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A"'- r .'. J l THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNTY/ CMM^icM Jbm L IMS. • S Ju«t Llk< iml>«r of th« F«mlly M Barnwell, south Carolina. thiTreImy, march 2L ism. State Liquor Store BiU May Be Vetoed X Newly«drafted Measure Promptly Ar- ©uses Threat from Dry Governor > OUn D. Johnston. Seeti and Heard Here During the Past Week -- A Little Sense and Nonsense About People Yon Know and Others You Don’t Know. T WOMAN, 106 YEARS OF AGE, RECALLS SLAVERY Columbia, Anarch -A newly- Owners of spot cotton who failed to “Aunt” Dinah Glover’s Mind Clear, Eyes Bright, Threads Needles For Daughter.-* 4 Always Has My Appetite,” She Says. ' r ^ — “i drafted State liquor store bill prompt ly aroused a ve to threat from dry Gpwernor Olin D. Johnston today in a statement directed at its enforcement provisions. V . N The governor announced he. would veto any measure that did not merge the State highway patrol with his skeletonized constabulary for its en forcement and did not expire after a trial period of one year. Viewing the governor's attitude as an attempt to further his highway re organization program, Senator Edgar A. Brown, of Barnwell, a member of a senate committee that wrote the compromise bill, commented: “The governor said he would sign a reasonable bill. We have prepared a reasonable bill that will give him un limited enforcement powers. “We did not know the ‘reasonble bill” which the governor said he would sign included: the carrying out of his highway program.” From a former member of the com mittee, Senator H. Kemper Cooke, of Horry, came a crticism that he had quit the group because its bill “is nothing less than the old State dis pensary law that South Carol ma threw out nearly 20 years ago.” Manufacture Prohibited. The governor said he did not “ad vocate any particular liquor bill or system now pending” and after em phasizing that he is “personally dry and for economy, declared: “I shall be forced to veto any liquor enforcement law that will necessitate additional law enforcement agencies at the expense of the taxpayers.” The committee bill provides an en forcement fund of $50,000 a year for a- State constabulary appointed by the governor and answerable to him. Manufacture of liquor in South Carolinaiwouid remain prohibited un til a State commission set up under the bill can inquire and decide whether it would be feasible and beneficial to the State, and the sale of liquor would be a State monopoly. The store system proposed i n the bill would be operative in every coun ty in the State for a two-year period, after which any county might decide upon its retention in a referendum requested by 25 per cent, of its voters. State retail stores would ..be estab lished at every county seat and in each town of more than 5.000 inhabi- take advantage of the higher prices a few weeks ago “pegging” their holdings at 12 cents through the medi um of the government loan. It is said that several hundred bales in this county have b^en forced into State warehouses'by the drastic declines of the past ten days. . . Scattering bunches of asparagus being offered for sale by local stores, only a few growers having cut enough to war rant express shipments. . . Tender young leaves shivering in the cold March winds. . . Quite a large crowd in town for the opening day of the Court of Common Pleas. ^ . Judas trees in full bloom in a number of yards. ... A certain young embryo gambler winning 75 cents on a ball and peg. machine, declining to play again “for $1.50 or nothing” and willingly playing for a 75 cents wager. . . SeWral highly prized dogs suffering from distemper. . . Work progressing nicely on the new Barnwell high school building and the paving on Marlboro Street and al so the street from the Court House to Turkey Creek, giving these thorough fares quite a “citified” air. ... . Letters from college girls and boys in which regret was expressed that they didn’t all get “spring holidays” at the same time and recalling tfye enjoya ble times they had during the Christ mas ^jiglidays. . ... “Bully” Har ley driving-rf^pew Ford V-8. . . . Reports fhar local delegations will go up to Columbia this week to visit the new State 'relief administrator. Colo nel Fulp, in an effort, it is said, to bring about changes in the personnel of the county administration, previous plans along this line having been up set by Judge Miller Foster’s unexpect ed resignation last week. . . Lloyd Ptexico getting his new outboard motor beat tuned up for, the many races that he will attend this summer. Lloyd itLsaid to be about the busiest man in Barnwell—when he is not at tending to patrons at his filling sta tion, he is either “fixing” radios,, re pairing tires or tubes, and when he has nothing else to do he amuses him self with cross word puzzles. Former Senator Cole L. Blease here Tuesday morning to try a case in the Court of Common Pleas. . .—W. A. By John W. Harden, Charlotte News Staff Writer. to Columbia after spending the week end at their homes here Quite a large crowd enjoying the dance at the Sweetwater Country Club Monday night. tants on approval of its county dele gation. Division of Revenue. County seats might have additional Stored' for each lOjOOO inhabitants above 5,000 and they could be estab lished in towns as small as 200 popu lation provided the towns have police protection. ■ RevertUO would be divided 40 per cent, to the State, 40 per ettit. to the counties, and 20 per cent to munici palities where the liquor is sold. . A State control commission of three ^ members would fix prices to provide a net profit of not less than BO per cent, on all liquor sold. The three members of the board would be elected by the legislature for terms ’of three years each. Mem bers of the general assembly would be ineligible. The chairman would Receive $4,000 a year and the other commissioned $3,600 each. One of the State control plans re ferred to the senate committee pro vided for appointment of the board by the governor but Brown in a meas- -—ure of his advocated its election by the . legislature. ^he go<vternor r however, would ap- . point a “temperance” board of five who would administer a fund from the proceeds of sales of liquor per mits for education on the effect of alcohol, for treatment of habitual drunkards, and for the care of the families of drunkards. ^“Virginia Plan” Adopted. Magistrates over the State would be empowered to issue permits to liquor ^ \purChafers for fifty cents a year. The permits .could be revoked for habitual drunkenness, non-support, or deser tion and half the proceeds from their gale would go into the temperance fund. Announcement'*by Senator R. P. •Searson, of Allendale, chairman of the special committee, that it had decided upon a State store plan was received as a success fqr the senate Byrd, field representative of the Fed eral Housing. Administration, calling at The People-Sentinel office. . . . Town 'authorities pushing* the e&m- Down on South Church street—at 1436—lives an old South Carolina negro “mammy” who is said to be 106 years old. Her name is Dinah Glover and she is an interesting woman. Her advanced age was reported to The News by Reultien B. Young, a negro living in her neighborhood, and a women who has lived through slav ery, the Civil Wor, reconstruction, an international war, a World War, and depression wars beyond count. Aunt Dinah, whose mind remains clear and whose eyes are bright, was born in 1829 at Barnwell, S. C. From the 15 children that she brought into the world from two marriages she to day has 35 grand! children, 27 great grandchildren, and one great great grandchild. She belonged to Henry Easterling, an ante helium planter cf the Barn well section, and continued to live in Barnwell after slaves were set free. It was 14 years ago that she moved to Charlotte. Today she makes her home with Callie Walker, a daughter, who is 57 and who looks but a very little young er than her mother, who is a century plus. The aged woman’s health is fairly good. For the past two years she has been outdoors but very little but she can thread a needle like a child— and has to thread them all for her 57- year-old daughter. She has two of her original teeth and had three until a few weeks ago when her daughter pulled one for her. Never Wore Glasses. She has never worn glasses, has never had a pair of gloves on her hands, and never considered false teeth. “1 kin eat good and always have my appetite,” she said. The. woman was found sitting in the middle of her bea early this morn ing. She planned to get up later. “I ain’t ibeen feeling so very spry these past few years,” the old negro said. * Her daughter added the observation that she tried to keep her in bed but just couldn’t. Aunt Dinah talked freely of slave days, her mind appearing^ to be per- fectly clear on details, it ^ere hard,” she said. paign against dpgs that have not been inoculated against rabies.-, . . . .| “It were hard,” she said. “We had Senator Edgar A. Brown and Rep-1 to work in the field and hoe cotton and resentative Solomon‘Blatt returning pull fodder and I have plowed many a wouldn’t have believed back there could have ever come to pass.” And ft is a pretty far jump from slavery to the NRA program of to day. Twice Marneo. Aunt Dinah married young and her husband died a short time later. She then married Ben Glover, who died at the youthful age (to her) of 70 years. A picture of South Carolina during the. Civil War atill remains finely etched in the mind the former slave. She recalls exciting times when she helped take £are of soldiers, and hid them away from scouting Yankee guards. Her principal contribution to the cause was the making of shoes, a job at which she proved some adept ness and tor which she was assigned for a great part of her time after the struggle was under way. Many of the Confederate boys from the, Barnwell region marched off t6 war in a pair of Aunt Dinah’s shoes, cobbled at a last held ^firmly between her knees. And after they were in the thick of the thing and their feet began to feel the cold ground, up to front would come consignments from the Easterling farm for the BarnWell soldier, boys, in the form of'Aunt, Dinah’s shoes. * / These shoes undoubtedly' stood firm at Bull Run, scrambled up Missionary Ridge, and some—perhapsAturned toes up at Gettysburg. / Eyes Sparkled * 1 So Aunt Dinah also served. And today her bright eyes sparkle as she recalls it all. And today, too, she could ~as well take a last and turn out shoes—gcod shoes—to help fight an other war, if for any reason the “massas” started marching away, and needed her. And, since no persons reaching or parsing the 100-year mark could be interviewed without a question as to what they attribute their longevity of life, the stock query was put to Aunt Dinah. ~ The shriveled, but rather neat, lit tle old woman spread a grtfi under the typical mammy kerchief of white that covered her head and said. “I spose it’s cause I has always eat i igfhtrdoffe right and livej right.” Relief Overhead Is Too Big, Says Fulp Reduction of Administrators from 4$ . V to 8 Is Considered by New State Administrator. Large Annual Profit Indicated for State Barnwell Senator Explains Why “Vir- finia Plan” Was Endorsed In, stead of State Licensing. < corn row.” She recalled that Mr. Easterling had 13 slaves. r : . “They was good to us and then OUr Couple Married 66 Years. Olar, March 16.—Last Saturday Mr. and Mrs. Frank Copeland, of St. Jchp’s community, celebrated their birthdays. This was a joinf Celebra tion; Mrs. Copeland was eighty-three and Mr. Copeland will be eighty-five May 17th. They have been married sixty-six years. More than, one hundred friends and relatives were present, some havi traveled a great distance. They in cluded Mr. and Mrs. Copeland’s four children and six grandchildr^il Many reminiscences were told a; sometimes maybe they was not so good to us,” she said with reference to treatment received as a slave. “I done, lived to sife^days that they And that, come to think of it, is / ' the same formula that the best scien tific minds of today give for long life. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Bell entertained the members of the Young People’s Department of the local Baptist Sun day School at their home on Monday Columbia, March 18.—Colonel Jas. D. Fulp, of Greenwood, new. State re lief administrator announced today that the forty-six county administra tions in South Carolina might be merged into “eight or nine” district Units as a result of a demand from Washington that administration costs be cut. The statement was made when Fulp received newspapermen as one of his irst official acts after taking office ;hia afternoon and told them all relief operations would be “open and above board." The new administrator said Au brey Williams, assistant, to National Administrator Harry L. Hopkins, had termed South Carolina administrative costs “unduly high" as compared with the costs of administration in other States spending a similar amount for relief. Fulp said he and Governor Johnston had conferred with Williams at Washington during the week-end. The proposed district set-up, Fulp said, had been taken under advisement as a possible megns of reducing the administrative costs.- He promised a complete statement as to organization and policy after ie and /Mjri. Gertrude Gates, of national^relief headquarters at Wash ington; have made a thorough atpdy e South Corolina relief situation, illiams also advised at the Wash ington conference, Fulp said, that when it had been aacertained that a family knew how to “expend money wisely,” it be given cash instead of orders for food. Terming the reduction of the ad ministration costs “our first big prob- em,” Colonel Fulp referred to the district' plan and aatd it had been ef fected in Georgia and had been in oiperatioit. in Florida for some time. He added he ’’understood” it recently tad been put into effect in North Caro- ina. ‘ He termed the office “about the biggest job I ever tackled,” and said he intended to ’’give my best.” Fulp, superintendent of Bailey Military Institute at Greenwood, was appointed State relief administrator ast week by Governor Jqhnston to succeed Miller C. Foster, of Spartari- burg, who resigned. The retiring ad- ministrator, it was said, will remain tdre until Wednesday assisting Fulp in familiarizing himself with the job. TIME FOR amNU^G COTTON evening^ About twenty of the mem bers and officers of this department enjoyecl the evening. Refreshments were served. Slain Man’s Liquor Is Buried With Him Widen* ofe Dead Negro Convict Ex- pressed Fear /That “He Would Return to Get It” dinner was served on tables in the At the alleged request of his widow, a partly^ filled bottle of 'liquor was a picnic ’ buried Sunday with the body of Willie Williams, a Barnwell County negro convict, who was killed Saturday night. yard. Many gifts were received by Mr. it is alleged, by James Smalls, his and Mrs. Copelapd. [brother-in-law, at the latter’s house. Despite his age, Mr. Copeland has The unusual request was made by the dug his grave in which to be buried.! Woman, it is said, because of her exr It is only about one foot deep. He pressed fear that otherwise Williams Prifion Committee £ Submits Findings Recommends Construction of New Priscci With PWA Money.—Re port to Be Printed. The legislative committee, appoint ed to investigate penal institutions in South Carolina and look into the feasibility of constructing a new State prison* submitted its report last week states the he wants to be buried in a vault and in the grave he has pre pared. would return to get the unconsumed whiskey. The negro who assisted at the burial told Supervisor J. W. Pat terson that her request had been corn- wing advocating an adaptation of the plied with. “Virginia plan” and a rebuff to hopes j Williams was a “trusty” on the of another group proposing State chain gang, where he was a cook, licensing of private dealers nieasi committeed gle over liquor systems Some time Saturday night he left the Five measures weffe referred to the camphor a visit to his wife and chil- March 7th after a wran- d ren . who are making their home with They were:! Smalls. While en route he bought a the Blatt-Brown county control plan bottle of liquor and drank, part of the approved by the house, a State licens ing plan by she senators, a State dis tillery-licensing plan by Senator H. Kemper Cooke, the McEachin-Harvey bill- for State Stores, and Senator Brown’s coordinate State and county control proposal. contents. Arriving at Smalls’ house, Williams js allege^ to have engaged in an laftercation that ended in his death when Smalls, it is charged, shot him in the throat with a sH&gun. A. brick and knife were found near the slain man’s body, it is said. \ It reported that a new prison should be consturcted, with money secured if possible from the PWA, preferably in the country where plenty of fertile land is available. A closer relation ship between the several charitable and penal institutions should be ar ranged with a view to using the pro ducts of the prison. The coham ittee did not recommend the abolishment of the present penitentiary in Columbia but did recommend repairs to the peni tentiary hospital. The report was ordered printed in the house journal, The report was made by E. W. Stev ens, of Betkelely.. V Members of tha committee are Governor (Johnston, ex-officio chair man, Edgar A. Brown, of Barnwell James B. Pruitt, of Anderson r J. W, Hamer, of Dillon; Representatives R. G. Blackburn, of Marion; E. W. Ste vens, of Berkeley, and Ben E. Adams, of Richland. Columbia, March 16.—A survey in dicating that liquor revenue from a State store system would quadruple income from licensing of private deal ers in South Carolina waa made pub lic today by a senate committee that drafted a State store bill. Senator Edgar A. Brown, of Barn well, in charge pf liquor revenue esti mates for the committee, announced it had found that a store system would yield $1,620,000 a year where licens ing would produce only $468,000 on a basis of returns In other States. J. M. Smitp,. State auditor, conchidr ed from the survey that the average annual revenue in eight States operat- .ng stores was $1.35 an inhabitant com pared with 39.5 cents in five States with licensing systems. The report by Smith was a factor in forming the committee’s decision to present a bill for liquor stores in every county to the senate Tuesday after having pondered five proposals that had been laid before the chamber. Senator Brown’s statement showed that only one of the licensing States, Illinois, obtained as much from its system per capita as did Pennsylvania, which got less from its State store systehi than any other State employ ing it. Payment of 39.5 cents by each of the State’s 1,800,000 population un der a licensing system would amount to $702,000 a year,, it was estimated; with an allowance of one-third off for smaller consumption by the negro population, the figure became $468,- 000. ' Similarly, the 1,860,000 South Caro linians would pay a tdlal of $2,480,000 for liquor under a store system sad with $810,000 deducted for negro population the actual figure was plac ed at $1,620,000. Meanwhile, a fight loomed between Governor Johnston and somo mem bers of the legislature on the liqnor question. Soon after the senate committee an nounced it had completed a draft of its new liqnor hill, the governor as serted he would veto any liquor bill that did not combine the highway pa trol and constabulary in a single en forcement agency, the new liquor bill carries provisions for an enlarged CONTRACTS TO CLOSE SOON State constabulary for enforcement The chief executive said he would “be forced to veto any liquor bill that does not limit the life of the legisk- ESn STohe year,” adding that the hr# would be experimental in South Caro lina. " •’ C’bunty Agent H. G. Boylstoa said . He said in his eampaign ^* would this week that the time for signing cotton contracts will close at an early date and urges all farmers who have not already done so to see the com- mitteemen in their respective town ships at once, as the committeemen will net be employed to do this work much longer. Community committeemen are lo cated in each township for the purpose of allowing farmer* to af»ply for cotton contracts if they have not had one on the land which they are culti vating this year, said Mr. Boylston. They also .have the necessary papers ^or farmers to sign for a continuation of the old contracts. Unless this mat ter is attended to at once, some farm ers may not have contracts this year, Mr. Boylstcn warned. The committeemen for the several townships in this county are as fol lows: - Barnwell township.—B. M. Hair and *r sign a “reasonable” ttqodr bfll, Senator Brown asserted that “we have given him a reasonable bill that will give him unlimited enforcement pow ers.” The measpae would set up at least one storSTm every county, allow the counties to vote out the system two years hence, and create a State board of three members eleqted by the legislature^ to administer system with “at least” a 30 percent profit to the State. Additional Month Allowed Taxpayers Seven Per Cent. Penalty Will Net Take Effect in South Carolina Until April 15. W. L. Baxley. Bennett Springs township.—F. L. Eaves. Blackville township.—J. H. Lancas ter and W. H. Hutto, Jr. George’s Creek township.—Sidney E. Sanders and Frank Sandere** Great Cypress. township.—J. W. Bates. Four Mile township.—C. G. Young blood and €* H. Turner. y Red Oak township.—H. H. Ellis. Richland township.—H. R. Williams. Rosemary township—Pefry Sprawls. Williston townsjup.—J. W'. Folk and Norman Youngblood. Mrs. F. S. Brown will entertain the members of the Johnson Ha good Chapter, U. D. C., at her home on Main Street on Friday evening of this week. All . members are urged to be present at this meeting, ts several impoitant matters are to be discussed Columbia, March 15.—South Caro lina taxpayer* were allowed an eddi tional month to pay 1984 property taxes without executions or increase in the 2 per cent, penalty today as » result of legislative action. Both branches concurred in a free conference compromise on a concur rent resolution originally introduced in the house by Representative 8. P. Chapman, of York. As introduced and passed tby the house, /ttys resolution would have- extended the time to May 1, but tha senate amended it to terminate tha extension April 1st The senate first receded from Mi amendment and the free eouteeaea - report setting the extension date at April 16 was adoptd. ^ The extension was limited to Afrit 1 for Abbeville and McCormick earn ties, and executions hut net would be suspended until Ocwm Cmt* ... » • ' 0 4. % ■ .V- V'