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Barnwell 50 and 25 Years Ago.
IntwestinR Items Gleaned From the File* of The Barnwell People.
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JANUARY
Our Cotton Croip,-
der and Co., of New York, estimate
last year's cotton crop in this county
at 32,301 bales, an increase of 5,377
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bales over the crop of 1881.
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Burned to Death.—Mrs. Mattie
Reed, wife of Mr. Jerome I. Reed, a
, JANUARY 2, 1908.
The Banner County.—Not a homi
cide or serious accident occurred in
this county Christmas week. May
that record continue until the year
ends.
young planter of Blackyiile Township,f
Married.—On December 25th by
Rev. W. CL Biitton, Mr. Harry Delk,
caught on fire on New Year’s morning
a»nd literally burned up. The young
husband and her little baby have
the sympathy of the entire communi-
Sale Day Notes.—The crowd in
of Blackville, and Mis s Pearl, daugh
ter of Mr. Broadus Creech, of Great
Cypress.
A Costly Fire.—Between 12 and 1
o’clock Christmas Eve night fire was
discovered by the night watchman in
the store of Mr. J. U. Buist in Black-
town on Tuesday was the largest wtj^ille. A quick response to the alarm
have ever seen on a similar occasion.
Considerable real and personal proper
ty was sold at fair prices. Reports
from all sections of .the eopnty show
that planters have commenced the
new year bravely. Good order pre
vailed throughout the day.
A Strange Story.—A few days ago
a reliable gentleman said to us: “In
my neighborhood nine young men, in
timate friends, of good families and
in comfortable circumstances, have
died in the past three months. They
all died of the same disease, typhoid
and no two of them were sick
at the same time. As the first drew
near his death he sent a message to
his best friend, and the one who next
sickened and died 1 , asking, and advis
ing him to lead a better life. The
same message was sent by each be-
forv he died and each recipient was
the next vicitim of the fatal fever.”
Barnwell's Future. — Within ten
years Barnwell will l»ecome the pret
tiest and most prosperous town in
lower Carolina. Her history, situation
am) surroundings guarantee the ful
fillment of this prophecy. The early
extension of our Railroad to Sumter
and Savanm^h will place Us on the
line of the most direct railway route
from the North to Florida, and our
town will become a favorite resting
place for health hunter s and pleasure
seekers. Already we hear that a
number of Charlestonians will spend
the next summer with us, and several
of our hotels will be remodeled and
enlarged during the summer for the
accomodation of Northern' visitors.
Barnwell is going to l>e built up, and
If our present citizens are not equal
to the occasion others will et me in,
capture the town and make money by
their energy and enterprise.
and the gallant work, of the fire de-
partment confined the flames to the
building. Mr. Buist’s entire stock of
grocerie s of the value of $3,500 was
destroyed and ruined. He carried only
$1,300 insurance and J 1 * 10 l° ss I s a
heavy one. The fire was no doubt ac
cidental. It is suppi sed to have been
caused by a cigarette or cracker
thrown aside by some careless person
while the store wag filled with Christ
mas shoppers.
Five prisoners spent New Year
Day in jail.
There was no lynching in this
State last year.
This Christmas, 1907, was the quiet
est Bartrwell has.known in many years.
Governor Ansel ha a decided not to
extend the time for the payment of
taxes without penalty.
Congressman Patterson and family
£0 to Washington this week for the
remainder of the long session.
The Annual Ball given by the young
gentlemen of Barnwell on Monday
evening was a very brilliant closing
to the happy holiday enjoyments.
Oscar Gadsden, colored, shot near
Snelling Saturday night a week ago
by Aleck Owens, colored, i s getting
along well, though not yet out
danger.
Blackville Township lost by death
in a week two old and highly esteemed
citizens, Mr. B. F. Gardner, Sr., and
Mr. Charles Still.
Politics will be plentiful this year.
Every official from President to Con
stable is to be chosen, with the lone
happy exception of Probate Judge.
While others are hustling for votes
Judge Snelling will possess his soul
in patience.
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OFFERS WAY TO PRODUCE
SOUTH CAROLINA ORANGES
Harlan H. Jones Promises State New Fruits Through His
Experiments With Grafted Orange and Pear Trees.
Andrews, Dec. 29.—Harlan H.
•Junes, experimenting, grafted two
orange tree s together and two pear
trves, watched them flourish in this
climate, and then turned his horticul
ture hubby into a regular business.
Many years ago, Jones, as a ytung
man, cameout of the West as a ffiem-
fier' of a colization paj ty in this sec
tion where he purchased a small acre
age. Later, however, he went to
FlorirVa, then to Alabama, and finally
returned here with ‘a definite knowl-
'etfge of citrus fruit. ’
He discovered that the citrus
trifoliata, haidiest of the citrus stock,
grows wild in this section so he ex
perimented nvith the satsuma orange,
a pr.oduct of Japan, budded on the
trifoliata root.
The satsuma has been grown in
many parts cf the extreme South,
largely for gaiden use. It pepls
•easily and has excllent taste. Tones
iteasoned the two might he grafted
«nd a desirable product raised in this,
chmate and six years ago he began
liis first operations.
Four years later he picked 70 per
fect oranges; in 1931 he gathered a
few more and this year he ha s har
vested 193 fully developed oranges
from his combination tree. Jones has
fUind no peculiarity of the soil to
imkarc growth; he has discovered no
ieJfe*YujTi of the tree and Ino insects
have appeared to check its growth.
Be believes the climate and his ex
periments will lead to an excellent
fruit produced in this section with
hazards.
This experiment brought to his mind
4 %he possibility of creating a nursery
*af other trees so he widened his scope.
the newcomers were the Bald-
mnd pineapple pears and of these,
ch he grafted together, he is
stic cf their ultimate adoption
m garden fruit as he is of oranges.
The original blight-proof Baldwin
in Alabama has produced fruit for 45
years without an indication of blight,
so Jones procured a few buds froin
this parent tiee and budded a limb
of a pineapple tree in 1929.
This fall he plucked three pea. r s
from .the limb and the fruit wa? more
pleasant to taste, the texture more
perfect, than the ordinary pineapple
pear and had all the characteristics
of the Baldwin. Then he budded a
number of pineapple roots with the
Baldwin and added the result to his
nursery.
Jones believes this climate i s suit
able to adequate production of these
grafted fruits and says the matured
product, in his opinion, is infinitely
hotter than any of the original. He
i s continuing his woik looking toward
the planting of complete groves that
will produce in marketable quantities.
maturing for this section.
Many grower^ prefer to pujt one row
of peas every three. f«t,„b^t^he way
to get the meat out of your ground
is to put 'two rows on a four furrow
or 6 furrow bed, leaving about 12
Inches between the rows for planting
cukes, cantaloupes, or melons, or
even tomatoes in as the season grows
warmer.
^ith the Thomas Laxton variety,
this may work some hardship,' be
cause the vines are Unger and will
get quite tangled, but with the other
varieties, it is ideal.
Some growers gkimp on seed... but
experience ha s proven that the man
who use.s«-from 1% to 2 bushels cf
seed is the man who generally makes
the biggest crop.
As to plahting time, I would prefer
getting the seed into the ground just
as soon after January 1st as is pos
sible. Of course we have to gamble
with the weather in this section, and
a heavy packing rain will be hard on
stands, but the peas which reach the
market earliest are generally the
peas that pay the dividends.
Garden pea s are gross feeders on
all fertilizer elements, and should
have libel al applications of well bal
anced fertilizers.
Some growers in the coastal section
of the State use 2000 pound s per acre
of 7-5-7, some 1600 lbs. of 7-5-7, and
others use 8-4-4 and 7-«5-5. Knowing
the capacity of the pea crop for
large applications of fertilizer, and
resulting higher yields, my prefer
ence would he the use of from 1800 to
2200 pound s of 7-5-7 per acre.
Pea seed are very susceptible to
excessive moisture, fertilizer damage,
the various rot s and' wilts, and one
cannot he too careful in th^ prepara
tion of soil, application of fertilizers,
etc.
The use of good cotton land, deeply
plowed and The fertilizer applied some
time ahead, and well worked into the
soil with cultivators or harrows, is
about the best insurance for a pea
crop that we can have.
During the growing season, if you
get an infestation of plant lice, the
best remedy for them is to get your
crop to growing off fast with quick
nitrogen.
(By Robert W7 Sanders.) -
She wa 8 a litt'e child when, in 1863,
her beloved mother (Nee Miss Eliza-
beth Sanders, daughter of our dear
“Uncie Jimmy), was taken away after
a brief illness. The cruel war was
raging, 1 and sombre clouds concealed
the brightness of the ovei-head skies.
The writer was 16 years old, and net
long afterwards became a Confeder
ate-soldier. His many friends, Cousins
and brotheis were already in the
armies of the South.—The funeral -ob-
sequies took place at the Mount Olivet
Church, conducted impressively by
Rev. B. F. D. Perry, pastor of the
Barnwell Baptist Church. The burial
wa s near the old Pressey home, not
far from the present town of Kine.
“C-usih Mamie” was, I think th&
youngest jjt several children, who
were left, with their beloved father
(“Cousin William Ptessey), to mourn
Spreads Terror Through the
—West Side of Manhattan. —
New York.—New York’s “meanest
murderer’’ is spreading terror through
the West side of Manhattan, while
some 10,000 policemen and detectives
glorifying in the title of “the finest”
wrack their brains aind exhaust their
energies In a vain search for him.
Thp “meanest murderer’’ specializes
in tile kitting of help)^8» old .women
BETTER FARMING HINTS
FOR JANUARY NOTICE
Clemson College Deec. 31.—A calen
dar of important suggestions for Jan
uary attention toward greater suc
cess in 1933 farming is given below
by R. W. Hamilton, extension agrono
mist; E. H. Rawl, extension horticul
turist; J. T. McAlister, extension agri
cultural engineer, and Alfred Lutken,
extension entomologist.
Agronomy.
1. Be sure ycur planting seed for
1933 will produce staple at least one
inch in length. A one-cent pr'emium
for better staple with cotton at six
cent
the loss of dear “Cousin Elizabeth,”
the mother and wife.
She, in after years, was mest hap
pily maried to Hon. Richard A. Ellis,
prominent attorney anc^ fine character,
at the Bernwell Bar. Their home was
ever one of of sincere, warm hospi
tality. Amid journeys of Christian
service—Sometimes in cold and damp
ness and severe exposure (but little
thought of by many) the home of
“Cousin Mamie,” in Barnwell, was
always open to me; a warm welcome
was extended, and comfort abounded.
The “faiewell,” as at any time I left,
was always: “We were glad to have
you; come again!”
Mrs. Eilis was a woman of rare in
dustry, fidelity in the home, church
and other relations of life—a true and
devoted wife—always manifesting the
spirit cf deep piety coupled with and
beautified by becoming modesty and
humility. I am sure that she was
“faithful unto death,” and now wears
“the crown of life.”
To her good husband and other
kindred who mourn her going away,
.the piesent writer begs to offer earn
est sympathy in their unfeigned scr-
iow.
“Not now, but in the coming years—
It may be in the better land—
We’ll read the meaning of our
tears,
And there, sometime, we’ll under
stand.”
Greenville, S. C., Dec. 26, 1932.
11 vIni; alone. He pounces upon them,
generally when ■ they are asleep, and
smothers or strangles them to death
without giving them a chance to make
an outcry. Four of them have gone
to their rewards at his cowardly hands
in this fashion in the last few weeks,
nil within a radius of a dozen blocks
or so, and so stealthily has the slayer
gone about his work and so skillfully
has he covered up his tracks that the
police are yet without the slightest
clew to his Identity, or whereabouts.
Indeed some of the best detectives of
the force have suggested in view of
the character of the crimes and in lieu
of any definite evidence that the killer
might be a woman.
To break up a cold overnight and re
lieve the congestion that makes you
cough, thousands of physicians are now
recommending Calotabs, the nausealess
calomel compound tablets that give you
the effects of calomel and salts without
the unpleasant effects of either.
One or two Calotabs at bedtime with i
glass of sweet milk or water. Next morn
ing your cold has vanished, your system
is thoroughly purified and you are feeling
fine with a hearty appetite for breakfast
JJat what you wish,—no danger.
I
CafotSFs are sold in 10<S and 33c pack-
ages at drug stores.
(Adv)
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FIRE
WINDSTORM
PUBLIC LIABILITY
ACCIDENT - HEALTH
SURETY BONDS
AUTOMOBILE
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At the Old Home for Christmas.
(Contributed)
On December 25th, 1932, the chil
dren, grandchildren and great-grand
children of the late H. B. and MaJ.’y
Ann Martin Hartzog enjoyed a home
coming day. Miss Sallie Hartzog,
Mis. W. P. Morris and Miss Hattie
Martin, who live at the old home, en-'
tertained with an old fashioned Christ
mas winner. At one o’clock we were
s means an increased value of invited in^the dining room, where
HOPOCATRUC
By G. Chalmers McDermid.
IfiVfe per cent. If sufficient grain was
not planted during fall to meet farm
needs, plant this month, weather per
mitting. Clean up hedge rows and
wood patches between fields.
Horticulture.
Prepare hotbeds and coldframes for
cabbage, tomato, pepper, etc. Plant
English peas, if soil is in condition.
Prepare land for Irish potatoes, and
order certified seed. Prune fruit
trees preparatory to spraying with
lime-sulphur. Plant fruit trees at
once, if soil is in condition. , • ^
Agricultural Engineering.
Plan to lower producton costs in
1933 by more efficient use of labor,
power-and machinery. Arrange sheds
and farm shop for better care of
equipment. Make more efficient use
of land and machinery by rearranging
fields, Removing stumps, constructing
teiYaces, etc. If possible include more
fencing in the 1933 program.
Insects and Diseases.
Continue cleaning orchards to de
stroy fallen fruit and limbs. Prune
grapes to remove aijd burn disease-
harboring vines. Plan to treat tobac-
co seed befote sowing. Continue
clean-up of trash about edges of
for many years we spent Christmas
in our childhod, and enjoyed another
good dinner and recalled fond memo
ries °f childhood. Old familiar ob
jects still sit in the dear old rooms—
the dish that held the “sugar biscuit”
baked by Grandmother for our lunch;
the old chair? where each of us had
been rocked to sleep by our dear
mothers are still on the porch; the
old pictures of great-grandparents
still hang on the wall. How sweet to
have such a privilege after 40 years
—t© Ro hack and find things the same
as they Ivere in childhood.
Motive Uncertain.
Moreover the “best minds” of the
department have so far been unable
to determine for a certainty just what
motive may actuate the strange kill
ings. In some cases, evidence has
been found to Warrant a theory of rob
bery. hut since none of the victims en
joyed a station in life which might he
dignified even by the title of “well to
do" and since in at** least two in
stances. the victims’ hoards of a few
coins were left untouched, the sugges
tion seems somehow lacking.
Some investigators express the opin
ion that the fugitive is a maniac, but
Just why he should limit his opera
tions to elderly women no one can'
guess.
Whether one or many, however, the
“meanest murderer" still stalks his
way unmolested—unless his fate has
overtaken him unknown to the police
—while old women quake in terror
and refuse to be left alone.
The latest victim of the series was
Mrs. Mary Day. seventy years old.
who was found smothered in bed in
her little flat on the second floor of
a building In West Fifty-third street.
A small bottle of milk and a copy
of the Irish World still untouched in
front of her door brought about the
discovery of the murder.
Sometime between 7 and 9 a. m.,
according to the police and Dr. Charles
Norris, chief medical examiner, some
one came Into the three room flat,
threw a shawl and a blanket over the
head of the victim, held it tight until
she ceased to struggle, and then tied
her frail arms behind her with ban
dages Mrs. Day had received recently
from a hospital.
Whether it was a man or woman or
more than one person the twenty de
tectives reporting at the scene were
unable to say. Mrs.-Day was so frail
It was believed that even a woman
might have killed her without arous
ing the neighbors.
For five years Mrs. Day had lived
alone in the tenement house, supported
apparently by a savings account In
tho New York Savings bank, of which
there is still S3.2.“4 left. She had no
known relatives, and during the years
she lived in the building Mrs. Day al
ways left her door open during Ihe
day, a sign that neighbors were wel
come.
Neighbor Finds Body.
The copy of the Irish World and the
bottle of milk drew the attention of
Mrs. Julia Benedetti shortly after 1
p. m. She had not seen the aged wom
an since the morning before. Mrs.
Benedetti told Bernard Murray, son
of the janitress and he found-the body
and notified the police.
Several inquiries have come in
during the year-end about varieties,
fertilizers, and cultivation of garden
peas, and now i s as good a time to
answer them as any, because planting
time is on us.
Varieties which are recommended
for early spring planting are (1) LaX-
tonian, (2) Thoma s Laxtcn, (3) Lax-
ten’s Progress, (4) Telephone,
Early Bird, and (6) Alaska.
I would rather have the first three
varieties for shipment, and the little
Alaska for the home garden. The
first three varieties are large podded
dwarf growing peas, the Thomas Lax-
ton having the largest vine growth of
the three. Laxton’s Progress is the
larger pea of the lot and can be sold
a s Telephone, which ordinarily brings
a premium on the Eastern markets.
Telephone, itself, is rather late in
fields and gardens to kill hibernating
insects. Do not burn wood s to control
insects. Burn fallen severed pecan
twigs to help to control beetles. Put
spraying outfit in order for dormant
spray for San Jose scale and diseases.
Fumigate with carbon disulphide to
save grain, peas, and beans.
The giandmothers now could
of when they looked for Santa to
come down the chimney, and on this
last Christmas sat with their grand
children around the same hearth that
gave such a warmth and welcome.
Modern days have not changed the
dear old place, and after cne more
sweet and happy day spent at the
old home we came to the end of a
pei feet day, when good-byes were
said and each left fer his own home,
realizing perhaps that it would be the
last time that all would be there to
gether.
Those who enjoyed the day were:
Mrs. W. P. Morris, Miss Sallie Hart-
Blackville Man Performs Ceremony.
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The Rev. Robert E. Gribbin, for
merly of B'ackville, but for several
years rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal
Church in Winston-Salem, N. C., of
ficiated Sunday at the wedding of
Richard J. Reynolds, Jr., heir to a
$20,000,000 “tobacco” fortune, and
Miss Elizabeth McCaw Dillard. The
Rev. Mr. Gribbin is the son of Mrs.
R. M. Gribbin, of Blackville.
zog and Miss Hattie Hutto, of Black
ville; Mrs. Eugene Brooker and Miss
Margaret Brcoker, of Denmark; Mr.
and Mrs. B. B. Langley, of Clinton;
Mr. and Mrs. C. J. H. Still, Miss Hat
tie Mae Still, Dodson r Laurie, Charles
B. and Roscoe Still, of Barnwell;
Ramsay Still and family, of Colum
bia; Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Cave. Hmry
and Martin Cave, of Olar; W. A. Hart-
zcg and Miss Abbie Hartzog, cf Cor-
onaca; Mr. and Mrs. Martin Hartzog
and Miss Billie Doris Hartzog, of
Orangeburg; Mr. and Mts. Laurie T.
Hartzog, of Gaffney; Gilmore S.
Hartzog, of Lexington, N. C.
J. H. L.
Nothing had been disturbed when
the police arrived. The body lay on
a bed in the room which acted as her
living room and kitchen. Only an
open bureau drawer showed that rob
bery might have been the motive. A
pockethonk containing a little more
than $3 was on the floor beside her
bed. While the police were mystified
ns to the cause of the murder they ad
mitted that Mrs. Day had withdrawn
a sum of monej’ from her savings ac
count some time ago and that possibly
the slayer or members of the same
gang responsible for the death of the
three other aged women, might have
followed her from the bank and
learned where she kept the money at
hqjne.
Each of the other murders has tak
en place In much the same manner
and in the same neighborhood, and
each victim was an elderly woman liv
ing alone.
P. A. PRICE, Manager.
Legal Advertisements
SCHOOL CLAIMS
FOR TAXES
For a limited time ogly, school
claims will be accepted at the county
treasurer’s office in payment of 1932
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State and county taxes.
J. J. BELL,
County Treasurer.
NOTICE OF DISCHARGE.
Notice is hereby given that we will
file our report as Administrator and
Administratrix of the estate cf W. T.
Walker, deceased, with Hon. John K.
Snelling, Judge of the Court of Pro
bate, on oy before the 23rd day of
January, 1933' and will petition the
said court for an Order of Discharge
and letters Dismissory on that date.
J. Mims Walker,
Edith A. Walker,
Admr. and Admx.
Thi s 28th day of Dec\ 1932.
CITATION NOTICE.
The State of South Carolina,
County of Barnwell. „
By John K. Snelling, Esq., Probate
Judge.
WHEREAS, Capt. Lewis James
Connelly hath made suit to me to
grant unto him Letters of Adminis
tration cf the estate of and effects of
J. M. Farrell;
THESE ARE THEREFORE, to
cite and admonish all and singular
the kindred and creditors of the said
J. M: Fairell. deceased, that they he
and appear before me, in the Court
of Probate, to be held at Barnwell, S.
C., oft Monday, January 9th, 1933,
next, after publication thereof, at 11
o’clck in the forenooo, to show cause,
if any they have, why the saij Ad
ministration should not be granted. ' :
Gtveft under my hand fhisd?8fFTay
of December, A. D. 1932.
JOHN K. SNELLING,
Judge of Probate, B. C.
Published on the 29th day of Dec.,
1932, in The Barnwell People-Sentinel.
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Harvard Has Monopoly
on the Word “Detur”
Boston.—Award of 55 deturs to Har
vard students, the largest number
since this practice was Inaugurated
here 220 years ago. was announced by
the university.
The word “detur" is defined In th«
New Standard Dictionary as "a book,
or set of books, given ns a prize to
each meritorious undergraduate stu
dent In Harvard university; from the
Latin word ’detur’ (Let It bo given)
on the presentation bookplate.” • As
far as Is known, the word never has
been adopted at any other university.
Deturs date back to the death of
Edward Hopkins, a Seventeenth cen
tury London merchant, who left a fund
“to give 801116 encouragement In those
foreign plantations for the breeding
up of hopeful youths.”
The State of South Carolina,
County of Barnwell.
By John K. Snelling, Esq., Probate
Judge.
WHEREAS, R. A. Ellis hath made
suit to me to grant unto E. M. Pee
ples Letters of Administration with
Will Annexed of the Estate of and
effects of Mamie M. Ellis;
THESE ARE,. THEREFORE, to
cite and admonish all and singular
the kindred and creditors of the said
Mamie M. Ellis, deceased, that they
K- and appear before me, in the
Court of Probate, to be held at Barn
well, S. C., on Monday, Jan. 9, 1933,
next after publication thereof, at
11 ocolck in the forenoon* to show
cause, if any they have, why the
said administration should not be
giapted.
CftreiLupder my hand this 27th day
of Dec., A. D. 1932.
JOHN K. SNELLING,
Judge of Probate, B. C.
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1932, in the Barnwell People-Sentinel!
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