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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%.
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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
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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
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“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
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Also A COMEDY, “WILD WAVES.
Coming
Next Week
Friday and Saturday
FEBRUARY 17 and 18
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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.
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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
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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
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