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•4 ■ X .. ’ , ^'4: ■■'■r:i;-: if Clinton <Ci|rontrU EstaMliilieil 1900 WILSON W/HARRIS, Editor and Puublis^ie’r " ■ \ THE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON. S: C THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1930 ’ Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE, PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advaiu;e); One year $1^0; Six Months 76 cents; Three Months 60 cents Entered as Second Class MaiTHlatter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C. The Chi n'cle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers—the publisher will at^11 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 te'p ir.sible for" the views or opinions of Us c'orrc'pondents. and die." "you mifht be missed when you have went.” “where are yon go ing nohow?" "if you get killed, who will meet your installments?" plese ed that fa^t as one of its i*eaions for greatness, may* find abundant com fort in th^ knowledge that intelligent men and women the country yver new rite or foam me if you want me to | appreciate him in just as great a Je keep up these weakly reports bo’s you can keep count of yore annual gains ansoforth. yores trulie, • , mike Clark, rfd. in the* FINAL SETTLEMENT said date, duly proven or be forever Hbarred. . / t gree as did his own people years that have pas.*.ed. The lustre of Robert E. J^e and the j Stone, deceased, in the office of the Take notice that on the 4th day of February, 1930, I will render a final amount of my acts and doings as Ad ministratrix of the estate of A B. R. E. MADDOX, J. M. MOORE, Administrators. Jan. 9, 1930—2.<>-4tc. I- NOTICE OF LOST CERTIFICATE Robert E. Lee—- The Imperishable CLINTON, S. c:; JANUARY 23, 19.10 A friend in need may l>e a friend indeed, but the worse sort of enemy is the friend who has turned against ycu. Nobody’3 Business By Gee McGee Thi.s business of .starting the new year wouM he a whole lot more pleas ant if-jRc linew what the-nexL twelve_L_. month? would bring us. 'lable Mannerh Among those wb.jse title to, fame 'corner yftei death might be numbered that Atlanta ctizen who ended his life ()n.^'.'ount < f alleged despondency ■ CLvet itU! “dtiath jj;., bh-mUHtj-dildUv'-v I WHS invited ( ui. to dinner the oiber evening. I gladly accepted. The lio.^ie s (Continued from page one) great tragedies written in his face. But one had to observe closely. "For,"i as one biograph' - has written, "his ' supreme effort was’tc take fate as it came, or as he read it, the \Vill of God,| to make the best of circumstances, to | endure patiently, quietly, with dignity,^ ! the worst that might come to hi,m, i till the end.' i I Critical study of I.ee’8 life will in- ,evitably brin^' two’ results. It will I serve as a model for this and future generations and it will give reason , for an increasin'g pride in the heritage I of gallantry and high honor whicli the old South bequeathed to the new. I'ew figures in all history have left the oou.h he lived for is imperishihle. Fu-^ jujgg of Probate of Laurens county,! . . , *v * i mi ture years will see his name grow, , /i, , , , , Noticg js hereby given that I will greater, his figure transcend others oclock a. m., and on the same/j^ppjy Clinton Building and of his day as time discounts the better *PPly ® V"* Loan Association of Clinton, S. C., on r.ortunewhich favored them then and ‘ trust as Adrninistratrix. February 13th, 1930, for a new cer- reveals .under the spotlight of truth . estate jq replace certificate number r.nb’ased, by prejudice the place among notified and required to make pay- series one, for 8 shares of stock in immortals which irrefutably jg; °n or before that date; and a.l Building and Loan Association. persons having cla.ms against sa:d certificate having been original- the his. Local Hi Teams Chalk Up Victories tate will present them on or before: iyVance Pitta, but has said date, duly proven or be forever been lost barred. Clinton Hi boys won their fir^fbas-' MRS. METTa stone Administratrix of the Estau A. B. Stone, decM.^ed. 2-6-6tc. J<>e Vance Pitts. £ ketball game cf the .reason Mondn;, night by defeating Whi.mire 29 to 9 The local boys were never in danger and played well throughout the game. On the same evening the local Hi jrirls also turned back the Whitmire girls by a score oi 22-10. The gqme was featured by the excellent team- Dee. 30, 1929.—1-23.4U*. DRS. SMITH & SMITH Optometrists FINAL SETTLEMENT -l lold me t(i make myself at honu-. 1 did inspiring record of lofty idealism and so I spilt gravy all over my v-?t and '’’‘a'nU'Ss thought that are so closely got s.rar.g'cd on t!ie coffc. the viiy tirst-.h ng. ^ - Take notice that on the 17th day of i February, we will render a final ac-, SPECIALISTS I count of our acts and doings-as Ad- Examined Glasses Prescribed ministraters'^'of the estate of Mrs. Lee. 15 W’est Main Street Phone ItH . , .:r 1 , • * ii. j Hembree and William Taft Hembree, Laboratory for Prompt Repair Sejwice wo.k afid beaujful passing of the ^n- i decease<l, in the office of the Judge of. wArn-()U‘," jolTe may founded on fact. not a!wik> V associated with every part of his life, and .Southerner.s today may well glory ^Mot Ainly in Lee himself but in the much at eati.ng awav from krir.wledj^e that tlieir forbears were around the table to suit nie. When 1 ^-rly waluale and appreciate get ready for a dish,' I ,1 m’l want it *cler. I passed to everyl*<)dy' else before it ain’t tire Clinton team Last Friday the Clinton girls de feated the Gray Court girls by a score of 22 to 10, in a well-played game. Gray Court hoy.s defeated the local boys last week by a score of 28 to 8. Probate of I.^urens county, at 111 o’clock a. m., and on the same day will apply for a final discharge from our trust as .Administrators’. Any persons indebted tfo^lsaid estate: is notified and required io|make.pay-1 Clinton, S. C. BOND FLOWER SHOP Ti his char- be here for a d ouble-header * Uoltege gym a; h (/clock. For I.ee was typically part and par- at' the] persons having claims against said es j tate will present them on or before 157 W. Main St. Phone Stt . -—-7— 7 - reaches me. I^>ts. of time-. 1 have lost of the gallant, id^alistk- old S’o'uth; In. an aiumut to settle once and for , of chicken just .be- »t-^would have beeji great in another I cause a certain per.sun wa.^ ’afflict^ I with too big a supply of table man- ! ners. all that age-long controversy ns to what-class cf people makes up the ba.kbone of 'the world, attention is called to tKat steady and dependable guy commonly known as the consum er. Without those who make up that c’ass, your tilled fields and lofty Fmokestacks would be no more than the pomp and circumstance of failure. The hank statements recently pub lished in The Uhronicle not only show that we have sound and progressive bankers in (Minton, but they arc also ( (Unce of the fact that th^r? is still ’n‘ of mor.ev in CMinlon and this sec tion. In this connection it may be not- t i that a large measure of the-deiu'e^- sicn which dainjam.-^ the .pirit 'if the t me? is the result of a freak tnethnd that some men employ in figuring fi-| rjiUTil condition.?. It is tlie ciMt in cf! many to Condemn the times as h.ul if 1 thr'V are hot making as much inoiie.y I as thev WMuld like to make or us inu( h 1 I was courting my present wife for the first time once. 1 stayed over for suii'per that night. I was just al»(.vrt as scared when we sal down to .the table as 1 ever was in niy eiilire life. I WHS afiaid he;* daddy would call oh me to a'?k .hf ble.ssing. I bent my head over to wait on him a’ld a./h'.s’n was sort of long, when he got ilir-iiigh, 1 had sweated about a half p nt of real sweat in my plate. us thev ha.e made. M'hey thinK and 1 t.ilk l.'ke the town when as u matter -he better off is down and M)Ut, of fact llic town than it ever wasj Another thing that bo'hcied me (Uiring^hat meal was m'y .swallowing organ.?. I knew it was nice to make nb noi.se at all when you swalli w. .?uy, a' sip cf milk (ir a bite ( f hain. Hut I just wl.sh ^'ou could h.nv(» hcar.l mv lluiat wheti it said; ‘‘G-r-r-u-i*-u-r-|)” If you li'.n’t imagine just exactl.\ how* that fusjs. sounds, kindly hang aour.d, u cow till she .■.w.illow.s her cud. \ ever v\ hen considereit as a .whole. Those w-t> bec(tme de8|>ondent ct)m*erning last Uncle Joe camw to i(ee me -mm -d*.v week and took lunch with us. land and among other people, but it is doubtful if another land could have produced hfm, or if it had, if he would have had the influence and hold on the ma.sses which he did in the South. It is possible that in tne urge for; progress with which the South of to-! day is enthused, there is a tendency. among .Southerners to forget some of the splendid things of the spirit that so sharply characterized the former gvneratums. Indeed, few Southern voices in ment years have harkened back to pre-war and reconstruction days, hut many from other sections of the country have begun to find them inviting fields for research. And surprising as it might seem to some ( f the older gciierations, the old South is being p.iinted by in'jderns nmre prone to scoff than to pra:?'’, in more glowing colcirs than the older school .)f .Southern writers ever dared to do. Ye.?, the world is learning that the .S(»u‘,h of Robert Ih Lee had many p'.M'vless attributes which “himld mit be 1 osl in the hurly burly existence of ' today. .S( me of them inevitably hi^d to go f.<r they belonged to a land and WMle handling a piece of steak ?m his g( :HMal conditions very often art* nmk-.I P'**^*^’ slipiu d and his knife —irg the mistakfr Of taking It rjrf gTahr- c.i that because some peofile ar»? i»oi>r t verybody else must be. ('onditions ate never half as bad as the pesstmist ~ and perpetual joy-killer would have you believe. What (Minton and «yeT.V other com- ni.inity needs verfvniuch at present is a league of parents" who"'wiTI dedi cate themselves in all love and firm- n“ss to the proper training of their children to the end that the experience u'':d wisdom of veurs may control the is fine when it comes to shoveling iq food with a knife. He rarely ever lets' anything fall off of it, and if such’a ^ thing would happen, he’.s such an adept with dinner tools, he’d catch the morsel with his fork before it hit; the floor or table cloth. There are a groat many new ways to eat here of late. They are all fairly satisfactory to me except this thing of having to help everybody’s with every kind of food you have on whims and follies of youth and restqre | the table-before you can take a single authority to its proper |)lace. The tifilm : bite. And that goes for des.sert, too. league is used advisedly" as it is |i ^ Hut taking into consideration the fact work which must he broader than a' that I never saw a knife and fork til! single home or a particular church in I was 19, 1 think 1 do pretty well. Older to he cffectixe or oven pos.sihle. 1 - — —— .Modern life in its every strata feels the juessure of the crowd and the l attlo is half when' re.s.rictions apply to all within a g;v,*n cinlc. It is e.ident that it w'ouid he a task of no .-mall dimensions to keep ^he Metho dist youth a. home three nights ea*h week if the Haplist or Hresltytcrian yduth :if> ^ .n P’U'ht. 1910. Sajety First ('ampaign flat r(K*k. s. janny the 22 the safety first club, new york, n. y .le('r sir: i rec’d yore reejuest to rite or foam you what jirogress our "community is making with, the "safety first’’ drive a day of greater leisure than can ever] he perm:*tod present generations, hut the fundamentals of chivalry, love of tiuth, devotion 1 to duty and high Courage can he prtpsarved. As his birthday, in the ItHh of this month, eall^ him again to mind, it should Jiot*)e out of order to think not only of Lee himself, but of the in tangible qualities of character and the ideals which he held. Study of his lif.;' inevitably arouses admiration and a! desire for emulation and emulatio:i of, such a character as his cannot fail to have u ennobling effect on any indi-: plate vidual. And more attention in thi.s age : of material accomplishmer.t to pare I idealism, more striving fiqr a develop-1 iiitnt of that magnificent spirit and; I gallantry w hich were so indelibly stamped upon Lee and his followers is a sore need of the day. .Americans of today, be they of the North (.r the .South, can well take piide ill the fact that ilierc was an .American of Lee’s type. And the i proud old dv ininion of \ irgmie that I reared him. the state which h.i 4 count vb- act ? .“v ?:!(' ■* going every ! and v will do so a> followers, for week I’w ,1 t>ar(*nts within a given cir-ending f'day: \c<}uM f till a w arfare froiu which | curs wrecked there- w tuid be Mo delivi ranee if they | heads busted made demand.? their ohiMrm i iio-es broke ‘ \vh:( h wen* n t made or regarded in -kulls cracktHi other home?. M'he prohleat, a grave < re i.s pne wfiich is as broad as hu- rpan love and a- deep as p^ye^ntal duty and as important'us every ^pryini.se which the future holds. A (iREAT-AMERK AN Edward Hok came to this fiom Holland at the age of. six. He d fed the other day at (’>(>. In his sixty ^ yea'rs of life in America he set an ex ample of Americaiy.-^m which every rative-boi t citizen would do well to emulate. ribs smashed legs cut off (male) legs cut off (female) stummick.s split eye.s put out laces mashed in funerals ■M' 877 5)9 122 200 STOMACH -.555 III 111 . 84 72 * funerals still expected country' . u n .nquestes hell 44 14 601 this is a slight decrease overMaiSt! week, thanks to the snow which kept | a great many fords ansoforth under 1 the sheds. I the few wrecks and collisions and head-ons which brought about the No more :nspiring record of a man’s , casualties afore ;nentioned above was life has ever been written than Bok’s own autobiography. “The Americani zation of Edward Bok” ought to have a place in every school library; it should be required reading in every course in civics. ' It is the fashion among the critics •who sn^r at everything which has made America great to Belittle Bok and his work. He did more than any other man to make American homes more beautiful, American family life more attractive, to establbh new and higher staiMlards of good taste and to turn the nUnds of Americans toward the appreciation of beauty end culture in all forms. All this as the editor of a wonma's magazine. But he made a and thaVof bourse^ is the un- ala in the eyes of the un- and the iccempstent! :aused by the following reasons booze '....389 hugging 400 making 60^>per 36 making 70 per .... 45 mailing 80 per 60 trying to make 100 per 60 winamen ns^ hogs .... 23 cigarettes 201 setting in laps ...v ;... 65 lip-sticks— 221 kissing S33 T WAS suffering flrom stomach trouble, in 1917," eavs Mr, C. K. Nelson, a railroad engL r<eer living m l^aaki, Va. "I bad a tightness in my chest, a shortness of breath. Them seemed to be a heavy weight in the pit of my atomach, and <iaite a bit of nauaeo, yet I couldn^ vomit. I tried diffarent remedieo, yet auffered on just tbe'aenw. *men in Weet Virginia on a work train, I was in aoch a oonditim timt 1 lost fsTT 'my and borne. I ooaTdnt stand to work, in mar oonditioa. Some one told bw abont Black*Draa^^t I started talring it in smaU doeee after maale. It helped in% end I went badt ta i<TtC everything is being done possible to help “safety first.” big signs is be ing* painted and put up on sides of the roadi which reads as followers: "have you no mother?" “pray while you ride." "prepare for the pearly gatM lor pitchforks." *^go slow and live, fly \ I (STAtLiSHiO <859 WMIRC ECONOMY RUlR ’^l ' Fancy Creamery BUTTER lb. 43c Cot fr ?li troiii the tiih GRANDMOTHER'S BREAD v, POUND LOAF Full IS-oz. 21.OUNCE LOAF tvu AIU'KD PAN ROLLS Whole Wheat Full I’oiind 1,0(1 f \Yra|i|»r(l PEANUT BUTTER Fancy Lb. SNOWDRIFT Lb. Bucket $1.10 MORTON’S SALT, 3 pkg 25c VINEOaR, Vz jug . ,39c SUNSWEET PRUNES 2 29c SALAD DRESSING 25c COFFEE rr BEANS _ 3 cans 25c At naw low prices whkb repraeant savings of thou sands of dollars to our patrons. SIINNYFIFU) BACON Z 39c BAKING POWDER lb. Red 10^ eun Fruiit A ifV 8 O’clock lb. Me IONA COCOA ^2 .t. 27c lAmi 81 l/TANA w/\jVI ASSOUrED. Fia\ t»us 15-i 0,. or .^jnr AowA. Red Circle GRAPE jelly AM* : ox. 17^ Piiee alahs 1 1 C lb. ^3c CHERRIES SCc Bbkar TOMATOES. 3 IV 25c lb. . 37c CATSUP XT IX 19c Pure, REo SPAGHETTI •r.r 3 cans 25c lb. .23c HOMINY Large C» IQc Maxwell House MILK 3 S 25c lb. - 39c MEAL or BRITS 3 fe. IQr A&P OATS 3 sun 25c 1 Mdlo Wheat... .pkg. i9c SUGAR SH0RTENIN6 Fine Granulated' h TO- iBCktt -i Maxwell House Setes COFFEE lb. Lux Toilet SOAP 6 bars Atlantic & jj -i tj THE GREAT x*"