The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, September 29, 1932, Image 6
THE BABXWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOOTH CAROLINA
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER M,
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BURIES MANY SHIPS
Buiy Commerce Plies Over
Numerous Wrecks.
San t Franclaco.—Some with their
masts awry, some with their scuppers
eternally brimming, and some with
their bows stove in, but all with green
seas in their holds, a motely company
of wrecked vessels sway In the tides
I of the bay here, fathoms under the
(busy commerce.
Between 00,000 and 70,000 persons
cross the bay dally, but few know of
the ghostly wrecks beneath them.
Somewhere In the vicinity of the
Vallejo piers Is the hulk of the ferry
Julia, which exploded February 27,
1888, and sank with a loss of 30 lives.
Two Famous Wrecks.
Somewhere off Fort 1’olnt at the
bay’s entrance He two famous wrecks,
the City of Rio de Janeiro and the
City of Chester. The Rio de Janeiro,
a $500,000 vessel carrying a $400,000
cargo, struck a rock In deep water
and sank within ten minutes, carrying
128 persona to their death.
The City of Chester went down Au
gust 22, 1888, five minutes after col
liding with the steel steamer Oceanic
from Liverpool Sixteen lost their
lives.
Somewhere In San Pablo bay lies the
wreck of the schooner Secretary,
whose boilers exploded April 15, 1854.
Fifty were lost. The bark Atlantic
lies somewhere along the edge of the
Golden Gate, where she sank In 1880
carrying down 27. In the bay off Al
catraz island Is the Aberdeen, which
went down in 1916, drowning eight.
!
Stranded on the rocks off Land's End
Is a portion of the freighter Lyman
Stewart, wrecked when it collided with
the Walter A. Luckenback, October 7,
A922. Water shoots through the rusty
plates and up the pipes of the vessel
as Its hulk rolls In the pounding surf.
Less than a mile away lies the steam
er Coos Bays, which drove far up on
the beach at Land's End in a heavy
fog five years later.
There are many others resting about
the fringes of the bay. The Port
Saunders, the Golden City, the Trifo-
Hum, the Red Wing, the Aberdeen—
barges, schooners, fishing boats, trim
motorboats, sallttonts—all are there,
mute objects in u kind of murine mu-
. seum.
Greater London Shows
Big Gain in Population
» London.—The population of Greater
London^now totals 8,208,942, ns re
vealed by the first official report com
piled from the census reports of last
year.
The Increase in population, ns com
pared with 1921, has been 9.7 per cent
or nearly three times as great as in
the preceding decade, and nearly twice
as great as the current increase for
the nation at large.
Greater London’s inhabitants are di
vided Into 4,371,026 females and only
3.832,916 males. How that happened,
the report doesn’t deign to disclose.
Figures for the city of London and
the 28 metropolitan boroughs which
comprise the administrative county of
London (as distinct from Greater Lon
don) show a decline of 87,250 for the
ten-year period. This population Is
now 4,897,003. , _
California City Seeks
Gold Beneath Alleys
Orovllle, Calif.—Relief since the
boom time mining days that beneath
this prosperous agricultural and min
ing city existed rich gold veins has
led many to suggest moving the city
to find out.
Now the curiosity born three quar
ters of a century ago will be satisfied.
But OrovlUe's streets and buildings
will stay where they are. Two giant
drills are operating in back lots and
alleys to test whether the long rumored
gold veins exist.
Jail Inmates Consume
42,000 Aspirin Tablets
Fort Worth, Texas.—Evidently there
were plenty of headaches in the Tar
rant county Jail last year—the 1931
drug bill reveals that 42,000 aspirin
tablets were purchased for the 150 in
mates. But the prisoners also received
Amply of other kinds of medicine along
with the “sleepers.” The bill shows
11,400 purgative tablets, 174 pounds of
salts, and 211 pints of castor oil were
consumed.
Flask Toters Lived
Back in 143 B. C.
Ann Arbor, Mich.—Liquor flasks,
rat traps and market baskets, all
made of stone and dating back to
148 B. Cm have been unearthed by
Dr. Leroy Waterman of the Uni
versity of Michigan at Seleucia, In
Mesopotamia.
Doctor Waterman, heading a Uni
versity of Michigan expedition In
connection with the Cleveland and
Toledo Art museums, said that un
doubtedly the design of the pres
ent-day liquor flasks was copied
from the antique containers.
The rat traps, made entirely of
•tone, differed materially from cur
rent models. Doctor Waterman re
ports. They were made of a hop-
low stone tube with a large piece
•f flat stone at one end. Opposite
the flat rock the bait was placed
aad when rodents touched R the
atone fell making them captives.
Manufactured Goods
Exposition Feature
Visitors Will See Attractively Ar
ranged Array of South Carolina
Prcducts.
COMPLETE LIST OF
YANKS WITH FRENCH
Charleston, Sept. 27.—South Caroli-
ians will turn their eyes toward the
vast resources of their State when
more than fifty manufacturers of a
varied assortment of goods display
their wares at the South Carolina
Products Exposition here October 3
to 8.
Gathered from the Piedmont to the
sea, articles of an amazing variety,
expected to be a revelation to resi
dents of the State and others from
afar who have been accustomed to
view South Carolina as an agricul
tural community exclusively, will be
shown at the Fort Sumter hotel. As
an added attraction there will be en
tertainment features during South
Carolina Products Week, such as
band concerts on the Battery, over
looking the sea; nightly fashion re
views in which lovely society^ girls
will serve as models, and aquatic
sports in Charleston’s historic bay.
The exposition is sponsored by The
News anj Courier to prove to South
Carolinians the extent to which they
can be self supporting and to foster
a “Buy South Carolina Products”
movement.
Three railroads serving Charleston
—the Southern Railway, Atlantic
Coast Line, and Seaboard Air Line—
will offer special rates to and from
Charleston from October 2 to 10.
This rate will give a round trip ticket
for a one-way fare plus twenty-five
cents, and applies throughout South
Carolina and in Augusta and Savan
nah, Ga.
Hotels in Charleston also will offer
special rates to visitors during the
exposition.
The city of Charleston is hacking
the exposition, as are Charleston or
ganizations and civic bodies through
out the State. Chambers of com
merce of cities and towns all over
South Caiolina are cooperating to
make it a success.
Visitors will see an array of manu
factured goods including such an as
sortment as fine printed cloth, hosi
ery, shirts, handkerchiefs, towels,
women’s dres>es, wall cleaning ma
terials, stationery, canned fruit and
vegetables, cheese, butter, toys, win
dow shades draperies, bed spreads,
matresses, paints and varnishes, as
bestos products, cigars, bagging for
wrapping cotton, novelty and bed
room furniture, chairs and numerous
other articles.
Manufacturers are arranging at
tractive booths and exhibits of their
products. The Fort Sumter hotel,
where the exposition will take place,
directly faces Charleston harbor,
overlooking the Battery and Fort
Sumter, where the War Between the
States began.
Volunteer Combatants Named
After Much Work.
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Paris—After much difficulty and a
special trip to Sldi-bel-Abbes, the
Trench and Air Association of Ameri
can Volunteer Combatants in the
French Army, 1914-’18, has completed
preparation of a list of the American
volunteer combatants who were killed
fighting for France during the World
war.
This list has been prepared especial
ly for the American graves registration
service In Europe and shows that of
90 Americans who served at the front
In the Foreign Legion 40 were killed.
Seven others died of wounds or as a
result of having been gassed.
Donald Coleman of Yonkers, N. Y„
who transferred from the Legion to
the French artillery, was killed la '
of 1918 while attached to a 75 battery.
Sixty-eight of the 180 American pi
lots in the Lafayette Escadrllle acd
the Lafayette Flying corps were killed,
most of whom are buried at the Lafay
ette Escadrllle memorial at GarchfS,
near the port of Saint Cloud.
In securing this information all of
the dossiers of the foreigners who
fought In the French ranks during the
World war were consulted. This was
a difficult task, as all of these dossiers
are filed away at the Foreign Legion
headquarters at Sidi-bel-Abbes In Al
geria.
All of the volunteers from North
and South American countries are list
ed under the general heading of Amer
icans. which made it doubly difficult
to sort out the men from the United
States. There is some confusion In
mentioning this organization with an
other composed of former American
civilian welfare workers during the
World war, called the Association of
American Volunteers with the French
Army, the members of which did not
enlist in the French army or wear a
French uniform. The Trench and Air
Association of American Volunteer
Combatants In the French Army, 1914-
’18, Is. therefore, always mentioned by
Its full name and complete title.
Expect to Finish World
War Story in 15 Years
I-ondon.—By the year 1950, If all
goes well, British military students
will he able to read about that historic
event known as the World war.
The British official history of the
war, on which work was started at the
close of the conflict, now has been half
completed. The generals of the war
office have spent fourteen years get
ting to the battle of the Somme, and
If the funds hold out, they expect to
be out of the trenches by fifteen years
from this Christmas.
" By then, according to the law of
averages, the country will have start
ed a new war.
So far, the official history of the last
war has cost $1,000,000. With the gov
ernment straining to economize In
every department, the war office gen
erals have begun to arouse the im
patience of critics. The more sarcas
tic foresee a race between, the war
office and the Academie Francalse.
which has been working on its dic
tionary near a hundred years.
Social and Personal
News from Willis ton
Williston, Sept. 24.—Mr. and Mrs.
Holt, of Savannah, Ga., were the
Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. T. P.
Mitchell.
Dr. C. O. Pender spent the week
end with his family in Pelzer.
Mrs. M. B. Robinson, of Yoqges
Island, has been spending a few days
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Folk.
Miss Eloise Corley, of Dunbarton,
left Tuesday for W. S. C. W., Mil-
ledgeville, Ga., to resume her studies.
Mrs. T. J. Folk has returned from
an extended visit with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Kent, in Glenn-
wood, Ga. She was accompanied home
by her mother, who will spend some
time with her.
, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Kennedy and
Mrs. E. P. Riley and son, Pat, have
returned home from Bluffton, where
they have been spending several days.
Mrs. Phil Harris and children have
returned to spend some time- with
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Thompson.
Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Ackerman and
children, Betty and Thomas, and
their house guest, Miss Martha Wil
lis, of Cottageville, J. W. Folk and
Miss Medrue Free spent the week
end at Bluffton.
E. P. Riley, of Greenville, joined
Mrs. Riley and son for a week-end
visit with Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Ken
nedy.
T. J., J. C and J W. Folk, L V.
Porter, H. H. Thompson and Dr. W.
Cone left Thursday morning for a
fishing trip to Bluffton.
Card of Thanks.
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To the Editor of The People-Sentinel:
Dear Mr. Editor.—Please allow me
space to thank my friends for the
kandaome vote given me in my race
for Corner. - *■
y.adison Templeton
British Prime Minister
Employ 10 Secretaries
London.—Prime Minister Ramsay
MacDonald, head of the national gov
ernment. has had to Increase the size
of his secretariat until It is now the
largest on record.
Ten private secretaries now assist
the prime minister. Because of the
Impairment of his eyesight, which
some fear will lead to total blindness,
the slxty-flve-year-old Scotchman
more than ever requires secretarial
assistance.
The prime ministers friends often
have reproached him with his extreme
reluctance to assign detailed work to
his secretaries. Two additional ap
pointments, however, have been made
and his secretariat far exceeds any
other British premier’s. It Is prob
ably larger than any other premier in
the world.
Increase in Marriages
Is Sign of Prosperity
Detroit.—The depression Is waning,
if the Detroit marital mart Is a fair
barometer of such things, says County
Clerk Thomas F. Farrell
Farrell, who has been attuned to
the heart “cycles” of Detroit for the
last 25 years, explains that he has
observed a falling off In marriage li
censes In lean business years and a
noticeable increase in so-called pros
perous years.
Comparing this year with 1931, Far
rell reports a steady increase in the
number of licenses issued In 1932.
Chemist Has Method of
Getting Oil From Stumps
Marshfield, Ore.—Glenn Parr, chem
ist. claims to have discovered and per
fected a method of extracting oil from
white cedar stumps. His plant turns
out 24 gallons of oil daily, he said.
The stumps are blasted and removed,
leaving the land clear for cultivatloa
He operates In logged-off areas.
Graalte Marker far Cat
- Pittsfield, Mass.-—A granite marker
haa been placed over the grave of
“Snookie," oldest cat in Maasachu-
setta, that died recently at twenty-
four. The cat belonged to James
Oarrity of this city.
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as a Clerk?
A CLERK—BETTER, A SOLICITOR — who
calls weekly at hundreds of homes in Barnwell County,
not annoyingly ringing the doorbell asking to “see the
lady of the house,” but one who calls pleasantly, tells all
the news of the community, gossips with the family,
and sells them goods that are in your store.
If no one is home when this clerk calls, it does
not pass on to the next home, but waits patiently until
some one comes. It then tells its story to the first ar
rival and repeats and repeats to every member of the
family. It never tires—even weeks later this clerk is
still talking, repeating its sales talk and old news of
Barnwell County.
Incomes have been reduced but among the hun
dreds of people this clerk calls on’ some one is always
in need of something—something that is in your store.
The clerk sits at night with the family while they dis
cuss what they need and whether they can afford the
things that this clerk has to offer. John needs some new
shoes. Shoes? Sure, says this clerk. We have them
priced from $3.50 to $8.50. The very size and what you
want and something that you have been looking for, for
only $4.75, etc., through the needs of the family. This
clerk is on duty all day and night, day in -and day out,
week, month and year. Rain, snow or sleet does not
prevent him from making his calls with hundreds of
families.
How much would a clerk, or solicitor, of this kind cost
you per week? Could you afford to pay him what he
wojild be worth? Could you find such a person who
would^work night and day. regardless and fill the bill
as well as this clerk? Friend of thousands. Always ad
mitted to every home he calls on. Considered a part of
every family. Such a valuable clerk could demand and
get any salary he wanted, but not this cherk.
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Advertising is not an expense! Consider it as
one of Arour clerks. Put this clerk jpn your weekly or
monthly payroll. It is a sound investment. One clerk
who is on the streets and in the homes of Barnwell and
this itrade area ever soliciting business for your store.
One that sends in business to keep your other clerks
who stay in your store busy.
Can you afford to be without the services of this
cleerk? Call and let us tell you how cheaply he will work
for you. • • ;
The People-Sentinel
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