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TSUI TO OURflXLVKI, OUK NSIGHB ORB, OU* COUNTRY AND OUR GOD. Thifty-Ninth Year June 5,1902 McCORMICK, S. C., THtlRSDAY, JUNE 6, 1940 Number 1 AAA Performance Check Has Started In McCormick County Union Service At A. R. P. Church Sabbath Evening Checking of performance on the farms of more than 1100 McCor mick county farmers who are participating in, the 1940 AAA Farm Program has begun, accord ing to H. M. Freeland, chairman of county AAA committee. Training schools have been held for county performance super visors and reporters, who are re sponsible for checking land use and determining whether farmers have planted within their acreage benefit of it. allotments. Since AAA soil-conservation and parity payments are based upon compliance with acreage allot ments, it is necessary that per-, formance be checked before farms can be certified for payment.- Mr. Freeland points out that the present system of checking The Union Service of the Mc Cormick churches will be held Sabbath evening at 8:15 o’clock in the Pressly Memorial A. R. P. Church. Rev. M. E. Derrick of the Metho dist Church will preach; and Rev. A. Thad. Persons of the Baptist Church will assist with the devo tional service. You are invited to join us in this service and share with us the S. W. Reid, Pastor. -xx- Bible School STARTS AT BAPTIST CHURCH MONDAY MORNING. syt ^ . . —ip performance through the use of j The Daily Vacation Bible School aerial photograph has resulted in will begin at the McCormick Bap- more uniformity and a much tist church Monday morning at greater degree of accuracy than was possible before aerial photog raphy was put into use in 1936. More than 95 per cent of the crop land in the nine states of the Southern Region has been photo graphed from the air for the pur pose of checking performance in the AAA program. The actual work of checking performance is done only when the farmer or his authorized rep resentative is present, Mr. Free land savs. Usually the farmer assists the reporter in this. work. Dr. Kennedy ay mor 8:30 o’clock with Mrs. D. C. Tal bert serving as general superin tendent in the absence of the pas tor, Rev. A. Thad. Persons, who will attend the Southern Baptist Convention in Baltimore. Mrs. Chas. Fooshe will be pia nist for the school and Mr. F. A. Sullivan News The members of the community, especially the parents of the gram mar school children, wish to take this opportunity to mention the Hot Lunch project at Sullivan this year. The children have been greatly benefitted by this service, enabling them to do better work. Mrs. Susie Winn, the efficient ser ver, kept the lunch room, furnish ed by the Home Demonstration Club, very clean. She went every morning, prepared the hot lunch, served it to all the children pres ent, and seldom left the building until the children did. We hope this project will be continued for many years. Visitors in the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Mayson, Monday after noon, were: Mr. and Mrs. James Mayson and children, Miss • Lois LaGrone, and Miss Willie Garvin, of Greenwood. Mr. and Mrs. James Keown, of McCormick, are receiving con gratulations upon the birth of twin sons, Sunday, June 2, at the Greenwood Hospital. They have been named Jack Wilmoth and Jim Mattison. Mrs. Keown is the former Miss Olive Mayson, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Mayson, of this community. Miss Carrie Mayson, Mr. J. P. Sullivan, and Mr. Roy Callison have returned from Lake City, Walhalla, and Marietta, respective ly, where they taught in the High College Students I McCormick High Returning Home School Closing Among the college students re- Commencement exercises for the turning to their homes here and McCormick High School began in the county for the vacation are: Friday evening when the senior Limestone College, Gaffney— class held its “Class Dav” program Miss Valerie White, graduate. under the direction of Miss Martha Winthrop College, Rock Hill— Johnston. Miss Elizabeth Brown, graduate, Sunday evening the Rev. M. E Miss Lois McComb, graduate, | Derrick, pastor of the McCormick Miss Sara Patterson, Miss Geneva Miles, Miss Mary McIntosh, Miss Annie Humphries, Miss Carolyn Freeland, Miss Frances Schumpert, Miss Imogene Sanders, Miss Virginia Watson, Miss Emma Bell King, Miss Aurelia Caudle. Erskine College, Due West— P 1 Methodist church, preached the baccalaureate sermon bringing a message on “Stirring Uo The Gift Of God Within”. Dr. S. W. Reid and the Rev. A. Thad. Persons also had part in the service. Monday evening Dr. Chas. P. Hogarth of Lander College, Green wood, addressed the graduating class and a large gathering of _ . .friends and patrons, using as a Miss Elizabeth Harris, graduate, subject "“'Hie Possibilities Of This Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Day”. Ga.— The salutatory address was given Miss Rebecca Drucker, graduate, by Miss Lois Freeland and the Cosey will supervise the woodwork. _ _ _ Mrs. A. Thad. Persons will direct schools the past year. They are the singing. Those working in the spending their vacation with their various departments are: Beginners—Mrs. R. H. Talbert, Supt.; Mrs. G. J. Sanders, Mrs. W. M. Talbert, Mrs. William Price, Mrs. J. M. Dorn, and Mrs. J. F. Buzhardt. _ , Primary Dept.—Mrs. J. P. Price, parents. Mrs. Janelle Winn is spending several weeks in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Calhoun Jordan. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Reames, Mrs. J. L. Reames and Mrs. L. E. Reames visited Mrs. J. A. Reames, i Supt.; Mrs. J. W. Bradley,_ Miss m the Greenwood Hospital, Mon- At Mt. Carmel I Elizabeth Brown, Miss Sara Louise 1 Strom and Miss Frances Strom. | Junior Dept.—Mrs. C. H. Hugu- be held ley, Supt.; Mrs. J. P. Rush, Mrs. W. day evening. Friends of Mrs. Reames will be glad to know she has now returned to her home in the Pittsburgh section. Visitors to Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Callison, Sunday, were Mr. and Special services will __ next week, in the Mt. Carmel A. R. m! Strom, Miss Mary Fuller, Mrs Presbyterian Church, beginning c. R. Strom, Mrs. Edgar Price, Friday morning, 14th inst., and Mrs. C. K. Epting, Mrs. E. Hanvey Mrs. P. C. Polatty and son, *of the .—Sabbath, and Mrs. J. W. Wilkins. Callison section. !Hiere will be two services a day, Intermediate Dept.—Mrs. Bertha 1 Among those attending “Gone at u:00 a. m. and 8:00 p. m. Harris, Supt.; Miss Elizabeth Har- with The Wind”, in Edgefield, Dr. E. B. Kennedy, Of the faculty ris, Mrs. J. S. Dukes, Mrs. Joseph I last week, were Misses Virginia and of Erskine College, Due West, S. C., s. Dukes, Jr., Mrs. Leon S. Traylor Sarah Katherine Winn, Miss Ethe- Coker College, Hartsville— Miss Jane Bracknell, Miss Nell Fooshe, graduate. Lander College, Greenwood— Miss Vivian Jaynes, Miss Ethleen Gable, Miss Frances Cheatham. Anderson College, Anderson— Miss Lura Gilchrist. Clemson College, Clemson— Mr. Raymond Morgan, Mr. Charles Morgan, Mr. Carl Faulkner, Mr. Herbert Sturkey, Mr. Morris Furqueron, Mr. Harvey Furgerson, Mr. Thomas McComb, Mr. Billy Hanvey, Mr. Henry Hester, Mr. JL D. Dunlap, Jr., Mr. Jim Neal Workman, Mr. Clarence Hollingsworth, Mr. Lawrence Strom. University Of South Columbia— Miss Margaret Welsh, Mr. James Bell. valedictory was given by Miss Natalie Brown. Special music was furnished by Misses Ann Bussey and Mary Louise Seigler and the glee club, directed by Miss Vivian Adair, Miss Ruth McKee, accom panist. Supt. J. E. Young delivered the following awards: the F. C. Robin son Scholarship Medal to Miss Natalie Brown; Citizenship Medal offered by the McCormick Lions Club, to Miss Lois Freeland; Ath letic Medal to Douglass Bradley; Activities Medal to Miss Irma Arrington; Medal for highest scholastic record in high school for the past year, Miss Anne Bussey Seigler; Prizes in Typing, to Misses Natalie Brown and Lois Freeland; Prize offered for one most active in supplying interesting snapshots for school annual, to Johnnie Mc- Carolina, | Cracken; Certificate in Excellence in Arithmetic, to Miss Anne Bussey Seigler. These students averaging above Mt. Carmel News will do the preaching. The sacra- and Mrs. J. W. Furqueron. ment of the Lord’s Supper will be j xx celebrated Sabbath morning atj t\t . • the 11:00 o’clock hour, the session 1 thrall2e iNOtlCe meeting at 10:45 a. m.. for the re-; ceptton of members. We shall ap- 7" _ predate your prayers in behalf of The Mt. Carmel Grange will this meeting and your presence in meet. Monday night, June 10th, at any'of these services that you may the Mt. Carmel Community House find it possible to attend. i at 8:30 o’clock. All members are S. W. Reid, Pastor. ! urged to be present. Sec’y. HOL0M iheahe McCORMICK, S. C. FRIDAY and SATURDAY • June 7th and 8th, 7:15 P. M. and 9:15 P. M. Matinee Saturday 3:30 P. M. LINDA DARNELL JOHN PAYNE CHARLOTTE GREENWOOD in “STARDUST” Also A Cartoon “Hitch Hiker and Fashion Forecast MATINEE SATURDAY 3:30 P. M. Adults 20 cents MONDAY and TUESDAY June 10th and 11th, 7:15 P. M. and 9 P. M. PRISCILLA LANE ALAN HALE in “Three Cheers For The Irish” mm Also A TWO REEL COMEDY and LATEST NEWS EVENTS ADMISSION: Adults, 25 cents; Children up to 12, 10 cents; Children 12 to 15, 15 cents lyn Shuford, and Messrs. G. P. and Edgar Winn. Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Winn, Miss Trula Winn and Mr. Carl -Winn were business visitors in Augusta, Saturday. Miss Lura Gilchrist, of Anderson College, is spending the summer vacation with her mother, Mrs. J. B. Gilchrist. Mrs. Kate Mayson is spending some time in McCormick in the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Pen- nal. James and Curtis Winn spent Sunday in the home of their aunt, Mrs. Minnie Winn. Mrs. Virginia Bailey visited rela tives in Edgefield, Thursday. Several from this community at tended the baccalaureate sermon and commencement exercises of the McCormick High School, Sun day and Monday evening. Visitors to Mrs. Calhoun Jordan and baby, Saturday afternoon, were: Mrs. R. T. Mayson, Mrs. L. E. Reames, Mrs. I. C. Reames, Mrs. Mac Byrd, Mrs. G. D. Bell, Mrs. D. L. Burnett, and Misses Margaret and Ann Byrd, Mary Dalton Bell, Anella and Irma Flynn and Ella Lee Burnett. BIBLE SCHOOL VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL TO BEGIN AT THE METHODIST CHURCH HERE MONDAY MORN ING AT 8:30. Asheville Teachers College, Ashe- 90 on every subject during the en- ville, N. C.— tire year: Helen Willis, Virginia Miss Louise Rich. Fooshe, Norma Holloway, Alice The Citadel, Charleston— Lanier, Nettie Louise Morgan, Anne Mr. John William Bradley, grad- Bussey Seigler, Natalie Brown, uate, Lois Freeland and Bettye Fuller. Mr. Lawrence Hester, Jr., Thirteen students in the entire Mr. Jack Scruggs. school were neither tardy nor ab- Furman University, Greenville— sent during the entire year. They Mr. Wilber Strom, Jr., graduate, are: Bobby Holloway, Billy Cres- Tulane University, New Orleans, well, Bobby Lowe Huguley, Marion La.— Davis, Gary Brown. Billie Freeland, Mr. Claude Workman. Hugh Hadsock, Robert Hanvey, Blue Ridge School For Boys, William Cheatham. Lucretia Roper Hendersonville, N. C.— Fred Buzhardt, Elizabeth Fooshe- Mr. Billy Dukes. and Lois Freeland. Junior College, Augusta, Ga.— State High School Diplomas Miss Hugh Margaret Freeland. were delivered to the following Newberry College, Newberry— Miss Catherine Wells, Miss Mabel Winn. Presbyterian College, Clinton— Mr. Bennett Branch. -YX- Teachers Return Irma Arrington, Douglass Bradley, Natalie Brown, Doris Chamberlain Margaret Creswell, David Edmunds Ella Bradley Faulkner, Elizabeth Fooshe, Lois Freeland, Bettye Fuller, Wistar Harmon, Mabe Henderson, A. C. Horne, Samuel Link, Evelyn Mann, Sam Mattison m mi • tt 1 Dorothy McKinney, Roberta New lo Ineir rlomes Elsie Reynolds, Vivian Strother Nerine Wall, Warren White, Bill Among the teachers returning I WWeman.ftedelyn Williams and to their homes here and in thl| vir P n,a WUkins.^ county for the summer vacation 1 *** are: Mr. Luther Andrews, Parker District Schools, Greenville, Miss Sallie Quarles, Matthews, N C. Miss Birdie Walker, High Point, N. C., Miss Josie Talbert, Abbeville, Miss Helen Brown, Dillon, Miss Sarah Louise Strom, Mace- Nine Honor Graduates Among Coker Seniors A Vacation Bible School will be gin at the Methodist Church here Monday mcrning at 8:30. A splen did teaching staff of local workers has been secured. Classes will be provided for all children and voung peonle from the youngest through the intermediate group. The parents as well as all adults are urged to cooperate with the school. RECRUITING PARTY FOR U. S. MARINE CORPS TO BE IN ANDERSON, 10TH-13TH A recruiting party for the U. S. Marine Corps will be at the post office building, Anderson, S. C. from 1:00 p. m. June 10th, to 1:00 p. m. June 13th., 1940, for the pur pose of examining and accepting young men for enlistment in the Marine Corps. In order to qualify for enlist ment applicants must be single, 18 to 30 years of age, 64 to 74 inches in height, be of good moral char acter and in excellent physical condition. Only those who have satisfactorily completed grammar school are eligible. Men over 25 years of age must have some special technical qualification. The Marine Corps offers young men the opportunity to Hartsville, S. C., May 31.—The donTa Consolidated'' High"*’School, I thirty-six seniors who received the Moncks Corner, I Bachelor of Arts degree at the Miss Lucy Brown, Plum Branch, Coker college commencement ex Miss Mary Remsen, Washington seises this week include nine Consolidated High School, ho Jl or graduates. Miss Margaret Patterson, Elloree, Those who received degrees are: Miss Edna Duncan, Smiley Mildred Hardin. Morganton, N. School, Hampton, IC., and Mary Jackson, Sumter Miss Margaret McKinney, Wash- (posthumously), both magna cum ington Consolidated High School, laude. 1 Miss Ruby Abercrombie, Lees-1 Elizabeth Aycock. Pine wood; ville Mary Helen Bennett, Lancaster; Miss Marian Sturkey, Lockhart, Miranda Brailsford, Pinewood- Miss Kathleen McKinney, Robin- Sara Chandler. Minturn; Margaret son School, Davidson. Cheraw; Loree Harrmg- Mr. Gray Abercrombie, Ridge- ton, Greeleyville; and Annie Law- land rence Lewis, Chadbourn, N. C., all Miss Carrie Mayson, Lake City, cum laude. Mr. Roy Callison, Marietta High Joyce Adams. Marion, Maryland: School Mary Elizabeth Alvis, Richmond, Miss’Nell Dowtin, Mullins, Va.; Bess Bennett, Orangeburg; Miss Eloise Corley, Warren ville, Hannah Lide Coker, Hartsville: Mr. J. P. Sullivan, Walhalla, Mae Louise Culler, Orangeburg; Miss Marian Harmon, Lyons Miriam Easterling. Marion; Nelle High School, Lyons, Ga., Fooshe, McCormick; Nell Godwin, Miss Martha Bell, Lowndesville, Lake City; Frances Humphries. Miss Willie McComb, Andrews, Latta; Mary L’mn. Darling"- Miss Clara Lee McComb, Mary Luther, McBee; Anneliese Laurens, I Marquardt, Columbia; Alma Mc- Miss Mary McComb, Turberville, Kenzie. Newport News, Va.: Edith Miss Lura Jean Watson, Jordan Mitchell, Seabrook; Anne Prentiss School, Manning. Moore, Sumter; Margaret Moore. _x Dublin, Ga.; Elsie Neighbors, Clin- o -r* 1 ton; Sarah Orr, Columbia; Con- bandy Branch stance Rush, Olanta; Eleanor Samson, Scranton, Pa.; Martha H D Club Meets S®*** 1 ** 1 - Richmond, Va.; Eliza- A±. AA. Y..1UU 1VACC-LJ5I gmith Kingston, N. C.; Hazel Hartsville; Enid Vause, Mrs. B. C. Owings was hostess tol^SJtree; Elizabeth Waite. Rich- ‘ ^ TT ^ mond. Va.; Mary Verne William son, Hartsville; Edith Woodham, Hartsville. Mr. Harold Gilliam was one of the 67 young men at the Presby terian College, Clinton, on Monday June 3rd, to receive his B. A. de gree, and is now ready for the wide, wide world. We wish for him the best of luck. Mrs. Lizzie Bassett of Calhoun Falls and Mrs. A. B. Andrews yfere seeing friends here this week. Mrs. Inman Griffin and daugh ter, Louise, of Atlanta are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Hunter McKinney. Mt. Carmel people and also the people of Willington, Calhoun Falls and Lowndesville were saddened and grieved to hear of the tragic automobile accident in which Rev. and Mrs. A. L. Doty were critically, if not fatally, in jured. Rev. Mr. Doty has been injured. Rev. Mr. Doty has been pastor of the Presbyterian churches in these towns and both he and Mrs. Doty are very highly esteemed and beloved. Many friends throughout the State will regret to hear of this and we all hone for a speedy recovery. Mrs. Henry Frierson and son, William, of Birmingham, Ala., are visiting her mother and sister, Mrs. Rebecca Boyd, and Mrs. Mabel Brown. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Scott and Mr. Tarrant Scott visited Mr. and Mrs. Morris Scott in Augusta Sun day afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Schoeppel, Miss Ruby Schoeppel and Mrs. Lola Mae Boyd of Brunswick, Ga., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. A. B. An drews. Mr. and Mrs. Dode Philips and David of Due West spent Sunday with Mrs. J. W. Boyd. Mrs. J. W. Boyd returned home Friday from a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Campbell and baby in At lanta. Mr. L. L. Hester was a visitor in Columbia Tuesday. Miss Sallie T. Cade of Converse College Faculty has returned home for the summer. Mr. D. W. Harling and Miss Monnie Harling were very agree ably surprised Sunday when they realized the Harling family would all be with them for the family reunion. First to arrive were Mr. and Mrs. N. T. Harling, Miss Irene Harling and Mr. and Mrs. John Harling of Greenville. They all worshiped at the A. R. P. Church and on their return to the home found all the family had gathered; among them, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Stone, Mr. and Mrs. Holmes, arid son, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Sizemore and son. Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Camp bell and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Whatley, Mr. and Mrs. Adams and son, and daughter, all of Green wood. A delicious and bountiful lunch was served under the trees which was very much enjoyed. The joyous surprise made Mr. Harling and daughter very happy. Municipal Clerks And Treasurers In vited To Conference Municipal clerks sfid treasurers in McCormick County will be in vited to attend the conference for municipal finance officers to be held at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, June 19 and 20, J. N. Caldwell, executive secre tary of the Municipal Association of South Carolina, announced to day. Mr. Caldwell explained that the University Extension Division, W. H. Ward, Director, was cooperating with the Association in this con- ^61*6ri06 Although the conference is being held for the benefit of clerks and treasurers in the cities and towns in South Carolina, other city offi cials may attend the conference, the secretary said. Municipal officers in this county will have the opportunity of hear- ng some of the state’s leading authorities discuss municipal af fairs at this two-day meeting. Among the speakers will be lead ing professors at the University and governmental officials. Visitors attending the confer ence will be guests of the city of Columbia at a banquet to be given the night of the first day’s session. Registration will be at the office of the Municipal Association of South Carolina, 1214 College Street in Columbia, between 10 a. m. and 10:45 a. m. the first day. Mr. Caldwell said that the in vitations would be sent to the clerks and treasurers within the next few days. the Sandy Branch H. D. Club on Thursday, May 16th. Fifteen members and three visitors were present. The president, Mrs. J. B. Walker, called the meethig to order and conducted the devotional. After the business of the club was discussed the meeting was travel, | turned over to Miss Bell who gave further their education, free medi- an interesting talk on the “AAA cal and dental treatment, a steady Program income and affords an excellent be in charge. All local doctors are invited to attend, and bring or re fer any patients they wish to. Any person, white or colored, who has been in close contact with active tuberculosis, or who has symptoms TUBERCULOSIS X-RAY CLINIC TO BE HELD IN McCORMICK 4 4 . . .. . ON JUNE 10TH AND 11TH of tuberculosis is urged to attend I ^ All expenses incident to the An X-Ray Clinic for Tubercu- clinic are borne by the State De- losis contacts and suspects of Me- partment of Health with exception cmvi dxxvn vio cm v.di.v.iivi. u During the social hour the Cormick County will be held June of X-Ray film which must be P r 9~ chance for advancement to young hostess served delicious sandwiches 10 and 11, at the City Hall in Me- vided locally at cost of $1.50 each, men entering the service at this and an iced drink. Cormick. Dr. John M. Preston, Mildred E. Wardlaw, R-IU, time. | Reporter. ; State Tuberculosis Clinician, will 4 County Nurse.