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- --r ar TUB (/FnClAI. nbwbpapbb of baunwbll county . l ’ ConsolidaiHl Jan* 1, 192ft. M Ju*t JLIk« a M«mk>«r of the- Farnllv'* V/ i- ^ •-S 1, TOLBMELIV. BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1931. NUMBER 23. is UTTLE PROGRESS MADE . I AS YET BY LEGISLATURE < — — — Time for Payment of Taxes Has Been Extended to May 1.—Much Talk But Little Being Done About the Schools, Says John K.. Aull. Writing from Columbia, John K. AuU, veteran newspaper correspond- t*it, says that the end of the third week of the general assembly saw very little accomplished even of the things which mu?t be done a s a mat ter of routine. The ways and means •ommittee of^the house was progress ing somewhat carefully with its hear ings upon the. items to be placed in viding that there shall continue to be 14 members, as at present.’ Talk Much, But Can Do Little. Probably the greatest furore over the State has been kicked up by the proposal to cut all teachers’ salaries and increase the teacher and Prominent Citizen of Williston Dies MRS. C. H. MATHIS WINS STATE COTTON CONTES’ fend Time to May ! for Payment of Taxes G. Walter Greene Died Early Satur- . day Morning-After Illness of Only Two Weeks. The Champions save something like $1,600,000 in that way.^ Sub-committees of the hous^ and senate finance committee are en- ihe general appropriation bill, and the j gaged in a study of school conditions j actual writing of the bill has not and finances, costs and activities, the yet begun. The proposal to eliminate the-five- mill property tax for State purposes principal proposal to which ’attention ba s been given being that of making average attendance the ba*i s of State s probably dead for the year. Rep- aid, in thft way each school getting a V '•esentatiye J. Swinton Whaley, of Charleston, made an earnest argu ment for the elimination, but the house referred his resolution to the ways and means committee and it is almost certain that the tax will re main at least until the 1932 session. The members of the house, while 1 ooking with favor upon getting rid of this State property tax seemed to feel that now is not the time to do m), with the senate facing a lack of anticipated revenues to meet the ap propriations w r Lth the levy as it is. The five-mill levy brings in something over $2,000,000 and nobody sefems to know how it would be replaced at this time. * + Want Time fbr Tax Payment Extended. Both houses have agreed upon a resolution asking State and county fficials to extend the time for the payment of taxes until 1, of this year without additional penalty. An effort to lay hands on additional revenues is noted in the bill introduc ed by Representative R G. Holman and. Repfesntative W. C. Smith, Jr., both '■f Barnwell County, in the house, to tax electric power generated in the State one dollar per horsepower per year, which it is estimated would raise something like $815,000. Opponents of the measure say that at the same time it would keep out other power fievelopment* now contemplated in the 1 State. v Prolcnge4 Session is Now Indicated. Both floor and committee work has eeen interfered with to a great ex tent by the deadlock in the race for associate justice of the supreme court. Almost from the beginrring of the legislature, night sessions have been held for balloting and taking up time which in ordinary years would havo been- -usyd by the way*. a«d means, committee, at least to some extent. A s a matter of fact, it is now begin- rung to lock as if the session may be t'msiderably prolonged. This legilsative pay is one ef the sum upon the attendance basis, and free to use the money in paying what teachers it thinks best, or defraying such expenses as seem to it proper. It is not felt that any substantial de crease in publid school appropriations can be made this year, but some of the members of the sub-committee seem to be optimistic that there is probability of being able to save something like a million dollars the year following. Labor Measures Getting Attention. Labor legislation is claiming a large share of the-attention of the general r . • assembly. ^ The so-called stretch-out measure introduced in the house by Representativ . Godfrey, of Spartan- burg, which would- limit the number of loojjis to be 'operated by one em ploye, has been the subject of an ex tensive healing; the bill by Represen tative C. E. Jones, of Lexington, to establish a department of labor, is being discussed over the State, as well as in the State house, and Rep resentative Tinsley, of Spartanburg, and Representative Manning, of Sumter, have joined in a bill to elimi nate as far as possible night work in cotton mills. The measure provides that after March 3Lst no woman or child undST"18 years of age shall be employed in any textile manufactur ing establishment in this State be tween the hours of 7 o’clock p. ra., and six o’clock a. m., and required fines from $25 to $100 against mill- owners or ofTkials who so employ Williston, February 2.—G. Walter Greene, one of the most loved citizens and a prominent business man of'Wil liston, died at his home here about jthree o’clock Saturday morning, af ter an illness*of about two weeks, of what is said to have been typhus fever with complications.^' Mr. Greene was a large farm owner and operator of the Greene Lumber and Crate Company, member of city council for many years, member of the . board of county directors, leader in the Williston Baptist Church and prominent in all civic and business af- j fairs. The funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock by thoj^ev. W. R. Davis, assisted by the Rev. S. T. Harvin, a large concour?e of sorrowing (relatives and friendd gathering to pay their last tribute of respect. The* esteem in which Mr. Greene was held was shown by the large number of people who came from a distance and followed the body to its last resting place in the Williston cemetery. Mr. Greene is survived by hi s wife, Mrs. Inez Greene; one sister, Mrs. G. C. Matthews," of Williston, and two brothers, C, L. Greene, of Williston, and L. E. Greene, of Houston, Texas. ,* m- m , w.' i ; f a* * H * J t * ' sr.* IS FIRST SUCCESSFUL W6MAN COMPETITOR. County Treasurer J. J. Ball Order from at a. j;. •n Winner Over 943 Blackvillo W Other Coitteaiant*.—Gives Credit to Her Overseer. Mrs. C. H. Mathis, of Blackville, is the first woman to win the State-wide five-acre cotton contest conducted by the extension service of Clemson Col lege. producing 5,250 pounds of lint cotton she was adjudged winner over 943 other contestants. The five-acre State-wre com con test winner is Jeron\e B. McMichael, of Orangeburg, and he won first place by producing 534 bushels on his five- acre plot. There were 700 entrants in this contest. Mrs. Mathis was naturally elated over her victory and was quick to give much credit to her overseer, A. ,C.‘ Hightower, who encouraged her to en ter the contest, she said. She ascribed her success to “well prepared ground, j the use of good seed, fertilizer and the Mrs. C. H. Mathis, of Blackville,^plentiful use of Chilean nitrate of winner of the State-wide five-acre soda.” Weather conditions were good cotton contest“'cdnducted' by the ex- also, she said. tension service of Clemson College., Master Sold 3 Tracts of Land Here Monday Other Legal Sales of Real Estate Also ■ . *• Made.—Comparatively Small . Crowd in Town. such miners. Apd while the legislature has l>een in session this past week there has been started a definite and well-de fined anti-prohibition organization. 1 Plans have been laid, it is stated, to organize the various counties. J. Hoy- ' * i ward “Jenkins, member of the house , Marked fry a comparatively small attendance of visitors as compared wijh the salesdays in December and January, “first Monday” in Barnwell passed off very quietly. A little trading was done 1>y dealers in live stock and several sales of real estate were made by the Master, G. M. Greene, Esq., and others, as follows: Master’s Sales. * The Federal Land Bank of Colum- bia vs. R. B. Cunningham, 444 acres of land in Great Cypre?s township, bought by Thos. M. Boulware, plain tiff’s attorney, for $3,000. Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co., vs. Maude R. Moore, et al., 110 acres of land in the town of Snelling, Red Oak township, bought by Harley and Blatt, plaintiff’s attorneys, for $900. Jerome B. McMichael, of Orange burg, winner of the State-wide five- acre com contest conducted by th,e ex tension service of Clemson College. from Bewail chairman, and Romulus Reese, of El- lenton. AikenjCounty, secretary. Ash ton H. Williams, of Florence, former senator from that county, and a can- rivdate for governor latt summer, sub monkey wrenches that it has been' mitted a written Statement, recom- MHight to throw in the proposed con- j mending that the State laws be Ktitutional amendments voted by the amended so that medical liquor might people last fall providing for bien- so ^ a * ax imposed, and sup- nial sessions of the general assembly, porting the American hederation of The present constitution does provide. Labor pj an f or 2 3-4 per cent beei. that the pay of legislators shall be for Labor representatives participated un- not more than forty days, but the leg-, officially islature fixes that pa^* for forty days As it is now, that pay i s $400, which the legislature increases when it sees fit, in the guise of expense money. The legislature in its wisdom could now fix that pay at $1,000 or $10,000, for forty days. Representative W. C. John-on, of Anderson, brother of Oiln D. John son, of Spartanburg, runner-up in last summer’s gubernatorial contest in which the latter attacked vigor- Negro Shot by Woman Succumbs to Wounds Cecil White, of Williston, Died in Aiken Hospital After Lingering Several Days. Cecil White, a young negro man, of Williston, who is alleged to have been ously the State highway department shot Wednesday night of last week and the highway bond act, is the au- by Alberta Sander's, negress, about thor, along with Messrs. Godfrey, of two miles south of Williston on the Spartanburg, Darby, of Fairfield, and Rosemaiy road, died in the Aiken hos- - Parris, of Cherokee, of a bill to re- pital Saturday night from the effects duce the personnel of the State high- of the wounds inflicted by the woman, way commission from 14 members to His'body was brought back to Willis- seven and make them appointive b*' ton Sunday and an inquest held that the governor upon the written recom- afternoon, the verdict of the coroner’s mendation of a majority of the mem- jury being to the effect that White ber s of the general assembly from came to his death from gunshot the respective congressional districts wounds at the hands of the Sanders from Which the cimmissioners are woman. chosen, it being provided that there The negress was arrested Thursday sKall be one member from each of morning by Magistrate R. L. Wooley, the seven districts. The members of of Williston, and lodged in the Barn- the highway commission are now ap- well jail, where she is now being held (pointed by the governor, subject to on a charge of murder, the confirmation by the senate, one * • * from each, of the fourteen judicial Miss Julia Lemon, Miss Helen Cal- KlyiifiiilHWF 1ST KrJoees, h~wn*. WSmb^hr Ms»« Lttnge lina vs. Jacob May, Sr., Ill acres of land in Williston township, bought by Jas. Arthur Kennedy, plaintiff’s at torney, for $300. Sheriff’s Sale. Only one sale was made by Sheriff B. H. Dyches under a tax execution, 10 lots in the town of Bafnwell, levied upon as the property of Aycock and Easterling, * being bought by R. A. Easterling, of Denmark, for $30.69. Probate Court Sale. One sale~wa s also made by John"K. Snelling, Judge of Probate, a lot in the town of Blackville belonging to the estate of Florence Johnson, being bought by Herman I. Mazursky, attor ney, for $173.50. One lot in the town of Blackville, a lot in the town of Barnwell and 27 acres of land in Blackville township were sold by Somers B. Pringle, re ceiver for the Mutual Trading Co., of Blacl^iUe, in an action brought by JoE^^Hbust juadflCo., Inc., et al. It prices were 9 TS ARRANGED FOR Ton-Litter Prize Won by Williston Farmer Bryan Powell Raises 12 Pigs That Reached Total Weight of 3,625 Pounds. “My plot,” said Mrs. Mathis, “was first double-disced and then broken with a turn plow. It was disced again before the row s were laid off, the dis tance being 41 inches. The fertilizer used before planting was 1,200 pounds per acre of 10-3-3. The fertiliser was spread in the furrow by shovel plow and the land was then bedded with a 6-inch plow. “The variety of cotton planted was Coker’s Cleveland Five strain Two. An excellent stand was secured; the plants were thinned to twelve inches, leaving from two to three stalks in a hill. The field was liberally side- dressed with Chilean nitrate of soda, three applications being made. The first applicaton of 60 pounds per afre was applied immediately after chop ping, the second of 176 pounds P* r acre on June 15 and the third of 85 pounds per aerd on July 10, making a total of 320 pounds pef acre. “The cotton was dusted three times with calcium arsenate to control the boll weevil. We practices! close spac ing of row s and close spacing in the drill.” Nick Martin, also of Blackville, won the lower district second prize of $126 by producing 4,205 pounds of one-inch New records were set for the State ^ c tton on his five-acre field, in total weight for a litter of pigs' and ^ r - McMichael .planted Douthit’s in average.weight per pig in the ton- prolific variety of corn. His rows litter contest conducted in 1930 by were off 3V4 feet apart and the th» mmmm spaced i ten the Spotted Poland China litter of 12 stalks per foot. He used 200 pounds pigs entered by Bryan Powell, Barn- °f fertilizer analyzing 4-12-4 before well County, having reached a total planting. His corn was planted weight of 3,624 pounds averaging 302 April 7th. Practically all of the cul- pound s per pig, and the nine-pig lit- tivation was done with sweeps. “He ter of J. H. Hartzcg, of Bamberg Pave his com three side-dressings County, having reached a total of Chilean nitrate of soda, using a total 2,986 pounds or an average -of 332 °f 550 pounds Per acre. pounds per pig, thu 8 giving Powell first prize in total weight per litter | The total cost of his project was $167.89 on the five acre plot. The and Hartzog first in average weight, cost of fertilizer including nitrate of per pig. Powell wins* also second soda op^the 5-acre plot was $84.95, or place on average weight per pig; and | an average fertilizer cost of $16.99 per Hartzog wins also third place on total acre. Valuing his com at $1.00 a weight of litter, W. M. Fogle, of bushel, Mr. McMichael received $554 Orangeburg County, having won sec- f° r same, making hi 8 net profit after ond on total weight, with ani-pig lit- deducting all costs for seed, labor, ftr- ter totaling 3,104 pounds and third on tilizer and rep^of land $366.11 o^ average wieght of 283 pounds per pig. The other ten farmers who won prizes by producing a ton of pork in one litter in 180 days, according to records of J. R. Hawkins, extension livestock specialist, are as follows: net profit per acre"df $73.22. Fire Destroys Lumber. rr&ngements have been made to carry on again in 1931 the Cotton 5- Ellenton, Jan. 31.—Fire, believed to '-^rave started in the wood 8 nearby, de Vernon Epting, Newberry, 12 pigs, stroyed approximately 100,000 feet of 2,662 pounds, average 222 pounds, lumber in stacks, about five miles J. W. Sheppard, Orangeburg, 11 pigs, from Ellenton Thursday afternoon. 2,608 pounds, average £34 pounds. J. lumber belonged to P. A. Bow- H. Thornes, Orangeburg, 10 pigs, den Lumber company, of Thomson, Ga. 599 pounds, average 260 pounds. R. A saw mill had been located there E. Ward Williamsburg, 12 > pigs, 2,- sometime ago but had recently been 493 pounds, average 208 pounds. J. moved to another place. R. McAlhaney, York, 10 pig?. 2 350 It i s not known whether the loss pounds, average 235 pounds. Mrs. J. wa s covered by insurance or not. The time tor the payment of prop erty taxes has been extended to May let with the addition of only ono per cent, penalty, according to an order received a few days ago by County Treasurer J. J. Bell from Comptroller General A. J. Beattie, which will ba good news to many taxpayers just at this time. The order extending the time for payment as received by Treasurer Bell is as follows: “Pursuant to a Resolution passed by the General Assembly, and under l he provision? of Section 861, Code of Laws, 1922, Vol. 3, and with the ap- nroval of the Govern: r, the time for he collection of all property taxes is hereby extended until, up to and in cluding May 1, 1931, without increase in penalty. The penalty of one per cent, here tofore assessed, shall be collected dp to May L?t, and after that data all inpaid taxe„ shall go into execution with all penalties provided by law.** Missionary Union Met Here Thursday Gathering of Delegates from Bamberg and Barnwell Counties Was Rad Letter Day. Thursday, the 29th ult., was a “rad m a letter day” in Barnwell when about 1 125 women from variqps sections of Bamberg and Banrwell Count'es at tended the annual meeting of the Wo man’s Missionary Union of the Barn well Baptist Association. This meet ing wa 8 held in the local Baptist Church and was one of the most en joyable occasions held here in yean. Mrs. John B. McMillan, superintend ent of the association, presided with her usual grace and dignity. ^Devo tional exercises were led by Dr. W. M. Jones. Mrs. L. M. Cave, president of the local Woman’s Missionary Society, ty, welcomed the visiters, the response being made by Mrs. R. L..Peacock, of Williston. After a spirited song, the presidents of the four Divisons were called on for a short resume of the year’s work. Mrs. R. L. Peacock, Mrs. Jeff Snvcak, Mrs. F. H. Hitt and Mrs. J. E. Bruce, presidents of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and v 4th Divisions, respectively, made excellent reports showing a vast amount of work accomplished in the various churches of these divisions. - j ' .j ; ■e#--t:8- Bfefitist Church choir Acre Contest, Corn 6-Acre Contest, 1- Acre Sweet Potato Contest and Gar- j O- Scott, Edgefield, 9 pigs, 2,260, av- den Contest. No doubt arrangements erage 251 pounds. J. V. Brown, Wil- 6.41 cents per pound, the lowest being rendered a lovely chorus. One cf the most outstanding fea tures of the day was the splendid ad dress by J. K. Breeden, on Peru, its customs and religions. Mrs. Breeden, so pleasantly remembered here as a sister to Frank _H. Huggins, formerly of Barnwell, presented many curios of Peru, which proved very interesting. After appointment of various commit tees, the visitors were ^nvited to a* elegant lunch in the dining room of the church, where they were served hot coffee also. Lunch was brought by the visitors as well as the women of the local church and wa s thoroughly en joyed. - ’ , After the dinner hour the afternoon devotional was conducted by Mrs. O. J. Frier. Special music by Mrs. Moye was much enjoyed. Reports were then given by leaders in Y. W. C. A., Royal Ambassadors, Sunbeam, Personal Ser vice and Mission Study Mrs. W. B. Cave, Mrs. W Mrs. G. M. Greene, Misg Roes chairmen of, the above departments, made splendid reports showing activity along these lines. Last bat not least came the splendid discussion cf W. M. U. Fundamentals by Mrs. J. Boatwright, which was ably handled by the speaker. /T' -e ' Reports of . committees on time, place and obituary, were next beaidj after’ which election of officers took place. All officers were re-elected for the coming year with the exception of Mrs. James- Cleckley, chairman of Y. W. A. end G. A. Department, and Mrs. G. M. Greene, chajrthan of Personal 4 of Lexington County, a former chair- “Bob” Adams, all of Columbia, spent man of the State h ghway commis- the week-end here with the former’s awis will offer an amendment pro- parepts, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Lemon. , will also be made for continuing the Hamsburg, 9 pigs, 2,205 pounds, aver- 4.52 cents, the h'ghest 8.20 cents, and tcn-litter contest. Of these five im- a 8e 245 pounds. Lavern Mims, Wil- one-third of the?© contestants pro- portant State-wide contests, Barnwell barmburg, 11 pigs, 2141 pounds, av- due ng at less than six cents per C:unty was fortunate in having two erage 195 pounds. Lee Muller, Rich- pound. of the first prize winners. This ij very land, 8 pigs, 2,019 pounds, average Prize money, $200, for this con- unusual and should etjmulate many in 252 poun J s. H. C. Barr, Orangeburg, test in economic production of pork Service, who foUhd it necesstry U 1931 to enter one or more of these 9 P 5 ?*. 2,009 pounds, average 223 by balancing feeding was generously retire, and their places were filled hf contests. Applications and informa- pounds. furnished by Dr. J. N. Haroer. f:r-j M:s 8 Martin and - Mrs. Blanton, of tion concerning tthe contests may be That proper feeding and manage- merly director of the Agricultural De- ^.Blackville. IJ — mniT n . 1 secured fpork at aTAttlT is almwn-pavCment - ai-CTenv* n now The ,-ommittee on resohltt ns ^ ' 9 * X 1-1 a.1 -X _ — J 2 — ^ tv £ 4 n V. IT'wvs-kw*' f'sxwt VaamjI nw/1 vs* AA.t - n» a 4] {a* in the fact that the average co t per a director of t,he Pota h Export Cor- next heard and the rveetmg adjourned pound among the 31 contestants who poratkn; and $300 by livestock com- to meet with the Sycamore Churck Advertise in ‘ The People-Sentinel submitted complete reeprds wag only mission men in Richmond, Vs. next time.