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VOLUME LVII.
BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA.. THURSDAY. APRIL 26. 1934.
NUMBER
Registration Begins
During Coming Week
.K-
All Trucks, Except Those of'Farmers;
Must Be Registered Under Code
of Fair Competition.
Seen and Heard Here
During the Past Week
Word has been received by the
Barnwell County Chairman of the
committee on County Registration of
Motor “Trucks under the State “Code
■Authority for South Carolina area
that registration of all trucks in
Barnwell County will go forward
within the next few days.
a
In this connection it will be recall
ed that the Code of Fair Competition
for the Motor Trucking industry was
signed by President! Roosevelt on
February 10, 1934. However, due to
the ti-emendous amount of material
requiring the approval of the Admin
istration, - including such important
mlftefs ^FrfgW^ibn ^ofnTs. regis-
tration fees, National insignia’, or a
plate similar to the State' Highway
plate and other related, matters^ have
greatly retarded the actual registra
tion of the individual truck owner in
the various Stately
A Little Sense and Nonsense About
People You Know and Others
You Don’t Know.
Mrs. Lloyd A. Plexico driving a new
Ford V-8 and saying that she would
have been -satisfied to drive her old
car right on but friend hfcsband In
sisted on buying a new one.
Fresh strawberries on sale
Farmers delighted -over the improve
ment in the asparagus market. . .
A letter from Wm. F. Odom, of Ashe
ville, N. C., renewing his subscription
and that of his sister, Miss Ida Odom,
of Ashleigh, and paying The People-
Sentinel the following nice compli
ment: “Allow me to congratulate you
on the way you have kept up The
People-Sentinel, while papers in much
larger 4owns 4*a¥e greatly
In this connection, it is important
to point M that all , trucks, whether
they are being used for the transpor
tation of goods “for hire”, or in the
carey Infftnr
such as • local merchants delivery
trucks, bottlers, bakers, lumber haul-
eis mnd all ethers, with- the. only ex
ception of the farm—truck which is
operated to haul only the products
raised .on the farmer’s own farm, and
his own supplies in return and trans
portation by him to primary markets,
the farm peddler is required to regis- . .
. —*—j-- —J? , , ■ - —-unproved health after several opera-
ter under the Code of Fair Competi- ,. x w _/■ r, .
* 4 t s\n c? Ivl n vr i n Hckat v\ r*
tion. ,
The insignia required on alP trucks,
except the farm owned and operated
truck as referred to above, can be se
cured only by those owners who fill
in the proper registration forms.
This insignia is marked “For*Hire’V
and “Not For Hire”, and must be dis*
played on all vehicles except the
farm vehicle as referred to above.
The place of registration for Barn
well County will be at the Sheriff’s
office and the registration office will
be kept open for one week only.
It has been pointed out by the State
Code Authority for the South Carolina
area, with headquarters in the Hotel
Columbia, Columbia. S. €., that those
CELEBRATION NEXT MONTH
TO COMMEMORATE BATTLE
Congressman H. P. Fulmer Will Be Speaker of the Day at
58th Annual Observance of the Battle of Rivers'
■ : : ♦ Bridge.—Account of Engagement
ed and in many instances suspended
publication altogether.”
Standard Oil dealers of this county
holding a get-together meeting inf the
Masonic Hall one night last week. .
. . Several new Chevvies and 4ds
and one Plymouth. . I I T . A
salesman demonstrating one of the
new “Airflow” Chryslers. . . The
interior of the Barnwell Fruit.Co.’s
atore being given a fresh coat of
pgint.
F. H. Dicks, Sr., of Richland town
ship, calling at The People-Sentinel
office to renew his subscription while
in the city Tuesday. This was his
first visit to Barnwell in many
months and he "was greatly impressed
with the’ many improvements. His
friends are glad to see him enjoying
dar, April 22.—Friday, May 4 the
58th annual celebration of the Rivers’
Bridge Memorial and Monumental as
sociation will be held. Congressman
H. P. Fulmer will be the speaker of
the day. Band music will be fiimished
by the United States Marine band of
Parris Island. Several vocal se'ec-
tions will be rendered by the Bam-
l)erg music clubs. ’ - ''
This is one of the outstanding oc
casions of this section of South Carc-
lina, and people from several ccun^
this hlstoric^spot
honor the men' and women of the
Confederacy. The memorial grounds
are about half a mile from the site of
the historic battle of Rivers’ Bridge
on the Saltkehatchie. Flowers are
usually brought by various U. D. C.
chapters, schools and individuals to
decarote the grave of the hetoes who
sacrificed their lives in this battle on
February 3, 1864.
The official report of this battle is
given below:
“Report of Col. George P. Harrison,
Jr., 32nd Gecgia Infantry, Command
! ing the Brigade, cf casualties.
Captain: *
I have the honor to report the num
ber of casualties in the detachment
$105,796.62 Paid to | Democratic Clubs to
Farmers of Barnwell Meet Next Saturday
Benefits Received by Southern Farm
ers Under Reduction Program
* Total Millions.
benefit payments to South Carolina
farmers who reduced their cotton crop
march through South Carolina, the under the farm administration’s ad-
Tast line of defense on our part formed juatment program toUled. >4,718.412^2
in South Carolina was on and along
the eastern banks of the Sa'tkehatchie
river.
through March 31, 1934.
Comptroller John B. Payne, in an
nouncing today recapitulation of bene-
“I had during my service in the ] fit payments, did not include the hun*
arhiy never seen a more advantageous dred s of benefit payment checks inow
position for resistance of attack than going out to tobacco farmers in the
that at Rivers’ Bridge, one of the Pee Dee section,
main crossings of the Saltkehatchie. Anderson County, where 3328,802.50
At this point about 1,200 Confederate has been distributed to farmers, led
troops, infantry, artillery and cavalry the State in the amounts received bV
of . South Carolina, Georgia and Ten-1 count|esl Spairtanburg was second
were placed; February 3rd one j with $283,2609 and Orangeburg
corps of Sherman’s army, 22,000 men, Cou*y third with $240,991.15
reached^ Rivers’ Bridge and assailed Barnwell County’s share is $105,796.62.
our works in effort to cross. We held Payments by counties follow:^
cur position. The following day, County: Cotton:
while the battle ragged, Major General Abbeville $ 90,420.61
McLewis, in command of our entire Aiken 147,168.50
weak line, asked CcTonet Bacon,
of
Georgia, in command at Rivers’
Bridge, how long he could hold his
ground. In my presence the splendid
officer, Calomel Bacon, replied, ‘I can.
hold my ’position here, general, until
Allendale 46,976.84
Andersen 328,802.50
Bamberg J... 81,757.34
Barnwell 105,796.62
---- 2.77L254
from my brigade under the command
of Lieut.-Col. E. H. Bacon, Jr., 32nd
Georgia Infantry, in the engagement
tions. . . '. Martin Best wonying! of the 3rd instant at Rivers’ Bridge,
about the warm weather in New Jer
cuke crop. Martin is threatening to
plant his crop over. (Oh, yeah?) .
. . .—An item in the Aiken Journal
and Review to the effest that rabbits
were called “Hoover shoats” in Ala
bama during the recent depression.
. . . The pupils of the Barnwell
high school attending en masse a
special showing of “Little Women” at
the Barnwell Theatre Tuesdays after
noon.
Kill-
Wound-
Mias-
-y
Command ed:
ed:
ing:
Total
32nd Ga. Inf. 5
27
10
42
47th Ga. Inf. 1
8 '
34
43
5th Ga. Res. 1
8
1
10
Wm. E. Earl’s
Battery 1
1
0
2
■ =——
■n-
Grand total 8
44
45
97
Your Obedient
Colonel,
Lyndhurst News.
to register
their vehicles during the one week
period, will have to arrange to regis
ter their trucks at the State head
quarters in Columbia.
It has been pointed out that the
County Registration office is opened
merely as a convenience to the truck
owners in Barnwell County, and
that such cffice will not be held open
for a period of more than one week.
In connection with the registration
of each truck, a small fee will be re
quired to defray the expenses of reg
istration, pay for thC'National Insig
nia plate, and other necessary ex
penses.
These fees are to be paid in cash,
or United States Money Order, no
personal checks will be accepted.
While the definite date for regis
tration to begin is as yet unannounc-
Lyndhurst, April 23. — Fred H.
Gantt and Adolph McDavid, cf Colum-
Very respecffully,
Servant,
George P. Harrison, Jr
Commanding.
" Cspt. J. C. Thompson included in
the wounded.
One lieutenant killed included
Seventeen wounded in the hands of
the enemy.”
next Christmas, if you can keep them
off my flanks.’ Late in the aftetneon
the enemy crossed the river above
us on our right flank and Colonel
Bacon was ordered by General Me- j
Laws to retire, ’fall back,’ which he j
did in perfect order with his whole
small command.
“There -was no hope en- the part of ]
any of our commanders that we could
halt for any considerable length of
time the overwhelming number of
troops of Sherman’s army, our object
was to place every obstacle in his
way in order to delay his march to
Virginia via. Columbia, and through j
North Carolinav Only this and nc
ing more. Though with far inferior t
force, we would make each and every |
obstacle as hot as possible.
“The Battle of Rivers’ Bridge has I
come inHna entire lower section of|
the State a proverbial sentence and
the ground near the battle field isi
consecrated. Within an irch railed
enclosure lie the gallant men who,
though far from their own homes and
their lives
Berkeley 12,761.89
Brunson, who participated in the bat-
bia, w'ere here for a short while on tie, gave the following account:
Saturday.
“In February, 1865, when in the last
Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Fowke and chii-. throes of agonizing warfare of four
dren, of Stuart, Fla., have been the | years, between the States of America
guests of J. C. Fowke for the past when the star of the Confederate
loved ones, gave their lives in de-
The late Capt. Ben S. Williams, oftfense, af Rivers’ Bridge, of all thaOs
Calhoun " 99,697.68
'* Charleston 3,642.02
Cherokee 91,631.25
Chester —......... 125,234.88
Chesterfield ... 179,875.25
-Clarendon 133,387.75
Colleton 57,38£52
Darlington *.__ 116,484.30
Dillon —.-.-^.r. H4,^27.67
Dorchester 32,467.71
EjggtfUld ——.I'M,418.45
Fairfield .-.tl. 59,155.72
Florence 87,161.46
Georgetown _.l 3,818.00
Greenville 192,601.13
Greenwood 93,048.84
Hsmptcn .... 50,295.50
Hoiry _____— ____v 5,041.50
Jasper 9,906.75
Kershaw 131,041.05
Lancaster 101,038.05
Lauren* _~_ 174,161.00
Lee - r 158,166.67
Lexington _ rrr__ T.53,360.56
McCormick 49,328.50
Marion 39,199.681
Marlboro 159,410.09
Newberry 109,452!(jT
Biennia) Meetings to Be HeM April
28th for Purpose of Electing
' Off icon. Etc.
• nsssooionooi
A # -. • |
Under the nries of the Democratic
party in South Carolina, the various
clubs in Barnwell County will hold
meetings on Saturday of this week,
April 28th, for the purpose of electing
officers for th| ensuing two years and
transacting such other business as
may properly come before such meet
ings. The rule* provide for the elec
tion of a president, one or more vice-
presidents, a scretary and treasurer,
“and may have the following working
committees, of not less than three
members each, viz.: A committee on
registration, an executive committee
and SUcH other gftmnnittee*
club may deem expedient” The dubs
at Saturday’s meeting will also elect
a county executive committeeman and
delegates to the county convention
which will be held at Barnwell on
Monday, May 7th, at ten o’clock. Each
club is entitled to one delegate for
every 26 members and one delegate
for a majority fraction thereof, based
upoie the number of votes polled in
the first primary of the preceding
election year. The number
gates to which each club is entitled
this year is as follows
Barnwell, 23; Bennett Springs, 2;
Blackville, 19; Double Ponds, 2; Dun
barton, 3; Elko, 3; Four Mile, 1;
Friendship, 3; Great Cypress^ 7; Heal
ing Springs, #; Hercules, 5i Red Oak,
3; Reedy Branch, 8; Rosemary, 8;
Siloam 4, and Willistbn, 14.
The People-Sentinel has been re
quested to publish the following
notices:
vtl wr Jfcll f'lealu
nsriiwrifl ^iud.
The Barnwell Democratic Club will
meet at the Court House in Barnwell
on Saturday, April 28, 1984, at 11:00
a, m., for the purpose of sleeting of-
i ftcers for the ensuing W6 yoariri, dele
gates to the county convention and a
county executive committeeman and
the transaction of such other business
as may properly come before said
meeting.
Edgar A. Brown, President.
Elko auk
The Elko Democratic Club will
meet Saturday, April'28lh, 1934, aT
m
week.
Mrs. L. C. Fowke and Mrs. Mabel
States, ‘the Southern Confederacy,’
had waned in gloom, with exhausted
P. Gantt attended a meeting of the resources; ports blockaded; while still
Presbyterian Auxiliary at Waiter-
boro Thursday.
The recent cold nights have damag
ed the cucumber crop* of this sec
tion, but it i? thought that, in most
instances, a fair amount of replant
ing will about set things straight.
The many firends of Capt. J. C.
Fowke will be glad to know that he
is improving after a severe illness.
Hugh Fowke and family, of Stuart,
Fla., were recent visitors to relatives
struggling against the mighty and
magnificent army of the United States
reinforced by citizens of countries be
yond our shores and containing with
in the serried ranks citizens of all
races of America; when General Sher
man’s army had traversed Georgia,
captured Savannah, and started to
near and sacred to man and for a
t
cause they loved but could not save.
“Annually, on the hfl where stands
a large and commodious building, I
shelter, seats and rostrum, large ccn-
gregations of citizens of several coun
ties meet and do honor to the dead
and to the cause for which they died, j
There is oratory, music and flowers in J
rich abundance. The grave of the
dead is covered v with flowers strewn ]
by hands of fair daughters of the
South.”
The program May 4 will begin at I
10:30 o’clock with a band concert,
after which a picnic dinner will be!
served. .
Oconee 93,677.37
Orangeburg 240,991.15
•Pickens j 105,793.97
Richland 48,021.43
Saluda 289,744.42
Spartanburg * 283,265.09
Sumter r . 174,343.71
Union 97,540.50
Williamsburg 79,489.35
York 1—- 161,357.71
Total $4,718,412.92
ed, it is now expected that registra-
tion will begin in Barnwell County 1 R j She i don and M r. and Mrs. A.
within one week. . _ V ' B.. Nordman. of New Smyrna, Fla.,
F. H. Dicks, Jr., County Chairman | )een g^egts 0 f Mr. an d Mrs.
for Barnwell County, has announced ^ q Fowke.
that notification will be sent from Miss Natalie Fowke, of-North Au-
State headquarters in Columbia in the gugt^ i s yisiting her brothej*, Capt.
form of a post-card to each and every ' j q Fowke.
truck owner in Barnwell County, j
definitely just when
Barnwell Student
Makes High Grade
■ ■—■j ■ •
Miss Fannie Cooper Is One of Eight
University Students Making
Grade of “A.”
stating
Columbia, April 20.—Eight students
of the University of South Carolina,
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Brannon and , four men and four women, made a
son, of York County, Va., spent a day grade of , <A „ on all 8ub j ects during
the registration begins aild! where h recently with Mrs. Brannorf’s t he first half of the second semester
the county headquarters will be es- father CaDt j c Fowke , the first half of the secoiyi semester,
♦ ki-.u-j .lamer, <^api. j. rowne. I John A. Chase, the registrar, announc-
tabhshed. Mr. and Mrs. Johr^ Fcwke and baby ed y e gt er day.
and Carroll Fowke, of Atlanta, Ga.,| .
. . , The list is made up from all men
were guests of relative* here recntly. 1 , ,
. TT , . * 1 j and women of the campus other than
A. P. Hay, of iParns Island, is , , . . . , ^ ^
law, graduate of special students, it
Mrs. Geo. Classen and son, of Par- Wa * ex P* a * ned -
ris Island, are spending a few days
here. ’
Lively Race at Williston.
The Williston Way says that it has ... ,. .. , _ „
. . . . spending hi* vacation at Lyndhurst.
received announcements from four. , . ■
candidates for the offieg^ of Magistrate
at Williston, they being J. M. Cook,
Charlie Smith, J. H. McDonald and
Sam Dyson, and expects that Judge
M. C. Kitchings wiU also be a candi
date for reelection. Editor Crowson
thinks that there should be at least
half a dozen entrants. At this time,
The names, school in which each
Barnwell’s Airport
WiU Be Completed
Is One cf Ffteen Landing Helds in
State tq Be Finished bjr
Federal Help.
W. S. Grubbs in Race.
Elsewhere in this issue of The
People-Sentinel will be found the
formal announcement of W. S.
Grubbs as a candidate for the .office
of Magistrate at Blackville. He is
well known to the voters of that sec
tion, having held the office to which
he again aspires for several terms.
Mr. Grubbs was succeeded two years
ago by Dr. O. D. Hammond, who was
elected from a field of several aspir
ants.
ro-
Washington, April 19.—South
lina representatives were advised
day by Harry L. Hopkins, federal re
lief director, that fifteen airports
started in their States under the civil
works administration and >cne ap
proved^ but not begun would be com
pleted with federal funds as part ofl^
the emergency relief adminiUration', I Unio ^’ ' a „d'uurene. wm.ld be ~“t.ken
activities. I ^ '
The unfinished flying fields listed Rep&sentative Richards was not
it Tegietered.’and'home address of b i' r®P re «ntative» " effected by theI ^Uad „ to the allotment for
Hartsville $1,093.60 for labor.
' Representative Taylor was not ad
vised how much would be allotted the
Anderson airport but said the field
there was approximately half com
pleted, wculd be one cf the best in the
puth for a city Anderson’? size,
epresentstive McSwain was told
by 'fiopkins that the four airports in
ictrict, Greenville, Spartanburg,
the eight students are as follow?:
Sheppard Angus Black, engineering
school, Columbia; Ruth Winalow Car
Darnwell M. E. Church, South.
10:00 a. m.—Sunday School.
11:80 a. m.—Sunday School Day Coopeiy Barnwell; John Ingram Fish-
exercises—(each department to give hurne, Columbia; Joseph Logan Irvin,
the race in Williston promises to an exhibit.) j Americus, Ga.; Sara Allen Johnston,
eclfjpae the usual lively race for the! *• m.—Junior Extension and St George; James Grier-MiLer, Lake-
new ruling are those at Greenville, j Blacksbtirg and Chersw. He said
Spartanburg, Columbia, Anderson, howeverAthat he expected the work
Florence, Union, Orangeburg, Sum-1 to be carded out by local labor in
same office at Hilda.
^Birtli of Daughter.
Young People’s Division.
8:00 p. m.—Preaching.
Blackville Church.
10:00 a. m.—Sunday School.
ter, commerce, Greer; Fannie Rachel ter » Hartsville, Myrtle Beach, j mU ch the
Blacksburg, Chersw, Laurens and ande r the
Georgetown. — _ Represent
In addition a new field is planned the Col
for Barnwell, where an airport pro- and Aiken
ject was approved but never started I per cent cost!
as CW A funds were exhausted. [ port, he said.
Representative Casque said 31,-| sideration
547.50 would be allotted for labor and j fiekl had been
manner it was done
wood, Ohio, and Ruth Sanders, Col
umbia, all of whom are students in
th* school of arts and science.
A ’grade of “A” represents a retord
Prof, t.snd Mrs. H. H. King, of ( 4:00 p. m.—Preaching (beginning of 0 f 95 to 100 on the subject in which $884^1 for material to finish the
annouhee the birth of * a Special Series to be continued ^ was —^ 80 these students had
daughter April 15th, The little lady, through ‘the following week, at 8:00 95 or bettor on all classes,
who weighed 7 8-4 pounds, has Jt>een o’clock each night, excepting Satur-
named Mary Carol day.) v
ADVERTISE in The
A.
Florence airport Myrtle Beach will
gat^fSjOOTRd for labor and 18AM) for
matoriaL Georgetown $6,659.40 for
labor and |920.05 for material and
allotted before
out
None of the
Repreeentative
trtet
Fulmer said that
Sumter, Orangeburg
were from 20 t6 9<
ted. The Barnwel
s given special con-
plans for the
but no money
A finances ran
4:00 p. m., at the ESko depot for the
puipose of reorganizing, electing of
ficers and delegates and transacting
such other business as may properly
come before said meeting.
Horace J. Crouch, President
\ Hercules Club.
The Hercules Democratic Club will
meet at the club house on Saturday,
April 28th, 1984, at 3:00 p. m., for
the purpose of electing officers for the
ensuing two years, delegates to the
county convention and a county exe
cutive committeeman and the trans
action of such other business as may
properly come before said meeting.
F. L. Still, President
Hfl
Denmark, April 20]-—The body cf
Otto Cook, who was killed in an auto
mobile accident in Jackson, Tenn.,
Saturday, was brought to Denmark
Monday afternoon to the home of his
sister, Mrs. N. G. Morris, Burial was
at Friendship Church between Olar
and Barnwell Tuesday.
Mr. Cook was about 40 years of
age, a son of W. M. Cook, of the Snel-
ling section of Barnwell County. For
some time he had made his home in
Tennessee. He is survived by his
father; his wife, who was formerly
Miss Faucey Barker, of Olar;
daughter, Miss Ahna, about 16
old, and several sisters and
Otto
loestod in
first dis-
Thomas W. Donnelly.
Thomas W. Dannelly, 82, of E3ur-
hardt, died at the home of his daugh
ter, Mrs. Ai L. Baxter, in Barnwell,
Thursday night, April 12th. The
funeral services were held at the
graveside in Ehrhardt the following
Saturday morning at 11 o’elock.
Mr. Dannelly is survived by six
daughters and ode sou: Mrs. W. K.
Best, of Olar; Mrs. W. B. SentarMt,
of, Aiken; Mrs. Lillian Brabham and
Mrs. Jolla Steedly, of Columbia; Mm.
A. L. Baxter, of Barnwell; Mrs., C.
Bennett, of Ridgeland, and CL R. Daa-
nelly, of Ehrhaidi.
Mr. Dannelly had
who held hha hi high
mm