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*» 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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.