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TRUE TO' OURSELVES, OUR NEIGHBORS. OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD.
Thirtieth Year
Established June 5, 1902
McCORMICK, S.. C. Thursday, January 7, 1932
8 Pages — All Home Print
Number 32
ELD. Agent Gives
Summary Of Work
The office of the county home
demonstration agent has had a
busy year in 1931. The annual re
port written by Mrs. Nell A. Stall-
worth, Home Agent, shows the
many activities carried on by both
adult and 4-H clubs. Excerpts from
this report are as follows:
Organized Home Demonstration
work has been carried on in sixteen
communities of the county, these
being, Bethany, Dowtin, Rehoboth,
White Town, Plum Branch, Parks-
ville, Modoc, Meriwether, McCor
mick; Buffalo, Wideman, Fairfield,
Bellevue, Bordeaux, Willington and
Mt. Carmel. Other sections of the
county have come under the in
fluence of Extension work through
the 4-H boys and girls who attend
the consolidated schools and do
work in the 4-H clubs. There .were
in the county in 1930-31 eleven 4-H
clubs with an enrollment of 259
members and sixteen Home Dem
onstration Clubs with an enroll
ment of 316 members. Home Dem
onstration work has been carried
on through club meetings, demon
strations, home visits, talks, let
ters, news articles, bulletins and
office calls. The 4-H club
studied Food and Nutrition, Cloth
ing and Room Improvement. The
adult clubs studied Gardening and
Exterior Beautification, Poultry,
Health, Household Management
and Hand Work.
Within the past year the agent
has made 568. home visits and re
ceived 703 office and telephone
calls. ,There\ have been given 265
method demonstrations with an at
tendance of 4,866. Forty-six other
meetings of an extensidh nature
were ^held with an attendance of 2,-
080 making a total of 311 meetings
held with an attendance of 6,946.
The New Year finds sixteen H.
D. Clubs beginning the new project
on House-hold Management. The
first six lessons will be on kitchen
work, or the Life Saving Kitchen.
Along with this there will be work
on Poultry, Gardening, Canning,
Dairying and Health. There are
now 13 girls clubs, which are study
ing, first and second year foods and
clothing. The agent meets each
of the 29 clubs, once a month.
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. Fire Destroys Barn
A small barn belonging to Mr. F.
E. Williams was destroyed by fire
of unknown origin about 1 o’clock
Monday morning. The alarm was
given by continuous blasts from a
whistle on a passing freight train,
but the fire had gained such head
way when discovered that nothing
could be saved from the building.
The town firemen and volunteers
kept the flames from spreading to
other nearby buildings.
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Highway Body To
Meet Obligations
CHAIRMAN OF COMMISSION
GIVES OUT STATEMENT CON
CERNING FINANCES
(The State, January Ist.X
All of the stage’s reimbursement
and highway bond obligations, in
cluding principal and interest, will
be met when due, according to a
statement given out in Columbia
yesterday by C. O. Hearon, chair
man of the stat$ highway commis
sion, who said that the members of
the commission were fully advised
as to the funds and finances of the
depatment.
A few days ago, because of the
lack of success attending efforts of
state officials to dispose advantage
ously of state securities in the sum
of $10,000,000 contractors were not
ified tl^at payment for construction
work on the highways might b§
held up temporarily. They were
told that the work they were en
gaged in could.be continued with
the understanding thjat payments
would be made when funds were
available 6r that they could sus
pend operations until notified that
funds were available for meeting
girigiconstruction estimates.
The contractors, Chairman Hear
on says, are showing a co-operative
spirit in endeavoring <o avoid loss
es to the state incident to the fin
ancial situation.
Text of Statement
Chairman Hearon’s statement in
full was as follows
American Olympic Skaters in Good Form
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Bill Taylor, who is coaching the American skating team for the
inter Olympic Games at Lake Placid, N Y., says our boys are sure
^ddi£ Murphy is skating through *Burt Taylor’s legs in the
winners
picture.
State Highway
-Department Cut
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REDUCTION IN FORCE AND IN
PAYROLL EFFECTED. OF
FICIALS REVEAL
Delegation Calls For
Meeting Taxpayers,
Citizens Saturday
Following the usual custom, the
McCormick County Delegation,
COLUMBIA, Jan. 2.—Highway composed of Senator J. J. Dorn and
department officials admitted here. Representative W. D. Morrah, call
today there has been a material | a meeting of taxpayers and other
reduction in their staff of em
ployes.
A gradual lessening of road
work was attributed as the reason.
Charles H. Moorfield, chief high-
citizens at the court house here at
10 o’clock Saturday morning, Janu
ary 9th, for the purpose of discuss
ing matters pertaining to county
government prior to the meeting of
way engineer, said no new con- the general assembly next week,
tracts have been let in recent Those interested are urged td be on
months and in consequence fewer time.
employes are needed.
He said the reduction has been
gradual, being distributed thru the.
field force, engineering department
and drafting department.
No figures were available as to
the nuipber discharged.
Ben M. Sawyer, chief highway The Messenger is in receipt of
commissioner, also said here there the two following telegrams from
is a'reorganization underway and Senator E. D. Smith
that the staff is being induced. He lina:
Smith Would
Help Closed Banks
And Farmers
been salary
Washington, D. C.
January 4, 1932.
McCormick Messenger,
Reach Agreement
On Use Of Tags
GEORGIA AND SOUTH CARO
LINA EXCHANGE COURTESIES
Carolina highway depart-
The~facU and actual conditions ment offlcials announced recently
as to the funds and finances of the that a "reciprocity” agreement had
been reached with Georgia officials
under which motor vehicles licens
ed in one state might operate in
highway department are well
known to the members of the
commission and every act which
admitted there had
cuts in addition.
Mr. Moorefield said it was “un
fortunate” that .the' department McCormick, S. C.
had been forced to curtail its ac- j Immediately upon the return of
tivities during the depression per- senate members this morning foi
led. He said in some instances lowing holidays I took up with the
the department had been able to senate banking £nd currency sub-'
procure positions elsewhere for committee that has the credit cor-
some of the discharged employes, poration re-organization in charge
, An advertised sale of $10,000,000 the proposition of extending aid
McCormick County, made two land in highway bonds was canceled by to banks already, sqspended in the
sales Monday, as follows: i ooverndir Blackwood last week the event they can produce satisfaj -
53 acres Allen J. Sullivan land, to day befoTe the date set The gov _ tory collateral, thereby enabl
county. ; ernor said the market was unfavor- them to reorganize without ti
F. A. Miller property, house and a ^j e . ordinary process of receiver^
This week, Mr. Sawyer sent a and liquidation. The prospect
letter to contractors informing the adoption, of the amendment
Land Sales Made
Here Monday
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Mr. J. T. Fooshe, tax collector for;
lot in town of Plum Branch, to F.
A. Kennedy, attorney, for $97.00.
Famous Chinese
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General Mah
manding ther ~
hmre been op
in Manchuria.
com-
which
[pwiefe
has been taken by the department | the other without bein S relicensed.
for the protection of the state’s , The matter has been under ac
credit has been with the approval sion for several months and is of
particular interest to people of the
two states living in the Savannah
valley.
The agreement was subject to the
following conditions:
Any passenger vehicle licensed in
one state shall not operate contin
uously in the other for a period
longer than 30 days. 1
Any commercial truck, although
operated for transporting goods or
wares of its owner, may make only
“occaatonal” trips, construed to
mean not more than four a month,
into the other state.
Persons living in one state and
working in the other may drive
their cars within a radius of 30
miles from the state line in tl\p
state in which they work Without
re-licensing.
Trucks hauling farm products
from the farbi to the market may
operate from the state in which
they are licensed to the other with
out obtaining additional licenses.
Motor vehicles operated for hire
or carrying auxiliary fuel tanks will
not be allowed the benefits of the
reciprocal agreement.
The agreement was signed by
Ben M. Sawyer, chief highway com
missioner of South Carolina, and
John B. Wilson, secretary of state
of Georgia, and approved by Rich
ard B. Russel], Jr., goverrter of
Georgia.
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Nick sterghns, settled before sale. them the state might ^ be able the committee is very favorable.
of the commission. The depart
ment is making reductions in the
expenses of its various branches
and divisions. The public can rest
assured that we intent! to meet
when and as due all the state’s re
imbursement and highway bond
obligations, including principal and
interest.
“It is particularly gratifying to
the , members of the commission
that contractors who have work
under way for tlie department are
uniformly disposed to co-operate in
avoiding losses to the state inci
dent to the threatened insuffici
ency of funds with which to pay
estimates.
Funds' Sufficient
“It now seems* practically certain
that the department has sufficient
funds to meet all estimates earned
through December and although
the actual amounts involved have
not yet been definitely determined
that at least 75 per cent of the
contractors, having work under way
will be able to carry on without im
mediate interruption, knowing that
there may be some material delay
on the part of the department in
meeting payments as they {all due.
In other casus the difficulties pre
sented are being studied by the de
partment and the contractors in a
spirit of co-operation and in the
hope that some method may be de
vised to take care of the situation
temporarily so as to minimize just
as far as possible throwing labor
out of employment.
“The reaction of those who pro
duce road building materials as
well as of others who extend credit
to highway contractors including
the banks of the state, haa been
decidedly helpful in handling this
most serious problem. In fact, I
have found the confidence general- r i nspr i 0
ly manifested in the department’s bo ^ da y S> '
a*^ity to work out a satisfactory
solution of the problem most
heartening.”
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McCormick Schools
Opened Monday
The McCormick schools re-open-
cd Monday morning, after two
weeks’ vacafion.
Teachers and studentss^**^ 1 ^
r *cr b t 'f*'\^ork a^jr'lhere had
ueen no inte^g^-Jonof time since
ru ;mber 18th, for
Judge L. B. Bell, master, made
sales as follows:
W. P. Parks et al against A. C.
Bradshaw and Mrs. Laura H.
Bunch, 2 acres, in town of Parks-
ville, to W. K. Charles, attorney, for
$1,150.00.
Receivers of WThe Farmers Bank
against James Edwards, 49 1-2
acres, to W. K. Charles, attorney,
for $200.00.
Receivers of The Farmers Bank
against G. T. Baughman, Mrs. J. J.
Gilmer et al., lots No. 1, 2, 3 and
4 in Block “P,” in town of McCor
mick, to W. K. Charles, attorney,
for $600.00.
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Rev. W. S. Henry
To Preach At Baptist
Church Sunday p. m.
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The resident pastors of McCor
mick are announcing union services
the second Sunday evening of each
month. The first of these services
will be held at the Baptist Church
Sunday evening at 7:40, Rev. W. S.
Henry preaching. Everyone <)f any
church or of no churcji is invited.
The pastor of the Baptist Church
wishes to announce a series of four
messages for the next four Sunday
mornings:
The Meaning of Missions to God.
The Meaning of^ Missions to
Christ. *
The Meaning of Missions to The
Christian. ^ **
The Meaning of M&sionS to The
World. |
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Mr^|^^e Has Freeh
sans Dec. 31
to continue payments for their
work on highway projects.
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W. M. U. Meets At
Ninety Six Saturday
The WoAans Missionary Union
Auxiliary to the Abbeville Baptist
Association will "meet Saturday,
January 9, 1932, for the Twenty-
Eighth Annual Session, at Ninety
Six, S. C.
A most helpful program has
been arranged for the day. Sev
eral pastors of this association and
three W. M. U. State officers are
the guests speakers.
' First Baptist Church, 10:30 a. m.,
afternoon session 2:00 o’clock.
MRS. SARA C. IMBODEN,
Superintendent:
E. D. SMITH,
U. S. Senator!
H. D. Club Feted
With Party At Mrs. •
W. K. McDonald’s'
Washington, t). C.
January 5, 1932.
McCormick Messenger,
McCormick, S. C.
There being no specific provis-^
ions,in the pending finance cor
poration re-organization !?il> for
aiding farmers I have prepared and
will introduce tomorrow an amend
ment calling for an apprh£riaticn
of two' hundred million dollars to
be expended by the secretary of ag
riculture for the purpose. cJ making
loans Or advance* to fanners in toe
several states who because of
ure . of banking instltyjloi
conditions resulttqg from_
eral depression,
tain credit for crop
poses. A-group of.
my office today
ly pledged suj
ment.
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Card of Thanks
the family, thank everyone
for the kindnesses and lovely floral
offerings during the illness and at
the deal
h of our father, W. 17
Brjtt.
\^^A. K. BRITT,
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B. BRITT
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C. BRITJA
1 On account of ,toe resignation of
Miss Evelyn Ramsey, some changes
had to be made in the work, all of
which seem to be satisfactory. One
new member has been added to thk
faculty because of the vacancy.
Miss Julia Brown, one of our local
young If.aies, now has charge of
f ifth grade while Miss Virginia Lig-
n hr r been transferred to the
sch nl work.
I Patrons and triends are cordially
in.lted to vis-0 tht school, observe
and inspect at anytime. We want
to make our school 0 f ^ be
; Co-operation will aia j n uch! jt
had frfesh butter
>n December 31st,
in her garden;
is good as anna
rear.
tomatoe!
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One of the most pleasant affairs
of the Christmas season was the H.
D. Club party given at the home
of Mrs. W. K. McDonald op Tues
day afternoon, December 29, 1931,
with Misses Emmie Sheppard and
Lucia Quarles as joint hostesses.
The chief features of the after
noon were the games and contests
planned and carried out in a most
delightful manner by Mrs. Nelle A.
Stallworth. The / awards were pre
sented to Mrs. W.^E. Sheppard and
Mrs. Ellena Chea
Delicious fefi]
served the gu«
the games.
About 25
spirit
throui
den