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•A ''t' It THE CHRONICLE Yon Don't G«t The News. Sbf (HUttion dbrnttirk CHRONICLE ^ 5 Strives To Be a Clean News-1 • z S paper, Complete, Newsy, } 'Z and Reliable. • VOLUME XXX CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27,1930 NUMBER 48 WILL DECORATE STREETS FOR CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS Clinton “Square” To Glow During Yulelide Season As Last Year. Lights To Be Turned On Friday Night, Dec. 5th, In Honor of Arrival of ^anta Claus for HLs Pre-Christmas Visit. City council in Mssion the past j CLAIMS ! w'eek, approved jplans for decoiatinsr; the business section of the city for j m v/ivlYlI-ilV , the Christmas holidays similar to last year, the matter beini? placed in the j.D. W. Mason I*as^es After Several hands of the water and Htfht copimit-1 Years DeciininK Health. Was City tee and Supt. Austin and his force. ! Official for 18 Year.s, W’. W. Harris, chairman of the com-1 D. \v. Mason, well known citizen mittee, stated yesterday that the work I and fonner chief of the city’s police is now going forward and that •’he big I Jt.partmeut, wa.s laid to rest Sunday switch will be thrown on next Friday | afternoon in the Presbyterian come- evening, I>ec. 5th, at six o’clock, in ^ tery with one of the largest crowds honor of the arrival in the city of' ever' in attendance at a funeral in Santa Claus from the snow-bound ve- Clinton present for the services at the gions of the North Pole. With the heme ami at the grave. The services coming of Old Saint Nicholas and th.'jwere in charge of Ur. Dudley Jones,', •turning on of'the varied-colored lights, I Dr. D. J,. Woods and Rev. J. F. Ja-j the Chri.stmas spirit will descend upon ;obs, Sr. the city and the kiddies and growm- The active pallliearers were the five ups also, are invited to be present for sons and one son-in-law of the de- the happy occasion. | ceased. A number of .Mr. Mason's The lights are to be turned on on faithful Negro frierids had asked for THANKSGIVING FULL HOLIDAY To Be Observed Here As Ci'y Takes Day Off To Go To Church, Eat Turkey, Hie, Tq the Woods, and Enjoy Foot ball Game At Newberry. THE FIRST CELKIIRATION the ilearing with music. Fnim the main'lighted every nigkt through the ^"service and they were all«Ywe<t tcT-cover holiday season. In addition to the lay- the grave. Many beautiful floral de- out of last year, an additional tree in sign.s from individuals, organizations the center of the business .-uiuare will 1 and others, placixl on the grave, were be decorated, and the “white way'’ in indicative of the high esteem in which the entire business section will sparkle with lights of varied colors to add to the beauty and attractiveness of the he was held. Mr. Mason was in his 65th‘year of age, having been born in the Shady ing set ^‘a sr)ft^e^ li^on'th'e hills throwing’ open its 'he Hos^a'. The As the sturdy Pilgrim Father of old bowed the knee of thankCulnes.s on his rock-bound New England coast on that first Thanksgiving day moro than 300 years ago, .Sd will Clinton- ians generally today oi)si‘rve Thanks giving and give thanks for the boun- ticiT that have been vouchsafed them in the year now drawng to a close. Family reunions, sim])](‘ diversions, hunting parties, footbaU these will make the day. Thanksgiving tai»!es will be heavy with u insuu! (le!i(acies and all the other delectable viands that go to make up the holiday feast. Turkeys for the occasion have iK-en plentiful on the market the past’ week and are selling at lowt-r prices than When the governor cease<l, one of jin several years. j SSP* postoffice mellowed the bright colors of the fall-(•‘•venior Bradford promptly | ^ holiday mellowed the Drignl lojors 1 tne tall stopped, seding the basket upon the came fmwaid and plucking a stick ing leaves as it calk'd every man andljjmund. .Again there was silence and i’r<fni the basket, threw it into the woman and child out into-their door-1 all stood forth in singing. gjain hou.se. So one by one those who yards with the jty of living high' ’rkes of the p.salm began, i gathered the corn took up a .stick and ... . ] the two maidens each plucked a stick,'threw it into the granary untiTonly wi in cm. j dropping it in the basket, then stood , two slicks were left. Prisellia, hlush- . /%, .»• o » I . Most of the colonists, having been | aside that those who followed might ing .sweetly, gently dropped one of picture. Other information on Santas Grove .section on Sept. 6, 1866. In 1S90 j the north of England, now | pluck and deposit their corn. So ihey these in the storehou.se. , arrival will appear Jn^ext week s pa- he married Miss Emma Finney. In j betook themselves to the custhm of j sang, while each one harvested his I The second maiden now stod<l forth, P**"’ ' 1U(X* he moved his family here and j that section of the country in cele-} corn, dropping it in the wicker basket' holding the la.st stick of corn. W’ith The splendor and beauty of f iin- soon hereafter became chief-of-police Crating the bringing in of the last i until the last ear had heem garnered, her head thrown buck and singing n’a decorations last year attracted , of Clinton and creditably filled this 1 harvest sheaf. First a wicker ton many visitors and shoppers, and call-j position until March 1, 1927, when he ed forth favorable comment. i was forced to {five up his work follow- All merchants in the city are a.sked . inji a stroke of paralysis. Since that to decorate their windows and help time he had l»een in declining health give the city a real Christmas appear- and spent practically his entire time ance. i at home with his family to which he The water and light committee on ' was deeply devoted. l.*st Friday night arrangefnents consists of Aldermen | he suffered a heart attack from which Harris, Duncan and Abrams. The he gradually grew worse until the work will be done under, the direction end came Saturday afternoon shortly of Supt. Austin and his force. after four o’clock. I Mr. Mason had been a resident of BIG GAME FOR ' this county and community his entire basket! The burden of the full basket b<>ing words of prai.se, .she dropped the last was carried into the common house,! past the strength of the maidens, two , sheaf of harvest into the granary, and festooned with many colored rib-' men came forth and gravely raised the i closed the door, l(K'ke<l it and carried bens, as gay in its festival array as-basket between them. With quickened ! the key to the governor, the people who gathered around it. ; step the procession marched back, | When this simple ceremony had When the basket was in readiness; through the field and down the path i been completed, all stood with bowed two maidens lifted it from the ground, I to the granary, singing a song of heads as again they sang, “The Lord holding it between them while the thankfulness. shall pi eserve thy going out, and thy colonists fell in two by two behind Having finished the marching song, coming in from this time forth and them. For a moment there was silence, Governoi Bradford bade all kneel in forevermore." llife and was known and admired by TURKE I DAY many friends, both white and coloreil. He was an elder in the Shady Grove Blue Hoaemen 'Me«t Newberry Today : church unUl bia. death, and wa* a de- In Season’s Closing Batlte. Vic- voted member of the Presbyterian tory Means S. 1. A. A. Title. church from early childhood. With the final game of Presbyterian 'Throughout his long life in Clinton, college’s most succcs.s/ul football sca- Mason made and held many son to be played in NewborQ’’ this af—staunch friends both in a social and then there arose in full song that stir ring processioi^al, “The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and they that dwell therein." As they marched, they .sang, filling spirit will reign supreme throughout the city. ■At ten o’clock in the First Baptist church, the usual union Thanksgiving service will be held, at which time the Rev. .Samuel I*. Bowles of the orphan age, will preach an . appropriate Thanksgiving sermon. .A cordial invi tation has been extended to the peopb.? of the city U) unite in tliis service .‘tT'd it is expected that there will he a large congregation. .Athletically, the big football ga- x' will he playerl at New'herry he'ween Presbyterian and Newberry colleg’ long .standing rivals. This is the cl ing game of the season and is e.vm*- - ed to attract state-wide attention. .V great crowd from Clinton will iro down for the game beginning at 5 p. m., to see the gallant Presbyterian Igiidiron warriors throw f(»rward pass- I es and make end runs. a half circle around the front of the So was garneresi the first hUrvest granary. The elder sent up a petition from the field of the great clearing, of thanksgiving for the riches of the and safelv housed amid the songs of , earth, forest, and sea which had been praise and thanksgiving of the peo-i, . . 1 *1. I I I- I I hunters will avail theimselvos of ti-’o bountifully poured on the people. j pie. MANY APPEALS FOR AID COME TO WOMAN’S RELIEF CLUB teiTioon at 3 o’clock, a great Thanks giving day crowd is exiiected. The P. C. team is in fine shape and is doped official way as an employee of the city, and there are many to join with the family in mourning his loss. With DECREASE IN The Woman’s club wishes to thank ! able to meet the deniand.s for clothes to win today’s.s game which will mean death another honored member of the ladies for their splendid co-oper- through the cold months, and we aiej Himfer loHn.ship On lop. ^ alien in securing clothes for the poor ^k^in appealing to tlie hulii's to h» In ; l.nuieri.s, Nov. 21.—Assessments of ^ , ■ „ 1 /M ,1. us. Give us all the clothing ycu ca.i iu rsonail property in Launtn.s , spare, esjiecially childrens things ‘^■"un.y for ]!-{() show a decrea.se ol j not only given hut were eollecled aniF girls) from .six to sixteen, under the assessments of | brought to the room in the city , as well as shoes for school age. Th^■ uMonling to the abstract of du-j clerk’s office. .A committee of ladies j left-hand room of the city clerk’s of- .l’l 'utc.s ( oinpleted several-days ago | played the Hosemen to a scorele-s tie ‘ and .Miss Dorcas Mason, assorted the articles and the room le-' always open atwl clothing can uiailed to since 1915. Fourteen games have been by five sons, Guss j sembled a clothing store with its well-' '., ♦' f**! !u *'^, .*^* T**"* i «<» moTro played. These two teams are old rivals Mason of l.uurens, Joe Mason of Sen- filled shelves and hangers. | If has been <lecided for the pix sent nu Yi,.».Vr’ ’*'1 ! ~ ' Mrs. Butler Boyd. Mrs. Goyne Simp- to keep this room 0F>en for distrihu- : $9,<21.29., for last holiday liy taking to the woods i-ul fields in quest of partridge and raWiit. With th(‘ celebration of Thank'g'v- 19.30 ASSESSMENTS ' ing behind after today, the comnuni- ______ jty will turn its attention to the ap- I proaching Yuletirie .■^casuu, eviden e.s jof which are already beginning to ho i seen itf .several storr^-of -thT'~Ttt~e.~ .Viuiilor’s Report ,Show.H Falling Off of .SllMI.DOO Over l.asl Year. a clear title for the first/time to the S, I, A. A. championship Newberry has won five ganH‘.s..and the older generation ha.s pas.sed away. Besides his widow, Mr. Mason is urvived by Iwq daughters, Mrs. Jodie NUTRITION STUDY MADE IN COUNTY, on the gridiron and while the P. C. f*<*orge .Mason of Charlotte, Hem- aggregation has the upper hand in Mason of Allendale, and D. W. day’s game, they face a team that will ‘ -Ma^on, Jr., of this city. Also by three fight them harder than any foe they Mrs. Guss Davidson of this have faced this year. .An over-confi- 'Mrs. S. C. Holland of Darling- dent Blue istockings aggregation *•'^1 Miss Ida Mason of Whitmire, would be the w.irst thing in the world Saturdays. It will not he open this for Coach Johnson’s cohorts and this has been foremost in the minds of the coac'nes as they have worked for the game. T.xlay’s contest will see several of Big Increase In County Ginnings The cotton ginhers’ report for I.au- the men that have written their names rens county for the period ending No- high on the roll of honor in P. foot-j ycniher 14th, as announced yesterday ball play for the la.st time. There are through the bureau of the census, several men on the team who are as .shews a large imrease over la.st year, good as any t’ue college has ever had, The ginning.s for the county were 29,- and in Green, Ritchie, Lynn, Ferrene, 178 bales as compared with •18,136 Jack.son, McQueen and Dunlap are six bales for the same date last year. The men that will be missed in the line-up cotton pirki.ng sea.<on is almost over next fall, and ai-c to be seen in action j in the county, but it is expected that week on Thursday. Any lady wi.shing son and Mr.s, R. W. Wade distributed i <’!othings from three to fivi clothing to thirty-eight needy people o’clcn k on Tue«<lay.s, Thur.«(lays and on Saturday afternoon. The appeals were pathetic, mothers wanting warm clothes for their children, esjM'cially those of school age. An old woman wanted a suit for her sick husband when he sat up. ,A sick father wanted year. On thi.s year’s assesrinents a total of .8552,164.7(1 Is due to he col lected for all ])urp<)ses, including state, to help in keeping thi.s room open, 1 Found I hat Only 2-3 Per ( ent of ( hil- i dren of I.aurens County .Vre Rat*"^ \.'< Good. Clemson College, .Nov. 21. In a j.stufly (,f nutritional statu.s of 222 ; x hool childri'ii in I-auri-ns county, it : was found that 23 per cent rated good I against 11 per cent poor or very po r, I with .>() |>er cent rating fair. \n attempt was niade in this study Of the total assessments $4,051,844 j to di.sc-over the points of strength and will please give her name to Mrs. B. ccirporetions, $12r),!>0() on nier-• of w'eakness in the dii't and care of H, Boyd. « han«iise, $2,H.")2,670 on rural real es-. the children and to di.scover the rela- We are having daily aimeals for on city real e.state and I lion.-hip hetween fhe^e habits and th. •'ll' «770 e,o". I .1 • . .... - ... clothes for his three little boys so j food and fuel and would again ask the ’ personal iiroperty. Of the'• present physical condition of the chil- they could go to school. j people of the community to he!]) us' personal property, $275,;)9;» 1 dren as shown by medical and d('n*al *We have found that we will not be' in 'meet ing the.se pressing needs. Bishop Mouzon Richards To Stop IS fur automobiles. ( xaminutions. Cleni.son college off'e- Hunter township took the lead this hils lepoit. The results <.f the stu.ly year in assessments, due to the en-1 have been published in an experiment p. I • ' d J J mxr 1 ' "1^ ^he Joanna .Manufactur- '^tatii-n bulletin, “The Diet of Si-hool Deplores l^riine j Sunday Road Work comiiany at GoUville, stated Mr. < hildren in Relation to Their Health,’’ 1 —^ Dorn.h, F.aurens township coming sec-, by .Mary E. Frayser and .Atla .M. .Mos- Henderson, N. C., Nov. 2.3.—Bishop j Columbia; NViv. 21.—Governor Rich-. ond. Dials and Youngs townships, ‘‘C. home economist.s. Edwin D. Mouzon, preaching to thejards today took .step.s to halt .Sunday .'4'<^uped U»gether on account of schoid '/'he ten distriets ( hos*n in Lauren.s annual North ('arolina conference of ! construction work. 'district lines, showed the next largest, county for this study are belii'ved, the the Methodist Episcopal Church, tcilsy for the last time under P. C. the liext report will push this year’s j South, Sunday deplored the extent of colors on the gridiron. total several hundred bale^ over the j crime in this country. With the entire team in shape and;30.090 estimated figure. ! He cited conditions in China, India Public Schools phy.'ically fit for the game, Johnson and the entire squad will make the last trip and if possible mo.st ot the men will get into the game. The boys seem confident of victory, almost too confident, and have hopes of running up a big score on their rivals. i terday for two days on account of Lonnie McMillian has been pushing; Thanksgiving. Class room work will his first year men to the Unlit with no; be resumed next Monday morning and signs of easing off as the rata point teachers who live out oif the city will and .Soutli America, and then declared “it is safer for a man in Brazil than X nn^ PI in one of our own American cities." vfCl 1. LsByS^ The bishop recently returned from a church' mission to Brazil. Sheriff Jame.s P, Howard of Aiken j ^ county, was ordered to arre.st an un- The total by townships is as fol named Clearwater contractor if he luw.s. had his laborers on the job Sunday. Laurens township “Tr.ere is a tendency of contractors Youngs I The Clinton city schools closed yes- i Entitling his sermon “Great Expec tations," the bishoip said the "whole Sullivan Waterloo Cro.ss Hill of the state highway department to work their men on Sunday,” he said. “I am sure the state highway depart ment is in sympathy with my effort to stop this. “If any contractor, state or other- ((fficials say, to r('pre.<cMt a cro.s.s sec tion of the white rural population of the county. 'Fhe study of the.se typical distriets led to the conclnston that the social and educational differen<'es which were found within the county upon difference.^ 397*737 the economic status. .Most of the $3,0r) 1.399 1.007,450 520,580 3,249,792 i children studied jaeits 4,39 4.34 ’^’ountry, none in a eoininunity of more Scuffletown 229!o'61 persons. to them Iskt game of the year with spend the holiday* at their home*.' selfishness," he said. “One son of God The Citadel first year men in Charles- Practically all schoola in the county i Uved to shw man what he can do and ton for a Turkey day affair. The rats are uniting in observing the same holi have won one and lost three games; days, this season and it is the aim of Me-' MilUan and Timmons to have their | team come through today with anoth- j er victory if poss'ible. creation of mankind is waiting for j wise, carries on work on .Sunday, Pm the manifestations of God." going to have him prosecuted." "We preachers must get away from | : Total $9,322,679 STAR ROUTE BEGINS MONDAY P. C. TOPS niE WHOLE LIST under God can be. We have depended too much upon organizations. We must depend upon living, we have got | to learn the spirit of sacrificial liv- Bliie Hose Cage Young Minister Schedule Given 1 Many Stars Play Last Game Today football game in Newberry v-'dllcU lU 1 CAdS this afternoon will mark the fina ap pearance of Capt. Ro.ss Lynn. .IJinnly 'ing." COMPLETES COURSE IN LAW P. C. beat Mercer; Furman beati Effective next Monday, December! Florida; Florida tied Georgia; Georgia j X, the present star mail route from heat Yale, N. Y. U. and North Caro-; orphanage boy and an outstanding i as the sea.son approaches. tied the Army and beat ( member of one of Pre.sbyterian col- Jan- —Wofford at C'li l^;>artanburg to Laurens, will be ex- lina; Yale tied the Army tended from the latter place to Clin-! Princeton; N. Y. U. defeated Carne- lege’s football teams a few year.s ago, ton. The biia^will arrive here at 9:20 gie, and Ca^rnegie trounced Georgia recently graduated in law at Colum- a. m. and-leave in t#ie afternoon at .Tech; Oglethorpe frocked Furman andjbia university, N. Y. He is now asso- 6:30 p. m. The extension of the pres-j Mercer ousted Oglethorpe. Therefore, ciated with the attorney general’s of- ent route will afford Clinton a quick ^ P- C. is head and shoulders above ! fice of the state of New \ ork with daily connecton wnith the Spartanburg Yale. N. Y. U., Georgia, Georgia Tech, j offices in New York city. Graham has air mail line artd will prove a big con- North Carolina, Princeton, Carnegie/a wide circle of friends and acquain- venicnce to local banks and business Tech, Furman, Oglethorpe, and every-j tances here who predict a brilliant houses. jbody else—including Newterry.- I future for him. Coach Lonnie McMillian has already ' Friend.s in the city of Rev. .Matthew, Green, “Snooks” Dunlap, Bob RiUhie started work on his basketball team, will he interested in the an-j and Harold Jackson, in the blue uni- a number of candidates having report-’that he has recently re- form of the fighting Hosemen. Creat ed and more being expected after the -<*lve;l a call to the pa.storate of thejiy will he mis.sed next year the vicious final football game today. Presbyterian church at Coleman, Tex- tackling and beautiful p.i>^s-snagg:ng The present *hedule lists the fol- and will leave for his new field of of the big Captain Lynn, the .spirited Graham Miller, a fbrmer Thornwell, lowing games, which will be added to laboi the fir.st of iXecember. rlashi's of the blonde t|uarterback. the Since graduating from Union Then- “heads-up” end play of toe alert Otto, logical seminary three and a half, the terrific fighting of M.-Queen, the years ago, Mr. Lynn has been the as- accurate passing and spinning of sistant pastor of the Bream-.Memorlal “.Snooks.” the, smooth flying runs of church. Charleston, W. Va., one of the Bobbie, and the scrapping of Jackson. largest churches in the Virginia .syn- —— —— od. lie i.s plea.santly-remembered here Misses Alene .N’ewsom and .Anna linton. Jan. 14—Carolina at Columbia. Jan. 17—Erskine at Due Westj Jan. 31—F'urmah at Clinton. Feb. 1—Furman at Greenville Feb. 7—Newdierry at Clinton. Feb. 14—Erskine at Clinton. as the eldest son of Dr. and Mrs. L.; Bell Hudson left yesterday for their Feb. 17 and dX—Citadel at Clinton, j R. Lynn of this city, and a graduate j homes at Hartsvilie and .M. Coll t,> Feb. 20—Newberry at Newberry. jof the orphanage high school and #pend the Thanksgiving holidays with Feb. 27—Wofford at Spartanburg, j .'ie:.byterian college. { their parents.