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TUB OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNTY." Barnwell CwlMifjl Jam L Ittt. •« Ju«t Like a Member of the Family" VOLUME LVHL BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, MARCH, 14, 1935. NUMBER 28. Barnwell Man Named Head of Association Judge Thos. M. .Boulwftre Elected . President of State Bar Associa- tion Last Week. Here During the PaifWee£: Albert D. Oliphant Dies From Injuries Little Senae and Nonsense About Husband of Former Barnwell Woman ' | ——— People You Enow and Others 1 You Don’t Know. Fatally Hurt When His Car Collides With Bus. Of interest to his many friends in this county and throughout the State at large is the announcement that Judge Thos. M. Boulware, of Barn well, was elected president of the South Carolina Bar Association at its annual meeting in Columbia last week, the honor coming to him without op position. Judge Boulware succeeds Alva M. Lumpkin, Esq., of Columbia, who surrendered the gavel to the Barnwell jurist at the banquet in \he capital city Friday evening. Col. Solomon Blatt, also of Barn well, was elected vice-president from th^ Second Judicial Circuit. Thoii*a s McCullough Boulware, the hew president, has practiced law in Barnwell since 1911. He was born at Woodward, Fairfield County, June 15, 1883, a son of Thomas McCullough, «^ t 2nd, and Mary (Woodward) Boulware. His father is a civil engineer by pro fession, and, with his wife, is now living, both above three score and ten. His grandfather, Thomas McCul lough Boulware,'of Fairfield County, and later of Chester County, was a veteran of the Confederate war and a more remote forefather was Thomas “Bowler,” of Rappahannock County^ Virginia, who - was commissioned a member of the Governor’s Council in 1670 and again in 1675. Reared on the farm at Woodward, he acquired his educatiop in the pub lic schools and a special course at the University of South Carolina where he also took the law course and graduated with the degree of bachelor of laws in 1909. After two year s in Marion and Gaffney, he came to Barnwell in 1911, whefe he is still established. He has been honored by the supreme court with appointments as special judge. When the United States entered the World War, he applied *t Charleston for admission into the officers’ train ing camp, but failed in physical ex amination on account of defective vision. An airplane, apparently lost, flying over Barnwell, getting its hearings and heading towards Savannah shoe on one foot and 5 a dark tan one on shoe on one foot and a dark tan on the other; when asked “how come,” he replied that he didn’t believe in letting one foot know what the other was-doing, and furthermore that his wardrobe contains so many pairs of shoes that it was a hard job to keep them properly mated. . . A sudden windstorm late Wednesday afternoon of last week, at approximately the same time that a severe tornado struck Lincolnton, Ga., the •last named town suffering property damage estimated at $100,000, with several persons injured. . . . An other sign of spring: Fishing canes displayed in front of local stores. . . . . Kites. . . Friendg congratu lating Judge Thos. M. Boulware on his election without opposition as p^|si- dent of the State Bar Association at the annual meeting in Columbia last weey. One of the new 1935 model Master Six Chevrolets on display at the Grubbs Chevrolet Co. . . Perry B. Bush denying the charge that he was ever an admirer of “Hooey” Lbng~7 . . Nick Coclin saying that he was given a “tip” on a certain stock several years ago but that he 4id not use it because he did not “know any thing about the sock market then,*’ and somebody asking him how much dees he know about it now. . . . Martin Best remarking, after the drastic break in the cotton market Monday, that every politician in the country should have a hundred-pound weight tied around his neck and drop ped in the middle of the ocean. Would Incorporate Association. Columbia, March 9.—Thomas Mc Cullough Boulware, of Barnwell, who was elected president of the State Bar association March 8th, is author of the present movement to incorporate the association as an agency of the State. A bill which would effect this change is now pending in the South Carolina senate after passing the house. —— Senate Would Weed Out Election Rules Senators Brown, Harvey and Stukes Want Democratic Primary Rules - Taken from Statutes. Greenville, March 9.—The body of Albert Drane Oliphant, forty-five, who died early this morning of a fractured skull suffered in a collision between his automobile and a bus late yester day near Douglasville, Ga., arrived in the city thi s afternoon. Mr. Oliphant was returning from a trip through the Southern States and was on the highway between Birming ham and Atlanta when the accident occurred. Reports here state that he was blinded by the lights of a pass ing car which caused the accident. He died a few hours later after being taken to Atlanta. Upon hearing of the accident, Mrs. Oljphant left here immediately with Dr. and Mrs. Hugh Smith, but they arrived after his death. Mr. Oliphant was Southern manager of the McGraw-Hill publications and has lived in Greenville a number of years. He is a graduate of the Uni versity of South Carolina. Mr. Oliphant is survived by his widow, the former Miss May Simms, of Barnwell, by one daughter, Mary Simms, and two sons, Albert Drane, Jr., and Gilmore Simms. Barnwell Man to Help Draw New Liquor BiD Senator Edgar A. Bnown Is One of Seven Senators Appointed on , Special Committee. Twenty-two Projects S Stills Destroyed Engage Barnwell ERA | by Local Officers V, Special Survey of School Buildings in One Negro Arrested and Warrants This County Is Now Made. Being Sworn Out for Two White Men as Result of Raids • I -A Seven members of the senate were appointed Friday by Senator John F. Williams, president pro-tem., to a special committee to draw up a liquor bill* which would be acceptable to the majority by embodying in the meas ure the better features of the various bills and amendments that have al ready been submitted. V Senator Williams announced its membership as follows: Senator R. B. Searson, of Allendale, chairman, in dependent wet; Senator Walter M. Dunlap, of York, a sp6nscr of the State licensing plan; Senator W. B Local law enforcement officers have been quite busy during the past week raiding illicit liquor still s in the coun ty, as a result of which three were de stroyed, one negro was arrested and warrants have been issued for the Laid to Rest Sunday; The Barnwell County Relief Admin istration, according to Barnie F. Owens, Administrator, i g now work ing on twenty-two projects. These include both outside and inside ac tivities. - , A special survey of school buillings I arrest of two white men, Freddie Still in the . county to determine their an( * Howell Priester, according to geopraphic location and physical con- Sheriff J. B. Morris, dition is being made. Another recent The first raid occurred Wednesday project started by the administration near Snelling when a 75-gallon cop- is the rural electrification survey. P« r still, together with several Dun The active projects include the dred gallons of mash and five gallons swimming (pool, located 2% miles of whiskey, was destroyed by Sheriff northeast of Blackville, which is about Morris and Deputy Sheriff Gilmore'S. Harvey, of Beaufort! sponsor of the 1 60 P« r cent - complete. The drainage I Harley. The plant wag not in opera- Virginia plan, as provided for in the Project in Barnwell, north of State | tion at the time and no arrests were McEachin-Harvey bill; Senator F. B. | Hi * hwa y No - ^ is als0 about one half completed. In addition to these projects, relief workers are complet ing the fairways on the golf course at Barnwell and are working on the I fork of Hercules Creek and Saltke swimming pool locatel 3V4 miles hatchie River. An 80-gallon copper H. Kemper Cooke, of’ Horry, author I northwest of Williston. Sanitary still wa 8 in operation at the time but of a bill providing for the sale of P rivie « throughout the county are be- the negro in charge made his escape beverages made only in South Caroli- in * constructed, and grading and tree temporarily. The still and 600 gai ns out of South Carolina products. removing work is being done at the I *ons of mash were destroyed. Senator Searson made the motion I a >rport; also eight rooms in the Bam- Thursday, after prolonged debate by we ^‘ negro school are being painted various members of the senate, that and Grea t Cypress pond, located one the speaker appoint the committee. I mile from Kline, is being drained. >1 Hines, cf Darlington, independent wet; Senator Edgar A. Brown, sponsor of the house Hiatt-Brown bill, with amendments; Senator Henry R. Sims, of Orangeburg, a dry, and Senator made. Frilay, Sheriff Morris snd Deputy Harity, assisted by several federal of ficers, raided a still located in tha gl Greenville, March 10.—Funeral ser vices for A. D. Oliphant, 45-year-old Greenville business man, who was fatally injured in an automobile acci dent near Dotiglasville, Ga., Friday, were held at the graveside in Christ Episcopal church cemetery today. The final, rites were in charge of the Rev. R. T. Phillips, rector of the church, and the Rev. Mr. Matheson, Union. Mr. Oliphant died Saturday in an Atlanta hospital of his wreck injuries. The officers then located another still some distance up Hercules Creek, near the home of Howell Priester, In this raid the still, 700 gallons of mash Tt~was-explained utr-that time that it I ^ women’s work includes, making 1 75 y>Hona of liquor wert destroy- was out of such a committee and af-1 garments in the sewing rooms, mak- ed, and later warrants were g worn out ter various conflicting ideas had been p* nuttresses in the mattress room, ** the wrest of Still snd Priester, given as to the system of legislation I assisting the home demonstration the ahenff told a repreaenUttnre of that should be adopted, that emerged I ^ and aidin * in ***** school |The People-Sentinel. the present liberalized State beer bill often referred to on the floor as high ly satisfactory. The committee, under terms of the motion adopted, have until the morn ing hour Thursday bo draw up the bill and report it to the floor of the senate. lunches to children of needy clients in the public schools. Resolution Adopted. .OTHER COUNTIES WIfLL OFFER LAND FOR PRISON Columbia, March 7.—Senator Edgar A. Brown reiterated today that the Barnwell delegation had offered 1,500 acres of land in Barnwell County as a site for a new State penitentiary. Senator Brown said the offer was made to a speical legislative committee form ed to pass upon the feasibility cf constructing a new State prison. The Barnwell senator is a member of the committee. It was understood some other coun ties were planning to offer large tracts to the committee, which indicated re cently it would locate the new plant ip some rural area. Ashleigh News. Ashleigh, March 11.—Mrs. L. R. Osborne and little son and daughter, Donald and Dorothy, of Rock Hill, Wave been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hair for several, weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Boyce Creech and son * Billy, Mr. and Mrs. Stafford Creech and son, Bobbie, of Barnwell; Mr. and Mrs. Qeland Lazar and daughters, Doris arid Frances, .of Augusta, and Mrs. Q. A\ Diamond, of Long Branch, spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Owens. J. E. Owens, J. L. Owens, C. P. Owens, Norman Owei^p, Earl Hair and Bellinger Owens were business visi tors in Columbia last week. Mr. and Mrs. Bennie Hair, Blanche end Lizzie Hair spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. WUscn. _ • Mr. and Mrs. Seymour Ross snd daughter, Allowee, snd Ralph Martin, of Blackvflle, were visitors in this section Sunday. Cecil Holly, of Elko, spent the past week-en^pt^tht hdgfre of Mr. and Mrs. D. I. Rosa. The Rev. Mr. Mclver and family, of Columbia, were visitors Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hair. Columbia, March 7.—An opening wedge for the removal of Democratic primary rules from the statute books and with it the elimination of a possi ble cause of election lawsuits was driven today with the introduction of a bill on the subject in the senate. Senator Edgar A. Brown, of Barn well, co-author of the bill with Sena tors Harvey,, of Beaufortr«hd Stukes, of Clarendon, said it was offered “to have a general hearing in committee on these primary laws and cull cut the ones that blight hot to be in the statutes.” V Some basic election measures should remain as laws, Brown said, but the existence of others as general stat utes cf South Carolipa might result in situations such, - as occurred in Texas where several negroes won suits allowing them to vote in pri maries. At a recent meeting of Palmetto Camp, Sons Confederate Veterans, a resolution was adopted inviting all sons and grandsons of Confederate Veterans in South Carolina to join the camp “to the end that the work of this camp may be speedily extended so as to reach every Confederate Vet- eran in the State, however shut in or disabled he may be.” It was pointed out that the average age of the Veterans is 92 years and they have expressed the desire that future efforts be confined to looking after their welfare, comfort and hap piness, especially those who are dis abled and shut in, as most of the other Accomplishments of S. C. ERA Are Listed I Resume of Wcrk Performed During] Past Year Made Public by Of fice in Columbia. Qhevrolet Leads in Sales During 1934 Maintains Leadership for S& Out of Eight Years, According to Latest Figures. Sunday Sheriff Morris arrested Wil liam Smalls, colored, at Blackville on a charge of illegally storing liquor. Smalls was turned over to town au thorities and later gave bond ill tha amount of $100. Two More Raided. Sheriff Morris and Deputy Sheriff Harley continued their raids on liquor stills Monday and as a result two more plants were destroyed, bringing the total to five in less than a week. A 75-gallon copper still was raided on Roberson Mill Creek, 800 gallons Atlanta, Feb. 26.—Latest figures | received from R. L. PoHc and company, I handling official automobile registra- Lf mash were destroyed and a negro, tions for the United States, show that Wyman Mills, wa» arrested. Chevrolet led their nearest competitor A 75-gallon copper still was raided . in sales in 1934. on Riley Branch, which was ready to ’he South Carolinai ERA this week J “ The company is now operating its run but was not in operation at the ...junced from its Columbia office P lant »* Atlanta, Ga., to time of t he raid. The still and 350 resume of its physical acccmplish- Poetically full capacity,** said Mr. gallons of mash were desteoyed by the merits during 1934 Carr > zone manager of Chevrolet Motor | officers. According to the report, 6,400 miles eompany^anjnterview to-day. of roads were repaired, graded, drain- “ We appreciate the confidence of ed, and shouldered. Six hundred miles the P*°P le in the Atknta territory, of new roads and 130 new bridges which include * moB t of th * St * te of wfere built. A total of 2,300 miles, or I Georgia, and part of Tennessee and V-1 vj To Save An Editor. Bitten by Mad Dog. The little three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Wall, of Dunbar ton, was bitten*. Saturday by a sup posedly mad bulldog, which also bit a mule and. cow belonging to Mr. Woll, according to Reuben Rountree, who carried the dog to Columbia Bun- day fer examination. He was advised by the authoritie s not to kill the dog at this time and carried the animal back to Dunbarton. In the meantime, the Pasteur treatment is being admin- isterel to the little girl and the mule and cow are also being treated. activities in their behalf now tend to depress rather than cheer them as “they toddle to the last roll call.” The annual dues of the camp were fixed at $2 and may be sent to E. O. Black, camp treasurer, 1218 Wash ington Street, Columbia. 312,876 acres, cf draining was com pleted! ' : North and South Carolina.' We feel i There i s at least one minister who appreciates the editor. At a recent editorial convention, a* Kansas mini*- Healing Springs Hcnor Roll. The honor roll of the Healing Springs school for the month of Feb ruary is as follows: . First Grade—Earlis Coljins, Ben Creech, Jr. v < ^ Second Grade—Annie Frances Gard ner, Alberta Breeden, Emily Martin, Nell Templeton, Otis Sandifer. Third Grade—Wesley Whittle. Fourth Grade—Everett Breeden, Ella Mae Kemp. Fifth Grade—William Odom, Marion Brown, TBernard Cain. Sixth Gratte-^Harrie ^Harriett Breeden. Seventh Grade—Amelia Ray, Lois 9 Spring Sale Days. A • 9-day sale event, beginning to day (Thursday) i g announced in this isaue qf The People-Sentinel by J. B. White and Co., of Augusta. Excep- tional bargains in’ brand new and beautiful Spring merchandise will be offered throughout this sale and they will be found liste’d in a 12-page ad vertisement in today's Augusta Chronicle, which is probably the larg est bona fide advertisement ever car ried for one event in Augusta. A copy of the big advertisement -will be mailed >by White’s to any address on request. ' | ADVERTISE In Th# Peopla-SentinaL Little Girl Painfully Burned. One hundred new public buildings were constructed. Five hundred and fifty-five buildings were repaired, and one incinerator was built. Relief workers completed 110 new school buildings, repaired 511 school buildings, painted 280 school buildings, and drilled 16 artesian wells on schcol grounds. that our product for 1935 will entirely Ue,. U reported to have offered thefol- justify their confidence^ in purchasing ] lowing toast: “To save an editor from starvation, take hia paper and pay for it prompt ly- . “To save him from bankruptcy, ad- program is to supply cars to those Lertise in hi 8 paper liberally, who place orders first, and in the or- « To 8ave him from despair, send der they are received. I certainly hj m every item of news you can gat' wish that cur good friends in this ter- h 0 id 0 f t it, and tests-which we have madfe in dicate that it out-perforins in every way any dar in its class, j, “One of the provisions of our sales / Five hundred 1 miles of streets snd ritor * w °' ,ld P lsce ttw ' r or<1 ' r ' e * H >' “To save him from protmutr, write because then we can better arrange y 0Ur correspondence plainly on ons our plans and make, as prompt deliv-1 8ide 0 f the 8heet and ^ ft in u ery as possible.* - early a 8 possible. Mr. Carr stated further that he ^ 8av « him f rom mftukes, bury would be glad to show any of the him. Dead people afe the only ones residents of the territory covered by who ne v e r make mistake^”—Wiscon- his zone, which includes the territory | 8 j n Presg. sidewalks were built or repaired. Three reservoirs wert^built, and 28 miles of water niain laid. Three dis posal plants were constructed end 100 J miles of sewer lines placed. Throughout the State 24,561 sani tary privies were constructed. Three. .. . . ^ , . _ . mentioned above, through the assem- ponds for community use were also| LI ' . un built. Much attention was given to recre ational centers. The physical accom- plishmemts of this type of work in cluded the construction of 34 swim ming pools, 3 gymnasiums, 26 play grounds, 17 parks, and 40 athletic | bly plant in Atlanta at any time they | are in the city,'and extends a cordial invitation for them to visit the plant. Auto Wreck"at Kline. 7 Small Farmers Exempt. Lett, Evelyn Whittle, C.■ E. Williams, fields. Twenty-two -adeports were either constructed or repaired. Mrs. Stephen Tabor, .of Columbia, district supervisor of the ERA, warn sliphtly injured Thursday when tKe automobile she was driving turned Washington, March 7.—President | over after striking a calf on Highway The accident occurred near Mrs. Tabor stated that Roosevelt’s promise to exempt small I No. 3. cotton farmers from the strifigefit pro- Kline. The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Waltz, of Barnwell, will be sor ry to learn that their little daughter, Jeannette, was painfully burned on Saturday afternoon. The little girl, who is four years of age, was sitting in a rocking chair in front of a log the chair her foot slipped and she fell headlong into the fire, burning very seriously her right arm ond hand and the fingers of her left hand. Al though her burns are very painful, she i 8 not seriously injured. ■ - ♦♦♦ Fourteen meat canneries were con- vi8iong of the Bw^head compulsory had slowed the car as she structed, 6,000,000 cans of meat be- contro1 cotton actw * 8 c * rried out ^ the town and that when near au i»- . ^ cline the calf darted into ^ha- Ugh- ing canned, and over 2,500,000 cam of 1 » f Secretary Wallace. vegetables were canned in vegetable ] canneries operated by the ERA. Jn the sewing rooms, 2,200,000 gar ments were made, 25,000 mattresses I were made, as well as 10,000 pillows, | and 2.000 comforts. fire and in attempting to get out of—In the public schools, 126,242 re lief children were served hot lunches. In the library, 82,883 books were re paired. . In addition to these accomplish ments the ERA gave employment to Negroes TFfffht at Church. A free-for-all fight took place Sun- I day night at Frost ! Branch negro | church, near Elko,. Gilmore SL Har ley, deputy sheriff, arrived on the some 1,000 students in schools and I scene during the melee and arrepted universities whb would not have been I two women and three men. They Quite a number of the members of. -able $o continue with their education I wre carried before Magistrate M. C. the local Baptist Church attended the I? Evangelistic 'Conference sponsored by the churches of the Barnwell Baptist Association, which was held at Joyce Branch on the 12th inst. He ordered that each farm having way in the path of the machine, an average production of not more The can turned over once and landed than two bales pf cotton be allotted on its wheels again, and although it certificates exempting them from the was badly damaged, Mra. Tabor was tax imposed by the act. y ( able to drive on to Allendale, where she received medical attention. ,* o • » * Discontinues Business. 1 The Barnwell Furniture Co., which has been operated in the Porter build ing hare for the past two years by Messrs. Young and Stein, proprietet^ of the Allendale Furniture Cjo^ hm discontinued business %nd tits, stock of fhrnitnre has bean moved dale. hod it not been for federal funds. In Kitchings at Williston on Monday and the rural rehabilitation department [ the ffoMoertng finch Imposed: $5.00 1,800 people were placed hack on I each for the two women, and $10.00 farms and money losapd to them. by, j for two of the men and $25.00 for the government. tire third man. • ' v • \■ "(SfisM Calhoun Lemon spent the week-end in Columbia with frienfe ' v. A