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THE CLINTON CHKQNICLE. CLINTON. S. C.
014? (Elmton 0I4roni(lr
EsUbUaM IttO
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NOeODY'S BUSMESS
Bv GEE McGee
TODAY... lOMOMOW
forgetting to turn/out the gas, than
{by accidents outside the house.
More peoi^ die in bed than any-
By Frank Porker
STOCKBItbGE
I where else,” he said. So I- think ra
continue to take the dumce of fiyin^
StBt^mbef 26.19W
S r liaurens County in Deed
$lhg* 219, and the buMd
and intproVemeats tiyredn, <
2-80 UddeU Gin Outfit cdnpl^, it-
eluding tramper, press, shalUinifc
^rid^jia Ote railro^ cont^rors; ai^ Out St-BOP
WBATHEB—Beliefs
! Wanted: Soase Real Inferasatlen
seeker-terry of agger-culture,
Washington, d. c.
deer mr. seeker-terry: i. * w j'
, . , . , m my country. We’ve had a summer
we farmers m and aroimd ^Vof unusua^ heavy rains. As usual,
rock all hope that you have got Mt- country folk have their ^>wn ex-
A«.r . win^r of snow u, lllOOBIICeOlfllf
tied down In yore new off IS and th^ unusual extremes Mr. and Mrs. Julian Freeman of
yore health is go<^ and of weather. The most interssiing one Fort Worih, Texas, announce the
now r^dy to deal with the tillers of j heard was given by an old birth of a son on Monday, Septum-
I the soil. l iady, whose age is a bit of a mys- ber 23. Mr. Freeman is a former
or walklhg on the street. Fm about!Hart P^mr Tractor Engine, fcemg
[as sale one place as another. • Ipurchased by the BellCemmaay flKgg
i ' —I l|.iddell Company. (2) 10 11 tat
“ 'fuller Gins with Ball Bearing
iBriiaibea and Sew CyUnden; (llH
{saw Master Feeders; (i> No. 3 Beitr
Itery Oonljanstf wSh BipdbMi M
FgjOMAN I Dust ^cks;(l) 2-9(1 SarrlUpd^ Hue]
(1) 2-80 Saw Pneuihatic Elevgtair
and CoiuwctUms; (1) 36 ih. Adi
Bearing Clarage Fan; (1) Doull^
Box Hydraulic Press; (1) Hydraulic
^ . . ..I tery but who is certainly close to a Clintonian, the son of M. M. Free-, Automatic Tramper and ConnecticMis;
befoar it gets tw near electi^ {man and the late Mrs. Freeman. {(D l-5-8”x4” Triplex Pump with
^ “’s the airplanes that cause the
, relief flatform. have you got the par rains. They climb
LEGAL SALE
CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1940
rity plank in “Pjthrough the clouds and'^m^e holm!The State of South Carolina,
or plant less? will we get more ori
or piani less.' wiu wc rain County of Uurens
less ben^-fits. how abnnt ^tting^^|.j^p down, that otherwise would be »»* ^ ,
{side unable to gain admittance. The out trees, do we get paid by the 1*^ up in the sky! The amazing
platform manager introduced the i or by the aker.
Cast Iron Base; (1) 50 Gallon Sledl
Tank; S3 ft. of 6” Conveyo# Bmced;
(1) 9”xl4’-0” Steel Cashing Seed
Elevator; (I") 'Seed Valve; (1) 59
Horse Power Hart-Pharr Engine No.
Right Man For the Job
In the recent county ptilitical ^ g glowing eulogy as he
In Court of Common Pleas.
- Swift A Comnany an lUinois Cor-
thing about toat theorjris that-mylp^Sn of ^C^t^Tuinote^ ^
■ wife has heard several other old peo-< piamtifr vs The Bell r^nenv » Pulley; All Pipes, ^afls, Bfeor-
paittn repeated rumors were heard ojigp^^j^g ^is great work in the min-{we would allso like to ask to 8o_pie give the saTne reason for the Coiwratitm* under the
job> promised first one man andjjg^j.y g^^^j far-reaching influence for^t^^c^c to us by the {state of S C et al DefenHanU
ani>ther, and that certain, persons j^y^g cause of Christ. At the conclu-! cotton (whiclv we fad to *[®th- j ^^ggiue that it has always been 1
wei 1
to lo>e their positions to makeij,jgj.^ ^j^g introduction Dr, Truett than by the aker of lar^ we the
imagine
I,., other job seekers. j arose in his modest manner and said: bb''..*'» .^“>1 ba^ead ‘f ^ 2^
- ■ ‘ “le«risnew anduntoiliartoth«n.l«b^‘^'_<>“^^'y
Plaintiff, vs The Bell Company, a n ri. « o i. a
- Vwg ingS/ Couplings, Pulleys, Sprockets,
j Belts, Chains, /Sheave Wheels, and
T».— ** other necessary parts. ^
Pursuant to a Decree of the Court, i ^ u /«.
' Terms of s^: Cash, The supeess-
Ineluded in the unconfirmed grape-. ..j happy to be here once more.j^oheme back on the books? ~iever is new and unfamiliar to them. ^ V/'“T.T'' ‘'ll I herein laxm the conrln-
'rrhe* talk was the rumor that B. Y.; ^ny man or woman who Can’t see j [aijly and trelie the on^^^ When gunpowder first began to bfi
®“'tfte Clerk of Cotjrt the fuU amount
of the bid in cash as a guarantee of
his good faith in the blddtai. The
same to be applied to the purchaoe
price upon his con^tlying with tan
lor many year'i
hi.' job.
was slated to lose’
Culbcrtsoii, who has been clerk Montreat needs to be born ^dl ewer g^ up, but the suppreme European wars, the old rec-1 ^
tht county board ot commissioners! . j coart mint that onner count ot too ^ ,^1 , ,,3, in Oct^ next, btt^
cannon tire tor bad w^cather. In the <la7 oE the month.
Napoleonic wars English country^"'^,^.'?*'
folks said the gunfire mined their|J',««*abed property, to
.\t)w th;it the election is over, we
leain Horn The Laurens Advertiser
that^just the ...opposite is true—that
Ml . Culbertson is slated to remain as
Such is the characteristic greatness
and humility of the man.
much polliticks.
how about letting us southern
farmers come in on the wheat reduc- g__-j
tion plan? we can grow wheat on otir'^. '' '
idle land, but we can buy / flour '
The Conscription Low
, Machinery is now being set up ‘u‘p„nrr**7han'"we ran'nut Tiitrate of
clerk ol the board. The news itein 48 states to organize the | the said, wheat and thal
tive service system recntly passed by, plowing
congrss and *‘8”^ by the pres^ep .) ^ cutting it down and thrash-
The United States bureau of the **
jcensus has set the official estimate
Probably some still believe]
All 1 * I < 1 J terms of sale. In the event the sue-
Allthatlot, piece or parcel of land,!cessful bidder should fail to make
frther .'States that the newly-elected
supervisor and two commissioners
publicly expressed themselves
havi
naving no intention of making
anV change Th the supervisor s' bfTice.
a.'
Thi.w. we take it. closes the matter.
of the number of men in South Car
ing it out
if we could grow tobacker in this
FROST—Damage
j lying, being and sitaate in the Town!such deposit ,or should fail to com-
terms of sale, the said
I haven’t yet heard*any amateur; ^ shall be re-sold on the same or
on the
Thi.< statement will put an end to.g^ igg.OOO. This number is limited
political gossip and bring g^tteral |gjjgjygjygiy males between 21 and
approval to the people of Laurens 35 years of age, who will be required
county. Except for pure politics, tol^g register for conscription on Oc-
makc a job for someone else, there jg
is no reason why a whisper of Mr. 1 total estimate figure for the
Culbertson s reappointment should I „ 16.404,000.
be raised if he desires to continue Carolina, with 1.2 per cent of
olina who must register for the draft I we would be oJc. they are
getting a big proffit this year b^ause
hi.s present post.
The writer ha^ known Mr. Cul
bertson for a long period of years as
this number, stands 30th on the list
of the num^r of eligibles for con-
they voted down too much akerage.
how about sending us some tobacker
plants to set out for a trial, we have
got to grow something that the peo
ple must have or die, alid that means
tobacker and gassoleen, rite or foam
weather sharp try to explain the * (*-20) of an {gome subsequent Salesday *41^
cause of the killing frost we had up, JJ'®” *“own as a ^-.game terms, at risk of the defaulting
hertJn the hills in late August, but xTt? 4^, bidding wrll be iffDt-
fv. heard old folks speak of Jho o„ „lead,y. The ptmhaaer to pay
tales their grandfathers used to tell
of the year “Eighteen hundred and
froze-to-death.” That was 1816, when
there was frost every month in the
year all over New England. I used
to hear my grandparents talk about
it when I was a boy.
The greatest damage this August’s
as soon as you get all set. remember 1 ^*^*1 was, curiously enough, to
n r p.pe.rsiin‘,s'.sr.:^.'
V. R. FLEMING,
C. C. C. P. & O. S.
Dated Sept. 17, 1940.—3-Scf.
us as per mr. wallis has done in the{^® vegetable gardens which had
S. A. L. Railroad, east by Broad
• street, south by remaining portion of
lot No. 2 .owned by J. F. Bell and
others, and on the west by Horton
Alley, and being the identical lot of
land conveyed to The Bell Company
by First National Bank of Clinton,
S. C., on 14th August, 1929, by deed
recorded in office of Clerk of Court
... , scription.
a citizen, former newspaper man andi Announcement is made from the
in past years as a (»unty official. We gQygj.jjQj.’s office of the appointment
are ready to say that he is a cour- draft boards in Laurens
teous, efficient and honest official These boards will be called
with an earnest and sincere purpose Columbia early in October to re-
to serve the public wellaie at u ggjyg instructions as to their duties,
tunes. The county >s fortunate to anybody’s views on the
have one of his integrity and char- gujjjggj drafting men in time of
acter m this {wsition of trust ondip^^^^g njiu^gjy service may have
responsibility. And wffh it all, Mr. ^j^g ^inie is passed for resist-
Culbertson is a Christian gentleman, gj^gg argument. Compulsory se-
No higher compliment can be paid training is now thfe order of
any man than mis. the land and those in the prescribed
The case of Mr. Culbertson ‘s one^^^ limit whose names are drawn
of the right man in the right P'aoe. required to
^ {spend a year in learning rudiments
Not Interested In Work soldiering. The appeal for volun-
The sheriff of Cabarrus county in|t®fr enlistments in the aimy, we are
North Carolina is threatening habit-,government officials, was
ual loafers in Concord to pick cotton, ®"tirely too slow to meet the emer
for farmers. His impatience with theig®"'^^- Various reasons are res^n-
laziness of trifling people who have apathy on the part of
no visible means of support and men. One of the principal
flatly refuse jobs which they are v. ^u~
able to fill has prompted him to,"®*'®t»on scale establish^ by the
make this move, in the carrying out1Why should a young
01 which he will doubtless find his volunteer and ®^1^ I*'® service
hands tied twenty-one dollahi a month
The condition existing there is not officers from lieutenant on up
an exception but is to be found gen- large, and m many instancy,
eially. In this community and else- e^essive salaries. Becai^ of this
where in the county, farmers are'®.*^^ other factore, forc^ consmp-
complaining of their inability to get;^’®'^ which to
cotton pickers and other seasonal 1 ^ ■
farm help. And turhliTg'to the citjH 1®"^ doesn t mean that
lanv c/rAat nrr»r»f»rtir>n of
man. you go out and approach an*®”^ great proportion of men are
Idle man on the street and inform ^ away from their
him you have yard or garden work, . ®“‘^ fellies out of any c^-
or w ood to cut, and see where you •^'^^'dies. The calls, when broken
get. You are likely to be insulted. ^iH be -very
This IS an ^example pf what is oc-' f ®f®"V P‘®"
curling everywhere. It is the feeling | to the colore in the first . . . _ „
on the part of millions of people means that at the most, oneiguanno bill, .and nothing will be left
day that government owes them a *^an in twenty, within the prescribed | for the tax collector, he has benn
liMng. It IS the gospel of the New ®8® ®^ letting the govvermoit
Deal administration which for seven i help defend his country I fore-close on the land and then thej^
past.
yores truie,
mike laik, rfd
dirt farmer.
Depressed Conditions Obtain In
Flat Rock
fall weather is in the air at last,
summer has gone the way of all
summers, but the goose ain’t hanging
so high, financial conditions are not
so verry good in flat rock, yore cor-
ry spondent did not get his last well-
fare check and that means no raddio
will whine anny more in his front
parlor-room, it was re-possessed yes
terday.
mr. scudd stukes did not get as
much as he expected for his first
bale of cotton, so that means his ford
will return to the garrage ere long,
he had met 2 payments on same, in
to make 6 bales when he bought it,
but he won’t get but two bales after
all is said and done, it will be right
hard on him to walk.
dr. hubbert green’s collections are
not up to the fall normal, he does a
lot of his practise on creddick, but
other demands are coming in ahead
of his’n. jerry mire burkett told him
last week that it would take all he
made-to pay his honnest detts, and
he would not be able to tetch a doc
tor bill for a long time, his gasso
leen sales are badly off.
been planted to provide food for
war sufferers in Europe. Every town
in the county had its patch of several
acres, teifded by volunteer 'workers,
and tae women began, as soon as the
first vegetables were ready, to can]
them for eventual shipment to Eu
rope.
Our , town’s quota Was five thou
sand cans. Some set their goal at ten
thousand. None of them will make
their quotas for, I understand every
garden in the county was hit by the
frost. Some of us had been wonder
ing, anyway, how the ladies were
going to get their canned goods to
Belgium, France and other places.
ROADS—Unsafe
Except on level prairies and des
ert lands, the roads built by our pio
neer ancestors followed cowpaths or
Indian trails, or ran along the banks
eluding the down, he had expectedL>f streams and lakes. The easiest
mr. holsum moore is worrying
about the taxes on his wife’s farm,
after the crops are all harvested he
says he will lack 14$ paying up his
years
would have to worry about the taxes
ansoforth on it.
has encouraged Americans th®‘ ^omes r^ssary (which we
believe that they all will grow richer 1*^® ®®^ believe vdll happen). \
by wdiking less and producing less/ noting whatever in the
The tederal government, through itsi*®""’ ®^ passed which involves any
rehel agencies, has had a demoral-1®^ the selected trainees risking his
izing effect upon labor (white andi^'^®- set-up i® entirely different
colored) in that it has encouraged' fl‘®*n the crisis of the Wcirld war
millions to look for hand-outs and Nol’ody ‘s gn*ng to be stood up and'growed tobacker and had got 25c for
cniuioviTionl ofliccs rather than en- shot at. These men are not hein^jsame we would of henn well off. fftll
.age m honesT w'nVffir a 1.^ t® ^ut to learn how to, of the year used to be a glorious
All work is honorable. The fellow if ®nd when conditions arise, event but now it is only one disap-
wiKi show's a w'illingness to work is Americans shall a^ain have to{ pointment after another, we hope the
on the hole, we are somewhat em
barrassed all over this section, had
cotton of benn 20c instead of 9c, we
would of benn oJc. or if we had
grades, where it took least power to
haul a load, were preferred by the
early railroad builders. Curves didn’t
make so much difference when
speeds were slower.
MThen we began to build motor
roads most states and counties fol
lowed the old highways, with all
their twists and curves. It is only
within the past ten years that the
systematic elimination of highway
curves has begun. Not until they are
all straightened out will traffic in
modem hi|^-speed care begin to be
safe. Speeding around curves causes
more deaths than any other traffic
hazard.
The same is true of railroads. The
only great railroad accidenMn mofe
than a year occurred oecause an en
gineer look a curve at too high
speed. The late E. H. Harriman once
told me that if he could .spend eight
billion dollars he could make all
railroads safe and double their ca
pacity. We are spending fifteen bil
lions in war preparations. That sum
would make every motor road safe.
W. J. BENJAMIN
SESVICE STATION
Standard I^roducts
Cars WasbMl and GnsMi
Tsar Baaiaaas Appradatai
QUICK RELIEF
far
PERSPIRING FEET
STA-DRI
FOOT LOTION
Cheeks Fersplratfan Sorely
aad Safely.
Pleasant ta Use—
—WUl Not Injure Hooe
Also Exeellent far Under
Ann Use.
35c At y^our Druggist’s
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Our terms and rates are standard.
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But the ^*8ht to preserve their liberties. If
that time comes, unless it should
vntitk-d to employment.
able-bodied person who is offered . . . ^ j
employment and won’t work de- ^ suddenly that we h®ve had
.'Cl ve.s a hard road. For him there is no time for preparation at all, we
will have
die little sympathy if he refuses f considerable b^y ofjning.
.'•eli-helpiulness and goe.s hungry. draftees who have at least been
initiated and have taken, as it were.
elecktion wiU soon be over so’s mr.
roseyvelt, our new pressident, can
get his w.p.a. and .his direct relief
machinery oiled up and back a-run-
A Great Preacher
the first degree in a Soldier’s train
ing.
W had no such trained reserves
yores trulie,
mike lark, rfd,
corry spondent.
Dr. George Washington Truett of .
Dallas. Texas, generally recognized tune the United States went
as the greatest churchman of today, *® war. Young Iwys were sent mto
began a ten days evangelistic meet-,^^® lines in France who had
ing Tuesday in the Charlotte armory, hardly more than half as much pre
Bus Line Operating Here
Wins Nation-Wide Honors
Local officials and employees of
DRIVERS—Careless
After all, no highway is. any safer
than the drivers who run their cars
over it. The smoother the road the
greater the temptation^to speed and
to get careless.. Within five miles of
my house in the past week three
pe9ple have died and five have been
sent to hdspitals because the people
who drove their cars were careless.
The nearest to a foolproof road
that has yet been built is the 'new
Pennsylvania turnpike, stretching
halfway across the state. It follows
the line of an abandoned railroad
for a good part of its length, and
utilizes the railroad tunnels through
onountains to eliminate grades. No
other iroad crosses it except by a
high bridge.
I haven’t heard of an accident yet
on this new road, but the speed limit
1
Share The Joy of
Dr. Truett for the past 43 years hmmary ^ainu^^ eve^ one of the {Atlantic Greyhound cOTporatioti
has been pastor of the First Baptist “®“ ^ • "♦I'l have been receiving congratulatimull® w high as to tem^ the reckless,
church of Dallas, a record in one wUl receive. While th^ is the,jj.^j^ their com- it wouldn’t surprise me any day
church few ministers can match. He i*f*|® i®** building rwerves and P®®“'pany’s winning the naticinai hug to hear of some fool driver swerving
IS a native of Clay County, North an adequate, defense structure maintenance award'off the pavement and tangling up
Carolina. In Dr. Powhatan W. Jones’ ®g®‘®®i tbe possibility of invasion completeness and efficiency in traffic with fatal results.
— — - " now or later—it is no time for war -
book,. “George W. Truett, a Biology
the maintenance of its buses.
he writes: “Georgia first applauded hysteria “<i Announcement of the local Grtf-
him, Texas first utilized him, the I hound company’s victory in the na-
rest’of the world recognized him but s*i»ii‘ty talk heard from Washington
North Carolina yS^ place to “ exa«erat^and t^t a mixture
none 'in pride and appreciation of ®i pniii^cSi thiro-tenn-isn^ aM prop-
her famed son.” .aganda may be detected by those
It has been our privilege several "^^J® .*®®i^ .V*® bruth.
limes t6 hear the distinguwhd' di-{ i* « w®^- however, to make prep-
vine. His sincerity, his forcefulness, • ®*'**J®*' P|®®® ifgitunal® dafioaa
his modest greatness, and his intense • ”®®”*' “ota in equijm^t and men.
SAFETY—Nawhen
Thinking, about all tae ways in < >
earnestness instantly grip his hear
ers and have won him acclaim
throughout the world.
Hearing a Presbyterian layman
speak a ’few nights ago of attending {®® ® “Shting force,
a daymen’s convention this summer! '•
For if the men selected are cyer
called upon to fire atian enemy i\ is
better for them and for'the nation
to have them at least partly trained
in "Montreat and his favorable im-
presaions, reminaed us of Dr. Truett
wh«i he visited t)iis Presbyterian
mecaa a few yea^a!^o. The laiRg
auditorhtfh was padeed to hear tae
speaker, teita hundreds on the out-
8PBC7IAL
Oaai Uattl Navenaber 19, 1M9
LIFE MAGAZOfE-One Taar, ft J9.
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tion-wide competition was made^bich people get busted up ot kUled,|{ ’
when Bus Transportation magazine I’ve about come to the conclusiott|i
presented the first place award to'that there’s no absolutely safe wayff
Atlantic Greyhound oflidals at thajtor any^y to move dqt of his oum
National Association of Motor BuS
Operators’ convention in Chicago,
'bouse. A few nights ago an elderly
neighbor, 82, went out to mail a let-
September 18-20.
This winning mariu the fifth time
Atlantic Gr<^oand has won tae
highest honors for its maintenance
methods utd practices among laffe
inter-city bus operatena. Tha^ met
of 275 buses travels sn svaraga of
90A70 miles, every day ..in the year,
a total of twenty-six milUon lailas
annually.
WE DO ALL KIMDB OF PKDimM
—BZCWTBAE '
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ter at the mailbox across the street.
He’d barely stei^ped off the curb
when be was struck and killed by a
car.
Another ndghbor slipped in front
of the post office and bumped his
head. He died days later. Taft-
ing M»out that sort of aee^its wilb
tay doctor, he shthged me some in
surance statiMica taat
wfon paofiJe aie killsiri dr injured
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