McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, March 17, 1932, Image 2
Thursday, March 17, 1932
McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA
PAGE NUMBER TWO
McCORMICK MESSENGER
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GOOD ROADS
GOOD EDUCATION
Writing in “Roads and Streets,
M. S. Winder points out the inti
mate relationship that exists be
tween rural roads and rural edu
cational facilities.
During 1930, 50,000 school buses
transported 2,000,000 children to
and from 17,000 schools. From
year to year the number of one-
room country schools has been
gradually decreasing, and the num
ber of consolidated schools increas
ing. In 1917-18, there were 195,-
397 one-room schools and 5,349
^consolidated schools. ' By 1927-28,
the number of one-room schools
had dropped to 153,306, while con-
solidated schools jumped to 17,004.
During the same period there has
been a large increase in the num
ber of pupils transported to schools
at public expense. In 15 states,
from 1920 to 1928, this increase was
191 per cent.
It is obvious that the children of
familes living on unimproved roads
which become impassable or semi-
impassable during several months
of the year, are at a tremendous
disadvantage when it comes to
their education. The decline in
the small schools and the increase
in the large consolidated schools
serving a much wider area, makes
it necessary for each child, on the
average, to travel farther. In one
town which Mr. Winder cites, only
12 of 300 pupils enrolled in a school
jage jsdthin walking distance, while
the others dwell in a district 240
square miles in area and are
brought to classes in five large
buses whose daily mileage is 125
miles each.
We usually think of improved
rural roads from the standpoint of
their effect on the social and eco-
nomic life of farmers and small
town residents. But the influence
they have in making a high stand
ard of education available to more
children, is of extreme importance,
and is alone all the justification
that the good roads movement
could desire.
Honor Roll For
McCormick Schools
Those who have made 90 in all
work and 95 on deportment:
FIRST GRADE—
Herbert Caudle
Jamie Sanders
Mary Sue Furqueron
Kathryn Smith
Virginia Wideman
SECOND GRADE—
Mildred Creighton
Norma Holloway
Virginia Fooshe
Vivian Chiles
Donna Ludwick
THIRD GRADE—
Natalie Brown £ I .
Betty Fuller
Selma Rush
Douglass Bradley
FOURTH GRADE—
Margaret Abernathy
Jim Bradley Chiles
Aurelia Caudle
Maggie Franklin
Willie Mae Hall
Wretha Lewis
Imogene Sanders
Frances Sdhumpert
FIFTH GRADE—
Herbert Sturkey
Charles Henry Williams.
SIXTH GRADE—
Mary Elizabeth Giles
SEVENTH GRADE—
Mary Sue Coleman
Rebecca Drucker
William Fooshe !
Elizabeth Harris
Eunice Rush
Margaret Smith
Elizabeth Talbert
EIGHTH GRADE—
Marie Reames
Annie Laurie Sturkey
Connie Lee Brown
NINTH GRADE—
John Bradley
Claude Workman
TENTH GRADE—
Lorenzo Sturkey
Maggie Lou Parks
Helen Crawford
Those who should have been
among list the last month, but who
were unintentionally left off:
Maggie Lou Parks
Sara Schumpert
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More Good
Beef Cattle Come
To South Carolina
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Body, Like Auto,
Needs Right Fuel
How many persons are working
below par simply because they do
not eat the proper foods? An un-
dernourshed person cannot be ex
pected to be at the top level of ef
ficiency, just as an automobile
which does not have the right fuel
mixture cannot be expected to run
at its best.
Sometimes appetite is a good
guide to the foods one should eat
and, if combined with a knowledge
of the science of nutrition, makes
an invincible corhbination. Inez
8. Willson, home economist, says,
‘‘Choose the foods you like, but at
the same time use common sense in
irour choosing.” In explaining what
she means by common sense, she
tells what nutrition workers, by
much painstaking work, have found
that the body needs to produce the
highest efficiency. Proteins, car
bohydrates, fats, minerals, and
vitamins are necessary, or in ordin
ary foods that means meat, milk,
eggs, fruits, and green leafy vege
tables.
To be sure, all of these foods
need not be eaten every meal. Meat
can be eaten as often as the appe
tite calls for it, and it should be in
cluded regularly in the diet because
of the adequate protein which it
furnishes, as well as the vitamins
and minerals that it contains. Es
pecially do the glandular organs
contain large amounts of minerals
jsuch as iron and phosphorus which
the body must have for efficiency.
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Roman traffic cops who obtain
convictions of fraudulent taxi driv
ers, experts at meter-juggling, are
rewarded with bonusses of 25 lire,
tx about $1.30.
COLUMBIA, March 12.—South
Carolina farmers were buyers of
about half of the 29 Aberdeen
Angus cattle sold at a breed pro
motion sale at Savannah, Ga.,
March 9, says J. R. Hawkins, exten
sion animal husbandman, who is
pleased with this further evidence
of the growing interest in beef
cattle in this state.
The cattle offered, which were
furnished by breeders around
Knoxville, Tenn., and Etowah
Farm, Canton, Ga., and which Mr.
Hawkirfs states were of excellent
breeding and in good condition, sold
at an average price of $61.68, a
conservative figure in keeping with
the times. There were 19 bulls and
10 heifers, in the lot.
Purchasers from South Carolina
included Savannah River Lumber
Company, taking three of the top
bulls and two females for their
beef cattle development at Ridge-
land in Jasper county; Col. W. M.
Copp, Spring Island Plantation,
Ridgeland, taking perhaps the out
standing young bull of the sale to
head his purebred herd; H. S.
Cram, Bluff ton, two choice bulls;
George H. Ellis, Joanna Mills, Gold-
ville, two outstanding yearling
heifers; Tobias Coleman, Hardee-
villfe, S. C., and Swainsboro, Ga.,
six bulls.
The sale, Mr. Hawkins states,
was put on and supervised by the
Aberdeen Angus Association, Chic
ago, with W. H. Tomhave, secretary
of the association, present. Co
operating were W. H. Ward, agent
in animal husbandry of the Georgia
State College of Agriculture; J. R.
Hawkins, extension animal hus
bandman of Clemson College, Tap
Bennett, National Cottonseed Pro
ducts Association; and the agricul
tural agents of the several rail
roads.
Speaking of the markedly in
creasing interest in beef cattle, Mr.
Hawkins remarks that current
changes in our farming leave a lot
of rough feedstuffs on farms that
can not be disposed of to advant
age except through feeding to live
stock, and that there is much mar
ginal land that will grow good
grass. In the coastal areas and
on heavy lands elsewhere there is
he says, excellent reason for de
veloping a worthwhile beef cattle
industry.
Birthday Party DE LA HOWE NEWS
Little Miss Margaret Holloway
was over-joyed when her little
friends surprised her on her tenth
birthday at her home here last
Thursday with a party. After
many games were played they had
an Easter egg hunt.
Those present were:
Misses Imogene Sanders, Mar
garet Creswell, Mamie Louise Wal
ker, Jackie McGrath, Thelma and
Natalie Brown, Juanita and Doris
Chamberlain, Mary Cornelia Jen
nings, Mazelle Rush, Bebe and
Dora Ludwick, Betty Fuller, Eliza
beth Talbert, Vivian Chiles, Mildred
Shiflet, Frances Schumpert, Mar
garet and Norma Holloway; Mas
ters Jim Bradley Chiles, Willie,
Travis and John Edward Dorn,
Charles Morgan, Charles Henry
Williams, Herbert Sturkey, J. B. and
Edwin Holloway.
Dr. and Mrs. L. Ross Lynn of
Thornwell Orphanage, Clinton, S.
C., spent the day here Sunday. Dr.
Lynn conducted the morning and
afternoon services.
Misses Dewitt and Abbott spent
the day in Augusta Saturday.
Mrs. G. C. Roper is spending a
few days with relatives in Kings-
tree.
Misses Maggie Young and Fran
cis Walker of Troy spent the week
here with friends and relatives.
Mrs. D. W. Wiley is spending
awhile with her daughter, Mrs. T.
O. Young.
i Messrs. W. D. and J. Thos. Wiley
spent Friday afternoon with Mrs
, S. T. Young.
Mr. J. E. Wiley and family and
Miss Mamie Wiley spent Sunday
afternoon with Mr. J. A. Wiley of
Troy.
Bussey were visitors to McCormick
on Tuesday of this week.
Mr. and Mrs. John Self made a
short visit here Tuesday to the lat
ter’s sister, Mrs. H. W. Bussey.
Miss Bernice Moore from McCor
mick is spending the week here
with her grandmother, Mrs. C. H.
Stone.
Friends and schoolmates of Mas
ter G. E. Dukes, Jr.’ will regret to
know that he is suffering with ton-
silitis this week.
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Meriwether-Clarks
Hill News Items
SANDY
BRANCH
NEWS
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Mr. Lyn Jennings spent Wednes
day afternon with Messrs. T. P. and
Charles Jennings.'
Miss Evelyn Walker spent Tues
day night with her grandmother,
Mrs. Susie Walker, of McCormick.
Mr. Earle Sturkey of Lincolnton
was the pleasant guest of his uncle,
Mr. W. T. Walker, last week.
Dinner guests of Miss Evelyn
Walker Sunday were Misses Sara
and Betty Walker.
Messrs. Paul Jennings, Tommie
Willis and W. T. Walker were wel
come guests of Mr. Jesse Jennings
Sunday.
Mrs. Manning Brown spent Mon
day afternoon with Mrs. J. B. Dea-
son.
Mr. and Mrs. Neil Edwards of
Bradley and Mr. and Mrs. Horace
Edwards and little daughter, Lois,
of near Troy enjoyed Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. McNeill.
Mrs/Marion Schumpert was in
our community awhile Saturday.
Mr. Martin Ramsey spent Friday
in Greenwood.
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. McNeill and
little Billie McNeill were dinner
guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Deason
Monday. . L .
Little Elsie Duncan has been suf
fering for several days with a boil
on her face. We think she is bet
ter at this writing.
»Mr. Loyce Jennings spent awhile
one afternoon last week with Mr.
Pearce Brown.
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MODOC NEWS
Mr. G. W. Dorn of Augusta is
spending a week or so here with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. M.
Dorn.
Mr. N. E. Reese and Mr. H. T.
Hornsby spent last Sunday among
friends and relatives in Augusta.
Miss Dotty Warren from Parks-
ville was a week end visitor here to
Misses Caroline and Emily Dukes.
Mrs. G. L. Robertson from Union
spent a couple of days here last
week with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Morgan Dorn.
Mr. R. L. Scott spent the week
erid here among friends.
Mr. Arthur Reese Bussel, Mr.
Robert Buckhalter accompanied by
the former’s sister, Miss Susie
May Bussel, all from Augusta, were
callers here Sunday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Dukes, Mr. E.
F. and Mr. F. M. Bussey were visi
tors to McCormick Saturday even
ing.
Mr. R. E. Bussey from De la
Howe School spent the past week
end among relatives here and in
Augusta.
Mrs. W. McDaniel returned
last Friday to her home in Au
gusta, after spending a week here
with Mr. and Mrs. J. O. McDaniel.
Mr. C. A. Seigler was a business
visitor to Augusta last Saturday.
Messrs. J. C. Harvley and Carrol
Mr. Wates Kellar of Erskine Col
lege, Due West, spent the past week
end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. E. Kellar.
Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Hines had as
their guests Saturday night and
Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Hill Fleming
and little L. H. Hines, Jr., and Mr.
and Mrs. Guy Fleming and chil
dren, all of Leah, Ga.
Miss Claudia Bass spent last Fri
day night with Miss Joyce Bridges.
Messrs. Warlick Kellar and Eu-
b'ert Eckard spent Saturday in Au
gusta.
Miss Mary Neoma Eckard spent
the past week end in Augusta with
her cousin, Miss Virginia Fox.
Mrs. L. H. Hines entertained the
H. D. Club Friday afternoon. Those
present were: Mrs. Nell A. Stall-
worth, demonstration agent, Mrs.
W. M. Rowland, Mrs. W. G. Black-
well, Mrs. H. E. Bunch, Mrs. Heath,
Mrs. B. T. Sharpton, Mrs. R. H.
Middleton, Mrs. D. E. Eckard, Mrs.
J. J. Minarik, Mrs. W. H. Ryan, Mrs.
L. H. Hines and Mrs. R. A Cobb
Mrs. Coran Bridges and two chil
dren, Joyce and Earl, and Miss
Claudia Bass spent Saturday in
Augusta.
Mr, E. C. Jefferson and little son,
Jimmie, spent Saturday in Augusta.
Miss Lake Middleton spent the
past week in Augusta, visiting.
Miss Joyce Bridges gave a prom
party Saturday night, which was
enjoyed very much by everyone
present. Those present were,
Misses Billie and Claudia Bass,
Alice Bunch, Annie Martha Ryan,
Claire Rich and Joyce Bridges of
Meriwether and Clarks Hill and
Messrs. Jack Wood, T. W. Savage,
Pat Robertson and Clyde Morgan
of Parksville and Messrs. Eubert
Eckard and Warlick Kellar of Meri
wether.
We are sorry to say that Mr. W>
E. Kellar is still confined to his bed.
End.
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MY HOME
I want a home on the top of a hill
Where I can live, laugh, and love as
I will;
I want a garden and a garden wall
To hide wee vi-lets, and hollyhocks
tall.
I want a black earth for the raiix to
soak, t
I want a chimney with a curling
smoke,
I want an attic where-in I may
hide ♦ i
Memories and treasures set side by
side.
A nondescript cat with lazy eyes
That looks contented and ever so
wise;
I war-t rambling roses and daffo
dils;
And sunlight streaming on the
window sills;
I want a house with a heart—a
home—
“Be it ever so humble”—a place of
my own.
LOUISE DOMINICK.
De la Howe State School
Willington, S. C.
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THE STARS
A slender silver crescent,
The moon, hung in the sky;
And while the twilight deepn’d.
The stars peeped out on high.
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Deepened, darkened, twinkled
So beautiful and bright,
Silver lanterns strung along
The pathway of the night.
So Jesus came to earth,
A light of men to be
That He with goodness light
The way that makes men free.
LOUISE DOMINICK.
De la Howe State School,
Willington, S. C.
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An Englishman has designed a
midget fire engine which can
dodge and dash through traffic and
can bring two firemen to a fire
ahead of the bigger, less flexibe
engines.
Scene of the Kidnapping of the Lindbergh Baby
WHITE TOWN
NEWS
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It has been quite awhile since
we’ve seen any news from White
Town, so we decided to send fn a
few dots.
We are sorry to feport that Miss
Frances White is ill at this writing.
Miss Ethelyn Gable of Bethany
spent the week end here with her
cousin, Miss Kate White.
Visitors in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. G. V. Shrine Saturday night
were Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Whitten
of Ware Shoals.
Spend the day guests of Mr. and
Mrs. L. W. Ridlehoover and family
Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. O. C.
White and family, Mr. and Mrs.
T. R. Ridlehoover of Plum Branch,
Misses Mildred, Sallie and Frances
Mae Winn. Callers in the after
noon were Misses Evelyn and
Eunice Jennings, Mr. Ellis Jennings
and Mr. Curtis Jennings.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gable and
little son, Thomas, visited Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Quarles recently.
Miss Evelyn Jennings spent
Monday very pleasantly with Miss
Lillie Mae Gable.
Callers in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Ream Saturday night
were Mr. and Mrs. Guy Jennings
and family.
Mr. Frank Coleman of Edgefield
spent the week end with Mr. W. S.
Clem of this section.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Jennings and
family were spend the day guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Tillman White
Sunday.
Mrs. H. M. Freeland spent Wed
nesday evening with Mrs. Hamp
Miner.
Mr. and Mrs. Tillman White call
ed in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Guy Jennings and family awhile
Sunday evening.
We are glad to report that Mrs.
Dewey White is at home from the
Greenwood Hospital and is getting
along nicely at present.
“Amos.”
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N- J. A rough ladder was placed at the window of the baby’s sleeping room, marked “A” in the picture, and
the infant taken from his crib. The ladder was later found at "B” while footprints were discovered at the point “C.”
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