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.iiiEiWWftwniiia —a—WJ'lllj... ,’fc , '&f$‘,&,.. ) ■' • 1 ' T " ‘ ' "V ' ^ ^ ^ . Va. m ^ . • v ■ •** •- •■ ' ‘ . * •• <>j <; Wtm« ‘, • *.' > -' •« . c *• ^ . . ' • ■* *"- '*,•*•: • '■' . s' ■. '• *- • ■• s k ■ ■. . <» -Vy THE WORK OF THE LAURENS COUNTY HIGHWAY COMMISSION (Written for Little is known of the work of the Laurens County Highway Commis sion, but it is beginning to be realized by the public in Laurens county that the commission is getting remarkably fine results for the money % spent. The honor for the results goes very large ly to Engineer Patton, whose extend ed experience in road and bridge work, and whose economical and business like methods have saved to the coun ty many times his salary since he was employed by the commission. Mr. Patton insisted upon the gang system, which was adopted by the commission on his recommendation and was put into effect by Mr. Patton, the county operating its own gangs, paying noth ing to contractors. One gang is whol ly owned by the commission. The others are partially rented as regards their equipment, and partially equip ped with county commission equip ment. Capable, well trained road forces are employed with each gang. All the red tape of engineering work is cut out and the net result is the build- Itog of flrsrrtass highways in ridge ' country,'" 'hf-aome instonfie^- at lose than $1500 a mile. All bridges are double track, reinforced concrete, and some seventeen bridges have been built or are to be built. The bridges are costing less than half what is usually paid by-- the State Highway Deparement under contract. The roads are also costing less than half the usual contract price. The commission at the beginning passed a resolution that they would not begin any ro,ad until they had the rights of way and top soil privileges signed up. This has saved a great deal of money to the county. The commission has not interferred with the engineer in getting the most eco nomical and efficient routes. The theory on which the engineer is work ing is to build the roads by the short est route, consistent with Ipw cost of construction and maintenance. In brief, Laurens county has at last found out how to build good roads cheaply. The commission has spent about $32,000 for equipment. It would be a great pity for this equipment to be junked. The biggest asset Laurens cottnty has, however, is in Mr. Pat ton, the engineer. This asset, togeth er with the equipment asset, should The Chronicle) be retained and kept 'in service, as long as ywe can hold Mr. Patton. In other Words, additional funds should be supplied to keep the commission busy upon present lines until finally the county is made a good-roads coun ty throughout. Many sections are begging for improved roads, and the work of the Laurens County High way Commission has demonstrated that we can have improved roads and permanent bridges, at costs which were not thought possible only a few years ago. Indeed, when this com mission was erected there were few people in the county who imagined that the $250,000 bond issue would build all the roads which the commis sion was instructed to build. It is 1 now known that those roads have been provided for and that two additional roads—from Musgrove Mill to Clin ton, and from Clinton to Belfast?—are being built out of the surplus. There is $7,500 in the treasury for building from Yarborough's Mill to Watts Mill, and the Mt. Gallagher people! are insistent upon having a road built ■fr^n-WWre-Sboals-to Madden-Station. THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. ttTRCVD UNJCRM INTEiuXATiCKAL THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1925 •These--two -odgbt tfr- ha ...priMlitK ed for by the County Delegation, and ought to be built through the County Highway Commission with their pres ent equipment and engineer. Still other roads of vast importance should be considered for immediate action. It is likely that the people all over the county will wish to pro- • ceed with good roads construe.ion | when they understand that the Lau rens County Highway Commission is building first class highways through the roughest sections of the county, with many streams to be bridged, and building double track, reinforced con crete bridges which will last hundreds of years, and doing this at a cost so low as to make it certain that Lau rens county can have good roads all over the county at no unreasonable cost. It will be a vast pity if the present organization, including the engineer and the gangs and the equipment, tmd including also the commission, are junked for lack of funds. Their work is rapidly approaching completion so far as the money supjrfy is concerned, and then the work will have to stop unless additional funds for • additional road building are supplied by the county delegation. Lesson (By RKV. P. B. KITZWATER, D.D.. DmB of the^Bvontnff School. Moody Btblo la- atltoto of Chlcaro.) (C>. 1911, Western Nawapapor Union ) Lesson for January 4 N •’ A CHRIST’S TRIUMPHAL ENTRY LESSON TEXT—Luke 19:*9-44. GOLDEN TEXT—“Blessed be tha Kina that cometh In the name of tha Lord.!’—Luke 19:38. PRIMARY TOPIC—A Great Crowd Praising Jesus. JUNIOR TOPIC — The Triumphal Entry. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—Making Christ Our King. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC —The Kingship of Christ. The title given this lesson Is some what misleading. Strictly speaking, this was far from a triumphal entry. It was rather the official presentation of the King of the Jewish nation. Back of the cry, '‘hosanna,” the awful word, “crucify” was uttered by the same persons who cried “hosanna.” ThWgfTlhey wei^-fiFE&rTyTma tb TK« hist plan of hosanna, which means “save now,” through the -crucifixion of the Son of God. I. The Presentation (vv. 29-34). 1. Sending the Disciples for the Ass (vv. 29-31). He told them just where to go ty find it and told them how to answer the Inquiry of the one ’ who owned It. This shows how per fectly the Lord knows all our ways. He knows our whereabouts by day and night. He even knows our thoughts. He uses unlikely means, and Insignifi cant things in the accomplishment of His purpose. 2. The Fulfillment of Prophecy (Matt. 21:4, f>). Some five hundred years before Zechariah had predicted this event. Christ’s entry into Jeru salem was an exact fulfillment of this prediction. This is highly Instructive to those who would understand the prophecies as yet unfulfilled. Since the prediction of his first coming was literally fulfilled, we can be assured that the prophecy of His second com ing will be likewise fulfilled. The first is established beyond a doubt. The second we should as heartily believe. The prediction of Zechariah 14:3-11 great commercial scale probably wiH be developed first in this part of the wofld, for here the need is greatest. By Artfcfr BtIiImum WHO WILL BE FIRST? FLYING BRINGS CHANGE. REAL ESTATE AND RAILROADS. PEACE IN SLEEPY HOLLOW. What railroad man will first real ize what the flying machine means? What railroad man especially will first realize what the flying mach ine will do to the passenger traffic of the great railroads on all long hauls ? Real railroad meh as regards pres ent earnings will not fear the flying machine, even should they fail to Util ize it. That flying machine, taking long-haul passengers from railroads, will so greatly increase freight carry- YOUTHS’ LAWYERS 'TO GET $150,000.00 Men Who Saved Leopold and Loeb Have Huge Attorney Fee. Wanted $200,000. Chicago, I>ec. 30.—The lawyers who saved Richard Loeb and Nathan Leo pold, Jr., from the gallows after they thorough realization of the flying machine’s future, will establish for his stockholders and himself such a* fortune as would make those of the Vanderbilts, Hills and Huntingtons look like financial crumbs. ing as to make railroad rights of way i pleaded guilty to kidnapping and kili- and terminals more valuable than I ing Robert Franks will receive $150,- ever. 000, it became known today. Clarence Darrow, veteran criminal lawyer, and Benjamin and Walter Bachrus, brothers, will share the fee, though the proportion of diVision has not been made public. The lawyers, it was stated, asked for $200,000 at the conclusion of the trial, and though the Leopold faniily made no objection, the Loeb family thought the amount excessive. v After some discussion the $150,000 was agreed upon. Mr. Darrow,?in Denver visiting his son, said Saturday an agreement had been reached and would he submit ted to the Chicago Bar Association in accordance with the original plan that the association fix the amount Other expenses to the families of the two youths, serving life sentences in the Illinois state prison, were con siderably more than the amount of That’s part of the wisdom of Divhae Justice. No really good thing ever disappears with another good thing, already existing. The taxi wiped out the hansom cab, as gas and electricity wiped out the tallow candle. But the hansom and the candle were really not “good things.” Watch the flying machine. It will make changes greater than the steam engine ever made, making man liter- The first capable man, acting on i a ijy master of all he surveys by en- The Chronicle’s Cross-Word Puzzle 1 2 | 7 5 6 ) Horizontal I. Article. 3. A cough (Prov. Eng.) 5. Extra explanation (abbr.) . 7. For some reason. 8. A body of individuals regarded as one. 9. A liquid. 13. To wager. 15. A form of crochet. 16. An epoch. 18. Pronoun. 20. A parent. 21. A hardwood tree. 22. Form of verb “to have.” 23. Opposite to left (abbr.) 25. The nominative plural of the sec ond personal pronoun. 26. Girl’s name. 28. A lazy, immoral fellow. 30. A falsehood. 32. In the metric system. 34. A dwelling place. 35. Resting on. 37. Form of verb “to be.” 38. A subject. , 39. Observe. * u Y Vertical 1. Since. 2. Part of the neck. 3. To cut ‘With an axe. 4. Turkey (abbr.) 5. Wharf. v 8. A thoroughfare (abbr.) 10. A preposition. II. A girl’s cap. 12. And (Latin.) 13. Color. 14. Anything that is spiny. 18. Frame on which artists place pic tures. 17. Pertaining to the axis. 19. To consume food. 20. A month of the year. 24. Unless. 27. A minute particle of matter. 28. To have existence. , 29. Myself. 3JL Parson loved and honored to ado- " - ' ration. •••. > .' 32. To come together (past) 49. To repeht of. 34. An exclamation. 36. Negative. MISS LEONELL SMITH Will teach a limited number of pupils PIANO After January 1st For further information Telephone 319 fOTFIB THAT EAST J. B. PROMTS V" ■ ' ■ ■' • •>* . ■, - v, i m ; JEWELER CLINTON. S. CL t ness energy of the whole Western country. To go there now, you travel four days off trains admirably equipped and managed. In less than twenty , years the trip will be made by flying machines in six hours and with absolute safety. How many Americans will devote four railroad days to a six-hour flying” trip? Not many. abling him to go anywhere and every where without roads or terminals, crossing a continent in half a day. Most important of all is the fact that the flying machine alone repre sents national safety, since, all wars will be fought and won or lost in the . _YqUL.tlunk_abaul.the flying machine. ^ from now on.;-.1Vrite tout twtnattomeT^^eee: ~ Four Tglenlafi:. ailfe. mrt WRjrfr-jApTftganVing —— --rrrwt-rrrsflHST - ^ gSlrfiI15rS"and" ybur eongressman, urg ing adequate aerial defense—not half as many first-class machines as any other nation has, but twice as many. The flying machine will upset theo ries, habits and values. Land one hundred miles from a g'-eat city will be reached more quick ly than land in the suburbs twenty- five miles away is reached now. Flying for all long journeys will displace railroading completely with in the lives of middle-aged men now living. Samuel Gompers lies in the Sleepy Hollow cemetery at Tarrytown, N. Y., not far from the grave of Andrew Carnegie. The much talked of “community of intbrests” And “equality” between capital and labor become real in the graveyard. On earth, in the sunshine equality of capital and labor, is not yet real ity. Labor is labor, with worry and uncertainty attached to it, usually. And capital, with all its worries, means some leisure and a systematic share in what labor produces. testifFwf at the trial received $250 a day for their services, their testimony disclosed, and ten or more other medi cal men received upwards of $25,000 for their parts in the* case. It became known today that Judge John R. Caverly, who sentenced Leo pold and Loeb and imediately re tired to a hospital to recover from a breakdown, again is in a hospital for a rest until January 5. TWICE PROVEN Many railroad men, of course, real ize that a great change in transpor tation is soon coming. William Sproule, president 4>f the Southern Pacific raftroad, said yesterday that what -cavSed him to do some hard thinking was the landing in San Fran- will be Just as literally fulfilled as I cisco of a man that had flown from that of Zechariah 9:9. New York in one single day between 3. Obedience of the Disciples (w. sunrise and dark. If a man can do 32-34). Though the request may have that experimentally for the Govern- seemed strange, and even unreason- | ment,. how long before the thing will able, they fully obeyed. The true dis- j be done practically by up-to-date dple will render glad' obedience to [transportation men? the Lord no matter how strange His commands (pay seem. , Obedience to that only which seems reasonable Is not obedience at all/ May we prove that we are real disciples! II. Th# Entry of the King (vk. 35-38). 1. The Disciples Set Jesus Upon the Ass (v. 35). This act of putting their garments upon the ass and set ting Jesus upon It showed that they recognized Him - as their King (II Kings 9:13). 2. Acclaimed as King by the Dis- dples (vv. 36-38). Some spread their garments In the way. Others, perhaps j ||| having no garments to spare, cut down • **“ branches of trees and strewed them in His way, which was no doubt just as acceptable to Him. They praised God for all the mighty works which they had seen and cried out, “Blessed is the King that cometh In the name of the Lord.” III. The Critical Pharisees (w. 39, 40). Although swept along by the demon stration of the multitude they deemed It prudent to ask the Lord to rebuke the disciples, as such behavior might be Interpreted by the Roman govern ment as an Insurrection. To their de mand Jesus replied that such homage was not only fitting but necessary. He declared that if the multitude were silent, the very stones would cry out In adoration of him. IV. The King Rejected (w. 41-44) Christ knew what awaited Him In Jerusalem. Though surrounded by loyal hearts. He knew that the rulers of the nations had no heart for Him His coming trial and death loomed before Him so that He wept over Je rusalem. He knew that awful days awaited It and that loyal hearta would gladly welcome Him If they only knew. He showed that their Inability to tee Him as their King and Savior would result In bringing upon them the awful horrors of the destruction of their city. He entered the city and rebuked the rulers for allowing the house of God to become degraded by carrying on traffic for gain. The cleansing of the temple only Increased their hatred and opposition to Him. Obey Obey the voice of God In the Booh, the voice of God In your heart, tha voice of God as He speaks through cir cumstances, and His servants obey.— Echoes. Transportation through the air on a But conditions are better than they were. It is no longer a crime for workmen to unite. It was a crime <• once. And they no longer brand with a red-hot iron any workman convict ed of leaving his own parish to seek employment in another. They did that in England, years ago. The United States Government pays slightly more than ten cents for each meal served soldiers. Three-meals fer each soldier cost the army 31.65 cents. FOR SALE—Charleston Wakefield Cabbage Plants at 20c per 100, $1.50 per 1,000. J. H. Donnan, Phone 209. - l-8-6tc If you suffer backache, sleepless nights, tired, dull days and distress ing urinary disorders, don’t experi ment. Read this twice-told testi mony. It’s Clinton evidence—doubly proven. H. J. Neighbor, carpenter, 104 E, Ferguson St., says: “The continual bending and lifting weakened my kid' ueys and brought on backache. When I went to pick up a timber » sharp E ain caught me m the small of my ack and it was a task to straighten. My kidneys acted too frequently and the secretions were scanty. I had to get up many times in one night. I had dizzy spells and a dull, ache in the back of my head. I bought Doan’s Pills at Rhame’s Drug Store and had relief from the first box.” (State ment given November 19, 1914). On January 23, 1922/ Mr. Neighbor said: “When I used Doan’s some years ago they cured me of kidney trouble. I haven’t been bothered gladly confirm all I said in the past.” since and I give Doan’s credit. I 60c, at all dealers. Foster-Milbunr Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. sjsrssjiH lia=ii=sii=irsdr=in=JrsJr=iEliSI r—*11 * ! r*--^ 11—--* fr—IffEEL! *■ The Greatest New Year ===0f All In the Sight of God The self-important are of no Impor tance in the sight of God.—The Living Word. Want of Self Reliance ' Discontent le the want of self-re liance—It la Infirmity of will.—Obria tian Evangelist Smothered Thought* Sometimes little thoughts are amotb- •red to death beneath a lot of ponder •os sentcncas.—American EvangeUat The New Year spreads its splendid challenge to courage, kindness and energy. To the Ypung Man or the Old Man Worth While every day is the beginning of a New Year—every day is one of good resolutions and mental effort. “Service” is the order of the day. The fceaseless longing to be of ever increasing helpfulness has brought us the splendid appreciation and patronage of those whom we strive to serve. Yet we are not satisfied. We are spurred on to still greater things. Our facilities have been increased, so it»is with a feeling of confidence that we look forward to being in a better position to serve our friends during the com ing year. * New ideas, higher standards, a larger measure of Service—these are more than our New Year promises for we have already started to fill them. m i-J- ' ' V , • - I 1 I 1 1 s u n Th First National Bank “CLINTON’S STRONGEST BANK” | 0 1 0 [0 I 1 0