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**» arrUB OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL V “If you want maney, we hare it— If yon have money, we want it." HOME BANK OF BARNWELL. EatabUakad in 1877. *Just Like a-M€iT||>€r of the f : amHy M Larfeet County Ctrcnlntion. BARNWELL COUNTTS BEST A MOST POPULAR NEWSPAPER. ALL HOME PRINT. OLUME XLIX. BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25. 1926. V X- NUftfeER 26. Political Prophet Asserts 11 » •' ' .. If • Brown G>uld Command Heavy * ‘’’'I W SESSIONS COURT HAS ADJOURNED WM. f. PLOYD ACQUITTED OF MURDER CHARGE. W. E. Cunningham Is Also Cleared.— Only One Mistrial Oredered at r This Term of Court. “Feed Yourself or Perish” fl' Cotton Growers Are Told ... 5., ' - ■ - 1 At Memphis Conference /( s The Court of General Sessions, •-vhichwoonvened here Monday of last week, with Judge John S. Wilson, of Manning, presiding, adjourned sine die Thursday night. A list of the v ases disposed of §jnce the last issue •f The People-Sentihel, together with ♦.he sentences imposed in the cases re ported in last week's paper, is as fol- iws; A sealed sentence was imposed.'in the. case of G. M. Holley, tried in his absence on a charge of violating the prohibition law. R. L. Sease, who pleaded guilty of • iolating the prohibition law, was -anteneed to serve two months at .•iard labor and pay a fine of $100; upon service of one month or pay ment of $50, balance of sentence to t suspended during good behavior. Arthur Jenkins, who pleaded guilty ■*.o violating the prohibition law. was ?entcnced to serve four months at hard labor and pay a fine of $200; up on service of two months and pay ment of $100, balance of sentence to he suspended during good behavior. Spann Dicks, who pleaded guilty to violating the prohibition law, was sentenced to serve two months at hard labor and pay a fine of $150; upon service of two months and pay ment of $100, balance of sentence to Royal Teacher CIVIL COURT TO CONVENE MCH. 8 JUDGE JOHN S. WILSON TO BE PRESIDING JUDGE. Baroness Eika von Eghardt, is teaching in Wittehburg College at Springfield, Ohio. The practical “red blood sd” American students, take “blue blooded” teachers as a matter of Keeping Cows Means $31,220 Extra Income An added income, of $31,220 a year is enjoyed by Barnwell County farm- ers indirectly as a result of keeping cows, acording to the Larrowe Instlf t-e suspended duping good behavior, j tute of Animal Economics. This in- Ulan Cobb, Lamb, Ben Robin-; come is in the form of a a more - Yn and Willie Drake were charged fertile soil due ‘to the manure of with violating the prohibition law. * the dairy cows and this county. On Cobh and Lamb, both white, were the basis of practically a $20.00 fer- mvicted of storing whiskey, while tilizer valuation per animal per Robinson and Drake, negroes, were j year, this means a total of $31,220 u irvicted of manufacturing and stor- added to the richness of the soil in ’••ig. The white men. In view*T>f the this county every twelve months, verdict of the jury, were sentenced Manure is a source 'of the most r serve foOr months at hard labor or valuable plant food obtainable, says ay a fine of $3<Ml each, while the the Institute, but to preserve it at ’«gioes were r*»:h sentenced to serve, its highest value or efficiency, it -ix months and pay a lino of $300; should either be put directly to the up/ni ten ice of tw-' months and pay- fields, each day or conserved until niert of $200 each.. balance of sen- such a time as the opportunity offeri tc b< suspended during good itself to spread it. Feeding trials »nre behavior. Robinson and Drake are have proven that an ordinary cow, now soming sentences imposed in while puttuig from 15 to 18 per cent toe -ith case by the Federal court, of the total energy of the feed she A motion for a new trial was refused consumes into milk, actually returns I y Ju^gc Wilson, whereupon notice the soil 80 per cent of the elements of intention to appeal was given, of sojl fertility in her fecal in the Cobb and Lamb beimr released un- form of manure. This had led many der bonds of $500 each. 1 dairymen t0\discover that the pur- Joe Dillon, charged with house-'chase of good’concentrate feeds for breaking and larceny, was found their cows not only more than pays guilty with recommendation to mercy, for itself in increased milk produc- '.nd was sentenced to six months at thm. but that it also supplies ncces- hard labor. Oscar Hankinson, who sary food to farm'crops that are ex- Memphis, Tehn., February 19.— Southern cotton planters must accept "Abe doctrine of “feed yourself or per ish,’* Glarence Ousley, of Texas, presi dent of the Cotton Reduction Acreage Movement association told represen tatives of nine cotton growing States meeting in conference here today tb" fbVm the Tennessee-Missburi unit of Hie nBBfMMatmp- —, Today’s meeting was devoted prin cipally to speeches, with the main business of forming the Unit left for tomorrow’s session. States repres ented at the meeting were Arkanas, Tennessee, Missouri, Louisiana, Ala bama, Georgia, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Mississippi. / “Mere Speculator.” Declaring that the farmer who plants cotton this season with the ex pectation of getting more than 17 cents a pound for his product is a “mere speculator,” Mr. Ousley said the planter can “save himself much labor by buying a cotton futures con tract.” “The chances are about even that he would lose money on such a contract,” because with a reduced acreage of even 15 per cent, and with weather like Texas is experiencing al ready this year the 1926 yield will ex- coed ITyQOO.OOO Hales, and" the price would be nearer 10 cents a pound than 17 cents. “We have no way of knowing what the cotton acreage nr price will be, Mr. Ousley declared, “but if we do not have our food and feed products, no price possible for cotton will yield a profit, on the year’s operations. With a food and feed crop, however, whatever we get for cotton will yield a profit for our industry." Three Factors. “There are just three factors of in fluence in this • situation,” he assert ed. “First is the banker or credit merchant; second the farm organiza tion and third the Agricultural college with its county agents. The, agricul tural college and its agents are doing all they can. Leaders of the farm or ganizations are active and alert, make this statement because I am in daily contact with them. But if the bankers are responding, I have not heard from them. I have heard direct ly only from bankers in Oklahoma. Tennessee, and Arkansas.” E. A. O’Neal, of Montgomery, Ala., vice president of the American Farm Bureau federation, reviewed thg work of the-farm bureaus toward organiza tion and cooperative farming, market ing of products and general developr ment and asserted that the salvation was indicted vvrth Ibflrni, har I'scnpoit: pensive wheTb bought in lht^-forTn' rrf''«P n Ti rnneerted action. Bub Barritt pleaded guilty to vio-! commercial.fertilizer, ting the. prohibition law and was I to se,v ? f„„, month. »t J ncome Tax Agen | hard labor and pay a (sno of $l;»();l 0 to Visit Barnwell Petit Jurors for the First Week of the Approaching Term Were Drawn Monday, o ______ The March term of the Court of Common Pleas for Barnwell County will convene here Monday, March 8th, with Judge John S."Wilson, of Man ning, presiding. Petit jurors for the first week of the approaching term were drawn Monday, as follows: James J. Ray, Healing Springs. W: C. Hall, Williston. Frank Hair, Blackvilje. W. R. Rutland, Pleasant Hill. J. B. Grubbs, Williston. W. T. Ussery, New Forest. B. E. Gibson, Big Fotk^\ L. W. Garvin, Williston. E. L. Martin, Blackville. H. H. Crum, Blackville. C. M. Turner, Ellenton. William Creech, Morris R. S. Weathersbee, Pleasant Hill. J. S. Nevils, Blackville. S. B. Moseley, Barnwell. C. I). Jones, Meyers Mill. R. E. W’oodward, Pleasant Hill. W. W. Martin, Blackville. I. A. Keeler," Healing Springs. F. S. Brown, Barnwell. Nathan Blatt, Blackville. W. D. Harley, Barnwell. N. S. Black, Double Pond. , T. J. Grubbs, Healing Springs. ♦ W: MVBiuwn, Meyer’s Mill. R. S. Purvis, Williston. Perry Long, Barnwell. J. R. Cheek, Barnwell. J. L. Porter, New Forest. R. A. 1 Patterson, Barnwell. J. W. Johnson, Williston. J. S. Towne, Barnwell. C. C. Black, Reedy Branch. L. B. Creech. Hercules. E. D. Peacock, Barnwell. T. B. Creech, Big Fork. ■ Vote in U. S. Senate Race Camera Shy Love** Triumph” at Vamp Tuesday Night A rare photorrtph of Wttliama. I shy representative at George E. Washington. Miaeoaifa latfcm at A visit with Preat- dent Coblidge out him ta a gener ous mood and Iw consented to 'watch the birdie” for the photog raphers. Take a good look*—he may not let it happen again. Local and Personal News of Blackville • “Love’s Triumph” will he the at traction at the Vamp Theatre in Barnwell next Tuesday night, March! is .the guest of Miss Cecil Fickling. Blackville, Feb. 20.—Miss Meta Willis, who teaches near Leesville, spent las' week-end with her mother, Mrs. C. I . Strobe!: Mrs. W. W. Maloney, Mi's Lucile Moloney and .Vias G)..«'* Posey spent Saturday .in • olumb*^. . The M sx:-s .Very Ma-tin and Ef- fie-1‘lunkcti, of \ugusti.. Ga., were the wrY»-<nd guests of Mr. and Mrs Onrtnr M;**;in Miss Mi.rtin’s par erds Lr. and V.\ C. Adams and children are spending a while in Conway. Dr. Adams has accepted a position with the Edisto Drug Co. of SpringQcld, and will make his home there in the near future. Miss Frances Duncan, of Colutnbia, of agriculture in the South must rest pon service of two months or pay ment of $100, balance of sentence to be suspended during* good behavior. AnnounVemenf is made that an HerWuConk and Peiw Bi own' w , nt of tho South , Carolina Tax pleaded guilty to violating the prohi- Commission, Income Tax Division, ti n law\and were sentenced to will be -at the Court House in Barn- serve four ninths and pay a fine of we ll Thursday, March 4th, for the $200 each; upo\service of one month purpose of assisting taxpayers cia and payment of $TOO each, balance of, executing State income tax returns .wrnfriifn.to ha wjtp^rtadi dfHwr gftotf j fey,late; ATT persons should ighil behavipi. themselves of' this opportunity- of \\ m. P. f loyd .was aeQmtted of the securing aid in the preparation of .murder of Clarence Bolen\ The lat- their returns. Any information or ter was shot by Floyd at WH^is' Mill assistance will be cheerfully given last summer, and succumbed 'his without charge, injuries about a month ago. W. E. Cunningham was acquitt™ , vr ... r« ii , .. ... ^ \ Little Miss Mary Catherine Gamble, c*‘ the murder of W. T. Powell. The\, . , c' \ \ x- ,, , Maugh'jer of Col. and Mrs. N., B. • latter was run down on the streets oXc, _ , . , . . . . , , , Gamble, entertained a number of her of Williston-by Cunninghams auto- , * friends Monday afternoon in cele- mobile, eve-witnesses testifying that . \ i • *1.0 • , . , brationXpf her seventh birthday. an- Powell stepped directly in front of . \ ni\ ei s<ii \. the approaching car, the accident l>e-! ing unavoidable. -I goods, Lewis \WeatherSbee pleaded . Mack Jom ' s ^ ,,ty to v ‘°- guilty to the charge and Was sentenc- Iftting the prohibition law and whs ^ t() ^ one Jv ,. at hard lab()r; sentenced to serve fgur months at th(? case af , ai . ?8t E Weathersbee .hard labor aftd pay a fine of $150; ^ no , p , 0 * gedt and \iin Rm s was upr'T 1 service of two months or nay- ac q U j tte( j ‘ ment of $100, lialanee of sentence to . . , , , . x , * he suspended during good behavior. „ ,, r „ „ , ... c . , - , ... of \\. H. DeWitt charged with Violat- Gilmore Simmons, charged with as- . - • . l^iult and batt-ry with intenl to kill, 1 *^ r(> ’-it 1011 u w - is convicted of assault and battery x . . , , v „ ,. ’ , , ... . . , . ‘ * j - j Not J. I). Grubbs of Black vile fft a higfi and aggravated nature and was sentenced to serve three months The People-Sentinel has been re al hard labor or'pay a fine of $150. quested to state that the J. t>. Grubbs In the case against Lewis Weathers- referred ( to in the Presentment of hee, E. W. Weathersbee and H. H.'the Grand Jury, which was" published Williams, the first tvv6 being indict- in last week’s issue, not j. D. ed for housebreaking and larceny and Grubbs, of Blackville. but another - the last named foe receiving stolen man with the same -rmtia)*. — 2nd. The proceeds from this play, which is under the direction of Mrs. Harry W. All, a very talented lady of Allendale, will be for top benefit of the Barnwell Baptist Church' luiildiug fund. Admission will be 50 and 75 cents. The program is as follows: SYNOPSIS: Act L—Valley Farm. An afternon in August. The engage ment. Act. 2.—The Rutledge man sion, New; York City, the following December. Act 3.—-Same as act 2, ' '' ilnU' WilTu lalTT Hu ted. 4!-^ 4 “Cotton is veritable white gold that enrichf*?knll who handle it except the poor Southern farmer, who actually tills the soil,” Mr. O’Neal declared. Better Cotton ou Fewer Acres. <Col. Harry D. Calhoun of Barnwell, president of tHe South Carolina Caro lina Bankers association, declared in Columbia Saturday that “Better cotton on fewer acres and more feed on metre meres” should be the rujc in !>outh Carolina agriculture for the year 1926. ,r T am convinced.” said Col. Cal houn “that -a grave and serious res ponsibility rests' upon the ^bankers, merchants and .fertilizer dealers of South Carolina at this time. Within the next thirty or sixty days. 90 per cent, of the farmers of this state will call upon the gentlemen mentioned, to arrange credit for the production of the 1926 \ otton crop. If the South produces r; large c*xp, w® at;.mi -the At the farm, again. An evening in the next March. The triumph of love. CAST OF CHARACTERS: Harold Rutledge, a young New- Yorker—Fred H. All, P. rrv Deane, a son of the soil—Ru- bert Page. David Hildreth. a-New York lawyer x—DuBcse Boylston. Silas Holcomb, owner of the Valley Farm—1*. T. Hartzog. Azaiiah Keep, a clock tinker—T. M. Fitzpa',rick.x. , , Jennings, a servant, at the Rut ledge mansion—Whitneys Tharin. Hetty Ho|comb—Mrs. Baynard Cal houn. (A country flower trans planted in city soU.I Isabel Carnqy, niece to David Hil dreth—Miss Mary Printup. Mrs. Rutledge, Harold’s mother Mrs. W. I. Johns. Alvira Holcomb, sister of Silak Miss -Vivia Peeples. Lizy Ann Tucker—Miss V’alinda chance of selling- our cotton for from Jive to eight cents below thi» eoSt of | Deatherage. (Who borrows but never production.. From 1920 to 1925, Texas incrc.sed her cdtton acreage I gossips.) Verbena, hired girl at the farm- j Mrs,. Harry W. All. nearly ten million acres. "Vt r ith a perfect growing sdason for Ti-xas, that state alone can and will produce i Solomon Blatt,-Esq., has purchas nearly eight million hales. This to-! od a lot on Marlboro Avenue^ from gether with what the other States Mrs. Sa E. .Moore and plans to have can produce will give us another big a home erected thereon, construction crop. Qur only hope here in .$outh- 1° hog' 11 at an.eai’ly date., •• • Carolina is. to give attention first of The Rev. L. H. Miller left Monday iiv his car for a two weeks’ trip through Florida. 4 Mr. Grimes Halford is here visit ing his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Halford. Mrs. T. O. Boland was hostess to the Busy Bee Club bn last Thurs day. An original valentine contest was enjoyed, after which delightful refreshments were served. Mrs. H. A .Rich entertained the Wednesday Afternoon Book Club on FcIy ruary 17th. The interesting pro gram was rendered by Mrs. D. K. Driggs a nd Mrs. W. Carle Ruist. The hostess served tempting refreshments. TO INVESTIGATE MANUFACTURERS Senator Robert Stewart, of Lancas ter County, will be the next Gover nor of South Carolina, if he cares to be, Edgar A. Brown, Speaker of the House of Representatives, can 1 * command an overwhelming vote if he should run for the United States Sen ate, in opposition to Senator E. D. Smith. , . These were the outstanding points in the forecast of the 1926 political race in South Carolina as made pub lic in Greenville Saturday by E. Roy Stone, known as the “political prog nosticator” of South Carolina. 'Mr. Stone said that coining events might change the existing status, but that at present his forecast seemed to represent the correct situation ifc this State. » Got Data in Columbia. Mr. Stone said that his forecast had been delayed for about ten day*, because he wished to obtain addi tional reports from various parts of the State. These reports together with information obtained on a recent visit to Columbi a led him to make the above conclusions, Mr. Stone said. Mr. Stone said the sentinment for Stewart to be. the next Governor qf the State appeared to arise from all parts of the State. Many expressions favoring Representative Carrol D. Nance, of Laurens, were also receiv ed. More persons seemed inclined to consider Speaker Brown for the Unit*^ ed States Senatorship than for the Chief Executive of the State, Mr. Stone said. Mr. Brown’a fight to re peal the Federal inheritance law cre ated a decided sentiment in favor of the Speaker of the House of Repres entatives, it was said. , In making his forecast, which, he said, would be his last, Mr. Stone made two other statements of inter est. One was that he had been given the name “political prognosticator” by a newspaperman following the prediction made in the Blease-Fea- therstone race of 1910. The second was that he intended to retire from politics and to devote his time to the insurance firm with which he is con nected, and that he did not intend to make any more forecasts concerning the outcome of South Carolina politi cal races. Not Biased, Says. He added, in conclusion, that the present forecast had been made free from bias or prejudice, and that it was his sincere conviction that Stew art and Brown appeared to i>e favor ites. - ' " “But I want. |t underAtaod thnLl have nothing against Senator Smith or anyone ’ else seeking either the Senator’s place or the Governorship. 1 -im only telling how the situation lo</ks to me, after an extensive in vestigation and am not expressing a preference.” ~pr LARGE GUANO MANUFACTURERS MAY BE IN COMBINE. Valentine Party. Federal Trade Commission to Inves tigate Evidence Submitted by Congressman Hare. Congressman Butler B. Hare, hop ing to secure lower prices for fertili- 'xpr. filed evidence with the Federal Trade Commission in Washington a few days ago to the effect that a number of the larger fertilizer manu facturers doing business in South j Finlayson and Smith. Springfield,. Feb. 20.—The home of Mr. a nd Mrs. B. H. Cooper was a “faify scene” Friday evening when the music teachers of Springfield, Misses Ruiha Waite Finlayson and Fiances Smith, gave to their pupils a Valentine party. About 60 young people, with a few older persons, were present. The visitors were met at the door by little Louise Cooper and registered in tl^e guest gook. Hie decorations were elaborate with moss, ivy and holly. Cupids with various animals were decorated by Misses The large Carolina Were conspiring .or effect- punch bowl was bedded in shrubbery ing atKagreement among themselves to fix the price of fertilizers by “freezing” _oUt the small manufac turers ot Independent, concerns and blacklisting dealers who failed or re fused to sell fertilizer at prices fixed and agreed upon by the larger manu facturers. , . - In response to his efforts to have the commission investigate the mat ter, Mr. Hare is today advised that the allegations and evidence suhmit- j ted are sufficient to require the at- al! to our food and feed crops, and credit to farmers who do not grow I tontion of the commission and he was secondly to cotton production. Those own and feed. If s uch ! as * ured that an-investigator will be who\exteml credit to the farmer should be the case, both the farmer| sent to South'Carolina to investigate should have a very serious talk with a'vi those who extend him credit, l ^ be c j, ar g es him as t<> the possible outcome of are likely to wind up. in bankruptcy. | 4 . - crop conditions this fall. Many far- It is our economic salvation and our. Mr. Herbert Christie and family, . mors arc already aware of the ser- patriotic' duty to grow cotton on few- Miss Hart and Mr. Billie Christie, of j ried to Columbia Saturday morning inusnens of the situation. There is «*■ acres and more feed on more Denmark, were the guests of Mrs.’vfor treatment. His many friendl Tftfle'TTkeTThbocTof - a continuance of acies.’’ L. H. Christie Sunday,. | hope for his early recovery. and gracefully presided over by- Mra. M. E. Black; while the tables were elaborately, adorned with valenties on valentine colors—red and white. The large parlors were also adorned with the season’s colors and with the first flowers of the year: Music by Miss Finlayson and Miss Smith enlivened the evening until the visitors were ushered into the large dining rooms where refreshments were dispensed. After the feast the Valentine post- office windows were opened and cost ly valenties were delivered to each person present by Cooper Black, post master for the evening. oV ■ ♦ ♦ ♦ X/ Mr. F. M. Cave, who has been quite ill here for several weeks, was car-