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'( ■; 'i-iv- X ■» V -' j y J| 0°^ XL iy . CROWDED HOUSE GREETS ; . * PLAY BY LOCAL TALENT X , L,ikc a Member of the Family” —-■■■*>- INWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, f ' •* v.-.' ~ t T— ' • y.. NUMBEfe 21. 'A'- COTTjON CARRY-OVER MAY ? TOTAL 13,000,000 BALES ■‘T^mbones”- Presented .by Strong Cast at Dunbarton La^t Week. Study of Conditions Shows Necessity ,■; : for Acreage Reduction. ’ y " 'V ‘i- LONG AGO. Dunbarton, Jan. 24.—The most en joyable event of the season at ^un- barton was the minstrel, “Tambones’* presented at the School Auditoriifm last Friday night. The^ weather was beautiful and a crowded house greet ed the players when the curtain rose. The program was given with plenty of “pep” and time and again the players were called upon for encores. The show was an hour and a half of solid fun. \ While the minstrel was made up of local talent, it had a professional as pect because of the fact that it was eompdsed of men who had had ex perience with traveling organiza tions of that kin<U The personnel of the minstrel was composed of Messrs. Arlington, who at .one- time-splayed end man for Field’s Minstrel-and tvLo is as good as any man in the profes- "tjuire that they make any further ctrt“~ sjonal shows today; H. H, King, the principal of the Dunbarton Public Schools who has had experience for ^Vi'ars with glee clubs and director of imateur minstrels; A. B. -.Smith, pother end man"in the minstrel work;-* J. Hiers, Russell Sanders, and T. 'v Killingsworth, who are as good lilack-face comedians as one will find ““ Coumbia, Jan. < j24.—The pledge which each farmer is being asked to sign requires that he "“not plant in cottpn mpre than one-third of the land cultivated” by him during* the year 1920 and not that he cut his cot ton acreage in 1921, according to a statement issued yesterday by the South Carolina Division of the Amer ican Cotton association. It has 'been figured that if aJJ of the farmers will agree not.fa plant mofe than one- third of their cultivated lands jn cot ton, the tdtai acreage reduction will be around 50 per cent. “There are many farmers who havg not been planting over' one-third of their cultivated lands in cotton for th6 past several years,” says the statement issued by ; the association. “The pledge, of course, does -not re- By Robert W. Sanders. . HI _ an evening of amusement that was well worth the price of admission. . Mias Ruth Rogers at the piano played the accompaniment for the several songs during the evening. The program was well , balanced, ranging from the funniest of jokes to the saddest of songs. The chorus sang for the opening number “Dark- —town Strutters Ball” followed by trio. KrlliDgsvvortli, Hires and King, in "That Wonderful Mother of Mine." Three quartet numbers were'well re wived and encored. One of the best rtUtnbers remlered wafc VHomeboHy’s Done Me Wrong” by Mr. Kibg and chorus. Other most amusing skits were "The Telephone Call” by Mr. King, and “The Ghost,” by Killings worth, Sanders and King. The show closed with “Old Black Joe” sung hy Mr. Arlington and assisted by the en tire company. This was probably the best number on the program and by tar the saddest. It brought hack the days-of dhe old darkey and many eyes were 'dimmed with tears when the curtain dropped mi the last . ^trains of the old song that- will ■ever die. "Tambones” will he presented in Rllenton next Friday night, and plans are being made to carry it to other places in the ngaf future. The-peo ple of Dunbarton can recommend rh. to any community where they show in their cotton . acreage unless they desire so^Tq do." There are many farmers, howevety^who have been planting nearly ail of their lands in cotton and the great majonty-pf them have been planting at least hfU-pgr cent. The committee which consid ered the matter very carefully .found after a study of. the situation that it' Mil pTSttfrofly oru^third of their lands in cotton that the ^rbdugtion of acreage over the belt would aggregate 50 per cent. "We are delighted to report that the farmers of South Carolina are signing the pledges ynhositatingly. They realize the fact that another large crop would mean financial tli,s- aster to the South and while it might seem at first blush that to plant only one-third of their hinds in cotton would entail a hardship op them, a lit tle study of the" situation* 'convinced Obituary. In sad but loving remembrance of my dear husband, Macon Bolen, who departed this life two years ago.to day. January '21, 19T.I. , < "We strive day by day to bow in meek submission to God’s will,-yet we are. hut human,, ahd oft times the 1 • heartache seems more than tVe can bear. We long for a sound of the vantPdTt’rtTfflotsteps and a sound oY th voice that i(s home echo tfie sound o£»Jms footsteps them tliat the hardship would not he as great as to plant more in cotton ami be able to get nothing-for it next fall. "The following, figures which have been prepared by the cotton acreage reduction committee at Memphis," Tenn., will.-we have," convinced every one that a drastic acreage reduction is absolutely necessary. “The teh-yeaf Average amount of American cotton on hand unspun at the beginning of each fiscal year is 1,200,000 hales. “At August 1. W'il, beginning pres ent fiscal year, according to Hester, the unspun American Oottoirfon hand was 6,080,000 bales.. ^ '“The probable amount of American cotton on hand unspun on July .‘list, 1921, as now indicated, will be more than 9,000.000 .bales or ‘>,000,000 bales larger than any amount ever eameit -uver before, is:ea -* • ~ -—-a- - “The greatest ~cbTr5wription of all kinds:of cotton ever known in a sin gle year was less than 21,000,000 FIRE LOSS OK S4,000,G AT ATHENS, GA., TUBS TWO NEGROES ARRESTED FOR ROBBERY AT ELKO Fire Started at Midnight and Swept f Business Section of City. XIX. Visiting ’The Boys,” Joining The Aripy, and Incidents of Camp Life. Col. Lamar’s Regt:, 2nd S. C. Artil lery, consisting of 10 companies and aboik 1)400 men, stood in firm defense of Charleston for nearly 04. years. Several of the companies were- from Barnwell District, while others were from Orangeburg, and some possibly from other Districts. Prominent m the Regt. and from Barnwell were the companies of F. J. Sanders (G. W. Stallings, later), Hunter, Lan caster (formerly, Read)' Wc H. Ken nedy, and may'be others. I well re member these four. During the war period, the companies of this Regt. were often" separated, and severally defended varioifs forts and batteries. P\>r exaPiple, Fort Johnson, Setession- ville, Battery Glover, and the several Sand batteries along the “West "Line” oh James Island—called “Battery One”,"“Uattery Two”, Battery Three” Lexicon, I used them a while; but I soon found the »chances for studying books to be Very slim in camps. Books of Latin and a* student to use -them in an Army are about as rare and awkward arid * out of place. I. •reckon, as “Mary’s Little Lamb,” 1 that one day ‘followed her to* school. I had my New T^stiment and often read that. When I 'joined the Regt. I was enrojlrid , in the company of " Athens. Ga., Jan. 25.—Damage e‘s- Third Negro Is Implicated in " ... . , ‘ Robberies at Blackville. of Mr. Lqe._PoJarell, at — — — — - - — — y • *» a . Capt. W. H. Kennedy (Co. H.r But stored ‘ However, unless a shift of I got an exchange over to Co. G. with my old school matg, John Barnes; and so, I waS'-with my brothers and cous ins thereafter, until ' the war ended. I was sad in leaving, home, .and my father, mother ahd sisters wept biti- terly as the "haby boy” of the family said “good bye,”-to ($o and take the chances and bear the hardships of a young soldier. X* • • Capt. K.ennedy was “very nice” in hiX dealings with-me, duh-ing the few weeks that'I was in hi$ company. lie had agreed before I was enrolled to Elko, was robbOd^some time Saturday tjmated at well above $4J)00,000. was . this being the second robbery caused here erirly today by\fire of un- ^ occur in that Jittl^town in about yl A 4 Pk s-1 ’ * »■» # A M A a <9 . I ^ f SI .V m three weeks. Mr. Powell discovered his loss about three o’clock Sunday morning and Sheriff Sanders was noti fied of the crime about five o’clock. hV immediately went to Elko, where buggy tracks wtre- found leading from the store. As soon as jt was light enough to see, the Sheriff -fol lowed the trail of the horse and bug gy, which were found abandoned near Cain’s Crossing, north of Blackville, John Davis, a negro, who lives on determined origin in ./he business section of Athens. At four o’clock thii( morning fire fighters appeared to/ be getting the flames under contwfl, although, there was s possibility ’ that they would spread to the Central of "Georgia Railway station, ( ,near which is lo cated a warehouse where approxi- jnately 3,000 bales of - cotton are the. wind comes, it was not thought that much more damage would be recorded. Several of the main busi ness blocks of the city were'totally destroyed. «\ " ^ -r ' Auto Destroyed by s Fire. and "Battery !■ our”. On the Stono I allow me to exchange witli any man guarded, by Major Lucas’s Battalion of Regulars, were' TBatterv Pringle, Battery Tines. "Also Battery Read. In this section, therX^vyas a bridge across the Stono river affording trans portation to John’s inland, south., of the city. At r times < the companies were moved from one defense or camp to another'. Most of m,\i rel atives in the Regt., belonged to Co. G. of a.visit to Cole’s, Island. I after wards made several ether trips to the camps on James Island before I joined the Army. Sept. ISfit.*, One pleasant visit was made to Co. G. at Battery Glover; another at Camp Morgan; and again at Battery One. On these several* tours I was in company, from time to time, with Rev. Fred J. Sanders (previously .Captain), Moses- Sanders, Sr., Henry and \Vil- oFCbAG. who would “swap'with me,”. The Liberty speedster of Mr. J. Gary Owens, of this city, ‘was de stroyed by fire Sunday night.on the Barnwell-Allendale public road, while Mr. Owens was returning homo. The fire started under Jhe floorboards. The loss was practically covered by i-X ' - „ insurance. several times fie fore "T” could get an exchange. One day he said: “1 am not.going to swap you for any sorry man. I see you are geing to make a 'good soldier:” Of course, I-felt the eomtdiment. ! always loved (’apt. Kenm-dyXT >aw him at Bentonvillc after he was wlnin(icyt, on March 19 (XuTidav). -seemed, long after the W’ar, to regardxrie as “one of his boys.” While in his cdmmihy I was in “the mess” (as we calleilThe 57i«k Bftiglc-eaughC ftro M wmfaqr n fght' while/Sfan 'ing in front of the furni ture store of Black Brothers, but the blaze was. extinguished before any damage was done. to In Memory. Whrrons- uur • Hen ventv Cm her: ur “The _ greatest consumption of American Cotton ever known in a sin- gle year was loss than LVIOO.OOO - bales. “The ten-year average consumption of all kinds qf cotton, including A -eating clubs) with Whitt JJave,_Bill Braxton, “Coon” and ' Paul Bowers, and Whittle Peacock—-a pretty HVeTy set! They teased and worried me a good deal. One day my ‘ gdbd old friend, Col. Darlington, now of Alien- dale, came to our place in 1 “Smoky Row” and found me working on Cice- liam Sanders. The two last, like my-j ro’s Orations. He said: “Ydur father hooU pplication of books in camps,” True, perhaps. But a boy’s father had to yiel.d to Confeder- self, finally becoming soldiers. There j ought to have kept you at scl in • You will lose all application of b( was always for me a thrill of joy visiting the camps, the city 0 f Charleston and the Islands. "" b ' ■ . In August. 18fi4. six weeks before I was liable to the call (f the “Confed eracy’.’ far hoys of 17 years, I made a special trip to James Island, with my father’s consent, to see whether in volunteering I would join the.2nd S*C. Artillcryror tin- Company of Capt. H. C. Smart, in Colcock’s cav alry. Capt. Smart wrotcTftr that he would enroll me. if 1 would come to him. bringing my own horse, saddle .aji'J bn,lie. K fai v vv ^jjLLog,,uox Islaiul to come to a decision, Tvisited Col. Frederick who was, after Col. Lamar’s death, commander of the Regtr Be received ‘ «to r n mfy^- a "lad now .,with cojdiality;> and I,, made known to Tiiin my jmrpose of volun teering. I inquired of him whether hbr not, in giving jn my name, he would allow me to return home until Sent. 12th', toe day on -‘which 1 would be i*P^tfc 17 year"old ...Teal lYe,l b/rben'rahT’e^sn!^'^^-^^ '9— from us. Death is always sad, but In this case especially-so, fm* ho was, as it seemed, ouf all. It was indeed hard to ; glye him up, but God makes no mistakesVand tooUgri the’call was so sudden anH^ unexpected, we feel that all is we tohatov^^TTgrit "and nothing gave him more pleasure than to add haupi- -nass to the lives of those around him. He was a t and affectionate father. He lo.vdd his church with a devotion that W'as beautiful to see and to it he co ption or all Kinds of cot ton 1919-1920,. United States census “An American crop of 13,000,000 bales in 1921 would indicate a .world supply of all kinds of cotton, includ ing American, of 29,000,000 bales(v “The world carry-over may reack a total of, or may exceed 13,000,00(1 “The world during the present fis cal year is not , likely to consume more -than 15,000,000 bales.” "bi- Marty Attend Christening. presenCat every service unless,prov identially hindered.'* Oh, how sad life haskieen since he went,away, hut, dear fine, we hope to meet thee in that home where nor ^farewells or .good byes are sahl. • / ' His devoted wife. er ot Mr. and Mrs.' Nicholas Coelin, of Barnwell, was 'christened Sunday evening hy the Rev. Father Pappar aye the aut of absence. lority to grant you leave But there is no tise of atrrcontrol of him, books or no books! Before \ve finally left the Island fcp- ^the march up the country, I sent my Latin books hprtie. P'or a wonder, Sherman’s hordes did not burn or steal them. They liked other things- bet tor, I suppose. Yet, they even burnt churches, dwelling houses etc., and took hymn-books out of some churches! _After thj* War, I went to the hoe and plow. But I got, at last, .hack p) bo(Xb,toav!tyi. an education. - , - "Mr. Marion Wall, of Dunbarton, was the erdfecly sergeant of Capt. Ken- nedy’s company, and one of Barn well’s best men. He gave me my rtc- coutrernents, rifle,“etc., when 1 entered the service at'Batteyy Four.,, My fifst night on picket was near Rivers’s Causeway. Henry Lard, of Willis ■''■'■ ■ ■ '• , ’ T * ^ ’ vounuj were. near • a clump of woods accessible to the enemy. It Avas a risky point, and I His infirtite wisdom has’seen fit to A V * remove from our midst our dear sif ter and faithful member of the W. M. U. of Cypress Chapel Church Mrs. M. K. lifers. ■ ' " . ^ :X- 1 Be it resolved. -—2- Ah a VV. M. S. w«^ wish, to ex press our love and esteem of her Christian character. 3 That we have lost one of our oldest, lieloved and honored members. 4 That ■while we deplore the death of our dear sister and shall miss her prayerif and cheerful face we^recog- nir.e the rjght of Him who doeth all things well and bow in humble sub mission to His will. .... a» * 5 That a copy of these resolutions j be sent to the familyTto the Barnwell papers for publication, and that a page / krr our minute book be inscribed -to her memory. to, Mrs. C- H. Dicks, • , " Mrs. T. W. Dicks. Mrs. T. E. Killingsworth, _ ^ Committee. - x John >Hbgg’s place, near Blackvilla, plao 7 v/jk* placed under arrest and later confessed to the robbery, implicating Joe Duncan, another negro. The lat ter was located on the Hamp Murphy place, near White Pond, and was in possession of some of the .stolen goods when arrested. A search of John Davis’ quarters on the Hogg place revealed the rest of the goods stolen from Powell’s store and also a cash register-that was stolen about three weeks ago when the store of Green & Co. at Elko was-entered and Davis confesseii to, seven different, crimes committed in the. past / few weeks, as follbjvs: Entering and rob bing .Green & Co.’s and Lee Powell’s r?e fitorestoUEIko, H. H. Martin'& Sons* store and Fishbume’s flour mill at Blackville, and using livestock with out owner’s consent in thre£ of the robberies, making ar totalXof ' charges against him. He implicated' Duncan in all of the above robberies and alsj) ijpplicated Julius Williams, colored, In the robbery of Green & Cb.’s store, H. H. Martin & Sons and Fishburne’s |toUr mill. The thrfgf negroes are safely lodged in the Barnwell County Jail. WEEKLY COTTON v. MARKET New York Bulls Find No Fault With 'General Conditions. _ Sleet \\edrtesday... Morning. home for 4, while, as you are so -young. Go.tf) see Mary giml Jane and Susan and Sarah and other girls, and have a good tim<*: Thel, just be fore you are 17, eome back and we will take you.” I took his advice. / «• said: “Why have you come back?” I inade my explanation^ and he seem- dd satisfied and said: “WeiL tl; ii The first sleet of the winter in this section fell here yesterday (Wednes day t morning, the thermometer reg istering t\vi> degrees -below freezing, point. ^ '* J ' / /xX -, and- batteries! Pringle, visited One, - Two, • ■ 7 Batteries SeceVsionville, New York, Jan. 23.—Confllieting in fluences have been reflected in the unsettled ruling of the. cotton market ; here during the past week- Locnl bulls have found no fault with reports from the goods trade or the South. Sales of cloth have continued larger, with the business' at Fall River for the week again eatjniated at 300,000 pieces, while almostXvery day has brought reports of increasing mill ac tivity. With reference ta-the spot situation, Southern hedge, selling has Leen reported here from day to day, b^t it has- bcett"- in no great volume with no indication that recent advan ces. have brought out any material pressure of spot offerings. This has been regarded by some of the local traders as indicating that weakly held cotton had lieen pretty well liquidated before the end of old year and that remaining holders' were more certain of their position. These features, mm son. /0k we “stood guard” and slept-some, by “feliefiy of two hours. Of all the battle/1 ever had with mosquitoes, le/ I nigh that toight certainly ushered me into the/most awful one; unless perhaps it w^ts equaled in agony by a nigfa just toe tctel in the city of Charleston, where for lack of room I tried to sleep on a fijy- On the bid site of Battery One I ate a nice luncheon with a fine Pennsylvania Ox-soldier of the Spanish War of 1898—whom I had invited to go with me to look over the rouglj places we had trodden as Confederate pldiers of the ’’sixties.”' I told him wish, ride around, and feel free unti you must go into the Army.” I did ■to *18. $ Q Sing? 'onvention at Hilda. The public is invited to attend the dox” Church. This is quite a. festiv occasion with the Greeks and in a dition to relatives and friends frfy A ik v.: 1 .i-hi i. mi ia-fnwe friends to witness the ceremony^ which proved to be very ii‘iteres/ing. go -cheerfully. % But that I would never “run away” and. go, as did some other boys. I. was doing well, at 1 ti^fPirwpgff‘ity iBtluy atiun membered soldier’s resorX Stallings- Co. (J.—that of Capt. during my time irv it on ’ afC-r The a p"t7 with L ieii fe nan t s, G SUlTus and J. Staff Halford and the larger portion of the company, held Battery T wo. LtoXhafc was Yankees —that with me the wan. was’ ovrtrtortwr Large trees occupied old torjr v t (-'Fy ' *L4 LI II are still prcs-crx-etL 1 brought * away depressed trade conditions abroad. Liverpool has been weak owing to the failure«of Manchester business to of the large supply of cotton still available in the South some of the local traders ^hav.e expressed appre hensions that advances here could not to. * ' . v ■ be maintained until export business improves. The firmer ruling of for- ratos has I h-vo an en- ■torw* -a-stick, cut from the growing bushes At Battery Pri siaiKS, ant! shadow of the Fort f.rom which T. one day saw a* cannon ball shot forth with “ • " ^ " X; to" a. era to .down the Stumi rive.g.„at-..a. *W" < (tf-tfr.- yaa.rdrtir-Bri c 1 c ry 1 D» iti’. W n Imd/nfles' a-< welF^: cannon and. had . to act as In-fantry,'too, while we real was a great trial tp me. I had fin ished abbut all ’the mathematics taught in our Country sc to tin Andrew's’ Reader. Histora ffaerae, two 'see-our bid forts, on James , Islam or three Books of Caesar, parts of Virgil, arid some ef-Uit:ero’s speeches. ot syrvim Haying a desirX to kiatumftnit' f r friend*!. the enemy! No. one tout ax to. Convention at ^he Hilda Baptist Church next Sunday, January 30th, begrrmirtg o’cfbcTt’ a.’ m. and' continuing until late in the afternoo. He Vice-Presidet -—;—» ♦ ♦— the ceremony and later in the evening the out-of-town Visitors w(*rt* servetl 'with an elegant supper. Each guest was prostented with a little token of occasion. The daiys gain eight minutes in sun- .to.'". ^ toXxTT this week. of the>^ir^fS6^r apd Mr. Patrick Quinn, up to Aug. ^1804. I loved them as my teachers', and thefr esteem and valuation -of me (doubtlesf leasure and an in- So^tD study.' Iri going into the Army I took with rne a copy of Cice ro’s Orations,-a Latin Grammar and went over there, now several/ years to w-Jnle pastor of t urchin i nanus Lon. A ri ex-Confederate- ^oldidr—Mr, Pinson, a bachelor—then had a beautifuF home right at old Battery Glover,. m”an , ()f own- mg a saw-milh Fie furnished me a horse and buggy and a guide, from Gen. Beauregard’K old < !H'eadquart- j ’’ to go round to « feel, when -We visit old camping ^grounds, battle fields, and the like; or when we _ meet together in OUr “Re- Uniona.X _ oncerning 'toe evacuation hf Charleston,' our toard marching, and the two Battles of* Averysboro and couraging feature in’ this respect, but there have been tmfavc ment that the reestablished War Finance Corporation would not aid ex- ITat war, seeme in, some”7iuartors January contracts was a sustaining factor early in-the week and tbe January long interest continued to < tbp noiicen, but a fear tharipart of the cotton might be 'retenctered * on March seem SM H ™ **** * [y month dUrinyXodaY’ 8 trading. It is estimated Tiy the end of this m.0! there will be a stock of not less than Tn,p00 bales in the local wap^eh In Barnwell i&efy Monday. 20th and 21st, 18(55, I expeetto speak in The Barnwell People in- another chapter,, of my reminiscences. I ive patience while trying to pre- Serv/e some .htotory. F ■ ill be In Barn Viren on Maadiy <rf week, at which time he wiR be tp meet anyone in need of his rvices. Appointments ca 1 be made t the Mace Drug Company —^dr.