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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.