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THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OP BARNWELL COCNTT The Barnwell Consolidated June 1, 1925. VOLUME LIL 'Jumt Llk« a Majmbar of tha Family” BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1929. NUMBER 49. Shot hy Policeman, Negro Dies in Jail .' Charlie Taylor Succumb# to Wounds Inflicted While Resisting Arrest Sunday Afternoon. Charlie Taylor, a negro, died in the Barrwell County jail Sunday ^ight from a bullet wound inflicted by Chief of Police George Peeples, of this city, Sunday afternoon. The police officer shot thfe negro after-Taylor had been placed ur.der arrest for beating, his wife. \ Taylor was given medical at tention by a local physician and then lodged in jail. Evidently .- it was not known that he had been fatally in jured. Jailer G. M. Maih says that Taylor was alive at ten o’clock Sun day right and died some time between that hour and daylight Monday morn ing. At the coroner’s inquest Monday morr ing, it was found that the bullet entered Taylor’s left shoulder, passed partly through the body and imbedded itself just under the skin of his right SUMMER GRID COACH Prominent Barnwell Citizen Passes Away Robert Stanley Dicks Died Tuesday Night After Long Illness.— Funeral Thursday. Bob Zuppke, for sixteen years a coach at the University Of Itltndts, ts shown teaching Barkham Gamer, ft San Diego (Calif.) state college student how to “hit ’em low.” Football is sira- ' pie, Zuppke says. If players will only use their head, keeping It down, tackling low and turning their face In toward the knee. Zuppke gave s sum mer course on the sand of the Pacific breast, where it was cut out by Coun-1 at Coronado, Calif., wl»ere eighty Call- ty Physician A. B. Patterson at the! fomia college boys learned something . * of the Illinois “system.” inquest. s. — —■■■ ■ ■, — Mr. Peeples, who v/as the only wit-' _ __ nes s examined, testified that he wert Eye Badly Sc&lded to arrest Taylor when complaint was . ^ ~ •*, .«*«.. . made to him that the negro had at-1 Dy KaGiatOr Oteam dealers, and was actively identified After several months illness from an incurable malady, Robert Stanley Dicks, aged 49 years, died M at his home here Tuesday night at 10:25 o’ clock. For some time it had been known that there was little chance of his recovery, but his family and frier.ds hoped against hope that the summons of the Grim Reaper might be stayed and that he would be spared for many years of usefulness. But the skill of physicians and the terder nursing of loving hards were of no avail and, “Hke one who draws the drapery of his couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams,” he passed to his eternal reward. The funeral services will be con ducted this (Thursday) morning at eleven o’clock at his late residence by Archdeacon Joseph Burton, rector of the Church of the Holy Apostles, and hia body will be-laid to rest in the Episcopal Churchyard. Mr. Dicks was a prominent business man of Barnwell, being owner of the Dicks Auto Company, lo^al Ford Contracts Are Let For Street Paving Very Low Bids Received for Work to Be Done in Barnwell.—Will Be Started Soon. tacked hia (Taylor’s) wife. While on the way to the local jail, the negro j B. S. Moore, Jr., Painfully Hurt Friday showed fight and it was necessary for the officer to knock him down with hia club. After proceeding a short | distance, the negro again resisted the officer and was subdued a second Afternoon While Returning From Columbia. with the religious, social and civic life of the city. He was a member of the Boaid of Trustees of the local schools and was a Masor and a Shriner. A number of year ago he joined the Episcopal Church and serv Mayor B. W. Sexton, Col. Edgar A. Brown and Alderman W. J. Lemon went up to Columbia Tuesday to at tend a meeting of the State Highway Department, when bids were submit ted for street and sidewalk paving in Barrwell. Upon their return, all of these gentlemen expressed themsetvs as being very much gratified over the fact that the bids j were so much ower than was expected, thereby saving the town several thousand dol- ars or. the estimated cost of the work. The contracts were awarded to two different construction companies—that for the* street paving going to the Thomasson Construction Company and the sidewalk paving to the Kennedy Construction Company—but it is very pv .bable that one concern will do both jobs. It is understood that there if possibility that Main Street will be surface-treated from the Marlboro Street crossing to the Southern Rail way. While no definite date has been set, it U believed that the construction work will be started here in the very near future. S* Moore. Jr., son of Mr. and e( | M Vestryman and Junior Warder, time. On his third attempt he sue-j B. S. Moore, of this city, was An obediert son, a faithful husband, a ceded in jerking Mr. Peeples’ club | paiafuily hart in an unusual automo- <fe V oted father, a loyal friend, a good from Ha hard and at the same time Wa accident Friday afternoon while «.*!*** mnd a Christian gentleman has tried to draw a knife which he had returning from Columbia, where he pmailed open in his pdtket, whereupon the ha ‘* to meet hi * »»ater, Miss Sixteen years ago, Mr. Dicks mar- officer shot him. The verdict of the Nary Ftaaces Moore, who was ar r ied Miss Wilhelmina Artley, of Cor- rorot er’a jury of inquest was that rout ^ home from inthrop College. dova, Orangeburg County, and this Taylor came to his death as the re- ( ^her near Swansea, Mr.. Moore un jon was blessed with two childrer, suit of a gunshot wound inflicted by «**‘c«d that the motor of his car was Miss Patricia Dicks and Robert Stan- Mr Peeples in the dtseharge of Ha oiwhf^ng and stopped at a service , #y Dicks, Jr., who, with kb wife, sar daty _ j station to ^replenish Om supply of h j mt togathcr with his parents, Taylor was released from the chair gang some time ago under a parole, having served part of a sentence for murder. It b said that he bore* a very ui savory reputation. Bottling Company Is Sustained by Judge Retraining Order Against South ( artdiaa Highway Department Upheld By Rice. water Ir. the radiator. When he mn 4 Mrs. R. W Dicks; two sb- mover the radiator cap. a cloud of U r», Mrs. A. J. Bennett, of Ban well, steam shot upward and struck him f f< | Mrs. W, E. Bennett, of Spring in the left eye. which was painfully and four brothers. J. N. and burred. He was given immediate Sidney Dicks, of Barrwell. C. Fuller medical attention by a Swansea phy Dicka, of Columbia, and James E. aictan and the car was driver, on to Dicks, of Hones Path, to whom the Barnwell by kis sister. An examina- sympathy of the entire community b tion here disclosed the fact that the extended in their bereavement, optic was not seriously injured. Mr. w♦w Moore wore colored glasses for a few SOLICITOR CARTER days to protect the injured eye from' DINES THE OFFICERS the strong sur light, but he has now discarded these and kis friends are Thursday Solicitor Bert D- Carter ( ^ to know thAt hii in j uri ** werf 10 tendered a fish fry to all of the law Aiken. July 25.-4udge Hayne F. I • ,l K hl * t t t | enforcement officers of his judicia Rue today handed dowr his decision' . ■ I L circuit, which ir eludes the counties of in the highway license case which has Judge J. H. JohnSOM Bamberg, Barnwell and Aiken. About been per ding here since last Wednes day, sustaining the ^junction proceed ings brokght by the Orange Crush Bottling Company, of Augusta, against the South Carolina State high way department, together with cer tain State cor stables, the sheriff and all peace officers of Aiken, Barnwell, Edgefield and Saluda Counties, were named defendarts and were restrained from collecttrg license fees for tags from the bottling company trucks other than the ones they have been issued by the State of Georgia. The Orange Crush corcern, acting in the matter, “ir behalf of itself and all other non-resident owners of trucks similarly situated/* was test ing out the law requiring out-of-state trucks to carry South Carolina licens# tags in addition to those from their home States. Judge Ricte ion stated that such a law was in force, but there were no enforcement Ijfws to authorize the highway depart ment ard State ard county officer? to collect these license fees. The Orange Crush Bottling ccm- pany, and other out-of-State operators of trucks, therefore, have won a legal victory,* but it is understood that the State highway department plans to continue the fight to collect these licer ses by carrying the matter to the supreme court. » • » An Amendment. U/*ll C L. # CIL. ^ guest* were present to erjoy the Wr ill opcak at xLlkO festivities of the day, the occasion of ■ | which was a get-together meeting in Elko, July 30.—Judge J. Henry the interest of better enforcement of Johnsor, of Allendale, Judge of the the laws. Fourteenth Judicial Circuit of this In a grove on the solicitor’s farm State, will address the Elko Baptist a short distance from Bambeig, lorg Sunday School next Sunday momirg, tables with a delightful and bountifu August 4th, at 10:00 o'clock. His supply of fresh water fisb, with the subject will be “Citizenship.” usual accessories to match. The din Judge Johnson is regarded as being ner was greatly enjoyed, es- a rative son, being the son- of Mr. and pecially by those who have not here- Mrs. J. W. Johnson, of Williston, and spent his boyhood days in Willistor.-. He is an able lawyer, an out-starding Judge, and a consecrated Christian. His lecture or.* “Citizenship” is real and practical and is a masterpiece. The public fs cordially irvited to bear Judge Johnson, and this an- we from tneir | "ouneemer-t guarantees a large con- ice, in his. opin- gregation next Sunday morning. T rain Kills Negro. One Foot Missing RULER OF ELKS Homes at B Robbed Week Buddy Price and Jam## Hagood, Ne groes, Arrested.—Two Comi tan# Are A. W. O. L. Col. Walter Pemberton Andrews past exalted ruler of Lodge No. 78, Atlanta, Ga., who was unanimously elected grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Prolectlve Order of Elks ai the sixty-fifth convention lb Los Angeles. Breaks Arm and Leg in Fall From Truck Will Manufacture Door Stop Device Allendale Citizens Taking Stock in Industrial Enterprise to Market* * Local Invention. Bill Mims, Local Blacksmith, Suffered Serious A c cidetK in Barnwell Last Week. Allendale. July 25.—H. H. BeU ard M. O. O’Cornor, of Augusta, promoters of the Door Stop corporation of Amer ica. to manufacture a device recently patented by W 11 Harden and L. C Cole, of Allendale, have been in Allen dale all tbia week, talkirg with busi ness men and perfecting organisation plans to include issuirg 50,000 shares of stock at no-par value. This compsry has already been or ganized and a considerable portion of stock disposed of among the bust ress men throughout this section. The officials connected with this compary are some of the most promi nent men in this sectior. W. H. Har den, president, it one of the leading merchants of Alter dale, W. B. Wsrrer, vice-president, is head of a large local wholesale grocery concern, and Pnul J. Fulmer is a well-known local banker and irsurarce man. The directors are: J. M. Thomas, head of the Coca-Cola Bottling com pany here and member of the house of repiesentatives from Allendale County; Randolph Murdaugh, tolici- torfor the Fourteerth Judicial circuit; L. C. Cole, ir.ventor of the door stop device and local merchant, and R. A. Easterling, vice-president of the South Carolina Power company. Bill Mims, s local blacksmith, was seriously injured Thursday when he fell from n truck while returning to his home in the Western part of Barn well. his left aim and right leg being broken. The broken bones were im mediately re*set by a local physician and Mr. Mima 4a getting along as well as could be expected. The injured man has been la ill health for several morths and has been greatly weaket ed by his sickness, w w ^ SACRED CONCERT WAS ENJOYED BY LARGE CROWD As a result of a series of robl in Blackville Thursday and Saturday nights of last week, Buddy Price and James Hagood, both negroes, were arrested by Sheriff B. H. Dyches and lodged in the Barnwell County jail, while two of their oompaniors in crime escaped and are still A. W. O. L. Thr fcegroes claim to be from Florida. Monday morning they were tried be fore Magistrate W. P. Sanders, of Barnwell, on a charge of larceny from the field and sentenced to 60 days each on the county chaingang. At the expiration of their sentences they will be arraigned before the Court of Gen eral passions on charges of houae- breaking and larceny. Thursday night the negroes robbed s box car on the Southern Railway tracks at Blackville and also the store of Henry Bodiford. Amorg other things they stole a quantity of canned goods, which they used to vary the monotony of their usual diet of thicker and “roasen-ear” corn, which they stole as reeded, and cookad at their camp on Windy Hill Creek. Saturday night visita were paid te the residences of W. 8. Grubbs, Linnit Johnson (colored), Montague Mc Clendon, and Mrs. T. R. Chisolm and also the room occupied by W. M. Mor rison at the Rush Hotal. Quantities of wearing apparel and other articles were stolen. Every room but one of Mr. Grubbs' residence was ransacked by the thieves and in the room that they failed to visit was an unlocked trank containing |40 kc. money. The negroes corf eased to tho rob beries and told the Sheriff that the stolen goods would bo found undtr the freight depot at Blackville. Every thing was recovered, except the ow ned goods, and returned to the right ful Quite a large crowd attended the sacred concert at the Baptist Church Sunday evening. Messrs. Riley, Neely. Shillito end Goolsby, Mrs. McCain ard Misses Riley, of Denmark, Mr. ard Mrs. L. H. Bolen. Miss Purvis and Mrs. Emmett Still, of Williston. A lion Dees, of Augusta, and Mrs. J. M. Hrodie, of Barnwell, furnished the music on this occasion, which was thoroughly en joyed by all presert. A reading by Mrs. Boland ws s much enjoyed. Quite a neat sum was realized which was sufficient to carry the organ group sponsoring the concert “over the top. At the close of the corcert, the visitors were served supper in the diring room of the church by mem bers of Organ Group No. S. WWW s Presbyterian Chnrch Servicea. VAMP THEATRE PROGRAM In writing a short account of the fish stew ard fry given by the Mary G. Harley Sunday School, class at Healing Springs several weeks ago, the name of Mrs. Thelma Furtick Car ter was ommitted from the committee in charge of the supper. This omis- sk>r was by to means intentional on the part of the writer who contributed krow that hia train had ran over a tofore known what a real Edisto river fish dinrer meant. Solicitor Carter was master of cere monies, and in a talk to his corps o ' erforcement officers, including magis trates, sheriffs, constables, deputies rural police, and a few other ir.vitec guests, explained that in order to have a (bettervunderstanding and a fuller co-operation he had asked them to come to Bamberg as his guests for a day. The solicitor believes that r.e- forcement will be promoted by the of ficers havirg a clear understanding of their duties. Special attention was given in his talk to the matter of is- KennedyNJohnsor, a negro, was kill-1 suing warrar.ts. He impressed upon ed at Elko Sunday night by r. South-j jug guests the importance of issuing ern Railway passenger train er. route or iy bona fide warrants, with evidence from BrancbviW to Augusta. The to back them, feeling that the courts body was horribly margled and parts, relieved of much unnecessary were strewn along the right-of-way work if t hi 8 policy i s closely adhered for a distance of ipore than half a to. \ mile, it is said. Oi.e foot was missing, j^jge Hayre F. Rice, of Aiken; entirely and it was reported here Senator W. L. Riley, ^ of Denmark, Monday mornirg that Nit had been Clerk 0 f Codrt Thomas T. Cushman, found at Williston, severaKmiles away,| of Aiken , ar d ot hers made brief talks, where i t had evidently been carried by Seveial magistrates were also called the trair. that killed the negro. I upon for remarks. It is felt that the It will probably - never be known meeting was quite worthwhile and whether the negro was asleep on the that jt will result in better co-opera- truck at the time of the accident or tion throughout the circuit.—Bamberg whether he wa t killed and his body Herald, placed there to cover pp the crime. It; * ♦ ia understood that the engineer did rot j Hot A oh os on Hubby. Week of July 31st Through Monday, August 5th. the article to this paper, aa Mrs. Carter waaNone of the buflWst Belfast.—Mrs. Mary Lexer admitted until after the body was found she had thrown hot ashes on her bus by a party of Wednesday, July 31st.—“The Case of Lera Smith,” with James Hall and Esther Ralstor.. Thursday, August 1st.—“Our Dane- irg Daughters,” with Joan Crawford ar d Johnny Mack Brown, the Alabama All-American fullback, and “they say” that he is as good in the movies as he was on the gridiron. Don’s miss this ore. Friday, August 2nd.—“The Winning of Barbara Worth,” with Ronald Cole man anrf Vilma Banky. This picture is ibeing shown ufder the auspices of Organ Group No. 1, of the local Bap tist Church, of which Mrs. Lessie Easterling and Mrs. Marie B. Mace are the leaders, for the benefit of the organ fund. Saturday, August 3rd.—A good Western picture. Morday, August 5th. — “Family Night.” A splendid picture will be shown. The B. and C. Cleaners. Elsewhere in this issue will be fourd the ar nouncement of the opening of the B. and C. Geaners plant Barn well on Monday, August 5th. This dry cleaning establishment is located ir the Porter Building on Main St. and will ba ia charge of o "Exclusive Right” to Handle S. C. Goods Fruklia. P., Urw, Write* te Or. Wm. West on About Thlo Stale's Anrouncement is made that there will be services at the Barnwell Pres byterian Shurch Sunday morr4ng at 11:30 o’clock. The subject for the sermon will be “The Believer’s Rela tion to the Non-Believer.” Sunday ever ing at 8:30 o’clock, ser vices will be conducted by the pastor at the Blackville Presbyterian Church. The Sur day school meets every Sun day morning at 10:15 o'clock. The school is making fine progress and all are takirg quite an interest it! it. A cordial invitation is extended to the public to attend any and all of these services. Hearse Catches Fire En Route to Funeral Here’s something new urder the sur. A motor hearse belonging to a local negro undertaker caught Are Sunday while transporting the body of a negro woman from Barnwell to the place of interment in the Western, part of the county. It seems that the hearse became dis abled when the funeral procession was several miles from the cemetery and a gaily-pairted touring car was towiig it along the highway. While goigg down a steep hill, the driver of the hearse set the brakes, which became over-heated and threatened to ignite the body of the machine. Considerable excitement ensued ard some oi the women mourners became hysterical when they thought that the would be consumed hy the the Maas . How are the table# turning! Not lorg ago, grocers in States had to be “asked” to food products grown and South Carolina. , Now how changed! Yesterday Dr. William the Natural Resources ceived e letter from P. E. of Franklin, Pa., asking, bow I being given “the exclusive right” te handle in his particular territory the iodine laden food products of South Carolina. Mr. Roserberg said ha had heard of these products, knew thing of what was claimed for and wants to handle them “exclusive ly” in his territory. And so now it begins tQ appear that irstead of having to “sslr' grocers la other States to stock up or. Sooth Carolina products, the Natural Re sources commission will have to use its discretion in designating store# that is if this phase of the matter falls under the supervision of the re sources commission—to handle these goods. Hie commission' intends te use its efforts to make these goods available to as many people as pos sible and to stimulate the demand for them in every way*—The State. HALT BUILDING OF ROAD. Injunction Against State Highway; Department at Elko. —L'- Charleston, My 29.—Cordemna- tion of rights of way of the Southern Railway at Elko by the State Highwayl Department has been stopped until final determination, of a case against the railroad or urtO order of Judge Ernest F. Cochran, lowing a hearing today In the coast room of the United States Court for the Eastern District of South Caroli na. Judge Cochran granted a ary injunction at tho