The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, June 26, 1930, Image 4
i^AGE FOUR
THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON. 8, C
THURSDAY. JUNE 26. 19.10
Ql^e (Slinton (E4tontrU
SatabUalMd IfOO
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ton and I diddent want to bother her
'as she belongs to the h-4 club. '
as it was too hot to walk verry far,
i hitched up my boss to my beef wag-
gin myself as my chillun was off pick
ing blackberries for dinner, but that Foxxes: If you boys know so much.
Ocotton) contract now. A bull mos
ment is sure to materialize within less j
than 6 weeks. Why remain poor when!
opportunity is knocking at your door?
Yours truly, Foxx A Son, IVall Street,
New York City." I replied: "Dear!
' has got nothing to do with the mat
I ter, and i got 2 big hamper baskets to
I put my fish in myself, as i couldn't
, get my wife’s cuzzin aam to wake up
jand get them for mje. but that has
nothing to do with the matter.
( LINTON, S. C., JUNK 26, 1930
A man may be down, but he is not
cut until he is down in the mouth.
I so by 2 p. m. i had got my wirms
' and my poll and my hooks and my
I sinkers and my 8 dogs all together,
and started out for the afore said
: creek, i am a tender harted man ann
! begun to worry about the pore inno-
I cent fish which i expected to ketch
I and pull out of the watter away from
I their mas and pas, and i made up my
j mind to fetch home only 15 or 20 of
I the large fishes and throw everything
I back that was not as long as, well,—
why ain’t you rich? I advise you to
buy a few Julys yourselves and quit
work. Sorry I won’t be with you dur
ing the bull movement, but let him
move. Opportunity might be knocking j
on my door, but she’s using a tooth-1
pick and 1 am deaf, so I have decided *
to remain poor with the-rest of the
dimmercrats. Yours truly. Gee Me-
Gee.’’
Shock abs(irbers on autos would be
better if the driver could wear them.
Oftentimes a man finds he can’t
make ends meet because they are
loose ends.
your civic pride become ar.oused.
t’lcan up vacant lota and plant them |
in gardens. Make a cluttered up yard
a disgrace and an unpainted h -use a
reproach. Cut the weeds, clean the
streets and make things attractive in
general. Nobody wants to live in an
unattractive, filthy town.
Make public opinion too hot for
those who knock (and we are afflict-
e<l with some of this type), who re
fuse to cooperate for the community’s
general good.
Our town should be one where folks
are friendly, where 4irogres.siveness is
appreciated, where good roads in all
direction.^ make it acces.sible, where
proper sanitary methods’are condu-
fcartdtfttiness, vKh£e& .attract
when a candidate helps himself to ai-tiveness is considered an indispensi-
eigaret in.sfead of offering you a ci-lble asset, where government is effi-
jrm. i^’ient and popular, where living con-
Many a man calls hi-j wife the bet
ter half, when she is alM)ut 90 per cent
of the family.
How dull business w )uld he if every
ma:i refrained f:* m buying until he
cuuki afford it.
. MiSW.AtN UNOI'FOSEI)
J. MeSwain of Greenville, and a
native son of this county, is to be
, um>pp<)8ed in his race for re-election
(this summer as representative from
this district in congress. His formal
ann»,uncmeent appears in today’s pa-
pei.
The Chronicle is pleased to note
(htC Mr. .Mc.Swain i.s again to be re
turned to hi.s seat without opposition.
It i a compliment ti b'm ;;r .« i.)gni-
tion of his fine talents and the ability
and common sense with which he has
represented his district in the national
Iwuly at Washington. His
ricnce adds steadily
his loyal service.
it diddent take me and that beef
waggin and them dogs very long to
arrive at the creek and i hitched them
up to a tree up on the hill onner count
they would scare the fish too bad if
they was down on'the bank with me.
i sot in to fishing at edzactly 3.33 p.
m, by my watch which i got for 156
soap wrappers, so it must not of benn
later than 4.40 p. m.
the first bit i got was a chunk float
ing down the streem. but i fished
right on and commenced to get hun
gry, so i et up jfny supper about 26
rigjbt, gp,
i sot out 6 hooks up And down the
streem. i baited my hooks with the
The Final Hint
A man sold me a vacuum cleaner
and guaranteed it to pay for itselY in
3 years. I have had it 2 years already
and have spent 6 dollars and a quar
ter having it repaired and my electric
bill for Tuning it was about 11 dollars
and 22' cents up to last night and I
<till owe 19^ dollars and 44 gents in
installments, and it’s about woim out, j
If it-has ever paid for itself, nobody
.has been able to find out who it turn-1
ed the money over to. Of course, it
has sucked nearly all of the fur out,
^f buy rugs and it keeps the dirst
pumped v)ut of the cracks in the floor j
so’s wind can come through, but so |
far as proving a help to us rinancially,*; | *
it ain’t. This thing you call "easy pay- *
ments’’ is the bunk. I have never found
one that was so very easy—not sineg
Hoover prosperity set in, at least.
biggest wirms i had and waited for
^itions are good, where the helping ^^***'* that is the fish, to grab same.
as it loked like rain about 9 p. m. i
backed out on ketching anny fish, so
we all went home. mr. editor, anny
time you want to take a nice fishing
trip, rite or foam me and i will come
and get you and carry you to willson’s
hand is extended to the unfortunate,
jWhere employment is plentiful, where
investments are sound, where intoler
ance is unknown, where church spires
point the w’ly to Heaven and God is
honored and worshipped
That’s the kind of a town we should '
and fish fries is hell.
* yores trulie,
mike Clark, rfd.
all want and woi k for.
( LKHING THE (JKAI I KK.S .
Pr‘*S (Ient Ib ovci' has signtsl the bill
wfiii h provides for a F’ederal systetn
of licen.sing dealers in peri<hHble pro-
duct.s. ‘
The effect of thi.s law will be to give
ripe expe-|the government the power to regulate
to the value of‘the busine.ss practices of commission
I hou.ses and others doing an interstate
DRS. SMITH A SMITH
Optui^rMs
AIWAYI
in
iUNNER
The distinction that is Congress-1 business,
man .Me.Swain’s of having no opposi-i This may prove to bo of as great
tion, is proof that those who might
otherwise o|>pose him are convinced
«f his efficient service for and popu
larity with the people.
YOU MUST KNHOLL
Ue.spite the, fact that the enrollment
books are now open, a very small per
rent of the voters have bbthefed them
selves to place their riamo.s on the
lH>oks. For this reason, The Chronicle
is again ruling this important matter
to its readers’ attention.
To vote in the approaching primary
benefit to the farmers of the United
States as any other measure intended
for farm relief. Every grower ttf eon»-
modities shipped to distant markets
has had, at one tiine or another, ex
perience with dishonest commission
houses, at the ternifhal nmrkets. Prac
tices which are notoriously corrupt
have been common. The HlridTvrduaT
Health Hints
There is a certain cigarette that is
being adverti.sed which seem.s destined
to r'd the country of all kinds of anti
fact nostrums and sitting up exercis
es. Apf)urently this cigarette will keep
your tummy from ,becoming overly
large or .distended and ,it will stop
your goozler from making an ugly
shadow. Ain’t scdcnce wonderful?
Hints on Finance
And if you will take time to study
.some other advertisement.s, you’ll
quickly di.soover that it is easy to get
rich quick, for instance: Numerous
stocks are being offered that will pay
fO-'m 15 to 2.6_ per _ cent .annually. 1
haye often wondered why the guys
8hipj)er is at a great disadvantage j who sell these remarkablle bargains
when, instead of getting a check for!<|on’t call on ,Iohn D. or Mr. Mellon:
his produce he gets a hill for freight
and expenses with the calm explana
tion that the produce has been s|)(>iled
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PfRfOMAl
UUNDflttM
there is no comfort in
summer - sueb.-«a?* fbat
which comes from knowing
you are well-clad. Fresh cloth
ing and linen in the hot
months is a vital necessity,
and it is a guarantee of this
. to have youf laundering done
so that you can depend on it
always.
This laundry is equipped to
^^^airafe me finest oritunmier
'clothing and linens and to re
turn them to you w'hen you
need them.
Laundry days, with us,
care nothing about sunshine
or rain — w'e get the work
out.
Know the thrill of ade
quate sqmmer linens—
depend on us for ser
vice.
Buchanan’s
STEAM LAUNDRY
DRY CLEANERS
Phone 28
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your name must l)e oti the club liook ! ket, or that some other cause had pre
in the preeincl in which you live. New
books are being made up this year
and no previous enrollment will (juali-
fy you'toi vtite.
A registration certificate is not nec
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to app»*ar in per.<on to the secretary
of your club and sign thf roll. .All of
which means that uide.ss you wish to
be disfranchised, you must not over-
U>ok this important duly of cilizen-
ihip.
If you reside in the city of (’linton,
vented its sale at a price sufficient to
cover the costs.
There are honest commission hou.s-
es, of course. Probably the great ma
jority of dealers in pnaluce, live stock,
p )ultry and dairy protlucts do busi
ness a.s honorably as business is done
anywhere. Their risk.s are large. an<l
they are entitled to profits propor
tioned to the risk. But there have been
enough instances uncovered of decep-
: tion and fraud on the part of com
mission houses to make such legisla-
they wrtuld buy all of 'em without bat-'
ting an eye or wiggling an car
fommunicate with L. B. Dillaril, sec- lion as this necessary for the protec-
JuKt Plain Hinta
And there is a man out in Chicago
who advertises that he has a little
jigger that he wants to attach to ev
erybody’s Ford carbureter that will
as.suredly give them from 50 to 60
miles for every gallon of gas they in
ject into lizzief It looks like Mr. Ford
would hunt that man up and buy that
thing and then corner the automobile
bu.siness of the world for a fact. So
far as I know, no one in our town has
been getting over 22 m. p. g. There
fore, they have evidently not bought
that amazing gas saver.
rctary. If you live in another precinct
get in touch with" the secretary of
your club.
tion not only of shippers hut of the
honest men in the produce business.
July
Some More Hints
M<v. f 1 I . . I <la.V8 ago, 1 received the fol
The redei-al government seems to .... „•
, I .u •. 1 • L 1. lowing letter; “Dear Sir
be the only authority which ha.s a |
chance of cleaning up this situation.
State and local authorities are not in
clined to pre.ss the claims of farmers]
PUKSBYTEKIANS TO BUILD
It is inleiestiiig to the community
to know that from the ashes of last
fbcemlMT, a beautiful new church edi-i shippers w ho pay taxes several >
fice for the First Presbyterian eon-1 thousand miles away, against j
fiegalion is soon to arise. The con-}own citizens and taxpayers. The ‘
liact has already lavn let. ground government alone can excr-j
bioken on the new site, and work will|^‘'’'® authority over interstate com-
scon be under construction. i merce. ^
The church is to be Gothic in struc-j It is to be hoped, that the machinery
aiid of ~granite, and when com-j for the enforcement of this new law
pitted and etjuippi^l, will represent an, will he sot up speedily and that it will
•xr-entruiire of $100,000. It will be a operate efficiently enough to give the
▼ery handMime building, complete in grower and shipper the assurance
•Very detail and adequate to care for that, whatever other causues may op-
di s denomination’s growth for years orate to keep him from getting the
Ui come. i best price for his products, he will at
The F irst Pre.sbyterian church, w’ith I least not be cheated by the agent to|
JtJ long and noble history, has always' whom he has consigned them,
he’d a commanding position in the, —
Things I Ate
Hurt Me
synod of South Carolina. It was found
ed by a band of self-sacrificing pio-
■eers and stands today as the mother
ehurch of the orphanage and college.
Congratulations to the Presbyteri
ans are in order on what they have
accomplished through a fine, unHed
spirit of love and devotion.
Nobody’s Business
By Gee McOm
A GOOD PLACE TO LIVE
Work for and with Clinton. Beautify
it. Improve it. Make it attractive.
Help make it the kind of a town that
you really want to live in.
The best advertisement of your
business is the town you live in if it’s
Ae kind of town it should be.
Jowns get reputations as well as
wen. Repetition makes reputation.
Make your town’s reputation one that
will attract favorable attention. It
will thus draw people and where peo
ple come there is prosperity.
Help rid Clinton of one eyesore
after another. If you have any, let
Mike Turns Fisherman
flat rock, s C. June the 18, 1980.
leer mr. editor:
the followers of ike walton of this
community have asked me to rite up
my recent fishing trip down on will-
ion’s cresk which runs betwixt one
towmship and another, but that has
got nothing to do with the matter, as
fishes stay in the watter and not the
township.
The creek in question rises in a pas
tor about 8 miles from where it emp
ties into nother creek by the same
name, but that has nothing much to do
with the matter, as i went a fishing
in the first named creek, i dug my
own bait as my wife was hoeing cot-
**1 HAD a ssvure
case of indigea-
tipQ," says Mrs. BoU
Buckhdbriar, 7 River
St, Piedmont, S. C
"So many things
that I ate hurt me,
1 elmoet quit mir
ing.
*1 would bum in my cheet I
had eevers headache, and each
a tight, emothering flMling. 1
would be obliged to eat a little^
then it would hurt me.
"A friend eaid to me: *Why
don't you take Bleck-DrenghtT*
"I was just too weak then to
do my work. I began taldng
email doeee after maala and fas
just a few wee^ 1 oeold eat
enythini I waiiled to, thra
teka my rnnall doaa of Black-
Draught and Ibelllna. laooarw
gained my health and streogtii.**
Ooata only 1 cent a doaa.
nEDFOBlFS
Black-
Draught
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