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-V , j \ — •' :. x: \ " . IT _“t &r THE f FFlCIAf, NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNT! **~.t -v -• CoMolidated Jana 1, 1925. Mufet Like a Member of the Family” VOLUME LIV. BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1931. NUMBER 31. Northern Conner Makes Inquiries Local Merchant Received Telegram * • * Monday from Large Concern Asking Prices. C. F. Molair, local merchant and farmer, received a telegram Monday morning from a nationally known canner in a Northern city asking whether or not choice asparagus is moving freely and the price for this grade of “grass.” Mr. Molair prompt ly gave the desired information and it ii hoped that orders will be receiv ed at an early date, the canning com pany being advised that quantity ship ments may be expected about next week. It is presumed that the aspara gus is wanted for the making of can ned soups. . — Some'tim e ago this same concern was in correspondence* with several local farmers in reference to the com- ing cut-umber crop, the “cukes” be ing wanted for pickling. A connec tion between local farmers and this company should prove to be mutually profitable. - * T? Will Hold Elections for School Trustees Appropriations Bill Increases Adjournment of the General Assembly i ■ ■ 1 '*> Is Not Expected Within Next Three Weeks. * Two Will fte Selected Tor ' AarniTeU 1 School District.— Hilda and Dun- — barton to Ballot. A lusty, glowing youngster who is . - ” , ♦■ * causing lawmakers considerable care —the appropriation bill—was formal ly introduced in the senate this week. Since the bill met the house some few weeks ago it has grown by nearly a million dollars. Including items left out of the measure as written by the senate finance committee, it calls for expen* ditures of $10,7000,04fi.07. As it was introduced Tuesday the total was but $10,347,537.37. Appropriations _for several departments which are self-financing were not included in the bill. If enacted and no additional taxe* levied the State would spend in 1931 more than a million dollars more than it will receive provided esti mates of revenue are correct. There is no mention in the finance committee’s bill of the levy to be placed on real property, now five mills. When the appropriation bill was introduced in the house *it did not stipulate the amount of the levy, leaving it to the enmptroller- Ages Total 252 Years. The Book of Books places man’s span of life at three score years and ten, but Mon day afternoon there were gath ered together in Barnwell one ^oung lady and two young gen tlemen -whose combined ages totaled 252 years, ^hey were Mrs. Julia B. Easterling, 89, and William McN.ab, 81, both of Barnwell, and H. Q. Rice, 82, of Denmark. -The latter motored over to this city with CoL Har ry D. Calhoun* who got the young folks together - for an hour of reminiscing. All three are remarkably active for their ages. Move to Alter S. C. Districts Bill Cutting Congressional Territories to Six Offered in House at Columbia. Wild Weather Hits the South First Severe Thundjerstorifl of the Year in Barnwell Accompanied by Hail. Martin Grubbs Is Shot by Son Knute Rockne Dies in Crash Famous Football Coach Plunges to His Death With Seven Others Over Kansas. Columbia.—Congressional districts in South Carolina would be reduced by one and the geographical div’sion of its districts radically revised un der a bill introduced in the house, de signed to carry out provisions of a ! federal act. j Under the reapportionment plan approved by congress South Carolina loses one congressman, dropping from seven to six. The. federal act goes into effect in 1932. The general assembly, ha 5 received notice from the federal government to provide for the act and the bill, written by L. M. Jones, Clarendon, is the first reappointment proposal. The measure wa s referred to the judiciary committee. In the Jones bill, Berkeley, Char leston, Colleton and Dorehe-Tter would rerrtain in the.first district. Added to the fust district would be Beaufort, now in the second; Georgetown, now in the sixth; Hampton and Jasper. Two school trustees to fill the posi- tior. - now occupied by Jas. Julien Bu>h and H. P. Gumpton will *be chojym at an election to be held on Tuesday, April t4th. Mr. Bush’s term expires on that date? while Mr. Compton was commissioned until the second Tuesday in April, 1932. The latter, however, moved to Summer ville several months ago, causing the additional vacancy. It is presumed that Mr. Bush will offer for reelec tion, as he has made a splendid rec- oid during his incumbency, but so far no successor to Mr. Compton has Knute Rockne, famous Notre Dame Tootball genius, plunged to his death 1 n,, ' v ' n second, ami W illiamsburg, with.five fellow passengers and two \ from the sixth. An amendment was adopted by the house, however, stimulating that_the levy should not bo over five mills. This i s riot in the finance committee’s bill. _ _~ iilots on Western Air Inc. air liner Tuesday m ■aut Tnin.sri.ntinontal an! Three Weeks More. The. hill mu.-t be acted on bv the mid-Kansas grazing country near Bazaar, Kan. The plane was bound ifor California from Kansas Ctiy and Rockne was en route for Hollywood tp appear in moving pictures. The crash killed all eight occupants in- Remaining iri the second district A Barnwell, Edgefield and Saluda. Add ed to them would be Greenwood, Mo- Coj-jnick and Newberry, all now in the third district. 'The third district would l>e made up of Abbeville, Anderson, "Oconee stantly. Witnesses said the craft J anf ^ Pickens, now in that district, with the senate, go to the house for con-+ Aying through clouds and fog. lost a ! currence in amendments then to a r free conference committee, then back 'for^ approval. When this pro- ; (reduce is completed the legislature will adjourn. Most persons estimate 1 the cour.-e will require three, more weeks, possibly more. In the matter of salary reduction, the finance committee went the way,s and means cflmmittee of th,. house wing in the, air. been suggested. -*■ On the same ‘date, elections will also be held in the Hilda and Dunbar ton school districts, where successors one]better by cutting pay of legisla tors 10 per Vent.. The pay for mem bers of the general a-semhly under The Better Business Association Meets Elect Officers and Board of Trustees Composed of Many Prominent * Business Men. At the first general meeting of the Better Business'A-sociation of South to A. P'A’qllins and T. E. KiHings- worth, respectively, are to be selected. The notices of election* as prepated by Horace J. Crouch, county Suptfrin- the addition of Greenville and Lauren- from the fourth district. In the • fourth district would be Spartanburg and Union, now in that di-trict, and Cherokee, Chester, Fair- field and York, taken from the fifth. Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lancaster would remain in the fifth district. To it would be added Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Horry, Marion and Marl boro from t^re present sixth. • f The sixth distict would be made up of Calhoun, Lee, Lexington, Orange burg, Richland and Sumter, \yhicU The first severe thunderstorm of the year in Barnwell, which visited this city between six and eight o’ clock Tuesday night, was accompanied by hail and a heavy downpour of rain. Later in the night a second and mild er storm passed over this section. No damage has been reported. Widely scattered sections of the South, however, suffered from a series of tornadic, hail and rain storms Tuesday. Considerable damage was done by hail in the Georgia peach belt. The five-year-old daughter of Hor ace Huller was killed when a tornado demolished her home at <Elba, Ala. Mrs. Huller was seriously injured. Debris from the house was «cattered over a wide area. A member of a field artillery unit Farmer Living Near Barnwell Pain fully Injured at Hi> Hoiqe Saturday Afternoon. - Martin Grubbs, a white farmer, who live* on the farm of J. B. Grubbs, a few miles east of Barnwell, was painfully shot Saturday afternoon by his 16-year old son, Clyde Grubbs, ac cording to information received here. The weapon used was a shotgun, the load from which struck Mr. Grubbs in the legs. The wounded man came to Barnwell for medical attention and later gave hi* version of the affair to Sheriff B. H. DycHes. Accoiding to the sheriff, Mr. Grubbs said that he told his boy to finish a piece of work and when the latter demurred he (Grubbs) slapped his face. Th e boy went into the house and Mr. Giubbs .-tarted towards the barnlot. Hearing some one call from the house, he turned around, where- upon, Sheriff Dyches say s Mr. Grubbs-'* moving from Fort Bragg, N. C-, to C i yde fire(1 one time thr0Ufh LT* . ..4- 1 »» • n r* c;/Mic 1 vr f”'"’ . • Fort Benning,’ Ga., was seriously hurt at Talbotton, Ga., when a sud den hail storm caused the horses to stampede. The man was thrown from a gun carriage and the wheels of the truck passed over his head. Seven seriously hurt. Names of none were a window, pe-ppering his father with bird shot fCbm the waist down. It is also repotted that the boy claim's the , shooting was accidental and that h e told his mother that he didn’t intend to hurt his father. It mi^hTtbar the constitution is $100—$100 a day 1 Carolira, held in Columbia last week, for the prescribed 40-day'session. I the following officers were elected:— The bill also cut s State employes, j McDavid Horton, president; John A. I ranging from 6 per cent on lower Law, vice-president; R. G. Rhett, Jr., tendent of education, appear else- salaije- up to 12 per cent. Bills which would add to the State’s Treasurer; Q. A. Kennedy, Secretary. Mr. Horton is managing editor of where in this issue of The People-Sen- revenue are few- The senate ha's yet The State and has been actively en- tmel Death of Mrs. Nora Delk. Hilda,. Maix-h 31.—The death of Delk, which occurred at Monday morning, March 23rd, at her home near Hilda, came a s a great shock to her family Mrs. Noia eight o’clock to act on the one approved by the house increasing the tax on insurant^, companies, a bill which would bring hr n .illy $300,006.”' . • “Intangibles” Measure. . Also before the .senate is the rati fication bill providing for classification of intangible property now comprise the seventh district, and Clarendon from the first. A provision of the bilh is that it shall not affect terms of present con gressmen, expiring in 1933; but the federal act provides that the reap portionment shall go int) effect in 1932. available. High winds demolished a score of jiouses at Mulberry, near Winter Ha ven, Fla., and a severe storm was re ported at Indian River, Fla. Several person* were reported bruised at Mul berry but thefe were no serious in juries. Many houses at Winter Ha ven were damaged. At Thomaston, Ga., a severe hail 5-torm covered the ground with haiL stones, banked at places as deep as 12 inches. ^Thomaston is in the heart of a peach-growing area containing 800,000 trees, and fear was expressed that great damage had been done' to the orchards. Old FofrlVfcRea, standing at the entrance of the harbor at Rensacola, Fla., was pounded by high seas and winds of gale force and threatened to tumble into the Gulf of Mexico. The take any legal action against his son. The injured man was advised by the attending physician to remain in bed a few days until hi* wounds healed. ». Tax Commission Warns Merchants gaged in the support of South Caro lina enterprises. Mr. Law, Spartan burg Banker, was elected subject to Mrs. pales Arranges his Acceptance. Mr. Rhett is presi- M r. Rhett is dent of the Peoples Stat e Bank and is well known throughout the State as one of its leading l>ankers. Mr. Ken- rnd many friends. Sh t , had l>een sick nedy is a successful Williston busi- Should it be ^nesg man, being engaged in the ferti- enacted, it is doubtful if the legisla- tyier busines? in that city. only a week and it was not thought that she was dangerously ill. I The following men were elected to the Board of Trustees:—-McDavid Horton, Columbia; John A. Law, Spartanburg; R. G. Rhett, Jr., Char leston; Alester Furman, Jr., Green ville; Neil O’Donnell, Sumter; W. W. tore at this, session would place a tax on intangibles. On the house calendar is a bill to Mrs. Delk was a Christian woman, place a tax of three-tenths of a mill having joined the churchy in eprly I per k. w. on hydro-eledtric power childhood. She was a consistent! generated, in the State. A bill pro- membei_of the Double Ponds Baptist ; viding a half-mill tax was-ki.lled by Smcak, Walterboro; T. W. Bennett, ) ! Meggetts; Q. A. Kennedy, Williston; During th 0 last week, the eleventh before her death. Shu was Kwed by the' session, interest was wide- all who knew her and will be sadly ; spread in the senate debate on a bill missed in the home and community, to ahrdish^ the State constabulary. She wa^s 44 years of age. '. ! The bill instill before the body. Church, where she was a. regular at- the house, tendant, and .was at .-ervicvH^a week W. D. Scheper, Beaufoit; Wm. Barn well, Columbia; Herman Brown, Blackville; A. F. Pringle, Charleston; T. B. Yoimg, ^Vlorence; A. D. Hare, Enjoyable Program Will Present the High School Voice Ensemble at Eight O’clock Fri day Evening. Mrs. ha ‘Kales bas arranged a mo't enjoyable musical program for Friday evening at eight o’clock, at which time she will present “The High School Voice. Ensemble,*'tn’ the high school auditorium, as follows: “Springtime” (W’ooler); “Bells of St. Mary’s” (Adams); “Spring Flow ers” (Wheeler)—Ensemble. Mary Gay O’Bannon at the piano. “Venetian Love Song”; “Gondol- Beaufoit; L. C. Davis, Georgetown;^ iers” from “A Day in Venice (Ethel- , - —' — - - —F O'- Her body was laid to real Tuesday The house acted on a number q. Neyle Fishbourn, Charleston; J. H.' bert Nevin)—Elizabteh Hagood. morning in the Double Ponds ceme- State-wide bills, killing many of Hammond, Columbia; F. G. Boggs, Jr., I “Sweetest Little Fellow” (Ethel- tery in the presence of a large con-j them. Among those meeting death Charleston; Richard F. Watson,' beri Nevin)—Ensemhe. Elaine Har- gregation of relatives ami friends, wa s on e to abolish capital punishment Greenville, and H. G. Leiding, Char- ley ^be piano. ’ leston. itjonal ad- ociation ber last resting place being covered but it was-later recalled with many beautiful flowers, the last Among senate bills approved was ^ tribute of loving friends. The funeral one to prevent any change in public seivices were conducted by her pas- school textbooks within the next two tor, the Rev. H. Duncarf. The' years. ’ • • active .pallbearers were five of her * ♦ ♦ ♦ ibrothers and one brother-in-law: El-1 - B. Y. P. U. Meeting. v n 0 J n iy w jn bert, John Gary, Boyd, Otto-' and, f . . State-wide hut it/_*>ue one of the Algie Delk, and Ben Delk. Honorary , The .Barnwell B. Y. P. U. holds its stiongest organizations in the State pallbearers were: Johnson Black; regular weekly meetings in the Barn- and w ji| render a service that will be fbe piano “Felice” (Thurow . Lieurance)-— Elizabeth Hagood. “By the Waters of Minnetonka” (Thurlow Lieurance)—Ensemble. “The Gypsy Love Song” from “The Fortune Teller” (Victor Herbert); “Ah! ( Sweet Mystery, of Life” from “Nanghty Marietta” (Victor Herbert) Ensemble.. Mary Gay O’Bannon at Willie and Buist Weeks, Ottie Nix, C. C. Black and Berry Still. _ —^ - Mrs. Delk is survived by her hos- well .Baptist Church each Sunday c f decided benefit to all the pedple *• “Badi evening at 6:30 o’clock. cf South Carolina. Miss Jennie Black, group leader is • i t i s expected that the'trustees hand, L. M. Delk; three children,'in charge of the program for next w j{] merd within three weeks to com- Kathleen, Norma Lee and Gerald, Sunday. By way of remembrance— ( p)ete their plans and launch a part hgj- mother, seven brothers and six Did you think to pray,” by Mrij^Gay^f tensive program. ' sisters. Beaufort Farmers Spurn Loans. Free by Although Beaufort County 'wws al O’Bannon. Making America i Black. i Careful spending by Henry Milhous. 4 \ Memory. verse:—Isa. 53:6. Nancy “Nine “Tie .a Finger”— at the piano. erbert) ennessee Around Your Elaine Hartey fort is not garrisoned. WOULD REPEAL SECTION ON LYNCHING LIABILITY Two provisions in th e -State consti- “tution, with reference to the liability qf ft copntv in which a lynching oc curs . to the legal representatives of the person lynched, would be repealed under the terms of a bill introduced in the ht.use Friday 4>y W. P. Mason, Oconee, and referred to the judiciary committee. The measure provides that the question of. th e repeal of th^ two parts of the constitution be submit ted to the voters of State next general election. * Under the present law, a county is liable in the. sum of $2,000 when a But Local Cigarette Dealer Clai That Stamps Adhere Well to Cellophane Wrapping. I*ast week the State Tax Commis sion mailed letters to all dealers In cigarettes warning them that a drive would be made this week against ‘all merchants whose stocks of cigar- ette- 1 do not comply with the commM- sion’s stamp regulations, with par ticular reference to products of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco* Co., which concern recently adopted a new wrap ping for “Camel’* cigarettes. The tax commission calls attention to the fact that the law, or rule or what have you, requires that South Caro lina tax stamps be placed on the -packages of cigarettes in such a way that “continued applications of steam or water” are necessary to remove them, claiming that the stamps da not adhere well to the new cello phane wrapping on “Camels.” Cello phane is th e trade name for a trans parent glasslike, product that ia used largely by manufacturers of candy, cigars and other articles to protect the goods from atmospheric conditions. A representative of The People- Sent intd asked a local merchant Moo- person is lynched in that county. Some time ago the widow of Allen da y ,f ^ had an y tha Green, lynched in Oconee County, brought action to recover $2,000. No provision for the payment of the money wa# made in the Oconee Coun ty supply bill and. now the case has been taken to the State supreme court wher e decision is pending. Makes Fine Yield. Fairfax, March 31.—N. B. Load- holt, of Fairfax, who won one of the district prizes in the State-wide five- acre corn contest conducted by th extension service of Clemson College last year,* made 412.70 bushels of corn on five -acres notwithstanding his prize plot went through a severe is considered re- !f the conditions, [nted Douthit’s pro- cil 25th in four-foot drought markable Mr. Loi lific corn and rows stamps stick to the cellophane wrap ping and he replied that they stick to cellophane a* well as they do to “glassine” and other Kke wrappings used on varioug brands of cigarettes. He also showed the writer that tko stamps can be removed from thoao other brands of cigarettes about ar readily as they can frbm “Camels'* without “continued- applications al steam or water.” This being tho case, this merchant said he was at s loss to explain the tax commission's attitude towards the manufacturer in question. * The Reynolds tobacco company claims to have spent two million dol lars in perfecting the special “humi dor pack,” §s the cellophane-wrapped package^ig called, and recently con ducted a $50,QQ0 prize contest to ad vertise it. Th e outcome of the fight between the commission and the corn- information may be ob- Emily ta\ned by writing to 92 Broad Street, Charleston, S. C. Death of Miss Minneola Grimes. Epidemic of “Flu” Continues. Members, don’t forget your BiWe ^ twn—i seed and fertilizer loan fund, it is readings, reported that ,the farmers of that The prize winners for the first Episcopal Services. The epidemic of influenza, which i hit Barniyell two-or three weeks ago; '^coatinuo*' > county have applied for only about' $1,000. Evidently they 4ir e not as hard hit as some of their brother quattor were Marian farmers in the “cotton” counties i^uf next Sunday—W present. loMc.fi South Carolina and elsewhere. ' E. Dodson Still, Pres. * '. si The Rev. Mr. Wood?, of Charleston, ment, several new cases being report- will conduct services at the Church of ed during.the past week. Scarcely a Bolen and the Holy Apostles in Barnwell Easter household in th e city has escaped the Charles Burckhalter. j Sunday evening. Special services disease and in some instances 'Entire There is a surprise ih store for you are also being held at this church families have suffered from it. Some ! every day this i^ek up ttrand includ- of the patients have been and.still i ing Good Friday. * are quite ill. stalks averaging a little over one per foot. He peed no fertilu! I>“y »'» >* with interert. zer at the time of planting but side- dressed liberally with a mixed ferti lizer when the com was thrfe and five weeks old. He made four appli cations of 100 pounds of Chilean ni trate of soda per here when the corn The Barnwell friends of Miss Mi»- neola Grimes, of Lees, will learn with regret of her'death, which occurred Diversification is practiced by Mr. Loadho.lt, who does jwt believe in putting all of his egg* in one basket. Mies Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Garrison, who live a few miles from town,, were in Barnwell Tuesday afternoon. . ^ Maim L, „ v.. an illness of several months. Grimes was a member of the Bans- ...... - .. -V —y well school faculty several yean ego and made many friends ‘during her residence here. She wag a niece at Mrs. Elizabeth Shepheard r of this city.