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; # l TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR NEIGHBORS. OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD. Thirtieth Year Established June 5, 1902 McCORMICK, S. C. Thursday, March 31, 1932 8 Pages — All Home Print Number 44 Cotton Ginning? By S. C. Counties COTTON GINNED IN SOUTH CAROLINA: CROPS OF 1931 AND 1930 The Department of Commerce, through the Bureau of the Census announces the preliminary report on cotton ginned, by counties, in South Carolina, for the crops of 1931 and 1930. The total for the state was made public Monday, March 21, 1932. (Quantities are in running bales. Linters are not included.) Baptist and Methodist Ladies Will Play Ball Friday p. m. T. E. L. CLASS AND WESLEY BIBLE CLASS WILL PLAY ON HIGH SCHOOL GROUNDS County 1931 1930 The State 1,010,325 1,015,273 Abbeville 21,439 17,720 Aiken 29,741 28,931 Allendale 6,630 7,136 Anderson ___ 77,804 65,918 Bamberg 14,019 15,265 Barnwell 18,877 19,637 Berkeley 2,402 3,392 Calhoun 16,785 16,925 Charleston __ _ * 740 1,609 Cherokee 21,033 21,276 Chester __ 24,926 23,763 Chesterfield _ 33,527 34,463 Clarendon 17,268 19,622 Colleton 9,116 10,463 Darlington 21,415 20,442 Dillon 24,022 28,560 Dorchester __ 7,263 6,568 Edgefield 19,720 19,242 Fairfield 11,243 10,793 Florence 19,878 20,467 Greenville 56,087 57,749 Greenwood _ 18,497 18,256 Hampton 6,679 7,311 Horry 920 2,202 Jasper 1,599 - 1,893 Kershaw _ 22,791 21,928 Lancaster __ 18,988 15,905 Laurens 37,809 35,044 Lee 29,039 28,266 Lexington — 16,689 18,351 McCormick 7,*5i 7,559 Marlon 9,299 10,839 Marlboro _ __ 39,379 46,160 Newberry — 25,722 24,776 ISconee 20,347 21,165 Orangeburg _ 60,903 63,222 Pickens 27,347 26,106 Richland _ __ 8,007 8,780 Saluda __ 13,785 13,059 Spartanburg 81,502 88,213 Sumter 32,824 32,415 Union 20,110 19,226 Williamsburg 15,981 16,398 York _ 39,361 36,204 All other 1,561 2,054 Anne Carter Chapter Meets With Miss Reid The Anne Carter Chapter of the r. D. C., held its last meeting with tiss Reid, at the home of Mrs. M. B. Sturkey. While only a few rere present, we had quite an en- oyable meeting. Mrs. Hendrix read the biography f Wm. Galbraith Butler. Mrs. Shiflet gave a most interest- ig talk on “Reminiscences of The >ld South,” and sang very sweetly The Bonny Blue Flag,” after rhich, the hostess, assisted by Miss ohnson, served delicious cream nd fancy cakes. United Daughters, let us keep orever green, the memory of our allant soldiers, and do homage to heir noble deeds, “Lest we Forget.” The: Chapter will meet with Mrs. :. B. Brown April 7th. Every mem- er is urged to be present. Reporter. Bard of Erin Chauncey Olcott, famous for fifty cars as the “Irish Tenor,” died in ? rance at the age of 72. He was a ftUvc,of. Buffalo^Ni^Xi The most exciting baseball game of the season is scheduled for Fri day afternoon at 3:30 o’clock, April 1st, when the members of the T. E. L. class of the Baptist Sunday school will play the members of the Susannah Wesley Bible class of the Methodist Sunday school. The game will be played at the high school ball ground. Be on hand to boost for your team. This is a game the whole town will turn out to see. Admission, 10 and 15 cents. The line up is as follows: Methodist team— Mrs. A. C. Earnhardt Mrs. W. N. Smith Mrs. Elmer Creighton Mrs. Henry Rush Mrs. Grady Beaird Mrs. A. L. Beaird Mrs. Jamie Smith Mrs. J. T. Faulkner Mrs. J. C. Brown Mrs. C. H. Hugulcy Mrs. Ruth Duncan Mrs. J. B. Britt Mrs. J. T. Fooshe Mrs. Grady Smith Mrs. W. C. Graham Mrs. R. G. Killingsworth Mrs. H. D. Wideman Miss Lucy Brown Miss Kathleen Abercrombie • Baptist team— Mrs. D. M. Bullock Mrs. Frank Mattison Mrs. E. L. Rogers Mrs. Sid Arrington Mrs. H. N. Coleman . Mrs. Willie Talbert Mrs. Maurice White Mrs. Charlie Morgan Mrs. D. V. Cason Substitutes— Mrs. C. K. Epting Mrs. R. L. Faulkner Mrs. Porter Dorn Mrs. Edgar Brown Mrs. Rudolph Strom Mrs. J. W. Ferqueron Mrs. Sam Giles Mrs. John. Wilkins Mrs. J. S. Heiss XXX Practical Pointers For Poultry Profits CLEMSON COLLEGE, Mar. 26.— With existing prices of poultry and eggs, if a profit is to be made from chickens, it is unwise to dispose of laying hens in the spring because this is the time when hens are in the peak of production, advises P. H. Gooding, extension poultryman. A laying hen, he says, will make money at present prices of eggs but, on the other hand, the flock should be watched carefully so that as soon as a hen goes out of pro duction she can be disposed of. Since egg production is the ma jor factor in determining if a hen is profitable, Mr. Gooding thinks that every effort should be made to breed into the flock the char acter for high egg production. This may be done by leg-banding the broody hens so that they can be identified and disposed of in the fall. It is known that, as a rule, hens that go broody several times are poor layers. To make next year more profit able, poultrymen will not overlook the breeding cockerels. The only measure of the ability of a cockerel to transmit high egg production to nis daughters is the egg record of iis mother. A good policy is to buy i few pedigreed chicks from a areeder and toe-punch them so hat the cockerels for next year’s .'lock may be selected from them. X Card Of Thanks A Little Girl With a Big Voice F 0: iH W':-. Lily Pons, the diminutive French soprano, who is the most sensational $ i “find” in Musical circles for years, photographed in her home after any evening of singing at the Metropolitan Opera. / j Flour Distribution The American National Red Cross of McCormick County will re ceive within the next few days flour that it will distribute to Needy and Distressed people. Need is the basis for distribution of this flour. The Relief Committee and Local Committees are required to exercise due care and precaution in the distribution. Applications for flour must be made through your local/committee and forwarded by local committee to Relief Committee at McCor mick, S. C. Each applicant must be now liv ing in McCormick County and be able to show to the Local Commit tee that he is in need and distress. The following compose the Relief Committee at McCormick: W. T. Strom J. A. Talbert Mrs. J. E. Bradley Mrs. A. J. Hendrix J. M. Brown Local Committees: MT. CARMEL— Mrs. W. A. Scott Mrs. D. J. McAllister WILLINGTON— Mrs. G. O. Hemminger Mrs. J. M. Gibert BORDEAUX— Mrs. G. W. Cade Mrs. L. A. Hoffman CLATWORTHY’S— J. J. Link J. C. Dansby PLUM BRANCH— Jas. J. Collier Mrs. M. E. Bladon PARKSVILLE— W. P. Parks Mrs. R. N. Edmunds / MODOC— J. M. f?§ese H. W. Bailey CLARKS HILL— J. D. Bunch Mrs. Sunie Wood MERIWETHER— Mrs. Marie R. Minarik Thomas Meriwether REHOBOTH— Mrs. W. R. Gilchrist Miss Annie Morgan WHITE TOWN— Mrs. E. R. White H. M. Freeland LIBERTY HILL— W. E. Sheppard, Sr. W. L. White LYON’S— E. L. Hollingsworth Miss Kathleen McKinney DOWTIN’S— E. C. Cheatham K. Dowtin YOUNG’S— Miss Willie Young Reese Young J. ARCH TALBERT, Chairman, American Red Cross. McCormick, S. C. X Schedule Of Home Demonstration Work For Next Week Mrs. John Sibert Dies At Sumter * After Long Illness (Sumter Daily Item of March 25.) Mrs. Lucia Smith Sibert died at the home of her sister, Mrs. John Hughes, 26 S. Washington street, at 6:45 o’clock this morning, fol lowing a long illness. She was 34 years old. Mrs. Sibert was born in Spring- hill, Lee county, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Smith, and a niece of former Judge Mendel L. Smith of Camden, and Sydney Smith, of Columbia. She came io Sumter in 1912 and wae a student at St. Joseph’s Academy. Since then she had made her home in Sumter. In 1920 she was married to John L. Sibert. Mrs. Sibert was an active mem ber of the First Baptist church. She had an unusually sweet dis position, which endeared her to all with whom she came in contact. Her death brings sorrow to a large circle of friends.' Mrs. Sibert is survived by 'her husband, lifer parents, and-the fol lowing sisters and brothers: Mrs. John Hughes, Mrs. R. L. Saffold, Misses Jennie and Elizabeth Smith, W. M., A. M., J. P., Sydney and Harry Smith. The funeral services will be held at the residence of Mrs. John Hughes at 4 o’clock Saturday af ternoon, followed by interment in the Sumter cemetery. The serv ices will be in charge of Dr. W. G. Moore. The following wil act as pall bearers: Active, J. Cliff, Brown, B. L. Williams, George D. Levy, G. B. Moseley, T. M. Monaghan, B. V. Connell; honorary, J. Otto Teich- er, S. B. MifSfchell, Dr. J. A. Mood, Dr. H. A. Mood, R. D. Graham, F. B. Creech, H. G. Osteen, Harry Ryttenberg, Earl Rowland, L. M> Galloway, J. A. Raffield, Phil Booth, Jr., E. Turner "White, ’ Man ning Brown. x Auto Kills Bride Wed But 5 Davs We wish to thank our friends and neighbors for their kindness to us when part of our house was blown away. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Jennings ( and Family. I Monday, April 4, office. Tuesday, April 5, Bethany 4-H Club, afternoon Bethany H. D. Club. Wednesday, April 6, McCormick 9th Grade 4-H Club, afternoon Plum Branch H. D. Club. Thursday, April 7, Willington H. D. Club. Friday, April 8, Meriwether H. D. Club. Saturday, April 9, office. MULLINS, March 25.—Mrs. Ern est F. Jones, 17, a bride of five days, was instantly killed today five miles south of Mullins, when while skating on a highway she was struck by an automobile driven by W. H. Thompson, Gresham, S. C., depot agent. The automobile, occupied by Thompson and J. W. Jones of Brit tons Neck, turned over after strik ing the young woman, caught fire and seriously injured the occup ants. Both men were brought to a Mullins hospital in an unconsci ous condition. Carl Smith, the first to reach the scene, pulled Thompson from beneath the burn ing car. Mrs. Jones’ neck was broken. The car turned over four times, accord ing to Nina Brown, a companion of the dead woman, who also was rkating. Miss Brown said she noticed one car passing another near them and that she called the fact to the at tention of Mrs. Jones, who was un able to escape from the car’s path. The condition of Thompson and J. W. Jones had not been determ ined by physicians tonight. Hell Divers” Coming To Abbeville WALLACE BEERY INSIGHT ON STUNT FLYING Naval aviators represent the highest type of trained stunt flyers in the world, in the opinion of Wal lace Beery, who is co-starred with Clark Gable in “Hell Divers,” open ing Monday at the Abbeville Opera House. In the thrilling Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer drama of the air, Beery, himself a full licensed transport pilot, flew practically every type of ship and was present at every evo lution in the great fleet maneuv ers. “These fellows do power dives, hurling themselves downward, two miles in less than half a minute,” says Beery. “They fly in forma tions, almost wing to wing, and loop, wheel, dive, and peel off, with the certainty of a precision instru ment. “The remarkable thing is the youth of these flyers. They seem mere boys. But any one of them has a coolness, a presence of mind, a flying sense that I think no civilian aviator, no matter how experienced, ever achieves. I speak from experience—I have flown quite a while. I have always urged private pilots never to stunt, for the good of aviation. I still urge this, but to see how safely these navy men stunt was, nevertheless, a revelation to me.” In “Hell Dive^,” Beery plays a veteran aviation “C. P. O.” who is in constant fear of being displaced by Gable, a representative of the newer and more advanced school of flying. A huge supporting cast includes Conrad Nagel, Dorothy Jordan, Marjorie Rambeau, Marie Prevost, Cliff Edwards, John Miljan, Lan ders Stevens, Reed Howes and Alan Rosco. Apart from the gigantic naval air thrills, filmed and recorded with government co-operation, a poig nant story of love, heroism and sacrifice figures in the dramatic romance. George Hill of “Big House” fame directed. Showing at the Abbeville Opera House, Monday and Tuesday, April 4th-5th. txt Fidelis Class Meets The Fidelis Class of the Metho dist Cfhurch held its regular month ly meeting March 24th, at the home of Miss Annie Sue Graves, with Miss Virginia Pennal and Miss Martha Major as joint hostesses. Fourteen members were present. A short program was given. An interesting feature of the business session was the discussion about selling the Holland’s Magazine. The class was divided into two sections, Miss Alma Faulkner, the captain of the Bulldogs, and Miss Lois Deason, captain of the Tigers. After several contests were en joyed a delicious salad course was served. ALMA FAULKNER, Reporter. 1X1 Wideman School Honor Roll Fred Edmunds Blease Edmunds William Bowick Bunard Spence Daisy Edmunds Robert Edmunds Janie Lou Spence Bennie Wideman Mary Sue Wideman James Edmunds Douglass Shannon Claude Bowick Raymond Edmunds Herbert Bowick X Play At Plum Branch School Friday Night’ On Friday evening, April 1, at 8 o’clock, there will be a play, “Dea con Dubbs,” presented in the audi torium of the Plum Branch School. This play, a comedy, is put on by the Brunson School of Edgefield, ... and promises to furnish you with both laughter and enjoyment. A small admission fee will be charged, the proceeds being divided between the schools of Plum Branch and Brunson. String music will also be render ed. X . ^ National Radio Program For Club Members, April 2 CLEMSON COLLEGE, Mar. 28.— The economic value of 4-H club work will be stressed again in the monthly National 4-H Club radio broadcast on April 2, and Dan Lewis, acting state boys’ club agent, urges 4-H club members and others in this state to listen^in, at the usual hour for these" bro&dC£ 12:30 to 1:30 p. m. esatern standard Ume. The program of discussions for April 2 includes: planning .the home garden; 4-H poultry pays; what 4-H club work has meant to our community; significant ac complishments of 4-H club work. The music on the program fea tures America’s county dances and includes ten selections among which are The Virginia Reel, Ark ansas Traveler, Old Dan Tucker and others. . The United States Marine Band, which furnishes this music, - opens the program with America the Beautiful and closes it with The Star-Spangled Banner. The program is sent out over the National Broadcasting Company’s network, stations nearest for South Carolina listeners being WIS, Co lumbia; WPTF, Raleigh; WWNC, Asheville; WSB, Atlanta. txt There’s Always Room For Cheer The first woman to be elected trustee of the Western Theological Seminary, Chicago, is Mrs. Robert B. Gregory. txt Only two species of trees are common to both eastern and west ern forests in the United States, the quaking aspen and the black wil low. Exchange. Would you rather be alive than dead? Well, you are. Would you rather live under cov er than out in the cold? Well, you do. Would you rather have warm food for yourself aad family than go foraging? Well, you have it. Would you rather have health than sickness? Well, you have it, in all probability. Would you rather have freedom than be a slave? Well, you have it. Life you have, liberty you have, and the.pursuit of happiness—;ah, don’t get that mixed up with the pursuit of money. Money is an ele ment in happiness, but the least dependable element. What most of us need, sorely, right now, is perspective and pa tience. The times are sick, and we cannot put through our plans without changing them, or maybe waiting a while. And while we modify plans, or decide to wait, let us do it with good cheer. The most liquid asset in the world is good cheer. ix t | Jumps Four Miles J Smaranda Braescu, Rumanian par* achute jumper, holds the European^ record and is trying to beat the world’s record of a 21,827-fobt drop* 1