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H \ . I -- L f ' 1. *■ ^ HOME BANK DEPOSITS X * 1920 $214,000.00 J ❖ 1922 $156,000.00 !j! 1924 $:J18,000.00 % HOME BANK OF BARNWELL, j’ v•t-X-X**:**:-:-:-:-:-:**:**!-:* ^ Established in 1877 •A ^TMB OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNW^L, fcoUNTT.*^^ 44 4 Ju&t Like a Member of the Family f ’ Largest County Circulation i January ’25 Subscriptions Have Expired. PLEASE RENEW PROMPTLY! 1 VOLUME XLVTII. BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY; FEBRUARY 19, 1925 NUMBER 25 Grand Jury Renews Recommendation as to Consolidation Appropriation Bill Introduced Tuesday « -f )V- The following is the presentTneiit of the Grand Jury: To the Honorable W. H. TownserfS, Presiding Judge: The Grand Jury for the County hav- ir.g performed all of its work for the present term begs leave to report as follow^: -r— We have passed upon and returned to the Court all indictments handed us by the Solicitor. We have made the usual investi gations^ of the Poor House and Jail and we find everything at each place in first class condition. However, we tecommend that at the Jail yard the fence, back kitchen porch, wash-shed and a small house in the yard, be re paired. We recommend that the < >unty Directors furnish Mr. Main, the Jailor, a proper amount of lum- -1km- and covering for this purpose. Mr.. Main, the Jailor, is capable of doing the needed repairs anti we i commend that he be engaged for this purpose and that proper compen sation be paid him for his work in this connection. The Grand Jury again recommends t at the plan relative to the Poor Yard, which was suggested in our last report, be carried out and to that t (| we have appointed a Committee, Dr. P>. W. Sexton, R. R. Jonhston and R. J. Rountree, to confer with r’epres- c tativi^s from Aiken and Bamberg < >unties, looking towards the end of having a District Poor Yard. - We have also appointed a Commit- t e consisting of S. H. Ussery and W. M. Cook to look after the Chain- •-ang. We a-k that the Grand Jury be fur- • -hod by the County Directors with a competent Auditor to help them audit the books of the County offices. We cannot make the necessary audit without the' 1 - services of a competent Auditor. We also renew our recommenda tion that the Treasurer of Barnwell County require ea' h Bank with whom, h deposits County funds to furnish him with a Surety Bond, to protect such deposits as he makes with t hem. It has come to cur body that some of the County equipment provided for the up-keep of the roads, is being put to private use. We recommend that such Use of tb*-public property he immediately discontinued. We also request that the County D'.ard of Directors meet with the Grand Jury at the next term of Court, a- there are numerous matters that it would ho advisable for the two bodies to confer with each other in regards to. We desire to thank the Honorable Presiding Judge, the Solicitor and the other Officials for their kind as- s;stance rendered us in our deliber ations, all of which is Respectfully submitted. R. J. ROUNTREE. Foreman. Barnwell. S. U., Feb. 17, 11125. Judge l ow nsenil ITe^l’d'ittg'.' The annual State appropriation bil‘1 —carrying appropriations amounting to $6,493,746L30 and contemplating total appropriations of $8,993,746.30 —will be introduced today in thel house of representatives by the ways and means committee, it was an nounced last night by C. D. Nance of Laurens, chairman of the committed. The difference of the total carried in the bill and the total contemplated by -the committee is to be explained by the omission from the bill of $2,- 500.000.00 in State aid for schools, which is to be raised instead ^by a direct State tax of six mills '-under provisions of the McLaurin-Riley bill now pending on the house calendar. This measure, which would amen 1 the socalled 6-0-1 school law so as to provide for the raising of school funds by a six mill State tax, a four mill county tax and the three mill con stitutional tax, has been approved by the house on second reading and is now dh third reading. Only about $2,500,000.00 is expected to be pro duced by this proposed six mill edu cational tax and the appropriation bill includes therefore for the department of education appropriations of ap proximately $642,000 to make up this deficit. Should the McLaurin-Riley measure fail'* of passage this item would be increased to $3,142,000 and the 4>tal of the appropriation bill to the $8,993,746.30. The actual appropriation total car ried in the measure is considerably below the amount of any recent ap propriation hill and the contemplated total of $8.993,74,6.30 is $139,124,57 below the 1924 appropriation bill to tal, $708,063.40 below'the governor’s budget recommendations and $2,510,- 300.90 below the departmental re quests for the year. It exceeds the 1923 appropriation total by $1,021,- 407.61. Despite the decrease as provided by the committee under the governor’s recommendations—t-here remains yet a deficit of approximately $1,625,001 to be i-a-ised either by direct taxes oi by additional indirect taxes and it is to this problem thqt the ways and means committee will next address itself. Already before th<> committee is a bjll proposing a tax bn soft' drinks, which it is expected by its author will pro duce approximately $1,500,000 annu ally. This estimate, however, is con sidered by various members who have been studying the problem too high apd othev*- indirect taxes will also he required to meet the deficit expected. Among measures suggested have been I man, because he a tax on chewing tobacco and snuff, omitted from the present tobaccos tax and a tax on cosmetics. None of these measures—the so»t drinks tax ex cepted —have reached the first reading stage. Final approval of the appropriation bill was given by the committee last night, the session resulting in one minor cut in the appropriation total. At about 11 o’clock the committee ad- journed and the bill goes today rgain to the engrossing department for final ongrostsing and—--lumld—he ready fui' Economic and Social Changes of Va Century Discussed by One Who Has Lived to Observe Them Budget of Interesting News from Ellenton It is good to see Judge W. 11. Town send, of Columbia, in Barnwell again. He is presiding -it the present term of the Coutt of General Sessions and conducts the business of that tribu nal with all the giace and dignity of a gentleman of the old school. He practiced his profession here for many years hefori city and Barnwell is justly proud of him and is always glad to welcome him “home,” “The days of >our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow.” It is the exception that proves the rule. Thomas Washington Coward, of the Millbrook section of Aiken County, will on Friday, February 13th, cele brate his ninety-third birthday, and his “age is as a lusty winter, frosty, but kindly.” Mr. Coward was born in Barnwell County in 1832, there spending his boyhood days. Later he ' moved to Aiken and was married to Miss Fran ces Burckhalter in December, 1856, Mrs. Coward died March 2o\ 1874, leaving eight children, five of whom 7 \ ' ■ are % now living. Mr. C6ward later married Miss Josephine Owens, of Dunbarton, and to tipis union there were born four children, all of whom are living. Recently the writer spent a very pleasant afternoon with Mr. Coward at his home on his farm. Mr. Coward was sitting on his front porch, reading his Bible, and was apparently glad to have a visitor. There in the sunshine we sat and talked, and from him I learned something of the economic and sociifl changes occurring within the past century. “There' wasn’t much school in my time,” lie said, “i only went a few months in my life. 1 walked about four miles to school and went at sun rise and never got home until sun down. Very little attention was paid to education then. Instead of going to school, people saved up their mon ey and bought negroes. When a strange young man came into a com munity folks • always asked, ‘How many negroes has his daddy got?’ No one ever asked anything about the man himself. I never owned a slave. My mother and my Relatives owned slaves, but I never owned one myself. “Along about 1856 1 became con ductor on the train running from Charleston to Hamburg. Railroading then wasn’t anyways like it is today. Our engine was about the size of that Ford out there. We burned wood, mostly green wood. The^crew was white, except a negro fireman. Us ually U.c engineer owned the negro fireman. The ' ngineer always pre ferred a negro fireman to a white could knock him around and .make him do like he warned him to. The flagman wasn’t called a flagman, he was known as ‘conductor’s man.’ We« had two brakes on the train, one on the engine and the other on the rear coach. The rails were made of wood with a strip of ribbon iron about as thick as a cot ton tie tacked on them. I ran on that road until 1865, with the exception of about four months in the cavalry around Pocotaligo. When Sherman marched through South Carolina he tore up rhe track from Charleston to What money I have made, 1 made it on ten-cent cotton. I never gave or took a mortgage in my life. I hate debt worse than almost anything else in the world. Over at the Agricul tural Club the other day I heard Ellenton, Feb. 14:—Mrs. Joe Ash ley is visiting her mother while Mr. Ashley is in Atlanta. Messrs. H. M. Cassels, Jr., and Mack Walton have returned from a busi ness trip to Athens. The Baptist Missionary Society held its monthly meeting with Mrs. F. I). Bush Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. R. I). Mayes, Mrs. M. Bush and Mrs. Russell Bailey entertained about the Intermediate Credit Bank, and how farmers could get cheaper the ^ d. C . a t the home of Mrs." Bai ley last Wednesday, and longer credit. I wonder if farm ers ever will learn to work together.” Times Have Changed. “Times have certainly changed. These young foks heat me. When 1 was young, children obeyed their parents,^ Now, the parents obey Heyward B. Bates Is Acquitted of Murder of Cater M. Rountree J I t T Mr. Bates Acquitted. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Keenan and Mr. I and Mrs. G. R. Boswell were the guest,* of Mr. and Mrs. Z. D. Miller Sunday. J -'Misses Mary Ellen Atkinson and Lucyle Dye were in Augusta for a them children. • I think the parents whi , e ^ Fridav cvoninK . are pretty much to blame for this | The fl . iemls of Mrs Roy McElhenny i regret to know of her illness with i pneumonia ami hope that she will . , | soon he restored to health. She and Christmas come. Now, its Christmas condition. Parents certainly ought to be 1 advisors to their children. Time was when children were glad to see , Mr. McElhenny are receiving—con- all the time. When I was a boy, all | ,, r nt(ilat’i I wanted was a: quarter to get some powder and shot and I was happy. ‘‘1 think the Rural Free Delivery was the greatest thing ever done for the farmer. Now,. I get my ma’l ev ery morning. 1 subscribed to the Augusta Chronicle in 1859, and have been a subscriber ^continuously for the past 66 years. I used to. read it when it was a little weekly and have seen it grow to its present size. (The Honorable Thos. ,1. Hamilton will of course contend that The Chronicle is entirely responsible f or Mr. Coward's growing into that serene content men call age.) Likes Proverbs Best, eyes are getting dim," but 1 still read the daily paper and rm; Bijj hie. 1 like Proverbs best of all the Bible. When 1 am worried about something, I read Proverbs and I al ways get relief. I never have seen but one moving picture. It hurts my eyes too had. Some of my friends want me to get a radio, hut I am afraid 1 will get to staying ap at night with it. I never was much to frolic around at night and I don’t want to begin now. I haven’t been away from home at night in some years. I like my bed best. I have a feather bed, and it suits me. My grandmother raised the geese and picked the feathers. • "I am not as active as I once was. The only thing I am afraid of is that I may get to he helpless before 1 die. I am not afraid ef death,” he added. “No, I am not afraid to die.” Hale and hearty at 9*3. Deeply ap preciative of all that is part, but keenly alive to the present atur ex pectant of the future. * So I left him there in the sunshine, and to me he is worthy to dwell with Cicero’s heroes, for he, too, has learned “the art of living joyfully and of dying with a fairer hope.”—Henry S. Johnson in the South Carolina Gazette. gratQlations on a fine daughter, Sarah Ellen. Mbs Kathleen McElhenny, from the University hospital, is nurs ing Mrs. McElhenny. Mrs. F. C. Brinkley is recovering from an attack of grip; also Mrs, Carrie Ashley and Mrs. Harvell. It is hoped that -they will soon bo out again. Misses Gladys and Bessie Owens spent last week-end with their par ents in Aiken. « . Messrs. Eugene Buckingham; T S. Dunbar and Joe Ashley have gone to Atlanta on business,’ Miss Helen Brabham has been vis iting her sister, Mrs. P. H. Bucking ham. ‘Miss Mary Quarles, of Allendale, was the guest of Mrs. H. M. Cassels, Jr., last week-end. Miss Mary Fo'-eman, of Allendale, has been visiting her sister, Mrs. N. S. Brinkley. Mr. Malcolm McLeod, of Beaufort, and Miss Elizabeth McLeod, from S. N. S., Athens, Ga., are with their mother, having been called here on account of the very sad death of their father. Miss Louise Cassels spent Saturday in Augusta. Mr, and Mrs. Tut Wiley are making their home at the Mayes boarding house. Mr. Wiley is a chemist for the gravel companies. Mrs. W. B. Cassels and little son, Horace; were in Augusta Tuesday The Rev.-R. FI. McKinnon has re turned from a visit to his mother in Columbia. Mr. Clyde Herndon was in Aiken *»n business Saturday. Miss Thelma Dye was the attract ive guest of her aunt in Augusta last week-end. Death of Mrs. Easter Still. introduction, Mr. Nance said, this af ternoon.—The State, let). 17. Brother and Sister Die Within 2 Days After several months of ill health, Mr. E. C. Cave, of Barnwell, died at moving to the capital his homt ' lu “ r ‘’ at oYloek Wedne - ' day night. His body was laid to rest ’the following afternoon in the Barn well Baptist Churchyard. Dr. W. M. Jones-conducting the ,funeral services. Suffers Painful Injure. Mrs. A. P. Connor had the misfor tune to break her right leg just above the ankle Friday afternoon at her country home near Barnwell. She was gathering' egg9 in' the yard and stepped on a round piece of wood, which turned under her foot and caused her to fall. Her friends will be glad to know that she is getting along splendidly and it is hoped that she will soon be entirely recovered. Montmorenci — until Joe Wheeler stopped him at Aiken. 1 was coming out of Hamburg that morning - ' and when our train got to the lower bridge at Aiken, old man Oakley waved us down and told us the Yan kees were then fighting near the edge of 'town. We stopped long enough to hear the shooting'and then backed the train back to Granitevillc*. I never will forget that day." Hears of Lincoln's Death. - “I was hoarding mv train the n.orn- ia.. j; and felrs. W D. Morton, of I^ly mouth, KM Farm Work is Backward. I l t The** very inclement weather that has prevailed in this section sihcc the beginning of the New Year has night retarded farm work to a great ex tent and a motor ride on any of the idads Out of Barnwell will show that comparatively little land has been “broken” for the new crop. It is to he hoped that the, adage that "a bad beginning makes :i good ending” will 'hold true in this instance. Mr. Cave, who was in the- mercantile ing I heard Lincoln had been killed,” ebusiness, is. survived by his wife, | continued Mr. Coward. “All of our three son?, two daughters, three people seemed ghnt to hear it at that brothers and two sisters, as follows: | time, because naturally they hatT'd Mr. John Cave, of Deland, Fla.,. Mr. j the Yankees. We didn’t realize that Wm. Henry Cave, of Lowi^f,* KhJTMr. it was the worst thing that could have Augustti^ (’HTTk - of Portland, Oregon, happened to us. If Lincoln had lived Mrs. Jamfs F. Green, .of Jacksonville,! there Wouldn’t have been any Carpet bag Days. They were worse, than war. |~ “Slavery had to he abolished. God } put up vvhh it as long as He could, and then He brought on the war to end it forever in this country. The* abolition of slavery gave the poor white man his chance to buy lan 1 and own a home. Up until that time, when land was for sale the wealthy planters would buy it up just to keep : the small man fr nn getting any. The t system wasn’t right and it jusf Death of Mrs. H. S. Baxley.* Mrs. H. S. Baxley, of Gainesville, Fla., a sister of’Mr. E. C. Cave, of this city, who died Wednesday night, followed him to the grave two davs later, being claimed by the Grim Reaper at her Florida home Friday Her body was brought to Social and Personal News from Williston Williston, Feh. 14.—The women of the Williston Presbyterian Church served a waffle supper last Tuesday evening, which netted a nice sum for church work. Miss Louise Prothnegntertafned the Martha Watson Chapter, I). A. R., at its February meeting. Mrs. G. C.i Matthews, fy - st vice president, pre sided in the absence of Mrs. Smith, regent, who is in California, recuper ating from a recent illness. <A card from Mrs. Smith wasriead, stating that she is improving daily. The chap ter was glad to have added to it- roll the names of Mrs. J. L. Shuler and Mrs. J. H. E. Milhous. Miss Prothro assisted by her mother and several friends,‘ served a salad course with coffee, followed by sweets. Mrs. W.C. Smith. Jr., will entertain the March meeting, instead of Mrs. W. G. Thompson, Jr., who is also in Cali fornia. W. (’. Woodward, of Greenville, paid a flying visit to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Woodward, last veek. Owen Faust* his returned from a visit to Jacksonville. Mr. and Mrs. Fuller Dicks, of-Co lumbia, were/ recent visitors of the The people of Hercules and sur rounding community were shocked and saddened when the death angel visited the home of Mr. Frank L. Still on January 23rd and bore away the spirit of his dear wife, Mrs. Eas- f»-(»"■ S-till. the is survived by eight children, Mrs. N. A. fliers, Mrs. M. L. Hutto, Mrs. B. A. Gunnels, Mrs. J J. Huggins, Mrs W. H. Dyches, Mr-, J. T. Creech, Mr. w. 11. Still and Mr A. B. C. Still; 3< grandchildren and one great-grand child. She was possessed of a sweet and gentle disposition and was dearly loved by all. She will he greatly miss ed in the home, community and Sun day school. A Friend. Robber\ Suspects Arrested. Baifnwell Sunday and laid to re.-t the following day at 11 o’clock in the Easterling Cemetery, near Barnwell, i couldn’t go )nn. Dr. W. M. Jones conducting the fun eral services. Mrs. Baxley, who was 47 years of age, is survived by her husband, one son, three brothers and two sisters. “Somehow, I can’t get used to the present system of farming. I believe that a four-horse farm is the ideal size. It just about fits in with the capital and labor of the average man. State Detective W. W. Rogers has notified Sheriff Boncil H. Dyches of I the arrest at Springfield of Davis Jerry and Elljotte Jerry, colored, stat- I ing that he thinks they were impli- ' cated in the robberies at Blackville | on the night of January 17th. The two negroes were wanted in Orange burg, so cannot. be turned over to au thorities in this county until their case has been disposed of there. have returned to their home in Hick ory, N. ('., after a visit of several weeks to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Weathersbee. Mrs. Willie Hay, of Govan, is vis- 4* After deliberating only a £ A short while, the jury in the X ^ case of The State vs. Heyward x ¥ B. Bates brought in a verdict jj» of acquittal about 8:30 o’clock a X Tuesday night. X ❖ 4. The Court of General Sessions con vened here Monday morning with Judge W. H. Townsend, of Columbia, presiding. The first case called for trial was that of Heyward B. Bates, of Dunbarton, who was charged with the murder of C. M. Rountree, also of Dunbarton, on the . streets of that town last October. Solicitor Berte D. Carter, of Bamberg, was assisted in the persecution of the case by former Solicitor Robt. L. Gunter, of Aiken, and Brow 1 <K- Bush, of Barn well. The defense was represented by Harley & Blatt, of Barnwell, and Congressman James F. Byrties, of Aiken. When Court adjourned Monday af ternoon, the State had examined all of its witnesses, the eye-witnesses testifying to practically the same state of facts—that Bates shot Roun tree twice while the latter was run ning. From the method of cross-ex amination it was seen that the defense sought ,to establish that certain things occurred just prior to the shooting that were not noticed by the State’s witnesses. According to the evidence produced by the State, Mr. Rountree and his lit-* tie son were on their way home when the homicide occurred; that Mr. Bates, accompanied by his 12-year old son, Fred, drove up in his automobile and, stopping his car in the middle of the street, took a shot gun from the rear of the ear and fired two shots at Mr. Rountree; that Mr. Bates then got back in his ear and drove off. The defense sought to show that Mr. Rountree was attempting to c'raw a pistol when Mr. Bates fired the first shot and that the pistol fell to the ground. This was testified to by Mr. Bates and his son. The defense dosed its case at the Tuesday morning session of Court and arguments were begun before the dinner recess. Congressman Byrnes made the closing argument for the defense and Mr. Gunter for the State. The ck.se went to the jury about 8 o’clock. • 1 The rt»urt room was crowded throughout the trial, more^ interest being' shown than at any trial in the past few years. ^ True Bills. The Grand Jury completed its work for this term Tuesday afternoon, its members being discharged until the May term, of Court. The following is a list of the True Rills returned: Martin Renew, violation of the; pro hibition law. Bill Hartley, violation of the piohi- TrrTToiriatt". Hamp Jennings,’violation of the prohibition law. Mack Jones, violation of the prohi bition law. Robert Cave, violation of the prohi bition' law. Hammic* jiml Sam Garvin, violation of the prohibition law. Italy Simpkins, violation of the pro- hi bit ion law. K. H. Je.nkins, disposing of proper ty under lien. William Washington; disposing of -pm+perty-under lien. M, H. Lee, drawing check without funds. Mack Creech and Geo. Grubbs, as sault and battery with intent to kill. James, alias Bright Thomas, assault and battery with intent to kill. George Steverson, Sr. and Jr., vio lation of the prohibition law. Freddie Snelling. C. R. Snelling, Herbert Snelling, Elijah Snelling, Ransom Snelling, Sr., Lank \\ illiams and Henry Dunbar, murder. Ezekiel Holly, larceny. Milledge Odom, breach of trust with fraudulent intent and grand larceny. No Bills. , lation of the Jasper Newman, Adriatic prohibition lav^T—^ Herman Cook and Coy Brabham, latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam Matthews. 1 iting her brother, S. W. Trotti. J. W. Folk was a visitor in Rock Q. A. Kennedy, W. D. Black, of Wil- , . Hill last week and was accompanied listen, and H. D. Calhoun, of Barn-| v *° atl0n *° * 1 pio 1 Lack *by his daughter. Miss Jennie well^ left this week on the bankers’ Lou Folk, a student at Winthrup-Col- special Pullman for a tour of l lorida. lege, wh^> has had to return home on The car left Columbia Thursday account of eye troubje. I morning and carried bankers from Mrs. M. L. Bolick and son, Robert, various parts of the State. Mr. R. A. Easterling and family, of Denmark, spent Sunday in the city with his mother, Mrs. Julia B. Eas terling.