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I N tt “AGE FOUR THE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON. 8. C THURSDAY,-SEI^TEMBER 19, 1929 itiF dUinton (£l|rontrlp Established 1900 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One year $1.50; Six Months 75 cents; Three Months 50 cent? Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C. Ihe Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers—the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly ad- The Chrcnicle will .publish letters of general interest when they V ice. are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. This paper is not re'ponrible for the views or opinions of its corre-spondents. Nobody’s Business By Gee McGee time, he was buried on tuesday with 6 pole bearers present. AWAY DURING SUMMER. Miss Agnes Davis of the city school body, but he never quite got over that [ ... ^ ^ ^ ^ installment collector who re>posses3ed T. . ^ ... his ford last yr. but when anybody help in the community, he jim was kind and gentle to every- * xt i m. K.,F c.SFe. ♦ule. jiaculty, attended the National Educa tion association meeting held during che summer in Atlanta. Miss Ina Cur- :'y, also a member, visited in Conaec- i'icut'during the summer. suggest just how the farm relief board should run its business. I am a farm- w’ould genrally pass around the pre scription list for them to sign on an 1 er all right, but I ain’t no executive; (^ |f 1 were such an animal, I would not | I have to be a farmer, as the old woman said when she trimmed her last corn. REAL ESTATE I know that there are many, many i 'things that might be done for the; farmer. He needs something he hasn’t' got, but I am not sure that the farml penses. mr. editor, befoar you print | ; this, plese rite or foam me and let me ■ ! no if it is o. k., and if it ain’t, i will 'add something to it. ; yores trulie, ! mike Clark, rfd. If you are in the market to buy or sell either city or country property, let’s trade board can supply his lack. He has a : CLINTON, S. C.. SEPTEMBER 19, 1929 hard time working and worrying, and the only time he’s ab’.o to keep his old car running is immediately after harvest and during the Christmas holi days. Did You Ever Stop To Think? I JOHN D. DAVIS Clinton, S. C. A THOUGHT | vors for their own interest at the pub- ; p^^eral Land Bank began to re- A Solemn Warning. — Wherefore I lie expense. Some want some form of' farmer 10 or 15 years ago. By Edson R. Waite | That a standard of quality that is j constantly and conscientiously main- \ tained and well advertised keeps a say unto you. All manner of sin and ; class legislation favorable to their own : u^_"" rjg gj h]m of about i Rowing. Advertise! blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men; element, but opposed to the general U5g r^gg 9c;.9 acres, more or les^, and That advertised goods are great fa- bul the blasphemy against the Holy | public interest. jg altogether the fault of either Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men -^Matthew 12;ol. -“By thy mercy, 0 deliver us. Good Lord.’’ Player. HARD TIMES Everybody ^says times are awfully haul, and what e erybody says must be so. 1 imes are so hard tha: the people of "‘^ese interests are blind the country spend $2,500,000 a day to ' ‘‘-o ^he fact that asking for free use see the movies i Times are so hard that $6,000,000, P^Per that provides it, and which or- are spent daily in this country to keep j dmyily should be paid for at the us- automobiles going. Times are so hard that the most prosperous thing in the country is the autnomobile trust. Times are so hard that we spend more for gasoline than for schools. Times are so hard that we can’t Then tVre are all kinds of goed that this land has changed hands. Bus- causes that come forward with their j^ggg jg business. When a fellow bor- appeals for help and publicity for this ^ows more than he can pay ba. k, and and that enterprise. The editor would jt won’t rain, he simply has to “let glady help all these, but unfortunate-1 bis collateral. ly hfs space is limited. He must give ^ most of his attention to the gathering; 'Sow of news in which the people are in-j this brand new faim relief board to terested and to a discussion of the affairs cf the time. ,vorites with the trade. Advertise! I That advertised goods are made for every member of the family; tell them what you have by advertising! I That the truth about your mer- i chandise should be told far and wide. 'Advertise! ' ,, , . , . ,1 That the most progressive, trade- It would be rniehty nice forljrawinK power is advertising! ,. , , , . , , wv . That if you have the merchandise buy the land now owned by the Fed- ^„,, it, you'll sell it. Adver- eral Land bank and turn it liack over to the farmers so’s they would have something to mortgage to get money to farm on and pay taxes with. Of course it should be sold back to the farmers at today’s prices. Well im- uual advertising rates. But it can be said for the newspapers without con tradiction, that they are very gener ous in giving space to the causes in their communities that deserve it and are clearly for the direct benefit of j debtednesL the community. i It is perfectly legitimate to use prop-, jf ^be farmers have moved to ! ;tise! ; If you mean business, tell about [your business by advertising! That there is nothing like advertis ing to stimulate business. Advertise! That when business is bad, it is up j proved farm lands which were mort-, gaged for, say 75 dollars per acre, ought to fetch at least 12 dollars an acre at present, including bull weevils, fruit flies, corn borers, and bonded in spend much more for cigarettes than _ __ ...— .. we do for the support of our churches. promote a good cause. But j ^^d they have moved to town abp„ orfvprtisp Yes—times are awfully hard. people who are employing these , according to a recent statement from j ovpfv r space grafters need to distinguish ; ^be department of agriculture, I would carefully between what is promoted bke to know who in the thunder is for the general good and that w’hich j raising the big surplus crops of cot- represeiits pwsonal and money mak-jt^n, corn, wheat, and 4-wheel brakes, ing motives. On the part of newspaper! jyiebbe the stuff is growing wild—like men this calls for a lot of judgment, | women and mush-rooms and poke sal- and the best of them get fooled at j When I was a boy we had to plow ! and hoe or we wouldn’t reap and blow. If the farm relief board starts that FINAL SETTLEMENT “back to the farm movement," will be ruint for life. by sMvertising. That if you want to move shelf- warmers, advertise! That new customers look good to every business. Advertise! That live business men are always busy, even in dull seasons, because THE WORLD SERIES Again we are confronted with the phenomena of the world series. No game ever before has held the undi- i attcr.Lion of an entire nation for 80 long a period. From 1884, when Providence won laurels as the world series winner, right up to 1928, when | the crown went to New York, interest has been intense in every corner of the land. And now everyone is asking: That every day is filled with selling opportunities. Advertise! That the methods which have been most successfully used to ievelop bus iness are good for every business con cern. Advertise! we Take notice that on the 15th day What "team 'will bring'home the ha-1 of October, 1929, I will render a final con in 1929? Philadelphia? Chicago? Congress w’ill possibly pass a pro account of my acts and doings as Ad- tective tariff bill that wdll be a boon Since* the inauguration of the world , of the estate of J. Floyd ; to everybody. If the import duty is series many things have happened to' Workman, deceased, in the office of raised on steel it will make a 25-cen: captivate the fancy of a curious world. ,^^'0 of Probate of Laurens plow point sell for 35 cents. The plow Radio the modern miracle The de-<i county, at 11 o’clock a. m., and on the point in question won’t cost the manu- velopment of aviation. The epic-mak-j day will apply for a final dis- ' ’ ing flight of Lindbergh and the as-joha'*?® from my trust as Administra- tounding feat of the Graf Zeppelin.; ^, The growth of the motion picture and person indebted said estate is the invention of the “talkies.” There are a thousand more things facturer any more than it is costing at present, but you see, it is this way: It will put more money in circulation so’s folks will he “heeled” properly to buy notified and required to make pay- the produce of the farmer, and a loaf DRS. SMITH & SMITH Optometrists SPECIALISTS Eyes Examined -:- Glasses Prescribed 15 West Main Street Phone 101 Laboratory for Prompt Repair Service Clinton, S. C. /■ •rbimcU-frienda convaieaciiig—youngatert away at schGol—whatever the oeeasi<H»— a telephone eall i« the nicest aort of re> memhrance. dWherever yonr frienda or relativea may he, yoifi^ reach them by long distance telephone almost aa quickly as if they lived around the corner^ and in most cases yoa*ll hear their voices as clearly. long distance call is a round trip—it goes there and back. I^a Inexpensive, too—at 8:30 o'clock P. ML and again at midnight redactions are made in the station^o-statioa rates. WI7 not remember some firiend tonight? SCUTRICCN CELL TCECiPtlCr^B AMD TCLCSDADtl CCMPAMY ment on or before that date; and all to do than were in the old days. And paving claims against said es- perhaps many of the old diversions! will present them on or before so are being forgotten. said date, duly proven or be forever But one thing has an eternal charm. Baseball will never lose its place in the affections of the multitude. The world series of 1929 is looked forward to as eagerly as was the wo^rld series of 1909. Other things may change— but the heart of the American is still the heart of a barred of bread that now sells' at 10 cents will cost only a dime after the system begins to co-ordinate and reciprocate with its political petticoat on. But se riously, farm relief will be a reality MRS. MAY E. WORKMAN, jonly after the farmers themselves Administratrix, Estate of J. F. learn to co-operate. Workman, deceased. j j A Parisian manufacturer has pro- Sept. 7, 1929.—10-3-4tc. LAND SALE boy who knows that j The State of South Carolina, one of the most important, things in the world is to keep right on playing. No, sir! Nothing’s going to distract from the world s^ies! WHAT DOES HE MEAN Mother arises early in the morning, gets breakfast for father and the chil dren, gets the children off to school and father off to work. Father spends the day earning money. Mother spends it sewing, mending, washing, ironing, preparing a lunch for the children, seeing that they are clean as thqy go to school, supervising their play and County of Laurens. In Court of Common Pleas. Farmers National Bank, Plaintiff, vs E. E. Blakely, et al. Defendants. Pursuant to Decree of the Court in the above stated case, I will sell at Iduced a cloth that is so thin that 83 yards of it are required to weigh a pound. Don’t you know the flappers are looking forward to the time when they can wear a dress made of that > stuff. It will be so terribly diaphanous ■ S a fellow won’t even be able to tell that | S she’s got anything on at all except, | S possibly, a vaccination scar. ! “S: flat rock, s. C. sep the 21 1929 S public outcry to the highest bidder, at jeer mr. editor: i = Laurens C. H., S. C., on Salesday, -phe pasture of my church has asked S in October next, being Monday, the j nie to rite up the obituwary of jim I 7th day of the month, during the legal lemon smith who died seized and pos- hours for such sales, the folio-wing ; sessed at his home a few Jays ago and described property, to wit; j j followers: ^ .All those two tracts, pieces or par-' ■ \ cels of land, lying, being and situate ^ , .. . . I . _ gone on befoar to rest on the beau- study after school, correcting what in the County of Laurens, in the State tiful shore where he will suffer no of South Carolina, to wit: TRACT NO. 1, Containing eighty- eight (88) acres, more or less, “hound ed cn the north by lands of T. H. Hol land, on the east by lands of T. H. Holland and Emmitt Little, on the south by lands of W. J. Henry, and on the west byiands of John Henry, about school problems lays down the j the same being the property of J. Lar - jim will be missed a great deal by i = law as he thinks with authority on ^ ry Todd and E. E. Blakely. , all concerned, he was closely afflicted i = psints where mother thinks she has. TRACT NO. 2, Containing fifty- «ith st paul methedist church since ! = she considers injurious habits, check ing up on bad grammar and bad man ners, getting and serving dinner, and doing a thousand other things that are in her daily routine. When father comes home, he plays his part in the family life. Occasion ally, he consults with the children more is the remains of jim lemon smith who passed to the sweet land beyond where *there is no return with | ~ roomytism and lung trouble which he S ketched 2 yr. hence while running a S saw mill ansoforth down on the creek, 1^5 as he slept on the cold damp ground. = fa:leJ, and frankly pts the reluctant eight (58) acres, more or less, bound- childhood and always took up the col-iS young.5uers to go to e . ; ed on the north by lands of W. A. ^ lection and rung the bell and he never I srs peace, j Poole, on the east by lands of Boyce failed to drop something in the hat i papsr • R Poole, and on the aniit.K hv InnHa o*f u-x mmm At last a few moments of A Good Showing Now ot er p.c s up t e evening paper b_ Poole, and on the south by lands of hisself when he set it down on theirs u • 4.U 1 . . i'^- Todd, the same being the prop-1little mahogany table which set near'^S e ome IS e wea e spo m pj-ty of Mrs. Lillie H. Blakely, con-- the organ where his hat was always'—- America’s social fabric of today. Dr. j veyed to her by W. M. Poole. "W. A. Trettien, professor of psycholo-1 V of left, his regular pasture preached the last sad writes. Said tracts of land shall be sold sep- gy in an Ohio university, declared.; arately. “its influence should be much greater; The successful bidders, other thin | his first wife succeeded him to the irequired to de-, grave in 18 and 95 during the long out our domestic problems instead of sidestepping them.” It puzzles mother. She exclaims, that man is crazy. She doesn't see posit w’ith the Clerk, upon the lands | drouth which worried her mighty ’oad being knocked down to him, the sum (and his second wife passed on by be- of One Hundred (100.00) Dollars, asking run over in the lot by a cow in ov ' ^ guarantee of his good faith in- the, ig and 98 and his third wife survived what more she could ha^ done. She,bidding, the same to be applied to the!him till last yr. when she laid down i with newmony which taken after in the dark and falls off to sleep. ’with the terms of sale,.otherwise to,she had the flu and dr. smith treated ; be paid on plaintiffs indebtedness. In her to the last for gall bladder. i PROPAGANDA ithe event the successful bidder should' somewhere about 14 hairs are left Living Room Suites As the editor looks over his daily fail to make such deposit, or should mail, he becomes conscious that a new ! fail to comply with the terms of sale . . force has arisen in this country by. the said lands shall be re-sold on the j mourn his loss and all of -which newspapers are being flooded j same, or some subsequent salesday on ! them are boys except 9 girls whose S with propaganda by press agents. | the same terms, at the risk of the de-1 names is jim and joe and sallie and ~ The editor of today needs a much; faulting bidder. Purchaser to pay for Lubin and bob and sam and 5 others' = larger wastebasket than ever before, j papers, stamps and recording. ' He receives a great amount of copyi Terms of sale: Cash. Especially in the MEDIUM AND LOW PRICE CLASS. VISIT OUR STORE AND LOOK THROUGH. that i^eek to' from various agencies v.—- ^ create public sentiment in favor ofj THOS. W. BENNETT, which i have forgot, and in fact—I! ~ have never saw them since they moved j S Prather-Simpson Furniture Clinton, South Carolina Co* C. C. C. P. and G. S., Laurens, S. C. with -different peddlers and agents some cause or business. Some want fa- Dated September 17, 1929.—10-3-3tc. I which married