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. . i —— * ""‘T n ‘-f-r» Ip* / ' / *: /- : / V Tn 7 SIXTY SIXTH YEAR ESTABLISHED 1852 r.. SIXTY SIXTH YEAR ——r —-r VOL. LXVI. 1 1 BARNWELL, S G , THURSDAY, A\ C,¥WTlo, IfJlS NO. 43. RED CROSS DEPARTMENT. r l'he price for ginning in South Carolina is fixed bv tile Food ^^ministration as follows: thlvRed Cross to aft BmsibiH r ‘Tiir ginning a bale of five hun- "The following is a letter is sued under date; t)f July 25th by the Acting General Manager pY managers, Calling attention to the importance of Home Service and of skilled workers to carry „ on successfully this phase of - your Chapter’s work: \FAcry home > service section should, therefore, have as^ secre tary someone trained to deal with the family problems. In large cities this will preferably be an experienced social worker whose salary, if that is required as is-usually the case, will be paid from chapter funds. In small er towns and rural districts even the burden of work may be suf ficient to necessitate employing such a person on full tirrie or part-time. It is no less -essential that satisfactory service be avail able even fpr the few. families known to a county chapter. Their welfare is just as important as tlnfrqf other familiesany where.” The abov e statement is given our readers by the request of the ■secretarv of our Red C ross PRICE FOR CINNING IN SOUTH CAROLINA. died pounds of lint cotton or less, $3.50 per bale. For each additional 100 pounds of lint cotton at the rate'of 70 cents per hundred pounds- .When bag ging and ties are furnished by g inner, $l.50 additional, The farmer shall have the privilege of furnish in'gr his own bagging and'ties. r -~ • y - Yours very truly. William Elliott, Food Admihi-trator for South Corolina. BUBBLES FROM BOILING SPRINCS Special to The ■'-Sentinel*' LvMdhurst S. C. Ang. 12th-- In spite of the mercury- being up in the nineties/ the-e times till* young fry xyih to be pretty lively a oilnd./mere, and with ONE OF OUR SOLDIER BOYS WRITES HOME. V v —; tSome where in Franco, .1 tine 20th, 1018. My Dearest Mother :—I am writing you a few-iines to let you hear from your boys. We are well and getting along fine. 1 truly hope this will find you all getting on o. k. We are work ing hard everyi day. Mole.ys, is still cooking. 1 d gue>s he-antl Wallace would likq to seo/Thcir ‘wives about nbw. Where are they, anyway? Is Mary with you? How is pagetting ffWlng, is hi's'health any better? I hope so. 1 guess Aikm.'aTT have plenty of ripe nminus now; I do wish we. had/some, we would enjov them, I havn’t set*n any grow- f * ■- lore. They don't plant corn cotton ; the season is too ~T ■ V; , STATE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE. nor short, tlmy only plant grain and gttrdoB truck-. — TTow is every body? 7 Columbia- The Health In.-ti- tytute, dield here for two days last week, launching the State Health Campaign, which has been undertaken by the Council of Defense as an important war measure, has not only proven a success in every wav, but is at-' trading nation-wide attention. ,A representative of the Council of National Defense .came down from Washington to attend the Institute and to acquaint him self at first hand with the plans for the state-wide campaign.it is the purpose of the Council of National Defence to adopt the best features,Pr the plans of the South Carolina Council of Defense for .a national move-, inent along the same lines to he recommended to the several State defense councils for their adoption, ~' r ..d— The movement which has Byrnes Receives Ovation at Aiken. Meeting Indicates Aiken County Overwhelmingly for Byrnes Notwithstanding Fact That There Are Two Other Candidates from the Same County. Chapter;MrsAVuTiainMcNabJl j &tIaw a " n I,:l !‘ ties ; et . c “ Civilian work is onie of flu* most i unmageto keep up a lot of uoi-e. important Avar works that con j-Uioe^lod Md-lmt mgh-tx wr arc oWTraving. ‘Two - wagon loads front our people; It moans just | Having. •uvci wagon leans f )r ,,ther came over on this everychapter is expected ip of sjiraw aiders from the .Martin j )uat j ( |j ( | section came over'the other ant The movement which you to write ail the’new sf every- been launched will now be Cx- thing tbaG- happened since I j tended into theaeveratcounties. left, for yofTdrm't know how j KcpTesentatiVes of tbe- County good it makes ns boys feel to get j Councils who , attended, tin* letter- from home. Tell all our Health Institute will arrange, friend t<> write ns, for we can ’/Through then* oiganizatibn* to j get too iiiiidi news, from “uv/ spread tl.m. like-sage throughout T< !L Willie Town* His the / ■stum* night. Tircy-^urely did make th welkin ring ami if noise good time indication of ;i 'lire were having it. i he crops are about foe oafV farm work on now . Jf he old fa. hion all laitl style ol i look up the families of the sol diers sent to war irom tBfe county, dodo Uvis and render tile muelfr! needed help, some one must i>e appointed to v isit the rural elis > tricis every week. Taking into these country homes/tbe know ledge'that the needs of this esptkial family pTe going to he attemled to because it has given } a -olilier tp tile United States pulling fodder for forage is ill f Army. If this ’chapter does this practiced -around here. It- a work like the others it will see mightv hard; hot, iaborous wav - bat /Some ca|>.il»lo woman is j of yelling lmi w (ml ami more kxilinl lo take tikis up*. Pitting uj - i,., s nnm-pm, tin- corn ■her what she will ™u|ri> if she j u . sid |mt mos , tv.tks sdill stick f. n ; n ff 10 P„ VU her serv,c °t to it like I, -nek k,lien to a |,ol 4f it is believed necessary, send-1 j ..... • ■ ing her to take the six weeks! . course suggested bv the General Manager oi the Red C ross. It is . Mij.nia, listen ; I ‘m over and 1 know I ’ve got to tight is. an a j] W(1 can ,|, they ContiKiu-il on F.ILh P me. Before a throng-that packed the Aiken Court, House almost to sufroeatioti, the candidates for senatorial and Congressional honors from this Congressional district made addresses here hast ThursLlay. v • • 1 . Mr. F.vans^ a son of Fdge- .fieicl .and,of iHustrimis foT. hear-, pitched his address on a high plane. He used no Billiirgsgate, he hinted aTiiO “cuss” words hut -poke in tin* even, polished tenor-of the * thoj-qugrihr*^ gentleman. llethoiiglit Congress man Bvrnes has upulc a big misliike in not upholding tin* Selective Draft. 'The -aid Selec-* tive Draft had done wonders tor AitTerica. He recited several instance- of bravery among the soldiers now in France and stated that the Draft-had tin* oileet of lna.kmg good soldiers out of the negro* - a- nothing else could have dom* 1u*;l and i* can Uo is to tru-t in < iod j and pravy.and I’m trving to do! niy. |u>rt. ' I a c irihe~pra vers of . , ,. , vou all. We need them go win *>■ '‘Hl.e-r |.u|H,,g.w «lti«utl-„ li . 1|Xvftl , MrfeMIP . |lhlvl . r , amt ju-t ' 0 f a jj t h(< gaod^ieupje- This -urely is a pretty con trv. Still having frOst. I havn t ^ * 1 seen' a fiuir-vv l.mel buggv 6r a long tail hoi-e ; they drive two- WILLISTON ITEMS.- SjitX'ial to Tin, Sentinel. , WiilisNq; Aug 12th.— Mr (i r« l ■h, leneral manager n Beau* Mis- Lizzie Gantt is in impossible for a soldier to be ex- 011 a v ‘ s * 1 tu ^ u r Mr.- Stanmeyer. pected to do his best in camp or on the battlefield if he is anx ious all the time about his family Fred II. Gantt, of Greensboro, at home. Some families live in N.C., left on' the 10th after a remote country homes far from j stay of about a N week vritli his drug stores and doctors; some parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jno. M. even do not know-how to <; antL direct a letter to their men; may | 'noi he able to wrile.Ar luve nit| s w.TrouUof Wil- - tin* iniKcrial to do .( will,; may, Ust01 is hcV( . „ ou v;M .„ i . r h ^ bfj.ilomir without the •actual. o|(j fl . inilL , L l: . necessites. As their men are lent to* us for the war, these\ needs we can and must fill bv the civilian relief worker. In a I heeu'-pending some vv Mi-s Kate Du Bose who eel It ft on the Mb for < ’amden.vv Alisses Zuline Glennie Brunson, burg county, ere fit mi ly of M r. ami 1 )u Bose. M rs. I >u Bb-r is ] after a visit to lie Lanes. hirer Willi; and hospital in I ranee,, a young .North Carolina soldier was Ikying to get well from a very, sevv^e wound, lie received a letter Tmm home. Jt tohl him that his mother, the only "rela tion he h.ulAAtO, sH;’k in if lonely mountain homefrdrAm that day the soldier seemtaKunahle to gen well. A vvomatVMi ' relief worker from the nearesr^xRed Cross, came to see him and rb tile letter. She told him it was her duty to cable at once to*the ' ddnr zeahdis lb nearest Red ( boss ( hapter and 1 arc- gnbig no serve ict Jtis mother vvould .be taken to a ! otie’evertfrvg next ,*Tek hospital and cared for; lltat she sl .|*ol luuiseM e, would bring him the reply to .,5m. ,, her cable* as soon as it came, which shl^ did. I'he soldier asked her, to get lvis pocket book frtAn under tiis pillow. It con-1 tnir ! forty c rds. He said the drapter alive. But these “Pie sc givA* thafto the Red are well nigh Worn out and need C ross, its all .1 have now, hut. help at once. We feel all un- payday is near and I w ill soon j worthy lor this most important he able to go to the front.” ThisL'- task of keeping before our peopje work, as .every one knows, is the needs of the Red Cross ! wheel carts, bobtail lmis.es. and only Use one line. People over , here are .certainly in a had lix ; when I get back home 1 can tell a lot of news, and sun* will- Ik* proud of mv trip This is a fun ny country—you can hear thun der all the time hut see tu light- liing. ' , | ' C Oh say. I weigh H>7 petinds ; sleeping in the hoist* stable agrees with me. I getup every morning and whicker vfor corn and fotldei—aa ! ha! But we sh*ep ourselves nearly to death.’ Only'.four hours. Dark at 10:20 ami Taylight at 2 filo. Tht* sta bles are lloort-d with brick. We spread oirr Tlankets ami our beds, you know, are soft,,but dll mV ! vvlien 1 geC out in the morning and come in at night I can .slt*ep r oii a pile'of log-. The pt'oole are fifty years behind tht times. - There an; -a. goo< t so -Will much lo -c). I/V to great eati-t Its AV iii-tlin voluntary. No one can make men and women work for thefr* when we'were-appointed to INI Allis oifkii^wW-Were feqta*sted County Red Cross. Perhapsj we ; to urge upon oun. readers the do not realize just what is \ ex- j neccessity of wakihg up to the pected of us. In almost eVery ! full importance of -the Red big city and small town, where! Cross work, right Here, in our the red cross is accomplishing, own tpwn. Therefore we are results, the live business < nien running the risk of being connted give a part of their time to this work, with just as much^ zeal 'the Chapter has requested. and trained ability as they use* .in their individual business. 'I'he women look upojv tbe-Red ( rostr Avotir as important as their re x ligious duties. Until this becomes x the universal rule here, we will be ^ half efficient chapter, Ia*I us not forget for one moment, . the devoted few who have labored almost alone, keeping a nuisance, rather than do as The Chairman of the Supply ^Qipmittee informs us that she has—expended—Fottr Hundred (Dollars in material for the month of August, which is accessible to all who wish to ose it. Mrs. W. H. Duncan, Press Cor. for the Red Cross Chapter. W. ( of tin* Greeii-t’rate ;uul Lumber i- exjveered home Tuo-dav from tht* Uiiiver-ity Ho-pittfr. Augu-ta, where ho wa- operated •n for ft ppt*n<liciti- three'xyvocks ago. Mr. Green vva-/Scritmsly i+1 for a. time, hut is improving rapidly', audit is hop^d that he will be out very soon. Mrs. F. H. Garter, of Dun- l>arton and Williston, i- in the University Hospital, and lias been- for several Weeks. Her friends vvisli for her a speedy recovery. MisS Bessie Green, who was so seriously hurt in getting out of an auto in Augusta early in, .1 mi<*, is at home again after a two months stay in the’Ho-pfral. Her recovery lias been gradual, but sin* will soon be norjnala^ain. O v, . Mrs. \\ . C. h’mifrt and daugn- ter, AH.-s Ilattie.^-are' expected borne ..ibis wTek. They have been visiting Mr. Norman Smith for’ several weeks,, at tlte’Navy yard in I'harleston. I Ion.* ( d’oole fo’lowed the Ddgt “Rights of small Nations.” Near the closing of M r. Croft’d address Chairman Stansfiehl beckoned toward .the door of an ante-rbom in which Congress- 7 o man Byrties'ih the Center of a group of friend* had been listen ing to .the speakers.? 1 * As the young Congressman stepjied forward a tumultuous and spontaneous cheer went tin and over the audience whicq lasted for several minutes. tit-lil speaker. Mr. Tooli* wa- full of debar I and (leuunCatio’i. He |)itcht*dj right in. He*started in a high key and kept it -up. . Losing sight of the fact that iie whocon- Iti amVouncing Congressman By fnes,C11airman StansfieId said “Thom Cm great ht*nrt of the common peojih*' has many a. leader come ; ; I nmv j resent to you one such. Raised an orphan boy by » widowed c mother, he has grad* natty’climbed, his wav from that widowed mother's knee to a high place of esteem and honor ^ you know him, he has been th© stenographer in this very Court House aiid vet again the honored solicitor for your district. I have the honor to present to you the Honorable Janies* F. Bvrnes.” ••/ \ // v- Amid anotliCr tiiuiuler of applause and call- for ‘ J immie ! f rols himself i-- greater: than he Jimmia !" Mil. 1 Byryies.stepped before, tliecrowd. A little and wiJrkworn from who., controls a city, lie got out mad'and-bowe l it. He sailed pale anil worKvvorn Iroirh con- in hammer ah l tong- on “Jim- tinned service ^ his post in mie’ Byrnes. livery Hovv--AY;'ishington, he looked, hut an l* then he vvould pound the tire wasthere and lie lot the X most voluminous hook . xsf ' , | licxhad placet! on ihe desk l>e- fore him and shout “l have the 'records X \ , J sparks 11y' . J 1 He charged that Croft was trying to keep the scent oil his own trail for endorsing a j»oint \ x Ho lost his head. Mr. d pole blank Republican for the Aiken did not keepyalm enough for postoftice by making charges' his listeners to fully catch his against him (Byrnes).* He de- words. 1 died positively that he had voted And then came-xto use against the present Selective Draft and called on any man to prove it. He did vote, together with other .solid Democrat®, against tin* Draft law which left a loop-hqle open for slack- ire held the ribbons of selt con-! **rs and the Hons of rich men. fro} lightLy ami easily in ' his 1 John Edwin Stiinslield’s words; “The uncrowned , Knight of the Arena”, Tlieo. G. Croft, Esq., candidate for Congress, Mr. Croft .didn’t get “bet up” X IMPORTANT NOTICE TO YOUNC ticrei day, '.Vtigt the hour- of r. A. M Kennedy . is at onie alter a trip North in the interest of hi- firm. Mr.' Austin Latimer and family went to IleiHlersonviilq last! week-for a lit t to res L._be fort* the hu-v season conies in. Miss i let tie Matthews, who i # s head clerk in the millinerv de partment*-of Hu* \\ . i I. Kennedy X Son (ieparturent stm'e,is in the | northern rnarkets selecting their talk stock'. .• * . • Mr. BrvaM Rowell will . ; nroil a S'a student at \\ offortl Colh'oe the coming year. ' Ellen 11arley- Wi-e ha- home to Mr. Wilton n and has.-hoTight a - - » to which t'she mow 'much to th.e hands, he is a llueut speaker- land impressed his audience'as such. He said he.vyoqld antic ipate Byrnes, who was t<> follo\v him, in explaining the en dorsement trf tire ReptiWicaUT Carmen, for postmaster of Ai- ken.i Byrnes had charged him at Gianiteyillc witli overlooking the • splendid sound hearted He stood by the President through thick and thin-t— had never voted against him and never would, lie had never been lead tojehdorse a Repub lican for office and ueverwouid— he was a. Democrat from South Carolina and stuck to his party. On every one of trie T34 measures t die red for the prosecution of the war his name would be Camil v aMya- He -with the other ccandid. Abe Bvnu- -••at- ( ongrcs-mati ate- seeking Mis. Cary Smith is 1 siminU T/W T ini; soiiie.time ill 'Charleston: ! tliewr thn volunt charged .that J v nt\s had chosen ‘.and fur. eewsvsfrni in p. m.. j Rev, W. M. Jones am of all men, wlUtSxaml colored, are in the niouqfains for who have ji'eached tlibxige of 21 catioii of several vyeeks. yen rs-i lice June 5, Ibis, or who will have attained that a* r e on or prior Auj-iisl 21, ISIfs. ^ | fa t </f WHsdI| - >Abily one regi-traUpn ‘plat e 1 Private Rowland •Caiiipbel!, i disajtproyal, again,St the, 8electt will lx* provided for the am fire .•Anderson, who ^ has iveDraftsystenva-novvinvogue- eounty, and this wilf he iockfed been in the trench army tot 'pjris was. the liiain -tfing on ' ficit the office of tho local b.mrd in ‘■ , v eral year-, df*livereM a very in Bawiweli; S. C. -n| interesting lecture to, a large Iii view of tlie Hiori hflriepJ flndXgtriotiq audienci given the JocaLboard. the 'read- hedy's' Autlitoritlm, Saturday ers of The Sentiuiei are retpiested souvenirs taken from to ftrtjdaii.it the voting men in battlefields of France were j. thair -neighborhoods Avfrtr Wunlier in the Democratic party ^ found on the roll in favor tlierof. to '"endorse C. El t'armen who I He ha«l been called to the altlvough; a good cili'zdn, ’was Wiiite Hume many times by not oi tin* \\ il-oii Democratic president Wilsm for consul- faitji and in fact wa- one oi the tatjon on matters ofj trust and Presidential ldectors tor NVooib and weight and enjoyed that row- \\ ilson’s opponent, Charles great man's absolute .confidence'. Huglier. - rib cap the climax, as it were, Mr. Croft read a dispatcli and to get a*dde~ forever all from a frien.l at Washington, attempts by h s opponents to -D A?—xv 11 it* 11 stated that records relu ct u n l»is loyalty, he puRef of that particular aa-e were fronPliii pocket a letter " from destroyed, but a!-o*-tated that the Hon. t arter Glass, of A ir-' ■ it appt^r-tint T'lico.'G. CroftVgjnia, eloso friend of the Ihesi- did ethiorse Cirlnert. de it ami staunch lea<h r of . - I'he -peaker -tated lie wgs Democrats, and read the Presi- not ’sure th-at he had -veiled his ^eiil - eiido:-tjinent of himself to the people—for Woodrow Wii-uti make- no mistakes, ia his ciioice of men. T he letter, Aviiiclr arrived in Thursday’s mail,was .addressedid CongresS- Bvrnes by Hon. Carter Glass, read in part : ” 1 lh'esufrnt Wil- -on said to me, s lv to Congress- mail .iBynies for me that l iuive never once doubted his whole hearted loyalty ; 1 consider, him one of the aided and most trusted members of Congress: Byrnes is a tine' .ellow.” —* WnrriTg rtrfr pTestthTiV^s"' splendid endorsement in hik liaqd, Congressman Byrnes cop eluded: “\Vbose word do t 1 name to the endorsement, bdt if he had. lie wa-“man enoegh to acknowit fige it. s which all three of the Byrnes ■opponent,!} harped, though' it charged H-Uo- th'FH-— Tmrit— importance o registe; ing «m the above liameil dat^. Byrnes witli* signing a plea to Loyd-George, England’s pre- lnicr, for the— freedom. _of • t I he rains have injure<l the of the fact that the leader of . . cotton crop and it. is opening' Democracy, AVoodyow Wilsone local Board lor Barnwell County yjvy rapidly, made a plea himself for t,h fTFhmit—fhis tt5t). ill the IaTeT"That ofr Ineir wbo want iny job or the President of the United/States? If I am (Uoiiiinucd on ffigtht Page.T it Y A-