Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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H«CORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINJI Thursday, June 9, 1938 REMEMBER — YOU ALWAYS SAVE AT GALLANT-BELK CO. I HELP KEEP EVERYONE AT WORK .... * BUY COTTONS NOW! \ For the entire summer... Men are willing to work! . . . Help your neighbor and yourself too, by buying these drastically reduced items now !! Gallant-Belk Company wants to keep the wheels of industry turning! ! SHOP AND SAVE In Greenwood’s Largest and Most Complete ,! DEPARTMENT STORE MEN’S WORK SHIRTS 29c 39c ANU 48c MEN’S WASH PANTS Sanforized 79c - 98c AND $1-48 MEN’S UNION SUITS i 25c / r - "vV „ .. .. - - . , V -y-' ~4t PATTERNS ^Thousands of patterns to make your summer f DRESSES EACH / 15c BED SPREADS 48c 59c 69c 79c AND 98c ; . CURTAIN GOODS 5c 71-2c 10c i 80x80 SMOOTH SHEETING 6c BEAUTIFUL SHEER MATERIALS At all prices. Remember ... we sell it for less! \ BED SPREADS ■* E^tra Large Size Candlewick Bed Spreads. The $3.50 kind . . . for $1.98 LADIES’ COTTON PRINT DRESSES LADIES’ COTTON DRESSES 98c, 59c and as low as 49c COTTON PRINT DRESSES Children’s Cotton Print Dresses 98c, 79c, 39c and as low as 25c SHEETS 81 x99 A real value Belk’s four-year sheets. Regular $1.00 value. Special for 79c 81 x 99 SHEETS Seamless and full bleached. Buy a supply at these low prices so we can buy more ourselves! PILLOW CASES 10c Think of it! Pillow Cases for only 10c! And this is a good pillow case. SALE OF TOWELS SUMMER TIME IS TOWEL TIME PRICED _5 c _ 10c -t5c 19c And 25c And every One A BETTER VALUE Cooperating with other Greenwood merchants, we close our store on Wednesday afternoons at 1 o’clock. YOU GET THE BEST VALUES AT GALLANT-BELK COMPANY Home of Better Values - Greenwood, S. C. Mr. Luther Andrews, who for the past two years has been teaching at Dunean school, of the Parker District, Greenville, S. C., has returned to McCormick to visit his mother. Later, Mr. An drews will go to Camp Greenville, the Y. M. C. A. Camp for boys. Cedar Mountain, N. C., for the seven weeks’ season from June 27 to Sept. 1, where he will be direc tor of musical activities. Miss Elizabeth Talbert has re turned to her home in Columbia, after spending several days here with Miss Effie Lee Crawford. Mrs. A. S. Rawls of San Antonio, Texas, is visiting relatives here and in Sumter. Miss Jewel Patterson of Green ville spent the week end here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Patterson. urday. May 28, 1938. Mrs. Kahrs is the daughter of the late Jennie Gilchrist Lyon and Abner B. Lyon of McCormick, and a graduate of McCormick High School and South Carolina State Hospital. Since her graduation she has been a member of the nursing staff of Baker Memorial Sanatorium in Charleston. Mr. Kahrs is connected with the Charleston Navy Yard. They are residing at 221 Con gress Street in Charleston. xx TODAY and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Newell and three children, Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Ellis of Abbeville, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Mann of Augusta, Ga., Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Butler of Charlotte, N. C., and Mr. Earnest King, St. Petersburg, Fla., were the week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Mann on Ave. 5. Mr. Robert W. Crawford, of Hardeeville, S. C., spent Friday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J R. Crawford. Mr. Furman LaGroon left Wed nesday of last week to spend his summer vacation in Waycross, Ga. with his brother, Mr. H. S. La Groon, and family. In the Junior Department of the Baptist Sunday school, Car Henry Strom and Edwin Bradley made 100 per cent for the entire month of May. Mrs. Joseph Murray and Miss Martha Bell were visitors in Co lumbia Monday. Mrs. J. W. Wilkins and daugh ter, Miss Virginia Wilkins, are spending sometime in New York with her sister and brother. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Crawford were week end guests in the home of Mrs. H. J. Reese, Augusta. Mrs. Reese returned with them for several days’ visit. Miss Kathleen McKinney is visiting relatives in Donalds and Belton for a few days. Miss Evelin Graves of Modbc spent the week end in the ^ome of Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Graves. Mrs. J. O. Patterson, Mrs. C. C Morgan, Mrs. Rupert Talbert, Welborne Schumpert and Thomas Patterson, were guests on last Thursday of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Britt of Ninety Six. Mr. J. G. McKinney and daugh ter, Jeannette, also Misses Mar garet and Kathleen McKinney spent last Thursday in Belton, the guests of Mrs. J. C. Pinson. Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Graves spent Saturday in Greenwood. Mrs. J. C. Lever and two chil dren, little Misses Ann and June Lever, have returned to their home in Columbia, after spending about two weeks here with Mrs. Lever’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Williams. WAR then and now Maine and New Brunswick are going to join this year in peace fully celebrating the 100th anni versary of what I used to hear old people in Maine refer to as “The Third War with Great Britain,” or| oftener as “The Great Madawaska war.” No blood was spilled, but thousands of militiamen from Maine and Massachusetts were marched to the border, over a 140- mile road cut through the forests from Bangor to Houlton, and for more than two years were en camped on the banks of the Madawaska River, facing Canadi an militia on the opposite bank. Before the “war” was ended by territorial concessions on both sides and the fixing of the inter national boundary line, Washing ton had appropriated ten million dollars and sent General Winfield Scott to the border to take com mand of 50,000 Federal troops which were promised, if needed. My grandfather, John Calvin Stockbridge, a captain in the Maine militia, was one of those encamped on the Madawaska front. He and the other officers received bounties of quarter-sec tions of Government land west o the Mississippi. My grandfather sold his free land to a speculator named Briggs, who bought up most of what is now the site o the city of Des Moines, Iowa, from the militiamen. TEETH decay causes American dentists are the best in the world because the Ameri can teeth are the worst in the world and need more attention than those of other peoples. Too much sugar, not enough vitamins calories, calcium and phosphorus in our national diet is the cause of our bad teeth, says Dr. Russell W. Bunting, of the University of Michigan’s school of dentistry America consumes two thousand million pounds of candy a year, besides the sugar we eat in other food. That is more than fifteen pounds of candy a year for every man, woman and child, white, black or Indian. Dr. Bunting tried an experiment in which he kept 300 children on a diet containing no sugar for a period of months. They main tained perfect health and showed no signs of tooth decay, while an other group, allowed to eat what they pleased, suffered bad general health and all had decayed teeth. Lactic acid, which develops a germ that attacks the roots of the teeth, is responsible not only for dental ills but for many cases of heart, kidney and joint diseases. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Carswell William at the Greenwood hospi tal, June 4th, a little girl. X Lang-Schumpert En gagement Announced Ninety Six, June 4.—Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Britt, of Ninety Six announce the engagement of their daughter, Catherine Townsend Lang, to Welboume Montague Schumpert, of McCormick. The marriage to take place at an early ! date. jtXI Lyon-Kahrs Mr. James A. Lyon of Columbia, South Carolina, announces the marriage of his sister, Jennie Lou. to Mr. William Andrew Kahrs of [Charleston. South Carolina, Sat- STEAM motive power Thirty-six years ago, on June 15, 1902, the New York Central and the Pennsylvania railroads inaugurated their famous fast trains between New York and Chicago, the “Twentieth Century Limited” and the “Broadway Lim ited.” The twenty-hour schedule of both trains, 960 miles on the Central and 908 miles on the Pennsy, was the fastest long dis tance time-table in the world at that time. Since then “streamlined” trains, drawn by Diesel-engined locomo tives, have been introduced on long runs on several western rail roads. Some eastern roads have put on fast, streamlined trains, using steam for motive power. On June 15, this year, both the Twentieth Century and the Broadway Limited will start new streamlined trains between New York and Chicago, on a 16-hour schedule. With six stops on each line, that will call for speeds be tween stations of 100 miles an hour or faster. These new trains will be hauled by steam locomotives. Most rail road men still pin their faith on steam as the most economic mo tive power and contend that on a perfect roadbed with heavy enough rails, steam engines can beat diesels over any distance. The new Chicago-New York trains are the challenge of the Iron Horse to its modern rival. * * * CARS redesigned For years, ever since motor ve hicles began to appear on the highways, engineers have been saying that their design was all wrong. The engine ought to be back over the rear axle, where its weight would add tractive power to the rear wheels, and it could be geared direct to the differential instead of having to transmit power through a long drive-shaft. American automobile makers have experimented with rear-en gined cars, but none has been pro duced commercially. Now two European car builders, Wenner- Gren of Sweden and Mathis of France, announce that they are going to begin shortly to make such a car in America, England, Sweden and France, to sell for $500. ♦ * * SURPLUS distribution It is a long time since the United States Government had a surplus of cash and no debts to pay. Ever since the Civil War we have been in debt. Before the World War the National Debt was down to a billion and a quarter dollars, in early 1917. Today it is close to 40 billions and still climb ing. Back in 1836, 102 years ago, however, the Federal Government had such a huge surplus in its Treasury, more than 33 millions (not billions) that President An drew Jackson suggested to Con gress that all but 5 million dollars be distributed among the states to use as they pleased. That was done. New York State got 4 mil lion dollars as its share, and has kept that fund inviolate for more than a century, invested at inter est. The income of $175,000 a year is used for educational purposes. I don’t know which is the more remarkable; that the Federal Government once had more money than Congress could think of ways to spend, or that New York’s 4 million dollars share has not long since been squandered by politicians. Watch And Clock Repairing. Prompt Service, Reasonable Prices. FRED C. McCAIN, Augusta Street, McCormick, S. C. Notice Street Tax was due May 1st; last day of payment without penalty, May 31st. 50 cents will be added on the 1st day of June. J. O. PATTERSON, City Clerk. McCormick, S. C. May 24, 1938. NOTICE Notice is hereby given that Mrs. Emma Lewis has qualified as Ex ecutrix of the Estate of G. Arch Lewis, deceased, and all persons owing money or rent to said Es tate are hereby notified to pay same to Mrs. Lewis or J. Fred Buzhardt, attorney for said Estate. J. FRANK MATTISON, Judge of Probate, McCormick Co., S. C. June 7th, 1938.—It. The following described real property, seized from William Tompkins under warrant for dis traint for the non-payment of assessed taxes due, will be sold as provided by Section 3190. Revised Statutes of the United States, at public auction on Friday, June 17. 938, at 11 o’clock a. m., at the dwelling located on the property offered for sale: An undivided one half interest in all that piece, parcel or tract of land situated near Bordeaux, School District No. 3, County of McCormick, Stat^ of South Carolina, containing one hundred five (105) acres, more or less, and bounded as follows: North, by lands of O. G. Calhoun; East, by lands of Elbert Tompkins and others; South, by lands of J. S. Stark; and West, by lands of W. M. Mitchell. This being same tract deeded to Eugene Tompkins and William Tompkins by Wm. S. Tompkins by deed recorded in Book 12, at page 331, in the office of the Clerk of Court for McCor mick County, S. C. This tract is known as the J. F. Singleton place. R. M. Cooper, Collector of inter nal Revenue.