The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, July 16, 1931, Image 3
• THURSDAY, JULY IfTH,' 1931.
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THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, 80l)TH CAROLINA
HALFWAY HOUSE FOR
LUNAR TRIP PLANNED
Has No T. B. Patients
at the State Hospital
Barnwell In One of Fve Such Counties,
According to Records at the
Institution.
Barnwell i s one of five counties in
the State which had no patients at
the- State Sanatorium ^on June 11th
when the South Carolina Tuberculosis
Association made a study of the
records of the Sanatorium to find out
which counties were successfully
lining up early case 9 for treatment.
At the time of the study there were
24 empty beds for ambulant patients
at the sanatorium. In the five coun
ties having no respresentation at the
sanatorium there were estimated to
be nearly 600 active cases of tuber
culosis. The estimate was based upon
the 1930 death records which showed
that 64 persons in these counties had
died from tuberculosis.
None of the five counties has a
county nurs e or any organized fight
against disease. No tuberculosis
clinics have been held in them this
year. These counties are a part of
the territory of 31 counties having no
tuberculosis association in which the
South Carolina Tuberculsosis * Asso
ciation conducts nursing demonstra
tions and holds clinicsJn cooperation
with the State Sanatorium fo r the
purpose of finding early cases of
tuberculosis and getting them under
medical treatment. One of such cases
recently found by Miss Jennie Mc-
Master, the Association’s field nurse,
wa* a boy of nineteen whose father
and older brother had died of tuber
culosis the year before. Further
.work in the home resulted in the dis
covery of another active case, a
young man, and on e suspect, a sister
ten years old. Three smaller children
were exposed to the disease. Thi s is
one of several hundred homes reache4
by the Association’s visiting nursing
service in the last six months.
Due to the shortage of fund s from
tthe Christmas seal sale the Asso
ciation’s nursing service has been
temporarily suspended. This month
the Association is putting out a let
ter appealing for members in the
counties needing this service. Since
postage funds are short, the Associa
tion states that it will be greatly ap
preciated if the limited number who
ar r receiving the letter will respond
-prompily and generously, and if those
who have not been solicited will show
their rnterst and desire to help by
joining or contributing through this
appeal in the newspapers. Gifts
should be sent to the South Carolina
Tuberculosis Association, 1218 Sen
ate Street, 'Columbia.
Highest Cora Yield
Made by Dixie Fanner
Setting new. records is getting to be
a habit with W. Y. Thrash, well known
farmer of Walnut Grove, Miss.
Two years ago
he averaged on a
three - acre field
181 bushels of
■helled corn an
acre. Last year
he increased the
yield to 193 bu
shels. As far as
Is known, these
records were tbs
highest y i etd s
made in the coun-
try during the
la*, two y$ers. ”
* ’ Stand farm iMfetityges account for
Mr. Tbraeh’a spectacular yields. An
Iqppprtant (0atute Af.his pregram ba*
been two side-dressings with Cbileen
nitrate of soda, the first when the cora
is knee-hig^i and tbe second abort
three weeks later, depending on the
aeeaon.
Both of 4110 records were completed
in the Mtestesippl Better Corn Pro
duction Contest. ,
Heavy Cotton Yields
. Mesa Low-Unit Costs
The rock bottom cost of producing
a pound of seed cotton last year was
probably cents. At least, that is
what it cost the winners of cotton
growing contests in nine Southern
States.
An inspection of their records shows
I that every one of the winners, 22 in
all, side-dressed their crop. The aver
age application was 200 pounds of
Chilean nitrate per a.cre, applied about
45 days after planting.
It is sometimes said that while the
winners of crop-growing contests
make high acre yields, their cost of
unit production is abnormally high.
This is far from being the case. In
fact, as shown by these records, the
cost of growing a pound of cotton was
.reduced^as the yield was Increased.
Idea Is to Pick Up Rockets
on Way to Moon.
Berlin.—Proposing to give the
earth a tribe of new moons, or at
least, of moonlets, to serve as sort
of halfway houses for a lunar rocket
expedition, no less an authority then
Engineer Rudolf Nebei, head of Ber-
Hn’s one and only “rocket .Dying
field’’ has outlined a jaunt that would
make Jules Verne seem almost un
imaginative.
Though rockets are just beginning
to be developed to tbe point of suc
cess, brave spirits such as Nebei vis
ion them already as realizing the
dream of the great French scientific
romancer in his book. “From the *
Earth to the Moon and Round the
Moon.”
True, Verne’s trio of heroes were
shot out of a great gun aimed st the
earth’s satellite, but that was in all
likelihood only because rockets in
Jules Verne’s time were still only a
form of fireworks.
Hire's the Idea.
Nebel’s Idea is that: Before the
start of the passenger carrying lunar
rockets, a number of unmanned rock
ets will be fired into the air, with just
the right speed so that after the ex
haustion of their main supply of fuel,
they will have attained a height of
about TTO miles above the earth’s sur
face. Then will follow the rockets in
which ride the hardy souls who are
to be the first men on the moon. Quite
casually and as a matter of course,
they will “pick up” the whole flock
of previously sent rockets, all of which
will bV this time be gravitating around
tbe earth, just like the moon itself.
Well, why not? Polar explorers
have their halfway stations and their
emergency camps for supplies, and
the Interplanetary spaces are much,
much colder than the polar regions
can ever hope to be. says' Herr Nebei.
After the extra -rocket* are picked
up and clamped together like pieces
of worm uniting to form one big long
worm, they will then prbceed with the
Journey moonward.
Herr Ne!>el did not outline his
scheme in a spirit of jest, nor on the
first of April. It Is Interesting to note,
however, that his name means “fog”
in German.
He has, though, a number of In
teresting comments to make, - Impor
tant to the problems of rocket flight,
entirely apart from trips to any
heavenly body. He visions the proba
ble development of a new means of
transportation.
The.rocket system of propulsion Is
aide to produce high rates of accelera
tion. Doubt has been expressed
whet tier the hnmso frame is able
to withstand the pressures which
would be produced in starting and
stopping. Researches have been made
which tend to prove that the average
ixwson is aide to survive a push equal
to about four times the normaTpull of
gravity on his body. Nebei claims
that already with high speed airplanes
making landings with the brakes on,
the rate of slowing down has pro
duced pressures equal to five and six
times the normal drag of gravity. He
says it will not he necessary to ex
ceed this with rockets.
Tokyo Doctors Join to
Oppose Birth Control
Tokyo.—Tokyo physicians, members
of the Association of Graduate Medi
cal Practitioners, have decided to op
pose the birth control movement and
shortly present a memorial to the
government to that effect, according to
the vernacular press.
Before any national policy with re
gard to the birth* rate—which in
creases to such an extent that many
■ observers believe the cunpire within a
few years will be unctle to support
Its Increasing population—is adopted,
the physicians believe the question
should be studied carefully and staUs
tics collected showing the influence of
birth control on eugenics and social
conditions. t
Birth control clinics already are op
erated by social welfare bureaus In
the larger cities of Japan.
Petrified Saake Feaad
Westfield, Mass.—Evidence of what
may have been a prehistoric rattle
snake has been found on Mount Teko.
The apparently petrified reptile ap
pears on the face of a cliff a sore of
feet from the nearest footpath.
Scientists who have viewed it esti
mate that it was about 7 feet long and
4 inches in diameter.
larable Fqoa
" We once put a
n railroad lunch-counter sandwich mu
found it thefe two years later. It ho '
been newly half-soledl but it was tl
same sandwich.—Woman's Home Go),
panion.
. Is Doubly Bullbeaded
Palo Alto, Calif.—'The old adage
that two heads are better than one
was discredited here at the dairy
farm of Sequeira A Phillips when a
Guernsey cow gave birth to a two-
headed bull calf/ .
Idaho Plans to Hunt
- for Big Lost River
Boise, Idaho.—It may be nec
essary to “find” Big Lost river
to relieve the water shortage"
north .of Areo, Idaho, in tlrS^
soutHern part Ot the state. In
this district Big Lest, river dis-
——
Authorities are considering
the.feasibility of bringing the.
water from the undergroqH 1
river to the surface. , ♦**
ANTIQUE RACKET
SPRINGS NEW ONE
Furniture Aged by Exposure
to Elements.
New York.—Another trick of the an
tique racketeers has just come to light
in New York^city.
-Nothing yet has been discovered to
equal the beautifying effect of time
upon all hard cabinet woods, but the
racketeer has no time to wait He
. hurries new furniture into the rain,
the sun, the wind and the snow. He
leaves It on the roof of a tall metro
politan building throughout all the sea
sons, where the elements beat upon
the wood textures and leave their
stain. He places an expensive cabinet
back of a barn, in the open, where
cattle knock against its sides. The
racketeer smiles to himself—every
knock is a dollar gained, dull knocks
not so easily detected as those made
with Instruments, crushed glass or ra
zor blades.
“In countless New York back yards,*
says a Collier’s Weekly investigator,
“furniture is ageing for the racketeers,
and when It Is ripe enough to be taken
Into a shop for the final rubbing and
polishing, enough of the storm-ravaged
wood will he left to indicate an old.
If not too honest, past. The sale of
this type of furniture has been so
brisk at times that one racketeer was
kncfwn to be nnahle to cope with his
trade without • outside help. It wa*
impossible for his small finishing-stwff
to do over enough furniture to keep
up with orders.
American Negro Gets
Rich in Foreign Legion
Sidl-Bel-Abl>e*. Morocco.—The only
American negro in the hard living,
hard fighting French Foreign Legion
Is Jackie Walker from San Francisco,
and Jackie would not leave the Le
gion for anything. He is making a
small fortune as a private under the
French tricolor
Jackie Walker is the leader of the
Legion's own jazz band. Eleven years
ago. when he was eighteen, he came
over In n cattle boat ar d enlisted in
the Second r«giment. At first lie had
too much fighting to do to think of
increasing Ids-meager pay of five sous
(one cent) i»er day. but since the war
wi»h the Riff ended be decided to form
bis own Jazz hand and. with readily
given permission, to play in the cafes
for money after his dally duty was
done.
At night, under the twinkling stars
on the edge of the desert. Europeans,
desert chieftains, sheiks from the Sa
hara gather in the brightly lighted
cafes and listen to Jackie Walker's
Jazz hand play a languorous roeiody'or
a snappy jazz tune. There are six
members of the band, two ether Amer
icans. one Scotch boy from Glasgow,
an Englishman and a Parisian.
Keeler-Crofhan.
End Terrorism of Night
Riders in New Mexico
Santa Fe. N. M.—A band of outlaws,
mysterious masked riders of tbe night,
who for six years left terror, arson.'
and death-In their trail across New
Mexico, has been broken up by the ar
rest and conviction of five of the aeevn
killers.
Felix Lovato. leader of tbe night rid
ers. was sentenced to IS years in the
penitentiary. The two remaining mem
bers of tbe hand are still being sought.
Like outlaw bands of the old West,
the men. spurred and tioofed. rode
their horses down on isolated ranches
in the Arriba district, burned, pillaged,
and sometimes killed, v
For six years they terrorized the
entire countryside, although the iden
tity of^ the riders appeared to be an
open secret.
Finally H. C. Martin, a private de
tective, rounded up the gang and ob
tained evidence which resulted in their
convictions.
mm ut ft Ijpjjj [ 1 1: ~ Martin, at Seiglingville
Mineral Product* dedine
Washington.—An” 18 per cent de
cline in the estimated total value of
mineral products in the l’nited States
in 1%30, as compared with 1926, has
been reported by tbe bureau of mines
of the Commerce department The es
timated value of mineral products in
this country In 1990 was aproximateiy
$4,795,000. 000. the boreau reported.
The decline was said to be the result
of the depression prevailing during the
year. ■ —
Brain Tests Worthless,
Says College President
Buffalo, w. Y.—Frederick c. Ferry,
president of Hamilton *Hlege, in an
address at the UriRtersiry club here,
said intelligence contests are worth
less. Hamilton does net have them.
“I am glad that we let the other col
leges sxperim« n L" Ferry said: • “We
have ,always Believed‘them a waste of
time, and I understand those institu
tions which favored them most a short
time ago are now discarding them.”
Blackville,^ JSly 11.—Miss Mathilda
Jourina Keeler, <xf Blackville_$pd Leo
Michael Croghan, of Charleston, were
married Tuesday morning at 8:30 o’>
clock in the Sacred Heart Church with
a Nuptial Mass., The ceremony was
performed by the Rev. T. A. Croin, cf
Orangeburg, assisted by the Rev. J.
D. Quinn, of Sumter.
Th e church was decorated with
white and pink oleanders* with dais
ies and ferns. Masters Arthur
Whiteside, Jr., of Savannah, Ga., and
Joseph I. Keeler, of Columbia served
at the altar. The bride, in a pink silk
lace dress with accessories to match
and carrying a shower bouquet of
Joanna. Hill roses and valley lilies
entered with her brother, Ignatius
Keeler, who gave her in marriage.
Her only attendant was her sister,
Miss Anna M. Keeler. The wedding
march was played by Mrs, Margaret
Jeivey.’iijnt of th e bridegroom. Nup
tial solos were sung by Mrs. William
Croghan.
The bridegroom entered from the
sacristy with his best man, his
brother, Thomas Croghan. Ushers
were the brothers of the bride and
bridegroom, respectively^ Joseph
Keeler and William Croghan.
After thei ceremony, a wedding
breakfast was served fo r the bridal
party and the immediate families of
the bride and bridegroom at the
country home of her mother, Mrs. I.
Keeler. Throughout the day, punch
and cake g were served to those call
ing. ’
Immediately after the breakfast
the couple left by motoj- for Montreal.
CamTda, and other northern points.
They will make their home in Char
leston, where Mr. Croghan ia .em
ployed by the Seaboard Air Line
Railroad company. ^
Aahleigh News.
OF
Ashleigh, July 13.—The extremely
hot weather of the past several weeks
has *ent many peoule each day to the
“ole swimming hole” in Tuikey
fcreek at Cow Ford crossing. Of
course, this place cannot compare
with Barnwell’s "beach,” a s we have
no electric lights and other conven
iences, but we are far above our
neighboring town in one respect—we
are much farther up strem. Boy*
and girls go there to swim almost
every day and visitors also Come from
as far away a 8 Williston and Elko.
Among those from Elko last week
was former superintendent of educa
tion, Horace J. Crouch.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Creech, of
Augusta, spent the past week at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Odom.
Mr. and Mrs.' Leon Carroll and
baby, Marjorie, of Augusta, returned
home Saturday after spending several
days with Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Owen?/
Mrs. Owens and children accompanied
them home.
Miss Pretto 'Ross, of Augusta,
spent Saturday with her father, W.
A. Ross.
Miss Catherine Owens spent the
past week with her grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. Teetum Collins.
Mrs. Gladys Knotts, of Barnwell,
is spending a fqw days this week
with Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Halford and
family.
Mr. and Mr*. McCoy Miles, W. A.
Ross and son, Archie Ross, spent
Sunday at the home qf Mr. and Mrs.
D. 1. Ross.
Miss Myrtle Halford is spending
this week with her cousin, Mi S g Mary
Auk’s Egg Sold for $1,300
London.—A great auk s egg was sold
at Covent garden for $1,300. There
are abotft <0 specimens of this egg in
jsxrftence. The egg was one of ten
found in the Museum of the Royal
Collegf of Surgeons in 1861. One of
these eggs brought as high as $1,600
sotne years ago.
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Prolific Tulips
Greenland, N. H.—Tulips with four
blossoms on a single stalk are borti
cultural oddities which may be seen
in the garden of Udruce W. Cannon. 1
. ... r
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Dyclfes and
baby, Ruth, spent Sunday at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Jo e Rosier.
Mrs. Lessie Holly and children
have been spending the past few
week s with relatives in Olar.
Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Halford, of
Barnwell, spent Sunday at the home
of Mr. and ‘Mrs. J. M. Halford.
W. F. Odom, of Asheville, N. C.;
spent Sunday at the home of his
parents, l^Ir und Mrs. H. F. Odom.
My. and Mrs. W. P. Floyd and chil
dren, of St. George, are spending a
few days at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
P. B. Porter.
ADVERTISE in The People-Sentinel
$7.00
SPECIAL EXCURSION
— t8 —
asheviiSe, N. C.
$7.00
SATURDAY, JULY 18TH, 1931
GOOD 8 DAYS *.• .
Proportionate fares to other Western
North Carolina destination^ Visit
the cool Mountains in mj^-summer.
For fare s ,to ^ther points and other
* Consult Ticket Agents
SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM
QUARTERLY REPORT
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THE BOARD OF COUNTY DIRECTORS FOR THE QUA
ENDING JUNE $•, 1911.
\ ~ | PERRY B. BUSH, CM*
4 Board of County
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L. S. Still, county director ^
W. D. Black, county director ...
Idis Brabham, county director : ' . . .
R. R. Moore, county director
G. C. Beck, jail
H. G. Boylston, demonstration expense
R. L. Bryan Co., printing
John K. Snelling, stamp*
Sou. SUtea Printing Co., stationery ■ .#1.
Jennie P. Greene, rest room
F. ,S. Brown, jail, court house, etc.
S. C. Power Co., court house and jail
J. R. Harrison, demonstration expense
r Carlisle. Courtney Home, special .-.tj.- :
Cassels Wholesale Grocery Cq-. chain gang
Robt. S. Hightower, public buildings
W. H. Manning, salary ;
D. P. Lancaster, salary
George James, janitor
A. B. Patterson, salary
A. M. Anderson, salary, chain gang
Bernice Still, chain gang
Joe Baxley, chain gang
T. D. Creighton, Jr., chain gang, etc.
Henry Haitzog, chain gang
W. S. Grubbs, magistrate
G. R. Peeples, magistrate 1
D. W. Glover, constable /.
Margaret McAllister, salary
Florence Sanders, contingent expense.. ... ....
Estate of R. D. Reid, jail
J. L. Buist’g Sons, chain gang
C. F. Molair, chain gang
Mazursky’s, jail 7.
J. W. Sanders, magistrate
.F. E. Sanders, constable
-G. O.-Johnson, chain gang and constable
Galion Iron Works, chain gang 187J
W. P. Sander?, magistrate * -
J. S, Still, conatabl e *1
H. B. Sandeis, constable . 26JBO
J. M. Hill, magistrate 14
W. C. Tarrance, constable -. 14
Charlie Hiers, constable .... ....
W. K. Black, magistrate 1.
W. S. Creech, equalization 12JK>
Victor Lewis, equalization
A. M. Sanders, equalization
J. W. Sanders, equalization — ...
J. F. Swett, equalization *
I. W. Rountree, equalization
P. W. Pnce, equalization ...
J. S. Creech, equalization —
T. M. Willis, equalization — - r - II
F. O. Black, equalization
H. Jeff Hair, equalization
C. M. Turner, equalization
J. E. Lain, equalization
J. M. Weather?bee, equalization
R. R. Johnston, equalization
B. H. Dychea, salary, jail, etc.
’ Weiner Bros., chain gang AlO
G. S. Harley, chain gang
L. T. Claytor, salary, county home
Perry Be Bush, chain gang
SUpdird Oil Co., chain gang
BT L. Bronson, postage -* —- —
^he People-Sentinel, stationery and adv.
B. H. Dychea, dieting prisoners $4LSD'
C. S. Anderson, magistrate —
H. 'J. Crouch, salary 'll
E. F. Woodward, chain* gang —
M. Holland, chain gang
John K. Snelling, special
J. J. Bell, salary, treasurer
Sarah C. Armstrong, salary —
J. J. Bell, printing
E. E. Crowson, printing
E. G. Birt, equalization
C. C. Mitchell, equalization . —^ —
W. H. Manning, contingent
L. F. Randall, jail
W. H. Manning, clerical help
B. H. Dyches, contingent
W. P. Walah, chain gang - 7
Irene H. Lemon, board of regents
Lemon Bros., county home — --—
Lemon Bios., chain gang - —
J. C. Baxley, county home
R. A. Dea«on, chain gang and co. home
C. F. Molair, county home -
A. J. Owens, county hom*
Cornelia Btuler, county home —
Preston Allen, county^ home
Sarah Ray, county home —
J? W. Cook, county home —y *
J. J. Bell, county note - 26,31kJ4
• J. J. Bell, interest on bonds 7JPn^5>
' J. J. Bell, interest on bonds - h
W. C. Kennedy, constable and chain gang
Grubbs Chevrolet Co. chain gang
R. A. Gyles, lunacy ---
Howard Machine Shops, chain gang —.—
•It. R. Moore, equalization
Vickery Bros.* chain gang, etc. ----
‘M. C. Kitchings, magistrate : *
E. O.. Moore, county home. -
Fruitland Nursery, special
John K. Snelling, salary, clerk, etc.
W. I# Dychea, county home
Perry B. Bush, salary ------ -
J. Wade Grubbs, deputy sheriff
E. W. Black, chain gang *. —
J. W. Patterson, salary, supervisor ... - 118.75-
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C. B. Lazar, chain gang — --
G. M. Hogg, chain gang — -
Miss Elizabeth' McNab, agent, short course -
W. D. Black, salary, co. director -._- T ._-- r -.
R. R. Moore, salary, co.'director
S. Still, salary, co. director
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