The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, September 10, 1925, Image 7
THUaSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10,1928
WHITMIRE; SCHOOL
HAS FINE OPENING
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Largest Enroll Meat la History Of
School. About Bighty New
Houses Being Built. •
Whitmire, Sept 7—Whitmire school
opened lust week with sir enrollment
of 450, the largest in* the history of
the school. During the past year the
management of the Aragon-Baldwin
mills have built about eighty new
houfees and people have moved in to
occupy them and work in the mill, and
the children are in the school.
This town has grown immensefy
during, the past‘few years. There is
the fine school and the handsome
church buildings and the elegant
stores and good merchants and big
coton mill, and it is still growing,
and these things make this an im
portant commercial and educational
center.
Prof. R. C. Lake, the superinten
dent Of the school says he will
have to increase his teaching force,
and maybeAsecure more class rooms
to accomodate the many new chil
dren which he will have in school dur
ing the present session. It has only
been a few years when there was no.
high ^chool at Whitmire, and when
it was organized they had to go out
in the country and bring in a few
children to secure the requisite num*.
her to qualify as a high school. Now
there are 450 children in the school
and just a few years ago it was made
an accredited state high school with
eleven grades.
The following are the teachers for
the present session:
High school: R. C. Lake, superin
tendent, science, English; Miss Ellen
Thomas, mathematics, science; Mias
Mary Wallace, English, French; Miss
Mary Hayes, home economics and
Latin.
Grammar school: C. E. Butler, prin
cipal, coach and seventh grade; Mrs.
S. A. Jeter, sixth grade; Miss Nan
nie Ponder, fifth grade; Miss Sally
Holiday,* fourth grade; Miss Alma
Breedin, fourth grade; Miss Theopa
Norman, third grade; Miss Claire
Connor, second /grade; Miss Annie
Smith, first grade; Miss Mittie Wil
liams, first grade; Miss Mildred Coch
ran, music.
COTTON REPORT
ABOUT THE SAME
Output ef 13,744,POO Is Forecast By
Department ef Agriculture. De
crease ef 25M00 Bales.
Washington, Sept. ft.—The cotton
crop declined to the extent of 250,000
bales in the fortnight ended Septem
ber 1. The Department qf Agricul
ture today forecast this year’s pro
duction at 13,740,000 equivalent 500-
pound bales from conditions on that
date.
The condition of the crop a week
ago was 50.2 per cent of a, normal,
indicating a yield of 141.6 pounds per
acre. On August 16 the condition
was 62.0, indicating a yield of 144.1
pounds. The September 1 condition
last year was 50.3 and the final yield
per acre last year was 157.4 pounds.
Cotton of this year’s crop ginned
prior to September 1 totaled 1,892,549
running bales, counting round as half
bales, the census bureau, announced.
To that date last year 947,494 bales
had been ginned and in 1923 ginnings
to that date totaled 1,162,660 bales.
The condition of th ecotton crop on
September 1 and the indicated pro
duction by states follows:
Condition
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Missouri
Tennessee .... .....
Alabama^.
Mississippi . y .
Louisiana
Texas ....
Oklahoma
Arkansas ....
New Mexico ....
Arizona ....-n,.
California ,
All other states
68
46
46
55
78
70
66
65
74
67
43
61
69
88
92
90
76
Forecast
46,000
1,132,000
830,ffi)0
983,000
- 30,000
250,000
437,000
1,024,000
1,350,000
644,000
3351,000
1,520,000
1368,000
59,000
89,000
112,000
15,000
About 80,000 bales, not included^in
these statistics, are being grown in
Lower California (Old Mexico.)
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Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Pinson of Spar
tanburg stopped overnight with Mrs.
G. A. Black on their way to Miami,
/Fla. '
The following Thornwell Orphan-
age girls left this week for college:
Miss Elizabeth Fleidner to Agnes
Scott, Miss Mary Rowland to Erskine
College, Miss Birdie Broom and . Miss
Naomi Claymon to Winthrop.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Dicus left Sun
day for'a week’s visit to relatives at
Waynesville, N. C.
Miss Alden Bailey left Tuesday for
Abington, Va., where she will enter
Stonewall Jackson college. She was
accompanied by her mother, Mrs. J.
A. Bailey, and Mrs. A. M. Copeland.
Mrs. John Bright of Chattanooga,
Tenn., is the guest of Dr. and Mrs.
^A. E. Spenoer.
Miss Martha Reed Todd 16ft Tues
day for Winthrop College.
Mr. and Mrs. Noward Abney, of
Athens, Ga., spent last week-end with
Miss Leonell Smith. —
Rev. C. B. Betts left Tuesday for a
few days visit to Statesville, N. C.
“ “After spending two weeks wf
friends here, Mrs. E. N. Beard an
little son, Mitchell, left Tuesday for
their home in Washington, D. C.
Mrs. Dillard Milam is a patient at
Dr. Hays’ Hospital.
Miss Alline Hipp left Monday for
Inman, where she will teach the com
ing session.
Mr. William Anderson spent the
week-end with friends in Gainesville,
Ca.
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Earth’s Oldest “White Top
Show At Greenwood One
Wednesday, September 22.
*John Robinson’s circus, the earth’s
oldest “white top ; ’ is coming to Green
wood for afternoon and night perfor
mances on Wednesday, September 22,
and circus lovers of this vicinity are
looking forward with great interest,
to the appearance in this community
of this famous old circus.
For the f925 tour, the 102nd in the
history of the organization, John
Robinson has arranged a ‘ program
that is bubbling over with features
.and extraordinary numbers. From the
Far East, Europe, South Amr*rica,
and practicably every country and
clime, performers and animals have
been imported, and now as plways
John Robinson will give the best cir
cus performance that money and
brains can assemble.
Such noted trainers of the steei
arena as Capt. Ricardo, Nellie Roth,
Tfteo Schroeder, Lorraine Wallace,
W T ink Weaver, Margaret Thompson,
Bob Thornton, Dewey Butler, and
others will send their charges through
remarkable routines. One of the ex
traordinary features will be the ap
pearance of “Kittie’’ the only wrest
ling tiger in the universe,'^^h|ch will
combat in a regulation bout with Miss
Wallace.
The regular circus features and
acts ^rill also have prominent posi
tions on the lengthy program. From
Chin* will comp the $ing-Sing Jung
Dsia troupe, from Mexico the famous
Rudy Rudynoff Family of Equestn
ans, from the Argentine, Senorita
Peidad, the demure and petite wire-
artist, and all other countries will
have representation in the dressing
tents of John Robinson.
Clown alley will have a contingent
of fifty famous, fun-makers, boys
who know the Art of extracting chuck
les and grins from young and old. It
SEE THE
New Fall Hats
Paialere, Calling Assembly To Order,
Urges Body to Push Disarmam
When Security Is Fixed.
Geneva, Sept. 7.—With a hopeful
start made in seating the supreme
problem of European security, the
sixth assembly of the League of Na
tions took up its work today in an
atmosphere of confidence and with
the construction that world peace can
be placed on d solid foundation. .. v<
This spirit of opitimlsm dominated
the discourses delivered by Paul Pain-
leve, premier of France, who called
the assembly to order and by Sena
tor Raoul Dandurand of Canada,
whom the assembly elected its presi
dent. The same spirit seemed to ra
diate both inside and outside the as-
sembly hall as statemen from fifty
lands established their first contact
of the session to review the world’s
affairs.
M. Pamleve made one thing clear
at the start. This was that when
satisfactory security has been achiev
ed by the^ negotiations between the
Allies and Germany and other desira
ble regional guarantee pacts have
been erected, the council of thq Lea
gue of'Nations should invite the pow
ers to a conference looking toward the
ieduction ofjsrmaments. Incidentally
he'emphasised that cooperation
the maintenance of peace must have
its root in the League of Nations
M. Painleve characterized the nego
tiations with Germany as an effort to
bring about agreement or arbitration
treaties in conformity 1 with the cove
nant of the League of Nations for the
maintenance of peace. He explained
that the result of the negotiations, if
they succeed, will be to bind certain
nations which are members of the
league, by obligations similar to
those provided for in the Geneva
peace protocol.
The protocol, M. Painleve said, has
failed’ of ratification chiefly because
of the refusal of some powers, includ
ing England, to accept the system of
penalties against an aggressor state
therein provided. He boldly suggest
ed a way out of this difficulty con
cerning the protocol by counselling
the treaties of a modified protocol
which would ndt immediately bind
the countries of the world by the
same universal formula but would in
clude a series of regional pacts be
tween states which are perhaps prone
to conflicts, leaving all Other mem
bers of the league bound by the gen
eral obligations of the covenant.
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THOMAS EXPLAINS'
MONEY STEALING
Tells What Was Done With Funds
Taken From Savannah River
Bridge Project.
Columbia, Sept. 5.—The method
used by L. H. Thomas, former secre
tary of the state highway department,
in obtaining $17,257.88 of the fun<|s
of the Savannah river bridge com
mission, over a period of more than
two years, was set forth in a confes
sion by Thomas which was made pub
lic yesterday at the office of the state
highway department.
Naming several Columbia banks in
which the funds were kept, the secre
tary’s confession said:
“In procuring New York exchange
for contractors, I would surrender to
banks certificates of deposit for more
than the amount of exchange, getting
the balance in cash.”
Explaining what he had done with
the money, Thomas’ confessiop said:
“I ( lost several htousand dollars in
trying to market some patent medi-
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MoratauFamily, from Austria the ^ National Remedy* company, Jack-
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The styles and colors are different from
last year.
L. B. Dillard
Knapp Felt
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ONE PRICE STORE**
Clinton, 8. C.
Ralston and
Nottlqton Shoes
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sonville, Fin., and the salesman who
endeavored without success to sell the
medicine. I lost $1,000 in the pur
chase of stock from Mr. Frank Broad
nax in the American Railway Car
Cooling company.
“I paid something over $4,000 on
interest and principal on mortgage
on house at 2421 Divine street,-Colum
bia. This money was paid to Gus
McMeekin of Winnsboro and Mrs.
Mary Brown of Columbia.
f “I paid more than $900 to W. B.
Guimarin A Company for installing
heating fftimt in house.
“About $1,000 was used to pay sun
dry debts in the city of Columbia.
Various amounts were spent from
time to time which I have no record.”
The confession, according to the an
nouncement yesterday, was made to
the bonding company, a Baltimore
concern, which reimbursed the Savan
nah river bridge commission ^for the
amount of the shortage. Thomas re
signed his connection with the high
way department following disclosure
of the shortage.
will be a complete and perfect per
formance in every way, and John Rob
inson offer a real Roman holiday
in every respect.
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