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Thirtieth Year
Established June 5, 1902
McCORMICK, S. C. Thursday, December 3, 1931
8 Pages — All Home Print
Number 27
Thirteen 4-H Chibs
Organized In County
Thirteen 4-H Clubs have be£u
organized in McCormick County
this month with total enrollment
of 229 club girls. The clubs will
study First and Second Year Foods
and Clothings.
' It wag necessary to organize 5
clubs in the McCormick High
School to enroll all who wished to
join. These girls come from the
town of McCormick and surround
ing communities. Three clubs
were organized at Washington
School and two at Plum Branch.
McCormick Grammar School has
one club of girls who are just be
ginning club work and new clubs
have been 'organized at Buffalo
and Bethany.
The clubs with their officers are
as follows:
McCormick High School 11th
grade:
Pres., Betty Workman.
Vice-pres.. Elsie Langley.
Sec. and Treas., Frances Strom.
Pro. Chairman. Mildred Britt.!
McCormick High School 9th
grade:
Pres., Sarah Smith.
Vice-Pres., Alma Faulkner'
Sec. and Treas., Benzie Rankin.
Pro. Chairman. Gladvs Price.
McCormick High School 10th
grade: -
Pres,. Sarah Bracknell.
Vice-Pres., Martha Lang.
Sec. and Treas., Lois Arrington.
Pro. Chairman. Eugenia Langley.
McCormick High School 8th
grade:
Pres., Matilda Williams.
Vice-Pres.. Lillian Tuten.
Sec. and Treas. Henrietta Brown.
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Mrs. Susan Palmer
Dies Suddenly
Mrs. Susan Goodwin Palmer died
at her home in the Buffalo com
munity at 10:30 o’clock Monday
night from a heart attack. She
was 74 years of age and a life long
member of Buffalo Baptist Church,
and was the widow of the late
Samuel Palmer.
Funeral services were conducted
Program For Friday
Evening, Dec. 4th
AT 8 O’CLOCK, McCORMICK
HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
As the first entertainment put
on for school benefit, this season
we are offering the following at
tractive and interesting program
on Friday night of this week.
A recital of a beautiful one act
by the pastor, the Rev. Mr. Lide, p 2 a y—^^5 Grace McCord, Eng- !
assisted by the Rev. A. H. Buzhardt. instructor in the High School.
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’Way Down East they still use the slow, patient ox for jobs that call for heavy hauling. Mames
money crop is potatoes. So Lenville Hawkcs of Cumberland Center loaded 40 bushels of spuds into this 1W>-
year-old ox-cart, yoked up his team of white-faced Hereford steers, and started to take the load to Washington
as a gift from Governor Gardiner to President Hoover. City folks who had never seen an ox-team crowded
around the rig as it was photographed in Times Square, New York, and wondered what the long goad in the
driver’s hand was for.
of Troy A. R. P. Church and Rev.
Leon T. Pressly of McCormick
A. R. P. Church, and interm-
Vocal Duet—Prof, and Mrs. Dean
of Calhoun Falls.
A performance by one of Au-
ent made in McCormick ceme- g US t a ’s most popular magicians,
tery at 3 o clock yesterday after- 1 Admission—Adults 15 cents, and
noon. v G. P. McCain’s service in children 10 cents.
charge.
Mrs. Palmer is survived by five
daughters and four sons, as 'fol
lows : Mrs. W. F. Cothran, Mrs. J.
T. Dillashaw, Mrs. F. T. Young, Mrs.
J. Z. Edmunds and Mrs. Louis Rob
inson: Messrs. G. G., W. H., S. B.
and Calhoun Palmer, all of McCor
mick, and a number of grandchil
dren.
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Sudden Death Of
Mr. Jimmie Newby
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Freshman Class
Elects Officers
Pro. Chaijman. Billie Morrah. T/iffcTIft Ollltm
McCormick Grammar School, • L,luIlh V^lUIIS Olgll
6th and 7th grades, meeting at
High School building:
Pres., Elizabeth Brown.
Vice-Pres., Rebecca Drucker.
Sec. and Treas., Elizabeth Talbert AIM
Pro. Chairman. Elizabeth Harris.
McCormick Grammar School
Food Club:
Pres., Vanda Clair Ludwick.
Vice-Pres.. Thelma Brown.
Sec. and Treas., Mayzelle Rush.
Pro. Chairman, Margaret Hollo-
■way.
Washington Clothing Club:
Pres., Margie Reese.
ViCe 'and S "^ e , B mS Neoma Wadsworth, chairman of the Com-
Employment Pledge
TO STIMULATE BUYING
AND GIVE EMPLOYMENT
WHERE POSSIBLE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 30.—
Lions ClubS throughout the country
i are pledging their members to give
employment and to resume normal
buying within their means, accord
ing to a statement received by Eliot
Junior Order
Sec
Eckard.
Pro. Chairman, Carlyn Dukes.
Washington Food Club Unit II:
Pres., Elmira Wood.
Vice-Pres. Frances Wells.
Sec. and Treas., Viola Wilkie.
Pro. Chairman, Earle Parks. '
Washington Food Club Unit I:
Pres., Mary Louise Dom.
Vice-Pres.. Martha Hazel Bailey
Tnltfee on Co-operation with Na
tional Organizations, from Arthur
B. Heaton, a member of the Lions
Club of Washington, D. C., who in
itiated the movement.
“On the principle that public
buying is one of the most powerful
forces to help end the depression,”
said Mr. Heaton, “a group of local
service clubs in Washington, D. C.,
S^'and-TrStMldredGUcISt M^eMd 5 Sake^umhlie?
Pro. Chairman, Annie Laurie Jy ; P u „„„„„
Wood.
Plum Branch Food Club Unit I:
Pres.. Jane Bracknell. ,
Vice-Pres.. Hazel Langley.
Sec. and Treas., Mary Katherine
Self.
Pro. Chairman. Bernice Jennings.
Plum Branch Clothing Club:
Pres., Edna Minor.
Vice-Pres.. Helen Cheatham.
Sec. and Treas., Bernice White.
Pro. Chairman, Alma Jennings.
Buffalo Clothing Club:
Pres., Bfelle Hester.
Vice-Pres., Louise Lovelace.
Sec. and Treas., Sarah Frances
Franklin.
Bethany Food Club:
President. Helen Minor.
Vice-president, Eliza Bussey.
Sec. and Treas., Frances Goff.
Program Chairman, Alice Rush.
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Card Of Thanks
To our friends and neighbors, we
wish to acknowledge with grateful
appreciation your kind expression
of sympathy in our recent bereave
ment.
Mrs. Emma Smith
And FamUy.
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witnin the limit of their means.
This movement has been so suc
cessful locally that the Lions In
ternational has sent similar
pledges to all its 2,600 local clubs
in the United States.
“Replies numbered in the hund
reds have been received from Lions
Clubs in all sections of the country
and the pledge has been signed
by thousands of members. Since
part of the pledge is to solocit sim
ilar action among others, the
movement does not end with the
Lions Clubs alone. The pledge
reads as follows:
“ ‘ Upon my honor, as a member
of the (insert name of local ser
vice club), I hereby pledge that
while we are emerging from the
depression, I will, to the best of my
ability, observe each and every one
of the following rules:
“ ‘ 1. I will furnish employment,
when possible, on two days of each
week to one or more persons for
work outside of the ordinary rou
tine for which I regularly pay em
ployes.
“ ‘ 2. I will seek the procurement
of a similar pledge from at least
one other person who is not af
filiated with any of the service
clubs of the city.
“ ‘ 3. When feasible and eco
nomical, my circumstances consid
ered, I will purchase during each
week at least two articles useful
to myself and family but not es
sentially indispensable.
“ ‘ 4. I will endeavor to comply
in spirit and in letter with any and
every action that my club might
determine to take in the interest of
reduction of unemployment.’
“In addition to the pledges, many
Lions Clubs have been circulating
small cards to be left in stores
when purchases are made under
the plan. These read as follows:
To The Manager:
This purchase, not an indis
pensable one, is made in support of
the allied service clubs campaign
to relieve the present unemploy
ment and depression situation.”
“A space is left for the signature
of the purchaser and the name of
his club.”
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Card Of Thanks
Organized Here
Calhoun Council, J. O. U. A. M.,
was organized here on Tuesday
night, December 1st, with thirty
charter members. “Calhoun Coun
cil” was the name chosen for the
council. The following were elect
ed to serve as officers:
Junior Post Council, J. A. Talbert.
Vice Council, Jno. T. Faulkner.
Recording Secretary, W. W.
Keown, Jr.
Financial Secretary, R. L. Faulk
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Treasurer, W. T. Strom.
Conductor, H. N. Coleman.
Warden, Geo. L. Sharpton.
Outside Sentinal, G. N. Moore.
Inside Sentinal, C. K. Epting;
Chaplain, J. P. Robinson.
Trustee to serve 18 months, W. S.
Arrington.
Trustee to serve 12 months, J. P.
Robinson.
Trustee to serve 6 months, C. H.
Fooshe. j
The above officers will be install
ed on Thursday night, December
10th, at which time all members
are requested to be present. Any
one desiring to join may come in
as a charter member up to Thurs
day night, December 10th.
The second and fourth Thursday
nights of each month were select
ed as meeting nights for the Cal
houn Council.
Application for a charter has
been made and will be granted this
council on Thursday night, Decem
ber 10th, and every member must
be present at that time.
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Wideman H. D.
Club Meets
South Carolina Gin-
nings Show Increase
COTTON GINNED PRIOR TO NO
VEMBER 14 IN SOUTH CARO
LINA: CROPS OF 1931-1930
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Dear Mr. Editor:
Please allow me a little space in
your paper to thank my friends for
the kindness and offers to me since
I had the misfortune of losing my
stock by lightning, and especially
to thank the Red Men and the peo- |
pie of McCormick for the purse
they gave me.
CHARLES L. FREELAND.
Plum Branch, S. C.
The Wideman H. D. Club met on
November 24, ^931. The follow
ing program was carried out:
Song—America.
Bible reading—Psalm 100.
Prayer—Miss Mattie M. Spence.
Minutes.
Reading — Thanksgiving—Mrs.
Spence.
Our Thanksgiving—Miss
Carroll.
Thanksgiving D., ry—Miss
tie M. Spence.
Thanksgiving Beginning -
Elizabeth Wideman.
The following officers were elect
ed for the coming vear:
Mrs. L. W. Bowick. president.
Miss Elizabeth Wideman vice-
president.
Mhs Mattie Spence, secretary
and treasurer.
After this the meeting was turn
ed over to our agent who gave us
our club cards and a lecture on
“Health of the Home Maker,”
pointing out the ways our steps,
energy and health could be pre
served.
The club was invited to meet at
the hospitable home of Mrs. L. W.
Bowick in December and let
“Santa” come to see each of the
members.
“Capsule” friends were drawn,
which caused lots of fun and we
were reminded to keep our friends
name a secret, except to tell Santa
to remember them.
Misses Mattie Spence and Eliza
beth Wideman were appointed to
The Department of Commerce,
through the Bureau of the Census,
announces \ the preliminary report
on cotton ginned prior to Novem
ber 14, by counties, in South Caro
lina, for the crops of 1931 and
1930. The total for the state was
made public Saturday, November
21.. (Quantities
are in
running
bales. Linters are
not included.)
County
1931
1930
The State __
930,786
879,087
Abbeville _ _
19,866
14,559
Aiken __ __ _
28,711
26,136
Allendale _
6.254
6,888
Anderson _
69,027
55,583
Bamberg __
13,724
14,983
Barnwell v
18,114
19,144
Berkeley
2,170
3,168
Calhoun _ _ _
15,867
15,516
Charleston __ _ _
607
1,327
Cherokee _ .
19,263
18,197
Chester
. 23,109
19,964
Chesterfield
31,377
29,068
Clarendon _ __ _
16,905
18,937
Colleton
9,020
10,237
Darlington _
20,237
17,503
Dillon _ _
23,050
23,428
Dorchester
7,058
6,418
Edgefield _
19,088
17,511
Fairfield
10,800
. 9,686
Florence
17,465
17,291
Greenville
48,679
47,320
Greenwood
17,281
15,287
Hampton
6,527
7,087
Horry
762
1,783
Jasper _
1,534
1,842
Kershaw _ _ _
21,254
19,496
Lancaster _ _
16,566
12,698
Laurens _ __
35,314
29,127
Lee _
27,343
25,168
Lexington
15,196
15,857
McCormick _ .
6,993
6,647
Marion __
8,111
3,550
Marlboro _ _
38,018
38,011
Newberry
23,815
19,543
Oconee
17,322
17,362
Orangeburg
58,531
59,891
Pickens
22,240
21,633
Richland _
7,523
7,963
Saluda
12,595
10,895
Spartanburg
72,893
74,583
Sumter
30,980
29,596
Union
18,820
16,291
Williamsburg
15,196
15,459
York
34,020
29,426
All other __
1,561
2,028
Santa Claus Letters
For The Children
Children who want their letters
to Santa Claus printed in The Mes-
c ’ r 'nrrer are urged to write and send
represent our club as local leaders them to this office by Saturday,
and meet with the other club lead- December 5th, so that some of
ers in McCormick each month to ' hem can be printed next week and
aid our agent in her work here. the others the following week. On-
Red Cross Seals were distributed ly two more weeks left in which to
and the county chairman, Mrs. publish Santa Claus letters, so at-
Carrie Talbert, asked our co-opera- tend to this right now if you want
tion in the sale of same.
After a song, we adjourned.
MATTIE M. SPENCE,
Reporter.
The freshman class of McCor
mick high school met Monday, No
vember 30, for the purpose of elect
ing officers for this year.
The following officers were elect
ed:
President—Anna Furqueron.
Vice-president—Matilda Williams
Secretary and Treasurer—Hen
rietta Brown.
This is our first year in high
After an illness of about ° n o school and we, as freshmen, ace
hour. Mr. Jimmie Newby died at n ianning to make thi^one of the
his home here about 2:30 o clock f res hman classes ever record-
Monday morning. He had not been ed in the hist ory of the high
real well for some time, but was up school
and about as usual Sunday and
retired for the night apparently
feeling as well as usual. About
1:30 he began to suffer from what
was thought to be a heart attack,
which resulted in his death at
2:30. ' •
Funeral services were conducted
by the Rev. Leon T. Presslv and in
terment made in the Newby grave
yard five miles south of McCor
mick at 10 o’clock Tuesday morn
ing. G. P. McCain’s service in
charge.
Mr. Newby was a son of the late
Gusse Newby and the late Mrs.
Emma Robinson Newby of this sec
tion and was 57 years of age at the
time of his death. He is survived
by two sisters and four brothers,
as follows: Mrs. G. E. Carjoll of
McCormick and Mrs. Georgia
Walker of Newberry; Messrs. Char
lie, Gusse and Pat Newby of Mc
Cormick and Walter Newby of Iva.
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Mr. Wallace Smith
Dies Of Pneumonia
Mr. Wallace Smith died at a hos
pital in Camden about mid-night
last Thursday night of pneumonia.
For the past few weeks he had
been making his home with his
sister, Mrs. B. W. Best, of Bethune,
where he had a position with a
highway construction company. He
suffered several days from flu,
which developed into pneumonia
shortly before he was taken to the
hospital. He was 20 years of age,
a member of the Methodist Church
and was born and reared in Mc
Cormick.
Funeral services were conducted
at his home here at 2 o/clock Sat
urday afternoon by his bastor, the
Rev. W. S. Henry, assisted by the
Rev. Leon T. Pressly of the A. R. P.
Church and the Rev* Dr. D. V. Cas-
son of the Baptist Church and in
terment made in the city cemetery.
G. P. McCain’s service in charge.
He is survived by his mother,
Mrs. Emma Smith, of McCormick,
and three sisters and three broth
ers, as follows: Mrs. P. J. Robin
son, McCormick; Mrs. B. W. Best,
Bethune, and Mrs. F. L. Shealy,
Alcolu; and Messrs. Grady and
Jamie Smith of McCormick
Howard Smith of Manning.
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The Mendelssohn
Club Meeting
vour letter printed. Write plain
ly and leave at least half an inch
space between the lines and don’t
i crowd the words too close together.
The Mendelssohn Club had a
very enjoyable meeting with Miss
Mary Sue Coleman acting as
hostess for the occasion.
In the absence of the president,
the vice-president, Miss Mary Sue
Coleman, took charge of the meet
ing Each member answered to
the roll call with the name of a
composer and one of his works. Af
ter a bit of routine business the
following program was successfully
rendered: , . „
“Through the Air”—Keren—
Nelle Fooshe. „« J J
“Second Mazurka —Godard—
Helen Crawford.
“Life of Ludwig von Beethoven
—Eula Caudle. , ^ „
Duet: “O’er Hill and Dale”—
Engelmann—Mary Sue Coleman
and Rebecca Drucker.
Works of Beethoven—Benzie
Rankin. . ^ .
March of Hongroise—Kowalski—
Lillian Tuten.
A contest. ,
After these numbers the hostess,
assisted by Miss Rebecca Drucker,
served a delicious salad course.
On December 15 the club will
meet with Miss Helen Crawford.
Let’s try to have a full house at
this meeting. „
E. Caudle,
Reporter,
Making Honor Roll
At The Citadel
Cadet C. N. Pennal, of McCor
mick nf the Freshman Class of
The Citadel. Charleston, S. C., has
succeeded in making the honor roll
for the 2nd academic month. To
make the honor roll at The Cita
del is a difficult task and shows
that Cadet Pennal is progressing
well in his adademic work.
Cadet J. S. Dukes, of the Senior
Class of The Citadel, Charleston,
S. S., has succeeded in making the
honor roll for the 2nd academic
month. To make the honor roll
at The Citadel is a difficult task
and shows that Cadet Dukes is
progressing well in his academic
work. He is g,lso president of the
Y. M. C. A.
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Methodist Bazaar
. Next Tuesday
The annual Methodist Bazaar
will be held Tuesday, December 8,.
in the Miller building on Main
Street. i
Fancy work will be for sale as
well as delicious things to eat. The
nublic is cordially invited to buy
from the articles on display. Have
manv things that are needed for
the home as well sis other things
that will make lovely Christmas
gifts. ^
Sophomore Class
Holds Meeting
A meeting of the Sophomore
class was called Tuesday. Novem
ber 24, for the purpose of electing
officers.
tne following officers were
elected *
President, John Bill Bradley.
Vice-president, Sara Louise
Strom.
Secretary and Treasurer, Alma
Faulkner.
We, as officers who were selected
to represent our class, shall en
deavor to make ours the best class
in the history of McCormick High
School.
ALMA FAULKNER,
Reporter.
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Henry Pi Fletcher, who has re
signed as Chairman of the U, v b.
Tariff Commission, is expected tp be
appointed to a diplomatic post.