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, Thursday, May 7, 1931 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK. SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER FOUR fttdmtMICK MESSENGER Published Every Thursday Established June 5, 1902 EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner Entered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, S. as mail matter of the second class. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Strictly Cash In Advance One Year -$1.00 Six Months .75 Three Months .50 ROADS AND DIET So rapid has been the improve ment of rural highways in ten r yet almost without realizing it that the entire diet of the Am- c lean people has been changed in that brief period of time. Not only that, but the paving of roads has caused a revolution in agricultural methods as well. For every mile of improved highway laid down some faimer has added something to his production of green vegetables marketed in the big centers of pop- uTation. In North Carolina, for instance, farms where nothing but tobacco was grown for years and years are now green with truck crops of all kinds. Dairying, too, has sprung into prominence in many states where it would have been impossi ble to get the milk to the city ten years ago. Farmers who once depended al most entirely on one staple crop— com, cotton, tobacco, wheat—are now going in widely for vegetables and fruits which would have been too perishable to have been grown profitably under old transportation conditions. You can note a big change of this kind right around you if you want to study the subject a little. Our people are now able to grow many things they didn’t grow ten years ago because good roads and the automobile have made it po<?- sib-e for them to get such products to :narket. We’re in better position to fight for our share of prosperity then we ever were before. We’ve found out that good highways are- essential to farm success. And since suc cess in practically every field de pends on success on the farm, it looks as though there is no ?onerer any place in the United States for the man who fights a good roads movement of any kind. x Good Cotton Staple In South Carolina GOVERNMENT REPORTS SAY OVER HALF OF DESIRABLE LENGTHS; FURTHER IM PROVEMENT NEEDED CLEMSON COLLEGE, May 5.— Of South Carolina’s 193D cotton crop, 55.6 per cent was 15-16 inch staple and longer, and only lour per cent of the tcrtal crop was un- tenderable on future contracts, ac cording to reports released by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Of the white cotton 66.7 per cent was of middling grade or better, the same report points out. This report, which marks the completion of data on the quality of South Carolina’s cotton crop of the last three years, is final and displaces preliminary reports issued earlier, says H. A. White, assistant agricultural economist of the South Carolina Station. Prior to 1928, continues Mr. White, we had no official data on the quality of the crop for the en tire state, and the extent to which local production met local con sumption was only a matter of conjecture. Beginning that year the South Carolina Experiment S l ation in conjunction with , the United States Department of Agri culture has carried on a detailed study of the crop in all parts of the state. Although the last few years have witnessed quite an im provement in the quality of our crop, more is yet to be done before the demand of our mills is satis- : ed. A South Carolina Experiment Station Circular featuring the qualities of South Carolina’s 1930 cotton crop and giving some recent field observations will be issued within the very near future. Cop ies of the grade and staple data may be obtained directly from the Department of Agriculture at Washington. txt Some folks get all of the enjoy ment possible out of this life on the theory that it will have to last them through the next. This Week b Arthur Brisbane A Real Airship Gambling Promoted Laws Hampering Business Mr. Rockefeller’s Plan Gen. William Mitchell, head of our flying forces in the war, tells you that the United States shows signs of striking out on its own account in aviation. He writes, after a visit to Akron: *T have looked over the airship be ing built for the Navy department at Akron. This ship is the greatest at tempt of man to conquer the air. It will be able to cross the Atlantic four times without refueling. At reduced speed, it will be able to circle the globe, at the latitude of New York. “In Its front part there is a hangar whiCh will accommodate from four to seven airplanes, which can take off or land on the ship at will, and all of its ‘works’ are Inside It. “Compare a ship of this size, cost ing five and a half million dollars, with a surface airplane carrier that costs from fifty to eighty millions. The airship, alone or with its air planes. can destroy a whole fleet of sea vessels, and a group of them can defend themselves very well against air attack, with the assistance of their own airplanes, their power of conceal ment and their maneuverability.’* Washington High School News May 4.—The honor roll for the high school for the last six weeks is as follows: EIGHTH GRADE— Viola Wilkie Floyd Drennan NINTH GRADE— Josephine Parks Lucy*e Parks Elmira Wood Prances Wells TENTH • TRADE— Alice ! iunch : .ouisc •. assels Mary Prances Drennan Anci ! Edmunds Marie 'Jilchrist ELEVENTH GRADE— Beryl Bass Blanche ! liddleton Davis Bussey Dorn, Frances Wells and Elmira Wood, Messrs. Olin Bussey, Pa, Robertson and Ray Maddox. . Our * school was represented in the judging contest in Aiken on last Saturday and a very favorable report was given by those who at tended. Mr. Wooten, accompanied by four of his students, Pat Rob ertson, Ray Bailey, Floyd Willis and Albert Howie made the trip and the boys spent the day jui,?- mg acts. :nules, cows, chickens, co'n. rota toes and ^ats The ooys. even though they didn’t win out, made a splendid record and rank ed fourth in standing of the twelve schools represented, with a total of 1238 points. Mr. Wooten and his students are to be commend'd for ihe fine work which this Agricul tural department Is doing. . - The French government, to promote its pari-mutuel system of race track betting, arranges to take bets not only at the race course, but anywhere In France. Bets can be sent by telegraph or mail. You deposit money In ad vance, not less than 5,000 francs ($200): and the smallest bet by wire or mail is 50 francs ($2). All profit goes to the government except purses actually won by the owners of racing horses. In this country we bet on the races at least $10 for every one bet in France, and all the profit goes to bookmakers, race track touts, etc. Business men plan a fight to change, in a common-sense way. some of the laws that hamper business, and It is none too soon. Under the obsolete Sherman act, made in the days of hansom cabs, nearly half a century ago. any group men that should now “conspire” to stop crimirtal waste in the oil industry, or to regulate any Industrial produc tion to prevent slumps or depression, could be put in jail. John H. Rockefeller. Jr., serves his city, hr rebuilding and transforming an undeveloped section in the heart of New York at an expense of about r . \ ' ' 1 « $250,000,000. This undertaking guarantees, over a long period, a very large and per manent income for Columbia college. It shows what can be done, with Imagination, energy and money, to Im prove a great city In a short time. Most important, Mr. Rockefeller’s enterprise will give employment to thousands of men now out of work in the highly paid building trades. Mary Bickford, in New York on her way to London, says her will will compel the burning of all films of moving pictures in which she has appeared. ! Mary Bickford is still very young; her will, probably, will not he read for CO or 70 years at the earliest, and everybody hopes it will be much nearer 100 years. Perhaps, in that Interval, she will realize that to destroy pictures, which are a most important part of a great American industry, and illustrate a forward step in civilization, would be a crime. She made her pictures, she says, to give happiness in her lifetime. She should leave them to give inspiration and in formation. C. J. Starkey, lawyer, of Hollywood and accustomed to big figures, says Queen Isabella got a poor return when she invested $6,000 worth of jewelry In Columbus’ trip to America. If she then had invested $6,000 at 5 per cent, compounded twice a year, it would amount now to $4,- *>00,000,000,000, and that, says Mr. Starkey, is “eleven and one-half times 1 the value of the United States and all Its possessions.” The figures are impressive, hut anyone who would sell the United States now for four and one-half trillions would make a bad margin. Cyrus H. K. Curtis thinks, and says in an editorial: “A man who ran for office in America today with a straight anti-crime record and a convincing threat against it would come nearer to getting votes than many another candidate.” That is sound, but to fight crime you would have to fight the bootleg ging that finances it, and to fight boot legging you would have to oppose pro hibition, and that might cost more votes than It would bring. The former kaiser, now known to Germans as William Hohenzollern, has sued a German recorder of deeds be cause he refused to record a deed signed “William, L R.’’ The L R. stands for Imperator, Rex—“Emperor, King.” Dante, in the Infernal regions, found men that he had left alive in Flor ence. Virgil explained that some par ticularly bad Individuals walk around the earth thinking they are alive, when their souls really are in hell. ((&. ItSl. by Has Feature* Syndicate, laej i A most enjoyable occasion was the Junior-Senior reception which was given at the school building on Saturday evening, May 2nd. The young people first assembled in the auditorium where they were entertained for a while by “Jake” Beard of Augusta, who sang many of the popular tunes. Following ’this the crowd was conducted to the Agriculture room on second floor which had been made beau tiful by a profusion of colored bal loons, crepe paper streamers of pink and green, the senior class colors, and many lovely baskets of pink roses, the senior class flower. Here, refreshments were served in cafeteria style. The first course consisted of gelatine salad, sand wiches, potato chips, saltines, pick les, and olives with iced tea and the second course consisted of Es- > ximo Dies. | After every one had been served the remainder of the evening was filled with “proms.” The whole building was thrown open and the campus was lighted so it could be used for promenading. The time passed tco quickly and it was with reluctance that “goodbyes” were said. Each junior and each senior had the privilege of inviting a friend and ths following is a list of all those who were present: Mr. Davis Bussey with Miss Blanche Middleton, Mr. Warlick Kellar with Miss Lake Middleton, of Greenwood, Miss Beryl Bass with Mr. Clyde Morgan of Parksville^ Miss Louise McDaniel with Mr. Rloyd Dean of Camden, Miss Blanche McDaniel with Mr. Ray Bussey of Modoc, Miss Blanche Wilkie with Mr. Ralph Freeland of Plum Branch, Miss Ella Ree Buch anan with Mr. T. J. Dorn of Edge- field, Miss Helen Gilchrist with Mr. Ralph McKinney of McCormick, Mr. Julian Stone with Miss Lillian Sanders of Plum Branch, Mr. Pick ens Wells with Miss Nellie Williams of Parksville, Mr. Robert Gilchrist with Miss Janie Pearl Brown of Plum Branch, Mr. Hugh Middleton with Miss Mary Neoma Eckard of Clarks Hill, Miss Margaret Robert son with Mr. Roy Bailey of Modoc, Miss Anel Edmunds with Mr. George Sharpton of McCormick, Miss Marie Gilchrist with Mr. James Talbert of McCormick, Miss 'Julia Bush with Mr. Glenn Bussey of Flat Rock, Mr. J. M. Reese with Miss Lucy Bussey of Modoc, Miss Ida Lee Sharpton with Mr. Elbert Dorn of Flat Rock, Miss Alice Brown with Mr. Joe Price of Parks ville, Miss Louise Cassels v/ith Mr. Ray Bailey of Flat Rock, Miss Eliz abeth Prescott with Mr. Luther Rankin of McCormick, Miss Claudia Bass with Mr. William Giles of Clarks Hill, Mr. T. J. Stone with Miss Mary Lou Williams of McCormick, Mr. Watson Parks with Miss Cornelia Winn of Plum Branch, Mr. Eubert Eckard with Miss Lucyle Parks of Parksville, Mr. Pete Lankford with Miss Evelyn Winn of Plum Branch, Mr. Floyd Willis with Miss Myrtie Miller of Plum Branch, Miss Joyce Bridges with Mr. Jack Wells of Plum Branch, Miss Annie Martha Ryan with Mr. William Croft of Meri wether, Mr. Raymond Holloway with Miss Elsie Langley of Plum Branch, Miss Marion Herron with Mr. Robert Jones of Clemson Col lege, Misses Mary Frances Dren- nan, Alice Bunch, Annie Jackson, Minnie Jackson, Margaret McKin ney, Mrs. Dealva Rountree, Mr. and Mrs. Mayer, Mr. and Mrs. Wooten, Messrs. “Jake” Beard, Emerson Bussey, Luther Dewitt and Len- wood Kendricks of Augusta and Mr. White and Mr. Strom of Mc Cormick. The chaperons were: Mrs. J. H. Drennan, Mrs. W. R. Gilchrist, Mrs. Cobb, Mrs. J. D. Bunch, Mrs. T. J. Stone, Mrs. C, E. Wilkie and Miss Minnie Belle Bailey. The servers were: Misses Margie An interesting baseball game -vas played on the Washington diamcni last week vs. McCormi'ek, whose team defeated Washington by a margin of 6 to 3. Both teams p 1 ay- ed well and secured many safe hi s as well as demonstrated some skill ful plays in both the infield and \.he outfield. Miss Annie Laurie Godboe spent last week end in Waynesboro. Ga. Coach Scaffe of Wofford College was a visitor on our campus 1 ast week and made a very intet-esting talk to the high school boys. Miss Margaret McKinney spent the past week end at her home in McCormick. Mr. Fowler was a welcome visitor to our school last Thursday. It is always a pleasure to have this faithfi^l friend of the school back with us and we cnly wish he could come more often. i\t MODOC NEWS Mr. W. W. Reese and son, James, of Augusta made a short visit here Sunday evening. Messrs. Ray Bussey, R. L. Scott, Floyd Dean and Richard Key from Camden were week end visitors among relatives and friends here. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dayis have re turned home, after spending a couple of weeks here with the lat ter’s brother, Hon. J. O. McDaniel. Mr. Charley Seigler was a busi ness visitor at Plum Branch last Saturday. Miss Rosalie Bussey was the pleasant guest Saturday to Miss Lillian Reese. } Mr. Gordon Boswell of Augusta was a visitor here Sunday to Mr. A. V. Bussey. Messrs. H. W. Bailey, A. P. Douglas, E. F. Bussey and Mrs. W. M. Nash w6re business visitors at McCormick Saturday evening. Messrs. Albert Howie and W. P. McDaniel were dinner guests Sun day to James and Ben Bussey. Mr. Homer Bussey of Augusta spent last week here with his fa ther, Mr. A. V. Bussey. Mrs. J. O. McDaniel was the guest Sunday to her mother, Mrs. T. T. Bussey. ! Miss Alva McDaniel from Au gusta spent last Sunday here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. C. McDaniel. Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Reese were the guests Sunday evening to Mr. ! and Mrs. C. A. Seigler. Mrs. G. E. Dukes spent Monday and Tuesday of this week with relatives in Augusta. Messrs. Emerson Bussey, J. D. Beard and Luke Dewit of Augusta attended the junior-senior recep tion at Washington high school Saturday night. Mrs. Guy Harvely from Augusta is visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Harv- ley here this week. Miss Nettie Thelma and Nina Bussey were the pleasant guests Monday night to Misses Lucy and Rosalie Bussey. » REHOBOTH NEWS Dear Messenger: Monday morn ing has come again and it is time to chat with you for a little while. We have recently had wonderful rains. The trees and all vegetation look so flourishing. These mornings are just as busy with the housekeepers as can be, with the chickens, flowers and garden to look after. Not much of a job just yet to gather vegetables, but some have cabbage ready for use. Sisters, when you are busy these mornings and have not much time to dust, try the plan I have just learned and tried out on a dusty store floor this morning. Pour a little kerosene over the broom, let stand a few minutes be- And no! only does it mean best, but it means at tiie lowest prices. b or instance, note die savings on the few items listed here and bear in mind that ev erything in our store is on the same basis: FATiiALK, Extra i hick, ™ H#* per pound baker s coconut, ^ per can sEs FLOUR, S. R. per barrel _ _ _ _ k. LARD, g, 8 lb. Bucket SALMON, Peter Pan, |8^j" 2 cans for diss<is2r PEACHES, Evaporated, ag* ^i. 2 lbs. for i&SC Pork, Beef, Pure Pork Sausage, Mixed Sausage, Hog Head Cheese, Smoked Sausage, Balogna Saus age, Veal, Cured Ham, Breakfast Bacon, Fish, etc., at prices you can well afford to pay. ’Phone No. 8 and have your order delivered promptly. We buy and sell the best country produce. A. H. FAULKNER McCORMICK, S. C. 3E 2S8 fore sweeping and note the dif ference in flying dust, aqd to those who have few kindlings try this plan to start a quick fire in the stove these early mornings. Keep a few com cobs in an old bucket or with a little kerosene in jar. They catch very readily. and Mrs. B. S. Culbreath and children and Mrs. W. P. Cul breath spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Morgan. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Morgan, Mrs. Janie Morgan and daughter spent a pleasant afternoon with their aunt, Mrs. Bessie D. Arrington, Sunday. The friends of our faithful home agent rejoice with her in the re cent honors her daughter received in Winthrop College. Mrs. Stall- worth and family went up to Win throp College Saturday to attend May Day festival in which Miss Rebecca Stallworth had a part. ^Charles Morgan spent Sunday afternoon with Raymond Morgan. Several from here attended the Junior-Senior reception at Wash ington High School Saturday even ing. Miss Helen Gilchrist and Mr. Robt. Gilchrist both finish there this year. It will interest the freinds of Mrs. Emmie Broadwater Kinard to learn a little girl, who shall be called Martha, has come to make her home with Mr. and Mrs. I finard. Strawberries are turning and it will not be long before there will be strawberry short cake in this section. Mr. John Talbert and family were calling in this section Sun day afternoon. They motored down from Greenwood. Mr. W. W. Fuller from Edge- field was passing through this sec tion last week and made several short calls. Mrs. R. D. Seigler of Edgefield was to see her aunt, Mrs. Kathryn Hughey, one day last week. Mrs. Hughey continues quite ill at her home. Sheriff Strom was making social calls in the old community last week. X SWAMP NEWS Misses Sarah, Marguerite and Gladys Price spent Sunday with Miss Bertha Young. Callers in the home of Mrs. J. C. Leard the past week were Mrs. Dan McGrath, Mrs. Mike Mc Grath and baby, Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Creswell and Mrs. W. M. Cres- well of McCormick. Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Price motor ed to Greenwood Sunday afternoon to see the latter’s sister, Mrs. George Harrison, who is a pasion. in the Greenwood hospital. Little Emma Leard spent the past week end in Troy v/ith rela tives. Mrs. Nell Dowtin has return^ home from the hospital. She im proves slowly. Miss Jenny Lee Leard spent Thursday night with her cousin Miss Annie Brown McGrath, oJ McCormick. Mrs. Vance Ellison and daughter, Mazie, called in the home of Mrs Moffet Young Saturday afternoon Mrs. J. C. Leard spent one -even ing the past week with her aunt, Mrs. Mattie Crawford. Mrs. Manson Browne spent Mon day very pleasantly with her mo ther, Mrs. J. Jolly. Miss Carrie Mae Rosenswike on- joyed a visit with her sister las I week. Everyone who attended the pic nic at Troy on Friday night re ports a good time. Miss Mary Ruth Price spent the week end with her grandparents Mr. Edd Leard was a visitor in the “Swamps” Monday. Mr. Joe Leard is the one of the first to boast of a sweet potato patch. “Blue Eyes.” iXt Eliza Connor Eliza Connor, colored, was bom October 5, 1823, and was reared near Willington. S. C. At the age of 15 years she married Mundy Connor, a slave of A. P. Connor. She was the mother of 13 children, 11 boys and 7 girls. She lived to see her seventh generation, (she has one granddaughter who is the mother of 16 children, the oldest being cnly 14 years of age. She was mother of three sets of twins.) Her lescendants number 43). She out lived ail of her own children, ex cept three. Those surviving her are Edward Connor of Evanstcn, LI., Mundy Ccnrior cf Vsrdery, S. L. and Thomas Connor cf Abbe ville. S. C. Che died at the home cf her ;on, Tcm Connor, cn February 23, 1931, thus making “aunt Liza” 107 years, 4 months and 20 days old. She was baptized bv preacher Miller several years before joining Chapel Church near Gray Springs. She was a member of this church more than 76 years. Her husband’s was th rt first ''♦pen grave in Glover’s Chapel Cemetery. He was the one to cut thq first logs to build this church. She joined the church during Rev. Henry Rob ertson’s pastorate at Chapel. Her funeral will be preached the seq- >nd Sabbath in May, by Rev. Selg- ier, the present pastor for ChapeL