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CLINTON, & C., THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1940
NUMBER 21
CLINTON AREA
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R<kl Cross Issues Call Fw $1600
PitHn Laurens County For^Re-
lief of Foliation In War
Areas of Europe. J. B. Town
send Chainnan of Local Drire.
The Clinton-GoldviUe area and vi
cinity has been called on for a contri
bution of ISOO.OOO toward a minimum
of 110,000,000 national relief fund
for relief purposes in the war-strick
EkheHbergwr To
Head Lions Chib
A new slate of officers was nomi
nated and elected by acclamatkm at
Uie last meeting of the Lions chib,
heeded by Hugh L. Ei^lberger as
president, vdio will lead the club in
its activities for the ensuing year,
beginning with the first meeting in
June,
Other officers elected are:
Heath Copeland, first vice-presi
dent.
Claude R. Trammell, second vice-
I»esideat.
en areas of Europe, it was stated yes- • Eugene Johnson, third vice- presi-
terday by J. B. Townsend, chairman' dent.
of the Clinton chapter of the Ameri
can Red Cross.
No personal canvass .will be made
at present, said Mr. Townsend, but
contributions may be made to him,
W. H. Simpson, treasurer of the lo
cal chapter, or to any of the drug
•tores, which are assisting in receiv
ing collections. A generous response
on the part of the public is requested,
and contributions will be forwarded
immediately,' Mr. Townsend stated.
Charles F. Fleming, county diair-
man, has been advised that Laurens
county has been requested to give
$1,600 to the relief fund by Norman
H. Davis, national Red CroM chair
man.- In a telegram to Mr. Ilfmingt
explaining the reasons for the call
md stating that contributions would
be accepted at once, Mr. Davis said:
“With the invasion of Holland,
Belgium and Luxembourg the war
has Altered a phase which will in
evitably and at once bring wide
spread and appalling suffering to
millions of helples men, w(xnen and
children. In order to inaugurate
widespread relief measures the
American Red Cross is at once
launching a cwipaign for a minimum
war relief fund of $10,000,000. Your
chapter quota is $1,600. Please at
once mobilize the entire leadership
of your chapter and community in
order that your quota may be raised
and exceeded without delay.”
Fanners To Make
Tour H«re Friday
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A see and learn farm tour in this
area has be«a arranged for Ftiday
>un^ agent
Tom Plaxico, secretary.
. R. G. Watson treasurer.
Carlisle Nefely, tail twister.
Willard L. Jrnies Lion tamer.
J. J. Cornwall, director, for term
expiring diis year.
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Gentry Named
District Head
Hich School Priodpal Elected
Prcsideiit of DMrict Two,
Conprising Four Coantics.
‘ John B. Gentry, Jr., principal of
Clinton high school, was named pres
ident of District $, South Carolina
High School league, at a meeting of
ttie member-schools "in Clinton last
week. District 2 ccanprises all high
schools in Laurens, Newberry, Un
ion, and Cherokee counties. Siipei*-
intendent R. C. Lake, of the Whit
mire schools, is the retiring presi
dent
Other officers elected at the meet
ing were J. K. Derrick, principal of
Laurens high school, vice-president,
and D. G. Evatt, superintendent of
the Jonesville schools, secretary-
treasurer. Two other members of
the executive committee were ap
pointed, Mr. Lake, and R. M. Monts,
Jr., superintendent of Prosperity
schools. The five men named con
stitute an executive committee which
plans all interscholastic activity in
the four counties, including football,
basketball, track, baseball, tennis,
puMie^ speaking, expressitm, debate,
and the ten contests in school sub
jects. Spartanburg county was for
merly °in District 2, but is now a
Cannon, coun
small grains, beef cattle, pasture and
soil conservation work will be ob
served. « The tour will begin at the
Thomwell orphanage dairy bam,
Clinton, at 2 o’clock with a demon
stration given by J. R. Hawkins, ex
tension animal husbandman special
ist, Clemson, using bUrdizzo castra
tion instrumoit. Following this
Sloan Aimounces
For The House
James P. Sloan, member of the
Clinton high school faculty, today
^ announces his candidacy for the
demonstration visits will be made to house o# representatives frwn Laur-
Exercises
Tomorrow Night
Class Night Prognun Initiates
Chmiag Prbgnun of High
Betty Hunter Heads
’40*41 Sentinel Staff
Publishing Group For High
S^ool Paper Named. Jane
Utiiofe
the farms of Mrs. Hayne B. Work
man and Ryan Lawson in observing
small grain; S. G. Dillard, beef cattle
and pasture; C. W. Stone, small
grain; the county home, pastiure, soil
ens county in die August primary
He is the first candidate to formally
aimounce for the house.
Mr. Sloan, a son of Mrs. E. B.
Sloan and the late Mr. Sloan, a for-
conservation work and first and sec- mayor of Clinton, is a graduate
ond year kudzu. H. A. Woodte. Clinton high school, and received
agronomist of Clemson, and L. B. A.B. degree from Erskine college
Massey, district agent, will be.pres-^^*'
ent on the tour. Mr. Cannon further! year, i^^ivihg ah EOT.
stated that the tour would not be
taken up with speech making and
hopes farmers throughout the county
will join the party.
Poppy Day To Be
Hc4d Here Saturday
‘*Poppy Day” will be observed in
Clinton, as throughout the nation, pn
Saturday, May 25. On this day all
Americans will be asked to wear
memorial poppies in tribute to the
World war dead and to aid the livii^i
victims of the war.
The little red memorial flowers
will be distributed here by members
of the local Amrican Legion Aux
iliary aided by a number of high
6chD(d girls. All contributions re
ceived will go to the) Auxiliary wel
fare work. '
Jury Hidds Woman
For KEing Man
In a homicide Thursday morning
on the G. F. Boibrd hurm, seveni
miles from Chatou, a cbmnee's ^tfy
held Sarah Howard in eoanietton
with the death of L. Z. Oary. 19 an
other farm hand ou tba plaoe.
The killing occunred In a cotton
field shortly after funrlac. and, ae-
corditof to tesUmoKy at the Mquast
^ County Coroner Jdha A.
Thomson, Gary wat ehot in tte baek^
by the wooaan at lie waa la the aat
of turning Uf plow nuda at tha
of a potion row. »
A warrant was ianied agakist
svomaif and die w^ placed
county jaiL
aatkMi Ceremonies Monday.
Commmcement exercises of Clin
ton high school will get underway to
morrow night at Florida Street
school when the senior class presents
a program including a playlet, class
history, statistics, poem, and proph
ecy.
The baccalaureate sermon will be
preached Sunday evening in the
First Presbyterian church by Rev.
LaGrande Mayer, pastor of St. John’s
Lutheran church of this city Music
will be furnished by the Presbyte-
Leading the staff of The Sentinel,
Clinton high school newspaper, for
the 1940-41 term will be Betty Hunt
er, who was nameed editor of the
publication during the week. Head
ing the financial operations of the
paper will be Jane Little, who was
WPA DIVISION
INVITES PUBUC
Professional and Service Pro
jects HtfldlnK ^Opn House’"
This Week. Su^r Held Here
Monday Night.
Activities of the professional and
service division of the Works Prog
ress administration in Laurens coun
ty are being portrayed this week.
Beginning Monday and continuing
through Saturday, the period has
been designated is “This Work Pays
Our Community Week.” Members
of the county committee stated yes
terday that response to the move
ment is general over the county, and
I that,.the public is invited to fontintie
visits to the projects during the hours
from 10 to 12 in the morning and
from two to five in the afternoon.
Similar programs are being held
in counties throughout the nation,
it was stated.
The week got underway here Mon
day night when a group of 50 work
ers of the sewing room and friends,
under the supervision of Mrs. R. Lee
Hunter, gathered for a supper in the
room of the project. Mayor P. S.
Bailev was the speaker and explain
ed the purpose of the work - and
iwhat it means to the community.
The supper was prepared and served
by the State Training school. A
gnatp-Jut-NYA-Jiamc girja. under the,
direction of Mrs. lone Wallace, su^
pervisor of the local center, ren
dered several mu.sical selections and
recitations. The group lisitened to the
radio address of President Roosevelt.
Mayor Bailey had^ previously is
sued a proclamation designating the
week as “This Work Pays Our Com
munity Week,” and called upon the
public to support, the effect and en
ter into the spirit of the movement.
Members of the county commit
tee directing the week’s program
are Sen. C. A. Cromer, H. Douglas
Gray, Mrs, T. Lane Monroe, Mrs. H.
L. Kennedy, Mrs. James H. Sullivan,
'Miss Jennie Coleman, Mrs. Lois Fra-
|dy, Mrs. Lee Hunter, Mrs. Mabel
! Little,. J. Leroy Bums and Dr. B.
O. Whitten.
Open for inspection here were li-
Georgia Minister and Coker Col-
lege President To Dt^ver^ Ad-1 ^hools, the sewing room and nrerea-
4- - dr—oMi- 4Pi»e H—ofury De-' tion pro|«cts.
Open for inspection in Laurens
are the sewing room, housekeeping
aid and adult education projects,
, „ . „ „ I the library, recreational projects, in-
of Coker college, Hartsville, will de-1 studio, tennis courts.
College Finals ,
Begin On June 2i;
grees To B!e Conferred.
Dr. C. Sylvester Green, president
liver the principal address at Pres- j playgrounds and Laurens Mills cen-
selected as business manager.
The staff will assume its duties
byterian college’s sixtieth commence
ment exercises on Monday morning,
June 3, it has been announced.
’Hie baccalaureate sermon will be
preached in the First Pre^yterian
with toe openir^ of the new school ^ Sunday morning June 2, j
WACk ^ AMn Wo ... & «■ . .... _ v v —— * ^1 *
ter; historical records in toe vault
of the clerk of court’s office; health
center at the public health depart
ment; libraries at toe Laurens city
school, Ford high school, Garlington
street school and Watts Mills corn-
year in September
Other staff members are; Marcia
Galloway, associate editor; Jack
Barnes, sports editor; Marjorie Mill-
degree in 1938, his study being in the
field of history and government. He
taui^t government and economics for
one year at Georgia Military acad
emy, College Park, Ga., and for
past year tjught history and gov
ernment in Clinton hl^ school.
Mr. Sloan is active in churdi and
civic affairs of the city, being af
filiated with the Associate Reformed
Presbyterian diurch and superinten
dent of its Sunday sttoool. He is a
monber of the Clinton Klwanis club,
and secretary of the Clinton Demo
cratic club.
Negro Child Bums
To Deadi Tuesday
A three-year-old Negro boy was
burned to death here Tuesday after
noon when a house in the Bell Street
section was destroyed by fire. The
child, the son oi Lewis Burnside, was
vtsitlng at the beuse when a gasoline
iron exploded ^veloping the house
in flames. Other oocapants of the
house escaped.
The da^eBing wgs occupied by
James Dnolapfs* fatnily, and was
owned by D- E. Treble and C. VT.
Steue,
’die child was a grandson of Jim
Bumidde, wen knoam garage woik-
er of the cfly.
rian dioir.
Graduating exercises will be heldjer, feature editor; James Von Holl-
Monday evening in Florida' Street jen, assistant feature editor; Mary
acbool auditorium. There will be not Bailey Owens, society editor; 11a
address to the graduates as has been!Curry, news editor; Bobbie Jean
by the Rev. Albert Gi^y Harris, Also open for inspection are eleven
pastor of the First Presb)rterian. schixil lunch, canning
church, of Macon, Ga. Ujjjj gardening projects as follows:
Monday morning will see the pre-1 Barksdale-Namie, Central, Cross
sentation of commissions as ^ond Hickory Tavern, Mt. Gallagher,
the custom in previous years. Short
addresses will be made by Cecil
White, valedictorian; Miss Grace
Maj:tin, salutatorian. and Miss Ruth
Boukniidit. presktent of the cla^.
Superintendent W. E. Monts de
liver diplcxnas to the gradates. Med
als and other awasds will be pre-
iented to a number of students at
this program.
The time of all three programs
will be 8 o’clock.
The senior class is composed of
73 members, 39 bcqrs and 34 girls,
the list having been publi^ed in
The Chronicle last week.
Bottling Plant
Begins Bumess
Clinton’s newest business concern
is toe Dixie Beverage Co., Inc., which
began operations during the past few
days on Enterprise street. ’The con
cern occupies a new building con
structed for the firm by J. J. Com-
‘Wall. Tom Addison is manager of the
Imstneas, having recently moved here
from Rock Hfil
The firm will bottle soft drinks.
WiNrkeni
V^untoer wq^kkn at flie Cliaton
ist*the<Cottim Twuiknunltjf have baton
in tha constructkH dfsmns feouae of
tdh4> tor t|u fOl^lWiatiMi of Cl
Baptist di<
lor flie bi
was tarokan
wedc when
ATBNDING CXHfTSNIlON |lor flie buQdlng last
Dr, M. O. Whitten, suparlntandantt members of tlaa ahtnreh assembico at
of the State TValaint sduxrf, is) the site under ImderdUp of the pas
tor, Bav. Bal^ D. Huglm. t
Subacrhitiona Ura bting receivadi
spaodhig^^ week in Atlantic City,
N. J,, attending the annual convmi-
tkm at tile American Asaodatkm
for the study of'Mmta! Deficiency.
■bln m ABBtVlLLE
Prttf. Benuw*JiRqprd Of the col- Wright,
Carr, exchange editpr; David Bol
and; assistant business manager;
Mayer Johnson, circulation manager.,
Atlanta Friends
Visit Thomwell
A group of 45 members of the
Pryor Street Presbyterian church of
Atlanta, were week-end guests on
the 'Thomwell orphanage campus.
The group was accompanied by their
pastor, Rev. C. E. Piephoff, a gradu
ate of toe Thomwell schools and
Olive^. _Long
Lanford and
Mountville.
Library projects, in addition to
those at Clinton and Laurens, include
Gray. Court-Owings,- Jones’- Store, ^
Hickory Tavern and Cross Hill.
lieutenants to the seniors of the Re-! pj^nlar Snrincs Mt
serve Officers’ Training ^corpsrof-the
college, and the awarding of the
saber given annually to the captain
of toe best-drilled compariy.
Following this the commencement
exercises for the college’s sixty-
eight candidates for bachelor’s de
grees will be held, and toe honor
ary degree of doctor of literature
will be conferred upon ICev. R. C.
Long, pastor of the Greenwood Pres
byterian church; the doctor of di
vinity degree upon the Rev. Louis
Cossitte LaMotte, president of Pres
byterian Juqior college, Maxton, N
E. F. Anderson
For Commissioner
E. Frank Anderson, of the Mus-
grove community, this week announ
ces his candidacy for county com-
C., and upon Mr'. Harris, of Macon, . ,
The degree of doctor of laws will!'T**®*®"*’’ of Laurens county. Mr.
be conferred upon Joseph Emory | making
Presbyterian college, who- occupied Sirrine, industrial engineer of |
the pulpit of Thomwell Memorial ville, and upon Jefferson Choice Ev- P ^ if e ected
church Sunday morning. j ins, president of D. E. Converse ,
Also here Sunday were Rev. and and company, of Spartanburg
Mrs. L. A. Davis. Mr. Davis being a
former pastor of the Atlanta church,
now connected with Flora Macdonald
college. Red Springs, N. C. He led |
the afternoon service at toe Thom-j Word was rceived here
well church. Itemoon of the death
terests as if they were his own.
Mr. Anderson made the race for
the same office four years ago and
only lacked election by about 100
by Mr. Hui^ms In purdisss mstarUU
fbr the construction of the new
buUdlng. ‘
Deacons of the churdi are: D. V.
chairman of the board;
lege faculty,, ddivered the baccalau- L. A. HaU, ticaeurer; JS. O. McCul-
reate sermon to the grqdtiettnrclast kmg!^ •eceetaiy; Pruitt Oakley,
of the AbbenfUk high $diool on Sun- Clarence Odtiey, R L. Power, Crooks
day eventng. .DunatNy.And Ralph Riddle.
WHO WORKS
WHERE?
BLAKELY BROTHERS
SEED Slt)RE
Raldl R. Blakely
J. AIMw Blakely
R. UbIiu BMkely
ReksH Teuuf
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This ftnn snipleys 4
SsTcnty-ene piewlausly re-
parted firms easpleyed .... 5ti
Trtal.
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It Pays To Trade
IN CUNTON
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At a board of directors meeting
Tuesday evening at Hotel Clinton,
the Ch^ber of Commnee set aside
Tuaaday, May 28, to begin a m«nber-
ditp drive to increase the^roll to 100.
Thr pnpscnt enrollment is 78.
Offlcm of the cluD seek the co-
opisptifln of bustaeas houses and citi-1
zens in the drive In an effort to «ri-j
llargt the cldb and benefit the city]
I by its undertakings. A member ofj
the memberdilp committee will call
on various citizens throughout the
town scfficitinc theil afflliation with
i the club.
FORMER RESIDENT
tlUoPAINlJTy^^^gg jf, town of Clintqn, where
c . - I he i.s best known, he polled 500 votes
sunaay ai-j highe.st candi-
Ikji, date, and carried his own b«ix where
! Brannon of Statesboro. Qa- Mr ^
* js J jj ^ ^ Mr. Anderson live.s on a farm six
*«l„idature,dirt.udd^atno<m|„|,„ ^ ,ngag«l
Sunday from a heart attack. He is::- .....ir - c.
Kirvivil by hi. wHa tb. «om.er Mte ^“w,
Mtoni* UtU», o« thi. city. !
rnmnwriffl GrOUp
Seeks Membm
Senior Bpys To Be
Guests Klwanis Chib
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The regular meeting of the Ki-
wanis clvto will be held this evening
at 7:30 at Hotel Clinton. The ehib
will have as Hs guests the senior boys
at CUpton high sdiool and Thora-
weQ. Dr. J. C. Kinard, president of
Newberry college, will be the guest
speaker. '
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FATALITY
AUTOMOBILE
ACCIDENTS
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LAURENS COUNTY
Let*! Strhra To Make
1940 a Safe Tear On
the HifhwaTa.
ThIa dale Iasi year, 11.,
years he was in toe textile
business and was overseer of carding
{at the Clinton and Lydia Mills for
! around 20 years. His wife is the
{former Miss Mary J. AbeiHrrombie.
daughter of the late Jk H. Abercrom
bie, and they have four children,
all of whom •live in or around Clin
ton except one.
^ Mr. Anderson said he stands for
good roads gll over the county and
ix in favor of maJurig the county
home self supporting as he advocat
ed four years ago.
i ADDITIONAL FIRMS TO
TAKE HALF HOLIDAY
The following automobile dealers
jand garages, in addition to other
I business houses of toe city that have
been taking a half holiday since
■ May 1, have agreed to close their
doors at 12 o’clock, every Wednes-
d8]f from now until toe 1st of Sep
tember.
W. C. Baldwin Motor Co., Mc-
Millan-Cooper Motor Co., Chandler
A Cooper Gargge, Sowers Gkrage,
C. W. Cooper's Garage, Clinton Body
Shop, Bill Henry'.s.