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* BLACKVILLE TO ERECT CHURCH AND PARSONA£E REFUSAL “TO DANCE ___ - ■ . v x — JU ' ■: 1 TT" RESULTS IN DEATH S. C. SPORTSMEN TO 1 MEET AT COLUMBIA Evangelistic Services Ct6*e Sunday With Many Additions to Church.' Blhckville, Oct: fb-^-The evangelis ts!: services conducted here in the Baptist church by the new pastor, Dr. L. H. Miller, fOT^the past two weeks, came to a close last i^ght. The sing ing during the meeting was led by Charles 0. Miller, a brother of the pastor. His solos and'duets with his brother Were greatly enjoyed by the audience. Between 30 and 40 were added to the church during the meet* ing. Yesterday was a great day for the Sixty Blackville Baptist. Sixty thousand dpll&rs was pledged to erect a new ohufeb plant ^and new parsonage. The church had accepted its appor tionment of $35^004» the $75,009,- 000 drive and raised the pastor's sab ary $200, this making around $100,- 000 it has pledged to raise. The farmers and bankers of Black ville are determined to put up a stiff fight against the boll weevil and com mence next year to do the kind of farming that is necessary under boll weevil conditions. Several car loads -of .wire and posts have already been ordered and hogs and cattle'will be raised... ' issrs. c. R. Boyleston, H. B. Grimes, R. B. Fickling, Jeter Hutto, C«J-. Fickling, E. Q^ftjatthews, J. V. -Matthews, Emmett .Matthews and,, J- G. Matthews left in automobiles this morning to visit’’the weevil infested .-ections of Georgia and Alabama and gain first hand information how to combat the ravages of the cotton de stroyer. - Three new stores have just beeii* ■completed on Main Street here and are now occupied. > This . completes the open space in the business dis trict for stores, t - • MINISTER’S CONFERENCE. ■" i J - • • f The ministers conference, of--the Black- Fourteen Year OM Boy Meets Death . Fir%| Business Session Will be Held At Hands of His Companion Union, Oct. 4—Because he refused to dance when ordered to do so by. p » boy companion, Louis Thomas, agoef. fourteen, is dead following a pistol shot wound inflicted at the hands of Henry Lee, better known as “Buster” Lee, who ik about fifteen, years old, both of whom live at Buffalo, v a sutr 1 urb of this city When-he was sHofThomas is said tof have gone downstairs and through the living room of “Buster” Lee’s homtv falling on the porch. “Bus ter” then ran across to a drug store and notified someone that Thomas had'-been. shot. The .wounded boy ^ , ..• — ■* -• *1 ^ * ■*' Was so(m brought to the Union hos pital, but after everything had been dorrs that seemed possible he died in about nine hours. Baptist 75 Million Campaign. -....Greenville, Oct. 3:—E. M. Cook; a farmer who resides near Shaws Fork, has promised *to the Baptist 75 Million Campaign the product of one acre of ground each year for the next five years. This ground has been yeilding a bale” oXcotton each year; therefore, the gift of this'Baptist of limited means will probably amount to about $1,000. At Capital, October 15th. A -call for the first business meet- . •--—•a* - • ing~Of the Sportsmen’s Association of South -Carolina has * been issued by Mr.. L. W. Boykin, ’ Chairman temporary advisory board. The meeting will be held in Columbia, on October 15th. Headquarters for all Sportsmen attending will be at ment has extended to the Association the courtesy of using their spacious parlors for the business session, which will be called to order promptly at 1:30 P. M. At this meeting officers Will be elected, an executive board selected and the various committees appointed and the permanent organi zation of the Association completed. Every Sportsman in .this section and- throughout the entire State is urged to bring as many Sportsmen friends as possible. Reports com ing in every day indicate now that it' will be only a matter of a few weeks until the Association will have a membership of three thousand. Any sportsman in this.section who has not been enrolled should send his name at once to E. C. Adamson, Act- imr Secretary. Summenille.-^L.LL • MORE TEACHERS ■T=»~LrA' SORELY NEEDED Urgent Call lstued by Registrar of State Bureau. — Columbia, Oct. 4.—The* ftflTCVing urgent call has been sent out by Joseph H. Shealy, registrar of the teacher’s bureau. “So many calls for ^achers are conning in that the registrar of tfye teachers’ bureau again issues a call RUE FLOUR M1LL*» — T" »——- '' ' ‘ TO BE ERECTED HERE '~-\ r Mr. B. S. Moore Will Enatall an DR. COVINGTON LEE * ACCUSED OF MURDER Up-To-Date Plant in Barnwell. -- Mr. B. S. Moore, owner of the Farmers Ginnery, is going to install an up-to-date flour mill of 75 barrels capacity, and will have it ready in ample time for the wheat crop the oming season. He insists on the to all- teachers who are unemployed plenty of wheat. He assures them WHEN CHILDREN WEEP. “I was asked What would happen if the boll weevil got into this land and ruined the crop,” Mr.-Cook stated The tfay had been -sultry and-hot, to a worker in th£ drive, “and I re plied that in such a ease I would- lieve the Lord was having me raise boll weevils to eat up the crop of some man who refused to contribute to this great campaign.” NEW HEAT RECORD MADE. By DuBois. that last week in August, and is was ot unusual $»t soo,n after night fair Saturday Wat Hottest Day in Octob j* ' * - er in -thirty-three Years. : Barnwell association met in ville last Monday in the first con ference of the new year. Ten minis ters were present which is above the usual attendance. Two new pastors who have ‘ moved to the association since the last conference were; Rev. Messrs. Miller, who succeeded Rev. E. C. Watson, in Blackville, - and Car- nett, who succeeded Dr. W. M. Jones, in Williston. These- were admitted to the conference by a rising vote. Mr. Miller is a native of North Caro lina, but -removed" to Texas at an early age.. Since maturity he has been engaged in evangelistic work, more recently under the Home Mis sion-Board of Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Camett was born in Arkansas, but removed to Missouri. He attended William Jewell College and the Southern Baptist Seminary, in Louis ville, Ky. ’ * —-The 75 Million Campaign was the subject of discussion. Miss Miriam Rice was present to represent the Womans Missionary Union and to en list the cooperation of the ministers'^ in behalf of this work of the ladies^ - Saturday broke all October records for high temperature, the mercury going to 93:8 degrees at 4 o’clock in the afternoon. Pedestrans sought the shady side of the street and elec tric fans played on the heads of those at office desks during the day. The previous highest record in the past 33 years was 92.2. on'October 8, 1895. During the past several days' the weather has been extfemely warm for October and Saturday the-records were broken when the thermometer went to approximately 94 degrees, the highest in over a quarter of a century. ♦ MILLETTEVILLE NEWS. Swat The Boll Wo»yil With Feoca. •-A.. T" V Mr. Boll Weevil,, formerly of Mex ico, has moved to BarnweH County and expects to do some big business jn .cotton. Gdod fencing will help — riflPTefcd hogs and starve weevils. Have you some fencing to do to-,£Norman Ellis. morrow.? Do it to-day. . A field in the fence is worth two —jin the open. * . Buy what fencing thou has need of _ 1 and ere long thou shalt sell profitable livestock. • X' A farmer is known*by the fence he keeps. - .- v ~x—■ ■■ ■ u •A fence in time saves money. “A word to the wise enough” Buy Fencing . 1 ' ' At the corner Of Pasture -and Green Streets there is a house called Prosperity. u b We are making up-ordere fot car lots at the different towns and if w-I yon intend buying wire fencing this X'fuH it is time now for you to place yoiir order with the County Agent at oneb as this campaign will only last a very short time. ^ . H. G. BoylestohX^ - County Agent, Barnwell County.’ \r. M. M. Hair, of the Rosemary section, was a visitor in Barnwell Monday. ... The many friends of Mrs. Mary Snelling are sorry to hear of her ill ness at the Hospital in Augusta, and hope' for her speedy recovery. Court commenced in Allendale this week, and several from Millette ville are in attendance. Mr. Council Dunber, of our berg, was united in marriage to Miss Ethel Johns, of Appleton,-recently, also Mr. John Ellis was married to Miss McDuffin on the 25th instant. Congratulations are extended to the young mjen for winning such fair brides, and may their lives be long and happy ones. , Mrs.JRice-and daughter, Miss Liz zie, of Barton, are the gyests of Mrs. the pent up elements broke from con finement.:. Vivid flashes of light ning, crushing peals of thunder, gush ing torrents of rain, swashing and swirling eddies of wind and the geX eral roar of the storm made the, night hideous for the timorous. ' That night a little boy was awak ened by the storm a* he slumbered in an old time trundle bed. His little heart pounded with fear, tears WgU$(jL in App eyg? . until finally a frightened cry burst from his lips. The good' ,r daddy” of the little boy just reached down his hand from the big bed and took hold of his sons hand, and said, “Son, father is right here.” That was enough. The child went almost immediately back to his sleeping while the storm still was bat tling outside. And- so it is that children weep! 4,Tfiey shed tears because of many things. Fright, pain, anger, sqrrow, hunger cause Gods children to cry; and patiencf, patience, patience is a good watch \vord for those who watch'the children. ' 'Some folks whip children! Did you ever see a little boy dodge a blow? J t)r dodge when hb looked for a blow? Isn’t it pitiful? K. is bad enough to see a mule jerk hib head when a lick is looked for but, to look upon a little child wince from the expected paii* of knock is really’ too much. re are hunf dreds. of vacancies and the jschools are ready to open. Increased sal aries and good inducements are be ing offered. Lady principals at sal aries from $75 to $100; high school assistants, at $75 to $90; grammar grades, at $60 to $75, and primary at $65 to $80 are needed. "It is hoped that the school of ficials will rally to the support of the teachers and that the time is not far distant wKfen a teacher wiH*have the consideration in every ,respect which she is due. The teachers must allso realize that there is a reform in prog ress in the educational, system of South Carolina, and be as considerate as possible in the question of salary. Let bs give'*' the authofities a chance to show that they are endeav- nring In hpttur the rnmlitWv-frrr the. teachers. “So much complaint is being heard about resignations and this question needs attention and deserves >^ry ( very careful consideration,^An in crease of a few dollars^per month in salaries does* not UjWays mean that much more for tne teacher ^ As-a- rule an Increase in dollars means an extra exporfse. Resignations often mean professional death to a teacher, so they should be made only after other methpijs have failed to bring results, and when they are made in discriminately they hurl the cause of improving educational conditions. A getting together of all parties con cerned is needed so.-that the children may not be deprived of the chance of anjeducation.”. t armera or Barnwell County to plant of the quickest and best possible re sults. Every farmer can easily pro duce enough wheat to make nis own flour and have a quantity left for sale. Tips should be one of the methods used to defeat the boll weevil. Mr. Moore is operating one of thelargestcornmiTlslh Yh^couhTy and has an up-to-date mill ready to .grind velvet beans and other pro ducts the farmers raise, i'his mill will be a grat saying to, those farm ers who are going into the cattle raising business in this community, as they will be able to have their beans and other feed stuff properly prepared to feed to® their cattle. It is saidi that velvet beans, properly ground,are one of the best and cheap est foods for cattle that the farmer can raise. RED CROSS DEPARTMENT. Just afetr the signing of the Arm istice a large number of our people showed an unfortunate but perhaps natural tendency to lay aside Red Cross work as a thing whieh ended hpstilitiesX To their minds the Red Cross was a war organization, brou ght into existence by war conditions, and the ^coming of peace left noth ing more to be done. BARNWELL HIGH SCHOOL DOTS. x \ f < Lulie Moore, Editress. ? Quite a number from here attend ed the $75,000,<nr~'Baptist Cam paign rally at Fairfax Monday. ^ Mrs. Kathleen'Wilcox is spending some time in Augusta. — _ Mrs. George Kirkland has returned home after spending the summer in Nbrth TTardltBa Miss Ke^l has opened school at Milletteville, and has quite a flour ishing school there being more pupils -than desks or seats. Miss Keel is a good teacher and is popular with pupils ahd patrons. Mr. J. A. Furse, who is one of the grand-jury-men, is spending this, week in Allendale attending court. Mrs. Sarah Furse is convalescing ^after a severe jllness while visiting relatives in Allendale, v s c. And the children weep! Children grow out of the remembrance of their ^ little grievances. •_ The years are kind as they smooth out the ugly things that comeXnto the lives of children _bpt for the time being tears are tears because of something to weep for. X Holy writ tells us^'There shall be no weeping there” and if His "King dom Comes” to this earth those who are here then, will surely see no tears of the children nor hear a single whimper or sob. “X ■ *T When children weep their weep ing should be stopped with wise kifid- ness rather than abrupt coweetion. This is what the writer thinks and if yon differ “with or from him” fas you please)- why,: that''will be all right hut don’t Jet The Children Weep, if you can help it. T5-* * INTER CHURCH SURVEY. Rev. J. A. Jf Brock wm in town few days ago in the interest of the Inter Church Sdrvey. This njpve- [ itaent has for its object a survey of religious conditions throughout the country to find the number of 1 churches, both white and colored,'and how well they are Serving their ter- itories. A jneeting was held in the Mr. G. Dicks, -of Barnwell and rMethodist Church, and the nucleus Miss Edna Matthews, of^ Willjston, were quietly married ip Augusta, on Sunday October 5th, tty-Rev*-Grace,-! to make the work complete by cover pastor of the First Baptist Church, of Augusta. of a committee formed tar outline the work in tfhis county, It is purposed v. ing both- the churches. white and colored ******** **** ,^School has been going on for one Week and all is well. Each day brings in new pupils. We have one hundred and eighty-four now and hope to reach the;two hundred mark before many days. Athletics this year will not be up to the standard on account of the limited number of large boys. The^gi^ls^will have a basket ball team. The’boys cleared the ground while the girls stood around—and insisted that someone Practice will begin, at on eg and with the help of Miss Virginia Moseley our Kindergarten teacher, we are sure that some one will have to play to beat us. And here’s to our girls, may they not know - defeat. That attitude, however, is ai thing of -the past. The Red Cross existed long before the inva^or* of Belgium and will continue "to dScist as long as there is humanity in the world A great reaction has taken place in ffivor of permanent work. The war emergency ia fnrst buT but of it have grown conditions that still must be met and it has opened our eyes to duties that we might have per formed before, and it now behooves us U' turn opr faces toward the future, of the Red Cross and con centrate our efforts on accomqlish- ing the tasks of peace. A grea deal has been writen and said about the American Red Cross workers who have gone into remote corners^ of the world to relieve suf fering humanity [and no praise can be too high for them. But the fact still remains that the backbone of the organization that-"ibade it pos sible for these workers t^ accomplish what they have done-is made up pf the men and women of our own home-land who worked faithfully, Arrest of Doctor Follows Verdict of Coroner’s Jury in Florence. Florence, -• Oet. -4.—Dr: Covington.” ~ ' Lee of Cowards, was arrested thia afternoon on -a warrant issued by' - Coroner Smith charging him with murder. The warrant is based on the verdict of the coroner’s jury which yesterday investigated the X death of Mrs. Walter Anderson of New Hope, Florence county. Mrs. Anderson died on Saturday, Septem ber 27, followingBeVconfinement on September 28. Dr. Lee being the physician in attendance. ~~ - Yesterday Coroner Smith ordered the body exhumed, and after an ex amination * 1>y jury arid' physicinna. ...A- the jury rendered a verdict that “MrsT“ Anderson came to ker death by negli gence of the attending physician, Dr. ~ Covington Lee, and we therefore, hold the said Covington Lee crimi nally responsible for her death.” The headless body of an infant was. found in a grave beside that of the dead mother. A sister of the dead woman, her husband and the midwife gave testi- mony__at_the hearirtg yesterday. Dr. Lee is arranging to give bond thia his appearance at the court’of gener al sessions. \ w v \. / The case has caused some excite ment in the neighborhood where the Andersons^iave lived for some time. Mrs. Anderson was.about 30 yearaqf agei'Bhe was the mother of three children and was said, to be in the best of health.. MEETING OF INSPIRATION. * In accordance with the plans of Million Campaign, all day meetings Million Campaign all day meetings will be held at each county seat in the state as a - central rallying point -for the churches in that county. The churches ar# • requested by the state Committee to come and bring baskets. ’ The county seat churqh members may either bring baskets or go home to dinner. The meeting will begin at 11 A. M., fast time. Such a meet ing will be held-at Barnwell for the* * churches in'..Barnwell county on Oct. 15. The speakers will be T. O. Law- ton, of Greenville ' And Drs. Watts and C. A. Jones, of Columbia . Every body from all the churches are in vited to this all day service. C. W. Jones, } Publicity Director. have another glass of T?Koh*4X aJ ' V’ a " d day ? utl without . any ,„:n k.ni. a ...uuTthought of reward or recognition. reward Td : these brave men and women of Dr. Robt. S. Bailey and daughter, Miss Claudia, came over from Orangeburg Saturday and were forced I to remain in the city 'till Sunday' on ac&ftint of an argument between his Chevrolette and a big Touring Car. We are glad to say that no one was hurt. Miss Stromah, our sixth grade teacher, yisited Orangeburg last week ss Breeden, second and third with friends in Columbia Col. Harry D. Calhoun visited the school last Friday and made a very nice talk which we all enjoyed. We hope_Jie will come often and many other friends , of ,the school. We welcome-you pt all times. Baptist Caaipaiga lakarits Milliaas. ashville, T#nn.7T)cL 4.—Through the will of J. Thomas, wealthy If yman of Dallas, Texas, who died recently, the Baptist $76,000,000 campaign re ceived one million dollars from the Thomas estate, it was announced here tonight by Dr. L. R. Scarborough, general director of the campaign. Vi Mr.- Flornne Hagood, who cently been discharged from the ser vice at Camp Gordon, Atlanta, is visiting his grandmother, Mrs. E. V. I The Red-Cross is coming back to our Hagood, of thia city,** own country to turn itm mirttw or. our Chapters belongs the honor of having made jt possible for sueh splendid work to be 'accomplished, and to them also will belong the glory of building up in times of peace an organization even greater than that which existed during -the - - ' X X. * I do not mean to minimize the work of our overseas representa tives, who in many instances faced danger, hardships and even Heath but let us not forget also the hard workers in our Chapter, who asking nothing for themselves, have^ given tttne, energy, money and brain power d« teacher, .pent last week-end !" “R" th ?‘ ’, Red Cro “ take its rightful place as the fore most humaniUripn organization of the world and hold it not -only in times of war emergency but fqg all time to come, v Once more in,.1he fall, frdm Nov. 3rd to November people will be given t)id 'opportunity to show their" confidence in the American Red Cross by enrolling as members for the year 1920. . In ad dition to the Roll Call, there will be a general appeal fer $15,000,000.00 to enable the organization I to com plete is war program at home and abroad. v In asking that t>ur 'people pledge themselves again to service by answering “here” in the Third Roll Call, I wish to make \it~phrin to them that this service is in their own com munities. It concerns^ the promo tion of health of the people all about us, and especially does it concern the prevention of preventable diseases. The party given by Mr. J.^ Julian Bush, in bonor of Mr. Ott, of Charles ton, on Saturday night of last week, was an occasion seldom enjoyed in & country town;-’ His guests were Mr. Ott, of Charleston, Mr. Harold Buckingham, of Ellenton, and Measrs^ P. Ml .Buckingham, C. C. Simms, & B. Moseley, J. E. Harley, B. B. East erling, Solomon Blatt, T. C. Com- mings and Dr* B. W. Miller, of Barn well. Mr. B. Mazursky, of this city, pre sented us with a picture of Mr. Herman Mazursky, his son, who ia how in Staunton Military College, at Staunton, Va. Mr. Mazursky to be very proud of his son and that he expects to send him to the Columbia University of New York when he graduates at Staunton* The many friends of Mra. Owens will regret to learn that she was taken to the University Hospital in Augusta last week. Mrs. has been in ill healiK^or a long her early recovery is hoped for by her many inquiring friend^X „ ganizationand toward the solving of American lems, and it r^maiinafor us, now the war* to see that standard we have set for oursehreaki not lowered. Thera is work to done here in our own country m portent and as pressing as has commanded our atton are ignorance, poverty and be combated. And it is oar privi- iff ——.. m - I -* lege and doty to see that the America stands to our own people to the same light as it stands before the world, as the leader, in every ment that, looks to the the conditions under . which people Ijve. I E—- Jennie P. Greene, See. 9 7 * X* ' - -v