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V 4 McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. SOUTH CAROUNA Thursday, January 14, l'>37 r mi * / 13. Report of Condition of THE DORN BANKING CO., of McCormick in the State of S. C. at the clcse of business on December 31, 1936. v ASSETS Cash, balances with other banks, and cash items in pro cess of collection $114,207.68 United States Government obligations, direct and fully guaranteed 2,000.00 State, county, and municipal obligations 97,800.00 Other bonds, notes, and debentures None Loans and discounts 31,519.57 Overdrafts —______ . None Banking house owned, None, furniture and fixtures None (Bank’s equity, subject to, None, encumbrances not as sumed by bank) Investments, None, in and advances, None, to company or nominee holding title to banking house None Other real estate owned, including, None, of farm land _ None Investments, None, in and advances, None, to companies or nominees holding other real estate for bank’s benefit _ None Customer’s liability to this bank on acceptances executed by* or for the account of this bank None Borrowed securities (contra) None Other assets: South Carolina Revenue Stamps 112.60 EVERY BOTTLE UNIFORM ...UNTOUCHED UNTIL YOU DRINK IT f/ C' I 11 7< $245,639.85 $133,397.10 6,650.83 12,773.11 None 43,131.60 None 1,047.12 TOTAL LIABILITIES AND CAPITAL Deposits of individuals, partnerships, and corporations: (a) Demand deposits (b) Time deposits evidenced by savings pass books (c) Other time deposits United States Government and postal savings deposits _ State, county, and municipal deposits Deposits of other banks Certified and officers’ checks, letters of credit and travel ers’ checks sold for cash, and amounts due to Federal Reserve bank (transit account) TOTAL DEPOSITS $196,999.82 Mortgages or other obligations, None, on banking house and, None, on other real estate Bills payable, rediscounts, and other liabilities for bor rowed money Mortgage bonds and participation certificates outstand ing Acceptances executed by or for the account of this bank and outstanding None Securities borrowed (contra) None Dividends declared but not yet payable None Other liabilities N-Dne TOTAL LIABILITIES EXCLUDING CAPITAL ACCOUNT (except deferred obligations shown in item 33 which are subordinated to claims of depositors and other creditors) 196,999.8? Capital account: (a) Capital stock and capital notes and deben- turesf $25,000.00 (b) Surplus 7,000.00 (c) Undivided profits 16,640.03 (cfc) Reserves None (e) Total capital account 48,640.03 • Automatic machines fill sterilized bottles and seal them airtight. Nothing you eat or drink is more carefully protected. Serve Coca- Cola ice-cold to all the family and your friends. ICE-COLD COCA-COLA IS EVERY PLACE ELSE, IT BELONGS IN YOUR ICE-BOX AT HOME GREENWOOD COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. Greenwood, S. C. 34. 35. 36. TOTAL LIABILITIES AND CAPITAL $245,639.85 On 12-31-36 the required legal reserve against deposits of this bank was $12,815.95. Assets reported above which were eligible as legal reserve amounted to $114,207.68. Deferred obligations not included among above liabilities, which are subordinated to claims of depositors and other creditors, None. Undeclared dividends on preferred stock and unpaid in terest on capital notes and debentures, accrued prior to end of last dividend or interest period. None. fThis bank’s capital is represented by, None, capital notes and debentures sold to Reconstruction Finance Corporation and. None, sold to public; None, shares of * first preferred stock, par value, None, per share, retirable at, None, per share; None, shares of second preferred stock, par, None, per share, retirable at, None, per share; and 500 shares of common stock, par $50.00 per share. MEMORANDA Pledged assets (except real estate), rediscounts, and securities loaned: (a) U. S. Government obligations, direct and fully guaranteed, pledged to secure liabilities (b) Other assets (except real estate) pledged to secure liabilities (including notes and bills rediscounted and se curities sold under purchase agreement) (c) Assets deposited with State authorities tc qualify for the exercise of fiduciary or corporate powers, or pledged for other purposes 12,000.00 (d) Securities loaned to banks, dealers in securities, and others None (e) TOTAL $12,000.00 Secured and preferred liabilities: (a) Deposits secured by pledged assets pursuant to re- requirement of law 12.000.90 (b) Bills payable, rediscounts, and other liabilities None (c) Other liabilities secured by pledged assets None (d) Deposits preferred under provisions of law but not secured by pledge of assets None None None (e) TOTAL $12,000.00 I, P. G. Fooshe, Cashier, of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true, and that the SCHEDULES on the back of this report fully and correctly represent the true state of the several matters herein contained and set forth, to the best of my knowledge and belief. P. G. ^ooshe. Correct.—Attest: M. G. Dorn, G. J. Sanders, Jr., P. G. Fooshe, Directors. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of McCormick. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 9th day of January, 1937, and I hereby certify that I am not an officer or director of this bank. Robt. L. Dendy, Notary Public. My Commission expires at the pleasure of the Governor. checks COLDS and Liquid, Tablets FEVER Sdlve, Nose Drops first day Headache, 30 minutes Try “Rub-My-Tism” World’s Best Liniment Insurance Fire Insurance And AH Other Kinds of Insurance Ex cept Life. JESTER’S CASH MARKET ' Phone No. 25 Main Street McCORMICK, S. C. Fresh Meats of All Kinds, Fish And Oysters. We deliver anywhere in town at all times. Will grind sausage for the public at low prices at all times. Come in and give us a trial. We pay market price for cattle of all kinds. Remember that the new market is in the building with J. G. Campbell, next to Browns’ Inc. Experience Service Facilities Those are the important things in measuring the worth of a funeral director, and should be borne in mind when you have occasion to choose one DISTANCE IS NO HINDRANCE TO OUR SERVICE and there is no additional charge for service oat of town J. S. STROM Main Street McCormick, S. C. Smithsonian Institution Named for an Englishman The Smithsonian Institution takes its name from James Smithson,an Englishman who had such faith in the mission and future of the United States as a leader among nations that he named its government the custodian of his* fortune, which he left to be administered for the “in crease and diffusion of knowledge among men.” Smithson himself was a chemist and scientific writer, a friend of Sir Humphrey Davy and other eminent philosophers of the early nineteenth century. He died in 1826 and left some $500,000 for the establishment of the institution. It was not until 1846, however, that Congress established it by statute. From the income of the fund the Smithsonian Building was erected, while gifts and accumulated interest have since greatly increased the en dowment. The members of the corporate es tablishment are the president and vice president of the United States, the cabinet and the chief justice. It is governed by a board of regents consisting of the vice president, the chief justice, three members of each house of Congress and six others chosen by joint resolution of Con gress. It is under the immediate di rection of a secretary. The institution aids investigators by making grants for research and exploration, providing for lectures, publishing scientific papers, initiat ing scientific projects, etc. It has administrative charge of the Nation al Museum, the National Gallery of Art, the National Zoological Park, the Astrophysical Observatory and other agencies. Cobra Spits Venom; Aims at Eyes of His Victims As a man-killer among the earth’s creatures, the cobra ranks next to man himself. He disposes of about 4,000 men yearly, a higher death toll than that of the tigers of India or the lions of Africa, asserts W. H. Shippen, Jr., in the Washington Star. This species not only injects venom from his long fangs, but can spit the fluid 5 or 6 feet with accu racy. He usually aims at the eyes of his intended victim and can blind a man who keeps well out of reach of his fangs. The cobra and the mambg are said to be the only snakes likely to attack a man unprovoked and to pursue him if he runs. He is a great i at hunter and, since rodents seek ! out the haunts of man, is frequently encountered in inhabited areas— even in homes. The barefooted brown men of India pay heavy trib ute to the cobras. A cobra’s venom attacks the verve centers. A man has been known to die a few minutes after being struck. The cobra has a series of loose ribs just behind the head which spread when he becomes frightened or angry, to form the hood. Indian fakirs pretend the cobra can be charmed by music, but the snake spreads his hood and seems more annoyed than pleased as he follows the motions of the .'akir’s pipes. Old Time Church Singers Fined When Out of Tune When New England was first set tled, there were no hymn books available to the church congrega tions, so each church had a pre centor, whose duty it was to lead the singers by reading the Psalms, a line at a time, and setting the tunes. The congregation knew at first about 20 Psalm tunes. As people did not have hymn books in which the tunes were written down beside the words which properly went with them,, the precentors were some times unable to prevent the congre gations from shifting from one tune to another. When the loud-voiced individuals who started the crowd’ off on a wrong track were identified,J they were fined. The court records of Massachusetts refer to many in stances of this sort. One report] from Worcester reads as fallows^) “Deacon Hart, the Chorister, one Sabbath day in setting the Psalms*, attempted to sing the Bella tune.! Your memorialist, being used to the old way, did not know the Bella tune from the Pax tune and sup posed that the deacon had aimed at the Cambridge short tune and had set it wrong. Thereupon, this peti tioner raised his voice in the Cam bridge short tune and the people followed him except a few who sang the Bella tune. So, there was an unhappy discord and the blame was all imputed to your poor petitioner and John Hooke, Esq., assistant, sent for him and fined him.”— Washington Star. Emu Grouped With Rhea, Ostrich and Cassowary Zoologists group the emu with 1 other big running land birds like the ostrich, the cassowary and the rhea of South America. The emu i* found in the open country of Austra lia and neighboring islands. Although few men care to eat the emu’s fat, oily meat, and he has no plumes to recommend him to the attention of hunters, writes W. H. Shippen, Jr., in the Washington Star*, he is rare because Australians en joy the sport of running him dawxL on horseback. v In size the emu ranks between the African ostrich and the South Ameri can rhea. His body is covered with, rich brownish plumage and neck and head are feathered. The ehuk feeds upon herbs, fruit and roots. In the wild state the hen emu lays, six or seven eggs in a shallow nest scooped in the sand. The male incu bates the eggs, like the ostrich and cassowary. The emu, when alarmed, utters a. faint booming noise or a shrill piping note. He is a good-natured bird and. one readily tamed. .WEEKLY BULLETIN S.C.Game fJlSH Association T/iru Siaiewide (o-operaiion Game. THE NATIONAL WILDLIFE MEET HUGH C. BROWN, McCORMICK, S. C. fi The general wildlife federation, together with the American Wild life Institute will hold a joint con vention on the conservation of America’s wildlife resources, in St. Louis next March. Last winter conservatior minded men and women from 48 state? gathered in Washington at the call of President Roosevelt and whoop- sd-it-up through a week’s session that turned into an international gathering when Canada and Mex- co sent delegates. Out of that convention grew the ‘general wildlife federation” pur posed to unify all wildlife agencies; o develop a comprehensive pro- ’.ram for advancement, restoration and conservation of wildlife; to publicise pertinent facts; to join hands with other countries on th.s continent. The fiery and enthusiastic J. N. “ding” Darling, conspicuous throughout the convention, was chosen “temporary president” and Carl D. Shoemaker, secretary of the special senate committee on con servation of wildlife resources, is acting as temporary secretary. Cer tainly both men are qualified and capable of putting the job over. Following the adjournment of the Washington convention en thused followers went home and began spreading the gospel. Dur ing the ten months interim 38 states, including South Carolina say they are set to continue the fight. Now the powers-that-be call for the second gathering March 1, 2, 3, 4, in St. Louis, with the Jefferson Hotel as convention headquarters. Permanent officers will be elected, definite projects sponsored, concrete programs set in motion. The Amer ican Wildlife Institute (the ole American Game Association) wil cooperate and hold their conven tion at the same time and place Reports of this first year’s successe will very probably determine just where and how the general wild life federation will go from here The Institute has as its president former senator Frederic C. Wolcott of Cornecticut, and Henry P. Davis long in the service of the old AGA is secretary, with their headquar ters in Washington. In addition to Ding Darling and Carl Shoemaker, the Federation has a regional chairman in A. C. “Zan” Heyward of Columbia, who also rates as a member of the na tional board ot directors. This re- " n embraces West Virginia, Vir- {Jnia, North and South Carolina Zan and everyone else knows the ie<rion should be rearranged with rtates with more in common unit cd. In South Carolina we have M L. “Mac” Boykin of Sumter as state chairman; Miss Claudia L I helps, Aiken, Vice Chairman, anc Yv'est Jacocks, Columbia, Secretary and groups in 34 counties in the state have “federated”. More information will be for warded from time to time, or write state headquarters, Columbia, for specific data. West Jacocks, Secretary. Columbia, S. C., December 28, 1936. • Remarkable Feats of Memory There have been many instances of what may be termed remarkable feats of memory. Justus Lipsius, Belgian scholar, is said to have committed to memory the whole of “Tacitus”; Macaulay learned “Pilgrim’s Progress” and “Para dise Lost”; Antonio Magliabechi, librarian to Cosmo III, grand duke of Florence, is said to have memo rized and reproduced a manuscript that had been lent him to read. Lord Granville was able to repeat the New Testament in the original Greek, and Euler, the mathema tician, knew all the “Aeneid” from memory. Others noted for their ex cellent powers of memorizing were Wallis, also a mathematician, and Niebuhr. The ability to memorize has also been demonstrated by others in plajung chess. Famous Ephrata Cloister Famous Ephrata Cloister, Penn sylvania retreat where once flour ished a picturesque and mystic re ligious community and scene of his toric Revolutionary war episodes, is said to be the oldest non-Catholic ; monastic institution in the Near World. It was established in the> middle of the Eighteenth centuiy. It was a community made up of Mem bers of a sect of German relgion- ists which was an offshoot #f the Dunkers, who were essential^ Bap tists. In the seventeenth there arose in southern Ckmany several jaiths of this kind, sich as the Menhonites and the Duniers, or, Tunkers. They were not Wdl re ceived by the church authwritiesjj some were persecuted, ari, like! many other religionists, thwsands: came to this country in qxest of liberty of faith and speech, in east ern Pennsylvania these devaut and 1 simple folk settled and pMsperedJ Electric Potential in Cloud Measurements show that each centimeter of cloud has a voltage of 10,000, or more than 1,500,000,000 volts a linear mile. Generally, the voltage is dissipated before it reaches this high potential, though some thunderbolts have been esti mated to reach 1,000,000,000 volts. By far the largest part of the electri cal energy in the cloud, fully nine- tenths of it, is discharged inside the cloud before ft reaches the earth. The electrical potential of 25,400 volts to the inch is built up by the splitting of drops of water in. the cloud.—Indianapolis News. Camels Affectionate Camels show great affection fbr their masters and will frequently refuse to rise up with anybody else on their backs, states a writer in Pearson’s Weekly. Dwellers in the desert, and all those who have to cross its bosom, tend their camels with the utmost care, for they well know that their very lives depend on their faithfulness and sagacity. Lonely Pitcairn Island Two miles long by I mile wide the Pitcairn island, the lonely British outpost in the mideastern Pacific Ocean, has very few inhabitants, and all of them do not claim descent from the nine original Bounty muti neers who under the leadership of Fletcher Christian took the Bounty from Tahiti to Pitcaira in. 1789.. “Silver Heels” Marshall John Marshall, chief juiice from 1801 - 35, acquired the nickname “Silver Heels” in his you#* and the sobriquet stuck to him tiroughout life. It was said of Maijhall, who was athletic in his yoihger days and one of the best nmners and jumpers ip the Virginia forces dur ing the revolution, that he could, with a running jump, dear a pole laid on the heads of t^o men as tall as himself. On orfe. occasion, while making an exhilition of his athletic skill, he ran a race in his stocking feet. His homtfnade stock ings were blue in colof with white heels. This circumstance, combined with his victory, led his ^ fellow soldiers to nickname hhn “Silver Heels.” | John ©’Croat's House John O’Groat’s Hoase is a spot- on the north coast of Caithness, Scot land, 14 miles north of Wick and’ 1 3-4 miles west of Duflcansby Head. It is the mythical siteftf on octagonaL house said to have been erected! early in the Sixteenth century by John Groot, a Dutchman, who had migrated to the nofth of Scotland by permission of Jsmes IV. The site of the traditional building is marked by a mounL and flagstaff, 1 Meaning of W«rd “Mesa” The word “mesa” is a Spanish word meaning table. It describes 1 gh, broad and flat topped table lend with steep sides, characteristie oi the southwest. One of the most i ted is Mesa Verde, in southwest ern Colorado, fifteen miles long, eight miles wide with cliff-like r-ides 400 to 800 feet high. The vnrde is Spanish for green, therefore green; tabled land).. _ i