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1 ^ f * ' ‘<v ■ -'I'- ---■V^'^T^'! -ji . ■■ y THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20', 1932 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. . .i PAGE SEYEIt CCOURT iBAa vc» FELIX RIESENBER6 BLUE STOCKINGS SMOTHER - high POINT PANTHERS, 39-0 Barrett Makes Three Touch-' downs As Entire Team Plays Fine Game In Winston-Salem On Saturday'. ^ Crosses Panther Line Three Times COUNTY TKE.VSURER*§ NOTICE r The books of the Countijr Treaiiure- will be open for the y^oHection of taxes for the fiscal year, 1932, at th3 Treasurer's office from October 15th to I)ecemb«x.^3l, 1532. After Decem ber 31 one per cent will be added, Af- Perrin Prances SO Yards To Score Rantoul, at last, was many times a ' SIXTEENTH INSTALLMENT Synopsis: Johnny Breen, IG years old, who had spent all of his life aboard a tughoat, plying around New! millionaire. York City, was made motherlesc j Rantoul, at a dollar a year, also when an explosion sank the boat on! serv'ed his country while his New which he, his mother and the man he York office, in Pine street, burned called father, were living. He is the ^ with activity. At the very l>eginning lat'ons si*nt his star to dizzy altitudes, 1 his real love for Josephine. ba.>c.l npon shot him upward on a rise of v'alues.! nothing hut’futility. i_ Most Dazzlinti: Play By Blue Stockings This Year Made Be hind Perfect Interference. The .splurge she .made, the bill.-; she ran,~th9 countless worthless followers who rode in his cars, drank hi.s liquor, Hy Walker Combs, Jr. Smarting under the sting of atehisfood, l^Kaato.tellonhm.. Men hurg at her elbow, bent over her. pur sued her with the intensity of .wild in- Presbytcrian Blue Stockings ran wild only survivor, struggling through the of the wild time, a Russian commis-' fatuation. Then things began to get «' darkness to,"shore. . . . At dawn, amidjsion, headed by a grand duke and car-j little out of diand. St. James, in the surroundings entirely unknown, his-rying an unlimited credit, fell to the ‘ pi^f>c€*Ss of s’q’ueezing ^ig holders, nip-! their opponents none, broiu thci life in New York begins. Unable to j wiles of Josephine, A neoteric cult to ped Gerrit Rantoul for a million; it start of the game the Blqe Ho;?e' read, knowing nothing of life, he is Which she subscribed included several! was a start.'Josephine had jilted St. I began to score and not one quarter taken in by a Jewish famliy, living i Rus.:ians, who, in retuim for lavish, Jamct . Then Tri-Bull was condemned j was played in which they did not cross and do'.ng a second-hand clothing bus-1 entertainment, inducted the grand by the government as unsafe. The the enemy's goal line at least once, 'iness on the Bowery. . . . From the ' duke and his advisers to the genial army would have none of it. The navy Hariett and I’eVrin cooperated with i hour he set foot in the city he had to atmosphere of St. Botoluh and the i refused even to u-e it in depth bombs.! a ■ * nmnoio- bnll li.wn th.>! fight his way through again.st bullies j tender mercies of the great St. James, lit was reported as an unstable, ex-! i ‘ f .u . .v and toughs . . . and soon became so I Rantoul after this killing, in which j plosive. Gerrit Rantoul lost heavily in j *' ^ ^ ^ if * proficient that he attracted the aUen- 'Josephine felt she had a charter in-;Tn-Bull, finding himself possessed of oall was very seldom in tion of a would-be manager of fight-1 terest, fell into the expanding schemes ; most of St. Janies’ holdings, exchang-‘ Point s hands. Presbyterian ran ers whij enters him in many boxing! of George St. James. jed for value before the bad news seep-> points in the/irst quarter.. Tak-; tournaments. ... It was here that Pug Almoit without trying, and because 1^^^ through that the stuff was worth- ing the hall on a kick-off following! Malime came into young Breen’s life | Josenhine. “Clever, you know,’’ he! forgotten the third touchdown, Perrin gallo|)ed | —an old fighter who was square and hiin.self on the inside in Shell i anion;* the b-g metv, wadt he-|tFehin4 sterling—inturforonbe lor 90 j t:r January 3lst, two per cent will be I added, and after February 28th. sev- ! en per cent will oe added uhtil the loth day of March, 1933, when the book? will be closed. All persons owning property in more than one, .school district are re quested to call for receipts in each o? the several school district.^ in which the property is located. Th^ is impor tant, as additional cost and penalty ' may be attached. All able-bodied male qitizena be tween the, ages of twenty-one (21) and sixty (60) years of age are liable to ray a poll tax of $1.00. Commuta tion Road Tax $1.50 in lieu of road' duty. All able-bodied men.between the ages of 21 and 55 are liable to road duty except' those in military service, chool trustees, school teachers, min isters and students. ^ Proper attention will be given those I who wish to pay their taxes through the mail by check, money order, etc., giving name of township and number of school district. The tax levy is as follows: hones*:. . . . He took Breen under his Consolidated, a fifty million dol- wing *ent him to night school and combination of enterprises previ- eventually took him to a health farm he had acquired, . . . The scene shifts and the family of Van Homs of Fifth ^ avenue i> introduced. Gilbert Van Horn, last of the old family, is a man about-towri. who meets Malone and Breen at one of the boxing shows. Van Horn ha.s a hidden chapter in his life, which had to do with his mother’s' maid, years ago, who left the family when about to’^^hecome a mother. It ‘ was reported that she married an old , captain of a river cnift. . . . V'an Horn has a ward, Jo.*ephine, about Breen’s agie. . . . V’an Horn, now interested in j John, prevails upon him to let hrm fi-1 nance a course in civil engineering at ’ Columhih university. . . . John and Jo-; sephine meet — become attached to each i>ther, loVe grows and they be come engaged shortly after Breen graduates from college. . . . Josephine has another suitor, a man of the world named Rantoul Josephine becomes restless as John gives full attention to his job and sails for Parrs to select her trousseau. . . . At theJat'^ moment Rantoul sails on the same boat. At sea the great ocean liner crashes into an ice4)erg and sinks—all passengers taking to the lifeboats. V'an perishes but Rantoul saves himself— with Josephine. Breen learns that Gil- ber V’an Horn was his father. Back home, Josephine returns Breen’s ring and marries Rantoul. John, stunned, buries himself in his work and rises rapidly. Now Go On With the Story. ously defunct. Tri-Nitro-Bullion also df^kRCTT -fi/LL&HCK (’hurlic .Barretv, who on Saturday 'against 'High State Tax Ordinary County Tax Road and Briilge . Railroad Bond ' Road Bonds Past Indebtedne.«s Statewide School (6-0-1) Weak Schools hind the front. i yards and a touchdown. Not hesitat-! fbree tattle The expensive apaitment at the St.j^ing a moment, he cho.se his opening | Charlie was out of the-game | High Schools 5 mills 6Vj mills 7'.-> mills *2 mil! 6’2 mills 3 mills 1 mills L mill Botolph had been succeeded by a more j and ^fairly flew through it, goingi *^^^**i last year because of injuries — .1 across behind Mills, who took the re-i»«‘! played only a little so far this r rnminmgman out of the way. It However,iin^A: the most dazzling play pulUnl by the Pre.sbyterians thi.s season. , I The second half did not add as muc^ to the score as did the first two peri-1 ods. P. C. succeeded in crossing the i end zone in each of the periods, how- forniance Saturday, and ^the fact that his injuries are almost past history, he will begin his bid for state honors. His sophomore year he was the star blocker for the S. I. .\. champions iover. The last t<>uclulown came us the he will be one of the greatest block- to ers in the ^tate. result of a pass, from McFadden _ _ Waldrop, ovei the goal line. i through with precision. The playing of the Blue Stockings line-up: ! was spectacular. They spared nothing ! in sweeping their opponents off their i feet. Barrett, powerful runner and! hl(H'ker, accounted for three of the! touchdowns. Pirrin went across twice, land Waldrop caught a pass to score j once. F.lliott was injured and will be out I of the game for a while on account of j a bad leg. ( ’opL-land, last year’s all- state and all-S. I. A. player, suf- fe'red a wreiiclied back. It is nujt known how long they will be out of play. Barrett, who has been kept out of games nuist of the sea.son because of last year’s injuries which continue to I crop out, played .spt'ctaculurly. The 'entire hackfield cooperated in perfect begari the erection of vast explosive [ lavish suite covering two floors of thet*^^^pla>s that sent tht ball, works in New Jersey, manufacturing i new Du Barry. .A super-flat with pri- times. “Men hung at her elbow, bent over her, pur^4ued her with the wild intensity of wild infatuation.’’ t’opelaiul Mills Boggs Harvin Reeder Kwing Pinson Adum.s Bar\tt Perrin \ .''si ms \ Score by periods: F*. ('. High Point \ left end left tackle left guard center right guard right tackle right end quarter halfback halfback fullback High Schools 2 mills Constitutional School 3 mills Tiital 39 mills l^auren.'.-. School Districts No.,1, Trinity-Ridge 16’:: mills No. 2, Prospect 16 mills No, 3, Barksdale-Narnie 17'-.. mills No. 4, Bailey 7 mills No. 5, Copeland-Fleming 8 mills No. 6, Oak Grove . 6 mills No’. 7, Watts Milks 8 mills No. II, I.^iurens 22 mills .No. 12, Ora 11>1! mills YoungK School District.s 21 mlU.s 12 mills 17 mi!!s 1.. mi!. 13 0 13 0 7 0 6- 0- -39 - 0 No. 2, Friend.ship (D-o) No. 4, Bethany .No. 5, Grays No. 6^’entral No. 7, Youngs No. K, W’arrior Greek No, 10, Hanford I .Ni». 3-B, Fountain Inn I Dials School i No. 1, Greonpond No. 2, Eden No. 3, Shiloh (Sul. 17) 22 ml..s No. 0, Gray Court-Owings 24 mills No. L-3, Barksdale-Narnie 18’: mil’s No. 8. Merna (Sul. 17) 22 miVs No. 3-B, Fountain Inn 21 mills SulUvan_ School Di.slricts ItM 17^ . mi i s 15 mii.s 2-1' . mi' H 21 mi.3 Districts 10 mil’s 17’j mills Duncan Downs Clinton Hi, 19-7 an unstable compound with great la- vate elevntors and exclusive service, I pidity as ita chemists learned the bus- j an expensive ne.st bordering on the ines's, in quantity production tests, j eastern edge of Central Park. Poor -Almon Strauss, cabling from Paris, urged John Breen to continue the work of Colfax: You have never met me, but I know and have confidence in you. VV’e must not despait, no matter how dark the night. We must go forward wherever The line, too, played a good game. It was due to the performance of the entire team that Perrin was enabled Rantoul, who ook on a strange fic-1 Rantoul fairly groaned when he began to score’Min the kick-off. Every man titious importance, was made chair man of the hoard. Tri-Nitro soared to dizzy heights with the booking of fur ther {Russian orders. Josephine did much to reconcile Gerrit Rantoul for her many annoying traits. Tri-Bull, to realize the drain of this establish- on the tc ment. He was worn down by. his ex citement, irritable through his wor ries, and Josephine spending his mon ey and banking her own, rode on the vm 5 took out an opponent, and time of lurid patriotism it was! In the great hotels, foremo;t in the vast en tertainment for charity, Josephine liv- a.s it was called on the curb, led Ran- we see our way or where we fejel our | toul into the picric acid pool, a sweet way. Planning must continue so that | bit of business engineered by St. later on we will know what to do. | James. I ed high. It wa.s at this time that John Breen did net know what to' St. James, swinging Rantoul with j Cloissy evolved hi^s famous scent, do. The pay he was getting was nec-jhim at the head of a group of the |Josephine”! easary. If only the insatiable city i more daring newer men, bought a 1 , * ♦ * Judge Marv’in Kelly, white, ruddy army of domestic servants to the ten der disposition of her aged spouse. , - , , . Judge Marvin Kelly, as trustee of ecks of her admirers. What a flaming h*.,- private fortune, smiled at the .a: lA .1 1.. A.L 1 • ' complete and thorough manner in which this very capable and practical w()n?an had built up the resources of the fortune of Van Horn. Mrs. Wentworth left f«)r Kentucky.' “Thank heaven for a rest,” she said. In a rather hectic battle Thursday afternoon on Johnson field, the Clin* ton High team went down in defeat before a strong Duncan team, 19 to 7. .Although the margin of victory, was only two touchdowns, the Duncan team played rings around the Clinton team. The score probably would have been much larger but for the fact that the Duncan team was penalized about every other play for distances rang ing from five to fifteen yards for every fault known. Cliton started off the fireworks- in the first quarter by marching down the field and croi.siiig the goa)^ on a ‘22 milts 15 mill.3 25 mills 16 mlilv 22 mills 3 mills No. 1, Princeton No. 2, Mt. Bethel No. 3, I'oplar Springs No. 7, Brewerton No. 17, Hickory Tavern Railroad Tax . .. Waterlmi School Di>«tricts No. 1, Mt. Gallagher 12 mills No. 2, Bethel Grove 9 mills No. 3, Ekom (Sul. 17) 22 mills No. 4, (’enter Point 14 mills No. 5, Oakville 8 mills No. 6, Mount Pleasant 13 mills No. 7, Mt. Olive 21 mills No. 14, Waterloo H'^mills Croan Hill School District.s No. 13, Cross Hill 211- mills Hunter School Districts would calm dowm. How it tossed and fleet of lake steamers and founded squeezed and misused its people. j the world trading corporation of Ja- ^ ^ son, Fillmore, and Jones, with preten- When the youth, Mitchel, was over whelmed by the myth, Hylan, when the shaky city was being pounded hourly by rumors, in, that time when shipping and men and dollars mingled in red camivaL Josephine Rantoul splurged in a splendid orgy of waste. She even made money, and she demon- «&at?d~h'er ability to spend iC. tious offices on Broadway.^ This firm “When you see John, give him my , , , , „ regards." .Judge Kelly had appravrd | 2S yards. From of face, still the solid substantial fig.; certain arrangements as to real es.|f^rn on it was all Duncan. lire of un.'hakable integrity, read the tate. .“Dear Marvin, how lovely of you to . , lists of casualties in the club, the was named after three likable chaps j club where he hi’4l .so often sat think of him.” She kiss<*d the solid in his office. The issue was listed on j friend, (Filbert Van Horn.! old .-achem, and was gone, the stock exchange and skyrocketed, qIJ avenue had seen many .stir-1 (Fcrrit Rantoul, always the gentle- from the start. The world was hungry marches, and the day when the ' I'lian, to’ all outward appearances, took for genius, it lapped up stocks ^ j^r^at Liberty Ixian parade swept up, her to the steamer and then turned produced pi^ofits, and fought foi the j avenue he had marched. Bui his j back to the city to survey the wreck, privilege of giving away its money. [eyes looked down the column^ of kill-! That cur, St. James, was a rotter. Jack.s School District.s ■ greatest achieve-; ings, down -the lists-of lAsoiy and Jones, a paper The war carried (Serrit Rantoul into ^lent was Safety Submarine, selling j lists of wounded, and .then he found it., company was on the edge of complete financial whirlpools where he navigat-1 Qjj curb at ten, with few buyers,; John Breen, Major, 11th Engineers, disintegration, (rerrit Rantoul strug- while jobbers washed the stock in pet-j Wounded at Argonne Forest. j gRd like a Christian to unload his ty laiyeny against a few lucky simple- “Poor Gilbert. I can almo.st feel him i .stock on others before the inevitable ed with much skill. Munitions specu- NOTICE! The first touchdown by Clint only served to put the Duncan boy on edge and they immediately ran through the Clinton defense for a touchown and capped it off with an extra point. Before the *du8t had set- white school tied on the first touchdown, the hig ^’’- D Dell .■< Duncan team drove its way down the,^*' 7, Garlington fn iinAth^r fK/l/su/n Kiit fuiloH ^ UFl I HOt? No. 3, Rock Bridge No. 4, Wadsworth No. 5, Clinton No. 6, Goldville No. 7, Belfast No. K-19, Kinards No. R-42, Reederville No. 16, Mountville . 6 mills 8 mills 23 mills 18 mills 8 mills H mills 13 mills 21 mills No. U white school 2, Shady Grove No. 3, Renno field to another touchdown, but failed tT) ~maive'-the extra point. -The- score We Have Plenty SEED OATS, WHEAT, RYE AND BARLEY Complete Line of Fancy and , Heavy Groceries tons who bought before the upward trend of war. With the advent of St. James and Rantoul, and the influx of following money, came a classic up ward dash. Safety—the name itself here, IbokiYrg at this, hut no, he would crash. was 13 to 7. The'Clinton defen.-e then tightened and held back the Duncan team for the rest of the half. The second half was featured by 4 mills 11 mills 16 mills 3 mills 13 millji 3 mills 6 mills Scuffletown School District.K have been across too.” John Breen had departed for the The Southampton place went at a'drives of each side. Overcoming their sacrifice. The luxurious apartment in war. John had no particular desire to | the Du'-Barry followed. Rantoul could fight, or to live. His utter careless-: hardly keep ten feet ahead ol the gave security — began to soar and' ness as is often the case, was set down ' wolves. touched a point where the stock could not be bought at any price. Five hun dred dollars a share was offered but We wiU h*ve Fresh Oysters every were wise enough to sell, day in the week during the season. Rantoul’s new place at Southamp- FuH line all kinds of Crackers. Fresh bought lock, stock, and ce’lar Sweet Milk every day. Fresh Fish on Thursday, Fiiday and Saturday. from a German dye man, under sus picion and therefore subject to forced rale, appeared in pictures in the Sun- day papers. It “was a very elaborate 'as transcendent courage. He was de«-j “Old Rantoul’s on the run.” The orated with the Croix de Guerre. .A word wa.'i on the street. His credit month later he forgot it somewhere,' evaporated. By the most desperate ef- and never mentioned it. He concen- > forts he saved a few thousands, here trated on engineering. j and there, and by moving back to hi.s “John has been wounded.” Marvin | fraternity club, a rather stuffy place, Kelly met Josephine in the St. Bo-[with college trimmings, he managed tolph. The war was on its last legs. | to hold his own in the city. One thing No. 1, LongTH-ancm .No. 2, Musgrove No. 3, I.,angston .No. 4, Sandy Springs No. 10, I.anford No. 12, Ora 8 mills 3 mills 4 mills 24’:: mills ll’-.i mills John had survived. “He’ll probably he did not do. He never cried for help. not get back to tbe front." A look of He migBr le' a' coWfifd,' * quitter, a Phone 157 place and became the scene o^f the!great concern came into Josephine’s | rotter, and all of the things people ! famous Allied fair, the great open I eyes. “And they’ve pinned a few med-j thought of him, but he never shouted RUBBER STAMPS Any kind, to fit any busi ness, Prompt service. Rea sonable prim. Chronicle PuUiahing Co. Telephone 74 many and numerous penalties, the Duncan team fought its way down the field and scored another touchdown, but failed on the extra point. When the game ended the ball was on the Clinton goal line and another touch- dow’n wa.s cut off. The main reason that Cfinton re mained in the running was the steady; play of Boland and Ray in the back-| field. Those boys can check-out with' a football, Ray was on the receiving' end"nf^ “the touchdown * para for^Clm^^ ton. Pcr~sons aending in lists of names to he taken^dff-are requested to send s »enili cn‘'drf" them early and give the township and school district of each, as the Treas urer is very busy during the month of December. I). ROY SIMPSON, County Treasurer. If air charity fete under the manage- mert of the notorious Fulgence Tor- piller, the society ace. Seventy-five per cent of the money taken was clear profit, for Torpiller. But Josephine, in very becoming frocks, things with the new military effect, dawn Array, and sky blue, carried on her flirta tions with an ever widening effect. he als on him, the Croix de Guerre, added. That night Josephine dressed in somber black, her blond hair gleam for a.'sistance from his rich wife. “Damn her!” (Jerrit Rantoul hated Josephine. Hated her so he could not find words to express his aversion. ing. Collar and cuffs of fine white lacej Yet,, when at last a letter came from gave her the severe air of a very high class domestic; a simple gown, close fitting and expensive. a Im her, he trembled, tremhled as he tore it open, and cursed her\ “Dear G.—I have. seen\ John. The She felt no fidelity among admirers;; my duty.” she never made tke fatal mistake of | Then the armistice uproar swept the befi0 bqund up in any otie man. Poor greater city, the floodgates of relief Rantoul, chanting his little private j deluged the avenues and cross streets Gerrit, I’m going across. I feel it .dear boy looks so splendid In his uni ditty, at timea casting lecherous eyes at bold telephone tarts, girls who looked upon him as a prospective su. gar papa, to employ terse terms of the time, nursed a burning Jealousy. The rad part of k;^ pr^'Iieament was with flying ticker tape and scraps of paper.. The town was arild, craxy. Jo sephine, in a becoming uniform of olive drab, •'With a ahiny Sam Browne belt, sailed from the scene of her tri form. He is so fit and brown and has compktely recovered from his wound. He is in Paris with a commission, an engineering expert. He rays that great man, Almon Strauas, had them send for him—think of it, Almon Strauss, the man you once almost got inter ested in those Peruvian mines. John is a hero, and he has the Croix de Icf 'b'T a trail of bills and an ‘ Guerre and such lovely ribbons. BAILEY FAR.M SOLD The P. B. Bailey farm of 413 acres, located on the old road between Clin ton and I^aurens, has recently beei^ purchased by Hamp Bryson, of Foun tain Inn, according to court house rec ords. The sale was made for the Fed eral Land bank through Clyde T. Franks and B. R. T. Todd, Laurens agents. They also report the sale of the Ben Copeland farm, near Renno, to David Copeland. For Uxy Krar, ■tooMcli tfdi biBouaiioaib Ml* Cl BUY COLLIER’S Collier’s Magaslno—^1.00 year. In einba for $1.75. JAMBS W. CALDWELL The Magaziiie Man acb% colds and few. 10^ and SB^atdiilsnb Rent that room by using a Want Ad in The Chrmiicle. \ Li ■