Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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V SIXTH YEAR ~tol; lxyt. / Established 1852 JUY RN W FJ L, Sr C., I' Ill'll Si) A Y. NOVEMBER 2*i, 1017 SIXTY SIXTH YEAR noTC FORD TURNS OVER-3 HURT - • V* . . T * ‘ • * 'i.. r •. ' ; Messrs, M. Sharfooiv, : Leo Moody andMcDoiiaId. WilUam's, were thrown from a Fordj Car. "-whi'le driving from Allendale to Blackvillo, which was capsized from hitting a hog whiclrxun- dcr-took to cross the road iuM . V . - N in front of the car, at wlfat is known as the 4 mile Pofid, be- twem Barnwell and tllackvitle, all of the occupants, were in jured, but not seriously, Mr. M. Sharfson is suffering from his injuries and is under the care of *Dr. L. F. Bonner who is giving him every attention that Can be given out-side of a hos pital. .U A negro boy was dispatched for a Physiciab, riding a horse and before he could return -the horse fell dead, we have not been informjed as to whose loss the animal is* LIST OF JURORS DRAWN FOR THE SECOND WEEK FALL TERM - u ———. Allendale: S. I). Williams, E. D. Gaitlcv, W. A. Searson, and W. G. Bowers. Barnwell; IX. G.- BirtT; R. J. Keel, J, W. Patterson and W. Ii. Manning. Blackville : Arthur Gardner and Ira Black. Bennett Springs: J.' M. Carter, Jv J. Cochran and C. M. Roun tree. , ■ • . / ■ . Georges Greek : Lv J. Nix, J, B. Weeks. N. (’. Grubbs Jr., J, 1/ Lane, L. B*. Creech, C. F. Carter and G. A. Bonds. Great Cypress :\J. S. Plexico. W. F. Hazle and ^ Gibson, Rosemary: S. W. Trotti Jr. "and Walt* r A. Hair. Red Oakj' P. H. Bates. '•Sycamore: F. P. Cone, .0. T. Load holt, and W. W. Cope. Williston : W. R. Kennedy, M. >D. Bell, Harry M. Thompson^ R. A. Weathersbee, G// II. Grubbs, J. L. Schuler ami A. M. llsserv.-. / $ Items Picked ‘tram Town ^ ^ and County. Huh. R. P. Searson 6T Al lendale was in town oh Tuesday J. F. Garter Esq. of Bain!,</ix was a visitor in this city Tuesday <*r ' v . Jas E, Davis Esq. attended the circuit court at Aiken Mon day. ^ r -.—7^-“---- • ' Mi 1 . Wi H. Hair of Elko ia visitor here Tuesday. ■ r: NO IDLE SEASON ON FARM :-f “ • ■ . gg ■ ^ t • / Winter Time May be Utilized to Good Advatitagerto Des- tro^ lnaecta Peyta by Plowing and Burning. ; * ■ r ■ ' ——<— ■ ■ was • i BARNWELL FEDERAL FARM LAND ASSOCIATION |»> 4 *1 The .Barn well Federal Farm Land Association is now being organized at tlve Home Bank and is for Farmers only, the Federal Government making Loans to the members of the • Association on a basis of 50 pe r certt of the value of their Lands, and twenty per cent- of the i m p rovement s, and as little as One Hundred Dollars can be borrowed for as long as 5 years,, or Ten Thousand dollars ■ for Thirty Six .years, and the \ rate of- interest including the x return of the money is only Six Per Cent (Oper cent) This \ association is for Farmers ‘ Only" and those wi shift g to participate will call at the Home Bank of same. Barnwell and* join PERCENTAGE OF SICK AT ARMY CAMPS LESS THAN 2 PER CENT Returning from ’inspection trips to ten Army, and aviation camps, Col..^Weston P. Cliam- v^erlain, of the Surgeon Gen- eraRs Office, reports, that the per cenGQf Sick ranges from be low 1 per eea^to slightly below 2 per cent. Among the conditions lead ing to treatment in hospitals are severe colds,, tonsijitis, slight- injuries, and other comparative ly .slight ailments. About the only serious disease found at any camp was pneumonia, Each national Army camp has a thousand-lied hospital, equipped in accordance With most approved modern practice. Mrs W. L. IJayes entertained the Woman's Missionary So ciety on Tuesday the 20th inst at ti^e Parsouage. An old time quilting was the featnre which rendred/ amusement, for those present, and long before the day was spent the quilt was ready to he shipped to the Connie Max well orphanage. Mr. L. If. Williams of .Ul mers was here oir Tuesday; • Mr. W. T. Riley Sr. of Mien- dale, was. in town- on business Tuesday. , ♦ 'Mr, In G- Bennett of Aj»- pleton'and Lonnie Bennett of Baldock were* jin the city Tuesday. ( Look else when* in this issue Uor^saie of all -the-personal estate of the late P. B. Dicks. . v The many friends of Mrs. Hanson Busily of Greenville, were grieved to learn of her death, which occurred on Sat- Urdaymgl^t- in Green ville. M i -. Bush had a score of friends in this town who joined' with her. family in their present bereave ment. Mrs. Bush was a sister of M^s. R. A.DeasoTT (5f this place. S* — • —— Hon. C. ('. SPfmps is in New York, and will return the latter part of this week, a , ecompauied by his wife, who has been in tlife hp8pital in Brooklyn ; linder treatment for several weeks., Mr. .Fred Powell of Roseinarv spent Tuesday in the city. x Mr. W. 1>. Sense of Millett- ville was is towti Tuesday. - Mr. John F, Au^lyyo^ Syca more was a visitor to the Coun tv seat Tuesdav. \ / * j . x / Mr. F. II. Gantt of Lynd- lnirst was in town Tuesdkv. - .Dr. R. W. Riley /will attend the Association of Auditors and Treasurers , in Columbia this week. 1 MnAyprs of the Y. M. G. A. at Camp Jackson, gave a very interesting talk on the Y. M. C. A. work and conditions now existing at Camp Jackson and the soldier boys in other carhpSj at the Baptist church on last Sunday night. All who were present enjoyed,.As b* _ ‘e,f tii talk and hope that lie will he here again before always,io,give us some idea of what is being done for our soldier boys in this great" work. „ J. Henry Johnson. Esq. «of Allenhale was in town on pro fessional business Tuesday. M essrs. A. H. Ninestein. and Mayfield, were among the visitors in town Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs.-A. E. Silver- tliorne of Martins spent last Sunday in town. * Mrs. G. M. jjreene,. spep't a few days in Augusta tliis week Mr. and Mrs. R. S v I)icks are at liome after an absence of sev eral days. - Hon..Geo. H. Bates attended the Methodist Conference—at Bishopville last vi^ek y Winter presents opportunities on the farm which do not offer them selves at any other season of the year, says A. PxQonradi. chief of the divi sion of entoihology of Clemson Col lege. It certainly is a. mistake to re gard winter the off or idle season of the year. In conversation with a farmer liv ing in the cotton -boll-weevil territory, the writer w-as- proudly told that this farmer had destroyed all his cotton stalks early in the fall. 1 He was con vinced that he had done the right thing and was resting easy and in tended to rest until planting time. That this farmer was able to get his crop picked In time to destroy his stalks early was excellent, but It was oply the beginning of the' cam paign. His neighbors had got been able to destroy the stalks early be cause it had not been possible to gather the, crop In time. On ipany farms this step la neglected or omit ted because its Importance “is not realized. Fight the Boll Weevil During Winter. On all the farms, where cotton' stalks are destroyed early, as well as on. all the farms where this is not done, winter will*hold a great oppor tunity before the farmers for a heavy blow against the boll weevil. Many ! over-wintering weevils can be found* In trash and rubbish in the fields, some other flowers for violets. Un- They are at the, mercy pf the farmers If they only will refuse to believe that winter is the off season. Many of the the trash and thea composting '"or burning Au Plowing and subsequent harrowing the land is still mbre effec tive' The- work does not^end here. Mul titudes of weevUa leave the cotton fields and winter along hedges, fencen, turnrowfi, ohl buildings and in other waste piaffes. Can the farmer regard winteeihe season of rest when these winter hotels are on his farm shelter ing hordes—of weevils? Old sorghum the effectiveness ol early destruction of cotton stalks and clean farming during winter. ^—/' The Corn-Stalk Barer. The notorious corn-stalk borer, which causes the windfalls of corn in July and August, stays in the stalks or the stubbles of ooju^ below the sur-/ face of the ground/Fro‘m these worma the candleflies come next spring to lay eggs for a* pew brood of borers. Go Into any corn-stubble field In the South, pull up a stubble and split it and you will see the larvae In the portion of the stubble below the' ground. Are we going to* leave the stubble in the field all winter or make war on this army while they are at our mercy? IMow them under deep If possible. Otherwise plow them out and expose them to the winter weath er. We have killed as high as 80 per cent in this manner. _ Pre>«nting Red Spider In Cotton. While doing this we must not forget that along the edges of the field, along terraces, ditch banks and other waste places are the^old poke-weed plants, furnishing accommodations for cotton red spider. Similar accommodations exisLaround tenant houses wjime vio lets are grown. Destroy the poke weeds, root and-all. It would be worth the effort to go over, It with youn ten ants and induce, them to substitute doubtedly. you have seen th,e rod spi der-spread fFom tenant houses as cen ters; you have .seen, time and igain, weevils ran be destroyed by collecting cotton ruined along terraces y which were the homes of poke- weeds. Life Everlasting, known by many as rabbit tobacco, is a common weed In the sandy sections of the South, which shelters the bud-worm beetle during win-ter. This pest comes forth into corn fields 1n the spring, causing bud-worm or fox-ear,ed corn. It causes much replanting. Also, the weed har bors, on its root*, the cotton-root lice. Here they are diligently supported by ants which have made burrows from stubble, which traps all kind of rub-«their nests to the roots of the plant bish Mown about by the wind, offers from where they transfer to the young protection" to. the pest. The Bureau af Entomology.^ United States Depart ment of- Agriculture; gives an illus tration where the first infestation by weevils in one of their experimental fields occurred in the Immediate vi cinity of an old peach orchard where the weeds grew unchecked from year to year. When State Entomologist of Texa3 the writer had an Isol^Jed experimen tal field on whloh during one season wAre artificially introduced 80,000 liv ing weevils -collected from other fields. Three weeks before the . first killing frost, after the eotton had been picked, the stalks were destroyed, the field plowed and planted to a cover crop. During the winter the neighbor hood of the field was cleaned of trash, woods, old grass and underbrush. The field was planted in cotton the next ■eason and no appreciable injury re sulted from weevils. Possibly this wag an exceptional opportunity for making such a test but simllaf cases are On record. HundreSs of case * can be cited from the records of the Bu reau of Entomology and the experi ence .of successful farmers, showing cotton. 1 If the winter fopd of the louse is absent the ant loses Interest and this fact is taken advantage of. On one fartn the damage was reduced from 35 per cent to almost nothing by winter cover crops and shallow culti vation when the cotton was young. The cover crop consists of rye and vetch. It is more than a cover fcrop., It is a cleansing crop because It keeps down the weeds. Fall plowing prior to planting the cover crop ruins the home of the cotton-boll worm. This Insect Is the same as the cprn-ear worm and spends the winter about two aijd one-half Inches below the sur face of the soil, provided the farmer leaves them there. The chinrhbug stays under weeds, dead grass, rubbish, stones, around old stumps and other unkept places. The work of combating these peats should begin in the fall with cover crops and carried through the winter as a general cleaning-up campaign. This ia not, only the most effective way to fight field-crop Insects but It Is a very profitable procedure as part of the yearly program of farm man agement. ~~ Anderson Home Is . Dostroved By Fire / ~ V J io me, of M ? r&i, F/ II, Anderson of Barnwell wa4 found on fire-'Friday eveiunj^ about six .O'clock. Thu alarm of fire was given with all possible speed and the fire department im mediately responded but was too late to save the building. With-heroicefforts and the assistance of the citizens the adjacent buildings were all saved with slight damages to two or three of the nearest. f • ■ ■.. ■ It looked at one time-as if there were no hopes of saving the entire Western portion of- the town,/ Mr^GAnderson save* 1 some of. hej furniture blit in the efforts get same out of tin* building ii was badly damaged. • The origin of the fire is un known hut appears .to have caught from a liv*> .wire. The building Was owned by Mrs, J. A. Tobin. x ^ '. SEED THIEF WAS KILLED -r-O A VICIOUS RUMOR On Saturday, the 19th inst.., Mr. W. L. Cave*discovered that* his.cotton seed were being liaul- ” ud away by midnight thieves. He immediately reported to the Sheriff and Magistrate at Barn well. who in turn sent their dep- uiies to watch the premises Tvhich are located about two miles from Barnwell, On the following Wednesday night, about ten o’clock, they discovered some one moving mysteriously around the cotton seed house, who proceeded to • make his entrance, but before they could capture the thief he broke and ran. Tie refused to obey the command to halt and "■ in order to capture him Deputy Sheriff Grubbs shot at him once or twice with a gun loaded with bird shot; still he didn’t halt. He theri tired at him with a pis tol atxvhich time he disappear- ^ ed. Not long after the last shot was fired they heard some one in the direction that tine victim ran calling ’‘come here”. When “Among the many absurd and vicious rumors put . into i they reached the place he- / was dead. The deceased is a color- circulatioTi tiicse days, probably through pro-German influences, is one that the United States proposes to confiscate money on deposit in bank. The absiird'it? of the;statement is obvious on its face. The rumors are wholly without foundation and-=pro- bably circulated' for an evil purpose. The Government has no power to confiscate - the money of depositors in hanks.” —From statement of Secretary McAdoo. _ , \ PRIVATE’S BODY INTERRED HERE .Miss Annie Bennett of Dun barton, S. G. was the attractive guest of her sister Mr.s.xjf. /A. Stallings last week.. Dr. and Mrs, J. G. Wooley o Barnwell attended the birth- ^lav-dinner - gi-ven in Im-nor of little (layindl Stallings Sat urday No\ ; 34tb. * • ^ i Misses ~ Birdie Diamond, Leslie Ilogg and Margaret Swan of Barnwell, spent the week-end with Miss Austie Ray of Olar. Gen. W. W- Moore of Colum bia, Dr. I). IIvM'irtin and Mas ter Aubrey Rice of Union passed through 4iere Monday on route to Allendale, from which place »fill g hunt. ~Dr . they will go on a bird and deer Martin is a vc 1 * T A / * Mr. Geo. II. Ray of Olar left last Sunday for- Wilmington, N‘. C. where he will sp« n*l some .time, witk: his~ brother Mr) A. G. Ray. , ' -- ...Ass Hallie Armstrong of . Columbia spent Thanksgiving at hoipe with her parents. Miss Rose Gaffney left on Wednesday afternoon for Augus ta, to spend Thanksgiving with friends. Misses Ruby I^azar, Bertha tBarker apd Geraline Carlton of Allendale were the- guests of friends in town last week., prominent dental surgeon. . Atty. Gen: T)ios H. Pecplea of Columbia. Mr. Jt C/Uafitwell of Charleston and-Col. John K. All, former private secret a ry^ of Governor Cole L: Blease, were in the city Monday. ■ . • ,vx Miss Emily Riley-of AllnnhilO' spent the week-end with Me. ami Mrs. R. W. Riley, * < Little Gaynell Stallings;dau- ghter of Mr. and Mrs, H/ A. Stallings, celebrated her second hii'th-day Saturday Nov. 24th with a birth-day dingier and party in the after-hoon. Re freshments and many delightful fruits were served, for the little ones, Jas M. Patterson, ”Esq., and Norman Pries ter of Allendale were/ in town _on buisness Monday. ... Tlie body “iof Private Huey Morris, sonof Mr. J. R. Morris, who was among the first of Barnjnell Comity’s drafted men was returned to Barnwell last week for interment. Private Morris was among the'firsuufthose that became a victim of the recent epidemic at Camp Sevier, Greenville, S.C. ed man known as Charley Ham mond. Further investigation by Mr. Cavndisclosed that this negro had sold three two hor?e wagon loads of seed at Williston. -Oil Monday morning before the tragedy, Mr. B. B. Easter ling, on bis way to Aiken in the early morning saw two negroes’ with a two horse WSgQflL loaded with seed camped on the out skirts of Williston and a day or two afterwards identified the other negro who was with the deceased at that time and the latter confessed everything. - TO RED CROSS MEMBERS OR ANY INTERESTED IN WORK Mr. B. .P. Davies left Monday for Columbia to attend a dinner given by Governor Richard* I. Manning in honor of the offi cers at Camp Jackson and his staff. You will find a letter at the Red Cross room in Blaclcville and Barnwell which you may send to your friend in place of the Christmas -preheat you usually give. ~ ‘G'; ‘i* Discharge Notice. NoticH U hereby Kiveti that on Sat urday November 29th. 1817. I will ap ply to John K, 8iiell.i(ig. Judor** of Pro bate for Barnwell County^, for letter* of diecharve aa Admini.tratora of the ea- tate of Wm. F. Eve. / W. F Eve Jr. Lawton H. Evans Administrators Dated at Barnwell, S C. thla 27th day of Nov. A D. 1917 — 8-16 4t. BETTER 8EEDBED MADE BETTER 8TAND8 OBTAINED AND CON SEQUENT BETTER CROPB^ Succaaa with crops planted in the fall dapends in large meaaure on hav ing -a well-prepared seedbed, aay the farm crops m4n of Clemaon College. Poor preparation usually means poor stands. Seeds of alfalfa, the clovers and moat grasses are small and re plowed zones. A disk Tiarraw la Shod for the deeper work! The acme and spiketooth harrows ara beat for fitting the surface. Harrows often are used when there la not enough moisture to make the soil crumble readily. When) the clods are dry har rows merely move them without pul verizing them. - The beat results from surface har rowing are obtained when the land la a little too wet to plow. After a rain has thoroughly wet the soil it la a common error to wait too long before starting the harrows. Harrow^ and cross harrow until the seedtted la put in good condition. Haying machinery works faster and better where the surface is smooth ^also small seeds germinate:--promptlV In such soils fourth to one-half tncb^/The^ seeds should come up Stand in a few days. jSotl moisture is “essential’and for good success it must be maintain ed near the surface. The soil should be fine, firm, thoist and mellow so as to permit a fr®e rapid movement of the soil motauere. Preparing the Land. It Is best to plow as soon as circum stances will permit so that the rains will wet and firm the soil before the seed are sown. If time will pertni*. plow twice when the moisture is just right for doing the best work. If the sell contains enough clay to make It fora lamps or clods use harrows until U is reduced to gralne or grain- like particles. Better work often cen be done If more than one type of harrow is used. At l4ast one of the harrows should *o er*nd moisture . , . . ■ Fresh land that may dry out to the quire shallow covering—about ojae-k/, 7 7 plow depth is really not a fit or sate place to plant alfalfa, clovers and small grass seeds. ' . * Preparation For Small Grains. ; - Where small grain follows cotton no further preparation Is necessary -> as a nicely cultivated cotton field is in good condition for the grain drill. In preparing corn land for small grain type get the corn out of qt? way as soon as possible to permit proper Separation and planting at tha moat favorable time conditions will permit If the corn has been cultivated well the plows and harrows may work rapidly and^yrhare tha seeding la deoa with a drill Tha vary careful prepara tion for clovers la not necessary. From September 1 to October 26 Ii the best season for W /aasdtng. Plant* that hate time to develop' a good root system ara not subjected ts winter killing so easily as yaong conpection*betwesn the unplowed and der plants; • 9