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s The Barnwell People Efttsabliihcd in 1877. M Ju»l Llk« a Mambar of tha Family” Larfcst Cmmtj ClralatlM. RME XLY. BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 28TH. 1822. NUMBER IE NUMBER OF BOLL WEEVILS THIS SPRING Unusual Abundance Necessitate*! Change in Poisoning Methods. The following communication from B. R. Coad and G. A. Maloney, of the Bureau of Entomology, Delta Laboratory, should be read with care by every farmer in Barnwell County: For the past few weeks we ,have been accumulating records on the emergence of the boll weevil from JOINT STOCK LAND BANK -N. TO OPERATE IN COUNTY Brown & Bush Are Abstract At torneys for New Institution. Announcement is made that The First Carolinas Joint Stock Land Bank, with formei* Congressman Lever, until recently a member of the Federal Farm Loan Board, as President, and with offices at" Co lumbia, is to do business in this County. This fact became known, nearly all of the cotton states and when it was learned that Brown & are finding universally, as we fore casted some months ago, that the number of over-wintered weevils is Bush ha«j connected with this in stitution as abstract attorneys, and •for the time being as its local rep- CANDIDATES FOR SOUTH CAROLINA OFFICES HAVE FINE MEET IN BARNWELL MANY LADIES IN ATTENDANCE. ORDER AND GOOD HUMOR PREVAIL USUAL SPEECHES MADE far greater than usual; in fact, in ^ resentatives in the County. When many districts where accurate ( asked for a statement as to methods counts have been made it has been j of operation and terms of loan, Mr. found that we have in the fields ’ Brown said: now as many weevils are are ordi-1 “The First Carolinas Joint Stock narily present a % month later when Land Bank is chartered under the the first summer-bred brood has Federal Farm Loan • Act, and is started to appear. With anything operated under the same Federal like normal weather conditions this is going to mean a tremoundously rapid increase in the weevil damage. supervision of the Federal Farm Loan Boar4. The present paid in capital stock is 1250,000 and $25,000 and this will have an importsnt ' gurplus. The Bank operates very bearing on the program to be fol-1 much along the same tinea as does lowed by those using calcium ar- the Federal lamd Bank of Columbia •tnetc for the control of the weevil. * and under the same superv\sion. It first place it should be re- ‘ fnakes loans only on improved agri- that we mommend star, cultural lands; it doe* not loan on sing when from ten to| city property. The proceeds of these loans must be applied for general agricultural p* loans are made direct t< er. and the borrower Blease Is No Menace.—Former Cover* nor Debated and Knows It, J • Duncan Thinks. About 600 Barnwell County voters heard in Barnwell Monday the more or less impassioned pleas of the can didates for State offices for the votes of the “deer peepul.” The meeting was called to order in the courthouse by County Chairman Edgar A. Brown who presided throughout the day and in his usual happy way introduced the aspiring offireseekef* to their per spiring audience. In a short timt, however, it be came apparent that the capacity of the courthouse was not sufficient to accomodate the large crowd and alter the candidates for Commissioner of Agriculture anj one candidate for Governor had spoken the meeting ad journed to reassemble at the Vamp Theatre, the use of which was offered by M. C Diamond, the owner. The number of women MVi BARNWELL MEN SUFFER MILTON STILL CHARGED WITH KILLING DIAMOND Arrest Grew Out of Difficulty Be tween Still and Frank Owens. Quite a sensation was caused in Barnwell Friday when it became SEVERE LOSS BY FIRE known that Milton Still, a white farm _er, who lives a few miles from this* Two Mules, One Horae, Barn and Stables and Feedstuff Destroyed. 1 city, had been arrested on a warrant changing him with the murder of Mr. Barnie Diamond 18 years ago. The arrest is said to have resulted from a difficulty between Still and his brother-in-law, Frank Owens, a- bout ten days ago at which time the latter shot Still in the leg. Still had Owens arrested, whereupon Owen’s mother, Mrs. M. A. Owens, divulged information which led to the arrest of Still on the charge of murder. From the best information avail able, it seems that the evidence is very meagre, as no eye-witnesses to the alleged murder can be located. In Messrs. 0. H. and H. C. Best, pro prietors of The Best Pharmacy at Barnwell, suffered quite a loss early Tuesday morning when fire destroy ed their large barn and stables, to gether with two mules, one ,h or8 ** farm machinery and a large quantity of feedstuffs on their farm on the Northern edge of the city, on the Barnwell-Williston road. The blaze, when first discoverer: about 3:45 o’ clock, had gained such headway that It was impossible to save anything. , ... . „ whatsoever an.1 but for the fart that! "“'t '»»*• *• body of Barite Dta the wild -a. blowiny from the South m “" <1 •‘J’ lh ' the tenant house nearby would doubt- ero Railway tracks about two mites OSCAR JONES DROWNED NEAR BARNWELL SUNDAY Tragedy Witneaaed by His Wifa,. Father-in-law and Others- A deplorable tragedy occurred near Barnwell between 2 and 3 o'clock Sun day afternoon, when Oscar Jones, a young white fanner, about 24 years of age, drowned at Patterson's Old Mill stream, while his * wife, his father-in-law and a number of friends and acquaintances looked on. As no one in the party was able to swim very well, no attempt was made to rescue him, it is safd, and his body was not recovered until nearly an hour and a half later, when two young Barnwell men, Messrs. Leroy Molair and Bennie Owens, passed by the stream. After searching the water for about a half hour, they finally located the body and brought it to the surface. It is believed that Mr. Jones was attacked with cramps. He had com plained of a headache before going into the water, which was very cold. After swimming for a short while. hav, bm n coi.omrt Thv Mv* ! B.mw.ll .mi u .houaht •r. B... e.timaf. th.ir lo., a, about' 0,M h * h » d b ** n kdUd b > * . tr *' n | V *»? *" $4,000 with n» inurame. The ori- ‘gin of the fire is unknown. It was also learned Tuesday that Mr. A. D. Connor loot a fine horse that morning, presumably from blind staggers V during {he night. Oa the night of ( down in water shout 12 feet deep, j hif death. Mrs. Owens was at the I Mr. Jones is survived by bis wife home of Milton Still, her soa-in-lsw. I snd three brothers, one of whom is and now alleges that she heard cries I sort ion foreman for the Atlantic md of b frr Owe I ows coming p of a white woman named hillipa, who lived jwst across md track (rum Still’s horn*, la, it is und kill**! mm | Coast Line Railroad at Barnwell Hla body was laid to rest Monday la the Seven Pines Churchyard n, |K. M mat Past • it n aiiefp ». ' FORM KM KARNMKU. MAN SUFFERS SEVERE LOSS I Mr. Jaha R. HarWy Lisaai and tetawinle by Flee. i if im • r • of 4 I Stair I . 1* V rr I # COURT Util SR NOT AN HUM B 1 Mr. C L Wrlmi—or. a# Rlach * * .le. candidate far the Haaae af j Erpcesmtat i»es. aas m Barnwell Monday hmAing after Inn pehtieal j fence a. and while here gave am the ahhrattan and i > ■> tw; f..lU>win* atslemet M fee puMe 1 ad i ‘-To tbs Voters of Barnwol thus 1 etnaMyi e ' h “Having bees lufanusd by he* <*# my Barnwell fi rtsad* that mrg* there I ha a peaeihtlMy af the aid | '* Hawse taawe being detrimental andtdaie frwm Hlarhvtlle. I his opportunity of saying to Barnwell that a* rsr as tie for hi* owe t , kdj I aa*e of an i rh of i Mr ? a* ^ * • I Hata eaeaeu rafc hi**■ Hate- 1 am (arraamtlljr ruorernod. ae well as i «tlmt ff| A \ Ml . 1 th tbe i the | that. la ta he made a tepfeaestatite of tbs voters si sWng tbs ' be rbai ifMlrf tile vi«»f I i * imp it i e uA % ■ i > * ■ * * gfc —* m i In ( I %afo and t r neon fee made * Btachetifte, thi# e-’- —w ' ~ • tsJMe bqs long *l wa aa*^M f t* ■. _ e m a, i J J. Cantt t nut hoc candid _ • fgkf I moet reo that been buried Ir 1 offering myertf a# nfrutal» n ”Wr k. — t — * 1 £«»virfTH>F hU t yet hr pen a Mi . ^ 1 ; o 1111 ; i leu fMX* Z »h. _ •" i t ne law tt b e hvotteht forth a ramtiiftete for tbe Hoase of Re i Qim * | 1 f 4 n* j t u e 1. ■■■ a... — — . . ■[ ig \ Hpfi Tier AiiRe 01 the 1 eiti the ttmr I a toinoli 1 n # - lae. | preaenUUvet* 1 did eo believing that effort »f finaorti mps^tk e.# ikm Mssta rflKuei MS Tier TVHT IS J Interest n red «hi eel V 1 TKomAb Ci | i t * ranuun. t * royhs be of aatrtricn to the c«Hint)f* this he J I.. Wei sail ■er. Adv. Vila first em« and reach the •on When the wee rope rgr from hibematto»»' J •otton field they mo>e bia. around very little as long as they Pre*ni find an ample supply of unpunctjire-l Renk, aquares for their use, but as the infestation Mi Sationi rresioeni ©T al Hank, Cl C.i W. B. drake. it of the Merchants Nat Raleigh*,. N. C.; A. W just as Lean, wealthy planter and banker become* North Carolina; Thomas A l ump- ime t> th (in >h .*olr I ,i twelve He th e- •iently * heavy to puncture kin. # outstanding lawyer* of the practically all squares these weevil* State; *nd Mr. Lever, the President, start to move in search of fresh whose activities in behalf of agri pastures, an ordinary season ' <ulture for twenty .years are known this means that you usually have I.to every »me. • feel confident that only the weevil* bred in your own | this institution is going to serve a potton to contend with until soma; t" 05 * useful purpose in helping the time from the latter rart of July to fnrmera of this County to pay off the last of August, depending on the on tbe instalment plan the losses suffered -in the recent depression. The Federal Land Bank and this Bank are acting in the closest har mony to take, care of all the needs of agriculture in the County.” locality. This year, however, this movement of migration of\weevils will probably start several earlier than usual. Consequent! will not only be necessary for to start poisoning earlier to control your own infestation, but you should also expect that, before you have had time to mature the fruit which your plants have set during this period of protection, you will begin to experience an immigration of weevils froip^ unpoisoned cotton. Of ^ other hand, whenever the land is course, this dmchlton would not [ sufficiently fertile to justify such he friends of Mr. Angus Baxley, who suffered a stroke of paralysis a short time ago, jvill be glad to learn that he i*\»bowing signs of improve- metrtr\_ . \ ^ L. Blea*** was im» political menace tht« year. .Many people in every county th* not approve of a third term and when Mr. Rleaae could point to one recruit, he (Duncan) can find ten deserter*, he said. Mr. Duncan dub* Mr. McI>*od “the orator of the campaign party, be side whom Demosthenes and^ Cicero were not in it.” Laney Tells of Revenues. George K. Laney, of Chesterfield, •Hfi\his speech at Barnwell Monday made a new departure calling atten tion to the fact that in the last few years the revenue from the State penitentiary, the State Department of Agriculture and other revenue producing sources is turned~into the State treasury, thus necessitating the appropriation of large sums for operating expenses, which makes the appropriation bill .look much !argef> As a matter of fact, stated Hi Man> fashionable gowns are worn by Biilw Burke ia her latest Para mount picture. “The Education of Eliaabeth" which will be ahown at the Vamp Theatre next Thursday. and some of it doubtless bad recognised the fart that the people are in great distress as the result of mam problems arising out of the I _ .... . ur . , . ... . I They will be greatly admired by wo- World War and declare^ that prob-1 ' , , 1 « o, , u u i. , , » I men film fans. lem* of State should be solved in i i , . . *. aw a au w , w ! death. He had no insurance what the way that they had been met m ( St a te government and that while [• t The many Barnwell friends of Mr. and Mrs. Jehu B Harley, fe^meriy ef ihte city but fee the punt several years residents ef Wagenee. wtt| sympathise with them hi the leas ef their horn* by fire Hetwday night. Me asm was la the hhaae at the tlme^ Mrs Harley and children being at the bums af her parents. Mr. and Mrs. J, B Mem* hr BamweH. while bar baabaad was away aa baeiaean Vt la slated that when the fire was first disc veered the eat Ire * ran f ana n- Maaa a ad an there had hana aa fire he haaae fer two er three days the eeppestiea la that It was of laaea- diary origin The lean la partml*y i meted by inaaraare In the nmsenA of $|/mo A few dnv* prevtoaa Mr. Harley loot Km aetemnhile by fire and narrowly escaped ertth hie Ilia. Ac cording to information receive^ here, Ki« car turns* tminted tn di mad. pinning him under the machine. Fortunately. Mr. Reynolds Martin, formerly of Willleton bat new el Bt. Matthews, who was ia the auto mobile with him. was thrown clear and managed to extricate M r. Har ley just before the gasoline tank ex ploded. setting fire to the car. Hnd he been driving alone. Mr. Harley would probably haye been burned to OV*f when he Ut- re a bad bale la the the homos and private business. Lux-1 gomt . ari . double-taxed many others unes and unnecessaries had been , ape reaped, as in the case with the eliminated and the people had at- , income tax. he argued. .tempted a solution by reformation rather than by destruction. Mr. McLeod made an impassioned appeal for the common schools, the arise if every one in a district was successfully poisoning his cotton; but this will hot be the -ease -thi» an effort, there is mhgh more as surance of profit from the operation than is usually the case. NThe in year, and just as soon as all squares j crease in the cost per acre brought . in the unpoisoned f r °P s are P unt ‘tul‘ed a 5 ou t by the increased number of t the migration to the ^poisoned fields ^ applications necessary will be far •will commence. This means that niore than compensated for by the every day a large crop of new wee-j f ac t that the weevil damage with- vils will move into these poisoned ou t poisoning will be far greater fields, and it is going to take coo- than r t)ormii, and thus the margin of tinoua, thorough poisoning to pro- j profit on the operation i* tremen- tect to maturity the crop which has, dously increased. In otha^ words, a been allowed L> set by the earlier i heavy weevil infestation sue h a* J wo have this year means a greater ^^hrse two facts mean just this: | expenditure per acre‘for poisoning Successful weevil control this year is to successfully control it, but it going to require mure effort and also means a greater actual net more potaunjjwr acre than ever has profit hi dollars and cants per acre hwM tbs caga *• th* past. Oa tbs from tbe pamswiag spe rat ions ENROLL FOR THE PRIMARY The problepi of tax reduction lies ^ support of Confederate veterans and largely at home, said the speaker, ^ other measures of State wide im- who called attention to the fact that , portance, and also struck a fespon- in Barnwell Coupnty 74 per cent of , sive chord .when he declared un- the taxes paid is spent directly in equivocally for law enforcement. In the county, and only 26 per cent for | his opinion the ertme wave cannot State purposes which makes the be stopped except by the voice of the problem^ largely local and is | people in the verdicts of juries and determined by each county’s delega- | the sentences of courts, upheld by tion. The gasoline- tax had reached . the Governor. Neither sympathy many people who otherwise^ would j no t personal preference would in escape their share in’supporting, the , ,j uce him to interfere with the ver- rdfcts if elected. Blease For Reduction. Edgar A ."Brown introduced Cole L. Blease as the '’third-term”'candi date. Mr. Bleaae said that his pre- ever on the automobile. As stated above, his friend* sympathize with him in his loss and congratulate him on his fortunate escape from & terrible death, COLORED DEMONSTRATION AGENT Citizens of South Carolina should enroll in their township club or ward in order to participate in the pl*imary election next Au gust. The books Tor enrollment are now open and will remain so untjl the last Tuesday in July. • 7 i ' •• i"'- According to the rules of the Democratic party of South Caro lina, the qualifications for membership in any club of the party in the state and for voting aCa primary election are as follows: > “The applicant for" membership, or >oter, shalT he ‘2l year^ of ■»r<\ or shall become^so before the succeeding general election and be a whKe DernocjmL He^shall be a citizen of the United States and of 'thin »t*te-' No person shall belong to any club or vote In any pri mary unless he has mided in the state two years and in the county six months prior to the succeeding general eloction and in tl|grfub dis trict 60 days prior to the first primary following his offer to enroll: Provided. That public school teachers and ministers of the gospel ia charge of a regular organised church shall be exempt from the pro vision* of this section aa to residence, if otberwisr qualified.* • diction of eight years* ago that Tf the | voters elected certain people to of- i fice the State would be bankrupt , had been more than fulfilled, as now ( both the State, government .and the I voters themselves are in that condi- r.tion, as a-tesult, he said, of an ex- I travagant government gnd the crea- ; tion df useless offices. He is ip the i rac* (bis year only because letters | urging him to try to relieve condi j tion* had ^ >Mn piling *n on him for , several months. Suirklit pu*t stop, ! he said. Too many people Mb being fed out of tbe State treasury who da i do little or nothing. Me dortared, and 1 when Me of these “pet*’’ lone* a job another is created far him He | pod) ta the The colored people of Barnwell County are fortunate in having Simmie Smith, of Columbia, to work with them for the summer months. Simmie is a well trained, competant worker'. - She will hold meetings a- nrtong the colored women and girls, teaching them sewing, cooking^ sanitation and gardening as well as many other practical subjects. ^ It is hoped that this agent will re ceive full cooperation from the color— ed people of Barnwell County. Sho <*► , x is financed by the Smith Lever fund* and without any cost to the county. She works under the supervision of the County Demonstration Agent. Elma L. Cave, Home Dem. Agt. different from the other candidates for the office in that they ar* hunt ing new sources to tax where as be would reduce the tax burden by ab olishing office* and turning off those who** services era not needed by tbs Stele. Leek of time, be said, pre vented him psyiac bl» respect* Is other ssatiers. TW other candidates fer lbs vsrtsue effWc* susdr their usual a^«