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MOBJMGHT U, THB BAKKWStL PBOPIXSKNTINBL. BAftNWELL, CAJtOUNi THURSDAY, MAY 5TH, l»17 v I i • - j 1 i m [other’s Day Sunday May 8th X- K-' rrv CANDY for MOTHER, of course, on HER DAY! Because she is as young at heart as she ever was—and candy is the gift that will take her biack to yesteryear—when beribboned boxes of candy from her beaux were common occurrences—and because it is renduiscent of the joy of her youth. But more than anything else, it will give her joy and happiness be cause it » an indication that she is not forgotten. MOHER’S OWN BOX is exquisite —a selection of the finest chocolates and bon bons attractively boxed and decorated with a souvenir picture on the cover. One, two, and five pouTS sizes, at $1.00 per pound. OTHER ATTRACTIVE BOXES A. I r Barnwell Fruit Company Barnwell, South Carolina r * ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Southeastern Summer School FOR TEACHERS BAMBEKC, SOUTH CAROLINA Bamberg, Barnwell and Beau fort Counties Cooperating. . Session Opens June 7th, and Closes July 15th. AMPLE Courses in Education, Primary Method*, (irammur Orade Method a, English, History, Hygiene, Civics, Mathematics, School l>*w, School Records, Writing and Drawing. Wholesome Holms! Entertainment ami Hoarding School Life. Well Equipped Faculty of College and Pnivwaity Craduates. Approved by the State Board of Education. Board and Lodging v»U be provided in Derrmtorier of Carlisle School. Very Reasonable Rate Fixed. Address E. P. Allen or J. F. Risher, Bam berg, S. C., for bulletin and any fur- A ther information. +£* A T I 5 ". Creighton’s Staple and Fancy Groceries iwiwH'au m ■ ■ 1 take pleasure in announcing to the peo ple of Barnwell and surrounding territory ^ that I have opened an up-to-date Grocery btore in the Ellis Building, next door West of L. Cohen s, and have a complete line of STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES. ^ ' J*' ^ .1 ■ ( “y,.- A ' ' M ' ' My goods are fresh and new and my prices Brewery reasonable. You are invited to make your purchases here. T. D. CREIGHTON , Ellu Building Bwnwell, S. C. MANY ATTEND ANNUAL SltVICE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.) COUNTY CROPS TOTAL MILLIONS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.) jWM» planted aad the per acre value was $117.00. The aame acreage was planted in sorghum, which produced 12,250 gallons, with a per ecre value of $52*0. Asparagus yielded the fanners 5484,000,' the idpre^ge being 2,700!, from which 157,000 crates were cut. This wee more than half of the produc tion of the enltdre State. J -• _ . • • Ki _ ■ Fifty-three thousand crates of cantaloupes were harveeeed from 500 acres and were marketed for $88,200. The county produced 8,000 ham pers of snap bean* on 100 acres, the vaftue being $19,000, The value of the cucumber crop was $352,000, the acreage was 2,900 and 845,000 bushels were harvested. Five thousand acres were planted in watermelons, from which 2,050 cars were loaded, ‘the value of the crop was placed at $180,000. On Jianuaipr 1, 1927, as shown by the Same report, there were on Barn well County farms 4,000 mule* valued at $379,400; 575 horses with a total value of $43,521; 1,675 milk cows with a total value of $67,000; 25 sheep and lambs valued ait $125, and 9,300 swine writh a totail value of 111,600, which together with other cattle made a total value for livestock on Barnwell Courtty farms, $687*15. ■f " i^V-H hating the Cross and the United States flag, entered the building, fol? lowed by the Rev .'ftTlf. Marshall, Beaufort, who preached a most elo quent eermon. Hit sermon was taken from a passage in the lesson for the day, the 12th verse of the sixth chap ter of John, “Geither up the frag ments.” Mr. Marshall, in announcing that the collection would be used for the | purpose of restoring the tombstones h the churchyard^ stated that four unknown donors-had contributed $200 to preserve the magnificent arch back of the altar. > 1 Following the slpendid service, which was a great inspiration to all present, many K)f the visitors enjoyed picnic dinners under the live oak trees on the grounds adjacent to the church prop erty, while- other*), upon invitation of the owner, availed themselves of the opportunity cf visiting the old Tomot- ley Estate, now owned by ‘a- North erner. _*• # «. Because only a comparatively small number of South Carolinians appar ently taro aware of the many beauti- ful historic' shrines that are within the borders of their State and* wrHh the hope that many Barnwell County people may be jnduced to visit them, the following sketch from the pen of N. L. Willett, of Augusta, is repro duced herewith; There is nothing more stirring than many cf the fine old shrine* of Europe, and to vieit and enjoy them show refinement, culture and imagin ation. Here in America we do not set up shrines nor visit them—except in Massachusetts, but there is more an cient and honorable history around BeauArt, South Carolina, than ob tains anywhere in Massachusetts. But Beaufort has no historians, while on the contrary nationalized shrines at Plymouth, Lexington and Concord are visited yearly by thousands of devotee*. While there are several old fort* Spanish. English and French, at Beaufort that antedate probably any thing in America^nd which carry won drous histories, yet if Beaufort could have two shrine* of publicity and nationalized, I should give preference to the site of the old French Huguenot fort known as Charlesfort pn Parris Island, and erected in 1562, and the remarkable historic ruins known as the Sheldon Parish Church, located m the old days in the Prince William Parish and intimately connected with her sister parish nearby, St. Helena at Beaufort. Charles fart is the oldest fort site in America as built by immi grant*, and the rhuich is one cf the oldest and certainly the most weirdly l»eautiful and fascinating of all ecrel- iaatiual ruin* in the United States. Indeed, I saw nothing in Europe that carried such an appeal to me as this i Id Sheldon Church. * . The Church.- The church took its name from the balikirk in which it was built. It was built about 1712. Sheldon Hall stood seve-ral acres South of the church and was named from the family seat of the Bulls in England, and it* pretentious architectural plan was identical with the family seat in the rrtother country. Be* idea two colonial governors, the Bull family furnished one surveyor general to the colony of Carolina. The Bull grants extended from the Savan nah to the Combahee River. They were great patrons of the Sheldon Church. They presented it with the silver plate whch is still in use at the McPheft-sonville Church. Et is said that General Stephen Bull entertain ed at his place, Sheldon Hall, every Sunday sixty or seventy gentlemen from the surrounding country. The church every Sunday was largely at tended and one nJt infiequently saw on Sunday sixty or, more old closed family coaches draiwin. up in front of the church, each with its coachman and a footman in* the little dicky seat. It was known as being undoubtedly a .swell place of worship, and ev^ry soul in Prince William Parish made it a point every Sunday to wiorship in this church. During the Revolutionary War the ,dopdwo(rk lofi ttye church wa# partpall 1 y destroyed by fire by an accident on the part of troopers, c.r directly, perhaps by General Tarleton’s men. The wood work of the house again was burned later by either loyalists or patriots, it is net known which, ithe Bull ffraily JHirfeh Churchyard, viz; William Bull, MM I HO'***** (-»))» Oltl > > MKHXWO » ; Wedding Invitations v » '' • i . ' ■' ‘ * ; A bride wants only the most fashionable and correct wedding stationery, and obsolete styles and sizes will not answer. Our con nection with a reliable concern of 25 years of service to high-class trade enables us to guarantee these. Only the very best quality it is used. r< ► on all The “Mark of Engraving ages guarantees ^genuine engraving. Bride does not want an imitation of en graving on her wedding stationery any more than she wants an imitation diamond en gagement ring. We have ju9t received a folder showing the very latest and correct styles for 1927. If interested, you are invited to call at our office and see he samples. The People-Sentinel Barnwell, South Carolina. there was a cairebaker for these ruins, who used, rent free, these glebe lands. One camnot understand why the Episcopal church of the South, as it ought to do, has not lately put new care-taker over. them. Its Furniture. The bricks and furniture -of the church were aM brought from Eng land. The walls are remarkably thick, three and one-half to four feet, and are in perfect repair. The door-wry and the chancel windows were im mense affairs, taking up nearly all of the front a nd rear ends of the church. Along the two sides were large windows, and into these side walls were built extremely semicircu lar bastions of brick that extended from the top to the bcAtom, giving it somewhat the appearance of a for tress. The plaster on the side walls is in perfect repair, and probably wan made fn-tn burnt oyster shell. Along the inside walls are stiH to be found tiny Httle marble shelves on which the candles which lighted up the building were placed. There are It Teas! six"bastions along each of its walls. In front of the ohurch and forming once a covered p rtico. are some five arge and tall round brick columns, thus giving the church the form of a Greek temple. This church would cost in the todny at least $80,000. It showed the quality and the requirements of the men who built it and w-orshipped there. I doubt if in all New England up to the Revolutionary War there was a church coating a* much as did this church, and I wonder, too, if there w a s a dwelling there that was the equal in pretentiousness to Sheldon Ha!l. This gives us an idea, I assert, of the high standing and the wealth and the dignity of these . old Episcopal wor shippers in Prince William Parish. Sacred Ruins. a • The church yard n a large one and ^thickly studded with immense Live Oaks at least a hundred and seventy- fiVe years old, and evergreen, which stand like ever living sentinels about the sacred ruins, and from alll of the limbs of th^se^ trees and swinging al most to the very ground hang* Spanish moss, gray and mournful, and which sway with every wind. There lie here Some of the Bulls, Middletons, Chis olms and many others antedating the above. The Bull monuments carry the family coat of arms. The insorip- tions off them tell of .the lives of patricians and noblemen. These old churdh ruins fit into noth ing of today. To the visitor driving over to jt e mile away from the Shel don railway station on the Charleston and Western Catclrnia Railway and .who comes suddenly upon it, its view as strange as if there stood before him one of St. John’s visions as let down for the moment out of the skies. The Bull Family. The Bulls were the most distin guished, richest, and most powgrftl of all the early English settlers. Three of them were buried in the Sheldon there followed an ancestry so distin- gukhed and blue-blooded as to be without parallel in this country. John Bull died in seventeen hundred and sixty-seven (1767). He had large es tates owning all of Bull’s Island, to day known as Coosaw fsiimd. Blackville Wins Two. In an exciting game of baseball on the local diamond Friday afternoon, Blackville to:k the big end of a 7 to 4 score. Both teams had two bad in nings, bat while the visitors succeed ed in scoring three runs in each of them, Barnwell could only push two runs across. — Tuesday afternoon, Blackville was again victorious in a swatfest, the score being 22 to tl. The teams were made up of a com bination of high school players and others. and Shoafs I Wanted IF YOU HAVE 10 OR MORE M>R SALE, DROP US A CARD AND WE WILL COME AND BUY. WE PAY HIGHEST CASH PRICE. Gleaton Bros. SPRINGFIELD, S. C. WANTED! I am in the market' for all kinds of SCRAP IRON and other metals, old rubber, rags and Hides of all kinds. Let me know what you have and I will call for same. C. H. PINCHUK Riackvifle, S. C. $ INSURANCE FIRE WINDSTORM PUBLIC LIABILITY ACCIDENT - HEALTH SURETY BONDS AUTOMOBILE THEFT Calhouiyand Co. P. A. PRICE, Manager. I thus bejng divided in their allegiance But the church and the Bull residence were again rebuilt, but both wej-e again burned during the Civil War, thia time intentionally by Sherman’s raiders. At the thhe of the Revolu tion there stood in front of the church ,a leaden equestrian atatue of William, Duke of Oramge, after whom the par ish was named. Around the old church are 'gM>e lands, apdeeiuatical and non-taxable. Twenty yean ago the youngefj in seventeen hundred and severity-five (1775), who was Lieu tenant Governor cf South Carolina and captain in the Tuscarora and Yemassee Indian Wars and who held half a dozen other high office*' Gen eral Stephen Brill who built Sheldon Hall and practically built Sheldon Church, and who owned almost the whole of Prince William’s Parish. Ha was one of the moa* picturesque of all of the early settlers and from him Soar over the crest of a hill,, flash through : the country side—Buick’s • » % * Valve-in-Head engine delivers a smooth, even . flow of power —vibrationless beyond belief at any speed. .'"Buy aBuick, for style and comfort, for finer performance, for sterling • dependability —and for greater value. 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