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VOLUME XLVIII.
BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA, - THURSDAY, JULY 23RD. 1925.
NUMBER 47.
IT
ERSONAL NEWS
OF BLACKVILLE
CLA»BN€&-«€KIdNG:-iNWItED
WHILE DIVING.
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Death of Mr. Dave Hartzog and Mr.
W. I. Jowers Bring Sorrow to
Blackville Friends.
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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..
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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
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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. _
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
$400 a car and better for their melon
^rop.
Surely Barnwell is to be congratu
lated, for what the melon growers are
accomplishing there is proof of what
can be done wliere the right mixture
of faith and works w celled into opera-
tieja The People-Sentinel declares
th« in Barnwell Couhty “many far
mers will be able to pay off their
bank niftes at this time and have
their cotton crops dear tfris fall.”—
News and Courier.
Frances Virginia.
Miss Pete Willis has returned home
after a visit to Miss Lovinia Moore
in Barnwell.
The cfbps in-this section are suffer
ing for rain.
The Rev. L. JJ. Miller assisted in a
successful revival at Norway ' last
week.
The Rev. Mr. Mount and Mrs.
Mount, of Beaufort, are guests o(
Eleanor the home of her paretns, Mr. apd Rev. and Mrs. L. H. Miller.
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Branch Churchyard, the funeral ser
vices being conducted by the Rev. D.
W. Ifeckle in the presence of a large
number of relatives and friends. Mr.
Black is; survived by his wife, one
daughter, Mrs. James Kennedy, one
granddaughter and six brothers, who
have the sympathy of many friends
in their bereavement. His family de
sires to thgnk the people of Barnwell
for the inany kindnesses shown them
during Mr. Black’s last illness.
INTERESTING BUDGET OF
NEWS FROM SNELI4NG
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Snell ing. July 21.—Mrs. Hoyt Wat
son, of Bradertown, Fla., .amK$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
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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
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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.
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