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m ■ I ■ MS} M •■4- . i ■..' w v -•? v» # I >Y (Eijronirb jjtg jgjTgpN^gHRONICXE^CTJNTON, S. C. '■ff: '-j'X'- '&1h’ %'i •'■t 1 •' ;' ■ tf'. - As ■ ■ - ’ ■Km v.:- .v PUBLISHED EVEBY THUBSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING 00. WILSON W. HARRIS Editor and Publisher Entered at the Clinton Post Office as matter of Second Class. Terms of Subscription: One year .... ....$1.50 Six months 75 Three months 50 Payable in advance i Foreign Advertimn* Repreaentathr* I THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of it’s subscribers and readers—the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. Make ail remittances to THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHINO CO. Clinton, S. C. Clintgn,. S. C.,. October ^, 1924 12 PAGES GOOD SUGGESTIONS Speaking at the Commercial Club Tuesday evening of the coming next week of Synod, several good things were said. Two excellent suggest ions were made, however, one by Dr. A. E. Spencer, the other by Mr. W. D. Copeland, and both should be fol lowed out. Dr. Spencer spoke of the importance of beautifying, of every home-owner cleaning and beautifying his premises in order that a pleasant impression may be made upon the visitors in the city. An excellent idea, this is, and if we will all join in a community house-cleaning between now and Tuesday, it will make a fine impression. Dirty, un tidy premises, regardless of how fine the inside furnishings may be, never attract any attention or create fav orable impressions. Therefore, we pass on Dr. Spencer’s suggestion that all join in and beautify and get ready for our visitors. The other suggestion, equally as good, came from Mr. Copeland. He suggested that the members of the club form themselves into a “booster committee" so to speak, for the pur pose of meeting the delegates, giving them a cordial welcome to the city, and extending every possible cour tesy. Politeness costs no one any thing, yet it goes a long way and means much to the stranger. We hope, therefore, that both suggest ions will be heeded, that we will all put on our Sunday clothes next week and make special efforts Jto entertain our company and to assist in making their stay here both pleasant and profitable. A DAILY FOR SYNOD Commemorating the coming of the South Carolina Synod next week. The Chronicle will appear as a “daily" on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday mornings. Such an undertaking in volves a great amount of expense and hard work, yet we have undertaken it and with our faces set to the sun, \ we can’t afford to turn back. v The first issue Wednesday morning will be a comprehensive edition and will carry a number of excellent arti cles from contributing ministers and laymen, touching every department of the Synod’s work. Likewise, it will contain numerous articles on the various activities of the community and the outstanding .assets of our AH in all, we hope to make these “daily” editions quite interest ing as well as helpful. Delivery to all city subscribers of The Chronicle will be made by car riers. Upon arising, or soon there after, your copy of the paper will be found on your porch ready for con sumption at the breakfast' table. Don’t miss a copy, and should you fail to get it, notify the office. In our advertising columns we hope to carry messages of welcome and cordial greeting from the representa tive business houses of the commun ity. Your co-operation to this end js solicited and will be appreciated. We know we will receive it, for never yet in the twelve years of the present management have we failed to re ceive from our merchants a liberal' cooperation on any project we have endorsed or Undertaken. From the bottom of our heart we appreciate this spirit and evidence of confidence in the paper and its efforts for the' community. I As we have stated, a “daily" paper in a plant the size of ours requires % eonsiderable expense and lots of hard work, day and night. It could only be accomplished by a united effort cn the part of our “force.” A more competent and loyal “force” no one would find anywhere. I sents a lesson, that grown-ups as wel* as boy^and girls may well takq tc heart. Unquestionably, the backbone of the Washington team has been Wal ter Johnson. His ability and stami na have, been so needed that it is fit ting his name should be inscribed or the tablet to be erected in the capitol in recognition of the value to the country of the national sport. John son has shown grit and a loyalty de serving the highest commendation. It is easy to fight in a winning game. No braver or more daring soldier ever strode the field of battle than the German hordes when they were over running Belgium and driving the British back without let or hinder- ance day by day. The acid test of tenacity and determined purpose, however, comes to those whose backs are kept to the wall, to those whose morale is put to almost Jjmpossible tests. This has been the position of Johnson, the leader, the inspiration of the Washingtons, facing defeat for seventeen years yet always hope ful of figuring" as a factor in a world’s series, this interpid American never faltered. He resisted all ef forts of other teams to engage his services, turning his back on money as - well 4k» . upon the opporignities to be one of the army of success. His name will long be remembered in the world of sports; it will stay green, too, in the hearts -of all men who honor pluck, loyalty, ability, and hun dred per cent Americanism. YOU NEED NOT FAIL JURY FINDS BINGHAM GUILTY ;En Passant * ♦ ♦ W. W. H. A pretty man enjoys himself but nobody else doea. Pay before you go away, and peo ple won’t care how long you stay. Some people oftentimes pretend to be hard-boiled when they are merely addled. When you speak of a dead town you refer to the people in it. A town is made up of people. You have observed, of course, that the fellow who watches the clock usually has a hard time. Good salesmanship is often thq thing that keeps you from getting what you want when you go into a store. You can never tell what a woman will do. A Virginia widow, aged 72, married a young musician aged 29. All fools ( are not dead yet. The fellow who is continually hunt ing something for nothing, is always tired. This being about the middle of Oc tober, let us urge you to begin your Christmas Shopping Early. The boll weevil costs the United States a billion dollars ^ year, and yet some folks are crazy enough to say that it’s a blessing. Cotton is going up, but we haven’t heard anyone complaining about it. On State street, in Chicago, is a large sign bearihg the one word, “Radio." The owner, Tom Anderson, is a man to be envied. He overcame obstacles that were well night insur mountable. Thirty-seven years ago, when Tom was three months old, he lay paralyzed from head to foot, in a squalid soap box bed. Hisehome was in the cellar of a ramshackle (Continued from Page One) s negro by driving m nail into his ear,’' Bigham went on in a respectful, but earnest' voice, “but that gray-headed old man there can tell you that I had nothing*to do with that crime.’’ He pointed*to Sheriff T. S. Burch of Florence county as he spoke. Arrowsmith, the defendant, declar ed, had a mortgage now on the Big ham estate for $9fOOO. He corrobor ated an earlier statement by Attorney King to the effect that the defense counsel as yet had received very small fees for their labors in his be half, expressing a doubt that they m MS ’LUS mm. house in Lensint, Mich. His father- h ‘^J oUe " en ° u «* t0 cov « r ® x P«hsee Solve this puzzle: Why do more widowers remarry than widows? We must work and build for the future. The Clinton of ten years hence must he planned now. Let’s build now for the Greater Clinton that is to be. P. C. journeys over to Clemson Saturday for the annual football classic. Here’s hoping that the Tigers will be devoured by Johnson’s men. More than thirty years ago, speak ing of newspapers, Henry Ward Beecher had this to say: “Not one man in ten reads books, but every one of us, except the very helpless poor, satiate themselves every day with the newspaper. It ia parent, school, theatre, pulpit, example, counsellor, all in one. Every drop of our blood is colored by it." Bernard Grant, a Chicago youth without money, has been sentenced to hang for a murder to which he de nies all guilt. His case as compared to the recent Loeb-Leopold life im prisonment for confessed murder has aroused public sentiment and a great effort is now being made to save him from the gallows. Such murderers are a prey on society, yet they too frequently escape while society suf fers. WALTER OF WASHINGTON Every school boy interested in sports, and what school boy is not— has heard since he could remember shout Washington being first in wAr and last in baseball. Consequently, the victory of this Washington team, so long the butt of the baseball fan, 4s hailed with, a joy that knows na geographic*! bounds. Even the Con gress of the United States and the The delegates to the South Carolina Synod, convening here next week, will be amazed at the progress being piade by the Presbyterian College. It s campus is now adorned with as handsome buildings as will be 'found anywhere in’ the state and it will do the hearts of these Presbyterian gen tlemen good to get an intimate ac quaintance with their institution. No college in South Carolina today has a brighter future than our college, and the outside world is fast finding it out. - t ./President of the nation have shown Aheir interest in the victory. The <inria*onn> nf Mnffea finally rewarded with victory pro* WANTED An efficient assist ant, either man or woman. Apply at FrontisLaweler^ Store. had died of diphtheria and his mother, a consumptive, was barely able to make ends meet by taking in odd jobt> at scrubbing. A doctor said that the paralysis might pass but that the boy would be a cripple and feeble minded if he lived. Three months later a pail of boiling water was accidentally spilled on him. That year his mother died. Tom was sent to an orphan asylum then transferred, to a city hospital to Six years.later a visiting specialist saw him and. took an interoat in-hinv. “This tragedy happened just as I said it did," he asserted, adding, “If 1 I haven’t told the truth, and my wife and daughters, I hope God will strike me dead right here.” Another time he declared, “If God had struck me stone dead, like Ana nias and Sapphira, when they lied on that stand, there would h*ve beep mighty few of the state’s witnesses who* would have lived to face cross- examination." Judge Rica, advising Bigham to It’s a simple thing 1 to phone us your or der—then we do the rest It saves you time and your order will be given the same personal attention as if you called in per son. Our stock is being regularly turned which insures you only the freshest eat ables obtainable. FBESH FISH AND OYSTERS EVERY FRIDAY. When Tom -was ten years old he took his first step. A year later, and able to hobble about on crutches, he was returned to the orphanage. During the eleven years that followed and principaly by his own efforts he learned to read and write. AH of his sjfare time dur ing those years he spent in studying electricity and on the day he left 1|ie home he was thoroughly familiar with his subject. \ Five years later he had saved enough money to open a small elec trical shop on Dearborn street. When Tom was thirty his attention was directed to radio: During the nekt three yean he perfected a new type of tranaformer and coil and began to manufacture ndio seta of peculiar and delicate design. His business flourished and today he employs seven clerks and does’an annual net business of nearly $40,000. He owns an apartment house, a home in the country and two expensive automo biles. Uncle John' I motored out to Easyville a day or two ago. ... I’d heard some tales about ’em that I didn’t think was so. I used to live at Easyville—she half way mothered/me,—so when they told me she was dead, sez I, “I’ll go an’ Bhe didn’t have no fever, and her pulse was runnin’ low. . . . Her symp toms was about the same as thirty years ago. Sne weren’t enjoyin’ more of pep than what the law required,— an’ she wouldn’t seem much deader if she really had expired! No flowers was bloomin’ on the lawns— and, nary houpe was painted. If she had heard of “civic pride” they hadn’t got acquainted! The alleys needed cleanin’ up—tne weeds was growin’ high—each family owned a spotted pup that howled as we went by. . . . The wimmen looked slab-sided, an’ the men was whiskered rank .... A veteran with a wooden face was set- tin’ in the bank. ... I may be wrong about it, but I’ve got this much to say: “I couldn’t stand rehearsin’ fer a funeral everyday! ROTARY PLAY SCORES BIG HIT Local Performera Present Clever En tertainment Before Two Large Audiences. “The Flapper Grandmother,” top- notch musical comedy, was present ed here last Thursday evening under the auspices of the Clinton and Lau rens ; Rotary clubs, and on Friday evening, the same production was staged in Laurens, b<fth performances being greeted with capacity audi ences that were kept in a continual uproar of laughter. The cast was a joint local combination and honors were evenly divided between the two towns. It would be hard to single out the “stars” for they were many, and in a clever manner they entertained and pleased their audiences. The bright, h*Ppy» good looking chorus girls made a decided hit from the time the curtain went up until the grand final square dance closing. BIG SPECIAL SALE AT ^ ,THE CORNER STORE The Corner Store, of which M. J. Danziger is proprietor, announces the inauguration of a big Fall Opening Sale beginning next Saturday morn ing. For this extraordinary event, special prices, coupled with bargains galore, have been arranged that will appeal to the buying public. The big advertisement, heralding forth the news, is in today’s advertising col umns of the paper. ON NORTHERN TRIP Dr. P, L. Webb of the Stoto Train ***** *tudy of State institutions in * Massachusetts and 'Near York. prepare to meet “fiis MakefT tbM defendant that in his opinion he had been given a fair trial, and that under the evidence presented, the jury could have found no other verdict. In the course of his remarks, the, judge was interrupted by the prison-, er, who quietly remarked: “As false witnesses swore against their Lord Jesus Christ for 30 pieces of silver, what wouldn’t they swear against a man for thousands of dol lars?" ” LITTLE 8 DENSON 50—Two Phones—54 Clinton, S. C. GOES TO NORFOLK CITATION FOR LETTERS OP AD MINISTRATION 'with the Seaboard Railway, has been Bigham was first sentenced to be ^ ven * promotion by his company electrocuted at his first trial in ™^ headquarters in Norfolk. His R. W. Norris of this city, for the The State of South Carolina, past twenty-five, years connected Laurens County. By O. G. Thompson, Probate Judge: * WHEREAS, Mrs. Susie S. Blakely made suit to me, to grant her Let- March, 1921. An appeal stayed the Wends in the city will learn with ters of Administration of the Estate carrying out of the sentence, but was finally lost, and in the summer of 1922, for the second time he heard a interest of his promotion, but 4 is and effects of H. M. Blakely; hoped that Mra. Norris and the chil- | THESE ARE THEREFORE, to dren will continue to make their home • cite and admonish all and singular judge direct that he pay the extreme here wher ® have a number of the Kindred and Creditors of the said penalty. Judge R. Withers Memmin ger presided at his first trial, and Judge S. W. G. Shipp at the hearing when he was sentenced the next timd. During his incarceration, the defend ant according to his own testimony, spent 26 months and 18 days in the death house. Solicitor L. M. Casque and Attor ney Arrowsmith conducted the prose cution. Associated with Mr. King in the defense was former Judge Men del L. Smith of Camden, and Sher wood & McMillan of the Conway bar. Bigham was still in the custody of Horry county authorities tonight. friends. Will rent—Nice room to two young men, Mrs. O’DanieL 4te M. Blakely, deceased, that they ; be and appear Wort me, in the Court T a of Probate, to be held at Laurens Ij&uieS plume US to Court House, Laurens, S. C., on the send for those soiled 15th *** ot 0ctober . next . after P ub- ■ » a i . .. , lication hereof, at 11 o’clock in the skirts, glOYCS, coat suits, forenoon to show cause, if any they dresses and long coats. h f ve I J why u the “id-Administration xxt •11 • ii , . should not be granted. We will give them back GIVEN under my hand this 29th to you promptly and d * y of Sept 6. A G. THOMPSON ( s«i> looking like new. Buch anan’s Pressing Club, Phone 28. WHAT DO P. S. JEANS DO? 10-9-2tc J. P. L. C. APPRENTICES WANTED—Ambiti ous boys of eighteen years of age or more, who are industrious and steady, and desire to learn a remun erative trade, are wanted in photo engraving, electrotyping and printing departments. Jacobs A Company, Graphic Arts Division, Clinton, S. C. 10-16-2tc This Is Gold Seal Congoleum Week and we can sell you a 9x12 Gold Seal Congoleum Square for $15.95 ALL RUGS AT LOW PRICES ► We have just received some large shipments of Rugs and Art Squares and have marked them at lower prices than we have sold Rugs in several years. If you will need Rugs in the near future, it will pay you to look over our stock where you can find a large selection of patterns as well as the different qualities. Don’t wait, but come while there is a large selection. TF=^- Fuller-Simpson Furniture Co. '4 hte- , $ ■ ■ w.-v 4