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4 (S !.r> ' L *t- • i... THE OFTICIAL NEWSPAPER OP BARNWELL COUNTT.* i Consolklmted June 1, 192S. VOLUME ItK. *u,.. * >■ j. Ju>l Llkw a of F^mnllv * BARNWELL, 801^ CAROLINA, THURSDAY DECEMBER 26, 1935 Largest County Cirevlaifon. . /.r ■ NUMBER UL Snow Covers County . v in Mantle of White • - Prospect for First “White Christmas” in Years Results from Sunday's Snowfall; Snow, which began falling about noon Sunday and continued throughout the afternoon and-early evening gave Barnwell and Barnwell County pros pect for the first*“white Christmas” in many yearg, although Tuesday's bright sunshine caused the fleecy blanket to begin to melt rapidly. \ v The snow whkfh at timet was mjxed with sleet, began with a light flurry about 1$ o’clock Sunday morning and in a short while was coming down in large flakes. Housetops, shrubbery and 1 the ground were quickly covered under a white mantle, which had reached a depth of two inches or more by nightfull. The skies cleared about , nine o’clock Sunday night, but Monday again cloudy, with the tempera ture hovering just above the freezing point throughout the dhy. A force of workmen cleared the snow from the streets and sidewalks in the business section of Barnwell, and the work was aided somewhat by a < slight thaw. However, thermome ters again registered below freezing temperature^ Monday night and the city still sported its white covering on Christmas Eve . The day dawned fair and under the warming influence of the sun, the snow began to melt.^ It was believed, though, that enough would remain for a “white Christmas.” , Sunday’s snowfall was the heaviest this section has seen in nearly 20 years, it being recalled that three heavy snows fell here m the winter of 1917-18 Vithin a period of about 10 days. CORN-HOG PAYMENTS RATE SET ABOUT SAME AS 1935 Seen and Heard Here During the Past Weds A Little Senile and Nonsense Abont People Yon Know and Othera v Yon Don't Know. The rates of adjustment payments to farmers cooperating in the 1936- 1937 corn-hog program will be (ap proximately the same as those paid in connection with tlm 1935 program, County Agent Boyls^ says. Farmers who comply fully with the provisions of the two-year contract will receive corn payments in 1936 at the rate of 35 cents a bushel on the number of bushels obtained by multi plying the appraised corn yield on the farm by the number of adjusted corn acres. The term “adjusted acres” refer s to the land formerly planted to corn but retired frbm, corn produc tion under the new contract. For example, Boylston explains, if a farmer with a com base of 100 acres and an appraised yield of 20 bushels to the acre makes an adjustment of 20 per cent, or 20 acres, his .total com payment will amount to $140 (35 cent s times 20 bushels times 20 acres)—less the pro rata share of the local ad L ministrative expenses. Hog adjustment payments will be made at the rate of $1.25 a head on the number of hogs in the market hog base. In order to receive the maxi mum payment, however, a contract signer must produce a number of hogs between one-half of his base and the full base number. Deductions will be made at the rate of $2.50 for each hog he fails to produce up to 50 per cent, of his base and of $5 for every hog produced in excess of his base num ber. ' - Under the 1935 contract, both com and hog payments were made* m two installments. Under the new con tract, two com payments will be made in 1936: the first, at the rate of 20 cents a bushel, about Aug. 1st or as soon as possible after first compliance is checked; and the second, at. the rate of 15 cents a bushel ,about Dec. 31st. Hog payments, under the “modified current production payment plan/ however, will be made in one install ment abotyt Dec. 31st, 1936, or as soon as possible after final, compliance has been checked and certifiedl As under the previou s contracts, the expenses for local administration of the pro gram will be taken out of both the com and hog payments. Car Destroyed by Fire. S. Y. Brown, local veterinarian, had the misfortune to lose his Chrysler sedan by fire Saturday night, while in the.Red Oak section of the county. Birth of a Daughter. Mr. and-Mrs. Baynard Ellis, of this city, are receiving congratulations upon the arrival Saturday morning of qa lovely 8 Vi-pound daughter. College girls and boys lirriving home for the Christmas holidays. . . . The old home town also made lively by the arrival qf other visitors. . * . . Everybody shivering Sat urday morning in the coldest weather of the winter, local thermometers reg istering only 20 degree above zero early that morning and hovering around the freezing point all day. . . A card from Col. Harry D. Caftioun, former Barnwell resident who is now living at Bamberg, paying The People-Sentinel the following nice compliment: “Your Christmas Edi tion i s perfectly beautiful and your en terprise is to be commended.” _ Thanks, Colonel, for “them kind word's.” <Most of our other subscribers seemed to take last week’s issue, on which the force had spent considerable time and effort, as a matter of course. . . .. Turkeys and Christma 8 “spirits” be ing sold through the medium of punch- boards. . . . Brightly lighted Christmas trees on the front porches of a number of Barnwell residences. . . . Everybody (including even the owners off automobiles who are payiijg for the highway system) interested in the passage of special legislation in the highway muddle, and a man saying that it was remarkable how- many non-owners of cars were backing Governor Johnston in his fight against the highway commission and for $3 license tags. . . . Col. Solomon Blatt, member of the house of Rep resentatives and Sneaker Pro Tem, telling abobt the clash he had last week with Representative Hendrix, of Spartanburg County, during de bate in the lower branch of the gen eral assembly. Lang Cave remarking that he does n’t think Governor Johnston “has any thing against Ben Sawyer,” and a bystnder saying that If fhe happenings of the past several months have just been a little frieiidly pleasantry on the Governor’s part he’d hate to see ■ the Chief Executive get real peeved with anybody. ... A negro woman, who is a former resident of Barnwell, losing control of the car she was driv ing at theK corner of Main and Marl boro Streets and crashing into the concrete coping around the yard of Mrs. J. A. Pprter’s home, and the crowd that quickly gathered being disgusted with her “Northern Accent,” which she had acquired during a few years residence in “Noo Yawk.” Jarnwell, with its white blanket of snow, looking like “a winter wonder- and.” The fall delighted the young folks and the older ones -who have not grown old, but was looked upon with disfavor by merchants. . And folks walking “stiff-leggedV in their efforts to retain their equilibrium on the slip pery surface t)f the streets. . . . erry Bush admitting to Harry Boyls ton that there was ovk thing that even he did not know, Xhich was that it does not require /extremely hot water to remove thft hair from a butchered hog, and Harry replying that ’most eveybody knows that the temperature of the water should be around 140 ctegrees. .... Post master R. A. Deason receiving con gratulations over his renomination by Congressman H. P. Fulmer, which was a fine Christmas present for the Post master and his assistant, Ben Davies, Jr. * | _ Local Teachers Leave.*; The Answer to-Virginia. - V V " ■ < (The most widely read editorial ever written, stated! the. Reader’s Digest in it's December, 1935, edition, appeared 36 yean ago in the New York Sun, has been reprinted by the Sun annually at Christmas time ever since, and haa been quoetdl in a score of languages the world over. This world-famous “Santa Claus editorial” was an answer to the fol lowing^ letter: 3 Dear Editor: I am eight years old. Some of my little friends say there i s no Santa Claus. Please tell me the truth. —Virginia O’Hanlon. The editorial writer who was assigned to reply to Virginia at.first disdained the task as triva^, then found himself warming up to a real opportunity, and finally wrote the words that millions ^since then have warmed to readl The answer follows:) Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism o^a skeptical age. They do not believe except they* see. They think that nothing can be which is not, comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect in in tellect, as compared-witfi the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole truth. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. ^He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know‘that they a- bound and 1 give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! How dreary would be the world if there were po Santa Clus!. It would be as dneary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, ex cept in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world^would be extinguished. - Not to believe in Santa Claus! You plight as well not believe in faries. You ntight get your papa'to hire men to watch all the chim neys* on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coining down, whatjvoultd that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but—that is no'sign tfiete.is no Santa Claus.# The most real things in the:w T orld arc those that neither children* nor men can see. , .. You tear apart the baby’s' rattle and seei what makes the noise'in side, but there is veil covering the unseen world which not the strong est men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view the supernal beauty beyond Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. _ No Santo Claus? Thank God! he lives, and lives forever. A thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood. Legislature Enacts I Acting Postmaster Highway Control Act Has Been Nominated Temperary Board ls Placed in Charge Congressman H. P. Fulmer Recom- of Highway Departiient.— mends That President Roosevelt" Special Session Adjourns. ’ | Appoint R. A. Deason. 4 v Columbia, Dec. 21.—The Christmas j . Congressman H. P. Fulmer advised spirit pervaded the Sduth Carolina I The People-Sentinel Monday that he oapibol, scene of a fierce political hat- had requested the Hon. Howes, tie, Unlay as Governor Olin D. John-1 First ^ Assistant Postmaster General, ston signed a temporary highway con- to recommend to President Roosdvelt trol act and the legislature that pass- the appointment of R. A. Deason as ed it after a ten-day deadlock with postmaster at Barnwell. Mr. Deason him, adjourned. has been acting in this capacity for The act, principal product of a the past several years, succeeding W. special session convened December 10, M. Harris, who resigned. -Since that established an emergency adWinistra- time two examinations have been held tion to operate-'the State highway de- to fill the vacancy and Congressman partment after it had been bereft of Fulmer’s recommendation that the act- its commission by executive action | ing postmaster be appointed to the and buffeted about in litigation, legis lative argument, and by nearly eight weeks of military control. Governor Johnston demobilized the position meets with the approval of a large majority of. the patrons of the Barnwell post office. Mr. Deason ranked first on the national guardsmen yesterday, end- of three eligibles, the other two ing ap unparalleled period in recent Charles O. Jones and W. J. Sexton. South Carolina government, as a con ciliatory move when a joint legisla tive committee assented to setting up the emergency board if the troops were withdrawn. / The lawmakers rushed through a measure directing J. S. Williamson, State highway engineer,, and O. P. Bourllce, highway department secre tary-treasurer, to operate the road bureau temporarily under a supervis ory board composed of State Treas- In his letter to the first assistant postmaster general, Congressman Fulmer wrote as follows: “I havd been giving serious thought •to the appointment of Postmaster at Barnwell, S. C., And from all of the information that I have been able to secure, it appears that the present acting Postmaster, Mr. Deason, who is' first on the Eligible List, has been rendering efficient service, both to the Government end the patrons of New Deal Is Backed Mainly by the South Other Sections Tabulated- in Literary Digest Poll Are Opposed to . Rooseve^ Administraticn. New York, Dec. 21.—The South is almost solid for the New Deal, .but all other sections of the nation rep resented 1 so far in the Literary Digest’s current straw/Vote are against thfe present Democratic administnftion, abulaticns indicate. Representing 819,320 votes from 34 Slates, mainly in the South and West, the poll shows 57.69 per cent, of voters answering in the negative to the controversial question: “Do you now approve'the.acts and policies of the Roosevelt Ne^ Deal to date?” A week ago, the anti-New Deal percent age was given as 57.24. Eight States shown in the poH for the first time were evenly divided, Ar kansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, South Carolina favored the New Deal. Wis consin, New I^myshire, Washington and Oregon were opposed. Seven other Southern States favor the New Deal. They are Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Texas.’ Okla homa and Florida have slight anti-New Deal majorities. . . Other States showing negative ma jorities are California, Colorado, Con necticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kan sas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michi gan, Minnessota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, -Wesb yirginia and Wisconsin.— Young Lad Is Killed in Shotgun Accident Ray Sanders, Jr., of Olar, Shot Through Head When Weapon o Fires in Own Hand. Olar, Dec. 23.—Ray Sanders, Jr., nine and one-half years old, was Ac cidentally killed at 11:30 this morn ing with a shotgun that discharged in his own hands. The lad had gone to the home of Mrs. Ida Myers, a neigh bor, to buy shells to shoot birds. He was in a room by himself when the fatal shot was fired. The load enter ed his left cheek and came out tfie back of his head Ray was an orphan, the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Ray Sanders, both of whom died a few years ago. follow ing the death of his parents the small children were adopted by friends and relatives and Ray, Jr., was adopted by Mrs. Ella Morris, of Olar. The following brothers and sisters survive: Mrs. Harold Beard 1 , C. B. Sanders. Henry Sanders, Maggie Sanders, Bil lie Sanders and Peggie Sanders, pll of Olar, and Miss Ethel Sanders, of Co lumbia. FuneraJ and interment will be in Friendship church near Olar Tuesday at 2:30 o’clock. urer E. P. Miller, Comptroller General j the office. A. J. Beattie, uni F. C. Robinson, sink- “I fi^d, also, from correspondence ing fund commission secretory. I k*d with the people of Barnwell in Bcrrowing Possible. • connection with the appointment of a It authorized the new board to bor- Postmaster that the appointment of row necessary funds from the State Mr. Deason will be highly satisfactory treasury to run the department, to the citizens of Barnwell and to the whose functions had come almost to a J patrons of the Barnwell post office, dead halt for lack pf money, while “I, therefore, request that you rec- highway funds remained frozen by an ommend to the President of the United injunction, | States the appointment of Robert A. While no immediate steps were j Deason.” token to have the injunction dissolved, J • » • it was reported that the State supreme * *'* re at Lyadhurst. court would be asked Monday to re-1 lease the funds, which include federal many friend, of Me. and Mrs. money from which contractors on road Hay Gantt, of Lyndhurst, will regret projects would be paid.. Federal I to laarn that their residence was totol- road authorities at Washington ihdi- MY destroyed by fire Friday night, to- cated they would recognise the new fisher with moat of their household set-up and resume allotments of fed-1 and kitchen furniture,-Including sever- eral road buildings funds. The. act was ratified and signed by the governor in less than an hour’s time. By 1 p. m. the executive and Buffet Super at Blackville. Blackville, Dec. 21.—Among the first of the Christmag social gather ings was the buffet supper given Wed nesday evening at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Ov-U. Hammond. —_ The teachers of the local high school left Friday to- spend the Christmas holidays as follows: j Miss Maria Neuffer to her home in Abbeville. Miss Margaret Ellis to Darlington to visit friends. Misses Elease Ray and Annie Mar garet Zeigler to their respective homes in Denmark. Miss Grace League to her home in Clinton. Miss Sue Carter to her home in Varnville. ' Miss Louise McCullough to Darling ton to visit friendA. Miss Mary China Stevenson* to Co lumbia to visit relatives. Miss Hallie MaA^McKeithan to her home, in Flai Mis# Delma Burges to her home in Kingstree.i Miss Ruth Dicks to her home in Dun barton. x Mr. and Mrs. George R. .Evans to I Sandersville, Ga. ,to visit relatives. The 34 States reported to date con tain approximately three^-fourths of the population of the nation and far more than a majority of electoral col lege votes. The 23 States registering opposition to the administration represent 265 electoral college votes, one vote less than a majority. The eleven South ern States shown favoring the New Deal have 128 votes in the electoral college, which names the president. The 14 States yet unheard from rep resent 138 votes. Comparison of straw vote/figures with the vote President Roorfevelt re ceived in 1932 indicates he has lost popularity in all States heard from, except Kentucky, where a gain in New Deal sentiment is shown. Santa Clans Letter. Deear Santo Clans: Be ,ure and remember my little sis ter, Peggy and me. Love to alL Dallis Creighton, III. Amid a seasonal atmosphere of holly, mistletoe and poinsettias, the guests assembled at 8 o’clock, and were welcomed by Mrs. Hammond. Supper was served. Individually mold ed Christmas plum puddings with wine sauce bearing a cherry Yule-tide greeting in good old English fashion were served to each guest Miss Jane Hammond passed the tal ly cards and partner, were sought al valuable heiriooms. Mr. Gantt and his family were attending a Christmas tree party at the Lyndhurst • school house when the alarm waa given and e flames made such rapid progress thk} only a part of the furniture waa and the third special I removed from the burning building. The loss is a heavy one, as Mr. Gantt had. only recently remodeled his residence. There was no insurance on either the dwelling or the furni ture.. general . assembly exchanged wishes' for ^a very merry Christmas and a happy newyear,” session since the turn of the century adjourned., The session was the first of its kind called to fill a vacancy in the ad ministration of a State department. Two others, summoned by Governor Cole L. Blese in 1914 and I. C. Black wood in 1931, sought to peg. cotton prices. Road Law Not Changed. Johnston convened the lawmakers with a request that they enact “per manent legislation” to replace a hold- Wa, Old Landmark. # * Lyndhurst, Dec. 21.—The old Gantt home at Boiling Springs, perhaps one of the oldest houses in the county, vrs« completely destroyed by \ fire • last I evening. The fsmily was away for a short over highway commission he ousted I time, when it was suddenly seen to he with troops October 28th snd by taveloped in flames. Someone in pass- quasi—judicial proceedings Decern- ing gave the alarm, a> crowd from the ber 6th when t£e courts reinstated it. neighborhood immediately ‘ gathered. He asked enactment of a bill to but the flames had gained such head- designate the sinking fund comm is- way that it was impossible to subdue sion a, a temporary road board and them. to name a new commission of 6 elect- The old house haa long been ond of ed by the people. \ the landmarks of the village, having The legislature refused to act while Utood here gince sometime previous to troops held the road offices in disre- 1849, and was for many years a cen- gard of a supreme court decision that of music and many pleasant social their use by the governor was uncon- gatherings. For some years now it stitutional. has been unoccupied until about a year Sharp criticism of Johnston pre- ago renovation ofit was begun, and domin*tod the speeches until a pact for some months it has been the home was made through a joint committee j of F. Gantt and family. for contract. After several progres sions, Mrs. W. R. Carroll was award-L4ixty days, until appeals to the courtg ed hihest score prize, a poinsettia, fofj from the executive removal ]>roceed- the.ladies, and Mr. G..F. Posey received 1 ings may be filed and heard or the a (jhristmag box of shaving lotions for legislature, reconvening in regular the men. Favors for the evening were ' session January $4, may pass a per- headed by Senator Lide, of Marion,! It is thought that the fire started and Representative Bennett, of Marl- from the remains of one kindled ear- boro. Her; in the evening, and which was The lawmakers recognized a legal thought to have been made safe be- question as to the statug of thirteen fore leaving the house, but which in holdover commissioners against Nvhoih some way spread to other parts of the Johnston instituted removal proceed- room when the house was left alone, ings on misconduct charges which the The passing of old hemes, like old politically -hostile commission denied, friends, is much to be lamented, as The legislative act established the | their places are not easily filled temporary board for e maximum of tiny bellg attached to the score cards. The guests included Mr. and Mrs. D. Stanley Brown, Mr. and Mrs. G. F., Posey, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Buist, Mr. and Mrs. Byron Wham, Mr. and Mrs. Farrell O’Gorman, Mr. and Mrs. manent reorganization bill. Bills to Be Printed. More than a dozen reorganization measures, including one for popular elections favored' by the governor, three for election of commissioners W. R. Carroll, Dr. and Mrs. Sem B. by legislative delegations, and others Rush, Mrs. Herman Brown, Miss presenting combination plena, were Charlotte Oswald and Mr. and Mrs. left with the house judiciary commit- Lonnie Creech. • | tee. . I McSweeney Suffers Stroke. The Barnwell County friends of Eugene B. McSweeney, of Allendale, will learn with deep suffered a severe gtr while in Ridgeland off last week. He is one of known newspaper men in part of the State, being the of papers at Allendale, Hampton Ridgeland. It hag also been l here that one of his children is ously ill with pneumonia. Their early and complete recovery is hoped for by their many friends. ✓is A A * ■V-V,