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!»- * A-_ THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNTY.* 5 ^! Coasulldated Jane 1, 192ft. VOLUME LV. < 4 ::w. ( Ju»t Like a Member of the Famlly M BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA^ THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1931 ~ NUMBER 12. Would Make Changes In State Government Neville Bennett Says Budget Commis-'A Little Sense and Nonsense About Seen and Hc^ard Here During the Past Week People You Know and Others You D^n’t Know. I* sion Will Study Plan to Reform State Affairs. Columbia, Nov. 13.—/Neville Ben nett, a member of the State Budget Commission, said today that the conu mission would take up at executive sessions six suggestions made by him for sweeping changes in State gov ernment. : v These,’ Mr. Bennett said, include: 1. State control of county budgets and bond issues. 2. Creation of a central State pur chasing agency. 3. Creation of an executive budget bureau. 4. Statutory consolidation of cet- tain government functions. 5. A change in the fiscal yea r to | locking roadster containing two mem- make it uniform in all divisions of bers of their race. , . A local ne gro referring to a new suit of clothes worn by one of hig white friends as A large crowd in town Friday, the occasion being Weine r Brother’s Fire Sale. (Yes, the advertising was done by The People-Sentinel.) . . A dis play windaw-advei Using the Richmond Aeademy-Bf.inwall football game, with the admonition to “holler like hell* . A Chevrolet sedan transporting a chicken coop on itg top. Most “chick ens,’’ however, prefer a seat inside th^ car. . . Everybody and his brother asking, “Do you think the bank is going to reopen?” . . . . “Ohs” and “ahs” of admiration and surprise from a group of negroes oc casioned by the passing of a sporty- SENATOR BROWN REPUES TO LETTER FROM LEAGUE State govemment. 6. Provisions for handling local legislation “at home.” Mr. Bennett, who is chairman of the house ways and mean 8 committee, t s one of three members of the budget commission. The othe r members are tlovernor BlacTcwdod, ex-officio chair man, and S. M. Ward, chairman of the Senate finance committee. Mr. Bennett said the changes in the governmental organization pro- posed by him resulted from a study «»f conditions in this State in com- parison with other State govern ments. - He indicated a tendency noted to being “classical” looking. . . Local sportsmen who have been giving their dogs a little pre-season work, com plaining of the scarcity of birds and the difficulty of locating them. . . Air sutonrobih? with am advertisement - written with chalk on the body, offer ing chinchilla rabbits for sale. A young matron with her arms bandaged because (f burns caused by starting a fire with kerosene. . . . Volume 1, Number 1 of The Burling ton (N. C.) Morning Post, a new daily newspaper, with Ben Davies, Jr., as editor of the sports page, this work BANK OF WILLISTON REOPENED SATURDAY The Bank o^ Williston, which closed its dcor s as a protective measure October 15th, following the closing of the Bank of West ern Carolina, with two branches in thi s county, reopened Satur day merning. It is understood .that the depositors, in orde r to permit the bank to resume busi ness, agreed not to withdraw their savings deiposits --for a period of two years and also to allow two-third s of their check ing accounts to remain intact for a like period. According to information received by The People-Sentinel, deposits Sat urday and Monday totaled about $22,000, reflecting the confidence that the people of Williston have in the bank. SAYS COUNTY IS YEAR AHEAD IN TAX REDUCTION. Tells Representative of Farmers’ and - Taxpayers’ League of Drastic Reduction. Barnwell Trounces Musketeer “B” Team Junior Varsity firm Richmond Acade my Unable to Get Going in Fri day’s Contest. IS APPOINTED DELEGATE That Barnwell County i s a year ahead of the program of tax reduc tion being sponsored by the Farmers’ and Taxpayers’ League is the infor mation contained in a letter, under date of November 11th, from Senator Edgar A. Brown to Neils Christensen, president of tbat organi^ron. Mr. Christensen wrote Senator Brown as follows: “There is an insistent demand from our membership that the League ex ert every effort to secure reduction-of the county tax levies by reducing the county expenses, and \ would appre ciate any suggestion that you can make as to statewide measures to ac complish th^ end. “We would also like to ask whether your delegation has taken steps to ward consolidation in government being in addition to his duties with ould be applied in this State to bring judiciously instituted econo- about mies." A central purchasing efficer as pro posed by Mr, Bennett would do all the buying for State departments and in stiiutions and obtain the benefit bulk purchasing. State control of budgets and bond issues, he said, would prove advanta geous in the elimination of inadvisable expenditures and bond issues and es tablishing of a Statewide credit cn n 'ound basis. A bill to create “an executive budg- and tpjjrescribe the powers and duties of the budget bureau” was passed by the heuse in 1931 under the sponsor ship of the way s and means commit tee. It is on the Senate calendar fori < onsideration at the 1932 session. j The bill provides the gov/rnor shall ! >£ ex-officio director of the budget | ..and shall appoint an assistant who | ■shall devote his full time to the duties i • * of the office. the North Carolina Bank and Trust Co., of that city. Young Mr. Davies is a son of Mr. afld Mrs. B. P. Davie's, of Dlift eity. The editor of the paper, Brinson Smith, was formerly con nected with Th t . Charleston Evening of i F°*t. % Ed Woodward explaining that the trouble with Clemson’s gridironers this year is due to the fact that Jules Carson, “one of the best coaches in the country,” is. teaching history in stead, of football. A grave error, that—teaching boys histoiy instead [of football. . . . Repeated com plaints about the continuance of the “d^' (drought” that this Section has been experiencing for a number of weeks. SCHOOL CLAIMS MAY BE USED IN PAYING TAXES . TO. COTTON .CONFERENCE! reduce .your county . budget, _ jind whethe r you will publish your next year’s pioposed county budget be fore the Legislature meets. Informa tion as to action and proposals by your delegation will be helpful to the League membership throughout the State and greatly appreciated by them.” Col. Edgar A. Brown, State senator fiom Barnwell County, has been ap- yointed by Harry D. Wilson, Louisiana commissioner of agriculture, to rep resent. South Carolina at a cotton con- feience called by Governor Parnell and Governor Bilbo to meet in Jack- son, Miss., on November 23rd. Colo nel Brown has accepted the appoint ment. Mr. Wilson is president of the Southern commissioners of agricul ture and a resolution was passed at a meeting of the variou 8 cotton inter ests, held in Birmingham on Novem ber 5th, to appoint one delegate from each cotton pioducing State to attend the cotton conference. “Old Maids’ Conventicfl.’ By, special request, the “01d Maids’ Convention,” which delighted a largb audience here recently, will be re peated Friday evening, Nov. 20th, eight o’clock, in the local school audi- tetium. Admission will be only 10 and 15c cents. Everybody i« invited to attend. NEWSBOYS SHOW W AY OUT OF “TIGHT MONEY” DIFFICULTY W’aycross, Ga.—Cecil Brown, a newsboy here, recently demonstrated an ability to do much with little which would arouse envy in any ambitious financier. -Cecil, with other boys, was at the office of the Journal-Herald, the afternoon newspaper of W’aycross. County Treasurer J. J. Bell calls attention to the fact that the school teacher* of •Barnwell ( ounty are re^ reiving only half of their salaries, due to the shortage of school funds, and .•fuggests that many citizens could help the situation by Accepting school claims as payment for board, grocery bills or in lieu bf ca-h for merchan dise and ether indebtedness, using the claims to pay State and county taxes. The treasurer state s that taxes are coming in better than expected, he having collected $4,060.26 for the first half of November, an average* of over $300 per day. October averaged He had five cents, hi 8 sok* capital, and put it to work with astounding re- about the same rate. Mr. Bell al&o Jack Burroughs, of Conway, spent Sunday here wun friefds. Senator Brown's Reply. In reply, the Barnwell senator said: “I am in hearty accord with the suggestions contained in your letter of November 9th, concerning reduc tion in county tax levies at the coming session of the General Assembly. “My delegation a year ago went at the question of reducing county oper ating expense* with a most deter mined effort, and it is surprising, if a delegation really sets out to ‘cut to the bone,’ how much can be saved. “If you will study Barnwell Coun ty’s 1931 Supply Bill, you will find that we reduced our general appropria tion by 33 4-3 per cent.—cutting off useless departments, reducing all salaries add particularly chain gang operating expenses. Our levy, which I believe is th e lowest' county levy in the State, was reduced from thirteen to five mills. “I have been trying to put my county on a cash bai-is for ten years. Local Organization Makes Plea ~ for Food, Fuel, Clothing, Etc. Barnwell, in combination with Fri day the thirteenth, proved unluoky for the Richmond Academy “B” team of Augusta and the visitors went down in defeat 38 to 0 here Friday after noon. '* Immediately after the kickoff, Richmond recovered a fumble on Barn well’s 20 yard line, but the net re sult of‘four downs was a loss of five yards. The Ideals then marched 75" yards down the field for the first touchdown.’ From that point the contest devel oped into a field day and five more touchdowns were marked up in rapid succession. So complete was the rout of the Cadets that Coach Price ran in every substitute on his squad and still the visitors could not halt the big parade. ^ Richmond finally took the air only to have <)ne pass intercepted and run back 40 yards for a touchdown. The cadets finally completed two in a row to place the -hall in midfield, where they again lest it on dqwns and an other march goalward wa* started The game ended as a pass was grounded over the goal line. Barnwell County Man Meets Instant Death Body of James Sanders, Aged 74 Years, Horribly Mangled by Passenger Train. James Sanders, aged 74 years, n resident (f the Reedy Branch aectioa, was instantly killed "Sunday morning when he was struck by an Atlantic Coast Line passenger train at th# crossing near Reedy Branch Church. His body, which was hurled aboyt 100 yards down the track, wa 8 hor ribly mangled. According to information received here, Mr. Sanders was crossing the track with his wife. She was walking a few steps in front of him and look ing up, saw the rapidly approaching train. Mrs. Sanders called a warning to her husband, but too late to save him from being struck. The body was laid to rest Monday morning in the Reedy Branch Church yard. Besides his wife, Mr. Sanders i^ sur vived by one son, Archie Sanders, and three brothers, Robert, Thomas and Joe Sanders. * FIRES AT SPRINGFITLD ATTRIBUTED TO DROUGHT To Play Allendale. Coach W. R. Price has arranged a game with the strong Allendale high school team to be played on the local field tomorrow (Friday) afternoon at 3:30 o’clock. On th* basis of compar ative scores, Allendale appears to have the edge on the locals. They have been going strong all season and have defeated several heavier teams. A large crowd is expected at the game. Allendale 73, Blaekville 9. Allendale, Nov. 13.—Allendale high swamped the Blaekville Bear Cats un der a score of 73 to 0 this afternoon ch the local field. Blaekville failed to offer any real oppoaition, making only one firat down the entire game. Allendale atarted piling up a score from the first kick off. Coach Bryan played the smallest men on tL team almost the entire game but the Bear Cata failed to regbtet even against the baby team. Allendale has played ten game^, losing two and winning eight. Cotton Ginnirg Report. __ Almost without exception every reade r cf our Barnwell County papers has recently been experiencing a most strenuous period of financial anxiety. At the same time w e have been aware, in £ general way, that many not far from us are other s worse off than our selves. For the most of us we have suits. Here is the story, according to Cecil: <> “There were four of us boys, and I owed one of ’em a dime. 1 paid him a ; just let it go at that with the passing says that Sheriff Dyche^ W truned in thought, since what we know but do to Jhe ccunty treasury this month, in addition to the above collections, $2,- 763.93 for back taxes and that about nickle on account. He paid another 60 per cent, of this gbe 8 to the schools. I*>y a nickel he. owed him, and .that Mr. Bell urges all who can to pay one paid the fourth boy. Thi s last promptly and help the* county pay the boy happened to owe me five cents, | teachers. Earnest cooperation * is and he paid' me. That gave me my! heeded to keep the schools going, nickel back. So I handed it to the boy j “The future citizen s of our county are to whom I had owed a dime, so that looking to us—we must not fail them,” when he got the five-cent piece a he said, second time he was paid in full. One nickel got all four of us out cf debt.” Waycros 8 financiers and economists are considering taking Cecil on a tour 14’^th annual meeting of the of South Georgia to show people what South Carolina Conference of the can be done if somebody will spend Methodist Church, South, w T as held at some money Irall boiling. Methodist Church Assignments. and start the pay-up Mrs. W. L. Harley. 4 The many friends of Mrs. W. L. Harley were shocked to learn of her sudden death Friday afternoon at her home in the Friendship, section, fol lowing an attack of heart failure;.Her Sumter during the past week. At that time, the Rev. W. E. Wiggins w’fis assigned to the Barnwell Methodist Church, and the Rev. B. G. Murphy, who has supplied this charge for the past two years, was asigned to An drews. Othe r assignn&fjnjs in thi s dis trict asToUbws: r + Allendale, the Rev. J. R, Johnson; Appleton, the Rev. Peter* Stokes, Jr.; body was laid to rest the following day j Bamberg, tlr e Rev. L, E. Beaded in the Friendship Churchyard, the baugh; Bamberg and Orangeburg Such conditions as we are facing call not realize has but little effect upon us. Our own worry has been largely a matter of how we could manage with much les s money to live as near ly as possible according to former standards, while with the ethers for whom thig plea is mad e and of whom there are hundreds right here in Barn well County, ft is/a matter of extreme need for sufficient food, necessary clothing, fuel and bed covering, enough to prevent sickness, terrible suffering, even death. ' It i»‘ to turn cur attention to those “others” that these few word 8 aie written most es pecially in view of the near approach of winter bringing with it a great in crease, of suffering. What are we going to do abom it? What can we do about it? Very tew* have money to offer, but there is one thing we can do. Each of us who will can give some of the clothing, food, fuel and bed covering that we already have above ou r own needs. Individual giving i 8 of benefit, but it is liable to be sporadic and uncertain; also many times the most needy are overlooked. ;fcuaeaaflflfeJMaiML~£0|Mluct^ W, Axial; Danmark. iv. D. W. Heckle. the Ke'v. F. L. Glennan; Olar, the Rev. 4 the Rev r Mi$. Harley is survived by her husband, W. L. Harley, and several children; her father, J. O. Sanders, of Olar, and a numbe r of sisters and brothers, one of whom i s Mrs. 8. S. Moore, Jr., of this city. Her mother died only a short time af«. W. T. Way. - Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Freeman, Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Croat and little daugh ter, of Columbia, visited Mrs! S. R. Goodson a few hours Sunday after- 'r ^ ’ Afld. effort, a systematic method by which each particular case can be investiga ted and relieved in the order of neces sity. Those begging from door to door are often not nearly so needy as others of whom we hear nothing but the personal appeal attracts our atten tion and moat of us giv e not knowing whethe r the pitiful story told i s true or otherwise. It is a form of aid that should be replaced by something bet ter and such a plan is on e outlined be low*. W’e have still in existence a local Red Cross Chapter with its several branches over th t , county. This chap ter, working with q local production committee made up of representative,, of the different churches, can receive and distribute supplies sent them among the needy ones in the order of their merit. What they ask for is— . Merchants’ non-salable dry g<^cds, -hoes, food. Used clothing (such a 8 may be out grown, faded, out-of-date), partly worn shoes, even clean rags that can be used in cases of sickness. Bed covering that may be worn but still capable of being a source of warmth. What may- seem worthless can often be used. Any food of which we may have some to spare. Especially we are asking for home produce, such as: Potatoes, peas, meal, syrup, vegetables, etc. Every man, woman and child who can should have a part in this work, every church, missionary society, cir cle, civic club, and home demonstra- Thcrt* were 77,632 bales of cotton ginned in BaraweH County prior to November 1st, a s compared with 18,- 870 bales ginned to the same date in 1930, according to a report made pub lic a few days ago by th c department of Commerce. Ginning figures for other counties in this section are as Springfield, Nov. 16.—The extreme lack of moisture is being acutely felt here, evidenced by the burning of the Foy apartment house, occupied by the family of Dr. Hubert Fanning, of Laurens, with that of a Mr. Wiggins. The building wss valued at $10,009. ^It i s said to have carried insurance to the amount of $2,000. The tenants had small amounts on their household goods. Again Friday the barns of J. C. Phillips were burned. He had about 50 bale f of cotton stored in one of the large buildings, together with a quan tity of feedstuff. A vigorous fight by the fire department probably saved most of the cotton. His insurance is unknown. Later during the same night fire was discovered on the cotton plat form, owned by the Southern Railway company and used by the several truck lines hauling cotton to Charleston, Greenvill e and Charlotte. This fire wss subdued afte r a brisk fight with losses small. # Starting only a few miles South of Springfield, fires have burned old ponds, swamps and woodland for the past several weeks. Passing from ten miles south of Springfield to Beaufort one finds most of the low lands burning. Rain has not fallen here to amount to anything since August 16th. Springfield is up in the hills and most of the lands here are cultivated. Ccnsequenily t they have not suffered a s those south of this town. follows: 193J: 1930: Aiken . . - - 27,458 25,064 A lit-nalt* _ . 6,191 6,830 Bamberg __ 13,571 lv,799 Hampton . — . 6,381 7,021 The State 829,898 814,105 and this is the first year, for more than twenty years, that Barnwell Copnty has operated upon a strictly cash basis, and when the Bank of Western Carolina and the Bank of Williston (our only two remaining banks in the county) closed, we had more than $60,000 cash on hand, all of which, I am glad to say, was thor oughly secured by the banks. “What is concerning me most is the burden of operating our schools. Roughly speaking, it costs approxi mately $150,000 a year to operate the school?, in my county, only about $40,- 000 of which we get from the State, necessitating our raising in excess of $100,000. We cannot continue to operate our schools at th e cost that tion clubs of th e county. Everyone we have been operating them at, and whose heart is moved by the cry of onle.-'s the 6-0-1 law is changed, and the cold, the hungry, the poverty- 1 unless the salary schedule of teachers stricken sick ones right at our doors, is asked to join with us, sending their offering to their local Red Gross work- ■—y' 1 '• ' -'V'BiiiiiiL'-uMio'ii iwwwaBsaamiigB we do not answer this cry what shall we say when we face Him Who said, “Inasmuch as ye did it not unto one °f the least of these mp brethren ye did R not unto me”? MRS. A. A. LEMON, Chairman, Volunteer Service. Barnwell, 8. C. is reduced from 25 to 33 1-3 per cent. ?br another year, it is my present in tention to take some drastic action with reference to the contribution whicK"' tenance of the schools. 4 “I am glad to have received your letter and am iirfull sympathy, with the efforts th e League is putting forth and you may feel at liberty'Yo call up on me at any time that I can be of assistance in the good work. Jeremiak Jackson SaeUiag. The new 8 of the death of Prof. Jere miah Jackson Snelling, of Lowell, FIs., on Tuesday night, the 10th inst., was a great shock and a profound sorrow, not oqjy to hit brother, Judge John K. Snelling, of this city, but to 1 host of friends throughout Barn well County. * “Jerrie,” as he was familliarty known, was the son of Capt. Jeremiah and Helen Johnstone Snelling. He Was 65 years cf age and was reared at Snelling.-- After graduating in music, he taught his profession in this county for a numbe r of years be fore settling in Florida, where he has been for the past twenty years and where he was living at the time of his death. Profe$so r Snelling is survived by three brothers, Judge John K. Snel ling, of Barnwell; William W. Snel ling, of Lowell, Fla., and Paul D. Snelling, of St. Petersburg, Fla. Judge Snelling left here on Wednes day evening, Arriving in Florida at 10:30 Thursday morning. Funeral services were held at 8:30 o’clock Thursday afternoon at the Reddick cemetery, near Lowell, con ducted by the Revs. J. M. Clark and Federick Sayer in the presence of m large concourse of friends and rela tives. Special music selections were rendered by Mrs. Raysor and her choir. Those acting as pallbearers were: S. F. and B. E. Raysor.—Contributed. . A. two days teaching “The Great Comaissioa” was bstd last week at the Church 0# the Holy- Apostles, with the Sev. ]“ s ^ ^ _ ... .. . . /