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Volume XLI
Clinton, S. C., Thursdoy, November 20, 1941
Number 47
COUNTY FARM IS
WELLMANA6ED
\ Intelligent Effort Has
Worked Wonders In
Improving Home For
Indigent.
Laurens, Nov. -8. —The Laurens
countj home and farm, located sev
eral miles east of the city, can no
longer be listed as the “poor house”,
for the indigent as it was known
many years ago before the name was
cibnged.
The farm tract of S50 acres, with
170 in cultivation, offers a fair ex
ample of what can be d(me throu^
the applicaticm of soil conservation
methods, plus intelligent manage
ment. It is a worthwhile demonstra
tion of the better farm living formu
la sponsor^ by the agriculture de
partment, local and national
.Fall maturing crops consisting of
850 budiels of com, sweet potatoes
and Aunrtant yields of peavina and
lespedeza hay, an fc^ home use, have
bam harvested. No cotton is grown
on the place. I^ast si»ing and sum
mer 387 bushels of wheat, 633 budi-
els of oats and a large yield of win
ter barley were housed, enough to
suiq;>ly the needs of the home col
ony, with an average of about 20
inmates per month, with some to be
shared by the primn camp contin
gent. Special attention ie given to
producing meat supplies, milk and
butter. ExceUent breeds of hogs are
raised, twelve of which wUl soon be
c<mverted into pork.
J. O. Stribling, superintendent,
who has managed the institutlmi for
toe last four years, lives in a com
fortable cottage near the inmates'
home, which is also well arranged
for toe purpose. Separate houstog
fedlffies are provided for Negro
^uirges. The superintendent is as
sisted by his wife and some of toe
home colony in looking after toe
welfare of the inmates. Mr. Stribling
holds religious services with them
at intervals, apd when there is a
funeral he conducts the rites at the
local graveya^ if other ptaas ere
not provided
Without waiting longpr for rain,
toe auperintaodsst had 16 acres sown,
to whi^ toariey'endfO acres to osto
latt we^ In addition to preparing
fbr bk erbeet quota. A 24-diac
harrow and tractor from the road
de|>ertinent was used in preparing
land. A grain and fertilizer drill,
mule drawn, finished off the Job.
The fields here referred to, for the
most part, were redeemed frmn a
bad state of erosion and a growth
of scrub, trees and the like. Fifteen
of terraces, run up by CCC
authorities, is toe answer, plus a sys
tem of crop rotation.
Superintendent Stribling operates
the place on a budget provided by
tiie legislative delegation, and usual
ly turns in a portion of this at the
end of the year.
FINE SHOWING IN
ROLL CALL DRIVE
The annual Red Cross Roll Call for
' the Clinton-Ctoldvllle chapter is off
to a fine start with all workers in toe
ftehl receiving an enthusiastic re
sponse everywhere.
The chapter’s quota has been set
at v^to indications that it wQl
be seetoed within the next few days.
Up to yegterday more than $600 had
been turned in to Treasurer W. H.
Simpson, practically all of vtokto
i represents member^ps in toe city
proper. This^amount does not include
reports from toe Lydia and CUnton
mIUs, Joanna Textile Mills, Qold-
vilto, toe rural sections, sdiools and
institutions. The committees at wmk
in these areas are meeting with a
generous response and when all re
ports are *10 it is expected tiiat an
excellent showing will have been
made.
The drive this year is sponsored
by the local Kiwanis club wito J. H.
Pitts, Jr., as general chairman, as
sisted by a large group of interested
assn a^ women. Chairman Pitts
urges all \iyorlMCT. to push to^ work
to a completion as soon as possible
in tiie hope that the set goal for toe
community win be oversubscribed by
a large margin.
You am invited, if yot have not
already 'dtme so—to Join the Red
Cross through yom local chepter.
LOCAL BOAKD TO
SEND FIVE MEN
TO FORT JACKSON
Clinton draft board No. 50 has re-
.esieed a caU for five white rsgiB-
trsmts to rq>ort to Fort Jadcson,
somy induction station, <» Wednes
day, November 16. No call tor No
vember had b(Mn expected until this
mxler was received a few days ago.
The men sdected by the bpenl are:
Ithie Wayne Harvey, Clinton.
Lewis Edward Timley, Kinards.
James Lewis Wblls, Ware Shoals.
Frederick Imeto Boiter, Honea
PattL
David KirkssF Snelgrove^ Clinton.
NEW KIWANIS'HEAD
HISrOltY OF HOPEWEL METHODIST CHUOCH
E. HARRY WILKES
E. Harry Wilkes, manager of Max-
weU Bros. & Kinard Furniture store
of this city, was elected president of
the Clinton Kiwanis club for toe
coming year at the club’s regidar
meeting held Thursday evening. Mr.
Wilkes, popularly known to the club
as “Harry,” has been an active mem
ber of the organization for several
years.
The retiring president, William A.
Moorhead of Goldville, under whose i
leadership the club is closing a suc
cessful year, automatically becomes!
vice-president and a member of the
board of directors.
The folloMFing board of directors
was elected to serve with the officers:
Dr. J(dm G. Bardm, Ratcfatord W.
Boland, Joe Delaney, Robert D.
Lynn, Dennis Q. Sowers, J. Hubert
Todd, and Rev. J. K. Roberts. A sec
retary-treasurer will be elected by
the new board. This position the past
year has been capably filled by W.
H. Simpson.
The new officers will assume of
fice after the annual otiebration of
“ladies ni^t,” to be held on the eve
ning oi December Uth in the form
ol fE’banquet and etiteriainment pro-
giasn in the attractive naw chib
house of the Joama Textile MiUSi,
CkM^. .
(Prepared by Members of the
Congregation).
The first written record we have
of Hopewell Methodist church is the
deed recorded in Laurens county
clerk of court's office, April 12, 1803,
when Thomas Johnson deeded two
acres of land as Well as the timber
oh the said acres and the use of a
certain spring to the following trus
tees: Charles Hewit, Hugh O’Neal,
John Sascon ‘and William Wilson.
This deed was witnessed by Matthew
Jones, Thomas and Mikell Dalrym-
ple. The transaction was made for
ten shilling, amouinting to about
$2.00 in our money. The timber was
to be used to erect a church building
and was to be called the Johnson
meeting house.
Charles Hewit, one of the above
mentioned trustees, was buried inj
the Johnson cemeteiy, now known
as the Hopewell cemetery, in 1816.
The Dalrymples mentioned as wit
nesses were great-grand parents of
T. T. Henderson, whose family is
stiU connected with toe diurch.
The first record we have of mem
bership was whan, Miss Margaret
Miller, bettet: known as “Aiint Mar
garet Boyd,” a sister of Messrs. John
and Jim Bfiller, mother of W. D.
Boyd and grandmother bf Rev. J. W.
Speake, Joined the Johnson society
sometime around 1825. lliere being
no church at that time, services were
conducted xmder an arbor. According
to records found, the presmt build
ing was constructed between 1835-j
1840. The money was raised for the!
building by contribution of farm
produce turned over to a treasurer,
vdio is thought to have been Coleman
Carlisle. Mr. Carlisle is buried at
Salem church near “Young’s Cross
Roads.” The building stood as erect
ed imtil remodeled in 1025 under
Rev. W. S. Pettus’ pastorate.
Between 1840-1877 we have no
record. The district was dumged sev
eral times during this period and it
is thought that maybe the records
were lost. It was first known^as the
Bush River district, next Cokttbury,
and now it is the Greenwood district.
But we do Imow that during tiiat
time services were conducted here.
There tire marks in the diurch
shoaring the pirt set gside for the
E.
Turkey Day To
Be Quiet Holiday
City To Pause For
Thanksgiving. Union
Service Thjs Mip^ning
At First Presbyterion.
A day of reat and quet, a day of
feasting and family )re\mi<ms will be
observed today by Clintonians in ob
servance of toe uniquely American
holiday of Thanksgiving whidi has
been pushed forward a wedt by
proclamation of toe President of the
United States.
Today being a legal ^liday, stores,
banks, and business establidiments
will be closed, and there will be no
mail deliveries, dty or ruraL
The Thomwell orphanage schools
will close tor one day only.
The city schools will have two
days, today and FHday, while Pres
byterian college closed yesterday not
to return to classes unto Monday.
There will be no football in toe
city today. The college team has gone
to Orlando, Fla., to meet Rollins col
lege Friday night in the last game of
toe season.
A city-wide imion Thanksgiving
service has been arranged by the
ministerial tmion for 8:30 this morn
ing at toe First Presbyterian cj^urch.
'The speaker will be the Rev. John
B. Cunningham of Cascade, Va., who
is conducting special sendees this
week at this church.
Many families have planned reun-
iems, turkeys are dres^ and ready
to go in toe ovens, with many rela
tives “eotoing back home” for the
holiday A large ■npnber of
students and teachei^ returiMd to the
city yesterday.
Bittiness will be at a standstill,
though textile miUs will not close
down. The state bird hunting season
will open today wito many expected
to sally forth wito guns and dogs to
toe woods, while others will go oa
pleasure Jaunts in the state and else-
vdiere.
November Court
Term Completed
Wito the final grand Jury present
ment, the Novei^ber term ^ court
ndjoumed last Tuesday afternoon in
Laurena. Judge P. H. Stoll, prssid-
ing, praked the Jury for an exhaus
tive report of counte aff ai^ declar
ing it one of the meet praUlwmihy
he had seest
Preceding adjournment, six 1842
hold-over Jurors were drawn from
the group by the Jiuy commission as
follows: C. C. Curry, F. B. |UH»er,
L. C. Taador M. C. Pinson, J. C.
Canmm and Grady Adair, toe latter
two bel^ retedants ot thk dty.
came here to worshto owe a moBito.
Some tf tiMMS faaaflies have mem
bers livteg adio attended in thoae
days.
1840-1877 —W. W. Jones, George
M. Boyd, J. J. Clarkson, W. H. Whit
taker, M. H. Poorer, W. T. Gilbert,
A. J. Gibson, M. C.-Banks, W. H.
Ligette, W. H. Ariel, R. R. Dagnal.
1877—A. C.,LeGette, 3 years.
1880—C. H.'Pritchard, 2 years.
1887— T. P. PhilUp, 2 years.
1888— E. P. Taylor, 2 years.
1890— E. A. Wilkes, 1 year.
1891— O. N. Roundtree, 1 year.
1892— P. B. Ingraham, 2 years.
1895—C. H. Pritchard ahd W.
j^arre, 1 year.
'i 1896—AV. E. Barr (died), 1 year.
1897—D. P. Boyd, one-half year.
1897—J. J. Stevenson, 2 years.
1899—^A. S. Lesley.
1901— J. F. Gibson, 1 year.
1902— W. H. Thrower, 1 year.
1903— J. R. Copeland, 1 year.
1904— J. N. Wright, 2 years.
1905— J. T. Miller, 2 years.
1907—D. P. Boyd, 4 years.
1911—W. R. Bauknight, 4 years.
1915—W. H. Murry, 4 years.
1918—P. R. Kilgo, 2 years.
1920—L. W. Shealy, 4 years. —
1925—W. S. Pettus, 4 years.
1929—H. E. BuUington, 3 years.
1932—M. K. Medlock, 4 years.
1936—^E. S. Jones, 3 years.
1939—T. B. Wilkes (now serving).
Hopewell is more than proud of
toe two preachers that went out and
proved themselves worthy of toe
name. Rev. W. P .Meadors, reared
under the shadow of this church, was
a successful preacher for years, fill
ing numerous charges until over
come by ill health and died a few
years ago. Rev. J. W. Speake, who
died recently after serving Lander
college as president. Also Collier
Winn.
Hopewell has maintained a Sun
day school around 55 or 60 years.
The first we know positi^^ly about
k is when (Charlie Worlwan was
superintendent for five years. Mr.
Workman was followed by John
Miller. Mr. Miller was followed by
John Smith. Mr. Smith was followed
by W. D. Boyd, who served between
25 and 30 years. J. M. Monroe was
toe next si4>erintendent. Then D. R.
Crawford. (3ur present superintend-
tni, J. L. Dickert, has been serving
for 15 years.
Some of our past and present of
ficers who served vmtiringly de
serve mention: W. D. Boyd, steward
lor 45 years; H. B. Workman, stew
ard for 35 years, also district stew-
art 30 years, as well as secretary-
treasurer of thk church; George T.
Brown, steward tor 10 years.
Mrs. Alice Boyd Williams was the
fleet pteiajEMB* church ever Omd.
Her wock was taken vipjjy our pres
ent irfankl, Mrs. C it Workman,
who has served fat‘',30 years.
Present stewards: C. R. Worionan,
J. F. Bedenbaugh, G. F. Buford,
J. L. Dickert
Trustees: C. V. Monroe, C. R.
Workman.
Officers: J. L. Dickert superin
tendent Sunday school; Frank
Brown, secretary-treasiirer Of^ Sun
day school.
Coming
December 11th
Atlanta Presbyterians
Visit Thomwell
A number of friends from Gordon
Street Presbytndan church, Atlanta,
spent Saturday and Sunday on toe
orphanage camptu as guests of toe
children and staff workers. The party
came over to gain first hand infor
mation pertaining to the institution
and its work preparatory to their
annual Thanksgiving drive in its be
half.
The visitors worshipped with toe
Thomwell Memorial church congre
gation Sunday morning at which time
toe guest minister was Dr. W. H.
Hudson of Greenville, Presbyterian
mkrionary to Ctoina now at home on
furlough.
Special Services At
Presbyterian Church
Special services are being held
each evening thk week at 7:30 at
toe First Presbyterian church to
which tiw public k cordially invited.
The guest pfeacher for the week k
toe Rev. John B. Cunninri^am, pas
tor of toe Presbyterian chunto at
Cascade, Va. Mr. Cunnin^am k de
livering a series of earnest and help
ful Go^l messages and has made a
fine impression upon hk audiences.
Two Negroes Held
In Killing U^re
A coroner’s inquest held here last
Wednesday night held Obie Lauden,
Negro, for grand Jury investigation
in connection wito his alleged pistol
slaying of Rosa Lee Richey on toe
night of November 10 in front of toe
Birdsey Flour Mill store on Musgrove
street. The woman, it was said by of-
ficiak, was in a parked car wito
Lauden’s wife when the shooting af
fray occurred. The mans wife^ was
also shot in the fray, receiving a
wound in the arm.
The inquest also held Fred Hill,
colored, as an accessory in toe case,
it being alleged that Hill furnished
the pktol wito which Lauden did
the shooting- The two Negroes are
now held in the county jail.
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MIHBtS STRIKE
HOW SPREKDIII6
Roosevelt Scolds Lewis
And Soys He Is Ready
To 'Crock-Down'.
Washington, Nov. 18. — A work
stoppage by thousand.s of commer
cial coal miners in sympathy with
the strike of their fellow unionists
in the captive pits became imminent
tonight after a day which saw a fur
ther rebuke by President Roosevelt
to John L. Lewis but no specific gov
ernment action.
William Blizzard, district vice-
president of the CIO-United Mine
Santa Claus will arrive in Clinton j Virginia, pr^ict^
for his annual visit on Thursday af- i tiiat all the 550 mines in that state,
temoon, December 11th, it was an- men would
nounced yesterday by C. C. Giles, i *^^^**ti within 48 hours. Already 4,000
general chairman of toe Christmas j
celebration committee. The event ® sjrmpathy strike and
again thk year, k being sponsored
by toe Chamber of Commerce.
As in the past, a colorful < Christ
mas. parade will be staged in honor
of the dktinguished guest. Commit
tees have been named and plana are
now under way for toe gala occasion
which will officially open toe city’s
pre-Chrktmas shopping season.
Methodists Get
New Pastor
Rev. J. H. Kohler of '
Edgefield, and Rev.
L. P. McGee Change
Pastorates.
The Rev. L. P. McGee, for toe past
two years pastor of North Broad
Street Methodkt church of thk city,
was transferred to Edgefield-Tr«iton
in the reading Sunday of assignments
at toe closing session of toe Upper
South Carolina Methodist conference
in Gre«ivil]e.
The Rev. J. H. Kohler, for toe past
two years pastor of toe ESdgtflcld-
Trenton chiuehes, will come here to
sttoeeed Mr. McGee.
Rev. B. S. White was transferred
from Cambridge church, Ninety Six,
to the Kiaards charge, succeeding
Rev. T. B. Wilkes, who was assigned
to Toxaway-Gluck, Anderson, after
serving toe Kinards charge toe past
three years.
Members of Broad Street church
will be interested in toe assignment
of several former pastors. The Rev.
O. M. Abney of the Columbia dis
trict, and Rev. W. A. Fairey of toe
Spartanburg district, were retired;
Rev. H. O. Chambers was returned
to Central church, Newberry; Dr. J.
C. Roper was returned to Buford
Street, Gaffney, for the fourth year;
Rev. W. R. Bauknight was returned
to Memorial church, Greer, for a
third year.
The Rev. L. E. Wiggins, another
former pastor, who has served Main
tonight three mines in another coun
ty employing 1,500 men, were re
ported idle.
From Kentucky came an announce
ment by E^ar Reynolds, union field
representative, that 6,000 miners in
the 32 pits of the Hazard coal field,
all commercial mines, would stage
a sympathy walkout tmnorrow.
Mr. Roosevelt challenged toe val
idity of Lewis’ position in demanding
a union ship for the captive mines
but said he had no news as to what
steps he might be planning to take
to get toe mines back in production.
At a press conference, toe chief
executive disagreed wito Lewis’ con
tention that to accept an open shop
in toe captive mines would invalidate
toe United Mine Workers’ contract
with toe commercial mines of the
Appalachian area. Lewis replied im
mediately, saying in effect that he
had made a true statement of the sit
uation.
Meanwhile, expectation of govern
ment actiom was whette<i bj state
ments from^ftfioM cloii^ly associated
with toe president that he was of
toe opinion that the time to “crack
down” on Lewis, and on all inter
ruptions in defense production, had
arrived.
At toe same time, the houae labw
committee decided to begin tomorrow
the conaideration of tefklation to
prevent such strikes. Chairman Nor
ton, Democrat, of New Jersey, intro
duced a bill which, she said, would
strengtoen toe defense mediation
board 'and authorize it to impose a
30-day cooling off period, until the
expiration of which a threatened
strike could not lawfully materialize.
Adding to the urgency of toe situ
ation was the announcement that an
impending coal shortage made it
probable that six blast furnaces must
be closed within 48 hours. The cap
tive mines are mines owned by the
steel companies and produce fuel for
their blast furnaces, not for the com
mercial coal market.
The day also brought disorder at
a captive mine near Gary, W. Va.,
where gimfire wounded two mon-
bers of an independent union who
were seeking to enter the pits. Mem
bers of toe union wired the presi-
protection.’
Street church. Greenwood, for the
past five years, was assigned to the' dent that they needed
Anderson district as superintendent, j They had, they said, been “cut, stab-
The Rev. E. R. Mason was made | bed, shot, maimed, bombed and fel-
superintendent of the Greenwood onously assaulted for no reason ex-
Moorhead Addresses
Woodruff Rotarions
W. A. Mooibead, general manager
of the Joanna Textile M^ .Gold-
ville, and retiring president 6t toe
ClinW Kiwank club, was toe guest
speaker at the Woodruff Rotary club
meeting yesterday at noon, speaking
on toe subject, “Are You toe Gen
eral Manager?”
MR.MERCHANT-
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THE CHRONiaE
TIm Fapar Thai Is Raa4 By T<
district, succeeding Rev. W. B. Gar
rett, who was. transferred to the First
church at Lancaster.
Greenwood District
Assignments for toe Greenwood
dktrlct, in which toe Clinton church
k located, follow:
Greenwood district: E. R. Mason,
superintendent.
Asbury mission: to be suppiled.
Butler: T. A. Inabinet.
Clinton: Broad Street, J. H. Koh
ler.
Cambridge: M. M. Brooks.
Edgefleld-'teenton: L. P. McGee.
Graniteville: E. W. Hardin.
Greenwood: Galloway Memorial,
B. H. Harvey; Lowell Street, W. F.
Gault; Main Street, F. C. Beaclj;
Matthews, L. D. Bolt.
Greenwood circuit: T. L. Bryson.
Honea Path: J. S. Edwards.
Kinards: S. B. White. ^
Langley: D. R. Dickson. ^
McCormick: W. M. Owings.
Newberry: Central, H. O. Cham-
Edgefleld, Nov. 18.—The death at
7:20 o’clock thk morning of Deputy
_ _ Sheriff W. L. Clark in University
be‘rsyEitoi-Lewk,’VH.llaTchett;i^^P»^f^ broj^ht toe
0*N6&1 Str6€t N K Polk I fataliti68 in the Log^e-Tunmer*
Newberry circuit:’C. w! Brockwell. Beginning wito toe
Ninety Six: J. W. Lewk.
North Augusta: E. S. Jones.
Phoenix: J. H. Manly.
Saluda: J. D. Kilgore.
Ware Shoak-Hodges: F. C. Owen.
Warrenville: P. B. Bobo.
Waterloo: K. T. Hughes.
President, Lander college, J. M.
Raat.
Professor, Lander college, J. P.
Patton.
Chaplain, U. S. army, H. R. Jor
dan, Itooenbc quarterly conference.
District missionary secretary, H. O.
Chambers.
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Mark Todd Goei
To Argentine
Mark Todd, son of Mr. and Mrs.
J. Larry Todd of toe Long Branch
community, left thk week for Buenoa i the arrest of ^Clarence Bslgwell and
cept that we want to work.”
Lewis’ contention regarding his
union’s agreement wito the Appa
lachian commercial mines was ad
vanced yesterday in a letter to the
president rejwrting on his unsuc
cessful negotiations with the steel
companies owning the captive mines.
He said the union’s contract with
the commercial mines contained a
clause which would make it inoper
ative in the event that the uniod
should agree to mine coal on “more
favorable” wage or working condi
tions anywhere within the Appala
chian region.
CURK DIEsT fifth
FATALITY IN THE
EDGEFIELD CASE
death of Wallace Logue, September
30, 1940, followed by toe death of
Davis W. Timmerman, September 17,
1941, toe death of Sheriff W. D. Al
len and Fred Dom Sunday.
Deputy Clark was carried to toe
hospital Sunday after suffering two
bullet wounds, one said to have been
inflicted by (^rge Logue and the
other by Fred Dom after Sheriff
Allen had been mortally wounded
when toe sheriff and deputy went to
toe Logue home in toe Meeting
Street community to make arrests.
Clark shot down Logue and Dora be
fore leaving toe house and getting
a ride to Edgefield when the tragedy
was reported.
Judge J. Strom Thurmond > an
nounced Sunday the appointment of
Bheriff Davis of Saluda as special
investigator in toe case. I^etriff D4-
vis has lent valuable assktance since
Airce, Argentine, where he will en
gage in Ctorktian emvice work.
Joe Frank Logue in Spartanburg*
November 6.