The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, June 27, 1935, Image 1
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THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNTY.
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Consolidated June 1, 1925.
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Ju»t Like a Memberof the Family"
VOLUME LVUI.
BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 27TH, 1935.
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Largest County Circulation.
NUMBER 43.
Baseball Season Will
Open Here Thursday
Clearwater to Oppose Barnwell at
* Fuller Park in Initial Game of
Industrial League.
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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
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A Little Senae and Nonsense A boat
People You Know and Others
You Don’t Know.
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- 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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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