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I McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, January II, 1945 at first SIOHOF A USE Cold PreparaiionM at directed, Auditor’s Notice I will bp at the followlm on the dates given below, to take tax returns, on all personal property, except the kind that is returned to the tax commission. All owners, agents, guardians, ad ministrators, attorneys, etc., please take notice and make correct re turns for 1945: Office, Jan. 1st thru the 3rd. Plum Branch, Jan. 4th, 2 to 5 p. m. Office, Jan. 5th thru the 10th. Parksville, Jan. 11th, 2 to 5 p. m. . Office, Jan. 12th thru the 17th. E. M: Morgan’s Store, Jan. 18th, 2 to 4 p. m. Office, Jan. 19th thru the 24th. Bordeaux, Jan. 25th, 2 to 4 p. m. Office, Jan. 26th thru the 31st. J. C. Talbert’s Store, Feb. 1st, 1:30 to 3 p. m. , tyfrs. M. M. Link’s, Feb. 1st, 3:30 to 5 p. m. Office, Feb. 2nd thru the 7th. Vernon, Feb. 8th, 1:30 to 3 p. m. Mrs. Callison’s Store, Feb. 8th, 3:30 to 5 p. m. Office, Feb. 9th thru the 14th. Willington* Feb. 15th, 1:30 to 3 p. m. Mt. Carmel, Feb. 45th, 3:30 to 5 p. m. Office, Feb. 16th thru 21st. Modoc, Feb. 22nd, 1 to 2:30 p.m. Clarks Hill Jeff Sharpton’s, Feb. 22nd, 3 to J.‘ O.* Marshall’s, Feb. 22nd, 4 to 5:30 p. m. Office, Feb. 23rd thru the 28th. After Feb. the 28th, the law says add 10% penalty to those who failed or refused to make re turns. All male persons between 21 and 60 years old are liable for poll tax, all between 21 and 50 years old are liable for road or street tax, except those in the armed forces. C. W. PENNAL, Auditor, McCormick County. S^Mcna/d Mrs. Wm. R. Wansley and baby have returned to their home at Warner Robins, Ga., after an ex tended visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Chamberlain, of near town. Mr. J. M. Hemminger of Willing- ton was among the visitors here Tuesday. * Mr. and Mrs. Richard Williams of Columbia spent several days here the past week with his moth er, Mrs. F. E. Williams. Mr. J. W. McBride of Willington was a visitor here one day the past week. Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Chamberlain and boys of Macon,. Ga., were re cent visitors in and near town. Mr. J. Talbert Reynolds of Plum Branch was a visitor here Tues day. Mrs. H. Drucker has gone for a ten days' stay in New York City to buy spring and summer mer chandise for the H. Drucker store here. X McCormick School News READ THE AD$ Along With the Newt Study Hall Lost: Somewhere between yester day and to-morrow sixty golden minutes. These cannot be re placed. To some pupils the word “study hall” means trying to have a good time by disturbing the oth er pupils in the room. Teachers and pupils really appreciate a good citizen in study hall. Those pupils who use every spare minute during the day usually have an outstanding school record. This is no time to be accused of wasting time, so let’s try to have one hundred per cent working in all study halls. Scrap Paper Collection Scrap paper is still urgently needed for the fight for freedom. We must not quit doing our share on the home front as long as there is an American soldier on a fight ing front! The Boy Scouts will collect pa per Friday afternoon, January 12. Please have your scrap paper and cardboard on your front porch tied in bundles about ten inches high if possible. Wounded In Action Mrs. Boozer, a member of the Grammar School Faculty has been informed by the War Department that her husband, Pvt. Pressley Boozer, was seriously wounded in action overseas, December 20. Mrs. Boozer has our deepest sympathy. 4-H Clubs Meet The 4-H Clubs will meet Thurs day, January 11. The girls are making pajamas as their project this month. Congratulations! Mr, and Mrs. R. D. McDill are receiving congratulations upon the arrival of an eight-pound daugh ter, Betty Fuller McDill, January 7. Mrs. McDill, prior to her mar riage, was Miss Mary Fuller, for merly a member of the Grammar School Faculty. Visitor To Grammar School Leon Rourke, a former student of the McCormick Grammar School, was a visitor here last week. Leon is now a student of the Military Academy in Bam berg. Items Of Interest Last Monday Mr. Weldon talked in Chapel. It was a real pleasure to have one of our own group dis cuss our needs. He reminded us that we may forget some things learned from books, but the habit of honesty would go with us through life. Just before the holidays we were happy to have as visitors to our chapel our county delegation: Sen ator Hester and Representative Brown. We hope they will come again for we like to feel their in terest in our school. Lunch room guests before, the holidays were: our state lunch room supervisor; Mrs. Elmer Creighton, our efficient county supervisor; and Mrs. Bertha Har ris and Mrs. Kate Brown, whom we always look forward to visiting us. Mrs. Lauree White and Mr. O. L. Sturkey of the Local Rationing Board were guests the same day. We were happy to have these guests in our school. Last week many of our gradu ates visited us. They were: Mary Louise Seigler, bertha May Har ris, Gladys Winn, Mable Freeland, Carolyn Rice. Billie Bodie, of the Marine Corps gave an interesting personal account of Lou Diamond, one of the most characteristic of all marines. Billie will be remem bered as the winner of the prize for the second healthiest boy in the state 4-H Club contest. Miss Ann Johnson of Edgefield was among the visitors in the high school last week. The New Year » Now the New Year Is here, And Oh! my dear What will my resolution be? I’ve thought and I’ve thought, But still I don’t know — What ought my resolution be What is yours? Have you chosen yet? Oh, I know! To wish that the war will be over, you bet! Janet Caudle. X omen IN THE HURCH ^ ^Mary Fowler Mrs. Henry A. Ingraham, na tional president of the Young Women’s Christian Association, has called the seventeenth nation al convention of that body to meet in Grand Rapids, Michigan, April 11 Jfco 19, 1945. There will be rep resentation from every state in the Union. Remember — You Always Save At... GALLANT-BELK COMPANY One of the few women in the world who play chimes is Mrs. Edith Ballachey Hunt who rings the bells at St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral, Buffalo, N. Y. She is the first woman to play these | chimes in 127 years of the Cathe dral’s history. The keyboard con sists of fourteen levers, each a- bout two feet long. Each rings a note, the largest being sounded on a thrfee-ton bell. BLANKETS This is a good'time to get an adequate supply of warm blankets for the re maining cold months of this winter and the seasons ahead. Plenty of time now to make careful selections from our large stock of beautiful blankets. 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Y., church leader and newlyf elected president of the United Council of Church Women, has called upon church women to as sume the burdens of developing a a real ecumencial spirit within the church which should be some thing beyond interdenominational cooperation. “Women have been too satisfied,” she said, “to simply | sew flannel petticoats to go to the mission field and have not suffi- Iciently dedicated themselves to in terpret the life and mind of Christ in his church. Le us take as our [motto ‘God gave us the word. Great is the company of women that bear the tidings’ ”. GALLANT-BELK COMPANY HOME OF BETTER VALUES n J <■ GREENWOOD, S. C. Formation of a Latin American Christian Council has been effect ed among mission workers in Ybor City, Florida, according to Miss Thelma Heath, of Wolff Settle ment, Tampa, Fla. Through this organization workers of all de nominations discovered many common problems. Estimating that 90 per cent of the people are unchurched, Miss Heath says that there are 25,200 people in the com munity not affiliated with any church. “Our major objective has been to lead these people to a fel lowship with Christ and affilia tion with the church. This is a sl^v/ program with much teaching and guidance necessary. Some additions to the church have re sulted from the settlement activ ity. More adults are attending church than perviously. We are grateful for the work of other de nominations. Bringing Christ to the great number of unchurched is a task too great for one de nomination. We must work to gether, forgetting denomination! boundaries. X * v.- *********** *++****-* ***■*•*♦ KEEP FAITH ; WM US—; ibybuyingl war BOiins You Can Help Others Like Him Six weeks after he was hit by ar crippling attack of infantile paraly sis, small Jerry Hamrick of Lincolnton, N. C., was on his feet again. He was treated at the Hickory Emergency Infantile Paralysis hospital by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The March of Ttimes, to cover this work, is held January 14 to 31. Parenthood BY MRS. CATHERINE CONRAD EDWARDS Associate Editor, Parents’ Magazine ' CHILD’S CHOICE OF FRIENDS P ARENTS are often bewildered by their children’s choice of friends. What can serious Susan possibly see in that fluttery Flor ence who is her current constant companion? What does boisterous Bob find to talk about to shy Sam? They find, or hope to find, in their oddly assorted friends what youth is always seeking—something to round out their own personalities, to fill in the lacks they are so pain fully aware of. When we are young we are still hoping that Life’s grab bag will make up to us what the fairies failed to bring to our christening party! So if Susan is the brightest in her class she is apt to seek a frivolous camouflage by attaching herself to a pert little miss whose tongue rattles off the latest “slan guage” that Susan can’t talk glibly to save her life. In fact, studying your children’s choice of friends should be a re quired course for all parents. Un fortunately, there isn’t a textbook to guide you, for personality needs are so many and ways of satisfying them so various that two children in the same family may go entirely different ways in making up for identical lacks. For instance, an other girl with the same longing for gayety as serious Susan’s may pre tend to disapprove of froth and ei ther do without friends or choose someone much older and even more sedate than herself. Yon can, however, decide Into which of two classifica tions yonr child’s tendencies ' fall in regard to his choice of friends. There are the retreat ers and the go-forwarders. Yon don’t have to worry about the latter, but the retreaters need help. They, too, take many guises so that they aren’t always easy to rec ognize. We’ve just described the most obvious, those who deny what they want. Then there are those who seek only admiration in their friendships. A certain amount of this is necessary to all of us, for it is natural to crave an audience. But if a young person always in sists on being the admired one in a friendship, never the one who looks up to the other, his horizons will stay just about where they are, limited to what he can see with his own eyes. Another form of retreat in build ing friendships is always to let yourself be chosen as a friend, never to do the choosing. This is ad mittedly preferable to being too ag gressive, but it is often just lazi ness which allows a person to drift into spending all his friendship on persons he doesn’t care much about while he passes up those from whom he could learn and etorich his life. We’ve merely touched on the vastly important matter of your child’s friends. But. we hope we have shown that it isn’t one to be dismissed with a nagging, “What do you see in so-and-so?” Try to figure out what your boy or girl does gain from his companions. If it is something he should be getting at home — such as bolstering of his self esteem—try to supply it. But don’t expect to take over the whole job—for it is a necessary part of growth for each of us to discover in friends and the outside world the same assurances and satisfactions that as a child we found in the family. DR. HENRY J. GODIN i Optometrist Specialist in correcting Errors of Sight, Eye Headaches, and Crossed Eyes. Eyes Thoroughly Examined the Modern Way with out dangerous—Pupil Dialating Drops. Reference, ask your friends about my Reputation. Offices, 956-956 1-2 Broad Street, Augusta, Georgia. Buy Your Furniture From J. S. STROM Easy Payment Plan. ■ No Carrying Charge. McCormick, S. C. 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