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Nobody’s Business
By.Jls«e 'McGee
Hfgli Finance
THUB8PAY, OCTOBER I,
10 Years
Itenm ef Interest FriH Tks
Ago
Tks^xlreaide
of
SO, UM
their services'at the time of the tra
gic death of our dear husband and
father, E. H.jGarrett. The acta of lov-^
ing kindness and sympathytsad the
beautiful floral -oC^erinBS are
fully acknowledge^ and ^deeply
ciated.
Mrs. EL H. Gnrrett and Family.
!■ ' anderteok 'to Icnrg to ^^“pqnefc| Miss-Pearl West of Newberry;’
'wax
lightning" when 1 was 18 yMrs ^ of I the ' week-end guest of Mrs. (Ury
age. I.might explam that punchingj Dillard.
{lightning was telegraphing in those i-- Ensapetn Aoair leit yes „
days. IJcept "batch" about 5 miles for Winthrop college where she will
from the small town telegraph of-!j>e a student this year,
fiee, and walking that disUnce every Friends of Dr. F. L. Webb will be
day had, begun to prove obnoxious to gorry to know he is critically ill.
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CLINTON, 8. CL, THURSDAY,^PCTOBBR 1, 1936
THE BIG BATTLE IS ON
The big game is on. While this
might mean the world series opening
yesterday, it does not refer to that
important event.
The reference is to the big political
battle now on with Democrats vs Re
publicans composing the line-ups.
Roosevelt, of course, is the idol and
keynoter of the Democrats, while the
Republicans have based their hope on
prairie Governor Landon of Kansas.
The battle will wage with intensity
until the November election, with
thousands of dollars being spent by
both parties in the hope of gaining
victo^. From now on, the political
fur will fly thick and fast with hos
tilities reaching their most tense
point during the month we enter
upon today.
Polls predicting the outcome are
being conducted in many states by
newspapers or other agencies. Na
tionally, The Literary Digest poll, an
arbiter on similar campaigns in the
past, has entered the picture giving
weekly statistics gathered from all
states anticipating the outcome of
the race and (the victor’s majority.
Whether the poll will ring true or
prove all “wet" remains to be seen.
As the approach of fall stimulates
business — .so does it stimulate-poli
tics. EspeciaJly is this true U'i® pres
idential year which will doubtless y:Oi
down as one of the hardest-fought
and most far-reaching campaigns in
the nation’s history. To watch the
there are not more of this type of
young men in our aphools and colleg
es. There are entirely too many in
college who are expecting t)he state,
-church, individuals, and in recent
years the federal government, to pro
vide funds for their college going,
all of which ,i!|. wrong
16 give young men a misleading view
point of life. The boy or girl who
'wants an education, and in order to
secure it is willing to work and sacri
fice, can obtain that ambition. Hugh
Beasley did, and he didn’t call upon
the taxpayers or church to foot the
bill.
my nether linvhs.
Mrs. Jodie McMillan and children,
Mrs. Withrow Wier and daughter.
I figured that a bicycle was what I'and Mrs. Caldwell Wier^and children
must have, but it took money to buy of the storm stricken area at Miami,
bicycles, and tha9 is one of the many
things that I rarely ever saw, much
leas evw owned. I never actually pos
sessed enough cash to rattle till af
ter I was 25 years of age.
THORNWELL’S BIRTHDAY
Institutions like individuals, have
birthdays from year to year at which
time It is well to reflect upon their
past and to plan and hope for their
future.
Today is the birthday of a Clinton
institution—the Thornwell orphanage,
loved and appreciated by every^ohS
A friend t<^d me that there was a
bank at the county seat, 22 miles
from my home, that might let a wor
thy fellow have some money; I stood
in with the conductor and flagman on
a freight train passing our station,
and they let me ride to the city in
quest of funds for the purpose of get
ting off my feet.
-Gn my first -visit to the bartt,
never was successful in getting tq)
enough nerve to'^ask the banker for
the loan. Every time I started toward
his window, my mouth would get so
dry I couldn’t utter a sound, and I
sweated like a glass of lemonade,
even tho it was winter time. I almost
rubbed the paint off the cashier’s
counter sliding to and fro past his
porthole. ~
I hung around till 2 o’clock; they
closed the bank then and put me out.'
That was a hard day’s work. I made
4 more trips to 'that bank, worrying
and turning' red in the face before I
mustered up enough courage to ex-
^3^ mission. I finally got a con-
in this community, irrespective of with the boss, but as $20.00
church affiliation. It is/ 61 years old
today, having opened its doors for
the reception of children on October
1, 1875, with the late Dr. ’William
Pltimer Jacobs as its beloved founder.
On that discouraging^ opening day,
eight little orphan boys and girls
: were ieinbled together and provid
ed a home. It is of interest to know
that of that small initial g.^oup, only
two are still living. A third member.
was a very large Sum to loan, he call
ed to others in to pass on the ad
vance. ^
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game from tho oidoline, is both inter- E. Agnow of Greenwood, pas^
«ting and fasoinating-to study the “"'“S' ’"'’"‘J’-
strategry used by both, parties is an'®”®’ ^
This institution throughout its ex
istence has rendered outstanding ser
vice to the church and state. Through
entertaining pastime.
* THE ROLL OF DICTATOR ... au * j w
We see no need of getting all heat- thousand teya
ed up or excited over Governor John- girls have entered o he trained
ston’s recent “caucus” in Columbia to and developed into useful and hon-
concentrate hia forces upon a single ‘"“.‘>'’">7 "o"’"; t» »» »“t
choice lor speaker of the house at I »/ ‘■'“at. ami responsi-
the approaching January sessionr|'’.‘l‘ty t''7“?hout America and in for-
Thcre is always a reaction, or back-■ f,**" The home waa «t^-
fire we might call it. to such political j
scheming, and it is a pietty safe bet r;‘'> 7''f . Ch'W ■ »» . ‘t’
that when the legislature meets and! Throughout its long service this has
the smoke has cleared away, the gov-1'""tinued to be it? ideal and mam
I the $20.00. That man got my
banking business, after I got far
enough along to have a bank account,
for 18 years. He was the first man
to extend me a favor, and even tho
he has passed away, he is still one of
the biggest men I ever knew. I bought
the bicyeje. I rode it half the time and
it rode me half the time. The roads
were so bad and often so muddy, I
had to tote the vehicle for 10 or 15
miles a week. I paid my note prompt
ly after getting my first job. My
check was for $30.00 (per month),
and that left me $7.50 for board and
$3.00 for my first suit of underwear.
ernor w’ill fail at the very thing he
; purpose—caring f'or and training or-
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has set out “behiitd closed doom” »P-
accomplish.
As before
said here, Governor i
portunities in life which otherwise
would not be theirs.
Johnston's greatest trouble is his am-! ™s community as .unit lovea
bition to be a dictator This is a prev-' Thornwell orphanage and is proud of
alentdise.se seen abroad in the land I J* work and accomplishments. The
in the national government at Wash-, !’“Po ,‘> hold by all that its succeed-
iiigtoTr.-m tlniriitate"as well as others,[-(hll- mthilays may he h-ppy and xiu,
-Jci eu. rrvso occasions for its three hun-
end in the counties, ihe people aiCij’’ . , . • , ,
waking up to this growing tendency
and by their ballots putting an end
to many public officials suffering
frorn the disease. Governor Johnston
wants to control and dictate to the
general assembly—he desires a bunch
and executive head. We trust that its
constituency will never fail to pro
vide adequate funds to carry foi*ward
its work effectively, and that its far-
reaching contribution already being
of coat-tail swingers and rubber ‘'".n'''."."''’ **
■ enlarged vnth the passing of years
yet to come.
^tamps who will dance to his bidding,
his chief ambition being, as the peo
ple well know, to oust^he chief high
way commissioner and members of
the highway commission.
The governor is under a delusion.
He thinks he is a Hitler. Some day
he will wake up and change his tac
tics, maybe. t
BEASLEY; THE WORKER
The Ghronicle unintentionally^failed
to comment in these columns upon
the recent election of the district’s
new solicitor — Hugh Beasley, of
Greenwood.™ — , ^ ‘
When Mr. Beasley entered this race
withi fodr other well-known and ^ble
lawye'rl'^as hris opponents, he was iifee
youngest of the group and known by
few people over the district. Hq^^nv-
medtaikly began to make friends Mid
•equaintances by his easy approach
and mingling with the people. He
likewise began making votes by hard
woric. All over the district he went
day and night, meeting ajsd shaking
hands with all classes of'voters. His
iciitiativc, his energy, his determina
tion and ambition impressed the peo-
who said in reflecting upon the
effort and time he put in his cam
paign,'"Let’s give him a chance.” By
a flattering vote over a strong and
popular opponent from this county,
the voters did what they had decid^
to do.
We npte from an editorial para
PANICS AND POLITICS
It is human nature to place the
blame for hard times and give the
credit for good times to whatever po
litical party happens to be in power
whpn times are hard or times are
go(^. A great historian, James .Trus-
lew Adams, has recently- peinted-opt
how fallacious this line of.reasoning
lx. Panics and depressions, he points
out, always follow jiuur and have fol
lowed, in the same sequence from the
beginning of qur national^ history. Im
mediately after a war thero is a short
period o-f hectic' prosperity, followed
by a short period of depression, M^er
whttstr is a period of wild speculation
and then a great depression.
That happened after the Revolu
tion. The final crash came when
Washington was president. The eco
nomic curve from 1783 to 1791 was
almost exactly like the curve from
1919 to 1929.
• My First Stop At a Hotel
I was -18 years old when I spent my
first night in a hotel. I had secured a
job as telegraph operator, and en-
route to location, I had to stop over
a night, and when I asked for a
boarding house (I had heard of
them), a man showed me the Frank
lin Inn. 1 Kad nqver been out o^ sight
of home before.
I went in/and told the colored man
who came/ running toward me and
tried to take my grip away from me
that 1 Wanted to see Mrs. Franklin
about spending the night there. He
showed me over to WTifHenmaiTsEandL
ing behind a counter with a pair of
specs on his nose and a writing pen
in his hand.
Fla^i arrived in the city Friday af
ter safely making, their escape.
Mrs. George W. young has gone to
Raleigh, N. C/, to spend several weeks
•wkh her sister, Mrs. M. E. Bethea.
Miss Carrie Kilgore, a former
ThomWell orphanage pupil, now a
missionary in Brazil, is visiting
friends here. _ t
J. -^P. -Lij2fprd of Waterloo, is visit
ing his daughter, Mrs. F. K. Shealy.
Mrs. E. J. Adair was a gracious
hostess on Friday afternoon to the
Actaean club.
On Friday afternoon Miss Lois
Adair and Lloyd Adair entertained in
honor "TSf^^WlSs EnzaT)eth'''rribBTCna
bride-elect of October.
Miss Pauline Clinkscales of
Lowndesville, and C. F. Winn of this
city, were united in marriage at the
Lowndesville Methodist parsonage on
Sept^ 23rd. Mr. and Mrs. Winn have
arrived in the city and qre ’^ow oc
cupying their new home on South
Owens street. j
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CARD OP THANKS
We wish to express our sincere
thanks and deepest gratitude to. ev
ery one who so willingly rendered
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f OR PAYMENT OF OTY TAXES
Notice is hereby given that Town Taxes for the Town
of Clinton will be due and collectable between (^toba*
1st and November 16th, for the year 1936. The Tax
Books will be opened for the collection of taxes at the
office of the Town Clerk on October 1st, and will re
main open each day thereafter; Sunday excepted, up to
and through November 16th.
A penalty of ten (10) per cent will accrue on all taxes
not paid on or before Monday, November 16th, which
penalty- will be in force through Thursday, D^. 31st,
after which an additional'fire (5) pr cent will accrue.
The levy for current fiscal year is thirty-seven (37)
mUlanTtwelve (12) mills for current operating expenses
and twenty-five (25) mills for interest and sinking fund
on various Bond Issues outstanding. —T”
The foregoing notice is given pursuant to Ordinance
passed by the Town Council.
D. C. HEUSTESS, Town Clerk.
ILDUSTLESS
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Gray
Funeral Home
Clinton, Si C.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
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EMBALMERS
Ambulance Service
Phones 41 and 399-J
L. RUSSELL GRAY and
V. PARKS ADAIR, Gen. Mgra.
> If you want good coal at the right <;
price, just phone 62. /
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* Henderson Pitts, Mgr. Carrol Copeland, Asst. Mgr.
Clinton, S. C. * “
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BABY SHOES
Sizes 0 to 4 25c and SOc
CHILDREN’S SHOES
Sizes 5 to S S8c
MISSES’ SHOES
Sizes 81/2 to 111/2 $1.00
He didn’t say a word, just handed
me the pen: I' looked at it carefully
and handed it back and told him that
I didn’t care to buy it, as the railroad
office. where. I was going to work'
would possibly furnish a pen for my
use. He smiled and handed it back to
me and told me to sign my name on
the book. I didn’t like that idea much,
and pa had always told me to be
careful what I signed.
MISSES’ SHOES ~
Sizes 12 to 2 $1.00
After I ha4 entered my name in
beautiful long-hand, which I expected
bell that made me jump 2 feet high.
A Negro ran up and gral^>ed at my
bag again, but he waiint quick
enough. He motioned to me; I fol
lowed' htin. We. walked into a little
room about 6 feet square. There was
n’t any bed ih it, and I knew right
straight Lwas not going to like that
place. _
MISSES’ OXFORDS
Sizes SVi to ID/i $1.00
MISSES’ OXFORDS
Sizes 12 to 2 $1.00
LADIES’ DRESS OXFORDS
All-Leather Sole with Arch
Suniort $2.95
MEN’S WORK SHOES
Sizes 6 to 12 $1.49
Oxfords. AU shapes. In plain
Black, Tan, and Two-Tone.
Sizes 6 to 12 $3.00 and $3.50’
FRIENDLY FIVE SHOES
AND OXFORDS
All Leathers and Shapes
For - $5.00 and $6.50
MEN’S WORK SHOES
Extra Value
Sizes 6 to 12 $1.98
l^ph'iB a Greenville newspaper that
Beasley worked his way through
Ftmnan as s poor boy, that he aroee
aariy aach morning before dawn and
told ChniSQviUe newspapers on the
fIraaU of that city to help .pay hia
aoikfe expenses. That same spirit of
#9 fSft> <jkrtairmination and hard work
dMlMtMrbad his sueoesafol race for
ialkttar.
Tb fiba ybmif man who is willing
faiVPHL ta saQ naaapaptm or do any
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thing happened; the crash tame in
1819. There was a similiar sequence
after the war with Mexico. The brief
prosperity of the North after the war
between the states waa followed by
a short depression, a speculative wave
and then a finaij^iql crisis in 1873
with ^depression that lasted until
1879,. We went through a similar cy
cle after the war with Spain, and a
Severe depression followed the bank
panic ct 1907.
Everyone old enough to read, al
most, remembers that in 1919 and
early 1920 after the Worid war there
was a great boom of prosperity. Then
a depression which lasted until 1922,
^thenji great speculative wave which
came to an end in 19^ and we are
only just beginning to climb out of
the eeven years' depression which
followed that collapse.
it is difficuft in the light of such
historkiB reraru, to believe that pofi”
Itiesl parties are ahiays to
To my great surprise, the room
commenced to move and 1 commenced
to tremble. We got going pretty fast,
and the man said—"6," and the thing
'stopped suddenly. We got out We
walked down the hall and turned to
After the war of 1812 the same, the left and he left me and my ’suit
case all alone in a strange room. The
bed looked nice and felt soft
LADIES’
DURABLE OXFORDS
In Black or Yan
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Sizes ZYz to 9 ...../ $1.49
LADIES’ OXFORDS
Made by the HamUton-Brown
»e
I wished my brothers and sisters
could see me in that fins place about!
300 feet up in the air! I finally de
cided to go to bed. I couldn't blow
the light out; it was inside of glass,
so I wrapped my sock around it I
wanted to wash my face and hands
the next morning, but there wasn’t a
sign of a bucket or wasibPi^n in the
room. I saw something fastened to
the wall with handles on it, blit was
afraid to turn one of them. I just
went on down stairs, 6 flights, as I
was. The man at the counter charged
me' ll. I tried to exi^ain to. him that
I had not ast there, only slept But I
got no dumge back. I learntd letter
about hotels during the next few
yeaie.
Shoe Co., in Black or
Special $L79 and $1.98
MEN’S DRESS OXFORDS
Sizes 6 to It).. $1.98
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. . ,' MEN’S --
BETTER DRESS OXFORDS
/ In Black or Tan
AU^izes $2.48
’ MEN’S
BETTER WORK SHO
Aiisi^ ...r; $
JHEN!S
COMFORT SHOES ^
Solid LeaHWr Bottoms, Flex-,
ible, Ea^ on the Foot
Special $3.00
^ MEN’S
HIGH TOP BOOTS
' Sizes 6 to 12 $3.00
. - MEN’S-
HIGH TOP BOOTS
In Tan, All-Leather Sole
All sizes'?.;: I ... $3.95
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