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T ^4 ■’ * \- >\. Poge Six 7. THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. / Thursday, November 7» 1940 WEST CLINTON PERSONAL AND SOCIAL NEWS IfRS. JOE CAMPBELL, Correspondent I local hospital wher^ he underwent] I an operation last Sunday. Margaret Ruth Blease has the tlu. J H. Whitmire has b*en ill «^v-|pjg jg I Ten Passengers • eral days. . , , , Mrs. Mary Madden is -a patient at Mr and Mrs. L. J. Smith and'jj^g hospiUl. son, Joe Carroll, of Tucapau, spent g j Campbell has been ill the Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Marcell Liner Strikes Peak In Fog. Faulty Beam Is Blamed For Disaster. GENERAL SESSIONS COURT NEXT WEEK With Rescue Party on Bountiful The November term of general ses sions couift will open in Laureiis next Monday with Judge G. Duncan Bel linger of Columbia, presiding. The list of petit jurjmven drawn by townships follows: Laurens township: Hugh Rountree, Clyde Jones, James Fuller, James j^lessrs. J. W. Chastain and Joe Bums of Laurens, Misses Fannie Turner and Laura Foster, and Mrs. ounaay wiin ivir. ana mrs. maitcii week. S. C. Foster were visitors in Gaston- Barker. , ]^j.g Dewey Cogdill is ill on Jaqk- ia, N. C., Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. B. B. McClimon' son street. Mi.sses Mildred Windsor and Fan- and Mrs. T. M. Dillard and children: ^ me Turner and Mrs. D. F. Lanford of Greer, visited Mrs. J. J. Smith j Marriages spent Mdnday with Bill Lanford, Sunday. ! A'marriage of much interest was Peak, Utah, Nov. 4.—A United Lines jW. Adams, Roy Walker and Frank who is a patient at the Laurens hos- Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Evans and that of Miss Venice Sanders and I mainliner carried ten persons to pital. daughter, Margaret, Mr. and Mrs.!Charles O. Tucker, solemnized Sat-^death early today when it crashed] Hunter township: J. W. Craig, W. Mrs. Pearl Snelgrove and daugh-jL. M .Evans and Miss Carrie Bell.urday evening, Nov. 1 at the bride’s]into a mountainside during a snow-j^- O’Shields, H. M. Willingham, Lloyd ters, Mrs. Ozie Mae McKissick andjEvans visited relatives in Greenville * home, by the Rev. R. D. Hughes, i storm. Adair, C. W. Cooper, L. H. Francis, little daughter. Norma, and Guynell j Sunday. .the officating minister. I Riding a faulty navigation beam,!?' f Dominick and and Earl Payne attended the New-j and Mrs. Harlie Skelton and I members of the immediate | the plane thundered into snow-cov-j ‘ berry fair Friday night. (children and Miss Lollie Huff of families and a few close friends jered Bountiful peak at 7,000 feet, . W. -l^ite, Mrs. Sidney Scott of Ware Shoak. 15 visited Mr. and Mrs.,. when it was only eighteen miles from p 7^ and Mrs. Jack Hunnicut of Gold- Skelton Sunday attired in a cos- Salt Lake City airport. !«• L. Gray, Jr., R. F. HeUams, M. W. ville, were guests of their .sister, runningham and The plane left San Francisco last!ki e ^/t^S home sessories. night for New York and apparently i Sam r^^m^ths with Tucker is the only daughteristruck the mountain about 7 a. and M. G. Par- ral mont ith ^ Sanders of (Eastern Standard Time) or sixteen] ^ ^ this city. Until her marriage she held minutes after Pilot Howard Fey re- •t- a position in Ware Shoals. j ported to the Salt Lake City airport. sons. Waterloo: Arthur Stevenson. Sullivan: W. B. HeUams, W. M. Pitts, Broadus Knight and W. B. Snyder. Jacks: Carl Henderson and Clyde BaUew. ScufTletown: D. M. McClintock. Mrs. George Cunr children have returne after spending severs Mrs. David Owens, Sunday. ' Mr. and ihrs. Cecil Wooten and children, and Mr ^Mrs R C. Spartanburg. Oxner and children visited Carl „ „ jame.s in Central Sunday. E. B. Davis and Bud Owens at- Cecil Young of Fort Bragg, visit- WE DO ALL KINDS OF PRINTING, —EXCEPT BAD CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. We Finance AUTOMOBILES S. W. SUMEREL Jaeobs Buildiaar ed his sister, Mrs. C. W. Windsor? Mr. Tucker is the son of Mr. and ten - . , ,, , , miles southwest of Bountifuli tended the singing convention in and Mr. Windsor, Monday. Mrs. J. R. Tucker of this city and peak, that he was going to try to' Pacolet Sunday. | Miss Mary Jane Stockman visited, is connected with the city water and (pierce a fog and come in for a land-j Mrs. Colie Bridwell of Asheville, j her sister, Mrs. Lloyd Watkins, in | light plant. jing. j N. C.. spent the week-end with her Laurens Sunday. 1 For the present they are making! Failure of the radio beam Fey was parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L .Maddox. Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Long and*^^®**" with Mrs. Tucker’s par-'using fcr his instrument landing was Mr. and Mrs. D. V. W’right andipj.^^^ Long and Miss Inez Lowry of ®uts. (given lU the probable cause of the' Mr. and Mrs. Colie Campbell visited■ were the week-end ~ ^ _ (crash Bradley-Deadwyler Of interest to friends in Newberry of — were the week-end Mrs. Dora Lambert in Gastonia, N. guests of Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Long. ^ Rev.^^Mrs. R .W,^ustice of At-' Clinton was the wedding lama, visited. Mr. and Mrs.- .^iMiss Mildred Bradley .of Newberry Diinawav Sunday.^ --- o * .^and Frank Deadwyler of this city, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Attaway and|(which took place Saturday afternoon <hildren spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Kernels and | at the home of Rev. Brooks, the 6f- Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Attaway in New-j children spent the week-end with: fixating minister. by C. V. Hall, United Air] Lines vice president in charge of j operations. Hall said only half the* regular navigation signal was com- ( ing through and this probably would, (lead Fey into the mountains. ( Wreckage of the plane was sight-i ed from the air shortly before noon.] But it was not. until hours later thati berry. While tiiere they attended the Mr-and Mrs. Will S^ples. I Only a tew close friends and rela-j a ground party, trudging throughi fair - ' Mrs. S. L. Long attended a b'rth- tives were present. leight inches ot heavy, iet snow ^ M- J J* • • ' iiiLiica L»j iicdvv, wci aiiuw ana Mr, and Mrs, Ott Thomas and fam- day dinner given m honor of her | Mr. and Mrs. Deadwyler are mak-1 up the steep mountainside reached ily visited A. B. Thomas in Colum-, niother, Mrs. Lizzie Jennings, who mg their home with Mrs. Viola Smith the scene. bus, Ga., the past week-end. i^as celebrating her 83rd birthday,jon Academy street. Mr. and Mrs. Berry Trammell and Sunday in Greenwood. , ^ son.';, Henry and Huston, visited Mrs. l ^ Mrs. Molhe ^lley and Mrs. Be^ie^ Hallowe’en Party First to arrive was a party led by Dick Sperry of Salt Lake City. He, said the bodies of Fey and Sander- Trammell’s mother, Mrs. W. R. Bag- Nelson of Lanford Station, spent ^e' Friday evening Miss Marie Igren were found twenty-five feet in SinfE50%« • to7S« ON you FOEl COSTS well, in Moores Sunday. ' week-end with their sister, Mrs. .Weir entertained her Sunday school I front of the plane. They had been Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Barker, Elja akkU++- ^ Hallowe’en party. About,hurled through the wreckage as thel Talmadge Sanders and Miss'Dorothy I Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Abbo^^tra ’gjgjj^ggj^ costumed children gathered iship struck with terrific force. ' Barker accompanied Mr. and Mrs.'children and Miss Mildred Arnold The othe bodies, mangled, were in- Joe Word to their home in Green-^ visited relatives in Belton Sunday, colors of the season. side the cabin. \iood Sunday. k ® m ^ games were played and] The twin engines of the craft were, K. H. Thomas visited. relatives in F^'dgar vvnii-were awarded the winners. driven through the wings. One wing, Bes.semcr City. N. C.. the past week- sel^ Monday. ^ ^ ' After the games the guests were was ripped off. *1710 fuselage was Metres to nto.j wnshestdt/hev ” cotp MHWIKS tnd. Mr. ana Mrs. E. L. Smith of invited into the dining room where broken in two. Mr. and Mr;^. Copieland Adair of Greenville, visited Mrs. J. S. Smith j.gfj.ggj,^j^gj^^g served. i The plane hit the peak at the Greenville, visited Mrs. Adair’s Pa^- Sunday_ lyjigg ^^g assisted in en-lheight of the first full-fledged snow* ents, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Hughes,i of the CC^C camp^m |tgj.taming by her sister, Mrs, David storm of the winter in this area. Iti had been snowing since yesterday, morning. Temperatures aloft were i below zero. Other pilots said a Sunday. *5, ''ifparents, wr^rd and Miss Nora Cannon Miss Frances Bouknight of Chester, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Elledge. | was the week-end guest of her sister. W- T. Norrell visited relatives ini Shower For Miss Cole Mrs. Hall King. j r. j i. < On Saturday evening Mrs. Theo-i strong wind was blowing. i Clarence Bull of Spartanburg, is^ Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rodelsi^rger, jjQj.g Queen, delightfully entertained] Hall said that civil aeronautics visiting his uncle, J. R. Williamson. and sons of Uiuori, were week-end ^ friends and relatives j board radio technicians “monitored”! Mrs. Florence Lawson visited her I guests of Mrs. ^delsperger s i^ioth-1 ^jgg Grace Cole. The (the beam at 6:24 a. m. and found' daughter. Mrs. Pearl Grogans, iujer- Mrs- S. \y\ Kmard. ^ guests were invited into the living (it functioning perfectly. The next United Air Line plane to approach PRATHER.SIMPSON FURiOTURE COMPANY W. Kinard. _ Cross Anchor the past week-end. ( Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Southerland i where games and contests were Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Dominick and Greenville, were visitors the P^st jThose winning in bingo children spent the week-end with, week-end of Mr. wd Mrs. J. H. Seay. |^gj.g Mrs, Ella Harvey and Mrs. relatives in Prosperity. j Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Whitsel ^nd, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Cannon and son, Kenneth, spent the week-end Miss Cole received many useful children and Mr. and Mrs. CecU with Mrs. Whitsel’s sister, Mrs. Walker and son, Larry, visited Mrs.}barker, in Greenville. Lillie Hastings in Greenwood Sun-1 Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Foster of jjay . Whitmire, visited Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Dunaway visited' duster the past week-end gifts. Refreshments were served by the hostess, assisted by Mrs. Joe Campbell. Several months ago Miss Cole re ceived severe bums about the face Mrs. Dunaway’s parents, Mr. andi Mrs. L. C. Elledge and daughter oflgj^jj gjjg became a patient at the Bap- Mrs. Jim Lawson near Cross Anchor Greenville, spent Sunday with Mr. hospital in Columbia Sunday Sunday. jand Mrs. C. E. TOedge. (where she will undergo an opera- J. R. Williamson and Mr. and, Mr, and Mrs. Donnie Womble vis-Ijiqj^ Mrs. Charlie Bull attended the fun-,jted relatives in Greenwood Sunday.] ' ‘ eral of Mrs. Clarence Bull in Jef-' Alfred Barbery of Fort Benning, j Mrs. Grace S. Wright ferson Sunday. vi&iting his parents, Mr. and] Mrs. Grace Simmons Wright, 22, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Ward of Green- Mrs. J. H. Barbery. [wife of Jack Wright, died after sev- wood, visited Mrs. Ward’s parents,' Mrs. J. T. ^key spent several days gj-gj months of declining health. She Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Barker the past Belton with Mr. and Mrs. C. C. week-end. Tollison the past week. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Sanders and' Charlie Barbery has reenisted in family visited their son and daugh-'lhe army and is stationed at Fort ler-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Sand-1 Henning, Ga. ers in Spartanburg Sunday. ' Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Foster and Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Braswell and. children visited relatives in Green- children visited Mrs. Braswell’s par- j ville Saturday. ents, Mr. and Mrs. George Brown in Mrs. Ursula Blakely had as her Greenwood Sunday. Mrs. Maxie Miss Nell Canfield visited her aunt, I Hlakely and little daughter, Faye Mrs. Huey Henton, in Greenwood the;^^®”* Spartanburg, past week-end. \ Mrs. Joe Teiyy and son, William, Mr. and Mrs. Thornton MeadorV visited relatives in Greenwood Sat- and son, Harold; and Mr. and Mrs.\'"'<**y-^ 7 Walter Meadors visited Mr. and|\ Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Sanders and on visited Mrs. Sanders’ parents, r. and Mrs. J. C. Burnette, in Spar- nburg for the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. George Slice of New- rry, were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Woodard. yoJttUrrr Mts9iy M. Meadors in Lancaster Mrs. P. Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. James Creswell granddaughter, Joyce, spent week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Creswell in Abbeville. was a native of Greenville county, logical’ conditions but had made her home in Clinton for the past eight years. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Simmons. She was a member of ^ Calvary Baptist church. She is sur--! vived by her husband and lour small children. Jack Wright, Jr., Ansel L., Bobbie Nell, and Joyce Elizabeth Wright; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Simmons. Funeral services were held Sun day afternoon at 3 o’clock at the Pentacostal Holiness church, Rev. R, D. Hughes in charge assisted by Rev. R. H. Gause. Interment was in Cal vary cemetery. Salt Lake valley at 7:35 a. m, re ported the beam was irregular. The CAB monitored the beam again at 7:35 a. m., confirmed the irregulari ty and issued a warning to pilots 1 not to depend^on it. i “During the interval between his j last report and the time the beam I was reported irregular. Fey dropped ( down through the clouds, trying to' use the radio approach to land,”! Hall reported. “It was faulty and j this apparently led him into the * mountainside.” i Aviation authorities in Washington i explained that irregularities in the! beam were frequent in Salt Lake valley because of peculiar metero- NOTICE! B^[inning Novjembo* 15,1940 The Commercial Bank (UQUIDATING) W31 Make a Distribution of 10% to Depositors H. D. HENRY, Conso'vator A ^ thgl M. Leonard Bishop and Edward Big- Jo® Terry, Jr., and Billie Snel^ove P. C. WINS OVER MERCER, 3 TO 2 Albany, Ga., Nov. 2.—A field goal bee attended the Circus in Green-^ ^Hended the funeral of Mrs. Minnie in* the 59th minute of play by I right halfback Frank Sutton Friday wood Saturday. j Byers in Greenwood Sunday. ^ Mr. and Mrs. Grange Campbell and Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Pruitt and Mr. earned a 3-2 verdict for the lion, Silas, and Mrs. Charlie Garrett i and Mrs. W. R. Miiller of Laurens, i stocking gridiron were Sunday visitors of Mr. and (visited Mrs. Floy ce Bell Sunday.^ (aggregation over a favored Mercer Mrs. Robert Herring in Laurens. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Stewart and | Bright and Joanne Chandler of Tuca- children and Mr. and Mrs. Joe'Pan.. visitejl Miss Marie Weir last Misses Mary Ahce and Shirley on a fog-shrouded. Campbell and children yisited their'week-end. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. We^ grandmother, Mrs. E. T. Thornton, Miss Weir accompanied them in Enoree Sunday. home for the day on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Word and Mr. 1 - ^ and Mrs. David Word vis,ited rela-! Birthdays and Anniversaries tives in Lyman Sunday. Richard Foster celebrated hisi rain-soaked field in Albany The score climaxed a drive from; Presbyterian’s own 45. Sutton and quarterback Dick Meisky alternated in line bucks and passes to work the ball to the Mercer 25, where Sutton was thrown for a five-yard loss. A Miss Virginia Smith visited her birthday Sunday, Nov. 3^ Also Mary parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Smith, in Bamberg the past week-end. WALKER’S FUNERAL HOME Clinton, S. C. FOR COLORED PEOPLE ONLY Day 9280—^PhMiea—Night 119 Rev. H. W. Walker, Manager pass, however, clicked, and put the TYPEWRITER RIBBONS For All Make Machinea, Standard and Portable. ADDING MACHINE RIS- BONS ADDING MACHINB PAPER Can 74 duronicle Pdb. Co Martha Foster, Mildred Arnold and Guynell Payne observed their birth day Tuesday, Nov. 5. November 12 is the birthday of j Miss Frances Abbott, j Carolyn Dunaway, small daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Dunaway, jwas one year old Wednesday, Nov. i®’ , November 11 is the birthday of Mrs. Joe Campbell and Mildred Brazill. Mrs. Gertrude Todd celebrated her (birthday today, Nov. 7. Mrs. Brooks Dimaway will observe her birthday Nov. 9. ' ► D. M. Sanders* birthday is Sunday, Nov. 10. David Word celebrated his birth day, Nov. 4, Tomorrow, Nov. 8, is Ott Thomas’ birthday. November 1 was the birthday of Richard Riser. Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Tinsley cele brated their sixth wedding anniver sary yesterday, Nov. 0. Sieh Mrs. Woodrow Wikoo is ill at her bone-on Jcflnwm street MDtoo Is a patient at the ball on Mercer’s 17. Two more pass es— Meisky to Sutton—fcarried the ball to the five-yard stripe, where Mercer held, ahd on murth down Sutton dropp^ bade, and with Meis ky holding the ball, booted it through the uplifts. Mercer’s two points were gained mid-way of the second period when a pass to Meisky in the end zone be came a safety. The first operation for appendi citis was performed at Denver, CoL, in 1885. Dr. Felder Snith Dr. DmeM S. FeMer OPTOMEfRISTB Spedalisto In Eye Examinatfons Ofliee Bowa: Dr. Snttb, Daily, 4:1ft to f. Dr. fMder, Dally, 109 to t. PhoM 29 for AppointaMBt cLonoN, a c. •Sum yan^ intonated wkeB A TRUCK THAT FITS YOUR JOB SAVES YOU MONEY / iMMlfar itoSM 4 D*4s« betMi 112 st—lira urnrmmt*. 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