The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, February 16, 1933, Image 1
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VOLUME LVL
General Sessions Court
Convenes Here Feb. 27
Seen and Heard Here
During the Past Week
Grand and Petit Jurors Drawn Here
Monday.—One Week Term With
Judge Mann Presiding.
\A one-week term of the Court of
General Sessions will convene here on
Monday, February 27th, with Judge
M. M. Mann presiding. Grand Jurors
for 1933 and petit juorors for the ap
proaching term were drawn here on
Monday a s follows:
. Grand Jurors. I
H. A. Greene, Elko.
J. M. Rowell, Hilda.
F. H. Dicks, Jr., Upper Richland.
S. G. Lowe, Blackville.
J. J. Anderson, Dunbarton.
W. H. Hutto, Jr., Blackville.
Wm. H. Hutto, Reedy Branch.
W. L. Baxley, Barnwell.
J. F. Swett, Meyer’s Mill.
J. H. Lancaster, Ashleigh.
- ,A, F. Weimortz, Mt. Calvary.
Freddie Jones, Hilda.
Hold Over.
L. Cohen, Barnwell..
G. B. McClendon, Blackville.
F. C. Birt, Long Branch.
J. Black, Jr., Reedy Branch.
W. M. Meyer, Meyer’ s Mill.
C. D. Owens, Kline.
Petit Jurors.
R. A. Patterson, Barnwell.
C. E. Hall, Wiiliston.
G. W. Black, Reedy Branch.
W. E. Matthews, Blackville.
P. W. Price, Barnwell.
Eugene Brown, Barnwell.
C. B. Ellis, Jr., Meyer’s Mill.
John C. Grubbs, Double Pends.
F. L. Eaves, Dunbarton.
J. L. Porter, Edisto.
Frank Sanders, Oak Grove.
L. M. Boyles, Diamond.
P. S. Morris, Oak Grove.
C. H. Greene, Dunbarton.
F. M. Thomas, Meyer’s Mill.
C. Black, Jr., Reedy Branch.
E. L. Martin, Blackville.
Jacob Shipes, Double Ponds.
J. S. Grubbs, Diamond.
L. M. Harley, Wiiliston.
Silas Rountree, Dunbaiton.
G. S. Black, Reedy Branch.
John Hartzog, Blackville.
C. L. Hiers, Four Mile.
J. R. Keel, Long Branch..
J. Frank Fields, Barnwell.
Ira E. Black, Barnwell.
C. S. Youngblood, Elko.
V. L. Nevils, Blackville.
L. P. Williamas, Elko.
W. C. Birt, Wiiliston.
W. R. Moore, Seven Pines.
Lennie Jowers, Blackville.
Marvin Holland, Barnwell.
W. C. Boyd, Elko.
J. W. Justus, Ellenton.
Carlot Poultry Sale
In County This Week
Little Sense and Nonsense About. Car Was at Dunbarton Tuesday and
People You Know And Others
You Don’t Ik nW.
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The following item in “Seen Here
at Barnwell and Hilda Wednes
day.—Fair Prices.
A carlot sale of poultry was held in
tion of Miss Elizabeth McNab, home
demonstration agent, and H. G.
Boylston, farm agent. The car was
at Dunbarton Tuesday and at Barn
well and Hilda yesterday (Wednes
day).
While the prices paid were not as
high as formerly, due to the drastic
decline in the prices for all commodi
ties, they are said to have been about
two cents a pound more than has been
paid locally. The scale was as fcl-
ows:
Colored hens, 10 cents; leghorn
hens, 7 cents; cocks, stags, ducks,
geese and tom turkeys, five cents;
chickens, capons (under 7 pounds and
slips), 7 cents; hen turkeys and ca
pons (over 7 pounds), 10 cents;
guineas, each, 20 cents.
Legislature Plans
to Rewrite Measure
Bill
and There” in The State: “Solomon the county this week under the difec-
Blatt, member of the .house from
Barnwell, holding a little girl about
six in his arms and addressing the
membership saying, ‘Here’s a little
girl 'placed in a home by the children’s
bureau. I am glad the house made
provision for the continuance of that
bureau.’ ” . . A street thermome
ter registering 85 degrees above zero
during the recent sub-freezing
weather. •. : And local filling sta
tions doing a land-office business in
anti-freeze solutions. . . An ar
gument as to whether it is better to
have a high property assessment and
a low tax levy or a low property as
sessment and a high tax levy, which
is the difference between tweedledum
and tweedledee. . . . Cold, wet,
dreary weather—the kind that’s fit
mostly for card playing or sleeping.
. . . A copy of a letter written by
Congressman H. P. Fulmer to the
editor of the Colubbia Record, call
ing attention to the fact that he (Mr.
Fulmer) was one of the 32 congress
men who voted for a 25 per cent, re
duction in the salaries of congress
men. The Columbia scribe had said
editorially that “they were all opposed
to it.” . . . The editor of The
People-Sentinel leaving to attend the
U. S. District Court at Aiken as a
juror and expressing the hope that, in
the future, those charged with the
preparation of jury lists in Barnwell
will delete the name of anyone connect
ed with this newspaper.
Senator Edgar A. Brown, who flew
to Washington recently to attend a
legislators’ conference, describing how
beautiful a snow-covered world ap
pears from an altitude of 3,000 or
4,000 feet. . . . And it is also
interesting and amusing to hear him
and Claude Sapp, his companion on the
trip, each tell how scared the other
was during the few minutes preceding
their forced landing at Richmond, Va.
. . . Icicle s hanging from automo
biles and the eaves cf buildings.
Announcement on the window of
the local Ford dealer’s place of busi
ness that two new Fcrds have already
been sold, even.though the new mode
has nrtf been displayed locally. .
prominent man holding up traffic by
stopping his car in the middle of the
street to inspect a load of wood.
Heavy Toll Is Taken
In Motor Accidents
John Willis Harlpy.
South Carolina Appropriation
Will Be Drafted to Cover
Eighteen Months.
Young White Man Cut
Here Saturday Night
Hallie Hutto Seriously Wounded Dur
ing Fight in Local Barbershop.
—Two Arrested.
Many Autos in State
Escape Property Tax
More Than 43,000 in South Carolina
Are Not Returned for Taxation,
Figures Show.
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Still Lose Homo
and Most of Their Furniture
Friday Morning.
Hallie Hutto lies seriously wounded
in an Augusta hospital and E. D.
(“Babe”) Zissett and his son, Leon,
were lodged in the Barnwell County
jail as the result of a cutting affray
in a local barbershop early Saturday
night. Hutto has a knife wound * n
hi 8 left breast, above the heart, said
to have been inflicted by the younger
Zissett.
It is alleged that Hutto and the
elder Zissett got into a fight when the
former refused to take a drink of
whiskey with the latter, Zissett, it is
said, throwing some of the liquor in
Hutto’s face. Hutto, it is reported,
knocked Zissett down, whereupon
Leon Zissett is alleged to have stabbed
Hutto with a pocket knife, inflicting a
dangerous wound.
Hutto was given first aid by a
local physician and rushed to an Au
gusta hospital. Reports received here
are to the effect that hi s condition is
improved and that he will recover un
less complications set in. Mr*. Hutto
is a native of Bamberg and has been
employed by the Fuller Construction
company heie for the past several
months.
Twenty-one Persons Killed on South
Carolina Highways During -—
Month cf January.
Twenty-one persons died as a re
sult of automobile accidents on South
Carolina highways during January
as compared with 12 in the same
month cf last yeav a report issued
from the State highway department
shows’
There was a total of 99 accidents,
The body of a young man discover
ed in a hotel room in Beaumont, Texas
was identified by police as that of
John Willis Hatley, of Savannah, Ga.
Mr. Harley wa s reported missing
from h: s home since January 16th.
He was a native of Barnwell Coun-
.ty, but bad lived in-Savannah for the
past twenty years, ah ( i was assistant
manager of the Atlantic Refining Co.,
of the Georgia city.
Funeral service,, were held Friday
afternoon of last week at four o’clock
at Epworth Methodist Church, Savan
nah, interment followed in-the City
cemetery. Surviving are his wife,
Mrs. Esther Harley, his mother, Mrs.
C. G. Harley, and four brothers, Ed,
o, j Herbert and Joe Harley, all cf Savan-
a s compared with 82 m the 31-day! nahi 6nd char|ey Har . < , yt of Grecns .
, boro, N. C.
Quits School Posti
period last year. Nine of these were
reported to have resulted from “reck
lessness due to liquor”; 20 to careless
driving; 23 to reckless driving; 14 to
speeding. Nine cf the vehicles were wmi , tGn> Feb , lU ._ M i Ss Peurifoy
driven otf the road and 12 overturned. St( . vens0nj o( Columbia> has resiKnej
Defects of motor veh.cles caused Stic her ^ as a raember c( the wiiliston-
of the wrecks. --
In addition to the/fatalities, 86 per
sons were injured, seven seriously
and 79 slightly: In January, 1932, 75
were hurt.
Of these killed last month seven
Culumbia, Feb. 10.—Ending a ten-
day attempt to pass an “economy” ap
propriation bill and provide for
public schools, the house today re
turned the supply measure to the ways
and means committee with instruc
tions to write a bill covering 18 months
instead of 12.
Five members, constituting a sub
committee of the ways and means
group, began on the new appiapria-
ticn bill this afternoon. With most
of their work merely a question of
arithmetic, the completed bill is slat
ed to be placed before the house when
it reconvenes Tuesday.
In recommitting the bill, the house
followed a suggestion by Neville Ben
nett, chaiiman of the ways and
means committee, who told the tired,
perplexed members that by appro
priating for 18 months they could
maintain a balanced budget, keep
public schools open and would not
be forced to inciease present taxes
or seek new suorces of revenue.
The house ha s already passed a
bill, ratifying an amendment to the
constitution, changing the date of
the State’s fiscal year from January
1-December 31 to July 1-June 30. Ben
nett said he had received “every as
surance” the senate would pass it.
Details of Bennett’s plan, he admit-
mitted, have not been worked out, but
it is in brief this:
Estimated revenue for this year is
$6,500,000 and for the first half of
1934, available for State purposes,
three million more, making a total
of $9,500,000. '
He proposed a supply bill cf $6,000,-
000 for the current 12 months, with
$2,000,^00 going to public schools. He
also would appropriate now for next
year’s schools, giving $2,000,000 more,
leaving a total of $1,500,000 for sup
port of other State departments and
institutions from February 1, to July
1, 1934.
The total revenue available for the
18 months’ period, he explained,
would be $11,500,000. One million is
pledged to notes for teachers’ salaries
and another million would be devoted
to a deficit for 1932 ^operations.
Before taking up the appropriation
bill, the house heard Gunter, ol Ghero-
kee,. demand an invegflugation of tax
refund s and assessftpejjte^feffiSftons
made by the State* t&r^Tbmmission.
Ground Hog Proves
to Be Good Prophet
More than 43,000 automobiles in j Fire of undetermined origin de-
South Carolina weren ot returned for stroyed the residence of Mr. and Mrs.
taxation last year, according to fig- J. S. Still here early Friday morning,
pres contained in the official records together with most of the household
of the compti oiler general and the furnishings. The blaze, which started
Estate highway department. I in the, kitchen, was first discovered
Attention directed to the descrepan- j a lx?ut two o’clock and gained rapid
cy in the number of motor vehicles J he®dway. Fortunately, very little
to which licenses ha<j been issued and j w ' n d was blowing at the time and the
those returned for taxation has volunteer firefighters prevented the
aroused much interest, and those pay- sp^d of the flame 8 to nearby baild-
ing property taxes on their cars are I i n S> 8 * ^ is understood that Mr. Still
beginning to inquire why they should j $2,100 insurance on the dweHing
pay and other 8 escape. but non « on hi » furniture.
The reports of the comptroller gen- Ab °ut two o’clock Sunday morning,
eral and of the highway department J * be policeman, John Hogg, dis-
were issued a few days ago and the I covered a small blaze in the grocery
tables dealing with automobile regis-1 store of R. C. Gignilliat on Main
ti atibn have been closely studied this I Street. The officer smashed the'
year when every cent of available I glass in one of the show windows and
revenue is being eagerly sought. I quickly extinguished the fire, thus
Placing a taxation of $7 cn the Preventing what may have been a
43,000 cars which are not returned costly conflagation. The fire original-
for taxation gives a total of $301,000 jed in a case of matches,
in revenue that ha s been lost to the
Barnwell Toun.y ,he reconi, I Jame » M ; Patterion
show that for 1932 there were 1,6481 Is Victim of Stroke
licenses issued for automobiles, trucks
and motorcycles, with 1,319 being re-1 Pr0iniMnt Attorney Is Serionaly HI
turned for taxation. |
at His Home in Allendale.—
Persons who operate automobiles
are required to get license 8 to run I
them from the highway department.
They are also supposed to return these
Stricken Last Week.
James M. Patterson, well known ai-
Some of the Worst Weather of the automobiles as personal property for I torney, of Aiendale, i s confined to his
Winter Experienced Here During
the Past Week.
The ground hog has again proved
himself to be a good weather prophet,
as witness the cold, disagreeable
weather during the past week, The
little animal came out of winter quar
ters February 2nd for a “look-see”
and as the sun shone briefly during
the day he is supposed to have been
frightened by his shadow and return
ed underground for another nap of
six weeks.
Borne on the wings cf a bitter,
biting wind Wednesday afternoon and
night of Last week, King Winter re
newed his assault on this section, with
the result that the mercury retreated ' taxes
taxation. All pay the license tax— home in a serious condition, following
else they run the risk constantly of a stroke of paralysis about noon Mon
arrest. But over 43,000, the figures day.
show, have not paid the property tax Mr. Patterson’s left sid« i 8 affected,
on their cars. People who own prop- He has lost the use of his laft arm
erty other than automobiles must re- an d leg. The attorney has also kwt
turn their automobiles along with his speech, the attending physician
their other property and so carry I stated.
more than their share of the tax The attorney was in his offica
burden. I usual Monday morning, but complain-
Some of the cars shown among j ed of feeling ill and went home aarliar
those registered are probably new ond than usual. It was reported Wadnaa-
so were not returned for taxation in day afternoon that there was a slight
1932. Then there may be certain of-1 improvement in the patient’s condi-
ficial cars not returned. And so some | tion.—Allendale County Citixan.
of the discrepancy in the figures may
be explained. But the fact remains | Mr. Patterson has many friend, in
that there are many automobiles and Barnwell who will read the above item
trucks in the State escaping property with sincere regret. Before the for-
rapidly, local thermometers register
ing temperature s of 18 to 20 degrees
Thursday morning, with ice and hoar
frost in abundance.
The weather was made more disa
greeable Friday and Saturday by a
steady downpour of rain, which form
ed a coating of ice on housetops and
trees. The ice began to thaw 'with
Saturday’s slowly rising temperature.
Considerab.e damage was done to
waterpipes here and automobile own
ers who neglected to drain their radia
tors found their cars frozen up Fri
day morning.
The following table, made up from
figures taken from the reports of the
comptroller general and of the State
highway department, show 9 how the
matter stands in the several counties:
Social and Personal —
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News from Wiiliston Beaufort
Wiiliston, Feb. 11.—Mrs. S. A.
Wise left Sunday afternoon for a
week’s visit with her sister, Miss
Marie Harley, in Allendale.
her.
Mrs. J. B. Woodward, Mrs. Je!
Kennedy and daughter, Olive, are
visiting Mrs. H. L. Hair.
I
corps. With this announcement, Supt.
G’. K. Ackerman announced the elec-
, . . ... tion of Miss Milwee Gantt, a Win-
were pedestrians, his compares wi j throp college graduate, as successor
six for the same period of hurt year. to ^ Stevcnson
The report reveals that 82 accidents
Elko High school faculty, and has
left for her home to accept a place
with the Citizens’ Military Training Action cn the resolution was deferred.
The senate in a brisk session voted
to postpone the final date for buying
1933 motor vehicle licenses from Feb-
week~WiIK her
Dukes.
Mr. and Mrs. John Smith in North
Augusta last week.
Mr. and Mrs. P. N. Wise and sen
spent last week-end in Batesburg.
J.sper
occurred on straight roads, 17 oi)4*
curves, 19 at public road crossings,
six at or' near bridges and none at
railroad grade crossings. Fifty hap
pened in the daytime and 49 after
dark; 83 on paved roads; four on
unpaved reads and 12 on bituminous
surfaced roads.
CARD OF THANKS. i
The people of Hilda take this method'
of thanking the Denmark and Black
ville fire departments ,also the Barn
well friends, and all who rendered
such heroic work in an effort to stop
the fire that threatened to wipe Hilda
visited the former’s sister, Mrs. W.
43. Hall, Monday and Tuesday.
Miss Grace Givens, of Coker col-
Lee
Forty-four of the wrecks were due * be ma P 0,1 Sunday afternoon,
ruary 15 to February 25, and deferred
action cn a license tag reduction bill
until next Wednesday.
It sent the house a bill to relieve
overcrowding at the State penitentiary
by turning back to counties about 500 w hile she is recovering from an at-! Marlboro 2,308
prisoners serving less than two-year tack of influenza,
terms, although seven senators pro
tested it would involve establishment
of chaingangs in their counties. f
to collisions between motor vehicles
an<i seven to collisions between mo
tor vehicles and other vehicles.
February 5th.
The loss sustained was a wooden
store and contents, one brick store,
owned by W. H. Dyches and two
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Gerardeau at-J warehouses, one of cotton seed and
tended the funeral of the former’s one containing 119 bales of cotton
aunt in Chariest cn on Thursday. owned by D. A. Dyches.
Mr. and Mrs; Fred Youngblood, of
Charlotte, N. C. spent Tuesday night
here with Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Brown,
Jr. They were accompanied by
Mrs. Brown on the continuation of
their trip to Lady’s Lake, Fla., for
a week’s visit.
To Assist Taxpapers
A field deputy collector of the In
ternal Revenue Service will be at the
following towns in th^ section on
dates named for the purpose of as
sisting in (preparing their income tax
returns for the year 1932:
Aik,en, March 1 and 2; Bamberg,
March 1; Hampton, March 3; Orange
burg, March 2 and 3.
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mation of Allendale County, he
a member of the Barnwell Bar
elation and was a familiar flgnra
around the Court House here, always
taking an active interest in public af
fairs. It is sincerely hoped that ha
will soon he restored to health.
Hair—Eargle.
Wiiliston, Feb. 13.—Cordial intonat
will be aroused by the announcement
of the marriage of Miaa Lucille Hair,
of Wiiliston, and Mr. Heyward L.
Eargle, which took place Friday, Feb.
10th, in Graniteville.
The ceremony which waa a quiet
one was performed by Rev. O. K.
Tebcw,‘ Of the Graniteville Baptiat
church in the presence of a few eloee
friends and relatives.
The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. M. Hair, of Wiiliston.
Charming and attractive in etery way
she is admired by a wide circle of
friends in South Carolim and Geor
gia.
Mr. Eargle is a young man who is
liked and esteemed by all who know
him. He makes his home in Granite-
viile, where he is connected with the
Graniteville Manufacturing Co.
Ashleigh News.
AshleTgh.'Ft
weather of the past two weeks haa
almost stopped farm work in thi s sec
tion. The farmers though very mack
disheartened at price prospects are
rushing things during the good
weather and looking forward to the
seed loan nponey to help them make
more six cent cotton.
Charlie Jowers, of Blackville apsad
the past week-end with Percy Beae-
ley.
Miss Catherine Owens spent Saa-
day at the home of Mr. and Mifc. X
L. Owens. - „ - „
Little Louise Owens spent
night with her cousin, Vera
Percey Beasley and Charlie Jowasa
attended the picture show in
Saturday night.
J. Julien Bush, Esq., Thomas
Boulware, Esq. and B. P. Da visa
attending Federal Court in
week.
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