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/ REVENUE BILL IS THEME OF BROWN SOUTH CAROLINA SPEAKER BE FORE COMMITTEE. mi-" Represents Committee of Speakers of Legislatures Over Country in Washington. NEW $20,000 ICE PLANT WILL BE LOCATED HERE A * Buys Whole Town S Washington, Jan. 9.—The senate finance committee considering the revenue bill today heard Col. .Edgar A. Brown, speaker of the house of representatives of South - Carolina, who discussed at length the federal ■^ax bill and especially the inheritance zax feature. Mr. Brown represented a committee of speakers from the dif- ferent legislatures throughout the country, members of* the legislatures and governors of many States. Pre viously Mr. Brown had conferred here with his committee at which time he was chosen to present its arguments here today. Mr. Brojvn’s statement in brief was as follows: _“We feel that it is scarcely necessary to present to you lengthy argument in favor of leaving to the State the opportunity and re sponsibility for levying of death axes, except as the-fe4« ment may temporarily levy such taxes in time of acute national emer- gency. Conclusive arguments * in favor of such « policy have been re- :>eatedly presented and particularly emphasised by President Coolidge and by Secretary Mellon. They were briefly but earnestly presented be fore the committee on ways and means • .f the house of representatives by the governors of a number of the States vf.the union and supported by the ndorsement of the governors of a majority of these States and by offi- - ers and members of State legisla tures. “Not only is the action which we urge and recommend in line*'with the historic policy 1>? the union and in harmony with our system of govern ment, but the policy is particularly urged and demanded by the condition CAPACITY WILL BE TWENTY TONS OF ICfc DAILY. Mutual Ice and Fuel Company Will Also Sell Wood, Coal, Oil, Gas oline and Kerosene. 1 A new $20,000 ice manufacturing company is being organized here to bulid and operate an up-to-date plant of twenty tons daily capacity.'. It will be known as‘the Mutual Ice and Fuel Company and in addition to manufacturing and selling ice at wholesale and retail will also sell coal and wxx>d and conduct a whole sale oil, gasoline and kerosene busi ness. When the govenunent decided to abandon Nltro, W. Va. f Hamilton G. Scott bought the entire town and turned it into a flouriahlng in dustrial center. v- vfGbftence Bolen Dies In Calvary Section of the present time and by the need Willipton, Jan. 10.—After a pro- kmged illness and great suffering caused by gunshot wounds received last February, Clarence Bolen died at his home in the Calvary section Saturday afternoon about 5:30, hav ing gradually grown weaker for the past few weeks. His death did not come as a sur prise hut created a deep paM of sor row among his many friends and rel atives. The funeral services were held from the Calvary Baptist church Sunday afternoon aj 4:30 and the in terment followed at the Calvary cemetery. The services were conducted by the Rc*/W. R. Davis, of Williston. Surviving him are his wife, who It is undestood that the new plant will be located adjacent to a siding of the Southern Railway near the Barnwell Oil Mill. It will be equip ped for steam' operation in the be ginning but provision Jias been made to change to electric drive as soon as hydro-electric current, is availably WANTS THE ARMY TO BUY COTTON HARE INTRODUCES BILL AU THORIZING PURCHASE. Says Staple Should Be Obtained Just as Guns Are.—Says Plan Would. Stabilize Prices. of additional sources of revenue by the States. It is universally admitted that there aie no eonditions of emer gency requiring the continuation of the levy of estate taxes by the fed- * ral government, and the continua tion of such levy under the circum stances violates every principle of our ong established and generally ap proved national policies of taxation. . “The house of representatives by its action in the pending revenue bill in reducing tjy; f^dejcai- estate taxes ^ath before bet marriage was Miss Maud Dyches, of Blackville, and several small children, three sisters, Mrs. W. M. Pender and Mrs. W. W Bdlen, of Savannah and Mrs. Walter Givens, of Williston; five brothers, H. A. Bolen, Scary Bolen, J. H. Bolen, Matthew Bolen and W. Bolen, all of Elko. Floyd Released on Bond Mr. William TT 1 Floyd, who , is aK leged to have fired tl%‘ shot that is y one-half, ha» not ony recognized the almost universal protest against excessive estate taxes, but it has also recognized the general public senti ment in support of the , complete abandonment by the federal govern ment of this field of taxation. The ieduction made by the 'house is ap proved. hut it does not go far enough. The approval by the house of the in heritance section of the revenue bill tantamount to an admission .that is Dyches last fcreek and was released from custody Monday under a $2,- 000 bond. H<* is represented by Har ley and Blatt, of-this city. A notice of incorporation appears elsewhere in this issue of The Peo ple-Sentinel and is signed by R. C. Holman, B. L. Easterling, R. G. Hem- dern and L. C Vickery A meeting of the stockholders of the proposed cor poration will be held next Monday at the office of Mr. Holman for the pur pose of electing officers, etc. ' There should certainly be no re petition of the ice shortage of last summer in this'section, as the new owners of the old ice plant are plan ning to make extensive improvements and additions to their property be fore the advent of warm weather. The people of Barnwell hope that the Mutual Ice and Fuel .Company is the fore-runner of many other new industries. Poultry Association Organized Saturday On Monday morning representa tive men and women from various parts of the county met at the Barn well Couft House for the purpose of organizing a Poultry Association. The meeting was called to order by Miss Willie Mae Vann, Home Demon stration Agent for the County, who stated the object of the meeting, stressed the need for an organization Several weeks ago, The-People-Sen tinel published an interview with Congressman Butler B. Hare, in which the representative from this District outlined some of thf measures that he intended to introduce at the pres ent term of Congress. Shortly after Congress convened, Mr. Hare intro duced one of his proposed bills, which would make a labor contract binding on the laborer as well as the employ er. Under its terms, the laborer can be forced to carry out his part of the bargain without laying the employer liable to prosecution for peonage. The second of his bills, authorizing the Secretary of War to purchase large quantities of cotton, was intro duced Saturday and the following outline was published in Sunday’s daily newspapers:^ A. L. REGISTER AND EDISTO PUBLIC SERVICE CO. BID Berlin’s Bride OFFERS OF $20,000 AND $2S,000, * RESPECTIVELY, Council Defers Action on Matter U»- til Next Monday Night—Modi ’ - Interest in, Sale. said to have caused, Mr. Boltyi’s thls kind jin Ahit c0UBty~.. . .Mia* ^ath, surrendered to Sheriff p’ H. Vann was followed by Miss Neely, of Washington, J*an. 9.—Congressman Butler B. Hare, of the Second South Carolina Congressional District, to day introduced a bill authorizing the Secretary of War to purchase 100, 000 to 3,000,000 bales of cotton to be held in reserve as a munition of war. In speaking of the bill, Mr. Hare stat ed that it will serve many good pur poses. In the first place, “the idea of the War Department buying and hold ing cotton a* a munition of war is on the same principl. that tt builds ships, constructs aeroplanes, pur chases machine guns, shells and so forth, because cotton in war is just as essential as any of'these named.” In the second place, Mr. Hare stat ed, “if the government has 2,000,000',^ or 3,000,000 bales of cotton in it* possession, it will be in position to effect more satisfactory trade rela tions with foreign countries. Rubber and coffee, a t the present time, afford excellent illustrations, and in the case of rubber, we understand that Great Britian has a monopoly of it, whereas the United States consumes 75 per cent, or more of all the rubber pro duced. In view of this Great Brit ian has increased the price to such an extent until she is making the United States practically pay .her war debt, but if the United States had taken 3,000,000 bales of the present crop of cotton off the market, she woattrbe tirpwnrarTerYBTtT GW at Ellen Mackay, daughter of Clar ence H. Mackay, head of the Postal Telegraph and Cable Company, startled society by suddenly becom ing the bride of Irving.Perl in. song ~ last week. Sacred Concert at Mr. A. L. Register, of Philadelphia, Pa., representing a syndicate of Northern capitalists, who propose to develop industrially the coastal plain of South Carolina, and Mr. B, A. Easterling, of Denmark, represent^ ing the Edisto Public Service Com pany, submitted bids to the Mayor and Aldermen Monday night for the purchase of the city power plant. Mr. Register was represented at the meeting by Messrs. Harley and Blatt, the latter acting as spokesman. Briefly, Mr. Register’s offer is as follovti: $20,000 cash for the plant, ax- elusive of the water mains and sewer lines. Connection with hydro-electric power within 12 months from date o( purchase. Current for street lighting on the Episcopal Church | ^ 100 - w *“ , * ra '" “ The second of a series of sacred I Current for house lighting on concerts will be held at the Church *l'ding scale, beginning at 15 of the Holy Apostles in Barnwell | P* 1, w ’ ^ or ^e first 30 kilowatts; Sunday evening, beginning at 7:301 o'clock. The first was held in the Barnwell Methodist Church on Sun day night, December 20th, and was| etreatly enjoyed by a large congre gation. Some excellent vocal and in strumental music wilt be heard again 12H cents per k. w. for the next 10 kilowatts, with corresponding redac tions for larger amounts, and a dis count of five per cent, for of bill on or before a certain monthly. Current for cooking at four cents The Jolly Joy Gang at" \ o Vamp Theatre Jan, 19 .1 the government should entirely re tire from this field of revenue. But in doing so the government \yould say that while it does not need the reve nue and is not expecting to raise any considerable amount of revenue un der the terms of the biU, the thing that the government wants to bring about is that each a nd every one of the States will be forced, whether they wish to do so or not, to adopt the same inheritance tax that the federal government adopts. “In conclusion, I desire to say First, personally and officially, and as representing the committee of speak ers and speaking what I believe to be the sentiment of the gre^t majority of State representatives and gover nors who have expressed themselves on this subject, as a matter of prin ciple and as a matter of democracy, the federal government has no right in the inheritance tax field. If is a field which the State ought to have to itself. Fundamentally it is a tax upon the right inherit. That is the theory upon which the courts have held that it can be legally justi fied. That being true, it is the State' which gives its citizens the right, to inherit, and protects them In that in heritance, and the State is the only authority which can joaorully and le gally exact a death ta^.”—The State. Amog the interesting events of the coming week will be “The Jolly Joy Gang” at the Vamp Theatre Tuesday evening. January 19th, when an en joyable program, followed by a mov ing picture, will be presented. The admission charge will be 25 and 50 cents, the proceeds being for -the bene fit of the Barnwell Baptist and Methodist Churches. The program is as follows: 1. Killing Time at a Railway Sta tion. The Cast: Agent, “Doc” Black; Porter, “Slick” Boinest; Baggage Man, “Rusty Keel. . • 2. Alabama Bound—Harry An derson and Chorus. - - 3. Bara Bam Bammy.Shore—Miss Lavinia Moore. 4. LHac Tree—Misses Clara Sue Matthews and Mary Gay O’Bannon. 5. Insufficient Sweetie—Miss Et ta Owens. 6. Where the Lazy Daisies Grow —Misses Mildred Moore and Derry Patterson. 7. Go “Long Mule—Robert Dea- son,* Bcown Towles, Bob Dicks Ben nett, Michael Ussery, Wilson Sanders, Lawson Holland. 8. Angry—Misses LavinialMoore, Susie Peacock, Essie Morris, Mildred Cpif «nd Julia Lemon; Messrs. Brown Parker, Ben Davies, Jr., Harry An derson, Lewis Black and Hugh Boin est; Mrs. Pfiry A. Price. , Curtain. Moving Picture. Winthrop, who gave a splendid talk along the lines suggested, urging the importance of good poultry ih the county. Her slogan was 100 hens to every farm-in Barnwell County. Mifes "Neely handled her subject in a thorough .manner and gave valuable advice which, if followed, will add materially to Barnwell County’s Wealth. Mr. Harry Boylston, Farm Agent for Barnwell County, was the next speaker. His talk was along the line of marketing and gave the number of ear& shipped during the pqstyear, 68, for which the highest market prices were paid. Mr. Whitcomb, poultry expert, was the next speaker, and" stressed the importance of poultry production. He gave some very valuable advice along this line and urged the fm-, porta nee of purebred stock. Miss Ketchens, of Winthrop, fol lowed Mr. Whitcomb, and gave excellent talk on the marketing of eggs. The next matter for considera tion was the election of officers for the coming year. . Mrs. A. E! Cor ley, of the Joyce Branch community, was unanimously elected President; Mr. Newman Connor, of Bara we H Vice-president; Mr. Mims Walker, of Walkers Station, See.-Treas.; Com mittee on Publicity, Judge John K. Snelling, Mrs. G. M. (Jreene, Miss Eunice Greene; Committeej on Mem bership, the Rev. D, w. Heckle, Messrs. Levi Still 4nd G. M Greene. The association is to be known M the Barnwell Cotmty- Poultry Asso ciation and will meet at the Court House once each month, the date ot the February meeting to be an nounced later. Sunday night, with Mrs. Holden at the P«r *. w < .with a minimum charge ot new pipe organ and the possessors of|$3 per month, lovely trained voices on the-program. I Current for power on a sliding Barnwell is indeed fortunate in hav- scale beginning at seven cents per ing Mrs. Holden and Mrt. Ira Fales U- w - «nd graduated down to 1 and 1-1 as “resident artists,” and ia to be I cents per k. w. congratulated on the opportunity of I To furnish water to the city at again hearing Mrs. Rich and Mr. seven cents per thousand gallons, ths Tunentine, of Blackville. The sue-1 city to maintain the fnains, etc cess of the concert is further assur-l The right of appeal to the S. C. ed bv the appearance of hfrs. Mose-1 Railroad Commission if rates are con- ley, Mrs. Price, Mrs. Anderson and sidered inequitable. Britain to cut the price of rubber 50 per cent or more. ♦ _ ’ 1 “In addition to the above, 1 feel that if the government would adopt such a policy, it would have a ten dency to increase the price of cot ton and would most certainly have stabilizing effect on the price which to my mind, is worth working for be cause the farmer, the banker and the merchant would rather have 20 cents cotton for a perod of years than 2% cents per pound one-year and 15 ets. the next.” Prof. Fowler on the program, which ia as follows: Hymn—“The Church Is One Foun dation,” by the Choir. Opening Sentences. The Lord’s Prayer and Versicles. Solo—Mr- C. H. Foyler. Solo—Mrs Ira Fales. -Psalm^NlTUrty-flfUl.***"* ' Organ Selection—-Mrs. HflMgJB. - Solo—Mrs. Perry A. Price. Hymn—“Chi ist for the World We Sing,” by the Choir k Prayer—Dr. W. M. Jones. Solo—Mrs. S v B.* Moseley. A non-exckisfve permit to ope rata. Mr. Eaaterling’a Offer. Mr. Blatt, in presenting Mr. Regis ter's offer, pointed out that his cou- nection with Northern financiers would faciliate the location of MV industries in this section, a compre hensive survey having shown that the icnaatol plaia ia adamahly MuyOwl Large Crowd Attends Dedication industrial expansion, from the stanl- pointff bf health, climate and laW supply. Mr. Register also explained briefly, in his plana for the future de velopment of this section. At • the conclusion of his remarks, the MayOr requested that the members of eoun- Remarks—The Rev. Howard Cady, j c ii be allowed to consider the propoai- Offertory—Violin Sol6, Mrs. J~ N.|tj on j n private. A proposition from Mr. Easterling was then submitted, in which ah offer of $25,000 cash waa made for the plant, with connection with hydro-eiectric power withia ninety days from date of purehaaa and a penalty of $10 per day for any Anderson. Solo—Mr. Tunentine Solo—Mrs Harry Rich. Benediction—The Rev. R. W. Hum phries. Doxology A cordial invitation is extended to J delay in making such connection, Cufrent for street lighting on Dm An audience estimated at about 750 men, women and children attend ed the dedication of the WilUston- Elko high school building last Friday evening, at which time an elaborate program was rendered. Dr. Daniel, of Clemson College, was the orator of..the occasion and delighted his bearers With his splendid address. Speeches were made by a number of bther gentlemen,' and instrumental and vocal selections added greatly to the enjoyment of the evening. The program of the exercises was pub lished in last week’s issue of The People-Sentinel. Services at Ml. Levon Church We have, been requested to an nounce that the Rev. Phelix Fox will preach at Levon. ^Christian Church on the 3rd Sunday in January. Everybody is invited to attend the services which will be held at 11:30 o’clock a. xs. \ * ♦ ♦ — > Col. E. O. Calhoun,*■ of Texas, ar- Ihe people of karnwell and neighbor ing towns to be present Important Meeting at Barnwell January 27 There will be a meeting hold at the Court House at Bsinwell, at eleven o’clock Wednesday, Januar/ 27th. This meeting should lie of great bene fit to farmers .who attend, because important fertilizer problems will he discussed and information given con cerning the" use of the different amounts of plant food to use in th6 mixture as well \* the diffev< nt fac tors influencing the yield, and the benefit?: of using high analysis fer- Advertise in The People-Sentinel. -rived here Tuesday for a visit to bis brothers, Col. Harry D. Calhoun aad Mr. L. M. Calhoun tilizer. The economic situation, of the South Carolina farmer will also be discussed. Everybody is urged to attend this meetiog—especially are we anxious for the fanicix.' The meeting will last only one or two hours and everyone who attends wQf be fully fepaid for having come. This meeting is held by the extension ser vice and although fertilizer dealers and others art invited to attend, the main talks will be made by the me hers of the extension service only. H. G. Boylston, Co. Agent. basis of the present number and shm of lamps at the rate of $145 " per month. Current for house lighting on a sliding scale, beginning at 14 eenta per kilowatt and dropping at the rate of one cedt per k. w., with no dis count for cash. Current for cooking at four centi per k. w. ‘ Current for power on a sliding scale beginning at six cents ppr k. w. and - graduated down to 1 1-4 eenta per k. w. . . rf To pump water for the city at four cents per k. w. (It is not known just what this will cost per thousand gal lons.) * ' The right to appeal to the 8. C. Railroad Commission if rates are con sidered inequitable. ~ No franchise asked for. It will Ip seen from tho above that neither Mr. Register, nor Mr. Easter ling asked for a franchise. The members of council voted on us ly to defer action on the mat ter next Monday night. •4 J jr 4 33 ; a a : befo (CONTINUED V- i,.. 1.