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' > • .■ > PAGE TWO. THE BARNWELL TIN EL, BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY*. OCTOBER 1*2$ • # SXi ) --N (V r P 1 L • m ®L A Key to the Situation By ANNA R. BURR COUNTY'COMMISSIONERS’ QUARTERLY REPORT. * *. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.) e;xr.r. ■ K&k Bi (®. 1»*». N*wii>i»peT Unlort.) M ISS BENT felt hersel/ remark- altly lucky that her window overlooked the Jewetts’ hack garden. When one sits in the same room sew ing. day after day. winter and aum- tner. It means much to have some thing pleasant to gaze upon—some thing. too. which Is shut from the rest of the world by a high wall. The Jewett garden seemed Miss Bent’* particular property, the maple tree*, the grass plat with the bed of scarlet cnnnas, the border which saw the seasons through from daffodils to dah lias and the little summer-boase.- AH this was like a stage set for small, pleasant happenings; the coming to and fro of ice man and grocery boy; children at their games; the kitten ca pering after a bit of paper—a drama (domestic) for an audience of one. Miss Bent’s spectacles would stare at It, her tired old face brighten, sho fell a stitching harder than ever. It be longed to her; and when a child got Its feet wet or the kitten mewed for Its forgotten saucer of milk, Miss Bent al most rang the door hell. Once or twice the play had a society scene In It, such ns Molly Jewett’s garden party, and then the audience was rapt. A striped tent, rugs on the grass, and waiters who ran about with Ice cream and strawberries! Molly herself, aged eighteen, wasn’t happier than the uninvited guest. Susan Bent came (at noon, with the lee cream 1 freeeers) and stayed until dusk hid the last glimpse of departing young people. She was In an ecstasy; although she would have to sit up all night over her neglected work in order to (Inlsh It on time. " Her sense of possessing the garden she looked at, had led to an odd Inci dent—odd. because of Susan’s nature. Khe was honest os the day, honeater In fact than many April days; hut when she picked up a key on the sidewalk, which had plainly fallen out of the garden door, she kept It. She kept that key, though It unquestionably 1n*- longed to the Jewetts; and she hung It up on a nail by her looklngglasa. Somehow that key confirmed her queer sense of ownership In the gar den. In her twilight hour of rest she would sit and twist It between her fingers, to look dreamily out on the maples and the ml cununs and sage, and always she dreatned of another party—she longed for It. This hoi»e grew very high when Mol ly Jewett began going with the Tay lor boy. He was a nice looking hoy, Roddy Taylor. If rather thin; he had a turn up nose and he whistled as he came along about five o’clix-k. I.uter on the pair took to going In and nut 5 by the garden door. Sometimes they stayed at the gate a long time, and then Miss Bent would rise hurriedly and leave the window. What she saw there once c»r twice made her feel un comfortably like an eavesdropper; she realised humbly that It had Doihiug to do with her. One afternoon that spring she saw them coming hut there was something different somehow. ’Molly was walk ing stiffly, very fur away from the Tay lor boy, and his young face looked proud and angry. When they reached the garden door It was plain that tide time Susan Bent need feel no delica cy about stay Ing at the window-. So she stayed am! stared; she could hear nothing, hut she saw very well. She saw Molly’s angry toss of the head and that she pushed open the door and ran within, slamming It Itehlnd her, and leaving Hoddy Taylor on the wrong side. Once alone, the girl turned uncertainly toward the house and then paused and ran Instead Into the aunimer house In the corner. The watcher from the window could see the bright head bent on her arms. "My land !" cried Susan Bent. The partytho reception with the tent and the guests and the refresh ments, which had seemed so certain —was It put in peril? There stood Roddy Taylor, dumb and dazed, outv aide the abut door In the garden w all. His miserable face looked up and down the street. - If he walked away —well, there would be no reception that spring. Susan Bent wasn't sen timental ; the didn’t care about the silly youfig creatures, not she! But she did want her bright hour! With an Inspiration, up rIic threw the win dow and called aloud: “Roddy Taylor!” “Roddy Taylor!" Instinctively, the hoy looked up and a heavy key cluttered on the pave- ■sent at, bis feet. “The summer bouse!” Miss Bent cried wildly, and under her breath she added: “You gump I” Then she Jammed down the window and turned Into the .room, covering her eyes. I think probably she Rruyed. She heard a roah . of quick steps •nd then silence fell. Twas a long time before she went to the window Ugnin; it had grown quite dusky. But a bright light from the Jewetts’ hall door showed two persons on the path; that Is, Miss Bent’s recent ex periences made her judge them to be two persona. Otherwise she would hare thought they were one. A great sigh of relief came from her is site turned to light the gas. ‘After a!l, H she said aloud, “the eery nicest weather, for a w eddlug pe ls in Jane!” • . Month of August. '* A. M. Anderson—Roads and Bridges W.,0. Neal and Son—Roads and Bridges Newell Construction Co.—State Highway J. S. Still—rChain Gang Rebecca Aldrich—Roads and Bridges ..j W. II. Duncan—Roads and Bridges Mrs. I. fc. Pattersoni—Roads and Bridges ... E. F. Woodward—Roads and Bridges _ 5 1_ Henry Hartzog—Roads and Bridges ^ W. H. Uunean—Roads and Bridges I. W. Rountree—Roads and Bridges Bennie Owens—Roads and Bridges E. F. Woodward'-tRoads and Bridges R. F. Rountree—Roads and Bridges R. F. Rounutree—Roads and Bridges * Vickery'Bros.—Rrtads and Bridges (i. W. Stevenson—Roads and Bridges N. F. Sanders.—Roads and Bridges A. M. Anderson—Roads and Bridges Jessie Farmer—Roads and Bridges R. O. Cave—Com. Tax •_ J. S. Still—Roads and Bridges Hopp Bros.,and Co.—Chain Gang ; __1 106.50 Yancey Bros.—Chain Gang :.._rr*719ft.09 J. B. Mortis—Chain Gang •___ r __”_ ' 41.9i J. B. Morris—Chain Gang £ 134.95 Williston Hardware Co.—Chain Gang 51.15 J. W. Cook—Chain Gang , 169.11 G. O. Cadden—Chain Gang 14.00 J. B. Morris—Chain Gang 165.00 Wall St. Pharmacy—Chain^Jang .__ r _ 14 55 W. P. Franklin—Chain Gang _- 275.00 Geo. E. Crouch—Chain Gang — 250.00 •hr**--- $65.00 891.11 2,376.86 369.09 53.00 30.00 90.00 114.4? 75.00 70.00 50.00 65.0(1 224.28 20.00 . 61.00 26.50 5.00 55.00 65.00 32.70 ‘ 34.00 309.39 - • -.r^4i /Mfr-r' C. F. Molair—Chain Gang and Public Buildings ^ The* People-Sentinel—Stationery and Adv. Walker, Evans and Coggswell—Stationery _i Williston Publishing Co.—Stationery R. L. Bronson—Stationery * G. M. Greene—Stationery _". Carolina Drug Co.—Chain Gang Wall St. Phatmacy—Jail G. M .Main—Telephone 1 P. W. Price—Jail V B. A, Gunnels—Constable ^ J. S. Blume—Constable J. F. Rountree—Constable T • 30.68 50.40 81.46 8.90 5.50 11.04 10.95 3.25 3.60 8.50 12.50 27.92 15.83 (To Be Continued Next’Week.) PERRY B. BUSH. Clerk, Board of County Directors. More than 100,000 Ford Towing Cars W ill be Produced If you haven’t already done so, go to the nearest Authorized Ford Dealer and see the car that is meeting with this unusual sales response. See how recent improvements have added new beauty and finer riding comforts. Note the close»fitting curtains that open with the four doors—thus making the car comfortable and conveni- » a,' _ ent for all kinds of weather. f Runabout *260 \ Touring 290 Coupe - - 4>20 Tudor Sedan 580 For dor Sedan 660 Clo««d can in color. De mountable rim* and (tarter All briW*/.a.|>. Drtratl ^ , As you check over the many improvements, bear in mind that there has been no in? crease in prices. The Barnwell County Fair BARNWELL, S. C. I • • . * ■ . - November 2nd to 7th. Inclusive ** * • f The Barnwell County Fair Association cordially invites you to visit Barnwell during the week of Nov. 2ne to 7tc and enjoy six big days and nights of FUN, FROUC AND The Knickerbocker Shows have been engaged to furnish amusement throughout the re week and a big time is promised all who atttend. The Midway will be located on THE COURT HOUSE SQUARE ~ V /-I 5 — - • ■ »y ' ' ^ f f \ ■ . ' ■ . ^ • , * .-V ' ^ Prizes will be offered for the best exhibits of farm products, this - ■ . _ ■ • feature being in charge of Miss Vann and Mr. Boylston, county agents. Provo It . Mtpemltlous?” * thirteen tloU&il.* ■ j *