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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.
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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
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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
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■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.
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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
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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.”
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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
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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'. .•
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• 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
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