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/ ■ 1 V' -j. '' Vy / Poge IFour THE CLINTON CHRONICIE, CUNTQN. S. C. > % Thursday, 17, Qlltntott CH^rontrlr EsUbUthed IfM WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription..Rate (Payable In Advance): One Year $1.50; Six Months 75 cents; Three Months 50 cents / Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C. The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers— the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. NOBODY'S BUSINESS By GEE McGEE WITH THE PRESS Editorial ComnKNnf From Various Folders. The State of South Carolina. County of Laurens. Court of Common Pleas. SUMMONS. Robert Bailey and Jessie Bailey Pon der, Plaintiffs, them as herein provided, procure to I be appointed a guardian Bd Utem for 'the said minors for the purpoee of said suit. It is further ORDERED t^at this order shall be.served upon said un- i known minor defendants herein oid- CLINTON, S. C.. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 17, 1940 Poor Sportsmanship Good News FVom Flat Rock "LEADERS** IN HIDING' this has benn a verry pleasant One hears of this and that person week in deed for the bizness men who expects to be a candidate for and bizness winunen of flat rock, i governor or senator in 1842. They first, we had a fine looking lady from are persons who will in that year up north who had come down south pretend to be “leader, ot the pa*ple."'t'„*i“ n..t:;S‘R‘.n7rioh;:“S' to buy a curtin, tor the sUge in the why do they not lead cedar (lane schoU audy-torlum. sh' zens in office occaalonally speak out,‘ wi^n sold stane “ads" to be rote on the Uiey are sometimea to'Vonn. Worimmm curting tor 5$-each, the , speak, but'why are the pretender, to i could print annything he wanted on! leadership allow^ to live in the se-1 J it just re it wasrent over 5 wonts, ielusion ot offic or by their «.ug J**!“ „lf; she raised 85$. all told, m our midst.' firesides two or four years and then she was \wry pretty, and being ajgo to and fro in the state roaring ‘rank stranger to us all, it wassentjabout their ‘‘records'7 I much trubble to get the cash. Do the people hear these leaders ^ • expressing themselves now about another agent has benn here allso. I pr^ibition? Or about any subject of Nesbitt Bailey; Hattie Bailey, 5hJ’ ,5?^ own right and as Administratrix of '^® Uye Estate of A. C. Bailey, deceased; der in ^ WilUe Duckett Bailey Gist; Hele|i' newspaper published wwkly ta m Bailey; James Allen Bailey; M»la|Cjty of Clinton, a week for Bailey; Eleanor Nash Bailey James,* ^^ee successive vreeks. ‘ V. R. FLEMING, C. C. C. P. A G. S. [.spread the ideals of American free- _ dom and liberty to all mankind. The,j^g selling kitchen aluminumjintimate concern to the public? The behavior of a number ol spec- society has collected valuable relicshad big success, his cake; Your average South CaroUna poll ley deceased; and all other persons whomsoever, herein collectively designated as John Doe, their names and addresses being unknown to the ^ pUin^ having or claiming to have Joi^‘D<ie7iid''toel?'fiiS;i Laurens County. Laurens, S. C. October 4, 1940. NOTICE TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED and to the unknown minor defendants herein collectively any right, title or interest as devisees, heirs-at-law, or otherwise through or under G. B. Bailey, deceased, or of real estate described in the complaint as containing 94 acres, more or less, about one mile south of Clinton, S. C., Defendants. uitors and players at the Clinton- of Revolutionary days and maintains (priced at 15c at the county seatjtician is a barker dbout his “rwx>rd," j Newberry high school football game a library and museum at Washing- j^e dime stoar) were sold at only!but if there is anything that hi runs here last Thuis-day night was un- ton, D. C. Its membership exceeds he had a big 1$ dishpan away from it is making a record in a lalltHi for and deserves to be con- 150,(M)0. - sacrificed for 2.98$. the wim-ltime like this when the people sorely demned by the public. A repetition The .society works for patriotic ^p^ need advice from leaders. There are of such conduct should not be al- cau.ses and to perpetuate the ideas ^j^g^ freely, of coarse, they newer; exceptions; Colonel Manning for ex- lowcd tor a minute by city law en- of the men who originally fought to^g^ them like bread and bntter is et.i ample has openly opposed the nomi- toi'i’cmcnt otficeis. establish _ the independence of the ^ man, allso a rank stranger, ped~i nation of a candidate for a third While much might be said, suffice United States. The ideals and devo- ^jg^j j^^^g oil to our motorists, term. It to say that the spectacle was one tions of those men who fought 160 jg^ them have it for only 33c a Sp« »4 poor sportsmanship. years ago are needed by the Ameri-, qujjj.t hy the drum of 20 gallons. he'Stroni [can people today, probably more 'than ever before. Thase old patriots ^lefl their homes poorly armed and Spartanburg is supposed to be the quart by the drum of 20 gallons, he •'Stronghold of the latter-day “Ku collected 5$ as a down payment, none Klux Klan,” but has any man in that of them thought to ask him who he i county who holds or would ask forJ . .. . . , was or where he lived, they are still 3 state office opened his lips for or,said complaint on the subscriber at. The "Bike" Gomes? Bock The bicycle, pushed in the back-'equipped, to. give their families the looking for'their*oil. ground for ydars by automobile.s, is blessings of free government. They' ^ staging a strong comeback. Eveiy- were often ragged, poorly fed, with four maggy-zeen girls have worked in the state about the proposal that TO THE UNKNOWN DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer' the com plaint in this action of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your, answer t5 the or testamentary guardian, or guard ians, if' any, and the father, maOitr or preson with whom any or aR of said minor defendants, if any, reside; TAKE NOTICE that the complaint in this action, together with the sum mons, of which the foregoing is a copy, and the order appointing a gnardian ad litem in said action, of which the foregoing is a coj^, wear duly filed in the office of the Clerk of Court ‘for Laurens County at j Laurens, in said County and State, on October 4, 194C. ROBERT S. OWINGSk Plaintiff’s Attorney. '.against it? What are the opinions of leaders his office in the Jacobs Building, Clinton, S. C., within twenty days' after the service hereof, exclusive i of the day of such service, and if w hi rr unt* looks now. whether on (nmilies at home suffering from vv^gy thru colledge in* flat rock.'the Santee-Cooper project be deliv . school grounds or on the streets,/the want, but they fought on and on to ^id man bert skinner, the widdower,iered to the national government, now.you fail to answer the complaint bicycle is mtm- popular than ever create by their work a new form of, bought 17 maggy-zeens, that is—he i that it is advertised by its friends as'within the time aforesaid the plain- before in Its history. Around the government. Well may the memory 3$ down payment on each'a “national defense’’? [tiffs in this action will apply to the school houses leaning in rows will of such men be honored, and their{pf them, but he says he newer will! The late Captain B. R. Tillman 1 Court for relief demanded in the be found “bikes owned and u.sed by purposes emulated. .send the ballance* of the monney to I sprang suddenly into the political i complaint. children in getting to and from their interesting event, indeed, was [the printers apd order same, he* said! arena in Bennettsville in August,. ROBERT S. OWEINS, schools. On the streets men and back history’s pages last .the girls were so pretty and dressed! 1885. It was not until the autumn ofj Plaintiffs Attorney. and in many places throughout the jn pageantry the growth of the na-^coulddent help but see that they<emor by the Democratic convention ^ountry ridin.g clubs_ have been or- society. Daughters of the j went to coledge, they were strangers j—but the five years preceding his ganized. American Revolution sinc4 it was}allso. nomination he was addressing the .No less an authority than the fed- founded in the nation’s capital on| * — t people, on the stump, in conventions, ei al census bureau says^ more ^>P'c October 11. 1890. and to give a clear j mr. aiken head bought hisself a in other assemblies, and in letters to newspapers. He wrote scores of let ters to The News and Courier. The writer of this article always opposed September 19 1938. ORDER On reading and filing the foregoing petition of the plaintiffs herein for the appointment of R. L. Gray^as guardian ad litem for the unknown minor defendants, if any, herein col- him, but, looking back to those days, i lectively designate as John Doe, for We Finance AUTOMOBILES S. W. SUMERE Jacobs Building ;uc riding the vehicle of the sprocket pi'esentation of its aims and purposes 1 pair of hand-made shoes from a shoe and handlebars than .since the day future. [agent for only 9$. but he paid only just about 100 years ago when a 15^ down on same, the man will have S«-ntish blacksmith named MacMil- —/\r\/\ n • jto go back hqjne and make them, he , _ Ian applied driving levers to an old 16,500,000 KcgiStCr [says he got a bargain, dfe they are I it remembers him as a leader not as [the purposes of said action, and the dAbonc-shaking contraption called a^ community throughout of gorilla hide, so the agent j a hide-artd-seek, slippery, pussyfoot-j consent of the said R. L. Gray there- ceienpede. , united States voune men be-'said, sevverdl other out-of-town ped-iing politician. There was no question j under written, and it appearing that Last year, the census bureau .says, . .. |dlers and shysters vissited us recent-'upon which he hesitated to express the names and addresses of said min- 1.2.52.029 bicycles were manufactur-• vesferdav for militarv servi^ 'y* 3”^ ^^ey are still a-coming. we!publicly an opinion. )ors, whether • residents or non-resi- ed in the United States^ Their valueregi.straUon ever’aH enjoy helping someboddy awayi Many a year has pasi^ since first dents of this State, are unknoAvn to IS placed at $22,449,000. That ^o^al, America at neace flat rock who newer helps us we heard Captain Tillman speak, was higher than the previous record tlS 16 500.00? draf ‘n flat rock . [since he aroused our antagonism, but > we have lived to see the day that we j wish he were here again, in his prime, to present a contrast with theiof the said minor defendants in said, [kind of politicians that now infest;action, has no interest therein ad-j ’the state—and this we say althoughtverse to said minors, and is not con-; it is not unlikely that he would run j nected in business with the plaintiffs ;ioughshod over our friends as he did jin said action, or their attorneys; ! i am riling in behalff of my son, i in the ’nineties.—The News and Cou- a is ORDERED: j judd lark l^e wants to be the new;rier. ^ I ^hat the said R. L. Gray be and is, postimaster when you get eecktedi ^ jj^greby designated and appointed next Mveml^r. he is reliable AlDBriCa rlfSt [guardian ad litem for the Mid un-! compertent, fi«ni.shed the 8th grade q Ashton Oldham, Bishop of the’known minor defendants, if any,j it Looks Like Flat Rock Will Have A New Postmaster hon. windell willkie, c o the utility magnet’s offis, new york citty. \ deer sir: and then took up a mail coarse and studdied ever night till the carry- seen in the lamp burnt out. he can read and cite and figger as fast as army man in flat rock. which has stood from 1899, — — ^ , height of the horse and buggy days, when 1,182.691 bicycles Were built. ^he day and await the More adults are riding bicycles f ^he gigantic lottery that lor pleasure and.exercLse. They are will determine which of them must fine for the muscles and have the'^P^"^ « niilitary camps, added advantage of being much To complete the big registration cheaper and safer than automobiles.(task one million felJow-Americans All of this is important at a time wrote on the registration cards in- when a premium needs to be put on formation about each young man. By physical ftiness. Hail to the bike in nine o’clock last night the country .staging a popular comeback. 'had inventoried its resources in ^ [young man power as provided in the "TL Din 'con.scription act. I rlG KCQI UongCr Jj. something entirely new The greatest danger the United in peace time. Had some one sv»g- States faces in liKiking forward tolgested last October that a year hence jxts.sible war, is not the destruction millions of young men under com- ot profierty and lives, the enormous pulsion would be lining-up for con- burdens of taxation which our people scription, the person making the woiiid have to pay. w'in or lose, as statement would have attracted bad as these are. little attention. But October, 1940, What we stand to lose is individual sees the possibility turned into a liberty, whether we win the next reality with the first phase of a new...„. v ...uv.. 1 . . . . . war or are deifeated. military order enacted throughout j attention to,his job. he works a crop 1 wounded world like Kvery time we have taken part in the nation. [near the post offis and hoes and'® K..i tr, any war we have lo.st some of the It is expected, we are told from'plows in it till the mail man drives ” splendid isolation, hut in liberties which we had cherished. Washington, that the next congressjup with the male poutch. then he j cwperation, and some which we never fully re- will lower the age limit to 18 so that:opens the male and delivers what the . . 'P arrogance, and dis- gained. young men coming out of high school,folks calls for. reads all of the postal ft is necessary, it a war is to be will do a year’s military training cards and then goes back to fanning.. sympathy, love, and understand- conducted successfully, that the without disrupting their economic f m i • t a- • la whole national life shall be geared life 3s will likely often occur under; if you give judd’ lark this post| yeading again the o , into the war machine. Ihere must the present regulations. master’s ship, he will give fill of his pathway which ends be a central authority, with power - .’time to the offis, he will swJep it out j to make and carry out rules by which -|-i ri la ij twice 4 week instead of once a month i*”] th. vvhol.. populace must abide. WHot The Flog MconS '!.nd be will wash the winder, -^er-e’s 00-1^1^10-take a vote-ofi 'Tluring tB^e' days'of universal i post offis and will allso provide some Jerusalem wnere,! the plaintiffs, and cannot with reas onable diligence be ascertained, and that the said R. L.‘Gray is competent fo understand and -protect the rights REAL ESTATE FIEE aird LIFE INSUR^CE LOANS FINANCED ON REAL ESTATE B.H.B0YD Telephone No. 6 Clinton, S. Protestant Episcopal Church. Not merely in matters material, but in things of the spirit. Not merely in science, inventions, motors and skyscrapers, but also in iudd lark can swine a bie vote for principles, character, nlv Not merely in the calm assertion you in ildt’ rocic. tne mdn you oowj - *,3<*w4« w««4 •»« have here as postmaster is tied down,®} assumption with the hatch bill, he can’t even tell i ” „ 00 « noboddy that he i, *oin to vote to,,..'*”' mr. rorey-velt. he don’t pay much ‘‘f" ' ^ helptulneaa herein collectively designated asi John Doe, and authorized to appear;, and defend said action on behalf ofj said minors, unless the said minors,' if any, or either of them, or someone j in behalf of th^m, or either of them,j shall within twenty days after thej service of a copy of the order upon, Dr. Felder Smifii Dr. Duncan S. FeMer OPTOMETRISTS Specialists In Eye«Exaininations* Office Honrs: Dr. Swthh, DmUy. 4:15 to 6. Dr. Felder, Daily, S:30 to 6. Phone 29 for ApptHntmeiit' CLINTON, a C Auto Loans! « will loan you money on your car or refinance your car for you. Our terms and rates are standard. TIMMEkMAN MOTOR CO. CHRYSLER — PLYMOUTH Phone 119 Salfc and^rvlce Clinton. S. C. I that path — uritess wc are to lapse once again into utter barbarism—and \ that honor I covet for my beloved ’ America. And so, in that spirit and with w hether to do without .sugar or gaso- chaos when patriotic talks are heard [spittoons in the lobby and thereby'rT,..ct t=,ir* line, or coal. When there’s a war on. often and the words of that popular N^ave the walls and letter boxes, no-j^^^^ ...... the government takes command of song "God feless America” ring the boddy knows how he got Jhe job in the jx'ople’s liberties—for the, time nation over, it is well for us to real- the first place, as you know, dimmer- Being 'i^e that the flag is the supreme crats do not sell offises. he has benn That *; the real point of danger, guarantee of human welfare and'called a non-compost-mentis, and • For the time being” is too. apt to liberty. - that’s bad. i am referring to the ‘‘i “‘“wUh*all mv heart[ be stretched into ‘forever” as the Nothing we might attempt to write'pressent p.m. and not to judd lark. ‘ .onl ‘‘Amprirn First” ^ ^ trend ot recent years has shown, to envision what the flag might say “ ! ’ . ^ There were war measures enacted in could it speak would carry with it judd lark is a world war vettran. 1 /jive BLOOD TESTS ' 1917 and 1918. intended to be u.sed such impressiveness as these stirring fought flies and muskeeters at, _ rj>iirpns eonntv hpalth Henart-ri ..nly lor the ixn,Ki m the emergenry words recently written by A. W.'camp tockson without a maek. P I w hich have ne\er been repealed and Hawkes. president of the Congoleum- was a private but was in line to be-j . . , . . a are still on the statute books. Almost Nairn company: come a genneral on the day that thej , * conscrintion on each Tues- - all war statutes infringe to some -i, as your flag, represent true de-'ka-zer lit a rag in holland. he was’^ ^ degree ujxin peace-time rights of mociacy in the representative form.'citted from bravery, he ketched a citizen'^ It is never easy to get men i am only 163 years old, but before mule which got a-loose in the kitch- in ixiwei to let go of the right to j took form and became a reality, icn by hisself and rode it bare-back dictate to the people, after the war millions of people throughout the'to the mule bam. use judd if you can necessity for .such-dictation has pass- world had given up their lives try- in the flat rock offis; if you have a ed The tendency now', more than ing to give me birth . . . bigger place fof him, give that to ever before, is toward centralized ‘if you would not fail me, you will'him. he can leave here on short no-! government, regulation and control preserve me in what I represent for'tis, as he do not own annything. day between the hours of 9:30 and 2 o’clock at the city clerk’s office. Beware Coughs from common colds Hang On Cnomulsion relieves promptly be- caaae It foes right to the' seat of the i i trouble to help loosen and expel germ < ? laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe i and h^ raw, tender inflamed bronchial - . , •»-- -- : — ' mucous membranes. Tell your druggist doing this as a nation in the belief the opportunity for individual ac- life MAGAZINE One Tear. $2,5#. to sell a bottle of Creomulsion with n ..... .w,.,,. „ w . . the understanding you must like the waj It quickly allays the cough or you are to lunre four iponey back. [ *. CREOMULSIOKI For Conglis, Qiosf CoMs, InMckitis ol everything and everybody from you and those to follow. Your work Washington. Such power the New in preserving me is only the fulfill- Dealers crave and have usurped to ment of your obligation to principle them.selve.s. and justice and those who created We are preparing for war, spend- nie for you. They gave to you, ing millions of dollars daily. We are through me, liberty and freedom and yores trulie, mike ’lark, rfd, corry spondent. SPECIAL Good Until November 1#. 1940 that we may have to fight* to save complishment—fair reward for ser democracy. We miLst beware lest we vices and the protection of the law lose it in trying to save it. in the rightful enjoyment of prop-, ♦ 'erty legally acquir^. D a 0 you with this thought: I,| . M. R. VjOiacn JUDII66 your, flag, will* mean just what you' The nationarscx*iety of the Daugh- make me mean. I will stand for you, ters of the American Revolution has and what you are and what you do. I ju.st observed its fiftieth birthday.i can be no more and po less than! anniversary with a golden jubilee [the representative of your character,' celebration in Washington. [courage and nobility of purpose. Ij This society, national in ^scope, hope you will never forsake the! with a chapter in Clinton, was or-jthings I stand for and I hope your; ganized in 1890 and includes in its acts will enable me always to hold JAMES W. CALDWELL CaU 276 TYPEWRITERS ' Autkerised Underwoed Dealer. Cleaaing and repairing all makea, reasenable ckargea. Kenneth N. Baker Phene S66 membership American women who trace their ancestry from soldiers, sailors, and other patriots who help ed the American colonies win free dom from England. The aims of the organization are threefold; to keep alive the memory and spirit of the men and women who won American Independence*, to my head high any place on earth, proceeding always in the interest of justice, in the support of the will of God on earth, and in promoting the development of mankind in rightful happiness. “May you never forget your obli gation in return for your privileges— and remember, 1 shall be wiffi you WALKER’S FUNERAL HOME 8* c* FOR COlibRID PROTLI ONLY DV help institutions of learning; and to always, if you make me stay.' Gray Funeral \ B'me V Clinton. S. C. FUNERAL niREC^'ORS EMBALMERS Aabolaarc !Wr« lre PlMMa 41 aad m-1 L. RVSSBLL GRAY and “OWN YOUR OWN HOME” VOU CAN ACT FAST ... WITH A “LOCAL” LOAM When you find the houffe^you want to buy, (h* decide upon the kind you want to build, come to this local insti tution for a **qalck action** home rann! 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