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i uJ People. 9 .Volume XXXIX “Jufcl Like a Member of the Family” / BARNWELL, S. C, MARCH 23, 1916 Number 30 MARCH TERM OF COURT. Judge Prince Made forceful Charge to Grand Jury.—Cases Tried. The Spring term of the Court of General Sessions convened here Mon day morning with Judge George E. Prince, of Anderson, presiding. Judge Prince has been to Barnwell several times before, and the people of Barn well County are always pleased when this distinguished Magistrate 'presides over their courts. This being the first- term of the Sessions Court in the year, it was nec essary to organize the Grand Jury, which was done, Mr. A. A. Lemon, of Barnwell, being appointed fuceman. Judge Prince charged the members of the Grand Jury for a considerable length of time, stressing their duties in a great many particulars. He told the members that their duties were manifold, among them being the gen eral supervision of the county offi ces, looking after the public high ways, county chain gangs, bridges and the jail, as well as supervising the public schools of the' county. Special emphasis was laid upon the impor tance of the Supervisor's office. The Court said that this is the most im- • port ant office iq the county—that it the only officV.tn the county where »n can be honest, but incompetent, bankrupt the county. His Honor sid that he was not making any per- aonal references, because he did not * know the- Supervisor of Barnwell County, but that if the best business man in the county is not Supervisor, the people should go out and get him and put him in that office. * Judp • Prince nest took up the ques tion of the public schools of the coun ty, stressing the importance of the Grand Jury looking after the schools The Judge* who is an advocate of compulsory education, sawing other things said that the negro does not need compulsory education, as he would send his children to school, but that the white people need It, and he thought the negro set them a good ex am pie hi this ruaport. The Court told the Grand Jury to inspect every school lu the county at some time or other during the year and see that the trus tees were doing their duty m electing competent teachers, and instructed the foreman to ascertain if any of the trus tees in the county were electing incom petent %ear hers by reason of rvlatto.v ship, elrHanl if surh is the rase to have it exposed. His Honor is nfavoe of employing mile teachers, saying that he never in all hts life knew a boy to Iw inspir *d by a woman, other then his wife or mother. He remarked in passing that girl teachers, while teach ing, were only “bridging the chasm between college days and matrimony.' Judge Pnncc then discussed the violators of the liquor laws, saying — - that, the blind tigers of Uus day an no more than cut-throats and murder ers, that they sold to the people poison that if drunk consistently, would l^ill as surely as the dagger. He said that tht only way to handle blind tigers is to deal severely with them and give • em to understand that the law-abid- g citizenship will not stand for them. His Honor deplored the violations of law in South Carolina, and &id that the only remedy was for the Grand and petit jurors to do their dutSL - A great many people who heard Judfce ♦Prince’s charge to the Grand Jury expressed themselves as believ ing that it was one of the most force ful charges of the kind ever heard in thb Barnwell Court House. True Bills. The Grand Jury has found the fol lowing true bills: Ollie Brabham, larceny. Leroy Reed and Lennie Reed, house- breaking and larceny. Eleazer Daniels, murder. Osceola Dupre, housebreaking and larceny. Alphonse Kennedy, violation of the dispensary law. * • • , B. C. Clemens, violation- of the dis pensary law. Walter H. Mackey, Edward T Ev- — 'ans and Frank Gordon, housebreaking and larceny. W. A. BAILEY DEAD. Prominent Citizen and Extensive Farmer of Ellenton Passes Away, Herbert Hunter^ assault and bat tery with intent to kill and carrying concealed weapons. Powhattan Harley.'-vttdati.on of the dispensary Jaw. • Frank Jojinson, violation of the dis pensary law. Juran Dunbar,-murder. Will Hays, violation oT the dispen- ^•ary law. Cora Hazel, violation of the probi- bition Ernest Duncan, robbery and larceny. I Jn order to fill the places of excused E. A. Brdshaw. violation of the pro- .urorv, the fallowing extra venire wax hibiiMMt law. j drawn Monday Jennings Jahnsoa. murder, ( W. \. RicharAwm, J. J. Sander*. T -5 ' <k- >« _ a. „ a I C £* T ** -f * IT \f /*mm± Information was received in the city last night of the death at 8 p. m., at his home, in Ellenton, S. C., of Mr. W. Ashley Bailey, in the fi9th year of his age, after a long illness. ■ Mr. Bailey was well known ip Au gusta, where he . had many warm friends. He was one of the most high ly regarded men in the community in which he lived. He has resided in the Ellenton section all his life. He was an extensive and wealthy farmer. He is survived by a large family and a host of friends who deeply mourn his loss. Mr. Bailey was a charter member of Camp 220, W. 0. W., and he will be buried with Woodmen honors. He will be particularly missed by his church, to which he was markedly devoted, he having been a faithful Christian. He was always ready to help in anything that meant for the uplift of his people and his community. The funeral will take place this af ternoon at 3 o’clock, from his late resi dence, and the interment will be in the family burying ground, near El lenton.—Augusta Chronicle, 16th inst. SEIGLINGVILLE NEWS. FIGHTING LESS INTENSE. Large Crowd Attends Oyster Supper and Box Party for Church. B urckhalter—Rountree. Dunbarton, March 21,— Married, at the home of the bride's parents, on Sunday afternoon, in the presence of the family and a few intimate fnenda. Miss Dora Clyde Burckhalter and Mr, Benjamin A. Rountree, the Rev. B. M. Foreman performing the ceremony. The bride ta a very popular young lady of the Joyce Branch section and the groom is a prosperous young busi ness man a|.Dunbarton. ImmediaWrlyultm the ceremony the happy young cuticle left for their future home la Dunbarton, carrying with them the best wishes of many friends for a long and happy lift. Special to The People. Seiglinj^Ville, March 20.—The Lad- ’es’ Missionary Society gave an oyster supper and box party at the home of Mr. O. W. Barker on Friday for the benefit of the Seiglingville Baptist Church. A large crowd was present. Mrs. W. A. Hayes and three child ren, Mr. and Mrs. M. D\Stone and Misses Laura and Ruth olary, of Barnwell, visited relatives he^g last week. Miss Janie'Ulmer is spending soni^ time with her sister, Mrs. Rebecca Williams, in Savannah. The rqany friends of Miss Annie Laurie Moody, who came home sick from Coker College some time ago, are glad to know that she is improv ing. Messrs. H. J. Moody and R. W. Youngblood have returned home from Greensboro, N. C., where they have J&een attending court. Mr. D. M. Oglesby and children were quite ill with pneumonia last week, but their many friends will be glad to know that they are improving. Mrs. H. J. Moody has been quite sick with an attack of grip. Miss Ruby Myrick is visiting her j sister, Mrs. F. W. Good son, at Mill- haven, Ga. Misses Katie and Daisey Augley, I of 1,’lmeT, visited relatives here Satur day. They were accompanied home by | their auat. Miss Jennie Barker. Mr. R. C. Thomas, of Fairfax, | moved here last week. German Attacks Around Verdun Slacken.—Aeroplanes Active . A With the slackening of the fighting around Verdun the Russians have started a. bi& offensive movement against the Germans on the Easterrt front. A raid by Gerpaan Seaplanes on the. east coast of England and by French airmen on Metz and other German towns, the sinking of a French torpedo boat destroyer itby a submarine in the Adriatic, and the re ported torpedoing of an Austrian hos pital ship by an entente underwater boat are recorded in official and un- CAMP MORRALL TO MEET. BARNWELL COUNTY FIELD DAY. .W Nlfficial communications. Met l^rtin chronicles an attack of great violehqe by the Russians* around t Driswiaty lake and Lake Naroez, but says the Russians were repulsed with great Jtisses/^'JTO Russian dead pav ing-been counted, in the Lake Naroez region. \ Saturday the Germans in the Vaux- Damloup sector, northeast of Verdun, began another spirited attack against the French, who by bringing^hgir cur tain of fire into play drove the Teutons bark. The attack was not pushed again during Sunday, and only inter mittent bombardments took place. The Germans report the recapture of some ground east of Vermelles, in the region of LaBasse, a small gain in the Vosges, and some mine trenches in the region of the Hohen-' tollero redoubt. Annual Reunion to Be Held at Mey er’s Mill on April 7th. Meyer's Mill, March 20.—The twen- ty-fffth annual meeting of survivors of Camp Morrall, United Confederate Veterans, will be held at Meyer’s Mill, April 7th, at 11 o’clock sharp. Gener al Dan S. Henderson, of Aiken, will be the orator of the day. « At the same time and place the United Sons of Veterans, Camp B. B. Kirkland, will meet. Another feature of the meeting will be the unveiling of the monument to the memory of Robt. Williams, who was shot from ambush during the Ellenton Hot. The ladies and the public are cor dially invited to supplement the at tendance with their presence, accom panied by the usual basket of dainties. All the Veterans of the county are urged to be with us on this occasion. The musical feature, we think, will Ik? as meritorious as heretofore. J. Staff Halford, _A. Meyer, Commander. Adjutant. • IMPORTANT TO FARMERS. Warning against Planting Seed of In ferior Varietien of Cotton. County Superintendent of Education Discusses Coming Event. ( art of Thaaka. Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Williams take this method of returning thoor thanks to their many friends who were so kind In the long illneoo and death of the latter's mother. Mrs. Sprawls. •ary law. J. M Harley. B M Wall and L E. Brown, murder. Thus Cave, violation of the dispen sary law. Pink Charleton, violation ofthr dis pensary law. Bailie Carter, violation of the dispen sary law. Alex Holmes and Austin Jackson, violation of the dispensary law. Heyward Williams, housebreaking •nd isreeny. . Charlie I<ewis, non-support. Gordon W. Owens, slander. George Zile, housebreaking and lar ceny. Viney Hay, murder. Joe Stoney, violation of the dispen sary law. Cases Disposed of. The following cases have been dis posed of: Osceola Dupre pleaded guilty to the charge of housebreaking uml larcehV and was sentenced to three years in the Lexington reformatory. Alfred~Glbucester was convicted of the charge of assault and battery with intent to kill and sentenced to pay a fine of $100 or serve for one year at hard labor on the chain gang or in the penitentiary. Heyward Williams pleaded guilty to th,e charge of housebreaking and lar ceny and was sentenced to one year at hard labor on the chain gang or in the penitentiary. Frank Gordon was convicted on the charge of housebreaking and larceny and sentenced to serve three years at hard labor in the penitentiary. Powhattan Harley pleaded'‘guilty'to violating the dispensary law and was sentenced t osix months on the chain gang or in the penitentiary: on pay ment of $50, sentence was suspended during good behavior. Alex Lishe pleaded guilty to vio lating the dispensary law and was BAMBERG SCHOOL BURNS. 1 Beautiful Building at Hunter's Chap el Destroyed by 'Flames. Bamberg. March 17.—The recently completed school building at Hunter's Chapel, about 11 atUes southeast of Bamberg, was destroy*4 by fire Wod- ' nesday morning of last week between 10 and 11 o'clock. The flimes when J first discovered were making headway | between the coiling of the two claao | rooms, just above the stove Aim. With ' th# exception of stoves and a large i desk, a relic of olden days, all the | furniture, together with the new piano, «ms saved. I * * The children, under direction of the . 'escher*. Misaea Lula Brown and Aline , Hay. worked like experienced firemen j when the fire was discovered. They . had removed all of the desks and were < moving the piafo when outside help arrived. - „ j Hunter's chapel schodl was com- j pleted in February of last year at a j cost of about $2,00U. The building I was insured for $1,4U0. School it now iieing taught in an old building. Al- I though the trustees and patrons are . sorely grieved over their lots, they are making rapid preparations for the ' erection of another building. A meet ing whs to be held Wednesday for the purpose of discussing ways and means for the erection of a new school house. Five French air craft dropped bombs on Melt, ammunition depots near Chateau Saliana and the aero drome at Dieuxe, while 23 other ma chines attacked the aviation camp at Habsheim and the freight station at Mue I hausen .In the battle in the air which followed the Germans and French each lost three or four ma chines. A German airship attacked the entente allied fleet south of Sa- lomki but with what result Berlin does not aay. Three officers and 44 pien of the crew of the French torpedo boot de stroyer Ronaudin were loot when a Teutonic submarine sent the vessel to the bottom in the Adriatic. In a raid by four German seaplanes over Dov er, Ramsgate and Westgate at least nine persons were killed and 31 in jured. One of the aeroplanes was brought down So miles at sea by a pursuing British aviator. The German observer was killed. ' j The German admiralty officials deny that a German submarine was re sponsible for the atnkmg of the Dutch passenger steamer Tuhantia. * v PREPARATION OF LAND. County Demonstration Agent Advises Against Burning Graaa. The Department of Agriculture, on April 9, 19f4, and again on March 2, 1915, issued warnings to farmers of the Southwest against planting va rieties of cotton that usually produce a staple of less than seven-eights inch in length, especially such varieties as are said to produce half seed and half lint. In view of the approaching planting season, the Deportment wish es to reiterate these warnings for the benefit of the entire cotton belt. The producers of cotton, for their own welfare, should heed this advice, and should exercise judicious care in the selection of planting seed The following reasons are given for warning cotton growers ogainst plant mg any variety that usually produces a staple of less than se ten-eights inch in length: 1. Cotton of less than sevea- eights ia staple la of approximately the same spinning value aa the bulk of the cotton of India. On economic principles, the American product should bo maintained on a higher level of intrinsic worth than that of India is order that the American crop may not be forced to rompeto in the mark ets of the world with the cotton of Friday, March Slat, in all probabili ty will be the biggest school day in the history of Barnwell Coiinty. In terest is growing every day. The en thusiasm of the pupils and teachers of tlfk schools which will participate^ has reached a high pitch. It is not necessary here to discuss the meaning of the Field Meet, n'or is it required that the advantages pf these coji- tests be named now. School folk, who have considered this subject serious ly, have agreed that the results justify the effort. More schools are going to take part in the various events than the com mittee had expected. The absent school will be the exception. Every school should attend. No school can afford to miss the school parade. This will be made a special feature. At ten o’clock, A. M., this parade will move from the Barnwell High Sshool building, up Marlboro Avenue, through Main Street, around the cir cle, and back to the school building through the same streets. Bearden’s ten piece band from Augusta will lead the parade. It has been decided that the schools in the line for the parade should occupy the positions ac cording to numbers of the districts; for instance, the Ruddenville school in district No. 1, will lead, with the Blarkville school, district No. 19, oc- ‘’upying the nineteenth place. This sequence order will show no partial ity. The parade ran bo more effective if the schools will dross the pupils in regulation suits I have heard one teacher say that his school would dreoa all of the girls in white middy Mouses with blue collars, white shoes and stockings, pink paper hata. and would wear the orhool colors. The boys of this some school will wear white Mousoa. Mack trosasra. Mack shoes and stoekings. white caps of paper, and achooi colors. A school banner will lend them pupils Schools that hove no banner can aecsre a South Carolina flag from CWmaoa Col lege at cose Either a State or United States flag could bo appropriately used by each achooi I Hope EVERY SCHOOL WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE PARADE. On account of poor railroad ache dulea from some sections of the coun ty. it will bo n teak to got all of the pupda from some of the ecbools to Barnwell Every trustee and patron is expected to co-operate with the NEWS FROM APPLETON. With the Exception of Small Grain, Crop Outlook is Promising. sentencea tiTsTx months on th6 .chain gang or in the penitentiary; on pay-" ment of $t!5 sentence was suspended during good behavior. •George Zile pleaded guilty to the charge of housebreaking and larceny and was sentenced to three years in the State reformatory for white boys at Florence. Sallie. Carter pleaded guilty to* vio lating. thy dispensary law. ii Eotra. Vouirc. - Special to The People. N^ppleton, March 20.-*-Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Warren, of Allendale, visited friends in Appleton Sunday afternoon. At the spelling match for old and young at thexchool Friday, Miss Lou ise Guess won the prize for the best speller. Fertilizers have just commenced to come and Appleton will no doubt get its share before the end of the season. .The small ^grajn crop has made very lity^s-progress so far and the outlook is for a small yield this year. The farmers are in earnest about turning the soil. The seed beds are in fine condition and give promise of three blades tffis season where only one grew before. MA-Glarence Calhoun, of the C. & W. C. Railway, spent the week-end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. U. A. Calhoun. Warren Bros, are doing a fine busi ness in the Hill Block near the'depot.' Advertised Letters. Letters remaining in the Barnwell, South Carolina Post Office and adver tised March 20th, 1916. Male' Hayes Bostoq, Tom Dtlloq, Sandte Hogg, J.’H. Suiters, Valentine Sand ers. me -j I . Fgaak .. - - MiKs Mattie Carrie. Josephine Ches- eboro, Viola Scetter. ■ Persons calling for these letters Special to The People. Blackville, March 21.—Mr. H. G. Roylston, county demonstration agent, has given out the following' bulletin on preparation of land for planting: ~“Do you burn off your land before you break it up? Naver do it. If it is only a coat of dead crab grass, turn it under; it will do some good, as it will add humus to the soil, cause it to retain more moisture, etc. If there is a great deal of litter on the land it is always better to disk the land with a disk harrow before breaking. Then you get this litter cut up and it does not destroy the capillary action. Also, if the litter is a green cover crop, it is not as likely to sour-the land. “In breaking the land use a plow that will not tdrn the soil bottom side up, but use one that will break the land and not turn it so much. In break ing land always turn it a little deeper each year. At the same time, you want to get more organic matter in the soil by the use of cow peas, velvet beans, covet 1 cr9ps apd.'barnyard ma nure. Do away with ihe 1 little old Dixie Boy and other small turn plows and use heavier disk and like plows. “Always harfow your land as soon after breaking as possible—the same day if you can; that is, for Spring preparation and Barnwell County soils. Continue to harrow the land as soon after each rain as the condition of the land will permit. "From then on use shallow, frequent cultivation in order that you might keep the land in* this condition when you have finished pre paring it.” . India. _ „ 2. Cotton of leas tha*a*ven-e.ghtha trmrhrr ; ,n of transports S^ch tuple is lAfti* to the average J.* 0 " lh * • chow, to th AiHenran quality, and localities that 09m ' produce *uch cotton in appreciable quanUtiek\aoon establish reputations for an inferior product. The price of all cotton hi such markets will suffer on account of the poor repute- lion of the market. 3. Competent cotton buyers dis criminate against extremely ilhort sta ple whenever such cotton is discovered. They should be equally careful to , . - discriminate in favor of cotton of '* opportunity for the count! Next to the parade, the moat proa inent feature will he the declaaati« contest by the boy* and the girla* ra citel Friday evening at the Barnwel High School auditorium. Any sehoo may enter either a girl for the girli contests, or a boy for the declamatioi contests. The committee hopes b have seven or eight well dnlled appli cants for each of these events. Her good staple. The farmer who pro duces inferior cotton is likely to find that his product brings a price ma terially lower than quotations would indicate as its true value. The seller commonly looks upon such discrimi nation as a penalty, while the -buyer considers that he is paying the full value for an inferior commodity. 4. Under the common practice of the cotton trade, the price of spot cot ton is governed largely by future quo tations. In order that future quota tions might more accurately reflect the value of spot cotton, Congress, in the United States Cotton Futures Act, provided a form of contract, ex empt from the tax imposed by the Act, on which cotton of extremely low grade or which is less than seven- eights inch in length of staple is not deliverable. This action by Congress was intended primarily for the bene- schools to have an equal chance wi the \uwn children. The two medi for these winners have already be donated by a friend, and their arriv is expected sooq. At present it a pears that there will be more boys ' enter these Friday evening contes than girls. All of the contests commend thei selves. Pupils entering the ment contest will suffer no embarrassme by competing. The applicants f each contest will be in one of the cla rooms at the Barnwell school buil ing, and only the judges will be pr« ent. This condition should relieve ti minds of prospective applicants, ai should induce many pupils to coi pete. While the ^mental ^ntests are progress in the various class roon there will be' entertainment in the wi of lectures i^ the auditorium. Patrc New Drug Store. Dr. Max Bronson, who successfully passed the State Board last week, will Ula n kjflate; MUfif jp pin Mr axy April M, msk.ng the fifth establish | meet of this kind m the city. He has reHtefl qtfiriert on Conrt House ♦C * ai*J aill rail new fit ofproducers. One of its results an( j trustees are cordially invited was/the adoption by the New York attend these lectures. No admissi and New Orleans Exchanges of the will be charged. A small admissi exempted form of future contract, so will be charged for the Friday nij that cotton of less than seven-eighths programme. inch in length of staple cannot be de- As has been announced, the judj live red thereon. This legislation in no f or a |i 0 f t h e events will be outside way affects any sale of spot cotton. Barnwell County. These are men s o. As the variety of seed planted women competent and impartial, j is the Primary factor in determining i t *j a too big a task to furnish dim I length of staple, ami as there are for a |i in attendance Each school ; earl) maturing prolific varieties which expected to furnish its own dinner. , produce a staple of at least an inch in has been suggested that each sch< length, no farmer or community is jus- g e t together and have ita dinner Itiflrt in plating an inferior variety p j cn j ( - fashion, or in expecting the full market price Let 1 , everybody poll together a for a debased article of commerce: try and get ALL of the school chi *~r*—r- --row hoeo tor the Field Moot. j ^ Notice , Horace J. brooch. * i Co. Sept Ed Ow Mcvtml of atekeeea. 1 wtH bo en- mm e mi'rt ay March spy ral Meedaaara T ft- Gove and R Nq* • le at - .**..• Very! Haisase an ns.