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I iii V > JL >>, . i" v ftHHaSnfly THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Cleon Newspaper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable Wat (Eltntan If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News Volume XLIII Clinton, S. C, Thursday, February 18, 1943 Number 7 PERSONALRECOUKTjONSOF CLINTON By the Late Rev. William Plumer Jacobs, D.D.; In New Literary and Biographical Book of His Life, ^ Edited by Thomwell Jacobs. (Editor’s note: The Chronicle is publishing several chapters pertain ing to Clinton’s early history as writ ten by the late Dr. Jacobs and recent ly published in book form for the first time. These installments will be of especial interest to the older fam ilies of the community). WAR RATIONING INFORMATION FOR BOOK No. 2 (>0|||J RATIONING THE CHRONICLE, for the information of its readers, is publishing be low the Consumer Declaration form to be used in registering tor War Ra tion Book No. 2. It is suggested that you fill out the form and carry it next week to the school nearest you. J / Other important rationings information will be found on pages 2 and 8. Clinton As A Prohibition Town When the town of Clinton was first founded, nobody would have thought of those two words together—Clinton and prohibition. In fact, Clinton was gather the head center of the anti- prohibition sentiment, but as the | that time until this years went, circumstances arose that! For a while the council had trou to raise the liquor license. It reached at its best $500.00. In 1880 the citizens decided that the time had come to ask that a law be passed by the legislature prohibit ing for all time the sale' of liquor in the town of Clinton. The law was prepared and sent forward to the leg-! islature and passed. Someone asked 1 the governor why he signed such a fool law as that. His reply was, if the people of Clinton wanted anything of j the kind, they could' have it. Clinton | was one of the first towns in the state ; to pass under the prohibition flag. It | has never forsaken its banner from altered its view of the situation. Just after I came to Clinton a Spartan burg citizen told me that he went from store to store and he could find nobody in condition to wait on him.. Merchants and clerks were stretched on their counters asleep, while fumes ble with blind-tigers, with drug stores, with passing North Carolina whiskey wagons thru the town, with little liquor shops on our country streets and every other form of li quor selling, but the temperance peo ple were on the alert and they fought of liquor told the tale. Whether he i nobly for their principles and have told the truth or not, it indicated the j the pleasure of knowing that they fact that an idea was abroad in the have led the state of South Carolina land that Clinton was not for tern- j along precisely the same road that j perance. The town was chartered at;they traveled and the result is that! first for fourteen years, The charter j South Carolina is now a prohibition! expired by limitation in 1866. When state, and that its late legislature hasj it was rechartered, about the first j locked the door and thrown the key question that arose upon the selec- away. tion of mayor and council was as to The lodge of Good Templars did whether a wet or dry council should' not keep alive its enthusiasm for be put in office. A wet council was! many years after the town became a almost the unanimous result. I dry town. They seem to have had the Liquor worked out in Clinton its idea that they had done their duty, natural results. Several murders took place in the town or near it. These greatly shocked the sentiment of the community which was beginning to be purified by regular preaching in the churches. With each new case of murder or manslaughter, the general feeling among the ladies of the town, if not among the men, was, “What a bad name this will give to Clinton,” for it must be faced, that at the time the reputation of the town was more of a concern to the mothers, sisters and wives, than to the men of the town. Along in the seventies the spirit of temperance became more alive. A lodge of Good Templars had been or ganized in the town, and such men as Jas. M. Wright W. B. Bell, R. S. and they truly had. Clinton is proud of her prohibition sentiment and shows a pure life and a multitude of sweet cottage homes, her colleges, her railways and her factories as the reward of her pur pose at any sacrifice to get rid of liquor. I might say here that other forms of vice that usually accompany liquor drinking have been put out of town. It was the proposal at the very outset to make Clinton a clean place, the sort of place men and women could afford to raise their children in. The town up to 1880 was almost, without exception, a town of Presbyterian people. The lodge of Good Templars had almost every office filled with Presbyterian men and women, and OPA Form No. R-TS81 United States of America OFFICE OF PRICE ADMINISTRATION One copy of this Declaration mast be filed with the Office of Price Administration by each per son applying for War Ration Book Two for the members of a family unit, and by each person who Is not a member of a family nnlt. File at the site designated. Cou pons will be deducted for excess supplies of the foods listed below according to the schedules an nounced by the Office of Price Administration. Phinney, and others were active [ that church may well be proud of its workers in it. Mr. Bell was an elder efforts in that direction. in the Presbyterian church, a mer chant of the city, threw his soul into the lodge, and served it for many years as its worthyAchief. This lodge determined if it were possible to The only cases of discipline that ever came up in the church session were trials for drunkenness and pro fanity, and these gradually grew less, until drunkenness has been banished change the sentiment of the town of from the town and a drunk man is Clinton in favor of an anti-liquor almost unknown on our streets. And law. In 1879 a dry council was elect- yet at one time the town was spoken ed, and all barrooms were closed, i of as “the worst hole in South Caro- Prior to that the only effect the se-jlina.” lection of a dry council had had was! (To Be Continued). CADETS EXPECTED AT COLLEGE SOON Plans are being perfected at Pres byterian college for the early estab lishment on its campus of a military school for training army aviation ca dets as recently aooroved by the War Manpower commission. Dean M. W. Brown was notified by telegram yesterday that Capt. C. M. Turner of Maxwell field, Montgom- SCHOOLS TO CLOSE FOR RATIONING The city schools, white and colored, will suspend all classes next week to get the new war ration books into the hands of the people. Registration will be held daily at the schools, with the teachers direct ing the work. Housewives are re quested 'to go to the school nearest them to qualify for the new book. The closing order is state-wide and it is expected that all schools in Lau- CONSUMER DECLARATION Processed Foods and Coffee I HEREBY CERTIFY that I am authorized to apply for and re ceive a WAR RATION BOOK TWO for each person listed be low who Is a member of my family unit, or the other person or persons for whom I am acting whose WAR RATION BOOK ONE I have submitted to the Board; That the name of each person and number of his or her WAR RATION BOOK ONE are accurately listed below; That none of these persons Is confined or resident In an Institu tion, or Is a member of the Armed Forces receiving subsist ence In kind or eating in separate messes under an officer’s command; That no other application for WAR RATION BOOK TWO for . these persons has been made; That the following Inventory statements are true and include all Indicated foods owned by all persons Included In this Declaration: COFFEE 1. Pounds of coffee owned on November 28, 1942, minus 1 pound for each person Included in this Declaration whose age as stated on War Ration Book One Is 14 years or older 2. Number of persons included In this Declaration whose age as stated on War Ration Book One is 14 years or older CANNED FOODS Include all commercially canned fruits (including spiced); canned vegetables; canned fruit and vegetable juices; canned soups, chili sauce, and catsup. ' DO NOT INCLUDE canned olives; canned meat and fish; pic kles, relish; jellies, jams, and preserves; spaghetti, macaroni, noodles; or home-canned foods, 3. Number of cans, bottles, and jars (8-ounce size or larger) of commercially peeked fruits, vege tables, Juices and soups, chili sauce and catsup owned on February 21, 1943, minus 5 for each person included in this Declaration 4. Number of persons Included in this Declaration The name of each person included In this Declaration and the number of his or her War Ration Book One is: Print Name . Number i 2. ■..............................................,...•••••............ ........................................ 3. 4 - 5 * 6. ;. MEETINGS PUNNED FOR HNDAY NIGHT Mass meetings of the citizens of Clinton, Goldville, Mountville and Cross Hill will be held Friday night, February 19, at 8 o’clock at the places listed below. The purpose of the meetings is to furnish information in regard to the “point” system of the 1 rationing of foods that will apply throughout the entire country on LEGISLATURE NOW HALF WAY ON 40-DAY LIMIT . / - . Behind In Its Work On Supply Bill. Seeks Ta^ujt Income Taxes. Columbia. Feb. 17.— The general assembly of South Carolina Tuesday ^ began the second half of its consti- MarchT.AH citizens of the designat-1 tutional “40-day” session with work ed places are urged to attend one of, on the general appropriations bill at the meetings without fail. least four weeks behind the record There will be five meetings for : set at last year’s session—shortest in Clinton, with the following speakers: 24 years. North Broad Street Methodist The senate received the general ap- church—R. E. Mabry. propriations bill totaling $17,024,747 Thomwell Memorial chapel—Miss! and referred it to the finance com- Thelmh Hicklin. mittee as the assembly began its sixth Lydia Baptist church—Rev. W. A. i week of meetings. Tinsley. ^ ! This was in contrast to action by church •Rev. last year’s session which saw the house complete work on the money bill the first week, send it to the sen- 7. 8. If additional space is needed, attach separate sheet NOTICE.—Section 35 (A) of the United States Crimi nal Code makes it a criminal offense, punishable by a maximum of 10 years’ im prisonment, $10,000 fine, or both, to make a false state ment or representation as to any matter within the juris diction of any department or agency of the United States. (Signature of applicant or authorized agent) (Address) (City and State) Serial Numbers of War Ration Book Two issued: ery, Ala., will be the commanding officer and is now en route hpre to rens county will close for the week enter upon his assignment. i° r ^ or as m any days as necessary. L. S. McMillian, of the college staff, 1 James H. Hope, state superintend- is in Richmond, Va., it was further ;ent of education, has stated that stated, buying new equipment pre-1 “ e ach day devoted to the issuance of paratory to the enlargement program, book will be considered a school Classrooms in the new library build-Only the schools can perform _ ing are being furnished to be used by.this tremendous task,” the statement College To Confer ‘^Thcl'le for the arrival of the ca-| ^ Honorary DegrCCS dels has not been definitely announc- i ed. The statement released last week V^OIlaUCiing RATIONING BOARD BULLETIN (OPA) Calvary Baptist Ralph Hughes. Bell Street school—Misses Margar et.Blakely and Harriet Minus. | a ^ e which completed its work the Other meetings and speakers forl-j^nd we ek. and at the end of the the same date are: third week the bill had reached free Goldville community house—R. P. conference. Wilder. Senator Henry R. Sims of Orange- Cross Hill high school-—‘P. H. Hob- burg, vice-chairman of the finance son - 'committee, said work would not Mountville high school — Ellis start on the senate’s version of the Stockman. measure until Committee Chairman "" “ Edgar A. Brown of Barnwell, return ed today. Senator R. M. Jefferies of Colleton, I veteran member of the committee, said he did not believe it would be i necessary for the committee to hold (Compiled for information of The public hearings on the measure. As Chronicle’s readers). governor he was a member of the .. ,, . budget commission which made the SUGAR-Slamp No. 1! m war ra- 0^, r e comme „dation S "to the tion book 1 is good tor three pound. ways ^ nd means committee, of sugar through March 15. It wa3 consldered likely that the COFFEE—Stamp No. 25 good for fl na nce committee would return to one pound through March 21. ! the bill the $35,000 appropriation FUEL OIL—Number 4 coupon be- eliminated by the house when it abol- came valid January 30 and wiU be Ished the industrial school. The good for 9 gallons until April 6. Pe- committee also was expected to aUow riod 3 coupons good for 9 gallons and sa ia r ies for five members of the in valid through February Id. dustrial commission. The house cut GASOLINE — Coupon No. 4 in A appropriation to provide for only book good for three gallons. Temper- ; three members. ary “T” coupons will be issued di-| To equal last year’s action on the rectly by ration boards for a period money bill, senate and free confer- of not more than 30 days. Boards en ce committees would have to corn- will use original ODT certificates only plete their wort next week, for checking tire inspection. Although the governor and house TIRES—Holders of Ration A cou- j a nd senate leaders have called for a pons must have tires inspected by s h 0 rt session this year, there has been OPA on or before March 31. Holders httle apparent inclination on the part of B and C coupons must get first in- 0 f the assembly as a whole to speed spection by February 28. ' work on bills. Only 14 county supply WAR RATION BOOKS — Ration hills have been introduced compared book 1 -is being currently used for wit h more than 30 this time last year purchase of sugar and coffee. War .Debate flared briefly in the house ration book 2 wfll be issued on Feb- yesterday on a bill which would re- ruary 22 or any day thereafter for q U ire prospective brides and bride- six days. Rationing of canned goods grooms to wait three days after ob- starts March 1. taining their license, before they TYPEWRITERS—Rentals of non- cou id wed. portables manufactured after 1934 • Representative Reid of GreenviHe, are banned. Nonportables made be- author of the bill, told the house “we tween 1927 and 1934 may be rented m ust legislate for the people of South to persons who obtain certificates Carolina and the people of South from their local rationing boards. Carolina alone, not those of North Rentals of portables made between Carolina and Georgia.” 1927 and 1935 may still be made on Most of th e opposition to the mar- a 6-month basis. Most portables made r i a g e controll bill hud developed from since 1935 also may be rerited on the border counties, where probate judg- same basis. es do sizeable business tying nuptial STOVES —New coal and . oil-fired knots . The bl u has received the sup- heaters are being rationed. Persons port of many women’s organizations, who will use new coal stoves to re- Representative Ansel Hawkins, place oil burners may apply to their | outspoken opponent of the bill, ud- ! local war price and rationing board, [dressed the house for 43 minutes. BICYCLES—Persons gainfully em- “North Carolina law does not require ployed or doing volunteer war work south Carolinians to comply and our i can qualify for certificates to buy bi- people can get marreid there. In ! cycles. Bicycles also are available to Georgia, if they say they are over 21, | pupils who need them to get to and they can get married,” he said, i from school. Certificates ' should be Representative Wallace of York, j obtained from local rationing board, [began an attack on the bill, but the I SHOES—Stamp No. 17 in war ra- house adjourned after he had spoken tion book one can be used to pur- only a few minutes. He will have the I chase a pair of shoes through June noor, however,-when the bill comes ; 15. The stamp must be torn out of up.for debate again, possibly today, i the book at the time of purchase in The house sent to the senate a bill the presence of the person selling or which would increase the exemption ON THE WAR FRONTS , 1 1 delivering the shoes. If you buy shoes on state income taxes in three classi- Kharkov last important Nazi the stamp may be detached fications. The bill would allow single Announcement was made this week 1 stronghold ’ in R uss j a except Orel to and sent with the mail order - Stam P persons $1,200 exemption instead of by Presbyterian college officials that ithe north falls to s^ie^ in flerce No. 17 is transferable among mem- $1,000, married persons $2,000 instead four honorary degrees will be award- battle _j20 000 Naz i troops dead or bers of a famil y livin £ in the same (Continued on j»agc four) by the War Manpower commission CollOGG ScrVICGS indicated that 400 students would bej * 4 ♦ ♦ i . ... , , assigned here. 200 to arrive at the 1 ^ Rey Julian Lake Dastor of ed at the commencement exercises to ounded An Ge rman forces east of household and related by blood, mar^ college about March 1 and the second n a V? and A V enue^^ 1 ^ held ° n March 7th ’ (Dnieper imperiled. i nage ^ adoption. F or example, par- „ — ,,, . « « Oakland Avenue Presbyterian church,. _ _ group of 200 will arrive on April 1. Rock Hm 0^^ Religious Empha- The Rev ‘ K - Roberts - Pastor of | Nazis lose six miles in counter-! The cadets will be housed in the sis week ; n ^ Presbyterian college the First Presbyterian church of this attack west of Faid Pass in central dormitories and served meals in the c h a pel on Tuesday morning. The ser- college dining -hall. vices will continue through this eve- The disciplinary system will prob-i ning at 12 noon and 7;15 Glin _ ably foUow the army code, it is pre- ton are assisting Mr . ^ at . dieted, and it is presumed the cadets tbe dormitory meetings held each .. . . „ _ . , . .. wiU wear the regular army uniform. nieht at wh £ h time student nrob-! P resldent °. f McC omick Importing ilems are being discussed. [company; Clarence R. Willcox, pres ents may use their stamps to provide Miss Lou Henderson Passes In Asheville extra shoes for their Children. If a city and a graduate of the college, Tunisia following U. S. withdrawal P« rson to buy shoes and has no will receive the degree of doctor of;from Gafsa. Ben Gardane in Tunisia S , tamP u^u‘J 7 _ n hlS im ^ ne ^ ate fa ^* divinity Doctor of laws degrees will be con ferred upon Charles P. McCormick, Kenneth Bickers of Chatta- Tenn., is spending a few occunied bv Briti«ih Fivhth armv I ily which he can use, he may apply Miss . t' <,u Henderson, pleasantly rXenJanan^ 'to his war price and rationing board ^ no ^ n here b y man y Mends, died Fifteen Japanese ships sunk or for a sh<je purchase certificate. Cer- ! ast Friday at the home of her sister- damaged, 60 planes destroyed, two, 4 lu ‘ “ , ^r- Asheville N C after an U. S. .hip,, indudin* cmiMr’chicago, ! “ 'T. ' h ' ' C ' and 22 planes downed is score Davfc? Wlth hCr m0the^, Mrf ' George by Robert Schwanebeck, president. The services are sponsored by the |dent °* the I l arling t 0 " ^ American land offensive on Guadal College Chri*ian association headed f ca " al .Cannon, president of Cannon' mills. MR. CLINTON MERCHANT THE CHRONICLE is read each week by thousands of peo ple throughout the city's trade area where your prospective customers reside. Using THE CHRONICLE’S advertising columns regularly will increase your sales and piake new customers. Why let your advertising competitor take business from you? $90,206.25 Bonds Sold In January Assessing Time Closes March 1 ~ [ Miss Jennie V. Culbertson, county i A total of $90,206.25 in “E war audRort caRs attention to the fact bonds were sold in Laurens county that the time for returning personal during the month of January, accord- (property for tax purposes closes ing to figures supplied from the office [March 1. “On my rounds of the coun- of H. D. Gray, bond chairman. t y t >» s h e sa i c j > “the people showed * ; wonderful cooperation, but there are iGETS FOUNDER’S AWARD many people.yet who have not made I Walker P. Rivers, of Aiken, has i their returns.” She warned that the i beeh chosen by the college faculty; law provides for a 10 per cent penal- U. S. airmen attack German U- boat base at St. Nazaire in France, starting fires, but losing six bombers. '■■■■ || * ———ii.i.n I— Chapman Appointed Acting Solicitor rubber boots and rubber work shoes ex * ended Period of declining health. ln must 'be obtained from rationing ^ be ft ,nera l service was held Sun- boards. day afternoon in Asheville with the ' ' ^ —. Rev. J. A. Baady in charge. Miss Henderson was a native of Laurens county and for twenty-five BOYD GUEST SPEAKER Professor Bernard H. Boyd, of the years was a resident df this city, oper- Presbyterian college faculty, was the a ting a boarding house on South guest speaker last evening at a meet- Broad street. Due to declining health, Lesley Brotherhood of s h e closed her home here a year ago Broad Street Methodist church. and since then had made her home "• with a nephew, Pierce P. Henderson. She was a woman of many admir- to receive the Founder’s award \n the chapel on March 7. The award is pre sented annually to the studant who most nearly approximates the col lege’s ideal for young manhood. ty where property is not returned before March 1. Real estate, she re minded, except new buildings or property that has changed hands, will not have to be returned this year, army service B. V. Chapman, Newberry attor- spe^KS AT BANQUET a £V n * S °t R - E - Ferguson, of this city, district ;,ble traits of character and there are comprise,' XviUe 0^3! Sc ° U , t t C h hai ™ a "; pa""'n g Wh ° ^ learn °' ^ ^ U .™ d to “7v e r 0 ^u,S Surviving ie her sister-,n-la.; is expected to take over his duties n j ng , . , three nieces, Mrs. May H. Daniel. the latter part of this week, the an- ^ Mrs. Caroline Duckett and Mrs. Patro nouncement stated. McMahon of Asheville; four nephews, Mr. Chapman was appointed under CHURCH GROUP TO MEET Pierce P. Hendersqn of Asheville, a special act to flU*the position made! The Men-of-the-Church of the Richard F Henderson of New York vacant by the entrance of Solicitor First Presbyterian church wiU hold [city, E. H. Henderson of Greenville, Hugh Beasley of Greenwood, into tljeir February dinner-meeting at the and C. G. Henderson of Knoxville A«■«**«* ■ 1 ■ ■ 1 n i» a . > . . _ _ . 6hurch this evening at 7:30. Jenn.