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Consolidated inns 1. 1925. VOLUME LI. *Ju«t Like a Member of the Family" BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, ^THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8 t . 1927 WOULD ORGANIZE GOODFELLOWS CLUB Local City Fathers Buy Christmas Seals First Sale Made to Town Council of Barnwell.—Campaign Begins in Earnest This Week. • »\ 5,000 Miners' Duck yifnters’ Bodies Recovered From Pond The distinction of buying the first sheet of 1927 Christmas Seals goes to the Town Council of Barnwell, ac cording to an announceent made on Tuesday by Mrs. A. A. Lemon, county chairmanof'tfiesaTe^campaign. The stamps will be used on all outgoing letters and will “tell the- world” that Ihe represmtatives of Barnwell’* citizenry have put their stamp of ap- prova on the campaign. -r “While the tuberculosis program has been carried on from many an- ples, preventive * and curative,” stated Mrs. Lemon, “one of the out standing^ results has bgeg-the in crease! inHije number of sanatorium beds. x UoweVer, there are other meth ods of conducting the program, such '^^s health education, clinics, nursing ^®ervice, Modern Health Crusade, ^^pecial campaigns, which must be pushed with greater vigor than ever to keep the mortality^ on the downward trend and €b create a healthier order in the days to come.” TheThrislmas sesfljTare on "sale at -...^he-Baak joC W—te—-Curotina * m KarnwelTTwhere they'may be had in any quantity—from one on up. The quota for Barnwell County is and an intensive campaign - will be waged. b(«inning this week, to at tain the desired goal. A writer in the Athens (Ga.) Ban ner notes the following definite bene fits that accrue directly to the pur- chaser: You buy the right to know that you have a cook who is free from Tuber culosis. You buy the right to know that you have a maid who is healthy, or a nurse maid who is a safe companion to your baby, in the closo intimacy which this relation brings about. You buy the right to know that the man who works next to you, or to your son, or daughter, is free from ir.fccUvn. You buy th‘* right to know that mill products are made by healthy opera tors, and that the clerks in offices and .stores with which you deal are non- infipet ious. .• _ You buy the right to have your foods and meats handled by those . whose contact is safe. You buy the right of Education in personal sanitation to the individual already stricken with .Tuberculosis, that~1ie may know hew Find Arms of School Teacher and Pupil Encircling Each Othe*- in Pond Near Langley. ■iO Remus Keeps Fit Governor Adams of' Colorado considering part of the 5000 peti tions from miners urging him to use his power to end the coal strike in Western fields. Several Tracts of % ■ *Laml 3old ^MhiTiclay hiH traveling companion, Oi hi* family from contagion. How do you get these rights? By buying these little suals, and in most cases, by giving some extra C9ntri- bution toward the work. South Carolina Gas Sales Break Records Sales Yfade~ V the Master, G. M. Greene, Eaq.. and Special Master, Solomon Blatt, Esq. Another large crowd was in Barn well Monday, the occasion being “De cember Salesday,” usually one of the biggest events of its kind of the year. Several local and out-of-town dealers were on hand with droves of horses and mules, but as usual the main at traction was the sales of real estate, of which the following is a list: Estelle H. Patterson vs. Arabella Morris, et al„ 80 3-4 acres of land in Red Oak Township, bought by J.-A. Kennedy, attorney,. for $300. • William L. Hill, et a!., vs. Ida May Hill, et al., 529 acres of land in Rich land Township, bought by Brown and Bush, attorneys, for $3,200. Jefferson Standard Life Insurance (*o. vs. Eloise S. Baxley, et al., 110 acies of land in the town of Snelling, bought by Citixens and Southern Bank for $4,074. W. W. Bradley, State Bank Examin er, vs. Emmett F. Sease, et al.. two tracts of land containing 98 and 20 acre^ in Red Oak and Great Cypress Townshippl respectively, bought by J. A* Kennedy, attorney, the 98-acre tract for $400 and the 20-acre tract for $100. t _ - .AM-of/tho abo.Kft sales vjy* made byHihe Master, G. Greene, Esq., and the following by Solomon Blatt, Esq., Special Master: G. M. Greene, Guardian, vs. Allen Eubanks, et al., 130.2 acres of land in Richland Township, bought by M. B. Hagood 'for $1200. Aiken, Dec. 4.—The bodies of Prof. James R. Miller, twenty-live, principal of the Langley-Bath High School, and William R. McElveen, Jr., his#student, were recovered from the Langley pond at 5:30 o’clock this afternoon, with their arms encircling each other. The body of young McElvoen slipped back into the water when the boatmen, who had located it with a drag hook, were endeavoring to get it into a boat and it took more than an hour to locate it again. Four thousand people watched the’ search today that was begun yester day morning, when the boat that the men went duck* hunting in came float ing to the bank and no trace was seen of professor or student. The gates'of the pond were drawn Saturday after noon and charges of dynamite were exploded with the hope of forcing the bodies to view’, but no sign of them was seen until tho drag hook caught them late today. Berkeley High Tfacher. Tot “Hiller, of York, w ho wm- grarhmted -fr^m _Qtmann.-CDQpgp In COUNTY-WIDE MOVEMENT TO BE STARTED THIS WEEK George Remus, “King of Boot leggers,” on trial at Cincinnati for the murder of his wife, shadow boxes, skips rope, and runs in the jail yard to keep physically fit. Skull Is Fractured E. A. Brown Escapes —, ; * ■ - - . • . n ■ Injury in Accident Barnwell Man Is Unhurt When Au tomobile Turns Over on State Highway North of Swansea W’hile returning from the Metho dist Conference held at Bishopvilje last week, Col. Edg;ar A. Br&wn, of this erty, had a narrow^ escape from serious injury when his Cadillac sedan skidded and turned over on the Col- umbia-Savannah highway, just North of Swansea, Friday. Two young “hikers,” who wire being given a “lift” by Col. Brown, also escaped unhurt. The road had been made very slippery by the heavy rains of the previous day and in turning out for another car, Col. Brown’s sedan skidded and turned over. The leift rear wheel was crushed and the rear axle and body were damaged to some extent. Aside from the shock of the experiance, the Barnwell man was uninjured. He phoned to Barnwell him hsma PLAN TO HAVE SANTA' CLAUS VISIT POOR CHILDREN. Similar Organization in Columbia, Has Brought Christmas Cheer to Many in Past Years. Columbia, Dec. 3.—Indications that gasoline sales in South (Carolina dur ing November surpass all previous months in volume are contained in the report of J. W. Shealey, commis sioner of agricultuffr, commerce ai.d '"‘industries made public late Wednes ^dajn-which shows a total of 10,3d9, High Winds Uproot Trees in* Barnwell Slight Damage Done by-Storm Satur day Night.—Real Touch of Win ter in Past Week. A_windstorm of rather unusual in tensity visited this section Saturday 049 gallons inspected and received by night, following several days of rainy dealers. This amount exceeds the weather, and uprooted a number of 1925, taught science and coached foot ball and bap*ball at Berkeley High School, Monks Comer, in 1926; served at the Lan^Jey-Bath High School as principal and headed all athletics, and McElveen, son of William McElveen, superintendent of the Langey Mills in Horse Creek valley, went duck hunt ing on the pond at 6 o’clock Saturday morning. At 7 o’clock their boat drifted to the shore with the hunters missing, but carrying both guns and completely dry. This, with the fibt that a dead duck was found floatinc on the surface of the water, gives rise to the theory that one of the men, in reaching out too far for the dead duck, tumbled into the lake, the companion dived to hit aid, and both were drown- td in the attempted rescue. Mr. Mil ler is known to have been a good swimmer. People who Kve near the water re serve say they heard several shots fired, and one. man states he saw Mr. Miller standing in the boat, and Icier saw the men struggling in the water. Reserve for Mills. The Langley pond is several miles in length, and it was between Lang ley and Wsrrenville that Miller and McElveen were drowned. From Aik en to Augusta, a distance of about fifteen miles, lie these water reserves for the mills of Nora? Creek vaUey. * ^rmandH cunfps ow* cue ny* [ the Langley pond. These are filled in summer with week-end and ten-day parties and serve as annual gathering places for club boys and girls of Aiken and surrounding counties. The smooth surface is excellent for boat ing, except fpr a few snags along the edges, when ^he water is low. Pleas ure seekers bathe at points where the shoro-line is good. Each camp has its diving board. During certain seasons fishermen may be seen sit ting all day in the sun in their flat- bottomed boats angling for bass and brim, which are the predominant fish. Duck shooting in winter is indulged in. The Aik?n-August a Electric line’s tracks run a few hundred yards from the water’s e4ge. ‘No, sir, Santa Claus didn’t come to sec» me this year. Guess times is too hard, but I did think he would bring me something, for I have been a good little boy and studied hard at school.” If plans that are now in the making are fully developed, there will be no such heart-touching complaint heard in Barnwell County Christmas morn ing, for an idea is germinating in tho minds of a number of people whose hekrts are still young enough to bo touched by the appeal of Christmat 4 and whose ambition this year—and in the years to come—is to broadcast “Peace on Eart^i, Good Will Towards Men” into every nook and comer of* this section. s For the past several years. Colum bia has had a volunteer organization known as “The Good Fellows Club,” with membership unlimited and. Tter' Mrs. Varnes, of Norway, Also Has One Arm and Both Legs Broken When Auto Turns Over. Blackvilla, Dec. 6.—This afternoon about 4 o’clock Mrs. Vame*, of Nor way, was seriously and perhaps fatal ly injured in an automobile accident which occurred about one-fourth of a mile from this town on the Charles- ^ton-Aiken highway. Mrs. Vames had one arm and both legs broken and her skull fractured. In the car with her were her daughter, Edna, and B. S. Harrison, of Denmark, who was driving. Neither of tht« others was hurt. They were in a Dodgu road ster en route to Augusta; the car was going at a rapid rate and the driver evidently lost control, as the auto first left the road going into a rye field and on the return to the road the car turned over twicn Dr. O. D. Hammond rendered first aid and later carried Mrs. Vames to the Orangeburg hospital. Barnwell Will Lose Rev. R. W. Humphries Assigned to Springfield by Methodist — Confcreweear To Be Succeeded ~ for repairs. Makes Fine Profit on Three Acres of Land T. J. Grubbs, of Pleasant Hill Section. Shows W’bai Can Be Done by Intelligent Farming. T. J. Grubbs, of the Pleasant Hill section .is generally recognized as one of the best farmers in Barnwell Coun ty and during the past year he has shown that intelligent farming will return a profit on crops other than cotton. Mr. Grubbs told a representa tive of The People-Sentinel Tuesday that he has three acres of land whose crops paid him better this year than many s<*res of cotton. One acre was planted in cucumbers, which he sold for $362. After the cukes had been marketed, this acre and one other was planted in «ora, from which he har vested 30 bushels of com and 300 bundles of fodder. California peas tvere planted in the com and five bush els were gathered. Tit' third acre was planted in sugar cane and from this crop he ground 310 ./oLons of syrup! a large part of which he sold for $1 a gallon.^Thus, it wrtl I* seen that bis gross return on the three money is used to defray the expenses of Santa Claus’ visits to homes that otherwise would be cheerless on the Urthday of The Prince of Peace—the birthday of Him Who said, “Inasmuch * ss ye h ive done it unto the least of these, my I rtthrci.. ye have done It unto Me.” Two or three yeers age the suggestion was made by this newspaptw that a similar organisa tion be perfected here and it is a source of gratification that the seed sown then gives promise at last of bearing fruit. In the words of The Columbia Record, “It is the home of the empty stocking that the GOOD- FELLOWS CLUB would remember at Christmas time.” and while the time is short it is believed that much can be accomplished in the few days remaining. The plan, it is understood, is not to confine the organization to the town of Barnwell alone, but to invKe Blackville. Williston, Dunbarton, Kline and the*other towns .in the county to cooperate and reach out into the coun- the donor fe*4s able to give. Fill well this week to launch the move ment and full details will be given in next week’s issue of The> Peopio-Sen- tinel. In the meantime, with only little more than two weeks remain ing before Christmas, an application blaqk i« planted former high total of ^September by more than 500,000 gallon^. ’ Kefosere inspected and received by dealers amounted to 1,882,799 gallon! bringing the total for gasoline and kerosene to 12,251,843 gallons. Inspection fees Collected also soar ed to new heights reaching a total of $19,985.61. This amount has been trees in various parts of Barnwell. The storm began about nine o’clock Saturday evening and the wind reach ed its highest velocity between 10 and 11 p. m., when it began to lull again. The porch to the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Sol^Blatt on Jackson Street was slightly damaged by a falling tree, as was also the ^ residence of turned over to the State comptroller! Mrs. Hagood on Washington Street and becomes a part of the general fund for payment of State expenses, Lyndhurst Community Park. T __ Mrs*. Dora Dee Walker, of Winthrop College, was*a welcome visitor in the county last week. Mrs. Walker’s visit at this time was in the interest of a community park at Lyndhurst (Boiling Springs) and while tHere she directed the planting of dog-wood, crepe nypftle and lilacs. Lyndhurst is one of the most picturesque spots ■anuMUMMap*- when a tree in the yard of Judge John K Snellirg was uprooted. # , Reports from Spartanburg and Newberry Counties stated that in some places houses were unroofed and other damage caused by the high winds. Advertise in The Reopie-SentineL in Barnwell County and vill lend beautifully, to development and still be an ideal carifeing ground for the cltb women and girts each year. David W. Gaston, Sr. and Son Are Injured — . Aiken, Dec. 3.—David W. &a*ton, Sr., was seriously hurt and his ton, David W. Gaston, Jr., was painfully bruised in an.atftomobile collision this morning on the outskirts of Aiken near the dairy of Mr. Robert. H. Wilds on the Aiken-Augusta high way; the* Gaston car and a large bus of the Camel City line from Colum bia collided in the downpour of ram. The Gaston car was badly wrecked in the smash-up, and Colonel Gaston and his son were brought to Aiken for treatment Reports from the home of Colonel Gaston this evening are that he is confined to his bed end is suffering keenly from injuries to his head and chest. ows: . Cucumtxcs $362.00 30 bushels of com 30.00 300 bundles of fodder 7.60 6 bushels of peas 6.26 310 gallons of syrup 31-0.00 Total $715.75 Much to the regret of his many '--nwell ririends, the Methodist Con ference in session at Bishopvillc last week assigned the' Rev. R. W. Hum phries, pastor of the Barnwell Metho dist Church fpr the past three years, to Springfield. It had been confident ly hoped and expected that he would bo returned to this charge, especially in view of the fact that he has been quite active in the erection of the new church building here and his friends wanted him to have the privi lege of delivering the first sermon within its w’alls. During his stay in this city, Mnr-Humphries has won a host of friends among the meitnber- ship of the various denominations and and their good wishes will follow him to his new home. He will be suc ceeded here by the Rev. M. L. Banks, who comes to Barnwell from Lake City/ . . * j Other assignments in this section are as follows: Allendale, Rev. W. E. Wiggins; would b ene fit agriculturists through Appleton circuity Rev. J • ^ Pi esse r; en tj re conutfy, he said he Ml among the first to join. As stated above, tha membership fee is $1, but as much more may be contributed as the- donor fcels able to give. « Fill out the blank and hand or mail to The People-Sentinel or to Perry A. Price at the Bank of Western Caroli> na. Due acknowledgment will be made through those columns: AdvertUe in The f -»*>le-Sentmel. Hare Planning Bill of Help to Farmers Washington, Dec. 3.—Representa tive B. B. Hare, of Saluda, who last year succeeded in passing his “anti dumping” bill by which producers of fruits and vegetables have saved thousands of dollars by having cam- niission merchants now render sfair o v « accounts of sales, has some impor tant agricultural bills which he will soon introduce in the . house v While Mr s Hare today did not care to make public one of the very im portant bills uponjvhich he is now working, which in a general way Bamberg, Rev. D. A. Phillips; Den mark, Rev. W. H. Hodges; Olar, Rev. Paul K. Crosby. Injured 'Man Improving. r Paul H. Owens, who suffered a frac tured skull when his car turned over on the BarnwellAAllendale highway about ten days ago, is said to be sightly improved according to reports from the University Hospital in Augusta, where he was carried im mediately after the accident. He is conscious at times and some hope is • I now held out for his recovsry. would offer it in the house at early date. • J If the bill in question is passed by congress it will probably? mem the saving of millions of dollars each year as the result of a more thorough har monizing of agricultural extension work generally. Services Here Sunday. I’M A GOOD FELLOW I want to be a GOODFELLOW and help to spread GOODCHEER. Enclosed is my cheek for $ Please enroll me. (Name) (Address) Landscape Architect Visits County. F. L. Mulford, landscape architect, of the United States Department of Agriculture, was in the county several days last week and drew plans and gave suggestions for landscaping home, school and church grounds. The homes of Mrs. Willie Mims, F. W. Delk, T. J. Grubbs and Lonnie Corley were visited by Mr. Mulford and the farm and hogte agents, and the plana and suggestions na outlined by the architect will be carried out daring the coming year. Archdeacon Burton, of Allendale, will conduct services the Church of the Holy Apostles in Barnwell Sun day morning at 11:80 o’clock. TWf L. C. Fowke, of Lyndhurst public is cordially invited to