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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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tHURSDAY, JULY 7, IdS
(Clinton (Ct^onirir
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the tail, he had a.long peddigree and
was mostly bird with possibly a
sprinkling of shej^rd. a good deal
of censure is being talked aganist
mr. brown for running over the said
dog, and he may be took to law.
and taints the judicial ermine. It de- j
grades the citizep, debases the legis
lator, dishonors the statesman and
disarms the patriot. It brings shame,
'not honor; misery, not safety; despair,
not hope; sorrow, -not happiness, and
! with the malevolence of a fiend , it
the drug stoar has put in a large calmly surveys its frightful desola-
radio and plays some pretty tunes‘tion and unsatiated havoc. It p<)isons
while his customers are drinking soda felicity, kills peace, ruins morals,
water at the fountain, he got cuby blights confidence, slays reputation,
on it last night, but noboddy under-j and w’ipes out national honor, then
st(M)d what w’as on the program, as he curses the world
spoke only the cubian language. ! ruin. It does all
miss jenhie veeve smith went out'* murd
Cr<^ Prospects In die County
Reported Above The-'Average
County Agent C. B. Cannon Thinks ^is Year’s Crops of All
Kinds Compare Favorably With 'TTiose of Past Yeare.
Boll Weevil Only Menace. --
1 riding again with the stove peddler] villannies, the father of all crimes,
'on mondrf^’ oight' and got in rather .and mother of all abominations, the
j late, the scholl bored is watching her'devil’s best friend, and God's worst
'steps with intere.st. they can’t find'enemy.”—^^Rutherfordton News.
I out what is going on, but she is a j
I good teecher. —
our pasture at ' rehober basan-j _ , . _ . mgrr x 'wTT^wTr*
. nounced his texx for his sermont next j JOAWI^I A iyl.jLLALi NEWS
Sunday which as followers: “be ware| ^ m ^ i ^ ^ 11^.^
unless yore sins find you out, as a
“The crop prosjiect in Laurens coun- for cattle and livestock. At no time
ty, taken as a whole, is as good if not in the histdrj’ of the extension ser-
and laughs at its better than 1 have ever seen it at vice, perhaps, has there been-more
. It dws all that and more. It this time of the year,” stated C. B.j success attending >he poultry busi-
der.H the soul. It is the sum of all. Cannon, county agent, in an inter- ness in this section. Not that prices
view last week on the agricultural 1 are better for poultry produces, but
situation. With a cotton acreage as j the supply of eggs and fowls of utili-
large as any previous season in thejty ages is more abundant. '
history of the county, Mr. Cannon , Altogether, the situation a? to the
said the crop is extra good, well cul-' crop outlook and the generous returns
tivated and in excellent condition. 1 already harvested from field and gar-
The only'thing that promises a check; den is cause for gratification on the
CLINTON, S. C., JULY 7, 1932
: man reaps what he sows, and if 4ie | £pent last week
' SOW'S to the wind he will reap a cy-jj^y Murphy.
If you make it a rule to pay as you
go, you will stay at home more.
TTie way to keep business from l>e-
ing slow is to push- it.
'clone." all come with an offering for
It. least of all the hoy missions.
yores trulie,
mike Clark, rfd,
corry spondent.
As we understand it now. normalcy
means less inc<»me for everybody.
No matter how brightly th(* sun
shines, a man can get under a cloud
if he isn’t careful.
Ib>n’i worry about a poor start. It
give.s you ju.st that much more to
brag about if you succeed.
much about
himself.
The small l>oy isn’t old enough to;
under.'land the troubles that worry]
hi.s eiders. He hasn’t had enough ex-^
perience to rx'alize that life, for most
people, betw'een the ages of fifteen
and, say, sixty, is a succession of more ;
or less tragic emergencies. .School, of |
course, is an awful nuisance, and i
keeps him from being completely hap-!
py nine or ten months in the year. '
If we were asked to point out the]
happiest individual in the world we’d j
pick almost any country hoy of twelve'
or thiiteen, in the summer. ;
on the crop prospect now is the even' part of all the j>eople.
di.'tfibiition of the boll weevil which —>
Miss PN'elyn Murphy of Cross Keys, appears to be getting in very good ^ ^ ^
w'itb Mr, and Mrs., work; Poisoning has been applied ef-
I fectively by about the usual number,
but a large per cent of the farmers
are not using the exterminating
methods
Hurricane News
Mi.-'s Ethel Jame.s of Ninetv-Six,
spent last w’eek-end with her aunt,
Mis.s Luna Grant,
Miss Hattie Edwards has returned
j from a visit to relatives in Athens,! and the crop is ver>* even and promis-
Ga. . I ing. Early varieties are pntnding
Mr. and
INGERSOL ON WHISKEY
spent
Robert Ingersol, the famous think
er and infidel, had the following to
.say about whiskey. If an infidel
thinks the following what should the
(’hri.stian think and do?
Mr. and Mrs. James Dendy
the week-end in Asheville.
P'riends of Mr. Earl Holsonback will •
.Mrs. Lewis Simpson were
0 ; the Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs.
There is an increased corn aert^age j m. Simpson.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Cromer spent
a few days last w'eek wdth Mrs. Cro
mer’s mother, Mrs. I, 0. Rav.
M rs. Douglas Davis and little son,
•>1
'The fellow who tries to Iwat the
poker game doe.sn’t deserve any syni- *
pathy, but his family often d(H‘s. j
Nobody’s Business
By (iee McGee
Another obstacle to thrift is that
wf always fee'l richest while sjH'nd-
if‘C-
None of us understand the full
ifie'aning of perfection. Hut we may all
set our hands and brains and hearts
It- its attainment.
.Where Are You (ioing?
Lhave been trying to analyze .sev
eral kinds of j>eople here of late, and
I 1 have come to the conclusion that
j two-thirds of us are crazy about cer
tain things. I can not find many |)eo-j
pie that are contented with their lot. j
If they have much, they want more;|
if they have nothing thev waut an
automobile, and if they gt‘t ui auto
mobile, they (apparently) are
fied—for the lime l>eing.
green corn for home use and local
market purposes.
The grain crop, with an increase of Marion, of Laurens, spent a few days
be glad to know that he is Improving i acteage, has turned out the largest last week w’ith her parents, Mr. and
after an operation. i average yield in many seasons. Mr. Mr^. G. C. Nabors.
Little Miss P'rances Craft sfK'nt last ^ Cannon has found. Tbe crop is now*' Mr. and Mrs. James Shannon and
week with her sisters in Newberry, j being threshed and numerous out-j children of Newberry, spent the week-
0. M. Templeton, Clisby Templeton,; standing acreage yields are expected' end with Mr, and Mrs. Mace Y^ourtg.
Miss Avanelle Templeton and Ro.v | to be reported. The oat crop likewise Johnson l^uncan of Charlotte, N. C.,
as the land could pro- spent Sunday with his i sister, Mrs.
the result that the farm- Rex Y’oung.
abundant feed crop saved. Mr. and .Mrs. J. W. Hr)rt()n and chil-
until ouuua.v iii v,mun. i \egctable gardens have received dien spent Sunday with their daugh-
rf?ath di ! of f^liolon. more attention Ihia seaaon than ha. tor, Mrs. Andy You,,?.
( nip lo. no ^ ^ » spoilt^ last wook-ond with Miss Chry.,- boon the ca-so in many years, .Mr. Can- J Mrs. C, C. Younjc is s|M*ndinjr thi i
tell Craig. , , non finds, and as a result the people week in Newberry with her son and
Mr. and .Mr.s. John DuHois and son# in towms and villages and rural com-1 daughter-in-law, .Mr, and .Mrs. Ralph
hoiifjr and crime, it demoralizes every-
b(Hly that touches it. 'u—
“i do not believe anybody can con-
, 1 ♦ 4U \ i Kfino-Tir<» ' Ibinald, are spending their vacation niunitv alike are well supplie<l with I Y'oung.
template the oh,)e';t without being pre- • naviL-otr,, v v, r u 4 ui i j i*-
imliced avainst the liuuor crime. All "‘Ir relative.s in O.swego N. Y .| fresh vegetables. In addition canning Mr.
My idea of hell-
need be nothing more nor less than ai
paviKi ■
THE NOMINEES
.Smith and Garner — chosen as the
InnuK-ratic standard bearers at the
(’hicago convention la.'^t week, -will
prove a popular ticket th':;- f ill siir.e
both are held in high estimation
throughout the country. Al .Smith,
who ha.s displayed one of the worst] fine place, with wonderful
:\pi‘s of ingratitude ever known in roads, beautiful fields
rational politics, set out to block
Roosevelt's nomination but he was
whipjied in short order and left the
I onvcntion. The breaking un of the
-Smith-Raskob combination will tbere-
foie |>rove a great boost and opnefit
*.o the party.
The Democrat.' have an unu.sually
hT ,od opportunity for victory at the
NovemlKT j)oHs with Roosevi’lt and
Darner as their leaders, and with a
nlatfoiin founded on sound principles
i.hei than jiolitival exi>t‘diency. j There’s another class of tieople that
. lean be punished without having to
iudiced against the liquor
we have to do, gentlemen, is to think
of the wreck.s on either bank of the
.<tieam of death, of the-suicides, of
the in^anity, of the ignorance, of the
destitution, of the little children tug
ging at the faded and withered breast
of weeping and despairing mothers,
raTi's-i'^^ wives asking for bread, of the men
I of genius it ha.s wrecked, the men
i -struggling with imaginary serpents,.!
i produced by this devlish thing; and
when
and Mrs.
for some folks - of the
aims hou.'es, of the asylums, of the
, , prisons, of the scaffolds upon either
s, oeautilul lields and forests, that every
I lovely landscapes, and thousands of ^^oughtful man is prejudiced against
,ni]ty automobiles parked here and this damned stuff called ‘alcohol.’
there and everywhere, theirs for the, ..iptempciance cuts down youth in
asking, with no “down” payment re-
<|iiire<l—but not a drop of gasoline to
Ik‘ had. .No punishment could be great
er than that for about half of our
population—and heaven won’t be hea
ven to many souls unless there are
automobiles and pbmly of filling sta
tions there.
A GOOD IDEA
• )iie of the sanest ideas to qirevent
projKT manipulation of stock ex-
hanges seems to be that voietd lie-
■f ' re a senate committee the ether ilay
\ Prof,. William Ripley of Harvard,
w no .suggested that the big co 'por-
'• jniblic inspection.
Although this may seem, on the
'urfa.-e, a radical suggestion, its value
/HX’omes afiparent when you stvip to
'.nink of the way unscruimlous I'^^gers
O’ the market+an and do <‘oi'i\ .-^tock
values up or down In'cause )t inside
>.formation on a lompany’s financial
c 'ndition.
Till' gentle custom of unloading on
swim about in a lake of fire ami brim
stone: Think of a “hereafter” with
palaces of gold and streets of silver,
and ivory-toip card tables, arul .seoring
cards a-plenty, and a crowd of anx-
its vigor, manhood in its strength, old 1
age in its weakness. It breaks the'
father’s heart, lH*reaves the doting!
mother, extinguishes natural affec- [
lion, era.ses conjugal love, blots out]
filial attachment, blights parental;
hopes, brings down mourning age in
'soii«>w to the grave. .
“It produces w'eakne.ss, not'
strength; sickness, not health; death,!
not life. It makes wives widows, chil-i
dren orphans, fathers fiends; and all |
of them jiaupers and beggar.s. j
“It feeds rheuinatiLin, invite.s chol
era, imports pestilence, and embraces
! consumption. It covers the land with
misery’ and crime
John Shannon and
Mr. and Mr.s. FL L. Smith spept last is now under way and all the surplus daughter, Faye, and Mr. and Mrs.
week-end with Mr. and ,Mr'v, James from garden and field will lie saved C, H. Shannon and Mr. and Mrs.
Griffin in Newberry. ' ' and stored for winter. This is one of i "Bill” MiU-hell and little son, Billy,
Mr. and Mrs. L, A. McCurry and j the oasis spots in the economic .“^itu- weie the Sunday guests of Mr, and
little daughter. Novella, spent the ation- of today, opines the county Mrs, Mace Young,
week-end in Hodges. I agent, and he is gratified to find that Mr. and Mrs. Whitman Neal and
B. Bullard o'/ Bristol, Va., visiUdisuch general response has been made' children of Charlotte, N. C., spent tho
Mrs. J. E. Hamm and family last to tKe call for “larger and better gar- week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Nathan
Supday. dens,” and also to the popular idea Nabors.
Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Sample and of canning and drying and storing ail ——,
r. and Mrs. C. E, Boland j fruits and vegetables possible during
.spent Sunday with relatives in Bates- the season.
burg. j Xhe home and commercial peach or-
jjiss .Sarah Denny is sp^-nding sev-'ohards are going to make fair returns,
edai weeks with relatives in Green- the county agent has found. The
prospect is that a 7.') per cent pi^ach
crtip will be made by the commercial
orchardists this sea.son. Home or- j
chards, where they received attention.
Hie producing excellent fruit and
some individuals are now .selling the
wood.
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E. Mood Smith, u. D
Felder Smith. O. D.
DBS. SMITH & SMITH
Optometrists ,
A I I Take advantuKe of!
the I o H' summer
prices and erder your winter’s
supply of coal now. See—
Farmers Exchange
l*tione 157
: <M‘op.
The stubble land, to a great extent,
SPECIALISTS
Eyes Examined Glasses Prescribad
15 West Main Street Phone tOl
has been sown to peas and cane, thus I laboratory for Prompt Repair ServiM
increasing the prospect for feedstuff 1 Clinton, S. C.
ious, hopeful, laughing auction bridge mi.sery and crime. It fills
players and nut a deck of cards to be yuur almshouse, |
, u ^ horiMbu^.^^^^j dema'ntlTyouFlisylunisi It engen
f
situation
Wouldn’t it be terrible for millions
of our men and women to land at a
place in the “great beyond” where no
cigarettes could 1h‘ had? ('an you
think of anything half so bad as .stop
ping at a joint, where you mu.st .spend
eternity, without so mueh a.s one ean i Infamy. It defames
‘)1 suuff or one pjug of tobacco or one I,l^,v^s,.orns virtue,.
tne suckers a big block of stm’k m a drop of whiskey to satisfy your long-!jj,,^j slanders innocence. It incites the!
.Domerly prosperous concern which is for such things? That Wiiuld be | butcher his helpless off-*
a:,out to j,as.s a dividend would be a bad. 'spring, help.s the husband to massacre I
.tile harder to accomplish if this pro- ^he ‘
Hell would be terrifjing and tor-j jjxe. It burns up men, con-,
tuous to thousands of our men and detests life, curses God,
women, if it were a place with fine j d*., pisus Heaven. It suborns witnesses,
goif courses, excellent golf clubs,j ,HM-jury^ defiles the jury box'
lovely club house.s, with ca^ijies. aDj • 1.
ders controversies, fosters quarrels,!
and cherishes riots. It crowd.'* our pen-,
itenliaiies. and furnishes victims for
your scaffold.-. It is the life blood of
the gambler, the element of the burg-1
the prop of the highwayman, and
support of Uhe midnight blasphemer.
It violates obligation, reverences
i- ^ed jdan could U* adojited.
IT AFFEt TS ALL
Neu life insurance sales, it apjwars,
r.ave legun to fall off. During the
first couple of years of the depres-
‘lon these sales held up remarkably
well, all things consblered, but now
the pressure , of hard times is being
ft It sbaiply.
Thb^Ts not to be wonderetf-atT-eou
-.dering the extent of unemployment
and the way other businesses have
suffered. Indeed, the depression has]
shown that the ordinary citizen is |
pi’etly well sold, now, on the benefits
cf life insurance. , ,
In the main, he has kept up with
his insurance, continuing his old poli-
c:es and buying new ones, long after
he has had to economize in «>ther
field.s. The fact that life insurance
sales have at la.'t shown a marked re
duction only proves the great severity
of the depression.
ways ready tt) go but not a golf ball
in all the region thereabouts. .And:
think what it would mean if all the
highway patrols and .-peed cops that
most assuredly will in* down ttrere-f
-can’t- find anybody'
arrest, and have ’em fine ten dollars.
But meblH' we won’t take our hab-'
its and our short-comings away with]
us. Perhajis we won’t Ih* able to think!
what ha.s been. It is possibk^'We- wiiii-r'''
not have to do without the things up!
there or down yonder that we craved |
so much hei*e, But, to make a short
. tory .shorter-:;-it surely couldn’t lie,
much worse in the “wrong place” than'
the present depression — with .Y-i'entj .
cotton, 30-<xmt wheat, millions out of
jobs, hungry mothers, naked childi'en^
— and a Republican administration |
wasting fortunes every day on useless'
undertakings. Well, this may l)e “it”]
DAYS OF HAJ»I»INESS —FOR
SOME
Everywhere in the United States, (low for all I know.
it's sumn>er now. School is qut, andj —^
the small boy comes into his own. | news from flat rock
It there any such complete, irre-j a woman from the county seat vis-
sponsible happiness anywhere in the. ited us a few' weeks ago and placed
world as that of the schoolboy bn the sotne little boxes mr oar dinliig'-Tooiif
lon|r summer vacation? We can’t re-j tables where we eat and asked us to
member that we ever were completely inaugerate the “penny-a-njieal" pro-
happy except in those two or three gram to help the poor, she tame back
years each side of twelve, when
we
had nothing much to do, askie from a
few chores around the place, from
June to September. How many things
a hoy of that age finds to do in the
summer, swimming, fishing, berry-
picking, baseball, or just loafing
around in the fields and woods with
his dog. The country hoy has it all
and collected the proceeds today and^
got 18c, but over half of the boxes!
was missing and possibly stole, she!
says she diddent near clear expenses j
ansoforth. •
began tak
ing Cardul when in
a weakened, nih-ddwxT
condition,” writes Mrs.
F. 8. Perrlt, of Wesson,
Miss. took one bat
tle, and I seemed to im
prove so much that I
sent for six bottles. Af
ter I had taken the six
bottles, I seemed entire
ly welL
**Before I took Car-
dui, I was nervous, rest
less, blue and out of
heart I felt depressed
All the Urn®, After 1
took Cardut aU this
disappeared.
gave my daughter
Cardul and it helped to
relieve Irregular . • .**
n
ns
It’s Always
GOOD BUSINESS
To Use
Thla MMdlciii* haa kCM uaad
by womMi for oror <•
yoara.
over hit city couains in summer. He dog and throwed
a bad axident was hell on mainj
street sadday aftcimoon when mr.
berry brown run his ford over a nice ^
Taki
wtfe out and.
can go barefoot without losing caste;,
he doesn’t have to comb his hair and
put on a clean collar every little
vrkiie. and if there’s a hole in his
U* br^hehes nobody worries
broke betwixt 7 apd4i ribs in her, and
2 collar bones in the baby, the dog
was killed, h? >ves loved by ail who
knew him. he was drug a^good piece!
ifl
Helps Women to Health
i
GOOD PRINTING
by the fender whivh ketched him by
Taka Tbadfard's BU<di-I>raufht
lar Constipation. IndtsaMioB,
an<t Billoosaess.
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