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'?^f^''T.’-r'^.'' THE C14NTON CHRONICLE, CUHTOH. 81 C X •. *■ ■— «i ■'^— •«»-.-«| ** • - . 1 .7 iiff (BUnton (EiprottlrU EstiU>Ushcd 1900 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CObfPANY Subscription*Rate (PayVble In Advance): One Year $1.&0; Six Months 75 cents; Three Months 50 cents Entered as 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 aU times appreciate wise sunr^restions and kindly ad vice. The Chronicle willj^ublish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. This paper iS nq^responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. i Item* 10 Yean Ago of Interest ^rsoi The UuroBi< ol| April 29, 1926 cla ik|ted on the caniirier of mis# jennie ve^e smith, our afficie CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, APRJL 30, 1986 A LESSON IN THRIFT In looking over the financial report of a medium-sized insurance com pany^ it is noted that their sales for eleven months of 1935 were 27 per cent greater than during the same pefTod the pnpeceding year. Scores -of life insurance companies, large and small, report similar increases. against the department, andsKis de termined desire to control that body? Does it endorse his action in knock ing the state out of Mveral million dollars of federal road aid,, thereby depriving thousands of persons of WQtk^jind ad,dilUI to the already large unemployed list? Does it endorse a man who, since 1924, as legislatureman and governor Here„is a strong lesson on thrift. . , . . . , It shows that generally speaking, the oppos^ highway development, "American people are still retaining friends cannot pdint out a foresight and self-reliance. A man' single syllable uttered by their chief who buys life insurance, and through which he- has ever favored con- his own efforts, provides for the fu-j struction of a foot of good roads in ture financial security of himself and I ^ his loved ones, isn’t the kind of man Does it approve the governor's re- -jwho willingly looks to government state-wide building Big Business Is Seeking A Location for doles. • J program which if upheld by the gen- ‘ In Flat Rock Mrs. Ansel Godfrey of Abbeville, is visiting mother, Mrs. Henry Young. Miss Harriet Uzzle "of Winston- Salem, N. C., is the guest of Rev. and Mrs. Edward Long. Mrs. T. J. Peake is spending two weeks with her mother in St. Peters burg, Fla. Rev. James Bradley of HartweJl, Ga., is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. S. J« Todd. Mr8._E. W. Stone and children of Union ~are the guests of relatives in the city. Dr.* and Mrs. L. R. Lynn, C. A. Fleming, Mrs. Lula Jamison and Miss Mary Adams are attending the Tri- State Confecenoe of Orphapage Work^ ers at Barium Springs, N. C. J. P. McMillan has return^ from a three months stay in Florida. Miss Margaret Crouch has gone to Greenville where she has accepted a position with the Second Pnesb^rian church as director of religious activi ties among young people. "prances sWly has been selected as the best speller in the Clinton high school contest and was awarded a 612.50 gold^iece given by a local bank. e smith, our afficient achoU pritt? ciple, by saying that he, believed that she, dip{ied snuff and smokes to ex cess. he was struck down with a swift upper cut‘by yore corry spondent, mr. •mike Clark, rfd, but was later on pulled off of him by the poleesman who kept them from getting hurt. being opened sonday afternoon at »» post ofhs. one of the jones boys re someboddy broke the citty pump about sundown sipiday with ^nwlis ; aforethought, his. finger-prints have benn located, and he sefihs to be a cedar lane guy who h^^ to see flat j <» rock outdo his town/after he broke same, he dropped/it into the well, no watter was available till this morn ing. a warrant has benn issued for his corpus deiecti and his fine will be 5| or .^re if convicted. Nobody’s business By Gee McGee COMMON SENSE RULES eral a.ssembly, will mean that roads badly needing improvement in Lau- deer mr. edditor: flat rock needs yore^help in pub licity. she is on the eave of a forward movement, progress is knocking at' ,, . rens county will go untouched? (The If the mounting automobile acci-,. ' . ^ r, • on the highways ia tolL^urens Chamber of Commerce, in be pnt to an end, the motorist and | .f«vert>oddy ahouid put h.a pe,ieatrian have a-reapolfaibiiity baaed ‘**^‘'"* J ■ • I ’ time, and rightly so, the development on sound principles, they must fulfill. . . ' . . , a v X,! *. ■' iof the county s cross country roads). cL^^^rdrive and walk with! Wn kiddlac '“c“dr!:: anrwirkttli thei‘^|;n7t''e-« the county do ... , .11 I not know what the Laurens club had care that means safety to *11. ', I - .1 Knowledge ^— to learn and under ' specifically in mind, it surely must ■at.mrt"h'oro‘u77y‘^hrr«ffrc'raw“ran‘d I»PP™y?' of ‘h' rulea of the aUte and community in j‘**- which we drive and walk. ! partment and .ta road building pro- Skill-to improve our mastery of, .-""S' '"'i’ '"‘r, "f’ . • u 1. *u I ministration has been dedicated to thj skill which make the good driver. .... . • ,u.»'t;hat effort as his record will show. Sense—to use common sense in the i ... > • . w. ij u .. .. Our neighbor fnends should be many situations encountered ' shoulders to a wheel and push, this looks like the best chance we have had^ince the main highway skipped us and went by cedar lane onner count of they could not get a right-of-wpy thru pur 10$ per aker land. ‘ when drfving and walking. - Co-operation—to co-operate, as an individual driver or pedestrian, with the organized efforts to make driving and walking everywhere safe.. Adherence to these principles would largely solve our appalling highway accident problem. ^*pecific as to-their admiration and endorsement of “Olin.” There are many of us in the county who need enlightenment, who are so ignorant that we can't apprehend what it’s all about. CO-OPEI^TIVE MOVEMENTS The-means.whereby large groups in other countries, and in some cases practically entire nations, have solved their economic problems has never had a wide vogue while in the United Etates. That means is co-operfition. The co-operative movement in Eng land began more than half a century LIQUOR HURTS BUSINESS ' Said a level-headed business man to us yesterday: “The liquor business Is going from bad to worse every day. If we eliminate the high moral ob jection, and look at the question — purely from a dollar mark point of view, it is ruining businees." The' gantlemajn is right. The more liquor people buy the less money they have left to buy food, clothing, milk. ago among a group of factory work ers. Now a high percentage of the! niedicine and the needs of their fami- British working classes belong to co--lies. It is therefore evident to people operative associatrqns, through which i who u.se their brains that selling they purchase most of their nece.'^.'^i-! liquor with the state’s sanction is not ties, at material savings to them-j only harmful to society, buL it is also eelves. That is the best example in injurious to business. Money spent for the world of consumer co-operation. The little country of Denmark lift- liquor Avill not be spent for needs of mothers, little children, or other ed itself from poverty to prosperity, things. through another kind of co-operation, j Some interesting facts have recent- This was the co-operative market or-jly been compiled by a noted publisher ganization, through which all of thefuf a chain of newspapers who does dairy products which are Denmark’s not permit his columns to be used chief exports are produced and sold.; fur the advertisiitg of liquor. These That is producer co-operation. j figures quoted from a recent govern- In America we hav6 had many ef- ment‘sur\’ey show a 27 per cent un- mr. fuller bull, a new york' tycoon, has benn in flat rock for 15 days look ing up a sight to move his over-hall factory to from up north where the communists have ruint his bizness. all he asks of flat rock is a new factory sight with a building thereon free of charge, and 10,000$ worth of capitol stock to Show our local intrust. ~ aWrthing moved along aznoothely till bed time- when th« fire broke out in the *ll-nite caffe which had benn closed aince satturday p.m. noboddy could imagine how the flre igot start ed as the owner thereof carried no insurrahce 'of anny kind, it was quenched by a fire distinguisber squirt gun which scudd Clark wears; on his 4.door. verry little dammagej was done, as he had nothing moch inj same. ~ yore's trulie, » mike Clark, rfd, corry spondent. RESIDENTS OF CLINTON AND /• The Federal Government Feckral Savings and Loan pose of extending to home- that vouldi^kee Che Neirbeny ition for the sole pur- the best pdodble plan them fnMh losing their homes wfaeir- pressed in meeting their present mortgage payments. We will refinan^ your present mortgage, buiid you a home or repair your home if you live in Clinton, S, C. or vicinity at 6^ interest. You take no stock in the as sociation and^ou are guaranteed a ddH-free home in a definite period. Your interest payments reduce monthly and your payments are ap^^ direct to principal re duction. I pONT DELAY — File Your A^cation For Your Loan With I R. W. WADE or ROBERT S. OWENS, Attorneys, — TODAY. Fideral S«ii^4 Assodation ^Txovemment Supervised.** John F. ClarkMn, Pres. C. D. Weeks, Vice-Pres. J, K. Willingham, Secretary-Treasurer. -4 •wf 4 I TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The Rhode Island Insuran(ie Co., Providence, R. I., hereby gives notice that its dwelling policies 895140 to 895160 ‘ both inclusive and dwelling policies 895152,ifi.„S06176 both indu- sfve, formerly in the hands of William J. Bailey Agency, Agents for said Company at Clinton, South Carolina, have been Idst, mislaid or destroyed, and said company will not be respon sible as insurers for any loss claims under said policies, ahd said policies are hereby declared null *nd void by the Company. Anyone having any knowle^e of the whereabouts of said policies Will please notify Malcolm*, Nash, State I Agents, ,^reensboro, North Carolina. he will sell his second preferred to the flat rock citizens at par plus, whatever that means, and he will keep all of-the ballanoe. no taxes is to be levied on his factory for 25 yedrs, no licenses is to be i;harged, and he is to have free watter and fcee lights when the govverment furnishes the town with same. . - he will employ betwixt 8 and 40 men and wimmen while running full blast, and dosed down he will employ 2 men, vizzly: a night Watchman and a day watchman, this will give the flat rock-ites a chance to get a nice weakly payroll of atritost 75$, and the industry is -badly needed, he mought make wimmen’s dresses later on. mr. bull talks yeiry pleasant, he meats with the leading citizens near ly ever night at the boarding house and much fun is had with jokes, cards and monopperly boards. ^ is fairly free with his-monney, he hawing give nearly everboddy a ceegar the first 2 nights, he seams to mean bizness. he has paid nothing on his board bill so far, a-cording to miss jennie veeye smith, who allso boards there. de-r normal consumption of milk in fifty-nine leading cities. In comment forts to set up consumer co-oper atives. These consumer co-operativea have'mostly been started in times of ing Mb. Gannett says: depression and abandemed'as times “This means that both the gbt lfetteV. / ' “i ^farmer and the dairy industry Producer co-operatives hav'e l>een Arc suffering loss as a result of more successful in America. A high- proportion of the dairy products mar keted in the big cities are shipped-b^ dairymen’s associations, cd-pperative ertameries and cheese factories. Co- the destructfv'e competition of the brew'er and distiller.” ^ In 1935 the United States’ con sumption of distilled liquuor jumped 32,983,939 gallons over 1934; its epn- sumptiorr of beer 166,377,524 gallons operative grain eleVators and market ing methods have_.been successful in lover 1934. In -South Carolina more Kome of the wheat-growing regions.!than 6,000,000 quarts of legal wh'is- Nearly alw’ays co-o|)eratlve .move- key have been sold since the state’s merits have failed when politics en-j liquor law b^me effective eleven tered into them. —- mr. edditor, if you could sell a few shears of this valluble stock thru the collums of yqie paper, it would, be highly app'rc'ciated. it i.s 50$ per shear, all ca.sh. it will be printed as soon as he goes back north where his stock printing press i.s hell by his own og- ger-nization. hurrah for flat rock, this enterpri.se is the beginning of new and bigger things for our little citty. it will soon be called the “jim of the peedmount.” ' , Flat Rock -PaasM Thqi a Verry Serene Sunday * last Sunday passed off verry quiet Dr. Felder Smith of DRS. SMITH & SMITH OPTOMETRISTS Specialist In Eye Examinations Oflice Hours 8 to 6 DbUj Phone 101 for A|ipointraeiit Clinton, S. C. D. E. Tribble Co. FUNERAL DIRECTORS EMBALMERS UeeMed Embalners, CoeipIcte Modem Eqaip»eat L Day Phone 94 Ni|ht Phonea 24, 253 or 255 Clinton, S. C. _ In America we have a form of co operation which is iH‘culiarly our own. "We co-operate with our dollars to a months agru. tn other -words, the na-j iu flat rock, after the mad-dog come tion, admittedly with ndllions under- !uto rehober church and snapped at other nation. 'We probably could and housed, underclothed and undernou rished, squandered about $2,500,000,- Ipi^ter- ex tent than the people of any d)0(LJor. alcoholic driak during 1935, a leap of roughly $428,000,000 over •would do more in co-operation^ if we 1934. ever reached the rtate of hopelessness •which lies at the bottom of European co-ojieratives. If you are a business man,"look at deacon brown and sbobbered in mrs. simkins lap, everboddy jumped up and rushed outside hollering “mad-dog.” the i^rmont broke up befoar bhejcol lection was took, only 23 members of the congregation jumped out of the the facts. You had better have the'^^ind®” ansoforth. no other dammage coura^ to start now and fight openly place. / [and ifearlessly to banish such compe- SHOULD BE SPECIFIC A news dispa^h from our county Beat neighbor town, states tnht the Laurens City I>emocratic club at reorganization meeting Saturday etepped out of the usual routine to endorse the administration of Gover nor Olin Johnston. * i Just what it endorsed aiBout' his •dministration the public is not in- iixjmeA. Thousands of people in tUe aoonty would like to know, would like to. see the reason for their action in ^ bam in mind one sing^ apo^ular feat on the part of the «bwf emeotim or did it swaUow hk admiaiatiattoa, bait, book, and all? Does it endorse hie high-handed, and exp^im atdwtitutioa'* in. the state of nsilitary fof ciril government nndar the pratonee of what he called i**r it aildanto Ma^jear of fight- aind mivUaf omr higliwar, <•- «f a palMail ' tition even if you approach the issue only with the personaJ motive of at- the mad-dog was ketched and his head was sent to the state cappitol to tempting to conserve your own busi- ^® examined for the ratoits. if he had j same, whoever he slobbered on or bit will no doubt take the pasture treat- Office Supplies — we have a com-' ment for hydry-phoby. it was hoUmm ness. plete Rne, everything needed in the' moore’s scotch collar hound, and he i^flce for the expediting of businMS. I is being talked about tor not wearing Call 74 for whatever your need kay' * muzzle oh the streets while running s >1 .. . be. Chroniclp Put^khing Company. 4 get your>encil . . and let*8 why“Spar tan** StartinR Mash is cheaptr, oil **Spartan** maks fryers ip eiRht weeki^you eat oriseB them and stop feed biU. Cheap mash requires ten weeks to produce Fryers. These .last two weeks they **eat their heads off**—making cheap cost more than ‘Spartan.’* C. W. S. Guano Co. 62 — We Deliver at largo according to law. the wrack botwixt a telly-foam post and a v-8 took place in front of the drug stoar enduring the mad-dog ex citement. art squam's secoat son aad 2 strange wimmen were at the wheal and they were-too badly shocked and skint up at first to explain annything about the axcident. no atitches were took by dr. green, he fixed them up with sticking plasterr lRi has newer got paid tor the gi.xtitchea he jUxA on him 2 months ago. a fight was barely avsrtod by the poloeaman wbmi the 4 9. m mail mSiik. SECURITY Let Us Do Your Gardening! Why- grow your vegetables when you can get them delivered fresh and nice ^to-your door each morning? VISIT OURBTORE AND SEE OUR ASSORTMENT I ,OF VEGETABLES. WE ALSO HAVE A. CHOICE LINE OF FRESH MEATS AND GROCERIES. MARKET SPECIALS Mixed Sausage, lb. — 35c Canadian Bacon, lb. ; 55c Boiled Ham, lb. ..... 55c Pigmy Li& Sausagir (pure pork), # sa^aaaaaaaa.aaanann Fresh livm* Pud^ng, lb. 20c GROCERY SPECIALS Premier Tiny English Peas, 2 Nei, J aiaa .Grmrn Juice, quart Post Toasties, 3 pkgs. . f < Large cans Tmnato Juice ..... a a 0 0 • • 45c 25c 25c 10c X Fresh Fids Every Thursday BULOCirS GROCERY & MARKH PHONES 156 and 157 .WE DELIVER I- WEEK-END SPECIAL An ^tna Life lirc0in e is guaranteed security for you and your family • ... Protection now — later a « steady/ unfailing income for lii s. W. SI Aetnn-lasr Next Door to Western Union PhoM 80 1000 Yards SILK CREPES ^NOVELTY ROUGH CREPES -WCHLY TONED PRINTS -PASTEL LINGERIE SILKS Reduced from much higher-priced Unw. * t • You’ll Want Several Dresses At ' This Low Price. ~ At .,4 'S ?• ?? iMegMietu#