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THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNTY.
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Consolidated Jobs 1, 192&.
‘Juat Like a Member of the Family”
VOLUME LV.
BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, JULY 21ST, 1932.
NUMBER 47.
TRAVELING CREAM STATION IS
VERITABLE HOUSE ON WHEELS
Usual Weak Points in System Strengthened by Methods of
Summerland Creamery of Batesburg, Says Cpecialist
from U. S. Department of Agriculture.
M. P. Hazel, manager of the Sum-
merland Creamery at Batesburg, is
operating what he calls a “Traveling
Cream Station.”'
The name is very appropriate.
The mechanical apparatus and the
organized procedure of the plan are
as., follow's :•
The most conspiciuous part is the
men who go out and meet the farm
er when he delivers his cream at the
traveling cream station. It is as if
the patron meet the man at the weigh
platform in the creamery. Further
more, these men that go out with
the cream station must be well train
ed. They must have some business
sense, for they have to sell butter and
van-like truck costing -about $1,100. J keep good track of their transactions.
It ha^ a large rodmy body, high
enough for an average man to stand
upright inside and wide and high
enough to allow two rows of shelves
along both sides and along the end
back of the driver. The shelves are
so wide that there is room for an
egg case to stand sideways.
In the front end of this room is
placed an ordinary house refrigerator
ooled with ice. Other principal ap
paratus are that necessary for a
cream station such as scale, electric
babcock tester-, case of cream test
bottles, .sample bottles, folding gaso
line camp stove, kettle, pail, brushes
also strong box with bookkeeping
necessary in fact everything that
goes with a well equipped cream sta
tion.
In addition to this there is also
those things necessary for personal
needs such as cooking utensils ordi
narily needed in camping and two cot-
beds which can be placed across the
room in the night and in the day
rolled up and tucked away under one
of the shelves.
A radio has also been installed in
the truck and at night they listen to
their favorite broadcast as they feast
on fritd checken prepared on their
camping outfit. »
This personal equipment is provided
for use w’hen their trip extends over
one or more nights.
With this •outfit two men start from
the creamery at Batesburg with a
load of empty cans and egg cases and
with a supply of butter which is sold
in the large and little towns and
stores along the scheduled route.
At certain places and at pre-ar-
ranged time the traveling cream sta
tion stops to receive cream and eggs
from the farmers and whne time, is
up proceeds to the next place. The
farmers, gre aware of the regular time
that the cream station will stop at
any certain place and they are there
with their cream to be weighed, sam
pled, tested and paid for. One of the
men receiver, weighs and tests the
cream and the other calculates the
rmounts and pays each patron. A
suitable helper is at the place to help
with the cleaning of the cans. Hot
water is provided by the camping
outfit.
When the time is up the station
moves on to the next appointed place.
At several places the county agent co
operates and gives assistance in the
improvement of the service and the
quality of the crejyn. Reaching last
place they return to the creamery at
Batesburg where the cream is churn
ed and the eggs put in cold storage
until sold.
Cream stations in charge of local
business men have been in use for
a long time. These stations are, a
great number of them, a sideline to
some other business and are handled
by men who have no ihtirr;ate know
ledge of tlje butter making business.
Characteristic of this station is
that a certain amount per pound of
They are paid a salary with their
chief interest in the welfare of the
business that they represent. They
meet the farmer on the same terms
as the operator at the creamry doer
and realize the importance of quality
for making a success of the business.
This condition is a distinct bridg
ing over of the weakrtess of the cream
station as ordinaj-Sly conducted. ‘ This
is a distinct quality of the traveling
cream station conducted by Mr. Hazel.
Mr. Hazel’s plan fits in with the
local conditions that are quite rep
resentative of the South. Besides the
market for cream and eggs that the
traveling station provides it is also
filling a very important place in the
marketing of the finished butter and
the distribution of eggs. . One of the
weakest parts of the butter industry
nf the South is the undeveloped mar
keting channels. This condition com
pels the creameries to .ship butter to
some of the large markets and as
they do this more, yes, many times
that amount cf butter, must be shipped
in to this section to fill the consump
tive needs for butter. It is plain that
the butter shipped cut is more than
needed at home and when shipped is
done so at a. great loss.
The traveling cream station makes
trips over a given territory and de
livers fresh butter, delivered under
refrigerated condition' while butter
otherwise is sent mostly by express
at a higher cost and without refriger
ation.
Mr. Hazel’s traveling cream station
i- worth watching+~
Joel G. Winkler.
Asso. Dairy Mfg. Specialist,
U. S. Dept, of Agriculture.
Seen and Heard Here
During the Past Week
Little Sense and Nonsense About
People You Know and Others
You Don’t Know.
Two Convicts Shot in
Attempt to Escape
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Donnie Knight Wounded in Left Leg
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and Chester in Right
Hand Last Week
THREE PERSONS HURT BY
TORNADO IN BLACKVILLE
Congressman Fulmer
Looks After Fences
Old Jupiter Pluvius on St. Swith-
in’s Day saving the Barnwell base
ball team from a drubbing at the
hands of Graniteville, winner of the
first half cf the Georgia-Carolina
league schedule, the rains incidental
ly proving of great benefit to the
crops. . . Manager M. C. Best
wearing a white cap at the league
games. . . Miss Mary Frances
Moore driving a new Ford V-8, which
she purchased* from the Barnwell
Motor Co. . . Prof, and Mrs. W.
W. Carter and children leaving for
Bluffton, where they will spend the
remainder of the summer in their
cottage. . . Small hailstones dur
ing the first shewer Fiday afternoon.
. . “Miss Willie” (Mrs. R. S. Fitz
patrick) on duty again at the local
telegraph office after an enforced va
cation because of an operation. * ,
Local fan' remarking that foctball
season is only a couple of months
in the future. . . The thermome
ter in front of The People-Sentinel
office registering a drop of 25 de
grees in temperature during and
immediately after the first shower
Friday afternocn—from 101 to 76. .
. A report that the editor of The
People-Sentinel is supporting Cole L.
Blease for the United States Senate
this year, which is a grosser exagera-
ion than was the news of Mark
ain’s death.
A story about President Hoover
going into a little post office near his
Rapidan summer camp and asking
for a hickel’.s worth of postal cards,
remarking that h e wanted to write to
a few of his fiiends, and the post
master asking why he didn’t buy a
difnefe worth and write to $J1 of
them. . . A report that business
is so dull doWn 'Allendal e way the
chain gang only^woiks thee days a
week.
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Representative of New Second District
Paid Visit to Barnwell During
Past Week.
their cleiks. He also spent sometime
butter fat handled is the compensa- at the Court Hous e and was agreeably
tion for the station agent. This cen-
ditioh~makes it of prime importance
for the station agent to get a great
numbr of ' puonds of fat regardless
of the condition or quality of the
cream. Neither the station agent nor
the farmer gets in personal touch with
the one that manufactures the but
ter and, therefore, lack the under
standing of the essential thing—good
cream—for manufacturing butter of a
high quality. To increase his income
re station agent takes any and all
sream regardless of quality and in
variably the station cream is of a
low quality.
In Mr. Hazel's plan some of the dif
ficulties of the cream station have
been eliminated.
In the first place, the men who
work, in the creamery part of the
time and are placed up against the
problems of the operator are also the
Congressman H. P. Fulmer, of
Oiangeburg, was in Barnwell one
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day last week looking after his poli
tical fences, this being-his firsts visit
to this city since the passage of the
redistricting act made Barnell Coun
ty a part of th e new Second District,
which D now composed of Richland,
Lexington, Aiken, Barnwell, Bam
berg, Orangeburg, Calhoun and Sum
ter Counties Mr. Fulmer was unable
to attend the campaign meeting here
last month and was disappointed when
informed that there will be no coun
ty campaign meetings becaus e of the
lack of opposition in the various
race-'. He had hoped to meet manv
cf the voters in that way, but said
that he will make several visits into
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the county before the election.
Mr. Fulmer spent a busy day here
going from store to stor e and making
the acquaintance of the merchants and
surpised to learn ,that the county’s
finances are in such goed shape.
During his stay in the city Mr.
Fulmer was the guept of Mr. and
Mrs. E. D. Peacock, the latter being
his niece.
In reference to the local municipal
political situation, \ Auditor “Bill”
Manning expressing his opinion in the
following unequivocal terms: “Well,
ye.-, and no, but mostly what;” and
that, ladies and gentlemeH, is a very
strong statement, coming from Bill
Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Fuller going up
6,000'feet in their plan e Sunday af
ternoon to cool off a nd finding the
atmosphere so cold at that height
that it was nece-sary to close
windows. . . And Mr. Fuller
marking that it takes about an
to climb 10,000 feet. . . Dr. M. C.
Best unable to decipher one of his
own entries in his day-book. . . .
Which recalls to mind the merchant
who sold an article “on credit” and
when he went to charge it, could not
remember the nam e of the purchaser;
he, therefore, charged the item to
each ©f his customers—and collected,
from them all! (Ed. note: That'wae’
in the year B. H. P.—Before Hoover
Prosperity.) . . Little Miss Emily
Brown, .daughter of Cel. and Mrs.
Edgar A. Brown, giving a swimming
party at th e ol’ ^swimmin’ hole in
celebration of her birthday.
Five out of six automobiles parked
wrong along the business section of
Burr Street Sunday morning; one of
the five belonging to the city clerk
and another to this scribe. . . A
farmer remarking that he was of
fered one-half cent each for large can
taloupes by a produce buyer. . . .
“Bud” Halford playing a game o£
solitaire checkers. . . Perry Bush
and Billie Harris in a hot aigument
over the number of votes the latter
w’ould get in his proposed races for
Mayor and State Senator a.< the
nominee of the Republican party.
Two white convicts were shot in
an attempt to escape, from the Barn
well County chain gang about 9:30
o’clock Thur.-day night and a third
leturned to th e camp and surrendered
following the wounding of his corn*
panions by Henry Hartzog, one of the
guards. Donnie Knight, who was ar
rested by Coijimbia officers less than
a week before and returned to Barn
well County aiffhoritieu«, was serious
ly wounded in the left leg and an
other convict named Chester was hit
in the right hand. Th e other member
of the trio was unhurt.
When Hartzog saw the three men
stealthily leaving the cam, h e called
upon them to halt and instead of
oom^ying fwith "his command they
started to run, it is .said, whereupon
the guard fired at them twice with a
shot gun, wounding Knight and
Chester. Seeing that his companions
had been shot, the other man ran
back to th e camp and surrendered.
The wounded men were brought to
the Barnwell County jail and given
medical attention It is understood
that Knight's wounds ar e of such a
nature a® to necessitate hospital treat
ment and he will probably be trans
ferred to an institution in a nearby
city this week.
Knight, who is serving % four
months sentence for larceny; escaped
from the chain gang a short time ago,
being recaptured in Columbia. .Ches
ter is serving a 30-day .sentence for
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Wounded Man Freed.
Columbia, July 19.—-Governor I. C.
Blackwocd-today freed Donnie Knight,
young white man who was shot and
suffered a fractured leg recently
when he tried to escape from the
Barnwell chain, gang while .serving a
four-month sentence for chicken
stealing.
Charles Smith, 222 Sumter street,
Columbia, father-in-law of Knight
agreed to bear ajl expenses attached
to his injury if the’young man was
liberated. The governor thereupon
Suspended Knight’s . c entence during
good behavior. He had' until Octo
ber loth to serve # having been con
victed in magistrate’s court at Barn
well last month. ’
Deputy Sheriff G. S. Harley
brought Knight from Barnwell to
Columbia to have him placed in the
state penitentiary infirmary, explain-
g that Barnwell authorities had no
ilities or funds for his care.
1928-’30 Enrollment
Book WUI Be Used
Adoption of Old Club Roll Will Save
Voters Inconvenience ip. Muni
cipal Primary.
STORM CAMERAS CLIMAX ^ TO
HEAT WAVE.
Acting upon the petition of the two
candidates for Mayor of Barnwell,. C.
G. Fuller and W. D. Harley, the ex
ecutive committee of the municipal
party adopted the 1928-’30 k enrollment
book as the one to be used in the com
ing election, which means that it will
net be necessary to have a complete
new enrollment this year. Only new
comers to Barnwell or those who have
come jof age iwithin the past two
years will be required to enroll in
order to qualify for th$ municipal
primary election.
Under the rules of the State Demo
cratic Party, which were adopted as
the rules of the municipal party in so
far as they may apply, a complete
new enrollment is required every four
years instead of every two years as
formeily. There waa a new enroll
ment of voters for the municipal par
ty in 1928 and under that rule a com
plete new enrollment would have been
lequired this year. However as stat
ed above, the two candidates ' for
Mayer petitioned the executive com
mittee to allow the old enrollment to
serve for the coming primary, with
the addition of the names of those
who have since become qualified to
vote, and it will be necessary for
these citizens to place .their names on
the enrollment book if they have not
already done so.
The beck is now open at the store
of Lemon Bros., Inc.
City Entries Clc«e.
When the time for qualifying for
the municipal primary election ex
pired a t 12 o’clock noon Friday, there
were two candidates in the race for
Mayor, C. G. Fuller, who announced
in last week’s issue of The People-
Sentinel, being opposed by W. D.
Harley. All of the other candidates
who announced last week are without
opposition, they being as follows;
For Aldeiman, W. J. Lemon, J. B.
Grubbs, H. L. (i’Bannon, M. M.
Mazursky, J. E. Harley, Jr., and B.
Wilson Walker;; for Commis'ioner of
Public Works, N. Ef. Coclin to succeed
R. A. Dea.'on and C. F. Molair to
succeed T. J. Langley.
ELMER W. GRUBBS IS
SSIGNED TO 6TH COMPANY
Uncle S*m Will Collect.
Calhcun to Bamberg.
Denmark, July 14—Beginning the
latter part cf this week the Denmark
hotel will be under new mangement.
Mr. and Mrs. F.S.Holmes, who are
well known here have taken charge of
the hotel.
Colonel and Mrs. Jlarry D. Calhoun
and son, James Calhoun, will leave
this week for Bamberg where they
will make their home. Colonel and
Mrs. Calhoun came here a number of
years ago from Barnwell and during
their atay here have had charge of
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More than 37,000 farm seed loans
were made to South Carolina farmers,
totaling more than $4,000,000. Some
folks may have an idea that they are
not going to hav e to repay those
loans to the government. If there
are any such they, are certainly due
to have a rude awakening. Those
West Point, New York, July 18.—
Elmer W\ Grubbs, of BatnwelL. who
was swotri\in as a cadet at the U. S.
Military Acedemy here on July 1st,
has been as^fned to the sixth com-
peny by Major General W. D. Con
nor, Superintendent. The total
strength of Grubbs’ class is 366.
For the next six weeks Grubbs and
his classmates will receive an inten
sive course of instruction in various
military subjects including both drills
and lectures. Early in Augurt, the
class will be absorbed intp th e Corps
of Cadets and will participate in the
impressjve parades which are held
daily. " \ •
In the middle of August, thp new
cadets will take a five day practice
march through the foothills of the
Catskills, southwest of West Pohjt.
During the march they will liv e i N
shelter tents and eat from rolling
kitchens
The academic year will open Sep
tember 1st. Classroom work will
start at 8:00 a. m. arW will extend
until 3:00 p. m., with an hour’s inter
mission for lunch. Drills and com
pulsory intramural athletics will
take up another hour in the after
noon. For the academic work the
class will be divided into sections of
from ten to fourteen cadets and each
' man will be required to recite in each
subject every day.
Work is Progressing
in Business Section
Contractor Started Tearing Down
Walls of Peacock Building Here
Morday Morning.
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loans were not intended to be a dole
and Uncle Sam is fully intending to pr^TT TO PREACH
collect them to the last red cent when j
they are due. Don’t fool yourself by
thinking otherwise.. And another | Dr. Pratt, pastor of the local Pres-
thing, don’t think for a moment that byterian Church will conduct the
you can fool your Uncle about how regular Presbyterian evening service
Work preparatory to the erection
of the Lancaster and Peacock build
ings to replacg the structure partially
destroyed by fire last October is pro
gressing satisfactorily. For the past
ten days workmen have been busily
engaged on the old Lancaster build
ing, the second story walls of which
were torn down some weeks ago. Th e
first story walls will be razed to the
ground and replaced with an entirely
new building of rough texture brick,
with a part of the new structure hav
ing an additional depth of ten feet.
Monday morning, J. Miller Hair,
Williston contractor, had his force of
workmen busily engaged in removing
the burned rocf of the Peacock build
ing preparatory to tearing down the
\second story walls. This building will
riot be rebuilt entirely but will be con
verted into a one-story building and
the two stores therein will be remodel
ed. Th e Lancaster building will also
be one^ story in height.
The \ork of remodeling the oM
Caldwelnhome on Main Street is rap
idly nearing completion and it is now
one of the viandsomest residences in
Barnwell. The property was bought
some time ago by J. Buist Grubbs,
local ChevrcletA dealer.
Three Buildings Razed, Many Other*
Unroofed, Trees and Wires Blown
Down Friday,
Blackville, July 15.—A tornado
which razed thiee buildings, unfoofed
many others, uprooted trees, crippled
communication services and slightly
injured thre e persons, swept down
upon Blackvile today accompanied by
heavy rain and hail. Those hurt suf
fered cuts by broken glass, none seri
ously. '
The storm struck with"littl e warn-
ing about 6:30 o’clock this evening
after a day of intense heat. The
damage by wind was centered large
ly in the business section of the town
but heavy loss was caused by the wind
and hail in the outlying sections where
crops suffered seriously,
A livery stable and two negro
homes were blown to the ground. The
city hall, school hous e and 15 stores
were unroofed as were a number of
residences. The entire front of the
Gray home was blown away and •
number of other homes were badly
damaged by wind and falling trees.
The stocks of goods in most of the
stores were ruined by water and the
J. L. Buist and Sons store and Rush’s
pharmacy were the only two busines*
houses in the block which still had
•their roofs intact after the storm
had passed.
Mrs. Louis Wengrow was painfully
cut by broken glass when thg front
^f her husband’s store was blown in.
• Damage-? are estimated to be in the
neighborhood of $50,000.
Lale tonight the town was without
lights and at a late hour telephone
service had not been restored. With
the badljr crippled communications re
ports from\the area were meager.
The people of Blackville set im
mediately to wotk to repair the havoc
wrought by Fridy’j storm and to the
casual visitor Saturday the damage
did not appear so great. Workmen
were busily engaged removing the
debris from the streets and mer
chant* Were exerting themselves to
minimize the water damage to their
stocks of goods.
Simon Brown’s Sons appeai'ed to be
the heaviest losers. A large wooden
barn just off cf Railroad Avenut was
totally demolished and a truck *
tractor that were inside the bui
were damaged by the falling timt
This concern’s large packing shed at\
the east end of Railroad Avenue was
lifted from its foundation and moved
about five feet by the fury of the
wind, and it is understood that two
or three tenant houses pn Herman
Brown’s farm near Blackville were
razed. Mr. Brown said that the water
was several inches deep in his store
shortly after the tin roof was ripped
off.
Some damage was done to crops
throughout th e section visited by the
storqi.
Miss Anne Scott McNab, a student
at Winthrop College, was en route to
Barnwell' by way of Denmark to visit
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Mc
Nab and encountered the storm just
east cf Blackville. The driver of the
car in which she was riding stepped
the machine and set the emergency
brake and in spite of this fact the an-
tcmobile was blown backwards for
some 15 feet.
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Stores to Close.
Methcdist
rch Notice.
you used -the money y<)u borrowed.
Ycrkville Enquire.
Owing to circums
I have no control, I
my vacation until
week. Therefore,
preaching at the Me
at the local Bapti-t Church Sunday at
8:30 o’clock. Everybody is cordially' next Sunday, both mornii
invited and urged to attend these ing.
Advertise in The Focgdc-SentinsL services. I W. E. Wiggins,
over which
11 not leave for
ty of next
will be
it Church
and even-
istcr.
The following Barnwell merchants
have agreed to close their stores at
on e o’clock each Thursday afternoon
and keep closed for the remainder of
that day, commencing Jnly 21st and
continuing through August 15th:
Abe Ghingold.
Creighton Grocery Co.
W. G. Hill.
Harold Williams.
Unity Grocery Store.
Easterling and Co. '>■ ]
Lemon Bros., Inc. *
H. Antoplosky.
Reid Furniture Store.
Gigg’s Cash Grocery.
7 I. H. Cooper.
C. F. Molair.
Farmers Union Mere. Co.
J. E. Harley, Jr.
Maxuraky’s.
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