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7 A - • ^ /., ^ THE CUNTQN CBBONICLE. CUNT&N. 8.iC. 2 OF R.O.T.C. OFFICERS AT PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE 7: (ihrom R.OXC. Issue pf The Blue Stocking) MajwWysor 7 ^TSIDE HEADQUARTERS FOR HOUDAY FLOWERS •7-Poinsettias —^Narcissus •Cherries —Melior Begonias —Primulas -^Kalanchoes —Cyclamens —Peppers^ . CUT FLOWERS: —Carnations -Snapdragons —Glads —Roses Artificial Wreaths^ now ^n display. See them Hefore you buy. — Telegraph Flowers Member T. D. S. Phone 2105 P. C. Commandant • ■ Now Serving SeventhvVear- At College. Largely Responsible For Excellent Record of Insti* tution*8 Military Unit. After having been stationed* in vari ous parts of the North, South, and West, and once outside of-the United States, our commandant. Major Robert E. Wysor, Jr., has decided that “P. C. is best of idl." - "Duty here,” said Major Wysor, "is the most pleasant to “which I have ever i>een assigned. I have never seen a tioned at^ the followi' Lewis EASTSIDE GREENHOUSE SOME GIFT SUGGESTIONS— Child Life for the childi'en;' Ameri can Boy and Americal Girl for the older children; Literary Digest and Saturday Evening Post for men; Good I at the following posts. Camp , - Waahinj^on; SanTPrancisco, California; Panama; another period at Fort Benning; Fort Knox, Kentucky; Reading, California; and Fort Thomas, Kentucky. It. was from the latter post that Captain Beatty came to F. C. While in France, Captain Beatty served as battalion adjutant and regi mental intelligence officer. He has re-j ceived several honors,. including the Distinguished Service Cross, the Pur ple Heart, and the Ook Leaf Cluster. The official army records .give this account of how Captain Beatty won the Distinguished Service Cross: "Having remained at battalion head quarters, after the relief of his battal ion, when the German barrage preced ing the second battle of the Marne opened. Lieutenant Beatty,, realising the gravity of the situation, voluntari ly went out through heavy destructive fire on a reconnaissanq^ of the front lines and obtained informatioBi^ which could hot he secured in any other man-, nre. He *?hcouraged the troops by his disregard of person danger, and gave directions for the defence of the posi tions. It being necessary for him to remove his gas mask in order to ac complish-this nussion, he was seriqus- V burned by mustard ga.s.” —r- School Play On ■ 7 I Nmct Tu^ay A three-act farce will he given at Florida Street school auditorium next 'l^sday; Dec. 17, at 8 p. m/,‘hy twelve high school*students, TV p^y ■ of fast-moving plot with plenty' laughs and thri|l8 throwi^ in. Three college student j^se as ser vants in a hotts^whose mistress has gone abroad. There they spy on' their girls to find* out the. truth.of their faithfulness, and they find out plenty! The ghost oLthe dead master* nearly scares the poor cook to death. But imagine the consternation of every one when the mistress of the house returns to bi^k into the plan of ev erything! A good two and a haM hour's of enjoyment is promised fqr everyone. ' { -Misses Frances Roper and Vera Burnette, of the high school faculty, are the directors. The characters are: Miss Sarah Pepperdine (Peter's aunt)—Peggy Sprunt. Jasmine Jackson (Aunt .Sarah’s THUtePAY. D^EMBER 12, 19SS f ‘ j- (Urky .cook)—Dorothy Edwards. Cicero Murgletborpe (Deap of El- wood college)—(Bill Wade. Peter Pe];^)erdine (always in hot water;—TeMh Owens. Bill Bradshaw (Peter’s ^al-)-^Hdgh Jacobs. Thbmdyke-Murgletborpe <a college grind )-»^BobeK 'Wysor. Mrs. (Seorgiana CJarkston sbciil elimber)—AMaide Roberts. Nadine ClaHcston (Peter’s sweet heart)—Frances Bouknight. Peggy^ Clarkson (BiB’s sweets k^rtl^^ane Sturgeon. 7 \ Malvina Potts (Muggsy’s go^ess) —Ma^ Crawford. John - Bolivarweal^y banker)-^ . Manon Chaney. / , Dupont E^rhy (the post of Elwpo^ college)—Duncan Workman. 7 IP 'I 'i - ' 7=^* . , Say<=k- ^ T SAW CHRONlCUr IViktaa! ' ■ I H. 0. HENRY im-19^ F.V BOLAND • V- H. D. HENRY & COMPAQ INSURANCE STOCXS^— BONDS — REAL ESTATE \oAN8 NEGOTIATED Telephone 121 . s ’ 1 MAJOR R. E. WYSOR. JR. more coojK*rative and loyal body of men than I*! C. men, not excepting my own-whool, V.’M. 1.” Major Wysor has l>et*n*on duty here Sgt. Young Valuable Member Local Staff Has Served At Many Posts Over Country. Came Here In 1931, and “Likes R'CTFI^.” Housekeeping and l.adies Home Jour-j as professor of military science and nal for women. JAMES W. CALDWELL ( all 38 Itactips and commandant of cadets ’Way back in January, 1921, a stur dy young man came down to Knoxville from the mountains,around Cumber land Gap, Tenne.sae<*, to join the anny 1936 WILLYS COUPE _ $525 Delivered - 86 Miles Per Gallon ODOM’S S. Church St. . SPARTANBURG, S. C. -«fr Isinee 1929, an unusual term of service. | world. This young fellow jMiliatry science has been in the cur-|^,jjj, Sterlin Young and he wanted to riculum of Presbyterian college for,jjf, ^ut and see some of the "furrinera” i fifteen years, and during thi.s |>eriodihe hud heard about ’way back in-the I we have had only two P. M. S. & T.’.s. | (The average length of service in the; army seemed to need Tgood same school is thrtH* years. During this alK»ut that time sj> they took the fifteen-year fHo iod, we have had five; in,7and begap^e difficult task I Assistant officer.s, j„f training him^^^c anny couldn’t do Major Wysor is a native of Virginia, nliuch with SiV^geant Young on this but has not been back there except on j side of thj^^T*acific, so they sent him visits since he entered the grmy eight-*over to,Hawaii. Sergeant Young man- Co escapt* the wiles of the hula Military in.stitute, and after gradu- lyiJa dancers and-the various other in- rigues of the Hawaiian Isles, and af ter three years in the mid-Pacific, re turned to native shores. Young was in the twenty-second in fantry until 1931, and while with this organization was stationed .at many different posts over the country. In March of 1927, Corporal Young was given an extra .stripe to sew on his Wysor went into the war j sleeve and took up the rank of ser- j lieutenant of infantry, was gcant. _ In 1931, Sergeant Young wais placed on the de.tached enlisted men’s list, and was Sent t£ Clinton to help with the Man THE HAPPY MED9JM “ ersons are either— Over-insured . or ' . Under-insured ()ur experience can aid you in finding the happy medium where your insur ance is just right. ('onsult us today. No obli gation, of course. H. D. Henry & Company INSURANCE CLINTON, . S. C. je<*n years ago. He aHehded Virginia agei ly in.stitute ■ - . . jatjon^ worked for two -years for th I Dupont Powder company, Thep epme [the war, ami he was called to C^cka- jmauga Park, Georgia, to thp'^rainihg camp there. ^ j .^fter-a brief period/dl Chickamauga Park, .Major Wyf>jHT was ordered to Fort Sill, OklajKlma, and it was from this, post thart he was ordered over seas. Ma as a spcond pittHfoted to a first lieutenancy, and ' *’iiu‘ out of the war a eaptaiil. .Arriving home from France, he was I loitlei Mi to Atlan4«T-«nd seH'veel-aCtwoiR.O.T.t/.-Sergeant Ydung^y.siie lilcei posts there — Fort .McPherson and'P. C. fine and will stay as lung as they-j ‘Camp (lordon. .After being stationed^wilf-let him and as long as he is| 'at Camp Jackson, in Washington, the j wanted. I .Major was stationed ,at North Caro- _ ; ^ , | dina Stale college, with the R.O.T.C. ^ ^ there. ■ “ Then came a piM'iiKl at FortBen-' jning, (k'orgia, the largest infantry } A vCWo ^ 'school in the world, and the .school' sp | I through which all of Uncle Sam’s of-1 Mr. and Mrs. John~Wor(l and son,! Ificers must go. Following his service| David, visited relatives in Lyman! jat Fort Henning, the Major went into I Sunday. ’ ’ i 1 the “foi-Kign” service, being stationed i .Mr. and Mrs. Aaixm Marlowe of i }in Panama until 1929. j.Anderson, visited Mr. Marlowe’s par-1 , In that year .Major Wysor leceivedlents, Rev. and .Mrs. V. .McK. Marlowe,! ja cTiblegrain from army headquarters! Sunday. 'ordering him to report to F'ort Knox,! 1 Kentucky. On the trip back to the Statics, however, he received another message ordering him to rejiort at I Presl^tei ian college. He had never I heard of the school and had not the 'slightest idea where Clinton, South l(’arolina, was.. * .Somehow or other, |manli)^*d to find out STATE THEATRE GREENWOOD, S. C. Program Week Beginning December 12th ^ THUK.—FlU.—SAT. Cecil B. I)eMille’.s Greatest Spectacle ~ “THE CRUSADES” with ,. LORETTA YOUNG HENRY WILCOXON SATURDAY—10:40 P M. CHARLES BICKFX)RI) in “EAST OF JAVA” MONDAY—TUESDAY JOAN CRAWFORD in “1 LIVE MY LIFE” WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY MARIAN DAVIES DICK POWELL in “PAGE MISS GLORY” thursi)ay-priday MARK BROTHERS in “A NIGHT AT THE OPERA** j was ami made hi.s way here, and. evi- ;dently he likes.Clinton and P,‘ C, bt>t- ter than anywher eelse, for he has [been heiv longer than any other place, inelviding his childhood home. Mr. and Mr.s. Clarence Okkley and son, Messers. Pruitt and Sydney Oak ley, attended the funeral of Mr. Oak-*^ Uy’s nephew in Andreson Monday. Lionel Sanders left 'Tue.^day to en list in“ the army. Rev. arid Mrs. R. J. Belue and son, Claude, of Greer, visited Rev. and Majqi^ NVysorjMrs. V. MeK. Marlowe Sunday, whdre Clmton; Mr. and Mrs„ Jih* Campbell and Captain Beatty U Servii^ First Year Assistant l^rofessor of Military Science Has Ouistanding Rec ord of Service. Winner of Dis tinguished Serveie Cross.' Captain George S. Beatty, In becom-". ing the new assistant professor of military science and tactics here, • is iieginning service at his fifteenth sta tion, including bis Niverseas service. During hi.s Eighteen years iq the army C/aplain Beatty has made an enviable record. Born in North Carolina, he spent most of hrs early life there, arid when war came he entered the army through the training camp at Chickamauga !Park. Georgia. After being commis- |..smned as a second lieutenant, he I serveit brief periods at Fort Ogle- tthorp€,(kiorgia, and Camp Greene, North Carolina. i Captain Beatty w’ent overseas and fought in F'ranee in 1918. After the called war, he was stationed in Germany for abput a year, and w'hen he reached the States he was sent to Camp Pike, Ar kansas. From Camp Pike, Captain Beatty went to Fort Benning. Following his filming at Fort Penning, he was sta- family, Mr. and .Mrs, Otto F!zeMe and family were visitors in Greenville^ Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Smith, Mr. and !.Mr:. Giady Smith, Misses Nell and J Nan Smith, .Messrs, Royce and Lester iSmii.h were' called to'Greer-Sunday !on account of the death of Mrs. J. J. j Smith’s mother, Mrs. Nan McClimeon. 1 T. F7 Thornton of F.noree, vi.s\^ted | relatives here (he past week. ' Friends of Mrs. I.,owery_will regret} to _know she is’ seriously ill at th<* home of her daughter, Mi's. Smith, on Frances street. ' Friends o#-Mrs. Grady Arnold will be glau to know she is improvi ig af ter being yonfineii to her 'horite sev eial days with the flu. Oyster Supp^ Enjoyed The Philathea class of Calvary Bap tist church enjoyed an oyster and fish supper SatuHay afternoon at the community hall. I^adies Aid Society Meets The Ladies Aid society of Bailey Memorial church held their I'egular meeting Tuesday night, Dec.^, at the community building with a full at tendance. , The. meeting wis opened with a song, "Silent Night,” followed by thei scripture, Matthew 2:1-15, by Mrr ’ •Polly Yjirborough. ‘The minutes w’ere read and the roll' by the secretary, Mrs. Roy HoJtzclaw. ! The study class was conducted by Mrs. W. P. Sizemore, who gave an interesting talk on "Gifts.” ' Plans were made to send a Christ mas box to the Epworth orphanage, Columbia. • * - ■ A X DEPENDABILITY YOU CAN'T DO BETTER THAN A mmm smx 'a: ^ '/ 4 A '''' A mi ^ -A ^ ir'A s->T •} •*4 H >.4. 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