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r I i : u—Ui / —— 77 '. ' /' ^ ' *' 'V ' f .j0--' ' ^ . j . * i ' 1 • » * — — 1 r '-HI ’ r . i ft^'j < ,- 5 ■■ THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNTY_ c *£| Consulidated Jana I. 1926. ‘Just Like ei Merrlber of the Family" VOLUME LV. BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 3. 1931. NUMBER 14. Criminal Court Will Convejie December 14 Seen and Heard Here During the Past Week Judge W. H. Townsend to Preside.— A Little Sense and Nonsense About Petit Jurors fee One Week Term Drawn Monday. I * A cne wCek term of the Court of ‘People You Know and Others You Don't Know. A crowd of disappointed football General Ses'ion s will convene at fans from Allendale afte r the game Barnwell on Monday, December 14th, 1 Thursday morning. . . A couple with Judge W. H. Townsend, of Col-.of mules entering the stoTr-<►£ the umbia, piesiding. R. L.‘ Bronson, 1 Farmers*" Uniog. Mercantile^ Cor one Clerk of Court, requests all magis- day last week. . . The edito r lead- trates in the county to send in war rants at cnee. Petit jurors for the ing his bird dog up town, and P. W. Price and Nick Coclin predicting approaching term were drawn Mon- that the incident wouldn’t b e men day, as follows: J. B. Grubbs, Barnwell. J. R. Renew, Elko. Harold Williams, Barnwell. * Isadora Hartzog, Hilda. C. H. Youngblood, Elko. Edward Sease, Long Branch. J. W. Browning, Blackville. C. C. Mitchell, Tinker’s Creek!* Wm. H. Hutto, Reedy Branch, flarold Reed, Barnwell. W. C. Mitchell, Williston. . J. B. Jtobinson, Tinker’s Creek. , A. N. Black, Hilda. Nick Martin, Blackville. W. H. Hartzog. Double Pojui«. E. D.'Quattlebaum, Williston. J. A. Creech, Hercules. Henry M. Bodiford, Blackville. Earl Hair, Barnwell. Joe Gunnelt*, Oak^ Grove. Archie Rcss, Ashleigh. J. F. Rcuntree, Dunbarton. Boyce Creech, Barnwell. Lennie B. Morris, Oak Grove. Victor Martin, Blackville. Harry Cain, Healing Springs. N. Blatt, Blackville. . Geo. Martin, Blackville. J. F. Ready, Kline. ^ J. L. Rosier, Ashley. Durant Martin, Healing Spring*. J. M. Lard, Blackville. ).awton Still, Blackville. George Hartzog, Blackville. C. F. Molair, Barnwell. C. R. Cave, Blackville. Barnwell Swamp* Allendale. tioned in this column. . . Automo biles groping their way through the murky “smog” Saturday and Sunday nights. . . Edga r Brown and C. G. Fuller kept out of the air because cf “low visibility.” y A negro wearing a hunting coat and remarking that (he was “goin’ down to Mr. Lemon B^other^ and get iH)m e lisuns,” meaning, of course, a hunting license. . . 'fhanksgiving Day hunters complaining of the dry Weather and scarcity of birds. . . . Johnnie Scoville telling aboqt getting lo.‘t on the highway between Orange burg and Barnwell Sunday night in the dense fog. He returned to Orangeburg and took the night train for this city. . . The Rev. John A. Pinckney, accompanied by Mrs. Pinck ney, making his scheduled appearance at the Church of the Holy Apostles Sunday night in spite of the heavy fog, which kept some Barnwell mem bers from attending Services. A local mah remaiking that, in spite of the hard times, depression, panic or what have you, his ice box contained, among other things, coun-. try sausage ‘n’ liver puddin’, roast j turkey and partridges. DESIGNATE LOCAL PORT FOR EMERGENCY LANDING To Inaugurate Xmas Season in Columbia Santa Claus M ill Arrive by Airplane at Five O^clcck.—Parade at 5:15 O’Clock. BARNWELL ON LINE OF EASTERN AIR TRANSPORT. / Mayor B. \\. Sexton and Cel. Edgar A. Brown Invited to Fly on Initial Trip. Smoke-Fog Blankets .. This Entire Section Smoke from Fjres in the Costal Coun ties Aggravated by Very Heavy Fogs. Bry Scout Patrol Organized. The Rev. John Ar’Pinckney, minis ter in charge of the Episcopal Churches at Barnwell, Allendale and Estill, cam,, up to this city one night’ last week for the pui'pose of effecting a Boy Scout organization. A couple | . of locaK men and several boys met j The Allendale high school football with him in the auditorium J team was no match for the heavier w h ele \j r pi nc |( ne y eX p| a i ned tj,e pur- Barnwell squad here Thanksgiving an ,j G f work of the morning and the jocab won easily l>y j Cr>fani2ation . Two from the the score of 26 to 0. The first touch-! AIIendaIe troop wenf also p re9ent . down came soon after the opening Ar a resuU of the mwtinRt eitfht kick-off, when an Allendale.pass was boys - <i(fnified xhe[t desire t<) jo j n intercepted deep in the visitofs’ ter- and a Patn)1 Wa<< , or>ranized . It is ritory. From then on. the result was, hoped that ^ win become in _ never in doubt, a s Allendale- never t eres t ed and tba ^ j n near future threatened to score. Barnwell waaU here will be enough members to forced to punt only once, although the form a troop( which consi8ts ^ f&ur local team lost the ball a time or two patro , g of eight ^ pach on downs. ^ Hagood hius given the boys e use of a two-rcom house jn the rear of his residence and they have boys, who suffered only one defeat and ^ busily at work the ^ week one tie. Among the victims was the g e nj n pr jt in shape for another meet- The game Thursday dosed a very th ^ U8e of a tW) Barnwell successfuf season for the strong Orangeburg high school team, which won the State Class A Cham pionship by virtue of its victory over Rock Hill high in Columbia last week. ing Friday night. Allendale Child Shot. WilKl R. Williams. Allendale, Nov. 26.—-Robbie Fer guson, 12, of Appleton, was acciden tally shot by hi g brother, W. H. Fer- Allendale, Nov. 26.—Willie R. Wil-- tfuson, Jr., 13, at the home of their liams, 68, of Allendale and Dunbaiv | P arent s. Mr ‘ M™- William H. Fer guson. . An uncle, Virgil Grubbs, was visit ing at the Ferguson home and it wtis decided to kill a chicken for dinner ton, died Saturday morning, Novem ber 21st, at the home of his daugh ter, Mrs. R. F. Rountiee, at Dunbar- ton v ’Mr. Williams had been in failing, t0 KU1 a 01 health fo r several years, and Wednes-| WI ^ a lifle. Mr. Grubbs had pick- day evening was stricken with apo- U P r *^ e ou ^ w h en W. H. plexy cf the lungs ami passed away three days later Jr., requested that he be allowed to fix the gun so it would not snap, and Funeral service 8 were conducted by w ^ e ma king the repairs the rifle fir- the Rev. Eben Taylor, and interment e ^> striking the small lad in the left made in the Cave cemetery. He is survived by four daughters, leg. The bullet passed thiough limb and lodged in the mantle of the Mrs. J. J. Anderson, Mrs. R. F. Roun- r(K)m - tree, cf Dunbarton; Miss Minnie Wil- injured boy was given med:ca. liams, of Columbia; Mrs. A. W. Cole- treatment socn afte ‘ r the acciden t by man. of Atlanta, Ga.; one son,.jI. M. F.* H, Boyd, of Allendale. His Williams, -of Allendale; one sister, co P dition said to be satisfactory Mrs. J. E. Sanders, cf Kline, and a and * is believed he will be able to brother, E. H. Williams, of Dunbar- resume his school work Mcnay mom- ton. - ,n £ Rev. W. S. Hay Dies. Auburn, Ala., -Nov. 28.—The Rev. William Smith Hay, 63, Presbyterian Welcome New Pastor. Andrews, Nov. 28.^—The member ship of the Methodist church welcom- minister cf Blacksburg, S. C., died ed thgir new pastor, the Rev. B. G. today at the home of his sen, the Murphy, Wednesday evening at. the Rev. Si^fn D. Hay, pastor of the i regular prayer meeting service with a Special to^The People-Sentinel: —Columbia, Deo. 2.—Friday evening, December 4, will officially inaugurate the Christmas season here, when a series of outstanding events will cli max in the turning on of the 7,000 bulbs which are to be used in the seasonal decorations., Santa Claus has announced a change in his schedule, a 8 he will arrive by plane at five o’clock Friday after noon, instead of 5:30 p. m., as pre viously announced. The pilot of the plane will fly Santa over the city at 5 o’clock, and then land at the muni cipal airport. A parade will then pass down Main Street at 5:15 o’clock, from Elmwood Avenue to the State Capitol. Santa wHl feature this event, riding in a decoiated and illuminated car. Governor I. C.’ Blackwood, Mayor L. B. Owens, and other prominent offi cials will also be in the escort of honor with Santa. A motorcycle guard will precede the parade, each having' Christmas bells mounted on his motorcycle. On their arrivel at the capitol build ing at 5.30 o’clock, ttle Christmas pageant will start. During this pre sentation, the entire lighting display on the Capitol and along Main street will be lighted, at 6 o'clock. More than 7,000 light- and 48 Christmas ( trees beep erected in the design. A mammoth tiqp is already in place in front of the Capitol, and this, too,^ will have an important place in the street decorations. The merchants! l are also to have their stores decoiat ed in attractive ways.. Ten large Christmag trees will be placed ove r th e city, and many Col umbians are to have private trees in their yards. Prizes art to be award ed fo r the prettiest (display. The usual Community tree will be held Chii-tmas Eve, with carols to be sung by the assembled crowds. It is also planned to have numerous groups of carolers going about the city Christ mas Eve, singing appropriate songs as they go from home to home. Starting Saturday, December 5th, and through December^ 12th, th e mer chants are to offer unusual values to shoppers. This week is to be called “Gift Week Sale,” with each day mp- propriately designed. Satusday, De cember 5, is Santa Claus Day; Mon day, Mother and Sister Day; Tues day, Fathe r and Son Day; Wednesday, Toy and Book Day; Thursday, Home Beautiful Day; Friday, Columbia Day; and, Saturday, December 12, Visitors Day. f It is expected that hundreds will come to the city on Decembe r 4th to take part in the welcome to Santa Claus and in the turning on of the lights, as Well as for the sale events during the week to follow. The designation cf the Tocal air port as an emergency landing field for planes of the Eastern Air Transport, Inc., and en invitation frem officials of the company to Mayor B. W. Sex ton and Col. Edgar A. Brown, of this city, to fly in on e of the big plane s on the initial flight inaugurating pas senger service between Atlanta and Charlestem, are two of the latest de velopments in local aviation circles. It i 8 believed that in the near future, the Barnwell air port will b e designat ed as a regular landing field by the company. The new passenger service wa* scheduled to start Tues. morning be tween Atlanta and Charleston via of Augusta, Aiken and Barnwell, and also between Atlanta and Savannah. Cur- tiss Kingbird plane s are to be used, but weather conditions general over the ea£l?m States made it impossible for the plane s to arrive in time for the scheduled trip, and ceremonies planned in Augusta for the christen ing of a plane have been po-tponed until Jartuary. A, Curtiss Condor 18- passenge r plane was substituted by official* of the Eastern Air Transport for the initial trip from Savannah to Atlanta. According to a published schedule, the Atlanta • Charleston plane iff due to arriv e over Bbrnwell between 10:30 and 1Q:45 a. m. when regular service has been established. It will arrive in Charleston at 11:30 a. m., to connect with the northbound plane from Jacksonville up the coast. Connection will b e made in Atlanta for points in the West. The designation of the Barnwell air port as an emergency landing field put 8 this little <p.y squarely on the air map. The field is said to be much better for aviation purposes than the air port in Columbia and C. G^ Fuller has already spent several hundred dollar 8 in putting it in condition and electing a hangar for his own plane. In view, of the fact that it will he used now as an emergency landing field by planes of the Eastern Air Transport and others, he has turned his lease over to Barnwell County without charge and it will be known in the future a 8 “the Barnwell Coun ty air port.” Further improvements are being planned. Teachers to Meet Dec. 10. “Smog,” a combination of smoke and fog. blanketed this entir e section Saturday night and Sunday night, but cleared away* during Monday. In fact, air traffic was paralyzed over all of the S utheast Sunday,/ extend ing fiom Shreveport, La., across to the Atlantic seaboard, and from Jacksonville, Fla., northward to Vir ginia and Indiana. For several days last week Barn well and adjacent territory was covered with a heavy blanket of smoke, pre-umably from forest fires in the coastal counties. This condi tion wa s greatly aggravated Saturday and Sunday nightg by heavy fogs, which made an almost impenetrable curtain of “smog” and rendered au- tomcbile traffic difficult and hazard ous. .Visibility was confined to a radius of about 30 feet, forcing drivers to operate their car g at a very low rate of speed. Fortunately, however, no accidents have been reported in this vicinity. As the result of adverse flying con ditions, C. G. Fuller and Col. Edgar A. Brown were forced to abandon a projected flight to Athens,, Ga., Sat urday to witness the Georgia Tech- Georgia football game. HOPOCATRUC Proposal Submitted*- for Reopening of Bank New York Bankers Going to Aiken This Week to Study Re-organi zation Plan. - a « —» ' v ” Aiken, Nov. 30.—J. B. Salley, prom inent local attorney and chairman of the re-organization committee cf the Bank cf Western Carolina, announced today that friend s in New York with whom he recently conferred in re gards to the matte r of re-opening or re-organizing the bank, cloeed Octo ber 15, are sending a representative to Aiken to study the situation, and that this representative is expected to arrive the first part of this week. Mr. Salley, accompanied by T. S. Glover, of Aiken, recently was in New York to secure help from a number of financiers, most cf them Aiken winter residents. It has been announced that a group of New York bankers have prepared a proposed plan for re-opening the Bank of Western Carolina and that this is now in the hand s of 0^ com mittee, which has formulated, with this help, what is believed to he a fea«able way of reopening if the expected amount of capital is raised. A meeting of the committee will he held within a short time. Brotherhood Meeting Held Here. . The initial meeting of the Barn well County Teachers Association for the new school year wiH be held in the Barnwell high school auditorium, Thursday afternoon, December 10th, at four o’clock. A program of the exercise* will be published next week. Mr. and Mrs. ’C.- L. McCaslan were the guests of Barnwell relatives Sun day. New Cotton-picking Machine to Do Work of Five Negroes Auburn Presbyterian church. —Ha^iwayfaguttht 'tol After, this..get to&eriier-meet' special program ai ranged for the oc- Tii? son’s home 10 days ago, suffering | ing, Mr. Murphy was taken into the .from a lingering illness, in .hopes the Sunday school room, there to observe change would result in improvement | the iftany presents which comprised of his , condition, but he failed tod the “pounding” prepared for him. rally. ^ ’ Mr. Murphy had previously sup- The body will be sent to Bojling, plied the church in Barnwell. * He, Springs, Lyndhuist, Barnwell County^ with his wife and two children, ar- S. C., for funeral $ervice 8 tomorrow. ^ rived here last Thursday. Washington, Nov. 28.—The negro cotton picker; - Tnrmcrtalized in song and story of the old South, soon may be cleared from the inowy rows of the Southland’s greatest A machine, ^pracnhal and money saving, is ready to take its place. The labor department^ says it will do th e work that u?ed to take one man 77 hours in less than three hours. Four cut of every five persons for merly needed' to harvest the fibre a* it burst from the bolls will have to find other work in picking* time. The department quoted mechanical expert? of agricultural experiment stations as authority for the state ment that practical 'perfection cf^cot- ton harvesting machinery has*arriv- ed.- It k .the first -great improvement in methods (ft*' handling cottorPsihce Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin more than a century ago. Not only has the machine to^ picking arrived, but the cotton gin has been’more ful ly perfected to prevent loss of quali ty by machin e picking. ' the department .said that the labor saving represented by the new ma chine i 8 a net gain for the cotton farmer. “The perfected machinery;” says the announcement, “is the yesult of an*early idea cf progressive cotton farmers who had experimented with the gathering of fallen boll s ' with a horse drag at the same time stripping from plants the bolls that had not fallen. The first drag was a section of a picket Yence constructed pf wood en slats bound together with inter woven horizontal wires. This lyas dragged, over the cotton rows in such manner that the wires caught the bells stripping them off the stems and left them lying on the wooden strips- of\ the drag. ^Rut the drag gathered so much By G. Chalmers McDermid. Still they keep asking me what HOPOCATRUC means. Every few days some one wants to knew if it h some mystic word, or even a new agricultural cu-s-word. > Again explaining:—I -try, from time to time, to mention something of Interest concerning hogs, poultry, cattle and truck, and have used the first letters of each of these word* a^a starter—hence—ho po eft true. • Here is an interesting stcry from one of our colored friends—John Hey ward, of James Island.. - Last spring John had an acre of Iri*h potatoes on his farm on which he used 600 pound*, of 7-5-5 fertiliser. H e made a fair crop of spuds, and wanted to get something more from the land. 'So he planted a crop of sweet potatoes afte r the *puds. He had heard of the value of the 8 f right type of fertilizer far sweets, from the County Agent, and from reading various bulletins, pamphlets, and news articles, and he cam e to me and asked, for enough extra potash to run a “test.” On half an acre of hi s sweets, he put out 200 pounds of 20 per cent, kainit, just after they had started to grow. On the other half acre he put no additional fertilizer. La?t week John gav e me the follow ing figures as results of his test: “On the half acre where I used the extra 200 pound* of high grade kainit, T made 29 bushels of numbef on e po tatoes and 8 bushels of sftvall ones. “On -the other niitf^ acre, I only made 24> bushels of mrmbe r ones and 6 bushels of small ones.” “If I had had an acre altogether with the extra high grade kainit I would have had 10 evtra bushels of would have had 10 extra bushels of small ones.” And to show further that John is not only alive to the possibilities of the right kind? of plant foods for his crops, he tock a bushel of very fine sweets to the Colored Agricultural Fair and won one of the prizes with it. And then la cap the climax of the whole situation, he made me a pres- i ent of the priz e winning basket of sw^et£ and I don’t know when I have ever, appreciated a gift so much. . More power to you, John Heyward —you are a leader among your peo ple. If more of them would follow your example, not only along agricul tural lines,* but along all you r ether lines of endeaver r they would all be in better shape. An enthusiastic group of laymen representing a number of the Baptist churche s of the Barnwell, Association met st fou r o’clock Sunday afternoon and listened to interesting and appeal ing addresses by some of the denomi nation's leading laymen. Prof. W. W. Carter, president, pre sided. Horace J. Crouch was elected temporary secretary. The local pas tor, Dr. W. M. Jones, conducted the devotional services, reading from part of th« 1 l^th Psalm. Appropriate music, splendidly rendered by a female choir of the Barnwell church, was greatly enjoyed by the congregation. Because of the fact that the “Every Member Canvass” began on the same day of thi t scheduled meeting, not all of the churches were represented. Forceful addresses by the Hon. Robert Lide, of Orangeburg, and Hon. E; B. Jackson, of Wagener, were de livered, the former using the subject “The Layman’s Responsibility IN the Church,” and the latter discussing, “The Layman’g Responsibility OUT SIDE His Church.” The Hon. John M. Daniel, South Carolina’s Attorney General, of Col umbia, delivered in an appealing way. an address, using the subject, “The Challenge to the Laymen of Present Day Conditions tfithin and Without the Church,” which was well received. The Revs. B. H. Duncan, of Willis ton. and A. F. O’Kelley, of Denmark, and the local pastor, Dr. Jones, were the preashers in attendance. The congregation wag probably fifty per cent welcomed women. The Brother hood decided upon another meeting on the fifth Sunday in January, 1982. Fire Destrays Barnwell H Fire, which was discovered about two o’clock Thanksgiving. morning, almost completely destroyed the resi dence of Mr?. Leah Beat, which was occupied by herself, her sou, O. . H. Best, and his wife. No one waa at hsme at Hie time, the member* of the family being in Union for tho holi days. ^ The origin of the fire is not known, hut it is believed that the house was first robbed and then set to hide the crime. The volunteer fire fighters * sponded quickly to the alarm and succeeded in preventing th e spread of the flames to nearby dwellings. Much of the furniture was removed from the rooms on the ground floor but that in the second story was a total lo;8. The exact amount of insurance is not known. “Bellinger” Goes to Florida. ned. Not to he discouraged th£ farm er ran $he 8 tuff through his threshing machine, thus cleaning cut-enough of the rubbish to enab^ the gin to 5eparate the fibre from the remain der. ' - • . “The idea was taken up 1 by other ' ■ •' ' • • • -v- -• • — , farmers and the experts of the agri culture experiment Stations got to work on it. First a rude sled was constructed with a V-shaped slot for the Bolls. The bolls were worked backward 'by the ^forward motion of the gledMnto a wooden box. The first cotton sleds stripped only one row at a time but were s oon widened to cover tw«r three and* finally four or more rows.” ; *; r ;.. " • ■ , •;.* .• . 'v? Mrs. Charles Carroll Simms and son, John G. Simms, Esq.i of Orlando, Fla., were week-end guests-of Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Greene. They left for Oralnda on Sunday. t “Judge” M. B. Haher, brother of V- » a • his Barnwell friends for the past several months, accompanied them to Florida, where he will visit for several Week?, when h e will return to .Wash ington, D. C., for Um winter He has hundreds of whose good