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S*'.^. - 1 ‘ ' -1 t ' T ■ ‘ V ’ ■- .V ■ ' ’ ’ ‘ t \ • x THE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CUNTON, 8. C. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29. 1932 ■-< I i V (Hlfp €ltnt0^ (2il|irontrle BaUbliak«d I9tM» WILSON W. HABRIS. Editor and Publisher , Published Every Thursday By THE! CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COUP ANY ^ Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): Ore year $1.50; Six Months 75 cenu; Threh Months 60 cents Entered as Second Class Mail Matter ik the Post Office at Clinton, S. C. The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscnbers and readers—the publisher will at all times appreciate wise sugrjrestions and kindly ad vice. The Chronicle will publish letters of jfeneral interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. This paper ib not responsible for the views or opinions of its corre.spondents. I ciety on Friday afternoon with an egg I hunt.. ] On Saturday aftembon Migts Edna CJiayton took the members of her ; Sunday school class on an old-^fash- Joned egfr hunt in Pitts’ pasture. ■Si NOTICE OF SALE required to comply with the tei-ms of the bid within forty days next after the date of sale. In the event the suc cessful bidder fails to comply wi^ * tehns of the bid, the property will Piirsuant to Deere* (.f the Court in subre- State of South Carolina, County of Laurens, (From files of The Chronicle for April 24, 1919). the matter of Citizens Bqilding and i quent sales day at the risk of the for- Loan Association,, plaintiff vs J. K. er purcha.ser and the deposit made Hatton, et ai, defendants, I will sell! defaulting bidder either at the \ Nobody’s Business By Gee McGee lot publir outcry to the highest bidder, ‘h' ‘‘'eie- ;for cash, either in or in front of the forfeited. Purchaser to J Court House to iwk comer with Hill land, S. 68-16 W. 1604 ft.; N. 22 W. 1100 ft.; N. 68 E. 878 ft.; N. 18 W. 446 ft.; N. 23 W. 1838 ft.; 27-15 W. 057 ft; N. 68- 45 E. 26.53 ft.; S. 22-30 E. 257 ft; N. 68-30 E. 1013 ft, and thence S. 22- 1,5 E. 11,13 ft to the point of begin ning. Terms of sale: Cash. That the said -.5 (T.INTON. S. C., THLTiSDAY. DECEMBER 29, 19.32 A Coming Enterprise for Flat Rock flat rock, s. C. deCeni.-27, 1932. mr. w. t. hide, seeker terry, care department or agger culturtf, wa.shington, d. C. deer sir: i am planning j to go into the milk dairy bizness as soon as i get 2 more ^ cows: i alpeddy have one. kindly send me all of the litterature you can pos- j sibly spare and other [ handy dope on r THE OUTLOOK FOR 19.3.3 (exchange which can be lietter afforded! subjec There ts something about the be- by the oi-dinaiy purse in the carrying ginning of a new year which tends to out of the gentle art of remembrance., revive waning hopes. Both literally and figuratively we close our books LOOKING BACKWARD on the last day of the old year, take “The year is dying—let it die.” We nionney to buy feed with to f^d if you can arrange for me to geti ! some farm relief aid at once, i can start at once, all i need is cows and [ accviunt of stock and make our plans: echo Tenny.son’s words. So far as 2 tin buckets to milk for the coining twelvemonth. There I are concerned, anybody can have 1932 borry a strainer was more reason for hailing the tiew that wants it. W'e are all through wi’h ® nabor, as she has one of her year in the old day.s when the calen-: it, and we are thankful for it i own, but no cow. ar began with the vernal equinox, in late March, and the festival of the year’s eml was certain to be followed It has been a tough year, but after| all. we still survive. It may or may I i have talked to the milk dairy in- not have b<“en the worst year, from the' sp<?<'tor and he told me a rfght smart .speedily by the n'vival of vegetation , etonontic point of view, in American »f advice as to how' to run a grade and ITie "beginhTTur afrt‘sh Qf tFe an- 'Tii.story" Sotm.- say that- it '* ^ aiL jft. ■ual agrieultui’ul ev'de. A great deal some think that we have had woi^se. ‘ dairy and as it looks like the grade of the sentimental imporrance which If there have ever bwn any worse lyix* is .So much cheaper, i will prob- we*attach to New Yiai’s day is a sur- years nobody romemla»rs them. bly start off with one of them. vival from the pastoral civilizations^ The important thing now is to h»ok of the fiust. :fthead and :;ee whether 1933 is going, the inspector told me that i would We are no better able than anyone to be any In-tter and, particularly, i have to look out for the backtery that at Laurens, S. C., on , sales day in January next, the same ; being Monday, January 2nd, jthe fol- ^ jlow'ing described property to wit: All that lot, piece and parcel (if land w'ith dwelling house and all outbuildings thereon, located, sit uate, lying and being within the corporate limiLs of the Town of Clinton, in the County anu State aforesaid, containing one-fourth of an acre, more or less, and liounded on the north by lot of Geo. H. Ellis, 129^ feet thereon; on the nortjh by lot of L. B. Dil lard, 63 feet thereon; on the - south by‘ lot of H. J. Winn, 125 feet thereon; and on the west by Woodrow Street, 63^ feet there on, to beginning point. This being the same property conveyed to me by Geo. H. (Ellis on Feb. 6th, 1917 by deed recorded in the of fice of the Clerk of Court of Common Pleas and of R. M. C. for Laurens County, in scid State, on February 20th, 1917, Book 38, page 40. .And I, the said mortgag or, J. K. Hatton, do hereby de- clare and represent that I am the ^ the aSm’e officer conducting the sale require the highest bidder at the sale, other j pay for stamps, deed and lecording plaintiff, and all other iper- and to be let into possession upon pro duction of Clerk’s deed— THOS. W. BE.VXFTT, C. C. C. P. and G. S., Laurens, S. C. 12-20-3tc. NOTICE OF SALE Stat*- of South Carolina, . , Couniy 01 Laurens, State Planters Bank and Tru.^t Co., Plaintiff. vs. <• r' Lawrence "D. McGowan, et al, D-^enCAnt'^. Pursuant to a Decree of tiie Court! sons, except the plaintiff, who may thereafter raise the bid as provided • by law, to make a cash deposit.of I three (S'/t) per centum of the total : indebtednes.s herein adjudged to be I due ,to the plaintiff, as earnest money or evidence oif good faith, the deposit of the la.st high bidder to be applied on the bid should there be a compli- i ance with the same. If the person ' making the highest bid at tlje sale, (other than the plj^lntiff, fail to make j such .deposit immediately at the time of the acceptance of his bid, then the j said premises shall be at once re-sold, i sit such bidder’s risk, on the same in the above stated case, I will sell at salesday or upon some subsequent salesday, at the option of the plain- papers public outciy to the highest bidder,,attorney, at Uuren, C. H., S. C., on salesday; p^^^aser to phy for , in J.nuaiT next, tong Monday the, recording. 2nd day of the month, during the leeal, munc w rtt vvin'm I hours for such sales, the following de- ■ . . a . , 'scribed property, to wit: j C, C. C. P. and G. S., Laurens, S. C. Xirihart^rt ■oria;riying pnd be-;D-ted December 13, 1932.-12.29.3tc. ! ing in Cross Hill Township, I^aurens i — — j County, S. C., containing by recorded; E. .Mood Smith, O. D. ' deeds, 491 acres, more or less, but by actual survey 482.HO acres, more or less, bounded on the north by lands dencrlhed H. (^oggans and .1. W, premise.s in my own name in fee frhFessTby lands of Jim Silas Hill and Felder Smith, O. D. DRS. SMITH & SMITH Optijiiietrists “ else to pred ct w luil will happen in what ve can do ourselves to make it gets in milk, and .says he counted over 1933. Who knoweth what a day may better. P'o one thing, we bring forth?’’ We are c«*rtain only on mu';! people have learned to adjust that [ 250,000 backtery in a bottle of milk simple and that the same is free from any claim or encumbrances except tk.e mortgage hereby cre ated. Terms ul sale: Cash. The successful J. H. Miller: on the .south by Ian Is of .’\I»‘s. Moore, J. H. Au.stin and K. W. White, and on the west by lands of •iohn Neel and William Watkins. Re-^ ginning on the Laurens-Ncwl>ei ry the other day. it seems that man leftl • T one thing: that is that the .New Year thenusehes to present conditions, and the bottle open and they crawled in, will be (liffoii'iit from the old one. ha\e dropped the idea that there is And we ho|K' it will be a better year, sorm' ea y way to get money without We have, at least. |)ut behind us workiijig for Jt. The early American' low cows just like nats do, so we w'ill, Aome of -t he thing.s .which made-I1132.^^iU.iers bad tho- right -bioa, Aho^ one tnrt fw them-and-set Arajm if nec-7 ‘but we need to g:-asp. One of the fir.st j essary. \ rules laid down for tk.e Pilgrims of Hl>inoulh was they that \x;ll not, .sending the farm relief aid, plese. woik shall noteat. That admonition, j strain yourself, as good cows ■ndeod goes back farther thhn that. on the Laurens-.^cwt>el ry j SPECIAF^TSTS bidder, other than the plaintiff, will public road at corner with land for- Eyes Examined Glasses Fresciibcd be »-equired to deposit upon the bid merly of Williams and running the West Main Street Phone 101 lieing knocked down the sum of $65.00 following courses and distance.«: S. E. 622 ft. S. 12 E. 4408 ft.; , . , , , , , , ,£.8 evidence of good faith in the bid-1 23-15 «h,c.h was bad we have no backtery; The successful bidder w.ll around our place, but mebbe they fol- 1993 ft.; N. 25-30 W. 1H25 ft. IsShoratory for Prompt Repair Service Clinton, 8. C. the hardest year in recent American history, for most folks, and wi* are closer of the things which promise better for the fwturi*. The election over, for one thmgj.fbeLu- .nm-o goes luck lanner Limn uiai. thought fok $20 per each, there- ropern debt s'tuatiqn i.. ul l^asKbe- Vou can find it in the* first chapter of; gtmvmg- tu. tW ^ ,»eem»^ tq.-nis ; get” nd of more cash have abiml reached tlie end of the proc. s.^iop ef bank ftiihires. Fam jiro- ducts touido d new idl-time low prices m I‘.'32 and we cannot imagine that they will not average higlic'- in 19.13. It seems to us that th** eomin r year will neces.sariJy be one of tlioro igb re- f mt we ha\e pretty well got Over the I pressent riling. my milk dairy foolish notion that we, as a |K‘ople, had di.scovered a way to beat that game. There is no doubt that 1933 will still be a tough year compared with the year 1927. This isn’t iiessimi.sin’ will be run on. the clean and saniterry principle, as i have bought some nice soap for same. ad.iU'.lmcnl. not alone in multcrs of, !>ut an honest facing of conditions as we already know which side to milk the cows on, .so don’t send no book on money and trade, but in p<*ople’s men-ijbey exist. Everything isn’t going subject, by the way, you might tal outlook. It may have btu*n neces-' change for the lietter on New Year’s .•iury tor ti'-' to go thn>ugh tbiVe ter- da.v. We have got to work oiir'way ribie yeirs of tlepression to purge our hack to a stage where everybody who nii.nds ol iho fallacious notion that tlu*' wants w’ork will have a chance to T'lad to universal prosperity and indi-lwork. EveryUidy lias got to work a Tijlual wealth is uii easy one. If it little harder to pay off the debts that "hen to look fo*- every- lums out by the end of lt>33 that \v^' ran up in the IxMim times, and that * lemain, everybody has learned that he is applies to individuals, states, counties, cntytled only to wnat be can get iiyjcties, and (.he national government working f<*r it. and to lie content with | alike. Everyboily has got to keep ex- Uiat. the New Year will be the great- penses down, and that also goes for fst success e.er recorded on the cal-‘ governments as well as individuals. The new year will have its prob- j leins and |H*rplexities—we must iiitvt I and fight them with courage. ad<l $10 to the farm relief aid check to vbuy some bottles with, as we have I no milk bottles, thanking you in ad-jl vance for your help, and asking thatj you rite or foam on reseat of this and I ♦ yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd, milk dairy man. f ndar Al K) LFA JH RATE DECLINES It IS good news, the report that few er jwople have been killed in automo bile accidents this year than last. .At first glance it might seem that that IS men ly because not so many people are driving cars, but the Travelers In.'-urancc Ct>m]>uny keeps close track uf i.he figiu e.s of automobile accidents, «ince It i.' in the bu.'iiness of writing accident insurancv*, .says that while ft AVer c.us are registered and less ga.'^oline i.s l)e:ng bought the tleevease in fatal aceidents is t*ven more marked •J'.an tbost faets will account for. In seWi'teen states there ha^ .My New Year’s He.solutionR Kt'solved: That I w'ill avoid the use | of the dotted line — except where it concems me and my own affairs. Resolved: 'fhat I W'ill never again write anything more'^about my wife’s kinfolks — unless she dictates such items to me verbatim et ad litteratim. 13 Years Ago Items of Interest From The Chronicle of 1919 Rev. and Mrs. i Cherokee, Iowa, are s|>ending the wet*k here as the guesW of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Bailey. Resolved: That I will not expect my | . jjyj t^uilies in ijtocks, bonds, real estate,! S. Winslow of and second mortgages to help me to pay old debts or cause me to create new debts. Resolved: That 1 w'ill examine both rectMved in my shoulders closely and carefully be- after a hard Invitations have Ihhoi been the city to the marriage of Mi.ss Aa- fore entering my home I e falling off of 2«t {ler cent in tbe'j'loinette Thompson to Joe Hamilton}day’s work at the. office and remove number of automolule deaths. Only Little in the h’irst. Freshyleriaii therefrom any red, lilack or gray three >lynv an increa.sy in the | church of Ablieville on April 30th. Mr. hairs tout might ha.e, pe rad venture. nuii!*H-r of fatalities. For the country »s a wliole the number of automoliile deaths for the first ten months af this y ai show, a decline of 1.5 per cent. At the pre.senl rate fewer than thirty Little is a ('linton boy, a .son of Mrs. lodged thereon. Kmma Little, and has many frieihls ^ here. Kesolv»*d: ThSt 1 will look for low’er' ...Fori.. A well-equipped office is essential in the conduct of every business — it saves time and worry^and -mafce?^- for efficiency. Here you will find everything you need in Office Supplies for the New Year. ' taxes, higher cotton, cheaper gasoline,! Home-coming day will lie ab.served faJ'in relief, federal aid, silver linings,j Ihou.sjihd piople will have been JviUt’ti al Hurricane church cn Sunday, May j fonder steaks, easy sailing, gravy j iirr>r by automobiles in .1932. Ith. Rev. J. Pitfs^T^Grwmvood, a trains and The hiiirennimn when the j 'rhis is mighty good news. It imli- former .pa.stor of the church, will beUto'ernment gets out of business and 1 cates that we are learning how to the s|H>aker. ! ie<luces its expen.ses at least 40 perj —^ I cent. I Duckett .Adair, who has been con-' ( kandb the mo.st dangerous deadly weafKMi that has ever been place*! • itbout restraint in t>he'hands of chil dren, irresponsible adults and drunk ards. Far more peojile are killed by the carele.ss or incom|>etent handling •f automobiles every year than are killed by carelessness with firearms. necied with the local express ofTice, ha.'» accepted a |)osition with E. W. Ferguson, Ford dealer. Resolved: That I will not again un-l dei-take to cut my living expenses un-j til telephone rates, gas rates, electric j light rates, fi-eight rates, postage The county is now being thorough-j rates, insurance rates, taxes, licenses} ly organized for subscriptions to the'and automobile tags are cut to a level} Moi^t parents would hesitate before fifth or Victory I.<oan of the govern-'that I can reach—as the high cost off giving their boy.s and girls revolvers ment. Dr. H. K. Aiken of I.,aurens, Is living simply can’t be lowered unless! to play with. But these same parent.s ^ the^ general .chairman. will give automobiles to the most ir-j responsible children to‘play with and Bamie Parrott left Saturday for to kill i^conie with. Noboily woubl! Bishopville where he has accepted a trust a notorious and iri-espon.sible position, drunkard with a gun, but the opera-, lioa of automobiles is entrusted to. Mr. and M-^. Gan- Bailey have I move to the sticks, live off of goose berries, force my family to wear fig- leaves. and .sleup under the cover of darkne.s.s. y — t TIMELY SUGGESTIONS i For Help In Starting the New Business Year Rif^htly Kiank Books Gummed Labels Paper Fasteners BloUinR Paper Index Tabs Pen Holders Carbon Paper Ink Pencil Sharpeners Cash |Iooks Ink Stands Reinforcements VC'ommercial Letter Heads Ring Books - ' ' Envelopes Letter Trays Rubber Bands Desk Sets I.,oose I^eaf Forms F.ulei's • I.'iaries Mailing Labels - • V ^ Envelopes “ Mimeograph Paper i* econd Sheets' P>e Shades Moisteners Stamp Pads Filing Equipment Notary Seals Stenographers’ Felders . ^ubheiL-Slantps- Nat e Books .2 Glue Paper Clips Typewriter Ribbons PRINTING “ALL KINDS — EXCEPT BAD” We print anything from a visiting card to a book. All work delivered promptly and guaranteed. anyone who can keep ^ober long gone to Fort Valley. Ga.. where they enough to get his driving license. : will make their future home. The strictest of strict regulations in; order to obUin a 4lriver’s license i Clarence Galloway left last week to should be required since this is one pUy hasoball on the AtlanU team of Rusolved: That I will continue to attend church, nay my preacher (a lit-| tie now and then), telephone my wife before I take company home with me for dinner, speak well of my neigh bors, boost my town, county and state, way to curb the evils of recklessness. CHRISTMAS CARDS the Southern league. Mrs. W. J. Bailey. Mrs. J. F. Ja- Christmae cards have become the , cobs, Sr., Mrs. J. F. Jacobs, Jr., and most usual method of conveying the | Misses Clara Duckett, Cassie Oliver, sentimeqts of( the season. In their itr-' Alma C^ine and Adele Martin are ttMjic beauty and poetic expression | spending the week in Atlanta attend- are apt little mesaengers of love' ing grand opara. and appreciation. They add much to the fweeaue of the po^ department | An t^tractive party sms given Fri- aa well as to the coounereial establish- day bjf. Mrs. Arthar Gdp^and in hon- atenta srhich manufacture them. They! or of ^itose Lodiae Jones, Eugenia am doabUesa a token of sanity also j Drennah and anable both the rich and the! — go to bed early, get up earlier, be sat isfied with a fairly decent living, m}^e out with my eld car, clothes, aim radio, try to pay my hestest debts, keep my notes renewed, and pray to the Lord that He might send us the spirit to be satisfied with what we have got and keep our heart and soul securely ibcased in faith, hope charity} —and give m« health and a desire and will to keep on workirig. We ask the pleasure and privilege of serving you again in 1933 in your Advertising, Printing and Office Supplies, promising a continuance of earnest efforts to please. - ttyj* anabi iFw'ltand on th* mum footing in inntter of finding a medium of Young. Miss Mary liMn Mfhtad the bers of her Chrirtifn Endeavor so- NC^B Why not place that gift snhacrip* Uen aow? I ham some attneCivt ef- fara, enitable for every age and taita. JAS. W. CALDWBLL Chroniefo ( I Publishers—Printers—Stationers Telephone 74 CUnton,ac. •tviJS ^ ' nrNB *4' ^ i