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~ v Consolidated Jonc. 1, 1925. VOLUME LII. NUMBER SO. Asparagus Season Opens Officially Cars Loaded Monday at Barnwell, Wil- liston and Elko.—Ndw Adver tised Over Radio. the THB OFFICIAL NEWSFAPKK OP BARNWELL COUNTY People-Sentinel ‘Just Like a Member of the Family" BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY,. MARCH 28. 1929. * Although there have been isolated erates shipped several weeks before now, and express shipments have been unusually heavy for this early in the season, the asparagus season in South .Carolina really opened officially Mon day. Two cars were shipped from Willis- ton, the leading asparagus center, and headquarters of the South Carolina Asparagus Association; two were loaded at Elko, while one was loaded at Barnwell and Hattieville. The season in the upper part of the aspar agus belt, which includes Trenton, Ridge Springs, Johnston, Monetta and Aiken, is still not' far enough along for shipments to be made in carload lots. There are large express ship ments from these places, however. Co-operation in Marketing. The South Carolina Asparagus As sociation, it is estimated, handles 85 per cert °f the asparagus shipped out by South Carolina. Organized several years ago with only 50 members, it has grown into the most successful example of co-operation among the "farmers of South Carolina” Its mem- bers have realized year in and year out a premium for bond'ng their ef forts together, since the net commis sion on thei* - sMe* is only seven per cert, the net cost of handling it, col lected by the association is only seven cents a crate, while the freight rates in car loai shipments are a’so con siderably less. It is shipped by re frigerator car. La<t year, L. C. Eidson, of Trenton, general manager of the association, reported the association handled 175,- 000 crates of asparagus. Tnig year, it is estimated, 200,000 will be handled by the South Carolina Asparagus As sociation, while an amount not defi nitely known will be handled by the Monetta Asparagus Growers Associa- i tion, organized at Monetta two years ago. The Moretta Association this year also includes the asparagus grow- j ers around Ridge Springs. Joe N. Watson is manager of this group. "Grass*' Goes on Radio Program • 1 ‘•nixie.’' the brand name under which the South Carolina Asparagus Growers Association sells its “grass," j the colloquial expression for aspara gus, and "No-Compare” the trade name of the Monetta growers, went on the radio programs of the National | Broadcasting Company Monday noon, in a series of menu talks. This feature will be continued dur ing the season. It is included in menu talks by a natiorahy known authority on balanced rations. Relative to the health giving pro perties of the South Carolina aspara-j gus, an analysis of the product was made recently by the health depart ment of South Carolina. It was found that the South Carolina “grass” con tained 112 units of iodine per pound as compared with 12 units in California gra?s. The South Carolina product also reaches the market in green con dition, while only white grass, with the essentials of the green product bleached out, can be shipped from California on account of the long jouiney across the continent. Seek Lower Rate on Shipments. Mr. Eidson pointed out that the |ntdi*sta|te commerce eommissio|n is petitioned to allow a rate to the South Carolina product based on mileage. Although the Palmetto State is only a few hundred miles from the market ing centers, while the California grow ers are 3,000 miles away, the rates so closely approximate one another that the South Carolina “grass” is forced to compete just exactly as if it were the same distance away. ( “Were the railroad commission to grant us a rate based on mileage, which seems to be ruling a great many cases,” Mr. Eidson said, “it would greatly expedite matters. He pointed out, however, that the South Carolina Association’s “grass” is steadily gaining in favor. Califor nia is canning each year more and more of their product, as when the asparagus from this section is being shipped, it is preferable. The local product will also can excellently, marketing experts have said. At present, however, that it not neces sary, it i> believed, as much of it is shipable. „« Two AssocUtioas Art Co-operatimf Pathe to Picture Asparagus Fields Several Hundred Feet of Films Pro duced Saturday at Blackville.— Girls Take Part. Gerard Debacts (left) and Franco Georgetti, popular six-day bike stars, just after they finished the six-day grind at Madison Square Garden, New York, winning the 46th International Six-Dav Bicycle Race. Regents Named for County Poor House Five Men and Women Appointed to Manage Affairs.—Governor An nounces Other Appcanteee. Under the terms of an act passed by the recent General Assembly, Gov ernor John G. Richards has appointed thrq? men and two women to manage the affairs of the Barnwell County Poor Honse^and Parin.— be known as the Board of Regents and the members w’ill select their chairman, whose salary is fixed at $200 a year. The Governor’s appoin tees are as follows: Mrs. Irene H. Lemon, P. W. Price and W. W. Har ley, of Barnwell; Mrs. Sarah B. Owens, of Dunbarton, and Dr. Ryan A. Gyles, of Blackville. Other Appointments. The Governor has also appointed G. M. Greene, Esq., as Master in Equity to succeed himself, while W. E. Bates and J. W. Sanders have been named on the Board of Assessors for Bennett Springs and Great Cypress townships, respectively. • In addition to the above. Governor Richards has appointed the following Magistrates for Barnwell County, all of whom .together with Mr. Greene, were nominated >n the primaries last summer: W. P. Sanders at Barn well; C. S. Buist at Blackville; R. L. Wooley at Williston; Paul H. San ders for George’s Creek township; George L. Hill for Red Oak town ship; O. W. Harley at Dunb.irton; R. R. Harden for Great Cypress town ship; B. W. Peeples for Bennett Springs and Four Mile townships. Local Sheriff Brags One Time Too Often Plays Role of Tempter and Lcaes Sun day Dinner.—Hotel Gets Unex pected Guests. -Blackville, the South, Blackville, March 23.- thc, cucumber capital of was given additional prominence to day when a Pathe News cameraman, George W. Cook, shot some five or six hundred feet of film of the as paragus industry on the farm of Simon Brown’s Sons near Blackville. Mr. Cook, of New York and Wash ington, has been shooting films in and around Aiken in connection with the horse show, polo games and other tourists activities there. Stanley Brown, manager of the Lyric theatre, *of Blackville, and a number of other theatres in this section, prevailed upon Mr. Cook to visit his father's farm to make motion pictures of the actual cutting, picking and shipping of as paragus. Seventy-eight attractive young la dies from Williston, Elko, Blackville, Denmark and other points were on hand dressed as farmerettes, all at tired in overalls. Most of these were high school girls and were under the direction, in addition to Mr. Cook and Mr. Brown, of Col, Harry D. Calhoun, Every once in a while the worm turns or the long lane has an ending or the biter is bitten. Saturday, while in the Edisto River section, Sheriff Bor.cil H. Dyches, who is & great practical joker and thoroughly enjoys playing pranks on his friends, bought a fine string of fresh water fish—one trout and ten j p ath „ NeWi wU , ^ .. How , h< . p r0 . “ted-breasts.” He turned them over I Krp ,. ive ( ; wn Gra „ Growers Asao- nation Dots Things.” Elsie Janis, known during the war as the '“sweetheart of the A. K. .F.,” American hetress, is seri-. ously ill of influenza in Paris. of Denmark. Title if the film which will be shown throughout the nation next week in Easter Egg Hunt at Siloam. The public is cordially invited to at tend an Easter egg hunt at Siloam Church Saturday afternoon March 30. Ice cream will be sold, the proceeds to be applied to the piano fund. The two associations are co-operat ing in every way to push their pro duct. All asparagus shipped under their trademark is inspected by an in spector approved by the Clemson Col lege extension department, and by the U. S. Department of Agriculture, The two are only groups of asparagus growers who have government inspec tion. This insures a standard grade. “Grass” which measure up to the high standard imposed, is un ceremoniously chucked out of the lot. Because of this, buyers often pay for cars before they leave the market ing centers, buying by grades. So w ell has the plan been worked out, that a man who buys a carload con taining a certain number of crates of “collossal,” the best grade; “choice,” the second grade, and “fancy,” the third grade, knows exactljPwhat he is getting before his car reaches the marketing points. Barnwell Center of Industry. Barnwell County is the center of the industry ,the president of the asso ciation, M. C. Kitchings, coming from Williston. The Monetta association members are almost wholly from the ridge on the eastern edge of Salude County, although there are some members in Aiken and Edgefield Counties. Saluda, Edgefield, Aiken, Barnwell, Calhoun, Orangeburg, Bamberg and Allendale are the other counties from which the associations draw mem bers. “The association expects to have a fine year,” Mr. Eidson, who went to Williston Monday to begin his work earnest, said. “The advantages of co-operative selling are showing up more and more each year and the idea is gaining strength." to his cook with instructions to cook the trout for his Sunday morning breakfast and the perch for his Sun day dinner—nothing but the fish and a “hoecake” of cornbread and coffee. The genial Sheriff thoroughly enjoyed his breakfast—who wouldn’t enjoy a two and a half pound trout?—and coming up town for his mail, he de ckled to arouse the jealousy of various friends by bewailing the fact that he had eaten so hesuAily of fish for breakfast that he had no appetite for the dinner menu of more fish. He was so emphatic in his dislike for another meal of fish that he expresred the wish that somebody else had the mem bers of the finny tribe that were then reposing in his refrigerator. Returpirg from church, Sheriff and Mrs. Dyches found the cook sitting on the back porch. Strange to say, no savory smell of frying fish pervaded the kitchen. The Sheriff wanted to know how come. The cook replied that during their absence two ‘hucra” had called for the fish, ex plaining that the Sheriff wanted them prepared up town. Instead, however, they were carried to the home of one of the “bucra,” where the Sheriff’s expressed wish was made a reality. Unfortunately, according to Sheriff Dyches, there was nothing else in the house with which to prepare a Sun day dinner, so he and his family were unexpected guests at the hotel. Un like most practical jokers, the Sheriff enjoyed this joke on himself, but it is a safe bet that he will not publicly boast about his next “mess” of fresh fish. But ' then he can deduct the amount of his loss from his next in come tax return. Prominent asparagus growers from this section and sales representatives from Boston, New Yoik, and else where, were on hand to winters the shooting which brought out a large crowd of local citizens. Blackville Ships Asparagus. While the amount of asparagus cut in the Blackville section Monday was not sufficient to load a car, about 150 crates were shipped by express, ac cording to information received over the phone from Herman Brown, who cut 50 crates from his fields that day. STATE SERVICE OFFICER WILL ASSIST VEffiRANS ♦ ■» Dusky Romeo Finds Himself an Antonio Supt G. Frank Posey, of the Black- ville schools, was a visitor in Barn well' Monday afternoon. He called at The People-Sentinel office to buy some legal blanks and in the course of a short conversation told a pathetic story about a Marion County negro. Several years ago this dusky Romeo decided to take unto himself a wife. To provide for the honeymoon he bor rowed $175, giving as security a mort gage on 114 acres of land, a six-room house, several head of cattle, ten hogs and a Buick automobile. The years passed, as they have a habit of doing, the mortgage fell due, the mortgagee demanded payrfient and Romeo—who now, more properly, might be termed Antonio—found himself unable to pay, not a pound of flesh but the $175.00. “And to, make bad matters worse," said Mr. Posey, “the wife for whose sake he had given the mortgage has since diedA . Blackville’s popular school superintendent came to the poor negro’s rescue and bought the mortgage to protect hia home from foreclosure. Of interest to the Barnwell County Veterans of the World War is the announcement by Mis. G. M. Greene that on Thursday, the 28th inst., the State Service Officer from Columbia will be in Barnwell at the Court House, at eleven o'clock, to assist the veterans in the matter of adjusted compensation, insurance or other matters pertaining to their pa<«t ser vice. Mrs. Greene has been assist ing ex-service men for some months in getting their claims properly ad justed and requests that all who have claims of any kind relating to past service be at the Court House on Thursday morning, bringing with them any records which they may have. This service is absolutely free to the veterans and it is hoped that a large number will take advantage of the offer. ♦ ♦-4 HENRY P. DYCHES PASSES AT AIKEN Henry P. Dycfres, 62, promlnen't citizen of Aiken, died at the Aiken hospital Sunday morning, March 17th, a^4^30—o’clock, afters long illness. Rain and Wind Storm Visits This Section Many Feared That Barnwell Was to Be Visited by Spring Tornado.— No Damage Done. Between eleven and twelve o'clock Saturday-TTUTmtTtg, ntfeTT arid suf- City Fathers Reduce Town’s Indebtedness Interest Charges of $1,946 a Year : Saved by Purchase of Bonds and Payment of Notes. rounding territory were visited by a hAvy downpour of rain accompanied by high winds, which gave rise to the fear that this section was to exper ience a disastrous tornado such as had whipped several Southern States the previous day. Fortunately, however, ro material damage was done by the storm, although farm work will prob ably be further delayed by the rain. Through Saturday morning the sky was obscured by heavy scurrying clouds, drifting in a northerly direc- tiorw. When the storm broke, the wind immediately whipped around to the West, later blowing again from the South. While the storm wss at its height, s gssolinc stove, used for cooking syiups, exploded in a rear room in the Best Pharmacy, throwing an addi tional scare into those who had sought refuge in the store. Only slight damage was done to the plas tering of the wall near the stove. Friday, spring tornadoes, which whipped angrily across the South of Louisiana to North Carolina, left seven dead, scores injured and heavy property damage in their path, even before wir.ter floods had completed their ravaging course through the Southeast. Five negro children were killed and eight injured in s church used for a school at Merrellton, Ala. One boy was killed at Small Creek, N. C n several others injured and much dam age done in a ten-mile radius around Charlotte, N. C. A farmer was killed by lightning at Alpharetta, Ga. Mary other towns and communities were struck by freakish tornadoes or rain storms. Alexandria, Ala., suf fered $100,000 property damage. Pell City, Ala., was drenched by a cloud burst, estimated unofficially at six inches. Maxwellborn, Ala., Chatts- worth and Costaraala, Ga., and Wil son, N. €., were struck by twisters. Jackson, Miss., reported Pearl river and Town creek raging torrents from a rain storm. A saving in interest charges amounting to $1,946 annually has been effected by city council by the pur chase of outstanding municipal bonds &ndi the payment of notes at t9ie Bank of Western Carolina, according to a statement made to a representa tive of The Pcople-6entinel a- few days ago by a member of the council. In addition there remains in the. city treasury betweeii $14,000 and $15,000 still to apply on the bonded indebted ness of Barnwell. These purchases and payments were made possible by the sale of the local power plant to the South Carolina Power Company a few weeks ago for $46,000. Of course, it will be necessary to pay the new owners $150 a month for street lights, but even at that the saving in interest is already enough for that and a balance of $146 a year besides, with an additional saving of $ < 00 to $800 a year when the remain der of the purchase money has been spplied on the town’s indebtedness. This does not take into consideration consumers of lights and water, which will be quite an item in the course of a year. It would seem that these savings, both by the town and its citizens, are much better than having to pay a high rate for current with no profits accruing to the city. MAN WANTED AT BAMBERG ESCAPES AFTER HOT CHASE “Standard" Sales Increase. He was formerly of Blackville, but went to Aiken about 25 years ago and for a number of years conducted a large sales stable. He was an ex tensive land owner. He is survived by his wife and one daughter, Mrs. E. K. Snead, Jr., of Greenwood, and three sons, B. T. Dyches, H. M. Dy ches, and H. P. Dyches, Jr., of Aiken; three sisters, Mrs. Carrie Dyches, of Blackville; Mrs. L. A. Burns, of Char leston ;Mrs. Irene Bush, of Denmark. Funeral, services were held at 9t. supremacy between the Chevrolet and in Bethany demetery. Mrs. J. J. Vickery and Mrs. F. H. Miller spent Fr day in Colombia. Services fee* Holy Week. H. J. Phillips, local manager for the Standard Oi|L Company, sayfs that there has been a marked increase in the sale of Standard gasoline since the new “Champion" brand was put on the market. Sales for the past month at the company’s Main Street filling station in Barnwell are the largest since the station was built, he said, and those who have tried the new product -are very much pleased with the performance of their cars. The Standard Oil Company is running an extensive advertising campaign in The People-Sentinel, “telling the world” about the excellence of the new “Champion." Bamberg, March 25.—W. L. Siaaen- wood, alias W. L. Turner, white man, has apparently made good hia es cape after giving Bamberg County of ficer* a merry chaae. Siaaenwood has been around Cope for a week or two, and recently bought tome parte for automobile under false pretenses from a local dealer. When he was accosted by several parties whose intention to turn him over to the sheriff, wood made a dash for liberty, and Dock Priester, an employe of the gar age, fired a couple of times at him, one bullet striking him in the shoul der and making a slight wound, but it did not stop the man. He wa* next heard from at Olar, and Sheriff Hadwin hurried there with a warrant for his arrest. Ha came up on Siaserwood between Olar and Govan on the highway. The man jumped from his car and when some distance away began ahpoting at the sheriff, the bullets kicking up dust In the sheriff^ face, but none struck him. Sheriff Hadwin replied with a fusilade, but none of the shots struck the mark. Later the sheriff was In formed that Sissenwood was in the swamp near Govan. He was tracked for some distance, but a storm pre vented the officers from finding him. The car was brought to town, and was found to belong to a dealer elsev^here in the State. Sisrenwood’s reputation for care lessness in his personal habit came to notice several days ago, when he asked Coroner W C. Zeigler for the loan of his rifle for a brief time. Thinking nothing of it, the rifle was loaned him. Shortly thereafter he lips, and was again favored. Neither rifle was returned, and it is said that he is armed with these weapons and a pistol, perhaps, with plenty of am munition. When accosted by the sheriff on the highway, he calmly informed the sheriff that if he tried to adrrest him he would shoot to kill. This threat did not stop the officer, however, but the stranger proceeded to'try tojnake good his threat. Considerable ex citement was prevalent here for a while. Poultry Car Being Loaded. Archdeacon Joseph Burton makes ^ Easter Egg Hunt at Allen's Chapel the following announcement of ser vices at the Church of the Holy Apos tles for HolyJjFeek and Easter Day: Litany and address Thursday af- der an Easter Cantata. Good Friday service from 12:00 m. to 1:00 p. m. Easter Day celebration of the Holy Communion and sermon at 10:00 a. m. The public is cordially invited to at tend any or all of these services. There will be an Easter egf hunt at Allen's Chapel Church Saturday af ternoon, March 30th, beginning ait 3:00 o'clock. Everybody is cordially invited to attend and requested to bring eggs. A small admission charge will be made. Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Dicks and chil dren spent Friday It, Columbia. A car of poultry is being loaded in Barnwell County this week, very at tractive prices being paid, according to Harry G. Boylston, county farm agent. The car was at Dunbarton Tueaday, at Barnwell Wadneaday and will be at Hilda today (Thursday.) Miss Bessie lege, was the Jaffa