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THDBSDAY, DECEMBER 12,4935
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THE CLIHTON CHRONlCtE, CIJOTON, 8; 6.
AN"- ORDINANCE PROVIDING I Ist subsequent'to "the date of said-ed by the Town‘Clerk and
OR THE ISSUANCE OF $90,000,bon^s, and maturing in annual instil- of said Town, and Se ann.
PAGEJEVn
IN THREE INSTALLMENTS
Synop^
Don’t worry—it’s nothing much.” j after another. He became, icdtable
I “What kind of trouble?”' Gloria’s^and jumpy; his hands shook when he
tired face was suddenly drawn with, wiped the stinging sweat out of his
FOR THE ISSUANCE OF $90,000 boncis, and maturing in annual install-'of said ToY^i and ti^ a^eMdinte^
REFUNDING BONDS OF THE mentH as follows: vis.; Five bodAi est coupons to b^ the Sc-staS»
TOWN OF CLINTON FOR THE on January 1st in each of the yep signature of said TovS (Sr?YaS
PURPOSE OF REFUNDING CER.il938 to 1942, inclusive, six bonds^ Treasurer and thU bond to^ dJS
►TAIN OUTSTANDING BONDS OF January 1st in each of the years 1943 January 1 1986.
LIKE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT HERE- to 1947, inclusive, and five bonda onl V
TOFORE ISSUED BY SAID TOWN January 1st in each of the years 1948 ► Mayor .
AND PROB^IDING FOR THE PAY-. to 1954, indusive. Said bonds shall, ATTEST: .
MENT OF THE PRINCIPAL OF:he designated “Water, Sewer and-Elec^ -
ANO INTEREST ON SAID RE-1 trie Light System Refunding Bonds”. I Town Clerk and Treasurer
FUNDING’BONDS. ■ Section s Said bonds shall be cou-' Section 6. Each of the interest eou-
„ , V j . . iiirea race wi _
v*”,- ®^‘5‘®®^i*PP*'ehen8ion. - , ? - jeyet; ihe cursed tho desert aloud when
kind of a fishing job—Pedrojits heat rendered the work doubly
nnd kej field man for a sniall <m1 cor- know* just what.” Fisk came i hard. Working on that derrick-floor
sent into the deseit heat « . , • . v
WHEREAS, the Town of Clinton Pon bonds, payable to bearer, with ^ns attached to said bonds'shaUlto
ss hreetofore issued bonds of said privilege to the holder of having
S? k”' ’’'“‘laround thV UbI, and kidsed his wifc.l"*’ 1'K« working upon a bed of coals.
f"Don't fbek and don't wait up for me.!Every-piece of mefal that flesh fell
has hreetofore issued bonds of said privilege lo ine noioer oi Having them, in substantially the following form:
Town of the Aggregate face amount registered as to pnnci^l in his name No. ' $20.00
of $90,000 and constituting the fpK?®*'. books of the Town, and thel January,
lowing issues of bonds, viz.: , principal thus made payable to the On the first day of July, 19--—■.
<" £!‘t'.e T”''" «< Clinton.«oJth Carolina*-
^^^jlTou know iiow long everything takes was hot enough to blister; thei
J _ T a a. li /i 1' stnlp'watpr that h«» and hi.<» man swill.'
wells in a very promi.sing field.
^es his young wife, Gloria, With ‘limtarounia wifi i'm‘’ay notietlt fixed‘«tale'water that he and his men swill
»"ornitig.’’ He smiled reas-,®<l <^own their throats was tepid, anij^
dust in the blaz.ng , heWie'^n in their sleepthey were thirsty, i
glrillino* , *’**^* ° p. ,eaiv- “Can’t afford to ri.sk any delay ! Fisk told his wife grilmly one dayi
.w ’7 for the sake of a little .sleep, kv' ' I that they could not make the boat.'
makds sterner r^ervationT to tnl-e ^ sinking heart Gloria watched, announcement much asj.
makes steamer reservations to t.iUe for there had been some- ^vouM have Uken a blow in tk‘
them home and away from the hard- , ,T w noHd ond
“•hips his young wife has endured so 77
bravelyrGloriads i^£he;s;ir;iS This hateful oil bus-|With something infinitely worse than
^ . inosat Tta ho7
joy and days ^oo soon starts to pack
luggage. Then . . .(Now go on with
the story.)
SECOND INSTALLMENT
Gloria regained control of herself
with an effort and her flower-like face
broke into a smile. “I'll be patient.
Only don’t let anything happen.” i
As he left the houW,',Donald* told
himself with a pang that he had a
sick girl on his hands,
sicker than she had permitted .......,
to realize and it had taken this brief
Its hazards -were never end-IP®.**'* crept away, and a few
ing; there was a malignant genius l*"*****^®® latqr he found her weeping.
in the wells that took delight ini^^® sound, there was no ex-
wrecking human plans and killing'P*®****®** of'grief upon her face, but
high hopes, however well founded, **«®*' exhaustion were cours-
r, , , r L y r A. u . j^g down her cheeks.
Don returned for breakfast, hot . , . , . ,i
and tired and dirty; he began'gruff-]. Honey. Honey girl, her husband
ly: “I was afraid of McKay! Hel®*‘®*!..*fl ®*f®"y* “Don t Uke it like
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dropped, a tool in the hole.”’
“What does that‘mean?”
I “He didn’t set up his joint prop-
Gloria wasj®*'^y< ^ presume. Anyhow, it means
himl"’® ’’® fo hsh it out.’*
“Is that a—a long job?”
'that!’
.(Concluded next week)
flicker of animation at the prospect; “Not necessarily; depends on how
o7 going home to show him just how '^he stem is cocked and things like
weak she really was. She was fra-.^®7 We’re going to take a picture
gile, bloodless, the life and the luugh-'>‘*l^ It—you know, lower a soap mold
ter had gone out of her. As a mat-j**^**^ iiniire.ssion. While
SPORT SCRIPTS
. - By -
NEWTON GARLAND
'The curtain descended on South
ter of fact, he had watched it go daytf^^^y *® doing that I'm going to get: Carolina football last Saturday with j
by day for months and he had tried ® few liours sleep—I haven't ibeen i Newberry and Cafolina continuing and
per annum, pnyable annually,
and fonsistinir (T fifty bn" *s
of the denomination of $500
each, numbered from 1 to 50,
inclusive. •
(2) _ $45,000^ Sewerage System dat
ed July 1, 1911, payable July
1, 1951, bearing interest at
the rate of five per centum
(5%) per annum, payable an
nually, and consisting of six-
. ty-five bonds, forty of said
• bonds being of the denomina
tion of $500 each numbered
from 1 to 40, inclusive, and
twenty-five of said bonds be-
ing__of the denomination of
$1000 each numbered from 41
to 65, inclusive.
(3) $20,000 Water Works Exten
sion Bonds dated July 1, 1911,
payable July 1, 1951, bearing
interest at the rate of five peH
centum (6%) per annum, pfiy-N
able annually, and consisting
of thirty bonds, twenty of said
bonds being of the denomina
tion of $500 each numbered
from 1 to 20, inclusive, and
ten of said bonds being of the
denomination of $1000 each
numbered from 21 to 30, in
clusive.
($20.06)
United States
principal office of
the Mayor of said Town, and tjhe cor- hatVarT ritlTami
porate seal of said TowA shall be af- boin^ the aemf anill
fixed to or impifessed on said Bond SliL L ^,..L 7 rV.?®.
aiui attested by the Townti Clerk and System
due on its Water^i^er and Electric
Rnundifig Bond, No.
dated January 1, 1936.
Treasurer. Each of the interest cou;
puns attached to said bonds shall be
authenticated by a fac-simile signa- . 'r.v«r«
turc of said Town Clerk and Treas-J „ . Treasurer
urer. » Section 7. There shall be endorsed
Section 6. Each of said bonds shall tiPpn ea«A of said ^nds_ provisionft
be in substantially the following form: suff®ble for the registration of said
No. —_ • No iti substantially the following
; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA .
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINAX ! P®^® ReJ^tration;
TOWM OF CLINTON ^ Whose Nahie Registered;
$1,000. $1,000. TowuXlerk ana Tj-easurer.
WATER, SEWER AND ELECTRIC . S®cHon 8. The/e shall be and here-
■ LIGHT SYSTEM by Is levi^ uponf all the taxable
V.
ible pro-
REFUNDING BOND within the said Town of Clin-
The Town of Clinton, a munioipal veL“%T?nH“en'Hl„‘5‘'’JiVh*
i^SUuVt''?’^th°r!!''r‘’«'^"”S'' to prodnre ill «ch HS
value received promises to pay to TX“'t™ jp pop ii
bearer, or, if this bond be registered, Years 1042 tn iW*
to lie royiatered holder herU the So In^lach o’fTh'e
(INK TIIOUSANn DOLI,ARS, $1,000 jfeiinril'stakinB'’Fund for''the'
on the first day of January, J9-——, demption at. maturity of. the
and to pay interest thereon from the pal of sajd Refunding BandsT^nd in
date of this bond at the rate of four addition thereto air-afinui^ tax be-
per centum (4%) per annum, semi- ginning with the year 1935 and end-
and end-
vainly to check it, but never before
had he appreciated to what extent
she had failed. If anything should
haprpen to her—Don closed'his eyes
and refused to face such a thought.
Only ten days more, then they would
go north to those green fiefds and
cool waters of which she was forever
wistfully speaking. Ten days ^^sn*t
long.
This certainly was not a woman’s
country. Least of all was it a coun
try for a lovely, high-bred creature
like Gloria. But, Don reflected, it
had been this or nothing. Gloria had
been willing, nay eager,- to marry him,
even agrainst her family’s advice, and
even though it had meant exile. Nor
V had she once complaified, at least not
off my feet all night. Lord, it’s'the custom of South Carolina teafms, I WHEREAS, each of said bonds was
hot!”
annually on each January Ist and July-ing with the year 1953, .sufficient to
1st subsequent to the date of this pay the'interest on said Refunding
, ItopiPB to out-of^toto foes. Crolip., duly issued on or .bout ito d".^e, Jnd ho*nd:Tp^r p"r^sSltot'ron“.Td Kds L The «me™,hJu be?o'M
hisk lay on his bed all that morn-1 bowed to Honda by the score of 22 I said Town received in payment for dor of the* annexed counons therefor viowfwvn o tu.. m„‘. .*
ing, and he perspired in “his
Meanwhile his wife went on with
packing and her unpacking
was indeed very little
- ' - ! u r J L J payment for dor of the* annexed coupons therefor Section 9. The Mavor and the Town
s sleep, to 0, and Newberry fared little better, of «aid bonds not less than the as they severally become due. Both Clerk and Treasurer are hereby au-
vith her!at the hands of (Jeneva, losing 19 to 9 |“"7 interest on thisjbond thorized and directed to execute said
““ » — » ..... Town Clerk and Treas-
hereby authorized and direct-
and it was a foolish waste
but she had to dq something with
her hands and this occupation gave
her the same pleasure she had de
rived from folding and unfolding her|
deliver said bonds to G. H.
Company, Inc., of Colom-
CapUin Shorty Home and Glenn has aLall times since its issuance been Borough of ManhatUn, City and SUte bia. South Carolina the ’tmrchasf? to
Beeman of P. C., received mention i ^®J^*«»®d by said 'To^ and by its ®f Y®^^* . whom said bonds have been awarded
for the all-state team picked byi®.*"®**’" **.?,^®‘‘d and binding obliga- Tbis, bond niay be register^ as to bv ^e Town Council, upon receiving
I sports writers -of fourteen different j ®®® fbe interest on principal by the holder in his nanne the purchase price to be paid by said
doll’s clothes for imaginary journeys.! newspapers of the state. Horne is reJrlnJe w^fh 'a P®^®basers
.S^hadlovedtopl.y that CTme when; llBht but baa one «f the beat due; and Trenaurer of said Town and s'ucJiTe'^ tnk”e‘irct l^the^ttae and'Tthe manl
ahe waa a tmy prl and ahp waa be-icentera .a South Carol.aa throuBh-i WHEREAS, .said Town la author- fli?''-«!ion .hall be ao^ted hebeoa by , or provided f™'«>e map
coming yep^ childish of late. |oiit h s three years of, varsity foot- ,zed to refund said outstanding bonds n®<i Treavurer. after I)„ne and ratified in Council assem-
Don left .again during the mp.stibalL Betmian i^r^so light, but by his by the issuance of the Refunding uni"® ®f bond Med this twenty-ninth-iiay of Novem-
cruel heat of the afternoon; he re-[fine play-aiwKsteady improvement he Bonds hereinafter de.scribed, by an "b®; bo made, except on saul books licr, 1935. *
e Ceneral Assembly of .South ^'■“""r®*'bear- P. S. Bailey
-until'today whenjt wa7all ov^r and I ^®tbored from wh^t he told h^jr that rf i “‘’‘77rh'( i, J shalMhm^^^^^^ ' r. m V I-
-she could voice her hatred for this, ^bese fi.shiiig jobs were tedious at best ‘ ‘‘J ‘' ‘ to ’the I'ogi.stered hoMei* hereof. l’F ’ Jacob s' '
life without hurting him. That was-‘n^i that the crew wa.s getting along ‘ AS. e.idi ol said outs and-.Su. h -regiKtrution slnill not affect the I* n Adah ‘
like her, to-lade away, if need be to ®®^bl 1k'_ expected. ',77tr(;voliability of _the coui'.m.s hereof „ • . ' W. .L Konrv
die by inches at his side, without com
plaint. ~
One thing was sure—without
Gloria’s love to strengthen him
For two days hi,s nightly report
was the same. Had the accident oc-
curre<l earlier, he would have proceed-, .'ncw Yeai’.s'day, we Tind the l-andi
1 .V wv: ...... 1 piovidc tlic moncys Heco .sucy fOI’ thut
h^ ed, upon failure to grapple: the Iron-'dales .xinidar* to tho.se of la.st year, puipose by the issu
Perrv Wilburn
.1. W. .Hedg"n"th
- v.j«wAldermen
would never have had the courage and
the pertinacity to win his fight
against the d€.sert. The mere fact
that his own 'money and that of fits
friends would not have been sufficient
to keep him here. Not by any means.
But with a wife like Gloria, a mail
wouldn’t quit; he couldn’t tolerate
failure of any sort.
If he and Gloria had been able to
get away once i'n a while it woi^d not
have been so bad, ibut money from
the wella which he had somehow man
aged to drill had gone into new equip
ment, into storage tanks, tank cars,
drilling rigs, leases, and the like; for
in order to live at all in this business
it had been necessary to expand, and
as a result production had not quite
kept pace with expenditures. It had
^n the old, heart- 'breaking story of
most -so-called successful oil enter
prises—just enough encouragement
to render it impossible to let go. But
the company had real holdings now
1 his bond is one of an issue of bonds
ece .sary lor that „f iil<,. and tenor, except as to Attest;
ante ol Jhe Ke- niaturity, and is i.ssued pursuant to i) (’ Ifn'ustess .
Act of the (leneral Assetnbjy of Tuwn Cbok niKi Trea.surer. •
(City .Seal)
ble.some bit stem, to sidetrack . the: Southern .Vlethwlist pos.se.sses a spec- funding Bond.s hereinafter authorized an
ob.struction, .so he explained. I.i other|tacular passing and running attack be i.«sued: NOW, THEREFORE, South Carolina entitled “An Act to
words he would have drillM past it as did Alabama last year. In Wilson, j BE -IT ^ORDAJ^.NEI) by the Town authonre the .Town of Clinton to is-
by allowing' the second” bit to‘ be de^lher Mu.stap4rs~hWe’*'anbrHer"' IJixT^^-®®®®t‘“'®^~'tbc-Tnwn“iDf“Clinton, in sue Refunding Bititda^ to Terund~ref^
fleeted by the first. The lost tool was Howell. He i.s like a jack-i*abbit when ^ TJV***.• ®*'sembled, as tollows: tain outstanding bonds and to provide
in reality a forty-foot -steel shaft he carries the leather, and he has! dcUM^mined a ‘a* to pay such bonds and the in-
„di„B in the bottom of the; hoto.:proven himeelf to be the o«t,tandinB C' I'l^rlii'netlftt /urinveeS'l ^ApetS.’.3"„'.^nrdtli:
and it weighed mahy hundreds of'passer of the year. He, along with tion, that each of the statements made adopted'by the Town Council of said
pounds. Inasmuch as it waa tipped j Iron-man Wetsel, who plays guard as in the recitals of this ordinance is in Town, for the purpose of refunding
so that its upper end rested against jit should be played, were the repre- all respects true and correct. _ outstanding bonds of said Town de
4^ 9 A M X9m« Mb* ■ • M ^ a .... a L ~
the side of the well, it was not easy | sentatives of Southern Methodist on
to get hold of it. This new drilling' several different all-^nierican aelec-
would have resulted in a crooked hole • tipns.
fifty or sixty feet deep and would
have left the obstructing tool standing
Section 2. Pursuant to the provi-^ scribed in said Act.
sions of the Act of the General As- It is hereby certified and reciteil
I sembly of South Carolina entitled “An that all conditions, acts and things re-
nl/i' Wx>«t for iaufhorizo the Town of Clintop quired by the Constitution or statutes
• the West for Refunding Bonds to refund of the SUte of South Carolina to ex-
ingjthe third^^eessive year and, thpligh^(.ei.taij^ outsUnding bonds ahd pro- ist, be performed or happen precedent
upon a shelf of rock. By exploding, probably n.<^l as powerful as last’year,! vide a tax to pay such bonds and the to or in the
a small shot a few feet below this the Indians are by no means weak. I intore.st t’nereon^ approved the”20th exist, have been performed and have
shelf the lost bit could have been
dropped into the pocket—sidetracked
—after which the old shaft could
have been carried en.
But Fisk declared he was afraid to
pi
issuance uf this bond.
.►pr . .
They have the great Bobby Grayson I d®y’ o'f April, 19.'i5, there shall be is- happened, and that tbe amount of this
at fullback and the place-kicking i *’*J®^* ®® ® issue of I^nds, bonds bond, together with all other indebt-1
Monk Mo^crin on one end. Besdes ®V®®'d ^own of Clinton of the aggre- edness of said Town, is within every
Monk Moscrip on one end. Besdes' . - b ^ xt- ^ mi. • , j l. . ... .. . . ,
there are several others who face amount of Ninety Thousand debt and other limit prescribed by the
’ ’ Dollars ($90,000) for the purpose of-Constitution or sUtutes of said SUte.-
attempt this maneuver so close to the battles.
are veterans of past Rose Bowl j ggjj outsUnding bonds. The faith and credit of said Town, are
so'mething of the sort had been ,tried
ed him against doing so. Twice
Section 3. Said bonds shall consist hereby pledged to the punctual pay-
Southem-Methodist is the favorite, of ninety bonds of the denpmination ment of the principal of and interest
MIA ^nmn&nv naa real iHiiuiiiaa iiuw > --- to'wLn, but I pick \Stapford. I believe j pf $1,000 each, numbered from 1 to 90, on this bond in accordance with its
m^A with fhA H/imAdtakp makinir five 1 s®iii®‘^hing of the ort had been tried j tho.se sterling sophomores who rep- *®®l®®''^®' *® order of their ma- terms.
fhniJInd the El Centro field and in each! resented the Indies in the Bowl : tunty, dated January 1.1936. bearing IN WITNESS HEREOF the said
thousand barrels a day, yes, or even^ are going to make their third try ’"terest at the rate of four per cen- Town has caused this bond to be sign-
successful. r'
one-half that, it would be out of theljnstanp a ruined well had resulted,
red in no time and its-stock would The shots had .seared .the
be worth a lot. It would be worth
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so $9uch that Gloria could afford to
give her* family the laugh. Some
thing like a million dollars, that’s
what it would mean to them. And
HomesUke couldn’t miss. El Centro
wasn’t that kind of a pool,
inside the limiU, a man was as safe
as if his money were in the Bank of
E^agl|lnd.
Ten days xnort, then New York
with its shops and its lights and its
theatres. He’d show Gloria that he
perhaps to some )><^uiiar character
istic of the formation. Again h%
told his wife’^not to worry; new fish.-
ing tools were on the way up from
the coast; McKay might have the
obstruction out before they arrived
Once}~*® ^® $r®t of that
^bit stem at any moment. That was
tlie way with fishing jobs.
Don mainufned this hopeful atti
tude; in his wife’s presence he con
tinued to be cheery, but put at the
Homestake, where he spent twenty
turn (4%) per annum, payable semi- ed by its Mayor, and its corporate!
annually on each January 1st and July seal to be hereunto affixed and attest-
Bt Sure They Proptrly
Cleanse the Blood
WOUR kidneys art constantly flltef*
■ ing waste matter from the blood
stream. But kidneys sometimes lag in
their work—do not act as ttahire in
tended-fail to' remove impurities thal
poison the system when retain^
Then you may suffer nagging badb*
ache, dizziness, scanty or too frequent
* t,pufmiese
urinetion,getting up et night, ^
under the eyes; feel nervous, misese*
ble—ell ups^H.
Don’t delay? Use Doan's PHIfc
Doan's era especial^ for poorly funo-
I. tns
tioning kidneys, ihey ere recom
mended by grateful users the country
over. Get them froAi any druggist
DOANS PILLS
wasn't marely a machine eteriiSIlyi»“‘ ‘’''T twenty-four hours, he
thinking, talking, dreaming, living
-oil. He’d prove that lie was. the
wildest, the most extriivagant, the
most devoted lover the world had
ever seen. The things be would buy
for her—the love, the tenderness he’d
ehower upon her! He’d repay her
for the faith and for the courage she*
hail shown. Ten days more!
Gloria ate but little supper that
night. She attributed her lack of ap
petite to excitement, to the anticipa
tion of leaving, but as p matter of
was pni^l^g but optimistic. Nor
was he a pleasant person to get
alolig with. Under ordinary circum
stances he would have refused to be
unduly perturbed by the oil game and
grappling blindly for a bit stem in
the bottom of a steel-lined shaft a
quarter of a mile deep is slow work
at best. Sometimes it takes weeks.
But circumstances were not ordi
nary. Gloria’s heart was set on
catching that boat,, the days were
slipping past, and Don could no Ion-
truth, Franewei, the one. servant K” blind himself to the truth that
they iould affoid, had been more amnlf"-«» "rtonsly rtl "d o«*ht to go.
naimlly shifUeaa that‘afternoon and‘A“d yet there was nobody here he
tte youns wife- herself had been’jo"''* -“h J®
forced to prepare the meal. Any ex
ertion of late left her upon the gag
ged edge of utter collapse.
Donald’s sympathetic remonstrance
was interrupt^ iby old Pedre, the
water
leave until the well waa in. The di
rectors wouldn’t stand for tliaf, even
if he could bring himself to do such
a thing. It so happened—as it us
ually does happen—that no time in
man. Pedro halted his'the entire hietory of the company’s
Kroamng truck outside the house and |oP®«tions rouM have been mere mi-
rellrd Mml-^-'-r in Spaniah that took propitioM than the preecnt for a mis-
eaiiea somei-ning m i,-„ ,„,.u fhU . THa ' tnAMurv WM
Rsk away from the table and out into
the road. Gloria had maste'red only
a few^ words of the language—^this
climate robbed wom«ti of energy both
physical nod mental—hence she coiUd
not understand what was being said
When Don returned, he forestalled
her anxious query by announcing:
w||^]^Ya in some omri of trouble
got t<ti^ ^
hap such as this.j The treasury was
low, there were bank loans soon to be
met! nothing less than.big new “pro
duction” could avert a serious crisis.
If^ he lost the Homestake, the com
pany was wrecked.
Fisk drove his men without mercy,
but it was maddenini^ futile work,
this blind grnpplinf; this intermior.
able experimenting wfth one device
New Master De Luxe and Standard Chevroleta for 1936 dbozrmarfced
advances In appearance and to engfaieeHlig. Perfected hydiau^brslb^iiifh^
compfeasionegtlnca with ftill-length water Jedrats, and balanced carbureomi
areaasont the mrchnnlcal fanprovettenu. The aoMdatael Turret Top Flaher
body ia no# umxI'oo tha ttamlard m wall aa tha Master De Lure friodds.
or qptnrtntiojoal
The iOnatratkaa abowt
aedan, with built-in trunk; top
griUa, read eg all reedda; lowar"
perfected hydrauBt brakea, aU
'jgiy ba'had in tha
Hfab# Da Lure
deeply
of
a "■
( $