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Consolidated Jans *1. IS25. Missing Negro Girl; Found Dead in Pond er THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OP BARNWELL COUNTT ' if . [NORMAN B. LIFE INSURANCE 'Juttl Like a Member of the Famllv” BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1928. NUMBER 11. Charlotte Richards, Four Years Old, Disappeared October 24.—No Sicas of Foul Play. r October 24th, Charlotte Rich ards, four-year old colored girl, mys teriously disappeared from the home of her grandmother, Caroline San ders, nearxElko. A search was in stituted, but the child could not be found. Thursday of last w<cek a colored woman by the name of Abner found the body, very badly decom posed, in Half Moon Pond, about three-quarters of a mile from Elko. Sheriff B. H. Dyches and Coroner D. P. Lancaster empaneled a jury, which viewed the body and the spot where it was found, rendering a radict on Thursday afternoon) that tn^ child came to her death fiom accidental drowning. vThe supposition is tjiat the little negress in trying to get back to her home from a neighbor’s houses where she had been playing, strayed into the pond, as there was no indication of foul play. ♦ ♦ ♦ Banks-Wells To Demonstrate Meat Curing and Canning Farmers ef This County Have Lost Hundreds of Ponnds4{t Past S' -t*— ^9 i cars. * — Cutting, cuiing, and canning of meat will be the subject discussed and demonstrated at a meeting of the fanntTs and their Wives in the Long Branch and Hilda communities Fri day, November 23rd. The marriage of Miss Maud Banks, daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. M. L. Banks, to George Baker Wells, of Columbia, was solem nize Thursday at high noon in the Barnwell Methodist church. The church was decorated with banks of ferns and white chrysanthe mums in tall silver vasiu. Before the ceremony a program of wedding, music was given by sisters of the bride. Miss Betty Banks at the or-1 gan rerdered Nevm’s “Venetian Love I Song” and Cadmar/s “At Dawning.” j and Mias Jam* Banks sang “Until.’’ The bridal party entered as the wedding march from Lohengrin was played. First came the ushers, M. L. Banks, Jr., of Chester, and J. O.l Pitterson, of Barnwell. Miss Janet! Banks was maid of honor. The bride! entered on the arm of her brother, W r alter D. Banks, of Bishopville. She j wore an ensemble costume of golden brown transparent velvet, trimmed with touches of gold, with hat and ac- (•ssories to match. Her bouquet w«a of sweetheart roaeg and valley lilies. | The bridegroom, with his best man.j Herbert E. Wells, Jr., met her at the! altar, where the betrothal and ring) ceremony of the Methodist church j was performed by the bride’s father, the Rev. M. L. Banks. Mendelssohn’s! Wedding March was played as a re-1 cessional. After the matriage, the relatives of thu young couple were entertained at an informal reception at the home of the bride’s parents. After a wedding trip, they will be gin housekeeping in their new home at 230 Waccamaw avenue, Columbia. The bride is thw possessor of rare musical talent. Mr. Wells, the young est son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert E. Wells, of Columbia, is a successful young business man and is popular with a wide-circle of friends.. Out-of-town guests at the weddirg included the following: Mr. and Mrs. Walter D. Banks, of Bishopville: Mr. M. L. Banks, Jr., of Chester; Miss Janet Banks, of Bishopville, Miss Louisa Banks, of Winthrop College; Mr. Herbert E. Wells, Jr., of Wil mington N. C.; Miss Isabel Wells, Mr. and Mrs. John G. Ehrlich, Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Ehrlich, Mr. and Mrs. William Proileau, Mrs. L. W. Mahaffey, Miss Annie Ehrlich, Dr. and Mrs. E. C. McGregor, all of Columbia; Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Smoak, E. Wimberly, Mrs. J. A. Banks, Mr. Marion Batiks, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Banks, Dr. and Mrs. Julian H. Fair, Mrs. Clarence E. Clayf Miss Billie Smoak, Mr. Gladden Smoak and Mr. and Mrs. George Griffith, of St. Mat thews. ♦ ♦ Hilda Happenings. • Hilda, Nov.‘12.—Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Black, of Augusta, spent the week end with the Outer’s phrerits, Mr. and Mrs. A J*. Collins. Miss Felma Still, of Columbia, is spending this week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Bonds. Mrs. Minnie Holley, of Barnwell, was a visitor here Monday. Jim Hutto, of Orangeburg, spent the week-end with his parents, Mr. and Mirs. A. D. Hutto. Miss Laura Stanley spent the week end with relatives at Walterboro. Miss I(U^ Baker spent last Sunday at her home at Ehrhardt. ^ pounds of meat by farmers of this county for several years, the farm and home agents have made the suc cessful effort to secure the services of J. R. Hawkins, Live Stock Special ist of Clemson College, •'for this work. Mr. Hawking not only will demon strate the cutting up of meat, but will give instructions for curing of same, as well as fattening of hogs for market.- Miss Ketchen, of Winthrop College, assisted by Mrs. Rivers Carroll and Mrs. J. B. Hartzog, will give the meat canning demonstration. Mrs. Carroll and Mrs. Hartzog, home demonstra tion club members of this county, have successfully canred pork and will be able holpers on this occasion. The place where the demonstration will be held in each community will he announced later. The meeting at Long Branch will (begin at 9:30 a. m., while the one at Hilda will begin at 1.30 p. m. WOULD GIVE STATE BROADCASTING STATION Chairman of Ways and Means Committee Talks of Advantages of Radio— Suggests Tax of $2 eti Owne rs of Radios to Meet Expenses. Cotton Production Slfor)firiy 1927 12,341 Bales Ginned in Barnwell Coun ty to Not. 1,-13,449 Buies Gin ned in 1927, South Carolina would be equipped with a radio broadcasting station second to none operated by any other commonwealth in the union, from which would b« broadcast programs of special appeal to the people of this Because of the loss of hundreds of -State ghould the of R E Mc . Allendale Beats. WilliEton, Nov. 11.—Showing a com plete reverse of form in the second half, Allendale high defeated W’illis- ton-Elko high on the local field Fri day by the arore of 13 to 7. Tin. game was hptly contested throughout. Wil- liston-Elko scored first, when Thomp son broke tkrough and blocked Allen’s point. Ussery recovering ard going over for a touchdown. Hall kicked goal for the extra point. Williston- Elw A outplayed the visitors until the second half was w«Jl under way. Then Dunbar Ugan hitting the line, for substantial gains and thereby regiatered a touchdown. Riley kicked goal for extra point. The acore re mained a tie until the last play of the game, when RH<y hurled a pass to Thario, who fell across the line for a touchdown and victory. Thomp son blocked the try for extrs point. The stars on each side were numer ous, but special mention must be made of Fowke, Thsrin and Dunbar, for Allendale, and Harley, Thompson, Davis and Haskell for Williston-Elko. Fcgleman-Jefferies. The following invitation has been received in Barnwell: “Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Dunreath Fogleman request the honor of your presenco at the marriage of their daughter, Sarah Garnett, to Mr. Wil liam Newton Jefferies, on Saturday evening, November the seventeenth, at half after eight o'clock, Macedonia Lutheran Church, Burlington, North Carolina.” The bride-elect, who has visited her undo and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Davies, on several occasions, has many friends in Barnwell to whom this anouncement is of cordial inter est. The groom is a native South Caro linian who is now located at Greens boro, N. C., where the young couple will make their home. Kennedy-Uilry. Williston, Nov. 10.—Of interest to their many friends is the marriago of Miss Ethel Kennedy and Marion O’Neal Riley, which took place at Aiken Friday morning, November 2, at 11:30 o’clock. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Kennedy, of rear Wil li stok: She was one of the honor graduates of the Williston-Elko high school, class of 1927. Mr. Riley is tlwi son of Mr. and Mrs W r . Y. Riley, of the Rosemary section. After a short moti’ trip they hire letumed and will make their home with the bridegroom’s parents. Ice Monday Morning. Dr. C. N. Burckhalter, local drug gist, reports that there was ice in a 'horse#rough near Turkey creek swamp Monday morning. This infor mation will probably come as a sur prise to many people, who, whiki find ing the air crisp sod bracing Monday, did not suspect that the thermometer was near the freezing point. Caslan, Greenwood, chairman of the ways and means committee of the house, *be»carried out. Representative McCaslan has not yet worked out his plan in detail. 4 T would have a n»l station—no make shift affair, an A-No. 1 outfit,” he said yesterday at the governor’s of fice where he attended a meeting of the budget commission. “We cannot make a direct appro-, priation for the establishment of, such a station, but I do not believe the raido owmrs of South Carolina would object to a $2 tax provided they were given positive assurance that the revenue derived from this tax would be devoted exclusively to tho establishment and maintenance of such a station. “There are, I am told, some 50,000 radio outfits in South Carolina. A tax of $2 would bring in $100,000. “I know of no better way to adver tise the State not only to people be yond the border lines of South Caro lina. but alao inside those borders. Tho name of the broadcasting station would be given with each selection and people would soon take a pride in the station and the programs it sent out. When exercises were held at Winthrop or at the Citadel or at the University or Clemson or any of the State of denominational schools paits of the program could.be sent ov 6r^ha wire to Columbia and there broadcast over the State. “I would have the station establish ed in Columbia and 1 believe there would be IRtle difficulty- in - ^getting worthwhle programs regularly. “As for the direction and control of the station I have no particular plan. A radio board or commission or the University could take charge—I have not giveki much thought to that phase of the matter. “I believe the people are satisfied with the tax on gasoline because that tax is applied to the building of roads and boyers of gasoline use the roads. In other words, the payers of the gasoline tax are directly benefited by that t*x. “So, in regard to radio. The payers of this proposed radio tax would be the direct beneficiaries of its expen diture. “I intend to bring this matter up at the coming session of the legislature and place it before that body for approval.”—The State. District Council of Farm Women to Meet Mrs. M. M. Murray, of Monk’s Comer, Director of Central District Council of Farm Women, has com pleted her program for the regular fall meeting of the Council. This meeting will be held on Friday, No vember It, at the Shrine Club, near Columbia, begtning promptly at 10:45 o’clock. The Richland Council of Farm Women will be hostess for the day. The invocation will be pronounced by the Rev. A. K. Hair. Addresses of welcome will be given by Mrs. John Gorman, President of the Rich land County Council, and Mrs. Cur ran Jones, President of the Richland County Federation of Women’s Clubs. The response will be given by Mrs. Vance Livingston, of Kitchings’ Mill, of the Aikor. County Council. Music will be furnished by Mrs. McGregor and Mrs. Sara Hoffman, of Columbia. The main Speaker on the program will be Dr. Roe E. Remington, Direc tor of tho State Iodine Testing Labor* atory, of Charleston, who will speak on “Eating to Live.” Dr. Remington is quite a brilliant and forceful speaker. Mrs. J. Whitman. Smith, President of the State Council of Farm Women, will address the meet ing during the day. Greetings will brough by Miss Lonny I. Landrum, State Leader of Home Demonstration Work, ana Miss Bessie Harper, Dis trict Agent. Diplomas to women and clubs having completed satisfactorily their work during the year will be given. The following Counties are includ ed in the District, and are expected to send representative delegations: Aik en, Allendale, Bamberg, Beaufort, Berkeley, Calhoun, Colleton, Charles ton, Hampton, Jasper, Lexington, Orangeburg, Richland, Edgefield, Sa luda and Dorchester. Social and Personal News from Williston ^yall-Rutland. \ Williston, Nov. 10.—Of interoct to their many friends was the maimge of Miss Zadie Wall to Louis Rutland, which was very quietly solemnised at 6 o’clock Tuesday dvening at the home of the bride’s parents, the Bev. W. R. Davis officiating. There were % number of relatives and friends present. * , Odom-Still. Williston, Nov. 10.—Tha many friends of Miss Daisy Mae Odom, of the Mt. Calvary section, near here, and Earle Still, of Denmark, will be interested to learn of their marriage, which took place at the home of the bride fs parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Odom, Sunday, November 4th. The ceremony was performed by the bride’s WUliaton, Nov. 9.—Friday evening from eight till ten the members of the Intermediate B. Y. P. U. enjoyttf a social at the Baptist church. Various games and contests were the diver sions of the evening. Russian tea and sandwiches wtre served by their leader, Miss Lou Belle Scott, assisted by Miss Jacque Davis. The Glad Girls Sunday School clams met in November and reorganized their clasa with Misa Lou Belle Scott as president. Miss Msy Willis was hosteas to Msrtha Watson Chapter, D. A. R., on Wednesday afternoon, October 31st. The attractivo home was made love ly with a profusion of flowers. Miss Willis grows very handsome chrysan themums and dahlias and the hall and living room were abloom with them. The exquisite white dahliaa brough exclamations of admiration from almost every one. Mrs. H. M. Thompson entertained twenty-two little boys and girls on Tuesday afternoon :n honor of the sixth birthday of her little son, Harry Thompson, Jr. The children enjoyed games on the lawn and in a hoop roll ing content, prizes were won by Ida Jane Bell and Junior Trotti. Follow ing this, the little guests were invited in the dining room, whch was beau- tfully decorated in pink and white. In the center of the table was a white birthday cake, upon which burned six pink candles. Mrs. Thompson assist ed by her daughter, Mifrs Harry Delle Thompson, and sister, Miss Mayo Rountree, served ice creamXand cake. About six o’clock, the chil<n«n bade their hosts good bye, each wearing a paper cap given them as a souvenir of the occasion. \ Mrs. T. C. Hair and Miss Nil! Kathryn Hair, of Augusta, have been guests of Mrs. J. C. Hair for several days. Miss Carolyn Carswell, of Aiken, spent the week-end with her sister, Miss Margaret Carswell. Mrs. Q. A. Kenney,' Jr., and son, Quincy, are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Boylston, in Allendale. Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Huggin, Miss Grace Huggin and Miss Mary Page of Aiken, motored to Williston Friday evening of last week for the Metho- As forecast in these columns some time ago, the production of cotton* in Barnwell County this year will be little if any under that of 1927. Ac cording to a report just made public by the Department of Commerce, 12,- 341 haleg had been ginned in the coun ty prior to November 1st, as com pared with 13,It? bales to the same date a year ago and a total produc tion of 13,449 bales in 1927. It is be lieved that final figures will show a yield of thirteen thousand bales or over. > - Gin r ings by countk«s in this section are as follows: 1928: 1927 Aiken 15,385 ^ 17,034 Allendale .. A 6,100 6,099 Bamberg _ .! 7,236 10358 Barnwell __ 12,341 18,112 Hampton .. ...... 3,484 3,143 Orangeburg 31,958 39,570 The State * . 618,787 KQQ OAQ SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS FROM ELLENTON Ellenton, Nov. 10.—Mr. and Mrs Pete Johnson, Annette Johnson, Mrs. Emmett Johnson and little son, An drew, were in Augusta Thursday. Dr. and Mrs. John Hood and Mrs. T. S. Dunbar, Jr., motoied to Augus ts Tuesday. N. S. Brinkley was a busimss visi tor in Aiken Wednesday. Mrs. W. D. Bush has returned from a visit in Aiken with Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Hammond. Friends of C. L. Knight and Dsn Knight regret to learn of the death of their aunt in Branchville Wednes day. They attended fumrml services for her in Branchville. Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Brinkley, Miss Elisabeth Brinkley, Fred Brinkley, 2nd, Norman Brinkley, Jr., Carl and Marion Brinkley, attended the fall festival in Augusta Wednesday night. Hon. James Sheppard, who will give the address at the Armistice day etrvices Sunday afternoon, and Mrs. Sheppard, of Edgefield, will be the guests ef Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Buckingham while they are here Sun day. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Moody and Mrs. B. M. Pitts were in Augusta on Wednesday. Dr. and Mrs. John Hood, Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Johnson were visitors in Augusts Wednesday. Friends of Mrs. Leeman Hayes are sorry to learn of her illness at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Hayes. Mrs. C. M. Turner, Mrs. W. E Ash ley, Mrs W. H. Jones and Miss Mary Phoube Bush, a finance committee from the School Improvement Asso ciation, met Wednesday night at Mrs. Ashley’s home to discoss and plan for Red dross Roll Call' Machinery in Motion Executive Committee Mat TuaodUy Mtffciaf and Appointed Sub- Chapter Chairmen. \ has a bia, is visiting her sister, Mrs. C. A. Bennett. l Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Johnson, of Al lendale, were here to spend Sunday with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Johnson. Joe D. Hamrick, principal of the Beaufort High School, was a week end guest of Mr. and Mrs. Q. A. Ken nedy, Sr. Miss Mary Harvey Newsom came over from Swansea to spend the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Newsom. Mr. and Mrs. John Newsom, of Jacksonville, Fla., spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Newsom. Dr. and Mrs. J. L. Smith spent Mon day and Tuesday in Grcienwood L. B. Rutland returned to his home in Williston*, Fla., Monday afternoon after visiting Mr. sod Mrs. J. L. Weathersbee. Accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Weathersbee he visited Mr. and Mrs. Weathersbee at Warci Shoals Sunday. Mrs. B. E. Grubbs, of Augusta, is visiting friends and relatives in this secton. *- • • Tho machinery for the Annual Rod Cross Roll Coll which closes on Thanksgiving Day was sot in motion by a meeting of tho executive com mittee of the Barnwell County Chap ter on Tuesday morning in the Bonk of Western Carolina. Sub-chapter chairmen were appointed to take charge of the roll call in their respec tive communities, as follows: Mrs. A. A. Lemon, chairman in charge of the Boll Call for Barnwell County, and the roll call for town and vicinity of Barnwell; Victor Lewis, Kline; Miss May Owens, Dunbarton; J. A. Lati mer, Williston and Elko; Mrs. Herman Brown, Blackville. With the close of the World War, many people asked “What it the hecessity for keeping up the led Cross?” Just as soon as the news came of the dire need occasioned by the recent tropical storm in Florida and Porto Rico, supplies and worhurs were at once entrained to meet their varied needs. Their needs for food, shelter, clothing, doctors and nursse were immediate. Their dead bad to be buried at once. The task was too great for local and State When in one of our eastern, there were in one day thirteen from malaria, the need for was pressing. The Red Cross mot tho need at once. He gives twice gives quickly. The Red Cross to give first aid in disaster. If ter comes to us as it others, the funds raised by the roll call stands first to meet this need. The Rod Cross funds wore raised to meet the needs of ex-service men. During the year appeals for help have come to us from men whose military records are right. They need a meal, a k>dgte*. gas or oil continue their journey, ex-service man in Barnwell Are or some disastrous some small degree of must stand between him and A committee first looks Into bio tary record, ard then his note relief. During the past year was extended in meritorieua In ne case was money given out right, but an order for grocortoo and suppiku to a small amount. Sometimes the question to asked, why the Rod Cross funds rsnnot bo drawn upon as a source of charity relief? In the first If the funds raised divided among all who need it, sums received by each would be too small to do any Not even the resources of tho could be diverted to those next place: responsibility for the need* which cannrtt be directly to some disaster heloaga pri marily to the families, tho churchso, and the counties in which relief it needed. Everyone who has formerly boon enrolled as a member should again pa- roll this year. We are also atemd to secure in this county at least 200 ad- ^ ditional members. We esn do it if we will. I ■ » » » i. ADVERTISE in The People-SeutiaiL the play “The Zander-Gump which will be presented in the future to raise funds for tho sstion. S. S. Harley had thci misfortune to have his tar badly damaged by Am as he was attending the fall festival in Augusta Tuesday night. Mr. and Mrs. L. C. O’Berry little sou, Sidney, ipotored to Sunday for a visit with Mrs. parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Sr. Mrs. F. M. Youngblood, Youngblood, Mrs. C. G. Yc Mrs. N. C. Brinkley were-visitors Augusta Tuesday. Mrs. Joseph Ashley and Mrs. dist chicken supper. , , Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Peterson and j J. W. Hartman and son, G. Hart- m0 re Ashley motored to A sons, Warren and Teddy, of Green- man, of Lafayette, Tenn., spent last Thursday, wood, *were visitors last Wednesday . week as guests of Mr\ and Mrs. P. M. i Mr. and Mrs* J. L. of Mrs. G .C. Matthews, Mrs. J. H. E. Bair. \ | wmw fe Milhous, who accompanied them, re- Miss Eva Wengrow left Sunday' mained for a longer visit. night for Atlanta, where shu will visit I Mies Mamin Padgett attended the her brother, Morris W Orangeburg Fair and remained for nearb| relatives, a visit with hdr uncle, Mr. Dixon, re-1 Mr. and Mrs. Quincy Ctelins, ef turning to Williston Sunday after- Charlotte, N. C, were the gtemte test noon? / i week of their parsnta, Mr, Mrs. Josephine Mseksou, of Coluas- J. A. CoUtea. ' ^ .