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I i, \ Thursday, February 22, 1951 / THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page Fire Bank the Easy Way Many people have found that Banking- by-Mail is the-most practical and conven ient way of depositing funds to their ac count. You can make deposits in checking ac counts—pay bills—without going past the corner mail box. You save time. It's a short cut for the businessman or woman as well as for the busy housewife. For more information about our Bank- ing-by-Mail service, come in and consult one of our officials. We invite your Business — We are anxious to serve you. had seen with our very eyes. That WEEK-END TRIPS . . VISITORS . . ILLNESS TZ™ im ' a rna "'” The talking machine! Well, we had the remedy for that. In the semi darkness, there was a woman under that table with her head in that con traption, and the music came from a music^box in there like we had seen BRIEFS...ABOUT THE PEOPLE YOU KNOW Items of Interest Concerning Clinton Residents Miss Martha Pitts who teaches in ; Rock Hill spent the week-end at her home here. i Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Shields have returned from Atlanta where they ; spent the past few days attending a 1 photographers convention. , Miss Juanita Hfllhouse spent the i week-end in Atlanta, Ga., with her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and ; Mrs. Ben Hillhouse who with Mrs. | J Brady and son, Clyde Brady, accom panied her here on Sunday. Park, Md., Was the guest last week before. of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Smith. Mr. Now we come to local reactions to Stewart joined her here for the the most wonderful thing of all that week-end. * we had seen. That was the moving Friends of Carroll! D. Nance will be interested to know he is recuper ating at home after being a patient at Blalock dinic. Fred Whitlock is a patient at Bla lock dinic. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Leake spent several days last weak in Charles ton with their daughter and son-in picture! We could dig up neither fact npr fancy as to how that fellow al most scared the daylights out of us with a full-fledged train running right into our faces there from a bed- sheet. Aft*r we kids had discussed it to and from school, families had talked about »t at the dinner table, and it had been discussed for days down at the blacksmith shop, no one had a suitable explanation for the phenom enon we had seen. Bank Of GUnton Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation C. E. Nichols and brother, Horace i Mr. and Mrs. P M. Clement, Nichols of Greenwood, have returned | ^ r - anc * son ’ Tommy. Mrs. Clement from a ten day fishing trip, to Wel- I aka and AStor, Florida. Friends of Mrs. J. F. Fogarty will ;be interested to know she is a pa- | tient at Blalock clinic. Miss Jane Sturgeon of Durham, N. C., Mr. and Mrs. Elwyn Sturgeon of Spartanburg spent the week-end with their mother, Mrs. H. E. Stur geon. (Mrs. E. C. Taylor continues ill at Blalock Clinic. First Lieutenant and Mrs. Adrian Boone and children of Camp Gor- dan, Augusta, Ga., were guests Sun day of Mr. and Mrs. Jtames P. Sloan. Mrs. Francis Blalock, Mrs. Lykes Henderson and Mrs. J. B. Arnold at tended the fourth district meeting of the South Carohna Congress of Parents and Teacher* in Greenville on Friday to hear Mrs. Marguerite and son returned home with them for a visit. The Leakes also had as 8 their guests, Mr. and Mrs. Lamar Nelson and family of Atlanta and Mr. and Mrs F. M. Terry of Greenville for the week-end. Visiting them this week were Mrs. Joe Williams and daughter, Mrs. M. C. Wise, Mrs. T. B. Taylor, and Mrs. Howard Clegg of Greenwood, Mrs. E. N. Gault, Mr. and Mrs. M. Hubert Hendricks, Mr. and Mrs. Everett Bobo of Fountain Inn, and Mrs. Jack Sheridian of! Greenwood. FARM AND FOLKS (Continued from page four) Brake Check And Repair EXPERT SERVICE! Let our technicians inspect your brakes and make all necessary adjustments and repairs. You'll be pleasantly surprised at the low coat of this service, and the speedy attention you receive. Drive up! \mo West Main Street Cooper Motor Company Phone 515 Southern Rose Steduu} Silue* by Manchester Open Stock Pattern! Place Setting — • Butter Spreader • Knife • Fork • Spoon • Salad Fork • Soup Spoon Regular $29.12 This pattern is exclusive with us in Laurens County. “It’s Time That Counts’ *» just about 12 months of adequate grazing is possible here. In fact some _ are getting that now, even with the M. Schied, director of "field Service d! T fal1 we had, followed by the cold for'the national organization. winter. Mrs. Eugene Avery spent the Lancaster Corn week-end with her parents, Mr. and The yields of corn farmers using Mrs. Irby S. Hipp. ! the 5-point Clemson method of graw- Mrs. E. F. Ray, Mr*. L. O. Thom- Ing it are now getting in every coun- ley, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Pitt* and ty makes those of a few years ago daughter, Myra, visited their daugh- look puny indeed, j ter and sister, Mr*. N. M. Lawtence I was with County Agent Cannon and family in Clemson Sunday. !of Lancaster when they delivered Mia* Cornelia Harris spent the 1 prizes in their Farm Bureau spon- week-end in Wilmington, N. C. as the sored com contest sometime ago. guest of Miss Ann Brockinton. Many farmers had participated. The Mrs. Joe Willard and daughter, Jo 118 high one* averaged 98 1 bushels Carole of Chicago, 111. are visiting per acre! And that’s as much as we her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew used to make on many a whole farm, i Johnson. • The Clemson Method, as boiled Friends of Frank C. Young, Sr , down from experiment and exper- will be interested to know he is a ience, is as follows: patient at Blalock clinic. L Thorough soil preparation, in- | Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Harris and eluding turning under cover crops, j Miss Cornelia Harris, will attend the 2- Plant recommended, certified winter meeting of the South Carolina hybrids. Pres* assoctatson to be held tomor- 3 Fertilize liberally, specially with 1 row and Saturday at the University nitrogen Washington’s BIRTHDAY ON FEBRUARY 22 . . . reminds us that our nation has surviv ed other trying times because of American thrift, resourcefulness and the courage born to free men. We can do it again! CLOSED WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY FEBRUARY 22ND M. S. Bailey & Son BANKERS Established 1886 Capital and Surplus $600,000.00 Member F.D.I.C. — Our 65th Year J, C. Thomas, jeueU* and Columbia hotel in Columbia. Mr. and Mrs. C. E Dorton spent the week-end in Concord, N. C. t with the latter's parents. Mr. and Mrs C. S. Cletand of Whitmire, Mr. and Mrs. Everett Col- line and son of Taylors, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Cisland and son of Green wood were gueets Sundey of Mrs. J. C. Wells, who was celebrating her •1st birthday. Ben Ltiksut of New York City 4. More plants per acre. 5. Early, shallow cultivation only. This method is being widely ap plied. And we seldom see any more of that old bumbldbee corn that make from nothing up to 8 or 10 bushels par acre, ftill details arc carried in Clemson’s Circular 338, Our Corn Program in South Caro- lint. Ask your county agenf. (More com from the same acres has great meaning for us here. Trans- spent the past week with Mr. and ’ formed into livedock and poultry Mrs. Henry Luketat. j products, it is the foundation of a J. Reed Todd is a patient at Bta- diversification that** growing leek clink where be is receiving Needs Paint treatment. I I was on a farm the other day (Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Jarvis of where cotton is still the thing, all Columbia, spent the week-end with by itsetf. the latter's mother, Mrs. Ethel R The house needed painting bad. Pitts and Miss Jeanette Pitts. On But the man said the past two years’ Sunday Rowland Russell of Oolum-! cotton crops couldn’t put it on. And bia visited his sister, Mrs. Pitta. *»« could hardly live. Ai Thayer of Madison, N. C., spent Farther down the road we saw SHORTAGE! Farmers are warned that there is considerable danger of a shortage of mixed fertilizers. ALREADY sev eral materials are extremely short BE WARNED — BUY NOW! the week-end with Mrs. Thayer and I children. Gilbert Blakely of the University : of South Carolina, spent the week- j and with his mother, Mrs. J. B. 1 Speake. Miss Barbara Workman and Miss Betty Jean Sunrverel, students at Fur nice cattle grazing on winter pas tures that had come to some of cot ton’s lost acres on another farm. That man made short cotton crops too. But the cattle he had ready for market rold well. And the fescue and ladino clover seed he cut from his pastures in June “sold like gold,” he said. His C-W-S Guano Co. Phone 62 man University, ipent the week-end I was neat and fresh with paint.; at heme. j And he was not worried about how Miss Alice Thompson of Whitmire he was g° in 8 to P itch a cro P in 1951 spent the wvek-end wun her sister, I For m(>st af his crops were already Mrs. Fred Whitlock. pitched. Mrs- Wayne Jarvis of Columbia 1 Bo >s Are That Way spent several days last week with That first show t0 come to our ; her mother, Mrs. Ethel Pitts, who Dutch Fork school is a covered wa- ] was ill at her home. Son in 1902, thart I’ve been telling | Friends of Mrs. Bailey Williams F0U about here the P a&t three will be interested to know she is a patient at Hays hospital. Bob Hellams, student at Universi ty of Georgia, spent the week-end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Hellams. Mr. and Mrs. Perry Moore spent several days last week in Wainsviile, N. C., on business. Friends of Mrs. Hubert Todd will be interested to know she is a pa tient at Hays hospital. Messrs. Lee Willard, Ben Work man, Mace Young, Hiibert Pitts, Ar chie Dixon, and L. W. Cooper spent several days the past week visiting points of interest in Florida. (Miss Mattie Blakely is ill and a pa tient at Blalock clinic. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Groshon and son, Bobby of Hyattsville, Md and Mrs. J. F. Thompson of Newberry were week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. I. O. Ray. Miss Carolyn Murphy has return ed to Wilmington, N C., after speed ing last week with her parents, Mr. and M rs - G. Murphy. Friends of Mr. Murphy will be glad to know he is convalescing following an illness. Julian W. Coleman is a patient at Blalock clink for treatment. Hugh S. Jacobs was in Charleston Friday to tike part on the program for the meeting of the Southeastern district of American College Public Relations directors. Mrs. John Henry Nance has re turned to her home in Cross Hill following an illness and stay at Bla lock clink. (Mrs. Alfred Stgwart of College weeks, left us in a stage of mental turmoil and confusion. We were not ready for the innovations it brought. Up to then at least the old folks could explain the things we saw and heard in our rugged hills and valleys. Or at least they could explain them to the satisfaction of us children. But this show had brought things we did not understand, nor could the old folks quite explain. That slight of hand, for instance, how did that man get a large white rabbit out of Cousin George’s black wool hat? And he pulled a silver dollar out of Cousin Mel’s ear! He borrowed a dean white handker chief from Mr. Jesse, burned a hole in it right before our eyes, put it in his magic tube, and it came out whole and unburned! All of these things puzzled us. 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