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I \ « * 9 \ 1'BUE To OURSELVES, OUR NEIGHBORS. OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD. Thirtieth Year End Of School Tuesday Evening The final exercises of the Mc Cormick High School were held Tuesday evening in the school auditorium. Welbourne Schum- pert, the senior class president, made the welcome address. The salutatory and the valedictory were given by Helen Talbert and Ruby White. Medals were awarded as fellows: Helen Talbert, member of the Graduation Class, -received Five Dollar Gold piece offered by Prof. H. H. Shiflet for best esfcay by Sen ior on the tVip to Columbia. Carl Winn, member of Gradu ation Class, received Five Dollar Gold piece offered by Trustees for best academic average by member of Senior Class. Billy Britt, member of Gradua tion Class, received Medal offered by McCormick Lions Club for best all-round Student in School. Elsie Langley, High School Stud ent, received medal offered by Prof. H. H. Shiflet for. Expression in the District Contest. Roy Callison, Member of Gradu ation Class, received medal offer ed by Prof. H. H. Shiflet for Best Declamation in District Contest. The address of the evening was delivered by Hon. I. F. Williams, senator of Aiken county. In the course of his speech, Mr. Williams emphasized the influ ence of thought upon one’s life. He placed much stress upon the im portance of speech, books and newspapers in shaping and mould ing character. Stating that the graduates have just begun their education, he urged them, to de cide what they want to do and do it, no matter* where they are, to the best advantage. Mr. H. H. Shiflet, superintend ent of the school, presented diplo mas to the following boys and girls: Alleen Arringtop, Rpth Ranks, Ellen Bosdell, Billie Britt, Helen Brown, Janie Pearl Brown, Walton Burkett, Helen Burnside, Ruby Cothran, Mildred Deason, Myitis Dillashaw, William Dowtin, Howard Franteltn, James Furquer- on, Andrew Giles, Kathleen Hol lingsworth, Louisa Huckabee, An nie Belle Langley, Frances Lyon, Mabel Lyon, Emmie Mayson, Will iam Mayson, Elizabeth McAlister, John Thomas McGrath, Louise Mc Kinney, James Patterson, Samuel Price, Susan Robertson, Herman Sandifer, Welbourne Schumpert, Azile Self, Thomas Talbert, Milton Walker, Pe&fl White, Ruby White, Carl Winn, E. C. Winn, Sam Young and Helen Talbert. ' X Judges Named Pick Carolina Winners For South American Trip Three prominent South Carolin ians have been chosen as judges to select two fertilizer dealers in the Chilean Nitrate Dealer’s Con test, to represent this state pn a tour of South America. The judges are Henry S. Johnson, secretary of the South CSTolina Bankers Association and J. W. Shealy, State Commissioner of Ag riculture, Coluipbi^ jyad D. R. Coker, plant breeder, Hartsville. The contest, the first of its kind ever conducted in this country, was started in February as a means of encouraging dealers to develop their trade. Contestants will file a report of their efforts with the judges June 15 and the winners will be announced July 1. In addition to the two trips, the ChUean Nitrate of Soda Educa tional Bureau, which is sponsoring the contest, will award ten cash prizes—five of $100 each and five of $50 each. The South Carolina dealers sel ected to make the trip will join similar -WUmers from Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Caro lina and Virginia,* and all will sail from New York July 18. Highlights of the trip will include stops at the Panama Canal, visits to Lima, cap ital of Peru and Santiago, capital of Chile, and a tour of the nitrate fields and Tefining plants in North- pm Chile, _ Established June 5, 1902 McCORMICK, S. C. Thursday, June 4, 1931 8 ages — All Home Print Number 1 Petit Jurors Are * Drawn For June Term Of Court The following is a list of petit jurors drawn to serve at the June, 1931, term of court for McCormick County, said term to convene on Monday, June 22nd, as per order signed by the Honorable C. J. Ram- age and appearing elsewhere ?.n this paper: Hubert Wideman, McCormick. D. T. Lagroon, McCormick, R. F. D. No. 2. B. F. Parks, Parksville. T. L. Edmunds, McCormick, R. F. D. No. 1. M. L. Ramsey, McCormick, R. F. D. No. 1. Jas. L. Strother, Plum Branch. W. T. Sears, Troy, R. F. D. No. 1. H. G. Sanders, McCormick. Leon E. Freeland, Plum Branch. J. L. Self, McCormick. F. M. Bussey, Modoc. Jno. T. Wiley, McCormick, R. F. D. No. 1. C. W. Robertson, Parksville. J. B. Smith, McCormick. W. R. Gilchrist, Parksville, R. F. :o. J. W. McBride, Willington. J. B. Deason, McCormick, R. F. D. No. 1. T. W. Walker, McCormick. L. N. Brown, McCormick. J. T. Shannon, McCormick, R. F. :d. Wistar Harmon, McCormick. D. M. Blackwell, Parksville. J. P. Brunson, Parksville. Clyde Holloway, McCormick, R. F. D. No. 1. J. L. Jennings, McCormick. J. W. Covin, Mt. Carmel. T. L. Britt, McCormick, R. F. D. No. 1. T. N. Seigler, McCormick, R. F. D. No. 1. G. E. Campbell, McCormick. W. T. Walker, McCormick, R. F. D. No. 1. A. P. Willis, Plum Branch. Reed M. Brock, McCormick, R. F. D. Grady Price, McCormick, R. F. D. No. 1. Jesse R. Jennings, McCormick, R. F. D. Ho. 1. S.~E. Wilson, Plum Branch. J. W. Christian, McCormick, R. F. D. No. 2. —x Farm Crops In Need Of Good Square Meal The simple fact that even with cotton and corn nothing will take the place of a good square meal accounts for the great need of side-dressing throughout the South this year. Reports from every section show there has been a material drop in the fertilizer customarily used at planting. Unless crops receive a side-dressing of quick-acting ni trogen during the next few weeks, acre yields are bound to be low. Low acre yields mean higher costs per unit which will make it dif ficult for farmers to show a profit at present prices. Southern agricultural leaders are unanimous in the opinion uhat it will pay to side-dress this year. A summary of their recent state- ments shows that, in view of the light application of fertilizer under the crop as well as the extreme importance of making high acre yields, cotton and corn should be liberally side-dressed with quick acting nitrogen. Assuming a rea sonably favorable season, this practice will pay on cotton and corn, even at present prices. The most effective time to side- dress cotton and com is about 45 days after planting. The fertilizer should be put out on cotton after chopping and before squaring, and knee-high. on com when the plants are about X n If broilers or roasters in the poultry flock are getting cod-liver oil in the rations, discontinue it about two weeks before the birds are to be killed or the meat will have a fishy flavor. . x A Cornell scientist is chasing, dragon flies by airplane. Order For Court To Convene Here Monday, June 22 STATE OP SOUTH CAROLINA, County of McCormick, In the Court of Common Pleas. IN RE: JUNE, 1931, TERM OF COURT OF COMMON PLEAS AND GENERAL SESSIONS, Mc CORMICK COUNTY. WHEREAS, it has been made to appear that one week will be suffi cient to dispose of all jury cases in the Court of General 'Sessions and Common Pleas for the June 1931, term of Court for McCormick County, and WHEREAS, it is desired that the said Qoifrt convene the second week of said term, to wit, June 22nd, 1931, The Solicitor consent ing thereto, IT IS ORDERED that all jury cases in the Court of General Ses sions and Common Pleas for trial during the week commencing Tune 15th, 1931, for the County of Mc Cormick, State aforesaid, be and the same are hereby continued un til the week commencing June 22nd, 1931. That the Grand Jury, all petit jurors, witnesses and litigants be ordered to report to said Court on Monday, June 22nd, 1931. All matters in both General Ses sions and Common Pleas Court be continued to June 22nd, 1931. (Signed) C. J. RAMAGE, Judge of the»llth Judicial Circuit at Chambers, Saluda, S. C. May 28th, 1931. I consent: W. <. CHARLES, * F. A. WISE. X Money For School Buses To Counties McCORMICK COUNTY TO GET ' $3,860.00 AS ITS SHARE School transportation money, to taling $350,000, was sent Monday to the county treasurers by James H. Hope, state superintendent of edu cation, from Columbia. This dis tribution follows the one recently of $1,400,000 of 6-0-1 money. This year is the first time 6-0-1 and transportation have been dis tributed separately. The distribution by counties was: Abbeville $ 7,112 Aiken 13,835 Allendale 5,028 Anderson 3,392 Bamberg 3,065 Barnwell 3,691 Beaufort 3,840 Berkeley 8,099 Calhoun 2,223 Charleston 7,717 Cherokee 4,306 Chester 4,588 Chesterfield 7,311 Clarendon 7,775 Colleton 15,942 Darlington 10,563 Dillon 5,543 Dorchester 2,947 Edgefield 3,793 Fairfield 5,440 Florence 12,017 Georgetown 6,838 Greenville 8,395 Greenwood 5,644 Hampton 7,379 Horry 14,053 Jasper 6,400 Kershaw 14,970 Lancaster 9,330 Laurens 9,978 Lee 6,002 Lexington 12,134 McCormick 3,860 Marion 5,912 Marlboro 2,814 Newberry 8,794 Oconee 5,663 Orangeburg 9,780 Pickens 3,468 Richland 9,847 Saluda 3,035 Spartanburg f 15,862 Sumter 12,344 Union 6,587 Williamsburg 7,225 York 15,459 Total $350,000 X The world’s fuel oil consumption is now equivalent to about 150,- 000,000 * tons'of coal annually. Baccalaureate Sermon Senior Flay At McCormick Amid the round of fina]£ of Mc Cormick High School there was on- joyed by a large audience the bac calaureate sermon on Sunday morning, May the thirty-first, at the high school auditorium: The following program was given: . Invocation by Reverend W. S. Tenry. Selections by a chorus, accom panied by Miss Collins. Vocal duet by Mrs. J. S. Strom and Mrs. W. L. Acker. The speaker of the morning was introduced by Reverend J. H. Buz- hardt, pastor of the Associate Re formed Presbyterian Church at Troy. Dr. Edgar C. Lucas, the speaker, and minister of the First Christian Church in Augusta, Georgia, ad dressed a closely attentive audi ence on the subject “Move On. v He used as a fitting illustration an incident in Charles Dickens’s “Bleak House.” Joe, the orphan boy, when told by a policeman that he could not sleep where he was lying, but must move on, answered, “But I Have Been Movirig on all My Life.” The answer came back that he could not sleep there, but must move on. “Where to?” was Joe’s response. Life, declared Mr. Lucas,* says to the seniors and everyone as the policeman cautioned Joe, “Move on,” but sometimes one feels like saying with Joe, “Where to ” He brought out very interesting ly and convincingly the difference between theology and science. He added that thefe is not necessarily a conflict between the two. The rapid, marked progress in science, transportation and all stages of life in the last twenty- five years or more was pictured vividly by him. Enlarging his dis cussion of the advancement of the methods in transportation, he com mented on the slow travel in the past as compared with the modern methods of speed as exemplified by the recent flight of Captain Frank Hawks, who had breakfast in London, lunched in Berlin and dined in Paris. 1 T * A startling remark emitted in the course of the address was that “Science is dead.” Speaking of the decay of modern society in the late years, he forcibly exhorted the graduates to execute their respon sibility and duty, the revival of society. He said he knew each one had suffered and that others had relinquished the task, but to those who survived came the fortune or misfortune of making society live again. In conclusion he stressed the fact that the seniors are the citi zens of tomorrow and in supplying the citizenship of the world, they are preparing for the greatest citi zenship of all, citizenship in the spiritual realm with God above. tXl Mr. M. C. Cassells Found Dead In Bed Funeral services for Marion C. ^Cassells, 54, were held at Asbury Methodist church, Meriwether, Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock. In terment will be at Rutherford Col lege, N. C., this morning. Mr. Cas sells was found dead in bed Sun day morning at his home at Meri wether. Though he was a sufferer of heart trouble he was up as usual on Saturday and sat up and talked to friends until 9:30 o’clock Saturday night. He was a native of North Carolina but had resided at Meri wether for a number of years be ing engaged in the lumber busi ness. Besides his wife, Mrs. Vernon Cassells, he is survived by three Monday evening, June the first, at 8:15 the Senior Class of McCor mick High School presented to a large audience including many out of town visitors the annual play as a feature of commencement week. The cast of this year’s en tertainment, “The Man in the Green Shirt,” which was ably di rected by Miss Grace McCord, was as follows: Mr. George T. Fuller—Welbourne Schumpert. Mr. Ivan Ross—James Patterson. Mr. Egbert Cain—John Thomas McGrath. Willie Roach—Walton Burkett. Mrs. George T. Fuller—Elizabeth McAlister. Delphine Darube—Elsie Langley. Millie Fuller—Alleen Arrington., Mrs. T. Jefferson Joyner—Azile Self. Lena Mae Crow—Ellen Bosdell. Emmy Rockhart—Ruby Cothran. From start to finish the play was a rollicking success. No lagging occurred in the action, and the characters moved through their roles as if they were bom for them. The sympathy centers around the husband, Mr. Fuller, and his sensi ble daughter, Millie, as opposed by the supercilious, stung by a society bug mother; however, all conflict ing situations are cleared in the discovery of “the man in the green shirt,” who wins the heart of the girl. Through the naive remarks and ludicrous actions of a Roach and a Crow, the butler and the maid, the comic scenes are deftly handled. E. C. K. t\i Weekly Boll Weevil Survey Resumed CLEMSON COLLEGE, June 1«— So satisfactory has been the res ponse to tl\e infonjiation on boll weevil activity released by the South Carolina Experiment Sta tion during the past several sum mers, it has been decided to con tinue this service to farmers in 1931, says Director H. W. Barre, an nouncing that during the growing season members of the Pee Dee Station staff in co-operation with officers in the Bureau of Entomo logy will make careful examina tions in representative Coastal and Piedmont counties and report up on the degree of infestation in each. This information to be as sembled at Clemson College and released through newspapers, county agents, teachers, and othei agencies. During the week ending May 30, sixty fields were examined for weevils in nine counties. Only one field failed to show the presence of weevils. The largest numbei found per acre was 860; the aver age was 197. Practically every field examined had sufficient weevils to cause serious damage with an average rainfall. It is suggested, there fore, that farmers watch field.' elosely and have everything ir readiness to make the first appli cation of eally molasses poisor just before the squares begin tc appear on the cotton. Honor Roll 1 Next W eek The honor roll of McCormick Schools will appear in The Mes senger next week. Lack of spac is the reason for the delay. Amom the articles received since Tuesday morning for publication in this is sue. the honor roll happened to be the only one that was not “perish able;” therefore, is being kept over for next week. X Card Of Thanks daughters, Misses Louis and Mabel Cassells, of Meriwether, and Mrs. Otto Bollinger, of Drexel, N. C., fa ther, J. D. Cassells, of Rutherford College, N. C., and one sister, Mrs. Lee Goode of Texarkana, Tex. The body was taken to North Carolina this morning by J. S. Strom, undertaker. k We wish to thank our • friends and neighbors for the kindness and sympathy shown us during the illness and at the death of our dear loved one. Mrs. L. N. Chamberlain and Family. X - Crickets hear with their elbows.’ County 4-H Radio • Music Test Held The County 4-H Radio Music Achievement Test was held at the High School Auditcruim on Friday afternoon, May 29. The music which was used in. this contest has been included in the National 4-H Radio Program broadcast from Washington each first Saturday in the month since December. These numbers were played by the U. S. Marine Band, Captain Taylor Branson conduct ing. The 4-H girls of this county have been listening in on these programs, and studying the music and annotations. When the music clubs began this work, eighty-six girls signed up for study under the direction of Mrs. Nell A. Stallworth, county home demonstration agent and Mrs. W. L. Acker, county music chairman, Miss Louise Collins, teacher of music in the McCormick Schools, Miss Annie Laura Godbec, music teacher of the Washington Consolidated School and Mrs. E. C. Rice of Plum Branch, trained the girls in the various clubs for this contest. The music was played on the piano and tome Victrola rec ords were used. Several prelimin ary contests were held over the county after each rehearsal with most of the girls present, but only 15 girls entered the final test. They were: Helen Crawford, Mary Neoma. Eckard, Joyce Bridges, Louise Smith, Mary Sue Coleman, Rebecca Drucker, Sara Lou Wideman, Jen nie Lou Lyon, Edna Miner, Euifa Caudle, Sara Bracknell, Marie Gilchrist, Kathryn Brown; Elsie Langley and Eugenia Langley. :The contestants, showed by . their papers that they had done good work and much musical ability was displayed in the readiness, with which the various musical numbers were recognized. Kathryn, Brown of McCormick High Schcdl won first place and will go to Win- throp College to the State Short Course. A qlose second was won by Jennie Lou Lyon of the Mc Cormick High School ,and third place was won by Effie Lee Craw ford also of the McCormick High School. Honorable mention was given to Eula Caudle, McCormick and Sarah Bracknell, Plum Branch. The following numbers were usefl.^ in the Final Contest: Old Folks at Home—Stephen Collins Foster. Liebest r aum—Lisze t. Annie Laurie—Lady John Scott. The Beautiful Blue Danube— Johann. Lock Lomend — Scotch Folk Strauss. Believe Me if all Those Endear ing Young Charms — Thomas Moore. O Sole Mio—Italian Folk Tune. By the Waters of the Minno- tonka—Thurlow Lieurance. , Anvil Chorus from II Trovatcre —Verdi. Minuet in G—Beethoven. To a Water Lily—MacDowell. Traumerei—Robert Schumann. The Song of the Volga Boat man—Russian Folk Tune. Narcissus—Ethelbert Nevin. At Dawning—Charles WakeficM Cadman. Sextette from Lucia Oi Lammcr- moor—Donizette. 1 vt \ Boy Loses Hand By Dynamite Cap W. S. Pipkin, Jr., 15-year-okl son of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Pipkin, had the fingers blown from his left hand, also a portion of the hand, when a dynamite cap from whiefc he was picking the powder with a. nail exploded in his hand here Saturday night about 11:30. He was carried to a Greenwood hos pital, where it is understood that practically all of his left hand ha^ ( to be amputated, leaving the thumb. It is said that he was sitting on the sidewalk, pickinc out the powder and sticking & match to it prior to the explosion. Several more caps were picked up where the* explosion occurred. Latest reports indicate that he 14 doing very well.