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J "Xif *■ ^ ' • Ik # PAGE FOUR THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON/ 8. C \ THUBEDAY, JULY 21, 1»S8 =f (Blfr (dlintdii (Elpronirlr EaUa>lisM 1»00 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and PubHahar Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY r Sub^ription Rate (Payable In Advance); One Year $1.50; Six Months 76 cents; Three Months 50 cents Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C. The Chronicle seeks the cooperation 'if its subscribers and readers—the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly ad vice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. f, Nobody’s Business By Gee McGee • Important News From the Flat Rock Community the ladies aid which was to of benn hell at the pallatial home of mrs. slim chance, sr., last week at 4 o’clock was postponed on account, of a mad dog bit her husband on the.outskirts of town and his head ha.4 not benn ketch- t O DAY imSMQMl nuuis sto.ckbSidoe known is that those bone8,*too, arc an lAmesican’s. ^ I took leave of my century-old hosts I of both armies with a feeling of tor- /' row mingled with pride that I was ,of their breed, of the line of those venerable American heroes over most of whom, before another Independance day rolls around, the bugles will be sounding “taps,” the soldier's last farewell. preceding the election to be held in said Town of Ciipton on Tuesday, .\ugu8t 16th, 1938, and who has psud all taxes due and collectible for the preceding fiscal year and who holds a County Registration Certificate en titling him or her to vote at a polling precinct within the Town of Clinton shall be entitled to register. The sa^ W. D. Copeland, Super visor of Registration, will have his office open at the store of J. L Cope land and Bro. on North Broad Streefk FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 4th day ofi'’*' Town ^of Clinton for the pur- AMERICANS — Devotion 1 was one of the 150,000 who went ^"to brw!rt"to“thr.uti7ipprtoI”to G«ty,l>ur, th, great reunion Auguat/lSM.^ l7riirr.nder i'fiMrail of r^patering v^ra frra 9 find out nrhrther he had hydryphoby <>f ‘ha Grand of of my aoU and doinga td-Exe- ‘ “• “ ridibito or not. he will be givven the Republic and the United Con ed- cutrix of the estate of Mrs. Valeria pasture treatment if he teas mad. Veterans. E.ghteen hundi^ ol| a. Jones, deceased, in the office of , men-their average age was 94 and the Judge of Probate of Laurens mrs. slim chance, sr., sprung her were centenarians met ip the county, at 11 o’clock a. m., sufid on [ankle pretty bad last friday night tented city on the spot where the de- the same day will apply for a final. 'while milking her cow. she was try- battle which turned the tide discharge from my trust as Execu- each day exc^ Sunday until o'clock noon August 6th, 1938. Dated this 11th day of July, 1938. P. S. BAILEY, Attest: Mayor. 12 ing to sepper-rate the caff from her Between the States w'as trix. when he stepped on her foot and in the first three days of Any person indebted to said estate wrenched it b«?twixt the hog-tpoff and 186.3. .jg nocjfje<j and-required to make pay- the stall door. dr. hubbert green set Ancient enmitie.s were forgotteji, ment on or before that date; and all (dered by the president. This is 33,- it for 33 on creddick, so slim got out hatreds buried, as the foes of 75 persons having claims against aaid D. €. Heustess, Clerk and Treasurer. 8-4-4e CLINTON, S. C, THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1938 LAND SALE The State of South (Carolina, County of Laurens. In Court of Common Pleas. I.’ B. Copeland, Plaintiff, vs Mrs. FOOLING THE PEOPLE , . , . . . . . . , • -- Governor John.vton in his campaign'a day more than la.n year’sjverry light; he newer pays for noth- y?*™ present them on or before apecchee is reported ss saying: “You average. 'ing nohow-if it’s sold on terms anso- tw ^ ' have always found me fighting for Five years ago when President forth. ^ periences in war. As I ihingled with jrog jesSIE M SPARK<? ' Copeland, individually, and the poor people, the pwple who need Roosevelt w^s talking of Prwident, hos- fbem and listened jfnXm-the one A^Wsf«trix Administratrix, et al, Defendants, nroteclinir I exiu'ct the biir interests i Hoover s unba!ance<i budget, the na- , . u- l . l • j - .. .# -li Auministratrix. d.—_ j ...u. x-. .. K. nxh, L," d.*, Atopd a. •«9.-7.28.4t esti- ’^0» rived till, satturday, and then the said Americans fought Americans 75 remain.^ walked out of the train un- years ago. Looking back over history,’ der their own power, he did not railly it is clear to me that Blue and Gray ^or the transportation of Salesday in August next, being Moo (fie, as was hoped and reported, but alike were fighting for America. They *<^bool got better right after the tellygram differed in their concepts of chatter to catch j b or the ^rrent , in the rehober graveyard newer ar- American.s. "^votes. The truth is, w'e are all poor mated deficit Is nearly $4,000,000,Ob" and there are only a few* of the “big and at its end on .June 30, 1939, a na- boys’* left. ' tional debt of more than 340,000,000,- If the governor is .so concemeil for; 000 will face the nation’s taxjieyers. the poor, what has he done to show' When the fe<leral government em- tbat interest? The salary of his office'barkeil on large scale relief and new and p<.r„ui.it« i, from $l.-),0«0 toU-renomic |.olicio. and h77|»s.,'^^ 9U.000 .nnaally Mar hr .arerelod | th<- figure res.- by ^•a|,s and liounda that his salar>' Im- decreased to help with the re.sult that the national debt ^ the po4>r. the uiKler-finl, and under- next .June will proJfahly he around j| large concoarse of memlH*rs and Pursuant to a <leci;ee of the Court I in the above stat^ cta^e, I will aell wt I public xmtcry to^ the’ lugbest biddexv either in or in front of the Court ' Houae, at Laurens C. H., S. C., on NOTICE Of Boa TranaportatioB Bids for the transportation children of Laurens county'day, the 1st day of the montb, dor^ (he shall be opened in the office of Coun-’ ing the legal hours for such sales, the was di»si|iatchwl. he would of left a American ideal of liberty, but were <y Superintendent of Education Tues- following described property, to wit: , alike in their fierce devotion to the *^®y* July 26th, at 3:30 p. m. The final All that 7ot, piece or parcel of on. privih-giHl of which s<. iniKJh is heaWl two and one-half times as large a» in vis.sitors attends the pralrackted .. ^ Mbcrtv as these men did tricts owni f„.m Wa.hingt.in |...lili,iiii,» and '"vi'In ulutlv ""'l ''"' “7'''' ‘’i ''a' a' "‘1 "ur dVmm-recy i. 'aafe. If that apiri- in IMTimentei-s . (KiO.OOtMMtO m nini years, utU rly «|ay and ever night here of dies out in the youth’‘^onD^.s. The only way the |n»or blind beggar without pren^dent in peace times. ■ jau-. h<»ller lowder is pouring out Xmerica, we are a lost nation. Routes ai American spirit. They were willing to ^^^te for acceptance of bids will be land, lying, being and situate in Jacks 'lay down their lives for a spiritual U.d clock noon, July 26. I Township, County and State afore- cause. .So long as Americans cherish shall not apply to dis-'said, containing two hundred and rning their own buses, as forty-eight acres, more or less, being such districts will award known as part of the Dickey Bonds place. Boumled on the north by lands on the .Strift corner can Ik- assured of^ While none of u.s cun take in the.se the sperrit with a vengeance and is your sympathy aii<i help is when you staggering figure.s, the debt belongs telling the lKM»tleggers, the crap- dirop a nit-kel or dime in his tin cup. |to the average citizen and the inter-j sh«K»ter.s, i the lia|s, the, hippercrils. < O.MINt: IM)WN TO IH( TATE K. I.. Oliver, e.'l that has to he |)aid on it comes and all other sinners, where to get out of his own |HK-ket. A year from off. he has closed 2 # ' licker stoars are as follows: Hurricane No. 15 to Clinton City. .Mountville No. 16, Mountville— Route 1, Lisbon to Mountville. Route 2, Rock to Mountville. of R. P. Adair, on the east by lands :of Mrs. Joyce Hollingsworth estate and lands formerly belonging to Po- isey Hollingsworth, and conveyed to Letch BeH by Posey Hollingsworth, K. L. Oliver, exi-cutive vice-presi-j acconling to present estinvaU**, since he started up, thus leaving flat . . dent of labor’s Non-Partisan li-ague,• t|t.|,t of \Jr. Aveiage C’ilizen will'n>ck with only 5 licker stoars now,' which is headeii by J«»hn L. Ix-wis, an-!amount to almut 3310 for every per- but their stocks is fair. , Route 3, Old Mountville to Mount- on the south by lands now or former- ville. nounceil a few days ago that he would, j,, (he nation. For the average gA» to South ( aroiina within the next ^ fafnHy this means a debt of approxi- two weeks to engage actively in the mately 31,275 for which the family’s primuiy eli-ction of this .slate in which «.a^,..oar|ier is ultimately responsible, the league has endorsed Governor|ip addition to his own private oMiga. t>!in D. Johnston, one of the two can- xhis public debt figure of 3310 ilhiates opposing Senator Kilison D. jp^.p jn-rson, however, ik»es n«»t include I the government’s contingent liabili HEKOLS.M — Fighters On the liattlefield of Gettysburg are hundreds of statues, monuments and memorial tablets. The one which , me most with the heroism Americans w-ho fought each Suliv’an No. 17, Hkko^ Tavern— I other there is a bronze figure of a Route i, Merna to Hickory Tavern, mr hiram cheap has rote his ob- soldier brandishing his clubbed mus-^ Route 2, Shiloh to Hickory Tavern. |»nd C. W. Ray. Said lands being for- jiK-lions to the hours and labors bill ket like a flail. War was waged Bailey to Uurenitmerly owned by J. T. ^y wd wn- to pres. rosey-velL it will raise his 6 close quarters in the days of short-] hands from 50c per day to 23 per day, j range muzzle-loading muskets. ly owned by J. C. McMillan and J. F. Bell and on the west by lands now or formerly owned by Mary Kelly City. I Laurens No. 6, Oak Grove to Laurens and will fetch their hours down from'fire his singe shot effectivey a soWier' 72 to 40. he is thinking of closing upjhad to esposC himself to the enemy’s his little plant and mowing to mexi^-ifire, then fall back and reload. . . When Si-nator .Smith was informeil ^t.r'irliironVei!* of'mortirag^-s *’Vcrboddy has a‘ And when-there was no time to re-j Lydia to Clinton City. A . . • • I * * ^ ™ I » _ A l_ ? _ l_ : — _ * . . *4 4^ W « veyed to the mortgagor by Mrs. Vene Ray, Mrs. SaJlie Pitts, Minnie Ray and Nannie Bell Ray. Being the same Hunter No. 3, Rock Bridge to Mount-1 land deacribed in Mortgage Book No. of the liangcr waniing sent down from r forms of creiUt. These ^Vashington. he replU*<l: ^aiiii*unt to around .-H-veral billion ilol * It d«K-sn t worry me at ail. I have adilitional over 339 a person- no ilesire to Ik* einlorseil l»y the <’ I. O.” Thill Hut this doi-s not tell the whole chance to run his own bizness anso-, load, it wa.s haml-to-hand figbting-’**^*'*^-3. Renno to Clinton City, forth, he will vote for hoiiver the next with clubbed muskets. Jacks No. 6, O Dells to Mhitmire. time. 43, at page 138, in the office of the Clerk of Court for said County and State, reference being hereunto had to sakl book the more exact distances Pickett’.H gallant charge on the Un- ''»rerIoo No. 1 and 7, Mt. Gallagher and metes and bounds will more fully ion breastwqrks at Gettysburg was^ Glive, combined, to Mare,appear, hon. holaum moore lingereii nearify^g-ht in that way. Nine-tenths of in that way. .Mne-tenttis oi Shoals. I Also, one-lifth undivided interest di*claiaiion friMii a (' I O *’'*^®* g»>vi-rnineiiU:,i,.ath’s iknir for 5 hours last nionday |,i,^qqq brave boys in Gray were left 2, Shady Grove to Goldville.'in and to all that tract, piece or par ’ * .... heavy iiidebttslness which ,nurning. drs. hoizuni & kilzum of the dead or dying on the slopes of the' J. LEROY BURN’S, containing three hundred official mean-< tliat John Is'wi.i' agent also must l»e added to the unprt*cedenttKl n.^unty seal reckermeiMlini rubbing al- i> coming into .^.uth Tarolina to in- ‘ I'. ; eou,.^ narrow valley. In modern warfare 21-3o Co. Supt. of Fuiucation.j . ...re.....;.,., o...I i figures. It is estiniateil that ichall for his airy-sip|>erlas. instead' tj... fiirhtinr is betwi*en on- Hand of D. T. Copeland estate, situ- * * * ' , how fhi'v "* ' "“"'federal di*l*t will lM-;„f ruWiing with it. he drunk the whole 1 hardly see each other. ^GTItK Of KECtlSTRATION FOR ate in Jacks Township, County and .>oniething over 319,(MMi,(itHi,OtM), or bottle, herKi* his serious ilini^ss. he||( heroes to fight a war in 1H63.* Ml’NICIPAL ELECTION .State aforoMiid, and bounded on the wa-s finally at last pum|)ed dry with' * I State of South Carolina,’ [north by lands of George Nabers, on a wtunimwk pump and is now up and |,KK — Lradorship I County of taiurens, Dillard lands, on the le with Its own cam give the piKiple onlers as to how they should vote. These Northern agitators , i i i ... I L . .L le.'.s than half as large as the feiieml want (fovernor Johnston, the unani- , . . ... . . ,re„ . . .V- re I load. Ihe two togelhei; point to a mous lOb piT center, sent to the sen- . . , . i i. i t . -TL j *. . o . o ... total giivernment indebteilness for the ate. Thev don t want Si'iiator Smith . “ . , . V u 1 II nation a year hence of some |♦>tl,(H)(l,- iK-cau.se he has oiH'iily otiiioseii ami fouxlrt .h-ir «trik.. txetire, aihl ...mmuni.tic I W ith thi. d. l.t |>n.|ui<' Wfi.re u-.; hre.«buuu. fr..m Hat IIk\i- ui- rt*achtsl th.* dav in South the ad mi 111 St iwt ion IS now laum'hitig ' . . i l av .w iia\i «i riavniKi im »iaj in .-souin, verry abrupt laiit week with the on another s|K*mling spree, maintain- about, but powerful pale around his gills an.suforth. The town treasure of flat rock who Candina wh«‘n the L N. P. I,, is al- lowi-ii to iKune into the state to run "'if that hi>avy )>ump-pi iming, fi-i cash drawer ami its contents has re- nanci-ii iiy loans, is niH-essary to start iturneil hai-k home, h siK-ms he had a .spell of amnesia ami didden't know what in the world he was tioing hon. I as tiHik. the DiimK-ratic |»arty ami give in •;— .stiiKtions to vt»tei> in the matter of Jhi* vvhi*els of imiustry revolving casting tlH-ir Imllots? Our citizenship “Kain The cuntenliuii is ik-Utalde.• cash haa! should resent such interference com- f'"- ‘he plan aliea.ly having ,.,.,,iaiKHi l,y his daddy, ing fiom till.' lN(iiy, or from anylH*.ly what a.s'Ui'ance can we have that a L„,re.ht ih> warran1^-as tiHm . «•; . for that matter. .si-cond dose w ill pixaiuce permanent ‘ ^ ‘ ’ fer "f command of the I’nion armies. ■ resideii the State for two years, in ^ results to end depression. ^ii,n chance, sr., ba.s built a nice '*'**’ wouldn’t have la.stt*d six | the County for one year and within imlebtodness. In the event the rvXKS TH.\T Ml’I.riPLY Such figures reveal that there is noiilam in his cow pastor n«>ar the high- •"“"U's, I heard one blue-coatinl the incorporated limits of the said *"*^vssful bidder should fail to make With govermm-nt' i-xpanding their |et-up in soaking the taxjiayers. The way and will run a swimming |h>oI a8j*‘'‘*n say, while the group around him Town of Clinton for four months next deposit, or should fail to comply functuMi' into Himo.st every phase of government is spemling as thoughiMHUi as the water g»Hs clear. Iw* has sentiment. h.i:n.in activity, the piid*I»*m of tax- niom-y may Ih* plucked from thi* air. pri«ct»Hl a hxltt room to pull off yore- There is moie hack of the univer- The out.-itanding figure among the Town of Clinton. south by Blalock lands, a^ on the monuments on Gettyaburg battlefield j Notice is hereby given that Vi. D.; l*"ds of C. W. Stone., is the bronze statue »»f General. Rob-1 Copeland is the duly appointed Super-1 Terms of Sale: Cash. The sueceea- ert K. Ixee. astrkle of his famous war-1 visor of Registration for the Town of ^^^ bidder, other than the Plaintiff horse, “Traveler.” Ami in the hearts I Clinton, County of Laurens, SUte of 1*^rein, immediately upon the conclu- of both Blue ami Gray, as I listened South Carolina. ' !*'<'" ‘-I"* bidding, shall deposit with to the ancient foes talking over the | Every male and female citizen Clerk of Court the sum of five great figures and epismles of Civil twenty-one (21) years of age and up-^*'^'^ P**" <^^"tum of the amount bid war day.s, Lt*e seemeil to stand first ward having all of the qimlifications •* » guarantee of his good faith iu in the admiration of both sides, as a as mentiomd in sections 2287 and bidding. The same to be applied soldier and as a man. 12290, Volume 2, Cod3 of Laws of ^ purchase price upon his com- “If Ix*e had accepted Lincoln’s of- South Carolina, 1932, and who has ply*"* ‘he terms of sale, other. wise to be paid to Plaintiff for credit a:i.*n g'.*v\> luun- complex ami inoix* There is only one way to fmit the bill clothes in and put yi>re bathing suit tribute paid to General Ia*e s mem-- I Kills. New kinds of taX(‘s and heu- taxpayers must la* chasoil and on in. he will chargt* 20c w)h*ix* he»‘’'y o" both sides of the Mason and; \ er taxes ai*' l>eing iin|Kist-ti upon caught and soakeil. ,\ml there’s no' furni.shes his laitients with suits aml'D'Xon line than the sentimental glam-i and wiil continue to 1 \ - I yUnly. c e.iM . I <>unti*!g the l** 'tate' Me-, and all of sih.i.d •"'Hme to carry this tax hiinlen hut the He vvheix* they fetch their own “ur which always surrounds the lead- “ultiinate consiuner,’’ what is terniiKl things, it is nake deep at the up|H*r i'*' “f * cause. North and South the federal government. “niasses,’’ for the faet ix*mains end and knee «leep at the lower end «like honor him becau.se, among all that persons of moilerate means are for children ansoforlh who can’t swim ‘be figures in the great struggle, he with then 3,»'itM» coun- th e cities, town.s, |)|\,|)orti«>nateIy the heaviivst taxpay- an.soforth. there are now |f intolemblt* .situation is not 1 .'tiKwl out as one who comhimHl honor with Kwder.ship, courage with char- iii' it tli.ni l.'*u.(*mi taxing units in the soon corix-ct.sl-vvell, it’s going to Ih*+ excitement tm.k place when; ^eter. just Uh) had for the men and women belt skinner fell off of a laihler who through haixl work and initiative. «bile painting his garage last friday to make ami have a P- ‘be ladder was hn»ke all to W. J. BENJAMIN SERVICE station Standard Products ('ars M'ashcd and Greased Yonr Business Appreciated with the torm.s of sale, the said lande shall be re-sold on the same or some subsequent Salesday on the same terms, at risk of the defaulting pur chaser. The purcha.<er to pay for papers, stamps and recording. JOHN D. DAVIS, C. C. C. P. & G. S. Dated this July 13„ 1938.—7-28-3cd. I’uti.l .''tati.'. M.iiiy iH-r-on live un- • 1« ■ iiiJiny a.' ten different tax ju- hul."';;!;n;.S r7'n"r„‘; Zs"r“«'th.."r . m cs, 2» r,x h«k of Golty.bur, th.n tho lifo of | than throw themselves upon govern- be K*anetl backwards the nation under the ( onstitution up o Ml Mil f iii»ih>h P»'»‘ under the comb of ‘“ then. President Lincoln, in his im-j,^ mem u»i >upiH*n. . , . ■ _ , » .Wre!.. I'NION — l>emocracy More years have passwl since the I xUpiHVlt Ifniletl Stalos seiuite wasted I mortal address four.months after the' !i dutiun.'. each >vith power to levy on the sarne property or per sons. No one want.' to put an end to the useful, pui po.'i s for which tax money ^ i,, ^ is expendeil. We mvd schools, hos-'„.,. have two New Dealer.s, Governor'^Bon of jvaint. it was i r pna’.s. highways, bridges, polke andlj„hnston ami Edgar A. Brown. N\»t ‘be brush was not damagxHl. he hiretl tije endurance of a governnieqt found- fire proiivtion and the other things'^.n,. word do we hi-ar fix>m either on •‘ f‘""»btHl. led in democracy. Democracy as e - for which tax money is spent. It is j^i.s di*l»t qut»stion. They aix> as'aftaid| fair enough that such things should ,,f :« ,is of fire thev refuse to dis- - ” ' • ' ' '7. i. \ i >» working our community vorry hard [been easier for the South, race ‘be riH*f, hence the fall, he . ^ n new latider. 1 battle, s;>oke of the war as a test of ^ ^ Idured for 75 years since he spoke, a feller by the name of Jesse james “if Lincoln had livetl k would have said ah vision. One is the duplication ami overlap-' S. C. Melon Crop ping of taxes, with different tax au- K.. Mai.l Milt .,<• lint i. i- ^ . 1 vwnnn — nvj n(>^>n CBSier lOF me OOUHl, SaiU BH ' I ' 1 ?*pending extravagance “"‘1 drying to sell a powt^r to get rid of‘old Confederate officer in camp, “but are nianv things aU*ut our national buivaucracv i. ei- •* oiu vwiueuvlair uwivei ni Ux xUu.tk.n « hk k o.U louJ f«r »>ure.iKrec>. I« »" !‘ in xpile of that. I thml the boys »M 1 while the dew is on it. he says he is 4 not |;olate<l to hte other jesse James 'who' robbed folks with a pisUd: he uses only his mouth for that purpose. noboiidy is interrerted in buying the [cans and we belong together, ki til Cars Shipped and Total Not n on it. agree that it is better for our grand children and their grandchildren that it turned out as it dkl. We’re one na thorities taxing the .same things. Reduced By Half uses only his mouth for that purpose.; ({on instead of two. We’re all Ameri- 2M»me way lif taxjvayers are to sur- , . .... Vive I must eventually he found to Marketing, AROnt Reports 1,6501^/“^’ ** *bey amt willing to get up, That is how old men, reflecting the separme the taxing jHivvers, allotting Cars Shiooed and Total Not •* ^ o sp n c wisdom that comes with look certain fields of taxation to the UhL St«PP«I_and Total Not^.t on it. ^ |back on the history they- helped to cral government, other fields to the state>, and limiting the kind of taxe.s To Be Above 2,000. (kviumbia, July mrs. tom head junked her chicken make. gentermens: they speak verry high .15. — George E. incubator, shut up )»er poultry yard, which counties and munici|valities may Prince, chief marketing agent for the sold 8 bens, et her 2 roosters, and is^ TAPS Farewell impose. If th^ takes a eonstkutioiml ciemson college extension service, now out of the fowl bizness for keeps,: 1 TefTCettyabuig with the sound ini said today that the state’s melon a farm paper led her into it by prom- my rars of the most poignant, soul-^o crop was “only about half as large isinjf big returns, plenty of cash on stirring music in the world; the pIain-['' as the crop for 11*37.” hands at all times, and rest from tive, long-drawn notes of a bugle,] ] “Thus far this year we have ship- Mousehole duties, she hatched 104 sounding “Taps” on the hHltop be-i[| ped 1,650 cars out of South Carolina,” 'b‘‘‘‘b® brooder ketched on fire neath whose sod lie the bones of( amendment, it could and sliould in' done. Another tax refonn urgently net*d- «d is some way of seeing to it that the tax money is all applied to pub lic purposes and not absorbed by «n.princi said, “and I do not expect the cooked them, then the scalps of I thousands w'ho perished on the slopes w ‘ot** number of cars .shippedto golbcr best layers turned red and 4 of and in the valley, witnessed from Washington on down .iaaa 'same died, she is thru and washed out ~ on raising fowls for market. the line. The greatest danger America faces totlay is the gnhwing s-.-arm of much over 2,900. ‘Last yt'ar we shipped 3,400 cars office-holders supported at public ex- watermelons out of the state.” | the state campane meetings are^be- ~p$nse. If the present trend continues' Be said “We have found that about ing hdl from time to time, and folks it will not be long before half the pop- b*lf of the melons are diseased this! who have nothing else to do aocumu- ulation is living off the earnings of ’ I late around rostrums^and listen at the the other half. Melon prices. Prince sakl, range' candy-dates brag on theirselvea, and from 3100 a car up, although one car cuss and discuss the new deal, and STAGGERING DEBT FIGURES The government baa stepped up its spending pace to tbs record peacetime this week brought as much as $260. swear they wont he a rubber stamp, B® attributed “the high price” to the and promise to fetch hack all of ireracc of |24jB90J)00 a day as or- No. 1.” limiting of shipments to U. S. grads ingtoa's baking ansoforfeb. H’a a pitty that we can't elect aH S of thsae fine Row on row of white stones mark the graves of men who were buried wliere tliey fell; their names, their regiments, even the color of the uni-l forms they wore are forever unknown. I week 'before the reunion workmen uhfMirthed another skeleton on the battlefield. All that can ever be of tbeirselves and past records. , yores tmlie, mike lark, rfd^ _ corry spoodant. LET US CONSIDER YOUR APPLICATION FOR A toUND HOME LOAN LET US HELP YOU BUY, BUILD, REFINANCE OR REMODEL YOUR HOME. We have funds available to enable you to **Own Your Own Home** at 6 per cent simple interest. No future re newal chaises—no annual service charges. No red tape or delay. Full details given gladly without obligation. Save Your Savings Here Invest your money in s Clinton institution, owned snd directed by Clinton people. Start now ai^ save monthly. Each nccennt insured up to $5,000.00. We offer SAVINGS and INVESTMENT plans. EDERAL SAVINGS lANO LOAN ASSOCIATION Phone No. 6 A Clinton Institntion Serving Clinton People Since 1909 d) \ ■ \ .-M