The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, February 04, 1937, Image 1
IV
VOLUME xxxvn
CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY, 4,193T '
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NUMBER V
STRIKERS TOLD
TO QUIT PLANTS
^Court Orders' dit>Down Crowd
To Get*Off Cknera) Motors
Premises. Workers Refuse To
Obey(Ejeetkm Ruling. Sheriff
. Expected To Take Action.
Flint, Mich., Feb. 2. — A Genesee
circuit judire tonight ordered evacu
ation wiiSrin 24 hours_of sit-down!
Beloved Woman
Passes At Home
Miss Agutha Davis
' Home of Sister
Illness. Interment
Bridge Cemetery.
Dies At
FoUowing
At Rock
Miss .\^tha Davis, a member of
one of the community’s widely con
nected and highly regarded families,
CLINTON AREA ClVES $1,451.97
FORRELIEF OF FLOOD SUFFERERS
Red Cross Quota Doubled As Contributions Pour In After Last
Week’s Appeal. Goldville Makes Mapiificent G^t of $536.61.
Many Local Organizations Give Generously. Chairinan'Owens
Grateful for Fine Response.
The Glinton chapter of the Ameri
can Red Cross has doubled its quota
died Saturday afternoon at the home I of $750 as announced last week for
of her sister, Mrs. R. E. Jones, on the assistance of' sufferers in the
_... , .I South ‘Broad street. Her death, fol- great floods that recently swept over
strikers whose. 35-day possewion of jiowihg a critkal UTnas of the^ast; mid-Western and Southern sUtes. ,
two General Motors plants in riot-1 few weeks, brought gemrine s^rowj Treasurer W. H. Simpson stated
troubled Flint has blocked every I to her aide_circle‘of friends and ac-jyes^,.(j,y total cash cegtrib’u-
peace effort in the bitter automotive quaintances,^
Ijdior dispute.
tions of $1,451.97 had been turned
ers of the flooded area.
OKWMan In high WINDS
CImtnn Pai^ MENACE LEVEES
W. T. Wolfe, 88, Succumbs To
Brief Illness. InteHnent Sun
day At Rutherfordton, N. C.
Ohio Begins Rearing New Ccest
Near Cairo. Four Hundred
Dead and Millions Homeless.
Red Cross Needs More Mil-
--llons To Relieve Distrem.
The city of Clinton proper eon- Musgrove street following a week’s!
tributed $641.61 ;dlnto;i Cotton Mills I
Funeral services were held Sunday j
afternoon at one o’clock from North I
intM
Friendship association $150; Lydia
Cotton Mills, $123.75. Employees of
the Joanna Cotton Mills at Goldville
made a magnificent cash contribution
of $336.61* with more to be added, the
W. T. Wolfe, 88,^ venerable Clin
tonian, died Friday night at the home!
of Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Tribble onj
FLOOD AT GLANCE
Homeless—'Almost 1,000,000.
Known dead—376.
Relief—Donations to Red Cross to-
Broad Street Methodic church, con-*taled $11450,000 but more millions
ducted by the pastor. Dr. J. C. Roper, i needed.
with a number of acquaintances and
commfittee in chai'go stated yesterday.! life-long friends present to pay a laat
Judge Paul V. Gadola granted the
Funeral services were held from'over to him and forwarded to nation-J spyke in the highest | tribute. Interment followed at Ruth-
attended the services and' the many
lovely floral offerings were indicative
of the love and esteem in which she
family burial ground at old -Rock
Bridge. Nephews of the deceased
served as active pallbearers, while
the' honorary escort consisted of
frierids of the family.
Miss Davis was bom in the Rock
Bridge section, a daughter of the
late John C. and Emily Watts Davis,
^e was a woman of many fine quali
ties, versatile in literary-^att^ments,
and devoted to her home and loved
Her kindness, her sympathy.
ones.
her graciouedess, her thottghtfuln«ss
all these
Christian and life-long member of the
Presbyterian church. Her affiliation
was with the First Wesbyterian i
church of this city which she dearly
loved and support^ loyally until her
gigantic automobile producing con
cern whose plants here employ more
than a fourth of the city's p<^ula-
tion, a three-point in-jundtion re-
Etraihing strikers in Fisher ;|9ody
plants No. 1 and 2 from further oc
cupancy, ordering them to vacate in
24 hours and prohibiting, them fr<Mn
picketing.
Homer Martin, president of the
. linked Automobile Workers of Amer
ica, said the union undoubtedly would
appeal. Asked if the union would or
der its members out of the plants, he
•aid: /
“We are law-abiding. We will not
fight the govemancnt.’V ^
Judge Gadola act»l shortly after
National Guardsmen, holding a rigid
military blackade about the huge
ChevroTet Hqfer compapy plahte otlTers, her spirituality
ter a night of disorder, set up eight
machine guhs trained on the street
divid>n^ the Chevrolet factory from
the Fisher No. 2 plant.
This street was the scene of a
/bloody riot January 11 in which 27
persons were wounded. The troops ar
rive the following day, but madej
their first move into the strike area
last night after a dozen persons were
injured in renewal of violence.
This .afternoon the guardsmen at
bayonet point pushed a small group
of pickets away from Chevrolet’s mo
tor assembly department. Plant 4,
scene of a' nev(r sit-down strike by
sevenal buTKhred members of the Unit
ed Automobile Workers of~America;
seized a union sound truck because
its operators were “doing too much
talking,’’ demolished a picket shanty
and ctetained six men.
Less than two hours later, Judge
Gadola read to a crowded courtroom
his decision granting the injunction.
Declaring the only issue involved was
“possession of property,’’ the judgr^’^**”^ Davis of Laurena
cited' precedents, including su
preme court rulir^-upholding Michi
gan’s anti-picketing^ statute.
Of union contentions that the big
cognition, because of alleged fail
ure to abide by federal labor ■ laws,
‘ had not come to court with “clean
hands,” Judge Gadola said:"
“The falsity of such a position is
obvious. The courts are open to the
- defendants tf they feel they hay^
been wronged.” .
the residence Sunday afternoon at al Red Cross headquarters. In addi-
three o’clock, conducted by her pas- tion to this, Mr. Simpson stated that
tor. Dr. D. J. Woods, assisted by Dr. many boxds of clothing,*^bedding and
Dudley Jones. The large number who!canned food have been contributed
praise of the gifts of that generous j erfordton, N. €., hi.s former home,
community which was only a hundred where he had requested that he be
and forwarded to the area.
Chairman Robert S. Owens spoke ia,
the -highest praise yesterday of the
was held. Interment followed in the wonderful response made by the Clin
ton area including Clinton and Gold
ville, and wishes to express, hit
thisnks and appreciation for the fine
spirit M co-operation and generosity
shown. It was a voluntary contribu
tion, he added, with no pressure be-
ing put on anybody, but all given an
opportunity to contribute to the fund
who so desired. For this reason we
are alLJthe more grateful for the re
sponse, he added.
More than six hundred individual
donations were made for the suffer-
dollars beloyk’ Clinton’.s contribution.
Cairo. — The glutted Ohio’s rise
slackened more than a yard below the
top of the protecting embankment.
City appeared safe but Mayor Bode -
warned against “premature rejoic-v"^
ing.
buried, and where he had erected his
Officers and children of the Thom-''"“"'^^ent several years ago.
well orphanage gave $51.80; teachers] were: Silu Bai-
%nd pupils of Florida Street school,!Oxley, R. C. Adahr, G. L.
'$11.12; Hi-Y of Clinton high .school,! Simpson, R. G. Watson and Joe W.
$15.QQi Eastern Star chapter, $5.00;^^®^®’
Calvary.^ajjjltisk church, $26.59; mbn’s Mr. Wolfe,‘who bore the dmtinction
Bible class of First Presbytefian of being the bldcKrt man in Clinton,
church, $lt).00. i was bom in North Carolina in 1849.
Contributions are still being re-. In 1896, at the completion of the first {workers who wertt down with steel
ceived by Chainrjan Owens, Treasurer! unit of Oie Clinton Cotton Mills, he barge. I ’ ‘
Simpson,* and at ^ .several. business j came to Clinton as a cotton buyer,
places designated in The Chronicle I being connected at that time with a
last week. Those who have not yet Charlotte firm. A year later he was
Memphis—The wind-ruffled Missis
sippi approached a cre.st but 120,000
workers along the b^nk.s of its middle
and lower sectors "were confident the
levees would hold.
New Madrid—Pressure of Missis
sippi eased while boatmen dragged
flooded spillway for bodies of levee
made a donation and desire to do so
are asked to leave same at one of
these places immeiliately to be added
to the splendid .showing already made
by tb^ Clinton area.
Grand And Petit IReport Given On
Jurors' Are Drawn
Other of her prime interests were
the local United Daughters of the
Confederacy, and Daughters of the
American Revolution chapters, of
which she was a charter member, and
in whose work she always manifested
a keen interest. She had long been
affiliated with Jjieae organizations,
her mother being the organizer and
first regent of the D. A .R. chapter
in 1905.
Miss Dsvis is siMrvived by three sis
ters: Mrs. R. E. Jones of' this citg,
Mrs. Charles Ackerman of Maebn,
Ga., Mrs. A. Walker of Baltimore,
Md., and three brothers, Jack^H., and
W. Watts Davis of this./place, and
Seaboar4 Exhibit
Vie>v<^ By Many
Regular Term of Criminal Court
To Convene February 15. Ox-
" ner To Preside.
Lauren.s, Feb. 2.—The grand jury
panel for 1937 was completed and a
petit jury bf 36 men for the Febru
ary term of criminlU Court was drawn
at a meeting of the jury commission
ers held Tuesday morping in Clerk of
Court Thos. W. Benn«U’a office.
Twelve men were drawn for the
grand jury, to be added to the six
brqi^ht over from 1986 to complete
the panel of 18i9Ms«tv«
The grand jniy for the year was
drawn as follows, the first six being
hold-overi: _ .
W, M. Henderson, Youngs; H. W.
Turner,-Cross Hill; W. B. Mundy,
Waterloo; W. M. Boyd, Dials; E. E.
Simpson, Sullivan; P. H. Harris,
Dials; U H. Taylor, Laurens; Tan
M. Ray, Jacks; A. J. Copeland, Hun
ter;. M. L. Cheek, Sullivan; E. W.
Brown, Ctoim Hill; C. D. Wilson, Lau
rens; J. T. Langston, Scuffletown;
Highway Value
State System Worth $104,554,*
012, According To Sawyer’s
Report To House.
Columbia, Feb. 2.—Figures placing
the present value of the state high
way system ,at $104,554,012 and the
value when-proposed construction is
completed at $123,511,824 were before
the house of representatives today in
compliance v^h that body’s request.
Chief HTg^ay CommisBioner Ben
Sawyer sent detailed accounting of
expenditures on completed projaets
Washington — Senator Robii^ofi,
majority loader, said government
would provide funds for rejrtibilitat-
cmployed by the late M. S. Bailey,' ing devastated areas,
president of the Clinton Cotton Mills,
as cotton buyer fori his mill. For 40
years up to the time of his death he
held this ^Itlbn.
OHIO REACHES ALMOST
TO TOP OF^ 60-FOOT WALL
The Ohio, jhhnping its biggest fkKKi
President W. J. Bailey of the mills 1 , ... . ^
had inaiated t« Mr. Wolfe thirt he,®.' .’“T Z't,
.sissiippi, brdught new menace last
give up his entire duties on'account I
of «iTO«in* age, -but thto isrrefuidd'l i ' a'li
to do. Hole*, due to illne*., 1«. never '“S' >?<*
missed a day from his office, always
projects in progress and the estimat
ed spending for the two-year pro
gram for which contracts have not
yet been let.
The house asked the figures in a
resolution sponsored by Representa
tive L. C. Wannamaker, of -Chester-
field, defeated Johnston candidate for
speaker of the house.
Under the plan of construction as
set forth by the highway department
figures, including projects now under
arriving early and being the last to
leave at the conclusion of the day’s
work. For nearly 40 years he had
made his home with Mr. and Mrs.
Tribble where he was a highly re
garded and loved member of tiie
family.
Loyalty to his employers, and
fiMthfulnsse to duty, was an outstand
ing characteristic of Mr. Wolfe. He
was in every se|^ of the word a
Christian gentleman of the oM school.
He was^ a Itfe-long metnber of the
Methodist church but because' of
ooilliF ettscbwiwitr'to' Ms old moMwr
church at Rutborfordtam, he never
moved his membership here. His af
filiation, ihowever, was with North
Broad ^reet church where he was
always in his pew in the church and
More rtian five hundred people in-^P- Smith, Waterloo; J. U Baldwin, construction ^nd projects prcqiosed
Sheriff Reads Order/
Flit Mich., Feb. 2,—Sheriff Thomas
spectp<f the Seaboard Air Line rail
way^ soil conservation educational ex-
Idbtt car during its aU-day stay here
last Friday. Farmers and others in
terested, ^were shown the destruction
of soil erosion, the value of soil ero
sion ^control and many other practi
cal and helpful methods calculated to
W. Wolcott” appeared in th. ctrik.- f*™'
bound Fisher Body vdbmpany plant
No. 2 toniglrt an^^read the ciredit
court order whic^ says the plant must
be vacated wijtKin 24 hours. The sit-
dovrii strikqr$ listened to him quietly
and there/ivas no demonstration when
be bad/finished.
To Talk When Out
^ Detroit, Feb. 2.—^William S. Knud-
sen^ exe^ive vioe-preeklsnt of Gen
eral Motors corporatioa, said today
that the company would open negot^
ations with ’United Automobile
Workers of America as soon^ as strik
er-held plants are evacoat^ in nc-
cordnnee with an injunetioif issued to
day in Flint
Those who visited the car spoke in
the highest terms of the educational
value of the displays and the effort
being made by the Seaboard road to
improve agricultural conditions
throughout the srea it serves.
Smith Seed Loan
Byib Now Law
■«
Lewis Goes T« Area
Washington, Feb. John L. Lew
is traveled to tKe scenq of the Gen
eral Motors strike tonight calling
upon the automobile corporation^ cf-
fkimls to sit down \with'strike lead
ers in a peaes conference as the only
way to avoid a knock-down fight, he
argued.
Lewis, head of the Committee for
Industrial Organiation and chief
atnrtegiat in the strike, lefthene thisj
afternoon without commentinc on
court order to sit-down atrikers. to'
evacuate piaots in Flhct, IGch.
When hie train atoppad at BaMi-
•moie, he atill refrained from dieelos-i
ing Me attitude toward that order,
but he ieeued a statement aaying:,
“Every moral .and logical conaider-
ation indicactes a eonference bbtween
the contesting parties. After ati, that
is the only way to settle a/tontro-
versy unless it is desirable to await
the ej:hauBtion of ^ of the coidaat-
anU or until one s^eraaiy beats the
other down.*^
Coagreos Uixsd Ta Act
As Lewis sped_ toward Detroit, the
attention of congreeslwaa called to
Mie atrike. Senator Neely; Ddraoent,.
of West ViTginiar intzodooed'a reso-*
lution callii^ on ^ Bteck lobby eom-
veM:tee to make a awsepiag investica-
tiei^ of General Motors and aM its
The Chronicle is in receipt of the
following communicstibn from the of
fice of Senator E. D. Smith in^Wash-
ingion:
Senator Smith’s seed loan bill mak
ing fifty million dollars immediately
availaUe for loans to farmers for
crop production during 1937 was
signed by President Roosevelt Friday,
Sullivan; P. B. Adair, Hunter; P. H.
Miller, Hunter; Gillette Simpson,
Hunter..—
Petit Jury
The petit jury was drawn as fol
lows :
Sullivan township: J. O. Ridgeway,
L. C. Tsylor, B. E, Crawford, L. C.
Knight, G. W. Davenport,
Waterloo; T. L. Martin, W. Y.
Cooper, E. B. Robertson, H. H. Pin
son, J. B. Odell.
Laurens: Fred H. Walker, B. M.
Gray, S. C. Taylor, J. A. T. Andrews,
^ T. , Henderson, C. T. Latimer, J. H.
Ni
abers, W. M. Cain. . , “
Dials: F. M. Curry, Frank King,
W. R. Burdette, L. L. Templeton.
Hunter: E. C. Taylor, A. M. Young,
B. W. Blakely, G. A. Black, "E. M.
Young, L. D. McCrary.
Cross Hill: H. K. Boy^e, J. A. Rich
ardson.
Jacks: Fred Johnson.
Youngs: B. H. Garrett, Sam M.
Thomas, J. B. DeShields, C. E. Bur
dette. ,
Scuffletown: W. R. Prince.
The court will convene Monday,
February 16, and is due to run for
thereby becoming a law. This meas
ure is similar to Senator Smith’s seed
loan bills in formthr years except^the
interest charged to farmers on loans
baa baen reduced from ^5 1-2 to 4 per
cent.
.Nowadays...
People don’t have to- go
to town, walk until they
are “fagged out,” looking
for worthwhile merchan
dise. They shop "first in
THE CHRONICLE, and
then know just where they
are headed.
If merchandise is worth
selling it’s worth advertis
ing. Buyers should not lose
sight of this truth.
The Chronicle
“Where Thrifty Bayers Shop
( Ftyst"
one week. Judge G. Dewey Oxner, of
Greenville, will preside and Solicitor
Hugh Beiudey, of Greenwood, will
represent the state here for the first
time since he assumed his office Jan
uary 19.
To Give Address
On Temperance
won a hmg fight against the river.
_ The Ohio, Lapping up close to the
top of thei'ciity’s 60-foot seawall, for
' 15 straight hours had stood station
ary. Suddenly, it began rj^ring a new
crest; pushed the stage to 59.54 feet,
only 5 1-2 inches short of the bul
wark, which, however, had a tempor
ary superstructure of three feet.
The mayor already had warned
against “premature rejoicing,” and at
this dhsnge in- affairs the coast
guard, standing by with 55 rescue
boaits, ordered for the first time an
•n-night witch.
To • the south, the flooded upper
4|fimisstppi at some points had been
swept by high, levee-menacing winds
whidh in the night were abating.
A feared eventuality in the Missis--^
sippi river was general rain over ma-
Sun<l.y .chool «, low «l hi, *r,n*th
poured into the river by the Ohio
would permit. His life was quiet, un- ,, . , ^
.MuminiC wd gentle, and chancier- «>“« be deared through,
iied alway, by the hiirhert principle*. kevrrnmonl on-
He had numerou, friend, here who Rowt. J>-. nucht
hold him in warm affection, and .dio
are sa<klene<l by his passing.
Mr. Wolfe il survived by one atep-
under the two-year plan, Greenville <laughUfr, Mrs. H. S. Eaves, of Ruth
county would have the large.st total
valuation of $5,602,925; Charleston
would take second place with $5,458,-
Q90, and Orangeburg would be third
with $4,900,379.
■” The highway figures showed that
projects now in process woukl amount
to $12,194,934, and estimated expendi
tures for the two-year program would
be $6,762,877.
laiurens County Figures
The report showed Laurens county
roads completed worth $2,288,431. Af
ter pending proposed projects/ are
completed the estimate will bc $2,-
649,719.
erfonlUm; one step-son, William
Rucker of Charlotte, and two aged
»istt‘rs. Misses Jeqnie and Clementine
Wolfe of Monroe.
Eichelberg^ Ghihs
Enviable Record
Fanners Hold
Outlook Meeting
Laurens, Feb. 2.—The annual out*
look meeting for Laurens county was
held at the courthouse here Monday
nioming. The meeting was sponsored
by C. B. Cannon, county agent, and
Miss Jennie Coleman, home demon
stration agent, as tha sfsssion was a
joint meeting ^ both aggies.
Miss Juanita Neely, district home
demonstration agent, ' discussed the
outlook in her field of activities,
while O. M. Clark, Clemson college
economist, and A. A. McKeown, dis
trict farm agent, spoke on the agri-
coltural program for the * current
year.
Hugh L. Bichelberger, of this city,
who ha.s iHJcn with the New York Life
Insurance company for the past four
teen years, led the whole South Caro
lina agency in 1936 in production of
new -business, according to an an
nouncement maile from tbe Columbia
office during the past week at a
meeting of the coanpahjra repr^n-
tatives in this state.
Mr. Ekrhelberger has long been as
sociated with the Nei^York life and
ranks as one of" the 'most successful
and well-informed insurance men in
this section. His friends here and
throughout the large territory be
serves, will learn vnth interest of his
magnificent record and the award of
this honor that has come to him ffxmi
bia-oompany.
ADMITTED TO-VRACnCE
IN COURT OP APPEALS
Limestone Group
To Lead Service
Mrs. J. H. Harvey, who is-much in
demand as a speaker in high ochools |
and c<dJeges,,will give a lecture onl _ ,
tempemnee plication at the Thom-i J^® d^utotion t^ni of"’ttoestone
well orpibanage chapel Saturday: Gaffney, will have charge of
night, F^tth; at 7:30^ The lecture regular Y.M.C.A. meeting this
I is illustrated by colored stereoptican {®r®*»»9«; «t «even o’cl«k at Presbyte-
. I nan college, at which tune an mter-
Coliege and'achool students are cs- «»ting program /will be given. The
pecially invited, as well as the gen.lf'ouP « here on a r^urn trj
eral pubik. ^”® deputation which the P. C.
— • ‘ I team recently gave at a Limestone
R. W. Wade, Esq., of this city, was
among a-gronp of well-known South
Carolina lawyers recently admitted to
practice in the United States Court
of Appeals. Ibe admission ceremonies
took place in Columbia at a seasioii
of tibe court held ki the federal build
ing in that city.
TO SFEAK SUNDAY
The Rev. John S. Dixon, of Deca
tur, Ga., will be the college Y^MX.A
spezker Sunday afternoon at two
o’clock.^ Mr. Dixon is pastor df the
Momingside Presbyterian church at
Decatur.
C. W; Andei^mn left Saturday for
New Toric’on a kijisinam trip.
vesper service.
NO SALES DN MONDAY
Laurens, Feb. 2.—Although Monday
was sales day at the county court-}
housd, there was not a single official i
offering, thus breaking a record for
February legal sales over a long pe
riod of yea&.^ H was said at the of
fice of the "clerk of court.
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DEATHS
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AUTOMOBILE
ACCIDENTS
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LAURENS COUNTY
1937
Lei’s Strive To Make
This a Safe Year On
-Ihe Hifhwasra. x
presently not regarded in dangoi -
“even greater than 1927.” OfficiaTs
said that without such an eventuality,
the big levee line in all probability
would hold.
Far upstream, floml-menaced *New
I^Madrid, Mo., heard with sorrow that
at least 15 levee workers had lost
their lives in trying to protect that
area.
The plight of flood refugee.s was
nowhere reportoil more uncomfortable”’'
than in east_Arkansas, yhere thou
sands huddled on a riiige in tents, or
spent waking hours in heated public
buildings, in‘sub-freezing weather.
Between that ridge and the river
itself ,water released by tributai’y
levee'breaks crept coldly southward.
Elsewhere in the Missis.sippi valley
—' where the Red (’ross said some
200,^0£|P^.,Mlotw]ai2ders already werp
homeless, the wind-di»turb«‘<l waters
broke a secondary dike, at the ham
let of Bessie, Tenn., for a fourth time.
Neaiby Tiptonville, Tenn., was
threatened with isolation. Hickman, ,
Ky.,'behind a wall and samtbag bar
ricade, was for'a time in'danger— ■
again from the wind’s action—before .
the blow subsided. - _
This threat has been recognized by
army engineers- as the worst along
the MisKWsippi—they have saidythat
without the wind’s added menace the
prospect was that the billion dollar
levee system would stand ihe teat.
'The flood disaster nationally had
cost more than 400 lives, under the
best estimates, and ha(L driven nearly
1,000,000 people fro^ their homes.
The damage still stood in the count- ,
less millions.
President Roosevelt, in recognition
of a catastrophe which Red Cross of
ficials said bad made more -people
homeless than any in American his
tory, proclaimed an “emergency” to
permit duty free importation'^for
eign relief donations,
j The U. S. geological survey said
jthe flow from-the Ohio river, when
jthe crest is reached ait Cairo, prob-,
[ably today or tomorrow, would be 31
.per cent greater than ever before—
2,100,000 cubic fwt per .second.
General Malin ^raig, the army
chief of stoff, who has mobilized the
most far-reaching military plan of .
evacuation and aid ever put to work
in peacetinve in America, said he had
a feeling of^“o6nservative optimism”
about fk>od conditions.
Bev./M. C. Dendy of Gainesville,
Ga., Wednesday witli W. E.
NeigUmiu and family.
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