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I i i ‘Just Like a Member of the Family” OLUME XL. BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA; THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1917. NUMBER 26. COURT CONVENES FEBRUARY 26TH JUDGE FRANK B. GARY OF AB-I beville Will preside. -J- Old Cases, With the Exception of Docket Is Said to Be Not Very Heavy.- -- The Spring: term' of the Court of General Sessions for Barnwell County H convene next Monday, the 26th inst., ^rith Judge Frank B. Gary, of Abbeville^residing. With the excep tion of cases continued from previous terms,, it is understood thafe^he dock et for the approaching term is not as heavy as usual. Grand and petit ju- rojrs have been drawn as followi ... Grand Jurors. . The following grand jurors have been drawn for the coming year: Jud- son J. Rountree, Geo. D. Kirkland, Bennett Springs; P. G. Eubanks, W. S. Grubbs, George’s Creek; L. R. Free, Sr., L. P. Boylston, Clyde Boyl- ston, Blackville; W. G. Kearse, W. B. Oswald, Allendale; M. L. Middleton, Hull Pond; C. F. Molair, Barnwell;* L. t yrant, Sycamore. . * 1 ' First Week Jurors. Ulendale—G. M. Barker, John oge, S. B. Bannetb, R. K. Fennell, H. W. All, W. A. Chavous, J. M. Grin er, W. H. Googe. Baldock—L. O. Behnett, I..T. Har din. WORK PERFORMED BY LEGISLATURE Or. W.T, S. Culp.— power ^ in,,. ating and interpreting ideals. A student of great themes and a speaker of tremendous force and prophetic vl- don. ▲ master of brilliant satire. 5 • WINS by single vote. House Passed Bill Extending Chief Game Warden’s Term of Office. After a hard fight into which the question of factionalism was more than once injected, the House of Rep resentatives Saturday afternoon pass ed oh third reading the game warden bill, which as amended takeffrom the Audubon Society the duty of recom Barnwell—A. J. Owens, J. G. Moody I mending the chief game warden, puts Jr., G. W. Halford, J. B. Morris, Jr. the question in the general election Bennett Spring*—H. E. Johnson, D. an 4 retains the present warden untl H, Glover, J. T. Duncan, J. J. Drum- th « of 1918. VERY LITTLE RADICAL LEGIS- / , ' . . • •’ ’ A* " I.ATtOhL-PAgREIL Liberal Towards Education, Especially V. Public Schools.—Highway Commission Act. ' The people of* the State, naturally, are asking what has the General As sembly accomplished at this ■ session. Very little radical or far-reaching leg islation will find its way on the statute books. * By far the most overshadowing and generally • important work _ was the adoption of the scries of bills pro posed by the Manning Fire Insurance Commission. . It is not to be argued whether the insurgent companies were justified in withdrawing from the State after the passage of the Laney- Odom Act. The fact is that the insur ing public was met with a condition and not a .theory and the general As sembly with the full endorsement of Governor Manning did absolutely ev erything that was thought necessary to insure the return of the withdraw ing companies. Several bills were pre sented and suggested by the commis sion and of. this number all of them were enacted into law with the excep tion of the one that related to the valued policy clause, which it was thought would only complicate the sit- BEGIN TO RAISE PURE BRED STOCK EAGER TO ESTABLISH WORK ON LARGER SCALE. Home Demonstration Agent Says Uni form Products Will Command Much Better Prices. Besides the canning dub and Home Demonstration Club Work, We are trying this year to get a good start in the raising of pure bred poultry. Of course, quite a number of people of Barnwell County are already engaged in this work, but we are eager to get the work established on a larger scale and are eager that it be more wide spread in our county. If we can get pure bred stock it will mean that we will have uniform' pro ducts and for tftese Uniform products we can secure better prices. - I want to ask a favor of those peo ple who now have pure bred chickens. I want each person who now hak some pure bred poultry to send me his name and address and to state (1) kind of chickens he has and (2) wheth er or not he will have eggs to sell. I want to get this information so that I CAN’T SUP FROM I WEEVIL DISTRICT B P I omh comefl t0 the Cbautao- • • • k.ainO q U1 splendidly fitted by education and'training to handle mod ern truths In a.forceful and striking manner. He Invests the so called ev eryday things of life with a new bean- ty and sacredn WILL BE GREAT DAY. Every School in the County Should ^ Make Its Best Showing March 30. mond, C. H. Delk, J. H. Sweat. Blackville—E. L. Martin, L. C. Still, L. R. Free, Jr., N. Blatt, C. J. Fick- ling, B. P. Boylston, H. L. Buist. Bull Pond—W. L. Best. Great Cypress—W. L. Shepherd, T. R. Harley,. W. P. Morris, Jr. Red Oak—J. P. Harley, Sr. * Sycamore—O. D' Allen, Jr., S. E. Bailey. Williston—M. C. Kitchings, J. A. Latimer. Second Week Jurors. * Allendale—J. C. Spann. Baldock—S. P. Hewlett. Barnwell—W. F. Holmes, H. R. Morris, P. W. Price, Angus Patter- •on, S* B. Carroll, J. H. Black, W. D. Harley, L. M. Calhoun, J. H. Lancas ter. Bennett Springs—W. J-. Harley, C. B. Ellis, Jr. , Blackville—F. W, D?lk, Virgil Bax ley, S. M. Hankinson, L. J. Baughman, H. D. Still, Butler Bodiford, Cleveland Kemp. Bull Pond—J. H. Harley, G,- H. Bryan. J. A. Gray, T. O. Lawton, Jr. George’s Creek-—J. A. Morris, F. D. Rowell, J. J. Tucker.'- Rosemary—J. E. Hair. • Sycamore—J. B. Augley, L. W. All, T. J. Weekley, J. M. Brant. Williston—J. ,W. Wachter, F. H. Hiers, F. T. Merritt, P. S. Ussery. Third Week Jurors. * « ^Allendale—J. J. Owens, John W. A.th, C. Rt Wilson, B. F. Barker. ^^Baldoc—J. R. Harley, F. T* McLin, R. A. Ashe. Barnwell—L. W. Weathersbee, S. J. Keel, W. O. Halford, F\ W.zFalken stein, A. E. Hartin. The largest and most interested shall be able to tell the boys and girls I crowd assembled in Barnwell for ten where they may secure eggs to be- years was on Friday, March 31st, 1916. gin their work. . * ^ The occasiorv was the first annual Field To my knowledge, Jerusha Week*, I D »y of the white schools of BarnweU Bifl Ray and Mr, Heckle, all of Heal- Uo»n‘y- Somehow it waa superior \ ** »•» •*-«} * the “valued nolicy” Ww which waa de- 1 that from them may be cu>e * anJ campaign days rolled into the \alued pol.c) aw wh.ch waa de | ^ from ^ the Rh(j<le u _ ow . From sUrt to ftnigh ther , w , ln - t Blackville—E. J. Allen, M. B. Whit- ’governor of South Carolina was try- tie, Cr R. Boylston, W. B. Johnston, J. F. Still, Johr Kemp, Herman Brown. • Bull Pond—J. A. Rouse. Great Cypress—G. M. Good$on, G. J. Diamond, G. S. Boynton. Red Oak-^T.-B. Eljis, Jr.,. C. D. Fowkei W. TL Se&y. — Rich Und—C. W Wall Rosemary—Bryant Sprawls,. H. C. Hair, J. W. Folk. ^ -sr————7 Sycamore—J. W. Goodson, W. N. John, G. M. Loadhnlt. Williston—T. M. Miller, W. H. Hair, H. C. Mitchell. — , sired by the fire insurance interests. There was no evidence of opposition in either the House or Senate to the desire to have the withdrawing com panies return to -do business in this State and the General Assembly, fig uratively speaking, could not have done more than to have passed a resolu tion of apology. If mischief was done by the passage of the Laney-Odom Act it has been completely undone by the enactments at this session of the Gen eral Assembly. Perhaps the next most important matter was the universal ex pression of approval of the permanent highway development in South Clro- lina. Spartanburg County alone voted, without a referendum, to undertake a million dollars* worth of permanent road work in that County alone. A dozen other counties followed this ex ample and during the year of 1917 there will be millions and not a few dollars expended on the permanent road work "of South Carolina. • To insure the permanency and the cooperation of both the federal and State authorities a highway commis sion bill was enacted. There -were a series of propositions along this line. In the Senate the principal sugges tions came from Senators Sinkler, Brice and Johnson and oyer on the House side the Crura-Carter Berry suggestions were thosf most generally considered. The situation, however, resolved itself into such wide differ ences that a compromise was effected in free conference.. The crux of the highway commission situation is that the board-will consist of five members three being the heads of the depart ments of the engineering department at the University of South Carolina, Clemson and the Citadel and two to be appointed by the Governoh The support of this board is to come by way of a license tax on all auto mobiles operating in the State. This tax is to range from five to ten dol lars per car and is to be in lieu, of city and county license fees. The inajor portion of the funds is to be expended in the county where the li- Here is an item that attracted our | cen9e is collecteii The proportion-is attention. It was first printed in one • t ' 11 P cr -S?®* to eountjr and 20 to When the bill was up for second reading there was « lengthy debate. On third reading there was a motion to recommit, which the House rejec ted by one vote, 53 to 52. **Gentlemen, I insist th&E a more determined effort has never been made in the legislative history of the State to hold a man on a job when he was not wanted,” said Representative T. P.* Cothran of Greenville. “The governor doei not want (his bill, does not want the incumbent and will not reappoint him.” . “I am tired of debating this ques tion,” said Representative Searson, who favored the present game warden, “and I think we should settle it once and for all as affects the present game warden and the present governor.” Representative Hughs of Oconee made a vigorous speech, declaring that if an official was pernicious in politics, he should stand or fall with hia side, v - “This is a slap in the face of the governor,” said Mr. Hughs. He de dared also that those who were sup porting the present chief game war den were doing so through personal friendship. He asked the question: “If Gov.. Blease had been successful and the game warden h^d been active for Gov. Manning, how long would the jramo warden have remained in of fice?” Representative Richey of Laurens said he wanted to go away with -the knowledge that he had not injected politics into any fight that had comp up. He said that Representative Hughs was being made a tool of and that Representative Cothran backed by the land Reds and Barred Plymouth Rocks. I a dullmoment to spectators, trustees. Boys and girls, get busy and ^ e t PUP* 1 *- Yea ^ af ter year each school some eggs from pure bred poultry and had b « en doin * iu work * n »ts own way, set them so \hmt thisTwl] you will have and never knowing the other schools something worth exhibiting at the fair. exce Pt b V reputation. In some schools There sre to be prizes offered for there *** developed sn undue pride, the best work in poultry. The li<t pf in others sn undue timidity. The day prizes hss not yet been made out, but brought, them together in the spirit the thing for our boys and girls to do is con test. The committee in charge to get something worth exhibiting and “mnged s program that had a place the prizes will Uke care of themselves. for * ver y ■ehool. and every pupil. However, through it all, remember 1 Many a pupil seeing what others ha< that the prises are not the principal done, went home determined to do things to work for. It is, rather, the that v *ry thing himself. The larger self development, self reliance and schools saw that to deserve th^ir foot self confidence which comes to those opinions of themselves they must do who do things. % better the next time. The smaller (Miss) Clifford Barratt, schools who%l limited number would Home Dem. Agent, not allow them to win in all of the Barnwell, S. C. larger physical contests, found other „ .... numbers on the program in which they liquor legislation was the passage of | cou | (1 exce | a RESTRICTIONS PLACED ON CER TAIN ARTICLES. South Carolina State Crop Pest mission Calls Attention to Regulations. Attention is directed to the follow ing regulations of the South Carolmm State Crop Pest Commission regard ing shipment of material from bofl weevil “territory. Articles restricted: The following 1 six restriction^ are made for articles originating in boll weevil territory. Where no time limit ia specified the articles are prohibited. 1. Cotton seed and seed cotton far any purpose whatsoever are prohibi ted. . —^ ~ 2. Seed cotton sacks, cotton seed sacks, and cotton picker's sacks, any of which have been used within eight months fop any of tyie purposes indi cated, are prohibited. 3. Cotton seed hulls are prohibited between August 1st and December 31st 4. Spanish Moss and corn in shucks are prohibited between Octob er 1st, and June 30th. 6. Living weevils or weevil stages, or weevil work in possession of any ' person outside of the infested terri tory, except a qualified entomologiet, are prohibited. ** 6. Household goods containing any of the foregoing are prohibited during the period of quarantine applying to each. Articles not restricted: When orig inating in boll weevil territory: In order to remove all doubt upon a number of points, it ia particularly stated that there ia no restriction up on any of the following list of six items at any season. 1. Baled cotton, flat or comprsooad. 2. * Linters and loose cotton lint ~ 3. Cotton need meal, cake or dL 4. Com shelled or in the ear, shucks removed, onto or any seed except cotton seed. • 6. Hay. . . ♦ . 6. Empty freight cart. The quarantine map of the State Crop Pest Commission at pruosafl shows two tints and there soshm to bo some misunderstanding as to tbs ing to inject politics into a fight to cut off the head of one of the most efficient officers in the State. Mr. Searson voted for the passage of the bill and Messrs. J. E. Davis and A. W. Owens against its passage.. ---- — Free Advertising. uur .rK.-iauun w*. uie passage « could excel. All were equal in the , bill which prohibiU •btolutely •ll L.nUI contest,. When the day was j M liquor advertisements in South t aro- everybody was tired but happy. I KjiII Wa - T ii lina. The bill also prevents the sale Trustee* were nroud of the showing nf h actUA bo " wetvil line The quar- of periodicals or maeazines contain- A. u ! F u * ? °M antine line is 80 miles in adraaM oC VI per.vu.e.is vr msgaaines contain their schools, teachers were proud of thgl „ 9n mg liquor advertisements and some of aw*:- nun ii- mnt j nU ni1* were not onlvl?* ^ weevil line or 30 the outside magazines that sre now on PUP 7" n0t nly in * d v a ncs of the safety line. ■ ***** ■•gmttnes uiat are now on | proudf but determined to win next , t i# a humam impo^ibility to do- (ermine with absolute accuracy March 30th, 1917 will be next-Field quarantine line in that the boll Day. A splendid program has been under favorable conditions may ud- arranged under the leadership of vance 20 miles within a few days Chairman Z. L. Madden, of Blackville, unless the 50-mile quarantine lino ia who will gladly fumiah all informa- provided far it would 6e Sn i tion upon request. Time ia short, but bility to protect free territory every achool in the county should the weevil when the active season af make its best showing on that date, the inaect begins. frequent remark, that if the adminis-1 ~ S®* *"!*"*■ tr " 8te ** tration and members were not com- ""j P " 8 W,n PP* * t * t * the north we,ten ’ P"* . • .. a* a* i and keep their % individual school on the Edgefield Countv and passes through mitted to the continuation of the sys- ti i* * * *». %.* i j ougvneiu v,uumy ana passes uirouga map, Half of the white people and I Parksville, Franklin in Fiigsflsii ninety per cent of the best people will County, Warrenville Station and be in Barnwell on March 30th. You | tha in Aiken County, slightly cannoLafford to be absent. the news stands will probably have to clip these advertisements or the magazines themselves will have to get out editions suited to. the States that ha ve the Jaw. The warehouse situation seems to be quiescent. An appropriation of.$10,000 was made for the continued support of the system, but there seems to be no enthusiasm about it and there were Mrs. Susan Grubbs. of the State’s daily newspapers. It had. been reprinted in the Camdln Chwnicle, and we clipped- from that P a P er: .j ■ \ Barnwell, S. C., Feb 2.—On ac count of the muddy, almost impass able condition of a large portion of ~ On Saturday, Feb. 3rd, God sent the Death Angel to visit the home of Mr. Mayfield Grubbs and bore away the spirit, of his wife, Susan., She had only been sick for about a week and little did she or any one else think that the end was so near. Relatives and kind friends did all that was human ly possible, but the Lord knew best and called her home, where she will not suffer any more. , The entire community in which she lived believes that. she has gone to reap the reward of the good. ; Her f dy was laid to rest the following temoon in the Friendship cemetery the presence of a large concourse of sorrowing relatives and friends. ’ - - Ba ' Mr. Victor Lewis, cashier of the - Bank of Kline, was a business visitor hers Monday. the State. The disposition of the General As sembly was unfaltering in its support of the common schools. A direct in crease of $50,000 was granted as a sub sidy for the weaker schools through out the State making the fund dis- Main Street, the rapidly growing traf- tributed along this line for the va- fic-near the business area, It lias been • r > ous grades of schools aggregate definitely decided to pave this street with concrete or cement. Now the point* is,'things like this attract the attention of peqple far re moved fr6m the town where such im provements are proposed. Camden is a good long way from Barnwell; yet the fact that Barnwell is to pave its main thoroughfare was considered a news item of importance in Camden. Another thing: If Barnwell can pave its Main street, what is the-matter with Bamberg getting busy? We no tice the Chamber of Commerce is al ready thinking* of this, and if it never tem that it would have been another of the efforts of the State to go into business that would have gone pn the junk heap. . More legislation was enacted at this session of a local character than has ever been known before. Speaking of the matter of the con gestion of legislation there is stressed this year as much as ever the utter hopelessness of the General Assem bly acting upon' important matters early in the session or at least a few days before- the - adjournment - rush. Saturday was the fortieth, day of the session and yet all of the measures of Statewide importance, or at least those that are attracting the most general attention, were still in free conference or unfinished. This includes the high way commission bill, liquor legisla tion, the general appropriation^ bill, which incorporates the policy of the but' it met with no encouragement on the Senate side. The proposition to reduce passen ger rates to 2 cents per mile barely got beyond the committee room. In both legislative branches it was handi capped wlthi ah unfavorable report. Barnwell and Fairfax in County, through Ridg^land te Hampton County, and through Bnfcd- docks Point. ^ Doing Good Work. about $400,000. The bill looking toward the estab lishment of an institution for the care of the feeble-minded of the State passed in the {louse, but was not press ed in the Senate, where it would have passed had it been insisted upon, but the disposition is altogether favora ble for some such work. It is pos sible that it might be worked out as a coordinate branch of the Florence Reformatory. The asylum policy of developments was continued. Three hundred thous and dollars has already been expend- accomplishes anything but the pav- | ^ * n matter of permanent devel- ing of Main Street, its organization °p™«nts and repairs and the assembly State with reference, to the law en forcement fund; the supply bill, canal resolution, the general game law, the act relative to the present chief game warden, and the general county offi cer’s . salaries. If South Carolina holds another constitutional convention among the inhibitions of legislation ought to be a provision that no measn ure effecting more than one county fihould be enacted into law five days before the adjournment of the assem bly and that the date of the ratified act should govern so as to avoid unanimous consent possibility/ The following editorial comment from the Lancaster County Citizen „ ... | will be read with much interest hjr There was practically no display or I theBarnwell County friend* of Dr. J. mention—of-partisan-politics- and fac- y ■yy jj Dvchea* tiohaHsm was xformant.. The general I / • '. 1 tv T w „ desire seemed to be tg work for the n , . .-j „ , „ 0 . upbuilding of the State, particularly t exceedin „i„ • that he alone educational lilies. The only evi- . * . .? , _ l>M j /V a- , * u deemed it best to accept the call ex- dent factional foelm* was injected » tended him b ^ B tUt chareh „ he Teg.slat.on connected with the re- Fort Miu Df ^ cheg h> „ Wn tention m office by legislative enact-1 * a. « *; ... * l M j- a u- * 1 °* Baptist church there for sever- ment of thr present chief game war-1 . ■ ... . * .. ... . . • . , * * al years during which time he has net only devoted his time and labor to hia With the permanent improvements re iigious work, but has in the State and the effort to take himself prominently in the genqnd care of th,e back indebtedness, the J public Interest. The community at State levy had to be increased. The large is loathe to give up Dr. Dydm total appropriation for the running of and bis family, but in going to their the State now aggregates three mil- new home they carry with them tho lion and it takes money to meet these good wishes and blessings of o bills. Thef General Assembley thought | of frie nds in Lancaster County, that the only safe and sane thing to will not have been in vain.- Herald. -Bamberg I AdwtiM la THE PEOPLE. at this session made ample proyision for the continuation of this humane — » work. As • side issue, so to apeak, of tho There was no legislation enacted with reference, to the rate* of the tax ation of mortgages, timber, inheri tances, soft drinks or any other ■usual propositions The 6 per ceat lew peseed the do was to raise the revenue by^direct taxes and, therefore, increased the levy to 8H mills. The Tax Commis sion, it is suggested, has listed con siderable property that has heretofore escaped taxation. The General As- smbly has, howfever, declined to pass a series of bills that were urged by the Tax Commission Department aa ol the Calendar for Notice to Veterana. All members of Camp Morrall, U. C V.rf jre earnestly requested to ba present at a call meeting of tho Cfmp at Barnwell on salesday, the 5th of March next. A large attendance j» respectfully requested aa business off importance will be presented for eoa- J. Anaebp Meyer, ‘Fraternally, 2-I3-2L