Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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4 THURSDAY, MAY 21ST, 1925. -a" THE BARNWELL PEOPLE, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA. PAGE THREE. -v Buick Lbops Globe in Record Run . h-*- > The above illustration shows the route taken by the “round the world” Buick. The lower left photograph shows Kenilworth Castle. Warwick, England, in the background; the photo at the upper right, shows the globe ctrcler tn front of the Paris office of the New York Herald. The car is being driven by dealer representatives. It will have had 350 different cjrivers when it completes its world tour in New York. / 4 A IVurrek- oar, which departed un heralded from NVw York <'ity last I'eei intM r lo lie driven from line Btiiek dealer tn .another in a trip ar<nnd the world, is nearing the end of its loiiff journey. ’I h<' ear, a Standard Six Touring model, is strictly "on its own,” bo- im; unare'ompan[ed hy meehanies of special drivers! When it returns to Neu York <'it\ the machine will have been handled hy approximately S.iO <lifferent drivers. The last difficult left of the trip has been completed, a lorirr run over the qufestionable roads across the oijijjjjent of Australia. The car is ow enroute to | \ou • Zealand and t ht* etor Honolulu, from whence it will he nhijiped to San Franeiseo and .driven aeross the I'nifed States thfKugh f>< troit and Flint to New York. Tile trip around tiu - world was cone • iv< d to demonstrate that a Ihiiek will travel to the remote cor- t< rs of th» earth and that on such a journey it is always saf* iruarded • > service faejlit ies. . . l The nloiie-( ncirelihir car has made its trip without falteriinr. r»ri\<n trom dealer to (h aler |,\ deali rs 1 ' reprejn ntat i\es (inly it has demon- stratoil ahilif-.--trr withstand t h- “man - hit-mil irur" frnni' bifndrrds "f drivers of various nationalities, and degrees of skill “The road was terrible in places, mldy line in the factory at Flint, being nothing more than a < at t Mi' ll-, it was e(|iifpiied with , four t rack stri wn with large lioiiTdi rs. s|i;ire tires and,a shovel. Supple-! In the run over the Lebanon Motm- mentary tanks on the running | tains the . ; ir climbed to a heigh of. boards provide oil, gasoline and more than a mile. After spending water for the long runs over deserts jthi night at Damascus, the r.i.imile and other uninhabited regions. Alfter heintijlxixed and sent to New York City it was shipped across the Atlantic to Liverpool, where its land journey started on December 21, D'24. The car was passed from deal er to dealer enroute to London! It then was shipped from London to Amsterdam. Wirh frequent changes (-if drivers it passed south tlir"Ug,h Furepo, visiting HruSsels and Paris and finally reaching the Mediterranean at Marseilles, France. * 'n- January 2b, it was placed on a st,earner bound for Port Said. Egypt. From there it was driven smith to Cairo. Then tin route swung "east "f Suez." -where the real test began. Through Pal. st in. -find the biblical ymint r»-<he ear proceeded to Beirut. ''n Fi bi nary r>. h ], ft there for 1 >amaseus and Pagdad. accompany ing one Of the desert convoys of the Nairn Transport Company, which incidentally, .uses Puicks in its des- 1 ert fl,-- t. The. Syrian , desert was crossed withmi' difficult v The Buick 'dis tributor • in • Beirut, however gives •; s,im( i(h a of the country traversed. ,i in the following letter excerpt; run to Bagdad was made at an a - erage speed of 35 miles an hour." The Mesopotamian distributes took the Buick at Bagdad and drov* it to Basra on th.- Persian g r u!f. from whence it was sent to Bom bay, India. From there it v. as uriv-f on over indifferent trail-road? across India to Agfa, and finally Calcutta It then went to Ceylon, where the Buick distributors drove it for tiria .- days before sending it to ’ Perth,'on the southwest eoas4 of AUstrafi.i, where it arrived April L The d, s- ert waste of smitlii rn Australia 1,- tween Perth and Ad'-laido was r,- garded as the most difficult part m the trip. The distance is s meth -tv. more than halfwav ^icr-' ss tie Cuif (d States. This long stretch of bad going was negotiated mm i o> •.fully, as was the shorter journ, > ft-i m Adclafrle to Melhourne, mar jm sontlu-ast ,-nd of the cohtin -ri;. 'l'l>e ear since was driven to Albury ami then to Sydney, from which 'point ;i was shipped to New Zealand. After completion-' of the globe journey it is planned to pr.-serv; tin car as an object of _ historical in terest. was sentenced to death she, too, should receive the same penalty. Sheriff Howard time ago during man home, near Monetta. way, the town boasts of otie of the IM- A newsiest weewkly pa piers that reaches * * ^ mat rearnes yard was killed a short 1^-. T , , . , , , .. . , • Uhe Peoples exchange desk. Under mng a raid at the Low- . ‘ r ,, . tne able management <rf Editor E. B. While--Way for Allendale. ^Allendale is advertising - fern bids on approximately lo.ofh) s(|uaiT yards of asphalt p.ivi.’g in. th'- business section and a white way *o light Main .Strc^.-t ami R.iili cad Avenue. It is estimated that the -paving and lighting system wi-d cost about-$35,- 000. These are improvements that will add greatly to .the looks of the little city. Allendale 'seems to have' taken on new l.fe lately and, by thi McSweeney, The Allendale County Citizen is doing a great part in the upbuilding of the section which rit serves. 4 666 is a prescription for Malaria, Gbrils and Fever, Dengue or Billii^HCTever. It kills the germs. IllCill Cl* IN' TIUJ SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS Wm. McNAB Representing * FIRE, HEALTH AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANIES. - Personal attention given all businesi Office in Harrison Block, Main St. BARNWELL. S. C. WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA EASTERN TENNESSEE and NORTH GEORGIA Land of the Sky Are Many Gqod Places to SPEND YOUR SUMMER VACATION Reduced Summer Fares to All Summer Tourist Resorts I ickets on Sale, Daily Beginning May I 5th Good Until October 31st, 1925 Write for Summer Vacation Folder Consult 1 icket Agent SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM s * . s » n THE CITADEL ? 0* . ** The Military College of. South Carolina. VACANT SCHOLARSHIPS WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT, BUICK WILL BUILD THEM 10 C A I uestion: Cuti Buick 4- uhecl brakes be applied nhile turning corners? ns wer i Certainly. The brake on the outside front wheel ... is automatically released, making steering easy and car control sure. Only one such device has so far been perfected, and Buick has it. Resolutions on Death of Capt J. S. Halford The B'llowing resolutions e.n the death of the late Capt. J. Staff Hal ford. of Barnwell, were introduced by Mr. N. A. Patter son and adopted by the members of Camp Morrall at their recent reunion'at Meyer’s Mill: Whereas, in the dispensation of His wise Providence, it hath plea-ed Al mighty Cod to reVnove from our midst, our veteran commandant of Camp Morrall., Cap’a in d. Staff Hal ford. and :t is at all times meet and proper, that - we, his comrades, do suitably expiess our loss; Therefore, be it .resolve 1. first That, in the do ith if Captain Halford, our camp has lo-t one of our most devoted memVi >. and faithful com mandant. , ResolvgJ.-IUiat ho lias at .ill times taken every infeiest .ip the wi ll-being of each member .of the camp, in the. widows of the deceased comrades, and to them tvndo.ed his assistance in -ecurirg for each the pension he may ho entitled. Resolved. That in his death we each have lo-t a friend. Resolved, That as c >unty cororuo’ he "has been -a conscientious worker. Rcsolv, 1, That a page in our minute book he ihslicated to his merpory apd be suitaMy io<cril)(d with his name. Re-ohed. Tha* -t+rnse ri 1 oi’utfons he recorde 1 in aitir minufYs~aiid pub lished in o'ur county papery The. People and The Barnwell Senriiiel, and in The Confedeiate Veteran. Resolved. As a member of Lamar’s Artillery, Co. (I., he saw active ser in the several campaigns of the Latte'y and paitieipated in a num ber of. hard fought battles of the Confederate war, having fought the battle of Secessionvilkh James Is land, Averysboro and Ber.tonville and surrendered with Johnson’s arpiy near Greensboro, N. C. • ■ . Does Barnwell County -. f- > ^' < 1 Boast Broncho Rider? part -if the life of’the great West. Thirty thousand dollars in cash burses, in addition to world’'- cham pionship titles.' belts and trophies will go to the victors of the “Chicago R mndup” which is to l>e held in the Grant Park Stadium under the direc tion of Tex Austin, famous rodeo man, and it is thought that there may he some one in Barnwell County who is -till good enough to try and run away with a part of this money. The “Roundup” marks Chicago’s debut as the rodeo capital of America. Cheyenne and Pendleton have been the two great rode) centers of the country; , hereafter there will he 1 three,-with plans laid to make Chica go the greatest of all. Chicago, .the greatest cowboy town and business center, is out t i outdo itself in the scale of its “Roundup.” and the ci earn * of rodeo talent will he there. All the traditional events of the Western epic will he staged, with entries -from all over the country, Canada, Mexic Argentine and Aus tralia. • There w 11 he none of the ‘circus” atmosphere at this rodeo, it i- an- nHunced. No paid perfonvioi s. It is a free-for-all an ! open to the w irhl. and those who think that .they still Ir.ve snfrte of the blood of th-- We-t in them will never have i better chancy to prove it. Arrangements aTe.goiag forth for the yntertairment of'“Roundup" visitors from tfis and ether localities on a scale unheard of in the annuh '? American business. The t'Avn will In'- in festive humor and all comers from the least known to the' mo-t pr mi rent are awaited by a tremendous welcome, . Any person or persons here \vlu> think they might he interested in entering the ‘Roundup" lists may secure a complete prize.’list and rules by writing the ChicagM .Association of Commerce. t T ❖ f f Y Y Y ❖ f ❖ f ❖ f t Y Y Y ❖ ❖ \ vacant scho’ai - hip in P.arnwell Coubty will be tilled by competitive examination do he held at the Touiity-seat .c Fi; lay, July 10th. Applicants must beyat'b ast, sixteen and not more than twenty years of age. and must "meet the educational roqu lements for admission to the freshman class, which a re a certificate from an accredited four-year high school, covering fifteen units, or an equivalent examination. * i This scholarship covers tuition, board, hospntal, laundry, room, and an allowance for uniforms.- The Citadel is a libebral arts college, offering electives. in civil engineering, science, language and literature, and business administration. * It ha- an excellent military system, having been rated by the War Department continuously for many, years as “distinguished military colieg An inspector says of it:— “It is so superior In all its methods, it must be classed alone.” It pi ovules thorough physical training of all students under competent supervision, and en-, courages all athletic sports. FOR CATALOGUE AND BLANKS, WRITE TO— Col. O. J. Bond, President The Citadel, Charleston, S. C. Two Negroes to Die For Howard Murder Does Barnwell (bounty boast a good hr mcho rider, steer wrestler or calf^rppev? Or a fellow adept at trick and fancy riding? He may now be coVering a policeman’s beat, em ployed as delivery man for a moving lerking in a store or holding down an office job, but if he still ha- the spirit of the plains awl ranges in him and thinks he’s no ha.-k num ber, he’s'wantedr- The Chicago Asso-. ciAtion of Commerce Is putting on a “Roundup" August 15 to 23 and has asked the help of this newspaper in finding persons formerly having a ClaVence Lowwman, age 17, and Demmond, alias “Son,” Lawman, age 21, both i;egroe-, w.eve -convicted at Aiken last week of the murder of Sheriff Henry H. Howard and sentenc ed to die jnlthe-electric chair at Col- lUmbia oP Krldiy. June 12. Bertha T.owmarw-alias CheathanK-a- sister of “Son” and a cousin of Clarence, was found guilty of murder with reeom- mendptiori - To mercy and senten'ced to life imprisonment in the state peniten tiary. Judge Rice, who presided at the trial, in passing sentence on the woman, stated that while he had no critici-m to make of the jury, it was his opinion that' if “Son” Lowman Lower First Cost and Upkeep There is a double economy in the Ford Car’ that materially lowers the cost oi motoring for the millions of Ford owners today. I neplacements are infrequent; and charges, even for the labor involved, are small. The Ford Weekly Purchase Plan makes it possible for anyone to buy a Ford on the easiest of terms. You may pay for your Ford out of your regular earnmgs. Ask any authorized Ford dealer about the details of this plan or write us direct, using this coupon. *. Ford Motor Company, Dept. N-S, Detroit, Michigan : Please mail me full particulars regarding your easy plan for own- t -inK an automobile. t First—a Ford Car is the lowest priced on the market —the least expensive car the automotive industry has ever produced. Second—it costs less to operate and main tain. Fuel consumption is low—vou get high mileage from tires. Repairs and Nam)e~r_ Street Town State aA- tr' Detroit SEE THE NEAREST AUTHORIZED FORD DEALER . \ FORDOR SEDAN 174 • - - $260 . . 290 ■ • 520 . >• 580 • x ”i On opm car* dejnonnub’a ^ rim* and atartcr are $85 extra All prices f. o. b. Detroit Runabout • Touring Coape ’- - Tudor Sedan \ .... V „ .. I ■ ..