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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
» *
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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 $1.00.
—Mrs. Olaree Gail, Barnwell, S. C.
More Milk
—AND—
Better Milk
DOCTORS SAY DRINK LOTS
OF GOOD MILK (when you
know i tis good.)
in the western part of the belt is
grown without this handicap, due to
the dry climate being unfavorable to
its spread. So the gradual swapping
and the southwest give* some food
for thought.
WE TEST OUR COWS AND
STERILIZE ALL BOTTLES
AND PAILS. IN FACT, WE
ARE CAREFUL ABOUT
EVERYTHING USED IN PRO
DUCING A HIGH CLASS PRO
DUCT. SEE OUR TRUCK or
DROP US A LINE.
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No. 24—Ashleigh _ _ _
5
5
4
1
3
* 4
12
34
No.-23—Barbary Brch.
5
5
4
1 *
3
4
30
’ 52
No. 45.—Barnwell
5
5
4
1
3
4
29
51
No. 4—Big Fork .
5 | 5
4
1
3
4*
18
46
No. 19—Blackville
5<|$
4
1
3
25 v
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No. 35—Cedar Grove.
f 5 .
5
4
1
3
4
28 l
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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
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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
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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.