The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, March 29, 1928, Image 8
-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.
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Linclon, Neb.—Miss Joan Getz,
sightless for the eighteen years <of her
life, because injured optic nerves,
suddenly gained her visiop as she was
sitting before her radio.
“I was just sitting there listening
to the music,’’ M'«s Getz said, “when
all of a sudden I felt a shudder go
through me. There was a flash and 1
see. !
RHEUMATISM —
While in France with the American
Army I obtained a noted French pro
scription fot the treatment of Rheu
matism and Neuritis. I have given
this to thousands with wonderful re
sults. The prescription cost me noth-
•r-g. I ask nothing for it. I will mail
it if you will send me your address.
A postal will bring it. Write today.
PAUL CASE, Dept. M-206,
Brockton ,Mass.
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