McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, October 16, 1930, Image 8
Thursday, October 16, 1930 .
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Page Number Eight
Sheriff Must Collect
Delinquent Taxes
Sheriff V7. T. Strom is in receipt
of the following letter from Comp
troller General A. J. Beattie:
Dear Mr. Strom:
I wrote you in September regard- |
ing the collection of all delinquent!
tax executions in your hands. Fol
lowing this, I would like to know
what progress is being made in this
direction. I know of no better
time to collect these delinquent
taxes, which are long past due.
YOU ARE HEREBY DIRECTED
to make a final return for the yea3r
1928 and back, on or before t]?&
15th day of November. If adver
tisement and sale is necessary in;
order to accomplish this, you are
directed to take such action, par-,
ticularly with reference to the year
1928 and prior.
Yours very truly, .
A. J. BEATTIE, •
Comptroller General*
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NATURAL ACTION
Judge—You admit you entered the
house of the prosecutor by the rear
door at two o'clock in the morning.
What business had you there at that
time of night?
Prisoner—I thought It was my own
house.
Judge—Then why did you, when
this lady approached, leap through
the window, .lump into a cistern, and
hide yourself?
Prisoner—I thought she was my
wife.—Stray Stories.
MIGHTY EFFORT
\Y Al
Butler—Did you call, sir?
Mr. Netvriche—Yes, James. Just
step over there and push the button—
I want me valet!
Greenwood, S. C.
FRIDAY and SATURDAY
October 17th-18th
WARNER BAXTER
in
“THE ARIZONA KID”
The west of colorful border
bandits and- ladies who know
about men’s hearts.
MONDAY and TUESDAY
October 20th-21st
CONSTANCE BENNET
and
LEWIS AYERS
in
“COMMON CLAY”
Carries you to the inermost
depths of the heart of wo
manhood!
WEDNESDAY and THURS.
October 22nd-23rd
ROBERT MONTGOMERY
v and
DOROTHY JORDAN
in
“LOVE IN THE ROUGH”
Golf was his game—love was
hers! But cupid was on her
side. How could she help
winning! Youthful! Gay!
Tuneful! Eyeful!
The Exception
I like folks to be what they are
But I am always filled with rage.
When I am on a motor trip
And my old bus does act its age.
Unchanged
“Do .you act towards your wife as
you did before you married her?”
“Exactly. I remember just how I
used to act when I first fell in love
with her. I used to lean over the
fence in front of her house and gaze
at her shadow on the curtain, afraid
to go in. And I act the same way
now.”—Capper’s Weekly.
Heard That Before
Henry—You’re wanted on the tele
phone.
Horace—Say I'm in my hath.
Henry—I did, but he wouldn’t be
lieve it.
Horace—I’d better answer it, then.
It must be some one who knows me
well.—Hummel, Hamburg.
REDUCTION .on high grade cab
bage plants on quantities from
909 or more. > See, write or phone
. H. R. Deason, McCormick, S. C.
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WANTED Reliable Man to call on
farmers in McCormick County.
’ Wonderful opportunity. > Make $8
to $20 daily. No experience or cap
ital needed. Write today. McNess
Co., Dept. M, Freeport, 111.
tssssssssssssssssssass* .. | g”3sr~
FOR SALE—At my residence inj
McCormick one two horse wagon,^
one automobile, one cutaway har-
xow, one lot of farming tools, and
plow gear. J. D. Richardson.
LOCALMARKET
COTTON—
Strict Low - 8 3-4
Middling — — 9 1-4
Strict MiddUng 9 1-2
Good Middling 10
Cotton Seed Bushel 36 cts.
Breakfast Bacon per lb. — 35 to 50
Eggs per dozen 35 cts.
Bacon per lb. 12 1-2 to 22 cts.
Flour per sack 79c. to $1.40
Flour per barrel $6.00 to $11.00
Butter per lb. 45 cts.
Green Coffee, per lb. — 20 to 60 cts
Roasted Coffee, per lb. 20 to 55 cts.
Rice, per lb. 5c. to 10c.
"Grist, per lb. Sets
Molasses per gal. 50 to $1.00
Com per bu. $1.25
Fine Feed, 75 lbs. $1.75
Oats per bu. 80 cts.
Wheat, per bu. $1.50
Cheese per lb. 25 to 35 cts.
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Perspiring at a dance and over
the kitchen stove are entirely dif
ferent things.
tXl —
Some folks never vary the regul
arity of their church attendance by
not attending.
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Rice is the staple farm product
3ia Korea.
Indications
Janet (disappointedly) — I guess
Roger and I won’t get married so soon
after all.
Mother—Why, what makes you
think that?
Janet—He sent me a large box of
bandkerchiefs with my initials on
them—enough to last a year!
Punished
Shinn—How’s Abel Sass getting on
with that school teacher he’s calling
on now? . .
Foote—Well, every time he goes to
see her she keeps him an hour longer
for being naughty.
New Deni
Fortune Tell—It’s in the turn of the
cards that money comes to your bus-
band. *
Mrs,—No. no. It’s In the turn of
the cards that money goes from my
husband.
WRONG WORD
“Lay down, dog, lay down!”
“He doesn’t understand you, man.
Don’t you see he’s a Boston bull?”
We Might Try n Traffic Dove
When Noah sailed the ocean blue.
He had his troubles same as you;
For days and days he drove the ark.
Before he found a place to park.
Get Steamed Up, John
Mr. Slack—I want you to under
stand that I have my own train of
thought.
Mrs. Slack—Yes, I know; a very
slow train with an awfully poor con
ductor, John.
Speechless Emotion
“Hallo, where have you been?
“To the station to see my wife off
for a month’s holiday.”
“But how black your hands are!”
“Yes, I patted the engine.”—Nebel-
spalter.
Mad
“You should have seen me foaming
at the mouth the oilier morning.”
“Were you mad?”
“I sure was. I’d brushed my teeth
with shaving cream.”
Wants John to Try It
Mr. Jabbs—Good nature is just noth
ing more than a state of mind, Jane.
Mrs. Jabbs—Well, I hope some day
you will be able to get into that state
of mind, John. *
Why Ho Lost Her
“You used to say I was a man after
your own heart.”
“Yes, but when I found you were
after half a dozen other girls’ hearts,
I changed my mind.”
This Week
b Arthur Brisbane
A Troubled World
The Dean's for Eugenics
What Ails Us All
Power Unlimited?
There is serious revolution in Bra
zil, Pernambuco taken by the rebels,
according to report.
In the Argentine rioting leaders are
executed.
In China 75,000 “Reds” attack Ki-
angsi province.
Mild and peaceful-south Germany
is rocked by earthquake. Raphael’s
beautiful Madonna in Munich, with
the exquisite little cherubs looking
upward, must have felt the quake,
but fortunately was not injured.
The dean even takes an Interest in
the theory that a woman should be
allowed to regulate the size of her
family.
There is something in the statement
that nature doesn’t always function
perfectly. Of the first two brothers
born on earth by nature’s process,
Cain and Abel, one killed the other.
When you are ill it is well to know
what is the matter. Business is ill,
with an illness that affects millions
of unemployed, as illness of the body
affects billions of cells.
Mr. L. Greenfield, of Santa Bar
bara, diagnosing, finds the following
list of symptoms:
1. Over-speculation.
2. Fear.
3. Loss of confidence in our finan
cial system.
4. Very low and cautious circula
tion of money.
5. Increase of unemployment by big
business methods of “economy.”
G. False statements of the country’s
condition.
What would you add to these symp
toms? There is something the mat
ter that nobody understands. This
country fortunately will cure itself
this time as it has cured Itself often
before.
Experiments in Cuba by Georges
Claude, French scientist, may raeam
more to the world than all the wars,
and most of the inventions, since Na
poleon died.
Taking advantage of difference in
temperature between surface and
deep water in the gulf. Professor
Claude has . succeeded in supplying
power to light 40 500-watt electric
lamps.
This means actually utilizing the
power of the sun. When that is final
ly accomplished the human race will
possess power unlimited, and will do
whatever It can iroagtac*,
Mother Britannia begins to realize
that her dominion sons are children
no longer, and agrees, on demand of
the Irish Free State, that the high
court of any dominion shall render
final decisions. Any dominion, that
chooses may abolish the right of its
citizens to appeal to Britain’s privy
council against her own Supreme
court. . ,.. v
1 If Is said the British never re
peal a law, but let it die of its own
accord. The British rule that a man
may beat his wife with a stick no
bigger around than his thumb re
mained long after such beatings had
lost public approval.
One scientist, disliking the idea of
making money, said when announcing
an important discovery: “Thank heav
en, it cannot have any practical use.”
Probably he was mistaken.
Paresis, a disease of the mind, that
had always ended fatally, is now
treated successfully by radio.
The “curing machine” is a small
radio station. Its energy is localized
between two plates. The patient sits
between them, and the radio impulses
pass through him, creating a high
fever.
It is a pleasure to read in Presi
dent Hoover’s address to the Ameri
can Legion:
“We must sustain a preparedness
for defense that is impregnable, ye:
that contains no threat of aggression.’
There is no threat of aggression
in being prepared. The history of thb
country proves that it will not cngag«
in tlie piracy of war unless force<
to do so.
Wall Street rend ads you of a b:d>>
with tbe colic. Try as you may. yoi.
can't soothe it, or stop its weeping
It reminds you. also, of the watch a:
the mad hatter’s tea party, wliicl.
would not keep lime, although *'th<
best butter” was put in its works.
Wall Street gentlemen tell each otb
er. with ley smiles, that everythin;,
looks “very good, indeed.” Then be
cause some pirate sells their stocks
short, they follow suit, and sell also
What are those best financial minds
doing at present? Taking a vacation7
It is a strange, agitated, restless,
dissatisfied world.
Dean Inge of St. Paul’s cathedral
in London, most important clergyman,
warns his fellows in the church that
they must not “ignore the eugenists,”
namely those interested in producing
better children.
Nature does not know anything, ac
cording to the dean. We have scien
tific knowledge, and if we don’t use
it, that is “counted to us for a sin.”
This Week
b Arthur Briseams
The President's Speeci*
$27 a Hay for All
Better Than UoM
Germany Hoes Somethin;:
The President’s optimistic view
the near future, hacked by sound
facts and figures, should comfon J
many doubting Americans who thought
tlie world had come to an end when
violent stock gambling produced its
usual result.
Particularly important is the fact,
usually forgotten, that this nation
consumes 90 per cent of ail it pro
duces. If tomorrow the people of the
United States, consumers and distrib
utors, should resume their normal
purchasing, instead of holding back
in a vague, foolish fear, our prosperity
conditions would immediately become
97 per cent of normal.
Americans now hoarding, they know
not why. should remember that the
1930 dollar will do almost twice the
Inlying work of a 1929 dollar. Buy
now. the dollar’s 1930 value will not
endure.
If Henry Ford’s latest prediction
becomes reality, this country will con
sume all it can produce, and more,
barring, perhaps, superflous food prod
wets. And if they can he produced as
cheaply In proportion as our automo
biles are produced, our farms could
undersell the world, as our automo
bile and moving picture factories do.
Mr. Ford predicts a minimum pay
for workers of $27 f day by 1950, the
five-day week to be universal, giving
the $27 a day man leisure to enjoy
ids earnings, automobile, radio, etc.
To many tha* seems preposterous—
nhrtost criminal. But not long ago
there was only one man in the United
States that could earn a dollar a day
the year round. The Increase from
one dollar a day for one man only,
to six dollars a day. and more, foi
millions of men, would have seemed
as “impossible” as the increase that
Mr. Ford suggests from six dollars
to twenty-seven.
Discovery of a gold mine contain
Ing two or three billions of dollars
in gold would be welcome news, financ
ing tbe world more strongly on a gold
basis.
Discovery of a mine containing
millions of tons of pure copper would
be of great value to industry, although
it might upset stock prices.
But no mineral discovery could be
as welcome or as important as the
discovery, just announced, of huge ra
ilium deposits at Wilberforce, Ontario
These deposits are said to be great
er than those owned by Belgium in
the Congo, hitherto greatest in the
world.
Germany proposes to meet the crisis
• of extreme radicalism on one hand
and threat of Fascist leadership on
the other by action.
Rigid economy will reduce national
expenditures by a billion marks.
It Is even suggested that General
Ton Hindenburg’s pay be reduced.
We have no money worries here,
with money to loan a drng in the mar
ket. We seem, to lack the energy that
docs something, or anything. We are
like a poor old lady, dispossessed
fi om he? prosperity lodgings, weeping •
on the sidewalk, not knowing whnt to
do.
i > lies
The fiery llttiei iivuim!:' you of the
saying that if oum ’•“"or* go i«»o
v Yar he never goes un cim,
gone far enough.
He not only thresiten**
Hlndenhurg but proposes
Russia, “because Germany m * •
territory for expansion.”
A large, Bolshevik bear in Moso.
will have something to say about that.
George M. Reynolds, head of the
oig Continental Illinois Bunk and
Trust company of Chicago, ended his
fiftieth year In banking with this sen
tilde and comforting statement:
“Depression don’t kill people.
We are recovering from this depres
sion faster than we appreciate. There »
ts nothing fundamentally the trouble |
with this country. In a few months ;
the volume of business will startle
the nation by Its fcize.”
One thing write down and remem
t>er for ftiture reference. This is the
time to buy good stocks, if you have
money to buy and will not be fright
ened away from them.
But no time is good for gambling.
Simple-minded red men - sold
Manhattan Island for $24, not sus
pecting how that island and land ad
joining across the East river would
•ievelbo. New York city, with more
than 7,000.000 population, has real
estate issessed at $19,700,000,000
which means that k is worth at least
*30.000,000.000.
That is impressive, and interesting.
Imp-essive and worth remembering
ts tbe fad that il the Indians had
put their $24 out at 0 per cent with
compound interest they would have
enough money now^tp4myJManhattan
Island several rimes over. \
The difficulty Is that you can’t make
il.aii sort of eoinpcund Interest \in-
vestment, whereas you can buy \a
good piece of real estate. tr.ke car
of it. and later have It take caj
you.
HER BUYING GUIDE
111 her capacity as housewife, every wo
man in charge of a household is its gener
al manager.
Upon her devolves the duty of making
rather large purchases, which leads into
another duty-that of economical expend
itures of the household funds.
The observing housewife has doubtless
noticed that her husband reads industri
ously what he calls his “trade papers,”
pertaining to his business. He reads them
to keep pace with his work and to help
solve the problems that arise every day.
The careful housewife will find that the
newspapers are her “trade papers.” The
advertisements tell her nearly everything
about the purchases she wishes to make,
that she should know.
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If she is a good household manager, like
her husband, who spends many hours en
grossed in his magazine and papers so
that he may conduct his business more
successfully, she will study with care the
advertisements in the newspapers and
find that they enable her to conduct her
business more economically and success
fully, and thus add to the comfort and joy
of home life.
After becoming a careful and thought
ful reader of newspaper advertisements,
this type of housewife will be able to
choose the store that gives her the great
est value for her mony. Her choice will
inevitably be the store where she can get
the advertised goo^$, she asks for and
where she has been jfissured in advance
through advertisements, that the pur
chases she makes will be as advertised.
The thoughtful household manager
will discover that any merchant who ad
vertises will keep the contract he makes’
with his customers in his advertisements,
'on learns that any retail dealer who
'•egularly will not betray lier
■ii the merchant in-
the newspaper,
he is speak-
She )
serts an ad
with his own n
ing to her.
Tell the merchants with • you
trade that they should advertise their
goods regularly so that you may know
what they have to sell and keep pace with
the introduction of new goods and fash
ions.
This paper is the medium for this coun
ty and adjacent territory, and the cost of
advertising is small:
McCORMICK MESSENGER
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