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' ■ -i- THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNTT.* ■ulidaled Jana 1, 1925. Ju&t Like a Member of the Family" , LarfMt County Clrmlatfoe VOLUME LV. BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. MAY 12TH, 1932. /) NUMBER 37. Criminal Court Will Convene Here May 23 The Hon. Hayne F. Rice, of Aiken, to Seen and Heard Here During the Past Week _ i I^re'-ide at On? Week Term.- Petit Jurors Drawn. A one week.‘term of the Court cf General Sessions will convene here Monday, May 23rd, with Juipre Hayne F. Rice, of Aiken, presiding. This teim is for the tr'al of criminal cases A Little Sense and Nonsense About People You Know and Others — . You Don't Know. Seeks Reelection Christmas Seal Sale' County 4-H Contest in Barnwell County Held Here May 6th $181.63 Realized from Sale of Health Twenty-nine Girls, Repreaenting Thir- on!y. Petit juror* were drawn Mon- •l day a* follows: G. W. Black, Reedy Branch. Robert Grimes, £ e ^&r Grove. J. A. Joyner, Oak Grcve. C. B. Bodiford, Blackville. M. F. Black, Ashleigh. Paul S. Morris^ Barbary Branch. Wm. H. Black. Reedy-Branch. h’. h. Still, Hercules. E. H. Weissinger, Blackville. Ashton Holland, Jr„ Barnwell. Levy S. Creech, Oak Grove. Byron P. Mort.s, Healing Springs. H. T. You man*. Four Mile. J. Willie Kennedy, Cedar Grove. H. B. ^ndei -cn, Dunbarton. G. T. Odom, Healing Springs. Ij'urman B. Davis, Barnwell. J. E. Tucker, Friendship. C. S. Youngblood, Elko. C. L. Hiers, Four Mile. B.*L. Fields, Seven Pines. N. A. Hiers, Oak Grove. A. P. Wo l?y, Barnwell. J. E. Owens, Ashleigh. Blackville. Elko. Reedy Branch. L. P. Boy 1st n. Healing Spring*. Vift r V. Martin. Blackville. W. C. Mitchell, Wltl -ton. Nick Croft, Reedy R:anch. Seymour R s-, Blackville. Ernest Croft, Hilda. . . *7 Lloyd Plextc . Barnwell. L. E. Hair, Williaton. Jerome Matt n. Blackville. Tucker Laffitte, of E-till, who was high gun at recent trap-shocting events in F’cilda and Notth Carolina. . . . Eugene Easterling telling about seeing the “Akrcn,” world’s largest airship, while returning from Columbia Sunday afternoon. The giant ship was on a flight ficm Lake- hurst. N. J., to.the Pacific coa^t. . . Plenty cf cwmplaints from farmers and gardeners because cf the dry j weather.- . . . Perfry Bush and 1 J I J. W. Sanders discussing cock-fight ing. . . The return cf the ftetk- ingless fad along with the advent of wa?m weather. . . An old friend who stopped his paper abrut a month ago because he was aft aid he couldn't pay for iL subscribing again be cause he found he couldn’t do without it. . . . Steady sales cf fishin’ Stamps.—Total for’StaJe Amount ed to $32,102.63. Si COL. EDGAR A. BROWN Who is a candidate fer reelection to the State-.Senate. u energy C. D. Dyche- P. J. Greene j. g. Grubb- Two Men Freed of Taking Own Money poles. ... And lots of being expended diggin' bait. . . . And most everybody feeling the urge to go fishin’. A dog owned by J. N. Andersen, local agent f r the Southern Railway, which howls when he hears the whistle cf an A. C. L. train. . . . I J. Buist Grubbs, , local Chevrolet dealci, rep* rt.ng increased sales of new car* tiuring the pa*t several I weeks. . . Return* on, shipmnts of asparagus, netting 60 cent* a crate; f. r choice and $1.95 for fancy. . .! Charle* Butckhalter rescuing a flying i squirrel from a blue jay and present ing it to Dr. Milhru* to he added to his “zoo.” A certain local -port phoning the ice man for a piece of **frc' h” ice to relieve hi**-aching head. ... A negro gill in a pair cf (once) white g If knickers parad.ng down the street. Senator and Sheriff Make Announcements Col. Edgar A. Brown and Sheriff B, ’ H. Dyche* to Seek Reelection in Coming Primaries. The 1931 Christmas seal *ale re turns fer the State amounted to $32.- 102!63, of which $181.63 was contri buted by the people cf Barnwell Uen 4-H Clubs, Attended Meet ing Friday. The County 4-H Contest, was held at the G«.urt House in Barnwell Fri Blease Zissett May Lose His Right Eye Was Shot Saturday Evening by E. H. Hartzcg, It Is Alleged.—Mis taken Identity- Case. Blease Zi-sett, 20, of Barnwell, was admitted to the Baptist hospital in ay. May fith, with twenty-nine club | Columbi a Sunday afternoon a* a re girls participating, these contest- j suit of injuries received the evening County, according to the financial Grand Jury Krfu*e- to Indict Drpoai- —-tom W ho “Robbed Hank** at Monrks Corner. Mi nek* Corner. May 9.—B. H. Mil ler and Blease Woodward rested to night on their laurels as two men who r hfied a bank »f their own muney, admitted the fart and escaped legal pur.r-hpient. Today a Berkeley County grand jury refused to return a hill against the pair who held up the cashier of the Moncks Corner branch of the flo.-ed Pe- pies State Bank of South Cartlina, took nearlv $2,000 and fled. • s • The “rcbberyV occurred several days aiuu the bank clcsed^in January. They were released. Solicitor A. McGowan, said that, so far as he is concerned, the case is closed. ' Miller and Woodward had slightly more on deposit than the amount they trok after holding at bay Miss Mar garet Wiggins, the cashier. Im mediately after taking the money, the pair fled, butied the mofflpy and re turned to give themselves up to coun ty officers who were somewhat per plexed by the case. They were arrested, however, and chaiged with holding up the cashier which was about tl\p only charge of ficials could discover applied to the Program Greatly Enjoyed. A laigo audience, was present to applaude its approval of the joint ap- Of interest to their many friend thiougheut the county will he the, foimal anp unc.ment* of State Sena tor EJgur A. Bi wti an«| Sheriff Bon- cil II. Dyche* ns candidates for re» elcrti.n in the Dem cratic primaiy election in August, thiir card- ap pearing e’sewhere in this issue of The Pvnple-Seiitin.L • • Both of these gentlemen have been ' tco long in public life to need any ! introduction to the voters of the ; county at the hi nds of this new*- paper. Col n I Buwn -ecved them most acceptably in the Hous? of Representative* for three terms, be ing Speaker of the House during his last term/ He. has b<en in .the Senate for the past fout year*, having been e'ected in 1928 without opposition. He is generally regarded as one of the most influential member* of that report cf the South Carolina Tubercu losis Association. The surer : s of the sale, in spite of the deprts*ion, indi cate that the ptcple of the State are determined, that the organized fight against tuberculo-is must he support ed to prevent any increase of the dis ease during times u£=a*conomic stiess, says Mr*. D. McL. McD; nald, cam paign manager. AlthouurK* i ver one- third cf the funds reported are tied up in closed banks over South Caro lina, the. State and county associa tions are reorganizing their work so that their programs will be curtailed a* little as possible. The amount raised was due to be divided a# follows: Five per cent, for the national program;’37 percent. fijrJ the State association's work, and .'>8 ptr cent, for county associations. Total* by counties in this section, inc'uding sales by white and negro chairmen, were as follows: ants repre-enting 13 4-H clubs in the before When it is alleged that he was County. The eeriest was for the shot by E. H. Hartzog, son trf-ifFnry purpose of selecting three contestants who will represent Barnwell County in the District contest to be held at Winthrcp College during the State Short Cour e in July. Those selected Hartzog, about five mile* from this city. The shooting occurred in the section known as “Sleightown.” Al though the injuries will not likely prove fatal, it was said, he will were: Mary Black, of Hilda, who ma<r‘ probably lose h; s right eye. Shot highest health _j?core, Mary Browm, -prinkled his head, one of them lodging in the eye. Zissett said that he and his brother. cf Barawel^&vho shewed greatest im- Aiken Allendale Bamberg Barnwell -Hampt n $526 32 . 94.35 . 190.16 181.53 218.61 body and led the fight for economy pearance Thursday even.ng of the duHnR the Uj , t , e , gion , Barnwell High School Voice Ensem ble and the School Orchestra, the f-rmer undef'lhe direction of Mr*. Ira Fates, the latter conducted by D. H. Kargle. The ch ral work was largely a group of light and popular songs. "R. amin’ in the Gleamin’”, a song | - Sheriff Dyche* was first elected to his present < ffive in 1924 and w*a* reelected four years ago without op position. Previous to. that time, he had served the people of the county as suptrvts r,-re igning |hat p sition to return to his farm. He is . very >f Sir Harry Louder, was given as popular officer and his friends do not an encore. The orchestra’s preshnta- helieve that he will he‘opposed in his - »■ m merfc H Both refused to tell where the money w-as hidden or to sgy anything about the case except that they figured they were entitled to* tHeir .money and that taking it appeared the only way of getting it. tion wa* a comhiiuiti n of the more difficult numbers they have learned' during the year. " The audience ex pressed. itself a*- highly pleased at the poise and finesse with which the mem bers played their part*. About mid- raoe »hi* ‘ummer. bers piii way trrt Coroner Lar.-aster Announces: I • • • Among the new political announce ment- this week will be found that of , Coroner D. P. Lancaster, of Barnwell, twho is*a candidatr fnr reelection. Big Whiskey Seizure Is Made in Hampton Two Negroe*. Truck and Automobile Captured by Federal Dry Agents Saturday Mornir.g. provement in health, and Elcise San ders, of Olar, who made the best Herman, 22, and Hfcrcld Peacock son record in club project work. Three ^ of Clarence Peacock, both of whom ether delegates, Beth Manning, of also received slight injurie* from the Batnwe]] club, Ruth Still, of Hercules shot, were mistaken for some ether c’.ulv and Helen Deik, cf Double Ponds club will attend the Short Course at Winthrop at the-aame time. The health phase of the contest^ gjg,. conducted by Dr. Ben F. Wyman, of Columbia, examining physician, and Dr. Trctti, of WillisUn, dentist. Others assisting with the contest were Mis* Lucia Potter, Home Demonstra ti >n Agent, of Allendale; Mrs. A. A. Lemrn, Mrs. Louise' P. Bauer, Mbs Dctothy Sanders, and Mis* Elizabeth M.’Nab, 11 me Demonstration Agent, of Bernwell. Club girls participating in the contest weie: Galilee—Martha Black, Deborah Black; Ree .y Branch—Car rie G. Grubbs, Satcda’diuttn; Elko— E\olyn And.r> n; Hilda —Elizabeth IMk, Lob Hartzog, Barnwell A boys who were being scught by Hart- z«.g and companions. Zissett said that the car in which he was riding, a touring with the top down, re sembled the autoimbile . which the other perty was supposed to have been riding in. County Figures in Automobile Thefts State Highway Patrr4man J. C. Rogers Reporta NaauWay Thieves Are Realizing on Ware*. Evidence that car a stolen in the vicinity of Columbia are driven to Mary Black; 1 Barnwell County and junked here af- Kathleen Cat roll, Helen ter being stripped of valuable parts Mr. I-ancaster has--served in this i tei first elected In 1914. In 1928 he was He i* a Confederate Vet- e performance Mr. Eoigle in-' trcduced the members of the orches- . .. ., .. . u • a t . capacity for two terms, having been tia individually,-telling briefly what „ 1 .... . . instrument each played,, and hi* part 1 in the orchestra. Mr. EargleAalso ‘ un ^ look that opportunity to thanTW ^ ">»">' fnmd. throuKh- members for their hard o' 1 ' B * rn “' n C ounI >'- ^ . .. i ‘ .u his record in his former races for the splendid cooperation during the year. , v , (cffice. So far no names pave been ! mentioned as pos-ible opponents in Announces fer Magistrate. the coming election. Playground. The first candidate to throw hi s hat in the ring for a magisterial office is C. D. Owens,* of Kline, whose card as*| May Day, Child Health Day, was an aspirant for the office of Magis-j fi tting ] y observed at the new play State Convention Next Week. •• . > /-*• _The State Democratic Convention meet* in Columbia next Wednesday, May 18th,'and judging from the news being received by grape-vine tele- giaph the session promises'to be quite a lively one. These who claim to be ‘in the- know” say that the conven- fhsn membership will “ be composed largcT^vpf -o-called “wets” and the lique'r queSH^n will doubtless come in. for considerable- ^ discussion.. Then there is the Tarmehs^amV Taxpayers League which i* boumK^tp receive seme attention. . ‘The delegates to the convem from Barnwell County are: Edgar A. Brown, J. E. Harley, Perry B. Bush,- _B. P. UaYies* A. trate for Great-Cypress township will by the children of the first be found elsewhere in this issue of s j x Kra des, their parents and others The People-Sentinel. Mr. Owens made*, interested in recreation for children, the race two years ago against the Th e occasion was a May Party direct- late Magistrate R. B. Harden and wa s ! ed b y Mis* Adele Minahan, of Colum- defeated by the very narrow margin b j a( Supervisor of City Play grounds of one vote. A^er the death of Mr. and tbret> 0 f h e r assistants.' A varie- Harden, MrrtJwens was an applicant : ty 0 f games—singing, marches, ryth- for the position, which is now being mic Kames games with balls, and held by J. W. ganders, of. Big Fork contests—held the attention of about section. Mr. Owens is a farmer and i 75 ]j tt i e boys and giil S) who, at the dence, was destroyed. In the stored has many frien/s in fthe township end 0 f two hours were ‘still loath to ” ~ ’ *' A " that he seeks to setve. leav^ the playground. So contagious ~ =r wa?'the spirit of play that the “grown ups” who came a- on-lockers remain-. Hampton, May 7.—Two men were arrested, $40,220 worth cf imported liquor was destroyed and one ttuck and one automobile seized in a raid of two federal prohibition agents, eleven mile* south-west of here, near Luray, early today. The men arrested gave the name* of Sam Davi* and Jack Cooper. They were taken to Charleston this afternoon by the raid ing officers. II. P. Clary and A. M. McNair. The office!* said that other arrests aie expected in connection with the raid. About 4 o’clock this‘ morning. Offi cer Clary said, he and Officer McNair, were scouting in the vicinity 1 f the- place where th? liquor wa- found. They came uoon two trucks, bearing a distjnet odor of whiskey but empty, l>eing driven Aut <f a woods. The of ficers stopped the trucks and ques tioned tdui drivers but ♦they said, they receiv'd un-atisfactory answers so they hack trailed the trucks cn the woods mad. On the way-into the woods, they said, they met a third truck but it was also empty, stored in Negnt House. Ccntinuing their search aldng the read, the officers said, they discovered a negro ’house and a truck was being unloaded of liquor and the contraband stored in the house. All but sixteen oases had been taken off the truck. Officer Clary said that as they came upon the house several men ran. Of ficer Clary ran cne man down, but he estimated that six others including at least one w’hite man, escaped from * the place The truck and an automobile found at the negro house were practically new and were seized by the officer*. They telephoned to Charleston for assistance, and .a. number of federal agents went to the seeqe where the liquor, save enough lo use for evi- Creech. Mayme Sue Padgett; Bam- were reported by Stats Highway well C—Pclly hales, Mary Brown, Patrolman J. C. Rogers last week. Beth Manning; Ashleigh — Mildred' At least two cars driven away from Laird, Jeanette Owens; Hercules— owners io the vicinity of Columbia Gretta Cteech, Ruth Still; Oak Grove have been found demounted and cast —Ekdse Sanders, lri t Sanders, Janie aside in the woods near Blackville, in Sue Hiers;' Double Ponds—Helen Barnwell County, the patrolman re- Deik; Healing Springs — Virginia; ported to A B. Ward, assDtant chief Cain, Carolina Kemp, Myrtice Dyches; | of highway law enforcement Tong Blanch—Geneva Birt; Barnwell B—Margaret Croft, Emily Ellis and Lucy Braxton. At the Urne of the club contest, held previous to the County Contest, three girls from each club were Rogets and other patrolmen have been instructed to keep * special watch and investigate the situation, it was learned through C. Fred Little, chief clerk of the highway motor vehicle division. se'ected to compete in the county con-1 Remains of the light road*ter of ( test. H. B. MiLean. of B’ythwood, were Dr. Wyman, who has assisted in the identified by Patrolman Rogers on Health Contf-t in Barnwell for the junk-heap. The car was reported several years, mentioned the fact that stolen April 14th. the club girls have shown an im- Another light roadster recognized provement in genetal health each as that -of John Potts, school teacher year. * 1 of the Waverly district in Columbia, • • ♦ • was located by the patrolman. Stolen Banishment Sentence ' M * 3 ' 5,h - “ w, ‘ wh '“* and radiator. The McLean car had for Springfield Man k st wheels and t -'p. _____ r Traces of wheels of a large truck leading tq the place where the cars C. S. Gleaton Ordered to Take Up Residence at Some Place Not Less Than 30 Miles Away. Airplajv' Stunts Saturday. ‘ V Kennedy, Jr., R. S. Green, Dt, R. A. Gyles, W. A. Pickling, L. J. Baugh man,‘T. W v Dicks pna Jsadore Hart- V • , Pilot Dorsey, of the August^ airport, will be in Barnwell- Sat urday for the purpose of per- ^ forming stunts in an airplane, - ' including parachute jumps,-und also to- take up passenger-,' ac cording to a message received yesterday (Wednesday) morn- r V ing by C. G. fuller. Mr. Dorsey will use.the^ocal airport an d public is cordially invited to- t tunts and avail " then he- opportunity cf 3 ^ ^11 an ( zcg. /qunding country the air.. ed to participate in similar games directed by Misg Minahan. •’* During the aft?rn on the Barnwell P'ay ground Committee was organized .with Mrs: Louise P. Bauer as chair- . man, Mrs. Jack Phillip* as vice-chair man and Miss Elizabeth McNab, sec retary. Observance of May Day, Child Health Day, was sponsored by the liquor were seveial well known brands of whiskey, champagne and cognac. The officers said there were 687 cases cf three gallons each, amount ing to 2,061 gallons which they valu ed at $40,220. ^Springfield, May 9.—By an order of the court of general session.*, C. S. Gleaton will leave his home here next t Sunday and take up his residence at some place not less than 50 miles away. He may return as often a s once every six months, provided he does not remain longer than 24 hours at a time. Gleaton pleaded guilty to a charge cf assault and battery with intent to kill. B. C. Boland, with whom he were found caused the patrolman to believe that they were junked in some nearby town immediately after being stolen. Identification hindered by junking, the valuable parts were retained and the stripped bodies hauled away on the truck. Efforts to locate the truck and it s owners are being made. Several other cars missing from the central part of the State have been discovered wrecked in Barnwell Coun ty. James Moore Weathersbee. Dunbarton, May 10.—James Moore had a difficulty, receivedj several knife Weatheisbee died at his home here early Friday morning, April 29th. He had been in declinig health for several years but his condition was not considered serious. During his early life he w-as a suc cessful farmer near. Barnwell, but failing health in h*s later years forced v Mrs. Jack, Phillip* and Mrs. Mordecai /Mazursky, with the County May Day Cl/alnnan. x r -operating... J ,.. !• - v,. Mar- _ Dr. M. C. Best and jittle sen, in, Jr., were visit:rs in Colum6i& v ph - - M .nJ.ay. wcunds in the body. A sentence of five year s In pri*on was 'given Gleaton. Judge M. M. Mann suspended this sentence with the following proviso: “The defendant . . . having in pen court -/' . . signified his wil- Lnghg*s and desire to move away Idm to give up this work almost en- ficm the community in which the un- j Drely. fortunate tragedy occurred, and the i ^f r - Weathersbee was born January court be : n g of the opinion that this 1882. He was married December would beb conducive to the peace ,cf 23rd, 1903, to Mis- Bessie Oliver the community, the defendant shall Hankinson, of a prominent Georgia mev'e away fiom Spring^Ai, S. .C., | family, ‘ who survives him, together by May 15, 1932, and iMtle not with two daughters, Mrs. C. M. Rog- of Chester, Ga., arid Mrs. Banks, /aughter of th? ^ev. M. L. After -specifiying that Gleat&n shall dames Owens;, Jr., of W i His ton; four Bank-, a former pastor.of the Barn- net return ofterier than six months, s " n3 >’. Ggorg^, Witsori, Marion and well Methodist Church, will be inter- the judge said he might modify this Paul;-ijtsFmother, Mrs. C. A. Weath- ested in the announcement that she provision “in the event of illness or er-'bee; two sisters, ^irs. Bessie ’ Bates, of Barnwell, .and Mrs. P. O. GieatorT agreed also riot to break '’Morris, of Martm, ««d/one heothev College Monday night. The m?dal is any laws of the State, to pay a fine George C. Weathersbee, of Bgriiwell. by L. H. Lachi- of $50, and to pay the prosecuting 1 body was laid to rest in the Mins Music Medal: f Th Barnwell friends of Miss Betty'nearer than f>0 nfiies cf said place/*i er3 * dr., B tu-r Homes P' a v,:n.„n,l ^ P l “‘'‘V n ** ^ ^L h Jl 3 !?» r cotte music erwitest held -at Columbia ~ avyarded-annually oy . ^ ( ^ i-y — , v i --.. citte, of the P. H: Lacliicotte Com- witness the sum -of $200'’tri defray W eaH>ersbee cemetery in the presence pan>V-Columbia jewelers,* and is pre- Kcapita! expenses. ‘ ' 0 ^ sorrowing relative^. and friends, ented commencement exelcises ’ — ■ ( the fwial servicss being conducted cf the college. ADVERTISE -in The People Sentinel by the Rev. Mr. Price. jpl 4 - '■ /r f .. i > . -v -