The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, January 25, 1934, Image 1
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Asparagus Growers
Move Headquarters
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Offices of Scuth Carolina Asparagus
Growers Association Located
Seen and Heard Here
During the Past Week
in BarnweU.
The offices of the South Carolina
Asparagus Growers Association were
moved from WiTlistonj to Barnwell on
Monday and the new headquarter^ of
this organization will be found on the
second floor of The Bank of BarnweU
building. This move was made to
serve the best interests of the mem
bers ofthe association, according to
L. C. Eidson, secretary, as most of its
members are now located in the Barn
well area.
Following the annual meeting and
election cf officer^ lierfe last fall, a
new association was organized to
serve a majority of the growers of
Williston, Elko and Blackville, and
moving the headquarters of the South
Carolina Asparagus Growers Associa
tion to thi s eity logically foUbwecl7~
Thus organization will handle the
“grass” grown in the Barnwell, Dun-
A Little Sense and Nonsense About
People You Know and Others
You Don’t Know.
5,000 Birthday Balls to Honor President J
And to Help Finance Fight on Infan til
Terie Richardson telling the follow
ing incindent that occurred many
-lions, and it is’ also expected that a
considerable amount will be ‘ trucked
to this pctrirfroTH—Btackvftte;—Elko
and Williston. Judge M. C. Kitchings,
n former president of the organiza
tion, will represent the association at
years <ago when hisT father, the late
E. H. Richardson, was postmaster at
the cotfnty: A letter was mailed’Tb
the count: A letter was mailed to
which the sender had found some dif
ficulty in affixing the stamp; it had
been rubbed until both the stamp
and the envelope were badly soiled,
and finally, in disgust, the sender had
written below the stamp, “Postage
paid if the damn thing siticks.” . .
A large window card advertising a
popular brand of smoking tobacco on
which appears the picture of a young
lady that closely resembles Miss
Elizabeth Hagocd, daughter cf Mrs.
M. B. Hagood, of thi$ city. . . A‘
1?roUp of young ladie s -discussing the
advance in the price of cigarettes and
one of them declarisg that she will
certain ibrand of cheap “fags.”
Senator Edgar A. Brown being con-
gratulated on • his ■election by the
general assembly as a member of the
board of trustees of Clemsbn College.
1 And Herman Brown, of Black-
vilte, also being congratulated
The locak association is probably the
oldest organization of frg' kind in "the
State and has a most Enviable reputa^
tion for the quality df its product. Mr.
Eidson says that/nigh quality^ will
-..eantitttte- to be stressed and, due to the
fact that practically alt of the aspara
gus in this section is young “grass!’
uniformly excellent grades are ex
pected, which should command top
market prices.
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Wounds Proves Fatal
to Springfield Man
Ralph L. Gleaton, Accidentally Shot
Sunday Afternoon, Succumbs
in Columbia.
Everything is Ready
for President’s Ball
Large Ntnnber of Barnwett County
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People Expected to HodovlRoom*
▼eh Tuesday -Night.
Everything is In readiness for H
President’* Birthday Party
which wM be held at the FuTleji
— pavilion in Barnwell next
evening, January 30th. Indications *
are that there will be A large at
tendance here a« well at the balls
to be held at the same time in 5,000
other pities and tovyns throughout the
United States.
Four hundr'ed^ invitations were
mailed this weA by the committee in
charge of arrangements, but a formal
invitation the affair is not needed.
This point was stressed Monday
Senator/Edgar A. Brown, -get
chairnian, who says that he he
every citizen of the county will con
fute to this worthy cause. He be-
fves that many who canned attend
the ball will welcome the
of honoring President Roosevelt on
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hi* 52nd birthday by pacing the ad
vertised fee of $1.50. As previously
stated, $1 of this amount will be given
to President TTboseveJt for the Warm
Springs Pcundation—a project that is
very dear to hi« heart. The balance
will be used to defray the expenses of
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Ralph L. Gleaton, 41, of Springfield,
who was accidentally wounded near
Tillman Sunday- afternoon,- died at
3:20 o’clock Monday afternoon at the
Columbia hospital. Mr. Gleaton was
shot *in the left abdomen when an au
tomatic shotgun in the hand s of H. T
(“Kitty”) Boland fired accidentally as
Mr. Boland was' attempting to eject a
shell from the chamber.
The wounded man was rushed to
the hospital in Columbia in an auto
mobile by Mr. Boland and Henry
Jumper. AT brief stop was made at
Barnwell, where an opiate waa/admin
having attained the high and honor
able rank of “grandpa,” a fine daugh
ter having been bom to Mr. and Mrs.
D. Stanley Brown last week. Herman
says he’s doing about a s wdll as'can
be expected. . . Perry A. Price,
cashier of the Bank of Barnwell, say
ing that quite a bit of gold money
had been turned in locally as a result
of President Roosevelt’q recent execu-
tive order calling in all coins made
~fr6Yn the yellow thetaT. . T~ Tce aftd
heavy frosts several mornings last
week. • —— _ _ /
A plane, whose pilot had evidently
lost his way in Saturday mco-ning’s
murky weather, flying/over Barnwell
and, after noting the name of' the
town painted in large letters on the
Court House roof, heading South.
. . .Capt. J. ly. Bates, of Yenome,
presenting the editor with some nice
country sausage. . . . This item
in The State’s ,‘.‘Seen.Here and there”-l-r» —i y v -
column: “Ben P. Davies, editor of The^ Ul,ner Make8 ^ 1Ck
Barnwell People-Sentinel, bragging
about* the Christmas edition of his
paper,” and Horace Crouch, of Elko,
after reading" it telling the editor thab
he “had a right to brag.” . . A
post card showing the picture of a.
beautiful hotel-with the following no
tation thereon: “Mr. and Mrs. C. G.
Fuller, Barnwell, S. C., are at the
ColumbusrMtgmPs exclusive bay front
Bernard D. Plexico, chairman of the
committee on arrangements, has se
cured Walter Speight’s “Troubadours,”
a ten-piece Charleston orchestra, to
furnish music for the occasion and all
who attend are assured of enjoying a
mostr delightful evening. W. Bu
(“Dub”) Turner is' chairman of the
and those who
desire to
" OlTfTlNG READY FOR THE BIGGEST BIRTHDAY PARTY
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Every 09 mm onity in the nation will honor President Roosevelt,when he becomse 52 yearjl Old on Tues
day. Jan. 30. by giving a local ball to help endow an extension of the nation-wide work of the Warm Springs
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis in which the President t* so deeply interested. Upper left, the President
and hia mother. Mrs. James A. Roosevelt, who bought the first, box ao(d for the New York ball In the Wal
dorf-Astoria. upper center.* Colonel Henry L. Doherty, chairman of t^e committee of leaders arranging the
observance of the President's anniversary; upper right, the ofReia/poster contributed to the movement by
the famous artist. Howard Chandler Christy; lower picture, child/patients at Warm Springs sharpening up
knives and appetites for the largest observance of the Presidents birthday ever held at that health center.
The cake, weighing 344 pounds and said to be the largest birthday cs^e ever mad*, was presented to the
©hildrtn for their party by Chairman Doherty. / ' / • . .
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' on CWA Wage Scale
Sayg Negroes Are * Getting Better
Wages in State Than White
People.
istered by Dr. L. T. Claytb
the sufferer’s pain.
Mr. Gleaton is survived by his wife,
formerly Miss Ruth Corbett, of
Springfield; one son, Ralph Fulton
Gleaton, and one daughter, Miss Ra
mona Gleaton, both of Springfield^
his mother, Mrs. Arthur Gleaton, also
of Springfield; three brothers, John A.
Gleaton and Julian Gleaton, both of
North, and Bud Gleaton, of Charlotte,
N. C., and two sisters, Mrs. J. W. Fo
gle, of Aurora, Mo., and Mrs. Julia
Smoak, cf Denmark.
BARNWELL BAPTIST CHURCH.
— This—is—a Christian—eeBummityr
hotel” . , And a postal card, from
to ease Mrs. Caroline B. Reynolds, of Colum
bia, who wrote as fallows: “The State
mentioned your Christmas ntfmber,
and that made me think of dear days
long gene, so 1 thought I would write
and ask for a copy and what price is
the paper for 1934.” (Hope the State
doesn’t send us a bill for advertising.)
Idi s Brabham,,-cf Hattieville, telling
about the days when boats ran regular
schedules up and down the Savannah
River and remarking that he came
very near buying a steamboat on one
occasion—land wishing that he had,
a s the boat in question “cleared” $60,-
Q00 for' its owner in the next five
years. , . , L. C. Eidson and-JL.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 21.—Declar-
ing that from complaints received it
is evident that “policies and discrimi
nation in federal relief work has run
rampant in South Carolina, and that
negr oes are getting better wages than
White people,” Congressman Fulmer,
dean of the delegation, said tonight
he would call a delegation conference
tomorrow for the purpose of having
•ator of
CWA, make a thorough investigation
of the situation. ■ / *
“I am virtually flooded,” he .aid,
‘with complaints from my district, and
Homicides Doubled
in State Last Year
from Automobile Accidenta
Decrease While Railroad Fatali-
ties Ripe. —
Killings in South Carolina almost
doubled during the last year. ^
A Comparative report of the health
department has placed the number of
hpmicides for the year ending last
eptember 30th at 461 against only
251 for the preceding 12 months.
Despite the sharp increase in kill
ings, total deaths decreased 1,500 or
from 16,932 to 18,425. >
v Sucides dropped ffem 129 to 101,
and deaths from alcoholism from 46
to 36. There were no fatalities last
year from wood alcohol poisoning,
which exacted a tell of six lives in
I find this to be true with other meni- • 1932.
bers. It is very apparent to me that,| Ur. James A. Hayne, State health
Congressman Thanks
Says Cotton Would Have Sold for
or Five Cents a Pound But For
-—/- — Reduction.
What are you doing to keep it so?
Sunday is a most important day in
bur church. The pastor is anxious
that every member who is not provi
dentially hindered be present. Two
deacons are to be elected, giving us a
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total of ten. May we be much in
prayer and follow the leadership of
the Spirit in electing these two men
to this responsible position.
Sunday afternoon we are to take a
community census. We are anxieds
to know the religious status of our
community and to enlist non-active
church members in the various
churches. We are going to visit each
home as early as possible Sunday af
ternoon and should like for you to be
there to give us this needed informa
tion.
Sunday School—10:30 a. m. A
class for everyone.
Morning Worship^!!;!}© a. m.
B. Y. P. U.—A place for all.—6:30.
Evening Worship—7:30.
Choir practice^-Tuesday, -7:30 p. in.;
idweek Prayer service, Wednes-
y at 7:30 p. m. *
The service Sunday morning will
consist of election, of deacons, the
reading of the Covenant and the ob-
T servance of the Lord’s Supper.^
H. Girardeau “stepping high, wide
and handsome”—they are proud fath
ers cf a girl and a boy, respectively.
7 . . Bob Bronson remarking that
Tom Bold ware owns a^ fine a pair of
pointer puppies as can be found in
this section. ^
• Senator Edgar A. Brown saying
that he does not contemplate running
for Congress this year.
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Mrs. Mary S. StHl. X*- 1 -
Kline, Jan. 22.—Mrs. Mary S. Still,
aged 92 year s and 6 months, died on
January 3rd at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. H. J. Baxley, in Barn
weU, after an illness of 18 days. She
Uved' all of her life near Mt. .Olivet
Church, of which she was a lifelong
member. Funeral services were held
at the church by the Rev. H. H. Stem
bridge, Jr., of Barnwell, and inter
ment was in the adjoining churchyard.
Mrs. Still is survived by four sons,
J. W. Bates, of.Kline, W. £ Still, of
Snelling, J. S. Still, of Barnwell, and
A B. Still, of Dunbarton; two daugh
ters, Mrs/Carrie Hutto and Mrs. Sal-
lie Baxley, both of Barnwell; one sit
ter, Jdi*. Jane Barker, of Olar; 32
kiren, 53 great- grandchildren
three great-greatrgmndchildren.
forer
these complaints, policies and
discrimination (Tie running rampant in
South Carolina. A am told in practi
cally every complaint that negroes
are getting considerable more work
than whites, all of which is playing
l ha
statements as follows ‘I am in a des
titute condition but can’t get work.
Howeyer, a merchant is bonding the
an’s position .yid four of his
have work. ‘Farmers with cotton
r shed that have a pull are get-
ing work. A man with a store, filling
station and farm gets foreman’s job,
while 25 poor white ,men signing this
statement can’t get work. /It is use
less to send in our complaints. They
are pigeon-holed.’
“I realize,” Fulmer further said,
“that passing legislation and* adminis
tering legislation are two separate
and distrinct functions. In other
words, as a congressman, I haven’t
anything whatever to do with admin
istering legislation. However, if the
complaints that are coming to me,
many of them heart-rending, are
true, and I have every reason to be
lieve them true, the real purpose and
ifntent of thi 8 splendid piece of legis
lation is Rot being administered in
line with the purpose and intent of
the act.”'
officer, pointed out the State’s death
rate was lower now than at any time
since 1915 when the department began
keeping vital statistics.
“There> are no epidemics of com-
In a letter thanking the Barnwell*
County committeemen for their part
in the 1933 cotton acreage'reduction
program, Congressman H. P. Fulmer
says that cotton would have sold for
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four or five cents a pound last fall
but for the'previsions of this legisla
tion, in* the passage of which he took
an important part. Hi a Jetter is as
follows: -
“I want to thank you and other
committeemen in my district for
your splendid cooperation in putting
over the cotton program last spring.
“I amr sure that there is not a per
son in South Carolina who doe g not
realize that the carrying out of the
provisions of. the Agricultural Adjust
ment Act, as introduced by me and
passed during the last session of
Congress, has accomplished mere for
the farmers of the South than any
may get them from him at The Bank
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~tof Barnwell.
Report* from cities and towns
throughout the United States are to
the eff ect that the plan is “going over
in a big way.” In fact, it m stated
that the number of municijfclitfcs
participating may e ceed 6,000. The
idea has gripped popular imagination
and the people am anxious to show
their appreciation of a noble gentle
man who has won hia way into their
rearts as perhaps no other President
rag done. "
The purpose of this party for the
’resident ia a very simple and humane
one, and is set forth on the thhd page
of the invitation in the following
.words:
“It is to establish through the direct
of the citizens of the country an
endowment fund for the Georgia
Warm Springs Foundation, created in
1926 by President Roosevelt, so that
this Foundation may carry on Ha
national crusade against Infantile
Paralysis, and devpte unselfishly its
full energy and thought to the coordi
nation of the fight against a scourge
which physikally handicaps, every
year, thousands of Araericart childreu.
Furthermore, the sucoes g of this
count: ywide party, sponsored by, the
citizens of the United States, will
a growing testimonial to a man
ha* waged and won a hard personal
fight against what might have been
accepted, as e lasting handicap.”
munic&ble diseases now,” he said, thing that has ever been done by the
are e few scattered Government for the agricultural in-
cases at various places in the State.”
Decreases in deaths from common
causes last year ' compared to the
preceded year included: Pulmonary
tuberculosis, from 1,104 to 992; pel
lagra, from 413 to 324, and typhoid
fever, from 291 to 185.
The pellagra death rate was brought
to the lowest level in many years.
Deaths in automobile accidents fell
off from 343 to 331, while fatalities
in railroad accidents jumped from 41
to 64.
Fifteen persons were killed by cy
clones and tornadoes in the last year,
and none in 1932. Drownings claimed
91 lives last year compared to 94 the
year before.
Smith Pleads for Reduction.
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Washington, Jan. 23.—Senator E. D.
Smith, of South Carolina, appealed to
the nation’s cotton farmers tonight to
participate in the farm a
tkm’s acreage reduction plan by sign
ing reduction contracts in exchange
fog benefit payments.
ADVERTISE ia Th« People-Sentinel | Senator Smith saSf the success of
terests of the South. We all realize
that, if the provisions of thig legisla
ticn had not been put into operation,
cotton -would have sold Hast fall for
about four to five cents per pound.
“This i 8 the first time in the his-
tory of cur country that farmers have
been given protection by legislation
to line with the protection given to
various other groups of the country,
for instance, tariff- .protection. 1 fee
confident that, if the farmers of the
South will cooperate 100 per oent., or
as nearly go as possible, in the 1934-
35 program, not only will cotton ad
vance to a fair price but that the
South will enjoy a prosperity that
it ha 8 never before known.
“Farmers are to be congratulated
on the fine spirit of cooperation die
played during the past year.
“If I can be of assistance to you,
please do not hesitate to call on me.”
Big Conflagatioii /
Narrowly Averted
Fire Discovered at Midnight Monday
in Barnwell Theatre Was Soon
Extinguished.
the plan wa* ^absolutely essential” in
order to reduce the huge cotton sur
plus. He spoke over the Columbia
Broadcasting; System.
What would probably have been a
very costly conflagration was narrow
ly averted here Monday night when a
fire wag discovered shortly after 12:00.
o’clock on the stage of the BarnweU
Theatre, located on the first floor of
the Diamond Hotel building. The
alarm was quickly given and the
(blaze was extinguished before any
materiail damage had resulted.
Occupants of the hotel were aroused
by the strong odor* of smoke which
fiUed the second floor bf the building
and an investigation disclosed the fad
that the floor of the stage was on finf.
The blaze was evidently staffed by
sparks from the stove flue and was
quickly extinguished by members Of
the volunteer Are department before
it had made much headway.
The building ia located near the
center of thejmstoess district, at of
which
had tin Art gotten beyond
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