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i as omctAt inwflPi r . \ ■ I ■' "If jfM.waat mtmty. «• lur* H— If ym hare noiicj, w« waot it* HOMS BANK Ot BARNWELL. J«m L IfM. 9 lumk L.lk^ a Mwiribr of Ifw* ALL HOMS VOLUME L. BARNWELL. ^OUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1L 1*26. NUMBER BARNWELL TO GET HYDRO - v ELECTRIC SERVICE SOON? New Machine Gun to Combat Bandits ANNOUNCE ENORMOUS PROJECT FOR CLARK’S HILL. Work Costing from-Tarenty to Fifty Millions to Be Completed in Abfut .Four Years. Of great interest to the people of Barnwell ar.d^his enrlgp section is the announcement last week of the pro posed development of a gigantic hydro electric power project on the Savannah River near Clark’s Hill, S. C., 21 miles above Augusta, by the Savannah River Electric Power Co., which is a subsidiary of the Southeastern Power and Light Co. It is estimated that the, project will cost between twenty and fifty million dollars. The program includes the erection of new power lines to Charleston, At- iarta and Macon, the company an nouncing that its purpose is to give other sections of South Carolina and Georgia the power advantages now en joyed by the Piedmont section and northwestern Georgia by supplying ample power for new industries in growing towns and cities in the ••egion to be served. A glance at a map of South Carolina will show that Barnwell is almost on a direct line !'?tween Clark’s Hill and Charleston a nd, therefore, will be in the territory t through which the power line will ^ass. It is ajso possible that a sub station will be located in this city. There is some speculation here as to whether or not the Savannah River Electric Power Co. will purchase the property of the Edisto Public Service Co., which now supplies light and power to Williston, Biackville, Der- mark and several other towns in this section, and extend the lipes of this coreem so as to cover all of lower South Carolina. The proposed development, with a capacity of 120,000 horse power, will horse power the ,UwMn * 9Ur8 of the ‘ fame - w,th Barnwell Is Victor \ in Spectacular Game In a spectacular game of football, during the progress of which the Barnwell goal Jire was crossed for the first time this season, the .locals defeated the fast Allendale eleven here Friday afternoon, 7 to 6: With the score 6 to 0 in favor of the visi tors, the ball in Barnwell’s'possession on their own 40-yard line and only a few minutes to play, two beautiful forward passes, Carroll to Lewis Black, one of them for a gain cf 35 yards, put the ball on Allendale’s two- yard line. Two line plunges by Car- roll carried the. ball over and this star player then added to his glory by kick ing goal for the winning point. ' From the first tQJthe fititfl" vrMltle it was. a game replete with thrills.. Allendale lost its first chance to score when one of the visitors fumbled on Barnwell’s three-yard line, Lewis Black recovering the ball for Barn well. Carroll then ripped through for a run of more than 40 yards, the longest of the game. The first half ended with the score 0-0. In the third quarter the locals presented Allendale with a touchdown. The visitors, firding themselves un able to break through the Barnwell defense, tried for a field gold but ths ball rolled along the ground, being touched by the safety man. Quick as a flash a visiting player fell on it. The ball was carried over for a touchdown in three plays, but Allendale failed to kick goal. With defept staring them in the face for the first time this sea son, Barnwell resorted to an aerial attack with telling effect, only two for ward passes and two line bucks for a total of sixty yards being necessary to make the touchdown. L. Black and Carroll were the out- MAY SPEND $360,000 ON ! 1 BARNWELL COUNTY ROADS mi Recent robberies of U. S. Mail have moved the post office depart-* ment to take drastic precautions. Photo shows Col. R. N. Cutts of the Marines demonstrating gun that can fire 400 aimed shots per minute. Postmaster General Harry S. New is watching. The new machine gua will,'be used to protect valuable mail. LARGEST COTTON CROP INDICATED NEARLY TWO MILLION BALES Bigger than 1923. Some Uncertainty With Regard to Quantity of Cotton That Will Be Left Unpicked. outstrip by J2.000 Present largest power project in) Georgia at Tallulah fills, which sup. plies 1 OH.00q horse power, the com pany’s announcemert said. The ul-i timate installation of power machin. ... . , , . ..... gainers, Richardson, was injured in ery in the new development, it w?.s | • aid, will consist of four 30,000 horse Davies and S. Hartin also playing stellar ball for Barnwell. Richardson ard Zeigler were best for Allendale. Halford outpunted the visitors. One of Allendale’s best ground power units. Enormous Dam. Its dam will be of solid concrete, 90 feet high, 1,860 feet of spillway 'and loverall length of 3,800 feet, in cludirg approaches. In addition to the river flow, the development will utilize the flow from its storage reservoirs already existing m the headwaters to increase power output during low water. t The lake to be created by the dam will cover an area of 36,000 acres, or 55 square miles. It will back water up the Savannah river a distance of 32 miles to the junction of the Broad and Savannah rivers at Petersburg; up Little river in South Carolina, 11 miles and up Little river in Georgia 27 miles. The circumference of the lake’s shoreline will be 400 miles, with the lake lying partly, in Columbia, Mc Duffie, Wilkes and Lincoln Counties in Georgia and McCormick County in South Carolina. It will be near the following places: Aiken, Edgefield, Clark’s Hill, Modoc, Parksville, Plum Branch, McCormick, Abbeville, and Greenwood, S. C., and Augusta, Evans, Harlem, Thomson, Washington, Ap pling and Limfolnton, Ga. * Under the federal license it seeks, the company would be given the privilege t»: utilizing the power for 50 years, after which under the fed eral water power act, the United States, the States and municipalities interested would be permitted to take over the development by piyir.g to the licensee its net investment. the third quarter and was urable to complete the game. He was carrkni to a Columbia hospital, where it was found that his right leg had bean broken in three places. It is under stood that it will necessary for him to remain in bed for about six weeks. Your.g Richardson won many friends here because of his gameness and splendid playing and they are sincere ly sorry that he will not be able to participate in any more of the games on Allendale’s schedule this Fall. Aiken plays in Allendale tomorrow (Friday) afternoon and the fans of Barnwell are “pulling” for the latter team to win. *, Home Ba^fc Christmas Savings. The Home Bank of Barnwell is now ready to pay out the Christinas Savings to those depositors who haye saved money for Christmas. CoITCsI- houn states that the Bank is doing this now ’In order that there may be plenty of time for the selection of Christmas presents. He further add ed that on account of the low price of cotton the savings have not boon as large this ye^r as ia the past Columbia College Alumni to Organize Mrs. B. F. Owens, of Dunbarton, was a visitor here Tuesday morning and states that a county wide cam paign is under way for the purpose of organizing a Columbia College Alum ni Club. Mrs. Owens requests that all graduates and alumni of this in stitute now living in Barnwell Cohhty send their names and. addresses to her at Dunbarton. AIKEN LYNCHING PROBE REOPENED TWO ACCUSERS OF SHERIFF TO BE ARRESTED. Officer* Deny That They Were Im plicated in Lynching of Three Lowman Negroes. Farmers to Meet at Allendale Nov. 18th • —— The farmers of this section are urged to attend a very important meeting‘to be held in the Court House at Allendale on November 18th at 11 a. m. Three prominent speakers— Judge James E. Peurifoy, the Hon. A. F. Lever^and Mr. J. A. Evans, cotton specialist—wilt be present to discuss the different phases of the cotton situ ation. Some of the important sub jects for discusion will be: 1. How to Secure Government Financial Aid. 2. Suggestions from Memphis Cot ton Conference. 3. Foreign Cotton Competition. All farmers are very much con cerned because, the important crop of cotton is now selling far below the cost of production and at this meet ing some valuable information wiU be given, so that the farmers will be able to determine what they are to do this coming year. All farmers are urged to attend this meeting at Allendale- Don’t for get the time, place and date: 11 a. m., Thursday, November 19th, at Allen dale.—H. G. Boylston, County Agent. Washirgtcn, Nov. 8.—An increase of 464,000 bales in the. indicated cotton crop during the last two weeks result ed today in a department of agricul ture forecast of a total yield of 17,918,- 000 bales. Basing its forecast on conditiors and other factors pievail- ing November 1, the estimate placed the rrep at more than 1,750,000 bales larger than last year. Census bureau statistics of cotton ginned prior to November 1st placed the quantity at 11,259,038 bales. There ia still some uncertainty with regard to the quantity of cotton that will be left unpicked, the crop report ing board said in commenting on the report. There is some disposition to leave the lower grades in the field. The indicated production by State* folows: Virgini a 48,000 North Carolina 1,210,000 South Caiclina 1,160,000 Georgia - 1,490,000 Florida .28,000 Missouri ... 250,000 Tennessee 480,000 Alabama 1,450,000 Mississippi 1,830,000 Louisiana 760,000 Texas ' 5,550,000 Oklahoma ' 1,780,000 Arkansas 1,550,000 New Mexico 76,000 Arizora 112,000 California ^ 124,000 All other States I 21,000 Lower California (old Mex. 80,000 Bridge Club Meets. Miss Virginia Moseley entertained the members of the Wednesday Af ternoon Bridge Club last wedk at the home of her mother, Mrs. S. B. Mose^ ley. The high score prize, a box of Vantine's powder was won by Mrs. Edgar A. Brown, and the consolation —a wall vase, was cut by Mrs. Sol Brown. After the games a delightful salad course, with coffee, was served. Card af Thanks. We wish to thank our many friends for their kindness and sympathy shown us during the sickness and death of our dear mother, Mrs. R. A. Bonds. Also for the .beautiful floral offerings. , Mr. and Mrs. W-. M. Bonis, Gaffney, S. C.~ ■ t ' Washington, Nov. 8.—Cotton of this year’s growth ginned prior to Novem ber 1st totalled 11,259,038 running bales, counting 358,327 round bales as half bales and excluding linters, com pared with 11,207,197, includirg 184,- 706 round bales to that date last year, the census bureau today announced. Ginnings by States follows: Alabama 1,127,798 Arizona 50,600 Arkansas 971,660 California 59,558 Florida 27,474 Georgia 1,101,877 Louisiana 614,831 Mississippi i 4 . * . 1,285,031 Missouri 116,314 New Mexico 24,937 North Carolina 714,488 Oklahoma 631,591 South Caroling 676,143 Tennessee 267,771 Texas .... 3,566,$81 Virginia .^17,723 All other States 5,791 “Brown of Harvard” is a picture for young and old, if they enjoy youth. See it at the Vamp Theatre Friday night, Nov. 12th. Proceeds for bene fit of the Primary Department of the Barnwell Baptist Church. Admission, 25 and 50 cents. \ Aiken, Nov. 8.—A new phase ap pealed in the Lowman lynching case this morning when a warrant was sworn out for the arrest of Mrs. Lucy Mooney, who made an affidavit im plicating Sheriff Nollie Robinson and J. P. Hart, special officer for Gover nor The mas G. McLeod, in the shoot ing of the three negroes. This morning a telegram from the governor’s office, sent by Officer Hart to Sheriff Robinson, requested the immediate arrest of Mrs. Mooney, who is believed to be at Ellerton, where her step-father has been a constable. The sheriff has announced that he will swear out wairantsrfor each of these who have sworn that he was in the crowd of lynchers on the morning the Lowmans were taken from the Aiken jail and shot to death. Besides several negro papers, among them The Echo, of Augusta, and The De fender, of Chicago, The New York World ir Saturday’s edition has printed a long story with the affidavits of Charles C. Lee, federal prisoner, and Mrs. Lucy Mooney, State prisoner, who were in the county jail on the morring of the lynching. The World desenocs the sheriff as being “six feet one inch tall, in baggy striped ' trousers, a wrinkled black coatt with a black felt ‘Cole Blease’ hat shoved back from his matted grey hair.” Lee’s Affidavit Charles E. Lee was servirg a five months sentence for violating the prohibition law, and was tried and sent by the federal court from Char leston by Judge Ernest F. Cochran. Lee made his affidavit before Austin H. Johnson, notary public, and agent for the Southern railway at W^rren- ville, Horsecreek Valley. s Sheriff Robinson received a fetter from a soldier at Camp Benning ,Ga., today in which the writer stated he “could take 12 negroes and clean out the whole d bunch of cowards at the courthouse.** Sheriff Robinson bag turned the communication over to the commandant of Camp Burning for investigation, and states he will prosecute any party who attempt# to implicate him in the unlawful killing of the Lowmans. It is stated by Aiken officers that the first witness, Mrs. Mooney, was kept in jail beyond her time for chari ty sake, and that Sheriff Robinson en deavored to place her with the Salva tion Army for care, but that the or- garizatioh re/used to take her. Regarding the testimony of Char les Lee, it is stated by Aiken authori ties that the man left Aiken and shis later arretted at Ellenton on a C. and .W. C; train for being drunk. At Eh lenton ht dashed into the telegraph office and requested that the operator wire Governor Thos. G. McLeod at once that a mob wax after him and Negro Woman Charged With Brutal Murder Lilia Sease, a negro woman about 48 years of age, is in the Bamberg County jail charged with the brutal murder of her 18-year old daughter, Lilia Mae Sease. The girl died several days ago at her home 14 miles from Bamberg, it being supposed that her death was due to natural cauasa. Later, however, it was suspected that she was the victim of foul play and Coroner W. C. Zeigler ordered the body exhumed »rd an autopay performed This pas done and the coroner’s junr of inquest returned a verdict to the effect that the girl came to her death as the result of a blow or blows on the head inflicted with a blunt inatru mert in the hands of her mother, Lilia Sease. The girl was ill for a week prior to her death, being in a desperate con dition for several days. Two phyaic- iaru were hi attendance, but it ap pears that neither suspected foul play urtil after her* death. The autopsy, it is reported, revealed a fractured skull. One eye-witness, it is stated, said that he saw the mother adminis ter a severe beating to the girl on the day she is supposed to have taken sick. He testified that a stick was * used. The woman, who lives apart from her husband, denies that ady crime was committed. Mr. John W. Ki n g Dead. Mr. John W. King, aged 66 yean, died Tuesday morning at bis home in Barnwell after an illness of a week. Mr. King was born in Richland Coun ty in 1871 ar.d resided at various times in Allendale, Fairfax and in Florida. He. had lived in Barnwell for a r.umber of years following the trade of a blacksmith *nd carpenter. Mr. King, who was a Mason, will be mo*urned by numerous friends rf d relatives who are saddened by his death. "NP** He is survived by three sons, R. King, of Barnwell, W. King and A. King, both of Olymphia, Fla.; a half- brother, A. W. Wilson, of Lexington, and two sisters, Mrs. Jane Holliater and Mrs. J. H. Brazell, both of Co lumbia. The body was taken to Columbia about to lynch hhn. The “mob” it later appeared was a number of school choldren just turned out from classes who were gamboling on rite way home. While the people of Aiken had de cided to let the lynching of the Leh man* drop ard die a naturirlatk, recent communications in State papers «uid the flooding oof ^ Aiken with stories carried In Northern papers have aroused . the officers charged with being acceasorfes to the crime, to fight back and vindicate their names. PROPOSITION DISCUSSED AT _ MEETING THURSDAY. .« « From 12 to 18 Miles ef Highway in and Around Towns Would Be Paved Under Pte*. There is a proposal under way permanently pave from 12 to 18 miles of State highways in and around the towns of Barnwell, Biackville and Wil liston, under the reimbursement plan of the “Pay-as-You-Go Act.” A meet ing of two members of the Barnwell County Legislative Delegation and the members of the Board of County Directors was held at the Court Bonso here Thursday morning, at which a the matter was discussed more or lata informally. No definite action wax taken because of the aboaneo of the Rev, D. W. Heckle, a member of the House of Representatives, and Mon day morning was appointed as tha time for another meeting. However, or. account of the illness of Col. J. E. Harley, the other member of the House, it was necessary to postpone the meeting to some future date. It is understood that under the Act referred to above, Barnwell Coun ty can issue bonds to the axtent 9! $360,000, the Supreme Court having dgeided recently that such bonds will not interfere or conflict with existing horded indebtedness. This county now receives anually $18,000 farm the State Highway Department as Its share of a part of the gasoline tax, tha remaining three cents going Into a fund for the construction of highways over a long term of It is proposed to use this 818,000 to pay Interest on a bond issue of $800^ 000, tbs bonds to bo retired with the remaining three cents of the gasoline tax. The presert Board of County Direc tors, it is understood, has been oper ating the county at a great saving and the members state that it would M necessary to raise taxes little, if any— probaly not mors than one asiQ at the most—to take cars of the paving pro ject and the usual necessary Under the proposed plan, four to six miles of highways be paved in and arour.d the towns af Barnwell, Biackville and Wlllistou, highways designated by ths ment to be hard-surfaced ia 1 with its plan of paving tha thoroughfares ia thg State, counties in the State are going with this work. Greenwood County alon« issuing a million dollars worth of bonds. The exact cost of paving la aat known at this time, bat is saM to bn between twenty and thirty thousand dollars a mile. If Barnwell County fails to avail itself of this opportunity, several years will elapse before spy of the highways will be paved. Col. Harley is heartily in favor of the plan, it is understood, and Mr. Heckle expressed himself here Monday mornirg as being more or loss favor ably inclined. Senator Patterson was at the meeting Thursday but decHued to commit himself until he knows mors of the details of the plan. / Te Display Gesaard Line. Mazursky’s Department Store an- totmees that Miss Helen Vogt win be et their sto*» next Tuesday, Novem ber 16th, to show the “Gossard” Una of corsets, girdles, sic* and a special invitation is extended to the ladies cf this section to call during the day. This progressive store also take# n page advertisement in tbit issue of The People-Sentinel to announce n “Cash Raising Sale,” beginning to morrow (Fri^kay). Be sure to read this store news of money-saving yesterday (Wednesday) morning apd laid to rest at two o’clock in ths af ternoon in ths family graveyard an the Two Notch road, tha funeral services being conducted by the lev. J. Doan Crain, pastor of the Park tist Church. 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