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THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNTY.*^a • v Jam L IMA v 'Just Like a Mambar of tha Family' 1 VOLUME LVII. BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1934. ■v NUMB1 Congress Aspirants ' Seen and Heard Here .V Will Lay Appeals for Suffrage Before J V Voters at Meeting in Barnwell Court House. Sense and Nonsense About People You Know and Others " You Don’t Know. As announced last fceek, the three eandidateg for Congress from the Second Congressional District will address the voters of fcamwell Coun-, Monday morning and predi ty at the Court House here at a j the Sumter County man will meeting scheduled to begin at 8:30 • . R. W. Karri Wednesday evening, August 8th. The! Fork section, present first of a series of meetings that will carry the candidates into every coun ty of the Second District was held in Columbia last Thursday evening. Will Riley, publicity manager for Wyndham Manning, candidate for governor, in town for a short whf.'e ing that be elect- of the Big the editor Congressman H. P. Fulmer is being opposed 1 for reelection this year by Gary Paschal, Esq., a member of the Columbia city council, and Dr. D. R. Sturkie, of North. It is understood, that all of the candidates are making a lively campaign. The present Con gressman was first elected 12 years ago and has weathered several stren uous campaigns. Two years ago he defeated A. Frank Lever, a former member of Congresa, by a large ma jority, carrying every county in*the District eucept one. * The voters cf the county are in vited and urged to attend the meet ing at Barnwell. and linotype operator with a number of the nicest cantaloupes of the sea son. . . .A report * that school teachers in the State are resigning their jobs and taking summer courses in social welfare work in order to se cure better paid positions with relief administrations. . . Angus Patter son making some rather caustic re marks anent The Wiliiston Way’s ’’Political Notes; Enrollment Facts,” and saying that if Wiliiston needs 200 or 300 votes in the coming magis trate’s election Barnwell will be glad to supply ’em. ... A heat-suf ferer lemarking that he slept com fortably Sunday night under a sheet instead of the usual electric, fan. ^ . Cadaver Inspected by Wiliiston Girls Misses Lott and B«rt. Nurses, Con sider Dillinger Better Looking Than Reported. Misses Julia Lett and Aleese Birt, who are at the Cook County hospital in Chicago, doing post-graduate work in surgery, were among the doctors and nurses who got a good glimpse of American’s most notorious outlaw, John Dillinger—dead. The * cadaver was carried to the Cook County morgue. Their description of the cadaver makes us think that the pictures cf John Dillinger alive didn’t give him justice. His face was handsome in spite of the fact that there were two The B. and B. Motors and the Grubbs Chevrolet Co. delivering more Fords and Chevrolets, respectively. . . Two ladies complimenting a cent edltorur in The People-Sentinel on ”de-sexing the movies.” . . No complaint of boll weevil activity, but damage being anticipated if rains continue in some sections. . . . The watermelon market recovering from its £iump of the previous week. J. Miller Hair, candidate for magis trate at Wiliiston, who is in charge of a building job in Barnwell, saying that he and hia fellow aspirants are slated 1° address the ”deer peepul” at a baseball game at Wiliiston this (Thursday) afternoon and that while he has a pretty good speech in his head he may find a little difficulty in getting it out. . . . Sixty-six bales of cotton being transferred from one local warehouse to another. . .. . And a 40-bale lot being sold on Mon day’s advance in price. . . M. O. Dunning, collector of the port at Savannah during the Hoover adminis- First Open Coftthn Bell. The first open boll of cotton from the 1934 crop was pre sented to the editor of The People-Sentinel Monday even ing by Dave Black, a progressive farmer of the Galilee section. On the same row, Mr. Black rioted six other open boKs. ^Thile this is probably the first open bdl' in the county, Allen dale and Orangeburg reported open cotton last week, while an- other was reported in Richland County Monday. Cotton picking began at this season cf the year 25 years ago. Mechanical Wizard | 4t-71 Year* Ytnmg Former U. S. Senator ^ Enrollment Slightly i Water Carnival to Be Held This Afternoon Henry Ford Thinks There Is Less Wrcng With the South Than Any Other Section Henry Ford was seventy-one years young, on July 30, 1934. Henry Ford was bom .on July 30, 1863, in the cld Springs Wells town ship between Dearborn and Detroit. The old homestead still stands. Hb father, William Ford, was one of the farmers of the cotn- Bie* of Heart Attack substantial munity. As a boy, he showed great interest In mechanics. 1118 first venture was to take a watch ap^rt apd put it together again. He thought work on the farnv, should be lightened ami In vented a steam tractor which ran on its own power. It is said that this invention led finally to the manufac ture of hit automobile. ' He worked first as an apprentice boy when he was sixteen years cld at a salary of $2.50 per week at an en- Prof. W. R. ‘Price, who is in charge gjne works and rose by fast stages to of Barnwell’s first water carnival,; t he position of chief engineer of the “ y s that a large number of entrants n etr i 0 t Edison Company, have registered fot* tho vaious swim- Henry Fcrd was forty years old be- ming and diving events, end that the f 01 e he offered the Ford car to the success of the venture is assured. As world. announced early in July, there will be) To date, over twenty-ctre three classes for men and boys and Ford ears have Wn sold, two classes for women and girls. be Swimming and Diving Events to Fur nish Entertainment, Beginning at 3 O’clock. V John L. McLayrin Succumbed Early Sunday at Hia Home ta Marl boro County. Bennetaville, July 29.—John L. Mc- Laurin, former United State 8 Sena tor, died at his home four miles north of here early today from a heart at tack. He was seventy-four years old. Senator McLaurin became active in politics in early life, serving in the legislature as a young man. lied himself with the Tillman reform movement and became attorney gen eral in 1890. The following year, at the age of thirty-one, he wa s elected to con- gress and served until 1897, when be was appointed to fill the unexpired term cf Senator Earle. A rift between McLaurin and Tillman on the senate fleor culminated in a fight February 22, 1901, and McLauriii did not offer for re-election. Survivors include his widow and two sons, Tom and John McLaurin, BennefttsviRe, and four slaughters, Mrs. A. D. Mstheeon, Mrs James N. rake end Mw. C. W. Mffli, til of Benlnettsvilte* and Mrs. Charles E. Sligh, cf Darlington. The funeral services will be held Eight Cubs Show Increases and Eight Decreases.—Barnwell Chib is l Largest. With 17 of the 18 precincts in Barn well County reported Monday morn ing, the enrollment sheers a slight in crease over two years %go and a very large increase over 1930. With Rose mary club still unreported, the total had reached Two yean ago Rosemary had an enriilment of 90 and if that figure was reached this year, the county* B total win be 4,029 as compared with 4,006 in 1982 and 8,318 four years ago. However, ;t ia known that there are duplications on the books sad when the rolls are purged l> y the executive committee Friday morning the total will probably be slightly lass than in 1932. below, S women and Gash przes and silver cups will Early in 1914, telegraph wires bus sed from Detroit to bring word to * awarded the winners. {gasping world that from that day on, The water carnivsl will get under the pord minimum wage would be way promptly at three o’clock this jg per day and the working day (Tfibrsday) afternoon, Mr. Price *tat- W(n ,xd he eight hours in length. In ed Tuesday and the various classes 1926 he further reduced working hour, will be alternated; that is, an event 1 an d made the forty hair week effec- for the little fellow 8 will be followed ti ve an d gt ated his belief that “in ad dition to higher wages, labor must be given the leisure to use the product of the machine,” thus establishing a . ,, .... . . tratkm, landing at the local airport .CT, on eafh ,id_e of hjg f.ltJiLtmitf | Tuw a, y ~ ^ of the ears. His once red-brownish hair had been died black and he bad cultivated a small carefully trimmed mustache. His eybrews had been plucked beautifully. His fingers showed that he had attempted an other trick of criminal fugitive to out smart pursuers. He had tried to burn away the telltale finger prints by burning the tips with an acid but all he succeeded in doing was to distort the deltas and corps. His face had been lifted and a scar, one of his most prominent identifying marks had been removed by plastic surgery. Misses Lott and Birt say - that they are taking in the World’s fair along with the sights of Chicago and some good experience at the Ccok County hospital, which happen 8 to be the largest hospital of its kind in the world. The hospital grounds cover ten acr& and the hcspital is a 3,300 bed hospital.—The Wiliiston Way. BRIDGE NEAR ALLENDALE IS CONSIDERED LIKELY tor Edgar A. Brown. Mr. Dunning is INTERESTING LOCAL AND new connected with Dr. Evans, of At lanta, in the reorganization of the Ku Kiux Klan to fight Communism in the UniLed States. ... A good farmer friend telling the editor that, with the increased price of cotton, he will be able to pay his subscription in full this fall.' This paragraph in last week’s is sue of The Bamberg Herald: “Col. (H. D.) Calhoun says that Frank Moye call 8 him ‘Moses,’ because when he speaks the bullrushes.” . . John nie Scoville saying that the work of re-surfacing the main highways of Barnwell County wr.l begin within the next few days and asking The People-Sentinel to warn motorists against running by barriers on the roads. To do so may cause inconven ience to the driver of the vehicle and by a class of aduts, and so on. There was some delay in the de livery of the silver cups, but they ar rived this week and are now on dis- great - American industrial principle, play at The Bank of Barnwell. The |] e states, “during twenty years our money for the prizes and cup* was aV erage hourly rates have quadrupled, donated by Senator Edgfr A. Brown if wa ^ eg have been multiplied by four and Mayor C. G. Fd.ler. j j n t be past twenty years, then they A large crowd ia expected to be could be multiplied by more than that present this afternoon when the during the next twenty years, first water carnival is hel<i_and the) Perhaps more then any other man, sponsors hope to make thi* an annual H enry Ford has changed the habits affair. There will probably be exhi-' 0 f th e people of the South, especially bitions of fancy diving and swiiamyjg the ru,-^ South. Over 40 per cent of iD jdditiorL to the competitive ftvenU.^^ -sutomcbiles lit the South are The effect the Ford has had Fords. upon the Southern farmers can scarce- PERSONAL NEWS OF HILDA | y be estimated. It is largely respon sible for bringing the Scuth out of tomorrow afternoon at 5:30 o’clock at the residence. The Rev. E. K. Garrison, pastor of the Bennettsville Methodist Church, will officiate. He will be assisted by the Rev. Baxter F. McLendon. Interment will follow in the McCall cemetery here. Offers Special Service. - Plexico’s Filling Station ia offering a special wash and polish service to automobile owners in this section. L. A. Plexico, the proprietor of this popular station, has recently installed a high pressure machine that ateps up the pressure of city water from 40 to 400 pounds This is the only machine of the kind in Barnwell and la used only for removing mud and grease from the running gear and under the fenders. Only reliable polishes and waxes are used and all work is done by competent assistants. A» will be noted ia aa advertisment elaewhere in thii^ issue, a special price of only $1.75 is made for washing and polish ing cars. Mr. Plexico will appreciate the opportunity of serving all car Of the 17 chibs listed clubs shew increases in and a like number allows decreases. The other precinct, Yenome, • was- created by the committee this year and drew enrollment from the Great Cypress and Siloam clubs. The Barnwell club show* the largest numerical increase, although in terms of percentage Double Poods tops the 4«st- per cent. Clubs that creases are Barnwell, Double Pondi, Four Mile, Friendship, Great Cypress, Heaffng Springs, Hercules and Bsedy Branch, while those in which there was a. decrease prs Bennett Springs, BUckvtUe, -'"’Dunbarton, Elko, Hilda, Red Oak, Siloam and Wiliiston. Only 2,600 votes were polled in the first primary two years ago, which was probably due to the fact that there were no races for State offices and all of the candid|kte a for the major county offices were anopposad. This year, however, a hot campaign is being waged in the gubernatorial race, and while the major county of fice-holders are again unopposed, It ia believed that a modi larger rata win be polled than In 1932. The magis trates races at- Barnwell,- BlachriUe, Hilda, Kline and Wiliiston are also expected to swell the total, and while the congressional campaign has not devrit p?d much heaf as 1 ys^ fhe three candidates have their friends who wHl doubtless see to it that a good vote i a polled The enrollment by precincts this Hilda, July 31.—Tom M. Dyches, of tbe mud, endiii£ the isolation cf the Charleston, spent the week-end with former, gt v ®K him contscts with relative here. (bis neighbors on the farm and in Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Ssnders, Mr. nearby town 8 arid cities. The effect and Mrs. R. T. Williams and children upon the industrial South has also and Misse s Jessie Delk, Iris Sanders been great' in that the Ford Motor and Edith Hartzog were among those Company is one of the largest pur- attending revival services at Friend- 1 c h* 8 ei s of textiles and other fabricat- ship Church on Wednesday. i materials as well as raw materials Among the 4-H Club boys attending f r0 m the South, the Camp Long encampment thiej Always interested in education, week are Achille GoWna, Wilmer Henry Ford's support of the Martha Delk, Henry and Ben Hartzog. They Berry School at Rome, Gu., is not were accompanied by Prof. J. E. so well known /though he »» one of Herndon. 1 the chief supporters of this great Miss Helen Williams speqt last wort He established a school at week with her uncle, L. V. Williams, Greenfield Village where boys who at Coven. | canno t afford to pay for an education Mrs. Emma Dyches visited relatives might leairn to work with their hands as well ds their heads. Here he ac cumulated his great collection of Overtures of -the Georgia - a possible fine. Convenient detours i n Olar, Ehrhardt and Savannah chir- will be provided while the work is in i„g the past week-end. progress. . . . The following | Mrs. Cook, of Swelling, spent last early American products of all kinds young “mechanics” working on a | week with her daughter, Mrs. Frank' that the pioneer history of America model T in a back yard in an effort Hartzog. I m ight prove aru inspiration for the to get it goin’: John Brabham, Henry Mrs. A. P. Collins and granddaugh4futua^ .Onai>f Henry F^a greatest M LX A ' J highway board-for a bridge over the Savannah river be tween Adendale County (S. C.) and Screven County, Ga., are scheduled for consideration at the next meeting of the South Carolina highway com mission. Ben M. Sawyer, chief highway com missioner, said his office had received a copy of a resolution adopted July 21st in which the Georgia board agreed to pay one-half the cost of the bridge provided South Carolina pays the balance. The resolution probably will be laid before the South Carolina com mission whenever it next meets, Mr. Sawyer said. “We have always wanted to build thait bridge, 1 commented. Milhous; Billy Bro~nson,~'WKlijm,mr^ter. Dorothy, are spending some thne educational works was the founding. ris, Franklin Grubbs, et al. Fuller Is Building a with relatives in Jacksonville, Fla. 1 0 f the Ford Trade School where boys Mr. anj Mrs. I. Altman Dyches and a re given an opportunity to select and ■children and Mrs. Ellen Grubbs, of ( learn any cne pf the various trades Wilmington, N. C., and Emory Grubbs, 1 through practical work. He own g a large plantation near Savannah, Ga., upon which he has owners. a year as compared with 1932 is as foi-_ James D. Benscn spent Sunday with lows: . „ 'Pruclhet: ~~ TWIT 1932: his daughter, Mrs. H. A. Gross. Barnwell 961 888 Bennett Springs W 82 86 country have made. The South sup- Blackville 698 780 plied the first customer I ever had,” Double Ponds 100 54 said Henry Ford. “We started busi- Dunbarton 114 197 ness in July and in those early days Elko T 133 168 no one ever used the motor car in Four $file 138 167 winter, eo the first Ford cars were Friendship 100 ft bought by Southern people and South- Great Cypreag .. 304 erners were my first agents. Healing Springs 138 135 “I believe the South, with its P™* Hercules 171 157 gress, is going to surprise its heart- Hilda 177 185 iest well-wishers and most loyal sons. Red Oak 83 141 The South contains the greatest block Reedy Branch -- 100 78 of the old American stock on this Rosemary — 90 continent end that old pioneer Ameri- Siloam £ 93 115 can stock always responds to the Willistop Yenome 603 650 need of the hour.” In s recent interview, Mr. Ford ex- 84 — pressed his conviction that the pion- Total 3,989 4^06 eer spirit of America i a the force that wi l bring the nation. qut .of Its social ifintm- «ll« 111 Will Be Located Between The Bank of Barnwell Building and Mazursky’s Stojre. New Suite of Offices of Bowling Green, Ky., spent last _____ | week with relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. Hayne Dyches, of carried out many experimental opera- the Hercules section, were visitors tions, ‘one in particular being the Soy here Monday. ! Bean which has an important use in Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hutto and chil- the manufacture of paints and finish dren and Miss Lurline Still, of Tren- t* 0 { automobiles. Henry Ford Work was started Monday morning ton, were Sunday guests of J. B./been a large purchaser of Georgia on a new suite of offices for/C. G. Hartzog. j marble which ha g been used in Green- Fuller, local highway contractor, who | Miss Sallie Hartzog spent two field Village. i s also mayor of Barnwell. The new weeks in Charleston recently. | i n the past ten yeart, through the qumriers are being constrticted on 1 'Mrs. J. R. Collins and children, of sale of Ford automobiles in the South- the lot between The Bank of Barn- Jacksonville, Fla., are spending some east and wages paid Ford employes, well building and Mazursky’s depart- time with her mother, Mrs. Julia ninety million dollars cf new wealth ment store, directly opposite the Black. 1 have been created and left in the ” the chief commissioner Court House. The old vault on the' Mrs. George Bessinger and chil- Southeast. Nor does this figure in south side of the lot is being torn dren, of Belleview, Fla., spent last dude the huge purchases of materials Senator R. P. Searson, of Allendale, down and the stairway to the second week with her sister, Mrs. U. G. ma de in the Southeast, and others have advocated the span floor of the building will be re-located Croft, and other relative*. / | i n a recent interview, Mr. Ford waa before the commissicn repeatedly, in order to provide additional room 1 Miss Pearl Beasley, of Elko, pointing out there is now no other for Mr. FttHd-’s effiefs, which, it bridge over the Savannah from the understood, will be air-conditioned, city of Savannah up to Augusta. It is reported that the second floor is asked what waa wrong with the South. Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Huey Mr. Searson was quoted as saying will also be remodeled to provide of- Miss Billie Dietriech, of Leesburg, There is probably less wrong i'He replied—“You have come to the wrong place if you want to discuss anything being wrong with the South. there afflictions and economic doldrums. He stated that the South possesses the greatest block of old American stock cn the continent, haa a future which am shape for itself and avoid the mistakes that the more populous parte of the country have made. He re-expressed his conviction that the cry of over-production is a money- cry, not a human cry. \ He believes that “mankind should produce for evermore. Never yet in the world’s history has enough of any thing been produced fer use.” Henry Ford believes that hard thinking, the ability problems “that didn’t have strer in the back of the the way toward progress. It took a man like this to the whole Highland Park Ford worth more than one hundred dollars when he built the River Ron Plant. In the manufacture of Font cars, Henry Fcrd said that “simplid- at Allendale that he believed the flees for one or more law firms. At FIs., accompanied by Mrs. Charlie than any* place in the country. The ^ Georgia action would assure construe- present these offices, are occupied by brown, Jr., and two daughters, South has s future which it can shape tion of the bridge, as the South Caro- Thos. M. Boulware, Esq., and the. S. Misses Helens and lone, are spending’ for itself and avoid the mistakes commission ha^ favored it. C. Asparagus Glowers Association. some time in North Cardins.. . ^ which the more populous part s of the ty, IdSh quality, low price are our three real goals.” Henry Ford believes that money’s real use can only be measured. hi tehns of production. “Money will ruin the life of any man who treats it like anything bat a tool with which to work.” |ten, the Rosemary book haa been m* peived by the secretary and shows an Enrollment of 134 as compared with {X) two year 8 ago. This brings tbs to tal in the county to 4,078.) To Move Into New Qaartef*. \ * Charles Levinson, manager of The Leader, announces that he will move from his present location on Main Street to the building recently vacated by H. Antopolsky, the change being effective Friday, August SnL The Leader has a quarter-page ment in thi s issue luting a few ai many bargains to be found at that store. Be sure to retd it It* is also. understood that J. S. Bogen, who has been operating aa up-to-date grocery store on WaU Street for the . past several will occupy The Leader’s old v CdtfaMM Slat BtitUay :> US" Sanders celebrated his 51t$ Sunday with a family re st his home near BsmwaiL Tha occasion was enjoyed by 25 ancL friends, including Mg five aow^ and two daughters-in-law. ner the goesti number of religious —V—^ '..aT