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* £*» THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNTY. Couolid&tH Jdm L 192S. e Barnwell People-Sentinel 'Ju»t Like a Member of the Family" VOLUME LVL BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, MAY 4TH, 1933. NUMBER 35. Barnwell Gets Off to Bad Start in League Seen add Heard Here _ During the Past Week Drops Opening Game to Bamberg, 4 A Little Sense and Nonsense About to 3, After Apparently Having Contest on Ice. Standing of the Clubs. Club: Won Lost Pet. Graniteville 2 0 1.000 Augusta -J.—- 1 0 1.000 Barnwell 1 1 .500 Banjberg _ 1 1 \ .500 Sylvania 0 1 .000 Thomson __ 0 2 .000 Games Thursday, May 4. Graniteville at Barnwell. Sylvania at Thomson. Augusta at Bamberg. _ Next Tuesday Sylvania plays at Barnwell, and on Thursday, May 11, the locals go to Bamberg. Barnwell got off to a bad start in the Georgia-Carolina League, when the locals presented the opening game here Friday afternoon on a silver platter to Bamberg in the ninth in ning, after several unsuccessful at tempts in the earlier stages of the contest. Going into the final inning with what appeared *o be a safe lead, Barnwell staged a comedy of errors, which, coupled with timely hitting on the part of -the -visitors, turned defeat into victory for Bamberg, 4 to 3. Bamberg started off in a threaten ing manner in the very first frame, filling the bases with only one man down. However, in spite of the fact that J. Gross yielded three hits in this inning, the visitors succeeded in .scoring only one run, which Barnwell tied in their half. From then until the sixth, the game rocked along on an, even keel. In that inning, Barn well got the advantage of a one run lead and added another in the seventh. In the first pait of that inning, the visitors succeeded in filling the bases with nobody out, but fine support from his team mates got Gros s cut of the hole without any damage being done. The fireworks started in the first half of the ninthl Baird dropped a long fly in left field, which went for two bases. The next batter got a two- l>ase hit, scoring runner. With score fled,Gross made wild throw to seccnd base for an easy out and a possible double, on which play the winning run was scored. Thi s one-run lead proved to be the margin of victory. While it was very disappointing to People You Know and Others You Don’t Know. The following item in The State’s To Hold Oratorical Contest This Week Representatives of All Grades of the Barnwell High School to Be Presented. Barnwell High School presents Seen Here and There column: representatives of all grades in an oratorical contest during thig week. On Thursday morning at eleven forty- five, the regular chapel period, the pupils from the primary department will compete. On Friday evening at eight o’clock speakers from the grammar grades and from the high school will be heard. No prizes are to be awarded, but one boy and one girl will be selected by the judges for first place and one each for second place in each of the three depart ments, primary, gammar, and high school. Speakers for Thursday are: Cullen Dyches, Betty Bowers, Griffin Fletch er, Sara Grubbs, Harry Boylston, Jr 1 ., and Paula Mazur sky. Those to be heard on Friday even ing are: Dori s Reed, Ralph Williams, Marjorie Goodson, Wingard Carter, Emily Dicks, Sonny Patterson, Sfclo- mon Blatt, Jr., Marjorie Brown, Mar garet Christie, Ruth Hogg, Virginia Hair, Elizabeth Morris, Frances Man ning. Billy Manning, Billie Davies, Marion Holly, ami J:m Bush. — — Special music for the occasion will be furnished by Saia Frances Brodie, Maria Coclin, Mary Gay O'Bannon, Kitty Plexico and Anne Brown. the local fans to see the game go the wrong way, they were treated to some excellent baseball, chief anung which was a fine piece of fielding by Flem ing at first and a double-barrel catch of a line dri\e that bounded from Gross’ glove into that of B khart at short. Williams pitched a fine game for Bamberg, yielding only six hits, most of which were kept well scattered, while his tfcam mates were ‘garnerinjr a total of ten. Bamberg -.100 000 003—4 10 3 Barnwell __100 001 100—3 (j/fi Williams and McKinney; J. Gross anj Giier. Umpire, Hyde Smith. . Barnwell Defeats Thomson. Thomson, May 2.—Staging a fifth inning rally that wiped out a two-run lead thi s afternoon and put them one run ahead, Barnwell’s Georgia-Caro lina ball’team added two more runs in the seventh inning just for ^ood luck and ' v °n their Secrmd'start of the league season from Thomson in Thomson 6-3. Thomson jumped cn Gray, Barn well’s hurler, in the fir'st inning for their three runs after Barnwell had opened the game by connecting one run off the offering of F. Rhodes, Mc- Duffs’ hurler, and it looked as though the Carolina boys were in for their second beating in as many starts. Gray steadied after the fii'st inning, however and no more Thomson runners crossed the plate throughout the re mainder of the game. Barnwell went three scoreless in nings after their one-run first before they got to Rhodes in the fifth and when they did the y garnered three runs in short order that put them one run to the good. They jumped him again in /the seventh and when Jim Farr displaced him in favor of Tarpley, Earn well had hammered him for 12/ of their 14 hits throughout th^/frrst seven innings. It was Jenkins, Barnwell’s left fielder, who found his batting eye yesterday to pole out a triple, a double and a single in four trips to the bat to lead the Carolinians’ at- “Scores cf members of the general assembly leaving Columbia to attend in Barnwell the opening of a recrea tion center and visitors to Barnwell returning and saying Barnwell had a swimming pool large enough to ac-, commodate the town's entire popula tion at one time.” . . . Baseball fans talking about the unusual catch of a line drive in Friday’s game, when the ball struck J. Gross’ glove, bounded off and was caught by Bookhart, local shortstop. Many said it was the first time they had ever seen such a play. . . And the fine piece if fielding by Fleeming at 1st. . . . Quite a number of subscrib ers taking adantage of The People- Sentinel’s special “Dollar Day” offer, among them being I. H. Cooper, of Barnwell, and J. R. Bradley, of Kline, to whom the paper begin s it 3 first visit this week. . . . Lang Cave complaining that he always gets noth ing for his last shipment of aspara gus and this scribe suggesting that Edgar Brown “pass a law” prohibit ing growers from making the last shipment.. * Nick Coclin saying that he turned in $55 in gold coin when the govern ment first issued it s call and now finding out that individual'; are per mitted to own up to $100 in money made from the precious metal. . . And somebody wondering if present- day gold money will double in value if the government should halve the content of the gold dollar in its policy of inflation. . . A young couple down at the swimming pool, the boy with an arm around the girl and both gazing soulfullv into the limpid water s of Turkey Creek, totally ob- liviou s to the smiles and comments of on-lookers. . . Colossal asparagus selling at $2 a ci'ate, f. o. b., Barn well and growers saying that this will be the last week of the 1933 sea son. . . A negro man killing a big chicken hawk with a stick in the yard of S. J. Halford, while the hawk wag busily engaged in an effort to catch a hen. The scng of a mocking bird. . . A fish-trap being discovered in a local lily pool, placed there evidently by some boys whose efforts to catch the go!dfi ; h with a hook and line had been unsuccessful. . The Barnwell Ice and Fuel Co. beginning operation of its modem new ice plant. : . The sports writer of the Augusta Chron:- ele referring to the Barnwell base ball club as “the Carolina outfit from the town of the new stadium.” . . ’Most everybody “tickled pink" over the substantial gains registered by the cotton market Saturday and Mon day. End of Long Session May Come This Week Sine Die Adjournment Saturday Pos sible if Report on State Supply Bill Is Acceptable. Barnwell Is Thanked by General Assembly House and Senate Adept Concurrent Resolution Expressing Apprecia tion for Hospitality. The following concurrent resolution, expressing appreciation of the gen eral assembly for the hospitality ex tended them on April 26th by the citizens of the town of Barnwell and Barnwell County was adopted by the State Senate and House of Represen tatives in joint session Friday: “WHEREAS, The members of the General Assembly of South Carolina were invited^guests to the Town of Barnwell on the afternoon and even ing of April 26th to witness a base ball game and partake cf a barbecue and other entertainments, an^ “WHEREAS, a vast majority of the members accepted said invitation, and “WHEREAS, the citizens of the Tcw’n of Barnwell and Barnwell Coun ty spared no efforts nor expense in seeing that every one present had a vety pleasant and enjoyable occasion, and “WHEREAS, the members oT the General Assembly desire to express their deep appreciation to Senator Brown and Representatives Solomon Blatt and W. C. Smith and other citi zen^ of the Town .and —County-of- Barnwell for the hospitality extended them, NOW THEREFORE, “BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives, the Senate con- cuiring: “That the members of the General Assembly do extend to the representa tives from Banwell County and to the citizens of the Town of Barnwell and Barnwell County their deep apprecia tion for the entertainment and gen uine hospitality extended to them. “BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED That we congratulate the citizen s of the Town of Barnwell and Barnwell County for their unusual civic pride in causing to be erected and con structed a base ball park, swimming pool and club h^use, which would do credit to any large city, for the en tertainment and recreation of its citizens. “BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED That a copy of this Resolution be sent to the member s cf the General Assembly from Barnwell County and to the Mayor tf the Town of Barn well.” X- Letter Carriers to Meet Here May 10 Meeting to Be Held at New Municipal Park in Barnwell.—Good Program Arranged. Adjournment sine die this week of the general assembly of South Caro lina depend s solely upon whether the free conference committee’^ compro mise general appropriation bill will be acceptable to both houses, it was believed here Saturday by vetenan political observers. If the repoit, which is to be made some time Tuesday, is acceptable there appear 3 to be no reason why the general assembly should not be able to complete its labor* by Satur day. One hitch which might deelop and delay adjournment sine die for nure than a week is the question of addi tional taxes. A special committee of the senate i s expected to offer a broad j Bamberg> April ^_T e n dollar tax measure Wednesday which would! old piecei for a nickUs $2 0 gold inc ude either a smaj: sales tax or i pj eCeS Tf or anything they would selected commodity tax, a slight in- i bring—was the fare of somebody’s crease in the income tax rate and a 2 LITTLE NEGROES FIND GOLD AND GIVE IT AW AY 1-. Little Boy Seriously Hurt. Burton, the little eight-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W*. Half rd, of this city. Suffered seiious head and back injuries Monday night. The ac cident occurred on East Main Street. The little fellow, along with several other boys, were swinging from the back of a motor truck. The driver speeded up the machine, it is said, evidently not knowing that the boys were swinging cn, anj Burton fell to the street. He was car’tied to an Augusta hospital, from which en/ couraging rep rts as to his condition were received Tuesday. / lowering of brackets and exemptions, a business license tax and a profes sional or occupation tax. If the free conferees have written gold, that two little negro girls found / j in a purse near a railroad track here. The giilg dhf n °f know' what the coins were but a few other people did. Later the girls said when peo- neej more tax impositions to meet it, then there is little chance that the special committee's tax bill will be an appropriation lull wh:ch^\v|H ^not p i t . heard the coin* clinking in tkeir pockets, it all was ta^en from them except one $2.50 piece. Police found that a dozen or so seiiously considered. - The ccnfeiees,, negroes had claimed some cf the tack. He batted in two of his team’s runs, as did Bolden, who collected tw’o singles in five times/up. Jack Farr, Reese and Ficklen turn ed in a pretty day in the field for Thomson. / §core by/innipgs: Barnwefl.. 100 030 200—6 14 2 Thqrfison 300 000 000—3, 9 2 Other Gaines. it wa s believed, have w’rjtten a bill within the revenue. Even should the senate pass an ad ditional tax bill it was felt that it would not gain much support- in the house. The house has approved cne money, some getting $20 pieces. The girls said the coins were sizes of nickles, dimes, quarters and half dol- lar*s._ Police estimated the purse con tained $200. All those known to have received new tax. a/drastic revision in the in- any of the money were summoned come tax. law, but the senate-has notjbefcie Mayor Ero-tem C. O. K.rsch given it seiious cpnsideration and as ' and Solicitor B. D. Carter, who start- . posed to replace the four mill State school levy and all special district school levies. The senate at the week close found itself for the second time of the ses sion in a filibuster. Senator West, cf Abbeville, in an effort to block action on the bill to provide for State con trol and development of a hydro-elec tric plant on the Cooper and Santee rivers kept the senate in session from Sylvania and Augusta played to a Friday afternoon until shortly after 12-12 tie Tuesday, the game being 4 o’clock Saturday morning, but he ( called at the end of the ninth on ac- i finally lost the floor when the bill was count of darkness. j passed by an overwhelming vote. Graniteville trounced Bamberg to The week in the senate was given the tune of 7 to 2. Graniteville and j over mostly to consideration of finan- ! Augusta are now tied for first place; ces and State aid to public schools. Barnwell and Bamberg for second, and Under consideration was the house Thomson and Sylvania for the cellar. | school finance bill wtich would abolish • In Saturday's games, Augusta de- the 6-0-1 school law and reduce State feated Thomson, while Graniteville aid for teachers’ salaries-' by one- t-ok Sylvania into camp. third. While the senate hag not voted written it stoed littlfe chance tf ap- jmn-al in the upper house. Senators were leaning toward a sales tax until 2,000 merchants marched on State House in protest. Out of this grew the move for a se-, lectej commodity tax. Beth were pro- c °i ns f° r norma! sums in silver Police guessed someone dropped the purse from a train. ed to plan somewhat to stsaighten out the matter. The c fficials were aimost flooreed when they heard that some of the negroes had sold $10 pieces for a nickle; other s disposing cf their Plexico Elected Trustee. Lloyd A. Plexico was elected with out opposition to the office of trustee of Barnwell school district No. 45 in an electiblt held here Friday. Only about 30 votes were polled. , Mr. Plexico succeeds the late M. B. Ha- good. The members of the Barnwell-Bam- berg Rural Letter Carriers Associa tion will hold their regular annual meeting at Barnwell next Wednesday afternoon, May 10th, at four o’clock, according to an announcment made this week by T. R. Pender, of Willis- ton, president of the organization. The meeting will be held at the new municipal park, permission to use the pavilion and swimming pool having been granted the committee in charge. This committee has arranged for several good speaker s at this meeting, which will begin promptly at four o’ clock, and at six o’clock a real barbe cue supper witl}, all of the trimmings will be served. Members are invited to come and bring their families, and are requested to notify the secretary, J. O. Johnson, at Denmark, the num ber that will be in each party. This is important, Mr. Pender says, in or der that the committee may know in advance how many guests to pre pare for. He states that the entire cost to each carrier will not exceed T5 cents and possibly not more than 8d\cents. “!So fire up the old flivver and bring the fhpnily along and let’s have a big time and don’t forget to bring year bathing suits,” Mr. Pender said. Free to Use Loans for Any Needed Supplies Crop Production Loan Office Clears Up Any Confusion That May Exist Among Farmers. Finds Prosperity on Banks Turkey Creek John A. Montgomery, The State’* Sports Writer, Describes Local Recreation Center. In Friday’s issue of The State, John A. Montgomery, in his “Speak ing of Sports” column, had the follow ing to say about the recreation de velopment in Barnwell: To^ s waiting wortd we have the an nouncement that Prosperity has been found.^ It is not around the mythical cor ner that wa 8 muck discussed in thd Hoover days, but cn the sloping bank of Turkey creek. Just below the concrete bridge on the border of Barnwell is a recrea tional center that recalls the industry and bustle, the co-operation and community pride that was identified with “the good old days” when family garages were made for two automo biles. Clear, cold, black water of the gob bler stream parts below the span. On# branch rolls over s newly constructed dam and rushes onward toward the Ssltkehatchie. The other feeds one of the handsomest swimming pools in the State. The tank is made of concrete, both side 9 and bottom, and is lined with concrete walkways. It is about 190 feet long and about 50 feet wide and big enough to accomodate every bather in the town at one time. On the side opposite the creek is a large s;m-iou* log pavilion with locker rooms on the first floor and a commodious, well lighted dance hall on the second. Numerous well constructed picnic tables inside a wire fence ars at one end of the building. ^ Back of it all is one of the moot beautiful and best equipped athletic parks in the State. In many ways it i t similar to Drey- fuss field, Columbia’s fast deteriorat ing baseball center. The high fence* are painted green and placed so that only the tree-sitters can dodge the turnstiles. The grandstand is comfortable, roomy and designed to meet all mod em requirements. Spectators are separated from the playing field by protective wire. The refreshment con cession is easily accessible either from the outside or the inside. Seats are Borrowers are free to use the pro ceeds of their loan 8 for any needed supplies within the regulations, using their best judgment to obtain the best possible value for the money ex pended. This quotation from a letter issued by the Crop Poduction Loan Office of the U. S. Department of Agriculture clears up any confusion that may ex ist among farmer 8 as to the use of the money obtained. The letter clear ly points out that regulations govern ing crcp production loans do not con tain any requirement* or even sugges-1 equipped with back rests and in front tiens that certain brands or makes of | of thttVgrs j^re boxes with cane hot- materials be purchased. tom cnoirs. The letter in full, as received by Lcud speaker* are installed at each Extension Directors, and transmitted ! end of the grandstand with a box for to county agents arm ethers, reads as transmitting from the center. follows: “The regulations governing crop pro duction loans do not contain any re quirement or suggestion to borrowers as to the purchase, from the proceed* of loans, cf supplies of any particular brand or manufacture. Borrowers are free to use the proceeds of their loans for any needed supplie 8 within the r egulations, ’ using their best efforts to obtain the best possible value for the mcney expended. It is not a part of your duty to suggest or direct crop loan bcrrower s to buy goeds of any particular brand or manufacture, or to purchase supplies from any par ticular source.” The field itself ber.rs no resemblaaea to the city trash dump it once woo. At present a sand-clay infield ia in use and the rest of the ground la planted in Italian rye, which will soon give way to Bermuda grass. It is fitting that the first team or ganized as a home club to play in this park is one that would do credit to many leagues of Clas 8 B rating. The material has been assembled by Dr. M. C. Best, president, who aims to give his town championship of tho Georgia-Carolina semi-pro league thig year. The whole new project i» a tribute to the energy and rescurcefulnotg of County agents have all received this .... ^ letter. Any questions on the subject B.r«w«U s ettuens. They h.». Uk« farmers may wish to bring up will be answered immediately through the -agent’s office. _ Mrs. J. F. Clayton. I on the question it appeared that that body favored the changes in the it school items. During the week the house passed two bills to reduce the assessments on real estate arm on horses and mules by 40 per cent. At a joint assembly Wednesday five railroad commission ers and the chief game warden were re-elected.—The State, May 4. Olar, April 27.—The Colston com munity w’as saddened to learn of the death of one of its older members, Mrs. Docia Sandifer Clayton, 64, long an invalid, Wednesuay. She wa s the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J?. J. Sandifer, of Denmark. February 12, 1888, s he was married to J. F. Clayton. To this union were born the following children: H. H. Clayton, who died five years ago, H. K. Clayton, of Columbia; J. F. Clay ton, Jr., and Mrs. W. D. Baggot, of Florence; Mrs. C. B. Lazar, of Barn well; Mrs. B. W. Beard, of Bamberg; Ernest Clayton,, of the Colston com munity. The latter six survive her, as do her husband, 11 grandchildren, two sis ters, Mrs. Bertha Zorn and Mrs. J. B. Gilliam; two brothers, John Sandifer, of Denmark, and Archie Sandifer, of Cope. The funeral services were held at Colston church, of which she was a member, st 11 o’clock Thursday, with the Rev. Jams* West berry in charge. advantage of the opportunity offered by the Reconstruction Finance cor poration to build a wholesome recrea tion center that should live and thrive through many periods of prosperity and depression. To the community as a whole and to Mayor C. G. Fuller, Senator Edgar A. Brown and Representatives Solomon Blatt and Winchester C. Smith, Jr n in particular, the rest of the State should extend congratulations for setting such a fine example in civic development. LEGISLATURE EXTENDS THANKS TO BARNWELL On motion of G. J. Knobeloch, off Charleston, house and senate, while in joint session yesterday, extended a rising vote of thanks to the people of Barnwell, to its representeUvea hi the house and senate, and to the dtp generally for the “wonderful enter tainment” given in Barnwell Wednes day. Members of the two houses w*m invited to attend the celebration in cident to the opening of a new tion center and many of them «d the invitation.—The State, April 28th.