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1 ./ 1 N/CHRONICLE, qi^ - X ilfr Cdluitnn (ElfrontrU Wilson W. karris, Editor and Publisher C Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription'Rate (Payable Ip Advance): Qne Year Six Months 75 ^ent-s; Three Months 50 cents Entere<ias Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at.Clinton, S. C. The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers—the publisher will*at all times appreciate v/he suggestions and kindly ad vice. The Chronicle will publish lettei‘s of general interest when they nrt‘ not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. This iiaper is not responsible for the views pr opinions of its correspondents. T AC \ tiim THUK8DAY, jANUARY 23. ISSeV Itv. has been well fed from the “taxpay-i troia took offense at hie reference to efs trough.” It shows that^hile he | her lU the “Widder of Windsor.”, ' -N was a meptber of the, house from l -S’everthele^, Kipling was Spartanburg county in' 1^-28-29 afnd lyized univereally as the greatest Eng- 30, that his wife thrdugh hia “pull” lish poet of his time. John Masefield- also held a lucrative position jwith that* body. During this period John- wa.s> named poet laureate in 1930 NOTICfi OF SALE J Kipling’s works are read more wide-* recog-JState of South Carolin; ^ County of Laurens. In the Court of Common Pleas.' Citizens Building and Loan Associ- “I'■ or by cashier’s' check or certified check with the Clerk* of Court of 5% of the bid as guaranty of good faith m the bidding.'iln thb event the, high est bidder at such sale fails to make the deposit required forthwith, I ^wilL immediately resell, the said premises oh the same terns at the risk of the defaulting bidder. At said sale the Ijbidding. will^ingt be closed upon the v;—-* — ^.w— , , . .. u j I r ' i. ■’"date of Mje but will remain open un wife got'an average of more than ila.st December. He died Saturday af- highest bidder for cash either , jj of the 3Cth day after the sale .12,000 a year out of the legislature, t< r an emergency abdominal Operation the Court Hoi^e^ at Laurens, within which ston drew $3,323.92, while his wife'ly than any of his contempwmries't™®*’/ , * , vs^Mrs.^Truman .Iile was collecting $4,725, a grand total jar\d upwards of 100,()00 copies have! v*’*” r y, e al^ De endants-. for the jtwo of $8,Q48.92 for the fo’Ur beem sold yearly for many years. . i Pursuant tr^or^^ pf the ccurt* in That meant \that he and his) Kipling celebrated his 79th birthday l above entitled matter, I will sell years. \ J. B. T. SCOTT while other members weix? getting f;>r a; pejorated ulcer. less than one-third of that amount. We are surprised that the membersj . let one of their colleagues outstrip j them .so. What is a. little insignifir'^ cntrable Kesident'of Prosperity,.and cant .$200 “extra pay,” % am^t, p^^her of Mrs, I. C. Boland of This , in co^pari-^ Cityi Passes.In Newberry. iS. C., on sale.sday in February r.c::t. . « ‘ period any person other than jthe .same being Monday, l ebruary^ 3, 1929i during.the hours for sue described proper^. tviz, u *' 1 ’ highest bidder at*.the sale or any 1939, during,the hours for such sale|thereof - [the following wit:' mc(st of the members got .son with the juicy plum pullgd dowp*\' ' ’y. I by ‘ Olin. ' [! Prosperity, Jan. 19.Fimeral ser- Furthermore, the people hale been j vices for J. B. T. ScoU, 84,Vere held informed by those wh6 have made a .Sunday afternoon in the old Piesby- CLINTON. S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1936 'check-up, that the.govemor’s salao’, jterian cemetery in Union, where he mansion and tlie ^various perquisites i vvas buried by the side of his form^ thousands of friends and acquaint-', nulk for school children? Or free city ances as “Mr D^,” has attended his j transportation to transport pupils to last Conf«Ierate\et€Cans’ reunion I their respective schools. If we are go- and will be mis.se<l in,this community I to make ourselves,charitable ob- in the Years to come, i J<‘cts, why not go all the way? |that .go with the office, amount to ap-jw ife. supplies of the school room? Why not proximately .$13,000 per year.^ ■ i Mr. Scott died in a New'berry hos- All of which reminds us of tfils inci^ jvital where he was carried last Sun. A REMARKABLE MAN PASSES Kir. A. Copeland? known by j say ^ree cjothing and hot lunchoa and in many ways No man who ever wore the gray Was more loyal or devoted to the South, and none more firmly fixed in the e<invittion of the righteousness of his country’s cause. * •Mr. Copeland was one of Clinlon’.s People who cjpmor tor free text books on the pretense of being unable to buy them for their children, do not practice econjomy in other -ways, ^me of 'them go to the movie.s' regularly, buy cold drinks, hot dogs, liquor, au- arly buiiders, rnaklng a valuable cdi)-j tomobiles, radios and other things tribution during the pioneer period its business life, religious an(b educa tional advancement. He w'as a lifelong of this community, devoted to its interests and its people—a gon- tVinan in every sense of the woixl who belonged to a generation now almost removed from the stage. He was a goo<l neighbor, a good parent* and husband,~a good church-' man, a good patriot, and a gO(xl citi-j zen. The most valuable “heritage h<‘/ U(iueathe(i his surviving family is a g<Kid name. ^ - In loses gMitleman and the First Presbyterian' that have no semblance of necessities.' \One of this country’s greatest trou bles today is th<) idea that has grown prevalent on the part of many of ge' ting something for ’ nothing. Free .school books is just another example in this direction for which prefess^rf- al jwliticians and tKe government are largely responsible. dent. A stranger wandered into a \ day, ITuffering from a broken hip. He 1 fashionable city church and seated, had been recovering from a broken j himself for the service. Presently a I shoulder, and wa.s able to* be about his member of the chureh entered and dis- Ihome when he .suffered the fall which ' covered his accustomed seat ocou-f proved fatal. I pied. Somewhat up.set'he handed a'j Mr. Scott was a Ufe-time member i “.Ml of niy one-half interc-it of,' in an(| to, all that certain- piece, parcel or lot of land, together with the t\vo-story bricly store building thereon, ,lying, situate and being in'the Town of Clinton. County and State aforesaid, t)ound^ on the north by lot and store building of Jack H. Youngs (the center of the brick wall be ing the line) one hundred (100);* feet, more or less, tlrereon; oh the" east by Broad street, thirty-one i representative thereof may enter a higher bid upon complying with the ^ the sale by making a deposit terms o jjf 5'/i of the bid as guaranty of ^ood j faith, and thereafter within such pe riod any person other than such high- jCst bidder at the sale or any r^pre- rentative thereof may in like mariner aise the last high^t bid and the uccessful purchaser shall be deemed 'to be the per.son who submitted the 'lest highest bftf within said period ■'•vho makes the necessary deposit, pro- ’vided. that if the_„3QtlL day _falla,-fin and two-tenths K^1-2) feet, more card to the stxanger, conUining the.se,of the Methodist church and had been woixls: 'treasurer until a short'time ago, as “I pay a thousand dollars a year [well as active in'other capacities, rent for that pew.” , He was a native of Union county The stranger quickly, turned the.'and a graduate of Davidson colleg^ ^5ard over, wrote en-the-ether eideand i in 1867. He settled in Unioir coxtnty, m £| hainded it back to the gentleman with this reply: “You pay too damn much.” '' Ashes Of Kipling To Rest In Abbey entering- the retail -hardware business. He was county supervisor for a iium ber of years, ‘ He moved to Prosperity about 27 years ago where he had Ihrge land holdings. He also continued in the mercantile business. I ile is survived by hi^ widowV who was Miss Kate Kiser, ahd. the fdllow- A DANgWoUS PLAN Governor .lohnstoh now comes for ward with a recommendation to the legislature that the state constabu- Mi-. CojK'land’s death C linton j ^ bo^y) a' valuable,, upright (.hristian | inerge<l_ with the state highway ,, for the establishment o.f a foui'cli one/of, its mo.^t loyalj , statewide police system. Tho a,-ho, oMtw)-';"* 'their mother beings Mrs. Eliza Pnd-; more Scott: L WyScott, Pacolet; Core ^ Scott .and P. p/(. .Scott, Greenville; j A uu * - . „iMi .s. Ira C. Bpland, Clinton; Mrs. J.! •ner of Westminster Abbey at noon ,, v. I , .. Ft- I IB. Reece, H^mdersonville, N. C. .■M.so a number of grandchil dren. i)id rospected officers: Cofl rest him. ± 'What’s back of tion? Is it another the recominenda- gesture or bid for more ponTr? Who is to be the “high judge” in setting up sufh a combina tion? The answer, we luesume, is the governor. Such a system set up under the con- Ixmdon, .Ian. 19 yard Kipling, Great Britain's world-’ famed poet-imperiali-st w'ho died last Saturday, will In* buried.in the i>oet«’ coi Thursday, it was announced Sunday Tbfs is an honor usually accor(le<l] ^ the nation’s i>oet laureate. Kipling, /' . however, never received that recogni-:SUBSCRIBE TO tion reiiortedly because Queen Vic- TIIE Tb^ Paper Everybody Reads or less, thereon; on the south by barber shop (squth’side of the wall being the line) one hundred flOO) feet, more or less ther^n; on the west by Wall street, thir ty-one and two-tenths (31.2) feet, more or less, thereon. This being a portion of the ^projierty bought by -George W. Young from D. E. Tribble Co. and by D. E. Tribble Co. from J. W. Copeland, Sr. The building herein conveyed carrie<l with it the right of ea.sement of the joint use of stairway of the same dimensions^ and location as now existing to the second story thereof over barber shop imme diately mljoining and south there of. Being the identical real estate conveyed to us, the .sait^lr.s. Tru- , man Miles Wimberly and Mr.s. | Eunice Miles Watson, by John H. Young, Attorney in Fact, et al, by deed dated the 22nd day of N^ovember, 1928. The successful bidder at .-‘uch sale,. 'other than the plaintiff in this action CHIlONICLh shall, upon the bid being knocked Sunday the bidding shall be closed at, 'noon on Monday immediately foRo •ing. Upon the closing of the sale^as ‘aforesaid the. successful bidder will 'W required to comply with the terms j forthwith and in the event- the suc- 'ccssful bidder does not comply with j the terms of the sale within ten days tnext ensuing after-the closing of the 'bids, the property will be readver- jti.sed and sold fit the risk of the for- * mer purchaser and the deposit made by such defaulting purchasej* shall be forfeited. j I The purchaser to pay for stamps, deed.s and reconling, and will be let into,.possession.of the premises upon production of Special Master’s deed. ' THOS. W. BENNETT, ! l-30-3tcw. Special Ma.ster. Certing I'p down, make a depo.sit either in casl If you Huffvr from Oft'Irer Up Ntffhfi, Nervou.'<nt>M, PainA. Swollfii Jolnt«, Iloadaches, Loiit of Pep, Durn- inir, SniartlnR, Itching Acidity due to functional Kidney or madder troubles try the I>octor'a guaranteed pre.acriptlon Cystex <Slaa-t«x). Muat bring nfw vlt^illty ,,ln 4> houra, and aatlsfy completely In I dnyn or money bark. Quiranteed Cyatas costa oalg 3c a doM at druggUia. , A WISE MOVE The St /\ii-. Line railway, ^^itTg \vIHi other'i-oaiL, announces the iilguiation at/ art eaily date of a aTid -luie dtMtr frt ighf- defiv- trol of the govenior would result in e:y service without eost to ."hipper building uj) another jiolitical machine. a’ld eonsigiu'e. Tlii> nu aiis that an- \'ol ody eoahl .become it mi‘mhuc..u>£- ■*i:t i MCI tied antP forward step in (he system unless a Johnston man, :',iti<; 'nation is alvdut to be taken (he same requirement that now exists w'll.t il will jiul the railroails in a elos- and is demanded to breome a member t I anil more effective eomiK'tition tif the highway eommission. with I'ther tian.-^portation facilities, j if we are to have a statewide po- Tiu lailruads have iHH'n entirely too - iw 111 the matter of nu'eti-ng compe- : r 111. -What they are now doing -houiii have been done several yeuis j','o when the good roads idea got •’a’t.ii anti >ii!ead into the building ef a system of iiaveU—kigliways to wli'eii liie buses a,nd trucks haxe hatl :.t if'-s u itb' little cost. T4tr»-t--v+»-n liee system it shouhl lu* set up under a commissitm of citizens (not poli ticians) interesti'd [irimarily in wag ing a relentless fight against crime ami reckless driving on the highways, either hy s|)ee(lers or druriRs. Create a state system and put at its ht*»(l' [the governor (who Wants to be a' .<1 goot I « the and at -4a rgeil b II iiig United Stjyte senator) , and we may »nm-t*f tatirtmtlTst-rvIet* ts-' know w+int to expect. We are against mo\e and is (aleulated to bring more jmwer for the govermw roatis an iriereased business inembers of the geneial assem the same timi offer an eii- They are now in a large measur^dic- serviee to bu.-iiiess intere.-ts Mating individuals and bodies ./before It) U'f .ail 11 an-portalio'n. 2! whom the people tot' often mlist bow as their rights are enoroacljiHl uimn KU.NNLNt; TKUE TO FOK.M Hardly had the legislature convened fore Governor .lohnston hail the iard« ,stacked an<l kicked out ofoffiee . thout warning, the suiierintemlent ■ f flit* state penitentiary in onleo to KKEKS ont Pas. in L .e. tlu' 1 in house sergt/ant-at-arms, laineaster count v as "one FILLING ms ('( If you-haven’t rea<t ttie public com munication to Gove^or .lohipuon by (i-ituge HyW Timimu-man, (lo so now. It apilc,ars in The Uhroniefe today and 4' tilt is fille^with information the jKDple It is an eye-o|H'ner, u er, a charge,” to which governor, like the little has nothing to' in over -hould know. the big .lidmston men." straight-sh< * tlu''election of Sujit. Wilson nowontlerl[i If govfi aor and "hi.s” board, tile ^ hoy the oall < f;ic<‘ of .seigeant-at-arms became va- ‘ -ay in repl'. - c;mt. Tlie vaeaiuy wa.s.'Tilltnf in -short _.Mr. 'rimn inau :s one of thejhigh- t vder, however, wiMe the election hy , way commi inei s against wHom the acelamatam of one of the hwuse mem-Mrovernov Vm riit ilritceiHlings to show b- rs. .Xj’other member of the same cause why lu* shouhl not Ik* ousted '-"dy at the same brt'alh was maile' fjoiu office. He states that he has re ading cle’T on the'first ballot overjin'en attempting since early in Ike- four .oiiponeIlls. ' cemluT to gt't^a hearing ami come to In st'leeting t\Mi of Its own mem-!trial on the-acousation.s fiknl-against rxT's t<r fill these jMisitions the legisla-] luin. Hut the governor has bt*en so ; ure ran true to form.'Nobody expect-i busy with what he calls “official bus- vd it to 4o anylliig^g el.se. A man is «ithheVlgTuTi ant <n a fool who is so ine.s;!”'and "stKiial dutie.s,”,,.,he iutsai'-L- hail time to hear Mr. Timmerman and optimistic as to even imagine he can, the other members of the commission it'ceive a legislative appointment un-|against whom he brought his giound- less he belongs to lhat'-body. Much is j less, but purely i>olitical charges. heai:d nowadays about “open” or ' Every one who is informed on the “closed” shops in the field of Indus-j governor’s tactics^ know.s_that he is AtXf .The-.ljyg-Ls]atm:e_ is a jitriking ‘Stalling" and , fightinif^or- time in ample of the “closeri .s1rop” system. the hope of whipping the legislature IT: -*■ J0 i^^THAT keeps you from driving a Buick—not next year—but now — today? Is it the money? .\ Krrge preportion of the inembei-s t in line-to do his bidding. A few weeks At the general as.sembly gt) there in ^ ago he was in such a huriy to get the hope and exiH'Ctation of landing i control of the commission he could a better job through their member-1 not wait for the legislature to con- f-hip, or of pulling down e^xtra pay (at vene, or for the issue to be settled in which the governor is a past-mastey). | an orderly proress of the court. He i Merit and qualification count little called out the militia to gain control ^'.vhen these elections come up. TheioL lhe highway department. Now he main re<|uisite is—do you l>elong tojhas lost his energry and enthusiasm,t Time payments on a Buick are but-two or three dollars a week more than on the loWest'priced cars—less than that» when you figure the “extras” a smaller car usually calls for. Could it be habit? Maybe you get used to buying' in the low-priced ^Id—vou get the idea a big car costs too muen^to run—you resign yourself to small-car comfort, abil%,' Let us show yon our arit what a Buick can do out ipf-r — the road. It won’t cost a penny—and it may make you a lot hapfiier—with a Buick! performance—and plain human nature KC the “dosed shop.” he waits and wants to put off. The {ruling of the three judges who re- SOMETHING F'OR NOTHING U*ers^ him in his findings against the The governor in his message to tKe ^ three members of the commission al- le^slature I'ecommended free text-. i^eady tried, has thrown a damper on book{> for the public schools. A pro- '.his enthusiasm to go ahead with his portion of the membership of that;fight. If the legislature has any*back- body holds to the same idea, and an'l>one or a reasonable amount of intel- effort will be made to put such legis-i ligence and sane reasoning, it. will lation into effect. The rei>ort even take a position and stand by it of noti comes “back home” by the gi'ape-vine j approving any legislation pertaining route, that a member of this county’s I to a permanent highway set-up until Is it the upkeep? Boidc is • big comfortable car that gives small-car gas mileage, small-car mileage on oiL You’ll keep a Buick at least a year longer than yqu’U keep a lesser car— and probably spend less on idri It for service andrepair in the meandmel 0 teeps you from inquiring further! Maybe a Buicka bit beyond your reach. But let’s not admit it until we’ve got the actual figures! We’U gamble our time against yours to show you fust what a Buick will cost—to twiy—to run—to keep in good condition. We’ve surprised many a small-car owner witn our thrifty figures, thrilled them wi^ a demon- IT60STS LESS NOW TO BUY ON TIME! strauofL The new GMAC 6^ TIMS PAYMENT PLAN hot only makes it easier to figure the cost of buying on time, but aavet money that you can use to get a better car. Poc example,a Buick Special business coupe listing at die fiiCtory (safety glass included, standard and special accessory 765' *Sttbitct to ebaaaewhhoet nodes. delegation is slated for a fat job! legi.slation instituted by the 'governor (whatever his title may be) once the law is created. ' The idea is unsound and expensive, and has* more of a political than common sense. Why stop at textbooks if the plan is to give something away for noth has been- settled and the men indicted either proven guilty or exhonoratedt' But in connection with his demand flavor for a hearing, Mr. Timmerman hits the governor squaaely under the chin after “going to the record,” He por trays the governor before the people ♦ d ...wttjcame^L. IHOMASON MOTOR COMPANY 4 Laurens, South Carolina inc* at the expense of the taxpayers? jas a past-mn in his ability to "ex- \V. ' not go a step further and sayMract” extra pay .’tom the legislautre. ink, acisaocs, fnuite, con-The official atru* ' n paper, aiid all other net jed'Timmeini.'.'i siiow' fu ** ted by Mr, ho governor V^HEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT, BUICK WILL,BUILD ■. + ■%-. . 4 - J \