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r- ■»- ■ • ; I.’' V ' • ■ I ' ' 'i . /^' ■ . ' H'f. illr,- / fc- . /• / ^ 4" aj cutfiwif MKoncuL ctmoM. n. g ^ : TtMBOAT. 17, im ■ ‘. t il|» ClitiUm (Elihmlrlf .JglLSbN.y% HAMtia, afttor^airt PaUitbM} EY«r7 Tkanday Bj THE CHRONICLB PUHLiaaiNO COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): Oiie Year |1.50; 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 subecribers 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. - ■; 'v» whoever put out the report tiiat a scholl Sy file grand-childrens of yore ccrry spoodent,~'fltr. mike Clark, rid, will be . took to law for rlander and I criminal liable, sudie lou Clark had| washed her ^ hands and face in a neW| male-order soap for the skin, that's all. • I CLINTON. S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER IT, 1936 * THE CALL TO COLLEGE j shown so much promise that large Fitmi all over the country come re-j amounts of capital were put up to ports that the colleges and universi-j-huild them and try them in the field, ties are filled with students for the| 'There is an old story, still popu- new year’s work just getting started, j lar, about a race that was staged be- In this state, both with the state and i tween a mechanical cotton-picker and denominational colleges, large fresh-1 Sam, a veteran Negro field-hand. a sad accident happened at rehober church last . Sunday enduring the preeching hour. hirs. art square lean ed out of the window too far to t^l I her little boy to quit throwing sand^ into same and fell out on her head and sprung her knee verry badly, the little boy escaped everything, but rev. waite's sermont was cut short by rea son of the commotion ansoforth. manurlassea are being jnatiiculateik It has become the stylish and prop Sam started overy boll that was ripe, and the ma- er thing to go to college, though edu-.chine started down the next row eators who should know tell us that a large percentage>of the young men When the white man running the machine got to the end of his row. and women now enrolled in our insti-j there was Sam, sitting on an up- tutions are misfit.s and have no busi-j turned basket, waiting for him! ne£« there. Many go to college withi \ couple or weeks ago thev latest an honest desire and intention to I cotton-picking machine was demon work, others go for a general goodjstrated at Stdneville, Miss., in the time and a four-year periiid- filled j presence of a large crowd of cotton with social and other activities. {experts, and with considerable pub- Many words .of advice at this sea- jiicity and showmanship. It picked son are always said to these thou-1 cotton, all right, but cotton-growers’ sands of .studeuts, but much of itjepinion is divided about it. Some eon another nvad-dog scare took place on main street Sunday p. m., and a; stranger got so scared, he failed to slow down, when he regained his sense, he was lying in the show win dow of the come & gitt grocery store with cabbages, beans, squashes, and! lard all -over hia. face and boddy^ it4 will cost him 14$ for a' new plate! glass, but he had only 75c on his per- ' sons at the time of the cattastrophee. the citty counsill passed a non cattle-grazing audience at its last meeting-and hereafter no cows, caffs, mules, or other live-stock will be al lowed to eat grass on the foll^owering streets, to wit: main, short, long, fifth avenue, boolyvard, and railroad, who ever is ketched grazing on these thur- rowfares will be locked up, impound- falls on deaf ears and fails to^ make i tend that H picks too much hull andl^’ 1$. tom head s wife and .... •• I A_ _ aniiof»A’a rlArtat* iirill tftlrA even a slight impression. Ho^^ver, j trishT“"wlnch "stains cOIton and whether the advice they are givetrin j impairs its quality. Everyone agrees college does good or not, the undis- that many-more largeu-scale field tests putable fact remains that the world Svill be''necessary before the cost of now wants and needs trained intelli-^^^nning the machine can be figured gence, and that never before has it and compared with the cost of placed so much emphasis on effici- ht^d picking. And many are con- tney as at the present time. When the cerned about the possible economic axt .5quax«!*. plese take notis. there is some talk oiT cutting' off their tales. X young man or woman s^ta out^seek- ing employment in the face of pres ent di^urbed social and economic and social results which may come about if a large number of Negroes are deprived of their principal means conditions, they soon discover that! of livel'hoodxby the new machine. training and efficiency are demanded. While our young people are acquiring At lea.st, hdw'ever, the Rust broth ers-Qf-.Mem|:mis\ are entitled to credit knowledge, ^ich is well and g(^,‘ ^^eir ingenuity and persistence in they would better not forget the lea- ne^nvachine and staking sons taught them in their quiet home ^ capital on N^s success. It may circles at their mothers knees. 1*1 do~what none of ra predecessors has well for them to remember and jj^ doing; that is, to revo- dersband that the world is not oon-, agriculture and indu.stry in quered primarily by learning, but by the unselfish spirit of service, by in tegrity, by initiative, fidelity to duty, high ideals and character. the cotton belt. 1^1. ik A COMMON ERRORS OF LIFE A prominent' London judge haa hsted what he considers the Thirteen Great Mistakes of Life, as follows: 10 Years itema of Interaat From The ChVpiiieb of September 16, 4926 1^ r John Griffin Pitts was elected Clik- 1. It’S a mistake to attempt to set ton magistrate Tuesday over A. B. your own standards of right and wrong and expect everybody to con form to them. — 2. It’s a mistake to try to measure the enjoyment of others by youjLown. 3. It's a mistake to expect conform ity of opinion i:i this world. 4. ^ It’s a mistake to look for judg ment and exjierience in youth. Blakely Misses Frances and Rww Williams of Lancaster, are visiting their grand mother, Mrs. P. S. Bailey. Miss Lucy Bailey left yesterday for Spartanburg where she will enter Converse college. Rev. G. B. Betts is. at home from ' Salem, Tenn., where he has been con- 5. It’s , misiakc not to yield to, un-j evan(celi..tic sern important trifles* r'lces. James Edmund "Ferguson left yes- 6. It's Sa mi.stake to look for perfec-' u^i^ersity whera tion in our own actions. 7. It’s a mistake to worry ourselves _«id others about what can be remedied. he will be a student this winter^ Messrs. Delmare Rhame and George versity. New York, where they will 8. If.s a mistake not to alleviate, if little jimmy skinner was shocked by lightning last friday when a bolt come down the tree he was setting in top of* for the* puppose of / keeping away from scholl and running a-tree- setting contest, it knocked him and his dry goods box out, and he landed on his head and that’s all that saved him. he had benn up 6 hours, .count ing minnets as seconts, and days as weeks. a wave of prosperity seems to of come over flat rock here of late, near ly everboddy has traded his or her car for a new one, radios are playing louder and longer, new dresses jtre on evre corner, and the girls are put ting on 2 coats of paint where they wore only one heretofoar. that will help, the dimmercrats to stay in. oth er bizness has picked up allso. yoree trulie, mike Clark, rfd, — ■ corry spondent. S-h-s-s-h! There’s a Robber Down StaiN Someboddy tried to rob our hoiue last Friday night. The boss <eaaed over to my twin-bed an4 whispered into rtiy good ear, “There’s somebody in the basrtnent; they are trying to come upstairs.’’ Being awakened sud denly by the noise or mformation of a burglar !^ mighty hard on my high blood pressure. we can, all that needs alleviation. 9. It's a mistake not to make allow ances for the weaknesses of others., 10. It’s a mistake to consider any thing impossible which we ourselves cannot perform. 11. It’s a mi.stake to believe only what the finite rriind can gras'p. 12. It’s a mistake to Hve as if the moment, the time, the day were so importanrt that it would live forever. 13. It’s a' mistake to estimate jieo- pie by some outside quality, for it ia that withm -whiclr Lasts have been made by all sorts of eminent men, including Wfsl^ng- ton and Franklin, for the conduct ot life, and they are all more or less useful for the ordinaiy man. The-ant^of^-life 4a steeraig the mid dle way, avoiding errors on both and it is - interesting to-have theee reefs pointed out upon which many a human bark' has been wrecked. It may repay us all to examine this liet offered by the judge and see wheirein .we have been mistaken in Mrs, J. M. Pitts and “Uncle Press’’ Adair have returned from a visit to Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Galloway in Ab beville. Mrs. Henderson Pitts is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Byers in i^partanhurg. f Miss Sallie B. AnM^n and Miss Kitty Coker of Col.ui^ia, are the guests of Dr. and Mrs. D.- 0. Rhame. Mrs. Harvey Branpon of States boro, Ga., is visiting her mother, Mrs. Emma Little Mias “ EITzaheth ’TrihneT^'Q'^bw ’hedrdoor, bride-elect, was given a shower Tues day by the menqbers of the Y.P.C.U. ot the A, R. P._churclu FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 28th day^ September, 1936, I will render a final account of my acts and doings as Ex ecutrix of the estate of.Drr E. Mood Smith, deceased^ in the office of the Judge of Probate of Laurens county, at 11 o’clock a. m., and on the same whispe roiTTrfe mbTihgTy~Baclc “I6*lhe old lady, “That ain’t no intruder—it'a only our cat.” She replied, “We ain't got no cat.” I nervously informed her that it was our dog. “She shook me harder than ever,.. and\ stated, “You know we ain’t never ^wned a dog since our last one went \nad during the World war.” Well, 1 made up my mind that 1 had to either^ill the-guy that Waa^ in our cellar or be di.sgraced for life, I chose murder. I got out of bed after untangling myself from the sheet which had become badly ' wrapped around my nether end, but it seems that^ I crawled, out on the wrong side and was making my way toward the BjI 'the time I located my bearings, sweat was.running down my forehead day will apply'for a final discharge the paat and to avoid mistakes ™y trust as Executrix. Any person indebted to said estate Fs notified and r^viiied' to make pay- ment on or before that date; and all persons having claims aghinst said •state will present them on or before said date, duly proven, or be forever the future- There is nothing positive mboiR the list. They are all things not to do, and not things to do. 'They are omie- aions, and not commissions. But the awoidaace of these mistakes may save m much embarraaement. life is a perilous path at best and to niake the journey oafely from the cradle to the grave involves much ehcttmepeetion, and perhaps this may b* Mp. into, my eyes so bad, I couldnt beyond my eyelids. I hunted for the pistol awhile, but was informed we had no pistol., Then 1 tried to locate our shotgun, but recalled that I swap ped it for a fSdio in 1929. I would have preferred to shoot the impu dent rogue down stairs, that was making more fuss than ever, but finally, decided to go after him, fist and skull. 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X - ' 't—4 AHOSt^F NEW , Lacy and fanciful, or simple, open meshes, rough or smooth, rugged or dainty weaves. —— 1 0 0 I 0 i I 0 0 0 .._4_ WILL <:heer $125 to • c NSWOmON PICKING MACHINE Ever ainee Eli Whitney invented dbe eottoo gin, in 1'794, and no made aottoB a great commercial crop by the labor required to sep- •nbe the fiber from the seeds, }n- ventori hire been trying to perfect a madiiBe whida will pick cotton and K> col-out the faurgeat remaining ele- jnent <xf labor coot in Ha piroduction. fliaea 1850 mora tfaaa 1,400 patents hava been gnuited on nwichankal cot- Bomo of jbheee have barred. MINNIE F. SMITH, Executrix. Aug. 26, l936.-^9-I7-4cs. Dr. Felder Smith of DRS. SMITH & SMITH OPTOMETRISTS Specialist In Eye Examinations Offico Hours 8 to 6 pally Phone 101 for Appointment Clinton, S. C. tip-toed to the basement door^ I was shaking so, it took a few min utes to locate the door~k:ndb. I ex pected to be jumped oq when the door was opened ^and commit Uia murder on top step, but he hap pened not be in reach of me when I entered with blood in my veins and bone in my head. Before I knew what had happened, I stepped into a coal scuttle and landed at the foqt of the stairs, all by myself. By that time, the neighbors had been phoned and had the house sur round^. When I came to and Mid, “Where is he,” the IHfe switched on the light. I discovered that the radeet and noise and distuibanoe was caused by the motor on the automatic coal stoker had suddenly made up its mind to begin doing its winter work, and it was certainly making good headway toward firing the furnace. 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