McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, July 29, 1937, Image 1
TBUS TO OUESELVltfS, OUB NEIGHBORS, OUB COUNTRY AND OUB GOD.
Thirty-Sixth Year
School Children
Survey Planned
C"i' _
* Check-Up Of ChUdren In McCor
mick County To Begin August 10,
Established June 5, 1902 McCORMICK, S. C., THUR SDAY, JULY 29, 1937
Mr. J. W. Corley, McCormick
county attendance officer, will be
gin a survey August 10 of children
eligible for school age. AH trustees,
under the law, are charged with
assisting the attendance officer
in the census in their respective
school districts.
When the census is completed,
containing the names and address
es of every child, both white and
black, of school age in the county,
it win be compared with the en
rollment books to discover those
children out of school between the
ages of seven and Id years.
The teachers and principals of
the schools are required to report
to the attendance officer the
names of aU children who have
had continuous absence running
for as much as five days. Any prin
cipal ot teacher failing to make
this report shall forfeit the sum
of $5 to be deducted from their
current month's salary.
Under the regular school atten
dance law all parents or guardians
financially able shall compel their
children of school age to attend.
Those who do not or refuse to com
ply with the act shall be subject
to a fine not in excess of $25, or
imprisonment for a period of not
more than 10 days.
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Card Of Thanks
Revival Services To
Be Held At Gilgal
Baptist Church
August 1*6
We wish to express our sincere
appreciation for the many expres
sions of sympathy shown us dur
ing the illness and at the death
of our husband and father. The
many acts of kindness and sym
pathy have been a comfort to us
In our bereavement.
May God’s richest blessings abide
-with each one.
Mrs. T. J. Price,
And Children.
Beginning Sunday morning, Au
gust First, a series of revival ser
vices will be held at the Gilgal
Baptist Church. There will be
services Sunday morning and af
ternoon, and services each week
day morning and evening, con
tinuing through Friday. All morn
ing services will begin at eleven
o’clock, and the evening services
will begin at eight thirty. The pas
tor, Rev. A. D. Croft, wiU deliver
the messages, and he will be as
sisted by excellent congregational
singing, and special musical selec
tions. A cordial invitation is ex
tended to every one to attend each
and every service of the revival.
Sunday will be observed as Home
Coming Day at Gilgal. A special
invitation is extended to aU former
members, and non-resident mem
bers to be with us on this day.
There will be morning and after
noon services, and dinner will be
served to aU those attending.
Friends from far and near will be
at Gilgal Sunday. You are invited
to meet your friends there, and
partake of the spiritual fellowship
awaiting you there. Come, and help
us to make this the best meeting
ever held at Gilgal.
A. D. Croft,
- ' Pastor.
xx
Plum Branch Baptists
To Build New Churcl
Plum Branch, S. C., July 26.—The
membership of the Plum Branch
Baptist church, which is located
in McCormick County, is very en
thusiastic over the fact that al
details have been completed to be
gin the new structure at once. The
unanimity of the entire member
ship regarding this undertaking
has exemplified a beautiful church
community, and progressive spirit
This town and community has al
ways been noted for the fine spirit
of cooperation among both of its
churches, Baptist and Methodist
They feel proud of the fact that
they have two resident pastors
both occupying parsonages that
belong to their respective churches
This church building movemen
has been in the minds of the Bap
tist congregation for several years
but they wanted to avoid the bur
den of heavy debt and agreed to
delay action until a substantial
part of the cost was raised in ad
vance.
Mr. Ballinger’s Con
dition Still Serious
From The Index-Journal, Green
wood, July 28.
• The Rev. N. G. Ballinger, who
suffered a broken neck in an auto
mobile accident near here Sunday
afternoon, was reported at the
Greenwood hospital today as being
still in a critical condition.
Mrs. Ballinger, who also was in
jured, was reported as improving.
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LATEST NEWS EVENTS
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ADMISSION: Adults, 25 cents; Children up to 12, 10 cents;
Children 12 to 15, 15 cents
The plans and specifications as
approved by the Building Com
mittee were drawn by the Archi
tectural Department of the Baptist
Sunday School Board, Nashville
Tenn. The plans provide for the
main part of the building to be
30’x60’ with two additional Sunday
School rooms on each side, having
a total of nine Sunday School
rooms with six of them connect
ing with main auditorium by ac-
cordian doors.
The building will be of rough
texture brick veneer with best
quality hexagonal asbestos shingles
used for the roof.
At a special conference of the
church held Sunday, July 18, the
final plans and specifications, to
gether with the financial arrange
ments that had been made, were
explained by the Building Com
mittee, which is composed of the
following: J. L. Bracknell, Chair
man; C. L. Freeland, H. M. Free
land, W. R. Miner, C. E. Wilkie.
At this point, a vote of apprecia
tion was given the Building Com
mittee for their untiring efforts
and work thus accomplished.
S. J. King is Treasurer of the
Church Building Fund, and the
following constitute Officers and
Board of Deacons: L. W. Ridle-
hoover, Chairman; James J. Collier,
C. L. Freeland, S. J. King, T. R.
Ridlehoover, E. R. Strother, J. E.
White. Rev. O. L. Orr is Pastor,
this being the seventh year of his
pastorate of this church. He, with
the members, are overjoyed with
this accomplishment—this being
the third new church that has been
built under his leadership, the
ether two being at Campobello, S.
C., and Fort Mill, S. C.
The Greenwood Lumber Com
pany of Greenwood, S. C., was the
successful competitive bidder for
this job, and the contract was
signed on July 19 which provides
that actual work will begin within
two weeks from that date and the
same to be completed within nine
ty working days or less.
It has already been suggested
that for the opening service in the
new church a big home coming ral
ly will be staged, holding morning
and afternoon sessions and serving
a big barbecue and chicken dinner.
The most unique feature of this
building program is the fact that
the loan required was secured from
x private bank at a satisfactory
rate of interest on a plain note
executed by the officers of the
church with the endorsement or
guarantee of the payment by a
group of its members who volun
teered their endorsement, and the
bank not requiring a mortgage on
the church or the parsonage.
The old church building which
was constituted in 1785, and re
built in 1884 has been torn down
and site cleared for the new build
ing which will be erected on the
same lot but some distance further
back from the street.
The congregation will use the
Mt. Carmel News
Miss Lura Jean Watson has re
turned home from a very pleas
ant visit at Virginia Beach. Sidney
Watson of Greenville, is spending
some time with Mr. and M^s. H.
O. Watson.
Mrs. Hunter McKinney and Mrs.
Inman Griffin were shopping in
Augusta Friday.
Sara, Jerome and Myrtle Alver-
son of McCormick are spending a
pleasant week with their grand
mother, Mrs. Myrtle Mauldin.
Mrs. Ida Black is spending some
time in Calhoun Falls, attending
a series of meetings at the Presby
terian church there.
Misses Beffie Hester and Reba
Wells of Andersdn are * spending
a short while in Mt. Carmel tak
ing a much needed rest.
Dr. Bill Edwards of Greenville
was a guest of Mrs. Lane Smith’s
Sabbath evening. He came down
to carry Mrs. Edwards who has
been spending some time with her
mother, home but Mrs. Edwards
remained for another week.
Mrs. Cecil Gilliam spent the past
week end in Lancaster visiting rel
atives.
Mrs. Inman Griffin and daughter
Louise of Americus, Ga., and
Cynthia Connor of Charleston who
have been visiting Mr. and Mrs.
Hunter McKinney for some time
left Wednesday morning for At
lanta en route to Americus. They
were accompanied by Mrs. Hunter
McKinney and Martha Jean, who
will spend about 10 days in Ameri
cus.
Mrs. D. J. McAllister was a Mc
Cormick visitor Wednesday attend
ing a meeting of the Directors of
the County Council for Farm
Women.
Mr. Dode Philips of GreenviUe
spent Wednesday night here and
Mrs. Philips and son David return
ed to Greenville with him.
The many friends of Mr. Law
rence Connor of Charleston will
regret to hear that his baby Inman
Horton was injured by an auto
mobile last Friday. Our last news
was the physicians were unable to
tell just yet how serious is the in
jury. We all hope it will not be
very bad.
Rev. and Mrs. W. S. Patterson
and son, Billy, of Lancaster, S. C.,
who have been visiting Misses
Florence and Susie Patterson for
weeks, left Monday morning en
route to Bon darken, N. C., where
they will spend a while.
1X1
Modoc News
Special Services At
A. R. P. Church
We had a nice rain here Sunday
evening which was badly needed
Mrs. Minnie Bussey spent the
past week among relatives and
friends in Augusta.
Miss Jennie Shumate from
Greenwood was a week end visitov
here to Miss Lucy Bussey.
Mrs. J. M. Stone from Clinton
spent the past week end here with
Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Stone.
Miss Rosalie Bussey, who has
been working in Augusta the past
several months, spent Sunday here
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
E. F. Bussey.
Mr. Wiley Crawford of Augusta
was a week end visitor here to Mr.
Albert Howie.
Mr. Fuller and Cecil Robertson
from Avondale, N. C., spent a few
days here the past week among
relatives and friends.
Miss Vera Pearson of Augusta
is spending a week or so here
with Miss Edna Merritt.
Mr. J. M. Stone from Clinton is
spending a couple of weeks here
with his brother,'Mr. T. J. Stone.
E. F. Bussey and T. D. Howie
were visitors to McCormick Satur
day evening.
Mr. N. W. McDaniel from Clinton
is spending this week among
relatives and friends here.
Mr. J. M. Reese is spending a
few days this week with his broth
er, John E. Reese, of Columbia.
Mr. and Mrs. Willie McClain
^ ^ ^ , . from Beech Island made a short
high school auditorium pending visit here Monday to Mr. and Mrs.
0 the completion of the new church. ‘ E. D. Garner.
There will be special services
held at the Pressly Memorial A.
R. P. Church, McCormick, begin
ning Thursday night, August 5th,
and closing Sabbath night, August
8th.
Services each evening at 8 o’clock
during the week and two services,
on the Sabbath. Rev. W. C. Kerr,
of Abbeville will assist the pastor.
The Lord’s supper will be cele
brated on the Sabbath.
All are invited to attend.
S. W. Reid,
Pastor.
xx
Camp Bradley News
Camp Bradley, July 24.—Practi
cally all of the men from Camp
SC F-7 enjoyed a moving picture
at the Troy school house on Thurs
day evening. This picture was
shown by the Standard Oil Com
pany and showed the progress in
transportation from the old wood
en wheel-cart to the present day
automobiles. Foreman Cantelou,
Assistant Technician McFarland,
Leader Kelly and a 16-man crew
were left in camp for fire duty and
in order to have a direct contact
with the camp office while most of
the men were away, • a portable
telephone was tapped onto the
Ttoy line and set up in the audi
torium of the school house. There
were 83 residents from Troy pres
ent at the picture as well as the
men from Bradley.
Mr. C. N. Chamberlain is back
from Camp F-ll and is again
working chi the Faulkner Mountain
Cabin. It is expected that this wiU
be completed in the near future
for use by lookouts who will be sta
tioned there during the next fire
season.
Even though the mercury has
been standing at record high points
during the past few weeks, we have
been fortunate in not having any
fires. The men at F-7 are working
hard to maintain this record.
Foreman Ray is nearing comple
tion of the crushing of rock at the
present quarry site. The Flint Road
has been surfaced and a main
tenance stock pile of rock is now
being crushed. It is believed that
during the next week the quarry
will be moved to a new site where
rock will be obtained for surfacing
the Key Road.
Twelve more new men arrived
at camp last Saturday night, mak
ing a total of forty-one new men
now in camp. Although some of
these men appear small, it has been
found that they are handy with, a
pair of boxing gloves and don’t
mind taking a few punches. The
interest they have shown in box
ing has revived this sport at camp
and the older men have been spar
ring with them.
Mrs. Jake Ray and two friendo
visited camp Thursday afternoon.
Number 10
Severe Weevil
Damage Migration
Has Begun
Clemson, July 26.—County agents
in the lower Piedmont section and
Coastal Plains section report ah
average of 36 per cent of the cot
ton squares punctured by the boll
weevil for the week ending July
24. In the upper Piedmont section
weevils are not very abundant.
“The year 1937 will go down as a
year of serious weevil damage;
nevertheless, better yields are ex
pected than was the case in the
early twenties when late-maturing
varieties were commonly planted
and better methods of cotton pro
duction were not as widely prac
ticed,” says W. C. Nettles exten
sion entomologist.
“Many agents have reported that
early applications of the 1-1-1 mix
ture gave excellent results. Even
at this time poisoned fields are
showing less weevil damage than
those unpoisoned early in the sea
son.
“More dusting for weevil control
has been practiced in South Caro
lina than in recent years, but even
so the percentage of the total acre
age dusted has been very small.”
Since county agents in the lower
part of the state report that weevil
migration has begun, this will be
the last of a series of weekly re
ports on the boll weevil for the
present year.
IX*
McCormick County
•r
Farms Photographed
Farms in McCormick County
have been aerial photographed. In
their work this year the Commit
teeman will carry the picture of
the farm in the field with him and
check the crops growing at that
time. The purpose of this method
of checking crops is to help the
Committeeman make his work
more accurate. The pictures of
McCormick County were taken
three years ago.
R. D. Suber,
Comity Agent.
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In Remodeling House
The Plan’s The Thing
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Farm Prices Of Eggs
Begins Seasonal Rise
The farm price of eggs is about
to begin its seasonal rise to a peak
in December, according to County
Agent R. D. Suber. But the advance
this year is expected to be less
than the rise a year ago, on ac
count of the large stocks of shell
and frozen eggs in cold storage.
These storage stocks show a 26
per cent increase over 1936, he
states.
“The U. S. Bureau of Agricultural
Economics points out that in the
In remodeling a farm house, the
most important part of the job is
to have a satisfactory plan avail
able before the work, starts, says
R. D. Suber, county farm agent,
speaking of the tendency toward
better farm homes at the present
time. Many families have built or
remodeled homes in the past with
out definite plans, he states, and
have later realized certain mistakes
in arrangement and in the provi
sion of needed conveniences.
Helpful suggestions on building
and remodeling farm homes are
given in Farmers’ Bulletin 1738,
“Farm House Plans”, and Farmers’
Bulletin 1749, “Modernizing Farm
Houses”. These two bulletins and
a list of others on various building
problems of the farm can be ob
tained from the U. S. Department
of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.,
or by writing the Extension Service,
Clemson, S. C..
One of the greatest incon
veniences of most farm homes is
a lack of adequate storage space.
There should be at least one clothes
closet for each bedroom, a linen
closet in the hall or near the bath
room, a broom closet near the
kitchen, and a closet or at least
hooks on the back porch or rear
first half of 1938, when present
arge storage stocks will no longer' en ^ r y to provide for hanging outer
be an important factor and when { work clothes. Convenient and ade-
x>th the size of laying flocks and Q ua tc storage should also be pro-
;he rate of egg production will v ided i n the kitchen and pantry.
probably be less than in early 1937,
Another important matter is
the outlook is for higher egg prices privacy for bedrooms. To this end
than in the corresponding months it is important that passage to
of 1937”, says the county agent. ; kitchen, living room, or bathroom
In late June nearly 10 dozen eggs should not be through bedrooms.
were required to buy 100 pounds . 1... ..
of poultry ration. Normally less try ration.
than seven dozen eggs are so re- Mr. Suber states that indications
quired at this time of year. From are that the ratio wall decline sea-
June to November the ratio usually sonally this year, but that it is not
declines. The average November expected to go so low as four dozen
ratio for the years 1934-35 was four eggs to 100 pounds of poultry ra-
dozen eggs to 100 pounds of poul- tion by next November.