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West Clinton Nei^, Mrs. Arthur Howard, Mra. Ralph Riddle, Miss Minnie Carmichael, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, and Mrs. Charlie Dfcyls vtsitetf iH Grwnviiie situraiy.*' Citizens Closes Year 7' Annual Meeting of Building and Loan Stockholders Held. All Load Of Matches Cau^ Btidc [through safely. The crushed cases stantly started ignition^ of the ‘con< - Mr. and Mrs. D. B. ^ Smith spent LaurenSy Sept. 7.—Ignition of a mo- Miss Faye Adair snept tl^e week-! tor truck load of matches precipiti^d eM*in Wiston-Salem, N. C., with 1^. I a brisk battle between water and fire and Mrs. W. .G.,Hflrna..,.. - . — ■ t here^ late Saturday ntght. the nsc: tenty causing the blast to spread to other containers before being broughl under control. More than 100 casei^ each containing a gross of standard size bbxes’of matches, were burned or water damaged.———— — '9 .1- a Misses Erline Hazel and Gladys Crowder oTTLaurens, spent Sunday Officers Re-elected. »a^s<aij3s with Miss Edna Chaney. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Anderson and The annual stockholders meeting {Sunday in Greenville with relatives. and Mrf* Frank Kellers spent Sunday, in Charlotte, N. C., with rela- Mrs LraL„H::...G. . Louis tives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd. Hitt and littje |of the Citizens’*Building A Loan as- l.miiy';nd“Ml,,'“Lc>ur»“'Himpton!^'*‘i»".5* ^'^7' r“ '"''1 ' wert visitors in W»r» Shoids Sund»y. r*?“”‘*?,^ m the s«reUrys gon of Edgefield, spent Sunday with Mr. «nd Mrs. J.L. Arnold .ndfam-1 the former’s parents. Mr. and Mrs. iiy visited relatives in Fountain Inn|hy ‘he president. Dr. M. J. MeF.Jden,, Eugene Hitt. Sunday. - ^ with a majority of the stockholders i Miss Maude Pearson: has returned Oden of Blackshear, j of water and chemicals,jthe fire de- at an estimat- K. L. Roland visited his daughter, Mrs. Cecil Bolt, in Laurens Sunday. 7 Mrs. Julia King, of near Clinton,' Ga., is visiting her parents-. Dr, and [ partment won, though Mrs. F. K. Shfaly. ed loss of about |700'to the owner Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Roberts and the shipment, a local dealer, son, Malsell, spent Sunday in Green- Eire broke out at the top of the wood with relatives. j cargo of 325 cases of matches as the Miss Mary Emma Speake left this! contact with ^’The Paper Everybody Reads* represented either in person ^y , from'Greenville, where she spent sev- week for Buffalo, where she will I overhead trestle runners that proxy. ^ j days with relatives. / teach this fall. i underpass on East Main' W.T. Aduir left y«terd.y for Rock' Hill, where he will be . member of *’ ‘*"™» e ilotaLs Tlie financial report for the year Friends of Mrs. Charlie Jones will be interested to know she has return ed homer after being a j)atient in the visited Mr. .nd Mri. Theodore Queen I»“ Pr'svnted by B. H Bpyd. secre- Sunday ' ,tary-treasurer, which showed the Mr. and Mrs. J. .L ^gwell of An-i*^*^®" in- splendid conation. Greenwood city hospital, for several d.rMn, spent the week-end with their »"■* thanked byJhe .doptmn. j, iof a unanimous resolution, for then* the federal jury. ; cautiously, but had felt he could pass ton, 3ee Bagwell. |ui « u..«minuus rr.^u.ut.u.., xva ^ gjjj yesterday for Clem- Mrs. J. W. Lewis-of-Tlmpa, Fla.,1 : the past year. college, where he will be a stu- .• spent the past week with her sister,' Following the consideration g • Mrs J C Cannon detailed financial report, the follow-1 xi-.. Ur ' T m vxa m 1 a<4 W t m 1 Airs* Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Burdette and'j family of Charleston are visiting Mr. r and Mrs. Hubert Pitts and other rela-! Celebrates Birthday Mrs. John W. Little accompanied him.' Rae McGee of Greenwood,! spent a few days this week with her mother, Mrs. Mary Frather. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Foster and Mrs. ing board of directors was re-elected,. ^ g to serv'e for the ensuing year: T. D. j^y Fountain inir“-wit1i their On Fridav afternoon sixteen little F’ v^.' I daughter, Miss Mary How’ze Dillard. boys and g?rls gathered'to celebrate I "j McFadden ’ D V^Heurte*"’i ”''■ if i Detroit. Mich are visiting Ue third birthday pf little Charlie .■\!lon lA‘vi of Charlotte, N. C., and | Davis on Washington street. 'latter being added as a new member’^' T Peake littir st^U'^hats* given^ as sou-! I Kenneth Burdette, Jr., of Charles-; L. A. McCall, Jr.. of Columbia, spent; vehTfs.'’"'Ttf? fT^^vr'T^O^^ ‘ yesterday for Clemson coi-Jjjie week-end with friends here. served by thf hlste^ Mrf Chldle I S'''-^ ^Tlei^Tft^TpendTnV ^rveo^oy ^ne nostess, rars. vice-president; B. H. Boyd, -a,iotives Davis; assisted by Miss . secretary-treasurer; R, W. Wade, at-j Heath Cope ling Strange. Mr. Simmons Honored -The employees of H. W. Simmons, of Simmons Grocery store, entertain ed him with a surprise birthday sup per at his home on Academy street Monday night. Those attending were: Mr. and Mrs. ’‘Bud” Owens, Mr. and Mrs. James Creswell, Mr. and Mrs. torney. Leaders Named - For R.O.T.C. Unit ithe General Motors institute in De opeland has returned j troit, MiCh., is spending his vacation from Chester where she spent a few'with htr parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. C days with her parejits. , Giles. James Hitt has returned from Or- • .Mis.s Essie Davidson has returner angeburg, where he held a position to her school in Great Falls, after ange' with the Rogers .store during the spending the suininer with her father, .summer. j L. H. Davidson. George Davis of Washington, spent Miss Bertie Heidt 'of Charleston, made a cadet captain and company George Jd, Davis. OTIS. jrtiiirB ^irswcii, .fii. aim OTi.^. Presbyterian col-1 Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Wingard were'j - Pete Knox ^ ^^B Snell rove* Cl de ■ ^®^® R.O.T.C. unit for the coming I visitors in Columbia Thursday 'home in Gree John Weir, S. Few “Runt and David Owens. .\gatha Jones. has returned to his Greensboro, N. C., after . V ‘r> a Tna Panirkhail ! sccording to an announcement j Mrs. W. R. Porter and daughters, i spending a few days with Dr. and R li \r WniianTtna'' *‘®?®”^i/ made by Major R. E. Wy8or,iMisses Helen and Julia have returned Mrs. O. Whitten. "V • ’|Jr., professor of military science and from Montreat, where they spent the Friends of Miss Ruth .Monts will be Among the Sick tactics. Jacobs is a senior at P. C,^ 'summer. , glad to know she ha.s retucned home The rankings w^ll be: Cadet major j Miss Mary Dillard left the pa.st;from the Greenwood hospital, where VA V Vs Koa # ikA/i battalion commander, James Cpl- week for Spartanburg, where she will | she has been a patient. fjO lung as n con i i Atlanta, Ga.; cadet captain and be principal of the Arkwright school i Friends of Mrs. G. E. home several days on account of ill ness. A. J. Harvey and Palmer Howard are recovering from injuries received near’ Anderson Saturday night in a car wreck. S. W. Kinard is on the .sick list this week; — Dukes will I Roland-Quecn Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Roland announce the marriage of their daughter, Pearl, to Theodore Queen, on Saturday, August 22. , They were married in Woodruff by the Rev. J. H. Simpson, with only a few close friends present. Mr. and Mrs. Queen will make their ’-home with Mr. and Mrs. Roland on adjutant, William Thompson, Cam den; cadet first lieutenant and assist ant adjutant, John Suggs, Darling ton; cadet captains and company commanders, J. B. Jacobs, Clinton; Ben Legare, Charl^.ston; Joe Patrick, the coming session Ross M. Lynn left this week for Rome, Ga,, where he is a member of the faculty at Daplington School for Boys. ■ i Miss Inez Chaney has' accepted a Covington, Ga.; Raleigh Shoemaker, position with the J. C. Penney Co. Charlotte, N. C.;,.cadet first lieuten- Mrs, W, Q. Grigg and son have re ants and platoon commanders", Gedrge Plunkett, Conyers, Ga.; Ernest Evans, Iva; F. T. Wallace, Chester; William Langston, Conway; James Majhrs, turned to their home in Statesville, fL C., after spending’ several days with Mrs. Metta Stone. Mrs. Clyde I-AukfoiKl, Mrs. P. B. Menlo, Ga.; Dalton Mann, rChester; j Adair, Mrs. George R. Holland and Cadet first sergeant, Macon Hipp, i Miss Helen Adair spent Monday in Charlotte, N. C. Greenville. M iss Kate Milam has returned to CARD FROM DR. CROMER I wish to take this method of ex- be sorry to know she is confined to her home on account of illness. Watts Davis of Columbia, spent the week-end and Labor day with his parents, Mr. and .Mrs. Jack H.' Davis. Mr. and Mrs. George Hesse and daughter, Evelyn, have returned to their home in (Charleston after spend ing several days with Mrs. Hesse’s sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and .Mrs. Goyne Simpson. Mr. and Mrs, C. E. Galloway and daughter, Marcia, spent the week-end in (Columbia with Mrs. Galloway’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. George T. .. „rnes. Springfield, where .she will teachj Mrs. R. E. Jones is impending two again this year, after spending -the weeks in Baltimore, Md., with her , , , , • J I . . , (Summer at home. -I sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Jackson Street J^e^r many friends pressing my sincere thanks to the^ Harry Bolick and little son! Mrs: Chris Walker. people of -Laurens county w'ho «*-|have returned to their home in High! .Miss Dorothy Stowell, Ralph Stow- pressed their confidence in me in after spending several ell and Burke Hammon of Oakland, first primary by nominating me a* j days ^'jth her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Maine, were guests last week of Dr. their representative in the state sen-|j_ Todd. ^ and, ^rs. B. 0._,Whitten and family. Prof. B. Graham of the college fac- Billy Venahle of Atlanta, Ga., h^ < ► * ► • * ► i * i y 4 } GET YOUR i ^ i y j ► < ► < ► 1 y New Fall Hi . ' * Bit < y i y i y i y NOW : < ► i y i y < >' We Are Showing New Models In i < ► . < y < y JOHN B. 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Get one It Che Chfoldete Tahttihlat Conpany. ulty, has returned "from Germany relurneil home, after spending .-iev- W'liere he spent the .lunimer studying, eral days with Mr, and Mrs. \V< T.' ^ ^ Mr. and Mrs. Frank 1C. l.#ayton and, Adair and family, little daughter, Ann, of Live Oak, M’offord arid Hackett Cjary of Fla., spent Friday and Saturday with Blacksburg, spent Sunday h'ere w'ith o their brother and sister-in-law, Mr.. friends, / and Mrs. Harry Layton. i Misses Miriam and Sara Rae (’ole- Kenneth S. Cox left Monday fori man spent the wVek-eiid in Green- H. D. HENRY 1898-1936 F^ M. ^LAND H. D. HENRY & COMPANY INSURANCE STOCKS — BONDS — REAL ESTATE LOANS NEGOTIATED Telephone 121 1 ICE CREAM AS YOU LIKE rr Ytfo may like your ice cream plain or yea giay -enj the structure built up by the expert soda concoctor at the comer—one of those fooey delights, so if^ring to the eye, and so soul satisfying to the palat^But re gardless, the ke cream used most he wn D iximaiIPI ICE CREAM ICE CRl errude-M*"’!' If the best desired flaTor is to be obtained. OUR PRODUCT ip SOLD DAILY IN CLINTON A|n> GOLDVn^E (rhampagne. 111., where he is a student I wbod with Mr. and M/s. Dotte Henry, at the University of Illinois, after. Misses Pearl Hitt/ Elizabeth Lynn spending several week.s with Mr. and and Leo Thomas sptmt Sunday in ('o- Mrs. P. B. Adair and Mr. and Mrs. lumbia. Miss HijCtwent on to Ijake Clyde Lankford. jCity, where she will teach this fall. Miss I Elsie Neighbors left Tuesday, Miss CaroUhe Martin left yester- for ,H8rt.sville, where she will_^be |^day for Mu]/ns, where she will teach student at Coker college this faTT. Miss Agatha Bailey, has returned to her teaching position in Chester, after spending the summer with her parents. Dr, and Mrs. T. L. W. Bailey. Friends of Richard Stutts will be interested to know he is improving at his hoihe, where he has been confine several days. Miss Lidie Davis has gone to Cormick where -^he will teac coming year. ^ 7 ; spend ing this week in Charlott# with her sister, Mrs. C. A. Murph Miss Emmie Adair ^ft last week for Lockhart, where/a^^e will again | teach this year. Miss Aimie Lee" Jackson left this ffweeTc for ^ reaiime^ teaching posith^n, after spending the thi.s year. Mr. afla Mrs. Grady Adair .spent Sunda^in Sedalia with the latter’s parepCs. ks Maude Geer has returned from rlotte, where she attended a cos- etologist convention. Joe Duskin has returned to his home in Havana, "Cuba, after .spend ing sonve time'with his mother, Mrs., M. L. Duskin. Oscar Carlson of Niagara Falls, i.y the guest.week t>f Dr. and Mrs, B. 0. Whitten. - -r Heavy Human Toll Exacted By I^Uday STRi^GERS C^ING TO CLINTON / . . . or vicinity are cordially/invited to visit this bank and make the a;^uaintance of its officers. / If you are located here you will need a Checking Account wfiich we will be glad to handle and offer the fullest measure of .service. / Safety L^pokit Boxes For Rent A CHEAP FOart OF INSURANCE FOR YOUR VALUABLES. / T as. Bailn i Son BANKERS (5LDEST STRONGEST Accidents took at Igast 287 lives in : at 1^2 »5 over the United States o^er the three^y summer at home Miss Mafr Ella Williame of Co-! labor day week-end, including ten lumbia, if spending several days with joy-riders whordh^ Saturday night in Dr. and Mrs. D. J. Brimm. a flaming a|i^lane in Alleghaney yixfi Hattie Mae Horton lyft last!county, Pennsylvania. There lyere 244 persons reported killed in ^Automobile accidents, 20 by drowning* ^our by trains and four by we^ for Chapin, where sh® will teach t^s year. / G. W. Hollingsworth is attending the Metropolitan Lafe Insurance Sales other accidental causes Congress, which is being held this i National Safety council statistic! week at Sea Island, Ga. I ans had figured there would be 300 Miss—Ina—Curry, of Simpaony.ille,Uraffic fatalitiea over the , holidaya fii and Miss Polly Elrod of Greenville,! including those whose injuriea result- spent a few days last week with Mrijcd fatally weeks later. An estimated and Mrs. W. G. King en route to their schools in St. George and Conway. Mrs. Emma Little spent a few days last week in Simpsonville with , heF daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and \ Mrs. Morgan Todd. Mrs. Todd accom panied her home for %'few days visit. J. W. Milam and B. B. Ballard, acj companied by J. JW. Milam, Jr., of Kings MoO|ntaiiy N. C., are in Char lotte today attending the “Green Pastures” /ally, where President Roosevelt will speak. Mrs. J/E. Longshore and daughter, Dorothy^ have returned to their hom^ near/here after spending several weeks with her daughter and fonrin- * j larw, Mr. and -Mrs. Bob Wells of Roa- ^f'noke Rapids, N. C. They als<t^p|ited relatives in Norfolk and* Virginia Beach. 21,000,000 passenger cars were onj the highways. | Michigan led all states in accidental deaths with 24 killed in auto acci dents, one by a fall and one drowned. Four were killed near Fremont, Ohio, where a car, its driver appar ently^ asleepr-amashed down.<a pole and four fence posts and turned ov^r in a concrete culvert. Head-on auto collisions took three lives at Alma, Mich.,, and three at Warren, Ohio. The National Safety council calcu lated the 1936 traffic death total would be far above 20,0(]{0. The government census bureau’s I j-cpprts from ,124 cities listed 6,.637i automobile fatalities |or the first 35* weeks of this year as f^mpared with 6,007 for the porrespon^g period in 1935. . \ More Reductions / Long Distanc Rates / I ' , “ l^or the eeventh time in the paet ten years, long distance rates have again been voluntarily reduced. Effective September 1, the ratee for both person- to<pefscm and etation-to-atation intar-etate long dis tance calls were reduced to pointa 235 miles or more distant. The amount of the saving on calls ranges from five cents to $1.50 depending up<m the distance. Also on inter-state person-to-pereon calla the chargee for overtime after eiz minutes, of conversa tion are reduced. (Overtime charges begin after three minutes conversation.X - — A. . . It it estimated that these reductions will save Bell telephone users |7f350^0M annually# / I f. / SOUTHERN'BRLTaEPHONE AmTajBRAra CO. . . INCOSPOSATIO "" / -J-- \ n' A. -y' vA'v 1