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THE CUNTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C
THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1940
CASINO THEATRE
MONDAY and TUESDAY,
May 13 and 14
Once again the favorite let his
backers down when Bimelich failed
B. & L. Loans
Are Increanng
DALE CARNEGIE
taa(x:aaimaaamms»xfsmaatx»:sHi
‘*My LittlP ChiCSldOC** to come m first. The Kentucky Der-
w I- iTTVT.nR 'by. greatest of all races in the coun-
tnirK was run Saturday at Churchill'
JOSEPH CALLEIA. DICK j watched!
Total of 952 Loans Made By 35
Associations In This State In! Qff theift and magic !
First Three Months of Year. 1 A few years ago a boy magiciatrj
wanted some new magic apparatus.;
wiia ii.i,: .7WWWX, The Federal Savings and Loan In-l*^® could not find the kind he want-
DONALD MEEK, FUZZY ahead of the'surance corporation at Washington, be up an equipmrat in
It s e\ erybody for him^lf. She | enters in the classic.' announced that during ie first quar-*® bam at WestviUe, Connecticut, and
looking for new FIELDS to conquer.^rs'.'ter of 1940 the 35 insured federalbis own outfits. His name was
. and he was out to tame the wild y $72.40 to'savings and load" associations iii Alf^ C. Gilbert, and he was bom
• [those who held a $2.00 pasteboard'South Carolina had made a total of|*” Salem, Oregon.
.THE MARCH OF TIME—“Ameri-; ^^rith his name on it. There were 952 loans on homes amounting to' After he had made his own tricks,
eight horses in the race. Gallahadion $1,754,149. These figures compare, the idea occurred to hint to sell th«n
ca's Youth."
A Gun Dog’s Life." "News.
10 A. M. Show—MONDAY.
10c and 25c
won by a length and a'half, Bimelich i with 814 loans for a total of $1,444,-j by rnail to other magicians ov^r the
WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY,
May 15 and 16
‘The Farmer’s
Daughter’
country. He got a mailing list, wrote'
descriptive matter, and sent it out. j
He got orders. The work he did in
the barn was exceptionally good; the
iwas second, barely nosing out Dit,*664 made during the first three
i third-place winner. Gallahadion was, months of 1939.
, I bought by his owner two years ago Savings invested by the public
! for $5,000. during , the same period this year
Bimelich winner of eight straight'a8«regated $2,453,292, for the state.)word spread, and pretty soon he was.
‘racerC; rtoom toXlast nine March 31 total «vi^ in the^doing a nice little buslnoss. j
• days, was the most popular favorite- ® associations were $19,063^00, while j The usual box of maKic had in-
' in the last 35 years running of the this date the Federal Savings and i structions on bow to uk it. hut were i
I Churchill Downs course. Col. Ed-' bad savings ofjsO complicated that the average boy1
$240,646 on hand.
I couldn’t understand them. Young.'
IUJGGLES^^R?CHARD^'i?ENNmG Ld^ho^^’to^^bJlak his own’ Tbe^ are now 20,4M savers m| Gilbert wrote his instrucUons in the^
onH V:?p:Record with a fifth winner in the ^uth CaroliM using the ^ift facil-1simplest manner possible. .Business^
WILLIAM FRAWLEY and GER
TRUDE MICHAEL.
“Double Alibi”
With WAYNE MORRIS, MAR
GARET LINDSAY, WILLIAM GAR-
GAN and ROSCOE KARNS.
Also, Selected Shorty^
9:30 a! M. Show—WEDNESDAY.
10c and 15c
famous race.
ities of these locally owned and man- increased
aged institutions which operate under, He decided to enlarge, so he made
Well, boys and girls, Banks McFad- Lvi^ am ^fJ^ i samples and called on depart-
n is again the man of the hour—' spires. When he went in to see
I den is again me ui u.c ..um- p Federal Savings and Loanit,:rh;:r;;rW
for the second time within a year, ts mm nor aomimt buyers he gave a demonstration
— iust ain't nothin- that b«y. ,"SZ„«1orw«ttal a "! “!S 7*^ myatBietl and'
0 -on an athletic field! Not,* (pleased them, and he usually placed
FRIDAY and SATURDAY,
May 17 and 18
“Young Tom Edison
There
can't do
.satisfied with being picked on the ~ savingsl^r^ ^ ,
and loan assocIaUons totaled $23,-1 assistant sales-
381,000 on March 31. Assets of the More orders.
So much business came in that
alNAmerican football teams of ev
erybody able to punch a typewriter,
the barn could no longer takd^ care
9f
Hot Wea^r ClotWng
TROPICAL WEIGHT SUITS—
$10 to $27,50
TROPICAL WEIGHT TROUSERS—
$1,25 to $3,50
SUMMER SPORT OXFORDS—
^ $1.98 to $5,00'
LIGHT-WEIGHT PAJAMAS—
$1.00 to $1.95
HANES SHORTS and SHIRTS—
25c a Garment
RAYON SHIRTS and SHORTS—
50c a Garment
StRAW HATS— $1.50 to $3,50
DRESS SHIRTS, white and colors—
_ $1JM) to $2.50
SUMMER NECKWEAR—
50c to $1.00
INTERWOVEN SOCKS— .
35c and 50c a Pair
3CCKS— 15c and 25c a Pair
James Pitts
PHONE 64 R
CLINTON. S. C.
BA INTER. GEORGE BANCROFT,
VIRGINIA WEIDLER and EUGENE
PALLETTE.
It is a story typical of American
opportunity, perhaps not concerned
and being one of the best basketball, association on April 30 were
players m the country, he c^e 0.^422,716,98. In addition to the asso -
Clinton for the stote track and field,ciation here, other insured associa- of-it. so he rented a small place in
Ilocated at Anderson, Beau-[New Haven.
ed the assembled host that he bad' Charleston,’Cheraw,! The railroad near him had just
absolutely no respect for existing rec- Columbia, Darlington, Dillon, Flor-jbeen electrified, and one day as hej.i
ence, Gaffney, Georgetown, Green-1 was riding on it, he evolved the idea!
ville, Hartsville, Kingstree, Mari<m,'of making toy sets of derricks,
Newberry, North Charleston, Rock bridges, steam shovels, and so on.
Hill, Spartanburg, Sumter and Union.: He told his wife about his idea, and
^ I they cut some design^.
With MiCKEY ROONEY, FAYIqj.jJ5^—j^nockod three of them sky
high! And there wasn't a soul who
saw him do it that wasn’t glad—
even the holders of former records,
fhe amazing McFadden sailed
through the air a distance of 23 feet,
with widening the territorial frontiers 3 7-8 inches to establish a new mark
of the Continent, but definitely in-1 in the broad jump, and lowered the
dicative of .steps that have been made i time in the 220-yard low hurdles to
in broadening the horizon of our dai-! 23.9 seconds, and in the 120-yard
FLAGS PRESENTED TO
FLORIDA ST. SCHOOL
On Friday morning. May 3, Mrs.
ly life. There is something of Horatio i high hurcfles to 14.6 seconds. If that Byrd Jones, regent of the Musgrove
Alger in it; something of Mark
Twain, something of Tarkington, and
above all. .something essentially
American.
•DONALD’S DOG LAUNDRY."
•OREGON TRAIL" No. 14.
“News."
10c and 25c
isn’t something to write home about,
there isn’t any use to write. And
for good measure, the versatile Clem-
son college athlete threw in third
place in the shot put and ran a lap
on the winning relay team. He sebr-
t'd 18 1-4 points to lead the pack of
150 top-notch South Carolina ath
letes gathered here for the meet.
Chapter of the D. A. R,, gave a talk
at Florida Street school on the Unit-
The crisis had come. He must
have money to go into this. He did
not know how to raise it, but he
would try. He went to a banker in
New Haven,, showed him his card
board toys, and asked for a loan
The banker listened attentively, but I
business is business and a hanker
ed States flag. She explained that (has responsibility In lending the
the thriteen stripes in the flag stand'money of^ deiwsitors.
for the thirteen original colcmies, and
the forty-eight stars stand for the
forty-eight states in the United States
.1 haven’t any,'
today. She also said that the eight man.
stars (the last one in the first!
How much security have you?” he
inquired.
said the young)
Broadway
Theatre
“Well let me look at your plant,”
They went to the little place and
the banker looked around in silence.
The young man knew he was disap-
MONDAY and TUESDAY,
Mav 13 and 14
line) and the eighth stripe (from
' "Gone With the Wind." Margaret;the top) stand for South Carliona.
[Mitchell’s story of the old South,a Passes in a procession,
j completed a four-day showing in, Mrs- Jones explained, a man should j pointed. Finally he said:
'Clinton Tuesday. Evidently, a greatjtip nis hat and a wolhan should hold' “You haven’t any financial assets
(number of local people had already|ber hand on her ^art. (Have you ever saved any money?"
jseen the film, but some of them! •^t the end of her talk, Mrs. Jones; “j saved a $1,000 while I was in
took the opportunity to see it again, j each room with a ^ 1 college, money I earned.”
The banker was....intere8ted. “The'
' We want to thank the makers of the I The following pupils received the
! picture for the intermission. It pro-! Hag for the different rooms: first
ability to save is a most distinctive!
MO f'’V|pprc Pnr thp Vided a welcomed period to restorej^rade, Elizabeth Townsend; second,he said. “You have an ulea,io
*)circulation in this badly abused ana^ grade, Mildred Dunlap^i^hird grade,yoy can save moAey. I’ll lendl'^
Ann Pitts; fourth grade, Albertalyou the $I2JM)Q sou waiSL”
Baldwftir fifth-gmde, CortteiaKat=4l^^.-.*^ ***^ *^. !
With PRISCILLA LANE, THOM-' mmlcal specimen, to smoke a cigar-
AS MITCHELL. DENNIS MORGAN, |ette and eat a bag of popcorn.
ALAN HALE, FRANK JENKS and
HENRY ARMETTA.
, , ris; sixth grade, I.,onnie McMillian:;'
The comedy that will keep Dublin
you up with laughter! Shure they’re
wearin’ the “grin" . . . and you will
be too!
Cartoon, "Porky's Poor Fish,"
‘ Land of Alaska Nellie.”
"Movietone News."
in A. M. Show—TUESDAY.
10c and 20c
couree, .showing ® iseventh grade, Betty Boland, Betty!
ived in our own South, a civilizati^,,j, ^
that died with the surrend^ of The-entire school sand "America;’’
at Appamatox. and rampled on bytg„^ “Allegiance to the Flag.” I
the carpetbagger. It increased our, * — ^ ;
SPECIAL
MOTHER’S DAY
AT LYDIA MILLS
WEDNESDAY. THURSDAY,
Mav 15 and 16
carpetbagger
! respect and admiration for those men unc * nn rkino
land women who, somehow, were able; ^
to salvage something and build anew!
on as complete desolation that ever^
H faced ' Mrs. Sarah Alice Whitlock Fuller,!
^ era, acenea ..and ou.: The mos,!’«• “'“,7,V Fuller. di«i
apectaeular. to ua, waa the ft L^dH Milk
of Atlanta. The most gripping "'“s ye,,,“JeMth'
when Scarlett, amid the ruin and' ^®®l:^_.°\becunmg health.
DINNER
50c
Surviving are five sons, Ben T,
W
ixz » : desolation, went to the garden and . n
“Convicted Woman’ - |g"i4sd a radish from me found, w
fith ROCHELLE HUDSON, I and, eating it raw swore to high id“ Maide^'FmJl
Let Mother Rest On Her
Day and Treat Her To
Dinner.
HOTEL CLINTON
COFFEE SHOP
CLINTON
FLOWER SHOP
Says:
’GIVE MOTHER A BREAK
SUNDAY, MAY tZT
She has always had to take
the necessities of life, so on
this — Her Day — give some
thing she would love to have,
but won't buy for herself.
FOR THIS SPECIAL OCCASION,
WE SUGGEST—
Cut Flowers
Dish Gardens
Femieries
Placques
Roseville Pottery
Potted Plants
Cambridge Crj'stal
Wipdow Gardens
- HawB.yioa seei the New Botany
Frames and Electric W i s h i n g
WeUs? She’ll adore them.
WEAR A FLOWER FOR MOTHERr-
RED for the Living....... WHITE m Memory of Her
Gifts — Cards — Novelties
Year Account b (^pen B«re—and Wt Deliver Anywhere
Phone 33 Mrs. B. F. Wingard Member F. T. D.
I
FRIEDA INESCORT, JUNE LANG,
LOLA LANE,- GLENN FORD.
heaven Iha, th^bro^^^^ iSi''T! U«M JsICS ISCipS ChlCkt
“Isle of Destiny’
With WILLIAM GARGAN, WAL-
Pais tsisUf
would not go hungry ^gaih. .. .u. .. j u u j
difficult Tor thoae of ua who have al-, “ , “«*
ways had tuU stomachs to agree with, _* , tf ,00 ..«« ft— rh..—H., w
her in her decision, out we feel thut,. ^ ^ . | ugafiiig p^in. try ttua ninpi^ tncxpRiuiivig Im>vw
LACE FORD. JUNE LANG. OIL-:' " ^nfslircan b^Tor^
■Dc-tj-r Dr~iT A ^TI-N tr'>rTirxT'Mi:' td a natural reaction, and sne can oe tor c a ■ * w* 1 t-of water. »d€i th* hiie* ©c 4 llpaon*. its ea*,.
given. Another was when Ashley I m «|Wfaf»A Mo trouble at all ud ptcaaant. You itMd only
came home from the war, disillusion- FIgUrCj,
ed and broken m spirit. Melanie ran i ^
down the walk to gather him into' The Clinton postoffice ranked tenth
her arms. We could have almost ^ Soyth Carolina in amount of sav-
iUlk
immasK
BERT ROLAND. ETIENNE GIRA
DOT, KATHERINE DeMILLE.
Also ‘ Fashion Forecast" in Tech
nicolor.
9:30 A. M. Show—THURSDAY.
10c and 15c
stood up and shouted to applaud the bonds sold >during the last cal-
iold Negro mammy when she laid a,**^*1®^ year, January 1, 1939, through
restraining hand on Scarlett’s shoul-* ^-^®‘^ber 31, 1939 by second class
1 der and with excellent taste and good ■ offices, which class includes the Clin-
FRJDAY and SATURDAY,
May 17 and 18 , „ - ^
GIv Gl«,<wv4-A»>ct*’ (common sense, asked her not to spoil, J?” socc^mg to Postmaster
DlaZin^ SIX SOOOlCtS ! the reunion of husband and wife, Ij* Pi&xico. There are 43 second'*
With CHARLES STARRETT, IRIS I And finally the scene (she could have class postoffices in South Carolina
MEREDITH and The SONS OF THE saved herself from this) where Rhett qualified to sell the bonds and Mr.,
PIONEERS. (was leaving Scarlett and she wasiPiaxico expressed pleasure over thej
Ride the bullet-sAidded justice trail pleading with him not to go and ask-j fact fhat the Clinton postoffice is;
w'ith a fightin’ buckaroo — and hisiing what she would do, he said,' “^eluded among the first ten in the
I “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give aiSf^* . ,
damn ’’ The total bonds purchased in South •
was $3,097,293.75, and the totel
I he did nothing to win ^^® ^^P^'for the Clinton office during the
, of decent people when he flaunted ^g^f year was $27 956.25
,his wealth in the midst of ruin and year was 1^50.25.
! poverty.
Characters were well cast and each
turned in a satisfactory performance.
•ulti ar« obtaiMuL Xf tb* p«iM do sot qaiekijr
leave ond if you do aot fed better. Ru-Ex will
eoat TOO aotlitar to trr aa it ia aold W your
dmcKiat umdar M abaohito loaey-bock gnaroa.
tea. Ra-Ef Coaapoimd la for aaW and raeo«.
meadtd by
SADLEE-OWENS PHARMACY
R. H. CAUSE
BARBER SHOP
Your aickd buys s real taste treat. .. when you
swap it fix' a Pepei>G>la.
Fmer in flavor and plenty fix the thitttiest.
Each big bottle holds 12 full ounces. Jem Ae
nmg to P^si-CoU today. Six big bottles ia the
Horae Carton fix a quarter.
harmonizin' pals!
ALSO NEW SERIAL!
“Zorro’s Fighting
Legion”
With REED HADLEY.
Cartoon, "First Robin.”
“Little Lost Sheep.” Comedy.
10c and 20c
Births
NEXT WEEK—
"Dr. Erlich’s MAGIC BULLET,”
"WOMEN WITHOUT NAMES,”
“LITTLE ORRIE,”
“RIDERS OF PASCO BASIN.”
PEOPLE
YOU KNOW
DAVENPORT {
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Davenport an-,
nounce the birth of a son, Cecil Ol-i
iver, on Saturday, May 4. Mm. Dav- j
enport is the former Miss Irene,
Trammell.
“The Friendly Shop
BEADY ’TO SERVE YOU
PROMPTLY AND WELL.
— o ^—
I have with me:
BEN HEATHERLY
LEO HEATHERLY
— o
YOUR BUSINESS
APPRECIATED
FINAL SETTliEMENT
, CUNNINGHAM
Miss ’Llye Cotes of Greenville, is McLe« Cunningham,
visiting Miss Ida Turner. j^f Long Branch community, an-.
Mr and Mrs. John Willard and nounce the birth of a daughiM*, on
Saturday, May 4, at Hays’ hospital.
Take notice that on the 6th day of, daughter, Hazel, Mrs. Perry Canada,
June, 1940, I will render a final ac- and dau^ter, Patsy, and Miss Ethel
count of my acts and doings as Ad-pWhittle te|t Tuesday for their home
ministratrix of the estate of Mrs. 4n Orlanda? Fla., after a short visit
Fannie Kelley, deceased, in the of- to the former’s par«)ts, Mr. and Mrs.
fice of the Judge of Probate of Lau-*Lee Willard, near here,
tens county, at 10 o’clock am., and) migg Hitt and Mrs. Fred
on the sime day will apply for a stawart, members of the Lake City
final discharge from my trust as Ad-(schools faculty, visited the former’s
ministratrix
Any person indebted to said estate
is notified and required to make pay
ment on or before that date; and all
persons having claims' against said
estate will present them on or before
said date, duly proven or be forever
bmred.
MABEL HAMMOND,
Administratrix.
May 8, 1940.—30-4t.
parents, Mr .xnd Mrs. Eugene Hitt,
last week-end and attend^ a class
reunion at Lander college, Green
wood, on Saturday.
Mr. and Mhi. O. W. WUkerson have
returned to their hwne in Cincinnati,
Ohio, after a visit to Mr and Mrs.
J. B. Dailey. Mrs. Dailey aooonqMn-
ied thcra to Hasard, Ky., ediere tha
will Mptad a few deys with Imt asotti-
er, Mrs. Bm CelitrL
Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Babb, of Char
lotte, N. C., announce the birth of a
stm, James .Wright, on Saturday, May
4. Mrs. Eiabb is the former Miss
Mamie Lee Wrlipit, daughter of Mis.
J. L. Wright of this city.
6PBC1AL
SHORT TERM OFFERS
Tlair—8 smsRIis, $2A7 —
scriptisns eMy. Expires Aag. 81.
VerM->18 iosMi^ ^8. New
aeripOeae eiily. Ea^iteaf May If.
8w the aaAMSifiMd fer ether
Ipl eEeca.
JAMES V. CALDWBLb
Cal $78
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