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m i i..— * THURSDAY, NOVEMBER tt, ISM BARNWELL FBOfLE-gENTINEL. BARNWELL. BOOTE CAMOLINA PAGE THREW ' ; « I 1 Nobody’s Business In the Beginning. Willie Beam was the first boy to go to college from the community in which I was raised, and raised is right. Willie’s pa could read a little, and spell a few single-syllable words and could write hig name, but he managed to fool the 1st school teacher that ever got a job at Piney Point, so Mrs. Beam was the main reason why Willie went to college. Willie was gone from amongst us for 9 whole months and we had just about forgot him. Boys diddent come home for Thanksgiving and Christmas and .Good Friday and Washington’^ birthday and Labor Day and funerals back then; they left home in Septem ber and stayed left till June^ But Willie rolled in one Thursday after noon and that guy tore our whole country all to pieces. Willie wa s a wonder to us natives. None of us had ever seen or heard of a military uniform and brass buttons and a flat-topped cap. Willie had all of these things on, plus—meaning that he also wore tanned shoes (which was a revelation to us) and a bel£ that went around hi s waist with a strap passing over his shoulders, and he was actually so straight that he leaned slightly backwards when he stood still, v When we boys tried to talk to Wil lie, our mouths got so dry we couldn’t say a word. Willie had changed his voice considerably and his language was absolutely Yankee, and danged if we could catch half that youngster said. His sister told me that he had 24 buttons on the left side of his coat and 24 on the right side and 4 on each cuff and 6 behind just where a bustle would have come to—jf he had had on a bustle, and it looked sorter like he was toting one around, but of course—it was a very flat one. The girls simply went crazy about Willie. My own darling, Judie, in whom I had learned to trust, and whom I had learned to love, the girl that had chewed my sweet gum and eat my candy when I had any and smelt my flower s when I picked them out in the dew and put in the bottle on her desk, why, she turned up her nose at me just, the minute Willie took both her hands in his’n and pulled her up close to him and said: “Why, Judie—you dear sweet girl. How beautiful you have grown, what won derful eyes. Judie—you are a Joan of Ark.” Well, I wiped my -nose on my sleeve and slunk out of the house, and to this day—I ain’t spoke to Judie and have very little use for a single one of her 11 younguns. (Nope, Wil lie diddent get her.) The Frist Cold Snap Snapped Hard. Well, it happened just as I expected. Every day for the past month I have been making up my mind that I would put alcohol in my lizzie’s radiator to morrow, but now it’s too late. The tomorrow that I wa s going to use did not arrive in time and now she’s busted from the bumper to the tail- light, judging from the way water squirts through her ribs. Naturally I betook myself to a radiator repair shop. The man look ed at my ill water toter, lit his cigar ette 7 different times, squinted at the 6 bolt s that held it intact, intimated that 68 of my tubes (or rather the radiator’s tubes) were busted, but finally looked as wise as a Hoover- Democrat, and said: “Old man, (and me only about 48,) l can fix her up for $17.45.” When • I came to (after fainting) I couldn’t find this fellow so I had to buy me a new outfit for $11.98, plus postage. After getting the old boat in run ning trim again, I felt mighty good. But the next morning I saw frost on the pumpkin vines and I sdnsed calamity. I ate my waffles and sor ghum, put on my 1927-model over coat, donned by 1928 hat, and strutted out to that car that has hauled me to and from the office for 3 years. When I got in, I threw the switch, ppt my foot on the starter button and all that thing said was—“tizz- zizz-z-z-iz-z-ii-zz—zunk.” i 4 m.n i;u THE NEW CHEVROLET SIX HAS MANY IMPROVEMENTS ; V The introduction of the new Chevrolet Six marks the most impressive forward step in Chevrolet’s twenty-year record of constant progress and improvement. For this Bigger and Better Six offers new beauty of line and color, new luxury, new completeness and new quality—yet it sells at lower prices! In every curve and sweep of Chevrolet’s modern lines— in every detail of its smart new Fisher bodies, you will see the fine hand of the master designer and the skillful craftsman. And the more closely you inspect it, the more deeply impressed you will be. The improvements in the new Chevrolet Six begin at the smart new chrome-plated headlamps and extend throughout the entire car. The radiator is deeper and unusually efficient. Due to the increased wheelbase, the lines are longer and lower, giving an air of excep tional fleetness and grace. And the new Fisher bodies combine with this more attractive exterior appearance, a new degree of interior luxury. The upholstery is of fine quality mohair or broadcloth. carefully tailored and fitted. The number of individual springs in the rear seat cushions has been increased by 25%. The windshield and windows have been redesigned to provide wider vision. And all interior fittings have been made more pleasing to the eye. The chassis of the new Chevrolet Six has also been re fined and advanced in a number of different ways. The frame is heavier, deeper and stronger than before. There is a smoother operating, long lived clutch; a sturdier front axle; an entirely new steering mechanism of the worm and sector type; an easier shifting transmission. In lact, every vital feature of the new car has been made better and more satisfactory to the owner. Obviously, these many improvements are responsible for a higher standard of quality than before. And they become doubly significant when you consider that they are offered in a car which provides the smooth, quiet, flexible performance of a 50-horsepower, six-cylinder motor—the comfort of four long semi-elliptic springe and four hydraulic shock absorbers—the safety of a gasoline tank at the rear of the car—and an economy of operation not surpassed by any automobile. * i » AT NEW LOW PRICES « £ ■« i ^ 1 i Fine as It is, the new Chevrolet Six now sells at lower prices—making the economy and satisfaction of Chevrolet ownership even more outstanding. We urge you to come in The Phaeton The Roadster Sport Roadster with rumble scat ' - • . - r i and see the Bigger and Better Chevrolet. Its modem design reflects the spirit of the times— and it represents a value which will command the in terest of every buyer in the low-price field. m l 4 < i \i;\\ 510 The Coach l *545 Sport Coupe with rumble seat *575 475 Standard Coupe - ‘535 Standard Sedan . *635 495 Standard Five- Window Coupe *545 Special Sedan ‘650 SPEC I A L E Q U I 1 i PMENT EXTRA , Chevrolet Trucks from $355 to $695 All prices f. o. b. Flint, Michigan k SIX chevkoij: i IT’S WISE TO CHOOSE A SIX GRUBBS CHEVROLET CO BARNWELL, S. C a man up to my house to examine the remains. I tried to push the pile of junk out on the street to a hill, but the brakes were stack, and besides that—my wife simply ain’t fit to push nothing, oman couldn’t pushes moth the mantel—modi lota move car with nobody ta II I walked to tho offfco sad tho *aorHsw tfatua'’—To* k wfcsc h» mri * oat TWf ssac And shortly thereafter the phone rang and when I poked the receiver to my ear, this is what the service filled it with: “Your old battery is shot.. She’s grounded in five cells, leaks badly at both poles, terribly dry —lookg like you’d let us filled her with water occasionally; it’s free you know. She won’t hold a charge. Will sell you a 13-cell Copenhagen Giant for $15.95 thip allowing you $4.00 for your old fa*t$ery or you can just keep it and pay us the regular cash price. $16.96.“ That hall s 6 trouble would be ever with. The horn froze but so far as I am con cerned it can stay froze. I’ll holler at the pedestrian g from now on and if they don’t dodge they can see their undertaker. (I get all of the pipes at the house fixed for $45.23, but this included the pay of the helper and 2 feet of piping and 1 washer). Hurrah for Summer time. Lisles Undertakers. Perhaps you have noticed that nearly all of the bad automobile wieeks occur on good roads. People are careful when they take time to think, and rough rosds help them to think. district of New York. You simply can’t tell when some busted broker or his patron will jump out of a win dow and land on top of you in an effort to commit suicide and thus dodge his creditors. Cotton Letter. New York, Nov. 24.—In response to rather easier Liverpool cables, spots opened at s decline of 1 point and an advance of 2 points on week-end cov ering. Hedges and straddles were in order on government information that Hoover might veto the anti-beer bill that the Republicans are planning to offer aa a substitute for the farm relief measure already operating .but hack-Anag Frost was heavy in the sad sa was southern selling, print rioths and bile factories, and steel mills, but minnie-ture golf courses, night clubs, speak-easies and carded yarns con tinue active to dull. At Last. Our champion yo-yo-er of last sum mer is now taking top-spinning les sons, and will probably wind up flap ping flap-jacks; our best-tree-setter is still setting around home enjoying his famousness and doesn’t realize that we have done forgot him, but the girl who won out in the beauty contest landed a job in a 10-cent store and still paints. We cant locate the leaders in the bike marathon and the benana eating contest and the egg sucking race, all of which is fine. Doat idly wait for things to blow ever or you may be blown over.— Very Successful Bull Sale. There were 11 pure bred Guernsey bulls sold at Barnwell on November 14th. Seven of these went to farmer s in Barnwell County, three in Allendale and one in Aiken. In every way the sale was a success. The average price paid for the bulls was nearly $70. The interest taken by the farmers clearly shows that they are going to increase the quality and quantity of cows in this county. We know that the outstanding fault with our farm program is that we do * not have enough livestock. The first step to ward correcting this is the baying of pure bred hogs and these bulla. Let’g carry on by giving the cow, hog and hen a more prominent place in ear farm program.—Prepared by H. G.