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. tflxWp' i iimi.ii i i McCOBMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, September 18, 1941 m ip VcCORMICK Iffi^SENGER “Granting The Priv ilege lb Drive Pakllshed Every Thanday Wablfahed Jm f, ItM bdmond j. McCracken, Editor aad Owner at the Office at Me* t iCermlcfc, s. as saaO aiatter at ; Me second class. * f WJBSCRIFTIOJM RATES: f One Year $1j00 - Ms Months .75 ' Three Months jo September Beautifi- cation Letter In September we view with reverence: “Sweet nurseUngs .of the vernal skies, Bathed in soft air, and fed with dew, What more than magic in us lies To fill our heart’s fond view!” Let us study perennials; that is, plants which live more than two years, known as perennials, as dis tinguished from annuals and biennials. Though trees and shrubs are perennials in habit, the term is generally applied to herbaceous rather than woody plants; those whose roots continue to live, send ing up year after year new branches and flower stems which die when winter comes. Some perennials live indefinite ly; others like Sweet William tend to die out after three or four years unless the roots are taken up, divided and replanted every two or three years. These are known as “imperfect perennials”. In many old-time gardens most of the plants were hardy peren nials, such as phlox, peonies, deiphineum and bleeding heart; hence, although they are just as popular and probably more wide ly grown in all well-balanced gar dens, they are known as “old fashioned plants.” Because of their hardiness, permanency and variation of color, height, foliage, and nature of bloom, these old fashioned flowers form the back ground of modern flower gardens. They are often referred to as the “busy man’s favorites”, .be cause they render ’unnecessary sowing of the seed every year. Tf traffic accidents are to be Cotton Report As Of September 1, 1941 Modoc News Well, we are just wondering NOTICE OF ELECTION STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County Of McCormick. what’s to become of the poor 1 5 t croo j special General Election for United nave seized me louowing desci nounds far * ners / T **f y ^^o^ed money states Senator to fill the unex- property to satisfy the g taxes pounds a nd naid a bie nrice for fertilizer pired term of Hon James F. the State of Soiith Carotf-^ NOTICE OF TAX SALE ■ v \ Under and by virtue of a war rant issued to me by the Cosato Treasurer of McCormick County?! have seized the following ‘ A South Carolina cotton of 411,000 bales of 500 pounds an d paid a big price for fertilizer pired term of Hon. reduced, some action must be di- gross weight was forecast from f or their crops and worked hard Byrnes, resigned, will be held at the County” of~MbCormici£~for Ihe rected toward driver improvement conditions as of September 1, ac- W hen they could work and the ^ voting precincts fixed bv law years 1939 and 1940, and the same XZ, .. the ln<UVldUal farmer won’t make cotton ; day, leptem&Wtf ^oTdeH iCcM StlSda^n*0^ 1941, during the legal hours of sale in front of the Court House Door at McCormick, South Caro- - -tf holding the wheel. Every other driver in an acci- by Frank O. Black, agricultural statistician, Columbia. This is 4 dent in South Carolina last year per cent below the August fore- committed some violation. Vio- cast, only 42 per cent of 1940 pro- lating drivers were so numerous duction, and the shortest crop that two out of three accidents since 1878. involved at least one violation, A severe spring drought follow- pointed out officials of the Motor ed by excessive moisture in June Vehicle Division. i and July caused unusual damage Driver mistakes are by far the from grass and boll weevil until main factors in accidents and the crop is very poor on about enough to pay for the fertilizer he ed by the Governor, used. Mrs. Ella Holson of Augusta Rev. G. P. Lanier filled his reg- such mistakes are charged with two-thirds of the State’s acreage, blame in 78 per cent of all last A near-normal crop is expected ular appointment here Sunday year’s motoring accidents in this in a fringe of border counties from • rnorn i n g > delivering a very able State. A great many of these northern Anderson around to 1 sermon traffic violations, resulting in York. Parts of the Pee Dee and tragedy, came about because the southwest have fair crops, but driver didn’t know the proper elsewhere cotton is generally poor. i amounting to almost complete better this week> thing to do. To bring the seriousness of the failure in many localities of the death totals close to actual ex- . interior perience, 2,085 South Carolina j A yield of 166 pounds lint per soldiers died in World War I. In acre compares with the record The qualifications for suffrage are as follows: .. . , , . ... Residence in the State for two lina, and the proceeds of th^saTp spent the past week end here with years, in the County one year, in will be applied to the payment^f her mother, Mrs. Savannah Stone, j the polling precinct in which the the said taxes and the cost of said Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Nash made elector offers to vote, four months, seizure and sale, to wit: 7 a short vtstt to Augusta Sunday ‘ VS 0*^ ^ ^ evening. j then due and payable. Provided scribed as follows: Messrs. T. J. Stone and F. M. that ministers in charge of an or- One hundred seventeen (ii7> Bussey were business visitors to church and teachers of acres of land, more or less,, in Augusta on Tuesdav of this week public schools shall be entitled to School District No. 2, McCormick Augusta on ruesaay oi mis wees, yote after six months residence in County, State of South Carolina the State, otherwise qualified. bounded on north by land of J l’ Managers of election shall re- LeRoy; east by Little River; south quire of every elector offering to by Horse Branch and land of J L vote at any election, before allow- Porter; west by lands of J L ing himto vote, the production of porter and J. L. LeRoy, and prob- his registration certificate and ably others, proof of the payment thirty days j t FOOSHE before any election of any poll Tax CoUector for' McCormick tax then due and payable. The Mrs. Minnie Bussey has been on the sick list the past week, but we are glad to report she is much the past four years the South Carolina traffic toll has reached 2,134 killed. It is true that many a motorist now holding a license to drive is incapable of handling a car safely. You know yourself how many bad drivers there are on the road. You can’t go 20 miles without see ing unnecessary cutting-in, turn ing from the wrong lane, strad dling the center line, bad judg ment in passing other cars on curves and hills, weaving, or hog ging the highway. The bad driver situation has increased in gravity gradually, as the sense of responsibility, traffic knowledge, and skill of drivers has dropped behind road-improve ment and car development. If accidents are to be reduced, some action must be directed toward driver improvement and control over the individual holding the wheel. South Carolina has taken a step forward with the installation of a good driver licensing system, with adequate and uniform examina tion, replacing ,the7 old ; perfunc tory-examination methods used in past years and still used by many states. . i • \{ The South Carolina driving ex aminations aren’t difficult. Any Awhile some perennials flower high school boy or girl, with less early, they are not at their best than 10 hours of actual driving until the second year. Differing from annuals in many . respects, especially in their flowering habits, per^pnials offer the flower gar dener many advantages. As new plants come into bloom and old ones pass out, the garden presents changes almost from week to week, constantly giving the gardener something to look forward to. In a garden of annuals the picture of the same plants in bloom for long periods is apt to become monotonous. Only a few perennials bloom all season, and most of them in congenial sur roundings increase in beauty with the passing of the years. With judicious selection and arrange ment of plants we may be assured of continuous change from early Spring until Fall. The herbace ous border is one of the most changeable parts of the flower garden, having no regular design, but sending itself to variations ac cording to the taste of the garden er. Plants should be arranged in reference to the space allotted them. Place the tallest species in the background, especially those which provide a good display of foliage. Plants of intermediate height should be placed in front of this background planting and this strata is preceded by a border planting of dwarf edging plants of experience, can pass them. An illiterate who has taken the time to have someone read the “Driver’s Handbook” to him can quickly answer all the questions. But many of our present day drivers are failing simply because they haven’t taken the trouble to learn a few things that might make the difference between life and death on the highway. During the month of July, 1,600 applicants for driver’s license were rejected because they did not possess a fundamental under standing of the traffic regulations essential for safe driving. These 1,600 rejections resulted from lack of study of a simple worded “Driver’s Handbook” available to all. The chief and obvious aim of this modern driver testing in, licensing is to prevent unfit drivers from endangering the rest of us, and forces border line applicants for licenses to improve before they are entrusted with the use on crowded streets and in fast roll ing traffic of a powerful and potentially dangerous, even though immensely useful, piece of ma chinery. Whether we wish to ad mit it or not additional study or a review of our traffic laws will prove helpful to even the most ex perienced motorist. Only a few states today can be compact growth forming an at-. sa ^ to have modern, well run baceous border. A beautiful color | already-proven-successful tech scheme can be impressively car- Piques to weed out dangerously Tied out in this border and a fre- j unfit car operators. South Caro- quent introduction of white flow- has joined in this effort to- ers is especially considerate in ward driver improvement and color harmony or contrast. | now offers, after careful study In selecting our perennials from and research, a driver testing pro flower catalogues we must have cedure based on experience and distinct regard for securing seeds adapted to meet present day con- of plants which will give blooms , ditions. in Spring, early and late Summer. \ It is interesting to note that as well as Fall. This distinction is the State of Florida has now de- easily made in our selections and termined upon a driver examining results from these plantings fur- i procedure patterned after our nish most gratifying satisfaction. 1 own state and will begin this same This subject is almost inexhausta- : driver testing this month. Ala- ble. but space forbids further pur- bama, Tennessee, Texas, Utah suit of it at this juncture. How- ! and several other states are car- erer, nothing forbids our careful; rying out this same program of selection of perennials to promote 1 examining aiming toward driver our pleasure during the four an- improvement. high of 375 pounds last year and is the lowest since 1922 when only 140 pounds were made. Preliminary reports on acreage plowed up and abandoned from natural causes indicate that 4.7 per cent of the acreage in cultiva tion on July 1 will not be har vested. Natural abandonment is unusually large this year because of excessive rain and weevil damage. Acreage remaining for harvest is estimated to be 1,185,000 acres compared with 1,234,000 acres har vested in 1940. A United States cotton crop of 10,710,000 bales is forecast by the Crop Reporting Board of the United States Department of Agri culture, based on conditions as of September 1, 1941. This is a de crease of 107,000 bales from the forecast as of August 1, and com pares with 12,566,000 bales in 1940, 11,817.000 bales in 1939, and 13,- 246,000 bales, the 10-year (1930- 39) average. The indicated yield per acre for the United States of 226.8 pounds compares with 252.5 pounds in 1939, and 205.4 pounds, the 10-year average. It is esti mated that 3.8 per cent of the acreage in cotton on July 1 has been, or will be, abandoned, leav ing 22,633,000 acres remaining for harvest. In 1940 the abandonment was 4.1 per cent. In computing abandonment, consideration was given to the acreage removed in order to comply with A.A.A. allot ments. Since August 1 prospective cot ton production has been reduced in the central part of the Cotton belt, but this decline is nearly off set by increases in Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Virginia, and North Carolina. These changes are largely due to weather condi tions during August. Weather was less favorable than average in the States from Georgia to Arkansas and Louisiana, and boll weevils have caused serious injury to the crop throughout this area. before good results can be secured. No testing procedure will be per fect since it deals with human beings, but any requirement of examination that will force drivers to improve and remove some dangerous motorists from our lanes of tavel is worthwhile. Some public complaint is to be expected and some criticism will be heard that this procedure of granting the privilege to drive is without logic or over-technical, but on the other hand grov/ing criticism is directed at the public official who is responsible for per mitting those too Mr. and Mrs. Talmage Clem from Spartanburg were week end visi tors here to the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Clem. Miss Sarah Howie was dinner guest Sunday to Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Nash. Mr. William McDaniel of Au gusta spent Saturday and Sunday here with his father, Mr. G. C. McDaniel. Mr. E. F. Bussey and daughter, Miss Rosalie Bussey, were dinner guests Tuesday to Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Clem. % Mr. J. T. Clem has moved back to Parksville, after living here the past four years. X Soil Conservation Office Opens Mr. F. Y. Duncan, Assistant Soil Conservationist with the Soil Con servation Service, is now stationed in McCormick County with an of fice on the third floor of the Bank Building. He will be in his office early in the mornings, late in the after noon, and on Saturday mornings. All farmers interested in this work are invited to contact Mr. Duncan M. A. Bouknight, County Agent. TOWN TAX NOTICE BE IT ORDAINED BY THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF McCORMICK, AND BY AU THORITY OF THE SAME: . SECTION ONE. That a tax of eight mills of the assessed valua tion of all real and personal property lying within the corpor ate limits of the Town of McCor mick, S. C., as assessed for State and County purposes is hereby levied and assessed to meet and defray the current expenses of the Town of McCormick, S. C., for the fiscal year beginning October 1st, 1941, the said taxes shall be due and payable at the office of the Town Clerk on the 1st day of October, 1941. SECTION TWO. That in addi tion to the above levy of eight mills for current expenses as pro vided in section one of this ordi nance, a levy of thirty six (36) mills is hereby made upon all the real and personal property lying wuthin the corporate limits of the Town of McCormick, the same being levied for the purpose of paving interest on bonds and to retire bonds of the Town of Mc Cormick. S. C. SECTION THREE. The Clerk and Treasurer shall enter said levies and assessments upon the books of the said Town of McCor mick and receive said taxes, that the said taxes shall be paid to the Clerk and Treasurer in lawful money of the United States on or before the 1st day of January, production of a certificate or of the receipt of the officer author ized to collect such taxes, shall be conclusive proof of the payment thereof. Before the hour fixed for open ing the polls Managers and Clerks must take and subscribe to the Constitutional oath. The chair man of the Board of Managers can administer the oath to the other Managers and to the Clerk; a Notary Public must administer the oath to the Chairman. The Managers elect their Chairman and Clerk. The polls shall be opened at such voting places as shall be designated at 8 o’clock in the forenoon, and close at 4 o’clock in the afternoon of the day of elec tion, except in the Cities of Charleston and Columbia where the closing hours shall be 6 o’clock in the afternoon, and shall be held open during these hours without intermission or adjournment; and the Managers shall administer to each person offering to vote oath that he is qualified to vote at this election, according to the Con stitution of this State, and that he has not voted during this election. The Managers have the power to fill a vacancy, and if none of the Managers attend, the citizens can appoint from among the qualified voters, the Managers, who. after being duly sworn, can conduct the election. At the close of the election the Managers and Clerks must pro ceed publicly to open the ballot , box and count the ballots therein, > and continue without adjourn ment until the same is completed, and make a statement of the re sults for each office, and sign the same. Within three days there after the Chairman of the Board, or seme one designated by the Board, must deliver to the Com missioners of Election ! the poll list, the box containing the ballots and written statements of the re sults of the election. Managers Of Election The following Managers of Elec tion have been appointed to hold the election at various precincts in the said County: McCormick—J. W. Wilkins, Joe P. Holloway, R. E. Edmunds, W. E. Britt, Clerk. Voting Place, Court Plum Branch—R. M- Winn, W. R. Freeland, J. A. Ridiehoover, O. L. Sturkev, Clerk. Voting Place, School Building. Parksville—J. A. Harvley, W. M. Self. T. E. McDonald, Fred Bass, Clerk. Voting Place, Self’s Store. Modoc—W. McDaniel, J. O. Mc Daniel, W. S. Clem, E. F. Bussey, Clerk. Voting Place, Store Build- illPr - Clarks Hill—H. F. Ryan, John Wood, W. G. Fox, Jeff Sharpton, Clerk. Voting Place, School Build ing. „ Rehoboth—J. P. Talbert, Mrs. S. B. Culbreath, W. A. Winn, E. M. Morgan, Clerk. Voting Place, Morgan’s Store. Bethany—W. E. Sheppard, Jr., W. K. McDonald, Jones Talbert, L. E. Reames, Clerk. Voting Place, School Building. Talbert’s Store—Bill Robinson, Bulah Smith, Jim Rosenswike, J. C. Dowtin, Clerk. Voting Place, School Building. Lyon’s—R. T. McKinney, C. H. County. McCormick, S. C„ Sept. 16, 1941.—3t. NOTICE OF TAX SALE Under and by virtue of ^ war rant -issued to me by the .County Treasurer of McCormick County, I have seized the following described property to satisfy the taxes due the State of South Carolina and the County of McCormick, and the same will be sold to the high est bidder for cash on salesday in October, 1941, during the legal hours of sale in front of the Court House Door at McCormick, South Carolina, and the proceeds of the sale will be applied to the pay ment of the said taxes and the cost of said seizure and sale, to wit: The property of Charley Gil christ, and is described as follows: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land situated, lying and being in the Town of Mc Cormick, County of McCormick, State of South Carolina, and known as lots 69 & 70 in block No, 4 and described in a map made by J. N. Alston and in the Registrar of deeds office, Abbeville, S. C„ in Book 30, page 305, having a frontage of forty feet on Marshall Street and running back 132 feet. J. T. FOOSHE, Tax Collector for McCormick County. McCormick, S. C., Sept. 16, 1941.—3t. NOTICE OF TAX SALE 19 oirrTTOM py'utr That rm nil Newman, Milledge DeLoach, E. L. SECTION FOUR. That on all, Hollingsworth. Clerk. Voting Place, taxes and assessments, or any gchool Building portion thereof, charged against Bell » s store—D. L. Burnett, S. C. any property or party on the Deal c c Wrenn> j c . Beach, 1 Clerk. Voting Place, Burnett’s Residence. numerous duplicate for the fiscal current dangerous operators to . continue | b^Sid their drive of destruction. The , 0 n or before the first day of Jan- main objection to the require- uary, 1942, the Clerk shall add a tractive boundary for the her-, driver licensing systems, using ment of asking a would-be-driver ! of the , lst da ;y j School Building. a irppriv-nrnvpn-sunp.pssfn 1 t.pph- v.ie. —3— February, 1% additional penal- | nint.worthy’s f White Town—G. C. White, E. G. Jennings, W. B. White, Mrs. K. M. Freeland. Clerk. Voting Place, to improve his driving knowledge. shall be^added ma^ a toS ! ^worthy's Cross Roads-W. L. skill, or physical condition before , of 2%. That on the 15th day 9f Brovm Cleric. ’ Votin^Place! license approval, seems to be the March, all taxes remaining unpaid Link >' s store. objection as to the time involved. f, ? r P reviol Js year shall be : Bordeaux—J. B. Harmon, J. T. In consideration of the 609 nersons P. laced 111 e ^ ecut i 01 \^’ n<i i,^ n Lindley. P. B. Moragne, M. S. in consxaeiauon oi me ouy peisons , tional penalty of 5% be added wi] i is; clerk Votin'* Place Cade’s killed in South Carolina last year and the Clerk shall issue his store ’ ‘ 0 ’ as a result of traffic mistakes the execution directed to the Chief of j willington—J. W. Morrah, W. H. element of time to determine a T ol } c ^ who f s ^ a11 w?th McNair. Robt. Watkins. Mrs, R. W. persons fitness to drive seems u„- JSL^es^and^sfr W ' th ^ fair's’Stme "' ^ ^ ^ important. Donp and ratified by the Town Mt Carmel—D. J. McAllister, D. The present program of driver Council of the Town of McCor- w Harling, J. C. Covin, Herman examination weeding out the un- ^thl seal of the^o™ afflxed! ISr^SWre V0WnS PIaCe ’ M<> fit and requiring all to improve, ihis the 25th day of August,_1941. Young’s—D A. Young, E. C. Under and by virtue of a war rant issued to me by the County Treasurer of McCormick County, I have seized the following described property to satisfy the taxes due the State of South Carolina and the County of McCormick, for the years 1938, 1939 and 1940, and the same will be sold to the highest bidder for cash on salesday in October, 1941, during the legal hours of sale in front of the Court House Door at McCormick, South Carolina, and the proceeds of the sale will be applied to the pay ment of the said taxes and the cost of said seizure and sale, to wit: . _ „ The property of Janie B. Salley Bates, and is described as follows: One hundred fifty (150) acres of land, more or less, in School District No. 13, McCormick Coun ty, State of South Carolina, bounded on north by land of Mrs. Eula Wideman; east by Lands of Joe Lake Estate and M. G. & J. a. Dorn; south by land bl ^ J. J. Dorn; west by land of J. W. Edwards, and P^obab^othem. Tax Collector for McCormick County. McCormick, S. C., Sept. 16, 1941.—3t. DR. HENRY J. GODIN Sight Specialist Eyes Examined Spectacles And Eye Glasses Professionally Fitted. B5B Broad Street. .. . Augusta. Q*. TO CHECK £, take nuai seasons. Matilda Bell, County Home Dem. Agent. Knowledge of effective licensing techniques is still new and many preliminary steps must be taken is one of the most significant an swers in this problem of accident reduction and the procedure of driver testing now followed in South Carolina was determined upon after careful study and re search, meeting those require ments established by the Ameri- Attest: T. J. SIBERT, Mayor. C. R. STROM, JNO. T. McGRATH. DAN A. BELL. C. H. HUGULEY. P. R. BROWN, Town Council, Town Of McCor mick, S. C. can Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators and the -National Safety Council. . J. O. PATTERSON, Clerk and Treasurer. (Seal) Sept. 15, 1941.—3t. _ Young, J. A. Young, W. K. Long, Clerk. Voting Place, School House. The Managers at each precinct named above are requested to delegate one of their number to I secure the boxes and blanks for i the election on Saturday, Sept. 27th, at the office of Judge of Probate. J. FRANK MATTXSON, J. H. PERCIVAL, J. M. HEMMINGER, Commissioners of Federal Elec- INSURANCE Fire Insurance And Ail Other Kinds of Insurance In cluding Life Insurance. HUGH C. BROWN, McCORMICK. S. C. READ THE AD$ Along With the New* tion for McCormick County, s c* Sept! 16, 1941.—2t.