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• //V'v • • .. - THE f/mClAI NKW8PAPB8 OF BAUNff BLL COUNTT *%1 Consolidated 'June 1, 1925. Mu&t Like a Member of the Family'* VOLUME fcIV. BARNWELL, SOUfH CAROLINA. THURSDAY^ MAY 14TH, 1931. NUMBER S7. ' ■»- Senator Brown ♦ - * . V ' Refuses Bonus Turns Check for $260, Extra Legisla- live F*ay,lnto the General Fund of County. Cotton Dress Review Staged in Barnwell Entertainment and Instruction Af forded t.o65 People at Meeting Here Saturday. The Cotton Dres 8 Review staged by State Senator Edgar A. Brown has (the Home Demonstration Clothing emiched the treasury of BarnwelljrClubs of the county afforded both en- C’ounty In the amount of $260, it; teitainment and instruction for the became known this week, when he 65 people present at the meeting held turned a check drawn by J. H. Scar- Saurday at the High School Building borough, State treasurer, for “extra \in Barnwell. The dresses worn by expens e money for attendance upon ^ those taking part in the review cost the recent lengthy session of the jifrom 35 cents to $1.00. Mrs. R. T. General Assembly,” over to J. J.!,Williams, of Hilda, who won first Bell, cfcunty treasurer. Senatdl* | place in the contest wore a green Brown stated on the floor of the print costing 65 cents. Winners of Senate that he would not accept this second, third and fourth places were exia compensation for his own per-1 Mrs. Mamie Warien, Double Ponds; >onal use and he told a representative; Mrs. Charlie Hartzog, Double Ponds, of this paper that he felt the money and Mrs. J. B. Hartzog, Hilda. The belonged to-the County of Barnweir prizes donated were diess print and rather than to the State at large,' pattern,* Mazursky’s, Barnwellr dot- hence h! s action in this matter. j ted voil by W. H. Kennedy and Son, Even Colonel Brown's political j Williston; and two dress prints by vnemies will have commend this H. Antopolsky, Barnwell. The cos- magnanimous and public spirited act,!tumes wer v judged on general ap- i pearance, becomingness of -color, ^which shows that he is willing to wcrk for the" best interest of his State and county without any re ward other than that which comes line design, workmanship and acces sories. Proceeding the review . * Miss Gil- from the consciousness of a duty liam> ExU . n sion Clothing Specialist, w-ell done. He led the fight gainst the so-called “power trust” and finally succeeded in forcing the pas sage of a tax on all power developer! or sold in South Carolina after simi lar bills had twjce met with defeat in the House. of Winthrop College, gave a talk on Clothing and It’s Relation to Health, emphasizing the fact that the physi cal moral and emotional being is directly affected by* the type of rlwthmg worn. The talk was follow- HALTS “EXPENSE MONEY” FOR ASSEMBLY MEMBERS Displays First Cucumber. '' The first cucumber, 'of the J93LL .seaman seen in Barnwell was displayed here yesterday (Wednesday) by Belton Holly, who lives a few miles from town. The cuk e was an» inch and a quarter long. y - — , ■ ''T 5= Court Will Convene at Barnwell May 25 Judge Hayne F. Ric e Will Preside at One Week Term of the Court of General Sessions. COURT STOPS EXTRA PAY UNTIL FRIDAY. Columbia Attorney Calls Increased warranted and Unlawful. ; e d by a playlette, -illu>trating how U < ,etter to tht ‘ t ‘ ount y treasurer, lathes make a difference, given hy written ur r. date of May 11th, is Mr?. Roy Dyches, Miss Victcrine st i -cxplanaory and is *a s follows: j Delk, Mrs. Julia “Mr. J. J. Bell. County Treasurer, Howell Collins. is* Black and M is. Barnwell, S. C.—Dear Mr. Treasurer: I am handing you herewith chetw of J. H. Scarborough , State Treasurer, to my order in the sum of $260.00, same havjng been tendered me in payment of extra expense money for attendance upon the recent lengthy session of the General Assembly. “You w-ill kindly place this sum to the credit of the general funds of Barnwell County. v "It was necessary for the General Assembly to provide- some extra ex pense for certain members who. on account of the length of the session, Exhibits of Childlvu’s (. lothmg. In fant’s Clothing, Hosiery, Cotton^ Tex tiles made in South Carolina, and one showing the uses of bias binding atfracted the attention of those present. Other features of the day were Spirituals given by a colored chorus, awarding of certificates' to club membei*, song cbntests, a flower demonstration and contest, games, stunts and lunch.' Those receiving certificates- werv:’ Mrs. C. L. Dixolt, Mrs. O. B. Staley, were absolutely penniless and unable Beitha ( arnoll, of Lcng Blanch; to stay in Columbia for fhF-ftngth of M*'*- Jesse Mitchum, and Mrs. B. (). time it was necessary for us to keep Moirig ( lub; Mis, Hal Buford, them in order to overcome the power- Gieenland < lub. ful. influence of the Power Tiust lobby which three or four-times killed the Power Tax, which I am happy to say we. finally passes! pnd which will bring The Hilda (Tub won the prize for the best rendition of one of the songs learned thi s yeai: “Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes,” was the into the State al>out a million dollars " 8e ^ c *' on tfiwn. annually, thus relieving, the home and Mrs. C. L. Dixon won first prize, a propelty tax to that extent, and l ’ an Bloomaid, donated by the making a start towards ^wiping out ^ l ’ st Pharmacy, in the flower contest, the present State deficit. If nothing , w hile Mrs. B. O. Norris won Second else had been done during this long P 1 ' ze » ^ 1)Ur P^'kagef of flower seed, session, which lasted nearly four donated by R. A. Deason and Co., in months, I feel that this ha s been the samt ‘ contest. Mrs. Roy Dyches’s most fruitful session of the General °f poppies received honorable Assembly during my time. j mention. - . “As hereinabove stated, I am tum-^ Lunchi A one week teim of the Court of General Sessions for Barnwell Coun ty will "convene - here Monday, May 25th, with Judge Hayne F. Rice, of Aikerf, j>re>iding. Petit jurors have been drawn, as follows: , *■' J. R. Moody, Ellenton. •;WU!i e H. Dyches, Hilda. J. B. Hartzog, Hilda. L. E. McCormack, Blackville. Walter L. Baxley, Barnwell. Frank Sanders, Barbafy Branch. T. W. Dicks, Dunbarton. Willie ('. Zorn, Cedar'Grove." Cal!it- D. Birt, Long Branch. Jr>hn S. Keel, Long Brunch. J. M. Killings worth, Dunbarton. Herman Brown, Blackville. -. Williy L. Baxley, Reedy Branch. K^idiiok Diamond, Morris, i Willie Holland. Barnwell. E. L. Black, Williston. Q. A. Kennedy, Jr., Williston. P. J. Hiers, Dunbarton. Joe E. Owens. Ashleigh. Q. M. Haskell, Upper Richland. James S. Creech, Blackkville. Adrian L. Baxley, Blackville. Jasper L. Owens, Ashleigh. Luther Nix, Jidda. B. E. Folk, Williston. L. L. Peeples, Meyer’s Mill. J. S. N^ils, Blackville. A. F. Weimortz. Mount Calvary. Jiff Black, Reedy Branch. Angus B. Patterson, Barnwell. Clyde S. Vickery, Barnwell. G. S. Boynton, Kline. Zarey Bolen, Mount Calvary. • Paul E. Allen, Blackville. I). 1. Ross, Ashleigh. Percy Baxley, Barnwell. ing my extra expense money into„my consisting of sandwiches, cake and lemonade wa s served by county. I stated on the floor of the -Mrs. .A. A. McAllister, Mrs. Charlie Senate that I did not purpose to per sonally use this extra expense money, Brown, Jr., and Mrs. M. C. Best, Others assisting with th e activities. but that because some of us might be f * a . v were Mr s L. M. Cave, able to afford to go t« the General As- Mrs. H. L. O Bannon, Mrs. J. B. sembly and spend several times more Armstrong, Mrs. B. W.. Sexton, Mrs. Jhan we receive in pay, was no reason ^ • Whitaker and Mary Gay O’- for us to say to those less fortunately Bannon, 4-H (lub member, accompan- situated that they could not stay 1!st - there and represent the people who! -Attending from the various com-, had sent them." ' r . - ’ munities were: Hilda—Mrs. A. J. ♦ ♦ ♦ - Boryls, Mrs. H. W. Collins, Mrs. M. Mrs. Ci T. Bailey. A. Delk, Mis 8 Victorine Delk, Mrs. Mrs. Talm Reames Bailey, 49, died Julia * Black, Mrs. Madeline .Collins, Saturday^moming at the Baptist Mrs. Jennie Lou Dyches, Mrs. Susan hospital in Columbia after a long fll-{ Hutto, Miss Bertha Collins,. Mrs. J. ness. Funeral services were conduct-; Hartzog, Mrs. R. T. Williams, Misg ed at thre e o’clock Sunday afternoon Evelyn Black and Miss Mary Black, at the graveside, Dunbar cemetery. HerculesL—Mrs- Emmie—Sanders., IMPORTANT NOTICE. A meeting of the Barnwell Fire Department will Ire held Thursday evening at 8:30 o’clock, at Vickery’s Garage. All membeis are urged to be present. s *• •— L. C. VICKERY, Chief. The State supreme court has issued a temporary restraining order in structing Julian H. Sc&rborough, State Treasurer, not to pay members of the general assembly “expense money” in excess of their regular compensation fixed by statute until the injunction i s dissolved. —The-State Treasuier is ordered to (appear at 4 o’clock Friday afternoon jin show cause why the order should not be made permanent and i s re strained, in the'meantime fiom pay ing the extra compensation. At the Monday morning session of the supreme court, A. W. Holman, a Columbia attorney, appearing for Jame- B. Scroggie, presented a peti tion, claiming that the extra pay was unconstitutional and asking that the injunction be granted., Declining to give an opinion at that time, the eourt to*ik th,. matter under advise- men and after consultations much of the afternoon, issued the temporary restraining older la-t night against the custodian of South Carolina’s "money. Epitome of Order. Th,, treasurer i< “hereby restrained and enjoined from paying any vouch ers, check!}, or other instruments for the payment of compensation or ex pense* to the president of the senate in excess of the' total sum of $1,000 and to the member* of the general as sembly in excess of the total sum of $400 each, except the speaker of the house in excess of the total sum of $750, until the further order of this court.” Extra pay was attacked hy Mr. Hol man as unconstitutional and without authority by statute. It is, he said, “as if it had been stolen goods,” but he added that he was accusing no one. • . v The secoruT free 'Conference report on the general appropriations hill in serted $260 for each" member of the general assembly as "expense” money after getting an expression from both house* and provided for both the president of the senate and speaker of. the house. After Governor Black- wood signed the appropriations bill Saturday, 70. members of the general assembly secured their checks from the State Treasuier. , “Th e ru-h wa» so great,” Mr. Scar borough said Monday, “that I. had to put four men to work writing checks.” Monday night, when informed of the court’s action, Mr. Scarborough said that he would not pay any more warrant* but said that nothing could he done now about the 70 checks al ready in the hands of the legisltors. EUenton-Ehrhardt Lawmakers riaim Road to Be Surfaced Balanced Budget •- . _— -at Legislators^ Return Hone.—Adjourn ment Saturday Night Ends Pro tracted Meeting. Col. Edgar A. Brown Says Contract Will Probably Be Let in About" Two Weeks. Here’* good news for the ’peopl e of Sum to Assembly Members Un- Bec *’ on: Blackville, May 11.—Paul A. Bax ley,.cf Blackyi’o is another illustra tion of the trained farmer who things. A Clemson graduate in agri culture, Baxley went’ bock home to - • - .Am A . profit by his training, making* use al- the Rev. B. M. Foreman, assisted by Mrs. Laura Platt s and Mis. Owen H. the Rev. Cecil F. Outlaw, officiating,.! Morris. She ifi survived by her husband, f ’ Morris: Mrs. Charlie Morris, Charles T. Bailey; one daughter, Miss Mrs. B. 0. Norris, Mrs. L. A. Sandeis, Mildred Bailey; one son, Charles Mrs. Mitchum, Mrs. B. 0. Mar- Bailey, Jr.; one sister. Mrs. Ralph ! **». Mrs- W.-F. Fields and Mrs. Dunbar, and several nieces and neph- W. P. Morris. ews •— " Double Ponds—Miss Corrie Dyches, ♦ » ♦ " Mrs. Charlie Hartzog, Mrs. Mamie Celebrates 74th- Birthday. Warren, His* Julia Warren, Miss C. C. Owens, Sr., of this city, Daisy Hair, Mrs. F. W. Delk, Lannie reached his 74th milestone Sunday Delk, Western Delk., Louise Hartzog, and is still' as hale and hearty as Narvis Hartzog Narcissa Hartzog, many men 20 years his junior. Mr. Charlie Franklin Hartzog, Sarah Owen*- says that he is living within 1 Zorn, Baby Platts, Heyward Morris. 50 yards of the place where he was , Lbng Branch—Mrs. O. B. Staley, born. His friends wish for him many- Mrs. J. S. Keel*, Mrs. E. G. Birt, Mrs. happy returns of th e day. jjC. L. Dixon, Mrs. W. C. Zorn. chinery, with intelligent adoption of whatever new idea that promises to be practicable are to h e noted in any examination of ^Baxley’s farming. His crops are first of all cotton and plan being to handle 90 acre* of cot ton and 30 or 40 acres of com with With this tractor he lay B off, puts out fertilizer, beds and plants two rows at a time with one man and a helper—the work of 12 way* of ideas. Diversity of crops and'-niules and men. Then he cultivates use of labor-saving cost-reducing ma- two rows completely at once—equal to ' A dinner was given in-hi* hotior at the Kennimue Club near town Sun- Bainwell—Mrs. L. M. Cave s Mrs. A. A. McAllister, Mrs. M. C. Best, com, then 15 or 20 acres of canta loupes, l^to 14 acres of cucumbers and a him hundred j^so hogs. No one basket for all l^PIggs. With mule power for his special crops and for general farm service, Baxley has come to depend on tractor power for cotton and corn and hay and grain work. In 1930 he was one of the power famving demonstrators working with J. T. McAlister, agri> cultural engineer of the extensipn^er- vice, handling 68 acres of-cotton and five acre s of com-'entirely with a{ Farmall tractor: His record show’s that ho^prbduced 375 pounds of lint cottofi per acre at a cost of $26.36, or 7„cents per pound. He promises to do better still this year with more day 1 fiffiFiPagliterir "ancT Mrs/ ffKartic* Brown. Jr.. "Mrs. B. with a guests. number of hu LO’Bannon, Mrs. J. Miss _ Mary Gay O’- Bannon. Miss Evelyn . Sanders. Willistcn—Mrs. G. W. Whitaker. six mules and Qan cultivate 30 acres of cotton per day after it gets some size. He also poisons cotton with the tractor, covering 20 to 25 row s at a time wdth les> diu-t per acre. In short, labor and time are the sav - ing accomplished, and fewer mule« and. men to feed when not working. In the cotton contest every year for five years, Paul Baxley has gathered in all the new ideas and facts on prof itable-production -of better quality cotton and has gathered in a district first prize in 1928 -■jjid a district sec ond prize in l^CJjpc-ck to mention the Tact a bale per contest and usually raakeSTr^jn or nine bales on the five acres. «• Success with his secondary cash en terprise, including especially can taloupes, cucumbers and 'hogs* Bax ley round* odt a full year of activity with little or no slack and unprofit- experii^^. and , ^cruagu, able time* on hw^ J ha|»d«* r dozen Du roc brood sows, for example. CoL Edgar A. BroWn, State Sena tor from Barnwell County, tojd a representative of The People-Sentinel that the highway from Ellentpn to Ehrhardt will he suiface-treated and that the contract will probably be let by the State'highway department in about two weeks. Four months of work by the South Carolina general assembly was at ah end Saturday, but another legislature will be almost at hand before it will be definitely determined whether this one acheived it* primary purpose—to avoid another State deficit in 1931. „ When the lawmakers ended their lengthy and bitter session by jine dia- Not only will this work p^vldSf At^ , J j ° Urnment SatUrd * y they Were Con ' fident that they had balanced the much needed hard-surfaced road toi Augusta in one direction and to Charleston in another, , but it will mean the employment of a large force of laborers, with the consequent stimulaticn of trade. Very soon, Barnwell will have direct hard-surfaced highway*, to (he principal titles in this immediate sec tion and also to most of the impor- Stste’s budget and that this yeer 1 would not see an addition to the State’s $5,000,000 deficit* added to year by yesrS To boost revenues, the general as sembly placed a tax on power gen erated in the State and increased the levy on insurance companies. Estimated tevenue for the yew, to l>e swelled by these sources, is $11,- taht towns. As announced ijy these i to non a- * mi' » . „ , ., . 150,000, according to Neville Bennett, .Uunm, l«>* ««*, th, paving I*-] chllirma „ . tween Kline and Allendale has been' completed, providing a paved road fiom Barnwell to a point'a few miles south of Varnviile. Construction work is underway between that (mint and Yemassee, and when com pleted a paved road will lie provided to Savannah and Charleston by way of the coastal highway from Yem- us-ee the ways and means committee. Only time can tell, how ever. whether these estimates will prove accurate. A total of $10,509,000 was carried in the appropriation bill, which was about $750,000 lower that the one approved by the 1930 general assem bly. . ... , Undei# a house provision most of Work is ptogressing rapidly,,., j • ... . v f . c 1 ‘ the r|,venue derived from the power on Highway No. 3 between Spring- i_ w u l . ^ „ ... 1 1 1 v , 1 tax would be devoted to reduction of field and Swansea and already about i,.. « . , , i - the ' levy on real property, ten miles haVe been opened to traffic, t , ... ' . . .. a . H was estimated by proponent* of making it possib e to travel from . • ... . • , ' ■ , ", * 1 the stipulation that the property levy Barnwell to the North Carolina line on a hard-furfaced road with the ex ception of about 12 miles now under ctonstruction. This stretch will finished this summer. The hard-surfacing-of the EHentdh- Ehrhardl highway will provide an East and Wert outlet, giving a more direct route to Ixilh Augusta and Charleston. Need Soirte Money? Here , « Your Chance $5,000 in Frizr* W ill be Raid for Sug gestions for “Believe It or . Not" Cartoon. could be reduced to three and one- half mill;. ^ J Many legislators felt however, that ^ surplus revenue, if any, should be de voted to a reduction of the deficit which ha* hurt the State’s credit, offi cials warned the legislature. ' On Extra Money. One of the first reverberations of the arduous sesrten was a protest against the $260 “expense money” provided each legislator. A. W. Hol man, Columbia attorney, has an nounced hi* intention of appearing before the *uprem£ court Monday to seek an injunction -restraining the State treasurer from honoring extra pay .vouchers. (^Ovening January 13th as the ad- Do you know of some unusual hap-[ ^^‘‘I'ation °C- State passed from pening or event?. If you'do, it may * e * llin< ** John G. Richards to mean dollars and cents to you. 1 ° 8 ^ ^ r * Blno^ood, the gen- On the last page of this issue of erttl aB8 «‘ mb 'y opened it, work by hail- The People-Sentinel is the announce-1 ' t ' e ^ un economy legislature. mFnt of a $5,000 “Believe It or Not”| ItB * tru K* ,e ov * r matters of finance Contest, sponsored by the Standard kept il m 8<?Mion 117 th « lon «- Oil Co. Readers of some of the! ^ '* recent **•”’ daily newspapers are familiar with; ^ majority of th^ house members the “feelieveMt or Not” egrtoon by Wer ? there for th * ftr,t time ’ H"* Ripley, wherein the artist chronicles ! ' p0, 1 ,t * C * , ob “ rv "* P rofCTMd *> aa. a unusual events the world over. A 1 ack °* stron K leadership in tha house couple of years ago, four BaVnwell i a8 one cause of the P^tracted session, people found a place in the cartpon I The . hoU8e aD d «*nate were often in a as the lesult of-an unusual bridge j Kp ' r ‘ t °* con ^* ct - hand-—or rather several Unusual! State ^rtments «nd institutions hands. They wer* Col. and Mrs. Har-j rece,ved reduc * d appropriations and ry D. Calhoun, now of Denmark, and' sa,arie * wer * cut from *is Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Davies. One of few chan * e8 were made ’ ’ the players held 13 club* and another ~^ he 6 ’ 0 * 1 Kho ° l law wa * 13 diamonds. Ripley thought the chan * ed but for the Buah biU occurrence unusual enough to give jt i ncrea8ed tbe teacher load. ^ mention. * 4 ! The highway bond program, a What do you know of unusual in- ■ major issue of the 1930 gubernatorial terest? { campaign, went practically unnoticad Turn to the advertisement now and a Her the first weeks of the session read the details. Blank* fsr sending| when mor e pressing matters engaged in teplies may be secured at any i ^ be attention of the house and senate. Standard filling, station and- you may , Two constitutional amendment* ap- be the winner of a handsome cash proved by the voters in the last gen- prize. " era l election were not ratified by the And don’t fail to listen in pext general assembly. Wednesday evening to. a radio broad- The m^sure providing claasiflcar cayf'by Ripley frein he ""middle■‘-of the Atlantic Ocean. Meyer’s Mill Picnic. give profitable returns for 'attention and home-produced feeds. — Uom of intangible property, the legislature in a position to tax it, was approved by the house, but never acted on by the senate. t After the senate had passed it tha house killed the bill providing bien nial sessions of the legislature. On the question of taxation of the com- Friday, the 15th, It produced charges that the if^Hkt twelve o’clock, panie^. wer e prepared to offer monty n will 1——j *— Of interest to the Veterans . and Women of the Sixties, as well as the friends of the Thin Gray Line, comes the announcement that a power companies was centered meeting of the Veterans will be held' most conflict cf the heated at Meyer’s Mjj inst. beginnit Th e program ^Tll be furnished by-to legislators, denials and couader- the Ellenfon and Honey Hill Chap-1 charges. ters, U. 1). C., and dinner will be As a result the appropriation bill served promptly at one o’clock. All j carried amendment* providing an in- are requested to bring baskets, with: vestigation of power rates • and into the exception of Veterans and the lobbying at the 1931 session. Women of the Sixties, who are t<H5e Two issue* already looiri on the tjhe guests on this occasion. The horizon of the 1932 session—repeal at power .tax ryMtetMMguAb