The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, April 06, 1920, Image 1
COCA-COLA COMPANY MAY
BUY LOT ON MAIN STREET
Have Secured Option on 'Methodist
Church Property in Barnwell.
Last week’s ipue of The People car
ried an announcement to the. % effect
that the Coca-Cola Company was con
templating moving its^AllemJt^e plant
to Barnwell and had secured ap option
ch the Wall Street pVopeffy of Mr. J.
H. Lancaster. Since then an option
has also been secured on the Methodist
Church property on Main Street, it
being Understood that the price agreed
upon is $11,000. It is not known at
this time which of these valuable
properties will be decided upon.
A representative of The People has
been told that, should the Methodist
NEGRO SHOT NEAR OLAR CC^DDCTT QT ID D CMIYCP Q
- BY MAGISTRATE MAY DIE I 1 ij wKKMiNUI!iK3
Officers Destroy Illicit Stills in. Bam-j Af*TER SLAYING THREE
berg and Allendale.
EDY AT PENITENT!.
FOURTH MAN MAY DIE
James Ray, negro of Bamberg coun
ty, has developed somewhat of a new
wrinkle in th>- manufacture of illicit
whiskey according to internal revenue
officers, who say that when they raid
ed his place a few days ago Ray was
absent, “gone to a. society meeting,”
according to the women folk at the
house. The officers found the smoke
house locked, but inside of it they ^
found a still “running” merrily. The j '
fire under the pot^of the still was ! ^ ailos Corbett, who shot th r ee men
burning and the building was filled | death and probably fatally wounded
with a tantalizing aroma. According a fourth late Saturday night ne^r
to the officers, the still seems to have
PARTICIPANT IN SALLEY TRAG-| CAMl * GEORGE \Y. MORRALL
r— TO MEET AT MEYER’S MILL
Conflicting Rreports Are Current As*
to Cause of Wholesale Killing.
Church lot be purchased, a handshome made a “run” a short time previous to
brick building with a glass front will | their arrival, and later the operator
be erected thereon, the bottling plant again fired it up to drain the last drop
I’eing located in the rear of the build-! of alcohol from the mixture and left
ing. As there is a town ordinance | to go to a meeting.
the lot
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was a
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it ion oi any more ga-
Street 1 because of the raiding s«|ttad in Bamberg
uffa that renults from th<
latfcnobii** in front of' Pii
•rb ordinance might O.
rfiony from loading yestcnJay. It Is rlaitaed tl
its mark* afi that j was found in the h>>ttse of
I Is peohabk that a ! The swgni was shed throng
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Cm. sOirw sr flkgwrwnmok Cm - wsat fl 1hs« wm sari f ns fftsaam
stroyetl by the
tounty in
one• raid
Magistrate
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Salley, Aiken county,,came to Colum
bia and surrendered td authorities at
the state, penitentiary early yesterday
morning. On advice of counsel he re
fused to discuss the circumstances in
connection with the tragedy. The
three men who were killed instantly
were: Julian Cooper, 23 years old and
married; Hugh Fanning, 30, unmar
ried, ami Bryan Salley. 21 or 22, un
married. Corbett is years old.
Jones SaHgy. a widower, yeuis
old, was brought to the Columbia h*• *
mist eurhr g^otevday morning. He Ho >
United Confederate Veterans Will
Hold Tceimion on April 30th.
WILLI8TON GOES RAPIDLY
AHEAD IN PAST 6 MONTHS
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Several Stores and Residences Com
pleted and Others Being Built.
PERSONS NEAR BANK WELL
Williston, March 27.—Williston has
made greater strides forward during
The 28th annual meeting of the
survivors of Camp George W. Morrall,
United Confederate Veterans, will be
held at Meyer’s Mill on Friday, April
30th, at 11 o’clock sharp. Dr. R. W.
Sanders, of Greenville, will be the or
ator of the day.
At the same time and place the
United Sons of Veterans, Camp B. B.
Kirkland, will meet.
The ladies are cordially invited to
supplement the attendance with their ruction
charming presence, accompanied by
the usual baskets of good things. All
the Veterans are urged to be with us
on the occasion. The musical feature
1 the day, we think, will be as nv n-
.f.
tJuT past six months, than ever in its
history. During that lime Q. A. Ken
nedy has built a row of brick stores
which are occupied by^the following
firms, four of^ these being for Willis-
tdn, Cone-Dicks Drug company, Enter
prise Hardware company, S. P. Porter,
Shapiro Bros., and Brown and Pol|i
koph.
Mr. Kennedy has also built four
handsome bungalows that are already
occupied. R. S. Martin and Q. B.
Johnson also have just completed
handsome new homes, and J. L. Shuler
J. A. Lattimet -and Dr. W. T. Willis
have homes in the course of con-
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For the past two or three weeks,
influenza has been epidemic in tho
Galilee section of the county, four per
sons having succumoev to the disease*
while for sever*! days the lives of
others were despaired of. Two deaths
occured in the home of Mr. Johnson
Black, he having died week before
last, his wife following him to the
grave last week. Their little daugh
ter has been lingering between life and
death for the past week, and shows
little" if any inprovement.
Mr. Arthur Hiers died last week at
the home of his father-in-law, Mr.
Riley Black, who is slowly recovering
from an attack of the terrible disease.
Mr. Sam Grubbs succumbed Saturday,
making the fourth death in the neigh
borhood within two weeks.
Other families that have been
stricken are as follows:
Mr. Wash Black, wife and two
children; Mr. Otis Creech, wife and
seven children; Mr. Martin Grubbs,
wife and two children; Mr. and Mrs.
Kallte Block; Mr. W. H. Bloch, wife
and sis children A
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Storm \ inits Barnwell.
Ac announced in last week** issue of
The People, a mill working plant is to
- I lx- organized in Barnwell. In another
Tornadoes that swept the South and column of thin issue will he found the
West Sunday killed scores of persons notice of opening books of subscrip-
in Georgia, Alabama, Illinois. Ohio, tion to the Sherwood Lumber Manu-
Missouri and Indiana, injured many faeturing Company, which will have a
^others and caused a property loss of j capital stock of $50,000. The board
millions of dollars. Thunderstorms, i of corporators is composed of Messrs,
accompanied by wind, rain and hail,; Butler Hagood, R. R. Moore and B. B.
followed one another in rapid sucees- j Fosterling. It is not known at this
sion over Barnwell and surrounding j time just where the plant will be lo-
country Supday and Monday, but so j cated, but it is understood that enough
far as y«n be learned little damage j material has already been .contracted
VPjnr'done in this section. A photog-i for to run the mill ten years.
Now let some one start brick
yard and watch Barnwell grow.
rapier’s tmt on the Court House
square in Barnwell was blown down
Sunday morning and his supplies dam.
aged.by rain, while a farmer living
a few miles from town reported that
the hail stones that fell in his yard’
ankle deep.- Fortunately - no
Wolud Join Bamberg County.
were
Governor Cooper yesterday received
from residents^ of Barnwell county a
crops were up to U* damaged by the. petition for an election on the ques-
hail. I tion of annexing a portion of Barnwell
county to Bamberg. The area in ques
tion comprises 37.92 square miles ami
- -Ol»uian*_\N ould Moif Here.
Postmaster
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I town the rood a short di»tance until
I Corbett came out of hifthou»e ami
! then went hack and entrrvn into
an altercation with him.
As the tragedy occurred just across
the Aiken county line in Orangeburg
county, the inquest yesterday was con
ducted by W. R. Kirkland, magistrate
at Norway, Orangeburg county, who
acted in the absence of the Orange
burg coroner who w r as out of the
state. The verdict'was that the men
came to their death from gunshot
wounds at the hands ,rf Carlos Cor
bett 9
The five men left Salley at 10:30
o’clock Saturday night for J a drive
?;bmit six miiesr inta the country to the
home of the parents of Julian Cooper,
whose wife and two children wej’e sup
posed to be there,. The Corbett home
is on the highway-between Salley and,
started, on the outgoing trip. Finding
started in the outgoing trip. Finding
that Mrs. Cooper and the children
were not at the Coopers . but at the
home of a neighbor back'between Cor
bett's place ami Salley, it is stated
t ihftry I hall fttitrtcd lull k. and up«.n
riving at the Corbett place we
ed by Corbett. Testimony yeste
at the tfMyueftt was that Co^lwtl r«e*;
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Sheriff itglure The fterdirt rhanftd
C'ariow < webett with the death of the
three men.
There wa« one witness—Louie Ssl
ley. |M years of age. the only occupant
uf the automobile not wounded. He
testified that the three men who were
killed, he and Jones Salley, who is in
a critical shapy at a hospital in Co
lumbia, left Salley in an aut/imohile
lit/*
ami that the machine got ^uck in
some pumice in front of Carlos Cor
bett’s house and that the pumice
caught fire from back-fire, lie said
that as they later came back past Cor
bett's home he was out r in the road
in his night clothes and stopped the
car. The witness said that Corbett
cursed and that the party in the auto-
mobile-tried to reason with him. Cor-
bett wanted to know what set fire to
the pumice Salley said. >
A large crowd attended the ipquest,
the verdict of which was that these
three young men came to their death
from gunshot woupds at the hands of
Cbriof Corbett.
Corbett went to Columbia to give
himself up and it is understood thal
he reached the penitentiary at an
early hour this morning.
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“Our tMvcwligaUafift bring ta light I
I tlw rrrtamty of an rnoi mow rvduc-
1 tion ia the ftorallod »urplu» from pre-
viow ftraaon». Aft a rrsult of tHlft in-
vest igation we are facing a 1920 crop
at least five weeks late in prepara
tion; we are facing an enormous labor
shortage, no surplus to draw from and
late crops with an enormous in
creased inroad of the T>oll weevil which
means the absolute certainty of enor
mous insect damage, labor bein^r short
to plant and it requiring many times
increase for harvesting the outlook
for the present crop from a labor
standpoint is exceedingly gloomy:
“YYy are facing the biggest demand
for cotton which has existed for the
<•
past 60 years; the world is clamoring
for cotton goods and the manufactur
ers are -making unthinkable profits.
With the absolute certainty of j* small
crop even under the most -favorable
conditions and the possibility of the
shortest cotton crop * in the last 25
years under adverse weather condi
tions, the cotton industry of the world
today should read in box car letters
the danger sign, and the manufactur-
Ha- l ighting Chance.
Jonas
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It ta pr»p issH tbat —Hi I— play mm
gnmm at b— —rb week and mm m
i hr raud Aa —on ns tW scKsduls la
adopted it will tw published in these
columns
alleged profiteering of cotton mills in
er u’ho fails to cover his wants under J the United States, which appears in a
these conditions lacks the first prin-1 recent issue of The Congressional
v ate* of good sound business judg-i Record. In this address the follow*
ig was brought out:
ley, whe
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Aiken cusp
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M Aa invrstigatft* n bu*>ud upon supply
and draMMftd, based upon the price uf
the msiiafw farad pvadHrt dhows that
mw fwttiMi ia th« cheapest 1
It
observed that the ta*
*4 these vsras ft
in the world today, selling far below
a fair price. Off grades are aril mg at
a price that means murder to the pro-
ducef. We wish to quote the follow
ing figures taken from The Textile
World Journal, showing the range of
prices ofJhre? sizes of combed yarns,
taken semi-annually from June, 1914,
to December, 1919. The three sizes
are No. 40, 2 ply, No. 60, 2 ply and No.
80, 2 ply. * . •
1914 1915 1916
June Dec. June Dec. June Dec.
2-40a— $ .43 $ .38 $. 40 $..50 $ .58 $ .85
2-60s 55 .50 .52 .65 .75 1.05
2-80s - .75 .70 -.72 .85 1.00 1.25
June Dec. June Dec. June Dec.
2-40rT~85 .90 1.00 .95 1.20 2.50
2-60s -- LIO l.lfr 1.25 T:20 1.55 3.50
2-80s L40 1.45 1.55 1.50 2.00 4.75
“We wish also to refejr to an ad
dress made by Congressman Tilson of
Connecticut in directing the federal
trade commission ■ to investigate the
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