McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, February 19, 1931, Image 2
Thursday, February 19, 1931
McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA
PAGE NUMBER TWO
McCormick High
School News
At the second meeting of the lit
erary societies Friday the members
voted unanimously that Mr. Shif-
let should appoint the officers.
For the George Washington Society
he appointed Helen Talbert, presi
dent; BiU Britt, vice-president;
Leila Bradley, secretary; and Wel-
boume Schumpert, chairman of
the program committee with Betty
Workman, assistant. Welboume
then appointed Ruby White, Roy
Callison, and J. P. Sullivan to be
members of the committee.
For the Woodrow Wilson Liter
ary Society Mr. Shiflet appointed
Elizabeth McAllister, president;
Herman Sandifer, vice-president;
Kathryn Brown, secretary; Emmie
Mayson, chairman of program com
mittee; Julian Reames, assistant
and Emmie then appointed Mag
gie Lou Parks, Elsie Langely and
Ellen Bosdell to be on the com
mittee.
BASKETBALL TEAM PLAYS
IN TOURNAMENT.
The girls’ baske t ball team play
ed in the usual style Friday in
Greenwood. The first game score
was McCormick 16, Saluda 11. The
bight game was won by Calhoun
Falls by: a score of 32-4. In this
game our girls were playing
against a very strong team. In fact,
they were playing against the win
ner of second place in the district
championship as was revealed lat
er.
Although the girls were defea t ed
in the second game, they deserve
much praise for the winning of the
first game and for the hard, clean,
fight which they put forth in both.
Co-operation and wonderful team
work were the main features in the
playing..
To mention s^ars in these two
games we should have to name the
whole team. They all fought like
warriors in battle.
The line up is as follows:
Elsie Langley, jumping center.
Sara Bracknell, side center.
Eugenia Langley, forward.
Evelyn Winn, forward.
Betty Workman, guard.
Elizabeth McAllister, guard.
Substitutes:—Frances Strom for
Sara Bracknell; Alleen Arrington
for Elizabeth McAllister.
WELBOURNE SCHUMPERT.
SIR WALTER SCOTT.
Sir Walter Scott, Scotch novelist
and poet, was bom in Edinburgh,
August 15, 1771. He came of the
old border family. Though he ma
tured into a man of robust health,
as a child he was feeble and sick
ly and was smitten with a lame
ness, which remained with him
through life. /
In 1783 he entered v Edinburgh
University, and remained there
three years. In 1786 he was art
icled apprentice to his father, in
whose office he worked as a clerk
until 1792, in which year he was
called to the bar. In this profes
sion he had a fair success.
He was married in 1799 to Char
lotte Margaret Caysenter, a lady of
French birth and parentage. To
ward the end of 1799, through t he
interest of his friends, Lord Mul-
ville and the Duke of Bucchench,
he was made ^sheriff-depute of
Selkirkshire, an appointment which
brought him three hundred
pounds a year, with not very much
to do for it. Meantime, in a tent
ative and intermittent way, his
leisure had been occupied with lit
erature, which more and more dis
tinctly announced itself as the
main business of his life.
His first publication, a transla
tion of Burger’s ballards, “Lenore”
and “The Wild Huntsman,” was
issued in 1796. In 1798 appeared
his translation of Goethe’s drama
of “Goety Von Berlichingen,” and
in the year following he wro t e the
five ballads, “Glenfenlas,” “The
Eve of St. John” and “The Gray
Brother.” The year 1802 gave to
the world the first two, volumes of
his “Border Minstrelsy,” which
were followed in 1803 by third and
final one. This work at once won
for him a prominent place among
the literary men of the time. In
1804 he issued an edition of the old
poem “Sir Tristram.” By the pub
lication in 1805 of “the Day of the
Last Minstrel” Scott became at a
bound the most popular author of
his day.
During the next ten years be
sides a mass of miscellaneous work,
he gave to the world the poems,
“Marmion,” “The Lady of the
Lake,” “Roke-bye,” “The Bridal of
Griermain,” anonymously publish
ed, ‘The Lord of {tie Isles,” and
“The Field of Waterloo.” In
“Waverley,” which appeared with
out his name in 1814, he achieved
the first of a new and more spVn-
did series of triumphs. ’’Grey
Mannering,” “The Antiquary,”
“The piack Dwarf,” “Old Mortal
ity,” “Rob Roy,” and “The Heart of
Midlothion,” rapidly followed,
thus the “Great Unknown,” as he
was called, became the idol of the
hour.
In 1830 smitten wi t h paralysis
from which he never thoroughly
rallied, he was carried to Italy for
his health, but he died at Albots-
ford 1832 and was buried beside his
wife hi the old abbey of Dryburgh.
REORGANIZATION OF
LITERARY CLUBS.
On February 12, we organized
our literary clubs to begin our
work anew. This organization in
cludes only those who are really
interested in the work. 1^ is not
a place to throw away time, but
for work that is worthwhile. This
year there will be a gold piece giv
en to a member of each club who
is voted the best debater. We feel
tha^ thre are going to be a good
many who will be sorry they did
not join, and it is going to be hard
for them to get in.
EVA COLEMAN, Reporter.
SENIORS VISIT COLUMBIA.
On Tuesday, February 10, Super
intendent Shiflet took the class of
’31 to visit the capi^ol of our state,
Columbia. It was a wonderful
trip for us, and the best part of it
—we were all together. We visited
the capitol building, the peniten
tiary, {he state asylumn, and on
our homeward trip passed over the
Dreher-Shoals Dam on Saluda Riv
er.
To Mr. Shiflet and our chaper
ones we thank them for providing
for us such a treat.
MABEL LYON, Reporter.
CHEESE’S BOX.
Kathryn Brown: “Did you see
the girl that fell down and broke
her leg?”
Miss Kennedy: “You should say
limb.”
Kathryn: “If you had seen it,
you would have thought i^ was a
tree.”
Dan McGrath: “Can you keep a
secret?”
John Thomas: “Yes, what?”
Dan: “Lend me ten dollars.”
John Thomas: “Your secret is
safe; I never heard a word.”
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Lilly Mae: “I am going to marry
a man who has faced death a thou
sand times.”
Louise Davis: “You will have to
marry an undertaker then.”
John Wardlaw went into a s^ore
at Troy and said: “Nick, what do
you have in the shape of banan
as?”
Nick: “Sausage.”
Milton Walker (with hands over
Frances Strom’s eyes): “If you
can’t guess who this is in three
guesses, I’m going to kiss you.”
Frances Strom: “Jack Frost,
Dafrey Jones,/Santa Claus.”
Helen Brown: “I just love Goem-
etry.”
Raymond Jolly: “Who’s he?”
MEETING OF THE P.-T. A.
On Thursday afternoon, Febru
ary 12, at 3:30 the P.-T. A. had its
regular monthly meeting in the
high school auditorium. A very
entertaining and worthwhile pro
gram was rendered by the seventh
grade, under the direction of Miss
Elizabeth Harris, and assisted by
Misses Collins and Ramsey .At the
business session Mr. Shiflet was
elected vice-president.
Meetings are held every second
Thursday in the month at three-
thirty. We want you to come and
join us. Begin resolving now to
be with us the next time, for we
need you. You who do not attend
are missing much that serves very
profitably. Come and manifest
your loyal interest and pride in
your children, school and commun
ity, and thus, in the citizenship of
the world of tomorrow, that land
of untold opportunities.
E. C. K., Reporter.
McCORMICK BOYS
PLAY JOHNSTON.
At the tournament Friday after
much hard fighting the Boys’ High
School Basketball team was final
ly defeated by the Johnston team.
It was a close game all the way
through and at the half the Mc
Cormick boys were in the lead, but
after the half the Johnston boys
came back and piled up a score of
22 to 12.
The line up was as follows:
James Furqueron, center.
Welbourne Schumpert, forward.
Milton Walker, forward.
S. C. WEEKLY
INDUSTRIAL
REVIEW
The following record of indus
trial activity lists items showing
Investment of capital, employ
ment of labor and business activ
ities and opportunities. Informa
tion from which the paragraphs
are prepared is from local papers,
usually of towns mentioned, and
may be considered generally cor
rect.
Work being rushed on construc
tion of highway between Bishop-
ville and Sumter, which will soon
be open to traffic.
Newberry — Salvation Army re
cently arranged for new hall lo
cated on Caldwell Street, at rear
of G. B. Summer & Sons Store in
building formerly occupied by un
dertaking establishment.
Construction completed on high
way between Kingstree and Mann
ing which was recently opened to
traffic.
Abbeville — T. M. Connor of At
lanta, received contract for re
painting interior of post office
building.
Camden — Mr. and Mrs. J. Arch
Sterne leased Camden 'Hotel from
Mr. George T. Little and will re
sume operations.
Abbeville — H. J. and W. H. Gof
er and W. L. Wolf ^o open eating
place and billiard parlor in room
formerly occupied by B. T. Coch
ran, on Main Street.
Dillon — Captain and Mrs. I. M.
Gregorie making extensive im
provements and alterations to
Wheeler Hotel.
Camden — Camden Building &
Loan Association to lease quarters
now occupied by C. P. DuBose &
Co., insurance agency.
State Highway Department re
cently completed work of hard-
surfacing highway between Bishop-
ville and Sumter County line.
Sumter — Lawson Coffee Co.,
roasters and packers of coffee of
this city, started business in newly
remodeled building.
Bamberg — Construction to start
in near future on erection of large
addition to local fire dpartmen t
building.
X
Many creameries manufacturing
low-grade butter could improve its
quality by adopting a grading sys
tem and paying for cream on the
basis of the grade of the butter
made from it, say dairy specialists
of the U. S. Department of Agri
culture. One co-operative cream
ery in the South adopted three
grades of cream: premium cream,
containing not to exceed 0.2 per
cent acid and clean - in flavor;
grade 1 cream, containing 0.21 to
0.4 per cent acid and clean in
flavor; and grade 2 cream, con
taining more than 0.4 per cent
acid or having undesirable flavor.
The price for butterfat in premium
and grade 1 cream was fixed at 3
cents a pound higher than that in
grade 2. In 1928 this creamery re
ceived 3.04 cents a pound more for
its butter, in relation to the mar-,
ket price, than in 1923, before ad
opting cream grading.
X
Experiments by the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture to discov
er the effects of various fertilizer
ingredients on building up chlor
ophyll (green coloring matter in
plants) show that fertilizers high
in nitrogen readily cause plants
to become a very deep green. Pot
ash, which has pronounced effects
on some phases of plant growth,
has relatively small influence on
the “greening” of plants, says the
department. A fertilizer high in
phosphorus seems to produce
plants with more chlorphyll than
those fertilized chiefly with pot
ash and with less chlorophyll than
those fertilized mainly with nitro
gen.
X
Always grease an iron with lard
or vaseline before putting it away
for a long time, or it will rust. Tc
remove rust on an iron, scour it
with scouring powder, and rub wel
with a flannel cloth.
X
When cooking baked potatoes
score or prick the skin to let the
steam escape.
Charles Acker, guard.
Billie Britt, guard.
Substitutes:— Daniel McGrath
for Billie Britt; Jack Coleman for
Charles Acker.
The whole team played good, but
Acker, Schumpert and Walker were
stars the whole time.
THINGS WORTH
KNOWING
There are over forty species of
mosquitoes in New Jersey.
Dye factories in this country now
produce 30,000 tons of colors a
year.
The Chinese had a serviceable
compass before the time of Col
umbus.
% Symptoms of hookworm disease
were described by physicians of
ancient Egypt.
Abraham Lincoln invented a
buoy to get river steamboats over
shoal water and obtained a United
States patent in 1849.
Rattlesnakes vary in size from
the length of a small garter snake
to the diamond-back which some
times stretches nine feet.
Arrangements are being made
so that telephone subscribers in
Milan, Italy, can be awakened at
any desired hour by central.
The United States takes 90 per
cent of the jute, long used in chew
ing gum and electric cables, from
the jungles of the East Indies.
Grasshopper plagues are believed
by some scientists to have caused
the mysterious wholesale desertion
of Maya cities in prehistoric Cen
tral America.
A report states that there are
120,000,000 coarse wool sheep in
Russia in the flocks of the peas
ants, but only about 400,000 mer
inos and other fine wool sheep.
The reproduction of an incu
bator oven that hatched chickens
in Egypt centuries ago was dis
played at the international poul
try congress in Ottawa, recently.
litUttliE
MODEL OF UNSELFISH SERVICE
Upon this anniversary, we see be
fore us in retrospect Washington the
engineer; the general, the statesman,
and most important of all—the MAN.
In every act, he placed his country and
others ahead of self.
WE DEEM IT A PRIVILEGE
to pay homage to this great American
at this time and, in our humble way, to
perpetuate the great lesson Washing
ton taught—that of service.
In every way we try to be of greatest
service to our customers that they may
find it both pleasing and profitable to
be connected here.
HIE PEOPLES BANK
McCORMICK, S. C. \
Twin calves, formerly believed to
be rare among moose, have become
common in the last two years.
Venezuela’s petroleum industry
is only eight years old, but that
country ranks second in produc
tion.
All but 5 per cent of the land
area of the territory of Alaska be
longs to the United States govern
ment.
Alexander the Great forbade his
Greeks to wear beards, lest the
enemy seize them in close combat.
Carp get the better of other fish
whose waters they invade by liter
ally eating them out of house and
home.
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WANT 30,000 CROSS TIES
AT OIGOEST CASH PRICES
Centrifugal separators, revolving
15,000 times a minute, extract or
ange, lemon and grapefruit oil
from pulp rind.
Although 602 of the violins made
by Antonio Stradivarius have been
traced, it is believed that he made
almost as many more.
Beavers in Yellowstone park were
recently noted using rocks weigh
ing as much as five pounds in the
construction of a dam.
jxt
A lubricating-oil emulsion spray
applied in the dormant period is
the most effective way to control
the San Jose scale on deciduous
fruit trees, says the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture. This pest
sucks the sap of the trees; conse
quently lead arsenate and other
stomach poisons are of no use. To
be effective, the spray must hit
every side of the trunk, limbs,
branches, and twigs. Do not ap
ply ordinary lubricating-oil emul
sion in the growing season, says
the department, as it may defoli
ate the trees. This is especially
true of peach trees.
I_i
The temperature of the home re
frigerator, in the milk compart
ment, should be kept at or below
45 degrees Fahrenheit if possible.
Refrigeration is used to retard
the development of bacteria in
milk, and above this temperature,
bacterial growth is very rapid,
causing changes to take milk, and
above this temperature, bacterial
growth is very rapid, causing
changes to take place in the milk
that may render it unfit for food.
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Too much water in a washing
machine causes excessive splashing |
and often reduces the efficiency of
the machine. Observe where thej
water line is, and also be careful
not to overload the machine with
clothes.
WANTED—30,000 well manufac
tured Oak, Ash and Sap Pine Cross
Ties, cut square, ends sawed and
free of dote, delivered at Green
wood, S. C., within the next 60
days. Beginning February 16th,
I will be at P. & N. right of way at
Greenwood to receive and pay
cash for ties as hauled in.
MIXED OAK AND ASH
7x9—8^/2 feet
70c
7x8—8y 2 feet
-60c
6x8—814 feet
45c
SAP PINE
7x9—feet
-40c
7x8—81/2 feet
30c
6x8—814 feet
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-25c
3c per tie higher for all sawed ties.
M. W
PLUM BRANCH, S. C\
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USE OUR COLD REMEDIES
A cold is far too serious and annoying to let “run on”
even if it isn’t such a bad one. You should take steps to
get rid of it at once and relieve yourself not only of the
present disagreeableness but also of the danger of compli
cations which are numerous.
WE HAVE THE RELIABLE REMEDIES YOU NEED
Wc have a most complete line of reliable remedies for
couehs end colds which will rid you of either or both in
ouick order. At the first v ^rning, supply yourself of the
needed remedies from this store or better still, get thm now
or> d have ‘hem ’xady. We \so have every supply needed
fo" r i "h room, and fill prescriptions properly and
promptly day or night.
STROMS’ D U G STORE
M UN STREET McCORMICK. S. C.
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