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I ‘JRv W’- Thursday, April 30, 1931 Washington High School News McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMlCK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER EIGHT April 27.—Th* past days have been busy with six weeks test and the honor roll lor the grammar school Is as lollows: FIRST GRADE— John Dallas Bunch V Thomas Blackwell Willie Mae Humphreys James Jefferson Nettie Louise Morgan Ella Parks SECOND GRADE— Charles Brown Wylie Crawford Hazel Dukes ' Amyelle Drennan |THIRD GRADE— ' , . . Pamelia Edmunds Willie Reed Fowler Louise Rich FOURTH GRADE— Edna Cartledge FIFTH GRADE— Annie Laurie Wood Frances Wells' Mildred Gilchrist Opal Dorn • Mary Louise Dorn J. R. Wilkie Nina Bussey SIXTH GRADE— Myrtle McDaniel _ i Mildred Blackwell Caroline Dukes T. R. Cartledge Margie Bussey f SEVENTH GRGADE— Esther Jennings Alice Belle Buchanan Evelyn Blackwell • Glenn Self Mary Neoma Eckard Mable Cassels Dorothy Warren Clifford Ward Robertson The honor roll for the high school will appear in next week's paper. were: healthiest, Anna Ruth Mad- plvJl^on TVitrat#* dox, Alice Bunch and Mary Neoma ^ 111ACc4IA Eckard. One afternoon last week Mrs. Stallworth and Mrs. Acker visited our clubs and organized a music club with the following officers: President—Alice Bunch. Secretary—Joyce Bridges. Mr. and Mrs. Wooten, Mrs. Rountree, Misses Marion Herron On The Radio i TALKS COMING OVER NEARBY STATIONS BEGINNING MAY 1 Because of the vital relation of side-dressing to profits this year, approach of side-dressing time is (bringing with it unusual activity . _ _. j y i ^ ion the part of organizations Guch and Minnie Jackson were shoppers as the chUean Nitrate of Soda Ed _ Hie McCormick Council of Farm Women held a meeting at our school on Saturday, April 25. Quite a large number from “he different of whom Mr. and Mrs. Wiley should in Augusta on last Saturday. L£)VERS 7 LANE NEWS LETTER Miss Zellie Langley spent one afternoon last week with Mrs. C. E. Brown. , We are glad to report the sick all better at this writing. Miss Celeste Sears and Master Manly Long spent the week end with their teacher, Miss Lucile Keown, at McCormick. Mrs. S. L. Long, also Misses Al ma and May belle Young of Fair- field H. D. Club, attended the meeting held at Washington High School on last Saturday for the County Council of Farm Women. They report a splendid day with an excellent program and dinner in abundance. Misses Eva Young and Zellie Langley and Mrs. E. C. Young call ed to see Miss Sallie Creswell one afternobn last week. Mrs. Fannie McCaslan and Miss Maybelle Young are spending a few days at South Greenwood with the latter's sister, Mrs. E. L. Long. Mr. J. A. Young and sons, Messrs, R. C. and James, also Miss Alma Young, spent Sabbath with Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Wiley and sons at Lethe. Glad to report Mrs. Wiley better, although she is still con fined to her room. We hope this dear one will soon be able to be up and about her work. They have two sons, Melvin and Miller, both ^demonstration clubs of the county were present and a most enjoyable day was spent. The following is a program that was arranged for this meeting: Registration of clubs. Meeting called to order—Mrs. A. J. Hendrix, Vice-president. Song—“America The Beautiful.” Devotional—Mrs. Ryan, Meri wether. Welcome—Mrs. J. J. Minarik, Meriwether. ( Response—Miss Susie Patterson, Mt. Carmel. "Vocal solo—Miss Amelia Wide- man. Plum Branch. RqU call by clubs. Minutes of last meeting. . Vocal solo—Miss God bee, Wash ington School. Report of officers. . . Special music—Blanche Middle- ton, Alice Bunch, Miss Godbee and Josephine Parks. Report of County Chairman. Assembly—Singing of club songs —Leader, Mrs. W. L. Acker... Talk—Miss Jane Ketchen r State Marketing Specialist. Report of County Chairman, con tinued. Reading of Constitution of Coun ty Council. Appointment of Committee. Report of Credential Committee. Adjournment for ;unch. Piano solcf—Annelle Edmunds. Talk—Miss Jane Xetchen. Awarding of certificates. Business session. Report of committees. Closing song. The next meeting of the Wash ington P.-T. A. will be held at the school biiilding on Thursday, May 7th, and this will be a social meet ing. There will be some May Day exercises and a social hour with light refreshments will be enjoyed. All interested are invited to come for the P.-T. A. doesn't mean mo thers alone but parents. be proud. The eldest with the help of Mr. Wiley is “Chief cook,” while Mrs. Wiley is sick. Milter is just as smart but he has the other work to do. Miss Maybelle Young spent the week end with Miss Sara Gibert at Bordeaux. We are sorry to report Miss Sallie Creswell still sick. We hope she too will have a hasty recovery. Misses Minnie Belle Talbert and Mary Moss spent Sabbath after noon with Misses Eva and Nora young. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Long and son also spent Sabbath in this home. We were sorry to hear of the serious illness of Mrs. Nell Dowtin. It was necessary to carry her to the hospital for an operation vast week. The last report we heard she was thought to be better. May she too soon be restored to health. Misses Statia Perrin of Bradley and Mae Wiley of Lethe are the guests of Miss Ruth Young for a few days. Miss Bertha Young spent the week end with Miss Katie Cres well. . Mrs. Fannie* McCaslan and Mr. and^&s. F. L. McCaslan and dear spedp^abbath with Mrs. Eunice McNeil near Abbeville. . Mr. and Mrs. T. O. Young and children were seeing relatives at Lethe the past week end. Miss Lula Belle Beauford is visit ing relatives at South Greenwood. Brown Eyes. X Bellvue Home Dem onstration Club ucational Bureau. This is exemplified in the an nouncement today of a series of thirty-nine special radio talks on Chilean Nitrate, planned to tie up with the interesting side-dressing advertising campaign that che^ Chilean Nitrate people have been conducting in this newspaper. Beginning May 1, these talks will be delivered over Station WBT, Charlotte, N. C.; WPTF, Raleigh, N. C.; WIS, Columbia, S. C., and WSPA, Spartanburg, S. C. They will stress the importance of side dressing and will quote interesting facts and figures supplied by lead ing authorities in the South. On WBT the Chilean Nitrate talks will be broadcast every evening, except Sunday, at 7 o’clock. On WIS, WPTF and WSPA they will be broadcast every evening, including Sunday—WIS at 7:45; WPTF at 5:59 and WSPA at 8:00 o’clock. In order to increase the information on this important subject, valuable literature and other data will be offered without charge to the radio audience. txi Urge Farmers To Join Cotton Contest MAJORITY OF PRIZES IN LAST FIVE YEARS HAVE BEEN FROM PLOTS HAVING ONLY MOD ERATE FERTILIZATION SWAMP _ NEWS Master Herman Harrison of Utopia spent Saturday night with relatives. Quite a number of young folks from this community attended the play, “The Kentucky Belle,” rriven at Troy School Auditorium Friday night. It was sponsored by Mc Cormick High School. Everyone present enjoyed it. Mrs. J. C. Leard and daughter, Miss Lorraine, were callers in the home of Mr. J. A. Brown Thursday morning. . Miss Mazie Ellison spent Friday night with her cousin, Miss Sara Langley. 1 Callers in the home of Miss Car rie Mae Rosenswike Saturday af ternoon were Misses Gladys, Mary Ruth and Louise Price, Jennie Lee and Emma Leard. Mrs. S. E. Rosenswike spent a few days last week very pleasantly with her daughter, Mrs. E. M. Price. Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Young spent last week with Mr. Vance Ellison and ::amily. Miss Sarah Price called in tho Tax Collections Show Heavy Fall DECLINE 347 MILLIONS BELOW . SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR FOR NINE MONTHS WANT AD VS. , ■ V' -rrr PEAS—15 Bushels Running Speck led Peas and 35 Bushels New Era Peas, 100 per cent sound, sacked WASHINGTON, D. C., April 27.— | 1x1 2 i” 2 bushel bags, at $2J)0 per Total government tax collections k 118 * 16 * °- &. Modoc. C. A. Seigler* for the first nine months of the present fiscal year dropped $347,- 420,920 below the same period last 7 ear - Collections from July 1 to April 1, the internal revenue bureau an nounced today, amounted to $1,- 930,032,167 compared with $2,227,- 453,09£ for the same period a year ago. Meanwhile, government expendi tures increased nearly $200,000,000 to contribute toward a prospective $700,000,000 deficit at the end of the fiscal year on June 30. For* the nine months expendi tures were $3,132,081,892 compared with $2,935,946,101 the previous year. The latest treasury state ment, for last Monday, showed the ^ x __ .. Y « .government at that time had a homeof^her aunt, Miss Belle i. e ard;. $786 5945^ deflclt compared with a $75,172,160 deficit on the same The following letter I received ng r . Hs The Bellvue Home Demonstration Club met at the home of Mrs. J. B. Branch on Thursday afternoon, Ap^il 23rd. The meeting was called to order and devotionals led by the presi dent. The president asked the mem bers to respond to the roll call by naming their birthday flower. After the reading and approval of the minutes, a very interesting program, arranged by Miss May Wylie, was carried out. The meeting was then turned In place The Junior class is very much occupied at present with prepara tions for the Junior-Senior recep tion which is to be given at the school building on Saturday night, May 2nd. Everybody is eagerly awaiting the time for this is al- over to Mrs. Stallworth, ways the great event of the year.' of her regular talk on flower gard- ens, she talked on pellagra and its CLUB NEWS. j increase and prevalence in South The 4-H clubs held a joint meet- Carolina, and we hope this part of Ing sometime ago in order to de- the State will try to wipe out the termlne the healthiest girls to rep- disease by a diet of good whole- resent the clubs at contest day in some food. McCormick and also to select girls Our meeting day was changed to represent the clubs in project, from the fourth Thursday to the The representatives from the Jun- first Friday of each month, ior club were—healthiest, Mildred Mrs. Branch, hostess for the af- Blackwell and Margie Bussey— temoon, served delicious refresh- project, Mildred Blackwell. From ments. Jhe Senior club the representatives j Reporter, from Mr. R. W. Hamilton in charge of State Cotton contest work, is self explanatory. The same contest rules apply as in previous years. I would like very much for you to join the 1931 con test. Should you be undecided, I will be glad to discuss the contest with you. Very truly yours, E. L. ROGERS, County Agent. McCormick, S. C. Clemson College, S. C. April 2, 1931. Mr. E. L. Roger^, County Agent, McCormick, S. C.. Dear Mr. Rogers: No doubt there is a feeling amoqg your farmers that it is no use to enter a plot in the 5-Acre Cotton Contest because of the low price of cotton and the lack of money for heavy fertilization. This is the wrong attitude and we must try to overcome it. The chief purpose of the con test is to encourage the production of that staple length (15-16 to 1 1-16 inch) which is most desired by our logical market, the South Carolina Cotton Mill, and for which our market pays the most money per pound. The value of lint may be increased from one- half to two cents per pound by having it of 15-16 to 1 1-16 inches in length. We are going to plant cotton, so let’s plant the kind that has the greatest value per pound and per acre. As to heavy fertilization of con test plots, this should be discour aged. I had much rather have records from plots with just rea sonable fertilizer than plots with very heavy fertilizer. During the past five years the majority of the prizes have been won by plots hav ing moderate fertilization. Fertil izer is not the chief factor-in pro duction. Stand, boll weevil con trol, cultivation, proper use of side application of nitrogen and above all weather are factors of equal or greater importance than heavy fertilizer. The Cotton Contest by its record of the past five years has proven one morning the past week. She spent Sunday there also. We are indeed sorry to write of the serious illness of our friend, Mrs. Nell Dowtin. Mrs. Willie Walker and two chil dren, Wilma and Myra, spent Sun day night with her sister, Mrs. Mary Price. Miss Sarah Pri.ce spent Monday with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. George Price, of McCormick. Everyone is looking forward to the treat in store for them Friday evening. At Troy School Audi torium there will be a May Day program beginning at 5:15 o’clock. After this there will be talks and immediately afterward a commun ity social and picnic. Hie public is cordially invited. - ; “Blue Eyes.” X State Aid Funds Ready On May 15 TEACHERS’ SALARY MONEY TO BE PAID NEXT MONTH Modoc, O. O. FOR SALE—500 bushels good sound ear Corn in shuck at $1.00 per bushel. Also several hundred bushels Coker 5 Cotton Seed. J. W- Bracknell & Son, Plum Branch s. c. T FOR RENT—Seven room dwelling on Gold Street, McCormick, withi water, lights and garage. Apply at Messenger office. 3tpo.- FOR SALE—One good mare mule;. weighs 850 pounds, in fine shape, $65.00. Mrs. Lillie E. Langley, Plum Branch, S. C. itpoi " FOR SALE—One cow and calf,. $60.00; one work horse, $50.00. Cl L. Freeland, Plum Branch, S. C. Itpo. day last year. Most of the decline in tax col- lections for the nine months was FOR sale—One nice 3-gaUon due to lower income tax payments, ^ch Cow with first calf. Price which dropped $306,829,239 below rlght w. C. Holley, Plum Branch,, last year. Income tax collections g q ^ " dropped to $1,505,853,157 from $1,- 812,682,396. The report showed income tax paid by corporations last month on 1930 income dropped $104,385,- 582 compared with the same month last year. Corporations paid $175,995,836 last month compared with $280,831,418 last year. Individual income tax collections for last month' of $153,561,918 drop ped $121,351,302 compared with March a year ago. i rife Cardiol Thanks Va'- 'N. .JtL Payment of the second instal ment of 6-0-1 money to school teachers of South Carolina will be made a*bout May 15, James H. Hope, state superintendent of edu cation, said Friday. By that date he believes data upon which the payments are based will be on hand and the fund of approximate ly $1,750,000 ready for distribution. Isolated instances of suffering among teachers because they have not been paid their salaries have come to his attention, Mr. Hope said, but the condition is not gen eral. Teachers who suffer because they have not been paid do so sincei their counties and school districts have not collected sufficient taxes. The state aid is not due until the middle of May and cannot be paid until then. Mr. Hope believes that practical ly the only instances where the deferred state payment works a hardship among the teachers are in the mountain counties, where schools are begun in the summer months and close in the early spring. Mr. Hope said that he had been informed that taxes are being paid against the May 1 deadline and that funds for the counties’ and districts’ shares in the teachers’ salaries will be available soon to relieve any conditions that might exist today. “V . THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH (Up to date) (Louis Altman in Newberry Observer.) Under a spreading chestnut tree A stubborn auto stands; The smith, an angry man is he With trouble on his hands. The carburetpr seems to be We wish to thank our many friends of McCormick and sur rounding community for the kind ness shown us during the illness of our baby, Helen. ! May God bless each of you, is our prayer. MR. and MRS. C. P. WHITE. X COTTON ROAD SURFACING its value as a help to our agrlcul- ^ cause of all hls woe; ture. Thanking you, I am, Very truly yours, R. W. HAMILTON, Extension Agronomist. xai He tightens half a dozen bolts, But still it doesn't go. “Following the first experiment, in South Carolina, several years ago,” in the utilization of a cotton fabric membrane in the surfacing of. top soil roads, a trial installa tion was made in Texas, the Am erican Cotton Manufacturers’ as sociation, meeting in Augusta, was informed yesterday by George A. Sloan of New York, presidppt, Cotton-Textilq Institute, Inp. This Texas cotton highway, said Mr. Sloan, on the basis of a report received two weeks ago, “built at a fraction of the cost of hard-sur faced roads, after 15 months of heavy traffic, has shown no signs of wear.” Mr. Sloan says that “this prom-* ising new use for cotton” has at tracted “world-wide” attention:* “England is supplementing our experiments in this country, and inquiries have reached the insti tute from Russia, Brazil and the Argentine. Cotton farmers and manufacturers should be the first to give their attention to*"this practical idea and to urge highway commissioners to make trial ex periments.” So it appears that Engineer Moorefield of the South Carolina highway department, in his try out of the cotton-surfacing idea, made a very substantial contribu tion toward the new-uses-for-cot- ton movement.—The State. FOR SALE—Cabbage, Tomato and Bermuda Onion Plants, $1.00 per 1000. Pepper, Sweet Potato and Egg Plants $1.50 per 1000. Prompt shipment. Dorris Plant Co., Val dosta, Ga. CORN—White or yellpw, dry and sound, shelled or in ear, at $1.00 per bushel. White or yellow meal at $1.00 per bushel. T. A: Dowtin^ Rt. 2, Troy, S. C. FOR SALE—Coker No. 5 cotton* seed. Ginned clean. Seventy- five cents per bushel. Wi K. Charles or J. L. Strother, McCor mick, S. C. For School Trustees He sits beside the road to give His brain a chance to cool. And ponder on his training at The correspondence school. Bracknell’s Store Closes 6:30 p. m. And then he starts his job J once more Beginning May 1st, we will close And just by chance ’tis seen— our store during the summer The cause of all his trouble is months at 6:30 p. m., Saturdays He’s out of gasoline! excepted. The co-operation of our \ customers will be appreciated. J. W. BRACKNELL & SON. Plum Branch. t ~m4, Motorists Warned Of 4 Giving Strangers Lifts WASHINGTON, D. C„ April 27— A general warning to motorists against giving hitch-hikers and pedestrians “lifts” has been voiced by the legal department of the American Motorists’ Association. “The primary argument against such practice,” it is pointed out by the Association, “is that the mo torist, in most states, assumes a Hie following names are submit ted for trustees for McCormick. School District, No. 4, in the elec tion to be held on May 12th. Oth ers desiring to offer may do so before the tickets are prepared on. May 8th: J. L. CAUDLE, J. S. DUKES, H. M. schumpert; E. J. McCRACKEN. iXt Mexican Village 900 Persons All Blind Revealed By Drs. WASHINGTON, D. C„ April 28.— A village of 900 people, all total ly or partially blind, who never venture from their homes until after sundown, was described by Dr. Miguel Bustamente, Mexican delegate to the second Pan-Amer ican Conference of Directors of Health. The village is Tiltepec, in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. Hidden away in the mountains, it is reach ed only by a few horse trails and has almost no contact with the. outside. The malady which blinded the inhabitants is known in the medi cal world as onchocercosis. Tests have shown, Dr. Busta- mente said, in his speech yester day, that an insect has been found the cause of the blindness. Era dication of this insect, he added, has given hope in the fight on the malady, of which little is known. The disease causes blindness and, in addition, sensitiveness to light, so that persons stricken with it cannot stand sunlight. It is estimated there are 20,000 cases in Mexico.. Tiltepec, Dr. Bustamente said, is in a. remote mountain valley.. The people speak Zapotec, an In dian language complete in itself. They live in crude huts. There is not a school, church, a store or a public building in the village.. The inhabitants grow a little financial responsibility for the safety of the passenger. The fact com and some sheep. From the that the passenger is being trans- wool, they make simple garments, ported without compensation does The climate is so mild that very not change his legal liability. little clothing suffices. “Another argument is that of- There being no church or civil times the motorist becomes a vie- law, there are no formal mar- thn of his guest by assault and riages, only mating and families, robbery. The kindhearted motorisl The children, Dr. Bustamente said. One of the joys of an old man is has much to lose and nothing to* are not born blind but are victims to tell the mean things he did ^ gain from such practice,” the A. of the mosquito-like insect which when he was young. | M. A.’s warning declares. i breeds in swift mountain streams*. - i J