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r _ < DO YOHR SH0PPIN6 NOW. tK If you value your friendship enough with any one to give a Christmas present, value it high enough to give Something serviceable. Feel that Christmas spirit and do your Christmas shopping now. On y one more week to buy and Christmas will be here. Remember the early shopper has the opportunity to choose from a full stock. Right now you will find our store “brim full” of IDEAL CHRISTMAS GIFTS. You are cordially invited to visit us and see for yourself the many useful and attractive gifts we have to make ^ shopping easier for you. Below you will find a few suggestions of suitable gifts: FOR MEN AND BOYS-—Suits, Pants, Overcoats, Shirts, Socks, Hats, Ties. FOR LADIES AND GIRLS-—Coat Suits, Skirts, Cloaks, Shirtwaists, Stockings, Dress Goods, Lace Collars. TBUE burniture in complete suits and odd pieces, rugs, carpets, mattings, window curtains, quilts, comforts, blankets, sheets, counterpanes, table cloths—in fact, a complete and comprehensive assortment of gifts to delight the heart of l each and every member of the family. Call early and avoid the Christmas rush. N. WESTERN CAROLINA DEPARTMENT STORE, IP: BARNWELL, S. C. HARMONY FUJDOK NO 17 A. F. M » ▲ /A rt'K n l»r<'°tn*)unl< atinn of IlHrmony \M/ liixltfr No. 17, A 'K M will I* ,n Temple or. Tliur»*d»j 7.30 oVIttrtk Vwltldk brethren are e«>nn*i.v inrtf**l to attend. U. \V Manvllle, W . M vtm McNah. Tbe regular meetlnK ol Barnw* M iL<xl»e No Ifi, Kuighti. of IMhlax wll jbe held at their H;ill on Kmm and 'Third Friday night* at x o’clock. A full attendance I* rtx]U< atcd *7 order of W. C JENNlNt’.'*, (’. ( . Win. McNA't. K K. .t 8. • HERE AND HERB A BOUTS. • • • (tenoral VV. \V. Mooro, of Columbia, spent the week-end in Barnwell. (’apt. W. T. Walker, of Walker’s Station, was a visitor here Monday. i The Rev. J. R. Uulloin will nrearh in the Barnwell Baptist Chi reh Sunday ni^ht. Mr. Wilbur Porter, of Sprinofield, spent tlie week-end with Barnwell re'a- tives and friends. Mr. J. J. Cochran, of Barnwell, ( Route No. 2, was in town Monday and called very pleasantly at tins office. Mr. W. T. Cave, Jr., of Blarkville. lightened the labors of press day last week by Ids welcome call. Mrs. L. C. Christie has returned home after an extended visit to her son, Mr. H. R. Christie, in Macon, (hi. Mr. D. S. Black, of Barnwell, Route No. 1, wfls in town Friday and railed at The People office to renew his sub scription. Mr. J. H. Hewlett, of Allendale, and Dr. T. F. Uotftj, of Kline, were in town Monday in attendance upon the annual meeting of the Home Bank? stockhold ers. There will he an entertainment at Long Branch Church on the evening of Dec. 25 at 8 o’clock. A small admis sion fee will be charged. Proceeds for a good cause. Mrs. B. P. Davies and little son, Ben, Jr., left yesterday (Wednesday) after noon for Greensboro and Burlington, N. C., to spend the holidays with rela tives and friehds. They will be joined later by Mr. Davies. , Miss Annie May Vogel, who has been the guest of Mrs. C. F. Molair for the past week, left Tuesday afternoon for her home in Washington, D. C. While in Barnwell she was the recipient of a number of social honors. Miss Martha Ayer Duncan is in Cor lumbia for the series of balls that pre- . cede the Christmas holidays, opening with the Bachelors’ Ball and ending with the first Cotillion Club Ball. She will return for the usual Christmas fjuniiy reunion at the Duncan home. There will be a special Christmas service at the Pleasant Mountain Bap tist church on Thursday, December 25th, at 11 o’clock a. m. The public is cordially invited to attend and make an offering for the purpose of helping to build a new church. The services will he conducted by the Rev. K. H Clark. Mr. J. C. Mathis, of Willist >n, was in Barnwell Monday and called at The People office to subscribe for the paper. Letters to Santa Claus. JAMES G. SEIGLER IS PAROLED BY GOV. BLEASE Mr». R. W. Harley. I Competitive Examination. The United States Civil Service Com mission announces an open competi tive examination at Barnwell on Satur day, January loth, to fill a vacancy in the position of rural carrier at Barn well The age limit is IS to .Y) years. The Value of a Bank Account. In this week's issue you will find the advertisements of Barnwell’s two hanks. They invite your business for the coming years. There is no better habit to teach your children than that of saving at least a part of what they make. Start them off right with a hank account of their ow n. It will teach them the first lessons in indepen dence. Richnrd ion-Huggins. The following invitation has been is sued : “Mr and Mrs. K. 11. Richardson in vite you to ho present at the marriage of their daughter, Marie Louise, to Mr. Frank Howell 1 Huggins, on Monday evening, December the twenty-ninth, at six o'clock, Baptist Church, Barn well, South Carolina.” The People joins with the many friends of this popular young couple in wishing for thorn a long life of happi ness and prosperity. Bishop Guerry Here Sunday. The Rt. Rev. Wm. A. Guerry, Bishop of South Carolina, preached in the Church of the Holy Apostles Sunday morning and administered the rite of confirmation to three candidates, Mis? Kate Simms and Messrs. W. C. Jen nings and Jack Graham. A large con gregation was present and greatly en joyed his excellent sermon. Bishop Guerry also baptised little Edmund Bellinger Simms, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Simms. Mrs. R. W. Harley, formerly of Barn well, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. H. Delph, in Savannah Wednesday afternoon after long ill health. Her body was brought to Barnwell the following day and laid to rest in the Kpiscopal Churchyard, the Rev. A. H. F.visoti officiating. Mrs. Harley is survived by her three daugh ters, Mrs. Delph, of Savannah, Mrs. Hutto, of Georgia, and Mrs. F. P. Best, | of Barnwell. To them is extended the 1 sympathy of many friends. Masons Elect Officers. ; At the regular monthly meeting of | Harmony Lodge No. 17, A. F. M., Thurs day night, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: J. Fmile Harley, W. M. P. W. Price, s' W. L. Cohen, J. W. Wm. McNab, Secretary. N. G. W. Walker, Treasurer. R. S. Dicks, S. I). F. S. Brow n, J. D. W. (’. Calhoun and F. L. Patterson, ; Stewards. W. A. Owens, Tiler. The following letters were handed to us Tuesday for publication and The People hopes that Old Nick will fulfill each and every request: Dear Santa Clause. please send me for Xmas a bycide cap pistol and some caps air rifle and plenty of fruits nuts and candy, roam canles sandpopers sparkles skyes rock ers and fire crackers and if you send me all I ask you for I will he a good boy. Idis Black. Dear uncle Santa Clause lam a ht- I lie hoy 4 years old. 1 want you to please i bring me for Xmas some nice fruit and | a cap pistoal and plenty of caps some | sparklets sandpopers roam candles and - fire crackers air rifle, and that is all I will ask you for. hut please dont forget my little baby brother, bring him a teily hear doll and some nic • fruit. Your good boy, Remer Black. Dear Uncle Santa Clause. I am a lit tle girl 10 years, old. and I want you to bring me for Xmas a big doll and doll carriage a tea set and a silver set. some | nice fruit and plenty of candy and nuts ;is ever your Little Irene Still and fire works, girl A Yuletide Marriage. The following invitation was received Sunday morning by the Barnwell friends of Mr. R. S. Dicks: “Mr. and Mrs. William Dantzler Ant- ley request the honor of your company at the marriage of their daughter, Wil- helmina, to Mr. Robert Stanley Dicks on Tuesday afternoon, December the twenty-third, at five o’clock, at home, Cordova, South Carolina.” Mr. Dicks is a popular young business man of Barnwell and with the congrat ulations of his friends go their best wishes for a life as happy as the joyous Christmas time. Card from Rev. Hayes. filt'i S. Laurel St., Richmond, Ya. My dear Friend: Will you allow me a brief space in your paper? 1 want to thank all my friends in Barnwell for their kindness to us in this time of our bereavement. I would like to write to them all per sonally hut there are so many of them, and people here have betn coming in to see us so that I have not had time to do much writing. It is a great com fort to know that you have so many friends who think of you and sympa thize with you and are ready to do you a kindness whenever there is an op portunity. The people in Barnwell are very much endeared to me and I hope I may be able to serve them more faithfully and more efficiently in the future. I calculate on being back in Barnwell by the first Sunday in January. It is necessary for us to remain here awhile longer, not only to rest, but also to have our baby’s throat operated on. We are aiming to have that done this week. We hope he will quickly re cover and that he will be ■'able to talk well after the work is done. I hereby express to my friends, one and all, my profoundest gratitude for all their sympathy and kindness. With best wishes, I am sincerely and cor dially your minister and-friend, W. L. Hayes. The Cattle Tick The cost of eradicating the cattle tick in certain Mississippi counties has been fifty cents for eaeh head of cattle in those counties: The average increase in the vqlue of these cattle because of tick eradication is estimated at #7 per ht ad. In other words, these counties spent $100,000 for tick eradication and received at once a return of $2,14S,()IK) in the increased value of their cattle. Yet there are still some farmers and a few misinformed newspapers who claim that ticks can’t he eraSTcated, or if they can, “it doesn’t pay” to do it! — The Progressive Farmer. ♦ ♦ Vagrancy Every now and then our Southern cities get awfully excited over “Negro vagrants.” Vagrancy in any inhabi tant hurts a community, hut the va- grancy that hurts the white race most is white vagrancy. We must 'develop a sentiment which will make any man ashamed to be a loafer, a parasite, whether he is a millionaire or a pau per. As Dr. Walter Page says, “A man had better make good split-bottom chairs than be an unproductive promi nent citizen.”—The Progressive Far mer. LOST STRAYED OR STOLEN.—On Friday night Dec. 12th, a light mouse colored mare mule wjth white rdouth, about 4 years old. -A reward will be paid for any information loading to her recovery. R. W. Dicks £• Son, Barnwell, S. C. Slayer of Policeman Wade Patterson Free During Good Behavior. ! Aiken, Dec. Id. —James G Seigler, ! who two years ago last month shot and 1 killed Wade Patterson, an Aiken po liceman, and who, after a sensational trial, was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to seven \eais m P'e state penitentiary, lias been pane -I during good behavior by Governor i Blease. Seigler rearhod home !a>t night !’r,,m Golumbia. The actum of the governor caii'-mi no surprise h u'e It a.is ge'u ".ilk known that he intended paroling Se g- ler. As a matter of fact, Se-igl; *•, who be gan bis prison sentence hist siming, was granted a temporary parole bv Governor Bleaso s, veral weeks ago f >r ( the purpose of securing a petition from the people of t!i:s section and also 1 to attend to some financial matters. Seigler come home late m October and spent the month of November here. Dur ing that time he circulated a petition and secured upwards of 1,(100 names of ■the leading citizens, not only of Aiken. but of Barnwell ami Edgefield Counties ■ as well. He returned at the end of his ! parole to the penitentiary, and later pre sented tlie petition to the governor. Mr. Henry Hutto, of Olar, was in town Monday on business. The People acknowledges with pleas ure the receipt of a letter from Mr. M. A. Rountree, of Augusta. He is one of the few surviving members of the fa mous Wallace House and was present at the reunion held here last vear. Sheriff’s Sale. State of South Carolina, \ County of Barnwell. i Court of Common Pleas. Master’* Sale. State of South Carolina, Barnwell County. Court of Common Pleas. Miss F. L. Croft, * Plaintiff, against Yicy Addison, Defendant. I By virtue of a deeretral order to me directed m the above entitled cause, I will sell at Barnwell, in front of the : ('<mrt H ouse, on Monday, January 5th. I’-'lf. it. it being salesday in said month, within the legal hours of sale the fob ; lowing described real property; Ail that certain lot of land in the Town of Barnwell, said State and County, bounded on the North by lands of Wil liam Phoenix 11') feet; East by lands of Lydia Myers lo*> feet; South by lands of F M Tillv and West bv street sepa rating it trom lands of J.\V. W oodward. j Also All that lot of land in the town of Barnwell, said State and County, ctjU* taming one-fourth 1-4 of an’ n<yf\ more or less, bounded North by (5lT *1 Ima Midland Right of way; East byXn of \ ie> Addison; South by lot of M. B. 1 Ihupiod and West by street. 1 he two above adjoining and forming one large lot. Ter described lots being ( ling one la roe lot. cash. Purchaser to ■nils ot sab pay tor papers. H. I~-O’Baunou Maste Master's office, Dec. S, 11)13. Master’s Sale. State of South Carolina, ) County of Barn well, i’ Court of Common Pleas. Janie Myrick, against William Priesler, et ah, Plaintiff, Defendants. Mutual Fertilizer Co., vs. T. B. Harley, Plaintiff, 'DeTrTnfcifft. j-' By virtue of an execution to me di rected in the above entitled cause by W. H. Duncan, Clerk of Court for Barnwell County, I have levied upon and will s^ll at Barnwell, in front of the Court House, on Monday, January 5th, A. D. 1914, it being salesday in said month, at 12 o’clock M., the following described real property, to-wit: All that tract or parcel of land, situate in Barnwell County, S. C., known as part of T. B. Harley land, containing thirty- three acres, more or less; bounded North by Wood, East and South by Homestead set off for T. B. Harley, and West by lands of Barker. Terms of sale cash,purchaser to pay for papers. y J. B. Morris, Sheriff. Sheriff’s office, December 15th, 1913. By virtue of a decretal order to me directed in the above entitled cause, I will sell atjiarnwell, in front of the Court Houge, on Monday, January 5th, A. I). 1914,. it being salesday in said month, within dhe'legatfhours of sale, the following aeser+b«4 real property: All that niece, parcel or tract of land, situate, lying and being in the above named State and County, known as the Tamer E. Priester Homestead Place, in Sycamore^ToVnshirt and bounded on the North by Joe Goodson; East by Ben Baker; South by lands of H. (?7 Raysor, now Sanders, and WesfBy laftds of W. E. Carter, and said land to contain about 405 acres, more or less. Also: All that piece, parcel or tract of land situate in the above^ named State and County, near the town of Barnwell, containing four (4i acres, and boundeo North by lands of Alonza Harley;^ the East by estate lands of M. A. drich; on the South by estate lands < A. Aldrich and on the West by the! Road leading from Barnwel\ Cdurt House, South Carolina, to Augu*ta, Ga., which said road separates this land from lands of Harriet Hunter. Te rms of sale cash. Purchaser to pay for papers. H. L. O’Bannon, Master. Master’s office, Dec. 9th, 1913.