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JUNE 15, 1955 NEWS ITEMS Lydia Women Hold Session The Lydia Woman's Club 1 held its regular monthly meeting May 19 at the Lydia Community Center with Mrs. Da- 1 vid Roberts, President, presid- < ing. Miss Clyde Smith delivered the devotional, reading from j Deuteronomy a passage often < called the Magna Carta of ] Christian teaching. She com- < mented on adults' duty to- ' ward teaching children and < especially of teaching rever- ' ence of the sacred. The program was in charge ' of Mrs. George Copeland, the Lydia Mill Registered Nurse. 1 A film, "The Clean Look," was presented. Hostesses for the evening were Mrs. Floyd Poole, Mrs. Charles Gaffney and Mrs. J. B. Templeton. I 1 LYDIA TEAM LEADS The Lydia Cotton Mills j baseball team now is leading mc Palmetto League with a top-heavy won-lost record of i 8 wins and 2 losses. Leading the hitting for the team are Charles Oxner, Earl \ Satterfield and Chuck Leather wood. Other teams in the league with Lvdia are Chandler. Watts Mills and Hickory Tav- ; ern. j i In nothing be anxious; but ! in everything by prayer and supplication let your requests be made known unto God. ? (1'hillipians 4, 6) Since God ? good, love, mercy, wisdom?is always and ever present within and around ' us, He is interested in our every thought and act, and none is too small or apparently unimportant to take to llim in unceasing prayer. . - m Aaron Gossett, 11 years old and son of Mr. and Mrs. George Gossett. Bluford Street. Clinton, won this $100 savings account at a drawing at the grand opening of M. S. Bailey & Son. Bankers. His father is employed in the Clinton Mills' Carding Department. ; AT LYDIA Lydia Cubs Have June Pack Meeting The monthly Pack meeting of Lydia Cub Scout No. 9C was opened in the community building with a welcome by Cubmaster Horace Smith. The devotional was given by Den 2, Miss Blakely Den Mother A reading, "Smiles," wa? given by Ronald Corley and a duet by J. W. Davis and John ny Lanford, Den 1. Hike crafts, kite making and baseball demonstrations were given illustrating the pasl month's work. The pack voted to raise money for a donation to the building of a dining hall al Camp Old Indian. ENTERTAIN McLENDON CHILD Mrs. Paul McLendon entertained at the Lydia Kindergarten in June honoring the r;f?v, i ill III Ull UlUcXV t)l I1CI sun, 'Mac." Mrs. Charlie Blackwell assisted Mrs. McLendon in entertaining. Yard Contest Winners Named Mr. and Mrs. Pat Patterson, 71 Palmetto Street, Lydia, and Mrs. Eva West, 502 Academy Street. Clinton, won the twc first prizes in the recent Clean-Up. Fix-Up contest held in the two communities. Both villages were judged by impartial panels of judges who were not familiar with the occupants of the houses. The decisions of the iudces and the prizes awarded are as follows: Lydia Mills First prize, $15.00: Mr. and Mrs. Pat Patterson, 71 Palmetto. Second prize, $10.00: Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Ballard. 33 Peachtree. Third prize, $5.00: Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Smith, 117 Popular. Honorable mention: Mrs Neal Ballew, 119 Spruce St Clinton Mills First prize, $15.00: Most im proved, Mrs. Eva West, 50'J I X V HVIV I I 1 > . Second prize, $10.00, prettiest, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Campbell, 504 Jefferson. Third prize, $5.00: Mr. and Mrs. Jack Fuller, 500 Jefferson. Honorable mention: Mrs Galloway, 505 Elizabeth St. and Mrs. J. R. Reynolds, 60C Elizabeth St. I k? <0 ?Su?X \ -^J1?/ "I'.I .:.? a jolt where I can sit down ail day." THE CLOTHMAKER Miss Gladys, or Most people think of Cross Anchor as being just a few miles from Clinton, which it is, yet Miss Gladys Wilson has traveled this road over the I past 32 years the equivalent of riding around the world more than 12 times. As the faithful and efficient secretary to President Bailey of Clinton and Lydia Mills, ! Miss Wilson has six times each 1 week traveled the 30-mile round trip between Cross An' chor and the executive offices 1 at Clinton Cotton Mills. This figures out to a total of 293,760 miles. The circumference oi tne eartn at tne equator is about 24,000 miles, which means Miss Wilson has traveled the same distance as 12 ? times around the world. Miss Wilson makes the daily trip with her brother, Roy Wilson, who is employed at the Lvdia Mills Stores. Miss Wilson was Secretary for many years to the late Mr. W. J. Bailey. Upon his death, she assumed the same duties with our present President when he was elected President. Actually Miss Wilson has been employed with the mills for 34 years, but two of the years she boarded in Clinton and did not go back and forth between here and Cross Anchor. Even though the road was not paved for many years, she has never been late except one time when a flood de[ stroyed the bridge and she had to detour around by Lau, rens. It is probable that Miss Wil[ son developed this fine attendance and on-time record from her early school days ; when she never missed a day and was never tardy. Miss Gladys, as she is popularly known in the ClintonT 1 _ H 1 1 _ .'A .. _ L>yaia iviius communny, esumates that she and her brother have worn out about 15 cars going back and forth between her home and her work. We wish Miss Gladys and her brother many more years l of happy traveling as they circle the globe several more I times. WELCOME BACK Billy Ray Heaton, Clinton ; Mills, has returned home after receiving his discharge from , the army at Fort Leonard Wood. Mo., May 26. / * fcsn? ijsgMr^ " j It/ ^1 i Faye Ellen Blakely. of Spartanburg. is the granddaughter of Mrs. Ursula Blakely, Clinton Mills. She recently graduated from Fairforest High School. Twelve Times M MISS GLAD^ . . . Secretary to President Bi SHOES Of all things made by men. shoes are more like themselves than any other article. Shoes have soles, as have men. and shoes have tongues, and shoes have ties. A shoe is lost and quite useless without a mate. Like men. shoes are high and low; some are broad and some are narrow. Some are black and some are white, and some, like men. even have a yellow streak in them, and are usually tanned early in their career. Shoes and men are made to go on feet, and they often get run down at the heel. Shoes hide their defects sometimes under a thin veneer of polish and shine in the world. But they grow old and wrinkled, and new ones step in to take their places. Some shoes, like men, support a pretty woman; others are spurned by a woman who says she wouldn't have them; others are admired by a woman and made the idol of her cvc. Shoes, like men, cause worry and annoyance when they are "misfits." Some shoes are trod upon, and some tread upon others. 3 Around World rs WILSON ailey. and "world traveler". MRS. LAND TO WORKSHOP Mrs. Joe Land. Clinton Mills Community Director, attended the Fred Waring Music Workshop at Delaware Gap, Pa., June 26 - July 1. She took courses in choral work, piano, church music and others whirh will ho nf honofit in iho community. i I A I ; ?r i? k'' S. N. Gerald Gene Gilstrap is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Gilstrap. Jr.. Lydia Mill*. He enlisted in the Navy July 1 and now is stationed in Pearl Harbor. His address is USS Genesee. A. O. G. 8. Fleet Post Office, San Francisco.