highway on Little river Bethany H .D. Club, last Friday. They will make Wednesday, August 6th, 4:00 p. charges against two men in con- m<> P i um Branch H. D. Club, nection with the still within a few Thursday, August 7th, 4:00 p days. m., Willington H. D. Club. XXX ■ ™ i Friday, August 8th, 4:00 p. xn., Charity begins at home and sel- Meriwether H. D. Club, liom‘ gets any father. [ Saturday, August 9th, office._ NOTICE TO CANDIDATES I I respectfully request all candidates for county offices, before making specific statements or charges con cerning the administration and man agement of the De la Howe School, to see me and give me a chance to give information. . Such action on your part will be fair and honorable. J. B. BRANCH, V Superintendent. Not a one of those fellows but wore shoes and granting that every one of them had on new ones, they surely didn’t all have rubbers; and even so he might at least have sold them a pair of shoe strings. The profit on 16 pairs of shoe strings on each of the 320 days in the year would amount to 10 per cent interest on $2500. In the case of this man that sum would have paid more than two months rent. The merchant or professional man who allows a salesman to go away from his place of business without selling that man on the town is passing up almost as great an opportunity. The returns on the time taken to do this may not be direct, but someone in your town will profit, and you can not make money unless your neighbor does. It is a sort of unwritten code among salesmen that the town they get business in is a good town, but the town where they get no orders is a terrible “burg.” 4 Sell these fellows on what your town has, what it NEEDS, whether you give them an order or not. Go out of your way to do this with the fellow from whom you do not buy. rather than the one you do. SeT him! Send him on his way boost ing YOUR town, for you never know when his firm may want tc locajte a new branch factory, o^ district office, or place a residen zone manager and his family ir the territory. Even if there is no chance of this, the salesman meets and talk' to hundreds of people weekly, and he can and will be the cause o / .sending hundreds of dollars ir business to your town IF you “sell’ him on the idea and On McCor :nick. A town with only 100 salesmer a week. 40 weeks in the year, car have 4000 walking delegates con stantly advertising the advantage* of that town, so sell the salesmen on selling McCormick. (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.) XXX — Redmen Meet Thurs. Aug. 7th All members of Shewano Tribe, No. 112, Improved Order of Red- men, are urged to attend the meet ing of the tribe at 8 o’clock next Thursday evening, August 7th. . . ... - : S. L. BRITT, Sachem. worth with the Short Course. Three school buses furnished hy the McCormick, Plum Branch and Washington school districts were* used to carry a number of the girls to and from the camp. Following is the program that was carried out: Monday, July 28 Arrive—10:30 a. m., Register, Make Camp. 11:30 a. m.—General Assembly. 12:00 m.—Lunch. 12:30 p. m.—Group 1, Picture at Carolina Theatre. 1:00 p. m.—Group 2, Rest. 2:00 p. m.—Handwork, Misses Fleming, Langley, Sheppard and Quarles. 3:30 p. m.—Chapel-Devotional, Dr. R. H. Bennett. Singing, by alL Welcome, Dr. R. H. Bennett, May or Andrews. Response, Ruby Cothran. Roll Call of Clubs. In troductions. Announcements, com mittees groups program rules. Singing. 5:00 p. m.—Recreation by group. 6:00 p. m.—Supper. 7:00 p. m.—Games on campus. 8:00 p. m.—Vesper and Candle Service in Dingle, Miss Layton, and Dr. S. C. Hodges. Roll call—goodnight. Tuesday, July 29 6:30 a. m.—Rising bell. 7:00 a. m.—Sitting-up exercises. Misses Brown and Quarles. 7:15 a. m.—Morning watch, Miss es Lucy Brown and Irene Langley. 7:30 a. m.—Breakfast. 8:30 a. m.—Group meetings, roll call, songs, yells, group stunt prac tice. 9:15 a. m.—Assembly singing led by Miss Layton. 9:30 a. m.—“Posture” Miss Flem ing. 10:00 a. m.—Personal care and grooming, MisS Layton. 10:45 a. m.—Rest. 11:00 a. m.—Chapel, devotional— Miss Fleming. Vocal solo. Mis'*. Rebecca Stallworth. Inspirational talk. Announcements. 12:00 m.—Dinner. 12:30 p. m.—Group 2. picture av Carolina Theatre. 1:00 p. m.—Group 1, rest. 2:00 p. m.—Handwork. ^ 3:30 p. m.—Practice stunts. 5:00 p. m.—Rest. 6:00 p. m.—Supper. 7:00 p. m.—Vesper, Miss Julia Brown. 8:00 p. m.—Stunts. Roll call—goodnight. Wednesday, July 39 6 30 a. m.—Rising bell. 7:00 a. m.—Sitting-up exercises. Misses Bell and Edmunds. 7:15 a. m.—Morning watch, Mrs. J. M. Bussey and Mrs. J. L. Ryan. 7:30 a. m.—Breakfast. 8:30 a. m.—Group meetings, group songs, yells, roll call. 9:30 a. m.—Handwork. 10:45 a. m.—Assembly singing. 11:30 a. m.—Chapel, devotional led by 4-H Club Girls. Musical program. Announcement of win ners. ’ s 1:00 p. m.—Dinner, parting songs 2:00 p. m.—Breaking camp. 3:00 p. m.—Home. X Helena, Mont., faces eleven dam-, age suits, with claims totaling $100,000, as the result of a typhoid epidemic last fall. Each plaintiff contracted the fever and blamed the city on the ground of munici pal negligence.