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TUB OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNTY ^G| =F tea Mm IXCUWVB ■ Mik cMBMMlty ta an rtATUBBt aM ABVSR. mvic*-+t Mm PUB. I AUTOCASTK* MR- Hie Barnwell People-Sentinel Consolidated June 1925* ** ■ ti—— — iay■■■»a-».a a*** — ..... n — -n * ^■■■ !»»!■» NORMAN B. GAMBLE! LIFE INSURANCE Juibt Like a Member of the Family” Larfoot County CLrenUtion. VOLUME LI. BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. JUNE 21ST, 1928. NUMBER 43. V tdgar A. Brown Hurt in Automobile Wreck Shoulder Fractured When Car Turned Over Near Pelion.—Other Occu- * pants Escape. tF Co!. Edgar A. Brown, of Barnwell, former Democratic Executive Commit teeman from South Carolina and the only candidate for the * State * Senate in Barnwell County, is a patient at the Columbia hospital, where he was taken Monday right following an au tomobile accident near Pelion. Colonel Brown was returning to his home here after spending the week-end at Kershaw with his brother-in-law, John P. Stevens. Arriving in Columbia late Monday afternoon he found Miss Lena Cave, a former resident of Barnwell who has a position in the capital city, who was coming to this city to spend a few days with friends. She was invited to share Colonel Brown’s car on the trip home. At a point below Pelion, a tire blew out, causing the driver, Manly Barnwell, to loose control of the car, which left the v roa,d and crashed into a large pine tree nearby. The automobile was demolished. M iss Cave was only slightly injured and continued on to Barnwell. Colo- 1 Brown sustained a dislocated and ractured shoulder and was returned to Columbia for medical attention. The negro chauffeur was uninjured. The * . condition of Colonel Brown Tuesday night -was said to be favorable to a rapid recovery. This is the . third time that this particular car has 1>een in accidents. Once before,, while Colonel Brown was returning from Columbia, the car turned over, and only a few weeks ago it turned turtle near this city when it was being driven by J. A. Searle from Barnwell to Aiken. Herbert Hoover Gets . Nomination of G. O. P. Receives 837 Out of 1.084 Voles on First Ballot at Kansas City Last Week. Two Auto Concerns Select'This Paper Whippet and Chevrolet Dealers Among the New Advertisers in This W'eek’s Issue. Among the several new advertisers in this week’s issue of The People- SenitineJ are the Barnwell Whippet Company and the Willi^ton Jumper Chevrolet Company, both of whom are dealers in dependable automobiles in the popular priced class. The owners of the Barniwell Whip pet Company are Terie Richardson, H. G. Boylston and W. H, Duncan. This concerns was recently appointed dealers for the Whippet car, which comes in four anjd six-cylinder models with a variety of body types, from the open touring to the closed sedan. Several cars have already been placed with satisfied useis and the line promises to be an excellent seller in section. See their opening an- As forecast in last week’s issue of The People-Sentinel, Herbert Hoover was nominated for President by the Republicans at Kansas City last week. His nomination came on the first ballot, shoitly before midnight Thursday, the Secretary of Commerce receiving 837 out of 1,084 votes^on the first ballot, and was then made unani mous. Senator Charles Curtis, of Kansas, who was himself a candidate for the Presidency, was chosen Friday as Hoover’s running mate. This choice was made in an attempt to placate the disgruntled farm element of the Middle West, which is said to he very much dissatisfied with the treatment accorded the agricultural interests by the party in power and threaten a revolt that may spell disaster for the epublicans in Novem ber. While Hoover was bom in America, he has spent much of his life abroad. He first came into national prominence as Food Administrator during the Wilson administration. From 1927 to 1920 he was regarded as a Democrat; in 1920 he announced that wa s an Independent and the same year joined the Republican ranks. The chameleon like character of his politics is shown by the fact that he has been a mem ber of the cabinets of both a Demo- cratic and a Republican President. Senator Curt'S while posing as the friend of the farmer, voted on two occasion'* t»» susti‘*n Presi(i«n( Cool- idge’s veto of the Farm Relief Bill af ter having jrteviously voted for the measure. From all of which it is seen that, while the leopard cannot change^ its spots^ nor the Ethiopian his color, Hoover can change his party affilia tions and Curtis his views on national problems with lightning-like rapidity. _ Many a&tute..politicians predict a Democratic victory this year in the event that Governor A1 Smith is nominated at Houston next week and he is given a running mate from the South or West. » ^ ♦ ■ DEMOCRATIC CdNVENTION HIGHLIGHTS Indicate Late Crop Summer School Has Over 100 Enrollment IS ourcement in this issue and watch each week for an interesting series of advertisements. The Williston Jumper Chevrolet Co., of Williston, and the Jumper Chevro let Co., of Springfield, are already well known to the people of this sec tion, as are also the cars which they sell. The Chevrolet has long been popular among automobile owners and J. Buist Grubbs, the live-wire sales- man for the Williston concern, has sold quite a large number of cars in and around- Barnwell in the past few weeks. Since the discontinuance of the local agency some time ago, this immediate territory has been hdndlecl by the Williston Jumper Chevrolet Co. See their advertisements for both new and used automobiles elsewhere in this issue. New Political Announcements. Two new political announcements wore received by The People-Sentinel Tuesday afternoon—G. Malcolm An- dr son announcing his candidacy for Alderman of the Town of^Barnwell, and W. R. Hubbard throwing his hat ir the ring as a candidate for Com missioner of Public Works to succeed the incumbent, T. J. Langley. Both of these gentlemen are frell known to the voters of Barnwell, Mr. An- erson was a candidate for Alderman o years ago, and while this is Mr. ubbanfs first entry into the arena of Barnwell politics, be is no new comer at the game, having represent ed his native county—Jasper—in the State Senate before coming to this city r. ‘ T..... j., .4 - The authorities of the Southeastern Summer School for Teachers, which convened here last week for a session of six weeks, announced Tuesday that the enrollment this week was more than 100. Teachers are registered here from the following eountiest Bamberg, Barnwell, Colleton, Beau fort, Allendale, Williamsburg, Orange burg, Lexington, Charleston, McCor mick and Hampton. Three teachers are also registered from Georgia. In addition to the teachers enrolled from the cooperating counties, 23 are at tending the school from other coun- •0 ties. ■ A jsp&ndtd session of the school is being held. Most of the teachers are attending the school daily in automo biles, although "there are about 30 teachers and faculty members board ing in the dormatories.-r-Bambei g Herald. - ♦ New Registration of Blossoms Brought to The People-Sen tinel Office Thursday.—First Last Year June 3rd. Houston, Texas, June 20.—The twenty-sixth! That i s the date toward which everyone here is looking, for on that date the Democratic National Convention opens its doors. Many will be the colorful personali ties taking part in- the sessions. Of course there will be Clem Shaver with his gavel. And everyone looks for ward to the keynote speech of the bril liant Claude G. Bowers. Bowers, a New York editorial writer, historian and • e/ditor, attract ed great attention- by his address at the last Jackson Day Dinner, which is considered a masterpiece. It is be lieved this speech led to4ua selection as the keynoter. It was beautifully written and effectively delivered. Everyone is sure Bowers will surpass himself at the convention. Senator Robinson is expected to be extremely active at the convention, aryl New York’s bright, well-dressed Mayor Walker, a brilliant, shining personality if ever there was one, is expected to put real “pep” into the proceedings. William G. McAdoo wjll be here, and will, it is believed, play a promin- ■r I The first cotton bolssoms of the 1928 cotton crop were brought to The Peo-, ple-Sentinel office Thursday morning, June 14th, by A. .J.. Owens, of this city. One of the blooms was red and the other white. About 30 minutes later H. T. Youmans, of the Meyer’s Mill, section, also brought in red and white blooms. It is reported here, however, that blossoms were noted in some fields earlier in the week. The first Barnwell County bloom last year was displayed June 3rd t ent part. And then all will be greeted I which would indicate that the crop is at Houston by Jesse H. Jones, Hous-1 from da y s ^ two weeks late. ton philanthropist, financier and pub lisher, who became the hero of the city when he led the fight to Have it selected for the convention. Jones has thrown his hat in the ring, too, as a favorite son of Texas. Other convention personalities will include, among many, John Taggart, “Big Bill” Brennan and Governor Moody of Texas. Senator Heflin, the prominent orator, one of the most forceful fighters in politics, is ex pected here, too. WOUXTO*- i 9IS AUTOCASTEI^ MAYOR WAUCB It is interesting to note in last week’s issue of this paper, under the caption “Barnwell 50 Years Ago,” an item taken from The Barnwell People under date of June 13th, which stated that the first cotton blossom was brought in June 8th and others June 10th, while a field farmed by the late Rivers Harley wag white with blooms. The crop in that year,. 1878, was esti mated to he from five to 30 days ear lier than usual, the average being ten days for the State. A report issuejd by the Charleston Cotton Exchange, based on replies from 77 correspond ents, indicated an acreage increase of five per cent., with - an average in crease of six per cent, in the use of commercial fertilizers. Eleven coun ties reported considerable damage from cut worms, making replanting necessary. ♦ Suggest^ Surface - Road to Barnwell Chairman of Highway Would See Section Fixed if Possible. U. S. Navy and Army to Invade Barnwell This City Expected to Capitulate Next Wednesday to Combined Forces of Invaders. Much Traffic Passes Over Highway Three Highway Department Count Shows That 699 Automobiles Used That Road Monday. Barnwell is going to be invaded by the United States navy and army and by a battalion of civilians next Wed nesday, June 27, and it is expected that Barnwell will surrender. The occasion will be the Charleston good ^wiB tour, whieh^will bring to this city fully 100 of Charleston’s leading business and professional men, includ ing Mayor Thomas P. Stoney, Con gressman Thomas S. McMillan-, Ad miral Newton A. McCully and Col. F. W. Bugbee. With an army band hearalding its approach, a long motor cade—50 or more cars—will roll into Barnwell at 11:30 and the Charles tonians and Barnwell citizens will stage an informal program at the Court House. A short but snappy event is scheduled, with addresses and music. Mayor W. D. Harley will pre side and welcome the friendly invad ers, and will introduce as local speak ers Col. Edgar A. Brown, Col. J. E. Harley and Solomon Blatt, Esq. “We want to meet and shake hands earfwith the people of Barnwell.” stated Coleman C. Martin, secretary of the Charleston Chamber <?f Commerce, who with W. . D. Livingston and Manning Rubin, was here Tuesday to make ar rangements for the local program. “Our sole mission is to cement the friendly relations between Charleston Capt. G. M. Main, of the Barnwell County Board of Registration, has requested The People-Sentinel to ad vise its readers • that the Statutes re quire a complete new registration of all voters this year. This is done every ten years, the last complete reg- and her atater communities of South istration being in 1918, before the formation of Allendale County. Capt. Main states that old registration cer tificates will not be valid after July 1st and that the new books will be opened Monday, July 2nd, and every Monday ^hereaftar until October 1st. During August the members of the Board plan to visit the various voting precincts in the county, notice of which will appear in these columns. Voters should not confuse this regis tration with enrollment for the Demo cratic primaries^ 1 ♦ /— Carolina.” From Bafnwell the Charlestonians will go to Ulmer, Congressman McMil lan’s home town ,and will get there about 12:45 p. m. CHURCH NOTICES. A check by the employes of the State Highway Department shows that 699 automobiles, including passenger cars and trucks, passed a given point near Barnwell on Highway No. 3— Columbia to Savannah—Monday be tween the hours of 7:00 a. m. and 7:00 p. m. This is very heavy traffic in deed and shows the popularity of this route among tourists. A similar count the same day on Highway No. 64—Elko to Barnwell— shows that only 106 motor vehicles used that road during the same hours. No check in Barnwell County is available on Highway No. 28—Ellen- ton to Allendale—although it is un derstood that one has been made on this highway in Allendale County, ac cording to Mr. Hungerpillar, of the highway maintenance department at Barnwell, who furnished the above figures to The People-Sentinel. Miss Shelton Wins 1. < Honors in Florida Blackville, June 18.—The many Blackville friends of Miss Inez Shel- Suggestion that the highway depart ment make arrangements to surface treat State highway No. 3 from Swan sea via Jeff coat’s bridge and Spring- Hare Petitions- ^ DI field to the Barnwell County line so Oil D&gg g j as to provide a through all year round Congressman Protests to Commerce! Commission Against the Proposed Increase. Washington, June 16.—Congress man Butler B. Hare called upon the secretary of the interstate commerce commission- today and filed a petition and, protest against the proposed in crease in freight rates on bagging and other cotton bale coverings. U ap pears that under an order issued by the commission some time ago the railroads have reclassified bagging or cotton bale coverings in such a way that the freight Tate? will be mater ially increased unless the commission interferes and issues an order sus pending the proposed reclassification of tariff rates. Mr. Hare said today that , according to his understanding, the proposed rates on bagging for a 50 mile haul in less than carload lots wouljd be increased from 17 to 39 cents per 100 pounds^ for 200 miles haul im less than carload lots the rate would be increased from 31 to 71 cents per 100 pounds, the increase for a 400 mile haul being from 43 to 99 cents. ♦ ♦♦ GEORGE BATES HAGOOD • RECEIVES A. Q. DEG1 ton, of Wauchula, Fla., will learTf/with j plated an A. B. course at the Univer-j interest of her business and social sity ofi North Carolina and received George Bates Hagood, having com- Church of the Holy Apostles. Archdeacon Burton, Rector. Former Resident Dies. Alva Mellette, who/ conducted an undertaking establishment in BarnweU a number of years ago* died Tuesday of last week at his home at Oswego, I Sumter County. ■ . / - . * \L* . >, Services Sunday morning, June 24, at'11:30 o’clock. Sunday School at 10:30 a. m. — (NOTE:—The People-Sentinel will be glad to publish notices under this head from any church in Barnwell County. No charge is made.) ADVERTISE in Th« People-SentineL success in the Land of Flowers. She recently represented Hardee Company at i the State Convention of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs at Daytona Beach, FLa. This is quite an honor for one of her- years, as she was among the youngest speakers in attendance. Miss Shelton is the daughter of the late William Sydney Shelton, of Black ville, who was bom and reared in this town s where he spent his boyhood and won many friends. This young lady has visited Blackville several timee ; being the guest of her aunts, Mrs. Wilbur Baisden and Misses Nora and Nettie Shelton, and while here endear ed herself to a host of friends who are glad indeed to hear of her splen did success. • w ♦ Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Dicks and phil- dren were the guests of Miss Dolly Lawton in Estill Sunday. year hard surface highway from Columbia to Barnwell was made in a letter made public Saturjday by C. E. Jones, chairman of the highway commissions Mr. Jones, in his letter to Ban M. Sawyer, chief highway commissioner, and Charles H. Morehead, State high way engineer, says that the arrange ments should he m^de if possible so aa to connect the extensive semi-hard surface type of roads to be built in Barnwell County with the hard sur face highway now being built from Columbia to Orangeburg by Swansea and North. , < ; He says that he is under the impres sion that Lexington county has enough balance remaining from the 1300,- 000 given the department for construc tion of earth type roads to surface treat the section of No. 3 in that county. He suggests that it he seen what arrangements can be made with the Orangeburg authorities to surface the section of the road in that county, which will pass through Springfield. Florence Concern Urge* Weevil Fight The Planters Produce and Storage Co., of Florence, urges the farmers of Barnwell County to wage determined warfare against the army of boll weevils that are reported already ac- o tively at work destroying the cotton crop in this section. Thlsconcem has at Florence every facHHy for meet ing the situation, carrying a full line of the very highest class dusting machinery ever manufactured and his degree, is hack in Barnwell and will enter business with his father, M. B. Hagood. It is a rather unusual in cident that his grandfather, Thomas Parrett Hagood, received his A. B. I very grade poisons degree from the same institution in | n6Ce gg ar y j n this most Important fight. 1911, only 17 years ago. This is ex plained by the fact that the grand father was of the class of 1861 and, like most of the people of the South; thought that the war would he over in a In addition to these they carry a full line of other insecticides and fungi cides for the protection of vegetable crops aofl orchards against serious posts. The company does over 50 per few months. Consequently he, of this class of business that is with nearly all of his class, left college done in So ath Carolina and stands in May before graduation,-joining the a t a ]] times to serve the farmers. Confederate army. Many years later, Simon Brown’s Sons, of Blackville, when the few survivors were old men, tuuuUe the above line of dusting ma- the University authorities decided to c hinery, illustrations of which will he give the members of this class their f*^ in ^ Advertisement elsewhere diplomas and they were recalled tat m this issue of The People-Sentinel, their Alma Mater in 1911 to receive will he glad to five interested them. President Wilson, who at that time was Governor of New Jersey, made the address apd delivered the sheepskins. a ... parties full inform aHen as to the beat way to light the weevil » .. ADVERTISE in The People-SentineL