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t i fri'Bjjr iiiidiiiii "T -A i- OmClAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNTY. CoMoUJaiwi juuf irirarr ■"Jusroici^nvr VOLUMES LVIIL > BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1935. .NUMBER 51. Swimming Featured Life at Camp Long Forty-two 4-H Club .'Girls and Five Leaders Enjoyed Annual En campment Last (Week. Swimming was an«4fnportant fea ture at Camp Long when forty-two 4-H club girls and five leaders from Barnwell County enjoyed their an nual encampment last week. Those passing the beginners’ test in swim ming and receiving a button from A. R. C. were: Louise Hartzog, Louise V Owens, Marjorie Dyches, Helen Fowke, Annie Sue Fowke, Louise Gantt, Irqne Black, Maud Ruby Knopf, Sarah Hair, Brownie Creech, Emmie Lee Hair. Eleven members passed the swimmers’ test and also received rec ognition from A. R. C. They were: Virginia Cain, Dorothy Baxley, Leira Grubbs, Marjorie Dyches,. Sarah Fiances Brcdie, Mildred Mahaffey, Alice Fletcher, Margaret Black, Mae Swett, Dulice Harley anc 1 Laura Ella Gantt. During the week classes in - water- safety, health, music and courtesy weie conducted by counselgr of the camp. The evenings’ entertainment in the council ring and Assembly hall was furnished by club members undpr the direction of their leaders. At this time playlets, stunts, music, readings, shadow pictures and games were en joyed The assembly hour each-day, also brought something of interest. Miss Wu, of the University of Peip ing, China, was a visitor at camp one day and gave a talk on some of the customs of Chinese children. Those attending camp with the home agent were: Martha Black, .Virginia Grubbs, Sadie Hutto, Louise Hartzog, Carolyn Black, Dorothy Baxley, De borah Black, Louise Owens, Edith Hartzog, Theo Lott, Leira Grubbs, Marjorie Dyches, Betty Gantt, Helen Fowke, Louise Gantt, Sarah Frances Brodie, Mildred Mahaffey, Martha Ayer Harley, Alice Fletcher, Virginia Black, Margaret Black, Helen San ders, Rachael Gleaton, Irma Mae Al len, Josephine Fowke, Annie Sue Fowke, Mae Swett, Irene Black, Marie Burchalter, Rebecca Anderson, Marguerite Beatty, Cecil H. Meyer, Dulice Harley, Marian Ellis, Marjorie Sanders, Brownie Creech, Maud Ruby Knopf, Donnie Lee Norris, Juanita Creech and Mildred Fields. Group leaders were: Gene Swett, Murriel Norris, Laura Ella Gantt, Emmie Lee Hair and Sarah Hair. Fifteen com munities were represented: Galilee, Healing Spmgs, Reedy Branch, Long Branch, Double Ponds, Ashleigh, Her cules, Hilda, Lyndhursrt, Btu’nw'ell/Oak Grove, Meyer’s Mill, - Joyce "Branch, Patterson’s Mill, .Big Fork and!Morris. ■ • H . ■ . 9 Escape at Bamberg. Seen and Heard Here During the Past Week A Little Sense and Nonsense About People Yon Know and Others Yon Drat Know. Little iffTss Pegilie, daughter of Mr. and t Mra. Perry A. Price, wearing a grass skirt that was brought to her from the Hawaiian Islands by her aunt, Miss Rosalie Spann, who re turned last week after a visit to her brother, Major Spann,—and looking very much like a lovely hula dancer from those enchanting isles. . . . Everybcoly vigorously “fanning gnats.” . . Three boys .n. the front seat of an automobile driving around “The Circle” Saturday afternoon at such a rapid rate cf speed that the driver was unable to negotiate the curve, ran into the curb in front of Dr. H. A. Gross’ residence and narrowly missed colliding with an electic light pole. And when they “got to where they were going” they probably just sat clown. ... A man remarking that the driver of a car narrowly missed colliding with another machine when his attention was distracted by a pretty girl, and that if the girl had been just a little bit prettier a col lision could not possibly have been avoided. . . . The State’s “Seen Here and There” column commenting on the fact that Governor Olin D. Johnston pinned 1 a service medal on' Ben M. Sawyar, chief highway com missioner, at the ^^overnoi s Day” exercises at Camp Jackson Thursday —but the medal was n commemora tion of Mr. Sawyer’s service in the National Guard, not for his services in the highway department. Mr. Saw Fteight Rates Are Attacked by Ftklmer South Carolina Congressman Charges Discrimination Against Sooth in Hc*Se Speech. " "" ~ Cain, Thelma Hutson, Carrie Gr, yer 18 a ,ieutenant colonel * • • • Martin Best, local druggist, saying that “Chesterfield” cigarettes are now outselling other brands about 3 to 1. Incidentally, “Chesterfield” is running an advertiseing campaign in The People-Sentinel. . . The rain that began falling Sunday morning bring Bamberg, Aug.%9.—Nine prisoners, four white men and! five negroes, were still at large late tbday, al though county officials made a wide spread search, after discovering them missing from the county jail early this morning. Sheriff T. J. Hadwin said no trace of the fugitives had been found dur ing the day! An investigation showed 1 that the door to the cell occupied by the ne groes had been sawed open with hack saws, evidently smuggled > n * an d the door to the white’s cell had been pried off. The sheriff listed the fugitives as Martin and- Broughton Hoover, Barney ' Hiatt and Herman Creel, white; John- \ ny Preacher, Hezekiah Jordan, Lige Glover, Wilbur Reid and Fred Ryan. 1 They were variously charged with assault and battery, forgery, larceny, and liquor law violations. Tree Within a Tree. ing welcome relief from the terrific heat of the past few week^_ but caus ing the farmers to worry about the open cotton in their fielch. . . . ’. And “Hub” Sanders telling about the terrific downpour that fell at Folly Beach Sunday morning, forcing vaca tionists to Tibandon automobiles and take to boats. The rainfall in Charles ton over a 12-hour period measured 6.08 inches. . . ✓ John B. Harley declaring that Barnwell Fias “the best cotton market in the United States.” . . . And the first bale of the fleecy staple from the 1935 crop be-, ing marketed here two liveeks ahead of last .year. G; R. Morris, of the Friendship sec tion, displaying a stalk of corn 11*4 feet tall with two large ears whicty he said he grew with no fertilizer, and is believed by Mr. Mo.rris to be even better corn than that of Nat Zorn, who claims to have the best com in the world. . Washington, Aug. 9.—Representa tive Hampton P. Fulmer, Democrat, of Orangeburg, S. C., said^today in a speech in the House that the interstate commerce commission was following a policy of discrimination against the South in establishing freight rates. As an illustration of alleged dis crimination, Fulmer said the first class freight rate from Lewiston, Maine, to Detroit, 813 miles away, was only $1.38 while the charge from Cblum* bia, S. C., to Detroit, the same dis tance, was $2.03. - “Thus, the rate from Columbia is nearly 50 per cent, higher than the rate for the same distance from a competitive New England shipping point,” the Southern representative de clared Asserting no .Southerner was a member of the interstate commerce commission, Fulmer recalled he had introduced a bill to provide that not more than one commissioner shall be appointed from any federal land bank district. “New England now has three mem bers and enjoys a splendid preference under the present rate-making policy,” Tie said. “However, New England is not satisfied with the many advantages given her, including tariff benefits. She is complaining about the process ing tax and the wage differential (in the textile industry.) “I think it is high time that we of the South meet her complaints, which are largely selfish, with real facts and clemand equal rights and equal opportunities — our rightful place in the picture.” Farmers Are Pleased With Local Market ' V ■ 4 Twelve and a Half Onts a Pound Wag Ptevaling Price Here Fri- —r— day and Saturday. The farmers of this section are well pleased with the Barnwell cot ton market this year, according to reports received here. And they have a right to be, fcr it is understood! that the prices paid in this city during the last week were as high as—^per haps higher than—those in other “sec- tons of the State. In fact, one local tire United States. Be that as it may, the prevail ing price here Friday and Saturday was 12% cents a pound, - with a few bales selling for a fraction under the 12-cent level. At the same time, the Augusta market was quoting middling cotton at ll.flfi" and 11.64 cents, re- -spectively. There aie several buyers on the Barnwell market and the competition is keen, which accounts for the prem ium prices being paid to farmers who haul their cotton to this market. With such above-the-market prices being 'paid here, farmers for many miles around should profit thereby and local merchants should also benefit accordingly. South Carolina Road - : Map-Boosts Scenery TKfthy-cue Pictures on Back of the New State Highway Publication Shear Choice Views. J. P. Scoville, of Barnwell, in charge of highway huintenance in this sec tion, has received a shipment of the recently published maps of the State Weekly Clinics For Crippled Children • < . 4a .. Those from Bagawell County Will Bo Cared for Both Monday, Wad- neaday^ and Friday.' (■MaanmaMi " Mrs. G. M. Greene, of this city, Barnwell County chairman for the South Carolina Society for Crippled Children, says that clinics for drip- work of paved - and hard-surfaced roads, is surpassed by few States in the country. Historioal and scenic points of interest are featured promi- man went so farv&s to include the en^jnently on the reverse side of the map, China Egg Is Found In a Chicken Snake Dr. L. T .Claytcir, of Barnwell, Is Dis appointed in Attempt to Get “Free Supper.” The many friends of Sheriff J. B. Morris will be glad to know that he was dismissed from the Columbia hospital Thursday, greatly improved after ten days treatment. He has re turned home and is again directing the affairs of the Sheriff’s office. Blackville, Aug. 15.—'-An interest ing scene from one of nature’s turns may be seen in front of the home of Miss Sallie Hartzog, where a full grown tree bears in the fork of its branches, a Wealthy holly tree. The writer observed a small bird carrying a worm into a hole at the root of the holly amd air. Healing Springs School. Blackville, Aug. 19.—The Healing Springs public school will begin its l935-’36 session Thursday, Septem- 1 ber 5th, gt 9:00 o’clock. The teach- j ing corpa is the name aa it was last ’ year, according to an announcement by Lawrence E. Whittle, principal of | the school Death Stalks S. C. Highways Wilhelm H.^ Ohlandt, Jri, of Beaufort, w'a s killed near Yemassee Friday afternoon when he either jumped or fell from a log truck on which he was hitching a ride. The wheels of the heavily laden vehicle passed over the ^ou^ and death was instantaneous. James L.-Query* 26, Ghariotte engineer, was crushed to death near Lancaster early Sundhy beneath his sedan which over turned at a highway curve. Two companions were unhurt. One of these testified at the in quest 'that he had been drinking and remembered nothing about the wreck. Ray Jones, 12, died in a Greenville hospital Sunday from injures received) the previous day when struck by a car on the highway near Piedmont. A woman wps driving the automo bile that struck the boy. The />ld fable abcut the gopse that laid the golden egg has never been proved thrue in modren times, but in Barnwell a China egg was recently found in the stomach of a ~ chicken snake—believe it or not. One day last week, Dr. L. T. Clay- tor, a lecal physician, was standing on a corner talking to a couple of friends when he saw a large chicken snake faH from a passing farm wagon. He also noticed a protuberance about thd middle of the reptile’s body and, concluding that the snake had just raided a hen’s nest, the doctor J re marked to his companions: “Here’s where I get an egg far my supper. 1 The snake was quickly killed and Doctor Claytor slit open its body with his pocket knife. * He found an egg in‘the reptile’s stomach, but it was a china “nest egg” instead of the regu lation “hen fruit” that he expected. The china egg was presented to the editor of The People-Sentinel by Doc tor Claytor as evidence of his veraci ty and as a souvenir of the occasion. Hugh O. Hanna Named. Triple “C” New* Note* X"X‘*-X“>X-X~X~X‘ Fifteen boys of the Barnwell camp were taken cn an educational trip to Columbia Saturday to visit the State hospital, penitentiary, State house and Salyda dam. Strange to relate, most of them had never before been to these places, although many of them had spent mest of their lives around Columbia. It was a splendid oppor tunity for the boys to learn a little something of the institutions that are maintained by our State. One humopous incident added life ter' the paity. One boy was heard to remark as he came out from the State hospi tal, “Lawsy. Le’ me outa here. If I stay much longer, I’m afraid some one will lock me up.” A very interesting talk was given the beys by Sergeant Moorman of the State penitentiary. He pointed out places and buildings of interest on the prison compounds and explained many interesting phases of the prison life. Unfortunately, the boys could not enter-the prison grounds proper be cause the prisoners are allowed to roam the yard on Saturdays and Sun- •* • days. They hgd to be content with locking out from the office building and guard-inclosure. More than one boy was heard to remark, “I’m as far in this plpce as I want to go, right now. The boys who went feel- indebted to Mr. Bryan, our Educational Advisor, for his interest in the boys, and for his assistance in helping us to get better acquainted with our State and its institutions. All of our cooks and K. P.’s like their work so much that they go to visit a certain Kitchen in Barnwell almost every night. Do you see what we mean? Our recreational truck went to Al lendale instead of Barnwell last Thurs day night, but Barnwell needn’t worry about that. We just did it for the highway, system, which, with ita net- jpled children will be held weekly in five cities in this Staje, with the fol lowing orthopedic surgeons in charge: Dr. Warren White, of Greenville; Dr. William A. Boyd, of Columbia; Dr. A. T. Moore, of Columbia, and Dr. F. A. Hoshall, of Charleston. The hospi tals cooperating at present,.are the Greenville General Hospital, Spartah- burg- General Hospital, Columbia Hospital, McLeod’s Infirmary at. Florence and Roper Hospital at Charieston. At a meeting of the executive com mittee of‘the State board of health several weeks ago* a committee of three, to be known as the South Caro lina Committee for Crippled Children, was appointed to be in complete charge of the whole program for crippled) children in this State. The commit tee members are Dr. D. Lesesne Smith, representing the State board of. health; Dr. Julian P. Price, rep resenting the South Carolina Society for Crippled Children, and P. G. Sheaiter, director of vocational re habilitation in South Carolina. Mrs. Paul H. Leonard is secretary. All children needing the attention of the orthopedic surgeon must first be passed! on by the health officer of the county regarding their financial status before they may be admitted to the hospital. South Carolina has been divided into four districts by this com mittee for crippled children, with Barnwell County in the Charleston District. This district includes Bsm- berg, Orangeburg, Barnwell, Allen dale* Dorchester, Berkeley, Colleton, Hampton, Jasper, Beaufort and Char leston G’oiinties. Clinics will be held at the Roper hospital in Charleston with Dr. F. A. Hoshall in charge on . each Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 2:00 p. m. Clinics for the other counties in the State will be held at Greenville, Spartanburg, . Columbia and Florence. Patients are • advised > to go to the nearest clinic. However, a patient may go tq the surgeon of his choice if he wishes to furnish his own trans- portation to that clinic. A uniform rate for hospitalisation, X-rsys, etc., has been agreed on by the superintendents of hospitals. Local committees are requested to coopeiate in working out plans for transportation of their crippled chil dren to their district tHnic. 31 scenes, ranging from one of ne groes packing shrimp to one of steeplechase riders taking a jump, are reproduced. These scenes include views of public buildings, plantation homes, bridges, parks, State indus tries and State highways. Occupying a prominent place is a picture of the Barnwell County court house and old sun dial. The map itself shows the network of reads in black and white. Streams, lakes and county and State boundaries are outlined in IgKt blue. Tiny air planes, printed in the same shade of blue, indicate towns and cities that have airport facilities. ' * Another new feature of the map is the designation of eight recently authorized State parks and one fed eral park. The State parks shown are located at Table Reck, Chester, Aiken, Cheraw, Poinsett, Edisto, Edisto Beach and Myrtle Beach. The federal park is the King’s Mountain National Military Park, on the north ern boundary cf York County and e x - tending into North Carolina. The map s expected to induce tour ists to visit South Carolina’<s beauty spots, but it would! have been much more effective n this respect if the views had been identified on the folder. Compromise Cotton Loan Plan Is Talked Obscurity Concerning the Govern ment’s 1935 Cotton Lean Plans Still Continues. *# Washington/ Aug. 19.—Obscurity concerning the government’s 1935 cot ton loan plans continued today even after three high officials spent more than an hour discussing, the s’ubject with President Roosevelt. Secretary Wallace, Secretary Mor- genthau juid Chairman Jesse H. Jones,/eftne Reconstruction Finance corporation, attended! the White. House conference. * They declined to com ment or to predict The amount of a loan. • Conferences .concerning the loan continued at the agriculture depart ment. Aske^ what the status of the loan situation was, one high farm offi cial said the situation remained un changed. It was reported authorita tively Saturdhy that a final decision had not been reached. * . It was learned that cfficials have been discussing possibility of a com promise arrangement for a loan on the 1935 crop. Instead of a flat 12c loan to which some AAA officials are opposed, or even a ten-cent advance, it was re ported that cfficials have discussed Greenville, Aug. 18.—The appoint- ment of Hugh O. Hanna, of Hampton, as judge advocate of the South Caro lina department of the American Legion was announced here today by James F. Daniel, Jr., of Greenville, who will take office as State legion commander in October. 1 Daniel and Hanna were the two candidates for the office of State com mander at the department convention bere. early in JnljL. Daniel jwas elect- ed. Hanna for the last two years has been district commander of District No. 2 of the legion and also vice-ocm- mander of the State department. He is a, past commander of the Hampton post. DRIVE CAREFULLY! Bubble-Blowing Contest Friday. All the children are requested to be at the play-grounds Friday morning at 9:00 o'clock. We will have a “soap bubble” contest and other stunts. Please bring an empty spool and small can with you. Also bring your bathing suits and we will all go) swimming. The play ground) is open to every child. Playground Director. Barracks No. 2 had the neatest ap pearance 1 and arrangement Friday, so the men were allowed leave that night instead of at noon Saturday. Ncs. 1, 3 and 4 are out for revenge the next time a contest is announced- If anyone in Barnwell has a stack of old magazines around the house, and would like to get rid of them, he should notify Mr. W. A. Bryan, C. fl. A., at the camp. Someb:dy will stop by fcr them and They wflITSe much appreciated by the boys. u G. R. pissibility of a restricted loan—a plan hbvefty, and we will soon be back. 6T~ad!vancihg farmers a certain a- mount on a stipulated porton ef .their allotments under the Bankhead law. Other plans for a restricted and curtailed loan have been dscussed, it was learned, and some officials predicted that one of the three might be chosen in preference to a flat loan. New Superintendent Named. Blackville, Aug. 15.—rThe trustees of the Blackville school, Dr. O. D. Hammond, G. K. Fckling, J. Farrell O’Gorman, Crum Boylston and! G. F t Posey, anounce the selection of Bryan Wham as superintendent for the com ing year. Supt, Wham served fcr the past two years at Hickory Grove. The school session will begin Sept. 5th with the following teabhers: First grade, Mss Lirine Herndon, of Bam berg; second, Miss Kathryn Wiley, York; third, Miss Beatrice Rivers, There; are 13 menderstMt. Croghan; fourth, Miss Lorea Seay, Spartanburg; fifth, sixth and seventh, departmental ; work, Miss Virginia Ligon, Iva; Mias Charlotte Oswald, Allendale, and Miss MildHd Fort, of North. In the high school* Miss Edna Mae Stewart, cf Tohe, Ky., and Earl W. Canon, Saluda, will assiat Supt- Whfm. * “Thirteen” Jinx Defied. Blackville, Aug. 15.—One of the members of the junior cass of*he Blackvile high school while maiing a money order for the class recently, reports that the order was mailed on the 13th for $13 and the number cf the order was 13 of the class. ^ Card cf Thanks. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Still and family wish tojhank their friends for their kind expressions of sympathy and . beautiful flowers given them in their recent bereavement. To Study Insurance Laws. Goveraor^Olin D. Johnston Fri day appointed Joe F. Stuckey, of. Bishopville to a committee of six selected under authority of a resolu tion passed at the last session of the State legislature to make a study of the insurance laws of the State and 19- port its findings at the next session of thy legislature. Under terms of the resolution. The committee is composed of the State insurance commissioner, Sam B. King, the chairman of the ^committee on banking and insurance from the sen ate, Edgar A.' Brown, of Barnwell, the chairman of the committe cn banking and insurance from th^ house, N. A. Coward, of Belton, a member appoint-' ed by the president of the senate and another appointed by the speaker cf the house, and one member by the governor. Lieut. Governor J. E. Harley, as president of the senate, appointed Senator Brantley Harvey, and Spenik* ef Claude A. Taylor,'of the house ap- pointed Murdock M. Johnson, of Cam den. Pastor Visits Former Charge. Blackville, August 19.—The Rev. L. H. Miller and Mrs. Miller and family, of Greenville, are spending a few days visting friends in Blackville, where he was engaged for a number'of years as pastor of the BaptistChureh. The Rev. Mr. Miller conducted services at the mid-week prayer meeting on Wednesday evening during the ab sence of the pastor, tils Rev. L. G. Payne. „ “Tad” RUsy, of Monday in town with . J