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I •' I S THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNTY. v Consolidated June 1, 1925. •« Ju»t Like a Memberof the Family" VOLUME LVUI. BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 27TH, 1935. V.. Largest County Circulation. NUMBER 43. Baseball Season Will Open Here Thursday Clearwater to Oppose Barnwell at * Fuller Park in Initial Game of Industrial League. A Standing of Clubs. Won: Lost: Pet. Graniteville 1 0 1.000 Both,.- 1 0 1.000 Clearwater - - 0 1 .000 Bamberg 0 1 .000 Barnwell 0 0 .000 •Barnwell's initial game in the Indus trial League, composed of club s from this city, Graniteville, Bath, Clear water and Bamberg, will be played at Fuller Park this (Thursday) after noon, beginning at 4:30. In the open ing games Monday, Graniteville de feated Clearwater, 5 to 3, while Bath invaded Bamberg and took the Wolves to the tune of 6 to 1. Gus Baird, manager of the local club, said Tuesday that he has col lected a squad of young players, most of them college boys, and believes that he has an aggregation that will give trouble to the' other clubs. He says that his players will make up in speed and enthusiasm whatever they may lack, in the way of experience, and promises local fans a fast brand of baseball for the remainder of the summer. Those who saw the boys work out here Tuesday morning were greatly impressed by the fast infield. The games thi s week mark the open ing of. the second half of the Indus trial League, Bath having won. the first half. King Mill dropped out of the league at the end of the first half. Efforts were made to form a six-club ciicuit, but Orangeburg declined at the eleventh hour, so it was decided to finish the second half with five clubs. Barnweil goes to Bath Saturday af ternoon for a double-header and will play three games at home next week, a twin bill being scheduled for next Thursday afternoon. It is probable that Graniteville and Bamberg will furnish the opposition. The complete schedule will be published as soon as it is announced by Rut Samuel, of Augusta, president of the league. It is hoped that a large number of fans from this and surrounding towns will be in the grand stand this after noon when the umpire calls, “Play ball!”.. * Seen and Heard Here During the Past Week • ‘Tj. A Little Senae and Nonsense A boat People You Know and Others You Don’t Know. v - Angus Patterson recounting a “snake story” that he says was told by Bill Bates, of the Western section of the county, while on a recent visit to Barnwell. Bill, according to Angus, was working in a field of Johnson grass, felt something hitting against his leg. Looking down he saw that he was standing on a large rattle snake with his foot only a few inches from the reptile’s haad and that the snake had torn Bill’s trouser legs to shreds in his efforts to bite him. . Ben Sawyer chief highway commis sioner and “Cotton” Jones, one of the department’s civil engineers, looking over some projects in this section While in Barnwell they were the guests of Col. Solomon Blatt. . . . “The gang” at “the Greeks” saying that Wannie Patterson attended a hospital meeting in Blackville Friday night and next day was seen with a large black book, studying medicine. . . And the same crowd* “enlightening” Lon nie Calhoun about the duties, emolu ments and “perquisites”' of office of the secretary to the joint committee on printing. . . . And the writer acknowledging with grateful appre ciation the congratulations of friends upon his election to that post. . . ... A local produce buyer saying that he received 25 cents in stamps for two carloads of cucumbers that cost him $540.40 on the fflick s at Barnwell. . . . . '“Bob” Bronson, genial Clerk of Court, saying that he got lost while coming from .Augusta one day last Dear Friends:— Believing, as I do, that the mem bers of the Board of Trustees desire to render the most beneficial service possible to the school and community in which they have been elected to serve in the selection of teachers and offi- cer 8 to fill the different positions in the school, I venture to advance the following considerations and I hope they will be received and considered in the same unselfish spirit that prompted their mission. You must realize the transcendant importance and responsibility of the Board' of Trustees in securing well equipped teachers and officers for the school work- in securing town and community and encouragement educational process. A great ship with all the rigging and equipment necessary for a com plete vessel is uselesss and not only useless but is really unreliable and dangerous on the high seas, if the builder g have neglected to give the great Vessel a rudder. So with the boys and) girls educated in our com mon schools and colleges. If the teacher has failed to consider the importance of the ethical and Christ ian part of the individual’s education and ha s neglected to equip him with a properly adjusted character, he goes out from the home of his Alma Mater, perhaps proud), bright and happy, only for the'to be disappointed and hopeless as he youth of our every advantage possible for the laying of a true and substantial foundation upon which the young pupil can safely build his own fortune in the hope of a future life of success and happiness. Every boy and girl when they first enter school—when they hear their first call to school duty through the inspiring “ding-dong” *• of the old school bell—naturally want s to know what it is all about. “Whatjdoes all this mean for me? What means this beautiful school building, with all of its well appointed! departments—each clas s room supplied with a beautiful alumna, fresh and charming from the classic halls of college, presiding in each department, with the superin tendent’s office filled with a personali ty of like exalted character? What does all this mean for me, teacher?” These are silent questions, but they nevertheless arise in the heart of the child an d expression in the embarks on the sea of life to contend with the turbulent waters with only an empty “sheep-skin” as a rudder. There is where and that .is why our schools and churches are failing to do their part in purifying th§ social at mosphere and suppressing crime. We need the Bible lessons and doctrine of human life taught and impressed! on the hearts of the pupils, but the Book should not be used as a text-book. The doctrine should-radiate from the life of those chosen to fill the places in our great educational system as teach ers—a text-book in the heart and life of the teacher, which comes every day n all of its beauty and grandeur before the embryo seeker after wisdom and understanding and point s him to the orbit of life made and fitted for him by his Creator, in which sphere he can always be contented, useful and happy. * E. DUCO. Blackville, S. C.,-June 11, 1935. Mrs. Sarah A. Owens. The many ftiends of Mrs. Sarah A. Owens, of this city, were shocked yes terday (Wednesday) morning to learn of her death, which occurred suddenly about .12 ‘o’clock Tuesday night, fol lowing a heart attack, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. U. C. Parkow, of Tampa, Fla., whom she had been visiting. - Mrs. Owens, who was 85 years of age, was the eldest daughter^6T the late William Cave and Mrs, Julia Ash ley Cave, and was the relict of the late Dr. S. S. Owens, of Barnwell County, a former member of the House of Representatives. She was a gentle- week, due to a detour. . . A local countenance of the upturned face of t*ie farmer trying to sell Bobbie Christie embryo seeker after wisdom and un- a watermelon on Monday morning. derstanding. “What does all this Buist Grubbs overseeing the con-! mean for me?” This i s a great struction of a concrete walk at his j question. It begins at the birth of residence. . . . Mordecai Mazur-- the child and continues to engage the sky wearing a pair of the new narrow-J thought of the individual all the way width suspenders, but- qualifying ag a i through life and only ends when life pessimist by wearing a belt also. . . * itself ends and the mind ceases to ob- Local golfers breaking up a threaten- i serve the objects of men and things ed strike by caddies for more pay and in the world about it. Who is able to longer hours at the Sweetwater Coun- hear these silent questions and answer try Club by carrying their own clubs, them truly to the satisfaction of the . . The “cuke” season being wound young inquiring mind? up with scattered shipments this week’ The characters you chooec, dear and the cantaloupe market taking a trustees, to gll the diffeient positions ncse-dive to 15 cents per crate Tues- in your great school system should be day. . . . O. H. Best exhibiting well qualified for this great service, one" of the finest cantaloupe* seen Nothing but true answers to these here in some time and saying that he questions arising in the thoughts .of had packed 30 out of 76-crates that the child, a< he is led along by a through the Three Counties Seek a Traveling Library Projeeci Recejjves Collideratict^ of Aiken, Edgefield and Barnwell Delegations. ! were equally as good. . , “Bob” kind and loving hand ' Bronson telling about the time that educational process and pointed, up- his little son, Billy, came home with ward to his rightful place above the three small sandperch and saying that Great Son of Righteousness, wi,l he was going to make a stew “just prove satisfactory and put ihe young like the Greeks," with several layers inquirer in pursuit of his own true and of fish interspersed with layers of substantial happiness, in which sphere meat and vegetables. . . And “Bob” of life he can always be contented, * driving a new 'Ford V-8 coach. . . . useful anc 1 happy. The tennis courts at Fuller Park be- Th** mission of the Board of Trus-. ing crowded each afternoonywith local tees, then, cannot be too highly esti- racquet-wielders. . . . B. B. Cave, mated, when the well being of the an employe of the Production Credit child is considered. I believe that it Association getting aq eight o’clock > s really just as important Aiken, June 22.—With the Aiken County Council of Farm Women to sponsor a traveling library this sum mer, a proposed project for such a library in the three counties of Aiken, Edgefield and Barnwell is now receiv ing’ the consideration of the tjiree legislative delegations. In the inter- est of the project a meeting was held Friday at the Beech Island community house andl another meeting will be held within a short time to make a final decision in the matter. State Senator John F. Williams, of Barnwell Publisher Elected Secretary B. P. Davies Gets Post With Joint Committee on Printing at Meet- 4 ing Thursday. _ (From The State, June 21.) V Col. Benjamin P. Ddvies, of Barn well, editor and publisher of The Barn well People-Sentinel, was yesterday elected' secretary to the joint commit tee on printing for a four-year term at a meeting held at the State House. He at once entered upon the discharge of his dluties. 4 * Mrs. W. T. Walker, of Columbia, was re-elected assistant secretary and bookkeeper for a four-year term. The contract for the printing of the Market Bulletin, now* held by the In dependent Printing Company, of An derson, wa s extended for a year, the committee having that authority. The existing contract is for approximately $40 per page. i Interest' in the meeting centered largely in the election of a secretary to the committee, a position vacant since the resignation several months ago of Fred D. West, former Senator from Abbeville. The committee was in a deadlock for some time over two candidlates, Colonel Davies and P. L. Wiggin, of Columbia. The vote yes terday, it was said, was three to one for Colonel Davies. Members of the committee are Senators James D. Parter, of Dorches ter, chairman; Edgar A. Brown, of Barnwell; Representatives R. M. New ton, of Anderson; Calhoup Thomas, of Beaufort. v ' Sketch of New Secretary. Colonel Davies, the secretary, brings to his new position lonf and varied experience. He i s a native of Barn well and served his apprenticeship in the office of The Barnwell People, then owned 1 and edited by the late Major John W. Holmes. He later worked in printing offices in Spartan burg and Hartsville. After complet ing a stenographic course at the old Welsh Neck high school while working in the office of the Hartsville Messen ger^ he returned to Barnwell and work ed for a time in a law office. In 1906 he formed a partnership with A. D. Pate, under the firm name of Pate and Davies, commercial printers, of Drive Being Made to Inoculate All Dogs Act Passed by Last Legislature Re quire* That Dogs Be Vaccinated Against Rabies. Beginning immediatelyrm -dHve will be made by law enforcement officers n Barnwell County to inoculate all dogs against rabies, in accordance with an Act passed at the last session of the General Assembly, according to a statement made here this week by Sheriff J. B. Morris. The importance of complying with the terms of the Act was forcibly impressed upon local people when a mad dog from the coun try bit a number of canines in Barn well one day last week. Under the terms of the Act, the owners of dogs, four months or njiore of age ,are required to have the ani mals inoculated or vaccinated against rabies each year on or before the 1st day of July, for which a charge of $1.00 will be made, including the cost of the serum. To allow dogs that have not been inoculated to run at large i 8 unlawful. All law enforcement officers, State, county and municipal, and all school trustees within their respective dis tricts are specially charged with the enforcement of the Act and are vested with all necessary police powers. Persons refusing to comply with the provisions of the Act, or intentionally violating any of its provisions, will be subject to a fine bf $10.00 or imprison ment not more than ten days. Attention is called to Sheriff Morris’ notice elsewhere in this issue of The People-Sentinel, in which owners of dogs are warned to comply with the new law at once. an start on his watermelon eating Fri day morning. ., . . Several people woman of the Old South and a True j £ 0 j nK tD the beaches to get relief from Christian, an obedient daughter, a faithful wife and a devoted mother. - Beside s Mrs. Parkow, she is surviv ed by two other daughters, Mrs. W‘. R. Smith, of Wilmington, N. C„ and Mrs. W. M. Jones, of Barnwell, with whom had made her. home for the hot weather of the past few cays, and others wishing, that they could do Aiken, and J. Strom Thurmond, of Edgefield, and! Representative John W. Duncan, of- this county and Hans ford Mims, of Edgefield, attended »the Bteech Its^ind meeting and 'plejtiiged their support. The. Barnwell* delega tion was not represented, but its mem bers are said to be interested in co operating in the joint project if plans materialize. Former State Senator James H. Hammond, of Riehlatid County, and Mrs. Lucy Hampton Bostick, librar- jan of the traveling library in Rich- and County, were present at the meet- good, well prepared in k r and outlined the - W01 * of their the great educational institution, after wh.ch it is proposed 1 Burlington, N. C. Colonel Davies sold out his interest in that concern to Mr. Pate in January, 1910, and returned to Barnwell to ac cept a position as foreman of The Barnwell People office. Upon the death as important to have good, well equipped school teachers ta- select teachers for the schools as it is to secure teachers for Mrs. B. T. Rice. Columbia, June 22.—Mrs. Elisabeth Walker Rice died at her home, 5 Gibbet Court, at 9 o’clock last night. She had been ill since January but her death came unexpectedly. Mrs. Rice, the widow of Benjamin T. Rice, who died 24 years ago, spent her life in Barnwell until 1918 when she moved with her family to Colum bia, where she had endeared herself to all who had the privilege of know ing her. She was bom September We need ^ mode * tri-county project. The Aiken farm women’s council is she years Her body will be brought back to ] t h e ir influx Monday. Barnwell and laid to rest in the Wil- liston cemetery, but funeral arrange ments had not been announced when 1 The People-Sentinel closed its forms. work in the class room. likewise. . . . Little girl asking , teachers who have not only the out ' nsor the nriee nf one-rent nost-il cards wqrd adorning, but who also have and L cal bLebr fins mpa ittly c-ply appreciate the inward adorning ^ ! . ' " ,i P ' c n nfcL JeW and ouiet spirit, which taaj?'*"? "'J”* «£ wl '* - members of the Barnwell club |^ assjstinK .ion a„ d the Dibble Memorial Library. the traveling library, the making of great and useful men Books will come from the local library and women out of the girl s and boy S ; ind wil1 *>• circalated throughout the entrusted to their care for training. I l ' 0un, y “ nder the 3ame rules and re «- ADVERTISE in The People-Sentinel. HOW DIFFERENT! “Thanks for not stopping my paper when my subscription ex pired,” said J. S. Collins, of Hilda, a few days ago a s he re newed for another year. Hdfcv different was Mr. Collins’ atti tude as compared with that of some former subscribers who, when asked for payment, claim ed that they had ordered the paper stopped oriiad subscribed, for only one year, etc! And another welcome visitor was B. B. Baxley, of Barnwell route No. 1, who, on Saturday afternoon, paid his dues in full and two years in advance! ., Who’s next? Farmer saying that he brought a one-horse w*agon load of cantaloupes tq Barnwell Monday and sold them for ■„ the "indlvi-' ulations Koverning the taking out of 60 cents, wh.le the followmg day he , ife is the m05t important , andl books from the library proper. Mrs. brought m a basket of pea s that net- ^ ^ ^ ^ the chi]d| Leon S. Holley, former local librarian, ted turn 95 cents: ' ' J<,h " C ' through this stage and aet him well has h*™ »«ured by the council, of Hogg, who has served for a number which Mrs. Vance Livingston, of of Major Holms three years later, he purchased the. paper from the estate. From the inception of the selective military service law in 1917 until af ter the close of World! War hostilities he served as chief clerk to the Barn- well County exemption board while continuing to edit and publish his newspaper, and was supervisor of the census in the Second Congressional District in 1920. He was art aide-de- camp on the military staff of the late Governor Richard I. Manning, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Buys Sentinel. In 1925 Colonel Davies bought The Barnwell Sentinel and consolidated the two papers under the name of The Barnwell People-Sentinel. He has been Secreta’ry and treasurer of the Democratic organization in Barnwell County for about 20 years, and is a former treasurer and a present vice- prestdent of the-South Carolina Press Association. He was a member of the regional code authority under NRA. Colonel Davies is married, his wife being the former Miss Roxa Stuart, of Burlington, N. C. They have two sons, Ben Davies, Jr., assistant post master at Barnwell, and William S. Davies, a rising sophomore at The Citadel. He is a Mason and a Shriner.! 13, 1856, in Barnwell, the daughter^f N. G. W. Walker. Therefore she would 1 have been 79 years of age a few months hence. Mrs. Rice is survived by one daugh- ter, Mrs. B. S. Robinson; three sqns^ W. Rice years a§ night policeman, being pro moted to the position of chief and succeeding George Peeples, while Mr. Hogg’s old job is being filled by Jut S. Stiil. The changes became effective Tuesday. Party Enjoyed. Martin, June 24.—A party waS^gjven Friday at the home of Miss Georgia Duncan, of Martin, in honor of Miss, Gerty Hanberry, of Olanta, The guests were: Misses Fforence and Eunice Rosier, Lucile Towne, Lucy Branxton, Gladys and Talula Wilson, Iris Bryant, Edward Towne, Harold Duncan, J. B. Large, Archie Owens, J. C. Stevenson, Bill Braxton, James Page and! Adieus Duncan. Ice cream- and cake were served. on the way in which he should go in pursuit of his own true and substan tial happiness, should seriously con sider the grave responsibility attend ing such a position and be prepared to answer this and similar questions satisfactorily as they’ arise in the thoughts of the etiild: “What doe s all this mean for me.” The importance of th^T us** ,-of Christianity in the secular emi^atlonal process cannot be too highly estimat ed. I do not mean.bg^ santfjon the use of the blessed! book, the Bible, as a textbook along with other text books in our common schools. No, not on the shelves .with" other text-books. .There it would be out of place and there it would lose its value and fail to give that ethical poise and force so essential in the building of great and useful characters through the JMtching’s Mill, is president, tp take charge of the traveling library, which is to be condfucted experiment. this year as an Benjamin T. Rice, Nat W. Rice and John I. Rice, and two grandchildren. Ann Cary and Elizabeth Robinson, all of Columbia; one sister, Mis* Anna Walker, and one brother, N. G. W. Walker, both of Barnwell. Funeral services were held at the home at 10 o’clock Tuesday morning, with interment in Barnwell beside her husband. Mrs. Rice was a life long, devoted member of the Baptist Churchr ^She was a gentlewoman of the Old South, sweet and gracious, but strong of, character. To know her was to love her and though she moved to Colum bia after she was 60 years of age her friendships were wide among both the young and the old, and her passing will bring grief to them. She was a lovely mother ,and the family life was marked by a beautiful devotion. Meeting £t Allen’s Chapel. The jiroti acted meeting begins at Allen’s Chapel Church on the fifth Sunday, June 30th, with the pastor, SOW WITH LARGE LITTER the Rev. Sam W. Danner, of Orange- HAS BIG PROBLEM TO FACE! burg, conducting the services. ConP I mencing Sunday morning with ser- Willistcn, June 24.—(Four weeks vices at 11:00 o’clock, the meeting will a sow on the farm of W. C. Cook had a litter of seventeen pigs. Mr. Cook has .reported that the sow now has only eleven left, six of the little fellows having died, because the task of the mother in feeding .them was too great. The problem the sow has now in case all eleven of her pig s want to feed at the same time, is that one will have to wait a turn, for the sow only has ten teats. Laid to Real in BarnwelL Th body.of Mrs. Rice wa s laid to rest in the Barnwell Baptst Church yard, beside the remains of her. hus band, Tuesday morning, a large con course of sorrowing relatives ' and friends from Barnwell and Columbia gathering to pay their last tribute of respect The. esteem in which she was held by all wafe attested in part by the beautiful floral offerings that covered her last resting place. 1 — F. G. Fickling. run throughout the week with services at 11:00 a. m. and at 8:30 p. m. Mr. Danner is a preacher of much com mendation. He has done much evangel istic work throughout the State and) is now pastor of several churches in the Barnwell Baptist Association. The public is cordially invited to attend the meeting. The members are re quested to meet at the church and assist in cleaning up the grounds on Friday, June 28th/ t Blackville, June 23.—F. G. Pickling, 82, one of the oldest residents of Blackville died tonight. Funeral services will be held at the Blackville cemetery Tuesday. Besides his widow, he is survived by two sons, Robert B« and Clarence J. Fickling, of Blackville; four grand daughters, Mrs. Earl DeWitt, Mrs. David Winnick and Miss Sophie Fick ling, of Columbia; Mrs. A. V. Colhim, of Blackville; one grandson, David L. Fickling, of Greer. .Miss Frances Lemon, of McCormick, spent the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Lemon. R •