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v > # I —f. l**'' ''Just Like a Member of the Famlly pf )L. XXXV 111^ BARNWELL, S. C. HAY 27. 1915 WATER AMD LIGHTS FOR ALLENDALE BT JULY 1 $65,000 ELEVENTH NATION IN WORLD’S GREAT WAR f Expanded lor Up-lo-d»t« Public ImproTomonte. Allendale, May 22.—The construction of electric light, water and sewerage systems of Allendale, for which 'the town voted $65,000 in bonds, is pro gressing satisfactorily and its comple tion is expected about July 1st. The poles, wires and other appur tenances are already in position and •bout sixty street lamps of latest type, with large ground-glass globes, are to be erected. The jvater system will include sev eral miles of large cast-iron mpins with thirty-five fire hydrants. The water storage will be provided forby a 140,000 gallon concrete reservoir, with con crete cover, and a 100,000-gallon tank, about 140 feet high. The water will b^ supplied from a large flowing well. This modern system, built in accord ance with the rules laid down by the Underwriters’ Association, will give a reduction in fire insurances rates. The electric and pumping plants will be installed in the same building, which is constructed of vitrified press- , brick laid in colored mortar. It is sd with steel rolling and fireproof I ^Jobrs and steel window sashes. The machinery is to include a direct l^^jnnected generator driven by one of the latest types of uniflow steam en gines, and the current controlled by a switchboard of three-panel blue Ver mont marble. For fire purposes water is pumped by two high-pressure pumps delivering 750 gallons per minute. Steam for all machinery is supplied by two high-pressure boilers of 100 horse power, each. The sewer system is supplied by ap proximately seven miles of mains, the whole of which will discharge through a disposal plant for sterilisation, equip ped with latest reduction and sprinkling /filter. The commissioners were fortunate in selling the bonds before the Euro pean war began and in* letting con tracts at low figures. The supervision of all the work has been entrusted to the H. S. Jandons Engineering Company, whose pains taking efforts bid fair to secure one of the most modern and satisfying plants. Greai CHARLES MATHIS WIZARD IN SCIENTIFIC FARMING PROMPT ACTION IS SEER IN NEWEST WAR THEATRE NO. 39 COURT OF COMMON PLEAS MAKING GOOD PROGRESS vr uu;i hi -3o6rs NEW ORDERS ISSUED ON POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS Alter July 1*1 Account* Can Be Opened by Mail or ia Pertoa. After July 1st, 1915, sccounts with posts! savings banks may be opened by mail. Announcement of this arrange ment was made to Postmaster C* E. Falkenstein last week. Heretofore deposits could be made by mail, but opening of accounts had to be done in person. < The new instructions point out that any person 10 years old or over may open an acoount in his or her own name; that an account may be opened »y a married woman free from any con- frol or interference by her husband; that postoffice officials are forbidden to disclose to any person, except the de positor, the amount of any deposits; that withdrawals may be made without previous notice; and that the govern ment guarantees to repay all deposits on demand with accrued interest. The government says; “Postal sayings receipts have broken all records the past yfear. "During the eight months prior to April 1st there was a net gain in deposits of $19,000,- 000, as against a gain of $8,000,000 for the same months the year before. Thousands of new accounts have been opened and the millions made up large ly of hidden savings haye been AoatrUn and' Italian Troop* ia Number at Frontier. Italy, the eleventh nation to enter the world’s war, has thrown down the gage of battle to Austria. Austrian and Italian troops in vast numbers face each other along the mountainous frontier. Most of Aus tria’s warships are at Pola. The Italian fleet put to sea from Spezia weeks ago, and its whereabouts is not known. The official proclamation signed by the King fixed May 24 as the commence ment of the war, but almost immedi ately the Italian ambassador at Vienna presented the Austrian foreign office with the formal declaration, and shortly afterward Germany instructed her am bassador at Rome to leave the Italian capital with the Austro-Hungarian am bassador. In an official ststemeht issued at "Betiin the German Government says that by this attack against the dual monarchy Italy also has broken her alliance with Germany and adds that the loyal relationship existing betweeu Austria-Hungary and the German em pire remains unimpaired. Expectancy in the action of Italy has dwarfed interest in other matters con nected with the war, and, strangely enough, there have been little of para mount importance to attract attention. Battles both in the East and West are being fought much after the manner of tbe past six months, with losMes or gains here and there. Checks to the Germans north of Arras, progress east of Festubert and east of Notre Dame de Lorette and the capture of trenches near Neuville at Vasst are chronicled by Paris. Berlin asserts that to the south of Neuville the Germans made gains and that an attack on the Lorette heights was repulsed. In the East the Germans claim to have repulsed the Russians. In the northwest of Russia Berlin claims a de feat of the Muscovites with the capture of some 0OU prisoners and a number of machine guns. The Tdpie Entente powers have notified Turkey that all the meal tbe Turkish government and such agents of the government as are found implicated will be held personally responsible for the massacres of Ar menians. The condition of the king of Greece, who has been ill for several days, is reported to have taken a serious turn. Because of the king’s illness, the ques tion as to whether Greece shall main tain her neutrality or enter the general conflict has been temporarily laiu aside. l lr - Some Lessons Which His Operations Show—Value of * In oculation ot Soil—Vetch One of the Best of His Crops—Diversified Agriculture. (Continued from last week.) I \ Rye Without Fertiliser.;' “Have you seen any finer rye than this anywhere any time?” asked Mr. Mathis. “That field has never had a pound of fertilizer and for five weeks there has been no rain.” The roadway bordering the rye was as white as fine sugar, indicating an entire absence of humus. The rye, taller than a siv footer, had the longest grain heads I have ever seen on rye. It was the widely heralded Abruzzi rye that is destined to maxe Hartsville and Coker famous. “This field is pure sand all the way down,” said Mr. Mathis, “and my son Murray, who is a Clemson agricultural graduate, re fused to plant it and advised Mr. Walker not td spend any money on it. “Well, 1 spent mighty little, and it has c ome back ten times over already besides the present crop.. In the fall of 1913 I seeded this to inoculated vetch and oats and got a small crop. In the spring I broadcast 1,000 pounds of ground limestone per acre and seeded it to inoculated cowpeas and drilled them in after a good rain. It would have done you good to see them grow. I don’t want to grow any more peavines on an tore than I got from that crop. I then put in this rye, and I am mighty proud of it. It cer tainly is the'feest I have ever seen. I will follow it again with cowpeas, and then I can make a big crop of anything here. Across the road I planted vetch with oats again, and this worthless land of two years agoJus produced of least 45 busffitk without and without rain for five and moister we have the greatest crop With Italy ia Conflict. Austria Stribaa First Blow. The war declared by Italy on Aus tria is not yet in full airing, but small battles are under way along the fron tier, and the Austrians already have attacked Italian towns on the east coast with warships and aeroplanes. The towns shelled and bombarded in cluded Venice, Ancona, Porto Corsini, Have in a crop fertilizers weeks* ^ My, what a crop I would have had had a good rain three FACTS AND FANCIES FROM FAIR FAIRFAX Graded School to Close This Week.— Other Interesting News. Fairfax, May 23.—Miss Ruth Wilson, of Columbia, came down on a short trip recently to visit friends. Mr. G. A. Sanders has purchased an automobile. Messrs. L. W. Youmans, J. G. Wilson and G. A. Sanders motored over to Allendale Saturday. Barnwell was scheduled to play two games of baseball with the home team this week, but on account of the heavy rains only one game was pulled off, which resulted in a score of four to two in favor of the locals. The farmers of this section have been greatly benefitted by the late rains. The crops are how looking very well indeed. The Fairfax graded school will close a very successful session with the turned ; commencement exercises on the 30th back into the channels of trade just at a time when there was pressing de mand for every dollar.” Postal savings empties the stockings, gets the money of those who insist, otherwise, on being their own bank vaults—the men and women who hav$ faith unflagging only in “government,” meaning the official strength of state. The government piys but 2 per cent on sayings. The savings banks pay 4 per qent. and 31st inst. Mr. McCollough will de- ! liver the baccalaureate sermon and Dr. 1 Snyder the fare Well address. , - . " t Miss Cornelia Langford, of Brunson, is spending a few days with Mrs. Brooks. ,, Mr. E. L. Young was recently taken to a hospital for an operation for ap pendicitis. School Closes. The Blackville graded school closed a very successful session with appro priate commencement exercises Sunday and Monday. The Rev. J. H. Harden, of the Denmark Methodist Church, preached the commeneement sermon ’’ Sunday morning and that evening Supt. FERTIUZER TAG TAX. Receipts at Clemson College Fifty-five Per Cent of. 1914. The fertilizer tag tax for the period from July 1, 1914, to May 18, 1915, was fifty-five per cent, of the tax for the same period last year. Figures from the office of H. M. Stackhouse, secre tary of the state board of fertilizer control at' Clemson College, show the tax receipts to May 18 to be The tag tax reciepts on (cGarity delivered an excellent ad dress, discussing at length compulsory $148,102. education. On Monday there was an I )g ay 18, 1914, had reached $270,244. elegant barbecue and basket picnic, at This year’s tax is to date, therefore, which time Congrese Byrne, delivered per cent of t^at for th^ tbe literary address. use period last year and fifty-three per cent, of the total for last year, had if I had had a good weeks ago! I will plant cowpeas again this year to fftet more nitrogen sod humus. It pays, where we mocu late, to plant the same crop two years in succession. We don’t have to inocu late the second year, and the second crop is always much bigger than the first because we have more "bugs” aud a lot more humus, which means more moisture.” Two Other Emample*. “We have two more fields that I want to show you, which have been given new life by limestone and inoculation. This one used to be an old baseball ground and was so hard you couldn't drive a nail in it. With three big mules we managed to break it into clods, but could not go over four inches deep. We harrowed and har rowed those clogs until we got them pulveried, and used 600 pounds of 10- 2-4 fertilizer per acre and put in inoc ulated vetch and oats. It did not do so well a^ first, but later it came on very well, and we made some fine forage, but by no means a big crop. The vetch roots had just burrowed and bored into that hard clay, and when next I broke it, the plow went a lot deeper. We put on 1,000 pounds of limestone and harrowed it and drill ed in inoculated. Cowpeas grow mighty fine after vetch without the inoculation but since I have learned that it’s the bacteria that gives us the nitrogen from the air anA not the plant itself, I am strong for the bacteria and would not consider planting any legume seed without inoculation unless I had pre viously inoculated the land for that crop. You can see for yourself what we have here now. The crop will be a very profitable one, the improvement of the mechanical condition of the field is marked, and hereafter we can break- it still deeper, for this second crop of vetch has certainly subsoiled it better than we could with any tool.” “Over there,” A»id Mr. Walker on the return to the car, “we have as fine a result from the use of soil build ing.crops as one can see in a day’s ride. That field was as poor a piece of pure sand as anything in Lexington or Rich land counties. It grew a fine crop of sour sorrel, bpt grass would not grbir on it. iVe gave it a ton of limestone per acre and planted inoculated vetch and oats. We only used 30 pounds of vetch per acre, and in dead poor land without fertilizer this is not enough. If you want a quick result try 60 lbs. the first year. However, we did get a growth that encouraged us and followed with cowpeas, which did fine, and now have it in oats and vetch again. I am sure tbe crop will double last year’s though last year we had good seasons, and this, year the drought has cut off the yield. I know it is lack of rain, for scrow that old gully, where the ground inn little lower of vetch ever seen least so say all the farmers who have been out here. Vatch and Alfalfa. “I had never planted vetch until the fall of 1913, but since 1 have seen what it will do I have been studying it up a little. Vetch is higher in feeding value than alfalfa, and a ton of hay contains 54 pounds of nitrogen, over 19 pounds of phosphorus and over 48 pounds of potash. 1 will bet a mule that crop will cut four tons per acre, and some good judges say five tons per acre. Let it go at four tons. This means that 216 pounds of nitrogen, 76 pounds of phosphorus and.J92 pounds of potash came from somewhere to make .that four-ton crop. We have not put a pound of fertilizer on that field. I know the inocqjation supplied the nitrates and the liming and the decay of the vetch, oats and cowpea roots and stubble—for we cut off both the crops ahead of it—made the phosphorus and potash in that sand available, else this crop of vetch could not have gotten it.” If would certainly be well worth tbe time of any farmer afflicted with poor land to visit the interesting farm and see whst Messrs. Mathis and Wal ker have accomplished. Mr. Walker continued: “They tell me this war won't soon be over and we won’t get any potash this coming year. After what I have seen on this farm this season, I am not a bit frigh tened. There’s potash in Barnwell county sand, and I am going after mine. Nearly every serf of this farm is -U- ready limed, and all of it will b« before We have just learned preadit oe your corn or cotton bow to lands, and they have not much humus, you’ll soon think your ed.' But if you will put that same limestone where you planted an inocu lated legume or where you plan to plant one, you’ll get results right now. ( And then when you plant cotton or, corn or oats, you’ll know that your land needed the lime and that liming pays, i Cowpeas and Cukes. "Sa>, you know we are finding out why our cucumber land always makes such fine crops. Some of us thought that cucumbers were as good for the land as- cowpeas. But when we fig ured it out, we found that where we i planted cowpeas in the middles when we laid by the cucumbers, we always turned under the cuke vines and the cowpeas, too. It was the decay of all that vegetable matter in the soil that t was helping the land so much. May be we ought to turn under more green crops, though few around here believe in it. But I know the decay of that big crop of vetch roots and a'ubble will enable us to make a fine crop of corn, se if the whole crop were turned under, we ought to make a still bigger corn crop. They tell me that ‘humus’ is flesh to the soil. When we first planted that sand we must have had the finest skeleton in Barnwell county, for there was no humus in it all, and it was pure sand all the war down to water.” Mr. Walker is refreshingly enthu siastic over the results on this farm. Under his skillful management, with Mr. Mathis’ hearty cooperation, bar ren fields that produced only tax re ceipts have been converted into a fine asset. Vetch the Best. Asked as to his opinion of the fu ture of alfalfa in Barnwell county, Mr. Mathis grinned broadly. “I reckon I own more acres in alfalfa thap any man in Barnwell county -but they are in Colorado. It takes 450 tons of mois ture to make one ton of alfalfa hay and I think three are other crops that will pay us better. We have too many droughts. Alfalfa may pay us, and somethlftg I may try it, but I have no present plans that point that way. this section—at Barletta, Gesi and Pottenza, Picena. The bombardment of Ancona is said to have lasted about two hours and Vienna reports that the bombs thrown on the military buildings by the Aust rian aeroplanes at that place and on the arsenal at Venice caused “visible dam age and fires.” The Italian authorities, on the other hand, declare that the damage was slight. Throughout Italy and Austria the outbreak of war has been made the occasion for demonstrations of patrio tism and loyalty. It apparently has been, greeted in both countries as a very desirable ending to the negotia tions which had been going on for months past for a different and peace ful settlement. In London, Paris and Petrograd the Italian residenta Jug* held processions, wltfc banner flying, and many are preparing to jaia-"tt(fe'' colors. « - Temporarily the Austro-Italian situa tion has put the active campaigns both in the East and West somewhat in the background, although in these two war zones fighting of a serious nature con tinues. In the East, Russia has begun a new offensive ' and the adv ance of the Austro-Gennans seem ingly has been checked. Vienna,for the first time in several weeks, fails to claim surceases in Galicia. The Anatro- Germans in this region have been thrown on the defensive, according ta the Russia war office. The British commander-in-chief on the continent. Field Martha] Sir John French, reporta the evacuation of trenChes by tbe British troops owing to the use of asphyxiating gas shells fired bp*a Genaaaa. The however, have made new prograw in the strategically important territory to the north of La Baaaee. •* From London cornea the announce ment that Italy has engaged not to conclude a separate peace with Aus tria. This is in line with the agree ment already signed by Great Britain, France and Russia. The German reply to the American note has been still further delayed by the preoccupation of the German for eign office with the Italian develop ments, which has allowed .no time for the elaboration ol the draft of the note. ' While progress has heed made in the formation of the new British co alition cabinet, Premier Asquith is not yet ready to make known the names of the new ministry. - A German submarine has sunk tbe Norwegian steamer Minerva, bound from New York for Christiania. An other steamer which rescued the crew of the Minerva was narrowly missed by a torpedo sent at her by the sub marine. Quito a Number ef Triad ie Past Woek. Fairly good progress it being naada In the tnalof eases at the present term ot the Court of Common PleiK. Since the last issud of The People the follow ing cases have been disposed at: G. W. Brodie, H. E. Brodie and Athel Brodie vs. Southern Railway Co., vur? vict for $75 for G. W. Brodie and v fl&6 for H. E. Brodie; verdict for defendant In the case of Athel Brodie Eliza Hill, administratrix, vs. South ern Railway Co., verdict for the de fendant. Eva Gibson vs. Western Union Tola- graph Co., noo-suit granted. Mrs. Annie E Hogg vs. Mutnal Life Insurance Co., verdict for the plaintiff for $2,190.49. Barrett it Co. vs. B. M. Jenkins, Jr t verdict for the plaintiff for tbe property in dispute or its value, $2^00, In sCao delivery cannot be had, Snc for 9260 damages for withholding the same frosa the plaintiff. M. O. Dowd Sous A Co. va. J. A. Jenkins and C. C. Jenkins, verdict for the plaintiff for $480.25. U O. Butler and Mm C. C^GsButler for $310. Angus B. Patterson vs. Southern Railway Co., verdict for the plaintiff for $171.16. H. M. Harvely va. Southern Cbtton Oil Co., discontinued, plaintiff to pay costs. J. 0. Patterson vs. C. N. Burckhalter and Palmetto National Bank, vsrdiet against C. N. Burckhalter for $435. An extra venira of petit jurors was drawn oo Monday, as follow*: L. S. Still. J. O. Moody, Jr, B. 0. Norria, Jesse Halford, E. E. Morris, L. R. Davis, L. G. Richardson. A. F. Perga- son, Maurice Manning, D. C. Beet, W. O. Simms, W. L. Shephard. AM petit jurors Tuesday afternoon. * : - MART YCLURE CHAPTER HELD LARGE RECEPTION Euto COUNTRY SCHOOLS DRIVE BOYS AND GIRLS TO TOWN Vetch is a money maker If Timothy hay sells for $25 per ton, vetch ,and oat hay should bring around $32 a ton. It is tbe best hay 1 ever fed. You can make a big crop of corn on you vetch stubble, and if you plant- your vetch early enough—the middle or end of September—you can get it off^ in time to put in cotton. Last year 1 sent the finest stalks of cotton to the State fair that I had ever teen, grow after vetch. Tbe vetch was not cut Cspsble Teachers and School Consolida tion the Remedy. Editor People:— In May 9 issue of The Augusta Chron icle, N. L. Willett has an interesting article which concludes as follows: "There is not a country school in the South that should not include in its studies such subjects as I have outlined above. " By copying the studies of the city schools, the country school is sim ply a short way of getting the country boy and girl out of the country into the town." ^ Mr. Willett is right. Country schools should have a curriculum suited to themselves. They should also employ teachers capable of handling the prob lems of life—men and women who un derstand the difficulties of country boys and girls and who also have a vision of the beauty and greatness of country life. It is the part of 'wisdom to consol idate schools, but it is not so much the size of the teacher that counts. A teacher whose ambition ia to get to town wifi hurt a country community worse than fib knowledge will help it Let us remember that the sweet sing- « »of Israel spent his early years oo the ills in tbe company of his father’s ■beep. And Moaes after a kingly col lege education had tpapead forty years in tha wildernsf* before ha was rate to lead his peoplaopt of Egypt. i — Clara L. Johnston rfitt Elko, S. €., May 15,1915. Allendale. May 22.—On Friday noon the Mary McClure chapter, D. A. R., held a large reception at tha reafc dence of Mrs. LeRoy Wilson. Tha low er floor was thrown open and dscarated for the occasion. Members of the chapter wore effective colonial tumes. Mrs. L. K. Clarkson the guests at the door and just little Miss Dorothy Allen and Julian Spann, in colonial costume, re ceived the cards. Tbe reception hail was decorated in white and green, quantities of white rosea and lilies be ing used. Mrs. Otis Brabham conducted the guests into the library where they were received by the officers of the chapter, Mrs. J. Henry Johnson, Mrs. LeRoy Wilson, Mrs. B. G. Murphy, Mrs. H. W. All, Mias Sue Raysor and Mrs. A. J. Biabham. From tbe i of this room the national colors festooned, ending in a large bow under the chandelier. Huge Amerkam flags were draped and hung gracefully from the colonnades. Red carnations sad American Beauty roses were the flow ers used. Mrs. W. A. All invited tha guests into the dining room where ice cream and cake were served by a num ber of pretty maidens dressed in white. D. A. R. Colors were used here. Gold, blue and silver tulle streamers were suspended from the chandelier to the table in the centre of which waa a iaige cutgiaas vase of yellow rosea. Gold, blue and silver ribbons radiated from the centre of the round table over the handsome cluny lace cloth. Mrs. P. H. Edenfield and Mias Gladys All showed the guests to the punch bowl in the hall which stood in a lovely Book formed of bamboo and presided oyer by Miss Eva May Owens and Miss Nell Pogues. As the guests departed favors of tiny American flags were pin bed on them by little Miss Bessie Boylston and Master Harold Brabham who also repre sented characters of the colonial period. This was altogether a most interesting and delightful occasion. Over' )Q8 ladies called during the afternoon. Rev. J. L. Harley to Speak /jtllendale. May 22.—The Rev. J. L. Harley, president of the Anti-Saloon League is advertised to deliver aa ad dress to men only at tbe Town Hall .tw- day in the afternoon, sad win bT tha principal speaker at a union moating ia tbe Methodist Church tomorrow avaa- iag. His work ia in the interest of pro hibit ion.