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TSUI TO OUB8KLVX8, OUB NEIGHBORS, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD.
rhirty-Third Year
Colton Ginnings
Given By S. C.
Counties
COTTON GINNED IN SOUTH
CAROLINA: CROPS OF 1934
AND 1933
The Bureau of the Census an
nounces the preliminary report on
cotton ginned, by counties, in
South Carolina, for the crops of
1934 and 1933.
(Quantities are in running bales.
Linters are not
included.)
County
1934
1933
The State _
684,338
728,025
Abbeville _
9,385
11,483
Aiken
18,678
22,119
Allendale
5,710
7,176
Anderson
36,411
42,169
Bamberg _
___ 9,438
11,708
Barnwell
12,217
14,611
Berkeley
2,440
2,287
Calhoun
13,149
14,230
Charleston —
654
608
Cherokee
11,870
14,245
Chester _ __ _
13,386
11,854
Chesterfield __
28,175
27,258
Clarendon
. _..14,346
13,239
Colleton _ __ _
8,051
7.251
Darlington —
19,578
18,102
Dillon
24,215
20,198
Dorchester —
6,114
6,189
Edgefield —_
13,846
16,237
Fairfield
6,738
5,879
Florence
20,726
20,207
Greenville
28,836
39,299
Greenwood —
10,132
9,125
Hampton
5,268
6,986
Jasper _
1,105
1,044
Kershaw
12,613
12,693
Lancaster
13,546
12,573
Laurens _ _
17,966
21,982
Lee —1
24,184
18,896
Lexington _
14,110
15,482
McCormick
4,769
4,964
Marion — _
8,936
7,972
Marlboro _
42,831
36,503
Newberry
14,620
16,930
Oconee _
11,783
12,912
Orangeburg
__ _ .47,560 ‘
48,667
Pickens
13,380
18,213
Richland
7,854
7,042
Salttda __
9,053
10,055
Spartanburg
_ .45,296
59,953
Sumter
28,214
26,606
Union
8,608
11,293
Williamsburg .
_ ..12,768
12,646
York
23,087
26,532
All other _ _
2,392
2,577
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Established June 5, 1902
Junior Class To
Present Play
Here Tonight
McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 28 1935
The Junior Class of McCormick
High School will present “The Ar
rival of Kitty,” a comedy, in the
high school auditorium Thursday
night, March 28th, at 8:15 o’clock.
The cast will include:
Mary Sue Coleman,
James Arrington,
Audley McCain,
Elizabeth Talbert,
Andrew Henderson,
Marvin Reames,
Margaret Smith,
Wilbur Strom,
Catherine Scruggs.
The scene is laid at a hotel in the
Catskill mountains and the play
promises to be full of laughs.
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Mt. Carmel News
OPERA HOUSE
ABBEVILLE, S. C.
h
Thursday, March 28th,
Irene Dunn and Donalds
Woods
• in
“SWEET ADELINE”
Friday, March 29th, Only,
George Raft and Carole
Lombard
in
“RUMBA”
Remember, it may be worth
$15.00 to you to be in the
Opera House before 9:00
o’clock Friday night.
Saturday, March 30th, Only,
Fighting Bob Steele
in
“RANGER CODE”
Added: Laurel and Hardy in
“TIT FOR TAT”
Saturday Night 10:30 Only,
Chester Morris and Carole
Lombard
in
“THE GAY BRIDE”
Look, Monday, April 1st, Only,
Beautiful Jean Parker
in
“SEQUOIA”
(Pronounced See-Quo-Yah)
Zane Grey says this is the
greatest picture of the past
decade. So don’t miss it.
Tuesday, April 2nd, Only.
Robert Montgomery and
Ann Harding
in
“BIOGRAPHY OF A
BACHELOR GIRL”
Wed.-Tburs., April 3rd-4th,
Joe Morrison, Dixie Lee, Geo.
Bums and Gracie Allen
in
“LOVE IN BLOOM”
The news of the passing of Mr.
Charles Bowyer, which occurred
Friday afternoon at his home in
Anderson, was received in Mt. Car
mel with profound sorrow. Mr.
Bowyer had been ift declining
health for some time, and for the
past two weeks his death was
momentarily expected. Mr. and
Mrs..Bowyer made Mt. Carmel their
home for some years several years
ago, and countless friends of the
bereaved young wife and json deep
ly sympathize with them in these
dark hours of sorrow. The funeral
service was conducted at .his home
in Anderson Sabbath morning and
the interment was in the Mt. Car
mel cemetery in the early after
noon. Mr. Bowyer is survived by
his wife, who was Miss Gladys Tar
rant, one son, Charles, Jr., and a
number of brothers and sisters.
The many friends of Mr. and
Mrs. S. D. Wells and family will
regret to hear of his very critical
illness at his home here. All the
family were called to his bedside
last week and are still with him.
The heartfelt sympathy of all is
extended to them.
Miss Gladys Scott spent several
days last week in Anderson.
Mr. and Mrs. Ford Patterson,
Mrs. John McCoy and daughters
and the Misses O’Neals of Anderson
were guests of Mrs. Myrtle Mauldin
Sabbath.
Mr. S. T. Russell of Augusta was
a visitor here Saturday afternoon.
Misses Lura Jean and Virginia
Watson, Mrs. H. O. Watson and
Mrs. W. H. Horton were Willington
visitors Sabbath afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Otis Black and son,
John, of Beaufort were here for the
burial of Mr. Charles Bowyer Sab
bath afternoon.
Mrs. W. A Scott and Mrs. Cecil
Gilliam v/ere Anderson visitors
Wednesday afternoon and -evening.
Quite a number of visitors from
surrounding towns were in Mt.
Carmel Sabbath afternoon to at
tend the burial service of Mr.
Charles Bowyer at the cemetery •
here. Among them were Mrs. |
Hollywood Theatre
To Have Stage Show
On April 3 And 4
Special attention is directed to
the Hollywood Theatre adv. else
where in this issue of the Mes
senger vjhich carries, in addition to
the regular Friday and Saturday
and Monday and Tuesday show an
nouncements, an announcement of
a stage show for Wednesday and
Thursday, April 3rd and 4th. For
these two dates on the stage will
be The Dancing Cowgirls and on
the screen will be “The Great Hotel
Murder.”
Shows, 7:15 p. m. and 9 p. m.
Read the adv. for full particulars.
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McCormick Public
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Schools Honor Roll
FOR THE FOURTH SIX-WEEKS
PERIOD, ENDING MARCH 8, 1935
FIRST GRADE—
Aubrey Lee Earnhardt,
Thelma Chiles,
Billie Freeland,
Belton Harmon,
Carl Henry Strom,
Joe Luke White,
Elizabeth Holloway.
SECOND GRADE—
Bedola Campbell,
Helen Fooshe,
Ready Watson,
Annie Sue Banks.
THIRD GRADE—
Carolyn Hitt,
Cassie Mauney. \
FOURTH GRADE—
Elizabeth Brock,
Edwin Bradley,
Mary Fooshe,
Kathryn Smith,
Virginia Wideman.
FIFTH GRADE—
Dorothy Brown,
Vivian Chiles,
Virginia Fooshe,
Alex Hanvey,
Norma Holloway,
Wilma Walker.
SIXTH GRADE—
Natalie Brown,
Lois Freeland,
Betty Fuller,
Selma Rush.
SEVENTH GRADE—-
James Bell,
Aurelia Caudle,
Doris Coleman.
EIGHTH GRADE—
Frances Cheatham.
James C. Williams.
NINTH GRADE—
Mary Elizabeth Giles,
Vivian Jaynes.
TENTH GRADE—
Elizabeth Brown.
Rebecca Drucker,
Elizabeth Harris,
Eunice Rush.
Margaret Smith,
Elizabeth Talbert.
ELEVENTH GRADE—
Lorene Drennan,
Virginia Freeland,
Coming, Mon.-Tues., April 8-9
“DAVID COPPERFIELD”
Shows—3:15—7:15—9:00
Marie Reames,
Gladys Ives, Mrs. Agatha Woodson, j Annie Laurie Sturkey
cf Edgefield, Mrs. Mamie Baker,
Messrs. Theodore and Marion Tar
rant, Robert Scott, W. L. Miller,
Baker Tarrant and others from
Greenwood, and quite a number
from Anderson and other places.
Mrs. Fannie Campbell and Miss
Thelma Campbell of Anderson
were visitors here Sabbath after
noon.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dunaway and
sons, Messrs. Curtis and Sam Dun
away, of Tignall, Ga., spent Sab
bath here with Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Curtis.
Mrs. Lillian Cason visited in
Willington one night last week,
and was a guest of Mrs. Arch
Andrews Wednesday when she en-
Requirements for honor roll:
1. General average of A or 90.
2. Not less than A or 90 on con
duct.
3. No failures or conditions.
4. No unexcused absences. No
ardies.
5. Not more than three sickness
absences.
than on this pleasant occasion
and the hearty welcome accorded
"Poh one made all happy to be
there. The ladies spent several
hours doing some hand work and
crcchet. The ladies decided it
would be very pleasant and profit
able too to have some entertain
ment with the social hour, so Mrs.
tertained the Willington Commu- . y^gii Dean, Mrs. Charlie LeRoy
nity Sewing Club. ; and Mrs E A McCormac were ap-
Mr. W. L. Miller of Greenwood pointed as a committee to arrange
was a visitor here one day last a program of some kind for the
week. i next meeting. Quite a delicious
Mrs. A. B. Andrews was hostess dinner was served at the noon
to the Willington Community Sew- hour. Very few of the Mt. Carmel
ing Circle last Wednesday to a ladies invited to be present were
spend the day party. The attrac- able to attend on account of
tive home was made more so by a sickness. About thirty ladies en-
profusion of bright spring flowers, joyed the day, and all pronounced
and Mrs. Andrews, always a gra- Mrs. Andrews quite an excellent
cious hostess, was never more so hostess. ,
Garden Contest
Being Conducted
KEEN COMPETITION PROMISED
IN LADIES’ GARDEN CONTEST
Several hundred ladies through
out the State have entered the
garden contest sponsored by The
Agricultural Development Bureau of
The Barrett Company. Competi
tion for the $230 in prizes promises
to be keen as the memb-ers of the
fair sex are “out to show the men
folks a thing or two about garden
ing.”
Each contestant will use Ameri
can nitrate of soda, one of the
South’s great chemical products re
cently mentioned by Dr. Charles H.
Herty in his plea for “Southern
fertilizers for the Southern farmer.”
The ladies will follow the recom
mendations of the Horticultural
Department of Clemson College and
their results should be instructive
and helpful to their communities.
Among the competitors from this
district in the three divisions of the
contest are:
McCormick County — Women
Gardeners, Mrs. Strom Culbreath,
Plum Branch; Mrs. Eugene Craw
ford, Plum Branch; Miss Alma
Young, Troy; Mrs. J. B. Jennings,
Plum Branch; Mrs. Willie Walker,
McCormick.
Girl Gardeners, Phrona Lee
Cheatham, Troy; Mamie Louise
Walker, McCormick; Mildred
Gilchrist, Parksville; Pamelis Clem,
Modoc.
Abbeville County—Women Gar
deners, Mrs. C. S. Gambrell, Don
alds; Mrs. Willie Everett, Donalds;
Mrs. Horace King, Abbeville; Mrs.
Melvin Ashley, Honea Path.
Market Gardener, Mrs. R. H. Car-
wile, Abbeville.
Edgefield County—Women Gar
deners, Miss Corrie Cheatham,
Edgefield; Mrs. Wade Derrick, Ridge
Spring; Mi's. J. C. Williams, Pleas
ant Lane; Miss Ivy Claxton, John
ston.
Girl Gardeners, Mary Mayson,
Callison; Edna Timmerman, Pleas
ant Lane; Frances Holmes, John
ston; Martha Smith, Trenton.
Greenwood County — Women
Gardeners, Mrs. J. M. Hastings,
Ninety-Six; Mrs. H. J. Thomas,
Hodges; Mrs. W. B. Stevens, Ninety-
Six; Mrs. L. B. Smith, Ninety-Six;
Mrs. J. A. Bannister, Jr., Troy.
Girl Gardeners, Annie Lee Wells.
Greenwood; Sylvia Crocker, Green-
wood; Nell Starnes, Greenwood;
Helen Carroll, Greenwood.
Market Gardener, Mrs. A. F
Snyder, Greenwood.
Laurens County—Women Gar
deners, Mrs. J. C. Mahaffey,
Owings; Mrs. E. G. Taylor, Honea
Path; Mrs. P. G. Gambrell, Honea
Path; Mrs. Beulah Patterson, Lan-
ford.
Market Gardener, Mrs. Thos. E.
Coleman, Mountville.
Saluda County—Women Garden
ers, Miss Bertha Jones. Silverstreet;
Mrs. Ben Coleman, Saluda; Mrs
Bettis Herlong, Saluda; Mrs. D. B.
Parkman, Saluda; Mrs. J. S. Cul
breath, Johnston.
Girl Gardeners, Bonnie Lee
Smith, Saluda; Fay Padgett,
Saluda; Dorcas Berry, Saluda; Liz
zie Moud Corley, Batesburg.
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Dowtin H. D.
Club Meets
Four Pages
Quarterly Conference
At Troy M. E. Church
Next Sunday 3 O’clock
The Second Quarterly Conference
for McCormick charge will b
changed from Thursday morning to
next Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock
at the Troy Methodist Church.
The Presiding Elder, Rev. C. E
Peele, will preach, beginning at 3
o’clock.
Number 43
School Survey
Is Progressing
ERA WORKERS GETTING FACTS
AS TO EDUCATIONAL EQUIP
MENT AND OTHER PHASES
The Dowtin Home Demonstra
tion Club held its monthly meeting
with Mrs. T. J. Roberts on March
5th, and, in spite of bad weather,
had a good attendance.
Mrs. P. W. Roper, president, con
ducted the devotional exercises, and
extended to Miss Harvey a hearty
welcome in behalf of the club.
The meeting was then turned
over to Miss Harvey, who made an
interesting talk on the Thrift Shelf,
giving many helpful suggestions to
the housewife.
The hostess, assisted by Mrs.
Moss Ellenberg and Misses Sallie
and Dina Roberts, served a delicious
sweet course with hot tea.
The April meeting is to be held
with Miss Annie Chiles.
• Reporter.
A survey of school buildings in
McCormick County which is being
made by the local Emergency Re
lief Administration for the South
Carolina Department of Education,
is being carried on rapidly and
thoroughly, according to an an
nouncement of C. K. Epting, coun
ty administrator.
This survey which is a part of a
state wide project of the South
Carolina ERA, will yield accurate
information with the respect to the
condition of the properties and to
their values, and will determine the
physical needs of the buildings. The
information when completed will be
available to the public.
Recommendations are made by
the survey workers advising what
repairs are needed to the school. A
dimensional plan and two photo
graphs will accompany every ques
tionnaire filled out by those making
the survey and will be submitted
together with a map of the district
showing roads, bus routes, and
school child population to your
Department of Education.
S. P. Clemons is state director of
the survey. In commenting on the
activities of relief workers who are
conducting the survey, Mr. Clemons
said:
“We are very much pleased with
the progress made so far and be
lieve that the survey will present a
complete and vivid picture of ac
tual present conditions of the schoo!
plants of the state in relation to
their health conditions, instruc
tional efficiency, play and recrea
tion efficiency, and general civic
and social economic efficiency.”
All of the information obtained
by the workers is set down in a
questionnaire, one copy of which is
filed with the County Superintend
ent of Education, and another 1?
sent to the State Educational De
partment. The report includes the
enrollment, the number of teacherr
the indebtedness of the school prop
erty, the value of each school, num
ber and kind of rooms, description
of the site, description of the
building, description of each class
room, an inventory of equipment
facilities, sanitary conveniences
description of fire protection, a lis
of repairs and improvement:
needed, and other points of inter-
st.
The information is obtained both
by an inspection of the schools and
through interviews with school of
ficials, and conferences with
trustees.
This is the first time a survey o'
this kind has ever been undertaker
before in South Carolina. Whil
the information will be of interes
to the public at large, it will be o'
particular value to local school au
thorities in supplying them with re
liable information and plans on
which to base future repair and re
modeling programs. It will also de
velop a more accurate evaluation of
buildings for insurance purposes. It
will also prove of value in further
ing the program of consolidation
and improvement of schools. In
commenting further on the survey
Mr. Clemons said:
“It is known that hundreds of
schools are being operated in build
ings which are in a poorer state of
repair and of a more unsatisfac
tory type of construction than are
to be found in the average tenant
house. In many schools neither
water nor toilet facilities are avail-
Estimated Receipts
From Farm Marketing
In South Carolina
According to estimates prepared
by the bureau of agricultural
economics total receipts from farm,
marketings of principal crops and
livestock and benefit payments in
South Carolina were $90,063,000 ii
1934, $65,388,000 in 1933, and $46,-
219,000 in 1932, says a report issued
March 20th by Frank O. Black,
Agricultural Statistician, Columbia.
Of these totals, receipts from live
stock were $8,474,000 in 1934, $7,-
770,000 in 1933, and $7,437,000 in
1932 while benefit payment?
amounted to $11,457,000 last yeai*
and $4,696,000 the year before, ndn?
having been paid in 1932.
These estimates cover 94 per cent
of the State’s crops marketed and
all of the livestock marketings. The
most important single item , not in
cluded under crops is receipts from,
forest products.
As to seasonal income, the
months of September, October, and
November show the greatest re
ceipts from crops when about 14,
16, and 11 per cent, respectively, of
the 1934 total receipts from crops
were realized, incident to heavy
marketings of cotton and tobacco.
Livestock sales are more evenly
distributed throughout the year al
though receipts in the months of
November and December run some
what above the other months.
In 1934 January was the month,
of largest benefit payments with
$2,395,000, although the May, June.
October and November payments,
exceeded a million dollars each.
able, and in other schools as many
as 60 children are herded int#
rooms little larger than the average
bed room. The survey will not im
mediately eliminate all unsatisfac
tory conditions but it is believe*
that the. data gathered through it
will open the eyes of some of the
school authorities and the general
public as to just how badly their
school buildings need to be repair
ed or remodeled.”
State Theatre
GREENWOOD, S. C.
PROGRAM WEEK
BEGINNING MARCH 28TH
Thursday—Last Day
Clark Gable and Constance
Bennett
in
“AFTER OFFICE HOURS”
Friday and Saturday
ON THE STAGE
Lew Lewis Presents
RADIO ON PARADE
Featuring
Royal Vagabonds—16 Piece
Orchestra
Di Carlo and De Boise,
Continental Dance Artists,
Angie King, Celebrated
KMOX Radio Stars,
Marie Alveres, Vivacious
Dancer from Qld Mexico,
Jimmy Moore, Featured Radio
Artist of KFI,
The Vagabond Trio,
Mitzi, Wonder Dog.
Prices: This Engagement Only,
1:30 to 6 p. m., Adults 30c.,
After 6 p. m., 35c.,
Children 10c all day.
ON THE SCREEN
“THE GILDED LILY”
Saturday 10:40
“LIVING ON VELVET”
Monday and Tuesday
RUDY VALLEE
in
“SWEET MUSIC”
Wednesday and Thursday
JANET GAYNOR
and
WARNER BAXTER
in
“ONE MORE SPRING”
ADMISSION: 10c and 25c