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Barnwell “Just Like a Member of the Family” -A, BARNWELL S. C, DECEMBER 25, 1913 iW IS AVENGED IN NINETEEN DAYS Scott Madi«on i« Electrocuted for Mur der of Peyton Best on December 3. Columbia,n3. C. Dec. 22.—Nineteen F days after he bad shot and killed K. Peyton Best, a weJI known mercliant of Barnwell, Scott Edison, a ne^ro, yes terday paid the death penalty at the State penitentiary. He was electro cuted shortly after 11 o’clock. The negro killed Mr. Best in Barn well on the night of December 3. De cember 8, he was tried and convicted of murder and sentenced to the chair. There was a large number of witnesses in the death house when the current was turned on. Madison said, shortly before entering the chair: “I am sorry for what I did.” It is said at the peni tentiary that he had previously made several confessions of the murder. BRILUANT RECEPTION GIVEN IN ALLENDALE The house was pot plants, holly scheme crimson to the Christmas PRIZES AWARDED FOR IMPROVEMENT Two Barnwell County School* Win Twenty-Five Dollars Each. . The executive committee of the South j^flbrolina School Improvement Associa- of which Mrs. Dora Dee Walker, Appleton, is Vice-President, met in Colombia Friday afternoon for the pur pose of awarding prizes. Two Barnwell County schools were among the success ful winners of second prizes of 125 each. They are the Ashleigh school and the Pleasant Hill school. $1,000 in prizes were awarded, 10 first prizes of $50 each and 20 second prizes of $25 each. The winners are to be congratulated on their success. Mary Knew All About It Little Mary’s father had been teach ing her to walk properly. ‘‘Walkslow ly and turn out your toes,” he ad monished her. While she was undergoing this teach ing she attended Sunday school one day. The golden text was, ‘Teach me to walk honestly.” After reciting it several times the teacher asked: ‘‘W’ho knows what that means?” ‘‘I do,” replied little Mary. w Walk slowly and turn out your toes.” Misses Catherine and Elizabeth Mc- Nab, who are teaching school in Ches ter, S. C., and Rome, Ga., respectively, are spending the Christmas holidays with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam McNab. The reading matter in this issue is greatly abbreviated but the printers as well as the editor desired a few days rest from work during the holidays. Rest assured that the delinquency will he made up in future issues. The Brunson bank has been com missioned with a capital of $25,000. The petitioners are D. F. Moore, D. E. (iley, J. L. Folk. W. D. Barnes, J. G. jik and W. J. Holladay. The hank located at Brunson, in Hampton county. There were 49,811 hales of cotton ginned in Barnwell County from the crop of 1913 prior to December the 1st. as compared with 38,03!) hales ginned to the same date in 1912, according to a report issued by the Department of Commerce at Washington. Charles Carroll Simms, of Barnwell candidate for Governor, was in the citv yesterday, having come to Charleston Thursday night. Mr. Simms was a guest of the Charleston Hotel. He was accompanied by W. 11. Townsend, of Columbia.—News and Courier, Dec. 20. The Barnwell (lLards met at the Court House Tuesday eveningand were mustered in, there being 47 men and 3 officers enlisted. Speeches were made by Majors R. Boyd Cole, and P. ,J. Drew, Capt. J. E. Harley, John K. Snel- ling and H. A. Simms. Oysters were served. The People has received quite a num ber of compliments on its special Christmas edition. It was the only edition of the kind issued in the coun ty and is only another instance of the determination to give the subscribers of The People the BEST and LIVEST paper published in this section. Commercial or chemical fertilizers are a necessity in our modern farming and can be used profitably in a lavish jnanner, if used for 'the improvement the soil through the legume crops; ' it used solely for the immediate pur pose of getting something to sell from an impoverished soil, any of the ferti lizers will lead to soil impoverishment. And yet thousands of farmers are spending their money fo r what they need not if they farmed instead of merely being planters.—W. F. Massey, in The Progressive Farmer. Ladies of the Baptist Church Entertain * at Home of Mrs. Oswald. Allendale, Dec. 20.—A brilliant re ception was that given Tuesday after noon by the ladies oi'th" Baptist Church at the home of Mrs. William B. Oswald, in honor of their new nastor and his t wife, Mr. aiid Mrs. A. K. Reimer, lately of Pine Bluff, Ark. made beautiful with and pines, the color and red, appropriate season, being everywhere evident. Immense pots of Christmas cactus were used, their crimson belle-shaped flow ers being refected in the mirrors. The rooms were darkened and numbers of candles in silver candelabra shed their light upon this lovely scene. Receiving with Mrs. Oswald were Mr. and Mrs. Reimer, and Mrs. John G. Williams. Refreshments were served. There was a meeting of the U. D. C. at the home of Mrs. Fred Davis on last Thursday afternoon. The usual busi ness was accompanied, after which Mrs. W. R. Darlington, the delegate to the State convention at Edgefield, read a most interesting report. The college boys and girls who will arrive next week for the holidays are: Misses Minnie Reeves, Eunice Keel, Emily Tobin, Vivian Owens, Winthrop; Sara All, Emily Riley, Irma Warren, Lucile Stoney, College for Women, Co lumbia; Willie and Mary Bryan, Green ville Female College; Clyde Williams, Lander college; Harold Boyd, Universi ty of South Carolina; Joe Patterson, J. A. Tison, Clemson; Paul Zeigler, Cita del; Lawton Ellis, Waring Wilson, Georgia Tech. Ernest L. All of the Birmingham bar will spend Christmas in Allendale with his parents. Chalmers Farmer of Alabama is visit ing at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs Chas. Farmer. C. Matthews of Charleston is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Darling ton. Jr. Mrs. W. C. Mauldin was the guest <^f Mrs. J. L. Tobin, this week. Miss Georgia Golphin of Beech Island will spend the holidays with Miss Willie Breeland. Mrs. Gaillard Stoney visited Augusta this week. Mrs. E. H. Oswald has returned from Augusta. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Crawford of Co lumbia, were the guests last week of Mr. and Mrs. James M. Patterson. Mrs. C. DeSaussure Clarkson has returned to Allendale after visiting Miss Julia L. Clarkson and Mrs Preston Darby near Columbia. Mrs. R. P. Searson, Sr., has returned from Spartanburg, when* she has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Buford At kinson. Mrs. Pierre Stoney and Miss Helen Stoney have returned to their home in Charleston after visiting relatives in Allendale. Miss Isabelle Patterson is ah home after visiting Miss Katherine Patterson in Barnwell. Mrs. W. Arnold Searson visited Au gusta this week. JACHIN LODGE IS IN SPLENDID CONDITION SENATOR PATTERSON'S VIEWS ON EDUCATION C. C. SIMMS SAYS HE IS FOR LOCAL OPTION Think* Tru*tee» and County Board of Education Can Help. Mr. Editor—Some: weeks ago,through your paper, I calli-J upon the ministers of the v (nous churches in the county to appeal to the people from the pulpit the necessity of sending the children to school and the importance of having every child in the c< unty'enrolled. To what extent my request met with re sponse I can’t say. I feel that with the co-opi ration of the ministry great good in this direction can be accomplished. 1 wish to ask again the clergy, this noble army of Christian workers, to lend a helping hand in this undertaking. I call upon the Count Board of Edu cation, who have the appoitment and supervision of the trustees of the pub lic schools, to address a communication to the trustees, urging them to use every effort in their respective school districts to have every child enrolled. It is supposed that the trustees know the number of children in their districts of school age, the number enrolled and in attendance, and the number who are not enrolled. A visit from the trustees to the delinquent parents and a friendly and encouraging talk to them on the importance of sending their children to school would have the ef fect of putting at least ninety per cent, of the children in school. I stand for government by persua sion and intelligence and not by force. If the men and women who are clamor ing for compulsory education would think less of putting the fathers and mothers as well as the children under police surveillance and lending their energies and personal effort to influ ence indiffent parents to take more in terest in educating their children, there would be no more talk about compul sory education. If County Boards of Education, Coun ty Superintendents of Education and trustees cannot be induced to take up this work in a practical way, then we must look rather to statutory enact ment to compel them to do the work than the enactment of laws of a threat ening and forceful nature. A. Bethune Patterson. Bernwell’* Candidate for Governor Made Statement in Columbia. Columbia, December 18.—Mr Charles Carroll Simms, of Barnwell, a candidate for Governor and a close personal and polilkTt! iViend of Governor Cole L. Blouse, favors local option and opposes compulsory education, according to statement which he issued to-day. Mr Simms lias been in the city on business and while here expressed himself on several issues in response to requests from newspaper men. Mr. Simms is generally regarded as the candidate of the Blease faction for Governor and his views on primary re form are of unusual interest. He fa vors letting every white man vote and opposes educational or property quali fications being required for the prima ry. He favors regulation of the prima ry along proper lines and opposes fraud, repeating or illegal voting. CROSSES ARE AWARDED. Interesting Meeting of Allendele U. D. C. Chapter ia Held. Allendale, Dec. 21.—An interesting meeting was held at the town hall by the local chapter, Hampton legion of the U. D. C., for the purpose of con ferring crosses of honor upon veterans and descendants of veterans. The following veterans received crosses of honor: C. M. Hires, P. H. Tison, J. S. Calhoun, I. A. Peyton, Jas. Carlton, W. T. Breeland, Jas. Osfar Carlton. The following lineal descen dants received crosses: Mrs. Ada Allen O’Brien, daughter of A. T. Allen; Mrs. Ellen Fitts Googe, daughter of M. D. Fitts. The programme was as follows. In vocation, by Rev. A. E. Reimer; song, “Maryland,” by U. D. C. chapter; pre sentation of crosses, by Mrs. C. R. Wil son; song, “Dixie,” by chapter mem bers; benediction. ALLENDALE TO ELECT MAYOR AND WARDENT Masons at Fairfax Install Officers and Enjoy Banquet. Fairfax, Doc. 20. —One of the most enjoyable occasions held here was that of the banquet given last night by Jaohin lodge, No. 2!Mi, A. 1-’. M. After the installation of the newly elected of ficers of the lodge the members repair ed to the Commercial hotel, where their friends were in waiting in the spacious parlors, and after some good selections on the piano, they were invited to the dining room below, where covers were laid for about 50. Oysters were served in several different styles followed by turkey, chicken salad and deviled eggs, apple sandwiches, steamed country ham, stuffed olives, pickles, celery, Delmonico rolls, ice cream, cake and coffee. Jachin lodge, No. 296, reports a flourishing condition. The Progressive Ticket Is Without Op position so Far. Allendale, Dec. 21.—Much interest is manifested in the coming municipal election, December 31. The ticket so far without opposition, was named by the progressives as follows: Jas. M. Patterson, for mayor; W. I. Williams, C. R Wilson, W. T. Riley, Jr., and Dr. J. Allen Patterson, for wardens. At the same date and place an elec tion will be held on question of bond ing the school district for the purpose of enlarging and improving the present school building and also for retiring the bonds at present carried by the town. This is a question of \ital in terest to the town. Upon its settle ment depends the question of progress or stagnation in inunieipa,! conditions. When it is settled and the town is re lieved of this restriction, it is expected ! that the question of bonding the town for water and lights will ari-w ^ and be carried to successful solution. I THREE COMPANIES REORGANIZED. ! INVENTOR RETURNS HOME. John B. Hall Carried Bale of Reclaimed Cotton fo Philadelphia. John B. Hall, inventer of the process to mature green and frostbitten cotton bolls, after spending^everal days in Co lumbia and Barnwell, for the purpose of testing his machine, left Wednesday for his home in Philadelphia. One bale of cotton reclaimed in Barnwell was shipped to (Philadelphia for exhibition purposes.—The State. Barnwell Command Has Fifty-nine Men and Three Officers Companies of the National Guard of South Carolina at Bennettsville, Barn well and Conway have reported reor ganization to the adjutant general’s of fice. The company at Bennettsville has 49 men and three officers and is known as Company E of the Second in fantry; Barnwell cpmpany has 59 men and three officers and is known as Company K of the Third infantry. The Conway company will be Company H of the Third infantry. The company recently mustered in at Woodruff is to tafccerihepjace of the Bamberg company. A companjns’in'hrMW^et'ed in at Che- raw December 22 to take "the place of the Chesterfield company. — — - - ♦ ♦ Sitgre&ves-Brown. Th3 following invitation has been re ceived here: “Mr. aad-Mrs. Edw’fcL McBurney-^Sit- greaves invite you to be present at the marriage of their daughter, Annie Love, to Mr. Edgar Adlen Brown on Tuesday evening, the thirtieth of De cember, at half after seven o’clock. The Church of the Epiphany, Laurens, South Carolina. Nitrogen a Factor. Nitrogen obtained from decaying or ganic matter is the controlling factor in crop production on practically all Southern soils. The agricultural asset of which wc boast so much and right fully—our favorable climate or longer growing season and the ability to grow two crops a year—is not only taken ad vantage of, but this climate of which we talk so much is actually the cause of our depleted soils and low crop yields. Our mild climate and heavy rainfall, taken advantage cf with crops kept on the land all the time and’a free use of legumes, would indeed he an agricul tural asset which would make the South the most marvelously productive sec tion of the country; but this same mild climate and heavy rainfall, not taken advantage of, with our fields left hare for the greater part of the year, be comes the source of our agricultural weakness and poverty. Our greatest asset through our neglect has become our greatest liability? That which has made us and our lands poor if properly used ,would make us rich through pro ductive soils. When will we awake to the fact that richer soils are our only salvation and that these can only he obtained through taking advantage of our favoring climatic conditions. If neglected, these make our soils still poorer, hut it' utilized as they should l)e, would make our soils marvelously rich. We have our choice and so far we have elected to take low crop yields from a poor or depleted soil. The greater the opportunities, the greater the responsibilities. The greater our opportuntties for soil improvement, the greater the losses when these oppor tunities are neglected. Our oppor tunities have been great, we have neg lected them and our losses have been great.—The Progressive Farmer. Mr. Lonnie Richardson, of Florence, is spending the Christmas holidays with his parents. Ellenton News. Ellenton, Dec. 20.—G. W. Wingate, of McBean, Ga., was in Ellenton Mon-« day. Q. A. Kennedy, of Williston, was in Ellenton Sunday. R. W. Bailey, of Rocky Ford, Ga., visited his brother, E. M. Bailey, at this place, several days this week. Miss Florence Bush has returned from a visit to friends at Sumter. Miss Nell Dunbar, who has been vis iting relatives in Atlanta for some time is now the guest of Miss Tutt Young blood. Rev. E. Z. James, of Appleton, filled the pulpit at the Methodist Church Sun day night. W. B. Turner and Miss Ethel Dunbar witnessed the performance of Creatore’s Band in Augusta this week. KITCHEN SHOWER FOR MR. AND MRS. MARTIN popular Young Blackville Couple Given a Surprise.—Personals. Blaackville, December 20.—Mrs. A. H. Ninestein was hostess to the Busy Bee Club Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Neinstein’s mother, Mrs. Jaret, of High Point, N. C., was a visitor. A salad course and coffee were served. The Priscilla Club was entertained Wednesday afternoon by Mrs. G. L. Weissinger. Salid and a sweet course were served. On Wednesday evening. Mesdames Ninestein and Boland tendered Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Martin a surprise kitchen shower at the residence of Mrs. Boland. A large number of friends of this pop ular young couple, both married and singte, gathered at the residence of Mrs. Ninestein and from there went to Mrs. Boland’s, where the couple had been invited to supper. Some time af ter the arrival of the guests they were invited into the dining room, where the many gifts were opened by the bride and groom. Chocolate and cakes were served. Vocal and instrumental music by Misses Milhous, Rich, Harris and Mr Halford was enjoyed. An enjoyable evening was spent. Miss Lucile Matthews is visiting her brothers, Messrs Ralph and Hubert Matthews, in Birmingham, Ala. Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Ninestein and son, Albert, left Friday for a visit to New York. Mrs. Herman Brown and son, Stan ley, returned from Charleston Wednes day night, after several days visit to Mrs. Nat Isarel. Mr. Herman Brown returned from St. Louis, Mo., Thursday. Mrs. Cora Silberstein, of Chicago, left for her home Monday night after sev eral weeks’ visit to relatives here. Help at Last. Under the atmve heading, Editor W. Rexie Birt, of the Jasper Herald, makes the following remarks: “We have for the past two months been trying to secure more help but did not succeed until this week when Mr. Zack A. Creighton of Barnwell wired he would accept a position with us. We have found it quite a task heretofore, doing everything from getting up news to sweeping the office to get out on regular press days with very much news, hut we now feel like we can do much better. “Mr. Creighton is an all-round good printer, and has had a number of years experience. We are not only glad to have Mr. Creighton with us but feel very near towards him, for the reason that he ernnes from our home town and from the very printing office that we started from,—“The Barnwell People.” —Editor. With this addition to his force, The Herald should experience no further difficulty in “going to press” on time. “Zack” is a steady, willing worker and The People regretted very much his decision to leave Barnwell. NO. 17 ONLY TWO SURVIVORS OF HAMPTON TICKET K. of P. Election. At the regular meeting of Barnwell Lodge No. 16, K. of P., on Friday even ing the following officers were elected for the ensuing year. R. S. Dicks, C. C. E. A. Brown, V. C. A. E. Evison, Prelate. H. D. Calhoun, M. of W. John K. Sn’elling, M. of A. William McNab, M. of F. and K. of R. &S. G. W. Manvilie, M of E. F. S. Brown, Inner Guard. C. C. Gwens, Outer Guard. A. A. Lemon, Trustee of Widows and Orphans Fund. E. A. Brown, Trustee General Fund. After the election, a smoker served bv Coclin Bros., was enjoyed. John J. Dsrgan and John R. Abney Only Candidates Now Alive. With the death of W. St. Julien Jer- vey of Charleston, John J. Dargan of Statehurg and John R. Abney of New York are the only surviyors of the Hampton ticket of 1876. Mr. Dargan, was a candidate for solicitor of the Third judicial district. Of the presi dential electors Theo. (}. Barker of Charleston is the sole survivor. The ticket of 1876, when the State of South Carolina was redeemed from Re publican rule, was as follows: Samuel J Tilden, New York, president; Thomas A Hendricks, Indiana, vice president; Wade Hampton, Richland, governor; W I) Simpson, Laurens, lieutenant gov ernor; R M Simms, York, secretary of state; James Conner, Charleston, at torney general; Johnson Hagood, Barn well, comptroller general; S L D Leap- hart, Richland, State Treasurer; H S Thompson, Richland, superintendent of education; E W Moise, Sumter, ad jutant and inspector general. The fol lowing were the candidates for con gress: J S Richardson, Sumter, First district; M P O’Connor, Charleston, Second district; D Wyatt Aiken, Abbe ville, Third district; G D Tillman, Edge- field, Fifth district. The following were the candidates for solicitor: W St Julien Jervey, First circuit; F Hajr Gantt, Barnwell, Second circuit; John J Dargan, Sumter, Third circuit; W W Sellers, Marion, Fourth circuit; John R Abney, Edgefield, Fifth circuit; T C Gaston, Chester, Sixth circuit; BW Ball, Laurens, Seventh circuit; J S Cothran, Abbeville, Eighth circuit The following were the presidential electors. Theo. G Barker, Charleston, and Samuel McGowan, Abbeville, at large; John Harrington, Marlboro, First district; John Isaac Ingram, Clarendon, Second district; William Wallace, Rich land, Third district; John B Erwin, Greenville, Fourth district; Robert Al» drich, Barnwell, Fifth district. Important Bank Notice. In accordance with the usual Holi days custom, we will close on Christ mas Day and Friday following. Please anticipate any business arising these two days. ■_ Bank of Western Carolina By G. W. Manvilie, Cashier, Home Bank of Barnwell By N. G. W. Walker, Cashier. A. B. Fields, one of The Peopee’s good colored subscribers, came up from Allendale Wednesday to have that ring removed from his paper. He succeed ed. Experience or experiment has proved that it does not pay to feed the fattening hogs corn alone, and by the same token we know that it does not pay to fatten hogs on cowpe»s, soy beans or pea nuts alone. It takes the combination of corn and these legumes to make the cheapest pork.—The Progressive Farm- God Rost Yo, Morry Gontlomow. God rest ye, merry gentlemen, let nothing you dismay, For Jesus Christ, our Savior, was born on Christmas day; The dawn rose red o’er Bethlehem; the stars shone through the gray. For Jesus Christ, our Savior, was bom on Christmas Day. God rest ye, little children, let noth ing you affright. For Jesus Christ, your savior, was bom this very night; Along the hills of Galilee, the whits flocks sleeping lay, For Christ, the child of Nazareth, was born on Christmas Day. God rest ye, all good Christians, upon this blessed mom, The Lord of all good Christians, was of a woman bom; Now all your sorrows he doth heal, your sins he takes away, For Jesus Christ, our Savior, was born on Christmas Day. —By Dinah Muloch Craik. The Soil Must be Fed. The soil that is kept constantly grow ing a crop will not have its nitrogen and humus supply increased if these crops are removed from the soU. While it is the business of the farmer to take nitrogen from his soil, he can not and has no right to take nitrogen from the soil if he does not put it into the soil. The increase of soil fertility, the importance of a rich soil,sis so great that no man can afford to cultivate a poor soil. The man may with much reason argue that he cannot affpnt to miss a crop of corn, cotton or oats to grow a soil improvement crop, but when he can grow such a crop without the loss of a single sale or food crop there is no excuse for poor soils ex cept poor farming. As surely as rfcfti soils mean rich farmers, do poor sofln mean poor farmers. As surely as oao crop a year, removed from the soil, means poor soils, two crops a year, one of them a legume and that plowed un der, mean rich soils. Of course we may need)to buy phon- phorus and lime, but we need' those anyway; in fact, we are buying phos phorus already, but because of a lack of humus and nitrogen in the soil we are compelled to pay four times as much as _we should pay for it and get less Talse from it.—Tait Butler, in the Progres sive Farmer. The faculty of the Barnwell Graded School left for their several homes to spend the Christmas holidays, as fol lows: Prof, and Mrs. W. C. Allen mA Miss Lillian Allen, Easter* North Caro lina; Miss Nannie F. ton, Va.;Mtu Emma , ington, Va.; Miss dockville, Va.; Mise Wessex, S. C.; Miss Elizabeth 1 ter, Jones villa, S. C. - ^ m