The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, March 28, 1929, Image 1
~ 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.
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THB OFFICIAL NEWSFAPKK OP BARNWELL COUNTY
People-Sentinel
‘Just Like a Member of the Family"
BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY,. MARCH 28. 1929.
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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
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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.
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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