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/. —yt- TZZHZI '7-7T" V 5 ' - - ' * . . ' ■JC- SIXTY SIXTri YEAR ESTABLISHED 1853 * <: SIXTY SIXTH YEAR VOL. LXVI. ■ NO. 23. BLANK CARTRIDGES FIFED AT RANDOM By Just Us. enough to be pleasant Wh • the world flows along like • a ‘oug, • •' ^ ; . Lut the man worth while is tlie man who can smile w-_. ' , ■ ■ »,—i„ —y~-« , . .■ ~—. '' When everything “goes dead :n:r wrong Sitting watching *. * on „the fence and the procession of op- portuniries go by, it looks to me as if Barnwell is at the part ing of the ways, one way being that of progress, leading to busi ness and civic" prosperity, the other way through barren fields by an oval route back to the point whereon we apparently stand today. I say apparently, because what looks like a staii jng-stjll position is, in reality', ope of ~r.e t rog re s sio n .^Om m u ri i - ties being fc 9ubje£t^to the same law that, binds individuals, by which imthiug' really stands 3till J*tft inevitably goes for- tl or backward. As noth ing of importancei or value can be i accomplished in a genertil way and ifor the common good, 'by detached units, in order tq do good to a community at large th,ere must be a calling together of these units into one solid and substantial body. It is not the. province of these paragraphs - to lay out detailed plans, but simply, in all mod esty and_with sincere purpose to serve the t'ovyn of Barnwell, to suggest to brighter minds and more capable hands sub jects and plans for their con sideration. It strikes me that the first step towards doing any thing of general value is the forming of an organization to get people together for ,a disussiou of the plans project^for the betterment 'of the community. It does not matter what you call the organ ization—merchants’ club, cham ber of commerce, town progres sive society, or what not,—the main point is to get together and keep getting togelhcc until you do something. If you men who agree, in however general a way,, with this suggestion will start the ball rolling by organizing yourselves* this coir ,1111111 will shout long and loud for you. What say you, mer chants and public-spirited men bf Barnwell? * * * When you acquire a piece of knowledge it is* hot to be used as a pillow upon which yohr mind maV repose in complacent _ slumber, but as a step from which to ascend upward and onward _td~farther acquisition. And it is A curious thing that, although the climb to knowl- edge is - ever upward and on ward, . each succeeding' step makes the ascent easier* the horizon wider and the pleasure magnified, until there is no Sense, of fatigue, but only, that of abounding satisfaction and a thrilling sense of achievement. The pursuit of knowledge is a profitable adventure. Try it. Our SherlockTIolmes has dis covered that a specimen of tire human biped known .as the slacker, living not a thousand miles from Barnwell, received an unexpected parcel the other dav, and when he opened' it he found a full suit of girl’s clothes, apron and all. A tag, was .attached to the suit with these words :„“Get into it, sissy, get in. It will fit you all right, all right.” * *- ■ • The movement to erect a lib erty pole on the square, from the top of which ‘‘Old Glory” will be given to the breezes, has so far progressed that the flag has Tlie news of the* deatli of. Carl Love Clinton, a South Carolina boy, who died at an Army Camp at .Sheffield, Ala; March 17th, reached diis sister, Mrs. \V. F r _ Syphrett r of , Donova, Sunday night, Mr. Clinton died after an ill ness of only one. week. - While everv attention was given .that loving hands could render, and skilled physicians advise the grip of pueunionia could not be broken. tie was'2Tyears of age and possessed a very amiable dis position, • which won nwtriy friends for him among^young anti old. lie offqpWl his ser vices to his century last June and was rejected* on account of physmhrl disqualification, > hut waaTater drafted and sent to ampJackson, S." C., where lie was again honorably discharged. At the time of his death he and an older brother were” assisting in construction work at Shef field, Ala. The body was sent to bis home in Chester, S. 0., and the interment took place at Old Bethesda Presbyterian church, about fifteen miles north of Chester. The deceased” had 'been a member of'the B.ethdsda e1iu,rch for a good inany years, and is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Clinton, of Chester, and the. following brothers and sisters J. Marshall, Henry and Karl, Misses. Mimie Lee and Leila Clinton, and Mrs. J. C. Simpson, of Chester, Mrs. E. F. Turner, Johnston, S. C.» and Mrs. W. F. Syphrett, of Ddnora, S; C. r y Tlie bereaved family has the heartfelt sympathy of scores of friends throughout the State. GOOD SCHOOL REPORTS FROM ULMER. Prof. 'Robert- Turner, principal of the Ulmer graded school, was in the city last Thursday and spoke in glowing terms of his To Meet with the First Baplst C Blackvltle oo Sunday March 3!st • The Barnwell Couuly Sun day School Convention will be held in the First Baptist church at Blackvilie on Sunday , March, 31st. It. B. FickLing, sup tendent of the Baptistimuli ay school and a moipbrir of .the state executi recommit tee, is ar ranging* tor \this convention, assisted-Jiy several local workers, the hope that every Sun- ay school in the county of eve ry denomination will he repre sented at this meeting. One of the principle speakers for the meeting will be It. D. Webb, general secretary of the South, Carolina Sunday School association. For more than two and a half years Mr. Webb has been giving his entire time to the promotion of Sunday school work in the State. For thir teen years he-,, was a teacher in a state college in Alabama. Dur ing that tune lie was a Sunday , school superintendent, presi dent of his county association, and field secretary Of, tlie Ala bama Sunday School Associa tion. His addresses come from his own experience. and from his studv of Sunday school problems for many years. Miss Millwee Davis, State rural and elementary superin tendent, will be another speaker on the program. Miss Davis was for a number of years con nected with a small country Sunday school and has studied at first hand A the needs of the rural schools. Since becoming one of the field workers of the State association, Miss Davis -has attended hundreds of meet ings where her addresses have been an inspiration not only to workers in the schools, but but also to those drem Besides these two speakers, B. M. Peeples, president of the Hampton County Sunday School Association, and superintendent teaching chil- sCliool and community. He stat ed that the old school building of the Hampton Baptist Sunday had been sold at public auction 1 school, will be present and de- and replaced bv a large liver two Addresses. Mr. Pee- handsome brick building, which pies is one of the leaders Of his ■pas four class rooms and large denomination in tlie lower sec- auditorium on the second floor, tion of the State, and is also ac- Tlie whole building i$ equip- ! tively interested in the worlTbf ped with splendid furniture, in-1 the Interdenominational associ- cluding a nice piano. . A basket hall and tennis court is now under way of\constructioii. f ami a live literarv soeietv is one of •/ «- tlie special features: of the school. Prof. Turner also itnte<l_tpatJae has as assistants, Misses Beau- ford, Lyles and Rosalind Sutzs, who are all expe rienced aud excellent teachers. The "board of trustees, con sisting of Messrs. ,John F. Weekley, J. 0. Griffin .and G. A.- Best; are interested and co-op erate yv it h~us in all our under takings, which makes the work here a pleasant task.. ANNOUNCEMENT CHANGED the Box was announced Allen’s Chapel * Instead of having Party, ^wliich last week, at church it will be given at the Big Fork School house on Fri day night* the 29th of March.; The proceeds are to bemused in the improvement of the grounds And buildiug of the Big Fork School. . - been ordered. May the goodWork be speeded up, for it will sure be an inspiring thing to feeT the ‘‘stars arid stripes” floating in benediction over the town, ( /- - * Y While it is probable that Colonel Harry Calhoun knows nothing about card playing, everybody agrees that lie made a good Gamble when he took on the present cashier of the Home bank. _ at ion. Horace J. Crouch, W. II. Hutto and C. \V. Rentz, Jr,, will, also have a part on the program. The music will he a special feature of the convention. The PRko, Healing Springs and Blackville choirs will render special selections. The pro gram 4‘orthe day is given below. PROGRAM. , »# Morning Session.—10.00, De votional. Conducted by Horace J. Crouch. 10.15, Music. An Organization for - Service. By Miss Millwee Davis v State Ele mentary and-Rural Superintend ent. 10.55, Personal . Experi ences in the Organized Sunday Scfiool Work. By F. M*. Peeples, President Jlampton County As sociation. 11.25, Music. 11.30, Serviee for All and by All, By R. D. Webb, State..General Sec- retar. 12.00 v Appointment of committees. "Adjournment. Afternoon Session.—3.00, De votional. Conducted by W. H. Hutto. S.15, The Call of the Sunday-School to the Mission ary Tatk. By E. M. Peeples. 3.46, Thoroughly Furnished for Service. By R. D. Webb. 4.15, Songr' ^^By The Elementary Program. By ^iss Millwee Da vis. 4.50, Matters of business. 5.00, Adjournment. Night Session.—8.00, Devo tional. Conducted by C. W. Rentz, Jr. 8.15, Mueie. -8.25, The Growing Teacher. By R.D. Webb. 8.56, The Church in the Sunday School and tlie Sunday School is the Church. 9.25, Music. -8.39, Adjournment. Colored eggs at KasteF time were employed hundreds of years before the.diirie of Christ. All of the ancient nations celebratcdreligious festivals in the>>pring of tlie year; gener- ni honor of some Deity rej.resonting Spring, or the re newal of life. . The egg was chosen as an appropriate emblem, because- it Contained within itself the cerm of life, and, accordingly, it was offered to the Deity at those vernal festivals. In order to make the eggs more attractive as offerings, they were colored with bright paints or dyes. The ancients used little cakes as well as eggs at their spring time feasts in honor of EAS- TRE,.the Queen of Heaven ; and far back as the time of the founding of Athens, cake9 and eggs figured as^ ceremonial features in the Teast -of Islitar, another Queen of Heaven. Tlie use of eggs, therefore, at Easter is simply the survival of a pagan custom and has itself no relation to Christianity. At the same time it it a pleasing and picturesque custom, and has been so long associated with our joyous Faster ’celebration that no one would willingly give it up merely because it was at one time associated with heathen festivals. Nothing seems to make the little ones happier than a “whole lot” of Faster eggs, so, if you possibly can, give them a “ba ker’s dozen”—this, of course, means thirteen. The custom on the part of Takers giving thirteen to a dozen, like the Easter egg business, is an old custom. .In medieval times bakers were kept un der the vigilant eyes of the law. Their trade Vas very care fully guarded by laws, and se vere penalties .were provided fpr any shortage in weight or measure (Gee, but that was a fine law !) In order • therefore to avoid any possibility of fall ing below the required stand ard, the bakers got into a w^ay of allowing aubextra loaf with every dozen. Of, course, this custom has gone nut of -style, but the say ing, L‘a baker’s dozen,’’ still re mains. (The above facts were culled from,a little green book) . . - OuBois. PATRIOTIC SUGGESTION. It has been suggested that every merchant in Barnwell fly a United States fiag from the 1 side or top Cf hi& store as a tes timony before tire w r orld that old Barnw’ell heart and soul be- himj Uncle'Bam in the war. It is a good .suggestion and we heartily ipdorse it. While the larger the flag the better, a small flag is better than none at all, the main point being to prp- claim local patriotism; STORES WILL CLOSE 6.30 P. M. We, the undersigned mer chants of the tow r n of Barnwell, hereby agree to close our stores at 6.30 o’clock p. m., commenc ing the Joth day of April, 1918. for the purpose of allowing thff clerks in our respective stores to plant and cultivate war gar dens for the beqefit of them selves and to help our country with its food problem. J. A. Porter Lemon Bros., Inc. f ’ _ J. G. Moody, Jr. G. Golinsky B. Mazursky L. Kohn F. W; Falkenstein Mi9s Carry A. Cave - Farmers Union Merc. Co. - S B. Moseley C. F. Molair J. M> Caldwell Home Furniture Co.' • We feel all puffed up over the advent into our chapter of eighty-two members from Fair fax, S. C„ with the possibility of numbers of others coming in at an early date. We were call ed upon to go to Fairfax' and assist in Organizing a branch of our chapter at that point, and the following attended this meeting: Mesdames Le«iaDavies, 1L-J. Drew, W. T, Aycook, G. M. Greeiie, P. M. Buckingham, Charlie Brown, Misses Harriette and Gertrti'de Holmes, Pauline Richardson and Mr. L. P. Wilson. Quite a ,1arge crowd attended this meeting and great enthusi asm displayed. If you should meet a citizen froni the Fairfax coummunty now and fail to see the Red Cross button on - the lapel of his coat you may rest assured .that lie has lost his button, for they are all mem bers. On-last Friday afternoon Rev. and Mrs. Groseclose, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Young, Mrs. Johnson, Misses Durant, Stansell, Epting aiid Mr. O’Neal visited our work room and seeined very enthusiastic over the work w ieh they are now undertak ing. From the amount of material carried away by these good ladies we feel sure that they intend to oustrip the mother chapter, At any rate there will be one thing tlie ladies of this branch will no t he guilty of, and that is wasting time,energy, money or material. We expect great things * from that corner of our old county. I have received requests from Martins and Baldoc. during the past week asking for instructions as to organization of Junior auxiliaries. This looks very promising. I feel v that if we can-, inter st the children in this work that a great deal can be accomplished. They love to work, but one of tlie, real joys in becoming a Junior is that they will be allowed to Wear that Red Cross button. Mrs. LenaDavies, our effici ent chairman of Supply commit tee, left a few days since for Goldsboro, N. C. where she has gone on an extended visit to friends.v^ We feel like a ship without a rudder now that she is no longer with us and shall anxiously await her return. We have also lost a splendid worker in Mrs. W. M. Andrews, through whose efforts our lied Cross chapter was organized at this place, she having moved to her old home, Augus'ta, Ga. Our good wishess follow her. _ We have so many good ladies in our town who could be of great assistance to us in the work room, and yet when one approaches such a one and asks, for just one hour, , per day' or uiirraD ntm Buy Them And Help Win The War TOR SALE EVERYWHERE -.kr-. DEATH OF MRS. A. M. KENNEDY. The’ death on Saturday morning in the University Hos pital in Augusta of Mrs! A. M. Kennedy of WillUton was* re ceived with marked sadness in the entire community. Her health had .not been good for more than a year, but the acute illness that terminated in her death lasted hut little over three weeks. Mrs Kennedy was the daughter of Mrs W. W. Harley of Williston, where she has -spent her entire lifer- On both her father’s and mother’s side she as widely connected with many of the oldest families in Barnwell county. Sheyvas a loyal and consis tent Christian, being a member of the Baptist church. She posses^d a cheerful and oblig ing disposition, and was active in every good work. She will be missed not only by her own immediate family consisting of t»f; her mother. Mrs. W. W, Harley, her sisters, Miss Mary Harley of Williston, Mrs T. Barnhill of Columbia* S. C. and Mr Edward Harley of Chicago, 111., but by many friends throughout the State. She was married last August to Mr. A. M. Kennedy, the well known banker and mer chant of Williston. The funeral services were conducted by her pastor on Sunday afternoon at her late residence, and the interment was made in the local cemetery in the family lot in the pre sence of a large number, of friends. week they tell we have our hands full at home,’no time tp do outside work, ask some of those ladies who stroll the streets to help, why U(4 interest them? Now suppose some one called you a slacker. It would make you pretty mad, wouldn’t it? You would be ready to fight. But to come down to the truth of the business, what ure you really doing to help win the war? I can see you now swell with pride and say, I am helping to conserve food, I am knitting-for the soldiers and am willing to assist my government in every way possible. And you ” really believe that you are doing your full duty. But listen, how about going up to our work room some of these fine mornings and saying to these noble women on duty there, let me relieve you for an hour. Try it ladies and see how ^ glad you will make the heartsywith suclUft of these women whq have given so much of their time and energy to this work. I will guarantee that you * will meet HATS OFF, GENTLEMEN! Dr. Ed Patterson, a popular Barnwell hoy and physician, who has been abroad several months doing bis big bit among the Allied soldiery, is now m France, close up to the firing line and well within the danger zone, where his work has vastly increased in value and hardship as well as volume,, and it will gratify his host of friends to know that his services are >p"- preciated, recognition of the fact having been made in his liroraotion to a captaincy. Doc tor-Captain Patterson has just as much use for a slacker as most people have for a rattle snake;;—and no more. DR. WYMAlTliTFRANCE. 4a Tlie' following appeared in in-Sunday’s issue of the State, and will be\of considerable in terest to many people of Barn well and Ailcen counties, where lie has large connections and many friends. -“News - has been received in Columbia of the arrival/raf Dr. H. Marion Wyman: in France. Dri. Wyman, who was one of tlie first Columbia physicians to volunteer for army service, was transferred from the ambu lance corps to which he was first attcched, to the base hos pital in Atlanta and thence the Johns Hopkins unit^frith which he Is now serfing in France. Mrs. Wyntali i> at her home in Aiken.’> warm reception that yoti will never stand back, for a second invitation but that you will just COME. Jennie P. Greepe, Sec’jv • ♦ i s? 'i v-— • •-