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• .% ■!# < ifim * » ■ # • f w‘. # ' -L \ t ~‘W«3t.'r -J9 t ipSCrj?' '•. y : i- 1, IMS. OLUMB L. ernn OFFICIAL nswbfafA of babkwbll county | m JuaI L.tk« a Mambar of lha BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JANUARY FTTH, 1**7. B.GAM1 "" * ^ '“'""lit UFE INSURANCE I — ■A— WUMyMUk Jl* .{-vr BOTH BANKS AT ALLENDALE : CLOSED THURSDAY MORNING '.t' i iv DOES YOUR SUBSCRIPTION EXPIRE THIS WEEK? HON. J. E. PRICES JCOUNTY IS WITHOUT A BANK^ ING INSTITUTION. New Assistant Secretary Suspension Came as Shock to Citizens of the Town and County.—No Animosity. iop Allendale’s two banks, The Citizens Bank and The Allendale Bank, failed to open their doors Thursday morning. This leaves Allendale County without a banking institution. State Bank Examiner Albert S. Font came from Columbia Thursday and personally closed the two banks. In a statement to a representative of the Citizen the State Bank Examiner declared that he had closed thembanks /simultaneously fcr the protection of the depositors and creditors. Explain ing 1 . the reason for closing the two banks he expressed the opinion that had one bank closed and not the other a run would have been made on the one remaining open, which would have forced this bank to pay out all funds hand to depositors demanding their ney which would make a small per centage of depositors preferred credi tors, leaving others, with equal rights, but without equal knowledge of the impending catastrophe, to unjustly suffer, whereas, all depositors and creditors of the bank will share pro portionately. Although the suspension of the two hanks here came as a shock and sur prise. to the citizens of the town and county, there appears to be no ani mosity toward officials of the banks, on the other hand the universal feel ing expressed by the business men and citizens 6f the town is one of confidence in the honesty and integrity of the men in charge of the banks. Several men who should know what they are talking shout declared Thurs day morning that both banks would psy not less than seventy per cent to the depositors snd creditors and it was very likely that full payment .would be made by one of the banks and ninety per cent by the other. On the front door of each bank was pasted the name notice, except for the signatures of the directors, and the n me of the institution. The notice on The Allendale Bank reads: “At a special meeting cf the Board cf Directors of The Allendale Bank, Allendale, S. C. t called for the pur pose of.going into its affairs, it was discovered that the bank had sustain- H heavy withdrawals>t>n the part of the depositors for the past few day a, end realizing that for the best inter est of all depositors and creditors alike, that it was advisable to place the affairs of the bank in the hands the State Bank Examiner for a iod of thirty days under Section '81 of the Code of 1922, it was mov ed, seconded and unanimously carried that such action be. taken forthwith.” The notice bears the signatures , of the following officers: E. H. Oswa’d, J. L. Oswald, W. Z. Bryan, and J. H. Hewlett. , A notice similarly worded is posted on the front door af The Citizens Bank and is signed by the following directors: J. H. Warren, W. F. Googe, C. O. All, LeRoy Wilson, T. L. Pearl- stine, and W. I. Johns.—Allendale County Citizen. _; Photo shows Cari-T. Schuneman tho mw assistant secretary of y. S. Treasury. He succeeds Johrw B. Winston, who ha* rwHnwt Chib Health Contest Is Engaging Interest % 1 “ The 4-H Club Health Contest is engaging the interest'of the club girls throughout the county. Every club girl is eligible and is expected to do her best to make herself the best specimen possible. The Pood and Health Rules Habit score cards will be ksm through a period of eight weeks by each contestant and at the end of that period two girls from each chib will be selected by the horns demonstration agent, with the assistance of a nurse or physician, to •ntar the county contest. The. winner in the county contest will enter the district contest The oeuteetant from each of the disti kts will be awarded a free trip to the State Fair, where a final examination will be held to de cide the highest scoring health con testant to represent South Carolina 4- H Club work in the National Health Contest in Chicago. The State Com pany of Columbia has appropriated a fund for the trip of the winner. t ^981 Hams Appointed Local Postmaster Of interest to the. patrons of the Barnwell post office is the announce ment that Mr. W. M. Harris, acting postmaster, has been appointed as regular postmaster for tBb ensuing four years. Fallowing the resigna tion of Postpia&ter R. A. Deason several months ago, Mr. Harris re ceived the temporary appointment un til a successor could be chosen. A n examination was held in Allendale, at which time there were several appli cants for the position. Last week Mr. Harris received notice of his appoint ment / Mr. Harris and his capable aalis- Mrs. Harris, have been reader- Local U. D. C. Chapter ' Will Meet Friday Johnson Hagood Chapter, U. D. C., will meet at the home of Mrs. G. M. Greene on Friday afternoon, the 28th inst^ at four o'clock. This promises to be one of the largest meetings held in some time fov the reason that in the month of January occur the birth days-of Lee, Jackson and Maury and an excellent program has been pre pared by the President, Mrs. R. S. Dicks, with exerpts from the lives of these noted men. Another treat in store is a talk on World War Service Crosses by Mrs. Eugene Buckingham, of EUenton, Director of World War Seivice Crosses for the Edisto Dis trict. This being the month for the payment of dues,. each member is urged to be present and bring $1.00 for dues for the current year. As sistant hostesses for this meeting wQl .be Maadames Shellie Black, M. C. Diamon^ T. K. Bolen, L. M. Middl</- ton and Miss Lucile Dicks. Combined Chapters Met Last Wednesday On last. Wednesday, the 19th inst., A number of subscriptions, expire with this issue of The People- Sentinel and the publisher hopes that each and every one of them will be renewed promptly in order that no issues may be missed. Un der oar paid-in-advance plan, which was inagurated over a year ago, names are dropped from our mailing list when the subocript- ion expires. This is no reflection on the honesty or integrity of . •w s any subscriber, but experience has proven that it is the only way to conduct a newspaper. Hundreds of dollars have been lost in the past on the old pay-as-you-please plan, and with the increased costs of production no paper can continually sustain these lossess snd remain in business. Therefore, the publisher requests that subscribers refer to their address labels NOW. If it reads “Feb. 27" or “Fab. 1927” the subscription expires with THIS ISSUE. Our mailing list will be revised this week and the names of all-those not paid in ad vance will be dropped. We hope that it will not be necessary to remove a single name. An interesting new serial story which be gins next week is well worth the price of s years subscription, to •sy nothing of the local and county news and special features in every issue. w If your subscription expires this week, send us $1.50 for another year. DO IT NOW. Took Place ALLENDALE HAS TOBACCO LANDS BARNWELL COUNTY CAN ALSO GROW THE WEED. R. H. Sams. Jr, Teacher of Vocational Agriculture. Says Lands There Are Correct Type. Mr. R. H. Sems, Jr., teecher of vocational agriculture in the Allen dale schools, believes that tobacco can be grown profitably on the lands in Allendale County. Experiments have shown that Barnwell County soil is admirably adapted to thaj>roductioa of the "weed” and what Mr. Sams has to my on this subject in the following in terview should be applicable to this county also: "Allendale County has ideal land for growing tobacco. “While tobacco may be gnewm on any type of well drained soil, to pro duce the beat grades bright or yel low tobacco certain «oils are very necessary. The soil types that pro duce the bn»t bright tobacco are Orangeburg, Sandy, Coxville snd Nor folk, fine sandy loam**. The Norfolk coarse sandy loam and a well drained Portsmouth will produce good tobacco under certain seasonal conditions. “Allendale County is represented in moot pants by the Norfolk typ« of sandy loam. Just a reasonable amount of humus is necessary. Weeds and broom sedge when allowed to glow upon land of the right soil type, when plowed under in the fall in time .13 rot will give about the proper amount of humus. Fine decayed leaves and top aqH from the woods where 'oak t\:ees are plentiful make good humus in the soil when broad cast or applied lightly in the-furrow where tobacco is to be planted. To bacco also does wall on stubble land after oats or rye frianted the previous year. “Tobacco can be made to fill in very nicely on the average farm on- which cotton has been the main money crop. The time of planting and harvesting ccming when labor is not needed in cotton production enables the planter to utilize his labor all the year through. Good tobacco has always commended a (remunerative price and a very interesting meeting of the | probably always will do so. This combined chapters of Children of Con-' makes tobacco One of the beet crops federacy was held with Mrs. G. M.! for the small white or colored farmer Greene, Director of the Edisto Dis trict. Quite a large number was pre sent and the newly elected leaders of the chapters, Mesdames Forest Brown and James Dicks, also met the chil dren and plans for the work of the who is assisted by hia family in farm work. It certainly offers a liberal profit where care and intelligence are used in its production and sale. “Why is the Pee Dee section of this State much more prosperous than GINNINGS LESS THAN EXPECTED Washington, Jan. 24.—Cotton of the 1926 crop ginned prior to January 16 totalled 16,609,517 running balea counting 611,062 round baJes aa half halea and excluding linters, the cen sus bureau announced today. Ginn tags taat year to the date totaled 15,599,893 running balea including S36,. 998 round balea and in 1925 the total waa 13,306,813 bales including 307,351 round bales. The Department of Agriculture in its preliminary estimate of produc tion based on December 1 conditions placed the crc*> at 18,618,000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight, the largest crop ever raised. At that time a large amount of cotton stil! remained to be picked and it was uncertain as to what part of it would be left in the fields in vk\w of the low price prevailing. Un til the final government ginning report 'issued on March 21 the exact size of the 1926 crop will remain doubtful. Ginnings by States to January 16 fol low: . Alabama, 1,456,310; Arizona 98,138; Arkansas 1,404,686; California 118,- 093; Flowda 32,973; Georgia 1,433,- 497; Louisiana 808,746; Mississippi 1,- 732,689; Missouri 199;432; New Mexi co 62,052; North Carolina 1,153,265; Oklahoma 1,507,982; South Carolina 956,445; Tennessee 419,453; Texas 5,- 170,714; Virginia 45,007; All other States 11,937. IT; dicier the patrons of the office vary «f< nt service and, aside from any personal choice that some may have had in the matter, it is generally be lieved that his appointment will meet with the approval of • large number of Barnwell yeopte. ADVERTISE in Th# weri. outlined and of-: other sections of the State?'^Simply Seers elected. The children showed because fcbstcoo brings millions of great interest in the work and much | dollars into that section. \ have lived good is expected to Result from this in Lake City, Florence County, for meeting. * | five years, and this in considered the After Jill business wee laid aside, largest market fer tobacco in South delicious heme made candies were Carolina. There I taught vocational i agrteukpe fer a number of years and served the children. j in tide way I came in contact with M)fc / Cl F. Moiair went down to the farmers end the boys nf my ^pri- Charleston Sunday afternoen, being cultural class. These school boys and a Juror in Federal Court tips week, adult fanners ted many acne pf While there he frill also attend the tphacco planted aa a project under my the Eptncopel aaperyistea, tteteCere in this 1 feel that I can be ef help Ginning Less Than Expected. New Orleans, Jan. 24.—A smaller total ginnings to January 15 than ex pected caused prices in the cotton market to rally 26 to 42 points from the opening after first trades had shown leases of 6 to 10 paints. The advance brought March to 13.60, May to 13.76 and July to 13.91. Liver pool rallied on the issuance of the ginnings total. in this or other communities who would like to plant tobacco. “I have been on the market floors year after year and witnessed the sale of tobacco by the fanner. I was over Khdrfe this past summer when the market opened, Xugust 1, and watched the farmers receive wonderful returns for their tobacco. In some cases where a fanner brought in his best tobacco, even a single horse wagon load, would bring him a check for $500.00. Of course this has been a very unusually good year for tobacco and it may not be repeated again noon, as the menace of over-production is riwayt prsssnt and growers should watch oartfully and govern themselves The youngest ever had governor Texes now sits in the seat which Ma Ferguson has held for two yeera. The youthful Dan Moody took office January 18. 16.609,517 BALES GINNED TO JANUARY 16TH. ' South Carolina Has Prepared 966,445 Bales for Market, Says Gov 't Report. School Trustees to Meet Here Feb. 7th County Superintendent of Educa tion Horace J. Crouch has requested the trustees of all school districts to attend a conference at the Court House Monday morning, February 7th, at 11 o’clock, ft which the mem bers of the Barnwell legislative dele gation and the members of tho County Board of Education will also (be in attendance. Notices of the meeting were mailed this week to the trustee*, requesting that they make every effort to attend. The card reads as follows: “After consulting with the Barn- wall County Delegation of the South Carolina General Assembly, the County Board of Education decided it wise to cell the School District Trus tees into a conference to discuss some school matteie which need considera tion. We are colling this conference for Monday, February 7th, 1927, 11:00 o’clock a. m.. at the Court House. “AW of the School Trustees, Mem bers of the. Barnwell Delegation and Members of the Barnwell County Board of Education will be in attend ance. Since the things to be discussed are very important, the County Board of Education insists upon your at tendance and requests that you come on time. If necessary, please nuke a sacrifice to be. present.” MAY INTRODUCE BILL W MOUSE THIS WEEK. Allowing Sale of Lower Taat GaooUno Would Remh in Saving of Thoua- aads of Dollars. Acting upon an editorial suggestion in last week's issue of The Bsmwsil People-Sentinel, the Hon. J. E. Har- Jey member of tho House of Represen tatives from Barnwell County, is gathering date relative to gasoline prices in this and adjoining States preparatory to the introduction of a bill iA the ••eneral Assembly that, if passed, would result in the saving of thousands of d *.Urs annually to the automcbilo owners of Sooth Carolina. It it s matter of common knowisdga that the price of gasoline in South Carolina averages several cents a gallon higher than it does in Georgia, and all of tho difference is not caused by. the tax on “gas,” which is five cents in this State and three cants in Georgia. The leal cause, U is un derstood, is the tact that South Caro lina requires oil companies to /all a gsaolin* of higher specific gravity in this State than is sold motoriots in neighboring States, and for this "quality” gasoline, automobile owners V* forced to pay from seven to nine cents a gallon more. For instance, automobile owners in Barnwell County bought gasoline in Augusta duriug tho holidays for eighteen cents a gallon, and at that time gasoHno was soding in this county for <7 cents. Allowing for the difference in the tax ta two States, owners hers wees paying scren cents a gaUon, or nearly fifty per cent, mom than It could bo hod ■cross tho river. So fer so can ho learned, there has been no of the poor performance of on the port of automobile bought tho Georgia grads «f AD of which bring true. Col Bar- ley stated here Monday that te introduce o bill in the HaUae cf rooon to three, probably this would abolish the prasen as to the standard of gasoline sold la South Carolina and allow sntomobile owners the opportunity of driving their car* on gasoline costing several cents a gallon leu than they are pay ing today. It is believed that such o bill can be passed without any mater ial opposition and it is quite surs that it will meet with the whole hearted approval of car owners throughout the State. CoL Harley points out that filling stations could continue to “Ac I have mentioned before ic always a demand for food dud udwa flvmers toy to too starth-west farmers can make cotton at a profit when we cannot: We will have to plant small acreages of to bacco at first until we can grow it perfectly, and most of the initial costs will be met gradually. “I am planning on putting in four or five acres of fcobaccto this year. Any loss acreage would not be economical to core unless it were possible to co operate with a neighbor in making up a full barn. I am also tryii^ to get some of my Agricultural Class in High School interested, especially whore they hove access to a tobacco burn. , “I wfll be glad tc help in any com munity where I oaa got a few farmers together snd ghro them instradttons te how to grow and cars for tobacco. I will be, glad rise to writs artictea in the local paper as to when and how tho dHTeraot jobs te tobacco framing should ho carripd out My wiU hs frso to ril farmers—just call fer me afi ten stock present grade of "gas" for fore the buyers will give a low.prica] thoee futidtous drivers who cam to snd in some cases pass it by. “I have talked with a good many farmers in this cconmunity since com ing here last year and from what I can find out the causes of moat fail ures are due to the fact that most of the formers went into growing to bacco on too big a scale and it was a new thing for them. Then, too, to bacco reached its peak in price in 1918. After that it started down, a nd the fanners wej>t into it when the market was down. It costs a good deal pay the difference, but he is of tho opinion that those who foot the bills should at least be given the oppor tunity of buying the cheaper grade, es pecially at a time when every effort is being mads to cut down expenses. 1 D » ^ . ■■ Seminary Quartet to Be Here. Sunday The quartet from tho Presbyterian Theological Seminary will visit Barn- to start with any new enterprise. The well Sunday, January 30th and will farmers had ail the initial costa to render a program at the Baptist meet this same year. It is the former Church that evening at 7:30 o’clock, who can cut down the cost of preduc- The services will be conducted by Dr. taon -tthat will make the best returns Hugh R. Murchison, pastor of the in profits. This is one reason why the focal Presbyterian church. There will also be services at the local Presbyterian Church at 3:30 o' clock in the afternoon, when Dr. Murchison will preach and tho quartet will render a musical program. , Members and friends of other de nominations are cordially invited to attend both of these services. Spring-Like Warmth Follow* Cold Blast In welcome contrast to tho biting cold of tan day* ago was the Spring like warmth that descended upon thin section the tetter port of test week, (bringing with it visions of growing crops uad blooming flowers end u desire to go a-flahin’. Overcoats fer. Iters wM te u great deal yea m rm of low grade taboceo made, and