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.{ ’■* X... \ THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNTT.^BI \ / , ■ X- Consolidated June 1, 1925, VOLUME LVIII. V \ X \ **Ju«( L.lk« a Member of the Family M BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 13TH, 1935. ^ r Largest County Cireulatiou. "NUMBER 41. J. Rex Graham Laid to Rest in Barnwell Former Barnwell Man Committed Suicide by Hanging Himself in Hotel Bediocm. Seen and Heard Here v During the Past Week A Little Sense and Nonsense About People You Know and Others You Don’t Know. The many~Barnwell friends of-J. Rex Graham,. 53, formerly of this city but more recently of Lancaster) were shocked yesterday (Wednesday) morn ing to .learn of his death on Tuesday, his body being found in his room in a Columbia hotel. Funeral services were held at the graveside in the Catholic cemetery in Barnwell at three o’ clock yesterdtay afternoon. He is sur vived by his wife, his mother, Mrs. James R. Graham, of Greenville, and “Rufe” Moore, cotton fanner, and Wilson Walker, cotton buyer, m a TioT argument over the nferits of the gov- erment’s glan of cotton production control and benefit payments to the farmers. . . Nick Coclin driving a new automobile and a friend jesting ly saying that Nick has already made enough money in his liquor store to pay for it Friends con gratulating Rodman Lemon and Ed ward Richardson, Clemson cadets, on theii\ appointment as supply sergeant, Neuritis Victims Given Relief t • ‘ 'A" - *' " ' . ' ; . by Doses of Pure Vitamin B Thurmond Harri* Was Electrocuted v v Atlantic City, June 10.—A new vita 1 - min pain killer, pure vitamin B made into cystals which give, wholesale re lief from neuritis, was announced to the American Medical association to- Thousandth Carload Cucumbers Shipped Infericr Produce Sent by Farmers in Williston Negro Admitted His Guilt of Greenville. Mr: Graham, a former accountant jfcr the Springs mills in Lancaster, was found in his hotel room about noon Tuesday with a knolte l bed sheet, suspended from a closet, .door, about his neck. Acting Coroner H. H. Knox, of Richland County, declared v. r v death was sui.'ide and said no inquest would be held. No note or evi dence of cause for Mr. Graham’s act could be found in the room by the acting coroner. The body was dis covered by the manager. Sheriff and Federal Officers Get Stills Two Destroyed North of Barnwell on Friday and One in the Big Fcirk 'Section Monday. Three liquor stills were destroyed in Barnwell County during the past week by Sheriff J. B. Morris and a squad of federal officers, headed by Officer Sligh. The first of the trio, a small copper outfit, was located yFriday between Ashleigh and the old BarnwJh-Black- ville public road. About 100 gallons of mash were also destroyed by the raiding party. — -. The second was found neai* the hea<T "service and remarking that he even and corporal, respectively, forXhe next session. . . . “Bud” Halford, sars shoes, reclining in an easy chair at the ic“ bouse, with his feet cocked up against a post—a picture of care free contentment. . . Charles Lev inson, proprietor of The Leader, say ing that he intends to open a nickle and dime stoie about July 15th in his old stand in th# Walker block of buildings, now the property of Judge Thos. M. Boulware. He will continue, however, to give his personal atten- tioivXo his present business. . . . College boys trying to make up for lost time in the matter of “dates.” . . . . Magistrate G. M. Hogg show ing an admission card to the electro cution of Thurmond Harris, negro rapist, wh'o was put to death shortly after 12 o’clock Friday morning. Mag istrate Hogg, Sheriff J. B. Morris and several other local men attended the electrocution. . . . And Martin Best saying that he wouldn’t be pres ent for $500. . . . . Misses Emily Brown and Mary Bush geting ready to spend several weeks at Camp As- You-Like-It, in the North Carolina mountains, this summer. . . . The Rev. M. W. Lever, of Graniteville, who conducted a series of services at the Barnwell Methodist Church last week, ascertaining that there wasdarge num ber of Baptists present at an evening of Farrell’s mill pond and the head of Turkey Creek, on the Reynolds place, and was a 500-galJon still of peculiar construction. Sheriff Morris stating that he had never seen one like it be fore. A thousand gallons of mash were destroyed along with -the plant. After-a—»earcb j)X several days. Sheriff Morris finally located' a smaTF copper outfit and four barrels of mash in the-Big Fork section Monday after noon. He also confiscated 50 pounds of sugar. expected to find a few T Baptists in Heaven when he gets there Capt. and Mrs. “Jack” Harden driving a new “Chewy” and the former saying that he should have had a car like it when he was a young man, and a WILLISTON TO BE HOST TO BAPTIST TRAINING UNION Williston, June U-—The annual con vention of the Western Sectlftnel Bap- friend remarking that if he had, he wouldn’t be here now. Miss Rosalie Spann, sister of Mrs. Perry A. Price, saying that she ex pects to leave in about ten c^ays for Hawaii to visit her brother, Major Spann. . . . Magistrate J. W. Sanders, of the Big Fork section 1 , brag ging about a fine cow that he owns. . day in its scientific exhibit. These crystals are a recent new product of science and so potent ^hat one the size of a pinhead is equal to 100 cakes of yeast in vitamin B effect. * > •- - - ■ A pinhead, or less, per day is the dose of this pure vitamin which cured or relieved 90 per cent, out of 100 cases of neuritis, the first human be ings to receive this new vitamin treat ment. Tfie"saiffiFtiny dtose of pure vitamin also improved some cases of human diabetes. 1 The neuritis, and diabetes results in- • A *’ dicate that the feat of making the pure vitamin has opened the way to a new understanding and better treat ment of a variety of majbr ills. The vitamin exhibit was made-^by M. G. Vorhaus, M. D., who did the medical work, R. R. Wiliams, of Co lumbia university, who produced 1 the pure crystalline vitamin B, and R. E. Waterman, D. S., and Sidney Burk- owitz, M. D., all are from New York city.. B is known as the nerv^, vitamin, whose lack causes beri beri. But that it could cure neuritis, the sharp un ending pains in the back, arms and legs, or other parts of the body due to inflamation of nerve trunks was unknown. Physicians never haJ enough of it to try out before. It would take bushels of food to get the amount of vitamin* B which is now discovered to be effective for quick relief of many cases of neuritis. The former treatments have centered on removing infected teeth or tbns’ls which were "cons idered the source of the nerve inflamation. Dr. Vorhaus gave the vitamin crys tals to 100 persons with neuritis, with all varieties indiscriminately. Of these, forty-four were entirely freed of pain. Eleven of the forty-, four had neuritis in the arm and leg! and thirty-thrte had it generalized over the body. Another group of forty-eight were improved and eight of the 100 failci to get any relief L This Section Tends to Keep Prices Very Low as He Sat in Electric Chair.— Calm to the End. Davis Family, Hurt in Wreck, Improving Expect That All of the Injured Be Dismissed from the Hospital This Week, i Mr. andl Mrs. Furman B. Davis, Miss Lucille Davis and Lloyd Vickery motored to Waycross, Ga., Sunday to visit Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Davis and two children, formerly of this city, who were injured in an automobile wreck at Alma, Ga., ten days ago while they were en route from their home in West Palm Beach, Fla., to Dublin, Ga., for a visit to relatives. Mr. Davis’ ten-year old son, Vernon, was fatally injured and died the fol lowing d)ay in the Waycross hospital. His body was brought to Barnwell and laid to rest in the Barnwell Baptist cemetery on Wednesday of last week. Friends of the family will be glad . . . A letter from Rutledge P. Butler, of Atlanta, who sent check to renew his subscription and wrote in times ,when he attempted to pass an- to' know that all of the injured are re covering rapidly. Mr. Davis was dis missed from the hospital Saturday end his son, Arden, who suffered a slight fracture of the skull, was well enough to leave Monday. It is believed that MFsV Davis and Ellis, Jr., will be dis- fnissed the latter part of the week, as they have both, shown marked im- provement in the past several days.— Mr. Davis’ car turned over three part as follow?: “When in the course tist Training Union, comprising the human events people * celebrate seven Baptist associations, Aiken, Barnwell, Edgefield, Elisto. Orange burg, Ridge a-nd Williston, will be held in the Baptist church here Thursday and Friday of this week. Among the speakers scheduled to appear on the program are: Dr. Ed ward A. McDowell. Jr., pastor of the First Baptist church of Union, who will deliver a series of addresses on “Modern Conquests for Christ,” and Dr. J. E. Welch, pastor of the First Baptist church of Orangeburg, who will address the- convention on the theme topic “Magnifiying His Church.” E. S. McSwain, president of the State B. T. U., will deliver an address Friday morning and assisted by Miss Florrie Lee Lawton, State B. T. U. worker, conduct a round table discus sion of B.. T. U. problems. The Rev. P. J. McLean, Jr., a native of Aiken and a recently returned missionary rom China, will bring the closing ad- riVess Friday afternoon V Sword drills for juniors and inters mediates will be held Thursday after- poon. All associations in the western section are expected to send represen tatives to take part in these drills. The Williston church will be host to the convention guests at a lawn party Thursday afternoon from 5:30 to 6:30. Friday afternoon the better speakers 'contest will be h'id. M. - s. A. L. Hughes, of Orangeburg, is president of the convention and will presie'e. Graduated Cum Laude. Hartsville, June 11.—At the 27th commencement of Coker College,’’held here recently, Miss^Nancy Owehs was graduated cum laude and with a palm for 'very excellent work in the de partment of English. ^Miss Owens is a daughter of Mrs. L. X. Owens, of Dunbarton. something that has 50 years connect ed with it, congratulations are in or der and presents are expected My congratulations are extended and my present is enclosed. Tempus do fugit.” Blue-prints showing the proposed widening of Main Street, a preliminary survey having been made about ten days ago. . . . Dr. B. W. Sexton and son, Buddy, riding 1 tandem on the latter’s bicycle. . . . James Moore displaying a seven-pound trout that was caught Saturday by “Buster” Peacdck in Cater Hall Lake. When fat, it was estimated that, the fish must have'weighed about ten pounds. Some time ago a fisherman shot and killed a six-foot alligator in this lake. . O. H. Best saying that there are cotton bolls in his field as large as marbles. - " other machine that cut across the highway directly in his path, “causing him to lose control of his automobile, which was completely wrecked. He and hig family made their home in Barnwell for a number of years be fore moving to Florida, and they have numerous friends in this city who will be glad to know that they are recover ing from their injuries. Boll Weevils Active in Barnwell County Sweetened Poison Should Be Used Immediately or It Will Be Too Late, Says Boyiston. A survey made Saturday by County Agent H. G. Boyiston shows that the boll weevil is becoming quite active 0 since the dry spell was broken about ten days ,ago. Counts were made in five different fields in the county,-with the following results: 1st field—No weevils found. 2nd field 1 —150 weevils found per acre. 3rd field—200 weevils found per acre. 4th field—50 weevils found per acre. 5th field—70 w’eevils found per acre. In one field the squares are develop ed to such an extent that many are large enough to be punctured and Mr. Columbia, June 8.—G. E, Prince of market cJvisioTi of the Clemson college extension bureau, said that today the thousandth caload of cucumbers will be shipped from South Carolina fob* ?this year. 1 Mr. Prince returned yesterday from an inspection tour of Blackville, Barn well, Denmark and Lake City, chief cucumber shipping points in the State. The total carloads of cucumbers shipped la*t year was only 672 and with the end of the season a week off yet, it is expected 1 that last year’s total will be doubled during 1935. Prices for South Carolina cucum bers, Mr. Prince said ,are low*, -being 20 to 25 cents for bulk field run end 90 cents to $1.10 for bushel baskets at Lake City. An unusual feature this year, ac cording to Mr. Prince, is that more than half of the cucumbers shipped from the State are sent "out by ex press. Mr. Prince also declared that at least 25 per cent, of the cucumbers sent from South Carolina are so low in quality that they should not be shipped at all, since this condition tends to lower the entire market* to the detriment of growers. A New York firm has refused tw f o carloads of Inferior cucumbers sent from South" Carolina, he said. Mr. Prince declared that it was to the. interest of South Carolina farm ers to ship only good grade cucum bers in order that the market prices may not be lowered. J Boyiston^ found that the clamage^ had already reached 12 per cent. Some farmers are applying sweet ened poison (1-1-1) mixture. This, should be done at once, he said, maftfrtgx) three applications four or five days apart. After fruiting has developed and many squares are large enough to be punctured, the sweetened poison will mixture is as follow’s: 1 lb.'calcium arsenate, 1 gallyi molases, 1 gallon water. One gallon of this mixture should be enough for an acre. Unless the seasons from now on are extremely dky, serious weevil damage may be expected in Barnwell County, says Mr. Boyiston, who urges farm ers to poison now. — Miss Betty Cleveland, of Cleveland, is the jifuest of Miss Daisy Anderson. ALLENDALE COUNTY MAY APPEAL FROM DECISION Allendale, June 9.—In commenting on the refusal of Allendale’s request for licenses to go into the retail whis key business, Senator R. P. Sear son said: —- “I am disappointed that the opinion does not go further into the merits of the county’s application. The position taken by the county is entirely in harmony with the ruling that the constitution is merely permissive Tmi authorizes the legislature in its dis cretion to permit the sale of alcoholic liquors by State'’ and county officials. “Our real contention was, and is, that the act does authorize specifically the issuance of licenses to persons, firms or ‘corporations’. Allendale County is a ‘corporation’ and in my Mr. and Mrs. Cecil S. Harris and little daughter, of Richmond!, Va., ar rived here Friday afternoon for a vis it to Mrs. J. A. Porter. Mr. Harris returned home Monday, but his fami ly remained for a more extended visit. First Gotten Bloom. The first cotton -bloSsom of the 1935 crop in Barnwell County to be brought in to The People- Sentinel office was presented to the editor Tuesday afternoon by Joe H. Zorn, of the Friendship section, who picked it from his field that morning. It was r?d, showing that it had bloomed 1 the day before. The first blooms in the State \were reported from Allendale "about a week ago. IT’S ASTONISHING! (AN EDITORIAL) IT’S REALLY ASTONISHING TO LEARN to -what extremes* many otherwise apparently honest people will go in order to AVOID PAYMENT of their PAST DUE subscription accounts. Two favorite and over-worked excuses are “I didn’t order the paper but for one year” and “I ordered my paper stopped when my subscription expired.” *> ’ V ‘ • - - , When some of our good friends treat us that way, we can fully sympathize with the editor who shuffled off this mortal coil . Be fore going to his celestial reward, he was allowed to visit the infer nal regions. On his^tour of inspection he came,to a fiery furnace in “which his delinquent subscribers were writhing and squirming. After watching the spectacle for awhile, ye scribe w-as reminded by his es cort that it was time to go up to Heaven. “I’ll stay here,” said the pen-pusher. “This is heaven enough for me.” • - Only within the past month, we have attempted to collect some of the money that is honestly due Us for subscriptions. Some of our friends have “come across,” while others have .paid (?) their accounts with one or the other of the two excuses cited above. We hope that they will profit by the small amounts that, by all the rules of the game, fairly and honesfly belong to us. If they nee^ the money any more than we do, we are glad to co^ribute -it to a w’orthy caQse. However, we wfould like to remind our friends that, as long- as "they accept the paper through the mail, they are legally responsible for the debt. • Selah! . - 1 Columbia, June 7.—Thurmond Har ris, 24-year old negro, died in the State electric chair at %2:11:45 a. m. today in the first night electrocution . since the chair was installed in 1912. Harris confessed that he was “guil ty’’ of attempting criminal assault upon a 60-year old white woman at Williston March 3rd. He lay partly dressed and with his head shaved and trouser leg rolled up for the electrode on a bed in his death cell a s the prison officials notified him that the zero hour was at hand. He became nervous momentarily, but quickly regained his self-control as he jnade the short trip down the corridor to the death chamber. His last request was that the Rev S. k. Phillips, prison chaplain, write his mother that he was solry and had “made peace with God.’ Seated in the chair at 12:06 a. m., he glanced curiously around as guardh fastened the electrodes and straps about him. C. A. Sullivan, assistant captain of the guard, asked if he had a final statement. “I’m guilty and I know I did wrong,” he muttered in a low voice that trailed into an inaudible whisper. The current struck him at 12:08 a* Three minutes and! 45 seconds iiater he was examined and pronounc ed dead by Dr. L. H. Jennings, prison physician, Dr. E C. Davis,* of Colum bia and Dr. A. S. Blanchard, of Willis ton. A large number of Barnwell Coun ty citizens, including Sheriff J. B. Morris, witnessed the electrocutioii Sam Cannon, State electrician, sup ervised it. Tolling of the midnight bell at the penitentiary while Harria offered up his last prayer was the signal that set the machinery of justice in motion. Except for the glare of are-lights in the high-walled death house, the elec trocution conformed with prefious exe cutions of the death sentence at the State penitentiary. Col. A M. Scarborough, superintend- ent of the prison, said the electrocution was held as soon after midnight as possible to avoid breaking prison rou-. tine and exciting the convicts Other electrocutions have been held between 6 a. m. and noon as specified by trial judges in passing sentence. Colonel Scarborough said. The sen tence in this case pet forth only that Harris should be electrocuted June 7, and le/t it to officials to fix the hour. opinion comes within the provisions or the gct~gj such: It will be noted]—Harris spent the past three months, that the opinion does not go into this question, if it is a question, and rea(ly settles nothing controversial. I am wondering if General J. Fraser. Lyon, or the tax commission, question Allen^ dale county’s corporate capacity. The opinion does not enlighten us. “It is possibl e that the county board will decide by a friendly man damus proceeding to submit the ques tion to the courts.” Baptist Church News. A friendly wPtcome awaits you at the Barnwell Baptist Church every Sunday. — Sunday school at 10:30 a. m. - Morning worship at 11:30. Subject: “Falling and Rising Again.” B. T. U. at 7:15 p. m. >«» Evening worship at 8:15. Subject: “Vision and Duty.” Some things to think about until Sunday: Christ offers no cheap and easy victory. Faith and Hope make life worth living. The absence of a goal takes the zest out of living. Fine texture in flour is attained with much grinding. Crooked!, men leave crooked trills. The crooked are made straight from within. It is folly to entertairi false expec tations. Learn the truth. J. Aubrey Estes, Pastor. Deputy Sheriff Improving. except for a brief period during his trial, behind bars at the penitentiary. He was rushed there for safe-keeping after more than 500 infuriated Barn well County citizens had conducted an all night hunt for him. Blackville Woman Loses Father. Martin, June 8.—Funeral services for R. B. Kearse were held Friday af ternoon at 5 o’clock at the residence, the officiating minister being the Rev. Cecil F. Outlaw, assisted by the Rev. R. M. McKinnon. Interment was in Gilletts cemetery. Services were con- cluuded at the grave. The Calhcun funeral borne was in charge. ^ _ Mr. Kearse was a native and life long resident of Allendale County. ^ S|e was recognized as one of the leading farmers in his community. He dossessed a wide circle of friends, and was an active member and deacon of the Antioch Christian church. Pallbearers were E. S. McLin, L. O. Bennett,D. R. Dyen, A. H. Mims, R. E, McLin and Laurie Fowke. Mr Kearse is survived by his wife and the following children: Mrs. John Davis, of Allendale; Mrs. Horace Smith, ' of Blackville; Mrs. Julius Overstreet, of Girard, Ga.; Mrs. Jessie Long, of Estill; Watson Kearse, of Green; Clarence and Henry Kearse, of Clearwater, and 13 grandchildren. V 1 Suffers Light Stroke. The friends of Deputy Sheriff Gil more, Harley, a patient at the Colum bia hospital, Will be glad to learn that he v has shown marked improvement in the past few days. The latter part of last week he suffered a relapse and on Friday his life was dispaired, of, but he rallied 1 and it is now believed that he will recover. The many friends of H. W. Sandeis, of this- city, will learn with regret that he suffered a light stroke of paralysis Monday morning while at work at his cucumber packing shed here.- He was carried to his home im mediately and The People-Sentinel is glad 1 to report that he is responding splendidly to medical treatment and is expected to be out again soon.* ADVERTISE in Tt# People-Sentin^.