The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, November 26, 1936, Image 7

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V/ / I. THOltaDAY, NOVEMaER 19S6 TH^ CUMTON CHRONII ^^OffTSMAN I'll Lawrence A. Keating j. SECOND INSTALLMENT Whatever they- talked about, Mc Donald was not pleased. He kept hunching his coat collar, scowling, an swering in short, sharp syllables. The pug’s bushy brows wriggled until [ man’s yell, they met across his bent .and twisted, “Police! Murder!’' it. Colwell was in the clutch of amazement, but years of experience ; at meeting such sights ma8e him recover first. His movement to leave the spot, prompted the taxi and they wouldn’t! _ As he rather anticipated, the men' finally entered the tall, dark stone! office building knowm aS the •Lawyers! and Doctors. Colwell let them enter an elevator y’hile he paused beforei He howled it directory. He took the next car to the eleventh floor. Sure enough, as he glimpsed the two just disap- nose. The other newcomer talked on''above the din of horns, and the suavely but Dan knew he was laying}of impatient motors/ “A guy’s dead!, down the law. jThei-e goes,the fella! Help, police!” within the opaque glassed Unable to linger at the cashier’s Dan saw a strip of white paper on | ’ desk any longer, polwell stepped out the running board of the' car which j McDonald, Attornej At of the Waverly Club bar. As he evidently had'^'^allen unseen when ^ emeiged on the sunlit street well [those two men stepped out. He leaned. The corridor door remained swung filled -with business people hurry- and snatched it up, then plunged fori wide. Colwell lounged nearer-tq hear, ing to or from lunch, the three he j the back of the cab. His impulse was possible, what was said. It must be "watched made for the curb. Me-1 to race for the sidewalk after the kill- dark suited man w’ho^ rumbled Donald signalled a taxi. They climbed ipr pair but his anxious eyes ^iled to,to the office girl, in. McDonald in the middle, and the find them. And the red barricade seti “I’m sorry,^ Mr._ Quillen, ~ but —Mr. hack rolled away. ^ Dan gestured another cah. “I’m up at the gap of torn pavement} McDonald hai^n’t returned yet from changed his mind. He turned around lunch.’’ •jfoing—where--that—greett-, -ha©k-goes,- the-rear.-of-the- bus -just •as- a -gaseous-r -' -jsee." Jennings,, meet my But leave a littje space between He gave the driver a keen look. “No, sir, Mister, I need money but cloud poured from its exhaust. In friend, Mr. Bradshaw. Well, Jim, we The driver left off and accepted might as well stick around,..eh? You expect him bacl|c -Soon, Miss Jen nings?’’ “Oh yer, any minute. Just make the nick of time as it picked up speed he flipped on the back platform where the conductor stood. They stared at each other. If the the bill Colwell poked at him. [fellow had made a move to seize him ^yQnrs(>]ves comfortable, please. Why! “Okay,” he grinned, “hop in!” I Dan would have broken his jaw. But The i ride wa.s down Reed Streetthe conductor merely seemed startled to the corner of Prospect Bouleyafd, I to pick up a passenger at this spot, one of the principal shopping streets' He offered his pistol-grip fare box. of the city. There the taxicab in jColwell fumbled in his vest and pro-; front turned nbrth, Colweil’s driver [duced a dime which he stuuffed iri the : the girl following. Dan guessed his quarry | slot to the tinkle of the Jittle bell. He { anteroom I headed for the Lawyers and Doc-, shouldered past the conductor up the; I tor’s Building where Arthur Me-: winding .stairway, .slinking into a i u ^ ,-v, rh^uMe^s Tou'gh with which to*„„p o‘':U.TLt?;;‘'ch.ir'mt'p'.'n^ !nf his rAb and catch occasional i perspiration-beaded countenance, '^to a oroad learner cnair. hi. part of his cab and eaten, occasional f f McDonald he had ner fanned him with his hat. He turn glimpses of his companions, onel on; bet to shadow McDonald, he had either side. Colwell settled back to allowed these two men to murder him! He cursed himself roundly. Col well’s square'jaw set. This must smoke a cigarette. At the intersection with Broadway half the pavement was torn- away for repairs and the resultant bottle neck caused a sweet traffic tieup. Colwell’s cab halted immediately be- hind that of McDonald. On Dan’s [grown fracCious there in the green "left-was the gaping hole of —the!cab. The killers had silenced him atreet foundation with _picks and i and then hastily turned^Jus pockets shovels lying about and the tar cooker! inside out, evidently knowing well boiling over a wood fire. Workmen}what they wanted. PAGE SEVEIf COUNTY TREASURER’S NOTICE 19S6 - .1 'Phe hooks of the County treaiurer will be opeiTfor the collection of es for the fiscal year, 1936, at th* Treasurer’s office from September 15 to December 31, 1936. Aftet Decem ber 31 one per cent will be added. Af- - ter January 31st, two per Cent will be added, and after February 28th, I seven'per cent will be added until tha 15th day of March, 1937, when the books will be closed. . ♦ All jjersons owning property in morg than one school district ere re- •queued lo call for receipts in each of ? the se^/t.-al'"school districts in which the property i.s loc&ted. This is im portant, a= additional cost and pim- alty may b? attached. All able-bodied male citizens be tween the ages of, twenty-one (21) and sixty (60) years of age are liable to pay a poll tax of Commuta tion Road Tax $1.50, in lieu of road 1 duty. "*An able-bodied men between ‘ the ages of 21 and 55 are liable dfo" road duty except those in military service, .school trustees, .school teach ers,, ministers and students. Dog Owners! Your dog tax is on the tax books. YoTf!- are entitled to abatement of dog tax by reason of rabies treatment. But, it is neces sary that you present inoculation cer-_ tificate to the county treasurer at the time of tax payment or before. Un less presented then^ tax cannot be “febated. _ ^ Proper attention wilt be given those who wish to pay their taxes through the mail by check, money order, etc., giving name of township and number of school district. The tax levy is as follows: . State Tax 5 milU Ordinary County Tax 6 mills Road Bonds 6V4 mills Past Indebtdeness 4 mills Weak Schools 1 miU~ -Conetitutional School 3 mills Hospital Bonds ..Vi mill Current Loans 5 mills , u jT&ldACO&Q - CAPTAIN - P.C. 4 ed to the girl, spoke urgently to her. I “—not feeling well all day,. Heart! seems a little off and—” Quickly she brought a glass of v/a Captain Jacobs has been one of P. C.'s most valuable players all year as a blocking back, and finished his football career in a blaze of glory when he starred as a consistant ground gainer against Wofford Saturday. have been planned with considerable j ter, which Bradshaw held- to his suddenness, or the slaying may have [friend’s lips. Wlule he did so he made| been impulsive. McDonald may have some request o^'the .secretary. She, started from the\office but waited when he called to Wr. The girl step-; ped back for a bit i)f paper he took from Quillen’s vest pocket. ! “That’s th^ formuik. Have him SPORT SCRIPTS — By — NEWTON GARLAND West Clinton News I Misses Ijouise Hampton, Lillian I Bragwell, Allen Ruskln and Mat Blakely of Goldville visited in Con- squatted on the distant curb munch-1 In the wake of his bus Dan saw thej^ake ’em up quick—but\take time to} This season of up.set.s is . rapidly j estee Sunday. Mrr""and M family visited relatives in Greer Sun- ing sandwiches. [harassed traffic cop run for the hack [be right! They’re dangerous if they drawing to a close. Some learns have] Mir""and Mrs. Jack Anderson and On Dan’s right was a big double-1People swarmed from all dire|Ctions|ain’t made up right, see? Don’t wor- already laid aside their moleskins deck bus. He smoked, peacefully j which impeded a long line ofjcars. }ry, sister, but kind of step on it. i until another year and most of the .oblivious to the honking as impa- toward the gesticulating taxi driver,|pharmacy two floors up, you\ay? Tlliothers will wind up their present day. tient drivers, begwn to prod the [even some of the street jrepaii! men 1 take care of him.” traffic cop who already must be pers-1 running across the raw woundrin the Colwell was intent on the bu Total 31 mills Laurens School Districts No. 1, Trinity-Ridge 12 mills No. 2, Prospect 10 mills No. 3, Barksdale-Narnie ........ 16 mills No. 4, Bailey 7 mills .No. B, Copeland-Fleming 8 mills No. 6, Oak Grove 6 mills No. 7, Watts Mills 15 mills No. 11, Laurens— 21 mills < Youngs School Districts No. 4, Bethany mills Nb. 5, Grays .17 mills No. 6, Central ...14 mills No. 7, Young.s 18 mills No. 8, Warrior Cret‘k 15 mili.S' No. 10, Lanford 18 mill-s No. ,3-D, Fountain Inn ...24 mills Dials School Districts campaigns this Thanksgiving day. piring through his uniform. The tie- up grew worse and the honking grew louder, .more insistent- ^mebody's Id ing ^ The gridiron front is yet un.^ettled, T. Trammell and Mrs, Roy Trammell ^chauffeur, in ^4^®! directory when the sweet and infill-! however, a.s no major team boasts j visited Mrs.-J. G. Blakely at Mary a perfect record and there is-no cer- clinic in Spartanburg Sunday. , ■ lit jiuirectury wneii me nwcei, «iiu uu street^ now’, yelled louder, howlcm [ looking brunette sped from oaths, ’ ‘ “ more and wrenched the handle Donald’s office on tiny heels that’tainty as to which really is the out- clicked sharply across the white mar ble floor. She sighed her worried dts- standing team in th4A..nation. Just big limousine up there had lost at of the tonneau door.-" He stepped wl)eel, that was the trouble now. {back w 1 tb another hoivk Alean * Colwell bestirred himself when he [other traffic rolled coldly away w'ith appointment that ncL^elevator was^ a'hd Marquet^ 'Y.®!!® FawTwb men pile but of McDonald’s hhe same "alacrity it" had knotted; . I ^igh. She .scarcely'glanced at Uan'fii^t time, thus making the footliall cab. He could not help his pulse The lumbering double-decker pro-; but clutching the pre.scrip-! puzi^e more scrambled than ever picking up speed.. It was the striped gressed half a block. Dan relaxed Quillen’e heart medicine, suit gent and his smoother partner | somerwhat with a sense of tremendous scurried for the stairway, who rot out 0.n blink«l thoueht-’reliof lje cab driver had not aeon, (Coutinued Neat Usue) fully—then alirugged. [him board the bus. j , McDonald still was visible as to; But what tensed him again was Mr. and Mrs. Grady Smith, Mrs. R.[>jo^ Orwnpond 15 mills No. 2, Eden ."r:;..... .14 millf No. 5, Gray C/Ourt-Owings ... 26 milli Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Whitmire vis- --week Fordham, Northwestern,Mrs. W.hitmiie s parents, Mr. and Mis. W. P. Potts, in Whitmire, Sun- head and shoulders through the rearignawing realizatioa that he diad not!CLUB WOMEN window of the taxi. There was'followed the flight of the two killers!! • nothing Colwell needed to telephone} It was to trail them that instinctively Mac’s beautiful wife yet. ‘ His almost, he had got himself out of the ' thoughts swung to her, and * he confusion of the murder discovery. He grinned. McDonald was lucky,. if he peered back, his eyes roving to the only knew it. sidewalk where another policeman HOLD MEETING A q^stion which wil]_^l)e settled Thanksgiving i.s the one which will decide thq^ championship of our .state. -Cl^son meets I'urman at Clemson in \his. deciding game. In The Wad.sfortlr ilome Demonstra-’ tion Club held* its November meeting with Mrs. J. M. Hatton, on Friday afternoon with sixteen member.s and The meter ticked businly. ' Colwell .saw the two men wh« alighted from the ta'xi .ahead separate and start carelessly for the sidewalk. He aquinted after them, then at Mc Donald. Dan muttered a curse, climbed to the street, and thrust a half dollar at his driver. ’ “I can walk faster’n this,” he He jyjis wot the only disgusted growled. i citizen in the traffic knot at jBroad- way and Prospect. Eight or nine -Others, indignant and abusive, had forsaken cars in which they had been ' riding, or the big yellow double- deck bus. Dan waited until no one afoot Was near; then he sauntered Alongside McDonald’s'. cab and shot » straight, quick look in. His -apple jerked. But for the racuous, iinpatieUtr^Iifinkinf on all >ides the ejaculation that burst from his lips Would have at tracted instant notice. Experienced as he was, this thing Jafiud him, made his chest feel ejammy. His blue-gray eyes riveted with hoiTOT on the slight, dandyish form of Ar thur McDonald in that taxi. . - His stare attracted the driver’s attention. It all happened in two tried fto keep a fast-swelling crowd under control while a partner who had appeared from somewhere, probed with drawn revolver through the niob surrounding the cab to seize case of a tieXboth teams can claim j brother, H. A. Campbell, in Woodruff ^ equal shares oK the honor. 1 hardly i .Sunday, think a tie is ^ossilt»Ie for, having; Mrs. Haskell Estee of Laurens, seen both teams action, jt is my [spent Saturday with Mns. Joe Camjp-. belief that Clemson has a decided | bell. edge. F’urman teank are noted for | Mr. and Mrs. Leo Heatherly and their fight, which makqs them ^ team ' daughter, Doris, Mr. and Mrs. Rich; the final !ard Blackman visited relatives in No. 3-B, Fountain Inn 24 mill.4 Sullivan School I Districts No. 1, Princeton 22 mills No. 2, Mt. Bethel . 12 mills No, 3, Poplar Springs . rrTrrrr. 25 miUs~ No. 7, Brewerton 16 mills No. 17, Hickory Tavern . • 24 mills Railroad Tax . 3 miTTs Waterloo School DtdtTicts Nq. 1, Mt. Gallagher . . .8 mills No. 2, Bethel Grove .7 mills J'lo. 4, CenterjKiint 18 mills Fred, visited Mr. (Campbell’s Mo. 5, Oakville 8 mills day. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Davis and (laughter were visitors in Greenwood Sunday. c ^ Miss Vera Parkman visited in Greenville Saturday. Mr. and Mrs.”^. F. Campbell anti son, one visitor present. , In the absence of the p^.sident,! _ Miss Jennie Coleman presi ed7 | whistle.. The outcome t)f this game! Hendersonville, N; C,. Sunday Eugene Shealy conducte the evo- L much to do witVthe selec- Mr. and Mrs. Everett Cox < tionaLafter which Mrs. Luther Young tion of the composite all-.sta\e eleven. whomever the panicky driver might presented the picture study of the'^ith the winner probably Xplacing month, “Peace and Plenty,” George Inness was studied. by. accuse. (^olwell discovered the slip of paper crumpled in his moist palm. He smoothed tt quickly ana frowned at the figures inked thereon. .They were 705-447, and below that, 229. - What did that tneicn'? He thought a moment, shrugged, glanced back. An urgent hunch, or perhaps it was his background of experience, hostess, assisted by Mrs. Eugene prompted him to go down the flight l Shealy and Mrs. Tom Milam, served of -st^ai-^-The bils slowed sweet course, at the next corner. The conductor burily collecting fares ipside did not Colfl^ll alights —r; r: “ - heard a grimy newsboy yell to another across the street: “Hey Ike, whatcha think? Guy murdered down there in a cab!” Hurrying back to the scene, Col^ll involved.himself in the tide of curious, thrill-seeking " huminity. He had tucked that bit of white paper into his vest. U must be a page out of h notebook of Arthur McDonald, lliat was a bestial way to murder!-The more men on the honored elevel of Lau- ren.s, .spent Sunday with^Mrs. Carrie Glynn. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Campbell and, family visited Mrs. Campbell’s moth er, .Mrs. Thomas Caldwell, in Mars I Hill, N. C., last week-end. .Mr. and Mrs. Edd ‘Adams of De- Room arrangement was the pro- ; „ ^ . •% . i ject of the month. Mrs. Luther P- C- ended “***•“",1,“',. Young, in n most effietive *,y, | u^rd.y at the top of the Little hour<^ Ko .«• 'Thcir dccisive victory over Wofford Xed for comfort, cohv-ni.nce .nJileft ‘he™ with a perfect 7»;;d I ®“"‘- 1 “ I among the smaller schools of the ^ Sunday. - Kn.inAA. thpU^ate. Outsidc of this group the Mr. and Mrs. Roy Holtzclaw and After a short business stssi n i Stockings fared badly^J^ing^*’*^®"^®*' visited relatives in Greer unable to score a single victory, but'Sund^. . always giving a good acount of them- Mrs.\ Belton Warren and little bad games played ■ or three seconds, five at most. Au- knife wielder must know something tomatically the taxi man glanead of anatomy; he had plunged his cold into his rear view mirror. THORNWELL HONOR ROLL Eleventh Grade: BestieFortner. Ninth Grade:' Velma'Dihyiway. Eighth Grade: Richard Montmol- lin, LauUe McLown, Felix McLellan. , Seventh Grade: Betty DuBose. . dixth; Grade: Jerrell Davis, Chest nut Whitaker, Susie Mae Hart, Fifth Grade: Douglas Parker, Caro lyn Murphy. F'/uvth G'/ade: Charles McCimn, Jesse Pryo-’’. Third Grade: James Carroll, Rob ert GrubCi C, L. Roberts. Second Grade: Kenneth Idol. - First Grade: Evelyn Davis. seli^. by 1^. C. were the Meircer and Citadel tiH^r.! CitadelV .-margin pf victory, was excessive, as was Mercer's. The Hosemen have a difficult schedule ar ranged for next year, meeting every h®? rrturned to team in the state and Ijreorgia Tech, Mercer, and Emory and Henry. The latter team is a new opponent but should be interesting as they are!louibia where he is coached by Billy Laval, who coached tienL. in this state for several years be fore transferring to the Virginia in stitution. daughtetV Joe Anne, spent Sundiy with Mr. M>d Mrs. J. L. Arnold. j ■ □lev, _arid\^ G. JP. Li5^r-_wetE visitors in SrarlanBurg Saturday. ’ Mrs. Clara\Payne of Goldville, home after visit ing Mr. and Mrs.XFred Whitlock. The friends of X H. Harvey will regrret to know he h^ returned to Co hospital pa- Enj bladP to the precise spot Which would He squirmed around. His gaunt paralyze the victim’s power of shout- countenance lost what little color}ing out and giving the alarm, too many cigarettes-had left, and In the crowd that was now being! went blank. He bathed McDonald• roughly jostled by four policemen he} “**>7 « rntaa liCCOnUD with a terrified look, wrenched his-searched face after face to locate the! BLACK-D RAUG HT eyes to Dan; and returned them to'two riders with Arthur McDonald.} his passenger as if drawn by a After a moment of fruitless effort, magnet. I Colwell w’opked himself into the clear. The eyes of the shyster lawyer He wa.s in the nick of time to glimps® two backs as the very men he sought strode west toward Alton street.'Th'ey Birthday Party On Sunday afternoon Cly^ Bigbee gave a birthday partyJn hon or of her little daughter, Evelyn, who No. 6, Mount Pleasant 8 mill.-* No. 7] Mt. Olive 21 -mills No. 14,_Waterloo ' 8 mills Cross Hill School District No. 13, Cros.s Hill mills Hunter School Districts No. 3, Rock Bridge 6 mills No. 4, Wadsworth 12 mills No. 5, Clinton 18Vi mills No. 6, Goldville 11 mills No. K-I9,-Kinard3 8 mills No. R-42, Reederville . 13 mills No. 16, Monntville 21 mills Jacks School Districts No. 1, No white school - 4 milU No. 2, Shady Grove 13 mills No. 3, Renno 10 mills No. 5, 4 mills No. 6, O’Dell’s , .10 mills No. 7, Garlingtoh /! .5 mills No. 15^ Hurricane ^ .. 6 mills Scufflotown School Districts No, 1, Long Branch .../ 10 mills No. 2, Musgrove mills No. 3, Langston 7 Np. 4,_ Sandy .Springs -naUla.- No. 12, Ora . ...:.:..!rr:i: ri4 mint Persons ^ending in lists of names to bqjtpken off are requested to sbnd them eariy^nd give the township and schMl district of each as the Treas urer is very busy during the nronth of Detiember. r / D. ROY SIMPSON, tf - V County Treat. ^ almost popped from their sockets, They were glazed. A long knife was buried to the hilt in his chest, stabbed through his expensive brown silk tie. His right hand actually hung on the shaft of the weapon as though in his agony he ^had tried to draw the thif^ out. Stiff in death, Mc Donald, sat in the thabby^^reen taxicab^ waiting for trafHe to move! Tliere it an arreeting !horror in the light of a murdered man. It gripped ^le hack driver, held him taut until comprehension seeped to ’his brain of the awful meanisf of must have lingered to make certain their victim was dead. One back wore that striped suit, the other,' the dark suit. ■—' ■ . Colwell followed them. —-— They passed into the Illinois build ing lobby,^ exited through a enndy store, and went into the arcade of the MHlarh few doofs north' That "#as to shake pursuit—although Dan guessed the psir felt aecnre as it was. Just a precaution. His Ups thinned in a- grim smile. They hi^lt shr’^cn him People who have taken Blade- Draught naturally , are enthuslasUo about It because of the refreshing relief It has brought them. No won der they urge others to try it! ... Mrs. Joe O. Roberts, of PortersvUle, Ala., a-rltes: "A friend recommended Black-Draught to me a long time Afo, And It hAA prored lU worth to mo. BlAck-DTAucbt Is Rood .(or coosUpAtUm. I find thAt taklnc BlAck-DrAUfht provents tbs blUout bsAdAches wmcb I. .uasd to bsTs." ... A pttrsl7 TSMtsbls SMdletDS lor rrilef of * f CONSTIPATION, B1UOU8NB8S The outstanding fobtball player in, ..... the nation last week was Pete Tins-!*'-* )-'«-•» o'-* »" that day. ley of, Spartanburg high school, now «>."’« w-re played, after v playing guard for the University „f'-J-Infhtful refreshments were sery^ Georgia, His magnificient defensive I hy th-' hostess to a number of l.tUe play was responsible for Georgia’s' " h" ««'•<- P';<-«nt for the oc- , tie with highly favored and unbeaten 1 ' Fordham. J. C. Hall, another Spar- aii’vivi Tn mk-k-t- tanhurg product and.Captain of the, ' 1 ) .ie.E.1— | [Bulldogs, played, a great game also, , ■ I but Tinsley was the |.layvr that drew Jhe l.nton-Laurens chap t e r,' ithe comment of the nation by his out- Thornwoll pnihanage alumm will .rtimding play. The outcome'of this "-■•« next -Monday evening at 7:30 game left two southern teams as.“' 'he hoine^of Mr. _and .Mrs. logical choices for the game to be WHAT 2ANES DO? Stutt.s on Thornwell' street. Mrs. j played New Year’s day irf the'kose ''“P-'*"-' .'“■'"'’h > PaP--- Bowl. They are Alabama and; on the life of the late ^Miss^ Anna Louisiana State University. Each: himonton, for a long, number of years has a hard game this week with of the orphanage staff of possibility that om of them might workers. be eliminated from' consideration. ” I , Gray Funeral Home Clinton, S. C. \ FUNERAL DIRECTORS ••• ond, •*. EsMBALMERS Ambulance Service Phones 41 and 399-J L. RUSSELL GRAY and V. BARKS ADAIR, Gen. Mgra. South ’Carolina teams engaging in battle this week are: C!lremson versus Furman, Citadel versus Wofford at Augusta, and Carolina versus St A.. Xavier at Cincinnatti. The first mentioned of these is the most im portant to local fans because of its important bearing in the state cham pionship race.' > checks COLDS and FEVER first 4*7 ■UMtas Liquid, Tablets Besdache, SO Salvo, Nose Drops Try ’•Rnb-My-TIsm,- WorWs X Liafaaeat