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•41 -A ■ ■ ' r'- tar thb ICIAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNTY. 4 Barnwell Consolidated" }une 1, 1923. *‘Ju«t Like m Member of the Family M Largest County Circulation. VOLUBLE LVIH. BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSPAY, AUGUST 8TH, 1935. NUMBER 49. Drastic Cuts Made in - Lbcal Relief Forces Social Workers ajid Clerical Help Re* • K leased.—Other Workerg Are . Given Transfers, o , Drastic cuts* Were made last week by D. M. John, district administrator, in the personnel cf the Barnwell Coun ty Emergency Relief Administration, while some workers were transferred to other departments of the relief or ganization, according to information given The People-Sentinel. It is understood that those who have been released include B. F. Owens, county administrator, of Dunbartcjh; five social workers, Mrs, Mable 6antt, of Lyndhursf, Mrs. Nell Nevils, of Blackville, Mrs; Guy Lybrand, of Barnwell; ' Mrs. Kathrine Drum mond and Dunbarton; Seen and Heard Here During the Past Week A Little Senae and Nonsense About People You £now and Othera You Don’t Know. Gin Certificates Will , Be Issued Ne*£ Week A Pontiac sedan that its owner—a traveling man—had left parked in front of Ghingold’s store without setr ting the brakes rolling backwards into W. J. Lemon’s Ford coach that was parked in fiont of Lemon Bros, store and damaging the door on the Ford. . . . . A trio of negro women, one conventionally clad, one wearing trous ers and the third sporting black shorty that exposed most of her nether ex tremities, calmly walking through town. There oughter be a law. . . “Bud” Halford with hi^ socks pulled up over the bottom s of- his trouser Miss May Owens, of legs as a protection against the pesky Miss Mildred Sterne, I gnats. ... John B. Harley ^alk- Will Be Ready for Delivery to Barn well County Farmers Beginning Monday. stenographer, of B!ackville; Miss ing about some extremely large coveys The tax exemption certificates for ginning cotton will be ready for de livery to the farmers .of Barnwell County during the week of August 12th to 17th, according to an an nouncement made 'public Tuesday by Harry G. Boylston, county agent, aiyl an -itinerary has been arranged tb 2 Members of Family Honored by Governor Cannot Shoot Doves Until October First J. E. Harley, Jr!, of This City, and September Shooting Is Banned.— His Uncle, Louis Harley, Are Made Colonels. It is now Colonel J. E. Harley, Jr., the son of Lt.-Gov. J. E. Harley, of Barnwell, having been V appointed a lieutenant colonel on Governor Olin D. Johnston’s military staff last week. Nor is that all. In turning out a new crop of colonels, Governor John ston also named Louis Harley, Esq., Three-Shell Limit Set for Duck Guns During Season. Mamie McNab, typist, of 'Barnwell; C. H. Beatty, time-keeper, of Dun barton; and Otis Bonds, truck driver, of Barnwell, Mrs. A. A. L^mon, county director, has been transferred to a similar posi tion in Calhoun County, with head quarters at St. Matthews; W. J. Sex ton, of Barnwell, has been transferred to the position of bookkeeper of the commodity store, and Miss Marian Bolen and F. W. Bates have also been tiansferred to positions in the com modity store. It is understood that a further re organization in the relief set-up in South Carolina will be made 'Within the next few weeks, when most of the Present activities will be taken over by the newly created WPA. ** First Cotton of 1935 Reaches the Market Two Bales from Allendale County and One from Orangeburg County Reported Monday. Allendale and Orangeburg Counties are claiming first bale honors this year, but the former has a little the better of the argumentby reasoh'OT the fact that two bales were ginned there Mcnday, while Orangeburg can boast of only one. W. R. Johns, of Allendale, claims the distinction of ginning the first bale in the Scale. It weighed 525 •pounds, and Allendale’s second bale, weghing 500 pounds, s owned by 'W. T. Riley. ’ . ' ' . * 'Over in Oiangeburg, a bal-> weigh ing 668 peunds wa s ginned ti jm the farm of A. T. Whetselj in the Bow man section. It graded strict middling and had & staple of fifteen-sixteenths of an inch. Open bolls are being reported from all sections of the State, including the Piedmont ,and it is believed that the present spell of excessively hot weather is inducing premature open ing cf the fleecy staple. A visitor to Columbia Monday afternoon reports that many fields of cotton along the of partridges that he has seen re cently, in one of which, John says, there were about 50 grown bird s and 30 or more fledglings. . . . Peo ple complaining of the hottest weather of the summer. . . . Capt. J. W. Bates, of Yenome, presenting the edi tor of The People-Sentinel with a fine watermelon. . . A report that Dod- soh Sjill has bought a dwelling in Barnwell and people wondering whether or not he is“"p1anning to en gage in the real estate business—or what ? . . . Open cotton bolls, presaging the sound of the gin whistle at an early date. . . . Baynard Ellis joining The People-Sentinel’s family cf satisfied readers. Other re- cent new subscribers are S- V- Barnwell; E. ,G. Hay, Lyndhursf; J. P. Scoville, Barnwell; J. Julien Bush, Esq., Washington, D. C.; Davis Bar ker, Jr., Dunbarton; Miss Sallie Lott, Blackville, R. F. D. . . .Dr. D. B, Lancaster, of Baltimore, Md., who was a visitor here last week, saying that he gets more “kick” out of reading “Seen and Heard,” quoting what An gus Patterson or Martin. Bqst or Per ry Bush or some other local celebrity has to I say than he dees reading the Baltimore Sun, and that he enjoys Mike ('lark’s effusions in “Nobody's Businens” .more -than- he- does Wi 14 Roger’? daily comments, . . Capt. “Jack” Harden presenting Emmett .Goodson with a peck of fine peaches that Mr. Harden says were picked from a tree over one hundred years old—the tree being 'planted by the late Whitfield Cave. ' - Mrs. Charlie Bro'wn, Jr.,-who re turned a few days ago from a visit to the Land of Flowers^ saying that, her make the distribution as convenient a s Allendale, as a member of hi s staff, possible for the cotton growers. The latter is a brother of the lieuten- “It is very important for every ant-governor and, of course, is like- farmer to realize that he .must sign wise the uncle of the lieutenant-gov- in person for the certificates which ernor’s son. :.A are to-be issued to him, or have a Furthermore, Lt.-Gov. Harley wa s a power of attorney, properly signed by member of the late Governor McLeod’s the owner,” Mr. Boylston said, “as no staff and also has the honorary title certificates may be delivered to anyone of “colonel.” • except the person to whom they are Thus, this family enjoys the unique issued.” The itinerary is as follows: Monday, 9:00 a. m. to 1:00 p. m Williston Motor Co., Willston. Monday, 2:00 to 5:00 p. m. House, Barnwell. distinction cf having three of its members who are colonels—father, son and brother. All of which recalls to mind a story Court | that Col. Harry D. Calhoun delights in! telling. An old negro was wont to ad Tuesday, 9:00 a. m. to 12 M.—At-1 dress his white friends as “kunnel..” terbury’s Filling Station, (near Ellen- A stranger visiting in the community t^n.) was impressed by the number of mili- Tuesday, 2:00 to 5:00 p. m.—Dun- tary title s and asked an acquaintance barton depot, Dunbarton. if all the gentlemen so addressed had Wednesday, 9:00 a. m. to 12 M.— served in the army. Jenkin’ s store,-Kline. “By no means,” was the reply. Wednesday, 2:00 to 5:00 p. m.— “You see, down here in the South, Hilda depot, Hilda. some men are born colonels; seme are Thursday, 9:00 a. m. to 5:00 p. m.— made colonels, wdiile others are kind Williston Motor Co., Blackville. | to niggers.” Friday, 9:00 a. m. to 5:00 p..m.— All certificates will be available for distribution next week with the pos sible exception of a few needing cor rection or where the applications were received late, Mr. Boylston said. Deposit Insurance Safeguards Banks Virtual Stoppage of Bank Failures and Reduced Operating Expenses Are Shown. Washington, D. C., Aug. 5.—Cost- free insurance of $18,000,000,000 of deposits in 18 months; virtual stop page of bank failures; reduced operat- Barnwell sportsmen will be inter ested in the announcement through the office of A. A. Richardson,-chief game warden, that September dove shooting in the South has been eliminated, with other federal regulations on 1935 hunting. Fixing of the dove season in South Carolina at October 1 to January 15, State game officials quoted the biologi cal survey as saying, “eliminates Sep tember shooting in South and thus prevents the killing of many imma ture birds.” The regulations fixed the woodcock season for the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana at December 1 to December 31, with the season on rail September 1 to No vember 30 as formerly. Mccith for Ducks. Sweeping restrictions for duck hunting, it was explained, followed a period of approximately 35 years dur ing which the kill each year exceedec the annual increase from breeding. The adoption of a short hunting season was viewed as the only alter native to a complete suspension of duck shooting ro the first time. The season in the Southern States will be from November 20 to Decern ber 19 on ducks, geese, brant, jack- snipe and coot Restrictions included: The elimina tion of sink-boxes, sneak-boats, am open water—shooting; shooting—over baited'•water or land, or over live de coys.’ A three-shell limit on automatic shotguns, effective for the first time with a prohibition against firearms other than 10-guage or smaller cali ber, Fixing of a new bag limit of ten ducks, with \the possession of more than one day^s bag illegal. Bag and possession limits on geese and brant |ixed at four. Improvement Plan Is Qpposedat But Barnwell County School Trustees Perfect Organization Headed by Col. Sokoion Blatt. v-" • ' • A plan advanced by E. G. Hay, squad chief, for Barnwell County to borrow $30,000 to $40,000 with which to supplement a federal government grant for repairs and improvemerts to school buildings in the county met with opposition at a representative meeting of school trustees held in the Court House here Monday morning, but a concrete result of the gathering was the organization of a countywide trustees association, headed by Col. Solomon Blatt, member of the House of Representatives, as president, with Horace J. Crouch, of Elko, county superintendent of education, as secre tary. The meeting was called by Mr. Hay, who has recently completed a survey of school buildings in the county. He explained the proposition, which was also discussed by Superintendent Crouch, Colonel Blatt and R. R. Moore, of Snelling. Mr. Crouch said that he favors any plan that would improve school condi tions in the county, but that needed repairs or improvements should be made by the individual school dis tricts, several of which are now facing deficits, while others have surpluses. He stressed the importance of ade quate transportation facilities and pointed out that buses can now be pur chased at a saving of about 50 per cent, under a plan fostered by PWA. —Coloiiel Blatt did not favor the daughter, Miss Helena Brown, caught an eight-pound black bass early one morning in-a small lake in front of the home of Mrs. Brown’s brother, Chrletoji Huey. . . . And a local fisherman displaying a fine five-and- a-quarter-pound trout (bass) that he caught while fishing under the bridge over Turkey Creek, just abova the swimming pool in West Barnw^T He also landed a smaller fish that weighed about a pound and a half. He was Triple “C” News Notes Illuminating situations arise every so often while the boys are in the woods, and “Sloppy Williams, leader i f aKe 01 DanK iaiiUI | es ; reau c ea °perai- ; The three-shell provision bans shoot- on one of the details, know s something | ^ ^ n ^ ,ne _ j Ing with a gun \“the magazine of about at least one of them. He says that it is interesting to note that while a large thing like a tree that has to be dug up will create but a small showing of activity, the cry of “yellow jackets” will cause even the “gold bricks” to exercise themselves— getting away frem there. The confus ion usually lasts until someone comes with kerosene and burns out the pests. Jl few of-the' boy* have been atung, and they have learned by experience not to wait and trj) to dodge the in sects, but to take themselves some where else when they hear the warn ing. , Theie are more and yet more are nfectad in the report of the wWtK ^ not or plugged with a one-piece metkj or wooden filler incapable of removal through the loading end thereof, so as to reduce the capacity of said gun to not more than three shells at one loading. Use of blinds or floating craft of any kind has been prohibied beyond 100 feet from the high water shore Federal Deposit Insurance Corpora tion to its insured banks, made public this week. The 14,279 banks insured on June 30, 1935, are to be credited with $41,- 461,326, the amount they paid in in surance assessments, the report re- i veals. Chairman Leo T. Crowley of the |ine or neares , pro t ru di n g growth, ex- FDIC bohrp pointed out that this is ^ in shooti „ K sea coot8 or scw) ters. in striking contrast to the cost of six cent s per thousand insured deposit dol-1 lars for those banks which withdrew' from the insurance on June 30, 1934. using live bait. Othe^ local fishermen highway have deteriorated rapidly in hav e succeeded in landing trout and the past few days and that present prospects are for a much smaller.crop in that section. J Many open balls are noted in Barn well County fields and the first bale is expected daily. In spite of the fact that considerable damage has been done by the boll weevil following the wet weather in July, many predict that the county will produce as much, %r more, cotton than it did in 1934. The writer visited several sections in the upper part of the State tast week, including Fairfield, Chester, York, Cherokee, Union and Newberry Counties, and the Barnwell County cotton crop compares favorably with the crops in those sections, while the com crop in this part of South Caro lina is considerably better. jackfish from the lake above the pool with artificial lures. . . . Showers Sunday and Monday afternocrv bring- Savannah River Creasing Improved. Those who contemplate crossing the Savannah river at Stoney Bluff—near “The Corporation’s sound business Milletteville _ will be glad to know , ecord establishes a practical basis that much work haa ^antly been benches being put up about camp. It ^ cr > t ^ e . a ^ rnost universal afipiTQYll il§- to the road leading to the river is believed that the ones ordering I pos ‘ t * nsuranC€ . aa8 received, Mr. i f rom ^ highway and that the ferry these benches, to be built have an eye Crowley said. boat has recently been repaired and is mg temporary relief from the excessive ... . . , , . . , heat of the past few days. . . . . | P^mg to bring guitars back with | Local street thermometers registering i e ™’ an ore ave pa ® s * to the future, when dance s will be nineteen insured banks have n()W j n exce n en t condition for taking given at the camp. Dancing is a lot to liquidated, tbe report imply- j au tomobiles and passengers across the of fun, but sometimes a bench offers, l ea ®^ P art i a Hy ac * river into Georgia. Mr. Mobley, who is even greater atractions. counted for by the rigid FDIC ex-, j n 0 f the ferry says that Al- This last week-end beftig the first aminatlon program coupled with sue- j ig n( j a i e authorities have promised to after pay day, most of the boys have| cess * ul e ^ orts t0 rehabilitate ca P* ta lj Sen d the chain gang there to do addi- structures. ^ . | tj ona j work in the near future. ' Over 26,000 depositors in the closed.. ■■■ .- i- j 'banks were 99 per cent fully protect-' plan of pledging the credit of the en tire county for' the borowed money, pointing out that Ashleigh school dis trict should not be taxed to furnish money for Pleasant Hill, or vice versa. He urged strict economy in govern mental affairs and caution in incur ring new obligations. He also advised the trustees to investigate the plan . for buying new buse 8 at this time and ’ thereby effect a substantial saving. He referred to the fact that the coun ty is operating on a cash basis. Mr. Moore, who is a member of the board of county directors, which has been largely instrumental in getting the county’ 8 finances f< out of the hole” jn the past few years, .also spoke in opposition to the proposed plan. However, the trustees of the vari ous school districts accepted the re sults of Mr. Hay’s survey for further consideration and it will be left to the individual school districts ^as to whether or not his recommendations will be carried out. Before the meeting was adjourned, a county-wide trustees’ organisation was formed, as stated above, and officers were elected. It is planned to hold meetings fiom time to time for the purpose of discussing school prob lems as they may arise throughout the county. had the means to go home, and conse quently the campM s but a shadow of its former self. Many of the boys are temperaturd^ranging from 102 to 110 Sunday, which was the hottest day of the year. . . . Martin Best saying that he recently went into an Au- ed Barnwell will be overrun with ed and the FDIC estimates that its payments will be conducted with a net loss of only $1,500,000. Total de- .-J* hopeful young men serenading the P osils in banks amounted t0 i4 '- young ladies of the town. It has al ready been ,discovered by a few of the Master’s Sales. Two sales were made here Monday by G. M. Greene, Esq., master in equity, ar-follows: — —- gust, air-cond,Honed resfau^nt to boys ,h8t a * uilar wiU iccom P U ' h drink a quantity of iced tea in an I W0 T n . ers * 0 ^ , effort to cool off, but that it wa s sol L.eut Sanders, Project Supt. Cuth- ccld he ordered hot coffee instead; also ' be ;. t ', and F » raa >'™ P f ra »n and Padg- that he asked the waiter to bring him ■ '‘ talso s P ent the «aak-end away from a steak on a hot plate, and that both' F steak and plate were stone-cold in less . than 6 minutes; the interior of the bttle Gar<iner "' M - D " Jt " Ja ™ ! restaurant, Martin said, was decorated ? oth . B » rbar » '’ with icicles. ——— *— 088,000. Estimated operating expenditures for the current year will require $2,- 500,000, 14-1,000 cf one per cenf. of in sured deposits, compared with ex penses of $2,832,000 in tfie year just closed and with $2,845,000 for the Wannie Patterson explaining to is stationed at Camp P-70 Frank Sanders, cf the Friendship sec tion, the latest approved qiethod of boll weevil control. According to Wannie, all that is necessary to rid this city, who ha s been connected with infested fields of the cotttu pesf is for' t h e Richland County ERA for the Matar Mosalay, plaintiff, vs. Mary th. f.rm.r's wif. to throw wasta ^ thrct raonlhgj ^ ^ first ten months of deposit insurance. ! Mrs. Man D. Gardner, and the four | Dri>atic r « lucti “ ns j" P'?™ nel ' rom 2,622 on December 31, 1933, to 955 on une 30, 1934,.and to 742 this year are , Barnwell Friday night. They willm.ke 1 fart ra ™ thc ^ceaaive I their home here while Lieut. Gardner '"l!. m operatmr axf ’ ensea ' I Mrs. Bauer Promoted. Friends of Mrs. Louise Bauer, of FDICs total income for the year [ending June 30, 1935, was $9,057,19!». It had cn deposit with the U. S. | Treasury amounting to $17,407,381 and a net of $316,080,009 invested in Gov ernment securities on the same date. Scott, defendant, two lots in Black- from ville township, bought by the plain- 1 tiff for $200. Mrs. Zelma Brown, plaintiff, vs-. Return from Canadian Tour. the kitchen through the right j n the announcement that she was hand window. ... Billie Davies pronibted last week to the position of I Dr. Ryan A. Gyles, of Blackville, and Jim Bush receiving invitations county director and transferred from who, with Mrs. Gyles, recently return- fiom Coach Tatum Gressett, of The Columbia to Hampton County, where |ed from a motor trip through Canada FannyM. Simms, et al„ defendants, Citadel, to report for football practice she i 8 now engagedinhernew duties.! andthe New EngUnd States, stated lot and buildings in the town of September 1st. About 45 candidates Mrs. Bauer has taken several special here Tuesday while in attendance at Barnwell,. bought by A. H. Ninestein, for the varsity^ team were invited to courses in social welfare work and is the regular monthly meeting of the Esq., plaintiffs attorney, for $500. report. . . And Bob Dipks Bennett regarded as one of the most efficient county board of directors that he will This property was the former home of planning to enter The Citadel next 'workers in the relief organisation. be in his office at Blackville next the late Gov. Johnson Hagood end, for month and play on the frosh team. . ====z====s Monday—a week earlier than he had several years, of the late Col. Mike . Martin Best saying that the local to be used for grazing purposes and expected, due to the fact that he did | baseball park is fer sale, the outfield the infield for miniature golf, [not visit California while away, Death Stalks SX. Highways Friday. William B. Lawrence, 47, "was killed early Friday night* near Kingstree, when his car plunged through the railing on a bridge and into a water-hole in Black River swamp. His body was re covered the followng morning. Saturday. Eight persons were killed and a ninth was fatally injured dying Sunday night, when' the truck they occupied collided with a Seaboard Air Line passenger train at a grade crossng in Camden Saturday afternoon. Seven members of one family were buried in a Stfigle grave:" Fourteen CCC boy g from a camp ft Mountain Rest, near Walhalla, were injured, one seriously, when their truck overturned near York Saturday night. Sunday. . Charlie Smith,' 16, was almost instantly killed Sunday night and a companion,- the driver of the car, was • severely bruised near Sumter. Investfgaticai Starts Friday. Col. Solomon Blatt, member of a legislative committee appointed at the last session of the general assembly to investigate the escape of “Do” Mil ler, negro convict, while on a visit to hi^ wife in Barnwell County, said Tuesday that the first meeting of the committee will be held at Barnwell Friday and that it may be necessary to go to the" prison farm at Camden to complete the investigation. Miller, who was serving a man slaughter sentence on the State farm, was in charge of two guards when he effected his escape while visiting his wife near Blackville. He also led a jail break from the Barnwell County jail on a previous occasion, causing the county considerable expense in re nting him for trial on a murder charge. Mrs. H a nnah F. P. Buice. Allendale, Aug. 5.—Mrs. Hannah Frizelle Patterson Buice, widow of the late Fred T. Buice, died today et the Brown. home of her daughter, Mrs. W. T. Riley, with whom she made her home. She was seventy years old and had been in declining health for several months. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Riley and Mrs. Audlsy HQ1, of Columbia; three sisters, Mrs. S. K. Tillinghast, of Orlando, Fla.; Mrs. L E. Burkett, of Atlanta; Mrs. James M. Patterson, of Allendale, and brothers, N. A. Patterson, of Dr. A. B. Patterson, of Baffag||| A. A. Patterson, of