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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CUNTON. S. C.
THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1925
NEW HIGHWAYS AND WHAT THEY
MEAN TO THE COUNTRY PEOPLE
It is difficult to conceive at present probably begin construction next
of the -iremendous advantages to be
derived to the country people on the
four new routes radiating from Clin
ton.
The route towards Spartanburg is
now complete and it is highly prob
able that it will be taken over by
the State Highway Department as a
part of the State Highway System and
put under state maintenance. The
road to Mountvillc is now complete
and open, and will shortly be open to
Cross Hill, and by September 1 open
to Calhoun Falls. It is already under
state maintenance as far as North
Creek and will shortly be taken over
The road towards Whitmire
is
week.
Just what does this mean to the
country people along the four'- lines
radiating from Clinton? From time
immemorial they have struggled and
struggled with mud and now they
are to have good all-w-eather roads.
They have had indirect routes. Now
they are to have direct routes. The
actual time of travef will be reduced
at least 50 per cent and in some
cases as much as 65 per cent in time.
This means that a farmer at Belfast,
near Mountville, or out at Enoree
River, or down at Garlington can
come into town in 15 minutes, attend
to business and get back to his farm
blocked by the incomplete bridges at: i n8 id e of an hour. This will work
Duncan’s Creek. These bridges, how
ever, are being put in and the road
from the Newberry line to Whitmire
will soon be finished. In the course
of another three months the road will
be open from Clinton to Carlisle, and
on to Chester, Lancaster and North,
but with ferries on the Tyger and
Broad rivers, and for the time being
on the Catawba, where a bridge is
shortly to be built.
The road to Belfast is advancing
rapidly under three gangs, and the
McCuen bridge over Bush River will
enormous economies to the farmers.
It will put them in closer touch with
all of the facilities of an excellent
market. Here they have a splendid
high school for their boys and girls,
and a splendid college when the boys
and girls have finished from the high
school. If they are ill, in a few min
utes they can get the sick person into
the Hays Hospital. If they are but
for entertainment they are in close
touch with Chautauqua, picture sho*.
circuses, athletic games, public meet-
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ANNOUNCING
ings, lyceum, and the social life of the
town.
If they appreciate the fact that the
town and the country are one, their
interests one, they will join in with the
organized social and business life of
the town. They will become members
of the various clubs for men and wo
men, and throw themselves actively
into community development.
It means for the country people
increased prosperity, greater conveni
ence, greater economy, greater pleas
ure, better business facilities, and
should therefore spell prosperity, and
it will mean prosperity in a large
way. This will be reflected in en
hancing land values, increasing coun
try population, better country ^schools
and churches, and the gradual im
provement of postal routes, rural tele
phones, etc.
The country people on these routes
should realize that they are noir a
part of Clinton, and while they don’t
have to pay Clinton taxes they have
a big stake in Clinton prosperity.
Many of thfem will be able to come
to, Clinton who have not heretofore
been able to trade here, or do busi
ness here in any way, and many of
them have been anxious to get to
Clinton with their business for years
past.
The opening of these roads is there
fore the reaching of a goal for which
they have longed these many days.
Clinton will mean a great deal in the
life of hundreds of farm families who
are now for the first time brought in
intimate touch with the social, religi
ous, educational and business life of
a lively little city, and they will take
hold upon its interests and make them
their own interests.
The country along the routes men
tioned is to be congratulated upon the
appearance of a new era for the
regions thus developed.
ADAIR
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Department Store
LAURENS BLESSED
BY HAM MEETING
THE NEW STRAWS
J
UST out of the packing cases—ready for
your review—is as fine a stock of Straw
Hats as we’ve ever shown. The Hat you
want at the price you’re glad to pay is here.
Like Illustration $1.00
Others at.. .. $1.50 and $2.50..
Blakely Bros. Co.
CLINTON, S. C.
GOOD ROADS
Have brought lots of our friends closer
to us, and lots of others who have not
traded with us in the past, but whom we
hope to make our friends by giving them
the best service obtainable, and the best
merchandise at fair prices. We hope you
people of BELFAST, CROSS ANCHOR,
CROSS HILL, CROSS KEYS, ENOREE,
GOLDVILLE, KINARDS, ORA, LAN-
FORD, MOUNTVILLE, RENNO, SEDA-
LIA, WHITMIRE, and surrounding coun
try with whom we are not already ac
quainted, will come in and let us meet you.
We are anxious to know you and to serve
you.
DRUGS, DRINKS, STATIONERY,
CIGARS AND TOBACCOS, PAT
ENT MEDICINES, SUNDRIES.
We especially solicit your Prescription
business. All prescriptions filled by licen
sed, graduate pharmacists.
Sadler-Owens Pharmacy
Telephone 400
At Union Station
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Many Young Men ThroxV Away Dice,
Poker Chips and Their Pocket
Flasks.
Laurens, S. C., April 17.—The poker
chips have been thrown away and the
wine glasses lifted high for the last
time by many of the young men of
this town. Instead of staying up un
til the sun is peeping from over the
eastern hills, as some of them might
have been accustomed to do in the
past, they are “turning in” early and
getting up on the same schedule.
The old, old schedule of “early to
j bed and early to rise,” is caused by
two reasons: The first is many of
them want to shun evil companions,
if any such are to be encountered
here now. The second is that a busi
ness men’s prayer meeting is held in
the court house each morning from
8:30 to 9 o’clock and lawyers, sales
men, stenographers and others try to
be there on time.
The prayer meeting is held by lay
men and for laymen. Speeches of a
variety never heard in the historic
Laurens county court house have
been made there lately. They are
speeches which are not recorded by
a court stenographer but which are
so imprinted in the mind of many of
those here that time alone will erase
that impression.
The change which has come over
many o/ those' in Laurens dates back
few weeks ago to the Ham-Ram-
say revival. Interviewed, they all say
is due to “Mortimer Fowler Ham”
of Kentucky.
Greenville people may hear more
of this man later because of the pos
sibility.of his conducting a revival in
the “Textile Center of the South.”
Young men here, not any worse
than those in hundreds of other cities
of the nation, have been led to take
part i nthe early morning prayer
meetings as a result of the Recent re
vival. They have not forsaken the
old gang for one member said that
all of the “old gang” had come over
on the right side.
A few mornings ago the prayer
meeting was in session and a Lau
rens boy, known to every man, wo
man and child in this city of govern
ors and senators, was the speaker.
During the greater part of his two
score years of life he has been away
from this quiet little city, seeing the
world and becoming enured to the
hardships thereof. He became con
verted at the recent revival and, fol
lowing this up, was to take part in
the early morning prayer service. All
persons listened as he started to
speak.
“The last speech I made in this
court house was ‘not gruilty,' ” said
the man, who this time told of the
change which had come over him and
of the intention to cling to the new
feeling. , ‘ t
That is the type of speech which
has been made in the prayer meet
ings. Men who, their companions say,
have “raised many a pot in a poker
game,” are not bluffing how as they
come out for the Lord. They are
playing a different kind of game but
they are playing it like men and in
a manner which is winning the appro
val of their fellow-men.
“Tell Greenville to watch out if the
influence of this great man is ever
turned loose in that community,” said
a Laurens man in speaking of Rev.
Mr. Ham. “He will cause the boys
to give up their wild parties and to
throw away the dice, the poker chips
and their pocket flasks.. He has
worked wonders here and we are glad
of it.”
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Always On The Job
Clinton, S. C.
The road that you and we have labored s<f long to
get is now open. We are now neighbors. Let us get
acquainted and be good friends.
Come all you good folks, in and around Cross An
chor, Cross Hill, Cross Keys, Belfast, Enoree, Kinards,
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Lanford, Mountville, Goldville, Ora, Renno, Sedalia,
and Whitmire. .
We have one of the largest and most complete De
partment Stores in this Piedmont section, with all
the conveniences that it takes to make your shopping
a pleasure. ’
Make our store your resting Place. Our telephone,
ice water, chairs, electric fans, and all other conveni
ences are at your disposal.
Our salesladies and salesmen will give you a cordial
welcome and make you feel at home'when you come
to see us.
OUR MILLINERY
DEPARTMENT
With Miss Burnett in charge, is very
complete. Here you will find a lafge
selection of Hats to fit every require
ment and at tne price you want to
pay. Ready trimmed or made to
your order. Prices—
$1.95, $3.95, $4.95, $7.50
AND UP
Just received big lot of Ladies’ Dress
es, all new styles—Rayon Silk, Broad
cloths. They are beauties. Sizes 16
to 46—
$3.98
Ladies’ Dresses, newest designs—
made of flat crepes, crepe de chine,
and printed crepes. Every Dress a
winner—
$6.75 and $9.75
Other Silk Dresses .... $14.95 to $29.50*
YOUNG MEN’S ALL-
WOOL SUITS
Young Men’s All-Wool English Model
Suits, well tailored, in the new light
shades—*blues, tans, greye, etc.
Every Suit guaranteed—
$14.95
Other Young Men’s Suits—
$9.75 to $1975
Men and Young Men’s Suits made by
the best manufacturers, in all the lat
est ‘models and colors. They come in
slims, stouts and regulars. We have
one to fit every make-up of man-kind.
These Suits are sold by others at
$5.00 a suit more. Our prices—
$22.50, $24.75, $29.50
MEN AND YOUNG MEN’S
OXFORDS
Endicott-John’s guaranteed Ox
fords : ,.y .... $2.98
Endicott-Johnson’s English
Brogues .... $3.98'
Endicott-Johnson best styles .... $4.95
W. L. Douglas Oxfords—
$5.00, $6.00, $7.00“^ —
One lot of Ladies’ Voile
Dresses, large assortment
Df colors—
$2.98
Children’s Dresses 98c up
Ladies’ Silk Hose in sec
onds, New light shade*—
25c
Children’s Sox—
10c to 48c
CLOTH SPECIALS
300 yards Voiles, Saturday only 5c yd
Fast Color Stripe Chambry.... 10c yd
75c Quality Striped Broadcloth 45c yd '
Silk and Cotton Crepes, pretty
paterns 95c yd
Ladies’ and Girls’ Patent
Leather Sandals—
$1.48 and $1.98
Ladies’ Oxfords & Straps
in patents and combina
tions—
$2.49, $2.98, $3.95, $4.95
Young Men’s new style
big leg Pants—
$2.98, $3.98, $4.95
and up
—p- -IM.
Good grade Men’s Over
alls, well made, large and
roomy—
98c
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Others........ $1.48 to $1.89
Boys’ all-wool Suits, sizes 12 to 18,
with 2 pairs pants. New colors—
, $6.75
Other Boys Suits $3.98 to $13.95
Little Boys’ Wash Suits, sizes 3 to 8
75c, 98c and up
Men’s Dress Shirts, neat
stripes'and solid colors.
Extra good for—
98c
Good quality Nainsook
Union Suits—
49c
Others........... 75c and 98c
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