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- tAGM TWa |l TWBarnwU People-S«itmel THE BARNWELL PE0PLE>8ENTINEL t BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, pCTOBER 8, 1931. JOHN W. HOLMES 1849—If11. ^ B. P. DAVIES, E4lUr and Proprietor. Entered 8. C., futures brok^ 25 points, and the farm board said—‘T told you so.” Cotton is so low in South Georgia that the boll weevils won't fool with it and hive shifted to turnips, however—the red spider i* still- red. * Some Texas farmers contend that they can still buy 4 gallons of whiskey with one at the post office at Barnwell ^7 \ . T . r M .. M Mcond-clui nutUr. b * le ot rotton - * nd th * t '• •" “■V could do last year. Wall street and the Russian 5-Year Plan were quiet today. / We advise holding till your “holt” breaks, then grab a new one. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Six Months JO Three Months ,50 (Strictly In Advance.) THURSDAY. OCTOBER 8, 1931. We have noted only minor chang es in the wearing apparel of “mi lady” for the fall. Skirtg seem to be just the least bit thinner and possibly Road openings and bank closings on***°»rth of an inch shorter. They seem to be the order of the day. Is w,n of cour8e wear about the sam | that cause and effect? COTTON PRODUCTION By E. B .Ferris. Regardless of the immediate out- quantity of underclothes, where neces^ conM! of the P re8ent Station about sary, but the colors prevailing in such How some of us continue to support garments lean str^igly toward pale .an automobile in the style to which P ink and ,i » ht « re€n - Coraet8 that it is accustomed i 8 one of the modern sUrt b « ,ow the WP* and stop before 1niracle 8 of this age of depression. Nobody’s Business they r each above them are being fea tured for women suffering from obes ity or promiscous fatness. The hats are all alike and about the size of a 60-cent piece, but being made of cot ton, they jost about $9.98 when made of wool or rabbit fur. Why Time tt Are So Hard. 1 was loafing around in the kitch en the other night and I discovered something that I had no business of can b * the firman, conductor, bag- If the railroads succeed in get ting a 15-per cent advance on their already present war-time freight rates, they can reduc e their expenses materially, fo r instancvrtfle engineer discovering. I picked up a little paper K a K c master, porter, and superintend poke that came from our grocer. It! <nt of r°«*dway. He can run his en- . contained 2 little can** of liquid choco- 8 int ‘ a few then sto P aml firc late (35c), 1, little cake of Swiss , U P* and chwk U P the #rei T ht crate xheese (4(k ), tiny jar of crushed of tombstone,, and 2 sacks of cement), •green peas (25c), and 3 small contain- and then K** 1 back in and K° on into era of salad dressing (69c), all charg- ' town * No railroad- agents or switch ed to me. in* engines will be necessary, as the I trucks will haul all of the freight 1 looked further into the present that carriea anything like paying cost of high living, and found that r« venue - we were eating breakfa«t bacon, 45 cents a pound, and drinking tomato There is much rumbling beneath juice, 25 cent- a pint, feasting on the political horizon. Everybody is chipped beef, 30 cents for 4 ounces, mad. Our cities, States, counties and sopping maple syrup with pancakes,' schocl districts are head-over-heels $1.25 per quart, plus pancake flour at in debt. Ext^nvagance and waste $18.35 per barrel, and then I observed continue with uninterrupted perfec- that one of the burners on the electric ti'.n. Tax money is di-hed out for range wa s running in high, $3.75 per just any old purpose. Some thinking Social and Personal only 6 cents a pound.-.; They need not worry about us; If we can keep our , _ factories running, and we can; and - ', News from Williston cut out installment buying for * few weeks, and liv e within ou r means x which is easy—if we try, we will get along fine. Our bread line 8 are going to be few^and short and if ther folks working for us see that we ain’t mak ing any money, they will agree to work for Ies 8 without throwing any bombs. The North can’t do a thing Jill poverty forcSs Union Labor to work for what industry can afford to pay and keep running. cotton price.*, the fact remains that in the end the producer who can grow it at the cheapest price per pound will survive, and the one who cannot grow it at lts 8 than the cost of pro duction will either go into bankruptcy o r ' be compelled to modify his meth ods. The fact must be recognized that the cotton belt of the South has al ready been radically changed within the past feat years; % Not many years ago two-thirds of our cotton was grdWn east .of the Mississippi river, largely because land settlement was^ made from the east toward the west and not because soil and climate were Williston, Oct. 3.—Hr. and h^rs. A. K. Shealy left this week for Bath, where Mr. Shealy will take up duties with the Aiken County Store: at that place., Mr. and Mrs/Jennings Woodward, of Aiken, visited Mrs. Woodward’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Folk, here Wednesday. Miss Mary Robinson, of Rowes- ville, is visiting her sister, Mrs. W. T. Willis. i K. M. Thompson, Dr. and Mrs. -W. j Cone and Mrs. Lizzie Dicks attended j the funeral of Mrs. Dick’s sister, Mrs. Sanders, in Walterboro, Wednes^y. Cecil Quattlebaum left Sunday for Spartanburg, where he will attend Rohinsoii'g Business College. Gordon Davis - is spending this week in (Charleston. Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Wagener* and son, L. L., Jr., left Thursday for their home, in Washtrrg^on, D. C., after an extended visit to Mr. and Mrs<%M. N. Ahl. Among those attending th e Caro- lina-Duke game in Columbia Satur day wsrc^J. M. Lee, Walter Davis nnd W. C. Smith, Jr. « . Mrs. Julia Sanders, of Fairfax, is * spending some time here With her daughter, Mrs. Bessie Brabham. OF CROPS; * NO MONEY IN TEXAS better adapted to. growing cotton. In ' fact, the reverse is likely true. The PLENTY we t did net grow so much cotton in 1 th e beginning because population was fcarce and the lands had to be han- j A -former citizen of Bamberg, now died in a way to utilize the most land residing in Texas, writes a friend 100 k. w. h. men *ay that the only thing to do is to sweep out, clean up, and start over. But that would break up thous- All of the — .About that time, somebody turn ed the hot water spigot in the bath- [ an da of happy families, room and ipnmediately an automatic pie that i 8 distributed in mcst'States hot-water gas beater in the basement distrilmted among less than 25 get busy, $2.00 per 1000 cubic feet,' families. It is an inter-locking ma- and then the phone rang, $3.40 per chine, month in advance, and then I parsed over to the kitchen sink and closed the faucet that was pouring a nic e sized Down South Versus Up North. rtream of water through the waste I am glad I live in the South. As pipe, 86 cent 8 per 1000 gallons. a rule, we are mostly poor folks dow-n Suddenly I realized that the elec tric light in the pantry wa 8 burning, 1 t J kt . (ip U8 10 cents per k. w. h., and before I here, but when hard Jimes come, we don’t freeze to death for lack of fuel, a* the sun furnishes almost enough warm. -Cotton and other with the fewest people, therefore, here alxjut conditions in his State, m they first came into use as grazing part as follows: ground for livestock. . _ • | -The cotton season is in full blast Western lands with a lower rain- here with abundance of other crops fall are better adapted to cotton than and no bank debta for the current to grass, th« reverse being true with year. It looks as though our section the soils of the east. So it is that, will soon be in go: d condition again the southeast has gradually lost its provided cotton pickers can be ob- supremacy in cotton production to i tained at 50c per hundred pounds, the southwest and the chances are I The Mexicans are debarred new and that thft supremacy of the southwest we have no negroes. Many of these will giadually increase. Cotton i 8 a Texans can pick 500 pounds in a dry weather plant, its WQj-it enemies ( i ay , and there is worlds to pick. The being gras* and excessive moisture,| charge for ginning is $4.50 per bale. It is well known lhat grass, the’bagging and ties extra; cotton seed cheapest food for livestock, grows M ||i nK at $8.00* a ton. Mbat of thei more luxuriantly as moisture in- ginneries will make $15,000 per sea- creases, so it would «eem a logical conclusion that .southern farmers should as rapidly as possible reverse po* it ions as between the southeast and the southwest, substituting live stock for cottan in the one cotton for livestock in the other. son. “Many of our farmers have gather- (ed a 8 much as 75 bushels of oats to $he acre on volunteer oats, the same jhaving been pastured until Christ mas. The corn and maize crops were also enormous »* well as the wheat We Deliver -: iPhone Us Specials foi* Saturday COFFEE, Unity SpeciaLBlend, pound 23c WESSON OIL, pt. can 25c RICE, long whole gf&in, 7 lbs. for . . . 25c SUGAR, 10 pounds, loose 49c BACON, rib side, pound -.10c SALAD DRESSING, R S. pt. jar . . . 19c TOMATOES, No. 2 can, 2 for . . . . 15c PORK and BEANS, 2 cans for . . . . 15c SALMON, Buster Pink 10c MATCHES, ten penny boxes for . . .. 5c LARD, 8 lb. bucket for 80c SALT, two 5c packages for ^ ..... Sc GRITS, medium or fine . . . -. peck for 30c MACARONI, half-lb. package for ... 5c MAYONAISE, Duke’s black label pt jar 33c GARDEN PEAS, S.C. packed, No. 2 can 15c COOKED BRAINS, large can .... 15c OAT MEAL, quick or plain, 2 pkgs. for 15c CORN FLAKES, 3 packages for . . . 25c PINEAPPLE, Premier No. 2 ,/ 2 can . . 25c GELATINE, all flavors, 2 pkgs. for. . .15c Soap, o. k. bar . 5c Coffee, Rio, lb. 15c Unity Grocery Stores, Inc. BARNWELL and BLACKV1LLE I 1 -TREASURER’S TAX NOTICE knew it—the Ford rolled out ef the front yard, gap and tax, 19 cents per gallon and a fe>y minutes later the stuff are cheap, but rent is low, and we ar e all good to one another. Uni:n labor is a fin? thing when theatre collected $1.20 from 3 peraon* tlmes are Rcod and work i8 plentiful, who wanted to see -“Three-fingered We hapFKin not to h . ve much union Pete bite the dust,” and then I peeped Iab0r in the Southf therefore . we can mto the larder that is, the storage adjust our8elves to a bad Coition room ' without a fight. Union labor, won’t stand for a wage cut—regardless of .. — .Now our storage room is "here i bui ,j ne9s con djti 0 ns; they’d rather #ee we keep thing, to eat. I found a haIf their brother8 turned off and piece of meet for boiling. Id cents ■ jorfi^than permit their wages to pound, 24 P und, of flour, 60 cents, ^ cut so . s more foIkg can work and a peck of corn meal, 17 cents— As a matter of fact, this is what crops. A peculiar condition exists has been gradually done without here . A ia rKf . 8Ur pi Ug of oats, maize, much premeditation # on the part of w heat, corn, cotton, livestock (cattle, the land owner 8 in either section. ^At sheep and goats), -pnd yet no money lea-t,’ it has been done in the south- j j n the ba nds of the farmers. These west. The trend of production with people have a)-o canned up vegeta- all cultivated crops i 8 from smaller to, b | e8f fr^g and ‘meat: sufficient to larger units and on account of topo- ] a8t two years.”—The Bamberg Her- graphy the eastern part of the belt a j di does not lend itself to the use of — labor-saving devices. But its heavier *>»o»»*>OH but we never eat much of that kind of stuff. Evidently we don’t like plain (so-called) coars P food—as we were raised on it. I saw that the cook, T7.00 a week and the nurse, $4.00 a week, had been too busy to keep things spick and span about the bouse. 1 never said nothing. I came on It will take the North 5 years to get. through the depression, but we can make it in 1 year—meaning, of course, after conditions begin to im prove. Southern people pull together better than folks in other sections of Jhe country. We are not blessed (?) with foreigners who spurt forth radi calism and stir up strife. We have our ups and downs, but we soon drift c Wl and listened at a radio, *250.00,; b>ck , # reMon , nd are willing to be- gin all over again. then pulled off my things and put on 1 toy night shirt, 49 cents, and went to bjed and covered up with a iayon bed Cheap crops have kept us from -qnUt, *5.90. In 2 hours I wa, dream-, ha ; ing rauch money , 0 rttt|e- bot ,ng about why times are bard and. hay( , t0 Mt >nd |enty t0 what a task it ia to moke a living w ,.r. and a man can almost live out these d«y.-and old man Trouble | in V eSoulh for 10 montha in ^ slipped over mid whispered into my * - , „ ... ye*r an d not suffer -very much, the -‘Sonny, you am t trying to live at. • ... ' . ... , , , North is waiting for good times within your means; why don t you . . . , J J J return; the South is making good watch your dime s and stop your ex rjT travmgance?” Then I wok e up and went to thinking, but I can’t make any changes. I’m married. times hurry on. If our men can’t get a jcb at $10.00 a day, most of them are willing to work (in order * bat their families might have food and clothes) at $8.00, or $6.00, or $4-00, or $2.00, or even $1.00 if necessary. For Reading Purpoees Only. Most doctors are reasonable in.th.eir charges. A yea r or so ago, Dr. Cut- T —..The North has all of the money, !*■>: jMk '--e ter operated on a drunk patient who; it is true, but it is in the hands of tried to run his Ford on one part of only a few families. They have poor gU and two-parts corn juice, and' folk 8 up there in good times, and thm mistake—he amputated the 1 now they have them by the millions. leg. But just as soon as he The reason the North hatf so much ' »" w itaad out hlTmistake he removed the money is due to the fact that we send "lilfr!- lift without remuneration. Cotton Letter. them «U-4)f ouraier an»tnwabilea»i—dt' os, clothing, shoes, hats, clocks and almost everything else we get except turnip-greens and poke sallet. Eg £ V New York, Sept. 26.—In sympa- i fbj with the efforts made by the vnriotw legislatures duly f assembled .Til .Some folks up North are wonder- 1 ] of land between the southeast $10.00 per head per day—to control ing what the poor Southern folks are acreage for 19 and 32, July J going to do thi, winter with cotton lainfall does favor a more luxuriant growth of grass which may easily be utilized by livestock regardless of the broken surface. On the other hand, most of the' western land is level and may be worked with labor- saving implements in a* large units as desired and with much less effort to keep down grass. If cotton is to sell in future at les a than te^ cent* per pound, it will have to be grown with less man power and possibly harvested in a similar manner, as machines for so doing are gradually perfected. At leart the situation resolves it self into one wherg the cotton grow ers of each territory must give mere consideration to natural advantages, the one planning gradually to in crease its livestock and the other well on the way to increasing its cot ton. Millions of acres in West Texas and Oklahoma have already been so changed, gieatly increasing Ameri can production despite the spread -cf the boll weevil that at one time threatened its destruction. If the world were able to absorb the l*ve- atock onca-gaawn otki these millions western acres, it seems reasonable to 8 that it might, also absorb at fair prices what might be produced from an equal area in the southeast that should be taken away from cot ton. Possibly, much of the recent in crease in cotton production in for eign fields ha* been brought about by the handicap placed on American production by the boll weevil, which in a large part of the cotton belt ex acts an annual toll of 25 per cent of the cotton planted. It is well known that the boll weevil can be easily con trolled when the weathe r remains dry throughout the growing season of *cufctou. 11 In - B UTSINESC riLDERO The County Treasurer's office will he open from September 15th, 1931. to March 15th, 1932, fo r collecting 1931 taxes, which include real and personal property, poll and road tax.« . * All taxes due and payable between September 15th and December 31. 1931, will be collected without penalty. All taxe: not paid as stated will be subject to penalties-as provided by law. January lat, 1932, one pe r cent.will be added. February 1st, 1932, two per ceni.will be added. March 1st to 15th, seven per cent.will be added. Executions will be placed in th* hands of the Sheriff for collection af ter March 15th, 1932. . . When writing for amount of taxes, be sure and give school'district if property is in more than one-tcKiol district. * 4 \1| personal checks given for taxes will be subject to collection. LOST:—One black mare mule, mare weight about 900 pounds. Finder will please notify H. C. Grimes, Lees, S. C. IfrMfc—= r——t- i—> FOR SALE:—Pure Abruzzi rye, $1.00 per bushel f. o. b. Lees, S. C.— H. C. Grimes, Lee:, S. C. 10-l-2t » * "" ' —'--"'"T FOR SALE:—Double larkspur seed (mixed eolors), per ounce, 65 < , cents; per packet, 15 cents. Easter lily bulbs, 25 cents each, o r fiv e for $1.00. —Mrs. Olaree Gail, Barnwell, S. C. More Milk —AND— Better Milk DOCTORS SAY DRINK LOTS OF GOOD MILK (when you know i tis good.) in the western part of the belt is grown without this handicap, due to the dry climate being unfavorable to its spread. So the gradual swapping and the southwest give* some food for thought. WE TEST OUR COWS AND STERILIZE ALL BOTTLES AND PAILS. IN FACT, WE ARE CAREFUL ABOUT EVERYTHING USED IN PRO DUCING A HIGH CLASS PRO DUCT. SEE OUR TRUCK or DROP US A LINE. as State Ordinary County to C * C o 3 A 1J X -z % • V* o S3 c w ■ CU JB 2 n c o 4* . 3 /. c O . CJ JL -1 . JC j. •i *3 *5 i a CO j TOTAL J| No. 24—Ashleigh _ _ _ 5 5 4 1 3 * 4 12 34 No.-23—Barbary Brch. 5 5 4 1 * 3 4 30 ’ 52 No. 45.—Barnwell 5 5 4 1 3 4 29 51 No. 4—Big Fork . 5 | 5 4 1 3 4* 18 46 No. 19—Blackville 5<|$ 4 1 3 25 v 4g No. 35—Cedar Grove. f 5 . 5 4 1 3 4 28 l sP No. 50—Diamond^- 5 5 4 .. 1 ‘ 3 4 14 3 6 No. 20—Double Pond . 5 5 4 1 1 3 'J 4 . 19 ! 41 No. 12—Dunbarton.'... 5 5 4 1 3 4 27 49 No. 21—Edisto !— 5 ] 5 4 1 3 4 9 31 No. 28—Elko 5 » 5 '4 * 1 3 4 30 52 No. 53—Ellenton 5 5 4 1 3 4 11 33 No. 11—Four Mile 5 5 4 1 3 4 14 ' 36 No. 39—Friendship .. 5 5 4 1 3 4 14 36 No. 16—Green’s _* 5 5 4 '1 3 4 20 42 No. 10—Healing Spgs.. 5 5 4 1 3 4 20 42 No. 23—Hercules * 5 5 4 1 3 4 27 49 No. 9—Hilda 5 5 4 1 3 ' 4 35 57 No. 52—Joyce Branch . 5 5 4 1 3 4 26 48 No. 34—Kline 5 5 4, lx 3 ~ 4. 18 40’ No. 32—Lee’s 5 5 4 1 3 ' 4 10 32 No. 8—Long Branch 5 •5 4 1 3 4 17 - 39 No. 54—Meyer’s Mill.. 5 5 4 1 3 4 26 48 No. 42—Morris 5 ~r Hrr- ~3 4 12 34 No. 14—Mt. Calvary... 5 5 4 i 3 4 28 50 No. 25—New Forest 5_ 5 4 i 3 4 28 50 No. 38—Oak Grove 5 5 4 X 3 4 19 41 No. 43—Old Columbia.- ■ 3 5 4 i 3” A 26 48 No. 13—Pleasant HilL_. 5 5 4 • i 3 4 15 37 No. 7—Red Oak... . 5 5 4 i 3 4 16 38 No. 15—Reedy Branch 5 5 4 i 3 4 21 43 No. 2—Seven Pines-... 5 5 4 • i 3 4 12 34 No. 40—Tinker’s Creek. 5 5 4 i 3 4 17 39 fro. 26—Upper Richlan: 5 5 * 4 i 3 4 - 26 48 No. 29—Williston 5 5 4 . i 3 4 32 54 t i i The commutatiotk-jeoad tax of $3.00 must be paid by all male citizens between the ages of 21 and 55 years. All male citizens between the ages of 21 and 60 years are liable to poll tax of $1.00. Dog Taxes for 1931 will be paid at the 8 ame time other tax#B are paid. It is the duty of each school trustee in each school district to see that this tax i s collected o r aid the Magistrate in fhe enforcement (A\ the provisions of this Act. a^R Checks'will not be accepted for taxes under any circumstances at the risk the taxpayer.—(The (^nty Try ftiH | iflfv . TWTVTr -^ | y.^ y - w ^ Appledale Dairy* right to hold alf receipts paid by check until s aid checks have been paid.) mmm ' • a *«| * t j • ( •« ’ - • - . « ~ ' Tax receipts will be released only upon legal tender, postoffice money orders, or certified checks. * J. j. B£LL, Co. freas. LAURIE FOWKE, Mgr. LYNDHURST, SO. CAB. ADVERTISE IN THE PEOPLE-SENTINEL.