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i-'.. i * If Yoa Don't Rend THE CHRONICLE Yon Don't Get The News. {••••••••••••••a* . • ■ . ' Qlltntnn Qllfrnnirlf VOLUME XXX SANTA CLAUS TO ARRIVE WaCOME BEING PLANNED FOR DISTINGUISHED GUEST CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4,1930 Old Saint Nick Again To Make Prc<Christmas Visit To City and Will Be Given Royal Welcome. City's Holiday Lights To Flash Brilliantly In His Honor. Great Crowd Expected for the Cele bration Headed By College Ban^. Santa Claus,^White and bewhisker- ed and as yay as evef, is speeding to- -wards Clinton from the snowbound re gions of the North Pole. He will ar rive in the city Friday evening at six o’clock on the Seaboard vestibule and is expecting the kiddies to .turn out en masse to meet and s^srelcome him. In his honor, the Christmas lights will be turned on to inaugurate the 1930 Christmas shof^ii^ season. The Chronicle to return t6 Clinton for DAVIS HELD IN ROSEMONT FIRE Burglary. Murder and Arson Are Charged. Cane Ordered To Court After rreliminary Hearini^. Laurens, Dec. 1.—At a pr:-*liinin'iry hearing this afternooh befoiv Magis- Davis, young white man, held :n con- visit before Christmas arrives. His i section with the burning of Rosemont reply to The Chronicle said: “Delighted to come to Clinton again tide year for a visit. I re member with pleasure what a good time I had in your city last year and the reception 1 received. I will arrive at six o'clock in the afternoon on Friday, Dec. .^th. Ily love to all the boya and girls who are my friends." (Signed) SANTA CLAUS. Immediately upon his arrival here tomorrow afternoon, Santa Claus will be met by the big fire truck and tak Manor, ancestral home of the Cun i ningham family of I^iurens county, j the magistrate ordered the cese to the 'circuit court. 1 Davis was recommitted to the coun- I ty jail where he has been u pris .n *r I since November 14th on wh'u h oute :he was arrested by Andy I. Hoyd, af ter Davis had made an aliened state ment to Boyd that was incrimi.ialing. The hearing today was held at the instance of 0. L. Long, couu.sel for the accused who has denied any con nection with the crime. Davis is charg- en for a ride through the business murder and burglary, s'ection of the city. He has asked the i being alleged that he slew Hugh police department to clear the streets Cunningham in the old man and to keen the children on the side- i then set fire to the building t( METHODISTS GET NEW PASTORS Revs. O. M. Atney and A. J. Bowling To Be Succeeded Here By Revs. H. 1). ( hamhers and C. W. Allen. RELIEF BILLS CRAM HOPPER The Rev. 0. M. Abney, for the past four years pastor of North Broad .Street Methodist chuivh of this city, was assigned by the conference the past week to the pastorate of the Methodist church at Johnston, and Cong:res8 Goes To Work On Pro posed Measures After Hear ing Hoover's Message. Stormy Days Ahead On Proposed Ijeg- islation. Washington, Dec. 2.—L^ongress w?nt to work today with its attention cen- will leave next week to enter upon his ■ ^^^ed on unemployment and drought new duties. The Rev. A. J. Bowling, for the past relief after pausing to heai President I four years pastor of Bailey Memorial church, was transferred to Ijowndes- ville. He is succeecied here by the Rev. C. W. Allen of Glendale. C. R. Andcr- During his pastorate here Mr, and Mi*s. Abney have made many friends and under his leadership the local church has enjoyed a steady growth Hoover's views outlined in his annual message. Republicans and Democrats hcapei various forms of relief remedies into the legislative funnel throughout the NINE GAMES ON GRID CARD Proshyterian Football Schedule for > 193] Almost Completed. Only- Two Dates Now Open. The 1931 football 8<*hedule of Pres and to keep the children on the' side- j *mn, men sei nre lo me ouiiaing to walks and out of the line-of-march. “P l^eadhig the procession will be the, charge. splendid R. 0. T. C. band of the col-1 Solicitor Homer S. Blackwell con- kge to join in giving him a rousing: ducted the examination of the witness- reception while here. ■€» at the hearing and Mr. Long brief- With the arrival of .Saint Nicholas, I ly cross-examined some of those w ho hundreds of red, yellow and. green i I hyterian college, champions of the lights will be flashed on and remain , Mr. Boyd, a former rural p«>liceman' *'^‘*uthern Intercbllegiate Athletic as- burning every evening until after the'of Laurens county, who worked up the i **‘®*o*'' rapidly near- hoikUya-.l'he big globes un,ihe white j case againat Davis at the request of I*"* conjpletion and will include nine way in the entire business section will! the son of Hugh Banks Cunningham strong teams in four be given a Christmas tint to harmon-i whose charred body was found in the accotxiing to an announcement ixe with the color scheme on the ruins of the burned manor the dayi'‘y Walter Johnson, head coach of the square. To add to the setting, stream-, after the fire, told the court how Da- Stockings, ers heavily laden with vari-colored j vis had, aftor —interviews. '—Seven games GREEN NAMED ON ALL TEAMS i electric bulbs strung In fe.stocns ofj“made a clean breast" of the whole initely arranged and two more are lights, have been arranged around the j thing by saying that he had entere<l pending with Clemson and High Point. Confederate monument. Three lovely the house in the absence of Cunning-'No Thanksgiving day game will be trees in the center of the business sec- ham, the lone occ upant of the old j playe<I by the Blue Stockings, and the tion brightly illuminated in decora-. home, and as the latter came in forj -'**ason will be ended a week earlier tions, will complete the real Christ- the night, Davis met him near the against The Citadel at Clinton, mas pictute and produce a scene of {front door, struck him down and then! Coach Johnson next year will face dazzling beauty. 1 left. Later he returned and found Cun- the task of constructing an entirely All boys and girls in the community ningham dead. Becoming alarmed over new team, losing the mainstays of are invitc^d to be present tomorrow the crime, he decided to fire the build-! this year’s championship aggregation evening to give the distinguished vis-i ing. This was about 9 o’clock at night. 1 by graduation, Jimmy Green, Captain itor from the North Pole such a re- ^ Davis also told Boyd, according to * Lynn, Otto Ferrene, Arthur Mc- ception as will m^e his happy eyesithe latter's testimony, that the silver I “‘'^nooks’’ Dunlap, Bob Ritchie twinkle all the brighter. , suspected to have been stolen! Harold Jackson. The lights are for the enjoyment of. fjom the Cunningham manor, had S^**"®* already sche<luled are the community. Chief Holland stated, hidden across the branch from yesterday that a reward will be paid {the spot where some clothing had been for any avidance sufficient to convict j found shortly after the crime. These any one for removing lights from the i garments being later identified as Christmas trees or in any way abus-! these of Ross Cunningham, son of ing or interfering with the decorations the fire victim. that have been provided by the city, i ruu * * ^ • .i. l ^j Others to testify in the hearing _ ^ L h'ennell, who made the Mr III MRK€ Study postmortem, the old Negro who lived I’reshyterian Barkfield Are Unanl- moiiH Choice for All-State Eleven. Other P. (\ Men Get Votes. Jimmy (Jrecn, star little (juarter-1 back t.f the Presbyterian college S. 1.) A. A. championship football team, was the unanimous choice of ten sport writers and three coaches for a place on the all-state eleven. This distinc tion wa.s gained by one other player REV. H. O. CHAMBERS m§n were calling meetings for fater in the week to organize a definite juo- gram for handling them. In his message Presidi nt Ho-iver asked for $10(),00(),000 to_$l.-.().()0l),f)00 I tc accelerate construction for emp’. iy- ment relief, and a fund for seed a.id feed loans for farmeis whose cr'jM dried up. He pointed to an e.stimat 'd deficit for the present fiscal year .i.iil a narrow .surplus margin in prosee‘t, for the 1932 fiscal year, and said: “I cannot emphasize too strorxly the absolute necessity to defer ary I other plaits for fnerease <»f gove* ment expenditures . . . .Most r;r’d ] economy i.s therc'fore necessary :o j .i\ o:d increase in taxes.’’ The president’s recommendations were heard with customary silence in the senate. In the hou.se the Republi? cans stood and applauded at its c n- clusion, but a number remained sift 'd with the Democrats. One of the first bills offered in the the senate. In the hou.se the Repuo'.i- can, of Illinois, to authorize the i (>00,01)0 emergency fund retjuested by jibe president to be u.sed in speeding II ublic juiildings construction and in- jiand waterways im})rovenU‘nt.s. But the outliurst of Demociatk* in Ihn «atf also. Max.y W.-k-h, ,*'',7 son ace. > •’ i announcement of .Mr. Hoover’s pro- friends. Hxclus!\:e of son’s selections, four P. (\ men Mr. Abney is succet sfecF sTt Broad^ugirrett'storniy days' aheacTl)n Oman, M..,Va„:i, r.ynn „n.i niakaly,i«" >;; <•>;• '‘-v- "■ O. ''hanaa.m, ; were nara..,l on all-atat,. taania, iiman, >'’"‘'“7 ""t" acouMally ,ondemn,.,l Iha nm»i, however, being the pick. only ununiinoUH' A'bbeville church. .Mr. (’hambers was' the shaping of um>m[)loyment legisla- moe-rat.s president for born in Uovington, Ga., Jan. H, 1SS5, ,, not going farther in his recommenda tions. 'Tu.. I Tu i> .1 e1 ' iind spent hl.s boyhood days in Allan- , .a i r ■ The aState and The Hecoid of ( omrn- ..t drought relief there appeared to bia, nameel Mc.Naull for center, and Green for halfback. The Greenville ta. He was educated at Kmory college ■ n ^ ■ I \f I u w •. oe .some accord. Both Senator Robin- and Vanderbilt univor;sity, graduating, of Arkansas, the Democratic New» namej l.o P. C. men, l.ynn for,'™'" >>"■ ■l•■Partn„.nt of tt«- an,l S'enator McNaarv, Kep'J, end, and Green for halflmck. The Spartanburg Herald also named Green Of County Set-Up'hi”" as follows; Oct. 10—Mercer at Clinton. Oct. 17—Wofford at Spartanburg. Oct. 24—Chattanooga at Chatta nooga (pending). Oct. 30—Newberry at Clinton. Nov. 7—Wake Forest (place unde cided). Nov. 14—Erskine at Due West. Nov. 21—The Citadel at Clinton. enter the house, E. B. Pinson,' rural policeman, who found the cloth ing, and one or two other officers, | The Cunningham mansion, one of' the old colonial homes of this county, j was Io<'ated near Saluda river in the j southern part of the county. It was Local Men To^Speak In Pastor’s Absence Laurens county has been selected for special scientific study as to its government, it has been officially an- ^ •‘xated near Saluda river in the i absence of the pa.stcr of the ^ al ropresen^t^ives from the Urn- ^mh^rn part of the county. It was^**^’**^ Reformed Presbyterian roSctiIn^°wifh^the'"nnivrr^^^^^ ‘f ‘^at time Sabbath, Dr. A. E. Spen- Wh UnuersJt) officers had facul- ' made efforts at different periods to i the pulpit at the morn- unravel the mystery as it was appar- service, and Rev. S. P. Bowles of ent that crime had been committed. 1^^® Thornwell orphanage, will preach An official invitation was forwarded Tuesday to the commission from the Laurens county officers, following a meeting that wm held in the court house for the i;pjrfio8e. S. M. Derrick of the University ofj South Carolina and Dr. E. C. Bran-! «on of the University of North Caro-{ Ima are direettng the work, while the' ttody is to be made by Columbus An drews of the North Carolina univer- aity. Laurens county has been selected as tpaesd of the Piedmsnt counties, the commisstoo has said, and the study will require about three weeks' time. Tile sto^y,* it is explained, is not to be an investigation, a purely scien- 'tifie study of the operation of county government. The expense of the work is borne by the two universities which arc w<»>kmg in cooperation. KIWANIAKs MEET TODAY local Kiwanis club will meet this (^ning at 7:30 at Hotel Clinton. Today's meeting will take the place of last week's, tiie change being made on account «f Tbaaksgiving. .Mr. and Mrs. W. C.O^ey and fam ily rrcAr Salurc'sy in Greenville. Only 18 More Shopping Days Before CHRISTMAS BUY NOW! at the evening service. Friend.s in the city are cordially invited to hear these speakers at these services. for this position. f^oHC-h S.^affe of Wofford college, named two P, C. men — Blakely as guard, and Green for one of the four backfield positions. Walter Johnson, head coach at PresbyterianH-ollege, placed five of his men on all-state. His team follows: , . • . • . u • lilican, of Oregon, offered bills to pri)- y following his graduation, he joined i i r ‘ ,•7 ,,,, ,, L r ■ vide a $b(),0()(),00( (»an fund for farm- the .North Alabama conference in • , . , “ , , ers in the drought-.stneken areas to November, having served as a supply at Leighton, Ala., for the previous year. In the fall of 1917 Mr. Chambers was transfenitl to the Western Vir ginia conference by Bishop Mc(’oy. In 1919 he was transferred to the Upper .South Carolina conference. Since com- Ends, Lynn of Presbyterian, and . . „ . . 1 , c n\ til mil rling to South Carolina he has served Jones of Clemson; tackles, Blakely of i I'rcbyt.rian, and VartlorouKh th*' '""owiny chaiKO.,: Fountain Inn, Is. ra.,k,.. nf I>r..»hv. J"'"'''" "'‘'"irt"" Aven^uo, Gruen- 01em.Hon; guards, Caskey of Presby- .,, , . . . m • , . . u f v viUc, later changed to Triune, six terian, and Harmon •( rurman; cen- * w kt 11 / u t • : years; Abbeville, three years, ter, McNaull of Presbyterian; quar-i'’ . ’ ,, , • terbaok, Green nf Preabyterian; balf-i, pri^enl Mr. Chamber* i* pre*.- baeka, Welch of Clemiun, and I’ear- j 7 , .V . , ,, , ence, having held this position for the son of rurman; fulmack, Harvin of; , , ,, ,, , I past two and a half years. He has I been constantly active in young peo- I pie’s work during his entire .ministry. I Mr. (ihambers’ family consi.sts of his Clemson. JOINS PENNEY’S STORK- be used in the purchase of seed and fertilizer. As chairman of the agricul ture committee, Senator .MeNary said he would call the group together lat er in the week to take up this legi-la- tion. The (juick disjiosition of the con'^r>- vei sy over the right of .Senator Dav s of Pennsylvania, to his seat cleare<l the way in the senate for work, an i t tackled its task immediately u;' :; hearing the pre.sidential me.s.<age. The house bill for regulation of *’ - tor bu.s traffic was taken up ur -.-‘r the direction of .Senator Coiizens, publican, of .Michigan. .Several cV'. s of debate are ahead on this. Tomorrow the annual budget n --- sage from President Hoover outlin/ < arrived in the city to accept the posi tion of assistant manager of the J. C. Penney Company store, succeeding R. D, Weeks, who is leaving the city. Mr. Hopkins has been with the Penney or ganization for the past three year.s and has already entered upon his new ■duties here. I ,, • , nis recOiiimendations for expend:t(: .s Ilf I, II 1 ■ /■ Ail. /”• u wife and four children, three girls, , Walter Hopkin.s of Athens, (la., has! ’ . (luring, the coming vear .wi be read • J • iu {* * i • ; Evelyn, Mary Glynn and Loui.se, one! ^ , mt. . , • i rived in the citv to accent the nosi-1. .i u . to hou.se. That branch intemU :o bov, Herbert O. Evelyn and .Mary i ^ , • u- u u 1 ■ 1^" wm'k immediately aftenvard on (ilynn are in high school in the llthj/u.. p:_„t iu. ; _ l h. and 9th grades, Louise is in the 7th grade, and Herbert, the 3rd. Mrs, Chambers is a daughter of the late Rev. Robert A. Speer, before his the first of the appropriation b'Us, that for the treasury and /pbstoffice departments. / Homorrow, also, .Mr. Hoover intends CHRISTMAS EOmON NEXT WEEK 'SF"« THE CHRONICLE, followingr an established custom, will issue ' two years pastor of the Laurens its special CHRISTMAS EDITION next week. It will be presented 1 church, was appointed presiding elder I as before, filled with interesting and appropriate Christmas read- ^*'® Greenville district, succeed- death a member of the .North up the first of a great num- bama conference. nominations, and in the dispo- Mr. Chambers and family will ar-|»*^'«" the.se the .senate will have rive in the city next w'eek and will re-*b^^^ty to keep it bu.sy for several ceive a most cordial w’elcome. A .spec-i ^^**^*1 / ial union welcome service in his honor, j Another high pbint of controversy will be held at an early date. demanding solution at this session— Rev. J. R. T. Major, for the past between the senate and the bouse over Muscle Shoals attention tomorrow. receives ing matter, something that will appeal to the little tots, tho.se in heir teens, the grown-ups and the old folks. It will also contain valuable and interesting "store news" from live merchants of Clinton and other cities. It will serve as a "shop ping guide" to the buying public. Merchants desiring space in this edition are asked to make their reservations at once and let us have their copy not later than Monday morning, since such an effort requires an extra amount of hard work. We will strive to make this edition interesting from start to finish and we hope our readers will enjoy it. For you it will solve the perplexing problem, "What to Give and Where to Shop." ing Dr. R. E. Stackhouse. The appoint- j ments for thi.s district follow: Greenville Diftlrict J. R. T. .Major, presiding elder. Clinton: Bailey Memorial, C. W. Thornwell Family Gives To Thornwell Last Sunday was designated in (Street, B, R. Turnipseed; C#ioice ^ . • -x AL 1- rriTTT^ /-•Trn/AvrT.nT ^ iStreet and Mission, D, W. Smith; Catch the Christmas spirit through THE CHRONICLE. Don’t ■ j. s. Eaward,; Judson. R. 0. miss next week’s issue. • 1 (Continued on page four) Allen; Broad Street, H. 0. Chanrihevs; many Preabyterian churches and Sun- I.ydia, C. R. Anderson, supply. |day schools as “Thornwell Orphanage Easley; First church and Alice, M. day.” The Thornwell Memorial church B. Patrick; North Easley, C. H. Sulli-' f this city, following a long establish- van; South Easley, J, T. Lawrence; , ed cu-«tom, made its annual offering Fountain inn, S. H. Booth; Gray for the institution of which it is a Court, J. L. Singleton, large part. Officers, matrons, teach- Greenville: Bethel, J, E. Merchant; ■ ers and children, .ill brought th:-;r Brandon, F. C. Owen; Buncombe i gifts for 'Thornwell, The collection totaled $622.00. This is a remarkabi? record for this congregation and i: is