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I ■ ■ •t \ 7 • II V- . . • PACferOUK THB CLINTON CHRONICUt, CMlWTOt. 8. C. TBUR8DAY. AUOUSf 6, .1936 . \ . EsUblbhed 1900 WILSON W. HARR^,, Editor and Publisher ‘ 1 Publish^ Every Thursday By' THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY i Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One Year |1.50; Six Months 75 cents; Three Months 60 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 all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly ad vice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they .are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will-not be noticed. This paper* is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. ♦ plunder pa's and ma’a bed at'night. It held 6 children betwixt 2 and 6 years I of /age, or .6 children from 8 to 12. Then we had a ‘‘company” room with II bed in U. The other room was used I for a combination kitchen, .dining, ! breakfast and pantry room,making 3 rooms in all in pur residence. We rarely ever had anny company. . Kinfolks, were not. counted gr called Cash Com Rises To^ 11-Year Peak jreather by^«au^ meanwhile, predicted looler Weather but no general rwhs for the dropght-bumed north central region.' Cereals ^Advance To High htVf els.. GoTerAinent Buys Cows* As Result of Drought. ' “compawy.” They had to eat com- WottM^-Arokl Stock Sales' Topeka, Aug. 8. — Kansas business men were urged b,y Governor Alf'M, liandon today “to work out practical bread and molasses just like the rest I of us, but the preacher paid us a visit i i every 6 or 8 months, and he was real- i ' ly [ and truly highclass company. He: slept on the feather bed, ate chicken | at nearly every meal, and all of the j children had to wait while he wasi poking along with his eating and con-j versation. He was mighty slow at the | table, that is-^we hungry younguns thought so. And there were no 5 bas-j iketsful -of fragments left when he I got thru. * ■ 7 Chicago, Aug. 3. —An eleven-year' cooperation with farmers high for cash corn and first govern-]*” saving valuable livestock herds ii .ment purchases of livestock signar*^ireas. Jn a radio talk, sandwiched in be- ized today the prolongation of the three months old drought. Leading^ grain prices to further ^ official^‘and other pQliti<ial ad visers who met wMth the piresident for two hotirs in the of the library of his hOgie here, Farley said campaign plans had not been dis- chssed down to minor details,' but only in a general .way, and that th^re ' wi|s no, talk bf when,or to what ex tent the president personally would plunge into the^drive. Fer nearly an hour. Early saicg the president talked over the drought jiiU hation with Secretary Wallace' and Chester Davis, former AAA adminis trator, and as a result Mr. Roosevelt tween political conferences and a dis- ^ cussion of farm problems with n’a-' pwkriif&VV week pnimMtVteady officials, the advances, corn climbed almost four cents at the ^tart’of trading on un- official Mtimatcs July’, dama*. iff"* "1“'''*A" fionAonAnn shortage on a livestock farm de- said: | ed.^p€rsonal survey of the effects, of We have always been a jSelf-ithe drought in several states and the progress,of steps under way to help amounted to 700,000,000 bushels. It CkINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1936 COVERING_SOME GROUND . ^ jlem of re-financing and saving their It is noted that several candidates homes and lands. Thl«e“'faTmers in fini%hed in a flurried market, 1 to 3 3-4 cents up from Saturday’s close, September $1.09 1-4. , . Cash No. 1 white corn was quoted at $1.20 a bushel, the top since 1925' mands prompt n /$ ^ WaI « M action It is my farmers-in’ the stricken area. That would- mean. Early said, a throughout the .state have declared themselves 100 per cent for Governor Johnston. That is covering a wide scope of ground. It shows._that they are spine- My First TdET" I learned to telegraph when Iiwas 19 years~'of age, having quit school when the school quit me during 'my! hope and bejief that it will hot be ’ through regions in Ohio, Penn necessary to sacrifice any'large num-1 ^yivania. New York and Connecticut ber of valuable breedihg animals by swept by floods last spring would be sending them to market . . . I “somewhat postponed.” “I want to call the attention of thel - and equal to the best.current price , .. # i t u u ■ for No. lJatsl.wh«it. The trade tuid*''* turn have. paid large sums into the county treasuries, thereby helping efforts to pull thru the seventh grade. reports that Kansas farmers were I of commerce and other civic organi- getting 7 to 10 cent, a bu,hel morel?*““"/ *“ **’* they now for com than for wheat. have to render a' service, not only to bring about increased tax collections 11 walked 4 miles to and from the de which has further helped to improve!pot where I^Was a student, a truck the financial conditions of the coun While other cereals advanced to, i their neighbors but to themselves new high levels in some cases not! “Livestock has always been regard- creatures, possessing-uo mind -of f.ties,—- - thi'ir own, and willing to be kicked] In recent years in this county, par- about and used as a rubber stamp ticularly 1933 and 1934, several hun- or ink pa<l by tHF chief executive, re-1 dred loans aggregating thousands of gardlesS of what he does. j dollars, have been made to farmers All of which reminds us of this in-[through the federal loan bank and cident. prominent city school super-j other agencies. This has necessitated intendent in thi.s state wrote a gen-ion the part of the borrowers, a clear- tleman asking him if he could recom-j ing up of all back taxes and obviously mend a certain young woman apply-[has made for a steady gain in' tax ing to him for a teaching position 7ollection.s. 100 iH'i- cent. The gentleman in ques-1 Let’s give credit to all to whom tion forwarded an excellent recom-' credit'is due. ^ i - - mendation for the young woman with; ' hand, a billing clerk, a cotton Weight and a baggage agent, each day €qu.lled since 1929, the heaviest rum"* " “’V**’* ' 15 of cattle reoeivSd at- Chicago while absorbing this Morse. yard, in three year, brought j f', “li^^ocrMxt ‘ *'"* the added notation, ‘‘I do not know anybody 1 would recmiAnenU 100 per cent for'any job, not even myself.” REVOLUTION IN EUROPE The turmoil in which the whole world, more or less, has been involved After being a “ham” for 6 or 8' months, I received a wire from the railroad superintendent offering me a job as day operator at a small water, melon station (for 40 days) in the^ lower part of the state. My boss, the, local railroad agent, hated to have to] go back to work himself, but he help-j ed me to get away. 1 borrowed the cash from my father to makej the tijj). . I ration of another governmental meas--7'i‘*7 urc to aid drought distressed farm- f P»«''>'p ‘livestock men to hold on and for their NUB CRASH SUITING 54*Iiicli ' ^ A Reap Value ONLY 25c YARD. ELLISON’S ers. Under contracts recently negotiat ed packers were authorized to pur chase for the federal account 4,793 , head. The animals were bought at the* * FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 2Ist day of August, 1936, I will render s final communities to cooperate with them in holding on . . . 1 , , , . “All our, other interests, which' and doing as Ad, t ministratnx of the estate of A. V. ^•r SO much from a prosperous, deceased, in the office of the prevailing prices at Chicago, reservine the verv foundation of a Probate of Laurens county, N. D., St. Paul, Omaha and Sioux Preserving, the very foundation of ^ • n . ’ XU .. I prosperous agriculture. u tiota «. m., anu on ine sarass City, loWa. Prices on the types pur- * * One hundred jK-r cent fbFJBhnstoji, years'and more, find.s its or Roosi'velt, or Byrnes, or any olherij^^^^^ mamfestation in . the bloody politician is covtying a lot of tern- ,.t,voiution now in progress in Spain, tory. loo much for us. 7From all reports, France, too, seems The first thing I had to do was! go 100 miles to the superintendent’s! chased broke twenty-five cents be-* fore the government action was an-i nounced. | At. Chicago, President F. R. Wil-j cox of the federal surplus commodi- Roosevelt Hears. Campaign Plans A REAL OPTIMIST ^senator Byrnes lays his chief claim for re-election on the fact that he is a one hundred per cent New Dealer and champion of the administration. By., many he has been labeled as a coat-tail swinger. In a campaign speech the.^ others! to be on the verge of a popular up rising. ' It is difficult, from thi.s distance, to place a proper value upon the news that the cables bring. VVe have noth ing in our American temperament, our .methods of life or our political system, with which to compare the office and stand an examination. I; had never been over 22 miles from home in alf my life. I had rhdre down-j right common ignorance in my head than any person in the country run-! ning loose at that time. I had never worn a store-bought suit of clothes till I got the one X wore off for $4.98. day the senator was reported as say ing, that all the money being loaned situation in Europe. I Apparently the conflict in Spain is (and wasted) by the government for between two conflicting concepts of government, neither of evvqr conceivable, fad Project will headway be paid back in full-and that there in which" has America. It need be no alarm or concerir by the .seems to be a struggle l)etween Com- I finally found the head man’s place of business, but before doing] so, I went into every-shop and-de-l partment in the railroad yards. I wasj so -scared and nervous J wasn’t fit for ] anything except shaking off of apple and peach trees. I had never contact ed a really big man before". He was human though, and sized me up and ties corporation, conferring with fed- etal-state crop observers from ten states of the drought-harassed north central region, said that agency was ready to start purchases this week to meet the problem of seed grain for 1937. The crop observers brought latest estimates of probable yields and re vised daU on drought. damage from President Approves Setup Out lined By Farley; May Go Into Drought Section Earlier. Hyde Park, N. Y., Aug. 3. -- The Democratic national committee (b-| day obta-ined President Roosevelt’s I official OK on arrangements to itaft immediately an “aggressive cam- their areas. From North . Dakota, | paign” for his reelection, where the earlier stages of the! Aftefi a two-hour round-table dis- drought virtually ruined the spring! cussion of current political conditions wheat crop, came the word through | James A. Farley, national committee H. L. Falster, director of extension' chairman, to,Id reporters: day will apply for a final discharge from my trust as Administratrix. Any person indebted to said estate i.^ notified and required to make pay ment on or before that date; nnd all persons having claims against said estate will present them on or before said date, duly proven or be forever barred. , MARY B. MARTIN. July 21, 1936.—8-13-4C. “ “ / I , , r ^ Fniunism and Fascism, complicated by people over the federal lending and;^,,.^„„ on,i Kv an I gently with me. asked the chife dispatcher to deal spending program. There are few people who will agree with the senator in that statej^j ment. We doubt if he believes that' himself. There are millions and bil- strong anti-church feeling and by an [effort of the monarchists to bring about a sTluation that would result in King Alfonso being throne. * The 'I took the telegraph key firmly in restored to the iiiV hsind and began to dash and dot. sweating so, ..my whole body I was . . . X X..’ 1 -uv: only thing certain i.7 that ia dripping piece^ of humanity. I lions going into this spending armed forces on both sides are killing "'‘th my’’Sending fairly well, - tV that will never be paid back. But alJ will agree that the senator is a^real optimi.-it. people by thousands, and looting thei^ut when “DI” began poke about churches and the big estate,s of thej'^''’ words per mipute at me, f found [ ^-A^TLMELY ISSUE* The Saluda Baptist associatiph, in nobility. The .‘Situation ha.s been liken-j to write it down intelligently, ed that which existed m Italy be- M thought once of jumping . Out the Ftiri^ Mu.ssolini took charge; with thelwindoW and going home, but I stuck exception ithat no strong leader has: well enough to get that fine session the past \veekj, j^lopteii a I'e^-j yet'^ajipeared. to .seize power and re-' l^*’ month, with board only vlution placing it oh iVcortl as oppos- <,tiler. - “S ^ 1 $7 -ownth. mg the legalization of intoxicating xSpain differs from, myst other na- . — buvt?ra^j<?s and to its tions in that it has no ^froat com-! man, b6 prt^.sident^ prcniictj fUience to bring back prohibition. Jt niidifle'elas.s. Its populationever appreciated a posi- fuither aiKleiFTliat all candidates rh ^'onsists on the one hand of laborers | than I appreciated mine. I Anderton county seeking seat.s in the -md peasants and on the other of the i had never heard of $30 liefore. I generhlias.sembly in August he ques- ,q';,.eailed up|>er class of nobles and [worked hjird, and tried to please tioned as to their attitud**' in this’■ The upper class suppliestitho.se melon shippers who received matter. ^ the officers of the army, but the rank fi'iui $5i to $350 per car for their rat- 1 he action of tliis chuich bodj is mj^j fji^i come from the lower class,[ tlesnakes and Tom Watsons. Markets tiniely »nd jirojier. The voters have a I and the present xSituation began with.l nearly always glutted and they .a rA’’olt of soldiers against theif of- tiad to take what they could get. ficer.s. ,j Biit, listen, folks: if I had had as high It is possible that the other Euro-; hlood pressure w-hen trying to land perfect right to kno>v how the men who .st*ek their suffiage stand on the liijuor question, as well as all other issues. The peojde should ask ques- nations, particularly Great Brit-;l^at first ;job as I have now, every tions anJ seek information l>vrtain-(n\ay seize this opportunity to i'’vin and artery in my anatomy would 4ng to the record of officials alreaily^ in.'-and “pacify” Spain. It is have blow’ed out during the process, in office and those who are offering. h^rjlyj likely that any of Spain’s for seats, in the SToneraL will be happy to see a new nation by a big margin them.'elves assembly. Ixaurens county voted (fry in the recent referendum,., but we have legalized liquor forced njipn us regardless of the sentiment of the majority of the people. Should the wishes ef the majority of the voters as exjiressed af the ballot box be respected or the opinions and wishes of the county delegation given precedence over a free peop*le? All voters who are opposed to le- FasciiSm or a new Communi.st ilevelop so close to them. ‘galized liquor in, the state should know how every candidate offering Nobody’s Business By Gee McGee Looking Backward ^ I was born and raised (not reared) 6 miles from a railroad, 2 miles from a public road, 5 miles from a school, and 7 miles from a church. There ier the senate and hottse stands on | were 4 washholes ]rad 1 river‘and 2 this issue before making up their I creeks within 2 mile.s of 'our house, ballots, nearest neighbor (white) TAxX COLLECTIONS GAIN One gathers from reports .of county camjiaign mw'tings over the st^te. .Men really appreciated a r2-to-16- hour-per-day position back then, but they wanted at least $25 per month for such services. '16. Years 'Ago. ^ ' Items From The Chronicle * of "August ,5, 1926, Our nearest neighbor twhite) was Cal Black, who lived 2 miles to the south, and our nearest neighbor i Miss Collette , . (black) was xSlim White; he lived;Miss Sarah that some of the legislative t|elega-{down the lane in our cow pasture. We ^urg. tions .seeking re-election-, point toltoted water from the spring, (three! Mrs. W. H.. Workmart and Mrs* many-of * their accomplishments andffourths of a mile away) during the Ella Johnson are at home from a Miss Julia Ferguson is visiting her sister,'Mrs. W. S. Archer, in Atlanta. (ieorge W. Bailey is at home from a stay af aevaral weeks at Dry Ridge, Kentucky. Aldine Blakely and Carrpll Pills are spending several days in Bir mingham, Ala. — Griffin is the guest Harvin in Spartan- cite as. one that in their respective counties dre in well was dry, good condition. That is all well and — good, and as it should be. Expends Our house was an ideal "tures should be kept within the au- home. It let the wind and thorized *. appropriations in* every flies and mosquitoes and county. * - - But while these gentlemen are braggkig about w*hat they have done, they should in fairness, not claim all the glory. Retrenchment all along the line in all business has been the uni versal policy" pursued in recent years. The state and counties have done no more than the business man, farmer or individual. Much credit, Jiowever, for t summer .sun a/id candle moths in and out without hindrance. latter’s daughter at New^ port News, Va. Mr. and Mrs. John H. Hunter have returned from Atlanta where they were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Daniel. for the state agricultural college, that only 15(),0()0 'acres were expected to produce com now compared with a normal from 1,000,000 acres. The meeting was called to arrange a,"unified and coordinated” attack on the problems of feed»and seed for the territory. The central forecast office of the I reported that we are prepared to conduct an aggressive campaign) from now until November. We are] not losing any time. We’re ready to go.”„ Stephen T. Early, one of the Roose velt secretaries, said the president had approve these arrangements. Acting as spokesman for commit- Gray - Funeral Home Clinton, S. C. FUNERAL DIRECTORS and EMBALMERS Ambulance Serrice Phones 4lJand 399-J L. RUSSELL GRAY nd V. PARKS ADAIR, Gen. Mgra. 1 u/Uii> each pflimER •VAIANTIIO tY X Good Hou^^ng fl Al Aomnsn THf If IN Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Burdette But jKhen winter came, sf* built a big and Mrs. L. A. Barrow of Savannah, fire in our only fireplace, and all 10 Ga., are the guests of relatives in the of us children and pa and ma and city*. ^ grandpa and our 3 dogs and 4 catS’ Dr. L. R. Lynn'and family-have huddled up as close as possible to the, returned from Montreal where they blaze. j spent the mont)i of July. t I Mr. and Mrs. H. L. 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