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THUS TO OUBSELVXS, OUE NEIGHBORS, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD. Thirtieth Year Established June 5, 1902 McCORMICK, S. C. Thursday, September 24, 1931 8 Pages — All Home Print Number 17 Jurors Drawn For October Term Court Petit jurors drawn to serve the first week of October term of court beginning Tuesday, October 6th, 1931, at 10 a. m., are: W. M. Talbert, McCormick. Joe H. Lyon, Plum Branch. W. Floyd Cothran, McCormick. D. A. Bell, McCormick. Jas. T. Dorn, McCormick. C. L.' Coleman. McCormick. N. Crate Brown, Plum Branch. W. J. Franklin, Willington. Walter Lawton, Willington. T. O. Young, Troy. W. H. Hamlin, McCormick. Rov Strother, Plum Branch. Ollie Wideman, McCormick. Arthur Shaprton, McCormick. W. R. Miner, Plum Branch. • E. D. Knight, McCormick. G. V. Shrine, Plum Branch. R. J. Mann, McCormick. W. E. Chamberlain, McCormick. J. A. Jennings, McCormick. Ernest Reese, Modoc. ' Arthur J. Hendrix, McCormick. J. Bruce Holloway, McCormick. Milton Wiley, McCormick. . P. S. Mayson, Troy. M. M. Marshall, Modoc. C. P. White, McCormick. T. B. Goff, Troy. Lee Holloway, McCormick. T. M. Henderson, McCormick. R. G. Killingsworth, McCormick. Zack Spence, McCormick. E. L. Hollingsworth, Jr., Troy. Clayt<m Newby, McCormick. Edgar B. Brown, McCormick. E. R. White, Plum Branch. x Tax Books To Open First Day October COMPTROLLER GENERAL SETS EXTENSION OF TIME UPON REQUEST OF AUDITOR Dates Given For Red Cross Work RED CROSS WORKERS IN THREE REGINOAL CONFERENCES TO PLAN ROLL CALL WASHINGTON, D. C., SepL 22 — Regional conferences of chapter workers are announced for South Carolina by the American Red Cross, as follows: Spartanburg, October 1; Orangeburg, October 2, and Darlington, October 5. The first two will be addressed by Dr. Thomas E. Green, of national head quarters, who will speak on ‘‘The Outlook After Fifty Years.” Will iam Carl Hunt, assistant manager of the Eastern area, will lead in discussion of roll call plans at all conferences of the series. Mrs. Ethel B. Matson, assistant national di rector of the Junior Red Ci*oss, will appear on each program to dis cuss the Junior Red Cross as “A Vital Factor in Citizenship Build- ing.” , , . Demonstrations in nome hygiene, first aid and life-saving methods will constitute features of* the Spartanburg meeting. Negro spir ituals will be sung by the State College quartette at the luncheon in Orangeburg. , „ Others who will appear before the general conferences or will par ticipate in round table discussions are as follows: Spartanburg — John D. Hamar, chairman, disaster preparedness committee, Spartanburg chapter; Dr. A. L. Gunter, former roll call chairman, Spartanburg; R. M. Hudgens, former chairman, Green ville county chapter; Dr. George B. Cromer, secretary, Newberry chap ter; Miss Belle Fuller, R. N., of Pacolet Mills; Dr. C. C. Norton, sociology department. Wofford Col lege; Miss Henrietta Browrtin«r, chairman, of life saving committee, Spartanburg chapter. Orangeburg — D. A. Gardner, Michigan Peach Queen Visits Hoover i : 4 :; I # State Fair Dates Are October 19-24 S. C. Game And Fish Association To Meet Virginia Aller, chosen queen at the peach festival in Romeo. Mich., pre sented two choice baskets of the fruit to the President Florida M ( an Canning Baptist Movement Meat Of Rattlesnake Well Under Wav „ , ... ' . chairman, Orangeburg chapter: Mr. C. W. Pennal, auditor, and Rev e. a. Burnz, roll call Mr. T. J. Price, treasurer, for Me- chairman, Orangeburg chapter; R. Cormick County, are in receipt of , H Jennings, Mayor of Orangeburg; the following letter extending the w E Henderson, chairman, Bam- GEO. K. END FINDS A MARKET EVERY CHURCH EXPECTED TO time for the opening of the tax books of the county from Septem ber 15th to October 1st : Gentlemen: WHEREAS, the County Auditor in the County of McCormick has requested an extension of time from September 15, 1931, for the purpose of opening books for the collection of taxes; and, WHEREAS, satisfactory reasons having been given for granting this • extension. IT IS ORDERED, under authority of Section 851, Volume 3, Code of Laws of 1922, that the time for op ening the books for the collection of taxes in McOormick County is hereby extended from September 15th, 1931, to the 1st day of Oc tober, 1931. The County Auditor will give due notice to taxpayers of the date on which the Treasurer’s books will be for- tbo collection of taxes. Given under my hand and seal thi* i rM first day of September, D., 1931. A. J. JBEATHE, Dller General. Ap ? Comptro roved: C. Blackwood - Gov. of South Carolina txt— Mrs. L. E. White Dies In Augusta BURIAL TODAY AT THE SEIGLER CEMETERY AT 2 O’CLOCK berg chapter; the Hon. Henry Sims, State senator, and Mrs. George E. Davis, chairman of local arrange ments committee. Darlington—Samuel Want, chair man, Darlington chapter/ the Rev. Bryce Herbert, chairman, George town chapter; Dr. O. A. Alexander, mavor of Darlington; Mrs. William Hickson, chairman, C h e r a w branch; Wells A. Sherman, of the United States Department of Agri culture; C. W. Coker, Hartsville, member of President Hoover’s drought relief committee; E. R. Mc- Iver, chairman, Florence chapter; L. D. Magrath, chairman, Horry county chapter; A. L. M. Wiggin, roll call chairman, Hartsville chap ter; Mrs. J. S. Ramsey, roll call chairman, Darlington chapter. 1 xi To Teach Forestry At Washington School NEW COURSE ADDED TO VOCA TIONAL AGRICULTURE AND STARTED BY MR. WOOTEN FOH DIAMOND BACK RATTLERS COMLETE ORGANIZATION BY OCTOBER 1ST Mr. J. W. Wilkins recently hand- x The Southern Baptist movement ed us a copy of The Florida Advo- for a South-wiae every member cate of Wauchula, Hardee County, j canvass for financial support of Florida, of date of September 4, i local church and denominational 1931, which carried the foltoBOoSH wofk is well under way in South article in column one of its front Carolina. The plan, as advanced by the South Carolina State Forest Ser vice for "the teaching of Forestry in connection with the Vocational Agriculture School of the Washing ton Consolidated High School, Parksville, McCormick County, has been completed and the oractical application will be started by W. H. Wooten, Vocational Agriculture Teacher, beginning with the fall school term. According to H. Y. Forsythe, Dis PLANS BEING MADE FOR BIG GEST AND BEST FAIR EVER HELD IN SOUTH CAROLINA Something brand new for Fairs in this State, and something cnac the officials believe will prove high ly popular with patrons will be the “Sensations of 1931.” an un-to-date musical Revue—with pretty girls and everything—which will be pre sented nightly at the State Fair, Columbia, October 19-24. Some measure of credit is due the nroducers of this Musical Show, as they are among the almost neg ligible number of metropolitan producers, who have maae a suc cess of open-air shows of its mag nitude and beauty. They have spent months in study of color schemes for Qostumes and scenery in order to determine what will best suiD conditions as they exist in the out- of-doors. Another thing has been gone into with great care and un derstanding in the selection cf singers, both for this chorus and the principals. Many golden voices that are ample for indoor singing fall far short when put to the open-air test. Volume alone is not a sufficient asset. It requires that certain something that only men experienced in selecting talent for the open-air can solve. Then there is that all important require ment—the construction of scenery that will withstand the weather elements and months of shifting about while in transit without los ing its beauty of* color and design. Everything in the “Sensations of 1931” will be new and different. All the costumes will be the newest creations of the metropolitian stage. Scenery of the most mod ern and brilliant designing has been especially built and is per fectly illuminated by a new port able system that flashes floods of light over the entire scene. • 1 XT. Rail Valuation Reduced 2]/} Pvt* SPARTANBURG HAS BIGGEST RAILWAY PROPERTY VALUES AT COLUMBIA OCTOBER 14 FOR PURPOSE OF FORMING STATE ORGANIZATION Mrs. Jamie White, wife of Mr. Luther White, died in an Augusta infirmary yesterday morning, fol lowing a long illness. She was 45 tr [ c £ Forester of the State Forest years of age and a Christian lady service and with headquarters in i^ b VfinPrn 0 i ?ervi^ Aiken, the purpose of the plan is to provide a definite outline of work Jb for the management of a specified fav*ineifbl pw* forest area over a ten-year period with the work done by the pupils Gurley and interment made hi the of Washington Consolidated | A Healthy Appetite j bf^barc^p J * S ’ - strom 5 School. The course is designed to with a view to covering only one h2 S bpr rWbir school in each county for the first T™o h brV^2 S rc K M^ ei T" year. In McCormick County the ^T^^bP^ftf^KTortb 0 A^f^nsta^^nrf* area selected to be placed under S-' forest management is the property Mr. Will Hughey of Columbia, and Mrs M p L an i c f 0r d > anc i j S i 0 _ one sister, Mrs. Bob West, of near ca t ec j along State Highway No. 20, J*ium uranen. __ —. about two miles south of Parksville between Parksville and Modoc. The total area as surveyed consists of , 10.2 acres and Comprises five dis- ; tinct land types, each to be given j separate treatment. ! The object of the course will be 14 o instruct punils in the better handling of woodlands in the farms ! including collection of forest tree j seeds, raising of forest tree seed- ! lings, planting of seedlings on idle 1 or incompletely stocked lands, thin- -nings, improvements cuttings, es timation of timber quantities, util- I Nation, marketing. co-operative ! forest protection, fire break con i' struction, and general fire control. Baptist Meeting At Willington Governor Roosevelt was forced to eat a New York peach at the State Fair. It's a tough life being a can didate. I r- » . — There will be services in the Will ington Baptist Church, beginning Monday night, September 28th, at 7-30 o’clock. Every one is invited to come. The Rev. O. W. Triplet of Seneca, S. C., will do the preach ing. . page and it is passed along to our readers just as it appeared in that paper. The paper, which is a weekly, has been running 31 years, and is published by Mrs. Geo. M. Goolsby. The article follows: A new industry has sprung up on the plains east of Arcadia: It is canning and marketing rattlesnake meat. Last Sunday afternoon an Advo cate reporter visited George K. End, who lives at Arcadia Gardens, about ten miles east of Arcadia, and heard from Mr. End himself of how he has launched a new in dustry on Florida’s horizon. It was several months ago that Mr. End became interested in this project. He and his wife had been canning all kinds of meats, vege tables, etc., at their home and one day their oldest son, Richard, brought in a rattlesnake. Mr. End helped the lad skin it and he no ticed the meat looked very white and pretty. He ate some and liked it. The American Legion was on in Tampa and Mr. End served some rattlesnake meat to ex-service men, being one of the Legionnaires him self. The ex-soldiers like it. Then followed a write-up in Time, the weekly news magazine. From this came several letters ask ing for the new delicacy. Since that time Mr. End has rhipoed rattlesnake meat to points in Oregon, California. Wisconsin. Michigan, Illinois, New York, Geor gia and to Jacksonville, Fla. He is working on processes to tan the beautiful skins and these will likely find a ready market and will eventually become ladies’ hand bags, shoe trimmings and other leather goods. The rattles he plans to sell for use in making costume jewelry, earrings, etc. The bones will go to make teething rings. Mr. End gets his supply of rat tlers from Guy (Rattlesnake) John son. who lives out Nocatee way. Guy catches many rattlers, and sells them to shows, zoos, etc. His record is eighteen rattlesnakes in one afternoon. One seven-foot rattlesnake made five cans of meat, Mr. End said, while he usually gets two or three cans from the average sized snake. The meat, he says, is about as tender as rabbit, and has a distinct and very pleasing flavor. Rattlesnakes eat, only live ani mals, such as rabbits and birds, and are among the cleanest ani mals known, Mr. End says. The reporter also saw some dried rattlesnake meat and it looked and smelled palatable, though he didn’t taste it. The rattlesnake is labeled genu ine diamond back rattlesnake, de luxe pack, boned filet, and Mr. End c ays it makes an excellent salad. He cans it plain or with sauce. The number two cans sell for two dol- l ars 0£tch And thus Florida’s newest indus try bids fair to help spread the year. Rev. W. S. Brooke, oranizer for the state, reports that thirty of the thirty-eight Baptist associations in South Carolina have been com pletely organized. The work of organizing in the local churches is now well under way. Rev. Brooke confidently expects that every Baptist church in the state will complete its organization by the tune set, that is, October 1st. The month of October will be used to inform the local church committees on how to conduct the canvass and then also on the needs and fields of service of each of the causes which are to be recipients of the money collected. Dr. W. J. Mc- Glothlin, President of Furman University, is chairman of the com mittee for the whole Southern Bap tist Convention. Dr. C. A. Jones, General Secretary-Treasurer for the Baptists of South Carolina, is Secretary of the South-wide com mittee. These two will give much time to the work in all the South ern states, but they will also be active in the undertaking in South Carolina. Dr. Jones is General Chairman for the South Carolina committee. Arrangements are being made to have Dr. Fred F. Brown, who is the Secretary of the Promotion Com mittee for the Southern Baptist Convention, to make Visits to strategic places in this state. Dr. Brown is pastor of the First Bap tist church of Knoxville, Tennessee, one of the strongest churches in the South. He is a wonderful preacher with a great record for achievements in his own church and state work. The time and place of his South Carolina ap pointments will be announced at an early date. The associations which are meet ing in rapid succession now are heartily indorsing the movement. These meetings will continue through October and November, culminating in the Baptist State Convention, which meets in Co lumbia November 17 and days fol lowing. Through these meetings Baptists generally will be informed of plans and purposes in this pro gram of progress. The leaders in Ails movement are expecting that the outcome will be a more universal and liber al financial support from Bantist church members for the local church work, as well as the mission, educational and benevolent pro gram of the denomination. IX J Ask Cotton Planters To Slash Crop OKLAHOMA CITY, Olka., Sept. 19.—The board of directors of the Oklahoma Cotton Growers’ As sociation announced today it will conduct a campaign among 40.000 cotton planters in the state to re duce acreage fifty per cent next state’s name and fame to the far corners of the earth. Sheriff C. S. Dishong has a can of the meat, which he expects to keep on display in his office here, including the attractive label and all, _ , Rotation of crops after 1932 will be urged by the board. The directors announced the es tablishment of three optional pools bv which the growers may market their cotton through the association, , COLUMBIA. Sept. 19.—Assessed values of railroad properties in South Carolina for the fiscal year 1931 were reduced approximately 2 1-2 per cent, dropping from a total of $49,833,302 in 1930 to $48,541,289 this year, W. G. Query, chairman of the state tax commis sion, announced* Thursday. No reduction, however, was made on main lines of the three trunk svstems, Mr. Query explained, all the slicing in the values being bas ed on abandonment of certain branch lines and substantial de clines in gross revenue. The reduction of $1,297,013 in che assessed values was accomplished mainly by cuts in the value of the trunk line properties but some short lines were reduced in value. The comparative figures for the three trunk lines are: Atlantic Coast Line Railroad company, 1930, $17,187,084; 1931 $16,830,703; Southern Railway com pany, 1930, $21,263,495; 1931 $20,- 774,500; Seaboard Air Line, Rail way company, 1930, $7,434,392; 1931 $7,010,472. Spartanburg county has the largest amount of railroad proper ties with $3,051,295 and Charleston county is second with $2,702,854. Richland county was third with $2,493,974; Florence, fourth with *1 875.788; Orangeburg, fifth, with $1,702,511. The reduced assesments will be felt most keenly in some counties’ school districts which depend up on taxes paid by railroads for the major support of their schools, it was pointed out. A warning was sounded by the tax commission in its 1930 annual report to the state legislature and suggested some legislation on mo tor vehicle transportation. X Two Free Trips Offered To Na tional 4-H Camp CLEMSON COLLEGE. Sept. 15.— One boy and one girl from South Carolina will again be given free trips to the National 4-H Club Camp at Washington, D. C., in the summer of 1932 by the Atlantic Coast Line Railway Co., accordine to announcement of G. A. Card- well, agricultural and industrial agent of the railroad. The ex penses embraced in this offer will as usual include, Mr. Cardwell says, railroad and pullman fares, street car and taxi fares, and meals. The offer is limited to club member? residing in counties directly served by Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. This fine form of encourage ment to 4-H club work which has been shown by the Atlantic Coast Line for a number of years is con tinued for 1932. Mr. Cardwell states, despite the fact that the Company is economizing and conserving its resources in every possible way. Its liberality is therefore all the more appreciated by club boys and girls, and by extension 4-H "club agents, says Dan Lewis, acting state boys’ dub ascut. COLUMBIA, Sept. 22.—A call has been issued for the meeting of the South Carolina Game and Fish Association, temporary nucleus or ganization of sportsmen, united for the purpose of forming a per manent state-wide association, to be held in the downstairs assembly hall of the Columbia Township Auditorium, corner of Taylor and Henderson Streets, Columbia, Wed nesday, October 14, at 11 o’clock in the morning. The objects of the meeting are to perfect a perman ent state organization of sports men, elect officers, adopt a defin ite statewide policy and program, and select a legislative committee including members from all v sec- tions of the state represented in membership, to draft a new set of game and fish laws, suitable to the varied needs of all parts of the state for presentation to the next regular session of the general as sembly. ^ Every regular paid up member of the association will have a voice and a vote at this meeting, and as many as will or can are urged to attend. All plans and suggestions offered at this time will be record ed and turned over to the legisla tive committee, which will con sider all recommendations and strive to draft a successful game and fish law which will -meet all major requirements of every por tion of the state. To this end it is expected that *the association’s bill will carry a clause dividing the state into three or more game and fish zones, in each of which con ditions Vary, requiring somewhat different regulations and systems. Counties which for one reason or another have not yet ; formed chapters of charter members of the association still have time if they wish to be represented at the state meeting and take part in the formation of the statewide policy and contribute their suggestions in that direction. Paid-up members in counties which have no regular organized chapters will likewise be entitled to all privileges of membership and all are cordially invited to be pres ent and take part in the organiza tion meeting. This association, which now con tains 1242 members in 36 of the 46 counties of the state, is the result of a “Call for Volunteers” issued June 26, at the suggestion of A. C. Heyward, through the daily “Woods and Waters” column in the State of Columbia, conducted by Harry Hampton, and is a voluntary nucleus of sportsmen pledged to work for the formation of the per manent association whose aims shall be the better protection and propagation of the game, fish and forests of the entire state. At the October meeting, the methods of attaining these objects will be def initely adopted and action started. Dues in the temporary associa tion are only 50 cents and Harry Hampton, The State, Columbia, is acting treasurer. After the state meeting a drive will be held for members and as many sportsmen as can be convert ed to the cause of conservation brought in and signed up for the conservation of the state’s wild life. Originators of the movement feel that the progress made so far is highly satisfactory, and that if members co-operate as they are expected to do. the aims of the movement in the main should be successful. -txi- Moved To Abbeville Mrs. Charlie Cowan and her three children have come into Ab beville and will remain for an ex tended visit with Mr. P. A. Cheat ham and the children will attend the schools of the city. Mr. Cowan who has been in ill health for the past several years will spend some time in the country with his broth er in rest and recuperation.—Ab beville Press and Banner. Capone the Powerful liMHi A m w Jill!! M Capone is rarely photographed Isis case The above was snapped « a Chicago charity ball game.