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Thursday, September 24, 193T
McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK. SOUTH CAROLINA
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PAGE NUMBER FOUR
McCORMICK MESSENGER
Published Every Thursday
Established June 5, 1902
EDMOND J. McCRACKEN,
Editor and Owner
Entered at the Post Office fit Mc
Cormick, S. C., as mail matter of
the second class.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
— Strictly Cash In Advance —
One Year $1.00
Six Months .75
Three Months.50
ON TOP OF THE HEAP
“It’s an ill wind that blows no
good”—is an old axiom, but appar
ently as true today as ever.
Whoever would have thought we
should be rejoicing over any phase
of this depression business? Yet,
that is exactly what Dr. Harold J.
Knapp, Health Commissioner of
Cleveland, is doing; because he
finds in that city considerable de
cline in disease with the' general
health of the neople there greatly
improved. His theory is that people
eat less in times like these, that
their diet contains fewer luxuries
and *that health is improved by
plain food.
Carefully planned meals cost less
money. The less one spends for
food the more important milk be
comes. Milk is all food, no waste.
The least amounts of food which
can be used with safety are—Ev
ery Meal: milk for the children,
bread and butter for all; Every
Day; cereal, potatoes, green or
yellow vegetables, fruit, tomatoes or
oranges for children; Two to Four
Times a Week: Tomatoes for all,
dried beans, peas or peanuts, eggs
—especially for children—lean
meat, fish, poultry, cheese.
Amounts to suit the size of family.
Simple, plain foods «these—but
they offer protection and bring
health at a cost in keeping with a
decreased food allowance.
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HARD TIMES AND MATRIMONY
From all over the country we get
reports that there are more people
getting married than there have
been for a long time. Naturally,
there are exactly as many women
as th^rfe are men going in at this
time for this justly famous experi
ment.
Some of the people who have no
ticed the increase in marriage li
censes wonder how these young
people have the courage to take the
jump when jobs are scarce and
none too secure. But we think the
answer is to be found in the old
saying that two can live as cheaply
as one. That isn’t literally true,
but it certainly is true that if both
will do their share two people can
live together more economically
than the two of them can live sep
arately.
we nave been told of several
cases where the young man lost his
job and the girl kept hers. They
had been engaged for some time
but were waiting to get more of a
stake together before hitching up.
Perhaps they might have kept on
waiting for years had not fate, in
the shane of hard times, interven
ed. And in a great many cases, we
are sure, marriage has been hast-,
cned because the young woman is
out of work and no longer feels
the sense of independence which
she had when her pay envelope
came along every Saturday.
On the whole, we think this get
ting married when times are hard
is a good thing. We were begin
ning to fear th^t matrimonv was
going out of fashion. It is a long
time since we had heard a man
under forty boast that he had no
thing byt a fifteen dollar a week
job and enough cash for the par
son’s fee and the first installment
on the furniture when he and the
girl teamed up for life. But we
know many men cf the older gen
eration who give all the credit for
their success in life to the fact that
thev married young and poor, and
had to hold their noses right down
tight on the grindstone while they
were still young enough to acquire
the habit of hard work.
For a while it seemed as if work,
too, were going out of fashion.
There are net sc manv youngsters
complaining because they have to
do something for their pay as there
were a couple of years ago. Work
is not something to be ashamed
of any more. And we don’t know
of anything so well calculated to
make a useful working citizen out
of a young man—or young woman,
either—than to get married at a
time when work is scarce and those
who want to hold their jobs have
to do a lot of it.
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FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
LAW POPULAR
negligent motorist holds the finan
cial sack, as he should.
In all probability it will not be
long before an appreciable number
of states have similar laws to the
benefit of the public at large.—In
dustrial News Bureau.
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The Goose And
The Golden Eggs
The Blue Ridge railroad has dis
continued freight service between
Seneca and Walhalja. the county
seat of Oconee county. This was
done because there was not enough
business to pay the expense of
operating the train. It had been
taken by trucks. If that sort of
thing keeps on, it is only a ques
tion of time till railroads will be
a memory of the past like the
stage coach. And the people will
have to dig deep to make uo the
amount of taxes the railroads are
now chinning into the public cof
fers. When that freight service
, was dicontinued, it moved the
editor of the Keowee Courier, the
county papSr of Oconee, to go to
the treasurer’s office and do a lit
tle inquiring. He ascertained that
the Southern and Blue Ridge roads
paid in taxes in Oconee county last
year $86,292.76. That’s a sizable
sum. Its loss would be felt, es-
necially by taxpayers who wofild
have to cough up to make good the
deficit. • There is as much chance
cf getting that much in taxes from
buses and trucks in Oconee county
as there is of putting the capitol
jr> Columbia in your vest pocket.
“You never miss the water until
the well goes dry.” When railroads
pass out, taxpayers are going to be
sorry, very sorry, that they did not
keen them in business.—Anderson
Independent.
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S. C. WEEKLY
INDUSTRIAL
REVIEW
The following record cf industrial
activity lists items showing invest
ment of capital, employment of la
bor and business activities and op
portunities. Information from
which the paragraphs are prepared
is from local papers, usually of
towns mentioned, and may be con
sidered generally correct.
LOi PRICES M IHMi
J. B. Smith’s Meat Market, the oldest meat mar
ket in town, has again reduced prices on fresh meats
so that the man of ordinary means, as well as any
one else, can get the choicest meats at prices he can
afford to pay.
Choice Steak,
pound
20c
Choice Stew
Beef, pound
12-c
Choice Roast
pound
15c
Mixed Sau
sage, 2 pounds
35c
This market handles only the very best grades of
meats to be found anywhere, and when you once get
a taste of it, you’ll come hack for more. Fish on
sale every Friday and Saturday. Everything sani
tary and at low prices.
J. B. SMITH’S MEAT MARKET
Corner Augusta and Pine Streets
McCORMICK. S. C.
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Specials For Friday and Saturday
At Our Store Include:
LARD,
8 lb. Bucket
75c
10c
10c
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North Carolina, following the
lead of California and other states,
has adooted a Financial Respon
sibility Law for motorists. •
The law, of the familiar pattern,
provides that a person failing to
satisfy a judgment shall have his
license suspended until he gives
proof of financial responsibility, 1
either through an insurance policy,
0£- a persona] corporate surety
bond.
This type cf law is finding in
creasing support throughout the
nation, and it is noteworthy that
demand for unconditional compul
sory automobile casualty insurance
of the Massachusetts kind, is sel
dom heard. The experience of the
Bay State, with its congested
courts, rising accident record, fak
ed claims and increased insurance
rates has acted as a warning to
other commonwealths.
One can find little fault with
the Financial Responsibility Law.
Its principal virtue is that it puts
the responsibility and cost where it
belongs—on those who 'Cause ac-;
■cidentsp—and does not penalize the
careful, responsible driver. The
Yemassee — Stretch of paving on
Highway No. 28 between this place
and Air^eda completed and opened
to traffic.
Allendale — M. P. Hazel estab
lished c-eam buying station here
recently.
Lower bridge over Black River on
Route No. 26 from Kingstree to An
drews. completed.
Kingstree — Miss Mary Cather
ine Epps opened piano studio in
her residence.
Belton — Cameo Theatre reopen
ed.
Star mail route re-established be
tween Yemasse and Barnwell via
Allendale and Hampton.
Walterboro — Interior and front
of Piggly Wiggly Store being re
modeled. I
Spartanburg — Lyman plant of
Pacific Mills Corporation to con
struct $500,000 addition.
Anderson — Route No. 29 south
of this city toward Georgia line to
be paved.
Newberry — Julian Smith open
ed lunch stand on lower Main
Street.
Greer — R. E. Johnson Coal Yard
opened for business.
Hartsviile — M. R. Mishoe took
over management of J. H. Chap
man Grocery Store.
Columbia — C. M. Guest & Sons
received $41,472 contract for con
struction of new cell block at State
Penitentiary. ,
Sumter — American Railway Ex
press Co., moved offices to Atlantic
Coast Line passenger depot.
Greer — Home-Ond Store opened
on Hill Street.
- Belton — Bridge across Saluda
River on Belton-Greenville County
read completed.
Newberry — Poultry * plant may
move to this city.
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Cotton Convention
To Be Postponed
COLUMBIA, Sept. 20.—J. S. Wan-
namaker, president of the Ameri
can Cotton Association, announced
today that the southwide conven
tion cf cotton farmers and others
scheduled to be held in New Or
leans October 1-3, has been post
poned until November 16-18. '
The convention was called two
months ago to complete plans
for cotton acreage reduction next
year. Mr. Wannamaker said del
egates representing farmers, ban
kers, merchants and others in
terested in cotton had pledged at
tendance and support of the cur
tailment program.
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Motor Freight Rate
Increase Is Changed
From Oct. 1-Nov. 1
LARD, in bulk,
Per Pound
SALMON, Genuine ^Pink,
Can
O. K. SOAP,
6 Bars
MEAT, good and thick,
Pound
CORN FLAKES,
Kellogg’s, 2 packages
FLOUR,
24 pounds
We handle the best to be had in Beef, Pork, Sau
sage, Veal, Cured and Smoked Meats.
We buy and* sell good country produce. In the
market at all times for cattle and hogs.
10c
15c
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James G. Scripps, <of the Scrjpps-Canfield chain of newspapers, sur
prised everybody by his unannounced marriage in Seattle, Wash., to Miss
Marion E. Bates, daughter of Dr. U. C. Bates, surgeon, capitalist and aviator
They are honeymooning in Honolulu
Former Anderson
County Treasurer
Gets Sentence
Estimate Yield
Of 956,485 Bales
Cotton In State
$4,090 FINE ALSO ADDED TO SEN
TENCE OF J. R. C. GRIFFIN
COLUMBIA Sept. 19.—The ef
fective date of the uniform mo
tor freight rate was changed from
October 1 to November 1, today
by the state railroad commission
and October 8 was set as the date
the commission would hear argu
ments on a petition for rehearing
filed by a group of motor rate car
riers.
In an order of September 1 the
commission directed the carriers, to
put into effect October 1 uniform
rates 10 per cent higher than the
rates charged by railroads.
The Anderson Independent of
yesterday says, in part, J JR. C.
Griffin who served Anderson coun
ty approximately 13 years as coun
ty treasurer was yesterday sen
tenced to serve four years in the
state penitentiary or on the public
works of Anderson county and pay
a fine of $4,000 as a result of his
conviction of embezzlement of An
derson county funds by a jury in
General Sessions court here last
Friday morning.
The former treasurer who was
convicted after a trial which last
ed more than ten days took the
sentence calmly and his attorneys
immediately served notice before
Judge Mendel L. Smith, who pro
nounced the sentence, of an appeal
to the supreme court for another
trial. The former treasurer was re
leased yesterday afternoon on a
$7,500 bond pending the appeal to
the supreme court.
Judge Smith wasted little time
in overruling the motion for a new
trial presented by the defense at
torneys, Messrs. Watkins, Hood and
Sullivan. The arguments of the
three attorneys which were heard
immediately after the court con
vened following the noon recess,
consumed more than half an hour
of the time of the court .following
which Judge Smith stated that he
would have to overrule the motion
of the defense attorneys. The rest
of his remarks were directed at Mr.
Griffin who sat at the table with
the defense attorneys.
The investigation into the ad
ministration of the affairs of Grif
fin’s office was started by the An
derson county grand jury in 1929
after certain irregularities in the
Lebanon school district finances
were called to the attention of
that body. A resolution nassed by
the grand jury at that time re
quested a “fair and impartial au
dit” of all county offices, by an
out-of-state auditing firm, this sti
pulation leading to employment of
Morton and Co., of Atlanta and
Philadelphia. ^
Card Of Thanks
ESTIMATE ANNOUNCED FOL
LOWING SURVEY MADE BY
ROCK HILL BANK, FROM
RELIABLE SOURCES
A. H. FAULKNER
Main Street McCormick, S. C.
We wish to express our sincerest
appreciation ol the kind assistance,
the comforting words of consola
tion, and the beautiful floral offer
ings during our sad bereavement in
the loss of our daughter and little
sister, Annette. , „
Mr and Mrs. G. J. Sanders. Jr.,
and Family.
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Card Of Thanks
I wish to .thank all -who were so
kind to and thoughtful of me dur
ing my recent illness.
S y MRS. W. S. PIPKIN.
ROCK HILL, Sept. 19.—Response
to inquiries sent throughout South
Carolina by the Peoples National
Bank of Rock Hill would indicate
a total cotton yield this year for
the state of 956,485 bales as against
a total yield last year of 1,015,275
bales.
The August 1st estimate of the
South Carolina crop by the gov
ernment announced on August 3th
was 826,000 bales. The September
1st estimate of the South Carolina
crop announced on September 3th
by _the -government _was_ 929,000
bales.
The estimate of the Peoples Na
tional Bank of Rock Hill was com
piled from information received
from reliable sources in each coun
ty in the state. Recent reports
from some sections indicate boil |
weevil investigation and also some
deterioration in certain sections
due to the limited use of fertiliz- ,
er.
The estimate of the Peoples Na
tional Bank by counties is as fol
lows:
County 1931 1930
Est. Yield Yield
Abbeville 16,500 17,720
Aiken 31,300 28,931
Allendale 6,500 7,136
Anderson 60,900 65,918
Bamberg 14,864 15,265
Barnwell 15,000 19,637 l
Berkeley _ 2.500 3.392
Calhoun _ 16,350 16,925 '
Charlestor 1,150 1,609
Cherokee 19,000 21.276
Chester __ 23,641 23,763
Chesterfie 28,000 34,463
Clarendon 16,000 19,622
Colleton _ 10,500 10,463
Darlingtor 21,500 20,142
Dillon ___ 25,500 28,560
Dorchestei 6,300 6,568
Edgefield 16,000 19.242
Fairfield 10,122 10,793
Florence _ 23,000 20,467
Greenville 55,000 57,749
Greenwoo* 18,000 18,256
Hampton 7,500 7,311
Horry ___ 1,321 2,202
Jasper — 1,500 1,893
Kershaw - 23,450 21,928
Lancaster 16,800 15,905
Laurens _ 32,500 35,044
Lee 28,000 28,266
Lexington 16.600 18,351
McCormic 7,437 7,359
Marion __ 10,500 10,839
Marlboro 40,125 46,160
Newberry 23,000 24,776
Oconee __ 18,500 21,165
Orangebui 62,500 63,222
Pickens _ 23,800 20,106
Richland 8,350 8,780
Saluda __ 14.000 13,059
Spartanbu 80,000 88,213
Sumter __ 31,000 32,415
Union — 17,125 19,226
Williamsbi 15,200 16,398
York. 39,OW» 36,204
All other —— 650 2,054
EVERYBODY
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can afford Goodyears now
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pair
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other sizes equally low
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today. You know that as well as we do. So why
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GULF SERVICE STATION
Near Dorns’ Ginnery
Phone 40
J. T. FAULKNER, Prop.
McCormick, S. C.
Totals 956,485 1,015,273
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McCormick and vicinity twice each week.
If you are not already patronizing us, we both
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We clean all kinds of wearing apparel, and
hats, at very small cost.
Every job must be satisfactory, or we won't
take your money.
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“Always Dependable**
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