The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, November 11, 1915, Image 9
Volume XXXIX
BARNWELL, S. C, NOVEMBER 11, 1915.
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FAIR OPENS NEXT
TUESDAY MOPING
Something to Amuse Each and
Every Day.
DISPENSARY BOARD PAYS
ALL “INHERITED” DEBTS
SPLENDID] PROGRAM PLANNED
Fifth Meeting of the Association Wtil
Eclipse All Previous Efforts.
The fifth annual meeting of the Barn
well County Fair Association, which
begins at 9 o’clock next Tuesday morn
ing, November 16th, promises to eclipse
all former events of this kind held in
the county. This is no idle boast, but
^ plain statement of facts. While the
county has not been blessed with abun
dant crops this year, the exhibits of the
products of the field and orchard and
the handiwork of the women will make
a picture well worth traveling miles to
see.
The Exhibits.
Already preparations are under way
for the proper and necessary arrange
ment of the exhibits. The court room
f e Court Hose has been cleared of
i#* and tables and tastefully deco-
with flags and bupting. The
department of agriculture is going
ad its exhibit, the Qotton Seed
Crushers Association will have an
exhibit, and it is hoped to secure ex
hibits from the Southern and Atlantic
Close Line railroads. The Tomato
Club girls and Corn Club boys, under
the supervision of Miss Nellie Rsy and
John C. Barksdale, respectively, will
show their splendid work for the past
year. In addition many individual
exhibits are expected.
While the agricultural and other ex
hibits are. or should be, the main fea
ture of a county fair, there is going to
be plenty to amuse, instruct and en
tertain old and young. A splendid pro
gram has been arranged for every day
of the meeting and is published else
where in this issue.
OpMiag Day.
Tuesday is opening day. The ad
dress of welcome will be delivered by
Mayor J. Emile Harley in behalf of the
citizens of the town and the officers of
the Fair Association. The orator of
the day will be the Hon. Robt. A. Lide,
State senator from Orangeburg County,
who will be introduced by Senator A.
B. Patterson, of Barnwell.
On Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock
the Barnwell Gun Club will stage a
trap-shoot, open to any white person in
the county. The association will pre
sent the winner with a silver loving
cup, which will be shot for at succeed
ing fairs.
FiddUr’t Convention.
Something out of the ordinary will be
the Fiddlers’ Convention, which will be
held in the Circle on Thursday. A fine
Stetson hat is to be presented to the
best fiddler in the county. There will
also be a basket ball game in the after-
• bn between the young ladies of the
irtiwell and Blackville High Schools.
Another feature of the week will be
the parade of Ford cars, a cash
prize being offered for the best deco
rated machine. This parade will take
place on F riday—School Day—and will
be headed by the county float and the
14 young ladies who attended the State
Fair as representatives of Barnwell
County. In the afternoon there will
be a football game between the Barn
well and Denmark High Schools and
also a basket ball game between the
Fairfax High Schools and the winners
of Thursday’s game. In the evening,
the Barnwell Lodge of Knights of Pyth
ias will tender a banquet to the mem
bers of lodges in the county.
Negro| Day.
Saturday, as usual, will be Negro
Day. Either Silas X. Floyd, of Augusta,
or Richard Carroll, of Columbia, or
maybe both will make addresses.
The amusements of the fair will be
furnished by the Nashville Amusement
Company. There will be a balloon
ascension and triple parachute jump
each day, besides numerous band con
certs and other free acts. The conces
sions on the Midway are said to be
clean and above the average for attrac
tions of this kind.
The gentlemen who are behind the
Fair have gone to considerable expense
to provide the people one cf the best
fairs in the State, and the present out
look is that they are going to succeed.
^Let every man, woman and child, white
^Kid black, in Barnwell County—and
^^iose adjoining, too— come here next
, week. “WELCOME” will be' written
in Ivge letters on Barnwell’s door
mat.
$10,486.79 Cash and $34,129.85 Stock
With Which to Pay $38,811.55
Capt. C. H. Mathis, chairman of the
Barnwell County Dispehsary Board,
was in the city last Wednesday and
signed checks to settle in full all debts
contracted by the former board. In
response to requests from all parts of
the county, The People has been furn
ished with the following facts and fig
ures, which are published for the infor
mation of the public!
When the present board went into
office they “inherited” debts amount
ing to $58,187.15, with a stock on hand
of $47,050,04 (much of which had little
or no sale) and cash in the amount of
$18,881.77, a total of $65,931.81 with
which to offset the indebtedness.
The present board has purchased
whiskey, beer, etc. to the amount of
$46,248,65, and after settling all of the
old board's debts lastweek.it was found
that there was a balance on hand in cash
of $19,486.79, stock $34,129.35 and ac
counts not yet due amounting to $38,-
811.55. This excellent showing has been
made, too, in the face of the heavy loss
by fire when the Barnwell dispensary
and bottling plant was destroyed. The
members of the board are to be congrat
ulated upon the business-like manner
in which they have handled the affairs
of the county.
WORK OF A VOLCANO.
Result of an Eruption In Alaska Four
teen Centuries Age.
Every traveler on the upper Yukon
river has -noted a conspicuous white
bed. four to elx Inches In thickness,
that occurs on the ri^er banks. This
Is made up of volcanic ash derived
from a ▼ oka no located In the northern
margin of the 8t Ellas range, more
than 100 miles to the south. Though,
geologically speaking, the material la
of recent age, yet It was probably
erupted 1,400 years ago.
There are. of course, no historical
records of this eruption, but In the
course of explorations In Alaska much
has bean learned about the distribution
and thlckaaan of tha malarial ejected.
It originally covered an area ef over
140,000 square miles, and some of It
was carried over 430 miles from the
volcano.
The deposit varies In thickness from
300 feet near the volcano to an inch or
two at the margin of the area covered
by It A rough estimate Indicates that
over ten cubic miles of material was
ejected at the time of this eruption.
During the eruption of Katmal volcano
In southwestern Alaska In June. 1912.
about five cubic miles of ash was eject
ed, and about the same amount fell
from the Krnkatoa eruption of 1883
This Yukon eruption Is therefore com
parable In Intensity with some of the
larger eruptions of 'll I Africa I tlme.-
(leological Survey Reports.
Second Week Jurors.
Petit jurors for the second week of
the approaching term of court were
drawn on Monday, as follows:
Allendale: C. R.Wilson, R. K. Fennell
J. C. Spann, Otis Brabham.
Baldoc: G. A. Rhodes.
Barnwell: C. F. Molair, J. M. Cald
well, Charlie Brown, J. R. Lancaster,
C. H. Anderson.
Bennett Springs: W. J. Harley, J. J.
Walker, A. P. Pen well.
Blackville: Milledge A. Hair, J.Koger
Hair, V. L. Nevils. *-
George’s Creek: James Ray.
Great Cypress: A. F. Ferguson, W.
L. Harvey, J. Bates Morris.
Red Oak: >W. M. Cook, W. H. Boyles,
0. C. Baxley, L. B. Dunnaway.
Rosemary: Fred Powell, J. J. Beat,
Bryant Sprawls.
Sycamore: J. M. Mixson. Maner
Cope, 0. T. Loadholt, J. C. Mixson. •
Williston: R. G. Thompson, C. C.
Porter, P. M. Hair, J. D. Kennedy, Sr.,
J. A. Collins,
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HARRY D. CALHOUN
PRESIDENT OF THE BARNWELL COUNTY FAIR
ASSOCIATION.
Mrs. W. H. Duncan is visiting in
Allendale this week.
Miaa Neil Duocaa is the guest ef
relatives is Anderson tha week.
Fairfax Floral Festival.
Fairfax, November 5.—Alliteration
answers very well sometimes, so we
leave the above, which just came natu
rally to mind, and say that, considering
the quick way in which the affair was
gotten up it was a decided success
daintily and we trust financially. The
hall was tastefnlly decorated with the
Confederate colors, flags and bunting,
the Fairfax Chapter and Magnolia
Chapter flags adding to the color
scheme.
The display of fancy wbrk was attrac
tive and tempting to one’s purse; the
substantial part was just a replica of
the skiliful fingers of the fihq house
keepers of this little town and made
the visitor* wish they could indulge a
little more freely.
With congratulations upon the effotjL
and suggesting another iimlfar ooe
before Chrirtmas, we ire,
. ( Yoon to command,
V Viator.
President Calhoun’s Invitation.
We will hold the snnusl fair five dsys, commencing
Tuesday, Nov. 16th, and ending Saturday, Nov. 20th, and we
ask that the citizenship men, women and children of Barn
well County to whose Agricultural, Industrial and Educa
tional advancement we are pledged, lay aside your usual
vocations and join with your officers, directors and superin
tendents, in the benefits of the exhibit of the current year’s
growth.
Here will be shown the methods and means of the home
provider who, sitting under his own vine and fig tree served
by the various products of his own farm, the dairy, apiary,
stock yard, field and garden, may lend but an indifferent
ear to the sound of distant war and its attendant evils to
the one crop farmer, excepting for the sympathetic feeling
to the sufferers in distress.
We want you to participate in this growth. We want
you to benefit by this growth. Every year’s exhibit is not
only to be a mile-stone of time, but a mile-stone of improved
conditions. And opportunity instead of knocking but once
at your door, shall be continually knocking. You shall have
your choice of many lines of endeavor.
Come to the Barnwell County fair and join us in our
growth.
Very cordially,
HARRY D. CALHOUN, President.
TEACHERS OF COUm
MEET HERE SATURDAY
Association to Bo Reorganismi.—Pro-
giwm Anaonncad.—Rafrashmanta. ,
A meeting of the teach era of Barn
well County will be held in the high
school auditorium in this city at 11:39
o’clock Saturday morning, November
13th, for the purpose of reorganizing
the Teachers’ Association. A cordial
invitation is extended all of the’ teach
ers to be present The following is
the program of the day:
Violin Duet, Miss Bailey, Eugene
Easterling.
Scripture Reading and Prayer, Rev.
S. W. Henry.
Song, “America.”
Address of Welcome, Supt. Horace
J. Crouch.
Chorua, High School Girls.
Address, Dr. W. M. Jones.
Song.
Address, Dr. W. S. Currell, Pres.
University of S. C.
Business Session.
Refreshments.
THE OLD CUPPEft SHIP.
IM
nr YOUR PRODUCTS’* %
SAYS JOHN C. BARKSDALE
Coaaty Da*
Naw Aiwiaat Vaniahad, 8ha Waa Onoa
Quaan a# tha Saaa.
In memory of the ahtp W. P. Frye,
John Gould Fletcher writes in tha New
Republic a eulogy on “clipper ttolpa,’*
now almoat vanished from the seas.
■'Sometime* the lookout on a great
■ learner wallowing and thrashing
through the heavy seas by Bight aaet
far off on hla lee quarter something
Ilka a lofty * winging light Beautiful
aa a tiered cloud, a gboatly clipper ahlp
emerges from the surges that keep run
ning away before day on the low Pn-
clflc shore. Its upper works are kin
dled by the sun Into shafts of rosy
llama. Swimming Ilka a dock, steering
Ilka a Ash. easy, yet dry. Itvaly, yot
stiff, she lifts cloud on cloud of crowd
ed. its In less sail. Bbo creeps absam
within hall, aba skips, aha el
outpaces like a mettlesome racer tha
lumbering teakettle that keeps
company. Before she fades Into tha
weather quarter the 1
’Holy Jiggers! Art you tha Flying
Dutchman, that yea go twa knste to
our oner Hoarsely comas back this
anawar from tha sail: ’Challenga la our
name. Amaatea our nattoa. Bully Wa
terman our amster. Wo can hast
Hour
Fair Is <
(J. C. Barksdale, County Dempnstra-
tion Agent.)
The management of the county fair
hopes to put on the best fair ever held
in the couuty. The fair opens Tuesday;
November 16th, and continues oati
Saturday, November 20tii. It is intend
ed to be an educational force in tha
agricultural and business affairs of tha
county and should command your at
tention and interest. The county fair
is not a money making machine; as wa
have said, it is an educational force and
for this reason you should endeavor la
put on exhibition products of year
farm and business firm.
We can put on a field crop depart
ment that will equal any in. the a*r4t
and we have as good livestock as can
be found in South Carolina. We want
to see our farmers bring their
their horses, and hogs to the fair in
order that the people may see what we
have in the county. There are feed
breeds of chickens, turkeys, etc., that
■hould be brought out and pot ea
exhibition in order that the people wy
see what is best. Thers Isnosdvertteo-
ment so good.
Especially do we desire to see fee
Hereford cattle that has baea brooght
into tbs county within tha past two
months brought out and shown at thaf^’
This is a type of cattle that will apparf
to the farmers and business man attt^
for thay are the cattle for tha
Tha county can put on a good exJdMl
in tha swine departmeat. Wa tmve m
good types of the leading broods sa
were shown at tho recent State Fair,
only tha people of tha county don’t
know it
Corns to tha fair and bring year
family and be sore to sura to saed op m
exhibit for ooe or all of tho
departments.
"And I La ‘wsir. Mo; .
’Wav—hey-hajr. Rta.
Oh. far* you vail, my prattr young girt!
For wo'ro bound to tho Rio Ormnda"
Old Mon of tho Mountain.
The tills “Old Man of tbs Mountain"
waa flrat appHotTYo Hassan Ben Sab
bat, who founded a formidable dynas
ty In Syria A. D. 109a Ho was tbs
prince or chief of a sect of tho Mo
hammedans. Having been banished
from hla country, bs took op hla abode
In Mount lebanon and gathered round
him a band of followers, who soon bo-
cams the terror alike of Christiana.
Jews and Turks. They paid tha most
Implicit obedience to hla commands
and believed that If they sacrificed
their lives for his ssks they would be
rewarded with the highest Joys of
paradise. For 200 years these “assas
sins,’’ as they callad themselves, con
tinued to be the terror of tha country.
Whenever their chief, the “Old Man
of the Mountain,” considered himself
injured be dispatched some of hla as
sassins secretly to murder the aggres
sor. This Is the origin of our use of the
word assasstu for a secret murderer.
Tha Hungarian Crown.
The Hungarian crown worn at their
accession by the emperors of Austria
as kings of Hungary la the Identical
one made for Stephen and used at his
coronation over 800 years ago. The
whole Is of pure gold, except the set
tings, and weighs almost exactly four
teen pounds. The settings above allud
ed to consist of fifty-three sapphires,
fifty rubles, one emerald and 338
pearls. It will be noticed that there are
no diamonds among these precious
adornments. This is accounted for by
the oft quoted story of Stephen’s aver
sion to such gems because he conaid-
ered them “unlucky.”
Send us your job work.
S:> B* MOSELEY
SECRETARY OP THE BARNWELL COUNTY FAIR
ASSOCIATION I
A False Alarm.
“I know something, I do, about a
member of this family,” said little
Bobby SUthera triumphantly to hla old
er aister, Maud.
“Oh. dear!” exclaimed Miss SUthera
“Half a dollar la aU I have, Bobby.
WU1 you promise not to teU If I give
you that?”
“Sure, I will/’ answered Bobby In
surprise. “But it ain’t nothin’ on you,
sis. It was the cook and the iceman.”
—Birmingham Age-Herald. .
What She Learned.
Ufa WUUs — So your daughter is
home from domestic pcieoce school
I suppose she has learned seteral new
ways of ' washing the dishes. Mrs.
Gillie—No; she seems to hare learned
several ugw ways of getting out ef
washing then!—Judge
Dew** Worry.
Mia WkDnhy—De agaat any* tf we
ain’t got de rent nag* Man fey tee's pet
•e gH eat Bast WaJtohy Bor Mow
•ay? Deo W» •ana’ need to vasty Iff
floats Is I
age Is our alar. Now that the pries ef addnbao-
#uily Wa- phate is eo hiffk Bore tenner* mo two-
bmtam Ing their attention to the nee of < *
phosphate rock aa a aouree at
phoroua. Ground phosphate ro
rice from 28 to & percent,
and from flO to 79 per sent boos .
according to the grade, the inert aML
ter varying. Add phosphate is abort
one-half sulphuric add, and the iod-
dual add ia poison to the soil sad to
plant life. Ground phosphate rock eo
the other hand contains no Mad
givea up its phosphorous more slowly,
requiring a bade supply of organic
matter in the soil to work on the Inert
rock and make the phosphorous avail
able. For this reason it is not advis
able to use floats on clean culture cotton
lands. Where floats are to be used eo
such lands the better plan la to apply
the floats this fall, applying from five to
eight hundred pounds of the ground
rock per sere, and seeding a heavy
cover crop of rye (1 bushel par acre,)
allowing the rye to get considerable
growth before it is turned under. Or*
can be used to advantage in a compost
heap. Use the floats in connection
with the bedding used in the stdfe;
later putting the compost in a heap $e
tllow further action in redudng fee
ground rock to an available form. How
ever, if either of these methods be
followed, it will be necessary to use a
small amount of acid phosphate fee
first year, from 100 to 150 pooada
applied at the time the nitrogenous fe?
tilizer is put down. This is done to tar
nish available phosphorous.
Soine few of our farmers are nah^
this ground rock under their grata feta
year, and this is excellent We ara
advising the use of floats on the stnbbta
lands where there is a second growth
of peas and on the corn lands, where
the peas and corn stalks are to be tam
ed under, as a source of phosphorous
for cotton. The phosphate,shouid ho
applied at the above mentioned rata
and a small amount of acid phosphate
used to proveide readily available phoa
phorous.
We need a system of agriculture feat
will provide a permanent soil fertility
rather than one that brings about
ly crop production at a
to the farmers. In order to do this wo
mend to learn more about the use ef
lime and phosphate rock, aad to practice
the extensive growing of both
and winter legumes. We need to
cutting and raking pees aad com a
from our fields. Above all, we i
to forget the urn of Bra
more like the
to get mere I