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“V V M Ju»l Like a Member of the family” XLII. BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 1STH, 1919. NUMBER 27. 7 iVER 1-3 REDUCTION SHOWN BY TABULATION OF PLEDGES COMMITTEES ARE SLOW IN REPORTING,. BUT. PLEDGES- RE CEIVED UP TO MARCH 8TH INDICATE DETERMINATION ON PART OF FARMERS, FEW OF WHOM REFUSE TO SIGN. A tabulation of the “Reduction Pledges” received up to Saturday, March 8th, by the Tabulating Com mittee indicates a reduction of a little over 33 1-3 per cent, in the acreage planted in cotton in 1919 as compared with 1918. The figures given out by the Committee are: Number of acres planted in 1918: 10,916. Number of- acres to be planted in 1919: 7,253. Total reduction reported to date: 3.663 acres. Of course the above figures are very incomplete, only a few of the mem bers of the township committees hav ing reported their pledges when the first tabulation was mad$. When complete reports have beep received from all of the townships in the coun- ' tyj the grand total will show a reduc tion of many thousands of acres. For the sake of convenience in ascertain- 'ing whether or not a farmer has sigH 6 ^ the pledge; the Tabulating p£iittee has arranged the names !*beticallr according to the post [file addj ss piven on the pledves. facilitate publication, the pledges will be tabulated in this manner on Saturday of each week and published the week following in these columns. It is thought that all of the names can be made public in this manner in about four weeks, provided the town ship committees report promptly. • Below will be found a list of those farmers whose pledges had been re ceived up to Saturday, March 8. The first column of figures shows the acre age planted in 1918, the second col umn the acreage to be planted this year. It would appear from the fig ures that a few fanners have in creased instead of reduced their acre age. This is accounted for by the fact that parts of some farms were forced to lie idle during 1918 because their labor had been drafted for mili tary service. This year, while in these instances the number of acres has been increased per farm, the num- beer per plow has been reduced. In other cases, the farmers had already reduced their cotton acreage to such fen extent in 1918 that a further cut was impracticable. The first week’s list is as follows: Barnwell. NAME 1918 ~ 1919 Dick Brown 42 30 W. E. Baxley 24 24 A. J. Bennett ^ 310 ^ 205 Charlie Brown, Jr., 45 30 W. P. Brabham 100 ' 55 J. Black, Jr. « 55 ' 40 Martin C. Best 50 46 J. B. Calhoun 300 W. L. Cave i 400 Cave A Easterling £90 Blackville. S. H. Allsbrook 26 W. G. Birt —. I.. 6 Oscar Bradley 80 Ransom Peeplees 20 Ben Pinkney ^ 15 Dunbarton. C. Ccjprt Sheriff Auditor local board is ^^^■VcLOSING IIP WORK £ Coroner as « W « eft ca £ •£ Willie Brown 30 20 'John Cave 15 •20 H. J. Davis 17 12 Joe Dunbar _ 2t> 15 Lee Dunbar 45 30 Dan Golphin 40 27 T. A. Greene 60 0 Abram Harris __ 22 15 C. F. Langley 30 30 C. K. Mixson -j— 30 20 j Nelson Mixson 14 10 i Dave O’Neal 40' 20 Henry Sapp _ __ _ _ 22 25 J. O. Waller 20 20 Isadore Williams --10V4 10 Elko. H. W. Beasley 00 Paul Briht 30 W. P. Blume 40 S. B. Carroll — 37 J. R. Carroll 60 S. J. Carroll 22 Ellie Hair - 12 SfiErbwirr*- _-i _ -7— --^^22 - Geo. W. Ready __T.- 23 George Roe - 17 Tom Smalls ^ 40 T. E. Turner - 20 J. W. Williams .40 Elleenton. J. C. Bush 141 H. J. Bush 50 Isaac Boyles - 12 .Lewis Brown 35 A. R. Dunbar - 190 A.-H. Dunbar 10 Luther Golphin * 15 Willie Moody ... 12 Milledge Moody 30 J. C. Muns 22 Winchester Scott 40 James Willis 13 Hattieville. Daniel Alleen 18 Granvil Bailey 45 Brabham A Co 258 Daniel Coster 000 William Fennan 37 Clinton Gifford 33 Jesse Garvin ... 15 Henry Garvin 000 Arthur Ingram 000 Ed Johnson __000 Valmore Johnson 000 Adline Odom 38 William Odom i 000 Henry Odom 15 Reuben Sloan 27 John Thompson 000 Kline. 30 Duff Bryant __ r J-.-r. 37 14 11 30 30 40 20 30 cast m the first primary Lfi S. Cave 100 ster Charlton 60 Cave 80 Deason 50 Easterling 70 Ooe Gillam 25 D. A. Gillis 34 Willie Holley 60 L. A. Harley 20 Jim Holman 15 R. C. Holman and tenants.275 S. J. Halford 14 Butler Hagood __ __ 22 B. B. Harley 18 ^ A. H. Ingram 18 J. R. Kelly go W. J. Lemon. 48 T. J. Langley 27 G. W. Long 3 35 B. Mazursky * 190 W. H. Manning 50 W. A. Owens 130 J. G. Owens 203 O. H. Owens 21 A. Porter 600 Robt. Patterson 200 J. W. Patterson y JJjJ. W. Bates 200' 195 0 50 56 34 10 G. J. Black S. B. Brown Boston O; Cave 26 30 40 I Maliehi Coleman ' ^.20 18 20 30 20 12 188 14 6* 18 12 0 32 16 35 135 50 96 120 6 400 100 100 19 14 30 6 30 100 32 10 30 135 . 10 10 12 20 15 28 10 12 30 170 10 25 22 20 20 10 10 10 25 10 10 18 10 18 13 20 12H 16 12 24 12 E. D. Peacock ____350 250 Ellick Roberson 112 6 James Riley - 14 q R. L. Riley 33 35 J. S. Still 42 3 J. S. Simmons 200 50 Melvin Scott 1.. .73 .35 W. G. Simms _-_ 86 -4— 0 J. C. Staley 15 g F t. Still 38 38 H. W. Sanders 7-.365 255 ,E. F. Sease 145 100 Tobin ...125 125 Ussery 45 28 le Williams, Jr. .... 40 30 Williams, Sr. 28 30 Lee White 50 30 ' Allen Wallace ... 60 Gwy WUIiMn, ]5 12 J. B. William* ~m 30 Lank Williams .... 40 . 25 W. C. Coleman 36 L. R. Coleman 18 A. C. Creech .‘15 G. S. Creech 16 W. S. Creech 40 Broad us Creech 40 J'. M. Diamond 42 K. Diamond 24 Joe Eaves 15 J7C. Fields 20 J. F. Fields 13 W. L.; Harvey 190 R: B. Harden 4 W. P. Mprris _7_ 40 M. M, Mack *3(1 Herman Morris 20 W. B. Norris 37 A. O. Sanders 150 C. B. Still 4 A. B. Still - 12 W. H. Ulmer to reduce 33 1-3 per cent. Martin. Billie Campbell 40 30 J. J. Cochran * — 30 12 20 lb 100 12 24 20 12 12 10 20 32 20 10 10 15 100 000 25 24 14 12 100 000 10 J. H. Dunbar 31 A. N. Harden 12 W. H. Harper 150 A. M. Hill *7, 23 Jack Mitchell 30 I. H. Roberts 30 C. C. Rosier - 13 X K. Rosier __T -T-T-- 8 John Williams 15 Horace Williams ! 20 Hayward Williams 30 C. A. Ealker 9 Meyer's Mill. W. P. Bailey .-6V4 Paul Bartley 14 John Blake 30 Tom Barnes 32 Clifford Bartley 14 Allendale Baldock Bull Pond Cherry Hill - Fairfax i_ Millett * Sycamore No. 1 Sycamore No. 2 Ulmer TOTAL is p lT9 >-9 J £ o >-> ►o K • u S ft, •-j o *“a d' 7 212 27 28 81 74 101 14 96 86 43 84 2U 212 209 118 56 37 66 3 4 27 32 64 a 2 25 4 37 66 66 66 48 9 9 42 4 10 6 22 25 4 13 24 1 17 42 42 42 37 5 42 5 18 3 16 30 1 11 8 8 26 42 42 42 31 10 2 104 6 17 31 51 14 41 50 39 5 61 104 104 104 25 6 73 44 6 1 12 *25 5 1 38 16 18 9 441 44 44 17 12 .15 65 4 ' 6 43 12 9 50 6 40 • 2 23 65 65 65 1 64 40 3 4 22 11 6 21 13 7 1 32 40 40 40 5 1 34 66 3 4 ^13 46 65 1 38 4 23 66 66 66 | % 4 3 I 59 rrt 00 <£> 61 92 238 289 254 1971 o CO 283 | 861 .312 680 681 ! 688) 286 : 102 293 104 104 ALL BOARDS WILL CEASE TO ' FUNCTION AT CLOSE OF MARCH. ' _ .. ‘ -U •' • .! * \ •: • ,V. ••• 71 art mmommmmmmmm * Final Instructions from State Head quarters Received Tuesday.— _ >. Members to Be Discharged . Soon. SECOND RACE TO SELECT 4 ALLENDALE OFFICIALS MR. GEORGE M. ARMSTRONG MOODY AND RILEY RUN OVER FOR CLERK OF COURT, BENNETT AND DUNBAR FOR SHERIFF, OWENS AND WILSON FOR AUDITOR 7 AND BRUNSON AND MAIN FOR CORONER. * \ • With all of the nine precincts ac counted for, a tabulation of the vote in Allendale, the baby county of the State, on Tuesday shows that a second race will be necessary to elect four county officials—Clerk of Court, Sher iff, Auditor and Coroner—the onl* re sult of Tuesday’s election, aside from the nomination of unopposed candi dates, being to narrow the races doqrn. vote; J* Henry Johnson for State Sen to two contestants each. Mr. J. Perry Moody and Lieut. J. M. Riley will run over for Clerk of Court, with Messrs. L. C. Bennett, of Baldock, and John Dunbar, of Allendale, io the second race for Sheriff, J. J. Owens and C. R. Wilson, both of Allendale, for Auditor, and Messrs. Jos. S. Brun son, of Luray, and J. W. Main, of Jen ny, for Coroner. Keen intereat waa and is being manifested in each of these contests, and the close vote of the first primary indicates a battle two weeks hence when the vot ers make their final choice. The Sher iff’s race was especially close, only a few votes separating the candidates, the result being more or less in doubt until the last precinct was heard from. The following candidates were unop- pqsed and received practically the full ator; J A Wideman for Treasurer; J. R. Cullom for County Superintendent of Education; J. E. Tobin for Judge of Probate, and B. W. Dowling for Magis trate. For some reason candidates for Magistrate failed to make their an nouncements and it is understood that thev will be allowed to enter the Tbc- ond primary. A complete tabulation of the result of Tuesday’s election will be found on this page. A BOLSHEVIK REPUBLIC IS AIM OF ANARCHISTS Seized Mall Reveals Plan for Bloody Revolution in U. S. Washington. March 10.—Mail mat ter aince the signing of the armistice has disclosed that the I. W. W. anar chists, radical Socialists and others are “perfecting and amalgamation” SERGT. MIXSON WRITES OF FRENCH TRAINING SCHOOL Would Have Been Commissioned but for Signing of Armistice. Mrs. G. W. Boylston, of Blackville. recently received a very interesting letter from her grandson, Sergt. Gil- tmore S. Mixson, who has been sta tioned for several weeks at Embarks- which haa/oriUobjett the overthrow !tion Camp No , Bordeaux, France, of the American government through M the . time the >rnli , tice wa , , i|fnedt bloody revolution and the eetabhah- SerKt Mixson w „ uking , course o{ ment of a Bolshevik republic, acco - ^gtj^iction at an artillery officer,’ ing to a memorandum sent the senate and would have ^ commil . graphs of the propaganda committee by SoTidtSTp^^^ ; n t whi |, „ f,- -3- W Mw ‘The Local Board for Barnwell Coun ty, in common with draft boards over ! the State, is at last beginning to see * the wind-up of its activities." j ‘On Monday Major R. R Carwile, officer in charge of State headquar- i ters, mailed out instructions to all ! Local Boards to complete their work by the end of the present month, i The telegram having tt> do with v the • closing up of the work of the draft j boards was in part as follows: “The J secretary of war directs that the w f ork HAS VERY NARROW ESCAPE ! of a11 draft board * completed by J March 31; that their organization be Was in Hotel Lobby at Eufaula, AU, j offici>1Iy di8continued not th » n i {that date, and that the allotment of \N hen Wall Was Blown Down. | funds for the pay of personnel and for * - t the operation and" maintenance of Mr. George M. Armstrong, eldest • draft boards be discontinued after son of Treasurer J. B. Armstrong, March 31.” of Barnwell) had a narrow escape | Since early in January the selective from serious injury and possible death service organization has been engaged when a cyclone passed over East Ala- j in completing its work and in prepar- bama last week. He was sUnding in ; fag it* records for shipment to the the lobby of a hotel in the town of • adjutant general of the army. There Eufaula, which suffered great dam- J are a few local boards which have not age from the storm. The force of the \ yet completed the Work, but It la be- wind was so terrific that one of the Heved that these few boards will corn- walls of the hotel,‘Which is built of plete^ promptly the work which they brick, was blown into the street about are now engaged, so that the organ- ten feet from where Mr. Armstrong »iaation may disband at the end of the was standing. He later helped dig | present month. victims from the ruins of other build- j i n a bulletin received by the Local ***•* . ' ' | Board Tuesday morning from Major Mr. Armstrong,, who is in the em- 1 Carwile it was announced that at the ploy of the government extension aer- 1 close of business on March 31. all vice, tells of his experience in the fol- district, local and medical advisory lowing letter to his father, under date boards shall cease to function, and the of March 7th: j services of clerical employees on duty “I had one of the narrowest escapes these boards will be discontinued, and one of the most harrowing ex- Arrangements will be mads later for periences day before yesterday, when discharge of the various boards, s tornado hit the town where I 'hap- bu * durthg , the interval betwsi opened to be and even took sway a part March 31 and the day of the actual V>f one wall to the hotel where 40 or discharge members of the boards will 60 of us were quartered. The falling not I* rsquired to perform any sor- wall, portico, etc., came down within vic * and therefore not be entitled ten feet of where I was standing; in *° an F compensation, fact, it was the upper portion of the 1 South Carolina has made an exesi- same wall by which I was standing,' * #nt record in its. selective service but it fell sway from us rather than wor k, * n d it is the ninth State in the toward us. 1 was in the lobby of the Umon to furnish deserter and delin- Bluff City. Inn mentioned in the clip- fluent records. pings which I am enclosing. There ' Offi<* equipment, with the excep- hvere many amusing and curious °* tbe AHng cases which will bo things that happened and of course *bipped to Washington, will be dis- some terrible things where the peo- °f »o°n after Hie cloae of buai- ple were crushed by the falling walls. ne8> - Members of the draft boards We helped dig out four people before over State will no doubt be glad our train left.” ' j to get back to their regular occupa- The newspaper clippings mentioned tlons ’ and return to their work by Mr. Armstrong contained photo- wrecked city, which Lamar of the postoff.ee department. h|s ex , minltion with credit to him . The memorandum was made pubhc to- >elf Writing of the gchool he gayfl: *,y by the committee and Chairman „ u ^ gn o , d French cgvilry off . Overman said it would be read into the record tomorrow. Declaring that in Bolshevism the radical elements of the country had for the first time “found a common cause upon which they can unite,” Mr. Lamar said his information showed that propaganda against the govern ment was being conducted with great regularity and that its magnitude could be measured by the “bold and outspoken statements” found in the literature.^ Accompanying his memo randum were several hundred excerpts from mail matter showing the trend of the propaganda. These will be made public later. Particular reference was made by the solicitor to the activity of the dis satisfied foreign element in the coun try, but he said perhaps the I. W. W. was the most active in the discrimina tion of the propaganda because it has “at its command a large field force known as recruiting agents, subscrip tion agents, etc., who work unceasing ly in the furtherance of ‘the cause.' ” cers’ school, founded before Napol- •eon’s time; in fact, he took a course there. Officers from all nations came there to study, and one of the Gerafflf officers thft signed the armistice was a grad, from there.” It was to this school that General Pershing sent the graduates from American training camps to complete their training. Sergt. Mixson wrote that the percen tage of enlisted men who completed the course and passed the final exami nations was larger that that of offi cers who had already received instruc tion in this country. He says that while one of the late Col. Roosevelt's sons, who had been already commis sioned as captain, failed to pass the course, Ex-President Taft's son, an enlisted man, made the highest marks eVer made there and was kept as an instructor. Sergt. Mixson was im pressed by the small number of South ern men jwho_made good, saying: “It is a curious thing, but out of our class at school, nine-tenths of the men that failed were from the South. I don't France. ATTENTION VETERANS. Camp Morrall -to Meet at Meyer's Mill April 4th. with the feeling that they have assist ed in keeping the State well up to the ront in the operation of the selective service law. The 1919 Boll Weevil Battle Clemson College, March 8.—The first guns in the boll weevil battle for 1919 will be fired twice during the coming week. The line of attack will extend through Lexington, Edgefield, The annual reunion of Camp George W. Morrall will be held at Meyer's Mill on Friday the 4th day of April Aiken ’ Barnw eH *n d Allendale Coun- next, at 11 o'clock sharp. The Hon. tiie8 * The Sinners will include Gee. Edgar A. Brown will be with us and Anderson, of the division of en- will deliver the oration for the occas- ^ orno l°Ky Clemson Colleger, and ion. At the same time and place the Luther D * Fuller, agricultural agent United Sons of Veterans of Camp B. of the Southern Railroad. B. Kirkland will meet with us. | A ® ch «tole has been arranged to in- The ladies and the public are cor- clude meetin K» * Batesbur* and Side C- Ik Diowii 8 6 14 24 18 7 5 12 36 24 10 -44 (CONTINUED ON FIFTH PAGE) ion or will expire on the first of April, 1919, if there is a blue ring around the label on your paper this week. On account of sickness, we have been forced to neglect our mailing list for *the past few weeks, being unable to mail statements to those subscribers whose . subscriptions werq about to eexpire, and are, therefore, Uking this method of re minding them that if they wish the regular weekly visits of The Peo ple to continue, they must renew before April 1st. If the dat^ on your paper reads “Jan. 19,” “Feb. 19,” “Mar. 19” or “Apr. 19,” you come within the number and we hope to receive your renewal by return mail. * Help us to give you a better paper each week by keeping your subscription paid in advance. " ,l1 . -.. - — dially invited to suppliment the at tendance with their presence accom panied by the usual number of gas kets well filled with something good to eat. All veterans of the county are ear nestly urged to be with us .as the Camp is growing old and will soon be , piace"on 'each date. Spring on Tuesday, March 11; John ston and Trenton on March 12. Edge? field and Aiken on March 13, Black-; ville and Williston on March 14, Al lendale and Barnwell on March 15, the meetings to be held in the morn ing at the first named place and in the afternoon at the second named a thing of the past, so a full attend-, Mr Anderson is preparing chart*, ance w.Il be appreciated. The musical uWtrations. data, etc., to be used in features will be a* heretofore, so Come on. ous as J. Staff Halford, Commander. J. A. Meyer, Adjutant. his part in the campaign, and will have ‘for distribution literature on the boll weevil and how to fight the pest. Notice Messrs. W. A. Meyer, J. B. Kirk- f ^ ^e members of the Friendship land, D. W. Brown and J. H. Sweett. Baptist Church and all those inter- of Meyer's Mill, were in the city Sat- e8ted in the cemetery are requested ta unlay on Business. * meet at the church on Saturday next, March 15th to work out tjse cemetery -S-a- know why, but they could not make and around the church. A large gatb it.” tring is expected as it is our regular Sergt. Mixson is getting homesick work day. and says that while he has a wonder- L. S. Still. * > ful opportunity in the fruit and truck - ■ ■■ ■■ —». business in California, he has about' Mrs. J. R. Kelly left Monday for decided to locate in South Carolina, Columbia, where she will undergo 'aa hi# old when he receiyeaJus dis- operation. Her friends wish for charge. ~nm 11 ~ AM.