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1* / Barnwell THB OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNTY/ Famlly u Larfest County Circulattoa. VOLUME LVIII. BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 25TH, 1935. NUMBER 47. Foul* Auto Wrecks r v Occur in Barnwell Nobody Is Injured in Series of Acci dents That Damaged Cars in the Past Week. Five automobile accidents have oc curred in Barnwell in the past several days, as a result of which the cars involved were badly damaged but for. tunately none of their occupants was injured. The most serious of the series was a collision late Monday afternoon, when Mrs. Robert A. Patterson's coupe collided head-on with L. Cohen's wholesale delivery truck in front of T. A. Holland's filling station, just west of Turkey Creek. The Patter son car was being driven by Bob Brown, a young negro, who had bor rowed the machine from Mrs. Patter son a short time before to come to town for assistance m getting Dr. L. T. Claytor's automobile out of a bog41 Brown, who is generally regarded as one of the most careles 3 and reckless drivers in this section, is said to have crossed Turkey Creek, bridge at a speed estimated at .60 or 65 milea ah hour and a few second^ later crashed* into the Cohen (truck, which was de cupled by the driver, Harold Reid, and his two sons. Mrs. Patterson’s coupe was almost demolished by the im pact, but the truck was not badly damaged. Another of Mr. Cohen’g cars figured in an accident Fridley, when his coupe, driven by Miss Ruth Diamond', crash ed into the brick and iron fence around the local Episcopal Churchyard, after a minor collision with another car. The front end of the coupe w’as smash ed. On the same day and near the same place, L. A. Plexico’s service car, an old Chrysler sedan, was put out uf commission when the negro driver went head-on ■ into the churchyard fence, a p£rt of which was knocked down by the machine. Thursday afternoon, Magistrate G. M, Ho*g’s car was badly • damaged in a collision with another machine on Court House Square. A man named Smith was driving Mr. Hogg’s car when the tollision occurred. Tuesday afternoon W. A. Fuller’s car driven by his son, Duane (“Buck”) Fuller and an out-of-town car collid ed in front of the Best Pharmacy, re- ulting in slight damage to the out-of- town car. No one injured. TYPHOID CLINICS AT * * KLINE AND LYNDHURST In the schedule published last week for typhoid clinics in the county, Kline and Lyndhurst were not included. The following is jhe schedule for this ter- fitoryi * , Kline, 2-00 p. m., July 23rd, July 30th and August 6th. - Lyndhurst, 3:30 p. m., July 23rd, July 30th, August 6th. More Farms—Leaver Value. AccordSng to the preliminary tabu lation of returns from the 1935‘ census of agriculture in this State, there has been an increase in the number of i farms and aergs in cultivation as com pared with 1930, but values have de clined. In Barnwell County there are 2,459 farm g with a total acreage of 250,468, a s compared with 2,375 farms and 198,434 acres in 1930, wlule val ues have declined from $5,230,599 in 1930 to*$4,047,446 in 1935. Figures for other counties in thi s section show about the same comparative increase in the number of farms and acres, and decrease in the money valuation. Figures for the entire State show that the number of farms increased from 157,931 in mo- to 165,504 in 4935; acres from 10,393,113 to 12,3^6,698, while values declined from $379,190,630 to $286,967,057h..„ ' The Gathering War Clouds. With Italy and Ethiopia preparing for what appepr s to be an inevitable war, Italina newspapers are conduct- ~—tngr* antt=J*pffli®sg“campdigr over the reported Nipponese opposi tion to the impending conflict. ♦ At the same time, reports from China stated that a Japanese gunboat had showered machine gun bullets up on the American missionary school at Yochow, Hunan province. Japanese embassy officials in Shanghai and the United States legation in Peiping de nied that they had any information , concerning the alleged incident ADVERTISE in The People-Sentinel Seen and Jieard Here During the Past Week A Little Sense and Nonsense About People You Know and Othars You Don*t Know. * ■ '- I An itinerant repairer of mowing machines saying that he is a Califor nia Indian, having been “birthed” in Oklahoma^ and that he speaks eight different languages. .^. Local man saying that about 25« goldfish have mysteriously disappeared from his lily pool recently, and that certain small boys are thought to be/the ma rauders. . . . Martin Best saying that reports received by the Augusta Cotton Exchange are to the effect that the recent daily heavy rains were “beneficial” to the cotton crop. . . The grass in “The Circle” being cut and a small-sized crop of hay harvest ed. .. . Angus Patterson “rag ging” Nick Coclin because Lou Cohen’s iquor shop aignoa reflected in Nick’a restaurant mirror, thereby giving free alvertising to a competitor, Nick also being the owner of a liquor store. . . . Cantaloupe and. watermelon rinds carelessly left along street curbs, giv ing the town a most untidy appear ance. . . A letter from a young lady living in another county, who was a recent visitor here, saying that her father had enjoyed reading copies of The People-Sentinel as much a s he does a certain daily published in one of South Carolina’s leading cities. . . . Q. A, Kennedly, Sr., of Willis- ton, in Barnwell Thursday aftemooir . to catch an A. C. L. train for New ' York City, where he boarded a steam- shp for Bermuda for a three week’s vacation, and being reminded that 25 years ago he was content to spend his vacation at Glenn Springs, S. C: Wilson Sanders, telling about a plumber at the Barnwell CCC camp who fashioned a coil for a water cooler by bending a piece of pipe several times round a tree, and then had' to cut dowm the tree to get the coil off. . . . S. E, Moore, the only local player on the Bimwell base ball club, getting a “big hanc?’ for a spectacular catch in rght field Thursday's game with Granitevr . . . And a flock of six black and white cranes flying low over the field in military formation, resembling a squadron of airplanes. . . And J- Pluviu s saving the locals from what appeared sure defeat when a heavy rain broke up the game in the first half of the fifth after Graniteville had scored several runs and wkh men still on bases, while Barnwell hadn’t been been able to get a man beyond third ... A subscriber referring to The People-Sentinel as “the best county paper in the WORLD.” (Of course, we “don’t believe it, but say it again.”). . . . CCC boys enjoying the Fuller Park swimming pool and Policeman W. P. Sanders saying that some of them had made themselves objection able, with the result that they were ordered to leave • the park. . . A welcome break in the spell of wet weather, Sunday being the first day in more than two weeks that this sec tion was not visited by more or less heavy showers, with the result that the boll weevil ha s become very active again in the cotton fields. . . Sol Blatt and Martin Best in earnest conversation over the baseball situa tion. . . . The following good fnehfc^'renewtfig r “their* subscriptions to The People-Sentinel: Mill edge Black, who lives near Barnwell on Highway No. 3; H. Judson Black, of thi s city; Mrs. W. W. Hart ,of Barn well route No. 1. Death Stalks S. C. Highways Thursday. J. F. Gooding, U. S. deputy marshall, Joe Mitchell, a negro prisoner, and Mrs. Verna Joiner, of Varnville, were killed and Miss Marjorie Tingle, of Char leston, was injured when Good ing’s car skidded during a rain about seven o’clock in the even ing and struck, a bridge. Saturday. William B. Gilchrist, 26, of Bamberg, was instantly killed on a main street of that town Saturday afternoon when the truck he was driving struck a tree and turned over. Two men and one woman were killed, and five men and one woman were seriously injur ed! five miles south of Ridgeland in a wreck among three automo- Saturday a ftemoon*Baird’s Beau miles. Members of the Yemas- see baseball club were* among the injured, while J. C. .^lack, the manager, was killed. W. W. Hughes, of Atlanta, was killed on the Laurens- Greenville highway when struck by a passing car. Sunday. Ed Smith, 63, of Myrtle Beach, was killed when the car in which he was a passenger struck a parked car on the Conway-Myr- tle Beach highway. Two Savannah men were in jured near Yemassee when their car left the highway, struck a garage and turned over three times. Monday. Mrs. George T. Duffi’e, 42, was fatally injured and Mrs. W. E. Whelchel, 55, was seri ously hurt when* an automobile plunged ifitb the yard of the Duffie home after failing to make a right-angle turn in Gaffney. A 17-year old boy wa s driving the car. One man was killed and three other persons, were hurt, one critically, when' the car in which “they were riding left the high way and crashed into an em bankment near Caesar’s Head on the Greenville-Brevard road. DRIVE CAREFULLY! Barnwell Club Again Breaks Even on Play Defeats Bamberg, 13 to 1, But Make shift Team Lcoes to Yemassee, 8 to 0. It has been a hard week on the financial standing of the members of the Barnwell club f who also'failed to improve their league standing, having broken even in the games played dur ing the past several days. The game scheduled for Wednesday of last week was postponed, and the Graniteville Rocks invaded Barnwell Thursday afternoon. As usual, they proved to be the locals’ Jonah, for, after four scoreless innings, the visi tors got on to the offerings of Oeller- ich, Barnwell twirler, and were well on their way to a wholesale slaughter when rain broke up the contest before the first half of the fifth inning was finished!. * Collision Results in Crimmial Charge Mother and Daughter Seriously In- »' jured in Autoptctoile Wreck Near , Florence Wednesday. ties journeyed over to Bamberg and smothered Charlie Covingtop’s big bad Wolves under a top-heavy score of 13 to I. For some reason, Charlie forgot to report the outcome of the game to the daily papers. * Yemassee was scheduled to make its entry into the Industrial League Mon day afternoon with Barnwell furnish ing the opposition on the Allendale diamond, but several members qf the low country team were injured Satur day afternoon in an automobile wreck and Barnwell was-advised late Sunday night that the game would be post poned 1 . However, Yemassee made its appearance at Allendale as previously scheduled and the locals, with most of their «tar players at their homes in Augusta, hurriedly patched up a team and went down to Allendale. With hardly a man playing in his regular position and in the absence of Manager Baird, BarnwelPwas defeat ed, 8 to 0. In view of the misunder standing that placed the locals at such a disadvantage, it is believed here that the game will not count in the standing of the clubs, but will be played over at a later date. , Yemassee is said to have an excel lent club, having won practically all games played this summer. They en tered the pennant race in the Indus trial League with a standing of .500 by reason of their previous excellent performance. Barnwell was scheduled to play at Clearwater yesterday (Wednesday) af- -ternoon and will play Bath, the first half chamions, at Fuller Park this (Thursdlay) afternoon, winding up the week 'at "Graniteville Saturday after noon. Local Racer Is First in Two Speed Events Lloyd A. Plexico Wina Claw C and Free-fcr-AH Motor Boat Races at Georgetown. In the motor boat speed races held Friday in the Sampit River at Georgetown in connection with the celebration of the formal opening of the Lafayette bridge, Lloyd! A. Plexi- co, of Barnwell, won first place in the class C. event and also in the free- for-all. The' bridge celebration was featured by speeches by Governor Olin D. Johnston, Senator James' F. Byrnes^ Congressman Ga$que, Ben Sawyer, Former Senator Cole L. Blease and others. Mr. Plexico is recognized as one of the. leading outboard motor boat racers in the Southeast and has been invited to enter Charleston’s second annual summer regatta, to be held July 25-28. Others from this section who will probably compete are W. A. Camp, R. Smoak and H. H. Crosswell, of Bamberg, and W. L. Glover, of Orangeburg. Revival Meeting at Long Branch. The annual revival meeting begins at Long Branch Church Sunday, July 28th. There .will be one service on Sunday at five o’clock in the after noon, and beginning Monday there will be services at 11 o’clock in the morning and eight in the evening. The meeting will continue through Fri day, August 2nd. The pastor, the Rev. J. Aubrey Estes, will conduct the services. Long Branch is one of the oldest churches in this section and has many friends, each of whom i» invited to attend the services. There will be special music and good singing by the congregation. “Fill your cars and come,’’ says Mr. Estes. Arrested for Bootlegging. Williston, July 20.—David Evans, negro, was arrested here early this morning by Officer W. C. Birt and held on a warrant issued by Mayor A. Blanchard charging illegal posses sion of moonshine whiskey. Evans was lodged in the local jail ahd will face trial at the next term of court at Barnwell in September. Local offi- cer s are under orders of the mayor and town council to clean up bootleg ging in this community. •Minster Critically 111. Florence, July 17.—Mrs. Harry L. Hirshner and her seven-year old d-augh'tet, of Oklahoma City, were seriously injured in an automobile collision near here today when the automobile driven by the former’s husband collided head-on with that of Charles J. H.^ Still, of Barnwell. Neither Still nor Hirshner was in jured. Mrs. Hirshner sustained severe cuts on her arm and other injuries. The young girl sustained cuts anpl bruises and possibly internal injuries. Stll was arrested on a warranttdrarg- ing-criminal Tiegirgence by ^ieut. A. A. Lawson'of the State highway'-pa- trol. He was later released on bond. Arrives in Honolulu. Honolulu, Hawaii, July 12.—Miss Rosalie Spann, of Barnwell,. S. C., is spending the summer at America’s largest military post. . Miss Spann arrived in Honolulu on the S. S. Lurline July 4th to visit at the home of Maj. W. M. Spann, USA, at Schofield Barracks, head quarters of the Hawaiian division, some miles inland from the city. Driving oyer jhe motor roads, Miss Spann saw rice fields that reminded her of parts of her home State, and '4* many acres of waving sugar cane, chief crop of this westernmost part of the American Southland. Miss Spann expects to remain in the territory until August 3rd. Birth of a Daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Brabham, of this Boylstcn-McCutchen. Blackville, July 20.—Lucian Pitts Boylston, of Healing Springs, an nounces the marriage of hi s daughter, Virginia Vaughan, to Hugh McCutch- en, of Chesterfield. The ceremony was performed Sunday, May 5, by the Rev. Davis M. Sanders in Bennetts- ville. ' * Mr. and! Mrs. McCutchen are mak ing their home in Sardinia. Silver Tea Friday. Vi silver tea for the benefit of the Barnwell Methooist Church will be held at the home of Mrs. Terie Rich ardson tomorrow (Friday) afternoon at 5:30 o’clock. Everybody is cordial ly invited to attend. An interesting program has been arranged and! re freshments will be served. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Easterling t »nd daughter, Emily Ann, Mrs. E. H. city, announce the birth of a daughter Alderman and daughter, of Richmond, on July 18th. They have named the Va., and H. J. Phillips spent Sunday young lady Joe Ann. in Beaufort Schedule ct Remaining Games. The ^following is the schOdtfle' of the remaining games in the Industrial League, which gives Barnwell con tests at home on Mondays and Thurs- days: Thursday, July 25. Bath at BARNWELL. Clearwater at Yemassee. Friday, July 26. Graniteville at Bamberg. Bath at Yemassee. ^ ’ Saturday, July 27. BARNWELL at Graniteville. Bamberg at Clearwater. Monday, July 29. Yemassee at Graniteville. Clearwater -at-Bath. -Bamberg at BARNWELL. Wednesday, July 31. Graniteville at Clearwater. Bath at Bamberg. BARNWELL at Yemassee. Thursday, August 1. Clearwater at BARNWELL. Friday, August 2. Graniteville'at Bath. Bamberg at Yemassee, Saturday, August 3. Bamberg at Graniteville. Yemassee at Clearwater. BARNWELL at Bath. Mcnday,. August 5. Graniteville at BARNWELL. Clearwater at Bamberg. Yemassee at Bath. Wednesday, August 7. The Barnwell friends of the Rev. W. J. Snydery. a former pastpr of the local Methodist Church, will -learn with regret that he is critically ill at his home in Conway, according to a re port from that town late Sunday. Re-: covering from a stroke suffered a short time ago, he contracted double pneumonia during last week.* “Cyclone Mack’ Su^cuqibs. Baxter'F. (“Cyclone Mack”) Mc Lendon, 59, died suddenly of a heart attack at his home in Bennettsville Monday night. He was nationaly known as an evangelist and also figur ed more or less prominently in State political campaigns. Bath at BARNWELL. Clearwater at Yemassee. Wednesday, August 14. BARNWELL at Graniteville. Bamberg at Clearwater. Bath at Yemassee. Thursday, August 15. BARNWELL at Yemassee. -- Friday, August 16. Yemassee at Graniteville. Clearwater at Bath. Bamberg at BARNWELL. Saturday, August IT. Graniteville at Clearwater. Bath at Bamberg. Monday, August 19. Graniteville at Bath. Clearwater at BARNWELL. Sheriff* Office Hat Very Bitty Week-End Numerous Raids and Arrests Made by Sheriff J. B. Morris and Deputy . G. S. Harley. ^ The sherifF• office badge very busy week-end in the war on boootleggers, and as a result numerous raids and ar rests were made by Sheriff J. B. Mor ris and his deputy, Gilmore S. Harley. The first of the series began late Saturday afternoon while Sheriff Mor ris and Deputy Harley were watching the home of Earl Owens, white, three miles west of * Williston. Two white men were seen to leave the house and after a short chase were caught by the officers. Each of the men had a half-gallon of unstamped liquor in a sack and according to Sheriff Mor ris, admitted that it had been pur chased from Owens, who was arrested and later released under $600 bond. At Blabkville Sunday morning the officers raided the home of Bbb John son, colored, and found 2% gallons of unstamped liquor, one gallon of wine and a sack containing $11.40 in money. The liquor and money were hidden In' the yard and while the search was in progress, Johnson made hi 8 escape. A short time later, Sheriff Morris and Deputy Harley raided th « home .of Meyer Knopf, white, near the Barn- well-Bamberg line in the Sleigh- town section. When Knopf saw the officers approaching it is said that he threw two one-half gallons of un stamped liquor out »f a window, one of which was broken when it hit the ground. An officer picked up the other and as he walked Into the house, Knopf’s wife is alleged to have broken it with a piece of wood. Knopf was arrested and lodged in the local jail. U! Perry Smalls, negro, was arrested short distance away at a negro church on a charge of illegal posses sion, part of a pint of unstamped liquor being found in his pocket He wa g arrested and later released on $300 bond. As a result of a raid near Ellenton Sunday afternoon, Taft Jenkins, ne gro, was lodged in the county jail, unstamped liquor being found on his premises, according to Sheriff Motf- ris. Early Monday morning, Patrolman J. C. Rogers and Deputy Sheriff Har ley found Ely Brunson and J. B. San ders, both white, asleep in their car near Friendship Church, a few miles east of Barnwell. Liquor and pistols were found in the automobile, and the t^o men were arrested on charges of drunkenness, illegal possession of liquor and pistols. In -addition to the liquor raids, the officers arrested llire# 1 *iri«g’tbel M charges of disorderly conduct at a negro church near Dunbarton and lodged them in the county jail, while. Ardig Hunter, colored, made his es cape after cutting a negro Woman at St. Paul’s Church (colored) Sunday. The woman was not cut dangerously. THARIN WILL DIRECT ; - HOMESTEAD PUBLICITY “Washington, July 17.—Whitney Tharin, of Allendale, who has many relatives and friends in Charleston ang Columbia, is preparing to remove to Raleigh, N. C.,'August 1, with Mrs. Tharin. Coming to Washington about two years ago from Columbia to join the Associated Press staff, he then joined the publicity forces of the AAA. The jp>etient transfer will place him in charge of publicity for the administration homestead rehabilita tion work and he will have charge of North and South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennes see. For the past year Tharin baa been secretary of the South Carolina society of Washington and recently helped organize the South Carolina University Alumni association. -< t “No Work—No Food." 1 Graniteville at Yemasee. Bath at Clearwater. BARNWELL at Bamberg. Thursday, August 8. Yemassee at BARNWELL. Friday, August 9. Clearwater at Granitevillei Bamberg at Bath. Saturday, August 10 Bath at Graniteville. BARNWELL at Clearwater. Yemassee at Bamberg. Menday, August 12. Graniteville at Bamberg. ~ Bamberg at Yemassee: “ Wednesday, August 21. Bamberg at Graniteville. BARNWELL at Both. ^Yemassee at Clearwater. Thursday, August 22. Graniteville at Yemassee. Friday, August 2. BARNWELL at Graniteville. Clearwater at Bamberg. Yemassee at Bath. Saturday, August 24. Bath at Clearwater. Bamberg at BARNWELL. Because “relief clients’* refused te help harvest the most bountiful wfciii crop in years, Governor Tom Berry on Monday ordered all relief offices in South Dakota closed The order puts 19,000 family heads oe the re lief rolls. Farm wages are loss than the 40 cents an hour scale paid on fed eral relief projects. Six other Mid western States have shut down part of their work, relief projects. AH af which seems to bear out the tion that many persons are on the lief rolls by preference and not nee •sity. .*