Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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.j, "T, : .— . • ' “.• , ,. .; . Tp • ; - 1 '■ f .- r Tills pmpt has fhs BXCLUUVE ' rights la this cammanltjr ts all I NEWS. FEATURES sn4 ADVEK- I VISING SERVICE—«f ths PUB LISHERS AUTOCASTER SER VICE af Raw Yark CRg. + GT THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF EARN WELL COUNTY ‘ \ / . v» _ , 1 -'-V ■ Consolidated June l t 1923. Volume li. Opening of Barnwelf - Church Next Sunday *Ju«t Llk^ a Menrib«r of the Family” BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. JANUARY 26, 1928. Larfeat County Orcnlation. LIFE INSURANCE 1ER 22. T + ■W^ — Disappears # k T First Servkfjs to Be Conducted in New < *■ *■ * .Methodist Church.—No Formal / . Program Arranged. Thci first service in the-new Bamwe Methodist Church will be conducted Sunday morning at the usual hour* by -the pastor, the Rev. M. L. Ban«s. It is understood that no special /program 'will be Arranged for this &^nrice,~as a formal opening is. planned for a later date. The church building has just been completed at a cost of approximately $20,000, which does not represent the physical worth of the plant as a part of the old building Was used, thus saving several thousand dollars. To gether with the organ, pews, heating plant and ether church furniture, the edifice will represent a total present expenditure of about $30,000. The building was erected on the site of the old church ,the lot on which it is ^ situated having been given years’ago by the late Charles Pechma Thct church building itself will be opened with a debt of cmly $10,500, early $20,000 having ^een raised by be congregation in /the past year or two, during which time the pastor was the Rev. R. W. Humphries, w’ho at Springfield.. The building committee, of Vhich Col. Edgar A. Brown is the chairman, endeavored to complete the church without debt, and in al/ probability thuir efforts would ha* T e been crowned with success but for/the unfortunate financial con dition^ existing in this section, caused by poor crops and low prices. / V The Pilcher pipe-organ, costirfg Several thousand dollars, has been in stalled arid tested, the pews are in place tmd^every effort is being made this week to have the church in en tire readiness for the opening service Sunday morning. The organ has a wonderfully mellow tone and will add greatly to the enjoyment of the ser- 'vices. The heating system is very modern, the furnace being/6f the oil- burning type and all that is neces sary to put it in operation is the turning of an electric switch, which lights the burner and starts the auto matic pump that supplied thct fuel from an underground storage tank. Tfi# building is heated by hot air and the use of oil as fuel does away with thu objectionable dust that' results from such systems when coal is used. When the fact that the member ship of the church is only 210 is taken into consideration, it will be^een that the member s are to. be warmly eon- Problems of the County Press - • : : r T . ~ ” From The State ■ Under the caption, !iXhe Other Fel-{ papers have their problems and their Photo shows Miss Frances St. John Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs: St. John Smith, of New York, who dis appeared from Smith College on Fri day, January 13. A reward of $1,000 has been offered. ■ \ FORMER BARNWELL MAN EASILY WINS FRIENDS m Savannah Morning News Speaks Highest Terms of G. T. Pate, Who Died Suddenly.,. The many friends of George Todd Pate, who dieef suddenly at his home in Savannah last week, will read with interest the following account oC his death, which appeared in the Janu- death, i 18th is gratulated upon their attainment in building-suth a magnificent edifice with such a small amount of indebted ness, and it is believed that in a com- paratively short time this will have been paid. ary I8tn issue of the Savannah Morn ing News and tells of the high esteem in which Mr. Pate was held in his adopted home city: George T. Pate; 45, tax collector of Chatham County, died suddenly at his home, 211 Thirty-first street, east, yesterday afternoon shortly before 3 o’clock. He returned to his'residence about 2. o’clock after attending to his affairs as usual during the morning. Complaining of feeling badlyrbe lay down, then lapsed into unconscious ness and died within le** than ah hour. -7 Mr. Pate was-prominontly Identified with the civic and governmental af fairs of Savannah. Before taking of fice as tax collector more than .seven yex rs-ago, he served on the City Coun cil fpr three years, being phairman for part of the time, i / He. was born jn Barnwell, S. C., on Sept. 17, ,1882, the son of. Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Pate. He came to Savanh^h when about 21 or 22 years of age and was employed "at the drug low’s Job,” the Dillon Herald publishes the following editorial: * * " - ‘ * * , * > The State and The News and Cour ier appear to be very much disturbed overthe quality o fthe-news the week ly newspapers of the State are hand ing out to their readers. The editorial criticisms of these two excellent news papers are no doubt made in the best of spirit, but we are wondering if the editors cculd dc^ the job any better if by chance they were placed at the head of the average ..weekly newspa per. They, wodld find problems and difficulties that are unknown in dail newspaper offices.. All newspapers have their defects and the seasoned newspaper man has no difficulty in finding them. The Greenville News, which claims the largest circulation in the State and prints on its title page ‘‘The leading newspaper of South Car olina,” The Charlotte Observer, one of the world’s finest, the New York World or the Chicago Tribune, might trials, and their workers work, but The State has long felt that the men who slave Out their lives in the at tempt to keep a paper going in the small town furnish the large contin gent of the martyrs to journalism. ‘‘Circumstances” have twined around them like ^ne arms of an octopus.: We havo in earlier days seen the county/editor furnish 52/Issues of his papey^ for the promise of one dollar. Many times, the publisher, without capital, has had to wait for one, two and three years for that dollar; often he nevy got it. We have sem that publisher have advertising rates, too low at the beginning, yet jumped upon by shoit-sighted (merchants until the publisher was forced by circumstancts to cut them, first for one man and then • / i ' ■ ^ „ for another, until the price received was not much 'above the cost of com position! In many cases the people of the community have not supported the Got the Convention store of the late Taz L. Anderson. Later he operated his own drugstore for several years at Hall and West Broad Strelets. He was elected an alderman during The public is cordially invited —administration of Muiray be able, if they looked carefully, to | community’s papers The merchants pick defects in The State or The Newsi of the community T and Courier, even though The State and The News and Courier are cover ing their fields with efficiency and thoroughness. It is a failing of hu man nature for the weak to look up to the strong and the strong to look down on the weak. When the lion opened his massive paw and smiling complacently released the. imprisoned mouse he did not think of the mouse’s weakness but of his own strength. Later, the'fable tells us, the little mouse released the ness men in such struggling lion from the net which had been spread by the crafty hunters. Some big men 4p small things in a big way and many^ little men do big things in a small way. Every man is not given ten talents. At certain / i * times weekly newsapers from nearly every State in the union come to The Herald office and by way of compari son the South Carolina weeklies aver- • > «e * r age pretty high. r / We would not have/our courteou^ and • straight-thinking contemporary misunderstand us. Tne caption of the article in The Stat^ referred to by out Dillon contemporary indiTatedP, as did the text, that it/was at once the plaint of the weary ^nd the song of the joy ful exchange' editor whose gem-seek ing labors >vere poorly rewarded Until he sudderyly came upon Robert Quil len’s p$ai 1-bearing, oysters, already paper to help the town and to hejp themselves, have proceeded’ to ham string it and render it next to unless by refusing 1 it advertising at a cost that would enable the paper fo devel op and be of greater service to the town. It is a remarkabj^ fact that while'a, strong, v sane, balanced, pro gressive newspaper wxnild be worth / o i-w* ***"‘—*« — more to a town of 4,000 people than a $200,000 factory, the majority of busi-’ wn would be tre mendously active in getting the fac tory, while striving" to keep TbeiT-mp- port.of the fxaper as -near a starvation basis as possible. • The really intel ligent business man tnust know that any community with weak newspapers carries 7 a terribly heavy handicap in the rice. ... . ■ Jesse H. Jtmcs, ":na»cier and jnib- •lishcr of the Houston Chronicle, led the fight tfiat brought the Democratic convention to, his city. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY LOCAL METHODISTS lank Trustees for Use of School Citizenry v — Complain to Sheriff About Highway Signs Dyches Thinks Practical Joke of Un known Parties Is DiiipUy of Poor Sportsmanship. . V // Complaint has been made to Sher iff'B/H.. Dyches by State Highway of ficials that road markers at various points in the county are being chang- ed by unknown parties, thus causing great inconvenience to that part of the traveling public unacquainted with the roads of this section. The chief • ’ 7 complaint comes as the-result of the activities of some person or persons with regard to the signs on the Bam- well-AlIendalei highway, at the inter section of the Barnwell-Olar public road. At this point, the sign pointing to Savannah will be changed to direct the traveler. towards Olar, and vice versa. While this is not confusing to local travelers of the highways, tour ists from other parts of the State or out of the State emroute to Savannah often find themselves going in the direction pf Charleston by reason of the misdirected efforts of some prac tical joker, whose activities Sheriff Dyches brands as displaying very bad taste and extrermdy poor snorts- tb Attend Services. The following resolutions were adopted by tho membership of the Barnwell Methodist Church at a con ference held Sunday: WHEREAS, from a small beginning under*a revival meeting held by the /"Reverend J. L. Tillman many years ago, a Methodist Church was erected in the town of Barnwell and dedicated to the service ttf the Lord, the site of which having been contributed by the tend the services Sunday morning. Missionary Society Meets. On Tuesday, afternoon of last week the members of tho Woman’s Mission ary Society of the Barnwell Metho dist Church, held their first meeting the new year at the, home of Mrs. M. B. ilagood, with an attendance of , 32. Officers for the ensuing year were 4nf*taHed by tho pastor, the- Rey / M. L. Banks. ■’ — Stewart and while chairman of Coun cil he served as ntayor pro tern on several ’occasions during the absence of Mayor Stewart. ~ / ' He had a personality whicly endear ed him to a host of friends and which helped to make Kim a power in the polities of the city and county. Loy alty to his fitends/was one of the out standing traits of his character. He was keenly interested in the -of—Savannah, and took a leading part in many of This year will be observed through-1 the civic ffairs of the city. He was out Southern Methodism as the .year; °ne of the three men who donated the of Jubilee. Talks were made on this i labd for the sale of the National Con- subject by Mrs. W. E. McNab and | ductors Hom/on Oakland Island. Mrs. Norman Dicks. Thc» latter was : He is survived by his wiffow, the appointed Spiritual Leader and plans former Mi/s Edna R. Hutson, to whom were made for the celebration of this! he was married in 1906; ono daughter, special ye^r; which will have for its } Miss Mary Pate; two sons, George aim and purpose the advancement of, Todd Pate, Jr., and Paul Pate; three tlie spiritual welfare of the members, sisters, Mfs. Leila Best, of Columbia. Special features for the observance of/ S- C.; Mrs. Miller Greene, of Barnwell, opened and there for the_/taking. Now we arc* painfully aware of the fact, that not one man in a thousand can do excellent work while mentally harassed; also that sprightly articles are not induced to spring to the sur face during negotiations with an ad vertising prospect or when attempting to collect from those who having used th<i paper seem to imagine it subsists on indifferent air. We know, too, tha/ the person who, having three or fo/r or five jobs on a paper, can do ^hy one of them particularly well, is^ ex ceedingly rare. Again we kno\y that while Mr. Quillen might fill three or four posts on his paper, he would, be sides having exceptional equipment for the execution of such work, be able to labor with a lighter heart anti problems of how newspapers be< improved; of whether better apers would command better support and be able to reach a state of inde pendence; of how the man without capital can furnish a paper better than his community suppoits in the-hope; of winning such Support, are problems that should greatly concern press as sociations. What a community should do is seldom what the community does do; what the publisher should do is of ten what he is not financially able to do in advance/of community support. Thera is the /vicious circle.” manship^ Evey effort will be made to appre hend those responsible for changing the road markers and if caught they ’ will be dealt with in as severe a man ner as possible. Any law-abiding per son who may have knowledge of the identity of the guilty parties will con fer a favor upoi^ the traveling public by reporting such information to Sheriff Dyches. „ / |WALTERBORO SCHOOL IS \ AWARDED FIRST PRIZE late Charles Pechmanni of Barnwell. And from the small beginning the con- ?<TegaUon has from time to time in creased along with the expansion of the town of Barnwell until the church became Inadequate to accommodate the increased congregations; and, WHEREAS, by divine inspiration and earnest and energetic efforts on the part of the congregation and oth ers, a new church has been erected on the samiS site and is t6 be occupied for the first time on Sunday, the-29th day bureau. The money is to bo used in of January, A. D. 1928, to the joy and I each instance in purchasing equipment more joy than the one who is obliged to get out of the paper money for the weekly expenses as well as for the ac counts of the butcher, baker and can dlestick maker. ^ But should the avetrage editor of the county paper have to carry gll the load that is upon him, all his life? Is there no way out for the majority con fronted by problems that seem so dif ficult of practical solution ? The daily press and even the relatively “big” this Jubilee Year will be brought out at the missionary meetings during the next twelve months. ■ Silent Treatment for Heflin. News dispatches from Washington in Sunday’s newspapers stated that the Senate is seriously thinking of subjecting * Senator Heflin, of Ala bama, to the “silent treatment,” as as been done with Senator Blease, f South Carolina. The dispatch stated that whem Senator Blease goes on the war-path in the Senate his colleagues do not reply .to him— they ignore him. Which will proba bly be nettm to the friends of the fiery South Carolinian. ~~ ADVERTISE ill The People-Sentinel. S. C.; and Mrs. George Glaspy T of Burlington, N. C.; and by five broth- €<rs, Clay W. Pate, of Savannah; Claud A Pate, of Brookland, D. C.; A. Dab ney Pate, of Burlington, N. C.; M. J Pate, of Wilson, N. C.;and James Gorr don Pate, of Asheville, N. C. He was a member of Christ Church, of Landrum Lodge No. 48 of Masons, of the Scottish Rite, of Alee Temple of the Mystic Shrine, of the Eagles, of tho Kiwanis Club, and of the Say- annah Golf Club. ’ No, we db not pretend ed be able to solve* the /probkons of the publishers of wee/ly newspapers. But we cer tainly Appreciate some, of those prob lems,/and have sympathy for those who/are trying to make' brick for building a town while the townspeople so vitally interested in tht« building grudge the straw for the bricks. Two Killed, Eight Injured. T$o persons were killed and eight others injured in automobile accidents in and hear the city of Columbia on Saturday. William D. Dickey, promi nent toorney of Columbia, was struck nnd'klttedtjy’an automobile; Aubrey Turner, 19, of Gresham, was killed when his car .struck a cement mixer. Two others in the car with him were happiness of the faithful; a nd, WHEREAS, during the many months that the said church was J n process of erection, the Board of Trustees of the Barnwell High School graciously extended the use of the school building to the said congrega tion for their service and worship, and now that that occupancy is about to terminate, the congregation of the said Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at Barnwell are desirous of ex pressing their heartfelt thanks for the consideration shown to them by the trustees aforesaid; NOW .THEREFORE, BE IT. RE SOLVED, by a conference of the said Barnwell Methodist Episcopal Church, South, held on Sunday, the 22nd day of January, A. D. 1928, presided over oy the pastor in charge, that the thanks of thetjhurch be extended to the Chair man and Board of Trustees of the said ,,Barnwell High School for the use of Jthe said building, and the church trusts that no damage has been done to said property or inconvenience to the school by its occupancy, but, on the contrary, that the invoked presence on ./ . ... _ ; Columbia, Jan. 24.-r-The vocations! agricultural departments of Gray Court-Owings, Laurens County, Oak ley Hall, Chester County, and Waiter- boro, Colletqn County, are the win ners in tho project and essay contest among the agricultural schools of the State, it was announced today, and each of these schools will receive a one hundred dollar prize offered by the Chilean Nitrate of Soda educational for the agricultural classes of the schools. r ? .Walterboro came first in the Third District, which is made up of Flor ence, Williamsburg, Berkeley, Char leston, Hampton, Colleton, Dorchester r Barnwell, Allendale, Orangeburg, Bamberg, Marion, Dillon, Horry, Clarendon and Jasper. Dillon ran a close secodd to Walterboro in this district. i , Sometime during February the prizes will be awarded at community meetings to bo held in- tiiese communi ties. —- » In this contest the following points ,were used in rating the schools: 1. Per Cent of boys in classes car rying complete project programs. 2. Per Cent of last year’s projects completed. 3. Total value of products produced by pupils. 4. Per Cent of class members with saving accounts. ' 5. Relative merit of the three es- seriously injured. John J. McMahan eaclf Sunday of thtf-Ever-Living God Insurance Commissioner, was knock ed down while crossing a street in the city, and biuised Considerably. Tom L. Martin,and A. W. Martin were seriously hurt in a wreck, while John F". Lowman and James L. Lowmcin were injured so that hospital treat ment was required.; ——-/ .Eddie Culbreath, a recent graduate of the watch-making department of Bradley Polytechnic Institute, of Peoria, 111., has accepted a position »s assistant watchmaker in Stevens’ jewelry store. *- . ADVERTISE in The People-Sentinel’ BARNWELL COUNTY TEACHERS ASSOCIATION, Dunbarton High School, ~ 7 "’Dunbarton, S. C. - v Saturday, January 28, 1928. “ The high schoolteachers will assemble at 10:30 A. M. and will be ad dressed by Dr. W. S. Currell, Dean of the Graduate School of the University of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. At the same hour, Mrs. W. D. Rice, of Winthrop J^ollege Training School Rock Hill, S. C., will address a joint ses sion of the Intermediate and Primary teachers. GENERAL SESSION—11:30 A. M. % / / ' School Auditorium. Music .Dunbarton High School Orchestra Song. 4 * , Devotional— ... Rev; J. S. M, Finch Music — „--I.-Dunbarton High-School Orchestra ADDRESS— Dr. W. S. Currell, University of South Carolina Business. • • . Music by High School Orchestra, led by Mr. H. K. Neeley. Lunch will be derved by the Parent-Teachers Association of the Dunbar ton High School. ^ . V. tjF. Carter, Pres. —* / Horace J.’Crouch, Sec." " /- says submitted by each school. Appropriation Bill U Large. has keen a benefit to the atmispherc surrounding and influencing the school. ' RESOLVED FURTHER, that tha Chairman and Board of Trustees and all other citizenry of the City of Barn well be, and they are hereby, invited most cordially to attend and partici- bill, the salary of Dr. Douglas, presi- The Ways and Means Committee of, the Housn of Representatives com pleted Thursday the appropriation bill carrying about $10,200,000. This is about three hundred thousand dol lars more than was recommended by the budget committee, of which Gov ernor Richards is chairman. In the pate in any of our services upon any Sunday or other service day and help us whenever they can to build up the influence of the Lord in this commun ity and to aid this church in its earnest efforts that the community may grow in spiritual well being to a higher de gree of perfection than ever, to the great glory of the Lord and tKe hap piness of the people. RESOLVED FURTHER, that a copy of these resolutions be trans mitted to the Chairman and Board of Trustees of the Barnwell High School and that a copy be printed in the news papers of the County. ’ *• G. M. GREENE, Committee. The friends of Martin C. Best are glad to see him out again after a re cent severe attack of illness. dent of the University of South Caro lina, is cut from ten thousand dollars tc seventy-fivei hundred dollars. Gov- ernor Richards, it is reported, thinks that nobody in the State service should be paid a larger salary than the gov ernor. Lt.-Gov. Butler declared that a cumber of men could be secured for the presidency at $1,500 a year if the election were made in a primary. Weevils Thrive in Ice. Orangeburg, Jan. 23.Tempera tures below the freezing point have no effect on boll weevils. This fact has just been demonstrated here by L. F. Smoak. Seven weevils were placed in a solid block of ice and kept there for 24 hours. They were then removed and were just as lively as when they were first subjected to this cold.