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TRUE TO OURSELVXS, OUR NEIGHBORS, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD. Thirty-Secotad Year Established June 5, 1902 McCORMICK, S. C. Thursday, January 18, 1934 Four Pages Letter To Farmers * ^ Whose Cotton Option Checks Have Arrived County Agent E. L. Rogers has issued the following letter of in structions to farmers whose cotton option checks have arrived: Dear sir: Your cotton option Mr. J. H. Price a Dies Tuesday KeJioboth IN'ews Ml. Carmel News Several from this roction attend- Miss Reba Wells of Anderson was — cd and enjoyed a kitchen shower called heme last week by the ill- Mr. Joseph Han:well Price, 79, eriven by Mesdames Ethan White ness of her father, Mr. S. D. Wells, died at his home here Tuesday anc j jj m. Freeland in honpr of a We are glad to say he has about afternoon after a brief illness. Mr. recent bride, Mrs. Carroll Winn, recovered and is able to be out Price had been a lifelong member The hostesses, both possess fun and again. of the Methodist Church. He comes friendliness that radiated through-! Mrs. Cecil Gilliam was a recent from one of the pioneer families ou ^ entire entertainment. The visitor in McCormick. of this section . his parents being bride was never lovelier in tans,} Miss Beffie Hester of Anderson check is here. If you are owner of the late Abram Price and Mrs. brown and red that is becoming visited in Mt. Carmel a day or two the land, managing share-tenant Permelia Beatty Price. to her brunette beauty. The bride last week. or cash renter (pay in cash or cot ton) it will be necessary for you to sign a 1934-35 Cotton Reduction Contract before I can deliver the check. Share-croppers are not re quired to sign this contract. If other parties are interested in yourxheek, please bring them with Mr. Price was a keen observer of and took considerable interest in local and national affairs. He was a substantial farmer and made a success of his occupation. He was a quiet, unassuming man, always ready to render a service to those in need.- 3TOU or them send a written! He , s survlTed by his wldoWi Mrs , order. Ifjfou Me no a p- | p a ^ ie D eason price; two sons, Mr. Samuel Price of McCormick, and Mr. Austin Price of Union; one brother, Mr. Thomas J. Price, treasurer i,of McCormick County, and several grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted at 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon from the McCormick Methodist to bring the carbon copy of your contract signed by your committee man when you call for your check. Those who are not notified need not call for check. Community Committemen: E. C. Jefferson, Meriwether, S. C. W. P. Parks, Jr., Parksville, S. C. C. E. Wilkie, Plum Branch, S. C., Church by the pastor, the Rev. E. M. Morgan, Plum Branch, S.C. D - w - KeUer . assisted by Dr. S. W. E. R. White, Plum Branch, S. C. R eW, Pastor of McCormick A. R. P. Church, and Dr. D. V. Cason, pas tor of McCormick Baptist Church, and interment made in the Deason graveyard near here. Pallbearers were Messrs. J. C. .Jack Gable, Troy, S. C. Ernest Hanvey, Troy, S. C. J. B. Walker, McCormick, S. C. L. L. Hester, tyt. Carmel'S. C. J. M. Hemminger, Willington, S. C W. D. Morrah, Troy, S. C. Brown, W. B. Quarles, D. M. Bul- E. C. Cheatham, McCormick, S/C. lock, J. F. Mattison, J. O. Williams and D. P. McCain. J. S. Strom, funeral director, in charge. x. Cotton Seed Showing Low Germination, Says J. Roy Jones i <r “Cotton seed this season are showing a very low germination according to tests made by the de- Sh4riff W. T. Strcm on Tuesday partment of agriculture”,. J. Roy- arrested Jim MbKie, colored, at his Jones, commissioner, stated Fri- P. J. Dowtin, McCormick, S. C. R. T. Mayson, McCormick, S. C. County Committee: W. L. White, Chairman, H. M. Freeland, T. M. Henderson. This committee does not make out contracts. x Sheriff Finds Mule; Arrests Colored Man was seated with her mother-in- law, Mrs. R. M. Winn. First, the guests were asked to embroider tea napkins in various kitchen utensils. The judges decided Mrs. J. A. Self did the best embroidery. While the judges were out, a contest was en joyed. The gifts were offered in a very unique way. Mrs. White and Mrs. Rice came in dragging a huge box brimming full of gifts. Mrs. Rice acted as auctioneer. She sold Anderson Miss Lyon of Lander College and Mr. Theodore Tarrant of C. C. C. Camp at Blaney were social visitors in Mt. Carmel Sabbath afternoon. Mrs. W. H. Horton was a visitor in McCormick last Friday. Mr. James F. Sutherland re turned home last week from an extended visit to Rock Hill and Anderson, but left Mt. Carmel Monday to spend some time in the gifts to the highest bidder, who naturally proved to be the one who owned the article sold. The bidding ran wildly at times, going up to $50.00. Last, but not least, delicious ambrosia and cake were served by the hostesses and several young ladies. About thirty ladies enjoyed the afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Winn are a popular as well as happy young couple. This is the third shower for them. They are at home in their attractive apartment in the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Winn in Plum Branch. Mr. and Mrs. Marion Winn are doing light housekeeping now in their apartment in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hunter McKinney spent the past week-end with his mother and family near McCor mick. Messrs. H. O. Watson, W. H. Hes ter and J* J. White were business visitors Monday afternoon in Mc Cormick. Mrs. Myrtle Mauldin was called to Calhoun Falls last week by the illness of Mrs. W. T. Mauldin. Mrs. D. J. McAllister, Mrs. R. J. McAllister and Mrs. Hunter Mc Kinney were McCormick visitors Monday morning. It will be very gratifying to the many friends of Miss Gladys Scott (Miss McCormick), to know that she has been active in every religi ous activity since she taught school here before her marriage. Our loss is Plum Branch’s gain. Miss Truler Winn and Mr*. Carl Winn are spending several days in Charlotte, N. C., with relatives. Mrs. Lewis Winn is improving, after spending some time with her mother, Mrs. W. P. Culbreath. She had lots of community callers Sun- home about three miles from Me- ' day. “Several hundred samples 3ay afternoon. Cormick on charge of stealing a' have been sent in for germination mule and -delivered lidKaevand -a and results are alarming. Of the mule found near McKie’s home to large number of samples already Sheriff HarHng of H4gefle3d *Coun- tested, oply about 17 per cent ty. The mule is said to belong to showed a germination of 80 per Mr. J. H. Reel of Edgefield, and cent or better and only 7 per cent had been missing some two or showed a germination of 90 per three weeks, during which time a cent or better”, wide search had been made for it. 1 Mr. Jones said that ordinarily Mr. Reel was In McCormick Sat- seed that show less than 85 per urday and asked Sheriff Strom to cent germination would not be rec- keep on a lookout for it in this ommended for planting. Tests county. Sheriff Strom went to made this year show 30 per cent work on a clue Monday afternoon, of samples germinated less than finding the mule Tuesday, at 50 per cent; 48 per cent of samples which time he took McKle and the less than 60 per cent; 66 per cent mule in charge and delivered them of samples less than 70 per cent; Mr. ^and Mrs. Hawthorne Banks. J she has been invited and urged to Mrs. Winn will be very much participate in the Statewide Beau- missed in this community where ty Contest to be held at Camden on the 26th instant. This contest promises all kinds of a good time to the participants and the winner will be given a delightful trip North, and she will also compete in the National Beauty Contest. All can’t be winners, but all can enjoy a good time. Here’s hoping that Mt. Carmel’s “Miss McCor mick” will carry off the honors, and be Miss South J Carolina. Miss Carolyn Tarrant of Greenwood will accompany her to Camden. Misses Gladys Scott and Caro lyn Tarrant and Mr. Billy Miller to the Edgefield sheriff. OPERA HOUSE ABBEVILLE. S. C. THURSDAY, JAN. 18th JEAN HARLOW in The BLONDE BOMBSHELL’ FRIDAY, JAN. 19£h, ONLY RONALD COLEMAN KAY FRANCIS in “CYNARA” A 7 so ‘ Popeyc the. Sailor” and 83 per cent of samples less than 80 per cent. Every farmer is advised to have cotton seed they expect to plant tested before time to plant. The department of agriculture makes this test without any charge for the farmers of this state. At the present time the seed laboratory is running full capacity with a germinator holding several hun dred samples. Therefore, if farmers wait until time to plant before sub mitting samples, reports to them M’-* S. R Mo^-aane and Miss Co may be delayed and they will not ra Moragne visited Mr. and Mrs. Miss A. L. Morgan enjoyed an afternoon last week with Mrs. Su- die Miner. She was in her usual cheerful humor. She always meets her friends with a smile, whether she feels well or not. Mrs. E. M. Morgan enjoyed a shower at the home of Mrs. J. L. Bracknell Thursday afternoon, given by the Plum Branch W. M. S. It was a beautiful entertainment. Many beautiful and useful gifts were presented to the honoree, Mrs. Carroll Winn. A salad course was served. Sunday being the first preaching day in the New Year, Pastor Gurley preached a very appropriate New Year sermon. Glad to say our church begins the New Year by paying the pastor up in full for 1933, counting in ■& gift from the pastor and wife on the salary. Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Byrd and family visited Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Culbreath last week-end. 1 xi Bordeaux News fiools (January 22 Farm Allotment Is Based On Domestic Use of Cotton Crop * # The opening qf McCormick Pub- The individual “farm allotment”* lie Schools, which closed on Jan- which Win be established for each uary 9th for a iod 0( a farm brougnt under contract in the 1934-35 cot.on adjustment pro- 0n account of an epidemic of gram, will play an important part mea £les, was postponed .from yes- in determining adjustment pay- terday. until Monday morning, Jan- ments and should be thoroughly uary 22nd. It is hoped that by that understood by all growers, accord- time the pupils who have suffereJ ing to Mr. E. L Rogers, McCormick from measles will have sufficiently County agricultural agent. , The allotment for each farm is recovered to go on with regular 43 per cent of the average annual £C hool work, production of cotton on the farm ^ IX * — Sh mV ItVs determined'ex- New Chance I S Given actly by multiplying the average annual number of acres in cotton on the land in the farm during the; years of this base period by 6he average annual yield per acre dur ing the same years, and then tak ing 40 per cent of this total. To Stabilize Cotton Clemson College, Jan. 13. —The contract* for reduction of the 1934 cotton acreage being offered this month to South Carolina farmers For example, if a grower had an is simply another effort by the average of 40 acres in cotton for the years of the base period, and if his cotton land yielded an ‘av erage of 200 pounds per acre dur- Agricultural Adjustment Adminis tration to allow cotton producers of the South to help themselves, says Cully A. Cobb, chief of the ing this period, his average annual cotton section A. A. A., recalling cotton production would total 8,000 j how farmers of the South in 193$ pounds. Forty per cent of this, or j helped themselves by plowing up 3,200 pounds, would be his “farm 10,400,000 acres equivalent to 4,400,- of Greenwood spent Sabbath with Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Scott. Miss Scott and Miss Tarrant have ac cepted very promising positions in Greenwood. This will be good news to their many friends who wish for them the “best of luck as they enter the wide, wide world”. Misses Lennie and Eliza Covin, Mrs. Carrie Connor, Mrs. Hunter McKinney and Mrs. W. H. Horton were McCormick visitors Monday afternoon. Miss Juanita Curtis of McCor mick spent the past weeje-end at home. 1 Xi Farmers Urged To Sign 1934 and 1935 Cotton Contracts allotment”. The farm allotment is set at 40 per cent of the annual production to correspond with the percentage of the national crop which it is estimated was used in the United States during the base period. This 40 per cent of the national crop is the percentage upon which the processing tax can be collected to furnish funds for rental and parity payments. The cotton adjustment contracts guarantee a “parity”- payment of not less than one cent a pound on the farm allotment. This means a payment of at least one cent a pound, or $5 a bale, on 40 per cent of the past average production of cotton on the farm. And this payment is in addition to the rent al payments and to the price the grower gets for his cotton when he markets it. The “parity” pay ments automatically raise the price of the grower’s lint by $5 a bale for the amount of the crop CATURDAY, JAN. 20th, Onlyj WARNER GLAND HEATHER ANGEL in \ “CHARLIE CHANS GREATEST CASE” Alr^ News, Cartoon and O t "7 GANG COMEDY MON.. TUES., JAN. 22 and 23 MARIE DRESSLER LIONEL ^ARRYMORE in “HER SWEETHEART” From ':i'v Story “Christopher Beas” # WED., THURS., JAN. 21, 25| » MAX BAER MYRNA LOT WALTER HUfcTON JACK DEMPSEY And CARNERfi in ‘THE CONQUERING SEX” know scon enough that seed arc rot suitable for planting. Mr. Jones says that in many in stances farmers have used seed showing a germination of &3 per cent or less by using more seed than would ordinarily be used, but such low germination indicates a weak vita’ity. The quality of seed is cf first im portance and Mr. Jones says thai every farmer should give careful consideration to this. In submitting samples for germ ination, care should be taken to get a representative sample. When seed is in bulk, samples should be taken frem the top, middle and tottem and around the edge and the roughly mixed and a sample c'ravrn from this composite sample t:n~ in for test. -When seed have hcc:: sacked, a representative sam ple should be drawn from each sack and those samples thoroughly mixed and a sample taken from this composite sample. Not less than half a pint of seed should be sent in for germination. A. L. Moragne in Augusta last week. Miss Mildred Moragne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Moragne. returned home with them for a few days’ visit. Among those sick with measles are Eula May Hoffman and Miss Helen Lindley. Mrs. J. T. Lindley has been quite sick for the past two weeks. A nice crowd attended the “sing ing” at the home of Mr. and Mrs. per acre, depending upon the aver County Agent E. L. Rogers hopes that every cotton farmer in Mc Cormick County, who is eligible to do so, will sign the 1934-35 Cotton Reduction Contract. Cotton farm ers may rent to the Government from 35 per cent to 45 per cent of the 5-year average of the cotton acreage planted on the farm that he is working in 1934. This is de termined by averaging the acreage planted from the period 1928 to 1932 inclusive. The county as a whole is ex pected to average 40 per cent of this base acreage. The Government will pay from $3.50 to $18.00 rent which equals the farm allotment, above the market price when the cotton is sold and regardless of what that market price may be. t\t Cotton Sign-Up Must Be Completed Ely January 31 st Clemson College, Jan. 15.—Fol lowing the county and community meetings and the organization and instruction of local committees last week for the 1934-35 cotton reduction campaign, this week and next week will be spent in actual signing up of reduction contracts by farmers, says R. W. Hamilton, assistant to Director Long in charge of campaign details. Notice from Washington has been received to complete the sign-up work by January 31 so so that rental checks may be sent out to farmers in time to aid them in financing their crop activities this spring. Farmers are therefore requested, says Mr. Hamilton, not to wait for a visit from committee men. It is not necessary for the measuring of acres to be done be fore or at time of signing the con tracts. “Many farmers are asking”, says Mr. Hamilton, “how the man who signs the contract will fare as com pared with the farmer who does not sign. The answer is unmistak ably -clear in the words of Secre- 000 bales and received not only liberal rental and option payments for the cotton taken out of pro duction but also received for the crop double what would have been the price. “With this background of achievement and this knowledge of their own ability to improve their economic conditions, it is be lieved that the progressive growers of the Soutji will welcome the new opportunity further to stabilize the cotton situation”, says Mr. Cobh. “Many growers who secured the loan of ten cents a pound on their 1933 cotton will of course sign the reduction contract. This is a large nucleus around which other pro gressive producers may gather”. “There are two alternatives for Southern cotton growers”, says. Director W. W. Long, commenting on Mr. Cobb’s statements. “Either the growers may co-operate and receive better prices for the cotton produced, or they may fail to co operate and face the same disas trous situation with which they have had to contend in past years of over - production. Since the farmers themselves are to receive the benefits directly, it is believed that the movement cannot fail t* meet with a wholehearted response from them. And since all others j prosper through agricultural pros perity, the movemeqt should have strong general public support.” W. G. Mitchell Sunday night. A age yield for these 5 years. This number of visitors was present, j campaign ends January 31st, and Mrs. S. C. Cade, who has been every farmer is urged to get in sick, is improving. i touch with his nearest local com- tary of Agriculture Wallace, whe Mrs. G. W. Cade, Mrs. Frank mitteeman whose names are given states: the Secretary of Agrculturc Hodges, Mrs. R. F. South and Mrs. elsewhere in this issue. , intends that producers signing W. G. Mitchell were business visi- All farmers who borrowed ten contracts shall fare better than tors in McCormick Tuesday after- cents per pound on their ware- those who do not All the powers noon. house receipts last fall* pledged granted under the Agricultural Mr. W. D. Morrah, Misses Ka- themselves to sign this contract, as Adjustment Act will be used to trina, Mary Ellen and Billy Morrah, well as those who borrowed four accomplish this end,” Miss Henrietta Brown and Mrs. cents on * their options. As it is W. G. Mitchell were visitors to Mr. necessary that this campaign be man and have hie 5-year r.vcva:: and Mrs. G. W. Cade last Saturday completed by the end of this yield and acreage worked o it c . night. month, it would make it much fore hand. For further irTcrr-Ja- Miss Sallie Lou Cade spent Sun- easier if every farmer would co- tion, see the county agent or c.o... day night with Mrs. S. C. Cade. operate by seeing his committee- mitteeman. GREENWOOD, S. C. THURS., FRL, JAN. 18, 19 “GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933” with Ruby Keeler—Dick Powell Ginger Rogers—Joan Blondell SATURDAY, JAN. 20 TIM McCOY in “DARING DANGER” SAT. NITE, JAN. 20, at 10:45 “BUREAU OF MISSING PERSONS’’ with Bette Davis—Pat O’Brien Lewis Stone—Glenda Farrell MON., TUES., JAN. 22 and 23 CLARA BOW in “HOOPLA” With Richard Cromwell Preston Foster — Herbert Mundin—Minna Gombell WEDNESDAY, JAN. 24 “HELL and HIGH WATER’ with Lichr.d Arltn—Judith A:'*