The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, March 21, 1929, Image 1
THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNTY
Barnwell
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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ADVERTISE in The People-Sentinel
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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.
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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.
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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
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