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If Toa I>oa*t Rmi THE CHRONICLE Toa Doa*t Get Th« Newt t : : ffllmton ••••••••••••*••••••••••••0001 : THE CHRONICLE I Stritea To Be a Clean Nows£°| I jMtper, Complete^ Newaj, S : ' ■ml Rctttbl* I VOLUME XX^ CLINTON, S. C:, THURSDAY, 'JUNE 26, 1930 NUMBER 26 .fSSS. CAMPAIGN TO OPEN HERE FIREMEN AT ' FESTAL BOARD Opening Gun To Be Fired In Clinton August 18th. Time for Filing Pledges Closes July 3rd. Itinerary Adopted By Execu tive Coknmittee. Local Fire Department Gives Third “I^idies Night” Celebration. City Officials Are Guests. BOTH ARE DOING WELL, THANK YOU At a full meeting Saturday of the county executive committee, Ralph T. Wilson, chairman, the machinery for conducting the Laurens county cam paign and^ primiu-y election was for- 'malTy set up ' The third annual banquet given by the members of the Clinton fire de partment, was held at Hotel Clinton last Thursday evening. The company gathered at eight The present boll weevil situation has been summed up by D. R. Coker, of Hart^vHle, an expert on agricul ture, as follows: Hartsville, June 21.—Reports from the Florence experiment station and from our men indicate that many weevils have come out of hibernation *l«k with cov,r, laid for 100 gUMts. .mergence The (Kcasion had been arranged in honor of the firemen and the city of ficials and their wives who were spec- this of weevils was nearly over at time last year. Poisoning has been interferred with ially invited guesta. The banquet was a Sumptuous spread, the kind for . . . » hundred, whereas in unpoisoned fields 20 per cent or more of punctured squares were frequently found. The old weevils will die out rapidly during the next two weeks. In the old cotton that has not been poisoned at all a heavy hatch-off of the new wee vils will begin around July 1 to 4, and infestation will begin mounting rap idly in those fields within a few days. In the poisoned fields there will also be some hatch-off, beginning five or ten days later, due to recent interfer ence with poisoning and heavy late Fine Son Is Born To America’s and the World’s Famous Flying Cou ple. Name Not Selected. BELUESUYERS DIE GAMELY Knglewood, N. J., June 23.—Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh are the parents of a son. The l^by, weighing seven and three- quarters pounds, was born at 2:15 p. m. Sunday in the home where his mother, the former Anne Morrow, was born. She became a mother on her 24th birthday. Aside from the statement of the Johnson and Coleman Pay With Lives for Clerk’s Death. Both Face Chair Calmly^ Bodies. Taken -To Spartanburg for BUhial. The committee fixed July 3rd, at 6 j ~ his i section most of the | emergence of weevils. This hatch-off! ^‘‘by’s birth and his weight, no details- f *k p. m., as the closing date for the fil ing of pledges and adopted the cam paign itinerary as well as a schedule of fees for candidates. Under the adopted schedule, thg opening gun of the campaign will be fired in Clinton as heretofore, tbe date being Monday, Augxist 18th. The meet ing will be held in the Casino Thea tre beginning pt 10 a. m. At night the campaign party wdll greet the voters of the Clinton cotton mills. The closing meeting will be held at the Laurens mills on .Monday, August 25th, at 8 primary'election. ' . ' The follow'ing is the complete sched ule of meetings, fo'urteen in all: established a reputation. Jack W. .Anderson, chief of the de- partment^ presided as toastmaster. The invocation .was offered by the Rev. C. Bynum Betts, cjiaplain of the organization. After the sweets of the menu had been reached, Chief Ander son rapped for order and spoke of the firemen’s pleasure in having so large a gathering present. The toast, “W'elcome City Officials older cotton should have had a sec- will he not onlv later but will also ber’f event were forthcoming from ond or third poisoning and much of the younger cotton its first poiso'n- ing the latter part of last week. Where cotton has not been poisoned during the past eight or ten days (and due to weather conditions, much of it has not) the recently emerged weevils are puncturing squares. The last application of sweetenwl poison should be put on the older cot ton at once and the first or second ap- much smaller in the poi8one<l fields, househoM of Mrs. Lindbergh’s and fewer apjilications of dust will l>e ' l>ai’cnts, Ambassador and Mrs. Dwight nMiuiicI for latrr conlrol. Morrow, exrrpt tke statrmrnt that and Gu«U," yraa responded to by Rev.' ^his C. Bynum Betts; City Attorney R. W. i Wng ofr"OurTity arST-Tre-^ . A number of checks of poisoned and and W..W. Hams alderman from ward four, on ‘‘Our Lady A number of instances have been observed in widely scattered hn'alities ** ^ '' where heavy applications of calcium' News of the arrival of the Lind- arsenate dust have been followed by' spread rapidly to all parts failure of the succeeding crop appar- the country and to foreign shores ently from arsenical poisoning. It and within a short time a parade of would seem wise, therefore, not to j messengers with congratulatory mes- dust too heavily or frequently with I bearing flowers began to calcium arsenate both on account of Ht the Morrow home.. Radio J wilF^Ettha old -weevilsjhat ^ and because of the I I'roadcast news of the event which has men „ . , „ , V, I section last week. The fields that had Clinton, 10;00 a. m., Monday, Aug- sidod'^at the'^^piano ’ anTMiss’^Agn^s i i« / piano, ami .Miss Agnes. Anderson favored the audience with. 1 .u *1 f'lint An Mill 8 00 n m Mondav i in j . , , • than one punctured square per t iinian .Miii, n.uu p. m., monuay, i ^j.^dered vocal solontinns l ' * August 18. I banquet was a success in every ' ( ross Hill, lOi.lO a. m., TueSf ay, j firemen under whose ' CONFESSES MAN August 111. j auspices it was sponsored, were con- Cioldville, 8:00 p. m., Tuesday, j their ef- August 19. , , I forts and the fine spirit of fellowship Center Point. 10:30 a. m., M ednes- hospitality that was in evidence, day, August *N). j There was much amusement, many Lydia ( otton Mills, 8:00 p. m., \\ ed-; laughs on members of the nesday, August 20. I department and city officials, yet at i su^iequent crojis danger from plant lice. ' • It looks now as if we were in for bad boll weevil losses again this year un less we use vigorous and intelligent measures for our protection. INCREASE MADE DIDN’T KNOW HER! in ENROLLMENT been awaited with lively interest for I several weeks. I .A name had not been announced for the new arrival, but (lharles A‘. Lind bergh, .I r., for his father,, or Dwight Morrow Lindbergh, after his grand father, W(‘re mentioned as probable choices. I’reparations which had been made .Mrs. I.indbergh’s reception in a Columbia, June 24.—The state of South Carolina today claimed the" lives of Ray Coleman and Paul John son for the murder of Earl Be'ue, Spartanburg textile payroll clerk. Calmly, and without demonstration, the men went to their deaths in the electric chair, Coleman denying his guilt and Johnson warning others to beware of sin and pointing to himself as an example. Coleman was pronounced., dead at (5:28, seven minutes after the current was sent racing through his body. Johnson had a twenty-four minute respite. Coleman’s death struggle, broke the chair braces, making it nec essary to bring workmen in to repair it. He was pronounced dead five min utes after the current waV turnej oh.^ Itilling Belue on December 14, lit28, in for Wife of Sumter Slayer Says Husband Clinton City Schotds f»>r Year .Show F<>rred Identification of Inno- 1,911 Pupils Enrolled, 'labii- j cent Man Under Threat. lation Uy Grades. I .Sumter. June 23. Mrs. Carrie How- The total enrollment, of the Clinton, N(>w York hospital were cancelled several days ago and ho.spital e(iuip- menl and two nurses were instaled in the Morrow home. an attempt to rob him of a $7,000 pay roll. None of their relatives was at the prison thi.s morning. .lohnson’s father, the Rev. L. W. .Johnson, pastor of the Sinipsonville Methcalist church, paid his son a last visit bite yesterday. Coleman had married the Rev. Mr. .Johnson’s daughter. A crowd of more than 100 was gath ered outside the penitentiary long Ih'- fore the ap|)ointed time of the electro- eufion. .About half that number was admitted to the death chamber and Hickory Tavern, 10:30 a. rh., Thurs-j same time a serious vein of'^'^’ husband is Inung held in public schools, white and colored, for 4--— Artt ' I. * II.. ..aIiI !— „ . ..l Williams, today repudiated previous I ing to the annual report of Supt. J.i,.,,,,, day, August 21. | thought expr«4ssed by the speakers as Watts Mill, 8:00 p. m.,- Thursday, i difficult and thankless job of August 21. I the fire-fighters and the important Gray ( ourt-Owings, 10:30 a. m., p|g.j.g they occupy in protecting the Friday, August ‘22. ^ .homes and lives of the city. Jones Store, 8:00 p. m., Friday,- Mayor Joe F. Smith and Mrs, Smith husband to point out an innocent i the preceding'yt‘ar. Of the total en jail here for the murder of E. Hart I the 19‘29-30 session was 1,944, acconl statements that Williams had attack- H. W’itherspoon made the past week' ,,, . ' i , . ... - laKen place as ir ed her, and according to officers, con-! to the state department of education.' | There fessed that she had been forced by | This was an increa.se of 135 against I fv, * h August 22. of I.rfiurens, and Chief Marsh and Mrs. W'allace Lodge, 10:00 a, m., ur-; gf Columbia, were out-of-town day man in order to save her own life. 1 rollment, Soon after Williams had been shot and (537 colored. , I saw the last in the lives of the men Ihe arrival of me.ssengers trooping | ^hose case has stirre<i .South (^irolina up the drive to the house was the only wigA.^about the Morrow home to indi cate that so momentous event hail I taken place as the birth of a young were even persons ^ j within the house at the time who did ' ^on, a close friend of the Johnson fam- , , .. ..., ! not learn of the birth until they left jiy I..107 wo... wliito oh.Ulro... by outsiders. ' as has no other case in recent years. l>a.st minute prayers were said for Johnson and (’oleman by Rev. Dean Crain, prison chaplain, and Rev. T. L. Bry^, .Methodist minister of Fendle- y, August ‘23. ! guests. Expressions of appreciation of! death at his filling station in the; .The enrollment by grades, follows:! G'ndhergh, who has been her seemed W'oodville, 8:00 p. m., Saturday, Clinton department and its excell I W hites , husband s consUnt companion in the j he entei Laurons, 11.00 a. m., Monday, Auy.,,„j the lattor prom- attack-j b'!,si yra.I.- 10.1 12K 2t't i. ^ ''f'"' J , —. V..V prom- i ised a .spirit of co-operation on the emer- ed her on several occasions recently, I .^econd grade ‘‘I did not know Mr. Williams ex- Third grade Fourth grad*’ Fifth grade I Sixth grade ust 25. . laBurens Mill, 8:00 p. m., Monday, gf j^uren.s at any time an August 25, I jfency may arise caling for the united' husband told me he was The report of the special committee, efforts of the two departments ' ® filling station and said if 1 did composed of Dr. W. T. Pace. W. CL| jhe local department is headed by _ Owings and S. E. W illiams, appointedw Anderson, chief ; F. .M. quoted her' as saying'.Seventh grade Tt a previous meeting to make a rec- assi.stant chief; T. M. Littlefield and ,i K'lfhth grade ommendation on finance and entrance j q Copeland, captains. The privates i said that on Tuesday' Ninth grade fees for candidates was adopted, as | yf company are: i husband Tenth grade J* M. Roland, E. IL Ray. T. R. 1 When she failed she said her hu!<band Ntrpcrvisnr ‘ ”$30.0(r! Supt. of Education 30.00 Treasurer 50.00 Auditor . 50.00 Probate Judge 40.00 County Commissioner ... :. 10.00 House of Representatives . . 20.00 .Magistrates: 1 Laurens . 15.00, Clinton 12.50 i Others .. 5.00 The fees, reported the committee, were apportioned on the basis of the salaries of the various offices in amounts calculated to raise a suffi-| cient fund to defray the cost of the election. An additional $50, it is ex- pected, will be received as this coun-j ty’s share of the assessment for con- gressman. The total expen.ses of the campaign. it was estimated, would be as fal- lows: t Payment of managers at $10.00 $390.00 Printing of tickets 125.00 Advertising 70.00 Copying club rolls 125.00 Booths - —• 45.001 — Preparing bo*e* --- —- 10.00 - Incidentals .... # 10.00 * Total $775.00 [ ICte veriTh' g r ade H. J. Pitts. H. (’. Suber, D. Q. .Sowers, threatened to kill her. M. W. Adams, Augustus Blakelv, day she went to the M. Young, W.T. Jackson, P..S.Jeaiie.s.!^'”‘"‘f liams. First grade .Second grade Third grade ' Fourth grade .M. C. Stewart, Tom Sea.«e, V. P. Adair, j " Owens, engineer; U T, Ramage, i , ; Rev. C. Bynum Betts, chaplain.!taking .Sixth grade •firemen had as their guests,'causing almo.st in.stant, Seventh gra T;P. Owens, engineer; U T. Ramage. i his pi.stol at Wil-' Fifth grade driver The death. adc ghth grade iployees: Her husband had told her to tell | Ninth grade w . w » 1 q. q. .officers that a man had come to her [Tenth grade Mr and*^M^rs 1) C H t ' ^ I home on three occasions previous to Eleventh grade Mrs. P. B. Adair, Mr, and Mrs. J. P. i fpsgjyn ^^ay said. Boy.s Girls ToUl 1 1(5(5 128 294 1 98 88 18(5 87 95 182 . 75 49 1'2 4 . 51 49 loo' 37 _.47 35 40 75! 43 47 90 ' 11 39 80 1 < 2(5 2(5 521 T7 40 f ored 1 1 81 77 1(51 40 45 85 1 3(5 3.3 09 1 10 27 07 19 37 5(5 17 32 49 , 13 38 51 1 17 20 37 i Ti 15 20 (5 17 ‘23; 5 14 HM Coleman, a big. heavy-set man, Mrs. Lindbergh, who has been her . seemed intere.sted in lhos^*~present a.s red the d*’ath ihamber. He .sat in the chair as guards fastened trolleys on his rams and U is. Asked what he had to say, he ri': tliat I am my \v "e duy.s of the baby’s birth. I^ast Thurs day she flew with (Jolonel Lindbergh plied, “All 1 have to say !• from Tetj’cboro airport to Hartford,; innocent between mv Goi Conn., and return. Ten days previous-j and my baby.” ly she had mTompanied iiinfcjn a test I Then «.s the death mask was bpirig fligTit of a small monoplane. ! placed over his head, he muttered. The only description of the baliy ]lur me, pray L r me,’’ and eon- was th** statement of a servant in th(*;tinued repeating over and over in an II( has blonde hair and blue eyes. Johnson wa.s ev( ii more calm than Friends'said Colonel Lindbergh took 1 * ob’inan, hnt(‘ring tlu’ death chamiu’r tlj«’ news of his son’s birth with an I'^e looked over the ( rowd American Legpon To Hold Rally Carter, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Duncan, Mr and Mrs. W’, W’. Harris, W. A. Henry, J. C. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. R. Holland, Mr, and Mrs. S. A, Mr. and Mrs. C. W; Weir, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Young, Mr. and Mrs. L. Howell was arrested immediately ^ ClintOIl GiVCS after the shooting and Mrs. Howell was arrested in Timmonsville Satur day at the home of her father. Hus band and wife are scheduled to go on The local post of the American Lt- j,<j44'gion will have a meeting on Monday .evening, June 30, at 8 o’clock in Cope-, tentiary force, whose duty i.s is to give land’.s hall. took his .seat in the chair and inade his brief oration on the evil.s of sin. “I want to warn ail you men that are here'that there is danger in -sin," •Johnson said. “It is sin that put me h«‘re today, Imt by tin* grace of God my sins are forgiv*‘n. I hop** to meet you in heaven. I^et this tie an example for each an<l every one.’’ Captain Olin .Sanders, of the peiii- the signal for the switch to be turned To Thorn well! The arrangements for the entertain-! is an old friend of the John.son In the recent canvass made in the I trial for murder in general sessions ! Thornwcll orphanage as the week of July 7, To a MA. B. R. Austin, Mr. and Mrs. Roy 1 Workman, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Can ment are in the hands of a committee consi.sting of B. M. Arrington, chair man, ('. F. Winn and J. B. Parrott. Refreshments wlil be .served and it is expected that something like 200 local former service men will be in non. Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Adair, Mr. I ^ necessary for the court - I to appoir* ' ---• * his wife. free-will offering from (Clinton, man has been unable to se-11«40.55 in cash and provisions' was cure an attorney and indications are contributed by a large number of in- attendance. The llSth Infantry band terested friends. Of this amount, I will be on hand to furnish music. family and .said he had often played with Paul Johnson when Johnson wa.s a small boy. He was visibly affected today. Johnson and Coleman were captur ed in Indianapolis k short time after Bleue was killed. Their effort.s to get a’d in their projected holdup gave of- and Mrs. A. B.’BUkely/MrVand'.Mri’' ^ counsel to defend him and ^470.55 was in cash, and $370 in mer--There will be a numb<’r of speakers, ficers a cj^j^ that they followed in dis- R. W. Wade, Mr. and Mrs. J, Roy Crawford, and two newly nominated chandise. All of this amount has been on the American Ixigion and its work, j covering who had slain the payroll j collected and turned over to the insti-j'The principal speakers will be O.scar clerk. Doyle of Anderson, commander of the 1 Brought back to Npartanburg, they School To Give Sails For Greece .South (Carolina department of the, "'^re tried in April, 1929, and sen- Carriers Get Half Holiday , ent play, will be staged in the city on tution. The canvass was made undej the directioaqbf the Moral Welfare com mittee of the Chantber of Commerce, ~ rTT" . following a resolution recently adopt- P. Mitchell, proprietor of jjy organization designating otIOW In AUg^USt'^”® Clinton Cafe, left the past week ; ^ annually n invitation extends to all men, regard-, An appeal to the supreme court for a three months visit to his former ly^^y to be known as “Thornwell day. * ’ ■' American Legion, and Ei Henry Cap-' fenced by Judge M. M. Mann to die pieman, .state .service officer. [after a jury had brought in a verdict All former service men of Clinton ^ of guilty, and vicinity are urged to attend. This I Then the fight for their lives be- -F--C:, — 1 -- a less of whether they are now members t^or months, but in March of ‘‘All of a Sudden Sally,” a local tal-1 Greece. George has been in |liberal respon.se on the part of |<>f the I>egion. There wil be no admis-j^*’* yfar the court affirmetl the decis- ; this country for a number of year* i those who contributed is deeply ap - »'nn charge. The committe is endea-1 >0*1 nt the lower court. They were sen [Friday, August lit, in the Florida ■ ® naturalized, ''espected y^y yy^^ management of the [ voring to get in touch with every one tenced to die May 23, but a reprieve 'Street school auditorium. The nlav I ! orphanage. : but it wil not likely be possible for i "as granted them by (Jovernor Rich- City carriers of the Clinton post I street school auditorium. The play, .. . ... ... office from now until Sept. Ut, are »'ll •>« preeented for the benefit of I ‘“1*^; Z f to be given half holiday on Thur«lay.,,the high ^hool athletic a.aociation. I T. '' it waa announced yesuyday by Acting'- ■**»'" Bo- ' fore leaving George supplied himself with visiting cards bearing his name and the address “Clinton,” with which ' he will advertise and boost his adopted Postmaster Blakely. This means that the Thursday service will be curtailed to one complete delivery in the morn ing, the change being made from Sat-1 urday as heretofore to avoid the long break until the Monday morning de-l 'ivery. The plan* is inaugurated by the post office department to give the' .xrarriers a short vacation period during ihe hot summer months. WHAT TO EAT— WHERE TO SHOP Vacation Begins At Orphanage .MID-STATE LEAGUE Won Lost Pet., Whitmire 8 2 .800 > Oakland r -- 8 2 .8001 Monarch .... 7 3 .700 Mollohon - 7 3 .700, Clinton . .... 4 6 .400 Newberry .! .... 3 7 .300 Goldville .... — 3 7 .300 Laurens 0 10 .000 If the matter of what to eat troubles you, the advertisements of Clinton food merchants ap pearing every Thursday in THE CHRONICLE will solve your problem. Hundreds of local housewives now read these ad vertisements regularly and prof itably. They mean eco^my to you and eliniinate unnecessary steps and the greater part of your “shopping around.” They bring you hiat minute announce ment! for the week. « Vacation at the Thornwell orphan age began the past week when one- city among the Grecians. In his ah-j gj children left for a month’s { sence, his business is in charge of his , assistant, Lumas Lake. Visiting Minister At A. R. P. Church visit to relatives in various parts of this state, Georgia and Florida. Upon their return, the second section will be away from the campus for a simi lar period,. \ For the children who have no hones to visit, “Riverside,” on the banks of Enoree river, has been opened with The Rev. James M. Dick of Pulaski, Va., will preach at the morning ser-; Mrs. L. M. Dugan in charge as ma- likely be possible the committee to see every man indi-j 5,he day before they were to'be vidually. All ex-service men are urged electrocuted. to hand their names in to some one' ^'^e govern<ir, after .several weeks of the folowing men and signify!®^ consideration, announced he would whether they wil attend the meeting "of interfere, although he ^aid he had on Monday. the utmost sympathy for the men and The following men will be glad to their familie.s. receive names: C. F. Winn, J. B. Par- During all this time, the governor rott, l^wis Bagwell, W. A. Bmihanan, bombarded with letters, telegrams R. W. Wade and H. L. Eichelberger. ' , at his office a.vd al home by ^ ' person.s .seeking to have the .sentence RawIssg T’ft QtiAQlr commuted to life imprisonment. .‘>0 an- OUWieS JO noying had the anonymou.’^ calls be- For Methodists come dulling the last few day.s that it ' was necessary to remove the telephone Rev. Samuel P. Bowles will occupy j the execuLve man.s.on. ^ ^ .. the pulpit, of North Broad Street' I vice of the local A. R. P. church next | tron, and a large group of boys and i Methodist church next .Sunday mom- Sabbath. Mr. Dick together with Mrs. Dick, before her marriage Miss Eliza beth Young, are spending their vaca-f tion in the city, and the many friends' of Mr. Dick will be glad of an oppor tunity to hear him. girls are now there enjoying an out- j ing at the usual hour of service. There KIW ANIANS 10 MEET ing. The two cottages have recently: "ii h« "o evening service, it has been The regular meeting of the ClintOn Kiwanis club will be held this even ing at 7:30 at Hotel Clinton. Tne pro gram will be in charge of the com mittee on business standards. been put in excellent condition by the alumni and promise to be an unusually popular resort for the next two months. announced. The pastor, Rev. 0. M. Abney, is out of the city for ten days attending the pastors’ school in Co lumbia. V / ’> a ■ ■ V .^ — -it. -■’i'.;-1^: X i**