Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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FAGB FOUR. Barnwell 50 and 25 Years Ago. Interesting Items GleanM From the Files of The Barnwell People. MARCH*8, 1883., Let us have peace—in Elko. Two hundred and eighty-seven liens, mortgages and bills of sale were filed in the Clerk’s office on Monday. Our young friend, Dr. J. J. Crad dock, of Allendale, wa 8 graduated with distinction at the Charleston Medical College last week. Married, at Elko, on the 7th inst., by Rev. J. C. Browne, Mr. C. L. Wade %nd Miss Evaleon, daughter of Mr. Patrick Bates. We saw on Monday a field of ungathered corn on the farm of Mr. B. H. Baxley in this township. Near by others were p'anting com. The Board of County Commission ers met on Tuesday and a large amount of business was transacted. Capt. C. M. Browning resigned the Clerkship of the Board because of other pressing engagements and Mr. William McNab was elected as his successor. The Fair:—Preparations for the next County Fair and progressing quietly but energetically. The prem iums will be liberal in number and amountg and will nereafter be paid in silver. » The Sherwood Club—There is a gen eral feeling in favor of the reorganiza tion of the Sherwood Jockey Club. For sixteen years before the war when none but county raised horses were permitted to enter it was uniformly successful. It^did much to increase the raising of blooded stock and but for the war our county would have had a larger number of thorqugh- breds than any in the State. Sher man's raiders carried off 84 of Red Eagle’s colts, ranging in age from 3 to G years, and that loss has never been made up. By all means let the Jockey Club^be reorganized. MARCH 5, 1908. Lent began last week. March came in like a lamb. Postmaster Hammet moved into the new and beautiful Blackville of fice building on Monday. The county pension board met on Monday. About 25 names of- new applicants for the needed aid have been recorded. Ten died l ast year. A sneak thief or thieves entered the residence of Congressman Patter son Saturday night, took the panta loons of his sleeping sons into the yard, emptied their pockets of several dollars in silver and the garments out doors. Paper money was for tunately overlooked. On Friday night by a fire believed to have been incendiary Mr. H. D. Still sustained a loss of from |1,000 to $1,500 on his Sunshine Plantation near the Edisto. Two barns were burned with two fine six year old mules, a large quantity of fertilizers and other valuable property. He had no insurance. Mr. J. B. Morris, Jr., who had been one of^The People force since June, 1906, has accepted the position of foreman of the Batesburg Advo cate news and job office. Mr. Ernest R. Hafers, who has for 18 years been a good citizen of this town, and whose praise has been and is in the mouths of many customers, will in the near future move to Aiken, whose people are hungry for better breads, cakes and pies than their pr imitive cooks have compounded and cooked for them. Col. L. W. Y’oumans, of Fairfax, died on the 26th ult., at a hospital in Savannah following an operation a week before for cancer of the liver. He had been ill for several months. PALMETTO “GRASS" GAINS IN PRBSTIGE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.) Cannera Attracted. Many commercial and home canning factories have sprung up around the asparagus industry in the last few years. Last spring the Birdseye Parking company of Gloucester. Mass., put up several carloads of “frozen food" asparagus at the South Carolina Packing company’s plant at Fairfax. Dr. Karl B. Northon, re search chemist for the Birdseye cor poration, spent the entire marketing 1 BE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNHELL, SOUTH CAB< season at the, JjStirfax cannery, super intending the Oat-put of this frozen delicacy. Several of the larger can ning companies have been interested in Carolina asparagus for a v number of years; notable among these is H J. Heinz, who^haa Trot upr in soups, soup tips. 7 \ Grower g in this State have never rivalled the California growers in yields per acre. Many persons have tried io figure this out. Our growers use extremely wide rows, from 6 to 8 feet, while those of other sections use from 5 to 6 foot rows. Experi- ience has shown that the narrower row gives better yields, but the crop does not last over as long a period of years. The average yield in this State is about fifty dozen bunche g an acre, while that of California runs close to 100 dozen. A few outstand ing examples in the Palmetto State have proven that 100 dozen bunches is .not an impossibility. R. F. Lott, popularly known as South Carolina’s asparagus king,” has exceeded 125 crates an acre for several years on his ten acre field. Frank Miller, of Trenton, has gone over 100 crates on many occasions. Lang Cave arid Q. A. Kennedy have just missed the 100 mark on more than one cutting, as have Boyce Gantt, of Monetta, and Terie Richardson, of Barnwell. l What Cuts Production. Culture has more to do with this small per acre yield than any other factor. Inadequate fertilization, deep plowing on the alleys, thereby cut ting numerous roots and poor stands enter into the picture. In most of the new acreage s set recently, much care has been given to selection «of uniform “crowns.” Experiemce has proven that yields have been greatly curtailed by this lack of uniformity in the older crops. Asparagus is one of the most promising of all our crops in South Carolina. It is true, lack of buying power in the large centers of popula tion have given it a temporary set back, but this buying power will soon return. Householders are becoming better educated to taste and value of this most wonderful food, and as a long time farming venture, our gl-owerg may rest assured that it will be many, many years before it is “over done.” It is a highly specialized crop, and not one which appeaals to the novice nor to the man who cannot afford to tie his money up in a crop for more than a year at a time. TflU lloUA 11 i j f T ? T ? ? ? ? TJie Barnwell Theatre PROGRAM FOR MARCH 1 to 9, INCLUSIVE t - •Wednesday & Thursday MARCH 8 and 9 DECEPTION with Leon Carrillo Monday and Tuesday % MARCH 13 and 14 ' Hat Check far!—~ with Sallie EILERS and Ben Lyon T Tom MIX Wednesday & Thursday MARCH 15 and 16 —m My Pal The King Friday and Saturday March 10 and 11 Lady. Coming Next Week Most Dangerous Game The officials of The Bank of Barnwell regret being compelled to close the bank temporarily by order of the President of the Unit ed States. As the public generally knows there has been a stringency in money matters in the great financial centers of the United States, resulting in the closing last week of many banks in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, and other cities, in consequence of which the Gov- ernors of the various States throughout the Nation, acting more or less in unison, declared a “Bank Holiday” of from one day to one •' •-»--■ *' yf , . _ ‘ * week. South Carolina, through Governor Blackwood, was the last .1 ■ * . % - State to declare a moratorium in order to protect such banks as might be affected by outside connections, the banks in all adjojping % _ , - ' ' ' ' ' j ■ States being closed. Even with this, The Bank of Barnwell, being in possession of sufficient cash and government bonds to pay off every dollar of > * . . * depositors’ money as and when they wanted it, according to the^ policy which we have always pursued in operating the bank, obtain ed permission from the Governor of South Carolina for our bank to be allowed to remain open. Necessary cash and securities were kept in our^aults (and still are kept here under guard) to keep faith with our people. We planned to open Monday morning and do business as usual, but in the meantime, on account of the appar ent nationwide panicky conditions, the President of the United States issued a proclamation late Sunday night ordering every banking institution in the Nation to close until further orders from the U. S. j Government. This was done under authority of a war emergency act passed in 1917 and provides for punishment by imprisonnfent for s ten years and ten thousand dollars fine for those violating the Presi dential Proclamation. We Hope the Situation Will Be Cleared Dp Shortly. # We are not disturbed over the situation, our only worry being the temporary inconvenience to our customers caused by the Presi- A dent’s Proclamation.—We feel that the government is going to deal swiftly and quickly and that business will be resumed, nor- ✓ X mally, within a few days. In the meantime, we appreciate the con- fidence which our people have shown in us. We reciprocate this ? spirit, and say in conclusion that, when allowed to reopen, our de positors will have the same and con tinned protection which we feel that we have offered them through The Bank of Barnwell. — Admission: 10c and 20c, Plus Tax * * •. Two Shows Each Night at 7 and 9 O’clock. % N The Bank of Barnwell ■ / "s C. G. FULLER, President j J