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‘ \. ■4 *n>UBSDAY. MAY 14, cb4 THE CLINTON CElktNieLE. CUNTCtN, 8. C ■ /' I i / > --t- PAGE SE -rr- ^•1 REX BEAC+^ tmliar with £Uiri4g«'s habits; you know how dtives home that back way every.4ujrht af^r he’a been to see her, so nob^y will'get wise, and you know ’he has to get out to open that gate. You know* every inch of the ground out there, having been raised on the spot. You buy a cheap car so you can get around—people on trpl- > be at night.' like ydh, a picture-painter, want of an automobile, eh? All right. One night j leys are likely to be seen and recog nised late at night.' What’s a guy Power Offers For Clerk Of Court J. Herman Ptf^er, of the Barksdale- Namie section, . fonnally announces himsetf in today’s paper as a candi date for clerk of court in the August primary. Mr. Power is now completing his fourth year as member of the board of county commissioners. In placing when Ethridge has a date with your j his announcement yesterday he '^t- |gal—his gal—you beat it out to see ed, “Upon my record and experience I am asking promotion at the hands of the voters.” He is a wid6ly-kno\^'n your mother. You’re a nice, dutiful mammals boy, only you’re not living at home. No, you’ve got your own and popular citizen of the county, and place in town and you leave her alone his many, hi^ with the chicks. Totf park ybiir tttv;7 candidacy. ^ * • EIGHTH INSTALLMENT , |liquor in her bottio and felt her Uut-!''"' the lane; then, S,iK>p6i3; Ainoe Ethridge ii found lened nerves relax, felt a grateful murdered in a country lane with a'ease and contentment creep through crude cross of~twigs on his^reast and a scented slieet of note paper in his her. When the matron came to awaken pocket. He was the ricbeot man in the 1 her charge in the morning she found atate with power and influence enough, her lying across he^ bed with her tot Jn*ke himself a candidate for gov-’clothes on, arid with Vn empty flask «mor.‘'With his death came hints of J beside her. an unsavory private life, of sandal that might co^ to light if t^ mu^- Holmes did not confmu- riicate with his mother that night; he was, for the time being, out of com munication with anybody. Even whiM the evening extras were in process of printing he had been taken to police der is inves£i|:ated too closely. Mary Holmes, SL^former opera singer whose career was wrecked at the birth of her son, called “the goose woman” by newspaper reporters, lives nearest the scene of the crime on a small chicken farm where she ekes out a poor living and tries to find in drink the forget fulness of past glories when she was . Maria di Nardi, world-renowned op era singer. ^ . . tJerald Holmes, a tal- ~”ented youn^artist, is hated and loved by his mother who is embittered be- old lady. But you take pains to duck| just before Ethridge is due hdme. Fine! It’s a wonder you 'didn’t set the, clcwk back when she ^wasn’t' looking t and call her attention to it. They us-i ually do. ^ } J But you get a bad break—one in a Ttsandr-‘Your mother goes up the There w^ jk perfectly good reason | m time to see you give Ethridge the works. Tough for you she wasn’t close enough to recognise your voice, or see your face; she’d have kept herj mouth closed if she had, no doubt. Women are like that. But, not know-; j ing you ha<l a car, she .spills every-' headquarters and there put through thing to Mr. Vogel, and he plays her! an examination sufficiently rigorous I just right. We have you covered be-! to be termed the “third degree.” Atifore'he brings her into town. And by the way, remember .the two wops that talked to you the night you went first he was humiliated and bewilder ed, although scarcely alarmed; he an jiwered questions frankly and fully, ^'bac^t to hide your tracks in case she not realizing in the least that Cvei-y sus{>ected you? Your right headlight i.- u _*u 1 1 # u uttered closed the net more was out that night, too. Why, man, cusv h.s hirth wusejith, loss of her lightly .bout him. I everythin* checks u,., even to the voice .nd wrecked her operxtic c..| .^hin*' hinj white robe, or •mantle,' ... .he call. about his relations with Hazel Woods, *tl We find this light-colore<l dust land he told them of his engagement coat in your car. It ain’t exactly to her. He also admitted ownership] white and it ain’t a’‘robcT’-hut it’.s- of an automobile and ideiftified a close enough. I never saw a cleaner D. E. Tribble Co. - • »- »i. . ... .FUNERAL DIRECTORS EMBALljfERS Licensed Embalmera, Complett Modern Eqaipment Day Phone 94 . Night Phonee 24. 253 or 235 Clinton. S. C, National Office'. $7.50 SUte Offices ...2 :,$5.00 Coiinty Officqe, except 'Coro- ner and County Commik- . ^ ai'oner '.$5.00 Coroner and County ' Commiaeioner $3.00 Magiatrates, Laurens and CNnton $5.00 AH other Magistrates........$3.00 Strictly payable in advance! Don't ask us to deviate from this rule, as all must be paid in .advance. :—— from Ward 3, subject to tlw rul regulations of the, Dempcrati rmx FOR SHERIFF I thereby announce myself as .a can didate for Sheriff of Laurens County and pledge myself to abide by the rdes of the Dmocratic primary. '• CALDWELL WEIR. CLERK OF COURT i—I hereby announce myself'as a can- i didate for Clerk of Court of Laurens County and pledge to abide by the rules and regulations of the Demo cratic primary»^ ’ “^ HERMAN POWER. mary. rulea aai ‘ Ward Four I hereby announce myself as a cnk-' djdate for re-election as AldemuK frem^ard 4, subject to the result^ the Democratic primary. F. M. BOLAHD.' 1 Ward Five. / I hereby announce myself as a can didate for Alderman from Wand 6^ for the To^ of Clinton, subject to the result of thes^^mocratic primary. JOHN N. BIGHAM. I hereby announce m didate for Alderman elf as a can- -Ward 6^. Den»o- I reer. He has been befriended by the murdered Ethridge, and is engaged to another of Amoa Ethridge’s -prote ges, Hazel Woodsy lovely and brilliant young actress. She has been helped to success J)y Ethridge. She lives in a smallj cottage owned by Ethridge. Ja^b Riggs, eccifrttric old-time actor, now a doorman at the theatre where Hazel Woods plays, has appointed himself her guarrdian and livef In a room over her garage. (Now Go On Wth the Story). Watch Your Kidneys/ linen du^t coat as his property, al though why the police had taken pains to filch' it from the car and bring it here he could not imagine. With equal readiness he admitted having driven* out to his mother’s' make me believe and that’s what you farm on the evening of the murder say about—Miss Woods. set-up. Better call it a day and sign on the dotte’d line.” Gerald .spoke, quietly, listlessly: “You almost make me believe I did it, but there’s one thing you can’t Vogel had made her bring her scrap-books of yellowed clippings and her photographs; he had also ar- ., i. .. n i»n*4 for pre.» photo»r.pher, .nd 1 camera men from tW news weelfKe.s, and having left the car iji the pine grove Mar the entrance ot the Eth ridge fane. Yes, his right headlight had been out of commission. To Gerald it seemed inconceivable the screen a reviews. That night while his mother greed ily read about herself in the papers and drank herself into a^triumphant stupor Jerry sat on the edge of a bunk in the city prison. We-stland was in a furore. There pect -him' of complicity-in the , :^'' but ^one Jopic of conversation, crime. Not until he had gone over and ;^j?'^ Ethridge ca.'^e had broken fin- for here was a subject suitable ^o^jover the'story' of hilTr’ip out' and! When Mrs. ' for nothing so fantastic as the true Why should .he wish to harm the man who had done more for him than any body in Westland? What possible mo- ^thni gouM be -have for deetroying his benefactor ? They told him why, in language so plain, so brutal, that he was stricken dumb. Miss Woods had been Amos Ethridge’s sweetheart and,the cottage she occupied was thefi* love nest. She was the’ writer of that “Thursday” note which had been found on his body, and, after the show on the night were out and Mrs. Holmes heard | of his slaying, he had called upon her, thefh being shouted. 'They contained j as was his frequent habit. He had Jittle but headlines and a brief state- gone directly from her anns to his ment of facts, but she read them [death. avidly and coqld scarcely wait for the j Gerald leaped to his feet. “That’s least impressing them did he begin to!7® begin with, the appreciate the seriousness of his sit- ■ Ethridge s love nest and nation. Why should they suspect him charnung occupant-which, by the of the munter, he demanded to knowT"!**^’ .P^P**** featured in scream Holmes keft the building, she faced on ^that ^gbt ^it^ut'^*^ the j conceived in the most battery of still and moving-picturel. . . * . Tw .i... cameras, and a way for her had to be cleared through the curiosity- seekers. . — Word quickly spread that an ac tual eye-witness of the Ethridge slay ing had come forward with an in credible story and a mob followed Mrs. Holmes to her hotel. It swarmed into the lobby and up to the elevator gates, Reminding her of the crowds that had followted her in Paris, in Vi enna. She would have liked to step out of her room to some balcony, with her arms full "of roses, and throw kisses to the street below. In a surprisingly shori time extras CITY ANNOUNCEMENTS. / „FOR MAYOR I hereby announce myself as a can didate for re-election as Mayor of Clinton, subject to the result of the iVemocratic primarj’. SILAS BAILEY. FOR ALDERMAN Ward One I hereby announce myself as a can didate for Alderman from Waird 1, Mubject to the result of the Demor cratic primarj’, • DR. T. J. PEAK subj^t to the result of cratic primary. L. M. EVANI Ward Six I hereby announce myself as a didate for re-election as Aldermaa from War<^ 6, subject to the rules and regulations of the Demooratic pri mary. . • JOHh( W. HEDSPETH. I hereby announce myself as a can didate for Alderman from Ward 6^ subject to the result of the Demo cratic primary. C. F. OAKLEY. 6t Surt They Proporly Qtmtn tht Blood VOUR kidacvi art I ing strain. ^ Idanayt 1 a can- derman e result Una ye« any nffar ^ eyasj fail tmnm, Ward Two 1 hereby announce myself j didate for re-election as i from Ward 2, subject to *Jof_the Democratic prima 1 PET ? : ADAIR. Ward Thr^ I hereby announce ^yself as a can- I didate for re-electiOn as Alderman W A N T S FOR SALE--'—One-hor.se wagon cheap. W. L. Jd^nes. Ip LOST y STOLEN —Male pitt bull dbg,/white and gray. Answers to name bf Bingo. Reward. If found, no- tify^oy Gasque at Royal Cleaners. / . Ite ■ / — - ■ - - ' ■ - ■ ^.\N WANTED for Rawleigh Roufe of SOU families. Good profits for hustler. We train and help you. Write today. Rawleigh Co.; EXept. f>CIir-2T- SA2, Richmontl, Va. 5-28-3ps WANTED—Let’s mend that valuable * , old book. I am experienced andean do good work. Call 266-J. Mrs."nyrd Jones. Its NOTICE Why not keep your money at homo by giving your subscriptions—either new or renewal—to JAMES W. CALDWELL Dba I delay? Use Daea'i Pllliu Dom t ara espadaHy for poorly hawi ffoniM Icidneyt. iiiey are recoei mmM by gnIeM umr the eoeotnf ever. Gel dMM hoM eny dniggM. Doans Pills fuller accounts and for the arrival •of the big Cbickgo dadlies the next morning. It fed her vanity to realize that in nwiny quarters upon type writer keys andtelegraph instru ments fast-rflying fingers were pound ing out her life story and that it was being cast into molten metal for the world to read. Those old photographs whiich had lain so long in the daric were, being reproduced and new ones finished! Mary Holmes, “the goose woman,” had set the presses of the country a-epinning; Maria de Nardi> the forgotten darling of grand opera, was being ‘ reborn. * Sustained emotion, such as she had undergone today, demanded relief, aod again she appealed to the matron for ffcnne whiski^.--But the lattea-wae- Jiava>that. Slw’errebfl’4t.4iiOt. aUogeth- finpi Mrs. fioimes was too excited to eat any supper, nor ^old she sleep wtwn bedtime came. Habit/had come fixed, reetraint had ^bet ted keener her desire lor di&k, and her outraged eyatem clamored Heroe- iy for its aocuetotned anodyaa She paced Utf floor until lon^ after her companion;! bad ratired. She wohdered why Jeny did not with^her. He muet hare heard those bewaboya bawling “ex tra” by tUe time and— But ol eourae he was nmd at her fer getting into prist; he ebhorred notoriety. A ahrinldpg vMet, thet wae Jerry! Bah! He had offered to make,her over if she’d let him! WelL ehe had made hemelf. over. She wikbad he could tee her tonight. . Ifia. Holmes rang for a bellboy and aisked him the eerlieet possible mo. ment he couldsecure .for her'the morning pap^ru. The boy voiunteered to'go to the offleee and fetch the first copies off the preee; that would prob- wMy be about three o’clock. ’Hiis gave the-woman an idea, and ehe inquired if by any chance, he could at the eame time secure for her a liede stimu lant, preferably wliiakey, although gin would do. The hoy assured her he could. He did. IHuy Hidmes found pictures of her self on the damp front pages. The atories that went with tiiem were aH that she could have desired. She smiled, to be sure, at Vogel’s positive aseertion th^ he was on the trail of '“the Twmn in the robe” and that his arrest was merely a msittw of hours. Vogel was a great gmndxtander. Be jttwhmmdi the reader. She lowered the a lie!” be shouted. In a fury he struck at the speaker. No attempt was made to quiet him; op the contrary, his in- quisi^rs undertook to capitalize his agitation. They goaded him; they taunted him with being a fool; they told him things about Ethridge and the giri that would have driven any lover frantic. Vogel came in” while this was going on, but he took no part in the proceedings. When Jerry re fused to..bo convinced, when again he called them liars and defied them to shake his faith in his fiancee, they shifted their tactics and read him his mother’s deposition. He listened while incredulity changed to despair. When ' they had finish^ he told them, misentoly: “You shouldn’t be ing headlines—was sufficiently scan dalous to delight the prurient minded. Then, too, the identity of the slayer was a genuine surprise.^^ A wicked roue, a seductive actress, a Cupid's bower, and a jealous young lover! It wa.s the oldest, the most hackneyed situation'known to newspaper report ing: it was hokum of the highest quality, sure-fire stuff. Anybody! could write it, everybody would read it. To have the lover prove to be a base ingrate was an added touch and a tasty morsel. But the thrill, the drama, lay in the fact that the in grate’{9 mother had actually witnessed the murder and, in absolute innocence of the part she played, had brought him to justice. Here was something stunning; here was a coincidence truly uncanny; here was the hand of God. Yes, xnd the final denouement, coming right on top' of the discovery of her real identity, was piling up sensation upon sensation. (Continued Next Issue) Subscribe To THE CHRONICLE ‘The Paper Everybody Reads raction” All Work Guaranteed ^ Phone 36 RADIO EXCHANGE Additional er responsiMe. Bhe drinks more than she should add there are times when she’s apt to do or say ahnoet iray. thing. She’s m>t a credible witness.” “She wasm’t *drunk when she swore to this.” “But — don’t you see, there’s juist enough • troth 'to what she ^says to make it all sqund plausiMa? She doesn\ know that I have an auto- mobUar T'^tidnT toll her boeaufo— wril, because she would have oonaid- orod it an axtravaganeef so she does n’t realise it waa my car ahe aaw pass the house. I did leave it at the gro^ and it did have only one headlight. Yea, and she saw the tracks there the next nmming. But she didn’t actual ly see the murder, or she’d have t<Hd me. Why, we talked it over when I got baric from Chicago and she never said a word about it! Bring her here. Taka me tocher. •Stae’U^set this thing MtraigiiL” “You’d better come the detectives trid him. lot of trouble and you’re not/doing fbunelf any good caving this. You may save yoursrif from the gal lows.” In spite of himtelf, Gerald flinched. “IVet^ rottep^to kiH the man who befriendedy^^ou. The jury won’t be out twentjr mimitee. Why, listen to this and a little thinking for yourself. Bthndge likes you, pays your way thrcHi^ art school, and one day he introduces you to his gal; Y<m fall fcMT bei^like any sucker, and i want to marry/her until you discover she’s his sortie. But she knows a good thing/when bho’s got it and she stalls AH those J^nes havoayoungfeL <Mi the side! Of course y^’re fa- Mr. and BtrS. S. A. Kem ^nd daugh ters, Margaret and Agnte, of Green wood, spent Sunday wi^ the former’s mother, Mrs. Agnes Jtem. Ben Anderson o^Columbia, spent the week-end witjr his mother,. Mbs. B. M. Anderson. Mr. and Mps. Charles Jones and Miss MirianyJonea of Chester, spent Sundsy wito Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jones, Jiy ^ Mr. aiM ^rs. B. P. Copeland and shildrpa, ami Mrs. H. Spears of Cha^tto, N. C., spent the week-end wtm_JKra. Ban Copriand and other rRelief of hRWgtift ^wbo could afford nmeb note embtiva laxattvaa; um Black- ’“‘ whan naedsd. B to vary puraly vagetaUa. highly Ur. J. 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