Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THBBABNWBLL Mi. i i-*.——-^ ThoiM Ut the Namei of Tow Visitor*, or Other Iteme of Local Interest for This CoIsm* S. B. Moseley was a business visitor in Augusta Tuesday. * J. T. Owens, formerly of this city, was a week-end visitor. J. Julien Bush spent Monday in Bamberg on professional business. The People-Sentinel was unavoid ably delayed this week on account of trouble with the Linotype. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Langley and little son were the week-end guests of relatives in Chaileston. ^ Mrs. Marvin Hale, of West Vir ginia, is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Easterling. Mrs. J. Arthur Kennedy, of Willis- ton, spent the week-end in Barnwell with her mother, Mrs. Estelle Patter- sonw Mrs. J. T. Jackson, Mrs. Ralph Smith and little daughter were the guests of Barnwell relatives last week. Mr. and Mrs. John T. Stevens have ,^2®rned to their home in Kershaw af- a visit to Col. and Mrs. Edgar A. ^^Rwn. &r. and Mrs. E. E. Good son and children, and Mrs. S. R. Goodson were the guests of relativflTHn Col umbia Sunday. Miss Elizabeth Deason, of Colum bia, and Miss Willie Bush Deason, of Winthrop College, spent the week-end in the city with their father, Dr. R. A. Deason. The fiirrds of Mrs. Matilda Grooms will be interested to know that she and her mother, Mrs. Hart, have re?ently moved to Augusta, where they are operating a boarding house To Clean Up Cemetery. All who are interested in the ceme*- tery at Siloam Church are requested to meet Saturday morning, November 17th, to help clean up the cemetery. The Rev. C. K. Turner Resigns. The Rev. C. K. Turner, after serv- iqg George’s Creek, Dunbarton, Elko, Rosemary and Olar Baptist Churches for several years, has tendered Jiis resignation, effective Deeemler 1st, to acci the pastorate of tVt Beau fort Baptist Church. Mr. Turner has made his hoihe in BarnwcJ! and has many friends whoso best wishes will follow him to his new field. Mammolfh Sweet Potatoes. > Col. N. G. W. Walker presented the editor of The-People-Sentinel Satur day with two mammoth sweet po tatoes, one of which weighed 5^4 pounds and the other 8 3-4 pounds. They were the largest that this writer has ever soen, although a tuber weigh ing 9 1-4 pounds is reported from WillTston and another tipping the scales at 12 pounds was displayed ir. August*. The sweet potato crop this year is said to be exceptionally fine. To Attend District Cctincil. Representatives from the Barn well County Farm Women’s Council will attend the meeting of Central District Council of Farm Womeni in Columbia, Fiiday, November 16th. The; Shriner’s Club House at Caugh- man’s Pond has been chosen as the meeting place for this occasion. Mrs. Rivers Carroll, of Elko, Mrs. Mary Blume, of Blackville, Mrs. Ida Hutto, of Double Ponds ard Mrs. J. B. Hart- zog, of Hilda, accompanied by the home agent, will represent BarrweM County at the district miwting. James Tarleton Sarders, a student at Furma.i University, spen« v *eveial days with his aunts in Barnwell, and father, A. M. Sand< rs, near here, who has vi ry ill for soi**.'* time. Mr. Bawde-V feiemt* and f joicin.r th .t re is recover «*j*. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON BRIDGE CLUB. The memhirs of the Wcirgsday Af- teroon Budge Ciub were entertained last week by Mrs. B> Wilson Walker at the home of Mrs. S. B. Moseley. The high score prize was won by Mrs. Edgar A. Brown, the consolation was cut by Mrs. J. Julian Bush and the guest prize was presented to Mrs. Mia‘*guerite Martm. Tl* hostess served a salad course with tea after the games. WANTED:—Man with car to sell aamplete line quality tires, tubes, and [Hfiner ware. Exclusive territory, salary $300.00 per month.—G. H. STEWART COMPANY, East Liver pool, Ohio. ll-8-2tp. "’STRAYED or STOLENFrom my home near Long Branch Church, on Sunday, October 28th, one black male fox hound, legs partly tan, with white streak under breast; about-2 1-2 yoars old; answers to name of “Boss.” $5.00 reward for return to Herman Birt, Elko, S. C. 4 ll-8-2tp. MAN WANTED—to Rur. McNess Business in Barnwell County. Make $7 to $10 daily—must have car. A 21-year-old million dollar firm will extend you liberal credit to start. Lifetime job. Write FURST AND THOMAS, Dept. J. L. 11, Freeport, 111. Every Dcy 6R Every ZMeal It*$ always good! 1CH, tastq, t»ell baked —still, this fine bread costs qou no more than others. « a Insist on Claassaft -Bread Since 1941 Sooth's Favorite Win for Barnwell. In a very one-sided game of foot ball, Bair well High defeated Branch- ville High on the local field Friday af- ernoon, 37 to 0. The visitors were outclassed in every department, in Idtftron to being out weight d. and were able to make orly two or three first and tens, while holding Barnwell for downs only once after the locals had run in a bunch of second siting men. Shortly before the end of the game practically all of the regulars had been taken out and even then Branchville was unable to gain. Moore. George Hogg ard Holland were the best ground gainers for Barnwell. ^ ^ ^ w Farm Agent Notes. TRY A BUSINESS BUILDER FOR SATISFACTORY RESULTS. Farmers are still planting giain. Many were late to get started due to the fact that they could not get the lard in condition. From the inquir ies for irformation it seems that most of thefh are treating their seed before planting. Last year’s toeper- ience with smut convinced them that it was unwise to plant without the treatment. Most every day someone has called for infoimation or help on the method of treatment. Farmers are being urged to plant more: grain than usual because the corn crop is so short this year. All farmers who were in the Cotton Contest are asked to send in their record books at once. It does not^ matter whither n large yield was made or not, it will help to get in re- poit. Everybody should send them in by November 20th. Several in the county made unusually good yields for the bad seasons. G. C. McDermid, with the Potash people, was in the County Agent’s of fice Wedmaday of this week. They are planning for some joint demon strations in the use of potash on asparagus and sugar cane.—County Agent, H. G. Boylston. 811 i ■ Jl i: Colds Vapors inhaled quickly clear head Wm. McNAB F1RB, HEALTH AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANIES. Ptoraonal attentioa givtn *0 bmkmm 'MRet to HarriMo Block, Mate Bt ‘ BARNWELL. B. C L* > frV*: - A Shepherd of (Prepared bv the National GeoKraphte Society. Waehlnirtoa. D. I ! P ALESTINE, the background for most of the Bible story and his tory, has been called “the un changing East.” but steam and motor are supplanting the camel, the ass and the “two women at the mlH”x tractors are taking the place of the ox and ass yoked to the crooked, oaken, one-handled plow; mechanical reapers are supplanting the sickle, and. (he airplane now flies with the eagle But the shepherd life of the Holy Land has remained unchanged since the days of Abraham and the first Christmas. The natives of Palestine are com posed of three distinct classes. Their homes, food, clothing and customs are dissimilar, but they are united by lan guage and tradition. The Bedouin tent dweller Is a notu iid and warrior; io him flocks and herds are a msin source of livelihood The fellah, or peasant. Is a farmer, living in a stone house, huddled with others In a village. To him dock raising is an Integral part of his oc ctipntyon, varying in Importance with the location of Ids village. The luadany class, living In walled cities and open towns. Is made up ol the artisans and merchants. Few * clt) folk keep Mocks; th«*«e that do are the local dairymen. It Is the peasant shepherd with whom this uarrathe Is concerned. j The peasant shepuerd boy Is usual ly the youngest male laborer of the family. As the ohtesl grows up to help the father with the sowing, plowing, reaping, threshing, nod olive picking, a younger takes his place with the Mock; and so on down the line until the tot of being the family shop herd finally falls to the youngest. Thus It was with the youth David who. even w’hen In later ttfe he be came psalmist and king, failed not to recall his boyhood shepherd days, and In thinking thereon to weave their romance into Ids sublime poetry. The shepherd boy wears a simple robe of cotton; this Is strup|»ed around Ids body by “a leathern girdle about his loins;” and still, like John the Baptist in the Wilderness, he has his raiment or coat of earners hair or of coarse hand spun wool. His Aba Is a Necessity. This aba, or outer garment, is warm sheds the hardest rain, and takes the place of a blanket When the youth la out with the flocks at night lie wraps his abu about him and, with a stone for a pillow, sleeps like Jacob of old, ut Bethel. Not the women, but more especial ly the men in their leisure hours, and liie shepherd boys, as they lead the flocks on the mountains, spin i he’long, coarse wool into yarn for their ow4i coats. That the spinner spins as lie walks along precludes the use of n wheel; even the simple spinning wheel of our forefathers is beyond the in genuity and needs of a fellah. A small contrivance of^qak wood, into which lie can wino the yarn like u hall, suffices.- He gives the ball a dexterous whirl, and it spins about, twisting the separate wool strand- into a coarse yarn. The yarn is taken to the village weaver. Most of it is a natural white; a smaller portion is of uudyed black to produce the customary*wide stripe In making the better and finer gar incutS'^fie cloth is w’oven wide enough for the required length of the aba. Villages are the homes of the agrl ciilturlsts. Unlike American farmers, those of Palestine live in huddled hamlets and till their many smftl strips of land scattered round about. The homes of the village shepherds are mostly located on the mountains and therefore their houses are built of stone. In th* Fellah’s Dwelling. Inside the large < ne-roomed. home, with Us high, thick walls, the fetish builds half across the back a rowyeh. a sort of mezzanine floor, over a series of small domes supported on short pillars. This elevation, reached by steep, narrow steps, is the abode of the family. Beside the small win down, with their Iron hurt, opening out from this higher level, there Is to opes hearth and chimney. Hen wm tad a row of baad-fude ths Holy Land. * sun-dried clay bins containing wheat, barley, lentils, figs and raisins for the winter food supply; also large Jars of oil. Behind this row of bins is stored fodder for the animals. In a recess in the w’all is a pile of bedding, fold ed up during the day and at night spread out on the tnat-covered floor. Of special interest Is the lower level of the house—the stable portion of the home. Along the walls are ranged stone mangers, to which are tied the plow oxen, milch cows, and the In evitable camel. Beneath the rowyeh are the quarters for the flocks, par tltloned off from the rest of the cattle by piles of thorn bushes collected for the winter fuel. After a rainless summer, when all Is parched snd dry, the winter sets in with Its showers, its occasional ter rific storm of rain and wind, now and then a lashing hailstorm, and with *now flurries soni'MiiiieW years apart. But these stormy days are Inter sjK»rsed with periods of springlike sunshine urn I warmth. During this season the shepherd finds scant pickings for his flock on the Yocky mountainsides, and how ever warm and pleasant the day may he. the nights are always cold and raw; so the sheep are stabled In the house below the rowyeh. As spring appronenes. the rain storms change to diowero, the grass shoots forth, the flowers bloom. The sheep are sheared, and. alnce their quarters In the house Jiave become too warm, they are kept during the night In the sheepfold. Spring, with its abundance of green pastures, passes; the lambs are born: the harvest time approaches; then the grain is reaped. Following the reapers are the gleaners, the destitute of the village, who. like Ruth, the Moabitesa. are still, according to the Biblical Injunction, never debarred from the harvest field. Shepherd’s Daily Life. After the gleaners comes the shep herd with his flock. Amid the freshly cut stubble, succulent growths are found; also dried, but tender, blades of the wneat or barley; but, best of all, the sheep find, deep down In the stubhle. many an ear of grain dropped .by the reapers and passed over by the gleaners. These nourishing pickings are soon gone, and In the desert places the good shepherd now seeks summer pas ture. During the spring and harvest the shepherd stays around his home vil lage. In the morning we find him lead ing forth his flocks to the harvest fields; at noon we see him lending on to water. % At night, wrapped in a sheepskin coat and his unchanging aba. the youth sleeps on the flat roof, from which point of vantage he can see the sheep in the fold, peacefully chewing their cuds, at any time of the night: for, although they are surrounded by high stone walls and the single door Is securely locked and barred, , he knows that thieves are always to he feared, and therefore Is constantly on the alert. It is early down. After placing In his leathern scrip some small flat loaves of bread, a bit of cheese, some home-grown and home-cured olives for breakfast and the ipWday meal, the shepherd unbolts the door. “He- calleth his own sheep by name and Iqadeth them ont And when he put- teth forth his own sheep he goeth be fore them, and the sheep follow him.” Today, as Ip the parable, the good shepherd never drives his sheep; be leads them. If the reader visits these historic lands, he may encounter a man driving sheep, hnt he may be sure that such a shepherd \% only a “hireling.” At the close of day, as the flock nears the sheepfold, the shepherd runs ahead of his bleating charge*, eager to enter their home. He plant* himself In the doorway, count* the sheep one by one as they “puss un der the rod.” which Is nsed In driv ing away any animal not of the flock This present-day method of taking udvnntngi of a narrow place jo get the sheep one by one. Jo “pato again [ under the hands of him that reliefb { them.” ir often mentioned la the Bible j r «<sr* Very, Very Different A Eugene Permanent Wove in very diEer» eat from the old-fashioned kind. It I* natural — and preserves the natural beauty of the hair. It is the gentle way of waving —with tiny jets of dean, white atonsau MRS. ANGUS PATTERSON BEAUTY BHOPPE 1 ; Barnwell, South Carolina Reed Grocery Co, Do you need money? Then Mve on your Grocery BUI. A vint to our store will convince you. ^ _ Rice, Blue Rose, 4 pounds for 25c Coffee, Morning Joy, per pound 49c Amt Jamima’s S'XfcSnL, .'. m Sausage Meat, Banner Brand - 29c Lemons, Fancy, per dozen - - 23c Bacon, streak o’ lean, streak ’ofat, lb. 19c Mayonnaise Dresring kSTifa?: hE Flour, Carolina Gem 99c; Adluh Jl. 09 Phone 102 m Right Place Free Delivery Right Prices -We Specialize On POOR COTTON Obtaining Highest Prices Liberal Advances Made on Holding or — Selling Cotton of All Grades. ’ All Truck Cotton Insured by Us at No Cost to Shipper A. J. SALINAS & CO. Cotton Factors SOUTH Everywhere they say “the New Buick is un rivaled in performance Motorists cveryv/here are turn ing to the Silver Anniversary Buick with an enthusiasm never before accorded any automobile. Why? ... Super*- lative beauty and style, match less comfort, and utterly new and unequaled performance* \ to tfjke Silptrjinnii ■ jagg. h*ir, WITH MAITBRPUCI BOMBS BY F1SHBB DENMARK BUICK DENMARK SOUTH CAROLINA. 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