Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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JUNE 22, 1882. > 7 f I Wanting Freedcm.—All the prison- p # •>r.' in jail are anxious for the coming , 4 of Coart. -The Oldest Inhabitant. — July Smalls, colored, of Wiiliston, is the oldest voter yet registered. He is in his hundredth and second year, rode thirty miles to get his certificate and is apparently good for a decade's ser vice in the field and at the ballot box. The Augusta Market.—Gotten is quiet at 11 Vic. New wheat is selling for 81.36 per bushel. Smoaked clear rib side; are quoted at 14 cents and clear rib dry salt s'des at 13 cents and an advance is predicted. New crop oats sell for 50 cents per bushel. Worth Knowing.—The leaf of the cactus or pickley pear is said to be a certain cure for a bone felon or whitlow. Scrape off th e " pridcles and outer rind with a knife, beat up the remainder of the leaf with a silver fork and apply as a poultice to the affected place until a cure is perfect ed. Saturday's Storm. — On Saturday Mr. G. M. Hogg's dining room, in Great Cypress Township, was blown down, and in Williaton Township the crops of Messrs. N. D. Anderson snd N. H. Bolen were badly injured. So many trees were blown down in the fields that their crop* cannot be plowed again. Jane, Captain John Lambert, com mander, will com e steaming, puffing and whistling up Turkey Creek and round to at the Custom House, on the east side of the fishing hole near the white oak spring N. N. W. * of thi« office. The people of this county are generally and universally request ed to take part in the exercises on that interesting and festive occasion. Come one, come all. Short Itatinn*.—The Barnwell mar ket was, on la-t Saturday, very much in the condition of Mother. Hubbard’s cupboard. The only edibles offered on the square were two crocus sacks of upland terrapins,, which animals sold readily a t a nickle apiece. Red Oak.—Mr. B. O. Sanders, an ex cellent citizen, died on Monday after noon. He had been sick for several months with a pulmonary affection and only teturned from Aiken on the 14th. Mr. J. R. Bradley has a field of cotton waist high. Blue cat have commenced to run up The Runs. thaf I am an old scamp. _-__.,Bert Frost^ha s been pouting at m e for 5 years. v He lived on one of my farms and moved away and tpok my bvaaW*mith shop with him. I wrote him a nice letter SIRfTTJTd him to kindly return my things, but he sent me wotd to go to a ceitain place where the weather man don't have to predict. He still has my stuff, bbt he won’t a 8 much as lock at me. - ? Azzie Lee Goss got mad at me becau-e I asked her once if she was related to the Gosses in Nor^h Caro lina. It 8eem s that one of. the Gosses up there got some of his State’s money mixed up with his, money while serving as treasurer, and she heard about it-i—^id naturally she thought I wa s trying to make her akin to these terifyle people. She won’t even ^peak to my Uncle Joe. For lazy liver, stomach and kidneys, biliousness, indi gestion, constipation, head ache, cold 3 and fever. 10/ and 35/at dealers. Candidates’ Cards. f HT —■ Democratic Primary Election. election and to support the-nomineej of the party. W. P. SANDERS. ^ * 4 Magistrate, Great Cypress Townsbip. Kline, S. C., May 10, 1932. I hereby announce myself a candi date for election to the office of Mag istrate for Great Cypress Township, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary election, pledging myself to abide by the re^ suits cf the election and to support the nominees of the party. C. D. OWENS. The friend that hates me worst is the own who borrowed my mower and broke it a nd sent it home broke. I asked him how he broke it and he struck at me twice, but I happened to 'Caroling District in the Democratic ^ t * 1 J • *" i An Honored Cctifederate Gone.— Conrad, the old war-hor^e of Col. W. H. Duncan, died on the evening of the 16th ihst. He waa one of the be«t and most useful of our four-footed frienda. During the war he waa wounded in battle, and after our sworda were beaten into plow j>harea he has done his full part in making fifteen consecu tive crops. . ... Upon reaching middle life he changed his black coat for a jacket of gray, which he wore until hia death. For the last two years (although he retained hia health and vigor to the end) he was not al lowed to labor. On th f evening of the anniversary of the battle of Seces- aionville, amid gilded oats, in a green pasture, near rippling waters, he selected a cool shade, quietly laid himself full length upon the grass Our Population.—The population of and without a struggle or a pain Candidates.—The last issue of the Edgefield Advertiser contains $150 worth of candidates’ cards. In Barn well, the number of men willing to nerve the dear people U legion, but their modesty i a equal to that of a school girl’s picnic. It costs five dol lars, cash in advnnce, to let your light shine through the columns of The People on the people. be gone. I didn't mean any harm; just simply wanted to know how it happened so’s I would’t break it again after having it fixed—at my own experv j e. He threw a rock at my dog only last summer and almost ran over my wife with his truck not long ago For Congress. Orangeburg, S. C., May 21,1932 I hereby announce my candidacy for rcelection to Congress of the United States for the Second South prunaxy election, pledging myself to abide by the rules jof the party. H. P. FULMER. I hereby announce myself a candi date for election to Congress from the Second District of South Carolina, He even told my preacher subject to the rules and regulation^ cf the Democratic primary election. that I was -a hipper-crit, and folks,' th e trirth hurts. I’m going to do my very beat to make up with them after the panic. Barnwell County ia 39,858, of which 1 passed into that sleep that know* no 19,940 are males, 19,918 females, 39;-! waking. During hia long life he 754 native; 104 of foreign birth, 13,-1 neve! changed hands. 848 whites and 26,010 colored. Barnwell.—John Lambert, the fish erman, is quite sick. Mrs. Molair sold thi« season 121 spring hats. A very hand"ome cross of Italian maible has placed over Mrs. M. G. Harley's grave and a memorial tablet set up in the Baptist church. The Port cf Barnwell.—Congress has appropiiated $8,000 for the im provement of th e Edisto and $5,000 to make the Big Saltkehatchie navigable A better day is coming for our an cient village. In the course of human events, the pioneer ^tcamer^ Betsey Nobody’s Business By Gee McGee. * fiat rock gleanings. j have benn asked to coirect a statement i had in this collum last thursday. i said a* followers: mrs. kinerd smith had as her dinner guess yesterday mrs. joe green.’’ kindly straighten thi s out, a- they don’t speak to one another onnCr count of he owes her husband a mortgage. country veggertables are coming into town now and the sellers there of don’t get enough monney foi same to pay for the gas to carry them back home, --evera! of the growers had to leave their fords in town and walk back to the farm to fetch some moie cabbages and Neats to buy gas with, most of them seem tp be out- -doHe and worried. pasture of the fiist bapti-t, will preech in our church next sunday morning on “Kit and his wife who turned to a block of salt.” he hell a meeting here last summer ami everybody enjoyed his fine oriatoty and short prayers, he ha- l»enn «rdained only 2 years, and now - he is being promised 850$ by the cedar !an e congrtgntion—which means that—he .will gut-about 250$. we allso pay our preecher veiry well, but not as much as we agree to pay. an cptermist club will soon l»e or ganized in cur midst, if a man is heard to mention th e depression oi say annything about hard times, he will have to give the man he i s talk ing to a chew of to backer or a see- gar. this will break up all bf the complaining, as tobacker ainP so plentiful as it wa- h. h. (before hoo ver. > there is no other news at pres ent. yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd. cony spqni.enL- — - a report has benn started down here to the affect that the dimeicrats, when they get in offi> next november, will sel) post effices in the stoat’s just like meat and flour, this is done to hurt our party, and is no doubt the work of a republican, if pest offices don’t co«ft too much i think i will try to buy one, but with cotton at 5 cents and legs, there ain’t many jobs worth 1200$ a tellygram w?s icceived from mr. smith of north Carolina .that his wife * was dying la^t monday and would be berried at rehober ra. flat rook the following thrusday and a grave was dug in his plot, as her remains did not come as expected he was foamed to find out If she Was “berried up there, the ancer came bac that fhe had got better apd*would soon be well, thig was a great dis- appintment to ber i friends, as they had alreaddy bought flowers and had cried- *bit. •- r?v. aaker lott, ' the cedar lane How I Last My Friends. — -It’s mighty hard to keep friends friendly. 1 .Jiav^*. been -.-ummerizing a little here of late, and checking,off 4h e fiiends I have lost—and it looks like they are gone for good—or pos sibly bad. Jim Winks fell out with me be cause I endorsed a note for him at the bank: I p^rid the note,.but he is still mad a t me. (The money and his friendship were both a total loss to me.) 1 sold Hurrie Shape a bill of goods on erecit and he for^ot.rto set tle for them, and now htv won’t speak to^m^. H e told my. cousin, ( Elsie, that he hated the very ground I walked I am sorry he fell out with the teal estate too. —..Artie Choak' tried to borrow $25 from me w-itheut security—When I didn’t haye $26 tq nty name—and be cause I refused to makj» the donation, he went eff talking about me- and trfea to make his associates believe Local and Personal News of Blackville Blackville, June 18.—Last Thursday afternoon Mrs. G. F. Poaey enter tained at bridge in honor of Mrs. Marion Tomlinson, of Sumter, s house guest, and Miss Mary Phoebe Bush, of Ellentcn, bride-elect, whose marriage to D. Stanley Brown, of Blackville, took place Wednesday of this week. Miss Helen Brabham, of Hattievllle, maid of honor to Miss Bush, was pre sent, and w« a also piesented with a gift as were the honor guests. Misses Mary Frances and Elise Gyles, of Siler City, N. are the guests of their grandfather. Dr. R. A. Gyles'. They arrived Tuesday ac companied by their mother, Mrs. Ronald Gyles, who after spending a day here went on to Beaufort to visit relatives. Mrs. R. A. Gyles and Miss Virginia Boylston left Tuesday for Columbia, where they are attendihg summer school at the University of South Carolina. Miss Janic^ Brown also ex pects to attend and will enroll Mon day. . Solomon Brown, of Buffalo, N. Y., spent last week a« guest of his par ents, Mr. a^d Mrs. Isadore Brown. Mr. Brown left Wednesday of this week for Charleston to visit his ister, Mrs. Ernest Weatherhorn. Mrs. W. A. Cat roll was hostess to the Thursday Bridge club this week. •Mrs. Marion Tomlinson, *of Sumter, wa a an out-of-town guev-t. The Joseph Roger chapter,' D. A. R v sponsored a btidge tournament on Thursday evening at the home of Dr. and Mrs. R. A. Gyles. The women cf the Methodist church served a barbecue and chicken jjinnwr and supper in the Fairell store buil<r’ ing Tuesday. The affair was well patronized, and a nice sum realized. Democratic Tag Day was observed in Blackville on Saturday when Misses Catherine Weissinger, Louise Boyls ton, Eva and Verp x Still, Elizabeth Baxley and Mae Still Solicited contri butions to thi s fund. Mrs. Eunice Cain and children, Dot, Beatrice, Lewis and Frances Black, of Spartanburg, are visiting her daugh ter, Mrs. G. T. Boylston, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey A. Burst, who at present are located at Walterboro, -pent last week-end with the former’s mother, Mrs. C. S. Buist. , pledging myself to abide by the results of the election and to support the nominees of the party. A. FRANK LEVER. Clerk ef Court. • • Barnwell, S. C., June 1, 1932 I hereby announce myself s candi date for reelection to the office of Clerk of Court for Barnwell County, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary election, pledging myself to abide by the re sults of the election and to support the nominees of the party. R. L. BRONSON. Sheriff. Barnwell, S. C, May 9, 1932. I hereby announce myself a candi date for reelection to the office of Sheriff of Barnwell County, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary election, pledg ing myself to obide by the results of the election and to support the nomi nees of the party. BONCIL H. DYCHES. For Master la Equity. Barnwell, S. C., May 31, 1932. 1 hereby announce myself « candi date for reelection to the office of Master in Equity for Barnwell Coun- k t»ubject tQ the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary election, pledging myself to abide by the results of the election and to support the nominees of the party. G. M. GREENE. State Senate. Barnwell, S. C., May 9, 1932. I hereby announce myself a candi date for reelectiort to the State Sen- subject to -the rules arid regula tions of the Democratic primary elec tion, pledging myself to abide by the results cf the election and to sup port the nominees °f the party. EDGAR A. BROWN. House of Representatives. Barnwell, .S. C., June 8, 1982. I hereby announce myself a candi date for election to the House of Representatves, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic primary election, pledging myself to abide by the result* of the election and to support the nominees of the party. ' SOLOMON BLATT. For Women’s Aches and Pains Women who suffer from headache, backache, and periodic pains find Ca; udine the ideal remedy. It’s liquid! therefore apts almost in stantly. Take two teaspoonfuls in a little water. You’ll be delighted with the quick relief. Soothes the nerves and brings comfort and re laxation. Why not keep a bottle handy? At drug stores, in single . dose, or in 10c, 30c, and 60c sizes. (adv.) Notice to Confederate Pensioners. ) Judg^ John K. Snelling, Judge’ <rf Picbate, Clerk of the Barnwell Coun ty Pension Board, announces that the balance of th e Pension money has beenr received and urges that all pen- Williston, S. C., May 3, 1932. I hereby announce myself a candi- nate for reelection to the House of Representatives, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic piimary election, pledging myself to abide by the results cf the election and to support the nominees of the party. WINCHESTER C. SMITH, JR. • For Coroner. Barnwell, S. C., May 11, 1932. I heieby announce myself a candi date for reelection to the office of Coroner for Barnwell County, subject to the rules and regulations.of the Democratic piimary election, ‘ pledg ing myself to abide by the result of the election and to support the nomi nees of the party. /. D. P. LANCASTER. , Kline, 1 S. C., June f»,’T932. I hereby announce myself a candi date for election to the office of Mag istrate at Kline, subject to the rules and segulatiops of the Democratic primary! e!e?ti«n, pledging myself to abide by the results of the election and to support the nominees of the party W. H. HARDEN. Blackville, S. C., June 9, 1932. I hereby announce myself a candi date for election totHe eff ice of Mag- ' istrate at Blackville,rsubject to the rules and regulations of the ^ ei ”2pv ciatic primary election, pledging nw J self to abide by the results of tfiS election and to support the nominees of the party. DR. O. D. HAMMOND. Blackville, May 30, 1932 I hereby anounc e myself a candi- dafev-1 for election to the office of Magistrate at Blackville, subject to the rules pnd regulations cf the Demo- ciatic primary ejection, pledging my- ielf to abide by the results of the election and to support the nominees of the party. H- L. DeWITT, I hereby announce myself a candi date for election to the office of Mag istrate for Great Cypress township, subject to the rules <and regulations of the Democratic primary election, pledging myself to abide by the re sults of the election and to support th e nominees of the party. J. W. SANDERS. I hereby announce myaeelf a candi date for election to the office of Mag istrate for Great Cypress township, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic psrty^ pledging myself to abide by the results of thef election and to support the nominees of the p’irt/. WALTER B. FOWKE. Magistrate at Blackville. Blackville, May 16, 1932. I hereby announce myself m candi date for reelection to the office of Magistrate at Blackville, subject to the rulesi and regulations cf the Demo cratic primary election, pledging my self to abide by the results of the election and to support the nbmineei of the party. W. S. GRUBBS. Magistrate Bennett Springs and Four Mile Townships: Meyei’s Mill, S. C.^ May ,'16, 1932. - I hereby announce myself a candi date foe- reelection to the office of Magistrate for Bennett Springs and Four Mile Townships, subject to the rules and regulations of the Demo cratic.primary election, pledging my self to abide by the results of the election and to support the nominees of the party. G. R. PEEPLES. Magiatrate at Hilda. Olar, S. C; R. F. May 24, 1932 J hereby announce myself a candi date for eelction to the office of Mag istrate at Hilda, subjects to the and regulations of the DemocnK^ primary election, pledging myself to abide by the results of the election and to support the nominees of the party. PAUL H. SANDERS. Hilda, S. G. June 1, 1932 I hereby announce myself a cand - date for reelection to the office of Magistrate at Hilda, subject to the rules and regulations of the Demo cratic primary election, pledging my self to abide by the results of the election and to support the nominees of the party. W. -K. BLACK. Magisrate at Barnwell. Barnwell, S. C., June 8, 1932. I hereby announce myself a candi date for reelection to the office of siontrs cpme in promptly and receive Magistiate at Barnwell, 'subject to checks. .. 3^ the rules and regulations of the Demo- JOHN K. SNELLING, ctatic primary election, pledging rr.y i B. C. Pensicn Bd. self to abide'by the results of the % Bank Service % * * at Your Door W>th the aid of the Post-Office our Bank i.< as dose to you as your nearest mail-box. * Scores of our goed customers deposit regularly in our Bank thiough Post-Office money order <r registered letter. Thus LJncle S^m and the good, .«ound banks co-operate to provid e a satisfactofy service for for these who a a* not within personal reach of a depository. Send for our booklet • BANKING BY MAIL” it The Citizens and Southern National Bank Augusta, v -. -. - Georgia ? I x i ? f HALL a COLE, Inc. 94-102 FANEUIL HALL MARKET. ' BOSTON, MASS. 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