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VOL XXXVIII
BARNWELL S. C. JANUARY 14. 1915
HO. 20
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YOUNG PEOPLE INJURED
IN AUTOMOBILE WRECK
GOV. BLEA$£ HAS ISSUED >
BLANKET PARDON T0999
Ct Tnnud TurtU Wkao Front Axlo
VrokoNoor Dnnborton.
News reached here Monday of an
automobile accident that occured near
Dunbarton the previous day, which
resulted in the occupants of the car,
Misses Lillie Owens and Goolsby and
the owner, Mr. Barney Owens, bein?
more or less seriously injured. Al
though the details are lacking, from
what can be learned here the young peo
ple were enjoying a spin when the front
axle of the machine broke, causing the
car to turn over, pinning the riders to
the ground. They were unable to
extricate themselves and were
forced to wait until a passer-by
helped them out. Miss Goolsby had an
arm broken and it is feared that Mr.
Owens suffered internal injuries. The
extent of Miss Owens injuries are not
known here.
Mr. Owens and his sister reside near
Dunbarton and Miss Goolsby is a teacher
in the school at that place. Her home
is in Denmark. It is hoped that their
injuries are not as serious as was re-
ported here.
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►THE BARNWELL COUNTY
TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
Program of Mooting to Bo Hold at Bara-
woll Saturday Next.
The following is the program of the
Barnwell County Teachers’ Association
which will meet in regular session in
the Barnwell graded school auditorium
Saturday, the 16th inst., at 11 JO A. M.:
Hymn.
Prayer, Rev. L. J. Henry. •
Welcome address, Mayor J. E. Har
ley.
Supervising the play of pupils, Supt.
E. M. McCown.
Address, Assistant State Superinten
dent of Education A. J. Stoddard.
L-U-N-C-H, 2 P. M.
Music.
Mothers and Fathers Club, Mrs. W.
D. Rice
The use of the school building by the
public, J. B. Norman.
How to bring the country schools in
closer touch, Supt. R. S. Bailey.
Queer and amusing things from the
school room. All.
The teachers are urged to attend and
rub elbows with their fellow workers,
to the end that the meetings may be
beneficial not only to themselves but to
their schools.
NEGRO ATTEMPTS “GET-
RICH-QUICK” SCHEME
WILLISTON LADY MAKfcS
PROHIBITION APPEAL
Says Ha U Seriously Considering Open-
- inf Penitentiary Doors.
In spite of the fact that Governor
Blease stated several days ago that he
would not pardon any more convicts,
he issued a proclamation Saturday
afternoon giving a blanket pardon to
nine hundred and ninety-nine convicts
of this State that had been paroled
during his administration. This num
ber does not include pardons and com
mutations of sentences. He is quoted
as saying that he seriously contemp
lates opening the doors of the peniten
tiary before his term of office expires
next Tuesday.
Later in the afternoon of Saturday
the governor sent over to the Secre
tary of State another list of % paroles
and commutations, bringing the total
number of cases in which he has exer
cised executive clemency to 1,662.
Of the number granted full pardons
by Saturday’s proclamation 459 were
convicted / of taking human life. A
compilation of the paroles granted by
Goy. Blease during his entire adminis
tration showed that he had freed from
custody of State, county and municipal
officers of the law convicts found guilty
of committing the following crimes:
Murder 197
Manslaughter .'....262
Assault and battery with intent to
kill 80
Violating dispensary law 65
Larceny 60
Burglary and larceny 48
Housebreaking and larceny 47
Aggravated assault and battery 35
Grand larceny 31
Rape *...22
Arson 21
Forgery 19
Breach of trust. 15
Highway robbery 14
Attempted rape 12
False pretense 11
Disorderly conduct 9
Assault ami battery
Dwpoawg of property under lien... 6
IfigeaBy........................ ....... 5
Resisting arrest 5
Seduction .. 4
Recefcrtnc stolen goeds 4
Safecracking 3
Stealing from person 3
Conspiracy 3
Non-support of family 2
Violating banking laws — 2
Trespass 1
Shooting into train {. 1
Drunkenness....' 1
Carrying weapons 1
Practicing medicine without li
cense 1
Embezzlement 1
Attempting to poison... 1
FARMERS CAN MAKE MORE
MONEY RAISING CEREALS
DUNKIRK IS BOMBARDED
BY GERMAN AERONAUTS
As a Result He Will Work for the Coun
ty for Sixty Days.
Just as “there are more ways than
one to kill a cat,” so there are
more ways than one to make a living,
honest or otherwise, when “the war’s
on.”Tbe pinch of hard times makes
a chance to cut Aown the high coat of
living a very attractive lure, so iarhen
a well-dressed negro man blew into
Blackville last wpek and offered the
members of his rate Some very attrac
tive bargains in groceries, he was re
ceived with open arms. He quoted
sugar at three cents a pound, meat at
the same figure and flour at four dol
lars a barrel. He would take the order
'rom a customer and then ask for a
small cash deposit os an evidence of
good faith, giving a receipt therefor
and advising his willing victim that the
balance was to be paid “when the
goods were delivered.”
Everything went well until some of
the white people got on to the swindle
and they promptly notified Mayor
Ninestein, who had the “drummer”
arrested. A telegram to the Chicago
house, which the negro claimed to be
representing, elicited the information
that it did not deal in the commodities
being offered for sale. The “get-rich-
quick” schemer was tried and convicted
on two charges and given a sentence
of 30 days each on the county chain
gang. All of the money that he had
collected, with the qjtception of one
dollar, was found on him and returned
to the bargain-hunters. The amount
in each case was small.
It is understood that a white man
has been attempting the tame game in
the lower part of the county.
Q. E. D. Says There is 100 Psr Cent
Profit in Growing Cora.
Editor of The People:—
It must be conceded that land can be
improved and steadily built up with the
cultivation of corn, peas, oats, wheat,
etc. with comparatively little aid from
commercial fertilizers, and if, along
with the planting and production of the
cereals, cattle, hogs and poultry are
raised the improvement of the land
will be moi;e rapid and stable.
What has been our
(•port
MRS SALUE LELAND
SANDERS PASSES AWAY
Mrs. F. W. J. Ask* Voters to Rally in
Appro*chinf Battle.
Williston, Jan. 11.—“The war is on”
is a common expression, but it is only
used for an expression about the hard
times that we have alresdy realized in
one sense but in another sense we have
not realized our condition. What is the
condition of South Carolina?—not fi-
incially. Oh! why are we so blind?
^Her condition is rotten,
deed it is. The battle now stands for ! Mill, for the past several day#. While
good or for evil. Our enemies have * n l° wn Saturday in company with
advanced so rapidly that our country is Major Meyer, Mr. MarschaH paid the
ruined. O dear comrades, can’t you do e ^* tor °f The People an appreciated
something to help us? Or, in other ca '* - * s a f° rmer resident of this
words, will you help us? Will you
throw off thought of self and friends
VISITS FORMER HOME
AFTER SIXTY YEARS
Mr. O. R. M*rtch*H, of Kentucky Guest
of Relatives.
Mr. O. R. MarschaH. of Lexington,
Ky., has been the guest of his cousin,
Yes rotten in- Major J. Anselm Meyer, at Meyer’s
’ . . I u;n f— —,I
and last but not least, money? Will
you go to the all wise ruler of the di
vine universe and ask him for guidance
ip making and passing of new laws?
! Men and brothers, men and voters,
where are we standing today? Are
we bound down with the shackles of
vice and sin? Indeed we are and the
battle will be a long and continued one
unless our officers join hearts and
hands and do something. God, speed
the day when they will do that! Will
you think seriously about the condition
of our country—not financially. Away
with the money that destroys lives,
wrecks homes and brings disgrace and
shame to so many people!
Sometimes I think that our men have
become hardhearted, careless and in
different about the condition of so many
of our women hnd children. Just think
of the numbef Of homes in which there
is no peace and happiness—just think
' hoW many women toil ten, twelve' or
even fourteen hours each day! Day
after day their drudgery is done and
what is their pay, or reward? Husbands
who take their social drinks, come
home and speak crabid and ill to their
• ves, often cursing them—and they
ji’t help themselves.
*4n, are you social with your
friends or your wife? Does H please
her for you to taka that social drink?'
No, a thousand time* NO! The war ia
o^—how long will it last? Until onr
meflSguit their social drinks. How
many menrin South Carolina t*k* their
•social ■drinks? Oh, sad, sad
place, being a son of the late Dr. M.
W. MarschaH, who died in 1854 and was
buried in the old Baptist cemetery.
After bis father’s death, Mr. MarschaH,
then a boy only six years of age, moved
to Kentucky with the other members of
the family and this is his first visit
to his native county in sixty years.
He recalled a number of the older
citizens, all of whom are now dead,
but remembered little of the town it
self.
Advertised Letters.
Letters remaining in the Post Office
and advertised Jan. 11th, 1915.
malk.
R. E. George, R. J. Morris.
rKMALB.
Mrs. Eva Brown, Miss Lila Earton,
Miss Willie Carroll, Mrs Clara Crawford,
Eater Ferman, Fairy Bellfe Green. Eva
Lee Grant, Mrs Hattie Odom, Mary
Staley, Mrs. Jennie Wise, Mjs. Laura
Wilkinson, Mrs Eugenia Williams.
raoM dead littkk prncx.
Horace Williams.
Persons calling for these letters will
please say advertised. -
Chas. E. Falkenstein, P. M.
Woraa of FoMox Dio
latforio* Boootvod hr Foil.
Fairfax. Jan. 11.—QaDwaaaahi
Mrs. Sol lit Leland Sanders, a
Christian woman, affoctioaate mother,
devoted stater and enthaataatte worker,
called to her eternal home ia heav
en. On Sunday morning, the 27th ult.,
Mrs Sanders slipped on a piece of ice
on her front porch and fall heavily to
the floor, sustaining serioua injuries.
She was taken to tlfe Baptist Hoapitsl
and an X-ray picture made of the
wound, when it was found that she was
fatally injured. Pneumonia developed
and the patient sufferer died on
Wednesday, surrounded by loved ones.
The body was brought to Fairfax the
following day and laid to rest on Friday
in the Fairfax cemetery, the funeral
services being conducted in the Baptist
Church by her pastor, assisted by the
Baptist and Lutheran pastors.
Mrs. Sanders was born at Mt. Pleas
ant, near Charleston, about 60 years
ago. She lived there until her mar
riage to Mr. William Sanders in 1880,
when she came to live in what was then
known as Campbellton, later named
Fairfax at her suggestion. She was a
consistent and devoted member of the
Allendale Presbyterian Church, but
gave much of her time and interest to
the other denominations. She will be
-sadly missed, not only for her Christian
work, but for her enthusiastic endeavor
to help all of the organizations and in
stitutions of the Town.
Needless to say, Mrs. Sanders was
loved by dll who knew her. Each heart
feels an expty place since she has
each church has an empty pew and
each meeting, "business or social, a
stilled voice.
She is survived by one son, Mr.
George D. Sanders, one brother, Mr.
Ollie Leland, other relatives and a host
of friends.
experience with
cotton? As I said in Article 1 last
week, cotton has been selling, since
1911, around 12 cents. For two years
the average price of middling cotton
has bfeen better than 13 cents, yet when
the terrible slump in price from around
12 cents to less than seven came what
a panic seized all cotton growers. Even
those farmers who made their crops
without having to hire labof, having
sufficient for all purposes in their own
families, were in the depths, for they
were in debt to the banks or merchants
and their cotton had cost them more
than <^y could sell it for. If there
were any who had planted no cotton
but had confined their efforts and en
ergies to the cereals, they were in far
better shape because it costs so much
lest to make corn and peaa than it does
to make cotton.
We will suppese a case: A one-horse
fanner or tenant with two or three
children haying made a fairly good crop
of oats, corn and peas, with but s small
outlay of commercial fertilizers and
perhaps owing not a great deal to some
merchant, could take his children and
some times his wife and go into the
neighboring fields and pick cotton
enough from the first of September to
the middle of December tc pay what he
owed and have enough at home to live
on through the winter and until he
could plant and make another crop,
need not carry this illustration further,
even to say that if ha was a farmer
worthy of the name he had made twice
aa much com and peaa as ha coaid con-
some and, therefore, hnd same In i
Just here some one will any: “But
you can’t sail corn in the Fall for
goad price.” ! have heard them aay it
and it may be true, but it ia only be
cause they did not know bow and where
to sell. Take up the newspapers
any Fall and Winter month and scan
the quotations for corn, oats, peat, etc.
In a small country town one may not be
be able to tell a few bushels of corn
at a good price, but when one raises
corn as a crop he can sell it by the car
load in the cities, at over one hundred
per cent, of the cost of production, any
month of the year. There is no gain
saying that.
At 12 to 13 cents a pound you can’t
realize one hundred per cent, profit on
cotton. At 10 cents you about get your
money back without interest and below
10 cents per pound you are a loser. Is
it good business or insensate follow to
spend time, energy and money in plant
ing and cultivating a crop by which you
make little or no profit, when you
make a profit at all, depreciating your
land in value all the while instead of
devoting yourself to a crop whereby
you earn a certain profit yearly and
build up your land all the while?
The late late Sheriff Creech, for
many years in office, said a number of
times that he had never sold out a corn
planter. To the question, “How many
all-cotton planters have you closed
out?” he sadly shook his head and
walked away.
^ter there will be something said
aboutTrow and where to sell corn—
when you haVe4Uo sell by the carload.
Q. E. D.
M V? A Cl? IMfYM
BLEASE ISSUES ORDER
TO MUSTER OUT GUARDS
British Are Virtually
of Lille.
Monday.—Neither hi the eaat nor the
west do the operations of the opposing
1 brees show material change so far aa
the official statements of the French,
pennans and Russians disclose. A late
dispatch ^rom Boulogne, however, de- j
dares-- the Germans have evacuated
Jlle, that that city virtually ia in pos
session of the British. Dunkirk has been
Iximbarded again by German aero
planes. Thirty bombs were thrown,but
the Havas Agency says the victims
were few and the material damage
unimportant.
It also is reported that a Zeppelin
and three German aeroplanes passed
over Furnes, Dunkirk and Cali* Sat
urday night, apparently headed for
Dover. But late advices aay no hos
tile air craft have been sighted along
the English coast.
In Poland and Galicia the struggle
seems to be one which embodies very
small gains for a vast amount of ef
fort. Nothing has come out of that
territory to indicate a decisive result
at any point
The British reply to the American
note regarding treatment of American
commerce by the British fleet has been
published at Washington. The reply
which is merely preliminary, concedes
the principles of the American Gov
ernment's contentiona, dwells upon the
difficulties confronting the British Gov
ernment and declares that Great Britain
desire* to restrict its action solely to
interfere with contraband destined for
the enemy.
The London paper* express approval
of the handling of the subject by Sir
Edward Grey, the British foreign sec
retary. They declare that while all
possible concession* should be made
where only questions of procedure are
concerned, England’s position pre
cludes any real change in her policy.
There is no confinaalina to the re
port that there has been a battle off
the Brazilian coast haters aa the British
crutaar loviacible sad the Oman
miser von Der Thaw.
Petrograd reports that the Turkish
cruisers Breslau aM
considerably damaged ia
tie in the Black Sea with
shipa. The Russiaiufheve sunk a num
ber of Turkish merchant craft.
| Complaining that the German* are
holding captive French surgeons and
nurses, France declares that hereafter
she will repatriate German surgeons
and nurses held by the French only in
proportion to the French surgeons and
nurses returned to France.
Gevereof'* Order
Columbia, January 11.—The entire
National Guard of South Carolina was
disbanded this afternoon through a
proclamation issued bv Governor Cole
L. Blease, the Commander-in-chief. The
reasons assigned by him are differences
with Secretary of War L. M. Garrison,
Secretary of the Navy Daniels,
Adjt. Gen. W. W. Moore and bis
opposition to the Dick law, whereby
the militia were bought under con
trol of the United States Govern meal.
The three regiments of infantry, coast
artillery, naval militia and every sin
gle member and unit of the militia is
mustered out of service by this order.
The order is made effective iaune-
diatelv.
Adjt Gen Moore knew nothing of the
order until The Newt and Courier’s
representative told him cf it over the
telephone at his home, where he had
gone for lunch. *T wo not surprised
st his action in this matter,” said the
Adjutant General. "It ia only in keep
ing with his sttttade towards my ad
ministration of the past two yean. If
he got any aatisfactioo oat of the act
I am satisfied it would meet with the
approval of the majority of the officers
of the organized militia. It ia perfect-
ly satisfactory to me. I have no dealt
but that a thorough reorganbattoa ef
the National Guard would be 1
to It.”
Me C —map to Maha
Governor-elect Richard L
was informed of the action of Governor
Bleaae over the long distance telephone
at hta home in Sumter, but, ef emna,
bad no comment to make seder the
circumstances and in the aheenee ef
any copy of the order. The matter
will com
actios wbenLei
That there ie no need for i
ria action of O
ed out hern in
for he hoo only one i
4 Owe
•ire,
roughs |
Is evident tt
out military
but, as was ■
afternoon, this is no
for not a militia co
called out for a long t
SOUTH AMERICAN TRADE
IS GREAT OPPORTUNITY
»y has been
LEGISLATORS
INC0LUMBU TUESDAY
Chib Meeting*.
how many? Oh! ye men, are you he
roes or cowards? If you are heroes,
mobolize your troops and march to the
The Negro and the Farm. V
I once lived in a county in Texas
where conditions were just as they are |
here. The merchants and farmers
finally got to where they couldn't ad
vance the Negroes any further. Some
of them went to the sugar plantations
in Louisiana;. some went to the towns.
White people came in from Georgia
and Alabama and bought small tracts
of land, from 40 to 60- acres. The
Negroes, who stayed, worked by the
diy or for part of the crops. The
white people are not dependent on'
them, so they are forced to work and
the same aa the
h||(Iaw-abidiog citizens
white-folk* are.
That section ia now one of the “gar
den spota”—The small farms are “up-
to-date” as tq buildings, equipment,
stock, and tillage. There era good
j churches, good schools, few debts good
J ——„,(] good fellowship between
front! God be your helper, ta my
prayer and may it be the prayer of each J morels,
and every one in old South Carolina, the meet. Each knows his place,
that we am^drive back the enemy and f does not infringe on the rights of the
have a new South Carolina. j other.—“One Amdog Them,” in The
' Y Mrs. P. W, J. Progressive Farmer.
Miss Veryl Holmes entertained the
Aghi and Filo Club last Wednesday
afternobn. After an hour’s work with
needles, a sweet course was served.
The Friday Afternoon Bridge Chib
was entertained last week by Mrs.
Harry D. Calhoun. After a number of
games were played, a delightful salad
course arid hot chocolate were served.
Mra-Pr J. Drew, having made the high
est score, was awarded firat prize, a
beauwvH-'fiahdmade work bag. The
consolation prize, a bottle of toilet water,
waa cut by Mrs. B. P! Davies. The
afternoon was greatly enjoyed by aHi
the membera.
Mrs. Harry D. Calhoun charmingly
entertained the Young Matrons’ Bridge
Club Tuesday afternoon. After a num
ber of games had been played, it was
found that Mrs. R. A. Deaaon had nude
the highest score' and waa awarded the
firat prize, a beautiful hand made work
bag. 'Mrs. R. B. Cole cut the cosaola-
tkm prize, sad the guest prize, a dainty
Mexican laec handkerchief waa awarded
to Mus Georgia Antley. After the
gaaiea, a delightful sweet count and
Southern Cotton Mill* Preparing t
Capture Coaerou* Share.
Chattanooga, Tenn., January 8<-
Great opportunities for expansion of
the cotton goods trade with the South
American countries are open now that
European mills have been curtailed and
a number of Southern cotton mills are
taking active steps to capture a gener
ous share of this trade,declares Charles
Lyon Chandler, South American Agent
of Southern Railway, who calls atten
tion to the following interesting fig
ures:
Of the 814,000,000 of cotton goods
emported by Chile in 1912, only 8770,-
000 tame from this country. Germany,
whose trade is now cut off, supplied
83,400,000, and Great Britian the rest.
In the same year, Argentina Itought
835,700,000 of which 85,527,000 came
from Germany, over 817,000,006 from
England and only 8445,300 from this
untry. Of the 818,000.000 of cotton
goods imported by Brazil, 83,800,000
came from ^Germany, 811,000,000 from
England, and only 8329,000 from this
country. Eigures in regard to woolen
goods and cutlery intoTh^South Ame
rican countries show similkr oppor-
tunity.
tog Dey of 1*18 Seeriew.
The general assembly of South Caro
lina organized Tuesday for ita Tlat
session in a decidedly butai
manner. A significant incident ia 1
House of Representatives was the
applauding of a reference in the speak
er’s address to the necessity for passing
a compulsory school attendance law.
LeQrand Walker, of Georgetown, and
M. M. Mann, of St Matthews, were
elected president pro tempore and
clerk, respectively, ofthe Senate. J.
Wilson Gibbea, of Columbia, was
elected clerk of the House on the ninth
ballot James A. Hoyt, of Columbia,
was made speaker without opposition.
The House passed unanimously a reso
lution felicitating President Wilson on
his administration.
INSTALLS ELECTRIC SIGN.
Merchant
That
J. A. Porter Bshere*
Advertising Pays.
Merchant J. A. Porter, in keeping
with his progressive policy, last week
installed a neat electric sign in frpnt of
his handsome store on Main Street. The
mechanism is arranged so that the
lights are flashed on and off and attracts
the eye for a considerable distance up
and down the street. Mr* Porter has
of being the first Barnwell
it to use the “juice” in this
manner. He bei
and as a result th<
Two Bills Freined. ’
Two prohibition bills, one to provide
for an election next September on a
Statewide law and the other to taka
advantage of the provisions of the
Webb law, will be introduced in the
general assembly before the end of
the week. This decision was reached
at a conference of the leaders of the
movement, held Tuesday night in Co
lumbia. v V *
EDUCATIONAL RALLY.
Tritstess qC Harcnlot School Ernst
I An educationaTrajly was held at
cules school houseou Thursday, the
7th.insL Mr. J. E. Lain, chairman of
the Beard of Trustees, ih trod need Ike ,
speakers in the following order; Hon.
George H. Bates, of Barnwell, the Rav. .
W. M. Jones, of Willtatoo, and Hon. EL
J. Crouch, of Elko. Each addi— wan
very interesting and
was thoroughly anjoyn^by <
and patron |
After the i
• in adveritainff the present school
ia oo hard times qaate aa to size and