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VOLUME XXIX
CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1929
NUMBER 23:
ORPHANAGE COMMENCEMENT
BEGINS FRIDAY EVENING
Program of Interest Marks Year of Successful Work: Baccalau
reate Sermon Next Sunday By Georgia Divine. Barium Springs
Superintendent To Be Hevd at Final Exercises;
Commencement exercises at the
* Thomwell orphanage, always an event
of interest in the community, will be
gin Friday evening at eight o’clock in
the chiypel with the annual music re
cital. The program will be continued
through next Tuesday, June 11th',
.when the graduation exercises will be
held.
The baccalaureate sermon will be
preached to the members of the grad
uating class on next Sunday morning
at 11:15 o’clock in the Thomwell Me
morial church by the Rev. Robert S.
Boyd, D#D.,.paator of the First Pres
byterian church of Coluntbusi, Ga. The
regular morning services in the
churches of the city following a cus
tom of long standing, will be with
drawn in order that all may unite in
this special occasion. The graduation
exercises will be held Tuesday morn
ing at 10:30, at which time diplomas
will be presented, and medals and
prizes awarded. The address of the
occasion will be delivered by J. B.
Johnston, superintendent of the Bari
um Springs Presbyterian orphanage,
Barium Spring ’'J. C.
On Tuesday ...ernoon at 2:30, the
annual meeting of the board of trus
tees will be held with Chairman Ex-
Governor Martin F. Ansel of Green
ville, presiding. At this time the presi
dent’s annual report will be read and
the work of the institution reviewed
for the past year. The following rep
resentatives of the synods of Georgia,
Florida and South Carolina compose
the board and are expected to attend
the meeting:
Synod of Georgia:
Robert McMillan, Clarksville; Dr.
J. W. Caldwell, Atlanta; Rev. L. R.
Scott, Valdosta; Rev. E. L. Flanagan,
Atlanta; W. C. Vereen, Moultrie; John
J. McKay, Macon; Rev. J. G. Patton,
College Park.
Synod of Florida:
A. E. Sheldon, Lakeland; Dr. W. B.
Y. Wilkie, Dunedin; A. G. Campbell,
DeFuniak Springs; Rev. D. J. Black-
well, Quincy; Chas. M. Turney, Jack
sonville.
Synod of South Carolina:
Ex.Gov. M. F. Ansel, Greenville;
C. G. Rowland, Sumter; Henry J.
Winn, Greenville; Dr. F. W. Gregg,
Rock Hill; A. C. Todd, Laurens; Dr.
Alexander Sprunt, Charleston, Rev.
John McSween, W. W. Harris, Dr. L.
Ross Lynn, C. M. Bailey, C. W. Stone
and J. I. Copeland of this city.
Tuesday evening at eight o’clock, a
clever play will be presented by the
members of the senior clap. To all of
the commencement exercises. Dr. X.
R. Lynn, president of the instiption,
extends a most cordial invitation to
the public to attend.
The schools are closing an unusually
successful year’s work under the lead
ership of Prof. B. S. Pinson as super
intendent. The graduating dps is
composed of 13- members, 9 girls and
4 boys as follows:
Evelyn Bobbitt, Jacksonville, Fla.
Vera Butler, Greenville.
Beatrice Campbell, Clinton.
Mildred Coggins, Atlanta, Ga.
Ruby Conrad, Conway.
Louis Ferowein, Spartanburg.
Margie Morgan, Atlanta, Ga.
Roberta Starke, Valdosta, Ga.
Corinne Watson, Spartanburg.
Edward Graham, Rock Hill.
Collis Land, Quincy, Fla.
Ralph Rampey, Liberty.
Howard Stamps, Atlanta, Ga.
TO SPEND SUMMER
IN COTTON BELT
William Moorhead Accompanying Cot
ton Statistician On Extensive
Tour Gathernig Crop Data.
William Moorhead, promising young
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Moorhead
of Goldville, and a member of the
tenth grade of the Clinton high school,
is doing some extensive traveling this
summer in the official capacity ,of a
“hired chauffeur.”
William left last week with Mr. J.-
A. Stewart of Atlanta, for a trip to
the cotton belt of the United States
and into Mexico. Mr. Stewart is a cot
ton statistician and makes five trips
•during the year through the country’s
cotton growing territory. Following
an established custom, he leaves his
chauffeur at home during the sum
mer and employs a high school boy as
official escort and driver. The job this
summer fell to William, who had a
desire to be engaged at work during
vacation rather than spend his time
at the loafing game.
The trip on which Mr. Stewart and
William have entered, will cover 7,000
miles and a period of about seven
weeks. Its purpose is to gather sta
tistics and data on the cotton crop
outlook this fall.
After joining Mr. Stewart in At
lanta, William left immediately for
Mississippi. The following letter re
ceived a day or two ago by his father,
indicates that the young Goldville cit
izen is a close observer and deeply in
terested in agricultural connditions
he has already seen in the Mississippi
delta. In writing of his trip, he said:
“I’m having a fine time although
we average about 175 miles a day.
Greenwood, Miss., is the greatest
staple cotton market in the world.
jWe rode in the Mississippi delta today,
I and you talk about pretty fields, but
j they are really there. They plant
j nothing, hardly, but cotton. Wc saw
! some fields where, as far as we could
I see, there was nothing but cotton, cot-
{ton, and then some more cotton.
] Twelve counties along this delta raise
I about 750,000 bales of cotton every
year. I’m afraid that it would make-
our farmers around home sipk to come
out liere and see these fields; or it
might make them happy to know that
they even make a living on those red
hills around home. I want you to come
i out here sometime and see some fields
that can raise cotton besides rabbits
aiHl squirrels.
“William.
“P. S.—Had my third puncture to
day. Hope I don’t get fired.”
CLINTON ADDED
TO ROSE CHAIN
Ruse’s 5, 10 and 25c Store To Open
Saturday. Fifty-One Towns
In Organization.
J. J. Aulenbacher of Milwauket
trith hit cow, that has a white
"leven” easily seen on its forehead.
Everything seems to run to sevens
with Aulenbacher. He has seven
sons, seven daughters and .seven
farms.
ROTARIANS HOLD
INTER-CITY MEET
Newberry, Greenwood, Laurens and
Clinton Clubs Gather Here for
Annual Joint Meeting.
An address by the Rev. John Mc
Sween, president of the Presbyterian
college, featured the annual inter-city
meeting of the Rotary ><^ubs of Clin
ton, Laurens, Newberry and Green
wood, which was held last Friday
night in the Mary Musgrove tea room.
A silver loving cup, awarded each
year for a 12 month.^period to the club
having the best attendance at the
meeting calculated on a basis of mil
eage traveled, as well as on the num
ber of members present, was won by
the Clinton organization. Since the in
auguration of the trophy two years
ago, it has been won successively by
Laurens, Newberry and Clinton, and
in each instance, while the particular
club was acting as host to the other
three.
In addition to the address by Mr.
McSween, the program included short
talks by Z. F. Wright* past district
governor of Rotary, and Paul Watson
of Greenwood, an exchange of humor
ous remarks between Dr. Rolfe
Hughes and Rice Nickles of Laurens,
and a song by J? Barnie Parrott of
Clinton. Marshall Brown of the Pres
byterian college faculty, and chairman
of the committee on arrangements for
the meeting, presided.
The address of Mr. McSween was
devoted to stressing the need for com
munity service on the part of individ
ual citizens and to pointing out the
opportunities that exist for service
clubs like Rotary, Kiwhnls, Lions,
Civitans, and others.
R. F. Neal of Raleigh, has arrived
in the city to assume the manage
ment of Rose’s 5, 10 and 25c store
that will throw its doors open for
the first time Saturday morning.'For
the present the new concern wlil occu
py the store room recently vacated
by Sparks 10c Store, and about the
firat of August hopes to move into
the Bee Hive buliding on Musgrove
street! which is to be completely re
modeled and changed for its new occu
pants. •
The Rose chain maintains its home
office in Henderson, N. C! It is now
operating 51 stores in four Southern
states. North and Sou^jCarolina, Vir
ginia and Tennessee. It ^ headed by
P. H. Rose as president, who is the
originator of the company. T. B. Rose,
Jr., is vice-president and secretary,
and also the buyer. D. H. Gerber, a
member of the board of directors, is
store director and personnel officer.
He was formerly with the Kress chain
as manager of one of their larger
stores, and later as district manager.
R. W. Bruin, also a member of the
board of directors, is location mana
ger and superintendent of construc
tion.
Mr. Rose and his associates have
been quite favorably impressed with
Clinton and feel that there is a fine
opening here for a store of the type
they will operate. A long lease has
been secured on the Bee Hive build
ing which will be occupied in the late
summer, offering this community a
modern, up-to-date and complete
store.
The Clinton store will be under the
management of Mr. Neal. While
quite a young man, he has been
connected with the Rose Store com
pany for several years and comes here
from Raleigh. He is thoroughly ex-*
perienced and highly recommended
for the position of manager of the
Clinton unit.
The grand opening of Rose’s will
occur Saturday morning at eight
o’clock. It is heralded forth in a page
advertisement in today’s paper.
YOUNG PEOPLE
HERE NEXT WEEK
Six Clinton Girls
Finish At Winthrop
Considerable local interest i^ cen
tered in the approaching comnrience-
ment exercises of Winthrop college
on June 11th. There are 398 mem
bers in the graduaitng class, si5c of
whom are Clinton girls as follows:
Misses Katherine Mabel Aldred, Pris
cilla Alden Bailey, Nell West Clapp,
Frances Louise Davis, Margaret Te-
ressa Finley and Dorothy Virginia
Chandler.
Country Club Deed
Filed With Clerk
The deed to the old Bois Terre
country club property, recently sold
by Dr. Jack H. Young to the Lake
side corporation, was filed for record
with the clerk of court last Friday.
The deed shows that the new corpor
ation paid $6,000 for the property,
which is composed of two main tracts,
one of 15.64 acres containing the old
club houses and swimming lake, and
the other of 61,50 acres, embracing
the golf links. Woi*kmen are alfeady
on the property making it ready for
the new clbb which is to, be operated
there.
Poultry Sales
Over $500,000
Clemson College, June 1.—Coopera
tive carlot shipments of poultry have
been made to the value of over half a
million dollars during a period of less
than six months beginning Dec. 1,
1928, and .ending’May 11, 1929, ac
cording to reports from L. -H. Lewis,
extension marketing agent in charge
of poultry shipments.
Mr. Lewis’ figures show that a to
tal tonnage in connection with 104
schedules shipped between the above
dates was 2232,482 pounds, or about
1130 carloads. The total number of
! farmers benefiting from these ship-
j ments was 51,629, or an average of
I -iOO farmers per schedule of ship-
I ments. The average check written for
J farmers selling poultry in this way
I was $10.95, and the average price re-
' ceived for all classes of poultry', was
25.34 cents per pound.
During a four weeks period from
April 29 to May 25 inclusive, it is in
teresting to note, poultry shipments
were made from 36 of the 46 coun
ties in the State, and 14 counties made
shipments twice during that time.
There is no longer any doubt that
chicken money is good money in South
Carolina and it seems likely that at
least 200 carloads will be shipped dur-
inng the year, bringing in at least one
million dollars to the farmers of the
state.
Four Tracts Sold
By Clerk Of Court
Clerk of Court Thos, W. Bennett
sold four tracts of land at public sales
Monday morning, the bidding being
more spirited than in many months.
The following sales were made:
Federal Land Bank vs T. H. Neel,
156.25 acres in Cross Hill township,,
sold to Phil D. Huff, attorney, for
$4,000.
Mrs. S. F. and T. B. McDaniel vs
Mrs. Mabel B. Little, et al, house andj
lot on West Main street, Laurens, j
sold to A. C. Todd, attorney, forj
$4,450.
WiKiam A, Austin vs Hugh H. Ful
ler, et al, lot in town of Cross Hill,
containing about seven acres, sold to
C. D. Nance for $500.
Sarah White and J. W. Leake vs
Geo. Thompson and Mary Thompson,
1-2 acre' on Green street, Laurens,
sold to Sarah White for $500.
Junior Conference Opens At Presby
terian College Wednesday. Senior
Meet Two Weeks Later.
Plans have been completed for the
Young People’s intermediate and sen
ior conferences to be held at Presby
terian college during the next three
weeks. The senior conference has been
held for several years past and for
the first time this year the interme
diate convention is being inaugurated
for boys and girls of younger age,
ranking from 12 to 15 years.
The junior conference will open here
on next Wednesday with the sessions
held in the college auditorium and en
tertainment provided for the delegates
in the dormitories on the campus. Col.
Joseph H. Cudlipp of Baltimore, h^ad
of the Young People’s division in the
state Sunday school work-in Mary
land, will have charge of the confer
ence. Associated with him will be Mrs.
Cudlipp, Mrs. Geo. W. Sheffer, syn
odical fielJ worker; Rev. S. J. L.
Crouch of Clemson college, Mr. and
Mrs. T. C. Bryan of M'hitmire, and
Rev. Marshal! Dendy of Newberry.
Indications point to an unusually
large attendance with representatives
present from the respective presby
teries of the synod.
FARM RELIEF
IS mMISED
Congress Pledges Half Billion
Dollars As Wheat Prices Soar.
Fund Soon To Be Ready.
WAshington, June 4. — Assurance
was given by responsible leaders in
Congress today that they would sup
port a recommendation to make a half
million dollars available for the stabi
lization of agriculture as soon as the
farm relief bill, which would'author
ize the proposed farm board to spend
that amount, is enacted into law.
Among those who expressed the
hope that President Hoover would
send Congress an estimate for the full
amount was Senantor McNary of Ore
gon, chairman of the senate agricul
ture committee. He said he thought it
advisable to give the board every op
portunity to take the fullest advan
tage of the benefits intended to be
provided by the relief legislation
which is nearing enactment.
Considerable interest was manifest
ed at the capitol in the immediate re
action to this information on the Chi
cago grain market, where wheat clos
ed bouyant at the day’s top point,
3 7-8 to 6 1-8 cents per bushel higher
than yesterday’s finish.
It had been thought the department
of agriculture would suggest an ini
tial appropriation of one or two hun
dred millions. A number of farm lead
ers have taken the position, however,
that the whole amount should be pro
vided at once in view of the condition
facing several leading current crops
w’hich_^are held to be in need of early
attention.
Many leaders have been watching
the wheat crop with some concern and
feel that the board should direct its
attention to its situation without de
lap. If the board were to buy up the
surplus wheat crop, the leaders point
ed out, about $175,000,000 would be
needed for this alone. In addition, they
feel the cotton crop and perhaps live
stock need the attention of the board.
With the farm bill promising to
reach its final legislative stages soon,
the leaders have been giving consider
able thought to the practical working
out of the measure’s provision. Some
leaders are of the opinion that PresL,
Jent Hoover has tentatively decided
upon some of the members of the
board and the feeling is generally held
that the president will endeavor to put
the board to work at the earliest pos
sible moment.
'The farm relief conference commit
tee, which is composing a single farm
bill from the two passed separately
by the senate and house, called a meet
ing tonight in the hope of disposing
of the export debenture plan. Earlier
in the day the senate conferees accept
ed the house provisions for setting
up clearing house associations and the
house members accepted the senate
.sections for insurance against price
declines.
Change Made In
Music Teacher
Miss Harriet Carson of Summerton,
lecently elected instructor of music in
the Clintqn city fechools for the 1929-
30 session, has resigned the position
within the pa.st few days. The board
of trustees has fillel the vacancy by
the election of Miss Margaret Cooper
of Mayesville. Miss Cooper is a Win
throp graduate. .She taught two years
in Gastonia, and the pa.st year has had
charge of music in the .Shelby schools.
MID-STATE CIRCUIT
Laurens ....
.Monarch ...
Newberry .
.Mollohon
Clinton .. ..
Goldville ...
Lydia
Watts
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6
4
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3
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SATURDAY’S RESULTS
Watts 17 Lydia 3.
,Clinton 0, Laurens 5.
—NlWberry 1, Goldville 5.
Monarch 8, Mollohon 6.
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Ford, Edison And
Others For Dry Law
New York, June 2.—A “message to
the American people” signed by 24
prominent citizens, and urging sup
port of President Hoover in enforc
ing the prohibition law was’ made pub
lic today.
The message, which bore among
others the signatures of Henry Fort
and Thomas A. Edison, quoted from
recent utterances of the president on
the subject of-law enforcement and
said:
“We believe that prohibition should
be given an honest trial, that it was
enacted for the ‘protection of the
.American home,’ and that the moral
force of the country is behind Presi
dent Hoover in his endeavor to com
bat those forces which are attempting
to frustrate this effort.”
The message urged all citizens to
‘,Junite to give the eighteenth amend
ment an honest chance for complete
enforcement.”
Senior .Meet June 18-25*
The senior conference, June 18-25,
will again be presided over by the
Rev, C. K. Dquglas of Manning, a.s
manager. MrsJ^V. O. Brownlee of
Guerrant, Ky., will serve as dean, and
John Holland Hunter of this city, will
serve both weeks as registrar and
treasurer. This will be the ninth con-
vtention of its kind helJ under the
auspices of the synod and it is ex
pected that fully th^ee hundred young
people will matriculate for the week’s
program which promises to be instruc
tive, helpful and inspirational.
Local Mills Close
On July First
Notice has been posted that the
Clinton and Lydia ('otton mills will
shut down for the week of July 1st
following as established custom of
several years past. Similar action by
practically all mills in thi.s section is
expected during the summer.
REBEL YELL
HEmAGAM
Thousands of Gray €lad Veter
ans .Invade Charlotte for
Reunion. Senator Pat Harri
son Speaks.
Charlotte, June 4.—The thirty-ninth;
reunion of the United Confederate*
veterans opened formally here tonight
amid a blaze of color, music and orm-
tory and the valiant efforts of thoos-
anda of gray clad partiarchs to res>
urrect the rebel yell.
Reunion officials estimated late thi»
afternoon that 20,000 visitors were in
the city, with that number mountings
hourly as a steady stream of pilgrima
poured in by almost every known
means of travel.
On the rostrum tonight at the
armory-auditorium erected especially
for the occasion, were Senator Pat.
Harrison of Mississippi. Governor O.
Max Gardner, of North Carolina, May
or George Wilson of Charlotte, and
former Mayor F. M. Redd. A concert
by the United States Marine band
opened the first reunion program.
Senator Harrison, devoting his ad
dress largely to a defense of the
Southern cause in the War Between
the States, told the veterans that the
principle for which they had fought
was states rights and not slavery. He
called for a repatism of the South in
that principle and warned against the
sacrifice of Southern sentiment to in
dustrialism.
“We of the South must never per
mit Southern glories to be forgotten
in the maelstrom of industrial strife,’*"
said the senator. “We must not allow
those principles for which our father*
sacrificed to be supplanted by yield
ing to the commercial exigencies of
the hour.”
“Slavery was not the cause of. the
war,” he said. “A bigger and larger
question was involved. It was the un
questionable right of a state to ex
ercise those powers not expressly del
egated to the federal governmeht in
the federal constitution.
“The South believes that property of
every individual should be respected
and protected under the laws of the
land. It resisted any invasion of the
rights of states to control their own
domestic affairs as a violation of the
federal compact. .And may I be per
mitted to say that the South needs a
rc-baptisrii in that principle.”
Governor Ganhier described the re
construction period as “one of the
most serious consequences of the his
tory of the Anglo-Saxon race,
“I have long felt,” he said, “that
the most serious consequence of the
Givil war was not the loss of material
wealth nor the appalling loss of life,
but was the psychology (»f despair
which resulted from the defeat of the
Southern armies. It manifested itself
in a diminished respect for law and
order, in an incapacity to visualize the
latent potentialities of the section and
its people an i a general exodus from
some states to the we t and other
parts of the country.
“But at this juncture the men and
women of the South joined battle with
their own doubts and fears. They
gathered for a last desperate charge
upon the sombre batlement.s of de
spair. There was no bea ing of drums
or display of colors. There was no
time or means for preparations.
“But with their faces to the foe
an 1 with the thought o*.' surrender put
forever behind them tliey hurled the
forces of lawlessness, poverty and ig
norance a defiant challenge and went
to work.
“This story of the rebuilding of the
South forms one of the most glorious
chapters of the history of the .Anglo-
Saxon race, and our victory was es
sentially a victory of the spirit.”
Funds Raised Here
For Wilson Home
It was stated in last week’s paper
that practically no interest had been
manifested here in the Woodrow Wil
son home fund, and the statement
was correct from the standpoint of a
general canvass. It has been pointed
out, however, that the Presbyterian
college student body and the children
of the city schools took special col
lections which amounted to about $20
each which were forwarded to the
state treasurer. The Musgrove’s-Mill
chapter, D. A. R., also contributed
$5.00, and several-ladies in the com
munity sent in similar amounts.
Vacancy Filled
In High School
Miss ^lary Joyce, recently elected
’n.structor of English in the high
.school for the ensuing year, has re
signed the position within the past
few days. The vacancy has been filled
by the election of Miss Marie Mc.Mil-
lan of Spartanburg, A. B. gravfuate of
Winthrop, an.l for the past year en
gaged in teaching in.Nor'.h Carolina.
Local Woman
Named Trustee
Mrs. J. Gary Martin of this city has
been' elected a mepiber of the board
of trustees of Chicora college, Colum
bia. Mrs. Martin is an enthusiastic
and loyal alumnae of this institution
and her friends will be pleased to
learn of the deserved recognition that
has come to her.
Court Convenes
Next Monday
The regular summer term of gen
eral sessions court for l^urens coun
ty, will-convene next Monday, June
10th, with Judge ('. C. Featherstone
of Greenwood, presiding. The jury ve
nire follows:
Alsey K. Miller. W. J. Ball. R. M.
Brownlee, E. K. Knight, J. W. Orr,
W. E. Washington. .M. L. .Motes, R. E.
Ferguson, W. H. Bolt. Horree League,
I.. ('. Taylor, Geo. M. Franks. T. J.
Blalock. E. C. Taylor. C. H. McCrary,
I. M. .Anderson. Claude Mahon. S. B-
Owens, Gary Dillard. C. I. Martin, W.
H. Monroe, W. T. Boyce, A. D. Gray,
J. .D. Godfrey. John T. Blakely. M- H.
Lyon, R. L. Wolff, J. F. Jacobs. Jr.,
R. R. Coopc’*, .M. .Arthur Riddle, L T.
.Armstrong. T. .A. Senn. W. R. Owings,
Brooks Fowler, L. .A. Thompson and
J. Huber Smith.
HOME FROM CLEMSON
James Edward Ferguson, a^d Reed
er Workman. Jr., are at heme from
Clemson college where they received
their diplomas on Tuesday.