Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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H**T* ro XiRSlCLVkCfi. OUB NEIGHBORS. OUK COUNTRY AND OUB GOD. Thirty-Fourth Year Established June 5, 1902 McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1935 Four Pages Number 30 Miss Mattie Holloway Claimed By Death Miss Mattie Jane Holloway, life long resident of McCormick;, died at her residence here at an early hour last Friday morning after a linger ing illness. Her condition became critical only during the last ten days though she had reached the ripe old age of 77. Funeral services were held from the McCormick Methodist church, of which she had been a member since girlhood, Saturday afternoon at 2:30, with her pastor, the Rev. D. W. KeHer, in charge. Inter ment was in the McCormick City cemetery. Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. J. L. Jennings and Mrs. Isabelle Bentley, of McCormick, and one brother, Joseph P. Holloway, of Mc Cormick. Several nieces and ne phews also survive. J. S. Strom, funeral director, in charge. ixt Mrs. J. D. Watson Passes At Johnston JOHNSTON, Dec. 21.—Funeral services for Mrs. James D. Watson, who died late Thursday evening at her residence following a short ill ness, were held Friday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock at Spann Methodist Church, With her pastor, the Rev. A. M. Smith, officiating, interment following in Spann Cemetery at Ward, S. C. Mrs. Watson, who was the daughter of the late Hon. and Mrs. W. p. Ready, was a member of the Methodist Church. Formerly Miss Lida Ready, she was a very spirit ed woman of Christian character, beloved by all with whom she came in contact. t • She is survived by her husband, J. D. Watson; five children, William Watson, superintendent of public schools at McCormick; John C. Watson, of Barnwell; Miss Eliza beth Watson, of Knoxville, Term.; Wallace Watson, of North Carolina; James Watson, of Georgia, and a brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. J. Walter Pearce, of Augusta. %-r^L Death Of Mr. O. D. White WHITE TOWN, Dec. 24.—Death entered the home of Mr. O. C. White Friday afternoon, December 20, 1935, and claimed for its vic tim Mr. O. D. White, father an.' grandfather of that home. Mr. White died suddenly, mem bers of the family being away at the time, leaving him well and seemingly jollier and happier than usual. Returning awhile later from school a grandson found he had passed away, it appeared with out pain or a struggle. “Uncle Pomp,” as he was called by his many friends, was well known in this part of the county. He was an honest and upright citizen, a kind and devoted father and grandfather, sacrificing any thing possible for their comfort and pleasure, giving his life’s for tune in trying to help establish his loved ones in life. When a young man he worked untiringly for the upbuilding of his community; he had the inter est and welfare of his community and his county at heart at all times. He was 87 years old, was mar ried to Miss Sallie Ellenburg of ; Greenwood County in 1870; sh6 preceded him to the grave almost 10 years. Surviving this union are the fol lowing children: O. C. and W. B. White, Mrs. Ida White and Mrs. J. C. Jennings, one brother, Mr. F. P. White, all of White Town, two sisters, Mrs. J. A. Christian, and [Mrs. Kate Holliday, both of Mc Cormick, also 22 grandchildren and 42 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. Funeral services were conducted at the graveside in the Plum Branch cemetery by the Rev. C. A. Padgett of Edgefield, assisted by the Rev. R. V. Martin of Plum Branch, at 4:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon. OPERA HOUSE ABBEVILLE, S. C. Thursday, December 26, Only, James Dunn and Arline Judge in “WELCOME HOME” F*id*v. December 27, Onlv Clive Brook and Tutta Rolf in "DRESSED TO THRILL” NOTE: We are giving away $30.00 to the white people at 9 on o’^ock Friday pight. V/e are giving away $20.00 to the colored people Friday night at 9:00 o’clock. Satur^v. December 28. Only Big Boy Williams in . "BTG BOY RIDES AGAIN” MID v^w'r c H fvw SUNDAY NIGHT. DECEMBER 29TH, AT 12:01 Doup’os Mont'Tomery and Evelyn Venable in "HARMONY LANE” Mondav. December 30, Only, Joan Crawford , in “I LIVE MY LIFE” To My Friends And Patrons: Next Monday will be the last day I will operate the Ab beville Opera House. Just a word to express my apprecia tion for your kindness and for your support of this Theatre during*, the past twenty years. It has been a pleasure to serve vi*. So t thank each and everyone of’ you FOR BEING £ * GOO ) TO ME. J. A. VERCHOT, Manager of Opera House for the past twenty years. Shows—3:15—^: 1">- -9:00 Modoc JNews Well, we had a nice snow Tiere Sunday, and all the young people have been enjoying themselves ever since, playing snow ball. Messrs. Homer and Bela Bussey of Augusta made a short visit here Sunday to Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Bus sey. Mr. G. E. Dukes left Monday to spend Christmas holidays in New York City. Messrs. Fred Bussey, E. F. Bus sey, J. C. McDaniel and Ollie White were visitors to McCormick last Saturday. Mr. Joe B. McDaniel from Cali fornia made a short visit here Sun day to relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Nash and Mrs. T. D. Howie were business visitors to Augusta last Saturday. Mr. Clarence Howie, who is with the CCC Camp in the northern part of Georgia, is spending the I week here with his parents, Mr. and ! Mrs. T. D. Howie. Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Bussey are spending the week among relatives and friends in Augusta. Mrs. Anna Seigler from Plum Branch is on an extended visit here to Mrs. Susie Seigler. Mrs. Wingate Bolding from Wil mington, N. C., is spending several weeks here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Bussey. Miss Alma Johnson spent Satur day night and Sunday here with Mrs. G. W. Johnson. Mr. Ben Seigler is spending a couple of weeks here with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Seigler. Mt. Carmel News 1 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all. Let us strive to make the New Year the happiest and most prosperous we have ever known. Trying to make others happy will make us happy too, and we thank our highly esteemed edi tor for his kindness to us and patience with us, and wish for him and his the best of luck. Mr. David L. Hayes of Newberry spent last Sabbath in Mt. Carmel with Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Horton and guests from.Texas. Miss Gladys Scott of Greenwood spent the past week end here. Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Nelson anc Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Horton wer. McCormick visitors Saturday. Mr. L. L. Hester was a business visitor in Elberton one day recent ly. Mr. Charlie Morgan of McCor mick was a business visitor here Wednesday. Mr. Carlton Faulkner of McCor mick was a business visitor here Monday. Mr. and Mrs. J. Neel Nelson, Mr. Clarence Nelson and Miss Nellie Nelson of Cedar Bayon, Texas, spent the past week with Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Horton. South Caro lina is the old boyhood home of Mr. Nelson’s, and many old friends were delighted to see him again. Their home is near Houston, Texas, and not near so cold. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Mauldin and Mr. and Mrs. Philips of Augusta spent a pleasant afternoon with Mrs. Myrtle Mauldin recently. Mrs. Jennie M. Cade and her charming daughters, Misses Sallie T. and Julia Cade, are spending Christmas here. Regional Farm Debt Adjustment Specialist Says Organization To Handle Vol untary Debt Adjustments Be- - tween Farmers And Their Creditors Is Nearing Completion D. B. Anderson, Regional Farm Debt Adjustment Specialist for South Carolina, with offices in Co lumbia, today said the State or ganization to handle voluntary debt adjustments between farmers and their creditors is nearing comple tion with reappointment of practi cally all county committee mem bers appointed last year by Gov ernor Blackwood. This unit is a part of the Rural Resettlement Division of the Re settlement Administration, head quarters of which in this region is in Montgomery, Alabama. The McCormick County Committee, members of which serve without pay, consists of P. G. Fooshe, J. P. Brunson, J. W. Britt, G. J. Sanders, Sr., and J. C. Kennedy. Their activities are tied into the State office of Mr. Anderson through Mr. Boyce Wideman, Dis trict Farm Debt Adjustment Specialist. Assistance to the heavily involved farm debtor and to his creditors, in general, is the purpose of this work, Mr. Anderson said. Preven tion of unnecessary foreclosures is cought by voluntary, agreements between creditors and debtors, who are brought together by the Coun ty committees in an endeavor to prevent expensive litigation “A farmer-debtor is insolvent when he is confronted with the hopeless task of attempting to •car ry a debt that is beyond his capa city to pay”, C. I. Cowden, Regional Chief in charge of Farm Debt Ad justment, said in a recent address. “Insolvency can be dealt with ef fectively in only one of three ways: bankruptcy, foreclosure, or volun tary adjustment.” Court action, Mr. Anderson said, has often resulted in dispossession of the farmer as owner or eviction as tenant. Often the creditor has found that he dispossessed a wor thy fanner without helping him- zelf. “The county committee has not been set up to help deadbeats or to encourage farmers to dodge honest debts.” Mr. Anderson pointed out. “Throughout South Carolina they are made up of local men who know conditions on both sides of the fence. Their aim is to help hon est, efficient farmers to adjust their debta so they may continue as an asset to their communities and to help creditors to clear their books of frozen accounts and put more money into local business channels,” McCormick County farmers who are burdened by debts they cannot handle, or their creditors, may ap ply for the services of this commit tee to any member of the county committee or to J. W. Britt, Secre- Corn-Hog Payment Rate Is Set Alrnit Same As In 1935 The rates of adjustment pay ments to farmers co-operating in the 1936-1937 corn-hog program will be approximately the same as those paid in connection with the 1935 program, County Agent E. L. Rogers says. Farmers who comply fully wdth the provisions of the two-year con tract will receive corn payments in 1936 at the rate of 35 cents a bush el on the number of bushels ob tained by multiplying the apprais ed corn yield on the farm by the number of adjusted com acres. The term “adjusted acres” refers to the land formerly planted to corn but retired from com production under the new contract. For example, Mr. Rogers ' Plains, if a farmer with a com b ^ 100 acres and an appraised yieia of 20 bushels to the acre makes an ad justment of 20 per cent, or 20 acres, his total com payment will amount to $140 (35 cents times 20 bushels times 20 acres)—less the pro rata share of the local administrative expenses. Hog adjustment payments will be made at the rate of $1.25 a head on the number of hogs in the mar ket hog base. In order to receive the maximum payment, however, a contract signer must produce a number of hogs between one-half of his base and the full base num ber. Deductions will be made at the rate of $2.50 for each hog he fails to produce up to 50 per cent of his base and of $5 for every hog produced in excess of his base num ber. Under the 1935 contract, both com and hog payments were made in two installments. Under the new contract, two com payments will be made in 1936: the first, at the rate of 20 cents a bushel, about August 1 or as soon as possible af ter first compliance is checked; and the second, at the rate of 15 cents a bushel, about December 31. Hog payments, under the “modified cur rent. production payment plan”, however, will be made in one in stallment about December 31, 1936, or as soon as possible after final compliance has been checked and certified. As under the previous contracts, the expenses for local administration of the program will be taken out of both the com and hog payments. Farm Prices In S. C. Down WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—Farm prices in the two Carolinas were lower this year than in 1934, blit continued to remain considerably higher than in 1932. The agriculture department, in a preliminary report on 1935 aver ages, said however that most crops had been increased to the extent that the 1935 farm value was greater than in 1934. The average price of cotton was estimated at 11.40 cents a pound in North Carolina and 11.20 in South Carolina, whereas the 1934 averages were 12.31 and 12.35 re spectively. A 30 per cent reduction in the average price of tobacco was re ported for North Carolina with the 1935 average preliminarily placed at 20.9 cents a pound com pared to 28.5 in 1934. South Carolina tobacco sold at an average of 18.8 cents a pound compared to 21.6 in 1934. Potatoes, another major crop in the two states, fared better in North Carolina where the 1935 average price of 70 cents a bushel compared with 61 cents in 1934. In South Carolina, the 1935 average for potatoes was placed at 75 cents a bushel compared, with 84 cents a year ago. Name McKissick University Head DEAN OF SCHOOL OF JORUNAL- ISM ELECTED TO SUCCEED BAKER COLUMBIA, Dec. 20.—The board of trustees of the University of South Carolina yesterday elected J. Rion McKissick, dean of the school of journalism, president to succeed Dr. L. T. Baker. Dr. Baker, it was explained, ac cepted the presidency in 1931 with the understanding that he would serve only until the board could select a successor. His present term expires in July, 1936. McKissick was elected at a called meeting of the trustees after the election was deferred at the regular meeting earlier this month. Dr. Baker was made vice presi dent and dean of the faculty. Dean McKissick studied law at Harvard but for the past 25 years has been a newspaper man, begin ning as a reporter and for a time editing his own daily newspaper. He is recognized as a lecturer on history and has been associated with educational endeavor for a number of years, first as a lecturer on South Carolina history at Fur man university and as a trustee of Greenville Woman’s college, and then as dean of the school of journalism at the state university. He was bom at Union, S. C-, in 1884, the son of Isaac Going Mc Kissick and Sarah Foster Mc Kissick, members of prominent South Carolina families. He attended the South Carolina college, now the university, being graduated in 1905. He studied law at Harvard university from 1906 through 1909, when he entered the newspaper field. He served successively as re porter,. assistant editor and chief editorial writer of The Richmond Times-Dispatch before going to Greenville in 1914, where' he prac ticed law until 1916. He was state code commissioner in 1916 and 1917. He meanwhile became editor of The Greenville News in 1916 and served at that post until 1919, when hie became owner and editor of The Greenville Piedmont, which he di rected until 1926. Dean McKissick was a member of the state democratic executive committee in 1922. He is a member of the State Teachers association, the Ameri can History association, the South Carolina Historical society and past president of the South Carolina Press association. He is a member of the Baptist church. McCormick Public Schools Honor Roll FOR 2ND SIX WEEKS PERIOD. ENDING DECEMBER 6, 1935 Citizens Help Make Farmers Of Cluhster? tary. . u . Meetings of the county committee are .held in the office of Peoples Bank Building at 10:30 a. m. each Friday, SUMTER, Dec. 21.—Sumter citi zens who contributed to a revolv ing fund for the purchase of calves for the use of 4-H club boys are well pleased with the outcome of the undertaking, according to T. O. Bowen, assistant county farm agent. Not only immediate profit for the boys but their training for future progress and a good step towards developing in Sumter a beef cattle industry are beneficial results of the enterprise. In July, Mr. Bowen explains, a one-hundred-dollar revolving fund was donated by interested citizens to the 4-H beef club boys and this money was used in purchasing calves for them. A summary of this piece of work shows that^the seven calves which were fed an average of 116 days each on equal parts of com and oats plus two pounds of cotton seed meal per day made a total gain of 1441 pounds, or an average gain of 1.7 pounds per calf per day. The total profit on the project amounted to $135.00, or an aver age profit per calf of $19.35. On November 1 the $100.00 was returned by the boys and is to be used another year to buy calves for new members, and each 1935 beef c^lf club member is planning to use the profit from his project, to pur chase a calf for club work in 1936. r \ FIRST GRADE-r Tom Fuller, Vera Jennings. SECOND GRADE— Mirian Campbell, Billie Freeland, Elizabeth Holloway, Cornelia Weeks, Aubrey Lee Earnhardt, Carl Henry Strom. THIRD GRADE— Annie Sue Banks, Bedola Campbell, Helen Fooshe, Bertha M. Harris, Billy McNeill, Thaddeus Persons, Lilia Belle Rogers, Ready Watson. FOURTH GRADE— Edward Campbell, Perry Chamberlain, Miriam Edmonds, Mattie Mae Henderson, Margie McCain, Maurice White. FIFTH GRADE— Herbert Caudle, Mary Fooshe, Jamie Sanders, Dorothy Watson, . John Wise. SIXTH GRADE— Lewis Scruggs, ; Norma Holloway, Virginia Fooshe. SEVENTH GRADE— Irma Arrington, Ella Bradley Faulkner, Natalie Brown, Lois Freeland, Selma Rush. • ' EIGHTH GRADE— Imogene Sanders, Thomas McComb. NINTH GRADE— Frances Cheatham, Margaret Holloway, James Campbell Williams. TENTH GRADE— Vivian Jaynes. ELEVENTH GRADE— Mary Sue Coleman, Rebecca Drucker, Elizabeth Talbert, * Elizabeth Harris, Trula Winn. { 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. N* tardies. 5. Not more than three absences with satisfactory excuse. 1 I /£= State Theatre GREENWOOD, S. C. PROGRAM WEEK Starting Thursday, Dec. 26, Thursday "MILLIONS IN THE AIR” with John Howard and Wendy Barrie Friday and Saturday Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey in -» “THE RAIN MAKERS’ Saturday, 10:40 p. m. Alice Faye and Ray Walker .. in “MUSIC IS MAGIC” Monday and Tuesday Margaret Sullivan in “SO RED THE ROSE” ADMISSION: 10c and 25c j Ai~-—* J?*, r * V jf.