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•j r* • ■ . 4-- c rAOB TWO. THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL* BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA ■*—’ * '' / ■ ^ * ' • # ' . --—. THURSDAY. JV Tk«Barnwell People-Sentinel JOHN W. HOLMES 184#—It 11. Bl'P. DAVIES, Editor oad Proprlotor. Eatorod at tho post office at BarnwoU . S. C., at Mcond-dasa matttr. ^ SUBSCRIPTION RATES: itao Year 8L80 Six Months — JO Ursa Months JO (Strictly la Adraacs.) THUI&DAY; JULY SOTH, 1M1. , \ Nobody’s Business By Gee McGee. Politic. Versus Business. The public is indeed a funny ani-* naal. A few weeks affo, Johnson and Johnson, manufacturers, discharged their bookkeeper, a Mr. Brown, if you p)ea.«e. They simply decided that Mr. Brown was not entirely satisfac tory to the firm. And that’s why they let him go. The public said: “I am sorry for Mr. Brown.” The Town of Boxville saw fit to turn off Mr. Smith, Chief of Police. Mr. Smith was not rendering satisfac tory services, «o said the city coun cil, and they simply decided to let him go. Immediately the public rose up in all its fury and madness ind sard: ‘‘Thou shalt not turn Chief Smith off.” — Petitions — praying that Mr- Smith be returned td^ serve Boxville as its Chief of Police—were being circulated freely in every nook and comer of the town and folks were fighting one another to sign them. Telephones were clinking from every household that Mr. Smith be taken back and his salary doubled. Ser mons were being preached—boosting Mr. Smith to the skies, and much tur moil was being created because Chief Smith had been returned to private lift. time, rain or shine. I carried about 150 pounds of tools, such as pumps, jacks, jills, monkey wrenches, screw drivers, cold chisels, hammers, saws, vices, mauls, wedges ropes, chains and many other things that were then essentials in trip-taking. I also carried a hoe, a ditching shovel, a pick, a maddock, and 2 pitchforks. The best roads we had back then were not near as good as our very worst gullies today, and getting stuck meant getting stuck and staying stuck then—unless you could ditch' yourself out. ....We got started by sun-up. The fan belt broke the first mile, the brake lining burnt out the second mile, the oil leaked out the third mile, a mud hole got us the fourth mile, 6 punctures took place during the fifth mile, a stump hung us up the seventh mile, we ate lunch the eighth mile, and then we drove 9 miles before having other troubles, and then a wheel ran off. We scared 5 mules and 6 horses and 8 wimmen fice last week. tations sent out included 1038 names. If you didn't get one, Mr. Asparagus Grower, it is just because I didn’t have your name—but you’re welcome just the same. It looks like we are going to have Dr. Harper with us after all. Many growers will be disappointed if he desn’t come, and the requestg that I urge him to come and make a talk have run into th^ hundreds. Dr. Harper was for~many years head of the .agricultural department at Clemson College. Later he ac cepted a position with the National Fertilizer Association, and 8 till later he became Director of Research for the NV Potash Export My. He i s one of the best liked men in the fertilizer business in South Caro lina, and numbers his friends by the thousands among both farmers and fertilizer manufacturers. Editor W. W. Smoak of the Press and S'tandard i s conducting a ’’big gest watermelon” contest in Colleton County, and he surely had five of the biggest melons I ever saw, in his of-. and 12 cows half to death the next 3 miles. finally landed and got dusted off and washed up. Our car looked like it had been dragged "through a cyclone of dirt and mud. The cous- Hzation, and how many melons they The largest of these melons weighed a little over 62 pounds. It would be interesting to get the growers of these melons to tell the story of how they raised them—what verities, and strains of seed they used, what ferti- in g all thought we wer e rich and some I made per acre,—and maybe how much of them sat in the car nearly all day.: money they m4de from an acre. Wc had a nice visit and started home J Maybe some other newspapers the next day and landed just about 0 f t), e State are conducting similar dusk. We were completely worn, out, contests. Anyhow, Editor Smoak and so was the car. Afte r that, we i w j|| give a years subscription to the did not venture very far And I ain’t Pregg and Standard to the person had much money since I bought that, w h 0 raise* the bigge-t melon in Col- first car, and haven’t had any at all since I bought our last one, Affidavits were flying into the city council—setting forth the fact that Chief Smith had never been drunk while on duty and that he had never knowingly shielded a boot- logger—and that he was a loyal, obedient, faithful servant and that no man upon the face, of the earth, or in the cloud* above, or living be neath th e earth, was fit to take Chief Smith’s job and render service* wor thy of the Town of Boxville. Hurrah for Chief Smith, the finest chief that ever chiefed. Boxville continued to roar and rave—becau-e the city council de cided that Chief Smith was no longer a suitably man to look after the town’s delinquents! Money was lais- ed by public subscription to hire a lawyer and fight for Mr. Smith’s job —for Smith. The members of the council were cussed from dam-to-beer- cheaper. Women even joined in the belly-baloo. At last reports the public was still clamoring for Chief Smith’s ijinstatment, but nobody in Boxville was worried about Mr. Brown, a much better man, losing bi § job—except hi* poor wife and 5 little children. Our First Automobile. About 20 years ago I bought my first automobile, and it was the 3rd automobile eve r owned by anybody in our little town. It was a beauty. It bad gas head-lights and kerosene side lights. The tires on it were guaran teed for 1,000 miles. Its horn was of the squeeze bulb type. And It could pull most any ordinary hill in low, • 1. remember distinctly how we planned for our first long trip. We made up our minds to drive to my wife’a cousin’s one Sabbath and spend the day and night with them. It was 42 miles from our house to their bouse, and we woulddent think of trying to go that far and return in a single day. Of course, the old boat would make 15 or 16 miles in per fect safety, So the man who sold it said, but w e wern’t fools enough to risk such speed. •• We began to get things ready a* ctrly os Thursday. My wife bought a long, flowing autc-veil and real# for the trip. It would wave a <»ng beh»ml her as var as from here to the kitchen. I got big eye-gcggles for each one of ua, including the baby girl and then I bought me a nice linen duster and nothing would do the wife and baby but thev must have linen dusters, too, to be in style. We rode With the top down nearly all the leton County, and his idea is a good one. What’s the weight of the largest flat rock events. melon you raised this summer, Mr. there i* some talk of organizing R e «der? We’d like to know, just .out of curiosity. Mr. Farmer, your county agent is planning a Farm Tour for your coun ty for some time in the next 30 days. I went on *everal of these Tours last summer—notably Orangeburg, Beaufort. Jasper and other counties, a w^m muni-cipple rac e took an< j j en j 0 yed every one of them. 1 place last week when a new town Your county agent, in arranging counsel was eleckted to take the , ^ese Tours, is trying to show you the tains of offis fo r the ensuing year, interesting “high spots” in farming there was 2 flatforms, vizzly: .the j n your county, and as hi* loyal sup- pool-room flatform, which was in porter, you should back him up and favor of pool-rooms, and the anti- ma )(e the trip with him. He wants pool-room flatform, which was against you. same, but they earned. a new ku klux klan here onner count of someboddy stealing so manny chickens, and if they do, a certain crowd wKo lives south cf town won’t have such a big appetite for chicken pie. a petiahion was circulated ar- On Education Board. ound tby a boy) last week and all of j J. V. Matthews, of Blackville, has the free holder* was asked to sign been appointed by Governor Black- ‘ame and ask our citty fathers to wood as a member of the board of buy a pump for the publick well in stead of a bucket which is all the time falling in same, and the citisons, as well as other live stock, haster go without watte r for hour* at a time when the bucket i* off. the 2 soft drink stands would not sign up. education of Barnwell County to succeed C. J. Fickling, who resigned some time ago to accept the position of post master at Blackville. Mr. Matthews has always taken a keen interest in school affairs and should be a valuable addition to the board. the resent slump in canty lopes ketched the widder smith in the mid dle of a bad fix. she was holding her 1 crop for a price of 3 for c25—when they comments to get too ripe to keep, *he put them on the market, but low and behole, she found that a truck load had come in from down the State and he was selling same at 3 for clO. !-he is sorry now that ahe hell same and has swore off of truck farming and will go back *,o hens. a tooth dentist is figering on opening up a shop here and has been looking at the room over the pdst effis for a place to locate, the post master says he will not complain if there ain’t too much hollerin’ upstgirs,. but he says h e i* a painless tooth dentist and the only way a patient can tell that her tooth is out i 9 to put her tung in the hole, we hope he will move in soon, as yore corry spon- dent needs him bad for & plate. a big milk fight is now on betwixt the 2 dairies here and they have cut th e price to clO a quart to the drug store and ell to folks, the milk do not seem to have as mutch cream on it a* it did befoar it was cut and it would appear to a man on a log that the ccws is drinking entirely too mutch watter. ted smith, the town, joker, eays the milk would be butter with less, if it goe s anny lower, we will hafter get it inspected, i will rite or foam a collum for next week. res trulie, e Clark, rfd. corry spondent. 6 6 6 LIQUID OK TABLETS Relieves a Headache or Neuralgia in 30 miuntes. checks a Cold the first day, and checks Malaria in three days. 66G SALVE FOR BABY’S COLD. 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 t ' All points 150 miles or less. Good in coaches only. Return limit date of sale. J r e HOPOCATRUC By G. Chalmers McDermid. WEEK-END TICKETS. ONE AND ONE FIFTH - FARES RQUND TRIP. All points .in southeast.. Spld o n Fridays, Saturdays and Sunday morn ing trains. Return limit Tuesday fol- This is the week of the big Aspai^ agus meeting in Williston. My pre diction is that; over 500 people wilt attend the meeting, and if so, it will be just about the largest asparagus meeting ever held in the South. Every asparagus grower, in the State is invited and the list of invi- TEN DAY COACH EXCURSION ONE AND ONE-TENTH ' FARE ROUND TRIP.. All. .points, in Southeast. Sold F-ii- | days, Saturdays and Sundays. Consult Ticket Agents SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM Travel by Train. Economical—Comfortable—Safe THERE is a certain amount of business in . ' ♦ ' § your trade territory. If you do not get your • • • share, it will go to some other merchant who is putting forth a little extra effort to in- , * • . • crease his sales. The merchant who does 0 • not advertise is paying the advertising bill of the merchant who is increasing his sales and profits by advertising. BARNWELL has its trade territory. In this territory a certain amount of money is spent each year. The merchant who is get ting the bulk of this business is the merchant who is inviting customers to visit his store in well-prepared and attractive advertise ments. MERCHANTS in other counties may be invading Barnwell territory. Th^y may be taking advantage of fast automobiles and paved roads to draw trade to their towns'*. The Barnwell merchant who doesn’t adver- ♦ • ‘ 4 '• — . * * ‘ * '* * tise is not only paying the advertising bill of his competitor in the outside town but is losing the. business that legitimately be- # * • * longs to him. THE WORLD is full of - business if you -J^now how to go after it. Many merchants have actually increased their volume of * » p * business during the present depTession. They have taken it away from their com- competitors - by judicious advertising. V v r -