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r 1-- » 4 *a »^ v srt»np 4 iu»( Llk« a Member of the Family 99 . f o'. • : Vv. ^ r*, . ji ni */ A.’! VOLUME XLV. BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER, 8, 1821. NUMBER 14. DEMANDS REDUCTION OF . ^ ENORMOUS TAX BURDEN • _ News and Courier Says Taxes Must Come Down Next Year. The following editorial from Mon day’s isstie of the News and Courier' will receive the whole-hearted second of every taxpayer in Barnwell Coun ty: South Carolina taxpayers will wel come the news that, the Joint Legis lative Committee on Economy and Consolidation will urge the General Assembly which meets in January to reduce tile State tax levy for 1922 by at least a third. Sensible men must know that relief for the taxpayers this winter is imperative. v In the past four or five years taxes in South Carolina have been doubled and trebled and v quadrupled. That was as it should have been. South Carolina as a whole has never been so prosperous as from the fall of 1917 through the spring and summer of 1920. the money value of the State’s cotton crop rose from some thing like one hundred million dol lars to well past a quarter of a bil lion dollars a year. All other agri- cultural products went up in propor- ^ tion. Everybody had money. . The i cotton mills hummed night and day ^and got fancy prices for their pro- " ducts. The people who a few years before had groaned under appropria tions of $2,000,000 or less for State purposes could pay nearly $30,000,- 000 to the Federal Government and still cheerfully face big increases in St*te taxes, city taxes and county taxes. During this happy period the State committed itself to many improve ments which were joyfully welcomed and to a most liberal support of in stitutions which abundantly deserved all they received anu more. Jt ia a thousand pities that our resources do not permit a continuation of this gen erous program which was fast mak- •ing for a better commonwealth and a finer citixenship. But with the -surift and irretrievable decline in the ’p-'-'r CONSTRUCTION WORK PROGRESSING NICELY -V Installation of Sewer Pipes and Wa- t . • , ter Mains About Completed. The work of installing Barntfell’s new sewerage system and the exten sion of the Water mains is fast near ing completion and the contractors are now busy doing the neces&ry ^preparatory work for paving around ‘^!he. Circle.” The <;oncret£ sidewalk curbs havf been almost finished and the unsightly iron fence has been tom dotfn 'to make way for a con crete coping. As soon as this work is completed the roadbed, will be graded for the paving. Considerable excavating will have to be done to provide proper drainage, ns the sur face of the new street will be some 18 inches below the present' level in front of The People office. Excellent progress is also being made by the contractor on the Kline- Barnwell road, and the work thus far gives promise of one of the best stretches of sand-clay road to be found in this section of the State. The work is being done by the same contractor that built part of the high way between Columbia and Aiken, which has been highly complimented by everyone who has ridden over it The county is now advertising for bids for the construction of the. road connecting Elko with the Bamberg County line. The large amount of construction work being done at this time comes as a God-send to many jobless men. LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS T PECAN CULTURE The , People has just received a letter from Santa Claus, who writes that, in spite of the hard times, he is going to try and remember every little boy and girl in Barnwell County this year. He has made &r- rangments with us to publish letters addressed to him, some of which appear below. If the, little boys an$i girls will send their letters to Santa Claus in care of The People, we will see that the jolly old fellow gets them. VAMP THEATRE SHOWING ‘ SPLENDID PRODUCTIONS By N. L. Willet The pecan business is such an im- B .. ^ mense one in South Georgia that the government has established at Ttym- . . asville, Georgia, a pecan disease Ish- ! \ " oratory. It is in charge of Mr. J. B., During the past few ^weeks the Demoree. .patrons of The Vamp Theatre have NINE PEOPLE ARE SICK ’ * FROM EATING BISCUITS New “G*M Fibre” Screen Means Much to Patrons. Another Mysterious Affair Develops hi AW—dale County. The Plantings/ | treated to a program of pic- The South Georgia people plart * ures unsurpassed in any moving trees sixty to seventy feet apart, gay j picture house in South Carolina. In twelve to fifteen trees per acr.!.! f®®*, many of the productions are Nuts are gathered from October shown Barnwell ahead of Charleo- first to December the first. Their ton, Columbia and other large cities plan for the first year is to plant 1 an< * towns in the State. The big at- intervening crops of either rye of traction last week was “The Four Backville, S. C. Dec. the 1 1921. Dear Santa Clause I am a little girl Seven years old. I want you to bring me Some Fruit-some nuts andd candy and a tin Tea Set and Some Fire works.- as times are so hard I wont ask for much this time. Mary Elizabeth Delk. Dear Santa I am a little boy 5 years old. I want you to be sure and pay us a visit Christmas, the main thing I want is two good wagon wheels. I want good big ones and of cours I shall expect candy fire works etc and don’t forget my baby Brother and two little Sisters. » truly, Marion Hair. * Elko S C Dec 2d 1921. oats and turn this under in the early year and then to plant down at once broadcast either cow peas, hush velvet beans or soy beans. •Usual ly these legumes are manured with a commercial fertilizer in order to get the larger amount of legumin ous foliage for turning under. The Horsemen of the Apocalypse. When this picture was shown in Augusta it ia understood that the prices charged ran as high as $2, while the highest priced seat here was only $1. This is considered by many the finest picture yet produced, not even ex cepting “The Birth of a Nation.” pecan tree if it bears nuts must be | People have traveled many mills to given a big amount of food. The pecan tree is a domesticated thing Nine people lie desperately ill as the result of some peculiar sickness 1 evidently some form of poisoning at Martins, S. C., a small town about fifteen miles from Allendale on Ihe Charleston and Western Carolina railroad. While as yet no one has suc cumbed to the illness, physicians in attendance are plainly perplexed over their condition. The peculiarity of the situation is that the affair occured in the boarding house of Mrs. R. F. Creech, who is js sister-in-law of Mr. J. W. Lee, who now lies very ill in on Augusta, Ga., hospital and who lost four of his family, his wife and three small children,from some affection that looketklike poisoning but analysis has apparently proven that no poisou- r THANKSGIVING SERVICE AT ROSEMARY CHURCH Said to Have Been the Fint of Its Kind Ever Held There. Hilda, S. C. Dec. 5th, 1921. Dear Santa Clause I am a little girl six years old I wont you to visit our home and bring me a doll, s tea set and lots of *niit. Your little friend, Thelma Delk. Ad announcement by the Woman's Missionary union that there would be a Thanksgiving service at Rose mary came like a clap of thunder from a cloudless sky, for the oldest members of the church say that they Hilda. S. C. Dec. 5th, 1921, Dear Santa Clause 1 am a little girl four years oM. I wont you to visit our home and bring me a doll and lots of niit. and don’t forget my little Brother Billy. Bring him s little wagon and a monkey that elimbe up a string. Your loving little friend, ‘ • Bertie De*k. , . . do not remember a Thanksgiving pne of cotton wkkk ~t m durin, j „„ hold It old Ro^n.ry, so having this one goes to show the late summer of 1920 it evident to all who believe in facing facts and who look ahead, that the taxpayers could not provide the funds to maintain the pace which had been ret. The Legislature and all other lax appropriating bodies, city and • ounty, were warned of this fact last winter but they chose, most of them, to disregard the warning. They dare' not disregard it again this winter. There are counties of South Caro lina which an* still more prosperous than they ever were in the pre-war period. This is true of counties like that the people hate turned over a new leaf, even if it is not yet New Year. Promptly at 11 o'clock the pastor, the 'Rev. D. W. Reekie, as cended to the platform and stepped behind the sacred altar. After hav ing sung the Doxology the service was on with a chain of prayer open ed by W. R. Bell, fallowed by F. P. Lee and closed by the pastor. After singing a hymn the pastor read the I0.'l rd Psalm. He took for his text the first verse of the 106th Psalm: and not a wild thing and imm be treated after the fashion of rhe domesticated thing. This turning under of legumes is always a neces sary part of good pecan culture. There are numbers of growers too. now who put six to eight pounds of guano around the tree in the spring. Usually the holes are dug about three feet deep and three feet aide and a certain amount of stable man ure, well rotted, is well mixed in with the soil as put back. This soil must be packed except the last there or four inches and when the hole hr half filled many growers put one to two buckets of water in the hole be fore filling up the balance of the hole. The Type. Mr. Demoree tells me. and this I have said several tunes before, that the typee to plan, ere the acrab- resisting types, that Is 3l»i.:rt, Frotscher, Moneymaker and Ttache. As regards Roeette, the principal trouble with pecans aside from .scab, no naan who ever plants a pc sc an tree in rich ground will ever have Roeette. Even though the top soil may ha nek the substratum must not bo either Hilda. 8. C. Dec. 5th, 1921. Dear Santa Clause ' 1 am a little girl thirteen years | san4 or hard baked impermt»b!c old. Santa please visit my home soil.. He says that it ia not bos’ to this Xma* and bring me a ring, a | plant out pecans more than six fort Box of chocolate randy and lots of i high and he says that the pnres fruit. se^ it, and the fact that U has been ing existed. Those who have been to shown in Barnwell so shortly after the affected boarding house from here its release ia proof of the fact that say that those affected are affected the management ia doing all in ita power to give the people of this sec tion the best in moving pictures. in the same way as the Loo family. In addition to this there are soaae very odd circumstances surround ng This paper will not attempt a review ; the whole affair. It appears that Your loving friend, Sadie A. Delk. as at any time in the past and where, there is a very considerable indus trial development which has prob- .nbly suffered less frorp the general Fdeprcssion than any other industry in America. These counties are not as flush as they were in 1919 and the first part of 1920 tut nevertheless they are in excellent shape. * In a good part of South Carolina the. peo ple have been harder nit than in any previous year since the close of the Civil War. This is the plain truth. It is so disagreeable that nooody likes to dwell on it but the Legislature must face it in making its appropriations this winter and so nvust the cities and the counties in-makjng their ap propriations. The appropria ted by^the General Assembly for State purposes is uhly a small part of'thl burden which taxpayers. have to bear. ♦ . „ It is the plan of the Joint Legisla tive Committee on Eqonomy and Coh- •solidation to reduce the State* tax k.nr from twelve mills to «*t>t mills Dialogue, four girls, and to raise part of the money ,whtebL Song . . ,, o _ , I “Praj— ye the LoVd. O give thanks .Anderson, Greenville, Spartanburg.' u *. . , • . . “’.unto the Lord; for He is good; for • herok" “ ml »'vr.l Hi, r|Kbmth ■ra-Stefr •’!*««. ' I ’» .«?*»• fflinie R.rsn“cu. veor hus-tH-en approximately at large dnnl lermon. He ipoke briefly bow thankful we should be to God for the blessings that have l»een be stowed upon us as a nation, touching upon the recent ' World War and then turning to the practical side of life he enumerated some of the many blessings that have come to us in dividually. He preached an excellent sermon. Dinner was served on the grounds, hnd an excellent dinner it was, and don’t you forget it. CTiicken chicken, chicken, pies and cakes galore. Cof fee, Oh, my! The aroma of that cof fee is still in the breeze and,,ybu cab almost catcl} a whiff you pass by.; The congregation reassembled at 1:30 and the following program was beautifully carried out: Devotional exercises by the pastor. Song. > ■ * The Mother of Thanksgiving, Nina Frederick. A Thanksgiving,-Oneal Riley. Father, we thank Thee, Harold Powell.* - Hilda. S. C. Dec. 5th, 1921. Dear Santa ^Clause I am a little Boy Eleven years old. I prices. I Wont you-to visit our home this Saleamspship- Xmas and Bring me a cap pis’al a ! He says that the selling of picans knife and lots of fruit. Thank you 1 is largely a matter of salesmrnstup. of the picture at this time, content- after the death of Mrs. Lae and the ing itself with saying that the pro-1 children of the Lee family and the duction is rich in detail and the act- 1 removal of Mr. Lae to the hoepital ing is such as to move the audience in Augusta that Mrs. to tear* one minute and to laughter 1 sister of the di the next. There are numerous grip- ’ to the home of the Lee family aad ping situations that hold one spell- removed from the house severe! bound, while cdupjed with a very artieles of groceries which she mr- pretty love story la a prophecy con- ried to her home. She uaed n sack tained in the Book of Revelations. of flour which she got from the Lee In addition to providing the beet household, making biacuita 'rojs that the “movie” world affortfW, Mr. aame. Those boarders who ate tbe Bauer, the manager, has just in- biscuits were taken III alasest im- stailed the finest screen on the mar- mediately after eating them. H ap- ket,—known aa a “gold fibre” screen pears that some of the boarders did ‘Hie best theatres in the country have not eat any ef the biscuits and they no better. It brings out every de- were not affected. Homs ef the doc- tail of the picture with remarkable • torn, including Dr. Tuteu of Fairfax clearness, while it does not tire nor who was cm Hod to the, irritate the eyes ia the slightest. In on the theory thet the short, no expense has beta nor b bo- moult of ptooaai ing spared for the comfort and aa- by the eating of joymont of the patrons of this thea- was served at the same meal. 8mm tre and it Is to be hoped that the peo-! of those affected however, affirm that pie, not only of Barnwell, but. of, they did not touch the salmen but Bbckvilk, Wilhston. Dunbarton, did oat acme of tho biacuita. I*r. Kline and the other towns la the Tutor passed through Atioudab county will show their appreciation this afternoon and had tho aaek of; by attending ns many shows as they floor with him. He stated that ha possibly can. Of course, mousy b i intended to send the flour to scum that I named the other day are the j tight and time* are hard, but a Hub reliable source for analysis. He still current" ones now In Smith Cconna.I relaxation now and then will bettor, held to tho theory that the pa spin fit one for the problems of every-; affected had all the symptoms * of day life, w ^ ^ ptomaine poisoning but he sold ho • • w was unable to explain the statement* REEDY BRANCH ITEMS. «f the people who said they had not | that b 75 cents for two to three foot j trees, $1.20 for six foot trees end in I large amounts $1.10 . with inter- I mediate sizes carrying intermcdiAte very much Santa. • Your loving JCtivud. ' Roddey Delk. will be needed for State institutions , ' "»"r I" W*"**_ -I by levies whieh will fall not on prop erty bjit on those who now escape wholly or in part their fair share of the-tax burdeiiT This fs as if should be but it ought to be clearly under stood that no shifting of, the tax burden will meet the present situa tion. That can be accomplished iit one way only and that is by cuUing down all appropriations ( to the jrre- iucible minimum. » Christinas Seals are the- means of stamping out the dreadful plague of Tuhareubeiis buy seal* and' hoods and help the suffering. Advertise in THE fEOFLEL Thanksgiving ' Memories, (Read ing), Carrie Hair. Recitation, "Lucy Lard. Dialogue, t r 2, 3p4v Chtottld^RTTey' Pesry dowels, Eva Hair, -Larrie Jowers: ~' v - . . ^ Solo, Mrs. Eddie Hair.. Reading,- Bessie Hair. >> Recitation, Annie Lou Hair ; Reading, Clyde Powell. Recitation, AUene clitchel. Reading, Eva Robinson. In addition to the above program there were severak interesting re citations . by Annb Lou Hair, Gladys Mitchel, Eunice Mitchel and Irene Hair . that Europe could use treme-ulOns amounts-tf-ehc 'perxn could mtfy'W exploited in Europe, and that ther^ is certainly no overproduction »n this country since theTre is not more than one pecan of good size as grown to day for every inhabitant, per annum, what 1 want f am writing you. H^calls the pecan the queen of nets Pleas«*, bring me a nice velocipede a and he thinks that it is a priceless Blackville S C Das 2. 1921 Dear Mr Santa Clause Thinking that you might not know stove and a tea set and fruit and a pair of little scissors. Bring a large size velocipede suitable for a little girl of seven. With best regards to you Mr. Santa, 1 am , ' Sincerely, Emmie Lee Hair. PT S. My little sister can not write she wants a pretty doll and fruit. . McNAfc-McELROY. - Miss Eoie McNab, daughter of Mrs. Sallie McNab, of Barnwell, and Mr. N. T. McElroy, of Spartanburg, were ❖married Thursday evening at the home of the bride’s moQier, Dr. W. M. Jones, pastor of the. Barnwell Baptist. Church performing the cere mony in the presence of a number of relatives and intimate frrbnds of the contracting parties. Mr. and Mrs. McElroy left shortly after the cere mony for a wedding trip to Atlanta, after which they will make their future home in Sparfanburg. asset for us here in the South—this is the pecan’s habitat. They may grow’ in a way a little further north but the gross pro-duction is sub normal. The lower section cf the % cotton belt really has a monopoly of this industry and if the whole nation were educated to eating pecans and were educated to know that pecan fat is better than meat fat and more digestible, why the industry mi-r-ht be increased a thousand or mor<* p-r cent. Out-Turn. Trees that are highly fertilized end watered may give very large returns but year in and year out the average pecan tree should not be expected to produce more than forty to fifty pounds. The confectioners do rot use the large moated pecans; they use the small wild nut frorfT Texas. Recent’y a dinner was given in Thoma.-vlKe in which every dish had pecans as a ■ . . eaten any of the salmon. He stated Reedy Branch. Dec. 6.— MU* I.iJ- that the people affected were not lien Hutto spent the week-end with seriously ill at this time but were Miss Florence Still. 1 suffering greatly nod he did not Misses Doris Hutto and Edith Lott ‘ know when any chsnge fa ObfiTm t-' spent 'TUP Week-end' : %H1T MT5seiT f7 HHori _ might come ahou: Winnie and Maggie Black. The names of those .affected could Misses Pearline Grubbs and Axilie! not be learned but it is rumored Hiera spent the week-end with Mr.; that one of those who are ill is a and Mrs. Howell Delk. man who was boarding at Lee's at Misses Thelma Still and Eublie the time of the poisoning and that Hiers spent the week-end with Mbs. he is also affected now. He was Fossie Still. . . | slightly affected with the Lee fum- Ruby Hiers and Ansil Still spent ( ily but received immediate medical the week end with Master Reynolds attention and recovered shortly. Still. j There is considerable excitement Mr. Frankie Williams was * vis- here and over the entire county rc- itor in this section Thursday night.! garding the affair and there is no , Mrs. John Gary Grubbs spent i explanation for the affair. Sp^cu- Sunday wfith Mn and Mrs. J. M. | lotions of every kind are going the Grubbs. ' , rounds, but no satisfactory infor- Mr. C. C. £ Black was a visitor in mation can be gained. The only rc- a long life of happiness and pros perity. Place the Christmas Cheer on those suffering from Tuberculosis by show ing your Willingness to CHRISTMAS SEALS. the soup. It is said to have been an Olar Sunday night. Mr. and Mrs. Furman Creech and children spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs. N. C. Grubbs, Sr. Mr. Leroy Sandifer was in this section Sunday night. The many frieml* of Mr. Lee liable information that has been heard was from Dr. Tuten, whoso statement is given above. Immediate investigation will be made and the matter has already been reported to all - the county and state officials, and some light will probably be Croft will he sorry to learn o' his ; thrown on the matter ip the n*yrt recent illness. ! few- hours, it is supposed. ^ Mrs. Daniel Djrchea, of Charleston,; The ^ C , M .ttracted considerable ia spending a few day. with her pa- sttention throuttt , the stat(! , rents, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Croft. days ago but a bulletin has just been issued from the Governor’s office i that the death of the Lees was not brought about by arsenical poison- Both the bride and groom oxamnic •erf the-usertlifft large eirde of friends who wisfiTSST , hp mea , „ f the ^. an can ^ pul cannot understand really why ’he average farmer ignores the econ- component part in it, beginning with omie value of'the pev?an as a neces- ing The case at Martin coming on sar* part of every farm. Mr. Deni- the „.heels o£ the.Lpa ease and con feree thThlcs'thaOTii “Stuart an*! trv: Frotscher ^ are especially indicated. For a pecan that t; w-anted to bc:ir If you want your pecan tree to bear well you must give it good soil. The’ in the soonest number of years ani tree is perculiarly associated with to bear, earliest m the fall, the stable lots. A Side Issue. Moneymaker is indicated. In Dlast ing it would be well for a man. there- netted in such a peculiar manner With that case has caused the people here to doubt if the investigation of ithe Lee case brought out the tiue state of affairs. If the flour ana<y- sis proves nothing the case will be In the same condition aa it eras in «he theory to work help—BUY j . It is not every man who wants to fore, not to confine himself to any i beginning, with no ' go into this business commercially one typeu A man told me the otbei l upon. These two c seemed to have enjoyed themselves and went away with a prayer upon the following girtrrf hi* lips, a song in his mouth, and saying in his heart: “I was glad 1 money and also for the deltgh; of the when they said unto are. Let ns go ^ the children afld as a part of tise of money A six foot After a short talk by the pastor j op to the House of the Lord.” family food at the dimer table or gto haoriog a little *->:» ing to-' hut . He. Demoree tells me that a day that he was going to put in pe- j gather have proven the moot certain number of trees b indicated can trees as a Heritage for his unusual and peculiar that ha* er r for every individual farm, both ar a children. Ten acres to a eh .d happen* side issue for the aaaking of pin tweWe years old would be worth at ‘ an d b of hb maturity a fine *tm ' Ail ht- * b a the benedkoon was AM i X. Y. X He laB