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THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL. BARNWELL. SOUTH CAEOUMA
THURSDAT, JANUARY 2S, 1M1.
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The Barnwell People-Sentinei
V JOHN W. HOLMES
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B. P. DAVIES, Editor *Ad Proprietor.
post office at Barnwell
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 29. 1931.
Speed It Up. Senator.
It will be heartening news to many
Bhgnwell 1 County farmers to (learn
that Senator E. D. Smith has gotten
a resolution through both houses of
Congres s and added to the appropria
tion bill to fe-lend to the farmers in
.South Carolina, North Carolina, Geor-
#fia, Florida and Alabama the money
that was paid back to the government
on the 1930 loans. But this money
will be of no material benefit and a
large part of it wil] be lost if it is not
made available earlier than ha s been
the case in the past. Last year many
farmers did not receive their checkes
until May or June—entirely too late
to buy and apply fertilizer to cotton,
as everybody knows. In fact, we are
told that a few farmers returned the
checks to the government, knowing
that it had been received too late. We
have heard of another case where two
farmers who borrowed some of this
money- received it so late that their
cotton crop was an absolute failure,
the two of them putting their crop to
gether in order to gin a 276-pound
bale.
Senator Smith’s resolution will
probably do some good, provided he
can make the money available about
March 1st to 15th—and if it is to be
Available, why wait until May
June ?
Speed it up, Senator!
or
License Tag Exttnsion.
spite of the many years they have
apeut ift directing *and ordering /arm
activities, the farmers find them
selves in the worst plight they have
experienced since the War Between
the States.
Nobody’s Business
By Gee McGee.
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Am He Thinketh, So Are The Times.
While up town a few minutes yes
terday afternoon, we found it conven
ient to interview a few fellows who
were all loafing. Our question to
each person approached was the same:
“How’s everything?”
Mr. Brown, The Shoe Man: “Well,
it can’t be this way al] the time. Most
everybody has worn out his shoe 8 and
folks are too proud to go harefooted.
^ look for a little bit less riding and
some what more thinking from now
on. But something’s got to be done
about taxes.”
Mr. Green, the Farmer: “Us farm
ers have just about got useter having
our stuff took away from us. There
ain’t, much difference at our house.
We have pinched and skimpped all our
lives, and expect to keep it up. I in
tend to* work a 8 hard as ever, cut
my fertilizer bill 50 per cent, and
shoot every kind of agent that comes
in sight of my house. Lookit this
suit one of them sold me in Decem
ber.”
Uncle Jack, the Hedge Trimmer:
“Yasser, boss—I’se all right. We has
a mighty good preacher' now’. Glad
to see this putty sunshiney weather.
My,&le oman has almost got W'Cll of
her rommy-tism and now washes for
4 families. 1 cuts hedges and rakes
off leaves. Mr. Gee, please give de old
nigger a ehaw-terbacker, or a dime or
something.”
chy marathon i 8 no longer enticing.
The hikers have all been caught beat
ing rides, so, friends, unless some
body starts a pay-as-you-go contest,
things will be mighty dull—until food
becomes a little scarcer.
The legislatures of the country are
now assemblying, and that meanp
more calamity. Taxes will be increas
ed, of course; new bureaus will be add
ed on, why, sure, Uncles, Aunts,
Cousin 8 and Buddies will be given a
job apiece, state institutions will ask
for twice as much- as they need and
get it; advertisements for highway
bids will run constantly in the same
newspapers that advertise our farms
for sale for taxes; political pie-eaters
^rill not have their cut; useless offices
will be created, and business and ag
riculture will continue to sweat and
bust. But nobody expects anything
else, so—why worry. '*• . • .
On top of all my other ‘troubles, my
wife went and bought 13 new hens
and^I new roosters last week while I
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was at church. We were in the poul
try business last fall, and each egg
we got cost us 4 dollars, but this man
told her that the poultry he was sell
ing her (at 32.00 fier head and tail)
was a cross betwixt the Buffs and the
Orphingtons and the Red Islands, and
took 7 blue ribbons for laying an av
erage of 8 eggs per week, so she de
cided to make one-more effort. Per
sonally and confidentially, I thirikthis
pedigree stuff she bought represents
the culls from that man’s hennery.
Anyway, we shall see. I am net tak
ing any egg orders yet, however.
The editor of The People-Sentinel on
Monday asked Senator Edgar A.
Brown whether or not it is likely that
the general assembly will extend the
time for automobile owners to pro-
cure license tags, and the Senator re
plied that he thought not.' He ex-
, plained that the one cent a gallqn
that is returned to the counties for
local road work ig pro rated on the
basis of automobile registration and
that, therefore, it would Operate
against those counties in which a com
paratively small number of licenses
have been bought. He urge s every
automobile or truck owner who can
possibly do so to buy their license
tags now, as otherwise Barnwell Coun
ty stands to lose a substantia] amount
of money in the way of the gasoline
tax.
Mrs, Gray, the. 1 - House-Keeper:
"Everything is pretty good with us.
The boys have gone badk to college.
Bob thinks business will pick up soon.
We are leting our car sit under the
shed—we can’t run it and pay for edu
cating our children at the same time,
so we decided to walk, as they are
more important. Folks will have to
come down, that’s all. Groceries are
Night Clubbing.
Nothing would do Cousin Bill un
less I drive out in the country to his
house and go possum hunting some
night. 1 am sure I had more sense
than to undertake such a fool thing,’
but my wife -said—“You must be get
ting old, don’t want to enjoy a little
sport.” That was the straw.
Obaervations of An Idler.'
Representative R. C. Holman, who
spent the week-end at home, does not
believe that the present session will
exceed the constitutional 40-day limit.
May be not—may be not. But' how
can the members of that august body
of golons accept “extra con^pensation”
if there be ho extra time?
And speaking of extra compensa
tion, or extra pay, or what have you,
to say nothing of cutting salaries, the
House of Representatives shied at a
bill along thi g line sent over by the
Senate last .week.
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A farmer was helping to “prop up”,
one of the stores on Main Street the
other day. He was complaining
about hard times, and the coyness of
banks about lending money to farm
ers. Upon being reminded of the fact
that he was a visitor in town only the
day before instead of “breaking” his
land in preparation for another crop,
he replied that he would be here “to
morrow an<3 the next day and the
next” and so on until he got some
money or something to eat. “And dere
yer is,” as Amos V Andy might
well remark. Think of it! A farmer
coming to town to “get something to
eat!”
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Pointing to the local bank, a towns
man remarked: “So far a s you’re
concerned, that bank is just like the
sun-dial—something to look at.”
Of course, all of this was spoken
jestingly, but there’s lots of food for
thought therein'.
I chose last Saturday night for that
hunt. It seemed to be mighty fine
Ipossum weather. The keen, biting
wind was from the east, and the
North Star was as bright as the
Farm Board, and the Milky Way had
practically tumed to clabber, and
that foretold good possum news. They
dearly love to ramble about on nights
like that.
I got to Cousin Bill’s house about 6
cheaper, but Bob jg worried to death ! °.Ql-fck and sat around, thinking, of
about high taxes, and says our county ^ course, that supper would soon be
could get along on half as much as | rea ^y* About i :30, Cousin Bill belch-
they are now spending.
Mr. Redd, the Filling Station Man:
“Yep, there’s a right smart of riding
going on yet. The young folks can’t
quit. Just swapped 10 gallons of gas
for that basket of egg s and that bag
of sugar. Gas is bearing a heavy
load: 6 cents tax, or about 40 percent
ed a few-times and said: “Them ham
and eggs and sausage I had for sup
per ain’t Getting well with me.” I
asked him what time he ate supper:
he said—“We aller* eat supper before
sunset.” That made me sick all over.
The Teachers and Their Salaries.
In common with other newspapers
in the State, The People-Sentinel is
not advocating a reduction in the sal
aries the school teachers, some 9,- 1
GOO, more" or less. But we are -op
posed to the State of South Carolina
guaranteeing them a minimum wage
of |90 a month, with a compulsory in
crease in salary of $5 per month for
every year that they teach in the
same school- up to five years. We
think these are matters that should
be left for settlement with the trus
tees and the teachers themselves. In
other words, we don’t think that every
teacher turned out by the educational
mills in South Garolina is worth $90
m month during big or her first year,
nor doe s it necessarily follow that he’
pr she is worth the 35 a month raise
Vach year thereafter.
If the teachers are to be guaran
teed a minimum wage, why not ex
tend it into private enterprise and fix
g minipium wage for clerks, for au
tomobile mechanics, or what have
you, and if the owner of the aforesaid
private business cannot affoij to pay
such a wage out of his earnings, then
cupply the deficit out of the State
treasury by direct taxation on the
people—including the teachers, if you
please. <
Russia fixes a scale of wages for
fcer workers—and compels them to
work.
After I was just about ready to gd
to sleep (10:30 p. m.), Cousin Bill
on the dollar, but folks never growl ' mad « > t* 111 statement that it wtfs about
about the ga s tax—its the house nnd| time for P° 8sum s to be tfin to prowl
farm tax. We have only 54 bad a‘°und for simmons Arrsoforth, and
checks on hand now. Drop ai ’ oun d ' a ^~
ajul let Ug fill your installmenT plan t**™*
some time.” —] asked him if he wassent going pa(
of the. way in the car, and he said-
“No, old fogy, come on.”
^ Mr. Blue, the Bench-Warmer: “Well,
this old country is gone to the dogs,
and Hoover done it. They are steal
ing the farmers cotton and com. I
look for a revolution if things don’t
get better. FiveW my younguns is
now out of a job, and we simply can’t
stand it. The State will soon own all
the land, and we folks will be slaves.
Cotter match?”
The News and Courier hits the nail
on the h^ad when it says that a man
can dig a good living out of the
ground for himself and his family,
but he canT make enough money to
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pay installments on an automobile and
keep the tank full of “gas. v ”
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BROWN & BUSH
Attorneys-at-Law
BROWN-BUSH
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BARNWELL,
SOUTH CAROLINA
PRACTICE IN STATE AND FEDERAL COURTS
NOTICE
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Against Hunting, Fishing and Trapping
Any person or persons entering upon the lands hereinafter referred tv
sitiiate in Barnwell, Richland and Red Oak Townships, for the purpose of
hunting, fishing or trapping, will be prosecuted to the full extent of the •
law:
Mrs. Flossie Smith 1,000
W. H. Duncan 405
Mrs. Kate M. Patterson 3,000
Duncannon Place 1,650
Mrs. Jane R. Patterson 1,000
Sweet Water Place 500
B. L. Easterling Cave Place 200
Barnwell Turpentine Co:
Simmons Place 450
Middleton Place x 300
Mose Holley 200
B. C. Norris 125
Harriet Houston 150 .
J. M. Weathersbee 572
Estate of H. A. Patterson.,2,000
Joseph E. Dicks -v- 800
R. Ci Holman * 400
A. A. Richardson 1,000
Lemon Bros.' 150
John K. Snelling 100
J., P. Harley 150
L. W. Tilly 100
John Newton J. 200
Tom Davis 400
Two Barnwell men motored to
Charleston Sunday, going by way of
Walterboro and returning by way of
Summerville.' They swear that they
didn’t see a hen or a hog over ihe
entire loute. Well, not quite as bad
as that, perhaps, but plenty bad
enough.
Many tenants—and landowners, too
—are robbing their lands of much
needed vegetable matter, besides
damaging their timber, by the annual
costly habit of setting fires promis-
cously in the fields, and woods, with
the mistaken idea that they are kill
ing boll weevils. Just what was the
reason advanced before the advent of
y.
the pesky pest.
Social and Personal
News from Williston
A member of the general assembly
ha s introduced a bill to abolish the
~ position of home demonstration agent
in the various counties of the State.
If the farms and farm homes decrease
«s rapidly in the future as they have
in the past, it is only a question • of
■ *ii f hnth agents an.l
the home demonstration agents find
themselves "all dressed up and no
place to go.” Of course, no one blames
these agents for the present depress
ed state of agriculture and it would
most unkind to suggest that in
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The republicans are hiding behind
the statement that—“This is a world
wide depression,” but the democrats,
while they admit that statement to be
true, say—“It certainly is a world
wide mess, but you all caused it with
your tariff bill, ansoforth.”
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Cotton Letter.
New York, Jan. 26.—Cotton eased
off 54 points on informatiqn from
Oklahoma to the effect that Mr. Carl
Williams had issued a report to his
Sunday School class that the acreage
planted to potton this year would be
38,888,888 instead of 52,999,999 as cir
culated by the Wall street bears. The
nearby months were easier about
noon, hut about that time—the far off
months fluctuated and reduced south
ern selling to interior straddling and
hedging. The longs are encouraging
the Drought Relief committee to pass
cut some dough immediately so that
they can catch the shorts, therefore,
we advise shorts.
We walked down through his 199-
acre pasture, pressed 6 wire fences,
entered a corn field and then entered
a cotton field and then turned to the
left. I asked Cousin Bill to wait a
minute till I tied my 2 shoes and pull
ed some briars and thoriis out of my
legs and hips. But he strutted right
on at about 45 mile g per hour. I hol
lered at him and asked him if there
.weren’t some possums in his own
State? (We were 23 miles from his
home by mid-night). ■
About 3:30.Sabbath morning, after
we had roamed through 7 different
townships, jumped 876 gullies, waded
through 56 big swamps, been hit in
the face by 9,999 saplings that. Cous
in Bill had, tumed loose, and tom two-
thirds cf my clothes off, old Towser
barked, and Cousin Bill shot towards
that bark like a bullet and left me in
the dark. , X ■ .
There seems to be but mighty few
chances, for world’s records this year.
The up-in-the-air-crowd was only’
excelled by the up-in-the-tree boys.
The English channel has been swum
both going and coming. Just any
body with any kind of machine can fly
uross the Atlantic. TW hoothyikobt-
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I finally found him and the other 3
dogs. It was a polecat. We diddent
see him, but that’s what she was.
We huntad on till I ought to have been
getting ready for church. We failed
to shine any possum eyes, or even
strike his scent. I had lost 22 pounds,
and had worn-out my best clothes and
shoes. My tongue was hanging out
and I diddent care whether F lived
or died. I got home at last and went
Vo bed, and woke up in time to go to
work Monday morning. Half of the
fools of our country are in the asyl
um, and the other half is off somc-
whefe* hunting possums- “fop sport.’
I insulted every customer we had thftt
beautiful Monday.
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TRY A BUSINESS BUILDER*
FOR SATISFACTORY RESULTS
Williston, Jan. 24.—Mr. and Mrs
A. >M Kennedy left Wednesday for
White Springs, Fla., where "they will
spend several days.
•%Jj(Juw.^Jjgs‘ 5 1 |s...Jvy nne dy sDent a few
home uf Mr. and Mrs. F. L _Hair.
Mr. and Mrs. Fii-haga Lee and
ch.idven, of Langley, war.* guests •-n
Furi"uy of Mr. and Mrs* L. R Ilu!r.
L-wis Grubbs, of Fahfijd, , n .a.,
ar.d Miss Laura Grubb:-, rf Ocala,
I!*., spent a few days the guest 3 of
Misses Inez Hair andx^tlanche Jow-
ers last week. , ■ .
Friends of Mrs. P. :•!. Hair wili
regret to learn that she is ill from
flu. »
-Marion Wall is quite ill at his
home here. It is hoped that he will
soon be well again.
It is a source of regret tp the nunir
erous friends of G. W. Greene to
learn that he i s confiend to his bed
with flu.
Mr. and Mrs. Arlie P. Scott and '
family spent Sunday afternoon with
Miss Ruth Scott, of Augusta.
Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Player and
Billy Patterson spent last, XJ-^k-end
in Mayesville. ' /
Miss Marguyftronna.^ j: -spent
several days inJapt 4 * k.
T. C. Spra^lA h B rtl .-j,' A,.. S®*
sey, of Aiken, "WeV^WW, Ada * da
Sprawls Sunday.
GKO. H. WALKER, Owner
ANGUS PATTERSON, Mgr.
TREASURER’S TAX NOTICE
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The County Treasurer’s office will be open from October. 15th, 1930,
to March 16th, 1931, for collecting 1930 taxes, which include real and
personal property, poll and road tax.
All taxes due and payable between September 15ih and December 31st.
1930r will b e collected without penalty. All taxe s not paid as stated will
be subject to penalties as provided by law:
January 1st, 1931, one per cent, will be added.
■, February 1st, 1931, two per cent, will be added.
March 1st to 15th seven per cent, will be added.
Executions will be placed in the hands of the Sheriff for collection af
ter March 15th, 1931. -
Wheij writing for amount of taxes, be sure and give school district if
property is in more than one school district. ,
All personal checks given for taxes will be subject ttrcollection.
19,626 Bales Ginned.
There were 19,626 hales of cotton
ginned in Barnwell County from the
crop ©f 1930 prior to Jan. 16, 1931, as
compared with 16,818 ^bales to the
same date a year ago, according to/a
report made public "ibis wgek }?y P, A.
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Sunday School Clas^ Enjoy Outing.
The little members of a Sunday
School class of. the ^Methodist
Chur©^ enjoyed a “Weinie roasts near
town Monday afternoon. The little
tots were accompanied by their teach
er, Miss Sarah Patterson and Mrs. R.
G. Herndon. ‘ -
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TSe commutation road tax of 33.00 must be paid by all male citizen*
between the ages of 21 and 55 years. All male citizens between the age*
of 21 and 60 years are liable to poll tax of 31.00.
Dog Taxes for 1930 wifi be* paid at the same time other taxes are paid.
It is the duty of each school trustee in each school district to see
that this tax is collected or aid the Magistrate in the enforeement of
the provisions of this Act. -
Checks wall hot be accepted for taxes' Under any dreumstaneba SJf*-
cept at the risk qf the taxpayer.—(The County Treasurer reserves the
right to hold all receipts paid by check until said checks have been paid.) >
Tax receipts will be released only upon legal lender, postoffice money
orders, or certified checks. . | W ‘ _/J. J. BELL, Co. TVeas,
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