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THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNTY _‘^gg| OMMlMfiW lam L IWA •« Jumt Llk« a Member of the Famllv" VOLUME LVIIL BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA. JHURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1934 NUMBER 12. Escaped Prisoner Returned to Jail William (“Bo”) Miller Arrested • ' v Massachusetts and Turned Over to Sheriff Morris. in Seen and Heard Here During the Past Week A Little Sense and Nonsense About People You Knonr and Others You Don’t Know. William (“Bo”) Miller, who, along with several other njgroes, sawed! his way to freedom and escaped from the Barnwell County jail some time ago, is again safely behind the bars, having been returned here Monday from Massachusetts by.Sheriff J. B. Morris and i” 8 dputy, Gilmore S. Har ley. The two officers left Barnwell early Thursday afternoon for Cam bridge, following the receipt of a telegram from authorities there ad vising that Miller had been placed under arrest. The negro, who is ac cused of murder, waived extradition. He claims that the crime with which possible. he is charged was committed in self defense. Dr. H. A. Gross and Johnnie Sco- ville returning from a deer hunt in Dorchester County, where the latter killed two deer, the only ones killed on the drive. . . . Ben Moore saying that his brother, “Rufe,” went over to Aiken last Thursday to “scout” the Carlisle football team for Coach “Monkey” Price. . . A cer tain local benedict boasting that he and his spouse have never had a quar rel in more than a quarter of a cen tury of married bliss.| . . And an other married man expressing his grave doubts that such a record is . . -Local -sportsmen taking immediate advantage of the Barnwell Veteran Died Friday Niglit Jacob Cohen Fought Three Years in f Virginia.—Body Buried in New York City. Barnwell Gridders |B. B. Stanley Found Trip Estill, 18 to 6 Dead Near His Home Both Teams Play Good Football in Death Caused by Gunshot Wound in Interesting Game c« Local Field < vv Friday Afternoon. reopening of the dove season Tue.t- Mcntague McClendon, white, of day. . . Rob Patterson, who sprain- Blackville, who was arrested shortly . ed an ankle a few days ago, walking after the ijegroes made their escape , with two sticks. . . Coach “Mon- and charged with supplying them with ( key” Price saying tHat he is contem- the hacksaw with which they cut the plating installing lights at Fuller bars at a corridor winclow, is still in jail in default of |5,00U BomE Sheriff Morris and Deputy Harley had a safe and uneventful trip to and from the Massachusetts city, making excellent rimp hnth Wflya- — Jacob Cohen, 88, died at 11:30 o’ clock Friday night at his home here after three yea is of ill health. He was one of the very few Confederate Veterains living in Barnwell County. His body, accompanied by two of his sons, left Barnwell SuncDay afternoon over the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad for New York City, where funeral ser vices were held Monday with inter ment in Washington cemetery. Mr. Cohen was bom in B^alestock, Poland, in December, 1846. At the age of thirteen he jcame to America and located in Forsythe, Ga. At the outbreak of the. War Between the States he enlisted in a Georgia regi ment and saw three years of active service, mostly on Virginia soil. He was captured and served the last year of that bloody conflict in a prison camp. President Abraham Lincoln signed his parole just a day or two His Heart.—Sheriff J. B. Morris Investigates Case. , Barnwell high defeated Estill high here Friday afternoon, 18 to 6. The locals took the opening kickcff and drove 70 yards down the field for the first score. - The try for extra point was wide. When the visitors were forced to punt, Barnwell staged an other drive that carried to the seven- yard line, first and goal to go; four tries at the line failed and the ball went over on the one-ward stripe. Estill punted out of danger and for the remainder of the first half played Barnwell on even terms. The visitors kept BarnwelL backed - into their own territory until near the end of the third period,’ when the locals again put the ball in scoring position and made their second touch-' down early in the fourth. They again failed to make the extra point. An Estill pass was intercepted shortly after the kickoff and a few plays net- . . Charged With Non-Support Also. Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 17.—Wil liam Miller, 33, wanted in South Caro lina in connection with a fatal shoot ing allegedly resulting from a quar rel over ten cents, today waived ex tradition before Judge Arthur P. Stone in district court. He then was taken into custody by Sheriff J. B. Morris, of Barnwell, S. C.,’ for trial in the Southern State. Morris testified Miller was wanted for the killing of Willie Salley in July, 1933, at Blackville, S. C. Miller was captured after the shooting, Morris said, but escaped by sawing his way out of jail. Miller’s wife, who resides here, lodged a non-support charge against ■ him in January rodhe was taken into custody last week in Marshfield. Miller said in testifying today: “I am guilty of doing it, but I did it in self-defense." Park for night football ganu*s next fall. . . Members of the Junior Order, U. A. M., enjoying a fish sup per at “the Greeks,” following a meeting at duller Park pavilion Tues- day night. - Everybody enjoying' ably ctfld spell of ten days ago. . . J. W. Patterson and R. R. Moore, members of the county board of directors, leaving for Columbia business. on before his assassination. Mr. Cohen was an unreconstructed Rebel and never took the oath of al legiance to the United States. After his release from the military prison, he returned to Foisythe, where he re- H ted Bainwtil's third and last touch- dowfl . Coach Price then ran in a flock of substitutes and Estill drove 75 yards down the field for their on'y mirkag. the balmy weather after the unseason- mained until 1875, when he moved to NEW PASTOR ASSIGNED TO METHODIST CHURCH After only cne year as pastor of the Barnwell Methodist Church, the Rev. Woodrow Ward has been as signed by the South Carolina Confer ence of the Methodist Church, South, to the Bennettsville charge, and the Rev. J. S. Inabinet was assigned o the Barnwell charge. During his short residence in Barn well, Mr. Ward has made a host of friends of young and old alike among the various congregations and it is with keen regret that they give him and his charming wife up to another charge. The best wishes of the peo ple of the entire community will fol low them to their new home. The incoming pastor, Mr. Inabinet, will find a warm welcome awaiting him in Barnwell and the local Metho- cSsts are confident that the work of the church will continue to progress under his ministry. Criminal Court Will Convene December 3 Judge S. W. G. Shipp, cf Florence, to Preside at One Week-Term.— Jurors Drawn. of at To Preach Farewell Sermon. At the last session of the South Carolina Conference of the M. E. Church, * South, held y at Kihgstree, Bishop Paul B. Kern transferred! the former pastor of the local Methodist Church to Bennettsville, and assigned the Rev. J. C. Inabinet to this plade. The former pastor wil preach his last sermon next Sunday morning at 11:30 o’clock. There will be no night ser- A one week term of the Court General Sessions will convene Barnwell on Mondfay, December 3rd, with Judge S. W. G. Shipp, of Flor- ence, presiding] Petit jurors were drawn this week, as follows: J. S. Creech, Blackville. Shelly Black, Barnwell. Hamp Sanders, Friendship. H. V. Porter, Williaton. W. E. Kitchings, Elko. H. L. Buist, Blackville. C. A. Hartzog, Double Ponds. F. W. Deik, Double Ponds. V. B. Martin, Blackville. J. N. Folk, Pleasant Hill. Lee Lancaster, Ashleigh. C. G. Mitchell, Tinker's Creek. Willie T. Still, Seven Pines. Callie Black, Reedy Branch. H. T. Youmans, Four Mile. H. D. Still, Jr., Blackville.' C. D. Birt, Long Branch. J. R. Keel, Long Branch. Russell R. Black, Williaton. J. A. Meyer, Meyer’s Mill. L. N. Bolen, New Forest. T. D. Creighton, Sr., Barnwell. J. B. Weeks. Hilda. John Hartzog, Lees. . F.j W. Toole, WHHston. F. H. Rountree, Seven Pines. Lennie Jowers, Blackville. J. W. Ruff, Barnwell. (C. B. Ellis, Jr., Meyer’s Mill. Norman Baxley, Long Branch. W. P. Still, Healing Springs. W. R. Moore, Seven Pines. P. O. Beasley, Cedar Grove. A. A. Lemon, Barnwell. C. E. Heath, Pleasant Hill, . L. Dyches, Blackville. New York. In 1897 he located in Barnwell and engaged in the mercan tile business until ill health forced his retirement three years ago. In 1872 Mr. Cohen married Mias Rosa Hynes, of New York city, who preceded him to the grave a number of years ago. Seven children were born to this union, of whom six are now living, as follows: Mrs. Isadore Brown, of Blackville; Misses Mamie and Carrie Cohen and Louis Cohen, of Barnwell; Sam Cohen, of Charles ton, and David Cohen, of New York city, also four grandchildren and two great-gi andchildren. FAMOUS AIR FLYER The game ended) soon thereafter with the ball m the visitors’ possession deep in their own territory, after a last Barnwell drive had been halted near the goal line. , The starting teams were more even ly matched than the score indicates and all of the boys played good foot ball. . * To Play “Under the Lights.” ' The Barnwell high school football team journeys to Denmark tomorrow (Friday) night to engage the strong Denmark eleven. This will be Barn well’s first game “under the lights.” Denmark has a very strong team le< by Carl Smoak, one of the best high school backs in this section. A large crowd of local fans is expecVd to ac- HERR THIS WEEK company the team^ Carlisle Here Wednesday. Next Wednesday afternoon. No vember 28th, at Fuller Park the Barn well boys will wind up their season Air Flights Sponsored Here This Week by Local Ford Dealers. M. Cheese Making Demonstration. Home Demonstration members and others who are interested in the mak ing of cheese are invited to see a . demonstration of the process Monday, ^ .r” , k™*!*, 26.« Court House. Miss Lula Chries- man, a former home agent of his initial sermon the first Sunday in| December. The incoming pastor hails from Summerton, where he has closed a most successful quadrennium. He is a young man of pleasing appearance and his parsonage household wilhcon- sist of his wife, a daughter ten and a son six years of age.—Contributed. Bemad Plexico and Basil Jenkins, local Ford dealers, announce that Harold Johnson, famous commercial flyer, will have his 14-passenger, all- metal, tri-motor Ford plane at the Barnwell airport on Thursday and Friday of this week. Mr. Johnson is an experienced flyer of 14 years, and just recently com peted in the Cleveland Air Races at Cleveland, Ohio, where he won 94,500 in cash awards, and the $1,000 trophy awarded annually. He has spent more than 8,0fi0 hours in the trans port business. A nominal sum will be charged >11 those who desire to ride with Mr. Johnson, the charge toeing 50 cents between the hours of 9 and 11 a. m.; 60 cents between the hours of 11 and 1, and 75 cents between the hours of 1 and dark, during his two days stay here. See advertisement elsewhere in this issue. Ellenton, Nov. 19.—Benjamin B. Stanley was found dead Wednesday morning of last week about 200 yards from his home in Barnwell County, near here, with a gunshot wound in his heart. He was 53 years of age. Sheriff J. B. Morris, of Barnwell, in vestigated the case. Mr. Stanley was a respected farm er of this section and a native of Hampton Ccfunty, the son of the late Mr. and Mm* Ben Stanley. Funeral services were held yester day afternoon from Dandy Run B list Church, Rev. 6. S. Ulmer, offi dating. Interment followed in the churchyard. Surviving him are his widow, Mrs. Julia Hattaway Stanley; seven sons, Hagcod, Ivy, Fred, Willie, Richard, Barnwell Farmers in Favor of Continuance Want Crop Control With'Amendments to Bankhead Law.—Delegates . Elected Friday . A meeting of representative farm ers from all parts of Barnwell Coun ty went on Record here Friday by an overwhelming vote as favorhig the continuance of the present system of cotton control, with amendments to the Bankhead law to safeguard the interests of the small farmers. The meeting, which was held in Hie Court House, was presided over by R. R. Moore, of Snelling, with County Agent H. G. Boylston as secretary, the latter stating the object of the gathering. ; B. F. Anderson, of Dunbarton at tacked the operation of the Bankhead law, declaring that it had not affected the price of cotton, the advance, he said, being due to other causes. He also declared that the farmers are in Harry and Lee Stanley, all of this sec-1 wor8e condition thkn they were two tion; three daughters, Mrs. Ruth | or t ^ ree ye**** sgo. R. E. Woodward, qL Smith, of PinelarW, and Misses Laura and Ollie Mae Stanley, of Ellenton, and one brother, W. H. Stanley, of Hampton. 4 Barnwell and Edisto Baptists Meet Dec. 1 Outstanding Sunday School Leaders of That Denomination to Conduct Conferences. Blackville, disagreed with Mr. Andter- son on this score and both declared that they and their fellow farmers had benefitted greatly under crop pi educ tion confrof,’’Telng enabled to pay [debts contracted during the years of extremely low prices. They admitted that hardships had been worked in some instances by the epplkmtion of the control plan, but absolved the county committees from any blame in this connection. They advocated a continuance of crop control. Mr. Anderson offered a motion to the effect that the meeting go on record as favoring the abolishment of the Bankhead law, whereupon B. P. Davies, editor of The People-Sentinel, who had previously brought out the day School conference. The confer-1 P° in t that farmers who had signed ence is one of a aeries of six arranged voluntary acreage reduction contracts by J. L. Corrme, Sunday School secre- spring are bound by the same in tary of the South Carolina Baptist 1W6 •"<* that the Bankhead law Convention, in the interest of thel reaches those who had re fused, to Young People’s, Adult and Extension contract, moved that MrrAnder- departments. Many outstanding Sun-1 motion be tabled, which Blackville, Nov. 20.—On Saturday, December 1, representatives from more' tlyin fifty. Baptist Sunday School*' in the Barnwell and Edisto assccistion will meet with the Black- vnlle Baptist Church for a special Sun day School leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention will appear on the program during the /afternoon and evening. All teachers and officers in department, together with members of these classes, are invited to attend. I to adjust present inequalities.’* playing againat the powerful Carliale the youn(r pMpU .. tnd , duH dep>rt . eleven. The game is ache, bled to be- m ,„i, , m: l„ der , in th , e]c , fn!K)n gin at three o’clock instead of 3:30, as heretofore. Admission prices will be 35, 25 and 10 cents. Local boys who will be seen in ac tion on the Carlisle eleven are “Rab- »bit” Woodward and Bob Dicks Ben nett.* The former has been giving a good account of himself at guard and the latter has been playing stellar end. Barnwell may not win but a good scrap is guaranteed to all lovers of football. Mrs. R. £. Dicks, of Chapel Hill, N. C., spent a couple of days with Barn well friends this week. A “Harvest Party.’ 1 Group No. one of the local Baptist Church, 'Mrs. L. A. Plexico, leader, will give a “Harveat Party” at her home on Tuesday evening of next week—Nov. 27—at 8:30 o’clock. A “special and unique” program is be ing arranged. You wouldn’t miss it. A Thanksgiving offering for the Bap tist Church Building fund will be asked. PAY^ELOQUENT TRIBUTES TO LATE JUDGE TOWNSEND Members of Stele Bar Speak at Memorial Senricet in Supreme Court' Room.—-Tell of High Ideals, Valuable Services and Lofty Conception of Duty. done by a 4 to 1 vote, and offered the following substitute resolution, which was adopted by the same majority: “That the present system of control be continued, with a reduction of not less than 25 per cent in 1935 and with amendments to the Bankhead law The program will begin at 3:30 and continue until 9:30, with intermission and lunch at six o’clock. Conferences concerning the adult departments of the Sunday School will be conducted by men, who, through their training and experience, are prepared to an swer questions regarding the major problems of the average Sunday School. Mias Verda Von Hagen, of the Sunday School Board, Nashville, Tenn., and the Rev. Geo. E. Smith, approved Young People and Adult leader of South Carolina, will be the The following were then elected members of a resolution committee: B. P. Davies, chsirman; E. C. Mat thews, R. E. Woodward, A. Ken nedy, Jr., and J. E. Harley, Jr. Thie committee prepared tne following resolution, which was adopted with only one dieeenting vote: ~~ “Whereas, the fanners of Barn well County, in meeting assembled at Btrnweil, S. C., this 16th day of No vember, 1984, have gone on record as favoring s continuance of the present , , , . .system of cotton control, with a re- pnncip.1 speakers on «he prejrr.m.| dttctlon of not |MI then 26 p« ee*. in 1935 and with amendments to the Conference leaders will be W. V. Washburn, Jr., of the Sunday School Board, Nashville; the Rev. M. L. Ban ister, pastor of the First, Baptist Church, of Chester, and president of the South Carolina Sunday School Convention; the Rev. L. H. Miller and the Rev. Paul Wheeler, vice-presi dents of the convention. Every offi cer and teacher in these departments is urged to attend. Churches that do not have an extension department are asked to appoint someone to repi them in the conference and get ijif mation concerning the work. 0 This conference was made possible through the efforts of the Barnwell Ministers’ Conference, the Rev. L. G. Payne, of Blackville, president. This is considered to toe one of the most for- Bankhead law to adjust present in equalities; “Therefore, Be R resolved. That our delegstes to the State Convention be instructed to aesist in eVery wsy in formulating amendments t o the' Bankhead law that will protect the interests of the small farmers.” R. R. Moore and R .E. Woodward were elected delegate to the v State Convention, with Q. A. Kennedy, Jr., and B. F. Anderson as alternates. Scott-Brabham. Preaching at Elko. The Rev. Hoyt Adams, of Jackson Station, will preach at the Elko Bap tist Church next Sunday morning at 41:30 o’clock. * The pubjic is invited to attend. Mrs. T. L. Wragg, of Colombia, is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. W. L. Me lair, .his this county but now in Calhoun Coun ty and Miss Elizabeth McNab will conduct the demonstration. At any time when there is a sur plus of milk on the fafm it may be conserved in the form of cheese ahd consumed lafsr. Wheither on .the The following account of a worthy tribute to a distinguished son of Barnwell County is taken from Sun day’s issue of The State: /" Eloquent and moving tributes to the high character, learning, industry, de votion to duty, sturdiy integrity and gentleness and consideration of the late Judge William H. Townsend, Col umbia, of the 5th Judicial circuit, were farm or in town there ia no food that paid yesterday by members of the South will help provide an adequate diet Carolina bar at impressive memorial at such low cost as milk. It is a pro tective food at well as a builder of muscle, bone and teeth. The farm family that conserves milk when plentiful will be prepared for the “rainy day.” TRY A BUSINESS BUILDER 4 FOR SATISFACTORY RESULTb services held in the supreme court room at the State House. ' The jurist, who died in Columbia August ■ 16, had seen service qs a practicing attorney, solicitor, code commissioner, assistant attorney gen eral of South Carolina anj circuit judge, \and in these various capacities he bsd brought to his work an intelii- ' gence of a high order and a zeal and enthusiasm which were commented upon by the several speakers at the exercises yesterday—exercises attend ed by relatives and friends who com fortably filled the court room. At the conclusion of the services, lasting an hour, John G. Stabler, act ing chief justice of the court, thanked, on behalf of the court and relatives and friends, all who had taken part, and said, “Judge Townsend was truly a good-man ana a great judge,” and ordered) the several addresses printed in the permanent records of the court. Spigner Speaks. The first speaker was A. Fletcher Spigner, solicitor o ft he Fifth Judicial circuit.* In the same year in which (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVEj tendance of about 2,500. The purpose of this conference is to create, more | interest on the part of the young peo ple and adult leadersv and those in charge of the extension or home de partment work. ' • Williston, Nov. 17.—Miss Lou Belle Scott, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Scott, and Mr. Lee Brabham were , married! here at the home of their •important Sander School Rov; W. Acnold Bailth, ever held in the Bcrnwell or Edisto who performed the ^remon,. associations. It is a part of an cn- 0nly th< , immwlh , te (uail iM and larged program sponsored b, the Sun- , Wend , of tlw bride IDd day School convention of the Bern- gT00m wm prnent The only et- e-ell association for the training of the were Miss Eva Givens uni officers and teachers In the 33 Sunday Mr WiUUlm McC u r ley. The bride Schools in the association. At the WM a jtirad | n , green fall ensemble, present time there are over 4,000 Foll<nrinI tht raranony tfe members enrolled in the schools of , eft {or . jholt mot(>r ^ Up0B the Barnwell association with 467 .of- thejr „„„ they wUI ^ fleer, and teachers and an average at-1 * Williaton. where Mr. holds » position with Smith’s drug Col. said Mrs. R. John West, of I Clcmson College, spent the week-end with Senator and Mrs. Edgsr A. I of Card of Thanks. The family of the late Jacob Cohen to thank Barnwell and *: