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£9* TBS OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNTY.* s' Barnwell •— CAtMoUdatoi Jan* 1, 1925. “Just Like a Member of the Family” VOLUME LVI. BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1932. NUMBER Grubbs and Morris Qualify for Sheriffs Race Small Vote Polled in Barnwell County Smith Leads Blease by’ Less Than 100 Votes.—Fulmer Gets 74 Majority in County. With 15 out of 17 precincts reported in—Barnwell County in the race for* the United States Senate, Senator Smith was leading former Senator Cbleman L. Blease by less than 100 votes. In the congressional race, with all precincts reported except Friendship, Congressman'Fulmer was leading former Congressman Lever by 74 votes. Mr. Fulmer w r as reelected i|j the new Second District by a ma jority of abou\ 5,000. None of *the candidates for the major county offices was opposed. They are: Robert- L. Bronson, (incumbent), clerk of court. G. M. Greene (incumbent), master in equity. Edgar A. Brown (incumbent,), State senator’. Solomon Blatt and Winchester C. Smith, Jr., (incumbent), house of rt presentatives. In the race for magistrate at Barn well, G. M. Hogg defeated W T . P. San ders, the incumbent, by a majority of 51 votes, the totals being, Hogg 313, Sandeis 262. Magistrate W. S. Grubbs and Dr. O. D. Hammond will run a second race for magistrate at Blackville, the vote being: H. L. DeWitt 103, Magis trate Giribb- 258, Dr. Hammond 234. Magistrate G. R. Peeples was re elected in Bennett Springs and Four Mile townships without opposition, as was al-o Magistrate C. S. Anderson at Dunbarton. In the race for magist^tte for Great Cypress township, Nfagistrate J. W. Sanders lacked only eight votes of having a majority over his three opponent-, the vote being: Vl(. B. Fowke 36. W. H. Harden 64, C. \ D. Owens 31 and J. W. Sanders 124. Magistrate W. K. Black was r elected over Paul H. Sanders at Hilda) the totals being: Black 200, Sanders • 173. Magistrate J. M. Hill defeated George L. Hill in Red Oak township, their totals being 71 and 15 respec tively. It is understood that G. L. Hill conceded his defeat several days before the election and Tuesday morning told his opponent that he •wanted his (G. L. Hill’s) friends to vote for the present magistrate. Magistrate M. C. Kitchings defeat- ed J. H. McDonald, 351 to 142. Th£ unofficial tabulation for U. S. Senator, Congressman and , Magis trates appears elsewhere'in this issue. Seen and Heard Here During the Past Week w V' Baseball News MAGISTRATES’ RACES. Blackvill« £ & Q to X) X) 9 o ■o c o £ £ a 32 Blackville 84 Double Ponds.. 17 Healing SjJgS.... 2 205 26 27 174 5 55 Totals 103 258 234 Great Cypress a> c Vi C -t ft* o o ca fc, a O «. at -9 c eg W ! reat Cypress.. 5 i 44 i 19 iloam 31 j 20 ! 12 Totals 36 | 64 ! 31 97 27 124 Hilda . , - — Black Sanders Friendship 29 52 Hercules .. ..... 45 69 Hilda — - ... 73 40 Reedy Branch . 53 !2 Totals _ .i. 200 173 Williston _ 4t. Kitchings McDonald Elko —. 60 ^ 25 Rosemary ..l. 55 14 Williston . 236 103 Totals 351 142 Irs. J. O. Crtxit and little daugh- Sarah, returned to their home in umbia Tuesday after spending day* with Mrs. S. 1C da Smith Leads Blease; Fulmer is Elected Local Public School to Open Next Monday •V A Little Sense and Nonsense About People You Know and Others You Don’t Know. Williams Running Third With Harris Tailing the Ticket Early Wed- nesday Morning. List of Books for the Various Grades Not to Be Published Because of Past Confusion. FIVE CANDIDATES OFFER FOR OFFICE OF CORONER >e Mrs. Clara L. Johnston Hitt, of Elko, expressing her appreciation of an editorial" in last week’s issue of The People-Sentinel. . s . . And Col. N. G. W. Walker telling the edi tor that a recent article reminded him of the writing o£ the late Major John W. Holmes, who established The Barnwell People in 1877—than which he could have paid no higher compli- fftent. . . The boiled peanut mar ket “busting” and small boys offering a bag for two cents instead of the customary nickel. . . Ben Moore, manager of the Farmers’ Ginnery, cutting the price of ginning, bagging and ties to $2 a bale. . . The price of ice advancing from 25 cents to 50 cents per hundred pounds. . . A crowd of friends and admirers of S. H. (“Tank”) Ussery, of Barnwell, per suading him to enter the race for coroner. Dr. O. D. Hammond, of Blackville, in town to file his expense account as a candidate for Magistrate. . . A. H. Ninestein, Jr., of Blackville, making a personal canvass of the voters in his campaign for the office of Coro ner. . . Comments about the “hot heat wave” of the past week. . . . And locusts, the hot weather bugs, singing their songs lohn Giubbs, of Blackville, route 2, renew ing his subscription to The People- Sentinel. . . . And likewise A.H. Croft, same address, J. R. Haiti-ron, Jr., of Chaileston, Shellie Black, of Barnwell, and L. G. Richardson, Jr., of Washington, D. C. D. C. Martin, who taught C. G. Fuller how to fly, and Mr. Ford, owner of the Greenville air pert, landing at the Banwell airport to refuel. . . Nearly everybody with a piece of smoked glass viewing the partial eclipse of the sun. Barnwell suffered two more defeats on Thursday and Friday afternoons of last week, when Thomson and Millen turnecl back the locals. Thursday Thomson took the big end of a 5 to 2 score in a real game of baseball vn which the result was not deqided until the last man was out in the ninth inning but the locals were unable to bonch hits for the neces sary scores tb win. A disputed de cision of Umpitte Covington may have changed the score. With nobody out, Hair hit to righfVfield for three bases and attempted to\score on a ball hit to the infield. He\ wiw called out at home but many persons, including, it is said, the visiting\catcher, claimed that he was safe. Friday afternoon, tHfe locals got off to a one-run lead against Millen in the first inning only to have the score tied in the fourth. Theyy came in the same frame, however, to score two more and again take\the lead. Millen went ahead in the filth when the vL-itors pushed over thnee runs and put the game on ice in tne ninth with three more. By virtue nf this victory, Millen wah tied for\ first place with Rinker’s Painter’s oA Au gusta. . Barnwell swamped Wanenv'ilb here Monday afternoon in a slow, list less, uninteresting game, the finsl score being 11 to 2. Marchant, c Warr’enville, and Correll. of Barnwell, each got a home run, the former in the first inning after 2 men were out to give the visitor’s the lead for a short time. Ellison D. Smith, who has repre sented South Carolina in the United States longer than any other man has done, led'the ticket Tuesday in the first primary and wjll be opposd by CoI?man L. Blease, former Senator and former Governor of the State. From returns available early Wednes day mom’ng, Ashton H. Williams, Florence attorney, was running third, with Solicitor Leon W. Harris, of Anderson, fourth. With unofficial returns recorded from 1,250 of the State’s 1,443 pre cincts, the vote stood: Smith, 85,595. Blease, 72,064. William*, 40,060. Harris, 37,032. / Smith, known as one of the sen ate’s experts on agricultural matters, particularly cotton, took the lead as early returns were tabulated and gradually increased his margin, but was never in striking distance of a majority of the votes tabulated. He has declared himself a personal and political dry, but announced he would be guided by the national platform of the party, including the prohibition repeal plank. •> A position opposing change in the 18th amendment until after the “white Democrats” of the State have ex pressed themselves was taken by Blease. Judging by the vote heard from early Wednesday, it seemed that, con sidering the heavy enrollment of over 400,000, the vote was not heavy and the total will not go much above 250,000. Congressman Fulmer has a decided lead over his opponent, A. F. Lever. The vote, with 188 boxes reported cut of 238, w T as as follows: Fulmer, 19,205. Lever, L4,712. In other congressional races it is indicated that Taylor has defeated Congressman Dominick and another opponent on the first ballot. Richards has a good lead over Congressman Stevenson, the latest vote being: Richards, 15,389; Stevenson, 12,896. Congressman McSwain has been ap parently renominated by a large majority. Henry C. Folk, of Bamberg, de feated Senator William L. Riley, and Representative Faber W. Kearee was defeated by J. Wesley Crum. The 1932-’33 session of the Barn well public school will begin next Monday, September ^5th. Supt. W W. Carter said Monday that a list of the school books for the various grades will not be published in the newspaper this year* because of the fact that in the past some confusion has been caused by some parents buying the wrong books. The list of teachers for the coming session js as follows: First Grade—Miss Annie Margaret Zeigler, of Denmark. Second Grade—Miss Blanche Ellis, of Due We c t. Third Grade—Miss Virginia Hutto, of Denmark- Fourth Grade—Miss Annie Mabry, of Abbeville. Fifth Grade—Miss Rhoda Wade, of Chester. Sixth Grade—Miss Sue Carter, of Varnville. Seventh Grade—Ml-s Fay Burch, of Ruby. High School—Miss Margaret Free, of Bamberg, history; Miss Alice Cars well, of Augusta, mathematics; Miss Eddie Bradham, of Pinewood, Eng- lish-Latin; Miss Gladys Bell, of Col umbia, English; Miss Anna Cynthia Metz, of Lexington, science; Mrs. Ira Fales, of Barnwell, music; W. R. Price, of Columbia, principal; W. W. Carter, of Barnwell, superintendent. Will Start Schedule ^ Work September 1 THREE PRIMARY ELECTIONS WILL BE HELD. Cadet Elmer W. Grubbs Has Had Two Months of Intensive Military Instruction. J. Buiat Grubbs Qualified far the Race Just a Few Minutes Before Time Expired. West Ponit, New York, August 30. —After two months of intensive mili tary instruction at the United States Military Academy here, Cadet Elmer W. Grubbs, son of Mr. and Mrt. J. Buist Grubbs, of Barnwell, will start academic work on September' 1st. Grubb/, who was appointed to West Point by Representative Butler B. Expect Large Crowd at Savannah Beach Healing Springs School. Blackville, Aug. 29.—Announce ment was made today by Supt. Law rence E. Whittle that the Healing Springs public, school will open for the 1932-33 session at nine o’clock Thursday morning, Sept. 1. The first two day.* will be given over largely to enrollment, organization and clas sification. Public exercises will be held in the school auditorium and a number of short and inspiring ad dressee will be made. The public is cordially invited to attend. With the summer season drawing to a close patronage at Savannah Beach, particularly of people from the interior parts of Georgia and South Carolina, is expected to reach a climax over Labor Day. The un precedented number of visitors there for the 4th of July pre?ages a repeti tion of this for Labor Day and the week-end preceding, always the big gest day of the year at the Beach next to the Fourth. Hotels both at the Beach and in the city were filled, making it necessary to send many of those who had not made advance reservation, to boarding houses. Andrew A. Smith, manager of the Hotel Savannah, Savannah’s leajding hotel, wishes to call these facts to the attention of those of this community an<i section who plan ,a visit to Geor gia’s premier resort at this time. In this connection he wishes to remind the readers of this newspaper of the special week-end rate at his hotel. For the small charge of $8.75, one may secure an excellent room with bath from Friday afternoon through Sunday evening, or from Saturday though Monday night, with meals, free theatre ticket and free dance ticket to Tybrisa pavillion at the Beach, with laundry and suit press ing added. This unusual rate will ex pire Labor Day. Hare, entered the Military Academy on July 1st. Under the program of instruction for academic work as ordered by Major General W. D. Connor, Superin tendent, classes will contain from 8 to 14 cadets, which assures each cade* 1 reciting in every subject daily. Aca demic work will start at 8:00 a. m. and extend until 3:00 p. m., with an hour’s intermission for lunch. After the colse of academic instruction, the cadets will have an hour of either military drill or intramurel athletics. Each night at 7:30 p. m., except Sat urday, they will be required to be in their rooms studying until 9:30 p. m. During the Fall, Grubbs will have three trips away from West Point, when he will accompany the Corps of Cadets to the Harvard, Yale and Notre Dame football games. Those trips will make a welcome break in cadet life. At Boston and New Haven, the Corps will parade and be reviewed by distinguished public officials. While at New York City for the Notre Dame game, it is probable that the cadets will be dismissed immediately after the game until midnight. Local and Personal News of Blackville Blackville, Aug. 27.—The Misses Elaine Hirley and Dorothy RicharJ- son, of Barnwell, were guest- this week of ^liss Eleanor' Sanders. Mrs. S. I. Buist, Miss Ann<* Mary Buist and Sam Buist, of Macon, Ga., are guests this week of the former’s sister, Mr's. A. B. Hair. S. I. Buist expects to arrive Saturday io actom pany his family home Sunday. Miss Effie Morris, of New Je*>rey, is the guest this week or her lister, Mrs. O’Neal Folk. . J. .Buist Grtibbs, local Chevrolet dealer, qualified as a candidate for the office of Sheriff of Barnwell County yesterday (Wednesday) morn ing less than five minutes before the time limit, 12 o'clock noon, expired. He will oppose Sheriff J. B. Morris, who was appointed by the governor Last week to succeed the late Sheriff Boncil H. Dyches. Mr. Grubbs’ en try into the race, together with five candidates for the office of Coiener, will furnish the voters of the county hot campaign after a summer of listless local politics due to the fact that all major office-seekers were un opposed. Mr. Grubbs is not a new-comer in politics, although he has never be fore sought a county office. He en joys the distinction of having served as Alderman in the towns of Hilda. Blackville, Williston and Barnwell and is at present a member of the local city council, having been re nominated in the recent municipal election without opposition. Like Sheriff Morris, he has a wide family connection ih the county and probably knows as m4ny people by name as any other man in the county by virtue of his long business career. As stated in these columns last week. Sheriff Morris has served the people of the county for many yean as Supervisor and Sheriff, resigning the latter office in 1919 to devote hie entire time to his private busineea affairs. While Sheriff, he was gener ally regarded as a fearless and effi cient officer of the law and gained widespread fame by his chase arm cap ture of Richard Henry Austin, the negro desperado. The outcome of this race will be watched with interest by the friends of both candidates. % The Coroner’s Race. Five candidates lined up at the tape in the race for Coroner as follows: A. H. Ninestein, Jr., and Joe M. Halford, of Blackville, J. Madison Templeton, of the Double Ponds section, 8. H. Ussery of Barnwell, and Jamds T. Still, of the Hilda section. Young Ninestein is a son of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Ninestein and is * recent gradn- Harry Lee Frazer, of Orangeburg, ate of the Blackville High SchOoL is visiting Harry Haigler. j Mr. Halford is a member of the eotnt- Mrs. James S. Nevils and xon, ty board of Frank Nevils, spent this week in'pleton made th< stration. Mr. Tem~ race several years Florence, as guests of her brother. Tom Bailey and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bailey and little son, of Columbus, Ga., are guests this week of Dr. and Mrs. R. A. Gyles. Mrs. Dan Tear and little daughter, of Clemson College, are the guests this week of Mrs. S. G. Lowe. Wins Dukf Scholarship. Advertise in The Iteopie-Sentinel United States Senate and Congress (Unofficial Returns.) \ Protracted Meeting. The Rev. J. G. Martin will conduce a protracted meeting at Allen’s Chapel, beginning Monday 1 night, Sept. 5th, at 8:00 o’clock. It will be remembered that Mr. Martin i# a ffirmer pastor of Allen’s Chapel. He was also pastor of other churches in Barnwell and Allendale Counties. Miss Jewel Woodward has returned from a visit to relatives and friends in Baltimore, Md n and Washington, D. C. While in Washington she was of Mr. and Mrs. Perry B. UNITED STATES SENATE GRESS Ol 3 & 5 Barnwell 245 Bennett Springs 20 Blackville 112 Double Ponds 10 Dunbarton 12 Elko 29 Four Mile 3 Friendship Great Cypress 30 Healing Springs Hercules 40 Hilda 37 Red Oak 62 Reedy Branch 28 Rosemary 8 Siloam 22 Williston 86 ■TOFXTs m X eg X cn £ eg £ u V £ 9 t* O > J 32 0 47 7 2 27 7 149 11 165 24 35 20 25 108 117 10 119 5 16 3 1 25 231 18 301 32 11 57 6 338 25 146 17 54 26 30 John Riley Black, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Black, has been notified that he has been given a scholarship at Duke University. Young Black graduated from the Bamberg high school in May with honors. He was historian of his class. He expects to take a pre-medical course at Duke and his friends rejoice that he has been selected as a scholarship student.— Bamberg Herald. J. R. Black, father of the fortunate young man, is a former resident of Barnwell, where he conducted a fur niture store for several years. The family has many relatives and friends throughout the county who will be in terested in the above item from the Bamberg Hertld. ago for a place op the county bound of commissioners when that officj was in the primary. Mr. Ussery is a car penter and also farms in a small way, and Mr. Still is a farmer. All are making active campaign* for th* of fice and their cards will be found elsewhere in this issue of The People- Sentinel. These races were reopened last week following the death of Shoriff Dyches and Coroner Lancaster. Mrs. O. R. Fail. Atwater Kent Audition. Mrs. Louise Porter Bauer, of Barn well, has been appointed chairman of Barnwell County for the coming Atwa ter Kent Radio Audition. Anyone wish ing to enter this contest should apply at once, aa the time is short Olar, August 29.—Mrs. Lula Fail, wife of O. R. Fail, d #d at one o'clock Friday, August 26th, after an flhwaa of one week. Her body was laid to reat in the Friendship Churchyard on Saturday morning at 11 o’clock, the funeral services being conducted by her pastor, the Rev. D. W. Heckle. Mrs. Fail is survived by her hus band and nine children, Mrs. Freddie Gunnels, of Govan, Mrs. Floyd Main, of Fairfax, Mrs. Barney Zissett, of Olar, Dewey, Irene, Leighton, Sidney, O’Neil and Louise Fail, all of Olar; her parents, Mr, and Mr*. J. A. Tuck er, five brothers and two nie Tucker, of Bamberg, Mrs. Morris, of Hilda, Mrs. Grubbs, of Blackville, Mope, Monnie and Lutkor Tucker, Barnwell, who have the