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V fAGE fOUE. wt n. • w iSK Barnwell 50 and 25 Years Ago. Interesting Items Gleaned From the Files of The Barnwell People. junior college and high school de partments, earn their way through, wholly or in part^-A cash expend^ FEBRUARY 15, 188S. Peachtrees are beginning to bloom. We luxurated on new beets at the Molair House last week. Rev. Robert Barnwell, of Beaufort, is to be the new pastor of the Episco pal Church. \ A patent for a “Traction Engine” wa a recently granted to P. H. Loud, Esq., of Williston. A new tank is being built at Wood ward’s Junction. The well is 56 feet deep and has 52 feet of water in it. The Elko municipal election will be held tomoirow. We heat' that wet and dry tickets wil]i l>e nln. Ninety-five colored children attend the public school at Lee a of which B. K. Motte, lately assistant postmaster at Blackville, is principal. Married on February 8th, 1883, at the residence of the bride’ 8 father, by Rev. J. D. Buist, Mr. John Delk and Miss Sallie Morris, ail of Barn well County. The telegraph line has been extend ed from the depot to Capt. Hender son’s residence, corner Main and Marlboro’ streets. Persons desiring to send off night messages can do so at any hour by going to the up-town office. Day messages will be trans mitted, as heretofore, from the depot. Mr. William L. Roberts, of Ellen- ton, ha s patented a machine for draw- ami edging shingles, constructed in such a manner a H to taper the shingles uniformly and upon both sides from butt to point, take the twist out of the timber, and make the side edges of the shingles straight at one passage of the shingle through the machine. Mrs. W. J. Freeman, an excellent lady, died Saturday at the residence of her husband in Red Oak township. FEBRU ARY‘13. m%. * ■ \, r ' The ground hog i g a true prophet this year. The wintry weather has frozen business to a standstill. There will be a falling off of from 10 to 15 per cent, in the use of bought fertilizer s this year. Mrs. W. M. Hunter, who suffered an attack of paralysis on the 5th inst., continues in a critical condition. Col. LaGrippe is the only visitor from the North abiding in town, and a very unwelcome guest in a number of homes. Married by Rev. W. C. Baxley on the 4th inst., Miss Bertha, daughter of Capt. J. B. Morris, and Mr. John B. Harley, both of Barnwell. According to raports of the clerks of court there were filed last year about 100,000 liens in this State. Of thefte Bamberg had 2,266, and Barn well 3,656. Judge Robert Aldrich will preside at his first court, Conway, Horry County. He will go to Conway on Sunday and l his dutie s on that circuit will keep him from home until April. A country friend tell g us that the incessant hunters have, about exter minated the partridges. That will be pleasant news to destructive insects tuie of less than $200 will pay tuition, board and room and all expenses of a college student here, and all cr part of this sum naay be paid by work on the college farm, in constructTon work on a new dam or in one of the ether departments of the college. The older boys at the orphanage do the work of the farm in large part, which supplies most of the food f° r all three institu tions. A large part of the remainder is brought in by studentg from their homes in payment of expenses, items ranging from a calf to a wagonload of cherries having been accepted last semester. All the possibilities of Banner Elk are being used to the full to help the institutions pay their own way; in the summer college boys and girls operate the college buidings as a summer hotel, Pinnacle Inn, which atracts hundreds °f visitors to enjoy the high altitude, the scenery and the fine trout fishing. The students of course have charge of stocking and caring for the trout streams. In the early fall quail and grouse shooting are begining to attract visitors from the north, the college operating a game farm which is one of the most completely stocked in the south. This is one of the very few places in this rr-rt of Jthe country where %iuffed grouse are found in abundance, and northern sportsmen who are accus tomed to go to Scotland for grouse shooting are finding in the moi^ntains PROGRAM FOR FEBRUARY 15 to 25, INCLUSIVE 1 the tender crops. Mr. George M. Buist dees not agree with the other weather prophets that henext Spring will be late and co ^- He remember g well and judging by his recollections thinks that the present freezing weather means an early and pleasant Spring. Another advertisement of a kind too rare is published this! week, that of Mr. G. W. Greene, Jr., offering for sale a sow and eight pigs. This weary wet spell has given a She leaves a large family to mourn rest time to all worker g except news- her loss. ‘paper people. when they begin net Spring to feed on ''around Banner Elk just a? good sport I “Perfect Town” in North State (The State) Recently the Associated Press sent nationwide the news that Banner Elk, N. was the “perfect town” for 1932. There had not l*een need to spend a cent for relief, there had been no business failure or foreclos ure, no one had been arrested, there was money in the town treasury, and taxes had been lowered from 40 cents to ten cents, and not a bootlegger had been caught. The State wrote to Edgara Tufts, president cf Lees-McRea college thertv for his views upon the situation, and the following letter written in collaheration with him by A. T. Rob ertson, the Associated Press corres pondent, was received in reply: Edgar Tufts, president cf Lees- McRca college, has asked nu to reply to your interesting questions of Jan uary 23, inasmuch ns 1 was the As sociated Press correspondent responsi ble for the Banner Elk story. This answer is written with his c. -opera tion and Mr. Tufts states that any of it may be used over his signature. |; ,w oy over the highway. This not There is no need for re'ief w.rk in to say that we held w 'th those that ceurse this is not to claim a halo for the citizens of this village, because they ar.? a- human as those anywhere. It is true, however, that both tha usual incentives to crime and the en vironment which produces criminaals, are totally lacking. No one in Ban ner Elk is rich e-n ugh to tempt a thief or poor enough to be tempted to steal. As for the environment it is one of placid c.ntentnunt. If you could see the leading business men of the town (which has a total of four stores, two fi'l.ng stations and oni ‘ bank) engaged in thtir daily croquet battles behind the bank, with Grandfather mountain towering in the background and the stone bui!ding s of the college, the ihurch and the hospital in the fore ground, I think you would see our point. We have in winter very few st ranget s, except for those who come to visit the college and the other in stitutions; there isn’t even a movie, the nearest talkies being 18 miles Banner Elk, first of all because the community Tg as nearly' self-support ing as any in the mountains. Dr. W. C. Tate, head of the. staff of Grace hospital at Banner Elk for over 25 years, says that in his opini n there is not one family in the entire town ship which is in actual want of food, fuel dr shelter. Food, fuel and hou-e- ing arc as abundant a s ever. With the exception of those who make their living directly or indirectly from 'jthe Edgar, Tufts Memorial associa tion, including Lees-McRoa college, Grandfather orphanage and Grace hospital, every one around here is a farmer of the kind who was familiar with Governor Gardner’s ‘‘live-at- home” idea long before it was offi- c : a!ly launched from Raleigh. The altitude of Banner E!k and its bieme crime on the movies, for Ban ner Elk citizens enjoy an occasional visit to the bright lights of the near est town; but the fact remains, we have no movies here and no crime. If we did have a criminal, it would be most embarrassing, because cur policeman has nrver had a jail. W hy has there been no business failure in Banner Elk? Because there has never been more business than the town, together with, its institu- tions, could support, is probably as good an answer as any. The bank is probably the answer. It shows that nei;her the town, the college, orphan age and hospital nor private citizens borrow what they cannot repay. The sidewalks weie not laid until the town had the money to pay fer them; the college installed its power plant ’surrounding country averages close | and water system, cnly as fast as the to 4,000 feet; this means that the great money crops of cotton and to bacco are unknown here and low rprices for farm produce mean com paratively little, since the Banner Elk people raise their “vittles” pri marily for their own consumption. If you judge by this that they are poor people, you judge correctly, how- dver the statement in regard to relief work holds. Not one cent has been expended, not even of federal money. Ifayor Shell states that a small amount of Red Cross flour, allotted to Avery County, was in turn sent to this township, but not because* none waa made. Why there i> no need to arrest one for crime in Banner Elk is not hard and climate and scenery even more invigorating. The Edgar Tufts Memorial associa tion is named for the Rev. Edgar Tufts, a Presbyterian home mission ary, who began the work here in 1900. It has grown rapidly, but never too rapidly, and the stability of the enterprise has naturally helped the stability of the town, and vice versa. Banner Elk antedates the college by many years; during the Confederalo war it was a Union stronghold. Shep herd M. Dugger, author of “The Bal sam Groves of the Grandfather Moun tain” and one of the best known pa triarch of the Blue Ridge, has lived hete all his life and ha s just published a new book, “War Trials of the Blue Ridge,” in which the early history of Banner Elk and its surrendings is quaintly and interestingly told. The characteristics of the little village and its people go far back into the past. It is easy to say that Banner Elk’s record is explained by its very small size—not over 300 or 400 residents, aside from, those at the college, hospi tal and orphanage—and yet many communities as small or even smaller have suffered in the last three years, while we are grateful to Divine Provi dence for our escape. If Providence provided the resources here for life, gratitude is also due the native good sense and caution of the people here who have been accustomed all their lives to paying their way as they go, in private and community life. The work of Lees-McRea college. Grand father orphanage and Grace hospital, which last spring opened the doors of a four-story stone building with 60 beds, ha s been sustained through the depression by the love and sacri fice of hundreds of friends, and to these also cur gratitude is due. My personal opinion is that the peo ple of Banner Elk, far from illiterate, and yet by no means .sophisticated, have ^hown themselves in one wa‘y to be better educated than residents cf many larger towns. They have never been led by the sound of the word “progress” without stopping to in quire just what “progress” means. The word implies not only motion, but moticn with a definite purpose. Banner Elk has the ingrained habit of inquiring into purpose before en tering into motion. As a result, to day it is still a small village, but a happy and contented one. Wednesday & Thursday FEBRUARY 15 and 16 THAT'S MY B< Also A COMEDY, “WILD WAVES. Coming Next Week Friday and Saturday FEBRUARY 17 and 18 “Thirteen Women” FEATURING LRENE DUNNE ^ FEATURING IRENE DUNNE CHANDLI P f V The Magician > with Edmund LOWE See Washington Merry Go Round and YouTl See Washington with the Shade Up ♦> 4 X~X~X-X~X*v*X~X~X**X*«X«>*X , <->> I | Admission: 10c and 20c, Plus Tax • ^ Two Shows Each Night at 7 and 9 O’clock. f T T ? T T ? ♦♦♦ money was available, and the little business enterprises have gone upon the same basis. No chain stores have yet come into Banner Elk, and per- hap the lack of knife-edged competi tion has something to do with our fortune in escaping business troubles. The present stores are ample to sup ply all the needs of the town; they rejport business decreased during the past year, but they have all adjusted themselves to the situation. The college, the orphanage and hos pital play a major role in keeping the little town’s record so clear, but it is not, as you might imagine, by bring ing in great sums of outside money, because they operate on the self-aup- porting principle. Nearly all the boy*, and most of the giria, in the Tbit Woman Lott 64 Poundt of Fat Mrs. H. Pric* of Woodaido, L. I. writaa: “A yaar ago I waighad 190 Iba. I atartad to tako Kruachan and now I woigh 126 and navar fait bottar in my lifo and what’a mora, I look mora Ilka 20 yra. old than tha mothor of 2 chil- dron, ona of 10 and tha othar It. My frianda aay It’a marvaloua tha way I reduead." To loaa fat tAPELY and HARM- LESSLY, taka a half taaapoanful of Kruaqhan In a glaaa of hot watar In tha morning bafora braakfaat—don’t mlaa a morning—a bottla that laata 4 waaka aorta but a triha—but don’t taka ehancaa—6a aura It’a Kruachan. If not joyfully aatiaflad after tha Urea battle—manay back. t J. Mr. Merchant: t Are you getting your share of the substantial payrolls being distributed weekly throughout the county by the Barnwell County Relief Council? Thous ands of dollars are being paid out each -*i month, and if you are not getting YOUR share of this business, perhaps we can help you. Why not try an advertising cam paign in The People-Sentsnel or, if you prefer, let • us print you some circulars? YouTl be surprised at the extremely reasonable cost. Call at our office or phone us and we ’ll call on The People-Sentinel Phone 89 : . : : . : Barnwell