The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, January 18, 1934, Image 1
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Archie Ellis, of Dunbarton, Studying
for Ministry.—M. I. Garber
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People Ton Know and Others
You Don’t Know.
Greenville, Jan. 16.—Archie Ellis,
son of Dr. and Mrs. E. W. Ellis, of
Dunbarton, is. taing a place of leader
ship as a freshman at Furman Uni'
varsity.—He i 8 a member of the Minis-
terial Band, the Y. M. C. A. cabinet,
and has been honored, by his Sunday
School and B. Y, P. U. with the posi
tions of vice-president of the student-r
clfcsg of Pendleton Street Baptist
Church and president of the B. Y. P.
U. of the same church.
Just after completing high school
at Dunbarton last June, Mr. Ellis en
tered a B. Y. P. U. encampment in
Bamberg, wh^ene decided to become
a minister./His present work, at Fur
man is fitting him both academically
and through extra-curricular activi-
plans to do* graduate work aV the
Southern Baptist Theological Semi
nary in Louisville, Ky. -t
Jin honor, student .at Furman from
Barnwell County, George Edward
Crouch, a junior from Williston,
^erves ^as yke-preaident of Pi Kappa,
Phi, the university mathematics club.
"TgrTnCYgucV^fn&^TO ~1B matTve-
matic s and giving special attention to
physics. He belongs to the National
Scientific Fraternity, Chi Betta Phi.
His parents are Mr. and Mrs. Geo. E.
Crouch, of Williston. \ ;
Billjt Patterson, a sophomore, - en
tered Furman hr November, having
transferred from The Citadel.
has already been' pledged to'a
fraternity, S. A. E.
home is in Williston.
lead
mg
Hr. Patter son’s
Elected President of* Debating
Council.
Williston, January 16.—From Clem-
son College comes the new g that M. I.
Garber, a graduate of Williston-Enkp,
High School in the class, of 1930, and
j>pw a senior^ at Clemspn College,
where he-will be graduated in Textiles
to a responsible position. The De
bating Council of the college has
elected young Garber as its president.
This is indeed an, honor and carries
with it much responsibility. He has
been active in the Debating Council
this year and has done njuch to pro
mote debates in the Calhoun Literary
Society, an organization of which he
has been most active for the past
three years.
- Young Garber i s popular among the
- members of his class. He is also a ening” to do so-
member of several student organi
tions.
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Local Dry Cleaners
^ v Exempted from Code
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None of Its Provisions Apply to Such
ishments in Towns of Less
Than 2,500.
A report that the Grubby Chevrolet
Co. has already booked orders for
three cf the 1984 “Chevvies.” . . .
A letter front Rutledge P. Butler, of
Atlanta, Qa., saying that h% father,
a r Ci
Pf B
Carter FT Butler, a former cashier of
the old Bank cf Barnwell, had suffered
a stroke of paralysis ind that little
hope of his recovery is held out. Mr.
Butler’s sens, Rutledge, Bert and
Claude, and hts daughter, Harriette
(now Mrs. James B. Meehan), at
tended school here in their early
youth. The family left Barifwell in
1902. ... A report that the
stores now occupied by ^Giggs’ Cash
Grocery, Reid’ a Furnftire Store and
Bolen’s Pool Room are o be Remodel
ed. It is understood that modern
buildings moved back in line with the
other stores in that block. These
three stores are owned by the Bank
of Western Carolina. Reid’s Furni
ture Store has rented the building for
merly occcupied by the late Mis& Car-
rie A. Cave. . . ^ A rumor that
State Senator Edgar A. Brown is be
ing- urged" trr ran for this
summer.
A “lucky piece” sent to the editor
of The People-Sentinel by the Union
Pacific System “to commemorate the
completion of the new high-speed,
light-weight, streamlined Union Pa
cific passenger train.” The accom
panying letter said in part: “The
■first of these to be made ire being
sent to our American editors. These
lucky pieces are made of aluminum
alloy, the same material of which the
new Union Pacific train is built—as
strong as steel of the same dimentkms
but of only one-third the weight. A
total \ of 1,000,000 of these lucky
pieces have been made. These will be
given to school children and to viai-
tors to_ the train on-its.. exhibition
tour. You may be interested to know
next June, has recently been elected" that it dock five tons—10,000 pbunds
—of aluminum alloy to make
million lucky pmWjs.” . . .
native shrubbery being set out
'Court House ground^' J-
A group of men diseiissing
General Assembly Is .
Facing 3 Big Issues
Appropriations, Liquor and Auto
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License Reductions to Be Cc«-
PLANS MATERIALIZE TO HONOR
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.
sidqred This Week.
Senator Edgar A. Brown, General
Chairman, Hopes Every Citizen
Will Have a Part.
Columbia, Jan. 15.—Off to a quick
start the State’s lawmakers will fire
up again at noon Tuesday Wjth three
paramount problem s on the rdsterfor
action the second week of the session.
Of the three—liquor control, auto
mobile deduction and appropriations
the first Has the most explosive possi
bilities. * ‘ / '
This touchy issue was put* in the
background last week while both sen
ators and representatives shoved for
ward a proposal for a 50 per cent, tag
cut.
One of the purposes cf the proce
dure was to allow a thorough study
of a 4,000 word county dispensary bill
tossed into the Jhouse last^ Tuesday
the first day cf the session by Rep
resentative Solomon Blatt, of Barn
well.
Dammed-up sentiment on this mat
terr probably will ffaiT into full 1 blaze
Sunday School Conference to Be Held
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. at Denmark Baptist. Church
February fth.
at ah open hearing on the control
measure set for 8:30 Wednesday af-
tSrncon by the house judiciary com
mittee to whom it was referred:
Chairman Gaston of the committee
f . — 1
explained that motion to hear spokes
men, pro and con, on the question was
made by Representative Calhoun
Thomas, one of the authors of the
btttx Whatever Mr. Thomas or others
have to say in favor of the measure
is certain to draw the fire df drys
who have vision s of a^bone-dry”
Palmetto State. yS
pport of the 50 per
up in both legisla
te champions of
haying passed their
Senator Edgar A. Brown, general
chairman^ for “the President’s Birth
day Party Ball” for Barnwell County,
which will be held at Fuller Park
Plavilion in Bam\fSll on Tuesday
night, January 30th, ha 8 announced
the appointment of several commit
tees whose efforts will l)e devoted to
insuring the succes 8 cf the occasion.
mouncement of the proposed func
tion was made last fveek, at which
timeNt wag stated that the ball would
be held at the Sweetwater Country
Club. However, because of the antici-
pated largV attendance, it was decided
that the clumrooms are not sufficient
ly large to acchmn>°<i&te the number of
dancers expected. Better parking
space is also available at the pavilion
and it is more easuy accessible.
Bernard D. Plexico.Vho, with W. IL
.Turner, II, . anlJgAsil\jeniana t ^ ha
staged many Successful \lances here
during the past sgreraF rtamihg, 'Is 1 '
Denmark, January 15.— Important
changes in tha Teacher and Officer
training program fo£ Southern Bap
tist Sunday school worker 8 will be an-
nounced by J)r. P. j). Burroughs dur-
Electors of Barnwell High School Dio-
trief toToite on Qnostioo
January Slat.
Elsewhere in this issue of The Peo
ple-Sentinel will be found n notice of
election on the issuance of $38,000 in
xmds for the erection of a now high
school building in Barnwell, this
ing the Sunday school conference held
at the First Baptist Church in Den
mark, on February 8Ur for all workers
of Barnwell and Aiken associations.
Dr. Burroughs has been teacher
training secretary for the Sunday
School Board of the Southern Baptist
convention for over 30 yefcro. He has
popularized this phase of Sunday
school work to such an extent that
Southern Baptists are in (he f ron t
ranks in teacher training<%ork. He
will speak twice during this confer
ence, giving opportunities for the
workers to question him on
and the direction of future changes
in the denomination’s leadership train
ing program.
Hr. H. E. Ingram will also be heard
at thU conference in both the after
noon and evening sessions. -- Mr. In
ram introduced the Sunday School
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Turn*
A wave of
cent, tag cut rol
tive branches,
the lower fees
planned—this
reading and
price of cotton; one^gdve the. “clcse”
on May and another on March and
October contracts, Which may or may
not be an vindication that they ^are
“playing the market” on these months.
. . y Quite a number of subscribers
paying theii due s and others “threat-
bill on second
week to add the fina
send it to the house.
Forty representatives obtained a
majority favorable ways and means
th^f committee report on a bill for a like
cut with somewhat morejiberal other
the! provisions. They hoped to push it
Due^o the fact that there ha s been
considerable confusion in this Dis
trict relative to the application of the
President’s “Executive Order” of Oc
tober 23, 1&33, (exempting establish
ments employing less than . five per-
sonTTn 'towns'6n?ss (FaiTY^OlTpopTPt^
lation), to the Cleaning and Dyeing
Code, as well as the minimum price
schedule set by "the Administration for
South Carolina, a ruling received from
Thomas I. Emerson, Assistant Coun
cil of the Legal Division, is quoted as
follows:
“The President’s Executive Order
of October 23/1933, applies to the
Cleaning and[ Dyeing Trade. This
means that none of the provisions of
the Cleaning ahd Dyeing Code (in
cluding the price provisions) apply to
any cleaner and dyer engaged fe
local business >and employing five per
sons or less, whose establishment is
located in a town of les s than 2,500
population which is not in the immedi
ate trade area of a city pf larger popu
lation.”
Senator Edgar
A. Brown and Representative Solomon
Blatt at home for the week-end. . .
The writer being told that two
hunters recently killed 46 birds out
of 11 -coveys without getting any
“single bird” shooting, which would
mean an average of four birds on
“the rise” with one over, the extra
bird being accounted for by one of the
sportsmen killing twdx with one shot;
all of which was* correct except that
there were three huntws and they
bagged a total of 34 birdsNout of nine
coveys. . . . And “Bob\ Bronson
telling about killing a bird that, fell
right "in UbLe-nxiddle of a covey\ flush
ing them. . . . Calhoun Demon
falling into a water hazard on \the
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ternocn while trj^ng to retrieve a ba
and phoning to a friend in tawn.to
bring him out some dry cldthqsT
, Two visii^-fs^irom .Philadelphia,
who are hunting down in Hampton
County, playing on the Sweetwater
course juid, at the conclusion of .their
game, expressing their pleasure and
praising the course.
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FOR SATISFACTORY RESULTS.
Fulmer Asks Probe of Prices for
r' 1 '
Fertilizer Bags.
Washington, Jan; 12.—Representa
tive Fulmer, Democrat, South Caro
lina,, appealed today bo the NRA- to
“investigate” what he said was an ex
cessive charge for cotton fertilizer
bags as compared with jute bags. *
In a letter to the fertilizer recovery
committee of the NRA, Fulmer said
he was informed by the Cotton
Textile institute that the “difference
in price of a jute bag and a cotton
bag is 3 Vi cents, or thirty-five cents
for one ton, ten bags.”
“I find,” be said, “that the fertUizer
industry^ i s charging a difference of
fifty centa.”
Adrertiae In The Psopk RsnHml
chairman of the committeeX on ar
rangements and has secured the
“Troubadours” of Charleston td\ fur
nish music foi>fhe devotees of T
sichore for this occasion. Other
mittees announced Monday by Sena
tor Biown are as follows:
icket Sales Committee—W. B.
rner, II, chairman.
Publicity Committee—B. P. Davies;
of Barnwell, and E. E. Crowson, of
WVlliston.
Floor Committee D. Stanley
Brown, of Blackville; Michael Ussery,
Bate&Hagood, P. A. Price, W. R.
Price, Harry Freeman, M. C. Best; Jay
Gross, Marvin Holland, Harry An
derson. -
through and dear-the way, for a free
conference to compose differences »n
the two bills. -—'
Apparently determined to eliminate
delay and push for speedy sine die ad-
journmenc. this year both chamb®
had action docketedron appropriations.
The house has Tuesday night fixed;
to begin consideration section by sec
tion of the $5,566,000 ways and means
money bill. The measure hewed but
along the frugal lines cf 1933 was
expected to find favor with “economy
minded” representatives.
On the other side of the State
House the senate finance committee,
carrying out a resolution of the sena
tors to ruch action on the vital ques
tion, will begin appropriations hear
ings without waiting to receive ^the
house bill.
As a prelude to the double-barreled
legislative round on^ the money issue,
the’“economy” crusading Farmers and
Taxpayers’ league fired a blast for
governmental reorganization to a-
cfiTevr^’F^ygYeitgr^ufiTOiy*’ • r * itfr-
out cutting necessary functions.
A statement from league headquar-
T^r s said:
If we intend to continue as a per-
marWnt. policy the present haphazard
StateXgovernmental structure the ways
and rrteans committee has done as
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well as wry could ask but that is the
very poin\of departure.
“The question is, shall we continue
the loose^jbmted set-up, with over-lap
ping ’ servicesX with considerable un
necessary expense or shall we reor
ganize the State\govemment on a
logical basis, grouping all relative
services under oneNhead.” \
The statement comments that “bills
have been introduced ^providing for
certain reorganizatjdnsVwhich would
bring about the desired economies/
Boy Scout Meeting\
TvTc OrgShizatioris Cooperation
Committee—Miss Elizabeth McNab.
General Committee—CoLJ. E. Har
ley, Lloyd A. Plexico, Thos. M. Boul-
ware, Col. Somomqn Blatt, H. L. O’
Bannon, Prof. W. W. Carter, Dr. H.
A. Gross, T. E. Girardeau, Wilson
Walker and Dr. L. T. Claytor, of
Barnwell; Herman Brown, W. B. Car-
roll, Dr. O. D. Hammond, John O’Gor
man and Somers JJringlercf Black
ville; Winchester C. Smith, Jr., Q. A.
Kennedy, Jr., Dr. J*. L. Smith, Bryan
Powell and Bobby Lee, of Williston;
B F. Owen s and F. Hamilton Dicks,
Dunbarton; Av P. Collins and
Herndon, of Hilda; P. S. Greene and
Horace J. Crouch, of Elko; Basil Jen
kins, of Kline. ]
• As stated in the initial announce
mertt, these “birthday party balls” will
be. held in 5,000 cities and /owns
throughout the United States and
their purpose is to honor President
Roosevelt on the occasion of his 52nd
birthday by raising a substantial sum
of money to present to him for the
Warm Springs Foundation, which he
created in 1926, so that this Founda
tion “may carry on its national cru
sade against infantile paralysis, and
devote unselfishly its full energy and
thought tp the coordination of the
figh? against a scourge^which physic
ve
in
we
We are to meet at the Ch
Thursday afternoon at 3:00
After a brief iheetuig we
for a hike and some
country. In case
meet Friday aftonbon. Let each boy
remember this date and be there on
time. We are looking forward to this
meeting.
Hf fit. Stembridge, Jr n Scoutmaster.
ally handicaps, every year,
of American children.” It -is be-
lieved that every loyal American will
want to have a part in honoring this
great President, who is himself a vie
thn of infantile paralysis and who
has fought so courageously against
the disease that afflicted him in his
young jnanheod.
Senfctcr Brown has fixed the price
of admission to the ball at $1.50 for
each male dancer; ladies, of course
will be admitted free. One dollar
from the sale of each ticket will be
donated to the Foundation, the re
maining fifty cents being used to de
fray the expenses of the.archesrta and
other incidentals
pected that Barnwell County will be
able to send a substantial sum to
President Roosevelt.
The plan is “going 6Ver big” in
every section of the country. In Fort
Worth, Texas, the first ticket to the
tt Worth ball was sold for $1,000,
The first box in New York was
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boght by the President’s mother. In
some cities, “tables of honor” are be
ing sold at prices ranging ffoin $600
$1,000. Thousands of person 8 wil
the balls in New York,
and Other large centers of
population, while equal, enthusiasm
in the smaller cities, towns
amount to be supplemented by a grant
of $15,000 from the federal govern
ment. The election is ordered “in ac
cordance. with a petition signed by
more that one-thied of the resident
electors Snd a like proportion of the ^
resident freeholders of the age of
21 years” and will be held on W
nesday, January 31st Voting places
are designated as follows:
Barnwell Court House; Kline,
Southern .Railway platform; Hercules
school house; Snelling, Atlantic Coast
Line platform.
that the plans call
for the erection of a $50,000 biukUng
adjoining the present school building,
the additional 33,000 being to defray
incidental expensee.—The bonds are
enlargement campaign as a method of
Sunday school buildnur in Strath Caro-
ina seme years, ago when he conduct
ed the association-wide campaign in
the Marion Baptist association. This
was the fi^st campaign involving
whole association ever conducted in
the Southern Baptist convention. It
esulted in the addition of over one
ueand people to the Sunday school
enrollment in these churchea. Mr.
Ingray Wilt aWo give* the Sunday
school people 1% attendance an oppor
tunity to, present practical problems
for generak discussion.
These conferencea will be preside<
over by Rev. Waymon C. Reese an<
Judge G. R. Webb, of the Barnwel
and Aiken associations, respectively.
Thia conference \s one of a seriee
to be retired by a levy of three or
four mills on the property in the high
school district,
any increase in the Barnwell school
district, a« -the present levy will ba
reduced by seven mills when the bonds
for tha present building are retired
in May.
Increased enrollment has made
larger quarters necessary, it is point
ed out, ss many of the lower grsdha
have been forced tp occupy rooms in
the basement for a number of years.
While many persons, believe that tha
congestion could be relieved by the
addition of more rooms to the present
building at considerably less cost. It
i 8 generally conceded that the elec
tion Called to pass' on the question of
issuing $38,000 in bonds will be carried
favorably by a substantial majority. In
fact, practically no opposition is bo-
arranged by MfrTrt. CorztW, State ln£ he * rd here t ° the
director of Baptist Bunday schoo
work. These conferenres occur on
consecutive days at variou 8 points in
the State. The afternoon confer
ence begins at 2:30 and th^ evening
conference at 7:30.
The People-Sentinel’s Friends/
New or renewal subscriptions t
The Pecple-SentineJ have been re
ceived recently from the following
good friends: * .
Rutledge P. Butler, Atlanta, Gs.
L. Bronson,
Mrs. C. H. Mathis, Blackville. ,
Mrs. Edna McDonald, Barnwell.
H. A. Hiers, Jr., Olar.
R. D. Cooper, Kline.
P. S Greene, Elko.
L. Cohen, Barnwell.
L. M. Calhoun, Barnwell.
W. A. Fickling, Blackville.
Maner W. Morris, Barnwell rfd 1.
S. J. Hutto, Hilda.
W. H. Dicks, Dunbarton.
J. A. Priester, Kline.
The publisher thanks these sub
scribers for their remittances
hopes that the good example thus set
will be followed quickly by others.
pie present building was erected 20
years ago and was designed to ac
commodate about 200 pupils. That
number has grown to more that 400,
according to Suipt. W. W. Carter—
part of the increase being in the high
school, while two districts also send
their grammar grades to Barnwell
Mr. Carter also stated that tha
new building will probably be erected
on the east side of the present school
unds, although that quesion has
>nok been definitely decided.
attention of The People-Senti-
of el
Decani
Relief k
by Bfunwell
Statistics Shew
412.35 Waa
County Last
Total of 32V
Mrs. C. L. Blease.
Mrs. Lillie Summer 8 Blease, wife
pf Coleman L. Blease, - former gov-
ernor and former United States sena
tor, died Sunday morning at ten o’
clock at her home in Columbia after a
long illness. She was born at Pen
dleton, Anderson County, and was
married to Mr. Blease in February,
1890. Besides her husband she U sur
vived by two brothers. Her body was
laid to rest in Newberry, her former
home, Monday./ .
Statistics compiled this\week in tha
office of the Barnwell County Emer-
andjgency Relief Administration
during the month of Decemt
of $27,412.35 was 'spent
the county. Of this amount $21,
was expended on the payrolls of
clvir works" ad^nlnTstritioiiiY $&£78.'i
and rural sections, where special
bridge parties, socials, square dances
and many other forms of Pntertain-
It is hoped and ex--J.ment are also being provided.
Senator Brown says that he hopes
that every family in Barnwell Coun
ty who possibly can do so will take
part in the forthcoming ball. He
wants them to attend if possible and
enjoy the dance and the nationwide
broadcast at 11:16 to 12:16 that even
ing, but those who cannot attend in
person can buy a ticket and thereby
show their appreciation pf President
Roosevelt’s efforts to relieve the suf
ferer g of the nation, from the effects
of the depression by helping him to
carry on his great work for tha relief
of the sufferers from infantile paraly
sis. ' v w •
on that of the civil* works service/
and ;$3,609.60 for direct relief, the
latter being subdivided as follows:
Clothing, $469.69; food, $2,627.66;
medicine and supplies, $280.17; doc
tors, 3137.26; household necessities,
32.18; dentistry, 347.Q0; optical work,
330.00; nursing, 36.50; fuel, 3S£5;
lumber, 33.60; seed, 82^33. /
On the payrolls of the civil works
administration were 1,146 heeds of
families,’ with a representation , of
7,974 person 8 who benefitted. Eighty-
eight single persons were also em
ployed. /
The rolls of the direct relief de
partment show a total of 817 heads
of families and 160 single persons.
No Red Cross flour of eggs were dis
tributed during the month, hot gar
ment# valued at 81,397.10 and 11,-
082% pounds of pork were distribut
ed.
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Sheriff Morris Has M 1
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The many friends pf^Sheriff J. R.
Morris will learn with regret that he
is confined to ^H btA with
of influenza and wiO probably ha <
hit office for
It is hoped that he wm soon 1