McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, July 02, 1931, Image 1
Thirtieth Year
Established June 5, 1902
McCORMICK, S. C. Thursday, July 2, 1931
8 Pages — All Home Print
Number 5
The Farmers And
Taxpayers League
Meets July 14th
MAY RENEW EFFORTS TO GET
SUSPENSION OF FORECLOS
URES ON FARM LANDS IN
AMERICA
(Special to The Messenger.)
COLUMBIA, June 30.—Reports
coming €nto Headquarters of vhe
Farmers and Taxpayers. League in
dicate that the State Convention,
which will be held in the Capitol
July 14th, at 11 a. m., will be one
of the largest civic gatherings held
in the State. The various county
units of the League are holding
their final meetings before the
State meeting, and in addition to
delegates many others will attend.
The committee on organization,
composed of A. B. Langley, Chair
man, Dr. Wade Stackhouse, J. C.
Self, Dr. Carl B. Epps, Dr. C. D
Napier, J. R. Fairey and Mclvei
Williamson, is meeting -with
marked success, and the aims and
objects of this League are being
placed before the citizens of the
State. County units are being-
formed all over the State, it was
stated here at headquarters. Con
siderable interest is being shown by
the numerous requests for copies
of “The Manifesto,” which :‘s the
very foundation of the League’s
work.
Some time back, the press car
ried an article frofti Dr. Stackhouse
to the effect that he would intro
duce a resolution at a future meet
ing, whereby no member of the
league could offer for office. “The
League is not a vehicle for any
politician,” stated Dr. Stackhouse.
The meeting at Columbia on July
14th, at 11 a. m., will be a very im
portant one, and it is hoped that
it will be the beginning of an era,
of “Progressive South Carolina.”
The committee is working hard to
arrange an attractive meeting, and
it is thought that the capitol will
be taxed to hold the assemblage.
Coming as it does, just at the time
that the Federal Government has
the matter of a moritorium on In
ternational debts, the efftarts of the
league may be renewed in getting
a suspension of foreclosures on
faim lands in America. The league
petitioned the congress in 1930 for
such, a* a temporary relief to agri
culture, but no action was taken.
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The Allston Avenue
•i Our Fourth of July Goes 'Round the World— ■= fiy Albert T Reid
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Mrs. Robert Perryman
Victim Of Auto Crash
HER HUSBAND AND MISS RUTH
PERRYMAN AND L RICH
ARDSON ALSO HURT
Mrs. Bessie Holloway Perryman,
wife of Robert Perryman, was fat-
JJy injured in an automobile wreck
lear Alvcrd, Texas, last Thursday
fi-ernoon when the car in which
hey were riding collided with an
3ii truck on a bridge.
Her husband was internally in
jured and : .s hi a hospital at Deca-
ur, Texas, while his 14-year-old
sister, Ruth Perryman, and Alec
Richardson, were less seriously in-
"•zred.
The car in which the Perrymans
were riding collided with an oil
truck and J. B. Hayes, driver of the
truck, aJsc was injured, but not se
riously.
Mrs. Perryman was 29 <years of
age and a native of Plum Branch,
• and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed.
R. Holloway. The party left Bor
deaux early Tuesday morning for
Beaumont, Texas, where they ex
pected to make their home.
Funeral services for Mrs. Perry
man' were conducted by the Rev.
O. L. Orr at Plum Branch Baptist
Church at 4 o’clock Tuesday after
noon and interment made in the
\
cemetery nearby. J. S. Strom’s
service in charge.
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Ouzts Family
Re-union July 25
WILL BE HELD AT McKENDRIE
CHURCH IN EDGEFIELD
COUNTY
The third annual reunion of the
Ouzts family is to be held at Mc-
Kendrie’s church, Edgefield Coun v -
ty, S. C., on Saturday, July 25tb.
It will be an all day meeting with
dinner on church grounds. Several
very prominent members from a
distance have been invited to make
short addresses which will be of in
terest to all.
All parties who were appointed
heretofore to write the history of
their line, one of the 12 sons and
daughters of Peter Ouzts, formerly
spelled Utz, are urged to be present
with their accounts ready, bring
ing photos of sons and wives from
whom they are descended for use
in the history book.
D. A. G. Ouzts, President, Green
wood, S. C.
Miss Flora Ouzts, Secretary,,
Pleasant Lane, S. C.
Mrs. Ruth O. Fooshe, Correspond
ing Secretary, McCormick, S. C.
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Watch The
Boll Weevil
Motor Drivers Must
Carry Their License
HIGHWAY PATROL WILL BEGIN
ENFORCEMENT OF LAW ON
JULY 15TH
(By Wideman H. D. Club.)
Situated about 4 1-2 miles from
JcCormick cn the Abbeville-Mc-
’ormick highway is the historical
dantation of Thomas Pettigrew.
Tiere is an avenue about one mile
mg of white oaks that were set
>y Mr. Pettigrew, and these were
rown from acorns planted by him.
[is reason for planting h^s acorns
ras that he had set out trees
lany times and they would die, so
o make them easy to replant he
text planted about 1-16 of an acre
f acorns, and when these grew up
o size to transplant he had a Mr.
ruilfoye of the lower country, who
fas an Irishman, to come and set
he trees, and look after them in
eneral.
He gave Mr. Guilfoye a home
here on his plantation, and he did
[is work well, for the trees lived,
nd today there is no lovlier place
han this Avenue of White Oaks.
Tiere is also a grove of trees left
fhere the acorns were planted and
l is worth any one’s time to take
his beautiful drive and see the
>vely avenue, grove, and old Petti-
rew settlement, or as it is known
low as “The Joseph N. Allston
dace,” or sometime known as
Bad Well” due to the attempt to
ig wells and each time falling and
hereby being “Bad Wells.” How-
ver, the water situation was solv-
d when they resorted to a spring,
hat was enclosed by a rock house,
nd near the spring is the sun dial.
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The person who is able to fathom
fhy weeds grow faster than grass
r garden vegetables, will solve one
| life’s greatest mysteries. )
COLUMBIA, Tune 30.—Beginning
July 15th the Highway Patrol will
commence the enforcement of the
law which provides that every per
son operating a motor vehicle in
the State must carry a driver’s
license.
Ownership of a license to operate
a motor vehicle is not sufficient,
according to the interpretation of
the law. Immediate possession of
the license is what is desired, and
during the campaign for its en
forcement many persons may be
stopped 1 and requested to produce
the license for inspection by the
Highway Patrolman.
The entire force of the highway
police is being instructed to exer
cise their best judgment in all
cases where a driver of a motor
vehicle claims to have a Driver’s
License, but not on his or her per
son. But, beginning July 15th, a
rigid enforcement of the law will
be made.
It is not only necessary to carry
the Driver’s License when traveling
the highways of South Caro-
iina, but when travelng through
other states, also. Persons who
plan to travel this summer to oth
er sections of%he country are cau
tioned to have their licenses with
ihem.
The highway patrol is becoming
more vigilant daily; and, although
it is not primarily a vigilante group
it is proving to be a great educat
ing force in instructing drivers to
be more careful, and in appre
hending such violators of the high
way laws as are a menace to life
and property.
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Meeting Of White Trucks Must Display
Plans Being Made
For Summer Meeting
STUDY FIELDS AND FIGHT PEST
WHEN CONDITIONS WARRANT
CLEMSON COLLEGE, June 30.—
An average of 61 adult weevils per
acre was counted and square in-
Long Cane Church ! festat t i0 " w f found f r “ s "
O | zero to 55.8 per cent, the highest
per centage of infested squares be-
Town H. D. Club
JULY MEETING TO BE WITH
MRS. HARRY REAM
r Tl~i^ T irrVitc ^ C ELEBRATE SESQUICEN- in g no ^ ec j j n Bamberg and Orange-
1 tie rroper ognts temn-jal of organization burK ccunties and the , owest iR
OF CHURCH ON AUGUST 1ST Aiken and Calhoun, by members of
the South Carolina Experiment
Station staff between June 22 and
June 26, inclusive, when nearly 40,-
GOO plants were examined for
The White Town H. D. Club met!
at the home of Mrs. Ethan White
NEW RULES RELATED BY CHIEF
OF LAV/ ENFORCEMENT
DEPARTMENT
Plans are being made for a sum
mer meeting at Long Cane, begin
ning Friday, July 31st, at 11 a. :n.
COLUMBIA, June 30.—A new set Rev. N. Kennedy, D. D„ of
on Friday, June 19. with fifteen of rules and regulations providing j Mooresvilie, N. C., is to assist the
weevils in 93 Costal and Piedmont
fields and infestation counts v/ere
members present and five visitors.
We are very glad to have visitors,
especially from other clubs, and we
invite them to meet again with us.
We are also glad to have one new
member, Mrs. R. H. Wideman.
No special program was planned,-
but Mrs. Ethan White, our presi
dent, gave us a brief sketch of all
the programs that she attended at
the State Short Course at Win-
throp. We enjoyed the splendid
talk and we all wished that wc
could have gone too.
Mrs. Stallworth’s subject was
“Plant Identification.” She brought
with her several branches of plants
and asked the club to. identify
them. We found it rather diffi
cult and realized that we needed
to learn, more about identification
of plants.
Delicious cake and punch were
served by two 4-H Club girls. The
club will meet with Mrs. Harry
Ream for our July meeting. #
IXt
Navy Will Spend.
More In Building
11 DESTROYERS TO BE START
ED SOON
for the proper lighting of motor pastor. Dr. Kennedy was born and made in 2 6 fields in Aiken, Bam-
Court Adjourned
WASHINGTON, June 27.—The
amount called for in naval con
struction under way today totals
more than $150,000,000 and the
navy is making ready to let con-
| tracts which will raise it above
$200,000,000.
Estimates from both coasts are
expected on the 11 destroyers
T due to be started next. These—
N -Lrfdbt U rlilcty costin g $4 000,000 to $5,000,000 each
;—were authorized in 1916, but con-
The only cases tried in cout here gress failed to appropriate funds
since The Messenger’s report last for beginning work until the last
Thursday were Heath, Bolster & session.
Turner vs. W. C. Strom, in which Seven 8-inch gun cruisers at
the jury found for the defendant, $17,000,000 each are in various
W. C. Strom; and the case of Mrs. stages of construction, as well as
Janie Bell Rush vs. Gulf Refining a $19,000,000 aircraft carrier and
Company and R. L. Faulkner. The three submarines at $5,000,000;
court held that Gulf Refining Com- $4,400,000 and $3,297,000.
pany could not be made a party to The United States is building
the suit, which left Mr. Faulkner j no new battleships as it already
as sole defendant. The jury found | has the 15 allowed under the
for the defendant, R. L. Faulkner, London naval treaty. But $30,-
is
Friday afternoon, after which the
court adjourned the term.
000,000 worth of modernizing
to be done on three of them.
trucks has been promulgated by
The State Highway Department,
according to a memorandum issued
by Sam E. Owen, Jr., chief of law
enforcement of the department.
The rules are an interpretation
of an act of the Legislature on the
same subject. According to i^, all
motor trucks rated and hauling
less than two tons are not affected
by it.
The following are the new rules:
Every truck with trailer must
carry on each of foremost corners
of truck, one green light; on rear
of truck, a red light; on rear of
trailer, a reflector or red light; and
a red light on each of the extreme
corners.
All trucks of two-ton or greater
capacity when operated without
trailer must have one green light
on each foremost corner and one
red light on each extreme rear cor
ner, which is in addition to the us
ual red tail light and two head
lights.
AH ights above required must be
isible for a distance of at least one
cundred yards.
Trucks of less than two tons
,*/hen operating without trailer will
not be required to carry two red
lights on extreme rear corners.
Where the word “light” is used
—it means light and not reflector.
Vehicles affected by the above
Act are not exempt even thqugh
they operate entirely in cities and
lowns.
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Schedule Of Home
Demonstration Work
For Next Week
partly xeared in the Long Cane Calhoun, and Orangeburg
community. ! counties .
On Saturday, August 1, the eon- j wMte both the number of weevils
gregaticn hopes lO celebrate the p er acre and S q Uare infestation
sesquicentennial of the organiza
tion of Long Cane Church.
The following have been asked
are relatively high, it is impossible
to state with certainty their effect
upon subsequent production, says
lo take part in the exercises. Dr. Dnggtor -H* W. Barre, under whose
R. F. Bradley, Troy, S. C.; Dr. S. L
Morris, Atlanta., Ga.; Dr. E. B. Ken
nedy, Due West, S. C.; Dr. I. N.
Kennedy, Mooresville, N. C.; Mrs. J.
C. K.Uigh, Abbeville, S.- C.; and Mrs.
Katie P. Flenniken, Winnsboro, S.
C..
All these have had a part in
making the history of the church.
direction these studies are made.
Much will depend upon weather
conditions. A further decline uW
weevil activity may be expected
if the hot dry weather of the past
week continues. On the other
hand, if cloudy or wet weather fel
lows the threat of damage will be
greatly increased. Under these
A basket dinner will be served dm- conditions, farmers can do nothing
ing the .recess hour. We want tjj^ e ^ er than keep a constant watch.
upon their fields and apply con
trol measures when and where the
conditions warrant.
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Cotton Acreage
Estimated Cut Six
To Ten Per Cent
Monday—July 6, morning at of
fice; afternoon, 4-H Picnic for
Grammar School, Jr., and Sr.
Tuesday—July 7, Plum Branch
4-H club 9:30 a. m.; afternoon
Bethany H. D. Club, 3:30 at home
of Mrs. R. H. Quarles.
Wednesday—July 8, High School
8th Grade 4-H Club, 9:30 a. m.;
afternoon, Fairfield H. D. Club 3:30
Thursday—July 9, Dowtin H. D.
Club 3:30 p. m.
Friday—July 10, Meriwether H.
D. Club, 3:30 p. m.
Saturday—July 11, office.
make this a home-coming for th
many who are interested in thi?
eld church that has lived and serv
ed for 150 years.
W. C. KERR,
Minister.
Gardner W. Davis
CLINTON, June 23. — Gardner
Wilson Davis, 24, died at the hom:
of his father-in-law, Ed GarreiL, oi
Lydia Mill, today after an illness it
six months.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mar;
Garrett Davis, three children. Julia
Jane and Jack, and his father, Mr
Davis of Kanapolis, N. C.
Funeral services will be held a i due less fertilizer, would
Sandy Springs Methodist church to some extent be offset by the
Wednesday afternoon at ^ oeioci. probability of more normal weath-
er in the Western section,
the j Trade estimates of reduCtioiL
have been about 10 per cent.
| The association, the national
sales agency for Southern co-op
eratives today elected U. B. Ela-
WASHTNGTON. June 27.—A re
duction in cotton acreage of be
tween 6 and 10 per cent has been
estimated by the American Cotton
Co-operative association for this
year.
C. O. Moser, vice-president and
secretary, sc,id Friday reductions
in acreage yield in the Eastern.
the Rev. Mr. Anderson officiating
Intel men t will be made in
church cemetery.
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The Peoples Bank
To Observe Monday l0< * of Raleigh ’ c - ?^ esiclcnt
1 ^ at its annual meetmg at the farm
board’s offices.
CLOSES FOR THE DAY ALONG, The meeting of the Cotton Sta-
WITH OTHER INSTITUTIONS bilization corporation, which was
OF THE TOWN f 0 have been held at the same
time, was postponed.
As Monday, July 6th, is to be ob
served by the merchants and other
business men of McCormick, in
stead cf July 4th, The Peoples Bank
will be closed on Monday, July 6th,
in observance of the holiday.
P. G. FOOSHE,
Cashier.
Policies for the next crop were
discussed. Moser said no decision:,
would be reached at this meeting:
on the amount of financing re
quired from the board. A decis
ion on sales policy for next year
on stabilization cotton will net bff
made until about August 1.