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ill in iiai r«nMBitt.irt||ifcYir^ ■’¥. / JThe Clinton Chronicle, (pinion, S. Thursday^ Mar^' h 1934 Oll^r (Elihtnn (Chrontrlp BaUbHfM Itot 4. WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor apd PubHfber Published Ev^ Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PtlBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Adraio^^: year.$1.50; Six Months 75 cents; Three Mo^s 50 cenu FIntcrcd ss Second Cla.ss Mail Matter at the Post Of||^ at Clinton, S. C. rhrnnicle ^eek* the cooperation of its subscribed and readers—tn« i)ub!ishcr will at all times appreciate wise surprstions aiSd kindiv so- vice. 'n.<‘ C:hronicle will publish letters oS ifeneral intereat when they are not of a defamatory nature. .Anonymous commnmications will.not oe noticitl. This paper is not renponsihle for the riewa or opinions of !ta correspondenta. ^ I - A ■ about being: so ujly, and^ intimated}'be says Ve is going to, go intoWolving around the nioney bill and thta he had taken pictures of worse ) farmi/jg on a large scale,/which isja related school measure, am: looking things than me, byt he didn’t;what He has always wanted to do. j (i) 'Whether an expected defi- I have .any of them, in his show window.! Only three other diamonds^ larger fcit of $900,000 to $1,000,000 June i He showed me the dressing room. I j "^26 car-!3Q ^i^o^utjd be paid froiri current reve- , patted my bald head with hlk comb have ever; been found. The larg- jj,yg ^j. carxied over to next year, and brush. As 1 wanted to/ook the Cullman, holds chief (2) WTrether revenue Will permit pretty as possible, I slipped a few among England s crown Jewels. And finance eight instead of jolts of talcum poMfder oh my face and, anybody thinks it fwhsh to pay ,j.jj^ month school terms, relieveing j rubbed it in with my handkerchief,»J'^Sre sums for a bit of stone, how , school taxes'levied ♦ I don’t think I'ev(<r saw my clothes '^hc money paid for the Jonker dia- run the two-ifionths. h^ng so loose and .shaggy on me; my goes immediately imo circula- ^ ^ _ ; nants bap-e-ed so baJ at the knees 1 for the* purchase of land and j v>neiner a lu per ceni raise reafforry t' lhen,. ' for Jonker’s f.™. • be .ppropnated for state eat-^ - n c .1 „ ■ ,u ! GOMl^-IN Plowed Furrow ! The .senators, getting off to late) He fixed me,in the studio chair and impelling reasons for a were faced with set- c>,oo!l''^^'adjustment of the gold standard of -‘ng the pece on the immediau; sub-.^ ,yoke, then he hid under a black . a 1 is the fact that the world’s ec!.^ as holh appropriation and school 'M if cameraman .i e m . ^^ppiy not increasing while]hills were passed by the house earlier I * / ogan 0 .I.C , anr a y seem . ^ requirements for internation-' in the .session. The employees’ raise to he crawling from trade have increased enormously ] was proposed by the .senate finance A ear Members of the finjmee commit- CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY. MARCH I over the horizon of my right i u . -i »* it - r 1 1- •, VI since the last gold strike. But it is. committee, for the purpose of tickling it a while . , , > j l . ,, also, tL Ln told me to lo,k pleas-' » ^uess when and wher- — ■'•ant. 1 eouldn't think of anything to '‘1 ^ P™siK.ct.ve rave my life that woJld make me look ' Thither day M Austra .an farmer def.c.t would retire .tself as bacic tax pleasant except the recent advance, while plownng. Go. es came m and that an increase of mg over the plowed ground to hunt $o00,00U in revenue estimates since .Money isn’t everything of eour.se. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Frazier, and ot and the redder rny face turned. | <jold, as^'the old prospectors .say, is m 'or of an unu .ual woman while The most remarkable thing about ^Mi.ss Elizabeth Tribble and William . l i i — i--"- the present congress is its lack of re- Adair ar e in Blacksburg today for thcj*^ ^^ for the wrench he 5uiW a piece of giit- the budget was drafted last fail would ^ m.'J.rkablcne.ss. (juinn-Tribble wedding. ^ ‘ • j tering qioartz in a furrow. It. had a allow' raises for siate_teachers and cin- —^ I , ’ J streak of gold in it. He forgot all ployees. __ J The world may not growing, James William Smith, well known, My lips began to feel thick, my eyes to dig j while hn-<;c 1e«dor^ wer7 offiriollv b<-tter, but .1 certamly can’t get any,Kinards citizen, passed away at his were leaking, my specs seemed loose ^ ^id-hoaring quartz on fhcT- i/wf. fho on n worse jhome Tuesday at the age of 75. • -n rny nose and the longv the man' f i-j. which he took oUt $2 200 the . icuavion it wa.s the opm 1 — - [pointedthatlenseatme the hotter I, comniutee rooms and lobby that ^ crease for state employees was likely, ito receive house concurrence if the 'senate amends them to the hou.se bill.! I There were known supporters of the selective lax in the hou.se, but several lea ting rep>*e.sentative.s took the po sition that w’ith a raise for teachers p;-o>V.k'd in the house bill no other fis- jcal,changes should be attempted “this year.’ -■ The repre.sentatives, who enigmat ically voted against county disjam- sarkdT’ahcT nibreITtrihgcht lupJbFtaws; and then memorialized congress to, lower federal liquor taxes, faced the | possibility of another h7*ated bout on the subject with several liquor bills pending. j I ’TS said a “fl’y has a thou^ sand eyes”. Yet even a fly can’t always tell what hit him! So it is with us mortals! An accident can swat us any time, too! But at least we can— ^TN A-IZE Yc»ur>C,TN A Accident PoUcy paw doctoi^, hoepital and nunet* bi^ —and, of coarse, provides for the familT should the accident prove Phone for fatal S. W. SUMEREL /Etna-izer Jacobs Building r t » ^ ' hu. if you have ii you don’t worry so children of Blairs, are the gu'-sts of 1 couldn’t find any place to It^'ave : ^ 'h about other things. |,Mr. and .Mra. J, Rhett Uopeland. ':'V hands and he w'ouldri’t let me cios.s , imy legs, and there I wa.s with 4 limbs! . ' ; ( LIM AIT,—It ( hnngcs i Greenland is getting colder M rs. W'. (h Oxley and little son are ^ and every one of them in my way. <he never wants her,at home from a visit to relatives in j — Virginia. " ; : , ! hut I am ^siire the Mi<!ses Nannelle Blalock and Flor-; lence Rantin have return^ul to in the n<-w spa/iers. KFFK IE.N('Y ( 01’NTS A good iiraclical farmbr bought a sludie.s at ('hiCOra college. ’sure 11 bought I wa.s a-fixing to cry. 'Fht their ,,.1, ,. ,v,.r e''anium seemed to be a uiH s on my Ifivge as onions, and I knew that pic- jre was going to be a “Nick and P'cnx for $h()W a f*‘w years .ago, when h.. neighbor bought a tractor for, . w y, ^ w ■ - -- — .; ilial amount. 'TRe^ Mifr. and Mrs; "Geo. Xor !wtk*^..-He finHldyiknapped has made a Consist- M. E. Bethea and Miss Myra !i<‘arnan .r ..vn ,hir- ivturned yesterday from a two week.- t.rries fill mo.’ ’' Nobody’s Business By Gee McGee rn' ;)rofil out of h:s farm, even dur- iT’7 the di’peessiuri, and his team Horida. still in good hape. Th«‘ “tractor i fa rmer” is bi'oke too much capital i irvested foi. tbi' possible earning | pjwer of th( land. The tractor is on* the scrap heap. So with alltyiM's of business; their* i future and siiecess depends on men' Mike Reports An Inquest • ho “know"'tb»‘ business.” .All the' flat rock, ». G. Martch 1, 19‘M. “loiu f mea-iues” in the vvHudd can- 'deer mr. edditor; ml ^a\e 'liu- inefficient, the waste-' i have bimn ashed by ou'- !>i'igi=t- fi I :n failure. t-ate to nle up a report of the In- qtiess which was h<dl 1 y the T> ji nulT ov<T th«‘ corpse of bud lee diiekin.s Iasi W(‘<'k when he was run ovi r a’ul Killed by a truck or truek.s in the hands of aj.fiuiiy uriliekrlowing .U>,liUv portly after hi I P'; .the next day lie .seni me the proof.s anil fold me he could touch “ ! ’aska is getting waimc'-) scientists I tried my^level he.st to look normal,, ,^j,^ have Ixn n .studying .Arctic ebn- fihotographer ^ hundreii thousand veal's '’go the glacial ice-cap scraped all .V’orlh .America bare of vegetation, as far south as- Kentucky. Ati the ice rnelu-d, tr«*e.s began' to glow in it.s ~rceding path. F-orests are"-a4vai northward into Alaska at the rate of a mile in a hundrt'tl yimrs, hut anci«int hem up and make me lordv fairly de-settlements in Greenland Yiave cent, and he (lid. Hie guy I sent it again denuded of trees and the to was finally convinced by his stenog. that once was fertile is now so J heard, that my photo was really solid the year around, and truly the picture of a human bq- this means that another ■ I polar ice-cap is forming, U» descend • uiMin the northern" lands and once ' more drive man and beast to the tropics, as ha.s happened three times ui the past million years. Lul 1 think 1-shall let |>osterily <!<.> the worrying aix.iut that. E. Mood Smith, O. D. Felder Smith, 0. D. Drs. Smith & Smith OPTOMETRISTS SPEriAflSTS Eyes Eixamined. Glasses Prescribed f.ahoratory for prompt Repiair Service. l."> West .Main Street I’hone 101 GI.IN'ION. S. G. Mi: n’ .MONEY .te’ ’ (ji.r (if his . ;a;ji pi('nl of h:s •tiP 1.--! . {•■in I ' vk u a jn'y. killed. he did(‘ V. I TODAY«nJ t rmnie: s was- h'*!! in tie' c'l y ■ midst of a- large corcoa ' <• m; ic !■; so ' ' w, ;i ' h ■ ! 1 ;i' . .im M' y tti aq,v "'c. In’I- -itro fi • m <uey.’’ liul the gfiitl^iuiati wa. ini :aken, ihcM is plenty of money tin tin hods of a l-vv) ami of 'hi' i-oveiri- friends and rellalives a”*! " ■nTT vvhu-l'. ;■ pending million radi day. For exauii'le. liie bureau of I n f' a- l I'nriting a' U a hing- mike Glark, rf(L was chime to lak- t, I m i.u-v turning out tf. k.VMMMMM), down the tisstimoney^as he was tb. C n ,.f cuirerny tu give to the F(*(i- only man pressent who could rite vem. (■''ll I-U'.'crv’e bank- in cx' hange lor f d which was Iran.-ferred from <‘rs Ifi'se in-titutions t-o tin* trea-ury. iMNK PARKER SlOCKBi^lDOE Three Hurdles ' Still Face Solons V " and .susiiieious ]»eei*Ie, and it w packed noboddy but his kinfolks got inside a-tall. yore corry spoiident mr. well and rail fast, it was as follow- i MW li.'ls Will be in denomina- t -o (if ntHiUU and are .pot intended f •. r 1'« Ilia''on but will l:e in the •ij!t.' of tile l'">(i<'tal Kosei ve Hanks. ,A -mart matbemalieian b:is fig>- d end to end, each .-ix inchcvs DIGKENS- N(w“AVdi^k “^Vl!o ’-ead' I)ic‘k<”’ any 'tnux ask'>l the he.'id of 'be eireiihiting de partmertt of the New York pu,blic li brary not long ago. “ 1 iveryiiody,’’ was the atiswei'. “luc!. Yes’ works Ure in constant demand. \V<‘ have hundred:; of sets of them, and tiny have "to lx* reliound on the avi rage once a year.’’ I 1’bere is an elernal htiuian charm jaboijj, tin* novels of Gharh's Hiekens, and iLwill be g.oo;J news to everylnxiy w'bo was brought up on Dlcken.s, as 1 was, that a m‘W Dickens’ book i.s to be Ipublislnvl soon. He dii'd in ltt70. Hi.s What To Do With Deficit Ikg (^ues- ff*. i Now llefor** (General Assembly N(w 'taxes Talked. t'oluinliia, Feb. 1 .’•aired bv the .'tat( i. ’Ihree r(>v(*riUe liu: I’e (juestion confront the legislature thi.s weivk Tri us race against time’to sine die ad- joiirnuient. .S in. me red down under senate de-' bate la.st week, the pioblenis, re- Bronchial Irritations Need Creosote For many years our best doctors have prescribed creosote in some form for coughs, colds and bronchitis, knowing how dan* gerousTt is to let tliem bang on. GreoniiiDion with creosote .irul six other lughly inifiortant medicinal elc.iieiits, (juicL- ly and elfectively stops couclis and colds that otherwise niiglif lead to-erioirs trouble. Cr»(.)inulM'in is pow('iful in the tfcauacat of AeoMs aiul coiiriis. yet jt is ab-olot Jy_ barmless and is pliavuit and ca-y to take. Your ow n driiggi-l guaraiilet s (j cdnul- •foo by refunding your money if you are not relieved after taking ( rcurnul-i ':! as directed. Beware the cough iir cold that hangs on. .Always keep (ireornulsioa ua baad fur iinslant use. (aJv%; ' \\.!AT 1)0 P. S. Jeanes LEGAL PAPERS NOTE AND MORTGAGE ( ROI* MORTGAGE im J; or SAEK REA I. ESTATE MORTGAGE REAL ESTXTErTITLE l.ABOR ('ONTUACT TRESPASS NOTICE Me Haven't the Form You Need. W'e ('an Print It. Chronicle Piib. Co. Piihlishers : Printers (’all 71 .1. i. f I <.;i; that pure ih.M* bills [org. would lead ont-balf miles. some three am: iH’rt brown being swore, leslifide in tlu'si* words: “i was .■yetting in tlie d’Ug stour and when i looked o’j* i aw that the truck was out of sight, and bud lee wa.s un the ground, and isurviving child, Kir lleury Field- said to my.relf, looky here, soinebod-i Dickers, was kilb^d by a motor-, dy has run ovi’r sumehodefy.” thisD’y'’^** Isindou just befon* ( hrist- lowei was struck out as he was not a to tell what ht* said or what lioddy els(* said, so he diderit nothing else of his own a-eord. mas. With .'^ir Henry’s d<‘ath the ban any- ha.s be«*n lifted against publishing, know "The Life of Our Lord,’’ Dickens’ j story of the Iif(* of ('hrist, written fur, 1 Ins children. ! I No one can read I)icken.s without ; said; Color..oin Spring Hats And There Are New Shapes to Choose From Inung conscious of his strong religious MU. U0PE:U .SPEIAKS .'^((•retary Uoper, a member of the' Picsidenl’.s eabinel. docs not believe j nvrs. judd jones being swore ^ th* fucsent program of the Gavenb.|“when i lA)()ked up ^rcini niy wyasli-luK no nl IS toward the coinpb-te .social- i thought to myself it seems hke i that it is the izatiori of .Ameru a.- the .stiffliiig of someboddy is lying (lown on ^he , ^ devout (’hrislian. who wrote 1(1 iividual irritiative and the redue- ground, and by the time i got *heie,, ^,.jv;itest of all storit^s to lu n of everybody to/thc position of they had toted him off. a dep" ndent of the ^late I'l 1 litx. f 11«vv va 1 ]! X'" ked.’ 1 newer saw no part of the truck but its dust, h ithe Ghristian mind in more simple, in-' ' tei esting fashion than anyone else ha.s question will continue to said Mr. Koper in a be and must of hit him tolling it. recent lick, my uncle, jini, g«jt killed that-a-way once.’ (iown allso. she .W-US c:ii:eq DA'I'ED—irh<‘ae Nira Girls I wondei- whether all the girl Irabies ‘{■■ech, “wlictlur the tCderal Gov- errmunt under this administration plans or p (ipos( s to increase per- m.ru nt .v imreaucracy and Federal our poleesman Ixung swore, testifide^,oing to thank their parents as they who an* being christeneil “Nira’ are c' ' ’’ol of bj-.ness, to the exlt'nt of (j( 'lioying our economic sy.stem by (d ”1 nating p’of ts in biisini'ss, and r! ;s subrnciging ami grow uj). It doesn’t make .so much dif- i ft*r(*nce vyt h'Ix'y.s. Men are not likely i :to grow seiEsitive about their agi's. I nhnemlH*r when I was a boy theix? asfollowers; "i was asIiH'p in tin mayer's offis, waiting on him to come back from dinner, and when i heard imprisoning «Hu* foam ring, i apeered it and by that human initialivt*, acknowledged to Im* time, the big 10-ton truck with trail-jvvere any number of middle-aged men xiu <t. a>-.ct in ihePiiiilding of/‘''i^ htiehed onto same must of benn vvho Ixne the initials “W.H.H.” They' our rourili y and thi* developing <)f^i*'’> mile.s down the road from the spe(*d ’ hu(l tK*eii nameir for William Henry j our iraiic and c()nimeix:e. Gertainly d "'as travetling, i nevvei saw it, but ILirrison, and that dat(*d!them as hav- flo one \vj,th-.lhe ttrujier knowledge of Kot the di iver .s..finger-prints on a b.i-. )a>rn within a few years of e-indiliois can tTlt^iret ur^e~“Re-. »i«da peeling which he flung out near ig jo ^nd there were many more, 4he wreck.’’. younger men, named “Elmer V," L Sometbing.' W.hich meant that they had mr. mike Clark, rfd, being swore, in the early days of the made the followering statement: “my iqvii \var and were named for Lj^u- wifc passed me the gravvy ami ju.st tenant Elmer Ellsworth, the first then 1 saw a big red or green or Xorlliern 'officer killed in that con- black truck, out of the window, pass fl,ct.-Most of them came from Ghau- over a boddy on the ground which muqua county. New York, where Ells- *<ivery I'logram such an intention or iihjectivt on the par), qf the present acinimistration. To think ulhprwise 1- to say that a government under which jH'ople have advanced most • nd attained most should he ex changed for a form under which |h*o- ple advance least.” We hop<* that Mr. Roper spoke with authority and full knowledge and endoi-enienl of the responsible head* of the Fedt'ral (government. His point of view is correct—one that nec'ds to be headed now. was going at least 75 miles |m.t hour, worth cairn* from, and she said looky yonder, it looks ijut the girl named “Nira” tmlay is like he has killed a anninial of semu* jr<,ing to U* approaching forty in 197-t, kimf, and it turned out to be the re- ^nd it’s a safe bet that most of them mains of this corpse, that is about [will have changed it to “Nora”—or all i saw.* 10 Ye^s Ago •f Interest E'ccin The Chronicle, •r Fehrurary 28, 1924. yoiea trulie,. mike Clark, rfd, corry .<«|KincIent. .more likely to something quite difler- !ent—lH*fore then. DIAMONDS—E'dr E'arm r— 1 Hundreds of thousan<iB of Ameri- A Trying Ordeal jeans mu.st have heard the late Rev. It became necessary a few days agO|Kushell Conway deliver hia famous for me to send a fellow a photogmph, lecture, “Acres of Diamonds.” Dr. • of my.<telf, including my entire ana-1 Conway told the story of a man who a lifetime traveling in search " ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ 'tomy. I don’t think 1 ever had my Miss Maude Pearson of this city hss “pitchil!r took” before. 1 have 6 rea- spent of fortune, only to come back home, aeoepted a position with the firm of;sons for not wanting to be photo-1broke and dispirited, and discover a B. L. King. graphed, had all 6 of them art^—I’m |Just too ugly to appear on anything R. permanent. A eontract haa been let to J, Tucker by the board of directors of .the, ■ GUnton-Laurens Bois-Terre country' I picked out a first-claas picture elnb' for the rebuilding of the club gallery and sneaked in. I didn't want fropertj recently destroyed by fire. Mesars D. E. Tribble, C. W. Stone, anybody to find out what. I was up to. 1 mustered up enough courage to tell the man my buaineea and apologized. diamond mine in his own back yard. . I was reminded of that story when J I readx ^tbe dispatch from Pretoria, South Africa, telling how J. J. Jonker, a poor prospector, had found a pure blue-white diamond as aa a hen's egg, which he sold at once for $315,- 000. To be sure, he hadn't trav^ed very far, but he had been hunting for Mr. aad Mrs. P. S. Jeanes and /an’iily, He said that 1 ought not to worry' diamonds for eighteen years. Now, at ...L I Ihis IK the mast colorful '.mep’s wear neason you ever saw! And just to keep you on the right styie ir;ick, we have a complete (“ollection of all the new hats in all the new colors. and up Copeland - stone Company Clinton, S. C/ A t' > X t liiTwLaiiftiwiiiiiiiiiiiifi'tafi'wiWin -i' Wr'rS'