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'>)l V#-; «•. f ff:*; Thursday, May 18, 1933 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER TWO McCORMICK MESSENGER Freakish Pranks Of Tornado Published Every Thursday Established June 5, IMS EDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editor and Owner Entered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, S. C„ as mail matter of the second class. 4 (From Belton News.) SUBSCRIPTION RATES: — Strictly Cash In Advance One Tsar $1.00 Six Months .75 Three Months j**«, AO FIRES FOLLOW SPARKS Sparks flying from chimneys and falling upon roofs present an al arming picture at night. If the average person realized the untold property damage caused by them he would have definite cause for alarm. < ' • The National Board of Fire Un derwriters reports this was the ^principal cause of fire in South Carolina during 1031. In this' state the “spark waste” totaled $703,2&8, and for the entire nation it reach ed $14,089,636. 'Neglected roofs are the basic cause 6f such fires. When a wooden shingle roof ' grows old and weather-beateh, the hot sun during a dry spell will make Its edges curl up and the entire sur face Incomes like tinder. The cure is to re-cover old roofs with new standard wood shingles or compo sition roofing. Something can be done also to prevent sparks falling on roofs. The burning of trash can be made safe Jf paper and other waste materials are placed in an incinerator be fore a match is applied. A clean chimney rarely gives off sparks if m coal fire is burning. Chimney^ should be kept clean. If wood is burned a spark arrester should be placed on top of the chimney. Vndpr present conditions, with the cost of labor and materials low er than in any recent year, repair work on buildings can be done very reasonably—at the same time pro viding heeded wages for workmen. This is the time .to make your home as fireproof as possible. CHOOSE FAVORITE VERSES IN BIBLE COLUMBIA, May 12.—What is your favorite Bible verse? In response to this query three from the path of the stonh, an oak Many curious and freakish inci dents were recorded here as result of actions of the people and the tornado itself. , And some may be well termed as heroic deeds as in the case at Blair mills where Frknk Little, superin- (tendent, and Blair Rice, president, saw the storm approaching and in stantly marshalled about 62 girls and women employed there, into the ground floor and to safety. On returning to his office Mr. Rice found that a heavy timber had crashed through the window, near his desk where he usually worked. A booklet belonging to a little girl pupil at the high school, who lived at Blair mills, was picked up at Woodruff, a distance of about forty miles awaV and returned to her In the Belton mill village, eleven people were taking refuge in one room of a house, when all of the other part of the house was blown away, the one room and all of the eleven people were unharmed. In the home of John Rogers, where Mrs. Rogers was instantly killed, a piano was lifted and set down on the ground without a scratch. ' • At the home of P. C. Myers, 3J baby chicks were left untouched in a box on the floor after the walls were completely demolished. There were also two sitting hens in the yard not far distant from the house, they were also untouched and are still sitting on their eggs. In this same locality a coal house belonging to Mrs. Vanie Parker was lifted over two fences and set down without damage except a few shin gles being tom off. Mrs. Lizzie Cheatham, a resident of the Belton mill village, stood on the front porch of her house unin jured while the backside and roof was being swept away. At Blair mills two large motors were picked up by the wind at the mill and deposited in ,a creek about a quarter mile away. . In this same vicinity a bath tub was found some 300 yards away, being blown in an exact opposite direction. At the residence of Dr. R. L. Parker on River street, some three or four hundred yards distance - - V* ?r • «Y . rC; wvrU'SoTct • / , Ray 9, 1933 a* • ^ thought it simply a We now realize that Thanks for that A great thing has occurred amongst us. We have made a complete turn-around, and at last America's face is toward'the future. Three years 1929 to 1932 we Americans looked backward. All , our old financial and political machinery was geared to pull us out of the depression by the same door through which we entered. We ' • case of going back the way we came. It failed, the way out is forward—through it. belongs to President Roosevelt. Inauguration Day he turned the Ship of State around. Having observed the failure of sincere efforts to haul us back the way we came, he designed a new method new political and financial machinery to pull us out the way we are going—forward. He is clearing international obstacles out of the way; he does not stand in awe of tariffs. The people begin to feel that he does not take advice from the "inter ests" : that he has courage and loyalty to work for one supreme interest only—-the welfare of the American people. That is a big achievement for two months in office. And now w© all look to what is coming; we grow less and less concerned with what is behind. We are looking for a.hand-hold on the haul rope. Every man wants to do what he can, and all he can. The best thing I can do for the Country is to create industry by building good motor cars. If I knew anything better to do, I would do it. Industry must be my contribution. Motor cars must face ahead to the future, like everything else. They are so much a part of the Nation's daily life that if they lag behind they hold the Country back. 11 members of the University of South Carolina's faculty, E. C. Coker, pro fessor of astronomy, W. Y. Wage- tter, instructor in English, and E. T. Bonn, associate professor of his tory, chose Psalms 121:1: > “I will lift up mihe eyes unto the bills, from whence cometh my help.” Two others, C. M. Ferrell, associ ate professor of history, ahd J. Rion McKis&ck, dead of the school of journalism, like best a’fr&rt of Ificah 6:7: ' !,ii ‘ : “What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do ‘justly, and love mercy, and to Walk humbly with thy God?” • In one of the didst beloved chap ters in' the Scriptures, the - 1 14th chapter of John,' two other# find their favorites.' ’ ' ,v ' W. A. WhlteSeU, associate pro fessor of chemistry, selected part of the second, and the third verses: “I go to prepare a place for you, I For Closing Ball timber measuring 6x8 inches, 5 or| 6 feet long was stuck near the plU lar of his garage, and what is be-1 BaileV PreDarOS lieved to be part of the same tim-| ^ A. , her Is embedded in his garden, be ing blown in an opposite direction of the line of the storm. At Mitchell’s home, virtually ev ery section was tom to pieces ex cept a room where Mrs. Mitchell lay ill in bed. That room was not touched and Mrs. Mitchell was “not even shaken.” ANNUAL EXERCISES START ] FRIDAY WITH FINALS TO BE HELD FOLLOWING TUESDAY Charleston, O. M. Smith, Jr., of Wpplr” Florence, Everett D. Stewart of w CCJV Ridgeway, Cortez E. Ward of New- Jg Proclaimed berry and Frank E. Wright, Jr., of Lacohia, N. H. GREENWOOD, May 13.—The 42nd exercises of Bailey Military academy will begin Friday after- A cow that was staked tyi, a yard I noon, May 19, with a tea danc© was* picked up by the storm, car- sponsored by the Ace of Clubs foi- ried about 400 yards and set down lowed that evening by the final without injury. ball in the dining room of the Four big steel towers carryhig academy from 9:30 p. m. to 2:30 a. high power lines crumpled but no m. fires resulted. The Rev. R. L. Holroyd will Several jars of preserves were preach the sermon to the graduat- carried from the home of Mrs. ing class Sunday morning, May 21, Harold Maddox and deposited sev- at Main Street Methodist church, eral yards away unbroken.' Sunday evening at 6:30 the cfkdet At Blair mills a large splinter was corps will give a dress parade on found in the top of a telephone the academy drill grounds in honor vffl come again, and receive" you pole, having split the top of the of the battalion and company -±Xt. By Governor COLUMBIA, May 14.—Observance Sikes And Burnett rpo i a . a i ^ |of cotton week throughout South 1. O opCclK ixl iVnderSOn j Carolina as an impetus to “revival rnllfMr*' Finals of busines s” was urged in a procla- A Jll£l Vmation today by Gov. Blackwood. unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” Emmett pole as a wedge would have done. The six year old son of Tom My- jponso^s. Monday morning at 10:30 the Kilpatrick, associate professor of ! ers who crawled under a bed when I competitive drills between com- xomance languages, chose the first'the storm approached was found (panics and individual cadets will rerse of the chapter: “Let not later under a rug where he had be held on the drill field. Another yaar heart be troubled; ye believe been blown from under the bed j dress parade will be given Monday and placed under the rug by the wind. Saturday morning after Friday’s storm, Blair Rice and a friend were ANDERSON, May 13.—Dr. E. W. Sikes, president of Clemson college, will preach the baccalaureate ser mon, and Dr. J. M. Burnett, uas- tor of the First Baptist church of Belton will deliver the commence ment address during the closing exercises at Anderson college, it was announced today. Graduating ex ercises will be held at the colleg: auditorium on Monday evening. May 29. The 1933 commencement season will open at the junior college on Friday, May 26, with the annual commencement concert presented at the college auditorium by the music and expression departments in God, believe also in me Other selections were: “And why give ye thought for xaiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not,'on top of the ruins of the Blair neither do they spin; and yet I mills, casually looking over the xay unto you, that even Solomon in | damaged plant, when Miss Lydia ill his glory was not arrayed like Chapman, who had been employed one of these.”—Mat. 7:28-29—L. L. 1 by the Blair mills, approached and Smith, profesidr of geology. ! asked if she might climb on top “Now faith- Is the substance of, of the mill in search of her podket things hoped for, the evidence of book, which had been lost during tilings not seen!”—Heb. 11:1—J. J. the storm. She Was gladly permit- Petty, associate professor of geol-jted, and while in seardh of her ogy. / \ pocket book, she discovered the ma- “For God so Jovecl.lJie, world, that j chine that she had been operat- he gave his only begotten Son, that ing was not damaged, her first im- wfaosoever believeth, in : him should pulse was to throw her arms about not perish, but hqxe everlasting the machine and utter the words, evening at 6:30 in visiting parents. Tuesday morning The annual meeting of the An- honor of the derson college alumni association. of which Mrs. W. A. Daniel cf Ral- W eek one of great importance and 11 o’clock eigh, is president, will be held at hereby urge all citizens of our state The proclamation: “Whereas, the week of May 15 to 20, 1933, is being observed through out the nation as national cotton week, and “Whereas, I, with full realization of the national importance of the South's staple and the fact that cotton week will give impetus to the long expected revival of business and “Whereas, the people of South Carolina are deeply interested and will doubtless give serious consid eration of the many uses of cotton during this week: “Therefore, I, Ibra C. Blackwood, of the United States army. In colorful ceremony the retir ing junior platoon will confer its responsibilities to the newly form ed junior platoon. Both platoons will give an exhibition drill, each, trying to surpass the other in stag ing the most spectacular drill. Members of the Cadet staff will be presented sabres in acknowled gement of their efforts in directing the military affairs of the corps during the year. , At the conclusion of the cere monies, Taps will be sounded for seniors who participate in their last parade as members of the Clemson cadet corps. First call will be sounded at 4 p. m. Sunday, and the ceremonies will last approximately one hour. State highway patrolmen will be sent here to direct traffic, while motion picture cameraman with sound equipment will be on hand to record the culminating exercise of the military year. Members of the faculty will form an informal committee ta wel- governor of the State of South Carolina, do hereby proclaim na- come parents and friends of the tional cotton week beginning Mon- cadets. day May 15, and throughout the at WANT ADV. to observe fittingly this period.” X Final Military Exercises BeHdcl At Clemson Sunday CLEMSON COLLEGE, May 16 — Sunday, May 21, has been declared life.”—John 3:1ft—W. professor of history. H. Callcott, • ( Charity’Notice A young white girl, 1ft years old, an invalid, wishes a rolling chair. Parents not able to care - for her likd they should and havft ho means to provide a rolling chair. If you have one please call or write Mrs. T. L. Britt, McCormick County .fiOcial Worker, McCormick, S. C. : “I love this machine next to mo ther.” A few mbments later her purse was found by : a girl friend who, had accompanied her to the search. The purse contained iix weekly pay checks. The machine in . question is a two-need)e feed-off-the-arm high speed union special type, which, it is understood is very difficult to operate. “However, Miss Chapman was master of her machine and her work was very efficient,” Mr. Rice said. the final exercises will be held with 11 o’clock. Miss Mary Lou Salla the address to the graduating class of this city, has been selected as by Dean Ramiundo D. Ovies, rec- (the alumni speaker this year. The tor of St. Peter’s cathedral, At- alumni luncheon will take place in lanta, and former dean of Sewanee the college dining room immediate- university. , ly after the close of the regular The following cadets compose the meeting. The president’s reception graduating class: William A. An- will be held Saturday evening, drews of Martinsville, Va., James Commencement proper will get F. Boone of Columbia, Thomas S.' under wav Sunday morning when Bryan of Rochester, N. Y., William Dr. E. W. Sikes will deliver the an- P. Caine of Roanoke, Va., Walter nual sermon to members of the H. Carmichael of Charlotte, Louis graduating class at the First Bap- j by Dr. E. W. Sikes, president of M, Copleslgn, Jr., of Charleston, ! tist church. Vesper services will | Clemson, as Military day, marking William D'Crabtree, Jr„ of Tampa,! be held on the college campus Sun- (the close of R. O. T. C. activities Fla., R. Singleton Halsey of Char-! day evening, conducted by Miss ; for the year, and set apart in recog- [ ~ leston, Wictor B. Higgins, Jr., of Ruthella Ramsey, Anderson college nition of the place that military PLANTS Charlotte, Roy W, t Jlouse of Char- science teacher. training has in the life of Clemson lotte, Raymond W. Hull of Atlanta, The annual class day exercises of students. At this time the cadet John D. Love, Jr., of Birmingham, the graduating class will take place,corps- will be formed under arms Ala., W. Stewart McLaugnlih of on the college lawn Monday, May, for the final dress parade of the Charlotte, John A: McLean of 29, at 11 a. m. During that^ after- year, and this will be followed by noon the board of trustees will hold an exhibition drill by both the Sen- its annual meeting at the office of ior and Junior platoon. REAL ESTATE—Anyone wanting to sell land, see me at once. Have some prospective buyers. M. L. B. gturkey, McCormick, S. C. WANTED—One good used one horse wagon, cheap, for cash. J, Morgan Reese, Modoc, S. C. CROQUIGNOLE WAVES $6.50. All methods. Spiral waves, $1.95, $3.00, $5,00. Oregon Beauty Parlor, Greenwood, S. C, Statesville, N. C., James T- Moore of Ocala, Fla., Lamar H: Nelson of Clinton, R. Isadore Peeple of Estill, the president, and the curtain on M. Longworth Prickett of St. Mat thews, William B. Ray of Green ville, George Robert Rice of Roch ester, N. Y., John Earle Roe of the 1933 session will be rung down Monday evening with the delivery of diplomas and other awards by Kdiss Annie D. Denmark, president Greer, Charles Schroder ‘ of of the Institution. During the exercises the corps will execute‘ the stirring escort to the colors, and will pass In review in honor of members of the senior class, who will soon be commission ed. as officers in the reserve corps FOR SALE — Tomato Plants—Baltimore, Marglobe, Red Beauty. Sweet Potato Plants— Triumph, Porto Rico, Nancy Hall and Big Stem Jersey, all $1.00 per 1000. • Cabbage 'Plants— Charleston, Jersey, Succession and Copenhagen Market. Onion Plants—White and Yellow Ber muda, all 50 cents per IQOO. Pep^ per Plants—Bull Nose arid Ruby King, $2.00 per 1000. Send rier mittance for prompt shipment. Dorris Plant Co., Valdosta, Ga.