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m OFFICIAL NBWtPAFBS OF FARNWBLL COUNTY Consolidated Jim 1. 192ft. Barnwell People-Sentinel M VOLUME LX. “Ju«t L.lk« a M«mb«r of the Family BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA* THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1937. Larfast Coaaty Orcalatte^ NUMBER 52. BABSON FAVORS COTTON SUBSIDY FAMOUS STATISTICIAN CUSSES SITUATION. DIS- Two Young Negroes Met Violent Deaths Joe Tyler Drowned in Walkers C^eek and Bennie Daniels Killed on Highway. Says Best Thing for the South Is to Let Price of Cotton Seek Its Own Le^el. -- - - 'v Declaring that the best thing for The South is to let the price of cot ton seek its own level and that a sub sidy is preferable to a “pegged” price, Roger Babson, nationally know statistician and business analyst, has in effect endorsed the crop control plan recently submitted to President Roosevelt by the editor of The Peo ple-Sentinel. In fact, the phraseology used by Mr. Babson in his comment, which appeared in Sunday’s daily newspapers, sounded very much like he was actually quoting from the let ter written to the President. Ex cerpts from his syndicated article are as follows: “Cotton is an international commod ity. Its price depends on the sixe of the Brazilian, Egyptian and American crops, and the demand of the Manchester, Osaka, Milan and Fall River mills. Our AAA program, like every nationalistic policy, was basically unsound because it forgot that economically ell countries are one. The United States cannot con trol world cotton, wheat, or gold prices any more than Georgia, Kansas or Nevada can control the United States price of these commodities. Now, with our excellent 1937 crop, about 4o per cent, of which must be sold abroad, we And the way to our old markets blocked by foreign cot ton. The inevitable result is a lower world price for the new crop. ... “Actually the beet I blag far the South Is la let (be pnee seek its awa level. However, something apparently bad ta be done politically to help ‘the paater." Aa eutrtght subsidy rather thaa a ‘erf ted" pnee la preferable. The Aaiertcaa price shea Id he allewvd la eark along oith the eertd price. Lower gaotatteas wiR help reaeaaip- Oea aad they are the «aly mesas by • htrh ee raa gsia bock car loot ex pert markets , . . • “Evea tf the current drop in pr<e «f cot tea continues R will not hart ns m the long run. It will help to present excessive planting* next year which high prices for this season's rotten would amiably have brought ea. Good crops st medium prices pro duce greeter prosperity for every- one than short crops at high prices or big cr-ps at low prices. There are thousands of tonne throughout the South e hose livelihood dr pends not on the pnee of the crop alone, hut on the volume aad the price. Ware- , Karen, gtaners, exporters, commw- » m merchants, field hands sad the like are set up to handle bumper crop*, not short crops. They are nil rek>icing over the first good harvest in five years.” Two young negroes met violent deaths over the week-end in Barnwell County. One of them was a drowning victim at Walker’s Creek, near Walk er’s Station, and the other was ap parently the victim of a hit-andi-run driver within the city limits of the town of Barnwell. Joe Tyler, 15-year old negro boy, dived into Walker’s Creek, in the northwestern section of Barnwell County, and drowned. According to Sheriff J. B. Morris, who investigated the drowning which happened about noon Sunday, there were several ne gro youths at the creek when the fatal accident happened, but none of them couid swim so no effort to save the youth was made. One of the boys went for help and the body was recov ered shortly afterwards. Bennie Daniels, about 25, was found dying in the middle of the Co- lumbia-Savannah highway in front of a store building owned by J. E. Har ley just above the intersection of Main and Marlboro Streets, at two o’clock Monday morning. Theh body was found by Edward A. Harter, Jr., who was en route to his heme in Al lendale. Mr. Harter notified the night police man, A. M notified Sheriff J. B. Morns PEEPLES FUNERAL SERVICE HOME TO OPEN HERE TODAY E. M. PEEPLES Revivtri at Healing Springs Successful Nineteen Additions to Membership Rewarded EForta of Columbia Evangelist. Healing Springs. Aug. 23.—Kin* Anderson, who in turn •ddiUona to the membership of The I th * Healing Springs Baptist Church officers went to the scene of the scci- * TW *rded the efforts of the Rev. R. I. dent and said that Daniels was still C 0| h*tt, of tht Southside Bap- alive but unable to talk. He died 11,1 Church, of Columbia, who coa- about 20 minutes later. IcAicted a senea of revival aorvicos The death was apparently caused l* 1 * beginning Sunday night, Au- by a hit-and-run driver according to f tts ! Ath, >nd closing Fr dny night, | investigating officer* Daniel* wa* lith. Nine of these were by pro found lying face down in the highway fv***®*» of faith and ten by letter. I with a pool of blood under bis face. "The People cf this community feel , The upper part of bis fore hood and they were greatly bleaaed aad head were split open and blood wa* fortunate in having bad this still pouring out when he wna moved. devout man of God la this He dud from a fractured skull. * ' •cries of mooting*. The Rev, Mr. Sheriff Moms stated that he he-, Corbett la an esangeiist of the htgh- lieved that tf a Mow of •nek force oa *** ••M truest type, possessed of a ts split Duaolo' Wad open had been rhanuing personality aad a very do- administered to him W would have Itghtful man in tW borne He Is net fallen backward i as lead of forward, ur, ly • grant aoul-winnsr hut a grant ; ns tW evidence plainly showed that tsacWr of Gad's word as well. W did However, there were ns Mr. Csrhstt'a msssags* asormag E. M. PEEPLES IN BUSINESS NINETEEN YEARS. V Location in Barnwell Fills Long-felt Need.—Henry D. Mole Is in Charge. The opening of the Peeples Funeral Service Home in Barnwell today marks another step in the business life of this city, which has been with out an up-to-date service of this char acter for a number of years. E. M. Peeples, of Hampton, is the owner and his son, Earl F. Peeples, also of Hampton, is associated with him. The former has been in business in Hampton for 19 years, during which time the establishment has grown from a small beginning to a modem .funeral service that is known through out lower South Carolina. The per sonnel consists of 12 persons and i complete motor equipment of three service cars, two trucks, two ambu lances and three hearses . Henry D Mole will be manager of the Barnwel Home. E. M. Peeples, who ia known far and wide for his generous charity, Is a member of tha Baptist Oiurch, in which he has been superintendent of (be Sunday school for 47 years. He was president for two terms of the S. C. Funeral Directors and Embalm ere Association and ia at present chairman of the board of directors of that organisation. In addition, be takes an active interest in fraters organisations, being a Mason, a K. of P.. a member of the Jr. O. I. A. M and the Lions Club. For complete details ef the orgsai tat ion and a story of its growth, as first png* of the second section of this tasno of TW Pvoyle-Sentinel other mark* « car struck. TW last (j k m in shoe where and |W dead rtw puflffvflt I -oM Uaae Gospel** and Ms man was w * r * F^Ppvwg and soul-atin th f-t •eon a! *s was about one e'riork Mon day morning, when W left a bona* ta Calhoun Bottom, a negro settlement on tW northern edge of Barnwell. SWr.tf Morns empaneled a jury Monday mcratag to War tW ondenro available and tW ipirtor'* report, bat turned them loose until such time as W could secure additional evidence. la of the I enjoyed muustry BARNWELL COUNTY FAVOR# CONSERVATION DISTRUT Little Interest Is Shown by Motorists Only 308 of 2.097 (Juestionaire Cards Returned by Barnwell County Auto Drivers. Comity Agent Harry G. Boylston announces that tW result of tW votes cast on Thurstay on tW establishment cf the Ed is to Soil Conservation Dis trict, which will be comprised of tng the r way into the bn people Be th young and < hi* May of a weak and h at old Heal tag Springs Church will W rhenshed m lasting femsmbtam ■ TW morning so Mr ice a were well at tended. while tW evening rongrega* t «na were ao large that at llama many could not get into tW budding, number* of people Wing attracted from the neighboring com man it ton- A splendid choir, consisting of 20 oe 30 vo ces under capable leadership, contributed greatly to tW services throughout tW week. by 4-H Club Member Hue Camtya Black, ef Raedy Gets Recugaiuua la Rec t antaat. Three Leigh Homes Destroyed Sunday \ Two Others Were Damaged in Two- Hour Blaze Near Banana Crate Company’s Plant. Fire which raged for more than two hours Sunday afternoon at Leigh, in the western part of Barnwell Coun ty, destroyed three residences and damaged two others, causing a loss estimated at $5,000 before it was finally extinguished. The blaze started in the kitchen of the Cecil Carter home near the Leigh Banana Crate C'cmpany’s plant about five o’clock and for a time spread rapidly through the residential sec tion. The Carter home and the homes of Boon Pitts and Henry Stanley were destroyed and two other resi dences, one occupied by John Hill, were badly damaged. The Barnwel fire truck was sent to Leigh in response to an appeal for aid and members of the Ellenton fire department also assisted in fighting (he flames. At one time the assist ance of the A^^ata fire department was sought, but the Augusta fire fighters were not seat when it was learned that sufficient water facilities were not available. Say» Cull and Sell The Non-Laying Hens Farmers Speetallaiug ia Pcmhry Will Find It Profitable TbroaCWut tW Year. Of the 2,097 questionaire cards sent with applications for drivers’ licenses to passenger car owners in Barnwell County, exactly 308 have been re turned to the Highway Planning Sur vey. This represents about 14.6 per cent, of the cards sent out. Mias Catberiae Black. The death of Mias Catherine Black, Barnwell, Bamberg, Aiken and 'AUen-1 ‘ Uu * ht * r Mr. and dale Counties, wa. 58 to three for the Mn ShrU > Black ‘ #f Barnwell, which establishment in this county. Allen-!°^“ rred ,V the Colu "» b '* at dtle also voted for the measure, but ©clock Thursday afternoon, results from the other counties are ca>,t * P* 11 of * ,oom over th * not available here. | of thls c,t y' Th ‘ > y° un * Wom * B - who The district, if it is set up, will,*” a rlB ' n * sophomore at Columbia mean a great deal to the farmers of| Co,, *Ae. had been in the hospital for,linking fountains this community, according to the'”? ar | y ^ ve Wee * ts county agent It will offer them the suffering from a bloodstream infection. The gallant fight put up by Miss most modem methods of terracing and other plans for combatting soil Black - who was one of the m0 * t at * erosion and lots of soil life. With tractive members of this city’s young- such methods as can be furnished, it 11 set ’ ajoUi,e( l sympathy and in is believed that the lands of Barn-! terest of her many fricnds in Barn * well County will beb in a much better j well > Barnwell County and over the state within a few years than if they During the past few weeks The information on the cards is to j are left to the ravages of crop pro-; sbe ba ^ undergone several operations be used by the survey to make a j duction without soil conservation and an< | some six or eight blood trans- finaneial study of South Carolina 1 soil-building programs scientifically fusions, but neither the skill of physi Poultry Short Course. driving and drivers. The financial worked out. study, as a part of the survey, is jointly sponsored by the State High way Department and the Federal Bureau of Public Roads. Only 27 of the 353 questionaire cards sent to Barnwell County truck drivers were filled out and returned. Thus, the percentage of the return from truck drivers was lower than the return from privately owned pas senger cars. A total of 245,937 cards were mail ed to vehicle owner* in the State. By July 31, 1937, 55,170 of them had been received, or 22.4 per cent of the total. The percentage of card* returned in this State ia somewhat higher than chick*, feeding the farm the percentage returned In other common poultry diaeasea. Southern State* It ia about two and ThiTpottltry school b • one half thnea that of Alabama, four tatereeted person*. By tuna* that ef Tram . aad mm and tart with farm and borne The Poultry Short Course at Clem- son College Auguest 31 to September 2, will be interesting to poultry pro ducers of this county. The program has been arranged to cover all phases of poultry production. The college poultry plant will be open at all times. Full opportunity will be given for persons to become familiar with the methods employed i the Siloam cians nor the tender nursing of loving hands could stay the summons of the Grim Reaper. ^ Funeral services were held at the home on Main Street Friday after noon at five o’clock, the final rites be ing conducted by the Rev. J. C. In- abinet, minister of the Barnwell Methodist Church, assisted by the Rev. J. A. Estes, pastor of the Barn well Baptist Church,'and the Rev. C.; 0. Shuler, minister of the Siloam Methodnst Church. Interment was in Church 'cemetery, six Mlm Carol jm Black, a mem be tb* Ready Remark 4-H Out raraguitmu Ml Ik* ruraut (luck Man •gemerit Caatmt ceafimrted by tht ( leamoa (ollmr© eateuataa aereie* f°r 4-H Majte poultry project lurtn bar* ta South Caretma, her letter uu- (‘twd “My 4-H Poultry Club Story" bur lag been •elected a* oa* ef the beet submitted, eccoa^tag ta Jack wooteu, extetUMia laformatieu spec ial let. Mr. R notea write* The Peo ple - Sei4 met that “ta hdditiua to •coring the** 4-H member* oa tbeir work, one of the requirement* wa* to write a brief narrative giving a re sume of their work." Mi** Black’* loiter Is as follows: “I ordered 200 BarrmJ Rock baby chick* February 24th and received 218. They were very fine healthy chicks. “My house is made of wood 9x10 feet with good ventilation from the south. It is equipped with a brick brooder 3^x5 feet, three tin and five wood feeders, six half-gallon glass I used a ther mometer all the time When my chicks were six weeks old perch poles were put in the house My yard is 35x50 feet and was planted in tur nips. “I used home mixed feed and did not have to buy anything except fish meal. I fed and cared for my chicks as Miss McNab, my county home demonstration agent, told me to. “I have a cement floor to my brooder. I clean and spray every tw6 days and sterilze feeders and drinking fountains every day. I raised 177 of my chicks and I have kept my record carefully and with much pleasure this year. I made a. nice profit on my chicks.” Advising poultry producer* to cull •»d dispose of the nou-laytng ben*. (ouaty Agent H. G. Boy 1stou say* (hat (armors specie lit mg mi poultry will find It profitable ta rail through out tha your, hut that tha average farmer will Apd asm or two iiliiMgs •ufftrtewL Two rulltaga are batter, tha first to ha mads when sommer egg produr- uaa begin* la darlma. la every poor ly bred and fad fiach this drop any corns aa sariy aa Juan, whfis in nms of tha batter Busk* it win nut utti uatd Bapteasbar. Tha sseoad cutting mn fallow a asawth sc six weak* af ter tha first. As a guide Mi culling th* cauuty BttBtefi | •goal quotas F. H Gooding, astea- swai ponltrymaa. aa th* dtoiiartiea be tween layer* aad son-layers: "A warm, full rod comb indicate* heavy pradnrtian whda ta this rand tuei Rhea a baa stops laying. U comb tend* ta dry dewa aad a whHiah ■carf usually forma. ' T be abdomen Is enlarged la the layer; ia th* asa-layer It Is contract *d. The pelvic boas* art usually tw U» four finger widths apart Ml the layer, but almost closed together the non-layer. “R'bea a hen stop* laying si usually starts molting. Tha later ben lays la the summer and fall th* greater will be her past yearly egg production, ao that th* high producer is tbs late layer and late moTter. The early molter is the “short-time' or poor layer as most bans cannot grow feathers and lay at the same time. Contrary to general belief, the early molter ck>es not make the early win ter layer.” LOCAL SCHOOLS OPEN SEPT. 9TH ANTICIPATE LARGEST ENROLL- v WENT IN HISTORY. Addition of Several New Courses Puts Lccal Institution in Front. Rank of Schools. With the largest enrollment in the history of the llocal school, the Barn well Publio Schools will open for the 1937-’38 session at nine o’clock Thurs day morning, September 9th. The Barnwell schools, with the addition of several new courses in the past couple of years, is rapidly becoming one of the best all round schools in any small town in the State and plans are still being made for the addition, or rather the enlarging, of several courses in the local school within the next few yesrs. There will be four new members of the faculty this year: three of theee will replace last year members who resigned and one new teacher ia baiag addkd to the high achoo! staff. Miaa El*a»e R*y, of Denmark, laat year’* third grade teacher, and Miaa Rhoda Wade, of Lowery, laat yaur’a fifth grade teacher resigned to be married, fpd Roy E. Hew^r, of Haver kill. Mesa., instructor of manual arte last year, has resigned to accupt aa offer elsewhere. « m , Th* faculty members, as snnouacud T# hy ®ttpt. W. W. Carter will Mt- rtudo, la tha grammar school, Mas of Cope, first grads; Miss Grace League, of Citato*, mtmmi tvude; Mias Laura Ceuway, third grads; Mias ef Mordecai Mazursky left last week for New York City, where he will buy merchandise for the Fall season. its operation. Special emphasis | mil* south of Barnwell. The very large attendance and the many lovely floral tribute* that covered her last resting place attested in some measure the love and esteem in which the young woman waa held. Mias Black is survived by her par ents. Mr. and Mn. Shelly Black, of Barnwell, and several uncles and in frill be placed upon culling, judging and selection. Other subjects to be discussed will be brooding baby flock and en to all 1 A D— F— Plan.” The editor of The People-Sentinel is in receipt of the following card rom Col. Harry D. Calhoun, of Bamberg: “Hello, B. P.! Congratulations! That was a D— F— solution of the cotton price question submitted to our President by you. When I use the letters *D. F.’ I mean —— Fine! Visitors to Walterboro. fifth X B. • : sf Mar flwpt. W. W. Carter. LocaJ achaai authsmiaa sr* mmspaitfisms with a th* manual arts roams aad R la ex ported that this vacancy will be filled within the near futnm. Among the interesting and promi nent visitors to Walterboro Tuesday were Lieut-Gov. J. E. Harley and his sorr, Hummel. They stopped for a chat with the editor of this column, and paid a very pleasant visit. For six months Mr. Harley was in a Co lumbia hospital, and for another six months in bed at his Barnwell home, and it was thought ht would never be able to preside over the State senate. Today, however, he looks as if he had never been ill a day in his life, and announces his intention to be a candidate for re-election. He is op posed to the ounty-to-county canvas, and thinks that with the advent of the automobile and good roads there is no necessity for so many campaign meetings. Mr. Harley is a prominent attorney of the Barnwell bar and had business at the office of the clerk of court.—Walterboro Press and Standard. Speaker Blatt Attends Funeral. I Speaker Solomon Blatt attended the funeral Tuesday of Rep. J. D. Witherspoon at Laurens. Mr. With erspoon died in Columbia Monday, fol lowing a stroke on Saturday, which was the second that he had suffered ia the past year. Dr. William M. Dr. William M. , •7, died at the bom* of his sister-ta- l* w . W. D. Gantt, la Lyndhurst at 11:1ft Saturdey morning after be ing confined to bis bed since the pre vious Sunday, when he suffered a stroke. Dr. Stemmeyer bad been ia ill health for th* post four year*. Ho was visiting relatives in Lyndhurst when he suffered the fatal stroke. Dr. Steinmeyer had lived the better part of his life in Besufort where he had been a dentist. For 19 yean he served as Superintendent of Educa tion for Beaufort County. Prior to his retirement from active practice several yesrs ago due to ill health, he had taken an active interest in both civic and religious life of the com munity. He was a member of the Pint Pres byterian Church of Beaufort; a Mason and a member of the Woodmen of the World. Surviving Dr. Steinmeyer besides his widow, Mrs. Alma G. Steinmeyer, are four daughters, Mrs. E. L. Ellis, of Lyndhurst; Mrs. A. H. Cory and Miss Marie Steinmeyer, of Beaufort; and Mrs. D. U. Harrell, of Columbus, Ga.; two sons, W. M. Steinmeyer, Jr., of Lyndhurst, and J. H. Steinmeyer, of Jacksonville, Fla.; one brother, C. S. Steinmeyer, of Frogmore; five sisters, Mrs. T. B. McTeer, Mrs. H. P. McTeer and Mrs. Eventer McTeer, all of Early Branch; Mrs. G. W. Hal- tiwanger, of Charleston, and Mrs. M. Lee, of Beaufort, and five grandchil dren. Funeral services were conducted at the home of Mrs. Gantt in Lyndhurst at 4:30 Sunday afternoon interment following in the Boiling Springs Pres byterian churchyard. The final rites were conducted by the Rev. F. B. Mayes, paster of the First Presbyter ian Church of Beaufort, and the Rev. C. L. Leteon, pastor of the Springs Presbyterian Church.