The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, May 11, 1916, Image 1
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‘Just Like a Member of the Family”
Volume XXXIX
BARNWELL, S. C, MAY 11. 1916
MAY TERM OF COURT.
RIVER’S BRIDGE MEMORIAL.
Court of Common Pleas Convenes
Here Monday.—Jurors brawn.
Vast Concourse of Men, Women and
Children from Five Counties.
Number 37
The May term of the Cburt of Com
mon Pleas will convene here Monday,
the I5th inst., with Jpdge Hayne F.
Rice, of Aiken, presiding. Only civil
cases will be tried at this term' which
will run two weeks. Jurors for the
first and second weeks are as follows:
First Week.
Allendale—J. F. Lightsey, John W.
Smith, R. R. Speaks, W. A. Chavous,
Otis Brabham, J. J. Harter, 1 —
Gaitley.
Barnwell—Tom Pressy, Furman
Creech, L. G. Richardson, G. W- Hal
ford.
Bennett Springs—J. B. Kirkland, W.
A Meyer, Joe Weiner, B. H. Glover,
Bull Pond—E. W. Brunson, J. L.
Box.
George’s Creek—H. E. Creech, W.
H. Hutto, J. L. Nix, Louis Fail.
Great Cypress—G. S. Boynton.
Rosemary—Willie Hair, R. E.
Woodward.
Red Oak—W. B. Parker: 9
Rich Land—R. F. Rountree.
Sycamore—J. A. Goodson, T.
Weekley, W’. W. Cope.
Williston—W. G. Thompson, F. T.
Merritt, J. A. Latimer.
Blackville—E. J, Allen, Herman
Brown, S. G. Lowe, G. W. Bodiford.
Second Week.
Allendale—M. D. Compton, Geo. F.
Young. H. L. Hall, W. M. Thomas, W.
Harvey, J. H. Rabb, E. G. Connerly.
W\ R. Darlington, Jr., W. H. Hardin,
C\ k. Wilson. 1 ■ ■ »
Baldor—W. B. Gill, L. O. Bennett.
Barnwell—E. D. Peacock. W. T. Ay.
u. N. S. Black, Charlie Brown, A.
Connor.
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ehnett Spring*—C. H. Dicks, D. P.
Key.
Blackville—J. L. Buist, Sam Dyches.
George’s Creek—J. A. Morris, B. J.
Hot to.
Great Cypress—J. S. Mexico.
Rich I .and—Henry Webb, H. Day-
ton Tlreene, J. L. Anderson.
Rosemary—Walter A. Hair.
Sycamore—O. B. Deer, W’. A. Aug-
ley, W. W. Myrick, T. J. Deer. W. T.
Weekley, J. M. Brant.
Williston—B. M. Smith. J. A. Col
lins.
K. OF P. MEMORIAL SERVICE.
Exerctaee Held in the Baptist Church
Sunday Afternoon^/
The members of Barnwell Lodge
No. 16, Knights of Pythias, held their
annual memorial service Sunday af
ternoon in the Barnwell Baptist
Church, an interesting program being
carried out. The Hon. Robert A.
Cooper, of Laurens, delivered a very
entertaining and instructive address,
. reviewing briefly the principles for
which the order stands. Special music
was arranged for the occasion. The
following is the order of.the exercises:
_ 1. Hymn, Anthem, Nevin—Barnwell
Choral Club.
2. Invocation.
3. Scripture Reading.
^ 4. Duet, “Guide Me, 0 Thou Great
Jehovah,” Lansing—Mrs. Moseley and
Mr. Evison.
5. Notices, etc.
6. Address by the Hon. R. A. Coop-
7. Hymn, Anthem, “When Shadows
Darkly Gather,” Wooler—Choral Club.
8. Pythian Ode—Sung by members
of the Order.
9. Prayer and Benediction.
Before the exercises at the church
the members assembled at Castle Hall
and marched in a body to the several
churchyards of the city, where de
parted Knights are buried, and placed
flowers on their graves. The de^s
ceased members of the local lodge
now nupiber twenty-six.
Advertised Letters.
Letters remaining in the Barnwell,
South Carolina Post Office and adver-
- tised May 8th 1916.
. ' Male
Henry Armstrong, . John Butler,
Heaver Felder, H. C Johnson, W. J.
Mims, Frank Mears, John Millt^.
Female
— Laura Black, Lily Butler, Sarah
Blake, Mrs. G. W. Cave, Mary Gard-
. ner, Maggie Hopjdns, Mrs. L. W. Ham-,
mond, Mrs. Marie Richburg, Alafair
Williams.
From Dead Letter Office.
James Hampton, Ulrech Elder,
James Hampton, B. S. Washington, Jr.
Persons calling for these letters
will please • say advertised and give
Brunson, May 7.—The impressive
memorial ceremonies^ held annually at
the monument raised to the Confeder
ate soldiers who fought and fell in
the battle at River’s Bridge on the
Saltkehatchie River, by the citizens of
adjacent communities, were observed
on Thursday last, the 4th instant.
The vast concourse present, men,
women and children, came from the
counties of Aiken, Barnwell, Bamberg,
Colleton and Hampton. 1
Fine instrumental music and beau
tiful songs were rendered by a select
choir to the delight and enjoyment of
the vast, listening audience.
Dr. Kirkland, a veteran now far in
his eighties and for a long time presi
dent of the Memorial Association here,
presided.
Rev. E. 0. Watson, of Bamberg, in
an eloquent, ardent, inspiring intro
ductory address interested and de
lighted his hearers and introduced, in
his closing remarks, the orator of the
day, Congressman James F. Byrnes.
Mr. Byrnes delivered a fine speech,
carefully prepared and containing
much interesting and reliable data
Piles of Flowers.
At the close of the services # fair
hands piled deeply, at the base of the
monument, on the earth covering the
forms qf the gallant men in gray,
whose warfare ended on the battle
field nearby, a profusion of the most
beautiful flowers possible of produc-
tion. in our southland in Lb
month of May
Three Old Heroes.
Sad indeed, though, was the scene
in the audience when, - by special re-
! quest, all men were asked to stand
[ who had engages! in the Imttle with
two rorpa of General Sherman’s Army
on the field nearby on the 3d and 4th
days of February, 1865, on the last
line of our defense in South Carolina
—aa only three stood, all who were
there.
The hosts of gray have almost*
passed away and are rekting "on the
the other side of the river,” like those
who sleep today ’neath the bowers of
roses and lilies, close where they died
near the monument of marble at Riv
er’s Bridge.
CHARITIES BOARD REPORTS
ON BARNWELL INSTITUTIONS
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nteresting Data Collected During Recent Investigation of County
Jail, Almshouse and Chaingangs.—Recommenda-
- tions Suggested. . ■ ,
The People has received from the
State Board of Charities and Correc
tions in Columbia-copies of the re
ports on the recent inspection of the
Barnwell County jail, almshouse and
chaingangs. The inspection was made
in March by Mr. A. D. Oliphant, as
sistant secretary of the Board. The
reports on the jail and almshouse are
published this week and will be fol
lowed next week by the reports on the
chaingangs.
Barnwell County Jail.
Visited on March 20, 1916, by A. D.
Oliphant with Jailor Main. Located
about two blocks from court house off
the public square.
Capacity 18 prisoners, average pop
ulation 9, maximum recorded popula
tion 48.
. I. Administration.
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The jail is in charge of Mr. G. M.
Main who was appointed by Sheriff J.
B. Morris. The jailer sends for law
yers and other people whom the pris
oners want to see. The county physi
cian is Dr. A. B. Patterson who was
appointed by the county board of com
missioners. He visits the jail when
sept for, but does not vaccinate pris
oners against smallpox and typhoid
■firr ' when thrv art ‘ M
DOES MAMMOTH BUSINESS.
Few Realize the Magnitude of C.
Rizer’s Business Interests.
CAPT. BATES IN THE RACE.
The jail has a septic tank sewerage
system.
For punishmenl prisoners are con
fined in their cells and the use of the
corridor denied them. The jailer said
that he had whipped only one prison
er in three years. Sometimes prison
ers initiate new prisoners when they
are committed. Selected prisoners are
sometimes permitted to go into the
jail yard to cut wood. They are glad
to do it for the exercise it affords.
Special Notes.
The records of the prisoners kepi
in the jail book by Jailer Main are in
good shape and easily transcribsed.
The jailer, however, should amplify
the records of the prisoners to the
extent of noting in his jail book their
race, sex and age.
IV. Recommendations.
1 The county physician should be
paid for and required to make a phy
sical examination of all prisoners
when they are committed to the jail as
the first step toward establishing -the
practice of preventive medicine at the
Barnwell jail. Prisoners should be
vaccinated against smallpox and ty
phoid by the couq^r physician when
they are committed to jail.
Perhaps few people in Barnwell
County realize the magnitude of the
business done by Mr. C. F. Rizer, of
Olar, which is estimated by the Au
gusta Chronicle at $500,000 a year in
the following article, which will be
read with interest by the people of
this section: \
'•The Atsugua Week has brought to
the attentipn of Augusta, and in short
all over this country, a man in a little
town within seventy miles of Augusta
in South Carolina, on the Seaboard
Air Line Railway, who is one of the
largest merchants in the interior of
South Carolina and the largest be
tween Charleston and Augusta, be
tween Savannah and Columbia and
Augusta and Columbia. This man
lives in the little town of Olar, S. C.,
with a population of only a few hund
red, and is mayor of that towti, is a
leading citizen of that town, a leading
churchman, leading merchant, the
owner of a business that does $500,-
000 a year, the president of a bank, a
steward in the Methodist Church, and,
in short, Mr. C. F. Rizer is one of the
leading citizens of Barnwell County,
with a large business and hosts of
friends iw Barnwell, Bamberg and Col
leton CnuAties. 4
Mr. Rizer is strictly a self made
man.. He was born in Colleton, S. C.,
in 1869, and had a high school educa
tion at Sheridan School, Orangeburg,
Finally Yields to Solicitatioa ®f
Friends Throughout County.
Yielding to the requests of friends
from every section of Barnwell Coun
ty, Capt. George H. Bates, of this city,
has allowed them to announce his can
didacy for the State Senate, a card to
that effect being published elsewhere
in this issue.
Capt. Bates needs no introduction
to the people of this county. Since
the days of Reconstruction he has
taken a prominent place in the affairs
of the county and has been especially
active along educational lines. His
first entrance into politics was in 1895,
when he was elected to the Constitu
tional Convention, although he was
an Anti-Tillmanite and the Tillmaa-
ites were in the majority in this coun
ty. In 1904 he was elected to the
State Senate and was elected for a
second term without opposition. He
did not offer for reefection for a third
term. At present Capt. Bates is
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of
the Barnwell graded school, which of
fice he filled very acceptably for sever
al years prior to his election to the
Senate. If elected this summer he
will give the same loyal service
characterized his previous terms.
MAKES COTTON PROFITABLE.
W. B. Turner, of Ellenton, Sets
Kecord That's Hard to Best.
One of the most successful cotton
planters in the state—that is, from an
intensive point of view—is Mr. W. B
Turner of Ellenton, who some time
ago averaged two bales of cotton to
the acre on a 10-acre patch, realizing
on the whole a net profit of $1,170.
Following is a brief outline of the
preparation, cultivation and results
of the patch in question, the facts be
ing taken from "Southern Crops,” ed
ited by G. E. Hunnicut, and published
by the Cultivator Publishing
ing Company, of Atlanta. The out
line follows: %
December—Plowed - land up with 2-
horse turn plow. Followed in same
furrow with 2-horse subsoil plow.
February 1—Broadcasted 50 bush
els of green cottonseed per acre and
turned under with 2-horse turn plow.
March 20—Broadcasted 80 pounds
of 71% 5 meal mixture with ferti
lizer drill.
April 1—Laid off rows 5 feet wide,
and bedded out with 1-horse plow, and
bursted out middle with 2-horse mid
die burster.
April 10—Put out light spreading
of hot manure in furrows and then
put 800 pounds of guano on top of lot
manure, bedded an<T'planted
April 25—Ran weeder over cotton
twice, going dagonally across the
patch each time.
May 2—Chopped out cotton 12 inch
es apart, one stalk to the hill, plowed
cotton every two weeks.
JunelO—Applied 200 pounds of Ex
celsior Top Dresser 47% 2% to the
acre in the middle of every other row,
with distributor. 1
oners stay in their cells as there is no
hospital ward in the jail. The grand
jury visited the jail in November, 1915
II. The Jail.
The jail, erected in 1910, is a brick
building two stories high. The jailer
and his family occupy five rooms on
the first floor of the jail and two
rooms on the second floor. The jail
kitchen was in good condition on the
day of the visit.
On the first floor of the jail in a
room to the left of the prisoners’ en-
trfTiee there ip'a row of three cells.
Two of these cells are used for stor
age and in the other the jailer's negro
cook sleeps.
On the second floor of the jail in a
large room there is a block of six
cells, sepsrsted by s metal partition
into two groups of three each.
These cells were occupied on the
day of the visit by white and negro
male prisoners indiscriminately.
Sheriff Morris told me that as a rule
he kept the races separate in his jail,
even fitting up a room in the jailer's
quarters for white men whom he
could trust. It was his custom to give
white men whom he could not trust
cells to themselves in the block. He
said that he had found that his white
prisoners just before the visit were
planning a jail delivery, having pro
cured hack saws and made keys. Con
sequently, he separated them and put
negro prisonera in the cells with them
to watch them.
Jailer. Main said that the row of
cells in the room on the first floor
were intended for white female pris
oners but that'they were never used,
as he never had prisoners of this class.
Negro female prisoners are kept in
•the main cell room where they occupy
the corridor in the day time and are
locked in a cell to themselves at night
in the block.
The main cell room is adequately
ventilated by 8 windows whose ar
rangement admits of cross ventila
tion. The prisoners’ quarters are
heated by a stove and lighted by elec
tricity. The floor of the main cell is
of concrete. The prisoners’ quarters
were clean on the day of the visit.
HI. The Prisoners.
Prisoners whom the jailer thinks
have vermin on their persons are re
quired to bathe when committed and
annoit themselves with a verminicide.
Prisoners are not given a medical ex
amination when committed. Prisorf-
ers are required to bathe twice a week
while in jail. Two galvanized tubs
are kept for them in the jail. Rela
tives and friends, as a rule, bring -
Stale penitentiary to await triaf in-1
stead .of remaining in the jail. Pris- IG. •. . ,. , ,,
'week and hord Day. Mr. Rizer is
As«aciation not long aince called on
Mr. Rizer to interest him in Atsugua
oners wih tuberculosis can lie sent to |
the penitentiary and be cared for in
the tuberculosis hospital there at a
cost of 30 cents a day.
2 The three cells in the block on the
second floor of the jail should be used
for negro female prisoners.
3. Three of the cells in the block on
the second floor of the jail should be
reserved for white male prisoners and
used exclusively for them when the
number of negro male prisoners in
the jail ia low enough to permit quart-,
ering them in the other three cella
on the second floor of the jail. The
sheriff should continue to follow his
practice of giving such white male
prisoners as he feels will not try to
escape a room in the jailer’s quarters.
It ia the intent of thia recommenda
tion to secure, as far aa possible
quarters for white prisonera separate
and apart from those* of negro pris
oners so as to prevent'the evils which
may arise from the close, involun
tary association of the races in the
jail. The sheriff should instruct his
jailer to carry out the intent of this
recommendation as far as possible.
July 10—Applied 200 pounds morij clean c,othin K to the prisoners. If
of the same Top Dresser in the other P ri *8 ners are badly in need of cloth-
middles, making total of 2,000 pounds ing ’ the Jai,er borrows smts of con-
of fertilizer to each acre.
Results.
Gathered g2 bales of lint cotton
victs’ stripes from'the supervisor for
them to wear in jkil.
The- food for the prisoners is pre-
Chas. E. Falkenstem,
k . • Postmaster.
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- The Barnwell County Executive
Committee will meet at the Court
House, here at 10 o’clock Monday
morning, the 15th mst.
from 10 acres, average weight of bale,' P ared b y a netfro “trusty” convict pro-
500 pounds. .. . ’ vided by the supervisor, on the recom-
Sold cotton and seed from each mendation of the grand Jury. The
acre for r.8183.00 dieting fee in Barnwell County is' 30"'
Total expense per acre, includ- cents a day. On the day of the visit
jng everything. Ho-OC P ! ’* soners ’ b 'll of fare was given
- X as: Breakfast—hominy, frig<| bacon.
'Not proceeds per acre": ..$117 no ir'rrfvy. gNMBd; Dinner-rice, gra-
• •, . vy, boiled bacon..cornbread; Supper—r
Mr, and Mrs. Robt. A. Easterling none served. - -J
esme down from Union last week fot ■ The hygienic facilities in the pris-
s visit to relatives-and friendk here, oaers* quarters coqsist of a lavatory
Mr. E&terling returned home Friday **>d commode in each corridor of the
night but his wife will remain w the block and m the room on the first
city several Keek■ floor eontainihg the three unused cells.
• Barnwell County Almshouse.
Visited March 20, 1916,, by A. D.
Oliphant with Superintendent Owens.
Located just outside of Barnwell about
a mile from-the court house.
I. Administration.
The almshouse is in charge of Mr.
Allen Owens who became superintend
ent on January 3, 1916. He receives
a salary of $15 a month and hires his
own cook. The county physician is
Dr. A. B. Patterson. He comes to the
almshouse practically every week to
see the inmates and is subject to
call between visits. Sick paupers stay
in their rooms.
No records of the inmates are kept
by the superintendent.
Some interest is taken locally in the
almshouse inmates. Visitors some
times bring them food.
II. The Almshouse
The almshouse farm consists -of
about 20 acres of poor land on which
corn, cotton and vegetables are plant
ed. The superintendent, his wife and
family of 7 live in a five room one-
story frame house, lighted by jamps
and heated by fireplaces.
I At the almshouse there are eight
2-room one story frame houses in such
TOTIdTtion that they are habitable.
Practically every one of these houses
is in neqjJ o^genecal repairs. The in
terior walls of the rooms are unplas
tered and the rooms are ceiled with
rough boards. The windows and doprs
of the rooms are not screened. As a
rule the rooms are equipped withj one
double bed. The bedding consists of
mattresses, quilts; blankets, sheet!
and pilliws. There are no sashes in
the windows of the Inmates’ houses.
— HI. The Inmates.——
j never too busy to give audience to a
drummer or listen to a business prop
osition. It only took Mr^ Rizer ten
minutes after talking about Atsugua
Week and the fire in Augusta to de
cide that he would work up a crowd of
Fords from Barnwell County to come
to Augusta and participate in Atsu
gua Week ami specially on Ford Day—
Wednesday, May 10th. It ia too early
yet to prediet who wiM he the winners
of the prizes offered for the county
having the largest number of ma
chines in line, but it is generally con
ceded that the winner will have to go
some to beat the aggregation that Mr.
Rizer will bring. The manner in
which Mr. Riser has enterad the At
sugua competition ia characteristic of
the man. He is aelf made, and that he
has worked well and stands high ia the
concensus of opinon in find around
Olar, Barnwell. Bamberg, Colleton,
Allendale, etc.
Not only is Mr. Rizer the biggeat
merchant in that section, but stands in
the front ranks of the merchanta of
South Carolina. Whether banking, in
merchandising or public welfare work
or in church activity and help.
By His Own Merit.
What Mr. Rizer has accomplished
hjts been done solely by hit own merit
and the loving Jielp extended by~i de
C. A. BEST. ESQ, DEAD.
Well Known BaraweM Lawyer Paeead
Awey ia Columbia Yesterday.
The many friends of C. A. Beat, Faq,
were shocked to hear of hta death, -
which occurred at an early hour yea-
terday iWedaeadayi morning at a haa-
pital in Columbia, following an opera
tion on Monday. News of Mr. Heat's
condition on Tuesday was not at all
reassuring and his death was not nn^
expected. .The body was brought to
Barnwell yesterday morning, but at the
time The People went to preaa the
funeral arrangements had not bees
announced. ' *
Mr Best is survived by his wife, who
was Miss Leila Pate, three sons, three
brothers and Iwoststers He was born
in the lower part of tha county, bat
had made Barnwell his home for many
yean. He was loyal tot friend ana for
giving to an enemy, and by hie mealy
traits of character won many
all walks of life. In his death the
reaved family has lost a devoted I
a kind and indulgent father, the State
an upright citizen. Hundreds today
have cause for regret that the big heart
of a fnend has ceased to beat “Aflar
life’s fitful fever he sleeps” but the
memory of his kindly acts will reamta
to smooth the rugged pathway of thaaa
left behind. * •
The People joins with boats of other
friends in extending heartfelt sympa
thy to the grief-stricken wife and three
little boys. May the God who tempera
the wind to the shorn lamb soften the
blow that has fallen on them.
voted wife and helpmate. Though on-
ly 45 years of age and in the prime of
life, he towers'among his fellows a
giant in prosperity and accomplish
ment. Just as physically he lifts his
head above the average man.
Lack of means prevented his getting
a college education after he had com
pleted the course at Sheridan High
School, Orangeburg, for though he
longed to take the higher branches of
schooling, conditions made it neces
sary that he begin life’s commercial
struggles without them.
Fortunately he married early in life
a good woman, intelligent, devoted and
true, who has ever been his counsellor
and assistant in his ambitious plans.
She was of a fine Carolina family. Miss
Carrie Jones, of Bamberg, and to
them have been born three daughters
and a son who gives promise of being
a worthy successor to his father.
In the Million Class.
Today Mr. Rizer is doing a general
merchandise business of over $500,000
annually, making him one of the lead
ing merchants of the South, though
this is but one branch of his activities.
Since 1891, when he started in this
line with practically no capital and on
ly his own great abilities as assets, he
has been steadily advancing by will,
grit and determination until today he
occupies an eniviable position through
out this section. As a dealer in liver-,
stock he is one of the largest in Car
olina and Olar, and he is o^ner of two
banks—one at Olar and the .other at
■fctKtsre:
Tn agricultural implements
he deals immensely, his supply 1 store
being jenown to farmers and planters
over a wide area, many of whom will
The method of admitting paupers
to the almshouse is not. well defined.
Paupers are not required to bathe
when admitted nor are they given a *Tuy
medical examination then. Clothing
ip provided for them by the superin
tendent.
All except three of the inmates do
Immense Ford Trade.
Hu distribution of Ford r»r« i« ah
instance of how he worts. Having
BIG PURCHASE OF COTTOH.
Over 300 Bales Bought by J. A. Parter.
of Barnwell, Last Week.
Whatia, without doubt, the largeat
purchase of spot cotton ever made aa
the local market was made here* hat
week when J. A. Porter bought erer
three hundred bales. The prire area
on a basis of 12 cents for
the transaction representing
than $17,000. Mr. Porter is c
the most progressive buyers a
Barnwell market and purchases
ands of bales annually.
Announce Engagement
Allendale, May 6.—Dr. and Mrs. J.
Allen Patterson of Beaufort anoouam
the engagement of their daughter, laa-
belle Coroneus, to Merrient Williams
Potter of New York city. The mar
riage will be solemnized about the
middip of June.
tributing point, though it ia a flour
ishing and a fine little place, destined
to great growth and prosperity. Mr.
Rizer is the kind of maq who mahaa
the public beat a path to his door. On
ly a-little over two years ago he toak
the Ford agency, and in that time ha
has sold more than 1,100 of the busy
little hiistlers, and this year alone he
will jhyose of more than 600. The
trouble is' hot with his selling them
fast enough, but of getting them to
sell. With him the demand always ex
ceeds the supply, though on one oc
casion he received in one shipment a
trainload of eighteen cats.
This man is coming to Augusta with
a great string of Ford cars which he
h Imsrir Mr wW^TwiricE-isTSS^-
testimonial of his ability, as in another
Every
Uaniy, of Detroit
should hunt up Mr. Riser and thank
him for. the part he will play in tha
procured the agency he went about
the(r «»n cooking at the. fireplaces in j making it the biggest of its kind.
roams. TV superintendents J Olar is not the place the ordinary man [ week’s festivities, for he will be __
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