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’THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, IMS PACE SEVE^ i S«rUl Fictioa ui * new form. . . . « •Hck) bjr • master ■tery-telier. .... llM/re thing Jmppened to Caroli^, in Golum- l^ia, when the hig North Carolin^State teapi took th^^Birds into camp, M to 0, Clemson, Citadel, and Wofford were victorious, but Newherry faced as tough un assignment as P, C. and Were hMten by* Catawba by atout the isame margin. I Satui||ay, Clemson will probably' ! taste its first defeat at the hands of! erande for Gove^r - La: \ one of the best if not the best Duke j university teams in the history of the school. Coach Wallace Wade has pro- i , duced wh«t looks to be the best tLiml" ''” *'"■ ■*”** in the country and they should take' be helpful. ■ / arhazing strCTgtn of Senator ii^ all recept polls is giving leaders something lo think Washington,' October 7. — Anyone I utter ances of -the administration and its Clemson by about thiw or four touch-^ from now on, as moves to- , . \ ^ , . j i downs. FIRST INSTALLMENT - , T ‘‘Oh. I’ve had plenty of luck, my-1man Durham went across to the road j Ben Furlong came to the Southern ] self!” Maddox, asserted. “But I never and ^ve him directions — he stoodj »; , . n'*-' *'• to/'an^Pi-vnUvo npTv./%p,-atu <><> oil fields looking for work. He was ^ had any good luck lettin’ strangers theie^^tchin’ the wagon *i»‘ove i " ^ ^ Po^^ul ] putting it too strongly to suggest that j . very dusty and quite hungry when at.monkey with my work. If you jim up on. The d^ver was trpttin’ his admimstration is on the <iefemive,[failed for, it might provi^ Gen^- .ward the political objective of le-elect |ing Mr.*^Roosevelt in iy36,^will not bei,.,„ „ i • . . , v.ry far out of the way; It would I about.'The ^possibility looms of a dead- lock^between Borah,^ Knox, and L#a- don, out of which. Senator Vandenberg of Michigan might be put forward as a generally acceptable compromise Icandidate. It is, however, a long timw from now until the nominating Cfn- vention, amt anything may happen. Matching F. D. R,^the Job Some smart Washington observers think that General Hugh Johnson has his eye on the presidency. If a situ ation should develop in which a coali- 'laet he stopped in at the Durham'the well, I take the blame.” house. f i “I won’t jim anything.” This was a rather better-looking pl4ce than the average Texas home-!miracle an' when h^rossed the lailroad trpc^k it let go. Jar set it off, I s’pose. Tiller ..ii-u u - says he saw it aU. but he don’t remem- “W^tll you charge for this here a sot^ or feelin’ a shock iracle of Georgia. We^ pick to winibut it is layinjf itself out to justify its ut not until after^a hard fight andj|^(.ts and policies to the voters, with a. scant margin. r, . - [Mr. Roosevelt made but a pretty good'case for, the AAA in his speech stead, and when he knocked at the kitchen door a girl appeared who was very much better-looking than the av erage Texas homesteader. She was, in fact, a very pretty girl. She readily fetched Ben a drink of water, and w’'hiW he rested she talked to him. That ‘vras, no doubt, because of his smile. He inf ormed her -that he had been raised in the Pennsylvania fields and was a good, practical oil man. There being no chores to'do, Ben sat in the kitchen and bhatted with the girl while she cooked something for him, and in the course of their conver sation he learned that her name was “What nappened to the driver? ... ... ^ ,, , .1 ...'picking the winner. This wc^‘is tough “What dyou iTckon l^ppenc^f Allium h«re gws: - the trace they ever found of him oXthe paid for any help give you,’! Furlong declared. “Probab ly I can’t do anything!, but so far I don't even know what’s wrong. Do you mind tolling me?” outfit was part of a boss’s leg h “We’ve got a bolt in the hole.”— ion a telegraph cross arm about a hun^ “A bolt ? ” ! dred yards up the grade. There was a | “Sure! A six-inch steel bolt. It' hole thirty foot wide where the wagon worked loo-ie and dropped out of a had been and the j^aili^d, iron was tool.” corkscrewed for a quarter/of a mile. ‘That’s a new one,” Ben admitted. They found quite a bit of Mr. Durham “WTiy don’t you drill it outj= pound it —enough to hold a funeral over,” to pieces?” 4 “And Maddox wasn.’Jt. .Hcratche<l! Duke over .Clemson. Georgia over Furman. P. C. over Newberiy, ’itadel over Wofford, irolina over Davidson. Maddox grinned. “That’s what w'e'That stuff certainly acts queer at Betty Durham, tlwt her parents were i been tryin’^to do, but it’s tem{>ei*etl thneivllt. “They dead, and th^ the farm belonged to ; harder than the bit. It dulls every tind her aunt, with whom she had live<l I we use ami all \\ e lieen doin’ for two - evvi" sin'ce she! was a little girl. The j weeks is shai fien steel.” I.,a8t Week’s Stars Black and Lawton, Clemson. led the Tigers in their? victory Forest. Gaffney, (’arofhia, playwl his usual fighting game agaihst N. (’, State ami aunt had gone to Opixirtunity in the family flivver.. .^Tan’t you drill past it?” figgeied some air “eurrent was respoh-silde. Kin»l qf a Godsend, did some beautiful pd for Tiller, wasn t it. Holliday, P. C., playiKj^ a gn’at <le Iting **Ho\%' >’ou goin’ to sidetrick a six- in the Ijortom of a “Funny, yoii cwking for a tramp | inch holt loose driller like me and your aunt owning'hole?” iictoage like this,” Ben remarked.! “Yop can drive it into the \yall.” “Isn’t this land on the structure?’ “Oh< you can. can you? We’re into ‘Sure! It’s worth a lot of mopey. ia stratter of imn pyrites an’ the iwk’s That well over yonder”—fork in hand, M iss Durham indicated a derrick not far away—“belongs.to us.” From where he sat Furlong could .see that the timbers of the tower were still bright and uiTxtained, thus adver tising the melancholy fact that the well itself was not a producer, so he inquired: “What’s wrong with it? Dry?” “Dry nothing! They’re not dowm yet They’ve got a fishing job “for X'rtiuple of weeks.” dam’ near as hard as the bolt. It’s much as ever a tool will cut it'at all. That bolt just shifts arouml in the bottom of the hole like it was in' a /steel cup, an’ it’s too small to grap ple. I s’pose we could get holt of it with some fancy kind of a magnet if we could gret.holt of some fancy kind . of magnet that would get holdt of it.” Again Maddox grinned. Betty Durham was staring at Fur- been at it i long with an apprehensive pucker be tween her brows. “Ain’t that our luj:k, “Gee!” The visitor shook his head, [for a little bitty old bolt to ruin every “.Not to Ik‘ killeil? Sui^ ” — “Naw! 'Fo got in with the widder an' j Betty. Lucky /or them, too, that he took to lookin’ out for ’em. If he tnakes this well they’ll he movin’ into one of them Dalla.s mansions with marble i liodsteads.” “Humph! He’ll never make a well, if he kwps dropping hardware in it. In my: country a driller that careless would lose .his job.” “Tiller won’t ,Iose his job,” the en gineer asserted, ixvsitively^. “He don’t lose anything he goes after.”" In the course of time F'urlong fin ished cutting the end of his steel cas ing into a series of teeth, and these teeth he then bent slightly inwanl. This done, he attached the device to a tool and loweretl it into the hole. iEven Betty Durham and her aunt fensi\e game against FuriHiin. McGredie, Citadel .sophomore, was the shining Hght in the vict^- ovjr Ki'skirie. l>orn and King. Furman, played the leading roles in the victory ove^ P. C. HOSPITAL NEWS Bom to Mr. and .Mr^ Jack Wel- born on*.October 4th, a daughter, Joy Lipscomb Welborn. / Mrs^ Henderson Py^s js a patient "in the hospita&this witok. Mrs. B. ftl, Buzhardt i.s, ill at the hospital. / Miss Agatha DavLs has retume<l home after l>eing a patient here last week. Miss Elizabeth Lyda has returned home after being slightly injured in a car accident Saturday. / Iah* Quarterman has returned to the college, having improved from injuries “That’s running somebody in debt.” thing? Can you think of any—?” Mary, who lookeil on with growing "When the first oil talk commenced “I can think of one way that won’tunderstood now how he pro- we’d of been glad to get the farm cost much to try,” i|K)se<l to pick up t^Bt bolt. He had drilled on most any kind of royalty,! “I don’t w'ant any strangers exjieri-those tapering teeth so that but nobody would lease it. When theylmentih’ around—” Maddox began; but they I'esembled the .curving fingers of | received in the (Georgia Tech game, finally got ready. Aunt Mary wanted the girl exclaimed, sharply: a bonus^—two bits'^an acre — and she “You've l>een experimenting for tw'o wouldn’t listen to Uncle Joe’s mrgu- weeks at a hundrod. dollars a day, ■‘’teel-hard bottom of the well until ments. By and by they offered tw'o haven’t you? It’s our well. Let Mr. I those fingers closed, until he clinched Uta, 'but by that time she' wanted a Furlong have a go at it.” jthem over the obstacle. It was a task dollar. Then the companies go togeth-' The driller executed an exaggerates! difficult that it .sounds, er,. or the boom kind of petered out, or'gesture of acquiescence. “Right you , ((ontinued Next W«H*kj. something, and iubegari to look as^ if'ai'c, Bettj£ But if-this feller puts itl a— a harjd, and his delicate task was toj W. S. Royrfil, Jr., has returned to drive the casing home against the'the college after a week’s illness here. CHERROSOTE COUGH MEDICINE WILL STOP THAT COUGH OR YOUR MONEY IbACK. ONI.Y SOLI) AT— of the Middle West, they have got to offer some program for the benefit of the farmer that will match the bene fits the farmers have leceived from the AAA. One of the chief criticisms of AAA has been aimed at its policy of crop reductiqn, and especially the killing off of young pigs. Watch for an early announcement of a change in this pol icy. Plans for a new systent .of agri- ovt'r Wake jc'ultuial benefits based upon increas ing pi-oduction, especially of corn and hogs, have been drawn up and await only the psychological moment to be ann<»unce<l. • • Washington has been ht‘aring fixim consumers, and their vigorous protest against the rising costs of-ftnidstuffs is not going unheeded. The president himself has ordered tlie FcMlerul Trnde commission to Ix'gin a searching in quiry into living costs. - ■ Another move which is under seri ous consideration by the AAA is the proposal of legislation whichv would put the milk supply of cities on, the basis of a public utility, and subject to rigid state and federal cdntrol. 'This has been talke<l of before, but now the talk ^^ras serious. The president’s statement on the P.t.'lfi budget, coupled with the promise of a determined effort to reiluce gov ernmental costs for the next fiscal year is further calculated to strength-! en the administration’s position. Mr. j Roosevelt assureil the nation that no' new taxes or permanent increase in personal tax rates will be necessary, unless the supieme court shouUL-de-j clare'' the processing taxes, levied un-1 der the AAA, to be, unconstitutional, j The promise and the expectation are! that relief expemlitures by the federal government will he reduciMl rapidly, and a much larger proportion of relief costs will be shiftisl hack to the states. G. (). I’. Action . Two significant ' items oT news emetged fl■om the recent meeting hm'e Johnson’s opportunity. Whatever^else may be said about General Johnsonj he makes a treraan- dpus personal appeal whenever he speaks to a crowd—atjd it seems rea sonable that whoever opposes Mr. Roosevelt next year must be a man able to match the president—if any body can—in the matter of personal magnetism. Clinton-Newberry ““ Play Here Today The Clinton Hi football team w^ll meet New'lierry Hi in the opening ho^ game of the sea.son at Johnson field this afternoon at 3:30, with an, admission charge of 2.">c. The team^ha.s made a splendid showing in the two gamo.s playwl against Belton and Ab beville and a fast and .snappy exhibi tion is exfH'cted when these rivals of long standing nuH*t today. TIE AT ABBEVILLE The Clinton high school football team tied Abbeville lasb P'riday after noon, 0 to 0, in a well-played'game at Abbeville, in which both teanvs made creditable showings. ^ STOCKHOLDERS MEETING _ Notice is hereby given that the an-^ nual stockholders meeting of the Lib erty Building and I^oan Associatiorr will Ik‘ held P'riday afternoon; Oct. 11, llrtf), at 4 o’clock, at the Commercial Bank building. F. M. BOLAND, c- . Secty-Treas. I SPORT SCRIPTS - By - NEWTON GARLAND Uncle Joe would be lucky to make anyjon the bum, don’t blame me.” Then to kind-of a deal. He finally laid his earslBen he announced: “Heliri youi*self, back and leased a -small block. Then pardner. You h’eard the boss.” he up and got killed.” When Furlong had fully satisfied “That’s too bad.” Ihim.self as to conditions he took off “It wa-s an accident. A powder w'ag-jhis coat and went to work. He knew on let go.” The siieaker’s face grew;of no fishing tool so designed as to wistful, she stared out aci\>ss the aridipick up an object so “small ami as easi-l This week promises to lie a wwk of countryside for a moment or two. jly movable as a six-itich bolL therefore real football ami nothing but football ■“Uncle Joe\ loved, me, but — Aunt^he made one. He took a short lengthjnow that the worhl series is over. Mary’s his second wife; we’re not leal-1 of steel casing of a diameter .smalI;,There-will be many games involving ly kinfolks. It might just as well have enough to slip into the well, and in many big teams but the most impoi bwn Maddox who got killed; he wasjone end of this he cut teeth several tant game will involve two small a* dose to the wagon a-s Uncle Joe iinche.s long. It was a labor that con-Teams, I‘. (’. and Newberry. You can ami yet he wasn’t,touched. Funny, too, (sume^ time: he was .still at "it when, believe me when I say important, for because he's always been afraid of the j Betty reapp«ired at the "well about‘it i'< just that to followers of the two stuff and ,has a hunch he’ll be blown :dark and advised him that supjier was .schools. When these two teams take up. All you have to say to him is waiting. * The field you can exjiect a hard-fought ‘powder’ and—” ! Mrs. Durham had reutrned from game and the winner winning by a “How’d your aunt come to put downitown. She was a woman of indetermi-1scant maigin. This year’s game prom-i this new well?” inate age. Her eyes were pale; her nose'ises to be a thriller.with Higbe of P. C. "Maddox drilled the well on the lotjwas hooked like the beak of a hawk; ami Beck of NewlH*rry furnishing the we leased, and after Uncle Joe was | her I’ip.^ were thin and set in avaricious spark. These two men have been killed he quit the company and sort^of|lines. Immediately upon meeting Fur-|among the flashiest backs of the state touk charge of things*for Aunt Mary.'long she wanteil ^ know whether he'for the last two years and both are It wasn’t a big well, but the royalty is believed his exj>enment would succeed,| what we call money players. enou^ to i)ay for this one. I won’t!how he pixiposed to go about it, how, < — cook any more ham and eggs, so you’dilong it would take, and the like, Ben [ This game will be a real show, for it SMITH’S PHARMAC Y Your Rexall Dru^ Store “Philco Leads,.; Contest” GET DETAILS AT Radio Exchange X •••or • PROFESSIONAL NOTICE of the Republican Exteutive commit tee. Ont^was the positive assurance, conveyed to the committee hy I.aw- rence Rjtchie and others closely-asso- ciftted with Mr. Hoover, that the for mer piesident is not a candidate and does not desire- to be considoreil. The other wa.H^ the suggestion put fomard that the Republican national conven Smith’s Pharmacy from common colds That Hang On X' No matter how many nriedicine-J have tried for your cough, chest rlt I have moved hiv office toTion of 193(1 should he held after the & f’li Biiildino- RmimH''"‘’Versing ^ot afford to take a chance with any jacoDs 61 uo. MUiming, Kooms ^ jgss than Creotnulsl to 210. R. F. F. HICKS DENTIST belter make the most of these. Yes, was honconrmittal and he- refused to!is the first athletic event lever to be ami you’d better come an;l get them; raise her hopes. Before he had finisher! j held out of dmn-s at P. C. after dark, they’re done.” Miss Duiham set a^his meal he had convinced himself {This is a fitting occasion for the honor plate on the table and Furlong drew That the woman stood in some sort of j that'Is. to be paid to the most popular • up his chair. jdread of Tiller Maddox and that herlcoach and the oldest in point of ser- fear of antagonizihg him almost equal- vice, in the state. Coach Walter John- ed her anxiety for Furlong’s oiuccess.: son has put P. G. on the athletic map Ben wqndei-ed why. Another fact he,and he has put them there ip glaripg hap that halted Maddox’s^^progress, discovered—Betty and her aunt/were 1 print. We all know that to meet a but he learned little. He inferred, how-j not qn the best of terma.^ jP. C. team is to meet a hard-fighting, ever, that the royalties from the first*! After supper, .bynieTight of a gaso- well-coached, and clean-playing aggre- With the Curosi^y natural to his calling, the visitor inquired more spe cifically about The naWre of the mis-» •ay FunerM Home CHnton/'S. C. FUNERAL DITOCTORS ... cttid EMBALMEl Ambulance Servk Phones 41 and 399v L. RUSSELL GRAY and V. PARKS ADAIR. Gen. Mgra.^ wrfuld give the Republicans a target to slibot at. W^th Mr. Hoover out of the run4 ning, talk of Republican candidates fcK’uses «!ven more strongly upon Col. Frank Knox of (’hicago. Senator Bo rah of Idaho, and Governor Lamlon of Kansa.s. Mr. Hearst’s an.nounce<l pi-ef- or bronchial Irritation, you can get re lief now with Creomulslon. Serious tr-ouble may be brewing and you can- Crpomulsion, which goes'* right to thcTSeat of the trouble to aid nature to soothe and heal the inflamed membranes as the germ-laden phlegm Is loosened and expelled. Even if other remedies have failed, don’t be discouraged, your druggist Is authorized to guarantee Creomulslon and to refund your money if you are not satisfied with results, from the very first bottle.OetCreomulsidnflghtnow. (Adv.) BIG DOUBLE CIRCUS HAS VAST PROGRAM ran NAffI AND ftALP JAPANESE OIL well were dwindling at an alarming rate and that any considerable delay in completing the new well might therefore result in ruin to the owner. line torch, Furlong, lesumed his work'gation. the while Mad<^x vainly tried, ,\uth! ^ the new device which his epiployer hadi While WC ai'e honoring Coach John- brought out from town, to grapple son, let us pay tribute to one of his It was a prospect that naturally gavelthat obstinate piece of steel a fifth of^ pupils who is now the best track cogch Betty and her aunt grave concern. la mile beneath his feet. But it wa^Iin this section and who do^s a fine When Ben had finished eating he I blind work, monotonous work, dispirit-1 job of coaching the P. *C. freshmen, said: “Maybe I can give this driller of ing work; time after time the clumsy jCoach I.x)nnie Mac,-he is called, and yours some help. I’ve worked on a good fishing tool was raised and lowered, This same Mr. McMillian has been a Tlia AaNsapNc MaJtclaa- ■ Hair Twl«t » WOKKI At All OfwaolsH iwAM "TIm Tmn AkMil Siariy C«.. N*« Varti MAltl. MIL I vrH* ht rai TIM many fishing jobs. D’you think he’d'but its jaws refused to seize the trou let me try?” big asset to Presbyterian college. His track teams are known all over the blesome bolt. It was a job m hopeless “He will if I tell him to,” the girl and as baffling as trying to pick up a iSouth ami are feared by most Soutjp; declared. “He’s tried everything any-jpin with a pair of fire tongs attached ei*n teams. - • body has told him to try. Who knows? ito a string. ! — ^ Maybe you can do it.” ' The engineer of the rig watched The speaker put on her sunbonnet Furlong's work with the interesT^f • Another man to whom much credit is clue but who is rarely given honor' and together she and Furlong wentjfellow machinist, and of him the lat- is Coach Johnson’s assistant and line across the valley to the well. Iter inquired finally: Tiller Maddox was a swarthy man “Say! How come Mr. Durham to get of about thirty-five; his eyes were'^bold ahd-black and set close togetlw. He greeted the Durham girl with an easy familiarity, a suggestion of proprietor ship that gave the visitor cause for thought, but towards Furlong he was none too cordial and when Betty ex 1 _ 1 J A 1a a mm aa m ^M T Lam 1 m ^ T m killed?” He was blov^ up. It was when the coach, Hugh Eichelberger. He is also a Johnson-trained man. In fact, the whole P. C, coaching staff played foot ball on the first football team That Planet company was getting ready to! was produced at P. C. T^e beloved put down that well on the northeast;Johnson didn’t take part in the games comer. Maddox was workin’ for the i but he took an active part in the company then—movin’ the rig oqto the j scrimmages because so few men were ground. A'powder wagon came by an’i out. Coache.s Eichelberger, McMillian, plained the reason for the latter’s the driver stopped to ask his way. presence Maddox f A>wned. “Another wise guy, eh? Every rope- choker in ten miles has been tryin’ to show us how smart he is. Whatod’you know about Gshin’, stranger?”*^ “Not much,” B<^ confessed, “but I’ve had some luck '* You’ve seen them trucks—tsix hundred odd quarts of niti^Iycerine in square cans all set in felt-lined racks to keep ’em from jarring. I alius been scared Tvagons over these rough roads like and the baseball coach, Chick Gallo way, all played on this first and prob- ’ably greatest P. G. team. Coming back to the present time, we of ’em, but them drivers pound theirLsaw a fgihting P. C. team overpowered but not out-fought by a powerful Fur- it’s so much molasses they got. 01<yman, squad last Saturday. The same Rid Yourself of Kidney Poisons D“ you Miffer beming, tcanty or too frequont urinAtion/ bodcadio, hoadadko, dizzineti, twollon fool and aaklat? Are yoo tkod, nervoot—feel aN iMwkowg and don't know what is wrong? Than give tome tfiiouglil to yoor kidneys. Be sum they function proper- ly, for functional kidney disorder par- nuts CKcass wasla to slay in the blood, and to poison and upset the whojo system. Use Doan’s Fills. Doan's are for the kidneys only. They arc recommended tho world over. You can’^ft the gen- uina, timo-tasUd Dean's at any drug store. The wfu’Id’s newest big show, the | |(!ole Bros.-Clyde Beatty circus fresh' I from _fL five-year European' tour will* [exhibit in Spartanburg Thursday, Oc-! itoher 21. j An adverti.sing car is now in this ' vicinity. Billposters, hannermen, lith-! ographers, radio men and press agents: re heralding the great event, and! n everyone will be planning for a! g{H^ visit to The world’s largest “higj top,” the center of the biggest'canvas ' city ever_assembled to thrill, entertain j and amuse a great and discriminating populace.. ■ Traveling on three trains of dsiuble-i length steal railroad cars, the giant of 1 suiier-circuses will bring lOSO people,! 812 menagerie animal.s, five hcifiJs of, elephants and 500 horses. Pre-eminent features i.^ Clyde Beat-' ty, trained wild animal exhibition, i Beatty ia. acknowledged to iw the greatest wild animal trainer of all' time. I There are 400 performers including i the famous Nelson. f:imily <tf acroliats; the Imperial Hai-olds; the Flying Thrillerfi: Allen King and his cage of fury; Harietta, the famous equestri enne, and 00 internationally celebrated and beloved clowns. The Coje Bros.- Clyde Beatty horse fair has become a feature amazing in its apjK*al through out the .North American continent. ! The big holiday will b<* ushered in [with an immense street parade at 111 I a. m. Upwards of .50(1 horses, three i .score of elalmrately carved and glided ■e 1 allegorical floats and tableau Wagons together with many cages and open dens of Clyde Beatty’s animals will be seen in the piocessional. There will be five herd.s of elephants and two cara vans of camels from the great desert. Five, bands and two steaiu calliopes iwill furni.sh music. DooTa toTthe men- •X HARRIETTA, EQUESTRIENNE agerie open at 1 and 7 4>. m. The big show will .start at 2 and 8 p. m. All seats ai*e provided with foot rests. , \ '■-V ...