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Thirty-First Year ,
Established June 5, 1902 McCORMICK, S. C. . Thursday, June 23, 1932 8 Pages - All Home Print
Number 3
Sessions Court
Convened Monday
CIVIL COURT OPEN*™ WEDNES
DAY MORNING
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The June term of court of gen
eral sessions for McCormick Coun
ty convened here Monday morning
with Hon. C. J. Ramage, of Saluda,
judge of this circuit, presiding, and
all officers of the court at their
posts of duty. No cases were tried
except jail cases, and sessions court
lasted only one day. Civil court,
which convened yesterday morning,
will very likely run two or three
days. Cases in sessions court were
disposed of as follows:
The State vs. George Martin, col
ored, charge, disposing of property
under lien. Nol pressed.
The State vs. Frank Haskell, col
ored, charge, larceny. Not hand
ed to grand jury.
The State vs. B. Belcher, colored,
charge, house breaking and larceny.
Pleads guilty and sentenced to one
year in penitentiary.
The State vs. Walter Taggart and
Rube Martin, colored, charge, mur
der. True bill. Continued.
The State vs. John Wesley Tur
man and James (Jack) Washing
ton, colored, charge, murder. John
Wesley Turman found guilty of
manslaughter, and sentenced to 2
years in reformatory. James (Jack)
Washington, received directed ver
dict of not guilty by the court.
The State vs. Kelley Quarles, col
ored, charge, assault and battery.
'True bill found. Continued.
The State vs. Thomas (T.) Tal
bert, colored, charge, assault and
battery with intent to kill. Pleads
guilty and sentenced to peniten
tiary for 9 months.
The State vs. Charlie Gay, col
ored, charge, house breaking and
larceny. Pleads guilty and is sen
tenced to 2 1-2 years in peniten
tiary.
The State vs. Grady and Willie
Freeman, colored, charge, house
breaking and larceny at night time.
Plead guilty and sentenced to 2
1-2 years each on chaim gang.
The State vs. Thomas Tompkins,
colored, charge, violation of prohi
bition law. Notr handed to grand
jury-
The State vs. Rosco Gaddy, white,
charge, possession of still. Not
handed to grand jury.
The State vs. John Freeman, Tim
Freeman, John Wiggleton, Norwood
Wells and John Mac Gilchrist, col
ored, charge, house breaking and
larceny at night time. True bill
as to all. Continued.
The State VS. Sam'(Cripple) Lee,
colored, charge, assault and battery
with intent to kill. Not handed to
grand jury.
The State vs. Paul Jones, colored,
charge, assault and battery with
intent to kill. Not handed to grand
jury- •
*Hae State vs. Willie Marshall,
colored, charge, housebreaking and
larceny. Pleads guilty and sen
tenced to 3 months on chain gang.
The State vs. Ben Matthis, col
ored, charge, assault and battery of
high and aggravated nature with
intent to kilh Nol prossed.
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A landscape expert explains that
pine trees are naturally large, and
therefore are not adapted to grow
close to a house or for hedges.
Report Of The
Grand Jury
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
County of McCormick.
To His Honor, Judge C. J. Ram
age, presiding judge in June term
of court for McCormick County,
South Carolina:
We, the Grand Jury, beg to make
the following report:
We have passed on all bills and
matters handed to us by the court.
Our Committee on Magistrates
has examined books of all Mag
istrates of the County and find the
same neatly kept and in order and
all .fines have been accounted for in
the Treasurer’s Office.
The other various Committees ap
pointed at the February term of
court will make their report at the
October term.
We wish to thank his Honor and
all Court Officials for their court
esies.
J. L. BRACKNELL,
Foreman.
This the 20th day of June, 1932.
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Eight McCormick
s At Ft. Moultrie
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Alfred Emanuel Smith
Boys
WILL RECEIVE FOUR WEEKS
TRAINING AT HISTORIC FORT
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Launching his political career as a clerk in the offices of the Commissioner
oi Jurors in N. City, 1895, he rose steadily. Member N. Y. Assembly,
1903; Democratic Assembly Leader, 1911; Speaker, 1913; Sheriff, X. Y
County, 1915; President, Board of Aldermen, 1917; Four times Governor
of New York, 1919 to 1928, and Democratic candidate for president, 1928.
Born N. Y. City, Dec, 30, 1873; Married, Catherine Dunn, N. Y., 1900;
The New Tax,
Effective June 21st
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Ncbraskan To Paris
Mary Virginia Louis, Omaha,
Neb.. is now in Paris, sent by Gov.
Bryan to assist in dedication of
. Pershing Memorial this month, r
Eight local youths are attending
the Citizens Military Training
Camp at Fort Moultrie, S. C. They
are William J. Britt, Welbourn M.
Schumpert, Emory R. Bentley, Mil-
ton E. Walker, John T. McGrath,
James A. Lyon, Eddie W. Callison,
and John Sullivan.
The local youths are members of
a contingent of approximately 750
trainees from South Carolina and
Georgia who will receive four weeks
training at historic Fort Moultrie.
Immediately upon arrival at
camp'the trainees were given a
rigid medical examination to de
termine their fitness for the course
of instruction. Following this they
were issued uniforms, great care be
ing taken to see that the shoes und
other apparel fit perfectly so as to
present a neat appearance.
After the oath had been admin
istered and the trainees formally
welcomed to Fort Moultrie by Col
onel G. M. Allen, 8th Infantry,
Tuesday they were assigned to vari
ous companies and organized into
squads and platoons with leaders
selected from the more advanced
course members.
A balanced .interesting and pro
fitable schedule has been arranged
in the court of instruction which
the trainees will undergo. Formal
instruction in physical develop
ment, citizenship, studies, hygiene
and sanitation, military drill and
rifle practice is given five hours
each day. The remainder of the
day will be devoted to organized
athletics and entertainment. Spec
ial officers have been detailed to
have charge of the athletics. These
officers will organize baseball and
other ’eagues and plan company
and inter-company competition. In
addition to baseball; swiinming,
volley ball, rowing, tennis, track
and field events, riding, boxing and
wrestling will be participated in by
the trainees.
The finest features of Citizens’
Military Training Camps has been
declared by civilian and military
leaders alike to be the spirit of
typical American Democracy which
does not prevail in the average
summer camp.
The instructors at Moultrie are
especially selected regular army and
reserve officers. No fear need be
felt, however, that militaristic ideas
will be implanted in the training of
these youths, it is declared.
Thirty-two reserve officers of the
323d Infantry, who were carefully Cameras pay a 10 per cent tax un
selected from a standpoint of cap- der the new law.
ability, character and fitness will; The automobile tax of three per
have charge of the training for the cent will make a difference of $30
first two weeks of camp. Colonel in a thousand dollar car. Tires will
Thomas J. Wyrick of Knoxville, carry a 2 1-4 per cent tax, so that
Tenn., and Majors Chester C. if this tax is passed on, the dealer
Staples and Jno. H. Wiggs of Chat- selling a tire that has been priced
tanooga, Tenn., head the officers $10 should not charge more than
list. Officers of the 8th Infantry twenty-five cents advance. But
will have charge of the final two there is also a tax of four cents a
weeks of camp. . , . pound on tires and inner tubes.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 20.—
Probably what the average man
v/ants to know most about what
Congress has already completed is:
Hew does it affect me individual
ly?
Well, the new tax bill affects ev
erybody. In theory, some of the
manufacturers’ taxes are supposed
to be absorbed by the trade, but in
practice, all taxes are passed on to
the ultimate consumer. There is
a tax on soft drinks, for example,
and the consumer is going to pay
it whenever he buys even a bottle
of soda pop, perhaps not by paying
more, but maybe by getting less for
his 'nickle. Every time anybody
buys a watch or a piece of jewelry
or any kind of sporting goods, he is
going to pay more for them.
Those taxes and many of the oth
ers are effective as of June 21st of
this year. The average citizen is
going to pay some of them in his
monthly electric light bill, which
Will carry a 3 per cent tax. On
every long distance telephone mes
sage costing more than fifty cents
he will pay ten cents or more, ac
cording to the distance. Tele
grams now cost us all five per cent
more. If your local movie theatre
charges more than forty cents the
tax is one cent on every ten cents
above forty cents. If you have a
bank account, every check you
write will cost you two cents, which
will be charged against your ac
count by the bank. Beginning on
the 6th of July every letter will
cost three cents instead of two.
The married man with one child
with a net income of $3,000 has not
had to pay any income tax the last
few years. Next year he will have
to pay the treasury $4, because his
persona] exemption has been re
duced from $3500 to $2500. If he
cams $4,000 in 1932 his income tax
payable next year will be $44 in
stead of $16.88 which he paid this
year.
Almost every state has a gasoline
tax, and everybody is used to pay
ing it. It runs up to 6 cents a gal
lon in some states. But now on top
of that the government is going to
charge manufacturers of gasoline
one cent a gallon. If your family
uses cold cream, lipstick or other
cosmetics, they will cost 10 per cent
mere, but toothpastes and toliet
soaps carry only a 5 per cent tax.
Two Cattle Clubs
Are Progressive
Boll Weevil
Infestation Heavy
CHECK UP BY COUNTY AGENT
SHOWS FROM 60 TO 800
WEEVILS PER ACRE
A check-up this week by County
Agent E. L. Rogers in fields in five
different sections of the county
shows that boll weevils are present
In numbers ranging from 60 to ap
proximately 300 per acre.
Mr. Rogers says that those who
expect to fight the weevil should
start before the squares are large
-enough to puncture, mopping with
the 1-1-1 mixture (1 lb. calcium ar
senate,*1 gallon water, 1 gallon mo
lasses).
This mixture should be applied
2 to 3 times on small cotton, de
pending upon infestation, at 5 to 7
day intervals.
With weather conditions favor
able for weevils, the number we
now have is g, serious menace to our
crops unless they are killed before
many squares form.
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Nearly $90,000
Goes To Counties
COLLECTIONS ON INSURANCE
LICENSE FEES
JERSEY AND GUERNSEY CLUBS
FOSTER PROGRAM TOUCH
ING DAIRY PROBLEMS
CLEMSON COLLEGE, June' 18.—
The South Carolina Jersey Cattle
club and the South Carolina
Guernsey Cattle club, through re
cent similar reorganization plans,
are fostering a program which
touches all aspects of the dairy
men’s problems, says C. G. Cush
man, extension dairy specialist,
who states that through the county
unit plan of organization sponsor
ed by both these organizations,
special attention is being paid ta
owners of grade cattle which, of
course, embraces every dairy farm
er.
These organizations realize that
to breed good grade cattle and
particularly to raise the produc
tive capacity of grade cattle calls
for use of well selected purebred
dairy bulls with proven ancestry,
thus creating a market for the pro
duct of the breeder, as well as a
new and more profitable market for
grade cows—a great factor in the
income of the dairy farmer. The
breeders recognize, too, that the
dairy farmer is always a potential
market for good purebred females,
and thus again it is to the inter
est of the breeders to promote the
well-being of the grade cattle
breeder.
These association® are directing
particular attention also to studies
of feed-growing programs and the
preparation and feeding of these
home-grown feeds. This phase of
the dairy farmer’s problems will be
attacked through the extension ser
vice dairy schools, which deal com
prehensively with the growing, pre
paration, and uses of home-grown
:eeds.
Marketing is another project
which has been under serious dis
cussion by the clubs which fee’
that there are some fundamenta 1
changes imminent in the market
ing of dairy products in this state,
particularly the marketing of fluid
milk in the primary markets, re
garding improvement in quality,
simplification of distribution and
elimination of duplications in dis
tribution, adminstraton of the
statewide and city milk ordinances,
education of the consuming public
to the value of dairy products, etc.
This may point the way to com
modity organization of a more defi
nite character which will deal with
the major problems of the dairy
farmer in a material and beneficial
way.
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An inquisitive scribe wants to
know what they do with all the red
flannel that they used to put into
petticoats. There’s just this much
to it, they don’t put it in more pet
ticoats. .
Collections on additional insur
ance license fees, to the amount of
$89,190.30, have been turned over to
the state treasurer for distribution
among the counties in South Caro
lina, it was announced Monday by
Sam B. King, state insurance com
missioner, says The State of Tues
day. The fees are based on prem
iums collected by insurance com
panies for the semi-annual period
which ended December 31, 1931.
The funds will be distributed as
follows:
Abbeville $ 694.11
Aiken 1,732.59
Allendale 296.94
Anderson 4,316.57
Bamberg — 674.25
Barnwell 530.47
Beaufort 611.96
Berkeley 334.67
Calhoun 385.63
Charleston 12,527.36
Cherokee 1,199.94
Chester 1,848.02
Chesterfield 893.02
Clarendon 594.31
Colleton 627.75
Darlington 2,037.68
Dillon' - 803.04
Dorchester 465.43
Edgefield 588175
Fairfield 625.11
Florence 3,798.58
Georgetown 711.83
Greenville 9,198.76
Greenwood 2,482.27
Hampton 592.19
Horry 658.62
Jasper 156.43
Kershaw 1,159.24
Lancaster 1,056.01
Laurens 1.670.78
Lee 570.60
Lexington 1,121.32
McCormick 225.<k
Marion 1,149.57
Marlboro 1,130.30
Newberry 1,310.01
Oconee 748.38
Orangeburg — 2,365.If
Pickens 851.18
Richland ^10,602.31
Saluda 399.96
Spartanburg 7,392.H
Sumter 2,774.73
Union 1,380.1c
Williamsburg 709.31
York 2,987.56
Totals $89,190.30
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Democratic Executive
Committee Called To
Meet Here Saturday
There will be a meeting of the
Democratic Executive Committee at
the court house Saturday morning,
June 25, at 10 o’clock. All com
mitteemen are urged to be present.
J. ARCH TALBERT,
County Chairman.
J. O. PATTERSON,
Secretary.
Edgefield Legion Post
Plans Big Rally
BARBECUE WILL BE SERVED AT
HOLLINGSWORTH PLAY
GROUNDS
EDFEFIELD, June 20.—A decided
change has been made in the plan:?
of Post 30 of the American Legion,
for its big rally, Friday, June 24th.
Instead of having the barbecue at
2 o’clock, it will be served at 4:3©
at Hollingsworth’s Play Groumtv
two miles north of Edgefield on the.
Dixie Highway.
Indications point to a heavy at
tendance by Ex-Service men, es
pecially in view of the fact, that
this meeting will be a “pep” meet
ing for the State Convention of Use
Legion which meets in Aiken, Jul«
3rd, 4th and 5th.
Immediately after the barbecu?
to which the public generally is in
vited speaking will be held in fcht
pavilion on the picnic grounds
State Com. Harry M. Arthur of U2>-
ion, and Audley H. Ward, Com. at
Aiken Post have accepted invita
tions to deliver addresses. It is ex
pected that Gov. Blackwood wifi al
so speak.
The Legion Drum Corps of
gusta, Ga., will attend the rally and
in addition to playing during Use-
rally will give a Concert on the
public Square in Edgefield aboufc-
7:30 p. m.
The Legion men are hard at work
on their minstrel which will be pro
duced under the direction of a pro
fessional trainer. A contract has
been signed with Fulcher’s Orches
tra of Augusta, Ga., to play durinf
the minstrel and for the dance afr
terwards. The Edgefield Legion,
men are endeavoring to put on this
big rally at a minimum cost to Leg
ionnaires throughout the Stale-
Tickets to the barbecue will be 5*
cents for men, and 25 cents Jor
ladies and children. The admis^
sion to the minstrel will be 35 ceais
for grown people and 25 cents lar
children. The price of the dance-
will be $1.00. „
This is the third big Legion rai^r
which Post 30 has sponsored- Thf-
two preceding meetings were at
tended by several hundred Ex-Ser
vice men, and this year it is ex^
pected that equally as many Ley-
ion men will attend as heretofore
and also citizens generally are in
vited to attend the Legion men wiK
probably entertain over five hund
red people.
As heretofore announced reams-
will be provided at the Dixie High
way hqtel in Edgefield for the con
venience of visitors. There will bfr
no charge for this accommcdaticiK.
and a committee of Legion men and
ladies of the Auxiliary will be pres
ent to receive the visitors.
JAS. O. SHEPPARD.
Chairman Publicity Commille*
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State Democratic
Fund Near $2,000
COLUMBIA, June 18.—Approxi
mately $1,750 has been collected in
South Carolina for the Democratic
victory campaign, Senator V. €.
Dooper, Jr., secretary of the drive,,.
;aid today.
Several counties remain to b?
heard from, he said.
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Heads Presbyterians |
Dr. Charles W. Kerr, Tulsa, Okfe,
who succeeds Dr. L. S. Mudge, Phila
delphia, as head of the Presbortenm
Church in the U. S.