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VOLUME XXV
CLINTON, S. .C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 27,1925
NUMBER 34‘
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Fncaltv Announced For New Seeeion.
Florida Street Building to be Used
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As previously announced, the Clin
ton Public schools will open the new
session’s work next Monday morning,
August 81st The schools have had s
handsome addition during the summer
in the ^completion of the new Florida
street building that will be used this
year for the first time. All of the
buildings have been put in good con
dition during the summer, and every
thing is now in readiness for the for
mal opening.
The faculty has been completed and
includes several changes from last
«year, particularly in the lower grades.
Supt. Witherspoon stated yesterday
that all teachers had been notified to
be in their respective buildings at 9
a. m. next Saturday morning to con
fer with parents and give examina
tions to pupils desiring to take them.
Pupils will report to school next Mon
day morning at 8:45 with their text-
boqks, prepared for work. A list of
textbooks for immediate use by the
various grades, is published in this
issue. Pupils from the first to the
fifth grade inclusive may take their
choice between the Florida street and
Academy street qchool, it is announc
ed.
The complete faculty, covering the
three schools, follows:
High School
Kenneth N. Baker, Jr., principal.
English, Miss Olive Tuck and Miss
Sarah Hunter.
Latin, Miss Bertha Gray Gallman.
French, Miss Lucile Hamilton.
Science, Kenneth N. Baker, Jr., and
Miss Robbie Parks.
History, 0. W. Lever.
Bible, Miss Kathleen O’Neal.
Florida Street School
Mirk Pearl West orincioal
Seventh grade, Miss Pearl West and
Miss Theo Liles.
Sixth grade, Miss Kathleen McGee
and Miss Sarah Sheridan.
Fifth grade. Miss Mattie Lee Riddle.
Fourth grade, Miss Sarph, Pitts.
rv Third grade. Miss Nancy Owens.
Second grade, Miss Katherine Mc-
’Swain. • .
First grade, Mrs. Raymond J. Pitts.
Academy Street School
Miss Myra Leaman, principal.
Fifth grade, Miss Alline Newson.
Fourth grade, Miss Ruby Lipscomb
and Miss Paul Vane Elrod.
Third grade, Miss May Owens and
Miss Cornelia Bethea.
Second grhde, Mrs. Lee Add Blake
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First grade, Miss Myra Leaman and
Miss Josephine Brodie.
Providence School
Mrs. H. A. Copeland, principal.
Fifth grade, Mrs. H. A. Copeland.
Fourth grade, Miss Margaret Blake
ly.
Third grade, Miss Nan Copeland.
Second grade, Miss Elizabeth Trib
ble.
First grade, Miss Helen Bailey.
Friendship School
(Colored)
J. M. Johnson, principal.
Misses Althea Anderson, Ida Bolt,
A. H. YORK PASSES NEWSPAPER BACKS
AT RIPE AGE OF 82
Father 6f Mrs. Hubert Pitts and Mrs.
Rhett P. Adair Ansgrera
Death's Call. %
£RYAN MEMORIAL
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Louisa Reese, Jervine Keitt, Clara
Wright, Claudia Dorroh, Rhudine Pat
terson, Lula Ma Lilliewood.
One high school teacher yet to be
elected.
Hubert H. Evans
Dies At Newberry
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Newberry, Aug. 20.—Hubert Henry
(“Hub”) Evans, long a prominent
figure in South Carolina political af
fairs, died at his Home here last night
after an illness of four months.
From 1896 to 1906, Mr. Evans was
a member of the state board of con
trol during which time the board was
under fire ,in connection with ithe
state dispensary system. He served
three terms in the legislature as a
member of the Newberry delegation,
and in recent years, although not a
member of the general assembly, he
was in frequent attendance as a spec
tator, making a picturesque figure in
his white waistcoat.
Mr. Evans was bom May 22, 1855
in Charleston. county. After attend
ing Newberry College, he read law in
the office of the late Chief Justice
Pope and was admitted to the bar in
1882. He settled in Laurens about
that time, and in 1877 he married Miss
Sarah Allen Huntef of Clinton.
The friends in the city of Mrs. Hu
bert Pitts and Mrs. Rhett P. Adair
will learn with genuine sorrow of the
death of their father, Mr. A. H. York,
which occurred last Tuesday at his
home in Rockmart, Ga.. The Rock-
mart News carried the following ac
count of his death:
“As the shadows lengthened with
the setting sun on Tuesday evening,
Mr. A. H. York, 82 years of afte,
widely known and highly esteemed
retired farmer of Rockmart, passed
away at his home, at which place his
funeral service was conducted'Wed
nesday afternoon, followed with inter
ment at Van Wert cemetery.
a “A little more than 82. years ago
Mr. York was born here and has re
sided here throughout his entire life,
In the latter years of which he has
been in poor health. He was a mem
ber of John C. Crabb Camp Veterans,
having served throughout the War
Between the States. He was a mem
ber of the First Georgia Cavalry.
“Besides his wife, he is survived
by two sons, W. T. York of Cedar-
town, and James B. York of Birming
ham, Ala.; seven daughters, Mrs.
Louis Barrow of Columbia, S. C., Mrs.
Hubert Pitts and Mrs. Rhett Adair
of Clinton, S. C., Mrs. Acton Sewell
of Rockmart. Mrs. Warren McConnell
of Birmingham, Ala., Mrs. Buell
Stark of Dalton, Mrs. Kenneth Bur
dette of Savannah; twenty-six grand
children and four great grand-chil
dren.
“Rev. E. Dobson of Gainesville, as
sisted by Rev. George Barrett, con
ducted the funeral service. The pall
bearers were his great nephews,
Charles, John, Ernest and Roland
Campbell, of Rockmart, and Steele
and John York of Atlanta.”
Philadelphia Record Takes Lead In
Forming Committee to Raise Money
For National Shrine.
COTTON FORECAST |ASK EXPLOSIVES
SHOWS INCREASE! IN HOPE FOR RAIN
Estimate Given At 13,900,000 Bales, McSwaih Makes Request of Govern
An Increase of 424,000 Over
Last Report.
WANTS SHOALS
POWER UTILIZED
Philadelphia, Aug. 28—The Phila-
delphia Recbrd tomorrow will take the
initiative in forming a committee to
finance and erect a national memorial
to William Jennings Bryan. The Re
cord solicits the support of citizens
and newspapers throughout the na
tion and names as the prospective
chairman of the committee Josephus
Daniels, publisher of the Raleigh News
and Observer, secretary bf navy in
President Wilson’s cabinet and a firm
friend of the great Commoner. The
Record says:
“Mr. Bryan will be remembered,
without any formal reminder of his
achievements for his influence upon
the lives of his fellow citizens; for
his long, Ardent and untiring defense
of the rights of the common people
against the encroachments of privi
lege; for his vigorous promulgation
of the society precept finally embodi
ed in the eighteenth amendment;; for
his earnest advocacy of peace, and for
his militant stand at the climax of >
life fraught with critical moments in
behalf of Christianity as he interpret
ed it against what he conceived to be
the attacks of science. |
“These things will be recalled, we
say, long after his oratory has been
forgotten. The influence of the man,
his earnestness ot purpose, his mira
culous sway over some millions of his
fellow citizens, are some facts that
must be recognized even by those who
do not agree with his political or so
cial theories of entertain his religious
cial theories or entertain his religious
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“The Record has observed reports
from Tennessee of a movement to
found there as a memorial to Mr.
Bryan a college dedicated to opposing
the theories of evolution.
“Such a movement, unless it is in
tended to be merely of local character,
would be a mistake.
“Unquestionably, the services of Mr.
Bryan to his countrymen should be
recognized by the erection of a na-
Washington, Aug. 24.—An increase
of 424,000 bales in this year’s pros
pective cotton crop was announced to
day by the department of agriculture
in its semi-monthly report, which
forecasts . production at 13,900,000
equivalent 500-pound bales.
The condition of the crop on Au
gust 16 was estimated at 62.0 per
cent of a normal, indicating an acre
yield of 144.1 pounds, compared with
189.8 pounds on August 1 this year
and 64.9 per cent on August 16 last
year, when the final yield was 157.4
pounds.
The condition of the crop improved
in the half month in all states except
South Carolina, Alabama and Arkan-
ment For Greenville and Spar
tanburg Counties.
Former Senator Dial Urges That Big tional memorial—not to Bryan the
Plant Be Turned On Soon As Poe-
siWo To Aid Mills.
Laurens, Aug. 14.—Former Senator
N. B. Dial today sent a telegram to
the Secretary of War urging that
current be turned on at Muscle Shoals
as soon as possible in order to supple
ment power companies east and west
that are handicapped because of the
low water situation. Power is badly
needed to keep the machinery going
and labor employed in several states,
said the senator to the secretary.
Many plants are shut down and the
cotton ginning season is on hand.
Mr. Dial, who is a member of the
Muscles Shoals commission, says the
machinery at the power plant soon
will be in operation, not to its capa
city, but sufficient to furnish tempor
ary relief by relaying the current
through agencies to the Alabama
Power Company, which has a lease on
the output.
Senator Dial had planned to gp to
Muscles Shoals immediately but he
has postponed the trip for a few days.
The situation has become so acuUr tn
the matter of inadequate water sup
ply he feels that some relief can be
afforded as suggested.
Mrs. Ferqueron Leases
Musgrove Tea
Thornwell Family
Enjoys Lake Trip
The children of the Thorywell Or
phanage greatly enjoyed the swim in
the lake at the Bois-Terre club last
Friday. They would thank the club
for the gracioif invitation and ex
press their appreciation to all the
friends who assisted in taking them
to and from the lake.
The well known Mary Musgrove
Tea Room, successfully operated for
the past year by Mrs. W. B. Owens,
Sr., and Mrs. M. A. Hays, has been
leased by them to Mrs. M. J. Ferque
ron, who will take charge on the first
of September. Mrs. Ferqueron is no
stranger with the Clinton public, hav
ing successfully managed a large
boarding house here until recently.
She is well equipped for the work she
has undertaken and her friends unite
in wishing for her every success.
A. R. P. Pastor
To Arrive Soon
The Rev. t. B. Betts of Troy, who
recently accepted the pastorate of the
local A. R. P. church, will arrive in
the city the first of September to
enter upon his new duties. Mr. Betts
will preach both mornihg and even
ing on the first Sabbath in Septem
ber and a cordial invitation is ex
tended the public to hear and welcome
him. ^ •
BACK FROM MARKET
Mr. Ralph Blakely, buyer for
Blakely Bros. Company, has returned
from the Northern markets where he
purchased fall goods for their well
known firm. Mr. Blakely states that
fundamentalist, to Bryan the prohi
bitionist, or to Bryan the Democrat,
but to Bryan the fearless crusader,
to Bryan the stateman. It should not
be a narrow, bigoted tribute from any
group, clique or clan; it should be
an expression of the sentimerit of the
country, to the financing and erection
of which all Americans big enough to
recognize strength of character, ex
ceptional ability and dogged persist
ence in obeying the dictates of con
science, whether they be political
friends or foes, may contribute.”
CONVERSE PROF.
COMMITS SUICIDE
Professor Hutchinson Found Dead In
Pool of Blood By Wife and
Neighbor.
Spartanburg, Aug. 22.—Professor
B. O. Hutcr linson, instructor of chem
istry and biology at Converse college,
was found dead in his private office
in his laboratory at the college this
afternoqjOL at 6:30 o’clock by his wife
and a next door neighbor with a bul
let hole through the center of his
forehead and a .38 calibre revolver
lying near him on the floor as he sat . South central drought area has re
at a table.
That the dead man had committed
suicide was the opinion of those who
discovered the body, and of Coroner
John S. Turner, who immediately con
ducted a personal investigation. He
will not hold an inquest^e said.
Professor Hutchinson was known to
have been in bad health for more
than a year.
Dr. O. B. Wilson, who accompanied
Mrs. Hutchinson to the college to look
for her husband this afternoon, said
that Mnu^utchinson telephoned him
shortly before 2 o’clock to ask him te
look for Professor Hutchinson at the
college when he had finished his wonc
for the day.
Her husband had gone to his lab
oratory in the morning, Dr. Wilson
said Mrs. Hutchinson tolfr him, and
was to have kept an appointment
with her at noon.
When Dr. Wilson and Mrs. Hutchin
son reached the college, Dr. Wilson
said, he found it necessary to force
the lock to the instructor’s private
office, when the body was discovered.
Mrs. G. C. Odiorne To
Join The Chronicle
all marked at prices that will interest
the public.
Mrs. G. C. Odiorne has accepted a
position with The Chronicle Publish
ing Company in its stationery depart
ment and business office, and will en
ter upon her new duties next Monday,
succeeding Mrs. James R. Copeland,
resigned. Mrs. Odiorne is well known
in the city, possessing as she does a
large circle of friends and acquaint
ances. In her new~connection, she ex-
they are offering an unusually at- w
tractive line, of fall merchandise and tends a cordial welcome to her friends
to call and will take pleasure in serv
ing them in every way possible. ,
Drought continues in South Caro
lina, Northern Georgia and South
Central Texas, the crop reporting
board stated, and smklf-sized bolls
are reported from those sections.
In Arkansas the crop had suffered
chiefly from insects and diseases.
Condition of this year’s growth gin
ned prior to August 16 totaled 577,921
running bales, counting rourft as half
bales, the census bureau announced
in the joint report. Last year 135,-
901 bales were ginned prior to Au
gust 16. 1
The condition of the crop on Au
gust 16 and the forecast of product
ion (in bales of 500 pounds gross
weight), as indicated by the condition
by states, follows:
Virginia, condition 79 per cent and
forecast 52,000 bales; North Carolina,
75 and 1,180,000; South Carolina, 53
and 865,000; Georgia, 61 and 1,000,000;
Florida, 78 and 28,000; Missouri, 81
and 285,bOO; Tennessee, 82 and 501,-
OOQ; Alabama, 70 and 1,002,000; Miss
issippi, 77 and 1,322,000; Louisiana,
65 and 560,000; Texas, 46 and 3,769,-
000; Oklahoma, 74 and 1,693,000; Ar
kansas, 79 and 1,476,000; New Mexi
co, 77 and 50,000; Arizona, 92 and
88,000; California, 93 and 102,000; all
other states, 92 and 17,000.
The ginnings by states to August
16 were:
Alabama, 36,954; Florida, 3,544;
Georgia, 80,808; Louisiana, 65,189;
Mississippi, 23,374; Texas, 363,003;
and all other states, 5,049.
Round bales included in the report
numbered 8,861, compared with 3,227
for 1924.
In its comment on the report the
crop reporting board said:
“In Texas the final outturn of the
crop still is extremely uncertain. An
improvement in condition is noted in
the northwest district, which has had
good rains over most of its area and
in many countries in the West and
West Center. Other districts have
practically held their own, except the
East and Southeast, which recorded
a decline of four points each. Only
the Southeast reports moze weevil
present than at this time last year.
Damage from this source has been
slight thus far except in portions of
the South and Southeast. Boll worms
and leaf worms are present in scat;
tered localities. Fully 2,000,000 acres
have been abandoned since June 25 or
have stands so poor that they will
not be picked. While rains have
helped the crop in many sections, the
' Greenville, Aug. 26.—As a resort
to secure rain in the Piedmont sec
tion to break the almost unprecedent
ed drought which now grips this belt,
high munitions which can be exploded
in the motntain districts above Green
ville and Spartanburg have been re
quested of the war department at
Washington by CongVessman J. J.
McSwain of the Fourth congressional
district. The congressman is acting
in the suggestion of Andrew A. Man
ning, attorney of Spartanburg, he
says, and neither knows what success
may attend the experiment. No word
has yet been received from the de
partment as to its disposition of the
request.
Mr. Manning, who is a World war
veteran, told the congressman that
he had noticed that rainfall always
Yollow^d heavy bombardment in
France, and that he with others was
then of the opinion that the showers
were precipitated by the explosives.
The idea then occurred to him th^tdf
heavy explosives were set off in the
upper sections of Spartanburg and
Greenville counties rainfall might fol
low.
In behalf of the people of the two
counties, and others below, Gohgiess-^
man McSwain wrote the war depart
ment explaining the situation. He
followed this by a telegram when no
immediate reply was received. High
explosives were asked for the experi
ment, either free of charge or at a
nominal cost.
“I had no assurance that the ex
plosives will be furnished, and if they
are furnished I do no tknow whether
or not the purpose of the experiment
would be achieved,” he explained. “I
am acting upon the suggestion in be
half of the people of the two coun
ties.” / . ■
If the experiment should prove sue
cessful, he points out, the rivers of
the section would be swelled and re
lieve the present water and power
shortage and the crops would ' be
somewhat benefitted. He remembered
some ten or fifteen years ago some
such experiment was made in Arizona
in an effort to bring rain but does
not recall the final result. Whethen
the rainfall that followed the bom
bardment in France came as a coinci
dent or whether there is a meteorolo
gical connection with the shaking of
the atmosphere, tieither Mr. McSwain
nor Mr. Manning are prepared to say.
ceived very little benefit. As a re
sult early ginnings have been prema
turely opened and undersized bpllsc*
“Oklahoma has had ideal weather
in the southwestern, western and cen
tral portions of the state and plenty
of subsoil nioisture for this time o*
the year in the eastern and south
eastern parts. These conditions l ave
more than offset increasing weevils,
boll worms and leaf worms, the de
predations of which are reported to be
serious in many counties, damage
from the boll worms being most fre
quently mentioned by reporters.
“Outside qjf the drought-stricken
northern part of Georgia, the re
mainder of the state has a good crop
that is believed to be practically safe
with a larger indicated acre yield than
on August 1.
“The Mississippi crop has not de-
•clined in condition as much as usual
since August 1, and consequently has
relatively improved. There are wide
spread complaints of rust and wilt and
of increased weevil activity, and some
small damage from army worms is
leported.
“Although dry conditions in South
Central North Carolina have resulted
in small, although well-fruited plants,
tl^ prospects in most of the remaind
er of the state, where much cotton
is raised, are for a good crop.
Weather favorable for weevil develop
ment might materially reduce the
present outloo^.
“In Missouri picking will be general I
by September 1, or nearly a month J
earlier than last year.”
Celebrates Opening
of Jacobs Highway
In celebration of the opening of the
Jacobs highway, from Clinton to Bel
fast, south of Clinton, a good roads
barbecue was given last Thursday at
Mr. Jesse Young’s place, located on
the roult^. The barbecue was given
in honor of the opening through Lau
rens county of the Jacobs highway,
and was intended as a general good
roads meeting, with the specific idea
of promoting the plan of taking over
of the new highway by the state sys
tem, and a number of good roads talks
were made.
SCHOOL BELLS
TO RING AGAIN
Vacation Period at Thornwell Orphan*
age Ended Yesterday. New
Session Begins Monday.
School bells on the Thornwell Or
phanage campus, silent for the past
two months, will herald forth'the
opening of a new school year next
Monday morning. During the sum
mer the children have been scattered
far and near visiting relatives apd
friends, but with the in-coming trains
the past two days the large family is
now “back home” and all preparations
are completed for the ten month’s
term.
A full corps of well trained teachers
will head the work this year. The
standard of work has been raised' to
the extent that the twelfth grade has
been dispensed with, the state depar-
ment of education accrediting the in
stitution's high school as a standard
school on the basis of eleven grades.
The schools are again headed by
Prof. S. B. Hayes as principal and in-
si ructor in Mathematics and Physics.
'He will be assisted in the high school
b> Mrs. S. B. Hayes, English; Mrs.
Anna Cary, Latin; Miss Mary Scales
Miller, History and Bible; Miss Jean
Lindsay, Domestic Science.
The grammar and primary grades
will have the following teachers: Mist
Eunice Patton, Miss Katherine Latti-
mer, Miss Evelyn Arledge, Miss Nell
Reardon, Miss Cota Wilson, Miss Mil
dred McLaurin, Mrs. D. W. A. Neville.
Miss Mary Steele will again have
charge of the music department.
Vacation closed at the institution
yesterday. The matrons and present
family of children are alt back in their
places. The new children to be ad
mitted will arrive the last of this
week, bringing the total to 880. For
a lack of room in the institution, many
applications had to be turnpd away.
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FLAMES THREATEN
TOWN OF SALUDA
Large Amount of Lumber Destroyed
By
Lawson Leaves Large
Amount to Charity
Chicago, Aug. 25.—Virtually three-
fourths of the estate of the late Vic
tor F. Lawson, noted editor and owner
of the Chicago Daily News, was left
to benevolent purposes. The news
paper and other property was left to
the management of the filinois Mer
chants Trust company as trustee.
Specific bequests totalled $4,775,000
of which more than one-half, of $2,-
505,000 were benevolences.
A specific bequest of $200,000 was
left to his long time friend and co
worker in journalism, Melville E.
Stone, of New York city, now coun
selor and formerly general manager
of the Associated Press.
Fire. Low Water Premure
Ham pen Firemen.
Saluda, S. C., Aug. 24<-—One and
three-quarter million feet of lumber,
valued at more than $33,000, were
consumed by a fire that- broke out at
the plant of the Etheridge Lumber
company here this afternoon and
raged for four hours, threatening to
sweep the town before it was brought
under control.
Fire equipment from Columbia, Au
gusta and Aiken were rushed to Salu
da to assist local firemen, who were
handicapped by low water pressure as
a result of the long drought.
One residence, that of Mrs. M. B.
Dowling, situated adjacent to the lum
ber pile, was burned, and a nufrfber
of small outhouses in the path of the
flames, which were fanned by a stiff
breeze, were torn down to prevent the
spread of the fire.
The flames got their start about
1 o’clock in the shavings pit of the
lumber company. By 5 o'clock the
blaze was regarded as under control,
although some of the lumber was still
burning.
Greenwood was asked to send as
sistance, but the city officials felt that
the fire situation there was hazardous
because* of the short water supply,
and as a result they feared to send
any of their apparatus to Saluda.
Checking up of damage was begun
this afternoon by lumber company of
ficials. It was estimated that three-
fourths of the 2,500,000 feet of lumber
on hand at the plant was ruined by
the fire. /
CONESTEE MILLS
FILE COMPLAINT
Misses Alice Ruth Hollis and Alma
Ruth Cooper have returned from a
ten days’ visit to St. Matthews and
Folly Beach. '
Mias Annie Milling* of Greenwood,
has been visiting Miss Almena Mill
ing. . ‘ /
ADVERTISING DID IT
Wrigley, the chewing gum man,
has explained how he built up a
business of millions of packages a
day. - .
He has done it by sticking to his
one line and advertising it. He
spends over a million dollars a year
in baying newspaper space to tell
the world about 5 cents chewing
gum. He has educated people to
chew gAim and to chew Wrigley’s.
He did not stop shouting as soon
as he attracted attention. ^
He says you must Weep it up or
the buyers will forget you. Wheth
er yours js a 5 cent or a $50,000
business, keep telling about it.
Sue City of Greenville For Uonsrtact-
ion of Modern Sewerage
Disposal Plant.
Greenville, Aug. 25.—The Conenteo <
Cotton mills, located along Reedy
river ten miles south ef Greenville,
asks $100,000 alleged damages, and
an order to force the city of Green
ville to construct a modern sewerage
disposal plant and to prevent further
dumping of raw sewerage in the
Reedy unless the plant is built, in liti
gation started here today.
Judge M. M. Mann, presiding over
sessions court here, signed an order
for representatives of the city to ap-
year before him or before the judge
of the Thirteenth judicial district Sep
tember 5 to show cause why the re
straining order should not be granted. t
The matter of damages, said by '
Thomas I. Charles, president of the
Conestee Mills to have resulted from
sewerage passing down the river, will
be left to a jury in civil court.
The plaintiff concern claimed in its
summons and complaint that the
health of its employees as well as the’
operation of the mill itself, have been
seriously interferred with by the
erage rituatuai.
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