The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, September 06, 1934, Image 1
Petit Jurera for First Week Drawn
Monday.—Judge S. W. G. Shipp
to Preside.
A two weeks term of the court of Martin
Comlnon Pleas will ocnvene at Bara- TRmetuwd cottdti hdlte.
well Monday, September 17th, with
Judge, S. W. CL Shipp presiding. This
term hr for the trial of ciril cases
only. Petit jurors for the first week
were drawn Monday, as follows:
_R. S. Wedthersbee, Pleasant Hill..
-B. M fVeoeh, BlackvilU.
gathered from the l^ottom limbs in
one of his fields. And Harry
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C. S. Youngblood, Elko.
Freddie C. Birt, Long Branch.
T. M. Johnston, Sr., Hilda.
G. H. Delk, Double Ponds.
Leighton Riley, Barnwell.
B. D. Plexico, BarnweJ ,/ ' /
C. R. Cave, Blackvil
J. R. Rosier, Ashlergh.
W. S. Creech, Mrfrris.
L. S. Creech^ Oak Grove.
R. E. Creech, Williston.
I. H. Coopdr, Barnwell.
C. Rk' Black, Reedy Branch.
Fulton Bolen, Mt. Calvary.
N./Cr. W. Walker, Barnwell.
W. Beasley, Long Branch.
W. H. Dicks, Dunbarton.
Jacob Shipes, Double Ponds.
G. W. Moody, Dunbarton.
K. Diamond^ Morria. '
Boylston, county/agent, saying that
the crop throughout the county. had
deteriorated about 25 per cent, in the
past two -weeks. . . \ Local Anti-
Blea suites being forced to make a
choice between Blease and Johnston,
ind most of them, according to re
ports, decidifc$-to cast their lot with
“Colie.” . . . Eugene Boylston
and tPaul Allen, cotton weighers at
Bl§ckviUe for many years, uptown on
business for a short while Monday.
Local sportsmen enjoying the
first dove hunts of the season. . .
Handsome new buses for the trans
portation of pupils to the Barnwell
school. . . Postmaster R. A.
Deason back from a short vacation in
the North Carolina mountains, the
first that he has taken in several
years.* . . Everybody expressing
ipmsayol I
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766
765
766
765
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45
Biackville
241
145
24
417
415
417
417
Mil
391
Double rends .-
47
41
2
87
89
82
86
78
- 78
Dunbarton
46
38
8
87
87
82
82
86
86
Elko
29
60
18
108
108
107
107
102
102
Four Mile
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94
94
Friendship
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93
90
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Great Cypress ..
124
60
6
193
193
193
193
193
193
Healing Springs
“ 84
68
5
137
137
137
187
187
137
Hercules
82
46
9
138
140
139
139
128
128
Hilda
67
58
15
137
141
141
133
128
128
Red Oak
58
13
5
76
76
70
76
76
76
Reedy Branch ..
27
27
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59
59
58
58
52
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Siloam
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60
60
Williston
168
176
25
380
380
386
380
364
364
Yenome
31
34
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72
73
73
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66
66
TOTALS —
1711
1083
202
3066
3072
30691
3059
2953
2953
The Opening . exercises of the
local school were held in the school
auditorium on Monday morning. The
devotional exercises were conducted
R. M. , Barker, Big Fork.
P. M. Hsir, Williston. .
Mfiledge Black, Ashleigh.
M. H. Lee, Kline.
T. H. Parker, Williston.
Quincy A. Diamond, Long Branch.
C. R. Boylston, Biackville.
A. P. Scott, Williston.
John O’Gorman, Biackville.
E. M. Easterling, Barnwell.
D. H. Glover, Four Mile.
B. F. Creech, Healing Springs.
G. P. Martin, Biackville.
C. E. Boylston, Biackville.
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To Receive Bids on
New School Building
Barnwell High School Trustees to Let
Contract for New -Ftaut-ew
September Ittk.
Sealed bids fcr the erection of the
new $50,000 building for the Barnwell
high school wltt be received bja—the
board of trustees next Monday at 12
o’clock in the office of the county
superintendent of education *t Barn
well, according to an advertisement
appearing in this issue of The People-
Sentinel. An extra edition carrying
the first insertion of this notice was
issued Friday.
The money for this building is being
\ secured from PWA, as a result of
\ which it will be necesary to pay wages
\conforming with the minimum rates
hdbpte'd for public works projects in
S^ith Carolina, which are $1 an hour
for ^killed labor and 40 cents an hour
for Unskilled labor. Full details for
submitting bids are set forth in the
notice, which, among other things,
requires contractors to deposit certified
checks in fhe amount cf five per cent,
of their bio^ as a guarantee of good
faith.
If is hoped th^t work will be started
on the new buifding within a short
time, but it is hardly possible that
it will be completed for any part of
the present session.
their delight over the arrival of the
usual “cool spell in August.” . . .
Some farmers selling their cotton is
fast as it is ginned, while others are
holding for a hoped-for advance in
prices. . . . Col. Solomon Blatt
looking very much improved in health
following his recent attack of illness.
A letter from Cliff W. Myers, of
Miami, Fla., who writes as follows:
“I enjoy very much reading the ‘old
home’ paper and you are to be con
gratulated on getting out such a fine
paper. I am pi so very proud to see
that the grand old tcwn of Barnwell
has taken on so much life.”. . . .
W. A. Fielding, of Biackville, renew
ing his\subscription to The People-
Sentinel. . . Nick Codin asking a
friend how many votes Johnston re
ceived in the first primary and being
told that “it doesn’t matter so much
how many be got in the first—a more
serious question is, how many will
he get in <he second?” , . • . . .
Gforious early faff xunstts. . . Lee
All, of the Dunbarton section, telling
of seeing* an eight-lock boll of cotton
grown by a farmer of that section.
Executive Committee
Canvatsee Balloting
Run-Over for Magistrate in Only*Two
Districts.—All Other County
Officers Electe<L
New Session Begins
at Biackville School
by Dr. XT A. Jones, of Columbia.
Short talks were made by the Rev. H.
H. Stembridge, Jr., pastor of the
Barnwell Baptist Church, and by Jas.
Julien Bush, Esq., chairman of the
beard of trustees.
Enrollment in both grammar grades
and high school was about the same
as at the beginning of last school
year. There were 200 in the gram*
mar grades and 165 in high school.
Unusual interest was shown in the
announcement that work cn the new
high school building was to begin
during the month. Bids for this
building will be received until noon of
next Monday and work is to begin
soon after the contract is awarded.
This building wUi relieve the serious
Official Electieu Figures Du
Change Materially the Standing
of Candidates.
Olin D. Johnston hae a lead of H,-
000 votes over his nearest
Cole L. Blease, according to the of-
ftcial results of the ftm primary elee*
Two New Teachers Added to Faculty.
—Building and Grounds Have
Been Improved
Capture IHHtnxvr Associates.
Seven persons who were associated
with John Dillinger have been ar
rested. Dr. Wm. Loeser and Dr. Har
old P. Cassidy, plastic stirgeons were
among the sevn and admitted that
j they performed operatons on Dillin-
ger and Homer Van Meter. They
were held. . cn $25*000 bond _ each.
Louis P. Piquet, a former city prose
cutor in Chicago, was locked up on
$50,000 bond, accused of harboring
the outlaw an t i engaging the two
doctors to pet form the operations.
Four others were remanded to jail.
. Ready to Question Farmers.
The Liquor "Referendum.
Tbe Barnwell
executive commttee met n the court
house here Thursday morning for the
purpose of canvassing the returns and
declaring the results of the first pri
mary election. The official tabulation
in the State and county races will be
found in this issue of The People-Sen
tinel, with the exception of the un
opposed candidates for State jobs,
whose totals were as follows:
Secretary of State—W. P. Black-
well, 3,060.
State Treasurer—Eustace P. Mil
ler, 8,075.
Comptroller General—A- J. Beat-
tie, 3,060.
The results of the various magis
trate’s races were as follows
At Barnwell—fi. M. Hosrsr. A25t-W.
P. Sanders, 326'.
At Bennett Springs—G. R. Peeples,
145.
At Biackville—W. S. Grubbs, 257;
O. D. Hammond, 386.
At Dunbarton—C. S. Anderson, 87.
At Great Cypress—W. H. Moody,
Jr., 90; J. W. Sanders, 175.
At Hilda—W. K. Black, 120; N. A.
Hiers, 132; Paul H. Sanders, 184.
At Red Oak—W. B. Fowke, 51; J.
M. Hill, 88.
At WillisUn—J. W. Cook, 174; S.
M. Dyson, 86; J. Miller Hair, 44; M.
C. Kitchings, 289.
Second races were ordered between
Ni A. Hiers and Paul H. Sanders at
Hilda and J. W. Cook and M, C,
Kitchings at Williston. All of the
other candidates for county offices
were declacedtduly-elected.
overcrowding ipy the entire school,
ie hoped ritat it wtH be ready for
tion as declared by the State Demo-
cratio executive
the;
ial nomination in next
second primary. J.
Greenville, and J. E. Harley, of
well, ar? in the second nee for
lieutenant-governor.
The committee adopted a reeelutioa
to the effect that It was the sense of
the committee that __
lowing Jews who observe their re
ligious holiday next Tuesday to vote
in the second primary comes within
the absentee rule of the party and
hence allows them to vote by that
method.
The vote in the gubernatorial race
was declared as foBows: ——~
use by the middle of this school year.
The Biackville school opening was
held at the school auditorium Monday
morning, September 3rd. The pro
gram was opened with the singing of
“America” by the entire assemblage,
after which the devotional was con
ducted by the Rev. L. G. Payne.
, The speaker of the morning was the
Rev. Woodrow Ward, paster of the
Methodist Church. Mr. Ward extend
ed greetings to those present, and
talked in an entertaining and educa
tional manner of the problems of
the school. After a few announce
ments by Prof. W. C. Zeigler, Super
intendent, concerning the schoof work
for the year, the pupils and teachers
for Seven Counties
—43*
■r+a
Cole. L. Blease, 85,726; H.
Cooke, 7,390; Ottn D. Johnston,
798; W. M. Manning, 59,767; L.
Owens, 4,186; Tom B. Pearce,
adjourned to their classes.
Meat to Be Frozen at Oraageharg and
Seat Oat te Varioos County
iimei vFii
Orangeburg, Sept. ?.—Orangeburg
has been selected as a distributing
center of frosen meats for seven coun
ties, according to announcements made
by Secretary L. S. Wolfe, of the
Orangeburg chamber of commerce.
Mr. Wolfe got in contact with L. E.
Hart, county relief administrator, and
T. E. Keitt, in charge of relief can
nery operations, immediately upon hi
return to Ms duties as secretary of
chamber of commerce, after hav-
Two new teachers on the faculty
this year are Miss Lerline Herndon,
of Bamberg, who will teach the first
grade, and Miss Charlotte Oswald, of
Allendale, who will teaoh the fifth
grade.
Superintendent Zeigler announces
that- there will be a few changes in
the routine of schooT management
this year. It is expected that this
season will be successful and profit
able. The high school will occupy
the upper floor of the building, and
the grammar school the lower floor,
the two schools being entirely separ
ate. Many improvements have been
made in the building and grounds
whch add greatly to the beauty and
convenience of the school.
Preliminary moves in a nationwide
quiz of 3,000,000 farmers as to their
views on crop adjustment for 1935
have been drafted by the AAA, but
the actual method of conducting the
huge poll has not been determined.
Bank of Aiken Opens
\
The Bank of Aiken, capitalized at
$100,000, opened Tuesday in the
building in which the old Bank of
Western Carolina was located
ADVERTISE i.i The People-SentineL
Negrrcs Attack White Men.
A group of negroes attacked three
white men on the 1100 block of Ger-
vais street in Columbia on Saturday
night, demanding their money. One
of the white men, Heyward Dreher,
received a deep cut in the face. The
other two were uninjured. Columbia
police are holding two negroes for in
vestigation.
ing hesn awav from the ritp on *
two-months leave of absence.
The counties that will receive theae
frozen meats from the distributing
point here are Orangeburg, Bamberg,
Calhoun, Dorchester, Hampton, A1
lendale, Barnwell and Clarendon.
These meats will be shipped to this
city And will be out, wrapped and
packed with local labor. The scraps
will be manufactured into hamberger
mpat at the local cold storage house
Mr. Keitt in conversation with Mr.
Wolfe said he would ** in Orange
burg within the next week or ten days
to hurry up the establishment of the
cannery to be established here for the
processing of chttle that will be killed
at the abattoir. The abattoir has beer,
leased frem the city by the govern
ment for this purpose. It expects to
kill on an average of about KHj head
cf cows each day. While the equip
ment for the cannery has not yet ar
rived in Orangeburg, Mr. Hart has
been informed that it will be shipped
out very shortly. The actuel canning
of meats here should begin with the
advent of cooler weather.
The local stock yards established
under Mr. Hart’s supervision have al
ready handled 5,707 head cf cattle ac-
683. Blease and
again for the nomination.
Lieutenant-Govern or:
Bryson, 87,089; John Hughes Cooper,
64,892; J. E. HARLEY, 86^66; VraA
D. West, 5$,716: Total vote east,
289,606. Bryson . And Harley
second race.
Secretary of State: W. P.
well, unopposed, 295,446.
Attorney General: John H. Daniel,
201,116; Cordis Page, 92J69. Daniel
nominated.
State Treasurer: X P. Milter, un
opposed, 294,862.
Comptroller General: A. J. Beattie,
unopposed, 295,093.
Adjutant General: James (X
160,376; Tom
Dozier nominated.
H. Hope, 166,171; John J. McMahan,
284266; C. K. Wright, 112466. Hop#
nominated. .
Commissioner of Agriculture: J. Bay
Jones, 170,780; J. W. Shealy, 114,075.
Jones nominated.
On Liqaor Referendum.
-The
whether the voters favored the legal
sale of liquor in the State, was aT
follows:
Yes, 157,559; No, 188,028.
Total vote on this question, 290,587.
Ccagmsteual Race.
Second District: H. P. Fulmer, of
Orangeburg, 28,374; . Gary Paschal,
of Columbia, 20,819; D. R. Sturfcte, of
North, 4,657. Fulmer nominated.
T.'«
The following is the official tabula
tion of the vote in Barnwell County on
the liquor referendum: ‘
Wet: Dry:
Barnwell 691 70
Bennett Springs 43 3
Biackville 413 81
Double Ponds 51 84
Dunbartqn 60 >24
Elko ..I 56 45
Four Mile 70 28
Friendship , 89 4
Great Cypress 148 41
Healing Springs 103 40
Hercules — 104 32
Hilda" 84 52
Red Oak 73 2
Reedy Branch ' 55 '6
Rosemary - 84 26
Siloam 55 8
Williston 264 106
Yenoine - 56 18
Totals .... 2,489 619
Official Returns, State Ticket—First Primary Election.
LT. GOV. Atty. Gen. Adjt. Gen. Supt. of Ed. Com. Agri.
GOVER N OR
Barnwell
Bennett Springs
Biackville
Double Ponds __
Dunbarton
Elko
Four Mile
Friendship
Great Cypress _.
Healing Springs
Hercules
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Red
Reedy
Rose!
Siloam ...'i
Williston
Yenoine
Card of Ttynka.
We tske this method of thanking
our many Barnwell friends for their
many expressions of sympathy and
the lovely floral offerings on the oc
casion of the recent death of our little
boy.
Lieut, and Mrs. M. G. Smith.
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Breaks Own Record.
CoL Roscoe Turner, noted
flier, Saturday broke his own regprd
for the Wefct-East trans-continental
crossing by two minutes :
onds, from Burbank, Calif., to
Bennett field te Brooklyn, N. Y. Hia
previous record was 10 hours; 6tt min
utes.
cording to a statement made by Sec
retary Wolfe, and additional ones will
be received from time to time to be
tuberculin-tested, innoculated and vac
cinated when necessary and redistri
buted in counties all over the Stete
to various farmers for pasturage. Dr.
R. R. Salley and Dr. W. R. Latte
in charge of the veterteaty
connection with this program.
Information has
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