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.Thursday, September 25, 193(5 McCURMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. SoutV Carotin*. Page Number Pont ~ "f' It Is Better Business Now to Hold Your Cotton Than to Plant Next Spring at Present Ruinous Level of Values I *3 Storage Capacity 100,000 Bales & LANSING a 1-KB, PtesMcnt Ship Your Cotton to Us—Low Rates # This organization was recently formed to take over all properties of the Atlantic States Warehouse and Compress Company. We will store your cotton at most attractive rates. Further, we will arrange for you to se cure advances on such cotton up to 80 per cent, of its value, provided proper margins are maintained. The rate of interest will be most attractive. If you like, we’ll gladly sell your cotton for you at only 50c per bale commission. If you prefer to sell your stored cotton direct, there will be no commission charged. We believe you'll find here the kind of service you’ve al ways wanted. Get in touch with us at ONCE. Rates lor Storing Cotton First Month, per bale 30c Each Month Thereafter, per bale .25c ■ » , INCLUDING INSURANCE WRITE FOR FULL INFORMATION Georgia-Carolina Warehouse and Compress Company AUGUSTA, GA. HAMILTON PHINIZY, Vice-President E. C. WEBB, Treasurer Washington High School News The opening exercises of Wash ington Consolidated School were held Monday morning, September 8th, at nine o’clock with Mr. L. V. Mayer, superintendent, presiding. Rev. Culbertson, ot £hnh*Branch, opened with prayer .and this was followed by a most forceful and in spiring talk by Rev. Leon T. Pressly of McCormick. Dr. Blackwell of Parksville was called tipon and res ponded with a helpful, extempor aneous talk. *' Mrs. W. M. Rowland of Augusta, Ga., first president of the School Improvement Association and de voted friend of the school, was present and gave a delightful talk. Including a school .motto for the year. The exercises were, concluded with a prayer by Rev. J. L. Bobo of Plum Brafich. Ward Robertson. Miss Minnie Jackson’s room— Evelyn Blackwell. Miss Johnson’s room—Edna Cart- ledge. It was very bad to hear of the death of Mrs. A. L. DeLoach of Savannah, Ga., who is a sister of Miss Nell Johnson, one of our teachers. The many friends of Miss Johnson deeply sympathize with her during this great sorrow. died Friday night at midnight at feasted until a rain drove them the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. in. . L. Meyers, on East Evans street, j The next meeting will be held in Funeral services will be held this the home of Mrs. W. R. Gilchrist. The school is glad to welcome wo new teachers, Miss Minnie ackson.of Abbeville and Miss An te Laura Godbee of Waynesboro, la. We are looking forward to a uccessful year with such an ef- Lcient corps of teachers, sixty-six igh school students and one hun ted and four pupils in the gram- mr grades. The first meeting of the School Improvement Association was held in the school auditorium on Thurs day, September 11th, at 3 p. m„ with Mrs:~L. V. Mayer, presiding in the absence of the president. A very interesting program had been planned, with talks made by Miss McKinney and Miss Jackson. The small but enthusiastic gathering then enjoyed a vocal solo by Miss Annie Laura Godbee, accompanied by Mrs. Mayer at the piano. It was unanimously decided to have a short program at the Oc tober meeting, and to enjoy so cial hour with refreshments serv ed by those present at the first meeting. We hope a creditable number will be able to come and bring an abundance of enthusiasm in the interest of the meetings this year. ' The high schooL students had a nee ting Wednesday morning in the auditorium for the purpose of re organizing the Echo Literary So ciety. Mr. Mayer presided and nade a short talk on what a liter ary society should mean to the students in a school. The follow ing officers were elected: President—Beryl Bass. Vice-President—Blanche Middle- ton. • Secretary—Annel Edmunds. Critic—Josephine Parks. Program Committee—Davis Bus sey, Alice Bunch, Elmira Wood, Floyd Drennan. It was decide^ that a meeting should be held once every month and each pupil is to take some part on the program from time to time. Mr. L. V. Mayer was a recent visitor in Columbia where he at tended a superintendent’s meeting. Miss Annie Laurie Godbee spent last week end in Waynesboro, Ga., with her j^>ther. Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt Wooten and little daughter, Jean, Messrs. Fred Bradshaw and Pat Robertson at tended the Carolina-Erskine foot ball game in Columbia ; on last Saturday. afternoon at three o’clock at the home, 705 E. Evans street, and in terment will be made at Mount Hope Cemetery. Rev. P. H. Bussey, pastor of Immanuel Baptist church, will conduct the services. Mr. Gartledge had been in failing This is a meeting that will be long remembered. Several cars, one behind the other, got stuck in a mud puddle, but all finally got out and home by night fall. Pastor Gurley preached for us a cermon on Christian citizenship AND PRICES BE BEAT health for nearly two years, but! Sunday. his condition did not become criti cal until six weeks ago. He was 77 years of age, and for the past six years had made his home in Florence with his daughter, com ing to Florence from Parksville. He was a member of the Parksville Baptist church. ^During his resi dence in Florence he made many friends who will grieve with his family at his passing. Mr. Cartledge is survived by his widow, who was Miss Susan Stone, of Parksville. and the following Miss Margaret McKinney spent children: Mrs. R. L. Hight, Mrs. last week end in McCormick with j p Tucker, Mrs. E. J. Edwards relatives. , • j and Mrs. J. L. Meyers, of Florence, Misses Minnie and Annie Jack- Mrs . G . H. Payne and H/L. Cart- son, Misses Marion Herron, Kath- ledge, of Greensboro, N. C., and leen Brunson and Sallie Mae Parks M rs. L. A. Hamilton, of Miami, were shoppers in Greenwood last pi a# Twenty-six grandchildren al- Saturday. During the first week of school the agriculture class cleaned off the football field, and then scrap ed it. Since then, out of school, they fixed some wooden steps on the« path leading up to the school building. During class the boys have been studying the value of planting winter cover crops pre ceding cotton and corn. We are now in position to say that there will be a football team at Washington, even though we had heard rumors that there would be no coach nor team. We have both and are expecting a good year. We have started practicing but there are those that we miss on the field this year—Ralph Gales, Charles Bussey, W. P. Parks, Hu bert Williams, Aubrey Price, Fred Bailey ,William Reese, and Joe Price. With these men gone our hopes for- a good team are rather slim, even though the team is showing up fairly good in practice. Not only do we miss some of our former players, but we also miss our* former coach, S. H. Jones. Mr. Jones is certainly due much praise for the team he had last year, and we hated to give him up. But to take his place we have a most ef ficient ^m, Fred Bradshaw. Mr. Bradshaw is putting forth every possible effort to have a good team and with the co-operation of the boys, a successful team will be the result. Mr. H. E. Freeland has his fa ther and uncle helping him boil syrup this week . They think he will make around 500 gallons. The cane is getting to be noted and is known as the Freeland cane. Some thing like the Freeland cabbage that vrere grown so extensively in this section some years ago. The syrup is as clear as honey and fine. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Freeland vis ited their sick aunt, Mrs. Genie Hammond. Sunday. We missed them at Sunday School. Mr. Eddie Strom and his bride, also Edward and Mabel Strom, worshipped at Rehoboth Sunday, and dined at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. R Talbert. X Johnston Will Not Make Effort To Upset Election IV * ' Pledging himself to work for the best interest of South Carolina and extending good wishes to his successful opponent Olin D. John ston declares he will make no ef fort to upset the election results of September 9 when Ibra C. Black wood received the Democratic nom ination for governor. Mr. Johnston issued a statement from his Spartanburg office Wed nesday night thanking the thou- ! sands of voters who supported him. He expresses the hope that the The Rehoboth H. • D. Club met legislature will not become the too 1 Tuesday afternoon in the hospi- i Q f an y special interests, and urges table home of Mrs. H. E. Freeland. th e members keep an open The agent, Mrs. Stallworth, did m i n d on the many important ques- not give any demonstration, as tions to be submitted next year, there was much business to at- ! shortly after the state commit- tend to. tee had declared him the nominee We re-organized. The same of- , Tuesday noon Mr. Blackwood is- ficers w r ere re-eiected. as they had sued a statement from his Colum- not served a year. Our club was bia hot ei in which he thanked organized in February with 8 mem- j those who had voted for him. He bers ana we now have 20. There , made a p lea f 0 r the united sup- has been qu?te a lot of good work port of the people in w T orking for done in the club in these months, the advancement of South Caro- The ladies met the day of the elec- !h na tion and the men helped plant out^ ^ few minutes after the action bulbs around the church. Our ex- | of the state committee Tuesdav terior decorator chairman, Mrs. wh ich closed officially the 1930 Marion Winn, has other plans to political campaign in South Caro- carry out . later. lina Senator Cole L. Blease, defeat- Mrs. Freeland met the guests ed by j a mes F. Byrnes, announced with her usual happy smile. Her himself a candidate for the sen se survive. Active pall bearers at the fun eral will be Talbert Bailey. Roy Clyburn, W. B. Pettigrew, W. B. Harper, W .W. Wiggins and H. F. Wilson. Honorary pall bearers will be W. H. Hock, John Baker, Martin Hughes, Curtis Cox, J. E. Wood, R. B. Gleison, J. G. McKenzie, M. E. Street, Dr. F. K. Rhodes, Dr. Smith, H. H. Harbin, W\ L. Dean and C. H. Miller.—Florence Morning Re view, September 20. X NEWS READ THE FOLLOWING LIST AND COME TO OUR PLACE FOR THE CHOICEST MEATS AT LOWET PRICES: STEAK, 25c BEEF ROAST, 18and20c STEW BEEF,. 15c MIXED SAUSAGE, 20c PURE PORK SAUSAGE, 25c PORK CHOPS —i 25c WHOLE PORK HAM 23c VEAL, 25 and 30c CURED HAM, 35c BOILED HAM, 55c BAKED HAM, 65c WEINERS 25c BREAKFAST BACON, Sliced, _35c Fresh FISH every Thursday, Friday and Saturday; Also Good HASH every Saturday. OYSTERS IN SEASON' We have good refrigeration facilities, and handle our meats sanitarily. Delivery service and phone connection; call number 19 and have your meats de livered you'll get the same good meats and service at no more cost. Remember, our meats and prices cannot be beat. T. HOWARD SMITH’S MEAT MARKET McCormick, S. C. . _ . „ , . , . | home was spotless, and the yards ate in 1932. At that time Sena- Fractice for the past weeks has j W er e so clean and nice, and the tor E . D . Smit h wUl be up for re- consisted chiefly of passing, scrim- i ovely f i owers gave a grand set _ electlon or someone w ui be seeking ting for the occasion. Had been his seat which will become vacant planned to seat the guests on the j n March, 1933. maging and some signal work. The boys who come out for prac tice every afternoon are: Warlick Kellejr, Davis Bussey, Pat Robert son, Eubert Eckard, Jack Wells, his year it has been decided to e a group of reporters to make tributions to the school news h week. These reporters are to re during one semester and for first semester the following e been appointed: oys* Athletics—Davis Bussey, iris’ Athletics—Mary Frances nnan. hapel Exercises—Blanche Mid- »n. .. - v * grlcultural News—Pete Lank- 1.4 -£■ - Qilchrist. [rs. Rountree’s ^room—Clifford large porch, but rain came up and T h e defeat of Senator Blease had to go Artskie. There were4*1 brin g S the number of defeated sen- „ w „ books given for the circulating or; a t 0 rs in the nation to five, with Pickens Wells, Watson Parks, Ray round Robin hbrary. The agent is prospects of further defeats in the Bailey, Pete Lankford, Hampton to be th e Robin to carry the books j November elections when the party from one club to another. I nominees will battle in the doubt- We were favored with the pres- | f u i states, ence of several guests—Mrs. R. M. - txt Parks, Olin Bussey, Raymond Hol loway, Floyd Drennan, Mid Self, John Price, Albert Howie, George Willis, Robert Buchanan, Herman ; winn and Mrs. Ethan White from t ^ 0 Bussey,and T. J. Stone. From this pi um Branch club;- Mrs. Rush from SciClltlSt S6CS group a good line up will be ex pected. The first game will be with Edge- field at Edgefield, Friday after noon, September 26th. ’ £-X- Funeral Today Of Aged Florence Man E. H. Cartledge, who has been seriously ill for the past six weeks, McCormick; Mrs. Sudie Stone and * ,Mrs. Price from Parksville, and Mr. I Jesse Stone, who has been so sick, i was able to ride over and enjoy the time on the porch with the other! men. Mr. W. A. Winn, Mr. Luke Culbreath and a little Price boy were the men present. Mrs. Freeland, with the help of several others, served delightful fruit;ptm©h and pound cake •'that was delightful. She invited all out to the grape arbor where they Solution Of Cheap Rubber Problem SALINAS, Cal.—One of the world’s major industrial problems —the production of cheaper rub ber—has been solved, according to Dr. William B. McCallum, an em- ihent botanist. Dr. McCallum declares that af ter 20 years of experimenting, all over the United States, he has dis covered that the guayale bush, a olant with a high rubber content can be successfully grown near Salinas, situated about 100 miles south of San Francisco. This means the elimination of large transportation costs from the rubber plantations in Guiana, Af rica and South America. Dr. Mc- Callum’s backers are so confident, of the value and certainty of his experimental discoveries that he is constructing a $150,000 rubber plant near Salinas. Millions of guayale bushes, said to yield up to 1,000 pounds cf rub ber each four; years, are being grown on the company’s 25,0Q0*-acre tract. The guayale is a Mexican shrub.' To exact the greatest a- mount of rubber possible, the American company crushes the plant and takes out the juice by machinery. The problem of cheaper manu facture of rubber has engaged many of the best minds in the country. Thomas A. Edison. Henry Ford, and Harvey Firestone, to name only three, have for years financed experiments to grow rub ber here or to discover method of manufacturing an artificial rub ber substitute. If Dr. McCallum’s high, hopes are realized it may mean the rev- olutionizing. of \ the entire * rubber tire business, besides lowering the price of countless other articles j in which rubber is used. The history of the giant rubber industry is comparatively short. The substance was first discovered in America. When Columbus reach- jed the West Indies, he found the Haitians playing with crude rub ber balls. - v It was first used in England a- bout 1820 for erasers. At that time a half-inch piece of the then mysterious substance cost about 75 cents. j An ingenious Scotchman named j Charles Macintosh some years lat er utilized the material in the manufacture of raincoats. Subse- iquently it was found that rubber would repel gas as welt as water and surgeons used it in tubes. The first initial step in the evo lution of the modern rubber tire was taken by Goodyear when' he invented the process of vulcaniz ing. There followed cycling on rubber tires. The present-day au tomobile came into use soon after an Irishman named J. B. Dunlop perfected the air-cushion tire. But until now manufacturing rubber products has been handi capped because the product of thfc rubber-juice yielding tree could only be grown in the distant areas of the tropics. , * . „ . . t ■ X Friction between metal parts heeds oil. Faction in human re lationship will improve with*, the same kind of treatment.