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i TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR NEIGHBORS, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD. Thirty-First Year Established June 5, 1902 McCORMICK, S. C. Thursday, August 4, 1932 8 Pages — All Home Print jjg^ ♦» Number 9 Campaign Meeting At . Parksvilie Tomorrow The second campaign meeting for McCormick County this year will be held at Parksvilie tomorrow, Friday, August 5th, at the school building midway Parksvilie and Modoc, and is scheduled to open at 10 o’clock a. m. There will be a barbecue on the grounds. The general public is extended a cordial invitation. The county campaign was offi cially opened with the meeting at Plum Branch last Friday, which was well attended by people of that and other sections of the county, The itinerary is as follows: Parksvilie Aug. 5th Willington *ug. 12th Young’s Aug. 19th Mt. Carmel Aug. 23rd McCormick Aug. 26th TXI Cotton Shirts To Replace Wool In Clemson Uniforms STEP MADE TO MAKE MORE EX TENSIVE USE OF SOUTH CAR OLINA PRODUCTS CLEMSON COLLEGE, Aug. 2.— The decision of Clemson College of ficials to adopt cotton shirts to eventually replace wool shirts here tofore specified in the uniform re quirements of Clemson students is another step in the movement to have South Carolina people buy and use South Carolina products, says J. C. Littlejohn, business manager, who announces that the new cot ton shirt is a South Carolina pro duct made at Ware Shoals, and that Its adoption further reduces the expense of attending Clemson College. The contract price, he states, is such that three of the cot ton shirts can be had for one of the wool shirts now required. The new cotton shirt decided on is a gray sanforized cotton broad cloth which was adopted by the uniforms committee as the best ob tainable after samples of cloth and shirts had been secured from vari ous sources and tested in the Tex tile Department of Clemson College by Director H. H. Willis. The Bo ard of trustees of the college has authorized the action, and Col. R. John West, the new commandant of cadets, heartily endorses it. The garment will bear a Clemson label but will be made by the Ware Shoals manufacturer under specifi cations stipulated by the Clemson authorities. Because of existing contracts with the wool shirt manufacturers and because of wool shirts now owned by Clemson students, the change from wool to cotton will' not be made completely at once, Mr. Little john explains. When students en ter Clemson irl September they are outfitted with shirts, trousers and caps by the uniform manufacturers. The plan is to supply each cadet this fall with three cotton shirts as part of the uniform equipment. It is expected that as the wool | shirts give way more and more cot- j tori shirts will replace them, so r that toy another year the change’ will be complete. Extra cotton shirts may be secured by students at any time at the low contract price. txf Utilities Not Permitted To Ab sorb Power Tax Light and power customers in McCormick will have to pay the jiree per cent tax on bills sent out August 1st and thereafter. This tax was not included in the amount shewn on the statements sent out August 1st, inasmuch as the com missioners expected to absorb the tax before receiving notice to the effect that they could not do it. The notice reads: The Bureau of Internal Revenue has ruled that electric utilities, whether privately or municipally owned, may not absorb the new 3 per cent federal tax on domestic and commercial power. The bureau based its ruling upon the language of the revenue act, which provides that the tax for electrical energy furnished is “to be paid by the per son paying for such electrical en ergy and to be collected by the vendor.” If companies were al lowed to absorb the tax for their customers the door would be open ed to competition between com panies on the differentials repre sented by absorbing or passing on the tax. Moreover, if municipal plants absorbed the tax this sum would be lost to the federal gov ernment as municipal revenues are not taxable. Before the bureau made this rul ing considerable confusion existed in the interpretation of the law, es pecially in the case of municipal plants, as shown by news items re ceived from many scattered sources, which indicated they were planning to absorb the tax. -tX2- J. Clifton Rivers Dies In Columbia STATE WAREHOUSE COMMIS SIONER DIES OF HEART ATTACK Speedboat Queen b gD Predict Controversy Over St. Lawrence Treaty .•xwvX-XvX-: • «•**>*. : Mi mi w W 6 Loretta Turnbull. California, times feminine International ioat champion, couldn’t drive nough to evade cupid, so this rill marry R. B. Blythe, New former personal representative ionel Lindbergh. COLUMBIA, July 29.—J. Clifton Rivers, state warehouse commis sioner, died at his home here to night of a heart attack. Mr. Rivers was stricken about 2 p. m. His death came shortly after 10 p. m. He was 56 years old. He was bom at Mount Croghan, Chester field county. Mr. Rivers resigned his seat in the legislature, where he had sat for six continuous years, March 1, 1920, representing Chesterfield county, for the office of state ware house commissioner, for which he was unanimously elected by the general assembly. The Rivers family is one of the oldest in South Carolina. It was founded by three brothers, John B., William and Thomas, who came from England about 1750 and set tled near what is now Charleston. They owned large estates on the islands and were planters and slave owners. The worehousc commissioner completed his high school course at Chesterfield and under a private tutor was prepared for Wofford college as a member of the class of 1894, but because of sickness in the family was unable to complete his course. His early life was spent on a farm near Mount Croghan and in subsequent years he has been interested in agriculture. He left the farm and in 1910 or ganized a mercantile business at Mount Croghan and was actively identified with that enterprise until 1915. He served continuously by elec tion as magistrate from 1900 to 1914. In 1914 he was chosen a member of the legislature. He was a member olj the Masons and Woodmen of the World and was a member of the Methodist church. Mr. Rivers is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mary Ellen Allen Riv ers; five daughters and five sons. The daughters are Mrs. J. A. Dem- , by of Pageland, Mrs. J. H. Cook, Mrs. H. J. Griner, Miss Lucy Rivers and Miss Jessie Rivers of Colum- j bia. The sons are L. J. Rivers of Columbia, L. S. Rivers of Alexan dria, Va.; W. H. Rivers, Duncan Rivers and George Rivers of Co lumbia. j Registration Books Be Open Three Days In September AND THEN BE CLOSED UNTIL AFTER THE GENERAL ELECTION % U. S. Secretary of State, Henry L. Stimson, right, and Canadian Min ister Wm. D. Herridge, left, are here shown signing the St. Lawrence Treaty, the estimated $400,000,000 seaway, Great Lakes-St. Lawrence river to ocean. It is already predicted that this treaty will face bitter senatorial ooDnsitinn at the next session of congress. Messrs. J. A. Christian, T. R. Cartledge and S. H. Talbert, mem bers of the County Registration Bo ard, announce that the board will i be in session at the clerk of court’s office at the court house for three days in September, beginning on the first Monday, which will make the session run the 5th, 6th and 7th. Then the books will be closed until after the general election in No vember. Bethany H. D. (lub Has Meeting Baptist Revival Begins Sunday REV. C. M. COALSON OF WABILEY, GA„ WILL ASSIST THE PASTOR Mrs. Georgia W. Reese Dies At Modoc TXT. Clean Off Premises The pastor will preach Sunday morning on the subject “Stirring Up The Eagle’s Nest.” Rev. C. M. Coalson of Wadley, Ga., who is to be with us, will not arrive until Monday. Several of our young people will have charge of the Sunday evening service at 8:30. The general sub ject of this program, which is spon sored by the Baptist Student Un ion and is being presented in churches over the South, is the re ligious work being done by the stu dents of today. tXt Ask Closing For Church Services All places of business, offices, etc., are urged to and requested to close between the hours of 11 a. m. and 12 during the week of August 8-13 on account of revival meeting at Baptist Church. The city coun cil and undersigned feel that the citizens owe this respect to the churches and hope that you will close for one hour morning service when there is a revival in our town. C. K. EPTING, Mayor. X Livestock Reminders August Attention CLEMSON COLLEGE, Aug. 1.— Livestock reminders for August at tention of busy farmers are given by L. V. Starkey, chief animal hus bandman; C. G. Cushman, exten sion dairyman; and P. H. Gooding, extension poultryman. Animal Husbandry Full feed hog now weighing 100 pounds and intended for Septem ber market. Keep shade and water before bogs during hot weather. Make plans to sow some small grain for forage this fall. Give the sheep a fresh pasture if possible; this may make them lamb early. Use oats for horses and mules and save corn for hogs. Give beef calves some grain in a creep. Dairying Mow pastures to keep grasses tender and to kill weeds. Maintain milk flow by temporary grazing of Sudan grass or Pearl millet or by cutting green feed. Prepare for heavy fail seeding of barley, oats, and rye for both grazing and winter grain to make up for this season’s corn shortage. Seed liberal acreage cl oats and vetch for roughage. ■ Keep milk products clean and cool and deliver promptly. Poultry Do not force the pullets into production too early. Clean and disinfect the laying houses before using. Free pullets from internal and ex ternal parasites before housing. Cull the non-producing hens. x Cob is an old name for spider, hence the origin of the word cob web. After an illness of a week. Mrs. Georgia V/. Reese died at her home at Modoc Sunday night. Funeral services were conducted at the late residence by the Rev. J. F. Warren of Parksvilie and interment made at the cemetery at Parksvilie at 3:30 o’clock Monday afternoon. J. S. Strom’s service in charge. Mrs. Reese was 66 years of age and had been a life long member of Modoc Baptist Church, and was a Christian lady of many fine and lovable traits. She is survived by five sons and two daughters, as follows: Messrs. Clifford, Ernest and J. Morgan Reese, Sr., of Modoc, W. W. Reese, Augusta, and J. E. Reese, Columbia; Mrs. J. W. McDaniel of Greenwood and Miss Georgia Reese of Modoc. jxt Card Of Thanks The family of Mrs. George W. Reese take this method to voice their appreciation, and to thank each one for the many kindnesses shown us during the illness and at the death of our mother. We wish to especially thank Mrs. C. R. Davis, R. N., for her kind and faithful service, which was a great consolation to us. May God’s richest blessing rest upon each one of you. The Family. By J. Morgan Reese. XXX Gilgal Meeting Starts August 7tli The annual revival meeting will begin at Gilgal Baptist church next Sunday, August 7th, and continue for one week. There will be morn ing and afternoon services with dinner served on the grounds on Sunday. The remainder of the week, the services will begin at 11 a. m. and 8:00 p. m. The pastor will do the preaching in the meet ing. The public is most cordially invited to worship with us. Come. G. W. GURLEY. Pastor. tXt Living Cost Has 7 Per Cent Drop WASHINGTON, July 30.—A 7 per cent drop in the cost of living be tween December and June was reported today in a labor depart ment study of expenses cf working men. Living costs in June were 6.9 per cent less than in December. 1931; 9.7 per cent below June, 1931, and 4.7 per cent less than 1917. Food costs dropped 12.4 per cent between December, 1933 and June of this year; clothing 5.7 per cent, rents 10 per cent, fuel and light 5 j per cent, house furnishings 13.3 ! and miscellaneous expenditures 2.2 , per cent. The average cost cf living, th:j department said, was 20.3 per cent less than in June, 1929 with food decreasing 35.3 per cent; clothing 20.8, rent 16.9, fuel and light 10.3 house furnishings. 22.7 and inis- On account of the prevalence of typhoid fever in many towns of South Carolina and fearing an epi demic might visit our town this fall, I urge all property owners to have premises cleaned up by the 15th day of August, when an in spection by the board of health will take place. Have v/eeds cut, old cans, trash, etc., piled near alleys so the scavanger man can haul off, wells filled where not used and gen erally police up premises. We will also appreciate if you wdll report any unsightly places, weeds or filth of any kind in the alleys, streets or public places to the town authori ties so we can have same cleaned up. We are determined to do ev erything possible according to our means to prevent an outbreak of this kind and ask the citizens to co-operate with us in every way possible. C. K. SPTING, Mayor. v i— AUGUST Farm Calendar celiancous cent. expenditures 2.5 per CLEMSON COLLEGE, Aug. 1.— Important phases of farm work that may not be negelected in Au gust without loss are given below by Clemson College extension special ists—R. W. Hamilton, agronomist; E. H. Rawl, horticulturist; Alfred Lutken, entomblogist; J. T. McAl ister, agricultural engineer. Agronomy Plan now for abundant winter legumes for soil improvement, the most economical way to increase soil fertility. Do not pull fodder; it is extreme ly disagreeable, an expensive prac tice, and reduces the yield of corn Clean up weeds everywhere to prevent seeding. Horticulture Plant fall crop of Irish potatoes as late as August 15. Beans planted in late August of ten bring a good price. After peach harvest cut out all broken limbs, as a preventive for shot-hole borers. Plant the fall garden. Insects and Diseases Plow under old plants socn after harvest to destroy insects. Be prepared to fight the fall army w’orm with poison and bar riers. Continue spraying tomatoes with 4-4-50 Bordeaux to control leaf diseases. Begin cleaning up the orchard and destroy all fallen fruit. Agricultural Engineering Get mower and rake in good run ning condition for hay harvest. August is a good time to construct and repair farm buildings. Make grain storage buildings rat- proof and tight enough to make weevil fumigation effective. Build a water cooling tank be side the well for dairy products: i may lower temperature 20 to 30 degrees. Investigate possibilities of install ing a hydraulic ram for a low-cos. 1 water supply. v At Yuma, Ariz., a covered wago 1 ' used in crossing the plains in 1840 is being repaired so that it may be placed on exhibition as a relic o' the city’s pioneer days. The wagon will have a place of honor in ih city cactus garden at the Cot- House. The regular monthly meeting cl the Bethany H. D. Club was held Monday afternoon, August 1, at. the school house, with the presi dent. Mrs. •C. L. Williams, presid ing. After a short business session.. Mrs. Nell A. Stallworth took chargc- and a most enjoyable recreational hour followed. The cid and the young alike joined heartily into? each game of merriment and scxrr everyone seemed to have forgotten the sultry weather. A treasure hunt climaxed the hour with Mru. Milton Rush as finder of the treas ure—a beautiful cream pitcher. Delightful refreshments were served by the hostesses, Mrs. R. HL Quarles and Miss Lucia Quarles. -ixa.- Three NegroevS Die In Elect ric Chair COLUMBIA, July 30.—Three young negroes were put to death in the electric chair at the South Carolina penitentiary here yes terday. One protested his inno cence until the end, a second con fessed to a murder for which he- was never tried and the third sto ically refused to make a state ment. As he sat strapped in the death chair, Evans Wood, small Darling ton county negro, calmly confess ed, ‘T killed a woman I was liv ing with in Ohio in ’31.” Wood received the death penal ty for killing his commcn-law wife, Hattie Samuel, last January. Visibly affected and in a high ly emotional condition, Booker Copeland broke into song while praying in the chair. “They didn’t give me no justice, but Jesus Christ will give me justice,” he said. Copeland said he was not guil ty of the shooting of Henry Creech McMillan white farmer of near Lodge, Colleton county, in April. Just before the current was applied. however, he admitted he struck the * farmer. A youth of 19, Buster Tucker, preceded Copeland in death with out making a statement. They were convicted jointly of McMil lan’s murder. The Seed Loans (From the Yorkville Inquirer) More than 37,000 farm seed loans were made , to South Carolina far mers, totaling more tha^ .$4,000,000. Some folks may have an idea that they are not going to have to repay those loans to the government. If there are any such they are cer tainly due to have a rude awaken ing. Those loans were not intended to be a dole and Uncle Sam is fully intending to collect them to the last red cent when they arc due. Don’t, fool 5 r ourself by thinking otherwise And another thing, don't think for a minute that you can fool your Uncle about how you used thr money you borrowed. About 700 loans were made in Mc Cormick County, the total of which was around $75,000.00. -i xi i Back In The Ring 411. Miriam A. “Ma” Ferguson oU Texas is back in the political nn g > again, leading all six opponents for! the Democratic gubernatorial nomi-! nation. This is her third attempt' since defeated for renominatkm ■» 1926; arc! again in 1928. | H—n 1 mm. m