The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, December 05, 1935, Image 7
THUBSDAY, DECEMBER 5.1t985
N CBRONia^ CUNTON, S. C
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FIRST INSTALMENT
ElJCentro were so rough that aeldom 1 wonderful.
The village w,a3 as dry as powder
and 'as hot as the top of a stove.
It lay between barren hili.s, the nak
ed summits of which were blackened,
doubtles.s by' volcanic fires, although’
Think ^ of it, Don,
, running w'ater!
roses,
could a car beat the dust unless fav- Jgihjon grass, running w'ater! That
oi-ed" by a breeze; it must perforce brook and the trout pond!^ Won't it
rock’and jolt slowly through a euf- seem heavenly'to be cool and clean
foxing smother that coated a driv-iagain ?; I’m going to roll in the grass
ii'^lungs as thicl^ly as his skin. Like ^ and bury my face in it.
one* could casHy imagine that the.a trail of sfneke ignited by some in- ‘‘Same he^l And the first time it„ approaching car and
ceaseless ray.s of the Vertical sun had'visible brand,' this dust streamer rains I m going to stand out and takoL,„., ..«Fn loi,.
ceaseless ray.s of the Vertical sun had} visible brand,' this
"burned thi’in brittle.—The 'sandy plain wound closer untl
separating the two ranged was cover
ed writh desert v’egetation—qi^r, mis
shapen growths, most of which were
blunt and limbless. Some of the trees
her husband at th
tie trap flivver.
AH cars !were
weeks
were mei’e stubs, others werc^" shaped road.'
Hke gallows, still others bore clumsy [its ilimKr fenders clashed, a jet of
limte of «. «ort and a sparse cover-j vapor «>se ftom its radiator can. Its
ing of tiny leaves out of all propor-' tonneau was piled -full of rope and
. - . .... ..see Mr..Uryan until too late to avoid
1 Qlona made out every drop of «. It s^ms to me that • him-b^ause the lighth of
0 ftliecl of his rat- evoiy .ast pore in my body is thirsty, the approaching car blinded him.
‘‘‘How is the new driller getting ^ oner J. R. Scurry of Edgefield county |
six ialong?” Mrs. Fisk inquired. w'as summoned immediately after Mr. j
“‘McKay? Oh, fine! All I’m .afraid I Biy an died and called the inquest. f
of is that he may work. too fast, i The accident occurred about two;
Edgefield Man
Killec^ By
Trenton, S. 0^,. Dec. 2.—B. C, Bry
an, .49, Edgefiehij livestock dealer
was fatally injured while walking
along'the Augusta-Columbia high
way li^r here early Saturday night,'
when hit by an automobile driven by i
D,-F. Martin of Goldville, officers re 1
ported. . ' ...j, • I
Mr. Martin was exoneiated of!
blame in the fatal accident after he.
r't^tified before a coroner’s jury that
I he dimi^ed his headlights while meot-
KilUottt
tiioot valuable aid In the treatment
of colds. They take goe or two tab-
l.:s the first night and reptmt the
or fifth night If needed.
How do Oalotaba hito Katun
tiu'ow off a ooidt Pint, OaloULe la
one of the moat .thorough and ce«
]> mdnble all Intdktlnal ellnituanU.
li'ii.i cleansing the Inteatlnal tracthL
;crm-laden niuctu and toxiiics.
fromthraystem. Tbua
Oalotaba aenre the double piu^iose of
a purgattra and dioretic. both of
Wtdbh are needed in the treatment
ot ooldSL ’
Oalotaba are quite economical;
only twenty-five contefor the family
package, ten cents for the trial
padtage. (AdvJ
rattle trap*
cs after they were put over these!
t.:; this one conuplainW loudly,!
tion to the size of the trunks against
which, they clung.
There were cacti of many varie
ties, of course, huge ribbed ones
, forty feet tall that resembled tre
mendous candelabra, others that were
amaller and more grotesque in shape
with hundrex^ of fleshy upright ears
or with melon-like knobs and pro
tuberances upon their extremities.
An occassional shrub or clump of
bu.slve6 upthrust it-self between the
larger tree.s, but every growing thing
was ■ somehow distorted; all were
twisted by the heat, or bent by dis
couragement, perhaps; likewise every
growing thing, from the tiny cucum- Centro, he
ber cactus, half burit'^l in the sand, uj); pij-atloii,.
tackle. All automobiles at El Cen
tro carried similar cargoes. Veering
drunkenly around the comer of the
house, it coughed once or twice as if
clearing its One lung, then with a
long-drawn sigh of escaping steam it
came to rest.
“Hello^ honey!” Donald Fisk smear
ed the sweat and the dust from his
face and kissed his wife! He w'as a
robust young giant, but the desert
These hustlers a’re apt to be care-!miles from this city on the highway
le^^ryo.u know. He’s at twenty-six!to Augustaj Witne.sses said Mr.
hundriHl and fiftyr-jight on top of!Bryan was walking along the road,
the structuro. We’ll be ready to shoot toward Edgefield when struck by the!
day^after to-morrow. I’ve ordered Martin car, which was' traveling in [
the nitro and it will be out tomor- the same diixiction. The injured man,i
row. Believe me. I’m not going to] who was dragged along the road for'
lose a minute.”
‘‘If it comes inbig-
‘‘It will,
up to its
;30 yards by the car, was rushed here
Gloria began.^ " hitlock summoned,
_ „ . .... Ibut he died a few minutes after the
That wdl la Fomir to
“^tnostake
Fi.sk made the assertion
, , , ... .. I tion for the fact that Mr. Bryan was
It s bound to be a five-1 along the highway two miles ■
ber One’.”
positively.
had“tried”the‘fat‘rurof “hia fnimc and tt.ousandJ>artol wcll-or better. Can-t|^"-“";j^-iy';
help it, ,^n that location. ' ——
“I wish I had your confidence,”] 1^1 TP
hi.s^ udfe said doubtfully. ‘‘I guess] ▼▼ ' A-
I’m'ttho tirc'd to be enthusiastic anyi
more. I im ant to ask if it will mean
delay. Will you have to stay and
MANY PEOPLE NOW'SAt
PE-RU-NA
. The Great New CohMIhaser
Wins Fight
WithqCQid
By Building Up Cold~Flghilng Resistance
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P«-ru-na, D«pt. 1 HR, 544 So.Walla St., Chicago . .
Ptkaao r«ah nta a Fra* Sampla of Pa-ru-na. I
Name..
Addreaa 1*^
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At Alt
Druggists
left it spare. His skin was burncxl
almost black, and when he grinned
his teeth gleamed forth as white as
dominoes. Like* the other men of El
smelled always of pers-
to the tallest gallows trw, was cov-] diiiy!” .Gloria told ;
ered with .spikes aj^l spines, , him. “Vou look loo funny ” She | Everything’s nrrangeil.
Once I bring it in, Nolan can take
with .spikes an;l
dagger jicints and taTons.
All these.
'• laughed outright at the
x‘xpression
thorns were poisonou.s, all made fe.st-. nrnddy streaks of sweat
ering wounds when fk^sh came in con
tact with them. V'irus tipped their
points. •
It was in truth a place of many
poisons, a valley of pain, for what
dwcqmfort the cat-eflaws and the dag-
charge.”
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FOR S.\LE -- One Hot Point auto-“]
matic ningc, switch and meter. |
ri. L. Haldwin. Jto]
ger points failed to inflict, the blist
ering sun and the irritating dust" ac
complished.
At night when the weedle.ss, grass-
lees surface of the earth had flung
off most of the heat stored up dur
ing the day, it was possible to breathe
without gasping to move about
without streaming Ttweait; but this re
lief w|e short and it merely served j
to intensify the suffering that camC
‘‘You’re feeling butter, aren’t you-?”' ^t-we missiHl that boat. The
he demanded, quickly. ‘‘.Jove,-Gloria! welUhould have been in a month ago, me clean your lawn or
......... I U...J but”- Gloria .sighed—‘‘something al- —-u ..u„: v-.i..
ways seems to go wrong in this busi
ness. Just at th«» last moment, ^s
appointment, heart-break—Oh, I hate
Tliat’s the first time you’ve laughed
in agi's.’'
*‘l’m feeling wonderful! I’m well!”
‘‘Seems like a month at least since
you laughed. What is it?”
‘‘Gomte! I’ll show you.”. Playfully
Gloria took, the thumb of his right
hand in her fingei-s and “led him
acro.ss ,the floor. She faSfly danced
ahead of him to the door of the bed
room, where she bade him look.
'*Therfe! I’ve been bubbling ever since
I beaixl about our reservation.”
Donald peered into the chamber;
what he saw was an open steamer
with the ardent rays of Lhe ipo^ing j a half-filled suitcase upon
the bc<l. The room itself was strewn
with ailtclcs' of clothing. ^“Why,
sun. The days wx*re hideously long.
It was not a fit dwelling place for
man, and why nature had gone to
such lengths, of devHish ingenuity in
devising means to discourage him was
hard to understand. Gloria Fisk Of
ten asked herself that que.stion. Prob
ably it w^i^ because of the oil,, she de
cided. Oil was precious; the gettiitg
of It always entailed hardships and
^.Aiiffejing. It seemed to her, howev
er, that Nature had outdone heroelf
here; that she had been more cruel
than necessary. She could have
economized on at lea.st half of hgr
discomforts and still have left the
place a Gehenna. The heat and the
Kid!” You’v^ begun to pack!” Glo
ria nodiicd, ‘‘Goo<l lx>rd! An^ It’-s
ten diiy.'j yet before we go!”
“I know—but I couldn’t wait. Oh,
Don, you don’t know how’’ I h^ this
place! You just haven’t the ^intest
conception how I absolutely hate it.”
Mrs. Fiak was still laughiog, but
it! Hate it! I’m so nervous I could
scivam—
“She’.s just a tired, sick little kid.’/
Fisk spoke cnmfortingly and stroked
his wife's hair with a mother’s
touch. ‘‘This horrid old desert has
worn her out, but it’s going to make
her well and happy and—rich. We’ve
made a hard fight, honey, but it’s
nearly over. A little more courage,
a little more patience!”
^kintinued next week.
paint your porch chairs, or help in
any way. ITic per hour. Robert Clarke,
iVhone 12. . Itc
RELIABLE MAN WANTED to call ]
on farmers in Laurens County. ‘
Make up to $12 a day. No experience
or capital netMled. Write McNess Co.,
IVpt. T, Freeport, Illinois. lp^:
LOST—IViday afternoon in the busi
ness section, small coin purse, con
taining about $22 in bills and small
change. Finder please return to Mary
Pauline I.<awson and receive reward, p
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glare alone were intolerable; why add
the dust and the' drought and the
posBons and the maddening isolation?
Why pour out all her hatred upon thjs test by saying:
niece? ‘‘Maybe not, but it’s such fun to
get ready—end I haven’t anything
place
Other oil fields were not utterly
impossible to live in-j-the coastal
fields, for instance, were bad enough,
but they were infinitely more livable
than this. One could endure damp
heat or tropic fevers and stinging in
sects —even the depredations of band
its—more eiasily than this eternal,
dry, blood-thinning . heat. Bandits,
however " bloodthirsty, were better
than dust day and night, dust borne
on every breeze, dust kicked up by
hoofs and wagon wheels and truck
tires, dust that got. into one’s food,
County To Aid In
Building Armori^es
Say.s The Lauren.s Advertiser:
At aXconference held here Friday
between PWA officials, Laiirens and
Clinton officials and members ol the
there was an hysterical catch in her l^urens county delegation an agree
ment was reported by which the dele
gation is’ to supplement PWA funds
for the erection qf a PWA armory in
each of the two cities. The PWA of
ficials were reported to have told the
J'B. etty-and^ county -of ficials that^ because
of the .scarcity of skilled labor on re
lief rolls at least $2,500 in cash!con
tributions would be necessary from
each city in order for the armories to
be built. The agreement, it is report
ed, provided that the county would
bear half of the $2,500 in each in- j
stance, making a total appropriation^
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MM« la U. t. A.
FOR NAIR AND tOALR
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MelSl. FE!:L it WOAKI AI Alt Orucottll
Writ# far FREI tMtlH *'TIm Trutk Abatrt
Tka Hair*' Halimal Raairtfv Ca., Na« Vart
voice. "'That’s all that ails me- this
desert! Now I’m going home. I’m
going home—I’m going home!” She
sang the words and her eyes spark
led.
that trash when you go. Not if
help it,” her husband declared;
can
but she interrupted her vigorous pro-
el.se to pack,
merely wait!
1 can’t sit still
I’ve packed and
and
iin-
young
ERS
new convenient autonaktlc ifasi. tliiiiylitd
III rich American walnut nml Hlil*fnft/>'<»o
packed a half dozen times. When Ij'of $2,500 by the county and $1,250 by
each of the cities. The city of Lau
rens, as previously announced, has al
ready agi'eed to provide a lot on
South_ Harper street opposite the A.
D. Gray residence.
get it airtn, I pretend I’ve forgot
ten something important "and there’s
barely time tu'throw it out and re
pack. Oh, Don, little shivers and
tickles run over me every time I think
of it! Home! I’m going.to pack ev
ery day. That telegram alwut the
staterdom has done more to cute me-
than—than anything. I am well!
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Don’t yon think I am*?” Gloria’s
one’s clothing; one’s eyes and ears!voice quavered, broke; heF face was
which there was no escape. Insect*, j briefly contorted and tears appear
and lungs; ever-present dust from ed upon her lashes.
fevers—almost anything was better' ‘‘Sure, you’re well. Just played out
than the maddening monotony of j with the heat and the confounded
these rainless days during which monotony, that’s all. Wait till you
nothing, absolutely nothing, happen- begin to breathe the good salt air.”
ed to divert one’s thoughts from one’s ‘‘And our stateroom is on the shady |
“My, wife likes the smartness
and rooniiness*lif the Ford hut
misery.
There were still other oil countries,
of course, where one xfould live in
actual comfort, where one could cabins,
meet white people and speak English
and hear running wator^ and see
gr^n grass—
6reen grass! Cool waters!
Mrs. Fisk with a languid sigh
•went to the open 'window, parted the
dikty curtains, and peered out. The
glare was blinding, heat waves caused
the distant derricks to dance and to
waver. There was a dryness in the
air that paused her throat to con
tract so that it seemed to rustle
■*when' she swalfowed. It was a wretch
ed street—a roadway, almost incan
descent qt this hour of the day—and
it ran through, a sprawling village
of flimsy, unpainted houses all hast
ily slapp^ together out of boards
and corrugatex^ iron hauled in from
the coast by raiL Sun liker this de
manded thick 'dobe walls, of course,
but there was neither clay here at
El Centro nor water with which to
mix it. No, the water," Uk), came by
rail in hot steel tank cars, most of
which were foul.
Not a yard, not a fence, not a vine,
not a bush, not a patch of green met
Mrs. Frisk’s weary eyes—nothing but
the melancholy buildings, the road
ankle-deep in choking gray powder
that coat^ roofs and walls and even
the scattering xlosert vegetation
““"tound about the town itself.
Where the road came into view
over a low knoll, there appeared a
rolling ^ud created by the wheels of
jniRoads aTX>ond
side of the ship!”
“il made sure of that. What’s more,
those fruiters, pump cool air into the
Oh, it won’t take you long
to pick up! I want you to have your
old pep and your old color back when
we land. You’ve got to have it or—
well, the family wilT make it deuced
unplea.sant for me.” A furrow ap-
'peared between Fisk’s * du.sty brows.
He stared about the spar.seSy furnish
ed room, then lie said, earnestly:
‘‘You’ve been a game kid to put up
with this. H was yronme than I ex
pected; yes, worse than your j^ple
said it would be. If I’d realized just
what it was like here, I’d never have
brought you. But say”—^his face
lighted again—“won’t it be great to
put it over them?”
Gloria nodded. Her brief enthu
siasm had left her limp, so she sat
xlown on the edge of the bed. She
managed to sununxm enough anima
tion to agree. “Yes. They were so
smart—they knew it all, xlidn’t they?
ft will be nice to crow.”
“Mighty nice for me, anyhow. Ybu
just go ahead playing at packing and
unpacking yxmr Rothes, but when we
leave we’ll throw ^em all away. I’ll
buy you new ones—:the most expen
sive xmes <m Fifth Avenue. I’ll buy
you' more than you ever had-twice as
many .as your xiad gave you! Yes,
and we’ll drive out to the Island in
our own limousine. I’ll get you a cou
ple of ’em.”
“It will be too late for the pepniea
when we get there,” Gloria aaid,
musingly, */but the rotes will be com-
ing in. The ramblers on xwr place are
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about in the Ford V-8
This is the engine wbich^^
GINEERS have known
r Years the aodtspoted ad*
of the V-type engine
UHtj, economy, com- and eight g^linder smoothness
ggedness. But until an iconomtcal li y^'^
'ord aondnneed the first Ford V-typeenginewiti^dual-
V-8 in 1932^0 one had found a draft carburetoryCnat takes the
—SS CftlieC
proved tparkligg performa^
debt cylin^i
ave a
down-
way to bring advantages to
Ae Ipw-priced
Since its iotro4i^on this en<
gine has been constantly refined
and Improved—b^ the bauc
features of Ford desigh/have
mained through the pr^uedbo
of over hvo milliom V-S ezines.
This is the engine
powers the beautiful 1
lord V*8... and, becaust
it is V-type and compact,
gives **all that extra room”
chat many [a] woman has
**gas” used byw four and splits
it intb el^hfequal charges.
Tfalfis the engine you need for
\ qu4^^ snre, cold-weather stait-^
ing tJfis ipinter—^t engine that’s
“bpened the eyes” of over tuK>
mtHfint enthusiastic Ford owners.
. Yon^ find such an engine in
no othitr car at anywhere near
the prioS of the Ford V-8 for
19^6—So why not arrange to
e one today?
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