Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TRAGEDY IN BARNWELL .. • ' Colored Woman Run Over bv a* Au tomobile Wednesday Afternoon * and Killed. INCOME TAX EDUCATION AL SERIES. A ti :»<* Xv that camed consider able excitement in Barnwell oc curred last Wednesday afternoon -between four and live o’clock, when El a Meyers, a colored woman, who was walking out of 'ttnvi, was run over by an au tomobile on tlier hill between Brice’* shop and Turkey creek, and sustained injuries about the • head frou. which. she died about four hours later. Dr. R C. Ktririand^and Dr. A. B.’ Batterson were upon the scene a snort while after the in jury, the former being the first te arrive aQd according to his ^ testimony before the coroner’s jury fouud her in an unconscious condition suffering from a frac ture of die lower jawbone and of the left/ temporal bone, the un- cdnscious condition haying been cansod (torn concussion of the brain when she was thrown for ward en her head. Coroner J.JStaff Halford em- paneieu u jury of inquest com posed of W. F. Holmes, fore man, A. J. Owens, George M. Buist, A. J. Bennett, T. J. Lang ley and JO. O, Bolen, who fron the evidence adduced the ioho wing verdict: That El la Myers caine to her death bv being run over by an uutomebile occupied by Shellie Bessinger, •las. M. Brabham and son. The dnqueai was held in the court house oa Friday, at which seven witnesses were sworn.- The evidence was Circumstan tial, uoiie of tlie witnesses being able to iKisitively identify .the car or the occupants thereof. There was some testimony that white men were driving the car and that it was going at a rapid rate of speed. One of the witnessed testified that he was going out of town driviug a truck and a car pulsed him going about twenty- five to thirty-five uoitei per hour ; that'he did uot* know who was driving but thought that it was a Bnick Six and a similar car passed him on tha-read-coming back about 15 or 25 minfites af ter the car had passed him going out; that ho kuew the parties in the car coming bees to be Mr. Jim Brabham and Shellie Bes- singer. _. Messrs. Brabham and Betsin- ger both deny that they caused the injury to the woman. Warrants were issued for Brabham and Bessinger Friday —Tnomingr ami hearing of the ac-' tion of the coroner’s jury they surrendered to the sheriff and employed J. 0. Patterson, Jr., and Brown A Bush to represent them. Application was x made for bail to the circuit judge, at Alicen and granted in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars each. _ • LONG BRANCH PHILOSOPHY- - W e have lived in Barnwell some r»0 days and find the Town . (nst full of the salt of the earth) but more Riclious people than was found in Sodom conse quently have all reasons to. be lieve it will stand thf/tost under the <nrcvr rule -that, the other .place did.that you ramejiYbef gbt destroyed without remedy, slid by the w’ay we see that tlie Mays’ i'nst hog4 and Story No. 1. The big Incdme Tax drive for 1919 is now under way, and every - preparation is being made to handle the largest col lection in the history of income tax. “I am not waiting for the final passage of the new reve nue bill by congress,” said Col lector D. C. Heyward today, “nor for the new regulations and blank: forms to be issued. To get this big tax in and get it accurate and complete, I urge that tve all begin now.-. .. “The income tax obligations imposed by the old laws, as' well as the measure now in congress, consist of two dis tinct operations. One is, to file return or statement of all items of income and items of deduc tions allowable by law; and to do this within the period nam ed by law. The other is, to pay the tax, if any is due. “Neither of these obligations can be met without a careful review of income and expendi ture for the tax year. That fat, . . „ . 1 The bfg job right novv, and that Jr L. Hair: rendered . g why j gay that income tax SPpfAL TERM OF COURT. , BLACKVILLE STARTS COURT HOUSE MOVE. Cimroon Reis Court Coavepei it Barnwell the 27ih list, whh Judge Townscid -— -1-1 Preitding. — V A special term of Common Pleas court will convene at Barn- well, Monday, theJ27tli instant, with Judge Townsend presiding. The jurors for the first and sec ond week are as follows : FIRST WKISK JURORS, Allendale—W. G. Bowers, C. H. Sanders, C. R. Tessier,W.H. Young, J. J. Thomas. Barnwell—S. B. Carroll Blackville—C.F. Groves, Her man Brown, W. G. Howard, W. W. Hair, C. B. Bodiford. Baldoc—J.,R. Harley. < Bennett Springs—C. L. Hiers, Jr. Georges Creek—J. H. Still, H, J. Delk. Great Cypress—J W. Blount, W. F. Hazel, J. W. Goodson, W. L. Harvey, J A. Moody; Red Oak—Richard Hay, Jr/, R. M. Hay, J. W. Browder, O. R. Ferguson, L. II. Bates. Sycamore—Jno. R. Loadholt, W. 0. McCasky , E. Harter, F. P. Cone, J. A. Platts, W. F. Harter. Williston—N. H. Bolen, J. B. Kitchens, J. Ij.. Shuier, J. W. ■ 0 would drive is already under way. Everywhere the pencil js busy. The old year is done; all its fruits are gleaned; and every person who fared well, or earn ed a good competence, must analyze his own case in cold figures. -t_ “When the new bill is enact ed into law r , I will have the proper return forms distribut ed throughout the district, and everybody will be informed of » the date when the sworn return ipust be filed. It is my plan to send my men out to central lo cations, and to have them travel through the district, aid ing taxpayers in the prepara tion of the returns and in de ciding doubtful points. We will go right To the people with the income tax, and with the co operation which the public can give the government men, the returns will be filed by every body who comes under the law’s provisions, the right tax es will be paid, and the district will have done its fun patriotic dutv towards the governments’ . , - wages,mc ludingo vertime_pay “support; *—— “Meanwhile, let' me say again, there is no need of de laying the preparation of figures. Anything that con gress does now will not affect the amount of a person’s earn ings for 1918. Let us avoid the belated throwing together of figures that may hit or miss. Guesses cannot be accepted as the basis of taxation. cleariyi;he duty of every per son to compile correct figures and ascertain whether his in come for 1918 was sufficient to #. make necessary a sworn return. “The year 1918 was a ban ner year for salaries and wages and the high war prices * r lias an <ul against nogs ami , , ± . m. i V , V n i 'brought unusual-profits to the vet up hore=at the Ifrnvsey placei-... a , V * i i. fi,no' average small tradesman and there is a drote that sceras to be i & % _, ... about as crazy a- that bigiumd. * t»..the farmer. Ine opinion m SECOND WEEK JURORS. Allendale—J. G. Stoney, W. H. Fennell. Barnwell—W. II. Davis, A. J. Owens. Georges Greek—Ja*. Zanders, W. K. Black, L. J. Nix. Great (rfy press—W. P. Morris, J. F. Creech, C. s W. Pste„J. R. Harden, M. C. Lee, N.C. Creech, S. F. Hogg. Red Oak—W. B. Seay. Sycamore—W. It. Allen, C.C. Bishop, M. S. Braut, J.F. Deer, G/W. Hartet, F. W. Mauuel, W. H. Loadbolt, J. P. Jtoberts, J. D. Jenny, G. L. Brant;. ~ Willietou—(J. C. Matthew#, A. E. Quattlehaum, B. A.Jekn- son, R. P. Kennedy, W. F. Us- serj, J. II. McDonald, H. A. Bolen, T. P. Mitchell, L. T. Beck. A. A. Still, R. A. Porter. -■ 1 " - ■ ■ ■ 1 V" ' ~~ /every unmarried person who earned a $1,000 or over during the year 1918, and every mar ried person, who together with wife or husband, earned $2.- 000, to sharpen his pencil and figure out how he stands.\ “He must ascertain accurate ly his gross* income from all sources. There’s his salary or Chamber ‘of Commerce Have Tiown Displace Barnwell as Cotknty Seat. Special to The State. *' Blackville, Jan. 16.—An en thusiastic meeting of the busi ness mea.of the town and far mers from the surrounding territory was held in the school buildinghere last night andaOli a* her of Commerce' waS organized with about 100 charter members. It was decided in the.meeting to put forth an effort to annex part of Orangeburg and Bam berg Counties to Barnwell Coun ty a/id make Blackville -the county seat instead of Barnwell as at present. The meeting was well attended by Blackville business men and several neigh boring towns were represented. The visitors from Springfield spoke favorably of the move ment, ouo of the speakers de claring he would only be willing to come into Barnvusll County, providing Blackville\was made the county seat. Tm Spring- field people are in the extreme corner ef Orangeburg Coqnty and going by railroad to their - comity-aeatJuiye to make two _ railroad connections. Twenty-five thousand dollars was raised in a few minutes to bear the expenses of the cam paign aud It was- decided to augment this to $50,000 if so much be necessary, the Cham ber of Commerce guaranteeing that it will not cost the county one cent of expense. Blackville already lias a court house, as this was once the county seat, and it will compare favorably with some of the newer court houses. —Blackville,lias a moderu school building, several splendid churches, a thoroughly modern hotel and numbers of business places and the prospects for making this the county seat are encouraging. Attorney General Thomas Peoples and James Hammond of Columbia, 1 two farmer Blackville boy9, were present at the meet ing. Mr Peeples joined the Chamber oj Commerce and con tributed liberally to the fund for remodeling the court house and building a jail. Since the lower part of Bard- well County has been cut off, forming Allendale Couuty. the county seat as it now stands will be in one corner of the county TAKE IT-OR LEAVE IT. , YOU’RE THE DOCTOR. (By Dubois.) , In an obscure corner of the magazine page this sentence may some day arrest your at- tention, if it has not alrogdy- done so: “My mother used to mix-a mustard plaster. . The following sentences, phrases and clauses tell the w hy and the whitherfore of the plaster mixing. Tucked away in that little corner was an ad vertisement of something made to sell, but it was interesting and in a way somewhat in structive. „ Newspapers, magazines, pe riodicals, almanacs, folders and the inside backs of many books are chugged full of ad vertisements, the studying of which, or even the casual read ing will teach many things that otherwise would never be learned. The phraseology of 9ome ad vertisements ~ is well worth study for the rhetorical beauty alone. An educated, well read man was once heard to say: TThose advertisements are literary gems.” Here in this magazine right now are found the following bits: and anv bonus received as ad- f * ditional compensation. A mar ried person having children un der 18 w’ho are working, should include the earnings of such children. * „ “If he .sold any property at a profit, the gain must be com puted and included in gross in come. If here ntecl anyp roperr ty to other persons, the total ‘Tents received in the year must' be ascertained, and from that —-Ly " y. figure a deduction may be tak en- foE taxes paid on . rented property, the necessary minor repairs, fire insurance, kny in terest he may have; paid on that Blackville is on thepxtreme only eiglit miles from the ~ comv-Teastern ed ge of the ‘cmrntyr on ty tv line and is 1G miles from the Rdisto River, the other edge of the county. By annexing the Springfield territory to the county, that would put Black ville in about the center of the county and add some very desirable territory and valuable farming land to the county appointed aud workiwil 1 gun at once upon the project. It G proposed to makeja trip to WilUstOii and to Springfield with 50 or more business men \ . y r~. I- . in ihjLti.eyr future in the interest of the proposition. , ! MOVE CAUSES DISSENT. mortgage, and a reasonable al- j Objection ^ i lowance for annual wear and j Court House Plans, tear of the rented property. | The'following- clipping • is The balance is included in grdfosi fi’^m the, Columbia State of tliat ran clown, the steep place some veai*s agoax.d got Drowned. - Washington is that a million citizens and residents will **ihe Miily difference is we havaj-make this year their first in- no place to rail them- into in or- 1 4er that thfy may perish in the ^rdeep except in the well, it seems However that they will at an ' early day get pillar# rooted iTp ^and the well buCl) upset.and4h*t ,they can get in without our ay sistance. • — •L Riah Mas. \ Mr. O. F. Lazar.-of this city,) $he years income, spent Saturday ami Sunday with I “j am therefore relatives in Allenaal^. corne tax returns., “All signs indicate that the income tax this year will reach nearly every working man and woman, and nearly every mer chant, shop keeper and farmer. Not all will ,have to pay the tax, but nearly' all will be obliged i to' make a sworn statement of advising income for the year. “Interest on bank deposits, whether withdrawn or added to his bank balances, must be includ-ed in all calculations of income. Bond interest receiv ed during the year must also be included, except interest 45 “^n municipal, county or State bonds." Interest on United • i i States Bonds need not be in cluded by the ordinary bond holder who purchase# small CbMiir.urd oa Kmrth Sunday and fills the bill sowed that it seems any other com-, meat is unneceisarv other than j t<> say that it stems the cry no w w Y IS... . ■ . • i ^ - ,■ • “Speed up, speed up O time in-thy flight and give me - a court house jtmt for tonight,’’ Alas my poor Blackville, Shakespeare said, “Thy cake is already ^11 dough.’’ Considerable interest was aroused here by the dispatch from Blackville a few da\-9 ago telling of the efforts that are be ing and are to be made to move thtueouuiy seat from Barnwell to that place. Of especial in- terest was the statement that a visitor from Springfield had “declared that he would ouly be willing to come into Barnwell County providing Blackville was made the county seat.” The people of this part of thfe county are at a loss to know fro« whom 8priagfield received stieh a pressing ' invitation to come into Barnwell County that she can afford ta tack con ditions to ker coming, and this intimation that outsiders are trying to take it upon them selves to dictate to Cbe people ef the countv as to wfeer* ’ their cousty seat shall be located is resented by Barnwell . County citizens. Another statement in the dis patch has caused no little amuse ment and that is to the effect that, since Allendale County has been successfully voted on, Barn well “will be in one corner of the county, only ei^ht miles fro* the county line.” The fact hunters take Notice. In a letter from Mr E. W. Nelson,chief of the bureau of bio logical survey, United States De^. partment Of Agriculture, to tha News and Courier, information is given concerning the open and closed season for hunting migra tor)’ birds. Soiree of our readers ere no doubt uninformed on the subject. 1 This letter states that tlte seasons and brg limits appli- cable to South Carolina are an follows: ' ’ ■ SE.vaOMH. — ^Woodcock. Nt> vein her 1 to De cember 51, both days inclusive. Doves, September 16 to De cember 51, both days inclusive. Waterfowl (except woodduck, eider duck9 and swans), coot, gallinules and Wilson snipe or j&cksnipe, November 1 to Janu ary 81, both days inclusive. bag LIMITS. Ducks (except wood; ducks and eider ducks). Twenty-five in Conti Hired »o Pitt Fite 441 about three miles from the Bam berg line, was entirely over looked. In fact, it Was. stated in the dispatch that “by annex ing the Springfield territory to .the county, that would put Blackville in about the center of the county.” However, a glance at the map will sfyow the absur- Canvassmg committees w£fo -duty. oT such a statement, as the people in the western part of thy county would be forced to travel some 85 or 40 miles to j reach. the county seat, nor would the proposed move bring the eburt any nearer to the peo- ple of the Geerge.s Creek; Reedy Branch, Friendship, Hercules-, Great Cypress,JSiloa m, Snelli ng, Rosemary and Dunbarton nee- tions. — ' In the face of ever increasing j taxation*and the high cost of living, the people of. Blackville, in order to gratify their pride, j are apparently willing to ‘scrap’ county buildings that could not he replaced at a cost under $40,000. offering in their stead an antiquated ceurt house^^ relic of reconstruction days tljat witnessed fights similar to the Irreproachable material.** “The principal reason retail prices are higher, however, is the fact that wholesale prices have increased.” “With the war over, the sea safe why resist longer the lure of the East?” “French has assumed a place of first importance among foreign languages for every American.” “War restrictions have held, up industrial construction, the need for which has become more pressing than ever now that peace has come and the country stands at the threshold of the greatest era of prosper ity.” The thoughtful reader at ' once sees that this is not writ ten other than for the reason of calling attention to things helpful for the mind. How ever, it is the firm belief of many that rigorous study of all advertising columns not only benefits the mind, but is a great help for housekeepers and busi ness men. In looking through the ad vertisements one often comes upon things in lighter vein that brings a smile; now just here I Will give you what 1 have just* found: Age Brings Wisdom. ~A salesman selling IT bed room clock to a girl. “I recommend, this clock with the illuminating attach ment,” he said. “It is a very good thing to tell what time your husband comes home, you know.” “But I haven’t got a - hus band,” said the girl. “O, you will have some day,” said the salesman. “Yes, but not that kind of a husband,” the girl said. Then it wa3 that the middle aged matron, settled forward and spoke;: “Mv dear child, they are all that kind*” she ’said. • • X - . c ) “Young man,” saith the young girl, “I’ll takd that clock.” Amply Equipped. “I see Henry Ford is going to start a newspaper.” “Does he know anything about running a newspaper?” “Must know a heap. I no tice he waited until he got $40,- 000,000 before , arranging to 'start one.” one that has just been launched M»ny of the older citizen, recalir N * 0 ^X M M outs_and dear •Fscoutesses, if you have bogged through the abbve as far along as this point, majrbe, I say riiavbe, you will enjoy the advertisia& sections more. WB hope*eo. those fight*, with all their at tendant bitterness of^ feeling, which bitterness; it had been hoped, forever dead, but which now prom Deb? to Hcurish .in all its former intensity.. • “Barnwell.”