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1 .y a.y.-cy . J . $£&< .. / m ■ .•ftiani . - — \*-'77' r /i . v- - • V '.;-"- . » ... Til BAR,NWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, MAY 6TH, \9TJ TWBfiiweH People-Sentinel JOHN W. HOLMES B. P. DAVIES. Editor mnd Proprietor. at the poet office at Barnwell ae second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year ,«.* $1.60 Six Months ... .00 Three Months .60 (Stridlj in Advance.) THURSDXY, “MAY - 10267 INTERESTING HISTORY jOfasparagus «. house of worship t*— . Str*— The Passing of a Great Character Jim Thorpe, the greatest and most picturesque of our athletes is one dfep closer to oblivion. » • ;. ■ For years the reigning ruler in the N ■* ' i ' athletic world, Thorpe is now trying to hold a job as outfielder on a semi- pro baseball team in Shelby, Mont. ~ Thorpe in 1912 became the world’s greatest athlete when he scored more poirjts than any single athlete has scored before or since.' He went as a representative of Carlisle, the In dian school. His Olympic fame brought him of fers from nearly every major league 'baseball team. Ik*, finally was sign ed up by the New York Giants. But he wasn’t able to make good as a regular, and when his drawing power began to wane McGraw turned him out to the minors. A year or two in the minors, then down to semi-pro clubs. And only last year he was on three different teams in a little Ohio league. This year no team in Ohio wanted him. Baseball, however, wasn’t really Thorpe’s game. He earned his first fame at football, and today he is called by many the greatest football player of all time. For seven or eight years he has played profes sional football, but not long a t any one place. The following interesting history of asparagus growing, in Barnvhfll County was written by Mrs. Clgja L. Johnston Hitt, of Elko, in order to give ‘'honor to whom honor is due and to keep the record straight”: Someone planted a small patch near Aiken. It, presumably, was not profitable as after a short time it was plowed up and forgotten. But Mr. Lewis Ayer Thomson of South Carolina, of aristocraitic. birth, a na tive. of Barnwell County and a native of Elko during all the years of his %ature manhood, had seen the patch of asparagus, He planted out four acres of asparagus in Elko just back of his home on land now owned by Mr. P. S. Greene. It attracted n great deal of attention and excited much ridicule. That was thirty-five or forty years ago. A littje later he planted what seemed at that time a tremendously large field of it—eleven acres—on his J. L. Hair farm, now owned by K. H: Hitt. This was the beginning of asparagus in this sec tion. Mr. Thompson cut white “grass” and dragged up the -beds by hand with hoards. Women walked out to planted out an acre id asparagus, went to) Bor/t»n and found an honest commission housed Mr. Reed “cut ^ ✓ . k, - i J - • his grass green” and shipped it daily by express to Hall and Cole. ^ Shortly after this Mr. T. M. Willis planted a patch north of Elko, and Mr. Jeff Harvey began to grow as^ pnragus on his farm on the Wilfis- because he. understands them and feels one of them, although b# has jtrrnbahly kndWs more factory boys, farmers and laboring people by their first names than any living man in South Carolina with the possible ex- cdptipn bf Cole L. Blease. He is at home alike with pifr^dce and pauper ppd r what is even better, prince and pauper are both alike with him. It is a pommon expression .of' Edgar Brown’s that you can always learn ton-^Springfield road. Others follow- something from the high or the low _ to .them, particnlfrly if a tStCn ottwr5,r there is y ou know how to to speak their lan- w a large acreage about Elko,; 7 Spokesman of Legislatures. The put-pose of this sketch is not ; to detail Col. Brown’s various^pblt- ed no Barnwell,- Willistdn and White. Pond and some in other places. Our. soil suits it. Blackville has never plant- ed nltfch of if, preferring to grow the more remunerative, crop of cucum bers for which her soil is better ad apted. The writer of this article has grown asparagus for twenty years and was not one of the pioneers in the business. Although we ship by express early in the season, we now, as soon as the j shipping season is fully opened, ship in refrigerator cars, shipping from Elko two or three cars of four hun dred crates d^iily. A system of co operative shipping was worked out ten or twelve years ago by Messrs. T. M. Willis of Williston. R. R. John- stewards, and at present is chairman of n building committee engaged in - \ He is a Sh riner, a .Pythian Knight, a Woodman, in Eik and a member of other fraternal or- y gmizntlons. He is a delightful host in his Barnwell home where there is always dispensed that oFtl-time Southern hospitaifty with Mrs: Brown and a charming little daughter, Emily —the pride of hov father and his real boss—to add to the delight of a visit JJnes. ;F^rm Coverage 7 •• a Specialty * ■"• i. ““ '. * Calhoun and Co. P. A. Price, Mgr. Bank of W. C. Bldg. there. the farm from Elko daily during thej s t„ n „f E i ko }jnd L . M Sprawls, now deceased If a monumertt-ought to he erected season to cut the “grass” and got it ready for markeit. Now, the beds are diawn up with a two horse disk plow, and hands are brought in from great distances in trucks. he erected ir Elko to L. A. Thomp Mr. Wayne Eves who lived he- snn Rut it was BH(rham Rped who tween Elko and Williston next plant- caused us to etft green grass and ship ed out a few acres. And then Mr. to Boston, and Messrs. Willis, John- B. F.' Drummond on the Elko-Barn- ston and Sprawls who worked up for well road tried an acre. UR co-operative shipping by refriger- Aboilt that time a Massachusetts ation. nllin came to Elko from Atlanta with ( It mif j ht be add . >d that t here are Mr. Nathaniel Greene, the father ofj 0 ther good markets to which others Mr. P. S. Greene. The newcomer,! ship and other KOO(1 houses in Boston Mr. Brigham Reed, liked the looks of ^ tical successes, but rather to picture the success of a life. There is an at mosphere of romance about it which is appealing as the career of any self- made man has its strong appeal. It* is only in a democracy like America that such romances are possibly. That is one of the great things about America. Those who have followed his fortunes as I have find them not unlike the reading /of a good book. When, for instance, I picture him in Washington, before the finance com mittee of the United. States senate where he went last winter as the representative and spokesman of the various State legislatures, selected for this important piece of work by the , .... . speakers of the several houses of ren te any one for the introduction of ' r asparagus into this section, it should Save Your Eyes |-P. W. STEVENS Optometrist and Optician - Office in Jewelry Store ’Phone 120 Barnwell, S. C. Relieving eye-strain headaches and blurred vision with optical glasses is my specialty. AH work guaranteed. MONEY TO LOAN i • • , Loans; made same day application received. ^N«>JRed Tape HARLEY & BLATT. > V Attomeys-at-Law BamwelLS. C. down the trail'of the Setting "THIS MAN BROWN. Whv * . ‘ . .. ... Elko and settled here. He, having .. Advertise in. The People-Sentinel Chiefly becauac Jim Thorpe would.- ■rt Hsten. He played the game of football or baseball as he pleased, he played thJ game of life as he pleased.. usually hard, fast and killing even to a man of his physical powers. And today he is 6LD Jim Thorpe, at the age of 38—an Indian a long way -Bun. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.) know him. But those who have known him from his boyhood, who know of his struggles against almost insurmountable odds a iff! obstacles, and are familiar with his success and place. Admitted to practice law in 1010, he formed a partnership with James Jiilieo Bush, and has been singularly successful in law- as well, as in business life., the firm of which he is the senior member enjoying •» large and lucrative practice through out lower anil Western Carolina. esentatives throughout the United States, to oppose the inheritance tax I section of the Federal revenue bill then pending before congress because these encroached upon the rights of the States to levy and collect their own taxes without interference from the central government—a fight in which he was entirely, successful— another picture looms up before ire*, that of a tousle headed, barefoot country boy trudging bravely to the ertton mil! just a quarter of a -cen tury ago before he." had dreamed dreams and see visions and was bent upon preparing himself for a life of service. Leading Methodist Layman. While Edgar Biown - is known among his friends throughout the State—and few men have more of them—as a “regular fellow,” which he" is. “a good sport" if you will, yet is h** Chevrolet Company Adds Many Dealers Dqring the last seven months the Chevrolet Moter Company added l, - - 619 direct and associatt dealers to its selling force, making a total of almost 7,500 dealers in all parts of the country, an increase of more than 27 per cent. The continued and steady growth of industrial development in the South and the expansion of its good roi-ls aystem is reflected by the greater in crease i» dfale*- i. nitsei)tj.tion in Southern territory. Almost the total selling force of the average motor car company is represented alone in the number of new dealers added to the Chevrolet organization. Demand for sale . franchises demonstrates the decided $»vor accorded the new improved Chevrolet • by the buying public throughout the country. Bwadter Cviwwutt«rt*i» with the augmented sales force afforded by the additional associate dealers, will be aaaured of adequate service close at hand, while the direct dealers, gen erally located at county seats, will be assured of a more thorough cov erage of their outlying territory. Typical of the increased buying power of the South are reports on new dealers from four of the larger • repesentative branch offices. At lanta, Ga., zone headquarters, report 167 new dealers handling Chevrolet ears; Memphis, Tenn., 100 n£w deal ers; Charlotte, N. C., 68 and New Orleans, 52 new dealers. Minneapolis and Des Moines showed the largest number of new dealers acquired in the Northern areas. I Edgar Allen Brown is only years n leader of the Methodist church a* achievements—not for himself alone,- hut for the State—are prepared to waM horn July 11, 1888 but agree with Mr. Bryan’s observati ii) these hav<> bpen active >' eRrs an <l hi * that “South Carolina ought to be proud of him.” Works Way Up. Twenty-six years ago this summer | a barefoot country lad with a touseled i head of hair, strands of which pr i- truded rebellioiisly through the ere-1 vicis in the baWered old straw hat | life has been richly lived so far. It has been largely a life of service. Not only has he served the people of his county and state in public positions of honor and trust—and he ha* be®n many times honored in (this way—and not only is he a public-minded citizen giving liberally of hh? time and means , i to movements for the betterment of that adorned his head, walked into the . . , .■ , j numanitv. hut as indicative of th'* | (truly noble character of the man, the ! writer personally knows what Brown will not^tell. It is really a beautiful little story. As the years went on and the little farmer hoy who tramped to the cot- Methodist Church Revival Services ru The Rev. R. W. Humphries an nounces that a series of services will begin at the Barnwell Methodist Church Sunday. Beginning Monday am! for the remainder of the week, he will be assisted by the Rev. W, Roy Phillips, of Trinkjs Church, of Charleston. A cordial invitation is extended to the people of Barnwell and the neighboring tov nr and coun try to attend. ♦ » ■ . Care*King. , } Mjj,* Frank M. Cave, of Barnwell, aimoance! .-the engagement of his daugnt*:, Klma, tt Mr. Louis King, of Artloxsap. tiie wedding t j take 7 ' Jpineo in early Summer. cotton mill at Granitevile in Horse creek Valley and demanded to be given work. The Jittle country boy had up to that time worked on the farm where he was born in the section of Aiken County known as Shiloh Springs. Edgar Brown was then twelve years old and had not enjoyed" the privilege of going to school. Such schooling as he had received had been at the knees of his mother, where he was k^ught to love God and fear noth ing but evil. Apparently it was only an ordinary country boy who sought work at the Granitevftle mill, hut am- bition was even then fttirring within the youthful breast, for although (eared in poverty young Edgar Brown : iad been dreaming dreams and seeing visions. He was determined to get an education—free schools were not so common a quarter of a century agv as they are today—and securing .emr ployment in the mill, he worked through the summer months and earned money with which he attended school at Graniteville Academy in the winter. Today Edgar Brown can ‘doff’ a set of frames in the spinning-room or run a set of Draper looms. He has not forgotten how. Nor has he for gotten the people with whom he work ed then. He knows the problems of the cotton mill people because he has come into contact with these at first hand in his own experience. ' - Father Was Poor. Edgar Brown’s parents—Augustus A., and Elizabeth Howard Brown— were poor but highly honorable, Chris tian people. They had nothing to give him beyond the splendid traits of character thslt were inherently hie. And the boy’s struggle to get an edu cation. fighting unaided, was a hard one. He owes much to Col. D. S. Hen derson of Aiken, at whose feet he sat, having entered the Henderson Idw office os a stenographer while still his teens. There in the Aiken law office he was trained in law and poli tics, and upon competitive examina tion in 1908 waa appointed official c-nrt. stenographer of the Second Judicial Circuit by Judge Robert Xll- | r ich of Barnwell and moved to that ton mill to earn money to defray his exponses at school began to climb the ladder of success aqd to accumulate some money by dint of hard work and economy, he did not forget his aging parents upon wham fortune had not smiled in a material way: hut as soon as he was able to do so the boy, who wanted them to enjoy the sunset years of life in ease and comfort, bought a home and installed them in this cosy place in Aiken, personalty earing for them and finding a real joy in making them feel secure af^er years of unremitting toil* such as many of the. older generations have JwioWn. _ May of Broad Experiehee Just as he knew the needs of thes», his own people, never forgetting. Ed gar Brawn knows through observa tion and experience the needs of the various classes of people making up fhe population of South Carolina. He was born and reared on a farm, v hp has.wnrked in a cotton mill, he has met with success in professional and business life, and like most ; men. who hark back to the farm-house birth places, loving the soil, he is again a farmer and a seccessful one. To this rich program of life with its varied cross-currents there has been crowd ed into his career, which has so far been little short of brilliant, several years of legislative experience during which -he has had the opportunity of studying tite heeds of the state as a whole. A member of the house of re presentatives since 1920, recognition of his unusual ability came to him there as in the New York convention and m 1924 he was 'overwhelmingly elected toeaker of that body. - But Edgar Brown is so constituted that he can “walk with kings nor lose the commim touch.” Coming from the nlain people. Hving always close to tl:o peo'i'r, j./yig nat:i;*liy the chamo- irn of the rights of the people, and Barnwell, serving on the board of Starting Something IS ALL RIGHT if you can finish it, birt when Wm. Wrigley said that the sun never sets on Chicago chewing gum, we wonder if he stopped to think that most »* very bed y else does. Most every- car in body in'Earnweir is using Standard gns and F’olarine oil for their 1 cars. Its purity and power and cleanliness that makes operation easier and more efficient. Putting Standard gas your tank means an ultimate saving of many dollars. . ** Vickery Bros. S vV* Barnwell, S. C. A Mi'* vf WHY Tfrestone • # l 4.v. TIRE DEALERS Serve Yon Better 7 % y-- 1 -> We represent one of the world's largest and most efficient tire makers—Firestone. • • m Firestone GurmDipped Coras—the only tires on the market tfith every fiber of every cord saturated and insulated with rubber. T^ese famous tires have given —and are giving—unheard of mileage on the largest taxicab, bus and truck fleets in the world. They are also giving unheard-of mileage to hundreds of thousands f car owners. - We offer you our facilities and experience in aligning your wheels, mounting your tires, checking them for air pressure, inspecting them and making repairs when necessary by the latest Firestone methods of repairing, thus enabling you to get full mileage from your tires. Equip your car with these wonderful Gum-Dipped tires. WE WILL TAKE YOUR OLD TIRES IN TRADE, giving you a liberal allowance for unused mileage. We sell and service the most econoniicaYtires made— Wa Also Soil and Sendee OLDFIELD TIRES AT TMKSK LOW PRICKS : HIGH PRESSURE CORDS 36x3 if Regular Cl..., 7 ... $16.25 36x3 f Extra Six* Cl 11.46 36x3KExtra Size S. S..... 14.66 31x4 S. S. 16.66 32x4 S. S.«• «... «. .. 16.26 32x48. S. ... 23.76 33x4)4 S. S 24.7$ 33x5 S. S.31.56 -SIZE BALLOONS 4.4^21(26x4.46) $14.65 4.75/26 (26x4.757.#........ 16.75 4.75/21 (26x4.75)......... 17.56 4.65/26(26x4.6$) !$.$$ &25/21 (31x5.25)..... 2#.65 .66/26(32x6.66) 2£l5 at Akron aw* carry tko rf a jar Lloyd », Mgr. Barnwell, S: C-