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THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA \
HERB AND HEREABOUTS. 2
^Jrs. Ralph Brown nas returned
home after spending some time with
relatives at Lugoff.
W. N. Jefferies, of Burlington, N.
C., was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. B.
P. Davies Thursday night.
W. A. Fuller and Alvie Darnell
came up from Garnett Saturday to
spend the week-end with their fami
lies.
Wanen, “Buddy” ^wrdr Ben Cal
houn, pf Spartanburg, jpent the
week-end with Mr. and Mrs. W. J.
Lemon.
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Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Vickery and
Miss Estelle Bennett visited their
sister, Mrs. D. F. Fenters, in Hem
ingway, last Sunday and Monday.
Mrs. J. A Porter and Mrs. Charlie
Brown, Sr., attended the district
meeting of the Woman’s Auxiliary of
the Episcopal Church at Beaufort on
Thursday. - - *
Dr. A. C. Smith, of Easton, Pa.,
whose marriage to Miss Elizabeth
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Burckhalter, of this city, will be an
outstanding social event of the fall,
has returned to his home after spend
ing several days in Barnwell.
Mr, and Mrs. L. G. Richardson, Jr.,
of Washington, D. C., Mr. and Mrs.
A. C. Matthews and children, of New
berry, and Hummel Harley, who is a
student at Wofford College, attended
the funeral of L. G. Richardson, Sr.,
here Thursday. _
Governor I. C. Blackwood, Claude
N. Sapp, State democratic chairman,
and Mrs. Ida B. Duncan, of Columbia
Senator R. M. Cooper, Jr. of Wysacky,
Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Christian, of
Aiken, were guests at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Fuller Saturday
night.
At a meeting last week the Barn
well Chapter of Winthrop Daughters
was reorganized with Mrs. Mordecai
Mazursky, president, and Miss Vir
ginia Hutto, secretary. It is under
stood that a book club will be formed
by the members of the chapter. The
Western District Conterence will be
held in Edgefield on November 5th.
Frances Diamond, young daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Diamond, en
tertained quite a number of her lit
tle friends on Saturday afternoon, the
occasion being her eighth birthday.
After several interesting contests in
which prize- were awarded, the little
guests were served ice cream and
small favors. The little hostess was
the recipient of a number' of pretty
gifts.
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
BRIDGE CLUB.
Mrs. Ralph Smith was hostess last
week to the members of the Wednes
day Afternoon Brfdge Club. The
high score prize was won by"’ Mrs.
Solomon Blatt, and the consolation
was cut by Mrs. Robt. A. Patterson,
each of the winner s being presented
with two decks of cards. A salad
course with coffee^as served.
OCTOBER MEETING OF
D. A. R. CHAPTER.
The October meeting of the Barn
well Chapter, Daughters' of the
American Revolution, was held at the
home of the . Regent, Mrs. L. M.
Cave, on last Friday afternoon
at four o’clock. The meeting was
opened by the reading of the Salute
to the Flag and America’s Creed, af
ter which a business session was held
and a number of matters pertaining
to the chapter's welfare were taken
up and disposed of.
Aljtraqtive Year jBooks, outlining
course of study for the coming year,
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$76 Buffet, with mirror $27.50
$26 Dining Table $9.95
- EASY TERMS
R. D. REID ESTATE
were gi^n out. Mrs. C. N. Burck
halter, Genealogist of the Chapter,
was given a rising vote of thanks
for her work in compiling the Year
Books.
• Mrs. W. M. Jones was welcomed
into the chapter as a new member.
Mrs. R. S. Dicks gave an interest
ing reading.
At the clos^i of the historical period,
the hostess requested that the mem
bers lay aside all thoughts of depres
sion and hard times and go with her
on an imaginary trip to Canada and
other places of equal interest, having
as her special guest on thi s occasion
Miss Elizabeth Burckhalter, bride-
elect. Each place of interest was
numbered anc| an article or articles
describing the place were displayed
according to number, twenty-one in
all. As the guests journeyed from
place to place they made note of
same and when they returned to old
Barnwell, which was denoted by a
small log barn and a miniature well,
it was found that Mrs. R. S. Dicks
had guessed the largest number of
places of interest and was awarded
first prize. Mrs. R. C. Holman was
awarded the consolation. Miss Eliza
beth Burckhalter wa s presented with
a lovely colonial tea tray as a gift
from the Chapter.
The hostess, assisted by Mrs. B. W.
Sexton and Mrs. W. W. Carter, serv
ed a delicious chicken salad course,
with hot coffee. The table was most
attractive in its Hallowe’en decora
tions.
Guests, other than the members
were Mrs. W. W. Carter, Mrs. Ira
Fales, Mrs. Nellie Cave, Mrs. Louise
P. Bauer, Miss Elizabeth Burckhal
ter, and Mrs. V. P. Bonner.
ENTERTAIN IN HONOR
OF RECENT NEWLY-WEDS.
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Dunbarton, Oct. 18. — Decorated
with a profusion of ferns and fall
flowers the home of Mr. and Mrs. B.
F. Andeison was never more lovely
than on Friday evening, October 14,
when they, with Mr. and Mrs. E. H.
Williams, Mr. and Mrst B. F. Tis
dale, Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Dicks, Mr.
and Mrs. T. W\ Dicks, and Mr. and
Mrs. W. H. Dicks, entertained in honoi
of Mr. and Mrs. Kenny Anderson.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Williams, and
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Dicks, whose
recent mariiages were events of in
terest to their many friends through
out the State.
Gusts were met at the door by
Mrs. W. H. Dicks and Miss Belle An
derson, by whom they were taken to
the registers presided over by Mrs.
E. D. Dicks and Mrs. Walter Moody.
From the reception hall they were
ushered into the living r'oom and pre
sented to the receiving line by Mrs.
B. F. Tisdale and Mrs. T. W. Dicks.
Receiving wdth Mr. and Mrs. Ander
son were Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Wil
liams and the guests of honor.
From the living room, guests were
taken by Mrs. A. E. Corley, Misses
Minnie Byrd McElveen and Louise
Williams into the dining room. Sand
wiches, cake and mints were served
by Mis. T. E. Killingsworth, assisted
by Misses Elizabeth Dicks, Sallie
Williams, Bernice Drummond, Gene
Swett, Doris Tisdale, Marie Rountree
and Ida Whaley. From a beautifully
appointed table at one side, Mrs. John
F. .Bolt and. Mrs. A. D. Arlington
poured coffee from, antique silver pot^.
A color scheme of yellow and white
wa; earned out in the dining room.
On the center table was a lace cover
over cloth of gold. Lighted candles
gleamed from silver candlesticks.
The centerpiece wa s a mirror lake
in which were reflected ferns and
yellow dahlias.
A musical program was rendered
during the evening by the following
musicians: Mrs. Norman Anderson,
violin; Mrs. Hamilton Dicks, Miss
Minnie Byrd McElveen, Messrs. Chas.
Ellis, Horace Guthrie, P. J. Hiers and
Roy Whitson, vocal; Misses Ruth
Rogers and Miss Lucile Dicks, ac
companists. Miss McElveen gave a
musical reading, Edgar Guest’s
“Home.”
Mrs. Williams, who, before her
marriage on August 15, was Miss
Jean Hutto, of Norway, was becom
ingly gowned in powder blue crepe.
Mrs. Dicks wa s lovely in a gown of
pink lace. Prior to her rharriage on
September 28,**Mrs. Dicks was Miss
Glady s Owens, of Midville, Ga. The
youthful charm of Mrs. Anderson,
who was Miss Vera Swett, of Meyer’s
Mill, was accented by a gown of Bur-
guty Jericho ertepe. Mr. and Mrs.
Anderson were married on Septem
ber 11.
Among out-of town guests pres
ent were: Mr. and Mrs. Norman An
derson, J. W. Patterson, Misses Nof-
ma Anderson and Carrie Williams and
Mrs. Dubose Robinson, of Barnwell;
Hutson Oswald, Dr. and Mrs. F. C.
Brinkley and Miss AHce Miller, of
Ellenton; C. O. Meyer, Mrs. F. H.
Swett. Mrs. Rice. Miss Gene Swett
of Meyer’s Mill; Mr and Mrs. J. P.
Kennedy, of Williston; Mrs. A. E.
Taylor, of Gainesville, Fla.; Mrs..A.
E. Corley, Mrs. F. H. Dicks, Mr. and
Mrs. F. H. Dicks, Jr., Misses Lucile
Dicks, Docia Greene and Eunice
Greene, and Laurie and Etheridge
Bayberry Candle Held
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Supreme by Cbloniala
However much* the Pilgrims and
Puritans abjured the luxuries of this
life, they wt»re esthetic enough to like
Historic Spots in Ohio
Marked for Posterity
Schoenbrunn, Gnadenhutten and Fort
Laurens, are historic sites of Tus
carawas county, Iowa. Schoenbrunn
is significant as the first settlement
in the state. But this settlement,
made in 1772, was not permanent.
Marietta being the first permanent set
tlement. Schoenbrunn has been re
built, the buildings being constructed
of logs on their original sites, follow
ing the style of the old ones as closely
as possible. The rebuilding was done
by the State Historical society and
the citizens of New Philadelphia.
Gnadenhutten. sevhn miles south of
Schoenbrunn, stands out in Ohio’s
history as the scene of the massacjre
of the Christian Indians, a massacre
perhaps unequaled in the history of
the Indian wars for Its cold-blooded
butchery. The massacre occurred on
March 8. 1782.
Fort Laurens is said to have been
the. first fort built by Americans with
in the present boundaries of what is
now’ the state of Ohio. General McIn
tosh erected the fort In 1799, on the
west bank of the Tuscarawas “below
Sandy creek, about a mile from the
present town of Bolivar. It was ‘
named in honor of Henry Laurens,
who was president of congress during
1777 and 1778.
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the sweet,' pungent odor of the bay-
berry candle, as compared to the smok
ing beefsteak variety given off by the
tallow ones. We have never had the
pleasure of smelling or seeing one
burn, but from all reports their “starry
gleam” and their “light, greenish-
brown" hue was the final argument
in favor of the bayberry.
Eayberries, small and silvery-gray,
grew In thick clusters on low bushes
found along the seaboard. It re
quired no little patience to gather
them, for It took a large quantity for
a batch of candles, and an much skill
to make them, since the fat had to.be
boiled and skimmed to Just the'right
light-green half transparency. The
result was worth It and more. And
when the candles were finished they
w’ere put away to await the choice
occasion, nothing less than a wedding,
a christening or a funeral, or perhaps
a reunion of some of the members of
the family who came <fver on a later
boat, when they burned clear and
bright on the family board.
As popular as the candles were,
they were a luxury, the old oil lamps
doing simple and dally service. In
3634 the candles sold for the then cqp-
sidered highly extravagant sum of 4
pence.—Chicago Post.
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“Flint-Snapping” Oldest
of English Industries?
Huge pits of varying dimensions
found jin Suffolkshire, England, are
said to be flint pits, some of them
thousands of years old. Only one pit
is now in active operation, a visitor
writes: “The shaft of the pit de
scended by stages to a depth of some
30 feet. Not a single mechanical con
trivance is used for working the pit.
Working hours are calculated by the
number of candle ends burnt. As far
as I could see. the methods^of work
ing the pit and trimming—or ‘knap
ping’—the stone were the same as
they must have been in prehistoric
times, when Brandon provided Eng
land's first warriors with their spear
heads. I have since discovered that
the successive generations of one
Brandon family, called Snare, have
handed down the traditional craft of
flint-knapping for at least 900 years.”
To Discourage "Tippling”? '
Mugs with a frog model affixed to
the bottom on the inside, popularly
known as frog mugs, were turned out
at the pottery works at Leeds, Sun
derland and Nottingham, beginning
about 1800. They were made at other ,
English potteries also. The purpose
of the frog is a matter of speculation.
It might just have been a popular nov
elty. According to another theory, it
might have been instigated by pro
hibition agitation current even as far
hack as the early Nineteenth century,
the idea being to scare the tippler half
out of his wits into more temperate
ways with the frog deception when he
had drunk half of the contents.—Chi
cago Tost.
Hypocrites Unable to «
Correct Their Failing
What hyprocrisy is, has been gen
erally understood ever since St. Luke
identified it as a regrettable trait of
the Pharisees. Why it persists, why It
continues in the news, has now been
looked Into by the science of physi
ology.
Prof. Walter Bradford Cannon of
Boston, who made important re
searches into bodily changes in pain,
fear and rage, found that hypocrites
cannot help their failing, the New
York Times reports. It Is a physical
disability. In the gray matter at the
side of the third ventricle at the base
of the brain, and a part connected
with the origin of the nerve of vision,
the mid-brain region, where nerves of
sensation assemble, there is a defect.
Experiments on animals showed that
this thalamic region co-ordinates emo
tional reactions, and anything wrong
with It brings disharmony between it
and the Intellect or higher brain.
The underdevelopment, or fault,
causes the human subject to laugh
when he does not feel joy, weep when
he is not grieving, or assume a char
acter not real.
"Unbreakable” Doll.
The editor of Playthings says that
all dolls of domestic manufacture are
today made of an unbreakable compo
sition which is entirely separate and
distinct from the bisque dolls which
are still imported, although to a very
much lesser extent. Into this country.
This composition ha^wood flour, corn
starch and glue as its principal ingre
dients. The composition is placed in
molds which are subjected to heat, and
in this fashion the doll head, body,
arm, leg or other part Is formed. It
is then dipped in a special flesh en
amel. with the final finish of lacquer
enamel being applied through an air
brush.
Always Polite
Some English judges have a repu
tation for courtesy, and it has been
said of Ix>rd Justice Bankes that he
could make a prisoner feel It was a
pleasure to be sentenced by him. But
few judges would carry courtesy
quite so far as Judge Graham, who
once omitted a name when a batch of
sixteen prisoners was sentenced to
death at the Old Bailey. Informed of
this, he had the unfortunate man re
called and addressed him thus:
“John Robbins. I find that I have
accidentally omitted your name In my
list of prisoners doomed to execution.
It was quite accidental, L assure you,
and I ask your pardon for ray mis
take. 1 am very sorry, and can only
add that you will be hanged with the
rest Thank you.”
Hawk. Used ia Sport
It was the counterpart of our dock
hawk that furnished rojri! sport In the
Middle ages. The falconers of Eu
rope dividpd birds employed in this
sport into classes, those of falcony and
those of hawking, the latter class con
taining "ignoble” birds such as our
goshawk and sparrow hawk and oth
ers of their kin, which dart upon their
quarry by a side glance. The true
falcons were called “noble” birds be
cause they would soar to unseen
heights and drop from a perpendicular
like a thunderbolt on a selected vic
tim. In suclj a manner does the duck
hawk hunt. Woe’ to the swift-flying
duck or teal when once this marauder
marks him for his dinner.
Holm*.' Per.oD.lity
Oliver Wendell Holmes’ personal as
pect was classified as extraordinary
and keenly delightful. He had what Ju
lian Hawthorne calls a "funny face.**
“It was round,” he says, ‘‘wjthfright
little eyes and a rather large mouth
underlying an upper lip of consider
able length. The nose was amiable
but not distinguished; a very attrac
tive visage; a sally of kindly wit
seemed always about to come from
it, and this expectation was constantly
gratifled. Holmes seemed uniformly
in a merry humor—enjoying the world
and mankind, and prompt to make It
more agreeable to his fellows . . .
an immortal comedy spirit possessed
him.”
"Hurrah for the Navy!”
Ability, countge and patriotism are
only the groundwork for the making
of a sailor. The work of nearly ev
ery man on a modern warship is that
of a skilled specialist. As for officers
—well, John Paul Jones’ definition of
1779 still holds true: “It is by no
means enough that an officer of
the navy should be a capable mariner.
He must be that, of course, but also a
great debt more. He should be, as
well, a gentleman of liberal education,
refined manners, punctilious courtesy
and the nicest sense of personal
honor." N
Advertise is The Heopie-oentinel
Roman Sonata
Romulus was the first to organize
a senate in Rome> He selected 100
patricians for his advisers. (The lit
eral meaning of senatus Is a council
of old men, so called because It was
an assembly composed of the beads
of families.) Under the republic of
Rome the senate was composed of 300
patricians, plebeians and high officials.
Julius Caesar raised the number of
the senators to 900. Augustus reduced
it to 600. Ultimately nearly all the
senators were elected by vote of the
people. Senators held office for life,
unless removed because of dishonor;
but the office was not hereditary.
Ancient "Dictaphone”
The term "Ear of Dionysius’’ refers
to the second of the “latomlae,” or
quarries of Syracuse used as prisons.
The Athenians were confined therein,
and subjected to the torments of hun
ger, filth and foul air. Capt. William
Henry Smyth (1842) describes this
cavern, and says amidst Its many
grottoes Is one resembling the tym
panum of the human ear, which Is
remarkable for its echoes. It Is 64
feet high, varies from 17 to 35 feet
In breadth, and is 187 feet long. It
Is said that Dionysius, the tyrant,
had it constructed mo that Its.guards
man might orerheas the conversation
of the prisonsrs. ,
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$1.00 Round Trip to COLUMBIA, S. C.
Thursday, October 20th
STATE FAIR (WHITE)
Return Limit October 21,1932.
Thursday, October 27th
STATE FAIR (COLORED)
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1932, and October 24th to October 28th, in
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