Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Negro Is Slain by White Man Sunday Curley Washington Killed by Moorey Gleaton at Latter’s Home Near Sunshine Church. j Curley Washington, negro, was shot and killed Sunday by Moored Gleaton, white, in the yard of the laj- ter’s home near Sunshine Church, fivfe miles from Blackville. Evidence at the coroner’s jury of inquest wa s that Washington went to Gleaton’s home, armed with a shot gun, and that the white man fired in self-defense. Gleaton came to Barnwell and sur rendered to Sheriff J. B. Morris, be ing released from custody Monday under a bond of |600. Cutting Affray Saturday. Mrs. Mazie Jeffcoat and “Buddy” Pairish, both white, were lodged in the Barnwell County jail Saturday by Sheriff Morris on a charge of assault and .battery with intent to kill as the result of an alleged attack with knive s on “Toot” Swett. The attack is said to have occurred near the home of Angus Lewis, who lives a few miles west of Barnwell. Swett was seriously cut and stabbed about his head, face and neck, and was » brought to a local physician for treatment. The blade of a butcher knife, which is said to have been used in the alleged assault, wa s broken cff near the handle and is now in the possession of the sheriff, a s is also a pocket knife, the latter being whetted to razor-like sharpness. Still Is Destroyed. A 110-gallon copper still, together with MOO gallons of mash and a half gallon of liquor, was destroyed Sat urday near Ashleigh Station by Sher iff Morris and hi s deputies, Gilmore S. Hailey^and Jut S. Still. Several Sales Made by Master Monday Reynolds Farm, Containing 1,001 Acres, Sold for $17,450.—Many Visitors Here. To Present Play Friday Night. Practices are being held daily for “Hold Everything,” the three-act musical comedy sponsored for the Christmas Charity Fund, and the play will be presented Friday night. De cember 9th, at eight o’clock,-in the school auditorium instead of the Vamp Theatre, as was previously an- nouhced. Several choruses iy costume will be an interesting feature of the perform ance. The opening chorus is danced by 12 chorus gills to the tune of “Jig Time.” A more sophisticated num ber, “In My Hideaway,” will be given by a group of girls in long flowing dresses. “Crazy People” will be pre sented by girls'-dressed; in crazy-quilt costumes and re<j kerchiefs. The two character parts of the play are well played by Miss Zeigler -<l£_“Aunt Sally” and Mrs. Mordecai Mazursky as “Daisy Blanche,” the br.y-crazy country girl. The comedy leads are taken by Hairy Anderson, the hick detective; BiHie Pavies as the frozen-faced butler, and Miss Carswell as the flapperish maid. Ber nard Plexico has ample opportunity to display his histr'cnic abilities as “Prince Nichodemus of Moravia,” who in bioken English makes ardent love to Miss VVade, a young society girl, about whose romance the play cen ters. Herman Mazursky enaets tfie gang ster rcle by flourishing artillery with accompanyiMg commands of “Hand ever them sparklers!” “Houn-Boy” Lemon is good in his ■part of “Mr. Buckingham,” a bluster ing attorney. The wray Miss Wade and Basil Jenkins click in their parts a s sweethearts has also excited the admiration of those who have seen rehearsals. “Dub” Turner, the young ^ut-up and his fiance, Dorothy Sanders, form another sweetheart team. “Mrs. Reynolds,” Ann’s mother, is ably portrayed by Miss Elizabeth Mc- Nab. Mrs. Solcmon Blatt interprets the new song hits used. Injured in Auto Accident. Otis Cock and Rube Still, both of Barnwell, escaped serious injury Sun day when the former’s car crashed into a tree a few miles from this city. Cook suffered a cut lip and a leg in jury, while . Still received painful iiruisee. A large number of visitors frem all sections of the county journeyed to Barnwell Monday, the occasion be ing “December salesday.” There wag some selling and trading of livestock, but most of the visitors came to at tend the legal sales, six being made by G. M. Greene, Esq., master in equi ty, as follows; M. A. Rountree vs. Lennie Reed, et al., 11.71 acres of land, sold to Paul Allen for $251. N. Blatt vs. C. J. H. Still, et at., several lots in the town of Barnwell, sold to Solomon Blatt for $450. First Carolinas Joint Stock Land Bank vji. L. X. Owens, 1,015 acies of land in Bennett Springs township, bought by the plaintiff for $8,975. First Carolinas .Joint Stock Land Bank vs. Reynolds Farming Corpora tion, 1,001 acres of land near Reynolds Station, bought by the plaintiff for $17,450. First Carolinas Joint Stock Land Bank vs. Nora B. Wooley, et al., 153.20 acies in Elko School District, bought by the plaintiff for $2,475. Joshua A. Stansell vs. John S. Keel, 60 acies in Barnwell township, bought by the plaintiff for $2,100. Barnwell Woman is . Painfully Burned A V Mrs. William McNab’s Clothing Ig nited While Standing in Front of Fireplace. Mrs. William McNab, of this city, was painfully burned Friday morning when her clothing was ignited while she was standing in front of an open fireplace at her home. Mrs. L. O. Drew, who make s her home with Mrs. McNab, extinguished the flames with a tug but not before Mrs. McNab had received painful burns from her waist to her shoulders. The injured woman has been resting comfortably, how ever, and it is hoped that she will soon be fully recovered from her un fortunate experience. To Hold Educational * Meeting December 15 Several Speakers to Make Addresses to Gathering in Local School .X.. Auditorium. _ Seen and Heard Here During the Past Week A Little Sense and Nonsense About People You Know and Others You Don’t Know. Sheriff J. B. Morris remaiking that he ha s 22 prisoners in jail awaiting trial. . . Coach “Billy” Laval, of the University of South Carolina, en joying a bird hunt with Dr. M. C. Best. . . A letter from Mrs. Jose phine E. Wilson of Los Angeles, Calif., to Mayor C. G. Fuller, in which she seeks to locate relatives of her parents, who were originally from old Barnwell District. Her letter is published in full in this issue. . . . Two hunter s reporting a varied as sortment of game bagged on one day’s hunt--28 birds, two rabbits and an o’pos^um. . . A local livestock dealer remaiking that he did a good business Monday,- selling seven mules and trading two others. . . . Dr. and Mrs. M. C. Best’s new home on Main Street rapidly nearing comple tion. •. ’ Bamberg Woman Fatally Burned. Bamberg, Dec. 3.—Mrs. Eunice Folk Kilgus, 23, wife cf W. Fritz Kilgus, Bamberg truck operator and coal deal er, died at noon today as the result of burns sustained yesterday morn ing when her clothing caught on fire while she was standing in front of the firep’ace. On arising yesterday, Mrs. Kilgus went into the living room to dress by the fire. Her clothing caught when she stood tco near the blaze, and her body was quickly enveloped by the flames. Mr. Kilgus, in another room, heard her cries and ran to her assis tance. He immediately grasped the situation and ran to the bed and gathered.up the bed clothing in which he wrapped his wife to extinguish the flames. However, the entire lower part of her body had been teiribly bumed by the flaming night clothing. Although her condition wa s pronounc ed serious, it was not believed, until some time later, that she was in a critical condition. In extinguishing the flames from hi s wife’s body, Mr. Kilgus was pain fully burned about both hands, but his condition is not serious. Mrs. W. B. Johnson.' Williston, Dec. 5.^—Mrs. W. B. John- son. of the New Forest seetyo-n—near Williston, died suddenly at her home tlenly eh }n Mrs. Sallie R. Rav. An educational meeting will be held in the Barnwell high school audi torium, December 15th at 3:30 p. m., at which time those who attend will hear addresses by Hon. Solomon Blatt, member of the Barnwell Coun ty legislative delegation; W. H. Ward, president of the S. C. Teacher's’ Asso ciation; the Hon. H. J. Crouch, presi dent of the Barnwell County Teachers’ Association, and Pi of. W. W. Carter, executive committeeman of the S. C. Teachers Association. In a letter of invitation sent out this week,. B. S. Moore, Jr., county superintendent of education, had the following to say: “There i s a great dea^ of misunder standing and ignorance as well as misstatements, regarding the financial situation of the schools in this State. “There will be a meeting—purely for the purpose of giving information—at Barnwell on December 15th, to which those who are vitally interested in the problem as to whether our schools shall continue to be kept open and function properly ,aie invited. “The meeting will last one and one- half hours. No resolutions will be adopted. This is solely for the pur pose of ‘Carrying the Fact s to the Folks.’ ” ■ Unemployed ► BARNWELL COUNTY REUEF COUNCIL ORGANIZED HERE California Woman Seeks Information Mrs. Josephine E. Wilson, of Los An- geles, Would Locate Relatives of Her Parents. p ^ HEADED today. She had been in failing health for several year s but was not confined to bed and her death was wholly un expected. She was about 60 years of age, a daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. Wilson Bonds. She had for many year s been a member of Edisto Bap tist church and has many friends throughout this section. Funeral ser vices will be held Tuesday at 11 o’ clock at Edisto church. Suivivinjr are five daughters, Mrs. R. H. Weeks, Mrs. H. L. Givens and Mrs. Bessie Tarrance, of Williston; Mrs. Luther Parker, of Graniteville; four sons, Floyd and Gerard Johnson, of Williston, Claude Johnson, of Aik en, and Norman Johnson, of Florida; three brothers, Joe Bonds, of Willis ton, and Chester and Wilson Bonds, of Gaffney. Mrs. Sallie R. Ray, 67, of Black ville, died Wednesday of last week at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H. H. King, at Dunbarton. Funeral ser vices were held at three o’clock on Thursday afternoon at the Healing Springs Baptist Church by the Rev. B. H. Duncan, assisted by the Rev. B. H. Price. Her six sons-in-law act ed as pallbearers. M rs. Ray is survived by three sons, James J. Ray, of Ulmeus; Wil liam S. Ray, of Savannah, and Claude E. Ray, of Milledgeville, Ga.; six daughters,'Mrs. FranTTR. Trobridge, of Aiken; Mrs. Claude I. Truluck, of Elloree; Mrs. .J. N. McMillan, of ^ | | | Spartanbifrg; Mrs. ChaTles Trollinger, of Burlington, N. C.; Mrs. Thoma s L. Hamilton, of Augusta, and Mrs. H. H. King, of Dunbarton. Hotel Changes Management. Fly to Football Game. .. Mayor C. G. Fuller' and Senator Edgar A. Brown, cf this city, “Cotton” Jones and Harvey Mobley, of Orange burg, flew to Birmingham, Ala., Sat urday morning in the former’s plane to attend the Auburn-Carolina foot ball game, which resulted in a 20 to 20 tie. The party returned to Barn well Sunday afternoon, making the return trip at the rate of about two miles a minute. They encountered rough flying weather, with the result that all became air-sick, necessitating a landing at Atlanta Sunday. Advertise In The People-Sentinel The Hotel Diamond changed man agement Tuesday, when Mr. and Mrs. Jack Reynolds, who have been operat ing this popular hostelry for the past several years, moved to Plum Branch, and Mrs. Olaree C’ail, cf this city, to(|k chaige of the hotel. The change came as quite a surprise, as it was not known that Mr. an<? Mrs. Rey nolds were even contemplating mov ing away. They have many friends here who regret to see them leave. However, the hotel is still in capable hands, as Mrs. Cail has had consider able experience in this line of work. A number of year s ago she operated the Molair House and since that time she has conducted a boarding house at her home on Main Street. To Distribute Cloth. The Red Cross cloth will be ready for distribution next week. Applica tions for this cloth must be made to the committees from which flour was obtained in order to avoid over lapping and unnecessary investigation. In making application, state number in family, names and ages of children and whether they are boys cr girls. The Barnwell Red Cross room will be open Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs day end Friday cf next week. • HOPOCATRUC By G. Chalmers McDermid. Another postcard of interest was received last week from Lepine Rice, Jr., Barton, S. C. He states: “I am glad to tell you that I put a small amount of 0-18-12 nitrogen potash top dresser (200 pounds per acre) on four rows of my corn. When I har vested this, I checked them with four rows of corn without the 0-18-f2 top dresser. I found that the rows with out the 0-18-12 gave me 6 7-8 bushels and those with the 0-18-12 gave me 9H bushels..” During the week, I visited Capt. Henry F. Bamberg at his home near Bamberg. Capt. Bambeig showed me a record he had kept this summer of a test in one of his cotton fields where he had used straight nitrogen as a top dresser against a combination of nitrogen and potash. This test was one that was visikd last summer by the Bamberg County Faim tour under the supervision of W. H. Craven, County Agent, and k which was attended by a great many Bamberg County farmers. ”T~ One acre of Capt. Bamberg’s field was top dresse^ with 100 pounds of sulphate of amrtl<;nia and an adjoining acre was top dressed with 100 pounds of sulphate of ammonia and 200 lbs. cf 20 per cent manure salts. The first acre gave him a yield of 847 pounds cf seed cotton, and the second acre yielded 974 pounds, a difference of 137 pounds of seed cot ton in favor cf the nitrogen potash top dresser. And by the way, did you ever stop to figure out just how much plant food is contained in top dressings of this kind? lOO nounds of sulphate of ammonia will give y^u approximately 25 TbsT of ammonia per acre, v^hile the com bination of the 100 pounds of sulphate of ammonia and 200 pounds of 20 per cent manure salts gives us 25 pounds of ammonia and 40 pounds of potash or roughly a 0-9-13 mixture. Cotton rust showed up to some ex tent on Capt. Bamberg's cotton where he had the straight nitrogen, but wa s entirely absent where the nitrogen potash top dresser was applied. Cotton rust is potash hunger. This fact was very plain to the many thousands of farmers who visited the Sand Hill Experiment Station at Pontiac last summer, and to the many other thousands who viewed the countless thousands of acres of rusted cotton which we had in South Carolina last summer. Where ever one saw cotton f rust last summer, one could safely wager his pennie s the fields in which it appeared, were fertilized with incom- p’rte fer.ilizers cr with insufficient Mrs. Josephine E. Wilson, of Los Angeles, Calif., is seeking to locate relatives of her parents, who former ly lived in old Barnwell District, and has addressed a letter to Mayor C. G. Fuller, asking his assistance. She writes.as follows:. ! “Enclosed clipping explains how I got ycur name and address. My father’s family (parents) were from Barnwell Dist. I have'so often tried to locate them. So far have failed. Seeing your name rather gave me a thought to try once more. The name is Cochran and Stallings. It is pos sible that through tht D. A. R. or U. D. C., some trace can be had. If it is not asking too much, I would be very grateful for some clue or line leading in the right direction. I am especially anxious on account of my son, who would like to connect with S. A. R. My father was killed at the Battle of Antietam; that left me fatherless at a very tender age.” The clipping enclosed with Mrs. Wilson’s letter wa s from the Los An geles Evening Herald and was as fol lows: “Flying Mayor. “Barnwell, S. C., Nov. 16.—I. N. S.) —C. G. Fuller believes he i 8 the only mayor in the United States who owns and pilots his own airplane and has his own private airport. Fuller, who is mayor of Barnwell, ha s made a number of cross-country flights.” If any readers cf The People-Senti nel can supply Mrs. Wilson with the desired information, they should ad dress her at 507 Wilcox Building, Los Angeles, Calif. BY C. G. FULLER A3 CHAIRMAN-TREASURER. v Several Hundred Men to Be Give* Immediate Work Through Effort* of Senator Bronw. Martin Farmer in , Serious Condition E. B. Ussery Accidentaly Shot Junius Black While Turkey Hunting Thursday. by E. B. Ussery, Martin farmer, today i 8 in a serious condition in the Uni versity hospital after a hunting ac cident in South Carolina swamps on Thursday afternoon. Suffering from gunshot wounds of the left aide, Ussery was brought to the hospital after Junius Black, of Martin, a hunting companion, acci- dgrrtatly hgit shot ^ the wounded man To relieve the unemployment aitu- ation in Barnwell County and avert distressed conditions resulting there from, Senator* Edgar A. Brown, of Barnwell, has arranged the fed eral government, through the South Carolina Relief Council, for an allots ment of several* thousand dollars monthly to be expended in public im provements under the direction of the Barnwell County Relief Council, of which C. G. Fuller mayor of Barp- well, is chairman and treasurer, and Mrs. A. A. Lemon, Perry B. Bush, t. W. Patterson and Miss Elizabeth Mc- Nab are directors of various depart ments of the organization. In this matter, Barnwell County again takes the lead, being one of the first eight counties in the State to secure an allotment of the federal funds availa ble. * k t Senator Brown appeared Friday be fore the State council with an appli cation signed by the other members of the legislative delegation, CoL Solomon Blatt, of Barnwell, and Win chester C. Smith, Jr., of Williston, and appealed for aid to relieve the unemployment situation, with its attendant dire need in many families throughout the county. As a result of his visit, Barnwell County was awarded an allotment of $5,000 for the balance of the month of Decem ber, and plans are rapidly being per fected for the expenditure of this sum by the local relief council in furnish ing employment on the various pro jects to be inaugurated in the county. Local Council Meets. The local council met Tuesday morn ing in Senator Brown’s office and perfected an organization yrith the following officers: C. G. Fuller, chairman and treasur er; Perry B. Bush, director of employ ment; Mrs. A. A. Lemon, director of charities; J. W. Patterson, director of projects; Miss Elizabeth McNab, director of women’s projects. Service committees to aid in the selection of work to be done through out the county will be appointed at Williston, Blackville, Hilda, Kline, Dunbarton, Boiling Springs and Four Mile. These committees will also bs expected to recommend deserving peo ple in need of employment in their various communities. The members of the legislative delegation will serve as ex -efficio members of all while hunting* turkeys. According to the story told hospital authorities, Ussery had shot one tur key and he and Black wandered through the swamps using “turkey callers” to attract game. Both men mistook the ether’s artificial calls for game and searched the origin of the calls. Usseiy was behind a clump of bushes when Black fired a t about 20 paces. — The crisi s in Ussery’s condition will not come until this afternoon, hospi tal attaches said. —The Augusta Chronicle. Reports received here Monday wei*e to the effect that Mr. Ussery’s con dition was greatly improved and it is believed that he will recover unless complications set in. ADVERTISE in The People-Sentinel amounts of potash in complete ferti lizers, in the greatest majority of cases. I was asked the question some time ago—“Do the farmers of your section know that cotton rust i s potash hun ger?” In hurriedly answering the question, I said, yes. Upon further inquiry, however, I have had a great many farmers and fertilizer dealers tell me . that they didn’t actually know it, but they knew that the addition of potash a 8 a top dresser would elimin ate it. So I was right and I was wrong. I make the statement here, heweier, cotton rust IS potash hun ger. tees. Character of Work. Among the work to be done will ba the renovation of public buildings, drainage work in and about the vari ous towns, repairing streets and roads, and any legitimate projects of a like nature. Among other things, the local council propose 8 to renovate the Court House and fill in the public square around the same, which will provide immediate employment for several score laborers and teams. In fact, it i 8 understood that a crew of from 50 to 100 men and teams will begin on the Court House Square fill this (Thursday) morning, and other jobs will be under way as quickly as crews can be organized. Scale of Wages. All of the funds secured from the federal government are to be expend ed for labor alone and the following scale of wages has been adopted by the local council: ) Unskilled negro labor, six cents an hour; unskilled white labor, 8 to 10 cents an hour; sub-foremen, 20 cents an hour; general superintendent, SO cents an hour and mileage; doobls team with wagon, driver, pick and shovel, 25 cents an hour; single team with wagon, driver, pick and shovel, 15 cents ^n * hour—wagons to be equipped with dump ■ bottoms m—lf with loose boards; carpenters and painters, 15 cents an henr. All work based on ten hours per day. (CONTINUED ON THIRD PAGE)