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7 ^AGE FOUR THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CUNTON, S. C THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1929 Ollinton (Elinjntrlr Established 1900 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One year $1.50; Six Months 75 cents; Three Months 50 cents Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C. " — "I ' i ■■ ■' ■ ■■ ■ ' ■ I ■ - The Chronicle seek^the cooperation of its subscribers and readers—the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly ad vice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. This paper is not re'p'nsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. idea to have my non-laying fowls cul led from the flock, so last week I sent I off and got a professional culler, and when he got through, I had 1 hen and 2 roosters left. It begins to look like my chance for fall eggs is rather slim, but we will be kept pretty busy baking the 14 hens that have decided to retire from the egg-producing in dustry. ! The poultry business is a funny I business anyhow'. Last spring when the time came for my hens to surren der some of their fruit, I made several nice nests for them to use, and put I them at the most convenient places possible and all in the world the old huzzies had to do was to walk up a : pretty little ladder and enter the de pository which I provided, and turn around and surrender her contribu- jtion. CLINTON. S. C., SEPTE.MBER 26, 1929 But, believe it or not, nary a hen THOUGHT and a committee has been appointed ever laid in my wonderful nests. One, Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let to formulate plans for a local associ-, ef them laid 3 eggs under the hen ! eveiy man be .swift to hear, slow to ated charities. I house, and 2 others laid 4 eggs apiece j speak, slow to wrath.—.James 1:19. In binding ourselves together as a|'n a bunch of trash in the fence cor- community into such an organization, ner, and then "all 3 of them took up | '^The angriest person in a controver- its usefulness and service will be far'! setting. The other hens did not lay! sy is the one most likely to be in the .reaching. The whole question, as weJJit all but they inspected the nests wrong.—Till ot son. In colleges now- the higher learning is how to tackle low. This is true also — the man who rushes into trouble usually hobbles out on crutches. have before said, should be approached : closely from day to day, and in fact— in a broad Christian spirit of helpful-1 some of them tried ’em out, but gave ness, Wi.h liberality and charity, we np the idea of laying anything. should respond. j We are not called upon to contribute I simply don’t believe I am cut out| = large amounts, but we can alUgive'to run a hennery. I have treated my = something. Pennies can save lives and poultry .fair in every way. I have fed buy happiness for others. A few’ dollars ^md watered them and have sprayed at a time of need and suffering can their premi.ses occasionally, and they It is sometimes Jissppointir.,, to dis- brins life to an unfortunate, miser-' have had all the oyster shells rte agri- cover that a hero is only human after “hW family or individual. ‘cultural colleges said that hens re- all. "" ... .- The associated charities committee i quired for manufacturing shells. They invites your membership and contri-1 ?ot fresh water every day and seemed You have noticed this also-there button. 1)0 your bit by joining to help perfectly happy all the time, and if ore some people who seem to prefer in this needy work when emergencies 1 there were ever any contented hens, failure to minding their own business, arise that call for a real showing of ^ mine were that bijt laying eggs was the community’s heart. Spendingsj makes you poorer but it gives you a delightful .sensation of be ing rich. ' Cotton is now coming in, which is just another way of saying that the automobile salesmen will be found l.anging around the gins. not their duty. It is possible they were brought up that way. Nobody’s Business By Gee .McGee .Any pedestrian can tell you the ex act percentage of boneheads w'ho are . ing automobiles. tir A five cents qigar is probably about as .satisfactory as anything else that is cheap these days. .Moon-ism I know how the moon looks and also know' how’ moonshine tastes, but I plead guilty to ignorance when it comes to know’ing what influence the moon has on earthly things, but still — I knew what kind of influence moonshine has on earthly human be ings, not frem experience, how’ever. It is not the fault of my stock. I have pedigreed chickens, and judging from what the dealers who sold me say, some of my Red Island Rhodes and Orfbuckingtons can trace their ancestry back to Nora’s Ark. .A second cousin to 2 of my Plymouth Rocks, Bertha Mae of Wisconsin, laid 364 eggs last year and was just about ready to lay the 365th one when a fire-cracker buste.l in her midst, and scared her so, she could not lay till the next day. • This is true also—the way some families keep up a front imposes a great strain on the stores they deal with. Have you a son or daughter away at college or teaching school? Well, if you have—“They Won’t Get The New’s Unless Thev Get The Chronicle.’’ .S me farmers believe .'ome terrible things about the moon. Uncle Joe is the mn.in-iest man I ever saw’. He say.s that he’d rather run the risk of having no corn at all than to plant it in the light of the moon. It would be a plumb wa.=te to do that. He knows I am going to try to stay in the; poultry industry one more season, and , if I don’t have no better luck, I think I’ll run for the legislature. Anybody can make a success in the legislature.! Why, the salary alone is $400.00, and, | you know, there’s always a hunch of lobbyists pulling for copperations an- ‘ soforth, and I see no reason in the! A (;OOU CITIZEN Laurens county loses a good citizen' ^ shoot ever show’ed up on in the death of Judge Frank P. .Mc-jthe little spindly stalks. Gowan, highly regarded Laurens law- yeT. Mr. Mc(jow’an loved' his home town and county and was alw’ays keen ly inte-i’ested in their progress and the people he faithfully served. He gave lolks who planted corn on the dark.^yoj.y why I couldn’t clear something ‘of the moon and made ,50 bus^hels per I nkg 2 thousand dollars induring the acre, while the adjoining farmer session. planted his on the* light of the moOnl .1 ■ ■ The moon affects nearly everything, .so says Uncle Joe. He w’as telling me about 2 young men friends of his: one of them got religion on the light of Inter-City Meet | Is Postponed The iater-ctiy Kiw’anis meeting scheduled to be held in Newberry on the evening of Oct. 3rd, has been post- to his work at all times the best that moon and it never lasted him but ^ poned until a later date, it is an- was in him. In the fields of his pro- ^ weeks and the other fellow got his nounced by the secretary. The Green- fession he stood for the high, noble . religion on the dark of the moon, and wood, Clinton and Newberry clubs had things and established for himself an turned out to be a fine preacher, planned a joint meeting but the posi- enviable reputation. He loved his church, his friends, his county, his state, and in turn hundreds highly es teemed him and appreciated his fine talents. He leaves a good name and a clean record. He w’ent further and referred me to 2 ^ ponement w’as made necessary on ac- girls who got married. Ida Mae wa" , count of the Greenwood members be- led to the altar in the dark of the ing unable to meet on that date. The moon and now she and her old man ^ proposed meeting will be arranged have 9 fine children, but Sudie Lee for later during the month, took Jim Jones unto herself in the DRIVE WITH CARE Added responsibility attends the oration of automobiles and trucks now' that the school session has begun in earnest. In and about the school zones, at all hours the person at the steer-' ing wheel .should be on the alert. Cau- ! tious driving and slowing dow’n of ma- i chines should be the order of the day. i There is no excuse for the snuffing holy bonds of matrimony in the dark of the moon, and Jim quit her and ran off w’ith another woman’ in exactly 6 AT BETH.ANY CHURCH out of a school child’s life or injuring, ’V‘, ,„ • i • x r • u,. . . .rxT.. 4_j of lard, he got oniy 1 pint of mighty Sunday school exercises will he held at Bethany church next Sunday mom- j ing to which the people of the com- Uncle Joe told me about killing a niunity are invited. Dr. M. G. Wood- hog on the light of the moon in 18 and w.rth* and a student of the college 89, and when he tried to fry a rasher ^ will have charge of the exercises. of bacon that came from the side of! — that swine. It would shrivel up so—it would look like a small snail shell and —u '.ere he expected to get 15 gallons COPELAND-STONE LOCALS oi maimh-ig one of the little ones. And it can be ea.dly avoided as far as the m storing public goes, by the observ- 1 sorry grease. He said the sausage and (chittlings that he made from the sides and innards of that hog w’ere w’orth New showing of Ladies’ Fall Coats, in the newest colors, latest .styles and the best materials. a’ ce ot cominonsense, reason and con- , . i. r ^ j , ., ,. - . (about as much for food as a hornet s .SI lerat’cn for otners. Cooperation, in- , ^ ^ nest. Why, the hams made white graw telligent and careful driving in all j xi. ■ i x u i. V and the jowls were so tough he used piobabiiity will prevent many an ac- xu r -xv. i. ^ , them for anvils in his blacksmith shop. Client or even tragedy. , • , so he said. , The perfect dry cleaner - gine’* cleans perfectly silk. “Ener- gloves, laces, and all fine fabrics—.35c can. THE I’FRxSONAL TOUCH Success in business depends much on personal winsomeness. For in stance, in a certain local store, the proprietor makes a special effort to John B, Stetson hats, in the new fall styles. Fcr beauty and service ask for Mua- singwear hosiery. Come in and see our new Art Uncle Joe swore that he asked Aunt Minervy 44 times to marry him with out favorable result. He had alw’ays courted her on the light of the moon while the soft rays played tunes of speak to all his customers. If he kept | love on the vines on the lawn, but one, „ ^ „ ... . busy at certain tasks and did not no- night during the dark-moon period, he j Linoleum tice customers and let his clerks at- asked her to be his wife and she grab-: ®9uares, tend to the public, his attitude would bed him so tight it to.ok 2 rail-splitters not seem cold in any way. 1 to pull her loose, and they were mar- But he believes in the personal Vied the following third Sunday in the touch. He knows pretty well everyone ; presence of many sorrowing friends, who comes in and he speaks up with The moon must have some unknown a cheery “Good morning’’ and pleasant | power over us and the material things ^ ‘comfortable. smile. His customers thus noticed are about us, but as to what—I am not so ■ , 7" attracted by his cordiality. This may' sure. styles in Friendly Five and sound like a little thing but this mer- New showing of. Shirts $2.50. Men’s and Boys’ Pajamas — sleep $1.00 to = chant is building up a bigger business i every day because of his personal: touch and always courteous manner 1 in receiving and welcoming the public | into his place of business, ■ ^ ORGANIZED CHARITIES The need of an adequate charity or- I^nization in Clinton to provide for destitute and needy cases that arise ’ from time to time, w’as recently point ed out in these columns and an appeal made to our people to formulate such an agency. The Chamber of Commerce has offered to sponsor the movement i The Vici.ssitudes of Poultry Raising I though it would be,a pretty good DRS. SMITH & SMITH Optometrists SPECIALISTS Ej es Examined -:- Glasses Prescribed 15 West Main Street Phone 101 Laboratory for Prompt Repair Service Clinton, S. C. Portage styles. Oxfords — newest collegiate A good Work Shoe for $2.95 a pair. = Sonny Boy Suits in browns, blues, Oxford grey and grey mixturesl Work Shoes children. for men, women and ~ Young xMen’s Suit.s—$25.00 and up. “ j Copeland-Stone Co. “One Price ^To Air iPhone 47 Clinton. S. C I - ' .1 ■ of Interest to Dairy and Ponitry Feaders I am pleased to announce to my old friends and to all dairy and poultry feeders that I have opened a feed store in the Copeland-Stone Warehouse on Main Street oppo site the Ford Agency, and have a complete line of Dairy and Poultry Feeds. I have the famous “AMCO” OPEN FORMULA feeds manufactured by the American Mill ing Company. These open formula feeds are built with the best ingredients that money can buy and are selected with much care so as to supply the highest amount of di gestible nutrients possible. I am in ymsition to keep ample stocks on hand so that you can always get what you want when you want it. I offer the following for this week. DAIRY FEED TON BAG Amco Ideal 16’; ....$42.00 $2.25 Amco Cotton Belt, 15’; supplement $52.00 $2.75 Amco 24’; Flexible $56.00 $3.00 Amco Calf Meal $4.50 HORSE FEED TON BAG Amco Rex (Vz corn and oats) $52.00 $2.75 Amco Record (Oat base) $48.45 $2.60 Amco Ideal (Alfalfa base) $48.45 $2.60 POULTRY FEED TON BAG Amco Starting and Growing Mash $75.30 $3.90 Amco Egg Mash $66.10 $3.50 Amco Super Egg Mash $70.40 $3.75 Amco Chick Grains .... $65.20 $3.50 Amco Record Scratch $60.90 $3.25 Amco Universal Scratch $58.45 $3.00 Amco Tropical Scratch $60.90 $3.25 Blossom and Leaf Alfalfa $46.20 $2.50 Meat Scraps (50’; Protein) .... $4.75 Grey Shorts (16’; Protein) ....$44.60 .....$2.50 Amco Hog Feed $62.00 $3.40 H. G. RHENEY ' ‘ Clinton, S. C. Used Cars That You Will Like And That Will Give You Good Service We have a number of good used cars that are being reconditioned and put in first-class shape in our up-to- date shop. If you are interested in a used car of any kind it will pay you to see our cars before you buy. If it does not suit you to come to our place, just caH us—our tele- ^phone number is 119. We will be glad to send out a sales man with a car. . * • We have a Chevrolet touring only 9 months old. It looks good, and has good tires. Priced at $325. • • We have two 1927 Model T Ford Tourings at $150 and $175.' * Three 1927 Ford Roadsters at $150. I Four 1925 Coupes, from $100 to $175. One 1927 Ford Tudor Sedan, new tires, $225. One 1925 Ford Tudor Sedan, in good shape, $150. Three 1926 Ford Tourings, $100 to $125. We have a number of cheaper cars and trucks. Clinton Motor Company Sales — FORD — Service ir 1 'V ••“•miiillillllhT*