McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, July 31, 1930, Image 1
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
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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.
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Mr. Parks Using
Improved Machinery
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.