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v-\. • "" '' ‘ •T 8 ‘ ' ■ • • ■ A • - . •- ■ ' ;> ; i , '' v 4\ * r u n ..■*■•. .'i'; '1 ' ■ '■ ■ 0 ' -vC- ■- W:.- THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1921 THE CUNTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. ■ M PAGE NINE The Little Shop Around the Conner will be 1 V* located in Newberry next door to the Chamber of Commerce with tele phone number 870-J is The Little Shop Around the Comer, which is very convenient for people o^er this part of the state and saves people much time and trouble in faking selections. They offer an excellent line of gifts of various kinds and ones that are unique and unusual. They are secured not only in this country but many are of foreign importation. The. stock has been selected taking into consideration the excellent taste and high culture of the people of this part of the state. If there is any particular article that you have in mind and they do not have it in stock they will secure it for you^ r ' Miss Mattie Adams has made an extensive study of the problems of gifts and is thoroughly familiar with the various occasions that demand gifts and knows what to give. If you are ever worried over a selection they ~t ' - ‘ ' ’o. ' ^ glad to be of assistance. No matter whether it is for wedding, birthday, anniversary or just that you desire to remind some one of your • appreciation of them they will be glad to help you make a selection. The giving of gifts is one of the pleasantest of all social customs of the race. From the beginning of his tory we read of .the gifts that have enabled us to often tell of the civili zation of the past. They serve as con crete examples of one’s appreciation and admiration for another. They make the hemes cheerful and the lives of the people happy. The giver often receives as much pleasure as the re cipient and everyone should be a giv er of gifts. I In this review we are glad to call | the attention of the people to The Lit tle Shop Around the Comer and to re fer its stock and service and would suggest that an occasional visit here is one of the cofcommitants of a happy life. DR. WADE STACKHOUSE TELLS WHY DANES ARE PROSPEROUS (From The Dillon Herald) I went to Europe primarily to get some first hand information on co operative marketing. I have return ed absolutely convinced that'co-opera- tive marketing has made modern Den- mark- A country only one-half the size of South Carolina, with soil no better, would hardly be mentioned sons. This get-rich' idea unfits the average South Carolina farmer to milk cows, feeds 4>igs, raise chickens or do real farming and, after some years of self denial, become indepen dent. If the view of the South 1Caro- lina farmer as to labor, thrift and ononiy were the same as most of e Danes, we would quickly have a ep th among the nations of the world had happy, prosperous farming state. Co- it not won financial independence by! operation would then become a pleas- i < * a method of co-operative marketing ure. i J l which is today a model and object les- J The people’s high schools and the “I’m, So son to all nations of the world. At agricultural schools prepared the present every progressive nation on Danes for success. All of these are earth has students in Denmark to, private schools, aiming at opening study her farming. jout the minds of young men and wo- I.saw no country in Europe that I men in the country districts; foster- believe the equal of South Carolina in j ing love for their country, its history climate, soil, health and opportunity, and language, for religion, love for an I have come home better satisfied with understanding of their daily work, fit- my lot in life, willing to live, die and ting them for taking part in a local be buried with a few miles of the farm government and national politics. The on which I was born. jonly illiterates in Denmark are the I wish to say that if we had a pop-, idiots and feebleminded. Their educa- ulation of small land owners, I believe tion has been practical. While the we can equal or surpass the wonder- ’ government grants some subsidies to ful development we saw in Denmark. I the colleges and high schools, they are oil only mention a few familiar plants i mostly supported by the tuition of the | that can. not be grown in Denmark: boys and girls seeking higher educa 'Cotton, tobacco,, rice, corn, sorghum, Pleased!” A 1 THAT’S WHAT OUR PATRONS SO FREQUENTLY TELL US. THEY LIKE THE WAY THEIR CLOTHES COME BACK SO RE FRESHINGLY NEW. AND THEY LIKE THE SERVICE THEY GET BY JUST CALLING 28. TRY IT! Buchanan’s Mercer-P. C. Game SATURDAY BY QUARTERS PHONE US ‘ ,1 WE GET OTHER GAMES AT SEVEN O’CLOCK EVERY : SATURDAY NIGHT . ■ . i . \J i., i i ' • . SADLER-OWENS PHARMACY “At Union Station” .Telephone 400 " Telephone 400 ■ “Kleaners Who Klean” Phone No. 28 tomatoes, grapes, peaches, figs, most varieties of apples, sweet potatoes, watermelons and cantaloupes. Blot all of these crops out of our farming and Jry to think of what success we might make. The climate of the two sections ex plains the difference. Denmark is more than 100 miles farther north than St. John’s, Newfoundland, where they have frost ten months in the year and a drop in widwinter at time to 30 degrees F. below zero. The Gulf stream tempers the climate of North ern Europe. Midsummer temperatures rarely rise above 65 degrees F. We were in Denmark in August and found an overcoat and heavy winter clothes almost indispensable. It constantly rains a little—never the torrential downpours we have in South Carolina. The average rainfall for the last 60 • years is only 27 inches per annum, compared with 45 inches in South Car olina. The wdnter temperatures sel dom drop below 20 degrees F. We fre quently have cold spells in South Car- lolina with temperature as low, but I 1 understand the wdnter temperature of Denmark is fairly constant. They have no deep snow' falls and the blue ! grass, w'hieh comes up naturally ev erywhere, is alw'ays green. We have I several times as many hours of sun- Notice for Payment of City Taxes Notice is hereby given that Town Taxes for the Town of Clinton, will be due and collectible between September 28th and October 31st, for the year 1927. The Tax Books will be open^d'for the collection of taxes at the Office of the Town Clerk on September 28th, and will remain open each day thereafter, Sunday excepted, up to and through October 31st. A penalty of fifteen (15%) per cent, will accrue on all ‘axes not paid on or before Monday, October 31st. The levy for current fiscal year is forty (40) mills; twenty (20) mills for current operating expenses and ‘ twenty (20) mills for interest and sinking fund on vari ous Bond Issues outstanding. The foregoing notice is given pursuant to Ordinance passed by the Town Council, September 6th, 1927. ! shine a year. This cool, moist, show ery weather makes Denmark a grass t country. Our hot, parching sunshine, ,, wdth long and frequent droughts and deluges of rain, prevents us from.be- ; ing a grass country. One result of the Dated Sept. 7, 1927. MARY C. HOLLAND, Town Clerk. tion. The only free government schools in Denmark are the seven grammar school grades, attendance upon which is compulsory, and the law ^ is rigidly enforced. A four year col-, lege course at Clemson is fine for the , boy, but under present conditions we j are over-educating nearly the entire student body, so that they forever: abandon South Carolina farms. They can earn so much more money in oth er pursuits that dirt farming is not popular with them. Clemson boys;are , helping to make rich the other 47 states. Perhaps the agricultural course in a local high school and the short course at Clemson might do for us what the folk schools have done for Denmark. My next article will tell something of the six main co-dperativj? associa tions in Denmark. How they started since 1850 and today nearly every body in the nation is a member of some of them. Some people are mem bers of several co-operative societies. The government of Denmark seems to be operated in the interest of the farmer and at the same time industry and organized labor seem to think they are as well treated as in any oth-1 er land. Dillon. WADE STACKHOUSE. WANTS FOR SALE- each. Mrs. Four large ferns at $5.00 Hugh Simpson. \ i \ *4 SOUTH CAROLINA smf FUR cool limited sun weather is the slow growth of crops. For instance, Denmark grows red winter wheat , which they plant in October. It is not °! ready to cut until the last of August; in other words, more than ten months from planting to harvest. This cool weather prevents corn growing; also the maturity of grapes, peaches and many other crops. Up till about 1860 Denntark was a | grain growing country and her income jeame almost wholly from the export I of wheat. It was largely a one crop I system. About that time they found their money crop in competition with new and cheap lands in America, Aus tralia, Argentina and Russia. They realized they could not successfully meet the competition. They were in the same fix that cotton farmers in South Carolina face today. Our com- j petition is the cheap new lands of West Texas. The story of co-opera tive marketing in Denmark is how they took the cow, the hog, and the hen and turned defeat into victory. The first steps in co-operative mar keting were taught by dire poverty and necessity. It was the peasants lib erated from something like peonage about A. Dm 1800, that started the movement. It was not the government, the big farmers or the philanthropic- ally disposed citizens that became ^ leaders. About 1851 a few peasant i farmers started a co-operative distrib-1 utive society after the Rochdale plan I w'hieh had started some years before I in England. The success of this store led to others. By 1874 there were 92 o J such distributive societies. In 1914 the number of such associations was of ficially given as 1,562 with 244,000 members. Nothing succeeds like suc- The peasants in- Denmark FOR SALE—Fresh eggs, delivered daily. Mrs. John T. Young, phone 341 Jr ^ Itc FOR RENT—Upstairs apart men;, of six rooms with bath. Will rent to one family, or will ren. separately *o roomers. Also suitable for two c« u- ples without children. See Mrs W. T. Putnam. Itc SET your cabbage plants for Christ mas cabbage now. Get home-grow r n plants from John T. Blakely. Phones 136 and 175. tf FERTILIZER—One car just in, 8-3-3 guano and 16 per cent acid. Close prices. See us. Farmers Exchange, T. J. Blalock. Prop., Clinton, S. C. 2tc Cool Weather Has Come WE ARE NOW SHOWING FALL TOP COATS, SUITS* SHOES, HATS AND FURNISHINGS. • ■ V'.» * 1 . Collegiate Suits $25.00 Top-Coats $17.00 to $27.50 Friendly Five Oxfords and Shoes ... $5.00 Boys’ Long Two-Pants Suits, “SpeciaPM . $9.95 Boys’ Long Pants Suits .... $7.50 to $16.50 New goods for Men, Women and Children — coming in daily. Men’s and Ladies’ Department Copeland-Stone Co. “One Price To All” Phone No. 47 Clinton, S. C. I still have a few of those acre lots just outside the city limits. They arc- good buys. _ GEO. H. ELLIS WANTED Violin pupils, beginners. Low rates, quick advancement. Ap ply to Mrs. Joe Martin Todd, 107 Mus- grove street. 2te FOR RENT—-Two adjoining rooms, one furnished, with hot and cold wa ter, private bath, suitable for light housekeeping, or. will rent sepa-rately to roomers." B*. M. Arrington, 58 Cen- Itp tennial st. 5 COLUMBIA October 17,18,19,20,21,22 DAY AND NIGHT Everything that a big state fair should have. than ever. Better Big football game—Carolina vs. Clemson, Thursday ’ • , _v - . Special attraction—King’s Rodeo every afterneon and night. ' . • ’ , ' i r*- I’ll be there, will you? THE PHOTOS made in the schools by Blanchard are better this year. They are not post cards, they come mounted at the same price, 3 for 50c or 7 for $1.00. Up :cess. WANTED—Two live married men to take subscriptions for a well known publication in this territory. Pays co- J weekly salary. Year round work. Men operated in such way there were few j of honor only considered. No whiskey heads wanted. Apply in person at Ho tel Clinton on Saturday, October 22nd, 9 to 10 a. m. Up |or no failures I The largest factor of their success : was the Danes themselves. Having for generations been tenants or labor ers, ^Hey were willing and content to work for their natural life time if i themselves and their children’s chil dren could only own a home and be- jcome independent. They seem willing , to stick by the small homestead year | after year, and milk cows three times | a day, placing the milk cans out be- | side the road. The Dane feeds his. pigs and chickens three times a day and only hopes, if he has a living, to pay the interest on his mortgage and in addition a small sinking fund. He plans, in 30, 60 or 99 years, to liqui date his debt and to become as inde pendent as Rockefeller. Not so one | of our citizens, who formerly invested | his earning in a - lottery ticket and hop ed the next day to get riclf. 'Since the law’ now forbids lottery tickets, he may invest in cotton futures—either in the New York variety, or else give a crop mortgage on cotton which he hopes to grow with a slim chance of heating the boll weevil and bad sea- Your tongue tells when you need Cor.ted tongue, dry mouthy bad breath, muddy skin, groggy nerves and sour stomach suggest, its use. acts that Concern your Pocketbeok as well as Obrs I NTERESTED custcv mors often ask us what becomes of all the money we collect from the public for telephone service. Of course, we are glad to tell them the details of our operating expenditures. One of the big items, of expense, which consumes several million dollars of the money paid us, is taxes. *3 Out of every $100 of gross revenue received last year $9.50 was paid to the tax collectors of the cities, counties, states and federal government This was equal to $5.50 for each telephone in service during the year. b - Taxes are necessary for the proper administra tion of our local and federal governments and every patriotic citizen expects to pay his share. But the tax hill of your telephone company has mounted to such proportions as to present a serious problem that concerns the subscriber as well as ourselves, for taxes are operating expenses and must be paid with money we collect for service. » i 1 Our taxes have increased 355. per cent since 1916, while the average, investment in service has increased but 153 per cerit.. And, as you know, the rates you are asked to pay for service have moved up but slightly as compared with the enormous in crease in taxes, wages and other factors necessary for rendering high grade telephone service. SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY , (iMCOtPOBATl*) y / A / _ ! r ♦ -j ' r y b-J Y --n-- z: 7^ •vVT /■ < w -• / /.- , mM