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J i THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF* BARNWELL COUNTY.' V Consolidated Jbm 1. 1925. VOLUME LVL v People-Sentinel 'Juibt Like a Member of the Famlty" BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1933. NUMBER 26. Five-Year Old Negro Seen and Heard Here Boy Fatally Injured During the Past Week Rcficoo O’Neal Die s from Injuries Sustained When Struck by Auto V Near Blackville. Gone Are the Days of ‘The Swimming Hole” A Little Sense and Nonsense About Construction of Fine ‘ New Concrete People You Know and Others You Don’t Know. ^ Roscoe O’Neal, five-year old negro boy, died Sunday afternoon as the. result cf injuries sustained struck by an autombile driven by Thomas H. Rivers, of Augirta. The accident occurred on highway No. 78 near the home of his adopted father, Belba 0’Nea J ., about a mile north east of Blackville. Rivers was ar rested at Montmorenci and returned to this county. He was released from custody Monday morning when the coroner’s jury of inquest declared that the accident was unavoidable. Rivers, his wife and a cousin, Miss Vera Sutcliffe, were en route from Norway to Augusta at the time of the accident and testified at the inquest that the bey ran out of a crowd of negroes on the highway ifito the side cf their car, being struck by the fen der or the running board. They were traveling at d slow late of speed and, looking back, saw that the child had been helped to his feet. Thinking that he was net seriously injured, they proceeded on their way but were stop ped at Montmorenci at the request of local authorities. Rivers, who was driving, di.-claimed any intention of running away. The other witnesses at the inquest c noborated the statements of Rivers and his two companions. He is em ployed at the Lenwood hospital in Augusta. Repairing of Court House Recommended Pool Replaces Terrors and De lights of Yesteryear. R. F. (\ Funds to lie Used for Labor and County Will Furnish the Materials. Thirty-one crates of asparagus be- Thanks to the Reconstruction Fi- ig shipped from Barnwell Monday nance Cbrpcration, Mayor C. G. Ful- in spite of the cold weather. . . . And a telegram from New York quoting prices at $6, $8 and $12 a crate. . . . Judge M. C. Kitchings, cf Williston, president of the S. C. Asparagus Growers’ Association, say ing that 26 crates were shippd from his town Saturday night and that he is more hopeful right now over the prospects of the coming season. . . A prospective purchaser of an auto mobile trying out a new model and “stepping ’er up” to 90 miles an hour. A force cf workmen setting out shrubbery in “The Circle” under the direction of a landscape gaidener. . . Perry Bush grinning like the cat . that ate the canary be cause a tree that shaded the office window of Auditor “Bill” Manning had b* 60 surreptitiously and clandes tinely cut down in the wee sma’ hour s cf the morning. . . . And Perry disclaiming any connection therewith. . . W. H. Hartzog, of Blackville route 2, renewing his sub set iption to The People-Sentinel and lemarking that he is not discouraged over “hard times”—that he has plenty cf provisions, the will to work and faith in the future of the country. . L. T. Hanson, manager of the Barn well Theatre, remarking that the at- tendence at his shows is steadily in creasing. ... A small “William 1 Goat riding into town on top of a truck load cf wood, and making his home at that of little “Gene” San ders. — Common Pleas Court No Chance Is Seen to Criminal Court Ends to Convene March 13 Finish in Forty Days After 1-Day Session V Petit Jurors for the First Week of a Scheduled Two Weeks Term Drawn Monday. V Bank of Kershaw. In their pieseniment to Judge M. M. Mann on Tuesday, the members of the Grand Juiy recommended that repairs to the Court House be made immediately, R. F. C. funds for labor ti» be supplemented by an appropria tion from the county for materials. The Presentment is as follows: “The Giand Jury of Barnwell County respectfully reports unto the court as folkws: “1. We have passed upon all bil’s of Indictment that have be?n handed us by the fcoliiitor and have returned them to the court, with our recom mendations. “2. We have appointed from our body several committees, charging them with the specific duty cf making careful invest : gations of the various departments of the County Govern ment. These committees will report to us at the next term of court, whereupon we can in turn make our —lopni-t onH rerothmentations to the court with respect to the several de partments of the County Government. “We find that the Court House is in very serious .need of repairs. Many cf the walls are almost ready to fa'l. We understand that the county has been allotted $35,000 for re’ief wotk by the Reconstruction Finance Cor poration during the months of March and Apt il. We are also advised that s o much of this fund as may be neces sary for labor in repairing the Court House Van be used, provided the county furbishes the materials. We earnestly recommend that out of this fund an amount sufficient be set aside to pay for the labor in making the necessary and sorely needed repairs to the Court House. “We recommend that this work be done as quickly as possible, as the condition cf the walls is, in our opin ion dangerous. “We thank the Presiding Judge and other court officials for the assistance given us during our deliberations, ail of which is respectfully submitted.” (The Spartanburg Journal.) With an eye to news and human in terest the Calhoun Times calls atten tion in its news columns to the recoid of a small town bank that i s remarka ble indeed—and the institution doesn’t happen to be lecated in Calhoun County. It is the Bank of Kershaw’, which has weathered all the gales of j adversity and depression that have swept throughout the State during the past three years and more, .-.weeping down many gigantic finan cial structures with a crash that still resounds and reverberates. Kershaw is not included in the towns cf South Cntolfna that the last Federal census gives a population of 1,000 or more; it would be modestly styled a “vil lage.” But a s The Times comments: “A village that can turn out The ler, Senator Edgar A. Brown, et al., Barnwell and Barnwell County are be ing given a fine, large concrete swim ming pool, but the glamour of the “ole swimmin’ hole” is gone forever and the youth of today and the future will miss much that their dad dies enjoyed. They will never know the pleasure of “making a new place to swim,” of diving to the botton of the creek and bringing up roots and snags and old bottles, of moving old- legs and other obstructions. All cf 'these things and many more were brought to mind last week as the “older boys” watched a powerful tractor “snake” legs and whole trees from the channel of the stream below the pool. Gone forever are the terrors of the old “Black Hole.” To dive into its muiky depths and : wim down to the regular “swimmin’ hole” was a test of one’s courage and prowess as a swim mer. Many is the boy who has learned to swim by having been thrown into its dark waters! Never again will small boys be kept shivering and blue-lipped by the sim ple expedient of throwing inky mud on their naked bodies every time the little fellows attempted t° don their clothes! And perhaps never again will clothes be tied into hard knots while the wood- around the creek rang with gleeful and exultant cries of “Chaw bacon!” No need now for the lawyers cf the town -to construct a private swim ming hole deep in the fastness of Turkey Creek swamp, access to which was had by mean ; of an elevated p!ank walk, which recalls to mind the time that a select crowd of young men ordered a five-gallon keg of beer from wet Georgia and trundled it over that A scheduled two weeks term of the Court cf Common Pleas for Barnwell County will convene here Monday, March 13th, with Judge M. M. Mann presiding. Petit jurors for the first week were drawn Monday, as fol lows: G. C. Best, Kline.' J. B. Still, Barnwell. Yale Garber, Williston. W. W. Cain, Blackville. \ W. H. Boyles, Diamond. A. J. Owens, Barnwell. C. P. Hair, Williston. W. H. Dicks, Dunbarton. Boyce Creech, Barnwell. C. H. Anderson, Elko. J. S. Creech, Blackville. Isadore Brown, Blackville. i T. A. Greene, Sr., Dunbarton. M. B. Whittle, Healing Springs. W T . R. Carroll, Blackville. Callie D. Birt, Long Branch. James M. Killing-sworth, Dunbarton. S. C. Creech, Baibary Branch. J. W\ Walker, Sr., Kljne. Joe Gunnells, Oak Grove. J. A. Joyner, Oak Grove. Jce L. Croft, Double Ponds. Adrian Williams, Barnwell. L. A. Harley, Dunbarton. M. L. Collins, Hilda. J. W. Rosier, Ashleigh. M. S. Hair, Greens Academy. E. E .Delk, Baibary Branch. T. R. Brown, Barnwell. G. L. Hill, Seven Pines. * H. L. DeWitt, Blackville. E. D. Peacock, Barnwell. A. A. McAllister, Barnwell. Pete Jchnson, Ellenton. M. F. Grubbs, Elko. W. W. Hiers, Cedar Grove. General Assembly Works on Finances. Quite a Number of C^pes Disposed of —Legislature May Try to Change Cigarette Tax. at Brief Term.—Judge Mi Presided. Prizes for 4-H Canning Girls. Chicago, 11!., Feb. 28:—Hundreds of gold honor medals, gold wrist plank walk in a wheelbarrow after I watches prize educational trips and nightfall to enjoy a Bacchanalian orgy, agricultu: al college scholarships com- The younger generation is being de- ] prise the grand list of awards to he prived of all these romantic delights. | made to 4-H club girls this year for In their place the boys anj girls of the best records in canning, an- today, young and old, are being pro-i nounce s the National Committee on viued with a snowy white basin of ^ boys and girl- club woik. concrete through which the limpid ' These handsome and valuable prizes j waters of old Turkey Creek will main-' » re offered in the National 4-H Can-1 tain a constant flow;. A concrete n * n K Achievement Contest sponsored troduced proposing prohibition repeal walk wPl replace the mudbank- of hy the Kerr Glass Manufacturing 1 conV ention by midsummer, with reso- yesteryear. The will ride in auto-, Corporation of Sand Springs, Ok’aho-j i u tion in both house.< providing a mobiles on a paved-road almost to the; ma, as an incentive to club girl s to j committee of six legislators to make brink of the pool. All of which makes ^ ma ter f od preset vat ion and to pro- plans for the cbnventicn. necessary the construction of a com-j mote national thrift, and health. In Also duiing the week, Senator H. modious bathhouse and the donning of \ last year’s contest thousands of house- Kemper Cooke, of Horry, made bathing suits to supplant nature’s , "ives were taught hy contesting club charges that the State was ruled by a when the Kh'ls to preserve foods which would “State House ring” aqd later 17 sena- With primary problems yet U> be solved, thi general assembly has small prospect of adjourning sine die with- fin the constitutional 40 legislative days’ period. The biggest obstacle to adjournment is completion of the general appro priations bill, on which the senate finance committee began w’ork Tues day. Changes in the measure are expected, which of necessity, will pro long the session. After the committee reports the bill out, which may be a matter of one or two weeks, it will then be submit ted to senate for consideration, follow ed by free conference committee work. This and other matters indicate there is little chance of an early completion of the assembly. The eighth week of the session commenced Tuesday, which was the 29th legislative day. But tw’o or three of the county sup ply bill* have completed their legisla tive course, with more than half of them yet to be introduced. With the appropriations bill in the senate, the ways and means commit tee cf the house has begun considera tion cf revenue bills. Several of these were referred to it but because of pressing work it w’as unable to give them attention earler. A bill to change the cigaret tax from a price basis to one on the num ber of cigarettf is expected to be drawn by the committee shortly, members said. Following cigaret ptice reductions under the present system of taxation the State “would !a-e” several hundred thousand dol lars of revenue annually, they assert ed. Another measure before the group is one providing a drastic increase in income taxes. Whether the genera assembly will levy new taxes or in crease present ones likely will not be determined until the senate completes action on the appropriations bill. House sponsors of the measure in sist, however, that it is within reve nue, will adequately care for the State’* needs and that no new sources of revenue are necessary. Resume of Work. Last week saw three measures in- After a session of only one dmj a a scheduled week’s term of the Court of General Sessions was adjourned sine die Monday afternoon. Judge M. Jff. Mann presided. The following is a list of the Truu Jills returned by the Grand Jury: Joe Brown and Pete Bacon, house* breaking and larceny. Booker T. Daniel, assault and bat- .ery with intent to kill. General Green, murder. William Hartley, housebreaking apd arceny. Edwin Hair and Allen Rosen- borough, housebreaking and larceny* Jim Oliver violation of the prohi bition law. Clarence and Orrlne Tilly, entering house with intent to steal or commit .«ome other crime. E. D. and Leon Zissett, assault and battery with intent to kill. Sam Lazzow, obtaining property by false pretense. Cases* disposed of are as follows: Joe Brown pleaded guilty to the charge of housebreaking and larceny and was sentenced to serve two years at hard labor. The case against his co-defendant, Pete Bacon, was thrown out. Richard Robinson entered a plea of guilty to a charge of violating the prohibition law and was sentenced to pay a fine of $25 or serve 60 days at hard labor. Antney Dick s was convicted in hie absence on a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill, a sealed sentence being imposed. Btooker T. Daniels, charged with assault and battery with intent to kill, pleaded guilty to assault and battery cf a high and aggravated ture and wa 9 sentenced to aerve months at hard labor. William Hartley was convicted of housebreaking and larceny and sen tenced to one year at hard labor. Clarence TiHy, charged with enter- ing a house with intent to steal or commit some other crime, was convict ed and sentenced to three years at hard lab: r. Jim Oliver was convicted of violat ing the prohibition law and sentenced to pay a fine of $50 or serve fear months at hard labor. On of $15, balance of sentence to be pended during good behavior. 18 Keishaw Eia and the Bank f Kei 1 ^ ^eii' swim in “the raw.” j have been wasted, and which now are [ ators introduced a resolution demand shaw is not to be sneezed at.” The Era is one of tht State’s best and cleanest weekly newspapers whose editor, Capt. John W. Hamel has directed its destinie s since it was TatfngTVed Upon the treeherous^sethr+f journalism four decades hack. This Bank cf Kershaw has a paid capital stock of $100,000. It owns bond s and stocks valued at $122,620. Cash on hand and due from banks, $233,246.13. Real estatt slightly less than $21,000. It has a suiplu s of $75,000, and undi vided profits of $9,000. Check de posits $328,390. Time deposits $236,- 470.96. It ha s tedisccunted no paper, borrowed nothing, and owes nothing. j t " 0 Negro Killed Monday Night. The modern resort will be the mecca saving them from deprivation. ; ing proof of Senator Cooke’.* accusa- of thousands of people in the conv.ng years but there will always be some thing missing. If ypu have any doubts along this tine, ask dad—he knows. '* ' ' Dr. R. W. Sanders. Greenvil’e, Feb. 28.—Dr. R. W. Sanders, 86, Confederate veteran, re tired Baptist minister and former secretary of the Southern Baptist mission beard, died at his home to- How canning projects are helping tions. club girl# is shown in the records of | The house sent to the senate a bill last year’s winners in this contest, allowing a three year suspension of Waneta' Gushrie, cf Kansas, national foiedosuros of mortgages on real es- champion -and ordy l® years oW, 1 tate, under certaih ctmdittonh, while realized an income cf $861 from, her ; the senate sent the house a bill pro canning projects. Gene Sheppard, of viding relief from such foreclosures Alabama, 17 years old, is paying her by one year suspensions upon corn- way through high school and helping m jttee recommendations. Well Known Creamery Man Struck by Train M. P. Hazel, of Bates burg. Badly In jured Tuesday in Automobile- ' Train Colliaion. day Doctor Sanders is a native of The house passed overwhelmingly a bill prohibiting the docking of wages a brother and sister reduce their col lege expenses a tUal of $300 per teim. Elvis Dutchei", of Michigan,; 0 f employes in textile mills for “sec- helped many families to make them- j ends” or defective cloth. The house .-elves secure against want this win-, also advanced to third reading a bill ter hy showing them how to can or. a allowing a graduated property tax on Barnwell County and was graduated budget p'an. Each of these girls owner occupied lands, fiom Furman University in 1877 and earned a gold medal, a gold watch, a Both houses adopted a resolution later from the Southern-Baptist Theo-! scholarship and a trip to the National extending the time for the payment of logical seminary, then located in (Tub Congress in Chicago. Greenville, but later moved to Louis-1 Nine trips to the 193.> Club Con- ville'. He served at one time as a gress to be held in December in con nection with the International Live Stock Exposition are included in this Mack Stephenscn, colored, wa s shot and ki'led Monday night at about ten o'clock at the Badharn Lumber Com-, of Furman pany’s plant on the Edisto River in i his career ag a minister| this county, the entire load from a : Doctor Sanders he-!d pastorates in' year’s; awards. Three girls will be shotgun taking effect in his abdomen. chester> Fi orence> Charleston, Colum- awarded cash scholarships of $300 motor vehicle license fees to March 7. Wedding Economies. Birth Announcement. Sheriff J. B. Morris and his deputies have arrested four negro men and three negro women, ^who are being held in the Barnwell County jail for further investigation, pending the outcome of which the coroner’s jury of inquest, which was convened Tuesday morning, will withhold its verdict. bia and Clemson College. $200 and $100. The contest will be A notary public, evidently a pro spective bridegroom, almost devised a new way to “beat the depression.” John M. Daniel, attorney general i tomorrow afternoon at 4 o’clock and burial will be here. Keith Out for Governor. Greenville, Feb. 27.—The Rev. and Mrs. S. J. Gardner announce the birth of a sen on February 22nd. The lit tle fellow has been named S. J. Gard ner, Jr. The proud father i s a son cf B. F. Gardner, of the Healing Springs section^f Barnwell County. The Rev. Mr. Gardner, Vho is a graduate of Furman Univertity, is it „ and if he could of service teaching school in Greenville County t _ and preaching in ens Counties. Funer'al services will be held here , conducted under the supervision cf ^ s ou th Carolina, received a letter recently from an Orangeburg citizen inquiring if it were “legally possible for a notary public of South Carolina to perform the ceremony of his own wedding.” “Replying to your letter of the Barnwell Man’s Mother Hasses. county agents, home demonstration agents, club agents and the State ag ricultural colleges. Allendale Boy Wins Prize. Louis M. Wolfe, of Allendale Coun ty, a graduate of the £lftnson College 1 18th-, instant,” the attorney general Greenville, Feb. 27.—Colonel W. H.; passed away Tuesday mcming at her Keith, former Gresnville legislator home in Bowman after a lingering ill- and unsuccessful candidate for gov-^ ness. Funeral services were conduct- ernor in 1930, announced today he e d yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon would seek that office again in 1934 by the Rev. C. S. Felder. She is sur- if his “health and financial condition 1 vived by five sons and four daughters. The many friends of A. D. Coi\nor, of Barnwell, will learn with regret of the death of his mother, Mrs. Mar- j Arthitectual class of 1930, has earn- answered, “I beg to advise that the garet S. Connor, 86 years of age, who e d the unusual distinction of having law does not contemplate that a per , j « v to the people of the State.” Abbeville and Pick- Senator Edgar A. Brown and Rep- wen a $50 prize and a bronze medal offered by the Beaux Art Institute, of New York. Mr. Wolfe is at present a senior student in the school of fine arts at the University of Pennsylvania. He wen this award over a large field of competitors. A reproduction ef the prize win- son should perform his own wedding ceremony. An officer i s not supposed to be a witnenji&o or officiate as to a contract in which he i« so vitally in terested as that of securing himself a life partner. “The marriage ceremcny may not involve so much in a financial way but from the standpoint of love, a M. P. Hazel, of Batesburg, wag bad ly injured about noon Tuesday when his automobile was struck by a South ern passenger train at the grade crossing in Pelion. Mr. Hazel, who is a well known creamery man, was cn hi s way te Orangeburg. He said he did not see the train until he was almost on the track, thereby realizing it was impos sible to stop before the train reached the crossing. He sped up his ma chine, he added, and attempted to make his way across the track. The locomotive struck his car about mid way and carried it down the track for some distance. Mr. Hazel was thrown out of tha car. He suffered a severe scalp in jury and cuts about one foot and knee. His condition, however, is not considered highly serious. Mr. Hazel, who operates the Sam-* merland Dairy at Batesburg and the South Carolina Creamery at Orange burg, is well known in Barnwell and throughout this section, where he make s weekly purchases of cream, egg s.etc. He was carrying with him over 100 pounds of butter at the time of the accident. Lenten Services. Colonel Keith said he expected to resentative Solomon Blatt spent the make a definite announcement of hi* week-end at heme, returning to Col- ning drawing will appear in an early bride-tc-be is til the world to her in- Advartue in The fctoopie Sentinel plan* on February 1, 1934. umbia Tuesday? * t Issue of Beaux Arts bul’etin. t tended husband.”—The State. The Rev. John A. Pinckney, of Al lendale, conducted services at tha Church of the Holy Apostles yester day morning, which was Ash Weds— day. He will conduct services every Tuesday afternoon at five o’clock dar ing the Lenten season. The public it cordially invited to attend. .A.