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X. d J 1 . i i \ • / THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Clean Newspaper, Complete Newsy and Reliable If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News Clinton, S. C, Thursday, April 22, 1948 Volume XLVIII TRAINING SCHOOL GETS $<42,718 IN STATE MONEY BILL • Appropriation Includes $460,172 for Mainten ance, $352,000 Perma nent Imprpvements. Columbia, April 21.-^(Special to The Chronicle),—The State Training Mi n s , Riverdale of Enoree playing The application school at Clinton is appropriated a Joanna at Goldville, and Clinton ^^5 ag0 w j t h the board and one of j sisters and two nephews, according! total of $842,718 by the general as- ( M^ls invading Mills Mill at Wood- j j^ s representatives spent several days; to his wilL“liled and proven in com- sembly for the next fiscal year. This, ru ff. There are six clubs in the ioopi j n the city interviewing local busi- amount is $396,144 above the total this year instead of eight as last year, ness men as t0 t he need and possi Number 17 Mid-State League Tp Open Tuesday; Three Games Weekly The Mid-State Textile league will | raise the curtain on the 1948 season 1 on next Teusday, April 27, according; to the official schedule as announced | some time ago. All gafnes will be played at night this year, with 50, games to be played on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of each week. Application of the Commercial De- 1 pository for a general banking bus.- Opening games will find Brandon ness was a pp r0V ed the past week by of Woodruff playing at Laurens the state board of t> an k control. WrJ. BAILEY WILL FILED FOR PROBATE Clinton Manufacturer- Banker Leaves Large Estate To Designated Members of Family. -—-»■—. After disposing of $66,000 in spe cial bequests, the late William J. Bai ley, banker and textile executive of this city, left the residue of his estate, was- filed several I estimated in the millions, to three PLANS UNDERWAY FOR NEW BANK Bank Board Approves . Conversion of Commer cial Depository Into Banking Institution.^ To Speak Sunday At Church and College m mon form” Monday in the office of the judge of probate in Laurens. . I $446,574 appropriation requested by Watts and Whtimire moving over k0 ibilities of a new bank here. Follow- i 0 two granaaaugniers, rrancesi the superintendent, and is $444,120 the Central Carolina league which jng his investigation the state board, Bailey Brooke of Lexington, Va„ and 1 above the $398,4M recommended tor;cpened Apht 13. j approved the conversion. iFlorence Baifey Adams of Atlanta,! ,W^ K T i e C !‘ n l. 0n Mi " S ,earn ,S h ' aded i JohnT. Young ,s president ot the;Ga.. he left $25,000 each; to his' budget commission befoce the-legis-f by Yonnie Greene as manager, a vet- lative session. John T. Young is president of theiGa., he left $25,000 I gyj AV/4....V 4..a.. a * t 4, a we-. Depository H D Henry vice-presi- I daughter-in-law, Marion Fleming!, eran pro and semi-pro athlete, ^ on 81 dent, an d F. M. Boland, cashier. LBailey of Augusta, $15,000, and to The general assembly approved an appropriation of $460,172 for the school in the general appropriations act, antMhen added abSther $352,000 for permanent imporvements in a supplementary allocation contained in the deficiency act. The deficiency headed by H. L. Quintana as mana act. also carried a third appropri- ..... „ —. , . ation of $30,546 for a deficit at the the field when the umpire calls “play °P erate d ior a number of years dur- institution this year, making a-total ball!” | in S which time Us volume of busi- allocation for the school of $842,718.! April 29, Thursday — Mills Mill, J 1655 J) 35 steadlly K r own. Its Decem- In its annual reoort the board of I wil1 P lay at Brandon > Laurens at Riv ‘ Jer 31 statement showed deposits o in its annual report, the board or|^£ ^ $1,119,713.77, capital, surplus and identified with textile athletics. Their , , , ... park has been put in first-class con-i The banK!n 8 institution is to oe- dition, the seating capacity enlarged!^ 0 OP* 1 - 31 *™ 5 Wlth a capital of n^ to 3,000, lights and other conven- less than $>00,000 and a surplus of iences added j $10,000. Details of organization will The Joanna team at Goldville isi be bounced later by the directors ,! and stockholders. ger and will have a strong nine on The Depository has successfully regents ot the school stated that ', at i undivided protits $26,303.03, total as- -Exeept '“ r “''"-"“wdmg, which ; 1. hatm-day Randan ^ J1146 018 80 Dlrectors are „ posing of the residue, after the special puts an added burden upon all oper-1 ni\eraaie ai i.aurens, Walter Bailey, colored, now deceased, and former family, servant, $1,000 “if still living and in irty employ" at the time of testator’s death. f DR W T THOMPSON Dr. W. T. Thompson, senior mem ber of the faculty of Union Theolo- „ , ,.. , , .. ,, i gical,-senunary. Richmond, Va,., wil4, out 1S en tj t ied JlS. 1 « '.«» Zt if «* sptalter tb _ r •**» m » ra * n * " r :.every 25 members and one tor COUNTY PRECINCT CLUBS CALLED TO MEET SATURDAY To Elect Officers and Delegates to County Convention on May 3. I The 1947 Democratic primaiy 4 [underway officially this week ;a .Laurens county .when Ralph T. W.«- -son. county chairman, issued, a n 1- 4-ttce calling Tor meet.ngs of prcnncV" -r-elubs to be held at their usual place- ! jit 3 pm. Saturday afternoon, April 24. for the usual orgamzat.on pur- l poses. The clubs, the notice .says, sha.. elect a president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer, a committee on registration, one executive com- i mitteeman and , delegates to ,t.te .county convention which meets May 3 at 11 o’clock in the county court house. ' Each precinct, the notice poinas to one delegate for was written November 26, 1942, and was witnessed by W. C. Neely, Wil liam N. Bobo and W. P. Buridette. Executors named-in the will are P. Sitas Bailey, William P. Jacobs and Robert M. Vance, nephews of the vice at the First Presbyterian church majority fraction thereof, based upon Sunday, and at the vesper service on 4 h€ number of votes polled in the the college campus Sunday evening f irst primary two years ago. a t 6:45. . Officers to be voted on this year After graduation from Davidson include one United States senator col’.ege and Union seminary, Dr. for the seat now occupied by Sen. Riverdale ations of the school, and the .increas-; O m > on a > *J° anna - ed cost of all necessary supplies . * ' which made it difficult to stay with- TurnipSGGQ SpGOks in the budget and yet maintain fair Af || n iAn <sprvirp standards, the board is happy to re- C" JCfTltc port that conditions generally at the For DIuIg C0US6 school are satisfactory.” The board | •»—— called the attention of the legislature] A large congregation was present to “the remarkable health* record at the union service of tne city which is set out in detail in the re- churches held at Broad Street Metho- D. Henry, John T. Yoyng, - F. M. Boland, W. W. Harris, J. P. Prather, and S. G. Dillard. deceased. . , . _ Thp cpv-pnth nrtiHp nf thp will His- Thompson held pastorates at Lexing- Burnett R Maybank, a congrsesman •sing of the residue after the special ton . N. C.. Knox . <. I'enn.. and M tne beat now occupied-by < bequests reads as follows < bile.-Ala. During the first World war J»c R Bryson^ certain state officer^ “To my sisters, Toccoa M. Bailey. Mary P. S. Bailey Elected President Clinton and Lydia Cotton Mills the county senator and three repre sentatives, .sheriff, clerk of court. two county commissioners, coroner, game warden, and<var:ou« istrates. T,he date for the pr.mary ele-. >hve At a meeting of the board of di- port of the superintendent and of dist church Sunday evening. The, rectors of the Clinton and Lydia the medical director. This speaks I occasion w-as the inauguration of the Cotton Mills held Monday, P. S. well for the attention which the pa-janri\ial campaign to raise lunds for Bailey was elected president and tients at the institution have received the Bible teacher’s salary in the city treasurer of the two corporations, and should be a matter of satisfaction school system sponsored by the 1 succeeding his uncle, the late W. J. to the people of the state.” ‘Churches of the city. Bailey. The new president has been y# j The board recommended to the R. E. Ferguson, chairman of the. associated for a number of years with tors fji e d a petition for appointment; Robert M VoPCG campaign committee, pre*ided at the Mr. Bailey in the management of as a <iministrators with will annexed k| j d* service and heartily endorsed the;ihe mills, hokUn# the-office ot vice*)of the estate trf the late M. S. Baiter,' NomeO rreSIOent campaign and emphasized the need, president. [father of W. J. Bailey, who died in Bailey's Bank he was director of army YMCA work Emma B. Cornelson and Mary B. al Camp Jackson and Camp Green. Vance, mv nephews, P. Silas Bailey As a dirce ‘ :>r a 0 - vs ramp for *.0 and Robert M. Vance, if living at summers, as a member of the Na- the time of my death, I give and be- Pleaching m >s.on, a> a puo- queath in fee simple the entire bal- > 1C > ectu rer before numerous eauca- ance of mv estate of whatsoever kind tional eroups, and as a preacher in wn* be set by the state and wheresoever situate, be it either ! constant demand throughout the which meets uuMay [real, personal, stocks, bonds, notes,) coun > ry ’ ^ r ; Tnompson has steadily cash or mixed; and in the event of ex ' ended niS teaching mini>try Hi» the deatfi of either one of my sister* ] personality, his deep uq- 1 or nephews, then the estate is to be derstandmg and his warm sympathy divided only among .those living.” : bave niade him a close friend of To Handle M. S. Bailey Estate | rnaMy seminary students and church At the same time they filed the groups throughout_the Soutn. Bailey will, the three execu- township niag- general assembly that the school be enlarged to eare for’"many'cases lo cated in practically every communi ty in the state which are pleading for 1 oJ Bible instruction for the youth At the Clinton mills George H. i92fi and whose estate has never been admission.” It added that the school 1 of the community. He stated that Cornelson was elected vice-president; settled.-In that estate the executors ‘l Delecatrs By C lubs The following is a list of p listed yesterday by Chairmar with the number of delegate whi h each is entitled: Baileys (S)C Barksdale-Narme (6), Brewerton (5), Clinton C.ty (29), Chnton Mill iJ2), Cross Hill (lj; Cook* Store 13), Daniels Store Dials vSt. Ekom (5). Goldville (14), Grays (2), Gray Court (10), Hickory Tavera (8), Hopewell (3), Jones Store (8), Lanford* (3), Langston iS-k-Lraureni needed better quarters for its per-[canvassers had been named from all W. C. Neely, secretary; Robert M. sonnel also. ; the churches and it is hoped to com- Vance, assistant treasurer. The appreciation of the board for plete the campaign successfully this At the Lydia Mills Mr. Cornelson „ „ . D , Mills (10). Laurens City (52), Long Follow."! thk d r l l 0 , W i Ba ^-', Branch (3(. Ljd.o Mills (T,. Ml. 01- ers, C. M. Bailey and loseph A. Bai-; Bankers, of ° : ive <3) ' Mj untville (3), Mount the "cooperation and assistance” re ceived from the “officials of Clinton, week. I was elected vice-president; J. D. The ministers of the city churches Hairston, secretary; Mr. Neely, as- the state highway department and were seated on the rostrum and hadlsistant secretary; Mr. Vance assistant the officersof two railroads, the Co-, a part in the service. . (treasure—.—— —— lumbia, Newberry and Laurens, and] The speaker of the evening was With the" newly elected officers the the Seaboard Air Line” are extend- Dr. B. R. Turnipseed, district super- mills will continue to operate under ed.in the report for an agreement' intendent of the Greenville district, the ownership and management of peached “with the city of Clinton of the South Carolina Methodist the Bailey family as in the past. whereby the school will be allowed conference. Dr. .Turnipseed deliver- f ♦ to connect with the water mains iOf ed a strong and impressive message rnfrir Pink the city.” The board stated that this ° n the Bible and the importance of l/BIIIOCiQriC V*IUD arrangement, “in addition to the sup-[its teachings in the lives of individ- To Meet Moildoy ply from the wells owned by the uals. school, will secure for years to come! ^ an adequate supply of water which,! Former Resident Here of course, is most essential for |n Greenw00( , ley, all now dead. were W. J JBailey and his two broth- president of M. S Bailey ic Son. this city, the bank has: pjV ^ (^ MernaJS). Owings (7). -been re-organ.zed according to an 0ra (3) ; Pleasan . m »und <3,,Puplar announcement m todays paper. Springs (4).'Princeton (4.. Renno Rjbci-t M. \ a nee, nephew ol Mr.i(2), Shady Grove (2). Shiloh (3). B^.!ey.>-jan4- tdr .th.e__4iasL -S£jyeral Stewart^ Storr f^r : - Trp--fop-T3T; ' years ..connected with the bank, has Trinity Ridge (4). Waterloo The Clinton Exchange club b * e " ' lecK . d . >he bank MlUt U7), Woodv.lle 19 launched the annual drive for funds m n ^. reor 6 anjza J h. ■ - a y Youngs (3). Total 281 . .t * _ executive vice-president, Goyne L. for the American Cancer Society „ . . v , A . , . . ... . ... , Simpson, cashier. Mr Adair foi Saturday with a quota this year of f d ca _ h , er and . ^ $1500.00. Members of the local club mer ‘> « erved as ca * h ‘ er - and v ^ Drive On In City For Concer Fund (4). ana for- r. I health, cleanliness and fire protec tion.” The report lists 971 patients at the* i have placed coin boxes and posters’ in all the prominent business estab- I lishpients. The 3°cal Boy Scouts A meeting of the city Democratic have aided the campaign by distnb- club has been called for next Mon-]uting leaflets tevrestdents in the city, day night, April 26, at 7:30 at the During the campaign which willt Simoson as assistant cashier. The late W. J. Bailey served bank as cashier and president 62 years. the tor Locol Citizens* Form Fishing Club Mrs. Eula Mae Venable Sims, wid- Last Rites Today For high school building by L. B. Dillard, end Friday, April 30. members of the $Qt Howard Borrett Ctfsprotarv AIT r*itv c a ro i _ IT v p H n n pTiaK va.’ i 11 p/v rv t q p t aopVi rcic i _ ^ secretary. All city voters are in I vited to attend the meeting. Exchange club will contact each resi dent of the city through a house to school in the last fiscal year, of which j ° w of Charlie Lee Sims, died Thurs- j The meeting has been called to or-I house canvass. All are asked to help BaTre‘t b °M > ' ’ he “ ue . Sfe : huAa ‘ d uw nmg the .property 38 were from Laurens county. day morning at her home in Green- ganize th{? club( elect officers and , this worthy cause to a successful ch- Dr. B. O. Whitten is superintend-i ^ ood ; f olloWin 8 3 week s illness. The, an executive commiU ee, and make , max. ent of the school and Dr. F. L. Webb, 1 uneial * er vices were held Friday ai-| p ] ans f or t he municipal primary to be medical director. Clinton Club To Meet Saturday The Clinton city precinct club will meet Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock ternuon in Bethlehem, Ca. , held jn June lo nomina te a mayor Mrs. Sims was a native of Georgia and Jix aldermcn and was 75 years old. Her parents 1 ,, were the late Allen and Mollie Lyle ■ i D « . Venable of Jackson county. She was! LOCKer riant UWOGTS ar loyal and faithful member of the Methodist church. ‘ Mrs. Sims made her home here for] a storkholdem,. ,mee4mir J of the To Meet April 29 $327,000 Subscribed In College Drive According to President M. Brown of Presbyterian college. W, lat- | est tabulations on the recent endow ment drive show $327,000 raised in Ten local citizens have purchase! the Dr. B. O. Whitten property on Cane Creek. Buzzard Roost, near Greenwood. The property consists of a dwelling and 23 acres of land, l ani is now owned by and known as the Cane Creek Fishing dub The group onsists of B B. who was killed in action Ballard, president; Frank E. Miller. I in .-northern France in 1945, arrived t vice _ presul ent, Thomas P Owens, here yesterday at noon and was re- secretary-treasurer; Rufus King, Hu- moved to the home of his :ather in, O wens. Marion Stewart, Marvin I Goldville.. i DeYoung. J. C. Pace, Jim Ray, and I The funeral service will be held, Henry Suber. this afternoon (Thursday)! at 4 -m i o’clock at the Goldville Baptist church, with the pastor Rev M a. Movie Program For Bryant, in charge. Interment- with KiwODIS Meeting military honors will- follow here in 1 Carolina and ( A stockholder*.- tmeetmg"** of at the high school building at which twelve years until she moved about Clinton Electric Freezer and Lockei 1 the synods of South time officers will be elected and [ two years ago to Greenwood. Her ] Cooperative has been called for Georgia. He states he is confident delegates named to the county Demo-j friend s here will learn with sorrow Thursday, April 29, at the high school the $350,000 sought will be reached, cratic convention May 3. Members °t her passing. at 3 0 ’ c i oc fc. All holders of boxes with the campaign continuing for of the club are invited to be present. Surviving are six children: E. A. at t h e plant are invited to be pres- an indefinite time. , „ , _ ^ . Officers serving the past two years of East Point, Ga., R. W. Sims, * - ■■ — j * A. Bane.t ui Goid\il e, J F Bar- are: R. L. Plaxico* president; John Atlanta, W. A. Sims of this city, Mrs. [ — ATTENDED PRESBYTERY 1 rett of this-city, and Mrs. Jeanette The regular meeting of the K:wan- „ ■ _ , , is club wiB be held this evening at Sgt. Barrett was a memoer. of the 7 30 m the college d;ntng haU . Pow .- • ell Fraser of the college faculty wilt have charge of the program and a movie will be shown it ha* been a.-.- inounced. Rosemont cemetery 75th division, 291st infantry He is survived by his father, G. A Barrett; one sister and two brothers. utive committeeman. L. Sloan, vice-president; L. B. Dili-,* 1 - p Maddox, Madison, Ga., Miss GOLDVILLE CLUB TO MEET Dr. C. B. Betts and Elder W. J ard, secretary; W. H. Simpson, exec-| Charlotte Sims, Greenwood, and Mrs. | John RosS( head of the Goldville Sloan returned yesterday from Iva, Otis Alexander, Atlanta; also two prec j nc t c i u b ( has called the club to where they attended the spring meet- w-nv, er f’ ift and H ® rman y enab i e > 1 hold its annual organization meeting ing of the Second Presbytery of the ° Sli f 0n ' Ga '’ and eignl ,at the clubhouse Saturday afternoon. Associate* Reformed Presbyterian ■ grandchildren, . lat 3 o’clovk. 'church. Marshall of Goldville. 1L* was the late Mrs. Flossie Barrett. mother Hooper Charlie Nabors Out For Alderman Ward 5 ♦— Game Warden Charlie Nabors, well known Clin- p . /"N *| ton citizen and merchant of West, RCieaSeS V UCI11 Main street, announces has candi dacy in today’s paper for alderman from ward five in the approaching! Ported several days ago that he had municipal primary. ' released a quantity of quiil for prop- P. C. Cindermen Rout Newberry dame Warden Garvin O’Dell re- reAd —THE CHRONICLE ADVERTISEMENTS REGULARLY EACH WEEK They inform you as to chang ing prices, where you can §up- ply your needs whatever they may be, where you can shop to advantage. , BE WISE— READ TNE ADS quantity of quail tor prop agation purposes in sections through the county. “I tried to give every section its share,” he said, “and placed them where food and cover were most plentiful.” Two Initiated Into University Fraternity | G. N. Foy, superintendent' of the Joahna schools, Goldville, ' was in- iat$d into Phi Beta Kappa, nation- ; al honorary scholastic fraternity at the University of South Carolina (during the week, as a graduate stu dent. Cecil E. White of this city, was in itiated into the same fraternity as a , law school student. MR. MERCHANT .... There Is No Substitute For NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING Your messages regularly in THE CHRONICLE)! will be seen and read by thousands of people at leisure. The lifg th e weekly home paper is longer than that of any other advertising fnedium—it is kept and read through- oiH the week by members of the family. THE CHRONICLE is the moaft economical and most effective advertising medium you can use in Clinton’s trade area to reach your prospective customers. THE CHRONICLE ‘The Paper Everybody Reads** The Presbyterian college .a . u c , Hose trackmen swamped the New berry college Indians here Saturday, 100 to 31. The Hosernen took 12 qf 15 pos sible fiist ( places. ’ . Walter Gooch, of PC. was high man of the dual meet, 'taking first ATEXD RECREATION MEET Walter A Johns n. athletic dire - at Presbyterian college, with several students, attended the annui’. Southern Industrial Recreation D:-. ^ rectors’ conference last week .a Greenville. Johnson was one o: the Blue. Sukers on the program NEW SUBSCRIBERS HONOR ROLL For less than 4c a week you can jet all the newj^of this community place in the shot put, -second in the in THE CHRONICLE N’e.v sabs. ihp- 100-yard dash, thirds ip,the javelin throw and pole vault, and ran a lap .of the mile relav. , r ‘ Mrs. Poole To Speak At Long Branch ‘r i Mrs. Walter Ei- Poole of ]Elber- ton, Ga. will conduct two services i at Long Branch Pentecostal i^iurck April 24 and 25. She will talk on Saturday evening at 8 o'clock and again on Sunday morning at the reg- jular worship hour at 11 o’clock. jhe. public is cordially .invited to attend these service*. * lions accepted (or mail.ng unywheri. Single topics available at the o.- fi e on publication lay,a; 5c copy Welcome and thanks tk> tho*e ■ t our Honor R*>11 this week: L V POWELL. MRS. E E. WEaLLS, Clinton MRS KJTT R Me MASTER, Albany. Ga. MRS. JAMES WILSON. West Clinton MRS. J. R. BOYD, • Atlanta/Ga. > MRS. PERRY SUMERAL. ' MRS. SARAH BL'RCKHALTEP. South Clinton. \