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J The Barnwell THS OfnClAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNTT. - Jot I. 191ft. “Jumk Ukm a Mam bar of tha'Fantf ly" VOLUME LVUL BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. MAY 8. 1985. NUMBER M. Liquor Liceits^ Plan Is Offered to Stale 4 The Damndest, Sorriest Liquor Bitt That Could Hare Been Written,* • i •. Says Blatt. Columbia, May 2.—Free conferees on liquor legislation announced tonight that they had adopted a licensing plan under which counties or private dealers might set up liquor stores without local monopolies for the political sub divisions. The announcement was accompani ed by a burst of dissension in which one of the conferees^ termed the bill “the damndest, sorriest liquor bill .that could have been writjten” but said he would support it to get some liquor control law enacted this year. Advocates of a store system, fight ing to the last, brought about the in sertion of a clause to permit counties to take out licenses and set up stores through their officials in what would otherwise have been a “straight” licensing bill. A proposal to allow counties set ting up such stores to establish mon opolies within their limits was discard ed and private dealers could enter in competition with them under the plan as approved. Revenue from license fees and a liquor license tax would be divided 60 per cent to the State, 25 to counties, and 15 per cent to municipalities where sold, or ..60- and 40 per cent, outside corporate areas. \ A provision for! $70,000 for en forcement by the governor’s office for the next fourteen months and $50,000 a year thereafter was included in the bill. A State constabulary system would be set up. Members of the conference commit tee said they planned to confer with Governor Olin iD. Johnston tomorrow over provisions of the hill to assure his acceptance, of it Senator Hughs,* of Oconee, in the presence of other conferees, said, “the free conferees have 'agreed upon a license plan, with the proviso that private individuals, partnerships, cor porations, and county officials may take out liceses and operate retail stores. “County stores will pay the same licenses aim license taxes as indi viduals and be subject to the same regulations.” Hughs said the measure would en able county officials to obtain licenses with the approval of their county governing boards and entire legisla tive delegations. _ “The licenses to county officials will not be exclusive,” he added, “and pri vate individuals may be licensed in the same county.” While licensing proponents hailed the bill as sound, it was rappecL&harp- ly by Representative Solomon Blatt, Barnwell, co-author of a county store measure that the conference laid aside. Blatt saidl: “I think it is the dalndest, sorriest liquor bill that ever was written and I don’t believe it will raise anything like the revenue it is expected to.” In shafp contrast, Senator Hughs said, “I consider this the safest, sanest measure for temperance that has ever been put on the statute books.” The bill would levy an excise tax of eighty cents a gallon on liquor, re quire dealers to post bond for law ob servance, -and charge retailers $250 andl wholesalers $2,000 a year for licenses. ■ The question of adopting the report was expected to come up before the two legislative branches Tuesday. The free conference on the appro priation bill suspended action over the week-end after-a night session. Representative Bennett of Marlboro, ways and means chairman, comrnent- ed: ' “We hope to have the bill on the desks of the members in printed form by Wednesday morning. It is practi cally finished.” iMeyer’a Mill 4-H Club. The regular' monthly meeting of the Meyer’s Mill 4-H club was held! Tuee- -day with Miss McNab, home agent, in charge. The lesson on “Feet for Health Campaign” was thoroughly studied and a demonstration was given on darning stockings. A few last minute instructions about Achievement Day, May 11th, ware passed on to the clubbers and sesveral songs were sung. Attendance of the club mem bers was 100 per cent. ^ Gene Swett, , Local Leader. Seen and Heard Here During the Past Week •a ‘ A Little Sanaa and Nonsense About People Yon Know and Others . Yon Don't Know. Barnwell people watching the occul- tation of the planet, Venus, and the moon early Sunday evening, and one man remarking that “Venus was sit ting on the lap of the Man in the Moon.” It was a rare and beautiful sight, many witnessing the phenome non for the first time. . . . A^ re port that sgyeral visiting legislators were setlung the local relief office one day last week. (Better give tern that $260 extra pay, gentlemen.)! . .. . . Tom Boulware, local attorney, trying to hire several negro laborers for s job of work and experiences some difficulty in finding ones with “the will to work,” in spite of the so- called “unemployment” problem. (But what negro wants a job when Uncle Sam is still playing Santa Claus?) . . . An interesting account of the full dress parades at The Citadel in Monday’s issue of The News and Courier. . . . Large audiences at the Teale Theatre to see the excellent pictures that Manager Ross has been booking lately. Lieut.-Gov. J. E. Harley, who is convalescing after a serious illness, sitting on the porch of his home, en joying the fresh air and sunshine. His friends will be glad to know that he has shown marked improvement in the past few weeks. . . An itiner ant singer-evangelist conducting an open-air service while standing on the curb around “The Circle,” behind the automob'es parked there, and his con gregation being conspicuous by its ab sence. . The counting device on that “game of skill” at the Best Phar macy going on a strike, and Johnnie Scoville, Ted Girardeau, this scribe and other n/»lr»r« wlwi r«v»aaion«lly Confederate Heroism Recalled at Reunion % « Neville Bennett Urges Audience .at Riven* Bridge to Face Life With CcUrage. The annual Rivers’ Bridge Memorial celebration was held Friday on the hill on the northern side of the Big Salt- kehatchie, just a short distance from where 1,200 Confederate soldiers bat- held them at bay on their wanton msrch through South Carolina. Neville Bennett, chainnan of the South Carolina house ways and means committee, was the principal speaker of the day. Before a crowd of 2,500 persons Mr. Bennett spooke on “State Patriotism.” He reviewed the State government from the time before the ’60s to the present and compared the government needs and problems of war days with government conditions as they exist now. v ' : “Today we have arrived at a point,” the young legislator said, “when the duties of our government are the greatest ever in the history of our State.” He reviewed the services, activities and problems of government. He told of the efficiency of the present d!ay schools and contrasted them with the schools of bbr forefathers. “South Carolina now offers its peo ple a chance to become leaders,” he said. “Let the influence of the battlefield come into our hearts and give us the courage of the women of the Confed eracy to face the difficulties through which we must pass,” the house ways nad means committeeman declared in closing his address. Dr. L. A. Hartzog, presidlent of the Memorial association, introduced the six veterans present. They were: T. J. Ready, of Barnwell County; George W. Way, of Colleton County; H. Grav- Moon and Venus Stage Rare Heavenly Scene Planet in CKcultaticti With Crescent in Western Skies.—Moon Eclipses Venues. * _ Many Barnwell people were fortun ate Sunday evening as sky observers “when sn occultation of the planet, Venus, occurred soon after sunset, and thereby witnessed a beautiful and tied more then 20,000 Federals and rare scene among the heavenly bodies. “try their luck” by feeding it nickels helping Martin fix thg darn thing. . . . A certain younug business man getting one of those “dime chain let ters” and optimistically welding an other link in the chain by sending the required dime and writing the neces sary five letters. If everything works O. K. t he hopes to j^eceive in return $1,525.60, or some such fabulous amount. This notice on the bulletin board at the local post office: “Found.—Foun tain pen. Not a question of honesty— just don’t suit me.—J. B. Harley.”* . , . ., Dr. Ryan A. Gyles, of Black- ville ,in town for the meeting of the county board of directors, saying that he and Mrs.Jayles are planning an au tomobile trip to California this sum mer. . . .* Man remarking that Tuesday morning’s fine shower of was O. K. for cukes and cotton hard on baseball and oats. . . Motorist carefully locking the doors of his car and leaving the front venti lators wide open. 1 son, of Denmark; G. S. O’Neal, of Fairfax; N. A. Patterson, of Dunbar ton, and J- R* Childkess, of Green- At first Venus appeared at the left (or Southern) tip of the crescent of the new moon, like a brilliant dia mond setting of a gold brooch, the cres cent forming the latter oh »ect at 7:80 o'clock, to quote* a description of the occurrence from The State. Within half an hour the actual occultation took place when Venus disappeared entire ly behind the moon, and being soon af ter observed in the form of a bril liant pendant to the brooch as it cen tered the lower rim of the moon’s crescent, but planet and moon were soon obscured by clouds in the north western sky. The entire phenomenon of passage of the planet from tip to hiding place behind the rim occupied something more than an hour. In the early stages of the ooeulta- tion, when the evening star was at the extreme tip of the crescent, a local man remarked that, instead of hitch ing its wagon to a star, the moon had hitched itself to a planet. The occultation of Venus and the moon is a rare sight, says The State. The term occultation is used by as tronomers to denoty the hiding or eclip se of one planet by another or by the moon. When on occultation occurs like the one Sunday night, it is always a remarkable phenomenon because Ven us is the most brilltant of the heavenly bodies except the sUn and the moon. It is the second planet next to'the sun, which gives it such an important place in its relation to the earth, as it has some phases resembling those of the moon. Still more rare planetary phenomena ville, who participated in the battle'is the transit of Venus as it crosses Supreme Court Will Hear Back Pay Caffe Godfrey, of Spartanburg, Seeks Full Pay for Services at Cotton Session. .. The first case for hearing on the roster of the May term^jf the supreme court of South Ca^lina, to open May 13, is that cf H. C.’ Godfrey, of Spar tanburg, against James E. Hunter, clerk of the house of representatives; A. J. Beattie, comptroller general, and E. P. Miller, State treasurer. ' . ‘ v , The Godfrey case has to do with “back” or “full” pay for a special session of the legislature, called by Governor Blackwood in September, 1931, for the purpose of declaring a “cotton holiday.” Mr. Godfrey at tended the session, which lasted nim days. The members of the general as sembly were paid $90 for attending the session. Mr. Godfrey claims that he accepted the ff90 as a partial pay ment of the sum due him, and that under the constitution, he is entitled to the full $400, provided foV members attending a session of the general as sembly. Aska Mandamus. The Spartanburg representative pe titioned the court to issue a writ of ’mandamus to com|>el the clerk of the house of representatives to issue him a warrant for $810, and the comptrol ler general and State treasurer to honor it. The court, in an order sign ed by John G. Stabler, chief justice, of Rivers’ Bridge. The Parris Island' Marine band fur nished music and the Apollo Music club and the Men’s Choral club of Bamberg rendered several vocal se lections. Flowers m rich abundance were brought and placed on the sacred mound where 16 Confederate soldiers who fell at Rivers' Bridge are buried. Two buglers sounded taps after the grave was decorated, one at the grave and the other some distance away sounded an echo. Brig. Gen. R. C. Berkley, command^ ing officer at Parris Island, was pres ent with his family. A large picnic dinner was served at the conclusion ■ * ... Mrs. Louise Porter Bauer, who Vas receirttly transferred from ' thfc. jously injured local ERA to Columbia, spent the week-end! with .her mother, Mrs. J. A. Porter^ called on'Gie officials to show cause why the writ of mandamus should not be issueok. The hearing on the rule to show ctuise will be held on the opening day of court—May 13th. A full bench will hear the argu ments. Members cf\the court are: Chief Justice Stabler and Associate Justices Jesse F...Carter, M. L. Bon ham, D. Gordon Baker arid E. L. Fishbourne. \ the disk «f the sun in the day time. Such a phenomenon occurred in No vember, 1882, attracting to America many European atronomers for an ob servation of it. A group of German astronomers viewed it quite success fully from Aiken, altHbugh the day was slightly cloudy. The transit Ven us occurs at alternating periods of eight, 105, eight and 122 years. Tran sit of Mercury also occurs in similar relations to the sun. . * Senator Cutting Killed. Senator Bronson Cutting, of New Mexico, a young women and two pilots were killed, in an jurplane crash near Macon, Mo., early Mond&y morning. Several other passengers were seri; The plane was forced down in a dense fog when its gasoline supply ran short. Senator Cutting was en route to Washington at the Native of Bl&ckville Preaches at Sheldon Large Congregatica Attends Services at Old Church Ruins and Hears ' Bishop Gtfbbin. Patman Bonus Bill Approved by Senate Beaufort, May 6.—The 10th annua? pilgrimage to the ruins of old Sheldon Episcopal Church, Prince William Parish,’ Beaufort County, took place at noon Sunday with the Rt. Rev. Robert Emmet-Gribbin, of Asheville, N. C., bishop cf the Diocese of West ern North Cardins, delivering the ser mon. Bishop Gribbin took his text from the 22nd chapter of Proverbs, the 28th verse: “Remove not the an cient laiMmarks which thy fathers have set.” He is a native of Black- ville, being the son of Mrs. R. M. Gribbin, of that place. The Rev. R. Maynard Marshall, rec tor of St. Helena Church, Boaufort, who has charge of these annual ser vices, read a paper on the establish- ment of Prince Williaria Parish In 1748 by an Act of the Colonial Assembly. This paper and the fervioes were es pecially significant, due to the fact that the 234th anniversary 6f the Society for the Propagation of the Church in the West Indies and the American Colonies is being observed this week. Music was furnished by an orches tra from the Parris Island Marine Corps. The sounding of taps at the cjpse, with its reverberating echoes in the dim forest surrounding the old ecclesiastical ruins was especially in spiring. , Lilies on the altar were placed there by dbcendants of some of those who worshiped at Sheldon Church, and a prayer was said for those long depart ed ones. The collection taken at this annual service is laid aside and used to pre serve the ruins and the tombs in the surrounding graveyauL It was estimated that about 175 bars Upper Chamber Veto in Defies PreeUcatM Inflationary were parked on the grounds, these coming from South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Virginia, New Jersey and other States. Barnwell’s Share of Beer Tax Quite Small County Is Allocated Only $126 froi Sale of Wines and Beer During Last Quarter. time. t Moore Elected Delegate. R. R. Moore, of Snelling, has been chosen as a delegate by the Barnwell County cotton production control com mittee to represent this county at a conference to be held at Washington next week to urge the continuation of the control act and the retention of the processing tax. , ■ • SUGGESTS NEW BUILDING .OCAL FOR LOCAL POST OFFICE Editor, The People-Sentinel:— Please allow'me space in your col umns to make if suggestion for a much- needed improvement in the business and civic life of Barnwell—a new home r qur post office. We become accustomed to the ugli ness of things that we see daily, but that does not alter the fact that our present post office building Is an eye sore, even to those who haye grown accustomed to its dilapidated appear ance, and it must undoubtedly impress visitors most unfavorably. We have • number of up-to-date business houses in Barnwell and our little city is. noted for its many lovely homes. ..^—- many lovely Great improvement has been made in the appearance of our court house and parks, which greatly adds to the at tractiveness of the town^-but our un sightly post office building and anti quated eqtripnfent sticks out like a sore thumb. ^ • ■V * Won’t somebody take the lead to secure quarters for this government institution that will be more in keep ing with the progress that Barnwell has shown in th^ past several years? With all of the millions of dollars that the Roosevelt administration is short ly to spend in s huge effort to pro mote recovery—much of which will be dievoted to building—it should be possible t° secure an amount suffi cient for a public building of this kind., \ •' \ I know of no ether town the rise W Barnwell. anyWhere in South Caro lina that has more dilapidated post office quarters and furnishings, and it is higri time that we try to bring about some improvement in this re spect What say you, Mayor Filler, members of city council. Senator Brown and otM^pfibUc spirited' ness men? “Civic Pride.” \. * Washington, Msy 7.—In direct de fiance of expressed White House wishes. Senate backers of the Patman bonus bill today adopted the proposal to pay the bonus with $2,201,9*4.00 in new currency. The fipal vote for the inflationary measure was 55 to 88. It is thought that the. Senate’s ectiod in adopting the Patman bill over other proposals was due to the belief of ad ministration leaders'that a Presiden tial veto of this measure can be mu* tained, whereas it would be over-rid den on either the Hinson bill or the Harrison compromise bill; Here is what the Patman bonus bill would do: Pay to the average veteran the full value of his adjusted service certifl- eate, minus any loans and interest due against it. For the 15 per cent of the veterans who have not borrowed, this would average $1,000. For the 85 per cent who have, it would aver age $497. Authorize the secretary of the treas ury to issue sufficient non-interest bearing notes to pay off the oertifl- cates. This has been estimated at $2,201,984,000. But if the price level reached the 1921-1929 average, the treasury would be authorised to con tract the currency. Eligible veterans who had not ap plied for their bonus certificates would have until January 2, 1940, to do ao. Altogether approximately 8,5000,000 veterans now hold certificates. __ The allocation of $63,230 in revenue, repAsenting taxes collected from the sale of wines and beer during the first quarter of the year, January, February and March, was made last week by the State tax commission. Barnwell Counuty’s share was only *120. * * ^ It was explained that of the total revenue collected, the counties Will re ceive $26,107; the State $26,107, and the cities in which the beverages were sold, $63,230. * Collections for the quarter practi cally doubled those of the same period of 1934. In other words, collections during the three month's of last year totaled only $36,567, which was $26,- 663 less than the corresponding quar ter. The largest amount of revenue al located to any one county was $4,- 330 to Charleston, Greenville received the next largest amount, $2,747; Rich land the next largest amount, $2,235; anj Spartaburg $1,937. The city of Charleston likewise re ceived the largest allocation that went to any one municipality, $1,826, and Columbia the next largest amount. $1,060. , ' H«| The beer drinker of Pue West, the home of the Associate Beformed Pres- —f '■ - byterian church, has “passed from the picture,” so to speak. Whereas during previous quartets the Abbeville coun ty town has received from 9 to 12 cents, it will receive no voucher for the three months just passed. The same is true of Wellford, the home of the tax commission chainnan, which had received small vouchers in the past, bat is off the mailing list this time. The smallest amounts that are bein£ allocated this time are going to Cameron^ Mt Croghan, Neeses and Bradley, each of which will receive nine cents. — MUST MAKE APPLICATION BETWEEN MAY 1ft AND 21 Farmers who are growing cotton in 1985 and expect to be issued tax ex emption certificates most make appli cation during the week of May Iftth to' 21it, inclusive, says Harry Gw Boylston, county agent, in a state ment issued Tuesday. It is necessary for all cotton farmers to sign appli cations, whether they have contrasts or not, he states. Beginning Wednesday, May 15th, and ending May 21st at 6 p. ul, ap plications will be received at the vari ous township headquarters in Barnwell County. After May 21*^ it will ba too late to make application. The township headquarters and the committeemen in charge are as fol lows: " Barnwell—Court House. B. M. Hair and W. L. Baxley. ^ - Blaekville—Vacant store. J. H. Lancaster and H.. Hutto, Jr. George’s Creek—Hilda depot. Frank Sanders and S. E. Sanders. * Great Cypress (Kline)—Jenkins' store. J. W. Bates. . Four Mile — Atterberry’s Filling Station. C. G. Youngblood and CL M. Turner. Bennett Springs—Dunbarton depot. F. L. Eaves. , Richland—Dunbarton depot H. R. Williams. Rosemary—Pleasant Hill school house. Perry Sprawls. Red Oak—Snelling. H. H. Ellis. Williston—Folk Filling Station. J. W. Folk and Norman Youngblood. The committeemen will be at their respective headquarters from 8:00 a. m. to 6:00 p. m. each day to receive applications. Crawford-Woodward. A very quiet home wedding was' solemnized in the home of Dr. W. 1L Jones on Friday evening when Mias Maggie Mae Crawford and Mr. Clyde LaFayette Woodward, both of Aflcsa, were married by Dr. Jones. A large company of friends_witnessed the ceremony and gave the fortunate eonyle cordial and happy good wishes fsr the occasion. Mr. Woodward has many friends in Bfrnwell as he is a: business visitor here. Converse College May Miss Janie Beth Carter, of Associate Justice Jeaoe F. < end Mrs. Carter, was crowned The allocation to counties in this' Queen 0 f Converse College, section is es follows: Aiken, $497; burg, op Saturday in the annaal Allendale, $87; Bamberg, $117; Barn well, $126, end Hampton, $127. Miss Margaret Smith, of Langley, 1 •» ant which nttrqqtefi several persons fiea over thtf ObtoUms. Mias Carter is a granddaughter of M. Jenkins, Sr n and Mrs. was the guest of Miss Rachel Carter JOins, her mother being the on Saturday. \ Miss Lydie Jenkins. v : S&iV- - v.