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Barnwell People-Sentinel
*'Ju»( Llk« a Mambar of I ha Family
VOLUME LX.
CROP PRODUCTION
PLAN IS ENDORSED
MANY PEOPLE CONGRATULATE
BARNWELL EDITOR.
BARNW^L, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. AUGUST 19. 19S7.
NUMBER IL
“Buddy” Sexton Hurt
When Boat Capsizes
Barnwell Lad Has Narrow Escape
.11.
front Drowning at Bluffton
Last Week.
VOTED A T
RIVERSIDE'
Congressman H. P. Fulmer Describes
Plan as “Simple, Fair and
Clearly Justifiable.”
Congressman H. P. Fulmer, of the
Second Congressional District, de
scribes the farm control plan recently
submitted by the editor of The People-
Sentinel to President Franklin D.
Roosevelt as “simple, fair and clearly
justifiable,” while dozens of farmers
and business men have congratulated
the editor upon his plan and have ex
pressed the hope that some such legis
lation will be enacted at an early
date. Congressman Fulmer has writ
ten Mr. Davies that “I am submitting
your plan to Mr. Jones, Chairman of
the Agricultural Committee, urging
him ^o have the legislative drafting
service of the House prepare forth
with a Bill in line with your plan
with the hope that those in Congress
who are nterested in the great wealth
producing class of this country will
see to it that the Bill is passed before
this session of Congress adjourns.”
In a letter to President Roosevelt,
Congressman Fulmer said: “I have
given quite a lot of thought to this
plan, and it is my firm belief that it
is the fairest and most workable plan
yet submitted to you or the Congress.”
The. full text of Congressman Ful
mer's letter, together with a copy ot
his communication to the President
and a letter from Senator James F.
Byrnes are printed below:
CongrewMBan Fulmer's Letter.
“My dear Mr. Davies:
“I appreciate your sending me your
farm plan, which I have read with a
great deal of mterest. Your plan is
simple, fair, and clearly justiftsble m
that it is in line with the tariff policy
that has been given to industry at
the expense of farmer*, wage earn
er* and tax payer* for orer year*.
“I believe K was Hamilton who
“Buddy” Sexton, son of Dr. and
Mrs. B. W. Sexton, of Barnwell, had ^
narrow escape from drowning at
Bluffton last week when he had the
misfortune to fall out of a speed boat
driven by an outboard motor. The
boat was traveling at a rapid rate
of speed and the young boy was ex
tremely lucky that the propeller blade
did not cut him to pieces.
According to reports reaching Barn
well, young Sexton slipped and fell
from the boat, receiving a nasty cut
across the knee-cap of his left leg
and a slight cut on the right leg. The
accident happened in 60 feet of water
and the injured lad was forced to
keep himself afloat for several min
utes while his companion could turn
the boat and come back to pJck him
up. Swimming was impossible for
the boy and only his presence of mind
saved his life.
It is believed that the guard on the
propeller shaft inflicted the wound
and had it not been that the boat was
turned sharply even more serious in
jury would probably have been done
by the propellor blade. ,
Young Sexton was rushed to the
Ridgeland Hospital where it was
found necessary to cut the boy’s leg so
a* to tie the ligaments and big leader
together. It necessitated some 16
stitches to close the wound.
ARCHIE ELLIS
Estimates of Cotton
Crop Differ Widely
But All Agree That Boll Weevil Has
Takes Heavy Tall During Past
Few Weeks.
Estimate* of the probable *ise of
the cotton crop in Barnwell County
v*ry widely nH the wny from a crop
the *iae of Inst yenr's, when about
said at the time of establishing the 20,000 bale* were produced, to n r
Tariff Policy that it would mean
everything to industry, but if farm
er* were not given the tariff policy
that the t‘me would come when farm
er* would be bled to death and mdin
try
and
busiM
Id suffer
accord*
heavy
' rams.
luff
iy-
Some farmers s
ttim
It is
a km
ron tme
t. also.
that in-1
weev i
1 has damage*
I the
du*
try i
and al
l orgafl
tied gre
up« are
as 25
1 to 40 per ct
at.. '
abl<
t te
contra
4 thru
r prod or
tton in
ably
lower damage in
|||M
t nit
h *jpp
ly and
demand.
as well,
and a
lightly higher
in 0
as
fix p
trees and mai
intain pi
r err rr» !
other
hand, there
was
gar
i of demand.
inrrm
tae te cotton
acre
That
was
rlrarljr
proven
in 1932
as co
mpared with
193d
duction of 25 per cent from that fig
ure—but all of the prognosticator*
agree that the boll weevil ha* taken a
heavy toll during the past several
weeks, which have been marked
ate that the
1 crop a* much
with consider-
some sections
them. On the
a substantial
Barnwell County Man
Is Chosen as Pastor
The Rev. R. Archie Ellis Succeeds the
Rev. J. Leroy Steele at
Greenville.
Greenville, Aug. 16.—Members of
the Riverside Baptist church recently
elected the Rev. R. Archie Ellis pas
tor, W. P. Castelberry, chairman of
the pulpit committee.
Mr. Ellis has been supply pastor
since April 1, when he succeeded the
Rev. J. Leroy Steele who answered s
call to Knoxville, Tenn.
The new pastor is a native of Dun
barton and a graduate of Furman
Univemity, having received his de
gree there May SI.
Mr. Ellis was prominent in student
affairs while an undergraduate. He
maa a member of Delta Sigma Phi
aocial fraternity, and of Pi Gamma
Mu Delta Chi Alpha honor fraterni-
tiea. Last yaar he was State presi
dent of the Social Service Federation
for South Carolina Colege students.
The Rivemide church is the second
oldest Baptist church in Greenville,
having been established in 1889, and
has 558 active members. W. H. Mc
Cauley is chairman of the board of
deacons.
Countyt First Bales
Were Ginned Friday
Melodies of Hammer,
Saw and Paint Brush
One at Barnwell and Two at Black- M*ny Signs of Progress Still in Evi-
ville Ginned Two Days Earlier
Than Last Year.
Three bales of cotton gnned in Barn
well County on Friday, the 13th, bet
tered last year’s record by two days,
the first bale of the 1936 crop having
been ginned here on August 16th.
One of the bales was ginned at Barn
well and the other two at Blackville.
W. J. Croft, of the Reedy Branch
section, won jrst bale honors on the
local market when he had a bale of
cotton ginned at the Farmers Gin
nery, which only recently installed
the latest model of cleaning machin
ery. The early staple was purchased
by John B. Harley for the “co-ops,”
the price being 11 cents per pound.
The bale wieghed 507 pounds.
, Two at Blackville.
Blackville, Augu«t 13.—(Special.)-
R. B. Fickling, of Blackville, ginned
two bales of cotton here this
morning that were the third and
fourth bales ginned in the State and
the first in this section. One bale
weighed 608 pounds and the other 647.
They graded strict middling, with
1 1-16 inch staple.
The cotton was ginned at Simon
Brown’s Sons ginnery, which recently
installed a drier system that does
wonderful work. The cotton, whether
green or wet, is dried perfectly by
fhis system before it enter* the gins
and comes out as dry and fluffy as any
dry or old cotton.
The boll weevil ii pretty bad in this
section on account of too much rain,
but Mr: Fickling plafited an early
strain of cotton the latter part of
March and has been fortunate enough
to produce a pretty fair crop.
One From Elko.
Aiken, August IS.—Arthur Still,
superintendent of the farms of J. D
Frothro, of this city, which are locatoc
near Elko, in Barnwell County, today
ginned what is believed to be the first
bale from Barnwell County of the
19S7 cotton crop.
The bale was ginned at the Prothro
gins here in Aiken, and was sold on
the Aiken cotton market, bringing
11 1-4 cents per pound. The bale
weighed 572 pounds, and was of ex
cellent grade.
dence v in Barnwell.—Improve
ments Noted.
ESCAPED NEGRO
AGAIN ESCAPES
CONVICT JOE BROWN PROVES
HARD TO HOLD.
when industry and
group* began to
ever
other organised
ilow down and
rloae down so as to coatrol their
production, but in the meantime they
maintained fixed price* far above
farm price* and wage*. Th a natural
ly destroyed the purrhasing power of J day. However, fair weather and hot
the people, and. therefore, brought sunshine returned Sunday and may
about a serious depression which wo save many bolls that otherwise would
will continue to have every few year* have been damaged.
in a measure offset weevil damage. Ex
cessive rainfall increased weevil in
festation. and only last week a farm
er in the Red Oak section said that
two of the hardest rains of the year
fell on his farm Tuesday and Satur-
unless farmers are placed on an equal
basis with these well organised groups.
“From the beginning of this ses
sion until the l»th of April, when I
was placed in the hospital, the records
of the Agricultural Committee of the
House, of which I am vice-chairman,
will show that I continued almost
daily to fight for constructive farm
legislation that we hear so much a-
bout now in the closing days of the
Congress.
“I am submitting your plan to Mr.
Jones, chairman of the Agricultural
Evidence of the havoc wrought by
the weevil has been displayed here.
A six-foot cotton stalk, with only a
few bolls and squares on it, was
brought in Saturday by one farmer,
who said that he has quite a bit of
such cotton on his place and that his
prospects for making a crop this year
are rather slim. On Monday, E. F.
Woodward brought in two stalks from
his nine-acre “patch.” One was a
small stalk with about 15 grown bolls,
while the other was almost as tall as
a man’s head and had only one boll.
Elhs Also Heads Club.
Archie Ellis, graduate of Furman
lUniveraity, was recently elected preai-
of which he was a member while a
student at the local Baptist school.
Mr. Ellis, at whose offices the meeting
was called, presided over the organiza
tion as more than a dozen memberes
indicated their desire to form an
alumni chapter here.
Those present at the meeting last
night were all members of the Fur
man chapter, but letters from alumni
of chapters in other institutions re
ceived by Mr. Ellis indicate that
many other names will soon be added
to the alumni roll.
As outlined at the recent meeting
the purpose of the local organization
is three-fold: to assist in every way
possible the local active chapter, to
further the spirit and ideals of the
fraternity and to keep the fraternity
spirit aroused in alumni of Delta Sig
ma Phi.—Greenville Piedmont.
College Students to
Resume Studies Soon
Committee, urging him to have the They were pulled from different parts
legislative drafting service of the
House prepare forthwith a Bill in line
with your plan with the hope that
those in Congress who are interested
in the great wealth producing class
of the field.
There is some well-fruited cotton
over the county, especially in fields
where farmers used poison early in
the season, and, despite a rainy spell
of this country will see to it that the , a t that time, it would seem that their
Bill is passed before this session of efforts have been rewarded
Congress adjourns.
“P. S. I have talked your plan
considerably, and have found some
people objecting on the ground that
under the plan where farmers could
produce all the cotton that they want
ed to with a bounty on the portion con
sumed in the U. S. that there would
be such a large amount of cotton for
Barnwell Family in
Maryland Accident
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Cociln and Chil
dren Escape Injury in Automo
bile Collision.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Coclin and
fwo children had a narrow escape
Cotton is beginning to open rapidly
and it won’t be long now tntil more
accurate estimates of the crop may ^ rom a to relatives and friend's
' from injury last week while returning
be had.
Accepts Positicn in Columbia.
in Poughkeepsie, N. Y* when their
car collided with another machine in
Maryland^ about six miles north of
Washington, D. C. None of the oc
cupants of either car was hurt, but
W. E. McNab, of this city, has ac
cepted a position with the South both machines were damaged,
export that it would force the world’s Carolina Department of Public Wei- j The accident occurred during
basis price so low that it would be fare in Columbia and entered upon rainstorm, Mr. Coclin said,, the wet
too expensive to pay the difference his new duties Monday morning. Mr. pavement causing his car to skid. The
between this price and the parity McNab was assistant postmaster at front end of the Barnwell automobile
price, which b supposed to be in line (he State House during the past ses-j^ss so badly damaged that Mr. Coclin
with prices paid by farmers for menu- aioa of tha general assembly. He is traded for a new car rather than wait
factsrad gomb. This, however,' well qualified for his new position. | for his old one to be repaired. He
Wrid eat hs true for the rsaeoa that; The public welfare department was and his family arrived home Sunday.
pnrua should fu up crawled el tha last session of the* This is the second locally owned
jjggg wusld rnrtr " sad ip hi charge of social automobile to be traded this summer
(14. Mom.-—Tha phes sbtatfaud waMbau piMMm ■ thio State. , on a trip north, Col. J. E. Harley, Jr.,
- aettp fmm to «■ fwld uMy — — — {having also effected a trade a short
gjgBHHMMRHHMBBMHBHHRBB I & Rgbe IhffHii speui laMrdaj in time ago while he and Mrs. Harley
fhGZ it a**A bh, aa hp —a were en route to New York City
Nine Members of 1937 Graduating
Class Will Coatiaue Pursuit of
Knowledge.
With college opening days only a
few short weeks off, Barnwell boys
and girla are preparing to leave for
their studies at their various alma
maters. This year there will be 25
students from Barnwell attending
colleges in thb State, North Carolina
and Georgia, which is probably the
largest college enrollment the town of
Barnwell ever attained.
From last year’s graduating class
the following students have picked
the following collegs to continue their
pursuit of knowledge: Norman Dicks,
Jr., and Bob Sanders, Gemson Col
lege; Misses Ida Carter, Marjorie
Brown, Alice Fletcher and Dulice Har
ley, Winthrop College; Tom Boulware,
Jr., The Citadel; Solomon Blatt and
Arden Lemon, the University of
South Carolina.
Students who will be continuing
fheir college days include Edward
Richardson, rising senior, and Billy
Manning, rising sophomore, at Clem
son College; Miss Polly Fales, rising
senior, Miss Maria Coclin and Miss
Misses Beth and Frances Manning,
Daisy Anderson, rising sophomorts, at
Columbia College; Miss Vera T. Boul-
ware ? rising sophomore at Queens
Chicora College, in Charlotte, N. C.
rising seniors at Georgia State Col
lege for Women, at Milledgeville, Ga.;
Mbs Mary Gay O’Bannon, rising sen
ior at Coker College, Hartsville; Den
ton Rountree and Billy Davies, rising
seniors at The Citadel; Hummel Har
ley, rising senior of the law school,
Tommy Hagood, rising senior, David
Cooper and S. E. Moore, rising sopho
mores, at the University of South
Carolina; Miss Martha Frances
Grubbs, rising sophomore at Lime
stone College.
The music made by tHe hammer and
saw and the slap of theh paint brush
is still a most popular tune in the town
of Barnwell, as it has been for the
past 12 mohthsh or longer. Work on
the new post office building on Main
Street being erected by G. Bates Ha
good, local business man, is progres
sing rapidly and the building should
be ready for occupancy by the early
part of September. Mr. Hagood
stated this week that the building it
self should be ready within ten days
or two weeks, but that there may be
some delay in the arrival of the new
fixtures.
The laying of the concrete drive
ways around the Barnwell Filling
Station is just about complete, giving
Barnwell one of the prettiest and
most up-to-date filling stations in
this section. The property is owned
by R. A. Easterling, of Denmark, and
the station is operated by Lloyd A.
Plexico, of Barnwell. The old station
was torn down and a complete new
building was erected.
The wooden building on the corner
of Jefferson and Main Streets, op
posite Calhoun Park, which was re
cently purchased by R. L. Bronson
from Mrs. C. C. Simms, of Washing
ton, D. C., has been torn down and
will be replaced in the near future by
a modem brick building. This will
be quite an addition to the business
district of Barnwell.
Judge Tho*. M. Boulware has had
his double store building on Main
Street made into two stores by erect
ing a partition down the middle of the
building. He b reportedly about to
close a deal with two out-of-town
concerns who plan to move to Barn
well within a short time.
The filling station owned by H. J.
Phillip*, located in the fork of the
AUeadale and OUr highenj*.. ah«
a half mile from town, has bee* roiled
beck some hundred f**t or so and it
is reported that cabins will be built
in addition to the remodeling of the
station. This business is operated by
Edwin S. Carter.
Judge John K. Snelling is having
his home on Washington Street re
painted and the Davies’ cottage, also
on Washington Street, is being re
worked by the Home Service project
of the WPA. This work is being done
in an effort to show the people of
this community how cheaply a home
can be made into a most livable place.
Other painting and remodeling work
is being carried on by various home-
owners in Barnwell, while several
other persons are reportedly serious
ly contemplating building new houses.
There are several additional trans
fers of real estate in town being ne
gotiated according to dame rumor.
Was Captured at Girard, Ga^ Last
Week But Gut Away Befere Ar
rival of Sheriff.
Sheriff J. B. Morris spent two days
in Burke County, Georgia, last week
in an effort to catch Joe Brown, es
caped negro convict from the Barn
well County chaingang. When Brown
escaped, about three weeks ago, it
was the second time within three
years that he had escaped from the
local gang. Brown is serving a 14-
year sentence for housebreaking and
larceny.
The Barnwell County sheriff was
celled to Girard, Ga., when officers of
that county apprehended Brown and
lodged him in the jail at Girard. How
ever, before Sheriff Morris reached
Girard, the Georgia officers called
back and said that Brown had effected
his escape and they wanted the blood
hounds to try and catch him again.
Deputy Sheriff Clint Youngblood and
State Highway Patrolman Ralph H.
Carter left immedUtely with the
bloodhounds and a search waa started
for the escape artist.
After searching all afternoon and
until eight o’clock that night, during
which time the officers were pretty
hot on the trail and on one occasion
got in front of the negro, the mem
bers of the searching party were
forced to give up for the night as the
swamps in that section were so thick
as to make progress during the night
impossible. The Barnwell County men
returned to Barnwell for the night
but went back to Girard early the
next morning and reenmsd the chase
shortly after sunrise.
A thorough search of the
during the day revealed ae
any trace of tha
Action Deferred on
Fixing Work Hours
City Council Met Thursday to Pass
on Petition Signed by Number
ci Merchants.
A meeting of the Barnwell city
council was held Thursdhy to pass
upon a recent petition signed by a
number of local merchants requesting
the* council to pass an ordinance fix
ing the closing hours of stores in
Barnwell at six p. m., except Satur
days when they would be allowed to
remain open until ten p. m. After
some discussion, it was decided to re
fer the matter to the city atorney,
Senator Edgar A. Brown, for a decis
ion as to whether or not such an ordi
nance would be legal. Several of the
merchants in attendance spoke for
the measure and quite a number spoke
against it.. Another meeting will
probably be held as soon as the ques
tion of legality is decided.
One decision of the council at the
meeting, was that the old “Sun
day Blue Law” ordinance, passed a
number of years ago, be put in force.
The ordinance prohibits the opening
of grocery stores and mercantile es
tablishments from 12:01 a. m. Sun
day until 12.01 a. m. Monday, and
provides that drug stores and fiNing
stations must close during ehorch
hours.
Final action of council on the mat
ter will be watched with
la the
lit Bight,
that he and the
id hopes of
neighborhood of hi* arrest im Girard
and that thoy have by no moons give®
op tho hunt despite the fact that
rown has apparently given them the
slip again.
Brown has allegedly boon terrifying
the negroes in sad aroaad Barnwell
â– inee his break from tho ga^. hat
for tho teat week or so before ha cap
ture in Georgia there had beau no
rumors of his being soon. Sheriff
Morris has offorod a 925 reward for
his
Miss Jeanette Hair has returned to
her home in Barnwell, after spending
several days with Mr. and Mrs. Theo
dore Hair, in the Long Branch sec
tion.
Square Dances Draw
Hundreds of People
Approximately Fifteen Handred Peo
ple Attended Affairs la
Tho new gymnasium was open wide
to Blackville citixons end visitors at
tending a square dance there Tues
day night, August 3rd. Approximate
ly 800 dancers end onlookers Ailed
the specious hell. Inspirational music
for the occsuion was furnished by
Dr. Storne, Kenny Davis, Russell
Boylston, James Darnell and Elmer
Cooper. Young people wanting to
(fence the “Big Apple” brought a
piccolo down and dsneed between the
square dance sets. Another dance
was held in the gymnasium Tuesday
night of this week.
Barnwell Square Donees.
Approximately 1,164 people have
attended the last two dances given at
Fuller Park in Barnwell. Grice’s
string band, of Aiken, furnished mar
velous music for the dancers. Robert
Grimes still holds as the favorite call
er. Numbers of people have remark
ed that these dances are doing more
good than anything else to bring
back old community life, that has
lapsed greatly in the last 12 years.
Young Folks’ Square Dance.
The last square dance for the young
folks was given Tuesday night, Au
gust 3rd. Eighty-eight persons at
tended. These dances are being held
off until cooler weather. Mr. Hub-
hard and Mrs. Olive Robersou furnish
ed the music.
Other varied activities
thsh county in ths rscroa