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Thus. Rob Johnston ank Early Tuesday $8,000 Stolen.—Watchman Bound and Left in Vault.—Three Suspects Under Arrest. \V # Aiken, April 9.—The Johnston branch oi the Bank of Western Caro lina was broken into and robbed this morning about 1 o’clock, the robbers making away with about $8,000 in cash and a number of Liberty bonds. The job was done by professionals in a regular Western style. The night watchman was met at the cotton plat form by a man who held him up with a pistol, and with two aides took him over to the bank building, first blind folding him a.~d sealing his mouth with a tape. The front door of the bank was forced and the watchman carried into the bank, where he was securely tied. With a torch the rob- ber« cut their way through both doors of the vault to the safe in which the cash wa? kept. This was a good screw door safe. It was turned over on the floor and the back cut out and the money BflC urecL The watchman was placed in the vault, oeirg gagged and tied and the vault locked. After much effVrt the watchman untied his hands and finally got out of the vault, the lock being badly burned. The robbers worked about thtee hour* ard, it is believed, left town about 5 o’clock. The watch man was able to give the alarm some time after & o’clock. Three men were arrested at Bar ton’s store, on the Edgefield road early this mommg ard lodged in the Edge- fiekl jail. Burns detectives are inves tigating every clu<i# W. B. Turner, president of the har.k here, was notified early thi§ morning and. witn the cashier, W. W Mucken- fu*#, left for Johrston. The hank opened as usual this morn ing with ample funds. All losses are fully eovtred by insurance. Declares Iodine Discoveries of “Tremendous Importance Commander Joel T. Boone of Pennsylvania,, medical officer of the President’s yacht, Mayflower, has been appointed special physi cian to President Hoover. SHELDON SERVICE WILL BE HELD NEXT SUNDAY Doctor Kellogg, of Battle Creek Sanitarium Farms Greatly Impressed With Showing Made in Laboratories in Charleston.— Takes Vegetables Home, UgliestWaman? “If the situation you have hero in South Carolina existed in Michigan, you would have the richest agricul tural people in the world,” Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, director of the Bat tle Creek (Michigan) sanitarium told Dr. William Weston in Charleston Monday. Doctor Weston is managing director of the Natural Resources commission of South Carolina and he returned Monday to Colujmbia after having seen Doctor Kellogg in Char leston. The director of the Battle Creek sanitarium had gone to Charles- Ruins of Old Church Will Be Mecca of Hundreds. HARRY CALHOUN HEADS AGENCY IN COLUMBIA Former Barnwell Man Mill EMablifth Agenete* Throughout State. The Rev. and Mis. R. Maynard Marshall, of Beaufort, were in Barn well for a short time Tuesday after noon, en route to their home. Mr. Marshall, in conversation with a rep- reseittatrve of The Pdople-Sentinel, said that the annual services in the old Sheldon Church ruins near Beau fort will be held next Sunday morn ing, the 14th inst, at twelve o’clock, and extended* a cordial invitation to Episcopalians and ythers in this sec tion to attend. This annual service has grown to be quite an institution and attracts hundred* of people each year. I.t fact, the crowds have be come #o large that of late years the Beaufort National Guard has been on band ;o direct and control traffic on the narrow road* in the immediate vicinity of the church. Mr. Marshall ta a very forceful speaker and always has a message of interest to his congregation. The low country is very beautiful at this sea son of the year and such a combina tion makes a trip on this occasion one of interest and pleasure. feels that we have the solution of the problem. Satisfied with these results, he was so further impressed that he carried Lome with him a number of vegetables grown in that station in order to examine them for iron and copper. We know, from our own work, said Doctor Weston, “that our vege tables are very high v in these ele ments. “Then 1 took him over in St. An drew's Parish, to inspect the tremen dous fields of vegetables over there, and ther. on to" Magnolia Gardens, ton to visit the research laboratories I which he said was the most wonderful with a view to ascertaining at first hand the healthgiving qualities of South Carolina fruits, vegetables and sight .he had ever seen. “ ‘Of tremendous importance to the medical profession ur.u to Americans milk, paiticularly.with regard to their j generally,’ was the way he charac- iodire and other mineral contents. I terized the work. “I met Doctor Kelogg and took him to the laboratories,” Doctor Weston said, “where he inspected the methods of examination of vegetables for their iodine content, and the results,” said Doctor Weston. “He was profoundly impressed with the results, in their bearing upon the goiter problem in this section of the United States, and “He and I discussed his food prob lem'*, and he will make another trip to South Carolina to spend a number of days, and he plans to send chem ists of his own staff to Charleston in the near future to study with Doctor Remington,, of the South Carolina laboratories, the food research tech nique.”—The State. SEED FUND ABOUT GONE. Th Conservative Life Insurance- Georgia »nd South Carolina Farmers Borrow Most. company, of Wheeling, W. Va.. ha* located it* South Carolina headquar ter* ir Columbia with Harry D. Cal houn an 1 Sons as state agents, accord ing to announcement made Wodnes- day. Harry D. Calhoun, of Denmark, for mer president of the South Carolina Rankers* association, is president of the state agency. His sons, Duncan Calhoun and James Calhoun, are asso ciated with him as secretary and treasurer, respectively. The company has opened an office at No. 9 in the South Carolina National Bank build ing. . . Mr. Calhoun is well and favorably known throughout South Carolina. For many years he wag a resident of Barnwell and president of the Home Bank of that town. It is the plan of the company to establish an insurance agency in each county in the State with a district agent for each of the seven Congres sional districts. This plan is now be ing worked out through the head quarters in Columbia. - The Conservative Life- -Insurance company is highly recommended by Sam B. King* insurance commissioner, as a safe, progressive life insurance company. The company had, its last statement shows, more than $39,000,- 000 of insurance in force. George W. Hill, of Wheeling, is president, and Clem E. Peters, of Wheeling, is secre tary and treasurer of the company.— The Columbia Record. Wai^hir gton, April 8. — Senator George, Democrat, of Georgia, wa« ad vised today by Director Warburton, of the extension service of the department of agriculture that between $1,7.”>0,000 an^ $2,000,000 of the federal seed load authorized by congress at the last ses sion hau be-'n advanced to farmeis who ruffored damage from storms, wind and rain in 1928. The larger part of this amount had been loaned to farmeis in Georgia and South Carolina, only a few applica tions thus far having been received from other States. Deason’s Drug Store Is Being Remodeled Fit or Space Increased by Additiog of Doc tics’ Olfice»i in Rear of Present Building. Moon Effect on Crops Is Bunk, Says Bureau Growth and Production Not Affected by Moon. Ac c ording to the Weather Bureau. BLACKVILLE WOMAN DIES AT HER HOME SUNDAY Mrs. Martha Blume Eubanks Suc cumbs to Paralysis. ♦ Methcdist Conference. The second Quarterly Conference for the year will be held at the Barnw r ell Methodist Church next Sunda; ing at eight o’clock. The Rev. W. Kay Phillips will be present and/will preach and afterwards hold the con- ference. All officials of the church are urged to be present an^ the public i 5 cordially invited. Blackville.—Mrs. Martha Blume Eir^ banks, died at her home here Suqday morning at 7:30 a. m. after a illness, having been strickpfi with paralysis about ten days Mrs. Eubanks was^ am^rng Black- viLle’s oldest citizens, having lived here' all her life, which would have reached ’r.s seventy-first year Tuesday of this week. She has been a mem ber of the Blackville Baptist church since girlhoods Mrs. Lubsrnks’ death is the first of her famih/to occur in a large family of sevei/ children and 23 grandchil dren. /They are her hus! and, J. W. Eubanks, four daughters, Mrs. P. H. Dr. R. A. Deason ia having exten sive improvements made to hia drug •tore ard when the work of remodel ing ia finished he will have one of the moat attractive places of business in this section. The old bakery build ing in the rear of the drug store has been remodeled and fitted up very at tract ively as doctors’ offices, in one of which Dr. L. T. Claytor is now re ceiving his patients. This addition ha* math it possible to tear out the partitions in the back of the drug store proper, thereby adding consider- j able floor space and making it pos sible to display stocks of goods more attractively. The new location of Dr. Claytor’s, office makes it pos*ible for him to r/ ceive hi* patients through a side, en trance, instead of through th^ drug store a* heretofore. The new offices are much moie comfortable/especially in the warm months of tKe year, and the change is much better in every way. / Others “Paio4-Up” Also. Quite recently/ihe interior of the Best Pharmacy Was also repainted and the fixtures polished and every effort is being made by tne proprietors of these two popular drug stores to cater to the /heeds of their patrons in every way. The interior of the Barnwell Fr^lit Company’s store and restaurant now being repainted and will also present a more attractive appearance. Miss Mary A.vBevan, who is said to .claim honors as the world’s ug liest woman, arrived in New^Yorkj aboard the Leviathan. ' Thirty-Dollar Debt. Results in Homicide Sam Brown, Colored .Fatally Wounded by D. I. Rc<us at Ashleigh Station Monday. POWER CO. ANNOUNCES , REFRIGERATOR SALE Attractive Terms Offered on (teneral Electric Refrigerators. The People-Sentinel this week be gins the publication of a series of ad vertisements for the South Carolin Power Company, announcing the o ing of Its special spring sale of /Gen eral Electric Refrigerators. T* 1 * 9 * 8 conceded to be one of the bes^ electric refrigerators^ on the market, being practically noiseless and very econo mical in operation. During the sale, the power company jwill offer very at- tiactive terms, yfiy a small initial payment being 'required, the balance being divided Into a number of month ly installments. Modela/of the G. E. Refrigerator may ba/seen at the offices of the com pany/in Barnwell, Blackville and Dejunark. An altercation, said to have grown out of a debt of about $30, resulted in the f&tal shooting of Sam Brown, colored, by D. I. (“Bunk”) Ross at Ashleigh Monday morning, the negro succumbing to his wounds • Tuesday night, according to infoririation ceived in Barnwell. It is undei that Mr. Ross made attempts lect the money due him by Bj either would not or could not pay it. The two men met at Asfileigh Monday and in the altercation jthat followed Brown is said to have drawn a knife on Mr. Ross, whereupon the latter shot him twiceyone bullet taking effect in his abdomen and the other in his leg. Mr. Ross, who was placed under arrest b/Sheriff Dyches shortly after the shooting, arranged bond for hU appearance at the Court of General ANOTHER VETERAN PASSES. eeks C. K. ACKERMAN TO HEAD WILLISTON-ELKO SCHOOL Cottageville Ma n Will Succeed Prof. C. M. Moore, Resigned. Williston.—Following the announce ment recently made by Prof. C. M. Moore, that be would not accept, if re-elect3d to the position, the Willis- ton-Elko trustees last week elected % Prof. C. K. Ackerman, superintend ent of the Branchville public schools, Washington.—Curiously persistent are the various superstitions relying to the effect of the moon hn the weather or on farm crops. / One of the most unreasonable of the?e beliefs, a federal Weather Bu reau expert said recently, i a that if the horn* of the new crescent moon tip downward, it 3s a “wet” moon, portending rain. As a mattgf of fact, this expert declared, orywny -gireir date the pwi- tion of thyq resccnt mcon is always the same ii) places having the same lati tude,/!© the same kind of weather woyfd necessarily prevail, were this of ary value, thioughout the dx'lt of latitude extending around the globe. Equator Proof. Again, near the Equator, in a part of the world notorious for its heavy rainfall, the young moon is generally in an almost horizontal position, or, aciordig to the proverb, it is almost always a “dry” % moon, he added. If the moon could be viewed from the North or South Pole, on the other hand, its position would be, for the auperstitious, indicative of “wet” weather, but these regions are char acterized by so little rainfall and snow that they rank among the arid parts of the globe, the experts say. Other superstitions relating to the moon are those which offer guidance in farm practice, such as sowing or ireaping, breeding or butchering, shingling or sharing, or any other farm activity supposed to be affected by the “dark” or the light of the moon. The scientist points ou t that the chief things affecting the growth of crops at any stage are: * Temperature of soil and air; com position of adjacent atmosphere; kind and intensity of light; presence or absence and severity of plant disease; meihanical condition of the soil, loose or compact; fertility of the soil; and quantity of other vegetation or weeds present. , . Col. Jas. M. Ryan Died in Columbia Saturday Afternocn. to succeed Mr. Moore. Mr. Acker- ley an l Mrs. R. F. Walker, 0 f 111811 w ’^ move t0 some lackvillc; Mrs. ' C. A. Aurett and '" the fUmrm ‘ r 10 be read y for the Mrs. J. W. Saxon, cf Augusta, and °P en ' n R *be fall session of the Williston-Elko High school and the grammar schools at Williston and Episcopal Church Services. ►A Archdeacon Joseph Burton an nounces that there will be rervices’*t the Church of the Holy Apostles in Barnwell next Sunday morning, April 14th, at 1UI10 o’clock. Sunday school at 10:30 u. m. The public ia cordially invited to attend. / three son*, O L. Eubanks, of Shelby, N. C., I. W. Eubanks, of Washington, Ga., and E. C. Eubanks, Tf Charlotte. E,ko ’ °* which he wi i 1 be superintend- Funeral “services'were held in the er ^ Blackville cemetery at 11 a. m~ Mon-' ^ r ‘ Ackerman has been superin day, th j Rev. B. H. Duncan, of Black- tendent at Branchville for the past ville and the Rev. M. L. Banks, of three vear? * Prior to that tinve he Barnwell, officiating. was head of the spools at Cottage- ♦ ♦ | ville in Colleton County, for seven In renewing her subscription to The years. He is a native of Cottageville People-Sentinel, Mrs. T. J. Still, of, and a graduate of Wofford college and Charlotte, N. C., writes: “Keep paper an outstanding educator in- the. State, coming. Missing a copy is like miss- He is married and has two children, fig a letter from my home folks. After r lingering illness of several weeks, part of which time was spent in Barnwell at the home of his sister, Mrs. J. M. Caldwell, Col. James M. Ryan died at one o'clock Saturday af ternoon at the infirmary of the Con federate Home in Columbia. His body we* brought Imek to b is old bouse Sunday afternoon and laid to real in the Barnwell Catholic Churchyard, the funeral service* being conducted by the Rev. Father O’Neil, of Orange burg, in the presence of a number of relatives and friends. The pall-bear- ers were a* follows: Active, Jas Jul- ien Bush, G. W. Manville, Perry B. Bush, John 1. Bronson, Dr. W. C. Milhous and Solomon Blatt; honorary, William McNab, C. C. Simm*, Butler Hagood, ^dgar A. Brown, H. L. O’- Bannon, N. G. W. Walker, Jacob Cohen, Dr. A. B. Patterson and L. M. Calhoun. Colonel Ryan, who was in the 80th year of his age, was a Veteran of the War Between the States, at the close of which he returned to his native county and engaged in the practice of his chosen profession, the law. He was later elected Judge of Probate and was associate editor of The Barn well People when that paper was es tablished by the late Major John W. Holmes in 1877. In later life he moved his residence to Old Orchard, Maine, when he published a newspaper during the summer months. He re turned to Barnwell a number years ago and aside from a brief re turn to the Fourth Estate as editor of The Barnwell Sentinel he spent his declining years in peace and quietude. He was of a kindly disposition and had many friends who regret that he is no more. They join in extending sincere sympathy to his sister, Mrs. Caldwell, who is the only surviving member of his immediate family. Fifteen Membcbrs Visit County Hi —Refreshments Served. COTTON WAS PROFITABLE DESPITE STORM INJURY V Thick Spacing, Two Side-Dressings and Four Poisonings Paid. W. D. Moorer, farmer of Holly Hill, was inadvertently eliminated from the prize class in last year’s five-aert cotton contest hy the severe storms that damaged his crop. Yet the con test methods of culture he followed in competing for the prizes returned him a neat profit on the crop, with a yield of 649 pounds an n^re of one and an eighth-inch Carolina Foster lint, notwithstanding injuries that put the average farmer on the debit tide of his ledger. “This was the most backward year,” write* Mr. Moorer, “I have ever tried to farm in my life of 54 years. I had only three weeks the entire season that I called real farming weather. I can only attribute my yield to good land and thick spacing. “I dropped it in hills every 12 inches and thinned to three and five stalks in the hill. Am sorry 1 thinned it at all, for on another field of five acres I left all that came up on four rows and showed it to County Agent R. F. Kolb and other extension agents. They agreed with me that it made one-thini more cotton. I am going to try five acres, should I live to plant again, and not thi n ou t * stalk. “I believe my four applications of poison really [Mid me well. “I aide-dressed twice with 75 pounds an acre of soda each time. “I hope to be able to enter again in 1929 as well as my son and two ren ter*.” LOCAL BAPTIST CIRCLE HOLDS PRAYER 8ERVIC* Having home news makes me feel I am at home.” Miss Pauline Holman spent .the week-end with friends in Columbit. The moon has nothing to do with any of these conditions affecting crops, the weather scientists declare. It has no influence on weather or soil. Even the light of the full moon is not in tense enough to have any effect on planLgrowth or plant diseases. The chief good accomplished by these old beliefs, the scientists say, as embodied in rural lore, is through the systematizing of farm work, fixing a time for various activities, and the force implanted to the frequently nec essary injunction, “Do it now.” Death of Herbert Calhoun. Lloyd A. and Teddy Plexico attend ed a meeting of Goodyear tire dealers in Columbia Thursday night. Among the attractions for the visitors was a banquet at the Jefferson Hotel. After long ill health, Herbert Cal houn died at his home in Appleton Tuesday afternoon, his body being laid to rest the following day. Mr. Calhoun, who was about 40 years of age, attended school in Barnwell and has many friends here who will learn of hia deaths with regret. He is sur vived by two sisters and one brother, Mrs. Patterson, of Walterboro, Miss Ethel Calhoun, of Appleton, and Clar ence Calhoun, of Augusta. ♦ ♦ ♦ — C. C. West, merchandise manager of the South Carolina Power Com pany, was in Barnwell on business Wednesday. «\ On last Thurs^y afternoon fifteen members of Circle No. 3 of the Bap tist Church, together with several visitors, held a prayer service at tha County Home for the inmates of tlia home. The meeting was held in t)w dining room and will long be remens* bered by those present- The meet ing was opened with prayer, after which songs selected by the inmates were sung. The Scripture was read and explained by Mrs. G. M. Greene^ after which Miss Anna Walker gave I a splendid talk. At the close of the service ice lemonade and sweet crack ers jwere served". “Mack", the new fruit dealer, sent out a generous do nation of fruit which was thoroughly enjoyed and his thoughtfulness ap preciated by the folk of the Home. Other Circles are planning a similar service in the near futuire. “The Shcpworn Angel.* “The Shopworn Angel,” with Nam Carroll and Gary Cooper in the ing rob*, will be the attraction at Vamp Theatre in Barnwell right, April 12th. Advance describe “the Angel” as “a gay Broadway butterfly—living a lift she made it, till the blind faith man caused the spe<kre of her to threaten her ditioo to this f« of “The Masked - K. J