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THE 0VTIC1AL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNTY. Consolidated JoOo L IMS. ‘Ju«t Like a Member of the Family'' VOLUME LV. BARNWELL SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, JULY 7TH, 19.12. NUMBER 45. 87 4-H Club Girls Seen and Heard Here at Tri-County Camp During the Past Week Every dub in Barnwell County Rep- ( A Little Sense and Nonsense About resented at Meeting in Charles- ten Last Week. Every V 4-H Club in Barnwell Coun ty was represented at the Tri-County Camp held at The Citadel in Charles ton, June 30th, July 1st and 2nd. Schol buses were used for trans porting the eigjhty-seven girls and seven leaders to camp where every ef fort had been made for the comfort and pleasure of the campers of Barn well, Allendale and Dorchester Coun ties. Each girl brought with her besides her bed linen enough food supplies for three days consisting of chicken, bacon, eggs, rice, cheese, vegetables, fruit and cake. To supplement these supplies and give them a well balanced ration, bread, butter and milk w'ere bought. Thes e with the necessary ex penses of servant hire, lights, water, *etc., were paid for by a registration fee of 50c per member and a small appropriation made by the county delegations. ” Those responsible for the organiza tion and running of the camp were Miss Bessie Harper, district agent, Aiken; Mrs. Harriette F. Johnson, girl’s club leader, Winthrop College; and Misses McNab, Porter and Bar ker, home demonstration agents of Barnwell, Allendale and Dorchester Counties, respectively. The seven group leaders from Barn well County who also assisted in mak ing the camp a success were: Mrs. Louise P. Bauer, Barnwell; Mrs. Hil- ma Dicks, Dunbarton; Misses Mar garet Lemon, Dorothy Sanders, Mar garet McAllister, Barnwell; Mary Moody and Verna May Lee, Kline. The program planned by the agents with the cooperation of the Charles ton Chamber of Commerce was main ly recreational and educational. "Tt ^consisted of sight-seeing trips around the City of Charleston, through Nhe Museum, through the West End Dairy, through the Charleston Even ing Post Building, a theatre party at the Gloria given by the Pastime Amu-'ement Company; a tiip to Fol ly Beach by the Folly Beach Com pany; two lectures, illustrated, on bird? and flowers, at the Museum and a visit to Hampton Park. Club girls attending camp from Barnwell .County were: — Healing Springs.—Virginia Cain, Emmie Lee Hair, Louise Hutson, Myitis Dyches, Daisy Bell Martin, Mildred Grubbs, Sarah Hair, Miriam Oilom, Helen Odom, Frankie Grubbs. .-Oak Grove.—Simmie Ann Creech, Bonnetta Creech, Ruth Hiers, Janie Sue Hiers, Laura Still, Eloise San- ^eis, Maude Ruby Knoff, Iris San ders, Blanch e Sanders. Double Ponds.-^-Irene Shipps, Lil lie Mae Dyches, No/hia Lee Dyches, Marjori e Delk, Sarah Delk, Gertrude Black, Bertha Black. Long Branch.—Erline Ross, Mar garet Ross, Dorothy Baxley, Eugenia Laird. A$hleigh.—Katherine Owen*, Jen nie Lou Owens, Margie Owens, Vera Owens, Mildred Laird, Carrie May Rosier, Jeannetta Owens. Barnwell.—Marie Fail, Hazel Dy ches, Mayme Sue Padget, Bertha Car- roll, Mary Ellen Still. Hercules.—Gretta Creech, Lowvenia Still, Ruth Still. Hilda.—Annie May Dyches, Helen Williams^ Alice Stilly Mary* Black, Lois Hartzog, Edith Hartzog, Eliza beth Delk. Elko.—Martha J. Hair,. Isabel Birt, Helen Bates, Myrtis Gilliam, Mary C. Youngblood. Galilee. — Deborah Black, Inez Creech. Reedy Branch.—Gertrude Creech, Voncile Still, Carrie G. Grubbs, Leira Grubbs, Gertrude Creech. Barnwell.—Myrtle Creech, Irene Johnston, Mabel Hartzog, Nannie Lee Sanders, Gladys Black, Kathleen Car- roll, Edith Fields, Helen Creech, Mur- riel Norris, Edna Creech, Marie Creech, Thelma Sanders, Amanda Robinson, Margaret Croft, Ruby Lee Sanders, Anna Williamson, Jerusha People You Know and Others You Don’t Know. A mockingbird attacking a dog and the canine trotting along in a very nonchalant manner. 5| . . Uncle Sam and the writer celebrating their birth days jointly. . . The fire siren be ing blown Thursday night for the purpose of getting the members of the department to attend a meeting, and ’most everybody responding to the “alarm.” . . . Billy Harris chasing his hat down the street. . . Breezes bringing welcome relief from the heat last week. . . Umpire Sol Blatt calling his decisions in a voice that sounded like a foghorn. . And Billy Harris a dmonishing him not to be so “highminded” in the matter of alleged strikes. . . Street comer discussions of the result of the Demo cratic Convention in Chicago. . . . Local life-long negro Republicans de* daring that they will not support President Hoover this fall but will votg for the Democratic nominee in stead. Some visitors at the Ehrhardt- Barnwell game Monday afternoon commenting on the request of Mana ger M. C. Best that Ehrhardt bring a “hired pitcher” to Barnwell in order to make the game interesting; the request, however, was not complied with. . . . Supervisor J. W. Pat terson out again after an attack trf appendicitis. . . Magistrate J. W. Sanders, of Great Cypress township, “going collegiate” by appearing at the county seat sans socks. J. Gross back from Huntington, W. Va., where he went a short time ago to play ball, having found that he couldn’t resist the lure of White Oak Springs water. . . Sheriff “Bonce” Dyches? declaring that he had ju«t eaten dinner at home and then pro ceeding to display a robust appetite at the Boylston-AUen fish dinner. . . . The Rev. L. G. Payne, of Black- ville, describing a wonderful cow owned by his fellow townsman, Paul Allen. . . A local farmer receiving 75 cents a crate for cucumbers in Barnwell and 40 cents in Columbia. . . . Th e local basball club leaving for Columbia and forgetting to take along their paraphernalia. Baseball News. Barnwell defeated the Newberry /•11-Stars on the local diamond Thurs day afternoon, 16 to 7. The visitors used two pitchers in an effert to sil ence the heavy artillery of the locals, who garnered a total of 15 hits, while Kneece allowed seven. Bunched hits in the first two in nings of Friday’s game gave Granite- ville a four-run lead that the locals were never able to overcome, * the visitois wining 4 to 3. In the first five innings, only 15 batters faced Henderson and only one man reached first, he being thrown out at second. Barnwell threatened to even the count in the seventh, but the tying run was left on third. Again in the ninth the home hopes threw a scare into the visitors, but wdth a man on first, an unassisted double play broke up the game. Saturday Barnwell suffered a 17 to 9 defeat at th e hands of the State Hospital team in Columbia, and on the Glorious Fourth the Ehrhardt ag gregation took the locals into camp, 5 to 2, in a very good game of ball. Barnwell presented a patched-up team, due to the absence of two or three players. Gross was hit freely during the .six innings he w-as on the mound and wa« relieved by Higbe, w’ho kept “th e situation well in hand.” In an exciting 10-inning game on Tuesday afternoon, Newberry de feated Barnwell on the former’s dia- mand, 4 to 3. Ragged support behind Kneece in two innings is said to have cost Barnwell the game. tiers. \ " Miscellaneous. — Annie • ^ Rebecca Shuler, Mary Riley Whitaker, Mar garet Black, Louise Hartzog, Mar garet Hutto, Ella May Peacock. Elizabeth/McNab, H. D. Agt. J. E. Kennedy,, tof Williston, and his son, David E. Kennedy, a recent, graduate of We^t Point Military' Academy, were viiito&e here Monday. To Start Work This Week, ^’ork is expected to start this week on the Lancaster block of buildings at the corner of Main and Wall Streets, according to ah announce ment mad e yesterday by Dr. DeWitt B. Lancaster, of Baltimore, Md. It is understood that the contract has been let to E. W. Reid, local colored con tractor. Th e plans call for a one- story building of rough texture brick, which will be divided into four stores. The old Lancaster building was par tially destroyed by fife last October, 'together with the adjoining Peacock building. Checks Show Weevils Can Do Great Damage i 1 —- —» v - - • Inspection Shows That Infestation on Five Farms Ranges from 8 to 16 Per Cent. From careful checks made on Mon day of this week in five sections of the county not quite as many squares wer e found punctured per hundred as last week, says Harry Boylsfton, Co. Agent. This is no doubt due to the fact that cotton is now putting on squares much faster and many of the old weevils are doing.whilt very few of the young, ones have matured to begin puncturing, the weather has been dry for the past week in most section of the county, too. From the figures given below it is easily see nthat the weevil is active and do ing damage which will no doubt increase very rapidly for the next few weeks. The fields visited this week are given below: E. G. Birt, Long Branch, 8 per cent. J. L. Shuler, Williston, 14 per cent. Q. A. Kennedy, Reynolds Farm, 9 per cent. Simon Brown’s Sons, Minus Farm, 16 per cent. Terie Richardson, Barnwell, 9 per cent. Practically all cotton in the county is now fruiting freely and has passed the stage where it is profitable to use the liquid poison, there may be a few fields of late cotton where sweetened posion is advised. Where labor is available the fallen squares should be gathered and destroyed,many weevils can be prevented from matur ing in this way. With cheap prices on calcium arsenate and machinery on hand farmers can dust two or three times with three to four pounds per acre at a very small cost, properly applied and with medium seasons the weevil can be held in check so that a crop can be made, with the low pi ice on cotton it is very necessary to make as large yield as possible.— Prepared by H. G. Boylston, Co. Ag:. Blackville Teachers. Blackkville, July 1.—Supt. G. F. Posey has announced the following teachers as the faculty for the school session of 1932-33: Grammar school — First gr;:de. Miss Dorothy Neil, of Columbia; sec ond grade, Miss Elizabeth Boland, of Spiingfield; third grade, Miss Ruth Barton, of Orangeburg; fourth grade, Mi-s Caroline Richardson, of Oran;re- buig; fifth, sixth and seventh grades departmental work, Misses Kathryn Legare, of Charleston; Tommie Ama- ker, of St. Matthews, and Dorothy Meyer, of St. Geoige. High SchooJ—Engl 1*11 and history, Miss Clara Downing, of Fayetteville, N. C.f Latin and French, Miss Myra Faust, of Denmark; commercial courses, Mis.? Patsey Peay, of Clin ton, and science, Eail Carson, of Saluda, who will also coach football. The Glorious Fourth Passes Quietly Here Nothing of ar. Exciting Nature Occurs on Independence Day.—Ball Game in Afternoon. The Glorious Fourth, the birthday of the nation, passed off very quietly in Barnwell, which presented more of the appearance of Sunday than it did Independence Day—that is, after the grocery stores had closed at ten o’ clock that morning. A few folks spent the day with friends in other places, but for the most part local people elected to remain at home. G. M. Greene, Esq.* Master in Equity, made one ^sale of real estate in the case of th e First Carolinas Joint Stock Land Bank vs. Emmie Y. Easterling, 274 acres of land being bought by the plaintiff for $3,000.00. Sheriff B. H. Dyches also made several sales under tax executions. In the afternoon, some amusement was furnished by a-J)aseball game be tween Ehrahrdt and Barnwell, the former winning by ‘the score of 5 to 2. So far as is known, no accidents of any kind marred the pleasure of the day. D.,C. Birt. Blackville, July 4.—D. C. Birt, of the Long Branch section, died at his home June 24, after an’lllness of two weeks. Funeral services wer e con ducted from the Hair cemetery of the Long Branch section June 25, the Rev. L. G. Payne in charge. Mr. Birt was a faithful Christian from early life. • He was a devoted husband and father and a loving brother. The many floral offerings wer e a token of the high esteen in which he was held. Surviving are his widow; four sons, Vernon, Marion, Wilbur and Odis; four daughters, Meta, Azalee, Doro thy and Loreane; thre e sisters, Mrs. Ira Black, Mrs. J. A. Creech and Mrs. T. W. Bolen; five brothers, W. J., W. €., L. L., F. C. and C. D. Birt Dunlap Visits Barnwell. District Forester W. D. Dunlap, of Walterboro, was in town last week conferring with County Agent H. G. Boyleston on a County Farm Forestry Demonstration plan. This project calls for four demonstrations a? fol lows: A thinning of thick stands of young pines; an improvement cutting in larger timber; a demonstration on planting, and a demonstration in fire break construction. The purpose of these demonstra tions to show land owners what can be done to increas e the value of their woodlands and how to cope with the fire situation. All 'farmers in the county interest ed ar e invited to get in touch with the county agent or with the State Forestry Department. Advertise in The People-Sentinel Nine Killed and 25 in State Injured —— = —- Over the Week-end Good Farming Hints to July Attention Important Suggestions for Guidance of Busy Farmers Given by Clem- acn Authorities. Clemson College, July 2.—Impor tant suggestions for guidance of busy farmers in July are given by R. W. Hamilton, agromonut; E. H. Rawl, horticulturist; Alfred Luthen, ento mologist; and J. T. McAlister, agri cultural engineer. Agronomy. 1. When field work slacks up, haul in grain straw, leaves, swamp grass, and other litter for the compost heap. 2. Sow peas, soybeans, or velvet beans now and they will make growth to turn under for soil building. 3. If old corn is not so good, it is net too lat e to plant more. Horticulture." 1. Remove all broken and diseased limbs from fruit trees immediately after harvestng. 2. Pull sweet corn shortly before meal time; it loses its sugar rapidly. 3. Place fruits and vegetables in the shade at once after harvesting, to hold their quality. 4. Plant second crop Irish potatoes, pre ferably Lookout Mountain. ' 5- Dig tulips and other bulbs, dry them out, and plant again in late September. Insects and Diseases. 1 Control tomato insects and dis ease with Bordeaux-lead arsenate spray. 2. Remove and burn com plants infected with smut. 3. Ex amine banded apple trees every ten days and destroy codljng moth larvae v 4. Dust cotton with calcium arserate when boll weevil infestation has reached ten percent. 5. Transfer and requeen bees. Agricultural Engineerings 1. Begin construction now on trench silo tq b e ready when silage is ripe. 2. Repair and construct needed farm buildings. 3. Plan to install water system and other farm conveniences. 4. Continu e the two- horse cultivator, setting the sweeps for shallow cultivation. 6. Investi gate possibilities of utilizing small streams for irrigating gardens and truck piojects. 6. Recondition dust ing machinery for poisoning weeMls. Social and Personal . News from Williston Nine persons were killed and 25 were injured in South Carolina dur ing the week-end two-day holiday. In a sudden outburst of motor ac cidents Spartanburg County led the State with 17 injured and on^ death. The deaths and injuries were caus ed in thb manner: Caus^: Killed: Injured: Motor accidents 6 21 Tiains 0 Firearms 1 4 There was not a single death from .drowning reported for the days. Probably the most serious motor accident occurred near Greer, when Max Berelowitz, of Whitmire, was killed as his car wrecked with that of James Clgrk, Greenville negro. Three of the dead man’s children and two companions of the negro were hurt. Hubert Clark and his wif e of Alex ander, N. C., received what may prove fatal injuries when their car ran off the road near Campobello. Six of *heir children were slightly hurt. dLewis Russ, 19, of Columbia, was wounded with a pistol at his home and i>olice held Joe Kimball. J. Killingsworth, of Newport News, , Va., was killed in a motor accident near Greenville. A negro woman was killed near Whitmire when struck by a train Mon day, and Sunday Biooks Poole, ne gro national guard cook, was killed 0 • ^ near Alston, when he fell from a train. Frank Yelton, Columbia, Daniel Davis, Conway, and Harry Glover, of Florence, aTT students of the Uhlver- •sity of South Carolina, were injured when th e automobile in which they w^i* e riding turned over near Conway. Curtis Phillips, 23, was killed and three others were wounded when un known parties fired on a group em erging early Sunday from a dance hall near Gaffney. James Mitchell, 23, of Winnsboro, died at Chester Sunday following an automobile sma*h-up and his brother, W. W. Mitchell, was hurt. Near Florence, Rosco e Singletary, 17, of Friendship, was killed Sunday by an automobile. Mrs. Caroline McElveen died Sunday at Florence as a result of injuries received a week before in an automobile crash near Lake City. Mrs. Nancy Miller Cunningham, 28, 2was killed by a hit and run driver Sunday near her home at Batesburg. J. D. Williams and wife, of Colom bia, were injured slightly Monday in a collision in Spartanburg. Williston, July 2.—Mr. and Mrs. Kenlaw Purvis and Mrs. Gary Lott and daughter, Mis? Catheripe Lott, are on a visit to relatives in Lake land and .St. Petersburg, Fla. They weje accompanied by Miss Gaynelle Powell and Paul Frank Powell, who have been visiting here for some time. Mrs. G. W. Greene and Mrs. G. J. Trctti spent Wednesday in Charles ton. Mrs. Jennie Purvis and mother, Mrs. Dosia # Givens, spent Sunday in Norway, .where they visited the for mer’s daughter, Mrs. J. H. .Garrick. Mrs. Givens remained for a few days visit. Ms. J. W. Odiprne and Miss Kate Odiorne, cf Manning, were week-end guests of Mrs. W. P. Walsh and Mrs. J. A. McCue. Bernard Toole, Cary Quattlebaum and Wallis Cone are spending a month at the dtizens military training camp at Charleston. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Bennett, Miss Mattie Lee Bennett and Mrs. Norman Snelling and little son, returned this week from Miami, Fla. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Meyer, of Branchville, were guests of Mrs. H. M. Thompson and Miss Mayo Roun tree, Thursday. Mr.?. Monroe Dixon, formerly Miss Lois Hollis, and baby, Tommie, of Atlanta, spent several days of last week with Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Mc Cue. * . Y L. C. Eidson spent Tuesday and Wednesday in Charleston. ■ Dr. and Mrs. E. F. Polcen and son, "Edward, returned Tuesday after a week’s visit in Wa a hington. Among those from here spending Sunday at Charleston and the beaches were: Mr. ad Mrs. L. S. Flenniken and children; Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Anderson, MUses Celestia Purvis and Ethelyn Anderson, Mr. and Mfs. G. R. Hudson and daughter, Helen; Bob bie Hienr, Mrs. H. B. Kitchings and Mr. and Mrs. Hasting* Kitchings. James A. Kennedy has returned from Washington, D. C., where he was the guest of his sister, Mrs. J. A. Latimer, and where he visited his father, A. M. Kennedy, who under- Democrats Nominate Strong Candidates Franklin D. Roosevelt, of New York, and Jchn N. Garner, of Texas, Head Ticket. Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, of New York, ®nd Speaker John N. Gar ner, of Texas, are the Democratic nominees for President and Vice- President, respectively. Governor Roosevelt was' nominated at the con vention in Qhicago Friday night on the fourth ballot after three ballots eary that morning had forcast a dead lock. A stampede occurred, however, when William Gibbes McAdoo, in a dramatic speech, announced that Gar ner had released the California dele gation and not wishing to cause a repetition of th e Madison Square Gar den debacle of 1924, when Smith and' McAdoo were deadlocked, would vote for thg New Yorker. All other can didates for the Presidential nomina tion except Smith immediately re leased their delegates for the sake of party harmdny. Breaking all precedents, Governor Roosevelt flew to Chicago Saturday in a plan* to be officially notified of his nomination and to deliver hi* speech of acceptance, thus starting the campaign immediately. Before his arrival, Speaker Garner was unani mously nominated as hi# running mate. Earlier in the week, the Democrat* had adopted a plank in the platform advocating the repeal of the ISth Amendment and favoring the immed iate legalized sale of beer. It is believed that the Roosevelt- Garner ticket, coupled with the re peal plank, presents a winning com bination this year. Another interesting political devel opment of the past week was the nomination in North Carolina of Robert R. Reynold*, wet candidate for the United State* Senate, ever Sena tor Cameron Morrison, a life-long dry, by a majority of mor e than 100,- 000 votes. The Literary Digest “straw ballot” a few week* ago put the Tar Heel State in the prohibition column by a small margin. The Lynching^ecord. According to the records compiled at Tuskegee Institute in th* Depart ment of Records and Research, there were 5 lynchings in the first six months of 1932. This number is the same a* the number 5 for the first six months of 1931. In 1922, that is ten years ago, there were 30 persons lynched in the^rst six month* of the year. During the first six months of 1932 there were 13 instances in which officers of the law prevented lynchings. Of these 2 were in North ern and Western States and 11 in Southern States. In 9 of the in stances the prisoners were removed or the guards augmented; in the 4 other instances force was used to repel the would be lynchers; thus tf total of 18 persons, 5 whites and 13 negre*, were seved from death at the hands of mobs. * Of the persons lynched 2 were white and 3 were negroes. Offenses charged were attempted rape, 1; rape, 1; murder, 1; threatening men, 1; dynamiting a store, 1. The State? in which lynchings oc curred and the number in each State are as follows: Florid*,^!; Kansas, 1; Kentucky, 1; Ohio, 1; Texas, 1. Entertain With Fish Dinner. E. F. Boylston and Paul E. Allen, cotton weighers at Blackville, enter tained the members of the County Board of Directors and several other invited guests with a fish dinner in the Barnwell Fruit Company’s restau rant Tuesday. The menu consisted of * both stewed and fried fish, fresh from the Edisto River. Those who enjoyed the hospitality of Messrs. Boylston and Allen were J. W. Patterson, Idis Brabham, R. R. Moore, L. S Still, Perry B. Bush, Sheriff B. H. Dyches, G. W. Halford, G. R. Peeples and B. P. Davies. 1 ‘SSS^rTT' ",T went an operation last week in a Baltimore hospitaL Mr. and Mrs. Q. A. Kennedy, Jr., announce the birth of a daughter an June 27, who has been named Georgia Baxter. • Miss Mildred Wooley is some time in Asheville, N. CS. .d.tiVM, ,