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i ~ \ f /, T mr~ THE 0F/TC1AL NEWSPAPER OP BARNWELL #A#UNTY.* \ ^ V. y> V, CobmIMvM J«m 1. ita. VOLUME LVII. • i ■ Bitter Cold Weather Sweeps the Country Thermometers Registered Freezing Temperature^ in Barnwell Wed- r -nqriay Morning. Thermometers icgistered tempera- "Jumt Ltkw a MwmbT of the Family” BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, ■ \ NUMBER 17. Seen and Heard Here During the Past Week V- A Little Sense and Nonsense About People You Know and Others You Don’t Know. sgi S. Moore, Jr., county superin- mHH mm. H tures slightly under the freezing tendent of education, explaining the point yesterday (Wednesday) morn ing and local people shivered in be lated wintry weather as a wave of ' bitter cold, accompanied by raging winds tl&t brought deaths on the Great Lakes and blizzards in New Engltand Stages, swept across the United States Tuesday night on the course of snow stoims that piled high drifts in 12 States, Deaths fi:m the cold and from ac cidents caused by the snow were esti mated to have passed 300, including eight fisheimen lost on Lake Mich igan and others missing. In several sections the worst of the weather was yet to come.. Temperatures plunged far below zero in the midwest. -Chicago had a 16 degrtf^drop in five houis, with ten bebw predicted. The city reported 6.3 inches of snow. New York had 10.3 inches of snovth . s in seven hours that tied up shipping , f„or hours, kept airplanes at home, de layed trains and buses. “Np visibili ty” was reported from the' New York harbor, and even .ships at sea were troubled. A terrific windstoim sunk the 100. foot fishing smack, “Martha,” near the harbor at Michigan City, fnd.^and carried four fishermen to their deaths. Four men were drowi^d when the tub ■“Bremen” capsized at South Haven, Mich. Another South Haven fishing, tug was missing. * . Coast guardsmen described the storm as “the worst in years.” Hug waves threatened to destroy a thing afloat, and fishermen were peg ged to. remain at home Storm Shifts Eastward. Northwest wind carried th^ snow storms eastward from th£ir birth places in the Pacific northwest, Mon tana and the Canadian ryirthwest. A bitter blizzard howled into Portland, Me., at noon, and th£ New England States generally ha^l taste s of real winter. The snow had ?(bated and tempera from extreme lows in the Dakota^', Minnesota, Iowa and neighboring States, but faimei s still took precautions to protect livestock, and-shippers weie warned cf continu ed below-zero weather probabilities. Snow Glides in the mountains had tied up rail toad branch line s in Mon tana, with prospects that one 6f them, "between St. Regis and Avecy technique of golf tc J. J. Bell, c-unty treasurer, in the latter’g office. . . . L. C. Eidssn and many others com plimenting The People - Sentinel’s Christmas addition, and J. W. Brown ing, of Blaekville .saying that it is “a credit to Barnw'ell County.” (Thanks, gentlemen!) . . . And Mr. Br-wbing also saying that work on >the Blaekville swimming 5£)ol at Zelda Springs is progressing nicely. He was a generous cohtfibutor.to the project, which should be a source of pleasure !tc his feljcw,, tonwspeople for marly years to come. . . T following conversation between a lady trying to locate her husband and a colored servant: Lady:—“Do youknew ^anything about Mr. Blank’s 7 where abouts?” Servant-^'No, m^ram, les sen dey’s in de wash.” , . . The “gobble-gobble’ of numerous turkeys being silenced during the holidays. . . A, group of hignway empl'yes sefully waiting ax the post office for tUie. arrival of their pay checks and registering disappointment when they w?re not/received. ., . A huge lighted Christmas tree in# front of thq Court House, another in the yard of’Mff and Mrs. J. W. Ruff and smaller ones in the windows of numer ous homes, all adding to the gala spirit df Chritmas. . . Several new bicycles that Santa Claus brought his litfle friends. . . W. H. Grubbs apd G. R. Morris, both of Barnwell /foute 1, joining The People-Sentinel family of satisfied readers. Coroner Jame s T. Still acting ^s host to the inmates of the county poor farm on Christmas Day with a sump tuous dinner, whiA included country hams and two turkeys with all the trimmings. . . . Per ry Bush, af ter demonstrating a gyroscope top to Harry Boylston, making the county agent a .present of the toy. . . . Everybody expressing horror over kidnapping and horrible murder of the 15-year old Columbia bey and several men wanting to lead a lynch ing party to wieak summary ven geance on the confessed muiderer. . o „ . . A light shower of rain Tuesday morning that failed 'to materialize >i\. Christmas Was Quiet Affair in Barnwell Christmas Festival Celebrated In' Or derly Manner.—Ideal Weather Prevailed. / m*:. m. A New Deal in the New Year for The People-Sentinel’s Subscribers The People-Sentinel i s pleased. to announce that, beginning next week, this paper will go to its subscribers with eight or mere pages each issue. Arrangements were completed last week to give our readers such special features as Arthur Brisbane’s column, “This Week,” a Review of Current Events, a Weekly digest of Washing ton happenings, a continued story and other features of interest. During the depression, publishers have been forced to curtail the size of their papers, doe to the falling off in advertising revenue—the life blood of a newspaper. The People- Sentinef has suffeied along with the a rest, but our subscribers have been loyal and, for the most part, uncom plaining. We believe ‘that times have definitely taken a turn for the better and ai;e pinning our faith to Presi dent Roosevelt’s New Deal. However, it will increase our costs of publication,^to give our subscribers a New Deal in the way of an enlarged paper and we are going to ask them to cooperate witjj us by paying their due s promptly. Many of them have neglected to attend to this little mat ter in the 4>ast year and we hope that they will wot put' it off any longer. We really need the money in order to carry on. v- - Look at the expiration date on your label. If it reads “January 1934” or prior thereto, your subscription has expired and a remittance is in order. Let us have it NOW. The Publisher. Christmas in Barnwell was celebrat ed in a most orderly mahner and there were 'kb untowaVd incident# to mar the outstanding Christian festival of the year. With /he birthday of the Prince of Peace falling on Monda^ the occasion much like two Sundays-in succehsicm. An early moininfc communion ser vice was held in the Church of the Holy Apostles Christmas morning, while on Christmas Eve a large con gregation enjoyed a pageant at the ocal Baptist Church. Both Sunday and Monday dawned fair and warm and many took advan- Uage of the mild weather to vitiit the Sweetwater Country Club and enjoy a game of golf over the fine new course. Others visited relatives, and friends in neighboring tcwn s and cities, while a few nijnrods tried heir luck afield" on Monday. Tuesday evening a large number of members of •'the country club and ^their friends enjoyed a dance at the club house and “tripped the light fantastic” until the wee sma’ hours. Very little drunkenness wus in evidence at any time during the holidays, and merchants for the most part report a, brisk Christmas trade, A more optimistic spirit prevails here than was apparent a year ago. T _ * Roosevelt Is Urged to Address Congress Advisors Asking That President Ap pear Before Nation’s Lawmakers January 3rd. 'Youth Is Murderfed in Hired Kidnapping Hubbard H. Harris, Jr, 15-Year OM V' — Boy, Brutally Slain Near Columbia Saturday. Columbia, Dye. 26.—Sheriff T. Alex Heise said today Robert H. Wiles, 49 year old unemployed mechanic, was “hired to kidnap” Hubbard H. Harm, Jr., 16, and had beaten the boy to death to prevent his escape. The sheriff depicted the jobless Id War veteran as the tool of another party” in enticing young Harris\to a deserted farm house near Columbm Saturday by an offier-cf em ployment The sheriff declined to elaborate upon his \ statement that ^another party” w’as responsible for the crime, but officers disclosed that a former emp’oyt^of young Harris’ lather was held at the State penitentiary “for questioning.” / . Once in the farm. house, Sheriff Heise said, the boy grew suspicious.- He w’as quoted >n Wiles’ purported confession as having said “thia is a devil of a place.” Wi]e 8 allegedly said the boy scowl ed at him and twisted away as though to leave the farm. He was said to have related that: “He hit me a hard blow .in the face. HlJ Youth With Rod. “I picked up a piece of iron about two feet long, held in both my hands and hit him first a right hand lick on the front of the head and then a left handed lick that caught him be hind his head. “When he lay still, I caught him by the heel g as well as I remember and dragged him in the house arvd covered him up with an old mattress. I start ed to go back and hide him but didn’t.” Wiles, who was acuuitted in Dur ham, N. C, nearly 10 years ago af ter he had shot and killed hi* wife and a man, was quoted by officers as Washington, Dec. 25.—Presides t Roosevelt’s first annual message to congress will be delivered on January M ying he shook ™ h Harris, hi s victim’* fkther, willed him “Merry Christmas” “befwt Marie k aries, would not be opened for 30 days. Through trains from the Pa cific- copst, bearing be’ated ,Chiis#.- mas travelers, arrived at Missoula Mont., for th? first time since F;iday. . Among sub-zero temperatures re ported were 33 below at Melien, Wis., 26 below at Superioi, Wis., 38 below i at Eleventh, Minn., 22 below at Bis marck, N*. D., 10 below at Chares City, la., 20 below at . Winnipeg, Man., (Canada), 10 below at Duluth, Minn., 18 below at Sheridan, Wyo., and Havre, Mont. Nmthern Wisconsin and the upper Michigan penjnsula counted its dead at^ J6, and Minnesota reponed 10 dead. Exposuie to the cold was cause of many fatalities. • , The Southern States were the only (ne s to . escape winter’s vagaries. Flood waters still endangered V ith- vy^stern Washington and northern Idaho. Los Angeles had a dense fog. with Pacific shipping tied up. into the “rout-soaker” that is badly need in this section. . ., . Rumois that wedding bell s will chime' in the near future. . A . < . The belated shooting of firecrackers. ' • ‘ * ' « A group ( f boy s trying to inflate a paper balloon, which caught fire during the process. . . . A very black negro man with fingef nails painted a bright red. ^. A party of young people, led by the Rev.' and Mrs. H. H. Stembridge, singing Chnstmas catols in different, sections/of town Christmas Eve night. At Home for the Holidays. NOTICE! ; - ’■ I *will be at the Allowing places for the purpose of taking tax returns for the year 1933. Both real and peisonal property Sre tc be returned this year. Ten per cent, penalty will be added for failure to make returns on or before February 28th, 1934: Blackvillfe, January 3rd. Dunbarton,-" January 5th. Elko, January 8th. Hilda, January lOth, Kline, January 12th. Leigh, January 15th. Meyer’s Mill, January 17th. Robbins, January 19th. Snelling, J J*nuhry 22nd. Willistcn, January 24th. Respectfully yours, w. h\manning, Auditor, Barnwfell County. Amortg the oilege girls and boys at home for the Christmas holidays are tlje following: 'Winthrop College—Misses Anne Scott McNab^C'aire Dicks, Kathryne Holland.. Columbia College—Miss Elizabeth Hagood. . Clemson Co'lege—Steven and Rob- erl Deason, Brown Easterling, Mc- Tyre Calhoun, Janies Riley McNab, Rodrhan Lemon. * • • ! ——- / — TyWj A . ^ • University of S uth/ Caro!ina— Misses Elaine ^ Harley and Fannie Cooper, Aubrey Harley. * The Citadel—Wilson Sander s, Gene Parler! . Wcfford College—Hummel Harley. West Point Military Acadenw— Elmer W. Grubbs. “ Washington 5 Secretarial School—•„ Miss Dorcthy Richardson. Coker College — Misses Patricia Dicks, Elizabeth Grubbs. Barnwell 50 and 25 Years Ago. Interesting Items Gleaned From th6 Files of The Barnwell People. DECEMBER 27, 1883. Only four more* wet days fn Barn well. Mr. R. P. Gantt has been appointed Trial Justice for Red Oak Township. Married, on the 20th inst., by Rev. J. M. Bostick, Mr. Geo. Rhodes and M iss Lizzie, eldest daughter of Cel.. J. C. Dowling. The tax levy as passed by the Legi- • 4}ture f or Barnwell County for the year 1884 is: For county purposes, 3 1-4 mills; for <^ounty purposes in lieu of liquor licenses, 3-4 mill; fer past indebtedness prior to 1876,. 1 mill; for building poor house, ^ mill; for State purposes, 7 mills. Deaths.—At his residence near Wijiiston, on the 18th inst., Mr. Thos. StanseM, aged 78 years.- He was cne of cue- best pnd oldest citizens and •tors left a stoinless reputatrm as a heritage to his children -and friends. In Bamberg, on the 24_th ult., of blood poisoning, the result of a pro- tracted/bil/cus atack, Mr. J. G. Yarn, the popular postmaster of that pr os- ^ i perous town. • ropit DECEMBER 24, 1908. Fire Between the ceiling and roof of the large mercantile establishment of H. D. Still and Sons at noon Sat urday threatened Blaekville w’ith a serious c:nflagation, but the building and contents were saved from destruc tion. Congressman Patterson is at he for the holidays.. Harry N. Bellinger, of Bamberg and Edgar A. Brown, of Aiken, were the only two candidates for steno- / graphar ,cf the Second Circuit. *. who stood the competitive examination at Aiken last week. During the four weeks of Court only cne arrest a weqk was made by the ip:'.ice for over-indulgence in .strong, drink. Governor Ansel has refused to'par don George W. Ennis, the ex-Union soldier cohvicted over thirty years ago of burning Mr. W. H. Hagood’s bain and stables and sentenced to life impriserment in the penitentiary. Muss Jennie Pate left, yesterday on a Christmas visit to North» relatives. / // : first daykrthe gession fcr reading By a house clerk, Speaker Rainey said today that contrary to reports,^the president did not plan to deliver the message in person, but some of Mr. Roosevelt’s advisors are still urging him to ap pear in person to deliver the message to a joint session of the senate and house. Democrats are contending that the country is more back of the president than a few months ago and that they aie prepared to fellow him in his recommendations. Republicans^ gen erally are saying little and awaiting developments. — Big Expenditure. % » • Speaker Rainey said he,expected the ordinary and extraordinary bud gets to call for appropriations in ex cess of $6,000;000,000 for the fiscal This includes the budget year 1934. estimates of $2,600,000,000 for oxdi and French Train Disaster. The worst railroad disaster in the histor y of France. occurred on the night of December 23rd- when the Paris-Strasbourg flier (plowed through four coaches of the Nancy Express, killing 196 .persons.^. The accident oc curred in a dense fog. The engineer and fireman were arrested on a charge of homicide by imprudence, it being alleged that they ran through a closed signal at 65 miles an hour. v Christmas Edition “Fine.” i •*. Among the many nice thrngs said about The People-Sentinel’s % Christmas Edition was the fol- Y lowing from Copeland Cpmpany, y cf Columbia: l “We have just received your X Christmas Edition. It is fine, j and we wish to congratulate you. Wishing you a Meiry Christmas* and a Happy New Year.” \ V / Jeff Bolden and Louis Gray, who were members of the Barnwell base ball club last summer, spent Christ- ADVERTISE in Tb* People-Sentinel mas with and Mrs. M. C. Best BLIND FROM BIRTH, *BOY SEES FIRST YULE TREE Springfield, Mo.* Dec. 25.—With eyes that last year and all his life before had been sightless 7-year-cld Loren Ldckhait, of Folk, Mo., saw the ‘.winkling lights of a Christma s tree ^Ojday^for the first time. <, / . * x , “It’s awful pietty,” he said. When he realized all the toys piled around were for him he spoke in wonder. “How did Santa Claus know I was going to be here?” he asked. Loren was in Springfield for Christ mas the guest of nurses in a hospi m where, by a series of operations lasting more than two years, Kansas given sight. He had been bern blin4 ADVERTISE in The People-Sentinel. nary expenses of the government. Of the balance, about $1,700,000,000 is to be asked for continuation of the public works-employment program; about $500,000,000 for federal relief; additional capital for the reconstruc tion ebrporation foi business stimul#-}, tion, arid varying sums for other gov- ernment enterprises. First cri the legislative calendar Rainey, said Would be a bill f&r'-the repeal of Jhe\ Volstead act as it ap- p’ies to the District of Columbia, ter ritories and p ssessions. This is to be-followed by th&. liquor revenue act to be introduced by Chairman Dough- ton, (D,, N. C.) of thrihouse ways and’ means eorhmittee on the first day.' It ^viHyCall fm a $8 a gallon levy on spirits, $5 ' o' barrel/on beer, retain present import * duties on "wiries^ spirits and brew, all the revenue from these, sources^ estim’afed at more than $500,0()0,UOO, to go into the , f^leral treasury. , ' The president’s budget message r^ill be received ‘by congress on the secow day. of the session. Indications are that the president, under the authority granted him in the economy 1 act, may, restore 5 per cent, of the federal pay cut effective January 1, in view of in creased living costs. The budget for the next fiscal year, beginning July 1, provides for restoration cf the ftill 15 per cent. The general revenue reviaion mea sure, designed to raise about $270,000,- 000 through tightening up of the ad ministrative provisions of the income tax law, is scheduled for passage- be fore March, the day return* *re to be filed by individuals and oorpe ca tions. ’ • , * • few hours after the’ boy was slain. The sheriff and federal, State and city -officer R investigating the cese seid they obtained the confession {rem Wiles early today at the State penitentiary after a rigorous examina tion. They held John Martin Rus&jon, e former employe of the boy’s flther, at the prison “for questioning.” Rush- ten denied all knowledge of the case. A large number of Columbians gath ered outside the towering stone walls of the penitentiary as the report spread that Wiles had confessed but thre was no display of violence. A truck driver and a negro booj- black identified Wiles at the peniten tiary as the man they had seen with young Harris the day he disappeared. Eddie Dicon, the bootblack, said Wiles gave him a note for Harris which caused the boy to cross lower Main street here and drive off with Wiles in a car with the older man at the wheel. J. M. Parker, the truck driver, told officers he had seen the" pair in a car near here. Funeral services for the lad, a junior high school student, were ar ranged for IOtSo a. m. tomorrow. Me it Hants of the city planned to etoae .their stores. .The elder Harris i* an official of a grocery chain. (Schoo 1 mates'of young T^arris de-? -scribed him as “always smiling.” One of them, Clayton Cargill, said the boy had a phetograph of himself made Wednesday a Christmas pres ent T6r “hbrfatherv - Tto.ee textile workers found his body Christmas - day with the skull batteried in. / Templeton—Mitchell. Blaekville, Dec. 26.—Mr. • and Mrs.^ J. M. Templeton, of Blaekville, an nounce the,-marriage of their daugh ter, Nannie Jane, tb Mr. J. S. Mitchell, Williston, Saturday, December 23. marriage was,performed by Judge ri K. Snelling. Only a few cloee fribnds and relatives were present. The bride was becomingly attired in Rcosevejt blue crepe ar>d accessories to mayfi. She is » young lady of fine qualities and a charming personality. The groom *ls the son of Mr. P. F. Mitchell, and is liked and esteemed by all who know him. The many friends of the young cou ple will unite in their good fflshes tmi congrafculet TRY A BUSINESS BUILDER