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I. ■ • ' t Jr-- — ' I ' , 1 „ • 1^. ’* **•*'• '■?:**** ■ r the tFFlClAlj NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNT! Consolidated Juno 1, 1925. *Ju»t Like a Member of (he Family" VOLUME LIV. BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1931. M NUMBER M. Plan Celebration in Barnwell Soon Col: Salomon Rlatt Elected General Chairman at Meeting in Columbia Tuesday. Anticipating the early completion of South Carolina highway No. 3, from Columbia to Savannah, plans were made here yesterday for a cele bration to be held in Barnwell within a few weeks. The road is already paved from Columbia to Barnwelljand the stretch to Savannah will be finish ed about the middle of October. When the last part of th e highway is completed, Columbia will be brought in-touch with 100,000 South Carolin ians diving along" ’th# routo to the Georgia seaport. At a meeting of Columbians and know why in the heck w two representatives from Barnwell, Sol Blatt and B. £, Davies, here at the chamber of commerce yesterday morning, it was decided to hold the celebration , before the pait of the road from Barnwell to Savannah is completed. Governor I. C. Blackwood ha s al ready accepted an invitation to be present Jht the celebration and it is expected that other prominent per sonages from this Starte as well as Georgia will also attend. • \Jr. Blatt was elected general chairman of the celebration. Present Seen and Heard Here During the Past Week A Little Sense and Nonsense About People You Know and Others You Don’t Know. /. Perry A. Price, manager of. the local branch of the Bank of Western Carolina and Mrs. Price getting off on their vacation, which will Include a trip to Washington, D. C., du*n thipugh the ShenanoYah Valley, across to Bristol and Elizabethton, Tenn., where they will visit Doctor King and his family and. then a leis urely ride home. . . D. E. Cohn, of th e Cohn Advertising Agency, of Columbia, telling several friends that LOSES FIFTY-CENT PIECE RECOVERS NEARLY $200 Melons Pay Profit to Barnwell Farmer David T. Black Earns About a Thous. and Bkdlars^N** on Relatively .... Small Venture. The People-Sentinel is the best print ed weekly newspaper in South Caro lina. . . Boncil Dyches wanting to haven’t How some farmers in tlfe South Carolina melon-growing belt profited from water-meloni this year is illus- tated by th e experience of David T. Black, an enterprising farmer on moderate scale a mile or two from Barnwell. . ' N. • * Mr. Black planted 33 acre 9 in watermelons. Drought cut his yelu POSTMASTER W. M. HARRIS HAS STROKE OF LUCK. Money Was in Bills, Silver and Checks —Accumulatior. of Months, Mr. Harri s Says. The loss of a 50-cent piece between Contract for Route 64 to Be Let Aug. 25 Highway to Intersection of Route 28 Near EUenton to Be Bituminous Surfaced. Construction work on Route No. 64, which will provide a bituminous sur faced highway between Barnwell and Augusta, will be let August 26th, the State highway department announced Saturday in relea.<ing a list of 28 the money orde r cabinet and t wall projects costing $3,500,000, which are in the Barnwell post office resulted in the recovery, pf nearly -$200 in currency, silver and checks Saturday, according to Postmaster W. M. Har ris. Mr. Harri s says that his wife, who is his assistant in the office, was cream, which, believe it or not, was dished out* FREE by Martin Best. (Ed. note: The cream was received, too soft to be saleable and Martin * I had to dispose of it in 4ome way.) J Bonce, all that hapened in the early . . . „ „ summer of B. T. C. S—before thi,; t * ,ed . *****t, dmtr.buted u follow.: colyum started. * . Sol Blatt per suading Nick Coclin to taxi h m hom e during a recent shower. (How Sol does hate to walk!) . . Buisl Land rent; $45; fertilizer. $130.32; ammonia, $60; seed, $19; hired labor, $85; loading, $85.. He thus got close to $1,000 for his own time and labor. plans call for a barbecue. William I Company’s force back from an en- Lykes, secretary of the chamber of joyable visit to Charleston. . . A. comerce, said that the gala day in Ghingold leaving a nice melon it Grubb., .nd hi. Giubbs Chevrolrt |though the K.mblmit rlrmrn' in melon growing operated somewhat against him. Barnwell will do much to cement e. closer friendship between Columbia andpoint? along the route. The new road reaches Swansea, Springfield, Blackville, Barnwell, Al lendale, Kline, Fairfax, Brunson. Hampton, Vainville, Almeda. Early Branch, Yomassec, Pocataligo, Ridge- land, Hardeeville and Savannah. It is understood that the final work .will have been completed soon, as there still remains one or two short sticrtch- es to be paved. Each community on the road, as well as those on connecting highways. . . As he usually does, Mr. Black mad * enough off watermelon* to clear un local ice house, which reminds us cf the time that wr left a 40-oddpeund-^ *" dfb,! in< ' u,rfd ' lurm1 ' thf y* r . in connection with planting and culti- or there and when we went to get it, its weight had shrunk to about 20. , A newcomer to Barnwell, who says that he had no trouble in making his decision to locate here after visiting another town in an adjoining county. . . Perry Bush with another jcke vating his cops, which ari of in- trastveTy diverse kind. He stilt grows some cotton but he raises several money crops that are of importance equal to cotton. An illustration-of returns to form ers for melons is in' the fact that in on somebody and smiling like the rat that utr the canary. . . Shariff. , J U ' '* riod Jul >' lh *' r, ' w ' re Dycha. smoking a com cob pipe for . <ltar ” 1 * Batnuell bank $57 net and disappeared in a crack be- , counting some money at the money , to less than nolmal and a severe price or ^ er window Saturday afternoon, mentioned in thi. column the time , rea >et 1 cro P when a half-dollar .lipped from her that he. Dr. Gross,-the editor, et ul.,i arvesb • u a niufket hand. ,tolled to the edge of the cabi- ate a large pa.t of a churn of i,-e | c * lo * d8 * nd hel <* d mi tw0 cars before the end of July, when about two carloads of melons were still in fields. From what he marketed by July 30 he grossed $1,350. The expenses of his growing 33 acres of melons io- to be completed at once. The con tract calls for the bituminous surface- ing of 20.407 miles of Route 64 be tween this city and the intersection of Route 28 near EUenton. The high way from that point on to the Savan nah River is now being surfaeetreat- ed, connecting with a concrete road on the Georgia side leading into Au gusta. The work of paving the gap on Highway 78, between Montmorenci tween the cabinet and the wall. The i and the Barnwr+Hflmrnty line, has services of a carpenter were secured ! already been started and when these to recover the coin and when an open-1 two projects are completed, Bam- ing had been made, a pile of money well people will have the choice of was discovered. When counted, the two hard surfaced highways . into sum total about $’194, all of which was Augusta. However, the one by way in bills and checks, with-the exception | of EUenton, is -shorter by several of two dollars in silver money, i miles and will probably be the most The bills ranged in denomination from popular route. one to twenty dollars. One of the | Another project of interest to the checks, Mr. Harris says, was given to' people of thi B section Is the bitumin- him by G. M. Hogg and was dated 1 surfacing of 25.320 miles of last November. In addition to the Route 33 from Fairfax through Estill money, several pencils and two pen-1 to the Jasper County line, which will staffs were al#o found. . | provide a much shorter route to Mr. Harrig says that the money had ! Savannah. Only a abort stretch of yr evidently been lost over a period of few milea between the Jasper County several months and that he never j line and Hardeeville will not be missed a very large amount at any | paved at this time. The highway to one time in balancing his accounts at Savannah by way of Yemassee and the closg of— each day’s business. Ridgeland will be paved its entire • • • | length and will be opened to traffic Throw Rocks at Automobile. ' at an early date. “economy’s sake.” (O economy, what crimes are committed in thy name!) . . Capt, Josh Cave, who says that is to be invited to join in-the plans ’ he is still shipping melons. In spite for the celebration in Barnwell, ac- 1 of the drought he made a nice crop, cording to the chairman, and invita- t . Harry Woodward, a native son, tions will se sent to such points with- who has made good in a big way with in a few days. A meeting is to held in Barnwell at 1 o’clock, Wednes day, August 12, to make further plans f^r the day, Mr. Blatt _ an nounced Thursday. Those attending the meeting here were: Mayor L. B. Owens, * Senator James H. Hammond, R. T. Rosemond, William Lykes, Jack D. Wi»e, Thad E Horton, Walter F. Going, all of Columbia; Mr. Blaft, and B. P. Davies, of Barnwell.—Tlje State, Aug. 7. Large Crowd Expected. Col. Solomon Blatt, general chair man of the committee lining up the big celebration to be held in Barn well during the first week in Septem ber, states that /the plans for the occasion indicate that one of the larg est crowds ever to gather in • this section will be present when the commemoration of the paving of South Carolina route number 3 takes place in this city. • \ Mr. Blatt was elected general chair man at a preliminary meeting held in Columbia Thursday, and he stated that he will soon announce the per sonnel of his sub-committee to ar range the details of the program. Fully 4,000 people from, a wide see the Southern Bell Tel. and Tel. Co., dnving in from Alabama in hi* Pack ard car -y • A. D. Connor back from a visit to the eastern part of the State, where he says the farmers have fine crop*. . . A negro woman parading down Main Street in white duck pants. . . Everybody predicting five-cent cot on. . .W. E. L&Grone. field repre sentative cf the S. C. Cottqn Growers Cooperativ e Association* refusing to say how low the price of cotton might have 'gone if it were not for Hoover prosperity and the co-ops. . . A Tumor that George Warren, of Hamil ton, may be a-candidate for Corrjrress 16^.55 of out-of-town .checks and credits on account of watermelon sales. Deposits in a hank at B!ack- viHe increased over $30,000, during the pfctiod. Melon sales enabled many farmetp to take up or curtail notes before due. It is estimated that watermelon sales brought more than a half million dcllais into the heavy melon preducing district in this sec tion of the State. While returning to Barnwell fiom C £ Power Co Allendale Sunday night, Nick Coclin,: s proprietor of the Barnwell Fruit Co., Lines Much Extended says that rock s were thiown at his __ Ha R Made Splendid Start on Rural Electrification Prcgram for This Section. car by several negroes whom he passed on th e highway about three miles north of Kline. Some of the rotks hit his car, Mr. Coclin says. He immediately turned his machine around and drove back to the spot Columbia, Aug. 11.—Maps and sta- Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Minges and son and daughter, of Charleston, were re cent visitors at the home of Capt. and Mrs. J. B. Morris. • from which the rock* were thrown, tistics on file in the office of the rail but the. miscreants had disappeared ^ road commission show to what an extent the South Carolina Power Co. with headquarter* in Charleston rov- Declares South Fighting to Live Association Says Time Has Arrived When Citizens Must Join Hf^ds to Help Situation. into a cornfield bordeiing the high way. ' J. S. Plexico has returned to hi* heme in Kline after a visit to reis ers that portion of the State west of a line drawn from Charleston, through Branchville, Springfield, Edgefield to tives in Norfolk, Va, and RocK. HillJ ^ c ^ orm,r * f: -company has a 1 steam plant in Charleston with 25,600 herse power capacity and a hydro- Government Estimates Cotton Crop ! ' Iw "' r,c p, * nt ** ' iKhl » ; or tf»n ttHm north of Auirusta. rtn at 15,584,000 Vs. 14,362 Last Year *■1 s |* Washington, Aug. 8.—Cotton pro- next year. New Business Has ~ Been Located Here Daley Garage and Welding Company Opens ir. Dicks Building cn West Main Street. duction thi 3 year, indicated by the condition of the crop August 1st, was announced-today by the Department of Agriculture at 15,584,000 equiva lent 500-pound bale*. Last year’s 1 ginned -production was 13,932,000 bajes. The condition of the crop on Aug ust 1st was 74.9 per cent*of a normal, indicating a yield of 185.8 pounds per The newest addition to Barnwell's; ac™- The condition a year ago was business section is the Daley Garage 62 - 2 P er cent of a normal, with a final and Welding Company, which opened yield of 147.7 pounds, and^ the 10- i* uny people nue, » w ,ue j Dick, building, on ^erage condition on August l.t ''tipnof the State will be assembled, I West Main Street, next door to the •* «7.5 cent, w.th acre yield aver- . ... — .. a-. Barnwell Motor and. Manufacturing a £ ln £ 154.4 pounds. Company,-local Chrysler' and Ply- 1 Acreage in cultivation thtsrYear on mouth dealers. This concern is own- July 1*1 was 41,491,000 acrejA I hat ed and operated by H. B. Daley, for- area > reduc^ by the lO-year^erage merly of Augusta, who decided that | abandonment between Jug 1st and Free barbecue, refreshments, noted Barnwel , offered a profitable field for time of picking,^bringsffie probable his line of work. .1 area to be picked -thi s year to 40,^ Mr. Daley, who has had 16 years 12 9.000 acres, on which figures the experience as a machinist and in du- department based its indicated pro- tomobile repair work', is equipping duction. disbelieved, as Governor iWa X^ t Ba ^ we11 Motor and Manufacturing - Blackwood has already accepted an invitation, and other prominent\pub- . lie-life figures are also to be invited. I speakers and other entertainment will be provided for the visitors to Barn well on that date, yet* to be definitely announced, according to the prelimi nary arrangemens, and it is expected that the day will draw from all the i Weevil damage in the southeastern States probably will equal 1930 losses, the department said, while in the western States reports indicate it will be somewhat greater. The condition of 74.9 per cent on August 1st is the highest condition for that date since 1915. In only two yors, 1920 and 1926 since the wee.il feili ilie Chiirlei became a dominant factor in cotton or ten m ; les north of Augusta, 6n the Georgia side of the Savannah river with 25,000 horse power. These two ondg ^re linked and from the twg stations the territory indicated is supplied with light and power. The company also has a small Diesel en gine plant at McClellanville for sup- pying that town. All towns, and rural points men tioned below are served by the com pany with light and power. The territory is divided into seven Declaring that “the hour has struck when the South must fight for its very existence,” the Association for the Increased Use of Cotton Monday night issued a statement from its general headquarters in Columbia calling upon th e cotton growers of the_ Sdrlth to meet in their respec tive - communities immediately fnd pledge themselves to use only 100 per pent, cotton bagging for wrapping their cotton this Tall, and to buy their food and feed<tuffs only in cotton sacks. * * \ , The statement also calls upon the women of the South to meet in their respectiv e communities at once and pledge themselves to wear only cot ton clothing. Housewives are asked to pledge themselves to buy their flour, sugar, salt and other groceries only in csttton sacks. The men of the South are called upon in the state ment to join in the cotton clothing program and the merchants are asked to begin at once to feature all articles into the manufacturing of which cot ton enters. “There is hardly a life in the South,” says the statement, “but that is touched by the growing or manu facturing of cotton. There are 16,- 078,032 people living on farms who are dependent upon cotton, their chief money chop. There are 17,132 gins in the South composing an industry en tirely dependent upon cotton in which thousands of workers are em ployed. there are 1,038 coton mills in the South employing over 300,000 people depending for their living upon cotton. “There are no figure^ availably for the huge army of investors not only in cotton mills hut in fuel and electric power companies, machinery and other manufacturing concerns that sell considerably over a half billion dollars’ worth of their product an nually to Southern cotton mills; aaer- chanta, doctors, lawyers, teachers, preacher* and others who look to the j people on our farms and in i?ur ’man ufacturing villages for a considerable portion of their living expenses. The heart beat of th e great South is de pendent upon cotton. “There is only one remedy for the tragic situation in wl^ch the South finds itself today and that is in the ificreai'ed consumpton of cotton pre ducts by the people who know and manufacture cotton. It ought not te be necessaiy to appeal to them to uae cottcn. “The heavy decline in the price of cotton precipitated by the ment report indicating a -crop of 15,500,000 bales this year, ought te serve to arouse every man, woman and child in the Sooth to the impor tance of increasing the consumption of cotton products in the South the nation 100 per cent.” , production, the department added, has the present high condition been approached. The indicated yield per acre of 185.8 pounds is higher ..than the yield ton district, in which are Chat’.eston and suburbes. Folly Beach, the government reservation, Isle of Palms, Sullivan’s Island, McClellan- ville, Mt. Pleasant, Ridgeville and Summerville. Rural lines in this dis- in any year since 1914 ,when 209.2 trict run to Adams Run, Fenwick pounds were produced, and is slightly, Hall, Lincolnville, Marysville, Meg- higher than the yield in 1926, the g e tt, Midland Park, Pinehaven, Rog- last year in which conditions were i er8 ‘Towles, U. S. experiment station uniformly gcod ove r practically all of an d Waring’s dairy, the cbtton belt. The amount of fertilizer used this year, the department said, is less District No. 2 comprises Beaufort, Burton, Coosawhatchie, Cottageville, Grays Hill, Port Royal, Ridgeland, than has bean used during the last Roun(ii w , lu . tboro >n() Yemaa.ee. Senior B. Y. P. U. Program. his plant to do general repairing, welding of all kinds, and body, fen Cotton of this year’s growth ginned -prior to August 1st was anounced to- points on the route from ■Columbia to ^ ^ ’ He ^ r ’ entedl day by the Census Bureau to have Savannah, as well as from places on a house from ^ B H Cave Qn Eagt totaled 7,301 running bales, compared connecting links. ( Main Street and plans to move his According to the sentiment of those f am iiy to Barnwell in the near future. present at th e first meeting to line up the gala day, the new Columbia- Savannah route will likely be opened In an advertisement elsewhere in this issue of The People-Sentinel, he with 78,188 bales a year ago and 86,- 974 bales two years ago. —=<=— The department said that in inter preting condition as an indication qf. Mississippi 1*,771,000 cordially invites the public to call at probable yield allowance ha s been to trafic early in October, but the b j g pi ace 0 jj ^ business and * get ac- made for crop loss due to boll weevil Barnwell people feel that the work quainted. X ing.an Barnwell. ^ . t . . — jy. . - -- - Another meetihg was scheduled ^to weather prevails during the remain der of the seasprv wgevil damage wilk on the basis of reports concerning U- indicated > * is highly desirable. The general chairman stated that be held in Barnwell yesterday (Wed- a fulTaftfernoon of entertainment and tiesday), at which representatives|be sofewhat higher than last year for recreation will be offered to the vial- from ffach point on the Columbia- tors, with the grand finale to conclude Savannah route were expected to at- r ~'9n- Tend. - - •• • the program, a street dance the country as a whole, but still con siderably less than the average loss during' the last ten years. few years. Estimated production by States fol lows: . r—r^T *rt - J States: Aug. 1, 1931 Aug. 1, 1930 Virginia 38,000 North Caro. 713,0^ South Caro. 835,000 Georgia __ 1,109,000 Florida ----- 37,000 Alabama _ 1,2 3,000 Louisiana -- 866,000 Texa 3 5,018,000 Arkansas _ 1,614,000 exico.—86,000 42,000 782,000 930,000 1,340,000 29,000 1,317,000 1,626,000 630,000 4,496,000 1,106,000 .97,000 v Missouri 231,000 Oklahoma _ 1,200,000 Arizona 131,000 ^California .. 194,000 .Other States..- 6,000 Total — 15,584,000 153,000 1,072,000 162,000 224,000 6,000 14^62,900 In this district there are rural linos to Blake, Early Branch, Henderson ville, Kitchings, Lobeco and Taylor. District No. 3 comprises St. George, Branchviire, Eutaruglle, Harleyville, Holly Hill, Reeve*He, with rural lines to Badham, Dorchester, Four Hgj$s, State highway shops. The towns in district No. 4 are Subject: “Holy Spirit Our Helper.* Leader‘in charge, Eunice Moody, who will make the introduction. The comforter occupies Jesus place, by Dodson Still. The Holy Spirit, by Elaine Hailey. He Helps us to be Spiritual, by Marian Bolen. The Holy Spirit helps us to over come sin, by Elizabeth Grubbs. The Holy Spirit empowers us for service, by Jennie Block. Helping our helpers, by , Erma Mm- ges. Special music—“More Love to Thee, O Christ,” by Elaine Harley. By your help, our B. Y. P. U. grows. Be there, be ready. ., E. Dodson StilL Sycamore, Ulmers and Varnville with rural lines to Crocketville and Gar nett. ■ ' ( Distict No. 7 comprises Aiken, Denmark, Bamberg, Cope, Ehrhardt, Bath, East Bath, Belvidere, Burnett Govan,- Lodge, Olar, Ruffin and Town, Clarks Hill, Edgefield, Glover- Smoaks, with rural lines -to Carrall. ville, Graniteville, Hamberg, John- and Guess. J ston^Xaugley, Madison, McCormick, In district No. 5 are Blackville, | Meriweather, Modoc, Montmorenci, Springfield, White Pond, Williston Branch, Rabbit Hill, Shultz Hill There is a rural line and Windsor to Snelling. . - District No. 6 comprises Allendale, Brunson, Fairfax, Estill, Furman, 1 and power by the Gifford; Hampton,Lena, Luray, Scotia, Power Company. Warrenville. /-.It will be hard to find a hamlet le that- section not supplied with light South -AS-