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5/,^ • ^ VOLUME XXV i ► f V ei % fr The town of Clinton wa» incorpora ted in the year 1852, the Charter to run until 1866, fourteen years later. Who its first intendent was I do not know, but when the writer first knew the place 1862, Capt. Jinfr Dean held that august posi&on. The town was built at what.was for a time the terminus of the Laurens Railway, al- tho it held that honor but for a short while only. The' rough element gath ered .about the five points at which the roads from Laurens, Newberry, Spartanburg, Augusta and Byrd’s Mill came together. InJ.864 when the writer began to take note of the things here, the stores were pretty much all closed on account of the war, althm*h the town had been a very busy place, rivaling the county with its trade. With the exception ot a warehouse $t the corner of Main and Broad, there were'no brick stores in the town. Both of these have been pulled down. At the corner of Phin- ney and Musgrove avenue there was a large rambling hotel, never finished, kept by Mr. Joel T. Foster. near as I can recall then the residences were at that time, Mr. Robert Phin- ney, Mrs. E. T. Copeland, and Mr. Foster on what is now Phinney ave nue; Mrs. Lizxie Ferguson, Capt. Jim Dean, Mr. Bowen and Mr. Davidson on Musgrove street; W. A. Rose had a bar room and lived at the corner of Broad and Pitte; on Broad street, North, the residences were Mrs. Hair ston, T. If. Newman, Capt. Leake, Mr. Huh; and on Irby street further west Mr. Barksdale, Mr. Bell, Mrs. Langs ton, “Gentleman John”, Little Capt. Williams, and Mrs. Inglesb?. On the south of the railroad families were Mrs. Fairburn, D. T. Compton, Mrs. R. S. Owens, R. F. Ferguson, Capt. Pasley, Squire Butler, and W. D. Johnson. On 'South Broad, the only house was R. N. S. Young. There may have been ~a few, other families that I have overlooked, but that was about the whole of the town. Prob- abily 115 people lived here. There were two churches, the ^Presbyterian and Methodist, the latter a dilapidated building that had been moved in from the country. On th€ Presbyterian church grounds, the Male Academy was erected by Presbyterian money throughout; and where the graded school now stands, stood the Clinton Female Academy,"- presided over by Mr. James M. Wright, a noble teach er, followed by Mrs. Sallie Dunlap. The town took great interest in this Academy up to the time of the break ing out of the war. But later on it fell into a state of decay when it was taken up by the Clinton High School Association in 1872, repaired and made into a high school, with Prof. N. J. Holmes as principal, followed by Prof. Stobo Simpson, then bjr Prof. Thos. M. Lowry, and later on Prof. Wm. States Lee. It was under Mr. Lee in 1880 that the high school be came a college. And . Mr. Lee was its first president. , ' At one time “before the war” Clin ton had a fine saw mill which stood on the side of the railway at the head of Bush River. This,-however, ran after the war began and later was entirely dismantled, the brick chimney stack remaining as a monument of this enterprise several years after the war ended. The only houses in the town that are now standing that are noticeable as belonging to the ante-war period, are on Broad street, residence of J. D. Bell and the Vance residence (this much enlarged); on Main street the residence occupied by Mr. George Smith, the Phinney residence and Mr. A. M. Copeland’s; on Bro»d street, the residence of Dr. Shands, much altered and improved, and the residence of Mr. J. C. Copeland, also much im proved. And these were about the only houses ^of ante-bellum Clinton that deserved being kept. Besides these are old High School Academy and the Rose house, both of which re mained to this day but much improved and moved to other localities. The only streets then opened besides those mentioned in this article, were Wil liam street, now occupied by the Sea board Air Line Railway, and Irby street, which was the extension of Main. Sloan and Adair streets were then country roads without residences in the town. The town occupied 'pre cisely the same territorial limits that it docs now. Post office facilities into a ditch in 1868 and then no more trains until 1876, when the new man agement took hold of it and pushed it thru. In the meantime there were weekly mails, and for a while, owing to Government favoritism, Clinton was permitted to send down to Mar tin’s Depot (Goldville> for its mail. This was, the result of* the Radical troubles iu 1881. The writer was the first Presby terian minister to live in the city. The Presbyterian church "had been or ganized on July 28, 1885, Rev. Z. L. Holmes. Mr. Holmes* was a faithful and zealous worker. He lived in Lau rens. Rev. Mr. Attaway was the first Methodist minister to live in Clinton. His church had been moved in,from the -country and was a very old one. Seven other churches were on the cir cuit with it. He came in 1872. Ten years later a Baptist church was or ganized and Rev. M. E. Broadus was its first pastor and resident minister. He preached for siy months in the Presbyterian church, while the Bap tist church was being erected. Rev. Mr.^Blackwell, the predecessor of the present pastor was the first Asso ciate Reformed Presbyterian minister to live here. But that is more recent history. In 1864, the physicians of the town were Dr. Wm. H. Henry and Dr. Thos. Y. Harris. Both were much liked and popular. Dr.. Harris lived out five miles in the country and had ceased practicing. Ho was a man of re markable extensive reading and of great ability. In 1864 there were no stores or shops of any kind in Clinton. Imme diately after the war, however, Phin- ney and Copeland opened up at the J. W, Copeland corner; D. T. Compton ran a shoe shop next door and G. P. Copeland had a grocery store. There were no drug stores. J. T. Craig, J. Y. H. Williams, Landy Huit, James Dear, and several others opened small establishments. There were four bai rooms. They were all briskly pat- tonizedP Liquor flowed freely in Clin ton those days.' Drunkenness was common, and nobody thought much about it. But then everybody knew everybody. Everybody knew every body’s business. Ladies went to church in sun bonnets and aprons Men did not bother to put on “store clothes” and plenty of them went in their shirt sleeves and their shoes were innocent of blacking. But they were kind clever hearted people, with very little idea of submitting to in novations in their politics of religion. “Come to spend the day with me” meant just what it said. After an in vitation like that, any man or woman that would fail to go tp see his neigh bor when he felt like it and ftay to dinner and supper, too, if he would, was looked upon as a crank. “Society manners” were unknown. There was no formality. “Mr.*’ and “Mrs.” were not very commonly used, but it was “Uncle Ebb” and “Aunt Sake” and Bill and Tom and Bob. Feelings were easily hurt and slights quickly taken, especially when they were intended, but there was lots of neighborliness and loving kindness. It would have sounded very funny in those days to offer to buy a pound of butter, or a chicken or “all the garden seed” you wanted, or a bushel of sweet potatoes from your neighbor. They would have laughed you to scorn. Well, we are all more mannerly now and count the pennies closer, but are we my bet ter? Clinton Hatchery is Offering Com munity the Services of St. Louis Poultry Experts. The Clinton Hatchery A Feed Com pany has secured the services of Mrs. Haywood and Mfs. Carlson, two poul try experts of St Louis, Mo. fheset j ladies will be in and about Clinton and adjoining territory for some weeks, or until Mr. Spratt and Mr. Todd of the Clinton Hatchery, feel that they Rave DONATE $15,000 TO COLUMBIA SCHOOL Mr. apd Mrs. L. S. Welling of Darling ton, Establish Memorial At Methodist Institution. Columbia, Dec. 30*—Announcement of a $15,000 gift to Columbia College’s endowment fund by Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Welling of Darlington, was made today by J. C. Guilds, president of the college. — The donation will be known as the Arthur Letop Welling memorial en dowment fund, in honor of the son of Mr. and Mrs. Welling, who lost his life in service during the World war. Mr. Welling is a trustee of the college. This donation, it was stated, is A he first large gift to the college endow ment fund which, it is hoped, wil eventually reach $500,000 . v ~ worked the territory thorough! They will be glad to go over every flock of chickens in $he territory and advise with the owners as to breeding, feeding and culling. The Hatchery has just set its Mam moth incubator, 12,000 eggs capacity, and is now operating. In addition to selling baby chicks of the popular breeds, they will be ready at all times to take the eggs of the poultry raisers of this community and set them, charging a small fee to cover cost of operating. In addition they will carry a full line of feeds and pputtry sup plies. This in conjunction with the produce company, which has been operating for several months, buying chickens and eggs the year round, will be a great incentive to poultry raisers of this county. Mr. Todd advises that Saturdays will be visitors days at the incubator cellar. He is a successful poultryman and will be glad to advise anyone at any time who might need his profes sional services. While the two ex perts are here, he is very anxious .that the people will get the benefit of their knowledge. Should they miss you, notify 213-W, Clinton, and they wilt be glad to call and assist you in every way possible with your poultry prob lems. ’ • FARM DEMONSTRATION • j 'NEWS ; ♦ C. B. CANNON, County'Agent ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦•♦♦♦*♦♦♦«*♦*♦« PRUNE SCUPPERNONG VINES IN EARLY DECEMBER. l There are a number of real good varieties of grapes for the home or chard, but the scuppernong is one of the most popular grapes grown in the South- A few vine* will be found around practically all of, the old homes. Unfortunately the scupper nong vine is neglected, therefore a maximum crop of this fruit is seldom produced. We should pay more at tention to this kind of fruit. The scuppernong and other varieties of the muscadine type, should be pruned during November or by De cember 15th. If the pruning is delay ed until late winter or early spring the vines will bleed severely and may be seriously injured. * Old vines that have not been prun ed for several years present a rather difficult problem, especially if they are grown on an arbor. The only way to renovate a neglected vine is to cut out ahollt fbur-fifths <ff the vine, leav ing only the younger canes near the ground. These should be left to form fruiting canes for the future. In pruning an old vine cut out all of the dead and weak wood and all of the larger branches that have com paratively few fruiting canes on them. Bear in mind that the fruit for the next season will arise Yrom buds on wood of "the past season’s growth. Thin out the vine in such a way as to admit ample sunlight so that the fruit will set. If the vines are grown on trellis they will produce more fruit, than if grown on an arbor of the same size, because there are two fruiting sur faces on a trellis and only one on an arbor—the arbor being flat the under surface is so shaded that no fruit will develop. The. young* canes should not be spurred back as in the pruning of the bunch grape, but left to hang loosely over the trellis or arbor. If you are in doubt as to how your vines should be pruned call on me to I show you. I will be glad to advise you j as to how the work should be done. ' If you have no scuppernong vines on your place be sure to plant some ithis fall. Pruning Demonstration I hope to hold «a pruning demon stration at the home of Mr. Carson Wood, Fountain Inn. R. F. on Thursday, December 3rd, at 2 5 p m. ’ and t Mr. E. P. Milam, La i. ns, R. !)„ on Friday, December 4 h, at « i V ? V M / / m L< il O Hut SckattMr fll Mats ,\ \ There’s a Xmas’ for him " T MAY be a Hart Schaffner & Marx over coat; or one of their smart new suits; maybe a Tuxedo or a sport suit. If those things in- i volve too much money—it may be silk shirts, or smart new neckwear; maybe a dozen pairs of silk hose. But whatever it is, be sure of this, V 9 / • \ he’ll have respect for our mark in the merchan- 'f r . .• disc. Men know our high quality and style standards. They’ll appreciate your discrimi- nation. Carolina Made Hosiery - Ladies’ Van Raalte Gloves Ideal Christmas Gifts 1 were very poor. The government paid the postmaster the magnificent i sura of $50 q year. The distribution j of the mail was a small affair and ! usually consisted iji the letters and) For the man—Saturday ■ papers being thrown down on the Post, $2.00. counter and people went in and picked out their letters and papers gfod kind ly carried any letter for a neighbor > along with them. The Laurena Railway was not kept .c. d m. Tho public is in tl tj bring a ft:end \v o at- ou. K 'i( .iTE Evening \ For the womnn—Ladies Home Jour nal. For the boy or girl—Youth’s Com panion. . , AOV xvaiiwo* w« ..vw For the child—Child Life, repair. It went from had to worse; If it il a magazine that you want, I tho only-thirty miles long, the train; can get it Tor you at publishers price stopped trying to run every day and | or l® 5 *- Send for clubbing list, made only tri-weekly trips; thia waa followed by trying to run weekly and at length the last engine tqrned ovi m mo ( oi !ndU James W. Caldwell /ejr Call 243 at 12:30 ; 143 S. Broad - ' o OF J’T'OSn Notice is hereby • ivCn a Cei ti- fi'-ste of Deposit No. 3283 Tssq^l by •h 0 Commercial Rank of Clint i i South Carolina, in favor of irs. Sal- lie R P tts Guard ip for b Pitts, da ed April. 14th, 1315, for *n* surfl f $. 69.27,- has been lost, or 'csLroyed. That application will be made to the said Commercial Bank, of Clinton, S. C.. for the issuance of a new certifi cate in the place of the one. lost, or destroyed, on the 21sfr^!y of Decem ber, 1925. Signed, MRS. SALIE R. PITTS, 12~ 4? -4cc <Guardiah fbr C. D. Pitts. * Ladies’ Van Raalte Hose Many Other Useful Gifts for the Entire Family j Farmers Mercantile Company “The House of Better Values’* HART SCHAFFNER & MARX CLOTHES NUNN-BUSH SHOES STETSON HATS * /i •"•rV •• V / / *• A. . it&j lii" =y A