The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, March 08, 1928, Image 4
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BARNWELL. SOlJjn CABOLDi A
THURSDAY, MARCH *, IS28.
The Barnwell People-Sentinel
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JOHN W. HOLMES
1840—MU.
Mother Has A Hard Decision To Make
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By Albert T. Reid
B. P. DAVIES, Editor and Proprietor.
Cntored at the post office at Barnwell
S. C. # as second-class matter.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 8. 1928.
Another point in which marriage is
like w$r is that the first fourteen
years are the hardest. .
A woman’s intuition is marvelous,
sure enough, hut just the same she
bums the toast now and then.
Probably the next great boon for
the common people will be the in*
v<mtion of an electric can opener.
Now that Lindbergh has brought
goodwill into our foreign relations,
some one should persuade him to visit
Congress.
Maybe Russia would find it easier
to get recognition for her govern
ment if so many of her leaders didn’t
wear beards.
One of these days people will stop
talking abouf thu " $hite collar job
and refer to it. more, appropriately as
the two-pants suit position.
A Dream-Fulfilled.
A dream that everyone who has
ev<«r left his home town has had at
some tirpe or other, if he would but
admit it, came true the other day for
Thomas Merritt, out in Blanchard, la.
Mr. Merritt returned, after an
absence of forty-five years, to his
old home town rich and openhanded.
He hunted up his boyhood playmates
and told them to get ready for a real
reunion with Mr. Merritt footing the
bills. And' it was a real reunion.
They killed the fatted calf and a
couple of cows.
^ Here are some of the things that
happened, according to th<» new* re
ports: He invited all members of the
Kiwanis Club to |>e. guests at his
summer resort, Naibouyou, on Lake
Superior, and promised to pay all ex
penses including railroad fare; he
impoited special talent for a special
radio program at KM A, Shenandoal.V
and st«nt each of the 8Q,0 persons who
told him how much they enjoyed the
program pound boxes of chocolatos;
he bought out all the article* being
sold at a ladies’ bazaar in a town
nearby, gave the women a check for
nearly double the amount they ex
pected to realize, and told them to
wrap up the articles and ship . them
to his home in Dhluth, Minn.
Mr. Merritt decided Blanchard
hadn’t grown just enough and
told the residents he intended to
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boost the town just as soon as he
returned from a business trip.
But the story hasn’t a happy-cjnd-
ing. On the trip, Mr. Merritt was
taken with pneumonia and died in a
few davs. A son savs he intends to
carry out most of the promises made
by his father.
And Mr. Merritt, at any rate, saw
one of his dreams come true.
the world’s telephones, three-eights
of its railroads and four-fifths of its
a utomobiles. It uses three-fourths of
all the rubber and four-fifths of all
the petroleum used eaclr year.
Each farm worker in the United
States produces twelve tons of cer
eals although the average cereal pro
duction for each farm worker in the
lest of the world is only one and two-
fifths tons. Each American farm
worker, on the average, is feeding
nine people* besides himself in this
country and one m'dre person in some
foreign land. Soni^countries produce
more crops per acre than we do, but
none produces so much for each farm
worker. - .
Not a Dirty I*ig.
One of the long-standing beliefs is
that the hog is a dirty creature by
instinct a* well as by trarning. In
fact, the expression, “dwty as a pig”
has come to be accented W the only
proper way to describe the uncleanly.
But it appears from results gained
by farmers who havi<r given their pigs
a chance to be clean that the Animal is
more to be pitied than blamed. These
farmers repoit that they have found
the pig to be as cleanly as any Other
farm animal. The trouble is he is
seldom given a chance to prove it.
(liven clean pasture land to feed
on, a chance to get v^gulai baths, and
clean bedding, the* pig will-be clean,
they say. , Furthermore, he will be
healthier and will grow faster.
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Figures With a Punch. ^
Statistics ordinarily are dry read-"
ing, but not always. An elementary
geography "published thks year con
tains somo tables , and charts that
are anything but dry reading. The
information, intended primarily for
youthful students, furnished by these
tables and charts has more than a
spark of interest for adults.
These statistics, for instance, show
that although the United States has
but one-sixteenth of the world's popu
lation, one-fourth of the world's sugar
is used in this cojyitry. Furthermore,
United States has five-eights of
Free Conference Committee Cuts
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Appropriation Bill to .$9,654,859
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warden, from $3,500 to $4,000; assist
ant and bookkeeper of joint commit-
toe on piinting, from $600 to $1,200;
commissioner of agriculture, from
$3,600 to $4,00Q; state electrician,
from $3,300 to $3,600, and secretary-
treasurer of the highway commission,
from $4,000 to $4,500.
The salary of the secretaiy to the
governor is fixed at $3,000. *
For Forestry.
For the first time an appropriation
is made for the state forestry com
mission, which is given $4,000. The
aid for the State fair js placed at
$5,000 instead of $10,000 as in for
mer years, while for the mgro State
fair the contribution is $500 instead
of $1,500. Another new item in the
bill is $1,000 to assist in financing the
annuaj reunion of Spanish War veter
ans a t Abbeville and the annual en-
ampnumt at the rotate fair.
For the enforcement of the com
pulsory school attendance law the
sum of $23,000 is appropriated. The
sum of $2,500 is allowed for the sum-
mer school at thtf University of South
Department of education, $3,389,-
991 98.
State hospital, $949,721.70.
Penitentiary, $157,705.81. ■
State training school,^$127,674.50.
Industrial School for Boys, $63,-
377.80.
Board of health, $260,386.50.
Tax commission, $219,251.
Department " of agriculture, $98,-
443.50.
_Clemson College public service,
$279,907.85.
As to Tuition Fees.
Authorities of the university, the
Citadel, Winthrop, ihe Medical Col
lege and the State* Negro College
teiifple In Rome was always open,
while the country was at war, and
closed when it was at peace, which
last was not very often, though it did.
happen in the reign of Augustus* Caesar
at the time.when our Savior was born.
—Montreal Family Herald.
Sickle Still in Use
at Galician Harvest
A Galician peasant girl frames her
-bronzed face with a russet-colored
handkerchief. She wears a blouse of
blue percale with sleeves of checked
gingham, and a gray woolen rtiirt. The
white and blue striped apron is crum
pled by the sheaf of yellow wheat
clasped in her smooth brown arms. *
In. Galicia many of the men eml-
would have authority to retain tui- : grate to find employment, and the
tion and other fees collected from stu-1 women carry on the work of the four
seasons. The fields are small; the
fa rming rnelUoda. nre. JJjg- methods - of
the Homeric age. The red earth is
turned injsiiallow furrows with woodeu
Plows drawn by biscuit-colored oxen. *
The seed is scattered by hand, and
the soil is cultivated .with wooden
harrows. In June the grain Is ripe,
nnd the peasant girl goes into the field
wltjt her sickle.
The harvester bends low; In the left
arm she gathers a ^cluster of grain
stalks; with the sickle in her. right
band she cuts a swift stroke near the
dents for making permanent improve
ments, as has been customary for
several years.
Besides making appropriations, the
bill would provide for a license tax
of $10 a year, on lawyeis; except
judgedand justices, and also would
make the insurance agent’s fee $2'a
year. Collections from the insurance
feei, it is directed, would go to the
Confederate pension fund, for which
$750,000 is appropriated. Each^et-
eran, under this bill, would receive a| roots. Catching tbe severed grain in
minimun of $180 a year, as compaied
with a minimum of $100 a year pre
scribed in recent years.
Carolina.
Koi the Market Bulletin, issued un
der the supervision of the department
of agriculture,‘commerce an,d indus-
t r u is7 the surn of $9,000 is appropriat-
ed. ——
The measure provides that the prop
erty levy shall not exceed five mills,
except foV a quarter mill levy to be ap
plied to thu retirement of an issue of
$400,000 in state bonds which matures
on July 1 of this year. , ' .
A proviso in the bill would require
the state highway department to turn
over to the contingent fund commis
sion about $8,000, representing the
excess cost of the recently concluded
investigation of thu department by the
Smith committee above the $25,000
appropriated for the purpose.
Principal Totals.
Frincipa’ appropriation totals pro
vided are: — .......
University, $439,827.
Citadel, $201,666.41.
Clcm^on collegiate activities, $223,-
234.04, including $24,350.08 to equip
new engineening building and $6,000
for fine protection.
Winthrop collegiate activities, $449,-
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Medical college, $130,550.
State negro college, $124,135.77
School for Deaf and Blind, $111,-
861.67
Roman God Gave Name
tallied the names of our months—as
we got the names of our days from
our Saxon forefathers—first thought
of calling our;flrst month January, we
are told B. C. It marked a
turn of ttfejfear, when the winter
solstice endgdL the earth turned from
its •short dS^fSecmd toward t he 1 otrger
days just about to begin. Janus, an
old Roman gA was the god of be
ginnings. &<iqiuse war was man’s
chief busines^ihen, he especially rope-
resented the beginning war. His
the curve of the sickle, she raises it
above her head and waves it in a cir
cular movement-; then, pivoting on her
hips, she lays the sheaf on the gfuund
behind her. In tireless rhythm she
moves across the rows of grain.
A hoy follows in the field, tying the
sheaves with straws.—Exchange,
Sympathetic Public
' All people are alike in enjoying ihe
presentation of rogues in drama, but
It ineans nothing about their attitude
toward rogues in real life.—American
Mn gnztne. -• — —
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ADVERTISE in The People-Sentinel.
4-H Club Girls Again
Take Part in Contest
Barnwell County 4~H €lub Girls
are again taking part in the Health
Contest as a part of their club work
for the new yeai'f The home demon
stration agent has weighed and meas.-
ured 121 cltib girls and has given to
each a list of health (rules and a food
habit score card to keep. The girls
as a whole are showing a great deal
of inteirest in the study of food selec
tion as related to health. They do
not find it necessary to burden their
minds with the rather difficult erms
as carbohydrates, proteins, cellulose,
etc’, which our text books were ac-
custmed to uBe, btft they translate
their food terifis into such practical
words as milk or milk food, eggs^
green leaf vegetables and fruits—
keeping the food habit score carP
and following health rules given.
Every girl whose weight is as much
as 7 per cent under or 20 per cent
ovclr hopes to bring her weight to
normal.— (Miss) Eliabeth M«Nab r
Home Demonstration Agent.
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