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1 , '/ / / ? ■/ t.. The Clinton Chronicle, Clinton, S. Thursday, Avril 19, 19^ J. C. Penney Co. Has Anniversary • ’ Was it luck ? Ask James Cash Pen ney about his phenomenal rise from a dry goods clerk at $^27 a month to the chairmanship of the ooard of th? J. C. Penney conrfpany, which last yes^ did a business of $I78,790j900. He*U tell you it-was hard work and saving. **1 know that it was not lock.** he said recently. “I distinguish between hsek and-opportanity. Yet’ I realise He went to work for T. M.' Callahan j in the Ideal dry goods store and it was | here that the idea of building up a, system of stores first took shape. Mr. | Callahan and. his partner, Mr. John-^ ,son, were at tlwit time engaged in ere-* lating the first partnership system of j dry goods stores, and young Penney • 'had th'e vision to see that this part- ■hership idea had unlimited possibili ties. He accepted a one-third interest in a store which he and Mr. Callahan and Mr. Johnson opened in Kemmerer, The sweepstake prizes are all decid- Wyoming, and shortly afterward,. ed. The usual stories—“I dont know when Mr.'Callahan and Mr. Johnson what I’ll do with the money”—havej decided to separate, Mr. Penney,come and gone. There are thousands] bought a full interest in the stores, of disappointed ^ticket holders. A few, they had operated at Kemmerer. Rock lucky ones. They turned a big golden- Springs and Cumberland. Hiese three drum in Dublin one day, picked out the j stores were the nucleus of the present lucky numbers. And that was that un-, nation-wide organization. Today, 32 ^i] the race was run. years later, nearly 1,500 department The speakeasies no longer compete! “You see, our customers have come back, yes,” said the president. ^“We see obr dining rooms full. It is pos sible now to eat like a human being in.<tead of a beast, ^u^how many re member how to do so '’‘Even now,, this last week I have seen a party drink that stuff^ that gin -and orange juice from the soup to the ^lad and then the ices,” cried another. . . . Two or three years is the time that give to the American public to learn once again, to eat properly and to take adequate time. “From 6:30 to 11 p. m. is the appropriate time for dining,” said another. “Then we can cook with civilization.” .stores bear the name of J. C. Penney. Mr. Penney gives full credit for the Tipping is an ol<Fcustom. And, we might add, an annoying one. One hotel J. C. PE.NNBY tKat hard work alone is not toTaakc a mah^cce.<rsfttl. Ibuiy saen have worked hard and conscientioasr ly and still failed to achieve business success because they lacked viskm, singleness of purpose and the cooper ation of others.” ' "Trust in hard work" is an oft- repeated precept of Mr. Penney’s. "My whole life ha> been given to the selec tion and training of young men and women,” he said. “I beLteve it the duty of older (Ksople to share experience with them. I wish I knew how to make them understand what I mean when 1 tell them to put thetr trust in hard work.”' Mr, Penney’s first job was as sales man in a dry goud.s store in Hamil ton, Mo., where he received 125 for a trial period of eleven months. The sec ond year he was paid S200. As th:rd year aiqiroached his health ed and he was ordered West by his doctor. In I>enver the best job he could find paid him she donars i week. Soon afterward he started his first independent busines.s venture by ope*;- ing a butcher shop in Longmont. Colo rado. Becau.se he refused to bribe the chef of the local hotel with a pint of whiskey a week, he lost the hotel trade, and since the hotel furnished most of the business in the town, he soon afterward lost the butcher shop. success of the company to his a-ssoci- adverti^s that patrons are re- ates. He said recently, I quested to refrain from tipping, since | much to my business associates that'employees are paid more than a! am sometimes at a lo.s-s ijiving wage. The head waiter actually' Iguish what it is I owe to mysHf. runs after people who have left tips— cause of the partnerehip plan on which ^ ^ the company was founded. Mr. Pen- advertises that you don’t ney is known the country over as the.^^^^ ^ ^ “Man mth a thousand partner^ Hr. Penney retired^ eannot accept tips! the company in 1917 and became chairman of the board of directors. He was succemled in the presidency by; Helen E. Hughes, svelte brunette, Eiarl Corder Sams, a man whom ^ ' looks as lovely as many of Holly- had hired ten years before in store wood’s sUrs. But, although Miss No. 1 at Kemmerer. j Hughes is secf^ry and member of nunfvwritary - the board of directors of one of the of the Penney company Is^ipg celi^; ^rge motiba csttlpliwifilr^the brated in nearly 1500 stores from closest to Hollywood she has been tn ' was on six separate occasioiis that I she packed, ready to go. And every time some one of importance breezed ■^1* .into New York and she had tp cancel I the trip. ' • Wadiington Meet, ^Bunk, hooey or baloney” is the Dr. E. P. Jones, professor at Pres- way you’d receive it if you saw it on byterian eollef^, who for several years ; the stage or in the movies. But it ac- jha.s held the position of vice-^airmah tually happened in a New York su- |of the I^urens County Red Cross or- burb. Edward Barrett in a house iganiution, wa.s sent to Washington, flooded, with deadly fumes from a de- U. C., to, attend the national conven- fective furnace tried to telephone for lion, which met Aprir9.12. Ihelp. He fainted immediately after he Dr. Jones secured for the state of removed the receiver from the hook. South Carolina a junior Red Cross'When the telephone operator got no worker who will be particularly active reply to her “Number please?” she in rural schools. This work among ni- notiCied a tester who sent a repairman ral districts, Dr. Jones said, will aim to the bouse. The repairman and two to utilize the soctaf and humanitarian police found Barrett uneonacious, took possibiljties of young people- j him to a hospital. He lives! ^ For fifteen years there has been a skeleton at the annual feast of the MeSween To Speak I A#- ^ mi laavaaa Headwaiters association. It was 1 Iv1« altlllC < prohibition. But the 1934 reception iand ball was all smooth sailing. Re- Dr. John MeSween has accepted the peal was here, and its spirit was gen- invitation of Colonel George S: Roach, uine. At last the headwaiters, or president of Georgia Military college, “Maitre D’s,” as they like to call MilledgevUIe, Ga., to deliver the hac-* themselves, find that their hotel din- calaureata sermon there on June 3. *ing rooms are once more well filled. The steel work of the Knickerbocker Village low-cost housing project is up some six^stories or more, and occu- pany is slated for December'of this year. Knickerbocker Village replaces the old “Lui^ Blocks” of the lower East side, and is planned as a com munity of medium rental apartments for white-collar workers. Joanna MiU News Goldville, April 13.—Mrs. Ollie Mae Medlock of Aiken, spent a few days last week with her mother, Mrs. Re becca Fuller. Mrs. Mamie White, Miss Mildred Workman, Miss Mable Aldred, and Addison visited Magnolia gar- Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Hays and chil dren and Mr. and Mrs. George Craft visited friends in Laurens Sunday. Calvin Poag of Belton, spent the week-end with his parents, ,Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Poag. Misses Pauline and Norma Long of Newberry, spent Sunday with their sister, Mrs. Horace Poag. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Clark ahd Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Clark spent Sunday in Winnsboro. Mrs. Clarence Fulmer spent thCpnst week in Lyman. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Higginbothan, Mias Eugenia Livingston and Miss Christine Lyl^ of Anderson, were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Earcie Brown. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Sweat and son, Lester,^ and Mrs. James Motes and daughter, Frances, visited Magnolia gardens Sunday. Announ6ement8 Charges for insertion in this column will be as follows: For National Offices 67.50 For State Offices 5.00 For All County Offices ^ , not enumerated below ... 5.00 County Commissioners 3.00 Magistrates for Laurens and Clinton 6.00 All other Magistrates 3.00 Where announcements are made prior to May 1, the right is reserved to omit the entire column from time to time if limitations of space justify it. Terms are cash. > . abide by the results of the Democratic^ primary. JOHN D. W. WATTS. I hereby .announce myself a candi date for Supervisor of Laurens Coun ty and pledge myself to abide by the results of the Democratic primary. A. RHETT MARTIN. I here^by announce myself a candi date for the oHice of Supervisor of Laurens^county and pledge myself to fdiide by the results of the Demo cratic primary. T. O. HIGHSMITH. FOR GAME WARDEN I hereby announce myself a candi date for Game W’arden in Laurens County and pledge myself to abide by the results of the I^mocratic pri mary. R. MILLER BROWN. I hereby announce myself a candi date for Game W’arden in Laurens County, subject to the result of the Democratic primary. A. B. GALLOWAY I hereby announce myself a candi date for the office of GaiAe Warden in Laurens county and pledge myself to abjide by the results of the Demo cratic primary. J. F. SATTFRWHITE IJiereby announce myself a can- 8, ebiiBty, and pledge myself to abiHe by the results of the Democratic pri mary. M. A. (GUS) CANNON I hereby anhounce myself a candi date for the office of Game Warden in Laurens county and pledge myself to abide by the results of the Demo cratic primary. S. EVERETT MARTIN. I hereby announce myself a candi date for the office of Game Warden in Laurens county and pledge mysOlf to abide by the result of the Demo cratic primary. . R. JUD LANGSTON. I hereby announce myself a candi date for the office of Game Warden in Laurens county and pledge myself to abide by the results of the Demo cratic primary, SIDNEY A. LEE. I hereby announce myself a candi- FOR MAGISTRATE (At Mountville) I hereby announce myself as a can didate for Magistrate of Hunter Township, at Mountville, subject to the results of ihe Democratic primary. J. L. DICKERT. FOR MAGISTRATE ^ (At CliBtoa) I hereby announce myself as a can didate for re-election as Magistrate of Hunter Township, at Clinton, subject to the results of the Democratic pri mary. H- R- FULLER. Bounty co.mmissioner ' I hereby announce myself a candi date for County Commissioner of Lau rens County, subject to the results of the Democratic primary. E. PRANK ANDERSON. FOR SUPT. OF EDUCATION I hereby announce myself as a can didate f^r County Superintendent of ject to the result of the Dembemic primary. MILTON A. WriLSON. E. J. Willili»l«m i. « p.U«t L,ureil. Newberry hospital, where he under^ went an operation for appendicitis Friday. Friends of Miss Mary Chapman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Chap man, will be sorry to leam that she underwent an operation for appendi citis Saturday at the Greenville City hospital. County and pledge myself to abide by the results of the Democratic pri mary. CHAUDE L OWINGS. FOR SUPERVISOR I hereby announce myself a candi date for re-election as Sujiervisor of Laurens county and pledge myself to FOR PROBATE JUDGE I hereby announce myself a candi date for the office of Probate, Judge of Laurens County and pledge myself to abide by the results of the Demo cratic primary. THEODORE B. SUMEREL. ^ Having entered upon a short term as Judge of Probate of Laurens coun ty under'an unrestricted appointment by Governor I. C. Blackwood, I here by announce myself a candidate to succeed myself in the same office and pledge myself to abide by the results of the Democratic primary. ROSS D, tOUNG. I hereby announce myself a candi date for Judge of Probate of Laurens county and pledge myself to abide by the result of the Democratic primary. J. WADDY THOMPSON. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I hereby announce myself as a can didate for the House of Representa tives from Laurens County, subject to the rules and regulations of the Dem ocratic primary. PHIL D. 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