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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
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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.
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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
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NOUMEA
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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 <
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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.
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I years age
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a a Are msay
at thet uaw WhMe we
the aeeeeeary mataeml
be eg* la Ike off c* fag
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•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