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■ r THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be a Clean News> paper. Complete, Newsy and Reliable. If You Don’t Read THE CHRONICLE You Don’t Get The News. VOLUME XXVII CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1927 NUMBER 35 CITY QfHnni Q P. c. LOOKS FOR HOOVER GROOMED McSWAIN FAVORS V/l 1 I iJVyllv/V/LiiJ GOOD GRID YEAR xirk^yxi A T r m'M irvr’u a xmi? xf a i>ir OPEN MONDAY / Everything In Readiness for New Session. Faculty Chang es Are Announced. Thirty Candidates To t Report Tomor row For- First Training. Only Four Regulars Lost. The vacation season for the pupils of the Clinton city schools is rapidly drawing to a close. With the dawn of next Monday morning, pupils will gather up their discarded books and start down the nine months march of the 1927-28 session. The buildings are all in excellent condition for the for mal opening and regular class work will begin immediately. The schools are again headed by J. Harvey Witherspopon as superinten dent. In the respective schools, sever al changes occur in the faculties and quite a few Clinton women are in cluded in the list. The complete list of teachers, together with their home addresses, follow: High School J. F. Bozard, Cameron, S. C., prin cipal. E. M. Shannon, Blackstock, S. C., science. Miss Robbie Parks, Augusta, Ga., science. Miss Olive Tuck, Spartanburg, S. C., English. Miss Azile Livingston, Prosperity,' S. C., mathematics. Miss Bertha Gray Gallman, New berry, S. C., Latin. Miss Margaret Boozer, Silverstreet, S. C., French. Miss Lillian Hunt, Greenville, S. C. history. Miss Gladys Stilwell, Silverstreet, S. C., mathematics. Florida Street School Miss Margie Seawright, Hodges, S. C., principal, second grade. Mrs. Raymond J. Pitts, Clinton, S. C., first grade. Miss Nancy Owens, Clinton. S. C., third grade. Miss Bonita Boozer, Newberry, S. C., fourth grade. Mrs. Felder Smith, Clinton, S. C., fifth grade. Miss Evelyn Bofts, Abbeville, S. C., sixth grade. Miss Paul Vane Elrod, Memphis, Texas, sixth grade. Mrs. W. R. Anderson. Clinton, S. C., seventh grade. Miss Anna Bell Hudson, Swansea, S. C., seventh grade. Academy Street School Miss Alline Newsom, Hartsville, S. C., principal, seventh grade. Miss Ethel Jones, Mountville, S. C., The 1927 football season at Presby terian college will get under way to morrow when Coach Walter Johnson expects to meet some thirty or more of his pigskin warriors on the Blue Stocking stamping grounds. On paper at this stage of the cam paign, prospects look fairly respecta ble for the Presbyterians. They lost three men through graduation last year, but those three men had been bulwarks in the line for the past three years and say what you will, the fact remains that they will be sorely miss- ad in the Blue Stocking forward wall. Lee Griffith, all-S. I. A. A. and all- State for the past two years, together with Marion Kirven and Buster Gregg, have pulled on the Garnet and Blue jerseys of their alma mater for the last time. However, all is not lost. Some ten or more letter men are scheduled to show up tomorrow, and these men to gether with the recruits from the freshman eleven and the varsity re- i serves, will make things interesting for the opposition. With, the exception of “Nub” Ho- grefe, last year’s backfield will be in tact. It was due principally to Ho- grefe’s excellence on the cinder path that Presbyterian college captured the S. I. A. A. and South Carolina track championships last spring, and rather than run the risk of having this Blue streak broken up, the coaches have de cided that it would be better to keep him out of football this fall. Hogrefe weighs only 135, but he was one of the most elusive broken field runners in the South Atlantic last fall. His running up of punts played Havoc with Wake Forest and Oglethorpe last year, and his will be a keen loss to the team. Jimmie Stamps, famous flipper of passes, will captain the eleven this year, and will guide the team from the quarter position. Jimmie has ‘been working in Atlanta this summer and attending Emory summer school. Charlie Wilson, class and pass mate of Stamps, will doubt'ess be seen at fullback again this year. Last year Charlie was the first Blue Stocking to cross Furman’s goal since the war, and his spectacular fifty-yard run through the Purple team was one of the high spots of his 1926 season. Joe Owens, one of the season’s best finds last year, will no doubt be FOR NOMINATION EXCHANGE MARKET 1. Administration Out To Get Southern Makes Address Friday In Which He Votes. Coolidge Keeps Quiet, But Support for Secretary Seen. on sixth grade. Mrs. William B. Bailey, Clinton, S. C., fifth grade. Mrs. Hugh B. Workman, Clinton, S. C., fourth grade. Miss Collette Griffin, Clinton, S. C., third grade. Mrs. Lee Add Blakely, Clinton, S. C., second grade. Mrs. L. B. Dillard, Clinton, S. C., second grade. Miss Lilly Yarborough, Cross An chor, S. C., first grade. Mrs. John W. Little, Clinton, S. C., first grade. Providence School Mrs. H. A. Copeland, Clinton, S. C., principal, fifth grade. Miss Margaret Blakely, Clinton, S. C., fourth grade. Miss Agnes Davis, Clinton, S. C., third grade. Mrs. W. H. Simpson, Clinton, S. C., second grade. / Mrs. S. W. Sumerel, Clinton, $f. C., first grade. ' ihand fct one of the halves. Joe was oqe of the most dependable line plung ers and pass catchers on the team last year, and is expected to go even bet ter this year. Ashby Galloway, brother of Chick, and Twister Mills, both of last year’s Washington, Aug. 29.—Despite re ports from Rapid City that President Coolidge means to stand aloof from the contest for the Republican nomina tion for the presidency, the organiza tion men are now working on the hy pothesis that he wants Herbert Hoov er to be the candidate. Either the president has intimated this to those who may be expected to heed his wishes or somebody has tak en the president’s name in vain in this connection, for the word is all around that Hoover is the administration can didate. There was a presumption of this when Secretary Work of the depart ment of the interior was reported to be managing the preliminary cam paign for his colleague of the com merce department. It was deemed harly likely that so correct a follower of the President as Dr. Work would have been active if he thought that activity distasteful to his chief. Friction has been rumored at vari ous times between Secretary Hoover and Secretary of State Kellogg, due to Hoover’s trenching on the foreign field of the government. The stories, often published, that Mr. Kellogg was going to resign and that Hoover was slated to succeed him may have had a great part in this. The president scotched this story w-hen he let it be known that Secre tary Kellogg was not going to resign, and coupled with it the announcement that if he did resign Hoover would not be his successor. Generally, how ever, the cabinet is for Hoover. He and Mellon have teamed together most of the time, though they did split over the first French proposal to settle the debt. On that occasion President Cool idge adopted Hoover’s view. This did not seem to make any rift in the re lations of the two strong men of the cabinet, and the Hoover people have expected that the secretary of the treasury, who is due to be the big boss of the convention, would help their man. The other side of the picture is that Mellon, who naturally represents the financial magnates of the country, would hold the Pennsylvania delega tion and such other delegates as come to him, pending the decision of the in terests as to Hoover’s availability. The secretary of commerce, early in his public career, was suspected of de cided leanings toward labor, though his later associations have been with chambers of commerce and others of that stratum in the body politic. The first definite evidence of the administration’s interest in Hoover comes from North Carolina, where Outlined His Ideas of a Safe Plan For Farming in This County. Laurens, Aug. 27.—Speaking to a group of farmers who gathered at the court house Friday in the interest of the creamery route in this county, Congressman J. J. McSwain pictured a plan in his mind for the rehabilita tion of agriculture in this part of the state, and especially in Laurens coun ty.. Mr. McSwain was reared on a farm near Cross Hill and is still directly in terested in agriculture, owning farms both in Laurens and Greenville coun ties. Mr. McSwain said that he had stud ied agricultural problems in every sec tion of the United States, in Canada and in several European countries, and that there is a national aspect to the agricultural problem which Con gress alone can solve, but there is also a local and individual aspect, which is the more important after all, and which the farmers individually and collectively in communities and coun ties must solve for themselves. Mr. McSwain said that the curb market and the cream route are good beginnings, but they , are the founda tion which should finally lead to some thing else. He said that we should have a plan to which we should work, and he suggested a plan, that the ob jective be the establishment of a pro duce exchange at the county seat; and REPORT INDICATES KfHOOI HAYS 25 CENTS COTTON I RERE AGAIN Boll Weevil Still Bugbear of Market With Rains Aiding Insect. Other Troubles of Cotton Plentiful. Memphis.—Following the sensation ally bullish crop condition report and estimate from Washington, the indi cated yield being at least a million bales over the ideas in this part of the cotton belt, the trade is now busy trying to find out what prices to ex pect for the coming crop. Ideas are rather vague, although talk of as high as 25 cents is frequently heard, assum ing that there is no unexpected check on the boll weevil. On the other hand, those who take their cue from the spot department 1 and the rate at which the spinning world is disposed to take raw material for future shipment assert that the level is more likely to be well below 20 cents. The boll weevil is still the bugbear of the market, and on its depredations within the next several weeks are ex pected to be based bullish endeavors. Following the upward movement of speculative vdlues, which was based largely on the threatened weevil men ace, came the recent shakeout of weak ly-held long interests on lessening of such fears and belief that the crop was making good progress aided of course, by pertain extraneous developments. But now the government comes along through its experts and gives additional emphasis on the menace, stating that the pest is thrice as plen- this exchange would be operated by a j tiful as last year man of ability and character, proper- j Helping to accentuate the bullish ly bonded, and he would keep posted , feeling, even with prices $10 more a as to markets, prices and where vari-ibale up in a day’s time as a result of ous produce could be sold. TV ' ; " * —— 1 j change should include a creamery, a cannery, a large cold storage plant, and with ample warehouse facilities to store all such commodities as po tatoes, peas, peanuts, pecans, oats, rye, barley, corn hay and every con ceivable variety of farm produce un til the same could be either sacked or This ex-1 the biggest surprise ever in a govern ment report, is the fact that weather conditions since August 1, the time to which the report covers, have not been any too favorable in a large part of the belt. So much rain fell recently that it is generally feared the weevil has been helped to spread and will be more ac- Thornwell Orphanage Schools Opened Yesterday With Rec ord Breaking Enrollment. The Thornwell orphanage schools opened their new 1927-28 session yes terday with a full quota of teachers, several changes in the faculty having been made, however, since last year. The schools are headed for the first time by Prof. B. S. Pinson as super intendent, succeeding Prof. It. O. If el- son, who resigned to accept work in Due West. Mr. Pinson has been con nected with the educational work of Laurens county for several years and comes highly recommended for the place he has accepted. The orphanage children have returned from their va cation trips and with the large family all re-assembled, everything was in readiness yesterday for the formal opening. In addition to Prof. Pinson, the fol lowing teachers are members of the high school faculty: Miss Virginia Neville, Miss Nancy E. Pearson, Miss Dorothy Wright, Mrs. Anna R. Carey. The grammar and primary grade teachers are: Miss Cora Willson, Miss Kate Lati mer, Miss Nelle Rearden, Miss Mattie McFadden, Mrs. D. W. A. Neville, Miss Ada Dysart, Mrs. B. S. Pinson, Miss Martha Reid Todd. Miss Mattie Appelt, kindergarten; Miss Eleanor Keels, music; Miss Car rie R. Evans, commercial. CLINTON CHURCH HOSTS TO W. M. U. Baptist Women of County To Meet Here for Missionary Confer ence on Sept. 7th. boxed or crated, or baled, and shipped 1 tive in ruining what appears to be a to points of consumption. In the same connection eggs would be received and The program for the Woman’s Mis sionary Union of the Laurens Baptist association, to be held with the First Baptist church of Clinton Sept. 7. has freshman team, will doubtless make Lowden had three-fourths of the dele- - Miss Mary Lou Bell, Staunton, Va., public school music. , MISSIONARY TO BE HEARD HERE the varsity grade this year. They were the ramblingest rodents on the rat eleven, and should bolster the var sity considerably. The following linemen are expected back: Neil Stevens and Shirley Tim mons, veteran ends for the past two years; James Witherspoon, all-State tackle last year; Pooley Blake, arot'i- er powerful tackle or guard; Jerry McKenzie, letter center for the past two years, and Billy Blalock, end. Aside from the above letter men, there will be a wealth of material back from the reserves and freshman team. . Coach Walter Johnson has beerf rec reation director at Myrtle Beach this gates when he tried before—in 1920. The Lowden people are already in the state trying to hold his old strength and augment it if possible. The administration people have promptly started to work for Hoover. David H. Blair, assistant secretary of the treasury, is named as among those who will help Hoover, though Blair has made no announcement. He could not very well, as long as Secretary Mellon is a likely candidate, though nobody believes Mellon will use the delegates he gets except for purposes of trading and convention control. Wiliam G. Bramham, who was state chairman, and is expected to succeed hard schedule this year, with eight games scheduled. If the Furman and Presbyterian teams go through the season undefeated by a state team, the two teams are privileged to meet e * in a P° st season game on December Mary Kennedy W,II Speak Melt 3 in ord „ t0 decid€ th( . pionship. The Mercer Bears are the summer, but will throw in the sponge' Judge J. J. Hayes as national commit- there in order to be on hand when his te eman, was counted as for Lowden— men come tomorrow. j that was before the administration The Blue Stockings have another • People got busy; now Bramham is off the Lowden roster. The cotton mill people in North Carolina are for Hoo ver. This sort of thing is going on in various states. Whenever a man with whom the ad ministration has influence shows Low- Both Sabbath at A. R. I*. Church Morning and Evening. Miss Mary Kennedy, a missionary of the Associate Reformed Presbyteri an denomination, now home on fur lough, will speak at the local A. R. P. next Sabbath morning and night at the usual hour for services. Miss Ken nedy is a brilliant young lady, being a graduate both of the Woman’s col lege and of Erskine college, of Due West. She holds an A. M. degree from Columbia university, N. Y., and is like wise a graduate of the Moody Bible school of Chicago, and she will bring a worthwhile message. At the evening hour she will display many of the In dian costumes in her lecture. The pub lic is cordially invited to be present at both services. Thursday Closing Conies To End j den sympathies a missionary is sent 1 to him, and usually he drops out of the only new foes on the schedule this TTowden ranks. year. Following is the 1927 schedule: | The real fight for delegates all September 24—Clemson at Clemson. I throu K h tl* 6 South is between Lowden poultry assembled and shipped in car,«d to lessen thus far the actual dam load lots. In like Planner, cattle, hogs, |age from the pest, although it has and sheep could be received for ship-i been admitted that August is usually ment to a convenient Tpacking house.'the period when‘'the worst harm is All perishable commodities would be kept in cold storage until shipped to points of consumption. The direct result would be great di versification, enrichment of the soil, and the financial independence of the dry weather. Several pests are en- fnrmers. The fertilizer bills would be couraged by wet weather, while fruit- largely eliminated, the same number , ing is never done under favorable eon- of bales of cotton would be produced ditions when moisture is so plentiful, on half the number of acres and would ! Should the crop prove to be in the be a clear crop, so that mortgages neighborhood of the government es- fairly good prospect. The fact that the P )een announced by Mrs. J. W. Hen- crop in many sections is late has help- derson, secretary. A noteworthy fea- done? Not only fear is expressed because of the weevil as a result of the copi ous rains, but cotton has other trou bles that are increased by lack of hot, could be paid off, new lands bought, or a cash reserve kept in the bank. Mr. McSwain suggested that the number of cows be doubled 'every two years for a period of ten years, so that at the end of ten years there would timate, which is seriously doubted by many who cite the usual tendency to underestimate it, prices at ruling lev els would mean a good business out look in the South. However, there has been thus far much less forward sell be l'> times as many cows as there are, ing done than usual, which is one of now. This would support a large | the main reasons why in the last two creamery and butter is just as staple , or three weeks ractionary sentiment in as cotton. With good roads into every J cotton was created, or at least the rise section of the county, and every farm- w as thought to have gone far enough er within one hour of Laurens city by automobile, and most of them within At current prices cotton will cost spinners $40 to $50 a bale more than they paid for a large part of what they bought last season. This will nat urally induce drawing somewhat on their reservesr which for the first of i .- portions, while the carry-over 239,000 bales is not to be sniffed at, say the boars. October 1—Open. v October 7—Wake Forest at Ashe ville. October 15—Mercer at Macon. October 22—Erskine at Rock Hill. October 28—Wofford at Clinton. November 5—Oglethorpe at Atlar- ta - | November 11—Newberry at New-[ berry. November 24—Citadel at Charles-; ton. and Hoover. Nearly half the delegates that Lowden had in the 1920 conven tion were from the South and he has all his old fellows working for him. Methodists Change Worship Hour A change in the morning service hour, frorfl 11:15 to 11.00 o’clock, has been announced by the North Brodd Street Methodist church, beginning The summer custom of observing next Sunday morning. The congrega- Thursday as a half holiday came to aition .is asked to bear the new hour of sendee in mind and be present «•» time. The pastor, the Rev. O. M. Ab ney, has returned to the city ^nd will occupy his pulpit Sunday at both close last week. The stores’, banks, etc., will remain open beginning to day on full time schedule, the closing hour being six o’clock instead of twelve as during July and August. morning and evening services. GIN Your cotton this fall in Clin ton. Sell your cotton in Clinton. Buy what you need in Clinton. Behind the voice of the advertised product is the voice of authority. Let CHRONICLE advertise ments tell you why, what, when, where and how of the goods you buy. Let them guide you. > THE CHRONICLE “The Paper Everybody fleads” —r—«— less than a half hour, the produce ex change would practically bring a mar ket to the door of every farmer for every .variety of produce. The cannery would consume all surplus quantities ♦rJ” • * / • i • i v. V * time in years are of fairlv large pro of tomatoes, beans, okra, etc., and 1 F chickens and eggs in unlimited quanti ties would constitute a cash crop any day of the year. In a few years the land would be rich, and rich land means a “rich man.” The mortgages would disappear, better homes would come, families would remain on the farm, the country schools and church es would grow strong, and Laurens Allendale. Aug. 25.- All ma e resi- county, from one side to another, dents of the town of Allendale, eigh- would soon be a model community. teen years of age or older, both white This may seem like dreaming, but in and colored, who have no visible means fact it is business planning. All great j of support are’ordered by Mayor C. C. I results are accomplished by following | f'havous to obtain work by Monday' deliberately a carefully considered t morning or be liable to arrest on a , - plan. Anybody can see where we have 1 charge of vagrancy. This ruling does come to by following the one crop sys- j not apply to school children and stu- tem of cotton. It is plain that we must dents. Work Or Leave, Loafing Gang Told change our ways. Instead of stum bling blindly, and snatching here and there at first one thing and then an other, and constant!;- meeting failure and disappointment, let lis follow out a well defined program of develop ment, he c.ated in conclusion. ture of the program will be the mes sage by Mrs. W. W. Lawton, a mis sionary from China. Officers of the union uege all of the churches to send delegates. The following is the prograr.: Hymn—“Jesus Calls Us.” Devotional—Rev. Edward Long. Greetings—Mrs. T. L. W. Bailey. Response—Mrs. James Long. Enrollment of delegates from V/. M. S. Hymn. Review of the work of 1926. 1. By Superintendent. 2. Presidents of Divisions. 3. Chairman of Personal Service. 4. Chairman of Mission Study. - Discussion of change in time of meet ing from fall to spring, and neces sity of constitutional change. Message—Vice-President of Division -Mrs. I. W. Wingo. Prayer. Message by Missionary—Mrs. W. W. Lawton, China. Appointment of Committee o.: Time and Place and Resolutions. Election of nominating committee. Offering. Prayer. Noon hour. 1:30—Devotional—Rev. W. D. Spinx. Review of year’s work ,by Associate Superintendents: Mrs. J. D. W. Watts, Mrs. C. L. Owens and Mrs. C. H. Roper. Special music. - - — Five minute talks: 1. My obligation-to my derumma- tional program—Mrs. B. F. Car- son. 2. My obligation as Miss Louise Bond. 3. My obligation to my Mrs. H. J. Snider. Round Table—What I am going to do to help my society advance the Kingdom of God this year. Demonstrations—Information leads to Inspiration—Conducted by Miss Lu cia Barksdale. « Report of Committee on Time and Place. a steward- society- Medical Men To Meet Here Notice was given by Chief of Police L. A. Stack Thursday to all loafers in * to find work within two days. ^ lect,on ^officers, according to Chief Stack, will ^ e P or * ( »mmittee on Resolutions. ! Announcements. Prayer. town This, give those to whom this ruling applies , two more days in which to loaf as Sun day is not counted in the law. Chief Stack declares that loafing on the streets of Allendale will have to stop J and the law against vagrancy will be Visiting Minister Coining Sunday rigidly enforced. 1 „ n ,, , . . / ' . _ ! The Rev. Henry J. Black, D. D., The loafers will either have to start ^ , , , . president of the South Carolina synod, work or leave town, stated Mayor i Chayous on Thursday morning, “un-1 little time to rve a Several local physicians were in Gray Court last Monday attending the monthly meeting of the Laurens j ] PS « t h ev wan . County Medical association, which I f or t h e town and county, was featured by addresses by Dr. [ I James A. Hayne, secretary of the ! State board of health, and Ur. Geo. T.|“ w "I ! ' u ; 7 ‘ "t S*"* or j” 1 f' 'up, according to thief Stack, wr.o de- claies that there is too much loafing Those who are arrested under this law wtkTTje nut cn the gang or locked will preach at the Lutheran church on next Sunday. Sept. 4, at 4 o’clock in the afternoon. The public is invited to hear him. KEGl LAR SERVICES Sl’NDA’k j Tyler of Greenville. The next meeting of the association j will be held in Clinton on the fourth Monday in September. C. W. Stone left yesterday for Clem son college where he is attendinj Farmers week. going on in Allendale. Local Cotton Middling Today 22c / Dr. D. J.. Woods, pastor of the First |! Presbyterian Church, has asked The Chronicle to announce that regular services at his church will be held next Sunday at the usual hours. He expects to return to the city in time to pccupy hig. pulpit. / . .* ..... '• • • •• i \ / / , VV JrT'i •aai .‘a ittik i . i J^- / h