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/ ■ isr THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNTY ^ BarnweU ^.Consolidated June 1, 1925. M Ju»I Like a Member oF (he Famlly M ^ NORMAN B. GAMBLE Largest Gouty drealatSoa. LIFE INSURANCE VOLUME LI. BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSHAT, JUNE HTH, 1928. NUMBER O. BARNWELL COUNTY WILL SURFACE MUCH MILEAGE ROAD CONTRACTS WILL BT LET JUNE 26TH. Surfa c e Treatment for 50.69 Miles of Highway in This County.—Other Projects Also. Bids-on 38.252 miles of paving, 50.69 miles of surface treatment, 57.632 f miles of top soil or sand-clay con- 1 struction and 3.257 miles of gravel surface for State highways as well as seven bridges were asked for Friday by the South Carolina highway de partment, the bio ! s r to be opened in FUditorinm of the Jefferson hotel at 11 o’clock June 26 The total of high way mileage to be improved is 149.841 miles. ‘ One of the most interesting pro jects listed in the bids called for is one from Barr well for the surfalea. treatment of 50.69 miles of highway in that county. The roads <to^be treated under the bid will give Y&rnwell County two highways sunaced from county line to county line. Route No. 3 will he treated from the Orangeburg-Barn- well County Jine through Blackville p.nd Barr we 11 to the Barnwell-Allen- dale line. Route No. 78 will be sur faced from the Aiken-Bamwell line through Williston. Elko and Blackville to the Barmvell-Bamberg lire. Route No. 37 will he treated from Barnwell Believe It or Not. A check drawn on the Bank <i^ Barnwell and dated March 4, 1909, was presented for payment Monday to the Barnwell branch of thb-Bank of Western Carrv lina. It was first . presented shortly after, it was drawn more than ®19 years ago and returned to the payee marked “N. S. F.” It was returned this week for the reason that the concern that issued the check has gone out of -business. In 1910 the Bank of Barnwell w;as incorporated Jn the chain of banks operated by the Bank of Western Carolina. Democrats Will Meet June 26th Iodine Tests to Be Made in Charleston Dr. Roe E. .Remington .Establishes Laboratory at the State Medi c al College. Columbia, June 7.—South Carolina’s iodine test laboratory will be estab lished at the medical college in Char leston, it was announced today bv Dr. William Weston, chairman of the State food anaylsis commission. Word was received bv Dr. Weston % * today from Dr. Roe E. Remington, the commission’s chemist, that he was establishing headquarters in Charles ton on account of available facilities at the Medical College.. The selection of Charleston, according to Dr. Wes ton, will sSve both time^and monetfT Actual ,tests of\vegetables will be under way within a short time, ac cording to Dr. Weston. The tests will alternate between products grown in the Piedmont section and those pro- to Elko When this work is completed Barn well, Blackville-jppJ Elko will form corners a i*o|pg|ete triangle with treated highways' connecting, while Williston will also be connected to the three by a t:eated highway. In addition to the above, bids are called for on the grading and surfac ing with sand-clay of 8.365 miles‘of Route 39 in Barnwell County be tween Williston and the South Edisto River, and also the grading and sur-| ( j UCOci j n the coastal plain region.' Dr. facing with sand-clay of 10.643 miles; Remington will make tests to deter mine the content of iodine, calcium and other valuable minerals with medical properties which have served presum ably to show a small percentage of goiter in the State. It was explained by Dr. West-, ton that no equipment was available at Cleroson College, no room at the State department of agriculture, and a tremenUDUS outlay would have been necessary to equip the laboratory at the State university in Columbia. Re quests arc being received daily from all sections of tke State for analysis, according to Dr. Weston First vjsil !o effects of the publicity that has attended authorization of the commission and its v ork by legisla tive appropriation of ot 5 000 was the sale and shipment of 400 hampers of wax beans to *he Atlantic and Pacific Tea company at Montreal, Canada, by Jack S'ur^ecn, of Lake City, with the cooperation of J W. McLendon, coun ty agent and custom officials. The purchasing agent of the chain store company bought the beans on the recommendation of Dr. Weston, and has agreed to buy South Carolina products exclusively in the event the claims of iodine and calcium content are proven by tests to be made by Dr. Remington. of Route 64 in Barnwell «ard Bam- herg Counties between Barnwell and Olar. — : “ • v 1 ' —— The h’ghway department is also call ing for. bids for the construction of two treated timber bridges in Barn weU and Bamberg Counties on Route 64. one over Hercules Creek and the other over George’s Creek. It is expected that actual work on the above rop,d«> will he staited early in July and it is hoped that construc tion will he completed by late Fall or oarly Winter, in time Tor the hulk of the Florida tourist travel. RECOGNITION SERVICE TO ARCHDEACON BURTON On Sunday evening, June 17th, in the Barnwell Baptist Church, at 8:30 o’clock, will be held a recognition ser- vice by the Baptist ar.jd Methodist con gregations in Barnwell to Archdeacon Joseph Burton, who has recently re moved to Barnwell and who in addi tion to his work here is in charge of other churches in this section. The Rev. M. L. Banks will preside. The music will be in charge of the choirs from the Baptist and Methodist Churches. Short welcoming addresses will b‘e made by the pastors of the Barnwell Methodilst ar\d Baptist Churches, and a response" by Arch deacon Burton. It is earnestly hoped That all the church peopiF^Of Barnwell will attend, this service of the new rector who comes his home in Barnwell. Bishop W. A. Guerry Succumbs to Wounds Head of South Carolina Diocese Away Saturday Night.—Wan ' Shot Monday. Here’s the outside of the great new coliseum built at Houston for the delegates who will attend the Democratic National Convention. x Coliseum, Built For Event, Will Be Permanent; Growth of City Due to Plans of Its? Pioneers. Houston, Texas, Jure 11.—Houston is all set for the great Democratic National Convention, which will con vene here on Jure 26. ..And .while Houston has been bending every effort toward perfecting plans for the cor.':- vention, civic leaders have not heen overlooking the, opportunity so to shape this work that it will fit into the solid foundation of a still greater Houston. Although the movement and actual construction of the conver> tion coliseum has been somewhat of an overnight project, all workers seemirgly have been impressed with the i^lea that they are not building a temporary structure. The city of Houston was laid out according to a well-defined city plan hy it’s pioneers. Leaders of civic Jife in villages, towns and cities through out’ the nation are expected to absorb some of the concrete ideas on city building when they are in Houston 1 for the convention. These local leaders are pioneers and it is to them that future generations will point when their towns become cities. ... ' The coliseum is placed in the cente/ of what is .destined to be a “civic cen ter,” an! area in which many future public buildings are planned. In this there is a good idea in city building. No community is too small to start planning for the future, and a sound foundation provide^ for later pheno- monal growth. In its early days’ m&h/of the arrangement committee: “Come to Houston, the city is ready to care for you.”. Claude G. Bowers, Now York edi torial writer, historian and orator, will he the keynote speaker at the eoi.vention. Mr. Bowers ~ attracted great attention by his address at the last .iackson Day P:nner, which is considered a mafctefrpiece. It was beautifully written, and most effec tively spoken. v It was Jesse H. Jones who led the Houston was a small^ecluded town* fight fqr Houston when the Demo- It has becorr& lar^e and powerful be- wise cause of the pioneers. An arrangement program for planning of its the cratic convention city was being choeen. Mr. Jones is the publisher of the Houston Chronicle. All the proceedings at the conven- conventiom has been perfected that is: tion—as in the case of the Kansas considered adequate to care for an-j City conclave of the G. - O. P.—will be other 100.000 ovemiedu jidrlitinn in broadcast over the radio in a gigap^ic hook-up reaching into every nook and other 100,000 overnight addition „ the population. Special arrangements are being made /hy convention committees to care for all visitors to Houston at and about the time of the party gathering. These are the words of Jesse H. J.jies, Houston capitalist and chair- cranny of the country. The most thorough “radio picture” of a conven- presented to be tior.t ever made wHl be the listeners, as microphones will placed all about the convention floor and balconies and everything going on will he “picked up” and transmitter!. This is the interior of the Houston, Texas, hall wh«re ♦he Democratic Party will rjame its Presdential Candi date and evolve its platform. elcome to to make TO DIVIDE COMPANY INTO FIVE DISTRICTS Presented With Cross. Boll Weevil# Are | Former Barnwell Man Active in County | Honored by Clemson One Farmer Reports Finding 100 of Robert A. Easterling, Power Company the Little Pe’sts on a Single Acre of Cotton. A molasses. V: ■, the daily The Johnson Hagood Chapter, IL4X C., presented J. Herbert Black with a Cross of Military Service, the presen tation being made by the president, Mrs. R. S. Dicks, at the Court House on Saturday morning,- June 2nd, in the presence of quite a nurpber of spectators. The next da^ for presen tation of Casses of Honor or Service will be September 27th, the biithday of Admiral Semmes, and the chapter is desirous of obtaining the names of any Worljd War soldiers who are lineal descendants of Confederate Vet erans who would like this Cross of Service. ♦ ♦♦ Traveling Passenger Agent Here. Fairfax, June 7.—Announcement is made here of the division into five dis tricts of the Edisto Public Service company with Fairfax as th^ head quarters oi the ten itoryrfrom Allen- 1 dale to Yemassee {Uld from Estill to Ulmers. J. W. Blease, of Fairfax, will he in charge of this district. The other districts have headquar-1 ters at Beaufort, St. George, Den- ^ mark and Blackville. W. M. McCullough, of Philadelphia, Denmark has formerly been the con- Pa., was a visitor in' Barnwell Tues* trol point for all of these districts, day. He i* traveling passenger agent buf? the management believes that tor the Southern Railway System and service may be more efficiently visiting South Carolina ^owns for dered through these divisions, the purpose of promoting traveling by ♦ train. ’ The Southern Railway is of- J. F. Ready left yesterday (Wed- fering attractive inducements to pas- nesday) morning for Bennettsville to' sengers at this timt. attend the annual reunion of Confed- j ♦ ♦ ♦ — crate Veterans. , ADVERTISE in The People-Sentinel. From all accounts, the boll weevil is extremely active in this and other sections of South Carolina and cotton- growing authorities are advising the farmers to poi&n the plants with the 1-1-1 mixture of calcium arsenate and According to a report in newspapers one day last paper Saturday that he was having the weevil 1 ! picked from a field of cotton, in Florence and Darlington Counties, while a local farmer, Judge R. C, Holman, tod a representative of this paper Saturday that wa* having the weevis picked from a field of cotton, 100 being found on an acre. CoL But ler Hagood reports finding 15 weevils on a quarter of an acre. W. B. Norris stated Monday that he picked up A handful of punctured squares Ann * 1 caught five or six weeVils in a small corner of a cotton field, and so it goes. The pest seems to be active in prac tically every field in this section—that is, where the cotton is large enough to have squares. While this condition is alarming;'it is recaJljj^ that two or three years kgo, the weevils were very numerous and active about this .season of the year. > Grave fears were expressed for the safetv of the cotton crop, but seasonable weather cn-ued and this section made :i sple* did >hld. It is to be hoped that,history will repeat itself in this instance. While The People• Pent nel is not attempting t) advise the 'acmers how iO make cotton,, it is if lieved that any weevil control methods that may be undertaken wdl he'p, whether it be picking tfee live weevils from the Head, Is Awarded Degree by His Alma Mater. Bamberg, June 7.—Robert A. Ea«- Herbert Hoover Will Be Nominated Today KViinsylvania end Other States Climb on Rand Wagon of the Secretary of Commerce. The nomination of Herbert Hoover, terling, vice-president and treasurer Secretary of Comme/re, a* Kansas City today (Thursday) is practically assured hy the announcement of An drew Me Ion, Secretary of the Treas ury. that Pennsylvania’s 79 votes will be east for his cabinet colleague. It was also announced that the delegates from Idaho, Massachusetts and Npw Jersey had climbed on the Hoover band wagon, assuring that candidate practically 700 votes. Hoovet is known tc be unfriendly of the Eisto Public Service company, olj Denmark, has just returned home after attending the (dedication of Riggs Engineering building at Clem son College. Mr. Easterling was among those upon whom were con ferred honorary degrees by Clemson on this occasion, Mr. Easterling being given the degree of E. E.*by his alma mater, from which he graduated with the class of 1907 in electrical engin eering. Clemson selected for this honor about four per cent of its graduates sir.ee the institution was founded in 1896, numbering those who have at tained notable achievement in the world of engineering. It was an honor "Tor the moving spirit ©f the Edisto ’company, which has grown from a plant worth a few thousand dollars to one of the biggest enterprises in the State. En Route to Cuba. Mr. and Mrs. James B. Coleman, of South Bend, Ind., passed through Barnw§n on Wednesday afternoon of last week in their S,tutz sedan, en route to Havana. Cuba, spend their vaca- tk.n. Mr. Coleman, wbo was at one ti.re foreman of The Barnwell People office, is president of the Service Printing Company, of South Bend. They plan to return home by way of Jtcw Orleans and may visit California during the summer. * * plants or poisoning with calcium ar senal#. to the agricultural interests and Mid- West leaders are threatening to at tend the Democratic convention at Houston, in an iffcrt to secure the relief that is being denied them by the Republicans. It is to be sincerely hoped that the Republican party will be split this year and that the Democratic nominee, with a farm relief plank in the plat form, will be swept into office next November. ‘The Keeper of the Bees.” The picture put on by the adult de partment of the Baptist Church last w^ek was a success from evei*y stanjd- point. Quite a nice siftn was realizec for the piano fund. The manager of fered a month’s pass to the child sell ing the largest number of tickets, this being won by Marion Louise Bolen Two week’s passes were awarded Olive Sanders and Wilbur Mahaffey, while one week passes were given Dorothy Sanders, June Milhous, P*ul Bolen, and Margaret Moody. ♦ ADVERTISE in The People-Sentinel The Rt. Rev. Wm. A. Guerry, Bishop of the Diocese of South Carolina of the Protestant Episcopal Church, died at 9:35 o’clock Saturday night at • Charleston hospital from a sudden attack pneumonia, which resulted, his physicians said, from a wound na the chest inflicted the previous Mon* day by the Rev. J. H. Woodward, of Darien, Ga., who a moment later turned the revolver on himself and committed suicide by blowing out hia jrains. The news of Bishop Guerry’s death was a great shock, as news from his bedside had led his friends to believe that he was steadily recovering from the gunshot wound and it was confi dently hoped that he would soon be restored to health. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon at St. Michael's Church in Charleston hy the Rev. Al bert Thomas, rector, assisted by visit ing bishops. Bishop Guerry’s t>odjr whs laid to rest in the churchyard of St. Phillip’s neaVby. Just a month ago, Bishop Guerry visited Barnwell and preached an elo quent and instructive sermon on “Life After Death,” expressing the belief that after death, a man’s soul does not go to Heaven but to Paradise, theret to await the Resurrection Day. As usual, he made a most profound impression on his congregation — Local and Personal New# of Blackville Blackville, June 9.—In honor of M iss Alva Baxley, whose marriage to Edwin Etherodge took plac* June 6, M’s. A. H. N*restein ertertained at her home on Dexter street with u i ome-and-go reception on Friday, June 1. Mesdames T. O. Bolen and E. H. Weissinger received the guests at the door, Misisds Nell anfi Katherine CIcckley receiving cards. Mesdames A. H. Ninestein, J. V. Baxley, W. A. CIcckley, of Augusta, W. W. Benson, of Greenwood and Miss Alva Baxley were in the, receiving line. The guests were then shown to the music room where they were delightfully enter tained by Mesdames B. B. Kammer and H. A. Rich with several vocal num bers accompanied by Miss Eva Bloome. Mesdames Newell Patton, of Spartan burg, and LeRoy Molair, of Barnwell, ai d Misses Vera Lowe and Mary Stiff served punch, and sandwiches with colored mints. The color scheme of pink and white was tastefully carried out in every detail. Misg Baxley has been the honor guest of several dainty functions since the announcement oF her approaching marriage. About sixty-five guests called during the afternoon. Miss Minneola Grimes entertained on Monday afternoon with a surprise shower in honor of Miss Alva Baxley, bridle of June 6. The lovely home was tastefully decorated with pink and white sweet peas and snapdragons with a gorgeous display of gladiolL A specie 1 chair was arranged for the honor guest which was draped with pink and *.vhite at the hack of which were massive ferns and ported pink geraniums on high pedestals. The guests, thirty in number, were seated in the Grimes living room when Miss Baxley drove up for a*friendly calL She was met at the gate by Miss Grimes and invited in entirely una ware of any gathering. As she reach ed the door, Mrs. E. E. Herlong, of Florence, at the piano played a few strains from Mendelssohn's wedding march. Mrs. B. B. Kammer in her usual charming manner sang two num bers, “Silver Moon” an|d “Somewhere a Voice is Calling,” accompanied by Miss % Eva Blume. Mrs. A. H. Nine- steia then gave “Advice to the Bride'* and “A Woman’s Firmness.” An interesting contest then followed r “The wedding of a Blackville Girl to a Bateeburg Man” arranged by Mrs, B. H. Duncan. The answers were names of countries, and Miss Evm Blume was winner of a dainty hand kerchief and sachet. The hostess then assisted by Mrs. E. E. Herlong, of Florence, Mrs. E. F. Spigner, of Den mark, and Mrs. I. N. Dunnof, of Orangeburg, served & frozen —i—9 course with cheese starws tied witfr (CONTINUED ON FOURTH PAGS>