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X <♦ 1 J**' V ■ .■/ * ■ ■ •T ' rJ ' ' , r „- • •• ' ^ If-■ ' ' . ■’ll ' - J" ■ ■ ■.■ r •. page six I r '• I THE CIJNTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. CHURCH NEWS ASSOCIATE REFORMED PRES RYTJ5RIAN CHURCH f C. Bynum Betts, Pastor 10:ft0 a. m., Sabbath School. Jeanes, Superintendent. . * 10 a. jn., Men’s Bible Class, taught by Dr. J. B. Kennedy. 11 a. m., Morning Worship. Ser mon by the pastor. 4:30 p. m.. Junior Y. P. C. U. Miss es Mattie Blakely and Julia Patrick, teachers ANTI-SALOON LEADER PASSES Wayne B. Wheeler Succumbs To Ail ment As End Comes Suddenly. Active In “Dry” Movement. | outstanding leaders who were diame- ; trically opposed as to the wisdom of ' one section of the laws of America, > but the decision as to the victor, so fafr as outside appearances went, rest- j | ed with the individual sentiment of those who undertook to render it. Battle Creek, Mich., Sept. 5.-Wayne! But this was only one of the con- P. §. B. Wheeler, general counsel of the, stant combats in which Mr. Wheeler Anti-Saloon League of America, died j engaged on Capitol hill. He was a pro- at Battle Creek sanitarium here late lific witness before committees, and this afternoon. He was taken io the wherever he appeared the wets were sanitarium three days ago from his there gunning for him. Even with this summer home at Little Point Esabele, every day running of the gauntlet, the ]VIi c h, 1 1 forces associated with him were uni- Mr. Wheeler was taken ill last formly successful in beating back ev- Thursday with a kidney ailment for' ery threatened advance by the oppon- f e ' ( - * . THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, - j*<- 1927 ■% ~ , ~-w -6:30-d: m. Senior Y. P. CC. U. Miss which he had been undergoing treat-, ents of the dry laws. * ** I + 1 TT I Alee Todd, president. 1 nient tor several years, ne was re-, Soon after enactment of the Vol- 8 00 p m Evening Worship. Ser- moved from his home to a hospital stead act some one coined the word mon by the pastor. 4 and after an examination rushed to, “Wheelerism” which was^ freely used Wednesday, 7:30 p. m M Prayer Meet- the sanitarium, where it was at-first °n the floor of the senate and the j ’ ’ decided to perform an operation. | house by those who asserted that the . . | Mr. Wheeler apparently responded Anti-Saloon League had set up a “su- FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHI RCH f rapidly to treatment, however, and per-government,” which cracked the Rev. D. J. Woods, D. D.. Pastor j shoved so much improvement yester- lash on the backs of congress as well 10 00 a m Sunday school. D. W. dav that it was decided not to oper- as the officials of the administration. A NeviHe,"superintendent. ate. * j Some one else facetiously defined the 11 15 a m Morning Worship. I bulletin issued late last night by word as a state of mind which put a 3-30 p m Junior Christian Endea- his physician, Dr.'Floyd E. Verity, senator or a representative to sleep vor sa d the dry leader’s condition had during some terrific onslaught by the 6:45 p. m Christian Endeavor Societies meet. 8:00 p. m., Evening Worship. Wednesday, 8:00 p. m.. Prayer Meet ing. dry Intermediate and Senior improved to such an extent that it was militant wets, and awakened him ra thought he would be out of danger freshed in time to cry “yes” while the within a few days. ! clerk recorded his vote in favor of Today, however, he took a sudden another blow at the liquor trade, turn for the worse and died instantly THORNWELL MEMORIAL CHURCH (Preabyterian) Rev. L. Ross Lynn, D. D., Pastor 10:00 a. m., Sunday School: F. M. Stutts, Superintendent. 11:00 a. m., Morning Worship. 4:00 p. m., Afternoon Worship. 7:00 p. m., Senior Christian Endea vor.- , Wednesday, 7:30 p. m., Prayer Meet ing. at 3:20 this afternoon. Members of Mr. Wheeler’s family were at the bedside when death oc curred. Mr. Wheeler’s death follpwed that of his wife by a few weeks. Continuation of Wheeler Article To Name Successor In December Atlanta, Sept. 6.—A successor to i Wayne B. Wheeler^in Washington will be named by the national executive committee of the Anti-Saloon League Mrs. Wheeler w’as fatally burned in of America at its next meeting in an oil stove exxplosion at the Wheeler Washington, December 1, or earlier if home, which also was indirectly the the league’s general officers deem a cause of the death of her father. See- special meeting necessary for this iing_his daughter rush ijito a rooim her purpose, Dr. A. J. Barton of Atlanta, BROAD STREET METHODIST CHURCH O. M. Abney, B. D., Pastor Sunday School, 10 a. m., Gilbert B. Blakely, Superintendent. 11:15 a. m., Morning Worship. 3:30 p. m., Junior Epworth League meets. 7:00 p. m., Senior Epworth League meets. 7:30 p. m.. Evening Worship. Wednesday, 7:30 p. m., Prayer Meet ing. Herman Rosenthal, advertising man ager for Sears, Roebuck & Co., recent ly said: 1 \ FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Edward Long, Pastor Sunday Schopl, 10 a. m., W. R. An derson, Jr., Superintendent. Preaching Service, 11 a. m. Junior B. Y. P. U., 6:30 p. m., Mrs. Edward Long, leader, J. A. Owens, president. Senior B. Y. P. U., 7:15 p. m., W. R .Anderson, President. Evening Worship, 8:00 p. m. Wednesday, 8:00 p. m.. Prayer Meet ing. 8T. JOHN’S LUTHERAN CHURCH Rev. M. R. Wingard, Pastor Preaching services every Sunday af ternoon at 4 o’clock except the second ciothing in flames, the aged man was cHamnan or the committee, said today, stricken with a heart attack which He made this announcement in con- proved fatal. ~\ nection with a formal statement ex- Mr. Wheeler had just returned from pressing sorrow over the death of the Cleveland, where the funeral of his man who for years had directed the wife and father-in-law were held, league’s actviities in the national capi- when he was taken Ul. His condition tal. but pledging there would be “no was not thought serious until his re- retreat” by the organization in its! moval to the hospital. Even then phy- work. sicians did not consider his condition Suggestions that the two offices grave. ^ Wheeler held—general counsel and Funer^ arrangements have not legislative superintendent—might be been completed, but it is thought bu- separated and divided between two rial will be in Columbus beside the men to be selected to fill his place body of his wife. # _ were met by the statement from Dr. Mr. Wheeler had told his physicians Barton that so far as his knowledge that he felt much better and had ask- of the situation went sentiment within ed permission to read in his bed. A the league appeared to be in favor of nurse handed him a book and as he such a change. * lifted it, he fell forward, dying in-! The committee chairman declined to j stantly. Doctor Verity declared Mr. hazard a prediction as to who might Wheeler’s death was due to a heart at- be chosen to succeed Wheeler, and like- tack aggravated by the kidney trou- wise refused to comment on reports hie. that his name had been mentioned The body was taken to a local un- prominently with others as a possi- dertaking establishment and will be bility for the legislative superinten- accompanied to Columbus by one son dency. and a friend. Dr. Howard Hyde Rus- j He did not believe, however, that a sell, Tuesday morning. j special meeting of the committee The dynamic character of Wayne B. would be necessary to fill the posts, Wheeler for years cast its shadow pointing out that Wheeler’s work had over every one of the bittfrr fights been taken* over temporarily by Dr. “We have a bureau whose duty it is to read each week, the home newspapers from all over the country. There is not a paper of any con sequence in our trade territory that our firm does not get. This bureau looks over these pa- pers, and when we find a town where the mer chants are not advertising in the local papers, we immediately flood that territory with our lit erature. It always brings results far in excess of the same effort put forth in territory where the local merchants all the time use their local pa- * ^ = r pers w that have waged around prohibition F. Scott McBride and Edward B. Bun- and its enforcement in the United ford, who was Wheeler's legal assist- States, because his name had come to ant. Sunday of each month at 11 o’clock mean prohibition in its every sense. The committee’s recommendation of in The morning. i Backed by the Anti-Saloon League a successor or successors will be re- Sunday School one hour before each and the vast religious organizations ported to the league’s national board preaching service. . CYRUS BAILEY MEMORIAL METHODIST CHURCH. A. J. Bowling, Pastor 10:00 a. m., Sunday School. Meadors, Superintendent. Prayer Meeting each Wednesday at 7:30 o’clock. Schedule of Preaching Services First Sunday at 11:00 a.m. ’ First Sunday at 7:45 p. m. Second Sunday at 11:00 a. m. - Third Sunday at 11:00 a. m. Third Sunday at 7:45 p. m. Fourth Sunday at 11:00 a. in. Fifth Sunday at 7:45 p. m. All are welcome to these services. [supporting it, Mr. Wheeler fought of directors, in whose hands the for- i long and stubb&fnly, for_ the 18th mal appointment rests. ! amendment to the constitution and the Dr. Barton said he probably would Volstead act to enforce it, and when leave tomorrow to attend funeral ser- that battle was won he fought no less vices for Wheeler at Columbus, Ohio. ‘The friends and the cause of so- effort to briety and civic righteousness have suffered a great shock and inexpres sible sorrow in the death oi Wayne B. Wheeler,” he said in his statement, G. W. stubbornly against every modify these enactments. Typifying, as he did, the very spirit of the drys, Wheeler took the leader ship around the halls of congress, about the Capitol and even at the “but there will be no backward step j White House in opposition tc nearly in the cause of prohibition and in the every move by legislative, administra- plans of the league for aggressive and tive or executive branches of the gov- persistent work for defending and emment that he thought would dis- making effective the 18th amendment turb the dry balance which he and his and the laws enacted for its enforce-' co-workers had set up. , ment. It has been said that Wheeler was i “He was a prodigious and indefa- abused for- his activities by the West tigable worker. He knew no such LYDIA METHODIST C3UURCH but that his energetic fighting quali- thing of stopping or sparing himself. A. J. Bowling, Pastor [ties had at least earned the secret ad- His premature death is undoubtedly 10:00 a. m., Sunday School. Bolt; miration of them. While the" West due to his constant and excessive la- Bobo, acting superintendent. Schedule of Pret'hmg Services Second Sunday at 7:30 p. m. Third Sunday at 11:00 a. in. Fourth Sunday at 7:30 p. m. Fifth Sunday at 11:00 a. m. W. CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. J. A. Marler, Pastor 10:00 a. m., Sunday school, L. King, superintendent. 11:00 a. m., Morning Worship. 7:30 p. m., Evening Worship. Prayer meeting every Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. LYDIA BAPTIST CHURCH \ R. W. JUSTICE, Pastor 10:00 a. m., Sunday School. W. E Johnson, Supt. 11:00 a. m., Morning Worship (ev ery Sunday.) 6:30 p. m., B. Y. P. U. meets. heaped about his head an unprecedent- bor; he died a martyr of the cause of, ed quantity of stinging phrases, the prohibition and good government, dry leader worked untiringly to put “It was his ability and integrity more teeth into the enforcement act which caused the liquor fcjrces and which they denounced so bitterly. , their friends in and out of congress Although ostensibly the Anti-Saloon to hate him and heap upon him their League general counsel was merely vitriolic abuse. Their constant effort the instrument of the league, so far was to make it appear that he was the as Washington was concerned, Wheel- Anti-Saloon League in order to inject ! er was the league and in his activi- as much of the personal element as ties there he was credited with wield- possible into their fight, thinking ing an enormous influence on legisla- thereby if possible to discredit him tion affecitng the dry cause. and overthrow the prohibition amend- There was no move to amend the ment and law. But their most poison- Volstead act, however slight, that.es- ed darts were never able to reach him. caped the sharp eye of this Ohio-born “In his death our forces and our lawyer. He was inquisitive to a su- cause have suffered a great loss, perlative degree of every bill touching While we are grieved we will not be upon prohibition which was dropped cast down. The workers fall but the •! 1 into the senate or house bill boxes and work- goes on. There will not be any 1 he was lightning-like in striking at the retreat.” measures he considered objectionable Here is* one case where the antidote to the mail order evil is evident. The lo cal merchant should keep the home fires burning by liberal and incessant use of his advertising mediums. The lo* cal community is sure to read some ad vertisements and they might as well be yours. What Herman Rosenthal says is as true as Gospel. The house that doesn’t advertise is losing business. It is not alone losing business locally, but it per mits the mail order houses to step in and take business away. The man who is getting the business is the one who has the goods, who gives the service and who advertises. He is winning success because he deserves it The successful merchant advertises as many weeks in the year as he wants business. Are you a real merchant or an ordi nary store-keeper? t In his battle for hi* cause, Wheeler 7:30 p, m., Evening Worship (every de P etu,ed to a considerable extent on fs J .'AS' +1**1 .rcil.-Wv ** f +Vl*Y AM J In A Sunday. Jf Mid-week prayer meeting every Wednesday evening at 7:30. EPISCOPAL The Epiphany Laurens, S. C. Rev. E. N. Joyner, Pastor Services on the first and third Sun days, each month, at 11:15 a. m. Clinton Episcopal members cordially Invited. If you want to buy a T]AftflP If you want to sell a HUMt If you want to rent a See GEO. H. ELLIS Real Estate and Insurance FINAL SETTLEMENT the value of the printed word, and he came phrase-makers in public life. His, statements bristled with epigrams, and ^ , . . j . v mimstrator of the estate of Rachel C. early m his career he found that brev- v ity was a g—♦ — - | Young, deceased, in the office of the ideas before statements issued to ine press , * "'r 7 m °' u l from my trust as Administrator of i th,!n, w , erc made “P of 1 two or thre « i .aid estate. i pungent paragraphs. j Some of the most stirring times in j P erson indebted to said estate | the Washington life of Mr. Wheeler | is notified and required to make pay- came during the 69th congress, when meni on or before that date; and all to be one of the most exnert Take notice that on the 20th -ay of _ , • ,... September, 1927, I will render a final (-makers in public life. His! . . ’ ... , . . « • .* , ... . , account of my acts and doings as Ad- statements bnstled with epigrams, and * .t . . , . j .i. . u mimstrator of the estate of Rachel C. s career he found that brev- v ... ... , . . ... .. Young, deceased, in the office of the great asset m getting his T , * , ^ . T . : li- £ , !Judge of Probate of Laurens county, : re the public. Few of his, . , . . . : , * , at 11 o clock, a. m., and on the same : issued to The press exceed- , : 1 , a -aa j at day will apply for a final discharge ed a typewritten page and most of , 1 a ^ . j • • a . * A. | the Anti-Saloon League counsel en gaged in his famous exchanges with Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, chairman of a senate campaign funds committee. This meeting of the sen ate committee was advertised far and wide as a clashing of the wits of two persons having claims against said e? tate will present them on or before said date duly proven or be forever barred. JACK ft. YOUNG, Administrator. August 17, 1927—9-15-5tc “The Paper Everybody Reads” it I X !!i!l!!li!flli 1 f 22; 1 X -ir •V , *■ / / V/. USKi ml: ■ / A'*-. . v -a i-