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- V . 1. '/I PAGE FOIT8 LI. THE CUNTON CHBONICLE. CUMtON. S. C -/ -V' j THUESPiW. OCTOBER IB. 1936 T I " V-.. - » $4^ (fliuiton ^ Estabttfthed 1900 , « * • '— A* ■a • WILSON W. HARRIS. Editor and Publisher ■ ' ■ » * ■- ' Published Every Thursday By ^ - THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One 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 seek* the cooperation of its subscribers and readers—the publisher will at aJl titnes appreciate wise suir^estions and kindly ad vice. The Chronicle will publish letters brgeneral interest when they are not of a defamatory natyiie. Anonymous communiciitions will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondenta. is Aoped ev«d>oddy will contibiute heavy, as these outsiders need the monney. all other towns raise monney this^ way too. _. ' U. S. Forecloses On 31,000 Farms f One Out of ipiire ‘ GoTemment' Held Mortsragres In Default. :k Stages a Straw Vote everboddy! this is mike | rfd, at ijhe mlkey foam, hej i -* , . calling all Voters to cast their! Washington, Oct The'federal straw -votes at ence for their far- government now owns nearly 31,000 vorite candy-rdate for pressident at|f»rms. In disclosing this fact r«- market on mkin street i® | pently^^deral officials explained that the city of flat. rock. — farms all were acquired by fore- ' closures resulting froih failure of plese^ take notis that ever vote j owners to pay back federal loans, cast must be accompanied by clO Qn June 30, the last date/or which USll’ED STATES DISTRICf " COURT yWestera District af Sooth Cafolma IN BANKRU IN THE MATTER/6F STUTZ HADFIELD SILK' ^CORPORATION, Bankrupt. V • ^TICB r Notice Is hereby ^givenf that Stuta- Hadfield Silk Corporation, of Clinton, S. C., Laurens County, in District aforesaid, was on the 6th day of Oc tober, 1936, duly adjudged a Bank rupt, and a first meeting of its cred itors is, therefore. Called to be held in the Nationkl B4nk Bldg., in Clin ton, S. C., by Angus H. Macaulay, I - - I Game Here Friday j Clintonians will have theirTirst op portunity to see a colored football game here on Friday night at 8i00 o’clock. The game will be played un der the floodlights at Johnson field, with the Bell Street ^ven pitched against the Brewer school of Green- wood. The game promises to be an interesting one with a big crowd on hand and a small admission charge. in silver which you will kindly d***?! figures were available, the total farm „ . ■ » i, . rr j into-the box with yore ticket n«ht 1 p ‘ pertie, owned by the memment below my beef ecnies, on the leftj,tppj 30^67. Officiels stid There** ** A. M., as you go out the back door. CLINTON, 8. Ce, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1986 meeting. A COMMENDABLE EFFORT V Notices frequently appear in this and other papers, designating certain days for cleaning church cemeteries in the rural sections. This interest is commendable and those who take the lead in such efforts, should always find a ready respon.se and cooperation oft {hfe pArt 'Of a^^ Who are interested in preserving these old burial grounds which are held sacred. conditions, war would seem inevitable. With this spirit in the air, how is it possible for it to be avoided? What lies ahead nobody, no nation, knows. TAKE THE HOME PAPER We once knew a man who was too stingy to take the newspaper in his home town ' and -always sent over to borrow his neighbor’s paper. One evening he sent his son over h.d bwif .dditiom,! forecl<>.urer ,in«'f‘ may at- -1, jtend, prove their claims, elect a trus- after ail vote# have been count-l J, tee, and transact auch ether buaineas ed in the novem^r poles, the best-„„„pj by the government has risen!" guessej, that is—the voter who votes 5 641 1929 to 22,960 in 1934. for the man who is eleckted as pres-j Approximately 22 per cent of the sident, will receive a nice S-Po^^id | mortgages are in 4iam of meat for his prize. j default, but off icals say new loans j Chester, S. C are being made,'in some cases even October 15, 1936. to previous defaulters. Appraisals of some farms, it is re* ported, makes their re-sale difficult for they were mortgaged for more th^i their post-foreclosure value. ANGUS H. MACAULAY, Referee in Bankruptcy. nonoaay will be allowed to cast a straw vote except the man, woman, or child who pays as much as c25 on his old amount, or trades c50 worth for cash, livver and- cheese made out of hogs head is exsepted.' SCRIPTO Antomatic Pencil is tke best 10c value in the world. Get one at the Chronicle Publiahiiig-Company. Dr. Felder Smitii — of . DRS. SMITH & SMITH OPTOMETBISTS Specialist In Eye Examinations Office Hours 8 to 6 Dailj> Phone 101 for Apipointme^ Clinton, S. C. all. itravvai, , for ypting, pur poses must be good, bright wheat straw with the pressident’s name I rote on same, as followers: black BACHELORS* CLUB - m A Clinton bachelors’ clulb is to be While we spend much time beauti-, to borrow the pajMjr, and while hisi P u.-,™ organized here this week and offi- /M.- xrQrv^c onH nrAnii«A« wp — u!, ...... i-fo. . 1'^K lor Toseyveii, rea in* lor “row- fu-. son was on h.s way he ran into »Uer, blue ink for landon, green ink for!Proposed large_ swarm of bees and m » .few] for coughling .„d; organization stat^ yesterday. M™- niinutes hia face looked like a aura- . ^ thomas ansoforth. m a football * ■ game between Clinton and Laurens to be played here on the night of-Qc- new low prices will be put on ourl"'’."^ " .rv... ovsri ,xsr,sa.foisisao tha' tobec 21, at Johnson field. afying our yards and premises, we should not forget dup friends and rel atives who arc at peaceful rest. BV* •this we mean that we should take anjnf^gj. squash. interest in beautifying our cemeteries j Hearing the agonized cries of his and in keeping the.se “aSjkot Cities”!the father ran to his assistance, the in order. None olf us are too poor to and in doing so ran into a barbedl tn wit vi*zllv norch plant a rose or a flower above the fence, cutting a handful of flesh! , , hanrlu eoo- feeti cl4* resting place of a loved one or friend, fj-om his anatomy arid ruining a ^ , , . pair of pants. The old cow took advantage of the •o u ij J. -.jut. * » u«-«„'hoIe in the fence, got into the' cd^rn Every child has a ng^t to a happy . herself eatinir irreen childhood. The recollection Of k sunny„ killed herself eating green ; , . . . l corn. Hearing the racket, the farmer s childhood IS an auspiciou.s inheritance' ^ u .*• J 1 1 J fv.xiw'ifc ran out of the house, upsetting and a splendid preparation for the , ,, u # n # ■ sZ 1 ■ J u J f T- r-u:-- a four-gallon churn full of cream into strain and burden of life. In China r t ^ i i i n j e-u ..L i. / /• . i:t.fixx'a basket of kittens and ki ed the the first four or five years of a little FAIR TO CHILDHOOD chop, cl5; heads, c20; round, square, and catty-cornered stakes, cl9; chitterling.s, cll; pure porch sausage with only 50 percent of same composed of sheeps, cl7; collards, c5. SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLI ‘‘The Paper Everybody Reads” beef and no creddick will be extended to ^anyboddy while this voting cam- don’t, forget to drop in girl’s life are a cVntinr.T.'gonyV Go'*''?'* -liPP'd »" i c’o Vuh°"ver vote oted,'or it will ,'and fell downstairs, breaking her leg among.tbe submerged masses in anyj , . - - , mi, u i. of ou? ,ro.t citioo .nd you will find 11 chHdhot^ bnrron .nd de.ol.to bo- into the parlor and ruined a $40 car- yond description. To have this joy crushed out of a little life is a sor rowful trsigedy that will shadow all its future. Gray skies will often weep above them in the after years. As parents, if we are worthy of the name, we should see to'it that these little ones’ early years are unclouded. pet. During the excitement, the daughter eloped with the hired man and took all the family's savings with her. The moral is that every man should be a~subscriber to his home paper.— The Tunkhannock (Penn.) New Age. of August 17, ,1916. not be counted, all relief workers who trade on satturday after pay day will be allowed to poke 2 votes in each, previded he do not owe our firm annything. THE TOLL GROWS According to A. W. Bo'hlen, director of the motor vehicle division of the state highway department. South j Carolina had the largest percentage! of increase in automobile fatalities in twenty-eight sta^s in which statis tics are availabl^for the first eight m'mths of 1936. From January Ibrough August, Nabody’s Business By Gee McGee Wi"W» Much Raised Money Has Been By Strangers miss Jersey cream of new york city was in town last week putting ^ 193G, 216 persons met their deaths a drive for the ladies aid to raise on the highways of South Carolina. ,„onney for her and the furrin mis- An increase of seventeen percent igjon board, whoever givt^s 2$, she compared w.th 185 deaths for the' caH out their names in front of same period last year. ' 1 the drug stoar: she wilT keep onlly Evidence continues to plle^'up daily 11.45$ for her services, but the ladies . that the smalies^quantity of alcohol j aid will get the ballance ansoforth. imbibed by drivers tends to dull the watch out for the results, this straw vote contest will be oxer 100 percent correct, it has newer fail ed. it told who would be eleckted in 1928 and 1932, allso who would be govvemor of georgy and who would be the sennator, don’t fail to* fetch the dime to vote^ith when the straw is depossi^d. ' yores, trulie, mike Clark, rfd, owner of the sanniterry market. 10 Years Agfii scn.ses to the point that they are not qualified or in fit condition tg,, drive an automobile. Says- the Christian Science Moni tor, ‘‘When his automobile hit two pedestrians in the early morning hours of Sunday, a driver told police he had taken four drinks in the pre ceding twelve hours.” ♦ Those four drinks re.sulted in tw'O fatalities and, unfortunately enough, neither of the cori>se3 wasT that of the man who drank the whiskey and then hopped in his car to drive away, un concerned about what had~happened. Here is ths country’s most serious problem today — drunken drivers on the highways which mean ever- mounting fatalities. In spite of all the writing and preaching thqt is be ing done, and highway officials en deavoring to educate the public to be more' cautious, the rosul carnage grows greater, human life becomes cheaper. the schoH house will put on a play in the aydy-torium next friday night entitled: ‘‘she married for love.” a lady ftom out west is getting it up for 60 percent--of the proceeds, our home-folks do not know how to get Items of Interest From The Chronicle of October 14, 1926 Miss Ethel Cunningham of Whit mire, is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Cunningham. Dr, and Mrs. Dudley Jones are in Denmark today for the wedding of Mrs. Jone^ni^, Miss Clara Wyman. ^iss^thd Co^ahd is on a visit to her sister, Mrs. Horace Payne, in Tampa, Fla. Mrs. S. E. Robbins of Salem, Va., and Mrs. C. M. T. Robbins of Mata- up annything, so they jine hands with an outsider. add-mis3ion, cl5. at the, gorda, Texas, are the guests of Dr, door, children extry. j and Mrs. D. J. Woods. Miss Arva Henry is at home from irs IN THE AIR “Rej^rta «tate that the French Cumber oLDeputies is considering a- hill to enforce compulsory training for all boys and^ti^a over six yeacf. old* a8 'a~beginning to prepare them for army service in the elementary schools. This^ is only 'following the ti^end of most European countries. Austria has lately put all boys be- a woman from kentucky is raising monney in company with miss Jen nie veeve smith, our afficient echoll principle, to put a curting up 'on the stage wiith whoever’s name that gives 5$ for a “add” printed on same, our homefolks did not know how to raise this monney, but she gets only one-haff of the add-ver- tising which the publick donates and the ballance is spent for the curting ansoforth. a drive will- be put on next week in flat rock to raise 75| to print a picture of atonewall Jackson on the rock Just west of town, as our homefylks do i^ ^have ability enough to raise monney, a' furiner from kansas citty will head the drive for A good portion of the proceeds, the firm or copperatiojn who donates to thia worthy cause will have his name printed on a sheet of paper which will be dropped from a air-plane which will sale over flat rock next a visit to Mr. and Mrs. John C. Henry in Greenville. Miss Hattie Finney has gone to St. Fetersburg, Fla., for a month’s stay. Miss Emily Davis /las' gone to Ma con, Ga., where she has accepted a po sition in the Oglethorpe sanitarium. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Young have gone to Jacksonville, Fla., where they will make their home. Mrs. George K. Tate of McAden- ville, N. C., is the guest of. her aunt, Mrs. G. C. Pitts. Four Legal Sales Four legal aales for the clerk 'court were made in front of the coi tween 11 and 18 into uniform f;r summer purposes of sport, military training! . ■ and political education. | a beauty contest IS - , - planned for In Italy every boy of 12 has to Join j the near future at the county-seat. the “balilla,” wear a uniform and be 1 the bizness firms of flat rock can. . siibjocted to military discipline, and!put on a candy-date if they will *foi^465. house Monday, October salesday follows: Federal Land bank vs Palmetto Realty Co., 503.1 acres in^cks town ship, sold to R. E. BabV«ttomey, for $500. L G. Balle vs Bessie Matthews, lot in city of Laurent sold to R. E# Babb, ' Gray ' Funeral Hoihe " Clinton, S. C. FUNERAL DIRECTORS ••• and EMBALMERS Ambulance Service Phones 41 and S99-J L. RUSSELL GRAY tad V. PARKS ADAIR, Gen. Mgra. FM PAYMENT OF ein TAXES !l Notice is hereby given that Town Taxes for the Towfl of Clinton will be due and collectable between October Ist and November 16th, for the year 1936. The Tax Books will be ^opened for the collection' of taxes at the office of the Town Clerk on October 1st, and will re main open each^day thereafter, Sunday excepted, up to and through November 16th. / A penalty of ten (10) per cent will accrue on all taxes not paid on or before Monday, November I6U1, which penalty will be in force through Thursday, jfec. Slst, after which an additional five (5) pr cent will accrue. The levy for current fiscal year is thirt^seven (37) mills; twelve (12) mitts for current operating expenses and twenty-five" (26)* mills for interest and/sinking,fund on various Bond Issues outstanding. / The foregoing notice is given pursuant to Ordinance passed by the Town Council. / v D. C. HEUSTE$S, Town Clerk. : ^ r SAT. ^ 'NOV) 7 J . / X Pke (ompl^ lately MussoHiri has promulgated an pay 2$ to have their names priftt-'! Federal ^ ^ _ bank va H. Frank order that boys of six shall be putj^ on the programs Tor the show, i •b 272.5 acres known into training and uniform against the a lady from out-of-town, of course,' Hudgens place, four miles tinre when they are old enough to un dergo the more rigorous discipline of the balillk. ' iln Germany the “Youth Movement” “add” haa become almost a brown-shirted mihtia. In Russia the age of military eonscription has become lowered to 16 years. Every boy from 18 years must do compulsory military aervice in France and in (Germany. Europe is preparing its cannon fod der for the next war. Youth is to be ak^ugbtered, if xieesesary, to satisfy elfish ambitiojM. For back of all this military preparedness lie the scarce. la concealed designs of the rulen of ^ dictator-ridden natioM to tidce tkv AKrtft opportoniiy to seiM the t^- of their nwgUbon. Fnuko will raise these subscriptions, as we Laurens, sold to R. E. Babb, don’t believe we can so ourselves,,^^^^ but she will charge onlly 1$ p^j f'ederal Farm Mortgage Corp., vs 1 ouda C. Coi>oland, 272 acres in Jacks * Babb, attor- and the homefolks wil the ballance, but we will pay all expenses. ve to' E. ney, for $500. it is mighty xgood wimmen from ot^ftr parts of fair country to^ome into our midst and put on^^ce programs for u«. they have^lways benn verry rea- sonablejm^^their charges for their expert^rvices. some of them have ch^ig^ us over 76 percent of all jU^k. in, but 50 percent h Axhout the average.' we have no conferdence in our homefolks and that is why they .end away for atrangeni when they The sales were conducted by R. E. the men and request of Clerk of Court ; Bennett, who was uiHkble to be pres ent bn account of aickness. we are told, k anaing for de-|want annything * pnt over, all of Ae ikiaerUmd. U:.cK;r auAjthaae causes is verry worthy, to it SUSTAINS EYE INJURY Ed Owens of Milwaukee, Wis., son of W. E. Owens pf_this city, sustained a painfull eye injury a few days ago in his wbrk that will necessitate being confined to a hospital for several days. His friends here will be g know that he is nqvr recovering the injury. \ ad to from if 1