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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
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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.
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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-
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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.