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BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. JULY 22ND. 1937.
NUMBER 47.
BARNWELL WOODS
GIVEN PROTECTION
THREE FIRE TOWERS LOCATED
IN THIS COUNTY.
CCC Camp Enrollees Build 50 Miles
of Truck Trails in Aid in
Fighting Fires.
The Barnwell County setup calls
Association was put in operation in
1935 under an Act of the legislature
of that year. The association operates
within the bounds of Barnwell County
and its meritbers have an area of 334,-
080 acres, with 166,626 acres of wood
land included, to protect from the
ravages of forest fires.
The Bemwell County setup calls
for a ranger on a twelve months
basis, three towermen two wardens
for the duration of the fire season and
20 retainer fee crews. At the fall
meeting of the association in 1935,
M. F. Ussery, of Barnwell, was ap
pointed ranger for this county and
still holds the position; J. Reeves
Grubbs, of near Barnwell, and Roy
McElhaney, of Ellenton. were ap
pointed as wardens. The 20 retainer
crews were selected as to school dis
tricts.
Th« first year of operation in this
county the organisation had only a
skeleton setup and as a result the con
trol of fires wss limited, but during
Cloudburst Sunday Night
A heavy rainfall of cloud
burst proportions, covering a
large area in the Blackville and
Elko sections of the county,
washed away every bridge on
county roads from a point a-
bout one and a half miles south
of Blackville to the Edisto river,
according to Supervisor J. W.
Patterson, who made a survey
of the affected area Monday.
The damage to roads and
bridges was estimated at sever
al thousands of dollars, Mr.
Patterson saidl Fields were al
so badly washed and it is hard
to estimate the damage to crops
of corn and cotton.
Seen and Heard Here
During the Past Week
A Little Sense and Nonsense About
People You Know and Others
You Don't Know.
Victor Lewis, of Kline, remarking
that “The People-Sentinel is as good
a county weekly as I know of any
where.” Mr. Lewis has recently ac
cepted a position as statistician with
the State department of labor in Co
lumbia. . . . J. D. Ussery, of
the past fiscal year, ending June 30. Elko, rfd, joining The People-Senti
1937, the organisation was complete I nel'a large family of satisfied readers|••^•tioi program^ of Aiken;
and a larger number of fires were | while in Barnwell Saturday. He is
the second “volunteer** subscriber from j ( ount >' Agent Boy ton. of Bam-
the WiU.eton-Elko section in the pest W,U ^ R EvaM ‘“•‘rue-
'tor of Agriculture in the Barnwell
schools; Paul Baxley, Milledge Mor
ns. W. R. Carroll and W. P. Boyle-
ton. of Blackville; Frank Sanders and
S. E. Sanders, of Olar; M. C. Best,
R R. Moore, Chari w Brown. Sr. and
Willie Bexley, oi Barnwell.
PLANTERS VISIT
EDISTO STATION
DR. H. P. COOPER, OF CLEMSON
COLLEGE HEADS TOUR.
Barnwell Group of Farmers Studies
Soils of Farms in This
Section.
A tour of a portion of Barnwell
County was made by several Barnwell
County farmers on Thursday. Dr. H.
P. Cooper, of Clemson College, direc
tor of experiment stations in the
State, W. B. Rogers, of the Edisto
Experiment Station, A. H. Ward, dis
trict county agent, and Barnwell Coun
ty agent Harry G. Boylston, were in
charge of the tour.
The farmers went over several tracts
of land between Barnwell and the
experiment station located between
Blackville and Elko, studying the dif
ferent kinds of soils and the best way
to conserve them. The leaders point
ed out the various types of soils and
discussed them with the jroup. Quite
a lot of interesting facts were brought
to light through these discussions and
those who were able to make the trip
gained considerable knowledge along
the lines of soil conservation.
In addition to the leaders, the fol
lowing were included in the expedi
tion: H. A. Woodle, county agent
from Aiken Copnty; F. W. Corley and
Mr. Maner, members of the soil con-
Hugh
A. Bowers and C. O. Jones, assistants
BARNWELL TRADE
BUILDINGS FULL
SPACE IN BUSINESS DISTRICT IS
IN DEMAND.
Only One Store on Main Street Is
Vacant.— Several New Homes
Built Recently.
handled with less acreage being burn
ed than ia the previous year. As
the men become more accustomed to
their jobs it b safe to predict that
the lorn to the landowners of this
county will he reduced each year.
The three fire towers located hi
Bemwell County are at Barnwell,
Elbe and between Dunbarton and El-
These towers are com pie to
rnti
> ith
OUttrU-ldif
of land far the U
on
ad tea
_ to cal-1
imp asaa Seep a eoaotant
the territory withta view
and when a fire b sighted they im
mediately notify the eeanty reefer
la Bam well. The three towers, the
Barnwell eMica and the tTT* caasp
near BnraneU are all connected by
~~ wtree of which were
CCC wothova. Thooo
IlM
fhr*
« C C f!
-
couple of weeks. ... Dr. D. B. j
Lancaster, of Baltimore, Md., R Archie |
Ellis, of Grooavilb; Mrs. 8. E. Creech.
R D. Cooper and C. R. Sanders, of
Kline; Peel H. Sanders, of Otar, re
newing their sahocriptiona to this
paper. ... A dncaoeioa of the
new crop poet, the Argentine weevil. 1
which attacks all sacs of crops, in
cluding cotton, com. peas velvet beans,
etc. and pm of the groap remarking
that “yea never hear of a poet attack-!
tag peanuts.'* to which snot her re
plied. -Want about peanut palit*-
rbaa?" • • • Heavy mine sc-
com pasted by Wfl’.tant electrical dis
plays. ... And G. W. (“BuF*)
Halford saying that
rains ho ever saw
Saaday sight.
filling etattea raptmy neartag cans- ihe
POOL AND COt'NTBY CLUB
CENTERS OF ATTRACTON
Barnwell's two moot popular spots
this summer are the swtmmiag pael
eet water
The business district of Barnwell is
completely filled with business houses
with the exception of one store build
ing on Main Street. It is understood,
however, that several parties are in
terested in renting it so that it too
should be occupied within the next
few weeks.
The Harrison building, on Main
Street, was recently leased to Miss
Rosa Irby, who has opened a beauty
parlor, and E. L. Black, of Williston,
who is doing watch repair work.
These two buildings were formerly
occupied by the late J. R. Harrison,
and had been vacant since his death
a few weeks ago.
The crowded condition in the busi
ness district has been prevalent for
the past several months. Houses in
Barnwell are also at a premium, de
spite the fact that Barnwell has wit
nessed one of the biggest building
booms in its history in the past 12
months. Business property has un
dergone extensive changes in the
moving buck of Lemon Brothers’
store, the remodeling of the Barnwell
Hotel, the construction of the new
poet office building which will be
completed by the first of September,
and the remodeling of the Barnwell
Filling Station.
In the rrsidentian sections of Barn
well, several new homes have been
erected whib a nulhber of others have
been remodeled and repaired. Still,
houses and office space art at a prem-
P»rh and the Sue*
lab and golf course.
at Fuller
Country <
swimming pael has beta full ta aver-
flowing for the last few days, and
the club has been n center of attrac
tion for (he golfers.
Young and old alike have taken ta
9*o
-erg* n am be i
t r
an effoi
firvflghtef
s to reach the ervne of oc-
faction, end week so Rerawel
>1*9 fh*W
to cool
1 off. The hatter the weather
t |C~f| fff till
«*ry little tea* of time.
1 poet office beiidi
ng pragreasm
f •l#w-
the m«
•re the crowds Bock te the pool
Iradp CHI
■p earelleeo bora ole® bout
ly hot Merely.
. . • Her
Bf# J* *
for *
dip.
mites of trwrh troila which
t'merk. county •
epermtewde at
of edo-|
The
rtoh, which ia now eader the
mm
i * fa# Ittote the fighter* ia
ration, dri*mg
fctovfy SFCHMi
d 1 We
direct**
ra of J. H. Stillnagoo. of Aik-
reorhiag |
aetata to oa otherwise tselet-
1 Circle.* scratch!
ng tha buck
of hw
ee. ia
ia the best shops that it ever
Cdt Ruction
i of the reeoty. Psrticalariy
heed, apparent!
y immersed
hi deep
has be
oa. The greens and fairways
is Um ir
ee of the Savaaoah River
thought—all tha
while the di
'tear of
are ta
perfect trim end the golfers
WILUSTON FELT FORCE
OF HIGH WIND THURSDAY
Wiliisloa^horuday after-
n was praette
the build mg
>f the first year,
rsrdens personal-
ronag a Georgia Itceuae num-
lently waiting for him ta laa *e
mi ad as to which way he was
• • • Levi Still, member of
have
Oid
ly inaccwssiMe rwie
the trail*.
In the beginning
the ranger and the
|y visitud each sawmill and discussed
with the owner and his workers the J from his “patch.** “Va a
best possible ways of preventing, editorial paragraph in
the county board of managers, premia- held in increasingly
ing the editor a big WaUon melon | A ninthly dance.
result of the
last week’s
ghttng it out with
Man Par in larger numbers this sum
mer than ia any previous and other
•tH’ al entertainments are also being
large numbers,
sponsored by the
club members, is a feature of the
torial calendar, while several private
been held there.
Advertise in The People-Sentinel
forest fires. Several of the large tur- edition. Who says that advertising in( j bridge parties have also
pentine farmers of the county were doesn’t pay?
also visited on this tour and persuaded Reports of heavy, rapidly-increas-
to practice fire protection instead of ing boll weevil infestation, with a big
aanually burning their lands. With prospective curtailment in Barnwell
the splendid cooperation which Ran- 1 County’s cotton crop. . . An auto-
ger Ussery states he has received mobile with a California license tag—
from the landowners, the loss from and another, with an Ohio tag, occupi-
forest fires in Barnwell County has ed by a man, his wife and six chil-
Willlatou. July 17.—A
that stn
nooa did much damage ta trass
property A number of trews were
eprwoted sad maay were badly hrwkea.
Awnings oa several store freals were
Mown dews, two plat# glass wtadowe
at the Eaterpriee Hardware roos-
paay wore brokea by the falling awn
ing. Part of the roof af the Wlllia-
taa grammar school haildtag was
blows off,
A g o house la the course of can-
structioa beloagtag ta Q A. Kennedy
was blown down. The beam of Mrs.
Q. B. Johaooa wee badly daaaaged.
Calvert Breach, a negro Baptist
church was completely demolished.
Daamge was done to the growing
crops, especially corn. The wind was
accompanied by torrents of rata,
one was reported injured.
Lightning Strikes Melons.
Lyndhurst, July 20.—Fate and
lightning frowned on Laurie
Fowke, Lyndhurst fanner, ] |
when he lost a carload of water
melons one day last week. The
melons had been put under a
tree at the end of a row, wait
ing for trucks to haul them to
the railroad tracks. A bolt of
lightning struck the tree, then
jumped over to the pile of
melons. All were destroyed.
The rinde of the melons were
not broken, but they looked as
if they had been boiled in water
and were mushy to touch.
TRAFFIC STUDY
IS BEING MADE
A. W. SEARLES IN CHARGH DC
BARNWELL COUNTY.
Thumb-Nail Sketch
of Senator Byrnes
South Carolinian Has Been Spoken of
as Possible Successor to
Senator Robinson.
No
Oraagcbsrg Cotton Crap.
Orangeburg County expects to pro
duce 85 000 bales of cotton this year,
as compared with a yield of approxi-
mstoly 70,000 bales in 1936, according
to unofficial estimates of the crop.
been steadily decreased.
The 1935-’36 year was comparative
ly easy on the fighters as there was
considerable rainfall and snow on
several occasions, but the
year was different. Dry weather
through a good portion of the fire
season enabled fires to get better head
way before being sighted. However,
the workers were able to reduce the
average number of acres burned per
fire to a considerable extent.
Quite a few volunteer firefighting
crews have also been established in
this county and these fighters materi
ally aid the regular crew members
and wardens. While these men nat
urally are not as well prepared for
their work as the regular members,
they are, nevertheless, of invaluable
assistance in many instances and it
would be to the decided advantage of
every community to organize such a
crew and have them in readiness to
help whenever the regular crew was
finding it difficult to cope with the
blare.
During the past two year*, the
ranger visited practically every school
ia the county and urged the young
te practice safety
I ta fires m the
dren. . . . Reports that acres of
fine watermelons are blistering in the
hot sun for lack of a profitable market.
. . . A little boy, who had been
1936-’37 given a discolored nickel in change.
handing it back to %ne store-keeper
with the remark: “This nickel don’t
look good to me.”
REHABILITATION OFFICE
HERE WILL BE ABANDONED lumbia yesterday,
HARLEY STILL UNDECIDED
ABOUT NEXT YEAR’S RACE
Lieutenant-Governor, in Columbia to Inspect Senator Cham
ber Work, Just Doesn’t Know at This Time What
HU Plans Will Be.
(cosmxrn) f*om page rout)
According to current reports, the
District 4 office of the Rural Rehalili-
tation, which has been located at
Barnwell for the past year, will be
disbanded this week andt the office
force will be transferred to Florence,
Greenwood and Walterboro. This
This office was under the direction of
the late Barney F. Owens, of Dunbar
ton, from the time of its opening in
Barnwell until his death several
weeks ago.
Mrs. Margaret Summer, who has
been one of the directors of the local
organization, will be transferred to
the Florence dUtrict, along with one
of the stenographers; two employes branch,
will be sent to Greenwood and an- Lieut-Gov
other to Walterboro. H ia reported. into the
Columbia, July 15.—Lieut.-Gov. J.
E. Harley, of Barnwell, visiting in Co
told the United
Press he was undecided whether he
would run for re-election next sum
mer.
“I can’t announce definitely right
now whether I will offer for re-elec
tion m the lieutenant-governor’s race
or any other race,” he said.
“Numerous senators and others
have approached me constantly^ urg
ing that I run again, hut I just don’t
know,” he added. The lieutenant-
governorship automatically makes
Colonel Harley president of the State
senate. During the past session the
senators extended Colonel Harley high
praise for his lesdership in the upper
Harley sprang notably
Inst spnng when
1 he presented a bra Deaaerretir dnnkay
lie the postmaster gaaoral, James A.
Farley, which he won from the Missis
sippi lieutenant-governor as a result
of a bet that South Carolina would go
more overwhelmingly Democratic in
the past national election than Missis
sippi.
Before serving as leader of the sen
ate, Col. Harley served several terms
in the lower hou^g.
“The main objection I have to South
Carolina elections,” heh said reiter
ating what he has constantly said in
the past, is the way the candidates
have to tour about the State. This
State is the only one that observes
such a set-up,” he said. “It is high
time that we fall into step with all
the other States and abolish this State-
•wide system of touring.”
wide system of touring.'*
Columbia ta inspect the senate cham-
nr. which is uadsr going repairs aad
being renovated far the taming tea-
sm* which is new “jest a boat sts
■net ha a any.*
Three Southern senators—Pat Har
rison, of Mississippi; Alben W. Bark
ley, of Kentucky, and James F. Byrnes,
of South Carolina—have been in the
Sitneligldf since 'Wednesday of last
week as possible successors to Senator
Joe T. Robinson, of Arkansas, as ad
ministration leader in the senate.
However, it was reported a few days
ago that Senator Byrnes was not
seeking the post and would throw his
support to Senator Harrison.
Monday’s daily newspapers publish
ed “thumb-nail” sketch#* of the trio,
the following being about the junior
senator from South Carolina:
“James Francis Byrnes, of Sooth
Caroline, ia quick on the rhetorical
trigger, alow to anger, neat ta con
ciliation. A bantamweight boodle of
well directed energy,
era lawyer-politician,
political philooophy, one of the
loyal ReoeeralUens, but called a
wing New Dealer.
“Easy going,* persons in
bare wen him good will of
tirae and liberals, ns wall as
Itna* members of party. H* and the
‘unreconstructed rebel,’ Carter Glam,
are Intimate friends He reintlan
ship ta White Hons* wns an cies* gor
ing president's first term that he wns
spoken of an ‘admlaistraUeo‘s spokes
“Has a Bair ter spending not views
backstage, gvtt-ag the law dawn an
pi oa pacts far coats mpla tad Isgiala
lien. Is only a second term senator.
So read in house from 1911 to 1929;
tech fira-yenr rsreo* at law la Spar-
tanburg
“Has supported virtaalty every ed-
ministraUon proposal, was among
first te spank eat for supreme court
change. In 1936 defended New Deni
expenditures as necessary Is prevent
suffering, promote recovery, bat this
spring ha launched senate drive for
economy bee sues ‘emergency is over.'
Urged 10 par cant cut ia depart
mental appropriationa to be lanes the
budget. Wants better deal for labor,
condemns sit-down strikes.
“He’s 58, was born in Charleston,
S. C. Admitted to bar in 1903, was
an editor and court reporter before
entering politics.”
EXAMINATIONS FOR PLACES
WITH WELFARE DEPARTMENT
Announcement has been made that
examinations of applicants from
Barnwell County and other counties
in the Second Congressional District
for stenographic and clerical posi
tions with the State Department of
Public Welfare will be held in Co
lumbia on Tuesday, July 27th, at 11
a. m. It is understood that appli
cants can stand the examination with
out having previously filed an applica
tion with the State department.
Beasley-Toole.
Aiken, July 18.—Miss Pearl Beasley,
of Elko, and C. L. Toole, of Aiken,
were married Saturday, July 10. The
ceremony was performed at the
Methodist parsonage by the Rev. J.
H. Brown, pastor of the St. John’s
Methodist church, in Aiken.
Mrs. Tools ia tha daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Perry O. Beasley, of Elko.
She ia a graduate of the Barnwell
High School ia the dass of 1933.
Mr. Tools is the soa of Mr*, f. 8.
Tools sad tha 1st* Praaklia 8- Tool*.
After a abort woddug Ing tha
yoaag rrapla wdl moko thair ham*
with tha hndagraam’s
“Blanket” Count, Under Supervision
of Highway Survey, Covers
Rural Road*.
Special to The People-Sentinel,
i Columbia, July 20.—A traffic study
completely covering every rural road in
Barnwell County is now in progress,
under the supervision of tha Highway
Planning Survey. A. W. Searles ia
directing the study in this county.
Because this traffic study so com
pletely covers the entire county, the
survey officials have called it a
blanket” count.
To carry on the “blanket” count,
men are placed at intersections on
rural roads to county pasting traffic
and for the purpose of asking each
traveler where he is coming from,
where he ia going, and other questions
relating to driving habite. At tha
end of the study, the traffic on ovary
road in Barnwell County will havo
been accurately counted or estimated.
A survey on traffic on the State
highway system began in February
and will continue until next year.
The work is a part of the Planning
Survey's program to make a complete
and comprehensive study of Sooth
Carolina traffic needs It Is boh*
supported by the Federal Boreas of
Public Roach, which to now
such a study ia 44 States.
The Highway Planning
Aciab are requesting the
•f every motorist in
■were to the questions
The more accurate tha
the officials point out. tha aaora
fuJ tha gathered date will bo.
One* every naooth for tha
four, the Burray will oomd a |
back tote Barnwell County to p
variations la traffic. On tha
of the count now ia
caa ho made.
Tha
get oa
to hg
FUTURE FARMERS GO TO
MOUNTAIN CAMP THIS 1
Nine members of the local
of the Future Farmer* of
Association, together with
boys from the Williston chapter, left
Tuesday morning for Tnmaaeea, moot
Welhalla, where they will spend aee-
•rel days camping. The group waa
under the direction of Geo. R. Evans,
instructor of agriculture at the local
school.
Quite a number of interest^, as
well as educational, Bights will bo
enjoyed By the group on their trlpt
They went up by way of Clemson Chi-
lege where they will inspect the farm
equipment and experiment station. A
trip over to the fish hatchery, located
near Walhalla, will be one feature of
the stay at Tamassee, while the re
turn trip will be made by the Univer
sity of Georgia, at Athens, so that
the boys will have a chance to aeo
the workings of that great inatitutteu
in the agricultural division. Tfeo
Sandy Creek erosion project will alaq
be visited on the return trip.
Local authorities, who sponsored the
trip, believe that the boys will benaBt
greatly during the few days’ tour, not
only because of the joys of the camp
life, but by the opportunity to see tib*
setup of two of the South’s outstand
ing college agricultural unita. Mr.
Evans stated that he hoped to nmha
this an anual affair for the
tural boys and believes that
year a larger number will taka ad
tags of tha opportunity to gat
hand knowledge of
poiaU.
Thao# who left Tuesday on tha
ia Haded David
no, Bnggs