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I* Thursday, October 24, 1957 tJ M THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page Thirteen YOUR COUNTY HERITAGE Dedicated to the collection, preservation, and publication of the Unwrit ten history of “people, pieces, and things” in Laurens County, South Carolina _ • By IRENE DILLARD ELLIOTT, 512 Congaree Ave., Columbia SEPTEMBER 6, 1957, will go down iii philately as the date on which a beautiful U. S. postage stamp was first sold commemo- rating the two hundredth anniver sary of the birth of LaFayette. And where those sales? Not in South Carolina, where the romantic young Marquis landed, in the region of Winyah Bay, but in North Carolina, where the town of Fayetteville be came his first civic namesake. Not in Charleston, where he first par ticipated in the struggle for Ameri can Independence, but in Eaton, Pa., where Lafayette College was named for him. Not in Camden, where he made a speech at the monument erected to his fellow countryman and friend who came and fought with him, Baron de Kalb, but in Kentucky, which first had the bright idea of LaFayette Day at the State Fair! Thus it goes: we South Carolinians sleep while others wo^k. we are apa thetic while others are alert. We neglect our history while others write. Here we lie: may we not rest in peace! STODDARD is a name long es tablished in upper Laurens, widely scattered throughout state and na tion, and proud, thank Heaven, of its heritage. On a recent Sabbath Day, three hundred Stoddards gath ered at Harmony Church for a fam ily reunion. First of the name in 1 Laurens, 1 am told, was David Stoddard, who is listed in the First Fedwal • Cenaua, 179Q, as the-head who’s willing to tackle this family history? CROSS HILL comes up with good help in discovering early ministers in the County. Leonora Leaman Hollingsworth offers the record that Rev. John McCosh, probably; estab lished Liberty Springs Church about the same time as Rev. Rob ert McClintock organized Rocky Springs,* 1787. There are McClin- tock descendants by the hundreds, but what of the name McCosh. Can anyone help us on that? Floride Pinson Goddard finds a Baptist minister named Aaron. Pio-s-o^ of a family of thirteen—that means only eleven, if you - are counting children. Those seven sons, my in formant adds, bought land at fifty cents an acre until their holdings were considerable. Since one of the chief virtues of the family as we have it is tenacity, it is not a surprise to hear that among those hundreds were many from distant states. In the Second Federal Cen sus, which we are nqftir "pdblishing, you will find the name spelled Studda(e)rt, evidence not so much of the enumerator’s inability to spell as of the widespread tendency to'mispronounce the sliort o as a u. Fortunately the Stoddards have te naciously held to their correct spell ing until the Studdert has become a point for antiquarians to ponder. The current David holds a very re sponsible position at Oak Ridge, Tenn., where he is a chemist. Rob ert, second only to David as a fa vorite name, is now to be found in several branches of the descend ants, practicing something good from Law in Spartanburg to Engin eering in .St. Paul, Minn. Now, among her ancestors. And I find, in the 1790 Census one lone man listed as minister, the Rev. Hum phrey Hunter, who had a family of three and owned one slave. Can anybody’find more about him? Baptists Constitute One-Third Of Students At State University Baptist students at the Univer sity of South Carolina make up nearly one-third of the student body in which 31 denominations are rep resented, according to University Registrar Henry O. Strohecker. There are 1,608 Baptists enrolled for the fall semester. Methodists are second with 1,070, and Presbyterians thifd with 526. There are 381 Episcopalians, 273 Lutherans, and 237 Catholics. Sev enty-four students are Jewish, 21 are Associate Reformed Presbyte rians, 34 are members of the Or thodox Churchy 17 are’ Christian Scientists, and 12 are Unitarians. Other churches represented in clude Church of ’God, nine mem bers; Mormon, seven; Church of the Nazarene and Church of Christ, six; Pentecostal Church, Congre gational Church, Brethren, and Moslem, four; Holiness Church and United Brethren, three. Represented by two students each are the Reformed Church, As sembly of God, Salvation Army, Evangelistic and Reformed Church and Buddhists. There is one mem ber in each of these: Quaker, Mo ravian, Pilgrim, Seventh Day Ad- -ventiwt and Christian Mnsy -f-httrch- es. P. C. vs DAVIDSON —on WLBG 2:15, Saturday, October 26 Sponsored By Bank of Clinton Yarborough Oil Company PetDairies Palmetto Oldsmobile Co. 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Come in today—for happier, safer motoring! -tv -*» Forty-four students are register ed as Protestants and 216 are un classified in religious preference: October Busy Month For The Aferf Farmer Besdies the usual harvesting of the main crops, there is plenty of important work to do in October, says County Agent C. B Cannon, making these timely suggestions: Agronomy 1 Cover South Carolina with a “Blanket of Green’’ this winter. 2 Plant more small grain for winter grazing. Best grazing results are obtained by planting rye and oats alone rather than in mixtures. Fer tilize liberally with a complete fer tilizer at planting, and topdress when about 3 inches high with 30- 60 pounds of nitrogen per acre. 3. Plant small grains on a firm seed bed for best results. 4. Seed wheat after the first killing frost 5. Plant more small grains for wniter cover to reduce loss of plant food from erosion and leaching. 6. Turn un der cotton stalks as .«foon as cotton picking is over. ' 7. Be certain that grain sorghum seed are thorough ly dry and mature when harvest ed; then store seed in a dry place 8 Order lime and' fertilizer now; it will be needed this fall as well as next spring. Horticulture 1. Select varieties adapted to your section, and place order for fruit trees for home orchards with reliable nursery. Try some of the new varieties. 2. Treat peach trees for borer control. 3. Plant winter cover crops and apply fall fertili zer in orchards 4. Thin out young turnips, beets, kale, spinach and lettuce to hasten development 5. Gather green tomatoes just before frost aqd store in a cool place. 6. If the supply of greens is limited, plant immediately some Seven Top turnips or other kinds 7. Dig sweet potatoes before frost—get Exten sion Circular 269—Handling, Cur ing, and Storing Sweet Potatoes Agricultural Engineering 1. In planting small grain set fur row openers to run as much as 3 inches deep if possible. This may prevent some wintur killing. 2. Check over plows, cultivators, and other idle machinery for needed re pairs and cover all bright parts with grease or rust prevention compound. 3. Repair breaks or low places on terraces 4.Check fireplaces, chimneys, and flues for needed repairs before cold weath er. • Plant Diseases and Insects 1 Turn under cotton stalks as soon as cotton is harvested to con trol boll weevil and diseases. 2. Treat small grain seed. 3. Se lect- sweet potato seed from dis ease-free vines. 4 Follow recom mended peach tree treatments. 5. Fumigate stored grain Clean and spray corn cribs. Some farmers will use protectants on shucked corn 6. Continue to guard against screw worms. 7. Spray cattle to control lice. 8 Requeen hives and feed bees if necessary. The Christian Viewpoint The church is a divine institution. It w’as not a human idea. Jesus Christ founded it. We, as Chris tians, should seek from His teach ings and from those of the apostles to understand what the church should be, and then we should seek earnestly to make it just that. It is-not our to remodel or to make over to suit out own notions Most Christians say the Apostle’s Creed We say, “I believe In the Holy Catholic Church.’’ The word “catholic’’ means universal Down in South Carolina there is a Cath- o 1 i c Presbyterian Church. Our forefathers would nor let one branch of the church claim that word catholic. They insisted that the proper term for those who held that the Pope in Rome was head of the church was Romanist, not Catholic When the church in the west began to follow the feudalist and Monarchial plan for church government, and exalted the head of the church in Rome, the Chris tians in the cast would not go along and continued separately as the Greek Catholic Church. The Ref ormation was an« effort to study the Scriptures and re-make the church according to the teachings of Christ and the apostles. Because they protested against the errors which had grown up in tjbe church, they were called “Protestants.” The true Holy Catholic Church is bigger than any one denomination. It is made up of all those who sin cerely, follow Jesus Christ as sa viour, teacher, and Lord. Paul wrote to Timothy of "the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark offthe truth.” (I Tim othy 3:15)—(The Departm$pt'-''bf Bible, Presbyterian JuijiorTdDege, Maxton, N. C.) Newest editions of the* . ’ ' 1 4 Big Wheel” in trucks with MWM1 UilATiri NEW HUSTLE! NEW MUSCLE! NEW STYLE! WtM II pMi«0 N«w 100 N#oww#.gM N«w Wl*« SO l.C.F. Ch«Trol«t'a Teak-Fore* 88 rolla in with naw broad- ahouldarad atyllng, a revolu tionary naw V8 angina, naw Stap-Van daliWery modala eomplat* with bodlea and a wider eholc* of medium-duty hauler*! 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