The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, May 23, 1940, Image 4
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CUNtON CHRONICLE. CUMTOW. 8. C.
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some buss trips to run enduring va- J
cation .she will haul folks to the
world’s fair and back home for only
34$, you to furnish yore own drinto
ansoforth, but she will pay for ^me'
To Boys And Girb
of yore breakfasts;
miss'watters has asked this corry-
spondent to have her name appear in
print as much as possible, as she will
Many Awards Made By County
Agent At Achievement Day
Elercises.
FH£ pOCKETBCaiC
KWOWLEDCE
need lots of publicity to stir up this , Latirens, Hay SI.—^At the Sprmg
dead town, noboddy has ewer benn meeting of the county 4-H council'
anywheres to amount to annything and achievement day exercises at
rfu f=ecUon. when she-p^piar Springs, County Agent C. B.
talked about niagara falls to mrs. ^ „
slim chance, jr.. she thought she awarded certificates to 4.H
meant something to eat or get out of who had completed the year’s
the way when it actually fell, she work and announced awards for
will run a buss to them provided outstanding project work, as follows;
she can get up 25 passengers of good
repute and cash down
CLINTON. S. C.. THURSDAY. MAY 23. 1940
Albert Snipes, com club medal and
cjieck; Melvin Weathers, cotton proj-
^t medal and check; Cecil Thomp
son, pig club medal; James Elledge,
Jr., pig club medal; W. M. Nash,
III, two medals as outstanding club
miss icy' watter.s is a darter of the
famous col. eddy waiters of the civ-
j ... ^ j ,‘l war and was captured at getty*-
WHAT IS CHIVALRY? an^J was' hell a prisoner in boy ol the county. Honorable men-
Tlic ancient standards of chivalry' County Ch4trman Chas F. Flemmg ^ ^ g ^j^n went to James Painter, Thorns
art sometimes more romantic thaniO aurens, as o ^ '^1, « broke out and swum down the well orphanage dairy club and Quen
reasonable. That was the case m the appea peop e m the ope a rivver to norfolk and was; tin Chapman, Mountvillc beef club,
matter of fighting duels, and the cus-|there will be a quick and generous ^ ewer afterward, he was
- , j A AA,. iri..,r.ino “ “Mlss Jcunie Colerhan, county home
cv-' demonstration agent, presented cer-
tion even as to whether respect for drom Nationa Re^ verboddy called him that as long asitificates to 129 girls for successful*
women may not be overdrawn m this ers .'ai a i ° r u ^r. lived which was to the ripe old' competition of year’s work and fif-
ne^v age when .so many women of 73, and then he was called | teen diplomas to those who had corn-
doing everything that men do. Should j destruction and misery in Europe
suc h respect not be placed upon the i far surpassing anything our imagi-
basis of honor to whom honor is due? ■ nation can conceive. The gigantic , g^j^itor, if you are interrested
Is there any x'irtue in the standard I task of reljof which faces the Ameri- going annywheres yoreself or
of iKiliteness which prompts the tired can Red Cross m cc^peration with have some of yore
laborer after a hard day s wo^k to other Red Cross societies is a chal- j waiters, she
.surrender his seat on a street car to lenge to our leadership and to our include you ih her
.some husky cigaret-smoking damsel generosity. ^ • p^^jy jf yQ^ raise the mdnney to
who has spent the afternoon at a “In response to the first ball for pgy for everthing. she will take no
matinee'.’ aid we immediately made funds rjjjjj a-tall on aniiyboddy. she says [ribbon places^ in the dress revue;.
Perhaps our chivalry needs to be available to the Belgians and Neth- the newspaper b’zness is too uncer I Rebecca Wood, Carl Copeland, E-
rat’onalized. erlands Red Cross societies and are tain; folks mought quit advertising I trulia Copeland, Elizabeth Pinson, I
pleted the required work for four
successive yeai-s. Frances Hazle,
Marian Milam, Ina Burbage, and!
Mary Huff won first second, third
and fourth places in the apron con
test, for which they will receive
prizes. Silver medals from the Na
tional 4-H club congress will be
awarded the fallowing who won blue
I purchasing large quantities of am- all of a sudden, rite or foam her
bulances. hospital trucks and medi- in care of the undersigned.
yores trulie,
mike lark, rfd,
toorist solicitof.
COMMERCIAL MORiSlTY
.Men are too often influenced by,cal .supplies here and , m England,
the condition of the times in w'hich*. Today we have made an additional
thcv live. It IS an illustration of the $100,000 available to the French and
weaknes.s of human nature that the British Red Cross for relief of Dutch I
performance of duty is not equally and Belgian refugees for whom ^^ey w |^ • i . w • .9 |
easy at all times. One of the times are caring. * ITIdVlU^IH LaIoICU 111
when the performance of duty is not “Millions of helpless victims of f p* 1 • | p ■
easy is when we can look around us this human carnage cry for our as-. DlO^l cipillCcll DOOK
and . see others turning from- the sistance. We hope your chapter will ^
pathway of right. There then arises reach your quota promptly.' | Relatives here of the Rev. James co^cil for next year,
within us the old tendency to follow j [qoj^ gj ^gj. picture in Milton McKnight of Norfolk, Va.,
Wilma Davis, Inez Lambert, Dorothy'
Chapman, and Bernice Mackey. Oth-1
ers of the blue ribbon group were|
Joyce Finley, Rebecca Stewart, Rose;
I Godfrey, Ruby Thompson, Emma} --
Mat Hall, Margaret Elledge, Thelma
Landreth, Helen Fortner, Eliza Full-;
er Watts and Alice Godfrey.
Opal Copeland was elected pres
ident, Silah Knigtjt, vice president
and George Finley, secretary of the
,y
the crowd; Even among nations, there i Europe today, the question arises,, will be interested to know he is list-
is a longer record of broken treaties what can we do?^ The answer ed in The Biographical Enclycopedia
when surrounding nations are at war. I back—we can ’ support the of America, which recently came
It takes a good man today to tread American Red Cross, our official na-|from the press, Mr. McKnight is
the .straight pathway of commercial' tional volunteer relief agency. The pastor of Armstrong Memorial Pres-
hoiiesty. An order for gtxids rnay be record of this organization of mercy byterian church of Norfolk,
cancelled, and often is—for no better is known to every informed man and I The enclycopedia contains a rath-
reason than that the market changed woman in this country. It is the or-jer lengthy sketch of the young min-
aftcr the goods were ordered. The ganizatibn that stands reSdy to al-jster, noting the date of his birth,
tenant wonders if his contract should . leviate suffering when catastrophe ’ schools and colleges attended, de-
hold good when crops have not meas-'comes. Just now its activities are grees earned, studies and travels a-
ured up to his expectations either in [being centered in war-stricken Eu- broad, ^.educational and ministerial
volume or price. The consumer re-'rope to help the starving and dis-'attainments,
ceives a bill from the merchant with tressed, and to rescue and save little |
whom he has been trading. The bill children
has been running, perhaps, for
months. Its size has reached
proportions that it means a great
The gathering heard an address,
by Dan Lewis, state'Mtx»ys^<”ageiit;
while a dress revue was conducted
by Miss Elizabeth Watson, Win-
throp college clothing specialist. En-.
tertainment features included music'
by pupils from Mountville, State!
Training school at Clinton, and NYA {
4-H club choruses; folk dances byi
NYA group under direction Mrs.}
Harold Wallace, skits and other ex-j
ercises. I
1-:
POST OFFICE TO CLOSE '
ON MEMORIAL DAY
WORLD’S FAIR
u¥tas M roots to
.. go bv ~
worfortoMt wtjr to mo AomcIco Vilri
NEW YORK—
One Way $9.N. Rouid Trip
GREYHOUND TERBONAL. PhMe 59
deal tp the merchant a§ well as to
the man who bought the goods.
Mr, McKnight is the son ’of Mr,
and Mrs. Andrew F. McKnight of
. X XX. closed
-- Copeland of this i ““y* ** been
Mrs- Jack H. Young ind Lloyd
. ■ .< • , . and Mrs. Andrew F. McKnight of , . -
many As a nation, as a county g local Greenville, the latter being tlS for- L/^e local post office wiU
suchlcornmunity. we should gladly respond,Miss Jewel Copeland of thisM^®"'‘>^‘a‘ May 30, it
Cross mwt the challenge that « n ■'McCrary, of this dtyV°are'cousins,'^h® general deUvery win-
theirs in this tragic hour of suffering. I g^ R. E. Copeland i^an uncle <3 ^ow will be open from 9 to 11 o’clock'
(nieht *** the morning and from 4 to 5
desig
Times have changed since the goods | Contributions should be made to McKnight
were bought and the bill is not so.J. B. Townsend who has been desig-: ’ *
easy to pay as the consumer hoped' nated by the county chairman to
it would be during the more prosper-i head up the campaign in Clinton and Recreation Project
ous days when the account was, this area. j *
Has Special Week
The WPA recreation project is ob-
opened. It may be that the consumer 1 The Chronicle will also be glad to
IS able to pay this bill or give se-j receive contributions and give any
curity, regardless of changed condi-j assistance it may to this distress ap-
tions. He, regardless of all this, too j peal for the three million refugees • fu- t vr
often does not make an attempt to . of those unfortunate countries across, 1^*7.*”*20-25, as
settle the account and for no weight-, the seas. This Work Pays Our Community
than
■ iM iM ^ afc.iMiMi 1^ afc Mi M
o’clock in the afternoon. No city or
ruxjik delivery will he made on. thaU-
date. However route patrons may
get their mail by calling at the office
during the above hours.
EDWARDS ANNOUNCES I
GOODRICH TIRE SALE*
lei reason than that times have
changed and because some of his
neighbors and acquaintances, per
haps, are disregarding their bills, too.
Such people, whether they are
merchants, laborers, farmers, or who
ever they may be, are giving away
to a common temptation of the times.
They forget that truth and obliga
tion do not change with
Nobody’s Business
By Gee McGee
week. The following program is car
ried out by the recreation workers at
Clinton Mill and visitors are invited
Eld wards Auto Service announces'
a special 10-day tire sale in the ad
vertising columns of today’s paper.
to attend all activities during the proprietor of the well
week i •inown service station, handles the
AN ODE TO SPRING IN FLAT ^.welcome guests from 9 until 11 each
ROCK PROSE ^^y ••'*'ough Friday,
circum- deer mr. editor: I The softball teams are engaging
stances, but that they are bed-rock j spring has come into our midst ati>n games each afternoon from_^4 to
, .p. ^ , , J * • • 1 Goodrich line of tires and invites the
, The pre-school was opened to visi-| public to take advantage of the sale
itors Tuesday and will continue to g^d equip their cars and trucks for
principles from which no man should ^ last, we can hear the whipper-will
perfhit him.self to swerve. * singing to his mate in the distant
6 through Friday. Saturday games
will be played from 9 to 11 and 2:30
summer driving.
' woods which means that it is time to to 4:30.
plant corn, the marking birds have j The monthly social of the Mother’s
UNFAIR TO CANDIDATES ^ ^
A news dispatch from Barnwell commenced to chirp their sweet club was held at the community hall
states that the deadline for candi-‘chirps in the tree tops, and overcoats j Tuesday evening,
dates for various offices of that coun-,aud heavy underwear have benn. This evening at 7:30 at Academy
ty closed on Monday, May 20th. The ^ wrapped up. in moth balls and rele-' Street school auditorium a commun-
report further adds that Senator Eld- * gated to the attics up in the lift. (ity singing convention will be held
TYPEWRITERS
Authorized Underwood Denier.
Cleaning and repairing all makes,
reasonable charges.
Kenneth N. Baker
Phone S0€
gar Brown, and Representatives Blatt
and Smith, will oe re-elected with
out opposition?
The question at once arises, why
the big rush to close the date for
with Mrs .lone Wallace leading the
the trubblesome housefly has mov- j singing. The program will include
ed his whereabouts from the barn-! hymns, • rounds and familiar folk
yard to the screen door . . . waiting songs. Several special numbers will
f6r some vissitor to hold it ope^ for be rendered by various local quar-.
entries of candidates. The August. 5 minnits while she talks about noth- j tete and the NYA chorus. Miss
primary is more than three months the little humming birds h^ve 1 Willie May*Pulley; of the NYA home,
off, and yet no candidate who may [begun to suck the aroma frorn- the* will play a number of selections wi
de.sire to offer his services in that , buds of the morning glories and* the 1 the accordion. The public is invited
county will be allowed to qualify, honey-suckle blossoms on fence and I to come and join in singing these
Is the early date line to keep those field, and the chirp of the cricket j familiar songs,
who are not already in office fromn.gn be heard under the chips at the
offering? - And what are the entry, back of the house where the wife
fees for senator and the house in that cuts her stovewood.
county'.’ We have heard they arcj
prohibitive for a man of modern cir- the moo of the cow sounds lone-
cumslances. , some in the far-off pastor and the
AAA Supowisetrs
Get Instructions
W. J, BENJAMIN
SERVICE STATION
Standard Products
Cars Washed sad Grsassd
Tear Baaiaess Appradatad
The people of Laurens county,caff in the lot at the house ancers a large number of oersons wish
should never allow such tactics to be her with a sad bla-a-a-! the June s-- •- -
put into practice by the executive I ftugs have benn humming musick in
committee. The tim^- limit ought To,the sunshine and it won’t be long
^ ^ mought nigh nothing, such - trative assistant, stated C: B. Can
ing to receive work this summer as
field performance supervisors in
measuring croplands and clerks in
candidates for any office. To the chivalry is only heard of enduring. non, county agent. All persons be-
politics of men of j circling the farms and the homes of a ^ examination and be eligible, CAnnon
' said. He further stated that due to
contrary, voters
the entering into politics ot men 011 circling
character and ability. The larger the! community.
field of candidates from which vot-1 ^ 1: *: 1. u
ers may make their selections, ^e, good old spring, welcome back.'gsary to hold two separate mee^^
more likely we- are to obtain effi- you mean turnip sallet, string beans, InaHiictions It is expected oer-
cient^nd trustworthy public offi-' ^ua^_es and^ ,^e^i«llet to
June Iftj
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From this crude
dais. allso mean that fishes'will bite and
There’s no plausible reason for that baseball can be saw and that
hurrying. Give everyone who desires june brides are swinging over nearly
to offer for office, ample time to | every fence to be woo-ed into matri-
. ._x X,.. , fhony. spring is this corry spondent’o
reach a decision and then ^qualify
CLOSING EXERCBES
AT RENNO SCHOOL
III
EGINNINO
Closing exercises of the RauM
school will be held Tuesday, May 28,
at eiidit o’clodc. The profrtni will
-consist of songs, readings, and short
favorite month, and may she stay
WAR RELIEF APPEAL • ^ith us as long as she likes hnd keep
The American Red Cross has is-lpid man summer warded off to the
sued an urgent appeal for a Euro-jverry last.
pean war relief fund of $10,000,000,1 4^
the amount to be used in helping FOLKS IN FLAT ROCK ARE FOR* comedies. The public is invited,
thousands of innocent victims of the 8|BLT FLANNINO TO OO. FLACI8
wars now raging overseas. miss icy waiters of ttie county-seat
. South Carolina has been given a,ha8 benn the wadt-end guess Of mba
quota of $65,000 and all Red Cross i Jennie veeve smith for the past 10
days, she js a gradurate from a big
coUedge up north but yore eortf*
qpoodaot could not jqMB ip||wt ah*
said Ha name was. she «d|p iday on
as k«« as poddblc. she |ig||i^ up
county chapters in the state are
launching campaigns to raise this
goal
Laurens county has been called
on for a contribution of $1,000 to-
HAROLD mri HEADR U-T
. Hardd PitlSx wtfolbor of thp rising
aenku: cIms, aurii^ the past yntk
was ejected president of Ow Hi-Y
dhd) of CUnion high achooL Other
newly-eleiAed offlcoce are: Broavnmg
XRcma, trice ■preridBP*;
peau^ry; CowM IMocr
... Ac tdephoos hu bcee eieda e warld*
wide Bediufli el vokf ceoMBaekstka .. •
e dspcedshic servaat, tvailabk at low cosi;
to people ia aO walla of life; Tide leeauk*
able adiieveiaset it die fewlt of Aaitriiae
kuuadvw o^eendoa end ii^HRiitjr.
The 2LM0 Seuthcfs BeB wotkea have
hod aa iapecfset fleet ia Ak eAkeeMSt.
It k a aoucoe of tttiriKikn » Amb to kager
staaA of oAd
mA h eoi^A
far aaiem todpp akag a Ml er
ia Aawrica.
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