The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, April 30, 1936, Image 4
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THE C14NTON CHRONICLE, CUHTOH. 81 C
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EstiU>Ushcd 1900
WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher
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10 Yean Ago
of Interest ^rsoi The UuroBi<
ol| April 29, 1926
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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
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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.
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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
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WEEK-END SPECIAL
An ^tna Life
lirc0in e
is guaranteed
security for you
and your family
• ... Protection
now — later a
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steady/ unfailing
income for lii
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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.
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You’ll Want Several Dresses At
' This Low Price. ~
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