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THE WtlClAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNT! Consolidated June 1, 1925. 'Jiiftt Like a Member of the Family" VOLUME LIV. BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1931. NUMBER 52. ELABORATE PLANS BEING MADE FOR CELEBRATION SEVERAL THOUSAND VISTORS EXPECTED SEPT. 10TH. mr Addresses by Noted Speakers. Free Barbecue, Boxing Bouts ard Street Dance on Program. Elaborate plans are being made for the entertainment of several thous and visitois to Barnwell on Septem ber 10th, the occasion being the cele bration of the opening of State High way No. 3, which provides a paved road from Columbia to Fairfax, by way of Swansea. Springfield, Black- ville, Barnwell and - Allendale. „At fir-t it was planned to celebrate the opening of the paved highway from Columbia to Savannah, by way of Hampton and Yemassee, but part s of the route south of Fairfax will not be completed by the date selected for the celebration, and the decision has been made to confine the gala occasion strictly to Route 3. While Barnwell'will be the nominal host on September 10th, the “party” will be green by all of the towns along the route from Columbia to Fairfax. Representatives from these town- have already signified their willingness to paniripate in a finan-' cial way towards defraying the costs < f the celebration and a big time is he ng anticipated by everybody. The tentative 'program calls for the celebration to start at 11:30 o’- rtrrk en the morr.ig of September It) h, at which time it is expected that addresses will 1m* made by such notes! public speaker- as Governor Black- wned. Senator F. D. Smith and‘Sena tor James F. Byrnes. At the con clusion of the speaking, an old-fash- i( nod Barnwell County barbecue, with all the trimmm’s, will be served free of chaogo .to the visitors. During the afternoon it is expect- i i tha’ ■cvaral first clas« boxing bout., will be arranged for the enter tainment of the crowd and the festi vities will be-brought to a close by a mammoth stieet dance in Barnwell that evening. Col. Solomon B.att, general chair man. says that nothing will be left undone to injure a good time for everybody who attends the Celebra tion and he hope> that all who can will accept the invitation of the towns along Route 3 to vfs.it Barn well on September 10th. Unlawful to Bait Doves. Angus Patterson , county game waiden, has requested .-‘The People-Sentinel to warn hunters that it is against both Federal and State laws to bait , doves and calls particular at tention to the following section: “The hunting, killing" or tak ing of doves not permitted on or over, at. Or near any area that has been baited with salt, . with corn, wheat or other grdin. or with other foods placed or scattered thereon.” .Mr. Patterson s'tates that, hhving given due notice to the ^ public and violations of this law will be prosecuted at once. INFORMAL SESSION URGED BY BARNWELL LEGISLATOR Seen and Heard Here During the Past Week A Little Sense and Nonsense About People You Know and Others • a You Don*t Know. W ILLISTON M AN WRITES OF HUGE W ATERMELONS sejl at proportionate fares from the States by Emanuel Fleming Weeks, of Hilda, given on Augu«t 22, 1931, at the home of his son, W. F. Weeks, the occasion being th e 83rd birthday of Mr. Weeks. 1 volunteered for service and was placed in Company E, 2nd Regiment and my captain was George W. Os wald, of W’alterboro. I was reared in Colleton County, and married Nancy Williams. \ They first sent us to Augusta*and from there we went to Charleston and ou r first battle wa 3 the battle of Honey Hill which was fought in No vember, before the war closed the next April. 1 saw and heard the worst thing there that I ever heard or witnessed in my., life. The road ran between our lines- and the 47th Georgia, and were just a.s close that road as we could be when a Yankee Colonel came up between our lines and said, “Gome, my brav e boys, it’s nothing but the damn militia.” and about that time his brains were spat* tered all over that road. His horse j was shot from under him and both died right there. That man died with an oath in hi* mouth, because he dfdn’t have time. to shut his mouth. Our men did the work, but 1 don’t know just who fired the shots “Monkey" Price, member of the thaf killed them. _ , Barnwell high school faculty and The next battle that was a hard coach of the local football * squad, fought .one was at White Point, down down frem Columbia two weeks <Jn the coast. After the fight was ahead of school opening. Prof. Price over w'e were called back and I never is very much in love with his adopted did hear how many were killed, but home and has many friends here who i 1 know we won the battle. We then are glad to welcome him back. . . left this State and went* to North All of us shivering during the cool Carolina to where the surrender was. *pe|| the early part cf this week. . . We fought nearly every day but no Mr. and Mrs. Perry A. Price back hard fighting. Sometimes on the frorp an enjoyable motor trip to picket line* w e would fight every Washington and points in West Vir- ( day. At Honey Hill times were ter- ginia, Tennessee and North Carolina., r>ble there. I’ll bet I could have . . .* Angug Patterson, Perry Bush, walked from here to Hilda (a dis- Ed Woodward, et al., discussing the tahee of about two miles I on the approaching football season and bodies of dead men and never put Carolina’s chances to put a drubbing my foot on the ground. After we •gi Cleraaon this year. . . Many left South Carolina ami started to ( their vacation at Folly Beach and ( people .-offering from “summer colds." | wher e we surrendered Jhert* was not • Charleston and visiting friends Jn ' . . . Col. Edgar A. Brown leaving much to do because where 1 was wo I .Summerville. During his vacation he for Columbia Monday afternoon to had to make time to get v out the suppl.ed une Sunday and administer ed baptism in the Fir*t Church in Savannah. Ga. Among the places of interest he visited was the old St. James, or better known as the Goose father was a Mason. When the Yan kee* came into the house they took my fathei’g trunk and took out his Masonic apron and his boots and started taking everything when a man came in and stopped them and told them they had to put everything back and not touch a thing and they did. That man stayed there and whenever a crowd came in and tried to take our things he told them not to take the things. They camped about tw’o miles from our home and there was a negro who came and got a goat out of our lot and my little brother wanted to shoot him but my mother told him if one shot was firefl it would bring all of the Yankees ther^, so he did not shoot. They got lot s of meat, flour, etc. We hid lots of food and it took us twelve - 0 months to^ find everything that we had hidden and buried. One day I was looking out and saw a young man who caitte up and asked me where my father was and he told me that if we had any money buried not to bury it near the chimney because they always looked there for .it and sure enough we did .have some buiied there. ' Several days after that my lilother sent me to see how her mother and father, Daniel Hartzbg, were, and when I got there found him beating up coin to make a little bread. I believe that Mason was the one that saved us what we had be cause ©Mr father was a Mason. Af Uses 75-Yegr Old Wagon. HON. R. C. HOLMAN WOULD MEET IN COLUMBIA FRIDAY. H. J. Delk, of Hilda, i s using a two horse wagon which his grand father, the late I. A. Dyches, of Hilda, purchased in th e yea r 1855 from R. H. May and Company, of Augusta, Ga. Mr. Delk states that the wagon is still in good running order. Banks to Make Loans on Cotton to Fanners Wires Suggestion to Governor Black wood That He lasue Invitation to Members. First National of Atlanta and Affili ated Banks Will Loan 80 Per Cent, of Value. Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 22.—The First National hank of Atlanta and affiliat ed institutions announced today that effective immediately loans of 80 per cent of the maiket value of the cotton crop will be made to cotton farmers of the southeastern States. John ,K. Ottley, president of the Atlanta bank, which with its affiliat ed institutions has resources exceed ing $150,900,000, said the loans could be obtained through any bank in the Hon. R. C. Holman, of Barnwell, member of the Hduse of Representa tives, has suggested to Governor Ibrs C. Blackwood that the members of the general assembly be invited to meet at the State House in Columbia Friday, at their own expense, to dis cuss the calling of a special session of the legislature to pass an act pro hibiting the planting of cotton next year. Governor Blackwood attended the conference in New Orleans last week that wns called by Governor Long, of Louisiana, for the purpose of passing upon what has become known a 8 the “Long Plan,” which would prohibit the planting of cotton through Sate legislation. Governor Blackwood announced then that he would call the South Carolina legisla ture in special session to pass such a law. Opposition to such a course ha* developed and Judge Holman’s sugge-tion is for the purpose of clari fying the situation without any ex pense to the taxpayers. His telegram to the chief executiv e is as follows: “In view of the wide divergence of views on present deplorable cotton situation and your announcement that State* of Alabama Gergia, Mississ- ter the war was over we had a hard I ippl ’ No,th » n * *>“ th Carolina, time but you never heard a word of | Loans will run from Tour to aix t complaint. They would* take up the I “"<1 those made by the At- f 00 Wl11 cal1 of ***>*- dirt in the smoke house and put it ■ant* bl »nk8 will her at 5 per cent, in- 1 * Ure 10 pa "* act Prohibiting plant- in luirrels and pou r water over ,t terest. *«* cotton m 1932 suggest that you and get -alt that way. We never Mr. Ottley said the present situs- ,nv,t * meffJbers of general assembly knew what It was to buy a yard of ition confronting the cotton farmer to me ‘* t S fl late House, at their own cloth, for we spun all of our cloth w a.- satiafactoiy and that although Fnfiay to discus.* matter suggestions had been and wote homespun dresses. Returns From Vacation. constructive .a-, ml the highway contract letting way because we were betwixt the the following day. . . . The new two armies—right betwixt. Sherman fire siren being tested out at noon was going by Columbia and another and again at six o’clock ’most every going betwixt u* and Charleston and day. Mrs. W. T. Willis. Williston, Aug. 20.—Mr^, Belle H. Willis died at her home here W’cdnes- the place we had to go wa* right through the two forces. ,In May, 1865, we started home hut 1 was taken with measle s and did not get back home then. I got back the last of May. ’65, from neai White Point. Expiessing the opinion that quality and not quantity will always create a demand for truck , crops grown in South Carolina, M. C. Kitchings. of Williston, writes the following inter esting letter to the News and Courier: There have been som e very inter esting stories-of the watermelon in dustry from some of our neighboring {owns and counties a* to quantities and quality of melon s shipped this season and the past season. 1 have some facts and figures from this county and neighboring towns, which I feel will be of interest, and would like to know if there is any grower, styppei, or buyer in the State who has ever handled a cli ran a higher average in weight, or lower numbe r of meion s loading a car. I had the pleasure a few years ago of handling a car out of this State, from the same town and from the same grower wTiich loaded with 626 melons per car. This sea-on, P drought from the same grower a car cf Watsels that loaded out with 579 melons. The net weight on the car was 33,200 pounds; net everage per melon 57 1-4 pounds. This is actual weight. The melons were grown by Jesse M. Burchalter, of Dunbarton, and weie gathered from less than three acres of land. At the time this car was loaded, there was po market, The car was bought and consigned and upon af- fival of this ca^the consignee wired as’ follows: “This i* positively the'H^rgest. and best car ^ of water melons! have ever seen in all my life. Some melons weighed a 3 high as 91 pounds. Ship two more cars day night following an illness of The Yankee Blockade was right near several years. The daughter of the the Point and we couldn’t stay too late Mr. and Mis. Marshall Hair, of close to that. ' this community and widow of Dr. W. ■ — T. Willi*, of this place. Mrs. Willis Reminiscences of Darling P. Lan- had spent her entire life here. She was a member of the Williston caster, taken at the home of W. F. Week 8 on August 22, 1931, the oc- Baptist Church the greater part of ca.-ion being the 83rd birthday of E. her life, a devoted mother. By her~F. Weeks many fine traits of character Mrs. Wflllis made numeiou s friends who 1 volunteered for seivice and was placed in Company B, 2nd S. C. Artil When we learn to nave qualify and s eVerfc7‘whitetnefrTrom not quantity in growing liny’line of truck crop? in ouj- State, there will .always be a demand. M. C. Kitchings. with her family and relatives mourn My captain was J. W. Lancas- her loss to her home and community. ’ t er . i 8 t Lieutenant, Lewis Rice; 2nd Funeral service* were held this af- Lieutenant, Andrew Howserj 3rd ternoon from the home, her pastor, ^ lieutenant, James W’alker.. I volun- the Rev. W. R. Davis, officiating. In- teered in September, 1864, was sent terment was in the W r illiston ceme- to'James Island and stayed there until * tery. 1 the surrender, when I was sent to Surviving are the following c hil-' Greensboro, N. C. My company was dren: Edwin and W. T. Willi?, of two battles—Aversboro and Ben- Williston, Marion W’illis, of Califor-! tonville. WeYfad six men killed out nia and Miss Mildred Willis, of. yiU ! <>* our company in those, two fights, listen; two sisters, Mrs. Eugen e Pan-j I icmember the names cfc. five .of ker, of Baltimore, Md., and Mrs. A. them, Caney. Cox, Henry Carroll, S. Blanchard pf Willistorn three -lake Carroll, Bill Nix and Nath Wal- brothers, Walter Hair, of Baltimore; ker. I was only a boy when I volun- Gideon Hair, of Birmingham, Ala., teered and stayed at Jijmes Island and R- L. Hair, of Williston. during my entire service in th^army made fo r the possible betterment of rorglitiona the bank believed the time had come for immediate action to Dr. W. M. Jones and family return- prevent dumping of cotton on the ed home this week after completing : mark « ,t and p0Mibl >’ furth «*r depres?- ing prices. While holding cotton off the mar ket, the loans also will enable the farmer to release a good portion of the market value of the crop to local hanks and merchants, Mr. Ottley said. , “This bank ha 8 been financing cot- < n ek Church, which wa 9 organized ton ^ 18<>5‘«roi does not propose in 1704. It is now being renovated. to «**"**-“* pclic y now " Mr - but retains many features of its announcement said. “The plan colonial days, such as built' in family ' are aff|,rin * ia a repitition of pew* in which the elders faced the * im,1 ar movement* in support of the minister while the children were on- cotto ” * ro P * n 1M4 afkd again ia, der the watchful eyes of their elders. 1&2L Above the congregation was the pul- Mr - 0ttle y* a member of President pit which is reached by a pair of, Hoover’s advisory employment corn- winding stairs. In those days the | Mid h * b * ,iev * d aid fo r the minister looked down on the people. | unemp, °y ed 8hou,d ** haodled Above the puloit in plaster are to be trough local agencies and that local seen face* of chei tt b 8 and the royal | institution* should :n turn come arm* of England. For in those days to the aid of the distressed farmer. The banks of the South are in sound condition, he said, and able to Well Known Negro Is Dead. he a Set Advices from Columbia ar e to tha effect that “while Governor Black wood did not commit himself on this proposal, he did not say he disagreed with the suggestion of the Friday meeting.” 9 Senator Brown Backs Govefarr. Col. Edgar A. Brown, State sena tor from Bamwel County, wrote Gov ernor Blackwood as follow*: “You are to be congratulated upon the de termined stand you have taken to relieve the cctton farmers of South Carclina and the South.” Both Sena tor Brown and Representative Hol man believe that if the Southern States pass legislation prohibiting the planting of any cotton in 1932 that it will result in very much higher prices for the staple and be the salva tion of the South .in this grave crisis. Important Meeting! Pursuer# to a proclamation rssusd Tuesday night by Gov. Blackwood, de claring that the* overproduction of cotton has brought the “Southern cot ton farmer to the brink of financial ruin,” Representative Winclyester C. Smith, Jr., of Williston, in a tele phone call Tuesday night, requested The People-Sentinel to publish a notice to the effect that a meeting of farmers, merchants and other busi- ehurehes" were organized and sup ported . by the State. Other place* of vacation interest ^ immediate care of the situation, may be better advertised but no He expressed a hope that other msti- gieater beauty can be found than ‘^i™* would foUow the plan - many of the low country road* be- Th ' bank wil1 not attempt to con - tween- the live oaks with swinging;^ 1 ,uture action of the farmer-bor- festoons of Spanish moss. Just a I row « r in makin * the 80 cent * short distance from Summerville are j ,oans - Problems of reduction of acre- the ruin* of the old White Church and curtailment of the 1932 crop ness menjsnll b* held in the Coart where George Whitfield ministered wili b <* left to oth * r agencies,, Mr. fo r several years, and who«e congre- j Ottley said. gation aftefwards removed westward ; He said the borrower would be free to Geoigia. . Just a short distance at an y t,me 10 disp08t ‘ of hl * cotton away are the ruins of an Episcopal and tbat at tbe end Church of colonial days which later pen^jie still wished to hold became th e motbe r of the onsreKa- T-pbcuoa would be re- ft, farmer, are urged to exprer. the.r loan the Reminiscence* of the War Between the States by Mary ^Tollins of Wesley S. Dixson, well known and-Hilda, given on August 22, 1931, at respected negro of Barnwell, died sud- the home of W. F. Weeks, denly Friday morning at the home of j was j n 1848. We had all the his soiv, Dr. D. J. Dixson, in this city, to d 0 on the farm as there were Wesley was born more than 70 years men i e ft on th e place. What we ago of slave parents and was well j ma( i e We had to divide so much with known in religious and political life, t h e so idi e FS, we had to make every- having attended as delegate the last, thing we ate and wore. We ploughed r» li the cotton and spun the cloth to make eight national Republican conven tions. For more than fifty year s he was clerk of the Bethlehem Baptist Church' at Barnwell, and at one time served as post master here. our clothes.. I had to plough for several years. My father was-in the war and I had one little brother at home. We spun and wove our cloth tion in Summerville, ^ts church yard is filled with tomb* of an early date. Just a few steps away is a fort of tabby on the banks of the Ashley RiVer. it tells a silent story of the grim necessities of the colonist* in eeived In the event of a drop in the cot ton market, the borrower will be ex pected to furnish additional collater al, Mr. Ottley said.' “We ar e attempting to deal with Indi jir to win their independence. Celebrates 83rd Birthday. wal^s with Indians and with England 1 th * farmer as with the busine8s man who makes a loan and puts up so much ntarketaol^ security. If the value of the collateral drop* mater ially more is called and We propose to deal with farmers on that basis.’’ The First Nation^ group includes the First Nationaltftnk of Atlanta; the Trust Company of Georgia At lanta; The National Exchange Bank, Augusta; The Fourth National Bank, Columbus; The First National Bank and Trust company, Macon; The First Hou?e at Barnwell on Saturday morn ing, August 29th, at 11:00 o’clock for the purpose of discussing the pro posed special session of the legisla ture. Similar meetings will be held at every county seat in the State and Funeral services were held at the in t h e winter and ploughed and work- Bethlehem Baptist Church Sunday af- e( j field* in summer. The Yan- ternoon and* in addition to the large (carne -through regation of colored and took our people, mea t t flour and everything. Wheeler’s men* of ’th e Stjute^were in attendance. He is survived by two sons. Dr. D. t hj ng else. We had a li J. Dixson. of B£rmvcir and Wesley ;t pn d they left tl Dixscn, Jr., of New Jersey. j Yankees eartie along and • took every- little colt and that and its My mother because we' hid them. "A On Saturday, the 22nd inst, W. F. Week*, of Hilda, entertained about two hundred or nAre friends, the occasion being the 83rd birthday, of his father, - Emanuel F. W’eeks. Friends gathered from far and near and when dinner was announced a sumptuous feast was spread on a table in the large pine grove just in , National Bank, Rome; and Th e Liber- front of the home. Mr. Weeks re ceived a number of splendid gifts, among them beinft' a box of lovely gift* from members of the Johnson h—9mri u n r "Baras; well, the presentation being maoe ny Mis^ Anna Walker. About twenty- five from Barnwell attended this de lightful occasion. . ^ opinion with reference to the propo sal to forbid the planting of cotton (Turing the year 1932 and to advise the members of the general assembly as to their wishes.” The People-Sentinel urges every farme r in the county to attend this meeting. Readers of this paper are requested to tell others of the time and place in order that there may be a ful attendance. The need is urgent and the time i* short if the South ia to be saved from bankruptcy. Come! Mrs. T. S. Cave and B. W. Sexton spent the week-end with the latter’a family at Bluffton. ty National Bank and Trust company, Savannah. At the same time The Citizens and Southern National Bank with re- . sources of $80,000,000jinnounced vir farmer* in the territory served by the! local banks, he bank and its branches- in Georgia. (loan* and interest Yates would be de- W, B. Spann, vice-president of the termined by local institutions. * - * * * tfc {mI '" M wBMr Atlanta Citizens and Southern Bank, said the institution would lend ffl) per cent of the market value of th« crop, to ‘farmers in -4in effort to prevent dumping on the market. Farmers could obtain the loan* by applying to any of the branches off or-d sat