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/: ■r •'1 < > page four \ 7 \ r THE CUNTON CRRQNICLE, CLINTON^ S. C L . / THURSDAY, AUGUST 11. 19S2 (Elfr (Slintott (El^rntiirlp BitefcNNrf IfOt WILSON HARRIS, Editor and Publiiber Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBUSHING COMPAN^ SubBcription Rate (Payable In Advance): Ore year $1.60; Six Months 76 cenU; Three Months 60 cents Entered as Second Class M^l Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C. The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers—the pubH^thcr will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly ad- vice. The Chronicle wil’, publish betters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. Thi.s papei is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. 1 ocean within 300 mile^ of rny home, I I selected a nice, deep, muddy river for ^ my Ike Walton-|ng. It was -only 23 Smiles from iWy front do<jr. I was self ish enough to go alone—with the ex- j ception bf one other fellow' w'ho knew nothing at all about river-fishing. I wanted to do all of the catching my self—'so’.s I could do all of the brag- ’ ging when I got back home.. Absentee Vpting Rules OutUned ' ^ “Liberal” Interpretation Is Giv en By State-Committee For Approaching Primary. y Columbia, Aug. 7. — V'acationists who are away from home because of their “health” will be allowed to vote by absentee ba''ot in the Democratic | primary, according to a “liberal” rul- j ■/i.shes did not seem to be ver.\ hun- state Democratic executive i gry: I waited. I got tired holding the Claud N. .Sapp, chairman,-, pole., at the end of a half hour, so I 1 stuck'it in the bank. The first thing , Two other ::)terpretatu>n.s of the > i I caught was a dozen big. long, red 'r ' absentee voting were i ants wheih were taking dinner on the chairman in letters wrjt-' polls will be open at the Police Head- j for the Town of Clinton, before noon quarters on Pitts Street at 8 o'clockj on the 6th day of August, 1932. A. M.. and will close at 4 o’clock P.', At the said election there will be M. on the same date. ^ J six boxes, one’ for each ward and the S. W. Sumerel, J. W. Leake and! deposit'their ballots in Ross Blakely, qualified electors of the the box prepared for their respective We reached the happy fishing wat- I ers about 4 p. m. The sun wa.s cre- 'ating lemj>erature around 97 irf the shade, I hurriedly baited my hook and .dropped it into the water, but the Town of Clinton, have been appointed ■ wards. , managers of said electon, and R. J.l Copeland ha.s been duly appointed 1 own of Clinton,^uth Carolina, Clerk of said election. {this the ."Sth day of July, 1932^ No persons shall be entitled to vote: JACK H. \OUNG, at said election who shall not have Attest: ^ Mayor, registered his or her name with W. D.j D. C. Heustess, Copeland, Supervisor of Registration* Clerk and Treas. 8-ll-2tc back of my neck, an.soforlh. ! ten to two countv Democratic CLINTON. S. C.. ACCeST 11, 19.32 of^i- |! ^cials. 1 ,„j' , 1 i . „ School teachers, the chairman said, . I fished right on. I got a bite: a big . » , , I 1 ~ A .1 I u;ii a either at their permanent ■ bug hit me on the leg. And I killed i. _ i u . I „ 4. ♦ home addresses or piace.s where thev * him with much glee. Then I got about ^ . * u- j j SUPT. BROOKS’ BILL With the acts of the 1932 legisla ture now off the press, we have be fore us a copy of Supt. F'. Brooks’ bill entitled. "An Act to increase the oKmfer.'hip of the county board ol • du.atM»n in Laurens county and to pjovidc for the appointment o! niem- btrship and for the term office.” The title does not reveal the a’liho:-. The ( hronicle has inituired of .‘■•everal New Yofk in 1649. In 1742, the 200 more bites-— mosquitoes. I ' something blubbering close to saw my, aie engaged in teaching, provided they are projierly enrolled. They can- records .show, there were two brothers! hook and I moved my hook amid.st the,"^^- » place where Roosevelt; named .Johannus and Jo-, hjuhliers: no luck. I must of been a grand.-ions j n^ud.turkle gargling his throat. I pull- «-phus. They were great Kiandeon.-i „,u||.turk|e garbling his throat. I pull-:, ... of the origmal Nkholas It .osevelt.' ..j ,i„e in, the bait was still there,' .J.*''. “*""“’’“5 One of them wa.s the anee.stor of untouehed by fish whisker.,. I moved. J" Thecxlore Roosevelt, and the other ol ; stream about 60 yards and sat Franklin D. R0o.H*vcdt. Their de.scend-; 2 thorns .(&I!!-:?-”*:?!!! ants in both lines accumulated weallhly^jj that’s exactly what I .said). and acquired high social position, but none of lhi‘m' was ever active in poll- H. D. HKNRY T. M. BOLAND H. D. Henry & Company INSURANCE STOCKS BONDS REAL ESTATE I ♦ ♦ ♦ : X ♦ X X ♦ LOANS NEGOTIATED 4 must be either sick and away from his: voting precinct or el.se sick within the , recinct but unable to go to the polls.' ause. however, the state Demo-1 prec Bcci source.'* as to who wrote the i)ill but tics until Theodore Roosevelt, just down. I got a nibble. I jerked , , . , . , , cratic executive committee passed a 1 kvnt or, a-t,sh,ng and watvh«l the r,3„iuti„n a-king for a lihvral intor- mrbody will rlain. it. l.id Mr. Hr,..,KV..f rollvg... wa., put np h,v .hv Kopnh- ha^Mt'ra"a chnak "hat wa..'liU-: ^.^jt^on^riod thTiawtoT wi,t.-.,)tf hran organization in 1K«I_ for nu'in- np' ““'h ho tonMiuvd tho law so aa to al was an old shoe. I was a-fishing, not a-sh(K'ing, so I flung it back. I vva.s lican organization in IHHI for mcm- This hill, while entitled an act to l)cr of the legislature irf what was, increase the menihershin of the coun-: suppo.sed to ^he a safely Dsunocratic j ty board of education, had a- its main j district, and Surprised everybody by' purpose the abolition of the former j getting hirn.sclf elei ted. .\nd Franklin threc-memVer board, as a perusal of Roosevelt, hi.* distant cousin, made the the act clearly iiulicates. - 1 same kind of a sensational entry into .At the h*gislative .session tw’o years' politics in 1910, wh< n he was elected ago (sexm after Mr, Bremks had as- as a Deniwrut to the New York state .sumed officy) he r<*quested of mem- senate from a district which had Ihmmi bers of'the county delegation, a-cord-; regarded as safely Republican. ing to their statement, that a change be m^e in the county board law hut; no action wa.s then taken upon the request. At the past .session the re quest was vigorously renewed by Mr. Brooks. He stated, according to mem bers of the delegation, that the in-1 crease in the l>oard’s personnel was desired in order to give the county a wider representation. Nothing was i said, according to the representatives. low a person away from the precinct because of "his or her health” to use , , . . , the absentee ballot. Such a con.struc- full of patience, chigger.s, energy and que.nion of whether ar vacation i.s for health purposes up to. J J the voter. other in. ects, s(» I .stayed right on. It .*oon began to rain. I .scrambled and slid and tumbled bark to my Ford. I drove home; no fish; no kind word for a’nyl'.ody, ami no more de.sire to. fi.sh. I’m thru for 1932. Might go next year, dffuht it, but if I do go. I’m going wliere fi.sh will bite. NOTK E OF .MUNK II»AL KLE( IION ALL PRESCRIPTIONS FILLED BY UCENSED PHARMACISTS k \ CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED PROMI^TLY SADLER-OWENS PHARMACY “At l^nion Station” Telephone 400 Night Phone 226 Nobody’s Business By (Jee McGee - I IIKHBKRT AND NANCE I “G. IL,” of Woodruff, writing in 'I he (ireenville News Sunday, had this to say State, of South Carolina. County of Laurens, j Town of Clinton. Notiee is herel»y given that an elec tion will be held in the Town of Clin-i ton. County of Laurens, State of' 1 South ('arolina, on the 16th dav ofi of his plan and intention to kill Iht ^ "1^1 n^pi I news from flat reck , r the boys pig club met in flat rock Several day.s ago Tread an article , in the .scholl audytorium lust fridayiin The News in regard to Mr. Beverly | ^ -layor and six Aldermen. The with 22 members pres.sent. only 7 of, Herbert, of Columbia, which was j he boy.s have a pig so far, hut the j very interesting as •well as true. I dare' E. Mood Smith, U. D Felder Smith. O. D. pig chairman is going to lofk the re-| .say that the people of Richland c««irxm I distruclion financ ecorpse to loan the ty are entitled to able repre.sentation , DRS. SMITH & SMITH j jngless boys enough cash to buy one! and need the service of that out.-tand- land give them a mortgage on samc.jinjf citizen. I also notice over in Lau- I he has alreaddy rote his congressman. |•(.Ms there cllnot birch has returne hack from in the race in former board. Early in June, upon the recommen dation of Supt. Brooks, (without the courtesv of consultation with th<‘ old . . , . , • ■ , l, .i.„l, h,. .-,.,,1 or , arn,.,i hk ii. w i-,.,-'™t.' h.» n.,lK,..«man rviis tharv i. an,.th..,- al.U- l,■tf,alalor ,.„in,,.n,iati,.n» t.. th.. staf la.iinl af . ''■'‘•I' f™;':-'. Ihl- raw th.a aumiiiyr for thv .a ate f bonus martch to Washington, d. ( .f^mate in the person of .Mr. Carroll 1). ‘‘ he did not fetch his bonus hack vvith j Nance, of ('ro.*s Hill, him miner count of the pre sident, Now, Mr. Editor, if you will allow has put off paying it till after the „u* a little space I would like to say election, he said they did not get a a few word^ about thi.s Mr. Nance, as warm welcome in the capiC)! eitty liker 1 personally know him and to know they got when they got home from him is to Inv^, honor and respect him. the war. his bonus is .hTaS with in-jMr. Nan •(• is honest and fearlc*s in* trust,, so he sayji 1‘. jvvV.; t he does am! .stan<l.s-f«)m'squure _ ' o 'with all whom he come.s in contact;-: yri^e ha.s asked me to print a,w’th and as a legislator his record i him in a class with a very' Optometrists o.lucalion ment. Don't oV4‘rl<M)k the wiilc c(iUMfv dis- tiihution — four members fiom Lau rens and <me from Clinton. The record further shows that with the fiist im*4‘ting of the new hoard created by the^ “myst«*ry hill,” that the re-appT»intment of Dr. T. I.. \V. SPECIALISTS Eyes Examined (tlaM!>en Pr«flcribed 15 West Main Street Phone 101 Laboratory for i'rompt Repair Service Clinton, S. C. 6 DAY LIMIT $7 WASHINGTON ROUND TRIP SUNDAY, AUGUST 14th REDUCED ROUND TRIP PULLMAN FARES SS.45 LOWER BERTH —• $6.75 UPPER BERTH Special Rates At Continental Hotel $3 DAY INCLUDING MEALS AND ROOM WITH BATH $1.25 DAY ROOM AND BATH WITHOUT MEALS Tickets On Sale Sunday, Aue. 1 Ith. Return Limit To I.eave Washington Not Later Than 6:40 I\ M.. Aug. 20th MAKE RESERVATIONS NOW. SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY r..'iiley wa.s up for consid(>rafion and a-cording to the iuimit<'s of the meet-' ’'kv ha.s askctl me to prini a i-U. It brought f.irth “prolonged dis- ''' the pajH-r that the ladies mis-' |)'aces c:;- i.n.” We wonder why. His name,«'‘>» nery society which was to of few. h;t(l i*«*cn uii many times in the hell next tuesday at 4 oclink f;ft(M'.n years before several superin- .Mr. Nance’s fricntls an* glad to ad- p. m., has benn postponed oniier count mit that he has made error.s, hut like h ruiert.* ami county boards, with not j‘>f the seeker-terry and treasure being all other men, he has paid for his own a Whisper of complaint ever fib-d away attt*nding a conference on home hluiulers. The only politi<-al weapon au-tiii'* him by the patrons he had 'a thfullv .Served over-a long ;H*riod. ^ th4s mee^mg--HttptT-Brmrkic.--atiT]-»*^w»*^W4w-ffieet^ng-wiUdse cstllesi-amT Stm^Wrsdimt while he ( NaneeV was »') Uv other* of his boaUd, touk a posi-l*^be will make a talk on “the life of'.chairman of the ways and nu-ans com- and again*t the re-appointir.ent ' and furrin missions, a postal card has 1 have heard him fought with was the benn received from her and when she tidiacco and soft drink tax put on in I mittiH* of the house. The <lelegations I following Mr. Nance not only sna the post ma.'ter of flat rock wants tair.cd him. but added to afld made a I ermanent .state law out of a one-year temporary mca.surc. His judgment must have hem sound. Kouth Carolina needs the service of these out.-tanding men in this time, of stress (Nance and Heibert) ami .surely in years to come he is bidding 19 j the people of .South Carolina and their H spective counties could review their refolds ami say, “what men!” .Any niijn facing the facts of today niu't suiely have the interest <*f his people at hand, for there can be no other motive as it is going to take iiig 11 .f ill Dr. Bailey. This reveals to anybody I uh T w Ii think for a minute the inti-i I.i-'te u latioiish> the new county | the publick to know that he has re- hoiiid w.IS to'licar on the Clinton trus-i ceived a nice shipment of 2 cent ti c qucsticHi. i stamps and they are on sale at 3c. T'lc neople of Clinton are wonder- folks can now go back to riling let- ing if .Supt. Bnioks had the Clintonj tors, he wants thet, folks to call at trustees in min<l, or had discus.st'd I once at the post offis and put an extry re-api)ointnu*nt, when he was cent bn the letters: ic<iuesting and uiging the county del- letters: 7 from women, 2 from hizness egation to give him a “new” board. | houses and the hallance from miscel- W as his activity in getting a new, laneous .-weethearts, polliticians an- hoard for the purpose of i-nahling him soforth. he wont send them for the 2c to fulfill political promises made in im thi'in. the tampaign two years ago'.’ I Tlie iMMiple of Clinton interpret Mr. the wattennellon season is on in j strong men to lead the way across Hiot)k>' “new” hil! and the disi'arding' our vicinniVy, the rattlesnakes i.s this gulf of unre.-t and misery of Dr. Haile\ fiMin the school hoaril, fetch Ibc and the others will go at Woodruff. G. H. a.' political. The whole affair is satu- raied oiul dripping wet with politics— paiti.'an at that. The movement (as acquired information will show) very cautiously began two years ago. It has ijuietly moved along, steadily gaining momentum, while the school patrons of this community were un aware of the political maneuvering that -wjrjr-tirkiTrg- rens, and then in Columbia W’hv ? lOc. yore corry spondent, mr. mike j Clark, rfd, has raised a mice charttFe' of mellons this year and his friends are enjoying his hospitality, he cuts ■ one nearly ever Saturday night and invites 2 or 3 of his friends over to eat same, as he is in .poUiticks, he is nice to neaily everbqddy. Sunbeam Rally At Beaverdam The Sunbeam rally bf the Laurens mssociatimi will be held at Harmony church on Tuesday, August 16, at 10 ^ THE CLAN OF R(M)SEVELT One of the most curious illustra tions of the fact that most people don’t seem to know what is going on in the world is the receipt by Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, widow of the for mer president, of several hundred let ters and telegrams congratulating her upon the nomination of her husband for the presidency! It seems incredi- Me at th^e T* sHlTTfiyone Tn^ hVerk plentiful as it mought be. so i will close, the hor.se i rote about last week, which run into a ford and iiroki* its fender, dide at the lilH'ity stable where she was took for treatment.i^aeb leader, the car has 'In'iin seizcnl and will be Music—Bethany SunlH*ams Devotional—Mrs. A. Wk Bol>o. Welcome -Gussie Mae Hughes. Response^Mary Frances Koon. Roll call and brief reports from hell for ran.soni. the owner of the W’hy Should Every Church Have a horse -will sue for 160$, as she was a Sunbeam Band?—Miss Nell Sinypson. race horse, but he had newer exactly How I Have Maintained an A-1 started her on the track. , Standard—Misa Allie Babb. yores trulie, i Music—Harmony Sunbeams. mike Clark, rfd, The Importance of Mission Study carry spondent. ju Sunbeam Work — Mrs. Uda Year- gin. ^ Lunch. ica who does not know j^at Theodore j FiKherman’s Luck ^ Roosevelt died in 1919. 1 ^ afternoons ago, nothing, Chinese Sunbeams — Mrs.. E. M. ’There were also a good many thuu- aands who wrote to F'ranklin D. Rooaevelt, the Democratic nominee for president, under the impression that he ia a son of the former president, As a matter of fact, his wife iymuch mors closely related to the late The<^ dore Roosevelt than Franklin *D. Rooeevelt is. She was the daughter of Theodore Roosevelt’s brother, Elliott, and that makes her a first cousin to the present Theodore Roosevelt, gov ernor-general of the Philippines. One has to go back nearly two hundred years to trace the relationship of Franklin D. Roosevelt to Thec^ore Roosevek, but it ia there. The firet of the name to settle in America was a Dutch merchant nam ed Nkbolaa Roosevelt, who came to would do me but I must gt) a-flshing. Boetkk I had felt fishing pains for two or three weeks, but did not consider them very serious at first. The^ time to go seemed very propitious—if you happen to know what that means— I don’t, so I began to get ready. MRS. R. GUY SMITH, Associate Sunbeam Leader. The first thing I did was to make' a seaixrh for some bait, commonly j called worms in this section. I hiied) a colored boy to dig me a supply he: soon came back for 60 cents ami handed me a can (sardine type) that! contained 5 earth worms, 6 grubs. 4 snails and 7 or 8 infant dirt-dohbers. These are what we fish "with down here.. , Why not kccf yoar money at home by fi^ag aM your subscriptions, botk new and renewal. Fromiid attention given to all orders. JAMES W. CALDWELL was no sea or lake dr Some one needs the article you have to sell. Advertise it in [The Chronicle W^t [Ad column. -A Always BUSINESS --r. -V' To Use PRINTING We Do Kinds “EXCEI^ BAD” Chronicle Publishing Company Publishers — Printers — Stationers , r '7 / : C' 41