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r 4:\ j ' y / , / 7- ' ■> ^ ; // ESTABLISHED 1852 , 5^ • ‘‘Largest County Circxitation’V .77-,' j «*gr^r- • 7 VOL. LXVIII. BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA,THURSDAY, NOVEMBER ~1^ 1919“ C,. — NUMBER 3. LATEST STATISTIC SHOW CRIME HAS DECREASED COMMON PLEAS COURT ... -r. CONVENES DECEMBER 1ST Few Commitment* to Jails Reported to Officials. " v- * ; '■ — The crime wave,..-Which swept over South'Carolina in the spring arid ear ly Summer and which caused consid erable comment among the.people of the State, has passed over, according to a statement given out by the state board of charaties and corrections. The board says that there-were fewer commitments to jaiLduring the quar ter ending September 30-than irt any preceding, quarter since reports have been turned in to the department. The following statement has been given out by G. Croft Williams, sec retary to the board of charities and corrections: *" 1 . The state board of charaties and . | * corrections has just completed an an alysis of thti crime statistics for the % . 4* . . i | • . •« . j €\ (\ m i statistics show a gratifying decrease over those of the preceding quarter Indeed, there were fewer commit ments to jail jn this state last quarter than in any preceding quarter since the state board of charaties and Cor rections began to get reports from Hie counties, which was in the summer of 1915. During the quarter ending June 30, there were 2,204 jail commitments in - - *r«e- ■ The quarter errr!jng-Se”>-‘ temfccr 30, had only 1,312 commit-, menth- Homicide has decreased appreciab ly-/ The last Quarter had 69 commit- n.ents for homicide, whilst the June ^uartor-ba+i-M. The last quarter had 1 13 'commitments for assault: the * . June quarter 175. -The last quarter had 95 commitments for burglary; the June quarter 99. The last quar ter had 173 commitments for larceny; the June quarter 240. The last quar ter had 126 commitments for viola- Petit Jurors Drawn-Judge Wilson to Preside. J. S. - The Court of Common Pleas for Barnwell County,will convenenn the first day of December next, Xvith' Judge J. S. Wilson presiding. The following is a list of the petit jurors to serve for the first week: Barnwell—J, J. Vickery, M. B. Hagootl, B. Mazursky;"' Johnson Black, Jr., B. M. Drummond, J. W. C. Reed. Blackville—L. P. Boylston, W. W. Martin, J. A. Creech, G. G. Bodi- ford, Jacob .Delk, V. L. Nevils, Dan iel Blume. - 3 ..Great Cypress—B. F. Jenkins, R. W. Harrison, J. C. Fields. George’s Creek— J. A. Morris, J. D. Ce44irrs, Cfc M. . Morris, ,E. F. Weeks, N. G. Morris, M. O. Creech, Four Mile—R. L. McLain. Bennett Springs—Jambs Roun tree, A. N. Harden, Jno M. Cater. Wiliiston—J. W. Wachter, H. C. Mitchell, S, J. Powell, A. M. Ussesy, G. \V. Greene. Red O^k—A. P. Baxley. Rich Land—H, D. Greene, J. W: Bates, H. R, Anderson. Anrui Tur riAAD the . _ * NEGROES GIVEN LONG » TERMS IN PENITENTIARY Thirty-seven Plead Guilty Pen Sentences. and Get T ■wj tion hi the prohibition law; the June quarter 145. The decrease of the number of commitments of juvenile is especially gratifying. The lasf quarter showed the following commitments: Negroes—Males under 16, 59; fe males under 18, six. ^ White—Males under 17, 35; fe males under 18, two. The quarter ending June 30 show ed: Negroes—Males under 16, 64; fe- males under 18, 32. Whites—Males under 17, 53; fe males under 18, ten. The tocais show 102 for th^ last •quarter, and 159 for the precedng quarter... The main causes of this great de crease of crime in South Carolina for the lart'quarter are:' 1. The great amount ol work that is beir,gjlo«e4n fields and industries, which keeps the hands and minds em ployed at something useful, rather than at law breaking. J2, The settling down after Jthe war. A great many of the soldiers have gotten again into the old sur round ings^nd have had their nerves quieted ahd theirtempers cooled. The excitement of war has also nearly ex- among the civilian population. 3. The enforcement of prohibi tion. Intoxicating drinks are a great facte- in making criminals. As pro hibition is more and more enforced and clandestine trade in drinks di minishes, the number of crimes of passion will decrease. —_ 4: ^Th€^growing spirit against law lessness. Last July Governor Cooper called the sheriffs, the foreman of grand juries and the solicitors of the State to DReet him and take counsel with h im on methods to be employed for the curbing of lawlessness. We believe that this reasonable and firm stand of the governor has had its ef fect in the upholding of justice. This last quarter we received bet ter cooperation from the officials of the counties in giving detailed re ports of their jail populations than in any preceding quarter. Only four counties have failed to send in full reports: Calhoun and Greenville Comities sent no* reports; Anderson County failed to repoft for August and September, and Georgetown County failed to report for Septem ber. Helena, Ark., Nov. 5.—Nine ne groes, sentenced /to terms of twen ty-one years in the penitentiary, twenty-seven to terms of five years, ami one to ten years—five for sec ond degree murder and five for as sault with intent to commit murder— by Judge J. M.. Jackson in Phillips County circuit court here today, when BARNWELL BOY INTERESTED , IN HIS HOME COUNTY - 4 V - Boll Weevil Has Done in Alabama. " the thirty-seven, all charged with first degree murder in connection with the uprising in the Elaine neighborhood, were permitted to plead guilty to sec ond degree murder. This brings the total of convictions in the three days the trials of the up rising cases have been in progress to forty-eight, eleven negroes already- having been convicted of first degree murder and autamatically sentenced to die in the electric chair. . 7— The remaining negroes named in the 122 indictments returned by the grand jury following its investigation of the disturbance are expected to be tried tomorrow, according to John E. Miller, prosecuting attorney. These will include Sam Wilson, charged with the murder of Corporal Luther Earls, Company H, Fourth infantry, who was among the soldiers sentto Elaind from Camp Pike to suppress the" up rising. A large number of the ne groes are to be tried on charges of as sault with intent to commit murder and “night riding,” the latter charge being defined.as “banding, together to do unlawful acts at night.” The negroes sentenced today were brought into court in groups,/and one by one stood before the court, plead guilty and were sentenced.—News and Courier. The clipping below was sent to us fron)r>Mr. George Armstrong, a son of oof own Jv Bi ArmstTong. George has*inade good in the Agricultural Department of Alabama where the boll weevil has been-longer on the ground than with us. He is greatly interested in the success of his own home people and by* this means brings to them the experience of those who are up against the wee vil* conditions, i r j ; The Boll Weevil , Movement. We subject that the cotton raiser, who this year plunged on thirty-two cent cotton and lost, read, with a twinge of pain in the news of the pur pose of' the people of Enterprise to raise a monument to the boll weevil, as the great benefactor of the agri- cultural interests of South Alabama. The^cdtt6n~ farmer looking over his grassy fields', with a fine cotton “weed” in the grass but without bolls, or bloinsV^a melancholy^ reminder of the rain of six'~^eeks and the devas tation of the boll weevil, is disturbed V at his mistake in discounting the boll weev.il. Raising cotton, in the early Spring, looked as though it would be W1LLISTON BAPTIST CHURCH 7 OVERSUBSCSRIBES IN DRIVE - M f . 4 Apportioned $17,000.—Raised $10,- _-rr 000 Oversubscription. , * Greenville, ^Nov. 11.—Special.— A heavy oversubscription of its quo-' ta m_the. Baptist 75 Million ‘Cam paign was made' by the Wiliiston Baptist Chufch, in Barnwell Chan ty, according to advice received at state headquarters of the Carppaign here. The church was apportioned $17,000, and raised $27-,000, an o»- ersubscription of $10,000.... ^ r — During “Victory Weakf* ' Nov ember 30 to December 7, South Car olina churches will be called upon to raise a total of five abd a half mil lions, as South Carolina’s' share of the 75 Millions to be raised by Sou thern Baptists. - ALLENDALE COUNTY WAS FIRST TO GO OVER TOP Subscribes Quota to the Memorial Fund at One Meeting. situation vw ^MsSTTriTsTfinburit aT^ofie^meeTing; TREATY PROPOSAL ' ADDOPTED BY SENATE Committe Reservation Is Approved Fifty to Thirty-five. ‘Mr§, Willis Browning and dauerh- ter> Misses Iv.cz and . Ida, Miss Hat tie Lee .ganders, of th.j city and Messrs. H. CKyCreech and E:~B. Dec», qf Ulmer, motored over to on «Tue<*ioy, to attend'the Southern Exposition Fair. Mrs. Josephine Sease. On Tuesday, the 4th day of Nov ember, 1919, Mrs. Josephine Sease died at her home in Red Oak town- hip, after a brief illness and left surviving, her husband; Samuel F. Sease, five sons and one daughter. Her remains were laid to rest in the Siloam Methodist Cemetery on Wed nesday in the presence of a large eoncoujrse of sorrowing relatives and friends. The people of Barnwell and surrounding country extend to the bereaved family their heartfelt sym pathy, and construes article one that-in case of notice of withdrawal from the league of nations, as provided in said article, the United States shall be sole judge as to whether all its interna- -tional obligations and all its obliga tions under the said covenant have been fulfilled, and notice of withdraw- Announcemeut. We wish to announce to the pub lic that the Great Saltkehatchie Bap tist Church, of Ulmers, S. C., is free from all debt and-on last thiref Sun day, in October we raised $1,050.00 to finish the debt On said church and the public is cordially invited to at tend the devotional service at this church on next Sunday morning at 11 a.'m., by Dr. W. T. Derieaux, of Greenville. Two or three good ministers will be present^ Also night servlce at 8 o'clock” ~~ E. Lonnie Sanders ; Church Clerk, Washington, Nov. 8.—A reserva tion purposing to safeguard the na tion’s right to withdraw from mem bership in the league of nations was adopted by the Senate today, with ev ery Republican Senator and Six Dem erits voting for ii or paired in its support. Holding the whip hand by a safe majority, the Republican 'leaders swept aside every suggested modifica tion and carried the reservation through exactly as approved by the foreign relations committee. Two Re publican Senators of the mild reserva tion group led a stubborn fight to al ter it, but after they had failed, voted for adoption. The final count was 50 to 25, and CO. COTTON ASSOCIATIONS TO MEET FRIDAY, NOV. 14 Mammoth Meeting to Be Held in Co lumbia December 2nd. enough to tempt the fanner. Cotton w»s above thirty cents a pound; nev er before did cotton produnrg look so much like ready money. The year before had been a good cotton year, in spite of the boll weevil. The sea sons had favored the cotton grower; every man who ignored the boll wee vil and went in for cotton in 11; 17 made money. It was not surprisng that the f arm er was tempted and that he decided to take a chance with the boll wec\»l. pairs announced for absentees showed the entire Senate Membership to be fact that every member of the town- divided -55 to 41. Five Democrats, Senators Reed, Missouri; Gore, Okla homa; Smith. Georgia; Walsh, Massa chusetts, and Chamberlain, Oregon, voted in the affirmative, while Sena tor Shields, Democrat, Tennessee, was paired in favor of the reservation. The firsTof fouYTeen proposed' by the committee to carry out a pro gram which, its sponsors say, has been pledged a safe majority throughout, the reservation provides: Columbia, Nov. 10.—The county associations have been called by the State manager, B. F. McLeod to meet next Friday, Nov. 14 for the purpose of perfecting permanent or ganization and’it is hoped that each county’s'association will comply with the call. The meeting in each coun ty will be held at the couty seat and a large attendance is requested. Each county association will elect a president, a vice president, and a secretary, and a county executive committee, composed of the presi dent, vice president and five other members. Each county assiciation will also elect three members of the State board of directors. In the caH for the county meet ings Mr. McLeod asks each county •chairman to “call attention to the Columbia, Nov. 8.-^-Allendale is the first county fo gp over the top in the South Carolina memoral fund campaign^ While the quota of Allen dale County was small, only $1,9JO, the people of that county not only ship and county organization is a member of the state organization.” On Tuesday, December 2, a mam moth meeting will be held in Colum bia to choose officers for the state assiciation. This meeting will be ad dressed by prominent men from ov- -er the~cotton~beit~an4- -plana -for-tW association worked out. It is hoped to make this, the biggest meeting ev er held in the State. \ S' All county chairmen are urged by The United States so understands! JIr - McLeod to secure as many meni al by the United States may be giy.-heard from one end \ot the State to en by a concurrent resolution of the Congress of the United States.” .1 Confederate Veterans orial. Indorse Mem- Ulmers, Nov. 8, 1919. Columbia, Nov. 10.—The United Confederate Veterans of Camp Halnpton, Number 389,^have adopt ed the following resolutions indors ing and approving the Memorial to be erected by the State of South Car olina to the white soldiers and sail ors who gave their-lives for human ity in the late World War: “Resolved, That Camp Hampton, United Confederate Veterans, in dorse, and approve the memorial to be erected by the State of South Car olina and the citizens of the Stat§ %o the memory of the soldiers and sail ors who gave their lives as a sac rifice to tEe~"cause of humanity and personal liberty; .to the cause of right and freedom,-dn the late World War, and.pledge the hearty support of the Confederate Veterans to tKat worthy purpose.” bers as possible before the organiza tion of the township and county as sociations next weefcf “Thg. state as sociation”, he says “sHould have not less than 50,000 members-when per manent organization is effected on December 2. This will make our or ganization when it speaks, will be the other. It-will bte a unit of the American Cotton Association, which promises to be the greatest organi zation in the world. Bold Daylight Robbery. Denmark, Nov. 4.—A daring day light hold-up took place on Falipetto avenue Sunday when Charles and Bedford Rider, coloredy held up Emmett Sanders, also colored, and took $165 from him. Sanders pur- sped them, but it was not until they had gone some distance that he gaye the alarm, thinking he could capture them himself. A posse was formed and the man hunt began. Rider apd Askin having- a good start upon the others, were soon out of sight. A f^w"fcolored men and boys still kepi jjp,jthe ■ chase and the hold-up men were located near the Riley pizee, surrounded and captured single- handed ly Gilbert irTiifton, aw.cgr... The men had several hundred uo!- lara upon them. They were taken td the county jail .at .Bamberg Jcr safe keeping.—Ne\rs and Couriei. If the cotton growing season of 1918 liad"'beeh as favorable as that of 1917 the farmer would have cashed in on his venture. But fate-was against him. The season was almost as wet as that of 1916 and, For the cotton grower, almost as disastrous. Throughout middle and Sou*h Ala bama the cotton crop is a failure; it is a failure in that the fanner willnot make enough cotton to replace the money he spent in making the crop. There are farmers wio yet contend that it was the rain and not the boi' weevil that ruined his cron iin 1918. That is true, for without the rain the boll weevil could not ‘live destroyed so much of the fruit of the cotton. But, if it had not h»en foT^the boll w’eevil also, a fair cryi might ha.o been raised^ in spite of the continu ous rain. The intelkgent farmer will learn from fiis experiences in‘1918 that in -planting cqrt n under boll w r eevil conditions, he is enteting_up- on a doubtful gamble, lit- has been a costly lesson; it is a_j»ty that ther-’ was sueh a heavy loss hi getting the lesson. • " Thexff i&. a olaae io^a cotlon cron —a small cotton cro > on every well * managed_jfarm, but under exhtingf conditions, the crop should :>e sub sidiary to the main v/o:k of the farm The farmers this year who wdl make' money are the farmers, who in the face of thirty-ceixt cotton, stuck *o their diversified program. ~ Lt is in disputable that food crops, hogs and cattle have brought riches and proa perity to every section in which the farmer relies upon them: " - Here is Enterprise, more prosper ous than at 5 any time in its history, owing its riches to food crops and boasting of it to the world. The cot ton crop of Coffee Count}' was val ued at a million and a half dollars; the peanut crop afone was valued at four million dollars. The boll Wee vil does not bat food crops; it feeds 'only on cotton. The world is hun gry and not only willing but eager to pay a high price for all food stuffs. - Enterprise and Coff ee County may well feel etated over the new era that was ushered in by the boll weevil. The people have recognized a solmen and indisputable truth, which Uie cit- ton farmer this year was tempted in to forgetting—the boll weevil com* .ing did mean a new era in farming and there is n^way denying’or evad ing that fact. Cotton can be grown in this new • era, but it cannot be grown with an assurance of safety but exceeded the quota by several hundred dollars. The fund is still growing a nd Allendale will exceed dta qubta by nearly 100 per cent. Former Governor Manning address ed a meeting held at Allendale Wed nesday night and afterwards $2,400 was subscribed. W. I. Johns, chair man for Allendale County, says the campaign will be continued and that even a larger amount will be sub scribed, as the people are keenly in- terested and are subscribing liber- ally. THE AL-BARS Last Wednesday evening the great majority of the Shriners whose mem bership is in various temples but who are residents in ,Barnwell and Allen dale Counties met in the hall of Har mony lodge and formed a Shrine plub.. The hall had been most taste fully decorated by some ladies who know and enter into the Shrine spir it, but whose desire is to be name less here. The purpose of the club is to foster a closer social and frater nal tie between the various Nobles living in the two counties. Their aim is also to exemplify to the un- regenerate sons of the desert that the Shrine stands not merely foi the truth that a little play now and then helps even the bezt of men, but al so that the true Shrine spirit ennobles any man. That is why its members are called “Nobles.7 After the Organization the inem bers adjourned to the hotel where a genuine Shrir.e supper had been pre paredfoTr themr Regular monthly* meetings of the club will be held in the various towns of the two coun ties. Occasionally a ladies social will he held. i sj Missionary Notice. J \ i The Woman’s Missionary Socie ty of the Methodist Church will hold their annual “Harvest Day” meeting at the parsonage on Friday after- noon, November 4th at 4 o’clock. Mrs. Henry will be here and will take part in the program. An interest ing program has been arranged. Hie members of the Society cordially in vite the meabsn and visitors of the Church to meet with them. / i—: Judge W. P. Sanders of this city, attended Ringling Bros A Baraum and Baily Circus in Augusta on Fri day. 7 —r— - does, that notwithstanding the fail ure of the cotton crop, there will be nothing like the financial strftkgeney of 1916—that notwithstanding the losses this year in cotton, the State is still hi'an excellent financial con dition, because enbugh cattle and hogsv^ufii foodstuffs have been grown to keep the business enterprises of the towns and cities going. In Ment or certainty. The man who plants .^ornery, for instance, the loss of the a b’g cotton crop, goes into a Pam- r neater part of the cotton crop would b!e. He won last year; he lost tni3 ^ years ago, have been year. v —— j ered an irreparable business It should be a soulre of satisfac- • ter. This year it i » tion, however, |or the Alabama Lus-1 ant development in a- iness man /to realize, he clearly general prosperity. , " 1 m , j[ ~ c "" v ' . .' | . 1