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Ww-.' i^' i • v v x; f PPP^QpnpMgnranMMmBMH \,r* M' -J ■ V f X ^=v \ xju, V't* erniB OFFICIAL ffSWSFAPKB OF BABNWBLL COUNTT/ ■t -x '4^ “If you want iq^ney, w* have it— Y M you have money, we want it.“| BOMB BANK OF BARNW^L. Established In 187T. Juflbl Like a lW«mb«r oMh« ^amllv" Larfest Gouty CIrcolstksL m BARNWELL COUNTY’S BEST A MOST POPULAR NEWSPAPER. 11 / ^ ALL HOME PRINT. VOLUME XLVIII. BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA, - THURSDAY, JULY 23RD. 1925. NUMBER 47. IT ERSONAL NEWS OF BLACKVILLE CLA»BN€&-«€KIdNG:-iNWItED WHILE DIVING. V t" Death of Mr. Dave Hartzog and Mr. W. I. Jowers Bring Sorrow to Blackville Friends. Wk /. \ Blackville, July 20.—Mr. Thos. L, Wragg, president ^ the Bank of Western Carolinn, is enjoying a vaca- . tion no'W, and with Mrs. Wragg and their two daughters, Misses Helen and Dorothy, left recently for an ex tended trip by automoJbile through many States, visiting various places of interest.. 4 9 The Misses Grimes, of Lees, and Miss Geraldine Kimmer, of Blackville, are in Beaufort. * \ After a visit to,her copsih. Miss Myrtis Boland, Miss Jane Felder, of Springfield, has returned to her home, Accompanied by Miss Boland, who will visit hei^ for a week. Mr. and M rs. Russell Jones, of Au gusta, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Strobel last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Judson V. Matthew* Id son, Carl, ate among those who e camping out at Holman’s bridge, •where the river Edisto flows.” The Misses Meta and Louise Willis wei-e among those from here who visited Folly Beach last week. Dr. Morris Rich and Mr. Albert Batson, of Qrangeburg, spent last Sunday week at the home of Dr. Rich’s mother, Mrs. Reka Rich. r After a visit to Mrs. Alice D. Whit tle. Mrs. William Austin has returned to her home in Chicago. ^ Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Fanning have recently enjoyed an automobile trip through the upper part of South Cai-olina, North Carolina and Geor gia. . . | . Miss Dorothy Levy, of AuJhista, was the guest of tylrs. Isadore Brown recently.. > . After a visit to relatives here, Miss Sadie DeWitt has returned to her home-,in Columbia. Mr. and Mrs. George Boylston, Jr., of Montgomery, Alai, have returned home after a vicit^to Nr. Boylston’s parents, Mr. and Mrs> Eugene Boyls- ton. Mr. and Mrs. George C. Mackey are the happy parents of a line scrtK who arrived Sunday morning and who will be called Robert Joseph. The very host wishes from hosts of friends are being sent to the .fine lit tle fellow, and td his happy mother and father for a long, happy and prosperous life. Mr. Sem Buist Rush was a recent visitoi to frier Is in Chester Tlie many friends of Dr. Bill Molony are delighted to learn that he has en tirely recovered from a recent opera tion for the removal of his tonsils, in a Charleston hospital. Much sympathy is felt for Mrs. W. M. Hair, caused by the death of her ther,“ Mf.“ Davt* Har^t^T which curred at his home near Williston Monday night, a week ago. The fun eral and interment took place Tues* day afternobn at Mt. Beulah church. Mr. Hartzog had visited His sister here, and had many friends who re gret his/death. Much sympathy 7s felt for the entire family in their great sorrow by hosts of Blackville friends. Mrs. R. E. Woodward, of Pleasant Hill, was a recent visitor to relatives here. * Mr. Judson*Sanders and Ill's twin sister, Miss Maggie, from Lakeland, FTa.. have been visiting their aunt, Mrs. Hal D. Still. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Fickling. and daughter, Miss Cecile, and the Misses Sara and Hazel Storne and Miss Frances Duncan, of Columbia, are among those who have been camping on the banks of.Jthe beautiful Edisto Williston Paper Sold? The Aiken Standard is all- “ thority for the statement that - -Chair- H-. Nowelt,- whrrTnre '"beurtr associated with The Standard for the past year, has purchased The Williston Way and will assume charge of that publica tion about August 1st. Mr. Rowell is said to be a news paper man of many" years ex perience. The Williston paper was established about four r\~ t years ago by J. A. Latimer. COMMITTEE MEETS WITH * LOCAL BANK’S RECEIVER BLACKVILLE SEEING PROSPEROUS TIMES Blpekvine, July 21.—This seems like a year of prospesity to Blackville and the vicinity..Everything that the farmers have made has sold at a good price. The asparagus cro*; NO WONDER SHE SMILES ‘brought fairly good returns’and netted the growers quite a good suW. The dicumber season was possibly the finest ever had here and added hand somely to the bank accounts of the farmers. Quite a number of cars were ship ped from here as the cukes grown in sections from Sand Bar ferry near Augusta to. near Orangeburg are hauled here and sold. The cantaloupe crop has possibly netted more cash per acre than for several years past and the watermelon crop Is "turning out well. _ * , Now on toft of this the cotton crop By \ telephone to Mrs. Frederick Rickert of Hoboken, N. J., came the astounding news that "she was heir to a sum of $350,000 left by her uncle, Morris Ziegler of Philadelphia. ceiling on the second floor and had gained such headway before the ar- -f rival of the fire department that the entire top floor was destroyed, to- 7 - gether with a part of the household i J“‘ , a “ ut c0 ™ (>leted hls handsome furniture. It & understood that the A committee appointed at » recent meeting of depositors of the First National Bank, of this city, met with Mr. J. R. Vann, the receiver, -Monday aftemooh at his office here. The depositors, representing a majority of the deposits in the defunct institu tion, were desirous of-obtaining cer- tain information relative to the af- fairs of the receivership. The com mittee was received most courteously by Mr. Vann, who stated that he would comply with the wishes of the depositors in. any way i^pssible in conformity wil^i his duties as receiver. The depositors, it seems, wanted to ascertain, among other things, the amount of the present resources and liabilities of the bank, what probabili ty there is of realizing on certain paper held fry the bank, the names of those; stockholders who had paid their stock 1 ‘liability and the probable am ount of the forthcoming dividend. Mr. is exceptionally fine, some say the<’^ ann stated that, under the law, he is best ever made in this -section. At restrained from making public at this one time the boll weevil^ looked like ^ n y the above information, —Tr- Another Farmer Happy. Mr._R. Lee Creech, a farmer who lives near Barnwell, is ju bilant over the returns he fras received from a 12-acre fifld BARNWELL RESIDENCE PARTIALLY DESTROYED. y ‘ r *' X«*«****<ftS>*>» 1 The residence of Mrs. Bessie Bates, in this city, was partially destroyed by fire of unknown origin which was discovered about three o’clock Friday morning. The blaze appeared to have , , ... , started between the roof- and the' h>d !md front col “"’’ S -they, would wipe it out* but- the- hot dry weather came on and the damage looks like it will be very light. Some farmers are claiming a bale to a ‘Bale and a half per acre, .providing the vseason keeps, op good. Prosperity is indicated in these en terprises. J Sam Buist Rush, who has recently graduated at Charleston in pharmacy and passed the State board ! at its meeting at Newberry, is opening up ah up to date drug store here with modern fixtures, and supplies. His store will be neap the .postoffice and Shamrock hotel. On account of the bright prospect of a bumper crop of cotton here Simon Brown’s Sons are making about a $2,000 addition to their .ginnery here, putting in an outfit to run with electric current.and they propose to jun stead ily day and night. The First Baptist Church building here which is quite a beautiful Struc ture for a town of this size has just painted and has a very neat appear ance. W. A. Fickling, who had his resi dence burned several months ago has loss is partially covered by insurance in the amount of $2,000. / ' n Duke, of Augusta^have been recent visitors in the home of their grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. George B. Duke. j —-—U—■— The illness cf Miss Bessie Mathis is a source of regret to hosts of her friends. ' ■ Little Miss Lois Martin, of Elloree, is spending some time with her grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. Pi Martin. Miss Jo Smith, of Atlanta, is the guest of Mrs. Sam Lowe. :r ‘Mr. - Joe Kinai-d, of Denmark, was a visitor ht the home of Mr. Hal Crum Sunday afternoon. Mr. T. A. Hutto attended the evan gelistic tent meeting in Denmark quite often and was deeply impressed with the earnest sermbns and wonder ful music. The meeting came to a close last Sunday night, t<^the regret of everybody who attended. Mrs. Solomon Johns, of Augusta, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Byran Croft. The death of Mr. W. I. Jowers which occurred at his home at Heal ing Springs last week, after a long illness, caused sorrow in the hearts of many 1 friends, apd the deepest sympathy is felt for his bereaved family In their dark hour. , Mrs. Ernest Weatherhom and her two attractive children, of Charles ton, have come fo* a two month’s Visit; to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Friends 'of Mr. Clayenete fickling Isadore Brown, will regret torieam that he is suffer* j Dr. and Mrs. George A. Milner and ing very much from a dislocated, or children, of Aiken, were guests of broken shoulder, caused by an acci-! Mr. and Mrs. John O’Gorman recently, dent last Saturday, when he was ! The Lyric Theatre has been show- t enjoying the popular prescription—a, ing some nice pictures, and the popu- “Splash” in the Edisto river, at Hoi- lar place# now seem to be The Lyric man’s bridge. He climbed into a and Dyches’ Pool. “ They are “rivals tree, where for years. Boys and nien in popularity.” 3 have dived from, but unfortunately, A protracted meeting is in progress View brick residence. It is vory mod ern in all its equipments and is an ad dition to the town. \ Mrs. Boulware Entertains. On Friday aftemoon, July 17th, Mrs. Thos. M. Boulware entertained very delightfully with three tables bridge. The high score prize, a bridge score slate with hand-painted frame, was won by Mrs. Jack Phil lips and the consolation, a box of stationery^ was cut by Miss Ella Lou ise Molair. After the games, block cream and layer cake were served. Those enjoying the occasion were but -assured the committee that for some time he has been ia position to pay a dividend in excess of ten per cent, on the deposits, being persuad ed by the Comptroller of the Currency to defer declaring same until he could’pay a more substantial amount to the? depositors 1 . Mr. Vann also took advantage of the opportuiiity to set at rest certain rumors that have been going the rounds. The only statement of the bank’s financial Condition that he was' able ta furnish the committee was the last published statement of'the institution. As to the names of those stockholders who have not paid their liabilities, he stated that they will soon be a matter of public record, as suits will be in stituted against them at an early date. Mr. Vann assured the commit tee that he is doing *dl i 11 h* 8 P<> wer to safeguard the interests of credi tors and debtors alike and regretted his inability to furnish the informa tion asked. ♦ » * • » ELECTRIC COMPANY MAY FURNISH POWER. The Hydfo-Elcctric Company, of St. George, on the Edisto River, may furnish electric current for the towns of this section, according to rumors reaching this section, says the Allen dale County Citizen in its last issue Continuing The Citizen says: “The company is building lines to vorious towns near St. George, and branching out in this direction. It is under stood that their line may come through Fairfax and Allendale, if those towns see fit to connect with the company. “Allendale’*\failure thus far to reach a satisfactory agreement with the Edisto Public Service corporation of Denmark makes'-the--“possibilities jB the water was shallow or he struck at Double PondchUrch near here, something, receiving a painful injury., The Rev. Mr. Mount, of Beaufort, is His many friends hope for his speedy helping Mr. Miller. A great meeting recovery. i is expected by the members andi Mrs. J. M. Halford and son, Joe friends of tMi church. ~ - tafford, have returned frofn a ten- j \ Mrs. B. Grubbs and children, of days .visit with Mr. and Mrs. W. 0. t Williston, have returned home after Brdme, of Orangeburg. j'spending two weeks in Blackville, vis- Mrs. Ellen Izlar^is visiting rela- iting relatives, tives in the Cope and Orangebiyg sec tions for several weeks. * Mesdames E S. Dicks, Josh Baxley, I » f thc st - Ge » r * e company’a success W. H. Duncan, L. A. Cave, Johnson ‘ n ^is region more favorable than Hagood, Morde^ai Mazursky, Jack they otherwise would be Phillipi, James Burckhaiter and Du- “The Edisto company proposed to bose Robertson, Misses Jean Riley, ^ local rpdnicipal plant, but the Elizabeth Easterling and Ella Louise Molair. X. “ The following afternoon, Mrs. Boul ware was hostess again with five tables. The rooms were charmingly decorated with marigolds and ferns. The high scope prize was won by Mrs. Charlie Brown, Jr., and the consola tion was cut by Mrs.-Sol Browm A salad course consisting of crab salad, hot rolls, potato chips, crackers, olives and tomatoes,— with iced^tea. was served. Those present were Mes- dane? 0 C. Sir ms, R. C. Holman, T. E. Cummmings, Cf'A.. Hensley, Josh Baxley, Charlie Biown, Sts, Charlie Brown, Jr., Sol Browh, B. P. Davies, “Perry A. Price, Carter Price, Harry D. Calhoun, L. M. Calhoun, Pearl Har vard, Martin C. Best, R. H. Wilcox, Miss' Be Bee,Patterson, all of this city, and Mrs. Thomas, of Colorado. Mrs. Jerome Martin. Mr, and Mrs. Harry Delk are the proud parents of a lovely baby daugh ter, Frances Virginia, born July 11th. Best wishes for many happy years -ai'e sent by hosts of friends to little of Watermelons. The People Sentinel whs told m, few days ago that he had already sold about $1,000 worth of melons and expected to load three or .four more carloeds. Mr. Creech last week presented tKe Home ' Bank with a twin melon his patch. IN DOMESTIC TANGLE Mrs. Lorita Clarece Simmons of Spanish Harbor, Flu., js the central figure In a peculiar domestic battle. Recently she divorced her-young hus band so she could marry his father, Now the first husband is suing hls father for alienating her affections. HURRAH FOR BARNWELL, SAYS NEWS & COURIER MIDWIVES GET ASK CITIZENS TO AID HEALTH DEPARTMENT. Classes Were Held at BarnweQ, Black- vflle, Kline and WHIistM.— Twelve Nurses. V Little Mieses Jane and Mrs. Lessie Raffield and little son, -of Orangeburg, have been visitors at offer made wfes 4iot considered Suffi cient inducement, and no agreement has yet been reached. Members o the town-'council feel that although they wish to connect with a high power line, they canhot sacrifice the municipal* plant at a loss to the tax payers. “It is considered as a possibility that the St. Georgfe company may of fer a more satisfactory agreement, in .which ease it will be duly considered spnd acted upon by the town council. The general sentiment is in favor of connecting with a high power line, but not. at a sacrifice of the interests of the taxpayers in the municipal plant.” The above yrill be of interest to the people .of this immediate, section, es- pe’ciallly in thoa^ towns where con tracts have not already been made with the Denmark concern. . m Mr. D. W. Black Dead.. Mr. D. W. Black, aged 81 years, died at his residence here Saturday after an illness of three ^reeks, his body being laid to rest. Sunday after- noon at Two o’clock in the Reedy Not only is Barnwell County hoping to make a record cotton crop this year, but many Barnwell farmers are already jubilant over their water melon returns. The BUnwell People-Sentinel tells of one Barnwell man who last week sold a carload of watermelons for the record price of $500 f. o.- b. Barnwell. hese wcie viry fine melons, of the atson variety, averaging thirty-six pounds each so' that only 791 melons were required to load the car. Tha; was an average of over sixty cents apiece. The People-Sentinel tells of another Barnwell man who bough; from one of his neighbors a field of melons for $180. Within three days he had sold $700 worth of melDhs from the patch apd expected to realize even more. Afiother JJarnwell farmer sold four carloads of melons one day last week for $1J700, an average of $426 a car, and The Peqple-Sentirel says that -plenty of farmers are getting $400 a car and better for their melon ^rop. Surely Barnwell is to be congratu lated, for what the melon growers are accomplishing there is proof of what can be done wliere the right mixture of faith and works w celled into opera- tieja The People-Sentinel declares th« in Barnwell Couhty “many far mers will be able to pay off their bank niftes at this time and have their cotton crops dear tfris fall.”— News and Courier. Frances Virginia. Miss Pete Willis has returned home after a visit to Miss Lovinia Moore in Barnwell. The cfbps in-this section are suffer ing for rain. The Rev. L. JJ. Miller assisted in a successful revival at Norway ' last week. The Rev. Mr. Mount and Mrs. Mount, of Beaufort, are guests o( Eleanor the home of her paretns, Mr. apd Rev. and Mrs. L. H. Miller. ■ • r~ 7 ... -•-* - ■ - - 4 • / - '■ ■ \ < • Branch Churchyard, the funeral ser vices being conducted by the Rev. D. W. Ifeckle in the presence of a large number of relatives and friends. Mr. Black is; survived by his wife, one daughter, Mrs. James Kennedy, one granddaughter and six brothers, who have the sympathy of many friends in their bereavement. His family de sires to thgnk the people of Barnwell for the inany kindnesses shown them during Mr. Black’s last illness. INTERESTING BUDGET OF NEWS FROM SNELI4NG ——- • • '■ x Snell ing. July 21.—Mrs. Hoyt Wat son, of Bradertown, Fla., .amK$tiss Irene Turrier, of Greenwood, are visit* ing their sister, Mrs. W. B. Parker, Mr. L. W : Hill and daughter. Mrs. E. Wright and Mis* Mildred Hill, of Berzelia, Ga., spent several days here ast week with relatives. - Miss Lucy Cook has returned to her home after spending some time with relatives and friends at Willis ton. Mrs. Belton Martin, of Savannah, is visiting ,h«* parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Hill. Miss Carrie Anderson, of Dunbar ton L visited relatives here last week. .Little Miss Blanche Jowers, of Wil liston, i& the-guest of Ker^aupt, Mrs. U. D. Lee, this week. Messrs. Micagy Birt and George Cook were visitors in Williston Sun day afternoon. . Leon Altman, of Charleston,' is spending some time with Mrs. M. M. Moore. ^ ^ Hr- and Mri. H. M. Cook spent Sun day afternoon with their daugter, Mr* Heyward Anderson, at Dunbar ton. 1 Fifty-four midwives and twelve nurses were granted thblr certificates and licensed to practice in Barnwell County, Vrifir the close of the classes this week. These classes have been conducted for the past several months under the auspices of the State Board of Health' and were held at.Barnwell, Blackville, Kline and Williston, accord* ing to a statement received from Miss K. E. Malone,' of Denmark, represent' ing the health department.- The representative of the health department wishes to take this means of thanking those who cooperated and • assisted with this work, and helped to make it a success. She also wishes to urge upon si I parents the neces sity of having their babies registered promptly. TMs section has been re moved from the birth registration section, not a sufficiently large per cent, of the babies being registered, and every effort is being made to : - have it reinstated. The people of the county are asked to further cooperate in the work of eliminating unlicensed midwives by employing only those who have passed their examinations and received their certificates—a complete list 4s given further in this article. The health de partment has rnnounced that any mid wives practicing without'a license will be prosecuted to the full extent Of the law, and citizens of the county are asked to cooperate with them in this particular. The list of authoriz ed midwives in thif county follows: sMidwives. j Barnwell—Susan Priester, Tiny Sherman, Flora Connor, Julia Walker, Rebecca Carter, Jone Jardon, Sully Meyers, Bells Kay, Carrie Gont, Ellen Holman, Lizzie Hendrik* Bessie Star- ^ gts, Maggie Gadson, Almerette Brown, Dennie Nimmons. ’ ~ - Blackville—EmerilnS Bgxley, Annie Jackson, Igicile Sloan, Mary Moncrief,. Cora Odom, Ada’ Rush, Ann Green, Ella Greggs, Sargji Drummond,'Syl via Dukas, Anna Williams, Hattie Kirkland, Francis Washington, Mary Seabrook, Willie May Fuller. Kline—Mary Ann Bradley, Plea sant Albright, Wronna Jackson, Sally Wright, Genie Williams, Annie Ray- sor. , Elko—Celia May, Louisa Montigue- Adeline Young. Josephine Johnson, Lyndhurst—Carrie Devose. Lees—Sarah WilliSma. Martin—Ella Baxter, Zellla Mar Mitchell. ‘ Williston—Irene Anderson, Lydia Jennings^.Mary Hagon^ Dyaie Brown, Fannie Harrison, Dove Coleman, Em ma Williams, Eliza Dorch, Sarah Robertson, Margaret Jone, Naraea. Barnwell—Mamie Patterson, 8y- retta Cave, Alice Patterson, Dora Green, Minnie Eve, Ethel Odom, Eva Cave. Blackville—Carrie Shefton. Kline—Louise Jones, Henrietta ,Hag, Elsie Watkins, Margery Frank- lin. _ COTTON IS NOW FACING ANOTHER t»LANT PERIL I _ .... . The cotton crop in this section is how facing another peril—phoney dew” and-plant i : ee. “Honey <|p w **’ as -perhaps everyl dy know -., !sX a sticky, saccharine substance that ap pears o« the cotton plant some years, especial’7 in hot weather WeLeteris New Interratbnal N 4>tetionary saga that it ;s often caused by ’ nomopter- ous insects” A Io'-aI farmer has a 56-acre jteld of very fine c’fots in which thi damage has been estimated at ten bales. The leaves are dying and it is said that green squares fall off when the plant is shaken. This afield has been poisoned with calcinm arsenate and one theory advanced is that- the poison killcd the mseet* that I tfeed on the plant lice. Cotton has also deteriorated to a considerable extent in the past Mn and Mrs. Ben Davif were vis itors in Williston Thursday. Miss Louise Davis, of Augusta, spent last week-end with her parents, Mr. lud Mrs- Ben Davis. Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Smith aad daughter, Marian, were the guests of Mrs. Smith’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.. J. J. Bin, last Sunday. . , « r»- ** • <».. .’I - v J* J **