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BCR. THE BAKNWBLL PEOPLEDKNTDCHL, BAEHWXLL. MOTH CUtOUlU h -n , v .. No Decisive Swing to Either Candidate in Big Straw Vote Vote Now at559,806 for Hoover and 499,122 f for Smith; Balloting Exceeds Expecta tions. Balloting in the Nationwide Straw Poll conducted by this newspaper in conjunction with 2,000 others the coun try over has to date far exceeded the sticpectations of the Autocaster News Service, through which nationwide or ganization this poll is being taken. There have been well over a million votes cast to date. Still nothing decisive can be ascer tained from this straw vote as yet. Hoover, it is true, is consistently in the lead, but his lea^d is quite slight. He has 559,806 votes compared to Smith’s 499,122 votes. In actual num- bers the difference between these t^o figures seems quite large, but on a percentage basis the difference is small. Hoover has about fifty-two and eight-tenths percent of the total veto. This is a gain of one per cent over last week, when he had but fifty- one and eight-tenths per cent of the total vote. When the first compilation of results was made, Hoover had sixty- eight per cent of the total vote. Since then his percentage has been going oown slowly, but this week he seems to be gaining again. The general tendency, however, of the vote seems to be a tendency to “even up.” Smith constantly ap proaches Hoover’s figure, then falls back again. The same is true of the Straw Vote taken by the Hearst news papers, where Hoover has, according to very recent figures, 257,873 vote® to 238,630 for Smith. Hoover has been in the lead in this Hearst poll, but his lead has been for the most part a l ea ^ of perhaps 10,000 votes. Recant bal lots boost him up a little higher. The fascinating fact about all this is that Straw Votes in previous years have shown entirely different tenden cies. The man to win finally was gen erally way up ahead in the Straw Votes. In the Coolidge-Davis cam paign, the Hwarat Nationwide Poll at just about this stage of the game re ported about twice as many votes for Coolidge as for Davis, for example. Another strange phenomenon of this campaign, as we have commented several tim«s before, is the great number of “switches” in sentiment that are taking place. The Nationwide Presidential Poll shows that 98,996 persons who voted a Democratic ticket have decided to vote in favor of Hoover this year. And 63,124 former Republican* vote* have b«®n won over to Smith. Truly, party lines are slackening considera bly and the election gives every indi cation of being a close, exciting battle. Almost every day one hears of a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat changing his viewpoint, deciding to vote for Hoover; and of a staunch Republican to balance him, declaring himself in favor of Smith. Thus John J. Raskob, listed in “Who’s Who” as a Republi can, is now the Chairman of Smith’s Campaign Committee. Thus R. A. Owen, a former United States Senator an^d a Democrat, is backing Hoover. Thus Nicholas Murray Butler, that constant member of the G. O. P., gives hints of bolting his party—no one knows just where* he stands now. And J. R. Pally, of Hattiesburg, Mississip pi, resigns his position in the Demo cratic ranks of his State td be able tfl vote for Hoover. Everything is jn a state of ferment. Traditions are being broken. History is being made! Big business men, heads of gigantic corporations, are* coming right out in the open and telling who they are go ing to vote for. Many of thpse, too, show a complete reversal of their us ual political sympathies. Business men are supporting both parties and taking active parts in the campaign. One does not know any more wheth er the “solid South” is to remain the “solid South,” and States that have been Republican since this generation can remember are now in the doubtful column. Never has the situation been quite a<« strange. That is why political dis cussion, prophecy and interest is as pnnralent now, in September, as though Election Day were only ten or twelve days ahead. The situation being what it is, this Nationwide Straw Vote is of the ut most importance. It mirrors the opin ion of that great mass of Americans who live in £he rural districts. It is impartial. The votos received by us are sent by us to the Autocaster News Service of New York, where they are tabulated and reports are sewt us for publication. Perhaps if every one who has not yet mailed in a ballot will do so this week, some dtiftnite light may be brought to the surface. The new bal lots may make the situation dearer. Vote today. Clip the coupon, fill it out, and mail or bring it to the office of The People- Sentinel today. Do your bit! PRESIDENTIAL POLL My CHOICE ' for PRESIDENT □ IS HERBERT HOOVER (a«ybl>c—) Q ALFRED E. SMITH (Put an X bcfqr* the one you intend to vote) After filling out this Trial Ballot, please Mail or Bring it to the office of This Newspaper 4 What TICKET Did You Vote Last Presidential Campaign? Editor Assails G. O. P. In Reply to Letter Asking Support * • * « V j- the farm work begins at sunrise, we are so ""opposed to a continuance of the Coolidge policies that if I Wrote you what I think it wouldn’t look good in print, and so I shall modify my ex pressions. “Under the Coolidge policies, which Mr. Hoover Is pledged to continue, we have had more farm bankruptcy and more rural distress than has existed since our pioneers came West in cov ered wagons and conquered the prairies. “You really have no realisation of what these Coolidge policies havs done to a great and flourishing agri cultural section of the country. “Farm lands have depreciated $S0,- 000,000,000 in value. Fifty thouaand business men have gone broke. Four thousand rural batiks havs failed. "While Coolidge was President, Congress, representing the people, passed farm relief billa twice and twice the man higher up vetoed them. That is the paramount Coolidge pol icy, We have been fooled twice. Don’t think, my Wall 8L friend, yon can do it agaik "With kindest personal regards, you are at liberty to pabUsh this tad go to the devil." WASHINGTON.-—The attitude of the intelligent Western farmer who hat studied the causes of his pres ent predicament, and who realizes what n continuance of the Coolidge policies would mean to him, Is strik ingly set forth in a letter received by Herbert N. St reuse, of the Repub lican Business Men, Inc., from Willis A. Wells, Republican editor of the Webster (S. Dak.) Journal. Tbs South Dakota editor bad been asked by Mr. Strauae to support Her bert Hoover and to tend a reply which could be published. Here is the reply: "You request that I join the Repub lican Business Men, Inc., of your city, la promoting the election of Mr. Hoo ver upon the sole ground that ’be will carry out the Coolidge policies.' Your plea leaves me as cold as the ice fields of a polar’baa. "As a Republican I enthusiastically decline to do any such fool thing. I am ter Hoover Just about as far as yon can throw our party elephant by the pin feathers with your arm broksn la tear places. ^ "Out in the West, wbers mes If to the eyebrows Local and Personal News of Blackville Blackville, Sept. 15.—Miss Rosa Rich was hostcos to the Wednesday I accepted a position to teach piano, Mrs. F. N. Trowbridge, of Aiken, spent last week with Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Toole. Mias Lenr.a Brown Davis left last week for Duncart, S. C., where she has Afternoon Book Club on its vegular meeting day. In the absence of the president, the business session was conducted by the vice president ,Mrs. club in the high school there. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Ray and $am, Jr., motored to Bishopville Sunday. Leroy Still. The chairman of Socidl Mr. Ray has returned but Mrs. Ray and Industrial Conditionsof South * 1 2 and son will visit her parents there for Carolina then gave a brief survey of two weeks. her work for the coming year and asked that one program for the club be devoted to a study of the problems of Community Service. Mrs. H. L. Buist, as Chairman of this division of Federation endeavor, is enthusiasti- Mrs. Harlow L. Bogue, after spend ing two weeks with Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Latimer, left last week to visit In Pelzer and Greenvilla before return ing to her home in Norwich, Conn. M*. and Mrs. A. P. Lee, who have cally asking that this be a statewide recently moved from Asheville to Au- THURSDAY, BHPTBfHR », * matter of interest—the problem of suitable leisure hours for our young people. It wa§ decided to select a play for the club to give in order to raise some money. Miss Adele Gun ter was present as & guest. The host ess served frozen insert. The study program will begin at its next regular meeting. The first meeting for the year of the School Improvement Association was held at 4:30 Tuesday afternoon at the school house. The president, Mrs. T. O. Boland, conducted the business ses sion. The teachers were present and a go^d meeting was held. It was de cided to give a short leave of absence to the room whose mothers attended the next meeting in largest numbers. This association did a wonderful work last year in the furtherance of all school interests and won first honor able mention' at tHfe convention of Wo men’s Clubg as being the club of high est achievements in the State. A wor thy cause demands a worthy support. Boost your school. Mrs. Willis Gregory and baby, of Charleston, are the guests of her mother, Mrs. C. J. Fickling. Mrs. J. W. Browning and Mr. and Mrs. Somers Pringle motored to Au gusta Monday. Mrs. W. C. Buist is visiting her mother in Chester. Mrs. Cleveland Riaher and daugh ters, Margaret and Harriet, have re turned to their home in Albany, Ga., after spending some! time here. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Lee have moved to Augusta, where he is located with the A. and P. Company. Mrs. LeRoy Fanning and Mrs. A. V. Collum were in- Columbia last week at the Eaatway Sanitarium, where Mr. Fanning is undergoing treatment. Reports from R. B. Fickling, who is in an Asheville, N. C., sanitarium, are that his condition is unchanged. Miss Ella Hill spent the week-end- in Orangeburg. Craig Baxley left Friday for Co lumbia, where he spent a few days with his mother, Mrs. Lil Baxley. He than went Pleasant, N. C* where he will attend the Collegiate Institute. using the money she makes to buy fumitura, and to pay for getting the children to school. She also said the market meant much to her as it en abled her to help make some money. For two years, Mrs. Susan Hutto voice* *nd-direct 4he orchestra and giee | has been selling at the market. She averages around $16.00 a month now, but earlier in the season and later on she averages $25.00 a month. Mrs. Hutto's son drives her to town with heft* loa^d of vegetables, chickens, eggs and butter. They run a two-horse farm and have three children to sup port. Her sales money is used to pay for her daughter to go to school in town and to help her husband with his obligations. She says her husband is also very grateiful for the market, having said to her just recently, “If it hadn’t been for the market and the money you made there, I don’t know what we would have done.” The market is not only serving and proving of great benefit to the rural women in disposing of their surplus, but it is filling a need in Barnwell for the town women, who want and are anxious to buy fresh fruits and vege tables and chickens and eggs. . Before 9 o'clock Saturday morning,! which is the opening hour of thci mar ket, there were six or eight town women waiting and before the goods were properly arranged on the sales table, everyone was rushing up to bd served before the supply gave out. The supply was hardly sufficient fofi the demand. At least thirty women and men bought that morning. At the next market day, a bulletin board will be used with prices posted and more space will be available so that goods can be displayed better and sales more promptly made. . The market is a splendid piece of cooperative work between the rural and town folks and it should grow rapidly extending its benefits both in the country and in the town. gusta, were visitors last week of Dr. and Mrs. A. S. Blanchard. (Weal Folk has returned from Greenville, where he has been working for several weeks. Mrs. C. E. Smith has returned from a visit with relatives in Aiken. Miss Mattie Lee Bennett left this week for Loris, S. C., where she will teach. Mrs. A. M. Kennedy left Wednesday to visit her daughter, Mrs. E. P. Riley, in Greenville and her mother, Mrs. Edwaijds, in Hendersonville, N. C. Mr. and Mrs. C. Birnie Johnson, of Allendale, were guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Johnson. After spending a week with Mrs. Q. A^ Kennedy, Jr., Mrs. Jesse Anderson left Sunday to visit her parents in Al lendale before returning to h^r home in Wilson, N. C. Mrs. Kittle 'McCreary is visiting Mrs. W. C. Cook and other relatives in this community. Mrs. A. N. Garber, Mordie Garber, Mrs. Clothiide Thompson, Miss Anna Bakor Black aiyl Miss Sadie Garber motored to Spartanburg Tuesday. Miss Garber remained to enter CoJP verse College. Miss Elizabeth Stallings left Mon day for Wesleyan College, where she will resume her*studk«. Miss Nancy Harley left Sunday to enter St. Angelus Academy in Aiken. Mrs. J. B. Reel and children, of Au gusta, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Merritt. * Mrs. J .0. Hair spent Monday in Au gusta a s the guest of her daughter, Mrs. J. V. Bra coy. story from each. Mrs. J. B. Hartzog, Mrs. W. R. Carroll entertained theUf Hilda, attends the market regularly Bridge Club on Thursday afternoon with a delightful party of four tables. High score prize was won by Mrs. Isa dora Brown, a dainty boudoir pillow. A box of handkerchiefs was given to Mrs. Joseph Golden, of New York, as visitor’s prize. Mrs. S. B. Pringle cut cons laJtion, a box handkerchiefs, whila low score was held by Mrs. E. Weatherhorn. The hostess served a salad course. Miss Dorothy O’Gorman has re turned from an extended trip north. She reports rTovely time among rela tives and friends. ♦ • ♦ Social and Personal News from Williston Williston, Sept. 15.—Prof. Joe—Dr Hamrick, while en route to Beaufort, where he will teach this year, delight ed his many friends here with a short visit. Mr. Hamrick was principal of the Williston-‘Elko High School last year. His home is Forest City, N. C. J. E. Youngblood left Monday for Virginia, where he will be engaged in government work in connection with the apple industry there. Mr. and Mrs. Jennings Woodward What Some of Our Women Are Doing ———.— (By Miss Elizabeth McNab, Home Demonstration Agent.) Some* interesting stories as to what farm women can do and are doing to bring in a little ready money just now follow: j Interviewing some of the producers at the 4-H Club Market Saturday morning, we secured a w »rth while lands of D. Pink Key; South by lands of Frank Dunbar; and Weat by lands of estate of Wilson Fuisei (3) AT that ceHain piece, parcel or tract of land, situate, lying and being in Barnwell County, S. C., con taining 83 acres, more or less, lyii in Savahhah River “ Swamp Hammock Tract, the exact boundric of which ig unknown. . The above throe tracts of land were inherited by J. T. Holley from the es tate of his Mother, Mrs. Julia Holley. Terms of sale: Cash, purchaser to pay for deed and revenue stamps. Successful bidder will be required to deposit tha sum of $200.00 as evidence of good faith or bid will not be accept ed. EDWARD S. CROFT, Master for Aiken County, S. G. MASTER’S SALE. Wm. McNAB FIRE, HEALTH AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANIES. Pareoaal attention given all hnidnses Office in Harrison Block, Main flt BARNWELL. 8. C on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Dur ing August she sold home grown pro duce to the amount of $20.40. Since April she states, sha has averaged $19.00 a month every month on her sales of eggs, field peas, tomatoes, mustard, pickle and various other vegetables. Practically tha only ex pense in marketing these ig the gaso line to drive in and back, a total dis tance of around 12 miles, and a few •paper bags. When asked how she spent this money, Mrs. Hartzog said, “For some dining ror.m and kitchen furniture, to pay my pastor and church dues, and what’s left for clothes.” Mrs. Hartzog also brings in a neighbor’s, Mrs. Howell Collins', pro duce, which averages for Mrs. Collins around $28.00 a month. regularly, but averages around $12.0Q a month on her sales. She says the market means much to her as the ar ticles sold there would otherwise go to waste. She spends her money for groceries not produced on- the farm. Mrs. O. B. Staley comes only on Saturdays. She is a new member, this being only her 3rd visit, but she has rnajde $10.00 in that time. She spys she began selling at the market were guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Folk. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. B. Dixon, of Camden, were visitors this week of friends and relatives. Mr. ai>(d Mrs. L. F. Nanccv of St. Paul, N. C., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Drummond. 'Mr. and Mrs. Phil Harris and chil dren, of Spartanburg, ifee viailing Dr. and Mrs. W. C. Smith. Mrs. L. S. Mellichamp and grand- son, John White, are visiting Mrs. J. H. White in Columbia. Miss Carrie McNab, of Florence, visited last week her sister, Mrs. G. W. Whitaker.' Miss Bessie Thompson left for Clin tons N. C M this week where she will teafch this year. Jimmie and Ekmnar Trowbridge, at tractive twin daughters of Mr. and in order to make enough money to have her piano tuned, but now she liken it i so much that she is going to continue to sell there. I • > : ... # Mrs. M. L. Turner in five weeks has sold $20.00 worth of produce, that she states would have absolutely been wasted otherwise. Today her sales amounted to $6.00. Corn is her best seller. Why, her daughter said, “We got 60 cents for that pan of peas that I picked in no time yesterday after noon.” Mrs. M. F. Grubbs has been selling only this year. Her sales so far have been $45.60 sir.ee March 15th. One Saturday her sales were $11.75. Mrs. Grubbs sells vegetables and chickens and eggs, her young ton driving her in the ten miles from her home. She and her husband rent a three horse farm and have six children. She % is Notice to Debtors sad Creditors Notice is hereby given to all per sons holding clsims against the es tate of W. L. Cave, to file them duly attested, with the undersigned Ad ministrator or Administratrix of said estate, and all persons indebted to said estate must make prompt payment to the undersigned. H. L. Buist, Administrator, Mrs. Floride C. Sexton, Administratrix. MASTERS SALE. State of South Carolina, County of Aiken. In the Court of Common Pleas. M. E. Holley, Plaintiff, vs. J. E. Holley, et &L, Defendants. Notice is hereby given that by virtue of an order of the Court of Common Pleas in the above entitled action, dated August 1st, 1928, I will offer for sale at public outcry to the highest bidder in front of the Court House at Barnwell, S .C., during the legal hours for public sales, on sales day, Monday, October 1st, 1928, the following de scribed real estate, to-wit: (1) All that certain piece, parcel or tract of land, situate. lying and being irt Barnwell County, S._C., known as the Hammock Tract containing .434 acres, more or less, bounded North and West by lands of Jesse Griffin; East and South by lands of Mrs. Ida O. Holley. (2) All that certain piece, parcel or tract of land situate, lying and be ing in Barnwell County, S. C., known as the Pineland Tract containing 275 acres, more or less; also*3 acres ad joining said tract purchased by J. E. Holley from Mrs. Ida O. Holley, and less 3 acres sold by J. E. Holley to Mrs. Ida O. Holley, but without any conveyance being executed between them; said tract bounded North by lands of Mrs. Ida O. Holley; East by State of South Carolina, f \ \ County of Barnwell. Court of Common Pleas. Furman W. Delk, et al., Plaintiffs, vs. Zarety Bolen, et al.. Defendants. By virtue of a decretal order to ma directed in the above entitled causa, I will sell at public auction to the high est bidder for cash, in front of the Court House at Barnwell, County and State aforesaid, on Monday, October 1st, 1928, it being salasday in said month, between the legal hours of sale, the following described real property, to-wit: All that lot, tract or parcel of land lying and situated in the Town of Elko, in the State aforesaid, measuring one .. hundred and thirty-five feet by two hundred and ten feet depth, contain ing five-eighths of an acre, more or less and bounded as follows, to-wit: On the North by the South Carolina Rail road; on the East by lot known as George Patrick’s place; on the South by a street to be laid out twenty feet wide, and said street to run in rear of said lot. from Market to Church Streets, and to be known as Ashley Street, and on the West by lot of B. Stringfellow. Also: All that certain tract or parcel of land, containing two hundred and eighteen acres, more or leas, known as the home tract of the Jate Z. T. Hut son, deceased, bounded on the North by lands of Mrs. Cora Thompson and lands formerly of the Estate of Brooker; West by lands formerly of the estate of Brooker and T. M. Willis^ South by lands of N. H. Stansell and B. Brooks; and East by landfe of J. W. Phillips and J. M. Bolen. This tract of land Ig situate in Barnwell County, State of South Carolina. Terms of sale: Cash; it being or dered that the purchaser or purchasers be required to deposit with the said Master a certified check or cash in the sum of $200.00 as a guarantee of good faith to comply with the bid, and that if the said purchaser or purchas ers shall fail to pay to the Master the sum of $200.00 as aforesaid, that the Master in that event do forthwith pro ceed to re-sell the said premises, at the risk of the former purchaser or pur chasers, and if for any reason a sale thereof can not be had then, that the said premises be sold on some subse quent and convenient salesday. » And it is further ordered that if purchaser or purchasers who shall pay unto the Master the sum of $200.00 should fail to comply with the said bid, then, in that event, the said money shall be forfeited as liquidated damages. Purchaser to pay for stamps and (papers. G. M. GREENE, Master, Barnwell Co. Master’s office, Sept. 10, 1928. KODAKERS1 Send your films to vs for develop ing and printing. 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