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\ \ «<i PAGE FOUR THE CUNTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON. S. C. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24,^ 1938 (Slinton CllfronUU Established IVOO 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 60 cents Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C. Tlie Chronicle seeks the cooperation of 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 communication.s will not be noticed. Thi.s paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. V 'with her, and checks are without hon- jnor in the county-seat. I mrs. moore says she went' to 5 ‘parties and 3 funnerals and 1 pitcher! !<how 3 times njid 1 prize fight and | 2 fires and a babtizing and 2 wed. ■ wings and 4 teas and 1 football game t 'and started to preeching once, but| it looked went. like rjiin and she newer tODAV stockbiTidob mrs. moore’s 2 darters are get ting along a.H wed as could be ex- pivted. one is working ia the dime PIE — year as Holiday Thanksgiving Every year as Thanksgiving Day stoar while the other one is in the approacht.s memory takes me sowing-room, their hu.sbands arc off d^’s of my New England and - on the w. p. a. ever now and when then, they all stand verry high in the regards of everboddy and asso-i Thanksgiving great holiday of the whole Puritan New Finglanders [ in the woiW. it’s ^ There are 1§0,000 deer in Michigan, lone of the most^ interesting things Hunters who-will take to the woods jwe do. I’m always sorry for the man'are estimated at :)J60,000. If one .or woman who has to eat alone. No-, hunter misses, there'll be a deer for body gets much pleasure out of eat- next year, ing without companionship. I don’t know ' of anything that makes for friendship and human kind liness more than sitting around a ta ble with people who have a common interest. And I don’t know of any-N thing that is of much more socia! val ue Khan the cu.^tom of having com munity suppers, whether under 4he auspices of a church, a volunteer fire department, or the community as a whole. I would rather go to such a gath ering for a meal than to eat in the Hipp & Chandler Clothes for Men and Boys Your Busineaa Appreciated in- the held it *■ . „ „ ,1 most expensive restaurant, surrounded ciate with the sheriff and the 3 po- J^'^^'^ter religiou.s significance than . . p. . . leesmen as well as the his folks occasionally. mayor r-'v, *^'♦*** * ‘ by strangers. One does (, hnstma.s. r.veryoody went to church ^ * in the morning, and then came home l , , , a supper wmich the ladies of the Pres not remain a sits down to CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1938 Thanksgiving Psalm 103 15K the I 'trd. 0 my is withni me, liiesj the all l/inl. O my hi> lienefits. soul, and 1. nil 'that l.anie. 2. Mle-s forget m>i Who fo’g.vetli all thine iniijui- tits; who healelh all thy diseases; 1. Who ledet iiielh thy life from de- tstriution; v, ho erowneth thee with and .stuffed them.selves with a Ixrunli- mr.s. moore do not have time to d’ui dinner. .And to my childish taste, |do annything but talk about her fine the best thing about Thanksgiving [trip, .she had newer benn nowheres dinner was the pie. 'slock in building and loan a.s3oci- bofoar except cerlar lane, from which' My grandmother was a great pie- atioiN. .More than twenty million peo- town she sprung, but as soon as her maker, and when she had her whole pie own automobiles. .More than two husband, hon. holsum moore, w;ent to family of married sons and daugh- rnillioM families own their homes free the hos-pittle for the delirium treni- and their families home for soul; and and clear and two and gne-half mil- rnons, she Look a few days off for Thanksgiviiig I>ay, the daughters his holy lb'll own moitgageil homes. There are her own pleassure and sattisfaction. and daughters-in-law would pilch in more than six million individual farm he will be owners and fifty-three million per- .says. he sons who have savings Ixank deposits, trernmons averaging several hundred dollars triji a few weeks ago. I yores mike each. Of course, these groujis overlap l<»\Tnglvllnill< and tender mercies; -fr.— W'ho flet b ;by- m<*uth—with »:»>oil thing-; ><• th.it thy youth is re new td like the eagli‘’s. . r>. The I,eld executeth righteous- iie--’ and jiilgmenl for all that are Oppie.-sed. 7. He made known his ways unto Me.-.^ins acts unto tin children of Israel. The 1,'id is me'ciful and gra- « iou-. sjdw to anger, amt plenteous in nieiiy I '.t. He will net iilways chide; neith er will he keep his angel forever. 10. He hath nii< dealt with us af ter our .sins; nor rewarded us accord-^ ing to oiir iniquities. 11. For as the heavmi is high above the earth, so great is his mercy to- wanl them that fear him. j 12. .As far as the east is from the we.sf, so far hath he removtsl our transgressions from us. I. 1. Like as a fathi-r pitieth his chil dren, so the IsMii pitieth them that fear him. II. I II! he knoweth oiir frame; he remembeieth that we are «lust. iJt. .\s for man, his days are as gras-; a- a flowei of the Indd, so he flout isheth. It*. I-111 the wind passoth over it, ami It I gone; ,iiid the plaee thereof xhaP know it no more. 17. I’.ut the mercy of from e\« ’ last it.g to ovei some, one man or w oman may be- ^ long to •most of them. But the total of capitalists certainly runs into many millions, including nearly three millions who jiaid income taxes last year, and the other million and a half who made returns hut paid no tax. It is the people in these groups who jiay the taxes for th<* operation of the T( deral, state and local governments of the United Stati.\s. When we hear this Washington loose talk alniut "oveit-hrowing the capitalist .sysU*m” in thi.s country we may know it is all political buncombe and that the politicians who spread such chatter are either ignorant of what they are the twenty-fourth of Noviunbei, 'jnoposing to overthrow, or else are out ere long, so dr green anfFhelp bake pies ketched these terrr5le- 1 remember one Thanksgiving at while off on a camping Grandmother'.s when there were 28 I of the family at the table and seven trulie, different kinds of pie. ('ro.ss-barred lark, rfd, cranberry pie vii*d with open-faced spondenl. lemon pie and covered mince pie for ~ jiopularity. There were two kimls corry byterian church, or the village Red Cros.s chapter, have prepared 'with their own hands. It i.sn't the quality of the fee l that counts, thought that is often about the best there i.s. The thing js the neighlxirlinexs, the feeling that by eating at the same table we have made a nes»- tie with each other. It is hard to have any but friendly feelings for one with whom one has broken bread. The foundation upon which the ('hrislian church is bu';h is just that, the saci'ament of the Lord’s Supper. If all the warlike heads of govern ments got together for a feast every Gray Funeral Home Clinton, S. C. MI NERAL DIRECTORS ••• ond •„ EMBALMERS Ambulance Service 1’hones 41 and 399-J L RUSSELL GRAY and . I'ARKS ADAIR, ^ea. Mgr*^ Thanksgiving Proclamation By the President of the United States of apple jiie, one made from fresh night, it would do more to g stave off war than- adL the-diplomacy rs " the world. ** The text of the proclamation fol lows: I, FRANKLIN D. KOOSEV'ELT, President of the UnitiHl States o'f .America, do hereby designate Thurs- fruit, the oTheY frbrn dHed apples'. And of cour.se there was pumpkin pie, and usually .squash pie made from the hard Hul>hard .sijua.sb. | •My father preferred dried-apple pie, but my mother u.sed to recite a bit of doggerel with which I agree: “I 'hate, a4)hor, detest, dc^jiise, Alrominate drie<l-apple pies. Tread on my toe.s and tell me lies But don't feed me dried-apple jiies.” in SARGEANT TRANSFERRED * Sergeant" D>uis ('onistock on duty the past several month.s a-: an in structor in the college R. O. T. C., was notified during the week of hi.s transfer to West End high ."school, Atlanta, where he will be command ant of the R. (>. T. C. Atlanta un its. Sgt. (’omslt»ck and family will leave within the next few days for his new as.signment^ ‘ 0% I • • • • • • li 00 it § Dr. Felder Smith of DRS. SMITH & SMITH OPTOMETRISTS Specialist In Eye Examinations Office Hours Daily I’hone 29-W for Appoiutaent Clinton. S. C. making people. direct effort to fool the Nobody’s Business By Gee McGee Trouble Seems To lU* Brewing In Flat Rock the wedges and hmirs bill do not suit .slim ehance, Jr. he has henn working off and on in the all-nite gaiiage in flat rock, his complaint ture.-i, in uui th< nl that m iinlo IV. lo and to tho- inaO'lmi lit - IP. Til." the. Ia.i'.I is la"‘1ing ujum I .11 him. an.I hi"- nghteoiis- has benn sent t.» mi'<s perk ins amt her e.»-w.>rker, mr. John I. lewis, he is .lemanding as much pay w'hile In is off as he is while he is on. OYSTERS — Recipen Next to pie and baked beans, 1 1938, as a day of general thanksgiv- think oyster.s were the most popu- ^ IINAI, SETTI.EMENT ing. I lar feeil along the Neov England Notice is hereby given that I will Our fathers .set a.side such a day coast in my childhood. I never saw render a final accounting of my acts as they bowed a nation from the pri-lor even heard of anyone eating doing^ as Executor of the estate| meval forest. The observance w’asjraw oyster until J W'as ten and we ‘>f < arrie E. Rivenback. deceased, to consecratinl w’ht*n George Washington i moved down to Washington. New' .^^** I’rotiate Judgt* of Laurens County, issued a Thanksgiving Proclamation F'nglaml housewives, however, had a ‘'outh ( arolina, at I.aurens on Friday, in the first year of his Presideney. j ilozen ways of c.mking oysters, all D»“cember !♦>. 1938. at 11 M.; and .Abraham Lincoln .set apart "a ilay of of which made giHxl eating. "'ll .same time ask the Court thanksgiving and pmise to our he-* The oyster stew was the favorite, f’*'* ® final di.scharge from my duties neficeiit Father Who dwelleth in the .My great-grandfather bad brought exwutor of said estate, heavens.” .back from one of his trading voyages -All {MT.sons having claims against Thus from out-earliest recorde.l his-^ to China a set of Canton chinaware estate will file the same duly t.ny, .Americans have thanki-d GiKLin a blue-und-white pattern, and the for their blessings. In our deepest na-'buge soup tUHx-n when filled with very souls, we, like all oyster stew held all the fo.wl a large Clinton Finance Co., Inc. Auto Financing Fire Insurance Oflke: JACOBS & CO. BLDG. verrfiixi on 1'..38. or hi* 16th, ' mr. ehance has newer worke.l as ihil.li. n's chil.litii; much as 10 h.nir.s pev week, hut is -acli a- keep Ins ev.-nant, willing t.> w.»rk .'!0 hours f.ir <’8) hours cm ■ that rem.ini.ei his .io them. I.oiil ii.ith pie|.aie.l his an.t his king- thron.' Ill ;h.- h.a\en 4lom III!.til o\.'! a.I. 20. Kies- the L.>r.l, y." his angels that . xc. 11 111 stn iiglh, that .1.. hi' comman.lmeiitheai ki lling unto thi von"i‘ “f his Wind. 21. K!. ' y. ih. I..>!d, all ye hi' bos’s; y,< miiiist.;' ..f h:s, th.it .!.» hi' pleasiir.’. •22. Bless pay. he has it rations and claims less an.l hart-less, pay .liibl.le-t ime tiipple time for in for the copper- that they are sole- an.l d.in’t want t.» for over-time an.l .liibhle time. he mankind since the earliest origin of family mankind, turn to God in time of trou ble an.l in time of happiness. “‘In God \\ t" Trii.st.” For the blessings which have been ours duriiiig the jnesi-nt year we Ivuve ample cause to b.' thankful. Our lands have yii-lde.l u goodly liaivest, an.l the toiler m shop and mill ns-eives a more just retiiin for his labor. \N e have cherished an.l jo’eserved | off. culd eat at a nu'al. .My si.ster still has that old tureen. I saw it not long ago and estimate that it must hold alm.ist two gal lons. Two or three quarts (»f shei.ed oysters cooked ^ up with milk and butter and servisl with the ohl-j fashioned ..yster crackers, which wi"re just small soda-crackers. made u meal fit to .serve a king, especially when Iheii was mincc-|iic to l.'p it i*r before December f.»rever barred. M. L. RIVENB.ACK, Executor, Estate of ('ar- rie E. Rivenback. We Are THANKFUL 12-15-.VW list'd t.i work |ianny in the f.>i the bigg.-st oil cm- worhl, so he savs. all pi lei.l. III' 11 m V ih." I I' III" 0,1 .oiil, all Ills works ill ||l•mlnion: l.lf^s the ms chance say- Ins garrage is trying to dodgi* th»" wt'.lges hours law l.y claiming he ilo lio a inter-stat." Iii/.ness. but he is all w.-t ansofortli. he bail mr. chance, our demociacv. i Scalloped ovslers wi ie another fav- \\f h.i\e lived in peace and un.ler-1 orite way of sei ving them. In Bos- stan.ling with our neighlMus and have [ton I reinemlH"r wf use.l to get a se. n 111." worlil escape the impen.ling j "pan roast” in w hich each oyster was disaster of a general war. j cooke.l on a slice of thin ti»ast. In the timi" of our fortune it is fit-! Fried oysters in the ol.i .New Eng- ting that we ttffer players for unft*r-j Ian 1 style were not like the ones city lunate people in other lands who are. folks get in restaurants. Each oys- in dire ilistrt*ss at this our Thanksgiv-j ter was roll»*^d in cornmeal an.l Jhey piimi'ed i'lg season. j were fried m an open, sha low pan. car ves- hoss and not . .. for the Rood-will of our cus- lomers and the business you ha\e Riven us. We are thankful that in re> (urn we have been able to ren der you a prompt and efficient he ct.nipany. (loldville, service for the past 29 vears. , at 3;3U I‘. M., on THE HOME-OWNER H.AS .MORE TO BE THANKFUL FOR THAN MONEY. Let us help you “own your own home." ReRular monthly pa> ments like rent. brinR debt- free ownership. NOTICE OF ST(H KHOLDERS’ .MEKTI.NC; Notice is her»*by given that a spec ial nu*eting of the stuckludders of .It»anna C«*tton .Mills will bx* held at the offices of tht .South Candina •Morulay, the r.*th .lay of December,' ll»38, for the pur|H»se of ct>nsidering a lesoluliun «»f the Board of Direc tors for the decrease of the authoriztsl capital st.H'k of the c«»rporation from $l.:>00.(ltH» to J.AOO.tHHi and of its shares from l.A.tKKi to .A.lHKt of the j>ar value t.f $IlH> each, and to approve or tlisapprove a re.solution of the Boanl of Diii-ctors that the corpor ation issue ttn-yt-ar seven percent K.S \1 M 107 1. c gi' 1 thank' iii.it.. thf l/«'i.l, f.'i in- 1 g.'oil' lot hi- lilt" ivy fiiiiiii t'lh ft»l» \ t l. 1.'). Oh lli.i; all'll unii! il |)rai-t' till- I.Dili for 1)1' gi.i'iin."--. an.l for his wtui.k i ful w.nk' to th.' ' t'hililrt‘11 of r’."' ol K Wl.sH I t Hi xor 1 o : 1 ■ni.'!.' .•x’l'M.l' to it.' largo f.liu .\ ‘ .'1 \.s!ii.'i icaJ: 1 1', b."'t t'f so he says, a.ljust a cai U'l rcttcr on a ohio car last week, and he piimi'ed ''ig season. j were fried in an open, sha low soin." wiiul into a new york car y.-s- Let us remember them in our fami- ()ystet fritters, with iht" oystei's chop- imtcs or dehentunvs of said corpor- ti.i.ly, ami wipc.l off a wiiitlshiel.l l'*'s and our churches when, on thejped up, inixetl wiHi batter ami frietl ation in the sum of and for on a michigan <ar not long ago while .'bLV appointed, we offer our thanks to in deep fat is another fondly-rcmem- the .Mmighly GihI. .May we by our way of berl^l c living merit the continuance of Hisj gootiness. the fi-llcr was buying a gallon of gass to git acrosi the line where it is c2 per gallon cheaper. .•hiltlhootl ilelicacy. vv •s lor 'J io\ .Kill tonlcntmcnt on :i,»ii.v .lav. ••( HKISI M \S" I SED Baptists ia s.-ssum •k. laFi'.l on the |>eiq)le of iiM" ill." tub spelling i>f using M \N I South I .i; oliiia r)u i»a>t w.i the statt Ghrisima' an.l to itfiam from the abbi i \ latioti of ■‘.Xmas.** I'he s .iggc.sti.m IS one we have of fered molt" than once in these ci>l- umns. .xiitlj so wc heartily -^tsamtl the ri'.soiutioir t»f the Bai>ti-t'. With Thank-'gi\ ing ovt-r. t hristma.-' will be the next big .'\cnt and tlnnisamls t>f lazy iu".»p!t". in their letters aiul atl- vertiseiiumts. will begin to wiitc it “Xma.".*' in.-^tfuil of tht beautiful name f'hii.stma'. When the ^ac!■t■^! name i'.hri't i' eliminated, the sjbstitution lx*comi‘s an ugly, mt-aiungless wurd. the all-nite comes mult-r this re- luildican hill, ami mr. chance, Jr., wants you to give this gai rage some unplt'asant publicity if ht- keeps on t tying to call"*!" a smoke scream which he can hi.le behiiul anti bt-at mr. chance anst.forth tuit of the mon- ncy the new tleal is trying to give tlu-m for nothing, the all-nile is ull- so trying tt> cut the other 2 men frtnn cotl per hour tlt»w ii to the minnie- mum t)f c2.'> per hour, it iltm't tlo im gtmd tt» get big monney for labor i if it has tojie tt>ok out t>f somcboiltly | else's eiivellops. i In the witness wheretif, I have heieuiilo set my hami atul causetl the seal t>f the Utitieil .States of .America to be affixctl. I Done at the Gity tif Washington; transaction of any and all busi ness necessary or dcsiraSlc in con- ► ! motion therew ith. Sh.AFOOD — (howder | py ortler of the Ib'mrtI of Directors Living near the coast, we usetl to'this 1 Uh day of NovemlH-r. 1938. dt-pt'nti laively I'u the sea for our p KEGNERA’. ft)t>ti. I still think the finest fish is a jtc steak cut from a Ne-w Knglaiul swoixl- fish. / , Wc ilitln'l care much fur the hanl this nineteenth tlay t»f November.* in . . , the year tvf our land ninetwn hun-'Ka.st when' Secretary. SUBSC RIBE TO THE CHRONK LE “The I’aper Ever>b*»d\ Reads” , FEDERAL Savings AND LOAN ASSOCIATION Telephone No. 6 \ Clinton Innlitation ServiBc (linton People Since 1909. diet! and thirtv-eight. an,l of the in- > .lepentlence of tile Unite.l Stales of clams one can get nowadays an.vwheiv •Xmerica the one huntlretl and sixty- Ihii'tl. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. By the Presitlent: CORDELL HULL, Si*cretary of State. slim chance. Jr., has alicddy start-; etl a whi.spering cajnpane against} the all-nite garrage ftir which he is' pretemling to wt»rk for, anti has suc-j ct't'tletl in getting a right smart ofj their i»atronage shiftetl to other. 15 Years Ago llem.s of Interest From The Chronicle ” November 22, 1923 south of Btiston. But the long, soft j clams which could he tlug up on al- I most any beach, matle one of tie ihost; 'tlelicious footls obtainable, clam chow-1 tier. I 'Motlern Americans have been spoil-] ed by the New York idea of putting' lomatoen in c.am chowtler, and niajt- ing it out tM round dams. Heal Yan kin' clam chowder contains salt pork,* cut-up potatoes and onions and not much else besides clams . j The most popular summer picnic, was a clambake on the beacb. We: OUR CAPHALIST S\.8TE,M AVe hear a groat tlea! about tali.sts*’ as if they weiv a small ful of robbers who the exiHUise of the rest of :soant' recent figuix's we saw suggest tliat a givat many more of us are capitalists than is generally supposed. Everybotly who has a dollar not in u.se or an interest in any kintl of wealth in any tangible form is. to -notne degree, a .capitalist. There are. for example, ten million individual .stockholders in the 9,l)0() coiT>orations whose shares are traded on in the shop.', he is in favttr of the c. i. o., ^ H. Tucker Graham, D.D., pas-1 built an, oven of large beach stones but tit) not know their home adtlress.^of the First Presbyterian chuivh like a huge .saucer, and piled drift- lie has thought ot striking, but can tFlorence, is comlucting evangelis-Uvood on it to make a great Iwnfire. j gi-’. annybv)ildy to help him picket the tic .-•'rvices 'here at the First Pi*esby-i While the vStoiu)s were heating we dug lilaee emluiing the night time, his^^^.j-ja,, church. I clams, caught any small fish we could; fellings have lii-nn hurt hy the boss.j (Miss Lillian Bethea of Lattn, is get, and often picked a mess of scal- it he could get a job .somewheres else the guest of Mi*s. John D, Davis. ’ops from the seaweed, hours he woiiltl take .same. Miss Emily Davis, who is in train- on shorter his .-^t.-iters who railly make the liv- Then we sw-ept off the ashes and ing at the Columbia hospital, is put a layer of clams on the red-bot ving tor the familey ate .satsifii>d with spending two weeks with her mother, stones, then a layer of green corn, if, the flat rock cotton mills' and are' Mrs. George M. Davis. 1 we had it, then layers of fish, or seal-j Miss Annie B. Adair is visiting her lops and anythingbhing else handy, sister, Mrs. L. S.Henderson, in Blairs. I We piled seaweed over it all, put a iMiss Janie Donnan of Columbia,I big tarpaulin 'on top and,let it steam' was the week-end guest of Mr. and for two or three hours. That made a Mrs. Hugh Donnan. | real feast. h,.r 2 marrltd d.rtem in the:. On W^nend.y evening Mm. Wil- c..unty-,e.t and frmm ali reporUI ^ ^ from her. ..he had a grand alam lively hndge party g.ven >n Inmor of ^ ,Mrs. Rooy Moore and Mrs. James 'capi- hanii- arc fattening at holtling on their jobs with much al- ii.<. But frrity ansofoith. ♦ • after a abiH'iice of 8 days mrs. holsum nuiore has returned back to her pallatial home in flat rock, she EATING — Companionship I’ve been talking idniut eating as if it were the most important thing public exchanges. There are eight done a right smart of shopping but million individuals who own govern-, newer bought annything, she tried went or corporate bonds. Twenty-o<ld' on 34 dresses, 23 hats, 6 paire of million persons have life insurance'shoes; one pair of hoses; some un- pofkies on w'hich they have paid pre-1 der-things and had her hair bobbed, tniums. Eleven million Americans own I she forgot to take anny monney along ‘ ' . \ • Sprunt of Dillon. \ it seems that eveii>oddy w'as ver-j Saturday afternoon at the home ofi ry gloriiis toward mrs. moore. shefMiss Janet Leake, an enjoyable! Thanksgiving program was presented by the Crescendo Music club. We Do All Kinds of PRINTING Except Bad. CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. W. J. BENJAMIN SERVICE station Standard Products Cars YYashed and Greased Tour Bnainess Appredatad NOTICE! ALL DOGS REQl IRING VACCINATION AGAINST RABIES WILL BE VACCINATED DURING Week Beginning Nov. 21 and Ending Nov. 28, 1938 a * THIS INCLUDES ALL ANIMALS NOT VACCINATED SINCE Nov. 20, 1937. TIME: EACH AFTERNOON, I TO 5 P. M. SATl'RDAY MORNING, 8 TO 12 NOON. PLACE: CITY HALL. Price: 50c per Animal ALL DOGS MIST BE VACCINATED TO CONFORM Vim STATE AND CITY LAWS. By Order. Board of Health \