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I JllrCo rm i rit TBUK TO OUBSELVXS, OUR NEIGHBORS, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD. Thirty-First Year Established June 5, 1902 McCORMICK, S. C. Thursday, August 18, 1932 8 Pages — All Home Print Number 11 Campaign Meeting 1 At Young’s School House Tomorrow GOOD MEETING HELD AT WILL- INGTON LAST FRIDAY State Highway Departmnt Will Let Contracts Aug. 31 McCORMICK TO ABBEVILLE ROAD O"’ 7 r*? PROJECTS FOR AUGUST LETTING \ * COLUMBIA. S. C.. Aug. 14.—The South Carolina Highway depart ment will let contracts for $2,500.- 000 worth of work entirely financed by federal aid in the near future about $1,500,000 to be in a letting announced for August 31. The letting the last day of this month will include work scatter ed throughout the state in 17 coun ties. Of the projects 13 are rodd work and four bridges. Ben M. Sawyer, chief commis sioner, commenting on the program . mel on August 23rd and one fcr said: “The letting for August 31 McCormick on August 26th. includes 17 road and bridge orojects | tXX at an estimated cost of $1,500,000; 1,986 Voters Enrolled representing projects already ap- T ^ T ^ • i ^ proved by federal authorities. The In McCormick CoUllty entire cost is to be paid from fed- eral funds. An additional $1,000,- GA j N q F 151 OVER 1930 ENROLL- 000 is available for further letting IHENT FIGURES but considerable part of this will ‘ ' not be let until November because ^ 0 ^ a j enrollment in McCor- of a request made by federal au- mick County this year is 1?986j thorities that a part of the work which is a gain of 151 over the 1930 be let in the fall to give work ic fjg Ures 0 f 1,335 a nd 86 more than winter employment. ' List of Work The work to be let includes: A Crete and steel over Pacolet river on Route 11 between 1 • Jonesville and Gaffney. Candidates for the various county offices will address the voters at Young’s School House tomorrow, Friday, August 19th. The meeting, which is scheduled to open at 10 o’clock a. m., will recess for dinner ahd re-open for the afternoon ses sion. The meeting at Willington last Friday was well attended and pro nounced one of the best yet. This filled the third official engagement of the campaign, leaving one fcr Young’s tomorrow, one for Mt. Car- Uncle Sam’s Great Olympic Champions mi rm m mm mm scy the 1928 enrollment which ^as 1900. The figures by precincts for 1932 bridge of reinforced con- show . Bordeaux _i 53 . . ^ Bethany 86 Also on same route Bell>s store . 20 a reinforced concrete bridge ov- r , Tnrtc Will fifi er Thicket creek In Cherokee Coun- clathworthy .' s cross' Roads'.'.': I 57 , Lyon’s 41 A bridge of reinforced concrete on Route 33 between Bamberg and Mc cormick Na 1 357 Orangeburg to Edisto river swamp. McCormick No 2 . 187 Mt. Carmel ^ 74 Parksville ^— 144 Plum Brahch ' 195 Rehoboth 27 Talbert’s 109 Willington 103 White Town 61 Young’s 44 A bridge of reinforced concrete over Big Pine creek. Route 34, be tween Bishopville and Camden. Bituminous ' surfacing of 21.6 miles in Clarendon and Florence counties on Route 4 from intersec tion of Route 26 north of Manning to present surfacing at Olanta. Bituminous surfacing of 23.2 miles of koute 34 in Kershaw and Lee counties from intersection of United States Route 1 near Cam den to Bishopville. Bituminous surfacing of 19.1 miles of Route 20 in Abbeville and McCormick counties from Route 7 south of Abbeville to route 10 north of McCormick, i Bituminous surfacing of 12.6 miles of Route 11 in Union and Cherokee counties between Jones ville and present pavement south of Gaffney. Bituminous surfacing of 15.7 miles of Route 176 in Union and Newberry counties between Union and Whitmire. Bituminous surfacing of 11.9 miles of Route 33 in Jasper Coun ty from Hampton county line to Tillman. Bituminous surfacing of 14.3 miles of Route 33 from end of pavement near Orangeburg to pave ment at Orangeburg. Bituminous surfacing of 10.3 miles in Chesterfield county of Route 601 from intersection of United States Route 1 and 601 Heads Home Loan Bank Total Enrollment 1,986 X Revival At Bethany Starts Next Sunday The pastor of the Bethany Bap tist Church will begin a meeting with the church next Sunday af ternoon at 3:30, followed by even ing service at 8:30. Beginning Monday, the services will be at 10 in the morning and at 8:15 at night. • Every one is cordially invited tc come to the services and to enter with us into the spirit of the meet ing. The services will probably come tc a close on Friday evening. D. V. CASON, Pastor. X Good Meeting Closes At Baptist Church Rev. C. M. Coalson, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Wadley. Ga., closed a meeting Sunday even- ng with Dr. D. V. Cason, pastor of ;he local Baptist Church. Ex ceedingly large crowds attended the services, the other local churches co-operrating splendidly. Many of the business houses closed their doors for the morning service, and several of the evening services fill ed the building to its capacity. There were twenty additions by faith and one by letter. The pas tor has expressed the belief that he entire church has been revived. Franklin W. Fort, New Jersey, is president of the board of the newly g eated Federal Home Loan Bank. : e has just been appointed by Presi- dent Hoover. There are four other j members of the board, two Repub-; licafts and two Democrats. Mr. Fort/ was former member of the House of, Repjgsentati ver-foom New Jersey. t near Cheraw to the Darlington county line. Also in Chesterfield county bituminous surfacing of 16 miles of Route 9 from end of navement west of Chesterfield to a point west of Pageland. Bituminous surfacing of 9.4 miles from Chester county on Route 5 from York county to Fort Lawn. Bituminous surfacing of 6.4 miles of Route 3.9 in Edgefield county between Edgefield city lim its to Johnston city limits. Top soil surfacing of 20.8 miles! in Greenwood and Newberry coun ties on Route 22 between Ninety Six and the intersection of‘Route 22 with 19 near Silver Street. wm Dominating the Olympic Games at Los Angeles, Uncle Sam’s athletes shattered world and Olympic records in event after event. Here are shown the super-champions in the track and field events, sons and daughters of which the nation is proud. Photos show—Left: Ralf Metcalf, Chicago, who finished second to Eddie Tolan, Detroit, right, in the 100 and 200 meter dashes; right (center figure) : Mildred “Babe” Didrrkson, Texas, who won two firsts and world records in the javelin throw and 80-meter hurdles M women; Bottom, left: The" Olympic Champion (10 events), the Decathlon: James A. Bausch, Kansas City; right: Bill Car, Pine Bluff, Ark., record breaker in the hea f r t-breaktn^ 400-~-»fr.r r?a«;h $ FIDDLERS' [INVENTION EBIDAK NIGDT AGO. % An old time Fiddlers’ Convention will be staged at McCormick on Friday night, August 26, 1932, at McCormick High School Building. All the leading musicians of this section are ex pected to be here. As a special feature. Colonel A. E. “Babe” Strother and Mr. S. E. G. Hardaway of Lincoln County, Ga., will be with us on this occasion. Mr. John Turnage, the nifty musician, will give sev eral renditions. There will be some good buck danc ing- The Willirigton-Mt. Carmel Band, The Winn- Seigler Band and the Wilkie Band, all of McCor mick County and the Strother Band, of Lincoln Coun ty, Ga., will liVen up the contest with good music. We also have invited the Rehoboth Kitchen Orches tra to play some'selections. The music will start strictly at 8 o’clock and last for two hours. A small admission fee will be charg ed A part of the proceeds go to the McCormick High School. The admission charges will be 5, 10 and 15 cents. / Everybody should come and help us make this the best convention we have ever had. W. O. GRAVES, Manager, F. C. ROBINSON, Sec. and Treas. Mt. Carmel H. D. Club Meets The Mt. Carmel H. D. club met in the club room June 29th with 14 members, agent and one visitor, Miss Layton present. The meet ing was called to order and scrip ture read by president. Prayer, by Miss Layton. Singing, roll call and reading of minutes by secretary. As we missed the first lesson in the Life Saving Kitchen, Miss Layton gave us a lesson on Health of the Home Maker. One of the points brought out was (shoes and our feet) the kind of shoes to be comfortable and the exercise to help improve our feet. 2nd, height of our working sur faces, how to tell, how to raise and how to lower. 3rd, rest exercise to relax the whole body. Correct posture in sitting and standing also little exercises which rest us very much. Mrs. Stallworth made an inter esting talk on a canning campaign and gave us all a budget for can ning to supply winter vegetables. Mrs. Stallworth served delicious tomato Jell-o salad with cheese wafers and tomato juice and later the hostesses, Mrs. W. A. Scott and Miss Susie Patterson, served iced lemonade which was very refresh ing. . ‘ | August 1 Crop Report COLUMBIA, S. C., Aug. . 10.— SOUTH CAROLINA: Hot dry- weather in July materially reduced crop prospects in South Carolina and cn August 1 the indicated yield per acre of all crops combined was 13.3 per cent below the ten-year average. However, good rains early in August improved the situation generally, but a large portion of the corn crop was damaged beyond re covery by the July heat and drouth. The condition of CORN fell from 75 per cent on July 1 to 46 per cent on August 1. The indicated pro duction of 17,220,000 bushels is 28 per cent below a month ago and 25 per cent less than the 22.994,000 made last year. Favorable weath er during the remainder of the sea son may result in a larger final outturn but the August 1 indication was for the smallest crop since 1901. The prospective yield per acre of 10.5 bushels is also the low est since the year 1903. TOBACCO prospects declined further during July and the crop is now estimated at 32,000,000 pounds or only 46 per cent of the 70,070,000 made last year. The reported condition of 46 per cent indicates a yield of about 500 pounds per acre. The present estimate is for the smallest crop since 1916. TAME HAY prospects were also cut sharply by the heat-and drouth but much of this crop has respond ed to recent rains and the situation has improved since the first of the month. The condition of 58 on August 1 indicates a crop of 135, 000 tons or 24 per cent below the 178.000 tons made last year. SWEET POTATOES held up fair ly well and the outlook is for a crop of 4,200,000 bushels which is 32 per cent above the short crop of last year and 24 per cent larger than the average production from 1924 to 1928. August 1 condition of other crops for this year and last, respectively, follows: Wild Hay, 58 and 70; Alfalfa Hay, 47 and 67; Pasture, 52 and 71; Soybeans, 59 and 75; Cow- peas, 60 and 74; Peanuts, 63 and 72; Pecans, 53 and 68; Apples, 32 and 69; Peaches, 32 and 78; Pears 33 and 75; Grapes, 62 and 80. UNITED STATES: The August report of the Crop Reporting Board shows a widespread decline in Crop prospects during July. The figures for nearly all the more important crops are lower than on July 1. The most important change was in com for which the estimate has been re duced from 2,996,000,000 bushels to 2,820,000,000, a decrease of 6 per cent. The estimates for wheat, barley, rye, potatoes, and tobacco have been reduced from 3 to 4 per cent, hay by one per cent and flaxseed by 13 per cent. Crop yields per acre are now ex pected to average 6.5 per cent be low those of last season and 4.6 per cent below the average during the ten years, 1919 to 1928. Rice and sugarcane are the only field crops showing prospects for yields materially above the usual average. Some of the important crops grown for sale show prospects of a low yield per acre on reduced acre ages, resulting in unusually low to tal production. Thus the cottor crop seems likely to be the smalles harvested since 1923, the tobaccc crop the smallest but one since 1913, and the wheat crop the small est but one since 1917. On the oth er hand, corn, oats, barley, and grain sorghum show prospects fo: nearly average yields on an increas ed acreage and the total tonnage of these feed grains produced is ex pected to be about equal to the production in 1925 and 1928 and well above production in any other year since 1920. The prospective production of com declined during July in near ly all sections except in the East ern Corn Belt. Because of the very large acreage, forecast produc tion is 7 per cent above average. The combined winter and spring wheat crops of 723,000,000 bushels is 2 per cent less than the July forecast and 13 per cent below the 1924-1928 average production. FRANK O. BLACK, Agricultural Statistician. R. C. LIGHT, Jr., Agricultural Statistician. Methodist Ladies To Serve Barbecue Hash Dinner Campaign Day Perhaps the biggest crowd that McCormick has entertained in a long, long time is expected here on August 26th, when the candidate™ speak for the last time before the coming election. We hope that it will be “Home Coming Day” for those who have formerly lived in McCormick but now live elsewhere. The Methodist ladies here expect to serve a barbecue hash dinner for 35c to all the guests as well as all the people here. There will also be cakes, pies, ice cream, candy, sandwiches and cold drinks for sale. Proceeds are to go toward the purchase of the lot for a new Methodist Church. Every one is most cordially in vited. Member. txi Bible Class Meets About 30 members attended the regular piohthly social and business meeting of the Susannah Wesley Bible Class Friday afternoon, held at the home of Mrs. Johnnie B. Smith. Mesddmes W. N. and J. L. Smith and Mrs. Johnnie Self were assistant hostesses. An enjoyable program was led by Mrs. R. G. Killingsworth. During the business session plans were completed for the barbecue hash dinner which the class is to serve here on county campaign day. Several games and 'a tempting salad course were enjoyed during the social hour. The July meeting of this fine class was held at Mrs. H. R. Rush’s with Mesdames T. J. Price, J. T. Martin and J. S. Mann serving with her. Mrs. Hattie White Dies In Atlanta Mrs. Hattie White, widow of Joe Frank White of McCormick, died in Atlanta Monday following an ill ness of ten days. Funeral services were conducted at the Troy Metho dist church yesterday afternoon at 4 o’clock by the Rev. W. S. Henry and interment was made in the Troy Cemetery, with the following serving as pall-bearers: C. N. Ed wards, W. L. Jolley, Ansel Talbert, I. A. Puckett, D. H. Langley and James M. Cox. To mourn her loss Mrs. White is survived by the following daugh ters and sons: Mrs. W. M. Baker, Decatur, Ga.; Mrs. Mary W. Wells and Mrs. Frank Pinson, McCor mick; Mrs. Henry L. Reeves, Cleve land, Tenn.; J. Frank White, Troy: J. Calvin White, Greenweed, and Paul G. White, Decatur, Ga. txt Deforestation has advanced in Porto Rico until it seriously affects the economic welfare of the island, despite the fact that forest growth there is rapid. x Betty Ann Troy, 16-year-old i school girl of Stamford, Conn., was j the national winner of the George , Washington Bicentennial essay con- 1 test in which more than a million ( boys and girls competed throughout i the U. S. On her trip to Washing- « ton, D. G, Betty was presented with : a special gold medal by President ’ Hoover.