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. THB CUNTOW CHRONICLE. CLINTON. S. C.'
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have doubled. That means extra ex
pense to the boss.
on ihe stdve where it aint too hot so's ; Judge of Probate of Laureris' county, | said date, duly proven* or be forever
it wont bum and then drop in a small j at ,11 o’clock a.'.m., and on tlw-same i barred. ' • .
hunk of butter, if there is any left | day srill apply for a final discharge! ^ MRS. METTA STONE,
I don’t know where these hard times after you pess the pan, and sprinkle from my. trust as Administratrix. | Administratrix of. the Estate v.f
are leading os to. They have forced; on some shit and pepper and then let I Any persdn indebted to* said esUtej . a. B. Stone, deceased.
|Be folks to go around, in their nice the stuff blubber for about 2 hr. and' is notified and required to make pay- on looo i
*h» it look. lU. the- ™«ky T. |
going to split m two, set it on the ^ • • * j
Ubl. .nd ring the bell. |
- — ■ , itate will present them oh or before
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6.—W’hile yore wife is coming out'
cars nearly all the time, especiplly on
Sabbath days, and it is almost impos
sible to find a parking place .» since
i hhi:d times got here. It seems that the
snont npurkets are suffering some also:
! they cpnTsell their cheap “cuts.” Ev- j of
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j erybody wants “iSbones”’ani^oundi hands to get ready to eat, yoU gou
> { steaks. ^ \ *l*c*<i *nd hepp yore-eelf and take all <
the kitchen after washing her. • I• HttMt—
But) the - preacher! and the doctors
and the lawyers and the grocers who
sell on. credit and the dentists who
wait till next week and the Salvation
Army and the tax collector all aay
that the hitrd times have'not helped | ahead and do so
of the macky rony pie an<j give her
the cold collards that was left over
yestfddy, as vegetables is better for
wimnven onner count of the hardening
juf the artereis anaoforth. rite or foanf
me if you want to print this and go
CLINTON, S. C., JANUARY 9, 1930
Eleven months of the yeafutill re
main, and already a lot of second-hand
and more merihants are conning to
realise that.they are losing mo^ey and
them any, so far, except they are all
J a few steps nearer the poorhouse, as
nobody seems to have any financial in-
tenats in them . . . idlnee haed kimes
came.
! i
jfOod intentions are available for psv- prestige when they are hot to be
ing purposes. ’^1 found in the advertising columns of
the home town paper. T^is is one of
It is estimated that fifty per cent ‘he healthiest signs in the field of re-
of church members contribute noth- merchandising.
yores trulie,
mike Clark, rfd.
FINAL SETTLEMENT
ing to its support. It is alio estimat
ed that they get out of the church
just about what they put intor^it.
LErS STAND TOGETHER
new
LAWS THAT ARE NOT LAWS
The administration,of criminal jus
tice in America is a disgrace to civi
lization. The man who said that is the
. ,\\ I yf t|iy,
Hinton? Every .the U^iited States, the Hon. William
.mean In the life of
buEiness a’nd profebsiolltW man in thciSK^ward'Taft, once president of the
community should be interested in the United States.
ariKwer of question.
Every new year brings its message
of hope. It farnishea us .with an ex
tension of time in which to carry out
our plan.s. It lays upon us the urge of
' We have too many laws which are
not flaws. A citizen can hardly go
about his daily bminess without vio
lating some law of which he never
heard and which nobody obeys. In
haEte. What are we goin^ to do with I Connecticut it is illegal to travel on
1'>3P? '
. )n the advancement of a city, there
is no factor that contributes so much
«s live commercial o'rganizations. In
cluded in the membership of such
clubs should be every business and
the road or railroad on Sunday. In
New York it is, or' was until very re
cently, illegal to operate a motor-pro-
peNed vehicle on a highway unless a
man on horseback carrying a red flag
01 lantern rode a quarter of a mile
f.rLfessional .man in the city, working ■ *^*^*‘^
to promote^,the interests of the com
munity in which he makes his living.
W hat right have we as j^itizens to ex
pect the community to support our
b.’-inesses and then in" turn to refuse
to give our aid to alf of its undertak-
ing.s that make for progress.
The Chamber of Commerce is the
Congress and j.ate legi.«:.iture8 try
to-'‘maUe” laws. No law is a good law
unless the people whom it affects
agree that it is a good lam In the
early days of popular lawmaking peo
ple gathered to. tell each other what
the law was in their- districts, the law
being , rules of conduct agreed on by
I'lval organization which we should common consent.
I , e up behind with the coming of the; The idya that a congress or a legis-
lU '.v year. In turn, this organization * lature has a right to impose an un-
i ;wu!d lay out before it a definite pro- popu||ir law is a reversion to the old
giam of^vork to strive for and un- mytli of the divine right of kings. Be-
VAVO
t-iingly wVrk for such accomplish-cau.se a law^is old is no proof that it
ments..
Ia'Cs unite
is good. Times change but the
hands and resolve as, lags behind.
law
business men, that we will do’ our level i Lawyers and Judges live in the past.
A Cookiag Reacat
flat rock, a. C. janny the 9, 1930
deer mr editor:
i hope my wife to cook supper the
other night and we fixed up a macky
ronw pie which was so fine i thought
I would rite you a reseat for same
^o’s you could print it and help some
other hungry sole to enjoy a good
meal, and here it is: .
Take notice that on the 4th day of
February, 1980, I will render a final
account of my acts and doings as Ad
ministratrix of the estate of A. B.
Stone, deceased, in the office of the
FOR SALE
One vacant lot on corner Weat Main
and Sloan Streets. Ideal site for fS-
ing station.
JOHN D. DAViS
Phone 141 CUnton, S. C;
DRS. SMITQ & SMITH
Optometrists I
H, D. HENRY
W. M. BOLAND
I Ip im.Take ■ hig i falihanh ii<i#rm-raan.
ketch her, that is—if you all raise
hens, and t?e her hind legs together
and poke her under your left arm
and take her to the grocery stoar and
swap her. for a-box of macky rony
and some cheese and a small can of
milk ansoforth.
H. D. Henry & Company
INSURANCE
SPECIALISTS
Eyes Examined Giaaaes Prescribed t
15 Weat Main Street Phone 101
Laboratory for Prompt Repair Service
Stocks « bonds^" - real estate
LOANS NEGOTIATED
2.—Ask your grocery man to send
• his stuff out to yore house at once,
and that will give you a chance to ride
home with his boy bn the truck, as he
keeps a ttack to deliver stuff in which
chain stores didn’t do and they don’t
Ixuy hens nuther, and .send the boy on
back to the atoar afters.you all get
home. t
3.—Then tend yore wife out to the
wood pile to cut some wood and when
it has been fetched in, tell her to get
a pan if possible out of the pantry
and clean the potatoes out ot same
which was left from dinner amt grease
it good with some lard if she happens
to have any, antf if not, try butter if
your nabor has any.
bcbt during 1U30 to push (Uinton’s in-■ Lr.’.vycrs dominate our Icgi.slutive bi d-
terests.
THE HOME PAPER
The merchant’s relations to* his
home town paper are supposed to be
those of an advertiser. That is a Par
ies and try to make new laws, intend-
ed to- fit -present condt ttons, comply
wit^principles and practice.s long out-
datled. One reattlt of this i.s that law
and justice often mean two different
things. Poor men and honest men hes-
. itate to go to law; they fear* legal
row view. The home town paper la an,^ . , l- . . ,
. technicalities which have no relation
4.-:-Brake up the macky rony in.
small sticks about as long as my fin
ger which was cut off in the gin en
during the spanish-american war and
put them in a bowl and muss up yore
Ib.- of cheese by crumbling same be
twixt her hands and then pore the
can- of- milk -oiv-the ingrodimenta and
stir with a spoon if you have no fork
till the mucky rony looks like cheese
and the cheese looks like macky rony.
institution. The merchant can no more
escape its influence than anybody else
in the community, whether he adver
tises in it or not.
Yet, as a consistent advertiser his
relations with the local newspaper In
come definitely' constructive. He be
comes a part of this institution with-
to justice.
All law ought to be based on com
mon sense and lo plain and simple
that any man with an average sense
of fair play could tell without asking
a lawyer whether he was violating the
law or not. Then everybody else would
^ ... .. I know it, and intelligent public opinion
out which no community can express , u • n • u.
•. It xiri. . •. •. j s. alone would keep us all on the right
Itself. Whatever its merit or demerits, * •
. . aide of the law or punish us-promptly
Ih, hom. ;o»n paper on | j, „v,r.t.pped the line.
5.-^See if the fire has went, out in
the stove, and if it has, make her bild
m Bother one, and then set the pan
of the community. Literally, it is the
in a sense that
“Voice of the-People
^cannot hold true for any other medl-
I
This institution kWps friends in
lojch with friends. To the best of its;
ability it answers Who, What, When,! _
Where, How and Why? It brings the;
individual out'of himself. It speaks j
thr-Wal language. It interprets com
munity life. W'eek by
Nobody’s Business
By Gee McGee
Hard Tlmea
Times are so hard in our town that
or dav*’*^ ** almost impossible to get a seat j’[•(yj
by day, it tell.s the story of the town ®t the picture show. I had to stand;
nr.i pt.iintv in line exactly I hour and 24 minutes I,
Statement of Um CondiUoii of
Commercial Bank
Located at Clinton, S. C., at the Cloae
of Business December 81, 1929.
RESOURCES
loans and DiacounU |242,308.79
Overdrafts .... .. NONE
Liberty Bonds Owned by '
Bank 20,000.00
Bonds and Stoqks Owned
by Bank 116,100.00
Furniture and Fixtures 3,000.00
Other Real Estate Owned 21,956.43
Cash on hand and due from
Bank-s . 83,286.92
Checks and Cash' Items 218.38
Other Resources .... .... 725.00
ar.tl county.
.Most of us are so .accustomed to the
hi me low n ]iaj>cr that we take it as a
matter of course. If we“tbtnk any^
thing aiwut it at all, we think of its
dt’ficiencle.i. The.se are present largely
hc.-ausc it is run by fallible human be
ings. TV wonder abo'ut the
... |487,595..52
UABILITIES
exactly I hour and 24 minutes j, api(.,| stin^k Paid in |
the other night w’hen I went to see ^ Surplas Fund
“Pie Crust.”
^Yes sir ree. We ire having hard
times these days. Just think of it! Old
i^n Jones had to trade his old radio
home differ-
Icwn p*aj)cr"is that it contains so few ^ hundred >dollars. Had
mV,ake.s, not so many. - j conditions been a little bU “easier”
To the merchant, especially, the • ^“'^d speaker would have been Time Certificates
satisfactory. posit
——— , I Cashier’s Checks
I don’t see how Ae are going to Notes and Bills
aurpiu!
^JndivUled Profits, les.H Cur
rent Expenses and Tax
es Paid .
Hue to Banks- and Bankers
Dividends Unpaid ...
Individual Deposits Subject
to Check
Savings Deposits " .
of De-
60,000.00
25,000.00
504.10
NONE
2,02^.00
207il34.38
12,2,50.50
home town paper is an opportunity. M
His. business, too, is a local institu-!
tioiiv Unless it finds some kind of ex-
Re-dii
184,677.93
2,000.41
*'1* ’
pression in the home town paper, both *f*nd the.se hard tim^s. Mr. Smith was counted
.the paper and the bu.sines8 have, to pressed for cash last month, he had Bills Payable, including
an important extent, failed to func- ^o trade in his 19 and 29 mpdel Buick Certificates for Money
tion. Each is effected somewhat by'for a 19 and 31 Cadillac. As it stands Borrowed ..
every successive failure'in this re- lie/has only 2 cars, 1 for him- Reserve Fund Carried on
gpect. *elf and/ 1 for his wife, bat if things, General, Individual or
It doe? not coat a. great ^deal of keep going from worse ter worser, it;
money to advertise in the local paper., look* l|ke he will have to get a car
Most ad\ertiser8 are over-judicious ! for each x>f his 3 children.
father than extravagant. It is the con-' —
'(htual mes: age that count's most. Spe-' I don’t understand why hard times
Tadic advertisements now and then;have to visit our country so often.
NONE
HONE
Savings Ledger
4,004.20
m "
dua of doubtful value. Perhaps they
are batter than no advertising at all.
JExery advertisement placed by a bus!-
hlesa house should blend into every
«ther advertisement it placet. The
aierehant should think in terms of a
eanjaaign rather than in terms of the
jjag'U inrertion.
. Vast prograst has been made in ad-
Tertiaing within recent years. Out
standing axamplas of it ape to ba
found in tha national field. LoqiUy,
however, advartiidng has much room
for development. Aside from one or
two fit ike big iitores, the avethge
raerchaait in the average amaU tbwn
fivM teo little study to the posror of
jHleertieint.
eoaditions are changing. Mere
The flappers are being forced to buy
3 pairs of 4-dolIar stockings now
where thep bought only 2 pairs of 2-
dollar stockings before hard times set
in. Impending poverty makes it al
most impossible to get waited on at
the filling stations, they are so crowd
ed with customers.
The' drug 'stores are feeling the
total $487,595.52
State of South Carolina, ss.,
County of Lauren.s.
Before me came F. M. Boland, Cash
ier of the above named beak, who, be
ing duly sworn, says that the above
and foregoing statement is a true
condition of said bank, at shown by
the books of said bank.
F.M. BOLAND.
Swqrn to and subscribed before me
this 4th day of January, 1980.
VERA P. WILSON (SealK
Notary Public, S. C.
Correct Attest: L. H. Davidson, W.
pinchof hard times, Theb/business CopeUnd, H: D. Hehry, Directors
has been so heavy they have had to
hire extra help, and the-folks are call
ing for banana frip-pees no^ instead
of small lemonades,'* and it simply
takes more time and money to serve
the former. They have also observed
that since hard times arrived, the !ale
chaqgdiNr- of lip-stick! and paints and rouge!
BOND FLOWER
m
PLOWEKS
itr W. MMg 81.
OCCASIONS
fhmm m
Clinton, S. C.
« SALE
A 25c Mle at your AAP Food Store tale eTent
of importance. The nema
what 2Sc wiO huy at your
are typical of
Store thia week.
FINEST .
NEWrORKSTAlt '
CUDt'.ttRS
\ /
SAUERKRAUT 3
XSc
CHEESE-
4
i M
Creamy ^
. k. 2§c
CATSUP
2 Bottle* ISe
LARD
1 lbs. ISe
MACARONI
SPAGHETTI
NOODLEflf
4 9^ 25o
8 eiBESe
Pure Rio
COFFEE
h. 15ci
LOG
CABIN
SYRUP
Table
Siae
can
111111
FLOUR 2 ^ 25c
PANCAKE OR BUCKWH^T
hi
PEACHES
DEL Large
MONTEc: Can
25c
CampbeH'a Beane '3 cans 2Sc
IONA BRAra>
Cocoa
Wmmmi oa, pfat,... .... .8Sc
Tomato Soiq;> 3 csuia. .. 25c
Kkkwy Baawa, 2 Aa. ... .25c
Dreeemg ' 25c
Ft^s^ asc
PAG Soejp^ 7 cakes •... .25c
2 & 25c
Appla Senep 2 . 25c
AAH Soda 6’lAp..... .25c
AAP Data 3 jjj ^
OCTAOOM SOAP
OctagojB Soap Powbtor
tg
25e
SUGAR G..S!a»d llx 5 l-2c
SHORTENING £1" til. $1.00
V
Maxwell
House
COFFEE
41c
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