McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, August 27, 1931, Image 2
A
Thursday, August 27, 1931
McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA
PAGE NUMBER TWO
FIDDLERS’..
MONDAY NIGDT, ADG. 31
Col. Strother Is 88
years of age and has
been playing the fid
dle since he v^as 6
years old, which gives
him 82 years’ experi
ence as a violinist.
Despite his advanced
age, he is very active
and jovial, and has
agreed to not only
play his violin in this
convention, but also
to do a little “buck”
dancing. He repre
sented his county in
the legislature several
terms, and is widely
known and dearly be
loved throughout the
State of Georgia.
COL. A. E. “BABE” STROTHER
An old time Fiddlers* Convention will be staged
at McCormick on Monday Night, August 31, 1931, at
McCormick High School Building.
All the leading musicians of this section are ex
pected to be here. As a special feature. Colonel
A. E. “Babe” Strother and Mr. S. E. G. Hardaway of
Lincoln County, Ga., will be with us on this occasion.
Mr. John Turnage, the nifty musician from the Beth
any neighborhood, will also be here to give several
renditions.
The Wiliington-Mt. Carmel Band, The Winn-
Seigler Band and the Wilkie Band, all of McCor
mick County and the Strother Band of Lincoln Coun
ty, Ga., will liven up the contest with good music.
The music will start strictly .at 8 o’clock and last
for two hours. A small admission fee will be charg
ed. A part of the proceeds go to the McCormick
High School. The admission charges will be 10, 15
and 25 cents.
Everybody should come and help us make this
the best convention we have ever had.
Buck Dancing will be done by S. E. G. Hard
away, Joe Strother, Arch Tittle, G. A. Talbert, J. L.
Strother, Joseph Holloway, George P. Watkins and
others.
W. O. GRAVES v Manager,
F. C. ROBINSON, Sec. and Treas.
ALL IN?
Lost your pep? Feel tired and draggy?
You need a good tonic to tone up your system. We
have several good ones, any of which will “turn the trick.”
We can advise you which one will be best for your par
ticular case.
Start in new! Don’t wait longer, start in now with a
good tonic and complete the treatment for such a con
dition may result in further trouble although it is not
serious now.
STROMS’ DRUG STORE
MAIN STREET
McCORMICK. S. C.
tdm&mtms
By ERNEST CAMP JR
Experience Service Facilities
Those are the important things in measuring the worth
of a funeral director, and should be borne in mind when
you have occasion to choose one
DISTANCE IS NO HINDRANCE TO OUR SERVICE
and there is no additional charge for service out of town
J. S. STROM
Main Street McCormick, S. C.
GET YOUR MOWER REPAIRS
now, as the time for using the mower
will soon be here. We have what you
need in this line, and our prices are
reasonable.
WHITE H ARDWARE CO.
MAIN STREET.
McCORMICK, S. C.
NEW YORK PRISONERS
Small towns, with . their one-
cell “hoose-gows” in which tramps
are the usual inmates for a one-
night sojourn think of New York
as a terrible place, with its many
thousands of prisoners. These men
are held in police stations, the no
torious Tombs, where Harry Thaw
was held for many months of his
trial, the old Blackwell’s Island, in
the East River where sentences ov-
.r a month and less than a year
are served, and many other houses
of detention.
Two Federal prisons are also lo
cated in the city, Governor’s Is
land, where soldiers and sailors un
der sentence are immured, and
Fort Wadsworth, which ranks with
Leavenworth and Atlanta, although
very much smaller. There is also
the Federal House of Detention, at
West and Eleventh Streets, where
men are held for trial.
NO CONVERSATIONALISTS
Fort Wadsworth, which has been
used as a Federal prison for only
a year, recently has been under
fire in the newspapers. Charges
were openly made that millionaire
convicts had paid various sums
ranging from $500 to $1,000 to be
transferred from the gruelling hot
penitentiaries at Atlanta and
Leavenworth to the cool confines
of the jail located at the Narrows.
A trip there to uncover the truth
of such charges netted practically
nothing as far as official informa
tion goes. Everybody at the love
ly fort refused to give out the
slightest bit of information. They
even declined, pleasantly enough,
to discuss what uniforms the in
mates were forced to wear, al
though one could see it consists of
a white broadcloth shirt, well
laundered, and a pair of well-made
blue trousers.
The only admission vouchsafed
was that the place was run as an
honor farm. The men were free
to come and go within the confines
of the quadrangle, which comprises
about three acres of beautifully
kept gardens tended by the men.
There seemed to be no locks and
bars, although we did not get to
see the cells.
NO ESCAPES
The records show there have
been practically no escapes from
the fort in the year it has been
used as a prison. The guards, one
can readily see, carry no firearms
and could be overpowered by the
men who outnumber them one
hundred to one.
Instead, there is a lack of any
seeming restraint. For instance,
one of the guards wanted the
chairs in which the convicts had
been sunning themselves taken
back into the building, and we ex
pected to hear a sharp order. What
we actually heard was this:
“Some of <you fellows hustle
those chairs inside, please.”
The prisoners nearest to empty
chairs merely picked them up and
they melted out of sight in an in
stant. It all looked like a scene
at a barn dance when the floor is
cleared for dancing. Just one man
to another.
NOT ANY SOFT. SNAP
Whatever truth there may be in
the report prisoners paid to be sent
to Fort Wadsworth from other hot
prisons, there cannot be any idea
the place is a summer resort. In
the day time the breezes are balmy,
the scenes of New York Bay beau
tiful, and the surroundings de
lightful. But the hidden hand ?.s
present.
All mail and packages are cen
sored; prisoners are allowed to re
ceive their famUies and friends
only in the public room, and then
only at stated intervals. Para
phrasing the soldier’s army slo
gan during the war, “They’re in
the prison now!”
Studying the nen, one was dis
turbed by the hang-dog expressions
on their faces, the lagging walk,
the lack of ambition. One prison
er alone showed signs of mental
activity. We observed him fur
tively watching us from a distance.
His expression was that of a snar
ling wolf behind bars. It made us
sorry the guards were so noncom-
municative as we would have liked
to learn what he was serving time
for.
Maybe he had crashed a national
bank; or headed a rum running
fleet; or was a notorious forger.
Beyond question, he was a man of
Supervisor’s Monthly Report of Expenditures! O A T - S N A P
A
LIST OF CLAIMS PAID BY a WE SUPERVISOR OF McCORMICK
COUNTY JUNE 1, 1931
Claim
10842
10843
10844
10845
10846
1G847
10848
10849
10850
10851
10852
10853
10854
10855
10856
10857
10858
10859
10860
No. Payee Purpose
W. O. Graves, Salary
W. T. Strom, Salary
J. T. Fooshe, Salary
R. N. Edmunds. Salary
C. C. Morgan, Salary
. T. J. Price, Salary
C. W. Pennal. Salary
L. G. Bell, Salary
J. A. Talbert, Saiary
W. L. Brown, Salary
J. O. Patterson, Salary
M. L. B. Sturkey, Salary
W. H. Parks, Salary
Joseph Murray, Salary
H. C. Walker, Salary
Jess Remsen, Salary
John Creswell, Salary
Geo. P. Watkins, Salary
County Pension Fund, Support of Poor:
WHITE
Miss Lou White
Miss Carrie Freeland
Mrs. Mary Carroll
Martha Turnage
Mary Ferqueron
Julia Davis
Miranda Holsenback
Emily Wideman
Sally Wideman
Ella Stroud
Jno. P. Wideman
O. D. White
Buck Tramel
Jim Turnage
Mrs. Fannie Scott
10861
10862
10863
10864
10865
10866
10867
10868
10869
1G870
10871
10872
10873
10874
10875
10876
10877
10878
10879
10880
10881
10882
10883
10884
10885
10886
10887
10888
10889
10890
10891
10892
10893
10894
10895
10896
10897
10898
10899
10900
10901
10902
10903
10904
10905
10906
10907
10908
10909
10910
10911
10912
10913
10914
10915
10916
5.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
5.0u
5.00
5.00
5.00
TOTAL
NEGROES
Victoria Tolbert
Delsie Goode
Miller Harmon
Milton Garrett
Herbert Williams
Jack Bradley
Caroline Green
Tildy Sheppard
Ann Marshall
Morriah Bussey
Jim Anderson
Amy Edmunds
Polly Elmore
Alex Calhoun
Pomp Mathews
Lucy Martin
John Moore
Anna Collier
Georgia Callahan
Will Holloway
Lee Tolbert
Jane Yeldell
Steve and Rosa Pullian
Ed and Ella Rayford
Fredd Garret
Geo. Zinnerman
Walker Callahan
TOTAL
75.00
3.00
3.00
3.00
3.00
3.00
3.00
3.00
3.00
3.00
3.00
3.00
3.00
3.00
3.00
3.00
3.00
3.00
3.00
. 3.00
3.00
3.00
3.00
5.00
5.00
3.00
3.00
3.00
85.00
J. O. Patterson, clerk, Postage
Pipkin’s Drug Store, Supplies
J. K. Ivey, work on court house plumbing
T. J. Price, Treasurer, 3 notes Sinking Fund Com. .
W. N. Edmunds, Supplies
Continental Telephone Co., Rents
W. O. Graves, Expense Account
W. A. Neal & Son, Interest
Jeff Hunt Road Machinery Co. Interest
W. K. Charles, Agent, Premium W. H. Parks Bona .
P. G. Fooshe Ins. Agency, J. T. Fooshe Bond
F. A. Wise, Premium on Bond M. L. B. Sturkey
R. A. Price, Operation of Ferry
W. S. Hall, Lumber
Patterson Clothing Co., Supplies
Geo. P. Watkins, Supplies
A. V. Morgan, Supplies
J. T. Martin, Supplies
Gulf Refining Co., Gas and Oil
T. M. Dorn, Supplies
J. C. Drennan, Labor
R. ET L. Campbell, Supplies
T. Howard Smith, Supplies
Standard Oil Co., Gas and Oil
Gulf Service Station, Supplies
W.' G. Huguley, Supplies
J. Butler Blackwell, Supplies
R. A. Price, Supplies
Stantex Service Station, Supplies
H. Drucker, Supplies
Charley Wall, Labor
S. H. Talbert, Work on Bridge for School Truck
J. B. Smith, Supplies
Stroms Drug Store, Supplies
Commissioners of Public Works, 2 months
J. S. Strom, Support for poor
L. G. Bell, Lunacy Exam.
J. W. Britt, Wood
J. L. Smith, Supplies
J. O. Hemminger, Coffin for Sophie Hazel
Brown & Son
Dr. J. V. Tate, Lunacy Exam.
W. O. Covin, Supplies
W. O. Graves, Expense Acct. Oct. 1930
J. B. Harmon & Co. Supp -
J. A. Christian, Work on Jail
M. G. & J. J. Dorn, Office Rent (Jo. * mens.
Dr. Garnett Tuten, Med. Service
J. M. Brown, M. D., Prof. Ser.
White Hardware Co. Supplies
Miss Lillian Burnside, Steno. Work
McGrath Bros., Supplies for Co. Ch. Gang
Merrit Gro. Co., Supplies
McCormick Ser. Sta. Supplies
T. J. Price, Int. on Bonds
T. J. Price, Treas., Jurors and Wit.
TOTAL
Amount
$ 100.00
100.00
100.00
12.53
12.50
52.22
n*> r*r,
20.83
±1.0 <
33.33
35.00
8.33
70.83
16.68
33.33
25.00
65.00
30.00
160.00
14.50
19.00
8.00
45,385.44
13.48
23.35
2.00
282.66
107.67
2U.00
40.00
6.00
12.00
8.22
84.75
21.82
4.62
3.25
318.34
1.65
12.00
6.26
13.00
5oo.o *
31.60
230.34
161.03
4.45
51.81
11.05
J.U.40
5.50
15.25
12.10
52.52
13.50
10.00
5.25
54.12
in no
26.48
10.00
8.80
23 06
29 S' 1
2.00
32.00
40.00
30.50
75.75
7.50
415.04
114.24
o-i.n
5,193.44
825.95
$ 55,337.16
high mental attainments.
AN ANTIOSOCIAL DEDUCTION
Sizing up the convicts as a body
forced the deduction that they
'ormed a splendid body of men.
They averaged away up in intelli-
; gence and social graces. In their
! well-kept “uniforms,” they looked
like men at a tennis match or
yachting event.
* Some of the younger men were
handsome. Real heart-breakers.
Ve saw one of these young chaps
:aking leave of a girl, at the end
if the public reception hour. They
clung to each other, sobbing piti
fully, utterly oblivious to the con-
/icts around them.
A desirable summer resort say
the critics. Oh, Yeah!
X
Cold Drinks
For Hot Days
,K1LLS RATS
Also mice. Absolutely prevents;
odors from carcass. One package
proves this. RAT-SNAP comes in
cakes—no mixing with other foocL
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.
'? r
6 EN0‘*1
- PHILIPS-1
* (ffi;
For Troubles
due to Acid
INDIGESTION
ACID STOMAJN
heartburn ^
headache I
CASES-NAUS£A
When^^ 31
Bain
Comes
IYTHATmany people call indigestion
W very often means excess acid in
;he stomach. The stomach nerves have-
>een over-stimulated, and food sours..
The corrective is an alkali, which quickly
leutralizes acids. And the best alkali
mown to medical science is Phillips;
vlilk of Magnesia.
One spoonful of this harmless, taste-
ess alkali neutralizes instantly many
imes as much harmful acid, and then
ihe symptoms disappear at once. You
will never use crude methods when once
?ou learn the efficiency of this. Go get
i small bottle to try.
Get the genuine Phillips Milk of
Magnesia, the kind physicians have
prescribed for 50 years in correcting
;xcess acids. 25c and 50c a bottle—any
irugstore.
ILLS RATS
and mice—that’s RAT-SNAP, the
old reliable rodent destroyer. Comes
in cakes—no mixing with other
food. Your money back if it fails.
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.
Professional Card
W. K. CHARLES
Attorney-At-Law
office, Farmers Bank Building
Days at McCormick
WEDNESDAYS and SATURDAYS \
ALL LIGHT CARS
$6.65
WHITTLE BATTERY
SERVICE
622 BROAD PHONE 1166
AUGUSTA. GA.
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT
AND DISCHARGE
In warm weather keep materials
on hand for quickly mixing up re-
or bottle of sugar sirup for sweet-
freshing cool drinks. Make a jar
ening. This is better than using
granulated sugar, which dissolves
slowly in cold Uquids. Boil togeth
er one cup of sugar and one cup
of water for about five minutes.
Cool and bottle. Liquids from can
ned or stewed fruits are also use
ful in fruit drinks and add to the
sweetness. Cold strong tea may
be added to any fruit punch.
Cold coffee, poured promptly off
the grounds while still fresh, makes
a delicious cold drink for adults.
Ginger ale and other carbonated
waters may be mixed with fruit
juices to give zip and sparkle to
ohem. Oranges and lemons always
form the basis of good refreshing
summer drinks—also the juice of
red raspberries. The juice of can
ned pineapple is an addition to any
fruit beverage. Do not try to keep
lemon or orange juice on hand,
however. Keep the whole fruit,
and'squeeze it as needed
Notice is hereby given that we,
3. A. Traylor and J. O. Patterson,
is Administrators of the Estates of
Or. O. A. Traylor and M. T. Tray
lor, will at 10 o’clock a. m., on Fri
day, August 28, 1931, file with L. G.
Bell, Probate Judge in and for the
County of McCormick, South Caro^-
lina, at his office at the court
house in McCormick, S. C., our fin
al account as such administrators
and will then and thereupon ask:
for final discharge as such admin
istrators.
All parties holding claims against
said estates are hereby required to
present them, properly attested, on?
or before said date, or be forever
debarred payment. All owing eith
er estate will please make settle
ment with undersigned on or be
fore said date.
G. A. TRAYLOR, M. D.„
Augusta, Ga.,
J. O. PATTERSON,
McCormick, S. C.,
Administrators of the Estates of Dr.
O. A. Traylor and M. T. Traylor.
McCormick, S..C., i
July 28,-1931.-4$. f l