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Barnwell
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Consolidated June 1, 1925.
VOLUME LIX.
New License Stamps
Make Barnwell Debut
State Tax Commission Experimenting
* With Sticker Designed to Pre
vent Reuse.
The new 3-cent cigarette tax stamps,
with which the South Carolina Tax
commission is experimenting, have
made their appearance in Barnwell
and have met with the wholehearted
endorsement of N. D. Coclin, local
jobber, who expressed the hope a few
dlays ago that the Tax Commission will
soon make othef" denominations avail
able to the trade. The new stamp is
designed to prevent re-vse and is
known as the “decalcomania’ or “de
cal” stamp. It i s nothing more than
several layers of ink on adhesive paper
end is transferred to the cellopharie
wrapper of
moistenedl a few secondg in water.
Any attempt to remove the stamp for
re-use results in its disappearance end
the experiment is being conducted with
the expectation that there will be a
substantial increase in revenue fjao,
this source, as it is claimed that
old style paper stamp was used more
than once. The experiment was made
possible through the cooperation of
the Joint Committee on Printing with
the Tax Commission. Similar stamps
are in use in Arizona, Arkansas,
Pennsylvania and! several other
. States for the collection of the tobac
co and liquor taxes.
For many years the federal gov
ernment seemed greatly worried about
the possibility of re-use of its post
age stomps and prior to about 1880, a
number of experimental papers, all
designed to prevent removal of the
cancellation were tried.
The most commonly used device was
the grill, rough impression made in
the fact of the stamp similar to that
used in some check protection devices
to prevent alteration. This-device was
used also by Peru. It continued in use
for a number of years, but was aban
doned.
Later, what is known as the
wheel punch” was used. Thi s was a
cut in the center of, the stamp in the
shape of a cog wheel, which would
tear out of the st:<mp if an attempt
was mrd? to remove the cancellation.
Multiple Ply Paper Tried.
\nother experiment wa> the use
of double or. triple paper, which
would come apart and dissolve if the
stamp were immersed in water or
any other chemical for’ removal of
the. cancellation.
But the pendulum, so far as the
federal government is concerned has
swung in the other direction. Nowa
days, pre-canceled stamps may be
bought by users of large quantities of
stamps. These stamps have the name
of the city printed across the face and
are affixed to mail, no further can
cellation being required. Through there
is nothing but the fear of the law to
prevent their being sent back to the
city of origin for re-use, the saving
in the labor of canceling each indi
vidual piece of mail is believed to
more than offset the small proportion
of loss sustained in this manner.
In foreign countries, another de
vice to protect the government from
fraud was the use of a silk thread,
one of which passed through the paper
at about the center of each stamp. An
attempt to rub out the cancellation
would result in the’ tearing out of this
threod and the breaking of the paper.
Letters Used on Stamps.
In England, the early stamps bore
letters in the lower comers, each
of the 240 stamps in a sheet having
a different combination of letters, so
thet a complete plate can be recon
structed from them.' Later, the let
ters were placed in all corners, the
combination in the upper corner being
the reverse of the one in the lower
corners.
The idea of the letter s originally
was to prevent forgery, it being
thought that forger hardly would make
an entire plate, and if too many stamps
bearing the same letters came into
use, it would) arouse suspicion. The
additional tetter^ at the top were
put in as a protection against the
cutting off of the uncanceled parts of
two stamps and ipaipting them to
gether to form an apparently unusedv
samp. The letter combination would
stand but one chance in 240 of
matching.
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BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAY 21ST, 1936.
NUMBER 36.
Seen and Heafd Here
During the Past Week
A Little Senae and Nonsense About
People You Know and Others
You Don't Know.
Senate Joins House j Blackville School
in Overriding Veto Finals Announced
Highway Measure Becomes Law in Successful Year to Close With Exer
cises for Grammar and High
School Graduates.
J. Buist Grubbs making plan s to
take his family to West Point next
month to attend the graduation of his
son, Elmer, from the United States
Military Academy. They wilL~make
the trip by automobile. . . Farmers
complaining about the lengthy drought
and everybody hoping for rain. It is
estimated that hordly more than 50
per cent, of the county’s cotton crop
is up and much of it to “bad stands,”
while present prospects are fo ra
sharply curtailed cucumber crop. . .
. . S. E. Moore, of Snelling, recall
ing a similar condition several years
that when the rains'
finally came he never saw “such a
roll of cotton” in hi s fields
Quite a number of golfers on the
Sweetwater country club course Sun-
Kfety. v . . Coroner J. T. Still
thonking the editor for “the nice
write up” of hi s candidacy for re-
election in last week’s issue of The
;People-|SentinJel. . . . Local man
remarking that there are no indica
tions of “race suicide” in and around
Barnwell. . . . Local automobile
owner dickering for a new car and
finally deciding to retire the old bus.
. . . In other words, to retire or
re-tire—that is the question. . . .
But the siren song of the salesman is
hard to resist. . . Barnwell homes
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looking very lovely in their settings
of early summer green. . . Par
ents counting the days before the
return of their young hopefuls
from college for their s u m-
m e r veation. .... Announcer
advertising beer over a local amplify
ing system and inadvertently naming
a dry goods s tore . as the dealer, there
by mixing the wet and the dry. . .
Local folks starting their annual pil
grimages to the beaches.
“Rowdy” Gleaton with a fishin’ pole
long enough to reach across any ordi-
ru»ry stream. . . . The' Bamberg
Herald referring to Bob Gettys’ “ped
estal extrimity coverings,” whatever
they are. . . And that same news
paper recording the fact that women
of the Sixties from Barnwell County
attending the Rivers’ Bridge memorial
celebration were Mrs. Emma Dyches,
of Hilda, and Mrs. Alice Still, of
Blackville. T. J. Ready, of this
county, w< s on of the four Confed
erate Veterans in attendance. . .
And a local man declaring that the
War Between the States was the
most “unnecessary” of all conflicts,
having been fought, he contend?, to
keep the rich men in possession of their
slaves and, for the most part, hymen
who never owned a slave—that many
of the rich land' and slave owners
hired the poorer classes to do their
fighting. ... A welcome absence
of dogs and stray curs roaming the
streets since the city fathers order
ed that all canines be confined for a
period of severcl weeks.
INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS
FROM ASHLE1GH SECTION
The Blackville schools will close an
other successful year Tuesday, May
Spite of Governcr’s Opposition.
Bitter Fight Ends.
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The long bitter controversy over the
reorganization of the South Carolina
highway department apparently came | 26th, with appropriate exercise s for
to an end Thursday when the house both grammar and high school graoVi-
of representatives, by a margin of ates. The Rev. James P. Wesherry,
three votes, and the senate, by an of Bamberg, will deliver the corn-
overwhelming majority, passed over mencement sermon in the schol audi-
the veto of Governor Johnston the torium Sunday evening ,Ma y 24th, at
combination highway act—the act 8:15 o’clock, for which occasion a
which the governor had termed 1 a special program of music has been
New Road Measure
Brings Quick Action
Legislative Delegations Prepare to
Elect an Entirely New Road
Commissicct.
Farm Women’s Council
Is Largely Attended
prf. Solomon Blatt Speaks on “Citizen
ship”-to Gathering of About
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Fifty People.
“legislative omelet,” a “three-headed
monster.”
The house vote was 82 to 39, that
of the senate 32 to 5, and the rhem-
bers of the Barnwp.ll Cmint.y dalagra- Tuesday
arranged by Mrs. C. A. Buist. and the
high school glee club under the direc
tion of Mrs. Byron Wham.
Graduation exercise g yvill be held
Ashleigh, May 18.—Mrs. Q. A.
Diamond and granddaughters, Doris
and Frances Lazar, of the Long
Branch section, were visitor s at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Owens
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Mrs. L. R. Osborne and children,-iof
Rock Hill are spending a few weeks
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hair.
Mrs. A. E. Hartin and son, Palmer,
of Columbia, spent a few days at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Garland Ross
the past week, taking little Sallie Ross
back with them for a few days visit.
The Rev. Raemy, pastor of the
Ashleigh Baptist Church, preached a
fine sermon here Sunday in honor of
“Mothers’ Day.” He and Mrs. Raemy
and little daughter, Patricia Ann, left
for Maryland on a three weck s visit
Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Boyce Creech and son,
Billy, Mr. and 1 Mrs. Stafford Creech
and son, Bobby, of Barnwell, were
visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
J. L. Owens Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Willie Hair and lit
tle daughter, June, of Denmark, spent
the past week at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Earl Hair.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hair, Mrs. L. R.
Osiborne and children were visitors in
Denmark Sunday.
Horace Wilson returned to his
home at Fort Moultrie Sunday night
after spending a few day s at the
home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Alan Wilson.
tion played leading roles in the final
passage of the measure.
Wednesday, the house had sustain
ed the veto by a narrow margin, then
ft moved to reconsider its action, and
Thursday, amid scenes tense with in
terest, it gave the measure the neces
sary two-third s majority.
There was applause and cheering
when Speaker Claude A. Taylor an
nounced that the bill had been passed.
Out in the lobby there was further
demonstration, as supporters of the
bil] cheered and sang and congratu
lated one another.
The»veto message w'ds read in the
senate after it convened at 8 p. m.
There was no debate. Several sen
ators, wearied' by the session-long is
sue, cried: “Put the question. Let’s
vote.” And they did, making law of
the highway act.
Ben M. Sawyer, cheif highway com
missioner, object of the governor’s at
tack on a hundred stumps, made no
statement.
Governor Johnston, who at first did
not comment, said) later that “it
seems that the wishes of the people
will have to be again spoken at the
polls this summer.”
In a brief statement, he expressed
his “sincere thanks to those members
of the house and senate who have
worked so earnestly and honorably to
help me carry out my pledges to the
people of South Carolina.
“I commend each of them to the
people of our great State,” h? said,
“and know that their effoits will not
be unappreciated.”
The passage of the bill over the
veto was the major defeat the gov
ernor had suffered since he was in
augurated January 15, 1935, when,
from the State House steps, before a
cheeri throng, he delivered his in
augural address, calling on members
of the highway commission to hand
in their resignations. Since that day,
much water has gone over the dam;
the governor has met with passive
reverses and with passive triumphs.
But interest in the last few days, at
any rate, had been centered in the
combination highway bill, and its pas
sage Thursday was naturally a blow’
to the chief executive and his sup
porters.
Calling of Roll.
The contesting sides, so evenly bal
anced that a shift of one or two votes
meant a shifting of the result, with
nerves taut and 1 interest at highest
pitch, followed the reading clerk as
the roll was called and the result was
known even before the speaker had
announced it.
Not in years had a fight in the leg
islative halls been so intense and bit
ter. The fight for the passage of the
liquor law, in comparison, was a s a
game of duckpins.
Governor Johnston was not in the
hall when the final vote was taken,
nor was his secretary’, Roy Powell,
who left soon after F. M. Roddy, of
Fairfield, called for the enforcement
of a house rule relative to persons who
may be in the hall while the house is
in session.
school auditorium. Speakers for the
occasion, all of whom are members-
of the senior class, are Caroline Kemp,
Alluwee Ross, Emma Boylston, Mil
dred Buist and Manuel Kaplan. A
musical program will be presented by
Mrs. G. F. Posey and members of the
glee club.
At thi s time, also, pupils competing
the course of study prescribed for
grammar schools will receive recogni
tion in the presentation of diplomas
and certificates.
The following award's, to be an
nounced Tuesday night, May 26, are
of special interest: To the pupil having
the highest average in each grade;
to student attaining The yearly honor
roll; roll perfect attendance records;
the American Legion award to the
boy who most successfully meets the
requirements and standards ofeitizen-
ship, andl a similar one to a girl,
presented by the American Legion
Auxiliary. The Joseph Koger chap
ter of the Daughters of the American
Revolution will present an award to
the student having the highest aver
age in American history.
Members of the senior class who
are candidates for State High School
diplomas are: David Baughman, Myr
tle Bessinger, Emma Boylston, Mar
ion Buist, Mildred Buist, D. J. Cain,
Ruth Croft, Arleen Cromer, Wilford
Epps, Runelle Gray, Martha Guess,
Manuel Kaplan, Caroline Kemp, Allu
wee Ross, Louise Sandifer and Lur-
line Still.
Re-elect WUliston Teachers.
At a recent meeting of the local
boards of education the following
regular teachers were re-elected for
next session, 1936-’37, of the VVillis-
ton-Elko school system;
Junior-senior high school:
Principal, M. M. Player, John Miley,
Misses Newsom, Sarah Dunlap, Doro
thy Hightower, Annie Steedly ami
Elizabeth McNair.
Williston Grammar .school:
Principal, P. N. Wise, Misses Eloise
Quattlebaum, Gene Way, Geraldine
George, Dorothy Miller and Julia K.
Pennel.
Elko Grammar School:
Principal, L. E. Stansell, and Miss
Mattie Lee Bennett.
The schools will he again headed
by C. K. Ackerman, as superintend
ent, hi< 8th year here.—Williston Way.
Under terms of the reorganization
highw’ay bill passed over the gover
nor’s veto Thursday, legislative dele
gations began preparations immediate
ly to elect an entirely new State high
way commission.
The new act cut short the terms of
five commissioners who were appoint
ed to serve until April, 1938.
It provided! that delegations of the
.14 judicial circuits should meet and
elect within 15 days, a commission of
14 with the same powers as the pres
ent hoard.
There” was no” provision precluding
the election of member s of the pres
ent board, or changing a statute under
which iChief Commissioner Ben M
Sawyer was chosen to serve until May,
1937.
The new commission would possess
all power s the old' one, would re
ceive $100 a year each, and would'
serve for four-year terms after the
first elections.
Commissioners from the Second,
Ninth, Tenth, Twelfth and Fourteenth
highway districts would be elected for
initial terms expiring April 15, 1938.
Those from the Third, Eighth, Elev
enth and Thirteenth districts would
serve until April 15, 1939, and com
missioners of the First, Fourth, Fifth,
Sixth and Seventh districts until April
15, 1940. Terms thereafter would be
four years.
The delegations by circuits and'
present commissioners representing
the counties follow:
First—Calhoun, Dorchester, Orange
burg; E. L. Culler, of Orangeburg.
Second—Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell;
C. F. Rizer, of Olar.
Third— Clarendon, Lee, Sumter,
Williamsburg; E. S. Booth, of Sum
ter.
Fourth — Chesterfield, Darlington,
Marlboro, Dillon; -John C. Bethea, of
"Dillon.
Fifth—Kershaw and) Richland; W.
P. Hamrick,, of Columbia.
Sixth—York, Chester, Lancaster,
Fairfield; John T. Stevens, of Ker
shaw.
Seventh—Spartanburg, Union and
Cherokee; C. O. Hearon, gf Spartan-
j burg.
Eighth—'Greenwood, Abbeville, Lau-
l rens, Newberry; Z. F. Wright, of New-
berry.
Ninth—Charleston, Berkeley; E. T.
Heyward, of Charleston.
Tenth—Anderson, Oconee; Ralph R.
Ramer, of Anderson.
Eleventh—Lexington, Saluda, Edge-
field, McCormick; George Bell Tim-
merman, of Lexington.
Twelfth—Florence, Horry, Marion,
Georgetown; W. A. Stilley, Jr., of
Conway, Johnston appointee, uncon
firmed by senate.
Thirteenth—Greenville,- Pickens; R.
M. Dacus, of Greenville.
Fourteenth — Allendale, Hampton,
Colleton, Jasper Beaufort; W. Fred
Lightsey, of Siiley.
Negrr.es Engage in Fight.
Blatt Amends Bill.
When the unemployed compensa
tion measure came up in the house
Friday, an amencJment by Representa
tive Solomon Blatt, of Barnwell, to
care for ‘unemployed' farmers and
merchants” was adopted. “I ask for
these no higher right than you ask
for the poor mill boy,” Mr. Blatt
said. It was pointed out that funds
to finance the system would come
from industrial pay rolls and that
the amendment might make the bill
unconstitutional. The measure car
ried an appropriation of $40,000, to be
matched by federal funds, for opera
tion of employment agencies.
In an altercation on Sunday night
near Snelling, Leroy Pressey shot
Joree McCreary in the head. Pressey
then turned the gun on Alex Owens
and) wounded him in the hand. AH
three participants in the fight are ne
groes.
McCreary was carried to the Uni
versity Hospital in Augusta on Mon
day morning in a serious condition,
with a bullet lodged in his head. The
shots were fired from a .32 pistol.
Sheriff J. B. Morris and his deputy,
Gilmore S. Harley, arrested Pressey
and) lodged him in the Barnwell Coun
ty jail to await the outcome of Mc
Creary’s injuries before placing for
mal charges against him, it was
learned from the sheriff’s office Tues
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Short Cucumber Crop.
More than 50 people attended the
meeting of the Farm Women’s Coun
cil at the high school building in
Barnwell Saturday, May 16th.
After the call to order by the
president, Mrs. Manning, & short de
votional was led by Mrs. Wm. Mc-
Nab, chairman of Religion and Wel
fare.
The principal addres s of the day
was given by Col. Solomon Blatt, who
spoke on citizenship.
Mrs. J. A. Riley, district director
of the council, wjp^s present and used
a s the theme of her talk the Creed
of the South Carolina Council of
Farm Women.
Readings were &iven by Clifford
Jones, Jennie Diamond and Sophia
Coclin, winners in the primary and!
elementary grade oratorical contest.
Music was furnished by Mrs. J. M.
Brodie.
An instructive period was that in
which representatives of the various
county educational and welfare agen
cies at work in the county were pre
sented. A brief outline was given
by the following representatives:
Miss Courson, director, DPW; Dr.
Claytor, county health unit; Mrs. O.
H. Best, director Women’s Work,
WPA; Mrs. W. J. Lemon, T. B. As
sociation; Mrs. B. W. Sextorr, NYA;
Mr. Evans, vocational agriculture;
Mrs. G. M. Greene, Crippled Chil
dren’s committee and Red Cross; Mr.
Boylston, extension service (farm
agent) and American Legion; Mrs.
Easterling, United Daughters of the
Confederacy; Mrs. Cave; Daughters
of the American Revolution; Mr. In-
abinet, the Churches; Miss McNab,
extension service (home agent); Mrs.
Willis, Resettlement Administration;
Mr. Carter, the schools; Mrs. Man
ning, Farm Women’s Council.
Picnic lunch was served in the
Home Ec. room. Following the lunch
hour a cake walk was enjoyed by the
group. Mcrion Creech was the winner
of the cake.
Committees serving were: Flower
Show—Mrs. O’Bannon, Mrs. W. J.
Lemon; Transportation—Miss Birta
Harden, Mrs. H. H. King; Judges
(scrap book and flowers)—Mrs.Dlaree
Cail, Mrs. J. M. Brodie, Mrs. Furman
Davis; Lunch—Mrs. Lang Cave, Mrs.
G. M. Greene, Mrs. Lloyd Vickery;
Music—Mrs. Mazursky, Mrs. Brodie;
Registration—Mrs. R. E. Sanders and
Mrs. Allen Myrick.
Ten communities were represented'.
The flower show was opened to
members and visitors at 2:00 o’
clock. Twenty-five exhibits consist
ing of three classes were made: Rib
bon winners were: Vase: Blue Ribbon,
Mrs. Clarence Collins; Red Ribbon,
Mrs. Milledge Black; White Ribbon,
Mrs. R. T. Wiliams. Bowl: Blue Rib
bon, Mrs. Lucille Croft; Red Ribbon,
Mrs. W. H. Manning. Basket: Blue
Ribbon, Mrs. Wm. McNab; Red 1 Rib
bon, Miss Birta Harden; White Rib
bon, Mrs. Alma Collins: Honorable
mention, Mrs. Mozelle Fail.
P. Hawkins Baxley.
Blackville, May 19.—P. Hawkins
Baxley died at his home in Blackville
Saturday evening, May 16. He had
been in declining health for several
years. In the absence of his pastor,
the funiral services were in charge of
the Rev. J. C. Inabinet and 1 the
Masons and were held Sunday after
noon at 5:30 at the Blackville ceme
tery.
Mr. Baxley is survived by his widow
and one child, Mrs. Hammond Brad
shaw, of Denmark; two sisters, Mrs.
Warren Anderson, of Greenville, and
Mrs.' William Stallings, of Trenton,
New Jersey, and one brother, Percy
Baxley, of Barnwell. He had been a
resident of Blackville for about 30
years, and was a member of the
Blackville Baptist Church.
Mrs. Camilla M. Long.
Top-Spinning Cctitest.
A short cucumber crop is indicated
thi s season, owing to the prolonged
drought, and Geo. E. Price, of Co
lumbia, Clemson College marketing
specialist; "predicts that South Caro
ling will do well to ship 900 cars of
“cukes,” 500 less than last year, but
that there will be an increase of about
25 ‘ per cent, in watermelon produc
tion.
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T. D. Creighton, recreational leader
for Barnwell, will hold a top-spinning
contest at the Fuller Park pavilion on
Friday, May 22, at five o’clock.
Ribbons will ‘be awarded to the
prettiest top; the one that spins the
longest; spinning for distance; four
stunts for top-spinning; HML foot
dash; accuracy spinning, and several
other interesting contests.
The following will be judges: J. H.
Oswald, Jack Harley and Thomas
Crenshaw.
Mrs. Camilla M. Long, of the Siloam
section of the county, passe daway at
her home at 3:30 o’clock Friday af
ternoon, May 15th. Mrs. Long had
been in ill health for some time when
pneumonia set in on Friday morning
and she lived for only a few hours.
She was'iard to rest the following
afternoon in the Siloam Churchyard
following services at the Siloam
Methodist Church with the Rev. J. C.
Inabinet, of" Barnwell, officiating, in
the absence of her pastor. Mrs. Long
i 8 survived by one daughter, Miss
Marie Morris, and one son, S. E.
Morris, both of the Siloam section;
one sister, Mrs. Annie McCurkle, of
Fort Gaines, Ga; one uncle, H. D.
Williams, of Andalusia, Ala., and 1 one
aunt, Mrs. W. R. Morris, of Spring-
field.
Christmas Seal Sale.
A report from headquarter 3 in Co
lumbia states that the total Christ
mas seal sale in Barnwell County
amounted to $278.34; Bamberg Coun
ty, $291.78; Allendale County, $247.51;
Hcmpton County, $205.36; Orange
burg County, $1,353.12. MoriDthan
$43,000 worth of seals was sold in
South f Carolina.
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