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MciOOKaflCK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA
PAGE NUMBER SEVEII
CITATION OF LETTERS
OF ADMINISTRATION
STATE OP SOUTH CAROLINA,
County of McCormick.
BY L. G. BELL, PROBATE JUDGE:
WHEREAS, Selesia Remson made
suit to me to grant J. M. Gibert
Letters of Administration of the
Estate and effects of Willie Middle-
ton;
THESE ARE, THEREFORE, to
cite and admonish all and singular
the Kindred and Creditors of the
said Willie Middleton,, deceased,
that they be and appear before me,
in the Court of Probate, to be held
at McCormick Court House on De
cember 1st 1931, next, after publi
cation hereof, at 10 o’clock in the
forenoon, to show cause, if any
they have, why the said Adminis
tration should not be granted.
GIVEN under my hand this 16th
day of November, Anno Domini
1931.—2t.
L. G. BELL,
Probate Judge.
Good Management
WiU Win In Any
Type Of Farming
The author of this article
was reared on a cotton farm
and has worked on newspapers
in Georgia, South Carolina,
New Jersey and New York. In
recent years he has engaged
mostly in investigating and
writing about economic sub
jects, including agriculture. In
the last four months he visited
several hundred farms in the
Carolinas and .talked with
many kinds of farmers in all
parts of the two States.
BY A. H. ULM
TREASURER’S NOTICE
The County Treasurer’s Office
will be open for the purpose of re
ceiving taxes from the 1st day
of October, 1931, to the 15th day
of March, 1932.
All taxes shall be due and pay
able between the 1st day of Octo
ber, 1931 and December 31, 1931.
That when taxes»charged shall
not be paid by December 31, 1931.
the County Auditor shall proceed
to add a penalty of one per cent
for January, and if taxes are not
id on or before February 1, 1932,
le County Auditor will proceed to
add Two Per Cent and Five Per
Cent from the 1st of March to the
15th of March, after which time
unpaid taxes will be collected by
the Tax Collector.
The tax levies for the year 1931
are as follows:
For State Purposes 5 mills
For County Purposes 14 mills
For Bonds 10 mills
Constitutional School Tax 3 mills
6-0-1 Law 4 mills
Mt. Carmel School
District No. 1 2 mills
Willington 6. D. No. 2 5 mills
Bordeaux S. D: No. 3 ___ 2 mills
McCormick S. D. No. 4
and Bonds 24 mills
Buffalo S.D. No. 5 10 mills
Bellvue S. D. No. 6 10 mills
S. D. No. 7 00 mills
Bethia S. D. No. 8 8 mills
Bold Branch S. D. No. 9 __ 10 mills
Young’s S. D. No. 10 2 mills
Wideman’s S. D. No. 11 ___ 2 mills
Milway S. D. No. 13 8 mills
Robinson S. D. No. 14 _ r __ 10 mills
Domville S. D. No. 15 8 mills
Liberty Hill S. D. No. 16 __ 8 mills
Lyon’s S. D. No. 17 8 mills
Hibler S. D. No. 18 8 mills
Vernon S. D. No. 21 4 mills
Plum Branch S. D. No. 24
and Bonds 24 mills
Consolidated S. D. No. 1,
Parksville, Modoc and
Clarks Hill, and Bonds __17 mills
All male citizens between the
ages of 21 and 60 years, except
those exempt by law, are liable to
a noil tax of $1.00 each.
The law prescribes that all male
citizens between the ages of 21 and
55 years must pay $2.00 commuta
tion tax or work six days on the
public roads.
Commutation tax is included in
property tax receipt. .
T. J. PRICE.
Treasurer, McCormick County.
Professional Card
Toying a pencil reflectively, a
banker of philosophic turn of mind
asked me: “What do you find to be
the constant factor in such suc
cessful farming as you have seen
in the Carolinas?” I had not
thought of it before, but an answer
was on my lips immediately. “Man
agement,” said I, “good manage
ment.”
“Logicians say,” the banker went
on, “that in searching for the core
of a condition you first should look
for the factor or factors the con
dition invariably embodies. Man
agement is, as to both quality and
content, variable.”
“And indefinable.” added I. “I
have not discerned a specific fac
tor of management marking every
one of the large number of really
successful agricultural operations
looked into by me in the last four
months. Name your rule of man
agement, any rule and I’ll cite you
successful operations in which it is
not followed.”
“If They Would Manage Better . . .
It is on the subject of manage
ment that most advice, particul
arly that of gratuitous kind, is
handed out to farmers. “If they
would only manage better * * *” is
the beginning of nearly every ur
banite’s proffering of a solution of
the farmer’s problems.
Incidentally, I have talked with
a few city men who don’t affect
complete knowingness as to what is
the trouble with agriculture and
how that trouble can be corrected.
But no one of the actual farmers I
have talked with in the last several
months made even a pretense of
having a formula for assuredly
Solving even his own small part of
the problem. Those who were best
solving the problem for themselves
Reveals Origin of National Thanksgiving
W. K. CHARLES
Attorney-At-Law
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M r 5. Ruth E. Finley, former newspaper woman, disclosed a fact that
had lam dormant for many years in her new book, “The Lady of Godey’s”
by telling how Sarah Josepha Hale, America’s first woman editor, got
President Lincoln to issue the first Thanksgiving Day Proclamation in 1863.
J One Village Smithy Goes Modern
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were least assertive as to rule-of-
thumb solutions.
“The bromidic remark that
makes me maddest,” said one of
the latter, “is that of folk who, af
ter seeing what I am doing, say:
‘Why the deuce don’t all other far
mers do likewise?’ I feel like an
swering: ‘The reason is, you darn
fool, they can’t, and all would be
ruined if they did!’ It happens
that I am a university graduate
and had special preparation for
what I am doing and means with
which to do it. , Moreover, this
kind of farming can comprise only
a tiny part o^ all. Every year I
have to search out some new out
lets for my products. These rule-
of-thumb solvers of the farm prob
lem disregard the vast differences
between farms and folk who oper
ate them.”
No Common Denominator
In a South Carolina community
I talked with a woman who suc
ceeds as a farmer largely because
it would seem, of advanced use of
machinery in tilling her land. She
gave me persuasive figures in sup
port of her tractors. A few miles
away, on exactly the same kind of
land, a man was making a go with
like products. “Have you a trac
tor?” he was asked. “No, sirree,”
he replied. “Mules only are bet
ter on land like this,” and he also
supported his case with good fig
ures. ' *
Neither tractors nor mules, ac
counted for success in either in
stance. It was the management
of each source of power—and all
else—which made success possible
in a time of stress. Each of the
operators manage well but in large
ly different ways.
So it is with all cases of farming
success looked into by this investi
gator. Each seemed to turn on
aspects of management more or
less peculiar to the case. Here is
one where sheer industry, hard
work, turns the trick, but you will
find many farms whereon mere ex
ertion is not the secret. In fact,
superlative industry was not a
characteristic of most successful
farmers I saw. Candidly, the run
of them seemed to take things
rather leisurely and to use their
heads more assiduously than their
hands. And so it was with what
ever single quality of management
or even of organization, the side
line observer may specify as essen
tial to successful farming. There
is no common denominator of good
management or anything else in
farming.
But Good Management Wins
It was a surprise to be able to
find as easily as I did so many
diverse and widely distributed ex
amples of Carolina farming opera
tions that could be labeled success
ful at this time.. And all that I
can say as to the why of them as a
whole is that there was good man
agement of as many kinds almost
as there were examples.
Naturally, the best of manage
ment cannot remove all risks from
farming, or any other activity; and
Lady Luck often confers success on
bad management. Moreover, the
constituents of success, v&ry in dif
ferent cases. Examples of what I
as a studerit rate, as, farming suc
cess in the Carolinas are so diverse
as to type and distttbuted as to
locale that,—though not a high
percentage of all farming opera
tions in the area at this time,-U
they show that, with good manage
ment of manifold varieties^, agri
cultural operations of almost any
kind still can yield veritably any
where in this part of the South
satisfactory constituents of sufccess
to as many people as are at all like
ly to engage in such operations
henceforth.
Far be it from me, however, to
intimate that there does not pre
vail on the average farm in this
section about as good management
as is to tws- found in other spheres
of activity, or to hold that the best
of management could have saved
farming from the ills that have af
fected it in recent years. Farm
management in this part of the
South has progressed immensely in
the last thirty, especially the last
ten years. The peculiar ills that
lately have affected farming prob
ably have had most to do with
bringing about improved manage
ment, and in the long run this may
be of worth more than offsetting
the harm caused by those ills.
There is yet much room for im
provement and better still, fine op
portunities for persons who can
apply qualities, whatever they be,
of good management to farming.
X
“The Cougar Hunt” is the title of
a new Department of Agriculture
motion picture. It shows Federal
hunters in action.
Clinton E. Sandifer
Succumbed Monday
(Bamberg Herald of last Week.)
Clinton E. Sandifer, prominent
farmer of this community, died at
his home between Bamberg and
Denmark Monday about noon, fol
lowing an illness of several years.
Mr. Sandifer had suffered from
paralysis for a long time, and re
cently had another stroke.
His remains were interred Tues
day morning at 11 o’clock at South
End cemetery, Bamberg. His pastor,
the Rev. W. C. Allen, conducted the
funeral services in the presence of
a large number of relatives and
friends. Members of the Denmark
camp, W. O. W., acted as pall
bearers.
Mr. Sandifer had spent his entire
life in this section. He was rated
as one of the best farmers in the
county, and rarely produced poor
crops on his plantation. He was a
member of the Baptist church, and
was a high-toned Christian gentle
man who enjoyed the friendship
and esteem of every one.
He was twice married, and is
survived by his second wife, who
was Miss Florrie Free, and the fol
lowing children: Mrs. Mabel Mixon,
of Branchville; Robert and Cylde
Sandifer, Mrs. Inez Matheny, and
Mrs. Lloyd Hightower. The follow
ing brothers and sisters also sur
vive: Mrs. H. Christo, Tampa, Fla.;
Mrs. Lawrence Burch, Summerville;
Mrs. L. D. Odom, Kingstree; Mrs.
Matt McGill, Kingstree; Mrs. A.
Walters, Columbia; Mrs. Attaberry,
Columbia; Gillie Sandifer, Troy,
and a half-brother, W. M. McCue,
of McCormick.
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLE 7 /
MENT AND DISCHARGE
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
County of McCormick.
In the Court of Probate.
Notice is hereby given that Edgar
R. Price, administrator of the Es
tate of James W. Price, has this
day made application unto me for
a final accounting and discharge
as administrator of the Estate of
James W. Price, and that on Sat
urday, the 21st day of November,
1931, at eleven o’clock, has been
fixed for the hearing of the said
petition.
All persons holding claims
against said Estate are hereby noti
fied to present same, properly at
tested, on or by the above date.
L. G. BELL,
Judge of Probate for McCormick
County.
October 28th, 1931.—4t.
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Senator Fred West
Cites State’s Progress
Made Recent Years
I
Michael J. Hart of Saginaw is the
first Democrat elected to the House
of Representatives from the Eighth
District of Michigan in 32 years.
COLUMBIA, Nov. 14.—South Car
olina’s economic back-ground,
showing remarkable development
in recent years, has been pointed
out by State Senator Fred D. WesV
of Abbeville, chairman of the ex
ecutive committee of the Progress
association, in urging that tht
state marshal its force for contin
ued progress.
“Today South Carolina is facing
a crisis in common with the rest of
the world,” Senator West said. “It
is a crisis that is largely economic,
but which has its roots and wUI.
have its results in spiritual ele
ments.
“It is a new situation we are call
ed upon to face and one that re^
quired new. energy but old virtues
for its solution—virtues of under
standing, of consideration, of dili
gence, of thrift and of honor.”
“It is for us in South Carolinaj*’
Senator West said, “to pause and
look around us, to discover a mira
cle beyond comprehension to our
selves. In 1900 the population <0
South Carolina was 1,340,000; is.
1930 it was 1,737,000.
“The estimated value of property
in 1900 was $485,000,000; in 1930, ft
was $2,763,000,000, and the assessed
value of property in 1900 was $17<v-
000,000 and in 1930 it was $415,000,-
000.
“South Carolina, through its pub
lic utility output in 1912 generate#.
365,000,000 kilowatt hours, and is
1930, it generated 1,201,000,000 kilo
watt hours.
“One of the Outstanding develop
ments of the country during the
past year was the completion last
December of the $22,000,000 hydro
electric developments on the Saluda,
river. The initial instalment of 226,-
000 horse-power will ultimately be-
increased to 330,000 horse-power.,
and South Carolina is rapidly tak
ing her place as one of the leaaei*.
of the nation in the development
of hydro-electric energy.
“In 1900 the products of the cot«
ton manufacturing plants in the
state was $29,000,000; in 1920, $24L-
000,000, and in that time her spin
dles increased from 1,000,000 tv
1,500,000. ♦
“In 1900 life insurance written,
was $10,000,000; in 1930, $209,000,—
000. The total insurance in foree
in 1900 was $48,000,000, and in 193^
$668,000,000.
“Nor have we been derelict in onr
duties towards education and the
development of our school system.
In 1920 we expended $894,000 an£
in 1930, $15,775,000.”
At the same time, John E. CedL
executive director, called attention
to the progress associations’ pro-
| gram to have South Carolinians
consume more of their own foodt*
stuffs.
Mr. Cecil said the state annually
sent to other states $150,000,000 for
the purchase of products which.
; should be raised and sold in the
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