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/VOLUME XLVI.
BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2ND, 1122.
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; HOME BANK OP BARNWHLL.
NUMBER 4».
^ellenton club holds
INTERESTING MEETING
Means and Efforts for Boll Weevil
Control Discussed Saturday.
The editor of The People greatly
joyed a trip to Ellenton Saturday
as the guest of the Ellenton Agri
cultural Club, the host ipr the day
being Mr. Harold Buckingham. This
■ was our (irst visit to one of the old
est organizations of its kind in the
State, it having been in active ex
istence for more than forty years.
The club is housed in a substantial
two-story building right in the thriv
ing little town of Ellenton. The
first floor is used for a dnning rdom,
while thy business sessions are held
upstairs. The present memb&fehip,
we believe, is 42, and the meetings
are held monthly, a twRph time real
L.\WOE CROWD ATTENDED
BARNWELL BABY CLINIC
‘Better Babies Week” Was Great Sue-
cess in Bkrpwell County.
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The “better babies week,” which
was held in Barnwell County last
week by the State Board of Health,
under the auspices, of the County
Medical Association, was a great
success, much interest being-display
ed at each of the towns visited, with
the exception of Williston, where
only" 15 babies were registered for
examination. At Barnwell the at
tendance was large, well over 100
children being examined, the num
ber -of children examined here being
larger than at the other three towns
com bind. In fact, - " the doctors '•and
nursfs in charge declared that more
interest was displayed here by the
FORMER BARNWELL MAN
HAS A THRILUNG TRIP
APPROACHING MARRIAGE
OF CORDIAL INTEREST
BARNWELL SHIPS MANY
CARS OF WATERMELONS
MR. GEO. M. ARMSTRONG TELLS -OF AUTOMOBILE TOUR FROM
ST. LOUIS TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS.—PRAISESBUICK
, CAR FOR ITS RELIABILITY. /
Miss Louise Grimmett and Mr.'T. R.
Fishburne to Wed. ~ ^
Shipments from This Point Totalled
190 Cars Saturday Night.
with ! parents than at any other placf in
Capt. J. B., Armstrong, treasurer
of Barnwell County, has received a
most interesting letter from His son,
Mr. Geo. M. Armstrong, formerly
of this city, telling of his ex
periences on an automobile trip from
St. Louis, Mo., to the Rocky Moun
tains, where he and his wife spent
their vacation. He tells in a most
entertaining manner of the trying ex-
, pcirences encountered on the way and
of the wonderful scenery that they
saw, and his lf^t*r is reproduced for
the benefit of readers of The People.
fo'
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veait from the i ampetgn They
that If rttutr* are held la the
y at any future date that e*eu
tatereet will be displayed
COMMANDMENT*
OP AITOMOBSUNC
Idaho, July IB. 1922.—Dear
The days stare the last wash
have been #o full of fhlugs te
that I have fowad pa time t
a emgle long tetter, but ae*
1 tww hears free I will try la t
I a0 wf yew. There am few
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might stay for the night. The next
morning rathet* early before we left
we began to converse with the old
gentleman who seemed most kind and
genial. When asked what we owed
him he replied that there 1 was no
charge, that we looked alright to
him, he was glad to have us and
that we were welcome on our return.
We learned that his name is George
Washington and he surely lived up
to it
Blackvlle, July 28.—An approach
ing marriage of cordial interest is
that of Miss Louise Grimmett to Mr.
Thomas Rutledge Fishburne, which
will take place in the late summer.
Mr. Fishburne is a former Black-
ville boy, having moved away only a
■short while ago. He has been con
nected with Castle Heights Military
Academy, Lebanon, Tewn., since his
graduatipn from the Citadel, class of
1921. He is a young man of noble
qualites and comes from a very
prominent South Carolina family,
dlw has a countless number of
friends here who are deeply in-
old-fashioned barbecue Pinners,
all the trimmings, are served. j South Carolina that they have visit- j He gives full credit to the wonderful
The writer was greatly interested I ed outside of Columbia. The num- | performance of his Buick cur. which
in the proceedings of the business her of children examined at the wu ^qu*] to every difficulty of the
meeting. One important matter on-i various towns In the county was as His letter is as follows:
der discuaaion was whether or not the ^ follows: Dunbarton, 61; Blackvillc, | "Slopes of Cariboo Mountain
El lea ton Club should join a ‘Tanners' 40; Williston. 16; Barnwell, 107. -
exchange” that is being organised in * The local doctors were well pleas-
Aiken County for the purpoee of, od with the interest shown, especially
promoting the sale of farm products, Barnwell, and feel that great gaud
We were told of the wonderful *«*»*«* h “ h*PPtnes.
roads we would find in Colorado and I
Mrs. Herman Brown and her small-
most of them were fine but it tookf er ch ' Wr * n home
Colorado roads to get us -stuck” for 11" Atl * ntic Cit Y- Mr - Brow "
the first time and only time. There
was a car almost turned over in the
mud abend of us at about dusk and
there seemed no place to pass but
after around we thought we
could make II and tried It, only to he
hopelessly mired to a few feet aheu
Luckily the other fellow hud geue
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leave Saturday, motoring through the
country to Charlottuvillu. Va. t where
his Baa, Mr. Stanley Brown, ie viett-
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Nearly two hundred carloads of
watermelons have been shipped from
the town of Barnwell up to Saturday
night, July 28th, according to
figures secured by The People Mon
day, this city shipping more than any
other town in the county. Shipments
since that data have brought the to-
al number well above the 200 mark,
as growers have been active in load
ing this week. Up to and including
Saturday. 110 cars had been shipped
via the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad,
while the Southern Railway had hand
led 80, making a total for the two
roads of 190 can. This doaa not in
clude shipments from nearby points,
such as Snelling, Yenome, Aehlelgh.
eta., where many can have been load
ed by farmers who reside in Burn-
well but planted melons near those
shipping points. It baa b^fn esti
mated. however, that the skipmeots
from Snelling have brought around
630.000 to the shippers at that point
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business
mg. Mr. Buckingham served a
most elegant barbecue dinner to the
men, after which the dining room was
prepared for the ladies, they being
given a cat-fish stew in addition to
the regular ’cue.
Many of the editor’s old fried*
were among those present and the
day was pleasantly spent in renewing
old acquaintances and making new
ones. He has been promised an in
vitation by Mr. Eugene Buckingham
to a fish dinner in the “free and in
dependent Republic of Buckingham”
in the very near future, to w hich he
is looking forward with keen an
ticipation.
SENATOR SMITH TO SPEAK
AT THE COURT HOUSE HERE
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on Cooperative Marketing.
1 mud uf hsneos is woese thuu Msseourl
be | aud we bad to plough through 400
ks miles of R. Our experiences through
n d | the state were kutremely trying and
I really cunt see how see ever got
through without going over some
Things Te Remember At TJNs Time. | ♦"> b * nkln ^ n t '"to • of getting
J^stuck. I surely will give the Buiek
Vegetables from fall gardens are ^ "<>"derful boost for it took us
more appreciated than from the gar- t>»">agh places it seemed impossible
den at any other tme. Now is the | to » nd n « ver hesitated once though
time to make planting of such things «t had to be in low gear. Our
as can be planted for fall use.
Plant now fall beans, set tomatoes,
plant squash, collards, and cabbage,
Also fall cucumbers, Irish potatoes,
corn and turnips.
If there is to be a crucial time for
the cotton crop this year, it is now
worst experience in Kansas.was the
day out from Topeka when it took
seven hours to make forty miles and
another trying hour to get back into
the rut when we missed the ditch by
inches. Reports from Manhattan
ahead were that if we didn’t hurry
and get into the city the river would
'fast approaching, and, too, if poison- ,
ing was ever essential it is now. The soon ^ ^ anks and entry
weevil is now fas# increasing and if wou ^ d be impossible,
some measure 0 f control is not used “Swimming a river didn’t seem as
serious damage will no doubt result, bad as the road we had passed # so
Cotton prospects will pay. One sin- We pushed on and did get into Man-
mu&ng wOf imm iutlfruer t MMIIC
**Wt bud ftva blankets along sud
two cots to use In case of mud. Every
hight we used them on the way out
was cold and we simply couldn't
keep warm. At Laramie we added a
gle application of dust and then wait hattan just a short time before the
for,several webks probably is nor river overflow ed _ its 'banks - and
the proper plan, but apply three hp- covered the road. At Salina, Kans.,
Senator E. D. Smith will address pij ca tj 0 ns four days apart and than th e road ahead was covered with
the people of Barnwell County at th^ * hen you have made an i^f estation water and the river rising, but we
Court House here tomorrow (F n -j fcount you find that you only have a learned of a possible detour and wc
day) afternoon at 4 o’clock:^Most of i |ioj.j, t inflation you will stop for burned along and made that only
the men of this section who have j t h e t j me being at least until the wee- to be held up again a few miles fur-
heard the Senator will appreciate the v ils accumlat^ again. Calcium may th «r along by more rain and high
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Dr. aad Mrs. Boa Storrw or* spend
ing tbs suasmer m the mountains of
Westeru North Carolina.
Messrs. N. G. W. Walker, W. J.
...... . Lemon and Sheriff Keyes Sanders,
double blanket to the supply and now rof Barnwell, were here Sunday after
noon, to attend the third Quarterly
Conference held at the Methodist
Church.
Mr. Wiltiard Fishbutme, of Bruns
wick, Ga., is the guest of Mr. Leon
Brown.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Cain, of Wins-
|to^i-Saldm, N. C., returned to their
home Sunday, after a two week’s
visit with their son and his wife,
Mr. and Mrs. Wilden Cain.
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Messrs. Briggs Kammer and J. J.
Ray, were recent visitors in Orange
burg.
Miss Louise Still, of Sparf£nb|irg}
who has been the guest of Miss
Cecile Fickling, has returned home.
Mr. Frank Ayer, of Greenville, was
make one bedding roll for the two of
us which is always used on the
ground as cots are too heavy for a
trip like this. We have needed than
all some nighte and others have been
sufficiently warm to dispense with
all but two.
* “From Denver we made Laramine,
Wyoming in a day and stopped two
days with our friends, the Paysons.
Dr. Payson is the Botonist at the
University of Wyoming and it is Dr.
and Mrs. Payson that we are with on
this trip. *
The trip through central Wyomii^
is hot, dry and rather disagreeable—
the trip through the Red Desert—so
Dr. Payson traveled by auto with me
and Johnnie and Lois came by train the guest of his brother, Mr.,
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burlon. Elko sad W dlistsu aad tbs
bssoctatad cbaritiaa of Banrwull.
Thors will bs fro* sxamiaatioas
with a fat’of Id crate for sacb opora-
tion, tbosr oprrstions bring limited
to amalgam and esnoat fillings, cteaa-
ing and extraction. Any trrotmout
work should be performed by the
child’s local dentist. Dr. Early said.
The establishment of this dental
clinic is under an act bf the last ses
sion of the legislature, which provid
ed for the employment of a dental
director. The remainder of the ex
penses are to be borne by appropria
tions from the counties and a small
fee from the parents of the school •
child. In the case of the Barnwell
schools, the fee is barely one-fourth
of the enftre cost, according to Dr.
Early.—The State, July 31.
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to Montpelies, Idaho three days later.
The trip through Wyoming was a
Ayer, last week.
Miss Thelma Holten is visiting rel-
fine one even of one day was spent 1 atives in St. Petersburg, Va.
opportunity that is in store for them, be bought In some places as low as
as he is a very eloquent speaker and fourteen cents peg pound.
Another matter of intereat to form,
era te that of polling fodder from
torn New, it is pretty bard work te
always interests bis bearers ' when
ever be speaks. Everybody is urged
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Hi be “CeswraUve Marketing.”
are a farmer te
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water. For .us and the mac hi i
then were constant slides and sli|
terrific bumps in the mu% hdi» »iy4
am sore the dost pan most ha'
scraped far IBd mtles through tb
Btnte of Kansas ^
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through the desert, for the plains,
the hills and mountains were all new
to me and the scenery really fine. It
was in camp the first night out of
Laramie that I heard the first coyote
•end out its blood-curdling yell and
that has been the only one Word ih so
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Blackville, July 28.—Special: The
approaching marriage of Misy Na
talie Kammer, oldest daughter of
Mr. end Mrs. John Kammer, of
Blackville, to Mr. William Ready
'Wataon, of Johnston, which will take
place on Wednesday, afternoon of
of Denmark, were visitors here Wed-1 Aufu>t at 5 0 . ciodt< at the Baptist
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Mr*. Ella Smth left today for a portance among their many friends
visit to hsr daughter, Mrs. Uharite • bera; to tort. aU ever the State and
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