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fgr THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNTT.^EI Barnwell CmmIMij* Jam L 19SA v Volume lvii. 'JuaI L.lk« a Mwmbwr of thw Family" 11 !■!!!! ■ ■■■■IT 11 ■■ — Barnwell, south Carolina. Thursday, july 12. i»s4. Stnall Crop Forecast | Seen and Heard Here by Acreage Estimate During the Past Week / Only 28,024, According to Report.—Smallest , in Years. Washington, July 9.—The govern- People You Know and Others You Don’t Know. T. J. Langley, who was on a visit to the old home town last week, gay- ment’s estitmate today that only 28,- 024,000 acres of cotton were 'in culti- ing that John Cave, a native of Wil- vation gave the market it g sharpest listen, has recently been appointed stimulus in months by fixing a figure postmaster at Lynchburg, Va. Mr. 1,000,000 acres under virtually all Cave is a relative of the late T. S. and private estimates. \ | W. L. Cave. . . And Mr. Langley ^ This coupled with concern over the proudly showing a pretty bird puppy dry weather in the western section of that he bought at Tommonsville. . the cotton belt started a rush of buy- • • • And Harry Boylston and “T. ing orders that brought early gains J.” each accusing the other of not be- of-around a bate: The increase for > n & addicted to work. . . An old TO STAGE WATER CARNIVAL AT BARN WELL POOL AUG. l-2i Fifty Dollars in Prizes Offered Barnwell County Residents. —Three Classes for Men and Boys and Two for Women and Girls. the day averaged approximately $1.75. negro being asked why he was sen- Secretary Wallace made no formal tenced to 15 days on the chain gang, comment, but Cully A. Cobb, head of his reply being that he had done the cotton production section, said he 'nothing except hit his wife '‘on de was “tremendously pleased.” J h*id wid a grabfork.” . . . U. B. * Cobb credited both the voluntary re-* Hammet asking if The People-Senti- duction control campaign* which aim-1 n *l had discontinued permanently ed at limiting cotton acreage this. “Barnwell 60 and 25 Years Ago” and year to 25,000,000 acres, and the ^ saying that he enjoys this feature Bankhead compulsory cotton control very much. (Publication is resumed bill, “making our effort to curtail pro-J in this issue.) . . .“Bob” Bronson duction a success in every practical •»ymg that “Tank” Uaaery caught sense.” J three of the largest bream he ever Cobb said many farmers, expecting * aw Friday afternoon. . . Two un passage of the Bankhead bill, had fortunates soliciting alms, one being joined in the voluntary reduction ef-! logless and the other bHnd. fort in order not to be penalixed by _ Hie compulsory measure. LrJL Jimmie, of Texas, who are visiting the for- Officials said the acreage this year! mer’s mother, Mrs. Matella Lott, at the smallest planted since 1&05, 1 Blackville. He says that crop condi- 27,110,000 acres were harvested/ tions in the Lone St was when yielding 10,575,000 bales. But the 1905 average yield was 186.6 lint pounds per acre, compared with the averige of 178.9 for the 1928- 32 period. Facts and Figures. A 173.9 yield this year would result in approximately 10,195JM)0 bales, or 265,000 bales below the 10,440,251 which might be produced tax free un der the Bankhead act. Star State are very poor, due to the worst drought that he has seen in the 10 years that he has been living there, and that it is most too late for any improvement should needed rain 8 come now. . . And W. N. Jefferies, of Burlington, N. C., who says that crops as a whole are poor in the sections of South Carolina that he has visited. . . . Dr. M. C. Best suffering painful burns when a box of “safety” matches (made This law levies a tax of 50 per i n Japan) exploded in his hand, cent, of the market value on all cot- J Holders of spot cotton very much ton. produced and sold this year in ex- interested in the government’s first cesg of the 10,460,261 bales. | report on the new cotton crop and The belief in some quarters that' trying to figure out how many bales acreage reduction would not be enough be made on a acreage of 28,024,- to bring the crop within the limits 000 with a condition of 68 per cent., set by the law and that confusion f the average guess being a little more wou’d ensue had contributed to cot- than 9,000,000. . . A*i the said ton price weakness. A water carnival, in fvhich onlyj Presertt plans call for an e'.imina- residents of Barnwell County will be ^ tion contest on August 1st if there be a sufficient number of entrants, with the main events to be staged the 9 fol lowing day. As stated above, only bona fide residents of Barnwell Coun ty-will be eligible to enter: The eligible to compete, will be staged at the municipal swimming pool at Ful ler Park in Barnwell on August 1st and 2nd, it was announced here Tues day. Prizes aggregating $50, contri- buted by Senator Edgar A Brown and Mayor C. G. Fuller, will be awarded to the winners in each of several events featuring swimming and diving. The carnival is to be under the •direction o f Professor W. R. “Monkey”) Price, a member of the rnwell high school faculty, who that there will be three classes for men and boys, divided as follows: Class 1, all under 7 years of age; Cass 2, between the ages of 7 and 14 years; Class 8, all over 14 years. The women and girls will be divided into two classes, all under 14 years in Class 1 and all over 14 years in Class 2. Frederick A. Gross Barnwell Man Loads — FirstCar of Melons Laid to Rest Tuesday at > Harleyville. ormer , died 1 night | Frederick Arthur Gross, 61, former treasurer of Dorchester County, at his home in Barnwell Monday at 8:15 o’clock after a lingering ill ness of several months from paralysis. Funersl services were held at the residence Tuesday afternoon at two o’clock with interment In the Harley ville cemetery at Harleyville at 4:30 p. m. Tr. BMppal Dixie Bells to Northern Market Monday Night. ^ Mr. Gross was born August 7,1873, judges will be selected from without I at Brighton, Canada, coming to Dor- the county. ^ ^ chster County, this State, at the age An added attraction will be an ex- of 16. On August 7, 1902, he married hibition on the final day by the run- Miss Ennis A. Parler, of Harleyville, ner-up for the Southern Conference where they made their home until diving championship. I they moved to St. George in 1924. Mr. Mr. Price says that the prizes will I Gross was elected treasurer of Dor- be on display at Fuller Park, where I Chester County in 1922 and served in will also be found a register book tjjat cspacity until 1928. He moved with full details of the several events. I bis family to Barnwell last year and Further information may be obtained f made many friends in this section from him and fuller details will also J who will learn of his death with sin- be published in The Peoiple-Sentinel | cere regret He was a Mason and a next week.—In the meanttmcrihose should lose no time in touch with Mr. Price. Crops Are Very Poor ——ar Cucumbers, Watermelons, Cantaloupes Corn and Cotton Suffer from Adverse Season. ' holders then trying to figure out how The aim of both the voluntary TP- myrh ■ rrop r>f that » l «e foTT duction control, which provided bene-yf orf t h e guesses ranging from 15 to fit payments to farmer* who co-oper-' 2 o cents a pound, with a few a little ate and curtail acreage, and the more optimistic" . . Mrs. Matella compulsory legislation was to reduce of Blackville, joining The People- hvige cotton surplus, which hid piled BenturePs fairnty of satlsfied readers, up during depression years. ' f. . . Some users of electric current In anticipation of a big dent in this ukin g ^vantage of the Fourth as a accumulation, farm administration of- i e g a i holiday to postpone payment of .ficials are already contemplating a their without losing the 10 per liberalization of their program so more cent . discount. . . .Local sport ei^ cotton may be planted next year. I thusissts being reminded of the fact, Officials estimate around 25,500,000 that football and the open season on of the 28,024,000 acres were planted doves are just about two month* in by farmers who had signed contracte t he future. . . Very little poMtical wrth^the government, and that if it talk, with the Bleaseites expressing had not been for the cotton program, t he hope that Blease and Johnston approximately 41,000,000 acres would will be in the second race jn<J the have been planted this year. | Anti-Bleaseiteg hoping that Manning The acreage in cultivation July 1, or p earce , or both, will run the second last year, wa g 40,852,000, but the heat . . . And everybody bulling emergency plow,up campaign caused for Emile Harley t o beat his three op- 10,495,000 of this to be turned under ponent* in the first round, before it matured. who desire to enter the competition I Besides his widow, Mr. Gross is sur- getting in | vived by three sons and one daughter. Dr. Herbert A. Gross, Howell F. Gross, John Jsy Gross and Miss Jewell Ennis Gross, sll of Barnwell, who have the sympathy of the entire com munity in their bereavement Pallbearers were as follows: Active—Dr. A. S. Behling, D. C. F. Kiser, John Henry Behling, Alfred Acreage by Statee. Mrs. Garnett We^chelL and daugh- - ’ ter, Betty, Mrs. Baker Warren, Mrs. Ashleigh, July 5.—Farmers here have the poorest crops that they have had in years. Like the cucumbers, watermelon* and cantaloupes will be almost a complete failure, while cot ton is too small to make anything like a fair crop. Most of the old corn is too badly burned from the long drought to yield anything. A number of people, young and old, gathered at Cow Ford bridge Friday night for a weiner roast and later met at the home of M. and Mrs. Willie Hair, where music and dancing were enjoyed by all/* Me. and Mrs. Earl Hair and- Mr. and Mrs. Willie Hair and baby, June motored to Bamberg Sunday to visit relatives and friends. Bellinger Owen* has returned from the Baptist hospital in Columbia and is convalescing from two 8eriou g oper ations. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Owens and family were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Q. A. Diamond, of the Long Branch section, Sunday. Mrs. R. L. Hudson, of Ocala, Fla., is visiting her sister, Mrs. D. I. Ross, this week. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Halford and children, of Hardeeville, were visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Q. A. Diamond on Sunday. A few “Seen and Heards” after the wreck of the Southern trains at Yale Saturday morning: Three ambulances from Columbia speeding to the scene and the late sleepers getting up and wondering what it was all about. . . A certain gentleman trying to “thumb a ride” on an ambulance as it was running at top speed to the wreck. . . _ Two cold drink-and lunch stand* doing business on the grounds im mediately after the trains had crashed. Hundreds of people watching the Appleby, C. L. Appleby and Curtis Hutto. Honorary—Dr. A. R. Johnston, Dr. J. B. Johnston, W. F. Hutto, P. L. Moorer, W. T. Brown, R. A. Jackson, Dr. M. B Johnston, J. H. Whetaell, D. W. Gavin, Dr. L.JL Behling, Hutto, D F. Moorer, Jr., Smith John ston, J. W. Westburg and O. B. Lime- house. Ginners’ Agreement Is Not Decided Upon Prices Set by Individuals Are Deemed Too High by Federal Officials, It la Said. Washington, July 8.—The farm sd- ministration is preparing to abandon the proposed marketing agreement for cotton ginners. Repeated conferences have failed to budge the ginners in their demands for minims for ginning deemed too high by administration officials. And, considering further negotiating fruitless, the administration has de cided to drop the matter entirely, leaving the ginners without an agree ment o&any sort A dozen hearings, seeking the view of growers and operators on the pro- The members of the congregation posed agreement held throughout the ^f the Church of the Holy Apostles, J cotton belt, were complete recently, this city, will learn with sincere re- Gin men have been holding out for ST r *t- of the sudden death of the Rev. provisions in the agreement guaran- Ubert D. Brsyshaw, who was r*ctor teeing them s return amounting at here several years ago. The following Uaat to . what they consider oosti account of his, death appeared in thej Farm administration official g disputed Reletgh (N. C.) News and Observer: that demand, contending the farmer New Bern, June 28.—Rev. Ilbert D. Lgetg no guarantee of cost of produc- Brayshaw, 43, rector of Christ Episco- | tion fbr his products. P*1 church here for the past few • The maximum charges proposed at years, died suddenly today at the The first car of watermelons to be loaded at Barnwell was shipped from thi g point Monday night by J, E. Harley, Jr., to a Northern market, probably New York City. They were the “Dixie Bell” variety” and averaged 26 pounds. The melon crop in this section Is later than usual, 4ue to the unseason able weather of the- past—several weeks. The yield will also be very small, especially on the early planted crop, though it is thought that the yield from late melons will be much better. Excellent prices ere being received by growers in Allendale Cotraty, where to crop ie about 10 days earlier than in thi$ section. Reports received here Monday were to the effect that melons were selling in that section at from $200 to $275 a ear, f. o. b. the tracks. The buyers are also reported po be purchasing small fields of throe to five acres, for which they Are seM to be paying $86 to $50 an acre. One farmer sold 23 acres for $1,600, it is said, while another contracted his first ten cars at $175 each. The melons thi a year are very small in size. REV. ILBERT D. BRAYSHAW DIES IN SMITHFIELD, Former Barnwell Rector Suecui - Suddenly June 28th. National PoD Shows Roosevelt Holds Own Swing Away fmm New Deal la to Bo Greatoet In South Washington, July 9.—The depart- Jame* Clary, Mrs. Wilson Johns and ment of agriculture today estimated Miss Charlotte Oswald, of Allendale^ co^on acreage in cultivation July T were visitors here Monday. in the United States at 28,024,000, ■ * ■ — - which was 68.6-per-cent of- the 40,-. 28,024t<MM> acres was 31.4 per cent 852JHK) acres under cultivation a year less than that July 1, 1933, and 82.4 •— • ■ ■' ' per, cent less than the average for the ' The acreage by States compared five-year period, 1928-32, inclusive, with acreage a year ago was: I The decrease from last year’s fig- 1934: 1983: ures ranged from 25 per cent in Texas 10,914,000 16,050,000 Georgia to 86 per cent in Oklahoma. Oklahoma .. J,645,000. 4,133,000 California was the only State 8how-j that the wreck cost the railroad, Arkansas .... 2,636,000 3,548,000 ing an increase over 1933. 1 and aome one else saying that Mil . Mississippi - 2,636,000 3,820.000 The western part of the cotton belt' ledge Black waa glad the colliaion oc- Alabama .... 2,215,000 3,210,000 showed a higher reduction from 1933 | curred where it did ao thjt hia home i q ii aaa thRn Eastern State8 ’ due t0 the fact town would get some publicity. 1,811,000 that relatively high acreages were 1,320,000 pUmted in Western States lust year, 76,000 the board explained. 119,000 ( xhe drop was attributed chiefly to 473,000 the crop reduction program of the 1,152,000 f arm administration combined with workmen a g they placed the coaches back on the track. . . A photogra pher making a “clean-up” selling pic tures of the wreck. . . A farmer remarking that he wouldn’t fool with his cantaloupes if. he had the money home of a brother, Rev. Wm. Bray shaw, in Smithfield, Va., where he was recently moved moved from the Montgomery County General hospital near Washington, N. C. Last January Mr. Brayshaw, after a hearing here by ginner representa tives were as follows: In Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina and Virginia, 35 cents a hundred-weight of seed cot ton. In Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, I having been in poor health, suffered a Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and I stroke of paralysis while visiting Tennessee, 40 cents a hundred pounds, friends in Washington, N. C. Since In Oklahoma, and in the non-irri- then, he has been confined, with only gated areas'of Texas, 45 cent* a hun- little hope held out for big ultimate dred pounds. recovery, though he had shown im- For pima cotton 90 cents a hundred provement from time to time, pounds of s$ed cotton. | The funeral services will be held at 9:00 Sunday morning at Smithfield, J D | _IVa., followed by interment in the Grand Prize to Lart l^ rn<)0n , t w.y.id., jm., by th. Lifetime of Winner] side of his wife, who passed away. here two years ago. F. N. Challen and Charles H. Stith are expected to New York, July turns on the Literary Digest's poll of public opinion on President Roosevelt's ects end policies, on the whole, show < today that three out of tvory five persons approve. Of tho poll taken in forty-eight States, Vermont was alone in tering disapproval. Thi s opinion held by 58 per cent, of those balloting. The total number of votes cost was 1,772,168, divided between 1,088,7ft for the general policies of tho New Deal and 688,411 against'them. On a ratio basis, the magasine found that President Roosevelt’s popularity bed increased over the popular vote of 1932 by 8A3 per cent. The greatest switch from Roosevslt was shown in South Carolina, with California showing th4 swing, ovtr 14 par cent, to hiss. In six spsdal polls conducted bonkers, the clergy, business educators, lawyers and physicians, all groups voted 1a favor o Mm New Deal with the exception of the bank ers. - • w ♦ Overhead Costs of Relief frork Pared Administrative Cartaihaeat hi Caretiaa to Leave Money for Columbia, July 9.—The South Caro lina relief council at its first July meeting today heard reporta on re- trenchment of sdminigtrathrs costs and took no ictloB on requests of a attend the services as representatives dozen municipalities that State vsttef ,M - .V 8p0n 0r ;.; f of tho loo.l vestry. In ttoir e contest to last the winner s He-1 „ ‘ Georgia 2,141,000 South Carolina 1,286,000 North Carolina 977,000 VirginU .. 57,000 Florida 88,000 Missouri 289,000 Tennessee 760,000 Louisiana 1,237,000 New Mexico 97,000 Arizona 132,000 California 225,000 AU Others __ 19,000 Wins Suit to Recover. maaaammmam Horace J. Crouch, of Elko, has won out in a suit against the defunct 140,000 pi a nter g who did not sign voluntary 223,000 reduction contracts. 1 ^ 26,000, The acreage this year, described as During 1933 cotton farmers rented the smallest since 1905, was about T,- approximately 10,496,000 acres to the 700,000 below the 1921 figure, the only government and plowed up standing year aince 1905 in which less than 30,- cotton. Thi, year approximately 15,* 000,000 acme was planted. 000,000 have been rented to the gov- The acreage of Pima-Egyptian long- 1 nnn * . .. . - „ , (Bank of Western Carolina to recover S » T ( m * uen “ , the! U.M0 on., chock dcpcitod the 129,009 Btttkhetd pro<1Uct “' n con ‘ rol ,,:t 0,1 bank th. day hofor. it dosed ond which was not paid until after th* failure of the institution. The case prize the time, will be the outstanding feature of a new nationwide contest to be an nounced shortly through newspaper advertisements, in The People-Senti nel and over 1,800 other leading week lies throughout the country by The Proctor and Gamble Company, it was learned recently. The contest will run for approxi mately three months. Its purpose will be to emphasize to the women of America the merits of Camay Soap as a beauty agent for the skin, ac cording" to executives of the company sponsoring the contest. In addition to the unusual grand Mr. Brayshaw came here from Wilmington, where he had served as assistant rector of St James Episco pal parish. Previously he had held rectorates in South Carolina. He was recognized a4 one of the most able and popular ministers in the diocese, and took a prominent part in Episco pal affairs. Surviving are one daugh- tre. Miss Katherine Brayshaw, and one son, Lacy Brayshaw, Jr. Revival Services at Elko. emment California Alone. staple cotton in Arisons was estimat ed at 29,000, compared with 27,000 iv The crop reporting board said the last year. . ‘r„ u - . .no .pocW qualiflctioru will be o««-1 .vemn, ,t 8: L**." 1 -./] ._ 5: to oompete, it wa. pointed outlT. Sander., who ie rap^)ri>( the The advertising program in weekly church during the summer, will do which decided in the Barnwell County man’s favor. Miss Lettie Mae and Frank Cannon, of Columbia, spent Tuesday with their sister, Miss Dora Gannon. Advortiso la Tho Foopla BsaMnsI We have been requested to an nounce that a revival meeting will be- Baptist C&urch next prise, over five hundred other prizes I Sunday night, July 15th, and will con- ,wiil be awarded, it was stated. The tinue through the following Friday contest will be open to all women and j D i g ht. Services will be held each 80 o’clock The Rev. J. newspapers will be supported by ^1 campaign in hundreds of. dailies throughout the country end by a nationwide radio program, bringing a | new star to the jaded oars of Ai cs's listeners-in, it was stated. the preaching. Tho public is cordial ly invited to attend these services. limitKil Malcolm J. Miller, State relief ad ministrator explained that two mem bers of the board were sbsent be cause of illness or injuries and that those present deferred final action, on moving the State offices for that reason. h- Applications of Charleston, viUe, Spartanburg, Anderson, once and other points for the are being “looked into fully,” Miller Said. Committees of three district offi cials meanwhile have visited each county relief headquarters and ar ranged reductions in their expenses. A similar curtailment is being nurie at Stats offices, leaving additional funds for relief work Members of thr board prseent to- of Spartanburg, sod Mayer B. M- Kennedy, Jr* Alderman J. A. Von Dohlen and H. C. (Smoke) of Mr. Aubrey Harley, Esq* of Newberry, J ^ fo hanpltals. the week-end with hia parents, j . 1 . and Mrs. John B. Harley. v ] Advetttoe to Thb v .' . . >