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fV' Barnwell THE OmCIAL NEWSPAPER^OF BARNWELL COUNTt.^ai CMMofldatoS Jom L IMS. m Jua( Like a Member of the Family 0 VOLUME LV. BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 11TH, 1932. NUMBER 50. CO. ENROLLMENT IS ALMOST 4,000 * ••-i GAIN OF MORE THAN TWENTV PER CENT, i Blackville Shows Largest Gain of About 250 Votes or Approximate* Barnwell Protests Game With Augusta Runner Not Allowed to Score Tieing Run Because of Alleged Agreement. ly 50 Per Cent. V Barnwell County has the heaviest enrollment in its history for the approaching Democratic primary elec tion, the total being approximately 4,000. With 16 of the 17 precincts reported, the enrollment shows 3,880 names as compared with a. gi'&nd total of 3,315 in 1930. .-The missing club book is Healing Springs, which, it is estimated, will have an enroll ment of nearly 100. The totals by precincts are as follow’s: 1930: 1932: Barnwell 775 888 Bennett Springs 79 86 Blackville 539 780 ^Double Ponds __ 34 54 190 197 163 166 Four Mile - 80 107 Friendship . 84 92 Gieat Cypress 133 185 Hercules _ ---- 140 157 Hilda 148 185 Red Oak 102 141 Reedy Branch _. 91 78 Rosemarv 78 90 Siloam 99 115 JVilliston 516 559 The heavy enrolIment is due to several spirited magistrate r'aces throughout the county, as there is no opposition for the major' county of fices. Reedy Branch shows a de crease as compared with two years ago, due to the fact that the old club book was lost and it wa s neces sary to have a complete new enroll ment. Blackville shows the latgsst gain, the increase being nearly 250. The’ first primary election will held Tuesday, August 30th, and the second, if one is necessary, two weeks later. The notice of election, giving names of managers and polling places will be found in this issue of The People- Sentinel. Local and Personal News of Blackville Blackville, Aug. 6.—Mrs. Walter Pringle, of Charleston, is the gue>t of her sen, S. B. Pringle. Mrs. Herman Browm spent the last ten days in Philadelphia, where she was called on account of the death of a brother, J. Beerwald. Mr*. Ernest Weatherhorn and her « ?hter, Shirley Ann, of Charlest- are spending a month wdth the nprs’ parents, Mr; and Mr*. I. Brown. Dr. and Mrs. -R. A. Gyles and Mrs. Daisy Bailey “left last Sunday for Tryon, N. C., where they expect to spend two weeks in the Posey cot tage.- M iss Emma Boylston returned hrst week from ^liUivan’s Dland, w’here she spent several w’eeks as guest of and Mrs. Marion Hay. G. W. Boylston, of Shreveport, La., i : spending some time with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Boyston. Mrs. G. F. Posey and Mrs. S. B. Rush were hostesses at bridge lunch eon Thursday evening in honor of MisS Peggie . Antley, of St Mat thews, whose wedding to Gladden Smoke, also of St. Matthew,*, has been announced to be held August 18th. Other guests from St. Mat thews included: Miss Tommie Amalcer, Mrs. Kennerly Wimberly and Mrs. Chandler; Bill and Albert Smoke; Set Up Machinery to Collect Farm Loans Government Would Balk Any Move by Farmers to Side-Step Repay. ♦ ment of Mcney. In a hectic game of baseball on the local diamond Wednesday after noon of last week, in which errors and hit s by both teams featured, Rin- ker’s Painters of Augusta took the big end of/a 12 to 11 score. Manager M. C. Best, of the locals, however, protested the game because one of his players was not allowed to score from third on a blocked ball which would have tied the score. The visitor's scored three' tallies in the first inning, but Barnwell came back strong with four runs. Augusta added three more in the second and from then on the home hopes trailed. The last half of the ninth started with the count 12 to 7, but Barnwell staged a rally that shoved four runs across home plaje. The fourth run in thi s inning was scored when H^ Gross singled to right field. The right fielder errored and Gross went to second, advancing to third on the throw’ to home. A small boy got in the way and was hit by the ball, which rolled aw’ay. Manager Best contends that Gros s should have been allowed to scoie on the blocked ball, while the umpires, Solomon Blatt and Ralph Smith, claim that there was an agreement made prior to the game that a runner could not advance on a blocked ball unless he made an effort to do so and that Gross made no ef fort. It is understood that the mana ger of the Painters claims that he thought the umpire had ruled that the hall was not blocked. It is not known when the protest will be heard. Barnwell 3; State Hospital 2. In a close but rather listless game here Monday afternoon, Barnwell de feated the State Hospital team of Columbia, 3 to 2. The locals got off to a one-run lead in the third inning, which the visitors tied in the. fifth. Barnwell went ahead again in the eighth, only to have the score tied for a second time in the ninth. With one down and runners on second and third, a State Hospital player’s error gave Barnwell the winning run. J. Gross had the better of the pitchers’ duel against Roseherry who was re lieved by Bob Sox in the ninth. Barnwell Loses Night Game. Handicapped by poor lighting and hazy atmosphere, Barnwell lost to Blythe in Augu.-ta Tuesday night, 12 to 5. The contest wa s a one-sided affair from the start, Blythe scoring six runs in the first inning after two men were down. Two rung were add ed in the third and three in the fourth, but the victors were able to score only one tally in the next five innings. Barnwell staged a rally ip the ninth and pushed over a couple of scores. — v The Federal Government has set up mhchinery in South Carolina td collect crop production loans made to farmers and despite reports that in seme sections farmeers have been told they may take their time about paying the Government, the Depart ment of Justice already has in its hands for prosecution several fraud cases growing out of the loans. This was leaned today in an in terview wi^h C. L. Cobb, vice presi dent of the Peoples National Bank and formerly, while on furlough from his bank, manager of the Crop Pro duction Loan Office in Washington for 19 State*. Means to force payment by those who w’ould give other claims priority over those of the Government were discussed by Mr. Cobb in a conference with H. S. Johnson, in spector fer this State of the crop loan.*, ,and F. W. Darner, of the Washington Loan Office and in charge of collections in South Carolina. “To guard against this idea of subordinating the Government claim,” said Mr. Cobb, “crop buyers of cot- ten and tobacco throughout the State have been, furnished lists of all Launch Live-at-Home Program in Barnwell Financial Statistics J FULLER ELECTED bf State Government Sixteen Women’s Clubs in County Bureau of the Census Announces Per * I ^ Hear Miss Bessie Harper and Capita Figures for Year End- A. E. Schilletter. ‘ ing Dec. 1, 1931. BARNWELL MAYOR WINS EASILY IN TUESDAY’S ELECTION, 5 TO 1. For the purpose of launching a live- at-home campaign a meeting w’a's called by the farm and home demon stration agents Thurscay morning in Barnwell. Miss Bes*ie Harper, of Aiken, district agent of home demon- sbiaticn service, presented a plan which stressed three important fea tures, namely: (1) Production on the farm of meat, poultry and dairy pro duct*, vegetables, fruit and cereals necessary for the adequate nutrition of the farm family; (2) conserva tion of fcod for winter u-e, accord ing to the canning and storage bud get; (3) adding to the family income through farm women’s marketing of surplus garden, iorchapd and! dairy products. She also outlined the nutritional necessities for one person, as follows: One quart of milk for each child and one pint a day for each adult, two vegetables a day (preferably a leafy one) besides potatoes, two servings of fruit (one raw fruit or vegetable or canned tomatoes if possible) one or more servings of whole grain cereal; one serving of any two of these: Cheesy eggs, Jean meat or dTied farmers in every county who pro- peas or beans, cured loans this year. It was stated | - A. E. Schilletter, Clemson College that buyers of these mortgaged extension horticulturist, gave timely crops will be held responsible for the information of the fall garden, em- proceeds of the cotton or tobacco pur- 1 phasizin^ its importance in relation chased if not paid to the Secretary ; to the health of the family, of Agriculture toward s liquidations of i County Agent Bcylston spoke on the crop loans | need of more dairy cows, giving fig- “Any one who advises a farmer ures showing that the number now that his crop loan will not have to be owned is not adequate to supply nu- paid is not a friend of the farmer,” J tritional need* of farm families in Mr. Cobb said, “and if the farmer, the county, heeds such advice he is only headed | Plans were made for community for trouble with the United States meetings in various sections of the Government.’ Air Show at Savannah to Be Held Saturday Oldest National Guard Aviation Unit Will Stage Meet at Municipal Airport. county, at which programs stressing food production and conservation will be carried out. M iss McNab, home agent presided. Sixteen communities of the county were represented. Washington, D. C., August 8.— The-Bureau of the Census announces a ( summary of the financial statistics of the State cf South Carolina for the fiscal year ending Dec. 31, 1931. The per capita figures for 1931 are based on an estimated population of 1,743,000. These statistices were compiled by Mr. E. C. Rhodes. Expenditures. The payment for operation and maintenance of the general depart ments of South Carolina amounted to $12,617,467, or $7.24 per capita. This includes $3,808,080, apportionments for education to the minor civil di vision of the State. In 1930 the per capita for operation and mainten ance of general departments was $8.17 and in 1917, $1.82. The pay ments for operation and maintenance of public service enterprises in 1931 amounted to $3,194; interest on (debt, $4,725,270; and outlays for perman ent improvements, $20,951,251. The total payments, therefore, for opera tion and maintenance of general de partments and public service enter piises for interest and outlays were $38,297,182. The totals include all payments for the years, whether made from current revenues or from the proceeds of bond issues. Of the governmental costs reported above, $21,419,174 was for highways, $828,557 being for maintenance and $20,590,617 for construction. Revenue. The total revenue receipts were $25,088,731 r or $14.39 per capita. Thi* was $7,742,800 mere than the total payments of the year, exclusive of the payments for permanent im provements, but $13,208,451 less than the total including those for perman ent improvements. These payment* in excess of revenue receipts we.r^ met from proceeds of debt obliga- gations. Property and special taxes represented 21.3 per cent of the total | 80 P* ease ^ t* 16 people «nd the Qualifies as the Only Mayor in the United States Who Own 8 and Pilots His Plane. Barnwell went on record in favor* of high-flying in Tuesday’s ihunicipal Democratic primary election, when, by a vote of five to one, C. G. Fuller was elected Mayor over W. D. Har ley and thereby qualified as the only Mayor in the United States who own* and pilots his plane and has his own private airport. The vote was: Ful ler 267; Harley, 51. The following unopposed ticket was elected along with Mr. Fuller: Aldermen—J. E. Harley, Jr., B. Wilson Walker, Mordecai M. Ma- zursky, H. L. O’Bannon, W. J. Lemon and J. B. Grubbs. Commissioners of Public Works—N. D. Coclin to succedd R. A. Deason and C. F. Molair to succeed T. J. Langley. Mayor-elect Fuller, who Is also president of The Bsnk of Barnwell and a highway contractor of national note, purchased a plane and learned to fly last fall. Since that time he has made many cross-country flights and has several hundred hours in the air to his credit. He plans to enter th cross-country Cord trophy flight the latter part of this month. Start ing at Washington, D. C.„ a Urge number of aviator^ will fly to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where they will be joined by a contingent from the Pacific coast and from that'point will race to Cleveland, Ohio, for the national air races August 27. Tue*day’s electic|n was Mi'. Ful ler’s first entry into the arena of politics and the handsome majority (hat he received attested the esteem in which Barnwell voters hold their adopted fellow townsman. He ia originally from Ohio and came to this section when he was awarded several highway building contracts. He HOPOCATRUC By G. Chalmer^ McDermid. SEEK EXCHANGE WITH GERMANY Following a letter , just received from Julius Klein, of the Department of Commerce in Washington in which he expresses the belief that 'such a proposal will be favorably received by the German Potash Syndicate, the attention of chairman Stone, cf the Federal Farm Board has been called to the importance of perfecting, if possible, a ba*is of exchange between that concern and potash for American cotton. — A letter has been addressed to Chairman Stone by Congressmn H. P. Fulmer urging that he get in touch with either the New York or Berlin office of this syndicate, with such a proposal. Mr. Klein points out in his Mr. and Mri. Stanley Brown, of lctter "' at . 76 P er cent of - the P otash Blackville, were also present. Mrs. Nellie Cave, of Barnwell, spent last week-end with her sister, Mrs. J. L. Buist. Edwterd Nine s tein rt Esq,, of Cd- .umbia, was the guest last week-end of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Ninestein. Miss Pansy Gleaton, of Springfield, the guest this week of her sis- Mrs. Henderson Fulmer. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Murray Walsh, Mrs. Charles Suber and Mrs. Marie Lewis, of Savannah, were visitoni in town on last Friday. Leroy Still, Jr., Sam Lowe, Jr., Harman Brown, Jr. and Bobby Pick ling expect to leave Monday for BMFton where they expect to camp consumed in this country comes, from Germany. The letter to Chairman Stone calls attention to the fact that German textile manufacturers could use Amer ican ccfton, and that American farm ers are in need of potash fbr ferti lizer. It is,^therefore, believed that the basis of' eexc]|iange can be worked out which will be mutually beneficial and at the same time provide markets for both products. Through .such an arrangement the present surplus of American cotton now in the hands of the Federal Farm Board could be reduced, and this would have its effect on the price oj the new coton crop which is rapidly nearing the market. Miss Polly Black has returned home The oldest and most outstanding national guard aviation unit in the United State* will be in Savannah on Saturday to put on an air show at (he Municipal Airport there, to which ttie peotje of this community and all the State are invited, free of charge. It is the Thirty-eighth Aviation Division cf the Indiana National Guard, under the command of Major R. F. Taylor, which will fly all the way from Indianapolis to Savannah on that day to put on the air circus in connection with the dedication ex ercises for the opening of the new paVed highway to the airport. A widely known parachute jumper, Joseph Blanc, who has been putting on two stunt* weekly at the Jackson ville airport for the past three years, will be an interesting feature of the show, making a parachute jump from 3000 feet. He is one of the greatest parachute jumpers in the United States. His jump is expected to prove a very spectacular one. Mayor Thomas M. Hoynes, Judge George W. Tiedeman, chair man Chat ham County Commissioners; Judge H. Emmett Wilson, for who the air port toad is being named; Rrig. Gen’l. Robert J. Travis, president of the National guard of the United State.*, who will speak at an international gathering in France in September, will be among those taking part in the program. Andrew A. Smith, president of the Savannah Chapter of the National Aeronautics Association, which to gether with the city, county and Chamber of Commerce, i s sponsoring the celebration, has issued an invita tion to the people of Georgia and South Carolina to meet the famous aviators, 13 of them, at a reception between 7 and 8 o’clock Saturday evening, to be given at the Hotel Savannah. Refreshments will be served. There will be no charge. Af ter the reception there will be a din ner, reservations for which mar y be made for one dollar, follSwing which the (distinguished guests will be taken to Savannah Beach for dancing. The road dedication takes place at two o’ clock in the afternoon, and the air aho*^at 2:30 o’clock. tell this story just a * go: d I’ve been wan for some time, and a time as any— Ordinal ily, in my usual routine, I do not visit colored farmers, but last June I had occasion, upen the *ug- gestion of a friend in Orangeburg, to put on a nitrogen-potash demon stration with David Cain, a colored farmer of the Cameron section of Orangeburg County. I went to Cain’s farm, in company wito this friend to explain to him just how I wished the demon*tration arranged on his cotton. I wanted two acres of cotton *both fertilized the same way, so that I might apply 200 pounds of 20 percent Kainit and 100 lbs. of sulphate of ammonia to one acre and 100 pounds of sulphate of ammonia without the kainit to the other acre. Both of these appli cations to go down as a top dresser. We looked over the cotton fields, which by the way were unusually good, especially the younger cotton, and selected a two acre plot. We told Cain that the materials would be shipped the next day. Not having contacfed Orangeburg Ccunty colored farmers befpre, I felt curicus to know what Cain was doing and how He felt about certain things, and questioned him accord ingly. Hi* answers to my questions showed him to .be far above any col ored farmer I had ever before met. ; He is a thinker and a planner. In other wdrds," today doesn’t just take care cf today with him, as the fol lowing statement will clearly indi cate. In his garden I found okra, toma toes, collard.*, cucumbers, watermelons and cantaloupes, cow peas, onions, beets and many other vegetables. Some for his own use and the rest for sale. revenue for 1931, 26.5 per cent for 1930, and 64.4 per cent for 1917. The increase in the amount of property and special taxes colelcted was 162.8 per cent from 1917 to 1931 but there was a decrease of 5.3 per cent from 1930 to 1931. The per capita of property and special taxes collected was $3.07 in 1931, $3.25 in 1930, and $1.24 in 1917. Earning* of general departments, or commissions for services rendered by State officials, tepresnted 5.1 per cent of the total revenue for 1931, 6.5 per cent for 1930, and 21.7 per cent for 1917. Business and nonbusiness licenses constituted 49.9 per cent of the total revenue for 1931, 59.9 per- cent for * n.. . -Receipts from business licenses con sist chiefly of taxes exacted from insurance, and other incorporoated companies, tax 4 on soft drinks, and sales tax on gasoline, while those from nonbusiness licenses comprise chiefly taxes on motor Vehicles and amounts paid for hunting and fishing privileges. The sales tax on gaso* ilne amounted to $5,902,537 in 1931, and $6,108,624 in 1930, a decrease of 3.4 per cent. Indebtedness. The total funded or fixed debt out standing Dec. 31, 1931 was $69,973,- 508. Of this afnount $64,341,630 was! for highways*. The net indebtedness (funded or fixed debt le*s sinking fund assets) was $69,429,974, or $39.83 per capita. In 1930 the per capita net debt was climate that he decided to locate ia Barnwell permanently and has taken quite an interest in civic affairs. Fol lowing the failure of the Bank of Western Carolina last fall, Mr. Ful ler was instrumental in establishing banks at Barnwell and Blackville and i s president of both institutions. Ha has planned to make a number of chric improvements, and also hopes to bet ter the city’s financial condition. Rev. A. E. Passes in Columbia Former Rector of Local Church Dies After an Iliaces of Six Weeks. Cclumbia, August 9.—The Bor, Albert Edward Evison, 69, died at the Timmons hospital at 10:05 Suh day night. He had been sick oix weeks. Mr. Evison was a retired Episcopal minister and had lived ii* Columbia for 15 years. 'He had retired April, 1931. He had been rector of parishei in Charleston, Walterborq and Ban- well before coming to Columbia. Ha was born in England but came to this country many years ago. Mr. Evison had received a special education in music and sang in St. John’s Church choir, also over the radio a number of times, and was • member cf the Shsndon choral ciety. He - was a modest, Christian and was much, beloved. $32.46 and in 1917, $3.32. The in- He & survived by his widow, Mra. A.’ creased per capita for'1931 is princf- j Evison. pally on account of highways. Assessed Valuation and Taxes Levied. that Cain is doing, bat as I stated before, I have never come in contact with them. I am telling you of this particular man, because I am proud t cknow feed for his sleek mules and hogs. His hay loft contained ample quanti ties cf cowpeas and grass hay to care for his work stock and his he has grasped the idea of cows; and the chickens about his his farm support him in a manner in which many of us would like to I B — A. * dooryard were busily scratching at In his smoke house, he showed me the scraps which had been recently our farms support us. Thousands of a dozen or more each of home made thrown them. Again, s mention about white farmerti over the South art de- Advertbe hams, shoulders and sides of bacon, and several hundred pounds of home made lard. In his storage house he had home made grits and meal, and if I remem ber rightly, rice, too. He had several tubs of home made soap, and he told me that he hadn’t bought ’’store” soap 'in year**. * tonuksnut showed plenty uf ccm—Just as we drove up to his ing these things, but the fact house, he had sold * wagon load of,this out-standing member of the corn to S neighboing white farmer, i ored race is doing them brought He was planning to put out enough forcibly to my attention, sweet potatoes for his own use and | Would that there were mors u to sell, as soon ss the season was farmers, and more David Cairn right. South Carolina Hvinf off their I understand that there are a great instead of just living many colored farmers in OraagsboiV I There's a