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.■ i ^ ‘ •.,'-: ; : r -< THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNTY? m : : i v M Ju«t Like fe IVItflnberOPthe FiiYVfIty^ VOLUME LVIL — , 80 Barnwell, south Carolina. Thursday, may itth, m numb: ER #>7 CrimiDal Court WiD “ConVeiie Hert May 28 Judge Hayne F. Hice to Preside at One .Week Term of Court of General Sessions. A orte week term cf the Court of General Sessions will convene at Barnwell on Monday, May 28th, with Judi siding. Only criminal cases will be tried. Petit jurors were drawn here Monday, as follows: ( L. L. Cheek, Barnweil. B. E. Folk, Willistoh: C. S. Creech. Barnwell. E. D. Quattlebaum, Wiliiston. W. S. c Dicks, Morris. Wm. R. Carre 11, Blackville. John S. Keel, Long Branch. J. A. Owens, Barnweil. G. T. Bell, Wiliiston. Chester Zorn, Friendship. S. F. Hogg, Kline. Frank Sanders, Barhary Branch. . R. C. Black, Reedy Branch. A. A. McAllister, Barnwell. /"^ H. Judson Black, Elko. C. F. Molair, Barnwell. Arthur G. Ray, Friendship. J. H. Lancaster, Ashleigh. W. H. Harden, Kline. T. A. Greene, Dunbarton. L. C. Still, Blackville. Seen and Heard Here ~~ :—During the Past Week C. P. Morris, Morris. Herman E. Birt, Long Branch. F. M. Hailey, Kline. B. A. Rountree, Dunbarton. W, A Little Sense and Nonsense About People You Know and Others You Don’t Know. Angus Patterson and Ed Woodward questioning Dr. CSaytor about the cor- rect diet for weight redaction couple - of I tine rant negro street singers in town. . /. . An alarm of fire Saturday morning and the vol unteer fire-fighters unable to locate the blaze. . . . And one of the negro singers referred to above calm- y walking down the street, strumming his guitar, during the excitement, a wag remarking that Nero, who fiddled while Rome burned, didn’t have a thing on the aforesaid musician. . . Sat urday’s hazy atmosphere being attri- >uted to the dust from the Mid-West stotmg that are said to have blown that section’s rich scil as far as the Atlantic seaboard and out to sea, one armer remarking that the crops in Barnwell County would be doubly ’ertilized. . . . The Grubb s Chev- olet Co. and B. and Motors (Ford dealer) delivering several new Chev- vics and- 4ds. CAPTAIN JOE ALLEN, BARNWELL^ With Lands in Louisiana and Texas T State’s Richest Men, But Wai Enough for Monunu nt H. W. Hartzog, Hilda. E. L. Martin, Blackville. W. T. Hightower, Blackville. E. D. Dicks, Dunbarton. Harold Peacock, Barnwell. Theodore Hair, Long Branch. G. C. Kemp, Healing Springs, /^ron Black, Reedy Branch.— J. S. Towne, Sr., Long Branch. Dust Pall Comes From Fields of Northwest Haziness of Atmosphere in This Sec- tion Caused by Parched Soil From Miles Away. The pall which fell over Barnwell and this entire section Saturday is said to have been caused by dust from the parched fields of the Northwest being blown to the Atlantic seaboard. The haziness was remarked upon by many people and though considerable dust was in the atmosphere heie, the major portion of the dust storm took effect from Washington northward. The dust storm was described as mov- ing eastward like a rolling log. The present dust storm has been at tributed to unusually* light snowfalls in the Northwest during the winter. Where ordinarily, there was a foot or more of'snow to be absorbed by the earth, last winter, the ground was bare for long periods, causing a de ficiency of subsoil moisture. The ground was dried out and when the farmers cultivated it the dirt was pul verized. Strong winds lifted the pulverized topsoil and often the seeedg which lay in it. The dirt has been moving eastward steadily for a month start ing from British Columbia. In New York, where the visibility went down to two miles and upset the weather bureau’s forecast of clear skies, Dr. E. E. Free, chemist and physicist, made tests with a jet type dust counter from the seventeenth floor of the Platiron building and found that the air above the city con tained forty tons of dust a cubic mik. He estimated that above the city of New York were 31,000 tons , of solid matter, pulverized, tree of grit. Planes arriving at New York air- port 8 were caked with dust, but avia tion was not hampered, pilots saying that even when heading into the dust clouds they had a visibility of one and a half miles. Weather observers in New York were surprised at the cloud’s arrival, having said when told that it" was headed eastward that it probably would be dispersed by thunderstorms befpre it crossed the Alleghanies. The thunderstorms extended from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, but were at al titudes of from 5,000 feet and the dust clouds rolled over them. This i s the heaviest dust storm which has been experienced in years In 1883 a storm of Tolcanic dust from the eruption of Mount Krakatoa, in Java, swept arcund the world and dij not cease entirely for two years causing unusually brilliant sunrjses and sunsets. Stellar Cast Headed by Janet Gayhor and Lionel Barrymore. Featuiing a cast that has not been equalled since it s release of “State : 'air,’’ Fox Film’s latest production “CAROLINA,” opens at the Barnwell Theatre Monday, to begin an engage ment of two days.— Janet Gaynor, in her seventeenth stellar portrayal since her rise in “7th Heaven”; Lionel Barrymore, in a role that is said to surpass any of ii s former characterizations; Robert Young and Richard Cromwell, two of the screen’s foremost leading men; HenriettrXfTSMarnr who will be re membered for her performance in “Pilgrimage”; Mona Barrie, Austral ian star; and Stepin Fetchit, in a comeback to his former star’s estate, all these head the oast. Others seen in the ptbductiori "are - TTussell Simpson, Ronnie Crosbey, Jackie Crosbey, Almeda Fowler and Alden Chase. The story concerns a Southern ’amily who live in ‘the glory of the past, but in the poverty of the pres ent. Into this hodsehold comes a •charming and unobtrusive visitor from the North who sets an example -rA:. Senator Edgar A. Brown, Col. J. E Harley and Col. Solomon Blatt at tended the State Democratic Conven tion in Columbia yesterday (Wednes day) as delegates from Barnwel County. The other three delegates wee re Dr. R. A. Gyles, of Blackville Rj>nrrtiPTitative Winchester C. Smi Jr., of Wiliiston, and C. G. Young blood, of Four Mile township. ADVERTISE in The People-SentineL CAROLINA” HERE MONDAY AND TUESDAY NEXT WEEK in sincerity and diligence that th Southerners can not ignore. In her simple way she fires them with a new desire to live, and get -out of life the g<jod things that it still has to offer. The setting of the film i s a run down tobacco plantation in South Carolina, with its picturesque back ground of magnolia trees and colonial architecture. Into this setting comes the struggle of youth to find a place for itself among the glorie s that now exist only in the minds of the elders. The production was directed by Henry King from the screen play by Reginald Berkeley. DUNBARTON WINS EDISTO LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP in The Reduce Interest Rate? ifon New Loans to 5 P.€> First Rental Checks e Wat One of eft Not Reeduction Made Possible by Recent Sale of Intermediate Credit Bank Debentures. Courier.) The footprints of most of us are obliterated almost as soon as we them. But there are those destine to itep so firmly here below tlfaT long after their bones have become one with the earth which gay* them life, the imprint of their ffeet still linger s to cause wonder apa specula tion. Ip the very heart of/the old town of Barnwell stands pr queer, ancient sundial, of a fashicn/so odd that pass ers by pause in their hurried motoring here and yon fo stare and to watch in fascination/ 7 as the sun’s shadow falls aslant its white face. They Won der about ft, but there is nothing to enlighten/them, so they go on their way, nox knowing that it i s a foot print/ney have seen, a footprint of a mam dead more than 5 half a century. The town of Barnwell cherishes this particular footprint and ha 8 had ft irings, N. C. It seems that the young man fell in love with Nancy Myers upon sight, but she was evidently a very popular young lady for other s of the male guests at the spring lesort had done likewise. The young captain resertted the at tentions of a certain other young man to Nancy one evening at a ban quet. He stood it as long as he could and then he arose in his wrath, picked up the unsuspecting rival, who was of smaller stature, and plumped him square in the middle of the banquet table, to the gteat consternation of the other guests. The cave-man tactics evidently turned the trick, however, for Ik was accepted by the popular belle and married her January 12 1838. Cap tain Allen was born near the village set upon a concrete base. But there are other footprints of this man—Joseph Duncan Allen, familiarly known as “Cap’n. Jop Al- ^vsr~ heard of and which none see. The “Captain” had a hobby of erect ing monuments. One stand s now in the Baptist churchyard, presenting a perfectly blank expression to the casual visitor, and none but a hand- ful of people know that that innocent looking stone, standing upside down to mark the grave of a member of his family, is in reality a monument to a dog r which Captain Joe Alien loved - when he lived on this earth. The letter^ are blurred with dust and time, but if one is adept at standing almost upon his head, he can read the delicious inscription: “How oft upon my lap you’ve laid With sparkling eyes, you’ve barked and played, Thus happy passed the hours, But now from sight forever hid, No mere-I’ll see my favorite-Fkt* (Fido) But strew his grave with flowers.” Marker to Nurse. In a negro cemetery on the edge of the town of Barnwell is a tomb, blackened with the years and cut across with a jagged crack, but there are priceless words written upon that stone—erected over the bones of the HISTORIC SU] iDIALT The sundial above was erected at Barnwell more than a hundred years ago by Captaih ”Joe” Allen. F. V. James, secretary-treasurer of the Barnwell Production Credit Asso ciation, has just received word from Governor WnrMyeri, of the Farm Gredit Administration in Washing ton, D. C., that the interest rate on new loans ffom production credit asso ciations hag been reduced from 5*6 to 5 per cent. According to Mr. James the new 5 per cent, interest rate becomes effec tive immediately on all new loang and advances made by the association and will be applicable until further notice. “The new interest rate cf 6 per cent, will not affect loans already ad vanced in full,” Mr. James said. “These will continue to bear the rate Of interest prevailing at the time the lean wag closed. The interest charges on loans' from the association are col lected when the loans mature. The Barnwell Production Credit assoda- tion is now making loans on acceptable crop and chattel security to farmers in Allendale, Bamberg and Barnwell counties. “The reduction of the interest to 5 per cent, on new loans,” Mr. James continued, “i s made possible by a re cent sale of Federal intermediate credit bank debentures to investors at an unusually low rate of interest The association gets money to lend farmers from the Federal intermed iate credit bank of Columbia, S. C “The lowering of the interest rate on new loans to 5 per cent. i s the second reduction in two months, the rate having been reduced frqm 6 to5% per cent, on March 16th. ’According to Governor Myers,** said Mr. James, “the Federal inter mediate credit bank is passing on im mediately to farmer-borrowers from production credit associations the saving made possible by lower cost of getting money. The confidence of investors in the security of the inter mediate credit banks has-been such that the banks are able to get money to lend at the lowest discount rate in their history. Governor Myers says that the resulting low rate of inter est cn production credit association loans is enabling farmer-borrowers to save thousands of dollars on the cost of their farming operation 8 this year If the associations make sound loans and loans that are collectable, an ade quate supply of low cost money will 882 Acceptances of Cotton Reduction Contracts Mailed to Farmers on Friday, v H. G. Boylston, county agent, de ceived from Washington last week 882 acceptances of cotton reduction contracts, which were mailed to the of Barnwell February 12, 1812, the only son of his parents, and fell into the possession of large plantations in South Carolina, Louisiana and Texas. His wife was given 3100,000 by her}continue to be available.” parents upon her marriage and thus the young couple were enabled to set up an establishment of considerable various farmers Friday, and on the same day 882 checks, representing one-half of the rental payments, were received and distribution of these checks wa« begun Saturday. The total amount of these checks is $34,- 435.85, which will be a great help to farmers just at this time. A total of 1,350 contdactg were sent to Washington and otner acceptances and checks are expected daily, Mr. Boylston said. ' .The first rental pay ments for Barnwell County farmers will amount to approximately $50,- 000.. A like amount will be paid them again about-July' or August, and. In addition, the farmer 8 will also receive a parity payment in December. This parity payment is one cent a pound, or more than 40 per cent, of the total average yield as is shown in the dif ferent contracts and will represent a very substantial amount of money. Thff’fgrrft altotmeht - shown on the notices of acceptance does not refer to the amount of cotton a farmer may sell, tax free, under the Bank- head bill but refers to the allotment which one ei Dunbarton, May 14.—Dunbarton won the championship of the Edisto high school league by defeating Neeses here Friday, 10 to 5. This was the second “game cf the championship series, Dunbaiton having won the first contest also. Led by Rountree, local pitcher, Dun barton outhit and outplayed Neeses here Friday. For tthe visitors, Hutto and Gaiter hit best. I. W. Rountree hit for three bases on his first appear ance aft^ie plate. The To ore: Neeses 6 9 1-. Dunbarton 10 11 3 Carter and Knotts; R. L. Rountree and H. Eaves. FULMER RECOMMENDS POSTAL APPOIN1 [ENTS Washington,* May 10.—Congress- Fulmer today recommended the fol lowing persons for appointment as postmasters in his district: A. V. Cullum, Blackville, now acting post master; E. H. Backman, Orangeburg; J. C. Pate, Sumter; Jackson T. Flake, Swansea; Rufus Ford, Jr., Holly Hill; Mrs. Birdie D. Carpenter, Warrepville; Curtis Dukes, Branchville. Barnwell M. E. Church, South Church School, 10:30 a. m. Preaching, 11:30 a, m. black slave woman, who was almost a mother to Captain Joe Allen, whose own mother died when he wa s put a baby. The inscription reads: “Nurse Hester, died 1857. Born in Virginia, portion of my mother, Har riet Grisby Duncan. Brought to this place . . 1812. She was deeply alive to my happiness and prosperity and id every moment of my existence would hive sacrificed her life for mine. I loved her tenderly . . . (tomb broken here.) She was tall and handsomely formed i . of high and lofty notion s of self respect and honor and possessed a veracity as un questionable as any being ,1 ever knew. She had no children and bore her declining health with extraordin ary fortitude and 1 in her last moments desired to live until I could return from my plantation on Red River in Louisiana that she might once more see me. I have erected of my attach- meent. Alas! my friend, farewell! “J. D. Allen, Senator for Barnwell Dist., 29, Nov. 1857 Captain Allen must have been of prophetic vision. He erected numbers cf other monuments to various friends and relatives and: on the tomb which marks the graves of his parents in the Baptist churchyard, on which he had inscribed; “With great pleasure and deep emotion s of gratitude and lovq have I raised this perishing testimonial in their memory,” he add ed a footnote, which must have been the result of a sudden premonition, for he wrote: “Alas! (with a hand pointing to the ollowing words) who is tot erect a monument over me!” His Wife Wealthy, Top. For there is no monument to mark the place where he lies, although the spot i 8 surrounded by the stones he erected to others. For a long time, it wa 8 bare of any markef, save two handsome iron' urns which marked his and his wife’s graves but of re cent years a government war marker has been erected over the spot with the simple inscription: “Capt. Jos. D. Allen S. C. Mi. Indian War.” Captain Allen was known as the wealthiest man in that section of the State and probably in the entire State ] of South Carolina. For those days, His income fsom hi s Red importance. River plantation alone was said to be $60,000 a year. He built a handsome home, the Cedars, which is still standing, al though it is fast falling into disre pair. This house, still imposing and beautiful, originally sat in the midst of a garden comprising forty acres of land. But long ago, these grounds were cut up into town lots and sold to individuals and now small modern bungalows and down-at-the hpels frame buildings crowd and clutter against the big house of an almost for gotten day. Cedars formerly Bordered the driveways about the grounds and some of them still remain in the lands that have now become a town neigh borhood. Directly in front of the house is a large circle formed entirely of gieat cedars and on either aide of the high front steps Is a giant box wood. The large iron urns, which still sit beside the graVe s of Captain Allen and his wife, once stood on either side of these steps. A balcony, upon which many an old lady to her Romeo, is a feature of the of the house. This balcony No evening preaching on account of he was considered enormously wealthy. Commencement services at the Bap tist Church. . Blackville Church. Preaching at 4:00 p. m. this Sun- 4 And his wife who-was Nancy Louise Myers, of Hopkins, was rich in her own right. There is a romantic story told of day, instead of th^ nsnal hour of 10:00 their first meeting at what wa 8 then a, ra.—(by special arrangement) iWarm Springs, but is .now Hoi opens out from a large ball room and banquet hall upstairs and it was here that many a young couple slip ped from beneath the watchful eyes of chaperone s to stand at tthe rail and look soulfully at the moon rising be hind the cedars. The walls of this old house are freescoed and beautifully moulded and a wide, curving staircase with a ma hegany rail lead 8 upstairs. A large conservatory forms the left wing of the house, but’ the steps leading to this are rotting now. and dangerous to tread. Captain and \ Mrs. Allen reared several nieces and nephews. They lived a luxuriant, glamorous life with slaves at their beck and When they traveled, Captain Allen carriec of him that once, when the legislature had convened, the street in front uf Farmer 8 asked not to call for rental checks unles 8 they have re ceived the notice of acceptance. This will indicate that the check is in Mr. Boylston’s office,or will be received within a few days. He expects to send out notices that the checks have been received just as soon a 8 they arrive from Washington. Each farmer having a contract ia urged to read4fce 4en»» ftbereeii as-i» shown on the notice of acceptance, in dicating the number of coatract, rent ed acres, rental per acre and acres permitted to plant, as wall as several other important facta. They will save much time if they will bring these notices of scceptance along with them, or a copy of their contract, when com ing to the office. Hagood and Connor Buy Local Ginnery iwell Oil Mill Property to Be ighly Modernised. for Coming Season. G. Bateh Hagood and L. the hotel in Columbia where he stop ped was cluttered with boxes, go that pedestrians had to walk around them. One impatient individual, resenting having his right-o-way blocked, stop ped to inquire of the hotel manager what the trouble was. Captain Joe’s Liquor. “That,” said the hotjet manager “is Captain Joe Allen's liquor that he brought from Barnwell—we can’t get it all into the cellar.” In Ma£ of 1853 the editor of the old New York Express visited the South and stopped in Barnwell as the guest of Captain Joe Allen. He wrote a letter to his paper about his visit to Barnwell and a copy of this article is still in the hands of descendants of Captain Allen. After describing this section of South Carolina, the culture of rice and indigo, he launch ed into the description of plantation life, as typified by that lived on the plantation of Captain Allen, on which he w&s being entertained. “The house where I am is built of wood,” he writes, “which grew upon the lands of the owner—HJa spacious airy, neat, ccmfortable, and as luxu rious as one would make hi 8 own home in the city of New York. There are ten servants to wait upon half a dozen people and to show hew master ‘and mistress can trust their slaves, I see this whole establisment, in doors and out, entirely under the control of the latter. The keys of the wine cel lar and of the pantry, of the cham bers, and the parlors, of the stables, and all outdoor dwellings, so far as keys are used which is very seldom, are all under the control of the ser vants. In the absence of the lady of the house, they prescribe the daily meals and cook them—bread and pas try, of corn and wheat, in every iftirie- ey of form, meats and vegetables, with all the tqste of those trained to the culinary department, and devote< to their art, hi s valet, Frazier, and Mrs. Allen her “Johnny Crapeau in thi 8 line has maid, Hager as well as a manssr- j no better artists to my taste in the servant for their adopted son, Robert, Palais Royal, or elsewhere in Paris. Allen Myers. Mrs. Allen was kind The house i» full of books, of pic- and charitable, gracious and amiable tures and of household comforts, and much loved. The captain was There are wide spread porticoes genial and kind and affectionate, but fronting to the North and Strath, ant Connor, boHi of this city, have pur chased the \ old Barnwell Oil Mill property apd will operate the gin ning plant this fall a 8 the Barnwell Ginnery. .Application ia being made ’or a charter, notice of which ap pears in this issuer of The People-Sen* tinel, under the term g of which the operate a ginnery of cotton, buy and sell cotton and cotton seed products. operate a ginner yof sell fertilizer, buy, sel and buy and deal in of all Will be $2,- of $100 .extremely pompous. He hyed sump tuously and loved a display in Us home and personally. He was a can didate for governor in 1856\ and re ceived a complimentary vote. He served his district as a member, of the house and senate* before the War Be- from each story you are protected from the sun. There is a hall wide enough for a cotilicn on the lower floor an<) * regular ball room above. Here we sit in the day or evening, with very good mnaic furnished by tween the States.. The story is\told (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR.) real estate and tinds.” The capital stoc 000, divided into 20 she: each. Mr. Hagood said Monday plant will be thoroughly ov< thi 8 summer, cleaner, being added to the gins to bring them up The cleaning attachment turns very much beetter “sample,” trash and dirt are extracted from lint. This property wss acquired years ago by Swift and Company, during which time it was operated un der lease by C. Keys Sanders. When the plant wan first built many yaara ago it included an oil mill in addition to the ginnery, but the entire plant Was destroyed by fire some 20 years ago and only the gin was rebuilt. •— ^ “I n - i mi ~ ~ Baccalaureate Servieea. The annual baccalaureate servieea of the Barnwell high school will bo held Sunday evening, May 20th, at eight o’clock, in the Barnwell Baptist Church. The sermon will bo deliver ed by the Rev. Woodrow Ward, pastor of the local-Methodist Church, wboee subject will be “Grinding the Blade.” The program is as follows: Largo (Handel)—Mrs. W. E. Giles at the organ console. ^ .—-••- Grand March of the Seniors. Hymn 67: “Come, Thou Almighty King” (4 verses)—Congregation. Prayer. Hymn 12: “Love Divine” (4 verses) —Congregation. Scripture. „ ’ / . Serenade (Schubert). / Oh, Magnify the Lord (Nolte)— High School Chorus; Daisy at the piano. % Baccalaureate Sermon: “Gi the Blade”—Rev. Woodrow Ward. Prayer. _ Hymn 88: “True Hearted, Hearted” (8 versea)- Qnnd March “ wts, .Vi&i ■A fwialBlsi up