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THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNTY
■Mated Jane 1, 1925.
Barnwell People-Sentinel
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BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. MARCH 7th. 1929.
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Bond Measure Passed
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Lower House Friday
Proponents Win After Long and Bitter
Fight.—Status of Barnwell
Roads) Undecided.
After a long and bitter fight, the
House of Representatives passed the
$75,000,000 road bond bill Friday and
sent the measure back to the Senate
with one amendment by W. H. Keith,
of Greenville, who led the tight on the
bill. This amendment provides that
all surety bonds for persons doing
highway construction work be writ
ten by the South Carolina Sinking
Fund Commission. Mr. Keith con
tends that this amendment will save
the State $280,000. *
v H°wever, it will probably be several
months before the actual construction
program for hard-surfacing South
Carolina’s main highways gets under
way, as the Courts have yet to pass
upon the, constitutionality of the
measure before bonds can be issued
and contracts let.
Senator Edgar A. Brown and Rep
resentative J. E. Harley, who spent
the week-end at their homes in Barn-
yell, were asked by a representative
The People-Sentinel concerning the
atus of the Barnwell County high
ways which are now being construct
ed for surface-treatment. Neither is
able to state at this time whether the
present program will be carried
New Gas Announced.
by Standard Oil Co.
Claims That “Champion” Gasoline
Gives Quicker Starting and
Smoother Running.
Just as changes in traffic condi
tions bring changes in motor and auto
motive engine design, so do trends in
automotive engines create new motor
fuels. The Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey, according to company of
ficials, through the development of
its research depaitment of more than
300 trained men, and the cooperation
of various manufacturers of motor
cars has anticipated 1929 motor needs.
The result is a new <ind improved
“Standard’^ Gasoline that not only
works better in the most modern
motors, but starts rapidly and gives
lightning-fast acceleration to older
models as well.
Experimentation has been carried on
with this improved “Standard” Gaso
line for some time. Tests were made
by various local distributors of auto
mobiles in their newest models. With
out divulging the fact that a new
gasoline was being sold motorists inf"
different States were given the op
portunity of powering their cars with
it and asked if they noted any differ
ence in the results.
“I’ve never seen my car start so
fast”, was the general conclusion.
“On cold mornings,” said one, “I
Boys Discharge Gun
Into Barnwell Home
Bullet from 22-Calibre Rifle Crashes
Through Window ci N. G. W.
Walker's Home.
through or the work halted before the used to grow irritable because I wasted
final surfacing is made. 'Hiey stated j ttn minutes' time in the garage. But
that all work done so far would be there’s something about ‘Standard’
jpialimrinary *to the construction of
hard-surfaced roads and they are un
willing that Barnwell County should
b^ left in the mud pending the com-J licher. It’s really the
pletion of the State program. • All of gasoline.”
Gasoline now that fc 6 * 3 out and
to work in a jiffy. I like it because
it’s zippy gas, timber, smoother and
Champion
,the roads* for which surflace-treat-
ment contracts, were let are to be
hard-surfaced within four years, they
said, regardless of whether or not the
present contracts are carried to com
pletion. Both representatives hope to
be in a position to make a more defi
nite statement concerning the county
highways at an early date.
Attempted Robbery
in Barnwell Failed
Thief Breaks Window But Becomes
' Frightened and Leaves Before
Job Is Completed.
An attempted robbery of Creigh
ton’s Five and Ten-Cent Store in Barn
well failed Wednesday night of last 1
week when the thief or thieves got j
cold feet and took French leave before I
finishing the job. A window' in the
fear of the store was smashed and j
the noise of breaking glass aroused u,,r NaN
Thus the new slogan “It’s the
Champion” was evolved from the en
thusiastic praises welcoming the new
clear, sparkling, white gasoline*.
“The 'Standard' staff of research
men,” continued the company offic
ials, “are already studying trends for
1930 and though the constant improve
ments many not be advertised to the
public, it ig safe to say that 'Standard'
Gasoline will be still faster on pick
up, cause less crank case dilution than
other gasoline and have more than
enough added power to master any
traffic situation.
Where to Buy “Champion” Gas.
The new' “Champion” gasoline can
be bough* in Barnwell County at the
following filling stations:
Dicks Auto Go., Main and Reynolds
Street Service Station, C. F. Molair,
P. H. Ovens, H. W. Sanders and
Northside Service Station in Barn
well.
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T .D. Creighton, Sr., father of the
Five-and-Ten” proprietor, who has
ing quarters in the rear of his
re adjoining that of his son. Find
ing that their noisy efforts had at
tracted attention, the guilty parties
left hurriedly without having effected
an entrance. ~ ^
T. D. Creighton, Jr., who operates
the store, stated that he has not miss
ed any articles of merchandise. The
attempted robbery occurred in the
early houra of the night and Mr.
Creighton is of the opinion that the
would-be thieves picked that time,
thinking that nearly everybody would
be listening-in on the broadcast of the
Stribling-Sharkey prize fight.
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Jack Reynolds Again
Manatges Local Hotel
After Absence of Several Years, Mr.
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ard Mrs. Reynolds Returned
“Home” This Week.
Mrs. Moye Baxley, Barnwell-Olar
H. Dyches,
The oldest and youngest aviators met at Miam FlT at tu* .i,
when Charles Dickinson, or Chicago ’world",'
oldest licensed pilot, and Donald Macintosh 4 of CaUfornia Jho L.
flown more than 30,000 miles, m« and “talkW things ov«.» h
Thinks Barnwell County Should Be
Divided Into High School Districts
D. L. Lewis Says Elementary Schools Should Be Affiliated With
High Schools.—Thinks Daily Sessions in Barnwell
County’s Rural Schools Too Short.
Col and Mrs. jjj; G. W. Walker, of
thjs city, were badly frightened Tues
day afternoon when a bullet from a
22-calibre rifle, fired by one of a
through the upper part of the window
in their dining room and lodged in
the wall above Mrs. Walker’s head.
Col. and Mrs. Walker had just re
turned from a trip to Augusta and
had gore into the room to start a
fire. The former was kneeling down
before the grate* while his wife was a
short distance behind him. Fortun
ately the bullet entered the upper and
not the lower part of the sash, as
otherwise *jt would probably have hit
Mrs. Walker. According to Col.
Walter, the boys denied firing to
wards the house but he says the
damage done by the bullet is there
to show for itself. This incident
shows. Very forcibly the danger of
allowing boys to shoot rifles within
the town limits.
C. O. Jones and W.
Hilda.
B. F. Anderson, Dicks Bros., and
P. J. Hiers, Dunbarton.
B. M. Jenkins and M. C. Lee, Kline.
M. N. Morris, Barnwell-Olar high
way. 1
Main and Clark Street Service
Station, Epps Pharmacy, Simon
Brown’s Sons and Mutual Trading Co.
in Blackville.
Henry Johnson, H. Jeff Hair and D.
W. Jackson, Blackville R. F. D.
Healing Springs Service Station, at
Healing Springs.
Anderson Service Station, Q. B.
Johnson and Enterprise Hardware Co.
in Williston.
H. H. Williams, Williston R. F. D.
W. T. Riley, White Pond.
Anderson Service Station. Elko.
Arthur Still, Elko R. F. D.
ARE LURED BY WITCHERY '
County Superintendent of Educa
tion Horace J. Crouch is in receipt of
a report made to the State Superin
tendent of Educatipn, James H. Hope,
by D. L. Lewis, Rural School Super
visor, who recently visited the rural
schools in Barnwell County in com
pany with Mr. Crouch. Among other
things, Mr. Lewis recommends that
the county be divided into high school
districts and that the elementary
schools be affiliated with one or the
other of these high schools. The full
text of his report is as follows:
I am giving below a report on rural
school conditions in Barnwell County
as observed by me during the past
week.
In company with the County Super
intendent of Education, I visited the
following schools:
Healing Springs, a four-teacher
school; Double Ponds, two teachers;
Reedy Branch, two teachers; Galilee,
one teacher; Hilda, five teachers; Oak
Grove, two teachers; Hercules, three
teachers; Elko, four teachers; Willis-”
ton Elementary, seven teachers;
Lorg Branch, three teachers.
The schools visited were observed
fiom the standpoint of grounds,
buildings, equipment, and te&thing
procedure. The grounds were in very
good condition. Some of the build
ings observed were excellent for the
purpose while some of the others were
out of date. Genet ally speaking, the
teaching equipment in the better class
of buildings was good while the poorer
buildings had little or not equipment.
Generally speaking, the better class
room procedure was observed in the
larger and better buildings. The con
ditions surrounding the larger schools
are more conductive to securing bet
ter teachers and better teaching, and
better school spirit on the part of
teachers and pupils, therefore, more
regular attendance and better school
work. The work observed in the lar
ger schools was of such character that
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the pupils will be generally well pre
pared to enter high school from the
elementary grades* That observed i
the smaller schools will not prepa/e
them for high school.
The great need in practically all
of the rural schools is for mq^e and
better reading for the chMdrejn. Each
of the first three grades fhould read
at least four, better six books during
tion which must precede paragraph
appreciation and composition appre
ciation. Furthermore, technical Eng
lish grammar furnishes a measurmg
rod whereby English can be measured
as to its correctness or incorrectness.
Teachers in the rural schools should
take time to teach penmanship.' As it
now is, penmanship j s hardly taught
at all in the rural schools. In teach
ing arithmetic, the pupils should be
required to write the analysis of their
problems so that the teachers may
know that the pupils understand the
problems.
The daily sessions In the rural
schools of Barnwell County are too
short for the teachers to do justice by
the pupils. Schools with seven months
terms and two or more grades to
teach should run from nine to at least
Jhifee-tthirty. The siiort daily ses
sions cause neglect of practically all
subjects, particularly reading and pen
manship. . • » .
After all, the great defect in the
rural rchools, not only of Barnwell
County but of practically every county
in the State, is the faulty organisa
tion. Barnwell County should be
divided by Legislative enactment into
high school districts and every ele-
Barnwell Boy Accidentally Shot.
Michael Ussery, son of Mr. apd
Mrs. S. H. Ussery, of Barnwell, was
painfully though not seriously shot
Monday afternoon when a blank cart
ridge* pistol in the hands ci a boy com
panion was accidentally discharged.
It seems that the young son of Mr.
and Mrs. E. F. Woodward, who is
known by his friends as “Rabbit,” had
cut part of the bullet from a 22-cali
bre cartridge wilh which he loaded
the weapon. In some manner it was
discharged, the leaden pellet lodging
in Michael’s knee. The friends of
both families rejoice that the accident
was not of a serious nature.
NUMBER 27.
Allendale Man Meets
Tragic End in Flood
Ben F .Foreman One of Six Drowned
in Washout Near Lincolnton,
Ga^ Wednesday Night
Master dnd Sheriff
Sell Real Property
Five Master’s Sales and One Sheriff’s
Sale Made Monday.—Small
Crowd in Attendance.
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A very small crowd of visitors was
here Monday for February sale«day,
the attendance being restricted by the
inclement weather, which, as usual,
played havoc with the roads. Six
legal sales were made, five by the
Master and one by the Sheriff, as fol
lows:
Master’s Sales.
George W. Bush vs. S. J. Halford,
mentary school in the county should j ^en acres of land in the town'of Barn-
be affiliated with one or the other of well, bought by Brown and Bush for
“After all, there is no place like
Barnwell,” said Jack Reynolds, who,
with Mrs. Reynolds, returned to this
city Monday to resume the manage
ment of the Diamond Hotel after an
absence of several years, which were
spent in Georgia, Florida and this
State. Mr. Reynolds is the most
popular manager who has ever been
in charge ,of the local hotel and he
arts to give the traveling public the
e high class service and excellent
sine that wen him such a large
patronage during his previous resi
dence here.
The people of Barnwell are glad to
■welcome Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds back ij» ComeR.
to this city and hope that they will
make this their home "from now «n.”
OF WHITE OAK SPRINGS th e school term if the niechanics of
reading Shall be acquired by the end
of the third grade. TVs is impossible
in the one and two/teacher schools
with seven grades or in the three and
four teacher schools carrying nine or
Unable to withstand the witchery
of White Oak Spring water, Mrs.
George Batten and daughter, Miss
Emeline Batten, of Montclair, N. J.,
who have been spending six weeks at
Ormond Beach, Fla., arrived in Barn
well Thursday mornirg and will make
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their home in this city for ^e next °f reading.
ten grades. Schools with three or
move teachers carrying inly seven
grades can giye the pupils a mastery
few months. They spent the winter
here last year and have many friends
Who are glad to welcome them back
again. They find the climate in Barn
well much more to their liking than
that of the Land of Flowers and regret
that they did not spend the winter in
this city. The visitors are again oc-
supying the residence of Mrs. Marie
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Technical English, that is analysis
of sentences and parsing of words,
should be mastered by the sixth and
seventh grades. To* this, end, pupils
should be made to analyze every sen
tence in every exercise into its simple
subject, simple predicate, simple com
plement, if any, and modifiers and
should be able to parse the words.
An appreciation of analysis and pars
ing is absolutely necessary if pupils
ADVERTISE in The People-SentinaL are to acquire a sentence apprecia
these high schools. Nu 7 elementary
school should be allowed to retain
more grades per teacher than can be
thoroughly taught, and no* elemen
tary school should be allowed to try
to teach more than seven grades, all
other grades being sent to the asso
ciated high school. The affiliated ele
mentary schools should be closely sup
ervised from the associated high
schools so that their work may be
related to the work of the high
school. The teachers of the elemen
tary schools should be elected by the
trustees in cooperation with the sup
erintendent of the associated high
ools. If this organization can be
carried out in Barnwell County, there
is no reason why the rural schools
should not be made as efficient as the
giammar grade schools or the high
schools.
Should such a reorganization be
carried out, the following • districts
should be affiliated with Barnwell
High School: 4, 34, 7, 50, 2, 15, 23,
39, 42, 38, 33. District number 24
should be divided between Barnwell
and Blackville.
The following districts should be
affiliated with Blackville High School:
20, 9, part of 24, 10.
With Williston High School: 40, 13,
16.
With Dunbarton High School: 43,
54, 26, 52.
It js possible that one or two dis
tricts close to the line or joint with
other counties could be better served
in a high school way by sending their
high school pupils to these counties.
For the support of these district
high) schools, a district wide high
school tax should be levied, i. e.: Barn
well with its thirteen elementary dis
tricts should have a uniform high
school tax to take care of all high
school pupils, likewise with the other
$500.p0.
Bank of Western Carolina vs .T. G.
Cobb, et al., 205% acres of land in
the Western part of the county, known
as the Griffin land, bought by Brown
and Bush for $1,000.00.
Ramsom Snellirg vs. McDuffie
Handkerspn, et al., 58% aers of land
in Red Oak township, bought by
Brown and Bush for $300.00.
• George E. Crouch vs. Maude Boland,
ct al., 11 acres of land in Williston
township, bought by Harley and
Blatt for $327.00.
H. L. O’Bannon vs. Lloyd Plexico,
Executor of the Will of M. M. Holley,
deceased, et al., one-half acre of land,
with the improvements thereon, in the
town of Kline* bought by Mrs. M. M.
Holley and Mrs. Mae Perdue* for $1,-
537.00.
Sheriff’s Sale.
In the ab-enee of the Sheriff B. H.
Dyches, who was confined to his home
with an attack of appendicitis, G. M.
Greene, Esq., conducted the Sheriff’s
sale in the case of The State vs. Sam
Young, two lots in the town of Black
ville, which were bought by C. J. Tick
ling for $48.67.
Chur c h Services Announced.
Allendale.—The body of Ben F.
Foreman, who was one of six to meet
tragic death in the early morning
hours when the cars in which they
iding plunged through a washed
out bridge into Cherokee creek, 11
miles from Lincolnton, Ga., was
brought to Allendale Thursday after
noon. Funeral services were held at
the house Friday afternoon at 4 o'
clock and interment followed in Swal
low Savannah cemetery. The Rev./
A. C. McGee, pastor of the Baptii
Church, of which Mr. Foreman was a
member, officiated.
The first intirfcation that Fore
man had met a tragic end was tele
phoned to W. I. Johns, father of Mrs.
Foreman, shortly after 7 o'clock
Thursday morning by S/P. Hewlett, of
Lincolnton, when the tire cover to.
the new Pontiac sedan which Mr. Fore
man had just purchased, was found
floating on the swollen waters by
rescue parties.
Shortly after, Wilsop and Jasper
Johns, brothers of Mrs. Foreman,
started for the scene and they arrived
back in Allendale about 5 o'clock
Thursday afternoon bringing the
bodjK
Mr. Foreman left for Lincolntqn
Wednesday morning and that night
talked with Mrs. Foreman over long
distance telephone, telling her of the
condition of the roads snd that he waa
uncertain whether to attempt the
trip. With him in the car waa a Mr.
Barrett, of Grovetown, Ga., who was
also drowned.
After Mr. Foreman's car had gone
into the creek, another car driven by
Fred A. McWhorter, of Lincolnton,
coming from the opposite direction, in
which were riding hit three children,
also plunged into the waters and all
were drowned. Mr. McWhorter and
his children were retuning to Lincoln
ton over the Augusta-Lincolnton high
way from the annual basketball tour
nament being played at ^arrenton.
Mr. Foreman was 36 years of age.
He waa born at Ellenton, the son of
Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Foreman, who died
when he was a child and he waa
brought up by Mrs. P .T. Wilson, of
near Beech Island. Eight years ago
he married Mias Eunice Johns and
they have two little daughters, Dim-
ny, 7, and Mary, 5. He is also sur-
vive4 by one sister, Miss Mary Fore
man, of Allendale, an uncle, R. E. L.
Butler, of Chattanooga, Term., and
several nieces and nephews. He
attended business college in Augusta
and later worked in Detroit.
He waa overseas during the World
War. He was a member of the Masons
and was at one time postmaster at
Allendale.
Ben Foreman had many friends and
was prominently connected in this
section. His death was a great shock
to Allendale.
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G. M. Hogg Ship*
Firrt Asparagus
Archdeacon Joseph Burton an
nounces services at the Church of the
Holy Apostles in Barnwell for Sun
day, March 10th, as follows:
^Celebration of the Holy Commun
ion and sermon at 11:30 a. m. There
will be a meeting of the vestry im
mediately after the service.
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ADVERTISE in The People-Sentinel
affiliated high schools.
If this organization can be perfect
ed, Barnwell County will at onc4 business visitor here
move to the forefront in educational
progress in the State.
Crate and a Half of Asparagus Ex-
Pressed to New Ycrk Saturday IZ*
by Local Farmer.
The first shipment etf asparagus
from this immediate section was
made from Barnwell Saturday, when
G. M. Hogg, of this city, shipped •
crate and a half by express . to New
York City. The “grass,'' which
graded choice and fancy, »was con
signed to S. H. and E. H. Frost, edm-
mi&sion merchants. This shipment
brought smiles to the faces of local
merchants, who know that *it won't
be long now” before a considerable
amount of ready cash will be put into
circulation by the asparagus fanners.
It is understood that shipments
were also made from Elko and Wil-
liston last week. Horace J. Crouch,
county superintendent of education,
who also grows asparagus for market,
stated Monday that several years ago
he made his first shipment on Janu
ary 28th.
It is understood that Mr. Hogg got
a net return of $15.00 for one crate
of the “graas.”
C. J. Fickling, of BlackvUk, wa« a
called at The
to renew hia