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m BAKNWBLL COUNTY. OmmUMiM Ibm 1, ML VOLUME LVIII. mmm m “Jumk Llk« a Mambar of tha Famllv ,f v BARNWELL. SOUTH CAtOUNA. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER IS, t»S4 Race in This County Only One Precinct, Dunbarton, Re turns a Majority Aagainst Barti- well County Man. Col. J. E. Harley, of Barnwell, made ft great race in his liuine county for the office of lieutenant-governor and even had he lost the nomination, the confidence shown in him by his home people would have taken the sting from defeat. But he has also been rewarded with a decisive victory throughout the State. Only one precinct in Barnwell County—Dunbarton—returned ama jority against Colonel Harley. This was more than offset by the landslide at other precincts, notable among which are his home box cf Barnwell, where he received 865 votes to his bp- Pour Mile tilth 9T to 8T Seen and Heard Here During the Past Week Sense and -Nonsense About Z Little People Ton Know end Others You Don’t Know, x Friendship with 91 to 5; Reedy Branch with 66 to 3, and Red Oak, which gave him the largest pro rata vote, 88 to 0. of about 6V4 to 1, his total being 2,- -687 to 438 tor Bryson. Cole. L. Blease got a scant majority of 330 votes in Barnwell County, the unofficial returns being Blease, 1,719; Johnston, 1,389. Paul H. Sanders defeated N. A. Hiers for magistrate at Hilda by a majority of 13 votes, the totals being: The fcllowing nice compliment from Caldwell Withers, of The Columbia Record, in a letter,j-ecbived FrkUyv T *Dear Mr. Davies: I want to thank you here for the excellent service ycu gave The Record in covering Barnwell County for the first primary. It may interest you to know that Barnwell County was either the second or third county to be complete and to have its report in the hands of the newspap ers. Apparently you have good managers and precinct clerks there and an excellent system of collecting the information. . . We are in a turmoil here with the strike and all of us are praying that the strike will settle down before Tuesday night.” 7 ^ Dispatch from Asheville, N. €., in the daily newspapers announc ing that Grayson Wolf, who played with the Barnwell club of the Georgia- CaroHna league last year, and Paxxi Dunlap, who trained here last spring with the Albany (N.Y.) club, have been sold the New York Yankees. Wolf is a pitcher and Dunlap an out fielder, the former being a graduate of the University of S. C. and the latter of the University of N. C. . . j . Young. _ Igdies and gentlemen leaving for their various colleges. . Hiers, 228; Sanders, 241. J. W. Cook'. . Disappointment over the action defeated M. C. Kitchings as magis-jof the cotton market, which register- Bamwell Boys Unhurt in Highway Accident Sheriff J. B. Morris’ Car Was Occu pied by Jack Hftriey, Pftui Botes ' '* • V ■ j, and .Two Girls, Johnston Wins With Barnwell Candidate Is Out in Front With Lead of.!7,6M'Veto* Jack Harley and Paul Bolen, of Barnwell, and two girl companions from Bamberg escaped injury Sunday night when Sheriff J. B. Morris’ car, in which the quartet were riding, left the highway and struck a concrete abutment. The front part of the car passed over the obstruction but the Over Bryson. Clin D. J.-hnston, of the Spartan* vurg bat, was Tuesday elected gov* tvner of South Carolina and J. KmRo Harley, of the Barnwell bar, was chosen lieutenant-governor. These men, one from the np country roar axle housing was smashed and and one from the low country. COL. J. E. HARLEY trate at Williston by a majority of]ed an opening decline of 25 poins I Reject All Bids for __ New School Building 22 votes, the results in this race be ing: Cook, 338; Kitchings, 316. Many Lives Lost in Appalling Tragedy Fire on Liner Metro Castle Is Be lieved to Have Been Work of — ■ ——' t P 1 '• ~ an Incendiary. Fire, believed to have been of in cendiary origin, caused the loss of 116 theC luxuriousC liner Moro Castle early Saturday morning. In addition there are 17 missing, making the total probable dead 133. The sur vivors account# i for numbered 424. The blare was fir4t discovered about 2:45 a. m. and spread with alarming rapidity. The passengers were or dered into the lifeboats but many be came panic-stricken and jumped into the sea. A number of thes£ succeeded in swimming ashore, while others were picked up by rescuing parties. The ill-fated vessel was finally beached at Asbury, N. J., after hav ing been towed for several hours by a » coast guard boat. —- ==* - — First Woman Senator Dies. Monday morning following the govern ment estimate of Saturday, which showed a probable increase of only 57,000 bales as compared with a month ago. . . 45 cents a bushel be ing paid for cottonseed, the highest prico In a number of years/ Proposals Submitted by Coat r act or* Greatly ia Excess of Fuads Available. Strike Victim Was Native of Barnwell the ( drive shaft broken. Fortunately, the car did not turn over and none of the youthful occupants was injured. Sheriff Morris estimates the damage to his car at about $100.00. i Jack .is «.son of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Harley and a grandson of Sheriff Morris, and Paul Bolen is the son of Mr. aa<| Mrs. E. G. Bolen. all of Barnwell. A‘ collision also occurred the same night in Allendale between cars oc cupied by Basil Jenkins, of Kline, and Jaimes Tsaggarorriff-AHefuIrte, In which both machines were badly damagod. It is understood that a wheel, the fenders and running board on one side of Mr. Jenkins’ car were smashed and that the Tsaggares car fared ev en worse. None of the oc cupants of either car'was injured to any extent, according to reporta re ceived here. Mr. Jenkins is s mem ber of B. and B. Motors, local Ford dealers, while Mr. Tsaggares Is a former resident of this place who has been making his home in Allendale for the past severs! yean. Blackmoa-Saaders. All bids submitted here Monday for the erection of the new- Barnwell -high Friends will learn with interest of the marriage of Miss Jessie Mae Blackmon and the Rev. James Tarle- ton Sanders which occurred Wednes- tives and'the practical destruction of day morning, August 29, at the home Kihgstree, Sept. 9.—Former Senator Mary Gordon Ellis, 44, of Jaaper County, died at the home of her sis ters, Misses Martha and Emma Gor don, here this afternoon following a long illness. Mrs. Ellis was the daughter of Alexander and Mary Gamble Gordon. She wao born at Gourdin, in of tlje bride’s sister, Mrs. H. J. Mob ley, in Kershaw. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. J. B. Gaston, pastor cf the First Baptist Church of Camden in the presence of a few relatives an^ friends. Mrs. Sanders is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Blackmon, of Heath Springs. She is a graduate of Win- throp College and has taught in the (public schools of the Carolinas. Rev. Sanders is the sen of A. M. Sanders, of Barnwell. He is a gradu ate of Furman University in the class of ’30. Since his graduation he has studied at the University of S. C. and at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary oTTorth Worth, Texas. He is at present a student of the Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville, Ky. The young couple will make their home in Louisville, Ky. To Stage Musical Comedy. of the fact that the proposals were greatly in excess of the funds avail able for this purpose. It will be re called that the school district secured $60,000 loan recently frojp the Public Works Administration. Of this amount, $40,000 waa for the erection of the building and $10,000 for equip ment. The bids submitted Monday Leon Carroll Fatally Fight Between Strike Pickets William Joakw Greene. Augusta, Ga., Sept 6.—Norman Textile school building were rejected because ^worker who was shot in a fight be- Joshua Greene, who died at the home of his sister-in-law, Mias Ella Kgn- tween strike pickets and police near the Enterprise mill yesterday, died of bullet wounds early this morning at a~local Infirmary. PlatrdTiniirF. “Ur Baird is under arrest for murder, s police commissioner announced. Baird was severely beaten in the same clash. Carroll, a native of Barnwell, S. C., ranged from $59,000 to $72,000 for had resided here seven years and was the construction of the building alone, employed by the Enterprise mill. He being from $19,000 to $32,000 in ex-j w jn he buried here. Besides his cess of the amount available for this widow and two children of Augusta, The local Chapter, D. A. R., will] stage a musical comedy at the Barn- dnunty. She reeeived her A* B* gfce~ from Winthrcp -in HHSr She anj 26c: Junius G. Ellis, of Coosawhatchie, in j comedy, combined with impersonations purpose. The architects were instructed to draif. new plans, modifying the size of the building and making- -other changes that it is hoped will bring the cost within the amount of the loan. When this has been done, new bids will be called for. r ' Three mills are ■ mrinded - m this year’s tax levy for retiring the bonds issued to secure the loan from the government. With the payment last spring of the bonds issued for the present building, it was possible to remove seven mills. An extra mill has been added this year for'ordinary county purposes, making the net sav ing to the taxpayers of the Barnwell school district amount to three mills compared with last ybarV he is survived by his father, G. V. a- hilarious musical Jasper County, where she, assisted him in running a farm. Prior to her marriage she taught one year at Gillisonville. She was county superintendent of education of Jasper County, 1924-28. In 1929 she was elected South Carolina’s first woman legislator, serving in the sen- of Hollywood Stars by local business men. Seventy-five people will enter tain you. Proceeds from this play will be used for the Marker to be jerectel by this chapter on the Court House grounds in memory of Barn well County men who fought in the War of the Revolution. Remember ate until 1982. Her health had failed the date—September 20th and 21st— avid Woodward and Bob Dicks Bennett' left yesterday (Wednesday) for Bamberg to enter the Carlisle Fit ting School. Carroll, of Barnwell; three brothers, Jaaper aofl Levy Crfrroll, Of BaffiWetl, had served in the house of tatives together, swept to victory by decisive margins in the second Demo cratic primary in which nomination was equivalent to election. Johnston, with only 49 boxes out, had overwhelmed his older opponent. Cole. L. Blease, by a majority of al most 33,090, the -vote being Johnston— 153,731, Blease 120,845. , In the lientenant-govemor’s race, Harley, with 52 boxes yet to be r^> ported, had 1*2,19* vfttta TfryaTar 125,629. The total rote w«» apparently around 280,000, which compared favor ably with the vote cast in the first primary when the total neared 300,000. Takes Lead Early. Taking the lead in the first returns, the 38-year-old Johnston, making Us second race for the governorship, steadily pulled away from Ms more experienced adversary ae additional counties were heard from, and early in the night it was apparent that Us margin could not be overcome. Many counties that we in past years as Blease ing at 1:15 o’clock after only about five days illness, was held in the Wil- liston cemetery on Tuesday evening at 5:30 o’clock. The Rev. W. Arnold Smith, pastor of the Williston Baptist Church was In charge of the services, assisted by the Rev. H. H. Stembridge, Jr., pastor of the Barnwell Baptist Church. The funeral was attended by a luge num ber of friends and acquaintances throughout upper Barnwell County. Pallbearers were Q. A. Kennedy, W. P. Walsh, M. C. Kitchings, R. J. Rountree, J. W. Folk, and J. R. Wood ward, all of Williston. New R. F. D. Carrier. and Vinson Csrroll of Augusta, three standing farmers of Western Barn- sisters, • Mrs. Mozelle Putman, of well County. He was a man of high Black Mountain, N. C,, Mrs. Wi.hel- chaipcter, his word was his bond, mens Johnson, of Aiken, S. C., and there never lived a better man than Mra. Georgia Luke, of High Point, “BUI” Greene, as he was familiarly M. C, j jcnowiy. He was the elqest son of the late Mr. and Mrs. George WT&reene, of the Richland section of BamweU County. Surviving are three sisters. Perry B. Bush, of this city, has Mrs. Georgia G. McArthur and Mra. been' appointed mail carrier on Barn- Mary G. Baxley, both of Vidalia, Ga., well Route No. 1, succeeding L. E. Miss Dora Greene, of Barnwell, and Parler, who has served the patrons of three children, Mrs. Davis Toole, of that route for the past two or three Aiken County, Ashley Greene and years. Mr. Bush has bean clerk to Mrs. Geraldine G. Bridges, of OM- the county board of directors for a umbia.—Contributed. number of years.—H is understood when virtually complete reports received. ’ Johniton won on kii iecom a nee as a candidate for State office. Four years ago ho was runner-up to his fellow townsmen. Governor Ibrs C. Blackwood. The race was close and the vote was protested. Barnwell Students Leave for College Quite a Number cf Beys and Girls At tending Higher Institutions of Among the boys end giris from Mr. Greene wee- one of the out- Barnwell who left, during the. past week for the various collsgos are the following: Jim Bush and Billio Davies to The Citadel. Miss Mary Gay OEannon to Cokar College. ^ ~Humin*1 Earley, TommlF Baffood, Wilson Sanders and Lawson Holland to Wofford College. Mi$s Ann Scott McNab to Winthrop College. Rodman Lemon, Brown Easterling, McTyre Calhoun and Edward Rich ardson to Clemson College. Misses June Milhous and Loretta tint hia. successor has not yet been cKbsen. Ovafor Rttniwsp week-end here. Unofficial Returns—State Ticket. for the last eight years. . Besides her husband, she is sur vived by two daughters, Elisabeth and Magaret Ellis, of Savannah, and one son, J. C. ElKs, Jr. Ginning Report. There were 470 teles of cotton gin ned in Barnwell County from the crop off 1934 prior to September 1st, as compared with MM teles ginned to the sums date last jeer, according to a report made public this week by F. W. DeDt, special agent, of Black- villa. ’ 1 tr High School Auditorium, 15c and 25c admission. To Serve Catfish Stew. * The ladies of the Baptist Church will serve a catfish stew end all the trim mings in the dining room of the church on Friday evening, beginning at seven o’clock. Price per supper 36c, which Includes coffee or tea. The proceeds will be need for the building fund. \ Misses Annie Mae and Joy Vogel and. Julie Carswell have returned to their homea In Attests after • Governor 11 Lti-Govemor Blease Johnston j Bryson Harley Barnwell 682 - 189 1 20 865 Bennett Springs - v --- 48 15 9 56 Blackville * '109 . 205 66 ‘ 246 Double Ponds A 42 35 10 67 Dunbarton A— 12 91 76 27 Elko 1 52 62 16 99 Four Mile :_A 4 75 ~ 1 SO 8 "97 Friendship 57 . 39 5 91 Greet Cypress 82 63 20 125 Healing'Springs A 56 47 21 . 80 Hercules \ 91 68 8 167 mid* \ 35 . 109 39 102 Red Oak \ M 5 0 88 Reedy Branch V -2i 4t 8 te Rosemary ’ \ 48 ’ 63 20 90 SUeam —— r — \86' 14 7 40 Williston .... 27* 97 331 '-.a 3« 34 14 66 totaui "IW] Ute ffteffdtey -x ' -« -v The group headed by Mrs. L. C. Jay Gross, of Greenville, spent the^ Eid80n and Mrs.'John B. Harley will serve an oyster supper at the Barn well Baptist Church Friday night, September 21st, beginning at 7:00 o’ clock. Both stewed and fried oysters will be prepared. The proceeds will go to the church building fund, and the public is cordially invited to at tend. ... Blatt for Speaker Pro Teas. Col. Solomon Blatt announced yesterday that he will be e~ candidate for the office of speaker pro tem when the legis lature convenes next January. ' Colonel Blatt has many friends • in the house of representatives I to wham this announcement wffl ; i te of cordig) interest end R ip believed that te will be m? far the Place* > j m Fletcher to Anderson College.' Taft Dydma. The Hilda community was saddened by the death of Taft Dyches, son of* £ Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Dyches, of Bal- dock, which occurred at the home of Isaac Delk September 1st after an illness of nearly four months. He was a member of the Hilda Baptist Church, which he joined at an early age, and he bore his suffering with true Christian fortitude. His body was laid to rest September 2nd in the Double Ponds cemetery. Mr. Dyches, who was 25 yean old, is snrvivsd by his wife and three small $ children, all of Hilda; his parents, who reside at Baldock; six sisters and at* brothers; his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. T. Still, if Barnwell, and * William Dyches, «f -Hilda, all ef wham have the sympathy af a boat of fHando in their bereevssmnt.-CentriWted. • ' eWte" '"i i c -• V Dr. Patton* BL ^ ‘‘‘ - ;! The maaj I ■ , .JHj mm