The Union-Banner from Clanton, Alabama • 5

0 0 00 THE UNION-BANNER, CLANTON, ALABAMA. On the first Sunday we had two fine sermons by the Pastor, Rev. L. H. Jones.

The following Tuesday night, Wednesday and Wednesday night we had the pleasure of hearing a man from Chicago lecture on the great Methodist Episcopal church and what it has done and what it is doing at the present time. was very helpful, both instructive and inspiring and was a great treat to all who heard him. We have a Sunday school. The attendance interest is ingood. creasing and we have one of as fine singing societies as the county affords, which is a part of the great Usited Singing Society that met lest Sunday evening with a very large crowd in attendance.

The house was filled immediately, and was called to order by President E. L. Glasscock. Ex-President J. P.

Bean sing the opening song, followed by prayer, then the following directors were called and directed from one to four songs each: L. R. Cobb, J. B. Northcutt, Burl Martin, Akins Collins, James Franklin, Vester Campbell and A.

H. Glasscock. Organists, Miss Genie Collins, Flossie Cobb, Esther Atkinson, Lena Glasscock. The singing was fine 'and enjoyed by all present: Two beautiful quartettes were rendered in memory of our beloved friend and brother, Mr. L.

K. Durbin, who lost his life on the railroad crossing at Jemison Friday morning, Jan. 26, 1923. When the OAK HILL songs were finished there was scarcely a dry eye in that great audience, for he was a good man and was loved by all and will not only be missed by his family but by the entire community. The quartette was composed of Professors A.

H. Glasscock, James Franklin, Akins Collins and Vester Campbell. Come again friends, we love to see you and hear you sing those sweet songs of praise to Him who doth all things well. A Good Thing--Don't Miss It. Send your name and address plainly written together with 5 cents (and this slip) to Chamberlain Medicine Des Moines, Iowa, and receive in return a trial package containing Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for and whooping coughs, AN and tickling Coughs, colds, croup, bronchial, "flu" throat; Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets for stomach troubles, indigestion, gassy pains that crowd the heart, biliousness and constipation; Chamberlain's Salve, needed in every family for burns, scalds, wounds, piles, and skin affections; these valued family medicines for only 5 cents.

Don't miss it. LOST--In Clanton last Saturday, black folding pocket book, containing two waive notes, a deposit slip from Peoples Savings Bank, and half a dollar in cash. Finder can get reward by returning same to UnionBanner office. W. C.

Dickerson, 2-1-1t-pd. CASH PRICES el in ARE LOWER PRICES You will realize the truth of this statement if you buy your Groceries from our store on the "Pay Cash and Pay Less" system. 1 J. W. Littlejohn Bell Phone Peoples Phone The Groceryman Clanton, Ala.

The Value of Land Abstracts It is not safe to buy land or to lend money and accept land as security without first investigating the title of the land. Often there are unpaid mortgages, judgments, or other liens affecting the title, which an abstract would set out. Therefore, when buying land or lending money thereon, it is important that an abstract of title be furnished. A few dollars spent for an abstract is cheaper than going ahead and having a law suit a little later on. Chilton County Abstract Company M.

D. FOSHEE, Manager Owners of a Complete Set of Abstract Books of Chilton County CLANTON, ALABAMA Abstracts of Title Promptly Prepared at Reasonable Charges. MULES FOR SALE Just received two car loads of young Tennessee Mules. All sizes from light farm mules to heavy draft mules. Bring in your old mules and change for young ones where the prices are right.

D. Y. JOHNSTON CLANTON, ALA. RI FED JACK B. CRYSEL DIES Jack B.

Crysel, 65, pioneer of Jemison, died Sunday night at his residence. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. B. Lawrence. Pall Bearers were: J.

D. Armstrong, Dr. P. T. Hinkle, H.

F. Chandler, Grady Reynolds, H. F. Downs and H. T.

Pipes, of the Masonic Order, of which Mr. Crysel was a member. Funeral services were held Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock from his residence. Burial was made in Jemison Cemetery, with Mr. Martin of Clanton, in charge.

Mr. Crysel, who is widely known throughout the Jemison district, was active in Masonic circles, being a member of the Jemison Blue Lodge, Clanton Commandery of the Knights Templar and of the Zamora Temple, of Birmingham. Mr Crysel was married March, 1884, to Miss Vera Bedwell of Heflin, Ala. He is survived by his wife, three daughters, Mrs. A.

L. Cooper, Columbiana, Mrs. John Patton, Charlston, W. Mrs. H.

B. McGahey, Tuscaloosa, and one son, Mr. Samuel C. Crysel, Jemison. He joined the Baptist church at Jemison in 1919, and was a devoted member.

Mr. Clarence Evans, of Birming. ham, visited relatives in Clanton Saturday and Sunday. See the beautiful line of Ladies' Dresses, Suits, Sweaters, Waists and Skirts at The Leader, in their new store next to Downs Hardware old New York Store stand. OUR FARMERS HAVE A MONEY MAKING CHANCE "The year 1923 presents a wonderful chance for money-making to level headed common sense farmers all over the South," said H.

G. Hastings, prominent agricultural leader, recently. "By this we do not mean an expanded cotton acreage over that of 1922, but just the contrary. There were enough acres planted in cotton last year to furnish, under normal season of growth, all the American cotton that the world can afford to pay a price for that will reward the cotton grower adequately for his work. "Every effort will be made by cotton speculators and the European cotton mills to encourage larger acreage.

The present price of cotton distinctly encourages our folks to go 'cotton crazy' again just as they always have in high price periods in past years, Every time there has been increased cotton acreage in high price periods there has followed a mountain of debt and farmer bankruptcies the following. fall and ter. "Increased acreage in cotton in 1923 should be fought like fire. Stick to that acreage which has been found safe under weevil conditions. Cultivate and fertilize to increase yield per acre as much as you please, but don't increase acreage.

If you do you simply play into the hands of the speculators again. "Plant every available acre outside the limited cotton acreage in food, grain and forage crops. No farmer can afford to buy food and grain from merchants when that food and grain can be produced on home acres at certainly not more than half the store price. "Further, every dollar's worth produced on home acres in the way of needed food and grain for home consumption means a dollar less spent or gone into debt for. If we all 'lived at home and boarded at the same place' most of our cotton money would stick in our pockets or to our account in the bank instead of all going to pay debts.

The money that sticks is the money that counts." Bible Thoughts for This Week Sunday. BE -Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be -Gal. 6: 1. Monday. LOVE DEFRAUDS no man any thing, but to love one another.

Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not covet. Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Romans 18: 8. 9.

Tuesday. A GOOD NAME THE BEST ASSET: A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and 22: 1. Wednesday. ROAD TO SUCCESS: Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. in the Lord and wait patiently for him.

-Psalm 37: 5, 7. Thursday. JESUS SAID: -And If I be lifted up, will draw all men unto me. John 12: 32. Friday.

LOVE MASTERS FEAR: There is no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear. -1 John 4: 18. Saturday. BOAST NOT: -Boast not thyself of tomorrow: for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.Proverbs 27: 1. Mrs.

Ludie Lenoir, of Clanton, is spending several days with relatives in Selma. NOTICE OF SALE OF PERISHABLE PROPERTY Where Your Taxes Go How Uncle Sam Spends Your Money in Conducting Your Business By EDWARD G. LOWRY Author Close-Ups," "Banks and Financial Systems," ete, Contributor Political and Economic Articles to Leading Periodicals and a Writer of Recognized Authority on the National Government's Business Methods. Copyright, Western Newspaper Union XV. INCOMPETENTS ARE KEPT The annual turnover in the government service is something almost incredible.

No business corporation, however strongly established, could long endure the heavy annual drain on its resources. Hundreds of men leave the government service daily; and new, untrained people have to be taken on and taught to do the work. This costs money, as every employer knows. The resignations from the government service are chiefly from the supervisory and most highly paid positions and from the very lowest grades. The men at the top, 1f they have any initiative or ability or ambition to make a name for themselves, are offered private employment at double or treble or more what the government can pay them.

The people 10 the lowest grades leave for private employment when opportunity affords because in too many instances they actually cannot keep body and soul together on their government pay. It is the people in the middle class who stay on the longest. The whole constant process makes for a steady deterioration in the quality of the government service and tends to retain the mediocre in public employ. ment. The civil service commission, through which the great bulk of government employees are brought into the ice, is acutely aware of this condition Its reports give emphasis to the diffculty constantly experienced in securing and retaining competent employees.

The rotation in office has become increasingly -frequent and vitally impairs the efficiency of the service. During the war there was a lower rate of turnover in the mechanical forces than in outside establishments. The proposition of separations, however, is excessive in clerical, professional and technical positions, in which the rate of turnover sometimes amounts to a third of the force in a year. During the nine months preceding the armistice more than 60,000 appointments were made in the civil service and about 28,000 separations occurred--that is, for every two appointments made one person left the service. For a period of similar length following the armistice only 60 per cent as many appointments were made, but there were nearly 33 per cent more separations.

In this period almost as many positions were vacated as were filled. The exigencies of the war required a great expansion of the clerical forces at Washington and elsewhere and this was accomplished by a labor turnover several times above normal. The percentage of declinations of appointments among eligibles on the cly11 service register increased in many instances from 30 to more than 50 per cent--that is, more than half the men and women who successfully passed civil service examinations and were offered jobs under the government refused to take them. It is estimated that more than 950,000 of those who met the test were appointed during that time. The civil service commission says flatly: "Those familiar with the federal service at Washington know that the service is now hampered by the retention of incompetents whose removal is rendered difficult by influences which are Incompatible with the effclency of the service.

Preferences and exemptions increasingly clog the departments with persons who, no matter 1 how inefficient, are difficult to remove, and whose retention tends to destroy the discipline of the service." Among these inefficients, of course, are the superannuated and the physIcally incapacitated. The bureau of efficiency estimated, before the passage of the superannuation retirement law, the number of employees in the civil service of the United States seventy years of age and over as follows: Number Railway postal 197 Rural letter 454 City letter carriers 230 Post office 887 Mechanics 328 General employees, Dist. General employees ...1,613 Total The commissioner of pensions supplies the following compact statement of the age of the employees in the pension bureau: Number in the classified civil servIce, 874; age of the oldest employee, eighty-eight; number over eighty years of age, 26; number between sixty-five and eighty, 266; based on age of sixtyfive, number eligible for retirement, 292; percentage of employees eligible for retirement, 33.4; average age of all employees, July 1, 1919, fifty-eight. These old men and women bear the burden of the administration of the complex, Intricate and involved procedure under the pension laws having to do with the disbursement of 159,292 in 1920 to 600,000 and someodd beneficiarles. A Second Thought.

Don't refuse to marry a girl because she can't cook. She may have money enough to pay your The Medical Quipt. TUDOL Notice is hereby given that H. A. Gentry, as Administrator of the estate of J.

N. Gentry, deceased, will sell to the highest bidder for cash at the J. N. Gentry place, on the Randolph-Marion road, about three miles Southwest of Lawley, Alabama, in Chilton County, Alabama, on Thursday, February 8th, 1923, between the hour of Eleven in the morning and the afternoon, the following described perishable property: One mule, one horse, one wa con, one buggy and harness, one mowing machine and rake, one stalk cutter, one two-horse plow, one one-horse plow, eleven head hogs, three head cows, one corn sheller, three bedsteads, two sets springs, one stove, one dining table, one dresser, one washstand, one organ, one wardrobe and one safe. H.

A. GENTRY, Administrator. 1t. Mrs. G.

E. Plier and Miss Olive Robinson of Clanton spent Saturday night and Sunday visiting in Helena. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Goodgame and Ed, of Maplesville, visited relatives in Clanton Monday.

Mrs. R. W. Taylor and son Aubrey, of Anniston, are visiting relatives here this week. Mr.

and Mrs. J. W. Moore are confined to their bed with flu. Their many friends hope them a speedy recovery.

Honesty's I's done proved honesty is de best policy after all." "How?" demanded his friend. "You remembers dat dawg dat I took?" "Shore, I remembers." "Well, suh, I tries fo' two whole days to sell dat dawg and nobody offers more'n a dollah. So, like an honest man, I goes to de lady dat owned him an' she gives me $3.50." -The Christian Register (Boston). BOB JONES COMING TO CLANTON FOR REVIVAL MEETING The announcement is made by Rev. Wilkerson of the Clanton Methodist Church that Rev.

Bob Jones, the famous evangelist of Montgomery, will be in Clanton to conduct a revival meeting Jones ginning is on of February the most 11th. Rev. one ful preachers in the country, and he may be expected to shake Clanton up as never before. $30.00 Automobile Tire Eaten! William Hall writes, "Rats got in my garage and ate holes right through a new $30.00 tire. They teed Rat Paste in the garage and love rubber.

I put Royal Guaranhave never seen a rat since. Wonderful stuff." Protect your tires against rats! Get a 25c or 50c tube TODAY. Sold and guaranteed by Upchurch Drug Co. and Cooper Drug Co. Defined.

Teacher "Johnny, what is velocity?" is what a fellow lets go of a bee with." Forecast: CASTORIA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears Signature of the Ca COFFINS CASKETS BURIAL SUPPLIES Prompt Courteous Consideration MULLINS MOORE Clanton. Ala. GRIST MILL AT CLANTON I wish to announce to the public that I have bought out the grist mill at Honeycutt's Blacksmith Shop, and will appreciate your patronage. I am prepared to give you the very best service. I would like to buy your corn, or sell meal.

I especially invite you the patronage of my fellow bers of the United Farmers of -G. G. Gray, Clanton, Ala. 1-4-4t-pd. Miss G.

L. Chandler, of Atlanta, spent Sunday in Clanton with relatives. TONIGHTTomorrow Alright NR Tablets stop sick headaches, relieve bilious attacks, tone and regulate the eliminative organs, make you feel fine. 4 Better Than Pills For Liver Ills" ON KIDNEYS AND Remedy ENEC US PAT MEDICINE CO. Get a Your 250.

Box. Druggiat Upchurch Drug Clanton, Ala. DR. ARTHUR JOHNSON Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat, and Fitting of Glasses. Office Hours, 9 to 12, A.M.

CLANTON, ALA. 0 000 0 0 0 Try This on car has twice the speed it used to have Henry." "Sure it has, Lizzy. I took the engine out--that was what held the darn thing back." -Judge. The Leader has moved to the New York Store's old stand. FOR SALE CHEAP First class grist mill and gasoline engine located at Verbena.

Apply to Gulledge Brothers Verbena, Ala. Nitrate of Soda We have a shipment of Nitrate of Soda now in warehouse we can sell at ght price for cash. Get our prices before buying elsewhere. Bean Bros. Clanton, Ala..