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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Pact TkirUc* Thursday, Noveuibtr 17, lfS5 Hymn Js Biini/0 BY CLINT 4 BONNER n Home, Sweet Home The author of on ageless song comes home A thousand trained singers stood at an open grave. It was a strange funeral. In the casket were the remains of a r United States consul who had been dead SI years. During the first half of the last century John .Howard Payne was one of the most successful play* wrights on two continents. As an actor, Payne was a sensation in New York, Baltimore. Philadelphia, London and Paris. As a critic and Journalist his works appeared on both sides of the Atlantic. As a musician, John Howard Payne didn’t know middle •*C“ from “A" flat Everybody knows that the author of M Home, Sweet Home M didn’t have a home of liis own. But the legend that he was a penniless waife only makes for a good story. Payne didn't have a home for a good reason—he didn’t want one. It was. in fact an his physician father could do to keep the stage-struck youth in college two years before he forsook his comfortable Long Island home to see the world from behind footlights. At 32 John Howard Payne lounged in his Pari sian apartment and wofted on a play he called “The Maid of Milan.” The melody of a Sicilian folk song he had heard while roaming about Itely kept running through bis mind. So Playwright 'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may room. Be it ever so humble, there's no place like'home. A charm from the skies seems to hollow us there. Which seek thro' the world, Is ne'er met with else where. I gaze on the moon os I tread the drear wild And feel that my mother now thinks of her child As she looks on that moon from her own cottage door Thro' the woodbine whose fragrance shall cheer me Payne wrote some verses to fit the tune and put them Into his script “The Maid of Milan” played at London’s Covent Garden Theater 12 times and folded up. But that part df the script called “Home. Sweet Home"—the verses Payne wrote to fit the folk tune—was printed In sheet music .and aold 300.000 copies the first year. Not realizing Its value, had sold “The Maid of Milan” out- only pay he got from the sale of Home” was the enjoyment of hear ing it .Payne was still enjoying it 27 years later when he sat in P. T. Barnum’s National Theater in Washington with President Millard Filmore, Henry Clay. Daniel Webster and Gen. Winfield Scott while fabulous Jenny Lind sang “Home, Sweet Home” and everybody “stamped and shouted as If they were mad.” If Payne was mad it wan because he hadn’t gotten a cent for the colossal hit John Howard Payne's plays have long since had their run. Nor was it because he had twice been United States consul at Tunis, Africa, that his body was returned to his native country. His friends Just wanted the author of “Home, Sweet Home” brought back home. And as the body of the once roaming playwright was lowered to its final rest ing place in Washington’s Oak Hill Cemetery, the choir of a thousand voices sang: An exile from home, splendor dazzles In vain; Oh, give me my lowly thatched cottage again. The birds singing gaily, that come at my coll; Give me them and that peace of mind dearer than alt. « Refrain ... Home! Home! Sweet, sweet hornet Be it ever so humble. There's no place like home. Monday from Blalock clinic and is improving. The children o# Millard Ginr have chicken pox. Magdalene Leopard is ill at her home. O. J. Gilliland is a patient at Hays hospital where she under went surgery. E. C. Vincent has returned home after a stay at Hays hos pital. Little Janice Campbell, daugh ter of Mr. nad Mrs. Raymond Campbell, of Atlanta, Ga., is ill. Mrs. Sam Madden was a pa tient at Hays hospital several days last week. Honor Richard Hampton Everyone is invited to attend a drop-in birthday party for Richard Hampton on November 22 at his home, 407 Frances St., beginning at 10 o’clock. Miss Allen Wins Hotpoint Range In National Contest Miss Ada Sue Allen, of Route 3, Clinton, has won a pushbutton BteUbut* Sy HhwtnU4 Items of Interest From . . . West Clinton MRS. JOHN MAYE, Correspondent and Representative PHONE Mt-J Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Cooper, Jr., of Pelzer, spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Coop er. Mr. and Mrs. Joel Cox and son, Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Freeman at tended the Maryland-Clemson football game at Clemson Satur day. Mrs. Victor Mattox and daugh ter, Cindy, and Mrs. Leila Smith visited Mr. and Mrs. Olin Smith in Newberry Monday. * Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Craine of Greenville are spending this week with Mr. and Mrs. James Craine. Rev. J. W. Spillers is attend ing the Baptist state convention in Columbia this week. Mr. and Mrs. Grange Camp bell and Mr. and Mrs. Coley Campbell visited in Asheville, N. C., Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Windsor and daughter, Sybil, visited Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Tinsley and Mrs. G. V. Hanna in Greer recently. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Campbell and Becky of Charlotte, N. C., spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Oxner. « Mrs. Murray Adams is visiting Mr. qnd Mrs. Raymond Campbell in Atlanta this week. Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Seay and children visited Mrs. John Heath in Ware Shoals Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Wooten and Mrs. Jimmy Wooten accompan ied Jimmy Wooten > to Green ville Monday when he left by plane for Detroit, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Holsonback of Joanna, spent Sunday with Mr .and Mrs. Hubert Snelgrove. Mr. and Mrs. Roy McCoy, Mrs. Sybil Penland and son of Atlan ta, Ga., spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Smitherman. Mrs. W. A. Jones and Mrs. Francis Thompson of Green wood, visited Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Adams Sunday. SP3 Richard Dunaway of Ft. Benning, Ga., spent the week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Dunaway. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. McGinnis and children visited Mr and Mrs. H. W. Childress in Chester Sun day. Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Ginn; and children of Aiken, visited Mr. and Mrs. Millard Ginn Sun day. Mr. and Mrs. Leland Wood of Florence, visited Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Meadors and family Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Grady Smith have moved into their new home which was recently completed near Clinton. Mrs. Macy McCoy and daugh ter, Lily, Mr. and Mrs. Larry Mc- Cpy of Greenville, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Ficklin and daughter of Greenwood, Mrs. Harry Ficklin and son of Spartanburg, visited Mr. and Mrs. Durrell Ficklin Sunday. Mrs. Ralph Riddle and Mrs. Laura Mae Howard attended the WMU convention in Greenville Wednesday. Mrs. J. H. Seay has returned home after a two weeks visit in Greenville with Mr. and Mrs. Paul Glenn and family. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Hamrick of Greenwood, visited Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hamrick Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Scoggins, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Boyce and children visited Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Burroughs near Clinton Sun day. Mr. and Mrs. George McGin nis visited friends in Chester Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Cater and children of Fort Mill, Mr. and jn» ,, RmpcijUire Motor Oil ~ If you drivo In fast-changing temperatures... if your car has higher horsepower, men Havolino Special 10W-30 is the motor oa you want Accordion to testa in which other leading 10W-30 motor oils competed, Havoline Special 10W-30 shows startling superiority. Foe cold Karts it's “light” — assuring flash lubrication. In warm weather it has "body,” assuring continual protection with less oil consumption. For all-temperature protection, for plenty of en- nine pep to keep new car liveliness, chang to Havoline Special 10W-30. STOP IN AND SEE YOUR TEXACO DEALER SOON H. D. Payne & Co Yoor Texaco Distributor Laurens County Mrs. J. E. Cox of Newberry, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Cox and daugh ter of Johnston, visited Mr. and Mrs. Joel Cox Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Templeton and children of, Lando, visited Mr. and Mrs. Sam Madden Sun day. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Pruitt and children and Mrs. Emma Neal of Greenwood, visited Mrs. J. H Seay and family Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Hamrick and children of Paterson, N. J., and Cpl. Rudolph Hamrick of Cherry Point, N. C., are visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hamrick. Mr and Mrs. Watt Stewart and daughter of Easley, visited Mr. and Mrs. Harold Rollins and other relatives during the week end. Mrs. Bobby Braswell visited her sister, Mrs. Gertie Mae Pear son, who is a patient at Green ville General hospital, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Howie Dawkins visited in Greenville Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Willie Gilliland, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Gilliland and Mrs. Lois Sullivan and son of Greenville, visited Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Gilliland Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Harris and sons visited relatives in Mount- ville Sunday. Misses Pat and Linda Bras well were supper guests of Mrs. Jo Trammell in Whitmire Satur day. Ale Ralph Childs, home on leave from Germany, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Waters. He will report to Ger many for further duty in Decetn- ber Birthdays and Wedding Annivtrsarios Miss Catherine Dunaway cele brated a birthday November 16. Mrs. Oscar Kinard w had a birth day November 5. Mr. Kinard celebrated his birthday Nov. 6. James Arnold will have a birthday November 23. Mrs. Doris Duncan will cele brate her birthday Nov. 23. Miss Louise Meadors has a birthday today. Mrs. Earline Ficklin will have a birthday No vember 18, and M-Sgt. James M. Meadors, who is with the Air Force in Erding, Germany, will celebrate his birhtday Nov. 20. Cynthia Ann Hamrick had a birthday November 14. Juanita Hamrick will celebrate her birthday November 19, and Lin da Hamrick had a birthday No vember 15. v Earl Braswell celebrated k birthday November 18. Mrs. Henry Lawson had a birthday November 15. Starke Hudson will have a birthday November 18. Stanley Fuller will observe his birthday November 19. Lowory-Hiimos Mrs. Geneva Lowery announc es the engagement of her daugh ter, Ruth Christine, to Ale Da vid N. Hingos, of Donaldson Air Force Base, Greenville. Airman is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hingos of Holdingford, Minn. The wedding will take place February 18 at the St. Boniface Catholic church in Joanna. Birthday Dinner Given Mrs. Wyatt Ledford gave a surprise birthday dinner for her mother, Mrs. Roy Waters, on Nov. 6 at her home. About ,thirty eight friends and relatives at tended. Dinner was served buf fet style. Ale Ralph Childsi who had just returned from Germany, surprised her by bringing in the birthday cake and a host of gifts from those at tending. Jarman Oxfords The Latest Styles 18.95 to 514.95 L. B. DILLARD '** With The Sick, * J. R. Hamrick returned home range hi Motpomt’s $2,000,000 Gol den Anniversary national pontest. Anderson Appliance Co., local Hotpoint dealer, said official con test judges in Chicago selected Miss Allen’s name yesterday as having the best dealer prize en try from this inrrmediaite area. Anderson’s sponsored the Clin ton contest as part of the appli ance company’s national anniver sary celebration. Other first, sec ond and third" prizes now being awarded to families in the United States and Hawaii include four completely furnished electric homes, 50 pushbutton kitchen- IT YOU DON'T READ THE CHRONICLE OU DONT GET THE NEWS FINE FURNITURE Down Through the Years SMART SHOPPERS USE PENNEY’S LAY-AWAY PLAN! ^ T. E. Jones 6l Sons The Best for Over Fifty Years laundries and almost 5,000 major alliances. Mr. Anderson said the Hotpoint contest, largest of its kind ever sponsored by a major appliance company, was specially designed to dramatize 50 years of progress in pushbutton electric living. He pointed out that Hotpoint got its name from the first electric iron “with the hot point” and said that the company later pioneered the world’s first electric range and fully automatic dishwasher. He predicted that with increased pub lic demand for electric home ap pliances and the expected avail ability of atomic power, new homes 25 to 50 yean from now will be operated completely wWh electricity. 01 YtB «» ip without corny, putt couectwk MKS AND RHtSTERS rvvOWnOMry HMIEMw •» thst smJs Slag let ON Msstsfi IssmspI im CLINTON, S.C. Plus Thirteen Other Stores in South Carolina TJ vs BURRISS-HARRISON COMPANY 202 N. BROAD ST. CLINTON, 8. C. MONEY BACK GUARANTEE wnwiHMKKxianHaaoeaaagaai Flag down the record breaker and take the wheel! Wt’vs got these new *56 Chevrolet demonstrators cruising the streets to make it easy for you to drive the ear that shattered the Pikes Peak record. When you see one, wave it to the curb—and take the wheel. 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