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a ; B' PACE rout. ■ tr*'.' * THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL. BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JULY 16TH, 19S1. TWBarnwell People-Sentinel JOHN W. HOLMES 1S4#—1911. B. P. DAVIES, Editor mmi PropHetor. at the post office at Barnwell 8. C., as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Year |LM Months JO Months JO (Strictly la Advance.) THURSDAY. JULY' 16TH. 1931. Drunken*Auto Drivers. The licenses of 18 or 20 drunken au tomobile driver g have been suspended in this State recently as the result of activities on the part of highway pa trolmen. This is a small percentage, of course, of those who are driving cars while under the influence of li quor or narcotics, but it is a step in the right direction and a salutary warning to others that such practices mast be discontinued. The general public would not toler ate for one instant the employment by- the railroads of drunken locomotive engineers, and neither should we al low drunken automobile drivers to imperil the lives of others on the high ways. Many of the “unavoidable” ac cidents are the result of the reckless- ne»s of drunken men and women, and th f sooner this cla^g of driver is out- - lawed from the highways, the better * off we'll be. The People-Sentinel commends the highway patrolmen for their good work and we hope that they’ll keep it up until the road s are made safe. plants for the pond. attend our yearly reunions at'lowest ri ?./ I possible rate, with the best ticket __„She wanU me to go down to the: privilege. I commend the paper for farm and haul all of the big rocks the opposition you name. •' up to our house and pile them en the j The roads are our best friends. They sides of the driveway and path to are paying heavy-taxes to sssist in the garden. I guess ITI have to do the education of our children. Je they like everybody else. Ruin my back yard and bank account, and then are our best friends, let us stand by them. I beg to thank the good citi- have to tea r all of the junk out and sens of Barnwell, Allendale and Black- cart it away next year—when they ville for your manly stand against the go out of style. Railrosd Commission giving a license Kanapolis, N. C., July 2, 1931. Dear McGee: , What is your real name? How old' •re you? Are you married? How many children have you? What is your occupation, If any, betides writ ing? Please jmswer these questions to settle,an argument. Your friend, ZuZu. to the proposed bus line. You ire car rying out the Golden Rule. God will bless you. . Rah! for the ralTfthds, The People- Sentinel and our good friehds of Barnwell, Blackville and Allendale. 5" Uncle Nick. Dear ZuZu: (1) Ge e McGee.. Over 40. (3) Yes, are you? Wife and 1 have 2 between ua. Wholesale merchant, farmer school trustee. That settles it. tell me your real name. Your friend. (2) (4) (5) and Now The Taxes That Raifrcada Are Paying and How They Will Be Missed. enormous taxes as they are paying. If the laOroadg are not given relief by strict regulation of competition, then taxe s should be cut down two- thirds and they should be allowed to run only through freight and through passenger trains, cutting out both local freight and local passenger hauls on both of. which classes of business they are losing money. And when the railroads stop paying the enormous amounts they are into the coffers of the various county, State and municipal governments, there will be no difficulty in getting, legis latures to give them a fair deal. But then it will be too late.*-Augusta Chronicle. v HOPOCATRUC By G. Chalmers McDerroid. Gee McGee. When the people of this country wak e up to a realization of what they are doing in the failure to have bus and truck lines pay their just propor tion of the taxes and equalize these taxes with the railroads, then we will begin to get somewhere in the adju«t-. ment of the transportation situation. The Georgia legislature has . passed laws governing the operation^of bps j and truck line 9 and some people who have studied the question say that the bus arid truck owners who ar^‘ flat rock news. we bad a right bad wind storm last night which turned over yore corry spondent’s smoke .house, but as . ... . ..... . , .. , .w •» rigidly observing the lav* are paying thoie wassent annythmg in it, no- . . - _ , • . , , • taxes in sufficient amount, but many boddy got hurt, it allso damaged the - - , , are not living'Up tq the law, many aro "bootlegging” freight hauls and . , ... , . this is not only unfair to the truck teecner s setting place on her ros- # .J , ^ „. r ^ unfair to the railroads. In South Carolina there is the same agitation in regard to truck and bus comnetition with the railroads and scholl house annex, as it blowed a tree over on same and smashed iri^he i , . |. . , . ., .> line, that do pay, but is also grossly ttum, but scholl had been outfrweeks. « * crops’is showing some progress and mr. brown’s cotton has growed «econd mortgage on same saddsy to fix his ford up and get a number with, and him and his family worshipped A Columbia concern advertises steel desks'a s a mean< of protecting j over at ced« r lane and taken dinner we believe that sooner or later * the Interstate Commerce* Commis.-ion must take the matter in hand. The stenographers’ stockings. Is it possi ble that, in this hare-leg era, the fair stenographers of the capital city are so archaic that they still wear stock ings with his married darter whose hus band has not benn heard from since he got his bonus. commission now sees fit to deny the right of a group of people to build aj railroad froip one State into another when it will compete with an existing line and there is not enough business for both. Then Why not deny’ the right of bus lines to multiply when j; Nobody’s Business By Gee McGee. Have You a Lily Pond in Your Own Backyard? "My Town" has gone plumb daffy about backyard lily ponds, and my own dear.- darling, economical wife ha a got one in her head At last. She haa lily pond catalogue'* pouring in by every mail, and our rear-sittirig room is littered from center to cir- hen. jake smith, our local legis- later who lepper-ent* this county along with some others who ain’t, got ... .. , . ther.. may not be enough busines. to no more sense than he has, says that. ^ r un( jv taxes won’t go down unles* our State Sro ^° U ” , . . ' . , ,, .. ... .. The Chronicle knows the trucks and can get a deller gallon like him that u . .ill wt on the lid of the State treat.- bu *'* *" "** b,,t ,h ' ute .nd turn off the -ap .ucket, and [• llr0id ' C * n ““ t "> P** it Ik,Mi,h about two-third,, of all of- ""l' *" P*>' in «- «,ee, now afflict,nn the State, he w,th , ,h ' l * r * < ' CMt of "P k "P of cleared 2«0< at the last xenral *'? bi .* h ’**'* ass sembly. with depot agents *nd telegraph oper ators to pay, and live. In Barnwell ....the frojra („ the swamp haek of Co " nt), • S ' C ;. <*• railroad, pay 40 town ha, comment, to chirp all nipht '^ r t * x ” collfcted •>* and the mayor h’ benn petitioned * h » c °“ n, » * nd th ' B>rn *'" to drain the pond so’s folk s can sleep when they go to bed ansoforth. this Sentinel has this to say in regard to the attempts to get bus lines through cumfeience with models a nd designs frog bizness has been an eye sore for coun ^y- and descriptions. There ain’t any room in any of our backyards nowadays fo r the washpot and tubs. Th., chicken in dustry has suffered terribly because of this lily pond business. Why, half the folks can’t find a decent plac n to dump the ashes from their furnace, but nobody ain’t paying any atten tion at all to their front yards—that is—if they have a backyard, hut where there’s no backyard, lily ponds are* springing up in front yards years and years and eveiy new town coun-el we have promise^ to drain same befoar they get eleckted, but as soon as they cintch their jobs, they claim that no money is in the treas ure and that end* it. We hav e 2 case? jy/ yen y sad sickne-s in our mist at pressent. mr. owen moore was struck down with the roomy-tism in martch and the Seveial months ago The People- Sentinel had something to say in these columns relative to the unfair compe tition of bu*- lines against, railnads. At that time, application wgw'Ving I made for a license to operate a line from Augusta, Ga. t to Charleston, by way of Willigton, Blackville and Bam berg. with a connection at Blackville for Barnwell. We quoted figures showing that in Barnwell County the treasurer collected Jn 1929 taxes to- nlbors had to put in big ciop and as . , • u / ta|ln * $202,000, of which the rail soon as they got same in, his. wife, , ’ ’ . ' -- 1 roads paid $80,475, while the total A fairly respectable lily pond can be built for 75 dollars and T5 cents. On e woman diddent want to ask anyone how to construct a lily pond, so she set out to design and make her own, so she and 2 other darkies who knew a tiny bit about cement and marter, built one that was 7 feet deep (the normal depth of a nice one i 8 about 2 feet) and filled it with water, and that night her °ld man was trying to slip into the Ixmse thru the kitchen, and danged if he diddent fall in that thing and was almost drowned before a police man pulled him out. ..„~.My wife ha s figgered and figger- ■ed on her lily pool and has a list of the things she want* in it. I thought all I’d have to buy was a few plants and some other cheap water flora, but what you reckon; you hafter put something in them pools besides flow- erg ansoforth, and my wife has pick ed out from the catalogues the follow ing animal life, which must be in there also: 5 Japanese Snails -----— $4.50 6 Ramshorn Snails — 8.00 7 Salamanders 6.55 2 Water fish r - 5.30 8 Tadpoles 3.25 6 Assorted Snail 8 - 6.00 6 Gold Fish 6.00 2 Clams 2.00 Well, I think lily pools are all right, but it looks like it i s going to be cheaper for us to move off some- rather than make one of our own. Now, folks, besides all of them snails I tadpoles, it costg about 25 dollars cents to get the grass and rock ketched the hooping coff at a quilt in, .nd «he coff. »o mutch, .he ant * I mo “ n, 0, 1 '«"«‘' d “P *» bend over the stove to do the cooking, W "*. of ... tk. Mwikimr wfi,ch the railroads paid $72,045. In so the nabors i* doing the cooking, everyboddy wonder s why sh e diddent ketch the hooping coff when she was young so’s it wouldn’t hurt her so bad, a* jt is a child's disseaze. preeching will be hell a* usual at rehober next sunday and the pasture has posted* his texx on the black board on the left of the front steps to same and it will b?—“repent be foar it is everlastingly too late” that is the trouble with most of us we put off repenting till the doctor comes the last time and many have gone on . , ... , . .. . I vately owned passenger cars to their rewards without repenting at w ' , ^ , all, and that is bad .everybody in-' vited. yores, truke, mike Clark, rfd. corry spondent. %ffer4)o% Likens Bus to Boll Weevil. addition to this the several munici palities in the county collected more than $5,000 annually from the rail roads. • “Now the railroad commission has under consideration the licensing of bus lines from Augusta to Williston, from Blackville to Barnwell and from Columbia to Savannah by way o Blackville, Barnwell and Allendale. To grant these licenses will take addi tional passenger revenue from the railroads, which are already seriously crippled by the general use of pri- We have heard of no serious complaint re lative to train servic being furnished by the railroads in this immediate sec tion. AM of which being true, We can se e no good reason for the es tablishment of the bus line, the ve hicles of which operate ove r roads constructed and maintained by the automobile owners of the State, whereas the railroads are forced to build and maintain theij* own road beds. Then, too, we should ask our- ' selve s the question whether or not I spent an hour or more with Mr. C. F. Motair, of Barnwell, last week, and he showed me some of hi s watermel ons which had been fertilized with trigd potash fertilizers. They looked mighty fine, and I pre dict that a great many other melon farmeis will follow his lead bn fertili zation another season. , As far a* I remember it, the crop had 1,000 pounds of 8-5-7,'under it and wa s side-dressed with 350 pounds of 0-10-20. I stood in one part of the ‘field and counted, in a small area, 50 melons which would run well over 40 pounds each.' Crops like thi* are the kind AM of u 9 should have. Big yields of first quality products will bring home the bacon. We all realize that we must fertil ize rather heavily to make high yields, and Mr. Mofair has evidently, found out the plant food requirements for the soils of his melon fields, and has applied the right kinds of materials WsUlr-those requirements. Maybe if more of u 9 would really study our soils and our crops, we cflfld turn the red figures on our “bal ance sheets” into black ones. We must know what our soils need and what bur crop* require in the way of plant food before we can farm intelli gently. And these statements do not only apply to melons, jmt to cotton, com, field crops in general, truck crop*, or what have you. . ' I sent a crate of cantaloupes to an Atlanta friend the other day and here’s what he writes in thanking me: "Was down in South Georgia the oth er day and saw little negroe 9 selling lopes on the roadside. They were about as big as a buckshot. We have sampled the ones you sent and the ‘epicure’ pronounces them A-l—COL OSSAL grade.” . . . Guets our friend must have mixed his asparagus and his potatoes to think up a grade like that. If his Georgia ’lopes looked like buckshot, th e ones I sent must have looked like cannon balls,—they weie "24 s. But speaking of asparagus. I hope that all you “grass growers” will find time to "lay down the shovel and the hoe” and attend the asparagu 9 meet ing at Williston on July 30th. The Potash Company is sponsoring this "field day” program and will seive a barbecue after the discussions. Our good friends, Capt. Bill W alsh, Judge Kitchingsr Raymond Pender, R. J. Rountree and Alex Weimortz are looking afte r the ’cue, so you know it will be good. If you don’t get a printed invitation don’t think that it is not because I forgot you. It is almost an Impossi bility to get the names of all the “gras* growers” of the State, and maybe I just didn’t happen to have. *3 PLEASE PUT ALL BOTTLES OUT DAILY. PURE AND SANITARY Jersey Milk it is a wise policy to kill off con- Estill, S. C., ^ily 10, 1931.—Mr. jeems that pay such a substantial Editor: Last we^'s issue of The amount pf State,^bunty and munici- Feople-Sentinel gave us one of the pal taxes and get in return a system best timed editorials on the bus sys-1 of-transportation that may be inade- tem and the railroad*. Mr. Davies j quate* and that certainly will not >pay has done a public service. He merits ■ anything like the amount of revenue • TESTED CO$^ STERILfcED CONTAINERS Early Delivery—for Breakfast. Not Just Milk, but Quality Milk and Cream. the approbation of the public and the raods. The bus is the boll weevil that afflicts the country like the bug that destroys the/cotton. The rail- heavy taxes im^secfon them, h^ul the fertilizer for the farmer, rush your into the public treasury. Nor wil it furnish local employment for large number of people, as is the case with the railroads.” neflBte of this country that railroadg cannot continue to lose bucines 9 to compet- sick companion to the hospital, let the ing lines that do not pay a full share See Deliveryman on Streets of Barnwell or drop us a card. ——— . . -—- . Appledale Dairy, L. C. FOWKE, LYNDHURST Mrtwpiiiiimn PLEASE PUT ALL BOTTLES OUT DAILY. old Veterans, their wive 9 and children, of taxes and continue to pay such - - -- »..• •w" i • V. * * ' • l\ »_ * • ^ Bank No. 260 Statement of the Condition of , Hm Bank % of Western CaroHaa, Located at Barnwell, S. (V at the close of business June 30th, 1931. j± : . j RESOURCES. V Loans and Discounts $281,486.64 Cash on hand and due from Banks v— 34,480.30 Checks and Cash Items 170.81 TOTAL $316,137.75 . LIABILITIES. Individual Deposits Subject to Check - .$130,175.64 Savings De posits 97,271.30 Cashier’s Checks ..785.56 —228,232.50 Due to Head Office, Aiken, S. C. 87,905.25 TOTAL $316,137.75 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Barnwell. ss. Before me came Perry A. Price, Manager of the above named bank, who, being duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement it a true condition of said hank, as shown by the hooks of said bank. T>ERRY A. PRICE. • Sworn to and subscribed before me this 7th day of July, 1931. JAS. JULIEN BUSH, Notary Public for S C. Correct Attest: W. J. Lemon, M. B. Hagood, Directors. Bank No. 262 Statement of the Condition of The Bank of Western Carolina, Located at Blackville, S. C., the close of business Juhe 30th, 1931: RESOURCES, .-r- Loans and Discounts -—--$273,931,17 C *Srs h ‘.' ,d .‘ nddUe - , -° ra 2W09.47 Checks and Cash Items 206.85 Expense A -v . ' TOTAL - $296,730.58 • ‘LIABILITIES. Individual Deposits Subject to Check $93,098.35 Savings De- » posits 135,085.70 Cashier’s Checks 1.25 Cashier’s Checks ..772,11—228,957.41 Due to Bad Office: ' Aiken, S. C. 67,773.17 TOTAL $296,730.58 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Barnwell. ss. Before me came Thos. L. Manager of the above named bank, who, being duly stforn. says that the above and foregoing statement ta a true condition of said bank, as shown by the books of said bank. » THOS. L. WRAGG. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 8th day of July, 1931. . - - S. G. LOWE, Notary Public for South Carolina. Correct Attest: H. B. Grimes, Herman Brown, • Directors. CONDENSED STATEMENT OF BANK OF WESTERN CAROLINA AT CLOSE OF BUSINESS JUNE 30.'1931. ASSETS Bills Receivable - Banking Houses ~ — Real Furniture Ca< inking Houses .... „ - ;al Estate — — ’St/nsT imiture and Fixtures "-’quc'Za : -h on Hand - - $3,784,240.67 LIABILITIES. Capital Stock ....— ———— — Surplus - —— —-— ‘ Undivided Profits —... Reserve Fund • -— - Deposits: Individual Savings r * Certificates of Deposit - — Certified Checks ........ Cashier’s and Manager’s Checks - Other Bank* I .., Bills Payable $ 289,300.00 201,100.00 •’ 39.439.2* 25,300.00 $1,207,589.01 1,708,248.08 4.050.00 2,028.75 4,853.57 —2,926,769.41 2.338.98 300,000.00 $3,784,240.67 yours. It’s going to be the biggest aspara- gUg meeting ever held in the South, and you’re going to hear plenty about the value of high feitilization of as paragus. Come, if you can. dwords Into Plowshares If swords are to be l»euten Into plowshares and spears into pruning books, where must that work begin? It must begin in the individual heart —J. H. Jowett. 666 LIQUID OR TABLETS Relieves a Headache or Neuralgia in 30 miuntea. checks a Cold the first day, and checks Malaria in three days. 66b SALVE FOR BABY’S 'COLD. TRY A BUSINESS BUILDER FOR SATISFACTORY RESULTS RUN DOWN and WEAK **1 began tak ing Cardul when in A weakened, run-down condition,” writes Mrs. F. 8. Perrlt, of Wesson, Miss. "I took one bot tle, and X seemed to In)- prove so much that I sent for six bottles. Af ter X had taken the six bottles, I seemed entire ly well “Before I took Car dul, X was nervous, rest less, blue and out of heart X felt depressed all the time. After I took Cardul, all this disappeared. -“T fare my daughter Cardul and It helped to ftUere irregular . . , This mart Irina has baan usad bjr women for over 10 year*. Tok Helps Women to Health 1 Taka Thadforffs Blade-Draught far Constipation. Indigestion, and Biliousness. INSURANCE FIRE, _ WINDSTORM PUBLIC LIABILITY ACCIDENT - HEALTH SURETY BONDS AUTOMOBILE THEFT Calhoun and Co. P. A. PRICE. Manager. Low Sunday - Excursions - One Cent Per Mile Traveled Between All points 150 miles or less. Good in coaches only. Return limit date of sale. •WEEK-END TICKETS. ONE AND ONE-FIFTH FARES ROUND TRIP. . All points^ Southeast. Sold o n Fridays, Saturdays and Sunday morn ing trains. Return.limit Tuesday fol lowing. TEN DAY COACH EXCURSION • ONE AND ONE-TENTH FA REWOUND TRIP. All points in Southeast. Sold Fri days, Saturdays and Sundays. Consult Ticket Agents SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM - Travel by Train. Economical—Comfortable—Safe TRY A BUSINESS BUILDER FOR SATISFACTORY RESULTS BROlWN & BUSH Attorneys-at-Law BROWN-BUSH BUILDING BARNWELL, JSOUTH CAROLINA ipiliH'ljiiiilUillHiii 1(11! I 1 PRACTICE IN ST ATTEND FEDERAL COURTS m X ,1, * "X »« ■■■I