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A 1 f 'd'ti .//■ -if It 7 rr Tv v - A y '/V A' / " /- BSTABLI3HBD 1833 VOL. LXYII. BARNVTBLL, S. G., THUR8DAT, JANUARY 80, 1919 THE HISTORICAL TRIP OF THE 0. S. S. CEORCE WASHINGTON, r On WPrudent Wilson and HJs P?-jicc Party Sailed to Attend ttte Peace Conference. / • . ‘ >S ■■ ' 1 ' 'i lc m just ohe y*ar a.40 that the’; S. H. George Washington t ie States on her maiden , trip jh a uaval transport. Also it m three years ago since the party left the Slate* oa the 1!. On this trip 1 hare the honor' of being one oLtbe crew of the abov» named vessel to lake the V , ^ * f V • Jtinsi President of tile United States { while holding, office), across the Ureal Atlantic, in J order W attend the Peace Dou- ' fere rice of the Allied Nations. Wo hive oil board besides the president many- well kaown persons of Washington, amongst whom are: iTssi- <te«| Wilson’s wife; the Sec retary; of State and his wiferf* French Ambassador to the United States and wife; Ital- rau Ambassador to the United Statos, wife and two children; American Ambassador to Eng land :tad wife ; Joseph \lurphy, Chai’Viiau of tii« Secret Service ; • flea^H (• reel, CiiAirman of Pub- Mra Adeline Burckhaiter. Mrs. Adeline Burckhaiter died at the home of her daugh ter, Mrs. George M. Bates, in,- Barnwell, on Thursday, .Janu ary 16thf after a long illness. Mrs. Burckhaiter was eigh ty-eight years of age at the time of her death and was lov ed by all who knew her. * The funeral services were conducted at her residence and her remains were carried to • 1 * Aiken, laid tp rest in the Bap tist cemetery. *- Of ten childrep only, fpur survive her. Mrs. George M. Bat£s and Dr. C. N. Burckhai ter, of Barnwell,,A. K. Borck- kalter, of Alcolu, and: Francis Perceival Burckhaiter, of Okla homa. o * —; -v son. Aida to the President;• Ad- mir»- Knapp ; GstieraK’hurohill and other*. Th«*.whole peace partv eonniih of ou« hundred and ona persona. > For the aaiarUinmeul of tlis peace party we have a bald of eighty pieces, two orchestras, some of the beat professional talent froat Broadway. two hundred reels of motion pic- suras, and aiany other kinds of aoiuaemtuu. Wa have two lhaaUrs su hoard. The “Mar tha Washington,*’ *iiu»V*d iu Officer*’ dining room, far aaigat**, and the “Old Salt,” situated ia Troops taiga mess Mil. * 7 :X» a. w. President Wil son ♦ train, carrying both Presi- dent and the peace party enters the arm? piers at Hoboken, N. J, A regime at of soldiers met the train and tired off a «alute of twenty-one guia, iu welcom ing »h* President an taking his first step on Ids trip to Europe. After the salutation the Ouar- ter sea-iter’* hum! placed the Na tion anthem of America. S 05 a., hi. ThePrrsident and his Peace Party were escorted to the United State* traMsport George Washington, where he was met at the gangway by Admiral Sleeves, commander of the crui- ~§er tad tVaiks|>ert Forced Admiral Knapp, Cantaiu Edwin Macau lay. Jr., commanding officer of Ike . above named vessel and t-!oo«mender Frederick M.'Per- kia*, executive officer. 9:1« a. m. President Wilson step* on board the George Wash ington, along Side of him was bis wife, followed by the French aud 1 talian ambassador* and their wives. After which came the rest of tlie peace partv. When P resident Wilson entered the ship the ship’s baud began to play the Star Spangled Ban ner, followed by France and Italy’* national.aathema* ^... lb 17 a. in. T'lie George Wash ington left her pier amid shouts and cheers from crowds on the surrounding piers .When we got into the midstream we started riving off twenty»oue aalutee^ which was answered by destroy ers standing by as escorts. ‘ AU kinds of guns up and down the river took up the salutation and started Wowing whistles and si rens. while pbopie on the docks and - ferryboats cheered and shouted. Here end there you -could see on the sail sky-scrapj eys oj New York dotted forms o- huuian bodies waving handker chiefs and (lags. Six aero planes 'flew overhead and .-around the ship. One went through the meat* while another jta^sed necv the funnels, almost Mr*. Alnitt'K.. Still and Mrs. Maude Kennedy, have returned to their home at Williston after a pleasant visit to relatives and friends in the citv. striking them. President Wil- ■*tm stood in a fqr-lined oviTCDHt on the bridge from the time we left our pier at Hoboken until ! we passed Sandy Hook. 10:55 a. in. Passed Statueof 1 Liberty and Governor's Island. 11 :‘J0 a.ni. Panned the U. S. S. Aiuplritiite who saluted us with twenty-one guns. 11 :50 a. m. Mel the U. S. S. Pennsylvania, flagship of the At lantic fleefc commanded by Ad miral Msvo She hailed us with the salutation of twenty-one gun*. .. 11 :35 a m. Mat onr escort: I Toe U. S. S Pennsylvania and ! fifteen U.-K destroyers. 7 2:45 p. rei Mrs. Wilson let gu two carrier pigeons, one was to Washington and the other to Admiral Gleeves with a mes sage oommendiog him on the fine condition of the George Washington. 3:20p. m. Passed, an Kug- lish trans|H>rt loaded down with American troops on their way back from Euroj>e. They cheered and shouted while the transport blew her siren and whistle. 4 :00 p- in. Passed Ambrose Channel lightship. b : 15 p. m. Slowed down t-o 1-3 speed in order to let the pilot Offr __ 7 7 :30 p. m. l^a*t lighthouse vanishes from sight. CV _ 8 :45 p. m. Fi ve br ibe de stroyers turn back to the States. 9:00 p. m. Motion pictures In-tiie Matha Wushingtou and Old Salt theaters. Night: Dark and cloudy. Light showers throughout tlie night. Sea rough. Speed 17 knots. _ ’ . DECBMKl'K OTH ' 191 K. Daybreak : Sun shining bright. Weather cold and windy, Sea rough. ' 10:20 a.m. Tramp steamer sighted twelve miles off the star board side, bound for the States. 10 :32 a. in. Passed the tramp iteamjpr, which proved to l>e^a Limy. 10:45 a.m. One of the de stroyers has engine trouble and has fallen back so far that she is out of sight. m. TllO clock IS pUt ~ You" wilT HOW up thirty-seven minutes. *2:15 p.m. 4-Masted schooner sighted off port aide, bound, for the States. - ' * v - . 1:45 p.m. Plxecutive officer gives instruction* t® [rttosengtfrs in regard to the use of the life- preservers, and in the art of abandoning the ahip. This drill is held nearly every day, even- though there be no war goiug on, because the ahip can be min ed or have a coilUioo, eapMally on a dark or foggy nigUt. 3t90 p. .m. Abandon ship drill for ail hand*. jr.. ALL GLORY TO THE CAN NING CLUB. -By DuBois. •• The day was Field Day in Barnwell several years ago. The ; «chooF8 from over the coun ty were all represented and this congregation of pupils along with their parents ^ and “kinnery” and hundreds of other visitors made a large crowd. Wagons, • buggies, automo biles and trains brought in crowds from all points of the compass. The joyousness of the throng was contagious and the spirit of holiday was all about. - Boy and girl sweet hearts paraded the streets and much eandy and many ice cream cones were made way with between suns that big gala day. *> These foregoing line9 are but a preface to the relating of an incident of the day and the outcome thereof. A boy and glrT of about the ages of nineteen and sixteen, respectively, were noticeable in the crowd for their “courts ing ways.” He and she had on ribbon rosettes of the same hue. She carried his cap in her hand part of the time and once when they were crossing the circle they were holding hands right there in the broad day light. They were just happy children, but on their faces there was a look that seemed to mean business and at that time it did, for late on the afternoon of that holiday these two were overheard talk ing to their cousins and they were planning for the marriage which was to come off “next fall/’ “Next fall” came and then the Christmas holiday season. The girl of this story was seen in a store making some pur- chases. She was dressed neat er than on field clay. Her clothes fitted better. Her hair was fixed becomingly. Her shoulders had straightened up. She was not wearing the per fumed pink bauble about her neck that she wore Field day. There was a calm sweet* ex pression on her face in place of the simpering smile that adorn ed her countenance that spring day when she was being court ed so ardently. O-what a change there W&'s! A change for the better. Yes, indeed, decidedly better. What had brought all this about? Had she .married that fellow' and stepped up g thou sand steps in so short a time? Listen to this: She was asked > about „ the courtship and the fellow she W’as to marry and she replied: “1 ain’t goin’ to git married; I just rather.stay home and raise chickensr and b’lopg to • -j , t> the canning club.” DEAD BODIES iXM IN THE STREETS, PICKED UP BY CARTS AND IN NEAREST RUSHED __»UMPED RIVERS. less medical aid, in the whole country^ they would have-seme There.ia-Uiw©n» of-the aer» draw your conclusions and conclude ^t once that all, this home work among the * people is worth while. - Yes, yes, a thousand tilnes, yes. MWEU-BLACX. - Mi^v. Bernier Rowell, daugh ter of Mr. F. D, Rowell, of Hilda and Mr. K rnent L. Black. son of Mr. Nolton Black, alio oif Hilda, were in am ml Wednes day, Jau. 1st by Mr. J. O. Handers, /Notary Public. L. A. Cooper, Southern Di visional Director of-the Amer ican Committee for Relief in the Near Bast, who has just re turned from a trip in the South ern States, said: “Owing to the fact that there has been an increase of in- fluehza in the Southern States, the earngfdfen for thirty mil lion dollars for the relief of the starving thousands of the Near East, has been temporarily postponed in many counties. “If the people of America .. . . . Q - could picture to themselves a community suffering from the worst epidemic of influenza with thousands of people dying of that disease and from star vation with very little food and Bogu* Heroes. > ■ -/, -r-r We are indebted to Dr. J. M. Weekly, of Ulmers, for a copy of “The Stars and Stripes,” ai newspaper sent him by his son, Augustine Weekly, who is in service overseas, from which we took the following article, entitled “Bogu* Heroes:” “There have been a lot of bogus heroes in America since the army began dispatching men back to the States for sick ness, wounds, training and oth er reasons. Every soldier who has gone back has been a hero until proved otherwise, and the temptation not to prove them selves otherwise has been too much for some, . There is the case of the air service mechanic who went back with heart trouble. His home town newspaper printed his “diary,” which recounted several stirring flights over the German lines, all imaginary. The nearest he had been to the front was Issoudun. idea of conditions in the Near East. In some of the cities, the people are so desolate and weakened from continued want that they are unable to bury their dead and as many die each night from starvation, they are carried out and their bodies laid on the street to be picked up and loaded on push c&rta and dumped into the near eat river. “Dn/Henry Riggs, just as he was preparing to sail from New York on a relief ship for Ar menia and Syria, received a cable from that country urging immediate help and telling of conditions that are unprint able. These people have suffer ed, during the period of the war, agonies that were " un known before to human beings and are still suffering and be ing persecuted on account. of their unshakable faith in Chris tianity. The Christian people of America have a wonderful opportunity to make them selves Christ’s agents to an swer the prayers of these peo ple for help. Mrs. W. B.. Rook. Y The death of Mrs. W. B. Rook, which occurred at her home in Barnwell on Saturday evening, January 25th,' be tween tight and nine o’clock was sad and unexpected. She was only ^ick a few days and it was kndwn that she was in a serious condition until Satur day morning. v Mrs. Rook was a good Chris- tian woman and possessed many splendid accomplish ments. She was a true and de voted wife and a kind and af fectionate mother, always sac rificing her own comforts and pleasures for that of her fam ily and friends. -r' She is survived by her hus- geant who lectured on the bat tie of Cantigny for the Fourth Liberty loan( and sold a lot of bonds, too) until he was found to have spent all his stay in France, barring traveling time, at Le Mans. And there is the case, just to show how hard it was not to be a hero, of the majffr who re turned and merely obeying mil itary regulations, refused to be inter via wed. As tar as he had™-—^ .. got toward gunfire and danger *>«ftefeinent. was a training school at Lan- gres. “Modestly declines to speak of his part in Chateau- Thierry fighting,” was the sec ond line of the beading over the story about him in the next morning’s paper. The fault was the newspaper’s, not the major's. Td date, in the eyes of the people back home, every sol- died who has been in Europe has undergone the horrors of the front. Private Johnnie Jones of the S. O. S., whose greatest hardship in this war was taps at 9:30, was pictured m his home journal and cap tioned, “John Jones, of this city, now battling for freedom Iff the treffc6e8.”~Tt is goingTtd NO. 16, DEATHS in STATE AND eONRl. J ... ..... . . - - Wayne E. Envea. ' r J ■ Mr. Wayne K. Eftves died at hi* home near .Williston on tba- 23rd inst. after a f hort illness of influenza. Mr. Eaves was well known in Bain well County where he wan horn and reared. He is survived by his widow, who wan Miss Clyde Anderson, before her mar riage, and two children. The bereaved family has the heartfelt sympathy of many friends. Frank Hair. Mr. hrank Hair, the eighteen year-old son of Mr. and Mm. Marian S. Hair, of Rosemary, died at his homo last Thursday morning after a short illness of pneumonia. His remains were interred in the family cemetery. His father, one brother and two sisters sur vive him. Thom peon Baxley. The said news of the death of Mr. Thompson Baxley, who died at ^** bqmo in Edgefield.county on Sunday, the 2»»th inst., was a profound shock to his friends throughout the eouuty. His remains were brought to Barnwell county and interred in the Long Branch Baptist ceme tery. He leaves surviving him his mother, Mrs. Carrie Bexlty, one sister, Mrs. Clyde Boylee- ton, of Blackville, one brother, Mr. Barney Baxley, of Edge* field, and his wife and two chil dren, who hare the sincere paihy of wtony be hard to convince the'home folk« that of the 2,000,000 Americans in France, half of them, through no faull of their « own, of course, never got un der fire. , -• i-. But, once the idea is around, and once we get back with our first-hand knowledge of affairs over here, the bogus hero is going to have a pretty thorny trail. band, Mr. B. Rook, a daugh ter, Miss Olive Rook, and a son, Edward Rook, of Barnwell, and one sister, Miss Carrie Freer, of Charleston. Her remains were taken to James Island Monday morning, where the funeraLservices will be conducted by Dr. Melton Clark, of Charleston, and the interment will take place in the Presbyterian cemetery. The sincere sympathy of many friends is extended to the be reaved family. Mr._J. M. Ulmer, a large and prosperous farmer of the Ulmer section,* recently pur chased house, and lot from Mrs. Oappie I. Richardson just opjKisite the home of Mr. II L. O’Bannon. Mr. Ulmer and tainily moved in on“lh*~T!3Td inst. ^ ~V>" i . v Mrs. J. D. Huggins, ot' Man ning, S. C., is vieiting her son. Frank "H. Huggins, on Burr St. ■ - •Mis* Annie Ray. of Barnwell II F. P., stood the evtra eiam- inatTou for teacher* at Barnwell Saturday. Mr. S. W. Blanton, * r . ranging to move his stock of good* from the Cave building into one o*f the *torr* <m the Tobin block, where he will /•ontmtxe business? Walter D. Rtctantoa. 3 be sad news of the death of Walter D. Richardson which oc curred on the 26th of September while aboard a vessel sailing for France, reached Barnwell cm the 12th inst. and has cast a gloom over the entire town. Mr. Richardson had not been heard from since the card-which waa mailed ill America whs received that his ship had landed safely, and although his friends and rel atives made several efforts, they failed to hear from him either direct or indirectly, and tie understands why tha tews not dispatched sooner. Walter was a young man that possessed many splendid quali ties and numbered hie friends by the score. The grief stricken, family have the sympathy of many friends throughout tbw State and County. leaf. N. Whatey. J ~ -N' — — — Mr. Benj. N. Whaley.died at his home at Dunbarton on the- 25rd inst, from pneumonia. Hia remains were laid to rest in the Joyce Branch cemetery. Ha leave* a wife and tire children surviving him. who havt? the sympathy of. many friends in. their bereavement. Macon Bo lea. , Mr. Macon Bolen die*! at hie home in Williston on Tuesday, the 21*t instant, and leaves sur viving him his widow and three children. The funeral servicos were ton- ducted By Rev. J. I). Peadock, at Mt. Calvary Baptist church, and his remains wcje interred in that cemetery., > Dr. and Mrs. Louis Murray, of Columbia. spent la#t end with the latter'* mother, Mrs. Kate ‘I'artersos, of well. The friends of Dr J. G Woo ley will learn with >egrw I that he i* in an Augusta for treatment.