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Thirty-Sixth Year
Established June 5, 1902 McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1938
Number 41
Tom Thumb Wedding Meeting Of Farmers
And Minstrels Pre
sented Friday Night
At Plum Branch
The Tom Thumb Wedding and
Minstrels will be presented by the
Primary Department of the Plum
Branch Schopl at the school build
ing on Friday Night, March 4, at
8 o’clock.
This little play featuring tiny
children has always been popular
and with the added minstrels
should be even more delightful and
entertaining.
The public is cordially invited to
attend. There will be a small ad
mission charge.
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T. C. McDonald
Claimed By Death
Called For Friday
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Afternoon, Mar. 4
A meeting of the McCormick
County farmers is called Friday
afternoon, March 4th, at 2:00
o’clock for the purpose of explain
ing the 1938 Farm Program. Mr.
A. H. Ward, District Agent of the
Extension Service, will be the prin
cipal speaker. Everyone is urged
to attend.
R. D. Suber,
County Agent.
Modoc Mews
Thomas C. McDonald, 84, died at
his residence at Parksville Satur
day afternoon at 7 o’clock, after a
short illness.
Funeral services were conducted
at the graveside in the Parksville
cemetery Monday morning at li
o’clock, Rev. Foster Speer offi
ciating, assisted by Rev. O. L. Orr.
Mr. McDonald was a member of
the Plum Branch Methodist church.
Survivors are two daughters, Mrs.
J. P. Brunson and Miss Annie Mc
Donald, both of Parksville; two
sons, T % Eugene McDonald and J.
Walter McDonald, both of Parks-
•ville; two brothers, J. W. McDonald
of Thomas ton, Ga., and Charley F.
McDonald of Fort Valley, Ga.; and
two sisters, Mrs. Lily Gaines and
Lula Toole, both of Atlanta.
Pallbearers were J. P. Brunson,
W. T. Self, J. A. Harvley, T. R.
Cartledge, R. N. Edmunds and T.
B. Wood.
~j: S. Strom, funeral director, in
charge.
Well, the weather continues
good and the farmers are plowing.
Some are beginning to plant corn.
Mrs. B. M. Bussey and her
daughter, Marie, spent the past
week with relatives in Savannah,
Ga.
Master Buddie Duke spent the
past week end with Master Frank
Jefferson at Clarks Hill.
Mr. Ben and William Bussey
and Capers Holson made a short
visit to Modoc on Tuesday of this
week.
Miss Bettie Osborn from Parks
ville was a week end visitor here
to Miss Emily and Hazel Dukes.
Mr. Ray Bussey, who is working
in Columbia, spent the week end
here with his mother, Mrs. Minnie
Bussey. *
Mrs. Wingate Balwin from
Savannah is spending this week
here with her mother, Mrs. B. M.
Bussey.
Mr. E. F. Bussey was the guest
Sunday to Mr. and Mrs. F. M.
Bussey.
Mr. Hermon Bussey, who is work
ing with the Highway Dept, in
South Ga., was a week end visitor
here to homefolks.
Mr. G. E. Dukes, traveling sale-
man for Calhoun, Robertson & Co.,
is touring the State of Fla. this
week.
HOLLYWOOD THEATRE
McCORMICK, S. C.
FRIDAY and SATURDAY
March 4th and 5th, 7 p. m. and 8:40
Matinee Saturday 3 p. m.
MICKEY ROONEY
m.
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“HOOSIER SCHOOLBOY
(Mickey Rooney; Winner of the Parents Magazine •
Medal for the best Family Picture)
ADo
QRIME DOESN'T PAY
“What Price Safety”
and
A Color Cartoon
“Coach For Cinderella”
MATINEE SATURDAY 3 P. M. Adults 20 cents
Mrs. H. M. Schumpert
Claimed By Death
Mrs. Lena Huckabee Schumpert,
wife of H. M. Schumpert, superin
tendent of the McCormick Water
and Light plant, died at her home
here Saturday morning at seven
o’clock following an illness of sev
eral months.
Mrs. Schumpert was born at
Lowndesville on August 5, 1839, the
daughter of the late J. M. Huckabee
and Mrs. Cora Hawthorne Huck
abee and on April 8, 1909, she wa-
married to H. M. Schumpert ot
Newberry. For the past twelve
years they have made their home
in McCormick where innumerable
friends morn the passing of this
devoted mother, faithful wife and
friend.
Besides her husband Mrs.
Schumpert is survived by her
mother, Mrs. J. M. Huckabee, of
Decatur, Ga.; five children, J.
Marion Schumpert, McCormick;
Welbourne M. Schumpert, teacher
in the Goldville high school; Miss
Sarah Schumpert, teacher in the
Trenton school; Miss Frances
Schumpert and Miss Kathryn
Schumpert, both of McCormick;
two brothers, J. B. Huckabee and
J. M. Huckabee, Jr., Decatur, Ga.,
and one sister, Mrs. J. A. Harper,
Lowndesville.
Funeral services were conducted
at 2:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon
from the McCormick Methodist
Mt. Carmel JNews
church of which Mrs. Schumpert
was a devout, active member, with I '777 77 \ 7717~ *7777
,, ’ _ Gilliam, Mrs. W. A. Scott, Misses
Mrs. J. M. stone, Mrs. Lucilc
Stone, Mrs. Ethel Sizemore, Mrs.
Myrty Adams of Greenwood and
Mrs. Adams of Ninety Six were
visitors of Mr. D. W. Harling Sun
day afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Hester anc
family, Jim Pat and Carolyn
Hester, and Mr. Willie Hester were
visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Mit
chell of Mt. Pleasant and Cadet
Lawrence Hester, Jr., of the Citade.
in Charleston, S. C., Sunday.
Mrs. Clara Majette and Miss
Virginia Majette are guests oi
Misses Lennie and Eliza Covin for
a few days.
Mrs. Cecil Gilliam, Misses Mary
Hardaway and Miss Sara Curtu
attended show in Greenwood Tues
day evening.
Misses Esther DuBose and
Vivian Ware of Lincolnton are
charming guests of Miss Sara
Curtis this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnie Banks and
family, Miss Opal Banks, Jean and
Ray, and the baby, were visitors
of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Curtis Sun
day.
Mr. and Mrs. James Boyd and
son, Julius, Mr. and Mrs. Dode
Philips and son, David, Mr. and
Mrs. Samuel Boyd of Greenville
were spend the day guests of Mrs.
J. W. Boyd Sunday.
Mrs. W. W. Edwards of Green
ville spent a pleasant day Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Curtis.
Mrs. J. R. Tarrant, Mrs. Cecil
Social Security
Official Coming
Will Aid Employers and Old-Age
Insurance Claimants in Solving
Problems. To Be At Court
House Next Tuesday
the pastor, the Rev. M. E. Derrick,
the Rev. E. R. Mason of Spartan
burg, the Rev. A. Thad Persons of
McCormick Baptist Church, and
Dr. S. W. Reid of Pressly Memorial
A. R. P. Church, officiating. Inter
ment was made in the cemetery
at Lowndesville.
Pallbearers were J. E
J. L. Smith, F. A. Cosey, J. R. Cor*
ley. Dr. C. H. Workman, J. F. Mat
tison and J. L. Caudle.
J. S. Strom, funeral director, in
charge.
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Mary Hardaway and Sara Curtis
were visitors in Anderson Sunday
afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Scott and Mr.
and Mrs. Anderson of Greenwood
were visitors of Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
Scott Sunday afternoon.
. Mr. and Mrs. James Mauldin of
3 I Anderson spent Sunday with Mrs.
Myrtle Mauldin.
Mr. and Mrs. Robinson and Mr.
Selden Harling were visitors of Mr.
D. W. Harling recently.
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Miss Martha Pressly, manager of
the Social Security Board’s Green
wood field office, which serves the
counties of McCormick, Laurens.
Saluda, Edgefield, Newberry,
Greenwood and Abbeville, will be
in McCormick on Tuesday, March
8th, it was learned today.
Employers desiring assistance in
solving problems regarding account
numbers for all of their workers or
who may want information as to
steps in filing claims for workers
are invited to see Miss - Pressly at
the Court House between the hours
of eleven and one.
Workers in business and industry
who have reached, or will soon
reach, age 65, and near relatives of
workers who have, died this year,
regardless of age, are entitled to
file claims through the Greenwood
field office for lump-sum cash
payments lender the Old-Age In
surance provisions of the Social
Security Act, it is stated.
One of the purposes of Miss
Pressly’s visit, it is said, is to meet
any such claimants and assist them
in filing claims for these lump-sum
payments.
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Honor Roll
McCormick Public
Schools, 5th Month,
1937-1938 Term
Applications For
Crop And Feed Loans
Being Received
4-H Club Girls and
Boys Attend Farm
Youth Day
MONDAY and TUESDAY
March 7th and 8th, 7 p. m. and 8:50 p.
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
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(This is her best picture)
Also
A TRAVEL TALK
“Stockholm Pride Of Sweden”
and
LATEST NEWS EVENTS
(This issue contains shots showing Roy Harris of
Greenville, S. (7. receiving his award for the prize
winning title OF HUMAN HEARTS.)
ADMISSION: Adults. 25 cents; Children up to 12, 10 cents;
Children 12 to 15, 15 cents
One hundred 4-H club girls and
boys form McCormick County, ac
companied by the Home and Farm
Applications for emergency crop Agents, took part in the Farm and
and feed loans for 1938 are now Youth Day Program of the Second
being received at McCormick Court Annual Augusta Fat Cattle Show
House by James M. Baker, Jr., Field and Sale on Wednesday, Feb 23.
Supervisor of the Emergency Crop T he down pour of rain prevented
and Feed Loan Section of the Farm the thousands of girls and boys
Credit Administration. from parading down Broad street,
The loans will be made, as in the but that did not lower their spirits,
past, only to farmers who cannot because, for some this was their
obtain credit from any other first trip to Augusta,
source. The money loaned will be After they had heard an address,
limited to the farmer’s immediate planned especially for them by Mr.
and actual cash needs for .growing David E. Lilienthal, Director of the
his 1938 crops or for the purchase Tennessee Valley Authority, a bar-
of feed for livestock, and the a- becue dinner was served by the
mount which may be loaned to any Association and the Chamber ol
one farmer in 1938 may not exceed Commerce.
$ 400 - Matilda Bell,
Farmers who can obtain the Co. Home Dem. Agent,
funds they need from an individ- xx-
ual production credit association, JJ ome Demonstration
bank, or other concern are not eli
gible for crop and feed loans from A^CllFs Schedule For
the Emergency Crop and Feed Loan' ^
Section of the Farm Credit Admin
istration. The loans will not be
made to standard rehabilitation
clients whose current needs are
provided for by the Farm Security
Administration, formerly known as
the Resettlement Administration.
As in the past, farmers who ob-
Week March 4-11th
Friday, Office.
Saturday, Office.
Monday, Office.
Tuesday, Wideman 4-H Clubs;
Mt. Carmel H. D. C., 3 P. M.
Wednesday, Office; Youngs H.
tain emergency crop and feed loans ID. C., 2:30 P. M.
will give as security a first lien on Thursday, McCormick 4-H
the crop financed, or a first lien Grammar; Buffalo-Bellvue H. D.
on the livestock to be fed if the IC., 3 P. M.
money borrowed is to be used to
produce or purchase feed for live
stock.
Where loans are made to tenants,
the landlords, or others having an
interest in the crops financed or
the livestock to be fed, are required
to waive their claims in favor of
a lien to the Governor of the Farm
Credit Administration until the
loan is repaid.
Checks in payment of approved
loans will be mailed from the Re
gional Emergency Crop and Feed
Loan Office at Columbia, South
Carolina.
Friday, Office; Meriwether H. 1
C., 3 P. M.
Matilda Bell,
Co. Home Dem. Agent.
Card Of Thanks
FIRST GRADE—
Billy Creighton.
Johnel Caudle.
SECOND GRADE—
Theresa Barnhardt,
Patsy Johnson,
Virginia Seigler,
Rebecca Simpson,
Doyle Abercrombie,
Bobby Huguley.
THIRD GRADE—
None. ‘ • '
FOURTH GRADE—
Billie Freeland,
Josephine Morgan,
Belton Harmon,
Eugene Johnson,
Carl Henry Strom.
FIFTH GRADE—
Annie Sue Banks,
Irene Duncan,
Bertha May Harris,
Frances New.
SIXTH GRADE—
None.
SEVENTH GRADE—
None.
EIGHTH GRADE—
Norma Holloway,
Anne B. Seigler.
NINTH GRADE—
Lois Freeland,
Natalie Brown,
Betty Fuller.
TENT H GRADE—
None.
ELEVENTH GRADE—
Charles H. Williams,
Frances Cheatham.
Requirements for honor roll are:
Mark of 90 on each subject and
also on conduct.
Not over 2 tardies and 2 excused
absences during month.
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IVfodoc H. D.
Club Meets
Independent Mer
chants To Hold Con
vention In Columbia
March Tenth
HON. WRIGHT PATMAN, CON
GRESSMAN FROM TEXAS, TO
BE PRINCIPAL SPEAKER
Columbia, Feb. 28.—March 10 at
10:00 a. m. at the Columbia Kot?l
is the time and place for the first
Convention of the South Carolina
Independent Merchants Associa
tion.
The principal speaker at the
Convention will be the Hon. Wright
Patman of Texas, powerful and
dynamic speaker, leader in Con
gress of a large group that >.s
fighting for the independent busi
ness men in all lines. He is deeply
interested in the future of inde
pendent merchants and has given
much study to their problems. He
was Chairman of the Congressional
Committee that conducted hear
ings on the bill of which he was
an author and has since become
law, known as the Robinson-Pat-
man Act. Congressman Patman
will speak at 3:15 p. m. and his
address will be broadcast over
Radio Station W IS.
Of great interest and importance
to the merchants of South Carolina
will be an address by the Hon. W.
G. Query, Chairman of the South
Carolina Tax Commission, on the
subject of taxation, with particu
lar reierence to taxes paid by mer
chants.
Other speakers will include Hon.
Jas. H. Hammond of Columbia,
Hon. Wilbur Grant, a Director of
the Association and a member of
the Legislature from Chester, S. C,
E. M. Arnold of Greenville, Gary
Paschal of Columbia and the ad
dress of the President, A. L. M.
Wiggins, of Hartsville.
Two sessions of the Convention
will be held, one at 10:00 a. m. and
the other at 2:30 p. m. Between
sessions of the Convention, the en
tire membership will hear the ad
dress of Congressman Patman to
the South Carolina Legislature. By
formal xesolution, a joint session of
House and Senate will assemble to
hear him speak.
All independent business men
and women in the State, whether
members of the Association or not,
are invited to attend the Con
vention.
We wish to express to our friends
our sincere appreciation for the
kindness shown us during the ill
ness and death of our beloved
father.
Annie L. McDonald,
Mrs. J. P. Brunson,
T.* E. McDonald,
J. W. McDonald.
On Thursday, Feb. 24th, the
Modoc H. D. Club met in the home
of Mrs. E. F. Bussey with 7 mem
bers present.
Scripture and prayer, by presi
dent.
For our lesson this month we
had “The Care And Handling of
Milk.’’ This being one of our most
important foods, we should be
very careful in handling it.
After the lesson the hostess serv-
Birthday Party For
Melvin E. Derrick, Jr.
Melvin E. Derrick, Jr., celebrated
his sixth birthday Saturday after
noon, Feb. 19th, with a most de
lightful party at his home on Gold
Street. Sixteen of his little boy
friends were his guests on this oc
casion and after a round of en
thusiastic games conducted in the
living reem by Mrs. C. A. Gilbert
the group was invited into the
dining room where a beautiful
Jirthday cake centered the dining
table. Delicious ice cream was
served with the cake. He received
many lovely gifts.
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Bethany H. D.
Club Meets
The Bethany Home Demonstra
tion Club met Monday, Feb. 14, at
Bethany school house and carried
out the following program:
Song—Loves Old Sweet Song.
Psalm 122.
Prayer—By Mrs. Seigler.
Reading—Miss Emmie Sheppard.
Minutes, roll call.
Business—we decided that each
one would give as much money as
possible toward a shower to help
he county nurse.
A committee of three was ap
pointed as a floral committee for
the community.
Miss Bell gave us an interesting
talk on care and handling of milk.
We all enjoyed a contest.
Instead of the first Monday in
ed delicious sandwiches and coffee, each month we changed our day
The March meeting will be held of meeting until the second Mon
in the home of Mrs. H. W. Bailey.. day.
Reporter. J Reporter.