The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, June 27, 1929, Image 2
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Three Best Scholars at West Point
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Left to right—Horace F. Sykes of Omaha, Neb., Raymond L. Hill of Oak
land, Calif., and Frank Blue of North Carolina, who are the three highest
ranking scholars of the graduating class In the United States Military acad
emy at West Point.
Nobody’s Business
By Gee McGee.
Gotten Letter.
New York, June 19.—Liverpool
came in as due, but New Orleans re
flected Chicago’s dejlire which* was
brought abeut by a weakness in Bom
bay which was influenced by Shang
hai’s straddling, consequently July
sold off at 18.99. The goverrment re
ported yesterday that the boll weevil
emergence was 10 lightning bugs and
14 red ants ahead of last year, and
predicted the caterpillar for August,
the red spider for September, Wall
street for October, and the Federal
Reserve for November and December.
Moat of the atrikes have beer settled,
and the grocery atoren that didn’t
bust during the “situation” will not
now boat till after the curtailment by
the millg >* over and work resumed.
We advise shorter (cottor) dresses for
China, Japan and Egypt.
My grocer says that he has helped
to pay for 19 new automobiles during
the past few months, but so far, he
has never ridden in one of them. That
man talks a little too plain to suit
me. He told me that Uncle Joe’s sons
Sammie, bought a ham from him on
credit last week and took it to a fll-
lirg station and swapped it off for 9
gallons of gss and a quart of oil. I
wish he’d lay off my kirfolks.
notis: i will not be resporsibull for
detts made by my cousin bill Clark,
who left my bed and board without
cause and rever paid for same nuther.
and whoever sees fit to risk him for
arything in my behaff will do so at
her own jeppody, and he hag a big
skyar just above his left ?ye where i
struck him once when he called me a
hoover dimmercrat, and his years is
nearly bit off too, which took place
when him and I was rastlirg once, so
if anrybody sees or hears him, pleas
rite or foam me and get a reward, he
took my knife and three of my dogs off
with him anaoforth. (p. s. i raised
him from a baby, he was a rurt
baby.)
yores trulie,
mike Clark, rfd.
ed that this w^as possibly the first
time she had ever attempted to get
married ansoforth.
the gloom come down stairs ow the
arm of his best man who lives in
georgy and goes by the name of mr.
smith and he was dressed in a travel
ling serge suit from askir.’s, and his
shoes was from chocago and seemed
about 2 sizes too small, and as him
ard the bribe got closer and closer to
gether, they hesitated under a big bell
which was swung from a rafter in the
certer of the room. ^ * *
rev. t. i. hardnots performed the
cerrimoney and was led in prayer by
my pasture who prayed a beautiful
peace of poetry ard seemed very much
in favor of the bribe, but said a few
words in behaff of the gloom, the
presents was quite rumerous and dock
Johnson estimated them to be worth
not a cert less than 6$ and c50, in
cluding the 3 from kresses and the 5
from wolworths.
the bribe is a resent graduate at our
school in the 5th grade, and will be
sadly missed, as she plays the organ,
and the gloom has a promirent posish
with the standard oil in n. C. where he
helps to run 1 of the pumps and allao
washes and greases carj. they both
left for a honey moon trip to Uncle
Joe’s, as he is kifl to them somehow
or other or.- their ma’s side, (if this
ain’t correct, plese rite or foam me,
and i will do my best to get the facts
in the case).
yores trulie,
mike Clark, rfd.
If cigarettes will do all that is
claimed for them in the advertise
ments, it won’t be long before every
thing else in the way of cosmetics
and plain food can be discarded. If
smoke will make the flappers thin
while sugar will make them fat, I am
willing to put up with fatress for a
season.
My grocer says—wher. a customer
drops behind win his bills for a few
weeks and discontinues to ask the
price of the stuff he buys, he beg : ns
to get ready to lose that accourt.
More money is lost on salad dressing
eaters than on combread addicts.
Since congress met to bring about
farm relief, wheat has declined only
23 certs a bushel, but corn has drop
ped just 17 cents per bushel, ard cot
ton is only 2 cents lower than it was
before they met, and timothy hay sag
ged off only 5 dollars a tor, however—
goobers are strorger, having advanc
ed a quarter of a cent. If they keep
this effort up, they certainly will re
lieve the fanners of all they’ve got.
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A Big Wedding.
flat rock, s. C. June 21, 1929
deer mr. editor:—
i have been asked by my pasture
to rite up the wedding which taken
place last friday night betwixt miss
sallie creek, party of the first part,
and sammie green, party of the secord
part, and it is as follows:
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creek-green miptalU
a wedding of much interest to all
parties concerred was hell at the
bribes father's home (now owned by
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the federal land bank) in flat rock last
friday night about 8 P- ra-» or possibly
a few minutes befoar. the bribe is a
secord darter of old man John creek,
but the gloom ie the third and only
son of my cousin, jule green.
the bribe was let irto the room bv
her daddy who wore a rayon dress
trimmed in toil silk from soars ard
roafcHflk with a big bunch of rosies
Mow her chist and her
* almost a pore match
rdbm decorations from moat
If dresses get much shorter, we
men won’t ever miss them when* they
are finally discarded. A pound of
material will make all the necessary
(?) clothes for a college graduate,
and some of the girls are now com-
plairirg because they have to be
bothered to death with old stuffy
frocks. I expect to see ’em wearing
nothing but a fan and a smile and a
pair of ear-bobs and ore other gar
ment before the season is over, but
that’s “Nobpdy’s Business,” so sit
down in front. .
I have often wordered whether the
modern mustache which looks very
much like a pig’s track was designed
for beauty and attractivity, or w’as
the first one just left there because
the guy broke has razor before he got
^through shaving.
All it takes in a town to make bare
legs a possibility is for some fairly
well-to-do flapper to break the ice
strollirg down the street some lovely
afternoon minus a pair of hose. As
soon as she “gets by” with the opera
tion, all the other flappers in town
(from knee high to a duck to 5-feet-
9), will “go ard do likewise,” unless,
of course, they have strong-minded
mothers and daddies who still believe
in decency at home and abroad, and
car. control their off-spring. I do not
say that the stockingless fad is in
decent or unwise, but I think such a
habit or practice is unbecoming to a
lady <for the present) just like cigar
ette smoking is Neither one of
these innovations will ever serve to
lift oar civilisation one jot or tittle
higher, and you can lay to that
The republican party will probably
appoint an entirely new set of prohi
bition enforcement officer^due to the
fact that the present crowd is finan
cially able to retire, and H is perfectly
natural for the sugar-tit to be passed
around amorg the loyal voters.
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BANDED BIRD FLIES
OVER SEA TO AFRICA
Route Followed Mystifying
as Feat Itself.
Washington.-—The finding of a dead
bird on a beach In South Africa may
unlock a secret which has long puz
zled American naturalists.
The bird, an Arctic tern, carried a
small metal band on one leg with the
number 548.138 and, in abbreviated
form, the address of the bureau of bi
ological survey. United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.
0. L. Austin banded the tern at
Turnevik bay, Labrador, on July 28,
1928. Four months later It was found
In South Africa. •
Scientists have recognized the Arc
tic tern as the Lindbergh of the bird
world. It makes the longest migra
tion of any bird, summering In the
Arctic and wintering In the Antarctic.
Eleven thousand miles to a winter re
sort is an all-time record.
What Route Is Mystery.
By what route does the Arctic tern
fly from the North pole to the Ant
arctic? That has been the questlos.
H. J. S. Heather of Durban, Natal,
has communicated to the National
Geographic society the circumstances
ef the Important find, which may an
swer the question:
“The tern was picked np by Mr.
Wackrlll of Johannesburg, a few miles
south of Port Shepstone. His discov
ery, the biological survey wrote the
finder, was the most remarkable case
that has been reported In any country.
It suggests that the Arctic tern leaves
the northern reaches of North Amer
ica, flies to Portugal, crosses the
length of Africa and then ’bops’ to the
Antarctic continent.**
The new evidence adds about 2,000
miles to the previous 11,000 miles es
timated airline flight of the species.
The Arctic tern enjoys more daylight
than any other living creature^ be
cause It Uvea In regions where the
sun never acts apd only experiences
night on its semiannual journeys across
the equator.
Terns and other shore birds travel
more widely than any other feathered
creatures. The golden plover raises
a brood In Ungavs or northern Labra
dor and In the fall wings out over the
ocean, never stopping notll It reaches
BermbdE 7)n It Hiss, pi using perhaps
at ths Baba mss, or the Lesser Antilles
on the way to South America. The
first of tbe golden plovers have been
reported arriving in Paraguay before
the last have left the breeding grounds.
They “winter” on the Argentine pam
pas where the summer sun makes food
plentiful.
Even unadventurous appearing war
blers travel far to escape the cold
breath of winter. Of our American
species and subspecies twenty-two
winter In the West Indies, forty-four
go to Mexico, thirty-seven push on
to Central America, while twenty-two
reach South America. It Is a fact for
never ceasing wonder that some war
blers and other small birds fly 500
miles across the Caribbean sea with
out resting.
Probably the most remarkable non
stop oversea flights are those of the
Pacific golden plover. Coming south
from Alaska It touches at the Aleu
tians and then takes off for Hawaii.
It crosses 2,800 miles of open ocean.
How plovers are able to locate the
Hawaiian islands in the middle of the
Pacific Is a mystery of nature.
Remarkable Flight Records.
Birds that nest In the southern
hemisphere also have remarkable rec
ords for travel. The slender-billed
shearwater makes a circuit of the
Pacific ocean. It breeds In southern
Australia, files north along* the Asia
coast and returns south by the Amer
ican coast.
Promotion of bird-banding has re
vealed many unknown and unsuspected
facts of bird migrations and habits.
Telltale bands have shown the male
wren to be an extremely inconstant
fellow who ought to be paying heavy
worm alimony and have also supplied
facts on which practical plans for the
conservation of birds life can be
made.
“At present nearly 1,200 banding
stations are in operation In all parts
of the country," writes E. W. Nelson,
formerly head of the bureau of bio
logical survey, In the National Geo
graphic Magazine. ,
“The operators send the data re
garding each individual bird banded
to tbe bureau, which has established
an Indexed card file of such records.
Widespread Interest is expressed In
reports of the capture of banded birds,
of which 13,734, representing about
two hundred species, have been re
taken, either alive or dead.”
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In the Mayor’s Ccwit.
William Bradley, drurk, $5. or 10
days.
Lonnie Odom, drunk, $5 or It) days.
In addition to the above, 20 pei^qns,
men and womer, paid fines of $1 each
for violations of the traffic ordinance,
in that they failed to observe the
“stop” signals at the intersection! of
Main and Burr Streets, according to
Mayor B. W. Sexton.
Charges were preferred ard fines
imposed in the Mayor’s Court Monday
night as follows:
Herman Walker, drunk, disorderly
ard resisting an officer, $25 or 30
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