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>. sr ? ' •, * l*' £T 4 U you want w« kavt it— If yoa have money, wo want IL* HOME BANE OF BARNWELL. NE OF BA1 » r TH« OFFICIAL NEW8FAFEB OF BARNWELL COUNTY. ' 7 l The Barnwell People-Sentinel y Consolidated June 1, 1925. VOLUME XLIX. GUARDS Barnwell Residence TtfUCK PRODUCERS 1 REQUIRES COMMISSION MER CHANTS TO GIVE ACCOUNT.^” Is Damaged by Fire { Juwt Like q Member of thw Paimlly ,> BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, MARCH 25TH, 1926. GENERAL ASSEMBLY CLOSED 10-WEEK SESSION Larfoat Coaaty Clrcnlatian. BARNWELL COUNTY’S 4 MOST POPULAR NEWSPAPER. ALL HOME PRINT. ■ft " NUMBER 9E V.-C. Field Trials e . ■ ' Highly Successful ie residence of Mr. B. L. Easter- |> 4 Proposes Law to Prevent Dumping and Destruction Without Good Cause. ; ' ling was badly damaged by fire and water Thursday afternoon between I After a session of tfn weeks, the one and two o’clock.. The blaze was General Assembly of South Carolina first discovered shortly after one adjourned gine die Saturday after- o'clock and was burning on the roof ' , , , _ ^ A .. _ j- \ a , ■ -4. noon at five © clock. Outstanding near the dining room chimney, tuv- • - ing evidently started from a spark me * sures passed at the recent session December 14, 1926, as a legal holi day in commemoration of the fiftieth maturation i • cf Governor Wade Hampton, marking the end of theJ^p^j to describe the'' mediocre The two stakes of the Puppy Trials run by the Virginia-Carolina Club here’ this week brought out some of the best puppies of the year. While extravagant language .is often i Washington, March 19.—Producers of truck, vegetables, fruits, melons, poultry and other agricultural prod uct* will be interested in a bill intro duced today by Congressman Butler B. Hare, of South Carolina, “to pre vent the destruction or dumping, ■Without good and sufficient cause, of farm produce in interstate com merce by commission merchants and others, and to require them truly and correctly to account for all farm pro duce received by them.” The bill provides that after June 30, next, any such recipient of these ( products who shall, directly or indi rectly discard or dump them, or knowingly make any false report to those from whom the shipments were received, concerning the handling, condition, quantity, quality, sale or I'idisposition thereof, or knowingly fail gruly and correctly to account there for, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by fine of not less than $100 nor more than -f^jOOO or by im prisonment for not exceeding one year, or by both. It is further pro vided by the bill that a certificate is- on the shingle robf. The alarm was given immediately t^d in a few min utes the volunteer fire department had a stream of water\ in operation. The fire, however, had spread quick- include the following: A $10,218,000 appropriation bill.. Abolition of the one-tenth of 1 per cent sales tax on manufacturers, re peal of the cosmetics and ice cream ly and almost the entire \oof was taxes, reduction of the property tax blazing briskly. Willing hands as sisted in removing the furniture from the burning dwelling and by\ the time the fire had been brought bn- der control, all of the household fur nishings had been carried to places of safety. Considerable damage was done to the interior of the building by water as well as by fire. It is understood that the loss is covered by insurance to the amount of $6,000 on the dwelling and $1,500 on the furniture. While the furniture was being re moved, a watch belonging to Miss Elizabeth Easterling wlas lost or by one-half mill to maximum of five mills and decrease of the stamp tax on promissory notes by 50 per cent. The reductions go into effect immediately except in the case of the sales tax, which will be removed July 1. ©enactment of the soft drink tax for A year, to expire Aprill, 1928. Limitation of the tobacco and snuff taxes tb April 1, 1927. Enactment of a revised income tax law to apply to incomes earned after January 1, of this year. Ratification of constitutional amendments to ^hange the terms of office from two to four years for the stolen. Two or three negro girls were arrested but nothing was found Governor and othe£\State offices, in their possession except some cos metics. For the present, Mr. and Mrs.' Easterling and Miss Elizabeth Eas terling have rooms at the residence sued by any inspector designated by j of Mr. J. M. Caldwell, while Mr. and pended by Clemson College and the the Secretary of Agriculture shall be Mrs. H. J. Phillips and little daugh-1 Department of Agricuture^ pi'ima. facie evidence-m fedevai r l‘roT'ts4~tet t ~hftW TOOffts with 'Mr. and "Mrs.l ^Authorlzation of~tty? forjng^oji\pt . as loathe quality apd condition ofWitherspoon. It-’is understood that highway districts for the paving of Extension of the thpm of commis sioner o/ agriculture from to to four years. ' \ .. * Appropriation of $25,000 as a fund for advertising the- State to be ex radical regime, and providing for suitable observances of the occasion. Authorization for the supertendent and directors of the State Peniten tiary to borrow $300,000 for use in remodeling the present penitentiary, or ^in their discretion, to build a new prison on State property within ten miles of Columbia. V Authorization of the addition of two stories to the State office build ing in Columbia at a cost of not more than $300,000, thus making the building a six-story structure as orig inally planned. Amendment of existing game and fish laws to impower the game war den to shorten open reasons by con sent of the J legislative delegations of counties affected, to permit counties to spend their portion of the game protection fund for game conserva tion and propagation, if they desire « a and to permit the establishment of sanctuaries for game. Authorization for counties to is sue bonds, secured by reimbursement agreement with the State Highway Department, for the purpose of build ing roads in the State highway sys tem. . * A measure specifiying the mini- toZEb^reqdivM be- products at the time of inspection. I Mr. Easterling will occupy one of the coastal highway from the North Authority is conferred by the bill his Marlboro Avenue cottages while Carolina to the Georgia line, a dis- upon the Secretary of Agriculture to; bis home is being repaired. Mr. and tanee of about 275 miles. enforce its provisions and it imposes Mrs. Angus Patterson, who now oc- upon the federal district attorneys the 1 cupy this cottage, will leave about duty of prosecuting cases arising un-1 April 1st for Florida, der it. Dyches and Sanders Make Four Arrests A Delightful Surprise. On Monday evening the membedrs of the Mary G. Harley class of the Baptist Sunday School called at the Two white men, J. S. Black and' home of their Mr8 * G - M - Mace Jeffcoat, and one negro, Dock Greene, in a body twenty eight in Williams, were arrested Thursday a f. : number—giving her a surprise party, ternoon and lodged in jail, charged' which was delightfu! in every particu- with violating the prohibiten law, asj^ ar * Music and conversation held the result of a raid by Sheriff Bon- swa - v for some afUfp which A oil H. Dyches and Constable J. W. I lightful home made cream was serv- Sanders on a store near Sweetwater *be class furnishing all refresh- Branch, about three miles from Bam- men ^ s an d acting as hostesses, well. Ten bottles, which are said to — • • " have contained liquor, were found. Dunbarton Negro Has The men were later released on bond j for their appearance at Court. Saturday afternoon, the Sheriff and Constable ^Sanders raided the store A joint resolution designating Large Cotton Crop Wa* Made Last Year - « The cotton crop in Barnwell Coun ty totaled 26,666 bales last year, as compared with 21,100 bales in 1924, an increase of 5,566 bales or more than 25 per cent. Ginnings for other counties in this section are as fol : lows: fore A charter is issued for a’State bank, the requirement being gradu- \ated from $25,000 to $100,000, ac cording to population. Reduction of the license on motor- cyclek from $12 a year to $6. 1925 1924 Aiken 30,068 29,380 Allendale 14.463 11.949 Bamberg 19,833 11,713 Hampton 12.114 8,599 Orangeburg 61,836 40.562 Extra Large Size Hat Second -Largest in History. Washington, D. C., March 20.— W ho wears the largest hat in ]yf ore bales of cotton were produced of R. V. L.r,o »t Dunbarton nnd re-1 B.rnwell County* In the absence of . the United SuI „ fron , la , t yMr . 3 port finding a half gallon of whiskey, more definite information, the an- j , Lane was arrested and lodged in the »wer would be, “The person with the c^0,1 1 aM in Hn> ’ yeai before in his * county jail, being released later on largest head.” But coming down to t<>^y, alth ° u ® h m of ,int bond. ' • [brass tacks. John Cave, colored, of crop ranks second in size. At the last term of the Court of | Dunbarton, can probably lay claim. bavin £ h® 611 exceed in General Sessions, G. M. Holly,' a to that honor. On Monday a repres- Final ginning figures for the 1925 young cwhite man of this County, was entativ* of- The People-Sentinel was crop, announced today by the ri?h- ''tried and convicted in his absence of, shown a black hat. siae 8 1-8, that 8US bureau, placed the crop at 16,- violatmg thd prohibition law and had been made* especially for Cave.' 103,586 running bales as compare:! a sealed sentence imposed. Holly, it It measures some 26 inches asound w ith 15,905,849 in the record crop is said, was in Jacksonville, Fla., at the crown and required & special hat 1914. Reduced to equivalent 500 the time. Sheriff Dyches wired the box for transportation. The hat pound bales, which contain 473 authorities in that city Saturday to was ordered for the Dunbarton ne- Pounds of lint cotton, the 1925 'crop arrest the man, but Holly returned gro by Mazursky’s Department Store, was 16.085,905 bales, j>r 7,689,062,590 to Kline Saturday and was arrested of this city. If there is any other pounds of lint compared with 16,- and turned over to the Sheriff that: maH in the county who wears a larger 134,930 equivalent 500-pound bale^ in night. Moqday morning he was sizp, this paper will be glad to make *914 crop, taken to the chain gang to begin serv- the fact known, ing his sentence. Spelling Contest at Barnwell April 7th \ v Announcement is made that Barnwell County’s annual spelling match, to select the\representativ«*s from the grammar schools (grades 1- 7) and the high schools (trades 8-11), to represent the county at the State Contest scheduled to be held a* Win- throp College in July, will be held in the auditorium of the Barnwell High School on Wednesday evening. Aprjl 7th. 1926, at eight o’clock. A definite and detailed announcement will be mailed the teachers throughout the county the latter part of this week. In the meantime, this notice will serve to inform the teachers of the time of ^hut-contest, and they will form their own plans of selecting their school’s representatives. “Arnold’s Mastery of Words,” Books I and II, will be used for the grade contest. Chew’s “Practical High School Speller” will be used in by enthusiastic followers of all sport ing events, it would be difficult to use language that would exaggerate in defining the quality of a few con tenders of these Trials. t, • ) The weather was ideal, just cool enough to be comfortable, and the even temperature that was sustained through the day gave all contenders practically the same weather condit ions under which to run. This, to gether with similarity of all the courses, gave every brace an equal chance in competition. The courses were so laid off that they included less than three of the courses run over in the Trials run here in December. Starting just back of the club-house, the courses described a circle which took the par ty not further than a mile from the starting place at any •time. There was general regret that that prince ly gentleman from the “land of the long-leaf pine,” Col. R. T. Steadma.r, President of the Club and one of the advertised judges of the stakes, could not be present on account of the serious illness of his brother. But the judging was in capable hands— Mr. L. V. Simons, one of the most painstaking- -and efficient judges ever seen in the saddle? Not sparing Mr. Manville Honored Govan News. The value of the crop was not an nounced tut unofficial calculations, based on the farm prices of lint in December placed it at $1,399,409,000 Govan, March 20.—Mrs. J. F. Craig which is lower than the lint value of Mr. A. P. Manville’s heart was Eastover • is spending some time the 1923 and 1924 crop but 'more made glad on his birthday one day w ' tb ber motber > Mrs- A. R. Lancas-’ than double the lint value of the 1914 Last week when the recently organic- * er ' record crop. The value of the crop’s ed Camp of Sons of Confederate' teacbers °f the graded school cotton seed is not included but it is Veterans presented him wnh a basket atten ded the, teachers’ meeting in likety that it will run acmewhere of lovely fruits, candy, etc., tied with Columbia this week. around $200,000,000. ,the colors. In the afternoon the Miss Ethel Lancaster of Denmark •«* .two chapters of Children of the Con- s P ent ' as .^ week-end with Mrs. Lewis The Local Playground, federacy called at his home and pro- .Lancaster., j , sented him with beautiful box of' ^ rs - H arn \ an Zorn spent Thursday- iT orrv n r .. ... fruits, etc,, artistically arranged, <» Denmark with her mother, Mrs, . C<,L H,,r > D ' (alhoun says that - tied with the colors hod tiny Con- >"» K®*.' ' ° f C0Urs *’ '"terested in federate flags. Mr. Manville was ^ rs - Lewis Williams 'spent Thurs- the local playground and this being loud in his praise of this honor con- , ^ ay Mrs. M. Kennedy. true, he hopes that everybody who ferred upon him and expressed his appreciation in a feeling manner. the high school contest, with Web- «derV Secondary School Dictionary to supplement. After the number of contestants has been reduced to five, a written test will be resorted to. Two contestants will be permitted to enter from each school—one pupil in each contest. Judges will b e secured from outside the county, but the com mittee has no names ta announce at present. The committee is planning an old time “Blue Back Speller” contest as part- of the evening’s program, and only adults will be the contestants in this spelling bee. The details of this spelling match are yet to be worked out himself, but seeing as nearly as hu man limitations will allow everthing a dog does while he is running; play- :rng no •fapiorites, r^l (knowing a field trial dog when he sees one, his services are more and more in de mand among Trial followers. He was efficiently assisted by Capt. G. A. Evans, who very kindly consented to act in Col. Steadman’* absence. Birds were plentiful. No less than twelve beveys were found by these puppies on the comparatively small are a covered by thesa above describ ed courses. “V Horses were supplied in sufficient quantity by Mr. D. W. Gaston, of Aiken, who furnishes mounts for both the Virginia-Carolina and the Georgi a Trials. The gallery wasi small but select, there only being two or three novices who followed the dogs. The Open Stake brought out fifteen startvVs,. the winners being Ferris Proctor Bimpkins, owned by Prick- ett Bros., St. Matthews lat; Bloodstone Caesars’^ Patrician, owned by Jno. Dunn, Baltimore, second; Ferris Lady Bimpkins, aisip owned by Prickctt Bros., St. Matthews, third; Mara- doc’s Pal, owned by T. S. Comstock, Thomasville; N. C., and Doone’s Fred owned by Dr. T. H. Shore, Statesville, N. C., divided fourth. Col. Brown Presented With Silver Service FIRE FIGHTERS L ’ TO BE HONORED \ BANQUET WILL BE SERVED FRI. DAY EYlENING. An Elaborate Mena Is Being Prepar ed.—Citizens te Show Their Ajp- preeiatien el Service. Barnwell is said to h)* v * one of the best Fi Departments' for a town of its size in the State, and while our citizens are cognizant of this fact' and loud in praise just after a Ike, nothing has been done to show la « measure just what this splendid body of men means to us. On Friday even' ing, March 26th, beginning at 7:00 o’clock, the Sunday School Class of Mrs. G. M. Greene, composed of 35 young girls and matrons, will put on w banquet in honor of the fire boys, at which time the public also will be served. While this banquet is complimentary to the firemen, it will cost a considerable sum and ths public is cordially invited to attend. Tickets to the supper are now on sale at $1.00 each. Come out and help the young lades make it n suc cess. Let us do something for the firefighters to show them that we ap preciate (their efforts and skill in protecting our possessions. ^ The following young ladies will furnish you with tickets and the young lady selling the largest num ber of tickets will have the honor of ^-pzesenimg-^t© 4he -Fire Department— the complimentary tickets: Miss Etta Owens, Chairman. Misses Fannie Mims, Cecil Finklea, Elisabeth and Nita Carter, Mesdames Thelm a Pre- vonga and Ida B. Duncan. If any member of the fire department faila to receive a free ticket, he is asked to let it be known. A list has htuv furnished the class which may not be accurate and they would regret very much to miss any member. Mr. Nick Black, Manager of the Vamp Theatre, is making an effort to procure the services of the Car lisle Orchestr a for Friday evening to furnish musk for the banquet and has set the picture show np to 8:30 instead of the usual hour, thereby adding his bit to the evening’s enter tainment. The menu consists of 'cued pork, chicken, hash, rice, creamed pota toes with green peas, pickles, breads, coffee, etc. man Medlin, of Bamberg, four white In the t Members Stale fourteen «"* t*™** puppies started, the. winners being Bloodstone Caesar’s Patricia^ first; Ferris Lady Bimpkins, second^Fer- ris Proctor Bimpkins, third, and Manitoba Ferris Shine, fourth. Extensive Repairs Are Being Made to Plant Extensive repairs are being made to the plant of the South Carolina Ice and Cold Storage Corporation at Barnwell and it is expected that this work will be completed within the next two or three weeks. New coils are now being installed to guard against any breakdown thus summer and as soon as this installation has been made, the plant will be ready for operation. Miv Dan Merritt, the fHocal manager, states that one of Four Men Arrested as Result of Raid As the result of a raid in the Edia- to River swamp on Monday, conduct-* ed by Sheriff B.H. Dyches, Deputy Sheriff P. O. Beasley, Constable J. W. Sanders. Laurie Reed nnd Policc- to the Bamberg County authorities for trial. Their names are 1 Davis, Euly Gleaton, Smoak and Jac«c Williams. The fllfih were in a boat with 16H gallons of liquor when arrested by the officers. Tuesday, Sheriff Dyches and hit assistants returned to the river to locate the still and although they spent several hours in a boat and wading in water waist deep, were unable to find the outfit. Their ef forts were rewarded, however, by the finding of 15 gallons of whis key, which were cached in various places in the swamp. The Sheriff states that liquor is apparently hid den all ever the swamp. Gas Tank Explodes. Capt. Stewart Dead. Rebate to Grassiers. I can will give or loan jogging boards, swings, chairs, settees and any play Willis ton, March 21.-In accord-■ thin *l th,t w '" inter ' ,t lhe children, ance with a recent rulintt of the in- “ In , *' t ” he say8 - “ let '' *" he, P in i Capt. W. H. Stewart, of Columbia, terstate commerce commission, South tbe children a healthy, clean father of Mrs. T. E. Cummings, form- Carolina asparagus shipper* will re- and interest i n K P»stime, and as the eriy of this city, died in the capital ceive a substantial rebate from the s P rin ^ and Summer months come Jrity early Friday morning, his body ^Uroad companies for shipments of they can *° out and enjoy an outin « 'being laid to rest that afternoon. He asparagus during the years, 1922, ,m,n€n » e, y ” was head of the Confederate Home 1923 an d 1924, as announced by L. 1 Co1 - Calhoun suggests that a pub- for the past five years. Mra. Cum- C./Eidson, manager of the S|mth he subscription be taken to provide mings has lost her father, mother and Carolina Asparagus association. whatever is necessary t*> make the one brother by death In J/he ^ast sev- - . - - playgrounds a place of delight for «n months. , I Advertise in The People-SentineL the children. ■ . > • * ■ Mr. Paul H. Qwens^ef this city, had a. narrow escape from serious injury while <repairing an automo bile gasoline tank Tuesday after noon. The tank, which was leaking, had been thoitougitly cleaned and washed with water and Mr. Owens was drying it with a blow-torch pre paratory to soldering the leak. In spite of the fact that there were tyro large hotes in the tank, an accumuU- Col. Edgar A. Brown, of this eitv,*the best repair men from the Fair- Speakpr of the House of Representa- banks-Morse factory has thoroughly tives, was presented with a beaut i-‘ overhauled the engine that supplies ful silver service Friday night of last motive power and it is novr for all Week by his fellow members as a | practical purposes as good as new. token of their esteem and affection. 1 In addition to selling ice at a Col. Brown, who had been quite ill small margin of profit, this concern for several days with an attack of has made arrangemehts with the influenza, left his .bed at the hospital American Profit-Sharing Corporation to attend the session at which the whereby coupons will be given with presentation was made. In a brief each purchase of 25 cents, whether tion of vaporized gasoline ignited speech of acceptlnce, he declared for ice or coal. These coupons are nnd exploded, blowing out both ends of. that he was not able, physically or redeemable at any time for valuable the tank. Fortunately, Mr. Owens otherwise, to adequately express ,his premiums. 1 was unhurt except for a slight in- appreciation^ Short addresses wer| The attention of the readers of j nr y 1° on ® 0 * k** hand*, made by several members of the this paper is directed to the half- • * * House, in which the Speaker was page advertisement on page eight of Mr. Ir a Fales received a tslegrsm highly praised for the able manner this issue. j from Douglas, Ga., yesterday (Wed- in which he had presided during the ■ ■ 1 I nesday) morning, containing the sad Miss Dorothy Stevenson, of Den- intelligence that hit father was dy- mark, was the week-end guest of ing. Mr. Fslei left ea the neen train Advertise in The People-Sentinel Miss Margnret McAllister. for Desglaa. ’ past two years.