Barnwell sentinel. (Barnwell C.H., S.C.) 185?-1925, November 06, 1919, Image 1
- " '• -
“Largest County Circulation’
n»
VOL. LXVLII.
- i
BARNAVELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER (> 1919
NUMBER %
Jff!
THANKSGIVING REUNION^
Of the brown family
l
— Mr. and Mr».D..W. Brown of Meyers
Mill Hold Family Reunion.
KILLED PUTTING HIS
FORD TRUCK AWAY
The morning of October 16, 1919,
% opened auspiciously for the splendid
day that awaited us. It was the
thanksgiving reunion of the family of
our honored citizen, Mr. D-W. Brown
of Meyers Mill. The immediate oc
casion was the return of his four stali
wart, manly sons from Overseas, with
- whom we met to pay homage, and
extend a cordial welcome. It was a
grea-fc th|y aqd every guest present left
saying, “I am glad- that l was per
mitted to be here.” About fifty-
guests were present to share with
Mr. and Mrs. Brown in their great
joy atid to partake of the bountiful
Southern barbecue-dinner which was
'*v>ervetl out on the, spacious lgwn un
der majestic oaks and elms." After
the assembling of the-guests at the
table we feasted first on the writteh
words of ‘TVelcome,” read by Mrs.
W. B. Turner. ,
Mr. D. W. Brown, the host, spoke
as . fojjows: ~ " -«~i_
This is an occasion for rejoicing
and it is not my intention or desire to
mar the pleasure of the day with
-any reminder of the gone dark days,
but I wish with these few wo_rd? to
si:j2) up the-reasons for our joy and
rnr ksgPving.
Knowing that my feelings on this
occasion would be too*de4p to permit
•of n1j making any effort at a Speech
and wishing to express jp some way
those feelings, I have jotted down
tnese few words to be read to vou.
Samuel Baker of Greenwood
In. Seat of “Tin Lizzie.
fctMed
/
1 wish first «f all to .extend ffie
v
most hearty welcome a 'father and
j mother could extend to our sons and
<kt«ghters and their wives' and hus-
bunds, to our grandchildren and to
you, some of our dearest friends who
were able to join us he^e today in this
reunion.
The prayers of all of usjwere an-
sv.ered on November the eleventh of
McCormick, Nov.'2.—Mr. Samuel
Bakei^ 'of Greenwood, 46 years of
age and engaged as a contractor in
the construction of the McCormick
Memorial Church, was found dead
here early Saturday morning, sitting
on the seat of a Ford Truck with the
eaves.of a shelter he had constructed
to keep the Ford out of the weather
undar his chin, his head, thrown back-
and his neck broken. *
*It is stated that Mr. Baker left Mc
Cormick in the early evening to go
a short distance from town tQ go pos
sum hunting and that the parties with
whom he was to hunt were unable
to go and -that Mr. Baker returned to
McCormick about 9:30. All indica
tions are that he undertook to put
the engine of the Ford Truck, under
a shed which he had built for the pur
pose, but which was not high enough
for a man to ride under on a Ford
and in doing so the breaks would not
work and the machine caught him
with his neck resting against the eves
of the shed. He appeared to haye
died instantly and without a struggle.^
* s
Mr. Baker's home was in Green
wood but fie has been here for the
.past two months stperintondin^: The”
construction . of * a hrick Baptist
Church. Since coming here he has
made numerous friends. He was
married in 1910 to Miss Mattie Lou.
Foashe, of Greenwoddv-who..,survives
him. He also has a sister in New
, Jersey. The body was taken to his
homcPat Greenwood this morning and
will be interred in thd'Greenwood
cemetery Sunday Chronicle. -*■
Locomotives—Chickens
• ■“ •
Stations.
and Way
•-a
By DuBois.
-• j-
OCTOBER WEATHER :
BREAKS ALL RECORDS
1
last year when death and destruction
. - on the battlefields of France ceased.
~ Tnat was a -day of great rejoicing in
the whole world but to this family
today is a day of much greater joy
for in answer to our .prayers and the
prayers of our friends my four sons
who were then in Franee havp retqrn-
ed and are here together with my
other two sons,- three .daughters, two
sons-in-law and three daughters-in-
law, and our eleven grandchildren.
Every single onp of all these are here,
four having, been spared from the
horrors and seeming Certain death on
the battlefields and the others spared
with its here where we were doing
our necessary part toward
war and
winning
war and where there was equal
e-hanee of death from influenza and
other causes. None missing—rind
from this summing up you can see-
that we have tyeen remarkably ble3
r^Oit. a rail road siding at a small
station “somewhere” between Rob
ins and Barnwell a work train con
sisting of six dirt loaded flats and an
engine was stopped waiting for a
through freight to pass. At first
glance there was nothing noticeable
about this train save the unusualness
of the dirt loaded cars and the work
men idling about killing time on the
“wait order” but presently, onMook-
ing Ynore carefully at the engine the
observer noticed that Jthe lines of this
locomotive seemed a little too fine for
an “old work train” engine. The
driving wheels were above the aver
age height, the boiler was lifted a
little higher than ordinary above the
driving mechanism, the stack had a
rakish'look, the climbing rods were
symmetrically curved and with it all
the .sound she made was like the purr
of a big cat. I mean the sound the
engine made standing still, you’ve
heard it; chug-chug-ker-choo-choo
Qyer and over again.
While this observating was going
on Mr. Cannon, locomotive engineer
«r ’ . . .
for a largje Lumber concern walked
up and said,-“See old sixty-six
there? well the used to be the Coast
.Lia-e-V-’-iweer / u ^ i hTili'i' , rtlKtg‘The ' con-
versation Mr. Cannon said that a few
years back that same engine out
there on that dinky siding hitched to
that low down dirt train pulled fHve
passenger cars from Ashley Junc
tion to Florence a distance of ninety
eight miles in ninety-six minutes
making two stops. I guess that’s
“running some.” ,
But the day has come' when beau
tiful, graceful No. sixty-six is haul-
BARNWELL HIGH SCHOOL
DOTS.
Lulie Moore, Editress.
' *
ing a dirt train! Wonder who talks
about her now? And is,she missed
along that road through Lanes, Kings-
tree and Lake - City?
Month Just Gone War-One of The
ZX. Hottest in History.
The month just gone - was by "far
the warmest October on record, ac
cording to, statistics of the weather
bureau. The mean temporature be-
iqg 5.6 above the highest average of
the warm October in 1900 and 578
abo.ve the highest averagebf the same
month in 1915. The average for
la&t month also exceeded the mean
temperature- for the hot October of
191.8 by 6.T.
, 'Previous maximum high records
were smashed by the weather of the
past month. The high record of 92
on October 8, 1915, was broken , on
October 4 and 5 with an absolute
reading .of 94.4! This record now
Stands as the highest ipAhe annals of
the weather bureauzl
The daily absolute maximum read
ings overtopped previous records for
corresponding days in the past Oc
tobers for 15 days during the month.
The daily means averaged 11 de
grees above normal from October 1
to 12 and 12 degrees above normal
on October 15, 16 and 17. From
October 21 to 31 the average was 13
above normal. r i
In. adiiJUun to- theaJworwmLre-rd*
THE DUTCH WEATHER
PROPHET TALKS AGAIN
No
Killing Frost Expected Before
December Twentieth.
ings on so many days the. mean tem
perature for the month was only 0.7
beloy the average flur September,
1919.
THE MEMORIAL SERVICE.
Digression No. 1.
Alpheous Conner, who f is attend
ing school at Carlyle Fitting School
spent Sunday with his parents here.
Frank Kirkland arrived at Barn
well Friday night from Sewanee,
where he has been in school. We arp
sorry to say the Dormitory burned
making it impossible to operate un
til the first of January. Frank will
attend school hereAintil that time,.
Eugene Brown spent the week-end
with his parents and friends of Barn
well. He returned, to Porters where
he is in school. — -
The Halloween partj^ given by the
WT.cfr next you make the trip from
Barnwell to Donora see if you can
locate these way points: Wanr.ies,
SalkehatcKie, Sweet Water, Snelling
Ttirn Out, Prize Patch, Davis’ -Cor
ner, Speed Hill, Kendall Beach.
These are interesting points for
the tourisls and if you cannot procure
a road guide at Gantt’s with these
places marked you might write Dana
D: Dutton.
Digression No. 2.
Who^wants to start a chicken farm?
Baptist^Choir, at the home Mrs. T. S.. J It seems to the casual looker-on that
L-^-rtr 0:1 Monday -night was highly j a chicken farm right along side of a
enjoyed b\ all who were present, railroad would be the right idea.
The teachers, see more and more "FoUyu rfdlng by would see-the chick-
e\ ei\ day that Barnwell is the best ens and the chicklets and the nests
and hear Mr. Rooster crow and be
Mrs.
On Sunday the people of Barn
well met in the Baptist church in
furtherance of the county’s cooper-
atiop in raising its quota cf the
$400,000 for a memorial building in
’■or.or of the part taken by our men
n the world war. Miss Kate Wood
ward had prepared an attractive mus-
:al program which was greatly en-
Statewide interest in the forecast
of the Dutch" Weather Prophet as
published September 30 has been
manifested to such an extent that a
supplemental statement is necessery
to show why the cold wave which
started from the Northwest October
25, with zero temperature in the
Dakotas and snow several daya-Tater
in Chicago, did not materialize to the
extent that temperatures reached the
frost period in the South Atlantic
states. ; .
Readers who followed the govern
ment forecast kno>v that conditions
practically were'’outlined on October
27 as the Dutch Weather~F*rophet pre
dicted in his forecast on September
30.
WtTat happened to prevent fulfill
ment of the ccjld weather forecast?
Tfie wave from ?he Northwest was
split in twain when it reached the
foothills of the Alleghenies, one por
tion being diyorted northwest to the
St. Laurence valley, the second di
verted to -the Gulf of Mexico and the
main body weakened severely by dis
integration of its propulsive strength
BARNWELL BAPTIST
--qt-
ASSOCIATION MOVED
Epidemic Causes Removal
Colston to Bamberg.
From
ioyed by the audience. Hon J, E •
Harley, who.was chairman, made an
announcement as to the scope and
aim of the movement. The speech
of the evening that was keenly en
joyed by thoze present was..made by
Mr. Solomon Blatt, who spoke from
the personal standpoint of ffie soldier
In being broken into military disci
pline from civil life. The other
speech was delivered by Dr. W. M.
Jones.
The work ofj securing subscrip
tions was turned over by Mr.!Harley
to a committee of ladies which was
announced at the close, of the meet
ing. . .
place in the world to* live.
--ed-ftixf have just-reason for-great iftv 1 - u-i^ -x- 3™*™*-**™ ™
m d evori'istincr thnniffninnl i -ifi ^ UIte a nu, ^> er of children from pleased with the singing of the
«P »» ««• for Htns. A great big siglfsettine
great big
the go.pd qualities
setting forth
would be,a help and this free adver
tising would go aMong^way toward
getting distribution and volume.
If you are interested in such a
venture get in touch with John K. f _
Snelling, Probate Judge, Insurance ; only to the Lord
and Newspaper Magnate and he will
•to thank oar fiends, for their .^ray. | „ ne or two (loys , We ^ , ad it was
kl " dn ' ss «»«r thoughtfulness j p „ ssible for them t0 g0> a5 the
to us • u.uig. lose tijing days and j nihits were very interesting and ben-
to invite their thankfulness" with us 1 eficial.^ ]
T • Miss Wicker,_ fYom _ the United
° U 11 anil > I sa .v. remember j ^ate Treasury, was a visitor at the
what God has done for.m <Juring sch „ol Friday. She is travelling in
these days of d.stresr,and: let nune of the interest! of the Thrift Campaign,
us fad to give thanMM^m the rest Af iel . hearing the, talks of Miss Wick-
of our days.- I am growing old now er and
and during my life have felt the sor?
rows of two war? and although I did io buy thfift 'stamps."'" '“‘ I
«,»t wear, te uniform of either I was The school is taking a greaTln-, |h v better but this cannot be vouched
during bpth ,n a position to know* of , trcst in the Re , t Cross C a ,npalgn: ! Z '
the horror? and hardships which war lt is a)raost dangerous to start out , -
always brings and from thie-tao«k-«aXSt the little badge,r'ofTonor. | “ ~
.The girls .of the school are ‘among 1
che leaders of the campaigning party.
The first day “Of the drive netted two (
hundred and twenty-eight members. ' , ., - , T n ,
‘ , . . , , been the gue^t of Mfs. P. D- Black,
v\ e are proud to sav that many badg- , . . J , ~
. , • . , returned home,
es ^ifr-feo be seen in school.- —
KurscII Hair.
On the evening of October 1919,
tlie death Angel visited the home of
our near relatives, Fred Hair and
wife, of Barn\vell, twd <;arrie*rto the
Heavenly laMJhfiyjoad skies, their
only boy, HursSM, a.id though he
had only recently passed bis. fourth
of the poultry birthday, was noted by ail who knew
him for his brightness, good mannei**
and obedience. Oh how hard to
give him up, but we feel that he was
only loaned to us for so short a time
for perhaps a good purpose known
i tell you who to come to for infoj-ma-
ei and Mr. Calhoun on, the subject, ^ on a? to,the “chicken-garden-spot.”
•>ve Aelt t’would be great to save our P> s . It is - said by some tha t the
Grandma.
- GIN REPORT.
There were 24,374 bales' of cot-
smell ,of engine smoke makes hens 1 ton, counting round as half bales,
edge I urge that we all ?xert our in
fluence and pray that the world may
henceforth be rid of this great curse
through wise leadership and trust in
God.
I saw and worked under conditions
which prevailed during the recon
struction days ^fitter “the Civil War
Hird now 1 TO^-iht* groat work which
is to be done after this w/ar.
mtLletteville news.-
1 _
ginned in Barnwell County from the
crop of 1919 prior to ^ietober 18th,
1919, as compared with 44,107 bales
ginned to October 18th, 1918.
7
'A , ^
Mr.!. Dates,- of August^, whtr-haTf
An I.ce_ Plant For Barnwell.
legheny and Blue Ridge mountains.
There is a reason back of -all. this
seelming peculiar artion of the north
western low pressure area. It did
not have the strength to cross either
the Alleghenies or the Blue Ridge
mountains. Similar conditions have
prevailed on two other separate oc
casions, and the third attempt failed
to nullify the exceedingly tremendous
amount of high pressure which has
prevailed over the South Atlantic
area during the past two months.
A fjank movement of the gulf por
tion of the cool wave came in as the
lower current'Wednesday, October 29
in the effort and failed a Ian.
This body met" on 5cto^er""29th,
and 30th.,- at Bamberg, to which
place it was removed on account of
an epidemic of Malaria fever In and
around Colston church where it. was
to have met. The Bamberg church
rose to meet the situation and met it
in an admirable manner.
■ J.
i The body organized by the election
of Rev. O. J. Frier, of Denmark, as
Moderator in the place" of Hon. R.
B. Fickling who declined reelection,
The other officers were, Vice Moder
ator, Dr. Robt. Black, of Bamberg,
Secretary, Rev. Geo. P. White, -of
Bamberg, and Treasurer J. B. Gillam,
of Denmark. The introductory ser
mon was preached by Rev. Geo. P.
White, on Wednesday morning. In
thrr absence of the Rev. E. C. Watson,
formerly pastor in Blackville, the mis
sionary sermon was preached on Wed
nesday evening by his successor, Rev.
L. H. Miller.
In view.pt ffce fact that the 75 mil-
lion campaign is the center o;f inter
est for the Baptist this year and for
some time to- come, the committee on
order of business provided for all
<]ue.M-ions of home interest tu cume~~
The high pressure* still persists in
this section, and well it does. If any
of the efforts oL the southeastern
winds had succeeded in displacing it,
the disastrous storm of July, 1916,
would have been repeated with more
orfless severity.
before the body on Wednesday, leav
ing the issues, covered by the cam
paign to be discussed on Thursday. -
• The various reports were handed
in without reading on Thursday morn
ing after which the body was. ad
dressed by Dr. J. S. Dill, the citcuk
lation manager of the Baptist Cour
ier. In the opinion of many who
heard- him Dr. Dill gave one of the
ablest addresses to which the associ
ation has listened in many years.
The association was honored to
have with it in the interest of the 75
million campaign, Mr. C. B. Bobo who
is the president of the Baptist State
Covention.—His 0!\ tfi? *¥!*->
7
♦ ^
It was interesting Wednesday t6 "Body asked and Mr. Bobo answered
watch the battle in the sky between
the two opposing currents—one, the
higher, from the northwest; the other
the lower, from the southeast. It
waged from morm-uptil noon. Then
the cool wave clou<L appeared- with
diminished energy, but it was the vic
tor in the contest, having been rein
forced by a portion of Tlyj upper wave
which had deserted the main body in
its ChUrSe over ihe mountains to the
South Atlantic coast.
Thus the high pressure area in the
southeast' still prevails giving us this
continued series of summer-tempera-
ture. li-mtrst CohHnu^to]prevail, if
W£ are to be safe from a tornado,
until it gets the knockout blow from
th£ northwest. }
■ The Dutch Weather Prophet re
ceived a personal commendation on
the street during fair week from a
friend who lives in a Pee Dee town,
he holds high rank in the intelligent
citizenry of the state, on the correct,
principal^, of meteorology which the
forecast oUSeptember 29 was based.'
He observed the weather con
ditions herein dutliped i as tKe ^cold
wave started on its way from, The
northwest. . - —1
The weather has compensations.
If we were given the choice under
the circumstances above indicated the
vote would have been unanimous for
-C-
the warm and dry weather as against
. threatened South Atlantic storm
r !'v-^ - | which jKould hgve surely invaded this
Larnwell is to have an ice plant, territory. I
Tfib high pressure has a tendency
WHITE HOUSE BULLETIN.
Washington, Oct’. 28.—The
Colton Weeks, of 'Aiken, a young
Miss Estelle Jones‘ of^Sumter, has man of initiative and enterprise, has to preva fj for some' time to come,
opened school near Martins^-tmd is succeeded in organizing a 3t0ck.com- ; HqwpvpK T o»Ivp wheaL_xold
| boarding with Mrs. C. B. jgHfe.- ^ j panv in Barnwell to build a plant
nresi-L-, are hfice-and ..to, {fondue? an-iee manufac*- ; killing frost m»y d not occur! uhtil the
TrSheffing Some again after a Very turing business. The capital stock winter so i s ti^. December io. I
We will I
help as long as we are able to but j dert c ontrhues to sSiow progress, says 1 ^ J— Ane ca P ,ta « Rl0CK winter solstice,
this is work wjhich belongs to you j today * s bulletku .-The attending phy- ser,ous at the.hospi.tal in.Au- ( .M $7,000 -has been subscribed, and j The central dates for cold leather
^ who are young amh-^ong.. Our task j sicijins ailpwedAfieir patient to^^ take u . j Week3 w,n be secretary and are. NovemberJ^illxJIocember
Xvus iii the sixties^seventies andJ luncheon an<5 f fewter in a semi-sitting ’ Dr ’. and Mrs ’ E ‘ W * ETlls have »s-. treasurer and manager of _thejom-Ldr^^cT^^fhe State,
eighties. This is your job *nd I po3if:on, Tvhich adtis to enjoyment
The 20th annivar-» par.y. » They will aiso dgaTThTToal.
sai^Lof their marriage. We wish for
them many more years of wedded
bli^s. 1 j- >
wan1 and am^pioud of The part yoir)r D *iy G CLERKS GO Of I Several-from here expect to at-
hope that if I live lomr enough to see ; of thc fooI and - eaused no fatigue,
jt’tliat I shall be aa proad-of the part i
you p*a^ UlU thi< reconstruction as I i -
piayi«
wars.
To
••
today
l, ’Ariiig thL the grea.e t r of all ^ New Ydrk, Oct." 28t—Forty-five
- * • ' *r t-lHurriTod drug clerks, ninety per cea<f. v,ct k --
veryone pfeT?ent I agh’n ex- c m.yioy&<i in thc filv, accdrd^rg to un- Lr. E ,.-5 ai:J
i> you / mostHMjbrty welcome
and for an.” time you mzy be
ion
voted early
today
I tVnd the circus ar.d fair in Augusta
who - have re- i
It is planned to put in a plant of from
6 to 12 tons capacity a day at the be
ginning. • Mr. Week’s many Aiken
friends* will wish 'him ^ well in this
new enterprise.
SAVE tfUUR QUILT SCRAPS:
paign and ita method#
proprlan and helpful. He 1» a type,
and a very fine One at that* of a «on?T
secrated Christian layman. He is a
business man of Laurens, but is tok!e»
ly known throughout the state. Af
ter his address the members of the
many practical questions in regard
to the working of the campaign in
the churches.
The association was largely atten
ded on both days. The Bamberg
church is to be congratulated..on the
splendid hospitality shown the dele
gates. As a Bamberg member- ex
presses it “they had just time enough
given them to get reach* for it. hut
not enough time-tq wc/rry over it.’*
The spirit shown "by the delegates
was that of hearty cooperation with
the denomination., ia the campaign .
There was a genuine regreL-over an
evident disposition t<^ shorten the
time for the association a3 much as
possible so as to get back home to
business again. Many felt that the
body would lose-materially if it al
lowed thej devotional element to be
crowded out.
tv
THE STATE FAIR.
r - *
Y
■.f
This annual event 4n the life of
the state fills a widespread need for
the varied social, educational, agricul
tural and financial needs of our
people. The fair of this year evi
denced the financial prosperity of
the people. The exhibits were of
high order, and the attendance reach
ed the high wat^r mark.
Barnwell was well represented. In
fact‘it was reported by some of our
people who went that at least half of
the people of the county were in Co
lumbia during* last week. It is
reported that Harry Boyleston had
unintentionally furnished a motor car
I--
■
to some unknown person in Colum-
1 hia. '
■ : S
The ‘ trains were crowded with
dusty but . happy returning vbitors
forbad seen tK^-hestvexhibits of
many years, and had renewed their
acquaintance with • friends from all
parts-of the rftate/^-' ' - ’
ir J1«
Prayer Ts
ito-
sided at
Mcj'ers MilUfor pie past few
week, “the. date to be de-! ^ iM move‘Back tu-Thpir homer
fCONTi.NTED^ON EIGHTH PAGE:
« if ^ i>r rrrrnm
nuind t.igtgr
de-** at M rlletteville, on—November
■ I Al! erter.d t
IsL
tlTc summbg up of the
life in a definite het, which
is at jo nee inward ar.d outuard.jtne
PfiWpr uo the characWr, ltk» -
that of ary other adL prcpui-uunaT — —
-The Associated Char:l«jrT>f» Colum
bia are usking for.,quilt, scr.insj. if
the wo-nen of the county ar. 1 town
will—save all useful woolen, c «tcon j
scraps, and *kend them to me by Jan.
1st* I v*ill pack and send
Change In Chronicle.
them a glad welcome. its intensity.—Benjamin JowetL. |
Mrs. W.. II. Duncan,
Augusta, Nov. L—^Thopas J. Ham
ilton today bought the controlling
stock oi >Taomas W. Loyless in the
them UiL Augqsta Chronicle and ^ has takes
charge as editor amcf
Lm
5a row ell, S. C.
%>
N
.>•!
mi