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/ ■ 1 THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1933 ‘ THE CLINTON CHRONICLE; CLINTON, S. C. The Woman/s Page SOCIETY EVENTS AND CLUB NEWS OP INTEREST Telephone 74 7 * EASTERN STARS j officers were chosen for the coming TO MEET FRIDAY j year and a ’program committee se- Tbe local Eastern Star’chapter willjlected. hold its regular rponthly meetiiig Fri- The nominees follow: day evening temple. ^ at 7:30 in the Masonic AUXILIARY MEETS NEXT .MONDAY The Auxiliary of the First Presby terian church will meet Monday after noon at 4 o’clock. As this is the last meeting of the year 1932-33, new circles for the ensuing year will be chosen. * President, Mrs. 4<iihn McSween..,, Vice-president, Mfs, M. G. Wood- worth. Secretary-treasurer, Mi-s. John^H., Davis. “Progiam committee: Mrs. Edward Long, chairman, Mrs. R. E. Wysor, Mrs. W, A. Johnson. It was decided to omit the meeting scheduled for April 4. the Methodist women, was givon: Song, “How Firm a Foundation.’’ Scripture, Eph. 5:6-20, read and timely comments made by Mrs. H. M. Geer. ' Prayer,-Mrs. B. F. Cbp^land. Short talk and presentation of two postei*8, representing facts before and since the 18th amendment, by Mrs. J. V. Edwards. * Reading, “Beer,” Mrs. Savannah! Farlow. “Seeing Our Country As Others See It,’’ Mrs. P. B. Adair. . Story,V‘Remember the Pig,” Mrs. R. J. Ellison. Prayer, Mrs. T. R. Owehs. I\ The women of the First Baptisjt chuch will have charge of the pro gram for April. PAGE TBREV LOCAL CHAPTER .MEETS WEDNESDAY The American Legion auxiliary will meet on Wednesday, March 22. at 3:30 with Mrs. C. E. Galloway. i As sisting hostesses will be Mrs. W. .lohnson. Mrs. R. S. Owens and Mrs. H. L. Eichelbergor. I The state president. Miss Etta Skip per, will be present to address ^the members and a- large attendance is urged * .MRS. LONG HOSTESS TO LIMESTONE CLUB I.ast Tuesday aftemoon Mrs. Ed ward Long was hostess to the I.aurens County Limestone, club. F'ifteon mem bers were pre.sent. .An interesting program on “Sue Branch Given Important Post Atlanta Newspaper Man Named Executive Ajssislant To Post- ma.ster General Farley. Friends in the city of Harllec Branch, popular anil widely known member of The Atlanta Journal staff. cess was given, witli, Mrs., Graves L.!"’iH interested to learn of his apr^ Knight, Mrs. Roy Tiaynhani and Mrs. Louis .Vnderson giving selections. I>uiing the afternoon Mrs. Long served delightful refre«5hments. MRS. LYNN HONORS COMMITTEE Mrs. L. R. Lynn honoreti the mem bers of the executive board of the ' TlSiorWw^B Merhori^ lovely luncheon on Tuesday. Her guests were: Mrs. W. E. Newkirk,! Mrs. F. M. Stutts, .Miss .Mary .Adams, tallys Miss Julia'*Porter, Miss Helen Itorter, Mis.s Mildred White. Mrs. Hjiirry I.ay-1 I-^te in the ton and Mrs. James Bradley. |ser\iKl lovely BKlIXiE CLUB ENTERTAINED Mrs. Silas Bailey was hostess to the members of the Tue.sday Contract Bridge club at her home this week. Early spring flowers were used for decoration. The 'St. Patrick’s day rhb~ ' tif was effectively carried out in the pointment as executive assistant to James Farley, the new postmaster | general in the Roosevelt cabinet. ' Mr. Branch is a brother of the latei R<‘v. .1. B. Branch of this city, and a brother-in-law of Mrs. A. M. Cope-j land of this city. Mrs. Branch before niarriage was Miss Bernice Simpson. The story of his appointment under a Washington date line, follows; and in the table T Washington, 5TarcTi "77 ‘ Branch, staff correspondent of The LI THERAN LADIES HOLD MECT Monday aftemoon the Julies’ Mis sionary s'oeiety’of St. John’s Lutheran church met at the home of Mrs. Rob ert Finkheimer in I^iirens. An interesting program orf “China” was led by Mrs. Henry Sulxu-. Several other members contributed to thej program. ‘ -.j The hostess served a lovely fruit salad course during the social hour. 1 serviKl courses. Mrs. Horace Mrs. C. Mrs. I). afternoon the refreshments Bailey’s guests were: Mrs. Payne, Mrs. J. J. Cornwell, E. Galloway, Mrs. Ii’by Hipp, C. Heustess, Mrs. Wm. Bailey Owens and Mrs. R. C. .Adair. YOUNG LADIES' CIRCLE MEETS The Sarah Glenn circle of the Broad Street Methodist church auxiliary held it.s regular monthly meeting Monday evening at the home of Misses Iona j and Lois Blakely. Mrs. Fred Scott, as leader, discussed the topic of “The' - T)eacone.ss, and Who Is She?” Other ! members taking part on the program " were Mrs. Mae Iranian. Mrs. ('ooper, Ml'S. W. L. Blanton, Sara Ixiu Slone and f'harlie Sims. \ duet was sung by Misses Myrtle We>tbu’*y and Collette Griffin. -auv'C.d.Aia^ wichta and cake.-!. y MRS. ADAIR HOSTESS TO BRIIHIE CLUB The Thursday Bridge club was de lightfully entertained during the past, wi'ek by Mrs. R. C. .Adair at her homcj in ('ollege View. Two tables for the players were ar ranged 'in a setting of forsythia and . bryatb-of-spring. A delicious salad course with ac cessories was .served. The guests include; Mrs. John . Ijttle. .Mrs. W. P. Jacobs. Mrs. Thom- Jacobs, Mrs. J. .A. Chanuler, .Mi's. MAK( H .MEETING i . D. C. CHAPTER The Stephen D. l-ee chapter. U. D. C., held the March meeting on Friday aftemoon at Mrs. J. Will Dillard’s home. A short business session opened the meeting, presided over^by Mrs. R. E. Jones. Afterwards, Mrs. A. M. Cope land led an informative iirogram on “South Carolina.” Roll call was an swered with “Outstanding Events of South Carolina.” Sketches of the I brilliant .statesman, John C. Calhoun, land the famous soldier and governor, I Wade Hampton, were given. Two of 1 Henry Timrod’s poems "Spring,” and Russell i “Magnolia Cemetery,” pleased the .Misses I members. The leader paid tribute to j South Carolina’s women, j Dainty refreshments, consisting of sandwiches, nut bread, tea and candy, were .served. Acting as a.s.si.-ttiiig esses" were M'. H. Shands. Mrs F. C. Pinson, Mrs. H, .\!l«s Arva Hehi yr and Atlanta .Journal and one of the fore- j most political writers of the South, hostess ajCsumed office av executive in t ! assi.stant to the postmaster gi'noiUl. Mr.. Branch and the four assistants postma.ster general took the oath of office in a group at a brief ceremony in the presence of Postmaster General James A. Farley and other officials at the department late Monday. I Postmaster General FarU-y had ^ made no prior announcement of thei choice of his aides tint moved swiftly to have them inducted into office, as .aoon as he had fmaJ acceptances. .As executive assistant to the post master general. Mr. Branch ranks j with the assistants postmaster gener-j al but with a wider authority, 'niej executive assistant’s office is one ofj great influence and dignity. Its occu-i pant ^serves as a contact officer be tween the postmaster general and the of congress dealing with legislation effecting the post office department apd between the depart ment and other executive agencies of the federal government and he sits at the right hand of the postmaster gen eral to perform such other duties as may be assigned to him. _ .J_ Mr. Brunch was the recipient of congratulations from many members of the Washington corps of corie- became known M. Mondav night that he had been hon- the postmaster geheraT with I Monday Iored by .Auxiliary of church met AUXILI.XRYJSAMES NEW OFFICERS Sunday afternoon the the Xboinwell .Vlemorial at the--^Home of Peace.” ^ Reports from the various officers The regu- thi.s was I as U. .A. John.sbh. .Mrs. Goyne Simpson. Mrs. Silas Bailey and Mrs. Ii-by Hipp. Yearbook To Sponsor Opera “Ait Evening: With Verdi” To Be Presented Next Monday Un der Auspices of PaC-SaC. On next Monday evening, March 20, the musical drama, “An Evening With Verdi,” wll be presented at the Flor ida Street school. “An Evening With V’erdi” is a play in one act. There are four characters. Signor Giuseppe Ver di and his wife. Signom Giuseppina Verdi, also two singer.s, a soprano and baritone. The dialog of the drama deals with incidents in the lives of the Verdis, something of the happenings at the first performances of the operas of the composer, and many other intere.sting details concerning Verdi and his wife. ^ The .singers who will interpret the operatic excerpts at the performance on Monday evening will be Thelma Ballou and Lyman .Ackley. These ar tists have presented “.\n Evening With Verdi” throughout the country on the better concert and arti.st cours- es iluring the jiast sea.son. Everywhere they have met with the greatest suc cess. .Many cn'tics have declared them to be two of the be.st young artists before the pu’olic today. (Minton music lovers will have an “opiKirtunity of hearing heie in their own town sing ers with a national reputation. Miss Martha Wilbur will interpret the role of (liuseppina Verdi, and W. Frank (juess will have the part of _The roles of these two characlei’.s are "t^lrmuej^ Inter esting and tho.se attending this per formance may be assured of hearing a finished performance by these two people. Miss Sybil Burdvtte, of (Min ton, will play the piano accompani ments. Those familiar with Mis:5 Bur dette’s work know what artistic per formances she gives. The entire drama is costumeil in the best possible manner. The scenery is beautiful. It is a copy of the garden of the Verdi vilhr, Sant Agata, near Paima^ Italy. - The extremely low price of twenty- five cents for adults and hfteen fents for students has been made for this performance. It has been usual for Mi.ss Ballou and Mr, Ackley to pre sent “.An Evening With Verdi” at prices four and five times the amount of this n^dmission price. The perform ance wilr~begin at 8:15. The proiiuction ha.s been brought to Clinton by the PaC-Sa(' staff of Presbyterian college. Reserved seats are on .sale at Hotel (’linton. r The following new books have l:een sdeietf to our rental lihr'ary —10c for three days, or 20c a week: " “Eyes of Ixive,” Warwick Deeping. “TTie Kenftel Mnrder Case,” Van Dine. ^ “Ann Vickers,” Sincl£l|x.Lewis “Flowering Wilderness,” Gals- worty. “The Patch of Blue,” Grace L. HilL “Smanne,’* Johannes Buch- holts. “Inheritance,” Phyllis Bent ley. THE BOOK STORE iiiiTiiiiiiiTiiliiiiiiiinfliH A RACE We have 50 chicks in the Oil Mill yard being fed “S|Murtaa' Starting- Mash. We bought 50 chicks, we still have ^ chicks, and they are three weeks old today. They must weigh 2 pounds each fit "^8 weeks old. Watch the race, CLINTON COTTON OIL CO. Phone 62 Miss Danforth To Return Here f- HOW FAR APART ARE 1 —KgrTi^Mm g THESE CITIES? ^^VlAN¥4aU€s may sepaxate.two^ties> hut l>y long distance telephone they are only a few seconds apart.« Friends and relatives, living in different towns, find it “easy and inexpensive to voice-visit by telephone. Because your voice expresses your personality, it is almost like being there in person. The best way to prove the value of .the tele phone in your daily business and social affairs, is to use it yourself. You will be surprised at the low f cost and pleased with the speed of the service. Just ask the “Long Distance** operator about rates to any city. Southern Telephone and Telegraph Member of Mr. Mc(tuilkin*s Bible College Staff To Teach Class In Personal Work April 2-9. STUDY CLUB MEETS WITH MRS. JAC OBS The Wednesilay Study club meeting Wednesday afternoen home of Mrs. .1. F. Jacobs. Jr. held a at the j showed a satisfactory year lur. progiam was omitted as the time de.signated for the election j of new officers. The following were ,chosen: President, Mrs. W. E. .Newkirk. Vice-president, Mrs. S. P-. Bowles. Secretary, Mrs. Lula_ Jami.'-on. Treasurer, Mrs. F. M. Stulls. Historian, Mrs. L. R. Lynn. Secretary of Foreign Missions, Mrs. Bessie Godfrey. .^cretary of Home Mis.sions, .Miss Mary Adams. Education, ^ Mrs. R./C. Adair read an interesting! Secretary of Religiou.s paper on “Virginia Woolf.” The pro-1 Miss Helen Porter, gram leader for the afternoon. Mrs, H. E. .Sturgeon, gave readings from “The Dime Novel,” by lv<lward Pear son, and discussed “l>eadwood Dick,” a daring dime novel character. The ho8tes.s served a lovely sweet | coui.se with coffee after the program .MRS. MeSWEEN HEADS CENTURY C LUB The annual busines.< meeting of the Century club was held on Tue.sday af- urTioon at the home of Mr.s. John Spratt. In the absence of the presi-l dent, Mrs. C. .M. Bailey, the vice- TEMPERANCE UNION president. -Mrs. John Mc.Sween, pre-j HOLDS .MEETIN(i sided over the meeting, at which time| The business hour of the Secretary of Synodical and Pre.sby-i terial Honre "-‘Mwstonw,—-Mbiia- -Ariine- Daniel. . 1 I Secretary of ' Spiritual "rMfe, Miss! Mildred White. j Secretary of Literature, .\fiss Julia I Porter, ' . , I Secretary of Christ'an Social Ser vice, Mrs. Harr^ l,4iyton. Pastor’s Aid SecreUry, .Mis.s .Mar garet Clary. .Secretary of Social .Activitie.s, Miss Mary White. STERLI.NG SILVER I he Flne«t For Your Table New Beautifal Normandie Pattern Individual Heavy Weight Piece.s of Sterling Silver, Sugar Spoon. Olive Fork, Lemon Fork, Jelly Knife, Bon Bon Scoop, Baby Fork. Baby .Spoon, , etc. Special $1-00 each. Lowest prices in histoiy^’ FRONTIS Jewelry Store, PHILCO Radios & Tubes Snith*s Pharnaqr Woman’s j Christian Temperance union at its last I meeting w’a.s given over largely to the j ' discussion of the seven goals for the i year and how to attain them. The i motion was made and carped to com-• bine the W. C. T. U. prayer group) with the pi’ayer bands of the various churches. Mrs. B. F. Cojieland wa.s ap pointed chairman of the committee to secure at least six subscriptions to “The Union Signal,” which is the national paper. The vice-presidents in the various | churches w’ere reminded that Sunday, i March 19, is world temperance day, and were asked to be re.sponsible for j the worship program at Sunday school i j on that day. V j Attention was also call^ to th»rtl i date for the W. C. T. U. district meet- i ing to be held in Walhalla on March 124. Miss Maiheson, temperance fi'ork- er is to be the principal speaker. Miss Maiheson will bia invited to come to Clinton at an early date td hold a temperance rally. | The following progran^ prepared by the re.-iponsible office of executive as sistant, although it will-- iv^an^ hi? temporary rctircnu'nl from journal ism. ' .Mr. Branch has been identiified prominently with the newspaper pro fession of Georgia for thirty years, having been successively rep**rter, city 1 editor and staff corresporjdent of Tlie Atlanta Journaf for' that period of time, including in the latter capacity his service as Washington correspon dent. He is known as a penetrating political writer and has also had much to with the advancement of the business and agricultural interests of Georgia through his work for The Jouriial. Under the direction <f former Sen ator John S. Cohen, editor of The Journal and Democratic national com mitteeman from Georgia, .Mr. Branch was active in the interests of Presi dent Roosevelt in the preconvention Campaign, "nbUbnly in Georgia but in other states d.f the southeast. After the (hicago convention* Mr. Bianchi was lent by The Journal t* the Demo- i • cratic national committee and he [.served for several months at the New I York headquarters, in charge of a sec tion of the publicity work. 1 Mr. Farley Was in close contact ' with .Mr. Branch as preconvention manager for Mr. Roosevelt and later I as chairman of the national commit- i tee and recently asked Mr. Branch to become his' executive assistant when i he assumed the office of postmaster! general, and Mr. Branch finally gave his consent this week. Mr. and Mrs. Branch have six chil dren. Their' Atlanta home i.s at 1126 McLendon avenue, N. K. Mrs. Branch Miss Kathryn—Danforllu.. extension worker of the ('oliimbia Bible college an<l who was here last fall with Rev. R. (’. McQuilkin, presiilcnt of the col lege, in a city-wide revival meeting, will teach a class in personal work for the young people of the Associate Re formed Pi-esbyterian church the week of April 2-9. All young people of the other denominations in the city are cordially invited to attend this series of studies. The first service will be held Sunday night, Ajiril 2, at 8 o’clock,* and throughout the week at the same hour every night, .A class is being formed for the members of the vari'ous church auxil iaries in the city to he held at the First Presbyterirn church al ai^hour to be' announced later. . All men, of course, ai’e cordially invited to attend any or all of these services at the A. R, P. church and the First Presbyte rian church. .Miss Danforth did a great work among the young people of the com munity lust OtTofim- (luiMng Tlfie ten- (lay union services led liy Mr.-.McQuil- kin, and two years ago .sh<* held quite a .succes.sful series of studies in the book of Romans for the young 'people of the A. R. P. church Hei- coming is b'clng eagerly await ed by^all who have had the jirivilege of hearing her before. will join her huaband later in the year. in Washington SHOE REPAIRING DONE RIGHT ; BY “THE OLD RELIABLE,” OF COURSE. All Work Guaranteed. I-—- ” * CALL US — / WIE DO THE REST. 191 SHOE SHOP ‘The Old Reliable” ' Special Notice We are now a bonded member of (he Florists Telegraph Delivery Asso ciation, which has a mem bership of over 6,200 in cities of the IJ. S, and for eign countries. We are happy to an nounce this guaj’anteed flower-by-wire service to oiif friends of this commu- nity. L^t us explain this service to you. ^ FLOWERS DELIVERED ANYWHERE ANY TIME CLINTON FLOWER SHOP Phone 33 Lowesi Prices In Twelve Years! Keep Your Money at Home by Trading Here SNPWDRIFT, 6 lbs. , Fancy Green LIMA BEANS, Ncr. g- catiaj TOMATOES, No. 2 cans, 4 for PINTO BEANS, 6 lbs. BROOM, 5-Slring, 'Extra value SLICED BACON.: ' Kingan, Lb 53' All Pork SAUSAGE, | rc Lb. ID 25“ Mixed SAUSAGE, t Ac Lb. lU ' l*OKK CHOI’S, t rc Lb. ID,, -'I p- 29^ 25' STEW BEEF, ' orc 3 lbs. LD 19' Fresh HAMS, | rc Whole, lb. 1D 20' CHEESE, 1 71/_c Whole Milk. Ib. 1 1 This Week’s Prizes Will Be: First Prize—8 lb. Kingan Ham. Second Prize—10 16s. Sugar. Third IVize—6 Ihs. Snowdrift. Fourth Prize—5 Ib. Picnic Ham. Fifth Prize—3 lb. Pork Roast. With Each 50c You Spend With Us You Are Given a ('hance To Win a Prize YOU MUST BE PRESENT TO WIN. Baldwin's Grocery “Good TKlngs To Eat’ PhoRca 99 and 100 -t'-i k '