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J ^huygday, April 16, 1931 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK. SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER FOUR HcCOBIDCK MESSENGER Published Every Thursday Established June 5, 1902 EDMOND J. MeCRACKEN, Editor and Owner Entered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, S. C„ as mail matter of the second class. , SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Strictly Cash In Advance One Year $1.00 Six Months Three Months -50 MOTHER’S AND FATHER’S DAY The confectioners of the country, who invest many million dollars evei’y year in special gift assort ments, special packages and special advertising for the different holi days, are trying to ascertain the strength of the movement to con solidate “Mother’s Day’* and “Fa ther’s Day” in a single anniversary, to be called “Parents’ Day.” A. M. Kelly, president of the National Confectioners’ Association, has written to newspapers all over the country‘ asking them to submit the question 'to their readers. ; Mother’s Pay wiU be observed this year on Sunday, May 10, and Father’s Day on Sunday, June 14. Mother’s Day was first on the cal endar with an honorable history dating back to the ancient English custom of visiting one’s mother on a mid-Lenten Sunday. This day was known as “Mothering Sunday.” The custom reappeared in America along abrbut 1908 when a special Sunday in May was set aside as an anniversary to honor the mothers of the country with gifts of flowers and candy and other tokens of af fection. a ’ Several years ago murmurs were heard to the effect that father al so deserved . recognition and a special anniversary of his own. The result was the establishment of Fa ther’s Day and the custom of send ing appropriate gifts to Dad on that occasion. The proponents of a joint cele bration point out that both par ents are essential to a happy home and that they should not be div orced by separate days of honor. The opponents insist that each is important enough to. have his or her own anniversary. Mr. Kelly says that the confec tioners Jiave not taken sides on this question because “Father and Mother both like candy and we know that a box of sweets address ed to either or both is pretty cer tain to be shared.” Nevertheless the industry is trying to get a line on popular sentiment for its guid ance m future years. s • • ... . History Of Bordeaux, South Carolina (Prepared by Mrs. G. W. Cade.) When a group of people leave one country ta find homes in an other there is always a reason. To day the reasons are phrasically centered UndeiLone head. To gain riches. We should know why the French, known as Huguenots came to New Bordeaux in 1763 or 1764. To give the real reason one must look back to the time of Martin Luther. It is true that Martin Lur ther gave the world his teachings almost two hundred and fifty (250) years before the settlement of New Bordeaux, but his doctrines were the reasons that these people thought as they did from 1517 un- 11) the time of their migration to the new world. in 1517 the Roman Catholic Church dominated the political life of France but there was another small group; which at that time was having a struggle to live and was given the name of Huguenots by the Catholics. The Huguenots Church at that time was very much the same as the Protestant Church of England. 1 For more than two centuries the Huguenots were bled of their per sonal possessions, punished in the galleys and slaughtered in the streets. History tells us that as many as one hundred thousand were put to death by the Catholic? in one of their many attempts to defeat the Huguenots’ cause. The living conditions of the Huguenots became so putrid that they bigan m'Wholfesale migration to the New World in the early S art of the eighteenth century. It ; said that Huguenots were low ered to the basis of the animal life. Thus we find the reason for mi gration. During this migration Rev. Jean Louis Gibert escaped to England and in 1761 or 1762 received a land grant from the King of England for a party of Huguenots. After corresponding with a group of his followers in France for a long while they met him in Plymouth Eng land. The party numbered two hundred and twelve and on Au gust 9, 1763 they set sail for Caro lina only to have to return to Ply mouth on account of bad weather. Some months later they made a new start which brought them to Charleston harbor April 14, 1764. For a short time the colony as a whole remained in Charleston un der the care of the Gov. of the province while an exploring party pushed into the interior of the province to find their grant and to pick a town site. The explorers returned and the colony began its march to the West to find their fu ture homes. They arrived \at their grant on August 5th, 1764 and named the settlement New Bor deaux. This grant was to cover about thirty thousand acres of land and was to be exempt from taxa tion fot ten years. < Patric Calhoun, father of the famous. John C. Calhoun joined the colony and surveyed the town site. At that time Mr. Calhoun’ was living in a small settlement which he had planted ten years previous to New Bordeaux about fifteen miles away. The town site was purchased from one Mr. James Davis for about $1200, this plot of land con tained about 800 acres, it was di vided into small lots and given to the settlers. A town was laid out, French styled which at that time was always to be shaped rectangu lar, in the center was built a Bu reau des Affaires which was the seat of government for the settle ment. At first all the colonists remain ed in the town for protection as there were savage Indians in that section. The report of an Indian uprising caused the people to build a fort. As a result of their living is such close quarters disease im paired the, life of the colonists and food became scarce. To stop this the people moved out to their plan tations and by 1771 they became a thriving agricultural fr^k who were engaged' in silk and flax culture, wine business also growing corn and tobacco. At the outbreak of the Revolu tionary War the colonists cast their lot with the struggling colonists. This was no easy thing to do for the King of England had made it possible for them to move from poverty to plenty but the colonies were being treated somewhat like the Huguenots in France. Many of the members of New Bordeaux marched to battle, some did not return. The men being engaged in the war left the women to the mercies of the Tories. These women stood all their hardships of war very bravely. During the close of the eigh teenth century we have three men who are outstanding in New Bor deaux. First is Pierre Gibert who was a nephew of the leader of the colony. He was sent to England and educated, on his return he be came a leader of the younger ele ment of the colony and was a champion of the Revolution. He took a very active part in the struggle for freedom. He was the leading factor in getting Dr. Wad- del to move his already famous school from Vienna on Savannah River to the place he named Will- ington. , ^ . Pierre Moragne one of the orig inal settlers was educated in Paris and was a great lover of the class ics. His journal which gave a rec ord of the happenings of the col onists from the time of leaving France until his death gave us a very vivid picture of life at that time. Were this journal in our possession now we would find much valuable information. pr. John De la Howe, once a surgeon in the French Army joined the colony after the first settle ment and became a much loved member of the community. He was a l^ der in politics and an ad viser of the people. His medical fame spread throughout the state. Upon receiving the right to name the county he named it in honor of a little French town Abbeville. At his death Dr. De la Howe left his estate to charity and from this estate sprang one of the first in stitutes of the South. Many of the first settlers moved westward with the expansion of the country, but today we find many noble, faithful and patriotic decendents of the original settlers here in our club, this we consider a great honor. _X Washington High School News “outing” last Saturday when they Wiiq-Ii T. IVTcCol] went to Price’s Mill on a fishing trip. This is an ideal place to have a good time and everybody present enjoyed boat riding, fish ing, and last but not least /a deli- | clous chicken stew prepared by some young men from Parksville. Dies Suddenly At Bennettsville Miss Margaret McKinney spent the past week in McCormick with homefqlks. There is an atmosphere of “hard study” around school this week and tests are causing part of it. It is gratifying to see the students working faithfully and it is hoped that there will be. few failures. WASHINGTON DEFEATS PLUM BRANCH 13-5. - Washington played its first base ball game of the season against Plum Branch Wednesday evening defeating them 13-5. Every player on the team played well and the outlook is that we are going to have a good team. Eubert Eckard was the highest scorer for Washington, making three runs. J. Wells starred in the field. The lineup follows: W. H. S. (13) P. B. (5) c. P. Robertson R. Freeland р. R. Holloway T. Miner lb. P. Lankford J. Lyon 2b. E. Eckard O. L. Sturkey 3b. W. Keller G. T. Rearden s. s. J. Wells B. Bracknell r. f. R. Bailey E. C. Winn с. f. D. Bussey G. Willis 1. f. P. Wells B. Lyon Umpire—Mr. Wooten. TXl- April 13.—This year quite a bit of interest has been taken in dec- laming and expression and we had two representatives to go from our school to coiripete in the district contests on last Friday evening. Josephine Parks, represented our girls at Ninety Six and surely did well. Although she did not win, yet she was surely putting Washing ton on the map and we were in deed proud of her Raymond Hol loway, who represented our boys at Greenwood surely deserves much praise for the fine way in which he delivered his declamation. It was reported that he came very ! near winning second place but a few minor points caused him co be excluded. However, we are proud that he received honorable men tion and to both of these students, | Josephine and Raymond—the school is surely proud to claim i them as students and is grateful for the fine records given by both. The members of the student body, the faculty, and the patrons of che school were very interested in this contest and hope to hear of more in the future. To Miss Annie Jackson and to Miss Godbee should be given some commendations xor it was they who worked so diligent ly in training these young people and their faithfulness was surely appreciated. McCormick Seeks To Repeal Bond Bill WpULD ALSO KILL ACT FOR BORROWING $45,000 A special sent from Columbia un der date of April 13th to The Au gusta Chronicle says: A recent act authorizing McCor mick county to borrow $45,000, would be repealed under a new bill by Senator Dorn, and also he would repeal an act, passed in Feb ruary, authorizing $25,000 in bonds to pay certain indebtedness. The two bills: “Section 1. That an act entitled ‘An act to authorize and empower the chairman of the county boafd of commissioners and the county treasurer of McCormick county to borrow not exceeding $45,000 for the purpose of paying past indebt edness and to fix a tax levy for the payment thereof,’ approved the 25th day of March, 1931, be, and the same is hereby repealed* “Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately upon its ap proval by the governor.” “Section 1.. That an act entitled ‘An act to authorize and direct the issuance of $25,000 of bonds of Mc Cormick county, South Carolina, for the purpose of paying a cer tain outstanding indebtedness of said county, and to legalize and validate said indebtedness and to provide a tax for the payment of said bonds,’ approved the 25th day of February, 1931, be and the same is hereby repealed. “Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately upon its ap proval by the governor.” T\I Hospital Fire At Abbeville ABBEVILLE, April 13.—Fire of undetermined origin early ooday destroyed the Abbeville County Memorial hospital. The blaze started in the base ment and rapidly swept through the three-story building. Three pa tients, none seriously ill,i were in the hospital. All were removed to safety. Trustees of the hospital did not immediately make an estimate of the loss but said it was covered by insurance. They said a new hos pital would be built. BENNETTSVILLE, April 11.— Funeral services for Hugh Leon McColl, president of the Bank of Marlboro, will be held here Mon day afternoon at 3 o’clock. Inter ment will follow in Oak Ridge cemetery. Mr. McColl died at his office suddenly this morning. Surviving are his widow, who before her marriage was Miss Gabrielle Drake, of Bennettsville; one son, Hugh L. McColl, Jr.; two daughters, Mrs. T. M. Uzzell, of Charleston, and Miss Gabrielle Mc Coll, student at the University of North Carolina, and one grand daughter, Gabrielle Joye Uzzell. One brother, D. K. McColl, mayor of Bennettsville, and three sisters, Mrs. H. W. Carroll, Bennettsville; Mrs. Bunyan McLeod, Perth, On tario, Canada, and Mrs. Ernest Pringle, Charleston, also survive. Mr. McColl was a native of Marlboro county, bom May 26, 1874, the son of the Late Duncan Donald McColl and Nellie Thomas McColl. He was educated in the Bennettsville schools, Oakridge Institute, N. C., the Citadel, and Fishburne college. He was a broth er of the late Duncan Donald Mc Coll, widely known attorney and state senator, who died suddenly April 11, 1930. , x March Dairy Honors TWO COWS PRODUCE OVER 100 POUNDS OF BUTTERFAT CLEMSON COLLEGE, April 14.— Goldy’s Lassie of Raja, a Guernsey cow owned by the Pedigreed Seed Company, Hartsville, raised her February record from 1304.8 pounds of milk and 74.9 pounds of butter- fat to 1736 pounds of milk and 102.1 pounds of butterfat and by so doing moved from second place to first among the 173 cows on offi cial test conducted by the Dairy Division of Clems on College. Max’s Besse of Oak Grove Farm, another Guernsey, owned by N. G. Roosevelt, Moncks Corner, placed second with a production record of 2197.9 pounds of milk and 100.2 pounds of butterfat. Stella’s Gold en Sunshine, a Jersey owned by J. D. Kemp, Edgefield, produced 1308 pounds of milk and 76.6 pounds of butterfat, moving from sixth place in February, when she had a record of 1156A pounds of milk and 61.9 pounds of butterfat, to third this month. Little Grace, ov/ned by J. K. Mayfield, Denmark, led the Hol- steins in production with 1925.1 pounds of milk and 65.6 pounds of butterfat. The ten highest butterfat pro ducing herds were the Guernseys of Pedigreed Seed Company, S. II. Zimmerman, Columbia, Bureau of Dairy Industry, Columbia, N. G. Roosevelt, J. B. Roddey, Columbia, and J. B. Guess, Denmark; the Jerseys of J. D. Kemp, and Fred H. Young, Timmonsville; and the Hol- steins of J. K. Mayfield and Clem- son Agricultural College. X- Mrs. Stallworth was a visitor in our school Monday for the purpose of selecting the healthiest girl from the members of the 4-H clubs. Mr. Wooten, Misses Annie Jack- son and Annie Laurie Godbee and ( Watson Parks accompanied Ray- mond Holloway and Josephine Parks to Ninety Six and Green wood last Friday. The faculty enjoyed a delightful Notice To The Tax Delinquents I wish to request those who owe delinquent taxes to please call at my office in the court house, sec ond floor, and make payment of said taxes at an early date. J. T. FOOSHE, Tax Collector. x The charge that French school children are overworked has been made by many parents and physi cians, arid the French government is now investigating school pro grams. Large Cotton Yields Must Be Made If Profit Wanted | COLUMBIA, April 15.—Agricul tural economists of the United States Department of Agriculture and state colleges have pointed out that to make a profit on cotton at the present low prices it is neces sary to make large yields per acre. A. G. Huff, Jr., vocational agricul ture student of the Simpsonvillo High School, demonstrated in a three-acre project last season that this theory is sound. Young Huff made 1,575 pounds of lint cotton on three acres and made a net profit of $36.61 per acre. His cost per pound was 6.1 cents and he sold his cotton at 10.5 cents per pound, according to records on file in the office of Verd Patterson, state supervisor of voca tional agriculture. Young Huff planted the Coker No. 5 strain of cotton seed. At the time of planting he used a homer mixed fertilizer, using acid phos phate, muriate potash and Chilean nitrate of soda. The nitrate in the fertilizer was at the rate of 200 pounds per acre. He side-dressed with 100 pounds of Chilean nitrate of soda per acre . “I found,” said Young Huff “that cottoij could be raised cheaply, and that you could make home-mixed fertilizer much cheaper.” HOME OF PERFECT SOUND GREENWOOD SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, APRIL 16 WILLIAM HAINES in 64 A TAILOR MADE MAN with DOROTHY JORDAN 9? FRIDAY-SATURDAY, APRIL 17-18 HAROLD LLOYD in “FEET FIRST” ■* v, » Get in On -the double “kick”—Lloyd laughs and Lloyd thrills. 5 Days Commencing April 20 CHARLIE CHAPLIN in 66 CITY LIGHTS 99 Again the forlorn figure with the bulging brogans, wobe- gone clothes and bamboo cane hobbles through hilarous ad ventures that transport him from the freedom of the back alleys into the gay, glittering glamor of smart society. You will cortle, giggle, gurgle, howl and scream as Charlie trips up the ladder of success, bidding for fame and forttifie first as a prize fighter, then a white wing and finally a man about town. It’s the treat of treats for the whole family. MEAT MARKET. I have opened my meat market in the building bn Augusta' Street formerly occupied by City Market, and am ready to serve old and new customers with the chociest Beef, Veal, Pork, Sausage, Cured Meats of all kinds and a full line of the best ‘staple and Fancy Groceries and various kinds of Canned Goods. Have varied selection of best Fish every Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Am stocking South Carolina Products mainly. Highest market price paid for Beef Cattle, Veal, Hogs, Hides and Country Produce. Leaving old stand on Gold Street and now located in new quarters on Augusta Street. ’Phone 19 and have your order delivered or shop in person. T. HOWARD SMITH’S MEAT MARKET Augusta Street McCormick, S. C. GETZ POULTRY & EGG CORPORATION Greenville, S. C. POULTRYTROCK APRIL 21st We have opened our regular weekly truck schedule as last year. We will give you the same honest weights and highest prices possible according to New York, at the same places and on same day will be at the following towns: Our poultry truck will be in McCormick on Tues day, April 21, 1931, from 9:30 to 11:30; Abbeville that afternoon from 12 to 2 o’clock; Iva from 2:30 to 3:30 and Starr from 4 to 4:30. We will pay the following cash prices for poultry: Colored Hens 18c Leghorn Hens : 17c Colored Fryers? 25c Leghorn Fryers 20c Cox 07 c Colored Stags I 10c Turkeys No. 1 20c Turkeys No. 2 -— 15c Geese ^ 07c Ducks: 10c @5T.