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R| DRE V- • „ \ J. - ‘ • f •* f *y6pr " v- , i j ‘ , ■ OFFICIALS EWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COD NTT * -■W-y«« w«nt THTO*y. we hurj it— If you have money, we want it. M HOME BANK OF BARNWELL. Consolidated June 1, 1925. Must Like a MeiTiber oF tHe Fcimllv” Larfeat County Circulation. BARNWELL COUNTTS BEST & MOST POPULAR NEWSPAPER. ALL HOME PRINT. '• VOLUME XLIX. -TW- BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, MARCH 18TH,' 192G. NUMBER 29. PUPPY TRIALS TO BE RUN NEXT WEEK Thirteen Month Year YIRG1N1 ^-CAROLINA CLUB HOLD EVENTS. p 'try TO Purse of $600 Offered in the Open Stake and Trophies in the Memebrs’ Stake. Announcement is made that the members of the Virginia-Carolina Field Trial Association will hold their puppy trials on the grounds near Barnwell, beginning next Mon day, the 22nd inst. It is understood that the events will last about two -xlays. A purse of SGbO is being of fered in the open stak,e events' and trophies in the members’ stake.- The judges will he Col. R. T. iStcdma.i, of Winston-Salem, N. €., and Mr. L. Y. Simons, of Allendale. The following announcement ap peared in The American Field, ofj Chicago, under date of February 27: j “In connection with the Virginia-! t ’arolina Puppy trials, to be held at ; L-jirnwell, S. (\, beginning Monday, jlarch r .2i»l, a< announced in lasl • eek’s issue, we are glad to mention that Col. it T. Stodman. of Win.-ton- Salem, N C., and L. V. Simons, of Allendale, • S. 0., will comprise the iudiciary*. With the awards in the SMITH TO BE OPPOSED BY EITHER BROWN OR BYRNES Miss Julia Lemon Is ^ Named in Hi Contest _ m lAyTOcACrgR 1 ! Dr. George W. Davis of Ottowa, Kas.,. has worked out a “Calendar of Nations” which has 13 months of 28 days each, the new month “Luna” being placed between June and July. It has been submitted and is being considered by tha I>eaeue of Nations. Snowstorm Visited Barnwell Saturday A most unusual sight for this sea son of the year in this section was the snowsorm Saturday afternoon, which came as n climax to a week of Unseasonably low temperatures. About three o’clock a heavy black , * cloud gathered in the North. In a short while, a high wind and sand ^ MM Storm passed over this city, followed hands of two such competent and ex- . .. . . , ,, r n t 1 . i immediately by the yvo-WLall.- In penenced gentlemen, we are tertav^i c _. -thai rinfa mill iil)nn,» p^ten- sive patronage arn result in com plete success. Please note furtneriv ,, . . that the closing date of entry in the Open Stake is March 10. Members’ Stake entry is acceptable up to time of drawing. Horses will be again furnished from the Gaston stables at Aik-m, S. C„ so that everyone in at tendance can be assured of a suita ble mount. Entry blanks and fur- tl'er information mav* b^had on ap-1 plication to T. S. Comstock, secretary Thomasville. N. C.” |spile of the fai t that tho-Umnfrafrarr dropped to around the freezing point. i the snow melted a'nmst as fast as it a very short while after j the storm ceased, the flakes had dis- I appearod.\Thi* is-the latest in the i season that A ^pow has fallen here in many years amPwas the only one of my consequence thilKwinter. The weather continued ^ to turn | colder Saturday night and the fol lowing morning thermometers regis tered as low as ten degrees below freezing. Many who neglected to cut off the water supply in their homes The grounds near Barnwell have reported frozen pipes hut so far as is been declared by competent author*-; no damage resulted, ties to be the finest in the country ^ 'p^p snowfall seems to have been and it is possible that they may be! general over the State, several places sequired by the Virginia-Carolina As- ,j n ^p piedmont section reporting «ociation and other efubs for the pur pose of holding their annual trials here. Ground Broken Last Week for Ice Plant from two to five and six inches. » A certain well known almanac pre dieted the snowstorm for this section and as a.result its long distance fore casts are being consulted by many farmers with the view of determin ing the best time to plant cotton. Work was commenced last week cn the new ice plant of the Mutual lee and Fuel Co., of this city, which was Bethoven Music Club Organized. The piano pupils of Mrs. Ira Fairs incorporated a short time ag<* The organized the Bethoven Music club plant will be located near the South- Friday afternoon, March 12th. *t the ern Cotton Oil Company’s ginnery, home of jllrs. Terie Richardson. The adjacent to the tracks of the South- hostesses of the afternoon were ». ern Railway. It is stated that the Misses Julia Lenio^and Dorothy. new plant-will be 4n operation irf^nRicHarcIsom ^’ pupiU will be-selected rtf' 1 " SENIQR SENATOR ALMOST CER7 TAIN OF OPPOSITION. I 1 /. Of cordial irtterest to many friends is the announcement that Miss Julia Lethon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Lemon, of Barnwell, has been if named as one of the 15 winners in the Statewide high school English contest, held under the auspices' of the South Carolina high school lea gue on February 6th, the results of which were announced Saturday by J. D, Fulp, secretary of the league. The contest was open to all tenth find eleventh grade pupils of the public high schools of the State that are members of the league, and was entered by 50 of the high schools. Mor.e than .1.000 pupils took tho written examination, which was bas ed on the English tests in use in the high schools. ^ The 15 best papers were by: Cade’.le Able, Saluda High; AlL*e Littlejohn, Gaffney High; Francos^ Stewart, ^asley high; Wylette Cu^ bort. Johnson high; Juli a Lemon, Barnwell high; Sarah Craig, Lan caster high; Mary Wall,’ Lancaster high; Mildred Miller, -Hartsvilie high; Martha Stackhouse. Dillon high;'Jack Wannamaker, St. Mat- ^Strong Pressure Being Brought on Former Congressman to Make the Race. Football Czar ftighr-tmTe’ During the past few weeks there has been a persistent rumor that James F. Byrnes, of Spartanburg for merly and for many years the repres entative in Congress from the Second Congressional District, is seriously considering making the race for the L T nitcd States Senate this summer, opposing Senator E. D. Smith. It is known that strong pressure has been brought to hear upon Mr. Byrnes by numbers of his friends and supporters in his campaign of two years ago, when he was narrowly defeated by Cole L. Blease for senatorial honors, to ‘induce him to enter the race against Senator Smith. Mr. Byrnes has not made any definite statement as to his political plans for the future, however, those who are in touch with the situation would PEEPLES RUNS FOR GOVERNOR Big Bill Edwards, former Prince ton football star is-now czar of tlie “Red” Grange, professional league, which sought his services as a guiding influence similar, to that which Landis exerts over babe- bull. ..i. High School Pupils Guests of Col. Brown WILL MAKE RACE THIS SUMMER “GOD WILLING” Former Repreftentative from Barar well County Has Thrown His Hat in the Ring. Upon invitation of Col. Edgar A. Brown, of this city, Speaker of the House of Representatives, about 00 not 1 boys and girls, members of graduat- be surprised should announcement come from him at any time. It now appears practically certain that Senator Smith will meet with Hit 50 ds ■Y . -4" Vhw mothers Tif the Jren stated in The People-Sentinel are presented on the program are in several weeks ago. the daily capacity vited to be guests of the club and are will be twenty tons. In addition to' urged to be present and thereby en- supplying local customers, a part of courage our work by their, presence, the output will be marketed in near- 1 a bit of interest centered by towns. The new concern has n' ar(>U nd the election of the two offi- capital stock of $20,000 and will be cers> Th e club unanimously elected under the management of R. G. Hern- Miss Julia ' Lemon, president, and don, son-in-law of Judge 1$. C. .Hoi- Miss Blanche Bennett, secretary. man, of Barnwell. Barnwell Bov a Staunch Christian. W’e hope to accomplish much this year and were very much .encouraged by having seventeen iQUt of twen- ty- pupils present. • , The club was delighted to have as and Tal^r’ST, hit e r h i gh; Ria Melle Reed, Sumter high; Orrin Palmer, Ridgeway high and Cora Lee Jeter, Ninety-Six high. These names were not arranged according to the merit of the papers submitted, but the list was comniled by putting down the names at ran dom, it was stated by Mr. Fulp. The committees handling the con test was Qr. G. A. Wauchope, of the University 1 of South Carolina, chair man. Superintendent J. C. Daniel of Darlington and Dr. S. H. Edmunds of Sumter. Only Dr. Wauchope and Superintendent Daniel graded the papers submitted. Dr. Edmunds de clined to assist in this as pupils from the Sumter schools en- teied. No names of either punils or schools appeared on the papers, numbers being assigned the papers by the secretary as they were sent in. A strange coincidence and one which vouches for the care and exactness of the examining commit tee, was that both Dr. Wauchope and Superintendent Daniel, without the knowledge of each other, picked the same fifteen best papers by the num bers as signed. To Select Best. The fifteen winners will go to Columbia, April 23, for a final ex amination by the committee in charge* after which the three best English ing classes of the Barnwell, Black ville. Dunbarton and Wilhston high schools, went up to Columbia Thurs day of last week and spent the day elected attorney general of the State ;ri w- l)igM- H-f4efr Shuler. "Sumter aTi’cnhat If lofted major judge ad j-j l— ■«wijj.m‘r T UJ ~T . -n i 7T « . , ~ tlw» A- . . farm Ida Me opposit i o n this sum mar, ^iu.. the capital- eity ■ as the Colonel's . Mrs. J. W.G. Reeti. of this city,has received a letter from the Rev -Fur- man H. Marlin .of Florence, in which «* ««.«* Mrs. Stanley Dicks •he,-pays a very high compliment to Miss Pa ' jli " c . Rich » rd * 0 "- Mrs. Reed's son, Mr. R. V. Reed. Delightful refreshments werewrv- Aimnli utliei thtmn he says: “Yo-.r H * ft* hostesses after the follow- son is eettW to be one of the most proRram '™ imnoitan*, men in my church. He is .. he hits! W.dtz a fine worker, hut best of all, a mafr- i beks. nnircut Christian ueriilemnur-Hp CuckO, now the chairman of our Finance Hannon. Tyrolasi and His' -Child— Mary G -Mathews—Bobbv SoT Waltz—Ting—Mary The Awards The school represented by the first place winner will be awarded a lov ing cup, the first place winner will receive a gold medal, the second, a silver medal, and the third winner a bronze medal, all struck from the die of the league. The winners were selected by having the contestants in each high school take the contest under the direct supervision of the superin tendent or the principal and the D’Bannon. The Life •Committee, and is guiding the finan cial work cf the chmrch in a master — 7* “ .~ • • ' i ful way,” Mr. Martin also pays j. high compliment to Mr and Mrs. 1 1 ^‘* u Reed and stated that the latter was a great inspiration to him during the two meetings held by him at tho Bap tist Church in Barnwell. of )orothy The Child’s Waltz—Presser-‘-June i ' * 1 Milhous. i Tam O’ Shanter—Warren—Julia Lemon.—Contributed. “The Vanishing American” drew large crowds to the Vamp Theatre at its showing on Monday and Tuesday. « Nick Blaj-k, the manager of this tre, is giving his patrons some I: Death of Jas. S. Keel. senior English teacher. The con testants were limited to the mem bers of the tenth and eleventh grades. The best three papers from each school were selected and sent to: the secretary of the league, hav ing no name or school mark or any thing on the paper to. identify : t, other than a number which had bean assigned to the school. Each paper had a slip attached to it showing the pupil’s name and the school, these slips being detached from the papers before getting, to the grading com mittee. From the papers graded by the committee the fifteen best wore selected, and as it happened, the same^fifteen were selected by Tioth of the men officiating, without either one knowing which papers th^ other had chosen. tor will he called upon to make a fight to. retain his senatorial toga. Since early in the. present legislative ses sion Col. Edgar A. Brown of Barp- well, speaker of the house of repre sentatives. has been generally re garded as practically an announced candidate, although in justice to Col. Brown it should he stated that he has, not as yet definitely stated that he will be a candidate. Neither has he denied that he has the matter under serious consideration. This he has ad mitted. and it is common knowledge that the genial and popular speaker has been feeling the public pulse. He has received encouragement from all parts of the State and if he does en ter the race, will give Senator Smith a run for his jnoney. All Good Campaigners. The same thing is true of Mr. Byrnes, who, as is generally known, is a campaigner par excellence and a stump speaker of unusual ability. Like Col. Brown he is young and vigorous and dpubtless in closer touch with the people of the State than is Senator Smith, although it must be conceded, that the senior senator knows a trick or two about politics and vote-getting himself. When he talks to the farmer “Cotton Ed” speaks eloquently pnd in a language that is pretty generally spoken in So\i^ r .CsirQlimi.^Eat. whether he can repeat the performances of for- ! mer years, in view of existing agri cultural conditions, and again con vince the farmer vote that his services' in Washington are indispensible to the well being of South Carolin a ag riculture, and continued peace, pros perity and happiness, remains to be seen. Both Col. Brown and Mr. Byrnes have much to commend them to the people of the State- Besides his long service in the Generral Assembly, Col. Brown has given liberally of “his tiriie and energy in recent months in the successful fight he made against .the attempted encroachment of Congress and the federal government upon the 'lights of the several States in con nection with the federal inheritance tax. This fight raised Col. Brown in to something of a national figure. Thomas H. Peeples of Columbia, member of the house of representa tives from Richland County and a former attorney general of South Carolina, will be a candidate for gov ernor in the primaries this summer, he announced Tuesday night. “I have been asked,” Mr. Peeples said, “and urfced U? letters and in per son by many friends throughout the State to state definitely my position as to whether l shall be a candidate for governor of South Carolina. “My answer is. Yes. God willing, I shall be.” Mr. Peeples, a lawyer gt Columbia, was born at Beaufort August 4, 1882. He studied law at the University of South Carolina and was admitted to the bar December, 1907, practicing In Blackvillc until-1910. * ^ He was a member of the house from Barnwell in 1911 and 1912 and was portunity of seeing the General As sembly in action hut the prime rea son. Tor the visit was to gather data about the history of the State House, its grounds, etc., from which they will write essays. The Home Bank of Barnwell has offered a prize of $5 in gold to the pupil in each school writing the best essay. The essays will be read during the chapel service of the four schools and the winners will beselected by the members of the various faculties, who will act as judges. Col Harry D. Calhoun, presi dent of the Home Bank, took a great interest in the visit and supplied the boys and girls with writing paper and pencils. The visitors were welcomed to the Capitol by Speaker Brown, of the House, and President Jackson, of the Senate. While in the Senate, Senator Ouzts. of Greenwood, suggested that they sing “Carolina.” Another Sena tor thought “Home, Sweet Hpme” would be better, but Senator Pearce, of Richland, was of the opinion that “Gpd Save Our State" might be more appropriate.. The Barnwell boys and girls, however, decided to give their school yell. _ * • Following their visit to the State House, the boys and girls were the guests of Col. Brown at a dinner at the Jefferson Hotel. Theer-froift -the-Barnwell High school who enjoyed . the trip were Blanche Bennett, Polly Walker, Mir iam Creech, Vern a Lee. Mary Frances Moore, Mildred Call, Margaret Mc Allister, Lavinia Moore, Julia Lemon, Essie Morris, Annie Moody, Harold Ready, Basil Jenjdns. Brown Parker, Rufus Moore, Manly Harrison and W. H. Thomas. vocate in the United States army dur ing the World War and assigned to duty in Washington, being later transferred and made chief counsel of the war department board of apprais ers. Mr. Peeples is now a lieutenant colonel J. A. G..O. R. C„ Eighty-second division, U. S. A. He is a son-in-law of Capt. J. B. Armstrong, county treasurer, of this city. School Bond Issue Has Been Abandoned The country has been ringing with his praise <?ver since. It was'a fight which Col. Brown fought almost sin- gle-hamled. It Is Brown or Bvrnes. Plans for the proposed school bond issue to provide money for the erec tion of high schools in Barr.-.veil County, an outline of which was pub lished in last week’s issue of The People-Sentinel, have been abandon ed for the present at least, according to information made public here Mon- Cummings IS Head of Confederate Home The many Barnwell friends of Mr. T. E. (“Tec”) Cummings, formerly of this city, will be interested in the following news item, which was pub lished in Thursday’s issue of The State: Capt. W. H. Stewart, for the past five years superintendent of the Con federate Soldier’s home, asked the board of commissioners of the institu tion. at its last meeting, to relieve him of the duties of superintendent, the increasing weight of advancing years having made the duties of the office, Captain Stewart said, almost too heavy for hia shoulders. The board accepted his Yesignation with regret. T. E. Cummings, who. has been clerk <at the-home for several weeks, was elected superintendent to suc ceed Captain Stewart and Captain Stewart was then made clerk of the institution. The new superintendent is the son of a Confederate soldier, and before coming to the home was for about eight yeara connected with the express company at Barnwell. He has discharged his duties at the home to the satifaction of the board and is believed by its members to be a. fine man for the place of superintendent. Captain Stewart will find the du ties of clerk lighter than those of superintendent and will be in posi tion to give Mr. Cummings much as sistance in becoming familiar with the duties of superintendent. Cap tain Stewart has made a fine record at the home. day? After the bill had been prepar ed for introduction in the General Assembly, providing for a bond issue of $160,000, it was found that because of existing indebtedness it would be impossible to bond the county for Mr. Byrnes’ record as a member of mof . e than $100,000. This sum would not be sufficient for the needs of tho four proposed high school district* andKit is understood, the bill has been withdrawn. Mr. James S. Keel, aged 69 years, who was postifiaster at Montmorenci 1 Rural Mail Carriers to Meet. Rent pictures and deserves their wholehearted support. Quite often he shows picturesuLere ahead of Col umbia,' Charleston and Augusta: One i for 22 years, died Friday of last; A. W. Ellis, of Meyer’s MU), week. He was a brothef of Mr. J. has requested The People-Sentinel to i C. Keel, formerly of Barnwell, but make the folowing announcement: now a resident of Allendale. There will be a meeting of the South Carolina Rural Letter Car riers Association in Columbia bn The work of paving the, walks o^the latest pictures, “The Grand throus , h "The Cirvle” will be finished March 20th, at eight o’clock p. m.. at ^ ^^ > *** and W*****. will k* this week, adding greatly to the ap- the post office building. All carriers 4'3uii at an eurty date. Jpearance of this park. .‘ar*. urged to b^ present. Congress is nothing short of brilliant It is generally conceded that he h been among the most useful repre sentatives South Carolina has had in Washington since the War- Between the Sections. Many people*' through- Springfield Items. Springfield, March 13.—Mr.': and Mrs. Lenox Bennett and baby of Columbia were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Bennett last week-end. Miss Marie Davis spent last week end with delatives in Columbia. C. Culler of Detroit, Mich., is visit ing Mr. and Mrs. D. V. Phillips . Miss Inez Brodie, who has a posi tion in Columbia, visited relatives here last week-end. A joint meeting of the Missionary po*e each other. Only since the last out the State are outspoken in the . campaign has Mr. Byrnes taken up! opinion that he is too useful a man his residence in Spartanburg, where societies of the Methodist church waa not to be in Congress, and that his h*» has been engaged in the practice j j,eld at the home of Mrs. M. P. Ful- record in the lower house is but an j of law. PriorAo, bis retirement from mer> Tjj e hostesses were Miss Nettio earnest of what might he expected of Congress he was a resident of Aiken ; Phillips and Mrs. L. C. Prothro. A and in Barnwell Col. Brown was not ;weet course was served during the only his neighbor, but his ardent sup-1 gocial hour. ever, that CdL. Brown # nd Mr. Byrnes j porter and intimate friend. j Misses Lula Pbnny und Mar^r D. will not both be in the race against j It appears that Senator Smith will Tarrant of Colnmbia were the Week- Senator Smith. ,T1ie two are . too| find strong opposition in one or the enc | g^ggts df Mrs. E. W. closely bound by ties of friendship ' other, however—either Col. Brown or * '• • and long year* of .assoeiatidh to op- • Mr. Byrnes.—Booth Carolina Gazette. Advertise hi Tke him a member of the senate. It may be confidently stated, how- • , V. No