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~SA- ■ r f AGB TWO. ;.t X V THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL. BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31* 1931 c The Barnwell People-Sentinel JOHN W. HOLMES 1849—1912. / B. P. DAVIES, Editor and Proprietor' Entered at the pogt office at Barnwell, S. C., as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION, RATES: One Year $1.60 Six Months • ' .90 Three Months .50 (Strictly in AdTanen.) THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31. 1931 Happy New Year! After today, write it right—1932. The voice of the candidate will soon be heard in the latid. * Here’s hoping that a mor cheering record will be written on the new leaf. The legislature convenes January 12th and 40 days or more of bad weather may be expected. The State of South Carolina unable to borrow $1,750,000, most of which is for school purposes, and the State highway department unable to “sell advantageously” $10,000,000 worth of bonds—not a very auspicious ending cf th e old year, so far a fl credit is concerned, but if it serves to bring the powers that be to a true realiza tion of the financial condition of the people who pay the bills it may be a good augury of the future. ..This is the first Xmas we ever had that did not leav e us- enough turkey for turkey hash for 3 whole days and nights. Why, dear, even the bones are missing. The cranberry jelly is gone, and the dressing disappeared as if by magic. But we had a mighty goed time. After dinner—a^thaulRf- fering was taken fot-the-linemflloyed, but only 2 or 3 gave Anything; the others claimed that they were unenr- ,ployed—and they would keep what little they had for themselves. They told the truth—some of them have never worked much. _.I have carefuly checked up my list of presents. The necktie that Jim sent me is just like the one I got from Sam, and while I wouldn’t swear it, as I don’t s wear, both of them look exactly like the neckties I sent to Joneser, buying things you don’t need and can’t pay for, dead-beating, lack of confidence, and general no- accountness. Light wine and heavy beer might help, but the adjustments wilj have to be made by the people and for the people, and the government ain’t the man to do it; you’ve got to do that yourselves. The whole world aeems to be jammed full of “Don’t Know” folks. Its time somebody was knowing something. Good-night, Susie. EVENED ACREAGE REDUCING LOWERS AVERAGE EFFICIENCY The author of this article was rear ed on a cotton farm and has worked on newspapers in Georgia, South Carolina, New Jersey and New York. In recent years he has engaged moat- Jim and Sam last Christmas, a yearjly in investigating and writing about ago. Only one of them appears to I economic subjects, including agricul have been worn but very little. I like the electric toaster all right—that my wife gave me. It cost $4.50; I saw the cancelled check in my re turned vouchers yesterday—with my name signed to it “Per Her.” _-If you want to stop folks rending ture. In th e last four months he vis ited several hundred farms in the Carolinas and talked with many kinds of farmer s in -all parts of the two States. Until recently, I had been for sev eral years increasingly of the opinion you Christmas presents, why, all that cotton wa s passing and had to you’ve got to do i s stop sending them pass as a major farm product in the any. You certainly won’t be bother- South Atlantic area. The boll weevil, ed if you don’t bother them. The 10- extension of cotton westward to tjx< ii Nobody’s Business :: By Gee McGee. It Aint Goner Rain No More. _.Herbot Ivvins is a good friend of mine. He has a pr<» ? .tv *oft job, and he deserves :t. I’e' woyks hard an! regularly. Me is an all round good fellow and everybody likea “Herb." He is what T call an averag_> guy-- of the 19 and 31 type. X-iHerb paid me a visit and 6 dollars he owed me the other day. Just as a matter of information, I asked him to tell me exactly row he spent his last month's salary of $200.00. I would not have asked him to tell me this if I had not known that it would be a pleasure for him to d:>- so. Here’s what he said went with it: Paid 5th instalment on car .. $33.33 Paid 7th instalment on ice box Ifi.Ofi Paid 10th instalment on radio 11.33 Paid 3rd instalment on furniture 15.0' Paid rent 25.00 Paid life insurance ’ 0.44 Paid for ga 8 and oil 22.42 Paid for spare tire 7.20 Spent for picture sh ws 4.25 Spent for cigarettes 0.30 Paid on grocery account 3.50 Spent for soft drinks 5.20 Spent for football .tickets 4.40 Donated to Boy Scouts j-. . 50 Paid for telephone, water-lights 9.00 Paid mail-order house for dress 12.79 Gave wife for spending money 10.Of) Cash on hand and in banks .. 5.98 Total $200.00 Cent stores have made giving pres ents a real pleasure. My wife bought plains where machinery can peauce the labor facto r to the infifmesimal can redi infirmesin 9 nice presents for my kinfolks for and increasing produefmn abroad only 80 cents; s he paid a little more for those she sent to her kinfolks. Bead* is the thipg to send your best friends. The way I handle my bead business is—I buy ’em at the 10- cent store and then let all my friends catch me looking at beads in the nicest jewelry stores.*' The' opiy lif- ferenc? between beads i s Jjfe price— and sometimes the sizjv' - Our kid s hay' already ruint all seemed to, spell dcoju^fOr cotton farm ing in this sectjfltu I now belje^ that, barring develop ments pi which there are no certain sign*, cotton,—and also tobacco,—will be major money crops ih this section for many more year*. An increasing number of other things will be pro duced for—enarket and nori-cotton faming probably will expand fastest. But pther th:ng 8 will be additions to more than supplantaticns of cotton and tobacco, though on large numbers of farms and in many localities they w-ill be the latter. As Goes the King. Goes All. A reason for thi s is the great im provement of cotton farming in this staple length cotton pe r acre ,threat- ening to quit the product. Their cur rent troubles derive in the main from competing gowers who do not attain one-half that standard. I am not familiar with tobacco farming; only recently did I see more of it than can be viewed from a mov ing automobile. But in tobacco grow ing sections of South and North Carolina I haard no very doleful wails from farmers who had high per acre yields of goocf tobacco. In fact, those farmers were- pretty cherful. There i 8 no prospect of either cot ton or tobacco again bringing the super-high prices that prevailed at times in the last fifteen years. But thousands of Carolina farmer s should average well (With both products in the next ten years. And if the culture of both, particularly cotton, improves as in the last few years cotton and tobacco farming in the South Atlantic area will be in a much bette r condi tion at the end of thi 8 decade that in was at the close of the 1930s. * ,. _ ADVERTISE IN The People- Sentinel. KILLS RATS and lands of ft. H. Delk; South by Dexter Street and on the West by lands of Mrs. Daisy Walker and being the s*me lot on which H. W. Delk’s dwelling house i s located in said town of Blackville. AH that tract or parcel of land in Barnwell County, State aforesaid, containing thiry-six (36) acres, more or less, and known a s Tract No. 1 of the estate of William Whaley and bounded as follows: On the North by lands of James Odom and Ed Jowers; on the Blast by Tract No. 2, now belonging to D. P. Johnson; on the South by estate of Robert Allen, and on the West by lands of Ed Jow ers-. This is the same tract of land that H. W. Delk purchased from Liz zie Hair on November 9, 1916, deed being recorded in Book 8-V, page 478. Terms, cash, purchaser to pay for papers and revenue stamps. And the purchaser or purchasers shall deposit with the Master Two Hundred Dol lars a s a guarantee of good* faith, and upon his failure to do so the Master will immediately re-sell at the risk of the former purchaser, and should the said purchaser fail to comply with his bid within fifteen day s from dat^ of sale the Two Hundred Dol lars so deposited shall be forfeited as liquidated damages. G. M. GREENE, Master, x ^ - thei r toys. The mechanical toys wont do a single stunt, the paint is off the others, the dolls are saw-dust-less, the candy ha s been walked on, the bi cycle is punctured, the wrist watch wont run ami all the others have bfen swapped to the neighbors’ children area in the last ten to twenty years— for something just as sorry. I am.an improvementimpressive a* to glad it i. s a year until another Christ-j portend whateve r further improve- mas. I’ll bo happy when the NewYea^ment that may be fiecessary to the comes. ,1 want a new start. I’m full area’s holding on to the industry, of hope, and if the democrats will do There seems to be no present threat their duty, 19 and 32 is going to see to the area’s pre-eminence in tobacco go d times come back. | producing and manufacturing. Al- (P. S. I am a little bit nauseated though there are fiiany things that myself from too much turkey. Good- can supplment both, I know of noth n:ght.) ] ing that seems worthy now of taking — 1 the place cf cotton and tobacco as Mho Ain’t Having Trouble. I first and second money crops in South Everywhre I go and every time { Atlantic farming. I believe 1930 stop, I hear something about the pcor, | census figures show that as cotton suffering, down-trodden, much-abus-1 farming receded in the area a s a ed railroads. Why, folks railroad whole in the last ten years tre totality business ain’t any .poorer than mer cantile business or restaurant busi ness or banking business o r farming business or cattle bu.-ine-s. _.I asked Herb about his dcctOj- and his preacher. He said he had the best doctor and the best preacher in the world: neithe r of them ever asked him for money, but seemed willing to wait till it suited him to pay them something. His grocer was a good fellow too, he waited. He traded at 8 different place^ on credit, so hla credit was fajrly good, of farming receded also with respect at least to volume. Movement- looking to mere reducing of acreage make little appeal to me as a student of economics. History - .1 don’t know any kind of business [ khows that such movements have in my section of the country (that more often injured than they have has not got a complete monopoly) helped ostensible beneficiaries. No that was not forced to meet competi-] doubt less acreage should be planted Lon. The railroads sat down on their to cotton next year, and almost cer- side-track and let the buses and tainly less* will be planted. But in trucks run aufay with their patronage my humble opinion no horizontal*cut- —and they didn’t raise a single box ? ting cf acreage devoted to either cot^ car to stop it, but they have cried | ton flr tobacco will result in any last- out-loud all along. They claim that ing good. the I. C. C. wouldn’t let them get back. • What is needed are elimination, se lectivity and addition, the elimination of inefficient acres and producers, the -Uncle Sam has competition to meet, 1 growing of better cotton, and the so he stil get s 2 cents fo r a 2-cent producing of more things along with stamp; the power companies had no cotton or tobacco or both by the aver- competition except the sun and the age general farmes. Mere horizontal mccn, so trey still get war-time rtites cutting of aceage puts a premium on for their juice; the automobil e indus- both marginal land and sorry pro- try had no compefition except Them- ducers. High Cost cf Low Yields. If the average per acre yields of prices t cotton and tobacco in th^ Carolinas __i suggested to Herb that mebbe he should be laying up something for a rainy day. He said he wasn’t looking for any rainy day—he was earning a good salary, hi s boss wa s stuck on him, his health and the health of ris wife were both good and he had very little to worry about —and he further said that he now owed only $1,122.50, and he felt sunr that he could “knock that out in a very short while after all hi s instal ments were paid. (Th e $1,1*22.50 rep resented his floating debts, and are not included in his instalment debts.) The Evening After. Well, it’s all over at last. My wife’s kinfolks have gone home, and they jwont want any more turkey for an- ralCx year. £'ire u \j 1 ■ v'ClUTH * IWA* jlArej a doctor before night, 8 of them took soda water every 30 minutes for 2 hours, and the balance of them just slept and groaned. I made a mistake: I bought 3 turkeys. <N. B. In or der not to. have any misunderstanding •bout the matter, some of my kin folks were also among Uwefe present.) .,*/ 'V • • * selves, and they usually agree before dis-agreoing, and they are maintain ing B, H. (before Hoover) ■—from Ford on up. , | were made minimum per acre yields 1 «»■ *| °f as good cotton and tobacco as can _-I believe in reasonably high prices., be grown in the area there would not But if business can’t pay labor high be much of a problem as to either wages and operate, then there’s noth-1 product, no matter how much of it is ing to do except let labor loaf while', produced. business lo^fs. According to my way^ On page 1016 of the U. S. Depart- of thinking, the whole she-bang, from ment of Agriculture’s Year-book for turnip greens Ip Rols-Royce’s have’1931 you will find a cou’ile of tables got to reduce to the same low level, in whicli there are figures on the Cost and then we’ll all start up hill again of .producing .cotton by yield groups and pull together. in 1929. Ful representativeness of the figures is questionable, but they are nearly enough representative to be impressively illustrated. In 1929 everything else to death. Higb er the average cost of producing 100 or education and still higher ideas ahe less pounds of lint cotton on an. acre top high to suit the poor people, and Is given as 29 cent s a pound, or. 12 --Exhorbitant taxes have murdered real estate and are choking nearly that means all of us now—except the few remaining bond-holders. The cents. & pound under the average price received by producers that season. average young man drives up to a The cost of producing 181 to 260 filling station and says: “Gimme 5 [ pounds per acre is given a g 14 cents gallons of gas, 1 quart of oiTT2 dopea, 1 a pound, or 4 cents a pound under box of matches.'’ That's all in the world that he gives a darn about and he gets that, and there you are. __You may call it overproduction or under consumption or any other few things you like, but I believe. I'll cal) it extravagance, * Uvihg like the 9 cents a pound,- or just half the aver age price received is given as the average cost that year of producing 421 pounds or more per acre. One Cheerful Claas cf Farmers. In-my rounds through the Carolinas J did not find many grower* who pro duce a half bale or more, of premium ‘ and Mice, that’s RAT RIDDANCE the old reliable lodent destroyer, comes in powder form. No mixing with othe r foods. Your money back if it fails. 50 cent size, 3 o*. is enough for Pantry, Kitchen' and Cellar. 75 cent size, 6 oz. for Chicken House, Coops and ;mall buildings. Sold and guaranteed by C. F. Molair, local dealer, Barnwell, S. C. " ' ■■ - " INSURANCE FIRE WINDSTORM . PUBLIC LIABILITY ACCIDENT - HEALTH SURETY BONDS AUTOMOBILE , THEFT Calhoun and Co. P. A. PRICE. Manattr. RATS DIE so do Mice, once they eat RAT RID DANCE. And they leave no odor be hind. Don’t take our word for it, try a package. CATS and DOGS won’t touch it. Rats pk^ufalPfspd to get Rat Riddance. Two sizes. 50 cent size, 3 oz. is enough for Pantry, Kitchen and Cellar. 75 cent size, 6 oz. for Chicken House, Coop s and small buildings. Sold and guaranteed by C\ F. Molair, local dealer, Barnwell, S. C. MASTER’S SALE. Under and by .virtbe .of a decree of the Court of Common Pleas for Barnwell County. S. C., in the case of Herman Brown and Isadore Brown, trading and doing business under the firm name 'and style of Simon .Brawn’s Sons, plaintiffs, vs. Idalla Morrman, defendant, I the un dersigned Mast«Y, will sell in front , cf the Court House at Barnwell, S. C., during the legal hours of sale, on the 4th day of January, 1932, same being salesday, to the highest bidder the following described property: All that certain lot^or parcel of land in the town of Blackville, S. C., measuring and bounded a 8 follows: On the east fifty (50) feet on lot of Mrs. Annie C. Rothfock^ on the north one hundred and seventy <170) feet on lot of Sufrena Reed; on the south two hundred and twenty-five d225) feet on lot of Mrs. Annie C. Rothropk, all measurements, more or less, together with the buildings and improvements thereon. Terms of sale, cash, purchaser to pay for* papers and Revenue Stamps. And the purchaser will be required to deposit One Hundred Dollar s with the Mastef at the time of sale as a guarantee of good faith, and should said purchaser fail to make said de posit then the Master shall forthwith proceed to re-sell the premises at^the risk of the former purchaser. And in case the purchaser makes the de- ~ posit, as herein required, and fails to comply with his bid within fifteen » days from the date of sale, ,then the one hundrqd dollars so deposited shall be forfeited as liquidated damages. G. M. GREENE, Ma«ter, Barnwell County. Advertise in The Paople-SentineL c We Are Buying No. 1 Pine Logs I Twelve Inches in Diameter and Up—Paying Cash as delivered by truck at mill situated on the paved high way six miles north of Blackville. - * * Badham Lumber Company 4 Legal Advertisements EXECUTORS’. NOTICE. Notice is hereby given to all per sons holding claims against the es tate of F. O. Black, deceased, that- they be and appear in the Probate Court at Barnwell, S. C., on Friday, January 1st, 1932, to prove same in said Court, and all persons indebted to said estate are required to make prompt payment on or before said date to the undersigned Executors. Notice is further given that we, the undersigned Executors of said es tate, will file our final account with the said Court of Probate on Satur day, the 9th day of January, 1932, and petition said Court for an Order of Discharge and Letters Dismissory. ORLANDO BLACK, THURMAN BLACK, Executors of the Will of F. 0. Black, deceased. Dec. 12th, 1931. 4tc. MASTER’S SALE. Under and by virtue of a decree of the Court of Common Plea s for Barnwell County, S, C., in th e case of B. F. Storne, plaintiff, vs. Harry W. Delk, Annie D. Pickling and W. J, McDonald, defendants, I, the under signed Master, will sell in front of the Court House at Barnwell, S. en during the legal hours of* sale, on the 4th day of January, 1932, the same being salesday, to the highest bidder the following.described premises: All that certain lot of land, with the improvements thereon, situate in TREASURER’S TAX NOTICE The County Treasurer’s office will be open from September 15th, 1931, to March 15th, 1932, fo^ 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 taxes not paid as stated will be subject to penalties as provided by law. January 1st, 1932, one pe r cent.will be added. February 1st, 1932, two per cem.will be added. March 1st to 15th, seven per eent.w*ill be added. Executions will be placed in the hands of the Sheriff for collectiotv af ter March 15th,' 1932. % _ • ,\ ^ r -" When writing for amount of taxes, be sure and give school district if property is in more than one schao! district. ^A11 personal checks given for taxes will be subject-to collection. 0* w e* Oidinary County H c = 8 a 11 as •= U c o a c •• - 4-» c/3 £ >C D 03 n c p - a- -J —* •/. c e U 6-0-1 School r • • Special Local 1 1 TOTAL- No. 24—A'shleigh 5 5 4 1 3 4 12 34 No. 23—Barbary Brch. 5 5 4 1 3 4 . 30 52 •No. 45.—Barnwell . 5 fi 4 1 3 4 29 51 No. 4—rBig Fork 5 5 4 1 3 4 18 40 No. 19—B’ackville 3 5 4 1 3 4 23 47 No. 35—Cedar Grove. 5 5 4 1 3 4 28 50 No. 50—Diamond 5 ’ 5 4 1 3 4 14 36 No. 20—Double Pond w 5 5 4 1 3 4 19 41' Not 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 lA-' . —J 4 14 36 No. 39—Friendship 5 5 4 1 3 4 14 36 No. 1^—Green’s 5 5 . 4 1 3 4 20 42 No. TO—pealing Spgs.. 5 5 4 1 3 4 20 42 No. 23—Hercules 5* 5 4 * i 3 4 27 ’ 49 No. 9—Hilda —... 5 5 4 i 3 4 35 57 No. 52—Joyce Branch . 5 5 4 i 3 4 26 48 No. 34—Kline.. 5 5 4 i 3 i. ^ 18 40 No. 32—Lee’s 5 5 4 i 3 4 10 32 No. 8—Long Branch _ ’ 5 5 4 .1 3 4 17 39 No. 54—Meyer’* Mill— 5 5 4.;- 1- 3 4 26 48 No. 42—Morris 5 5 4 i 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 i 3 4 19 , 41 * No. 43—Old Columbia.. 5 5 4 i 3 4 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 N0740 = Trnker ’ s Creek. 5 ' 5 4 i 3 4 17* 39 No. 26—Upper Richlanc 5 5 4 i 3 4 26 48 No. 29—Willistoni 5 5 4 i 3 4 32 -54 4 uth Carolina, Barnwell, ( State of measuring one hundred and'TWfcntjr- five feet on its Northern and South ern boundaries and two hundred and ten feet, more ort less, on its Eastern and Western boundaries, and bounded as follows: North and East by lands now or formerly of D. P. Johnson 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. ......... _ - , . tr'ser " that this tibc. i s collected o r aid the Magistrate in the enforcement oi the provisions of this Act. . Checks will not be acceptdf for taxes under any circumstances ex cept at the risk of the* taxpayer.-r-(The ^County Treasurer reserves the right bo hold all receipts paid by check until said checks have been paid.) * Tjut receipts will be released only upon legal tender, postoffice money orders, or certified checks. J. J. BELL, Co. Treaa. i ■ I ■