Hirs. Mathis of Alabaina^Messrs’.Jr At
Evans andRv L-^Welds, Government
JF0BU8HED EVERY THURSDAY
BARNWELL. 8 0
Experfsjjire to
*.*BQYD COL*, tPITOB
^Cailrednn%oond -class mat*''--■®»Krr
ary 14,1906, at the Postofficeat Barn-
~f lllTj “ rL -" r ' rt ‘ ># *»*• iifnmigreir
Tuesday, January 9111
worn* Furniture
Apvicimaixp **Tbs. ,' ;
Transient A<lT»rWitin8iiU<>1-00 in
Inch for the/Bret insertion ; 50cf*u then;
Jar eneh 'subsequent Intcrtipn.
Business locals or notices, 5c a line
♦or each insertion. ^ w — . '
Special notices, such U want^l,' lost,
found, for.sale? for rent, etc:, 25 words
or Imi. foi one insertion 25c; two In
sertions 60c; three insertions 76c; four
Insertions $100. One Gent for each
word over 25. * • . • L ;
Liberal offers to merchants who wish
to advertise bf the month, season or
mr. â– 
From 11 to 1
Chief
T7ELY0 - TONE -made it
V modern and artistic (gave
the sqfrt rich, hand-
rubbed finish seen dn all the
new.e c pensive f lifnitpre. You
can have this finish, too, and
at very little cost. • -
YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS ARE INVITED
Treasurer's Notice.
Thotax books for the collection of
State, County and. School sexes-wil t be
open for the-collection of-taxes fojvtbe
flsical year 1916. from October 15, 1010.
to MaYeh 15„,1917, inclusive. A penal
ty of one per cent will-be added Janur
ary 1st, 11117. February 1st one per
cent more will be,added,'making a to-
!hl of 2 per cent for February, March
-lft five percent will be added, making
a total, of seven per cent from March
1st to March 15th, 1917', at which dale
the. books will close. * ■’
The/tag, levy will be: â– 
•' •_ r> I _.Ml.
VEIVO'TONE FINISH
iw A1 twhnt niinHiH
•taina, varnishr« «ad DrpducM a
wonderful lianiLrubbrd finish In on®
■operation. This wail our® th re®John
for ^ expert. Now anyone cua do it.
Jan. 1 ' 1 '
P. A
about
U. ,S. f
Jan.
first i
resign:
full
remit,
Adrltt-
Jan.
marir'
warfS
Jan;
sunk '
Jan
doriilt
Jan*
Frrn*
Jan
Von
Twenty Million Sale’s More fctkely
Than TwentyvCcnts a Pound,
Says ’Hastings.
t Atlanta, - Gat—(SpecialX—That 1917
is a “danger year" for the squth, and
that there" Is “dynamite in the pres
ent cotton situation for the cotton
growing farmer/* -are the warning
words used by H. G. Hastings, presi
dent of the Southeastern Fair Asso
ciation and the Georgia Chamber , of
Commerce, ’’’in an interview, given T6
the newspapers here urging farmers
not. to’ increase their .cotton acreage.
"Eighteen to twenty cent cotton at
planting time in spring,” he' says,, “is
the bait- that will lure hundreds of-
“Thousands of farmers in the. south .to
LARGER THAN ALL UlHE-K J_Ar Btiu there ftre other features
OoSirNED* ^ T - i th.« ">o» th.n off.et »hi.
iosa, AIT* the players speak their lines,
*7~—-j~ -- -- - - "".V" even iUtlreysre not heard, and in this
Babnwbi.i., Thursoxt-J anuary 4. 1916 re8 p ec ‘t it js different from/any other
feature ever, made /or the screen.
The presentation of “Romeo and
Juliet’’ upon lh,e screen is the dream
of Francis V X Biuhtnaip sad Beverly
Bayne come true.
Crystal Theatre, Thursday January
Hth, 4 p. m.,.night show—# o’clockrr
*or 6take‘purposes../.,......
a /■*- ' •
For aypinarv county pur
F.orAoniti tutiunal school
. J % v. '
over
K«
Jar
tark;
Aut
Mont
Total le?y~ ...is 1 mil is
Special School Levies art as Follows;
Two mill r tax: Aishteigh, Baidock,
Miwris, Myer’e Mill, Barbary Branch.
Cedar Grove-, Columbin, Edisto, EUen-
■tmr, Friemtshnp,. Gre en’s. Sycamore
No. 8,.New-Forest. @*h Grove, River
Side, Sand Hill, Seiglingvilie, Seven
Fines. Tinker V -Creak ami—Long
C^RIOAH JUgT EFCEIYED
Willi? ton, Dec. 27.-—William Smith,
Williston’fl oldest resident, died Sun
day. He was long identified with the
life of the community being born on
January 28, 1H20.‘_ The old South Caro-
lhnnritlToSa ran through hisliTace. Ai
it was the first railroad bililt in thesouth
he recalled many incidents connected
tI have just-rf^eeive<f%-carloa'd of Dodge, iiroth-
TVs touring cars and roadsters find can make ira T
tft’edi-ate delivery of tfither JiiodeL It is not over
stating ffie case - to say that the very large first
years’s production did A not devek>p^a single .serious
*w _ . \r ■ ' . . *’•
fault. This achievetfflrnt*nmiy justifies public
confidence in Dodge Brothers as close and care
ful manufacturers, ;
a few extra acres, and
smile on the crop as in
sTfduId n
Eraoeh
1914, we will cOme .nearer a twenty
.million bale crop than 20 -centg. per'
pound, for etijdcnce ' multiplies daily
-that they are 'planting righT^up to
thewgraveyard,’ Os it is > sometimes ex»
pressed. , - .
“On the Hastings farm we don’t ex
pect to put in an acre-more of cotton-
than we did last year, T^cause we
think it a time above *11 others^ to
play safe. What we will increase to
the limit of our ability will ,be food,
grain And forage* beef * cattle, and
Three mill tax: P*rton. Bloomtng-
dale. Cave. Hickory Hill, Owens Crops
Roads. -Shady’Grqve Cpper Rich Land
j. Four iiii.ll tax : Appleton. Bjg Fork.
Sycamore No. 51, Double Pond, lleal-
ing Spri'iigs^ Hercules, Hilda, Lees.
Rosemary* trimef, Beedy Branch, Mt
CaTvkry. V 1
EiYiS- mill tax : -Elko. (Two .mills
ordinary purjmstte, three mills bonds )
~ Si x' mil Is tax r JCI i*e. Two millSjUjr-
dina|y purposes, louir mills bonds.)' -1
Seven mills tax. Dqnbarton. -i Four
•mill* ordinary purpoges, three* mi|Is
bonas.); . ' 3L; ' . /..J-.,
Eight mills ta*: Blhckvi.lje. (Five*
nulls,.ordi'jprixy purposes', three mills
frith pioneer railway practice, such as
over
the fact that trains felt it necessary to
lie'over all night on the trip between
Chariest in au«l Hamburg. He retained
his mental vigor to the end and his
physical strength until a few wbeks
ago when a fall broke his hip. Mr.-
ffmith waB one of the mbst highly re>
â– ceded citisens in the Wbol^ commun
ity, Some 14 years ago he united with
the Baptist church and was baptised
at the age of 82. The interment was
made on Christmas day «i--the local
Cemetery. He leaves H»e following
children: B. M. 'Smith. Charles H»
Thousand
Per Cent
Investment
THE PRICE IS $835 UfettVERED
That’s what these little
“Classyfied” aas are. Otli-
1 ers have found this to be
The safe way is *ta first supply all
needs* 1 ©! family and stock JfWL one’s
•wh acres, and then put’ yfr|TTus r acrt^
age in cotton. With bread md meat
in hand, and a garden JBglucing
steadily through spring, sliii^®r tfnd
fall; with home canned vegetables and
fruits on cloeet shelves for wmter ta
ble use • with corn-in-tb© crib and hay*
' | and fodder in the barn or stack, thgi
farmer-can be largely independent of
cotton prices in the fall. The farmer
so , provided for .is never ‘distressed.’
He can sit on his cotton bales with
mind at ease, Bind sell in his own good
time when pri<fes ar.e right. —
- “With labor ooniparatiyely scarce
and fertilizer high
Fairfax.’_ (5*2 mills ordinary pur-
poses^la mills^bonds.)
E glrt and tdie-halLi ibifls tax • Al
lendale. (Sht tn’ilis for ordinary, pur
poses. 2*2 mins for. bonds > ? 7
- Nipe m ills Wi 1 Ittttm. fFtve
mills ordinary purposes, four mills for
bonds.)' ) —:
Teq and one-half mills tarj Barn-
give them*a trial. • k
’BaRTf One cent a word
minimum charge of twenty
five cents for each, inser
tion. . â–  N* * : : / i
„ / WANTED.
■WANTBb— ; a water tink, deeq well
pomp, and pump jack, suitable foi
watey supply for counlcf rosidenec
State fulLpartioulars J. C. Fowke
Bald >ck, S. C. - 1-4* 3t,
, (Six \mills j for* ord
posesVwfbur and one-half
bonds.) . - â–  ,
JOHN A. LICHTSEY
J. B ARMSTRONG,
— C»»unty Treasurer
C.. Oct. 2, >916
Sycamore, Deei John A. Light-
ley, a prominent eitizea.pf this com
munity, died Thursday a He moon of
heart failure. He had just ted his
•took, and taken a seat on the front
-porch, when*he fell forward front,*hif
ehkir, deadr~T. . 1.21'
Tie was a school trustfe. a member
of the Lutheran 'Church and was a
member of the Masons and other fra
ternal orders, ’ Funeral services. were
eonducted by the Rev. D. B. Groseclose
« Si fGtrittdir einneti* lreiir^Ehi’hanit
Saturday .morniug^— , * ;
He ie survived by his slepfathcr, a
brother, a sister and by hie widow and
six children. He was, about op years
(If age. *
r - WANTED—good- imik eow to keep
for.hef feed, ~Mfs W. Gilmore Simms,
Bgrnwell, 8. C. . ~ .
11-16 tf. , - —
any. material In
crease In cotton acreage must nec
essarily be at the expense of food and
grain acres that, are ^in—reality far
more responsible for the south’s pres-
0fficct over, Bank of ^Villistuii]
A old Ofnew, Font and $350 makes a
WilliS
cotton.-> \ ' v . ,
“Memories -are sWrt, but wise far
mers need only to look back to 1914
-aB^-se6-4jhe- disaster due to too much
coil on that canT* be Wenf'MtP tSe 1
lack of food that 'one* must eat:*. I re
peat this ifcar of 19l7, is a danger
year. Any farmer w^fio Increases cot-
Ton - acreage and cuts'food crop acres
Is gambling with /the card’s stacked
against him?’ N -
of. 2 teams.
Distributer
L. Jordan, Allcpdale
luivo * good many orders
el v tiny m week
,ur LtG 11 p pe Wlirt
lliK e VTTtTr ttidn at Vlltl 1
few dos®s o
F uTI 11 m*~o f genuine Ford Be pa irs
STEA YED--one black setter- dog 4
about three^ears .did. oamed-Duke,
wearing p ain hancpniade jea»her. eo| , ar
GanndTtie dog Return to E L, Put-
teraon. M,- D*-* Batnwell r lL .G» ■ - —1
AUDITORS NOTICE
The Auditor will be at the following
place?;pp the dates naA.i-iow for
lo It' the Two btars Realize LoorCherisked
tke j urpose of receiving Tax
â– e turns
Siaple VVvTtTH-e-rN
1; is genera i.y the greal<-4ft amuitiou
ol etery real actor and actr»ws-to essay
the ro es ot li nnc.ii or Joliet at least
once Ti^tTieir ciT'eerT "ahtl j'ranTo^^C
‘Bo ah man and Beverly B.iytic, tlje fore
most stellar coinbiiugi nr that ever" apt
neared* in the silent drylm,, are' n>
exceptions to this julev - Indeed',
completron of' tne cleborate Vscreen
production of Shakespeare’s hnmortal
drama, marks the highest achievement
of their fiicture.-ijue and spceessful
car^ers-and the fulfilment of hopes
they have lon'g entertained- -
Ever idnce Mr. Bushtnah and Miss
Ravne/firsP came into fame, about tiye,
years ago, th^ir admirers in lbgion
have deluged them with letters sug
gesting that they appear in "Romeo
and Juliet.” The two artists were ex
tremely anxious on their aecdunt. io
giy* ih«-ir bilei»pf©iotiow cf these roles.
-But-thcy turned a deaf ear on all pro
posals to appear in a 'piciurizaiion of
the drama until they were assured that
it would be produced on,a. scale in
keeping with thjMX ideas and ideals.
It was oak untilsuitable scenario
wpB found b# Metro-Qialicy forces
nr Statute
\V I, lis/on
Mercy o*
Svcainore
FOR SALE- rent liens. Mail orders
promptly fi L-ti.V " * ,
The Baruwel! Sen ti riel, Ba rowel I. S. C.
r personal 'projicYty returned^
Vnalty win be addei. after Feb-
ifOthr^ - - -■•'
R. W. RILEY,
I . r •• V'.
Auditor BarnwcU County,
RUB-MY-TlSM -
fieves Rnertmatiiin
gik, etc. "
12-14
1114 Laurel St
_1J -8ul8t.
. f Hdive you seen the truek Si lt:achn/eiit
on the Coch-OuLc Truck, it is a Bthith
Form 1 Atlachmeul, dost $350. H '
12-7 tf. L'
FQR SA LE- -one water con-
sisting ot 100 gal pressure t«uk 134 h.
p. Grey engine, ape double aeoiuu 8
inch pressure pump wi$h air compres
sor attMched.' one*putltp jack and delt-
ipg. Quick sgle for cash. Bargain to
purehas-r Reason for selling Wwn
has waterworks. Apply to
V* /Jas^M. Paf ersnn, \
M8-tf * V Allendale. 8. 0.
DentaLSaqH^^., —
Office open everyday in Rountree Build
WILLISTON, S. C
TT AtAU DeaWa
ed. Theu tha’lliraini^st and most* ex*
J)c*rt men in the profession were calUd
together, and "af ter a, series pU confer
Qjt* r\T fl
Shakespearian prbdiicHou of all -time
was outlined. NVIiiltrit is true the pro
ductionin the , realm of the! silent
d*aura k robbed of ihe ^peaking^foice,
ktyrAND L^CiNO
jOfASO"
r » An Idea of the._alze of the —
Cu may be‘gained by comjrarison x
on* ©f the members of the gun
alonfslde. The gun ls moved on " *
^tliin i> 1 j £jydirl$;
tal Kotiiie, Colitictiuus/ L^-ans
Office over'iSiG^i^vl * â–  "
IRON WOBJUU 4*J0UStJ^
£XPf?£SS COLLECT
I GALL0 M 1.98
4 FULL QTS. 2.18
8 PT" o<> !(* /iPTS.—2.16
—A
m
IREMED
WDItUCSIST.