The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, March 21, 1929, Image 5
.
V
* If-. A**— -'
■ v
^ ,*4' J.f
' |i I I III |i H ii ) »|iil. llWiililWHPlimi I *iit'*ii V'L.U '
, t
^; 1*^ ’-r. ■'
>i- ►i*’■:*■>='•
*,.-. ...i .. . , ,.-
" ■ - . ■:: ■■■;:; .. *;■ . ■ ■
■•4' ' V
r,s.^
For Easter
rg' 'r>TT’'
"V ^ ■
EASTER AND WHITMAN’S GO
TOGETHER
Place your order now — deliveries made
later — anywhere. •
Beautiful boxes of the purest Candies im>
asrinable, all varieties and sizes—and al
ways fresh.
Established 1886
w
I
♦
:
A GOOD BANKING
CONNECTION
is an important factor in any busi
ness enterprise.
«. ■
Clinton business men have found a
relationship with this bank a genu
inely valuable asset since 1886.
%
An account here will benefit you
and your business.
M.$.Baileii Son
BANKERS
OLDEST
STRONGEST
PERSONAL MENTION
J. B. Quinn and mother, of Black-
stock, spent the week-end with Mr.
and Mrs. D. E. Tribble.'
Miss Benita Boozer spent the week
end in Newberry as the guest of her
mother, Mrs. Heury Boozer.
Miss Mary Brown is visiting in Mc
Cormick as the guest of her brother,
W. 0. Brown.
Mrs. A. B. Stone, Misses Sarah and
Mary Stone spent Sunday in Laurens
with Mr. and Mrs. Edd Bobo.
Friends of Hayne B. Workman are
Dr. S. M. Glasgow of Knoxville,
Tenn'., is the guest of Rev. and Mrs.
John McSween while in the city con
ducting special evangelistic services
at the college.
Hartwell Hatton has returned to his
home in Madison, N. J., after a two
weeks visit, to his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. B. H. Hatton. *' ' ~
Dr. F. B. Short of New York, spent
yesterday in the city as the guest of
the J. C. Penney company’s store.
The following Winthrop college stn-
delighted to see him on the streets dents arrived Tuesday to spend the
again after an illness of several weeks; spring holidays with their parents
and are glad to know that he is im- and relatives in the city and near here:
proving. | Misses Helen Milam, Virginia Davis,
Miss Katherine Coleman has aceep- Eva Dominick, Mary Johnson, Rachael
ter a position as stenographer with
the Industrial Supply company of this
city.
Mrs. Barnie Parrott returned Sun
day from a two month’s stay with her
parents in Bishqpville, and was joined
by Mr. Parrott after attending the
past session of the legislature.
Friends of Mrs. Kelly Johns will re-, Janet Leake and Elizabeth Copeland,
gret to know that her condition has
O’Daniel, Elizabeth Todd, Prances
Black, Margaret Finley, Elizabeth
Shealy, Frances Shealy, Mary Belle
Todd, Mabel Aldred, lidie Davis, Ze-
lime Davis, Isabel Witherspoon, Pris
cilla Alden Bailey, Sara Knox, Nell
Clapp, Fay Aiair, Janella Boland,
Jeanette Crawford, Katherine Fuller,
not been satisfactorily improving and
that she 'was removed Monday to an
Asheville sanitarium.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Hadfleld and
Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Henry left Satur
day for Jacksonville, Fla., and othej
points for a week’s stay. Mr. and Mrs.
Henry are the guests of their daugh
ter in Jacksonville, Mrs. D. D. Ed
munds, pleasantly remembered here
as Miss Mary Henry.
Miss Lucy Bailey, senior at Con
verse college, has been appointed a
member of the life saving class of
that institution following a course of
instruction to students just completed
by Raymond Eaton of Washington,
.D. C.
DAILY AVERAGE
OVER 16 LAWS
<1
<1
<1
41
41
4*
4>
41
4
4 t
4
4
4
4
4
4
4 ►
4 ^
41
4
4
4 >
4 >
44
4 4
44
4 4
4 4
4 4
4 4
44
4 4
4 4
4 4
44
44
44
44
44
44
44
♦
4
Fight Begins
On Bond Bill
Teahfi Work Put Over Highway Bond
Bill. Friendly Suit To Test Va
lidity of the Measure.
Columbia, March 18.—^The first ses
sion of the seventy-eighth general as
sembly, which adjourned on last Sat
urday night, enacted laws at the rate
of over sixteen a day for the forty-
four days it was actually in session
during the sixty-eight days from the
time of convening to the time of ad
journment, and of these 713 laws
which it enacted, one wab a $65,000,-
000 road bond issue, another was a
general appropriation bill carrying a
couple hundred thousand dollars over
ten million, a third was a six cents
gasoline tax, and the other 710 ranged
all the way from the creation of a
natural resources commission to the
refund if some fifty dollars overpaid
taxes to Long Tom Parker, whose
4
Here’s Real...
Customer Convenience
Food buying for your household becomes a pleasure .
when you walk into a store where ‘H^^ustomer Conven- '
ience” is the watchword! The trend of modem food re
tailing is felt as soon as you come through our door.
Intelligent, trained salesmen and wmnen greet you jdeas-
antly, giving you an assurance that your visit is appre
ciated, and lhat every courtesy will be extended while
you are here. Perhaps that problem~**What to have for
today*s dinner” is bothering you. Our sales force can
help you with suggestions. Anticipating your needs is a
part of their task, and you will find them competent,
courteous aids, always anxious to serve you!
. . . THAT IS WHAT WE CALL “CUSTOMER
CONVENIENCE”
Blakely’s
TELEPHONES 136 AND 175
(Continued from page one)
The constitution forbds that any
debt contracted by the state shall be
by loan on state bonds and that the i land was placed on the books at five
general assembly shall levy an annu-' hundred and some odd acres when it
al tax sufficient to pay the interest ought to have been four hundred and
on such bonds. i some odd acres.
The act relates to more than one \ Governor Richards looks wdth a
subject and the subject of the act is great deal of satisfaction upon the ses-
not expressed in the title. j sion. Without his aid and encourage-
The pledging of the gasoline and ! ment the bond bill could not have been
auto license moneys for years to come passed, and without his signature it
violates the constitutional inhibition could not have become law. It is the
against appropriation by the general creature of C. E.' Jones, the chairman
assembly for more than one year.
Changes were made in the bill after
second reading in both houses, where
the constitution requires that a bill
must have three readings in
branch of the legislature.
®f the state highway commission, and
the governor, with the legislative
stamp of approval upon it. There were
others, too, whose efforts in i^s be-
each I half helped make it possible.. Team
work did it.
44
44
44
44
4 4
4 4
4 4
4 4
4 4
< 4
4 4
4 4
4 4
4 4
i 4
<4
<4
t
<4
44
44
<4
44
<4
4 4
44
(4
44
<>
<4
4 4
44
44
44
44
44
(4
44
4 4
44
44
44
44
44
I
That the bill originated in the^sen-: scene of battle now’ shifts to
ate, whereas the constitution requires ^jjg courts. A friendly test suit was
that revenue raising bills originate in brought immediately upon the ap-
the house. . . i proval of the act by the governor, but
In the case against the two-district others will intervene, whose conten-
plan it is set forth that the division i tion is that it violates the spirit and
of the state into districts is an at- the letter of the constitution and the
tempted evasion of the provisions of fundamnetal principles upon which
the constitution ♦ohibiting the in-jthe state government rests. So also
crease of the state debt without votej^jii the six cents gas tax be fought
of the people or the issue of bonds or | out in the courts. That fight began, _
certificates of indebtedness except for before the act was ratified, with a
state debts; that the issuance of bonds , protest by members of the general as-; ^
by the districts would violate thereon- sembly against its ratification. The 1
stitutional inhibition against issuing bond bill, howev’er, w’ill hold the center, ▼
bonds above 8 per cent of the assess- of the stage, just as it has held it
ed value of property; the assessed val-1 since January 8, w’hen the legislative
ue of property in each district is less wheels started to grind,
than J260WO,000. Thajwnda proposed ^here were two anti-climaxes to the i
or eac is ric are $ , ,0 0. i (jj measure fight, both of which
It is also alleged that the creation r a . r au .
< au J- a • a -1 V , , w’ore unfortuHate for the proponents
of the districts violates the constitu- ] ,
tion s implied prohibition in recogniz- recorded in
mg certain divisions of government i„ oither journal, or
against creating other divisions.
It is also declared that the act is
repugnant to the constitution in that
in the proceedings of the joint assem
bly, the protest against the ratifica
tion of the six cents gas tax, which
MARK TWAIN SAID
Mark Twain once was asked: “Of
all your books, which do you con
sider the best?’’
He promptly replied: “My bank
book”
I
The man or woman, boy or girl, who
earns something and spends less,
and has a savings pass book on thh
bank, is on the road to success.
Have yOu one?
“THE BANK OF PERSONAL SERVICE”
It seeks to deprive citixcns of property registered in the joint as-
without due process of law, in that it ,( „„urred in the flush of
seeks to levy a tax at a uniform rate,; p33,(„ns perhaps
mthou. regard to differpces in loca- ^ j^e long fight. In thei
tions and conditions to be taxed, and gray, dawn of the morning after
in tto axpayer 13 given an op- ,^33 to the public the appearance of
portnnity to be heard on the question of official record some-
of the benefits to be aenved from the
tax.
thing that officially occurred. Wheth-1
er by rule or whether in violatTon of |
rule perhaps will not matter much to 1
The respondents named in two cas-
Ir ‘e q^R^oth w 1 ;hrpuUic,''a"nd,'‘afte”r‘ alCStorrs'entT-
T> McKay, ^nent is still something to be reckoned
. ammk, T. Stevens, C. 0., even by legislative majorities,
Hearon, W. R. McCuen, John P. Grace, and the public looks with disfavor up-
H. C Summer, J L Wheeler, C. L. j on anything that smacks of the en-
ur n, W. Fred Lightsey and C. E-lforcement of technical rules when it
Jones, members of the highway com- comes to the proposition of permitting
^ ^ ] mission, and Governor Richards, State
Treasurer Scarborough and Comptrol
ler General Beattie.
:;|Only $500,000 Remained
o Of Huge Candier Estate
Atlanta, Ga., March 16.—Less than
$500,000 was left by the late Asa G.
Candler, he having distributed the
bulk of his estate, estimated at one
time at $50,000,000, before his death,
according to his will filed in common
form with Ordinary V. S. Morgan, of
DeKalb county today.
The largest beupest-in the will,
which was written January 7, 1925,
with a codicil attested July 23 of the
same year, was to his widow, Mrs,
Mae Little Can-dler, who will receive
$250,000 in cash, net, after all expens
es incident to the administration of
his estate have been paid.
The bulk fo Mr. Candler’s estate
was distributed by him during his life
time among his children, and to Em
ory university and other institutions
and causes. ~~
their courts to be placed in possession I
of the entire unvarnished, unexpurgat
ed facts as to a matter upon which,
the courts are called upon to pass. |
Anyway, the motion for the recording!
of the motion must necessarily go into'
the journals, and that of itself makes!
official record. . - |
Entertainment At
Wadsworth School
There will be a black-face comedy j
at Wadsworth school on Friday even
ing, March 22> beginning at eight!
o’clock. The public is cordially invited j
to attend. Admission will be 15c and
25c, the proceeds to be used for the ;
benefit of the school.
Dr. WrT. Hughes '
DENTIST i
^ Clinton, South Carolina i
Offieea Formerly Occupied By
Telephone Exchange
^ Office Pkene
Growing Businesses
in Clinton
I
—large or small—will find in this
bank those qualities of service and
complete modern facilities that
make for growth which is still more
rapid and .substantial.
Upon its own record of progress,
the FIRST NATIONAL BANK* in
vites your account — business or
personal.
1
OUR SERVICE MAKES FRIEN^
First National Bank
“Clinton’s Strongest Bank”
Telephone No. 7
GROCERIES
OF A QUALITY WORTH
FAR MORE
Our years of experience in the Grocery bus
iness has taught us how to buy the best at
the least in price. You’ll find this true at
our shop that offers values unequalled day
in and day out.
IVIEATS BUTTER ~ EGGS
I VEGETABLES — FRUITS
CANNED GOODS
BALDWIN’S GROCERY
“TKe Home of Good Things To Eat”
Phones 99 and 100
ALL PRESCRIPTIONS FILLED
BY UCENSED PHARMACISTS
CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED PROMPTLY
- I ' ' "■ *'' ■. ,
SADLER-OWENS PHARMACY
“At Union Station”
Phones 377 and 400 Phones 877 andv400