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' T »AflE 81X THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON. 8. C Baptists Plan Special Week First Baptist Church Designates j January 9-16 For S u n d a School Revival and Special j Courses. T^ejweek of January 9-16 has been, set aside by the First Baptist church; for a Sunday school revival, the pa*-j tor, Rev. W. N. Long, announced yes-' terday. i This is not simply a week of train-1 in* for teachers and officers of thej Sunday school, Mr. Long states, hut a week of inspiration and organiza tion for the entire church. Continu ing, he said: “Every church member who pos sibly can should be present every night for the instruction periods and for the inspirational addresses.” The schedule will be as follow’s: 7:00 to 7:45—Class period. 7:45 to H:15 — Inspirational m(*s- eage. 8:15 to 9:00—<'lass peribd. The courst^ for younjf peoide adults will be UhI by J. L. Corzine;! those for junior and intermediate, workers, by Mi's. A. .1. Foster; thej cradle roll, l>eginner and primary, by, Mrs. Vaghts. .Mr. I,x)ng statisl that Mr. Corzine will be in charge of^the revival, and with the two assi.stunts listtsi, the pastor is “convinced that it would be impossible to .st'cure a better s,taff of workers.” At the worship hour next Sunday morning Mr. f'orzine wiil bring the mes.sage. .Mr. I»ng stated that every m<*mber of the church should Ik* pres ent to hear him and resolve to let nothing prohibit their pailieipatiiig in, ~tSe campaign. Mr. 1/ong said, further: ■‘On Sun day ufterniMui, January 9, a religiou.s census will be taken of the entire communiTy. A. large group of census takers will be ne(*de’<l, and whiuv you are a.sk«‘<l to help with this work, try to make it possible to Ik* rea<ly when the time come*;. The census will include every white resident of the city, and after the cards are as.sort- «*d, those iK'longing to other churches _ will be giverr to the resiK*ctive pas- tors. The census will b<* made from 1:00 to ‘2:90 .'suniluy, and rt*sidents are reiiuestiHl to be at home if pos sible." / ‘ hak Carnem T THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1938 S44inute Biographies Aidhw of to Wlb MfMb und bifiuoico Pccdpiib* n was Opening up. Railroads were soon to be thrown across the continent. Cities were to be built. America trembled on the threshold of an as- 'tonishing era. ' ' I And Andy Carnegie, with the smoke jand fl^es belching from his steel ; furnaces, rode upon a tidal wave of prosperity—rode and kept on-riding until he had acquired riches such ah had never 'been dreamed of before in the history of mankind. ^t he never worked very hard. He Lydia Mills News Mr. and Mrs. James Nelson and of Ware Shoals, spent Sunday with her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Cauble. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Estea and chil' dren of Woodruff visited Mr. and children spent the past week in Lau-jMrs. Rufus Md>s, Mr. and Mrs. Joe rens with relative^ Ben Burnett and Mr. and Mrs. Jonie Mrs. John Lee, Mrs. Erskine Knight I Brown the past week. Mrs. and children visited Mr. and Jfe Burnett near Spartanburg, Mrs. Lola Burnett visited her neph ew, Will Hughes in Moores. Mr. and Mrs, W. W. Bums a.^d ^am- ANDREW CARNEGIE , : - He Made More Millionaires Than Any Man Who Ever Lived Andrew Carnegie was bom in Dun fermline, Scotland, without benefit of doctor or mid-wife because his pt*o- l>k* were too poor to afford either. He stated working for two cents an hour—and he made four hundred mil lion dollars. secretary to the division superintend ent. Suddenly one day an event hap pened that starte<l him on the .way to fortune. An inventor came and sat down beside him in a railroad train and showed him the model of a new played about half the Bpvitt‘the past' wgekaend iffBhtl“ithcie luni Mr. and Mrs.' Floyd Elders q;>cat the past two weeks in Greenville with relatives. Mr. and. Mrs. W'illie Lawson of Clinton, iqient Thursday night with that he surrounded himself with as-'by, N. G., with relirtives. sleeping car he had inventeij. The When the Cameitie family came to «< '!»y "uJe bunks nailed to the sides of freight cars. This new invention was much like the PuTTmah cars of to<lay. Car-i negie had shrewd .Scotch (foresight. He saw Jhat the invention had enor- sistants who knew more than he did —and he spurred them on to pile up the millions for him. He was Scotch, but he wasn’t too Scotch. He let his partners share in his profits and he made more millionaires than any oth er man who has ever lived. He went to school four years in his life; but in-spite W that he wrote eight books of travel, biography, es says and economics and gave away sixty million dollars to public libra ries, and seventy-eight millions for the advancement of education. He was Mrs. Pauline 'Lawson spent Joe Ben Burnett and Carl Elders j past week-end in Charleston . visited theij* aunt Mrs. Meta Hughes,} Misses Frances Lawson, Ve at Pelham. j Bishop and Buster Barton and Carl Miss Cleo Campbell entertained a j Lanford were in Hidkory Tavern on party of friends at her home on Sat-'Friday for a broadcasting party. the B 'im urday evening. ''Mr. and Mrs. Mansel Bridwell spent Sunday with Mrs, Bridwell’s parents Mr. and Mrs, B. E. Reed, near Ware Shoals. * Sarah Alford is recovering from a recent operation at the local hospital. / Mr. and Mrs. Mansel Bridwell and Tom Ervin spent Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Lee*^ Bridwdl in Menice Patterson is sick at his home! Woodruff, on Davis avenue. Mrs, Rixie Merritt spent the past Mrs. Floyd Patterson was called {two weeks in Simpsonville with rela te 9paj:t<mburg Wednesday on account j lives. .America, Andrew’s father ma«le ta blecloths and peddled them from door 1(7 door. His mother took in wasfhing and stitch(sl boots for a shoemaker, Andrew had only one" shirt, so his not a member of any church, but he gave away more than seven thousand mother washed and ironed that ahirt!l“>»»ihilitie!.. So he borrowed every night after he had gone to bed. She worked for sixteen to eighteen hours a day, and Andrew adored her. When be was twenty-two, he promised her that -he, would never marry as long as she lived. And he didn’t. He didn’t marry until his mother diwl thirty years later. He was fifty-two when he married ami sixty-two when his first and only child was Inirn. money and boughL^^»ck in the con cern. The company paid sen.sational dividends and when Andrew Came- reachml twenty-five, his annual gie from this one investment five thousand dollars a income alone was year. Once a womlen bridge burn(*d on the railroad aud tied up traffic for days. Andrew Cainegie w».s a divis- pipe organs to churches. All in all, he gave away three hundre<l and sixty- five million dollars, a million dollars for every day in the year, for he de clared. it was a disgrace to die rich. Auditor Dorroh To Tour County of the illness of her sister, Mrs. Brooks Cauble, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Dabb spent Sun day near Ware Shoals with Mr. and Little Annelle Fafls spent the past'.Mrs. B. E. Reed. week with .Mildred Holland, [' Mrs. B. E. Reed and son Allen, of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Mills and inear Ware Shoals, spent Sudnay with Mrs. Maude Griffin have returned | Mr. and Mrs. Mansel Bridwell, from a visit to their parents, Mr. andi Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Oakley and .Mrs. Charley Estes, near Honea Path. I children spent Sunday in Clinton •Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Motte announce j with relative.s. - i - Ithe birth of a nine an one-half "pound^ Mrs. Lu!a .Abercrombie has * son on L'riday, Dec. 29. re- t’ariuirie got a job as a tel(*graph ion superintendent at the time. Woml- niessenger Imy in Pittsburgh. The pay'en bridges were doomed. He saw that. ern ASSESSOR’S NOTICE The County Auditor’s office at I>au- n*ns, S. ('., will be ojK-n from the Ist day of .fanuary to the ‘2(Hh day of F«'bruary, llt38, Tor the purpose of taking' lax returns for the ensuing year; and for the transaction of ail busine'^s pertaining to the office. For the convenience of taxpayers returns can be made at the following appoint ments throughout the county on dates iiamtHl below for the purpose of tak ing tax returns_for the year 1998: Coldville, Monday, .lun. 10th, 9 a. ni to li p. in. l.aiirens Mills, Tue.sday, Jan. 1 Ith, 9 a. m. to 1 |i. in. Watts Mills, Wednesday, .Ian, 12th, 0 a. in. to 4 p. in, Clinton .Mill, Monday, Jan, 17th, a. m. to I p. m. i^ydia Mill, Tuesday, Jan. IHth, 9 a. m. to 4 p. m, (dinton City, Wednesday and Thurs- <lay, Jan. 19th and 20th, 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. State Training School, Thursday, Jan. 20th, 12 m. to 2 p. m. S. W. Dean’s, Friday, .Ian. 21st, 10 a. m. to 12 m. Reniio, Friday. Jan. ‘ilst, I to 9 p. m. Cross Hill, Tues«lay, Jan. 25th, 9:.90 a. m. to 4 p. m. I Mountville, Wedne.stlay, Jan. 26th, 9:30 a. m. to 12 in. Waterloo, Wtslnesday, Jan. 26th, 1/ to 4 p. m. iDr. Thompson’s, Thursday, Jan. 27th, 9 a. m. to 12 m. Mr. Maitin’.s, Thurs<lay, Jan. 27th, I to 4 p. m. Princeton, Friday, Jan. 28th, 9 to II a. m. Watkin’s Store, Friday, Jan. ‘28th, 11 a. m. to 1 p. m. Taylor’s Store, Friday, Jan. 28th', ^ to 4 p. m. —■— was,fifty cents a day. It seemed like a fortune.. He longed to be an oper ator; so he studies! tel«‘graphy at night and rushed down to the office early each morning to practice On the keys. One morning the wire was hot with big names. Philadelphia was ealling Pittsburgh, ealling frantically. There was no operator on duty. So .Andrew I dollars Carnegie rushed to the wire, took the message, deliveri*d it, and was imme diately promoted to the position with his salary doubled. ' DItt restles.s TTTergy; hts slecTjiless ambition attracted attention. The Pennsylvania railroad erwted a tele- gi*aph line of its own. Andrew Carne gie was made Operator, then private Iron was the_ coming thing. So he borrowed money, formed a Company, started'building iron bridges and the profits poured in* so fast that he was almost dizzy. /The son of a weaver had the golden touch. He and some friends iKiught farm amid.-it the oil fields of West- Pennsylvania for forty thousand and made a million dollars Annual visits by County Auditor Sam R. Dorroh to various communi ties of the county for the purjKise of taking returns on all taxable property for 1998 will be begun January lOth and continued through February Mth. His dates in this section include^ Coldville, Monday, Jan. lOth, 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. Clint-on Mill, Monday, Jan. 17th, 9 a, m. to 4 p. m. - Lydia .Mill, Tuesday, Jan. 18th, 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. Clinton City, Wednesday and Thurs day, Jan, 19th and 29th, 9 a. m. to 1 P- m. L turned home after .spending two weeks Misses Rosalie Harris and Martha with her daughter Mrs. Hoyt Bagwell, I^eonard spent the pa.st week-end wdth in Simpsonville. their uncle, Clarence Harris in Lau- Dock Massey of Waynesvllle, N. C., ] spent the past week-end with his si*- Mr. and Mrs. E, F. EldCrs and isonjtcr, .Mrs. C. H. Brown. Carl, and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Beni w , n • r> a*. j o . . u* r» *,1. T I Mr. and .Mrs. Boyd Patterson and Burnett and daughter Dorothy Jean. 1 ,jaujrhter Omira snent the oast week M,. and Mrs l"augnier c^mira, spent me past weeK ’.with Mrs. Patterson’s mother Mrs.' Willis Phillips, in Coldville. spent Saturday with Mr. Homer Birch in Woodruff. Mrs. Ernest O’Shields and children When HEADACHE out of it 111 one year. By the time this •'^t«te Training .Sehool,. Thiirs<lay, canny Sc*ott had reached tw<*nty-seven Jan. 20th, 12 m. to 2 p. m. he had an income of a thousand dol-' - Dean’s, Friday, Jan. 21st, 10 lars a week. ' fa- m. to 12. m. ft waur 1802now. Ahe ITncotp wasl Renno^ Friday, Jan. 'Sfst, T to 3 in the White House, The Civil war! P- — wa.s raging. Prices were .skyrwketing. Big things were happening. Frontiers were lK*ing pushed back. The far West SUBSCRIBE TO ’THE CHRONICLE “The Paper Everybody Reada" b Due To Conirtip^tkm Often one of the flrst-felt effects of constipation la a headache. 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