The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, November 27, 1930, Image 3
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER tt, ISM
BARNWELL FBOfLE-gENTINEL. BARNWELL. BOOTE CAMOLINA
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Nobody’s Business
In the Beginning.
Willie Beam was the first boy to
go to college from the community
in which I was raised, and raised is
right. Willie’s pa could read a little,
and spell a few single-syllable words
and could write hig name, but he
managed to fool the 1st school teacher
that ever got a job at Piney Point, so
Mrs. Beam was the main reason why
Willie went to college.
Willie was gone from amongst us
for 9 whole months and we had just
about forgot him. Boys diddent come
home for Thanksgiving and Christmas
and .Good Friday and Washington’^
birthday and Labor Day and funerals
back then; they left home in Septem
ber and stayed left till June^ But
Willie rolled in one Thursday after
noon and that guy tore our whole
country all to pieces.
Willie wa s a wonder to us natives.
None of us had ever seen or heard of
a military uniform and brass buttons
and a flat-topped cap. Willie had all
of these things on, plus—meaning
that he also wore tanned shoes (which
was a revelation to us) and a bel£
that went around hi s waist with a
strap passing over his shoulders, and
he was actually so straight that he
leaned slightly backwards when he
stood still, v
When we boys tried to talk to Wil
lie, our mouths got so dry we couldn’t
say a word. Willie had changed his
voice considerably and his language
was absolutely Yankee, and danged if
we could catch half that youngster
said. His sister told me that he had
24 buttons on the left side of his
coat and 24 on the right side and 4
on each cuff and 6 behind just where
a bustle would have come to—jf he
had had on a bustle, and it looked
sorter like he was toting one around,
but of course—it was a very flat one.
The girls simply went crazy about
Willie. My own darling, Judie, in
whom I had learned to trust, and
whom I had learned to love, the girl
that had chewed my sweet gum and
eat my candy when I had any and
smelt my flower s when I picked them
out in the dew and put in the bottle
on her desk, why, she turned up her
nose at me just, the minute Willie took
both her hands in his’n and pulled
her up close to him and said: “Why,
Judie—you dear sweet girl. How
beautiful you have grown, what won
derful eyes. Judie—you are a Joan
of Ark.” Well, I wiped my -nose on
my sleeve and slunk out of the house,
and to this day—I ain’t spoke to Judie
and have very little use for a single
one of her 11 younguns. (Nope, Wil
lie diddent get her.)
The Frist Cold Snap Snapped Hard.
Well, it happened just as I expected.
Every day for the past month I have
been making up my mind that I would
put alcohol in my lizzie’s radiator to
morrow, but now it’s too late. The
tomorrow that I wa s going to use did
not arrive in time and now she’s
busted from the bumper to the tail-
light, judging from the way water
squirts through her ribs.
Naturally I betook myself to a
radiator repair shop. The man look
ed at my ill water toter, lit his cigar
ette 7 different times, squinted at the
6 bolt s that held it intact, intimated
that 68 of my tubes (or rather the
radiator’s tubes) were busted, but
finally looked as wise as a Hoover-
Democrat, and said: “Old man, (and
me only about 48,) l can fix her up for
$17.45.” When • I came to (after
fainting) I couldn’t find this fellow
so I had to buy me a new outfit for
$11.98, plus postage.
After getting the old boat in run
ning trim again, I felt mighty good.
But the next morning I saw frost
on the pumpkin vines and I sdnsed
calamity. I ate my waffles and sor
ghum, put on my 1927-model over
coat, donned by 1928 hat, and strutted
out to that car that has hauled me
to and from the office for 3 years.
When I got in, I threw the switch,
ppt my foot on the starter button
and all that thing said was—“tizz-
zizz-z-z-iz-z-ii-zz—zunk.”
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a man up to my house to examine the
remains.
I tried to push the pile of junk out
on the street to a hill, but the brakes
were stack, and besides that—my
wife simply ain’t fit to push nothing,
oman couldn’t pushes moth
the mantel—modi lota move
car with nobody ta II
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And shortly thereafter the phone
rang and when I poked the receiver
to my ear, this is what the service
filled it with: “Your old battery is
shot.. She’s grounded in five cells,
leaks badly at both poles, terribly dry
—lookg like you’d let us filled her with
water occasionally; it’s free you
know. She won’t hold a charge. Will
sell you a 13-cell Copenhagen Giant
for $15.95 thip allowing you $4.00 for
your old fa*t$ery or you can just keep
it and pay us the regular cash price.
$16.96.“
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trouble would be ever with. The
horn froze but so far as I am con
cerned it can stay froze. I’ll holler
at the pedestrian g from now on and
if they don’t dodge they can see
their undertaker. (I get all of the
pipes at the house fixed for $45.23,
but this included the pay of the
helper and 2 feet of piping and 1
washer). Hurrah for Summer time.
Lisles Undertakers.
Perhaps you have noticed that
nearly all of the bad automobile
wieeks occur on good roads. People
are careful when they take time to
think, and rough rosds help them to
think.
district of New York. You simply
can’t tell when some busted broker
or his patron will jump out of a win
dow and land on top of you in an
effort to commit suicide and thus
dodge his creditors.
Cotton Letter.
New York, Nov. 24.—In response to
rather easier Liverpool cables, spots
opened at s decline of 1 point and an
advance of 2 points on week-end cov
ering. Hedges and straddles were
in order on government information
that Hoover might veto the anti-beer
bill that the Republicans are planning
to offer aa a substitute for the farm
relief measure already operating .but
hack-Anag Frost was heavy in the
sad sa was southern selling,
print rioths and
bile factories, and steel mills, but
minnie-ture golf courses, night clubs,
speak-easies and carded yarns con
tinue active to dull.
At Last.
Our champion yo-yo-er of last sum
mer is now taking top-spinning les
sons, and will probably wind up flap
ping flap-jacks; our best-tree-setter
is still setting around home enjoying
his famousness and doesn’t realize
that we have done forgot him, but
the girl who won out in the beauty
contest landed a job in a 10-cent store
and still paints. We cant locate the
leaders in the bike marathon and the
benana eating contest and the egg
sucking race, all of which is fine.
Doat idly wait for things to blow
ever or you may be blown over.—
Very Successful Bull Sale.
There were 11 pure bred Guernsey
bulls sold at Barnwell on November
14th. Seven of these went to farmer s
in Barnwell County, three in Allendale
and one in Aiken. In every way the
sale was a success. The average price
paid for the bulls was nearly $70.
The interest taken by the farmers
clearly shows that they are going to
increase the quality and quantity of
cows in this county. We know that
the outstanding fault with our farm
program is that we do * not have
enough livestock. The first step to
ward correcting this is the baying of
pure bred hogs and these bulla. Let’g
carry on by giving the cow, hog and
hen a more prominent place in ear
farm program.—Prepared by H. G.