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r v H M Ju»t Like a M«mb«r of thm Family” VOLUME XLV. BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27TH, 1921. 4 • Vpkhc | SEVERAL MURDER CASES DISPOSED OF BY COURT . Two Weeks Term of General Sessions Came to a Close Friday. The two weeks term of the Court of General Sessions was adjourned sine die Friday. Several murder cases were tried during the second week. Cases disposed of since the last issue of this p»?er are as fol lows: Pink McCrady, charged with mur der, was found guilty of manslaugh ter and sentenced to 6 years at hard labor. '* Jim Champion was acquitted of the charge of murder. Mrs. Addie Scott was acquitted of the charge of murder. Hugh Scott,, charged with murder, was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to five years at hard labor. ^ Chester May was acquitted of the charge of murder. ,. Otis Cook, G. M. Holley and John A. Jones were acquitted of the charge of housebreaking end larceny.' Cleve Nelson, charged with assault and battery with intent to!kill, was found guilty of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature and sentenced to pay a fine of $100 or serve two months at hard labor. Mattie Holman was acquitted of the charge of assault and battery nth intent to kill. Paul Walker, colored, who was *r- te^ last week in connection with e death of little Judson Black, the tharge against him being criminal driving, was granted bail in the a- mount^of $600. ——■— - FIRST CHOICE GOES TO BU1CK. PEANUTS COMBATTING WEEVIL IN ALLENDALE County Is Fast Turning from Cotton to Diversified Farming. AN INTERESTING BUDGET OF NEWS ITEMS FROM ELKO ^ — People Are Thinking Abont ’Possum, Taters and Persimmon Beer. DEPUTY SHERIFF SHOOTS * > NEGRO IN SELF-DEFENSE Olar Buick Co., of Olar, has just received advice from the Atlanta Branch Office to the effect that the Buick Motor Company has been a- warded first choice of position at the National Automobile Show to be held in New York City. < “Inasmuch as this pri\ileg« is de termined by virtue of production fie urea as reported to the National Au tomobile Chamber of Commerce, this announcement is naturally very pleasing to Buick dealers, as it is another indisputable proof _ of the popularity of the Buick automobile." said Mr. Neeley, and added, “The growth of Buick and its great bu*i- r.es* has been a healthy steady growth. Through twenty yca*a of continuous manufacture they have adhered to the vatve-in-head principle of con struction and their volume of busi- nesa today indicates that their oriTi* nal ideas were correct. The expan sion of the Buick industry* has hern carried out in accordance with sound The following interesting article by Mr. N. L. Willett, of Augusta, ap peared i^.^^la^^'issue of The Au gusta (^hromcle and shows what Al lendale County is doing to combat the boll weevil. I am beginning to put values on men and towns according to their attitude toward agriculture and I place highest value on that man or town that erects agricultural utilities for shucking, grading, storing and selling of the crude products of the farm, for if the individual farmer is to go into mass or diversified pro duction on the farm it is a matter of impossibility for him to properly render and market and ship in car lots his products. I do not know any one effort in this direction more praise worthy than the work of ♦he Southern Cotton Oil Company at Allendale, South Carolina, who in addition to their fertilizer factory and ginning mill and in addition to their running the local potato drying house, erected a concrete hollow tile six story building for the shelling of peanuts, which product goes into two grades to the confectioners throughout this country. Its Work. This investment of perhaps seven ty-five thousand dollars has created annual industry of many bun- Elko, Oct. 20.—With the return of Autumn, our folks are thinking a- bout ’Possum, Taters and Persim mon-Beer (all spelled "Wtt!r~»pitafs, but the emphasis is placed on the last word). Very few of our folk are jobless. Gins have shut down to one day per week, but our farmers are kept busy cutting hay, gathering peas, digging potatoes, j grinding cane, sowing grain, etc. Everybody’s barns are reported full.' Everybody is glad that another highway project contract is about ready to be let. The plans for the Elko-Lees road have been finished; and bids will be advertised for soon. All of our farmers are hoping to be able to dispose of same man and mule power and sell quantities of food stuffs. Much interest is centering around the series of protracted meetings that are scheduled to begin the fifth Sunday at the Baptist Church bv Pastor F. K. Funderburg and his membership. A new lighting plant is being installed and tha church choir i6 getting the music program in shape. After having been absent for two years serving a navy enlistment, handsome Edwin Lee, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Lee, arrived in Elko last week dressed in sailor’s togs. He came to*Elko from New York. His many friends *re hoping that he will not re-enlist, and he says he knows when he disappointed when she accepted a po- and admirers here were very much disappointed when he accepted a po sition as music teacher in the Nor way High School. We had hoped she would spend the winter at home Mr. Geo. E. Crouch recently spent some time and money on a pleasure trip in Southern Florida, visiting Orlando and Tampa. an dreds of thousands of dollars. It has firmly established a new crop for the farm. The large acreage' planted this year will be heavily in creased on the Port Royil Railroad next year. This min has proven to be the salvation this year of that section of the country. It is buying today practically through two states. It has given such an impetus to the peanut industry that two other shell ing plants are going up in South Carolina. *rtic usual out-turn tn peanuts in i ^ ur folks here ate counting the that territory is about a half a ton j wh « n Miss Elizabeth Johnston of peanuts and one ton of hay.* Both ' *»turn from Winthrop College, of these products are easily sold. ' where » hr h »« rone to resume her Peanuts keep for nine months The j «tudies as a Sophomore this year taps as hay pay for the crop. Wherj Horace A. Green, Esq., visited the the hay is kept welt it equals alfalfa. A large grinding industry is indica ted in this country here of a mixed product of peanut hay, velvet beans in the hull and corn. The crop is easily cultivated. It does not re quire the rich land that cotton re quires nor the costly fertilisation. It is easily gathered. The thresher and the hay baler take care of the crop. Iiemoastration Agent. Allendale County is fortunate in Gilmore S. Harley Shoots Elnzy Lee l After Latter Shoots at Him. Linzy Lee, colored, was shot by Mr. Gilmore S. Harley, of Barnwell, at an early hour Sunday morning af ter he had been fired upon by the negro. Mr. Harley and Mr. Charlie Still had been deputized to arrest Lee on a warrant charging him with disposing of property, under lien and went to the negro’s house to serve the warrant. Mr. Still, it is under stood, went to a window of the house, ^whereupon Lee aimed a gun at him. The, negro tftqn tried to es cape through the door, where he en countered Mr. Harley, at whom he shot. He missed his aim and turned to run, but was stopped by two loads of small sized shot. He was brought to the Barnwell County jail and giv en medical attention. It is under stood that he will recover from his injuries. The shooting occurred a few miles from Barnwell. BANKS* OFFICIALS HAVE BORNE GREAT STRAIN danker’a Job Has been in Sense a Maa’a Job. Evory WILLISTON NEWS. Williston, October 22.— (Special.) —Dr. and Mrs. M. A. Connelly, of Wodruff and Mrs. W. l r Johns of Allendale passed through Williston Tuesday morning. Misses Ruth .and Edna Crouch and Mr. Jake Crouch and Misaes Kath leen and Myrtle Ingram of Augus ta spent Sunday with Mrs. \lmo Still. Mr. and Mrs. Drew Nixson and daughter Elizabeth of Greenwood spent MondayMr. and Mrs. J. E. Newsom. Mr. Nixson is Asst. Supt. of Connie Maxwell Orphanage and stopped over in Williston on his way back from Charleston. Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Lee of California are visiting Mrs. Edna NUMBER fi. NEGRO IS LYNCHED BY MOB NEAR ALLENDALE Was Accused of Slaying K. P. Walt er hi Dispute. The death of Mr. Perry M. Buck- Allondale, Oct. 24.—Eugene P. ingham, of Barnwell, should impress Walker, a prominent fanner of Ap- upon others the great stress that pleton, about four miles from here, was shot and instantly killed this morning about 10 o’clock by a negro tenant named Ed Kirkland. A moo which formed immediately upon hearing of the killing took Kirkland ^Trom Sheriff Bennett at Fairfax this afternoon from Seaboard train No. 2, upon which the sheriff was at tempting to take the prisoner to Co lumbia for safe keeping, and taking him to the scene of the crime in the center of the . town of Appleton burned him, the cremation taking place about 9 o’clock tonight, accord ing to reports. The killing of Walker arose out of i difficulty over a settlement of rent due Walker, some difficulty having been had between Mr. Walker and Kirkland last Saturday, it is said. This morning Mr. Walker met Kirk land on the streets of Appleton and demanded a settlement, whereupon the negro drew a gun and shot him. the shot entering the head of Walker and killing him instantly. The negro attempted to make his escape but was captured about a mile from Ap pleton by a party of men who turned Phim over to Sheriff Bennett. In the bank officers have undergone, and* are yet undergoing, says the Ander son Daily Mail, which is moved to write as follows: , Perry Buckingham, 40 years a busy banker in Barnwell—yet never too busy to perform any of the mani fold public duties of the all ’round good citizen—was at month ago pro moted against his will to be presi dent Of the Bank of Western Caro lina, having eight branches and a many-sided, extensive business. Sun day afternoon last, he died by his own hand, leaving a letter which in dicated, between the lines not less than in the text, that he had broken under the strain of his responsibili ties. His lamentable end, like that of another gallant gentleman nearer home not so long ago, ought to make the rest of us understand, somewhat better than we have, what stress onr bank officers have undergone in ♦ha recent trying past—and are yet un dergoing, for that matter. Most of us, whatever our fields, have had our own special troubles in the same period. The banker, how ever, holds in such times a relation I meantime a mob was being formed peculiarly delicate, difficult and re sponsible. Obligated to serve l^is community to the utmost practicable extent, and as a rule ep£££ to do so, he is at the same time bound also to -safeguard the interests of the many, whether shareholders or de positors, who have entrusted thtir funds to his management. His fi duciary relation furthermore de volves on him the cnarge of mopavs I belonging to widows, orphans and I Others toward whom particularly ho Dr. and Mrs. D. D. Salley. Mr. and stands in an exacting position. Ev- Mrs. George Salley and Mr. Donald | ery resource that the banker had, of Salley of Orangeburg spent Sunday j energy, sagacity and discretion, has with Mrs.^ J. W. Odiome. | been required, to the steering of a Miaa Mary Reece of Columbia is “ ,e course, between recklessness visiting Mrs. L. H. Boland. on the one side, which would have ail over the county, and when the news reached the mob that the ne gro was in the hands of the sheriff and that he was .intending to spirit him to Columbia, c.urj avenue of escape for the sheriff and his pris oner was shut off. Portions of the mob were at every station in the vicinity, it is said, even the bridge at Columbia being picketed. The sheriff took a roundabout trip to Gibbons, 8. wnere he boerded the Seeboerd train with Kirkland, making a* detour requiring over five Mrs. E. W. Black and Miss Lottie Bean are spending a few days in emu™ rt M £* o-u. . Aa&aeg ^ b.u, «d O h.™ ot tmjillfr ■mport.iK. ^ . , runnb—r WillMon recently went to the mouth of the fnl . _ t,,.. Edisto on a fishing trip tor a week. . B . - v-norted Tfc.y .UpM n.«r CotU^MIc. B *' * nd > * PO "' d which Mr. Green says is a thousand ^ ^ Mr» R miles from Elko. I u ^ of * ® Hair will learn with regret that she business principles, and in our own having ss its demonstration agent Miles and service business in this! Mr. Z. D. Robertson. He is fast get- The class mates, school mates and teachers of Gladys Haskell gave her a warm reception at the srhool house the day she.returned from Aiken, where she had been as Barnwell County’s representative in the Bread Georgia, Alabama, Florida and parts I tounty by agriculture I find some- of South Carolina ami Tennessee, in-1 thing like this: The county has creased 20 per cent in September 1 shipped forty cars of hogs, one over the August sales. thousand bushels of Abruzzi rye* 2,- The People this week begins pub- 500 bushels of oats, eight cars of licatfowu#w iwu wiW'W lUlUlIPl 1 - velvet bexmrln the hull, shelied «««*» up. .ud „n erv- of ,UCC ” S ' ments -for the Olar Buick Co. PLEASANT HILL HAPPENINGS. Pleasant Hill, Oct. 20.—Mr. J. W. Dixon has returned from Camden af ter attending the funeral of his fath er. He has the sympathy of his many friends. Mr. W. W. Woodward is at home from Akron, Ohio. Miss Annette Davis is jvith her sister, Mrs. C. B. Parxer, after ^vis iting relatives in Allendale and Fair fax. Mrs. W. C. Woodward left Sunday to visit her mother in Greenville. *• Miss Eddie Lou Weathersbee spent the week-end with friends in Augus ta. Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Weathersbee and Mrs. Mae Creech spent Monday in Augusta. Mrs. Creech visited her son, Mr. J, W. Cook, at the Univer sity Hospital. His many friends' in this section will be glad to know that he is doing nicely. Mr. W. J. Woodward left Sunday for Jacksonville, Fla. ' ^ Mr. C. B. Parker was a visitor in Augusta Monday. <■ Mr. J. N. Folk has been sick for some wee&s^He has the sympathy of the entire community, who wish for him a speedy recovery. From what can be learned the farmers of this section are putting in a large grain crop to help fight Mt'Boll'Weevil: - T~ ' N ^ SINGING CONVENTION. The Barnwell and Orangeburg County Singing Convention will meet at Pine Hill Church, near leeses, in Orangeburg County, on [Sunday, Oct 30th. The public U in vited to take lunch j>and “Penny” Song Books. Come one; come all. Henry Winton Jones, President. he sand hills, contesting. Estelle Hutto was appointed to a vacant scholarship to. Confederate Home School, Charleston, and en tered upon her "studies several weeks Her. JrietwU are been breach of faith, and a timorous conservatism on the » other, which would have been equally 4 failure to function rightly. His has bsen in every sense a man’s job. Good men and true have collapsed tinder its de mands, as we have seen; triad be yond their powers of endurance. Surely, if others, perhaps equally harassed, but made of sterner stuff, have “carried on” through it all, yet have been on occasions a little curt or brusque, we ought not to cherish Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Randall of | or . , ^ ncor J Th ? 1 Greenville and daughter. Miss Cor* j bo undedrstand all is to is quite 111. Randall, visited their daughter, Mrs L. S. Flenniken last Sunday pardon all. Our bankers for the most part have acquitted themselves Mr ui Mn. L. H. BoUiX.r, th, I * nd , J l **k*»- •f 1 '; W to understand their trials. Undoubt- makinir varv e * ,y th * they carry would r*nd searched. hospital nnd' ** lightened If they could proud parents of s fine daughter. Mr. J. W Cook m good progress at the hours. The negro was tween two of the coaches. Whan tha train reached Fairfax vt was met by a mob of several hundred, who boarded the train and searched ev ery coach, from the mall car to the last Pullman,. seeking the prisoner. He was finally located and jumped from the train and triad to escape. He eras shot at several times and hit, but was still conscious whan tha mob carried him through the coun try and reached Appleton. When tha shades of night had gkthered, upon previous arrangements, R seems, they gathered again and butned tha body of the negro on the main thor oughfare of the town. There was no excitement about the affair, every thing taking place in a quiet manner. ^No details of the Darning could be learned, as all the members of the mob were masked, as they were at Fairfax when the train was boarded feel that their communities gave it is hoped that within a fey weeks L. _ ..... - . , h, will be b^k in Wlllirton. He •,,dl thcm * , “ tl ' 'on>P«t>en.»>n. a most serious appendicitis opera, tion. Mrs. Cook returned to Willis- ton the latter port t>f last week for Mrs. Olive Chitty of Olar is spend ing some time here with friends. . Little Misses Mossie apd Mildred Wooley, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. W: H. Wooley, made a very unpleas ant trip to Augusta last wkek X.ir the purpose of having their tonsils removed. They are rast improving. Mr. R. R. Johnston has the record for loading watermelons the latest He loaded a car October 1ft and an other car the 3rd inst. They were shipped to Charleston and put in the hands of an expert salesman, W. H. Wooley. who sold them for a fabu lous price. Our effiefent assistant teachers, Misses Myrtice Boylston and Gladys Willis, spent the week-end with rela tives last week, the former in Bljiek- ville, the latter with her sister, Mrs. E. E. Goodson in Barnwell. the acre. His lands, together with all other lands in this territory are light, arable, easily worked and over- lie clay. Mr. Johns does general farming and he carries on the side a heavy industry both in good bred hogs ahd cattle. He is going to cut acreage to five or six bales to the plow. He thinks that the weevil can be controlled with this smaller acre'- •rage. He attributes the tragically short crop this year more to the weather than he dots to the weevil. They will ship a hundred cars of peanut hay. They shipped many J hundred cars of watermelons, twenty- six cars of cantaloupes, twenty cars of cucumbers, two tars of cabbage,' six cars of Irish potatoes, and they have an excellent five-thousand bush-’ el sweet potato drying house. All of this space is already spoken for and Allendale today needs another potato drying house o.-' equal capaci ty. The county is planning to plant now, in largest way, fall grains. The fall grains combine excellently with White Spanish peanuts, thus giving .two crops per annum on the same land. ^For a fall, legume hairy vetch is largely used. Fall rape and. spring Bermuda pastures are in big use. He is firmly of the belief that the hog and cattle industry is indicated for us here more than it is indicated for arty other section in .the United States and he feels that this indus try is ultimately coming here. This industry l/as been m&de possible through velvet beans, which is an other crop universijtjy.i seen not only in Allendale Uounty but everywhere up and down the Port Royal railroad. He says that there are probably .thir teen to fifteen thousand acres in pea nuts contiguous to Allendale. He told'me of one “farmer 'woman who on 75 hens had made $500 this year (he absolutely knew the returns) and, TT ., ., . ^ , , had grown her own food in this in- * al ? tbl * t not ,or fift5 ’ yaar8 had *-Stry. He is a great friend of the been a sea50n a0 ur ' fa '' oraWe , Williston last week for cotton growing. He spoke of forbearance and sympathy. NEWS FROM ROSEMARY? Rosemary, Oct., 20.—Mr. Martin Eubanks, of Hawthorne, was theweek end guest of his aunt, Mrs. W. A. Hair. The friends of Miss Corrine Burck- dame of honor for Mis? Nancy Doug- halter are glad to know that she is Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Martin and family spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wienges of St. Matthews. Mrs W. C. Smith, Jr., has returned from Pendleton wher^shc stood ns Iss lass Evans, who was married to WM- liam L. Austin, of Seneca, last week. Miss Evans has visited Williston and has many friends in this section. Miss Louise Prothro is visiting Mrs. Fred Wienges of St. Matthews. Miss Daisy Willis spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Willis. Mrs. T. W. Weeks of White Pond was a visitor in town Monday. Miss Aliveah Porter is visiting Mrs. H. P. Porter. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Thoifias, of Ai ken spent Sunday with Dr and Mrs. Gregg Smith. Mrs. Emma Kennedy is visiting her mother and sister in Fairfax. Mr. John F. Brickie of Augusta spent Sunday with fiis sister, Mrs. W. A. Brickie. Mrs. Brickie of Bam berg is visiting her daughter, Mrs. W. A. Porter. . • < Mr. Richard Lowe and family left Sunday for their new hofne in Or lando, Florida. Mrs.. H. E. Dill* and two children and Mr. Henry Dongen of Granit*- ville spent Sunday with Mrs. Flenn iken. ^ y Miss Harter pf Fairfax and Mrs. Paul Cook of Olar were visitors in !* Advert uc in THE PEOPLE. pecan and everywhere in that coun ty t^iere are pecan groves, both oldh and new. On^-farmer has two hun dred and fifty acres. V A Ride. Mr. W. I. Johns, wno lives at Al lendale, is \probably the hrgesLland holder in the coaftty, something like 8,000 acr$s,'kin<yy took me in hand and, drove me through many of his own and other plantations. I did not see probably one acre of Mr. Johns' land that would not have produced in the old days more than a bale to - , - .. » , \ Senator andd Mrs. J. Henry John- fifty five days of continuous rain dur^i Ron and twi) chiWren of AUeir4ate '"ky"function’ and\which rain wouhl ?S' nt S -!' day . ^ , : t ^:^ r I» rent V Youngblood were ywitors in this w recovering rapidly. The people of this section are a- bout to realize that Winter has ar rived at last. The cooler weather is appreciated. Messrs. Wyatt Woodward and Os car Woodward were visitors in this section Sunday. Messrs. Gregg Moody nnd McAl lister, of Barnwell, spent Sunday in this section. V . , .. - Miss Eva Robinson was the guest of Miss Lessie Heath Saturday. Mr. and Mrs .Dixon entertained a large number of their friends Satur day night. Misses Janie and Inez Randall were the guests of Miss Valeric Mitchell Saturday. Mr. Frank Randall and Oscar’ Woodward, were the guests of Mr. L. F. Randall Sunday. Mr. and Mrs.‘U. H. Kinard were visitors in this section Friday. Messrs. Joe and Tom Powell were the guests of Misses Janie and Inez Randall Sunday afternoon.; v Mr. Charlie Willis and Jus father were the visitor? of Mr. Luther Birt Sunday. ( Messrs. Joe Powell and J. H, Ran dall motored to the Pleasant Hilly sec tion last Sunday. v' Mr. Otis FrDdmck and Heyward innirhlonri visitors ir this spc- This is the first mob demonstra tion that has occurred ia this coun- / ty since its formatf&n. There was considerable excitement here a few weeks ago in regard to the capture of Memminger Priester, but there was no mob spirit exemplified there as everyone in the mob was a mem ber of the sheriff’s posse and at all times completely under his controL Sheriff Bennett is receiving unstint ed praise here on the manner in which he handled the situation here today, he having used every means within his power to avoid the 'result. It ia estimated that over 1,000 men were at some time members of the mob here today, being scattered all over the county and 'other counties, a« has been stated. Eugene Payton Walker, the slain man, was a member of one of the most prominent families of this en tire section and was popular all over this State. His .father, Capt. N. M. Walker, also of Appleton, was on his way to the Confederate Reunion at Chattanooga, Tenn., and was located en route between Atlanta and Chat tanooga, and informed of the tragedy. The deceased is survived by, his wife and two small children,-, his father and mother, one sister and two ‘brothers. The funeral services will be held heire tomorrow and the interment will take place at Water loo, S. C., the home of the wife of the deceased, some time tomorrow afternoon. Mr. Walker was 43 years of age and prominent in all activities of his county and community. ♦ *11 and Mrs. J. W. Johnson. j tfon Sunday ' prayent. the pollemHt:on of th fot _ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ton dower, and yet, bn the contrary, wjtll parente Mr. and Mrs. R. attended -an enthusiastic meeting of th„ continuous rain -brad weevil, m A . WMt her„bee. \ ! potato growers held herb last week tt.e *nwh i larger He be- P^ g, Davi , o{ Bornwell waa Senator and Mr,. J. Henry John- lieve. thbt the light warn, Undb too. vijii , Mt week aIU | two chU dren spent taat Sun are go.ng to* be better aofcp- pro-y* H , r ^ r of Fairfiu[ and Mra .1d., with the former-, parent. Mr. MERCHANTS. NOTICE! ducers under boll weevil than the . v polder red lands. Paul Cook of Olar were visitors in and Mrs. J. W. Johnson. Senator 1 town lasL_week. | Johnson made an excellent address * B. F. Owens of JDmthwrton, C. H. to Harac* ylass, reviewing the. Send your Job Work-to The People. Mathi* of Btackvilk* and many others life of -Paul. *Do you want to raise money? Do you want*to close out? If so, notify R. D. Plyler, merchandise attorney, now selling out the- entire stock of B. F. Anderson at Dunbarton. He Vill be there for three weeks. 1 The Home Bank has seetked a loan of $20,000 for the County O^Bapn- well. It is under; tood mount has been in paying ty until taxes are due and collected by the treasurer. * Advertiae to Tfe PEOML jx-