The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, April 11, 1929, Image 1
Thus. Rob Johnston
ank Early Tuesday
$8,000 Stolen.—Watchman Bound and
Left in Vault.—Three Suspects
Under Arrest.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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