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TRUB TO OURSELVUS, OUS NEIGHBORS, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD, i / I f Thirty-Seventh Year Established June 5, 1902 McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1938 Number IT Dowtin H. D. Club Meets The Dowtin H. D. Club held its regular monthly m^etincr on Tuesdav afternoon. Sept. 6th, at the home of Mrs. Ken Dowtin with eight members and one visitor present. Mrs. Clifford Dowtin conducted tile, devotional. “He Leadeth Me” was then sung. As this was the first meeting of the 1938-39 club year new officers were elected as follows: President, Mrs. Ken Dowtin; Vice-president, Mrs. P. J. Dow tin; Secretary-Treasurer, Mrs. W. E. Robinson. Following the completion of the business session, the meeting was turned over to Miss Bell, who dis cussed plans for the new year. During the social hour the hostess served delicious refresh ments. The October meeting will be held with Mrs. J. C. Dowtin. Reporter. • • \ Card Of Thanks From Mr. Hare Editor McCormick Messenger, McCormick, S. C. Dear Sir; , Please allow me through the columns of your paper to express to the people of McCormick Coun ty my sincere and deep apprecia tion for the generous support given me in the recent primary. I am more grateful than I can express through words, and I sincerely trust that my conduct and efforts while in congress may be such as to merit the confidence reposed in me. Very sincerely, Butler B. Hare. Saluda, S. C., Sept. 17, 1938. Camp Bradley News Camp Bradley, Sept. 17.—Asso ciate Engineer J. E. Vernon and Supt. of Const. S. M. Shanklin from the Columbia office were business visitors on the Long Cane district during the past week. Mr. Leon Hall, former forestry clerk who is now a student at University of Georgia, has been a visitor with us for the past few days. We are very glad to have Mr. Hall with us and hope that he will feel free to come again soon. 1st. Sgt. Norman Kelly and Company Clerk M. S. Ricketson spent last week end in Saluda. The Bradley Camp baseball team enjoyed Friday afternoon seeing the district championship baseball game in Greenwood. The teams that played in the play-off were Liberty and Sparta, Ga., Sparta being the winner, 13 to 3. We are very happy to say that Foreman Frank Reece is improv ing and we hope he will be back soon. Capt. Hayes has been a visitor this week. Reports show that the camp has been in excellent con ditions. One of the big events of the season came off Friday night at Camp Bradley. Everyone present enjoyed a round and square dance with music being furnished by Ed Hill and his band. ixx Card Of Thanks From Mr. Dowtin I wish to express to the people of McCormick County my most sincere thanks for the splendid vote given me in the primary last week and for the consideration given pic throughout the entire campaign. T. A. Dowtin. Petit Jurors For First Week October Term Court Drawn Petit Jurors for the first week of the October term of Court for McCormick County, are: Clandy Wilkie, John W. Roberts, Grady Price, J. E. Bell, Walter Freeland, C. L. Bridges, D. R. White, Carl Willis, Thos. R. Talbert, F. S. Robinson, J. P. Robinson, Calvin Spence, i Grady Young, Frank A. Henderson, Sam S. McBride, E. F. Creighton, T. C. Faulkner, A. N. Jaynes, John Robt. Watkins, Arthur Coleman, Otis Christian, Lindsay Wall, W. M. McKinney, J. E. White, J. R. Cartledge, Frank Dillashaw, T. E. McDonald, Bryant Quarles, J. P. Holloway, Jr., Oscar L. Sturkey, J. T. Holliday, Wilton E. Britt, Albert Wood, W. T. Walker, Jas. M. Strother, Henry Self. HOLLYWOOD THEATRE McCORMICK, S. C. FRIDAY and SATURDAY September 23rd and 24th, 7 P. M. and 9 P. M. Matinee Saturday 3:30 P. M. WARNER BAXTER FREDDIE BARTHOLOMEW in Robert Louis Stevenson’s “KIDNAPPED” Also A Pete Smith Specialty “Penny’s Party” and A Historical Mystery “The Face Behind The Mask” MATINEE SATURDAY 3:30 P. M. Adults 20 cents Notice: Beginning Friday, Sept. 23rd, the first show will start at 7 P. M. instead of 7:15. MONDAY and TUESDAY September 26th and 27th, 7 P. M. and 8:50 P. M. LORETTA YOUNG RICHARD GREENE m “FOUR MEN AND A PRAYER Also OUR GANG COMEDY ' “Three Men In A Tub” ,r ' » and LATEST NEWS EVENTS 99 ADMISSION: Adults. 25 cents; Children up to 12, 10 cents; Children 12 to 15, 15 cents Card Of Thanks From Mr. Taylor Anderson, Sept. 14.—Congress^ man John C. Taylor today issued the following statement: “I wish to express to the people of the Third District of South Carolina my most sincere thanks for the vote I received in the second primary election on Tues day, as well as the votes given me, and the courtesies accorded me in past campaigns'. Since I have been in public life I have always tried to discharge my duties fairly, honestly and con scientiously, with the good of all the people in mind at all times. “Although defeated in the sec ond primary election, I find plenty of consolation in the thought that I have thousands of tried and true friends in this dis trict who undrestand and feel, as I have stated on many occasions, that I have always tried with all my heart to find the right side of a question and, regardless of cir cumstances or expediences, to stand by that conviction. “The choice of the voters is just as satisfactory to me in de feat as it ever was in victory, for that choice is the very essence of our liberty and my hope is that it shall ever remain so.” -xx- Card Of Thanks From Judge Mattison I wish to express my most sin cere thanks to the people of Mc Cormick County for the splendid vote and consideration given me in the recent primary. J. FYank Mattison. txt Bus Schedule For District Council Meet ing In Greenwood The County Home Demonstra tion Agent, Miss Matilda Bell, an nounces that a school bus has been secured to take Council Women to the District Meeting in Greenwood, Saturday, Sept. 24. The bus will leave Plum Branch at 8:30 and McCormick Court House 9:00 o’clock. All desiring to go this way should contact Miss Bell at once. Special Services At Baptist Church Next Sunday Sunday marks the close of the third year here for the Rev. A. Thad. Persons, pastor of the Mc Cormick Baptist church. It is also the close of the associational year for the church. From the church’s letter to the Abbeville Association is found the following interesting information: Total amount of money raised by the church this year, $3,771.33; total additions to the church during the year, 25. During the three years’ pastor ate of Mr. Persons the church has gone forward in many ways and it is believed that numbers cf people have attained much richer Christian ex periences. There have been 69 additions to the church during this time, 43 of which have been upon profession of faith. The total amount of $16,579.80 has been given by the member ship during the three years. One of the greatest steps of progress made was the paying off of the approximately $6,300 church debt. A $1,400 electric organ has been purchased, $600.00 of which has already been paid. During the Sunday School Assembly hour Sunday morning a Promotion Day program will be rendered by the teachers and children. The pastor has an nounced his subject for the .11 o’clock hour as “The Response of Divine Grace”, and it is expected that this will be a great day in the local church. You are cordially invited to come. XXI De la Howe School Opened Monday The De la Howe State School near here opened its fall session on Monday, September 19, at 8 a. m. The faculty is as follows: Grammar School: Miss Estelle Powell, Lumber City, Ga.; 4 Miss Floride Kay, Due West, S. C.; Miss Thelma Alexander, Com merce, Ga.; Miss Mabel Lyon, Troy, S. C. High School: Miss Rachael Norris, Hartwell, Ga.; Miss Ida Berger, St. Matthews, S. C.; Mrs. Nora P. Branch, McCormick; Miss Carrie Waters, Saluda, S. C.; Mrs. Lloyd Hendricks, McCormick; Lloyd Hendricks, principal. E. A. McCormack is farm supervisor and teacher of agriculture; C. H. Lomas is assistant superintendent and has charge of the dairy. Of the nine cottages which are to be built at De la Howe, three have been completed and are now occupied by the children and three more will be ready within the next few days. The adminis tration building is nearing com pletion. It will house the faculty and a few cf the girls who assist in the kitchen and dining room the administration offices, dining hall and kitchen, and assembly hall. Work was recently begun on a church building which is being donated by a friend of the insti tution. It is to be of brick struc ture forty by sixty feet, with a seating capacity of 350 people and Sunday School rooms in the base ment. It is non-denominational and is to be located the same dis tance on the right of the adminis- stration building as the gymna sium is on the left. Mts. J. J. Tuten of Furman has been added to the staff as matron and one other is to be added who will do case work for the school also. Five members of the staL attended Duke University this summer taking advantage of the course offered orphanage workers. A progressive spirit is manifested at De la Howe and every effort is being made by its personnel to render unsurpassed service in the care, development and training of the more than 200 children there. The Rev E. F. Gettys is super intendent of De la Howe. Farm Women Of Southern And West ern Sections Of S. C. To Meet In Green wood September 24th Aiken. Sept. 16—One thousand farm women frr~- the southern and western sections of South Carolina will gather in Green wood, S. C., on Saturday, Septem ber 24th, to hear reports of their accomplishments by Councils and to hear Dr. Warren Keith, head of the History Department, o' Winthrop College, speak on “America Looks Abroad”. Certainly this is a vital topic for discussion today, and there i£ no one who can make it more forceful nor more interesting than Dr. Keith. Dr. Keith is a very wide-awake, dynamic and attention-compelling speaker. One listens avidly to every word he says. And surely when the air is full of the imminence of war, and the serious state of affairs in Europe, everyone should wish to be as well informed on the situa tion as possible. The program committe feels fortunate in se curing such a speaker as Dr. Keith for this occasion. Short messages will be brought by Mrs. Landrum Sellers, State President of the Council of Farm Women; by the officers and De partment chairmen; by Miss Lonny I. Landrum, State Home Demonstration Agent, and by Miss Carolyn Avinger, heme agent of Greenwood County, on her study in Sweden and Denmark this summer, and by the Depart ment of Public Welfare. Gavels will be presented to the Council making the best report of the year’s work and to the Council having the largest at tendance present. Pins will be awarded the women having done successful leadership work for the past 8 years. Music will be furnished by the Orangeburg Council Chrous and by local Greenwood musicians. The program will begin prompt ly at 10:30 and end at 3:30. Mrs. Thomas E. Hook, cf Lexington, S. C., Director of the District will preside at the meeting. Mrs Hook, with the local Council President, ' Mrs. Charles Palmer, of Greenwood, S. C., has worked out the day’s program. Counties represented will be: Abbeville, Aiken, Allendale, Bam berg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Calhoun Edgefield, Greenwood, Hampton, Jasper, McCormick, Lexington. Orangeburg, Richland, and Saluda. The meeting will be held in the Greenwood High School Audito rium. Outline Of Program ✓ 10:00—Registration. 10:30—Call to Order—District Director. Seng: “Carolina”. Devotional: Dr. R. C. Long Greenwood. Council Creed. Welcome: Greenwood Counci President. Response: Mrs. Burton, Lexing ton County. Introduction of Visitors. Greetings: Miss Lonny I. Lan drum, State Agent. Music: Greenwood County. Appointment of Committees. District Directors Message. Roll Call. Address: Dr. Warren Keith, Subject: “America Looks Abroad”. Broadcast of Council Reports. Announcements. 1:15—Lunch. 2:30—Reassemble. Message from Mrs. Landrum Sellers, State President. Message from Department Chairmen. Greetings from Abroad: Miss Carolyn Avinger. Committee Reports. Awarding of two gavels. Awarding of Pins. Message from State Dept, of Public Welfare. Introduction of Home Agents. “Bless Be the Tie that Binds”. —Adjourn. Chicken Supper At Ruffalo School Ruild- ing Sept. 22nd The Buffalo - Bellvue Home Demonstration Club will put on a chicken supper at the Buffala School building Thursday evening. Sent. 22nd. Plates will be sold at 25 centt each and the ladies of the club plan tc start serving by 6:30. A program will be rendered by the children of the community immediately after the supper. Proceeds go to Buffalo Church cemetery fund. The public is cordially invited to attend. sr Mt. Carmel News Mrs. W. A. Scott, Mrs. Cecil Gilliam, Miss Virginia Watsom and Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Watson attended the funeral service of Mr. Freeman of Parksville, in Greenville, Sabbath afternoon. Dr. and Mrs. S. W. Reid , of Mc Cormick were seeing friends hem one afternoon last week. Dr. and Mrs. Edward Vander- grift of Columbia were visitor* here Monday. Mrs. Wylie Smith was a visitor in McCormick one-day last week. We are glad to say that Mis* Gladys Scott is able to return t» her work at Davidson College, after undergoing a tonsil opera tion at the Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital in Charlotte, N. C. The many friends of NBsr Georgia Mars were delighted to see her in Mt. Carmel last Tues day. Mr. Bob Mars is improving slowly from a recent severe illnes*. Mrs. Corrie Richardson of At lanta was a week end guest of her sister, Mrs. Ida M. Black. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hading and little Ben, Jr., of Atlanta spent the week end with Mr. D. W. Har- ling and Miss itfbnnie Hailing. Miss Sophronia Dean is spend ing some time in Enoree with her brother. Rev. Virgil Dean, and Mrs. Dean. Miss Matilda Bell, Home Dem onstration Agent of McCormick, attended the club meeting here Tuesday afternoon. Mr. W. L. Miller of Greenwood was a visitor here Tuesday. Mrs. Clara Majette, Misses Vir ginia Majette and Eliza Covrn were recent guests in the home of Mrs. Ben Fortson near Lincoln- ton. Mr. Harold Gilliam, Mrs. CeciL Gilliam, Mrs. W. A. Scott, Mrs. Hunter McKinney and Miss Sara Curtis were visitors last Wednes day in Augusta. Miss Bivens Ashe of Orange burg County was a guest of Mis* Lura Jean Watson, and both left Friday evening for Erskine Col lege. . Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Russell and Miss Elizabeth Russell of Augusta spent Sunday with Mrs. J. W_ Boyd. Mrs. Myrtle Mauldin has re sumed home from a visit to rela- ives in. Anderson. Messrs. Lawrence Hester, and \T- H. Horton were business visitor*, n McCormick Monday. Capt. and Mrs. William Sharo. Irs. J. D. Cade and Mrs. H. O. Vat.scn spent the day recently ith Miss Julia Cade at State 'ark. Her many friends will l>e lelighted to know that she mproving nicely. Mr. Harold Gilliam, who ha* been spending a two weeks vaca tion here, returned to the Presby terian College Tuesday. A number of young folks from Calhoun Falls, Mt. Carmel and surrounding community spent a pleasant evening in the cabin and park one evening recently. Card Of Thanks I wish to express my sincere thanks and appreciation to my friends for their many kindnesses shown me during my recent stay in the hospital and following convalescence at home. Harold Browne.