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THE INDEX-JOURNAL, GREENWOOD, S. C. SATl'MUT, MAnCII 1S 194 Page Four I over by a car driven by Miss Azile MvNeil. and a verdict of unavoida- UNAVOIDABLE ACCIDENT LITTLE BOY'S DEATII rafe INDEX-JOURNAL- TW Leading fJewapaaei Waa im South CaroMni" Ernie Has Found Lieut. Von Ripper Great Character I ble rtctdent was returned.

The testl- Abbevllle. March 18 (Special) mory was that the little boy was The Wathcr Charlotto, N. C. March 18. (P Official Weather Bureau records of tha temperature and rainfall for the 21 hours ending at 7:30 a.

m. In the principal cotton growing areas and elsewhere: TIM Onuiid JoarnaJ eetabllehed Aoguat 1. The Green woed Index, eatabllahed November Tj Iff The Journal ana Tba Index ooaeolidated Jan. If. Ill v.nitiug for the school bus and dart An inquest was held here this week inquiring into the a earn ot Charles enry Taylor last week, who was run ed in front of the car which was Into town.

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WATSON. President ARTHUR LEE. J. Sea-Treas, 1919-1933 .99 Igkt to make, angels jweep. That is the secret of the growing indifference and wortdliness In the church today.

So many have grown weary In well doing. overlooking the promise that we shall reap it we faint not. Suppose Columbus hud not sailed on and on and on. Suppose Washington had become utterly discouraged at Valley Varse. and given up in disgust.

Suppose the plonpers who opened up our undiscovered frontiers hnd shrunk back from the sacrifices and hardships. Suppose Paul had grown discouraged and failed to carry the Gospel to the distant uixl perilous shores of Europe. Let us not be weary in well doing, my friend, for In due season we shull reap. If we faint not. Station Asheville Atlanta Augusta Birmingham Host on Charleston Charlotte By Ernie Pyle In Italy.

March 18 (By Wireless) One of the most fabulous characters in tills war theater is Lieut. Rudolf Charles Von Ripper. He Is so aJBtllous you might be Justified tn thinking him a phony until you got to know him. I've known him since last sum LENT, AND BUNA SQUARE A soldier rests beneath the sands of Buna Square, 5.1 TO 74 And teardrops splash the grimy mer in Algeria. Most of the other INCREASING hands that laid him there Beneath the Cross.

Chicago 4 0 Columbia Denver 5 8 Detroit Kvansville 60 Calveston To correspondents know him. One whole fighting infantry division knows him. He's no phony. No tells may toll, nor organs play Entered, at tha Greenwood Poeffflce aa Mail Matter of tin Second' Claaa Teraaa Of Sasaerlptiew Given Oa AanlicaUea Tha Index-Journal Co. la not raaponslbla tot money Hid la ad eaaee to carrlera.

MEMBER Or ASSOCIATED PRESS Tfca Aasoclated Preea 1 exolualvely entitled to tha aa at republication of all' mwi dispatchea credited la or- not otherwise credited la thle oanar and alas Iba local nawa published herein. AU rajhta republication of special dlapatehaa aerela are ales reserved. the requiem, YOUR PEACH CROP KlMi Von Ripper Is the kind they .90 .01 .28 .99 Yet comrades bow their heads to pray a final hymn write about. He was born in Austria. His father was a general in And mark their loss.

the Imperial Austrian army, his mother a baroness. They had mon 36 4S 50 ns 5T 41 46 30 26 4 3 66 47 6-' 59 46 55 51 63 60 29 62 4.1 45 63 49 44 66 42 63 To those who stand beside the one Greensboro Jacksonville Little Rock Los Angeles Memphis Meridian Miami on Buna Square; liaks All Remittances to To those who gave an only son and ana, lflVbMUVanaa vuwant 1 Greenwood, 8. C. said a prayer. We pledge our might.

Minn. -St. Paul ey. He could have had a rich, formal, royal type of existence. Instead he ran away from hove at 15.

worked In the sawmills, collected garbage, was a coal miner for a while, and then a clown In a small traveling circus. At 19 he went into the French Foreign Legion, served two years, and was wounded In action. After National Reprweentatlvea WAKlMlRIKilTH INC. Lord, who see this strife below, Tl -75 TO -T8 70 -76 80 29 77 40 -77 70 80 75 T4 T5 .68 give its ycur hand .14 Tba publisher aesumee ns liability fur meroaaadlee That every child on earth may know loeurrecUr priced throufb poSTapnicei error iin timed where aoods axe typographical error and la a brighter land .14 ae event will liability be aasv old at- the Incorrect price. In freedoms light.

Sgt. Kenny Schooler. .01 Mobile Ml. Mitchell New Orleans New York -Raleigh an Antonio San Francisco Spartanburg Tampa Washington Wilmington TELEPHONES i THIS YEAR Farmers and other folks with fruit trees frnist make them as productive as possible this year. Because of last year's crop short-age, you can't afford not to save your fruit this year.

USE "PAN" PEACH SPRAY for better results from your peach, plum, cherry trees 2 Vic PER GALLON AN 8-LB. PACKAGE MAKES 50 GALLONS OF SPRAY GAMBRELL HARDWARE CO. OUR OLD ROADS No. 1417 Previously mention was made of the early settlers on liogskin Creek, west of Due West, the Pratts, Kills, and Lindsay families with many descendants who removed to what is now Greenwood county and many of their descendants ar till living In this county. First of the Pratt name, as already noted, was James Prutt who married Sarah Lindsay.

They had four daughters and two sons as follows- Polly, married Thomas and removed lo Thoinasvllle, Mariuh, married Hen Kay; Sarah Ann. rhurrled John T. Miller; and Elizabeth Betsy), married Lewis Clinksuales; and the two sons, Robert Pratt and John Pratt. Robert Pratt, as previously mentioned, was a veteran of the Seminole War In Florida 1 838-29. He married Louisa Jane Kills and they had the following children: Sarah Ann Pratt, Para-line (Parrle) Pratt.

John William Pratt; Robert N. Pratt. A. Cyprian Pratt. Luther M.

Pratt. Flora K. Pralt and Laura Kills Pratt. These children of Robert Pratt and Louisa Jane Kills Pratt married as follows: Sarah Ann Pratt married Wm. K.

Harmore. only son of T1IA-T, PICTURE HURTS Dial MM Dial Ml Dial Mil Dial MI Business Ofnce Adrertlsina Department Editorial Hooma Moot BdUor lit lore me is a picture oi me ouna .04 Square described by Sgt. Schooler In the above lines. Two soldiers. fcr SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1944 ltl-.

paint brushes are making a that he went back to Europe and studied art. He is fundamentally an artist. He traveled continuously. He lived in London ind Paris. He lived in Shanghai during 1928.

Then he returned to Berlin, Joined liberal groups, and did occasional cartoons. Because he helped friends hiding from the Nazis, he was arrested in 193.1. accused of hlh treason, and 'ient to a concentration ramp. if SERMONETTE Ity Dr. It.

O. Lawton cross in black on the stone that marks a grave made In the sand of the open area called "Buna Square" Partly cloudy, mild, today and tonight with slightly higher temperatures north portion tonight. Cloudy Sunday with showers in afternoon. flic square Is made by the tents of the encamped soldiers, and there's no semblance of a city or a town, Collfuss of Austria got him out Just a place somewhere In New Guinea. And here's food for thought after seven months.

Then he went to the Balearic Lslands off the this Lenten season. Beneath mll- HOME FKOXT HERO Broadus. Mont. Rancher Hon- ry found himself snowed in as income tax day approached, So he rolled out his tractor, op-j ened a blocked road, got to town and paid his tax. llniis of crosses, in all parte of the III IIERK A1SD HMK BOTH! Mala Street tihi: is mom: Telepheae 3111 world sleep those who have died for country.

They died young. We hall by better living, by better building, keep faith with those who coast of Spain and hibernated for a year, doing political, satirical drawing. All his life ha? been a fluctuation between these violent extremes of salon intellectualism and the hard, steady reality of persona) participation in war. You don't think of an arUst as being tough sleep. Shall we? A MAY WE SERVE YOU or worldly, yet Von Ripper has.

been shot hi battle more than 23 times. In 1936 he went to Spain as an aerial gunner the Loyalist air force. He got 16 slugs in his leg during that adventure, and barely came out alive. Back in Austria in 1938, he saw bT there was no possibility of organ- izlng even a token resistance a- gainst Hitler, so he left for Amer- kra. He became an American clti- AND HERE AT HOME Once upon a time Sammy got in trouble.

He was Just a little fellow, and when be was brought into the Children's court for stealing, Instead oi being sent to an institution, he waa given a new home, a foster home. for the old one that waa bad because of bad parents. Sammy at first: didn't like his new home and thrice he ran away from it. But finally he" became a new boy in his "new home and Is now growing up to be a helpful, friendly, good young man. This was the story told by Miss Alary Rogers of Greenville at the people's Center Friday night.

And a member of the audience said later; "There's a Sammy in nearly every home." We must help such boys to flnl outlets for useful activities and purposeful play. THEY BEAT THE BAND They really play to beat the band" said a listener as the Greenwood High School Band gave a stellar peciormance at the Thursday night's assembly period of the People's Center. Judge W. B. McGowan who was sitting next to me said.

xen five years later. By that time he was a private In the United States, Army. HU Army career has been a cur ious one. At first he was a hospital laboratory technician. i Then he was transferred to the newiy formed Army Arts Corps, I and left for North Africa last May to; paint battle pictures for the War Department.

I happened to meet him a few i days after he nrrived on this side. He had hardly got started on hli art work when Congress abolished the whole program. So he went back to being i regular soldier a- "We didn't have a college band that good when I was In school." And gain, this time an Infantryman, i He was transfeired to tba 34tli Di tlie fellow next to him said. '-Broth vision. m.

4r a Last fall he was put in a front- line regiment, and in October he i was wounded by shell splinters. He doesnt seem to mind being shot at 3 er, they didn't even have a band in the college I attended." The splendid wwki of the band under Edgar Davis' leadership is an example of extra-curricular activities for purposeful employment 'of youth's leisure time. The Youth Center, now open for business, is an example oi wholesome recreation for youths leisure time. all. A month later, while leading a night patrol, he got four machine- pistol slugs in him.

One slug split his upper lip Just "HTlLfc AT IT, KHr I' Let nt not be weary in well doing: for In duo season we shall reap. If we faint not. Gal. 6:9. Two colored men bad been working near earn otter several hours.

Finally, one panned the other and aald: "Still at It. eh?" The oth.r aaio, fcilll al it la the secret of success In life, and especially. (n tba Christian life. Stkkabillty la aa Importances ability. T6e Teacher said: "He that endureth to the end abaft lie saved.

"Tbera is no discharge in that war." The, Christian after God's own heart la "One wbo jneVer turns hU back, but marches bream forward; never doubts clouds will break; holds one fatfad rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake These, you recall, are Browning's word. 'A greater than Browning said: "Be not weary In well doing; for In due season we ahall if faint riot. Tlie same spirit' la found In a passage from Tennyson; Thbugh" we are not now that strength which In old days moved heaven and that whka We are we are; one equal temper' of heroic hearts; made weak by time and fate, but strong In will to strive, to to find, and 'not' to yield." Paul's Injunction to the Christians not to "be weary In well doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not," is. Indeed, a provocative passage' of scripture. "a Christian tempted to let down, to growt weary, sometimes even to quit altogether? 1.

Because of criticism. This Is especially true of young Christians. They enter upon their high' task with the flaming enthusiasm of yout'h and 'the glorious seal of new converts, but after a time they Inevitably encounter crltl-? clam. Their motives are questioned. They are misunderstood1 hjr certain faultfinding, carping critics in'and out of the church.

And so some begin to ioBT their first enthusiasm, and their burning seal la quenched. Some people Just can't sland criticism. They are dependent upqtt the approval, even the praise, of their fellowklud. Too bad! 2. And this suggests the next reason why Christiana so often grow weary In well doing.

Their efforts are not appreciated, at least, they imagine they are not, because they are not assured often enough of the beauty and usefulness of their service. They enjoy the praise of men. 4 They cannot be satisfied with only the approval of God and their conscience. They must be told again and again how wonderful they are. how indispensable to the cause, how much credit they deserve for their well doing.

Too bad, again! 3. Others become weary in well doing because things do not move faster. They cannot see the fruits of their labors. "There Is so mueh indifference; It is such a sleepy crowd 1 have to work with; what's the any way?" that's the use? is the most perilous question ever asaed. What's the use to be good? What's the use to do good What'a the use to keep ourselves unspotted the world? What's the use to deny yourself and make sacrifices for a great causa? WW's the use of It all? That Way failure lies.

That way despair lies. That way spiritual death lies. 4. Once' more, a large number grow weary In well doing because of sin. Kin la binding.

It binds us lu slot and a certain, spiritual Rtupor. Slit Is' blinding. It blinds us to our duty, our privileges, to the Joy of walking In the magical romantic second mile of service. -And sin is 'grinding. It grinds out of us the flaming enthusiasms of faith, the gorgeous beauty of love, the grand passion for service.

Countless thousands have fallen by the way, II Weary and spent and washed out, because Sin entered their Uvea, rendering them Impotent, innocuous, and futile as willing workers In the vineyard of the There la nothing sadder than to see a promls-, In, useta! Christian grow weary In well doing, and drop out of the shining rank of the pilgrims of Eternity, There nothing more tragic than the sight of thousands of young and old Christians, whose 1 hearts God had touched, and who were so splendidly dedicated to a high and holy task, losing Interest In the church, losing. Interest In doing good, losing Interest in Cod Himself. II Is a MORE CARE where it Joins his nose. Another ripped a deep groove in the back of his hand. Another shot one finger clear off at the first Joint.

The HOW ABOUT THE ADULTS? Judge McOowan of the Greenville Lai kin Barmore and their children were listed in the Burmore family sketch. Paraline I Parrle I Pratt became the second wife of the Rev. Woodward (Woody) King his first wife Was a MeChee, sister of Wm. Z. McGhee and had the following children: Robert King.

Pratt King. Kllle King. G. King; Cleo King, married B. F.

Martin; married Iiaylis Clark. John William Pratt, married Mary Moseley. daughter of Wesley Moseley, of the Old Greenville church community. He wbb In Confederate service as a member of Co. B.

First ii. C. M. He and bis wife Mary Moseley Pratt had the following children: Maude Pratt, Charley Pratt, married Mamie Hillhouse; Walter B. Pratt, married first Besslt Bannister; married second Mrs.

Fannie Stuart; married third Katherine O'Connor; Nell Pratt, married 8. 3. Faulkner; Hal- M. Pratt, married Lllla O'Dell; W. Otla Pratt, married first Dora Vanadore; married second.

Mrs. Wilhelmina Miner, Josephine (Josie) Pratt. m.9rted J. C. Gore.

The Rev. Robert N. Pratt, prominent Baptist minister, attended Furman University, two years and was graduated from Erskine College In 1869. Pastor of Turkey Creek, Walnut Grove churches aa noted and waa pastor of the newly established church at Abbeville. Later pastor in Bennetta-ville and Columbia.

He was married flrat to Annie McKay and they had the following children, Robert McK. Pratt, married Edith, first wife of J. T. Carroll, Henry Pratt and Jean Pratt. Rev.

R. N. Pratt married second Gertrude Taller and they bad Constance Pratt, married Richard Swetenburg. A. Cyprian Pratt married Sallie Maya and they bad: Mays Pratt, married first married second- Wallace Pratt, married Julia Foy; Dora Pratt, married Dr.

M. L. Thomas; Ida Pratt; Lambert Pratt, married Margaret Buchanan. Luther M. Pratt married Anna Hackett and they had the following children: Llllie Pratt, flrat wife of John L.

McKellar; Louise Pratt. married K. Ben Taylor; Bessie Pratt, married Hen J. Nickiea; Eugene Pralt, married Josie Prather; Mabel Pratt, married T. Clayton Beau- drot; Luther Pratt married Willie Gibson; Hugh Pratt, married Margaret Taylor.

Flora E. Pratt, married A. Hill McGee and their children were listed in the McGee family aketch. Laura Ellis Pratt, married T. Payne Henderson and they had the following children: Will N.

Henderson, married Ethel Wells; R. Pratt Henderson, married Max Stall worth; Louise Henderson: Mary (May) Henderson, married Dr. W. A. Barnette; and T.

Payne Henderson Jr. John Pratt, brother of Robert Pratt, and son of Jamea Pratt and his wife, Sarah Lindsay, married Mary Kay and they had the following children: Capt. James Pratt, Elisabeth Pratt. Pratt, Sarah Pratt, Jane Amanda Pratt and Robert Lindsay Pratt. These children married aa follows: Capt.

Jamea Pratt waa married three times, first to Sophronia Cowan and they had the following children. Cowan, Lula and Nina. Capt. James Pratt married second, Susan Sharpton and they had the following children, Jefferson, Carrte and Mary Pratt. Capt.

James Pratt married third Julia Mahry and they had one child, Jlelen Pratt. Elizabeth Pratt, daughter of John Pratt and Alary Kay Pratt, married Robert Cllnkscales and they had the following children; Melvln, John, Leila, and Sallie. Myrtle Pratt, daughter of John Pratt and Mary Kay Pratt, married John Marlon Prultt and they had two children, AlUe, who, married Frank P. Rush, and Eva who married' Hamp Youngblood. Mr.

Prultt removed from Anderson to what' is now this county and bought the old Sproull place now known as "Green Pastures" and lived there the rest of his being a large and successful farmer. He said he came out of the War Between the States with one silver dollar and a gray mule. He had accumu- lated a lurge estute in land and other property by the lime of his death. Sarah Pratt, (laughter of John Pratt and Mary Kay Pratt, married Robert Williams and they liau the following: Myrtle. Susie, John.

Fuunle. William (Billy), and Mary Williams. Jane Pratt, daughter of John Pratt and Mary Kay Pratt, married twice, first to Edwin Cox and they had three daughters, Cora, Bessie and Kddle Cox. Jane Pratt married second Peter Acker but they had no children. Amanda daughter of John Pratt and, Mary Kay Pratt, married Dr.

John A. Robinson and they had the following children: Julia and Margaret Robinson. Robert Lindsay Pratt, son of, John Prstt and Mary Kay Pratt, was married twice. Ills first wire was Fannie Swilling and they had one child, Lllla Lee, who died young. Robert Lindsay Pratt married second Emma Holloway and they had the following children: Lola Pratt, married Ben IT, Rarnbo; Dr.

John Holloway Pratt, married Catherine Bell; Lindsay M. Pratt: Douglas Pratt, married Gussie 8allle Pratt, died, young; Jamea Boatman Pratt; Otto Pratt, raar--rled vLilllaa Bel and Heath Pratt, married. Laurens Bm ualde. i. (To be contlntfed.) County Children's court, who was MEANS brought to town by the Juvenile Council and spoke briefly at the Ptopie's Center Thursday night, laid It on parents to correct the delln-quenry situation.

He: spoke of the rl in parental delinquency, and said, "The responsibility for attacking delinquency does not rest exclusively upon the court but upon all social, civic, and religious agencies of the community with the view of throwing the arm of protection a-rcund our children and covering pitfalls into which they might stumble." We Ask You To Send Your fourth went through his shoulder. Before all his bandages were off he was back patrollng again. All this time overseas he had been a sergeant, but after his November wounding he was given a battlefield commission as second lieutenant, and transferred to the divisions' engineers. Later it was possible for him to resume his art work in his spare time. Right now Lieutenant Von Ripper has a nice little room on the top floor' of an apartment building in Naples taken over by the Army.

Here he works at a huge drawing board, doing water colors and pen-and-ink sketches of war. He sleeps on a cot in the same room. Around the walls are tacked dozens of his sketches. Now and then he returns to the front with his old outfit. Whenev-e he does, he's out in front getting shot at before you can say scat.

He's quite a guy. SPRING AND SUMMER CLOTHES We urge you td fiend your Spring wearing apparel in as early as possible. The sooner we NOW have them the sooner you get them back, spot- lessly clean, ready for wear at a moment's no THAT DAFFODIL SHOW That touch of beauty which made all the town akin last Wednesday In the annual Daffodil show was something to set tongues a-going all over the Emerald City a-going in a guod way this tune. We salute the women's garden clubs of the city) Through this touch of beauty they do something to all of us. Does your life em different lately? Maybe it's love.

Maybe it's the spring. Maybe It's the emphasis beauty which comes so appropriately this time of the year, thanks to our beauty-minded women leaders. HERE AND THERE Echoes of inspiring music coming from the first choir practice for the tice. With the present shortage of wearing apparel due to wartime conditions, it is advisable to keep your present clothes in perfect con-. dition.

They will look better and give you much more lasting wear SAVE 10 ON DRY CLEANING VISIT A CASH AND CARRY STATION i li ,1 NO. 1 Old Durst-Andrews Build- NO, 3 Old Post Office Building, Ing on Oak Street opposite Ninety Six. Greene's Service' Station. NO. 4 Bus Station, Abbeville.

i NO. 5 Drive-in and Pick-up En- NO. 2 Roberts, Grocery at Green- trance to Main Plant off S. C. DEATHS By The Associated Prx-ss South Carolina deaths during the past 24 houra: Minnie Harrison, York.

Mrs. Wesley P. Thompson, 62. Eastover. Alice Player, 79, Turbe-ville.

Mrs. Julia Barton King, 84. Lancaster. 7 Hazel Bouknight, 42, Newberry county. Isaac White, 7C, Columbia.

Reddin Smith, Mulllns and Proc-torsvllle, N. C. Rev. David Arthur Phillips, 77. Holly 1II1L Inter-church youth League groupJ Mathews Road.

wood Mill. last Wednesday evening. Unusually good book forum last Tuesday evening led by Misses Margaret Bailey and Anna Rena Blake on poetry. "And They Shall by Sis. ter Kenney, good reading apropos of Eastei Seal sale.

Youth Center off to a good start 1 The first death sentence impos ed by a. federal court tor the United lauiibiw; cleaiihig State was passed In Neat Bern. N. CL la 1792. when four sailors were hanged for mutiny..