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^ PAGE FOUR THE CLINTON I Scions Now In Session' f "-'m'' W ^?€t> f '*■ i'-' PUBUSHED EVERY THURSDAY' ^ BY THE'CHRONICLE PUBLlSHINq CO. WILSON W. HARRIS Editor «nd Publisher BtBU>red at the Clinton Post Office as matter of Second Class. Terms of Subscription: One S1.60 Bhr months .... _.. 7. ■ .T5 months .60 Payable in fulvance rf \ Sk. The Chronicle ‘eeks the cooperation of its subscribe's and readers — the pdUisher urill a<- all times appreciate srisc suggestion': and kindly advice..- a-:.':;-;— jrg=. CUNTON, S. C., JAN. 10, 1929 SPACES (Continued From Page One) Senators Greene of Anderson, West of Abbeville, Hodges of Greenwood, and Thompson of Oconee. ' The Senate elected Senator J. F. Williams df Aiken president pro tern, succeeding the late'Alan Johnstone; re-elected James H. Fowles of C^um- bis, as clerk; William'A, Clarkson of Columbia, as reading ^lerk, and Ho> aier'B. Hendrix of, Easley ay aerg^ipat at arms. The senate also developed a*^ contest for the office chaplain, be- tv',.en the Rev. James G. Huggin, who held "the position last term while pas tor of the Greene Street Methodist chuivh at Columbia, and t^ Rev. J. C. BLoper, now pastor of that church. I .vfr. Roper was elected. Senate Fiaance Committee Assignment to the Senate finaoee committee were- F. C. Robihaon, bhalfiM: r: S. Rdgers, S. li^ WMd, It is easy to acquire a reputation, hut it takes a lot of hard work to make a good one. « , Two popular musical instruments are, the dinner horn and the hoiha of plenty. Life i» that way, too. You’re usually advancei to second and third, but get ting to first is your own job, This is true alsi>. A girl who won’t give a fellow a date every night, be- W. Claude Martin, E. J. Dennis, Tay- lor H. Stukds, R. M. Jefferies, Gnnret--Gashier’s Checks .. 1,760^21^ C. Welsh, William S. Legare, W. C. Hamrick, George B. Greene, Shepard K. Nash, F. D. West, William L. Ri ley, M. G. Anderson, Sam C. Hodges, I. J. Campbell, and Broadus ThOjt^i- aon. Senate«Chairmanships The chairmanships of other stand ing committees were assigned as fol lows : a. CUNT(M«. a c. Statement ef the ConditioB af M. S. BAILEY & SON, Bankers Located at Clinton, S. C., it Close of Business December 31, 19]^ RESOURCES Loan's and Discounts .. bs Speaks To Rotary Cldb W. P. Jacobs of this'^city, waa in ^rtanburg Tuesday to addresa the Rot: OverJrafta ...r ... 81,007.12 Other Real Estate Owned 0,192.49 Cash on hand and due from Banks 34,7’J4.87 Checks and Cash Ite^fts .... 1,3(12.61 tary club of that dty. The follow .'$790,796.39 i mg item appeared in • The Spartan* ^ „ Herald yesterday concerning his ^dress: 19,277.46 TOTAL $917,(l»’t2,48 UABILITIES Capital Stock Paid in $ 20J10i.40 UncHuided Profits, less Cur rent Expenses and Tax es Paid ♦. .... Due to Banks and Bank ers .« Dividends Unpaid Individual Deposits Subject . to Caieck .... 619,013.78 tflne CilHUftlhfes of* De posit 365,609.63 319J96 NONE Bills Payable, including Certificates for Money Borrowed ^... .... 877^,278.87 NONE tance, Tr B; Ureneker; claims and grie>^ce3, F. D. West; .. . . -n , . .commerce and mlinufacture, W. C. cause tnat gets tirosonie, will date up „ _ . , .. . . r« d —.•i-u u- ^ I-/- Hamnck; contingent accounts, E. R. "With him for life. ■ -- IGiim; county offices and officers, W. m. 1 J • ‘ u. -11' Elbert Findley; education, R. Rogers; . Thi* laundries might more quickly . , ’ .. * ’ attain the.r b,l mn^ollar bo.1 by f^d- ^ , inK some way to at.hse the button by- ^ ^ ; *^**'*'''' ■ C. Robinson. « ’ TOTAL ....|917,072j48 State of South Carolina, ss. * County of Laurens. Before' me came R. C, Adair, Cash ier of the above named bank, udio, imhiitMKaiMMi and foregoing statement is a true con dition of said bank, as shown by the books of .said bank. R. C. ADAIR. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 5th day of January, 1929. S. W. SUMEREL, Notary Public, S. C. 'ilie people are as gooil as ever. ^They just seem lawless because laws Fish, game and forestry, S. M. Ward; incorpoMtions, Philip H. Ar- n... „n.«nd >apid>y they enn-t j ,’^t“Tib.trTn:io *' iStukes; local legislation, George D. It Vaiks like now that si-hool open ing® have been below .standard on ac count of the fact thjft*'while i^ati'dft' wftp over influenza was not. What the country needs is not a giVK} 5-cent cigar or a new law, but* a fi-rmula rir device which would make h impossible to w'rfte 1928 now that it has passed. Kirkland; medical affairs, W. J. Per ry; military, William S..Legare; nat- [.]j)ral-KsourCifek, Charles D. Jones; pen itentiary, Emerson L. Ward; penal and charitable ihstrtutions, Jaihes B. Hammond;' police regulations,, j^. B. Lane; printmg,''John M. Wise; privi leges and elections, E. J. Dermis ;.prib- lic buildings, D. D. McColI; - uls and internal improvements, Maxey C. Harrelson; retrei^chments, J. T. Jeter; I roads, bridges nad ferries, W. Claude Statement of the Condition of The Commercial Bank Located at Clinton, S. C., at the Close of Business December 31, 1928 , , RESOURCES Loans and Discounts $290,595.88 Overdrafts NONE Liberty “Bonds 24,000.00 Bonds and Stocks Ow^'^d .. 107,000.00 Furniture and Fixture 3,000.00 Other Reid Estate Owned 21,956.43 Cash on hand and due from Banks , Checks and C^h Items . 7* tircei One may enter upon the New Year „ with the consolation that it can hardly' bring any terrors greater than those of the year that has gone. The young fellow representing the New Year may seem a bit bare, but in the matter of nudity he has nothing in many House Committees Robert E. BIcCaalan of (Jreenwood, was for the second time elected chair man of the house ways and means committee, other members of that u* 1. V I tlxxiy being M. J. Ashley, J. A. Boykin, w.y. on the year which ha. frone la-; ^ p c. L. Oireton, W. N. Fair, J. W. Hamer, R. B. Herbert, J. , ^ ., , . * P. Isenhover, L. M. Jones, B. K. Koen- Some peopte^ qu^r ukas atK.ut|^ D. L»wmtiU,vWe.H.. Light- w3mt they would do if ^ey were nch. 1 jj n^Cxavy, J. J. Mayson, E. G. Other Resources 76,360.60 234.36 500.00 Among other things, one thmks thatij^^^^^ Muldrow. W. H. Nkholsom under such eircumsUnoes he would I q have we erwm at every meal, would Rittenberg, A. M. Sapp, O. seodallof hia clothes to tee laundry.j, g Senesney, W. W. •nd would foWim tee fishing | j ^ SulUvan, J. M. Thomas, around tee world. jF. A. Thompson, W.^W. Tripp,ami A. G. Westbrook. THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS The punuit of happiness in some of its forma is the main occupation of the human race. We are carrying that pursuit with us into the New Year, bvrl whether or not it will meet with any considerable measure of success, de pends on our relation to the true sources of happiness. These sources nearly always spiritual rather are The number on the ways and means committee, 31, is some 20 leas than teat ef last year.' Frank A. Thomp89lMn{ of Marion, was elected vice-chairman. House Committee Chairmen TOTAL ..$523,647.27 UABILITIES CapiUl Stock ‘Paid in $ 50,000.00 Surplus Fund 25,0004)0 ^Individed Profits, less CUr- . rent Expenses and Tax es Paid 1,111.11 Due to Banks and Bankers NONE Dividends Unpaid .... 2,020.0^ Individual Deposits Subject to Check 269,708.19 Sarings Deposits .... 10,28'5.74 Time Certificates of De- poeit .... — —I 168^4.96»| Cashier’s Checks .... 3,618.72 Reserve Fund Carried On Individual or" SavHtags Ledger 3,.548.55 **ln concluding my tenure of office at clerk of court I moi^ heartily thank the people of Laurene county who have made it possible tor me to perform thie official service* )|v has indeed* been a pleasure to serve the people and the pleasure has been in creased by the many friends that I have made while so engaged. I have T, JANUARY 1929 firam day to day and ijay utmost thoughts ^re to serve with promptnesi and efficiency. From time to tiike'l have made improvemente so tba^ the records of the office may be more safely preserved and more easily foun^ Md it is k source of satisfac tion to me that as I turn the office over to my successor I do so with ' Responsibility of the in^vidual to cmsmmnity' was brought before ^ Rotery club yesterday in an ad- OiM on *‘CoililhfiBity.. ^lYice" ‘by Rb- tMian W. 1*. Jacobs or Clinton, “After all,” he said, “your commu nity is only you. As big as your heart Is, so big will be the heart of yow community; as haid as your, heart, so the lieart of your community; as old ns you are, so old will be‘ your cum- mtt^ty; as young as ycu are, so young will be your community. “Yoa-haviKseen indaetriia'^ oa-the rocks often through the lack of one big heart, v • “For this reason I believe there is' no factor ki *Rotary more important than oommunity Service if it can be instilled into the hearts of.all.mem- heia.“ . ^ T. S. Perrin, of the local club’s com munity service committee, introduced | Mr, Jacobs. Dm Ravenel and Clarence ' E. Galloway Mcompanied the speaker^ on his visit to opartanburg. put forth my beat efforts to meet the j these improvements and with all the duties and opportunities as they mere I work posted to date.’’ B. IX Bl^RT F. M. BOLJINO H. D. Nenry a Company INSURANCE STOCKS * BONDS • .REAL ESTATE LOANS NEGOTIATED A Plant WITH BAILEY MEMORIAL The South Laurens Singing conven tion will ihe'^t at Bailey Memorial Methodist church; Clinton mill, Sun day afternoon, at 2 o’clock. The pub lic is cordially invited. Retiring'Officer issues Statementf In retiring from the office of clerk: of courti C. A. Power has' issued the | following statement to the people ‘ of j the county: | DRS. ^ITH & SMITH Optometrists SPECIALISTS Byes Examined Glasses Prescribed IB West Main Street PlKine 101 Laboratory for Piwmpt Repair Service Clinton, S. C. > .4 We have just placed a competent man at the head of our laundry and are now prepared to give high standard laundry work. Our new manager thoroughly under stands the laundry business and uses ex treme care in handling your clothes to as sure perfect satisfaction. We invite you to try our SERVICE. Let ,U8 handle your whole family wash at our popular pound rates. “SUDDEN CALL OUR SERVICE” TRUCKS BUCHANAN’S Dry Cleaners and Steam Laundry Phone 29 TOTAL ....$523,647.27 LState of .South Carolina, ts. County of Laurens. Before me came F. M. Boland, Cash ier of the above named bank, who, be ing duly sworn, says that the* above id foregoing statement is a true 'condition of said bank, as shown bjCj ention... stove- huggers and fireplace freezers! Other eommittee chairmen chosen | tbe books of said bank. than material. The happlnese of the New Year will depend mainly on what we leave behind us anJ what we carry with us. If the past was burdened with prefen.ses and teams, by worry afid gjlfiahness, we' need to realize that these are some of the things that 1 tet uld be left behind us. We should-j carry with us into the New Year a st n-^e of the value of time and the rTalizaftion that day by day we have ' all the time there is. There should go with us the love for and the fruitful ness of work, the doing well of the' ta'^ks that opportunity places before We should walk hand in hand with were: Education, W. H. Keith of Greenville; agriculture, J. S. Whaley of Charleston; military affairs, K. R. Kreps of Richland; state penitentiary, W. H. Keith of Greenville; judiciarj’, J, E. Harley of Barnwell; hospital for the insane, David Lyle of York. . F. M. BOLAND. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 5th day of January, 1929. VERA P. WILSON (Seal) Notary Public, S.-C. Correct Attest: Jack H. Young, Jno. H. Young, H. D. Henry, Directors. k.'o. us love and sorrow and faith, knowing that if we possess such gifts as these i that all other things that may be nec-; essarj’ far our happiness will be added 1 to us. ' Inte»national Sun,day School Lesson for January 13 SIN • I John 1:6-10; 2:1-6 * Rev, Samuel D. Price, D. 1). Holiness is an attribute of God. The j outcasts from Paradise they had plen-1 j simplest survey of life or of self re-l^Y time to meditate on the con.se-1 ! - . ' QUenceS tanfui tk^ir triiilf^ ; veals the cverywhereness of sin. Thus ^ As they faced th^ir guilty I consciences in their hopelessness, the It j the theme for this week is in utmost j .Ey^nggl was given in the prom ise that was redeemed in the Messiah, PUBLIC OPINION Public opinion makes v’irtue. trains man’s conscience and provides | contrast 4o that for last week, when bis standards, and he i^ a rare manjthe Eternal God was the subject. Man • who is more respectable than the is both wayward and^ he has never standards of his environment. journeyed through life before^ Hence When the ^Mississippi and the Ohio < he is in constant need of an adequate were the frontier of Amerii a,, muscle Guide Book, and that Book is the! giv.en after the flood but meanwhile was the gauge of manhood an .*, excel-.; Bible. It might well be called the sih-j human nature had only been restrain- lence. If a man stood high in the com-^ neys Book, for it ifives a conjplete | ed. -. , ^ the theme for next week- lliat sin cannot remain a personal matter is revealed in the extent of sin ’ at tee time of Noah. A new start was munity, he was a wonder in a rough- and-tumble fight. Incidentally, he used his teeth and hobnails. In that day men drank heavily; joyously engaged analysis of his experiences and then i Real again the New Testament reveals an adequate solution of his passages indicated above. Here you j constant problems. ‘ |will find sin analyzed. There can be no real reason for choosing sin (Rom ans 1:20). The baseness of lift re- from Hs • rin-eontyeliBliiheM* is shown in that same chapter. m V -1 Numerous passages must be studied in brawls; boasted of their roug^nees; j in connection with each leaeoa this • were proud of their freedom from the ^ quarter. Thoee^ferauppleuenfal stady. decenciee*^ ^ tthis week are Genesis 8:1-24; 6:5-8; Times changed. Frontiers vanished. I Mark J:14-2S; Romans 1:18-32 and The roughnecks were hanged. Public 13:10-18. Gthers of equal importance ^inioqi esteMished hn indasitey, thrift,|can be noted by looking at yeiir eon- ^^aad honesty as standards. Money andjcoiAance. leapiing became o$ more worth than | Those who ineist that ii is hard to j present the evil without diedoaiog the 7.niusde. Public opinira looked sternly | keep from doing evil in the present adequate remedy, loriie adds, “If we : on tec new generation and said: “Be environment will do^ well to <teink |confess our sinr, he is faithful and decent: no rough stuff will be tokr-{themeelves back into the Gard^ of i righteous to-forgive us otir sins;, and to cleanse us from all unrighteons- The aged John, that beloved'djsciple, holds the ^mirror before every life as he^says “If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves.'* But he doee not j UlC ated." j^en where Adam and'Eve were .part , In this day ahd age one cannot long j of an unmarred world. They had the . defy piteUc opinion. Each day it bc- ebinea more difficult for the individu al “to get away with murder.” Once ness/^-This is made still clearer as he public opinion ts crystallized against a person or things something happens. it should be said, in eoncutsiun, that prublk opinion is not always fair i^ add jast. , maximum of blessings for which to be; points to the Friend he loves so well: thankful as they held their daily tryst! “And if any man sin, we have an Ad- wite their Creator. Yet they chose to vocate with the Father, Jesus. Chrislt disobey the reasonable command of their heayenly Father. Man sins by the exercise of his own free will when he has'^been given power to the'eon- ,’:v. V--4, '4. trary. After our first parents became menis.*' the righteous.” Then a most practical test i8 4:i^n which puts life above all profesiri^ ‘“Hersby we know that we know him, if we keep hiB command- The Third Annual “Enjoy-It- Now” Club invites you to be come a member and live .in •c healthful, happy comfort the rest of this winter and many winters to come. Goodbye, h^-heated rooms and frigid hallways — goodbye, sneezes and sniffles. The whole family .will bless you for join ing. For we take out the old stove with its half-hearted heat—make you an allow- ; ance for it—^and install a genuine Estate Heatrola in its place. In less than an hour, your whole house is comfortably warm.. Your heating troubles are over. You are saving fuel bills and doctor’s bills. And, outside of a small down-payment— not' ’another penny do' you pay until next Fall. Can you" affewd to pass up this impor tunity? Hardly! Sox^us Here is'our amazing offer is applied ap Bnt' payment on your Eatote Heatrola. 2 We take out jyour old stove and allow* • y®*t $10.00 for it ($5.00 if yon eclect the Heatrola Junior for your home). This allowanee is also applied on tha purchase price of the Heatrola. ^ . 3.^* instoll the* Heatrola in your home. Within an hour’4 tima-wa win have it, set up epimplete' '-Jooding whole house Wflh ohi^-couftsMIda ..-You enjoy Hestrola luxury. ieuce, and economy from __ with^t m^iug iinotiMw MUta , next Fatt. Then, with a suhstanttol suas already to your credit, you can jay tha balance in easy, montluy j[nstal|iaeata, suited to your conveniei. (t» coipe nt to see us at oidee. furniture, stoves, floor coverings “The Home Makei^s” Clinton, & C. ‘M*