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THE CHRONICLE
Strives To Be A Clean
Newspaper, Complete
Newsy and Reliable
Volume XLVIII
I 0
CLINTOH FACES
QUIET CHRISTMAS
HOilPAY SEASOH
Business Firms and Mills
To Close. Yuletide Spirit!
In Evidence. Shoppers
Throng Streets. j
Clintonians are doing their last-
minute shopping today and Friday in
preparation for a general observance T "~
of Christmas. The weather the past (
few days has been ideal, crisply cool j
and clear, and thousands of shoppers
are taking advantage of. it. Stores
and streets are filled with shoppers.
with merchants reporting a good!
volume of business.
Clinton business will be closed
Saturday, Christmas Day, and Mon
day as employers and employees ;
celebrate-the season with a long holi
day pointing to a 'happy observance.
Business firms will remain open !
later than usual today and Friday
for last-minute shoppers.
The city schools closed yesterday
to reopen January 3. The orphanage
schools closed yesterday and Presby- i
terian college last Friday.
The postoffice will be closed alj
day Christmas Day and no deliveries
will be made.
The Joanna Cotton Mills company,
Joanna, closed December 18 for a
week’s holiday to terminate bn the 1
morning of the 27th.
The Clinton and Lydia Cotton
Mills will close with the third shift
this morning and resume operations
on the morning of the 27th.
The Hallmark Manufacturing com
pany will close today and reopen
Monday morning.
The Gwen-Evan Mills plosed Tues- (
day -afternoon and will resume ope
rations on the morning of January 3.
Christmas cantatas and special j
programs have been presented in the |
churches of the city and community
Many will spend Christmas out of
the city visiting relatives and friends;
during the past week,
while others have returned to their
homes here for the holidays.
Christmas, of course, is the day of t
days for children, the celebration 1
centering around the Christ-Child.
The little folks have been busy for
weeks making known their wants
to Santa who recently came to the
city for his annual visit and was
enthusiastically greeted by several
thousand people.
Indications point to a quiet, enjoy-,
able Christmas for Clinton and this
entire community. THE CHRON
ICLE wishes for its thousands of
•readers a season of joy and happi
ness, free of sorrow and anxiety.
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If You Don't Read
THE CHRONICLE
You Don't Get the News
Clinton, S. C, Thursday, December 23, 1948
Number 52
CHRISTMAS WEEK
IN CLINTON -
21 YEARS AGO
Items of Interest About
Happenings and People
You Know.
(Issue of The Chronicle Dccem
her 22. 1927) -
Miss Sarah Pitts of Cr-eenvili •
and Miss Martha Pitts >f P-e ‘mon-
are spending Chnstm i.-- • wiM tin*
parents. Mr and Mrs .1 >n H P :N
Mr. and Mrs Charles E. Moody
and daughter. Miss Susa:.. •' W\».
V k, are Christmas goes
J \V Lenke and Mr C. (.
M ss Nannelle BiaToek
ter, is at home for the hl<l
her parents. Mr. and Mrs
Of Mr
Bailey.
f La
days
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lea s-
Wlt.'
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Prof, and Mrs M
gone to Ch ittanooga Term . ‘ •
the holidays vwth tin* Lifer'
ents.
Brewer Dixon < B mu
n a v
uen
rna.
Kiwonis Club To
Act As Santa For
Orphanage Family Nine Grid Gomes
The Clinton Kiwanis club, follow*- Now On 1949
ing a several years’ practice, will q L a J I rtr D r*
again serve as Santa Claus-for the ^CnCOUIc TOr r. V*.
boys and girls of Thornwell orphan-,
a g e | Prsebyterian college now has nine
Bags will be presented to all the football games scheduled for the
children containing an assortment I^'IS season according to Athletic
of fruit. They will bear the greet- Director W. A. Johnson, with the
ing, “Merry Christmas,” and will! possibility, he said, that a game or
be distributed to the large family on two will still be added.
Christmas morning. ! The Blue Hose will continue on
j Clemson’s home schedule for the tra
ditional opening game. They will
Decoration Contest
At Lydia Mills Closes
Acreage for harvest is estimated at
1,130,000, an eight per cent increase
V*
also meet Furman in Greenville in a
renewal of a rivalry that was inter
rupted several years ago.
The home decoration contest held Other games on P. C.’s slate are over 1947 and the largest since 1943.
at Lvdia Mills came to a close Tues- Th e Citadel in Charleston, Erskine, The indicated yield of 337 pounds ' 1 ‘ !'
day, December 21. Out-of-town judg- a l Due West, Wofford here, Catawba 1 0 f ij n t an acre is the second highest l0 nt “ i ee -
es selected the winners and prizes here, Stetson here, Rollins in > lorida on record. The state peak was 391 .
were awarded by streets as follows: and Newberry at Newberry. pounds in 1944. Next was 375 pounds Ll .‘L.„. 3 1
Locust street, Henry G. Canfield; Coach L. S. McMillian said his a n acre in 1940. 1
Beech, L. M. Collins; Palmetto, J. C. team should be more experienced Cottonseed production was esti-
RoberLson; Poplar, Joe Nelson; Mag- anc * m uch stronger next year. A host mated at 361,000 tons, based on the
nolia J A Black Jr - Soruce A M of, block-lettermen with some prom- average ratio of seed to lint for the
Shumate, Jr.; Cypres^, C M. M;cEl- ‘sing sophomores will form the nu- past five years.
hannon, Pine. Carl Eiders; Sycamore, <- leus * he said - ’ The census report shows 816.000
has joined Mi's. .Dixon here fpr
holidays.
The following Chicora college gir.-
are spending the holidays at home
with their parents: Misses Cleon
Pitts, Marion Copeland, Al, i Wilson,
Ethel Killen, Janie Ivois Lynn, Mar
garet Copeland. Ellen C.'pe’.ac i. Be*-
ty Wnodw irfh. Mamie Ruth Holland,’
Rosalie Jones, and Margaret Rachel
~CopeTancT; •' ” . Ml
The following Winthrop girls are
at home for the hohdaysr 1 Misse i
Frances Black, Elizabeth Adair, Irmt
Simpson, Margaret Finley, Clara
Louise O'Daniel. Victoria Lynn. Eliz
abeth Shealy, Frances Shealy, Mar
Todd, Mabel Aldred, Lidie Davi.,.
Alma and Zehme Davis, Isabel With
erspoon. Alden Bailey, Ada Holmes
Davis, Sara Knox, Bernice Johnson,
Nell Clapp, Dorothy Chandler, Fey
Adair, Janella Boland, Gladys Al
dred, Jeanette Crawford, Katherine
Fuller and Janet Leake.
The following Clemson .students
are at home for Christmas: Frank
Kellers, Lee Hunter, Dean Carter,
Thomas Heath Copleand, C h a r 1 e ?
Workman, James Edmund F’erguson,
and Hamp Boyd.
Dr. J. JI. Miller, Cross-II;I1 phy
sician, died at his home in Cross lli l
last Thursday.
The Christmas story, “The Child
Christ.” was presented m cantata al
at the First Presbyterian church
Sunday afternoon under the direc
tion of Mrs. J F. Jacobs, Jr.
Prof. W. E. Hoy exf the college fac
ulty, has taken a year’s leave fr* i
his work .for research work at t-h.*
University of North Carolina
| Announcement is m^de by the J
C. Penney company >f New York
large department store chain, of the
opening of a store here the first s
August, having acquired a lease -o
Adair’s Department store building
On Saturday afternoon She pupiL
of Miss Maude Sumerel presentel
| their annual Christmas recital be-
i fore a large number of parents anl
j friends.
On Monday afternoon Billy Owei
, entertained a number of friends in
This year’s state cotton crop, esti- „ „ 0
mateed at 890,000 bales from Decern- joy an unhappy Christmas, there are elected and installed for the various an ^ r ‘ A O’Darvcl >nd *
i ber 1 reports, is the largest since plenty of sure ways to do it, the Masonic organizations in the city, i Q f Atlanta, are the Christmas guev?
1940, the United States department American Red Cross has suggested. serve tor 1949: | of Mrs. Myrtle Hunter,
of agriculture said yesterday. ' Among the methods of being sure Campbell Lodge No. 44. A F M. f ' Stutts has been elected chan-
It is 37 per cent larger than the you’re unhappy are these, it said*. • K. F. Mills, worshipful master; S. eeUor commander of Lodge No. 8*
651,000 bales made last year, Frank Using a pile of books or a wobbly C.« Chaney, senior w-arden; Marvin Kmghts ot Pythias, for the cornin’
O. Black, state-federal agricultural chair in place of a step-ladder when DeYoung, junior warden; F
statistician, said.
SC Cotton Crop
Biggest Since
1940, USDA Soys
Plenty of Sure Ways
Listed To Enjoy
Unhappy Christmas
Washington.—If you want to en-
Mosonic Organizations
Elect Officers For
The Coming Year
The following officers have been ^ onor h* 3 httle cousins, Dorothy
M. Bo-
you re trimming the Christmas tree, land, treasurer; V, Parks Adair, sec- ^ annual ladies night party
Putting your Christmas tiree too retary; O. C. Lewis, senior deacon; , ' lt ’ Fliwams chib was held at the h-*-
near radiators or fireplaces or* not J W. Smith, junior deacon; J. P, Friday evening, with President
putting its base in a container* of Quinton and J. Roy Workman, Jr., ^ ” Dillard as master of curenv -
something else stewards; W. O. Holland, tiler. m ^ s -
The following first g
Leaving toy^ underoot to trip un-
the kitchen with too
LUIS
Crowding
many cooks.
Getting too close to Sant a C
and his inflammable costume
cigarettes or lighted candles. '
Or tilling your arms ab ve eye
fore December 1.
Leon Hamby; Oak, John Bagwell;
Elm, W. R. Fuller; Peachtree, Will
Ellis; Pond, Lily Patterson.
Will Ellis was winner of first IVieLnuulbl N-llUlLll SUNDAY SERVICES AT
grand prize and Homer Wood was During the Sunday morning wor- LITTLE-RIVER DOMINICK
second grand prize winner. > ship service at Broad Street Metho- ’ services will be held Sunday af-
Speciol Music At
Methodist Church
running bales ginned in the state be- ; level with bundles while shopping. Boland., treasure
William Plumer Jacobs Chapter
No 54. R A M
K. F. ?dil!s, high priest; A. G
nold, king; J K Johnson, scribe; S
C. Chaney, C. of H.; Marv.n De-
Yoyng, P.S.; F. R. Knox, KAC;
w ‘.i t C. Johnson, M 3rd veil; J. E F'urr v
Mi 2nd veil; Durward Mu. dock. M.
1st veil, V. P. Adair, secretary; F. M
Simp-
|. me lonowmg nrst grade pupils at
F'londa Street school were on th\*
honor roll the past month Margin •:
Brice, Ludie Nell Scot,!, F’raeces
Si ill a, >n. Louise J.e’obs, Maiv FYao -
ces Johnson, Margaret Keen, CarU
wee Gambrel.
AdvertisinK Notes
American Legion
Sponsors Dances
then stepping briskly between tw
parked cars into traffic.
J Gillette
son, guard.
Msngrove Council
RETURNS FROM MICHIGAN
E. Murphy Timmerman has
turned to his home here after at
tending
Management school for some time in
Flint, Mich.
No.’40
R X S M
K. F Mills', I Master, J. K
re _ son, Dep. Master; Marvin DeYoung,
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Juhn-
Pnoes m a Country Market adve -
ti semen t .n the isuie read: Pork,
hams 28c lb., steaks 30c lb., stew
beef. 12' 8 e lb., mixed sausage 2Hc II
cured ham- 24c lb
White Christmas
Pr. Con. of Work; F\ M Boland,
General Motors Dealers treasurer; V. P. Adair, recorder; T I'm dr earning of Whlte Christma..,
t crhool for t.m*. m C Johnson, Capt. of guard; S. C J . u>t llkt *. ‘he ones 1
Chaney, Cond. of council; J FI F’urr,
steward; E. R. Knox, sentinel. *
Prizes were donated by the mills dist church a program of special mu- ternoon( December 26, at Little Riv-
and were distributed yesterday by sic was presented by the choir, un- er _Dominick Presbyterian church at
George H. Cornelson, an official of der the direction of Mrs. James Pitts, o’clock. The public is cordially
the company. organist. invited to attend.
Members of the choir were:
Sopranos: Miss Jean Copeland,
Miss Ann Pitts, Miss Carolyn Pitts,
Miss Frances Lee Pitts, Miss Barbara
! Workman, Mrs. Julian Coleman, Mrs.
^ ‘Ethel R. Pitls, Mrs. F. F. Hicks.
There will be dapees at the Ch n *t Altos: Miss Ida Jean Chaney, Miss
ton. armory on Christmas eve and Blakely, Miss Margaret Law- 1 With pleasure we present to our dence and friendship during the T , ' r , . .
also Christmas night sponsored by re h ce> Mrs. B. B. Ballard, Mrs. Frank readers'today our annual “Christmas year now drawing to a close. They Lydia , li s ci mmum y, don . a: to
the local American Legion post. R 3 mage . Edition” likewise wish for everyone 365 days 60 so one m * ht bef,>re Chris ’ mas '
Round and square dancing will be Men’s voices included John Coker. An unusually large collection of of health and happiness for . 1949. village is lovely, with evidence
enjoyed, and also jitterbug dancing, q Hollingsworth* Rhett P. Adair. • attractive “Merry Christmas and Today’s paper goes to our sub- 9^ 4 Lhe Christmas spirit seen every-
officers have announced. Prizes will R e v. p. L. Bauknight is pastor of Happy New Year’’ greetings appear scribers when everybody is busy 'with where. Many homes are illuminated
on the inside with tree', wreatas and’
Lydia Mills Village
Lovely for Christmas
If you haven’t driven through the
be given during the evening.
, the church.
City Schools Closed
For the Holidays T
Harry McSween With
Bank of Clinton
in/ the advertising columns (»{ the last-minute shopping and preoara
paper, together with helpful last- tions far Christmas. It comes to you hdh’s, and impressive , scenes^ and t, M tp e w,\ Y
minut? Christmas suggestion adver- when there will be plen’y of time Lghted tret's a:e pin -e
<T -
eu mT many
tising/ from tl^e City, Chamber of to read.it' contents during the long- lawns. The v Ho • H . eve v *;>pAi: -
Aoit orm
sues til
•Commercer 'merchants, banks, mins holiday period we nope it will pe U1 a. x v >. oi -. o
and varied other business firms. read and enjoyed by all our readers. Pin ed high on ton of the millTfy.ng thi
The Clinion city schools Closed Harry McSween, of this.city, ia ; These messages, full of good-will And it is tilied with much other in- plant o’ love y Ch - m 't ee ;h ie Wei me rl -oinks
yesterday afternoon for the Christ- now connected with the Bank of and'beautiful sentiment are inserted teresting and appropriate Christmas forth to telf the glad story o: the. our HoiL.r Roll tips Week
mas holidays and w*ill reopen at the Clinton as assistant cashier. Mr. Me- by Clinton business firms as a meaqs material you should not miss. season. ~ D. A. pLENN,
regular hour on Monday, January Sweep for the past several years has of publicly expressing thanks and Today's 28-page edition is the A similar lighted tree on top of the Clinton.
3, it is announced by Supt. W. R. held an executive position with Ja- appreciation to their friends and Jargest we have ever issued. We hope Clinton Cotton Mills is lovely and MRS. PAULINE HILLER,
cobs Press. rnstomxvrs for their natronaffe. ron.fi- *vou will eniov it. Merrv Christmas! attracts the attention of manv
I used to know,
Where the tree!ops glisten.
And children listen to hear
Sleigh bells in the snow
I'm dreaming of a White Christmas
W ith every Christmas card I write.
May your days be merry and origh
And may ad yuui Chi stmaseti bv
white.
NEW SUBSCRIBERS
HONOR ROLL
, 1949 is just ,iround t ie . rt«*r v A
'iibscription' f-. THK CHRQNlcLl-
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customers for their patronage, confl- ’you will enjoy it. Merry Christmas! attracts the attention of many.
South Clinton.
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