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Thursday, December 8, 1932 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PACE NUMBER THRER GALLANT- BELK CO. GREENWOOD’S LEADING DEPARTMENT STORE Home Of Better Values Sells Everything For Less TOYLAND IS NOW OPEN Come To Greenwood And To Gallant-Belk Company Save On Each Purchase. To Our Store Is Filled In Every Department With Desirable Merchandise And This Merchandise Is Now Being Sold For Less Than In Many Years. Men’s Broadcloth Shirts, White, Blue, Tan and Green, ’QRf* Each For $1.00 Riegel Shirts, Ware Sthoals made, $1.35 quality JFancy Shirts QCIfi Each J OSJC iEor $1*9 Riegel Shirts, White Broadcloth No. 200, $1.35 quality, now at Gallant Belk Co. Each $1.00 Ladies’ Winter Coats and Dresses at Big Reductions. Ladies’ Dresses, , $2.95 and $1.95 values Each $1.00 Good Outing Yard . . 5c Play Cloth Yard . — 5c Turkish Towels Each 5c 4-String Corn 1 Cf* Brooms, Each ■ For 25c 70x80 Cotton Blankets, pair $1.00 39-Inch TJnbleach- ed Sheeting, yard ** 10 YardsFor 25c \ard Wide and Solid Col or Outing Yard ■ ^ 9x12 Felt Base Rugs, made by Gold Seal $4 05 Manufacturers “ ■ Yard Wide Chambray and Prints, 10c quality, yard " ** $3.00 Mantel Mahogany °A \ al ? ut $1.00 Clock, for ^ 1 With Purchase of $3.00 Ladies Full Fashioned Silk Hose, wonderful values, pair 59c and 50c , / Satisfaction Guanteed With Every Purchase FREE PARKING SPACE REAR OUR STORE GALLANT-BELK GREENWOOD’S LEADING DEPARTMENT STORE’ ’9* COMPANY “THE HOME OF BETTER VALUES” with them and spent Sunday here, j Mr. Robert Perryman dined with 'Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Mitchell Sun day. Messrs. Guy and Claude Link were business visitors in McCor mick Tuesday. Mr. Clifford Cade and Mrs. S. C. jCade spent Tuesday in Augusta. | Mrs. George Hemminger and Miss | Annie Lou Lankford of Willington ' and Mrs. W. G. Mitchell were shop ping in McCormick Tuesday after noon. j Mr. Gude Wideman reports rais ing a sweet potato weighing 7 1-2 pounds. He said he cut it up and baked it, and it was good. We are expecting to have a Christmas tree at the school house Ion Christmas eve, and a Christmas program at the church Christmas night. ! Mr. and Mrs. Sloan Cochran and baby, Evelyn, Mr. and Mrs. Herndon and little son spent last week end with Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Lindley. x Our Thanksgiving Day ( 1 in which my birth had been re corded. to convince the U. S. De partment of State that I was a na tive citizen. They told me at the passport of fice that only twenty-six states make registration of births compul sory, so that there is still a large proportion of native born citizens who have no means of proving, ex cept by the testimony of relatives, that they were actually born here. In Europe every citizen is requii*- How One Woman ~ Lost 10 lbs. in a Week Mrs. Betty Luedeke of Dayton writes: “I am using Kruschen to reduce weight—I lost 10 pounds in one week and cannot say too^ much to recommend it.” To take off fat easily, SAFELY and HARMLESSLY—take one half teaspoonful of Kruschen in a glass ed to carry his birth certiflcate*and 0, hot water in the morning be- all other documents to prove his fore breakfast, go lighter on fatty identity, nationality and occupation, whenever he travels even from one town to another or moves into a different house. That sort of sup ervision of the individual can easily be carried too far, but it seems to me that we don’t carry it. fax- enough :n America. MOVIES . . . and Moe Mark— meats, potatoes, butter, cream and pastries—it is the safe way to lose unsightly fat and one bottle that lasts 4 weeks costs but a trifle. Get it at any drug store in America. If this first bottle fails to convince you this is the safest way to lose fat —money back. 0 But be sure and get Kruschen Salts—imitations are numerous and ' A day to be long remembered by each one present was last Thanks giving day. The wind was right cold and as we neared the* home of Mr. O. D. White, the curling smoke was so inviting, then when we en tered the home, the hearty hand shakes with loved ones and the bright happy face of Grandfather White fairly shone with delight. Altho he has passed his 84th birth day he is so cheerful, and was un An old friend of mine named Moe ^ . Mark died the other day at the age S™ mu5t safeguard your health. of sixty. When I first knew Moe Adv ' he was running a little nickelodeon in Buffalo, the kind of a show where you could put your eye up against a peep hole and see Mr. Edison’s first attempt at motion pictures. Pretty soon Moe Mark had a theatre showing the early primitive motion picture plays. Before long he had a number of theatres in dif ferent Up State New York towns. They weren’t theatres really, they were merely stores with chairs in them. Moe Mark got the idea that a ir IS, ° ihj Patricia Dow ° -»»>»>—<««<«— The shoulder fantasie in frocks worn at evening is the most pro nounced feature of evening fash- usuaily so on this"occasion” for he ^ theatre built especiaUy to run ions^seen^at jmart^events during had with him all of his children, except Mr. and Mrs. Joe White, who were unable to attend on account of the former’s illness, and a goodly number of his grand and great grandchildren, besides nieces and friends, altogether there were about 75 present. When the noon hour came the long table fairly groaned with good things to eat, consisting of chicken, meats of various kinds, salads, to matoes, macaroni pies, about a dozen good cakes, iced tea and good hot coffee for those who wanted it. In the afternoon we had pretty music and singing by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fowler and their attractive children. Prayer was also offered by the former. When the evening sun was sink ing we bade each one adieu and all wished to meet many more bright and hapsy Thanksgivings in the same home. 'BESSIE. X TODAY T< FRANK PARKER STOCK bridge! motion pictures would be profit-1 the first weeks of the new season. able. He found it difficult to _ There was a white velvet frock with make anyone else believe it, but he finallv rais°d money to build the very first theatre in the world for the movies. It is called the Strand and is on Broadway in New York. Moe Mark was one of the* real pioneers of the motion picture in dustry, and if anybody ever asks you who built the first movie the atre, of which there are some thirty thousand now, just remember his name. TRAVEL . . . and metal mike— I am writing this just an hour or so before sailing on the Italian Liner Rex for my first visit to Eu rope. Sixty-two is still young enough for a man to go adventur- Hi-sli ing, if he has the spirit'of adven ture in him, and I r.Q73r got over. that. 1 j I am very curious to see whether [the foreign cities and peoples that I have read about and studied about all my life look anything like • Ijp the way I have pictured them. I * have knocked about the American Continent and up and down the coasts in ships a great deal but never before had both the time and the opportunity to cross the ocean. What particularly interests me is the ship on which I am coming back, the Conte De Savoia. This is the first big ship to be equipped with gyroscopic stabilizers, invented by my old friend, the late Elmer Sperry. A gyroscope is a hard thing to explain in words. It is hard enough to understand it when you see it working. It is, in effect, ■£*!*!*•* ••••J* TELEPHONES . . and distance— The dream of telephoned conver sation between all parts of the 7 Wh : el 50 su5 P® nde f. that the sla shed skirt which had bands of tionai telephone circuits which con- h' 3 " “T*'?’ d,rectlon Spel ;- whit e ermine, completed by tiny us wnich con ry discovered that a gyroscope al- tails, forming the shoulder straps. nect with almost all the land line telephones in the world so that wa >' s tr ;“ t0 Pet itself in a position Another was a ruby red velvet with telephone conversation betw^n 1 h / e . tl } e i , axel is , p01n t m g to the strands of fabric forming shoulder remotest part of South te^phone conversation between the' center of the earth. Out of that straps and loose decorations. 9 GJWon< daughter, Mrs. N. G. Rankin. Beauford here. Mr. Mitchell and family moved here one day th§ and Northern Eurooe hTLpn dlscoveI ; y came th - gyroscopic com-1 The illustrated style in evening South Africa and Chfcaao or anv ; ^ a !!u . yS points t0 the frock sho '™ above is correct in all other point in North America be- I , Pole instead of the magnetic detail. It is a velvet frock and can tween San Francisco an^niia or 1P , “ -rL ordlnary compass be worn in black or in as gay col- Japan across the Pacific in fact 1P ? J Came aut o matlc or as desired. The shoulder bands ------ - Pacific, in fact, steering device in which the gyro- with their overlapped bows attain the shoulder fantasie so much to be desired. The black drape is cor- between almost any two parts of SCO pe keeps the ship’s rudder true ’ , 1S n ?k * n on ly practical to the course. Every really im- but is in almost daily use. portant ship in the world is now rect, although some high ones are • Th !f.J eleph ° ne iS ° ne ° f 1/11086 steered by “metal mike” as the sail- being worn incredible marvels which we accept ors call it . 'back is^Ut When high, the as commonplace because we have Messrs. J. I. and W. I. Eubanks past week of near Parksville were business visitors here Saturday. Miss Emma Rankin, chief opera- 1 tor here for the S. C. Continental The Susannah Wesley Bible Class Mr- and Mrs. Joseph Murray Telephone Co., attended the meet- will meet Friday, December 9th. at spent the week end with relatives ing of employees of district No. 1 3 •’clock at the home of Mrs. Ruth in St. George and Charleston. at Abbeville last Friday. Duncan, with Mrs. L. N. Brown, X Mrs. G. E. Campbell, Mrs. B. I. Mr 8 - T - c - Faulkner and children, Chiles and Miss Fannie Edmunds Carl and Ella Bradley Faulkner, Bordeaux INeWS spent the week end in Augusta This same power of the gyroscope assistant hostesses. Miss Roberta Hinton and Miss Mary Dorn of Greenwood spent the past week here with Mrs. H. E. Rush. with her sister, Mrs. A. L. Moragne. Mrs. T. G. Castles of Great Falls, S. C., and boys, Thomas Pressly and enUghtning The Epworth League put on a program at the church Sunday night which was entertaining and Our young people Miss Hazel Brumley and Miss Leon T. Pressly. Mr. T. G. Castles Pearl Craig 0 f Gastonia, N. C., came later in the week. -spent the week end here as guests Leon Warren, spent Thanksgiving take an interest in the E th with her parents, Rev. and Mrs. | League and promise to make good leaders for Christian work. •of Miss Nell Sharpton. Mrs. Mike McGrath and baby, Frances Sue, are spending several weeks in Augusta with her aunt. Mrs. L. D. Cooper. Mr. A. B. Barden has returned to his home in Columbia, after spend ing the past month here with his Mr. Mike McGrath spent the week end in Augusta with relatives. Mr. L. O. Beauford, maintenance foreman of the highway depart- ment in McCormick County, has been transferred to Manning. and\ he and Mrs. Beauford.have gone to make their home there. Mr. B. D. Mitchell from Sumter succeeds Mr. Miss Sallie Lou Cade and Miss Lettie May South spent Sunday with the Misses Franklin. Mrs. W. J. Richardson has been ill of influenza. We are glad to learn that she is better. Mrs. P. B. Parnell, Misses Lois and Martha Hoffman and Mr. L. A. Hoffman motored to Augusta Saturday afternoon. Mr. P. B. Parnell came from Millettville and met them there.* He returned home got used to the idea of talking with is now being used to keep the ship ■ people at a distance. I can well re- froni rolling in rough water It pnce of eggs prior to the war aver- member the very first telephone works wel i on small craft, and I aged a little over 16 cent s Per doz- and the skepticism with which Pro- will ^11 you later how it works on en - while this y ear the average has fessor Bell’s announcement that he the first bie shin to which it has been ab °ut 11 cents, but with prices could talk over a wire was received. b ee n applied. I now ^creasing, the average price Nobody believed that it could ever, j for 1932 will probably equal that of be true, no more than they believed * 11910-1914. that some of the other things POULTRY HOLDS LEVEL | “with these figures available it which I have seen come true were WITH PRE-WAR PRICES appears that poultry is the safest possible, such as the electric light, bet for the farmer today, for a pro- the phonograph, the motion pic- Shows Least Decline Among Farm fit could be made on eggs even at ture, and especially the airplane. Products; Offers Sure Returns .the low prices they reached during I’d like to come back in a hun- [the past summer, feed being much dred years and see the new mir- CLEMSON COLLEGE, Nov. 28.— cheaper than it was before the acles that our grandchildren will The decline of general farm prices war.” then be regarding as commonplace, during 1932 was 56 per cent from i Pointing out that the average BIRTH ... a certificate— , the pre-war level of 1910-1914, South Carolina farm has 19.5 hens I had occasion the other day to whereas the decline in poultry is as compared with an average of apply for a passport to enable me much less, and the prices are act- | 74.5 for the United States, and that to leave the United States and ually higher than they were before | less than half as many eggs per make a trip to Europe. But my first attempt was blocked when the the war, according to figures re leased by the Division of Crop and passport bureau demanded proof, Livestock Estimates of the Depart- that I was born in the United ment of Agriculture. States. I just didn’ir have any such proof. I was born long be fore any of the states required the registration of births. “Live chickens sold just before the war for a little over 11 cents per pound, while the average for the past year has been a little over I finally succeeded, by means of 12 cents,” says P. H. Gooding, ex- an affidavit from my sister and the tension poultryman, commenting presentation of an old family Bible on the comparative figures: “The person are produced in South Caro lina as compared with the United States, Mr. Gooding asserts that thousands of dollars are sent out of the state each year for eggs which should be produced in the state and the money kept at home. But to do this, he says, the farmers of the state must keep more chick ens and also feed and care for them better.