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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
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had Jamad the pweeaM ead who ea
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ta the eeaaa A hee breha aal la a
•mad hatMeeg aad the apparaftae aae
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•ati ta haee irted ta drag the iaeaMa
freaa their eaaia
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aad other mteadee wa
at the Mack ead ef
Twvetjr-amUl Bt
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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 «
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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.
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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
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Take Action Similar to That vf
Governor Cox.
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tbe pseeent but ales Mr ibo future
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duty Are yea patriotic* redoubted
If yuuc enewee wM be m tbe edirmn
ttve Tbeu bow da you sbew H* Du
yen stag tbe Btat tpe ogled be seer
ts# —May edb dags er ars yep a
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Bt saving yea terreeee tbe capKal ef
tbe natloe aad promote tbe thrift
Saving promote# character; makes
a better c it I ten; tacreases * tbe gee
oral happiaese.
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. Instill it
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Columbus, Ohio, July 27.—Demand
for a nationwide investigation of ex
orbitant food prices, through concert
ed action everywhere, of federal. 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
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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
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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.
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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.