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PAGE EIGHT, THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, MAY 14TH, 1936, Barnwell 50 and 25 Years Ago. Interesting Items Gleaned From the Files of The Barnwell People. MAY 13, 1886. In a game of baseball .played be tween Barnwell and ^lackville on the bitter’s diamond 1 Thm^iday afternoon, the visitors were defeated by the ecore of 36 to 11. Sixty-three Black- ville players went to bat as against 44 for Barnwell, while the former made 14 errors and the latter 30. Mis s Elizabeth Halford died Sunday at the residence of her brother, Mr. Washington Halford!, Barnwell town ship. Under the new schedules, passengers from all points on the Barnwdl and S. C. Railways can go directly to Colum bia by the morning trains. Three weeks ago Mr. G. E. Birt caught several young foxes, a couple of days old. He gave one of them to a good natured cat which was nursing kittens of the same age. She willing ly adopted it as a member of her family and is just as good to it as to her own offspring. That’s something new to us. Coroner Tobin held an inquest last week on the remain s of Mr. J. H. An derson, strong suspicions being enter- tined by some that the injuries that caused his death were not accidental, but the result of a violent assault by s ome unknown person. After hearing all the evidence attainable, the jury returned a verdict of death from un known causes. After seeing a young lady safely home from church Sunday evening in Bamberg, and while returning to his hotel, Mr. John F. Folk was fired on from ambush. The woaipon was loaded with mixed shot, one of which struck the back of his head, penetrating to but not fracturing the skull. He was able to get out Tuesday. Andl that’s the worst crime that has been com mitted in this county since Rev. John G. Sessions was murdered. MAY 11, 1911. Last week a Barnwell housekeeper “set” a hen on 13 eggs. Within 24 hours she had hatched out 13 chick- een s and laid am extra egg. The ex planation is that the first setting hen had abandoned the nest after setting 20 days. Without opposition the following were reelected trustees of the Barn well High School, District No. 45, on Tuesday: Charles Carroll Simms, P. M. Buckingham, William McNab, W. H. Duncan,< E. H. Richardson, Charlie Brown and B. T. Rice. It is proposed to pave, with gravel, two streets leading from the business part of town to the Southern and Coast Line depots, saidl streets to be desig nated later. The project is to be car ried out by the public spirited citizens of Barnwell, those having teams giv ing their use free of charge, while others will make contributions in money. It i 8 also proposed to build, in one day, a sand-clay road from Barnwell to Hercules school house, in the same manner as above stated; Marriedl, Sunday, May 7th^ by J. O. Sanders, Esq., Notary Public, Miss Addie Croft, of George’s Creek, and Mr. D. P. Morris, of Olar. ‘ Dr. W. R. Tuten, of Ulmers, will be graduated from the Medical Col lege of the State of South Carolina at Charleston on May 31st. Mr. J. B. Morris, Jr., who has been troubled with rheumatism for several weeks, will leave on Sunday to take bath treatment at Hot Springs, Ark. Ssmmie Harley, 21-year old negro, was killed Wednesday on Mr. J. Allen Tobin’s place when he fell from a mule and was _ dragged several hundred yards. the constitution from the Communists and Socialists in Washington.” Opponents of the governor in the highway controversy, notably Senator Harry B. Hughes, of Oconee, have charged him with trying to use the road row as a vehicle to ride into the United States senate. The governor has been silent on his plans. Adams, a sharp critic of relief ad ministration, was elected! to the legis lature in 1934 after caustic atacks on the FERA and there continued them on WPA management of relief. He charged “Communism” was taught under government auspices. Adams is on Fence. Of the three, Blease was ranked as an “Old Dealer,” the governor as a “New Dealer” and Adain3..&a a sympa thizer of the administration in many of its policies but an opponent of its relief tactics. Byrnes led the administration mem bers in the senate on many issues during his term and is close to the president in his informal counsels. Democratic conven^ong of Anderson, Allendale and several other counties recently endorsed him for reelection. Former Mayor Thomas P. Stoney, of Charleston, an outspoken critic of the New Deal,, has blazed forth against the national administration repeatedly. A superlative campaign speaker, he was considered a likely candidate thi s year. He ha^-been at odds with COMMENTS ON MEN AND NEWS By SPECTATOR. , Some men are s o political-minded! that they eat, drink and sleep politics. I wonder what good it does to control the State Convention in this State. If there is any one thing that i s as certain as day and night it is tint President Roosevelt wiU be renominat ed by the Democratic Party. Why, then, all this bother about the con vention ? Now of course some men have it all figured* out that if they go to the State Convention a s deelgates they may be chosen as delegates to the National Convention; or they may sit in the lime light in some other case. Of course if he should be chosen to the National Comention his picture might harg in the parlor of his grandchildren and he might be p inted out as the member of the family who had a- chieved the largest distinction of the clan. But for practical purposes what is there for anyone to seek after? Many an active politician who gets sill “het-up” about little party dis tinctions is paying a great price for an empty honor. A wise politician does not tear his hair unles s there is something that will repay him for be ing baldheaded. A careful and prudent member of the General Assembly estmates that South Carolina will have to appro priate three million dollars in order to carry out the social program which the voters will be called! on to accept or reject next November when the Constitutional amendment i s submit ted in the General Election. We might as well understand this now and save ourselves the mortification of biting off more than we can chew. Three million doHar s is a tidy sum and can only Ik? raised by new or ad ditional taxes. Our Legislators have never shown any dispositon to effect economies by a re-alignment of ad ministrative functions so as to reduce the cost of government. We pile on the taxes. As a matter of fact there i s no re-alignmprvt that will save three million do'lars. Let our people un derstand this clearly, if they adopt these things they must be ready to tax themselves to pay the bill. Let us not deceive ourselves into believ ing that we can tax the corporations and 1 go Scot free ourselves. Not so; regardless of how the tax is imposed, .you and I will pay it? except for cause, with a judicial re view. As part of the bill it might be stipulated, that no one should be em ployed or commissioned in or by the Highway Department Acept for -a position appearing in the budget; then every job in the Department should be separately specified in the budget. But let’ s get something done. I glory in the spunk of old Edjge- tield by refusng to contribute for this new-fangled State E. R. A. In all the days of misery that our fathers endured after the Civil War they did not whimper and beg for^the h: nd-outs of the-Er R. A. Moreover the hand-outs are not the most ex pensive featurt*. My »irnpression is that thi-; whole thing i s largely to keep a favored few in positions of no real service, but positions that pay : alaries. Byrnes. Leon W. Harris, of Anderson, for mer solicitor who ran for the national senate in. 1932 and for the house from the third district in 1934, was men tioned a s a possible candidate for ene or the other of the posts this year. Neither he nor Stoney has announced. Senator Edgar A. Browm, of Barn- w’ell, who opposed United States Sen ator E. D. Smith in 1926, also was mentioned as a possibility. Brown s aid hi s present “senatorial ambitions” were to continue to represent his county. He announced' he would offer lor re-election this summer. Delegates Turn Eyes to State Conventioh Session Will Be Held in State H°iise House in Columbia Next Wednes day, May 20th. Senator Edgar Brown Not to Oppose Byrnes Harllee and McKinnon Are Only Can didates Who Have Announced : i at This Time. I have heard it said that the Gov ernor will try to Johnstonize the State, appointing men of his group to each and every position, making the Highway Department a refuge for political hacks and henchmen. If that s what i s feared a bill might quickly prevent such political spoliation by forbidding removal of any employee Colombia, May 10—Janies F. Byrnes apparently held a key position today in the unshaped race for the national senate. While the situation may be changed by campaign time, the United States senator from Spartanburg rated high in pre-season standings. He was viewed in some quarters as the man other contenders would have to beat. Colonel W. C. Harllee, of Dillon, a retired! marine officer, alld W. T. Mc Kinnon, of Columbia, a Townsend club mt'inber, have announced their aspira tions to the senate. Governor 01 in D. Johnston, if he de cides to run, was viewed as the most formidable of the potentiafl candidates to succeed Byrnes, with - the veteran Cole L. Blease second. Blease is ‘‘Warming UjS.” The governor has (Declined to commit himself to staying out of the race this summer, while Blease has warmed up nearer to a campaigning pitch with each fresh statement on the election. ‘ Person s clc>se to the political pulse of the State expected Blease, John ston, or Representative Ben Adams, of Richland, a Johnston house leader, to make the race. It was considered barely possible that two of the three might offer. Blease ha s said repeatedly that he twishes former Chief Justice E. S. Blease, of Newberry, his younger brother, to run, but will v take the stump himself “if necessary to protect With the county Democratic con ventions. over and dfone with, and very tame most of them proved to be, eyes cf the politcally minded in South Car olina turn to the State Democratic convention to be held in the State House next Wednesday, May 20, at 10:00 a., m. The hundreds of delegates from the counties will be seated under county banners and the work of the conven tion promises to be speedily accom^ plished unless indeed a certain high way controversy i s injected infcb the proceedngs. *• The convention is ordinarily consid ered a sort of preludt to national and State campaigns, and candidates and would-be candidates sound out the sentiment of friends and acquaintan ces. As there are no - race s for State offices this year interest will be co-i- centrated largely in the races for the six places in the United States house of. representatives and the one place in the United State s senate. House and Senate. Then, too, one-half of the members of the State senate and all of the members of the hou.se of representa tives are to be elected this year. Nu merous races for county offices, too, are on the card, s o that there will be no lack of politi<*al activity during the summer. In a Statewide way, there i s prob ably mcl-e interest in the race for the United States senate than in any other contest. The term of Senator James F. Byrnes expires and prob— abilty seems to be that there will be a candidate or so out for the office other than Mr. Byrnes. At the State convention, a tempo- ary chairman will first be elected. It is the temporary charman w T ho usually makes the “keynote” address, and for that reason there is usually some ma neuvering for the honorary position. This year, however, there seems to be no great interest in thi s office in .the convention. In the national Democratic conven tion in June in Philadelphia, South Carolina has 16 votes—or twice as many votes as she has representation in the national congress. Often more than 16 delegates are elected' to the national convention, however, each delegate being given a fraction of a vote, the State, however, voting a s a unit at the convention. There will be elected a national com mitteeman and a national committee- woman. The late Governor I. C. Blackwood wa s national committee man at the time of his death. Mrs. L. H. Jennigs, of Columbia, i 3 national committeewoman. ResoJutions will be passed and the administration of President Roosevelt will be indorsed. Other business will ‘ There’s a New Taste •x T T T T T T T T T f T T T T T T T T T T T ? T T ❖ ■ i in Town! The People’s Baking Co. , ...r \ Announces the Arrival in Barnwell of ^KPMSf i ♦♦♦ f T T T T T T T T T T T ❖ f T T ? T T T T T T T T ❖ “THE TOAST OF EVERY HOME” For a Real Treat in Flavor Try Bread - Rolls - Cake ... . • : . x. * ’ , ... ., ? Now Delivered Fresh Daily to Your Grocer SAVE THE VALUABLE COUPONS Ask Your Grocer Today for M€nwfrMSJ[\ I I ? T X T T T T Y T T T T T T f T T T T T Y T t T T T L .... Jl be transacted and it would seem that the conventon should not be very lorg in session. The chairman of the State Demo cratic executive committee is Ben T. Leppard, of Greenville. Lane L. Bon ner, of Columbia, is secretary. Wilie Jones, also of Columbia, wa s treasurer at the time of hi s death a few weeks ago.—The State. ... Spring Meeting of Farm Women. The spring meeting of the Farm Women’s Council will be held Satur day, May 16, at the high school build ing in Barnwell. Registration will be from 9:30 to 10:00. An interesting program has been planned by the executive committee. Again this year there will be a flower display. Anyone wishing to make an entry may do, so. Artistic flower arrangement will be stressed. Flowers need not be grown by exhibi-' tor. All exhibits are to be in by 10:30. Flower show will be open at 2:00 o’clock, immediately after lunch. All interested persons are invited to participate in the activities of the day. Satisfaction, is worth a Lot. Let us do your \ Cleaning and you’ll be SATISFIED! Plexico’s Dry Cleaner’s Main Street • • • • Barnwell Optometrists Meet. The Central Zone of the South Caro lina Op.tometric Association met in Orangeburg Thursday night with Dr. George C. Wise in charge of the pro gram. Attending from Barnwell was Dr. P. W. Stevens, local optometrist. Dr. C. H. Pointell, of Columbia, zone chairman, and Dr. J. M. Hoffer, of Camden, took part on the program. Reports on the State Convention were made. Dr. Stevens also attended the con vention held in Greenville the previous week. Y Y 5* * Y Y Y Y T Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y it Southern Welding Company 'Electrict and Acetyline Welding. Portable outfits for-all kind of outside work. 623 Ellis Street AUGUSTA, GA. V V T i Hilda Closing Exercises, Commencement eDcerciaes__of, the Hilda High School will be held on Monday evening, May 2oth, at 8:30, in the Hilda High School auditorium. 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