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Thursday / October 8, 1942 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, S. C. Page Sevp* OCTOBER IS BUSY MONTH OH FARMS LYDIA MILLS NEWS POR THE WEEK Mm. W. P PULLEY GETS 25 YEARS IN NANCE SLAYING - - ' f; | Cr.r.rtrt-mnf I Mr> and- Mrs. David Satterfield | L.aiim 1 *. Oct. 1. —Jeff 60 * Timely Suggestions iand son spent the week-end with er? Storekeeper of Cross Hill, wa. Made Bv County Aaent M«. Satterfield’s parents, Mr. and ^ of manslaughter in the MOOC Dy t-ounry Mgeni ! Mrs F ette Croc J e ^ wlnston . slaying of CarroU D. Nance, Jr of Cannon iSalem N C ,Croas Hill, by a jury Thursday night ^ • : ^ Grover Jenkins visited his mother and w “ 10 . 25 J ea ^ *" Elesides the usual harvesting of the in Goldville Sunday. J °' Den " y ' Cross Hill policeman,: forces, to make all laws which shall our declarations of war for danoc- .,iain crops there is plenty of impor- Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Dabbs spent Th ® ju . ry w ® s . . out ab °. u J th K re * testified to being called to the scene be necessary and proper for carryl tant work to do in October, County Sunday in Honea Path with Mr. and and relurned ,ts verdict about lu.viu by Leake and another man and that ing into execution the foregoing Mr. Nance got out of the car followed the Constitution says just that—“All This war will be for nought, if the jby Leake and that both of them, Legislative Powers Herein Granted blood and treasure of the nation are jumped on him and tried to push him shall be Vested in a Congres of The poured out to establish a dictator- 1 I into the car, Mr. Nance beating him United States.” It is Section 1 of ship. while Leake was holding him. The Article 1—the first really controlling jf an enemy were Invading our two, he said, had him pushed down part of the great document. Then it shores, and the congress were not in against the driving gear of the car proceeds to grant specific powers to.^^ the president would be ex- and thinking that they were going to .Congress, including the power to pected to take all necessary military kill him he pulled his pistol out ofldeclaue war, to raise and support ar- measures of defense; but,to set aside his pocket, fired it and went on off mies, to provide and maintain a navy,k an ac t Q f congress on a matter like without knowing which one he had to make rules for the government prices of farm products would be a hit. and regulation of the land and naval usurpation of authority negating all Agent C. B. Cannon points out, mak- Mrs. Mansel Bridwell. pJ ^ , . . _ <, rt he found that Mr. Nance was un- powers, and all other powers, vested p rrt «.k.. ing these timely suggestions: ' ,! Pvt. Paul Taylor of Forf Jackson, sl ^ i l 1 1 ? g occurred on June 19 |armed and that no weapons were in by this Constitution in the govern- rreSDyrerian jynod , Start no^r s u bl em.„u re 'wXn^ ^ ^ .“T. ** SWT SXS H «« for’n!xt rt ye.r" Ruby Hay K o, C^nwood, visited *£^*1 ^ ^ " the aS h ' d '’ "t Zd"andT a^tr.erpfn.^jR-e wear “ “ ^^ ^^ifrco^b^'b^i^S' ^ ^ early for best results. 4. Sow barley . Mrs - Carolyn Burden, of Ninety- cro ding about a third of the audi- tfie same effect and J - H ' Nance * wllly a / !ld draw money from the as a source of exceUent feed. 5. Ob- Slx . Monday with Mr. and x ei[Toe - 7? 1 “ d j brother of C. D. Nance, Sr., said the treasury, without an act Of Congress, tain the best wheat for seeding im-i M ^; Rufus Mills. i .nliPitor k v civ only lfhin 8 he saw in the car was a The qfowers of Congress are just as (Continued from page one) Wednesday, 7:30 P. M. Place and time for next meeting. Reports of committees. Special order—Report of the Reli- The solicitor was assisted bv six 7 "“a *• u. mediately after the first killing frost.! Mrs - s - L - Prmce and ' dau 8 hters 1 attorneys flve from Laurens and one pile ° f ploW t0ols Pulley ’ s inference, clear,/just as exclusive, in one case as gious Education committee, and ad- 6. Destroy cotton stalks als soon as v “ ited PvX - Ernest Prince at Parris , 5rL! J —>. ; Island Sunday Misses Mary Williams and Virginia Sharpton spent the week-end with the former’s grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Shirley, in Seneca. Mrs. S. J. Hunter has received word that her grandson, Donald Rowal, of Anderson, is suffering 1 cotton picking is complete . c . . ! daughter spent Sunday in Newberry 1, Select varieties adapted to your with Mr M „ Bu y Whitmire section, end place order, for fruit Mr d M j B. Reeder and tree, for home orchards with • «-1 chlWren , nd ^ lnd M „ CurtU liabienuratry. 2. Cut outall dead j j, c x son and children visited Mr. and branch« on frud tree, brfore the, Mrs Mufc> KUl w Greenvme Sun -. leaves drop. 3. Thin out young tur- 1 ^ nips, beets, khle, spinach, and lettuce to hasten development. 4. Gather green tomatoes just before frost and store in a cool place; even half-grown ones will ripen. 5. If the supply of greens is limited, plant immediately some seven-top turnips or other va rieties. - Agricultural Engineering 1. In planting small grain set fur row-openers to run approximately three inches deep. This may prevent some winter killing. 2. Check over plows, • cultivators, and other idle machinery and order needed repairs as soon as possible.. Cover all bright parts with grease to prevent rusting. 3. Repair breaks or low places on terraces. 4. Check fireplaces, chim neys, and flues for needed repairs. Plant Diseases and Insects 1. Destroy cotton stalks as soon as cotton is harvested tJ control boll weevil. 2. Treat small grain seed for smut, or plant smut-resistant oats. 3. Select sweet potato seed from dis ease-free vines. 4. Use paradichloro- benzene by October 10 in the Pied mont section and OctoberJJO in other from Greenwood. Pulley was repre- as brought out in arguments, was in anfother. Any man who can read dress by Rev. M. G. Gutzke of C6- that Nance had used the plow handle can ^ee that. lumbia Theological seminary. or a pair of knucks tp beat him over. Article 2 of the Constitution defines Reports of committees. The state used about a dozen wit- the head with ’ Leake aho testifted the Powers of the president, but nesses including Roosevelt Leake that Mr- Nance had . ne,ther a pi8to1 makes him virtually subject to the nesses including n00seven J-* 8 **. i nor kntteks with him Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Whitmire and by Norman Harrison of Green- 1 wood. who was with Mr. Nance on the night of the shooting Pullev was the! Deputy Sherifr Hicks F - Owings' government is finally shown in the y testified that he found Mr. Nance’s power of impeachment. The Con- Congress. The control over the whole only defense witness. Leake testified that on the way to! Thursday, • A. M. Devotional exercises. Reading of minutes. Special order (fixed by synod)— pistol at his house. the house of C. D. Nance, Sr., on the night of the shooting, they stopped by Pulley’s small store at Cross Hill and Mr. Nance sent him for Pulley. Pull- gress i> supreme; it can impeach the! ,he j|<l“<iatin« committee lent ahri the iurive. ani4 r»mnu» ° Chicora college, W. G. Query, from a broken leg injury received when, he was hit by an automobile. Mrs. Maud Fuller, Mrs. James entered into conversation. Mr. Nance asked Pulley, he said, who he was hoeing cotton for and Pulley told Green and Mrs. Burger of Tgcapau.ljT' 0, . lhe wh . i " were Sunday guests o[ Mr. and Mrs. 1 h , questioned him S J Navy about hoeing for other people when Mrs. George Pressley and daugh- i^' <, ^!!f 3 '>“*« , *‘im tor «ime wood ters ot Clinton, visited Mr. and Mrs. “j , „^' ley ., made ao f t 0 ' G. W. Stewart over the week-end. reply thal the W,tness could not re James H. Sullivan, speaking for president and the judges, and remove 7 , the state, laid the groundwork for j them from office. So, obviously, all cna,nnan asking a murder verdict t>y declaring this talk about the president’s war that Pulley had “got into his head power is a piece of fanciful surmis- ey he said came to the Nance car that he was not going 40 take any ing without regard to the explicit from a bench on whirt he was ly-! iL“ ld °' talk .' ro ™ any w ^" man.” provisions ot the Constitution, ing in front of his store and the two I, Little Maxie Davis of Cedar Sprihgs, spent the week-end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hudson Davis. Mrs. T. G. Smith and daughter, Beatrice, and Mrs. Jim Lewis visited Mrs. Carrie Messer in Cross Anchor Sunday. Ruby and Loretta Waldrep of near Clinton, visited Misses Sally .Ann and Stella Duckett Sunday Sgt. William C. Neal of'Tampa, ., . . r ua u i Ela., is spending a few days leave sections to control peachtree borer, with Ws enls Mr d s except where it is planned to use Is ethylene dichloride. 5. Harvest corn early to reduce weevil infestraon. 6. Fumigate stored grain. 7. Requeen hives and feed bees where necessary. 8. Continue to guard against the screw-worm. 18. Bible Cjiuse, Rev. I. M. Bagnal. 19. Montreal, Rev. G. M. Telford. 20. William Brearley Home, Rev. WE DO ALL KINDSyOF PRINTING LLL KINDS p —EXCEPT B AD CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. Relief At Last For Your Cough Creomulsion relieves promptly be cause It goes right to the seat of the trouble to' help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender Inflamed bronchial mucous membranes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the understanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. CREOMULSION For Couchs, Ghost Colds, Bronchitis ity and condensation. There is noth- against the United States, except in ing obscure about it to any one who cases of impeachment, has read the history of England and We should resist any assertion of knows the struggle for the right of presidential power other than that G. G. Mayes. the individual to be a man. Lawyers given by the Constitution. We are 21. Audit and Finance (two for have strained and twisted thej Con- a people who respect legal prece- each treasurer). —i . .j - - — ;*titution until at times it i$ made dents and should not allow an act of 22. Minutes of the Presbyteries Miss Roberta Chaney has returned j*"* 4 ' , . y Mr Nance 101(1 him ( to sanction or deny propositions uit- presidential usurpation, an act of i (eight.) home after spending the past week 40 get m 4he damn car ” | d er a sort of legalized mangUng pro- flagrant dictatorship as would* be in- with her brother, H. M. Chaney, Jr.,| I told him he ought to be ashamed | 0085 ■ the clear intent of the volved in the assumption of the pow- in Pensacola, Fla. , of himself to talk like that. Pulley; Constitution is that all legislative er to nullify or suspend an act of Mrs. Sam Hairston is spending a j said he replied. Immediately, he said, |P° wers belong to Congress. In fact Congress, lew Hays with Mr. Hairston at Camp' — Dr. Felder Smith Dr. Duncan S. Felder OPTOMETRISTS Specialists In Eye Examinations Office Bonn: Dr. Smith, Dally, 4:15 to < Dr. Felder, Dally, 8:30 to • Phone 29 for Appointment CLINTON, S. C. NeeL. ML and Mrs. C. W. Patterson and ftunily of Spartanburg, visited Mr. and Mrs. Dorrah Hairston the past week-end. Mrs. Willie Stroud is making her slaying of his son by another Negro who lived on the elder Nance's place several years ago and in whose de fense the elder Nance had interested himself. All the war power idea is built on Section 2 of Article 2 which says R- C. Long. Reports of committees. • • • • • • Recommended order for commit tee reports: 1. Stewardship and Finance, Rev. that the president shall be command- -er-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States, and the militia, when in actual service of the United States. Now even a blind man can’t he said, “is manslaughter.”. call. Thereupon, he said, Mr. Nance said, “You can’t talk like that to me” and started to get out of the car When Mr. Nbnce hit the ground, he said, the shooting began, Pulley Hr-1 . - ing six bullets into Mr. Nance’s chest j A Private Citizen Speaks His Mind and neck and running away. 1 f - - f* - Pulley’s testimony was practically j Jp0(|(||0|'' vOITIIIlBIlfS the same as Leake’s up to the point of the conversation. * On Men and Things He said that Leake came to him 1 1 Attorney Harrison pictured Pulley read that wrong. He is the supreme as being “persecuted” by seven law- | commander of the armed forces. That yers and said that _if ffjlley hadn’t is a limit on the powers of Con- shot Mr. Nance he would have been gress in the sense that. Congress may killed himself. ' i not elect a man to be supreme com- “The most you can get but of it,” mander. The president is the head, | but under the laws and regulations j of congress. That is as plain as the j noon-day sun. Even the officers ap pointed by the president have "to be I confirmed by the Senate. The whole tenor of the Constitu- 2. Synod’s H 0 ™* Missions, Rev. B. S. Hodges, Jr. 3. Assembly’s Home Missions, Rev. C. A. Calcote. 4. Foreign Missions, Rev. $. Hugh Bradley. 5. Evangelism. Rev. J. B Mack.. 6. Education, Rev, C. T. Squires. 7. Assembly's Training School, Rev. James Appleby. . 8. Christian Education and Minis terial Relief, Rev. A D. McAm. 9. Student Work. 10. Woman’s Work, Rev. S D. Winn. 11. Minutes of General Assembly. 12. Bills and Overtures. 13. Nominations. t tion proves that the president is to 14. Defense Service Council. Rev. > s-v..* 4U^v ...ill D r* — carry out the will of congress, ex cept in certain cases which are speci- As to the War Powers of the Presi- fjed. Even in those cases he .must where he was lying on the bench and told him that Mr. Nance said “step dent: The Constitution of the United art subject to approval by congress out there.” He went out, he said, and States is a very clearly expressed .except in one instance—he may grant I Bailey. ; went around to^ Mr. Nance’s side of document. It is a marvel of simplic- reprieves and pardons for offenses 17. The Minister and His Work R. C. Kong. 15 /Social and Moral Welfare, Rev. J. W Jackson. 16. Alcohol Education, Rev. J. C. the car and Mr. Nance asked him who he was working for. He made a reply somewhat along the same line as reported by Leake, he said, and then Nance said “I have told you be- home with her daughter, Mrs. Glenn ,4or * you a11 d ' d ^*1 again I was Hairston. ! going to kill all of you.” Adding to 23. Publicity, Rev, R. W. Park. 24. Leave of absence. 25. Resolutions. 26. Others. BENJAMIN & SONS PLUMBING •••And*** HEATING SERVICE Telephone 117 WE ARE HUNTING TROUBLE Watch Your Kidneys/ Help Them Qeenee the Blood of Harmful Body Waste tt kidnava era coutaatly Altering matter from tfco blood it roam. But kidaoyo aomotimoa lag la tkolr work—do not not aa Natora lateadad—(ail to ro- mova tmpwitiaa that, if ratalaad, may poiaoa tka ajratem and apaat tka wkolo body am akhiary, iptoma i it haadaeba, attacl gattiag np aighta, awjriling, oador tha ayaa—a faaliag of aasiotr aad'toaa of pop aad atroagtb. Otbar aigna of ktdnay or biaddwdW. ordor aro aomotimaa burning, acaaty or too froquont urination. Thoro aho old bo no doabt that pronap Tbara should bo no doubt that prompt trostmant la wioar than nagloct. Don Doom’s Pills. Doom’s hava boon winning now friaeds for mora than forty ysara. 2S harm a nation-wida reputation. ^bTfratefol^yUtbi Doan spills Shelby, Miss. Raymond Dean of Camp Croft, vis ited friends in the community over the week-end Mr. and Mrs. Frank Young and children and Mrs. Lula Abercrombie of Fountain Inn; visited Mr. and Mrs. Earle Abercrombie Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Jackson and family of Prosperity, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Homer Richey. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Kellet of Newberry, are spending the week with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Blackwell. Mrs. Boyd Grant and children of Whitmire, are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Brown. F. E. Brown, Rev. B. L. Wood and 1 Miss Eloise Brown visited relatives | in Whitmire Sunday., Jim Coleman visited friends in Greensboro, N. C., Sunday. Ed Godfrey was called to Green ville because of the illness of his daughter, Mrs. Helen Cannon. Mr. and - Mrs. Harmon Robinson and daughters of Greer, visited the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Robinson, recently. Mr. and Mrs. Hall Kelly of Gold ville, visited Mr. and Mrs. Henry Abercrombie Sunday. * Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Jones and family are visiting the latter’s moth er this week near Anderson. Roy McKittrick of Greenville was a Sunday guest of Misses Sally Ann and Stella Duckett. Miss Frances Fuller of near Mountville, spent the week-end with Mrs. Floyd Emery. Miss Bernice Ellis and Nettie Cope land visited Mr. and Mrs. Ray Fowl er near Clinton the past week-end. Mrs. Clarence Neal and son have returned after spending several days with Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Rowel in Anderson. Mrs. Rowel was here for the past week-end. J. H. Pace has returned home af ter undergoing an appendi operation at Hays hospital. Mrs. Di>ra Harris visited her son, E. C. Harris, in Laurens the past week-end. Misses Agnes Caldwell and Gladys Thrift spent the week-end in Green ville with Mr. and Mrs. I. C. Quinn. Miss Margaret Johnson, student at Winthrop college, spent the week end at home. Birthdays aad Wedding Anniversaries Mr. and Mrs. Claude Willard will observe their 23rd wedding anniver sary Friday, October 9. Carl Abercrombie and William Motte celebrated birthdays Oct. 6. Mrs. Johnnie Womack celebrated a birthday October 7. Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Stroud cele brated their 5th wedding anniversary October 8. ENGRAVED Calling Cards for army and navy officers. An ideal, useful gift for father, husband, brother or friend. Ask to see samples. Chronicle Publishing Co. Phone 74. AMERICA/^** DRAFTED ..j-' President Roosevelt has issued a call for the boy* and girls of America to perform a groat patriotic service and the newspaper publishers of South Carolina are making a special appeal to the boys <• and girls of this state to help m a great Salvage Campaign. Let's make it the greatest scran col* lection job the world has ever seen. ) South Carolin IERSPAPEKS ANNOONSE IHSiLLlie CONTEST for SCHOOL CHILI1EI More than $1,004 in War Bonds 46 Large Sise| American Flag! More than 3)500 Certificates of Merit Grand Prize The student who collects the poundage of scrap* hi South rr-irKna mg the contest wins a trip to D. C Advertisement * „ OFFICIAL CONTEST RULES* PURPOSB To onoourac* tho ooUaction of avary avaflabte pound of ncrap matml In South Carolina; to anawor tho Nation’* call for ■alvaf* that tho non of our oundd forces may not die for lack of weapons; to pre vent the wholesale closing down of steel mills all over the country beonuae of a metal shortage, and to give every South Carolinian hie or her chance to help solve personally one of the major crises of the war. PLAN Priaes will be given by the newspapers of South Carolina to the students of the public school* and high schools turning in free or selling to dealers, the most scrap metal between Monday. October S and Saturday, October 17, Inclusive, ac cording to the prise rule* as listed below. PRIZKS _ A 125.00 United States Savings Bond. Series E, will he given to the student In each of the 4« counties In South Carolina who turns In free to the - school or sells dealers the largest amount of scrap metal or rubber, in pounds, between Oc tober S and October 17, Inclusive. A large American Flag will be awarded to the school In each of the state's «• counties turning la free or selling to jSTSuSt •* education and the South Carolina Sal vage Official will he awarded to the student In each of the state’s t&U public sraded and high schools who turns In the largest number of pounds of scrap. ORANO. PRIZE The student who collects th* largest poundage of scrap In South Carolina during the contest will be given. In addi tion to hie or her bond, a trip with all expenses paid to Washington, D. C. ELIGIBILITY Each of the 479,042 students In South Carolina's public school system Is eligible to participate ip this contest. PROCEDURE Th* Superintendent or Principal will be in charge of th* Con test* In his re spective schpoL Th* County Superintend ent will supervise th* Contest In each County. The State Superintendent of Education, ~ Dr., James H. Hope, will be In charge of the Contest throughout all of the schools In the state. Only scrap receipted In pounds on en official blank will be counted In th* contest JUDGES Judges for th* Contest win be named by Mr. Rex Enright, chairman of the South Carolina State Salvage Committee. The decision of th* Judges in all mattera pertaining to th* Contest will be final. ■> l in Coopomtion With the S. C Frees Association by The Clinton Chronicle