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THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNTY Barnwell /. Consolidated Jane 1, 1925. Volume lii. 'JuaI Like a Member of the Family” BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1929. NUMBER 29. Body of Maybr Owens Buried at Williston Funeral Services Conducted Friday Afternoon at 3:30 0*Clock in Barnwell Baptist Church. Focb Fights Death i* r i / W M :r;X>:y m The body of Mayor V. Seymour Owens, who died Wednesday morning at the Baptist Hospital in Columbia, wa s laid to rest Friday afternoon in the Williston cemetery, the funeral services being conducted in the Barn well Baptist Church at 3:30 o'clock by the Rev. B. H. Duncan, of Black- ville, and the Rev. M. L. Banks, pas tor of the Barnwell Methodist Church. In spite of the inclement weather, a large concourse of relatives ahd friends gathered to pay their last tribute of respect and many accom panied the body to Williston for the interment. The lovely flowers that covered his last resting place attest ed in some measure the esteem in which he was held. A. Mayor Ow’ens, who was 57 years of age,, had been in iH health for several months and a few weeks ago he was carried to the hospital, where every thing possible was done to stay the ummons of the Grim Reaper. He as born and reared in Barnwell ounty, where he spent practically his ontiie lifp. Mr. Owens read law in the offices of Bates and Simms in Barn- well and later entered into partner-1 Thc 192 <, legislative aession was one ship with Oapt. Claude Saw>or in ^e most progressive in the history Aiken, where he practiced until going ( of the State> sai(| Governor Richards to Washington as private secretary to Monday in speaking of the general the late Congressman J. O. Patterson, assembly which heard its final gavels Upon his return to Barnwell he opened fa || at 11: 3 0 O ' t lock Saturday night. TEXT OF NEW HIGH SCHOOL BILL Marshall Foch, leader of the Allied Forces during the- World War, is gravely ib in Paris, fight ing what his doctors believe is a losing battle with death. He is 77 and has been suffering of a com- olication of diseases since Jan. 14 Regard 1929 Session as Being One of Best Governor Richards and Others Look Upon Late Legislature as Having Been Constructive. an office here, where he practiced un til his death. Mr. Owens held the re spect and confidence of the people of Barnwell in large measure and last summer they conferred upon him the highest political gift in their posses sion by electing him Mayor. He was a Mason, a member of the Barnwell Baptist Church and a gentleman of the old school—honorable, chivalrous and loyal to a rare degree. Peace to his ashes. He leaves his mother, Mrs. S. A. Owens, of Barnwell, and three sisters, Opinion generally is that it was ore of the best sessions; that the present legislature is one of the best the State has known, ceC.sirriy in recent years. The session is noticeable for some legislation of maximum importance. When the deliberations started on January 8th and in the first weeks of the session it appeared that the ses sion would be speedy. There were few important measures being offered, and local bills were few. But the speed inmreased however and the flood A Bill to Reorganize Public School System of Barnwell County into Four High School Districts, to Pro vide for Trustees of Each of said High School Districts, and to Pro vide for the Levying and Collecttion of a Tax Sufficient to Operate the High Schools so Organized. Be it enacted by the General Assem- )ly of the State of South Carolina: Section 1. That on or before the 1st day of May, 1929, the Board of Educa tion for Barnwell County shall reor ganize the public school system of Barnwell County into four high school districts, to be known and designated respectively as Barnw'ell High School District, Blackville High School Dis- ;riet, Dunbarton High School District and Williston-Elko High School Dis trict. Section 2. That said Board of Edu cation for BarnwelKCounty, in organ izing said High School Districts, shall assign each district in Barnwell Coun ty to one or the other of said high school districts go organized: Provid ed, howeVer, That in making said assignments, the school districts now’ constituting Dunbarton High School District and Wlilliston-Elko District shall be assigned to the respective high school district of which each is now a part. Section 3. That the Board of Trus tees for Barnwell School District No. 45 shall constitute the Board of Trustees for Barnwell High School District, that the Board of Trustees for Blackville School District No. 19 Mr*. W. M. Jones, of Barnwell. Mr,.l of bi|| , bec , me enormou ,, s0 that W. R. Smith, Jr., of Wilmington, N. C., w (, fn t he closing day* arrived they and Mr.. V. C. Partlow. of Tampfc, foun)J )ow Anwn out and Fla., who have the .mere sympathy th( . ,, usinr , h( . avy . of the entire county in their bereave ment. Tags on Meters for Identification Only South Uari4ina Power Company Has No Intently of Claiming Those Owned hv Individuals But the matters of importance stand out and mark the session as one of the greatest in history, say its leaders ard officials and business men genet ally The State highway hill has been pointed out as the matter of chiefest impoit. This will pave the State’s highway system in a few years anc do more than snything else to advance the commonwealth it is believed. The That the South Carolina Power Company has no intention of claiming meters that h::vo been bought and laid for bv light users in Barnwell Quail Lodge Bought by New York Broker G. H. Walker, of W. A. Harriman and Co„ Purchases Hunting Preserve Near Barnwell. shall constitute the Board of Trustees for Blackville High School District, that the Board of Trustees for Dun barton High School District and Wil- liston-Elko High School District shall be elected or appoited as ow pro vided for by law. Section 4. That on or before the 1st day of June of each year the Board of Trustees for each of said High School Districts, the Chairman of each of the School Districts composing the High School Districts, and the Superintend ent of Education for Barnwell County, shall furnish the Auditor and Treas urer of Barnwell County with a budget or estimate of the costs of operating and maintaining the respective High Schools of said Districts during the next ensuing school year, whereupon it shall became the duty of the Auditor and Treasurer of Barnwell County to levy and collect a uniform tax upon all of the real and personal property in each respective High School District sufficient to maintain and operate the high school situated in said district. The funds so collected in each school district shall be placed to the credit of the high school district of which said district is a part and shall be ex pended by the Board of Trustees of jsaid district in operating and main taining the high schools in the res pective districts. Section 5. That all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Section 6. This Act *hall take effect a,r '- ment of th ‘“ Barnw ‘-’ 1 < ' lectr,c P ro P immediately upon it* approval by the c t rt >’- Kinal T'" n that day by R. A. Easterling, v ice- I President of the Company, and other representatives of the com|>any and officials of the Town of Barnwell. The price paid for the property wa* Theatre Sat. Night | $45,000.00 in cash and according to the terms of the franchise granted the Near-Panic Averted During Rendition | Company the new schedule of rates which will apply at the time of the Government Loans Are Now Available Personnel of County and Community Committees Announced,—No Ap- plicstiong After April 20th. George Akerson, who is the sec retary to President Herben Hoover. S. C. Power Company Assumes Management Final Negotiations Made Feb. 28th by Representatives of Company r and Town Officials. Wednesday, February 28th, the South Carolina Power Company ac quired control and took over the man- G. H. Walker, a member of the firm of W. A. Harriman and Co., invest ment brokers, of New York City, has purchased “Quail Lodge” from S. E. Hutchinson, of Philadelphia, Pa. The transfer of thc* huntir g preserve was made several days ago and after spending a few days here, Mr. Walker and his wife left Tuesday for their home in New York. “Quail Lodge” was purchased severs years ago by Mr. Hutchinson fiom J M. Easterling, formerly of this city but now a resident of Hawthorn, Fla The estate comprises several hundrec acres of fine hunting lands and in ad dition to the native birds has been stocked with Mexican quail. The Fire Scare at Vamp of Furman 'University Glee Club Program. first billing under the new manage ment will be much lower than the old municipal rates. The audience at the \amp Theatre | wag jjy l ^ Magraw, Vice had a fire scare Saturday night while Pre9ldent and General Manager of the the Furman University Glee Club wa 9 | p ower Company, on Friday, that it U giving a concert for the benefit of the (the desire of the ofricia i 8 of the Barnwell School Improvement ^sso- £ aro j- na p ower Company that it shall ciation and anear panic was averted | ^ a helpfulf constructive force a neipiui, constructive rorce in Barnwell, as it intends to be in every community it serves. The Company, he stated, welcomes constructive criticism and welcomes a discussion of itg problems, since the problems of the company are invariably mutual prob- is also important. Chairman C. F. Jor.es of the State highway commission seated Monday day by L. P. Tobin, district manager. For some time employes of the com pany have been busy affixing little numbered metal tags to all meters in the city and many were under the im- companion act, for a 6-cent gas tax, , ^ nes f trial grounds in the country arc on the place and they were used two years by thc Virginia-f arolina Club. It is understood that Mr. Walker and his family plan to spend the greater part of each winter here and they are assured of a cordial welcome from the people of Barnwell. Mr. Walker has retained the ser- as the statement made here Tues-! that he regards this as the greatest single step forward the State has ever,taken, certainly in recent years. The legislation seeking to conserve the State’s resources, especially the act for the exploitation of the iodine piession that the company was taking content of the State’s food products this method^to establish ownership to' i s regarded as progressive and far- the meters. Mr. Tobin states that the tags are for identification purposes only, as when a dispute arises con cerning a bill. A s stated above, each meter is numbered and if a customer desires to file a complaint he gives the number of his meter. In that way, the matter can be adjusted with the least possible delay. The People-Sentinel is quite sure that the one desire of the South Caro lina Power Company is to work in har mony with its customers and the pni- form courtesy of its representatives who have been in Barnwell recently serves to strengthen that belief. reaching. Ratification of an amendment to allow counties to exempt new indus tries from taxation and a proposal to apply the same inducement to farm ing were voted. . , - THIRTEEN ARE KILLE D AS AIRPLANE CRASHES Thirteen air joyriders were killed late Sunday in the crash *of a Colonial , roa( l A “Farm relief” program was voted, but it was not of the size that was at first contemplated. A bill by Representative J. Swinton Whaley, of Charleston, to do away with taxation of real estate for State purposes was passed by the House, and Mr. Wha'^y believes it will pass the Senate next year. In the'mass of highway legislation, approximately two hundred miles of highways were add°d to the State system. An act was passed to change the Old State Road from Columbia to Charleston from a dirt road to a paved vices of Angus B. Patterson, who was employed by Mr. Hutchinson during his ownership. It is understood that Mr.- and Mrs. Patterson will make their home at the Lodge. by a few cool heads. A care less servant in the Diamond Hotel had dropped a lighted match in a pile of firewood in the hotel, which is housed in the same building with the theatre, and the smouldering blaze gave off a quantity of smoko that »»» notifiable | )em « of ' , hc towrl Rerved to the audience. Two gentlerrlen made an investigation and returned to the theatre just in time to assure the audience that the building was not on fire and thereby restored order, as the entire crowd w’as on the verge of making a hasty exit. The program proceeded without interiuption and in spite of the scare, the concert was thoroughly enjoyed by all present. The Government Seed, Feed and Fertilizer Loans a^e now available, and farmers will call 4|t their local committee headquarters and file thtir applications. This committee is sup plied with the necessary blanks aM all information neo^ssary to aid the . farmers in their section to secure these loans. The committees for this county are composed of the following men: Per»c«mel of Committee: County Committee—M. B. Hagood, chairman, Barnwell; E. C. Matthews, Blackville; Victor Lewis, Kline. Blackville Community Committee— E. F. Boylston, chairman; J. S. Creech and P. A. Baxley. Williston Community Committee— W. C. Smith, Jr., chairman, J. J. Bell and H. M. Thompson. Dunbarton Community Committee— B. F. Owens, chairman, P. J. Hiers and T. W. Dicks. Object of Loans. Loans will be made to farmers for the purchase of seed, feed and fertili zer, with which to plant their 1929 'crops:— To Whcsn Made. These Government Loans are for actual farmers, who have no other buhsiness and who suffered a crop failure last year, due to the severe storms and floods, ard have no seed, feed or fertilizer on hand and are un able in any other manner to finance the planting and cultivation of their 1929 crops. No loans are to be made for any other purpose or to any class of farmers other than those mentioned in this paragraph. Preference will be given those fanning small acreages and using approved methods. Restriction of Amount of Individual Loans. Due to the fact that the amount of money available for loana possibly will be inadequate to meet the demand, it will be recessary to confine each loan to the absolute minimum, and only to those who fully meet the re quirements. No applications for loans will be received by the committee after April 20, 1929. i W. H. DODENHOFF. DIES AT BLACKVILLE Resolutions of Respect. Death of John Wiley Shelton. The following resolutions were passed by the Barnwdli Methodist Women’s Missionary Society to the memory of Mrs. L. G. Richardson, who “fell asleep” February 28th, 1929: Resolved—First: That in the death The company plans fo connect Barn well with its hydro system at an early date and its engineers are row work ing on the details of building the necessary lines and rebuilding of the distribution system in the town.' -\ In addition to the improvements the company will also make it possible for the people of Barnwell to purchase dependable electric appliances which are so popular in the homes now, on the same terms that are given in Charleston and other parts of the territory. The company will make offer also to its Barnwell customers the right to purchase first preferred stock of the company, which has had wide distri bution in the territory served by it. of Mrs. Richardson our society has lost a true and faithful member, one j The sale of preferred stock, which is • whb greatly loved our Lord and the well safeguarded by the earnings of j extension of His Kingdom, and whose the property, is intended largely to Black vide, March 18—The friends, heart was e v e r open to the needs of develop a fuller measure of-under- Airways metal plane, one mile eastiof the Newark, N. J., metropolitan air port. All were killed outright. Two men who occupied thq pilot’s cockpit escaped death but were injured seri- • - ously. The tragedy was the greatest the history of heavier-than-air craft in the United States. One of the men who occupiel the pilot’s cockpit died at a hospital later, and the other has little chance of re covery. • » ♦ ADVERTISE in The People-Sentinel « The governor’s desk is piled high with new acts, awaiting signature. to learn of his death, which occurred March 2nd, in the 61st year of his age. Although he had been an invalid for six years, he was confined to his bed only two days before his death. Mr. Shelton suffered greatly during his illness, but he bore his affliction with uncomplaining fortitude ard paltience. His loved ones have the sympathy of many friends in their bereavement. How Much Is a Billion? Epis c opal Church Services. Archdeacon Joseph Burton « an nounces that there will be morning prayer and sermon at the Church of fche Holy Apostles next Suncay even ing at eight o’clock. Church school at 10:30 a. m. and Lenten service Thursday afternoon at five o’clock. The public is cordially invited to at tend. i . r Geneva.—A prominent German with a brain that runs to figures, asked a friend whether he knew how much Germany must pay in reparations. “Do you know hqw much one bil lion is?” he asked. <4 It is a thousand million,” answered the friend. “It is more,” said the German. “It is the number of minutes since the birth of Christ. They want us to pay in German marks 130 times the number of minutes since the begin ning of the Christian era.* that greatest work in all the world. Second: That to the members of her family we offer our very heart /felt sympathy, uniting with them in their grief and praying that the abid ing grace of our Lord Jesus Christ may sustain and comfort them in their sorrow. Third: That a copy of these reso lutions be recorded in our book of minutes, that copies be sent to mem bers of her family and to our Barn well paper. Louise S. McNab, Pres. Marie R. Dicks, Secy. standing between the company and its patrons and keep the dividends at home. Leon P. Tobin, District Manager, will be in charge of the company’s operations in Barnwell and will see that the best possible service is ren dered. Blackville, March 16.—W. H. Doden- loff, of West Point, Miss., died here early this morning at the home of lis sister, Mrs. D. K .Briggs. Mr. and Mrs. Dodenhcff arrived here last Sat urday for a visit and although Mr. Doden’noff has been in ill health for some time his death was a great 'hock. Mr. Dodenhoff was a native of Blackville but has made his home iq Mississippi for a number of years. Surviving him are the following: his wife, Mrs. Mary Chandler Doden hoff and four children, the Misses An nie Battaile and Rowena Dodenhoff, David Ivy and Harry Chandler Doden hoff, four sisters, Mrs. D. K. Briggs ard Mrs. C. J. Fickling, of Blackville; Mrs. J. F. Walker, of Tampa, Fla., and Mrs. R. W. Ballard, of Evergreen, N. C n and three brothers, R. L. Doden- hoff, of Columbia; J V Bod—illoff, -rj Greenville, and J. B. Dodenhoff, of Branchville. The body will leave by train tonight for West Point, Miss., where the burial will take place. ALLENDALE STORE IS ENTERED BY ROBBERS ‘Talkies” at Vamp Friday. ADVERTISE in The People-Sentinel Barnwell Boy Breaks Arm. McTyre Calhoun, son of L .M. Cal houn, of this city, had the misfor tune to break his arm while cranking his father’s car Saturday morning. He was carried immediately to an Augusta hospital, where the broken bones were set and his friends will be glad to know that he is getting along nicely and was able to attend school Monday. “Mack” says that his only regrets at having his arm broken are that he can't 1 play base ball and has no one to cut up his meat at meal time. The management of the Vamp Thea tre announces that the new “Synchro tone,” the singing and talking moving picture, will be the special attraction for one night only, Friday, March;22. Six big time vaudeville acts will be featured, as follows: 1. —Cola and Bara, the Boys from Hawaii/ 2. —Georgia Lou Gibson, Operatic Soprano. 3. —Johnson and Johnson ,Harmony Sirging and Talking. 4. —Jimmy Dockstader, the Minstrel Allendale, March 16.—The grocery store of S. D. Williams was robbed Friday night. The robbery occurred in the early part of the evening and was discovered by a city night watch man when he was making his rounds. Several dollars in change was taken from the cash drawer and about $5 worth of cigarettes were missing. Tracks were found around the door from which the robber made his entry. » ♦ » ■ Hair-Walker. 5.—Fay Orr, Pep and Personality. 6w—Karens . and .Gampher, Banjo Kings, “Fun on the Levee.” This special attraction will be shown at popular prices. Mr. and Mrs. A'. E. Hair ai the marriage of their daughter, Mag gie Evelyn, to Mr. Charles L. Walker, of Covington, Tenn., on the afternoon of March 6th, a ttheir home hi Elkoc After a short trip to points of in terest in North they will be at I to Oh* 1 **'