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A ”.v • ul ' •• - *v :; * /■• c. -: * THE BARNWELL PEOPLE Entered at the post office at Barnwell, S. Cm as second-class matter. JOHN W. HOLIES 1840-1912 B. I*. DAVIES. Editor and Proprietor. THURSDAY, APRIL 14TH; 11)21. Witty and Wine. “A poet is horn, and not made”—but so is everybody else.—Neodeaha (Kans.) Retfister. Still another reason why men don’t go hack to the farms is their wives.— Washington Post. p There is one thing about being pro- American—there are no regrets.— Culdesac (Ida.) Enterprise. The lure of the hose in the city drives men from the hoes in the coun try.—Gilmer (Tex.) Mirrod. While the savage red man lived in a wigwam he paid no rent.Why, then, Sartorial art finds many forms of News. British Warship Badgss. The British admiralty has decided to provide-every British -warship “^ln future with its Own distinctive badge. These are being designed by MuJ. Charles Koulkes, herahHe adviser to cent penalty is added for January, Every man has days when hjs sus penders insist on getting twisted - tnd his socks keep coming down.—Howard (Kans.) Courant. If anv woman had all the clothes fc she wanted, the rest of the., women would have to go around in barrels — Sugar City . (Colo.) Gazette. Girls may shut their eyes while be ing kissed, as a scientist avers, but you betcha they don’t when it comes to selecting the engagement ring.-— Richmond (Ind.) Hem. The Spirit .of Barnwell. Owing to the amount of space pre viously promised for this weyk’s is* sue of The People, the second sympo. sium in “The Spirit of Barnwell” se ries will not appear until next week. The subject of the next number will be, “Our Home Town; How May We Improve It?” Articles on number 1 of the series, however, will Ik* received and used. Every resident of Barn well is cordially invited to help the cause out by expressing, through the medium of this newspaper, his or her views on the subject. <• Contributors are requested to send in their articles, in duplicate, in ‘ime for delivery. NOT LATER than m\xt Sunday morning. Address articles to P. O. Box ir.6, Barnwell, S. C. the admiralty, who has already In vented. JfiO badges. Considerable In genuity has been exercised, as the following examples will show: Ven turous, two dice; Sportive, a hutting goat; Tactician, a chess knight; In constant, a butterfly; Sesame, a kej-; Sterling, £; Watchful, an eye; Viva cious, head of Mr. Lloyd George; Ter magant, a fury; Nile, head of Nelson; Truculent, Britisher smashing a Hun. Each badge will be earvetl hi wood and then cawt In brass, colored, and fitted on the quarterdeck, as well as . a on either bow of the boat. Two plaques are to be used, the smaller one for the bouts being . about eight InClibS sqnare, alHt the one -for the ■ quarterdeck about W inches square. Each badge Is designed in some way to represent tin* name of the boat pjc- torfally, or when that is impossible, embodying some -device connected with Its history. .The designs will bo used also <m nole paper, and probably on the brass muzzle-caps of guns, which are privately bought by officers of ,battleships.’ TAX NOTICE. * In order that there may be no mis understanding or' misconstruction- of the law providing for extension of the time for ppyirtg taxes, one per NOTICE OF ELECTION. £$*$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$ <£ two' per cent foT February and threef per cent for March. The said three per cent remains without change un til May 1st, when the seven per cent penalty is added, and on May 15th executions are to be issued. Penal ties are>not cumulative; in ocher words, only three per cent is to be added up to May 1st. ' . For State purposes _12 mills. For Ordinary County piuposes 11% mills. For Good Roads, acts 1920.2 mills. For Highway Bonds __. l lr4 mills. For Constitutional School --J mills. Flat Feet Treatment Successful. War experlem es have changed <►«? views about flat feet. It was at, one time .assumed that individuals so- af- llieled were destined to lead sedentary lives, and tlujiLltyy were disqualified from partaking in \”oeations requiring the constant use of the feet, sneb,as. military service. 'I bis enomsms Idea is still universal in Europe and to a • large extent in America. It is in weak l>et 'that the hones of the arch drop to the ground, the muscles and ligaments being so weak •atiyl flabby that they cunnor bold up Dk* arch bones. After a series of treatments^ in the most, chronic eases, the pro lapsed boties will gradually rise until they reach their normal height. r Branch, Morris, ^ “Flivver" Airplanes. .From time to 11140 4 photograph ap pears, depicting a new airplane of com-, imct'dimeiisions and equipjied witji a low-power.engine. Sueli airplanes are generally hailed as ‘ everybody's” air plane and the coming “flivvers” of the air. Yet an examtmitionoC these ma- chines soon tllseloses the fact that they >areof little practical value. They are too small to he steady in Sight, too low powered- to fly under moder ately adverse condition^ loo flimsy to last long and. taking if ail in ail, ab solutely worthless for serious work of any kit#. They should general,y-hw treated us novellhv* except in rmi‘« Instances.—Sfieutiflc American. Advertise in The People. i • 1 i., t TOTAI, 30 mills. Commutation Roatl Tax $5.00, which will be collected at th* same time and in same manner as other taxes. Special School District Levies for Barnwell County for the year 1920. TWO MILLS—Seven Pines, Edisto, New Forest, Cedar Grove, Tinkers Creek, Columbia. THREE MILLS-Red Oak, Upper Richland, Owens Cross Roads, Bloom- ingdale. FOUR MILLS—Long Branch. Green’s, Double Pond, Ashleigh, Lees’ * Barbary Meyer’s Mill. FOUR* AND ONE-HALF M1LLS- Ellenton, 2 mills for ordinary school purposes, and 2 1-2 mills for bridge bonds FIVE MILLS—San Hill. SIX MILLS—Healing Springs. SEVEN MILLS—Dunbarton four, (4) mills ordinary school purposes, three (3), mills for bonds. Elko, four (4) mills ordinary school purposes, three (3) mills for' bonds. . EIGHT MILLS- Big ForK, Hilda, Four Mile Pleasant _Hill, Mt. Cal vary, Reedy Branch-, Hercules, Oak Grove, Friendship. ELEVEN MILLS—Blackville, sev en (7) mills ohlinary school pur poses, four (4) mills for bonds. TWELVE MILLS—Kline, eight mills for ordinary school purposes, four (4) mills for bonds. FIFTEEN MILLS Williston, eleven. (11) mills ordinary school purposes, four (4) mills for bonds. Barnwell, ten and _ one-half, (IOV2) mills ordinary school pur poses, four and one-half, (4V2) mills for bonds. . ' a ... . A petition having been filed in ac- cordance with section 1742, general school law of 1912, notice is hereby given that an election will be held in Dunbarton School District r No. 12, on Friday, April 29th, 1921, for the purpose of determining whether or not a special school tax_of five (5) additional mills shall be levied in the above named school district. The said election shall be conducted as is provided by law. for the fold ing of general elections. The polls will lie opened at Dr. Johnson’s old office and the trustees will act as managers. 7 ■' . Those favoring the , proposed levy .will cast a ballot with the word “Yes” written or printed thereon, and those opposing the proposed levy sh^ll casf a ballot with the word “No” written or printed thereon. . - HORACE J. CROUCH, County Supt. Ed. Barnwell, S. C., Apr. 12, 1921. 4 14 2t rop w> “WHATSOEVER A ;MAN SOWS, THAT SHALL HE° ~’ 5r ~ v • 7 _. ~ l ALSO REAP”- v .' ‘ : ^ ~ This is an unchanging law. There is no getting around it: If a man wants corn, he plabts coipn.' If he wants potatoes, he plants potatoes... Therefore, if he wants money he should plant motley. How? By planting ,it in a savings 1 Recount at our Bank, where it will grow. There is no surer crop than the money crop if properly planted and carefully cultivated. Make a start. Let us help you. ',7 . • •r <y» Bank of Western Carolina, & Capital Stock Protection Over $850,000. I ■ ' Barnwell, S. C. **■ ■ - « 9 $$$$$$$ '$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$ :?$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$ $$$$$$?:$ $$$$$$$ ^ ■ _ • V f GET IN THE GAME. ^ Wm. McNAB . ' Representing FIRE. HEALTH AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANIES. Personal attention given all business ..Office in Harrison Block, Main Stv— BARNWELL, S. C. , — Long Branch Philosophy. .\'-*S ir'd hi Once after our Smoke Hocxe robbed we put on a New lock fixed it good, this reminds us of y„- aid we are to get uj) at WnshinglXn). after one part of the folks are in he poor yard and the balance taking,soap from the red eross. me much'talked of aid won’t do us much good, we have seen headlines cut the acreage, and after driving around in two or three counties, slowly and surety with out the aid og gas or Spark plugs, and Just putting the lines over tnc dash hoard and looking over the Sit uation we Sojoqiiize thus, the po,»r Burra and Nigger have cut acreage big fashion on other products as well as cotton, for two reasons 1st he couldnt git the wherewith to (To it with 2d he h^fs took the advice of me same Beady^or Know alls who said hold to it like death to a Sick Nigger, we done that and then they used an* other big word with r. 00 in it that- nearly speMeT—corporation .we done that, went 4o the meetings heard the speeches put in the Stuff and have not heard from it Since, dont kn iw whether it fell in the pbtomac in go ing over, or whether Soniehody eat it up and kept it 11 Secrete or.something else happened to it. So what we wantcT to Say after a great long preface was this that we rend T)f the good times coming heard the fine talks was counted in as one who looked like something took advice thought we had a tfi^ht Smart little head and low and behold when all comes to all. the third generation wont be out of the -Scrape wc frnti trar- selves in if the big fellow has cut, his patch ‘must have beem a mighty big one last year. Riah Mas. ? T f T ? T ? T f v f T t t f ? y X y T y y y ❖ You who have sporting blood and like a good clean game —and what normal person does nol-have you tried the game of saving money? It is an old game and a good one. ' Those who play regularly are very enthusiastic about it. Try it, if you are not already a player, and you’ll like it, too. And if you keep at it, you will surely win. That is the beauty of this game-all who play regularly and persistently are bound to win. • Come to see us and get in the game. 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