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Sev«‘al Trustees Have Been Monbers Of School Board For Many Years Others Have Been Appointed In Recent Years. Representative Group Directs Development of Local System. SPURGEON W. SUMERBL By Louise Bailey Spurgeon W. Sumerel, one of tbe truste^ of the Clinton public schools, was Ocotber 20, 1886, in Clin ton. He attend^ the Oiinton fraded ecAiools and graduated from Presbyte rian coUea^ in 1906. After finisUng P. C. he taught at Coronaca for one year. _ From 1907 to 1910'he was a mer chant with his father.. Then ^r. Som- erel held the position of town clerk and treasurer from 1910 until 1918. Mr. .Boyd married Miss Corinne Huggins of Dariitigton. They have two sons, Hubert and Hansel. here for long period of years. He Dtiii lOlV'hi'iiJ^id'in thi’ amy^“*«» Pr^^ri- Upon his return home he went into the mercantile businees as the head of ofM of Clinton’s leading eloihing stores. In 1925 he became local repre- aentatiye for the Aetna life Insurance company, in which e^paeity he haa 'made ma potataading record. addition to hia bnsinees life, Mr. Smaerri takes an active .past in any enterprise in behalf of the communi ty’s welfare. He it a member of Che American Legion, Chamber of Com- mmee, Rotary club, a trustee of the Clinton public schools, a deacon in the First 'Baptist church, and the super intendent of its Sunday school. Mr. Sumerel can be counted upon to do hie part to make the community a suc cessful and happy town. In 1923 Mr. Sumerel married Mfsi Marie Vacu^n of Belton. Their fam ily consists of two daughters, Virginia and BeUy- Jean. . - BUTLER HAMPTON BOYD By EUi<^ Dobbins, and Mae Dicus. Butler Hampton Boyd, chairman of the^ board of trustees of the Clinton echools, was born in the Hopewell sec tion of Lanins county, the oldest of W. W. HARRIS By W. P. Baldwin ' A native of Clinton, Mr. Hams is the only son of the late Dr. William Richard Harris, and Carrie Booser Harris, and also a grandson of Dr. J. J. Booshr, one of Clinton's pioneer citisens and practicing physicians «,"r. of th« city iihool.. WaUaee Boyd. He attended the Wads worth aoho^ through grammar and high school. Then he entered Wofford college and graduated with an A. B. degree in the class of 1900. After hay ing saeeeasfuUy taught in the public schools of the state for several y^rs he came to Clinton in 1906 and ac cepted a position with M. S. Bailey 4c Son, Bankers. Later he was president of the First National bank of ^is city. He served on the board of trus tees of the city schools as chairman over a period of tweirty years. At the time he began serving on the board oi trustees there was only one schdot building in Clinton, now known as the Academy Street school. Stnee mak ing dinton bis home he has been ac tive in social as well as school ^atrt. He it a member of the KiwmnM dub, Knights of Pythias, Chamber of Com merce, Masons, and has also taken quite an ,active pait in the North an ancestry and is a member of the Thomwell Memorial church. Mr. Harris entered the Thomwell orphanage in 1902 and received his early education there and at Presby terian college. His first position was with the Lau- nns Advertiser at Laurens. After, a short while he returned to Clinton as manager of Tha Clinton Chronicle. Shortly afterwards The Chronicle was purchased from Hs owners by Mr. Har ris, H. D. Rantin, Arthur and Allis Lee of Laurens. In 191*6 he became sole owner of The Chronicle and since that time has operated The^ChronicIe Publishing company, puUisWrs of The Chronicle. • ^ In 1926 he married Miss Cornelia Bethea of Dillon. Mr. andjfrs. Harris and their daughter, little^domelia Be thea Harris, jirs now' living on Cen tennial strwt. He has served as president of the Chamber'of Commerce, Kiwanis club, member of the county board of educa tion and jpfietnber . of city council for several terms. He is now a mem ber of the board of trustees and ex ecutive committee of the Tborawdl oiphanage and a member of the bojsrd president^ of the Laurens County Med ical society, and he served three terms as ah ofheer in the State Medical association. Dr. .BaUey has served the Clinton public schools as a member of its bo%rd of trustees for twenty yean, being secretary of the board the great er portion of this time. He has always shown great interest in the schools and bas been a large factor in the growth of the system. He liTa member of the First Baptist church of Clinton and has been a member of ks board of /leacons for 27 yean. He was a charter member and one of the first officen of Clinton Lodge Knights of Pythias and is also a Mason. He has always taken an active interest in the civic and religious activKies of Clin ton and laurens county. Dr. Baiiey married Miss Julia Mc Neil in 1900. She died in 1907, leaving three children: Agatha, Lewis and Walk^. In 1910 be marreid Miss An nie Drummond of Lanfocct Their six children kre Drummond, Mary Ella, Fmnees, Julia, Aimie Rogen and Frank. . CHEMISTRY CLASS llAKES ANNUAL Good Conduct In VISIT TO LAURENS GLASSFACTORY Local High Students Journey To N^ighborins: City Where They Learn Much About the Manufacture' of Glass. ^ School Is Stressed By Louis Murphy Every pupil of Clinton High school, the mem^rs of the faculty, and many By Margaret Hughes itric cutter which cut the thick liquid!®^ people that visit our school For th. p«t y».r, the chemU-1 in the ri,ht proportion. I f ^ tr* C1.M <5 the Clinton High nchooh In the firet moW thereeeived ^ has looked forwiKnl to and enjoyed The 'ChromePT is published weekly and has a large civeulation in Clinton a|^ this section the county. Those employed on the paper are H. C. Lay- ton, J. R. Holland, E. L. Holland a^ Miss Faye-Adair. CASSIUS MERMBR BAILEY By Tench Owens Cassius Mercer Bailey, son of Mer cer Silas 3ailey and Mrs. Rosanna Lydia Bailey, was bom November 22, 1876, in Clinton. After attending Pres byterian college, he graduated with an A. B. degree from Davidson col lege, North Carolina, in 1896. In the Mme year Lydia Mill, named in memory of his mother, was estab lished by his father. He became treas urer and manager, and in 1926 became president and treasurer and continues in th^ position today. .. He married Miss Eloise Davenport of Norfolk, Va. They have three chil dren: Corinne DavenpoK (Mrs. Brew er Dixon), Lucy Eloise (Mrs. William Marshall), and Florence Jacobs. Mr. Bailey has lived in Clintoq prac tically all his life and has always tak- sn an active part in ihs^. ciyic life of the town. He is a former pr^sicient of the Rotary club and the Chamb4T of an annual visit to the Laurens glass factory. At the time the manufacture of gllws is taken up in class, the trip,is amtnged, which makes this particular patr;t of the ^rk more interesting and practical. Upon arrival at the factory, we were intmduced to the superintendent, who acted asvour guide. Due to his knowledge of the process, the expla nations were more iikeresting and easier to' understand. We were first taken to the ware house where the raw materials are stored and mixed. Here we learned that 600 pounds of sand, 284 pounds of sodium carbonate (soda aeh) and 75 pounds of lime were weighed out in a larf6 btrrel, whidi was wheeled upon a pair of scales. After the oorrecit measurements were made, the materials were dump ed into a huge pan, where they were it, .h.p.. and th,ii it wa. «lea»d.by **'1?^ ^ in the halls and on the .stairs. Much the automatic openingbf the mold. ' Next, the bottles ate taken by elec tric automatsJinto a mold wh^ the letters and Writing ate impressed. While in this '^old three blasts of hot ah’ are turned on them. When bottles are released from this, automatic arms pick them up> and place them upon^the moving^^elves while they are red hot. The bottles are slowly passed into a temporary furnace from the shelves and from there they go into the “an- confusion is aroused by the conversa tion that is carvi^ oh there. Surely, the groups that gather here do not mean to be rude and interrupt those in the classrooms nearby. Not only in the morning do we find this but also at recess and between periods. If we must carry on our conversations could we not just as well carry them on out side? If the weather does not pemdt this we should be more ordfrly about it. . ' " ’v Everyone as an individual should nealing procese.” This process is noth-1think of this question: “Are w'e mak ing except a long oven where the hot ties are tempered. When they first enter the o\en the temperature is 1050 degrees and after staying in there for seven or eight hours the bottles come out at a tenuperature of 220 degree's. When this. process is oyer the bot tles are completed as far as the mik ing process goes. They are inspected by boys four at a time, und|r puarple thoroughly stirred and mixed. If the • lights called mercury vapor lights glaes was to be ccriored, the necessary chemicals, whkh were irf^the form of a powder, were added. This large mix ture of materials is called a “batch” and pQodu^s 12 ordinary coca-cola bottles. ' * The batch was then poured into a huge construction called a mixer. Hd^e the materials were again qiixed by a stronger pressure, after which the main part of the. work begins. The “batch” was conveyed from the mixer on belts to a huge cement fur nace, which had a temperature of 2800 deigns centigrade. Due to the fact that ordinary coal does not produce enough heat to give that temperature Omimeroe. At present, be is an elder 1 to the furnace, the factory manufac ^ ^ tanooga, Tenn.^ gnahiating aa an Broad Stieat MatMist church, aerv-4-M. D. in 1898. Ha returned to hit na- ing for a number of ydars as super- intaadent of the Sunday aobooi, and U DOW <m die board of stevanls. ICr. Boyd is aeeretary and treasurer of the Citiaeiie BnUdhlg and Loan as- eoeiatiOQ and preiddent of the Peoples Bonded Warehouse of this city. During his resideiite here fie baa always been one of the ci^’s most oulataaAng cidxens, ahmya taady at any timalto contribute his part in any thing pertaining to the wrihua of the dty a^ eommnni^. . DR. T. L. W. BAILEY By Frances Simpson Thomas Lafayette Walker Bailey, M. D., was bom near Clinton, August 9th, 1870, a son of the late W. Frank Bailey, a brave- Confederate soldier who was wounded Hve timea in the battles of t^'war. His mother was Agatha Trances Walker Bailey. Dr.- BaUey attended fiivt an old field school in a log house with slabs for benches, later going to tuition sdiools at WaCerioo^ and Clinton. He acquired his early medical 4^tlcatton in the U. S. Grant oniveisity at Chat- dve community and began the prac tice of medkine at Clinton. He was a post-graduate student in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York in 1899, in the Battinifore College of Physkians and Surgeons in 1903, and in the New York Polyclinic in 1915 and 1918. He pracriced his profession at CSinUm eontanuoasly since 1893 and through ail these years has served faiithfiUly the sk^ and suffering of the eommunHy. He has'^been honored by being elected in the First Presbjrterian ohurcK, and a ilwmUl^r of the board of trustees of the Clinton public schools, Thomwril orphana^^, and Presbyterian college. He has been a mepiber of the board of trustees of the schools for twenty yeir^ and has always had the best interests of the schools at heart. Mr. - Bailey is loved and respected by the citizens, among whom he has lived practically ali bis life. Local Students Win In County Contests By Christina Sowers CUnton Hi|h took her share in the county eonteata’ held this year. The winners of the various, contests are as fpHows: Debate: Adelaide Robeys and Bill Wade. ' Algebra: Roy Johnson, W. P. Bald win and Tendi Owens. Biology: Elliott DoUmds, -W. P. Baldwin and Ernest Hipp. _ French: Sara Frances Baidwinr. . We two pupils to enter the state seWari^p eont^ Madeline Caasa- nova and Louise Cumbers, lliere are four membera entering the commer cial contest: EbrUne Copriand, Mar-; caret Hughes, Modeene Finney, and (ThrUrtina Soimrs. ures its own gaO to do this work. The gm is made in a large brick furnace by heaing soft coal with a limited supply of air. The various colored jjrases issue through the floors and fill the air with a burning odor. Colored men are envployed to carry on this work of making the gas and tending the furnaces as the heat and work 4s so intense, an ordinary man could not stand the strain. ^ The air used to make the gas must be superheated before it'Is conviyed into the furnace. 'After the materials are finally put into the main furnace and everting is in readiness, the “batch” is.hnime- (ttately melted and forms a red hot liquid. The class was closely observing the inaide of the furnace when W. C. Baldwin nudged Archk Sam Adair and remarked, “Say, Archie, I won der if its this hot down ’yon^r’; if it is. I'm sure going to live-better.” Which, of course, was a good ?resolu- tion for “Dub” to make. To go on with bur observation: We descended a pair of stairs and made our way ..to * position practically un der the furnace. Here was an im mense mold, into which poured the red ho\ liquid (whkh is nothing but melted glass).' Only enough glass to make one'bottle was allowed to enter a mokL This was cared for by an elee- ' ^ , \. ■■ Later, they are givei^^e “hot-shot” test. This means,they are tested by plunging them into boiling water and then into col^ water. The difference betwetjh ilw^temperature of the kinds of ^ateV^s 72 degrees. Nex^tbe bottles are given the pres sure test, which gives them a pressure of 1000 pounds. Although the Coca- Cob| company only exposes them to 45 pounds of pressure the factory must take every precaution. After all the tests are completed the bottles are packed in boxes and placed into waiting cars which usually hold from 240 to 890 grosses. 240 grosses ^equal 32,500 bottles. This many bottle^ ^y fiWs half a car box, but the restriction is placed on the number by the railway company,. ~ ^^ter seeing the bottles readj^ ^ carried away, we visited the wire- house where the bottles are stored. Here there was nothing but boxes up on iboxcs of bottles and jar.s of every shape and size. All the jars and bottle.s arc made in the Same'way but while we were there they were making a batTfh of coca- a)Ia bottles. The-only difference in tha making .of various kinds of jars and bottles is the composition and the md<k they are shaped and lettered in. ing a favorable impression on the vis itors that coma to our school?” To many of them we do no-t. Every vis itor that tTOmes to Clinton High leaves eFther.-vnth a gopd or bad impression. In^bapel are we showing the proper pect to speakers? When we have visitors- is when we should be on our best behavior. Do we like for anyone to go away and say that the pupils of Clinton High are rude? Let us re member that at any time, if you are~ rude, other people get the impression that yqu have >had no good home training. Do wa wish for our bad deeds to be reflected on our parents? ' Each of us as an individual should resolve^ to conduct him.self in a more orderly and well-behaved manner bolih in school and in life. Did You Know That ^ By Margaret Brice- 'While we kre mentioning outstyhd- ing4>eople and events we have a pe culiar honor to call to your attention —that of having the largest families represented at high school. This singular distinction goes to the Barnes and Adair families, who tie for the honor with three each. From the Barnes family there are Elizabeth, in the' eighth grade, Car- roll, in the tenth, and Kohn, a dis tinguished senior. The A<kir8 are represented by Bob by, of the eighth grade, Dorothy, of the tenth, nnd Forrest, of the eleventh, errOnd-boy f5r~'oa]t principal. Y OU never know when you’re going to get it in the neck... and be laid up for weeks. i«TNA-IZE Our Ideal Aeddeot Policy pays off doctors and hospitals and pays yon a weakly incoma too. S. W.. SUMEREL Ajetiukizer Next Door to Western Union Phone 80