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( T|B OmCIAt^N1IW8FA PER OP BARNWELL COUNTY.* fpw i. im. “Ju+t Llk« a MambaI« of tha Family" VOLUME LVHL BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JHAY 2ND. 1935. NUMB! / Mri. Greene Reports , on Recent Campaign G«al Not Quite Reached in Sale ci T for iCrippled Children.— Time Extended. Mrs. G. M. Greene, Chairman for Barnwell Qpunty in the sale of seals for Crippled Children, makes the fol lowing report of the work done through the schools throughout the county, the Home Demonstration clubs end others who have purchased seels. While the report is not complete, sev eral schools not having yet reported on seals, it show s the good work done by numbers of schools end other agen cies: Barnwell High School through its teachers, sold 1,220; Blackville, through Mrs. H. F. Buist, sold 823, one Mission- Study Circle , also pur-. chasing through Mr s Buist which is 1 told that as “man cannot live by Seen and Heard Here ; During the Past Week A Little Sense and Nonaenae Abont People Toe Enow and Ot&era Yon Don't Know. A cppy of “The Daily .Tar Heel,” student publication of the University of North Carolina, with the name of Robert S. Dick 8 listed among the 390 students on the homer roll of that in stitution for the last erm, he having averaged “B” or over in three courses. Young Dicks, a graduate of the Barnwell high school, i g a freshman at the North Carolina institution. He is the son of Mrs. R. S. Dicks. . . A representative of a large corporation trying to “chisel” a little free adver tising about an important innovation being adopted by hi s eompeny, and be- included in this number; Williston. and Elko schools, through their teach ers, 765;' Barnwell colored school, bread alone,” neither can a newspaper exist on so-cauled “news items” that are nothing more than veiled advertis- “Decent Lady” Wants Divorce in Bamberg Calls Upon Official “to Give the Mar riage Rights to Wed Anyone at Any Time” through P4-. D. J Dixson. 300; Snelling in 8- • • • C® 1 - Solomon Blatt, a school, through Mrs. Bratton Parker, member of the house of representatives 100; Long Branch efchool, through discussing with interested friends the Mrs. John S. Keel, 100; Morris school, P ro babl e outcome of pending liquor through Mrs. Sara T. Barker and Miss legislation, and expressing the opinion Murriel Norris, 100; Pleasant Hill school, through Miss Kinard!, 50; Hil da school, through Mrs. A. P. Collins and Supt. Herndon, 70; Healing Springs school, through Supt. L. E. recently returned from a trip abroad, Whittle, 21; Williston Adult school, 1 eay* 1 ^ that conditions in Europe are tha^r in spite of his and Senator Seer- son’s opposition, the free conference committee will favor the licensing sys tem, . . Mayor C. G. FuKer, who through Miss Josephine Hickson, 60; Dunbarton school, through Mrs. B. F. Owens and Si*pt. H. H. King, 237; Bamberg, April 27.—In spite of all of 4he advertising South Carolina has received because it does not grant nor countenance divorce, there is at least one woman residing tn a neighboring State who doe* not wnow about it. This woman, according to a letter she has written to Judge of Probate J. J. Brabham, had the misfortune of being married 1 in South Carolina—in Bam berg, in fact—and now she wants to shake the shackles which bind her to an untrue spouse. Not only does the woman* earnestly desire and even demand a divorce,”but|T«t the she wants $15 a week alimony as well, and cites the promise of a for mer Bamberg County official, now many years dead, as the base for her unique request. , The letter with names and places omitted in part follows: “The Judge of Probate of Bamberg S. C. Dear Gentleman: Please by re turn mail send me a divorce at once from —, whom I married in your city on September 16, 1916, he being 25 and claimed to be rich. He has de serted me and I can’t find or get trace of him anywhere. He deserted me in your State three years ago, so tplease send me a divorce and $15 a week ali deplorable and that the United States is still the 'best country in he world. • • . Hit asparagus season drawing mony 0 nce, for I am here penniless Meyer’s Mill Home Demonstration | to a close. . A local man going out | and no clothes or food, so please send club, through Miss Elizabeth McNab, into his backyard one morning «nd once; j t ’ 8 yo ur duty. Please relieve 50; Pleasant Hill Demonstration club, | finding himself the unexpectedi owner my m ind «t once and give me marriage through Miss McNab, 50; Williston °f a turkey, and friend wife phoning Home Demonstration eilub, through ■'H over the neighborhood in an effort Miss Josephine Hickson, 60. About 1,200 seals have been pur chased by Barnwell citizen s to date, rights to wed anyone I choose at any time; it’s your duty. I was promised a divorce and alimony by when he married me. Please let this be an end to this outrage. I have changed to locate the rightful owner. Dr. W. M. Jones, of Barnwell, L. J. Baughman, of Blackville, and Supt. _ and it is hoped that <>very seal will be H. J. Crouch, of Elko, who comprise my name. Please register this on your sold before the campaign is over. | the Barnwell County board of educa-1 book so that I will not be hammered Dr. H. P. Hanna, who purchased tion, in a huddle in front of the Court | aga j n8t of beaten out of my 100 seals through the American' House. . . An overflow audience in i have no kin in your city. Please Legion Post here, sent the clipping in 1 attendance at the production of “Alice j keep my name quiet and still for me. last week’s paper to a sister in Birm-[ »n Wonderland,” which was staged in' i am not grief-stricken nor wild; so ingham who in turn sent $1.00 asking the local high school auditorium on do as I say. Give me freedom and that she have a share in thi 8 work, Thursday evening by member g of the j pi ghts to be untortured, pursued or showing that it always “pays to adver- grammar grades. ... And every j sought after by no one. I am a decent tise.” | member of the cast acquitting him- la d y and w in ^ thrilled and your beat Miss Elizabeth McNab, Home Dem- self or herself in a highly creditable' f r i €n d when you do as 1 say. Your onstagtion Agent for this county, has manner. . . . Farmers reporting f r j eTK i forever and ever, amen.” been of great assistance in the work, that practically all cotton is “up to a! a paragraph wa s enefcked with the presenting the matter to her club good stand.” . . . Two young request that it be published in the members and enlisting their aid.; women pushing an automobile to get newspaper when and if the divorce Barnwell County’s goal was set at ‘t started. . . . Lloyd Plexico back should be granted. 8,000; to date 5,136 have been sold, from the motor boat races at Augusta, j When interviewed this morning, the with several^schools not yet heard ... .A memberV the “Old Tim- judge of probiate ^ not iggued ’ the from. Won’t you help your county to ers” basball club in close conference divorce nor granted the alimony, go over the top? If you have not yet with Martin Best, local baseball mogul. ^ a „ purchased seals, kindly see your ooun- i A report that “Eddie Cicotte“-the J As|||<i(|| Teackera. ty chairman who-will gladly call on you same “Eddie” who hoaxed Barnwell and furnish you with seals. The time baseball fans two or three years ago— has been" extended <for the sale of pulled the same stunt on some of the seal s indefinitely. !1 STORES TO CLOSE EACH THURSDAY AFTERNOON Ashieigh, May 1.—The many friends °f Mrs. R. A. Gyles, of Blackville, and Old Timers over in Augusta a few .. » u.. * „ „ to ^ Mrs - Robt - A - Patterson, of Barnwell, are glad to know that they were re- electedl on the Ashieigh faculty at a The following Barnwell merchants have signed an agreement to close their stores every Thursday afternoon at one o’clock, beginning today (Thurs day, May 2nd) and continuing until the last Thursday in August: Farmer g Union Mercantile Co. • D F. Barker (Unity). Thos. K, Bolen. Read’s Furniture Store. W. G, Hill. days ago. It is said that the fellow’s impersonation of the • famous hall ’.player was so perfect that he talked ... - .. , . - . . , . , ,, , . meeting of the board of trustees held for an hour with an old team mate of m j ^ ./ the real Cicotte and had him complete ly fooled. A. and P. Tea Co. I. H. Cdoper. . Lemon Bros. Ghingold’s. Home Folks Grocery. ■Jones’ Market and| Grocery. George Peeples J ^ H. Antopolsky. .J. S.' Bogen. ^ ft. J. Lazar. The Leader. C. F. Molair. Mrs. Bauer Promoted. Mrs. Louise Porter Bauer, who, for the past several months, has been en gaged in social welfare work in this county under the local ERA, has been promoted to a similar position with the Richland County emergency relief administration and left yesterday (Wednesday) for Columbia to enter upon her new duties. Mrs. Bauer has shown mtrked efficiency In this line of work and, backed by her experience 1 here and seveaci} weeks of special training at the University of South Carolina, should be a splendid addition to the personnel <in Richland County. The best wishes of many friends fol low, her in her new field. “Old Timers” Win. Tuesday night. They have served the Ashieigh school most efficiently for a number of years and are loved by pat rons and children alike. It is hoped that they will continue to serve for many year 8 to come. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Rosier spent Sun day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leon The “Old Timers” a baseball club composed of former major league stars, won the opening ^ame of their Beck at white Pond training season in Barnwell when they ; Misses Rosier and Grace defeated the “Dixie Crystals,” pf the Miles spent . the past week . end jn Savannah city leauge, here Tuesday i Klin€> visiting Miss Ruby HagkelL afternoon, 3 to 2. J ^ number of young people gather- Savannah went into the lead in the e d at the home of MiT and! Mrs. Harry first inning, but the Old Timer s knot- Wilson Saturday night and enjoyed ted the counfr in the fourth and step- music and dancing, toed cut -in front in the 6th with what r Cecil Holly, of Elko, spent the past —prxived.lo he_the. jyinning run. week-end with Gordon Hair. The line-up of the Old Timers in j Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Rosier and Tuesday’s game was in the following ba by, Joyce, spent Sunday at the batting order: Mowbray, ss; Cox rf; home of Mr. and Mrs. Gilmore Beck, Harrison, If; Smith, cf; Buchard, 2b; C f White Pond. Obelin, 3b; Henline, lb; Orndorf, c; Mr. and .Mrs. Willie Hair and baby, Maple and Ketcham f p. the battery June, spent the week-end at the home for the visitors was McGaughey and Morgan. The score: Dixie Crystals 100 100 000—2 Old Timers 000 201 OOx—3 Miss Hagood’s Recital The followirtg imitation ha g been received in Barnwell: “The Columbia College School of #*. Music presents Elizabeth Hagood, of Mr. and Mrs. E&rd Hair. - Mrs. Floyd Hair, of Fairfax, spent the week-end with her tftother, Mrs. M. H. Morris. • _ Mr. and Mrs. Q. A. Diamond, of the Lorig Branch section, spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Owens. Is Appointed Magistrate. ADVERTISE in The PeopIe-SontiMl BarnweH County friends of Ed H. ( Ninestein, Esq., a son of Mr. and Mrs. Pupil of Margarette Richards, Gradu- A. H. Ninestein, of Blackville, will be ate Piano Recital, Tuesday evening, interested to know that he was ap- Moy seventh, eight-thirty o’clock, pointed magistrate at Walhalla on Columbia College Auditorium.” S Inunrsday by Governor Johnston. Mr. Miss Hagood <is the only doughter of Ninestein is a graduate of (the law Mrs. M. B. Hagood and the late Mr.{school* at the University of South Hagood, of this city, an<| is a very Carolina and located in Walhalla some talented young lad(y. She was recently | time «j$o to prsqQoe his profession. voted the most intellectual student at Columbia College. * Advertise la The People Sentinel General Assembly Is ;r -. : Heading (or Record Present Session h Already Third’ rWooiward Lumber Co., of Augusta, Is Longest in History.—Talk of pay for Home Ownership Now ' Within Reach of All Expense Money. After 110 day g in session, the 1935 general assembly today is already' the third longest on record. Unless it adjourns sine die by mid night Saturday as proposed in a pend ing resolution, it will eclipse the 1931, meeting of 117 calendar days and threaten the modern record of 128 days set two years ago. Extra expense money became a burning question with many legisla tors about to face their seventeenth week at the capital. It hinged in ef fect about whether the senate “will ouse” have extra which it has voted*. A joint resolution by seven repre sentatives to allot each legislator $260 in addition to his prescribed $400 was bo come up before the senate early in the week. The house sent it to the other chamber Friday. Both members of the house from Barnwell County— Solomon Blatt, of Barnwell, end Win chester C. Smith, cf Wilfiston—voted against the extra pay. The general trend of senate senti ment was understood to be stronger against extra pay than in the house. Members g aid there was a possibility that reference of the resolution to a committee and objections from the floor might prevent its senate passage if the general assembly adjourned thi g week. r-^, * • Should the session nm longer as many expected it would, several senate leaders indicated 'that the extra pay resolution seemed fairly certain of senate approval. House efforts to lower the sum were defeated and it remains at the same figure which the State supreme court upheld 'in 1932 fpr extra “expense money” voted at the lengthy 1931 ses sion. * Conclusive action of the 1935 ses sion was promised during the week in plans of free oonferee g on the ap propriation and liquor control bills to bring out their reports nqt later than Wednesday. Adoption of the two reports, em- bodying a money measure somewh between the $7,1*65,000 house bill and the $7,631,000 senate measure and re putedly a licensing system of liquor control, would solve two-thirds cf the tri-fold problem of the session. The third phase—expansion of the State aid school program with liquor revenue .playing a 'prospective part— was to receive attention Tuesday with the introduction of a new education attention to the following statement bill embracing revenue features, that 0 f .the Agricultural Adjustment Ad- were Jacking from two previous bills, ministration regarding the causes of Hccae Financing. The nttention of would-be home owners is directed to the half-page ad vertisement of the Woodward Lumber Co., of Augusta, which appears on the 8th page of thi g issue. In it will be found details of tha federal govern ment’s plan of home financing, where by those who are now paying rant mey own a home with pnsctioslly the seme outlay of cash. This concern has been promoting this planjof home financing very successfully in that city and be lieves that it is the best plan that has ever been offered the American people to build and own home g of their own. A booklet describing the federal plan of home financing says in part: “The easiest way for you to pay for a home is to pay for it as you pay rent. The logical way is to pay month ly, out of income, on installment on the principal and the interest, etc., and thus, over a given period of years, pay off the entire mortgage and have the house free of all debt. It’s very much like buying a house and then renting it to yourself. “Now you can buy or build a house on exactly that basis. Your initial in vestment in the property can be as lit tle as 20 per cent, of its cost. You may borrow the balance (up to 80 per cent, of the appraised value but not more than $16,000) from an approved lending institution, covered by gov ernment insurance, and repay the en tire amount on a monthly baeis. “You may take up to 20 years to pay. You may pay in 12 or 15 years, if you like. Each month you pay an installment which not only includes the interest and a part of the principal sum borrowal, but includes also a twelfth part of the annual taxes, mortgage insurance premium, and the fire and other hazard insurance premiums.” Those who lire desirous of becom ing home-owner^ are urged to com municate with tne Woodward Lthnber Co., which concern will welcome the opportunity of explaining the federal plan in full detail. Says Price and Tax Are Not Responsible - . > Decline in Cotton Textile Experts and Increases in Imports Due to Other Factors. • • County Agent H. G. Boylston calls County’s Relief RoD Shows* Small Decline While Other Counties in State SWwD*. tteag* as High as 57 Per CStT “ am Survey Reveals. All bpt 17 counties in South Caro lina show a decrease of more than 8 per cent, in the number of parsons an the relief rolls, according to a state ment and graphs submitted to QoL James D. Fulp, State adminiatrator of the ERA in South Chrolina, by Bai lie K. Price of the State ERA statisti- - cal department. According to the grapha in Plckena County the decrease in names on the relief rolls is 57 per cent, leas than during February; in York County, 50 per cent., in Hampton County, 40 per cent, and in Saluda County the de crease below the February records of relief clients is 37 per cent’ In Charleston, Greenville, Richland and Spartangurg Counties, the four largest in the State, the percentage of_ actual relief given the total popula tions of each during March, 1985, was ag follows: Charleston, 28 per cant; Greenville 1214 per cent; Richland, 23 H per cent The population figures in making the hbove calcinations were bated on the 1980 census. -. Aiken County records show that the number of relief clients daring March increase,) 16 per cent, over the pro- vk>u 8 month; Spartanburg increased 10 per cent and Newberry County in creased 8 per cent The counties of Greenville, Chester,.. Lancaster, Chesterfield, Darlington, Lee, Marion, Georgetown, Williams burg, Calhoun, Richland, Barnwell, Edgefield and Sumter show lest than 8 per cent, fluctoation either way. The percentage of decrease In the other *counties is ss follows: Oconee, 22 per cent; Andeson, 12 per cant; AbbeviLe, 14 per cent; McCormick, 24 per cent; Greenwood, 16 per cent; Lexington, 14 per cent; Learons, 14 per cent; Union, 9 per cent; Fairfield, 10 per cent; Kershaw, 84 per cent; Marlboro, 20 per cent; Dttoa, 15 per cent; Florence, 9 per cent; Horry, 82 per cent.; Berkeley, 11 per cent; Charleston, 16 per cent; Colleton, 19 per cent; Beaufort, 16 per centnlao- per, 21 per cent; Allendale, 12 par cent; Bamberg. 19 par cent: Or—e- Full-fledged passage of the measure would require three readings in each chamber on separate legislative days, necessitating at least two weekg more in session. Music Study Club Meets. Denmark, April 30.—The Music Study Club of South Carolina met ait lower exports of American cotton: “With reference to the decline in exports of cotton textile g and recent increases in imports, it should be ob served that a compensatory tax equiva lent to the domestic cotton processing tax must be paid when manufactured cotton articles are imported into this country, and the cotton processing tax is refunded when manufactured arti- the home Esther Riley, of |eB >re exported {rom thill coontry ” Denmark, Friday afternoon. | „ y> the A?r i cu it OT al Adjustment Ad- During the business meeting, the officers were elected and the commit tees were appointed for the club year 1935-’36, as follows: Mrs. H. C. Mc Cain, of Denmark, president; Miss Pearle Hoffman, of Blackville, vice- president; Miss Georgia Romanstine, of Columbia, secretary; Miss Julia Alice Johnston, of Batesburg, freas- .urer; MissTTluih Hoffman, of Black ville, Miss Esther Riley, of Denmark, ann Mrs. D. IX Smith, cf Greenville, program committee; Mrs. Carl Gibson, of Columbia, publicity; Mrs ger, of Batesburg, choral Following the business meeting, Mrs. Carl Gibson introduced the pro gram with a paper on the topic “Pro gram Musk.” This wa 8 illustrated in song, “Oh, When I Sleep,”—Liszt) by Miss Pearle Hoffman and “Le Cap tive”—(Berlioz), by Miss Ruth Hoff man. Mis g Esther Riley was the ac companist. * During the social hour, delicious re- ministration. “Foreign manufacturers buy Ameri can cotton at the same prices that are 1 being paid by American mill s and are required to pay a compensatory im port tax equivalent to the processing tax, and in addition the tariff on cot ton textiles when the materials ore imported into this country. It is, therefore, obvious that the rise in prices American producers receive for cotton and the cotton processing tax not factors in the competitive een American and for- , not facto: * ■** R * ^situation betwe director./’ eign mUls . freshments. were served. To Hold Examination Saturday. " r’’"* ♦ The examination of applicants for the position of mail carrier on Barn- w^U . route No. 1 will be held at Orafitffcburg Saturday. It is under stood that about a half dozen appli cants are seeking the position, which has been filled for tho pest several months by Perry B. Bush under a tem porary appointment. “In considering the increase in im-- ports of cotton cloth from the low point of 1932 when 29,436,000 square yards were imported 1 , to 1934 when 41,533,- 000 square yards were imported, it should bee kept in mind that imports were still comparatively small. From 1926 through 1929 imports exceeded 60,000,000 square yards annually, and at the peak in 1923, itpports amounted to 218,970,0000 square yards. Domestic production cf cotton doth totaled 7,- 086^37,000 square yards in 1934. Im ports, therefore, amounted to slightly less than six-tenths of one per cent, of our dbmestic production of cotton doth.” , Lieut, and Mrss. Michael G. Smith, of Columbia, were the week-end guests of the latter’s father, Dr. R. A. Dee- son. ' ~ burg, 20 per cent.; Dorchester, 10 par cent.; Clarendon, 24 per cent.; Chero kee, 14 per cent. All of the above per centages are comparative between the months of March and February. The following ten counties led in the percentage of relief given during the month of March: Barkeley, 89 par cent.; Jaa|>er, 88 per cent; George town, 32V4 per cent; Chesterfield, 81 3-4 percent; Soludh, 29 par coat; Charleston, 26% per cent; Allenddle, 26 per cent.; Colleton, 25 per coats Dorchester, 23 per cent; Lee, 71% per cent J “HUCKLEBERRY FINN” HRRR FRIDAY NIGHT, MAY 8KB The Senior Class of the BarnweH High School will present “Huckle berry Finn” at the school auditor ium tomorrow (Friday) night The cast of characters is as follows: Aunt Polly (Mariah Watson, who is “so, nervous”—Mary Brown. Ruth Watson, her sister—Polly Fales. _ Mary Jane, their young niece— Elizabeth Mace. Fred Raymond, in love with Ruth— David Cooper. ^ * Melba White, colored maid at the Watson’s—Elizabeth Fail. Clara Woppinger, Deacones g of the Church—Edith Birt Amy Woppinger, her irrepressible sister—Myrtle Creech. % Huckleberry Finn, who loves to play pranks—J. F. Ready. John Finn, his father—Oti 8 Sanders. Tom Sawyer, Hock’s pal and co«£> rode—S. E. Moore. ' Act I. Scene—The living room of the Watson family in « small town in Missouri. Time—Nine o'clock of a summer evening. \ l ’ Act II. Scene—Seme as Act L Time—Late afternoon of the next day.' Act HI. Scene—Same as Acts I and* II. Time—Severed yean lotar. Late afternoon of a summer day. The play is directed by Mbs Gladys Bell Bell Governor Johnston on Thursday ap pointed W. R. Bell a member off boejrd of eesessors for: ship, this county, vico J. M. bee, who. (bed several