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Cotuolidaled Jom 1, 192S. GT THE tFFICIAI. NEWSPAPER Of BARNWELL COUNTY ^3 y • —i- M Ju&t Like a Member of (he Family” VOLUME LIV. ( . BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, APRIL 23RD. 1931. NUMBER 94. Divides State —in 6 Districts Barnwell Would Be Placed With Aikfn, Calhoun, Lexington, „ ; Orangeburg and Richland. * ,»4 To comply with the requirements of reappoi tionment of member 8 of Con gress in which South Carolina loses oiyp representative and will hereafter have six instead of seven in the national Congtess, redistricting of the State becomes necessary. To meet this requirement a bill has been introduced in the General Assembly by the judiciary committee of the ■house cf representatives in which Barnwell County is placed in a con gressional district with Aiken, Cal houn, Orangeburg, Lexington and Richland. Heretofore Barnwell has m been in the district (Second) with- Saluda, Edgefield, Aiken, Bamberg, Allendale, Jasper, Hampton and Beau fort. The bill divides the State into'six instead of seven districts and these are defined and divided afc follows; Fiist District: Bamberg. Berkeley, Charleston, Clarendon, Colleton, Dor chester, Beaufort, Hampton, Jasper Local Man Aids in Fight for Repeal Perry B. Busb Reports Enthusiastic Response to Prohibition Reform Organization. fight for prohibition reform, reports a most enthusiastic response from the people of Barnwell. Mr. Bush is a director from this district of the South Carolina Association for- Pro hibition Reform, an organization with Stat e headquarters in Columbia. Last week Mr. Bush received sev eral hundred membership cards and say 8 that they-were readily signed by both' men and wofnfcn. — The card, which contains a pledge to aid in the fight against th e Eighteenth Amend ment, is as follows: “States’ Rights and the fundamen tal principles of democratic govern ment as propounded by Calhoun and Jefferson, held sacred by every South Carolinian are destroyed by the Eighteenth Amendment. “Failure ha s marked the first dy- cade of prohibition and temperance DISSENSION AND DOUBT IS MARKED IN S. C. ASSEMBLY •T Session Is Longest Since Reconstruction Days,—House Passes Educational and Horse Racing Bill.— Pew Measures of Statewide Interest. Perry B. Bush, of this city, who, with Ralph Bowden, Hampton County banker, i s working to organize the <>clumbia.—As the 1931 session of I among them is cne which passed the Second Congressional District in the the South Carolina general assembly - senate and has been sent to the goes into the closing days it gropes through an atmosphere of doubt "and - dissension. From the beginning of the session there ha 8 been a wide dif ference cf opinion, between the two Rouses and as wide difference of opin ion between divergent gioups in each house. Even thus near the close, which members are now hoping will be reached with the end of the pres-_ ent week, some rpembers of the house say they are determined that the general appropriation biH^-shall not pass if the free conference coanmittee increase- it above the house figures; others say they will oppose the free conference report if it contains tjie hydro-elect lie tax, twice killed by the house and placed in the bill by the senate. „ , ’ The house went into a committee of and Allendale I u* i * . , t&£^lh'>Un 0 f or anu Aiiinuaie. ^A a »^ Hl a.«t,ud«t-d*rthis-hrw which T( Second District: Aiken, Barnwell. I ... ’ should have never been part of the Calhoun, Oiangebui-g, Lexington and , Fedt . ral Constitution. Crime, in- Richland. Third District: Abbeville, Ander- s .n, Gi.-enwood, McCormick, New- be.ry, Oconee* Pickens, Saluda and Edgefield. *. , v Fourth District: Greenville, Laur- tn<, Spi: tunburg and Union. t ifth District: Cherokee, Chester, Chesterfield. Fairfield, Kershaw, Lan caster, Lee, Sumter and York. creased law lessness, .hypocracy and corruption aie the re-ults. “Taxes to carry one the ‘noble ex periment’ have become unbearable, arid the revenue lost in South Carolina each year from the liquor traffic which actually goe« on would pay the State appropriation bill. “I pledge myself in the face of these and other equally striking facts Sixth District: Darlington, Dillon, [ to aid in ^ atrainst th e Eigh- Florence, Georgetown, Horry, Marion*, Amendment, using my influ- Marlboro and W illiamsburg. 1 ence and anv other mean 8 at my dis- The bill would in no wise change p osa i toward the advancement cf the the representation in the 72nd con- j pragram 0 f' this association,’’ gress but would become effective in — Grammar School to ^ Present an Operetta . “The Maid and the Golden Slipper’ Will Be Attraction Here Night of April 24. - ** “The Maid and the Gloden Slipper,” to be presented by pupils of the Barnwell grammar school, will be the attraction at the local school audi torium Friday evening, April . 24th, beginning at eight ’clock. The pro- giam and story of the, play .are as follows: • . * ' • Cast of Characters. housa-ptoviding for a commission to study the entire problem., of. .motor * ** transportation regulation and report to th e next session of the geneial as sembly. . The< commission would be composed I Godmother Sarah Frances Brodie of two member?'of the railroad com-1 Gupid Virginia Shuman mission, two members cf the highway Cinderella \-- r Kitty Plexico commission and one member of the Belinda — Irma Brown tax cOmmissifw, and $5,000 from funds | Henrietta — Elizabeth Mace Step-mother Mary Brown already at the disposal of these com mis-ions would be authorized to be 1 Prince spent. ‘ . Educational Bill Passed by House. Another of these bills which has passed th^ senate and -been sent to the house gives railroad and express Liquor Seizures in State Larger Governor’s Constable* In March Beat Records forj’wo First Months Combined. .» Columbia, April TS.—Btate consta bles seized more than twice aq many slot machines and a third more gal lons of Whislcey during March than in January and February combined as the Blackwood law enforcement struck its stride. Constables captured 101 slot ma chines in March, and 47 in January and February. They took and de stroyed 3,2694 gallons of whiskey last month, and 2,1134 during the two months preceding. Fewer still 8 were smashed, and Henry Milhous U ewer arrests effected during March Duke , William Moody Lords and Ladies Fairie* .m •. _ _ _ Fi lefties Cinderella Chorus Girls .. Synopsis. ( more from the ground to top of load committee report to the hou.>e that d j S pj a y (ij^ht at the farthermost companies the right to operate motof Act , Scene j _ ^ Woodland passenger and Treight lines, and the Al . t Scem . 2 Cenderella’s Home senate has al.eady s ent4o the house a Act „ Scene j Ball-room at Palace hill requiring trucks of certain width | Act 1It Scenes .. Parlor at Home of Cinderella the 73rd. One bill dividing the State into six districts, wa- introduced some time ago. The house judiciary committee bill, which will very probably be ad opted, j.s somewhat different. FORMER BARNWELL MAN NAMED SCHOOL TRUSTEE DUTCH WEATHER PROPHET SAYS FROST DANGER GONE I The B'arnwell fk’en U of J. R. Black, t-m tuy of this ri*/, where he con- ciucti .t a furriil’.M. store f f several jtnis. will be. int - c-’-d ii: ihe fo' lowing item from last week’s issue *of The Bamberg Herald: Verifying his forecast of February! J - K - promi^nt merchant of 17th for a bountiful fruit crop, the 1 Ba™***'*. has been elected- by the board of trustees of Bamberg school district No. 14 to serve out the unex- Dutch Weather Prophet said yesterday that all danger of unusually low tem- ptMatures for thi s spring has passed. He i s reminded that April 19th is the last date that a severe spring frost has ever qccuned in South Carolina. It was April 19, 1873, that all cotton plants in the upper part of pired term of the late W. E. Free as a member of the board. Mr. Black will assume his duties as soon as his commission i 8 prepared Mr. Black has l>een a re-ident of the city for a number of years,, be- the State were destroyed and frost j W ™Faged in the furnitu.e business, formed that year even in May, the it was the sense of the members that the free conferees on the part cf the htjuse should stick to the end against the power tax. Finally a substitute was agree upon tasking the conferees to report the bill as speedily as pos sible. Session Been Longest Since Reconstruction. Resentment was expressed in the house at the statement attributed to Senator Ward, of Geoigetown, chair man of the senate conferees, that the committee would not report the bill until the geneial assembly had pro vided sufficient revenue to meet it, house members contending that it was the business of the committee to adjust the. differences between the two houses, report back to the re spective houses, and that then the matter of revenue w^s for the general assembly and not for the committee. out-ide comer of the load. As the session q^g|luded for the week both houses were engaged on educational bills. Just before ad journment the house killed the bill providing for a state-wide asses-ment I ^ of property by the tax commission as - a basis for distribution of State aid y under the 6-0-1 law. The senate was in the midst of a discussion of the bill which has already passed the house, and is on for the third reading Musical Numbers—Act I. 1. Overture* Instrumental 2. Faiiy Signals Firefllies 3 Opening Chorus Fairies 4. You Better be Good Godmother 5. I’m the Little Goddess of Love... Cupid We Scatter Light . Fairies Dear Little Maid in Yellow, Cupid Duet Belinda and Henrietta 9. I Am So Sad Cindi*rella 10. Hail to the Prince - Chorus 11. Friendship Prince 12. Who’s the Maiden Chorus in the Senate, increasing the teacher| 13 Love Merrr Prince and Cinderella bad, the principal increase being from the seventh grade on up, though there-As sortie increase in the lower grades. Average attendance would be added as a basis, instead simply of enroll- mety as at present. This bill was introduced,.^ the house by Repiesen- tatiye M. F. Bush, of Aiken County, chairman of the house committee on -education and was promptly passed This session has already exceeded house. In the senate when it latter condition having been predict ed by a weather observer in Newberry County several months in advance and • the forecast wa 8 published in The Newberry Herald (the Dutch Weather Pi ophej,* setting th t . type for it in his first year as an apprentice at the printing trade.) It is a coincidence to mention that a severe frost occur red in this section in April 1(M) years ago—April 13, 1831. Fruit of every kird.will be abundant • this year. The first crop of figs’ is now quite well advanced and will mautre for the fiist^time in about 12 years in the vicinity of Columbia so far as this 1 observer remertibers. Heretofore this crpp has been cut short by Iffy temperatures. While precipitation at present is not up to normal, rainfall during the crop .'•eas?)n will take care of any deficiency. It wilj be sufficient thi.s year for th 0 growth of all crops, which will he abundant if the husbandman will do his part in proper cultivation of the soil. The drought regions of the Wes,t and in Virgini'a and Maryland have been visited with abundant rainfall, even now to assure a crop. In Mary land a recent rainfall—the heaviest since the drought set in a year ago— raised the water in certain streams B. Y. P. U. Meeting. The Barnwell B. Y. P. will me.e4 as usual at the church at 7:00 o’clock Sunday evening. The progiam for Sunday evening is as follows: Subject:—“The Gospel at Work.” Mefnory verse: Matthew 6:33. Miss Jennie Black, captain of group two will be in charge. Winning the Lost in China by Wil liam Moody. Two Converts in Argen tina by Elaine Harley and Eunice Moody. Evangelism in Spain by Nellie Fuitick. The winners in the Bible drill last Sunday evening were: Frances Manning, Billy Manning, Es ther Diamond and Sarah Drew. “Fall in line, be on time at the B. Y. P. U.”—E. Dodson Still, Pres. Mule Injured by Truck. A mule belonging to E. D. Peacock, of thi.s city was badly injured Mon day morning when it was hit by a truck near Turkey Creek bridge in the western part of Barnwell. The truck, which is owned by Victor Kearse of Olar, -was loaded with negroes en in length all sessions since Recon struction day s following the’Confedt erate War, with the exception of that cf 1927, which ran 103 days. Next in length heietofore wws that of 192.’», which went 87 days. The 1930 ses sion ran 82 days. At the end of the past week the legislature had been here 96 days. Should it extend onlv through th e coming week it will ex actly equal the record session of 1927. With the failure of the senate to pass the house bill inci easing taxes on gross premiums of insurance com panies to three per cent, instead of two per cent, as at present $150,000 of additional estimated revenue per year went glimmering. There is a pend ing motion in the senate to reconsid er. and proponents of the increased tax say they are yet hopeful of its enactment.* to make the increase three-fourths 1 of one per cent. t Racing Bill Been Passed by House. The vote of the senate to refer the horse lacing bill to its judiciary Com mittee, instead of its finane e commit tee, was regarded by advocates of the measure, which has already passed the house by a decisive majority, as indicating a favorable ^enate senti ment, for the reason that the fight to refer it t^the finance committee was made bl^pjponents it s advocates .wante^^^ referred to the judiciary commit^^r Leading in in the fight to refer to the judiciary was called up for final passage there was some discussion, and the senate then decided to adjourn debate until Tuesday night at 8:30 o’clock. Measures Signed of St ate-Wide Interest. Few measures of state-wide inter est and importance have been enacted into law as a result of the session. Among those which have been signed | > n kitchen by the governor are; -— ‘ Cieating county boxing commissions and legalizing boxing. * * To* permit th e service of civil pro cesses in attachment poceedings on Sunday. ' Requiring the maintenance of prop er giade crossing by steam and elec tric railways. 14. Minuet Instrumental 15. Finale, Scene l Chorus 16. Cinderella 1. Choru 8 17. Finale, Scene 2 Chorus ^ Story of the Play The story of “The Maid and The Golden Slipper” is taken from the well known fairy tale “Cinderella.” The fairies are singing of joy in service and the Godmother tells them of the sad lot of Cinderella who ha 8 a wicked step-mother and two. jealous step-sis ters. A They all wish to help her, and the Godmother tells them of than before, but activities of the 15 State constables along these line* rep resent fully one-third the total of the three months. In 349 raids over the State during March, constables destroyed 165 stills, 316,218 gallona of mash, and 1,646* liquor fermenters. They confiscated four automobiles, two wagons and two boat* in rum raids, and other acces sories of the industry. A total of 112 investigations were undertaken, and 120 arrests made, compared with 240 investigations and 250 arrests during the two months previous Of the 101 clot machine* confiscat ed. 38 were seized by State Constable C. L. Melton^ of Cheraw, in operation* about the lower eastern part of tbe State. Q'onstables Sam Owens and L. E. Styron, of Columbia, had a total of 13 to their credits. Two punch- boards wer*. taken. Appropriations Total Kept Within Revenue Hydro-Electric, Insurance and Oil Taxes Included in Free Confer- \ v ence Report. Columbia, April 22.—Carrying a grand total of $10,369,659.39, the re port of the committee cf free confer ence on the general appropriations bill for 1931 was placed on the desks of members of the general assembly the ball i yesterday morning, and among its provision,* were the hydro-electric tax, insurance tax and one on lubricating oih«. Today the two heuse* take up the consideration of the report. If it is adopted by the two houses, the which is to be given by the Prince and now, with their aid and that of Cupid she intends to let Cinderella at tend. Cindeiella help* prepare her step sisters for the ball and she is left alone .. . eral assembly w'ill adjourn sine die The Godmother appears and magi- within a few days. Should either (ally changes Cinderella’s rags to 8,1)0086 reject the leport the length of beautiful gown of yellow and gives! the se*#ion will be prolonged indeft- her golden slippers, but with the warn- nitely. ing to leave befoie the clock strikes twelve. At the ball, the Prince, under the spell of Cupid, falls in lave with Cin derella who escapes just as the clock When the bill passed the houae, it carried a total of $10,343,800. When « it passed the senate, it had mounted to approximately $11,000,000. The free conference committee bill .. Amending the law with reference strike,-. In hqr haste she loses one‘carries a total of J 10,369,659, so that The senate, proposal, is to pharmacy examinations -by st.ik- slipper. After a long search, the it i* but about $25,800 above the biD ing out th e provision under which jP r ' nce finds tfi e owner of the slipper, heretofore ten years’ practical expel-1 an d all ends happily ience in a drug store has qualified the applicant to take the examination. | Milledge B. l-urse. Repealing of the raijio tax^ declared unconstitutional by the courts, and I ^-Martin, April 18.-^Milledge B. providing for refund to those who [ Purse, 75, prominent farmer of this: posals that had been debated in as pas-ed by the house. The appro priations bill for 1930 provided appro priations to the amount of $11,450,000. ' The Revenue Feature*. Revenue features of the new bill include' the property levy, two prop- tha two houses, and one brand new item. These features are as follows: A tax of not leas than four and not had alieady paid. * 1 place, died at 11 o’clock Thursday Exempting from taxation personal morning after an illness of two weeks, property of boy scouts’ organizations. Funeral services wert* held at 11 o’- Requiring the State highway com- clock Friday morning at the resi- ( mission and department to insist W dence. Pallbearers were as follows: ble property in the Stpte all, paving contracts a clause requir-J Active, Jim Dunbar, Dixie Dunbar, he bill, while ing that> a n cotK lition.s being equal,] Willis Snelling, Milledge Rountree,! the generation of hydro-electric power 'not levs than 85 per cent of the labor- Norman Ellis ami C. W. Dunbar; hon- in the State of 35-100 of one mill upoa ers employed under sch contract shall orary, John Brown, of Augusta, Idis be bona fide residents of the State. | Brabham, C. B. Dunbar, C. B. Ellis, at the resi- more than five mills on all the taxa- g property in the StpAe. A tax on all concerns engaged ia each kilowatt hour of electric power generated. Not to apply to concern* committee* were Senator Hammond, Clarifying the law with’legard to Sr.,'J. J. Walker, Dr. W. H Breeland of Richland and-Senator Williams, of Aiken, the latter being the chainnan of the committee. After a hearing route to the Milfefte section to cut , , . _ . ... * m t> „ 1 Jxed for four.©clock Tuesday after- cross ties. One of Mr. Peacocks ten- “ , A . .u ' ,, , . the Ml is expected to be ,re- ants was runng the mule at the timer ^ j , t_ . ported back to the senate Tuesday was that'trout fishing wa$ pleasant and.j of the accident. A had gash cut in. the animal’s right 'hind leg, ^ but it ti Understood that no hones profiUble-snd people wer e omazed: were - brok< ,„ and that thc wi ll h .a thing could happen in) recover The Aivei . of tho tr®* claims that Ihe mute became frighten ed and baclad into ‘the machine. that v sp: the flrot abundant rainfall after such a long, severe' drought. Well, it was during full moon and Luna fust drew quantities of water fromdhe <-three) strata- (where it is-- stored in—the- earth) to help out such Emergencies. It meets the precipitation from the clouds in a fifty-fifty proposition, which is a good rule to follow in all mundane affairs -and dealings.— r The State. Birth of a Boy. . Mr. and Mrs. H. Judson Black, qf this city, announ^eWie birth of a son, who arrived Ap*;il 15th and has been named Henry Lewis. The bill regulating and imposing additional taxes upon motor transpor tation, passed by the- senate as a “bob-bail” measure, gnd sent to fretf conference, is estimated to bring in a revenue of something like $25,000. and it wav expected thatrit -would he ironed out by the free conference com mittee. The senate committee on roads, bridges and ferries, of which Senator Jefferies, cf Colleton, is chair man. ha s * proposed a mrmber of motor | Advertise in The People-Sentinel transportation bills, and important the operation of trairts cm Sunday. To provk*'. 0 right of way for the United Sta^rfy land water lina-South tie River, tion, puichase dr the in- h Oaro-1 e at Lit-! y, by dona- demnation. and Dr F. C. Brinkley. Mr. Furse is survived by his wife, Mrs Lottie Ussff-^Furse. Miss. Re rkland Injured. generating ten-hourse power or less and not to apply to concerns generat ing power for their own use—if such concerns sell a part of their power, then that part sold is to be subject to the tax. A tax of one-half of 1 per cent, oa Mjhs Reuben Kirkland, youngest all insurance premiums collected in ^ _ a _ imm. A. 4a. I n -m-rnm the State—this in addition to The South Carolina supreme court J c’-aughter of th e late Dr. R. C. Kirk- r . _ has declared valid the inclusion in the i an d, of Barnwell, was seriously in-1 at P resent P^Hi.wy s^h eompaiup*. tax law of gusoline imported in bulk j ure d one day last week when she* A tax of five cimtoper and stored in the State for use of fell backwards from an automoble in Ms sold in the State, private industries or municipalities. Batesburg, her present home. It is The suit was by a dyeing company and understood that her-head and shoiif- .. „ _ thorite f mri ■mfnnii ..i,,,!, ^ «* Sumter. The tax comraissiqn bjm first it was thought that she'had been been enjoined, but the court holds fatally hurt. Her friends here, how- that this gasolirte bought in bulk .is ever, will be glad to know th*t her subject to the provisions of the law. injuries proved less serious and it The additional revenue to the State | is now believed Jhat she will recover. from this source is estimated at about • • T $30,000 per year. X . — - { ADVERTISE • in Thc People-Sentinel Elect Co-op Delegates. the 1 t’^iea^CTrowefS" Association, held in the Court Boom here Saturday, wa* very poorly at tended. Kendrick Diamond and C. W. Wall were selected as delegate* t* attend the district meeting in berg.