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'-■tv'.: , ^ - THB f/FFIClAI i N Elf SPA PER OF BAUN WELL COUNTY ^ ConsolidatH Job* 1, 192&. 'Just Like a Member of the Family'* VOLUME LIV. BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROUNA. THURSDAY, APRIL 30TH. 19S1. " t ' NUMBER Brown of Barnwell Hit* ‘Power Trust’ Also Criticizes House of Represent*- !v Yv•*** tires for ; tions Bill. ’ -During Friday morning’s session of the State Senate, Senator Edgar A. Brown, cf this city, attacked the “power trust” and also criticized the House of Representatives for reject ing the appropriations bill on the previous day. The following account of Senator Brown’s attack is taken from Saturday’s is?u4 of the State: Senator Brown, of Barnwell, said that it was not the high appropria tions which had caused the house to reject th e free conferee’s report, nor* was it the hydro-electric tax, Asparagus Shippers Fjwored by Report Examiner Finds for South Carolina Growers for Overcharges in 192K1923 Period. Washington, April 27.-^AdltHtional r * reparations totaling about $7,500 from the Pennsylvania and Canadian National Railways, will be awarded by the Inter-tate Ccmmenv Cbm-* mission to the South Caioliira As paragus Growers’ association for o/eichaiyres that it was the provision appropriat ing $50,000 to investigate power rate# in thi- State. He declared that the free conferee’ll report only appropri ated about $49,000 more than the house had previously approved and named that such an increase was not suffi- j on shipn\er K-' from Rid-ge Springs, 'Ftantcn and Williston in the 1921-23 fieriod if the commis sion follows the advisory report of th e Examiner A. J. Sullivan, filed to day after hearings on that phase of the growers’ complaint. In the event but that the examiner i a sustained, in- terest from the date of the alleged overcharge.!; will be included in the award, which would increa e the re parations payment by several thous and d-oflb^ over th( r amount abovr Senior Class Play Friday Evening ‘Here Comes Patricia” Will Be Pre- Audi- torium at 8 O’Clock. An uproarious and charming come dy in threeV^cts, “Here Cbme s Patri cia,” will be presented by the senior cla s of the Barnwell high school in th e local school auditorium~f&morrow Asparagus Prices Very Satisfactory Carload of Barnwell “Grass” Sold Tuesday an High aa $5 Per Crate for Colossal. (Friday) evening, beginning at eight o’clock. The story of the play i* as follows: • On a certain spring morning, the After getting off to a late stait and wdth prospects for- a most un profitable season, Barnwell County asparagus^ growers have been very much heartened during the past week by the upward tre^d cf the mar ket. Returns on a car of Barnwell Barnwell Farmers Sell English Peat First Solid Carload of This Vegeta ble Sold Here Tuesday for i $ 1.50 a Crate. ‘grass,'!_< sold Tuesday, showed' re- The first solid carload of English pea 8 ever loaded in Barnwell was sold htPe Tuesday afternoon Tor $1.50 per crate, thus adding another crop to this county’s program of diversification. The car was loaded cooperatively by Terie Richardson, Sher iff B. H. Dyches, H. W. Sanders ceipts of from $2.50 to $5 per crate, whole^population of the town of B— the latter price being for Dixie Ex gasps to see a preKy, 19-year old, * tra Colossal, the be : t grade packed over-all clad girl in charge of the local filling station. Inquiry reveale that she is Patricfa Hammcnd. With in a week she is twice threatened with being driven out of town by the indignant townspeople. Never hav ing been driven out of any town be- i: fere, Patricia ’ views the prospect cient to cause the rejection of thjp re port. Additional Refunds Sought. . . , . , . . It is understood on good authority "Why should the house be infunat- „ ,, ... „ .. that Barnwell asparagus growers are ed about the report?” Senator Brown asked. “What ha s the senate tried to i am down the thieit of the hou*e? Gentlemen,’’ he continued, “there is a master mind behind the house’s re jection of the report. This master mind is controlling the members with- < ut their knowledge^” He accused the “master mind" of prejudicing the “simple-minded fel- Lws fr.in the backwoods in the h a e.”' Senator Brown vigorously resented ^ a rurher which he said had been cir-j culated about-the $50,000 investiga tion fund and denounced the person who would start such a malicious story. • He restricted his criticism of power cempanieg to tho.-e which retail the power, saying that it is often sold at 16 time 8 the cost of production. “It is a known fact," he declared, “that current from the Lexington Water Power company is sold 200 miles away from the plant cheaper than it is in Columbia.” Senator Brown said that if the sec ond h-uac appropriation- bill does) neb contam the hydro-electric tax and the provision for an investigation of the power rates, the public will know the influence which caused the rejecti. n of the free conferee’s report. “If the bin does contain the tax and the provision for the investigation,” he said, “we will accept the bill and welcome the house back into the re spectability of legislative bodies.- Senator Brown also criticized Speaker Hamblin of the house for delegating his duty as presiding of ficer to the house. He was referring to the decision of the house that the provision for. the investigation was raw matter in the bill and therefore could be rejected. He said that the item was not new as the senate had included it in its report. Senator Cooper said that there was no more reason to reject the hydro- alsft seeking refunds from the Atlan- with delightful enthusiasm. To Jimmy Black, a new-comer, is assigned the dismaying task of get ting rid of her. What luck he has is ail bad. To add to his trouble*, Jim my falls in love with the little nuis ance. About this time the whole tic. Coast Line Railicad Company for , town ig ^ over the expected com . alleged overcharge 1 -* on shipments of “grass” from this point. This ac- ir.g of the governor of the State and his daughter. The big night arrives, t.on is the result of a reduction in WiId enthugiasm reigns as a maip- the freight rates durmg the past ; moth parade> flareg aml cheer . week cf approximately 20 cents a j in>f thlcnfrs greet the distinguished guests. Then ,out of the car of honor, leaning qn the governor’s arm, crate, and if it i a successful will re sult in the return of thousands of dollars to local farmers. One grower estimates that the refund to him would amount to about $2,500, cover ing a period of several years, while another places his- estimated refund at between $3,000 and $3,500. If ef forts to obtain these refunds are suc cessful and they bear interest from the date of the alleged oivercharges, many thousands of dollars will be letumed to farmer 9 in the Barnwell area. steps the governor's daughter!—Pa tricia! Cast of Characters. - cast of characters *is a s fol- To Start Membership Drive in Near Future Better Business Association _ to Launch Campaign Within the Next Few Weeks. The Better Business Association membeiship drive will get underway through ut the State within tlbe next few weeks, according to plans formulated by the Bo»rd of Trustees at a meeting held in Columbia last week. All funds derived from member ships and contributions will be u-ed to carry out the following objects: To conduct an intensive interstate and National advertising campaign so as to educate the general public to the advantages which may be de rives! from South Carolina products; to encourage the growth and develop ment of established ^businer-s enter prises ’throughout the State; to ad- Thc low-! y Mis. Carroll, a motherly widow— Oneda Moody. Elsie Crowder, a pretty young neighbor—Marie Halford. Mrs. Smith-Porter, the town aris tocrat—Jennie Black. Angelina Kroop, another young neighbor—Elizabeth Sanders. Minnie Knoop, Angelina’s cousin— Evelyn Clary. Patricia Giayson, a daughter of the governor—Scott McNab. Jimmy Clark, a newcomer in B —Harris Morris. Elbert Hastings, much abused member ' of the governor’s ^taff— Calder Ellis. Adam Wade, Jimmy’s peppery boss—Robert Gignilliat. Tim Hopper, the town’s bad ex ample—W. P. Norris. ~ Bud Flannigan, a young man, evi dently Irish—Eugene Davis. Tima: The present. Spring. Place: Living room in the home ef Mrs. Carroll in B Che ruses: (1) "Running Be tween the Raindrops.” (2) “Would You Like to Take a Walk.” Choru* boys and girls: McTyre Calhoun, Brown Easterling, Dean Fuller, David Hair, George Hogg, Gordon Howell, Emily Black, Patricia Dicks, Frances Dugger, Elizabeth by members of the South Carolina Asparagus Glowers Association. Cars of asparagus loaded at Willis ton sold th 0 day before on the New York iqarket for as High a.- $5.75 per crate. It i 3 understood that local growrr-; have averaged $2 and better per I f ci-at e f° r a N grass shipped so far this seas.cn and the better price s be ing icceived the past few cay s will increa e that average somewhat. When the lower costs of production this year, including fertilizer, cut ting and packing, are taken into consideration it will he seen that most glowers should realize a nice net profit on their yields—probably as much as last year. • Asparagus is taken in this section as an index to other crop prices, and if this i s true, local faimers should enjoy a better year all around than they did in 1930, as all crop 9 are be ing produced cheaper than in the part. and W. L. Molair. These four farm- HOPOCATRUC By G. Chalmers McDermid. South Carolina is shipping some very high quality pea* to the mar kets thi 9 season I saw a very beau tiful field near Burton last week, Mr. J W. Yarn’s farm. Another spfqndid wan Mr. John FarrellV at Blackville. Talked to an asparagus grower at Bamberg and he said that he had made a very che-ap crop this season. His shipments have totalled to last Wednesday 26 crates per acie, and he said that his t~ital expense on the crop had been paid and that the remainder of his season’s shipments would be “velvet.’’ Most growers have made 1931 crops much cheaper than those of other years, amj in wpife of poor prices, mapy of them are getting a nice profit. The cabbage .growers have my sympathy however, it just look s like they are having the toughest tame ever. Lang Cave of Barnwell, has c«»n- vertise arid promote the us^ of South electric" ta"x^and the" insurance tax | C “ ,olin “ K"***. b r l*<H* ** than there would be to eliminate the, thi,, SUU ' ; “> brin * n ' w ,rrdus,rio * 5-mill tax on property. He said the j < ‘ nd <*> ««*'> Oarolin.; senate ffi adding the. hydro-electric assist in gatheting Hagood, Elaine Harley and Moody. Eunice tax had merely mad e an honest ef fort to provide revenue for the ap propriations it had approved. His speech was in defense of fann ing. “Let’s take care of agriculture," he said. “It is the backbone of the South and of South Carolina.” • He Several Allendale Men Hurt in Wreck information and marketing news for business groups; to check and help break j A|) M „ } An By( aKl Phy8id , TO down unfair and unethical business tinued his aspa'iagUg “bert” this practices in South Carolina. All citizens are urged to join im mediately. Membeiship in the as- # • sociation i s $5. Those desiring to Fear Necessity of Amputating Cook's Arm * Allendale, April 25-^. H. C.‘All said he objected to stamping down ' .Mn may make checks payable to R.^ and R. ^ook, young Allendale men, agriculture at the expense of bring-j G. Rhett, Jr., treasurer, and mail to are in an Augusta 1 irce some other industry into the Better Business Association, 92 icus contii'fion as thewRv ( tal in a ser- ult of a head State”. With the hydro-electric tax j Broad Street, Charleston. on collision between two automobiles season and has put 1,000 pounds of 7-5-o fertilizer ard .500 pounds of muriate of potash on the crop since last June I stopped to Ir.ok at his cutting record last Wedne-day and the field with the high potash fertilizer has cut 113 more bunches than that with the 7-5-5 alone. An ether record I looked at was “Bing” Fanner’s at Allendale.- There are 25 bunches difference on his fields and of these 25, twenty-three of them are colossal*. I am going to Hastings, Fla, next Friday to look over the--potato situ ation dowm theie. Wilt let you know through >these column^ what I find out Several people who have been down and the insurance tax, he said that the State might be able to lower its,levy cn property, thus giving concrete aid to the farmers. It can leadily .he seen that, the on the Allendale-Fairfax highway there recently tell m*e that the Fed work outlined by this group will be a i about 10 o'clock lart night Barnwell Boy Breaks Arm. great help to all business within the State. California and Florida have profited by their advertising, why not help South Carolina do the same? eral Point and Hastini Both men received cuts about their heads and arms, physicians saying All will probably lose the use of his left eye, while there is a possibility that digging around 40 bar The many friends' of Judge and j Mrs. Thos. M. Boulware will learn ■ with regret' that their tfttle son, Tom, 1 had the misfortune to break hi 8 right arm Thursday when he was thrown by ; hi s pet pony, which had been given to South Carolina has w aLs much, and more to offer. Support and join this association, it will help you. If you wrf"** t'ion fra in '* ■>' me a line Cook’s left arm will have to be am-j Qur Sotf>V putated. Maxwell 0?wald, Julian.«| 00 i cs ver y Moore and Lyndall Vance, also of some more rain i Allendale, received minor cuts and a f u jj cro p I biuises in the accident, Oswald re-j SMILE OVER THIS ONE:— ! ceiving a blow on the jaw areas are Is per acre, led informa w turn drop * *h, tato crop we’re go- make ers have quite a targe acreage plant ed, in English peas this year and while the price received Tuesday is not a iccord-breaker, it should net the growers a reasonable profit, provided later, shipments Can be sold at fair prices. English peas have been planted in this immediate gpetion in the past, •a car. ' Should returns thw year, however, justify th e experiment, it is pr<nbi hie that the acreage will be increased in 1932. The planting of this new crop reflects the efforts of Cut as Result of Horae Race Claude Collins Seriously CM Sunday by T. J. Bandera; Following Argument. As a result of a dispute over a home rrn^e, Claude Col km*, eon of Teetum Collins, of the Bodiford Mill, section, was seriously cut Sunday af ternoon by T. J. Sanders, n aon of Milleoge Sanders. The affair occur red near the old Black Mill and, ac cording to Sheriff B. H. Dyches,- young Collins claims that Janes Rowell, a fon of the late Levy Rowell, held his (Collins’) horse while San ders pulled him from the animal and inflicted . a dangdrous knife wound near the heart. This version of the affair is denied by Sanders and Row ell, who were arrested and lodged in the Barnwell County jail. They nut not in suficient quantities to load. c l*im that Collins voluntarily offered local faimers to get away from l:\rge production nf cotton. School Measure Will Save Money for State To Eliminate Five Hundred Teachers. —Becomes Effective With Term In Fall. . - Columbia, rcsanct and 6-0-1 school to fight, following an argument over the outcome of a horse race a few days previous. Collin* wag rushed to an Augusta hospital, where it ia said that his chances for recovery are good unless eoifiplications set in. The knife miss, ed his heart, but attending physicina# .tate that hb left Iddney wagtcut. Sanders and Rowell, the latter charged with being an accessory, will probably bl held in jail pending the outcome of Collins’ irtjuries. Gray Clad Heroes Will Be Honored Would Increase Members’ Pay. friend told his little boy to go to the Members of the general assembly loosened several of his lower teeth. 1 store and ask Mr. Crummick to get f, The collision occurred near the Pal- «• metto Veneer mill, about a mile and a him only a few hours before by his j of South Carolina, after 1932, would father. The little fellow was carried ^ paid $1,000 each instead of the to a Columbia hospital, where an X-i 1400 now allowed, under the terms of half South of Allendale ray examination disclosed a very: a bin drawn up by Max A. Green, of bad break, making an operation nec-1 Andereop County, eesary to set the broken bones. Tom! The jblll further provides that the is getting along all right now and speaker of'the house receive $350 ad- :-k.r hig friends hope to see him at home again very aoon. j. ^ ADV in The People-Sentinel some nails. “Now, son, remember t*» fox Mr. Crummick—if you for- getr the name; just i emeTnbdrrth*t^3t4 rhymes with ^.tommick;” . - ^ The little fellow Went blithely over to the store saying, “Crummick Mm ditional to his salary as a member of the house. In most States. Representative Green says, members of the general mjttee when it js introduced. assembly receive from $1,500 to $3,- 500. He believes . member s of the general assembly gf South Carolina rhymes with Stummick,” and when should receive more than |M00 and ^ foside he aaked the clerk— his bill fixes a salary at $1,000. The |j| r j^jy jn” bill wtlMikely go to the judiciary com- 1 • April 23.—In that sac- heretofore unamended .aid law the general assembly of 1931 has dotted the M Ps” and crossed the “T’s”. The Bush bill to laise the attend ance requirements in schools re ceiving State laid—the ao-cfcllsd “teachers load increase” bill—haa been ordered ratified and, Governor Ibra C. Blackwood approving, will become a law as the first lawful amendment to the 6-0-1 law, Which since ita adoption in 1924 has been maintained unchang ed except for department of education rulings despite the declaration of Jaa. H Hope, State superintendent of edu cation that it ia a law that can “hon estly be enforced.” Eliminates Teachers. The Bush bill is a modification of the teachers’ a#*cciatkm bill to “in crease the teaching load” and like it has been urged as a school economy measure, making possible the elimina tion of approximately 500 teachers and the reduction of State school aid expenditures by approximately $350,- 000. The bill, as originaly proposed by the teachers’ association, would have placed the burden of thi« reduction on the smaller schools and the modifica tion effected by Representative M. F. Bush, of Aiken, sponsor of the Pr®* ject in the general assembly, consisted in increasing the enrollment and At tendance requirements for the larger schools. The teachers’ association agreed to this change and with the association’s endorsement, it passed the two houses—virtually "unopposed. A similar measure, proposed last yea* in the general assembly, had been killed by the teachers’ opposition to it. Economy Measure. For all the representations to the contrai y the bill i s not essentially an economy measure and its eventual result may the increasing of attend ance rather than the elimination of teachers. Except in larger schools it does not evenjnerease the teaching load—if the teaching load be calcu lated on the enrollment basis. If it should force school authorities to en courage the attendance of pupils now enrolled but i^^tending, it will, of course .have’S^Bp a worthy purpose and made of which Mr. Bush is chiefly responsible, something to be acclaimed. It will.have the effect also of facili- ating the calculation of th e school id fund distribution, the distribution based, the bill provides, on the Ce and enrollment fqr the pre- g year. The school authorities therefore tKLable in.the sum mer to know exactly what supn in the form of State aid they may expect for the next school term beginning in September. • ' Me mortar Celebration Planned at Site . of Rivers' Bridge Battle.— Byrnes to Speak ing Olar, April 27.—The Rivers’ Bridge Memorial and Monumental will hold ita 55th annual celebration at the memorial ground near Rivera’ bridge Friday, May 1. Jameo F. Byrnes, South Carolina's junior sen ator, will deliver the principal 'ad dress. He repreatntad this datrfct in congress for 14 years and his many friends are preparing to welcome Mat Tiere. Mr. Byrne* wil^ be introduced by State Senator Miry Henderson, of Bamberg. InvocaTkm will be of fered by the chaplain, the Rev. Pnel K. Crosby, of Olar.' The vocal music will be furniehed by the Matteeon quartet of Columbia, composed of Mrs. William Furtick, soprano; Mrs. Edward Crooks, con tralto; Dr. Pinkney V. Mikell, terror, and Maurice Matteson, baritone, with Mm. Matteson as accompanist. * The program will be opened with a musical concert by Walker Smith and his orchestra of Fairfax. This orches tra will furnish music throughout tha day. The program will be concluded by the marc hang of the Veterans and Girls of the ’60 g to the grave of the Confederate heroes, who KaCrificed tTieir lives at Rivers* Bridge Feftms- ary 2nd, 1865. The grave will be decorated by the Daughters of tha Confederacy. A picnic dinner will, then be served on ,the ground*. — Many school* in this section will close for the occasion, and flowers will be brought for decorative pur poses by schools, U. D. C. chapters and various other organization*. The stand will be decorated by the Ehr- hardt chapter, U. D. C. There are only eight surviving vet erans in Bamberg County. Capt. Ben S. Williams, of Brunaon, parti cipated in the Battle of Rivers* Bridge, and is a member of the exe cutive committee of the association. His many friends expect him to be present. Caipt. J. Wyman Jenny, of Fairfax, commonly known v the “Grand QM Man of the Saltkehatchie,” » serving hi s 44th year a* secretary and is a charter member of the association. He Was her e on a furlough whan the battle was fought and assisted in ex huming the bodies and placing thaaa in one grave at the spot held aacred by thousands of citizens of South Carolina and Georgia., Captain Jenny was bora within a mile of the memorial grounds Febru- ary 24, IWE His many friends *• delighted over his recent recovery from a serious attack of pneumonia. Dr. L A. Uartzog, of Olar, is preni- dent of the association. Advertise ,in The f. ifiiiMHMMailM Mrs. Herbert A. Gross and little * stf' daughter we visiting relatives - in