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Several aristocratic mammas of ‘Wentworth-by-the-Sea, N. H., ob jected to the rough way the good looking swimming instructor han- <iled their daughters during their lessons: The “male” instructor turned out to be the famous Ailean Riggin with j boyish bob. Killed by Truck. Edgefield.—D. A. Hazel, Sr., was Instantly killed on the morning of December 21st when he lost con trol df the track he was driving. The machine left the raod and ran into a field, throwing Mr. Hazel out. His neck was broken. His son escaped serious injury. The dead man, who was 60’years of age, is survived by Us wife and several children. 8whes for Hear in Icy Water. New York, Dec. 2'/,—With the water’s temperature 26 degrees above aero, five men went swimming for an hour in the East river yesterday with the announced purpose of proving that a red-blooded man with plenty of ||aerve and stamina and grease can aafely swim ia ky water. The men, all members of ^ United States 'life saving corps, made the experiment to disprove a statement by a statistician that a large portion of dnnpmtngs are due to winter sub- . Too many people let their minds 4«airate them while swimming in •cold water. Captain Robert 0. Whit- tea, who headed the group said. He continued: “When they fall in the water they thirk they are going to have pneumonia. What they ought to do {s submerge their minds ” MRS. BILGER’S VICTORY By E. JONES and a TURNER Know Your Cook Book, GirU, Advice of Diva MaxwHt. prims donna with the Chicago Civic tod Ravtnla opera wim enjoys the ellotlnctlon of be ing among the •ret American glrte to be recog- sifned la grand opera clrcl ee. taboo particular gride in her cul inary skill Cook ing. In her eetl- le a fine which la. tup le by Short Story Pub. Co.) Me lawyer for lire. Bllger! When ebe baa a claim against the rail road for personal Injuries to her ; eow. she aoee the collecting her- : self; and bar method of procedure doesn't conform to any rules of . practice In or out of tbo law books T HE railroad had killed her muley cqw, and the railroad had got to' pay for U—so said^ Mrs. Bllger.' This muley cow would probably not. have taken a prize on fancy points at a cattle show; still she was a patient. Industrious animal, and a good pro vider. But at last, unfortunately, the extreme scarcity of provisions drove her to night work, and she wandered onto the railroad track and uninten tionally ran against a freight train In the dark. In the morning Mrs Bllger discovered little more than a fine line of Hamburg steak stretching towards the western horizon. It was a'particu larly bard blow to ber, because she was on the eve of accepting a flattering offer of thirteen dollara for the animal. There was no doubt In Mrsc Bllger’a mind from tha firat that the railroad would bave to settle, for her cow. So ■he informed the station agent the very day following the accident, and after protracted negotlatlo^Lthe latter agreed to forward a deraaiffVor settle ment to headquarters. Mrs Bllger didn’t see' why be couldn’t -settle for her martyred cow bn the spot, but alia was willing to make reasonable con cession!. Her Anal price was twenty. three dollara. So, after a while, the station agent forwarded ber demand to the division superintendent, and after a while the division superintendent forwarded It to the division claim agent, and after a while the dlvialoo Halm agent decided he would send out a man to look np the case. It took about three weeks In all for the railroad officials to get around to Mrs. Bllger’s case, and Mrs. Bllger, de prived of her chief means of sus tenance, was becoming somewhat dan gerous. Finally she decided to give the nltl- matum. “Here, you," she said, when the sec tion bands came up one noon for their dally supply. “Ton don’t get no wmter out of my spring HU you pay for my muley cow you killed.’' “What muley cowl We ain't killed no iiuley row," said th# astonished section hands; but It was no use to talk to Mrs. Bllger. The hoes, a fat man, who had some what of a determined character him self. was severely sarcastic on their return. "‘Olinme that pall. I'll show you how to get the water." He waddled off i with the pall In a trulj ferwcKHis man- Margery Maxwell. the big reasotia for this condition ronag men don't ex pect the girls they marry to know ■each about cooking,” said Miss Max- ' . “In the future, before man pops the question, he's going to find out wheth er the girl knows what calories are und whether she's wise to the elements •f n balanced diet. **A few questions before the minis- ■ter asks. ‘Do you take this woman?’ would save a thousand recriminations •Inter.** There are certain dishes to which Miss Maxwell Is partial. As she ex plains them, they are readily pro- pared. Miss Maxwell uses for Maryland Chicken. Two S% lb. ohlcksns <( broilers) mat •f»»pp«r 1 cup evaporated milk diluted •with • & l cup water 1 eggs Fine bread crumb# Fat 1-t cup butter 1 tap. salt Dash pepper t tbep. flour Drees, clean and cat np chickens.' Sprinkle with salt and pepper, dip In «nuabs, egg. and crumbs. Place In a well-oiled dripping ‘pan, and bake twertty minutes In a 400-degree F. oven, then reduce the temperataure to 8B0 degreed F. and cook until tender, about twenty minutes longer. Baste ‘wvery ten minutes during cooking with % cup melted butter. Remove to plat* Tnr and pour around a cream aaued of fat In dripping pan, the flour, tUk, salt and pepper. AMMragua an Fri. ’ M cap wator I tbsp. huttsr 1 thap. dour 1 tap. salt . srated Psppsr V % eup grated Mrs. Bllger was In the house at the time The section boss walked tri umphantly up to the spring and stooped down te take up the wnter In his pull. Just as he was about to ac complish his purpose he auddenly toppled over bead foremost Into the spring with the graceful, tiding motion of s mud turtle falling off a log. Mrs, Bllger had waylaid him with her broom. When he fiaaMy did get out. splat tering suit swsarlng. he found himself looking Into the inutile of a double- barreled shotgun like a pair of opera glasaes. He fled precipitately without his water bucket. Mrs. Bllger threw the backet scorn fully after film. “I won’t take leas’n thirty dollars now, cash down,” was all she said. After that It was vain for s railroad man to attempt to use that spring. Shs watched It most of her spare time her self, and when she didn't she had her boy out. Whenever a railroad man came In sight the child's little piping voice sounded the guard mount, and his mother came on duty with ber gun. A great many railroad men who had thought they wanted a drink before they saw her, found that they were mistaken and turned away. By and by, however, the section boss got tired of this sort of thing. -There was a good deal of work that year, raising the tracks on that grade, and there wasn’t another spring for two miles. Finally he decided to negotiate with Mrs. Bllger. “That’s right,” said Mrs. Bllger, “you killed my cow and you’ve got to pay for her. She's wuth Jest forty dollars.” • So the section boss sought out the road master and told him about the affglr, and the road master told the division superintendent It had been ae long since the division superiA. tendent had heard from the station master abont Mrs. BUger’s cow that he had forgotten all abont It Besides, R didn’t sound like the same cow, any way, the valuation being so different So the division superintendent filed an other report with the claim department Mrs. Bllger, not hearing anything from her appeal fbr justice, frogaented tbo station' at Grafton a groat deal, coining in abont train time and talking vMantly to tbe station agaat Finally, the station agent agreed to writs again By tbta was ftfty-tws at this th had visited Mrs. Bllger with a chock made oot fbr bar flint asking pries of twenty-three dollars. •“Have yon lest two cows, Mrs, Bll ger T” said be politely. “No, I haln’t,” that worthy woman replied, “only one; bat I tint going to tako no twenty-throe dollars for it That cow will cost yon Just sixty-two dollars now,” ; j\' jf . “Bat she .wasn’t worth any slxty- two dollara," be protested. Mrs. Bllger was obstfnata, and tha claim agent took back his check, and, acting on Mrs. finger’s threat to go to, law, sent over the first two papers on the case to the general claims attorney. Intending to see him about it next day. Next day be was called off suddenly to another part of the road. While he Was gone the second report from the station agent came along, with a bill for fifty dollars for Mrs. Bllger's muley cow, and, tbe department claim agent being away, was sent straight to. the claims attorney. Tbe three bills con fused him. In the meantime Mrs. Bllger began to take the bit In her teeth. She now re solved to suspend traffic generally on tbe road till they paid some attention to her. For this purpose she secured an old red flannel shirt, and hitching It on the end of an ax helve, began to flag all the trains going np the grade Industriously. "You killed my muley cow, and you’ve got to pay for ber,” she said, when the trains esme to a standstill. “I won't take less’n sixty-seven dollars for her.” The railroad men finally didn’t pay any attention to her red flag at all, so far as Stopping went, bnt as nobody knew just when she might decide to do something serious, like piling np s Stone wall on the track, for instance, they watched that flag with consider able curiosity. And at last she did decide to do something. Filling two backets from the half barrel of soft soap she always kept on tap, and taking a bucket in each hand, Mrs. Bllfer started out into tbs dark, and walked half s mile up the grade Then she artistically ap plied her soft soap to abont a quarter of a mile of tbe track. Tbe next train was s freight When she struck that soft soap she slid ahead like a comet rollicking through space: the engine rocked from side to side like a steam launch in s storm. "It's that d—d Bllger woman again I” felled the engineer to the fireman. “What’s she done now?" "Oh. my God I" said the fireman, thinking of bla family; “bow do I knew?" Then they both held onto tbe aides of tbe reeling cab and hoped hard. The engineer swtae arpeggios to a sort of running obligato on the whistle. Tbe train went by tbe station like a de moniac steam callope escaped from S circus, with a frightened train band hanging on the brake ef every other car. The worst of II was, they didn’t have the least Ides what ailed them, because by that time all the soft soap was worn off the wheels. They hadn't tlo- Unit to look around. *n>*M>. Im» cause they had to get down oa the next siding for the through ten o'clock pas senger train. The express wee extra heavy that night, and the engineer had a horrible rale of speed on her when site reached tbe grade. Nevertbelesa, when she struck It she stopped short In two lengths. To tbe wild dismay of the engineer, the big drivers of his engine Just whirled around and around like a top. Finally the engineer (topped her, snd he and the fireman got oat te Investigate. IBy thunder!" exclaimed the fire man, stooping down; "it's soft soap.” "Now will you pay me for my muley cow?” said a voice from the darkness. “If you don't you’ll never ran yoar darned road again." U was Mrs. Bllger. Her price had, risen to eighty-seven dollars. It so happened that a very Important person was on this train, the president of the road. He was in a hurry, too, and he came out of his special car to see what was going on, just as Mrs. BUger arrived. “Well, what’s the matter here?” sal^ tbe president “Soft soap, air,” said the excited en gineer ; “this woman's been daubing UB the track with soft soap so we can’t run the train, because she had her darned cow killed and they won't pay for It." “Yea, they will,* said Mrs. Bllger; “and It’ll cost ’em eighty-seven dollars —not a cent less.” Mrs. Bllger felt she was in a posi tion to dictate, and she proposed to do so. Tbe railroad president appre ciated the situation. ^ r »\ “Well, my good woman,” said he, “don’t yon think you’d compromise for a little less—say seventy-five?” “Who are your said Mrs. Bllger haughtily. ^ “Well, I’m tbe president of this road,” said the great official. “Well, then, I want eighty-seven dol- tors for my muley cow,” said Mrs. BU ger, “and yon don’t get her for any less.” This amused tbe president consid erably. He todk oat his fat pocket book and counted out a big roll of bilto. “There you are,” said he. “Til pay It myself.” Then ho got Mrs. Bllgei'f mark on a receipt before witnesses, to front of tbo headlight; and the maley eow was settled for Joet five after its death. “That maley cow was a good paytog property,”»moaod the railroad p dsat. m ho arntod htmoetf to hie dal car. "If ■he’d gives a NM-rf] milk a day. aad had a calf a the Ham of hoi *• <. To Broadcast A iNMMMNMPr JT J* Walter Damrosch, for 42 years conductor of the famous New York Symphony Orchestra, is to retire in April. He intends to devote his time to broadcasting which | is wonderful news for the millions of music loving radio fans. keeping with the holiday season. Mrs. J. B. Smith assisted the hostess In receiving, while Mrs. C. M. Turner presided over the register. Each-g*-}** waa presetted with pencil and paper snd asked to write her favorite re cipe, these being made’ into a book and presented to ,the bride. { The guests were -then invited into the dining room by Mesdames A. B. Wise and ,W. M.- Walton, where a sweet course was served by Misses Lucy Bush, Grace Walton, Dorothy MdLeod sj"id Willie Mae Thames. Amid the talk and laughter, the sound of a bell peeled forth and in came two little boys, Briggs Wise, Jr., and Mar ion Walton, dressed as Santa" Claus with sacks full of gifts for the bride from her friends on their backs. Everyone present had a most en joyable time atd the bride received many useful gifts. 300 Kegs Explode. West Patterson, N. J.—The explos ion of 300 kegs of black powder in a car of a derailed freight train on the Central New Ergland railroad injur ed 18 persons, demolished two houses, damaged several others and hurled parts of freight cars and contents a quarter of a mile away. The force of the explosion was felt for a dis tance of 40 miles. Ia Honor of Bride. ’ • Ellenton, Dec. 26.—In honor of a popular bride of Ellenton wag a lovely miscellaneous shower given Tuesday afternoon by Mrs. Frank Bush for Mrs. Will Greene. The home of Mrs 1 Notice of Confederate Veteran’s Meeting. ofJPP above entitled cans# by his Judge M. M. Mapn, and dated Decem ber 17th, 1926, to* prove your claims, if any you have, Against the eatotp before the undersigned Master kt his office'in Barnwell, South Carolina, o» Friday, the 7th day of January, A 1927. Any creditor failing to pi his or her claim against the aforesaid estate v will be barred from sharing therein. / -• v 'i •: ~ G. M. GREENE, Master. December- 21st, 1926. l ij •remer B trSINESC TTILDERiJ ^ TAKEN UP.—On Tuesday, Dec. 21, one sorrel mare mule. Owner can get same by paying for feed bill and this advertisement.—A. J. Owens, Barn well, S. C. ‘ 'Please take noticeConfedeerate Veteran* and widows of Confederate Veterans of Barnwell County will as- seble at the office of the Judge of Probate, on Monday, January 10th, 1927, for the purpose of re-organiz ing and electing officers of the Barn well County Pension Board, and to at tend to any other business in con nection with the Pension of Confed erate Veterans and Widows of Barn well County. L. F. HAIR, Chairman, Confederate Veteran Board, v for Barnwell County. John K. Snelling, Clerk, Barnwell County Pension Board. . - •ONE <D TH' GROCERY MEN IN TOWN IT TENDIN' OUT CAROS TO EVERY 13D DY WHO AIN'T PAiO UP Ve'S* VqiSHTN’ 'EM ALL A ^ ^ '■PROSPERC NEW NOTICE. State of South Carolina, Court of Common Picas. County of Barnwell. Brent-Hurst Company, Plaintiff. vs. Anna Stokes Falkenstein. executor of estate of Fred W. Falkenstein, de ceased. Defendant To all and singular the creditors of F. W. 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Send check, money or der, cash or ore and two cents stamps. —Dr. ,C .N. Burckhalter, Barnwell, S. C. 14-1-27. Big. TAX DODGING SALE Here’s your opportunity to buy Toilet Articles at and be low cost! We have to make our tax returns as of January 1 st and rather than list these articles for taxation, many of which would ordinarily be sold during the next 30 days, we have de cided to give our friends the benefit of the savings. Look over the offerings below, compare the prices ; and close the old year right by taking advantage of these bargains. In view of the fact that we have thrown profits to the winds, all sales will be made for CASH. Sale Starts TODAY and Continues Until Saturday Night, January 1, 1927. 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