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i THI RSDAY, OCTOBER 16. 1930.
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Automobile AcdOcpts.
(The following headlines, telling of
snatomobile accidents in South Caro*
3ma, appeared on two pages in Mon-
^y's issue of The State: “Stranger
Injured in Motor Accident,” “Passen
ger Bus Crashes Into Tree,” “Two
Willinghams Seriously Injured,”
•‘Child Injured by Negro Hit-Run,”
•‘Hurt in Accident, One May Die.”
••Services Conducted for Five-year
Old.” The traffic patrolmen who take
to the highways today seem to have
their work cut out for them.' If they
anicceed in preventing even a part of
the deplorable accidents by curbing
the activities of reckless drivers, the
money will be well spent.
far the
t! and New
lAf short up to noon, but a private
estimate from Oshkosh forced March
long* to Jiggle their hedges hi sympa
thy with Ruth McCormack end the
boll weevil. Curtailment continues
unabated except at Ailing stations
and apeak-assies. The farm board
gave out the following statement last
night: “As soon its the market goes
up, we look for higher prices.” We
believe that it is best to hold as you
run the risk of losing more getting
over it.
There will be many new facet In
congress next year, but Mr. Andy
Mellon is still boss of the good old
United States. He is a hard worker,
and as he had to neglect his business
(private) to some extent since be
coming our U. S. treasurer, his
wealth has increased only about 5460,-
000,000.00. He is interested only in
the welfare of the masses, and the in
come tax will never be permitted to
hurt the masses.
Mr. aid Mr* L O.
« A e-
Miss Disakftk Brinkley, who at
tends Georgia-Carolina Business Col
lege in Augusta, spent the week-end
at her home here. /
Miss Lollie Baxley ahd Miss Sarah
Baxley, of Dunbarton, visited rela
tive* here Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Curry, former resi
dents of Ellenton, were visitors here
Sunday.
Rev. and Mrs. C. F. Outlaw, and performers and animals from the far
i: Nobody’s Business
By Gee McGee.
Opinions of Others.
Unde Joe’s Sammie has begun to
fus* and foam about Hoover prosperi
ty, yet he wa* one of the ring-leaders
against A1 Smith and the Pope at his
box. At the time of Hoover’s in
auguration, Sammie felt Ane, and be
ing a 10-centa-a-week insurance agent,
he was geting his dimes regularly,
and hi* earnings were nearly half
enough to meet two-thirds of hi* in
stallments.
People eat bird’s nests in China.
Pshaw, that ain’t nothing. My wife
had spanach for dinner one day last
week. And the French are never
satisAed unless they have a few fried
snail* with 'their wine, but we ate
limberger cheese not long ago. And
grass-hoppers represent a delectable
dish in some parts of Africa. We had
a mud turtle supper one night, and
we think we are civilized. And some
folks still, eat tripe, but others like
ham.
A Connecticut man has invented a
clock that sings “Home, Sweet Home’,’
at midnight, whistle s “Turkey in the
Straw” at noon, Cuckoo* every thirty
minutes during the day and Bow-
Wows every 20 minutes during the
night. It pulls the cover off of the
would-be late risers at 6 a. m., spits
in his face at 6:46 a. m.,and pull* his
family, are now living in Mrs. W. D.
Bush’s house. Mr. and Mrs. Bush re
served a small apartment, where they
will occasionally spend week-ends
when they come over from Donalds.
Miss Mary Quarles and S. S. Har
ley motored to Barnwell Saturday af
ternoon.
Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Greene and lit
tle daughter, were the guests' of Mr.
and Mrs G. M. Greene in Barnwell on
Sunda/.
Rev. and Mrs. P. H. McKinnon and
children, of Allendale, visited friends
here Sunday afternoon. Mr. McKin
non is a former pastor of the local
Baptist church and their friends here
are always glad to welcome them in
Ellenton.
Miss Frances Barker is making her
home this winter in Barnwell with
Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Greene.
C. A. Smith and C. G. Youngblood
were business visitors' in Aiken Sat
urday.
W. B. Turner, Jr., of Barnwell, was
the guest of his parents, Mr and Mrs.
C. M. Turner, for the week-end.
Mrs C. P. Davenport and Miss Belle
Bailey, of North Augusta, visited
their sister and brother, Mrs. H. M.
Cassels, Sr., and Mr. C. T. Bailey,
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Turner spent
Monday in Barnwell. They were the^
guests for dinner of Mr. and Mrs.
Perry Bunsh.
N. S. Brinkley and F. M. Young
blood motored to Augusta Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Bush, of Dub-
hair (bald-headed men excepted) at
7 a. m. We don’t need any kind of 'lin, Ga., visited Mrs. Mary Bush Sun-
clock at our house; we have a baby.
Uncle Joe Talks Again.
Uncle Joe loves to talk about what
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the other fellow is doing and how.
Sammie «ays that since the cotton He lit on the highway commission the
Mills have been curtailing, over 88 other day. He seems to know all
nsurmnee agents have been thrown about highway commissions, as he
the moet
produced. This ir presented with the
regular circus performance without
extra charges, snd is the talk of every
town visited. Thq street parade this
season is over one mile in length, and
will pas* over the principal streets.
Beautiful Tableaux Trucks, four
Bands of Music, steam callioipe, funny
clowns, pretty girls, prancing steeds,
Orangeburg Fair
Oct 28, 29, 30, 31
Bigger and Better Than
corner* of the earth. Believe no false
reports, Barnett Bros Circus will pos
itively exhibit; there can be n<f change
in routjs or change of date, and, abotfe*
all, this show will not bp split; it will
all be exhibited at Barnwell on Mon
day, October 27th.—adv.
GEORGIA STATE FAIR
OFFERS ATTRACTIONS
out of employment. He also inform
ed yesterday that he knew of 43 in
stallment collectors on his street
alone—out of work, but 25 were still
working half-time, as they made trips
three times a week for the purpose
of repossessing such wares a* furni
ture and radios and cars and bed
spreads.
discussed them from Texas to Dela
ware, snd itisist^J that they are
all alike.
My! the hum and. buzz—everybody
will want to see the great changes in
the Georgia State Fair this year.
Something that will be pleasing to
the eye and so interesting and of such
wonderful educational value one day
will only be a beginning.
The Government and State Agri
cultural College are both getting
ready to ship car load lot* of exhibit^.
Scpnic artist* working on the interior
of buildings, Florists are Ailing an
entire building, Sportsman's building
being put in i)y the Stubbs Hardware
people will show Duck boats in nat
ural settings, a hunting lodge where
trophies, birds, etc., will be shown.
MILK, the word on all mothers and
teachers lips, is being shown in a
Government display and explained by
a Talking Cow; who ever heard of
such a thing? Come and hear it.
Poultry in their natural stages in run
ways. Pigeons Aying in a wired-in
house open for all to see. Now, with
Johnny J. Jones’ shows and rides’ on
the Midway to round out the fun
making, what more could you ask?
Deliveries Continue Large.
The South Carolina Cotton Growers
Cooperative Association, according to
Association officials, received during
the week of October 11th a total of
13,917 bales as compared with a total
the week before of 12,215. Total de
liveries for the season through Octo
ber 11th amount to 39,059 bales and
Uncle Joe told me that the depart
ment built a nice top soil road by his
house in 1928 and they tore it up in
19 and 29 and put down an asphalt-
treated surface road, but they have
begun to plow it up now artl are get-
A mm told me the other day that tin * ready to piank down a hard-sur-
had driven his Cadillac over 3001 f^-cement road. (He wonders if
miles hunting a job without favorable ] the y their own money that-a-
results, except he was offered work wa y-)
picking cotton and pulling fodder two
or three times, which thing he refus- It ain’t no use for anybody to he
ed to do—after cussing out the guy j lieve everything they hear or see or
who insulted him. He said that if he ! smell or think, hut Uncle Joe says
couldn’t get to do what he wanted to
do (running an ambulance), he would
contem himself doing nothing. His
wife rung her car too, looking for
wrork for him.
One of my neighbors admits that
lie gave .a local beggar 1 dollar a few
days ago. This poor fellow claimed
that he and his family were in dire
atratit*. This ’neighbor decided to
find out what kind of groceries this
aocalled hungry man would buy with
Ih* dollar, so he followed him to a
nearby store. The Arst thing his
unfortunate creature of “hard tfmes”
bought was 1 plug of Brown’s Mule
tobacco, next he got himself a pack
age of cigarettes. He then went out
front to enjoy himself. %
Wei], after several minutes of
Chewing and spitting and smoking and
paffing, this “down-and-outer” who
could not And any work to do, went
back into the store and bought 3
cigars, .2 coca colas, a box of patch-
ing cement, 10 cents worth of candy,
which he atq forthwith, a bag of
goober*, and then he walked across
the street, got in his lizzie and rushed
hack to the pump, and spent his re-
azaining 23 cents for some gasoline,
Mad my neighbor is still wondering if
the man and his family have yet
atarved to death.
f 50.000
nything
r about
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that 15 or 20 new highway truck* go
iickety-split by his- place everv
d*y.
Charles Daniels has returned to
Aiken, after spending three months
here with hia aunt, Mrs. F. M.
Youngblood
Mrs. B. T. Brinkley and little
daughter and Mrs. Ida Brinkley,
motored to SpringAeld Monday.
A. H. Wilson and son, Heyward f or « iam€ <j a te last year 3,521 bales.
Wilson, of Augusta, were visitors i Thousands of tags have been mailed/
here Thursday. I OUlt during past week, and judging
Mrs. D. C. Bush, Miss Gladys Bush requests still being received
and Mrs Jule Smith spent .the week- f or Association will receive
end in Greenwood with relatives and y ea r the largest baleage in its
friends. Mrs. Salome Bailey, who ac- history,
companied them to Greenwood, went
on to* Donald?*, where she visited Mr.
and Mrs. W. D. Bush.
BARNETT BROS. CIRCUS.
Big Three Ring Circus and Trained
Animal Show.
No doubt you are aware that a real
Membership meetings were held
during the past week at Sumter, Rock
Hill, York, Chester and Darlington.
These meetings, like meetings held
earlier, were attended by representa
tive growers and a high degree of in
terest wag manifested. The meetingg
^at Rock Hill, York and Chester were
addressed by R. B. Caldwell, Presi-
honest-to-goodness Circus is the dent, mnd J. S. Hathcock, General
greatest entertainment of all amuse
ment*, and the only branch of the
amusemeTit world that does pot need
morning loaded down with 6 or 81 censorship. A visit to the Circus is
hands apiece and in an hour, or so, a day of enjoyment for the old and
they iickety-split back down the road young. .It is a da'y that the kiddies
with a little shirt-tail full of sand, always remember, and the older folks
He says it cost* 9 dollars for a high
way employee to grunt. (He says
they also haul grass and set it out to
die.)
Manager of the Association. The
meeting at Darlington was addressed
by Mr. Hathcock and Senator E. D.
Smith.
Salt Tax Is Old One
Modern Europe, it is commonly he-
I think Uncle Joe i s wrong "when he
says that the highway department
owns the legislature and the govern
or and the cement plants and the
asylums and the state officers of all
kinds from the janitor* plum on down | donna and is assisted by a large
to the treasurer, and that most of the
bootleggers anji the automobile agen
cies are controlled by that bunch. (He
didn’t mention the county officials.)
never forget. Barnett Bros, is twice) jiTffci iled the salt tax from the
.. r , . Orient, or nossihlv from the Wne-
it s former size this season and is now
offering an unusual program of sensa
tion and merit, with more r^al novel
ties than all the other shows com
bined. A great spectacle, “NAT
ION ALLY r ,” precedes the regular per
formance this season, over one hun
dred men, women and animals take
part. Miss B. Peasley is the prima
Mans who became noted makers and
vendors of the sea-horn commodity.-
France had vast natural stores of it.
yind was among the Arst nations of
the western world to tax it. That
resented impost, the gabelle du sel.
or tribute of salt, was one of thff'
causes of the French revolution', so
heavily did the peasant have to pay
the kings for a little seasoning in his
pot.
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mm. B*; they Howell ha* returned to W*J:?rWr*.
>*Mpii| aad A: xftor vtritiag her tutor. Mrs. C J.
He itold me that nearly a)) of the
highway employees were big, exper
ienced men, and that they could han
dle millons upon millions of dollars
ju*t as easy as he could handle a
Ashing pole. All of them are success
ful men, willing to work for nothing,
and a great deal less if necessary to
get good roads. He said that he
wished he wa s a highway boss for a
month so’s he could retire. I wish
Uncle J:e would stop all of this hash
and pay me back them 3 dollars I
loant him lapt year.
Local and Personal
News from Ellenton
South Carolina’s Meeting Place.
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Orangeburg and adjoining' county youngster* should see
their teachers immediately for freo tickets. * lij
Plenty of Football
Orangeburg Hi vs. St. Matthews Hi—Tuesday, P. M.
Carlisle vs. Bailey—Wednesday, P. M.
CAROLINA vs. CITADEL VARSITY—THURSDAY NOON.
Carolina vs. CRadel Freshmen—Thursday P. M.
State va. Talledaga—Friday Noon.
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Surprise Wednesday
COME AND SEE
Free Acts - Fireworks - Carnival
C-O-M-E
SPECIAL EXCURSION
- TO -
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Friday, Oct 17,1930
Round trip fares:
V BARNWELL — $15.50
BLACKVILLE —- 15.00
SURINGFIELD 14.75
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Fares from intermediate points on same low basis. Tickets sold for
all trains, except Crescent Limited, Friday, October 17th. Tickets good
returning all regular trains, except Crescent Limited, to reach original
starting point by midnight, Wednesday, October 22nd, 1930. hor Pullman
reservations and other informationsee—
Ticket Agents, ^
Southern Railway System
Only Show Coming This Season
BARNETT BROS.
3-RING CIRCUS
And Trained Animal Shows
A grand coJmmI •nprenttor •» wonderful performing Elephants. Horses. Ponies. Pics.
Oea»s. 0*fS usd Monkeys. Beautiful Tropical Blrda.—Renowned and Dart a* Acta. Aerial
Distance Leapt. Wonderful Bicyclist*, high Wire Dives.
2S — FAMOUS
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j 6 FuU Days • 6 Full Nighte jj
South Carolina’s Own Show
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