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»>« n't«•« m THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNTY *P*r Ihm Mm IX( iw#. FXATU«DVER• TISINC UR VICE—«f tlM PUB- USHERS AUTOCASTER SER VICE «r tow Yairk CMf. * LUME L. Consolidate June 1, 1925. *-Ju«t Llk« a Member of the F«mlly M ; « v BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THRSDAY, JULY 28TH, 19277 Lnrfoet r. PLOT CHARGED TO CONSTABLE CEO. H. PRIESTER, OF BARN- Well, arrested Saturday Warrant Issued by United States District Commissioner.—Officer Released on Bond STATEMENT ON PRIESTER CASE GOVERNOR’S OFFICE COMMENTS \ ON ARREST. of $1,000 it was s< “one of Goverhpi Urge Not Member of Regular Constabulary Force of Governor Richards.— /- . ' y * • In Special Class. G. H. Priester, of Barnwell, arrest ed at Aiken last Saturday on charges of impersonating a federal officer sn< of attempting to induce tw > negroes to pay him $150 “hush” money to cleat them of chargee of •iolating the prohibition law, is “not a membgr of the governor’s constabu lary, has never done work out of the governor’s office and is not known "to'the governor’s office,” according to a statement given out yesterday from the office of Governor John Ruhard^. Governor Richards is at tending the governor’s conference in Michigan and will not be back in Columbia until next week, but the statement was forthcoming from his office'. In news dispatches from Aiken, tell ing of*the arrest of Priester and of h;.« later release on bond in the sum set forth that he was pr Richard’s consta -bles/’ “Mr. Priester was pot a member ot the governor’s constabulary force, accoding to the statement, from the governor’s office. ■—“He did, however; sion as a special officer from loo governor’s office. ^ “The governor’s constabulary con sists of a force of men which works out of the governor’s office directly. “In addition to this force, commis sions are issued to policemen, rail road employes and some others as special officers. It was in this Inst class that Mr. Priester belonged “He was given this commission after he had set forth his reasons for wanting additional authority in the following statement:-* “ ‘On several occasions working with chief of police, George W. Pee ples, I have needed the authority so that we could follow people who had committed a crime in the town of Barn well but due to the fact that wo did not have the proper authority we have had to let a good maay law vio lators go by because we could not follow them beyond the limits of the town of Barnwell. Also there are several places running almost wide open just out of the city limits and our hands are tied and they are flooding the town with whiskey, and we, as. the police force of Barnwell can’t touch them without the authori ty. Signed, George Hi Priester.” This statement by Priester was dated March 25, 1927. • “Mr. Priester,” the statement from „ . .... .. vre they \\pxA.kept-in|-3fopth. “was commissioned as a special officer on the recomniendattOn of W. D. Harley, mayor of Barnwell, and George W. Priester, chief of police of Barnwell.” ' • . Priester is to be given a prelimin ary hearing on the charges brought against him at Aiken August 2. He was arrested last Saturday by the United States deputy marshal,..!. R. Dixon, of Orangeburg, on a warrant issued by the United States commis sioner, Thomas R. Morgan.—The State. • One of Governor Richard’s Special officers, George H. Priester, of Barnwell, was arrested here Satur- —: day on a warrant issued by United States District Commissioner Thomas R. Morgan, charging the officer with violating Section 62 of the Federal Crimijnal (Oode in impersonating a United States officer and with at tempting to induce two negroes to pay him “hush” money to clear them of charges of violating the prohibi tion law. The arrest was made by United - States Deputy Marshall T. R. X‘ ton * ot Orangeburg. Priester was released from cust at. Aiken on a $1,000 bond which was signed by M. C. Diamond, of this city. He is to appear at a preliminary hear ing at Aiken Tuesday, August 2. A ^feiepatch from Aiken stated that ef- ^BP)rt« to get in communication with -Crovernor Richards as to what action he intended to take in the case proved futile Sunday eight, as the governor is out of the State attending the con ference of governors. An Erroneous Statement. , It was reported in a dispatch...-from Aiken to an Augusta newspaper, that “two prominent white citizens of Ellenton, Messrs. Bush and Turner, motored to Banwell at the request of the negroes, Martin and Poe, and carried $150 with them to offer Con- " stable Priester, who, when he heard of the arrival of the white men, disap peared, itJ salleged.” A representative of The Peopie- Sentinel has seen affidavits signed by C. M. Turner and F. D. Bush, the . men referred to in the Aiken dispatch, in which they emphatically deny hav ing come to Barnwell for the purpose of paying hu«h money to Prieste>r or anyone else in connection with the case, and further that they are not pressing any charge against Priester. Mr. Turner also sets out that his pur pose in coming to Barnwell was to employ Solomon Blatt, Esq., to rep resent the negroes. Nothing was said in reference to paying Priester any thing. The arrests from which the charges against Priester resulted wele made in Beech Island the n'ftht of June 15 and the officer claims that one of the negroes atU-mpted to shoot him. He disarmed him, he says, and it is al leged that a search of the- vehicle oc cupied by the negroes resulted in the discovery of * several bottles of whiskey. . The alleged violators of y^eprqhibjtion law were brought to nSarnwetl, wtiefe they v^ere kept-in jail.for nearly a month and later turned over to the Aiken authorities, Sn vifllictycounty >fche«arrests wfcre mad. Soon after they were rdfcased from custody, it is understood, by the Aiken authorities. Priester claims that he is being “framed” and that at the proper time he can prove his innocence of the charges. Helen’s tyfome HOUSE FIRED, MAN PERISHES NEGRO LOSES LIFE WHEN BOLT I 1 •V STRIKES DWELUNG Two Small Children Escape from Burning Building After Trying * to Extinguish Flames women s Helen Wills, Californis frnnis champion and first American woman to win the English Wimble- Tom Odom, negrb, was killed and hrs body consumed by flames that de stroyed his home when it was stnuHl by a bolt of lightning during a terri fic electrical storm Thursday night. The negro lived on a farm in Red Oak township, several miles Southwest of BarnweH. According to information received jn Barnwell, Odom and his two small children were alone in the house when the storm approached, his wife having gone to church a short time before. The -ma n was lying on a bed in a shed-room, while the children were in a bed in the main body of the house. The bolt, which killed Odom and -set fire to the house, left the children un scathed. Awakened by the accom panying peal of thunder, the younger is said to have tried to extinguished -w£ ** the flames and was carried from the burning building J?v the older child. They are reported to have said tint their father was “still kicking” when they left the house, and it is possible that he was merely stunned by the lightning and perished in the flames. Odom is a brother of John Odom, a First Open Boll. V. ✓ 1 ■ G. M. Hogg, of this city, brought in two open bolls of cotton Monday morning from his farm a few miles from Barn well. N •'> B. W. Sexton, also of Barn well, states that he has a field 'of small cotton that is opening rapidly and already is white almost from one end of the row DUNBARTON MAN , KILLED BY AUTO FATALLY INJURED WHEN CARS CRASHED IN AUGUSTA Body of L, M. Baughman Laid to Rest Friday Afternoon in Joyce Branch v Churchyard L. M. Baughman, age 23 years, for- dou,ink .ycars.. / iihc t* ^ carpenter,- who ItTes in Barnwell, warming up for the U. S Title play. “ Augusta Oil Mills Use of Poison On page three of this issue of The People-Sentinel will be found ah ad vertisement by five leading cotton oil mills of Augusta, urging that the farmers of this section protect their cotton crops against the boll weevil by using calcium arsenate. The sub- scribers to the advertisement are the Buckeye Cotton Oil company, the In ternational Vegetable Oil Company, the Planter^) Coition Oil Company, the Southern Cotton Oil Company and Swift ahd, Company, Oil Mill. The boll weevil is doing great damage to / the cotton crop in this section and it is feared that, with continued rains ^nd in the absence of protective meas ures, the crop in this county will be very short* At present, estimates range from as low as 10,000 bales to between twenty and twenty-two thou- nd. Several fields that were bloom ing freely last week are now conspic uously free of blossoms, which indi cates heavy weevil damage. Heavy Rains Hurt Lyndhurst Crops LyndhurSt, July 24.—Mrs. W. M. Steinmeyer, children, of Beau fort, are spendhi|: some time here during the summer* months. S. H. Hay, of Bithijngham, Ala., was the guest of his brother. Harold H. Hay, for several days during the past week. Miss Betty Miller,.of Beaufort is spending the week here, the guest Mrs. W. M. Steinmeyer and family. Bill Payton, of Port Royal, who has been spending several week? here, returned to his work on Tues day. Roger Pinckney, of Beaufort, spent the week-end here, the guest of rela tives. Crops ip this section have suffered very much of late from heavy rain fall. However, it appears that a fair crop of corn, at least, may he made. jr Samson—-Do you neck? /- Delilah—S-a-ay, that’s my business. Samson—well, let’s transact a little business, rw First Augusta Bale Brings 75c a Pound * 1 ■ Augusta received the first bale of new ccutton -for the season Saturday, the fleecy staple being shipped to Phinizy and Co., cotton factors, and came from E. W. Batts, Ocilla, Ga. The bale was auctioned at 11 o’clock in front of the cotton exchange there ant was bought, by George R. Sibley, representing L. G. Doughty and Co.* which concern is owned by B. T. Lowe, for 75 cents a pound. The bale weigh ed 425 pounds and brought $318. The first bale received last year was on August 5th, indicating that the season is ten days ahead of last year. With sunshine weather pre dicted for the next few days it is ex pected that there will be a rapid in- c r ease ir. the offerings here and some cotton factors and dealers me ex pecting heavy receipts for the next few days. Harold Tinsley, of Clemson CoK lege, spent the week-end ut the city 'with friends. BET? atMBMTSgi Shortly before nightfall Thursday evening, a* heavy cloud gathered Northwest of Barnwell-, and had ap parently moved on to the East, 'but a change in the wind drove the storm clouds back over this section. There | was a heavy fall of rain, accompanied I by vivid flashes of lightning and heavy peals of thunder. The hardest rain of the year is said to have fallen at Snelling, five miles West of this city, which was also visit ed by a near cloud-burst the previous week. This section was visited by another eavy rain Saturday morning and voters from the South of Barnwell a hard rain lasting for about two hov ks and a half. Charles Burckhalter Improving The many friends of Dr. and Mrs. C. N. Burckhalter, of this city, will be delighted to know that their yotmg- and it is sincerely hoped that he will soon be entirely restored to health. Dr. Returns. Dr. A. B. PattCr^qn has requested 'the People-Sentinel ta announce th&Y he has returned from hK vacation and is again practicing hijt-.profes sion. He further stated that there is no foundation to the reports that he is contemplating locating in Atlanta or any place other than Barnwell. <+-» — Small Ad. Pays “Please stop my little advertise »nt ” js •the regue Greene, 'of tfcts’dty, she has received more orders for milk and butter than she can possibly fill. /to the other. Last year the county’s first hale was ginned at'> Barnwell on August VlOlh. The cotton wafr grown by Ed Sanders, of the Big Fork section. FIRST ANNUAL CLASS SHOOT BARNWELL GUN CLUB ISSUES OFFICIAL PROGRAM. Added Money and Trophies to Be Offered Trapshooters at Barnwell Friday, August 5th. The official program of the First Annual Class Shoot to be held by the Barnwell Gun CluhJis just off the press and is being mailed to interest ed trapshooters. The event will be held in Barnwell Friday, August 5th, 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 1 “SEVEN POINTS” * 5 In the presentation of the new plan of the South Carolina Cot ton Growers’ Cooperative Association, the explanation of the ac tivities of the Association has been divided into seven points as follows. 1. GOOD COTTON ACCURATELY CLASSED. ADEQUATE MARKET INFORMATION. EFFICIENT OFFICE AND SALES MACHINE. OBTAIN MIDDLEMEN’S PROFITS. SPINNER COOPERATION. INCREASING CONSUMER DEMAND. PROFITS FOR MEMBERS ONLY. Under each one of these seven ponts there is need for ex planations which will be given later. 3. Efficient Office and Sales Machine. The South Carolina Cotton Growers’ Cooperative Association, in line with the cotton cooperative associations in the other States, is reducing its office and handling costs to a minimum. ThQ standard accounting system through the cooperation of the office managers of all the State associations under the direction of thn svstems department of the Exchange has been adopted for use in Scuth Carolina. Machines are being installed which do the work of from ten to fifteen people and thus reduce the office salary costs. We have already mentioned the sales machine of the American Cotton Growers’ Exchange which covers every section of the world where cotton is consumed. This last year, more than seventy percent of all the cotton of the South Carolina As sociation was sold direct to mills. The selling cost is very much less than the overhead cosL.qf private cotton firms. PROFITS FOR MEMBERS ONLY—WILL YOU PARTICIPATE? SOUTH CAROLINA COTTON GROWERS’ COOPERATIVE ASSN. t 11 given an opportunity to display their marksmanship. Several trophies ‘are being offered, as follows: $50 cup to high gun; $35 cup to high squad, and trophiess for low gun or consolation. In addition added money will be offered by the club. r ^ % The club grounds are located on Brown’s Hill, near the A. C. L. Rail road depot. The following information is taken from the official program, copiess of which may be had by writing to W. P, Franklin, of thig city: Targets will be thrown at 3c each included in entrance fee. A fresh stock of shells will be on hand at the local hardware stores and some will be on hand at the grounds. All professionals are cordially in vited to attend and shoot for targets. Shooting for targets only will be al lowed and all amateur entrants will be eligible for any trophy offered, whether they shoot for money or not. All ties to be shot off in 25 bird events. \ # • ■ Shooting will begin promptly at 10 o’clock a. m. P. B. Plummer, of the Western Cartridge Co., will cashier the s^oot. Lunch and cold drinks will be served *>n~the grounds. merly of Dunbarton but for the past few months a resident of Augusts* who was fatally injured earjy Thurs day morning of last week in an auto mobile crash at the comer of Seventh and Greene Streets in Augusta, died at 7 a. rti. the same day at a hos pital. He suffered a fractured skull. According to police Mr. Baughman was driving west on the south side of Greene Street and when he at tempted to turn to the north side to proceed on up Greene Street, another machine, driven by an unknown party* going south on Seventh Street crashed into him. The Baughman machine was driven against an ornamental lamp post in the middle of the green. When found, Baughman was lying unconscious on the green some dis tance from his machine. A party un known to the police picked the injured mas up and conveyed him to the hot el Rital. _V The only near-witnesg to the acci dent, Eddie Ewing, caught the num ber of the machine that crashed into the Baughman machine as it drove beginning at ten o’clock a,, m. and, _ _ continuing uhtihalhOTtrant^havrbevn ■ WF *y'from the scene* without giving and Western Automatic Traps will b£ used. The. Club reserves the fight to re ject any entry. No shooter will be allowed to win more than one trophy. Hilda News. Hilda, July 27.—Miss Sadie Delk spent the week-end with Mrs. Monro** Rowell. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Willie Bessinger and children, of Midway, Fla., are spending a few days with the latter’s parents, lilr. and Mrs. J. C. Dyches. D. -1. Hartzog and family, of the Elko section, were the dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Collins Sunday. Mrs. Annie Woodward and family visited Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Hartzog near Gcvan Sunday. , Masses Katherine Hightower, Mary and Evelyn Black spent the week-end with Mrs. Lloyd Black. - Nolton Black and family, of Heal- ift^ Rfrngs, attended preaching svr- vices at Hilda Sunday afternoon. Misses Mamie and Rosa Hutto vis ited their sister, Mrs. D. J. Hartzog, near Govan Sunday. Miss Pauline Delk spent the week end with Miss Lenora Delk. James Still* and family, of Black ville, were visitors in this community Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Hair, of Black ville, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wilton Smith Sunday. -■ ■ ♦ ♦♦ ■ We’U Say It U “What’s the hardest thing about ico-skating when you’re learning?” asked the begiaaer. tThe ice”*, was to tort reply. any assistance. The machine bore the-license number 333,077 N. C., ac cording to the information furnished the police by Ewing. With this in fo ration the police put out a dragnet in an effort to apprehend the driver of the machine, but no trace was found. Thursday morning, a Ford roadster bent in front apparently as the result of a collision, was discovered in a cornfield near the Richmond Lumber Cdmpany. An investigation disclosed the fact that the license number of the abandoned machine was the,same number a 8 reported to the police by Ewing. The car was hauled into the city and placed in a garage and every efort is being made to find the drivar or owner of the car. Mr! Baughman moved from Dun barton to Augusta about six months ago and secured employment as a collector wkh R. E. Elliot and Sons, funeral directors. His body was carried back to his old home Friday morning and laid to rest that after noon at four o’clock in to Joyce Branch Bapthit Churchyard, the tyev. Mr. Davis conducting the services. The pallbearers were cousins of the young man and were as follows: Ronald Rountree, Aubrey Reuntree* Leon Birt, Herman Birt* Claude Hiern and Holly Kennedy. ' — father and mother, Mr. and - Mrs. Charles Baughman; one brother* Charles Baughman, Jn Family Reunion. Dunbarton, July 24.—At the resi dence of George W. Anderson, in the Dunbarton section, an annual birth day dinner was given by his children on the 11th inst. Mr. Anderson is a member of Camp Geo. W. Morrmll at Meyer’s Mill. He enlisted in the Con federate army at the age of 17 years* having joined Capt. Stallings’ heavy artillery company of the 2nd S. C. Volunteers. He surrendered with Johnson’s army, April 0, 1865. Mr. Anderson has reached the ad vanced age of 83. Yearly the chil dren unite to celebrate his birthday with a reunion and a splendid dinner. It is indeen touching to mark tha- filial love and devotion of the chil dren and grandchildren. All of them were present this year except Mrs. Moody and Mrs. Drummond, who were detained becauM of illness of their families. The dinner was one of the best, with the various articles on the menu too numerous to mention. Every one present enjoyed the cordial hospitali ty and bounteous dinner and went r.way fully satisfied. Mr. Anderson is justly to object of the love and esteem of a large circle of friends and neighbors, who wish that he may see many of his-natal day. He enjoys th faction of having lived a life of usefulness. Nicholas A. la. - _*