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The Index-Journal from Greenwood, South Carolina • Page 2

The Index-Journal from Greenwood, South Carolina • Page 2

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The Index-Journali
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Greenwood, South Carolina
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Deo. 2. 1954 THE INDEX-jOURNAL, GREENWOOD. S. Ice Commiasion.

Petitidn To Drop Mrs. Vivian Piatt Service Awards Parade Units Viewed By Solid Rows Of Spectators Train Studied COLUMBIA 6r A petition to drop Port Royal to Augusta pas-j senger irsm service is dcisi studied by the State Public Rerv- js i-r It gave an opponent, forms State Sen. Brantley Harvey of Beaufort, three weeks In which ta file a brief after, bearing oral arguments of opponents yesterday. The Charleston Westem Carolina Rallrosd then must answer the brief as soon as possibi The railroad said it lost 14.000 on the trains in 1953. exclusive of mall revenue, and that mail service was dropped from the round trip trains Nos.

41 and 42 in May of this year. Hollywood became a part of Log Angeles in 1910. Resigns Post As H. D. Agent Here Mrs.

vivian T. Piatt Is resigning as the county's Negro home demonstration agent to Join her husband, now tatloned at Fort 8heridan. HI. The resignation is effective Dec. SI.

Mrs. Piatt has been the agent here since June 1953 and a number of H. D. and 4-H clubs have been organised under her leadership. The program of activities also has been considerably expanded.

She is a graduate of Bennett College. Greensboro, N. C. and has done additional study at State College in Orangeburg. She expressed appreciation to all those who have cooperated In the work while she has been here.

Her successor has not yet been announced. Presented 22 Riegel Employes WARE SHOALS The Ware Shoals Division of Riegel Textile Corporation, presented service pins to the following employes during November. Twenty-five yesr service pin: Walter D. Watklns, slasher room. Twenty year service pins: Bertha M.

Martin, office and Clarence E. Agnew, print works. Fifteen year service pins: Robert S. Drske. rsllroad; Thomas F.

Hill, rsyon finishing; James L. Bailey, weave No. I and Mary K. Kennedy. P.

C. put up. Ten year service pins: Elma C. Martin, rayon Charles M. Pitts, spooler; Charlie M.

Hall, weave No. Roy B. Ridge, embroidery; R. E. Brstcher, slasher; Bertha P.

Case. dlsDer: Paul J. Only at The Jewel Shop C.nak weav Nn 1' Clarlra I'' Kirby, card No. and Charles E. Brstcher, maintenance.

Five year service pins: Shirley Tench, weave No. Benhie W. Traynham, rayon put up: James W. Tims, maintenance; Mary L. Robinson, bleachery packing: Lan-gran Ashley, print works and W.

Henderson, print works. rate who saw the parade from atop building along the way. The picture at the right show the went aide of the Square, facing south. 'Index-Journal photos by Jack Marks. Ths 8anta CUus parade hen yesterday proceeded through almrmt olid rows of apecUtor practically from the time It left the Lander College formtnc alte until It returned.

The picture at left ahowi the crowd which formed on both aldea of Hampton Street, and the people Weather Records CHARLOTTE i Official Weather Bureau records of the temperature and rslijfall for the 24 hours ending st 7:30 a. m. H. L. Pr.

Aaheville 57 35 i i i Lander Float Shows 50th Year In Greenwood West Side Church on special GIFT-TRIAL Plans Atlanta 54 Augusta .......66 Birmingham 55 Boston ...39 Special 06 Service Sunday OFFER! 04 16 41 35 .25 51 34 21 38 14 27 30 61 34 54 35 51 34 47 47 14 15 Charleston Charlotte Chicago Columbia Denver Detroit Evansvllle Oalveston Oreensboro Jacksonville Little Rock Los Angeles Memphis Meridian Miami Minn-StP Mobile New Orleans New York Raleigh San Antonio 61 54 39 .63 32 34 48 .74 ....52 75 61 67 68 68 25 75 68 43 53 56 West Side nptlxt Church will have a npeclnl service Sunday morning with two features, first, pledge toward (he annual budget and second, a memorial service for decea.ted members of the church. The 1955 budget lias been set at $33,000, including (12,000 toward the new church building, now under construction. In order that the memorial list will be as complete as possible, families are asked to call the church office by Saturday night to report the names of West Side church members who ive died. "We cannot take these saints of the Lord with us to the new house .17 .01 61 29 35 57 62 1.24 51 62 33 41 San Francisco of worship, ho we will honor them Savannah In old church," the Rev. W.

Tampa 76 Washington 45 Wilmington Belers, pastor, said of the coming service. at The Jewel Shop Brighten her heart and her u-; "21" Special 'l 'i ') 'mt ii I jO 1 (i i. tniV i Pi 11 Til 1 vfH The Lander College float In the Christmas parade used a huge cake to depict the Institution's 50th year tn Greenwood. Shown at left Is Patsy Martin, Pendleton, and at right is Rosa Alonso of HaVHna. DEATHS and FUNERALS Hill, a daughter of the late Mr.

and Mrs. Ritlus Sadler. She spent mast -of her life In Clemson, snd for a number of years as a secretary to the president of Clemson i It's the) pen you talc no chance in giving! Any "21" Pen purchased as a gift in pur store can be exchanged after Christmas for a "21" with a different point and barrel color AT NO EXTRA COST. The person you give it to can choose his or. her own preference.

This special exchange offer good until Jan. 10, 1955. Mrs. -Bryan and her husband had only recently returned from a trip of several weeks to points of Interest In Europe. In addition to her husband, Mrs.

Bryan is survived by one suiter, Mrs. George B. Dean of -High Point, N. one step-son, Wright Bryan, former editor of the Atlanta Journal, now editor of. the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio; and a number of nieces and nephews.

Funeral services were held from the Fort Hill Preibyterian Church st Clemson this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. Dr. Sidney J. L. Crouch in association with the Rev.

George R. Cameron, were the, officiating mmLsters. Burial followed in the Old Stone Church cemetery near Clemson. Friday when it will be placed In the church. MRS.

g. J. MARTIN COLUMBIA Mrs. Minnie Eva Martin, 60, Route 1, Columbia, died at the Columbia Hospital at 10:30 yesterday morning after an extended illness. She was born in Fairfield County.

Uie daughter of the late Harrison Broome and Karon Hood Broome. She was a member of the Mount Pleasant Methodist Church In Lower Richland county. Mrs. Martin Is survived by her husband. 8.

J. Martin: four daughters, Mrs. Ethel Hoover and Mrs. Mildred Wolfe, both of Columbia: Mrs. Beulah Undler and Mrs.

Ruth Weed, both of West Columbia; two sons. John H. Martin of Columbia and Wilbur C. Martin. United Bute Army, Ft.

Smith. one sister, Mrs. Harper Harmon of Columbia; three brothers. Adam Broome, Winnsboro; Columbus Broome, Thomasville, Rufua Broome, Oreenwood. 15 grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be at Mt. Pleasant Methodist Church at a time to be announced. i mmMm HKS. OSSR WILLIAMS ABBsTVTLXJC Funeral aervtoes for Mrs. Ossie Lee Williams, 70.

who died Tuesday night at the horn of her daughter, Mrs. W. C. all on Oreenville Street extension, vera held from the Harris Funeral Home today at 3 p. m.

The Rev. Tommy Daum In association with the Rev. Allen Smith conducted the rites. Burial followed Melrose cemetery. Orandsona were pallbearers and granddaughters served as flower girls.

Mrs. Williams, widow of John V. Williams, was a native of Georgia but bad lived In Abbeville for the past 38 years. She Is survived by sons, flvs dsughters, one aster and 34 grandchildren. MRS.

D. HEATHERS LAURENS Mrs. Nina Llnder Waaaher. 54. wife cf David L.

Weathers, died at the Laurens Ootsnsy Hospital yesterday after-oos foilowlnc several years of de-cltolnff health. A native of Bridgeport Tenn, she was a daughter of the late Tom B. Llnder. She had lived tn Lanrens County most of her life and was a member of the Second Baptist Chareh. She Is survived by her husband.

Dawid It, Weathers: four sons, the Rev. W. O. Weathers, of Wire Shoals, David L. Weathers, of the V.

8. Coart Guard In Oulfport, Miss, Barnard L. Weathers, of Laurens, and Sgt: Robert S. Weath CONVfNTIONAl POINT WITH Now! Parker "21" has the Electro-Polished point! Smoothest you ever tried! It's the world's smootfitst-writlng pee point made mirror smooth by on exchshre new electrochemical finishing process. rAMcti -rr rotNT 1847 ROGERS BROS.

AMERICA'S FINEST SI LVERTLATE THE FAMILY SILVfR FOR GENERATIONS ifTjTnr CO A vwdoHvl en Iwr MRS. MAMIE L. HARRISON AUOUStA-Mra. Mamie Uttle.tor Harrison, 86 a former Richmond County school teacher for many years, died at her residence in Jacksonville, Fla. after an extended illness.

Graveside services were conducted from Westover. Memorial Park cemetery today at 3 p. m. bv the Rev. Ralph Shea, pastor of the Woodlawn Methodist Church.

A native of Abbeville, 8. C. Mrs. Harrison lived in Augusta most of her life before moving to Jacksonville seven years ago. Bite was the sister of the lnte Dr.

James R. Littleton. mayor of Augusta during World War I. Survivors include one sister, Mrs. Margaret Littleton Nlven of Jacksonville; two nieces, Miss Jane Nlven of Jacksonville and Miss Helen Littleton of Maulden: three nephews, Abbott.

Littleton and James Littleton, both or Maulden, and Joe p. Nlven of Jacksonville. Fire Wipes Out School Buildings littl tomato bMutifwl lilvor to. IIToJ'JlH a JUnflSJ I MRS. C.

E. NELSON ANDERSON Mrs. Camilla Keith Nelson. 78. widow of Charles E.

Nelson died at 12:30 yesterday morning at the home of her son, J. C. Nelson, 220 Moultrie Square, of a heart attack she suffered about an hour earlier. Mrs. Nelson had made her home in Anderson since 1944.

A daughter of the late Jene E. Keith and Frances Calquet Keith, she was born April 22. 1876. She is survived by one son, J. C.

Nelson, of Anderson: two grandchildren. Mrs. N. W. Skinner of Hampton, Mrs.

Roy Masters, Jr. of Key West. two sisters, Mrs. J. J.

Oresham of Oreenville, Mrs. C. F. Hancock of Nashville, swbly crofted fa tin Bmllg i le (reclewt living lovely pattern. and 2 finger filling! i "21" fills in seconds, merely by pressing twd fingers.

Its ink sac is made of durable Pli-glass. Won't wear pr rot. it our greatest pen value! i OREEN SEA, 'S C. Several buildings of the hUth school in this Horry County community were de- III ll Mai1 mm III 11 fff llJ' I 111 I I1 fit I I II i TAsmrsee "21" Custom gold-filled cap, $10.00. Pencils to match all "21" Pens.

ers, of the U. S. Marines, at Camp LeJeune. N. two daughters.

Mrs. J. D. Livingston and Mrs. L.

A. Chest In, both of Laurens. She also leaves two brothers, Clarence Under of Conastee. 8. And Charles Under of Charlotte, K.

three sisters, Mrs Charles Howard of Greenville, 8. C. Mrs. Walter MoGaha, of Sanford. C.

and Mrs. William ODaniel of Charlotte, N. also eight grandchildren. Funeral services win be conducted Friday at p. m.

at Second Bap- tlat Church with the Rev. Orange Cothran, the Rev. J. E. Rouse and the Rev.

James R. Bruce tn charge. Interment will be In Rose Hill Cemetery. Active pallbearers, who are to meet at the church at 1:40 p. are Noel Frady, Tommy Frady, Louis Howard, Lathan Howard, Oeorge Llnder and Frank Marler.

Honorary pallbearers wiU be: W. W. B. Davis, Claude Hayes. Manson Burton, Otis Traynham, James Ooss, Henry Orr, Charles Owlngs, George Crane, O.

W. Orstx. Louis Cromer, Dr. M. B.

NlckJes. They are to meet at the church at 1:45 p. m. The body will remain at the Canned Mortuary until 1 p. m.

stroyed by fire early yesterday and school authorities estimated the loss at from $45,000 to $50,000. I The buildings burned Included the gymnasium, farm shop, lunch- I MMCM TUUSPeSH CONVCRIENT TIIMS Wfrnr ilrmP three step-sons. W. E. Nelson of Oreenwood.

J. L. Nelson of Charlotte and C. T. Nelson of Savannah, slso three greatgrandchildren, several step-greatgrandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

Her husbsnd died in 1926. Funeral services were held from the chapel of the Sullivan-King Mortuary at I p. m. today. The Rev.

Lloyd D. Bolt, pastor of St. John's Methodust Church conducted the services. Burial followed In the Wllllamston cemetery, MRS. A.

B. BRYAN CLEMSON Mrs. Margaret Sadler Bryan, wife of A. B. Bryan, retired agricultural editor at Clem-son College, died at the Greenville General Hospital yesterday afternoon.

She had been seriously ill for the past four weeks. Mrs, Bryan was a native of Rock $1.00 DOWN LAYS IT AWAY room, cannery, two agricultural classrooms, and office. The main structure was saved when help arrived from the Marion, Lorls, Mullins, Conway and Tabor City, N.C., fire departments. Supt. J.W.

Gibson said classes resumed today. I II I 1l AO) II SSSSBSBffSl I WW Greenwood's Largest Credit Jewelers The first U. law. permitting receipt of title to land by those who lived or It and met certain conditions, was passed in 1862. Greenwood's Lorgett Credit Jewelers i.

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