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• j ' \ r /■. •""7? -v ABUSHED 1852^....,. , “Larglst County Circulation” v, V VOL. LX Villi BARNWELL, SOUTH CAJROLI’NA*.THURSDAY, OCTORE^ 30.4919 NUMBER i;—: -ORANGEBURG CITIZENS TO REESTABLISH. PLANT Plan to Reorganize Packing Company Which Failed Some Time Ago. Orangeburg, 0ct."“T8.—A wall at tended meeting was held^JThursday night at the"Orangeburg Court House in an effort to revive the Orangeburg packing plant. George R. Wheeler ■of the Euuth Carolina Land Owners’ association (delivered the principal ad dress of the evening." Mr. Wheeler presented in a straightforward busi ness manner the possibility of reor ganizing the plant and the prospect Mrs. Sarah H. Johnson, of Black- ville, is a valued irrtploye of the Wil- liston Bank. There will be celebrated in the near future some important social func tions among them the wedding of Miss AnnieqAlexander and Mr. John _ Bartley Reed, of Augusta. Williston’s Bridge Club has been reorganized, and is furnishing delight ful entertainment for its members. is good. Mr. .Wheeler plans for the —Mrs.- W. D. Black entertained the- r secured creditors to take preferred stock dollar for dollar, for the amount - . v ■of indebtedness of the packing com pany and that the stockholders... be - given common st-ock at the- rale of GO - per cent, of their ol(T stock. As the new corporation will have a cap ital stock of >400.000 there will be, according to the figures, $137,000 to be sold in stock, which will give a working capital of that sum of money insuring success with good manage ment. * Mr. Wheeler further suggested that a man be secured t^ run the plant who knows the .packing bu.siness.and that he take $40.000 of The stftck to insure his interest. Mr. Wheeler an- ticipated no difficulty in selling the stock and sees no reason why the packing plant should not be in oper- j ation dining the early part of next year. Tire i-K'a! "banks, heavy hold ers of secured debts against the old company, will agree to accept the pre ferred stock ami the chance is bright for tht-rjakirgar.iza^ion of the com- pany. WILLISTON GOING AHEAD WITH RAPID STRIDES Social and Local Progressive Williston. ews Items'^rom club last'Thursday night and if will meet next week with Mrs. Willie Thompson. Williston is on such a boom that not even the boll weevil can,dampen the ardor of the live, progressive people of this prosperous town. The five elegant brick stores erected by Mr. Q. A. Kennedy are completed and rented. One is occupied by the Dikes-Cone Drug Co., one by the Enterprise Hardware Co., one by the Potser Meat Market and Green Gro cery. The other two are dry goods stores. The owners and managers of all the new stores' report a rightly satisfactory business. Mr. Kennedy Last Weeks Coart Proceedings. The case of the State against Ben W. Bift, for rape consumed nearly three da/s and was closely contested -by-the .-iilicitor.- The verdict wgs~Hbt guilty/ Monroe Gray, negro, pleaded guil tv to larceny, aniTwes sentenced-to. three months on the chair\ gang. <rolie Tuller,-negro, was asked to contribute $75 to the" county treas ury or spend three months in repair ing thp courity roadi_ because of _a careless use of firearms.. Saxon Scott, colored, became con fused as to the ownership of a bale of cotton the property of the Red Oak Farming and Mercantile Co. He tried to convince the court that he was insane.-* The jury felt that one' year at hard labor would cure him.' — ^ C. U. and D- C. Birt were charged with .obstructing a road. Each sen tenced to pay a fine of $50 and the "road 01 deten-tecpened to tl\g public. Colev Greene and York Stansell, both colored^,forgot that .it wa-s-ilr. legal to make—y.ui own tUSSOCK. They were asked to contribute $5*0 each as a. reminder for the future". Alien Jones, colored,' was/*chatered with the murder of Ishmael Kear.se. The verdict was. nyt guiity. RobeiT^Carter ar.d Quincy— Ham- mqnd, both colored, were 'fined $50 for Violating t^e prohibition law. ' Sam Mack, cdlored, belonged^) the same persuasion and likewise deposi ted $50. ' T'"' “ Weslev Jefferson, colored, was found not guiity of violation of the prohibition law. has be^u#! work on eight handsome new bungalows.. Mr. Reynolds Mar tin is at work on an elegant new home. Messrs. J. L. Shuler, Austin Lattimer and Willie Folk, will begin, building at’an early date,. * ' Mr. W. E. Cunningham, formerly of Chester, is finishing up a hand some bungalow on the plantation he recently bought on the edge of town adjoining the plantation of his broth er, Mr.“Waiter Cunningham. - ^ The members of the Baptist church will enlarge their building, or possibly build’a new one, as the present one is not large enough to accomodate the large congregations. There has been about twenty additions to the v.iva.l in July, at which time there was a large number baptized. Williston is to be congratulated on having secured as pastor of the Bap tist church, Rev. F. W. Carnett, a na tive of Missouri, but who has recently been engaged in evangelistic work. ' Mrs.' G. W. Whitaker is spending some time in Barnwell. Mrs. W. M. Jones, of Barnwell, spent last week here with Mrs. Hattie Rountree. Miss Gladys Quattlebaum, of Ridge Springs; is Visiting her cousin, Miss lima Quattlebaum. Mis? Eunice Whittle spent last week-end with her parent^, Mr. and Mrs. M. Q. Whittle, at Leesville. Mrs. MT L. Bolick, of Hickory, N. C., is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Weathersbee. Mrs. J. A. Latimer and children rave returned from a visit to Green- X n x M x h r A IS TO SOUTH CAROLINA’S SONS WHO GAVE THEMSELVES TO THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM N H By Walter E. Diihcan H N X H The people of South Carolina can never repay' their debt of gratitude to those of their own arid the State’s-noble sons who battled upon the frontiers or freedom, sonrf^ of whom -made the sacrifice supreme ifi the mighty struggle for God and country, fpr the preservation of. civilization And ..that 1 ' human, liberty x r 1 ' Should not perish from the earth. It is a debt that can never be canceled. But with grateful hearts, reverencing the memory of those who gave their lives that-others might live, and as a mark of respect to those who grasped the flaming torch and bore it aloft until tlje victory was wrested from the enemies of mankind a token shall be given and a syinbol shall be raised. It will -stand, this memorial-erected to .the honor of our soldier sons and by which the affection! Of grateful people yyiil be given expression, a sacred shrine, a place hallowed because of its associations,*and, bespeakirigThe undying glory of valiant cru saders whose nobility it symbolizes, the pride of today and the inspiration of tomorrow. : ' Sanctioned and sjuthomed by the General Assembly which provided the neuculs of the Memorial Fund and created the South Carolina Memorial Commission, the memorial is to be 'erected in the State Capital, bn grounds belonging to the State. The Leg islature appropriated for this purppse $100*000, which shall be . x 'available whentKe^malnder o'f-fne furitf as determined by the. Memorial Commission shall have been raised, the’ fact always kept in Tnind that the people of the State would prefer to cbi. tribute direct to this cau^C' in proportion to their means, thus having a more.personal part in honoring Jljose*who fought"am died for them. This privilege has been extended, by the action of the Memorial Commission in deciding.,.upon $400,000 as the amount to be raised by public subscription, which with the $100,- 000 appropriated will provide half a million dollars for a fitting memorial. ■?., The Act of the Legislature further provides that the build ing to be erected asia memorial “shall preserve in marble or bronze or other imperishable form the names of all South Caro linians, whether soldiers, sailors, nurses or other workers in the cause of victory who have given their lives as the supreme sac rifice in the winning of the war. It is further provided that the building shall be the repository of books, manusripta and records of the history, of the war. . Nrr State has a y prouder record in the mighty struggle so recently brought to a victorious end than has South Carolina. The flower of her young manhood was given, and on the land and on the sea, wherever duty Jead, they gave good account of themselves.. South Carolina troops of the. immortail Thirtiety ..Division were in the vanguard when the Hindenburg line, that therotofore impregnable network of defense on which the hope of militarism and autocracy, depende'd?*was broken. Until the last- shot of the war was fired South Carolinians lived up to the , best traditions of the State and by.their .splemiid. cond.uctaxn. -thi and their unwavering devation to,duty reflected undying glory upon their people hac|^ home.’ But giving of themselves un sparingly; even of'their blood, South .Carolina’s sons who went forth companions-in arms fought and endured, suffered and tri umphed not for themselves alone. They gave themselves, those who have returned to us in victory and those who sleep within the bosom of Fiance, to the highest service for which the drum cheats and the bugle notes have ever called men, to arms—that— men mj^ht-still be free and that “lifft, liberty and the pursuit of happiness’ Should not become a haunting memory and a bitter rnockbry. Tojionor those who bared their breast and formed a bulwark**" 1 COL. EDGAR A. BROWN TENDERS RESIGNATION Official Court Stenographer to De vote Whole Time to Law Practice. Colonel Edgar A. Brown, of Bara- well, has tendered his resignation., to "take effect on November 1st. Mt. Brown has been the efficient court stenographer for the Second Judicial Circuit for the past.eleven years and this action, which is fl£C,esuiary owing to the fact.that the general law prac tice of the firm of Brown and Bush, of which he is the senior member, is growing rapidly-and requires his eji- ttre time. —Col. Broyn succeeded the Hon. Janies F. Byrnes wherPtfle pres ent Congressman jpgs elected to the office of Solicitor of the Second Circuit. BARNWELL HIGH SCHOOL * DOTS. • Lube Moore, Editress. ******** * * * 1 * Miss Harriet Patterson, who is at tending Ashley-Hall College in Char leston, and_ J, O. Patterson, Jr., a .SLiftJIpm "Were"!’was before conference brHendersonville, N. C.~, were called to Barnwell last week on account of the death of their grandfather, Mr. -Harper Hagood. We were glad to see both of them back in Barnwell, of their. bodies against the mighty foe striking-at the hearts of v TTuhiantTV'is -t<).,h/>Tor ourselvesT In viile. our hearts we cherish the spared to us, Mrs. H. H Altm.ar and children, of Charleston, have returned home after spending some time with, Mrs. Hattie Rountree. ■ ' ^-Irs. J. L. Smith is visiting her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Epting,' in Gre^nwaod.-'"' CLOCKS TURNED BACK. MEMORIAL SERVICE. You are; cordially invited to attend a Memorial"Service, at the Baptist Church on Sunday* night, November £nd^ in Barnwell, in Memory of ail ■South Carolinians who died in the service of the United States during the recent war with Germany. Ap- feccnt propriate-add resiesTwill be made and interesting exercises will be rendered to the memory of those who gave thefT lives that men might still' be free ami, that life, liberty .and |»ur- ~ "**■ ^"0 —suit ol happifies^, shouk!,i*;or*t>ecoRie '^■"haunting • merfiory and a bitter mockery. All are .invited to attend. 1 -r s / Harley-Jones. C ' A VVry^jfulet weddrag took place ^at^the Baptist parsonage on Sunday Slight when* Mi..'‘Jennie. 'Ft^rT^y' was raarried-rtb Nr Lee Joiks At 2:00 lasT~Sunday morning, all official clocks were turned back one hour. This of_coursfo l iUri.ri’t apply to everybody. ■ Some people never saw . ny use in keeping up with the time? > they went theirpwn way. - Every- >ody has nov^,<*briie to their time. . It : e^n’t make any difference what cime you keep unless |you want to CuU-h a‘ train, of go to church, or keep some other engagement. 1m. wl ich case you must conform to Standard time. In Barnwell county the sun time \p'about half aji hour .-4-,—BSBBI — i * 3—BSMl - tjt k behind the pt&cJfTl steau 01 one and a half-hours as'beitfre the change Sgfiday. y • on / -X DONT MISS IT. Among the attractions scheduled for the fair inf Augusta is the an- inemory of the hailing them victors anti glorying in the valor'Of their spirit and achievement. ^But as a mighty people speaking with one Voice we woukl : give expression toAhut which is in our hearts yearning for utterances and shape it into permanent and beautiful form"to stand'for all. time as a testimonial of our gratitude to our bene factors and to tbe~*benefactors of all mankind, In the raising of this memorial every loyal and true South Carolina will deserve a-part. It i^ a cause which appeals'with peculiar force directly -toAhe -hearts pf the people for it is South Carolina's own martyred sons buried where they fell with then- faces to tl\e -foe in a foreign land across seas of Human Jjberty and-laying down their Iiv.es upon the altar of God and country have inspired it. It will symbolize their virtues and enshrine their hallowed memory.,—~—,r i To the'end that all m. y participate in tl?e raising of. the memorial a campaign to raise by public subscription the $400,000 determined hy the Memory! Commission as . an adequate amount began throughout South Carolina on Monday, September 29, 1919. This date has been decided upon because of its pe lt is the first**anni- guard qn the football team and 'is very pleased avith his work. There has been no diphtheria*- *41^ school and no talk of suspending on acount of diphtheria. The school enrollment is'now well passed the two hundred mark. We four. The- State Inspector of High Schools visited the school Monday, ; aml was yery mueif pleased with the progress of the school. Thia*\vas Mr. Stoddard’s first visit to Barn well. He w r as very complimentary to the people of Barnwell for their school spirit. ; -•* - Friday is a public day at the school. We%rill have elaborate ex- 1 SUGAR SHORTAGE TO ercises, but will try to make the visit Peasant for you., Come. Long Branch Philosophy. PLEA TO FARMDRS BY C: S. BARRETT X-' - A" • President of National Firmer*’ tfei* Malpr-Appeal-to Farmer. ..ji.lM'W- Washington, Oc^ 25—Charlea S. Barrett, president of the National Farmers’ Union, and one of the Farm ers’ representatives in the national industry conference here issued an appeal today to the farmers to be “prep£i*e to aid our beloved country in her present hour of need.” “Menaced by entrenched privilege on the-one hand and a perilous ‘red* propaganda on the other/VXr. Bar- ratt said, “the nation is facing the most dangerous situation since the civil war. —Although revelling in in plenty, though business was never better, though employment was never more general, the country is sitting > on a powder magazine which threat ens at any moment to explode, bring ing devastation and untold suffering in its train. “The failure of the industrial con ference to accomplish any .concrete thing makes necessary an offensive and defensive alliance between all constructive forees of the country against the common enemy .< of ex- • trerrjisin. It . places the . question ' sembled and leaves an adjustment to the individual and collective common patriotism of the people. - “In this crisis in the nation’s htx- tory, the farmer must get to the helm but sorry it was theirs to come. W j,, murt jgfS*, y, ontil on such an errand. J. O. is playing the ship,, of state is brought safely into the haven of rest/’ A plea for real sanity was made to day by Secretary Lane who acting aa chairman of the industrial confer ence. In announcing that he had written the president supporting the u ,. HB recommendation that the new body now have two hundred and twenty. ^ to canV on the woA , #r which the.conference was called, Mr. Lane said he wanted to see a “new conference of leading mifids that will think in practical terms, a real coun cil of national defense against th» kind of civil war which some seem to think another irrepressible con- BE RELIEVED SOON Estimate of Sugar Available ia Tka - United States in .191S-19- We lived in Barnwell at least three *' . months before lots of the first grade citizens heard of about it then when we pulled out making for our shack on . Long Branch some of the best Business men in Town hadnf beam about our departure for a-month, so „..t seems _th&L_aur citizenship ab= ?ence is just now being appreciated b’ut we hereby notify all whom it concern that we have adjourned sjnp culiar signiffcahee fbr South Carolinians, versary of the smashing of the Hindenburg line in which glorious' acheivement South'Carolina tronps covered themselves with glory that will endure for all time. In setting the--dates for the cam paign,'Governor Cooper, who is Chairman of the Memorial Com- —miss ion; fixed N’ovembar-41. anniversary of. the-signing of the die. beyond' Town limits and also that we utteriv failed to catch on to City Style our John B has about got over the enormious mashes it got while trying to introduce ourselves to every body we met while they looked ahead with a neck as stiff as- if it had a carbuncle, on the-back of it. so the regret of our getting"-off. -reminds us of a fellow whose good quantities was never discovered while , he lived nearly everybody said) he wouldnt do and needed To be dis- stroy^l without remedy but after he gets off the Stage of Action the Preacher and Editor arid a few other Caratible folks who dont mind pre- varicateingjbb a sin^ll extent teds how good he was and seem to be wil ling for others to follow his example even though he may have gone down instead of up but one thing, we started out to say was/that we never saw better neigh bors than we ha i in Barnwell and armistice, as the day it shall be terminated if so much time'Stiall be necessary, but. it is behoved that the'response on the part of the people of thg..S,tate to the invitation, to contribute to this cause will be spontaneous and that the fund wIH be raised dur ing the early days 4 of the campaign. - . 'y’" . .. enjoyed our stay evir so much but cou'Mnt>make it pay we are now at jour oMTrade tying out the cow tend- 1 ing to the shhtes-3ettirig for c^t ^squirrels getting up stove wood and ! many other things too numerous to . mention, but v e took time to look nouncement that Professor ~~ Br R Among the Williston people in Mr. L. M. Sprawls is such a fre- , h a3 better and cor.gi*ess seems not i't»wn last week in attendance on court quent visjtor on our: streets-until we niy.n. Snelling. Miss K;irkv*>*a very pop- -. :T - —. r - --- — * • ular f)* > <>•• r. of the M)e. t | will be- wejl wurlh Ihe time of a:u'- known families of Barr.weH county, (farmer to know Vhat Mr-Coad will Mr. Junes is in the eqiploy of the j say from his extended experience " jftjant c Coast Line railway. Coad, the great expert on poisoning the boll weevil will confer wj,thMi**L farmers on “Boll Weevil Aral Its, _ Remedies, on November 13. and teLJ —* Mr. Goad knbws^' raote’ouf’lhe ; ^ itchin K a . Car Y Hiers - p - S.vPervis, boll weevil than any other-—living 1 He the poison expert. ^ ever .the Daily, and since Woodrow Washington, Oct. 22.—Concur rence of producers representing 90.. per cent of the beet sugar output in this country has been received by At torney General teilmer in reply to his suggestion' that 10 cents a pound to wholesalers wag a fair v price for— the new crop. This is an increase of one cent over the old price. With the price ques- tion thus settled officials expect that great quantities of sugar withheld from the market until the situation became stabilized now will be releas ed to relieve the shortage. / Ten Billion Pounds. Sugar available in the markets of the United States-for the year 1918- 19 is estimated by the departmeAt of commerce at 9,855,000,000 pounds TW? net amount retained for con sumption in the United-States after deducting exports and reexports is put at ’ 8,970^,000 .pounds by the, re port made public tonight. This gives an average of per'capita consumption of 82 pounds in 1919, says the re port, as average of per capita con sumption of 191-4. The total pro duction of sugar, in the United States for the year 1918-19 is estimated at 2Uuu.Uu0.L00 pounds of which 569,- - ■ ■■>*>* are inclisfeu -to claim -him as one of to.be divided according partyfsm and 000,000 pounds is cane sugar.and 1,- 530,000,000 pounds beet sugar. " An increase in the price yf imported sugar of 163 per cent in 1919 as shown. The import price in 1914 was two cents a pound and ip 1919, 5.3 cents a pound. The export price for 1919 is put at T/Tcents a pound. Because of the breakdown of their J9 custorhary sources of supply during the war, the report adds, foreign hem ate laying more £ggs than we citizens. can eat ar. J as soon as it turns cooler L. Merritt, V. A. Willis aud* Nor man FWfc-* "T; M - J\ Browning hal pur- ve intend tmiteir.g a shoate arte-put .gie- handsome residence of up a sign no admittance except on with this cotton pe4L "A welcome visitor to us.on Tuesday * jlr^. P. J. .Drew op^lariboro Avenue. : Business and so reduce the high cosT was M>- Gladys Maude.William-, of He will niaj^e^ th$*t his home aft^r cf living • countries have made heavy calls up on the - American sugar markets. Cuba is given as tb^-dlfnited States of supply for sugar 5,- 488,7*1 LdC? poiKjds heing imported (Tiring tha , fW i Allendale; "^January IsL Riah Ma*. ‘from the island year ending June 30, 1919.- icle. ' Mi • - --JtT'