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“ - THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNTY.-^9 i Barnwell Consolidated June 1, 1925*. \ 4< Ju*t Like a Member of the Family Largest County Circulation. VOLUME LIX. BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1935 NUMBER 12. Christmas Lights for , . Barnwell This Year? ,.\f -— Local Merchant Syggests That Busi* -H 1 - ness People Cooperate to Give City Festive Appearance. 4 — A local merchari^has suggested that the business people cooperate this year in fighting up the business sec tion of Barnwell with colored Christ mas lights, and 1 the suggestion is being passed along through these c&umns with the hope that it will bear fruit. This merchant’s idea is to string varircolored lights down Main Street from Harrison’s corner, thence down Burr and around “The Circle” and on down the continuation of Main Street by Calhoun Park, the whole to be set off with a brightly lighted Christmas tree in “The Circle.” Such a light ing arrangement would certainly give the town a festive appearance and should not cost the individual mer chants very ipuch if they all cooperate. It has also been suggested that the city fathers make a contribution and that t^e, Soijith Carolina Power Co. be asked to furnish the current free, or charge only a nominal sunvfor the cur rent used for the lights. Neighboring towns have been Seen and Heard Here During the Past Week A Little Senae and Nonsense About People You Know and Othera You Don’t Know. - An account in The Barnwell People, Nov. 26, 1885, cf a meeting of mem bers of the “Wallace House” jat Wright’s Hotel in Columbia on , the evening of November 11th, for the Second Week Jurors Does Not Choose to \ Were Drawn Monday i Run for Senate Seat —■■■ ■■ ■ *§ , Court of Common Pleag to Convene Blease Says He Has No Desire to Go December 2nd.—Judge G. B. ■ Greene Will Preside. Second week petit jurors for the De- Back, But He May Offer for Governor in 1938. A Columbia, Nov. 25.—Cole L. Blease, cember term of the Court of Common who has riddfen to the political wars purpose of organizing a permanent so- The list of second week jurors is as 22 degrees Monday, long icicles hang- brightly lighted during the Yuletidejdng from his water tank and the ground season for the past several years and they have received much favorable publicity thereby. Of course, the in itial cost will be the biggest item, as the strings of lyjhts can be used year after year With occasional replace ments 'btisiness people will get together on this proposition and bring it to a suc cessful conclusion. r Some Motorists Seek Tags from Governor ciety of the members of tha^ historic body. A list of the membership con tained the following names from Barn well County: JL W. Youmans, M. A. Rountree, Robert Aldrich, I. S. Bam berg andf John W. Holmes. (The'last named wa s the founder of The BarnT well People.) . . .Heavy, killing frosts accompanying the cold weather over the week-end; many people com plaining of the cold and Lang Cave wearing kid gloves for the first time this winter. ... A customer in a local store asking a clerk for “a tur- \tle-neck sweater with a sliding gear front.” . , . H. T. Youmans, of Four Mile township, saying that the thermometer on his back porch regis tered 26 degrees Sunday morning and frozen so hard Monday morning that his farm hands got off to a late start. . . . Two ladies corraling “Rufe” Moore and marching him off down the’ street over his vigorous protest fcnd a friend chiding “Rufe” for being so un gallant. . . .Local sportsmen pre- The People-Sentinel hopes that the ^paring fer the opening of the hunting Pleas, which will convene at Barn well December 2nd, were drawn Mon day. Judge G. B. Greene will preside. Many South Carolina License Applies- • lions Are Filed Directly With - Chief Executive.... season today (Thursday). . . Har ry Boylston, county agent, with .a nice looking setter puppy riding on the rear seat of his car. . . And Harry planning to go to Greenville today to see the Clemson Tiger do tricks with Furman’s “House of Magic” in their annual gridiron clash. . . And Perry Bush “pulling’ for* Furman, probably to “kid” Harry more than anything else. . . Citadel support ers going up to Columbia Friday af ternoon and watching their freshman team hold the more powerful Carolina Biddies -scoreless for three periods, only to weaken in the fatal fourth and lose the game, 18 to 7. But they believe that Sabados, s tar Bulldog cen-. ter, will be the outstanding pivot man in the State next fall. „ * A card from Senator Jas. F. Bvrnes, « mailed in Japan and addressed to the writer, with the following notation: Columbia, Nov. 25.—State officials disclosed that many license applica tions had been filed directly with Gov ernor Olin D. Johnston since he took charge of highway affairs and that some had asked $3 tags although the governor decided he could not pro claim them in effect. All license applications have been turned over to the motor vehicle di vision of the highway department i “The Japanese are busy and presper'- promptly, it was explained. The gov- ous. Newspapers, however, do not ernor announced after taking charge seem to keep the pace. Few people that he was leaving it to the legislature reading papers. However, do not re- to enact $3 tags. j commend your leavifig Barnwell. Re- The division meanwhile received ap- 1 gaids.” Thanks for the advice, Jim- plications personally addressed to mie, but we wouldn’t swap Barnwell Ben M. Sawyer, ousted chief commis- 1 for the whole darn Japanese Empire, sioner; Joe Calus, Johnston-appointed J . . . jkiist Grubbs, of the Grubbs executive manager who succeeded Chevrolet Co., remarking that he has Sawyer; to the department, and to | sold ten 1936 Chevvies since the new individual officials due to confusion , models went on display the early pait follows: Jack Waltz, Barnwell. G. L. Hill, Barnwell. C. L. Kammer, Blackville. N. A. Hiers, Oak Grove. L. S. DuBose, Barnwell. —,M. M. Mazursky, Barnwell. Glenn Browning, Barnwell. Victor Lewis, Kline. T. H. Parker, Williston. ' A. H. Ninestein, Jr., Blackville. H. M. Bodiford, Blackville. I. F. Keeler^ Healing Springs. Frank Hartzog, Hilda. G. M. Odom, Healing Springs. J. D. Grubjp, Barnwell. , Jerome Martin, Blackville. J. D. Thompson, Blackville. G. G. Rountree, Meyer’s Mill. T. J. Birt, Blackville. 'Johnson E. Lain,-Hercules. Otis Sanders, Kline. J. E. Williams, Blackville. Angus Patterson, Barnwell. C. B. Ellis, Jr., Mejfcr’s Mill. D. C. Jones, Barnwell. N. B. Youngblood, Elko. Bob Hutson, Healing Springs. T. G. Cobb, Four MHe. " SAG. Lowe, Blackville. B. L. Peeples, Ellenton. . C. D. Gantt, Red Oak. W. B. Harley, Kline. W. E. Jowers, Pleasant Hill. Stafford Creech, Barnwell. Edward Baxley, Reedy Branch. R. E. Woodward, Pleasant Hill. over registration thi s year . Licenses invariably have beep mail ed out if sufficient funds are enclosed the cash being used to pay employes and money orders and certified checks being retained pending court adjudica tion of highway affairs. / William B. Cave. of this month (which certainly beats the newspaper business, either in Barnwell or Japan) ' . . . . And several local football fans headed by Buist, planning to leave this week in two automobiles to attend the Army- Navy football game at Philadelphia. Cadet Elmer Grubbs, son of the local Chevrolet dealer, is a senior at the Military Academy. Angus Patterson and Hennis Creech enjoying a repast at “thll Greeks” composed chiefly of canned rattlesnake meat, and Ed, the cook, threatening to tion and many friends throughout stage a mutiny before he was finally £?outh Carolina. For 33 years he was ; persuaded to prepare the meal. .• . employed as salesman and manager I The Hon. ClaucJe A. Taylor, of Spar- of C’.*F. Rizer’s mercantile busmess in tanburg, speaker of the House of ^tep- Olar. And for 18 years he was a resentatives, paying a short visit to deacon of the local Baptist Church. He wasHTrustee of the Olar school for Olar, Nov. 23.—William B. Cave, age 56, died at his home here Thurs day afternoon after a short illness. Mr. Cave ha s a large family connec- four years, and served several terms as mayor of Olar and a member of the city council. Triple “C” News Notes New Commanding Officer. We are all glad to have Lieut. Sand ers as commanding officer again. He resumed his duties on November 21, relieving Capt. W. C. Bowen, who left to become CO of the Edisto Island camp. ‘ • During his short s t a y at P-JO Cap tain Bowen became very popular with everybody in camp and we shall miss him. . New Lieutenant. We are glad to announce the arrival of ,lyieut. John Knox, who came in Wednesday, Nov. 20th, and who will soon become our mess officer. On the day cf his arival in camp Lieut. Knox made a talk at the regular weekly stunt night program, ia whidh he told of his experiences as a professional wiestler. He stated that if there were any complaints to be made while he is in charge of the mess he will be glad to feceive them personally. He also tcld.about an enemy of his in the wrestling game slipping up behind'him and cutting him with a knife. The Lieutenant got hold of hi s arm and applied a shoulder lock and hig shoul der is still in a plaster cast. Lieut. Knox has agreed to start a wrestling class in the near future.' Visitors. Captain Love of the Quartermaster’s office paid us a short visit on Monday. Major Wells, sub-district inspector also was here this week, on Tuesday. Stunt Night. Barracks No. 4 put on the program for the weekly stunt nite on Wednes* day night and they spre put cn an in- C’ol. Solomon Blatt, speaker pro tern, teresting program. Stanley Wilson The “gobble-gobble” of Thanks- with his guitor playing and singing giving turkeys awaiting the heads man’s axe. . . Local man remarking was the hit of the evening. He could’ not be stopped, but was encored again that, in view of the large number of i and again. Then the blackface farce He is survived by his wife, Mrs. j traffic accidents in the State, control “The Interrupted Courtship,” put on by Maggie Hartzog Cave and the follow-, of the cars cn the highways is infinite- j Sweatt, Jones and Brazell, was rich. ing children: J. A. £ave, cf Green- ly more desirable thpn control of the ville, W. B. Cave, Jr.? of Olar; P. H. highway department. ^ Cave, of Columbia, Martin Cave, of Olar, and Mrs. L. H. Morris, of Black ville; sisters and brothers, Mrs. J. H. Chitty, of Denmaik; G. W. Cave, of Olar, R» B. Cave, of Olar and Mrs. Reginold Cloy, of Allendale, and his step-mother, Mrs. Minnie Cave, of Olar. Funeral services were- held Friday at 3 o’clock at the residence with the Rev. S. W. Danner, pastor of the Bap tist Church officiating, assisted by the Rev. W. P. Way, pastor of the Metho dist’ Church, interment following in the Starr cemetery. J. U. Watts, Jr., spent the week-end with friends in Union. Hugh Sanders. Olar, Nov. 23.—Hugh Sanders, 65, died at his home n6ar Olar Monday night, Nov. 18, at 9:30 o’clock, after a short illness. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday at the Starr cemetery by the Rev. Mr. Way. He is survived by his wife and several chil dren,’ who have the sympathy of many friends ip their bereavement. Mrs. C. F. Molair returned home last week after spending some time yfith Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Tinsley in 'Atlanta. She was accompanied'hohfe by Mrs,, Tinsley. fe ’ ' ' The crowd laughed uproariously. Mr. Bryan gave a short, clear talk on the constitution^ taking up “The American Bill of Rights,” and Lieut. Sanders spoke on company morale. The even ing was concluded when oranges were passed around to all present. Basketball Court. Construction is progressing rapidly on our basketball court, which we hope will be the best in the district. The work is being done under the direction of Assistant Leader Lewis Faver, as sisted by Mr. Bryan, CEA, and Mr. Kimpe, Forestry Surveyor. Arthur Riddock, Reporter. D. P. Patterson, Jr., was a business visitor in Augusta Saturday. for forty-eight years, says he will have to be drafted next time. “I have no desire to v go back to the United States Senate,” he declar ed, but in the next breath disclosed that “strong pressure” was being brought 'Upon him to run fer the gov ernorship in 1938. The former governor and United Stated senator, a fiery contemporary of Alabama’s Tcm Heflin in the upper chamber, said, “the situation dictating m y course as to the United States a en ate race is’Tiot dear.” There has been much conjecture as to whether he will enter the Demo cratic primary next summer in an ef fort to defeat Senator James F. Byrnes, a first-rank New Dealer and personal friend of the President, as Byrnes defeated him in his race for reelect ion in 1930. Blease shaped up the foundations of a platform in a speech last summer opposing proposals of New Deal leaders for. constitutional changes to broaden the scope of federal govern ment and favoring revision of the State liquor law to prevent licensing of “bootleggers and negroes.” Points to His Creations. But since that time he has largely lapsed back into a leisurely practice of law and “reading a lot of history” in the well-furnished white house here where he lives alone sinee his wife’s death a year ago. . '«* Erect and ruddy at sixty-eight, with curling white hair and mustache, he reminisces of his senate sponsor ship of a rigid immigration law, ^nd bills creating a third judgship in the State, expediting fecJeral court ac tions, and providing the Georgetown “Ifrfdge in South Carolina. About him are a vast number of his tory books, among them his old schoolboy text he has saved, and ■family relics including a girlhood bon net of his mother in a frame on the wall. “I prefer being a private citizen at home among family and friends,” he says.,“rather than.being a senator of the United States, but if the situa tion arises that I can be L of some peculiar service to my State in any position, small or large, I will not de cline to give that service.” Started Runing at 20. As runner-up in*fhe 1934 election for governor, he polled 123,000 votes, attesting .to the support he has car ried to the polls in elections for near ly every local and State office since he first became a candidate for the State legislature at 20. “The situation dictating my course as to the United States senate race is not clear,” he explained, “but strong presure is being brought upon me to wait and make the race for governor in 1938. “I have no desire to go back to the United States senate. I went there and had the honor and the privilege of presiding over the senate on many >ccasions, an hohor almost equal to being president of the United States itself. . “Since^-my good companion is no longer with me, I would prefer for that reason also not to go hack without her to the scenes of my pleasant rebol lections at Washington. “I am still in hopes that my brother, former Chief Justice Eugene S. Blease, of Newberry, will be in the senate race.” The younger Blease, resigning with nine year s of a term as chief justice cf the "State supreme court still re maining, returned to “the practice of law'and fishing” and has declined! to say that he will seek the senatorship. Barnwell Man Unhurt \ 1 i ^ In Lexington Crash Alya Da mold Escaped Injury, But Ernest Leo Corley Was Killed in Wreck Stflurday\\ight. Ernest Leo Corley, 24, of near Lees- ville, died at the Baptist Hospital in Columbia at two o’clock Sunday morn ing from injuries*received abqut 6:15 Saturday night in an automobile crash near Fairview school, i/i Lexington County on U. S. Route No. 178. Alva Darnold, of Barnwell, whose car was in the collision with the Corley ma chine, escaped unhurt, but the car he was driying was badly damaged. Mr. Corley was rushed to the hospi tals immediately after the accident Both of his legs"were broken and! he sustained other injuries. He i a sur vived by his wife,. Mrs. Lola Baugh man Corley, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Corley, of near Leesville. Mr. Darnold, who holds a responsi ble position with the C. G. Fuller Con struction Co., was en route from Smithfield, N. C^, to Barnwell to spend the week-end with his family. An other car was dispatched from Barn well to the scene of the accident' to bring him home. Scott-Thompson. Williston, Nov. 25.—Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Scott announce the engagement of their daughter, Helen Margaret, to Mr. Selwyn Thompson^ son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry M. Thompson. The wed ding will take* place in Williston in December. Card of Thanks. We wish to express our thanks and sincere appreciation for the many kindnesses and sympathy shown us during the short illness and sudden death of our husband and father, and for the many beautiful floral offerings. r Mrs. Hugh Sandfers and Children. Mrs. W. L. Jackson. North Augusta, Nov.'26.—Mrs. Mary Moody Jackson, wife of W. L. Jackson, died at the residence in North Au gusta Monday morning at 3:10 o^clock after an extended illness. Funeral services* were conducted at the North Augusta Baptist Church this afternoon at 4:00 o’clock by the Rev. J. P. Shef field, pastor. Interment was in Mag nolia Cemetery in Augusta. Mrs. Jackscn w’as a native of Barn well County but had* resided in North Augusta for the past four years. She was a member of the’North Augusta Baptist Church., Besides her husband, Mrs. Jackson is survived by one. son, William Moody; three daughters, Miss Virginia Moody, Mis s Eunice Moody and Miss Margaret Moody, all of North Augus ta; one brother, George F. Grubbs, of Augusta; two sisters, Mrs. J. E. New man and Mrs. J. G. Scott, both of Au gusta; her mother, Mrs. J. F. Grubbs, of Williston, and other relatives. Faith and Savings Take Flight in Car Two White Women, Gaining to_ Be Faith Doctors, Fleece Couple Living Near Williston. Williston, Nov. 25.—-Pretending they were faith doctors, twrf white women drove up to the home of Noel Blume here this afternoon and while ohe sat in the car chatting with a neighbor the other went inside the house and in some manner stole $800 in currency from the unsuspecting Mrs. Blume. When last seen the car with the women was headed toward Aiken at a high rate of speed. Mrs. Blume, an elderly woman, in .ill health, was alone in the house at the time the robbery occurred. Mrs. Blume said the woman, under the pretense of telling her how to have good health the rest of her days, told her to place what money she had in her bosom and make the sign of the cross. This she did and then, Mrs. Blume said, she put the nuttney back in a small cotton sack and placed the sack in a trunk. When the neighbor, who had been talkineto the woman in the car came in sWF remarked to Mrs. Blume that she didn’t, like 4hn looks of those two women and who had just driven off. Mrs. Blume became alarmed, went to the trunk and discovered her money was missing. Late tonight efforts to catch the two women were still with out results. Bridge at Blackville. Blackville, Nov. 22.—Mr. and Mrs. Farrell O’Gorman entertained Tues day evening with guests for - four tables of bridge. The prize was awarded to Mrs. Posey for the women and to Mr. Wham foi^ the men. Mrs. Sigsbie Grime s entertained on Tuesday afternoon. SixJ^en friendb were in for bridge.' Highest score was made by ^frs. R. B. Fickling. Mrs. Eugene Fickling cut consolation. Mrs. E. E. Herlong, of Rock Hill; was a guest. She was given a fruit cake by her hostess. Four members of the school faculty played. The school faculty was entertained Monday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Farrell O’German. Contract bridge was played. Highest score was made by Miss Beatrice Rivers. Con solation was cut by Miss Virginia Ligon. Mrs. Brown received the high score prize for the visitors. Act Limiting Weight Upheld by High Court Vehicles Weighing More Than 20,000 Pounds Are Ruled Off Scuth ^ ~ CroHna Highways. FMay to 6-6 Deadlock.. Williston, Nov. f.6.—Williston-Elko high and Blackville high eleven fought to a 6-6 deadlock at the Blackville ball park this afternoon. It was the final game of the season for both teams and one of the hardest fought ever p|ayed by these two rivals. Both team^ Werre evenly matched and fought on equal terms through the first half. Williston-Elko missed an opportunity to push over a touch down after Tarrance heaved a long pass to Smith who was brought down on the Blackville four-yard line, but the whistle blew ending the half be fore the teams lined up for the next Play. ~ Blackville kicked off to start the third quarter and McKerley* took the ball on a reverse from Tarrance who received it on the 20-yard line and romped 80 yardfc for a touchdown. In the last quarter Blackville, with tile ball on the Williston-Elko 25-yard line, Cooiper rifled a long pass to Gray who caught the ball on the run over the goal line. Both teams failed to convert th extra ’ point after touch down. V T T > Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Grout and daugh ter, Miss Sarah Grout, of Columbia, were the guests of Mrs. S. fe. Good- jum- Sunday. Columbia, Nov. 23.—The South Carolina supreme court held today that a 1933 legislative act limiting the gross weight of trucks operating on State highways to 20,000 porfnds gross was a “valid and constitutional statute and entitled to be enforced according to its terms.” w . The opinion, by Grcuit Judge G. Duncan Bellinger, of Columbia, and concurred in by all the justices, “per petually enjoined and restrained" trucking firms from operating vehi cles weighing in excess of 20,000 lbs. gross, twelve and one-half feet height, thirty feet in overall length and ninety inches in width v . ^ The court also sustained a provis ion of the act forbidding operation of four-wheeled trailers in the State. The case was brought in $he origi nal jurisdiction of the court by Attor ney General John M. Daniel in the name of the State after John P. Nutt, of Charleston, and 33 other truck oper ators in six countie 8 had obtained temporary injunctions against en forcement of the act in lower courts. The act was passed in 1933 to take effect January 1, 1935, but its enforce ment was held up by circuit court or ders pending outcome of the litigation. -The opinion also “perpetually en joined and restrained” the truckers from ‘proceeding with their various ac tions in the courts of common pleas” and added: “The plaintiff has the right to here after apply to the supreme court for the issuance of such orders or writs as may be necessary or proper to car ry into effect the conclusions and judgment of this court.” Former Chief Justice Eugene R Blease, of Newberry, was associated with counsel for Jhe State in contend ing the large trucks were dangerous to traffic and damaging to roads'. The truck owners’ attorneys had .Ao argued thejyhad a right to use the highwa safely. highways for traffic and could do so Smith-Gregg. , Williston, Nov. 25.—Mrs. Kitty Smith announces the marriage of her daughter, Julia Frances, to Mr. Thos. Gregg on Wednesday, November 13. The marriage wa 8 performed in Flor ence at the home of the Rev, D. H. Dulin. Mrs. Grefifg is the eldest daughter of Mrs. Kitty Smith. For the past year % she has been a student nurse at the Sanders Memorial Hospital in Florence. Mr. Gnegg is the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Gregg, of Flor ence. He attended Bailey Military In stitute in Greenwood. He now holds a position as assistant city treasurer in Florence. *