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u Jh'* uw VAGE FOUR THE CUNTON CHRONICLE. CLUTTON. (Tll^ ([Iltnt0n (Et^rnnirlf Established 1900 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher THE Published Every Thursday By CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One year $1.50; Six Months 75 cents; Three Months 50 cents Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C. The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers—^the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly ad vice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they aie not of a defamatory nature. Anonymou^ communications will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspo^ents. writings gives no suggestion age. I quote a few lines, written in his last year, just to prove the point: “Wonderful morning, clear, calm, and warm. The valley full of fog, which does not take flight, but ebbs and flows and melts till, at eight, not a vestige of it remains. At seven, not a leaf was stirring, only the plumed Irood as that in every respect dollars a month. I slept as hard as I cqnld that night so's I’d get my money’s worth, but if “down yonder” is any hotter than it was in 708, may the paths that I am to trod from now on be strewed with fewer temptations. I sweated and perspired and rolled and tumbled till grasses waving a little. I walk up the almost time for the cock to crow, and CLINTON, S. C., AUGUST 1, 1929 A THOUGHT Ijiy up for yourselves treasures in Heaven, where neither moth nor rust <loLh corrupt and where thieves do not break through nor steal.—Matt. 6:20, Roger Babson says: One dollar spent for a lunch lasts live hours. One dollar spent for a necktie last five weeks. One dollar spent for a cap lasts five months. One dollar spent for an automobile l»3ts five years. One dollar spent in service for God lasts for eternity. —Missionary Survey. T^is is true, however, a rolling stone never gets covered with mites. The martyrs are all dead, and along 'with them most of the statesmen have *one. The bootlegger sets one good ex ample. He doesn’t drink his own stuff. If automobile prices keep on fall ing, they can soon afford to give you new one with every set of tires. is a fine thought and one great deal of consideration. We in this world will never under stand the full meaning of perfection, but we may set our hearts and brains and hands to its attainment. And the more closely we pursue it the nearer we will come to genuine happiness. There is no^ thrill like that which comes from contemplating a job well done—a job done as well as anybody else could have done it—whether the job was great or small in nature. - No matter how small the job, it is worth doing well. It is worth putting your very best into it. And if you make shoes, or cultivate a cotton or com field, run a store or bank, or a newspaper, or milk cows or break bread, you will never be quite so happy as you are when you review your work and realize that nobody un der the shining sun could have done it any better. When you get that thrill, you are not going to worry very much about anything else. You have arrived. road. See’ a hummingbird bathing in the big drops on the foliage of a small ash tree. Never knew before how the hummer bathed.” , Although an octogenarian. Bur roughs was alive, still able to see beauty in common things, and still able to get a thrill from learning something new. I have begun to realize lately that I am getting on. and I am studying old er men who have charm and person ality, hoping to discover what is the secret of their seeming youth. The worth a noonday speaker suggested the ans wer. Those of us who wish to keep ourselves in condition to be acceptable tCL others must, maintain a kinship with our environment, and keep the channels of our mind open so that woke up 3 hours later with a crick in my neck. There was no electric fan available: they went with the “10-doI- lars-and-up” rooms, only. I had occasion to gaze upon a real he-flapper the next morning. He blowed into the coffee shop while 1 was coffee-ing. The firct. thing he did was pull off his coat and hang it on the rack. He wore no hat. His shirt collar was wide open and his britches were exactly the size (at the foot-end) of a guano sack. He looked like his mother had swatted him in the f.Tce the day he was born with a coal shiv- el, and his stature evidenced a lick on his head by his daddy before he got nbie to do mor? than stand alone. And t hope he busted the wash-pot all to new ideas may enter. We can keep j pieces with that licx young by always growing.^—Imperial Type Metal Magazine. Nobody’s Business By Gee McGee A man could wear out the knees of his pants praying, of course, but it probably never has been done. TO PAVE IT AT LAST There will be interest all over the state in the announcement that the Clinton-Kinard road contract has been let and work will soon get under way. With its completion, there will be an all-paved highway from Columbia to Greenville. This missing-link for a number of It is a pity, but some people never get any flowers until after they have,years past, cannot be considered as a It Is Vacation Time Again Uncle Joe went to the mountains on a vacation year before last. He owned no automobile at that time, so he made the trip in his two-horse wagon which was pulled by two mules, the Gosh, folks, that guy ■-•ortainly had a good opinion of himself. He ordered those good-looking waitresses around just like they were slaves. I looked for one td soup-howl him, but she didn’t. Did you ever watch a ?mait Aleck function? Well, if your stom ach is not too ,ak, fry that stunt on your eye-balls the next rime one uie- 'same being under mortgage to the livery stable and a graphophone com pany and a lightning rod agen’^, but these impediments did not prevent the aforementioned livestock from av eraging around 14 miles per day. iieen carried to the cemetery. 1 local connection. It is a state-wide Uncle Joe took Aunt Minervy along to do the “turns,” and he carried all of his gounguns except Judie and Pol ly and Cardui and Sammie and Bill and Joe and Sallie Sue. He left these “five-head”at home to look after ev erything. He arrived at Pigback in due course, and made camp. Everything portended toward a most magnani- meus time, as the poet-ess would say. ('orrect this sentence: but little here below.” Another good way to get pests is to lend them a noney. ^scone j thoroughfare, a part of the connecting Man wants j link of the mountains and seashore. | purpose of all concerned ' Likewise, it connects Clinton with! f® take things easy while at Pigback. Goldville, the fastest growing town H seems that everybody left ail of in the county and the home of the Jo- their troubles at home. It happened anna interests. It is therefore an ex- that the vacationists in question park- tremely important road, both from aj«I within 150 yards of the “Rest local and statewide viewpoint. ! Long” boarding-house which was rid of little All compliments received property of the person giving 4U>d should be returned. are the them for patience Job has a rival in Luca Boez, an aged Italian who waited 28 ^ears for a chance to shoot his broth- MR. OWENS’ ARTICLE An article of much historical inter appearing in today’s paper, is fur- zuahed by W. E. Owens, well known local citizen. It is the roll of Company F, 14th Regiment, S. C. Volunteers, 'Confederate Provisional Army of the ■BO’S, and gives the names of that gal lant band organized at Langston ^nreh near here in 1861. Of the ori- :f^inal personel of the company, it is significant that only four members .are still living. The roster of names touches prac tically all families of this community in some way, and will he a valuable fcistorical document for years to come to the descendants of these noble he roes long since passed over the river where wars are unknown. In preparing this information publication, Mr. Owens has rendered a real service that will be appreciated fey many. The Chronicle at his request, is glad to give space to the ai’ticle in Ihis issue. This link should have been paved several years ago. It has become some what of a football to be kicked about, “killed” and postponed for various reasons. There has been too much “politics” as everyone has clearly seen. It is gpratifying now to know that all previous opposition and causes owned and occupied and run by Mrs. Sarah Mandy Jones from some place up North. 3 for delay, are now behind us. The road will be hard-surfaced. Every motorist called upon to travel this miserable stretch of highway will rejoice. Mrs. Jones was doing some renovat ing at “Rest Long” and found that she had 3 or 4 good (?) cotton matt.ess- es to sell, it being her intention to keep fewer boarders than had been her custtom in the past. She bounced Uncle Joe for a trade and as Uncle Joe was shy on mattresses, he agreed to pay Mrs. Jones 1 dollar apiece for them if she’d wait till he caught enough fish in Blue Water creek tc pay the obligation off. This arrange ment suited all around. DBS. SMITH & SMITH Optometrists SPECIALISTS Eyes Examined -:- Glasses Prescribed 19 West Main Street Pbone 101 Laboratory for Prompt Repair Service Clinton, S. C. Wait a minute ^ ^ Deliberate '->¥ou may be going too fast Don’t skip the pause that refreshes GREENWOOD COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. What Do P. S. JEANES Do? IT HAD TO BE •FIB 8 MIIXHHf A DAY GOOD TO GET WHERE IT lS 4 J1 llllllll For Your Comfort These Hot Summer Days Make your home cool, comfortable and livable — why try to “make = out” when just a few dollars will provide the necessities. s VALEDICTORY The swan song of the St. George (Me.) Beacon, a sprightly publication which lasted several months, varies somewhat from stereotyped forms and is rather frank: “As We find it impossible to do ten days’ typesetting and pre.sswork be- j sides clam digging, fishing, lobstering, I washing, ironing, cooking, sweeping, I [ mending, smoking, chewing, gambling j and drinking, we have decided tq ter minate the brief existence of the St.! George Beacon, and this issue is the last flash from our literary lighthouse. 1 “We may say we had to absorb Uncle Joe’s folks tried to sleep on those boarding house mattresses the first night, but not a wink of repose came while they were seeking the ser vices of Morpheus through the medi um of counting sheep and trying to repeat the multiplication table back wards. The inmates of the camp re sumed their slumber efforts on the pile of fodder which Uncle Joe brought along in the wagon. ShadlMeWlthAVEataator GLIDER PORCH SWINGS Nicely upholstered, cool and comfortable. Prices; $17.50 up A FINE START It is gratifying to the community to .Ikuow that Clinton’s new silk mill, Qn-Waght here a year ago through the «ffi»a-ts of the Chamber of Commerce, Aunt Minervy decided that the mat- j tresses ought to be denuded and the. contents thereof put to some good ■ ~ use, and denuded they 'were right there and then. Uncle Joe stated that; ss: eight bottles of 8 per cent home brew i, „ ^ to assuage our sorrow, gloom ar.d dis-; pounds of oat straw and p appointnient caused by the receipt „f anl 12 pounds of shucks word tha't the newspaper trust had'“^'*,^ bunches of ha,r and quite a lot decided not to buy the Beacon. We 'mattresses. He would have gladly accepted ten million I the boarders had worn the' = for it, payable in German marks, or P'f ‘'jf*- = a pound of butter and a couple „t: ^ey looked hke polished b.U.ard ba.lls.. ^ Is TxVTf being successfully operated., „ ^ —^ j i. .. . .i. i — 5ta tement is substantiated by the i Nagle’s rye loaves with which to still j . those mattresses to the mules, lad that its first dividend has been'an aching void under our belt. is the straw ansoforth, but kept paid its stockholders within the past ! “But, as we have always failed at r"®burnt the pine knots. He ^eek. To earn and pay a dividend with-! everything, except keeping out of | that summer boarders ought in the first year of a new enterprise’s, debt and minding our own dam busi- j fetch along their own bedding if existence is unusual, and this bespeaks | ness, it is only natural that we should ! seeking peaceful sleep. He 93 splendid management on the part | keep up our record of chronic failure, forgot to sett.e with «f Uiose who head this corporation. | especially as editing the Beacon is similar to seasickness—all going out and nothing going in. The mill was organized early in last year with $60,000 invested by a large number of local stockholders and a similar amount by the Hazelton interests of New York, headed by W. J. Hadfield. These manufacturers have i feeen in the silk business for more ttan twenty years and the history of 'tfeeir northern LMustry has been con- aistently successful and profitable. The bringing into a community of industry, especially at this time the country is flooded with wild cat schemes, and smooth-tongued blue aky salesmen, is a risky undertaking. Tint Clinton’s new enterprise has '“^ne over” successfully should make inn all feel good and make it easier in years for our community to at- other projects with enthusiasm and confidence. Congratulations are in order. Mrs. Jones. “And now we wish to thank all those who so kindly patronized us.” - - ^ THE REAL 'THRILL A current magazine has an a^cle » “The Thrills of Perfection.” This A SECRET OF YOUTH At a recent luncheon a speaker ob served that we find children charm ing because they are growing. I liked the thought because I believe it offers a clue to the source of what we know as charm: Most things in nature are loveliest in their growing state. The minute that growth ceases, decay begins. Fortunately, human beings can grow as long as they can breathe. Men and women in their seventies are charm ing if their minds are alert, and if they are interested in their environ ment. I recently read extracts from the journal of John Burroughs. He began the journal when he was forty and he was making entries when he was eighty-three. The quality of the observation an4 expression in the lat- Fetch Up Some Ice Water While wondering around over the world seeking what I might devour, I frequently run into the unusual as well as the uncommon. Now just last week, I stopped at a nice hotel in a nice town. The man agreed to let me have a room for »a whole night for only $6.00, and because I got in late, the rate apparently had nothing to do with the price of that room. ! ICE BOXES AND = REFRIGERATORS = Keep meats and vege- = tables for days. Cut your S ice bill by using one of = these. ^ SELF-HANGING Vudor VENTILATING ^ PORCH ^lADES and CLOTH AWNINGS Makes your porch cool and shady. Well, that room had a oath attached and a good bed with the hotel’s name engraved on the counterpane and a pretty brass spittoon was in evidence right close to the little desk, but as I don’t chew or smoke or drink, I found no use for the depository. The carpet on the floor was soft and oozy, and eversrthing was “apple pie,” but demed if I can see why the use of a room for 8 hours is worch $8.00, but that’s the price L paid. A boarder in an ordinary city can ren: a room as PORCH ROCKERS Several sizes wd prices —all made of rock mai^e, with cane seats, either natural or enamel finish. Very low prices. Our Wood Porch Swings are cheap but strong, comfortable and well finish^. Home-made Ice Cream is best and cheapest. Made in a few minutes in one of our freezers. = 8 COME TO SEE US Everything for the home at prices you can pay. WILKES & COMPANY CLINTON Two Stores LAURENS lilllililljliHlllllllllllilillillilllllllllllllllllllllllUIIIUjIlllllllUIIIIIIH