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Thursday, Se»fteinLer 1, 1932 IJcCORMICK MESSENGER Published Every Thursday Established June 5, 1902 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMRER FOUR Big Crowd Here Last Friday ESMOND' J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner thank God, she was still alive. The world will forget, as the world has a habit of doing, the name of William Lang . . . but for little Leila Smith, if she lives to NICE SUM REALIZED TO GO ON be 100, no story-book hero can METHODIST CHURCH LOT ever take the place of William! Entered at the Post Office at Me- day. Cormick, S. C., as mail matter of the second class. . Lang, who risked his life to save her.—AnderSon Daily Mail, of Tues- -txt- A CAROLINA OPPORTUNITY SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ——■ Strictly Cash In Advance — One Year $1.00 , Six Months .75 Three Months-.50 The crowd attending the political rally in McCormick last Friday was estimated to number between one mousand and twelve hundred. This was the last of the series of cam paign meetings held at various Figures compiled by the state points over the county . The barbecue hash and chicken dinner served by the Methodist GETTING EYES READY natural resources commission in dicate that the production of creamery butter in South Carolina ladies was said { 0 be 0 ne of the this year will be approximately best things of this kind ever put doi^ble that of last year. on in McCormick. The crowd was * That is a highly gratifying rec- served easily and everything went — ord of increasing our home pro- in g 0od order. A neat sum was As the time for opening of the duction of an essential 'food, but realized to purc hase a lot for the schools approaches, parents should it directs attention anew to „hs new Methodist church which it is not lose sight of the fact'that ieye- large deficiency that still exists in hop^ wi u be started- at an early sight is the 'biggest factor in the this state between the amount of date education of a child. butter produced at home and that Tlie i ad j es w i S h to express their Child welfare assocaitions realize consumed by the people of this S j ncere appreciation to Mr. T. B. the necessity of making sun? that state. Wood who cooke d the hash for the under-privileged child sees well Even with this year’s record them Mr M ax Byers who donated before setting about the curing of breaking production of creamery the ^ and to M G & J. J. Dorn other defects. butter, that item will amount to for fuel and the’lumber to build Parents should be as much con- only about a million pounds. All the tables They are indebted to c ned about wheir own children the butter produced in South Caro- many others who are not members and not make the mistake of per- lin^. in 1930 totaled only about 12,- Qf the M E C h ur ch who contribut- mii t.irg th-m to enter school with 000,000 pounds, and jvhile that has ed tQ the success 0 f the dinner, defective vision a drag upon doubtless been substantially in- They are g ra t e ful to everyone and n. ^ creased during the last year and a many sa j d they never saw a more Count-ess -nvesitgations have dis- half, Prof. S. M. Derrick of the beautlful spiri t G f co-operation in ri--d that poor eyesight is respon- department of economics at the carrying out this affair which was slble for much of the retardation University of South Carolina es- the bi gg est thing of this kind the in schools and causes a stigma to timates the consumption of but- church had e ver & undertaken. be placed upon many children ter in this state at not less than _ v whose visual defects weigh them 50,000,000 pounds annually. Wheth- wr i /-x i\it • 1 down. er or not that figure is accurate— W 01*K Oil iVlCOorUllCK. This Is a duty that should be government departments estimate TTicrhwnv TV* Tipo'ill clear to every parent. First be average consumption of butter in ITlgllVVciy XU IXC^il certain that defective eyesight is this country at 17.4 pounds per at the bottom of the trouble, if any, person per year—there is no ques- with the child, and then, havfe it tibn that South Carolina has to corrected at once TREES BEND WITH SUN Reports coming from sources that are scrupulously reliable have it draw upon other states for a large* that the McCormick county end of Neglect this respect is nothing portion of the butter consumed in the highway between Lincolnton short of criminal. this state. Our imports of butter and McCormick will be started far exceed our expons. . I within a very short time, very prob- South Carolina can •produce but- able inside the next week or so. . ter and other dairy products quite Work on this side of Savannah In much the same manner- as as cheaply as any other state in River is progressing satisfactorily sunflowers, the slender, topmost the Union and probably at much and with the favorable reports from shoots of rapidly-growing ever- lower cost than many of the states South Carolina authorities^ ^ it green trees are said by forestry ex- where dairying is a primary indus- perts to follow the course of the try. There would seem to be un sun from east to west across tliS usual • opportunity here in Sout!l sky on bright days. When it is Carolina for much greater ievel- sunless and windy the shoots bend opment. of dairying to supply not into the wind; on cloudy, still days only the South Carolina markets they stand erect. but a large export trade as well. Uneven tension in the stems is There is no good reason why South given as the explanation of this Carolina cannot develop a dairying phenomenon. On the side exposed industry whose, products would to the sun or wind where evapora- have a value to South Carolina far- tion isv greatest, the tender tissues mers npt greatly below the total lose a disproportionate amount of value of its cotton crjp.—Green- water and consequently shrink. On ville News. the opposite side of thp stem, the 1 txx - cells are swollen with water rising from the tree’s roots. Thus, the Presbyterian College ithnnt. is milled inward the contract- J ° Kaye Don has dr iven his “MiSS Will Open Soon England III” over the silvery wat- , ^ I ers of storied Loch Lomond in bark of the shoot thickens, evep- ———— j g co ^i and the record speed of oration is slowed down, and the r 00 m ASSIGNMENTS AND AP- 119.81 miles an hour. Thus Great shoot is pulled toward the contract ing, dryer side and points into the wind or toward the sun. When the looks as if it will not be long be fore the two inter-state counties will have direct highway connec tion—Lincoln (Ga.) Journal of Au gust 25. X CHKKMG ON JACK ADAMS PLICATIONS EXCEED PREV IOUS RECORDS strange twisting of the living com pass stops. The hemlocks and pines, and other evergreens of rapid growth, display this oddity, more often than slow-growing ( CLINTON s . c Aug. 26.—Pres- species with stout heavy top-stems, . . . n . such as the spruces. , byterian College is preparing to A 1932 HERO Britain now holds the world speed records for land, sea and air. Kaye Don races his boat at Detroit Sep tember 3. Here are the world’s speed rec open its doors in September to an- ords: other full capacity student body ' Seaplane: 408.8 m. p. h.; air- Room assignments and applications plane: 284.7 m. p. h.; automobile, exceed all previous records at this ^53.968 m. p. h.; motor boat: 119.- 81 m. p. h.; running horse, mile— on turf—in 1:32 4-5; running mile in 4:09 1-5, Jules Ladoumegue; walking: mile in 6:25.8, G. H. Goulding; swimming: mile in 21:- 41:3, Arne Borg. Reed Barrett, former Brigham Add to the list of unsung heroes da t e . Three of the four dormi- the name of Motorman William tories have already been filled and Lang, a gray-haired veteran of the on i y a f ew vacant rooms remain in gleaming rails who, for the past 33 the fourth. years has been employed by an p ro f. Roger L. Coe, of the depart- electric interurban line operating ment of Education received the de- between Cleveland ^nd Toledo. gree of Doctor of Philosophy from Maybe you read the story ol what George Peabody College, Nashville toe did, and maybe you didn’t—for August twenty-third. Dr. Coe was Young University athlete and his such items have a habit of get- awarded his M. A. by the Univers- eight brothers, compose a base- ting buried in the mass of daily Ry of Virginia. His undergraduate ball nine playing teams in Utah news about revolutions in so’ne work was done at Presbyterian Col- and Idaho. far-off country, endurance fliers, i ege> ' • — 1 channel swimmers and things like There will be two new members Twenty-eight women, s baseball that. Therefore, we’ll refresh your 0 i) the faculty, Dr. Stephen Me- teams are playing this season in memory as to what Motorman Lang Queen Huntley'and Capt. William Birmingham, Ala. did: L. Blanton. Dr. Huntley will be the I The fast Cleveland-Tcledo limit- new head of the department of Henry Cochet, of France, gener- •ed, which Motorman Lang was Romance Languages. He is a na- ad y regarded as the worlds great- piloting, rounded a curve at 55 tive South Carolinian and was in esfc amateur tennis player, will miles an hour near Lorain, Ohio. In the A. E. F. His A. B. and A. M. participate in the coming Ameri- "the middle of the track, with the degrees were received from the can men s national singles champ- onrushing electric car bearing down university of South. Carolina and ionship tournament at Forest Hills, on it, Lang saw a small child, the Docteur d’Universite from the New York. Leila Smith, 2 years old, had tod- university of Toulouse, France, died away from her nearby home where he finished with highest Louisville, Ky„ produces nearly and chosen the track as a nice honors. Dr. Huntley’s disserta- 2,000,000 baseball bats a year. Sec- place to play with her dolly. tion was “Les Rapport^ de Ja ond growth ash is the wood used Instantly, Lang slapped on his France et al Confederation Pend- principally. air brakes, gave sand to the grind- an t la Guerre de Secession.” j / ing wheels, threw the motor into Capt. Blanton is a native of O n opening day of the fish- reverse. Butf, as he realized, even Florida. He has been transferred season in 1911, Clyde Leisei, that wasn’t enough to stop the from Davidson College to be an as- fishing in the Columbia River in heavy interurban car in time. |sistant in the R. O. T. C. at Pres- Oregon, caught a sturgeon weigh- Lang left the cab of his speed- byterian College. He saw much 1,000 pounds. It was ten feet, ing car and climbed out on front, combat service during the World inches long. S. C. WEEKLY Livestock Suggestions SWAMP NEWS INDUSTRIAL September Guidance REVIEW i CLEMSON COLLEGE, Aug. 29.— That September is an important time in good livestock management The following record of industiial is shown in important suggestions activity lists items showing invest- to livestock owners from L. V. Star- ment of capital, employment of la- key, chief animal husbandman; 0. bor and business activities and op- G. Cushman, extension dairyman; portunities. Information from and P. H. Gooding, extension jjui- vvhich the paragraphs are prepared tryman. is from local papers, usually of Animal Husbandry towns mentioned/and may be con- Wash out the farrowing pens sidered generally correct. with boiling water and lye before pigs are farrowed. Walterboro — South Carolina Thoroughly cleanse the sow’s ud- Company, manufacturers of Honey der with warm water and soap Boy Brand Syrup, moved their before the sows are put in the far- plant here from Charleston. rowing pen. Hampton — Many new homes be- Try to raise as many of the pigs ing erected here at present time. farrowed as possible, for larger lit- Pickens — Co-operative shipment ters are more profitable, of poultry made in Pickens County Keep sows and young pigs on ter- during recent week. ritory which is not infested with Greer — Owners of various peach worms, orchards surrounding city, are Dairying gathering, packing and shipping Sow small grain for winter graz- their crop to northern markets. Ing; it increases the milk flow. Columbia — Group of 75 business Feed some grain daily. Dry fall men and public leaders of state met pastures lack nutrients, here and launched an organized Dry up cows due to freshen in movement to bring one of regional October to allow six weeks’ rest, home loan banks to state. ! Cull boarder cows that won’t Service stores group organized in make money for you this winter. Newberry County.—Newberry Ob- Plan to plant one-half to one server. acre oats and vetch for each Batesburg — H. B. Ram leased cow, to be cut for hay next May. Poultry Dispose of early molting hens. Keep laying mash before hens. Select earliest maturing pullets in permanent laying Carolina Theatre here. Nicholson Bank and Trust Co. re opened.—Union Daily Times. Georgetown — Skylight installed at Elite Sweet Shop and Luncheon- and put ette. . houses. Dillon — Dillon Tobacco ware- Be sure the birds are free from houses now opened for business. worms before moving vhem from Greenville — Application for the range. construction of radio station filed X by Greenville News-Piedmont Co. of JJclJjgon ForS00S this place. Anderson County roads being re paired.—Belton News. Gaffney — Hamrick group of HALIFAX, N. S., Aug. 27.—Roger mills resumed operations on fu - ^ Babson, Boston economist, de- Normalcy By 1934 dared here that American business time basis. Camden Right-of-way secured ^ gj^bing back uphill and should on State Highway No. 34 from here be back normalcy by 1934, Babson, who is visiting in Hali fax, said: Like a disease, a depression de own antitoxin which cures itself. During the boom pe riod we were producing more goods .. than was being consumed. . Now, house, destroyed by fire some time we are not produc ing enough for ago, now rebuilt and opened or our afi |. ua j needs.” business. Jones ville at Wallace Manufacturing Co. Kingstree — Three local ware to Lee County Line. Spartanburg — Pacolet Mills re sumed operations. Columbia — Drygoods, clothing vel ^ p !T ^ and shoe departments opened at Faust and Edens store. Lake City — Brick tobacco ware- our actual needs. , 1 The economist said that he be- **tekt work resumed lieved en tlre matter of tariff relationships between the United „ _ States and Canada should be plac- houses to be operated this season. ed ^ the hands Qf a smaU joint ^ 1 commission for controllfhg trade De la Howe between the two countries. Discussing the recent ^ 1 1 TVr Discussing tne recent , tariff oCXlOOl IMeWS agreements formulated by Britain’s imperial trade conference, he said -X Misses Mae Armstrong and Mild- it was the United States’ own fault red Williams, who graduated from if it loses any trade as a result of the De la Howe School last Juno, the agreements, entered training at the State Hos pital in Columbia August 25th. Miss Lorena Nichols, who gradu ated at the same time, has entered upon her duties at Fennell’s In firmary, Rock Hill. Mrs. J. B. Hammond of Atlanta, Ga., spent a week with her mother, Mrs. Julia Clary, of De la Howe. Little Miss Hildreth Gettys is spending some time with her cous- i Li, > Miss Vera Hook, in Columbia. ' Miss Eunice James of Eastover is visiting her sister, Miss Alberta 1 James Miss Maizie Butler of Domville, Miss Mae Wiley cf De ia Howe and Miss Edna Edwarus of Mnway were week end guests of Miss Kate Cres- well. Mrs. Mary Jolly of Anderson has returned home, after visitmj; in the home of Mrs. J. L. Jolly. Miss. Marguerite Price is visiting relatives in Elberton, Ga., this week. v- Mrs. Mattie Crawford is spending awhile with her niece, Mrs. J. C. Leard. Little “Jute” Puckette spent one day recently with Louise Price. Mrs. J. D. Moss is visiting her sister, Mrs. Betty Cartiedge, near Edgefield this week. worry to report Mrs. Jolly op the sick list this week. Mr. Joe Leard and his boys, Sam and Brown, attended the cam paign meeting in McCormick Fri day. Miss Sara Price spent one day last week with Miss Carrie Mae Rosenswike of Milway. Miss Lorraine Leard spent Sat urday afternoon in Troy. Mr. and Mrs. Livy Ellison and lit tle son, Adrian, of Greenwood, Mr. and Mrs. Pierce Goff and chil dren of Sumter, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Strom of Greenwood and Mr. and Mrs. Moffett Young of Greenville spent Sunday in the home or Mr. and Mrs. V. Z. Ellison and family. Miss Maizie Ellison returned to Sumter to visit a few days. Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Creswell called in the home of Mrs. J. C. Leara Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Brown and children spent awhile Sunday ev ening with Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Mc Alister. Mrs. Henry Reeves and children of Cleveland, Term., have returned home, after visiting here for several days. Mrs. Reeves came down to attend the funeral of her mother, Mrs. Hattie White. Mr. Rudolph Adams spent sev eral uays lat week with Sam Leard. Miss Lily Moss leaves soon to take up her duties in the Langley-Bath school. This entire community was grieved over the death of Airs. Hattie White. She was a good Christian woman and everybody loved her. The children have our • sympathy. While you may have momentary respites from the in tensity of the fight, life must be a battle; inactivity is death. In Para dise your dear one already knows life without friction, misunder standing or heartache. Plod brave ly on and all this will soon be yours, where partings never come and you see Him face to face, i , X. Y. Z. X— Bradstreet’s And Dun’s See Great Change NEW YORK, Aug. 27.—Wide spread improvement was reported yesterday in Bradstr^et’s and Dun’s weekly reviews of American trade and industry. Better sentiment of the past weeks has been translated into real . activity in the wholesale and light Mr. Keith Hinds of Birmingham, manu f ac t U rmg lines, according to If* it* rl in rr V> I a xro r»o ixrlfVi „ _ _ , ... reports from 55 leading cities, Bradstreet’s review said. Retail trade and collections are gaining, the review said. Shoe Man ufacturers are running on full Kelly Succeeds time, while men’s clothing factor- Ala., is spending his vacation with his mother, Mrs. M. K. Hinds. i Rev. E. F. Gettys is conducting a ( revival at Lowndesville this week. 1 XI A record? Of Clingfng with one hand, he reach ed down with the other. Two baby War and was cited for gallantry. The Librarian, Willard L. Jones, arms raised above a terrified child’s completed the requirements for a course. During 24 years of baseball Ty face, reached up to him. He b. S. in Library Service at Colum- Cobb was officially at bat 11,429 grasped the child and snatched her b ia University New York City, dur- into his arms, held her there safely ing the summer, until .the big interurban car finally, prof. T. E. Lothery has been c;.m2 to a stop a hundred feet fur- ! sutdying at Cornell University and talr on . . . Leila was unconscious ( prof. C. W. Grafton at Northwest- t.ob. ui -uo impact but, -ern University. times. That’s a record. Archaeologists tell us that arch ery dates back 50,000 years. We’ll take their word for it that archery is one of the oldest of sports. Succeeds t X/T r P Tk * I ies are be S innin S to step up oper- J. 1VJ.C 1. Ucllliel ations. Automobile manufacturers at Detroit are preparing for a BENNETTSVILLE, Aug. 27.—John strenuous campaign in the fall. C. Kelly, for six years superintend- Dun’s review said betterment ent of the Bennettsville city school now has assumed a nationwide resigned yesterday to accept the trend and “the beginning of the position of state high school sup- last few months of the year is ex- ervisor for South Corolina. pected to give further impetus to Mr. Kelly will succeed J. McT. the momentum of trade improve- Daniel, high school supervisor for ment.” several years, who has resigned to “News from the building indus- become a professor of education at try is more encouraging than it the University of South Carolina, has been for several months” Dun’s Resignation of the Bennettsville said. “Manufacturers of building school head was accepted by the materials find that residence con- board of trustees, which last nigh struction inquiries are heavier than elected J. S. Agnew, for six yeorr at any period in the last three commandant at Bailey Militai” years and banks note a marked up- Institute, Greenwood, to succeed turn in the number of applications him. Mr. Agnew is an Erskinc for building loans, graduate and formerly was super- Higher Shoe Prices intendent of schools at Due West. “There has been a gradual in- The new state high school sup- crease this month in the sale of ervisor expects to assume his du- dry goods, each week showing an ties either September 1 or 15. Mr. improvement over the record of Kelly is an A. B. graduate of Wof- the week preceding. There is a ford college and received a mas- better demand for footwear and ter of arts degree from Columbia with leather quotations contmu- university. He has done summer irig upward, higher prices are in school work at the University of prospect. South Carolina and the University ( “The number of buyers in the of Chicago. 1 wholesale markets went ahead of Mrs. McCormick Dies In Chicago After Long Fight CHICAGO, Aug. 26.—Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, younger daughter of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., died at 4:40 p. m. (C. D. T.) yesterday from cancer. The Chicago society leader, who onpe was recognized as the richest woman in the world, died peace fully after she had been in a coma for more than 13 hours. She would have been 60 years old on August 31st. Death occurred in an apartment in the Drake ho«el overlooking the Lake Shore drive mansion, the gift of her father, which she deserted a few weeks ago when, apparently, she realized the seriousness of her illness. With her when she died were her divorced husband, Harold F. McCormick; their daughters, Airs. Mathlide McCormick Oser and Airs. Muriel McCormick Hubbard; their son, Fowler; Mrs. Hubbard’s hus band, Major Elisha D. Hubbard, of Connecticut; Fowler’s wife of little more than a .year, the former “Fifi” Stillman; and Edwin Krenn, the Swiss architect who long had been her social escort and business advisor. Physicians who attended Mrs. McCormick said her last illness was the recurrence of a breast cancer for which she had been operated upon two years ago. Soon after she moved into the hotel apartment, close members of her family, separated for several years by disagreements over dom estic affairs, began to gather at her bedside and the seriousness of her condition became known publicly.. last week’s high total and in many instances, exceeded the record for any week this year. In the textile industry production is increasing steadily.” r