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Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON. S. C. attp GUtntim GUpratiidt Established 190% 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 tney are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous comrtiimitations will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. T Thursdoy, August 13, 1942 their jacks away and lifted everthing' foreign countries, and he does.not re- f by hand. / after the third meal of enriched call having to tackle such rubbery bread as we have here. Their bread was light and flaky, and was really' biscuits, slim chance went out into a and truly fit to eat. What he misses new ground and pulled up 245 in “store bought" bread is those hard stumps by dinner time and on the pear-shaped and oval-shaped rolls orf way home he toted his old ford to whatever you call them. So, folks— save gass. he cuts cord wood now:don’t ever invite anybody to come: with 2 axes and splits it up with his over and break bread with you if you fists, his wife says it’s the iron and use baker’s bread: it can’t be did. nadn in the biscuits that makes hm 1 —r — so strong, he now believes that sam-1 _ NOTICE OF ELECTION son et some of this enriched bread State of South Carolina, t > befoar he tore up that big building County of Laurens, and pulled a com mill all day. Town of Clinton. * t ; NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that mr. chance has to sleep on ‘ the election will .be held in the Town j floor now. he is so strong he tares a Clinton, S. C., on Tuesday, Au!gust bed all to pieces when he turns over! 18th, 1942, for the purpose of elect- in it. he moved his bam 15 feet back ing a Mayor and six Aldermen. The, from the big road last week by his-1 polling place for said election will be ■ self, just lifted it up and set it down.' *t the City Hall, on the east side of, mr. chance' carries his shop anvil North Broadway Street in the said around in his hand to sharpen his:Town of Clinton. The polls will be: p ar , 'start interesting their children in the lp i ow tools on. he newer has to heat opened at eight o’clock A. ‘ boyhood ambition of the past. Other-| a pk)W to sharpen it: he hits so hard will be closed at four o’cl< en generally, especially wise who are we going to have to ^th the hammer, he is better than a,on said date. a a 0 V LA R bA«OS~ - lOc 25c SWAN, rtg. 2 for 15c, Ig. 2 for 28c. LIFEBUOY, 2 for Ife LYDIA MILL STORE CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1942 Doesn't Business _ _ _ _ __ during their/moments of depression,!^ ^ fl re engines, blow the poli<* rold-px^Tt^Tvi«.^his wife will’ John D. Davis, R. J. Cope! conclude th^t the business efficiency. whistleg cu itj V ate the soil, install the have to cut him down to 2 biscuits George Turner have been - of government, of w b‘ch much chat-j machinery and do thousands of other a day f rom now on an d give him “ managers of said electioi ter is hea yond the then more taxes. —does not extend far be- „ , , . “ . essential jobs in the future? ollection of taxes — and I ■' Get In the Scrap The World and Work The second of a series of adver-. The world is not indebted to us tisements, “Junk Needed for the| merely because we were bom here. War, appears" in today s paper P^M Did You Every Try To Ea$ A Sponge? combread for dessert, vity-min bread 118* 2c is wonderful!' yores trulie, * mike lark rfd, corry spondent. I • ■ ■» P. S. BAILEY; Mayor. . and P.M., and pointed H. D. HENRY ISM-1942 F. M. BOLAND H. D. HENRY & COMPANY INSURANCE STOCKS — BONDS — BEAL ESTATE Federal Leans Negotiated On Real Estate Telephone 121 . * J 9mK The world, therefore, does not owe 1 for by a group of leading industrial us a living unless we get out and concerns throughout the nation, earn it The local Lions club has been Some Bread Is Like That Back yonder . . . when I was , ^ ; . . . . younger by many years than I am Those who get a living otherwise gathering scrap iron, etc., forseverai: today . . , ft was no t uncommon for ini , are either thieves or parasites, if weeks to aid the war effort. This or-1 a ne i g hbor to say to another neigh- j U1 *’ there is work (and there is) they can ganization is continuing its drive by j bo r: “You all come over and break 27-3c NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS The annual meeting of Stockhold ers of the Clinton Bonded Warehouse Company of Clinton, S. C., will be held August 28, 1942, at 4:00 o’clock| pjn., in the office of The Commercial 1 Depository, to elect directors for en- 1 suing year, and to transact such bus- 1 < \ iness as may come before the meet- get and refuse to do because of gov- serving as the local salvage commit-Hj read w ftft ^ some time.” Such an emment handouts which long ago tee in the hope that city residents expression as “breaking bread” could i should have been ended. ■ ■ - rand farmers will ransack their homes properly J>e made now — unless, and premises for discarded junk to course sa j d bread happens to be brought to their bin in the city be home-baked ... as nearly every- 1 body has quit making bread at home,' and are living on loaf bread. , I H. D. HENRY, Sec.-Treas. The Race of Progress item 1 You can’t break a piece of baker’s to be thrown into the fight. The progress of modern science There is one oujtstanding and invention unfolds the littleness which our factories must have in as well as the greatness of the mind large and continuing quantities. It is ^ of man. The things that men in their scrap iron. They can’t depend on the ignorance placed in the realm of the stock piles which the drives produce | twlst ^ a rope mas ’ h ^ stretc h impossible become the common pos- we are ^° ld a | it like unto rubber, but as to break- session of the race in later years. In steady, unending stream of this ma- ,h„ respect those who tav. <>"» ! ^ * '25 hs fools fsri3tics 3t tire ^voIl u3ck of thG liriGS , ., . Vme fater the ou,Ending K*t as much as on them. This should TloaT o! bread figures or history and are revered for make us aH dig a ^^ l Ind you win then hare a ftrsS the sake of the work that they have the rubbish heap in our ceaseless urd Qr second cous i n t 0 a numo- accomplished in harnessing the pow- se ^b fo r more ande^rrrmre scrap^, Even the ^ P Q m^orTranS Tn^opS up new UnTlSlS^esJf^ly hatHf worry about rubber p- thu^vs for tt explo^fon of thT collected and turned in regularly all, es ' Just ^ a ^ throu 8 h 6 ndnch The ^telegraph* the ^utomobil^ i their accumulated and accumulating, ^ them on your run the airplane and the radio are out- scrap iron, it would very materially! ^ . standing examples of how men have hasten the construction of the ships ( Ever Jet a piece of toast made from done what their forefathers regarded and other armaments which we bad-, this bread get about 30 minuteg old? as impossible. We should therefore ly aee . d th 13 veirmoment If you haye you know right off that be slow to conclude that the race of one of ^ r t ™ ubles ls a you have a nice composition half-sole orogress has been run, that our steel with which to build ships—and.. s hoe- the onlv thine wrone with knowledge is complete in any respect shim; mean victory. Every pound of u ^ u wi ^ leak Anothe g r thing—you or that the laws of nature may not scrab iron which every one of us. an , t toast u deeper than yet in many ways be brought into cansel! or give is "f ht ' lionth of an inch unless you burn it. such relation as will open up new,This is a way m which the farmer! A _j .1— .— - • , fields of power. can help win the war. “Keep the Scrap Heap Growing” is a timely and useful slogan for us all. * Strong Men Needed The county’s abbreviated political , campaign will open here Friday night. A week later the second and Speed-Up For HorSeS last meeting arranged by the execu-f . . .. , Because of the tire’ and gasoline live committee^]pon recommendation situatlon the horse is entering more or the candidates themselves w,11 he om , nentl int0 re sent transporta- held in Laurens. The campaign- this j .ui And then try to scrape the burnt part off: you’ll have only the same old flexible bread left, just like it was before you tried to toast it. tion and farm problems. The Department of year is cut short because of the tire and gas situation, but The Chronicle is of the opinion that a mistake,was made in arranging so few public meetings.. The voters ^^0^0^ gram Because of this ^ the de _ has found upon irtvestigation that farm horses and .mules are not giv ing all-out support to the war pro A fellow who digs wells for a liv ing told me the other day that the reason lightbread is so heavy is be cause from 30 to 65 per cent of it is water, but this water is commonly called moisture. We like big loaves of bread for our money, even if we Agriculture l do have our own water at home. ,he candidare, nt p a drive and hear squarely in the face, their fitness .and character, and then they are in a position to vote, at least with a degree of intelligence. Because ’ those who seek our support are not This writer has been in one or two (Political Advertisement) to increase their working hours. Many a horse, the department is only working from 500 to 600 hours a year, which is about a 10-hour week. It is apparent that men are often defeated, while others are elected whe are totally undeserv ing or unfitted for the offices. always measured, by this yardstick much more farm production would the most .competent and' honorable be if the horses wer# called upon for double or triple that num ber of hours. Consequently the department is Above.all, the character »of those asking-farmers to stimulate the in- who would bg our public officials, terest of their horses and mules in both state and county, needs to be sa ving Dempcracy by giving them clunely scrutinized and how they bigger helpings of grain, by check- stand on all moral questions known j ng their teeth, by seeing that their by the electorate, with not the f ee t anc j shoes are in good condition, slightest ground left for doubt. Vot- by grooming them more thoroughly ers should know whether the candi- anc ) by matching teams carefully, d^tes are safe Or radical, whether, The horses are in for a busy time they are spenders akin to the Wash-, (j ur i n g tbe war period unless a John ington crowd or interested in de-|L. Lewis comes along to organize fending taxpayers’ interests, which them and insist that they get a meal must be done if they are to survive; (and a half for overtime, double ra win'the r they are men who stapd on tions for working on Sundays and their own feet and do their own cos t 0 { living bonuses* Id the light thinking, or are of the now common, pf what is transpiring with govern- spineless variety of coat-tail swing- me nt sanction — such an , organizer -ers. - : ma y appear on the scene. , Is»the candidate • seeking my vote; m • •honest? Are his habits cfean? WilL ^ his character stand the test? Can you: put your hands' on him, or will he | dodge, and even lie, when difficult; decisions must be made? These are* extremely^ important questions about which our people! should be concerned now more thani ever before because of the war and - ® - - a*) I hard reconstruction period to follow NOBODY'S BUSINESS 8y GEE McGEE A Report To the Nation On Enriched Bread thirt wili.call for strong men as, our deer mr e^dfto,.. v leaders. ^—» . the enriched flour law went into A Vi. • . effect in our state on august the 1. rlying veneration slim chance, jn, et 7 biscuits made Sixty-eight’ per cent of boys be- out of enriched .flour for breakfast tween the ages of eight find seven- and the thijigs it made him do is re teen would like to take a course in markable! up to august the 1, he had school to fit them to become’ army or et nothing but reggular .wheat bread navy fliers when old enough. Such interest was revealed in a recent nation-wide poll of junior opinion made into biscuits, but it appears that all pf the vitta-mins had benn took out of same in milling, the laws conducted by Parent’s Institute, Incghas made the flour millers put vity- The great number of boys interested flying right now is undoubtedly stimulated by the war, but it also makes it clearj that, war or no war, aviation is the number one interest of the coming generation. ’ If 68 per cent of the* boys now in school continue their determination to be-fliers, aviation will qpickly be come the most competitive occupa tion there has ever been. It is natural that aviation has an outstanding appeal for young boys, because of the. war and the draft law with which they are confronted, but perhaps some parents should mins bl-, allso plain vity-min b, as well as b-plus, and vity-mins -a, c Mid d and f and sometimes w and "y t . . back into the flour they grind. mr. chance do not know his strength after eating one mess of the vity-min biscuits, instid of hitching his mule to the plow, he hitched hisself to 2 plows and made hs 4 boys plow him all day. they had to take him out to rest ever 2 hourR and when night coine they were plumb give out, hut he fed them on some vity-min breed and they stayed up aU night ted. worked in a garrafe. they throwedi SAFE and SANE WYNDHAM MANNING '—for — GOVERNOR . ADVOCATES: Safe and Sane Govern* ment. Unity Instead of Dis* .nity. Order Instead of Dis order. . As a Guarantee of Maximum State Co- . operation for Vic tory. .. and to As sure a Strong Eco nomic Foundation Against Difficult Times Which Will Follow the War. KEROSENE.... 12* per Gallon YARBOROUGH OIL COMPANY WEST MAIN STREET Watch Your Kidneys/ Help Them Cleanae the Blood of Harmful Body Waste Your kidneva are comtantly filtering waste matter from the blood atream. But kidneys sometimes lag in their work—do not set ss Nature intended—fail to re move impurities that, if rttained, may C ison the system and upaet the whole dy machinery. Symptoms may he nagging backache, persistent headache, attacks of dissiaess, getting up nights, swelling, pufflness under the eyes—a feeling of nervous anxiety and loss of pep and strength. Other signs of kidney or bladder dis order are sometimes burning, scanty or too frequent urinatica. There should be no doubt that prompt treatment is wiser than neglect. Use Dean’s'Pills. Dean’s have been winning new friends for more than forty years. They have a nation-wide reputation. Are recommended by grateful people the ver. A»k pour ntigkbor! country over. Doans Pills • WOULD YOU LIKE TO BUY A HOME FOR YOUR FAMILY or— RE-FINANCE AN EXISTING MORTGAGE ON MORE FAVORABLE TRIMS! We con help you. Come in and talk over your plans and needs with one of our officers. Full de tails cheerfully rendered. No obligation. CONSULT US REGULARLY FOR YOUR WAR BOND PURCHASES IN ANY QUANTITY. Each Account Insured Up To $5,000 EDERAL SAVINGS {AND LOAN ASSOCIATION Telephon* No. • A Clinton Institution Serving Clinton People Since 1909 Read The Chronicle-Your Neighbor Does your truck—af/ trucks—are •ssential to America’s war pro gram. # a • Lot your Chovrolot dealer help you to “Keep ’em tit to keep ’em rolling. 19 . * . See him for a thorough service check up today—and soe him -for skilled service at regular inter- val*. # # # tiomomber^ Chevrolet dealers are America’s “Truck Conservation Specialists.’! MjEVROlif * h * 1 . • . 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