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? * Naples and Its pa TBSAtUtSTf REPORT Quarterly rtpor 4 of County Treas urer of school claims paid for the .. quarter ending Sept. 30. 1930. .. J. 4. BELL. • County Trea. County Board of Education. J. J. Bell, Treas. $1,427.00 Geo. G. Butler 155.00 W. W. Carter 250.00 N. Blatt 15,993.75 being ao!#*day in following described •nidj Mt Vesuvius as (Prepared by the Ifatieaai Oeoeraphte Society, Waahlneton. D. C.) W HILE not the center of the re cent destructive Italian earth quake, Naples and the towns around its beautiful bay suf fered considerable damage from the tremors. And that which , harms Naples, with Its almost perfect ar rangement of .sky, sea and rooun- tains, harms one of the principal “Journey’s ends'* of the world. Any thing likely to alter this setting la of more than passing concern to thou sands of former visitors, as well*as to residents. When the Neapolitan advertises, with the sloganeer’s modesty, “See Naples and then die.” he has in mind, of course, the city and surroundings taken as a whole. The city alone, although the largest and most pop ulous In the Italian peninsula, is a hodge-podge of narrow streets and tenement houses, teeming with life and gaiety; sordid, yet possessed with a vast vitality. In buildings and monuments of historic and artistic biterest, however, Naples cannot vie with the towns of central and north ern Italy. Naples Is comparatively young among cities of the Mediterranean. In the eighth century B. C. Greek colonists from the near-by city of Kyme recognised the superior advan- Inges of Its great half-moon bay and laid the foundations for later Roman settlements. In time the district be came the favorite residence of Roman magnates. Augustus frequently re sided at Naples and Virgil completed some of his most beautiful poetry here. Before the days of a united Italy, Naples was the capital of the king dom of Naples. A large royal palace, with white marble stairways and a throne room Ailed with art treasures, bears witness to its former Imperial wealth. Today Naples is Italy’s most Important seaport, connected by fast steamship lines with every part of the globe. Its streets are lined with factories, large and small, while the surrounding farm districts are fertile «nd productive. As a tourist: center if Is surpassed, probably, only by Boris. Dirty But Picturesque. For all Its commercialism, dirt and squalor, however. Naples is extremely picturesque. Rising In amphitheater fushion on the slopes of the hills in the northeast corner of the bay of Naples the city Is full of quaint, sleep streets, where broad steps take the place of the slab paving of the downtown thoroughfares. Following the cholera epidemic in 1884 many of the narrow streets and high balconied tenement houses were replaced with broad avenues and standard build ings. It Is in the remaining canyon streets, however, that one finds the most typical Neapolitan scenes. All Naples lives outdoors—to cook, to work, to play, to gassip, and almost to dress! Street singers with their mandolins, charcoal sellers and vend ers of sweets and drinks add their colorful bits to the daily pageantry. Macaroni factories line the streets of th« eastern part of the city, the fringes of marconi on racks collecting a little of the dust every passing automobile and push cart stirs up. For whatever the city lacks in neatness and beauty, Its famous bay more than makes pmends. The bay of Naples is a yardstick of marine perfection. Few who have seen the bay of Naples will grant that It is eclipsed elsewhere for spacious and perfect loveliness. Its dreamy head lands and the incomparable contour of Vesuvius in the center at once dis tinguish and sublimate it. Fascinating to Visitors. Many lovers of Italy feel that a country like Tuscany, with its softer colorings and gentler contours. Is ■sore restful and somehow more wholesome to live with, and that the Neapolitan scenery la too much like theater curtains come to life. Never- the!ess, every person who arrives it Naples under fair skies and beholds littoral for the first time cannot being affected by Its love*taco*, my of the Vteltora feel Seen From Naples. Naples la not a noisy, nerve-racking modern city, full of beggars and rogues and fleas; It is the old “new city”—Neapolis. In the bay of Naples the very atmosphere, to such Neapolitan spe cialists, seems more bland and limpid than elsewhere on the peninsula, lend ing to the distances a more magical and haunting charm; the curving shore Is picked out and decorated with countless beauties, and high mountains descend abruptly to a tide- leas sea streaked with color. In which are set efhereal lilac-tinted islands. From the Monastery of San Mar- J>.io, overlooking Naples, a picture spectacle is spread. The great, blue, half-moon bay, dotted with red and white sails, and surrounded by a mountainous coast line, which fringes off Into the Mediterranean at each end In rocky islets, looks more like a stage curtain than a reality. It Is Vesuvius that “makes” the bay of Naples. f Lovely Colors on the Bay. From Vesuvius, with the ruins of Pompeii at its base, the eye follows the curving shore line to the moun tainous Sorrento peninsula, purple and hazy in the distance, ending with rocky crags of the Island of Capri. At sunset the colors are so rich, and at the same time so soft, it seems hardly possible that they are real. The bay Is a rippling sheet of gray and green and blue. The rocky head lands and islands are the softest and most delicate lavender. A rolling stream of purple smoke rises from the crater of Vesuvius and floats across the sky, while, In the background, billowy pink clouds catch the last rays of the blood-red sun as 'It drops Into the Mediterranean. To many observers the fairest of the Neapolitau gems Is the Island of Cqpri that lies in the blue waters just off the tip of the Sorrentine peninsula. From high in air to below the waterline the island Is scarred and pitted with myriad vast pock marks, some pillared with stalactites and stalagmites, some through which the never-quiet sea moans and sobs with the agonized wail of a hurt monster; one white, with little pools of pure, sweet water on its floor, only a few inches above the swi; one greener tiian emerald; one blue as heaven with row upon row of delicate pink corals and tiny scarlet Jelly-fish studding the waterline like Jewels, while the refraction of the sunlight tints everything with the most marvel ously diaphanous color, through which the silvery ripples of the bottom sand, about 40 feet below, seem with in arm’s length. Back on the mainland, the traveler can find beauties along this delight ful coast even south of the bay. As be drives up over the crest of the Sorrentine peninsula the Siren Islands loom In the distance, too far away for even the echo of the charmers’ song to be heard. At Positano the road divides Into two white ribbons, binding the town to the green hill side. Scenes Along the Coast. On by the caves of troglodytes, who have all the comforts of home—little patches of garden, amiable goats, olive groves, and grape-arbors—the road winds In and out, up and down the stern face of the cliffs, rising and sinking in great billowy sweeps, plunging hastily through short, black tunnels, racing around big and little bends. Now It skirts the shoulder of a cliff, with only an 18-inch wall be tween the wheels and the boulders hundreds of feet below. Picturesque watch-towers stud the shore, ancient (defenses against the Barbary corsairs. And then presently Amalfi, once the brave little maritime republic that maintained Its independ ence so long in detlance of princes and emperors. In a low cleft of the hills the houses fairly pile upon one another, as though there were not room for them all onr the hillside. Back on the mist-veiled crags loom other towns, and all day long, down the road that winds dlszlly among the peaks, come old women and young girts, staggering under heavy loads of fagots gathered la the woods mIm tha Hoods. And shea they art not carrying fagots they art always knit- tha TOTAL — $17,825.75 District No. 2—Seven Pines. Eulallia Turner Parker $110.00' District No. 9.—Hilda. C. V. Wilkes.- $42.00 District No. 12.—Dunbarton., H. H. King, Supt.—Grammar $46.32 H. H. King, Supt. ” 312.94 H. H . King, Supt. ” 61.74 H. H. King, Supt.—Hifch -.287.06 •H. H. King, Supt. ” 413.15 H. H. King, Supt. ” 259.99 J. J. Bell, Treas. 571.43 TOTAL $1,952.63 District No. 14.—Mt. Calvary. Ida K. Williams — $55.00 District No. 15.—Reedy Branch. N. Blatt $853.07 District No. 16.—Green’s. Service. Garage $34.90 District No, 19.—Blackville. G. F. Posey, $404.19 G. F. Posey, 150.00 G. F. Posey 300.00 G. F. Posey, 150.00 G. F. Posey—High 243.52 G. F. Posey—High ----- 304.00 tm. thii month, the •elate: Twenty-three acres of land in Tink er! Creek School District, bounded as follows: North by R. L.' Wooley and R. L. Hair; East-by Est. of Joe Mitch ell; South by Talbert Jowera; West W. C. Bell. Levied upon and sold to satisfy the above Execution and Costs. BONCIL H. DYCHES, Sheriff, B. C. Barnwell, S. C. f 14th day of October, 1930.—3t. samrrs bale. SHERIFF’S SALE. TOTAL $1,551.71 District No. 26—Upper Richland W. H. Dicks — $44.25 District No. 29.—Wllliston. John Miley $185.00 C. K. Ackerman 208.33 L. S. Fletcher 136.71 t Selevyn R. Thompson 44.00 T. B. King 56.50 John Miley 165.00 TOTAL $795.54 District No. 32—Lee’s Almeta Williams $52.50 District No. 40.—Tinkers Creek. The Grolier Society $77.14 District No. 45.—Barnwell. W. W. Carter, Supt. $200.00 W. W. Carter, Supt. 100.00 W. W. Carter, Supt.—High 250.00 W. W. Carter, Supt.—High 100.00 TOTAL I. $650.00 PROBATE COURT SALE. Pursuant to a decree of the Court of Probate for Barnwell County, South Carolina, in the case of A. J. Owens as Administrator of the estate of G. W. Long against Camilla Long and others, dated September 18, 1930, I will sell in front of the Court House in Barnwell, South Carolina, on Mon day, the 3rd day of November, 1930, the same being salesday, within the legal hours of sale, the following described real property: All that cerfain tract, piece or par cel of land, situated, lying and being in Barnwell County and State of South Carolina, and bounded now or formerly on North by lands of G. P. Morris; on the South by lands of G. P. Morris and others, containing within the said boundaries forty-five (45) acres, more or less, and known as the Former Homestead of Benjamin Morris, Sr., deceased. TERMS OF SALE: Cash, purchas er to pay for papers and stamps; and the successful bidder will be require^ to deposit with the’ Judge cf Probate immediately after the sale the sum of Fifty ($50.00) Dollars, a s a guaranty that his bid will be complied with, un less cause for non-compliance be shown, and upon failure to make such deposit, the said premises will be im mediately re-sold upon the same terms and conditions and at the risk of the former purchaser; and should the«suc-r cessful bidder, after making said de posit, fail to comply with his bid with in a reasonable time, the said prem ises will be re-sold on some subse quent salesday, upon the said terms and conditions. JOHN K. SNELLING, Judge of Probate, Barnwell County, S. C.—October 15, 1930. State of South Carolina, County of Barnwell. THE STATE vs. JVES JEFFERSON. Under and by virtue of a Tax Exe cution to me directed by J. J. Bell, Treasurer of Barnwell County, I have this day levied fipon and will sell to the highest bidder for cash, between the legal hours of sale in front of the Court House at Barnwell, S. C., on Monday, the 3rd day of November, 1930, this being' salesday in said month, the following described real estate: Sixty-one acres of land in the Wil- liston School District, one building, bounded as follows^: North by State Highway; East by Ellis Johnson; South by W. H. Kennedy and Son; West by W. H. Kennedy and Son. Levied upon and sold to satisfy the above Execution and Costs. BONCIL' H. DYCHES, Sheriff, B. C. Barnwell, S. C., 14th day of October, 1930.—3t. SHERIFF’S SALE. SHERIFF’S SALE. SHERIFFS SALE. State of South Carolina, County of Barnwell. THE STATE ve. , EST. LOUISA FREDRICK. of a Tax Exe- by J. J. Bell, oaaty. I have a*4 v40 aril la -j J a# mb la teMi «f *• l C» a* State of South Carolina, County of Barnwell. • THE STATE vs. AIKEN PETROLEUM CO. Under and by virtue of a Tax Exe cution to me directed by J. J. Bell, Treasurer of Barnwell County, I have ttis day levied upon and will sell to the highest bidder for cash, between the legal hours of sale in front of the Court House at Barnwell, S. C., on Monday, the 3rd day of November, 1930, this being salesday in laid month, the following described per sonal property: Two gasoHae pumps Levied apoa aad sold ta satiafy the above Emereuea aad Coala. boncil a DYcaxa BherJff a C a C, Ida day «€ State of South Carolina, County of Barnwell. « THE STATE va. ! AUGUSTA CREAMERY CO. f Under and by virtue of a Tax Exe cution to me directed by J. J. Bell, Treasurer of Barnwell County, I have this day levied upon and will sell to the highest bidder for cash, between the legal hours of sale in front of the Court House at Barnwell, S. C., on S day, the 3rd day of November, , this being salesday in said month, the following described per sonal property: One Frigidaire. Levied upon and sold to satisfy the above Execution and Costs. BONCIL H. DYCHES, Sheriff, B. C. Barnwell, S. C., 14th day of October, 1930.-31. # MASTER’S SALE. Main Street, la the uwi cf Kite*, eaet by lands ef tbe Bead K*tste •»* on tbe south by an alley which sepa rates It from the Reed Isnd*. snd on the west by J. L. Bradley. ** „ Also: All of that piece, parcel or lot of land in State and County aforesaid, near Green Savannah, and containing two hundred thirteen acres, more or less, and bounded on the north by the Dorch Place, on the east by lands of Mrs. A. M. Harrison, south by landg of the Estate of W. H. Hogg, and on the west by lands of E. H. Simms. The lands above described form no portion of the lands describ ed in the deed of G. M. Greene, Mas ter, to Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., dated Dec. 29, 1927, recorded in Deed Book 9 U, page 190, in said Clerk’s office. Terms of sale: Cash: Purchaser to pay for papers and revenue stamps. That the successful bidder or bidders for each parcel of land herein ordered to be sold be required to make a de posit of fifteen per cent, of the amount of his, her or their bid as evidence of good faith, and upon his, her or their failure to do so, the said Master is directed to re-sell said prop erty on the same day or on some sub sequent convenient salesday, during the legal hours of sale at the risk of the former bidder. G. M. GREENE, Master for Barnwell County. Master’s office, October \0, 1930. MASTER’S SALE” State of South Carolina, County of Barnwell. THE STATE vs. RUBY SNELLING. Under and by virtue of a Tax Exe cution to me directed by J . J. Bell, Treasurer of Barnwell County, I have this day levied upon and will sell to the highest bidder for cash, between the legal hours of sale In front of the Court House at Barnwell, S. C., on Monday, the 3rd day of November, 1930, this being salesday 'dn said month, the following described real estate: One-eighth acre and one building, bounded as follows: North by lot of Susan Patterson; South by a street leading to colored cemetery; West by let of late Ed Morris; East by-lot of Richmond Brown. Levied upon and sold to satisfy the above Execution and Costs. BONCIL H. DYCHES, Sheriff, B. C. Barnwell, S. C., ‘14th day of October, 1930.—3t. SHERIFFS SALE. State of South Carolina, County of Barnwell. i Court of Common Pleas. i B. F. Davis, Jennie Davis and Mrs. Lula Halford, Plaintiffs, vs. Sallie Davis, individually and as Ad ministratrix of the estate of T. O. Davis, deceased, and Prudential In surance Company of America, Defendants. By virtue of a decretal order to me State of South Carolina, County of Barnwell. o THE STATE vs. R. L. MIMS. ' Under and by virtue of a Tax Exe cution to me directed by J. J. Bell, Treasurer of Barnwell County, I have ttis day levied upon and will sell to the highest bidder for cash, between the legal hours of sale in front of the Court House at Barnwell, S. C., on Monday, the 3rd day of November, 1930, this being salesday in said month, the following described per sonal property: One saw mill and planer; one en gine and boiler; one grist mill; pulleys and belts’, etc. Levied upon and sold to satisfy the above Execution and Costs. BONCIL H. DYCHES, Sheriff, B. C. Barnwell, S. C., 14th day of October, 1930.—3t. State of South Carolina, County of Barnwell. Court of Common Pleas. Missouri State Life Insurance Co., 1 Plaintiff, vs. v A. F. Greene, Francina Marie Greene and Federal Intermediate Credit Bank, Defendants. v By virtue of a decretal order to me directed in the above entitled cause I will sell at public auction, to the high est bidder for cash, in front of the Court House at Barnwell, State and County aforesaid on Monday, the 3rd day of November, 1930, the same being salesday in said month, between the legal hours of sale, the following de scribed real property, to-wit: All that tract and parcel of land, j situate, lying and being in Barnwell ; County, South Caroina, in Rosemary * 1 and Richland Townships, containing 1369 acres, more or les* and bounded a s follows: On the nortn by Angus Burgess, lands formerly belonging ! ^* recte( 1 ^ the above entitled raiise, I Solomon Moody, lands of Moses se ' public auction, to the high- Mitchell, and lands of Thomas Grubbs, est bidder for cash . in front <>* the formerly belonging to David Dicks; ^ oul t House at Barnwell, State an*l on the east by lands of Thomas * ,)Unt > aforesaid on Monday, the 3rd Grubbs, and formerly belonging to day of Nove mber t 1930, the same being David Dicks; and Sandy Run Creek; ' sa,esday ln aaid month, between the on the south by land s of Wilson High-) hours of saie, the following de tower and lands of Mrs. C. A. Bush, scribed re* 1 property, to-wit: formerly lands of Charles Ashley; a'nd T bose two certain pieces or uarce s on the west by lands of Mrs. C. A. ^ aad * n B arnw t‘ll t ounty. South Bush and Richard Burgess, formerly ^ arolina, owned by the estate of belonging to Charles Ashley. The Thomas °- Davi » *nd containing two above tract is composed of two tracts^ bundred sevt ‘ n ty-eight (278) and one known respectively as the Gaines bundred and one acres, respec- Ashley homestead tract, containing | t ' ve ^ y ’, and lnore P art ' cularl y ^ e# oribed 1202 acres, and the Isaac Garris tract as ^ ollows: « containing 167 acres. | tbat P' ect> * parcel or tract of Terms of sale: For cash. No bid Iand c 9 nta ining tw 0 hundred seventy- shall be accepted by the Mister until <2*H) acres, bounded on the a cash deposit of two hundred dollars 1 noi 2 b b y lands of James Dicks and ($200.00) has been made; this provis-? Abram Sm »th; on the east by lands ion however, not to apply to the plain- ^ 0,merl y °f Philip Baxley; on the tiff’s bid; said sum to be forfeited and ' outb b y lands formerly of Sullivan, applied on the plaintiff’s judgment and on * be west b y lands formerly of and payment of costs, unless a com- ^ <lwar(1 L. Patterson estate, now pliance with sale is had within ten 0 ' vntd b ^ es ! a te of Thomas O. Davig, day s from the date thereof. The pur- 1 and bavin £ tbe following surveyors’ chaser shall pay for revenue stamps cads and distances, as shown by a and recording of papers. ^me dated Feb. 13, 1872, G. M. GREENE, made ^ J * S - Mixson, Deputy Sur- Master for Barnwell County. ve y° r * Beginning at the extreme Master’s office, October 10, 1930. southern point and running thence N 26H W 78.25 ch. to a stump; thence N 59 W 13.50 chains to a stake; thence N 30 E 23 ch. to a cypress; thence S 83 E 30.25 ch. to a stake; thence S 7 W 18.50 ch. to a stake! thence S* 83 E 11 ch. to a mulberry tree; thence S 7 W 17i€5 ch. to a stake; thence S 25 E 37 ch. to a stake; thence S 35 W 29 ch. to the point of beginning. All of that piece, parcel or tract of land containing one hundred one (101) acres, more or less, as showm by plat of same made by J. S. Mixson, C. E., May 17, 1892, and having the following surveyors’ calls and dis tances: Beginning at a stake on the N-W corner and running thence S 70 E 5.60 ch. to a stake; thence S 56 E 14.80 ch.'to a stump; thence S 24V£* E 80 ch. to a pine; thence S 37 W 13 ch. to a point; thence N 24*4 W 106.25 ch. to the point of beginning, being the land conveyed to Charlotte E. Davis by E. L. Patterson, Jr., et al., by deed recorded in Barnwell County in B^>k 6 G, page 192. Term* of sale: For cash. No bid shall be accepted by the Master until a cash deposit of two hundred dol lars ($200.00) has been made; this provision, however, not to apply to MASTER’S SALE. State of South Carolina, Cqunty of Barnwell. Court of Common Pleas. Bank of Western Carolina, Plaintiff. vs. Theresa Harley, S. E. Harley, F. M. Harley, W. B. Turner, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and Southern Cotton Oil Company, Defendants. By virtue of a decretal order to me directed in the above entitled cause, I will sell at public auction, to the high est bidder for cash, in front of the Court House at Barnwell, State and County aforesaid on Monday, the 3fd day of November, 1930, the same being salesday in said month, between the legal hours of sale, the following de scribed real property, to-wit: All that piece, parcel or tract of land in State and County aforesaid, near Yenome Station, containing one hundred fifty acres, more or less, and bounded on the north by lands of F. M. Harley, on the east by land t of „ Connerty EtUU. on tbe »outh by th * Prud,nt '* 1 Iniur * nc * Compnny of Unde of J. W. Botes, end on tbe went , • h “ : »“« to be for- by lends of J. W. 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