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M Jom 1. US. 'Jusl Llks • M feop of th* Family" *s*q VOLUME LUL BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, US. NUMBER Two Barnwell Homes Endangered by Fire Fortunately Both Blazes Were Dis- «orere4 in Time to Arert Serious Property Damage. Two near fires have occurred in Barnwell during the past week and but for their timely discovery would probably have caused serious proper ty damage. Sunday afternoon members of J. Julien Bush’s family noticed an odor of wood smoke in their home, but it was not until between 9 and 10 o’clock that night that it was found that the wood boxing under the hearth in their living room was smouldering. The day had been quite cold and a very hot fire was kept burinig in the grate. The heat was transmitted through several inches of tile and concrete, charring the wood boxing underneath. Mr. Bush called John Eve, Barnwell’s old reliable brickmason, and in a short time he had torn up the hearth and ex tinguished the fire. No alarm was given. Tuesday afternoon, between one and two o’clock, fire was discovered in the bathroom of the residence on South Jefferson Street occupied by T. D. Creighton, Jr., and family, having started from an oil stove. Prompt work on the part of the volunteer fire department soon brought the blaze un der control. * i Motor Vehicle* to Duplay Two Plates Nearly Quitter of a Million Will Toll the World About Iodine Discovery in This State. Local and Personal News of Blackville Blackville, Nov. 10.—Friday evening Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Carroll entertained i with a lovely bridge party for their! guests, Mr. and M-s. Riven Carroll, of Asheville. N. C. Miss Eugenis Still received Hie high score prize, s dainty, powder container. Superintendent G. F. Posey held high score for men and Columbia, Doc. 3.—Motor vehicles in the state will next year be distinguish ed by two, license plates, instead of only one, in accordance with the pro visions of an act passed last year. Y The 1930 plates have a solid black base on which is embossed white num erals. The * words “South Carolina” are spelled out beneath the license number, and the word “Iodine” is placed in vertical letters on the ex treme right end of the plate. Approximately 240,000 sets of these plates are expected to be in use during ’3d, that number of application blanks having been mailed to motor vehicle owners by the Highway Department. Applications for plates are being filled as soon as they are received by the Motor Vehicle Division of the De partment so that, all owners who make application on time will have their plates in time to display them on their vehicles by January 1, 1930. The handling of a quarter of a mil lion separate transactions during short period of time is an enormous task, but the Highway Department is adequately prepared for the job and has its machinery in motion for giving to South Carolina citizens the type of service they have learned to expect. The division handling the license plates is now a bee hive of activity, work go ing on night and day to handle the flood of applications being received daily. J HEALTH Greetings 1929 Social and Personal News from Willuton TWO DIE AS STOVE SETS FIRE TO CRASHED AUTO Bre’r Rabbit Menace Will Get Attention Willirton. Nov. SO.—Mr.. E. G. Fletcher has returned from Beaufort, wa» riven a brutr* «t. Mr*. Somers I where has been the r>ert of Mr. Pringle received a bridge set also, hav ing cut consolation. The hostess, as sisted by Mn. Farrell (VGorman and Mias Dorothy O’Gorman, served a sweet course with coffee and mints. Monday Afternoon Bridge Club. Mrs. James Nevils was Hoetes* to the Monday Afternoon Bridge Club at its regular meeting at 4 o’clock. Mrs. Somers Pringle, Mrs. Kelly Browning, Mrs. Henry Still and Miss Dorothy O’Gorman were visiting guests for the afternoon. After-four progressions it was found that Mrs. Somers Pringle held high score, for which she received a lovely jar of dusting powder. Mrs. Henry Still cut consolation, a box of correspondence cards. The hostess, as sisted by Mrs. H. L. Buist and Miss Helen Weiaainger, served a sweet course with crystalized fruit. Thursday Club. Mrs. C. Risher entertained the mem bers of the Thursday Club at itp meet ing this week. The visitors included Mrs. R. A. Gyleg and Mrs. J. V. Mat thews. The time was * pleasantly passed in various forms of contests. Mrs. W. W. Molony cut for high score prize and Mrs. Sam Izlar Buist for consolation. The hostess served a. sal ad course with Russian tea. Mrs. Somers Pringle was hostess to the Thursday Bridge Club last week. Mrs. Riverg Carroll, of Asheville, was a guest. Mrs. I. Brown received high score prize. A salad course was served. The faculty of the Blackville school and Mrs. B. D. Kitchings for the past week. Leo Wise, of Spartanburg, spent the past week with relatives here. Mrs. Estelle H. Patterson, of Barn well spent Saturday with her daughter, Mn. James A. Kennedy. Mn. Ophelia McKerley and Norman Pender, of Springfield, spent Sunday afternoon with relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Trotti had as their guests Sunday Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Trotti. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Kennedy, Mr. and Mn. B. F. Anderson, of Dun barton, Mr. and Mn. A. E. Corley, of Dunbarton, and Mr. and Mrs. Earle Petty, of North Augusta. Mr. and Mn. J. B. Harvin, of Man ning, were week-end guests of the Rev. and Mn. Stephen Harvin. Miss Miriam Hodges, of Oconee, Ga., is visiting her sister, Mrs. J. C. Folk. J. W. Jones, of Ridge Spring, was a visitor here this week. Miss Lenna Brown Davis, who is teaching at Duncan, is at home for Thanksgiving and the week-end. Mr, and Mn. R. L. Hair and children and Pickens Kennedy spent Thanks giving in Charleston, where they at tended the Citadel-Wolford game. Mrs. Hair’s nephew, Joel Kennedy, is cap tain and quarterback of the Wofford team. A. M. Kennedy is spending a few days in New York City. Mrs. Kenne dy is visiting her daughter, Mrs. E. P. Riley, in Greenville. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Latimer and fam- ily, of Columbia, spent the Thankagiv- KEROSENE BURNER IN OVER TURNED CAR THE CAUSE. Piggly Wiggly Store Opens Here Friday Main Sired Store ProMato Up-to* Date Appearance.—C. A. Beit brock to Charge. Of interest to the housekeepers of Barnwell and vicinity is the announce- ment that a Piggly Wiggly Store will be opened in Barnwell tomorrow'(Fri day , ready to supply their needs at lowest cash prices. The new store is located on Main Street in the old Falkenstein building, which has been remodeled by the present .owner, Col. Edgar A. Brown. The most modern store fixtures have been installed and everything is being arranged for the convenience of customers. This new enterprise is owned by H. R. Fairy and W, F. Fairy, Jr., of Or angeburg, who have the Piggly Wigg ly franchise in thig section. The Barn well store will be under the manage ment of C. A. Rosebrock, one of Or angeburg’s progressive young men. With a modern store arrangement, new goods and low prices, it i* be lieved that the new store will enjoy a large patronage from those who like to effect substantial savings on their purchases. A half-page advertise- mept on page five of this issue con tains a partial list of bargains to be found there this week. Read it and profit accordingly. LOCAL AND PERSONAL NEWS FROM KLLENTON spent Thanksgiving in their respective homes. Miss Ella Hill visited Miss Eva Clark, at Liberty. Miss Emily In gram wen^ to Hartsville, llfiss Thelma Hodge to Union, Miss Ruth Barton to Orangeburg, Miss Adele Gunter to Wagener, Miss Helen Holstein to Mon- etta, Miss Thelma Stack to Elloree, Miss Evelyn Richardson to Columbia, Miss Eleanor Smith to Bowman, and Miss May Suber to Silverstreet. Supt. G. F. Posey spent the Thanks- #iving holidays hi North Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. Rivers Carroll left Saturday morning for Summerville for a short visit before their return to their home in Asheville. Dr. and B^rs. D. K. Briggs are en joying a splendid trip through Florida and Cuba. Mrs. J. L. Buist, Mrs. Sam Buist, Mrs. S. H. Buist and W. C. Buist mo tored to Augusta on a shopping trip Thursday. Mrs. G. F. Posey is spending the week with her parents in St Mat thews. Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt Browning, Jr„, Asm, ate gveataj Bean Crops and Gardens in the Lower Part of the State Damaged.— Will Seek Legislation. Columbia, Dec. 3.- r The frisky rab bit, in days gone by hunted mainly by boys armed with single-barreled shot guns, has multiplied in South Carolina to such an extent that he has become actually a menace to many crops—so much so indeed that A. A. Richardson, chief game warden, will address the legislature in January on some meas ure looking to bunnie's control. Two or three factors have contribu ted to the remarkable increase in the number of rabbits. The exodus of ne groes from the State to Northern man ufacturing plants removed one ele ment of the population which killed many rabbits annually. Hundreds of acres of farm lands have been aban doned, the tenant having moved to town or mill village—and with the ten ant went the hound dog. On these idle acres, the rabbit has flourished like the green bay tree. Then came talk of tularemia—a dis ease of rabbits, which could be com municated to humans through scratch es or abrasions on the hands of the hunter. Many folk who previously handled rabbits carelessly refused to touch them at all, and so fewer rabbitp were killed. Reports from different parts of the State are that rabbits are more nu merous this year than ever—that hunt ers who went out Thanksgiving after rabbits Third Occupant Endeavors Rencue Vain aa Dying Friends Cry for AM and Blow Horn. Olar, Dec. 1.—Two young men were burned to death here enrly this evening when n kerosene stove burning in their automobile to help them withstand the cold weather, spewed oil and flames over the car after the automo bile had careened down an embank ment and turned over, pinning its three occupants beneath. The man escaped with minor burns. •The dead are Raymond D. renden, 26, formerly of Piedmont, but for sev eral years clerk at the St. Joseph ho tel, Orangeburg, and Marion Ott, 23, Peyton’s room-mate at the hotel. D. D. Hicks, 23, insurance man of Orange burg, managed to break out of the blazing automobile with only minor injuries, but was unable to save the others. Penden, who was driving a touring car of popular make, turned hit head to apeak to Ott, riding on the rear seat as the automobile approached the! *° n ‘ north end of Olar. Suddenly the au tomobile darted down an embankment, turning dver and causing the kerosene stove’s contents to ignite quickly. The stove was used by the trio to guard against the cold weather. When Hicks climbed out and, with the assistance of two other motorists, attempted to rescue the others, the dy ing men were calling for help and one of them—probably Penden—was fran tically blowing the automobile horn for Ellenton, Nov. 80.—Mrs. Lillie Ken nedy has returned from a visit with relatives in Augusta. Miss Gladys Owens spent the Thanksgiving holidays with her pa rents in Waynesboro. She waa ac companied home by little Mias May Owens Brinkley. Miss Lena Helmly, who attends school in Waynesboro, spent the week end here with her parents. Lin wood Bush, Oswald Bosk and Jeff Stokes, of The Citadel, in Charles ton, were here for the funeral of J. C. third Bush. | Hr. and Mn. H. H. Sumbrid«e. of Waynesboro, visited relatives here Thursday. W. M. Bostick, of Spartanburg, is here for several days visiting relatives and friends. Miss Edythe Pearce, of Greenwood, is the attrketive house guest of her sunt, Mrs. Ralph Dunbar. Mn. H. M. Caaaela, Jr., and children spent the holidays with relatives in Liberty. Mjes Anne Glymph left Wednesday for a visit to her parents in Ander- Barnwell in Grip of Wintry Wi Icy Maata DmccoM Upo. TU. tkm Last For the past severs! days County has been in the grip of weather, which descended upoe South Friday night. Street mometers hem Saturday morning istored 20 degrees above coldest of thn season—and there very little rise in temperature the day. It was almost as cold day, with rain the following day. Tuesday Wight there was another da* cided d«>p and the following the temperature was again several grees below the freezing point Some damage was done to plumbing where the water waa cut off and local filling station op tor a have done a land-office businaw in anti-freeze solutions for biles. Twenty-seven deaths have been ported from the , cold throughout the South, one of occurring in Aiken County. Wi weather is promised for th# part of the week. Aiken, Nov. SO.—Dick Gantt, of nil Wagener, and well known in that sa tion, was found frozen to death in swamp near his home this Officers said that Gantt had missing from his home in the Creek section sines yesterday, and thin morning n search was made for About ten o'clock the searehta* party me eeroee the almost lifeless fc puddle of mud which with ice. He was carried to his but died a few minutes later. It stated to officers that Gantt had home for n hunting trip. Officers making the said that no inquest would ha sary aa a physician on rriwtah^ body said that the man came to death from onpoeum to the eeM. New Chief Elected by Local Fare Fit Lloyd Vickery U Chaaaa Him Ue*Wv J. J. Vickery. Who Died Recently. ing holidays with relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Shealey spent Thanksgiving at Ninety-Six, the guests of the former’s parents. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Givens and Mrs. J. V. Porter spent Thursday at Hartsville and Coker College with Miss Grace Givens. Advertise in The People-Sentinel of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Buist and Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt Browning, Sr. Joe Halford, Wilmont Martin, Paul Magruder and Edward Ninestein spent the Thanksgiving holidays at home. They are students at the University of South Carolina. Miss Martha Still spent Thanksgiv ing at home, returning to Chicorm Col lege Friday morning. Mrs. W. C Buist spent a few days in Cheater this week. Dr. and Mrs. R. A. Gyles spent the Thanksgiving holidays in Spartanburg. Mr. and Mrs. Riggs, of Summer ville, spent Thanksgiving with Mr/and and Mrs. Wyatt Browning, Jr.,: Mrs. W. R. Carroll. finding all they wanted—they seemed to be hiding under almost every brush heap. The rodents are damaging the bean crops and gardens in the lower part of the State, and young orchards too will likely suffer from them this winter, as the rabbit gnaws the bark near -the troubk in A , , h(> trkNl Walter Moody, el Augusta; Mr. _ am. ine rejHUers va-miy irieo lo _—iw—tt. '—xy a ground and thus weakens and checks the growth of the tree. To Address Legislature. “I intend to call to the attention of the legislature next year the necessity of the passage of some law giving the landowner the right to protect his crops and property against destruct ive animals,” Mr. Richardson said yes terday. # “I hope the legislature will devise some plan whereby there may be a bounty or that it ^will take some step which will encottzage the public to make war on veriniri and destructive animals. These creatures destroy game birds and game birds' nests as well as do other damage. “Some States, notably Pennsylvania, have passed such laws and there has been noted a decided increase in game.” turn over the automobile and free the youths, the horn suddenly became quiet and the only noise to come from the blazing car was the hissing of flames. This hissing, too, soon ceased. The charred bodies of Penden. and Ott were found beneath the smoked and twisted Mrs. W.D. Bush snd Mrs. C. G. Youngblood attended a meeting of the executive board of the Savannah Rives Association W M. U. Among those from out of town at tending Major J. C. Bush’s funeral Thursday were Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Turner, of Aiken; Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Fanning, of Johnston; Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Bush, of Barnwell; Mr. snd Mrs. J. L. Oswald, of Allendale; Mr And Mrs. T. A. Holland, of Barnwell; Mr. and 1 Thanksgiving with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Buist. Mr. and Mis. Sam Buist were vis iters in Columbia Friday. W. W. Marchant, of Orangeburg, was a visitor Imps Mouday. * ' - . • — * - * t ' i metal of the automobile. i As the rescue party endeavored to raise the burnihg car from the dying men, flames would sweep and lick out ward with a terrifle roar and force, lapping at the men’s clothes. Each time the men raised the crushed auto mobile the Are darted from beneath, making continued attempts impossi ble. Penden had just written a letter to his mother and had handed it to Ott, in whose charred hand the letter was found. The boys planned to stop in Olar to mail the letter. From their Orangeburg homes the trio had driven to Olar to visit girl friends. They had called on one girl and had just left her house bound to see another friend when tbs accident occurred. The accident occurred at 6:30 to night on State highway No. 6 at the north edge of Olar. Arrangements were about completed this evening to remove the bodiee to A motorcade of and Mri. X T: Cushman, of Alk*l, and many others. V Miss Mary Quarles spent the week end in McCormick with her parents. Mrs. Ted Killingsworth, of Dunbar ton, visited her sister, Mrs. F. C. Brink- ley, here Tuesday. ' —Mr. and Mrs. Furman M. Bash, of Statesboro, were ailed home by the death of the former’s father Wednes day. > Foster Bush and Sam Taylor, of the University of South Carolina, spent the week-end here with Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Bush. weather, a fairly large crowd a Barnwell Monday, the occasion December salesday. Sales mm the Master, G. M. Greene, Esq^ Carolines Joint Stock , ^ vs. Wyiiam M. HajiMMj Miss Florence Duncan, who ha* been 8 Brown antf Bwh. attorney*, for At a meeting of the members ef local volunteer Are department night, Lloyd Vickery a ly chosen chief of the succeed his uncle, the late J. J. cry, who died suddenly a short ago. The new chief haa always an active interest in the Are ment and hae been a willing and fleient worker at all Ares in in recent years. With the thus gamed under the able of the former chief, the continues under the leadership ef efficient official. E. F. Woodward, aaaistoit ehia& quested city council to have the hands to assist in taking after each Are and returning ment to the engine house. He out that heretofore th 1 left to the members of the men, who are usually worn cot fighting a fire. . Master Sells Property. In spHe qf tha very making her home with her sister, Mrs. EUerbe Davis, is with her parents for several weeks. . Miss Myrtle Davis, who teaches at Silverstreet, spent the Thanksgiving season with her parents here. the bodies to that city. the son of Mr. and Mrs. , of Piedmont, who sur- do four brothers and two ais- 9 had been clerk at the betel yearn and was widely known traveling public, was a native of Orangeburg __ where lives. He is 600. Bank of WesteV Carolina vs. V* Duncan, et ai., 18 and 36-acres > bought by Brown and Bush, for $2,500; 30, 400 and tracts bought by Brown torneys, for $600. - Little Bey Painfully Eugene, the youngest mm Percy Brown, who lives dm well, was painfully burned on leg ah the knee when his caught firs yard ef Us ■*-»» — •— mow imnM stoppad Via X ,