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sa PAGE FOUR THE CtlNXON CHRONIC* R CIjNTON. R. C THURSDAY, MAY 12,1927 $[)? (UltnmirlE PUBd&KD EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHINQ CO. WHhSON W. HARRIS Emor and Publisher yer to understand it. . It behooves every one to consult an attorney and make his will and make it law proof. It is a good plan to name a trust company as one’s execu tor because such a company is expe rienced and cannot die. This plan avoids much unnecessary litigation and saves the legatee from danger Entered at the Clinton Post Office as [through unscrupulous stock promoters matter of Second Class. Terms of Subscription: One year ....$1.50 Six months 75 Three months ..' 50 Payable in advance Foreign Advertising Representative THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION The Chronic le eeks the cooperation of its subscribe s and readers — the publisher will a all times appreciate wise suggestion . and kindly advice. Make all remittances to THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. Clinton, S. C. CLINTON, S. C., MAY 12. 1927 8 PAGES THE COMMENCEMENT SEASON The word commencement implies that the student is at the beginning. The commencement at a higher insti tution of learning is taken as denot ing the time when the graduate goes into the world to take part in its pro fessional or business activities. It is for such a graduate the commence ment of his participations in the broader concerns of life. The word commencement implies that the stu dent should look forward to what is yet to be achieved rather than back ward to what has already been accom plished. The high school student es pecially,. should have the forward look. He should not be content until he has fitted himself for a broader useful ness in life. The commencement season in Clin ton opens this week. The city schools have their exercises first, followed by the college, and then the orphanage, and all of these exercises are always looked forward to with genuine inter est by our people. Their closing pro grams bring into our midst a number of distinguished visitors and speakers. Commencement season in Clinton is always a happy and delightful occas ion. Every one should make a will and put his property in the hand* of a trust company to administer. Then there would be less unnecessary liti gation in regard to various testa ments. TWsWeek By Arthur Brisbane from Los Angeles do not ask the road to carr)tit j The farmer calls up the truck line at Victorville. The freight motor ‘ truck delivers the mowing machine, plow or “seed drilF right in the farm er’s barnyard. The freight bus costs a little more per hundred than the freight train. But what you" order to day you get tomorrow and it is de livered at your door. CAMPBELL LODGE TO MEET WOMAN AND LOVER GUILTY OF MURDER . JOIN THE CLUB The newly elected officers of the Commercial club, will assume office next Tuesday evening at the regular meeting and enter upon the year’s work. In their efforts to promote the sity’s interests through this organiza tion, they should receive a community spirit of encouragement and support. The possibilities of such an organi zation are unlimited. There is danger, however, as we have before stated in these columns, that too many of its members look upon their membership «s a mere meal ticket proposition. The dub is not a lunch counter. It is a thing. It is a force. It creates an at mosphere of enterprise and establishes confidence in each other and in the future of the community. Confidence is the foundation upon which all suc cessful business is built. The club .should be made an open fo rum, so to speak, where questions may be opened up and considered for the benefit of all. The amount of talk that always accompanies its meetings should be crystallized into definite ac tion. This latter service—this trans- mation of discussion into action—is the distinction between a live and a organization. Every business man in the commu nity should- be represented in the club's membership. With this end in view the directors will launch within the next few days a membership "drive.” We should all get into the organization, and this done, we should unite and work intelligently to make it a body of action, contributing as it al ways has, to the development of our •city and community. Mrs. Snyder and Gray Conivcted In Snyder’s Death. Cheers From Outside Greet Announcement. New York, May 9.—Mrs. Ruth Brown Snyder and Henry Judd Gray, her corset salesman paramour, are to pay with their lives for the crime that snatched them from obscurity and made them internationally known. Deliberating less than two hours, a jury convicted them of the murder of Mrs. Snyder’s husband, Albert Snyder, magazine art editor. Death sentence is mandatory for first degree murder, but the formality of sentence was postponed until next Monday morning. Cheers greeted the verdict when it was flashed to the crowd outside Long Island "City’s supreme court. Inside the court the verdict was received in silence. Neither defendant exhibited any great emotion, and seemed to be either too dazed to fully comprehend its portent, or only hearing what they had expected. When after the usual formalities, the foreman uttered his “both guilty of murder in the first degree,” Mrs. Snyder’s blonde head, professionally dressed for the occasion by a hair dresser, jerked perceptibly. Her eyes, roving like those of one fainting, fixed upon the square shoulders of her erst while lover. Then she stiffened, her head came back into position, and thus, erect and proud, she sat while the jury was polled. But Gray, whose plea of dominance by the superior mind of Mrs. Snyder had led some to believe him less the stoic than the woman who insinuated murder into his head, made no more fuss about the matter than she. His face was slightly flushed as he enter ed the court room behind the jurors. It retained that flush as he heard his fate. But his weak eyes peered queer- iy through his spectacles and one hand went, almost as if by reaction, to his legs, where one set of electrodes are fastened by the verdict. Then he, too, pulled himself together and sat, rigid ly erect, without turning for a glimpse of Mrs, Snyder, who sat behind him. They were led, one at a time, be fore the bench and their pedigrees tak en. Therv both were led to the obscur ity of their separate cells. Counsel for both deferred announce ment of their intentions as regards ap peals. Justice Townsend Scudder thanked the jurors, and they left their seats, to be swept bruisingly along in the stream of humanity outside. There they were greeted by cheers and flash lights, as photographers pressed around them. The court room was jammed long before the verdict was announced. Be fore the case was given to the jury at 5:29 this evening four women had been carried from the room in a dead faint and dozens were beseeching, in fading voices, to be permitted to pass through the doors that had been lock ed when Justice Scudder began his 75 minute charge. All that was held before the spec tators as a promise of something The Chronicle does not necessarily endorse or commend all of Mr. Bris bane’s views and conclusions. His ed itorials are published as expressions of opinions of the world’s highest s41- aried editor. A BETTER NATIONAL TUNE BEVERIDGE AND PHILLIPS WHEN BABIES TWIDDLE TOES RAILROADS AND BUSSES Some one not satisfied with the “Star Spangled Banner” offered $1,500 for a better national tune. Nine hundred and fifty-one composers tried and failed. The “Star Spangled Banner” will continue to make Ameri cans stand up. To do a thing well you must get excited abou it. Socrates, greatest Greek teacher of oratory, said, “To convince others, be yourself convinced. There will be no improved “Star Spangled Banner” until real danger inspires somebody to produce the right song. Albert J. Beveridge died last week, sixyt-four years old, of heart disease. An automobile stops when the engine stops; a man, when his heart stops. One hundred men understand a motor engine for one that knows his own heart. There is no “resale” price on a sec ond-hand heart, and heart disease is increasing as consumption diminishes. Doctors can cure many diseases, but you must cure your own heart, once you have been warned. worthwhile were the summations and Beveridge and David Graham PhiN lips were schoolmates in Indiana, and represented their state well, Phillips in literature, Beveridge in national politics. Both are gone. Is it “entirely illogical,” as some say, to hope that they have met again, or is it, as others say, “a perfectly reasonable hope”? Campbell lodge No. 44, A. F. M., will hold its regular meeting Friday night, May 13th, at 8 o’clock. All members are urged to be present. ; V. P. Adair, Sec’y. Rats chew matches for the same reason that wild animals are attract ed by salt. They cannot resist it. It is like candy to children and many grown-ups. This fondness for matches has resulted in rats causing - much damage from fire. A new and most effective rat poison has been devel oped at the Mellon Institute of Indus trial Research. It is Rat-Tox? a tasty bait and powerful poison combined. It is not necessary to use bread, cheese or other bait. A nibble kills a rat. Action starts as soon as taken into the mouth. Guaranteed to kill ten to fifty fimes as many rais as a like amount of any similar product, from your retailer. Get Rat-Tox G. W. MOON PLUMBING & HEATING Repair Work a Specialty. All Work Guaranteed. Estimates Free Phone Clinton, S. C. Fresh Vegetables We receive them daily and we buy choice, varieties always ^or our cus tomers. The dinner can easily be planned at our store. Meats for Summer Days Tender, juicy cuts make a nourishing, tasty repast for the hot days. LEAVE YOUR ENTIRE ORDER HERE— GROCERIES, VEGETABLES, MEATS. LITTLE S DENSON 50—Two Phones-^54 ALL PRESCRIPTIONS FILLED BY LICENSED PHARMACISTS CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED PROMPTLY J. B. FRONTIS JEWELER O o SADLER-OWENS PHARMACY “At Union Station” Phones 377 and 400 Phones 377 and 400 CLINTON. 8. C. A Young Women’s Christian Asso- ciaf.on committee says: “The modern wife who works after marriage and continues to bring money into the home is the best type of young wife, better than the young wife who sits at home twiddling her thumbs.” Real wives can testfiy that there is little time at home for twiddling thumbs, especially after the first baby begins to twiddle its toes. Every young man ought to be able to sup port one woman, and proud to do it, while she takes care of the children. Working wives, respectable and ad mirable, should not be necessary. This country treats the Mississippi problem as a poor man treats his farm, never spending enough to get it in good shape. Scores of millions have been spent on patch work against flood danger. Now comes a flood DRS. SMITH & SMITH OPTOMETRISTS l SPECIALISTS Eyes Examined -:- Glasses Prescribed 15 West Main Street Phene 101 CUNTON S. C Laboratory f*r Prompt Repair Servkt WHAT BO r. S. JEANS DO? H. D. HENRY F. M. BOLAND H. D. Henry & Company insurance STOCKS - BONDS - REAL ESTATE LOANS NEGOTIATED -/*■ five hundred million dollars’’i causing damage. That sum, properly spent, under one comprehensive plan would have prevented this flood and future floods. Dr. Frank Crane Says— YOU SHOULD MAKE A WILL the charge. But the crowd came ear ly, and celebrities were jammed into corners with nondescripts, and the scent of the furs of actresses was add ed to the generally fetd air. William Millard, of Gray’s counsel, told in an hour and a half, how Gray had been snared by the “glistening coils of that serpent woman, that fiend in-human guise, Mrs. Snyder.” He pictured Gray a man of weak charac ter, held in psychic dominance by a woman “with a flaming passion inside her and a greed that would stop not even at murder.” She even, he as serted. plotted to poison Gray, after Railroad men, doing their best to help stockholders, as they are bound to do have concentrated on getting in creased passenger fares and freight rates from the public authorities, and that has seemed good business. The time is not far off when good busi ness w r ill consist in finding a way to carry passengers and freight for LESS and thus make more money. I fl The Mercantile Trust Company of i she had procured the murder of her Baltimore has issued a little booklet, husband. He declared Gray was with- eatted “Studies in Wills.** | out a motive for the crime, and alleged The making of a will is a very old ; that Mrs. Snyder did the actual kill- idea. It is the effort of a man to im-, ing. He indicated a manslaughter px»gc his di'dres upon his followers af ter h* is dead. ; Sir Rider Haggard once wrote a verdict would be sufficient for Gray. Dana Wallace, Mrs. Snyder’s de fender, put all the murder plot on,THE FLYING story called “Mr. Meeson’s Will.” In Gray, and accused him of stealing up-: soon be here? She young heroine who was ship-1 on her husband as he lay asleep and *recked*on a desert island allowed a t smashing his head with a sash-weight, •ttli . in Ijt* tattooed across her back on" to get Snyder's insurance, and all Jhe danger to the railroads is a small ridiculous looking thing on four wheels running along the highway,’ paralleling the railroad on a “right of.i way” that costs the motor omnibus | and motor truck nothing but the price of their license. Every day four mo-i tor busses leave Los Angeles carrying j passengers to Chicago. That doesn’t j 1 amount to much. But they can carry twice as many passengers as there are on this magnificent Santa Fe “Chief” Express. And the bus overhead is one man driving and another man to re lieve him. Omnibus travel is uncomforatble travel and will never compete with the express train. But WHAT ABOUT MACHINE that will U 0 1 0 i l H II m 1 Hilarious Comedy 1 tt THE PATSY’ the: 'jkih in the absence of paper or parchment. When she returned to civ ilization she learned that the will re- ^uire<i the filing of the original doc- xment in court. Touched by the spec- tack of beauty in distress, however, the registrar allowed a photograph of the will to be filed and the girl went kappily away. . Ptolemy the 13th of Egypt borrow ed a lot of money and in order to pro tect Ms creditors made a will ap- poKiting the Roman Republic as his 6dr, thus bringing his dynasty to a dose with his own decease. against Mrs. Snyder's wishes. Mrs. Snyder was a good woman, he said, lured by the wiles that only a corset salesman knew how to use, and, tak ing advantage of her unhappiness at home, led her “deeper and deeper down the path of sin.” Gray asked for mercy, he said, Mrs. Snyder, how ever, asked cr.’y justice. District Attorney Richard New- combe said both were guilty of a dia bolical and brutal murder and thatj they should be found guilty in the first | degree. Mrs. Snyder, he said, schemed | 1 to get her husband insured for $50,000, And what about freight hauling by omnibus ? On the Mojave Desert farm-1 ers buying, agricultural machinery W "oen he d : ed the Romans ackhowl- which would amount to $96,000 in case 1 etffeed the genuineness of the will, but he died by accident, and then Gray and contented themselves with “ seizing bf virtue of the document, as much of the private fortune of the testator as &ey could lay hands on.” The law in regard to wills is pretty ROYAL PURPLE GRAPE JUICE 4-oz. bottle 15c, 1-pt bot tle 40c, 1-qut bottle 75c, Vi-gal. bottle $1.25. Keep a bottle in the refrigerator. SADLER-OWENS PHARMACY AT UNION STATION Thones 377 & 400 Phones 377 & 40f 4koroughly fixed, but it takes a law- she planned to murder him for that money. They discussed the plan, bought the implements of death and malciously stole upon the sleeping Snyder’s plea of compulsory implica man and slew him. 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