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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
BRIEFS.. ABOUT
PEOPIE YOU KNOW '
Week-End Trips . . Visitors
Mr. and Mrs. Grady League and
daughter Barbara Ann of Augusta.
Ga., were guests Sunday of Mr. and
Mrs. R. M. League.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Ahhams spent
the past week vacationing at points
of interest in Tennessee and North
Carolina.
Mrs. Edgar Copeland and sons are
visiting Mr. and Mrs. Grady Sea-
wrigt\t in Pendleton. Miss Joanne
Copeland is the guest of the M. A.
Macdonalds at Montreat, N. C.
Little Gail Oxley of Spartanburg
i* spending a few days with Boot-'
s:e Horton.
R. M. League spent a few days;
this week in Lexington Park, Md., I
with his daughter, Mrs. A. D. Con-,
nor. Mrs. Connor accompanied him
home yesterday for a visit.
James Austin Chandler was the
guest last week of Mr. and Mrs.
M. A. Bennett at Myrtle Beach.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Oxley and chil
dren of Spartanburg are visiting her
mother, Mrs. R. S Horton and other
relatives here this week
Misses Mary Kent and Elizabeth
tVysor will return home today after
completing a course of study at the
Eastman School of Music in Rochest
er. N. J. Ln route to their home here
they stopped in New York City for
a several day’s stay.
Mr. and” Mrs. Everette Sigmon
jnd son. Brent, of Conover. N. C..
were* week-end guests of Mr. and
Mrs Ohn C. Johnson.
Mrs. H. D Rantm and Mrs. B H
Henry are visiting their sister. Mrs.
V T. Wingo, in Cincinnati. Ohio.
Mrs. LeRoy Sanders has accepted
i position as cashier at the Dixie
Home Store
Mr. and Mrs. H D Rantin spent’
several days''last week in Montreat
and Hendersonville, N. C.
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Chanej. Mr.
and Mrs. T. H. South and Charles
Hughes attended the Henderson fam
ily reunion in Gray Court Suunday.
Mr.* and Mrs C. C. Giles spent
the week-end in Midville, Ga. as
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Percy Smith
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Giles, Mrs. C
B Kugler and children. Mrs. Thurs
ton Giles and children, accompanied
by Mrs. Thurston Giles’ sister, Miss
Mary Dove, of Waco, Jexas, wno
is Visiting here for several weeks,
will leave Sunday for a week's va
cation at Ocean Drive beach.«
Friends of Mr. apd Mrs. F. C. May
nard will be interested to know they
are making their home in Y^ncey-
ville, N. C., where Mr. Maynard is
connected with North Carolina State
Board of Health. Mrs. Maynard is
the former Mrs. Ethel Bubin Adair.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hitt and son,
Bobby, of Spartanburg are spend
ing a few days with the former’s par
ents. Mr .and Mrs. Eugene Hitt. They
have just returned from a visit with
Mr. and Mrs. James Hitt in Chicago,
111. Also guests of the Hitts here on
Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. W. D.
Armtsrong and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Smith' Worley and son, Smith, Jr.,
of Gray Court.
Mrs. B. O. Whitten has returned
from a visit with her daughter, Mrs
Edward F. Slier and Mr. Slier in
Long Island, N. Y. She was accom
panied home by her grandson, Whit.
Mrs. L. J. Brandt and daughter, faar-
tha, of Greensboro, N. C., will arrive
tomorrow- for a visit with her par
ents, Dr. and Mrs. Whitten.
Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie S. Hiers are
now occupying their recently pur
chased new home in the College VievV
Heights section.
Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Wilder and
daughter, Sara Louise, spent the
week-end with their grandmother
and mother, Mrs. J. B. Wilder.
Miss Marjorie Miller, of Green
ville, spent the week-end with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Miller.
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Coe, of Colum
bia, and Mr. and Mrs. T. P. P. Car-
son, of Greenville, spent Sunday
with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.
H Shands.
Mrs. Ethel R. Pitts spent the
week-end with her brother, R. R.
Russell, and Mrs. Russell, in Colum-
b.a.
George Cornelson, Jr., Henry Bur-
ton. and Hub Hunter spent the week- v
end at Myrtle Beach.
Dr and Mrs. S. L. Huntley and
son. Stephen. Jr., of Dahlonega, Ga.,
were guests of J. Aldine Blakely and j
Miss Lois Blakely during the past
week.
Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Steer have re
turned from a week’s stay in Colum
bus, Delaware, and Newark. Ohio.
Mrs. Will Evans, of Newark, return
ed home with them for a visit.
John D Dominick is spending this
week in Waynesville. N. C., with his
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daughter. Mrs. D. F. Whitman, and
Mr. Whitman.
Miss Luva McDonald, of the or
phanage high school faculty, en route
to her home in Iva after a stay in
Richmond, Va., spent Tuesday with
friends here.
Miss Myrtis Rice, with her grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Ownby,
of Kinards, have returned from a
two week’s stay with relatives in Il
linois and Ohio. While in Chicago
they attended the Railroad Fair.
Misses Jean Copeland and Miss
Alliene Copeland were visitors in
Johnston Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. S. Y. Adair and sons,
Sammy and Browning, are spending
several days this week in LaGrange,
Ga. jfe^th Mrs. Adair’s sister, Mrs. J.
Ed Traylor, Jr., and Mr. Traylor.
Mr. and Mrs. Rutledge Adair, of
Rock Hill, and .Mr. and Mrs. Duck-
ettett Adair, of Columbia, visited re
latives here yesterday.
Mrs. James Moore, of York, and
Mrs. T. O. McKeown, of Blackstock,
visited their mother, Mrs. Fannie Y.
Blalock, during the week.
Miss Ella Adair and Dillard Adair
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Adair in Laurens.
Bobby Franks, son of Mr. and Mrs.
C. N. Franks, is spending two weeks
at Camp Old Indian,, near Green
ville.
Mrs. Herbert Lindsay is spending
some time with her brother and sis
ter-in-law, Capt. and Mrs. Felton H.
Moore.
Mr. and Mrs. P. S. McElhinney of
Atlanta, Ga., spent the week-end
with the latter’s mother, Mrs. Agnes
Kern.
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Self of Marion,
N. C., and Mrs. Annie L. Martin of!
Fayetteville, N. C. are guests of Mrs. i
F. F. Hicks. On Tuesday they vis
ited Dr. Hicks who continues to im
prove at the Veterans Hospital. Au-|
gusta. Ga. where he is a patient.)
Mrs. Self and Mrs. Martin are sis-|
ters of Dr. Hicks. ^
C. Manley Hawkins of Daytona
Beach, Fla. was the week-end guest (
of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Knox and at-1
tended the family reunion at Cross
Anchor on Sunday.
Jimmy Bass and Joe Jones have
returned home after spending last
week at Camp Rawls.
Mrs. B. L. King and Miss Emma
Adams with the former’s daughter,
Mrs. H. R. Phillips, Sr. of Spartan
burg are spending two week's at Pau
ley's Island.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul League, of Rock
Hill, spent the week-end with the
former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. M.
League.
Mrs. T. C. Johnson. Sr., Mrs. T. C.
Johnson, Jr., and children and Mrs.
Billy Johnson are spending a few
days at their cottage near Hender
sonville, N. C.
Mrs. M. A. Cason of Atlanta, Ga..
end Mrs. Pearl Sniddy of Edge
field are guests of Mrs. C. D. Yar
borough and Miss Lily Yarborough
and attended the family reunion at
Cross Anchor Sunday.
Mrs. George Plunkett and children
of Conyers, Ga.. spent last week here
with her mother, Mrs. Estelle Ab-
; rams, who accompanied them home
ft a visit.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Calhoun and
1 daughter of Clio were week-end
I guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Leag-
■ ue.
! Mrs. B. M. Anderson, Mrs. W. C.
Anderson, Miss Katherine Anderson,
and Mrs. D. B. Anderson of Spartan
burg were guests during the week
of Mrs. Ray Anderson and Mrs. Ag
nes Kern.
Cotton Loan Rate
In County This Year
Set At 27.23c Pound
The U. S. Department of Agricul
ture has just announced that the av
erage loan rate for middling 7-8 inch
upland cotton, gross weight, produced
in 1949 will be 27.23 cents per pound,
which is 90 percent of parity price
of 30.26 cents per pound as of August
1, 1949, according to H. A. Ropp,
county administrative officer of the
production and marketing adminis
tration.
The average rate for middling IS
IS inch cotton will be 220 points (2.
20 cents) per pound above the aver
age rate for middling 7-8 inch cot
ton, or 29.43 cents per pound, gross
weight. Premiums and discounts for
the various grade and staple length
combinations under the 1949 loan
program will be calculated in rela
tion to the loan rate on middling
15-16 inch cotton.
Loan rates will vary according to
location. All loan rates for Laurens
County will be based on middling
15-16 inch cotton with a loan rate of
30.17 cents per pound, gross weight,
with premiums and discounts for
other grades and staples, Mr. Ropp
said.
Loans will be made on cotton re
presented by warehouse receipts is
sued by warehouses approved by the
Commodity Credit Corporation and
on farm-stored cotton (secured by
chattel mortgages) stored in structure
approved by the county agricultural
conservation committee. Notes will
bear interest at the rate of 3 percent
per annum and will mature July 31,
1950, but will be callable on demand.
Loans will be available through Ap
ril 30. 1950.
Beil Street School
Destroyed Bv Fire
As The Chronicle went to press
last night, the Bell Street school
(colored) was a mass of flames and
had been practically destroyed by
fire. Cause of the fire was not known,
and it had gained considerable head
way when the fire department re
sponded to the call and fought to
save the brick building.
BOWMAN
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Bowman, of
Alto. Ga., announce the birth of a
son, Kenneth Loftis, July 30th, at
Thursday, August 11, 1940
Downey hospital, Gainesville, Ga.
Mrs. Bowman, before her marriage,
was Miss Nelle Loftis, dau-ghtef of
Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Loftis of this ci
ty.
JEANS
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Jeans, Jr.
announce the birth of a daughter,
Virginia Josephine, at the Blalock
Clinic, on Wednesday, August 3. Mrs.
Jeans is the former Miss Florence
Tripp, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O.
A. Tripp, of Piedmont. Mr. Jeans is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Jeans
of this city.
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