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Schedule of County
Farm Tour August 25
Several Interesting and Inatructiye
Demonatrations to Be Visited
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Next Monday.
H. G. Boylston, county farm agent,
announces the following schedule of
the Barnwell County Farm Tour for
next Monday, August 25th:
9:00—Leave office of county agent
in Barnwell at 9:00 o’clock, visiting
P. A. Baxley’s contest field of corn
and cotton; also showing power farm
ing using a tractor to prepare, plant
cultivate and poison cotton and pre
pare, plant and cultivate corn.
9:30—See the contest field of Mrs.
C. H. Mathis and her overseer, Mr.
Hightower. This is one of the very
best 5-acre Cotton fields we have.
You will miss a rare opportunity if
you do not see how this field of cot
ton ha* turned out, having been pro
duced |>y the most up to date methods.
10:30—Nick Martin’s 5-acres of cot
ton at Healing Springs on the faim of
C. J. Martin; also 5-acre contest field
of corn on the farm of C. J. Martin.
11:30—M. W. Wise at his farm two
..miles of Walkers’ Station. See his
jtest field of corn.
These fields of com and cotton are
some of the very best in Barnwell
County.
12:00 O’Clock Noon. Lunch may
be had at Barnwell or Blackville pre-
paratoiy -to the afternoon schedule,
which starts from Barnwell at 1.30.
1;30—Tour leave* Barnwell, visit
ing feur 5-acre cotton contest fields
very close to Barnwell entered by M.
C. Best, J. E. Harley, Jr. t L. A. Cave
and William Me Nab. You wil he glad
to see these.
2:30—A. E. Corley at Corley’s Mill,
5-acre cotton contest demonstration
following Austrian peas on very poor
land. You want to observe what can
be done with the use of legumes rnd
proper fertilization for economical
cotton production.
3:30—Walter Givens’ 5-acrc rota
tion demonstration planted to cotton
which is unusually good, showing how
to economically grow cotton and build
soil.
4:15—G. W. Whitaker’*, whore Mr.
Steer and Mr. Whitaker discuss cheap
production of milk by using home
grown feed largely. See Mr. Whita
ker’s pure bred Guernsey cattle. A
fine opportunity to observe some go*d
dairy work.
5:00—W. Biyan Powell’s farm. 3
mile* South of W’dliston. to weigh lit
ter cf 12 spotted Poland China pigs
in contest, at which time about alO.OO
in prizes will be offered for nearest
correct estimate of weight
Everybody Invited. 3 OU ARE
URGED TO ATTEND.
Nena of Lyndhurst.
Local Woman Get*
Insulting Letter
Mrs. Emma Holman Receive* Anony
mous Communication Through
Barnwell Poet Office.
BARNWELL NOT TO LOSE SEAT
IN HOUSE REAPPORTIONMENT
An insulting anonymous letter was
received Friday morning by Mrs. Em
ma Holman, of thi s city, the communi
cation bearing the post-mark of the
local post office, which shoved that it
had been mailed here. The letter was
written on one typewriter and the
envelope addressed on another, and
the watermaiks in the letter paper
showed it to be expensive business
stationery. The name of the firm was
cut off by the writer.
Mrs. Holman immediately carried
the letter to the post office authori
ties in Augusta, Ga., where, it is un
derstood, photostatic copies were
made. As the letter contained noth
ing of an obscene nature, Mrs. Hol
man was advised that it was not a
case for federal prosecution. Satur-
i
day she reported the matter to So
licitor B. D. Carter, but it i* not known
at this time what steps he has taken,
as there aeems to be some doubt as to
whether or not the anonymous writer
can be indicted criminally.
It is understood that a clue to the
identity of the writer has been found,
the statjonery having been traced by
the watermark of the manufacturer.
The letter contained three sheets of
paper, two of which carried the same
watermark. Very few concerns in this
section use such expensive stationery.
It is authoritatjvely stated that no
one connected with the firm whose
stationery was used had anything to
do with the letter.
But Charleston. Clarendon, Edgefield, Lexington. Newberry and Saluda
Will Probably Be Deprived of Representative, According to
Census Fgures.
Absentee Voters’
Law Liberalized
Democratic Executive Committee
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Leaves It to “Conscience of the
Voters” to Decide.
^ Lyndhurst, Aug 18.—Mi** Alleon
Vowke. of Atlanta, Ga., viaited her
mother, Mrs. J. C. Fowke. last week.
Mrs. Wm. H. Harper and son, Sid
ney, left Sunday for* their home in
Chicago after a visit to Mr. and Mrs.
E. G. Hay..
W. D. Gaunt, of Allendale, was a
visitor here Thursday.
Mias E. M. Gaunt entertained for
Mrs. Wm. H. Harper Thursday even
ing.
Mr. and Mrs. Leland Harper, of
Rock Hill, v^ere here a few days last
week.
Miss Josephine Fowke is improving
after having her tonsils removed last
week.
E. G. Hay, Richard P. Gaunt and
Tom Riggs were visitors in Beaufort
one day last week.
R. L. Gaunt was a business visitor
in Beaufort Saturday.
W. D. Gaunt and family, of Allen
dale, and Mrs. Maude Woodruff were
* visitors here Sunday afternoon.
Carioll Fowke was a visitor in
Barnwell Saturday.
John Gaunt has returned from Al
lendale, where he spent a few days
last week. '
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loist week the attention of State
Chairman Claude N. Sapp was called
to a law passed in 1927 to the effect
that only voters who were sick could
vote by mail in the Democratic pri
maries in'this State, which would ex
clude those who might he away from
home account of business or pleasure.
At a meeting of the State Democratic
Executive Committee in Columbia
Friday, a resolution was adopted pro
viding that the test of the sickness of
a person requesting an absentee ballot
cn that giound should be left to the
“conscience of the voters.”
Backers of the measure said that a
“liberal interpretation” of the absen
tee ballot law was necessary., The
law* was overlooked in the 1928 elec
tions and voters were allowed to cast
thair ballets by mail, whether their
absence was caused by sickness, busi
ness or pleasure. According to the
State Executive Committee, secre
taries of the variou* clubs to whom
applications are made are not sup
posed to inquire whether cr not the
applicant is sick.
CHEVROLET ANNOUNCES
$40 PRICE REDUCTIONS
Detriot, Mich., Aug. 14.—Price re
duction! of $40 on all sport models in
the Chevrolet Six passenger car line
were announced here today by H. J.
Klingler, vice-president ant/ general
sales i^fianager of the Chevrolet Motor
Company,
The models affected are-the Sport
Roadster, which is now priced at $515;
the Spoit Coupe, reduced to $615; the
Club Sedan, now $625, and the Special
Sedan, $685. All models formerly
were priced $40 higher.
This latest move of the company
brings the price range of the Chev
rolet Six to less than the range of
the four cylinder Chevrolet at the
time of the changeover at the close of
1928. At that time the four was
priced from $495 to 9718, while the
nine different passenger models in the
sis cylinder line t r da)r range from
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Charleston.—Six counties—Charles
ton among them—may each lose one
repiesentative in the general assem
bly as a resul^ of reapportionment of
representation following the 1930
census, unofficial calculations on the
basis of preliminary population fig
ures for theJState indicate.
Five counties gain in representation,
one of them—Greenville County—add
ing^ two new members.
The six counties losing under re-
apportionment would be: Charleston,
Clarendon, Edgefield, Lexington, New
berry and Saluda.
The five counties gaining repres
entation would her Chesterfield, Dor
chester, Gieenville, Horry and Spar-j
tanburg.
The reapportionment, authorized by
the State constitution, can not take
effect until the next general election
and may not even be put into effect
at that time. The general assembly
has never made it an invariable cus
tom to carry out the mandate* of the
constitution, and almost invariably
the icapportionment—if it involve a
sufficiently Urge number of counties
—is delayed.
Nor if it even manditory that the
general assembly accept the federal
census figures. Instead, the constitu-1
tion provides, the State may itself j
take ita owrn census for this purpose.
I'rotisiiHi of Constitution.
* “The house of representative*.” the
constitution reads, “shall consist of
124 member*, to be apportioned
among the several counties according
to the number of inhabitants contain
ed in each. Each county shall consti
tute one election district. An enumer
ation of the inhabitants for thU pur
pose shall be made . . . every 10th
year ... in such manner as
shalDhe by law directed: Provided
that the general assembly may at any
time, in its discretion, adopt the im
mediately preceding United States
census *t a true and correct enumer
ation of the inhabitant* of the several
counties and make the apportionment
of lepresentatives among the several
counties according to said enumera
tion. ^
“In assigning representatives to
the Beveial counties, the general as
sembly shall allow one representative
to every 124th part of the w%ole
number of inhabitants in the State:
Provided that if in apportionment of
leprew ntativea any county shall ap
pear mt to be entitled, from ita popu
lation, to a representative, such coun
ty shall, nevertheless send one rep
resentative, ami if there be still a
defiriMney in the number of repres-
entit*ves required — such deficiency
shall be supplied by assigning repres
entatives to those counties having the
surplus fractions.
Population Now 1,732,271.
“No apportionment of representa
tives shall take effect until the gener
al election which shall succeed such
apportionment.”
South Carolina’s population this
year is given in the preliminary cen
sus announcement as 1,732,271, and
each county, therefore, is entitled to
one member of tiie House of* Repre
sentatives for each 13,979.9 inhabi
tants.
By simple division, disregarding
fractions, 102 of the 124 representa-1
tivrs are apportioned among forty-1
thiee counties. Three counties—Jas
per, McCormick and Allendale—fail to
qualify for representation on the basis
of population, but must, ag the consti
tution requires, be assigned one repre
sentative each nonetheless. The 19
vacancies remaining are to be distrib
uted on tile major fraction basis to:
^bbeville, Anderson. Barnwell, Beau
fort, Berkeley, Chesterfield, Colleton.
Dorltagtoa. Dillon. Dorchester, Fair-
field, Georgetown Gf aesrwond, Horry,
Lee. Marne Oraageharv. WiMame-
herg and Tech.
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revised population reports may invali
date the tabulation.
GreenvHle and Spartanburg Lead.
Greenville and Spartanburg, with 8
representatives each, would have, the
figures indicate, the largest delega
tions in the house, Charleston with 7
being second, Anderson and Richland
with six each third, Orangeburg with
five representatives fourth and Flor
ence and York with four each, fifth.
Eight counties—Aiken, Chesterfield,
Darlington, Greenwood, Horry, Lau
rens, Sumter and Williamsburg—
would have three representatives each
—while 21 counties—Abbeville, Barn
well, Beaufort, Berkeley, Cherokee,
Chester, Clarendon, Colleton, Dillon,
Dorchester, Fairfield, Georgetown,
Kershaw, Lancaster. Lee, Lexington,
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Markn, Marlboro, Newberry, Oconee,
Pickens and Union—would have two
each.
Eight counties—Allendale, Bam-
beig, Calhoun, Edgefield, Hampton.
Jasper. McCormick and Saluda—would
he allowed only one representative
each. %
The present representation figures,
the prospective new apportionment
figures and the tentative population
totals by counties are as follows:
White Man Escapes
from Barnwell Jail
Broadun Hoover Made Successful Dash
for Liberty Late Saturday—Still
at Large.
Popu-
County:
Old:
New:
lation
Abbeville ...
2
2
23,113
Aiken
3
3
47,407
Allendale ....
1
1
13,289
Anderson
. 6
6
81.018
Bamberg ....
1
1
19,408
Barnwell
2
2
21,220
Beaufort
2
2
21,802
Berkeley
.2
9
m
23.546
Calhoun ....
1
1
16,639
Charleston ...
8
7
99,658
Cherokee ....
2
2
32,138
(’heater
2
2
31,694
Chesterfield ..
. ’ 2
3
34,336
Clarendon
3
"2
30,13*2
Cojleton .....
2 .
2
2.3,912
Darlington ...
3
3
41,424
Dillon
2
2
25,733
Dorchester ...
1
2
25,320
Edgefield ....
2
1
19,326
Fairfield .....
9
2
23,295
Florence ....
4
4
61,028
Georgetown ..
2
2
21.724
Greenville ...
6
8
117,004
Greenwood ...
3
3*
:i6.065
Hampton ....
1
1
17.243
Horry ......
2
3
38.294
Jasper
1
1
9.989
Kershaw ....
o
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2
31.925
Lancaster
9
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2
27.981
Lauren*
3
3
42,096
l<ee ...... ..
2
2
24,095
Lexington
3
• 2
33.889
McCormick ..
1
1
11,638
Marion
2
2
27.221
Marlboro ...
2
2
312177
Newberry —
8
2
32.435
Oconee -
2
2
.33,355
Orangeburg ..
5
5
63.850
Pickens
2
2
30,590
Richland
6
6
86,215
Saluda
2
1
18,148
Spartanburg .
7
8
116,27(f
Sumter
:__._3
3
45,887
Union
2
2
30,915
Williamsburg
3
2
34,914
York i.
.4
4
53,396
Enjoy
Week-end
Visit.
Mrs. D. C. Vickery, Mrs. J. J. Vick
ery and little daughter, Margaret, en
joyed a delightful week-end visit to
Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Miller and family,
former residents of Barnwell who are
now living in Kingstree. Mrs. Miller
and her guests motored to Greeleyville
Saturday afternoon on a visit to a
former pastor of the Barnwell Metho
dist Church, the Rev. F. L. Glennan,
and Mrs. Glennan. The afternoon was
spent most pleasantly.
A visit from the Rev. and Mr*. M.
L. Banks was also enjoyed. Sunday
school and church seemed very famil
iar with Mr. Banks presiding. He
delivered a very later vat tag set mo*,
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Broadus Hoover, white, escaped
from the Barnwell County jail late
Saturday afternoon when a trusty in
charge of the cells unlocked the door
to release a woman. Hoover made a
dash for liberty, knocking .the
woman and the trusty down in his
mad rush, and before the latter was
able to regain his feet, the white man
had disappeared. Efforts have been
made to recapture him, but so far
without success.
Sheriff B. H. Dyche s stated Tuesday
afternon that Hoover was lodged in
jail about a week ago, having been
arrested on a warrant sworn out be
fore Magistrate Paul H. Sanders by
Ruby Creech, in which he was charged
with larceny.
Barnwell Gets Some
Pleasant Notoriety
Charleston and Columbia Newspapers
Comment on Carload of Melons
Shipped from Here.
Candidates to Speak
in Barnwell Friday
Aspirants for the United 8*at*a Sms*
ate and County Officers to Ad
dress Voters Here.
During the past week, Barnwell has
gotten some “pleaxant notoriety
from Charleston and Columbia news
papers, which is to say that these
papers gave this town some worth
while advertising m their editorial
columns. Both papers were comment
ing on a caitoad of watermelons that
were grown and shipped by Perry B.
Bush, of Barnwell, who took special
pains in packing the car. Under the
caption, “Protecting Carolina Melons,”
the News and Courier has this to say:
From Barnwell watermelons were
shipped to Utica, N. Y., in cars lined
with cotton cheese cloth and the Got
ten Textile Institute see* in this an
imporant new use for cotton. The in
spector's report i* quoted:
“Inspection of this shipment shows
the load was entirely free from the
usual rubbed melons which come in
contact with the car walls . . . .
This method of car protection it ap
parently very satisfactory for the
elimination of this type of damage
which is very common in the average
shipment. The cushioning of the load
was excellent, and it is recommended
that other can, loaded with water
melons. be cushioned in a similar
manner”
Fliction fre-m the aide walls and
ends of the cars was prevented by a
two-inch layer of straw held in place
by chedhe cloth extending four inches
above the top of the load. In the
swaying of the car themelons were
cushioned, thus saving them from
bruises.
Should shippers of melons and either
fruits generally adopt the practice of
using cheese cloth to hold a straw
cushion, sales of cheese colth will
benefit. The method will not be mon
opolized for railroad cars; the motor
truck shippers will use it. Unless
fruits are protected against damage
by tubbing against side walls and end*
there will hp bruising, with conse
quent loss to shippers.
Commenting on the same subject,
The Columbia Record, in an editorial
headed “Cheese Cloth; Watermelons,”
said:
Recently a car load of melons was
shipped from Barnwell and to protect
the melons from the usual friction the
sidewalls and ends of the car were
lined with straw held in place by
cheese cloth and narrow strips tacked
to the walls.
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An inspector reporting on results
says:
i. “Inspection of this carload ship
ment shews the load was entirely free
from the usual rubbed melons which
come in contact with the car walls.
. . . . This method of car protec
tion if apparently very satisfactory
for the elimination of this type of
damage which is very rommoa in the
average shipment TW rwahioamg of
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Final appeals for the votes of the
‘‘deer peepul” will be made in Barn
well Friday by candidates for the
United States Seriate and also for tha
various county offices and one of the*
lagest crowds of the year is ex peeled
on that day. Announcement is made
that the county office-seekers will
lead off, beginning promptly at to*
o’clock, and their speeches will be
limited in order that the Senatorial
aspirants may address the voters be
fore adjournment for dinner. It is
understood that the unopposed candi
dates for county offices—Judge John
K. Snelling, J. J. Bell and W. H. Man
ning-will be asked to yield their
time. Candidates for the office of
County Superintendent of Education
will probably be limited to 15 minutes
each, while those for the House of
Representatives will be allowed 10
minutes in which to present their
claims. Candidates for the Senate—
Senator Cole L. Blease, Former Con
gressman James F. Byrnes pnd Solici
tor Leon W. Harris—will be given 30
minutes each.
It is expected that the meeting will
be finished by one o’clock or shortly
thereafter, at which time the ladies
of the Barnwell Baptist Church will
serve s barbecue dinner, for which
elaborate arrangements are being
made.
It is net known at this time just
wheie the meeting will be held. If'
the crowd is ag large as anticipated, it
will probebly be held in the open;
otherwise, the Court House will be
uged. Final announcement of the
place will be made Friday morning.
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Social and Personal
News from Williston
Williston, August 16.—-Mist Grace
Givens is spending acme time visiting
in Savannah.
Mr. and Mr*. J. V. Porter and Miss
Thelma Givens have returned from a
trip to Washington, Niagara Fallg and
Canada.
Mia. W. G. Thompson and Mrs. W.
C. Smith, Jr., have returned home af
ter several weeks motor trip to Wash
ington and New York.
Mrs. C. M. Edenfield and daughter,
Misg Clara Mae Edenfield, have m»
turned to their home in North Augus
ta. after several days visit to Mr. and
Mrs. P. M. Hair and Miss Inez Hair.
Dr. And Mrs. Wallis Cone and sons
have returned from Pine wood, where
they visited Mrs. Cone’s sister, Mrs.
Dukes.
Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Bolen, ot
Winnsboro, have returned home after
visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Boylston,
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Givena and other
relatives hare.
Misses Alice and Alberta Boyistoa
are spending a few days in Columbia
with relatives.
Miss Mary Robinson, of Rowesvitle,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. W. T. Wil
lis, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Thompson are
having a house party for Miss Annie
Gene Way, and are entertaining quite
a number of the younger set
• Mr. and Mrs. O’Neal Lott, of Bar
tow, Fla., have returned home after
a visit to relatives here.
Marion Willis, Mrs. W. T. Willis,
Jr., and Miss Mary Robinson spent
several days with W. T. Willis, Jr., at
High Point, N. C.
Miss Lou Belle Scott and Lee Brab
ham have returned home from Bluff-
ton, where they were guests of the
Rev. and Mrs. W. R. Davis and fam
ily.
Mr. and M^s. C. D. Page entertained
with three tables of bridge Monday
evening in home of their guests, Mr.
sod Mrs. K. O. Lott, of Bartow, Fla.
Mrs. A. K: Sbealey entertained with
a delightful bridge h
el her home in honor of ifiaa
Dvlk. vf Charlotte who has hoe
*tmg her for
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