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-Social and Personal News of Blackville Blackville^ March 24.—The Joseph Kofrer chapter, D. A. R., of Blackville, met at the home of Mrs. J. V. Mat thews Tuesday afternoons March 20th. The meeting opened with “America/’ followed hy the American creed. Rou tine business was flisposod of, at which time the treasurer reported that $100 had been raised since the Febru ary meeting for the purchasing of a chair in Constitution, Hall at Wash ington. A part of the program was devoted to national deftmse. An in teresting sketch of Tamassee was read by Mrs. L. C. Still, and as the oc casion for this meeting was a shower for Tamassee, many useful gifts were donated. Each one present was re- queshd to write their favorite receipt which were arrangejd in booklet form and will be sent with the shower gifts to Tamassee. The Barnwell' County Teachers’ as sociation was held in the Blackville school auditorium Saturday, March 17. Several splendid talk** were made. About Tb were present. The School Improvement association of Bluck- ville prepared dinner which was ser ved by the local teachers in dainty aprons trimm<Nd with green shamrocks. The tables were get with centerpieces of huge shamrocks topped with vases of snowdrops. The .local trustees with their wives were guests. The bridge club met Thursday af ternoon at “The horui of Mrs. Reiman Brown at 4 o’clock. Five tables were arranged, a*d at the conclusion of a pleasant afternoor , Mrs. KcUy Brown ing was presented with the top score prize. Mjss Frances Dobbs cut the consolation. Refreshments were serv ed. Mis« Eleanor Still entertained the Junior Book club Thursday aftemopn. After the regular routine of business, an int<«resting program was given from Southern Literature on Joel Chandler Harris. Several readings were given hy the pupils of Miss Elizabeth Meyer. A salad course ard hot chocolate were served. The next meeting will be at thu home of M iss Latane Still. On Friday evening, March 1(5, at the 4 home of Mrs. A. B. Hair, the local teachers entertained Tn honor of a visiting fiiend, Miss Otis, of Augusta. The «<vening was spent playing bridge, and later all enjoyed dancing. Gene Watt won top score prize, a nice smoking set. A salad course with coffe e was served. Mayor G. K. Fickling and Virgil Nevils were in Columbia Tutisday to meet with the railroad commission in regard to the ele.tric lighting charge being too heavy. Mrs. Sigsby Grimes is spending some' time in Columbi.. with friends. i Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Wragg, Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Molair, of Barnwell, Mr. McLaurin and Miss Dorothy Wragg, also of Barnwell, attended the presen tation of “Rose Mark.” in pictures in Augusta Wednesday evening. Dr. S. B. Rush was a business visitor in Columbia Wednesday. Mr. Beckham, of Presbyterian col lege has been visiting his brother here, who is teaehirg in the Blackville high school. Miss Otis, of Augusta, was a visitor of Miss Eleanor Durbar during the past we*.k-end. . Ulyses Still has retained to Lake -land, Fla., after a short visit here to hig mother, who has been ill for Suvme time. Friends regret to learn that Julius Sanders, formerly of Blackville,. blit now of Lakeland, Fla., is confined to his bed. SPREADS SUNSHINE AMONG SHUT-INS Carolinian Has Given . Away 80,000 Bouquets. ! Greenville, 8. O.—Spreading sun shine Is the hobby of A. G. Gower, Greenville bookkeeper — figuratively, that is.? For eight years he h:fa made and presented $0,000 bouquets to Green ville shut-ins, persons who are ill, and others. .. ~ ■ Gower estimates that lie cuts 250,* 000 blossoms annually from his gar den. all of which are given away. The monetary return is nothing, but, he says **It Is spreading sunshine wholes sale, and my reward is so tremendous that It is boundless. I have a treas ure house without limits.” He began his (lower mission In a i.mall way about 20 years ago. It was not until Just after the World war In lOlh that it began to assume its pres ent large proportions. At that time he was asked to^tench n Bible class in the United States Army Hospital No. 20. at Camp Sevier. “I'll teai'li the class,” he said, “if you will let me bring the- boys powers every Sunday morning.” Then the work of spreading* sun shine began in earnest. His dower garden became larger and larger, an-, til today it occupies every nook and cranny of the half-acre plot around his home. : *• For 4S hours each week Gower is engaged with long columns of figures. But early mornings, late afternoons and evenings, find him in his .garden caring for Hie flowers that/ have brought happiness to him and the per- reeelve them. Saturday until dark he gntbeesrethe GAS TRAPS BIRDS IN PARK CAVERNS Peruh in Caves Poisoned From Below . who sons afternoons flowers for Ids baskets of bouquets. Kills Three of His Brothers K ^ and Ends Own Life Bakersfield, Calif.—Albert Villard, fifty years, hanged himself- from Ids own automobile and then shot him self to make death doubly certain after be had killed three of htfc broth ers and wounded a fourth, neeordTng tb reports brought here. Walter Rice of Tulare said he found the slayer’s body hanging by a rope from Vlllard’s car on a road nine miles from Tulare. Joe Villard, suffering fr6m bullet wounds inflicted by his brother, walked two miles to a neighbor’s ranch to notify the authorities. The three brothers who were killed —August, Eugene and Gabriel Villard —with .Toe and their parents were at breakfast apd did not know that Al bert was in the room until he began shooting, .Toe said. Ranchmen say that fdi* several years Albert has held a grudge against his brothers, claiming lie was deprived of Ills share of the Villard ranch. 5,000>000 Italian Born Living in United States Rome.—Latest statistics here show that there are ill 1 K/ilKt expatriated Italians living in different* parts of the j world. The figure Is probably even Yellowstone- 'Bark, Wyd.—Natural poison gas, - seeping up ./through fis sures in the earth Into caves, is fre- . quently the cause of the death of birds and small mammals In V el low- stone National park, and Bark Natu ralist E. J. Sawyer Is attempting to liml put why the luckless little victims venture Into these deadly traps. He is disinclined to believe the theory most commonly advanced that the birds go into the eaves fur-shel ter as cold weather comes on in the full. * Impelled by Restlessness. “It is my present belief that, in gen eral, the bird victims are not par ticularly attracted by anything at all, but that in the restlessness character istic of their spring and autumn movements they venture into all man ner of accessible places and are then overcome by the gas. The species affected are small perching birds, of various kinds, such as sparrows, warblers, wrens and thrushes nor has it been observed that any species or grpup of these pays a toll out of proportion to Its relative general abundance. “That ir desire for/ warmth is not the main -attraction seems further in dicated by the fact that the Towns end solitaire is. so frequently found dead-hr-tlie caves. This bird, on nll- year resident.in the park and appar ently unaffected by even the extreme cold of mkhvinter. would scnroelv he Friday March 30th 12 Men ’s tOc Handkerchiefs. $1.00 __ 2 1-4 White Dress Linen-for $1.00 * 0 Dollar Days Saturday March 31st One pair Rayon Silk Bloomers __ :: - $1.00 2 1-4 yards ITable Damask for $1.00 Save Money by Buying Your Spring Goods ~ During Our Dollar Days. “ T 25 'Spools Coats’ Cotto'h Thread $1.00 3 yards Best Table Gil Cloth $1-00. impelled to seek extraordinary warmth Tn - spring and fall. Confined to Smaller Birds. ^Ofte of the md&t abundant species of small birds in this region is the Clark crow, or. nutcracker,, yet I have seldom if ever found a Clark crow in the poison caves, and yet. lt would seem a comparatively short, step from his ordinary habits for the nutcracker to -enter one of these shallow caverns —not so pronounced a departure from routine.as it is in the case of the tree- loving warblers, which are among the most frequent victims. “It Is my belief that the nutcracker does enter the caves,' but, owing tn his'greater size and greater power of resistance, emerges with impunity— though doubtless, in each case, an 6 yards Real Romper Cloth for $1.00 2 1-4 yards Peter-Ran Dress Gir.ghams—famous for its beau- colors. Guaranteed Fast. $1.00 tiful * .<i 24-4 yards Indian Hoad, perfect colors. All the go for coats,etc. $1.00 yards Chambray for . $1.00 5 yards of English Prints for r— $1.00 Absolutely Fast (Colors. 2 l /fe yards Figured Batiste—all thewanted colors. Absolutely Fast Colors. $1.00 10 yards of Bed Ticking for " $1,00 4= 4 Pair Rayon Silk Hose for . -— $1.00 — One Pair Best Grade Overalls $1.00 Blue Work Shirts for $1.00 2 yards, 36 inch Pongee, full 12 > M, usual colors— $1.00 (Limited 2 yards to customer.) 5 yards Blue Demins for $1.00 7 yards 32 inch Dress Ginghams Fast Colors. $1.00 ^ ^ 8 yards Good-Bleaching, 36 inches wide for $1.00 7 yards of the very best Sea Island for only $1.00 7 yards, 36 inch Pajama Checks $1.00 older and a wiser bird. Indeed, so far as my frequent observations go, It is a rare thing to find any bird larger than the small, thrushes that has succumbed to the gas.” Relic of Washington’s//. ~ \; ^ Found in Old Box Adderbury West, England—In an old box of tyirchmeats- purchased for, Remember Time & Place—Friday and Sturday, March 30th and 31st. Give your home merchant your trade, everything bring equal Dept. Store - Barnwell, S. C. Creighton’s Main Street greater Will Exchange Pulpits. On next Sunday morning the people of Barnwell as well as the congrega tion of Che Barnwell Baptist Church will have, m opportunity to hear the Rev. B. h. D.’nean. pastor of the Blackville Baptist Church. At that seivice an c.-ichantfe of pulpits will he made between the pastors of these two churchy. Mr. Duncan is a Ken- tu.kiar by birth and training. He was the beloved pastor at Timmons- ville, ia this State, before succeeding the Rev. 4L Miller .in the Black-1 ville churth Utst yean v ^ He is the latest addition to the list of Baptist pastors in this county.^ FARMERS MAKE THINGS GROW IN BARREN ICELTNI) Reykjavik, Iceland.—Rational culti vation of the lar.d is now a national slogan in Iceland, while formerly theie was little cultivation of the soil. Land reclamation has gone on for five years in the surroundings of Reykjavik. Bogs have beer, changed into green meadows, and all kinds of agricultural experiments have been undertakeni, some with great success. Things that Icelanders had thought would never be able to grow, thrive wonder- fuUy well. than this, us the consular re- turns from some countries are con- loscdlv incomplete. 'Fite greatest number of .emigrated Italians live in the American conti nent. Between North and South and Central America 7,674,58.T Italians are accounted for, 'Hie United States alone has more than 5.000,000" of I hem, while there are 150,000 In.Canada, 800,000 in Mex ico, 87,000 in Cost.i Rica, SOO.Opp In BraziL I.dOO.OOC in the Argentine, and 21.500 in Chile. In Europe there are 1,207,841 exiled Italians, more than lialjL of whom are living in Frmtee. In Africa there are 189,100 Italians, while Australia has 27,000 living under its flag. Think Farm Children Superior to City Bred Wellington, New Zealand.—Farm children are superior to city reared children, says a national report on a survey of the physical growth ami mental attainment of the hoys and girls of New Zealand. Superiojily of farmers’ children whs fhost phmouneed at the age of thirteen. The. survey included 20,(K)0 town and country children ranging in a ire ln*m ten to fourteen and was carried out by Dr. Ada Baterso^, director of Hie health department's division of school hygiene, and Dr.. E, Marsden. assistant director of education. Will Written on Egg Shell Termed Valid Brooklyn.—Wills have beeq written on eggshells, coulliiiTs and bedposts, and might possibly be tattooed on the shoulder of an heiress' and remain valid. Crenua Skellers told of these among other unusual legal doc uments In a talk on “The Bow er to Make a Will,” given at the Academy of Music. Among surprising provisions In wills of historical people. Miss Skellers announced that GouverneuT Morris willed that his wife’s income be dotibledTr she married again. Thomas. Paine, she said, although com monly considered an atheist, be queathed hts soul to God. Many Southerners, Including George Washington, she revealed, freed their slaves in their wills. a shilling T. J. Bennett has 1 discovered Hie oldest connecting link between the micestral family of George Washing ton and Sulgrave Manor, the Washing ton family home. This is a deed bearing the signa tines in plain handwriting of Lau rerrrr Wnshingtnn and Robert Wash ington. Beneath each signature is at taehe<T a seal of U^e Washington family. The deed is dated 1597 and relates fo a, transfer of land at Sulgrave. A deed at Sulgrave Manor house, hith erto thought to be the j oldest, is dated 1.7.>9.—Lanrem-e Washington was Men’s Broadcloth Shirts $1.00—Guaranted Fast Colors. the original Washington owner of Sul grave Manor. The collection <rf old parchments belonged to Bennett’s late uncle. The •old deed box was put up with other odds and ends for sale after the uncle died, and Bennett secured it for a shilling. Lord Lee of Farebam has given Mr. Bennett an opinion that it is of great value. ♦ ♦ ♦ A FLASH, AND GIRL BLIND FROM BIRTH COULD SEE INSURANCE FIRE __ WINDSTORM PUBLIC LIABILITY ACCIDENT - HEALTH SURETY BONDS AUTOMOBILE THEFT Calhoun and Co. P. A. 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