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Barnwell People-Sentinel
“Ju«t Llk« a Mam bar of tha Family"
VOLUME LX.
BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1»3€.-
B&mwell County Has
Received $ 111,800
Schools of County Share in Three-
v Year Public Works Program,
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Says Captain Irby.
When South Carolina’s 490,000
school children returned to the dass-
rooms this month, many of them will
fifind newly constructed and modemly
repaired buildings awaiting them.
Sixty-six new school buildings have
been erected 1 and 39 repaired, costing
$4,705,145, under South Carolina’s 3-
year public works program, Capt. J.
L. M. Iiby, State PWA director, has
announced. Of the total cost of
these buildings, $2032,164 was fur
nished by the government in direct
grants and $1,474,150 was loaned the
district by the Public Works AAninis-
tration.
Barnwell County received $111,800
for the construction of a new high
school and additions to other existing
buildings. Sixteen class rooms were
added to the system, affording facili
ties to 665 pupils.
This school building program, which
was inaugurated three years ago, in
cluded the construction of elementary
and high school buildings, additions of
gymnasiums and auditoriums, and
needed repairs.
Better facilities for rural communi
ties in the State have resulted from
this program. In many cases rural
school districts have been combined
and thus made possible construction of
secondary schools which would not
have been possible for any one of the
districts.
Under the PWA program 439 class
rooms have been added, affording fa
cilities for 17,196 pupils.
Spartanburg County lad the Bute
ia the number of individual buildings.
S, and Charleston County received the
largeet amount of funds. $974,481, la
a school bafldUig program
la addition to tha construction of
elementary sad high school buildings,
three of the Btete’a colleges, Clsmsan.
University of South Carolina and The
Citadel, received •ljM7 a 9?t for the
erection of new structures on the esua-
fNlwr*
At Cleaaaoo cel lege the new dormi
tory and agricultural buildings, cost
ing M08jM§ each, are neorutg com
pletion and officials of the school ex
pect te occupy the buildings at the
opening of the session. The $226,464
dormitory at the Bute university is
expected U be ready for occupancy be
fore the Bret of the year, as will The
Citadel's 8 new buildings, coating
$641,81$.
Other school building* will be con
structed in the various school district*
throughout the Bute as soon as the
PWA program gets underway.
WILL HOLD YOUNG PEOPLE’S
- RALLY IN DENMARK CHURCH
The Young People’s Rally of the
Barnwell Association will be held in
the Denmark Baptist Church Satur
day morning, September 19th, at 10
o’clock. Lunch will be served to the
visitors by the Denmark auxiliaries,
and the following progrsm has been
arranged:
Morning Session.
Hymn.
Devotional—Blackville G. A.
Prayer.
Welcome—Denmark Y. W. A.
Response—'Double Ponds Y. W. A.
Recogniton of Visitors.
Business.
Special Music—Williston Y. W. A.
Message—Miss Ruth Provence, State
Young People’s Secretary.
Hymn.
Afternoon Session.
Prelude. Prayer.
Special Music—Denmark Sunbeams.
Message—Mis. St. Clair Guess, as
sociations! superintendent.
Hymn.
Paper, "Luther Rice”—Bamberg
R. A.
Report of Committees.
Closing Prayer.
It is hoped that all auxiliaries will
be represented.
I
~—~«!!Sear* Force. Ready
Boy, Page Ripley!
No need* to take a lantern in <
the daytime to hunt for an 11
honest man. He walked into
the office of iDr. W. C. Milhous ;;
Saturday and made a payment • >
on a two-score-year old debt.
Twenty yers ago Dr. Milhous
pulled a tooth for A. P. Wil-
for Mightest Event
BARNWELL CO. 4-H CLUB
TO BROADCAST OVER WIS
The Barnwell County 4-H Clubs
Buying Opportunity Unequalled in 50 will have charge of the home demon-
Years of the Company's Business
Starts Sept. 17.
Beginning September 17, Sears,
Roebuck and Co. will offer to the
Hams. Time passed, and- the ac- .. . pubUc a buying O p po| . tunity not equal
count remained unpaid. Satur
day he handed the local dentist
a dollar on account.
Blatt Pleased With
Promise of Support
Barnwell Candidate for Speaker of
House of Representatives En
couraged by Response.
Healing Spring School Opens.
The Healing Springs Public School
was formally opened for the 1936-*87
session on Fiiday, Sept. 11, at 9:90
a. m.. with quite n large number of
parents and friends of the school in
attendance.
The principal, L. E. Whittle, pre
sided at the opening exercises and af
ter n song the scripture rending and
a prayer were given by H. Jeff Hair.
Inspiring talks by Ben Tillman Lott,
L. B. Gtbeon, trustees of the school.
Bob Hutson and H. Jeff Hair followed.
Only one change in the personnel of
the school was made this year. Miss
Elies Sturkey. of Cope, taking the
piece of Mias Williams, who resigned
to oeeopt a pesitien eleewhers.
Mr. Lott offered a prise of ive dol
lars to the student in the Brat, second
or third grade who had the highest
average ia scholarship and also n
corresponding prise te the student ia
the fourth, Bflh or sixth grade for
the seme feature.
Principal Whittle states that he Is
expecting an excellent school year and
cordially Invitee any interested out
sider to come ia at eay tiase aad pay
the school a visit.
Columbia, Sept. 11.—With promise
of support from various sections of
the State in his race for speaker of
the house of representatives, Solomon
Blatt, of Barnwell, said yesterday he
was gre *tly encouraged with the out
look .
Representative Blatt, speaker pro
tem., was re-elected to the house for
another two years, and ia in the race
for speaker. He said the messages he
had received, promising him support,
were moat encouraging and that pros
pects were bright.
"I promise a fair deal to all,” he
said as he talked of his race at the
State House.
Dr. John H. Porter, re-elected in
Georgetown County, was also at the
State House yesterday and said that
his col league. Dr. Olin Sawyer, who
had been “mentioned” as s candidate
for speaker, was “deffinited not
ia the race.** Both Representatives
Blatt and Sewyer were grouped as
anti-Johnston members.
This speakership rsce promises to
be cloee and already the contending
groups are lining op their forces for
the roll call, which will likely con
on the Brst day of the next legisla
tive session.
Mm. Robert W. Dicks.
Mrs. Robert W. Dicks, 77, died at
her home in Barnwell at 6:16 o'clock
ed in the fifty years of the company’s
business. From Thursday until Sat
urday, October 3, the Golden Jubilee
Anniversary will be in progress.
Hundred^ of acres of newspaper
space, costing hundreds of thousands
of dollars, yill blazon the news of
nineteen-thirty-six’s super carnival of
merchandising.
The air itself will ring with Anni
versary as 95 stations of the Colum
bia network launch a series of nation
wide broadcasts.
The Anniversary banner will ripple
above 439 retail stores, flashing in new
Anniversary dress, presenting on, the
Goldlen Jubilee platter 1,200 special
offerings that represent the quintes-
cence of a half century of buying ex
perience and a half century’s studious
investigation of mass psychology.
Thirty million dollars has been pour
ed into American industry for the
production of the Anniversary mer
chandise.
And bacW of that unprecedented
epic of buying is the story of a plan.
The plan involved such factors as
the type of merchandise which would
be used in the big celebration, the
price lines, the advertising themes
and took into minute consideration
mass buying tremfe that statistics,
carefully compiled, showed would pre
vail at the time.
It was not the product of one meet
ing, but n hundred—it derived its
thesis, not from one ANNIVERSARY
campaign but a half doxen. It
brought into play the aggregate skill
and intelligence of literally thousands
of manufacturers.
When the plan finally reached its
tentative form, word was Bashed to
the field.
K*y retail men of the Sears or
genixation from every section of the
country Socked into Chicago for con
ferences with merchandising, promo
tional snd advertising executives who
had worked on the vast progrsm.
Other meeting* were held in various I
stration radio program over ytation
WIS, Columbia, on Monday, Septem
ber 21st, from 11:15 to 11:30 a. m.
Those listening in will hear a skit
given by the members of Joyce Branch
and Hilda Clubs; a musical selection
by the Barnwell County 4-H Chorus,
and several numbers by Mrs. Josh
Baxley, Mrs. P. A. Price and little
Shirley Ann Giles.
Triple “C” New. Note.
(By Arthur Riddock, Reporter.)
Barnwell Loses Another.
In the second half of the baseball
season Barnwell continued its string
of non-victories in a trip to George
town Saturday. The scoie this time
was 6-2, and reports say that the
game wag very interesting throughout.
Barnwell made only one error.
In the first two innings the Barn
well boys got their two runs and held
the lead 2-0, through the third.
The fourth was Georgetown’s big
inning. They got three men on, and
then two men were thrown out per
fectly at home. The next man hit a
three bagger, and started off what
looked like it might be a merry-go-
■ ound.but the side was retired after
one more run was made, leaving it
4-2.
Georgetown scored twice later, and
Barnwell didn't score sgain.
Ia the Woods.
Work continues as usual with 20
boys under Mr. Murray aad Mr
Edgerton engaged on the Barnwell
tower site, on the residence snd the
outbuildings.
The largest work crew, that under
E. M. Padgett, ia busy on track trail
92, between Basiling snd
Mr. Gamble with a crew of eight
or ten ia busy on hie type sarvey of
the roaaty, but he tarn
feat it ia hard to leeate
Shifting
Largest County Cirenlatiam.
NUMBER S.
Nine Are Hurt, One
Fatally, in Crash
Barnwell and Blackville People la Boa-
Auto Wreck Between Swansea
and Springfield.
Columbia, Sept. 11.—Nine persons
were injured about 9 o’clock last
night, one fatally, when an automo
bile and a bus collided on U. S. route
approximately midway between
Swansea and Springfield.
The car, a coupe driven by Thomas
Phillips, of Springfield, wax turning
out of a skleroad on the main high
way, it was reported when the crash
occurred. Phillips received a broken
arm, snd was cut and bruised.
Ola Belle Wicker, 10-year-old negro
girl, of 913 Washington Street, Colum
bia, received a severe head wound and
died at the Columbia hospital at 1
o’clock this morning after an opera
tion.
Others injured werei
Mrs. Bobbie Oglesby of 1216 Pen
dleton street, Columbia. Treated at
the Baptist hospital for hip injuries,
cuts and bruises.
Mrs. B. F. Stome, of Blackville.
Treated at the Columbia hospital for
compound fracture of the right arm
and cut tendons on the right wrist.
Carl Weeks, of the CCC camp at
Barnwell, and C. I. Hughes, of dar,
treated for cuts snd bruises at a
doctor’s office in Springfield.
Maggie Welker, negro, the giri’x
mother, treated for ruts and bruises
at the Columbia hospital.
Thaddeus Glover, of near Bteck-
ville, treated at doctor's office hi
Springfield for cuts end
Other persons were
Springfield for minor
| to Columbia.
Mrs. Oglesby, by Rays
end Aabry Argo, of
Storm by a|
in
crash lest night. The
Phillipe nod
Mrs.
•f the
CHEVROLET PRODUCES
HEAVY IN AUGUST
sadness te a large circle of friends.
Mrs. Dicks hod lived in Barnwell for
a great msny years, having come her*
Isaac W. Reoatrev.
Isaac W. Rountree, 81, died at his
home in Dunbarton Wednesday of last
week and bis body was laid to rest the
following afternoon, the funeral ser
vices being conducted at the Dunbar
ton Baptist Church by the pastor, the
Rev. Mr. Flowers, and the Rev. Barney
Foreman, of Ellenton. The latter
apoke in high terms of Mr. Rountree’s
40-odd years of service to the church.
Mr. Rountree was s leading mer
chant and farmer of Dunbarton, and
will be greatly missed in the com
munity life of that section. He was
a member of the county board of
equalization for 38 years, during whiclj
time no complaints were received from
his township. ^
Besides his widow, Mr. Rountree is
survived by three sons and three
daughters, J. F. Rountree, Ben A.
Rountree and R. F. Rountree, all of
Dunbarton; Mrs. A. T. Beard, of Au
gusta; Mrs. Bennett, of North Au
gusta, and Mrs. Heyward Bates, of
Meyer’s Mill, and a number of grand-'
children.
Chevrolet for the month of Av
gust in the United States alone to
talled 87,879 units, the third-big best
August figure since the nil-time rec
ord for the month, established in 1928,
it was announced today at the com
pany offices. This does not in
clude passenger cars and trucks built
for export and in Canada.
The month saw the completion of
Cheviolet’s 12,000,000th car, which
came off the assembly line at Flint
on August 5th, eight months and one
day after procXiction of the 11,000,-
000th, and which, with Harry Hartz,
well known racing driver at the
wheel, is now en route to the Texas
Centennial Exposition at Dallas.
Saturday morning, after an illness of districts the fie.d wheie parent t>f-
three months, snd while not unexpect Ae * *«*«itives brought an outline of
ed, the news of her passing brought | thoir strategy to the front line of the
theatre of nation-wide buying.
No personality—no ides eras spared.
No detail was too insignificant to eo-
with her husband, the late, R. W c*reful. painstaking analysis.
Dicks, who died throe years ago. She! “Almost eight months ago scores
was a native of Barnwell County and <**' bdVers went scurrying to every
a member of the Barnwell Methodist ••ctkm of the land umfcr orders to
Church. She is survived by two • f °« r th * market in search of a wide
daughters snd four sons, as follosrs:, diversity of goods especially for the
Mrs. A. J. Bennett. J. Norman Dicks. »hich brings • f 1 *"***
W. S. Dicks and J. E. Dkka, of Bam- ^ Golden Jubilee year," Mr. Manly
well; Mrs. W. E. Bennett, of Spring- ****■
The Maine Election.
Charles M. Croft.
A
Charles Miley Croft, 68, died Thurs
day night, September 10th, at ten o’
clock, at the home of his son, Willie
G. Croft, after several months of ill
i health. He was a son of the late Wil
liam and Martha Croft and is sur
vived by one daughter, Mrs. N. C.
Croft; one son, Willie Grady Croft;
three brothers, Sam Croft, Wasfy
Croft and Jonas * Croft, and four
grandchildren. His wife preceded him
to the grave in 190L
Funeral services were conducted on
Satordhy afternoon at four o’clock at
Reedy Branch Church by the Rev. C.
E. Smith, of Langley, and the Rev.
Mr. Smith, of Ofcr. Interment fol
lowed m th* adjoiateg
Portland, Me., Sept. 15.— Maine
stood strongly enlisted in the Republi
can column tonight but interpretation
of its vote, ranging from a 40,000
majority for gubernatorial candidate
Lewis C. Barrows, down to a 5,000-
vote lead for Senator Wallace H.
White, varied in the nation’s political
camps.
'“'-The tabulation of the vote (virtual
ly complete) showed:
For U. S. Senator: Gov. Louis J.
Brann (D), 152,902; Senator Wallace
H. White (R), 157,FV7.
For Governor: F. Harold Dubord
(D), 129,084; Secretary of State Lewis
O. Barrows (R), 172,170.
Three Republican congressmen were
elected by approximate majorities
ranging from Hj^XX) to 20,000, two
Democrats being defeated for re-elec
tion.
field, and C. F. Dicks, of Columbia; 19
grandchildren and two great-grand
children; four sisters, Mrs. J. C.
Wooley ,of Livingston; Mrs. R. M.
Harley, of Orangeburg; Mrs. George
Riley, of Sylvxnia, Ga. t and Mrs.
Julia Woodward, of Williston.
Funeral services were held at the
residence on Railroad Avenue Sunday
afternoon at 4:30 o’clock, the Rev. J.
C. Inabinet, pastor of the Barnwell
Methodist Church, and the Rev. J. A.
Estes, pastor of the Barnwell Baptist
Church, conducting the rites. Inter
ment followed in the Barnwell ceme
tery.
Back to College.
"Under instructions from General
R. E. Wood, president of the com
pany, and D. M. Nelao^, vice-president
in charge of merchandiae, these buyers
were told to spare no effort or ex
pense in their Anniversary mission.
I am confident that vsitors to our
store during this event will agree
that these men and women carried
out their instructions admirably.
"After pre-viewing several weeks
ago some of the 1,200 special items
purchased especially for this event
I could not help but feel that Au
gusta is fortunate to be one of the
394 cities to participate in this 50th
Anniversary celebration.”-
To assure customers the utmost con
venience in shopping, additional peo-
The following college students left pie have been added to the store’s
Barnwell in the past few days for staff and the special sales displayed
their respective colleges: Tommy Ha-J have been set-up at advantageous and
1 good, Hummel Harley and David easily-accessible points arond the
Cooper to the University of Sputh store, Mr. Manly announced*.
I Carolina; Rodman Lemon, Brown
Easterling, McTyre Calhoun, Edward
Richardbon and Billy Manning to
Clemson College; Misses Catherine] The County Treasurers’ books for
Black, Christine Smith, Daisy Ander- collection of 1936 taxes opened Tues-
son, Polly Fales and Maria Coclin to day, Sept. 15th, and the following
Columbia College; Miss Martha Fran-[ property owners qualified for the
ces Grubbs to Limestone College; Miss honor roll by being the first to pay
Tax Payers’ Honor Roll
A check on th* company rooter of metidtmt bad not
Febtuary 1st reveals that 128 of tke The bos was brought to Celmabfe
men who were in the company at that for repairs. Phillips' car was badly
time are still ia it. A chock oa th* deamged.
presnt roll by an “old boy" reveals , r ,
that 86 men wha were in th* Com
pany last August 1st ere still ia R.
W* do not know ho# this compares I
with other CCC companies, but w* d<
Fidelia Claes Meets.
Oa Thareday evening sf last week
. .. , . . . I, -!***• members of th* Fidelia dam of
kno. th.t th* popuUtlo* of *U of| lw M M M tU
them ia very changeable.
Koma of Mrs. J. A- Rates,
Jut S.turd*, It ter. ..r. tr.«- . ^ Ur
hrmi fro- th.. ro-f—ir to tte tmmn nrl
‘TT n " ! *»*«•' tte .te
sired at headquaiter* that all com- . _
. / _ . _ . service committees were also
pames have the ssme strength. This ,
leaves us with about 194 men. Of
these between 40 and SO are stationed
at the side camp at Stokes, near
Walterboro.
Killed on Highway.
The dead body of a negro man was
found on the highway near Dunbarton
early Monday morning, evidently the
victim of a hit-and-run driver. A
naan was arrested ia Augusta Tues
day aad lodged ia the Bam well jail
charged with th*
| Mary Gay O’Bannon to Coker College,
and Miss Vera T. Boulware to Queens-
' Chicora College.
Card of Thanks.
i
We wish to take this means of ex-
I pressing our sincere thanks and ap
preciation to our many friends for
kindnesses during the recent ill nets
and death of our father, G M. Croft,
and also for th* aaany beautiful floral
offerings.
W. G. Craft aad FaMily.
taxes on opening day:
E. T. Bates, Williston.
Baldwin Black, Meyer’s Mill.
Matthew Bolen, Mt. Calvary.
C. N. Burckhalter, Barnwell.
Harry B. Harley, Seven Pines.
W. G. Hill, Barnwell.
Mrs. Clara J. Hitt, Elko.
J. Willie Kennedy, Cedar Grove.
L. S. Still, Hercules.
Mrs. Lea tha U. Still, Hercules.
The treasurer says this ia a good
start aad he expects eel lections to he
good this fan.
Missionary Society Meets.
The Missionary Society of the
local Methodist Church, which ia a
combined meeting of all the circles of
the church, met at the church on
Monday afternoon for their regular
monthly meeting.
After a business session in which
all business for the month was dis
posed of, the following program was
enjoyed by quite a large attendance:
Piano selection—Miss Louise Cope.
Silent directed prayer, directed by
Mrs. W. E. McNab.
Vocal selection—Miss Grace League.
Four inspirational talk* on God’s
and Christ’s place in our lives, as fol
lows:
In our hearts—Mrs. F. B. Davis.
In our homes—Mrs. B. P. Davies, Jr.
In our business life—Miss Louise
McCullough.
In our church—Mrs. J. E. Harley, Jr.
At the conclusion of this program
the meeting was adjourned*
W. W. Molony.
Blackville, Sept. 15.—W. W. Mo
lony, 61-year old relief work super
visor, died at his home here early Sun
day morning after an illness of
several months. A number of years
ago he had been employed as a travel
ing salesman. Funeral services were
held at 10 o’clock Monday morning at
the Sacred Heart Catholic Church.
Mr. Molony ia survived by his
widow, who was Miss Edna Strobel; a
daughter, Mrs. Lucille M. Cornwall,
of Washington, D. C.; a ton, Dr. Wil
liam Molony, of Aiken; and two
brothers. Dr. J. E. Molony and Harry
Molony, of Blackville. •
Mr. Melony was a native of Black-
ville aad waa ana of eigh
ad at tkis time. W* hop* that thaao
| committees will prove te mean much
1 to the claas end to all the shut-ins and
leas fortunate* who are in th* com
munity. Each member of the claas is
asked to cooperate with these com
mittees snd support them in every
thing that they shall attempt to ac
complish. Mrs. Estes presented a
pledge which the members were asked
to take voluntarily if they felt that
they could say—"I pledge allegiance
to the Fidelia Class of the Barnwell
Baptist Sunday school. As a Christ
ian woman I pledge my loyalty and
support to keep it a standard class,
not only in name, but in true Spirit
of Jesus Christ. So that its influence
might prove 'A lamp unto my feet
and a light unto my path.’ and make
me 'a workman that needeth not to
be ashamed.’”
Officers for the new quarter are:
Miss Marian Bolen, president; Mrs.
Blease Harley, ;lst vice-president;
Mrs. Frank Kirkland, 2nd vice-presi
dent; Miss Margaret Black, secy.-
treas. Members of the social com
mittee are: Miss Margaret McAllister,
chairman; Miss June Milhous and
Miss Dorothy Furtick. Members of
the personal service committee an:
Miss Edith Mahaffey, chairman; Mias
Carey Martin and Miss Nellie Furtick.
It is the aim of the Fidelis Class to
do something each week to brighten
the life of - someone and make their
cross lighter to beer because we, like
gems of old, have gone about doing
good.
After the business session we were
invited into the dining room where we
enjoyed punch and crackers.
Ten members were present at this
meeting and it is hoped at the next
meeting there shal not bo on* missing
among us. We shall do well to ra-
—“United we stead, divided,
faU.”
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