The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, December 20, 1956, Image 14
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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, December 20, 1956
“THREE SHOPPING DAYS TO
. CHRISTMAS”
THE PODGER STORY
By SILENCE BUCK, in Th# Christian Science Monitor
•Remember," saTb the pleasant,
clipped voice of the radio an
nouncer. “there are just threfc
more shopping days to Christ-
m'v" "'‘I .
Mr Podger ' stirred uneasily:
There were a few matters that
had been weighing on his mind;
and. oddly enough, they were
just three in number. Three
.things for three days—only he’d
-better get them all done today,
and make sure of them. Mr.'
Podcor put on his hat*and coat
and started for- the street car
line
In town, he.first attacked the
problem of Cousin fcldrcd. Mr.
Podgrr could no longer remem
ber just why he called Eldred
“cousin." .There was always the
possibility that it was true, but
Mr. Podger doubted it. What he'
did know was that they always
exchanged Christmas gifts. Mr.
Podger had ho ide^ what- Cousin
Eldred liked, but Cousin Eldred
seemed to have an uncanny in
sight i-nto Mr. Podger's dislikes—
also a penchant for wrong sizes.
Mr. Podger sighed and entered
a department store Would ten
dollars be enough. It was always
a matter of anxiety tg Mr. Podg
er that his gift to EJJdred should
equal, m value. ETdred'S gift to
.him bn the other hand, of
course, he didn't want to exceed
it .... . ,
Gloomily Mr Podger headed
JUST TO SAY
FOR YOUR FRIENDLY,
PATRONAGE DURING
THE PAST YEAR
LADIES’
READY-TO-WEAR SHOPPE
Clinton, S. C.
Phone 129
for the men's wear department,
but enroute he suddenly found
himself walking more slowly. He
was in the toy department where
clowns, dogs, dolls, and brownies
were doing their electrically ac
tive best to entertain, and Mr.
Podger watched them. He
couldn’t remember going through
this department before, but one
of the toys seemed oddly famil
iar. It was an engagingly avaric-
ious little pirate, with a eherubjg
smile and one large hoop earring,
who knelt before an iron-bound
chest. From time to time the
chest cover obligingly opened,
and the pirate lifted from its
depths a bag of gold coins, nod
ded knowingly at anyone who
might be looking, and lowered
the treasure into the chest, which
again closed cooperatively.
Now where had Mr. Podgef
seen thab They didn’t have such
toys in his youthful day—the
height of his ambition had been
a toy train that didn’t even run
by electricity. You wound it up,
and jj sped around the track un
til it ran dawn. Nevertheless
he had, one Christmas, greatly
wantpd one. which he had not re
ceived Knowing more about
moijcy now, he thought he un
derstood why. but he had never
forgotten that train. It had noth
ing to do with the money-minded
litle pirate, though Now where
Suddenly Mr. Podger remem
bered. One day last week -the
youngest Hapwell child had de
scribed 1 the pirate in detail as he
watched Mr. Podgef add the rak
ed IcsKes to the compost pile at-
the foot of the garden. With his i
mind more than half on other,
matters. Mr. Podger had said, '
‘Maybe you’ll get it for Christ
mas.’
“Nope,” the youngest Hapwell
child had said. “Ma says not.”
' Mr. Podger made his way to a
clerk. “How much is the little
pirate toy,” he asked.
“Ten 1 dollars.”
“I’ll take it,” said -Mr. Podger,
and parted with Cousin Eldred's
ten.'f Then he extracted a dollar
bill from his wallet and consid-
-ered, 1 the office party. ~
EVery year the office force
drew names and each one bought
a gift—not over a dollar in price,
the rules stipulated—for the per
son whose name he drew Not
very sentimental, perhaps, but a
nice, sensible, practical proced
ure. No fuss, no tinsel. „
Feeling comfortably adult, Mr.,
Podger turned his steps toward
a variety store where something
for one dollar might supposedly
be found, and was stopped by
the earnest voices of two girls,
not more than fourteen, who
were looking in the window.
“If you don’t get that star,” said
one. “you can put a dollar more
into the gift. That’s practical.” •
’T'd rather have the star,” said
the other, “and so would mom.’
Mr. Podger looked at the crys
tal star (or was it > plastic?) hang
ing in the window, swinging raia-
bows across the pavement. A
highly immature, cheap b.it * of
decoration, to be sure. But the
longer Mr. Podger' looked at it,
the less he was concerned with
common sense and maturity.
With rainbows in his eyes, Mr.
Podger. went in.and bought ,1
star. He also bought yards of
tinsel and sonic bright and im
probable Christmas tree orna
ments of flimsy glass and was
A
We're coming your way with best
wishes for a happy holiday and
many thanks for your patronage. —-
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McMILLAN’S
SERVICE STATION
M. & W. AUTO SALES
W. M. McMillan
J. D. Williams
Heartfelt U our wish for
you: have the merrie$t
Christma# you have ever known.
RUBY'S BEAUTY SHOP
RTBY RAY
FARMER’S FEED & SEED
STORE
N. Broad Street
1o all our friends, an old-fashioned * " ’
Christmas wish. May all the joys of the
season enrich your heart this day and forever.
JACOBS BROTHERS
PRINTING AND PHOTOENGRAVING
E. Carolina Ave. * Clinton, S. C.
t.
GReeTINGS
Our sincere thanks to all our good friends
for their continued patronage. May you all enjoy o
very merry holiday season and a very happy Hew Year.
CAROLINA SERVICE STATION
A. A. Ram&ge, Jr.
Texaco Products
out of the store before he real
ized that he hadn’t, after all, pur
chased the sensible office gift. •"
Well, there was something
more pressing, and he’d better
get it done before the stores clos
ed. The fact was that Mr. Podg
er was not satisfied with his
Christmas lawn display. The
Thompsons and the Pembrokes
had recently added somfe rather
spectacular items to their dis
plays, and thehauseTiT Podger
was not goihg ttf be outdone at
Christmas if Mr. Podger could
help it. So he hurried along,
wondering if he could | get any
thing effective for ten dollars . . .
or twenty . . . or . . .
Then he saw’ the picture. It
was in a shop window just ahead
of him—a small, quiet picture,
mostly in gray, and in a gray
frame. In it thr«e Wise Men,
patient upon their patient cam
els, journeyed across ancient
sands toward a star. The night
seemed windless, so 1 that no fold
of their garments was stirred (
as they rode. And their facei
were lifted to the ageless sky ana
to the guiding r £tar..-
It was not a great or unusual
’picture One saw its like every
where, every Christmas. But it
said something to Mr. Podger,
and he went’ into the store. “How
much is the picture in the win
dow—of the Wise Men?” he ask
ed- ■ , . . -
‘.'One dollar,” said the clerk.
“Please wrap it up. said Mr.
Podger.
As Mr, Podger turned into his
own street in the early December
dusk, he reflected upon his shop*-
ping day - He hadn’t bought a
single thing he had started out
to buy—but he could get the of
fice gift -tomorrow’, an<^l he had a
strong premonition that Cousin
Eldred was going to get just a
card this year. _____ - '
As for the things he HAD
bought, Kir. Podger had a feeling
that he had secured more than a
mechanical pirate for a little
boy. a sack full of Christmas
baubles, and a small gray pic
ture of three men wise enough
to follow a star. Maybe, when
he had time to think about it a
little, he would be able to tell
what it was.
Softly whistling “Joy to the
World,” Mr Podger went up the
walk to his own front door
NOTICE IN CONDEMNATION
State of South Carolina.
County of .Laurens.
Board of Trustees of Laurens
Cqunty School - Disrtrict Number,
56, • -
Petitioner, 11
vs
Anderson Real Estate and In
vestment Company, a corpora
tion. Fred G. Brown. B Frank
Mauldin. A. S Farmer, all stock
holders and directors of Anderson
Real Estate and Investment Com
pany; also all other persons un
known claiming any right, title,
estate, interest in or lien upon
that certain piece, parcel and lot
ot land situate west of Elizabeth
Street, in the Towm of Clinton,
in Laurens County, State of South
Carolina, being bounded on the
east, south and west by lands of
Laurens CotmLv School District
Number 56, and on the north by
north part of Lot. No. 82 as shown
on plat of lands of Anderson Real
Estate and Investment Company,
said lot (subject of this notide)
being fully shown on “Plat of AH
of lot No. 83 and the southern 50’
of Lot No. 82 from plat of prop
erty belonging to Anderson Real
Estate and Investment Company
dated Feb. 27, 1911, and recorded
in Deed Book 17, Page 466, in the |
office of Clerk of Court at Lau
rens, S. C.” made by S T. Martin..
R. L. S No. 1002, dated Decem
ber 8. 1956, recorded in Plat Book
.11, at age 49, in the office of the
Clerk of Court for Laurens Coun
ty, any unknown adults being as
a class designated as “John Doe”;
and any unknown infants or per
sons under a disability being des
ignated as “Richard Roe”,
Respondents.
TO THE RESPONDENTS
ABOVE NAMED AND TO ALL
PERSONS WITH WHOM ANY
OF SAID RESONDENTS WHO
ARE INFANTS OR PERSONS
NON COMPOS RESIDE, OR IN
WHOSE CUSTODY ANY OF
SAID RESPONDENTS ARE DE
TAINED:
YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE
NOTICE that the Board of Trus
tees of Laurens County School
District Number 56, having the
power to condemn the lands
hereinafter mentioned and de
scribed, requires and demands of
you and each of you a certain
lot of land of which you, the re
spondents, -'are now seized and
possessed, which lands 4re de
scribed as follows:
All that certain piece, parcel
and lot of land situate west of
Elizabeth Street, in the Town of
Clinton, in Laurens County, State
of South Carolina, being bounded
on the east, south and west by
lands of Laurens County School
District Number 36, and on the
north by the north pari of Lot.
No. £2 as shown on plat of lands
of Anderson Real Estate and In
vestment Company. Said lot of
land is fully shown'on “Plat of |
all of Lot No: 83 and the south-
trm SO 1 of Lot No. 82 from plat
of property belonging to An
derson Real Estate and Invest
ment Company dated Feb. 27,
1911, by James E Marshall, Jr.,
and recorded in Deed Book 17,
^age 466, in the office of the
Clerk of Court at Laurens, S.
C.“ made by S. T Martin, R. L.
S. No. 1002, dated Dec. 8, 1956, re
corded in Plat Book 11, Page 49,
in the office of the Clerk of Court
for Laurens County.
The Board pf Trustees of Lau
rens County School District Num
ber 56 requires the above de
scribed lands for school purposes
for the erection of public school
buildings and public school play
grounds.
You are hereby further notified
that the whole of said lands, in
cluding the fee simple estate
therein, are required and de
manded for the purposes herein
above stated.
i You are hereby further notified
that on January 2fi, 1957, applica
tion will be made to the Clerk of
Court of Cornmon Plep's of Lau
rens County for the drawing of a
jury in condemnation to deter
mine and fix upon the true and'
real valpe of such land and any
damage to other lands of the
pwhers by reason of the taking
thereof.
Board of Trustees of Lertl-
rens County School District
Number 56. *
H. L. EICHELBERGER,
— ■ Chairman 1 .
JAKE RASOR, ‘
Secretary
CECIL E. WHITE,
Attorney for the
Petitioner
W E. DUNLAP,
Clerk of Court of
Common Pleas
December 17, ,1956
TO ANY AND ALL RE
SPONDENTS WHO IS AN IN
FANT OR WHO IS A PERSON
NON COMPOS MENTIS AND
EACH PERSON OR. INSTITU
TION WITH WHOM SAID IN
FANT OR PERSON NON COM
POS MENTIS RESIDES, OR IN
WHOSE CUSTODY HE OR SHE
IS HELD, BEING DESIGNAT
ED HEREIN AS “RICHARD
ROE”:
YOU ARE HEREBY" NOTI
FIED that Raymond C. Hill Esq.,
Attorney at Law, Laurens, S. C., (
has been appointed guardian ad
litem for any unknown infants or
incompetent persons who are nec
essary parties hereto for the pur
pose of the above entitled action,
and that said appointment shall
become absolute on the 25th day
of January, 1957, and that an Or
der nisi of the Court of Common
Pleas for Laurens County is filed
with the Clerk of Court for Lau
rens County.
CECIL E. WHITE.
Attorney for the
Petitioner
December 17, 1956
LIS PENDENS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that an action has been commenc
ed and is-now pending in con
demnation in Laurens County,
South Carolina, upon the petition
of the above named petitioner for
the purpose of condemning the
following real property:
All thot certain piece, parcel
and lot of land situate west of
Elizabeth Street, in the Town of
Clinton, in Laurens County, State,
of South Carolina, being bounded
on the east, south and west by
lands of Laurens County School
District Number 56, and on the
north by the north part of Lot
No. 82 as shown on plat of lands
of Anderson Real Estate and In
vestment Company. Said lot of
land is fully shown on “Plat of
all of Lot No. 83 and the southern
50’ of Lot No. 82 from plat of
property belonging to Anderson
Real Estate and Investment Com
pany dated Feb. 27, 1911, by
James E. Marshall, Jr, and re
corded ip Deed Book 17, Page
466, in tpe office of the Clerk of
Court at Laurens, S. C.,” made
by S. T. Martin, R. L. S., No.
1002, dated December 8, 1956,
recorded in Plat Book 11, Page
49, in the office of the Clerk of
Court for Laurens County.
CECIL E. WHITE,
Attorney for the
Petitioner
December 17; 1956 3c-J-3
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NOTICE FOR PAYMENT OF
1956 CITY TAXES
Notice is hereby given that Town Taxes for the •
Town of Clinton are due and collectable from October
15th to December 31st for the year 1956. The tax books
are now open at the office of the Town Clerk and Treas
urer and will remain open up to and through Decem
ber 31.
A penalty of ten per cent (10%) shall be added if
said taxes are not paid on or before January 1,1957.
The levy for current fiscal year is 53 mills; 26 mills
for current operating expenses, and 27 mills for in
terest and sinking funds on various bond issues out
standing.
W. B. QWINGS, City Clerk and Treasurer
CfcurfrnOi ^
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W^r ( c,
(Day the foy and love
that glorified
the night of HU birth
shine in your heart
this Christmas day,
and all the days to come.
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and TV Service
307 Ferguson St.
Phone 833
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Our sincere thanks and much holiday
cheer to all our friends and patrons.
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WE WILL BE CLOSED DEC. 23 AND 26
CLINTON CAFE
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LOWMAN
LUMBER COMPANY
Madeline Cunningham
S. B. Lowman