(Special to The Record)

BLANEY, S. C., Nov. 21. – Morris McCombs gave a dinner to several of his boy friends on Sunday in honor of his twelfth birthday.

The Missionary society met Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Minnie McLendon.

Jack Dominick and Frank Williams of Turin, Georgia, are the guest of T. P. Shell.

Mrs. J. M. Thornton had the following as guest this week from Hamlet, N. C., Vernon Nettles and his sister, Mrs. J. H. Howell and children, Marion Howell, Edna Howell and J. P. Howell, Jr.

Mrs. Marguerite Anderson and Misses Sue Motley and Mary Motley of Columbia are visiting John Motley during the illness and death of his wife this week.

The School Improvement association will meet on Tuesday evening in the school auditorium. Rev. Lewis N. Taylor, pastor of the Church of the Good Shepherd of Columbia will make an address on “Thanksgiving.”

One of the most enjoyable affairs of the season was the father-son banquet given in the school lobby Tuesday evening by the high school and seventh grade boys in honor of their fathers. Leonard Andrea, superintendent of schools was toastmaster and introduced the following speakers: D. W. Traxler of the school faculty: J. S. Sanders, country agent, Edward Maddox, representing the boys: M. Martin representing the fathers: W. H. Garrion of Columbia and Verd Petersen director of vocational agriculture in South Carolina who delivered the address of the evening. Misses Cleyle and Lelye Rose, Edna Shell, Josephine Thornton, Elizabeth Kelly, Leila Mae Hinson and Mildred Evan served eighty plates which were prepared by the ladies of the School Improvement association. The class in vocational agriculture sponsored the banquet as a means of promotional work in their departments of the high school.