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;• t- \ r~s r •' V * 7* r v ^ V' VOL. LXVJ. sixty sixth Year ; *3 , j ESTABLISHED 1852 SIXTY SIXTH YEAR ■•■ ■■.. . . . , r r --h BARNWELL, S. V ATIIURDAY, ABRIL 1.*, 1917. > 4-' ' XM. «r PRESIDENT WILSON . SPEAKS TO THE NATION V HOME DEMONSTRATION WORK This year more than ever before, the trfes Even Mio, Woman aad Child to Stand Together. Supreme Test Has Come Ap- peals Especially to Southern Farmers. 2. Washington. April 15.4*— President Wilson tonight in an address to his countrymen called up™ every Ameri can citizen—man, woman and child— to join.together to tiiake the nation.a Canning Club Girls have an opportuh T ity to help meet a real need. AH canned products are going to be very valuable. At ihis time the club girls can help to meet the needs of their country by helping to grow the food supply for the nation. Get your tomatoes and string beans ready and make preparation Tor care of them. All the first year gris willot course raise lomatleYT unit for the preservation of its ideals and triumph of democracy in the world Avar. “The supreme test of the nation has come.” says the address “We must all vprak, act And Ser\A together.” - <Che V P resident urges-all the people to concentrate their energies, practice economy, prdve unselfish and demon strate efficiency. He appealed to the farmers with em phasis on his words and particularly it the-farmers of the South, to plant fn idstnff*. The SmRlier11 farmers, he faid. “can show their patriotism™ no better or more' convincing way than by resisting the great temptation of the' present price of cotton and helping to feed the nations and theppoples every- where lighting tor their liberties ar.d TO RAISE MORE FOOD As a vr own.’ i I he a* 1 drees follow 1 My fellow countrymef* r ’ The entrance of.ouT belyvvd cuVn- Tly into the grini aiui terrible war tor d. mocracy and human rights which his shaken.. t!iv. |W orl I cr -atc<- so many ;>• ihienrs-of'-tiatiiuei! lif-e- and ac ion ■A hi>p • you will few lioh ist'l, i..r immedufTe consideration settleunuil that HaiTi ... i p-fmit*"nie . t«> ao'Iri>- to you a u >rds of (arnest counsel and an ,e *G »f I. rt ginl t ) them. •■}\Ve are rapidly, p'u'ting pur navy : tpon an effective .war footing and are hi rut to Create and equip a - real army, •j■ t, these are the simplest parts fjr the great task-to-which we have ad dressed ourselves Thereds not a sin gle selfish element, so tar as 1 can See, in jfe cause we arc lighting for. We are Ti.hting for wha* we believe-and wish t i be the rights oh mankind and for the i w ture peace and Security for the world. - I ) do thisfgreat thing worthily and successfully we must devote ourselves t: the service without regard to "profit or material advantage and with an euergy and intelligence that wifi rise to the leveWof the enterprise itself. We Tlie sec ond year girls, may put one half of their garden in tomatoes and oue half in beans. I want bII the third and fourth year girls to raise pimentoos, also. ■ . r .The Farmers* Union has consented to handle the glass and the tin cans for the club girls and-will.have them on hand when tire canning season-comes on. However, it any of the girls wish jto pul iri their own orders] of course, they are at liberty to do so.— _ Some of the girls may want to get a canner with which to do their work. ••I If W. They may order it from The Farm Canning Company, Meridian, Mss Canners may be bought for $5.75 to $20.00 It is not’absolutely necessary that the girls have a canner. but if they arc going to do any canning in tin, tbev will need the capping awd-ti-pp-ing - irons. Tlie - capping irons riiay be pur chased 1 ir 85c .-ach and the tipping irm-s-nniy be jiurchased for 25c each Ti,;- does not include express charges which'will be 20(1 for one, Cupping Steel ami one tipping steel. If several of the giris wi!i go t getiier ami order tfipir Irons; t^p* express.charges will he less. I; any of the, girls wapLnje to order capping s'.eels hud tipping steels for them, tliey may ktlt/d me $1.1" and 1 vvW put .in the order fur them. Remember girls that you are mem bers of the must important army the in world That of food producers. ‘Some folks think that they must grow cotton. Well, cotton is important, but food stuffs are even more so. As some oiig said the other day, if we do not have food, we will not nec-d ciothegjrery long. Besides theTlnb products, you girls must can all Surplus vegetables from the farnl oichard and garden. Learn to be economical and help your neighbors to‘be go too. . tMissj Clifford Barrat.t, Home l)i 4 m. Agt. Baynwell, S C. Result of Meeting-Held Here Mondajf Rallies Will Be eld at Every School House in the County Friday Night To Discuss Important Proposition. f . *v- ULMER Mig< Until lit dgeT^of .(/m Angeles, Cab, who is attending school at Colum- TrfH College has been the charming guest or M-tss Louih> We,-kly. Jy' Miss Lquise Weekly er.ttfffained Fri day evening in honor of her guest, Miss fudges Converratroh And contest^ vr?re indulged in during the ffm pan of the evening, after which a delightful sweet cour.e 'I'mwv.il — BAPTIST WOMAN’S • MISSIONARY UNION. ... _ r ,-r,, SeconM IhvUioo •( W«a»aV* nustoaary - b«lo« of Borawell AsaocUlioa Met at Cygren Cbapel. The Protria. Special to The Seal in?!. Ilunbartopt April Iff —/The second division of the Wuintu’i klis«ioaarjt JI on. Iv. A. OoojxT- delivered j'fi^stipi jug. address lu ! re Monday in the catnptrign (lint is living wa’»ed tlirou»1iuiit tin 1 >taie in tlie ' interest of producing more -food and feed stutT. Tlie meeting was called to'order hyvIIon. Harry D. Calhoun, who after a few intrd- ductory renracks 1 ntrodneed Farm iftmonstration AgFiil II] (i. Boylstoh. Mr, BoyTstoiTstated tlie oLji'ct Of the meeting- and v . ‘ introduced Mr. (’-coper. Mi, Cooper made--a i strong -plea for raising more supplies.,"ite.cited 'strong facts to show that there is a shortage of.food in tlie yvorld tQday, and that unle.s< some intelligent v and systematic edorts are made somehodv is coiim fcT— ■ ' H T ~J7“' ~ ^ -4^ -r- * ^ ^ • hungry. lie appealed to hi- lTearerfe pr^t from a patriotic stand point, and then stated that,if for no- Other reason the fanners should raise food supplies for business reasons. Aft-vr—Mtt (’upper's address' a eoupty n»mniittce'-was or- gani/(d with (’apt. C/ H. Mathis of BlaekviUe as chairman and IT. <*. BoyNton as secretary.. It wa- decided to hold rallies at ]praetical]y every ,-ctiool house in the cdunty next Fridav night at which time the necessity of promiciiiu sumetliiiiir to eat will l>e stressed; A cofiiYnittee consisting uf Horace .!. (‘rmtchTliev-. A. K. Ivvi^oji and I>. \V. .I*rowii ,wa- appwinted to arrange socuk-- (i-.' lor- the dyllcyein njircting'-. ^ Tifc coni mi ttee -u bi nit ted f li e’ •I’diliiwiiig report. . . / • , To IT! li I'ARMKBS. SCHOOL TlfVs I'ETK. TEA( ilTju and thcCENEItAI. PI liLIT (>ur Coumrv' is at war. ' * *■ * [ i ; . ■ t We nced-vour help.. 1 .t|- We must |»rovide food both for ourselves and. for our allies. •Public-meetings will he held at tlie jilaees mentioned below a-tdS o'clock Eriilay-niglit AnrilAidtli. tor-the tuirpose of telling the people the facts and -^uggestitig, what can be done. Come to the meeting nearest you and bring your neighbors. TALK IT UP. V - ^ • 1 ; “ r ^ Buddenville School House Seven Pines Miss Lorena Brant entertained with a card pHrfy>iati|'nray evening in honor of Miss HbJges. Punch was served during the evening, Many gueata en- T»yed. MissJBraut’s hospitality. ——- Miss Lbuise Weekly, a student at. Colurffbia College, sjmit the Easter liolidays with her parehtg, Mr and Mr^ ir F. Week ley. R. A. CRANT. H. A. Grant, age 7s, passed away at the home of hiB daughter M^rs tt. W Moody Saturday m'oriiihft after a short illness. Mr Grant was stricken with paralysis a few days previous ami neyer recovertd from tlie stroke. About 12 years ago the deceased moved here from Walterboro and made his home here ever since. For about ten years he was coim-cted with The Sentinel as 'foreman, retiring from 1 work m account of his eyesight. He probably had a lopger service, in the printing busines- than any man in the State, l or nmre than half a century Tie was actively at work as a printer. During tin 1 war between tlie states Mr Grant saty active service fur the _ e l' nn? A*me.. He (Vas a memb r nf Ll t- battery that li reel the Iir 5 t shot oi the waf Ri (Hiarlestoii. — • Mr Grant i- survived by One daug - ter.Mrs C W. Moody of Barnwell. 1 T e funeral services were held at the baptist church at 2.30 p. m. Sun day Lev. W. L. ilayes and Rev li. K.‘ Peeler officiating. The interment was made at tlie Moody bu.-yiug gr-ound near BamwelT. + jH *^nrSTtbFB“irnwell association lield i’s second quarterly meeting at Cy- press Chapel church SaturJaj. ApriL.- ]4(h, In tlie absen.ee of the Superin- lendeimrMrs B. F. JStnrne ; Mias Hattie Rena Milhous presided over the meet ing The program was a« foliowr 7 I>etotio:;|I—Mrs W. C. Milhou* * ^ting. Prayer.--Myg W^ L. Hayes. v ^Reports from the societies.. ' " Paper SurRieams, tlie Future Mis sionary Society--Mr« W. I. Hayes, t Missiimtrjr Study—Mrs Hayes and Mrs Milhous. ' Diseuseton.-** T h e Importance a f Young Woman AuxiliHrioi led by Miss Mtihouk. . . Song. ' ' Prayer. - ' -7' Dinner. i t JA jst realize to the fullest how great the task is and how many things, how many kinds and elements of capacity j^/d service and Eell •suerilice it in- tTj’vea. , • ... The<e, then, are the things we inus tD and do well. bes'des-Jighting—the tlrtrg? without which ingte 'fighting ik uld be fruitless: ' *nuist supp!j abut dant food fuF x ttaekes and for our armies and, mir (■-■aiuen. iic/.t only but also fi^r a large ; art of the nations with vrlioia. we l ave now made common cause, in whose support and by whose aid we *'iall be fighting.^ . “We .must supply ships by the hun- ;:redRout of our shipyards ti carry to the ot(ier side of the sea, submarines ■ no submarines, what will everyday needed there, aid abundant mate- vals^BUt of our fields'and v our. mines and our fact irics with - wtticli."not only tn clotLe anu bqmb our own forces on Tand and sea, but^also to clothe and port our people for whom the gal- JantTeilows under,arms can no longer wjrki, to help clothe and equip the armies with which we are cooperating" i: Europe and to keep the looms and manufactories there ind^w materials t 6 ate to keep tjm Area giingSuships at and in the furnaces of hundreds of factories across the sea; steel out tvhich to make arms and ammunition both here and there; rails for worn oat railways back qf the fighting front; iMomotives aud- rolling stock to take the place of those every day going to >ieoes; mules, lyirses, eattle. for labor slid for military servine; everjfrhing with which the people til England and France and Italy and Russia have ua- ^aily supplied themselves but canhpV afford the merndhe materials hm»- <ke machinery to make. industrial forces of the country, men and women alike, will be a great na- tional, a great international service army—a uotable and honored host en gaged in the service of the nation and the World, the efficient friends and savors of free men everything. Thou sands, nay, hundreds of thousands of men otherwise liable to • military' serv- ice oT rigKl*ah’d of necessity be extftrsed from that serviceraud assigned to The fundamental sustaining , work of the Ijelds anil factories and mines, and they wiU be as much pstrt of the great patriotic forces of the—jyation as the men under lire. - . . ~v G “•! will take the liberty, therefore,id addressing a word to the fanners of the country and to . all who work oh the farms; the suprem/* pee^s of our own nation and of'tire nations, wi ll which we are cooperating is aft abun dance of supplies and especially of foodstuff-i. The importance of an ad- * • 1 1 equate food supply, especially for the present year, is superlative. * L Without abundant food, alike for armies and the peoples now ty, war, the wltole grpat enterprise upon which we have embarked will break down aud fail.'T-be world’s food reserves are low. Not only during the present emergency ,bnt for sometime after peace Bhall have oijie both our own people and a' large proportion 4 or the people of Europe must rbly upon harvests' in America. Upon the^fanners ctf this country, therefore, in lahge measure rests the fate of the war aiuF^the fate of the nations. May the nauOn not count upon thorn t > omit no steti>lLU will increase the production of their kuid or that they wit 1 bririg abffit tb tlie Big Fork Bajdock Oak JLIi 11 Boiling Sjuings Long Braji^i Hilda Hoalinu SpritTg" Hunluirton. . Pleasant Hill Mt. Calvary Reedy Branch Bethel Blahkyilh -.4 “It is evidence lb;every tbinking man shat our industries, on the farms, in :he shipyards, in the mines, in the factories, must be^made more prolific, and more efficient.than ever and that they must, be more economically jman- aged and better, adapted to the par- aicular rtqiTiremente of our task, than they have beeu; and what I want to is that the men a-d the wanutii-l who devote - their thought and INHT energy to these things will be serving T%e country^aitd eonduating the fight effectual cooperation in dhstnbutM>« trG lIiTTF sale time is short. It is of the moat impera^ tive importance 'that, everything pos sible be done and done immediatly to ptake sure of large harvests;^ C call upon young men and old alike and up-, on able-bodied boys of the land to accept and act upon this duty—to turn in hosts 10 the farms and make certain that no paina and mr~tabor is lacking DuuLic P( Allendale \ w ■. He reviles Ashleiuk New Fore-t 0 ree.nl and Elk.r^" Williston' diners Kline San Uild Oak (fwve Mortis Fairfax Barnwell > Appleton Svcainore nd SPEAKERS W. A. All, J. Reed Boyleston. V. S.IOu ens, .las. J. Ray. J. a K. SnCllitig, II. J. Crouch. J. P. Giles's, J. II. Johnson. R: tTrtlolman, Dr. E. B. Ellis F. II. Gantt, Rev. J. C.-Gulloin. H. JetV Hair,-A ’. I., Trultick. II. I). Still. B. II. Dyches. B. F. Owens,• ^E-. (’. Watson.. ,;. -II. I>, Ciilhoun, .L A. Porter, C’lara L. J. Hitt, W, L. Haves. v * f A.- M." KemitMy, W,^M. Jones. M. B. IIagood, R. Boyd Cole. T E. (’rane, J - I). Jenny. ( : i 1. Mathis, C.JC, Simms, A. II. Ninestine. . h; ’■ Miss Clifford Barratt. F. P. Lee \\ , I. Johns, A, W. Owens. Geo. II. Bates, J..B. Morris. Z. L. Maddeh^TJ. F. Odom. Rev W. I). ILekle, J, W.Tolk A M. Jones, R, E. Woodward M. 1». Self, H. S. Johnson,vx^ F. \\. Hoffman, W. E. prothro J. E. Harley, G. M. Shepherd. Rev A‘.rF7.':Evison, B. Hagood; I>. W. Brd^vn, J. J. Cochran, . John F. Week ley, Julian Bush. S. E. Peeler, I 1 . M. Buckingham G- D. Sanders, II. P. Searso^Jr.* S. G. Mayfiqid, H. G. Bofleston T. M. Boulware, J. yi. Walker. vJ. E. John^6"n,■Jf/X)..Griffin, J. ; ; • • ' M. Patterson.^/ . • ■ . April 21st being the day loathe Spring Biu'ncli ' CAPT. W. T CAVE. Olajr, April 14.—Olar has b«'eu fad dened by.the deatb of Gapt W T. Cave as it has possibly never been 'saddened before. Hts friends and admirers had been hoping against hope for hrs re covery and hundreds of inquiri^i were made daily as to his condition. At the age of 15 yearn and 11 mo/iths he responded to the call of his country and on September 6 1861, he enlisted in Company H. seventeenth, Sooth, Caro lina Volunteers, Wallace brigade. He serted as a orave sold+nr.pngwg^d in actual fighting pn the battlefields until his company was completely surround ed and forced to surrender at DinWid- dieOmrt House on Apnl. 11,186® and 1 hen Jie held hie gun jintfF the enemy waj-in ten t feet.of them, He, with his c< mpa/ry, "Vas placed in a'bull pen prison uffliT the next day and then (i H .A 4 4 4 (4 4 4 4 4 Saturday ^m4 'Piciri4\ of Ttugfti FUXTdiich will' Hi..ke Tools, Levicp Gunter, L in thij? great matter. * • ••* _ f— ‘T particularly ippaaj t( .the farmers of the South to plant abundaht food stuffs as well as Cotton . They .can show for peace and frtedoip jmt truly and juAt as effective!yfas the man on Ihe jOTeHeldt or Tn the -Ucuch ea. Tlifil_ - c ■ . their patriotism in no better way than by resiAtlng the great temptation of the At tlffesMeyerij- Mill picnic orp^Friday It. B. O’Bannon ffBtl'P. W. Moore^m Laurens will' simak. ' ; c ' . . ■■ 1 x Fickling, II. if ublish AVe have been requested the'fpllowing: “Fhe publip U ly invited to join the people of the Big in a school picnic or. the school grobrid* This event willoelefrrate the completion The friends of Mr and Mrs R..S. Dicks will learn with much regretThat little daughter, Patricia-, is quilt Fork Cjmitnouity on Friday April 27(li sick, inupthat Mrs Dicks now has her ^eoiitiiuircd on fyurth page) Btg Fork sehtKilV did imMic and good spegkors for tbe oeeftabm. RefrefiTm^uts will be sefv/d hospital for treatment. Uf Hie ptflMUig of A lieu 's Cliapiiel j- ;' — me wtfiK'CTlL^ Nirand sccoDd to Mtss Minnie church, as well as the closing of the-r4 r ‘*. n ^A® Gharlcitqn. chsrgeaht Pricti -^eunett. At a result of liis first mar- is - 1st' se rgeantof the Iff acti 1 oeGITn tiage left c hi I dr eft were' born, four of Company of the aecond regiment and is rwhurn suLrvife him. W B. Cave, iF. W -- -- — - ’ Devotional—Mrs lla^ty. 4 hjen l)iscu§siun-“ihvlffg Thanks Fi nancially” led t»y Mis- Mary Cole. leaflet-*-Hix First . Missionary eos t• ft-ty—M1 ss f Maude <»,vens, Reports from Cominittees. Election of Pre nb-nt. Mrs I.. ,CF ; Dicks. ^ _ 1-choes from (irecn w,>cl ( VnveLtmn, Mrs 11 ayes. D.sphy of G. A banner an l r. ad ng of G. A. poem—Mrs Million'. t . Song. Benediction. ; * — ■ MRS. ISAAC KNOPF. r ; v Fairfax, Ar»Yi 1 iff —Mrs Isaac Knpnf died at her home here last Thursday evening afier a brief ’illness} Her death was a shock to a large circle of friends and relatives. She was a de voted wife jmd mother and a faithful iftember of the Baptist church. Her funeral wan conducted by ner pastor, the Rev E. A. MeDowell, Friday after# noon iii the presence of a large crowd of sorrowing friend*. The floral offer- ings by the various societies srhic& the was an active member -Lioluded offer ings from the Missionary and Aid So ciety of the Baptist Church, the U. Dr C . and Eastern Htar. Other, beautiful carried to Point Lookout prieon where he"remained until June 27, 1865, at s( hicTi time he waik eeut. ta Petersfiug where he was paroled. Barefooted and with threadbare clothes, fie b*gan to tramp- his way home. He arrived at Blackvjlle on July 4,1865, with blistered feet, ragged clothes, tired and hungry. s In the spring of 1876 Mr- Cave again responded to. the cal 1 of duty aftd fought hard toward the accomplish ment of that famous victory. He servfffias-oaptain of a company of Red Shirts and there is where „he won the title o( captain. 7 Capt. Cave vyas always a prominent Democrat. He was a delegate to each county convention from 1876 up to the present and hid been a delegate to two State conventions. Capt. Cave also h&d some political honors. He was supervisor of Barnwell ebunty befqre Bamberg county was formed for two terms and will be remembered fotM^e magnificent way in which he conduct ed that office. When he was elected Barnwell county was over $35,000 in’ debt, and when he we^t out of < flice the county had to ita credit over $10,- 000. in Bamberg county. He. also served several terms as ;majr>T trt Olar. -C ipt. Cave was a prominent member, it the Knights of Pythias X He-was "a past J chancellor commander for.a number i f tributes caine from friends, the pupita of the Ivgh school and another from tpe teachers of” the sgnooi] Late in the Afternoon she* was laid to real in the city cemetery, t|ie local chapter tf ’ the Kiiatern Star- being in ehirge of tt * ceremonies. T£ra Kn *pl is survived by .her hus band, Mr Daac Knopf, a popular drug gist of this town, and'four children ; Hazel, Ben,._Lorna and irufFT her mother, Mrs Elizabeth Lancaster,^ oue sister, Mrs L. E.‘ Bryan, of Fajrtax^and tlie following,-brothersMessrs Wil liam, Chester and Ilarry Lancaster, of Fairfax. Loyal and Cecil Lancaster, of Detroit, Michigitf, and \ Frank Lancaa- ter, of New Mcx co, ’ Mrs Kiopf was a woman of gentle a .d loving.disposition and wa« faithful in every walk of life. 8he will be misstd by lier church and community, but mort of all in her home where ahe in its ^highest aeilie her*fcf|ii v calling pf wife and mother. Her, l»e- , ryavedjfamily have the sympathy of a> li.ott bf friends. second marriage five children were boru, three of whom are-diving. - Hia mother, Mre George Morris of Bara well * county is still living at the age of ^8-^- and is in good health. • His death breaks a chain of .five^Jiying genera tions. He ha9 25 living grandchildren and e-ven great grandchildren. Ha" leave* the following half-brothers and sisters : Sheriff J.. B-. Morris of Barn well and 0. tl. Morrii of Oiar and Mrs He was also the- first ■vuprrri?OT~[~MgryiEP)diford and Mrs Salie be Ik gnd Mrs Maggie Croft an^i Mrs G. H. Ray, nit uf-ftyrnwffttirtiuuiy 1 . —‘— The interment took place in the Bap- 'titlcemetery in the pres^nee oTa large concourse of relatives aud irieud^ Sun day afternoon. The funeral service#■ years had been keeper, bf records and seal for his home lodge. He was a faithful member ot the Baptist chbrch and hatt been a deacon since 1872?- ■ • » » -■» Capt. Cave also has a remarkable family record, lie wits 72 yearn of age on the first day of last October. He We haNTTbeeii req-iest-d to anaounce^v was .marrltd- twice, the- fivst toMJes- the meetieg <»f Hee-Wiliisfou Farmers were conducted by the Rev. |<r Heckle ■pastor of tlie Baptist chuch, assisted by the Rev. Mr Sas*a*d of the Method?, ist church. ’ on the,K,rouudsrr daily capecting 1 a .call back To tlie -Cnve and Mrs G.TLTBarker 01 Olar and ■ X' '-^pti joc Chifty of Norway.. Tu lus elub at > 8 c'tflocl) The dite is not mentioned but inquiry in WUliston will elicit the information as to the day. The meeting i* to be held to dis- e isa-the food preparednesa proposition apd everyJarm-r is urged to tttCBd. / v 0 _ V, A- —(- .J,. \ v • a-Jfea X-