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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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