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A 193 7 +jUL. f f 7 tS^j i+siZA 3 C. t s > 1 The Subscription Price of The People-Sentinel Has Been Reduced to $1.00 a Year. See Special Offer on Page 5 of This Issue. TO OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF SARNWELL OOUNTT CoMoUated loac 1, IMS. Barnwell People-Sentinel "Ju*t Like a Member of the Family M VOLUME LXI. BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPT. 2ND, 1937. Larfaat Coaatj Clrealatfkfc. NUMBER U COHON GROWERS MAY BORROW 9C WITH THREE CENTS SUBSIDY UPON COTTON. Farmers May Get Federal Aid on 65 Per Cent, of This Year’s Basic Production. Washington, Aug. 30.—Loans of nine cents a pound would be made on the 1937 cotton crop, Secretary Wallace announced today. In ad dition, each grower participating in next year’s proc'uction contorl program will te eligible for a maximum subsidy of three cents a pound on 65 per cent of this year’s basic production. The Commodity Credit corpora tion will make nine-cent loans on cotton classing 7-8 inch middling cotton or better, eight cents on cotton classing 13-16 inch staple and middling or better in grade, seven and thiee-<|uarter rents on cotton classing 7-8 inch as te sta ple. bat under m ddlmg as to grade. The purpoo* is to buoy up prices of rotten. Sagging prices prompt ed legislators to demand loan sob- sidies at the last session of con gress A rend Mom of eorh loan Is that the pmdacer-hortswor egress to pert* rate la the I99B adpastmaet program Me loaa trill he mode ea 7-8 tarh rot tea ee better a eta pie ahwh Is •f a grade not dsi>«oraMe ea <am> tract aadbv the ugalstmas of the Xeo York aad New Orleans t ettoa ^e aad aa Waa wtB he mads ea 18-18 rett«a oadse middhgg grade Leans a dl bone mseeeot of 4 per cowl and woto«o Jotr tt. neat. Cot- ten HMSet he stoeed V wneetwmmo approved by the Cemmoddy t rod t roepoeatwa be be etndie foe bsasss leans, n one aanonnead. teand be MS W *MM iRtof Ifess IJbCiL • I 8 * • 04 f - oF48 SHhMSfdSL ™ 0* p* m9 !• J 0)f I# 0S0t» s Nl pSd I Iiw 4 jfg tsr0 lMrts«rtrs In 0 panrd and the average prtre of 7-8 Inca ssidBag rotten en the |0S B0od4M 0M^b00B Ifts 4S f 40 0SB0« SftS tiBF BSfcSdf^ §0 SM Is 00iTSSi§ three cents a poosd As in 1848, snjmwat atll be I mdod be do p#r rent of a grower • base prudoc • lien. If tho sahsedy paymeats en €5 per cent, of the 1M7 base prodoc - tka net oganl tho IIIMMjMi appropriated for this purpose pajr- mmts would be made oa a larger proport on of the bos* production, Wallace said londilions Sot Forth. The secretary said that since ad justments would be related to the price of cotton the date of sale, producers must sell before next July 1 and should retain original sales receipts on all cotton sold from this year's crop pending an nouncement of detailed regula tions. The nine-cent maximum loan is in. line with Wallace’s previously announced views. Southern con gressmen had urged ten-cent loans with subsidy psyments to assure producers 12 cents a pound on this year's crop. Miss Margaret Black spent the week-end at Folly Beach with relatives and firends. Work is Started on State Park Project Barnwell County Recreation Cen ter Is Lccated on Branch Near Blackville. MM Work was started a couple of weeks ago on the Barnwell County State Park which will be located on Whaley Branch, about 3% miles south of Blackville on the Barnwell-Blackville highway. The work is under F. P. Cuthbert, for estry supervisor of the Barnwell CCC camp. ( Mr. Cuthbert stated that he is working about 30 men on the project and is assisted by James A. Nevils, also of the forestry division of the local camp. The men are at present busy clearing away the underbrush from the pro posed lake site, which will cover about 12 acres when completed. The lake will be used for hosting, probably storked with Ash for fu ture Ashing grounds and will have a sand beach on one edge of the •bore for bathing. When completed this should be one of the most popular lakes in Barnwell (aunty and will offer a farm of eatertaiament far every person In the rennty Besides the lake there will be drives, walks, a be rheme pit. a poaw spat aad several shifters from mm an the grounds, nhsth cower about 884 acres. A caretaker'• cottage mB alee be huift aad a men wtfl be put there In protect the pnrh from Bee hnsnrdft and the wtBfhf As- | at ruction ad the pshhe property I Y** P8*B •• •hr people ad I thss anetmn an enmlutM meeting | ground sad odl very probnMy Be | the seene «d sappy pwosco. ‘cues. I sad family gntheesaga Mr ( Ulhhset evtimthdsaatteooh Mr Cuthbert ootimsts I thnt H I oooid tube aheul atna mouths la ■ •■MUpiet* the oorS. Iherofoeo a* I so* osg the people that H o <8 be I *eudy foe use by earty sumtnee sd Crop CollectiofiB Start Off Slowly Bel >ed arut MAJOR JOHN M 0000 0001 NOUMEA 1 Baiauell Pes Is death m Do* Jews Will Observe New Year Sept. 6th Rosh Hashanah Next Week Will Usher in Year 5698 in the Hebrew Calendar. Barnwell Jews will mark the observance of'the Jewish religious new year next Monday and Tues day, September 6th ^nd Tth, by introspection and prayer. Those who observe the orthodox tradition will observe two days, Monday and Tuesday. The reformed branch recognize only the first day. Rosh Hashanah means “the be ginning of the year’’ and ia the firat of ten days of penitence, the most important religioua aesaon in the Jewiah calendar. These ten days are an invitation to all men to judge themselves as they are being judged by the Deity. The season's climax is reached on the day of atonement, Yom Kippur, when, according to tradition, the judgment is sealed. The observance of this season has aarieut origins aad Buds its kuala r Judsiam n the Biblical com sad aad ** fouad ia severs places the BMe It appears ia Urn Boob of Lrrttirus: ~la ike eeeeatk la ike Bret 4ajr sf Ike Everything Okay. E. C. Rhodes, chief clerk in the comptroller general’s of fice, was in BarnwelBl a few days ago for the annual set tlement with Treasurer J. J. Bell and Auditor W. H. Manning. As usual, Mr. Rhodes found the records in tip-top shape and balanced to the penny. Barnwell County is justly proud of these two very efficient officers. I MOORE IS NAMED ■county RANGER. | MICHAEL USSERY SUCCEEDKR BY SNELLlKG MAN. | New Forestry Officer Has Baas Member of Board of County; 4 Managers 13 Years. at Club Membership Showing Increase Improvement of Golf Courso Greeas aad Fairways At tracts Summer Players. Membership of the Sweetwater Country Club and Golf Courso Is increased considerably during the summer as a result of the ex cellent work which J. E. Still- wagon, who took over the mana gerial reiaa of the rink la May, haa ■a the golf course. The greams aad fairways have Announcement was made tbif week of the appointment of R. Moore, of Snelling, as county rang er for Barnwell County, soeeeodiaff Michael Usaery, of Barn wall, who- waa appointed to the position wh— the Barnwell County Forestry As sociation was created by aa act off the legislature ia 1936. The new appointee brings IB this position long and varisd «x* perience that fits him for Us new duties, and under his administration of the be moot auccoosful. farmer aad mtereetsA hi fora soi, conservation. Mr Moor o keen a ■luffin of tka Of county d rectors (now < >) far Ike past It THE BARNWELL PEOPLE FOUNDED 60 YEARS AGO MAJOR JOR* M navr ■ Mom BA fftMTuR a i* pRge Scxc Chan ged by Lant* «Ot* re « P tka Wee Jr | tt The Rerooeil Fao (Be 4MB amweeeemt| og mt The Baraev I fairs a# Ml He has and «Be Mr Mom. has twa ■0 B • 08 To Examine County Students TKit Fall r*. *.• < t Hvehfc I ►»! Ml ened Bo • a* Muur* *m* twpnnmeus ary Pupil Ml (tow Bei I eoooorev tl I t MU osa JL Gel oateS on •wtmuMag Mi K4 a*a VI B* Barooall Feeple tkaa a yeo page* feunmag tn'agrkMme i these are tBe am-. bare had 'd. a* The Bara I foe the v-aoergenry l rop I .osa (as suite*! Itwe 0 fe*0 idsyo ng* proaimolely S88.4UU oaa is aiea ut Reorganization Meeting. Horace J. Crouch, presi dent of the Barnwell County Education Association, an nounces that a meeting of all the teachers of the Barnwell County schools will be held in the Barnwell high school auditorium on Thursday af ternoon, Sept. 9th, at four o’clock, for the purpose of reorganizing the association for the ensuing school year. «; A full attendance of the teachers ia requested. darned I | farmer* through km afftee tk year. Of this total, amly a ll.oou has beea collected te but be continued, the time for col lections baa just started aad will not get folly underway until cot ton really begin* to move. The Emcrency crop loon, which is the last resort for those farm ers who are unable to borrow through private rgencies or other government agencies, has done ex cellent work in this section, hav ing financed a number of farmers who would otherwise have probably gone on relief. Last year the col lections in the seven counties ran about 97 per cent., which is con sidered excellent in view of the fact that the loans are made to farmers who are unable to borrow anywhere else. Mr. Byrd Stated that he had every reason to believe that this year’s collections would be as good as last year and hopese to in crease it to 100 per cent. He has recently been over in the tobacco section and said that the collections over there were running as ex pected and the perecentage there would probably be as high as usual. Loans in the seven counties for the 1937 crop ran as follows: Al lendale , $12,000; Bamberg, $14,- 000; Barnwell, $18,000; Beaufort, $400; Colleton, $11,000; Hampton, $2,000, and Jasper, $1,000. Beau fort County, with only $400 bor rowed was the smallest borrower, and Barnwell, with $18,000, top ped the district. Mrs. Solomon Blatt spent Thurs day in Columbia. I well Beutiuei. wh * I ia IBSff. la I years age 1 1 The Bret edits k we* feuuded a a Are msay at thet uaw WhMe we the aeeeeeary mataeml be eg* la Ike off c* fag aad •f Tkek Psuple | we* published at Barmwell Chart House. S C, o« September 4th, 1877.—a four-page paper with oaly two pages of the A ret issue being printed. The publisher stated that thereafter the paper would be published every Thursday and would be a weekly newspaper. Major John W. Holmes was the Arst editcr of the paper, with Col. James M. Ryan as associate editor. “The Major,” as the former was affectionately known to his many friends throughout Barnwell Coun ty, continued as editor and publish er of the paper until his death in December, 1912, when he was suc ceeded by B. P. Davies, the present editor of The Barnwell People-Sen tinel, who acquired' The Barnwell Sentinel and consolidated the two papers in June, 1925. The anti quated equipment used in publish ing The People has been replaced with modem printing machinery, and at present The People-Sentinel boasts of having one of the best equipped plants in lower South Carolina and the only printing plant in Barnwell County. The first issue of The People car ried little of local interest and few advertisements, the latter for the most part being lawyers’ card* and a few other small notices. Besides the statement of publication, which announced that “The People, Pub lished Every Thursday at Barnwell C. H., S. C., by The People Pub lishing Co., Rates Two Dollars Per Year (including postage,)” there were a couple of small ad vertisements for the new paper Continued on Pzge Eight) some t m*. Ike ettrx cwtumu i ■at s.A*d uutii this week beta •f tk* fed that we hegia • veiaaM with this issue. The rhange ever te a larger site paper has »• tailed considerable ex- P*ns* lx the purchase of new chase* for the press, “liners" for tho linotype, etc., and it will also cost aiore each week to publish the seven-column size. However, The People-Sentinel has always tried to keep sbreost of the times and to give its subscribers the best and newsiest paper possible. In addition to enlarging the size of the paper, the publisher an nounces this week a special price (for a limited time only) of only $1.00 for s full year’s subscription. This offer is open to old and new subscribers alike, but no subscrip tions will be accepted at this rate for more then two years in ad vance. Payments on delinquent subscriptions, however, will be ac cepted at $1.00 a year for as many years as a subscriber may be in arrears. See advertisment else where in this issue. But, after all, while The People- Sentinel is glad to give its readers a larger ^aper at the reduced price, it isn’t/so much the NUMBER of columns to the page as it is the QUALITY of the material that goes into the make-up of these columns. It is hoped that subscribers will show their appreciation of the ef fort being made to give them • larger and better newspaper by sending in their renewals promptly. W. B. Turner, W. R. Price, Bax ley Sanders and Billy Sanders spent several days last week in the mountains of Western North Caro lina and Tennessee. wd that they wdl gts* each ey erkael stadeat la Bans- Maty a lhe*uugh medical itna this fa L The waek will start aa aaea after tka ackesli are ageaed as A m passible far tka ksaltk autkonte* aad ackaal aa- t bon ties te roaaplet* tk* for visits. Tka folowing aches la will k# visited on tka dates given by Dr. L. T. Clsytor, health doctor for Barnwell, Bamberg sad Allendale Counties, and Mias Elisabeth Pa tat, county health nurse: Blackville school on Tuesday, September 21; Williston school on Thursday, Sep tember 23; Hilda school on Tues day, October 6, and the Healing Springs school on Thursday, Oc tober 7. Arrangements are being made to visit the other larger schools on dates shortly after the school openings, announcement of which will be made later. The smaller schools will also be visited by the health authorities so that every student will have the medical examination. This ex amination will consist of a thorough going over so that the child and its parents will have the opportuni ty of knowing if the student is phy sically fit for the rigors of the en suing year’s work. Two Mad Dogs Killed. raw xu aad I HU at the park bus bee* rr affa rx "Rig Appl*' tea have taut weak aad tk* proven papular xrttk tk* daace- Tennis devote** have uaad tka courts at the CCC camp aa tk* court* at Fuller Park were not re conditioned this year to any ex tent. Up until tkie year, tennis had been on* of the most popular summer sports in Barnwell, but, probably due to the fact that the local courts were not put in first class condition, interest seems to have lagged for this year in the net sport. * Negro It Killed by Bolt of Lightning Tenant House Near Meyer’s Mill Struck During Thunderstorm Thursday Afternoon. Two mad dogs have been killed in Barnwell in the past few days. The first one was owned by Hennis Creech and, according to reports, was carried by him to Dr. S. V. Brown, local veterinarian, for treatment. 1 t)r. Brown discovered that the dog was mad and had it killed. The second dog was also carried to Dr. Brown for treatment and it too was found to be mad and was put to death. No other dogs have been reported, however. A bolt of lightning which struck a tenant house near Meyer’s Mill during a thunderstorm about two o’clock Thursday afternoon killed one negro man but left the other occupants of the dwlling unhurt, according to information receiveed here Monday. The negro is said to have been eating a watermelon at the time, one half of which was destroyed by the bolt, while the other half, only a short distance away, remained intact. The ne gro’s clothing is said to have been stripped from his body by the lightning. The lightning struck the chimney of the house and entered in the form of a ball of Are, according to the occupants. The interior of the building suffered minor dam- agx. Hxnrefttmg HoUU Up Farm Twu Years Afu. The project carried on by R. Evans, instructor of at the Barnwell High School, the farmers over the are now at a standstill, to Mr. Evans, who staUd that 1 gathering of the cotton rrop halted ail extra work. Thaos peri men ts are cirri ad on the year by Mr. Evans I farmers of the various ties and are of considerable to the farmers. At the present time tho instructor is busy geting his lined up for the opening of school year on September All indications sre thnt the 44 ment in the agriculture exceed thos£ of the two years. Theh course in a| was introduced in the school in 1935 and has gainod mendous favor since that As a large number of the school students are from the rounding country school and will probably follow i ture in some shape after tion, they are taking full tage of the course offered Besides the school work the students and the with the different groups farmers over the Evans also requires S'l carry out n project of this way he ia able to cal cal