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■'^ir u * '"• - ’ * / . ,- ' w y t - ' ~ r "7 x^’ T ^?r rT “ _ ~- ^ -•-,' THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1923. Photo shows president CoolidKt* witli jnembers of the American delegation to the Sixth International Conference of American States which opens at Havana, Cuba, January 16. They called at the White House to discuss plans for participation in the conclave Left to right are. Judge Morgan O’Brien; Charles E. Hughes, former Secre tary of State; Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg^; President Cool- idge Henry P Fletcher, United States Ambassador to Italy; former Senator Oscar L T nderwood, J G. Scott, and Dr L F Rowe, director of the Pan-American LJnion. Local and Personal \~ News of Blackville Blackville, Jan. 7.—Mrs. Herman Brown, chairman of the Sale of Christmas S*i'is makes Uu following report of the work dene here this year: Th<i total amount collected j^vas $1)1, of which the school children rais ed $8,38. School has again opened after the holiday season with u splendid at tendance and very little illness among the pupils. The following teaehers have returner! from their Va cations: Miss Ella Hill, Orangeburg; Mjss Ev a Clarke, Estill; >.ss “Annie Willie Johnson, Union; Miss Elizabeth ShiP lito, Batesburg; Miss Eleanor Dun bar, Ellenton; l Miss Emily Ingram, Hartsville; Miss Adekt Gunter, Wag- ener; Miss. Elizabeth Meyer, St. George; Messrs. J. C. Turner, Gaff ney; W. S. Beckham, Sumter, and Mr. and Mrs. G. Frank Posey, Black ville. The cooking class of the domestic science course began work today un der th<« direction of Miss Johnson, who is a splendid instructor, and a graduate of Winthrop. Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Weissinger are congratulating themselves on their good fortune. After starting a fire in their kitchen range early Wednes day morning they became alarmed at tho terrible racket it was making. The entire water front was bursted and if the fire had been kept burning longer, serious results might have occurred. Mrs. A. W. Rentz and son, Billy, of Columbia, arrived Thursday for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Storne. Mrs. E. E. Hurlong has returned to her horm. in Florence after spending the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Grimes, at Lees. The U. D. C.’s held their regular monthly meeting on Tuesdarev-nin*' Mrs Leroy c still'; secte- Fla., returned last Sunday night to her home after having spent several weeks at tho bedside of her mother, fhe late Mrs. Ellen fzlar. Lieut. John Walker, of Chatta nooga, Tenn., apd Miss Louise Wal ker, of Atlanta, spent last week with Vlrs.* Daisy Walker. Sam I. Buist and Lajarie Buist, ^f Columbia, weru the guests last week end of their mother, Mrs. C. S. Buist. Mrs. Lottie Tyler and Mrs. Minnie Hilton, of Augusta, Ga.^ wore in town last week to attend the funeral services of Mrs. Izlar. Mr. and Mrs. Rutledge Fishbume, of Columbus, Tenn., spent a few days last w r eek with Mrs.NRutledge Chis olm. Mrs. Lillian Wolfe ,Mrs. H .S. Hiers and the Misses Martha and Laura Wolfe, of Orangeburg, were guests of Mrs. Edward Martin th^ past week. Mrs. Lillian Wolfo, Mrs. H. S. Hiers and the’ Misses Martha and Lauia Wolfe, of Orangeburg, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Mar tin the past week. Mrs. Charles Martin and Nick Mar tin motored to Charleston last Wed nesday with their guests, Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Maitin, of Washington. Mr. and Mrs. George Still and chil dren spent Wtdnesday in Elloree vis iting relatives. Mr. and Mrs. David Cain have returned from their wedding trip and are occupying rooms in the home of Mrs. Rutledge Chisolm. Charles Aycock, of Birmingham, Ala., was the guest last week of Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Weissinger. The Wednesday aftt.moop Book Club met January 4 at the home of Mrs. Leroy C. Still, who has recently been elected director of the Western District of Federated Clubs for Women. The president, Mis. Carl Buist, presided. The officers for the new yoar were elected as follows: President, Mrs. T. L. Wragg; viee- Thing* You Should Know by John Joseph Gaines, M. D. COMMITTING SUICIDE Any one w'; > suddenly ends his life vohinurily, by his own act, is a suicide. I believe that one who ends or shortens bis existence slowly —perhaps unconsciou. ly — commits the same unwholesome dec k FTWl somewhere that civilization has added seven hundred Jar tides of food to our overworked dietary! Think 6f it, in the face of the fact that .the- human body, needs actually only a half-dozen! I feel sure that the seven hundred arc only modifica tions, mixtures, and adulterations of the few food-units required. In place of plain bread and butter, fruits and meats, we are eating distillates, fer mentations, hashes and conglomera tions, sugared pyramids, and highly dynamized temptations to depraved appetites, which wreak destruction by slow but certain stages on the bodies that are, from hour to hour stufied with them, snitidc? I know of no better word to employ. Our advertising pages, woman s magazines and newspapers are lla:n- ing with colored illustrations of sat urated, „ Striped, and colored defiers of digestion. New recipes are almost daily added, that seem irresistible— as if plain, wholesome food were not inestimably better for sound sleep and good health! Our people con sume tons and tons of sugar in myriad forms each year. Commer cialism know’s that the easiest route to the pockct;J*)ok is by way of the appetite. There is no argument against that for long, healthy, comfortable life. v Every octog'ftoaifia'iu even centenari an. is a living convincing witness for plain food, temperate living, and sound sleep. Every man that dies at fifty- five of “heart failur#’- “cerebral hemorrhage” and “acute indigestion” is a. terrible indictment of the gas tronomic debauches of our people of today. Life is too precious to be frittered away by dissipation. If you want a good figure, healthy muscles, sound brain, and elastic s'cp,- cling to the simple diet and steady employment. ■- Next Week Intestinal Flu y Arthur Brisbane A HILUON BILLION YEARS CEAP BANK BANDITS . AT THE AGE CF FORTY AN $I10,0M,C(;Q IDEA The Reverend Dr. Cadman re marks that “This pl%net may exist for nearly a million billion years longer.’”— Am. anxious Christian An anxious asks, “Do you'believe that the soul sleeps in the grave with the body a million billion years, waiting for the judgment? If I really be lieved it, 1 think I should try to have a pretty good time while still in the flesh.” The Reverend Dr. Cadman tells the inquiring soul that when you are 'oncbnscious a million billion years seems no longer than a min ute and a half, and tells the soul: “It is better to awake from a pro longed torpor with clean recollec tions in your conscious past than a^ a moral idiot.” The child that “can't .wait a week for Christmas” - and the Christian “that can’t wait a mil lion billion y-ears for the judgment day” are both interesting, and both children mentally. ing at foui o clock at the home of tar y an( j treasurer, Mrs. Carl Buist. Mrs. E. H. Wessinger. Becauso of the intense cold, but few members were present. They enjoyed a short effective program, the president, Mrs. A. H. Ninestein prt»siding. Russian tea and sandwiches were served. Mr. and Mis. Charles Franklin and child, of Washington, D. C M and Miss Effie Plunkett, of Augusta, were the guests last week of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Martin and Miss Mary Martin. Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Ninestein had as their guests last weok, Mr. and M rs. Patton, of Spartanburg. Mrs. Chas. Mathis and Mrs. ffack Matihs, her guest, havp — returned from a week’s visit to Palmetto, Fla. Mrs., Clifford Anderson, of Tampa, Plans for the year’s program were made with Miss Rose Rich as chair man of the program committee- — I ^1 rnm Hail and Snow Hail and snow are simply forms* of water and there Is nothing about them that Is used in making explo sives. The verses of the Bible fr quently referred to In this connecjdon do not indicate they are used f(>/ e.v plosives: “Hast thou entered into the treasuries of the snow/or hasq thou seen the treasures of the hail, which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?" These lines, put Into the mouth of the Deity, refer to man’s ignorance and weakness against the natural forces of snow and hail. NOTICE! Against Hunting, Fishing & Trapping Any person or persons entering upon the lands hereinafter referred to, situate in Barnwell, Richland and Red Oak Townships, or the purpose of hunting, fishing or trapping, will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law: L. W. Tilly . 200 J. M. Weathersbee _ . .. 572 Mrs. Flossie Smith . _ . 1,000 Jessie Middleton ^ _ 300 Harrett Hutson . . 17.')* Estate of H. A. Patterson -2,000 W. H. Duncan _ 405 Joseph E. Dicks _ .. 800 Mrs. Kata M. Patter-son -- & / • * 3,003 R. C. Holman ___ _ _ _ 400 Duneannon Place _ _ __ 1,650 A. A. Richardson 2,000 Simmons Place _ — - 500 Lemon Bros. _ 150 Mrs. Jane R. Patterson 1,000 S. B. Moseley -- 80 Pertian City Leaiu in Production of Henna An Important Industry of -Yezd, Per sia, is the manufacture of henna. This product Is used to wash and color the hair and to stain the finger nails red— yes, many people here have red finger nails. I saw colored lambs, and sev eral horses whose manes and fetlocks were dyed fox red with henna. Henna leaves* come from the sou principally from the Bam districty^nd Yezd supplies all Persia and the sur rounding countries with this d^e. The Ik) or more henna mills In the city are so completely inclosed that it Is diffi cult to see what goes on/Wlthin. In the late evening a/camel, covered with henna dust, ojferates the mill, plodding in 6 circle in the half dark ness. A s-mall rmnid basket covers hia eyes to prevent/fiim from getting dizzy. One receives/ an impression of un reality, of something brought from an other woptu. The null is very primitive, standing abouy'six feet high, .while the mill stored and the circular path around it ar;e sunken. Everything la covered rith henna dust. From time to time a little boy shovels the powder Into heavy Jugs.—Bernhard Kellermapn in Berliner Tageblatt (Living Age). Texas wants bank bandits, and wants them dead. Texas banks carry this sign: “$5,000 ^for each dead bank robber—not one cent for 100 live ones.” Banks don’t want live robbers because they are hard to identify, hard to convict, hardly ever kept in jhe jJuenitentiary after going there. Thissmay discourage bank rob bing. It will impress on bank robbers the fact that they must kill first, or be killed.' - r * Mr. Babe Ruth amazes “sporty dom" *by saying, “nearing vanced age of thirty-four,” that/He believes in all year round trai and expects\to be “just as gj*'od at forty”” as he is now. For su'ch-work as Babe Ruth does, hard hitting ami running, * forty should be the b/st age, and fifty about as good./It isn't their work, but thei^ play between times, that make/ men old. bui two Long ago,/ear Batavia, N. Y., a iboy was born and soon had an idea. He once told this writer how he/gave up smoking “extrav agant / five-cent cigars/’ saving money to carry out his plan and his first car. ‘wo men slept in the upper, in the lower berth, for fifty cents apiece. Abraham Lincoln was one of his first passengers, going from Chicago to Springfield, and was too long for the berth. The other man protested. The man selling the tickets beside the car was George M. Pullman, and now the Interstate Commerce Commission fixes the value of his Pullman company at $110,238,786, which is far below its real, value. Get a good idea, stick to it, make sacrifices, and the Idea will take care of you, later. OF THE QUARTERLY REPORT BOARD OF COUNT*? DIRECTORS FOR THE QUARTER ENDING SEPTEMBER 30TH, 1927. * v • v / / 1 PERRY B. PUSH, Clerk, Board of County Directc/jj^J -Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, chain gang $28.D Bank of Western Carolina, chain gang 113.04 J. B. Armstrong, interest on bonds — 7QL75 J. B, Antfstrong, retiring bonds —f ,2,002.00 Idis Brabham, Commissioner / --- 5 -- L. S. Still, Commissioner _• ——- J. W .Patterson, Commissioner R. R. Moore, Commissioner G. W. Greene, Commissioner..—- -- —----- Perry B. Bush, salary — • J. S. Still, salary -- Elizabeth McNab, Home Dem. Agt. H. G. Boylston, Farm Dem. Agt. Carlisle Courtney Horne, Special D. P. Lancaster, salary — J. M. Diamond, Magistrate V J. A. Morris, Magistrate . — " O. W. Harley, Magistrate _—-r-- --y/-— —- 14.58 R. B. Harden, Magistrate -/—- 25.00 C. S. Buist ; Magistrate _ - - - - — -r 25.00 R. L. Wooley, Magistrate -/ —--- 25.00 G. L. Hill, Magistrate / 14.58* - B. W. Peeples, Magistrate y/~ --—- ^— 29.16 B. L. Fields, Constable -__ - — — 14.58 Charlie Hites, Constablty/A i ____ 14.83 B. A. Gunnels, Const^me ---------- 12.50 .Scott, Constable and chain gang 34.01/ Harden, Constable and chain gang ' — 26.00_ Boylston,/Constable and chain gang 28.42 Morri.Sy/Constable A 29.16 Peeplo% Constable — 40.66 65.00 B. Kearse/chain gang E. F. Wbodward, chain gang 134.67 Jog IJaxley,, chain gang —— — - 75.00 Perry B. Bush, chain gang ^ 3.28 B. Patterson, salary — — 60 J. Crouch, salary ~ —_ __—_ 125 W. H. Manning, salary and clerk —---—. 106.55 Jennie P. Green*, rest room 8.33 Jean Riley, salary — — —^: v25.0Q, G. M. Main, jailor 1 1— 25.00 Frank Sanders, board of registration — _ 25.00 SaralrU7 Armstrong, salary 25.00 Irene H. Lemon, salary —— ——-y— 8.33 B.: H. Dyches, dieting prisoners — ^ 82.50 Lemon Bros., chain gang — ___ 14.10 A. O. Dunbar, chain gang — ---— 10.00 Vickery Bros., chain gang '—— ',~4 82.06 F. C. Brinkley, chain gang —y 13.50 Sarine Chemical Co., chain gang 22.80 Weiner Bros., chain gang ----- - —- 10.00 Isiah Casten, chain gang — v 1.75 Sol*Brown, chain gang —./l- -— r - 5.00 Henry Hartzog, chain gang / ------ 100100 Max Bronson, chain gang and county home _—24.00 R. A. Deason, chain gang aiyi (founty home ! 6,25 Carr-Lee Grocery Co., chain gang -------- 50.36 George Pries ter, chair, gang — ----- 2.00 T. A. Holland, chain gang - ------— 40.50 chain gan? — 6.97 Best Pharmacy. Standard Oil Co.^ chain gang _—- • _—, 293.89 ...-I-.:-- 231.26 Earliest Public Libraries It is impossible to determine which whs the first library In the United States supported by public funds and wholly free to its users. The earliest recorded gift of hooks to a munici pality Is* that of Rev. John Sharp, who ’ In 1700 bequeathed his library to the ( city of New York for the benefit of the people. The town library of r the efforts of Rev. Abiel Abbot in 1833, appears to have been the first free library which has continued to tJje present day. Large Mouth, Small Throat The throat of the giant sperm Is said to be large enough for The passage of an object about the/slze of a man’s waist. The food ^dnsists largely of cuttlefish, but fishes' not larger than the bonito and the albl- core are found jn its stomach. The sperm whale is* the onjy large whale which feeds upon fish. The blue whale, the largest animal alive today, reach ing a length In excess of 80 feet, with a mouth so lar^e that ten to twelve men could stand |herein, has a throat about 8 inches in diameter. / ther the Contrary * Carried away by the beauty of the herdine on the screen, he mvitnured, ipiconsplcuously, “Isn’t she lovely !”^ / “Every time you see a pretty girl you forget you’re married,” snapped hia better half. ‘tYotfre wrong, my dear; nothing brings home the fact'with so much force.” There can’t be any ghosts, or some of the present crop of biographers wouldn’t get much sleep. Mrs. Hickman, mother of the Lds Angeles kidnaper, will testify that she was cnce insane and at tempted suicide, thus seeking to save her son by a plea of hered^ itiry insanffy. ^ _ It is not conceivable that any thing could save that murderer from the extreme penalty, crime almost as great as his o^n was lightly locking this ydung criminal up and lightly- letting him out again on former occasions. The learned Dr. Stqekard, pro fessor of anatomy at Cornell Uni versity has experimented with alcohol on five thousand guinea pigs during seventeen years. This is his conclusiory “Guinea pigs ddunk with al cohol are, if ap^thing, a little healthier than teetotal guinea pi^s and live/just as long. One guinea pnj; was made drunk with alcohol six days every week and his health was per^ feet.” Tut /first, the • guinea pig bas nothing to do but eat. breath and .dig/st. He doesn t need to y?e his brain Second, the kind college irofcssor fave„ good alcolkhL4o his drunken guinea pigs, not boot legger alcohol. - Ther* is excitement at Red Lodge. Mont M A"' Foi'jard. Opening ibe gizzard of her ChtfSt- ma' tr. 'xey, raised* in that neigh borhood found small gold nug gets Prospectors arc seeking des perately the spot where the tur key . picked up the nuggetS: To the turkey those nuggets were simply rOiigh stones swallowed to help grind corn To “proud man” thosfe nuggets are the beginning and the end of earthly ambition, ^ninety-nine times out of a hun dred. Wise turkey, foolish man. Master Holds Reference. G. M. ( Greene, Esq., Master for Barnwell County, held a reference here Monday on the proposed incor- potation of Healing Sprirfga.^/ An election was held some time ago, which resulted in a favorable vote, fiut it seems that those opposed to the incorporation contend that the population is less than the required number. * “ ~~ Z 546 547 548 *549 550 " 651 552 553 554 555 556 -..557 558 559 560 ... 561 „ 562 563 564 565 566 ' *567 568 569 570 571 572 573 574 575 576 577 578 579 580 581 582 583 ~ 584 585 586 587 588 589 ; 590 B. H. Dyches, salary and expense f — J. B. Armstrong, court expense -------- 1,278.00 Seligs Co., public buildings ------ —- —--- 30.65 4- B. Armstrong, salary —-- 63.89 A. S. Blanchard, lunacy examination —*— 5.00 J v M. jCaldwell, water and lights 38.00 L. F/Randall, public buildings - — 4.00 Jofih K*. Snelling, salary, lunacy and clerk 74.16 G. M. Greene, postage -i 11.01 C. F. Molair, county home .-- — —— 3.60 Walker, Evans and Cogswell Co., printing 18.20 Holman and Patterson, county home 18.50 Gulf Refining Co., county home 1 _ 1.40 A. J. Owens, county home — If-- >- — / ^ 37.76 Wall Street Pharmacy, county home^ -—4.00 R. A. Ellis, county home _ -—- -- - - - - ~ -- - — ------ 8.00 Poople-Sentinel, printing — —--- - — —-— 18.00 Cliff Robinson, chain gang -- -— 34.(jJ^ G, M. Main, jail -f *— ---- 3J Ossie Washington, janitor — —- 21.00 J. B. Morris, chain gang ---- -- — 3.00 A. S. Blanchard, lunacy 10.00 Underwood Typewriter Co. typewriter — 112.50 R. L. Bronson, court expense/ - - - - - 33.25 Sarah C. Armstrong, contingent —--- 1— 50.00 Merrett Reel.Co., chain gang 110.26 —teank cf Western Cafolina chain gang - 276.51 E. F. Woodward, chain gang --— 98.28 ” E. F. Woodward, chain gang' -- —^ 122.67 Henry Hartzog, chain gang /r-./ —•• ------ 160.00 E. F. Woodward, chain gang — - — — --- 113.28 J. W. Patterson, Co. Bd. of Com. 16.66 Rv*R. Moore, Co. Bd. of Com. — I Idis Brabham, Co. Bd. of Com. 1 L. S. Still, Co .Bd. of Com. —— — 16^66 G. W. Greene Co. Bd. of Com. — JOtHC Ossie Washington, janitor —-— 20.00 Joe Baxley, chain gang 75.00 G. M. Main, jail — —— — 3.60 J. B. Armstrong, county treasurer — — 7 _ -- 63.89 .J. B. Armstrong, court expenso ’ 17.50 Saralv C. Armstrong, salary as clerk. 25.00 W. H. Manning^ salary and clerk — •--■*;—105.55 A. B. Tatterson, County Physician —• -- 55.00 Dt-P. Lancaster, coroner 41*66 .Jennie P. Greene, rest room t ——■' 3.33 H. J. Crouch, SupR. of Education - 125.00 H. G. Boylkton, farm agent —1 ___ 425.00 J. JC. Snelling, salary, clerk and lunacy' --_— r - r -- — 64.16 Perry B. Bush, Co. Bd. of Com. 133.3 Carlisle Courtney Home, Special Appr. 50.00 Jas. M. Caldwell, lights. 34.15 J.. M. Diamond, Magistrate e -------- --- r 29.16 R; L. Wooley, Magistrate - — --. -- — — 25.00 O. W: Hark^, Magistrate ffrr—- —L-— 14 C. S.,Buist,. Magistrate ----- , ----- 25. J. A. Morris, Magistrate 12.5,0 WrH. D/bhes, constable —— —- — r -- 12.50- G. T. Boylston, constable * 27,92 J. M. Scott, chain gang and constable -— __ 30.71 Charlie Hiers, constable ^ 15.83 (Confined on Pape Three.) mm - wM Mfi A « •!