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MW mr* : 4 *'~T • ■ r SHERIFF MOUtlS TAKB ISSUE WTH TREASURER (Continued from fint test yefr that you were Supervlaor and the first year that he held the office. My reply to him was that all the claims for mi2 and 1913 had not been present- > ed to me for payment and that I had | not been able to get the books in the Supervisor’s office checked up with mine and would perfer not making a statement until I was sure that the two books agreed. ’ Mr. Diamond made several requests later for the statement and not seeing . any impropriety in giving out this statement to Mr. Diamond, oi; to any one else tor that matter, as they were public records and I did not feel that 1 had any moral or legal right to with hold the figures when a request was made, I got permission from Mr. W. V. Richardson, the clerk of the Board of County Commissioners, to allow me to check my book with his for the two years mentioned and I fee! sure that the two books agree and that the fig ures given but are correct. I wish to state further that since the figures Were given out that claims have come in for both years and that the figures have been changed. Only to day I have paid one claim for stationery for 1912 and f9l3 and 1 am sure there are other claims for 1913 which have not been presented, one of which will be charged to roads and bridges or to the chain gang. My statement was not ^Intended to cover the entire years and if you will notice it does not say so. You suggested that it was possible «that a lot of 1911 claims were added to 1912 account, as a great many of them were approfed in 1912. I think you are mistaken in this. While it is true that they were approved in 1912 and some of them were not paid until Sept., 1913, still they were charged to 191} * account. If there is any mistake along this line it was made in the Supervis or's office, as I charged them to the fiscal year marked on the claim. I told Mr. Diamond, and I have told others, that the conditions were more favorable in 1912 and that of necessity you had to spend more on roads and and bridgea than he did on account of the heavy rains during the summer of 1912, and then I would suppose that you did some permanent work in 1912 which did not have to be done in 1913. To give you an illustration of what I mean when I say that conditions are not the samaievery year, I am includ ing in this letter s statement of the years of 191Q and 1911, which is as, far back as my records show the expendi tures of the different accounts that we keep. You ^rill remember that 1910 was the first -.year that I, as County Treasurer, was required to keep them separate. Chain gang for 1910 114,305.97 “ “ “ 1911 17,440 91 Roads and bridges, 1910 ... 2 576 73 “ 1911. 3,086 20 I will be glad to go over the books with you at any time and If 1 have given uut any statement where the feeords do hot bear me out, t id e is no one more willing ('tan I am to correct the error. Certainly no statement has been given out that is intended by me to cast any reflection on you or any one else. My only dosire is to keep the record straight and to be able to give out any information as it relates to the the fi nancial condition of the county when called on. Yours very respectfully, J. B. Armstrong, County Treas. Now as to the change of the book keeping in the Supervisor’s office Mr. Armstrong did not exp’ain, which would be the result pf having a great many claims itemized. I have noticed on the supervisor’s books that the first day of February, 1913, there had been seven claims put on for 1913 and the 1st of February 1912, there had been fifty six (56) claims put on book for 1912. The above shows where there could be a big difference. The following is the estimates that, have been asked for by the county su pervisor and board of commissioners for a few. previous years: 1909 $40,726.25 1910 ,J. .. 55,421.57 19H 55,507.72 1912 53,941.64 1913 • 68,231.64 Yours truly, ’ J. B. Morris, S for SALE! Some Majt Be as Good—None Are Better. B. C. Notice of Election. A petition having been filed in occor- dance with section 1742, general school law of 1912, notice is hereby given jhat an election will be held in the Meyer’s Mill school district No 54 on Saturday, August 29, 1914, for the pqrpose of determining whether or not a spefcial school tax of two (2) mills shall ne levied in the above named school dist rict. The said election shall be conducted is it provided by law for the holding of general elections. The polls wiH be opened at the store of C. C. Meyer, and -the following are hereby appointed managers of election: J. H. Sweat, W. A. Meyer and J. B. Kirkland. Those favoring the proposed levy shall cast a ballof with the word “Yes r ’ asmtsd Missmboj I will sell for cash, or one-half cash, balance in five equal payments with interest at 8 pet; cent per annum, the following very desirable tracts of land: TRACT NO. 1. 196 acres, 4 1-2 miles north of Blackville; known as the Geo. Zeigler place, containing 6 settlement, 2 barns (one.60 x 66), Double Box Screw Press, two 70-saw Winship Gins and feeders, one C. & T. 35-H. P. Engine, one . Lombard 40-H. P. Boiler, one Hustler No. 2 Saw Mill complete TRACT NO. 2. 47 1-2 acres, 5 miles north of Blackville; known as part of H. F. Zeigler estate; one 4-room building, one 2-room building for tenants, barn and stables. TRACT NO. 3^ Known as Still place; barn and stables; two tenant houses, four rooms each; 6 miles north of Black ville. TRACT NO. 4. 175 acres, known as the old Reed Mill Pond; none cleared, but well timbered and never 1 sending in water; a very fine pasture. This tract joins Tracts No 1,2 and 3. Will sell tracts separately or all to one purchaser. For full information, address Execuffve Committes, Democratic Par ty, Barnwell County. | - Barnwell, ;S. C. * August 3,1914. Notice is hereby given that a primary election of the Democraticperty will be held on Tuesday, August 25th, 1914,and a second primary, if one be necessary, will be held two weeks after. The following managers are hereby appointed to serve at poth elections: Allendale: W O Kearse, J L Harley, J E Warnock. Baldoc: E. S. McLin, J. P. Johns and J. G. Bramlett. Barnwell: S J Halford, J Staff Halford B M Darlington. Springs: C B Ellis Jir, W A Bennett Meyer, Jas. Duncan. Blackville: C S Wilson, C C Stone, D P Mfcrtin. , Bull Pond; J L Box, J A Rouse, J J Furse. Double Pond: J L Croft, Jacob Delk, J P Chitty. I Dunbarton: B F Owens, P J Hiers, B ' F Davis. Elko: F P Lee, W H Wooley, F N ! Hair. . Fairfax: J T Wilson. W L Brooks. W ; W Anderson. Four Mile: L A Bush, W F Duncan, R A Griffin. * ... 1 Friendship: H E Creech, James Ray, Ben-Zorn. Hercules: L S Creech. Still, J A Morris, J A Blackville, S. C. Drop in with, or M&il your architect’s plans and builder’s list, and let us figure with you on a complete house bill. ! - You will hi surprised and pleased. f)ur stock is so complete and varied, you can easily satisfy yourself on the most particular and exacting specifications. Controlling the manufacture of our entire out put as we do, from stump through uur own saw and planing mills to the finished product, we furnish mill work and interior finish that is of the highest standard. Complete house bills our specialty. “Buy of the Maker" , AUGUSTA LUMBER CO. AUGUSTA. GA. Sash, D<;ort, Blind*, Etc, THINKS RICHARD 1. MANNING IS THE MAN A Confederate Veteran Say* Anti-BIeaie ilet Should Concentrate. Aiken, Aug. 14.—To the Barnwell People: A few lines from Aiken, a sis ter county of bid Barnwell, 'as to how the political situation at present looks to us here m»y be of interest to your readers. The Anti-Bleaseites in our county are more satisfied than ever that in the governor’s race in the first primary it is of the utmost importance, as far as possible, that our forces to concentrate their votes on one man, the strongest apparent candidate out of the six men running on the Anti-Biease side, so as by all means to have an Anti-Blease man in the second primary, that we may win out and forever bury Blease- ism in South Carolina. Now, who is the strongest man to center on? It appears to us here in this county that Richard I. Manning, of Sumter, is all- around the strongest man to put in the second primary. On a recent poll made by ua in Aiken, comprising 44 counties, Mr. Manning is decidedly in the lead on the Anti-Blease side in the majority of the counties heard from and is fast improv ing his lead. It is conceded almost all over the State, and our poll just com pleted confirms it, that Mr. Richards will lead in the first primary on the Blease side. Governor Blease said in a recent speech for the Blease men to vote for their choice, bu t it is more than probable that orders have gone out recently from the "Bloase-machine” to concentrate on Mr. Richards, judg ing from tickets already being written In Horse Creek Valley in Aiken the word printed thereon. ■ • Horace J. Crouch, . Cv. of Education. S. C., Aug. 14 191f 8-20-2t 'AST, . quite * number of counties! The writer would appeal to all loyal sons of South Carolina for aid at this time in redeeming this State from the bUght and curse of Blease ism, and a return once more to law and order and a cessation of factional strife. Our best course is now to lay personal choice for governor aside, if such choice is not a strong leader, and vote for the State's best interests. B. V. A., Confederat Veteran. Hilda: J B Grubbs, P G Eubanks, JF D Rpwell. Red OakfO C Baxley, S E Moore, W B Parker. Reedy Branch: J M Grubbs, M. L. Still, M O Creech: Rosemary: W C Bell, P F Parker, B O Mitchell. Siloam: O H Owens, C P Morris, H W Sanders. Sycamore No. 1: J D Jenny, J A Cope, S E Bailey. Sycamore No. 2: J A Vernon, D S Deer, B R Loadholt. Well Branch: J O Griffin, J L Augley, J P Harter. Williston: A Owens, M F Weathers- bee, O N Courtney. Zouave: W S Snelling, J J Walker, V W Peeples. Soecial attention is called to the fol- lowina new rules: v Rule 36. The managers shall open the polls at 8 o’clock a. m., and snail close them at 4 p. m. The managers shall then proceed publicly to count the votes. After tabulating the result, the managers shall certify the same and forward the ballot box, containing 'the ballots, poll list and all other papers, except tne club roll, relating to such election, by one of their number to the chairman of the countycommittee within 36 hours after the close of the polls. Rule 41. The county committees shall assemble at their respective court houses on the momiug of the second day after the election on or before 12 o'clock noon to tabulate the returns and declare the results of the primary, so far as the same relates to members of the general assembly and. county of ficers, and shall forward immediately to the chairman of the State committee at Columbia, S. C., the result of the election in their respective counties for Unites States senator, State officers, congressmen and solicitors. Rule 42. The protests and contests for county officers and members of the general assembly shall be filed within two days after the day of the declaration by the county committee of the result of the election with the chair man of the county commitlee, and said County committee shall hear and deter mine tin same at its first mt cling there after. y Copy of rules wi(l be mailed to mana gers of each club with tickets. R. C. Kirkland, J. Henry Johnson, Cou. ty C'.i.nn. Secretary. 3t. for D THE New School Addition. Work has begun on the new addition of four class rooms to the Allendalp High School and will be pushed to completion. Mr. J. J. Knopf, of Fairfax has the contract. Notice of Stockholder* Meeting, Notice is hereby given to the stock holders of Barnwell County Building and Loan Association that a meeting of the stockholders of said Association will be held in the directors’ room in the Home Bank of Barnwell, at Barn well, S. C., on the 21st day of August, 1914, at 5 o’clock p. m. for the purpose of considering a resolution by the board of directors to increase the capi tal stock of the said Association from Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000) to an amount not to exceed One, Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars ($150,000). Wm. McNab, ' Secretary. 7-30-41 i Geo. H. Bates, President. W AUT E D !! Beef Cattle in" any Quantity. We pay highest cash prices. Write ami let us know what you have to sell. V Proprietor* of The Parlor Market, ■ Barnwell, & C Bankrupt’s Petition charge. IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF 'UNITED STATES. In the Matter of Walter S. Peterson, Bankrupt. No Li Bankruptcy. To the Honorable H. A. M. Smith, Judge of the District-Court of the United States for the District of South Caro lina: ■ Walter S. Peterson, of Blackville, in the County of Barnwell and State ofS. C., in said District, respectfully repre- | sents that on the 1st day of June, 1914, j last past'he was duly adjudged Bank rupt under the acts of Congress relat ing to Bankruptcy; that he has duly surrendered all his property and rights of prenerty, and has fully complied with all the requirements of said acts and of the orders of the Court touching his Bankruptcy. Wherefore, he prays that he may be- declared by the Court to have a full discharge from all debts provable against nis 'estate under said Bankrupt Acts, except such debts as are excepted by law from such discharge. Dated this 15 day of July, A. D. 1914. Walter S. Peterson, n . » Bankrupt. Order of Notice Thereon. ■ ' » - J - L_ District of S. C.—ss: On this 14 day of August, A. D. 1914, on reading the foregoing petition, it is— Ordered by the Court, that a hearing w had upon the same on the 17 day of September, A. D. 1914, before said Court at Charleston, S, C., in said Dis trict, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, and that notice thereof be published in The Barnwell People, a newspaper printed in said district,and thatall known creditors and other persons in interest may appear at the said' time and place and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer of the said petitioner should not be granted. And it is Further Ordered by the Court, that the Clerk shall send by mail to all known creditors copies of said petition and this order, addressed to them, at their places of residence BUY LAND-CROPS GOOD (See Crops Growing now on these Lands) No. 1. 200 Acres adjoining city limits. 160 of same in cultivation. One 7 room residence, one tenant . house, wells, barns, large wired pasture. $35.00 per acre. i — No. 2. 225 Acres two miles from town, two tenant houses, wells and barns, two thirds in cultiva tion. Clay road. A bargain. Only $20.00 per acre. No. 3. 300 Acres three miles from town, 260 in cultiva tion, one dwelling, five tenant houses, wells, barns, etc. A peach for the money. $30. No. 4. 98 Acres, one small house, half in Cultivation, seVen miles from Barnwell, three from Elko. A sacrifice. $7.00 per acre. No. 5. 206 Acres five miles-from Dunbarton. Well im proved, fine dwelling, 10 rooms, three new ten ant houses, a ginnery, all out houses and barns. You ought to see it. $30 per acre. Terms. 320 Acres of land six miles from Barnwell, one dwelling, one half in cultivation. A bargain, only $7.50 per acre. 436 acres half in cultivation, crops can be seen growing three miles frSfff Barnwell,, pnly $13.00 per acre. Desirable terms. 70 Acres, 50 in cultivation near city limits with residence and three acres in house lot. Resi dence and lot $1500.00, (the farm land $30 per acre. Terms. ALSO SOME HOUSES AND LOTS FOR SALE IN BARNWELL. Write me or come see. HARRY D. CALHOUN. Real Estate Dealer, Office in Home Bank Building *No. 6. No. 7. No. 8. FORD AND BUICK AUTOMOBILES I have the agency for these cars. I will deliver them any- ► where in Barnwell County upon a few hours notice as cheap as they can be bought, either for cash, or upon satisfactory terms. C. ARTHUR BEST, Barnwell, -* S. C. ur Have you seen the NEW RE0 THE FIFTH? I have bought one of the new summer models, with all the latest improvements, including hand some streamline body, robe rail, etc., and will take pleasure in giving demonstrations to all interested parties. ' ^ . Th£ prices remain the same, $1,175, complefely equipped, with electric started and electric lights. For further information call on or address C. H. MATHIS, Agent for Barnwell County, i BLACKVILLE, S. C. ice as , - u t t itness the Honprable H. A. M. Smith. Judce of the Said Court, and the Seal thereof at Charlestou, S. in said District on tb* 14 of August, A. D. 1914. Richard W. Hutsou, (Seal of the 'Court).. • V , hi Mltgt i lit Mi mi ^ CHARLESTON. S. C. Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy. Owned and Controlled .by the State. 86 Session Opens October 1st, 1914, Closes Jilne .3rd, Fine New Building ready for otcupancy October 1st, 1914. A tageously located opposite Koper Hospital, one of the largest Hospital the South,hospital containing 218 beds. v, ■ . .Practical work for Senior Students in Medicine aufi Phlj*lf> Special Feature,—— ■ 1 - — - - -.r.- Large and welbequipped laboratories in both Schools. ^ * Department of Physiology and Embryology in affiliation with the . ChaHeston Museum. - ‘ ■ J Niue full time teachers in Laboratory Branches. A > j Six graduated appointments each year in medicine. V, ^ For catalog address ’ , . ? T -3 • OSCAR W. SCHLEETER, Register, Cfcarlestea, 3. C. tpmmr Urn ewe*