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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, 8. C.
THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1940
FORMER CUNTON GIRL WRITES
OF TRIP TO ALASKA
Bv MRS. CHANDLER GRIGGS, of Washington, D. C.
Editor’s Note — Mrs. Chandler
Gri|:gs of Washington. D. C., is now
on a travel tour in Alaska with her
husband, Mr. Griggs, who is engaged
in government civil aeronautics work.
Mrs. Griggs, before marriage Miss
them were being operated on the day
that we skimmed by.
We passed over the great Ohio
river, and on to Ohio’s terrible brick-
Mississippi rvier we had been look
ing forward to seeing Bat^ands and
the Black hills of South Dakota be
cause material concerning them had
been given to us back there. We at
last reached Badlands just before
on each side of the canyon are
breathtakingly lovely. You just can’t
imagine how it looks until you really
see it. Words and pictures can’t be
gin to do it justice.
We saw Mud volcano and thg
dark. Since everyone said that the Dragon’s Mouth, but we had to pass
best time to see them was early in up the larger and more fimious gey-
the morning, we planned to spend sers.
the night at some cabins in the east- After we drove trough the park
em end of them, but as luck would {we were in Montana—just like that
have it the last cabin was rented Most of this state is mountainous,
just before we arrived, so we had to
drive on through. All in all, I think
payed highways, *re awful to Badlands at its best and as
drive over, and help to distract your^^^ should be seen—late at night with
Emmie Adair, daughter of Mr. and .mind from any scenery yo'^ j jjjg moaning and whistling, with
Mrs. R. F. Adair of this city, has j might otherwise enjoy. Most of the <
written an interesting letter of her
trip to her parents. With some per-
aonal omissions made. The Chronicle
will be enjoyed by our readers. The
. letter, because of its length, will ap
pear in two parts. The first follows
towns between Penr^ylvania and roads leading off into black space,
Canton, Ohio, are quite small, and
the scenery is monotonously the
particularly the western piurt, because
the Rocky mountains begin ^ere.
This state, like Wyoming, is more of
a cattle than a farming state. We saw
a few cowboys rounding up cattle
scattered over the huge ranges. We
did most of our driving thhHigh this
, How To Regista*
is publishing the letter, believing itlganlt. Canton, however, -ia-,fairly
large and seems to be quite^fin en
terprising place. We made the dis
covery that most Ohio eating places
with the moon peeping out—and ooh, state at night and so didn’t get to
such spooky feelings.
see too much of it. A hi^light of
Badlands is so called because it is night ride was the sight of
below; the second will appear next • give you poor food and charge out-
wet'k. j landish prices.
I We spent the night at Wooster,
We left the District of Columbia Ohio. The next morning, after we
route 240 and proceeded gaily j had been almost all the way through
on
alt ng through pretty, roling Mary-j Ohio, and were deciding that the
land country. This part of the ride ^ state was punk, we suddenly came
cauM- the scenery was all on the or
der that we had seen numerous times
before on Sunday afternoon rides.
But just the same, it was at the very
btginning of our trip, and we were
so full of pep and unbelief that-w«i^le pink, deep pink,
had to keep pinching ourselves to
sight—at least seven acres of peonies,
iris and poppies—right outside the
town of Van Wert. They were the
Anglaize Gardens, and were those
a section of land that is worthless for
agriculture, .or water supply, etc. It
Butte, all lii^ted up and seeming to
hang like a huge necklace of pearls
is a series of hills that once made up right out in space. We were coming
a huge lake bottom. Due to the slow around ^ curve in the mountains and
erosions of centuries, these hills have suddenly there was Butte, looking as
taken on queer shapes and show
definite lines running parallel to each
other around them. These were caus
ed by the lake gradually decreasing
in size and leaving its. mark. Where
if we could almost reach out and
touch it, but is was actually 25 miles
away. We spent the night there, and
were we dog-tired! The next jnoming
we rode around the city just.a bit tb
was not particularly outstanding, be-J upon an absolutely breath-takii^ see vividly colored what it was like. It is very, fa-
spots—red, orange, pink, yellow, etc.,
—but the Badlands as a whole are a
grayish brown color.' We had some
weird.'-feelings going through there.
flowers beautiful! Dark red, white, jj assure you. We spent the night
ys; realize that we were at last
you
on our way to Alaska
When we started into Pennsyl
vania we began to see things that
reallv looked different. The soil was
to chai
ep pi^. It reminded jgj wahl, just on the opposite side of
scenes from Holland. We i Badlands,‘and the next morning we
our opinion of the ^ {jrq^jt)ack for a piece in order to get
after thiShiMd we also had to eat our* sample of the lands in the early
words abbCime eating places because |
we had one of the best fried chicken j drove on to Rapid City,
dinners that) we had ever ®®ten at j turned ^uthward for a
mous for its copper and its former
wild life, and I think it still likes to
Books for registration fpr voting
in the general election are open the
first Monday in each month at the
courthouse in Laurens.
All persons who were not regis
tered in 1938 or since then must reg
ister to be able to vote in the gen
eral eleetkm. Men between the ages
of twenty-<Mie and sixty years must
present poll tax receipts to obtain
certificates. Women and men over
sixty years old need not present such
certificates, as they are not liable to
payment of poll tax.
The board of registration is com
posed of P. Bailey of this city,
W. T. Crews of Laurens, and Mrs.
Glddys Ray Cook of Owings.
Congress Stays
In Washington
berg. Republican, of Michigan.
From the Democratic ranks. Sena
tor George, Democrat, of Georgia,
predicted that the pending “excess
profits” tax proposal, compulsory
military training, apd an assortment
of defense measures would keep leg
islative machinery busy for many
weeks.
With both major political conven-
timis out of the way, congress re
assembled Monday after nearing a
month of slight activity. First was a
week recess for the Republican con
vention at Philadelphia and more re
cently the terr-day interlude for the
Democratic sessions at Chicago.
(Pelltieal AdeertlaeaMnt)
RE-E^CT
Your Congyesaman
Washington, July 19.—Taking their
cue from President Roosevelt, most
members of congress talked today of
combining a national political cam
paign with a continuous session of
congress.
“I pity anybody who proposes to
boast of its wildness. Copper mines adjourn with the present temper of
are built all under the city, and
interesting
all a peculiarly purplish pink shade, ^e “Old South restaurant _in_Vanj_^^ through the-Black Hills. These
There was one mountain ran^ after
another, and what lovely views we
most interesting city in the state was
Pittsburgh. It was packed full of
j hills are lovely—full of thick-grow-
Almost before we knew it. we were| ing, tall trees, winding roads, and
had from the tops of'them. Quite ffie+mlndiaria, but we began to see no- granite galore. It is here that the
ticeable changes once more. The soil great sculptor, Gutzpn Borglum, is
was almost coal black, the country | working on his masterpiece at Mt.
things that you could spend weeks'.exceedingly flat, the roads were ex- Rushmore. It is difficult to imagine
expljring. and not have one boring cellent, and there were good-looking'such a miracle being performed. He
...... jg (.arving the heads of George Wash-
morrrtnt. There was the “Ca.thedral corn fields everywhere you looked,
-'-of' .^mldipg,,, couldn’t give much thought to
whose picture was in “Life a Indiana because we were so intent on
ingtnn, T.ingalnr.Jfiffgrsnn gnd.Theo-.
dore Roosevelt. Their heads are 60
or s( ago. It is the state university, j Chicago and seeing such ■ feet from chin to crown and Lincoln’s
18-foot nose is four feet longer than
the entire head of the Egyptian
Sphinx. The work has been going on
since 1927 .and it is so huge an un-
would have made an
study, if we had only had time. Mon
tana had very poor roads, but the
state gave out pamphlets to tourists
and apologteetf," saying that the small
population accounted for this, but
the state was making improvements
as rapidly as possible.
4G<mcluded In Next lssue>i—
the country,” said Senator Vanden-
BOARD OF REGISTRATION
The Boax^Mfif Registration for Lau
rens County will meet at the places
named below for the convenience of
those who hRye not yet secured Reg
istration Certificates, dated since Jan
uary 1, l 99fr. —
MARKER^ FOR GRAVES
Applications for markers for the
graves of World War veterans may be
made to the Memorial Branch, Office
of the Quartermaster General, War
Department, Washington, D. C.
but is unlike any other one in the gjghts there as we could. That really
world. It covers an acre or so, and jg g —very much like New York,
is. I m afraid to say how many stories yg^ gg much smaller—if such an
tall. Anyway, all the classrocMns ®re gjjjgg^j^.g might be applied to any-
in the one building, and are not scat- thing in so large a place. We saw dertaking that you wonder how it
tered around in several buildings asj^'hiting Refinery, the world’s largest)can ever be finished, but it will be,
mctst colleges are. The stone of which ■ ggjyjpjg^g Qjj refinery; smoke stacks,'and it will be magnificent. I’ll telll
it is constructed, is very dingy, as is|trains, the large factories for rifaking!you more about this when I see you.,
almo'^t everything you sec in the city, Rinso, Life Buoy, etc., docks fori We followed route 16 from the|
due to the constant smoke from loading large steel frames. Lake Black Hills on into the state of Wy-i
the mill.«. There are inclined roads j^jjghigan—my first glimpse of one j oming, and found the state as a whole |
all ( ver town for cars and pedestrians^) gf jhe Great Lakes—it was huge and-very much like South Dakota—moun- i
^rr-rthat is, .>;lreets branch off from each' higg gg(j had bathing beaches all ; lainbus and" uninteresting — I mean.j
olh.tr and are made into three layers around it, Soldiers’ field, one of the,rather, nothing outstanding — until!
Cosmopolitan Maraxine—15 Months
for 12.50.
JAMES W. CALDWELL
Phone 276
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The hours for these board sessions
will be from 9 A. M. to 4 P. M., and
dates and places are as follows:
July 22-^linton, City Hall;
July 25—Goldville, Cennpany Store;
July 26 — Gray Court, Abercrom
bie & Owin^ Store;
July 29—Cross Hill, Pinson’s Store;
- July 30>—Watts Mills, C o m jp a n y
Store;
July 31—Lydia Mill, Company
Store.
W. T. Crews,
» P. B, Bailey,
Mrs. Gladys Ray Cook,
27-2c Board of Registratiori.
JOS. R. BRYSON
we reached Buffalo, where the na-t
tional forest and the Big Horn moun-'
or Ki. one for pedestrians, one for world's largest stadiums at North
cars. etc., aiyl believe me, these roads western university. Lake Shore Drive,
are filled nearly all the time. These Michigan avenue, LaSalle street, tains begin. We started up the Big
roaos liKik a great deal like the clover ^ jgyeiy shops and homes—in fact, just) Horn mountains (so called because of
leaf bridges, etc., in New York. Thelgi^gg^ everything. 1 the big homed cows that once roam-
business section is known as the Illinois, as a whole, is mostly flat,led there in such abundance) at dusk
“Golden Triangle because it is built ggjj jg made up of farms and small'^ud by the time we had climbed a
around the angle formed by two towns. The farms are excellent, and
rivers joining at that point. This sec-, would really make Dad sit up and
tion. is. of course, off the highway, notice. I bet he would want to get
but we drov’e off our route a few,out and start plowing after one
blocks to get a glimpse of it. There'gigggg
are steel mills all around the city and crossed the Mississippi river
they seem to be going at full blast all via the Lincoln highway bridge. Wejtection, and if you should happen to
the time. The smoke from them was'wouldn’t pass up the opportunity to|8®t too close to the edge it would be
oiange, gray, black, brown—just all get out and at least touch the water, just too bad. We found a ducky little
c<>iors. How we wanted to go through, while we were standing there a!pl®ce to stay. It was called the Trail
few thousand feet we decided that if
.we ever wanted to . get over J^xose
mountains in safety we had b^ter
stop at the first over-night place we
could find. Those roads have abso
lutely no guard rail or any such pro-
them—but we’ll have to wait for that., freight boat pushing a String of load^
Thtie were a number of oil wells coal barges passed by. We drove
right outside the city, but none of
F!»« aching
BACKS iFlrrAnS
And Other Fuirtioiia] SymptooM of
KIDNEY WEAKN^ES
Tok* KIDANB mow oad raVerw ■uflwioa
•ad liafnMlnrH oi BoidMck* odd Lag ?«iaa
—^ragaaal. Scanty and Burning Poacage—
Oanolwai Odor—Leaa oi Fnacgy—H^d*
tainaaa. Worrouanaaa couaad by
Ddaoy and Bladdor Diaordota.
away from our route for about a mile
and saw Roller dam. You get a beau
tiful view of it from a high hill on
which grass and flowers and trees
have been well laid out in order to
I make a nice picnic spot. ^
* Most of the country in Iowa is
slightly more rolling than in Indiana
and Illinois. It, too, is wonderful
j farming country. There are big, well-
kept bams, fields sown in pertecUy
i straight, symmetrical rows for mile
I after mile in c«w;n, clover and grain.
side Studios, and accommodations
consisted of a couple of well-built
log cabins, furnished with heat, cook
ing utensils and almost everything
except food. The view from there!
was something to go mad over. The!
owner recommended that we go on
to Tensleep Inn for breakfast, if we)
could last that long, for it was 60:
miles away. He said that the food]
there surpassed any other throughout)
the mountains. We did survive until)
we reached it, and we had some
beautiful views albng the way. Ten-]
sleep canyon is the name given, to
Occasionally you see a large number the canyon from which the inn took |
Wb«v funetioncl duortieni allow waste, I nf COWS, pigS, horses—all OUt in the
Matter, ad^ and poiaons to accumulat*. . fields feeding lavishly.
autd sneb illncaaa aa above trouble you,
babe KIDANS. They act naturally. They
•tiMolate the kidneyi to perform efficiently
WbeB beset by functional diaordert. They
relieve you quickly and pleaaantly ol dia-
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poeafbility of danxerous ailments which
May ensue. Trial is free il KIDANS fails.
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If all the eating places in Iowa are
in keeping with the one where we
had lunch on Sunday, it’s a grand
state. We had a superb pork roast
dinner at Thompson’s tea room
in
SMITH’S PHARMACY
We Finance
AUTOMOBILES
— o —'
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Jacobs Building
ASK ROT
Clinton. Just imagine!
At Ames is the Iowa State college.
Chan knew a boy who taught there,
so we stopped to speak to him, but
he was completely missing. Anyway,
it gave us the chance to hear the
carillon played for the summer school
students.
At Sioux City, Iowa, we took the
its name. It is so called because the j
Indians reckoned time thus in the
old days—that is, that particular spot
was 10 sleeps away from the nearest
camp. Tensleep Inn was made up of
a large reception room, dining room
and kitchen, and all around it were)
cabins. Believe me, their food is all
it is cracked up to be. We had fruit
juice, hot cakes and coffee, and I
thought that we would have to eat)
at least 50 before they thought we)
were satisfied with the food.
We finally wound our way through ]
the Big Horn mountains and rode for
some time before we came to the
wrong turn and crossed over the Mis-' ”®xt outstanding point — Shoshone
souri river iilto Nebraska-nine miles) ® I®w miles outside Cody, Wy-
of it—before we realized that weithe way, all through that)
were going wrong. By so doing, wejs®®tion people have souvenirs to sell
lost 50c, the toll we had to pay to .that once ^longed to “Buffalo Bill”'
cross over the bridge. ICody and famous law-breakers, etc.,)
Whewwwwww! What send-off wel'^ho once ruled there. In fact, the}
had in South Dakota. I happened to j road, route 20, from Cody to the Yel-
be driving and just as I started past I lowstone national park, is considered
a car the accelerator caught, and we the most scenic 50 miles in America,
went roaring down the highway with A guide is given you before you en-
Good. News For Men and Boys!
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FRIDAY and SATURDAY
WASH PANTS
Pants $2.15
$2.50 Panto r. $1.95
$2.00 Panto $1.45
$1.50 Panto $1.15
$1.00 Panto ..1: 85c
Men’s Dress
SLACKS and PANTS
* NEW YORK *
WORLD’S FAIR
4v8MiSDAYS
$28i0
And Up From
CUNTON
the little car making all it was worth
—and me helpless to stop it. I kicked
at the starter and poor Chan fiddled
around and nothing happened — we
went faster, if possible. Chan was
just on the verge of climbing out his
window and over the engine to the
other side of the car and then shut
ting off the motor or doing someffiing
—anything—when he puUed out the
hand throttle and suddenly the old
crate coasted down to a nice moder
ate speed, and left us weak with hys
terics. I pulled over to the side of
the road and managed to creep out
and let Chan start, and then we still
continued to be overcome with laugh
ter, just ^thinking of how we must
have looked and wondering what a
speed cop would have thought if he
had suddenly seen our little '36 Chev
rolet go careoiing i^ly past him.
Well, after that, we began to no
tice the countryside and found it to
be much more poorly cultivated and
more sparsely populated than Indi
ana and Illinois. Between Plankei^ti^.
and White Lake a [dteasant came
strolling nonchalantly across the
hif^way. It practically flew when
we almost readied it.
From the time we had crossed
ter this, and it shows in great detail
every interesting point along the way,
such as formations in the mountains]
that look like the Kaiser’s face, four)
men on a tobaggon, chimney roclt,|
and numerous others, a number of]
ranches, the Shoshone dam, whomeii
height is 328 feet, thickness at bash]
106 feet, and thideness at top 10 fcci]
It was completed in 1910, and it is]
quite an engineering feat
Yellowstone national park is
place. Acres after acres of tall trae<,j
snow-covered mountainB, waterfaU^i
rivers, lakes—but as far as we knoe^J
uninhabited by wild life. We were
disappointed that we didn’t get to]
see any beafs, ete„ but of, course
didn’t have time to take in the
as we would have liked to. We iustij
had to hit tihe high spots along the!
highway we took. By far the grand^j
est thing Uiat we saw was the Grand]
Canyon. This could be seen from two]
polpta, but the better of these was]
Artist Point. From this hiU
icoukl get a wimderful view|
fails, and best of.
the Tower faOs, wt^ich drop 112
This water oomes rushing
and eh intp Yet-J
rlv«fe The colfMi hi tllN
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50c Sox
25c Sox
15c Sox
X
SPORT MELTS
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SLACK SUITS
$5.50 Suits
$5.00 Suito^
$3.50 Suits
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$8.50
I2.75
$3.00 Suits J^.50
Nunn-Buah Sport .OxfonU
$8.50 Oxfords *T..rr. $0.95
$7.50 Oxfords $5.95
$4.50 Panto $8.50
$3.50 Pants^ $2.75
$3.00 Panto $2.15
Edgertim Sport Oxfords
$5.00 Sport Oxfords $8.95
SPORT SHIRTS
$1.00 Sport Shirts 85c
50c Sport Shirts 39c
Nunn-Bush Oxfords
$10.00 Shoes and Oxfords $8.45
$ 8.50 Oxfords . $7.45
$ 7.50 Oxfords $0.45
NECKWEAR
$1.00 Ties 75e'
50c Ti« 39c
Othffl’ Sport Oxfords
$3J»0 Oxfords $2.05
$3.00 Oxfords $2.25
$2JM) Oxfords $1.95
PAJAMAS
$2.00 Pajamas $1.05
$1J»0 Pajamas $1.15
$1.00 Pajamas - 79c
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WASH PANTS
SUKktly sksp-wsni. $1.06 mrf HJK, now
85c
SHIRT SALE
$1.05 WIKI Sldrta. 8 for $4.00
$1PlediMiit Shirts, 8 for $3.75
$1.^ Plodiii SkirtB,‘3 fer $3.00
IIJO Ptsdwswt Shirts, 8 for $2.50
STRAW HATS
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