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Barnwell People 'Ju»t Llk« a Mambar of lha Family^ BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. JULY UST. 1119. I NUMBER tf. RIOTING IN CHICAGO SUNDAY NUMEROUS CLASHES OCCUR WITH LOSS OF LIFE. STARTED NEAR BEACH Fighting, Apparently Precipitated by Negroes, Results in Number of Persons Being Injured. Chicago, July 27.—A series of riots in the negro district late today re sulted in the drowning of one negro, the rejibrted drowning of one white man, probably fatal injury of another negro, the wounding of a policeman and injury to a score of white people and negroes by bullets or missiles. • * Police tonight said they had the sit uation well in hand. The trouble started at the 29th street beach where white people and negroes are segregated and soon spread to State Street, the main thor oughfare in the heart of the negro ^‘Strict, which extends about flee miles Shooting started near the hi.j .hrrr - ' *«>mc vicinity of Slate Street rfc ill SCHOOL At ORANGEBURG WAS COMPLETE SUCCESS Session of Six Weeks Came to a Close Friday, July 25th. t The tri-county Summer school held at Orangeburg came to a cldse ‘after six weeks of work on Friday, July 25th. In every way the school was a success. The faculty was an unus ually strong one; it consisted of Supt. M. B. Self from , Barnwell County, Supt. E. P. Allen from Bamberg County, and Supt. A. J. Thackston, Dr. R. S. Bailey, Miss Ruth Creighton, and Mrs. W. D. Rice, all from Orange burg County. The student body of teacher-pupils numbered sixty-two, and represented seven counties in the lower part of the State. Most of them were teach ers of some experience, though a few of them have never taught. All seemed in earnest and did faithful work. Practically all of them will teach in the counties that support the school financially. At toon is examinations were over, the instructors and teacher-pupils re turned to their homes. Mrs. W. D. Rice and Miss Ruth Creighton left for Peabody College located at Naah- study for I Rice will I ville. Tenn.. where they win eix weeks, after which Mre of r-«rTt r amerew* Rghte, today‘e note . aaua Jo ha*e had their euert hi petty fuamaag af (fedTRRni ,l 4 •tan af rTadhfte Repine that aageeaa waadeeed armaa the dnefiag Mae ta the while eeetloa ef the heaeh ead that whNe paagCe amaaad thmasafeea hr vheww tag emaB elaaee at aagea hatheee ep re mmm eaneae j peat ead aleag were ftp- aftee the hghte^ started e aagva pwreaad bp e esBBhof ef whda Me taeh ehaaee behead a hegaa eheatsag at a pahaeaaaa aha had Jamad the pweeaM ead who ea tapead the (bsa The eagea heahy eaewaatieed Chmeag die hght eaa eagre aae peahaldy 'atahy teaaadad Tweaiy asath Rtrift aaa mmm peek ea avth wRMe paapie aad aegreaa th* lattee predHMaamg Mare ighfag ■■ nerved #ad a her dhhe weea tewi ee eaaai ef das aagreee Red aad petrel aegeaa leaded avth Mae reafla raved ta the eeaaa A hee breha aal la a •mad hatMeeg aad the apparaftae aae Marked tp the teeaagw Negyeae era •ati ta haee irted ta drag the iaeaMa freaa their eaaia Dastag the hghttag. rerke. brlrha aad other mteadee wa at the Mack ead ef Twvetjr-amUl Bt •treet W kite are ■ tty beakea ea BMke Blveet, thi jpwlice sard. At tbm haarh ah do aue • .We wm Tying l w%» reported ta have been •truck with a reck and burled into the lake. Later the body of a negro waa taken from the water, A white man. a swimmer, a loo was reported hit and drowned. With Du* police stations emptied of reserves and scores of others rushed from North and West Side stations. Acting Chief of Police Alcock ordered every available policeman on duty to prevent further outbreaks. The small army of policemen succeeded in bring ing about a fair semblance or order. Police Move People-. Late tonight the streets of the dis trict where disoredrs occurred were still fairly well filled with people but police kept the crowds moving and no more trouble was expected. Police were unable to make an es timate of the number injured because in many skirmishes names of injured ms firm « TW Dghhartaa BmMhag Campmap. af thmhafiam waa •uamasmtaasd Mam day aah a paapauad capital start af RBMRh fW pctttftaacet arc B F Oaaaa. H M I^is—l J. M. KiBagi aarth, B F Aadvram, W A Dwta, H J Maady aad J. V Romatm aaly a rsmparaMvty few small wktta wad Maaday Chicago. July 29.—Sevan persons are known to have been killed and more than two score wounded, many of them seriously, in a renewal of race riots in the Chicago “black belt** tonight. For more than five hours the five mile area on the South side was a battleground of scattered fights be tween white men and negroes and be tween policemen and negroes who fired from housetops, from dark al leys and other points of vantage. The call for troops to quell the out- breaks resulted in four regiments of National Guardsmen being mobilised but at a late hour tonight they had not been dispatched to the disturbed district and Chief of Police Garrity >V could not be learned. Late hospital expressed the belief that the worst of reports showed one negro probably fatally wounded, another slightly wounded, and a policeman shot in the shoulder. Four other persons, includ- the disorder has passed. Five of the dead are negroes and two are whites. , ti _ The wounded in most cases were ing one white woman, we^ injured by hurried to hospitals, after which they missiles. I were remoVed to their homes when A rifle bullet fired by a negro grazed conditions permitted. There was no concerted battle by the blacks, the outbreaks dotting a the forehead of a white man sitting at the upper window of his hime. He fell out the window, but was only large area. Every police station in slightly injured. The negro, accord- the South Side jyas flooded with re in* to spectators, had leveled the rifle ports of deaths and injuries, at a policeman, but a bystander struck Chief of Police Garrity, at a late the weapon upward. The negro es- hour said that it was impossible to capcd. The negro district has been make an accurate estimate of the cas- sUadily increasing in recent years ualties because of the contradictory re- with the influx of Soothers negroes, porta. who came to work in big industrial The riots which started yesterday ^ f on the Sooth Side beaches were re- "Tbe belt," aa it is kiew hi as wad when negro laborers .began big mdaatrial plants and South Carolina Girls Win Prizes In "Thrift Contest Banks Throughout District Offering Awards to School Children to Encourage Savings Movement of United States Treas ury Department—Essays Show Remarkable Grasp of Principles of Campaign. ^ - To further the thrift and savings movement of the United States Treas ury Department, . banking house# throughout the Fifth Federal Reserve District are offering prizes to school children for the best essays on “Thrift.” There soon will be tens of thousands of school children members of War Savings Societies In this dis trict and a great many essays and compositions probably will be writ ten. The endorsement of the move ment by the banks is a matter of gratification to William R. «Tim mons. Director of the Educational Di vision of the War Loan Organisation at Richmond. Va., because no institu tion know sbetter than the banks the value of thrift and the prosperity which unfailingly follows in its wake. In u recent contest conducted if! Black- ville, S. C., by the Bank of Western Carolina, prizes were awarded to two little girls—Miss Dorothy Ninestein, a ninth grade pupil, and Miss Mary Still of the sixth grade. The essays submitted by these two little ladies exhibit in a remarkable degree how the shf»>ol children of the district bars ! grasped the fundamental principles of the thrift movement. Pictures of the girls are here given together with the i essay written by each. fnltac b*w«« Um i U U nxiUmM m tW So«tk t>4* kM ..<#<- 1 —* 4 “ U«tk*r * »*• *«•«• TWk*r pmc4 •< Mtfk*. MipkMiud , Tr%u, “* n *“ •• _ .» _ I wkir b begun* ibey lbs fiflssalb I * i - MUM •b'-o* -f j *■ I DR. L. F. BONNER HAS PASSED TO HIS REWARD •— * Short Illncus Ends Life ot Beloved Barnwell •Physician. The many friends of Dr. L. F. Bon ner, of Barnwell, were greatly shocked and profoundly grieved to learn of his death, which occurred at his home in this city about 6:30 o'clock Friday morning after an illness of only three days and which was due to infection following an operation at an Augusta hospital Saturday. The seriousness of his condition was not fully Realized until the afternoon before his death and so sudden was the summons of the Grim Reaper that none Of his brothers nor sisters were able to reach his bedsido before he died. His body was takei to Aiken Saturday morn ing and laid to rest with Masonic hon ors at 2 o'clock in the afternoon in the Aiken cemetery, following ser vices in the First Baptist Church of that city, his pastor, Dr. W. M. Jones, of Barnwell, conducting the funeral services in the presence of a large number of sorrowing relatives and ^friends. Dr. Bonner was 51 years of age and was the shiest son of the lata Mr. and Mrs. John B on nor, of Ellen ton. About 22year> ago be married Mias Virtorine Frothro. of Aiken County, who sur vives him For many years be eras a resident ef Blackville, where be en joyed the reeport and oetsem ef hun dreds ef frtewde. About twe years age be decided to move to Befnsreil and In tbe few abed months that be made Me borne to thie city be built up HIGH FOOD PRICES WILL BE PROBED PEOPLE OF OHIO CALL FOR IN VESTIGATION. MARYLAND ALSO ACTS Governor Harrington Planning to ,1 .. ' . v , ■: V \ ' • ’ 0 . 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The United States Is a wealthy as tion It Is. however, a nation which is known by the world as an extrava gant nation. Although wages are higher and opportunities are great American people are not generally Individually classed as well-to-do with the people of other nations where op portunities are smaller. Money Is easily earned, and as readily spenY Government census statistics show that sixty-six of every hundred per sons dying in this country have abso lutely no estate. Of every one hun dred persons who reach the age of sixty-five there are only three whr are not partly or wholly dependen* upon friends, relatives or charity for food, clothing and ahelter. This cor ditlon is not the result of anything but extravagance. The future of our nation depends upon the boys *ind girls of today. The way they are taught to spend money now is the way that they will always spend it. It is Impossible to succeed unless one can live with less expendi tures than their Income will easily cover. Teach the children to spend wisely and conscientiously. Washing ton said “Economy makes happy homes and sound nations. 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State and county law enforcement ofTiciala, is manifesting itself throughout Ohio/ according to reports received tonight by State officials. It is ex pected action of this sort will be urged upon the federal government Wednesday when Ohio county prose cutors will meet here with John G. Prince, State attorney general. It is intimated that Governor Cox will lend his influence to bring aboot a movement of this sort. Requests for details of tbe Ohio line of action, set in motion by tbe governor and | ney general yesterday, have . from several States. Baltimore. July 27.—Governor riagteu ef Maryluad. it today, te planning to take tar te tbat taken by Governor ef OMa» fen Melisg untb feed sera. He wM immedmteiy Attorney General RlteMe M tu wbut legal steps be der tbe Mary laud lawa brut is taaate by fen •peeMMRtf for tbs bftgh seat ef w$m dluu M bond ta «e y——a outbreaks had occurred. Whites be gan dragging negroes from street ears, the negroes retaliated with stones and knives. Street ears ta tbe bean of tbe “black belt“ were feted aad the Thrift means saccees sad to maks a success you bsve to kave system with everything you spend ‘and see that you always have soma of your In come to put In the bank Let each member of the family do a part of tbs work and encourage them to be saving, allow the children a tee for their work and encourage them fo save It and you will soon sea still mors Thrift Stamps sold: they will grow to be War Savings Stamps. Just becuse the war is over doesn't mean that we have to stop conserving our food, but we must raise all that is possible, can all the surplus, use all perishable stuff and save the An- perishable. To be economical doesn’t mean not to have wholesome pleasure, nutri tious food and proper clothing; we must see that our income is enough to more than cover our expenses and have enough for rainy days. .We Americans are naturally ex travagant people, but our women are learning each day to be more saving, and are doing their house work and all their other work In s more busi ness like way. One-half dozen nail-makera decided to go into business with b, little money they had saved from their earnings. This Is now the $25,060,000 SteeU Corporation! of Steubenavflls, Ohio “The practice of thrift wfetl cause a sew era tn American ltfs "--Wm. O. MeAdoo. Bo lot all the towns and Dos wort together at tbe Ms eemsty sms testify R baa aa*4 Mat few pbpu Mm bs»e egggted Ma amamnl af 4ms bp bam M Me swans sd fbe/* y gsM beat law we la bane Me os- ef amanheee ef wueu Me poor is pay Male oapsmaaa Al Ma terns af bte dee** be wus beatag up aa pate! fbe Me bsaoRl ef MMB aaabfee M atfeed Ma ggM id a I tnp M Me <aty. gal I "la Rea m hearts me leave bsbaad feg I aad la dte» s febsa Ov Buaasg Is ast I b»ad H • MM was ee osdeeed Met vbta As Baal aammuaa same bs man ready, pusaiag la Ma ftmasd "Via earn wbe draws febs drapery af bfea reach abeat bfem aad Raa down la pfeoaaaat druamw." Besters bfea wife. Dr. Baaaer ha sur vived by two hcwtbecs aad two sta ters as~Fo8e#8: J fteanei. ud Iks cater. Go , E. J. Bonner, of Philadel- pkia. Pa., Mrs. J. C. Bates, ef El len ten, and Mias Bailie Bonner, of Phila delphia, who have Me sympathy of Me entire community in their dark hour of grief. te Ellenton Newt. EUenton, July 26.—Miss Kathleen McElhaney is spending several weeks in Augusta. Mrs. W. K. Johnson and daughter Miss Annie Belle, Mr. W. E. Johnston and Dcnell Johnson, of Crawfordville, Ga., and Mr. Warren Jones of Augus ta, spent several days recently with Mrs. Mack Walton. Miss Nome Dunbar and Mr. Willie Dunbar of Aiken spent Sunday with Miss Cut Youngblood. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bonner motored from Philadelphia this week to visit Mrs. Joe Bates. Mrs. Mack Walton left for Augusta on Thursday evening. Mr.. Roy McElhaney spent several days in Augusta this week. Mrs. Eugene Buckingham and Mrs. T. S. Dunbaf, Jr., attended the Confed erate Reunion in Greenwood. Mrs. Biickinghanf li sponsor for Aiken Camp, Cofifederate Veterans and Mrs. Dunbar was her matron of honor. *- Messrs. Dick Wells and Roy McEl- haney- attended a. party at Donors Tuesday night Laprw Green of Dunbarton spent a few hours in town with relatives day. ef tbe 1a Ikes A tec af Mans Mactfu. purrbaseci fee marked up febs price TW crowda •hop. a few mini out tbe grocer’s stock af bits, melons and other on tables. Dunkirk, who are striking aa a protest the high cost of living, made a onstration in the market place day, after which shopkeepers lowered their prices by one-half. Similar ac tion was taken by the people of last week with similar results, demonstrators in these towns no violence. Their mere presence ik the streets waa sufficient to bring re ward to their efforts. Mrs. R. H. Hagood Dead. After an illness of several montfeu* Mrs. Estelle Hagood, beloved wife cf Mr. R. H. Hagood, of Barnwell, died about II o'clock Monday night at tbe home of her daughter, Mrs. J. O. Pat terson, Jr. Although, not unexpected, the news of the death of this good woman was a great shock to her many friends. Her body was laid to rest Tuesday afternoon in the BarnwuH Baptist Churchyard, the Rev. W. ML Jones and the Rev. L. E. Peeler, pap- tor of the Barnwell Methodist Church, conducting the funeral services in tbe presence of a large number of sorrow ing relatives and sympathetic Mrs. Hagood was 72 years of I Before her marriage she was Mias telle Ingram and k survived by me daughter, ane non.