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^Thirtieth Year
Established June 5, 1902
McCORMICK, S. C. Thursday, December. 31, 1931 Only Four Pages This Week
Number 31
South Carolina Crop
Summary For 1931
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* COLUMBIA, Dec. 21.—1931—
"Weather during the planting and
i growing season of 1931 was gen
erally favorable for good stands
and clean cultivation., Rainfall
from April to September was
about 12 per cent below normal but
■showers were very timely and kept
crops going surprisingly well in
.view of the lack of reserve mois
ture due to light winter rains.
Rainfall only one fourth of normal
in September. October and Novem
ber reduced yields of late crops, but
fortunately our major crops had
about matured good yields before
the drouth set in and what dam
age occurred, was largely offset bv
ideal harvesting weather as all
crops were gathered in just about
perfect condition so far as weather
■damage was concerned. For the
year as a whole weather influences
were about as near ideal as could
be expected.
• Based on December 1 prices the
total estimated value of South
Carolina crops produced in 1931
is $71,214,000. This is a decrease
of $47,443,000 or 40 per cent from
the valuation of $118,657,000 in
1930 and $69,530,000 or 49.4 per cent
below the total value of $140,744,-
000 in 1929. In 1931 sixteen gen
eral farm crops were worth $63,-
926.000; fruits and nuts $1,844,000;
and fifteen commercial truck
crops! grown principally for ship
ping) $5,444,000. Commercial truck
was valued ati$7,683,000 in 1930 and
$7,999,000 in 1929. The decline in
crop values due to much lower
prices of fann products this vear,
for the total quantity produced in
1931 was about 4J> per cent above
production in 1930 and about 17
per cent above that of 1929.
Crop yields per acre this year
averaged 5:7 per cent above 1930
and 16>9 per cent above the yields
of 1929. Total harvested acreage
has changed but little during the
past three years, the estimate of
4,732,000 acres from which crops
were gathered this year being
about 1 per cent below last year
and 1 per cent above the total har
vested acreage of 1929. The trend
has been downward on cash crops
and upward on food and feed
crops. Declines of 11 per cent in
cotton and 15 per cent in tobacco
were about offset by increased
acreages of practically all other
crops.
With the exception of cotton, the
estimates of acreage, yield and
Father of Radio
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Senator Guglielmo Marconi vra»
j honored by a world-wide broadcas
m which forty nations in turn praise*
I him during one of the greatest hook
' ups ever made.
F armers’-Taxpayefs’
League To Meet Here
Saturday, January 2
Mr. W*. E. Sheppard, president,
has called a meeting of the McCor
mick County unit of The Farmers’
and Taxpayers’ League to be held
at the court house here at 10
o'clock Saturday morning, Janu
ary 2, 1932. All members and oth
ers interested are urged to be
present on time.
jXI—
S. C. WEEKLY
INDUSTRIAL
REVIEW
The following record of industrial
activity lists items showing invrst T
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
i, iip,«.,,i i (owns mentioned, and may be con-
production of 1929 have -been re- sidered generally correct,
vised on the basis of Census figures
for 1929 and the 1930 and 1931 es
timates have been revised propor-
tionatelv. Cotton estimates are
revised In May of each year on the
basis of final Census ginnings.
The estimated Cotton crop of 1,-
015,000 bales of 500 pounds gross
weight is valued at $30,450,000 com
pared with $49,550,000 in 1930 and
$68,060,000 in 1120. Cottonseed is
valued at $5,490,000 which is about
45 per cent below the 1930 value
and 4$ per cent below the value of
1929. The cotton acreage was re
duced 11 per cent but the best av
erage yield per acre during the past
eleven years resulted in the largest
crop since 1920.
A 15 per cent reduction in To
bacco acreage with a lower yield
“—sacre resulted in a croo about •_ -- — r .-. . _ -
oer cent, below 1930 and 20 per erection of two bridges here for
cent below 1929. The 1931 esti-1 $14 *23. „ „ w _
mate of 70,070,000 pounds has a I White Hall — W. R. Coe corn-
total value of $5466.000 which com- pleted two-room negro school house
pares with OSfcOO.OOO pounds and and will be known as Cherokee
$11,832,000 valde in 1930: 87,084,000 School.
pounds and $0,498,000 In 1929. 1 Bids being asked for star maU
The Corn acreage at 1,608,000 route between Belton and Green
acres is 5 per cent above 1930 and ville.
15.5 per cent above 1929. The yield Lexington — 15,196 bales cotton
per acre has been almost exactly ! ginned in Lexington County prior
14.5 bushels for the past three to November 14, according to-D. E.
years. The estimated crop of 22,- Efird, special agent for Department
994.G00 bushels this year compares of Agriculture.
with 22.200.000 bushels in 1930 and Camden — Court Inn opened lor
20.184,000 in 1929. However, the winter season. ^ .
price oer bushel is reported as less! McCormick -—Department » of
than half that of last vear and the 1 Commerce awarded contracts for
total value of $10,117,000 is 49 per grading and surfacing work in Mc-
Columbia — Department of Com
merce awarded contract for erect
ing Veterans’ Hospital in this city
for-$689,008.
Abbeville — Paving operations
underway on Calhoun Falls high
way in this vicinity..
Columbia — Contract awarded
by Department of Commerce for
erection of $5,000 post office.
C. G. Fuller of Bamnwell, sub
mitted low bid of $193,237 for bit
uminous surfacing 22 miles of
Route No. 49 from Myrtle Beach
to intersection with Pawley’s island
road at Waverly Mills, in Horry and
Georgetown counties.
Spartanburg — Department of
Commerce awarded contracts for
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The four 4-H Club girls who woo the national Style Show champion
ships, wearing the clothes they made themselves. Left to.right they are,
i Helen Louise Thomas, Amesville, Ohio, semi-tailored silk dress; Annette
Yonkelowitz, Hoopestown, III, tailored wool dress; Louise Morgan,
: Buchanan, Georgia, cotton school dress; Mary Marley, Ashland, Mass.,
! informal party dress. Each girl gets a free tour to the Shrines of American
> History, and Annette, the grand national champion, gets a trip to Europe.
No Extension For
Tax Payments
County Auditor Pennal and
County Treasurer Price on Monday
received the following letter from
Comptroller General Beattie with
reference to tax payments:
‘•‘You are requested to call the at
tention of taxpayers to the fact
that December 31st is the last day
for payment of taxes without pen
alty.
In view of the urgent need of
funds by both County and State
Governments it is improbable that
extension without penalty can be
made during the year 1932.”
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335 Bushels Corn
On Three Acres
two Connick County to amount to
$154,307.
Lancaster — Consolidation of
cotton mills at this place. Fort
Mill and Chester, merging into
well $4,500,000 corporation, announced
recently.
cent below the value of the
previous years.
It was a good year for small
grains and per acre yields were
about-the best ever produced in the
State, with total production "
above recent vears. . . .
Sorine weather was excellent for' Georgetown — Stretch of pave-
Irish Potatoes and both yield and ment between this city and An-
production were above usual. It drews completed. . . .
was too dry for Sweet Potatoes, the South- Carolina to spend $10.-
yield b^ing 37 per cent below and 000,000 more on highway work.—
production 32 per cent below the Columbia, Free Press,
good croo of 1930. I Aiken — Tentative plans under-
Hay yields were about usual but way to reopen local bank,
an increased acreage gave a total' Yemfssee — Considerable home
crop about 24 per cent above last building activity underway here,
year | Charleston — Cancer clinic form-
; Ari increased- Cowoea acreage I ed at Roper Hospital,
with good yields produced a crop Greer — Cornerstone of . Go °ct
43 per cent larger than last year. Shepherd Mission Episcopal Church
Based on the December 1 price of edifice, being erected on comer
65 cents per bushel the crop is Jason and Cannon streets, laid,
valued at $845,000 compared with Belton — Three offices for three
$1638 000 in 1930 and $1,626,000 in doctors completed over Hortons
iq9<> Pharmacy. . 1
rw- *-> drouth, Soybean fields Entire route of Pickens-Easley
were below last year'but with an Highway opened to traffic. i
increa c *>d acreage the total crop Kingstree — Raymond - Epps
pbout 1C percent larger. Fruit Shop opened on Academy ^
’deld of Sorghum Svruo wa^ v r a front im-
a'b'vr* aver a 0,0 but the acreage was Y ' C A ’ ftont
vMr 1 The fall w« ^ken - A- H. Paxson leased
K^ rt^fo- Shvnr Cano en" Aiken Theatre for period of five
—’ about 32 P er cent below y *Paved route between Andrews
and Georgetown opened., . . \
t— Columbia — Construction^ to be-
IF WANT- to rent or buv gin soon on building fdwcogt
county or town property, see M. about $25,000 to replace
X B Sturkoy, McCormick, S. C. State Park Tuberculosis
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average.
COLUMBIA, Dec. 30.—Virgil Ruff,
student in vocational agriculture
at the Prosperity school, made 335.4
bushels of com on his three-acre
project this year, according to rec
ords filed in the office of The state
supervisor of vocational agriculture
here by his agricultural teacher, F.
N. Culler. The yield was made at
a totalacost of $66.21.
Young Ruff, according to the
record filed by him through his
teacher, planted his com on bot
tom land soil which has been built
up for two years by cowpeas and
soybeans. This added to the
fertility of the soil as well as to the
humus and moisture-holding abil
ity of the soil. r
‘ The corn was planted 10 to 12
inches apart in rows about 48 inch
es, apart. The land was thoroughly
disked and prepared before plant
ing. The land was fertilized with
8-3-3 fertilizer at planting. When
the corn was a knee high, young
Ruff applied 100 pounds of Chilean
nitrate of soda per acre as a side-
dresser. Douthit’s variety of com
was planted.
Young Ruff is marketing some
bushels of $234.78. The total cost
of the project was $66.21 which
leaves him a net profit for the
three acres of $168.57.
“I learned from the project,”
said young Ruff “that to produce
high yields it is necessary to have
the proper number of stalks in the
land and a well prepared seed bed
and proper fertility to feed the
number of stalks on the land.”
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50th Anniversary
Observed By Couple
At Callison Sunday
Mr. and Mrs: J. C. Rush, of Cal
lison, Celebrated their golden wed
ding anniversary on Sunday with
a large dinner which was attended
by all of their children and near
ly all of their grandchildren. In
addition several special friends en
joyed the occasion.
Those in attendance included
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. McAllister, of
Callison; Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Rush,
of Atlanta. Ga.; Mr. and Mrs. H.
E. Rush, of McCormick; J. T. Rush,
of Winnsboro; Mr. and Mrs. C. M.
Rush, of Greenwood; Mr. and Mrs.
E. W. Rush, of Callison. Mrs. J. T.
Rush, a daughter-in-law of Abe
couple, with her two children,
Dorothy and Thomas, was unable
to be orosent. Friends attending
were Bill Loean, of Atlanta, Ga.,
Mrs. Bell Anderson, of Callison, and
Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Wren, of Calli
son.
DE LA HOWE NEWS
The visitors to the school during
the week end were:
Misses Blanche and Elizabeth
Jeffords, Ernest Sligh, Jr., and Her
man Rawl of Columbia.
Misses Louise and Marie Bishop
and Mr. Carl Biggers of Greenville.
Mrs. Janie Butler, Miss Helen
Dorn, Miss Odell Wiley and Fuller
Wiley of Troy.
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Smith and
children of Charleston.
Misses Margaret and Miriam
Lander of Calhoun Falls, Miss
Janice Tribble of Honea Path and
Keith Hinds of Birmingham, Ala.,
were the guest of Mrs. M. K. Hinds,
Sunday.
Saturday afternoon Mr. Gettys
carried a group of boys and"girls to
the show at Abbeville.
Christmas dav Mrs. Hinds, diet
ician, was hostess of a theatre par
ty at Abbeville consisting of her
cook girls.
Christmas night some of the
high school girls entertained with
a play called “Susan Gregg's Or
phan Party,” under the direction of
Miss Sarah Craig. The play was
thoroughly enjoyed by the children
and visitors.
Miss Essie Guy is. visiting rela
tives in Chester.
Dr. Blakely of Staunton, Va., gave
an interesting talk Sunday after
noon. Dr. Blakely’s father was
superintendent of this school when
the state took control in 1918 and
was the - one to receive the first
appropriation.
Miss Mamie Smith, matron* left
Monday momine for Charlotte, N.
C., to visit relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Rheney ’of
McCormick sent the boys and girls
a large box of apples for Christmas.
The gift was appreciated very
much and we thank them very
heartily for the remembrance.
Misses Elizabeth and Olive
Branch and Miss Leila Shuman
were visitors in Greenville Monday.
Mrs. Maggie Richardson, and
Mrs. Leila Wilson of Greenwood,
Mrs. Janie Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Rob
ert Bishop of Greenville were visi
tors Sunday afternoon. Sixty-two
years ago Mrs. Maggie Richardson
was a girl in the school. Now she
has two grandsons here.
Dr. Sullivan, Mr. and Mrs. C. W.
Warr, and Paul Jeffords all of Co
lumbia and Mr. Jennys Wilhalf of
Washington, D. C., were visitors at
the school Monday.
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Street Singing Here
Next Saturday
James A. Talbert, colored, an- 1
nounces that he has invited a num
ber of choirs from nearby colored
churches to sing on the streets of
McCormick Saturday afternoon, 1
January 2nd, beginning at 1
o’clock. 1
Several white and colored men
have been invited to make short
talks during the afternoon.
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Winston Churchill, famous Brit
ish statesman, got confused in New
York tfaffic and was badly hurt
when a car struck him.
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Mr. W. H. Britt
Succumbs To Illness
Mr. William Henry Britt died at
his home in the Buffalo section at
9- o’clock Tuesday night, following
an illness of about a week. He
had been in bad health several
months, but was up and about as
usual until about a week before his
death when he was forced to his
bed by a malady that gradually
sapped away his life.
He was in the 79th year of hi*
life and was one of the county’s
best farmers and most substantial
citizens, a life long member of
Buffalo Baptist Church and a true
Christian gentleman. He was a
son of the late Mr. Joseph J. Britt
and the late Mrs. Susan Bouchillon
Britt of that section.
His wife, Mrs. Georgia Kennedy
Britt, preceded him to the grave
by a little hnore thafti 10 years. He
is survived by five sons, as follows:
A. K. Britt of McCormick, D. C.
d3ritt of Little Falls, N. J., S. L.
Britt of McCormick, W. B. Britt of
High Point, N. C., and J. B. Britt
of Willington; one brother, Mr.
Charlie J. Britt, of Bolivar. Tenn.:
and four sisters, Mrs. Mattie J.
Watson of Anderson, Mrs. Mollie
Clinkscales of Willington, Mrs.
Sarah Mattison of McCormick and
Miss Lillie Britt of McCormick.
Funeral services were conducted
at ^Buffalo Church at 3 o’clock yes
terday afternoon by his pastor, the
Rev. T. D. Lide, assisted by the Rev.
Leon T. Pressly, and interment
made in the church cemetery. J. S.
Strom’s service in charge.
Pallbearers were as follows: Act
ing—w. E. Britt, J. W. Britt, T. L.
Edmunds, J. C. Bowick, J. Frank
Mattison and W. M. Talbert. Hon
orary—J. L. Perrin, L. G. Bell, S. H.
Talbert, Edwin Parker, T. J. Price,
Judge C. J. Perryman, J. C. Tal
bert and Hon. W. D. Morrah. .
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Cotton Ginnings
S. C. Counties
By
COTTON GINNED PRIOR TO DE
CEMBER 13 IN SOUTH CARO-*
LINA: CROPS OF 1931-1930
The Deparment of Commerce,
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through the Bureau of the Census,
announces the preliminary report
on cotton ginned prior to Decem
ber 13. by counties, in South Caro
lina, for the crops of 1931 and a .
1930. The total for the state was capital may be obtained and sell to
(Special to The Messenger.)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 30.—
Wall Street spread its cards before
the Senate Investigation. Commit
tee inspired by Senator Hiram
Johnson of California and gave an
exhibition- of frankness that aston
ished the country. One major
point developed from the testimony
of Charles E. Mitchell, of the Na
tional City Bank, was that this
country had less to fear from re
pudiation of their obligations from
foreign countries than from in
attention to our own domestic fin
ancial situation.
Mitchell advised that Congress
immediately set up an agency com
parable to the War Finance Board'
capable of absorbing a large share
of the non-liquid assets of this
country now unmarketable except
at a ruinous discount.
Thomas W. Lamont, Of J. P. Mor
gan and Company, was equally
frank, declaring that investors in
this country had nothing to fear
from their investments in Euro
pean securities, declaring that the
loans were based upon thriftiness
and economy of the people of Ger
many, France and Italy, who have
shown through the centuries a
willingness and ability to pay. Fig
ures were also- presented to the
Senators showing that many of the
short term, and private loans have
beempaid in part.
Another fact brought out was
that the reputed wide spreads be
tween the price Wall Street houses
paid for foreign bonds and the
pirice paid by the ultimate investor
was less than five per cent, in most
cases. Some loans, notably one to
the Argentine Republic, was shown
to have been made at a figure
around one fifth of one per cent,
the low commission charge being
fixed so that the loan could be
made “as a matter of public duty.”
While evidences .of hostility ’on
the- part of some of the Senators
on the committee were not lacking
the big bankers showed no resent
ment at any of the.questions and
at no time asked to have questions
withdrawn of modified. In the
last analysis, the bankers admitted
that'mao# of the loans were made
without security, other than the
promises of the individual govern
ments. In other words, they were
a moral hazard which the bankers
thought amply safe.
The first definite statement of
Wall Street regarding debt can
cellation was made at the hearing
both Mr. Lamont and Mr. MitcheA
asserting they were taking no sides
in any movement for a reduction
in reparations, although they ad
mitted that such a reduction might
be found advantageous. Mr? Mit
chell declared that question rested
squarely.on Congress and that he
felt he had ho right to express any
opinion. ‘ /
Political observers here assert the
quiz of the two noted‘bankers re
sulted in the most open discussion
of foreign finances that has ever
been held here. They expect it to
veer the expected attack on Wall
Street, a most popular move by
Western legislators, to a disdhssion
of financial plans to liquify all
frozen assets now held by Ameri
can investors in order that fresh
made public
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Monday, December, ^
of the WaH
Being the recipient of so much
kindness before and during Christ
mas, I want to say through The
Messenger, that I appreciate the
gifts of the people of so many nice
things. In a few days. If spared,
I will have lived 86 years, mostly a
life of events.
Sincerely,
.. . f; . J. B. HOLLOWAY.
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A large orchard near Dover,
Delaware, it is believed, contains
the largest single block of bearing
apple trees in the wdrld.
Linters
County * 1931
The State 988,297
Abbeville 21,139
Aiken — 29,379
Allendale 6,473
Anderson — 75,602
Bamberg 13,934
Barnwell 18,567
Berkeley 2,240
r^alhou" 16.581
Charleston 725
Cherokee ’ 20,508
Chester — 24,684
Chesterfield 32,864
Clarendon 17,242
Colleton 9,109
Darlington 21,185
Dillon 23,745
Dorchester 7,196
Edgefield — 19,591
Fairfield 11.162
Florence 19,251
Greenville 53.790
Greenwood 18,231
Hampton 6,614
Horry 901
Jasper *— 1,570
Kershaw 22,456
Lancaster 18,377
Laurens —- 37,451
Lee 28,440
Lexington 15,989
McCormick 7,217
Marion 8,996
Marlboro 39,031
Newberry 25.230
Oconee 19,280
Orangeburg ~ 60,090
Pickens 25.414
Richland 7.877
Saluda — 13,375
Spartanburg 78.629
Sumter 32.454
Union « : — 19,768
Williamsburg _ 15,891
York 38,488
All other 1,561
61,945
15,188
19,495
3,359
981 034 action in summoning the leaders of
I7’l20 both parties in Congress to an in-
28362 formal breakfast at the White
7 034 1 House, where the Administration’s
- plans for financial relief, both for
eign and domestic, were laid before
the President’s guests. Informal
„ announcements after the break-
16 638 i fast indicated that the President
1 590 won over most of those present to
20 558' speedy action on ail vital matters
23 148 pending before Congress.
33 287 Legislation in favor of the rail-
19554 roads is expected to occupy most
10414 °f the attention of Congress when
19*954 ^ reconvenes after the Christmas
27 423 Holidays.
a’549 • The Administration’s plan Is to
18*965 form a reconstructed finance coi-
10 609 poration with enormous lending
19*836 power which wiU offer to take
54*036 these securities off the hands of
17 689 the present holders. Using the
7 233 War Finance Board as an example
2 565 the sponsors of the Bill point out
1*886 that the War Board’s greatest out-
21’541 was $134,000,000 to some 4,300
15 024 country banks. The amount out-
33’257 standing fell to $20,000,000 four
27*426 years after the board was estab-
17736 lished.
7*426 ' Passage of the Bill, it is said, will
10436 release many millions in the real
44*078 estate market and have a tendency
23 619 to reestablish values in that field.
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