Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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*, . 4 • THURSDAY, APRIL 7TH, 1W7 THE BARNWELL 90ETH CAROLINA - tea AMBITION!' By A. B.''CHAPIN ’1 Babe Roth Accepts $210,000 for Three Years A* ;ir Social and Personal Newt from EUenton t' EUenton, April 2^-Mrs. Frank Bush spent the week-end in Angusta with Mrs. Angus Wilson. 4 Friends of Mrs. Russell BaUey will be glad to knew thlt he is much bet- Augusta Tuesday ter, after a recent illness. Miss Betty McLeod, who is teaching in Bath, Was at home for the week end. Mrs. H. M. Cassels and Miss Louise Cassels were in Augusta Wednesday afternoon. !—*-—• ( — . daughter, Edith, w Wednesday afternoon with a fish sup per ht the river.i Those who enjoyed the ocrasion were: and Mrs. E. C. Croat on, Miss Edith' Croxton, Mr. and Mrs. Jule Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Bergs Wise and Rev. and Mrs. Smith. i' • I Dr. and Mrs. Jidin Hood were in Advertise m The People-Sentinei ADVERTISE in The Peo] is a Preacripliea fee Colds, Grippep Flu; ffue; Bilious Fever Malem. - It Eills tio Gerais 'r4m (rEe m ^vroCAirmt Local and Personal News of Blackville • Blackville. April 2*—The members of the ninth grade enjoyed a party at the home of Sam Mathis last Thurs day evening. Dancing and conversa tion were enjoyed until s late hour. Punch was served. This class also en joyed an outing to the river Monday afternoon. Mrs. Minnick is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Pickling. Miss Gunter spent the wedk-end with her parents at Wagener. The Rev. L.'Tl. Miller spent s few days here last week. The Girl Scouts, under the direc tion of Misses Hill and 'Clarke, hiked to Healing Springs last Thursday af ternoon. The teachers who attended the teachers' meeting in Greenville were: Misses Bruie, Ingram, R -bins, Clarke, Johnson. * Black, Myer, Steele and J. C. Turner and Frank Poaey. • • Misa EU a Hill spent the week-end with relatives in Orangeburg. Miss Eugenia Still, of St. George, spent the week-end with her parenta, Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Still. Mrs. John Moloney, Misses Sarah Moloney and Isabell a Murphy were recent visitors in Greenville. and Ms. O. D. Hammond are the proud parents of a baby girl, born Match 26th.''^^ K. M. Mace wag « recent visitor in Blackville. * G. L .Weissinger spent Wednesday in Columbia. —^ T.2 Dr. H JL Murchison, of Columbia, filled hig regular appointment at the Presbyterian church last SuAday. Mrs. Mamie H. Walker, .of Beech Island, visited relatives in Black ville Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Dyches, of Cblumbia, visited relatives in Barnwell County recently. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bodifcrd are , receiving congratulations from friends on the birth of a little, daughter, last week. . , "Mr. and Mrs. G. Murray and daugh ters, Misses Elizabeth and Estelle and son, Walker, of Bejjch Island, were MONEY TO LOAN Loans made same day application received. No Red Tape HARLEY & BLATT Attomeys-at-Law BamwelL S. C. T. H Ellis J. a Ellis < ELLIS ENGINEERING CO. Land Surveying a Specialty.' Lyndhurst. & C 3L J i -C — *d- dinner4ruests of Mrs. G. T. Still last Sunday. Dr. E. L. Patterson, of Spartan burg, but originally from Barnwell, was a business visitor in Blackville Wednesday. Mrs. George Boylston, of Col umbia, is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Virgil Nevils. Mis, Gladys Gleaton, of Spring- field, was the guest of Miss Cecile Pickling, Monday. Mtssea Myrtle Altman, Marjorie Pickling, Lucille and Lennia Drew Bodiford and Cecile Pickling were among the number who enjoyed a “hikt.” and weenie roast at Z«li* Springs Friday afternoon. Miss Helen Wragg visited her friend. Miss Ella L^uiae Molair. at Chicora college Sunday. Recent guests of Mrs. C. R. Bates were Misses Ruby Parker and Dorothy Kitchings. Horace Blume and Mr. and Mis. Carl Hair, of Williston, spent the wr«k-end gt the heme of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Blume. The regular monthly meeting of the Joepb Roger chapter, D. A. R., was held at the heme of Mrs. J. W. John son, in Williston, who is a member of this chapter. This was .an- unusually important meeting and a large mem- berhip was present /Superb Altar Cloth The cathedral of St. John the Di vine, in New York, is soon tq have an altar doth of priceless value, com prising more than 100 pieces of rare old lace, formerly heirlooms in the homes of as many women of social prominence, comnunlcants in the Episcopal diocese of New York, who, under the leadership of Mra. William H. Sage, Mrs. Henry W. Monroe, Mra. Haley Flake and Mra. Lewis H. Caw- try'. gave the lace plecea, the In.rlnalc valoe of which alone la placed at more than $100,000. Miss Marguerite Erwin, of Harts- ville, spent the week-end hertf with friends. Miss Bulah Dowling, of Bronson, visited Miss Betty McLeod 'for thh week-end. -E. C. Croxton returned from th< teachers’ meeting in Greenville Sat urday, accompanied by his wife and daughter, who spent the welek-end here with him. Mrs. Frank Bush entertained de lightfully Thursday evening with a dinner party, after a most enjoyable dinner, bridge was played. Mir. and Mrs. Paul Green, o^ Jack- son, were here Wednesday. Friends of Mrs. Joe Ashley will be glad* to know that she has returned from the University hospital and is improving rapidly. Gascon and Dunbar Bush were in Augusta Wednesday evening. Miss Lucile Jennis spent the. week end at her ^ome in Fairfax. Those from here who will attend the Confederate reunnion in Tampa next week are Mrs. E. R. Buckingham, Mrs. T. S. Dunbar, Mrs. John Hood snd Miss Elizabeth Miller. P. H. Buckingham and Z- D. Miller were visitors in Augusta Wednesday. Mps Tutt lAungblood snd Sumpter Cassels spent Sunday In Greenwood. Miss Katherine Bates spent Thurs day in Jackson with Mrs. Paul Green. The EUenton high school basketball team attended the reception in Aiken Friday afterrron given in honor of Sally, the winding team in Aiken coun- A good time wa* enjoyed byatt. / Telephone Service imprwes-'whMe Calls increase IK adding of thousands of now tuboeii* boro to t ho Boll U It phone system I* South Carolina list ysar has greatly In creased the value and acopa of the oorvloo. This growth le reflected In the Increas ing number of ealls handled dally by the operators, who are responding cheerfully to your needs and maintaining quick and sour* teous service. The piano wan invented about 1710 by Bartolommeo di Francesco Criato- fori, an Italian. ty. The Aiken-EUenton highway wSl a ccepted into the State system several days ago. After a visit of Chief Com missioner Ben Sawyer, of Coluabii, Chairman Croft and Chairman Jones. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Croxton snd In South Carolina, alone, It lo estimated that the operating forces handled more then - 1L0M.- 102,627,100 originating local colic and •00 long distance moooogoo last yaar. This was an average of SILTOO local colic and 0,220 toll sails per day; an I wo rases of mere than four per eent ever the previous year. That such an enormous volume of colls lo handled, day In and day out, as efficiently as to win general public commendation, la due to the loyal efforts of 000 highly trained operating room employee who serve yet*. Your considerate ages the telephone workers In their deter mination to continue the high to which you are MORGAN B. tPKIft, Ciretinae Manager SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY Our Plant Is Nestling Long Telephone Line* . The second longest trunk telephoae Hue in the worfd has recently been opened by the Australian postal de partment , -fttbUo triiflW liet weetr• Townsville. In the noTtli <>f Queens land, and Melbou te. capital of Vic toria. a southern state. The line runs almost the entire length of the con tinent. It Is tulles long, and the New York-San Francisco line Is the only line of greater length known to postal officials of AustrMiu. High ly sensitized instruments magnify voice sounds at ten stations nlongth^ route. Tlie fee for three minutes’ con- wrsation between the two terminals of the line Is slightly less than $4 or about half the fee for a similar call over the same length of line In the United States. Kept Prisoner by Wife As his wife’s prisoner a man has been living in a hayloft on his own farm at Baumholder, near Coblence, Germany, for over three years. The couple were comtubtly .quarreling over the man’s incurable dislike of work. The huskarl vanished sudden ly In 1923, and the wife subsequently obtained a divorce on the grounds of desertion. It Is now revealed that the Pithless woman lost all patience with her husband's llstlessness. She bun dled him Into the hayloft, wire re she kept him a close prisoner. When the man was at last discovered, he resem bled a savage of toe Stone age. His unkempt hair hung matted dotVn his back, and his linger nails were two laches long. Completion We take pleasure in announcing that fc '-OUR4CE-^PLANT.is rapidly hearing com pletion and will probably be in operation in about TWO WEEKS. We have finished boring one of our deep wells, which has a flow of 73 gallons a minute. Another well is now being bored and the two will fur nish an ample supply of CRYSTAL PURE WATER for all of our requirements. We are now busy installing NEW MACH1NE1RY which will double the present capacity of the plant. When this-is complete .we will have one of the most UP-TO- DATE ICE PLANTS in lower South Carolina. In the meantime, we are being sup plied from the plant at Dertmark and are prepared at all times - tq take Vare of the needs of our customers. If you have not already don£ so, secure a book of ICE COUPONS for your con venience. They are supplied in denominations of 250^500 and 1,000 pounds. REMEMBER, it is our aim to render SATISFACTORY SERVICE and if you ' ' X, • have cause for complaint we shall esteem it a favorifvou will advise us promptly. Money in Rabbit Farm Lady Rachel Byng four years ago gave up her millinery shop In London s west ,en<Tto establish the first rabbit farm In the. British /isles, and bus found her .buslness so profitable that she has been obliged to transfer It bodily clear across England to larger quarters. Accordiunlj a special train m aa chartered and her 400 Angora rab bits, which she* breeds for their fur. shearing them as slteep are sheared. • ere loaded an board and sent to tear WJnda*^..* v ... Phone orders for ice will be received either at the plant or at. the store of Easterling & Comp. Our Phone Nos. 84,29-J and 16. /I Mutual Ice & Fuel Co. H. J. PHILLIPS, Mgr. • • Barnwell, S.