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'•^svT »t a . Ship Canal Across Florida S. I. A. A. Meets Are Cancelled of tihe committees on the two sports and the (^ncellation anneijOKjeroent Itxtracta Fro* Diary 'of the late ion eaith.**'l look fonvard with no such WWhm Plmmer Jacobs. D.D^ Foun-I^^*™ I reach 80. That is with God. But this ■I am purposed: thal whether my name Ibe forsrotteii_QjLJuit, God’s priory shall ' be advanced by the next twenty years tier of TiMrawell Orpbanafe rwwbyterian College: and (Written for The Chronicle by Calco 1 between Gulf ports and the rest of the I Track and Tennis Contests, On March IS, 1877—CUnton Last nicht I received an addition of ® ‘ $2S.(X) to< our Okildren's Gift. I^is in> crea^ the aanount to $186.86. Per- b«p« the Lord means it to remain there for the present. Still, as this amount has been raised >by fourteen different states, there is hope. I wish I had aJl any plans worked up for the estabhslnnent of the boj’s department of our orphanage. At present it con- awts almost entirely of frirls. We need a aeparate inetituttion for the. boys. Johnson Thrmigh Atitocasttr _1 —^Service) Enginf^^oJ the United States gov ernment have begun to' makeXa sur vey for a rdiite for a deepwater\<nal across the state of Florida. On twair March J.l, 1883—Clinton During past Jreek we mule ex cellent p^prress with our building and will oerthinJy finish off all the exte rior wbod-work this week and the plastering the week after will be be gun./! ani thankful for so much pro gress and pray GoJ to help ine to the c«*mpletion of the two lower storiiss Uy the time of the dedication. March 15. 1878—Clim«n /; March 15. 1884—Clinton •niirty-six. Lord. I grieve todix ^ forty-two years old today, ooea* my faulta I feel my sins hin< night Mrs. Thomwett and Mrs. heavy: Pity me. Lord, and help lUe to W*rdlaw can» up to see us. Mias Pat- on'erconte this heart of Idleness. Loril leaves with them for her marri- help me this year to accomplish son'K -t ^8e. Me are much put to it to get a thing for thee! The children ^avc nn | woman to fill her place. (Jh, many litUe tokens of affection. (Sod 1help. I am much dis- great engineering enteJTt’i*^* which count^J^ It would mean that the man who produces cotton and other products in the Mississippi valley and on the Gulf coast would effect- a tremendo.us sav- Schedule for May 13-14, Are .Called Off By Coaches. According to a statement from inisf the delivery of his product in Coach Mealier A. Johnson, the annual report will depend whether or not this tlte East and to European ports, andjS. I. A. A. track and tennis meets consumer in the East would be scheduled to be held at Preebyterian will employ thousands of w'orkers andj ^ie to bay gas for 'his automobile; J|J^y 23 an<| 14 have been can^ bless them, orphanage. Last night $10^(K) for the March 15, 1879—Tdinton Today 1 am thirty-c^x-en years old. Mllh my children I ^ent to Laurens and spent the day with mother. I left them 4kll to stay a few days. Brought trepsed about many things, e.spe^ially about the future of the orphanage as to heads for the work. I fear we wrill " lose Mrs. Boyd, alas. Lord, send us juRt the right ones. March 1.^, IKH.'i—Clinton Well. I am forty-three year.s old! Father home to'pr^*ach for me tomor-! flies! This years completes ^ncrinM-rino- nrnhioma Jlsi as pastor of the (^linton church.! many engineering problems ^ ' , 1 1 • *11 V u • 1- ! which would not be present m the : I In external works ’t will be the nch- reduce the distance between all Gulf of Mexico ports and the Atlantic sea board, will be”' Undertaken. V It i« an interesting proposition, ary way you look at it. If you will look at a map of the* United States you will see that Florida is a peninsular er- tending about 5()0 miles south between the Gulf of Mexico and the* Atlantic ocean. If you draw an east and west line through the mouth of the Suwan nee river you will* find that most of the principal ports in the Gulf of Mex ico and all of tl|e principal ports on the Atlantic seaboard and in Europe are north of such a line. Therefore, a ship leaving New Orleans or any of the Gulf ports Is making a dead haul every mile that it is forced to ^ south of this line. The building of a ship canal across Florida would ibe for the purpose of saving shippe/s this long haul around the straits of Florida and to allow them to quickly turn north, and thereby reach their ports of de.stfbation with great saving of time and distance. The Panama canal is ry4 miles long $;t85,f)00,000 to build. This cheaper. In fact, every man living 1 east oKUie Rocky mouoUios would ef- i contac ted all the col- leges in the S. I. A. A. and twenty- four wrote they would not .send team-s feet sonoe saving in'his annual living expenses bn accoi^nt of th^ building of this canal. In the matter of employment and to the d^reaaion and other the consumption of commodities while to"*- Four coHejes .sUted that they was the result. It was stated that track finance* all over the South had felt the depres sion to such an extent that the hold ing of the meet would be unwise eco nomically as.well as in the matteT of attendance. Every college fn the asso- ciatipn has been notified of the can celation. It w'as with regret or.^ the part pf the committee to cancel the meet, a.s many were Jpoking for^vard to it with a great-deal of interest. 1 There will be only one major track meet at Presbyterian college. The the canal was under, construction, the r c< benefit would also bespread all' over the United States sary to build many automobile roads roads across the canal. Thjl9 would en tail the expenditure of many millions of dollars—in all probability a ^il- i road would parallel one bank and would not Johnson go ve track'teams. Coach in touch with members state freshnhari events wll! take place Una ■’arsity j automobile road the other. That wbuld|^ ieairz^ ►r (\ canal would more than justify the government in spending necessary money t<> construct such a canal. Now engineeirs are actually at urork sur- ^il- j veying the route. It begins to look as id\n‘if a dream of !a century is about to oh May 6th, <and the state meet on the follo^ng day. M'hether the Tennessee, M .ssis.sippii Louisiana district Jneet scheduled for early in May will jbe giver -the titame oiP* the S, I. A. A- meet is noi yet known. J Anything in the way of MagaxhMn and Newspapers. *' — See — JAMES wrcALtoWtiX March l5. 18K0—Clinton One of thfy^rreptest burdens I have to hear is the renling of the orpharr- age and ite work by brother minis ter*. I thhnk God that speak falsely. Ni.-< favor is bcU«‘r far than that of nien.. .knes March l.». 1881—Clinton I /im thiny-nine y*-ars o’d today. liTIrd- -which ekip means a wt-ek’s •ss and a.-^ I take up my pen to- dby I f<ei very certain that I am not /it to do any work today. The Lord Irk*Jieve<l tin* hour of suffering by ar ranging for paying al! the provisional bills, sending me over $60.00 for the support fund in four days. In addition, the boys moved into Fnith Cottage on the 21st. 1 was laid up Sunday. Bro. Harden \er>' kindly preached for me at n'ght. He shall have my first viisit. est year thus far, the busiest, the least “nitty.” Oh, l>ord, give me souls for my hii>e, not less than 21, I.(»rd! But double that, if thou .-'ee.st bo-'t. Oh, that the Loixi M ould-help me very greatly this year. -1 mean ordera for the steel mills, for the concrete producers,' for manufac turers in many lines of industry . Be^deS| being of 1 great commercial value, the Florida ifanal would grreat- ly extend the navigation range of small yachts and power boats. There is at present an inland waterway ex tending from Maine to Florida—there is also an inland waterway extending from Apalachicola to the Rio Grande, i These tMO uaterways woukUbiH-inked | by the building of the Gulf-Atlantic 1 canal across Florida, which would al- i building of the Gulf-Atlantic canal I low a continuous inland passage for across Florida. The Kiel canal is 50‘yachf.s from .Maine^to the Rio (irande miles^ lorig and cost $r),5,0(K),000 tojor from Chicago down the Mississip- build. The .Suez canal is 105 miles 1 pi and thence to New York and Bos- long and cost $118,000,000, You can ton. , j. ^ , s<*e that the Gulf-Atlantic canal across; The project of a canal across north- Florida M’ould be the largest canal j ern Florida is not a new one. Indeed, • in the world. The Gulf-Atlantic canal 1 it has been discu.-sed for k hundred. Marxh 15, I888-A'Unt<Mi I am forty years old today. ITie only sadneiw^ about it is that the shadows henceforth are to lengthen. .Nevertheless, 1 am purposed to make the Ia.rt half of my life green and \ng- orous by the observance of the fol lowing ruka: 1. Intense faith in God. 2. Moderation in eating *ud drink ing. laijnng a-dde no duty on account of age. I, Mode purpo-H-ful study than ever. o. Travel. * 6. NVm- plans for tlod’s gloi*!*’ and good. 7. More public work. I am daily getting my life into STOC K HOLDERS NOJICE Notice is hereby given that the an nual meeting of the stockholders the Joanna .Mercantile Company-: Cioldville. S. t\, will Ih> held at the office of Ijit- company on Wedne^tday, May 4. IWk!. at 11 o’clo<*k a. m. for the transa<'tion of such business as may come befoi-e the meeting for con sideration. March 14, 18,S6—^Tiolon ^ II U rtoM* definitely arranged that the neM* college building will be oj^n- ed on the Ibth of .March, which will jbe my 41th birthday. Its formal dedi cation will take place, I trust, ah<mt October 1st, which will be the Ilth anniversary of the opening of the or phanage. 1 am thankful that I have lx*en able to bring the college .so near completion. It will be a well-organized body with six lecturers in all and, I trust, large pos.s^iKties. The house is quite a good one and not at all out of keeping with our purpose. We are satisfied with it. 1 now pray Clod to enable me to organize It rightly awf make it all that it ought to be. My own children are all getting their ed ucation. Thhi means that every one of them wHll be a college gi-aduate. An I look back over my old resolves and plans for the glory of (kni and see how He has worke<l through me, I can thank him from the depths of my soul. 1 have great reason to rejoice i and be glad in Him fqr He has not for^ken me. . . . After a givat deal .•f hard and. earm‘St work, the l^rd has allowed me at last to bring our new enterprise to the first day of a new vai-eer. It will take a full Ihou- .■^and to com)>lete the building, yet to- tnoiToM’, jny 44th birthday, is to be a day of aa^red interest in the hi-stoi-j* of Clinton I*ie!d*yterian college. Dur ing the past few we<-ks we have spent $ts)0 \ipon it and so got it into fair c-ondition. pre.sents no gn*at engineering prob- years. On two different occasions dur- lems and is iirincipally a movement of' ing that 'time there was sufficient in earth on a large scale. - ■ The Florida canal would be about 150 miles long, 000 feet wide, .‘15 feet deep, a sea level canal which would co.st from $125,000,000 to 000. tereKt aroused to cause the govern ment to have a physical survey made to gath<*r sufficient data on which to ba«e the de< ision as to whether or not $200,000,-; the canal could l>e built. The results I of these surveys have not shown NEW LOW PRICES I Lifetime Guaranteed GOODYEAR SPEEDWAY Sijpertwist Cord Tlret CASH PRICES V \ CHcniz* Flic* of Each ®2f^*** Tuhr 29x^:40-21 is.tf i9.t9 1 29i4.90r20 4.>« 4.17 30x4.50^1 - 4.S7 4.S» 28x4.75.LIl ... f.is 4.f7 , 2(l94.75.2fX f.M f.44 ' 2(W.06-I9„\........ f.3f f.at-T 30xS.i0-20 ..^A..... f.4f f .49 31g5.00-21 ..A.3v f*7S 9.9* ; 28x5.25-18 .J.../ *.if f.fT 1 31x5.25-21 tua 3#x3H Ret. Cl S^97 9.49 Of course, the entire pui*pose of the enough benefit to warrant the govern- building of .such a canal would be the saving of di.stance, which means time and which in turn means the saving metit building such a canal. Why, then/ would the government now be interested in this project? For the McDaniel Vulcauizing ^rks of money. Ba.sed on the tonnage which I reason that all discussion* and all Phone No. 2 Clinton, S. C. entered the Gulf in the year 192‘J this canal w'ould save $26,000,000 per year, and on the natural increase of bu.siness on the tonnage in the year 1945 there would be a saring of $47,- 000,000. Bver>’body in the“^ United States would share in this saving in the cost of commodities transported surveys made in past years have been ba^d on a canal to accommodate barge traffic only and the canal that is now proposed is to be a ship cangl capable of giving passage to large ocean steamers. / The results of an economic survey poceqtly completed show that a ship GOOD USED TIRES 11, $1.50 up. Expert Vul'*anizing / b iiiiiiiiiiitiiiiliiliiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiH ^ V -■--surf: 4-282 tc. •S. Vi. l)ILL.\Rl), Secretary. .^***''' At The Change A Critical Time In Exery Woman'll Ufe. “During a critical time in my life I took Cardui for several months. I hap hot flashea I would sud denly get dizzy and seem blind. I would get faint and have no s^pgth. My nerves were on edge. I would not sleep ai night, “Cardui did won* ders for me. I rec ommend it to all women who are pasa- inf through the criti cal period of change. I have found It a ftne medldne.“-wr». g«cM« Jroreao. Fmkr Btaft. Mm,' OMNtal li a purely vifo- .Marrh 15. 188S^'linton This day, by the goodness of God, I was enabled to set in order the Pres- l)>'l4*rian ('ollege of Clinton, South Caixklina. .\t nine-thirty a. m., in the pivence of eighty' or mqi'e students and the six teachers, I offert*d the ADVERTISING t-. firs'l prayer ever offered in the* house I and solemnly gave it to the Ia>rd. .At three p. m. we met in the collegt chap-j cl, the pupils of the oi'phanage being, nad 1 addressed the ass<Mn- j idy as to the “manner of the King-; Joan.” We also had addi^sses fi*on\| /Vfessi s.^mirh and-BonnervAfTeT ihiX" 1 succeedsHl in pei'susdinjg the* .Assi>- ciathjn to iv'solve ti raise one thou- 'sand doltars-ttr complete the building. ! am to^iuy 14 yeai** old. 1 pray God jthut He would make this a fruitful year in my life. WILLIAM WR1(^,EY, the chewing guni mag nate, who died recently, amassed a great for tune, and he attributed his success to JOANNA MILL NEWS *4N ' Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Harbin, .Mrs. Ed Maddox and Mrs. Sophie Clinkses'es of Greenwood, spent the week-* ud wril^i Mr. and .Mrs. E. H. Hunnicutt. Mrs. Jack Huntiicutt and little son spent last week in Greenville, I .Mrs. J. L. l>elany spent the week end with her mother in Belton. Mrs. Frank .MeUravy and Mrs. Je.sse Bolt of I.aurens, vnsited friends in Ck)Idviile Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Mac Blakely, Cecil Blakely, and .>(IrJ and Mrs. Claude Kuy; attended the ftpaeral of Mrs. Blakely’s j bnjther in Easley oh Sunday. I Mrs. Maggie Bell spent the pu.st! jweek with her mother, who has beenj seriously ill in Ware Shoid*.— j Friends of Mr. and ->^rs. Andy Gos-> .nell will he glad to know that their I little daughter, who has been ill with \ ; pneumonia, is much better. i I Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Clark and daugh-, ter, Dorothy, visited friends in Clin-! ton last Sunday. ' g* •e ing./While traveling on a fast train some tme a friend asked Wrigley why he continued to jspend millions of dollars for advertising. *‘Ybur gum is now known the world over and the people have the habit; why don’t you save the millions you su’e spending on advertising?” asked the friend. Wrigley thought for a mo ment, then asked: **How fast is this train go ing?” About sixty miles sm hour,” replied the friend. ‘Then why doesn’t the railway com pany remove the engine smd let'the train travel J- on its own momentum?” s»ked Mr. Wrigley. .it