Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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/ Thurcday, August 13, 1931 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA . i * * PAGE NUMBER SEVEN ^SRtJC LOOK AT THE AVERAGE One of my friends, who now occupies a high position, started life as a salesman for the National Cash Register Company. He thought that if he could sell cash registers to Marshall Field it wo\*W be a big feather in his cap, and the example of this leading would have influence with smaller merchants all over the coun try. So he called at Field’s and made his talk, but received no encourage ment. The next year he called again . . . and the next . . . and the next. The tenth year he came away with an order for $150,000. In telling me about it, he remarked:- “I said to myself, that’s $15,000 worth of business for each of the ten years. Not a bad average at all.” In 1929, when stock prices were crashing and even the richest :nen were feeling poor, a New York banker met a capitalist whose fortune, on paper, had shrunk many million dollars. He was in a blue funk. The banker said: “You- ought to have learned better than this. Don’t you remember back in 1920 how worried you were, and how you sent for me to reassure you? Even at present prices you must be worth ten times what you were then. If so, your average is mighty good. What are you kicking about?” A young man and young woman were, married. After the ceremony the bride’s father, a veteran business man who had fought hard for his fortune, took them into his study. “I want to say just one thing to you,” he remarked. “You must not expect that all your years will be good. You’ll go along for a while without seeming to get ahead, but at the end of every year you’ll own a little more furniture and have a few more dollars in the bank. Then there v/ill come a year some time when you’ll have a stroke of luck and make a lot of progress. You must expect to average the good with the bad.” It seems to me that much of the worry and fretting in life grow out of the fact that people do not take a long enough look. Every human life, at some point, has seemed handicapped and doom ed to disappointment. At forty, Henry Ford had never saved a cent. At forty-five, Lincoln was a disappointed politician. For twenty-five years, Charles Darwin worked day after day without the slightest recognition. Then, for v each of them, there came a few great years that amply made up for all the rest. The law of compensation works for those who keep their industry and their faith. Those who quit under discouragement are selling out at the bottom. For a majority of courageous lives, taking all the years together, the average is good.’ WHEN BABIES pi p^ pi _ THERE are times when f I? a baby is too fretful or feverish to be sung to sleep. There are some pains a mother cannot pat away. But there’s quick comfort in Castoria! For diarrhea, and other infantile ills, give this pure vegetable preparation. Whenever coated tongues tell of consti pation; whenever there’s any sign of sluggishness. Castoria has a good taste; children love to take ii. Buy the gen uine—with Chas. H. Fletcher’s signature on wrapper. Eyes examin ed. Spectacles, Eye Glasses, and Artificial £yes fitted without t Drugs, Drops or Danger. DR. HENRY J. GODIN Optometrist! •56 Broad Street Augusta. Ga Fishermans Luck By. Albert T. Reid Ik NO ONE To %S\VEAR. T© /THE TRUTH M T C C-A* S T E, Alligator Killed Near Branchville AUGUSTANS BRING NINE FOOT REPTILE IN; SHOT BY A. L. MORAGNE (By L. K. S. in Augusta Chrcnicl^ of August S.) Professional Card W. K. CHARLES Attorney-At-Law office. Farmers Bank Building Days at McCormick WEDNESDAYS and SATURDAYS What would you do if you saw an alligator walking down the road? Most people would decide chat the time had come to sign the pledge and swear off for a year at least. Well, when A. L. Moragne, mail carrier between here and Branch ville and his two special messen gers, Dewey Wilson and B. L. Pague met one they knew that they were cold sober, so they shot Mr. Alliga tor and brought the remains to Au gusta. They stopped in front of The Chronicle building where a good sized crowd gathered, attracted by the unusual sight of the dead alli gator and also by an enormous Great Dane dog that Mr. Moragne had with him. The dog was as big as a calf and was tawny colored and striped like a tiger. In fact it might perfectly well have passed for a cross between a cow and a tiger. But the alligator couldn’t have passed for anything but an alliga tor. It was nine feet long and a tough looking customer. Mr. Mor agne says it was walking across the road, just like any other jay walker, and it met the fate that many a jay walker meets, only in another way. They shot him. It was about ten miles this side of Branchville. When asked what he was going to do with him, Mr. Moragne said he was going to skin him, but he added that some people said that the tail made fine steaks. No one in the crowd put in a bid for a slice. Alligator hides make fine suit cases and are used for belts sometimes. It seems that there are quite a few of the big creatures near Branchville. Bill Morris says that he has shot them. Perhaps there is an industry that has been over looked in this section. Last year a curious thing hap pened out at Forrest Hills. When the Mr. and Mrs. Joe Campbell were clearing the ground for their house on Comfort drive they found a baby alligator in the bushes one morning. It has neyter been ac counted for. When a man sees an alligator on the top of a high hill and miles from a "spring at 10 o’clock in the morning, he knows that he is seeing an alligator, and he naturally wonders ,,where it came from. With the fashion for lizard and snake skin shoes, why couldn’t baby alligators be used for the purpose, and if some of the pools around Augusta were to be stocked with them it might start an infant industry . They might eat up the larvae of the mosquitos and help to stamp out the malaria. Perhaps some enterprising Au gustan will try it. tXt Mann Gets Clemency For Own Assailants Two Negroes Pull Flim-Flam Game GET $464.60 FROM SGZIE CAN- NON, COLORED — SHERIFF BLEASE MAKING SEARCH (Newberry Observer of August 7.) $0DDY CANT CATCH ME! WDDY CANT CATCH mb ! Ya-a-a. -A-A-A SIC ER. MAC mmmgsg COLUMBIA, Aug. 7.—Three men convicted of assault and battery with intent to kill on J. L. Mann, superintendent of the Greenville city schools and of carrying con cealed weapons, received suspend ed sentences today from Governor Blackwood. Mr. Mann requested clemency for the men in May, files on the case revealed. The three, Clarence L. Aber crombie, Shep Woods and Henry Allen, were convicted in Oconee county in July, 1929, and sentenced to serve three years. They were charged with running into the au tomobile of Mr. Mann and abus ing him, Mrs .Mann and the cou ple’s two children after the colli sion. The state claimed one of the men attempted to strike Mrs. Mann with a car crank. tXt First S. C. Bale Brings 12 Cents COLUMBIA, Aug. 5..—A. A. Rich ardson, state game warden, sold the first bale of cotton ginned in South Carolina this year for 12 cents a pound at an auction here today. The Joseph Walker Com pany, local cotton brokers, was highest bidder. Columbia spot cotton was quoted at 7.50 today. This is the sixth year that Mr. Richardson has ginned the year’s first bale in the state. Two negroes, posing as represen tatives of a large life insurance company of Washington, D. C., were successful in putting their game across in Newberry, Suzie Cannon, colored school teacher, be ing the victim. The two negroes, who were driv ing a Ford sedan, with two tires on the left fender, rolled into New berry last Tuesday asking about a certain Mattie Cannon. The negroes were carried to the home, where Suzie Cannon lived, Mattie Cannon her mother, being dead. The two negroes, purporting to be representatives of a large life' in surance company in Washington. D. C. r told Suzie that her brother who lived in Miami, Fla., prior to two years ago, and who died here about two years ago had left an in surance policy of $3,000.00, the money to go to Mattie Cannon or the youngest daughter Jiving. Since Mattie Cannon, the mother, was dead, Suzie Cannon, the youngest daughter, was to get the money. The negroes £ad several letters decorated with wax seals, and plenty of writing, which they showed to the victim, proving that they were real representatives of the company. They told Suzie that she would have to go to the bank with them, and have her banker identify her, so that they would know she was the one who should get the money. Suzie stated that she had her money in the postof fice whereby the negroes stated that the officials at the post off ice could Identify her. So off they went to the postof fice, and before they arrived the negtoes had convinced Suzie that she should draw the money out in order to help them put the policy through. This she did and they stated that since the Western Un ion telegraph office was closed (which was untrue) they would meet her the next morning at 3 o’clock and give her $1500.00, the remainder to be gotten at an early date. Suzie had drawn out her entire amount of savings,* $464.00, which the negroes took charge of and then left town. Sheriff Cannon Blease was call ed early Wednesday morning, after Suzie had realized she was the vic tim of a flim-flam game. Sheriff Blease is searching for the negroes. About the only description of the negroes, with the exception of the car they were driving, which Sheriff Blease has, is that they were black negroes, which isn’t any too specific. Everything that can possibly be done to catch the negroes is being done. AFTER 40 bowel trouble Constipation may very easily become chronic after forty. And any con inued constipation at tnat time of life may bring attacks of piles and a host of other unpleasant disorders. Watch your bowels at any age. Guard them with particular care after forty. Whenever they need any help, remember a doctor should know what is best for them. “Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin” is a doctor's prescription for the bowels. Tested by 47 years* practice, it has been found thoroughly effective in relieving consti pation and its ills for men, women and children of all ages. It has proven perfectly safe even for babies. Made from fresh laxative herbs, pure pepsin and other harmless ingredients, it cannot gripe; Will not sicken you or weaken you; can be used without harm as often as your breath is bad, or when your tongue is coated; whenever a headachy, bilious, gassy condition warns of constipation. » Dr. \V. B Caldwell’s ^ SYRUP PEPSIIM • A Doctor's Family Laxative NO MORE 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. Guaranteed. 35c size - 1 cake - enough for Pantry, Kitchen or Cellar. 65c size - 2 cakes - for Chicken House, coops, or small buildings. $1.25 size - 5 cakes - enough for all farm and out-buildings, storage buildings, or factory buildings. Sold and guaranteed by STROMS’ DRUG STORE McCormick. S. C. LEGAL NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT AND DISCHARGE Limit Is Seen For Road Work Fund HEARON SAYS $40,000,000 $65,000,000 ISSUE TO BE ENOUGH OF Notice is hereby given that we, G. A. Traylor and J. O. Patterson, as Administrators of the Estates <?f Dr. O. A. Traylor and M. T. Tray lor, will at 10 o’clock a. m., on Fri day, August 28, 1931, file with L. G. Bell, Probate Judge in and for the County of McCormick, South Caro lina, at his office at the court house in McCormick, S. C., our fin al account as such administrators and will then and thereupon ask for final discharge as such admin istrators. All parties holding claims against said estates are hereby required to present them, properly attested, on or before said date, or be forever debarred payment. All owing eith er estate will please make settle ment with undersigned on or be fore said date. G. A. TRAYLOR, M. D., Augusta, Ga., J. O. PATTERSON, ' , McCormick, S. C., Administrators of the Estates of Dr. O. A. Traylor and M. T. Traylo?. McCormick, S. C., July 28, 1931.—At. CITATION OF LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION SPARTANBURG, Aug. 7.—Char les O. Hearon, chairman of the, , , , , _ , state highway commission, believed!^ 6 s ™t tome to grant Mrs. Etta STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of McCormick, BY L. G. BELL, PROBATE JUDGE: WHEREAS, G. P. Scott, Jr„ has R. Scott, Letters of Administration of the Estate and effects of G. P. that when South Carolina has spent $40,000,000 in its $65,000,000 highway program, the state will have “an adequate system of con nected roads if proper attention is given to types.” , Mr. Hearon pointed out that ^ G- Scott, Sr., deceased, that construction costs are lower than be and appear before me m the Court of Probate, to be held THESE ARE, THEREFORE, to cite and admonish all and singular the Kindred and Creditors of thd when the general assembly passed the $5,000,000 bond act. at Court House on August 15th, When the state reached the | ^xt after publication hereof at. ‘10 o clock m the forenoon, to show $40,000,000 mark, he said yesterday in addressing a local luncheon club, it should “stop, look and listen.” HUMORETTES Slowboy—If I knew you better I’d kiss you. Miss Pepp—If you’d kiss me you’d know me better. Ts your husband hard on shoes?” “Very! I never dance with him unless I'm wearing a pair of old ones.” cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. GIVEN under my hand this 1st day of August, Anno Domini, f931. L. G. BELL, Probate Judge. ALL LIGHT CARS $6.65 .1 WHITTLE BATTERY ) SERVICE j 622 BROAD PHONE 1166 | AUGUSTA. GA. J