The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, July 13, 1916, Image 1
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AIRFAX COPS ANOTHER.
Banurdl Lost Friday, But Worn from
Deamark Tuesday Afternoon.
COURT CONVENED MONDAY
Grand. Jury. Returned. Many. True
Bills.—Cases Disposed of.
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The Fairfax team won its fourth
straight game from Barnwell Friday
afternoon on the local diamond by the
decisive score of 10 to 1. The game
was featured throughout by errors
on the part of the Barnwell players,
the local pitchers receiving extreme
ly poor support. It was one of tho$e
games about which the least said is
the best. The following is the box
score.
Barnwell.
AB. R. H. PO. A. E
Riley, T. 2b rf ... 4 0 0 2 1 0
Best, ss, p, 2b 4 0 1 2 3 2
Brown, rf, p 3 0 2 1 0 0
Bronson, 8b __ __ 4 0 0 1 2 0
Robison, c 4 0 1 6 2 1
Pate, p, ss 4 0 0 0 12 0
Huggins, lb 4 1 1 15 0 3
Simms, cf 4 0 1 0 0 1
Riley, O, If 3 0 0 0 0 3
Totals 34 1 6 27 20 10
Fairfax.
AB. R. H. PO. A. E
-. 5 0 2 10 0
Rivers.. _.
Youmans ..
Fennell, C
Smith _. .
Preacher ..
1
2
1
3
0
2
0
1
1 15
0 2
10
0
2
.4
0
0
Totals 36 10
Scoore by inning-a:
'.<■■■' HliJWBL 1 „ r.’Ttoo 100
Fairfax y->9 2n 220
8 27 23
2.
000—1
130—10
Hits by innings:
Barnwell 031 000 020—6
Fairfax 021 200 030—8
Batteries: Barnwell—Pate, Best,
Brown and Robison; Fairfax—You
mans and Rivers. Umpire Turner
Scorer Dr. J. G. Wooley.
Bamberg Blaaka Fairfax.
Bamberg, July 6.—In a snappy
game here today the locals shut out
Fairfax, leaden of the Bamberg
Barnwell County League, 5 to 0. The
pitching of Rowell and a triple play
started by Rents in the aixth inning
were among the featurea. This is the
tint game Fairfax has lost. The
score:
Fairfax 0 7
Bamberg 5 6
Batteries: Barker, Youmans
Riven; Rowell and Connor.
and
Barnwell Defeata Fairfax.
The Court of General Sessions con
vened here Monday morning with
Judge Hayne F. Rice, of Aiken, pre
siding. Considerable time was con
sumed in the trial of Juran Dunbar,
charged with murder. The following
is a list of the cases disposed of:
Elvin Platts pleaded guilty to the
charge of violating the dispensary
law and was sentenced to pay a fine
of flOO and serve six months on the
chain gang or in the penitentiary;
upon payment of the fine, the balance
of the sentence except a term of 60
days is suspended during good be-
lavior. •
True Bilb.
The following true bills have been
found by the Grand Jury:
Joe Mims, murder.
Robert Williams, housebreaking
and larceny.
Robert Robinson, disposing of crop
under lien. «.
Sam Taylor,' entering house with
intent to steal and larceny.
Will Gruber, burglary and larceny.
Frank Owens, housebreaking and
larceny. #
Frank Owens, burglary and lar
ceny.
Ossie Williams and Freddie Wil
liams, assault and battery with intent
to kill and carrying concealed weap
ons and pointing firearms.
Frank Owens, housebreaking and
larceny.
DEMOCRATS, ENROLL!
Doubtless there are some people who are not ffilly advised as to
the requirements for voting in the primary. The fact that a man
placed his name on the club rolls in 1914 does not entitle him to vote
this year. He must enroll again and each election year thereafter.
The club books are now in the hands of the secretaries and it would
be best to enroll now in order that the secretaries will not be over
worked at the last moment.
CANDIDATES HERB TUESDAY. UNVEILING AT MT. CALTAMC,
Bi-ennial Circus to Come to Baruwell
After Tea Days’ Root'
After a rest of ten days, the State | Special to The People,
campaign party will reach Barnwell. Blackville, July 1.—There
Tuesday morning, at which time the quite an interesting meeting.i
voters of the county will be given an I Calvary Church oij Saturday «
GOVERNOR OR RULER?
Do the People of South Carolina
Want to Rule or to Be Ruled?
Here is one kind of State govern
ment:
ROAD CLOSED, ARRESTS FOLLOW
Clerk of Court Swears Out Warrants
Against Six Barnwell Men.
The matter of enclosing the Court
House Square with a fence, thereby
The chief executive attends to his closing the road that now divides the
business as prescribed by law. He county property and Calhoun Park,
allows the Legislature to legislate, took on added interest Monday after
using the Veto only in extraordinary noon, when temporary obstructions
cases. He does not quarrel with the were placed across the road at two
supreme court or make issues be
tween himself and thejudges. His
efforts are to build up and strengthen
the National Guard. The law pro
vides for the appointment of a par
don board to advise him about par
dons and commutations. He takes
for granted that the people meant
that this board should be heeded, that
it is their board or that they would
not have created it. This chief ex
ecutive does not proclaim his great
ness.
Barnwell defeated Fairfax on the
local diamond Tuesday afternoon,
to 2. The visitors were unable to
score until the last inning, although
runners reached third base several
times. Brown was given excellent
support. The score:
Denmark i 2 6 3
— , “ 11 — 1 " "T
with intent~to TlIH and carrying con
cealed weapons. - i
Violation of the dispensary law:
Elvin Platts, Martin Christopher, Bill
Snelling, Tom Smith, M. E. Brunson,
B. J. Brown, Willie Gailyard, Ulie
Garnet, Ephriam Ferguson, Mary
Hazel.
Violation of the prohibition law: D.
H. Gelzer, Josephine Bradley, Mrs. C.
E. Priester, Gallic Dicks, Joe Stoney,
John Keel, Lawyer Binion, Elie Brax
ton, Paul Sanders, Raymond Harvey,
Wilkins Dortch, Albert Charlton, Na
than Gregory, Sherman Brown, James
Bryant, Mary Gardner, Brooks Kirk
land.
B. Wilson, larceny from dwelling.
R. F. Anderson, breach of trust
with fraudulent intent.
Robt Coleman, forgery.
H. D. Calhoun, Louis Simmons, R.
S. Dicks, Bob. Anderson. Primus Ja
cobs and Junius Patterson, obstruct
ing public highway.
Extra Venire.
The following extra venire of petit
jurors was drawn Monday: Ira
Black, B. Mazursky, W T . D. Harley, G.
M. Sheppard, L. S. Still and R. L.
Peacock.
Baturins: Baxter and Able; Brown
and Robison. Umpire, Turner.
Denmark defeated Bamberg Friday
moon, 9 to 6.
amberg scored its second shut-out
gainst fhe Fairfax team Tuesday af
ternoon, 2 to 0.
A'
Where They Play.
at
Tuesday, July 18: Bamberg
Barnwell; Denmark at Fairfax.
Friday, July 21: Barnwell at Bam
berg; Fairfax at Denmark.
Among those who announce for the
office of County Commissioner in this
a } issue of-The People are Capf. 07 W.
Barker, of Seiglingville, and Mr.
George W. Jenny, of Fairfax, Route
No. 2. Capt. Barker is well and fav
orably known to the voters through
out the county, having served them
as Supervisor for two terms some
years ago, during which time he dis
charged his duties in a capable, .eco
nomical manner.
Mr. Jenny is a young man who has
made a success of his own business—
that of farming—and feels that he is
fitted to handle the affairs of the
county in a businesslike manner. He
is a member of the county board of
equalization and has a wide circle of
friends throughout the county.
STANDING OF THE CLUBS
Barnwell—Bamberg County League.
Won Lost P. C.
Fairfax 7 2
Bamberg =. 6 3
Barnwell 4 6
Denmark 1 7
.777
.625
.444
.125
News from Lyndhurit.
Special to The People.
Lyndhurst, July 8.—Misses Carey
. Rice and May Simms and the Misses
McNab, of Barnwell, and Miss Mary
Howard, of Savannah, motored down
^ -from BiTftwett on baburday, spencf-
ing a few hours with friends.
Miss Jessie Fowke left this week
for Estill, wjiere she will qpend some
time with her sunt, Mrs. K. B. Us-
sery.
Mrs. R. Marion Hay left on Thurs
day for McPhersonville, Charleston
other- points.
The ladies of the church gave an
cream festival Saturday, the pro-
M IHHW
For County Commissioner.
placet. Following this action on the
part of the representatives of the
Civic League, "W. H. Duncan swore
out warrants against Harry D. Cal
houn, R. Stanley Dicks, Lewis Sim
mons, Junius Green, Primus Jacobs
and Bob Anderson, the last three of
whom are negroes, charging them
with obstructing a public highway.
The warrants were served Tuesday
morning and bail was granted in the
sum of $200 each, which was readily
r-j 1 *. ^. J T,. fL . i-f-T
feat TT TftTV eRNok. ttic N wtTT be recalled That permission
was granted by a former board of
county commissioners and the town
Making Good.
Mr. George W. Armstrong, son of
Treasurer J. B. Armstrong, of Barn
well, and a graduate of Clemson Col
lege, has been elected instructor in
botany and bacteriology at Clemson
for one year to substitute for Mr. D.
B. Rosencrans, to whom the board of
trustees granted one year’s leave of
absence for further study. Mr. Arm
strong, who is at present an instruc
tor at the University of Wisconsin,
declined the position.
A Sane Celebration.
The Fourth was celebrated at the
home nf Mr. J. S, Creech (known-aa
“Uncle Jimmy”) by about 80 people,
most of whom were children, grand
children and great-grand-children. A
bountiful dinner was served and hear
tily enjoyed by all present. “Uncle
Jimmy” went through the Confed
erate war and looks extremely young
for a man of his age* ,
A Guest.
word “governor” to him means a civil
officer selected by the people to per
form certain duties defined in the
laws that the people have made. He
does not imagine that “governor”
means “RULER.” He is quite willing
that the people rule—through officers
chosen to enforce the people’s laws
and do no more. This kind of execu
tive it no caar or kaiaer—He does not
regqrd the people as his "children"
or hfs wards. The people are his
principal; he is their agent. The peo
ple are his master; he is their serv
ant. He is no more their boas than
the president of a bank is the boss of
the stockholders.
This is the kind of a governor that
a free people want and will have. A
free people will have no RULER.
They will themselves rule.
Another kind of executive magni
fies his office. He stretches the laws
in the statute books and reads into
them strange, new meanings that
tend to exalt HIMSELF. By issuing
pardons by the hundred he impresses
the people with his power. “I am
GOV’ERNOR; look at ME—see what
I CAN DO,” h<- say» in substance; “I
am not a hired man doing as I am
told to do by YOUR little laws; I am
your GOVERNOR, your RU1ER,
your BOSS and you are pleased, you
are DELIGHTED to behold at last
frone -wbo-iu GOVRRNOR—'WhtrxBbWi
mercy as a prince would show it to
his friends or his favorites, and whose
enemies had better BEWARE!”
This is the kind of executive that
a people not fit to be their own gov
emors ought to 'have and will have—
whether they' be the people of South
Carolina, Kentucky or other State
A people who are not selfreliant, who
are (J e P en dent, who can not make
laws and make the executives obey
them, should have a GOVERNER
spelled with capital letters, one in
whose strutting they take pleasure
one they acknowledge to be greater
and better than themselves, one who
they think confers distinction by call
ing them by their first names and
shaking their hands, one who rules
them because he is GOVERNOR. Peo
ple who want to be RULED should
have a RIJLER and once they get
him they should keep him, electing
him GOVERNOR term after t§rm,
acknowledging that all other men are
like themselves weak, dependent on
one. v
If the people of South Carolina are
not fit to rule, they should find one
council of Barnwell to close the road
for the purpose of making a park,
but the present board, at a recant
meeting, revoked the order of the
former commissioners. Considerable
interest is being manifested and the
outcome will be watched with inter-
4.
DIED IN AUGUSTA.
Mrs. Adalphus Grubbs Passed Away
at Uaiversity Hospital.
Sk,
The many friends throughout Gsor
gia and Carolina of- Mr. and Mrs.
Adolphus Grubba of Williston, S. C.
will be greatly distressed to leafti o7
the death of Mrs. Grubbs, which oc
curred Tuesday at noon at the Uni
opportunity to hear the claims of the
various office-seekers. During the
present hill in the campaign the can
didates will probably spend their time
stumping the Piedmont section of the
State, wherein lives the largest num
ber of voters.
If the weather permits, the meet
ing here will be held in “The Circle,”
with Chairman W. A. All, of Allen
dale, presiding.
The last meeting held prior to the
ten days’ rest was at Aiken. It is
said to have been very quiet, in con
tradistinction to those of two and
four years ago, when turbulent
scenes were the order of the day.
With the possible exceptioon of An
derson, the campaign party has been
greeted with marked apathy at ev
ery meeting. The crowds have baen
small and the people seem to be
verse to stirring up factional bitter
ness. This is ss it should be. The
original intention of the campaign
was to provide a means for candi
dated to reach the voters, not to stir
up strife, although s certain class of
politicians have used it for that pur
pose.
(Political Advertisement.)
ftni gmnir^
Candidate Tells Why He Has Entered
the Race for Commi
Interesting- Servfaea.
Saturday ef Last Week.
Editor of The People.
I with to state to the voters of
Barnwell County, Urough the col
umns of your paper, thet at the seli-
citation of many friends I have de
cided to put myself before the people
for the office of Coonty Commission
er. Like other young men, it is in
me to want to aspire to do something
more for myself and for others all
the time. I can’t say that to be elec
ted to the office would be altogether
an honor or a financial gain. Of
course, it would be an honor to my
self to feel that I had conducted my
life up to now to be able to be honor
ed and trusted by the people of Bern-
well County if elected.
I wish to state that I feel that I can
versity Hospital after an illness of | • #rv * on th « bo * rd l» a way
eight weeks.
Mrs. Grubbs was brought to the
hospital in a serious condition hop
ing that surgical treatment might
save her life. Everything that medi
cal skill and devoted nursing could
accomplish was done, but she has
been gradually sinking for the past
two weeks the end finally coming yes
terday. The body has been taken to
Williston where the funeral services
will be held today.
- Mrsi Ombbs was befui e'her^mar-
riage Miss Emma Sprawls of Willis
ton. About twelve years ago she was
married to Mr. Adolphus Grubbs, of
Williston, where she has lived ever
since. She was a very lovely and
lovable woman and her loss to those
of her family is irreparable. A wide
circle of devoted friends also mourn
her untimely death just in the prime
of womanhood. She is survived by
her husband, two sisters, Mrs. Wil
liam Walsh of Williston and Mrs. Sid
ney Powell, two brothers Messrs. Wi
ley and Laurie Sprawls, to all of
whom the sincerest sympathy of their
friends is extended in this their hour
of bereavement.—Augusta Chronicle
5th inst.
that will command the respect of all
good people, for I know only one
way to do and that ia to be honest
and straight in all things, and that
is the only promise I would make in
this race; namely, that if elected I
will do what lies in my power to fi
nance the county and to do some good
while in office.
My business won’t allow me to take
the time to canvass the county and
see the people, but I believe I have
friends all, over tha county that
The People ia indebtad to Mr. W.
gai tt
to be their RULER in all years and
for all time.—The State.
Funeral at Williston.
J. L. Box for Commissioner.
Jibe, office of County Commissioner
is growing in popularity, a number of
candidates having already announced
there being rumors of others to fol
low. Elsewhere in this issue will be
found the card of Mr. J. Lawton Box,
of Bull Pond township. Mr. Box is a
progressive farmer of the lower sec
tion of the county and numbers his
friends by the score. If elected be
promises the people to discharge his
Williston, July 6.—Mrs. D. A
Grubbs, who had been sick for sev
eral weeks, died in the hospital in
Augusta Tuesday evening. The body
was. brought to Williston Wednesday
morning and buried in the Williston
Cemetery at 4 P. M.
rubbs and her husband ha<
been running the Williston Hotel
since its completion in February, in
fact they were the owners of the
hotel. Several weeks since she was
taken with an attack of appendicitis
to a hospital
she was operated on for the trouble
and everything possible done to save
her life.
Mrs. Grubbs is survived by the fol
lowing brothers and bisters: Mrs.
Fred Powell, Mrs. M. P. Walsh, Mr.
Laurie and Wiley Sprawls, all of
Williston and vicinity.
week, when the photographs ef al
the ministers that have
the church were unveiled. Each:
liter was represented by a
man.
Relatives of all of the
ministers were present In Gw ab
sence of Mr. P. S. Usaery, the Mm.
J. J. Ray was represented by Mr. CL
W. Hutson. Mr. Ray founded ML
Calvary Church in 1866, with s i
bership of about 15, and ftllad
pit until 1866. He was a maa af
strong convictions sod always had a
good message for the people of Mb
congregation. He
iaatk over hia church work,
ing most of hia tiam among the i
here and looking after their
The Rev. J. J.Getsinger
represented by Mr. Hutson. He waa
called to the church in 1868 aai
served aa its pastor until 1871. Me.
Hutson described him as being a ama
of high ambitions. He wi
ed when a mere boy and
ly entered upon his ministerial at
ies. After serving his country
three years in the War Betwssa
Sctions, he answered the call
Christ to the pulpit in 1816.
preached the gospel for forty ym
during which
leton County and ending hia
Spartanburg County ia 1906.
The Rev. J. 8. Matthews waa asp*
resented by Mr. Joe Hair. Mr. Mat
thew* was called to the church ia
1871 and served until 1879. He waa
a man of exceptional talents aai waa
ever faithful to the Lord’s wer^ ba
in g st all times ready to assist agff
one in need of Us een4sss. Oa a»>
count of ill health he was feme* 8a
retire from the ministry.-to 1878 aai
was confined to his horns for soeural
years prior to his death.
The Bov. J. D.
nted by Mr. ColHne.
to the church ia 1879 and has i
the church up to the prsasat tisMi MM
Peacock is loved by sO who tea
church work. Ho spends Ms mMm
time looking after the aeafe af MM
congregation and is duo great aaMM
for the advancement of Mt. Calvary
Church. .
After the servicee the coagregatMa
retired to the grove, where the Wo
men's Missionary Union aervad a
bountiful dinner, after which a swah-
ing of the Union waa bald ia the
school house, where a vary IsdM^
cstbig program waa rendered. BreMt-
ers Peacock and Sam Matthews na-,
ponded, both of whom stade
ing talks, encouraging tha
keep up the good work.
me and I expect to leave it entirely
with them. If I had the time to do
so I would refrain from going around
face to face with every man and ask
ing his support, for I think a man’s
record and past life ought to be what
we should look at and not his fluent
and gossiping words. I am young
and can truthfully say that what I
have got, though it may not be much,
has been gotten by hard work and
honest dealing. Certainly we all
have our trouble and some say we
have our enemies, but I trust I have
no enemies, but I know there will be
people who will find something to
keep from voting for me. Some may
have political reasons where we have
differed in the past and others some
thing else, but I wish to state to one
and all what I have done and am still
trying to do is actuated by honest
convictions and I would ask all those
who might want to kick me for doing
such to use their own judgment and
investigate before they kick me.
I also wish to state that I have not
a word to say against the present
members of the bosrd. All of them
Mrs. W. L KITCHINGS DEAD.
Estimable
Wamaa Died
Urn July 6th.
Mias Sallie Pat* lift for Burling-
N. C., Fridai
I believe to be high-toned gentlemen
and all my friends. Especially so is
one of them—Capt. N. M. Walker. I
have known him all my life and know
him | to be a man above reproach,
and also wish to state that vt could
men to fill thfs~ office
in some ways than Capt Walker, but
I feel certain that 1 can do fully as
1 good as he has done and promise to
do just a little more if I am elected.
Thanking one and all for what they
may see fit do do in my behalf, I am
to aerve, -
J. L. Box.
wind and rain storm passed over
Special to'The People.
Williston, July 10.—On July. Mk,
just as day was dawning, the anpM
of death entered our home and teak
my dear wife from me to" carry hm
to a place of eternal rest Though M
is hard to bear, still I know bar aof-
fering, which was intense, has ceased
and she slumbers sweetly in the shad
ow of God’s wings.
She waa 49 years, 4 months aad It
days old, and had been a memat
dt. Calvary Church for many yean.
She was a dear companion and wfftr
tionate mother. Oh! how our haasto
ache when we think that we can aasar
see that loving face again on tMa
earth, but we hope to meet egaia
where there will be no more pel* sr
death to separate us. How sad ear
old home is now, that was once aa
happy and bright. Oh! to flnk
sweet voice we
heard no more. But God knows best
for the Lord giveth sod the Lecd tafc*
eth, Messed be the name at Me LeHL
She leaves s deer aad loving hat
band, one son, Mr. Ernest Kitdridp^
one daughter, Mrs. Oars Givens, and
three grandsons and
dsugliteff~£nd~a Iwst
relatives to mourn
funeral service was conducted by Mm-
Rev. J. D. Peacock at Mt Calvary
Church, where she was laid ts reat |y
her baby daughter, Mrs. Danis MM-
ehell. '
We know she is at rsst and Bps
from every pain. Wa da sat grissa
for her as lost for we kaepg wa sMI