The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, June 23, 1932, Image 1
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THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL CX)UNTT.
ConaoHdaU^ Jon* 1. 1925.
VOLUME LV.
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“Just Like a Member of the Family"
BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY^ JUNE 23RD. 1932
Robinson Appointed Seen and Heard Here
to Hold Court Here During the Past Week
Is Said to Be the Youngest Attorney A Little Sense and Nonsense About
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to Hold the Pceiticn of Special People You Know and Others
Judge. You Don’t Know.
D W. Robinson, Jr., Columbia at- These two items in The Bamberg
torney, was appointed a special judge Hora|d: “Ovqr in Barnwell they
Saturday by Chief Justice E. S. i have a way of effectively doing things?
Blease to preside over the Court of
Common Pleas which convened here
Monday morning. Mr. Robinson,
prominent as a member of the law
firm of Robinson and Robinson and a
former professor of law' at the Uni
versity of South Carolina, • is said to
be the youngest attorney to hold the
position of special judge.
The Columbia attorney was appoint
ed by Chief Justice 91 eas e when it be-
cam e evident that Judge Hayne F.
Runs achoduUd to preside th» white pants in Jicu of a bathing suit
present term, would be detained an
other week, in the trial of a case at
Aiken.
, Mr. Robinson is the second special
judge to be designated this year, C.
T. Graydon, also of Columbia, having
been appointed to preside at Florence.
The Iqfal bar association adopted a
r set of resolutions Tuesday commend
ing Judge Robinson for the able and
impartial manner in which he pre
sided.
Court adjourned sine die Tuesday
afternoon, after being in .<0811011 only
two days. Th e following is a list of
the cases disposed of:
Flcrrie Williams Sease vs. Durham
Life Insurance Co., suit on insurance
policy, verdict for the defendant.
I. B. Hill, trading as Gieenwood
Monument Co., vs. Mrs. R. S. Dicks,
suit for breach of contract, etc., ver
dict for the plaintiff for $28.15.
L. W. Radfoid vs. A. C. L. Ry. Co.,
and Mrs. Jessie L. Cobb vs. A. C. L.
Ry. Co., suits for damages alleged to
have been caused by train, the two
cases being tried together by cons^n?
of counsel. Verdict for $100 for L.
W. Radford and $200 foP Mrs. Cobb.
1932 Crop Production Loans.
The other day a man decided one of
the ball players ought to get a purse
for a good play. He started out with
a hat-and a big pistol. It is super
fluous to'^ay that the money flowed.”
. . . ‘‘A Barnwell dog howls every
time the A. C., L. train passes. And
a Bamberg dog—is it one?—which
howls every time the mill whistle
blows. Welcomes* dinner time,
whether he feeds or not.” . , . A
little boy wearing a pair of short
en route to the ole swimmin’ hole, y
. . The Johnston baseball team ar
riving on a truck reminiscent of the
day’s when ball players visited neigh
boring town* in two-horse wagons. .
. r; Angus Patterson having a gala
day ratting the home hopes.... T
Announcements of the Btfsh-Hirown
wedding in EUenton. . , . L. G.
Richardson and J. J. Bush organii-
ing “The Mum Club” in the Senator
ial race. . . And Perry Bush de
clining membership therein because
he want* to "politick” for Ashton
Williams. . Pitcher “Slim” Pitts’
cork-screw style of delivery. *. . .
A local lily pool containing thousands
of newly hatched tadpoles instead of
the much wanted increase of gold
fish.
Speaks Here Friday
ASHTON Hr WILLIAMS
Candidate for the United States Sen
ate, who will addrw>s th^ voters of
Barnwell County here Friday on the
question of repealing the Eighteenth
Amendment.
BOLL WEEVILS SERIOUSLY
THREATENING COTTON CROP
A tin-type “artL«t” giving curb
sendee. . . And a most pathetic-
icoking couple, both blind,
up and down the *stieeta
hymns and songs to the accompani
ment of a sither. . . A local econo
mist remarking that he’s going to lay
in a supply of two-cent stamp, be
fore 3-cent postage ^>ea. in^> effect.
. - . Members of the local baseball
team leaving for a fi.«hin’ trip.
Gnats, Gnats. GNATS! . . J. A.
Myrick, of the Big Fork section, tell
ing this fish story: He caught five
sandperch, with which he- baited five
set-lines, on which he caught two
Repayments cn Crop Production
Loan.- from the cucumber crop were
satisfactory, ccnsiderin K the break in
the market during the latter part of
the season. In Barnwell County •P i white crane. . ^ The local ice house |
selling out its supply of ice before j
noon Satutdny, one of the hottest '
W’ith favt^able weather the boll
weevil during the past week has in
creased its activities a great deaf.
Unless the weather .becomes very dry
or the farmers immediately set about
controlling this pest we may expect
to have one of the worst years we
have ever had. for damage by the
weevil to the cotton crop. County
Agent Boylston made a thorough ex
amination of five different fields of
cotton in five different communities
walking I °f the county on Monday of this
singing *’*ek, in mast of the fields exam
ined the weevil is now doing serious
damage. A great deal of the cotton
is now putting on squares freely and
infestation counts were made in all
fields this week instead of wevil
counts. The fields were selected rep
resenting different communities, some
of them near to woods and other hi
bernating quartei*, while others were
more distant from woods. ,etc. A
I list of the fields examined and num-
| ber of squares punctured per hun-
People of Barnwell •
Invited to Inspect
Peoples Funeral Service Araiounces
Opening cf Remodeled Establish
ment at Hhmpton.
This week Eugene M. Peeples, fu
neral director, a nd owner and man
ager of Peeples Funeral Service, of
Hampton, formerly Hampton Under
taking company, is announcing the*
opening of his re-modeled funeral es
tablishment in Hampton, and extend
ing a cordial invitation to the people
of this entire section to visit the
newly lemodeled establishment in
Hampton.
~ Thirty years ago Mr. Peeples be
gan selling caskets to. Hampton and
surrounding districts in connection
with a general mercantile business he
.conducted in Hampton. In 1930, devot-
Appoints Fuller on
Central Committee
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Governor Blackwcod Names Barnwell
Man to Help ip Making Proyis- ,,
ion for Exhibit.
Three Young Men Die
in Automobile Wreck
proximately ten per cent, was repaid
on all loans. Among these were
some who entiiely repaid their in
debtedness.
In continuance of its policy, the
t’rop Production Loan office has made
an allowance for marketing canta
loupe? in the amount of thirty cents
per crate. Cantaloupes packed in
flats will have an allowance of fifteen
cents per crate.
In lh-' case . f watermelons there is
n allowance o{ one and one-half cents
*r melon n in carload lots. This
mean- that where a car of one thous
and melons sells for $150.00 the seller
will receive $15.00 to cover cost of
marketing and the balance of $135.00
will be remitted to the Department
through its representative. It will be
satisfactory for the buyer to draw-
two checks one to the Secretary of
Agiiculture, and one to the seller.
The check drawn to the Secretary of
Agriculture may be turned over to
the seller, who will remit same to
either the representative below-, or to
Field Inspector Paul. H. Leonard, who
has offices next to the Shamrock
Hotel in Blackville.
I a m taking this means of notifiying
all borrowers who have the above
crops to market, as well as all buyers '
who w r ill be in this county. Your
continued co-operation will be appre
ciated. * - , -7-—
Francis P. Mood,
Barnwell, S. C. Field Inspector.
Stansell, near Elko, 7
Smith, Blanchard Place 28
1C . . , , dred is given below:
nice jackfish, a fine perch and a large 1 .. n
* * I Mrs. Ro-a
per cent.
W. C.
per cent.
A. E. Corley. Weathersbee Place,L^theleft.
® > * r , ’ * j The display room is generously
A. Bax e>. Home Place, .».« P* r ii ar g t . m a i«. ( one section of it is giv-
days of the summer. . . . Mutton
corn, butter-beans, snap-beans, cu
cumbers, squash, new, potatoes, can-
talc u|>es. fryin’-size chickens — V
ing a ll of his time to his unde
business, and a licensed embaimer,
Mr. Peeples with his assistants con
ducted over 150 funerals throughout
this section.
Opened in 1918.
Fourteen year ago, In 1918, Mr.
Peeples took a course in embalming
and directing at Asheville, N. C.,
passed th e South Carolina State board
and became a licensed embaimer. He
opened the two-atory, white frame
structure, which is the Peeples Fu
neral Service home in Hampton, at
this time and became an undertaker
in earnest. There are palmetto trees
planted about the building, its white
walls s perfect background, for their
long green palm-like leaves, and some
flowes are always in bloom in front
cf the building.
That first year Mr. Peeples had one
a ssistant and one motor vehicle. This
spring in the third year of depressed
business, and despite the bank fail
ures in this State, last winter, Mr.
Peepies has added three new rooms,
and remodeled hi s entire building in
Hampton. The name of the business
has been changed from Hampton Un
dertaking company to Peeples Funeral
Seivice, and now the section that Mr,
Peeples has served for nearly a third
.of a century is being invited in to
inspect the remodeled building
Re-Modeled Building.
Entrance into the remodeled build
ing is directly into the reception hall.
(The busine.-s office is off the right of
I tjte reception hail, the display room
cent.
water-milyun time just around the ^ !cn over to the showing of casket* for
Allen Owens, near Barnwell, 14
corner! . . . Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd 1
A. Plexico and two children and James
Riley McNab back from the motor
boat races at Asheville, N. €., and !
infants and young childien. Caskets
,of all grades, ready to care for the
cn b, »cn very easily from the n( ., ds the c , tlzen or the
.hove field count, that the weevii-v 1 wea | thicsl ,^ rMn in the county
per cent.
It
With C. G. Fuller, of Barnwell, life
these days seems to be just one ap
pointment after another. HU latest
is as a member of a central committee
to consider ways and means for mak
ing provision for a South Carolina ex
hibit at the Century of Progress ex
position, which open* in Chicago in
June, 1933, %nd was announced Sat
urday by Governor Blackwood. Others
appointed on the Committee are as
follows: ' * *
A. F. McKissick of Greenville, J. A.
von Dohlen of Charleston, Horace L.
Tilghman of Marion, Mrs. James A.
Cathcart of Columbia, George Bell
T Lexington, Paul 8an«
ders of Ritter, Henry R. Sims of
Orangeburg. L H. Hunt of Newberry
and D. A. Spivey of Conway.
Governor Blackwood's action was
taken in response to the authorization
of a meeting of citizens held in the
supreme court room on May 25, which
passed a resolution expressing it aa
the sense of the meeting thft it was
highly desirable and important that
South Carolina should have an ex
hibit at Chicago, a nd requesting the
governor to name a central committee
with this in view. - -
The personnel of the central com
mittee does not include state depart
ments,, civic and commercial organiza
tions, or newspaper men of the State.
All state depatments will be expected
to lend their co-operation, and special
committees from the civic and com
mercial organizations and the South
Carolina Press association will be
asked from thos e bodies to serve as
members of the central committee.
At the meeting May 25, a represen
tative of the management of the Chi
cago exposition told of the plans now
well under way of other State* for
exhibits, nearly all of the States hav
ing already provided by appropria
tion or otherwise for space and the
placing of exhibits.
Griffin Bates Instantly Killed
' Fred Creech and Horac e Cook
Fatally Injured.
Appeal from a Children’s Home.
now doing serious damage.
are
. Lake .Murray, where the former won l'”" 7“T M *"y <> f on dUplay a t all times in the Peeples
third place in two events. . . D. R. J** be ruficr<1| TWMnir .
, Sturkie, candidate for Congress . . K, ." i n ' nK t0 P Ut . on * < l u * r * 8 ' The«e | There is a dl&play room for colored
An army airplane parked at the T* _ 7 ne _^ , . e * ^ people, also a reception room for
local airport
Zeigler, was
Denmark. .
Col. Edgar A.
while its pilot, Lieut,
visiting relatives in
. T C. G- Fuller ^nd
Brown returning from
or more applications of sweetened
colored people. The bodies of colored
will no dpubt^be' 0 pj e being prepared in an entirely
a flying visit to Charlotte, N. C., in
the former’s plane. . . D. W. Rob
inson, Jr., of Columbia, the State’.*
youngest special judge, presiding ; .. * "T ”*
, . divide with the
Believe It or Not.
FOUND:—During th e depression—
an henest man! .« .
When G. M. Greene, Esq., lost his commending 'Special Judge Robinson
with grac and dignity over
Court of Common Pleas.
On of “Bud” Halford’s customers
asking fer “two nickles’ worth of ice.”
. . T Aiken Creech, of Barnwell
route 1, paying his subscription in
advance and getting a free razor., .
. . Perry Bush Sporting an anti
prohibition necktie—a stein of beer
couchant against a bright red back
ground, on which appears the in
scription, “We want beer.” . . .
Head Coach “Billy” Laval and big as-
sistant, “Whitey” Rawl, of th e Uni-
versity.of South Carolina, who we
the guests of Col. Solomon Blatt. .
Lawyer J. Julien Bush twirling a
few fast ones on his front lawn prob- j une 2 n
ably getting in shape for a <place on
Billie Harris’ team. . . . Jurors
poison. All cotton
helped to^mike more if poironed than "that"W tm
once. Very noon it will be pan time
for Mains sweetened poiaon, and Roft r(Jlle co|ored wal| ^ , ha<M
farmers arc urged to begin mopping Mght% and are th ,
no * ' el-1-1 mixture. ’features of the slumber room, where
The price of cotton is too cheap to u j* .. _ , _
. • . .bodies wart after preparation for
let’s fight'
the „ boll v*ec*\ il •t-i s ngm moving from the funeral home to
him.—Prepared by H. -G. Boylston, their ti lac ,
Co. Agent. > l t-u 's; »
' The morgue,\qt preparation room,
Mrs. Jennie Jerrjgan.
Mrs. Jennie Jernigan, wife of Dud
ley Jernigan, died at Beaufort, May
31 *t, at the age of 27 years. She was
sick only a short timty and her death
was a great shock to her relatives and
friends. Besides her husband, she is
where bodies are prepared for burial,
, is fitted with the latesOvode! hydraul
ic embalming table, all ofHjie neces
sary plumbing. A supply w>om. The
floor of this room is white tile.
,, Automotive Equipment.
Seven machines comprise the auto
motive equipage of the establish-
Htrw would you like to give some
little child, who has been deprived of
the love and care of father and
mother, a little outing this summer?
Just think what a week's outing
would be to some little fellow housed
in s home where one has to stay all
the year! An appeal has come from
such a home asking that some of these
little children, ranging n age from
one and one-half years to eleven, be
given a little visit into real homes
during the hot weather. All of the«e
children have good habits and man
ners and a re normal mentally and
physically. Let’s think about it and
se,. what can be done. If you feel
that you would like to bring sunshine
and happiness into the heart and life
of Gpe of the*e little ones, won’t you
drop a card or call either Mrs. Angus
Patterson cr Mrs. G. M. Greene,
when the matter will be at once ar
ranged and your visitor will be with
you in short order.
Barr.-vell Has Had Hard Sledding.
Abe
pocket book last week, containing a
five dollar bill and some change, no
-hope was entertained for it* recov
ery.. But upon advertisement, the
pocket book was returned by J. Her-j be sure and write up Monday’.*, ball
for the manner in which h e runs his
court. . . The -longest day. of the
year—anemone of the hottest. . . .
A young lady telling this scribe to
sur vived by-her parents, Mr. and ment, two hearses, one each Tor whit 0 .
Mrs. C. R.- Jacobs, formerly of this and colored. An -ambulance, two
county but new living in Hayne City, trucks, a .>ervice;car, for use mostly
Fla., ono .sister and two brothers. when embalming at home, and two
rs. Jernigan’s body was laid to passenger cars,
rest the Mt. Olivet Churchyard on A cement vault manufacturing busi-
The many floral offerings ness is carried on at the establish-
were a token of the high esteem in ment, Mr. Peeples holding the permit
which she was held by her many for manufacturing these vaults in
friends. \
The Barnwell ba-’eball team has
had rather hard sledding during the
past several days, dropping three
games in a row last week. Wednes-
y, the boys journeyed over to St.
MaHhews, wher e they took a 15 to 8
drubbirig. A return game w&* play-
I ed herb Thursday and the visitors
again took tmNbig end of a 6 to 2
.score. Friday afternoon, r what ap
peared to be a „ “scrubs team from
Johnston took the home hopes for a
ride, defeating them by the sepre of
11 to 9.
Griffin Bate 8 was instantly killed iq
an automobile accident in the western
part of Barnwell about 2:30 a. m.
Thursday morning of last week, and
Fred Creech and Horace Cook re
ceived injuries fom which they died
while en route to an Augusta hospital.
Frank Fife, negro, suffered a scalp
wound and a broken arm, while John
nie Walker and Thomas Walker, ne
groes, the other occupant* of the
light touring car, escaped unhurt.
The deplorable arvident occurred
just west of the bridge over Turkey
Creek. The young white men were
returning from a dance in the west
ern part of the county for which the
negroes had furnished the music.
Creech, it is said, was driving the
car at a very high rate of speed and
failed to negotiate a slight curve in
the road at the junction of the Ellen-
ton and Elko highways. The auto
mobile went over an embankment,
crashed into a Urg e pine tree and
caught fire. The negroes were thrown
clear of the wreck, but Bates, Creech
and Cook had to be pulled out of the
burning car.
The accident was witnessed by Cor
bett Hartzog* and Willie Braxton,
young white men, who were sitting
in front of J. S. Black’s store at the
time. The noise of Uie crash awaken
ed residents of the neighborhood and
in a short time a large crowd had
gathered at the scene and assisted in
rescuing the men from the burning
wreck.
The bodies of the unfortunate young
mao' were horribly mangled and bum-
wd. Bates, who died instantly, suffer
ed a fracture of the skull, chest in-
juiies and a broken leg; Creech was
injured about the head and chast and
his left arm and left leg were broken;
Cook also suffered heed end chest in
juries and his left jaw, right arm and
right leg were broken.
Medical aid was quickly sumasoned
and the injured men were placed on
a truck to be carried to an Augusta
hospital. Creech died before reaching
the Aiken County line, while Cook
succumbed shortly before arriving
at the hospital. Creech was the only
one of the trio who regained con
sciousness after the fatal accident.
Bates’ body was carried immediate
ly after the accident to the home of
hi* brother-in-law, Otis Cook, of
Barnwell. The bodies of Creech and
Cook were brought back from Au
gusts Thursday, the former being
taken to the home of jiis brother,
Boyce Creech, and the latter to the
home of his mother, Mrs. U. D. Cook.
Creech was employed in a local bar
bershop. Cook wa s an employ* cf
the Bolen Dry Cleaning Company,
while Bates was unemployed.
Several years ago, Perry Sanders,
young white man of this county eras
fatally injured when his car struck
the identical pine tree. Sanders*
back wa 8 broken and he lived for
several week*. Members of his
family who were with him in the car
at the time escaped injury.
The victims of Thursday morning’s
wreck were in their early twenties
and have large family connections.
Bates is survived by his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Bates, of the
Patterson’s old mill section, and sev
eral brothers and sisters;* Creech is
survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Lee Creech, of the Galilee section,
and a number of brothers and sisters,
while Cook is survived by his mother,
Mrs. U. D. Cook, of Barnwell, and
several brothers and sisters.
charge of colored funerals.
When the Peeples Funeral Service
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rt Black, who was waiting for some
ne to advertise its loss. The, moral
is: Advertise and get results.
- The friends of Miss Elizabeth Ha-
' good, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. B.
Hagood, will be interested* to fetiow
that she recently won first piac e with
a piano solo- in a contest conducted at
Sumter by the State Federation of
Music Clubs.
seven counties.
The Peeples Funeral Sevice is also take 9 ' a funeral it is taken charge of
Kline News. ' X x district agent fot* the McNeal Marble Tb entirety, everything from the .pre
company at Marietta, Ga„ seven coun- paration of the body for burial,'fur-
Kline, June 18.—The members oTsties comprising the district. nishing of th e casket, digging of the'
the Wednesday Afternoon Bridge .^C^ment vaults are manufactured in grave, - and the actual burial -being
garm, in-which the outlaws soundly j dub were entertained by Mrs. Hattie a cov^r^d shed in the rear of the main done by the Service
whipped “the regulars,” 6 to 1. . - 1 Steedly this week. ‘ j buildingTrqjd. kept under ' the-shed,' No matter how cheap the funeral
And ‘“Bob” Bronson asking “Billie”
Harris if he could^Spare JMertin Be.»t
a pitcher fac .Tjnesdlay’s contest.
The electricHight standards on Main
Street painted a brigh* orange, mak
ing that thoroughfare 'ook like the
entrance to a Gulg filling station. . 1
i A wagcnlSad rf Barnw«rf. C lunty wa-
: icmulcns.
vj building,
Jenkins is visiting and m the-
rplflt.ivps in Neesesj ^
Jamie Bradley, of Orangeburg, is
at home on hi s vacation.
the hardening pr~
The personnel of
Service includes:, Eugen
marKio yard for the Peeples Funeral Service gives th*.
prior to user- -T-»®*«e-care as for a higher priced one.
epics Funeral “Our aim,” Mr; Peeples says, “is to
M. Peeples give to clients the same class of ser-
Herman Lee,.Jr., entertained frifends j owner and manager; Earl fT^eeples, vice they would secure from a city
prices,
last week with a birthday party. J assistant manager and embalmfrc^ a establishment at .smalk-town
Misses Louise and Jrene Johnston, | son of, the elder Peeples; F. K. Ayeivand to make no distinction between
Willie Best" Giuher and Billy Bradley-assisi^nt; William Moseley and John ^he rich and the peer in the personal
| were visitors in Cclumlna last week. Dcflson, tSTRrer.-, and Willie Reed in servtfcs^given "
Candidates Here Friday.
The attention of the readers of The
v ^eople-Sentinel is again called to the
faK. that The candidates for the
UniteoxSjhtes Senate and House of
Represept«ivcfc will make their ap
peals for theNqtes of the “deer pee-
put’wjfn the courF jiou-'e at Barnwell
tomorfetyi ^fPridayjNdoHflng. The
meeting will be called tobeder by CoL
Edgar A. Brown, county Chairman,
promptly at 10:30 o’clock.. S^n^tor
E. D. Smith, Ex-Senator Col* ^
Blease, Solicitor Leon W. Harris and
Ashton H. Williams are offering for
the Senate, while Congressman H. P,
Fulmer, Ex-Congressman A. P. Lever
and Dr. D. R. Sturkie aft running fer
Congress.
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