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- '**. & K - W' OdoEef 22, 1951 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK. SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMRER FOUR \4?V- C : m * f m.t > m: r fv n fGZfJr, ■. ^4' llclUKMllh rthetaerr/irxw“e J oh « C. Sheppard the jailroads to maintain ull j Dies At Edgeiieid *» Published Every Thursday Established June 5, 1902 edmond j. McCracken, Editor and Owner entered at the Post Office at Me- SUBSCRIPTION RATES: — Strictly Cash In Advance — One Year $1.00 Six Months .75 Throe Months .50 THE VOICE OF KINDNESS ? ull, working forces of employees with- j out wage reductions, then it is un- F(mMER GOVERNOR OF SOUTH questionable that this increased railroad revenue would be benefi- CAROLINA EXPIRES i cial to everybody in the United , LY AT HOME States. It must be remembered ! Cormick, S. C., as mail matter of adso that the railroads never had EDGEFIELD, Oct. 17.—John Cal- the second class. - , the opportunity to make large pro- houn Sheppard, 31, former gover- fits when times were flush. The nor of South Carolina, one of the percentage that they can earn state’s outstanding lawyers, and as profits is strictly limited by law. the father of the present lieuten- So far as we know, that provision ant governor, died suddenly at his of the law has been properly en- home here this morning of hem- forced. But by limiting what the orrhage of the brain. His health railroads can earn in the best of had been failing for ten years, times, it seems to us that the gov- Former Governor Sheppard prac- ernment has put itself under an ticed law in Edgefield for more — obligation to help them out of than 50 years and in recent years An American churchman, who th e i r troubles in hard times. They practiced with his brother, Orlando I^as been active spiritually and are no ^ on same basis with Sheppard, who died in December, temporally in this more or less private industries which are not 1929. The firm was known as Shep- wicked world for nearly half a operated in the public interest. The paid Brothers. century, tells his parishioners: business which is permitted to Funeral services will be conduct- I hav n never intentionally spok- ma ke enormous profits if it can, is ed at the First Baptist church, of <en an unkind word to anyone, and entitled to no particular public which he was a member, here so far as I can recall, no one aas assistance when its profits decline. Monday afternoon at 3 o’clock, Rev. ever spoken unkindly to ne.” 3^ ^g railroads, as an essential B. W. Thomason officiating, as- Fortunate man! Possibly de has f ac tor in the free exchange of com- sisted by other ministers of the a charitable memory for unkind- modifies, are in a different posi- city. Interment will be in the mess, shorter than most of ours, tion, Edgefield cemetery. Or possibly his dwn kindliness has ’ jxt | ° Survivors are his widow, Mrs. j brought invariably the same treat- -p IVfal^c Helen Wallace Sheppard, of Edge- ment from others. People usually J\cV. IvlclKt:© field; six children, Major W. VV. tieat us as we treat them. ; Sheppard, of Washington, D. C.; Kindness, Elbert Hubbard used - L,1 b V uaillA V C V 1U J J Lieutenant Governor James O. if JiT/n The Rev. rTT Campbell of ^P^d. of Edgefield; Francis W. Perhaps he was right. It seems to McCormick savs that he made Sheppard, of Birmingham, Ala.; include nearly all the others. It r , m c s y s * a e made Helen S Nicholson, of Edge- ol i 301 gallons of syrup from an acre „ nmSd If one'fn^s the habit and a half of White Orange sor- field ; Mrs ' Rhett S ' “f? 011 ’ df practised—if one forms the habit. h h h , Dlanted this Bennettsville, S. C.; and Mrs. B. L. . Virtue, like vice, is an acquired gftum cane he had planted tms 0 f Edgefield i year on a second bottom of Hard-. iyilIlls » 01 ^ 1 ( ^ labor Creek \ Former Governor Sheppard stud- HAS THE TURN COME 0 | - He is selling the syrup at 60 cents : ied at Furman university which HAS THE TURN COME. |a ^ buckets which |school conferred an honorary de- There is a different tone notice- wil1 brin g him $180.60; and figur-j gree 111 law ^ him 1x1 later y ea J- s -j mere is a amerenu rone nonce- h ,i_ b _i_ nf _ pprt cn'He was unable to complete his' able in the conversation of busi- mg th8 40 bushels 01 seed at $ 1 - 50 t h return e d t o Ed^e-1 ness men in the nast week or two P er hushel, they will bring $60.00, studies, so he returned to „ , ness men m the past week or two. ^ hlin i lp _ fnriripr field and read law in 1870 in the Instead of wondering how much and bundles of fodder will deeper into the financial hole the brin S $20.00, making the total of •country was going to get, more $280.00 of products from the patch, people are expressing confidence sa ys it took one man and one that business is going to get bet- mide three days to plant and work ter very soon |patch and three men three Thjs is a very hopeful sign. The weeks t0 gather the cane and make principal trouble with the general ^ into syrup. situation lately has been lack of Larger yields may have been made in this section in more fav orable growing seasons, but this Death Claims Thomas A. Edison PASSES WHILE SLEEP IN HIS NEW JERSEY HOME Womanless Wedding At School Friday Night, October 23, 1931 confidence on the part of those who have money. They have been unwilling to spend their money, to one is exceedingly good for this invest it where it would be doing y ear * whic h bas been an unusual- useful work, because of the feeling dr y cne - that perhaps, after all, prices had " : X———— not yet touched bottom. That has Eirst FrOSt Oil been one serious drawback to a speedier recovery, and another has been the fact that a great many banks and financial institutions, perfectly sound in the long run. Saturday Night When a certain weather prophet, or forecaster, said last week that have had so much of their deposi- there would be no frost until the itors’ money tied up in securities | middle df November, he must have which cannot quickly be realized j been speaking of other parts of the on that they have been unable to I country and not included McCor- -extend the lines of credit which are mick, or he didn’t know his “eggs.” absolutely necessary for the normal We had our first frost last Satur- course of business. We think Mr. Hoover did perhaps the wisest thing that he has done in his career as President, when he •called leading bankers nto confer ence and with their assistance day night, another one Sunday night and still another Monday night. None was very heavy, how ever, but enough to make tender foliage turn black and remind us that it’s getting time to lay in a -tXI- worked out a plan for providing supply of fuel and look around for credit beyond what the banks ex- heavier clothing, tend. And in calling in leaders of both parties in Congress to reas sure the country that this project was not a partisan bid for popular ity, but a genuine, patriotic effort to save the nation from worse trouble, he acted with a breadth of Guineas Have High Egg Laying Record office of Butler & Youmans. He was admitted to the South Caro lina bar in 1871 and afterwards practiced law with LeRoy You mans, who later moved to Colum bia. \ He was elected to the South Car olina legislature from Edgefield county in 1876 and served three terms in the house. He was chos en speaker of the house when W. H. Wallace was named circuit judge. Former Governor Sheppard was the second surviving member of the celebrated Wallace House. The- on ly other survivor now is Claude E. Sawyer, of Aiken, S. C. He was elected lieutenant gover nor in 1882 and became governor of the state when former Governor Thompson resigned. The latter was appointed assistant treasurer of the United States. Former Gov ernor Sheppard was a member of the South Carolina constitutional convention of 1895, after which he served several terms in the state senate. He married Miss Helen Wallace, daughter of Circuit Judge W. H. Wallace. X Mrs. Mary Ellen Hollingsworth Dies In Columbia The Columbia State of October 16th gave the following account of Mrs. Hollingsworth’s death: Mrs. Mary Ellen Hollingsworth, 64, wife of Frank T. Hollingsworth, died at the home of her daughter, Dacus Searles,. colored farmer of view which must meet the approv- near McCormick, has four guineas al of people of all parties. i that he believ6S have set U P a rec - It looks at this time as if the ord on laying eggs this year. From $500,000,000 credit which the bank- January 1st to October 1st, to his Mrs H R Daniels, 3309 River drive, ers’ committee, under the Hoover knowledge, they layed 425 eggs, and j at 2:55 yesterday morning follow- plan, has arranged for, would turn he is not 80 sure he has located ing three years of declining health, the trick. It certainly has given a H th 611, nests, nor that he got all Mrs Hollingsworth, a native of the country, at large, a better feel- the eggs from the nests he found, Edgefield, had lived in Columbia ing. While it cannot, in the na- although there was no evidence a b ou ^ 20 years and was well known t^ire of things, start all the factory that any bad been destroyed or here. She was a devoted Baptist wheels cuming instantly and put taken out. As a rule, guineas do and a woman 0 f many fine traits everybody back to work at once, it no t £° back to a nest after they of character. ought to speed up the resumption find ^ bas been discovered by a surviving her are her husband; one son, K. W. Hillingsworth, of Columbia; one daughter, Mrs. Dan iels; three brothers, J. S. Stevens, of Greenwood; B. J. Stevens of Tax Conference Thomson, Ga.; and P. W. Stevens of Barnwell; three sisters, Mrs. D. Hon. Frank C. Robinson, of Me- S ’ s t° ne * of Columbia; Mrs. T. S. WEST ORANGE, N. J., Oct. 18.— In the dark hours of early norn- ing, Thomas A!va Edison today passed peacefully from a deep sleep into death and a world whose civ ilization he revolutionized paid reverent homage to the most brill iant inventive mind it had ever known. There was peace in the cham ber where his figure, serene in death, now rested. There w-as peace throughout the sunshine flooded park where he had made his home. The physical manifesta tion of the world’s reverence was borne to his sorrowing family thru those myriad channels of com munication he himself had work ed to perfect—by telephone and telegraph and radio. But within the grounds of Llewellyn park there was only the occasional purr of an automobile to disturb the si lence in which they permitted him cO rest. Outside the five great gates of the park were uniformed guards preventing an anxious and curious world from intruding upon the Edison family. Inside, at the ga rage, which had been their head quarters during the long nours of Edison’s illness, were the represen tatives of the nation’s newspapers —and the great journals of many foreign lands—to give the w’orld their portrayals of the final scenes in a life crowded with activity and color. “Calmly submissive to the will of the Almighty” Mrs. Mina Mil ler Edison, his wife, bowed to the inevitable and bravely accepted the passing of her husband. In a dig nified and courageous message ^o the world, through the press, her family later expressed ^heir admir ation for her strength under this ordeal. / At the bedside when Edison’s sleep became lasting were: Thom as A. Edison, Jr., William L. Edi son and Marion Edison Oser, chil dren by the inventor’s first marri age; ~ Charles Edison, Madeleine Edison Sloane and Theodore Edi son, his children by his second marriage. Another group of close relatives was in an adjoining room. ixt Mr. J. K. Corley Died Saturday The Womanlecs Wedding sponsored by the Ladies’ Aid Society of McCormick Baptist Church will be staged at the High School Audi torium Friday night, October 23rd, beginning promptly at 8 o’clock. CAST OF CHARACTERS Miss Petite France, bride Mark Harmon Mr. W. S. America, groom zeke Brown Mr. Paris France, father cf bride gid Arrington Mrs. Paris France, mother of bride a. C. Bamhardt Mr. London England, uncle of bride Mrs. London England, aunt cf bride d. M. Bullock Mr. Anglo-Saxon, grandfather Judge Bell Mrs. Anglo-Saxon, grandmother l. O. Beauford Miss Madrid Spain, guest Claude Huguley Mrs. Knowall, a neighbor William Keown Miss Riga Russia, jilted sweetheart Billy Smith Aunt Africa, colored nurse Frank Mattison Marseilles, baby sister of bride Charles Henry Williams Mr. Lyden Holland, ring bearer Emory Bentley Mr. Rome Italy, train bearer to bride George Sharpton Mr. Montreal Canada, best man James Keown Violinists Lt O. Beauford and Harvey Bray Accompanist J Miss Burgess Miss Janeiro Brazil, soloist Mrs. Shiflet Soloist Andrew Jennings Twins Larkin Fooshe and James Ferqueron Bridesmaids T. E. Fuller, Harvey Sanders and E. L. Rogers Groomsmen C. R. Strom, J. S. Heiss and Charlie Morgan Minister 1 j. a. Talbert Funeral services for Joseph K. Corley, were held at the Gilgal Baptist church Sunday morning at 11 o’clock with interment in the churchyard, Rev. G. W. Gurley of ficiating. J. S. Strom’s service in charge. Pallbearers were Messrs. Wallace White, Maurice White, H. L. Corley, I. C. Reames, C. W. Pennal and Jasper Mayson. Mr. Corley died at his residence near here Saturday morning fol lowing an illness of several weeks. He was 77 years of age and a life long member of the Baptist Church and one of the leading citi zens and planters of his commun ity. Besides his widow he is survived | by three sons, Dr. A. H. Corley, Au- ' gusta; Dr. G. S. Corley, Mullins; J. K. Corley, Jr., Winston-Salem, N. . C.; and three daughters, Mrs..T. J. Sibert, McCormick; Mrs. A. B. ■Ward, Effingham; and Mrs. Mill- ledge Hankinsonj Orangeburg. Two brothers, James Corley and Will iam Corley, of Edgefield, also sur vive. 8E -1X1 of industrial operations very ma- P erson terially. A ixr Robinson At GOVERNMENT AND RAILROADS Council Passes Law Amusement License The railroads are asking for a fifteen per cent increase in freight ra.es. They make this appeal on coVmick and Columbia, member of McCain > of McCormick; and Mrs. . the basis of the fact that they the state Tax Commissi0 n, deliver- J - L - Curbreath of Plum Branch; have not, in recent years, been able pri _ n a t the Twentv-fourth two grandchildren, Reginald F. to earn the percentage on their Innuafco^ Hollingsworth and Jerry G. Hoi- investments which they are per- the A ti a nta-Biltmore Hotel in At- “ngsworth, both of Columbia, mitted to earn under the inter- lanta on Tuesday> October 23rd. He Funera l services will be held state commerce law. It has been was well received and d i SCU ssed at from the residence of her daughter, estimated that the increased rates j en g th the tax sys t e m of South 3309 River drive, at 11 o’clock this would cost every American family Carolina morning, with the Rev. John H. one cent a day in the increased # , Webb, pastor of the First Baptist prices of commodities. For, of church, in charge. Interment will course, every increase in the cost of Scientists tell us that milk is k e j n Elmwood cemetery, transportation must be reflected in most, iy water. Many a milk man Serving as honorary pallbearers the selling price of the goods car- knew that without the aid of sci- W in Dr p E p ay ne, Dr. W. E. Tied. ence * Fulmer, Dr. S. F. ' Killingsworth, At first glance, this looks to x Edgar Shealy, T. J. Rauton, B. D. -many people like an unfair at- The Bureau of Home Economics Cain, S. C. Lupo, Jimmie Cameron, tempt to raise prices at a time suggests many inexpensive ways of s. L. Sweeney and J. Hamp Faulk, when purchasing power is low. But serving corn meal. Batter pudding Active pallbearers will be six nep- on the other side of the picture to serve with roast pork is one. hews. McCormick Town Council at the last session passed an ordinance, effective at once, providing a li cense of $5 per year and governing operation of what is known as “mininature ten-ball recreation or amusement tables.” Sections of the ordinance pro vide as follows: It shall be un lawful for any table to be more than 24 by 48 inches, playing space; not more than 10 balls, not numbered and plain, shall be per mitted; only one table shall be operated in any one place; it shall be unlawful to operate the tables on Sunday; each table shall be in view of the public and if the place is disorderly the licenses shall be revoked; violation of the ordinance provides for a fine of not less $1 nor more than $100 or imprison ment not exceeding 30 days. DEPEND ON US TO FILL YOUR PRESCRIPTION CORRECTLY Don't take any chances when you have a prescrip tion to fill. Bring it to us and you’ll know that it will he done right. We use only the very best and freshest drugs and exercise the utmost care in com pounding. ALL SUPPLIES FOR THE SICKROOM We also have a most complete stock of all supplies needed for the sickroom. Everything of the very best quality and in the most convenient form. * W e specialize in toasted sandwiches of all kinds ramu ho co. A Reliable Drug Store Augusta Street McCormick, S. C. m STOP LOOK WIM! Who Is Coming To Mott Brown’s Shop, October 24th See Sam. the leading entertainer, and look who i_v- has with him Jim and his Caro lina revues, all stars, see those two black face funny men. They will make you laugh from start to finish. Hear the Cohen girl—that “blues*' singer; and the Green girl sing some of her latest songs. See Joe. the world’s buck and wing dancer, all singers and dancers. A company of ten people, plenty of good music. Come early and get front seats; doors open 7:30 o’clock, show starts at 8:00 o'clock. ADMISSION 10c and 20c. COMING RAIN OR SHINE AT MOTT BROWN’S SHOP McCormick, S. C. Seats for white people too.