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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER SEYE* Vf i -t- A.-. «... A- ...‘V . line 4, 1931 Chilean . Nitrate of Soda M. G. & J* J. DORN (Incorporated) Dealers JCCORMICK high SCHOOL NEWS «Continued From Page Two) ^ti:nc3, kindness and efficiency, o those who follow we leave this , arting message, “Carry on.” Let 3 say, in conclusion, “Vale vale, -2d non semper vale”—Farewell, farewell, but not always farewell.” RUBY WHITE. SALUTATORY. Tonight is a memorable event in he lives of the Senior class of .931, for :.t is indeed a time to which we have looked forward for the past four years. We are grad uating! Soon our names will be listed among those who have left these portals behind to go out and McCORMICK, S. C. NO MORE RATS or mice, after you use RAT-SNAP It’s a sure rodent killer. Try a Pkg. and prove it. Rats killed with RAT-SNAP leave no smell. Cats or dogs won’t touch it. 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Bethany, McCormick, Third Sunday. New Hope, Plum Branch, Fourth Sunday. REV. J. F. MARSHALL, Pastor. Springfield, First Sunday. Ebemezer, Second Sunday. Shiloh, Third and Fourth Sun-, days. REV. DOUGLASS, Pastor. Zion Chappel, First Sunday. Piney Grove, Second Sunday. Bailey Bethel, Third Sunday. REV. t W. S. MIMS, Pastor. Liberty Spring, Second Sunday. Mt. Moriah, Third Sunday. REV. WILLIAM PETERSON, Pastor. Cedar Spring, first Sunday. Shady Grove, second Sunday. Mt. Herman and Mt. Lebanon third Sunday. Carry Hill, fourth Sunday. REV. C. M. MIDDLETON, Pastor. St. Charlotte, First Sunday. Mt. Moriah, Second Sunday. Hosannah, Third Sunday. New China, Fourth Sunday. REV. E. D. TALBERT, I Pastor. X The strenuous gait people travel these days is said to be hard on the heart, and the pocketbook also jBuffers. . „ _ _ assume new responsibilities. It is quite fitting that you,^ our parents and friends, should oe here to share with us the joys of this oc- j casion. To you we ext^fid a hearty welcome and the assurance that we are more chan glad to have you here. In the rush and hurry of the world about us today no one pur sues his way alone or unaided, for we are all to a certain extent, de pendent upon one other. To our parents we owe a debt that can never be paid. We realize how deeply they have cared for us and how utterly dependent we are up on their guidance. It is only through their devotion, love and many sacrifices that we ai*e here tonight. On us they have laid a trust, and it is our purpose to car ry onward these high hopes they hold for us. To our many friends who, through their interests in the wel fare of our education, have made possible such a school as this we likewise owe a debt of gratitude. We extend to them our deepest ap preciation for their interests in us. Last, but in no wise least, we would say ‘all hail’ to our teachers. They have aided and encouraged us over the rough spbts always Hold ing before us the goal which we have striven to obtain. Perhaps, we have made many mistakes, which after all is only human; maybe we have let opportunities slip past unnoticed, but now the past is a closed book, and the promise of the future beckons us I onward. j So here’s to our parents, friends, and teachers a joyous welcome mingled with the sadness of fare well. HELEN TALBERT. CLASS HISTORY. On that bright September morn ing of 1927, thirty-two boys and girls started on a long journey of knowledge by the way of thej great highway. Wisdom. As Freshmen, everything was very new and strange to us, but we soon master ed the agonies of Latin and strug gled through the many rules of Algebra. We were full of vim and had a large amount of surplus energy, but a great deal of it was wasted by mischievous capers; however, before we completed the first mile of the journey, we had begun to realize the necessity of work. We also found that the journey through which we werei slowly moving was long, toilsome and full of sorrows, and it was with regret to the class to know that some of our members became dis couraged and gave up the fight. On the next September, .30 of us returned as gay sophomores to perform even more difficult tasks than those of the preceding year. Even though we were one mile far ther than we were before, life was almost as hard. We often became discouraged, but always the thought loomed before us that we should some day be seniors, and the privileges would then be ours. JYith this fact in mind, we worked just a little harder until at last the second mile post was passed. Our junior year began with pros pects. Seventeen new students were added to our merry band of thirty. We realized we were be ginning to lead, instead of to fol low. We were soon to be the honored ones, and on and on we plodded until we had completed three miles of the weary journey. Ah, at last we reached the long looked-for day. Thirty-nine were to enjoy the senior privileges, hardships, sorrows and joys, which have proved to be many. This past year we have realized that, as sen iors, we were leaders in the student body. We know that the younger students have followed our lead, and we trust that as leaders we have done well our part. This has been a memorable year for us, and it is with regret that we, the travelers of *31, must sep arate. May the future of every one of us be as joyous and as in spiring as have been the four years of our happy tour. This class shall ever remain a class, writing its history in words and deeds and lines. It shall not end with these commencement evercises, but in stead, shall more firmly renew its indissoluble union, feeling with browning chat: “The best is yet to be The last of life, for which the first was made.” MABEL LYON '31. CLASS POEM. On this our last class morn We seniors of McCormick High Have gathered here again But not to say goodbye, For though we be far apart And different tasks pursue, We will always cherish in our heart “McCormick High,” a thought of you. You may wonder why we are so sad At leaving high school days; You can’t understand how fond we’ve grown Of dear old McCormick ways, But dearer to us than these ways Are the teachers who have been our guide, And we will try to win the game No matter what betide. And in the far and distant years When by experience we’re wise, We’ll think of the days of ’31 As those we highly prize, Faculty, Students, Classmates and Friends, We do not say good-bye, But we do say “Till we meet again” ANNIE BELL LANGLEY ’31. PRESIDENT’S FAREWELL ADDRESS. Has it ever occurred to you how large a part of these human lives of ours is taken up by just doors? There are open doors and closed doors, and over the kind which are continually facing us we have no control whatever, but there they are, of one kihd or the other, ob truding themselves across our pathway, always obstructing or deviating the otherwise direct pas sage of our jives. The open door is at least invit ing. It shows us what is coming, whether a menace or a benediction, and does not leave us standing outside entangled in the mazes of doubt and speculation. Before the closed doors that con front us we are much like little children. Our curiosity is aroused, and we long to batter down the barrier that we may know fully just what is waiting for us behind the obstruction. But alas! This evening, we stand facing a door which will soon be closed against our existence and may never again be opened, the class of 1931. There is, however, one happy thought in this connec tion, for the closing of this door we can blame no one; it is simply one of the irrevocable processes of time. As the door swings slowly to its close, we can only say with that master mind of all aeons, Shakespeare, “Welcome ever smiles And farewell goes out sighing.” Yet, before the latch of the door gives its final, closing click it has fallen my lot as the president of this class to say a few words of farewell. Classmates, the world is not so large but that we’ll soon meet again, for there’s a thread of fate, of destiny, which binds cer tain individuals to one another, and though they may be separated to the fartherest ends of the earth at some time, at some place, at some hour they shall meet again. As the latch begins to click, I wish to say to the board of trus tees, to the teachers, to our class mates, and all other associates, there are sweet pictures remaining behind the closed door, which our spiritual eyes, penetrating the closed barrier, will always be able to conjure, at will, as long as life shall endure. Classmates, as I hear the latch clicking, the door closing, I say to you and all, The saddest word in the English language, A word which breaks the chain of years, Tis the little word, good-bye. WELBOURNE SCHUMPERT. 6 6 6 LIQUID OR TABLETS Relieves a Headache or Neuralgia in 30 minutes, checks a Cold the first day, and checks Malaria in three days. 6 6 6' Saive for Baby’s Cold. > Farmer George Washington Suffer ed From Drought Senator Morris Sheppard of Tex as happened to fall into conversa tion the other day with a repre sentative of the Division of Infor mation and Publication of che United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission. The Senator represents the largest ag ricultural State in the Union, and quite naturally the subject ot George Washington as a farmer came to his mind. “We’re all inclined to lock on our burdens as the first and worst of their kind,” said the Senator. “And no doubt the disastrous drought of last year, that laid a blight over ’a great section of the country and caused distress and loss, might be set down as one of the outstanding afflictions in our history. But the records show that these cycles of rain deficiency are of fairly regular recurrence. George Washington himself was a sufferer from these periodic failures in what the weather man calls pre cipitation. “He took a mighty hard blow,” Senator Sheppard reflected. “The other day I came across a letter that Washington wrote from Mt. Vernon to a friend of his. The let ter was dated April 4, 1788, and it impressed me so that I had it cop ied. Here it is.” The Senator drew from his pocket a typewritten sheet. “In his letter Washington discloses that he knew very well what it was to lose nearly the whole of his crops. It’s an inter esting revelation of the man and his trials. He says, the Senator read: “Dear Sir: I am very sorry I have not yet been able to discharge my account with the J^mes River Company, for the amount of which you present ed me with an order. “The almost total loss of my crop last year by the drought, which has obliged me to purchase up wards of eight hundred barrels of corn, and my other numerous and necessary demands for cash, when I find it impossible to obtain what is due to me by any means, have caused me more perplexity and given me more uneasiness than I ever experienced before from want of money. In addition of these dis appointments which I have met with from those who are indebted to me, I have in my hand a num ber of indents and other public se curities, which I have received from time to time as the interest of some Continental loan-office certificates; which are in my pos session ” “That was in 1788,” the Senator continued. “Exactly eleven years later, in 1799, the last year of Washington’s life, he suffered again from drought. What he has to say of that experience will in terest every farmer of today. I had copied for me this letter that Washington wrot£ ! ' to a friend, dated August 17, 1799.” The Sen ator read it as follows: “ 4 The drought has been so ex cessive on this estate that I have made no oats—and if it continues a few days longer, I shall make no corn. I have cut little or no grass; and my meadows, at this time, are as bare as the pave ments; of consequence no second crop can be expected. These things will compel me, I expect, to reduce the mouths that feed on my hay/ “Doesn’t that sound as if writ ten last year?’ Senator Sheppard remarked. “That last line in Wash ington’s letter completes the par allel between his experience and the loss of. our farmers who were compelled to sell their livestock for lack of the means to feed them. “So even George Washington, one of the wealthiest men of his time,” the Senator reflected, “knew what it was to take a crippling loss, at the hands of Nature. And in the first letter I read you,” the Senator smiled, “Washington sounds a note that will make him understandable to many a present day American outside the farming circle. Even the Father of his country knew what it was to be be hind with his bills, and had to put up his own equivalent of a modern hard-luck story to account for his lack of cash. It’s just another one of those homely touches,” the Sen ator ended, “that should endear George Washington to every Am erican, and arouse deep interest :n the Celebration of his Two Hund redth Birthday which will extend from February 22, until Thanksgiv ing Day of next year. i LET THE MESSENGER JOB —(X)— oa —00— We are prepared to do various kinds of job printing neatly and promptly and solicit yonr orders for Ruled Letterheads Typewriter Letterheads Noteheads Billheads Statements Envelopes Posters 1 i t i 1 ' • r “ i • i » Circular Letters Folders Business Cards Visiting Cards Special Invoices Day Books Receipt Books Tally Sheets Lumber Tallies - • { y Notes - ’ Chattel Mortgages 1 Crop Mortgages And many other special forms of printing or rule work. Our prices are reasonable, and we guarantee satisfaction on every piece of work we do. —00— —00— McCORMICK, S. C.