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TBUB TO OUHSELVSS, OUB NEIGHBORS. OUB COUNTRY AND OUR GOD.
Twenty-Ninth Year
8 Pages — All Home Print
McCORMICK, S. C. Thursday, May 28, 1931
Established June 5. 1902
Number 52
McCormick Schools
To Close On June 2
A Proclamation
COMMENCEMENT SERMON TO
BE DELIVERED SUNDAY, MAY
31, 1931.—EXERCISES TUES
DAY EVENING ,
The grammar school will present
the following program which pre
cedes the regular high school grad
uation exercises.
Thursday evening, May 28, 8:15
o’clock, in the high school audi
torium certificates of promotion
will be delivered to approximately
60 students. Miss Mattie E. Thomas
of the State Department of Educa
tion will deliver the principal ad
dress to these young graduates.
Annie Laurie Sturkey is valedictor
ian and Josephine Bowick is salu-
tatorian. . t
Friday evening, May 29, the
Seventh grade will give their play,
4 ‘Just Plain Dot” in the high school
auditorium.
Sunday^ morning the commence
ment sermon will be delivered by
Dr. Edward C. Uucas of Augusta,
Ga. ; Monday^ morning at 11:00
The Class Day exercises, with Wel-
boume Schumpert in charge will
be presented in the high school
auditorium.
Monday evening 3:15 the high
school play, “The Man in The
Green Shirt,” will be presented by
high school students.
Tuesday evening at 8:15 the
graduating exercises, with Hon:
John F. Williams, of Aiken deliv
ering the address. The valedictory
will be given by Ruby White and
Helen Talbert will give the saluta
tory.
The following students compose
the class of 1931:
AJ$en Arrington
Ruth Banks
Helen Brown
Janie Pearl Brown
Billie Britt
Walton Burkett
Helen Burnside
Ellen Bosdell
Ruby Cothran
Myitis Dillashaw „ .
William Dowtin
Mildred Deason
Howard Franklin
James Furqueron
Andrew Giles
Kathleen Hollingswbrth
Louisa Huckabee
Annie Belle Langlfey
Mabel Lyon
Frances Lyon
Louise McKihney
Elizabeth McAlister
John Thomas McGrath
Emmie Mayson
William Mayson
James Patterson
Samuel Price
Susan Robinson
Herman Sandifer
. Azile Self
Welbourne Schumpert
Thomas Talbert
Helen ’Talbert
Milton Walker
Pearl White
Ruby White
Carl Winn
E. C. Winn
Sam Young
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Meeting Of P.-T. A.
On' Thuisdar-afternoon at : r our
o’clock the regular monthly meet
ing of the P.-T. A. was held in the
high school auditorium. This, the
last meeting of the year, was de
voted exclusively to business.
Miss Burgess’s section of the
fourth grade was awarded the ban
ner for attendance. The blues won
in representation from the reds by
a small majority.
Mrs. H. N. Coleman was unani
mously re-elected president of the
association for the session of 1931-
1932.
Cognizant of the fact that much
good has been accomplished un
der har, presidency, we are hoping
for still greater progress next year.
Let us also hope to receive the
hearty co-operation of more pat
rons.
E. C. K., reporter.
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An electric towel dryer, said to
be economical and efficient, is a
-German invention. ; _
By Mayor C. K. Eptlng«
Saturday, May 30th, is proclaim
ed Poppy day in McCormick in a
proclamation issued yesterday by
Mayor C. K. Epting. The procla
mation urges all citizens of the city
to observe the day in wealing an
American Legion and Auxiliary
poppy as an individual tribute to
the American men and women
who gave their lives in the World
war. It sflso calls upon the citi
zens of the city to contribute as
liberally as their means will a)low
to the welfare of the disabled vet
erans and dependent families of
the dead and disabled when pur
chasing their poppy.
The proclamation follows:
‘T, C. K. Epting, Mayor of the
City of McCormick, remembering
the fine young men of McCormick
whom the city sent forth in the
years of 1917 and 1918 to defend
the honor and ideals of our nation
on the battlefields of the world s
most terrible war, and who died in
the heroic performance of the duty
the nation assigned to them, and
deeming it fitting that the citi
zens of the city should pay honor
to their memory by wearing the
flower among whose bright red
blooms many of them died, do
hereby proclaim Saturday, May
30, Poppy_day.
‘T urge that this day be observ
ed by all patriotic citizens of our
town and community by the wear
ing of the memorial poppy made
by disabled veterans which will be
offered on the streets of the city
by the women of the American
Legion Auxiliary. I further urge
that the citizens who gave so
gallantly of their services and so
liberally of their wealth during the
war, think on this day of those who
gave health and strength, and
when purchasing a poppy give as
liberally as their means will allow
to help brighten the burden for
those who are still paying In suf
fering and poverty the price of our
glorious victory-
C. K. EPTING,
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Union Meeting
To Be Held At
Bold Springs
The union meeting of the Edge-
field Baptist association will be
held at Bold Springs church the
fifth Sunday ot this month. May
31st. All churches are invited to
send representatives. The follow
ing is the tentative program, to be
presided over by the Moderator, J.
H. Courtney:
10:15—Sunday school.
11:00—Call to order by the Mod
erator. . »
Song service.
Devotions—Rev. G. W. Gurley.
Hymn by congregation.
I Roll call of churches by the
Clerk, W. E. Lott.
Special music by Bold Springs
choir.
Sermon—Rev. O. L. Orr.
Hymn by congregation.
Benediction.
Adjourn for dinner.
1:30—Song service.
Devotions—Rev. H. B. White.
Topic—The Baptist Denomina
tion’s Obligation to Citizenship—
Rev. G. E. Pettigrew.
Special music by Mt. Creek
choir.
Topic—The Impelling Need of
Awakened Individual Interest in
the Associational Program—Rev. C.
Ross Pennington, assisted by J. M.
Bell and J. L. Mims.
Congregational' singing.
Announcements.
Benediction.
MAY 30TH IS MEMORIAL DAY
Buy A Poppy!
Wear A Poppy!
No price is fixed for the poppy. The amount given the poppy sell
er is a donation to relieve the suffering caused by the war. The pur
pose of the auxiliary’s poppy program is to place the symbol of heroic
mcrifice above the heart of every true American, giving at the same
time an opportunity to serve the war’s living victims.
The work of making the poppies is a true God-send to many hund
reds of disabled veterans. They are paid one cent each for the flow
ers they shape and if not too badly disabled can earn a fair day’s wage
without exerting themselves to a harmful extent. This work is given
only to men receiving little or no government compensation, and for
mapy it is the only possibility of earning money during the year.
So let us buy and help these men who beseech the Auxiliary to be
permitted to make more poppies. Their need is pitiful and their
eagerness to help themselves through earning money rather than to de
pend on charitable donations should awaken our highest admiration.
To many the making of poppies means money to send home and a re
lief from worry over families left destitute. So:
“Forget them not! As years go by,
On our remembrance they rely.
They are the maimed death did deny
Its solace—crippled, blind, they try
To find on earth the peace they know In Flander’s Fields
Mr. L. N. Chamberlain
Died Saturday
Buy A Poppy!
Wear A Poppy!
It stands for service. It enables one cent to be earned by a dis
heartened world war veteran in a hospital who needs |t, and all you
pay for it goes for sefvice for those for whom the war is not yet over.
Buy one!
It represents the sacrificial blood of the men who fell in Flander’s
fields. It is a memorial to all who died in service. In reverence
and understanding. Wear one!
Mr. Louis N. Chamberlain died at
9 o’clock last Saturday morning in
an Augusta infirmary where he
had been taken the Tuesday before
for an operation, and where, after
he operation, he was believed to
have a fair chance of recovery. He
had enjoyed excellent health be
fore the last illness and was unus
ually active for a man of his years,
77. He was a native of near Plum
Branch and spent his entire life
in this -section, and was active in
public life and a life long member
of Republican Methodist Church.
Beside his widow, who before
marriage was Miss Alice Smith, he
is survived by four sons and four
daughters, W. E. Chamberlain, Mc
Cormick; L. A. Chamberlain, Ray
mond Chamberlain, Ralph Cham
berlain, Miss Gertrude Chamber-
lain and Mrs. LeRoy Parker, all of
St. Petersburg, Fla., Mrs. A. S.
Sims and Mrs. G. C. Leverett of
Lincoln ton, Ga.; two sisters, Mrs.
W. G. Mallett, Plum Branch, and
Mrs. Thomas Hitt of Augusta.
Funeral services were conducted
at Republican Church at 3 o’clock
Monday afternoon by his former
pastor, the Rev. J. A. Bledsoe, of
Fhcolet, assisted by the Rev. W. S.
Henry of McCormick M. E. Charge,
and the Rev. Leon T. Pressly of Mc
Cormick A. R. P. Church, and in
terment made in McCormick ceme
tery.
Pallbearers were six nephews of
deceased: Messrs. George and Bud
Mallett, Arnold and Elmer Creigh
ton, Grady and Wallace Smith. G.
P. McCain’s service in charge.
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6-0-1 Money Goes
To State Schools
COUNTIES RECEIVE $1,400,000
FOR TEACHERS—McCORMICK
GETS $4,253.00
Seventh Grade
Presents
Play
Picture the mental strain of the non-compensated man in the hos
pital as he thinks of his wife and little children at home with no in
come. Then do your bit for him by buying and wearing his poppy, for:
Bank To Observe
Friday for Saturday
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Saturday, May 30th, being Mem
orial Day, The Peoples Bank of
McCormick will observe Friday in
lieu of Saturday, and therefore
will not be open for the transac
tion of business on Friday, May
29, 1931.
P. G. FOOSHE,
_ Cashier. -
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The members of the seventh
grade of McCormick Schools will
present their cornmencement play,
“Just Plain Dot,”, on Friday night,
May 29th, at the high school audi
torium.
The cast of characters is as fol-
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lows:
Mrs, Wilson, The Mother—Eliza
beth Deason.
Grandma Wilson. The Grandmo
ther—Josephine Bowick.
Bessie Beale, Mrs. Wilson's niece
—Mary Ellen Edmunds.
Polly Prince, A friend of Bessie’s
—Mary Fuller.
Buster Black, Mrs. Wilson’s er
rand boy who is badly spoiled, and
who possesses a “whooping” big
appetite—Jack Patterson.
Dan Dennis, A newsboy—John M.
Talbert,,,
Meg, A poor girl—Billie Morrah.
Dot, A fairy—Henrietta Brown.
The Wilson Children—
Alice—Anna Furqueron.
Willie—Ralph Creswell.
Maude—Annie Laurie Sturkey.
Dick—MatUda Williams.
Roy—Charles Henry* Williams.
Joy—Margaret Holloway.
The admission charge will oe 10c
and 15c.
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Officers Made Raid
On A Big Still
On last Saturday, Sheriff W. T.
Strom, Deputy Sheriff W. L. Brown,
Federal Prohibition Agent L. J.
Bishop and State Constables Weeks
and Ashley destroyed 8,000 gallons
of mash, 120 gallon steamer dis
tillery and poured out 30 gallons of
whiskey near Furey’s Ferry on
Savannah River in McCormick
County.
The outfit was located in a hol
low on a small stream between two
hills, and the officers made the
rush in the hollows, not believing
the men could climb the step hill
sides and make their escape. Five
negroes were looking after the still,
and at sight of the officers, scamp
ered out over the hills as though
they were on--level ground. One
of the officers says he doesn’t be
lieve he could climb the hill some
of the men went up % so easily and
quickly.
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COLUMBIA, May 26.—Dfetribu-
tioin of the 6-0-1 school money,
amounting to $1,400,000, was an
nounced Saturday morning by
James H. Hope, state superintend
ent of education, showing that
Greenville county receives the
largest amount of aid, $143,953, and
Jasper, the smallest, $255. The
Greenville share is one-tenth of
the total.
The Piedmont counties generally
received larger amounts, in pro
portion 1 to population than the
mid-state or coastal counties.
Charleston, one of the largest in
point of population of South Caro
lina, receives $1,293, the next to
the smallest amouni,. McCormick
county is third from the bottom
y/ith $4,253.
Spartanburg takes second to
Greenville with $88,300, being
closely followed by Anderson with
$86,231. Richland county is mid
way of the list.
The , department of education
this week will send out the $350,000
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transportation ftind which former
ly was distributed in the same
check as the 6-0-1 money. Ap
proximately $150,000 from the
Smith-Hughes act wiJkalso be dis
tributed this week.
The 6-0-1 money went by coun-
Abbeville _ . .
$20,251
Aiken
33,814
Allendale .
4,680
Anderson
86,231
Bamberg _ .
. 13A17
Barnwell
15,363
Beaufort
5,077
Berkeley _j
21,368
Calhoun
6,660
Charleston __
1,293
©herokee
. 28,49*
Chester
12,512
Chesterfield
Clarendon
18,351
Colleton
_ 22,484
Darlington
22,939
Dillon -
. 23,015
Dorchester
12,289
Edgefield _
11,481
Fairfield _ ,
5,183
Florence
70,764
Georgetown _
11*729
Greenville
143,953
i Greenwood
. 19,399
Hampton ____ —_
10,570
Horry
75,904
Jasper - _
255
Kershaw _ .
25,149
Lancaster J.
31,793
Laurens
. 28 ,*07
Lee _
14,433
Lexington
51,349
McCormick
_4,253
Marion —
26,763
Marlboro
24,025
dewberry _
32,723
Oconee
47,220
Orangeburg _
38,113
Pickens
54,793
Richland '—
. 36,280
* Saluda
22,625
| Spartanburg
.1 83,300
Sumter
_ _ - 30,608
Union
25,492
Williamsburg _
27,240
York
41,086
Total
__ .. 400,006
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Truck And Cotton
Burn On Highway
A big truck and 35 bales of cot
ton burned up on the highway
just a few feet from McKittrick’s
bridge over Long Cane Creek early
Tuesday morning. The fire is said
to have started from friction on a
back wheel of the truck, which was
en route from Augusta to an up
state city. McCormick’s chemical
fire fighting outfit was rushed to
the scene, but arrived too late to
save the machine and its contents.
Pension Money
Has Arrived
Probate Judge L. G. Bell states
that he has received the pension
The most devastating disease of money for this county and is
hogs in the United States is hog ready to pay it out to veterans apd
cholera.- - .... j widows of veterans. ^