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/ \ \ / ~SX‘ 1’- ■ c m •~r- «- \ Thursday, November 19, 1931 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER FTVB ‘ ^ Mr. Mack Rice of Charlotte, N. C., spent the past week end with friends near town. Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Parks of Reidsville, N. C., are spending a few days here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Parks, and other rela tives. m. “ ' /. •^r- ■ - Miss Helen McGrath has return ed home, after spending the past month in Charlotte, N. C., with her sister, Miss Frances McGrath. Miss Fannie Edmunds spent last week end in Columbia with rela tives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. G. H. McCain and children and Miss Roberta Smith spent the past week end in Green ville and Spartanburg with rela tives and friends. Messrs. J. W. and J. R. Corley and Bryan Jennings were business visi tors in Augusta one day the past week. / Miss Virginia Ligon spent the ,week end in\[va with relatives. Mr. James F. Edmunds is a pat ient at the U. S. Veterans’ Hospital at Lake City, Fla. Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Strom of Co lumbia spent the week end with relatives in and near town. Miss Frances McGrath and Mr. and Mrs. Augie Klein and baby, Mary Frances, of Charlotte, N. C., were visitors in the home of Mr. and Mrs. D. M. McGrath Thurs day. Mrs. J. G. Peuffier and little ^ Dorothy of Spartanburg spent sev eral days of last week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Sharp- ton: Mr. T. A. Edmunds of Middleton, Ga., spent the week end here with his brother, Mr. S. L. Edmunds, who continues ill. nd Winter Clothing Cost You Less At Gallant-Belk Company You will have to visit our Ready-to- Wear department and see the Coats and Dresses to fully appreciate these remarkable values. jr COATS One group of lovely Coats in browns and blacks. You will have to see them to appre ciate these remark able values .95 DRESSES One group of ladies new fall Dresses Dresses you would expect to pay as much as $5 for of course our price less is .95 V Last year you paid $9.95 for Coats like these, $4.95 for Dresses of this quality; but this year you can buy Coat and Dress for only $7.90. LADIES’ NEW FALL FOOTWEAR VALUES One Lot Of SHOES Including , Straps Pumps and sport Ox fords. All the new styles, low, medium and high heels val ues up to $4.95 $2.95 Certain Numbers In Our Line Of ENNA-JETTICK FOOTWEAR Not our entire .stock, at the small price of \ $2.95 Ladies’ 1 Strap SHOES Patent and new brown kid and calf. Covered heels, values up to $2.95, our price is only $1.95 IF YOU WANT TO SAVE TIME AND MONEY COME TO GALLANT-BELK COMPANY Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Mann spent ^ Sunday in Abbeville with Mr. and Mrs. Tollie Ellis. “GREENWOOD’S LEADING DEPARTMENT STORE” WE SELL EVERYTHING AND SELL IT FOR* LESS ' “THE HOME OF BETTER VALUES” £3= 33 WILLINGTON NEWS Messrs. W. H. McNair, J. W. Mor- rah, Mrs. C. T. LeRoy and Miss Catherine Porter v/ere shoppers in McCormick Wednesday. Mrs. W. H. Andrews and Mrs. Daisy Hemminger attended the W. C. T. U. Wednesday evening at De la Howe. Mrs. Holmes and Miss Willie Le Roy of Clemson were guests of Mrs. Susan LeRoy Thursday night and Friday. Mr. W. D. Morrah was a business visitor here Friday. Mrs. J. M. Hemminger, Mrs. J. M. Gibert and Mrs. J. O. Covin were J visitors in McCormick Wednesday afternoon. Misses Carrie and Sudie Cowan ! spent Thursday in the Bellvue sec- I Jon. Mrs. Jimmie Boyd and family of Abbeville spent Saturday night with Mrs. Mollie Clinkscales. Mrs. Lillian Cason of Mt. Carmel spent several days here with friends. Miss Frances Rush of McCormick was the guest of Miss Catherine Porter Monday. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Andrews and Mrs. Daisy Hemminger were shop ping in Abbeville Monday after noon. Messrs. Albert Gibert and Robert \ Perryman have returned from a two weeks’ visit to Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Morrah were visitors in Abbeville Monday after noon. Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Lawton have returned from McCormick, where they spent the week end with rela tives. Messrs. Albert Gibert, Robert Perryman, and Bob Cowan were visitors in Abbeville Monday after noon. McCORMICK HIGH SCHOOL NEWS There seems to be increased in terest and enthusiasm in the school work at present. Students and teachers are striving together to make our school one of which any community may be justly proud. We are inviting a speaker to speak to us about his particular vocation each Wednesday morning. Wednesday of this week our speak er is the Rev. Leon T. Pressly. He always brings us a great lesson. The county teachers’ meeting will | be held at high school on Thurs day of this week at 3:45 p. m. Our program is planned on “Health.” Several teachers will take part. Dr. W V G. Blackwell will address us. On last Sunday at 3:30 p. m. the Rev. Leon T. Pressly of the A. R. P. Church delivered a masterly ser mon on the subject of “Good Citi zenship.” This sermon was preach ed in the high school auditorium. Many of our people attended. Brother Pressly used as his central thought the daily practice of the “Golden Rule” as • a requisite to good Christian citizenship. . . MUSIC CLUB MEETS— The Mendelssohn Music Club met Friday, November 13, in the home of Eula Caudle. The meeting was called to order by the president and during the business hour it was de cided that we should meet the first and third Tuesday of every month instead of the second and fourth Friday, as formerly. Two officers were elected: Critic—Rebecca Drucker. Reporter—Eula Caudle. The following program v/as rend- erfed: Moonlight on the Hudson—Wil son—Mary Sue Coleman. March of the Recruits—SchmoII —Effie Lee Crawford. Paper—Life of Felix Mendels- Mr. Robert Perryman left Tues- sohn _Bartholdy-Helen Crawford. Miss Ruth Williams of Augusta is here on a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Williams. Miss Nell Sharpton has returned home, after spending some time in Spartanburg. Mr. and Mrs. Mike McGrath and baby, Frances, and Miss Ellen Bos- dell were Elberton visitors the past week end. Miss Frances Edmunds of Green- vmod spent the week end here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Ed munds. Mr. J. L. Russell, Sr., of Troy was among the business visitors here yesterday. Mr. G. A. Talbert of Plum Branch was a business visitor here one day this week. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Grady of Greenville and Mr. and Mrs. G. C. GREENWOOD, S. C. THURSDAY and FRIDAY November 19th-20th Greta Garbo in “SUSAN LENOX” with Clark Gable SATURDAY, November 21st George O’Brien in Zane Grey’s “RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE” MONDAY and TUESDAY November 23rd-24th Phillips Holmes Sylvia Sidney and Francis Dee in Theodore Dreiser’s “AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY” WEDNESDAY, November 25th “GUILTY HANDS” n * . • . with r \. Lionel Barrymore Kay Francis and Madge Evans OPERA HOUSE ABBEVILLE, S. C. Thursday, November 19th Phillips Holmes and Silvia Sidney in < “AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY” From 7:00 to 7:30, Adults 25c Friday, November 20th, Only Paramounts “TABU” Actually filmed in the South Seas. From 7:00 to 7:30, Adults 25c Saturday, November 21, Only Fighting Bob Steele in “THE RIDING FOOL” From 7:00 to 7:30, Adults 25c Mon.-Tues. Nov. 23rd-24th The Four Marx Brothers in “MONKEY BUSINESS” From 7:00 to 7:30, Adults 25c Wed. Thurs. Nov. 25th-26th Gloria Swanson in “INDISCREET” From 7:00 to 7:30. Adults 25c Shows: 3:15—7:15—9:00 Daily MT. CARMEL NEWS ' The dust is perfectly awful here. We certainly wish the passing mo torists would realize the dust is not quite so bad when they drive mod erately slow. Rev. and Mrs. Leon T. Pressly of McCormick were seeing friends and visiting the sick in Mt. Carmel and Calhoun Falls Monday after- MODOC NEWS Three hundred and ten years ago a handful of Puritan settlers unit ed in giving thanks to God. Am erica was first to set apart one day each year for the purpose of re joicing in the good things of life. Today, we too, have much for which to be thankful, even though we are in the midst of a world wide depression. Our farmers have never had fuller barns or better stocked pantries. No people ever had greater reason if" food be the day for Charleston, for a few days Mrs. Chester McNair # is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Oscar McNa»-in Al lendale. Miss Annie Lou Lankford spent the week end with relatives at Plum Branch. Mr. W. H. Parks, County Super intendent of Education, was a visi tor here Tuesday. X. Y. Z S. C. WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW noon. Rev. and Mrs. Virgil Dean and criterion to celebrate Thanksgiving baby of Calhoun Falls attended^ ^ay. McKinney of Mt. Carmel were spend the day guests of Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Robinson and Mr. J. E. Palmer Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Smith, Mrs. J. L. Self and Mrs. W. C. Jennings were visitors in Augusta yesterday. * ' Friends here of Mrs. G. M. Cart- ledge, formerly Miss Eva Sharpton of Augusta, Ga., will regret to learn of her misfortune in breaking her ankle as she stepped from a pull- man coach one day last week in Augusta. Sorry to report Mrs. W. M. Tal bert on the sick list the past week. She is reported to be somewhat bet ter today and will soon be out again. Messrs. W. E. Sheppard and W. L. White spent several days of the past week on a deer hunt in Clar endon County. Neither of them got a shot at a deer, but other members of their party killed four big bucks. : txx 4-.. A'proposed automobile road over the Austrian Alps - will* provide ! a short cut from southern Germany to Italy and the Adriatic. - prayer meeting here last Wednes day evening and charmed the audience by their beautiful music. Mr. Dean also made quite an ex cellent talk. We want to thank Rev. Leon T. Pressly for giving Mt. Carmel peo ple an opportunity to hear his wonderful sermon on “Good Citi zenship,” which had been requested by Mrs. Stallworth in behalf of the H D. Clubs. It was very fine and if the people of this county would all follow the advice given, McCor mick County would flourish like the bay tree. Mrs. Ida Black attended the sup per at Calhoun Falls Friday even ing with Mrs. D. L. Bryson. Mrs. Cook and son, Harold, Mrs. Jenkins, Messrs. Lawrence Jenkins and John Hilderbrandt were seeing friends in Greenwood and other places Sabbath. Mrs. Carrie Connor, Mris. H. O. Watson, Mrs. D. J. McAllister and Miss Lennie Covin attended a meeting of club leaders at the court house in McCormick Wednes day afternoon. Mrs. Jasper Talbert of McCor mick was a pleasant visitor at the meeting of H. D. Club last Tuesday. Mrs. Talbert is chairman of t21e Red Cross Seals for this county. Mrs. Cecil Gilliam and Mr. Willie Hester attended the supper given by the Presbyterian Auxiliary last Friday evening. Mr. Hunter McKinney and Miss Juanita Curtis and others were Calhoun Falls visitors Friday ev ening. Mrs. Lena Hester and Mr. Willie Hester were Anderson * visitors Tuesday. Mrs. Hester just, recent-' ly returned from a pleasant visit The following record of 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. Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Howie were guests Sunday to Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Bussey. Burton — $110,000 sp^n over Mr. Ben F. Bussey was the week whale Branch near here on State end guest to Master John Price at Route No. 28, completed. Parksville. Miss Rosalie Bussey and Miss Jennie Brady of Augusta were week end visitors here to the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Bus sey. Mr. A. P. Douglass and Mr. B. F. Parks were business visitors to Au gusta last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Bela Bussey and Mr. Homer Bussey from Augusta were visitors here Sunday to Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Dukes. Mr. and Mrs. Charley Seigler, ac companied by Messrs. William Reese and Grover Thomas, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Ott at Cope, S. C. Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Harvely from Fairfax spent the past week end here with the former’s grandpar ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Harvely. Messrs. Roy Bailey and Tom Belle Bussey made a short visit to Au gusta Saturday evening. Rev. J. F. Warren filled his ruglar appointment here Sunday, deliver ing a very able sermon. Mrs. George Vickery from Lin- colnton, Ga., spent the past week here with her sister, Mrs. J. C. Maddox. Mr. M. M. Dorn from Augusta was a week end visitor here among friends. Messrs. J. C. Harvely, J. C. Mad dox and J. O. McDaniel were busi- street ness visitors to Augusta Monday. Yemassee — Plans considered for relocating portion of Coastal High way through portion of this city. Dillon—$67,000 post office build ing completed. Newberry—Charm Shoppe, beau ty parlor, opened on College Street. Survey to be made of Highway No. 18 between Anderson and Ab beville. Walterboro — 23rd Annual Colle ton County Fair held here recently. i Greer — Skelton Tire and Bat tery Shop opened for business. Newberry — Local experimental plant of Borden Milk Co., started operations. Hartsville — Standard Oil Co., erecting new station on old site at corner of Fourth street and Carolina Avenue at cost of about $6,500. , Greer — Ground broken for Episcopal Church edifice on corner of Line and Jason streets. Walterboro — Telephone wires on main streets of city being removed to be replaced by cable. Dillon—Automatic electric signal installed by Sea Board Air Line Railway Co., and State Highway Commission at railway crossing on Route No. 217 south of city limits. Sumter — The Coffee Shop for mally opened at 12 South Main Showers of Stars—Wach—Alma Faulkner. Paper—Works of Mendelssohn—- Rebecca Drucker. Duet Dance of the Rosebuds-— l Keats—Lillian Tuten and Matilda Williams. Contest. During the social hour a sweet course was served by the hostess, after which the meeting was ad journed. The next meeting will be Tues day, December 1st, at the home of Mary Sue Coleman. txt Succeeds Late Speaker John B. Hollister, Cincinnati Re publican, easily won the election when a successor to Nicholas Longworth was chosen. * -X- Smartest U. S. Frosh to Ch Mr. Barnard Smith was a visitor here Monday night. Hartsville — Two plants of Unit ed States Finishing Co., at Cedar- town, Ga., and this city centralized here by Hartsville Print and Dye Works. ’. ’ , William R. Bowden, 17, Dunbar. Pa., freshman at Haverford College, defeated 35.000 others in a nation wide contest by scoring 346 points oat of a possible 370 in an educatk-nal test. -txt- The snapping turtle starts snai>~ ping as soon as it is hacthed.