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ii-MM , er THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNTY.*^! ConsofMate^ Jum 1. 1925. /. z/VOLUME LY. \, Two Will Face Trial for Motor Car Theft Your« White Men of Spartanburg Are Being Held in the Barnwell County Jail. / Seen and Heard Here During the Past Week Edgar Mill? and George Hombell, young white men of Spartanburg, are being held for trial at Barnwell next Monday following the theft of an automobile in Greenville and the at tempted theft °f another at Dunbar ton, in Barnwell County.* A. R. Ward, assistant chief of the highway patrol, said the two had been implicated in the disappearance A Little Sense and Nonsensf About People You Know and Others You Don’t Know. Terie Richardson displaying a few eaily Irish potatoes that he gather ed from a “volunteer hill.’’ . . A negro cook, homeward bound, drop ping her pan of dinner on the side walk in front of a local store, and a passer-by remarking that some poor loafing “nigger” would hav e to go hungry. . . An automobile under going repairs in front of a Main St. . . Sheriff Bcncil H. of a car from in front of the Davis! s t° re - Motcff-company, stt Greenvil]?. High-! Dyches backing his car into a tele way Patrolman J. C.* Rogers and P hone P o!e and claimin £ lik e'‘Andy,’ To Support Requests for Increase in Bill $1,000,000 May Be Added to House Measure by the Senate.—Last ' Week W as Dull. Like a Member of (he Family” BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 18, 1932 Sheriff DycheS arrested them at Barnwell. When examined, the car. did not that the telephon e people had put it up without telling anybody about it. . . The warm weather causing a Columbia, Feb. \14.—Support for requests to increase the 1932 appro priation bill by more than $1,000,000 appeared in various quarters today as members of the Senate finance committee which will wirte the Senate bill Monday night expressed their policies. The probability is that the Hoqse bill of $8,000,000 will mount above $9,000,000 after a balance has been struck between the movements to increase items of th e bill. Members of the committee said here that they expect to complete Native of Barnwell Attains Ripe Old Age Barbecue Dinner to Help the Unemployed Capt. Thomas Washington Coward, Now cf Aiken, Reached Century Mark Saturday. Committee of Women Working to Feed and Clothe the Needy of This Immediate Secticei. Depositors of the Bank of Western Carolina Then Verted to Adopt Re-orgarjration Plan. Aiken, Feb. 13.—Andrew Jackson was president of the United States, Scuth Carolina was passing its fa mous nullification ordinance, the Black ( Hawk war was raging in Wisconsin, Napoleon Bonaparte had only been dead eleven years, and America was in its infancy when Capt. Thomas Washington Coward, Aiken’* oldest citizen was born, 100 years ago today, February 13> 1832, at the old Dunbar ton postoffice in Barnwell district, of which Aiken was then a part. There was only one railroad in the i United States, the old South Caioljna their work before next week-end. railroad from Charle?ton to Ham- bear the motor number under which Partial relapse to - the stockingless They plan to have tKe bill in form I burg, which was to becom e the long— it had been registered, Mr. Ward I style of last summer. j for its second reading before ftie' est in the world and on which Captain said, and the motor was found to! item in The State’s “Seen Here Senate by February 23. '•V have been removed from a truck of an( l There column, calling attention the Lockhart Power company. j t° the factj that the names of three Highway officials traced the motor ( our l as t four Presidents are allit- numbers and found * that the car,' era ti ve — WoodrcW Wibon, Calvin bearing its original motor number, Coclidge and Herbert Hoover. And had been scld to the Greenville Mdtor it is likewise true that The names of The Legislature, pendulum hangs Coward was later to woik, had net T>0gun operation. Steamships were Company. The two men installed the truck motor, they said. While Mills purchased cigarettes in a store at Dunbartpn, Hombell at tempted to make away with the car of Wallace Harley there, the Sher’ff states. Mills inteiferred when Har ley and Patrolman- Rogers halted Hombell. A scuffle ensued, in which Harley knocked down Mills and truss ed him up with a piece of rope taken from the car, he declared. Both men are being held at the threte out of the four contained 13 poised for its usual swing from the j still crude and had only begun to ply rigid reduction policy of the House the waters, ft was almost three-quar to the mere generous tendencies, teis of a century before automobiles which the Senate has manifested which Captain Coward says are a With ^pKstr brlW “curse” were to come into vogue, and letters each—Woodrow Wilson, War ren Harding and Herbert Hoover. . . . Several males of the species geting ahead of th e opposite sex ip the matter of new spring bonnets. . . .. A* negro woman buying heavy wrapping paper at this office for the purpose of “ceiling” a room, which may or may not be taken as an indi cation of a return of winter. / Local farmers planting an early crop of cucumbers. . . A young Barnwell jail on charges of automo- l a dy on the street proclaiming to bil e theft, Sheriff Dyches said. | several interested friends that “It (a Sheriff Dyches also states that he ^ ove a ff a * r ) is a |j eff now.” . . D. holds a wairant fuom Spartanburg:^- Bu-h, of Ellenton, renewing his Qcunty charging Edgar Mills and, su ^ scr 'P* ; * on The People-Sentinel. his brother. Dean Mills, with house-1 Thunder during the summer breaking and grand larceny in the ** k e showers last week. Dr. C. One definite trend led toward an before telephones and electric lights night time. Allendale Negro Is Suing Bus Company N.. Burckhalter remarking that Capt. T. W. Coward, native of Dunbarton increase in the 6-0-1 school appropria tion, largest single item in the bill. The Hou-e fixed, the total of the iSchocl aid at $3,122,000 after James H. Hope, state-superintendent _cf ed ucation had ^requested $3,750,000 in cluding motor transportation and or phanage funds. Senators declared they favor the $600,000 increase because failure to grant it will involve a deficit in the individual counties. Representatives of the Farmers and Taxpayers League urged them this week to reduce the item even more drastically than the House, to $1,500,000. Another tendency is to include $300,000 in interest upon the $5,000,- 000 state deficit in the appropriation bill rather than the deficit retire- Asks for $2,500 Damages Because of Alleged Refusal to Provide Transportation. were to become a part of everyday life. Radios and airplanes were not even fantastic dreams. Captain Coward is 100 years old tpday._ H e has lived throqgh a een- tuiy of unequaled progress, of many wars, of social, scientific and econo mic changes of far-reaching effect. Although, of course, living much in the past, he yet keeps in touch with the present, and is keenly interested in all that f? oes on about him. Worked for Railroad. In 1856, Captain Coward, who had moved to Aiken as a young man, went to work with the South Caro lina railroad. He first was a “train- hand,” what is now termed a flag man, later becoming a freight con ductor ^nd finally a passenger con ductory rfealaries were good, he ■says, passengelr conductors receiving $1,200 a year, engineers, $1,000, and firemen $1 per day. “Railroading then wasn’t anyways like it is today. Our engine was ment plan which is now in'free con- but for many years a resident of ference to be reported out next Aiken, who reached his 100th mile- week. stene Saturday, has never signed a j The Senate has declared itself promissory note in all his long life. , against the salary cuts of 33 per . . . Lovely narcissus, japonicas, cent, and downward upon a propor- spiraea, plum bushes, pear trees and tionately severe scale which the| about the s ' ize of a Ford . We burned what have you in blcom. . . A House ways and means commitb preacher with a copy of a popular wrote into its bill: Efforts will be white, except a negro fireman, who . made in the finance^ committee was usually owned by the engineer an exotic-oo ing ema e. mulify the reductions to a less The engineer always preferred a ne- • u C ° . an< s * agazine , rigorou- percentage. „ | gro fireman to a white man, because with the name of J. J. Bell on the : Sentiment also inclines strongly | he could knock him around and make him o like he wanted him to. We had magazine, the-cover of which showed Enofh Bynum, Allendale County colored man, is suing the Garden City ''beach company, of Augusta, Ga., for the amount of $2,500 damages for. ccver as one of the contributors to ( toward reinstatement of the State alleged failure on th t ,. part of the' *hat issue. But it didn’t happen to constabulary, for which $55,000 was \ ■t coach company to provide transpor- Barnwell County’s popular treas- > asked th e budget commission. Gov- tation after transportation had been u rei'. • . Whispering voices o f ernor Blackwocd has urged their re purchased by the negro. j prospective candidates in the 1932 instatement in a message, and the Sheriff H. C. McMillan and Deputy primaries, which doesn’t necessarily W. C. T. U. in communications. Sheriff N. E. Harter attached one of mean that “a whispering campaign-” j Representatives of practically every the coach company’s buses in Allen-1 ' n prospect. . . The - ice man state department and institution, ap- two brakers on the train, one on the engine and the other on the rear coach. The rails were made of wood with a strip of ribbon iron about as thick as a cotton tie tacked on theVn,’ so Captain Coward described the rail road. He operated over the line # dale last Monday, the coach company driving a coal truck. . Postal pearing before the finance commit- f rom Augusta Charleston and from ~A..* U l : — xl A. '•*»-4*r r\r\r\ p.oril invitof inne f ii A r»rvf V»or* QxironLrxr A- J : a.1 a. ... i i 1 posting bond in the amount of $5,000 invitations to “Another Swanky for the return of the bus to their, Bance” in.Barnwell, service. ] A'negro wearing brown trousers, The^casp. is scheduled for the April bottom of each leg being embel- term of the general sessions court in ^bed with a black “frill.”- . . Ex- Allendale. i Passions of approval of and gratifi- _ Bynum is said to have endeavored cation over the action taken Monday t'o secure a seat on a bus stopping at by the depositors of the Bank of Hamrick, of Cherokee, why the defi- Allendale, which was filled to full Western Carolina when they voted cit had been allowed to accumulate. tee during, the past week, have asked increased appropriations. In one of these hearings involving the $19,000 deficit at The Citadel, General Charles PelPt Summerall, president of the institution, marched out when ^sked by Senator W. C. capacity, with the exception of one favorably on the plan of reorganiza- vacant seat, which was beside a white l* on - • • The expressed opinion The woman, ihe driver refus the negro to his destination.—Allen dale County Citizen. the grmind hog did see HOPOCATRUC By G. Chalmers McDermid. Seiiou* illness in my wife’s family prevented my being on the job last week, and I forgot HOPOCATRUC. I am happy to report now that the is shadow after all during the biief minutes of sunshine cn February,2nd. A Barnwell lady remarking that she can’t feed her husband on rabbit “be cause he’s on the jump already.” . . A sweet potato in the shape of a snail. The resignantion of General Sum merall following the finance commit- tee episode and the death of the Toi horse-race bill by a 25 to 4 vote in th e senate lent interest to an other wise dulls week. Chaileston to Columbia. He says that the train wou’^leave Charleston at 5:00 in the morning and would reach Augusta around'2 or 3 o’clock in the afternoon. . - When the War Between the State? began, Captain Coward enlisted in Percival’s. company, Martin’s regi ment, South Caiolina Volunteers, and saw some four month’s service on the coast in the vicinity of Pocotali- go and Martin’s Point. His services TOr; (Written for The People-Sentinel.) Yes, there is something hew under the sun! Did any one ever hear of a dinner just like this? A committee cf women, sensing the needs of those in and around this community, is working out a plan whereby it is hoped to feed scm e of the hungry and clothe those who are in direst need, and the committee is not asking for money either. The following plan is being worked out and it is hoped that our people will enter into it with' spirit and will feel that they have had' a part in a most worthy undertaking: A free barbecue dinner with all the trimmings, also a good chicken dinner, will be served on Tuesday next, February 23rd, in the lower hall of the Court Hou?e, beginning at 12:30 o’clock. In order to ^attend this dinner one must bring either a bun- ble of second hand clothing, shoes, staple groceries’, corn, peas, potatoes,- symp, or anything that can. feed hungry people and clothe them as w-ell. This will be your admission ticket. Some who do not care to bring clothing,, etc., may drop a silver offering in the box at the door—if any one has any silver to drop—-and this will be. used to -buy groceries at cost and pro rated among those who find themselves without food or credit at this time, and their name is legion. Some are too proud to beg and their little children are hungry today. We have just -learned cf one little boy who had nothing to eat but corn bread and was so tired of it; his mother told him that God had only promised bread and w-ater and he looked into her face and asked, “Mama, was it corn bread?” We found one old grandmother trying to carry on whose only portion since last fall was corn meal. Can you eat your warm, well- prepared food after reading this and not help the helpless? This is not intended to furnish food and clothing to those house-to-'house canvassers who are proving such a menace these 'days, but to those who are practically starving before they will ask the public for bread. One shoat has already been donated by R. R. Moore, while Perry Bush has donated some hens. We find so many big hearted people who are willing to help if some one starts the ball to rolling. A committee of women will meet this week and work out every detail. Look up those old clothes packed away and forgotten, bring them to the dinner get a free ticket and be the guests of the committee, who will gladly serve you with one of the best ‘cue or chidken dinners you have ever eaten, and at the same time have the consiciousness of hav ing done your bit toward helping those out of employment. Aiken, Feb. 15.—Depositors of Utt defunct Bank of Western Carolina at a meeting here today elected T. G. Tarver, Augusta, (Ga.) banker, re ceiver. Tarver was elected over James E. Puerifory, of Walterbcro, a former circuit court judge. After the election a steering com mittee made recommendations for re organization of the bank and sub mitted a plan of liquidation should the reorganization move fail. The plan for reopening of the banks calls for the charging off of 50 per cent, of the deposits. plan, its sponsors claim, will make the bank solvent, clear the way for obtain ing a lean from the Reconstruction Finance corporation and enable the bank to reopen and pay an ifnmediate dividend to depositors. Although the proposal was adopted by a viva voce vote, it was sharply opposed by representatives of a group of the depositors. The opposition cen tered around the contention that the depositors would be *sked to charge off 50 per cent, of their acounts, without the stx/cKnumei., being called on to pay' their liability. Under the provisions of a recent legislative measure,. applying to chain b&nks, an advisory committee, com posed of three members of the main office of t)»e bank here and from each of its nine branches, was elected to aid in reopening or liquidating the bank, This move was protested by Augus tine T. Smythe, of Charleston, an at torney, on th e grounds that the law had just been passed and that the notices for today’s meeting, dated January 29, called for the holding of the meeting under the law -then in effect. Smythe was overruled by Al bert S. Fant, state bank examiner, who presided. Fant announced he would now turn the affairs of the bank over to the receiver. Tarver is an experienced banker. He has been connected for several years with the Citizens and Southern bank chain. Approximately 1,500 persons at tended the stockholders’ meeting. Poultry Shipments Heavy Last Week. More than seventeen thousand' lbs. j and, at the instance of the company, . _ I h e was recalled froWi the army and No action was taken upon educa- given his old job, which he held dur- ticnal bills before the House to j n g the duration of the war. lengthen the school hours per day and When Serman marched through reduce the number., of days a term, South Carolina, the railroad was with consequent adju:-tments of the torn up practicaly all of the way 6-0-1 law. *| from Charleston to Aiken, where, on Five motor transport measures the m oming of February 11, 1965, _ —w, . . were—introduced, providing among General Joe Wheeler stopped Kilpat- crisis has passed and recovery is al- » f Poultry were sold last week by two others a gross tax on revenue. The ' lick ’ s raiders in a bloody skirmish. was run- most assured. I wish to thank the ^ ndred ^ twent y- ei ff k t farmers., judiciary committee in joint session Captain Coward says that he ^ many readers who inquired during Th ‘ s was the heaviest loading ever, heard municipal and power .com- nin g his train from Augusta that Ittie week. . 1 made in , Barnwe U ^nty during any t pany comment upon the power regula- m0 rning, and at GraiTiteville heard to hepr it at that time, because nat urally they hated the Yankees. We didn’t realize that it was the worst thing that could hav e happened to us. If Lincoln had lived there would n’t have been any carpetbag days ■They were worse than war.” Con tinuing, he says that “slavery had to be abolished. God put up with it as Col. Biatt Reappointed. Col. Solomon Biatt has been for mally notified that he haa been re appointed the County Representative in Barnwell County for the CHizene Military Training Camp to be held at {Fort Moultrie, S. C., June 14th tp July 13th for eligible young men from Barnwell County. The Regular Army officer designated to co-oper ate with Colonel Biatt is lat Lieut. L. C. Boineau, Inf. (DOL)., Poet Of fice Bldg., Columbia, S. C. Applica tion blanks may be obtained from either Colonel Biatt or from Lieut. Boineau. Any young man of acceptable character in Barnwell County who is Seventeen years of age or reaches that age by the opening of camp may apply to attend the camp at Fort Moultrie, S. C. Barnwell County failed to fill its quota last year and iAkHy ' Potato planting on the coast is well one week. i tory bill and prepared to advance it t bat the line was tern up. He didn’t under way. The crop ingoing in in, Thei ; e wcre r > 8 farmers who sold after Governor Blackwood advocated believe this, h e says, and came on to fine style. Most growers have picked 4 ’ 185 Pounds at Dunbarton, bringing its passage in his third message of the Aikeh, only to< £e met at the station their better grade lands and are put-, fhem $519.97. Seventy-eight farm- session ting upwards of a ton cf fertilizer, ers SG ^ 6.529 pounds at Barnwell, re- per acre on the crop. |xeiving $822.22, while at Hilda 86 “More potatoes on fewer aferes” farmers sold 6,672 pounds for $850.15 Episcopal Church Services. by the mayor of the town and advised to go back. Quit During War. ‘T heard firing,” he said, “and saw several dead men lying about the sta- jn # There will be a service, consisting seems to be the slogan of the spud The total money paid to all amount- of Litany and address, in the Church growers this season—and a mighty ed to $2,192.34. This much needed of the Holy Apostles at Barnwell each tion,” where some of the fighting had good slogan it would be for all South; cas ^ comes in at a good time from Thursday afternoon during Lent. {taken place. Th e train was backed Carolina farmers — but we might such_surplus miscellaneous sale^. Sales are bqlng made this week at Williston on Wednesday and Black- ville on Thursday. £ards announcing dates and prices were mailed out on change it just a little to read—“Big ger crop yields on fewer acres.” We must cut our operating costs for 1932—and that won’t be so hard, to do this season—but we musn’t cut Saturday of last week by the Home them at the expense of crop yields. ./|*nd County Agents. Other schedules We can’t make maximum yields,b® arranged for as there appears to be a need to clear up the surplus. » ■ :■■■' ■■ ,!■■■■ ■■■■ ■ ' ■ ■■■ OWlAfi (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE.) J—By H. G. Boylston, Co. Agent. Next Sunday, February 21st, the to Graniteville and later taken in to Rt. Rev. Albert S. Thomas, D. D., Augusta. Captain Coward came to Bishop of the Diocese of South Caro- his home from Graniteville to protect line, will pay his annual visit to the ■ his family, and never returned to the Church of the Holy Apostles. The 1 life of a conductor. “That was the long as He could, and then He brought on the war to end it forever in this country. The abolition cf slavery gave the poor white man his chance to buy land and own a home. Up un til that time, when land was for sale, the wealthy planters would buy it up just to keep the small man from buy ing any. The system wasn’t right ' and it just couldn’t go on,” Captain Coward never owned a slave he says. During Reconstruction, Capt. Cow ard belonged to the Red Shirts, the organization that helped restore white supremacy in the South. He partici pated in the famous Ellenton Riot, relating all of the incidents that led to it, but was not arrested like so many others who took part. “I went to the arresting officer,” he said, “and told him that I would not be arrested. I was never bothered.” Is Now a Farmer. Since he ended his railroad career, Capt. Coward has been farming, and now lives , on his place of nearly 250 of this county lost the opportunity of enjoying a month at the seashot* with all expenses paid. Applications should be submitted promptly, atf during the past three yean three times as many young men applied as could he accomodated. The Government pays all expenses. Fill out the blank and mail it in at once. The District Director, G. M. T. C, Post Office Bldg., Columbia, S. C., will also furnish information and ap plication blanks. New Firm Opens for Business- service will begin at five o’clock in the afternoon. The public is cordially invited to worst day I have ever known,” he says. —-—-- Captain Coward remembers of hear-. attend these services and all others ing of Lincoln’s assassination. “All held in this church. of our people,” he says, “seemed glad acres in th e Millbrook section just south of Aiken. He* says he haa al ways liked to work, and he still does seme work in his garden. He walks “Giggs Cash and Carry” is the firm name of a new grocery store of which Robert Gignilliat is the pro prietor and is located in the store building recently vacated by Weiner Bros. Mr. Gignilliat was until re cently with the local Unity Storey and has many friends whom he will be glad to serve at his new place of business. He has a new and eem- plete line of groceries and freakjneaiti at prices which you can afford te pay. See his adv. inthis issue announdnf specials for Saturday. . V (CONTINUED ON THIRD PAGE) ADVERTISE in The