Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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■ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 19S2 Fall in the Offing '* in the Low Country It* Coming, However, Is Belied by Hot Elections and Fall Gothes ( in Shop Windows. Even though it’s been sweltering in the Low-Country this week—a con dition which hasn’t been mitigated by elections nor the .sight of fall clothes in the shop windows, ther*e are, never theless, distinct signs that fall is in the offing Foi" .sometime, now, days have been growing shorter. Dusk closes ill more quickly and thickly nowadays, like ^ soft, blurry blanket being tuck ed about the world. Ano stars seem bigger and ’trighter in the dark skies. One sleeps more soundly, too, and v^akes reluctantly to mornings tinged with grayer shades. Fogs drape their ghostlike gar ments close above the earth and growing things hang heavy with shining dew. Sunshine seems some how mere mellow thaj? has been its wont and the sky farther away and more clearly blue. Coastal waters have taken on a deeper', mysterious depth ancfNseem to move more slug gishly. Smells have become strangely poig nant, so that one sniffs one and yet pgain to catch the pungent qualities which float upon the gentle breezes. Zinnias and summer marigold-; and cannas and the coral vine and even the generous crape myrtles are be ginning to look a bit bedraggled and the worse for wear—like the bright summer frocks of the ladies with waterhu-e and onslaughts against wcjds, coax and wheedle these gay flowers hold out yet a little longer. But the death knell for both .sum mer flowers and summer .clothes is loginning to toll. For along the. roadsides, the fiesher, more deeply vivid colors ^f fall are appearing— even as they are in the shop windows -—putting the tattered brilliance of summer to shame. The warm yellow of the goldenrod and low-gi owing daisies, the lavander and purple of wild aster's and water iilies, the vivid scarlet of the trum- phet vine are reflecting the earth, even as their reflections m tantaliz ing-bits of felt and velvet an^- grace ful lengths of silk and wool are quickening jaded female spirits. THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL. BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA , BARNWELL 50 YEARS AGO. SEPTEMBER 7, 1882. Middling cotton was quoted on the Charleston market at 12 1-4 cents a pound and in Augusta at ll 1 ^ cents. Nothing can .^o distuib the Low- Country as an election. And all the little towns in the lowlands were big- eyed with excitement Tuesday night. Of course it isn’t flattering to the senatorial gentlemen, but in the towns of three thousand population or less, nobody was concerned whether Smith or Bleasc was in the lead—of course, they would he interested in discover ing the situation in the papers to morrow when they had had time to catch a 'long breath. But ju.-t now, the excitement was in the local races. Nobody could go to sleep that pight without knowing who was lead ing in every race and by what margin. In^probably every town in the Low- Country of South Carolina the election severed friendships of long ^landing. In some of them,; there were knock ed down, dragged-out fights, so great was the political fervor. People talk too much during an election and many a chance remark gathers considerable revision along with momentum. People living in these small places are faced at every election with the decision of voting for Mr. So and So because he is capable and efficient, or for Mr. Neighbor because he is that, and is out of a job and has a family to support. Any strong-minded per son would rule out the latter reason immediately, of course, but it isn’t so easy, after all, for a voter in one of the little towns in the Low-Coun try to cast his ballot consicentiously. —From “Low-Country Gossip” by Clothilde R. Martin in Sunday’s News and Courier. Byron H. Hair. * “Williston, Sept. 1.—Byron H. Hair died at his home on the Springfield road about one and a holf miles from here today after a*n illness of about two weeks. He was 47 years old, the .son of'the late Mr. and Mis. Dave Hair.. He was a prominent farmer and hadr spent his entire life in Barn well County, where he .had many friends won by his splendid traits of character. Funeral services wrere held Thurs day afternoon, at ;the Bates cemetery about five miles below Williston, the Rev. L. G. Payne, pastor of Rosemary Baptist Church, where the deceased ha* for many years been a member, conducting the services. Surviving him are hig widow, Mrs. Addie B. Hair, and two sisters, Mrs. Ben Grubbs and Mr>. Mamie Moody, both of Augusta. Miss Anna Walker’s Schcol.—The exercises of this interesting school* will open on Monday, the 1 11th inst. Our Railroad.—The Toby’s Creek trestle has been raised and Captain Fickling is moving towards Barnwell under a full h(^ad of steam. The Happiest Man in Town.—Is cousin P. J. Drew’. He is a boy. The name is E. Fitzgerald Drew’. He be came a citizen of Barnwell on Tues day, weight 11H pounds and Is better looking than his father. There are eight applicants for the position of principal of the High School. --.On last Friday C. C. Robinson, post master- at Grahams, was bound over for trial at the next term of the U. S. Court for refusal to give Dr.. C. I •Faust his mail. Robinson was rc’ resented at the preliminary hearing by Mackey and Bryton, the Unit'’ States by W. H. Bellinger, E*q. Th offense is punishable by a fiAe not er ceeding $500. __ t hast Work.—In five days last week 51 bales of cotton were gathered on Col. L. W. Youmans’ place. A Telegraph Line.—The Railroad will be completed to our towm in Oc- ihe Citadel Ladets.—At .the recent tober. To perfect our happiness a examination of applicants^for benefi- telegraph Lirje ft needed v The R. R. Co. will not build it now but are wil- ciary cadetships in The Citadel Acad emy Henry S. Hartzog and Hayne F. Rice stood the best examinations and were recommended to the Board of Vi-itors for appointment. Grei/t Expectations.—Col. W. H. Duncan has announced his purpose to become an Independent candidate for Congress from this District if no Re publican shall oppose' the Hon. G. D. Tillman. Such a contingency will not happen. Good-bye, Colonel. We are son y to see you go. Your regrets will come later and last longer. Hur rah for Tillman! The Democrats will bury you so deep next November that “the Angel Gabriel will require a search warrant to find your political remains.” Blarkvillo.—Mr. J. H. Levy left for Cincinnati on Tuesday. A leading firm paid $12,000 in freight for the year ending 31st Au gust. ling that private individuals should do so and promise to buy it at a fair valuation when the road is extended southward. Gentlemen in Blackville will take half the stock, what will our Barnwell people do? A subscription of $300 or $400 will secure |the build- in^ of the line by the time that the lead is completed. Speak out, friends. ..Williston—A joint stock educational society will be formed and a High School will be inaugurated at an early /lay on a sound financial basis. The annual protracted meeting of the Baptist Church is in progress To Ohio by Plane. Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Fuller and Col. Edgar A. Broun left Barnwell Thurs day in the former’s plane for Cleve land, Ohio, where they attended the air races. From that city they ex pected to vfsit some of Mrr Fuller's relatives in upper Ohio, near Lake Erie, and will make the return trip by way of Detroit and other cities in the Middle West. They will arrive in Barnwell the latter part of this week. Vv WARNING! Social and Personal News from Williston Williston, Sept. 3.—Mrs. Willa P. Chapman, of White Pond, has been attending summer school at Furman University, Greenville, after having attended a first session at Wofford -college, Spartanburg. She retumerL August 25th and will begin her work in the fall as % teacher in the Redd’s Branch school, in Aiken County. C. N. Courtney carried Miss Ruby Courtney to Augusta Thursday morn ing where she left by train for Mur phy, N. C., to take up her school du^ ties. She has been a member of the Mugphy schopl {facility ftn J several years. Mr. and Mis. M. M. Player and baby arrived this week and are oc cupying an apartment in the home of Mrs. C. S. Thompson. Mr. and Mrs. John Miley, Mrs. G. W. Whitaker, Miss Myrtis Thompson and Mrs J. W. Cook left Wednesday morning for Clem-son college, where they will attend a short course in poultry raising. Mrs. Alma K. Fletcher, who is taking a business course in Augusta, is spending this week at home with her parents, Mi. and Mrs. M. C. Kitching.*. 1. Hiss Lenna Davis lefv Wednesday for Fountain Inn, where she will teach this year. Harold Woodward, of Columbia, spent last week with his parent 1 ?, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Woodward; while here he and Ralph, accompanied by their parents, motored to Charleston for a visit to the former’s si-ter, Mrs. Es sie Messervey. Mrs. J. A. Latimer and children left Tuesday for their home in Wash ington, I). C. They will be joined there by Mr. Latimer whom they will acccmpany to New York. '* Informal complaints have been made of alleged irregular and illegal voting at one or two precinct* in Barnwell County in the first primary election on August 30th. Managers of election are hereby cautioned to do everything in their power to conduct the coming primary on September 13th strictly in accordance with the rules of the Democratic Party and the statute laws of the State, and all candidates and their friends are warned against any infringements of said rules and laws. Irregular, illegal ‘ or fraudulent voting may result ih throwing out the entire vote of a precinct, with the resultant defeatrof the will of a majoriy of the voters. The Barnwell bounty Executive Committee hopes that no such action will be necessary. BARNWELL COUNT* EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. by B. P. DAVIES, Secy. : -1 nil Wii shin JH o n UiLa lllus Georpc Wash melon Bicentennial * * llcclucid larci ' ' Southern Railway System BROWN & BUSH Attorneys-at-Law BROWN-BUSH BUILDING BARNWELL* SOUTH CAROLINA PRACTICE IN STATE AND FEDERAL COURTS ★ ★ THE FIRST ★ ★ AN EL ONLY STAR MOTOR .d* J J? 4 -3*. 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