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i - i k I i! I u I ; w':*i 1HE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL. BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY. JULY 14TH, 1932. ^ Illinois Families Colonize Old Cotton Plantation Near Estill Cooperative Enterprise Launched in South Carolina by Chicago Company.—Each Family Gets House and Ten Acres. (Q»k)tilde R. Martin in The New,« and Courier.) With five Illinoia families already settled and four more arrivinK, the nucleus for what is planned to be a 150-family farmers’ Utopia has been established upon what i.« known as the Wilcox farm, a tract consisting of 1,800 acres of fertile land, at Es- tin, s. c. The^idea is to give each family ten acres, or its equivalent in value. Tl'iat Ls, where ten acres of the most fer tile land is allotted to one family, as many acres more as will produce an equal amount of truck on less fer tile land will be allowed another family. The pfan, as outlined by H. H. Bar bour, of Chicago, representing a de velopment company of that city, is stupendous in scope, and entirely new to this aection of the country. The land is one of the many tracts of splendid South Carolina farm land now in the possession of the bank; of the country. This particular tract was purchased by th e Chicago com pany from the Joint Stock Land bank of Columbia and the idea was to divide it into small farm. 1 * for the relief of unemployement in Chicago and the surrounding territory. Contact was made with several re lief agencies in the city, Mr. Bar bour said, but the plan fell flat be cause * act ^ at t ^ ,e majority of the people did not have the money to pay for their transportation to South Carolina, but the main draw back, he say.«, was the fact that they did not wish to leav e Chicago. Cooperative Marketing. So, advertisements were inserted in Chicago newspapers and the sum of $495 named as the amount which it would take for a family to obtain jtfwsession of one of these ten acre farms at Estill. This, meeting with success, is being followed up by the company, which has discovered to it* surprise that people prefer to pay for what they get. and when a settlement is made, the bill will be deducted from the amount due. If a family arrives at the farm with no money at all, ether than the $495 required, they will be taken care of until A crcp is made. Machinery owned by the company will be used to work the farm, each man being charged his share in this common ownership. Three main crop* a year will be planted and 10,000 fryers will be shipped from the farms each month, each family, upon its arrival, being given 500 baby chicks to raise on its own little farm. Each family will also have an acre of strawberries, this to be one of the important crops. Vegetables to be grown are radishes, onions, spinach, pea- 8 , beans, toma toes, early sweet corn and carrot*. Those who wish may also have a few hogs. Some «f the>e families have been on their farms since th e first of June and found their lands already funder cultivation. Beans were be ing shipped and tomatoes are now moving to markets. Com is also growing on many of these farms. Tomatoes are being planted now for shipping in October—a new prac tice for this section. Onions will be planted in August. There will be something growing all the time and the idea is for these people to live on their farms aside from the three main crops which they will ship in com mon during the year. In other words, it is being planned so that the cash crops will be money in their pockets aside from their actual living. No money will be passed among the members of the colony. The com mon curency will be service and food. Asked how they were to overcome the inevitable ctop or market failures with which low-country truck farm ers ar e so familiar, Mr. Barbour said they had already met that situation in the bean crop, w’hieh they were un able to sell. TheSf, beans were haul ed to the Fairfax cannery, which agreed, at a special price, to can the , , , beans. These will be put into the The little farm, are to b ( . Planted ra| >nd so|d the mem . and harveated aecordmg to a com- ^ of ^ co|ony >t ^ (;xacl prict . mon plan and the produce is to be marketed by an agent for the entire plantation. Forty pe? cent of the tproceeds of sale goes to the company for .«ix years and at the end of this time, each family gets a clear title to its land. The remaining 60 per cent, of the proceeds goes to each family, a settlement being made twice during the year. A small bungalow is built upon each tract of land by the company three of these having already been erected and plans are under way for th e rapid completion of a .*-ufficient number to house the remaining fami lies, who, at present, are being cared for jn the original Wilcox farmhouse, 1 a larg,. comfortable residence. This building will be eventually i they coat, so that, instead of the bean crop being a failure it will l>e eaten after all. Mr. Barbour says it is the ambi- ti< n of the company that the*v shall Ih- no depression on this farm and they believe that the plans are suf ficieutly practical that this shall ac tually l»o the case. . Lazy to Be Penalized. They consider that the idea of set tling people upon small tracts of land will not only work to the advantage of themselves but much mor e to tho advantage of the company—which is in the position of the big plantation owner—than the practice cf empl y- ing negroc; to operate the farm. A family will naturally take pride in made into a communtty^cluh house, j lafl(| whicb jt wiU eventually own and will work the harder for its own in terest, which, automatically, w’ill make for the general interest of the plantation. QUARTERLY REPORT OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY DIRECTORS FOR THE QUARTER ENDING JUNE 30TH, 1M2: PERRY B. BUSH, Clerk, Board of County Directors. where the members < f the farm col ony may enjoy various community interests, such as pool, card games, aie included in the plans. There will be a general store, which will handle everything needed by these people, including gasoline which will h<* s Id them at cost. The Seaboard Air Line railroad runs through the edge of thi> farm and at Asked what would be done about lazy people, those who, in spite of their opportunities, shirk their jobs and thu bring down the standard of the entire plantation, Mr. Barbour ,. • • . | ... i .said that, as in any walk of life, it is this point, the company will build ri , ’ . the energetic, ambitions man who loading platform -o that the shipping of produce may be facilitated. Theio will also lx* a lurg t . packing shed and every other convenience to be found in a large village oigani/.ed iot > a trucking community. The village will even be ine rpoiated, Mr. Bar- pour says, and Mu* expects it to de velop into a million and half dollar project. Small Dairy Included Th f . company is on the lookout now for a farm specialist who will live in the village and whose duties will be to direct these people in their farm ing, advising them as to the best and most practical methods of doing things. There will be a small dairy, operated by one or two member. 8 of the colony win will do this instead of farming. Milk will be sold to the members of the colony at five cents a quart, or the actual cost of producing it. The work on these farms will be done by their owners, who will, when it l« needed, also work on other farms in the colony. Each man’s outside labor is cr«|ditcd to him on the com pany’s books and whent he in turn needs assistance, he nrill be given an equal amount of labor. Each family wOl have credit at the general More gets ahead, so it will be here because bis In zinc- - and lack of cooperation will be marked again.st him as si< much loss on the company’s hooks. The $495 invented at the beginning <.f the enterprise includes, fert’lizoi and the plowing and planting of five of the ten acres for the first crop of vegetables, in addition to the 500 baby chicks. - During the entire six years, the land will be entirely free, of mortgages, taxe 8 and interest to th ( . buyer. Mr. Barbour says his company would like to secur e textile workers on this land and that, in some instan ce. 8 , a special reduction will be made in th ( . initial fee, but that it is. a project in which anyone interested may participate wrhatever his trade or vocation in life. Nor is it to be all work and no play, for it is the plan of th e company to erect a number of cottages at a beach near Charleston or Savannah which will be used for members of th e colo ny who will take vacation* of u week or so during the year. ADVERTISE IN The People- S«ntineL 376. 377 378 379 380 ~381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388V 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 1 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 1 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 ' 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 . 439 440 441 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 469 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 479 471 472 473 474 475 476 477 T. A. Holland, chain gang $86.55 / R. R. Mocre, equalization 12.00 J. J. Bell, interest on bonds 6,412.51 J. J. Bell, interest on bonds 1,503.75 R. R. Moore, salary, county director 12.50 Idts Brabham, salaty, county director 12.50 W. D. Black, .‘alary, county director’* ..I.. 12.50 L. S. Still, salary, county director c ! 12.50 W. H. Manning, salary and postage 56.30 Gilmore Harley, salary, deputy sheriff 50.00 J. S. Still, salary, taSc collector 66.66 B. H. Dyches, dieting ptisonerg 110.00 O. D. Hamnund, inque-t 5.00 B. H. Dyches, salary, jail, etc. 218.91 C. F. Mclair, chain gang 22.47 L. Cohen, chain gang 19.70 A. M. Anderson, chain gang 58.50 G. R. Peeples, salary, magistrate ^ 29.16 D. W. Glover, salary, constable 29.16 Henry Hartzog, chain gang 67.50 Joe Baxley chain gang 67.50 Merritt Grocery Co., chain gang 47.92 D. W. Glover, chain gang 9.60 C. M. Turner, equalization : 24.00 A. D. Connor, Sr., equalization 12.00 R. R. Johnston, 'equalization 1 21.00 T. W. Willis, equalization 21.00 I. W. Rountree, equalization 15.00 W. S. Creech, equalization - 12.00 P. W. Price, equalization 15.00 J. M. < Weathersbee, equalization 9.00 Mutilated. E. G. Birt, equalization 15.00 H. Jeff Hair, equalization 27.00 C. C. Storne, equalization ‘ 39.00 A. M. Sanders, equalization 9.00 J. Black, Jr., equalization 12.00 J. E. Lain, equalization 39.00 J. W. Sanders, equalization 15.00 F. E. Sanders, chain gang and constable 14.30 C. L. Hiers, chain gang and constabl e 17.03 W. C. Kennedy, salary, constable 27.91 C. S. Ander-on, ‘salary, magistrate 14.58 J. W. Sanders, salary, magistrate 12.50 M. C. Kitchings, salary, magistrate 25.00 S. C. Power Co., jail and court house 11.88 Keystone Envelope* Co., stationery 16.68 L. A. Hartzcg, lunacy . 5.00 Jennie P. Greene, re. 8 t room 8.33 R. L. Bronson, postage 3.80 C. H. Jones, special 10.00 T. D. Creighton, Jr., county home ^ 4.00 A. B. Patterson, salary, county physician 33.33 D. P. Lancaster, salary coroner ; 33.33 George James, janitor 7 21.00 Walker, Evans and Coggsu’ell Co., stationery 66.20 B. S. Moore, Jr., salary, supt. cf education 115.00 C. C. Rountree, public buildings 1.00 J. V. Matthews, board of education 25.00 B. H. Dyches, jail ‘ 5.53 Mace Jeffcoat, jail 6.00 E. E. Crowson, printing 14.25 C. H. Simmon-, jail 2.00 F. S. Brr.wn, court house, jail, county home 27.30 Grubbs Chevrolet Co., chain gang 2.50 Sarah C. Armstrong, salary, clerk 60.00 I. .1. Bell, salary and postage 65.89 W. I*. Sanders, salary, magistrate .. 29.16 J. M. Diamond, -alary, constable .. 29.16 W. S. Grubbs, salary, magistrate - 25.00 Margaret McAllister, salary, clerk _ 12.49 H. M. Bodiford, salary, constable 27.91 G. M. Greene, postage ' 12.70 H. W. Sanders c unty home'- 15.00 W. T. Hankin-on, county home __ 12.00 C. O. Meyer, county home 18.00 Vickery Bros., county home 2.24 „ G. W. Cook, county home 59.00 C. F. Molair, county home 25.00 R. A. Deason, jail, county home, chain gang 26.68 Helen Brabham, county home , 6.00 Mrs. L. B. Baxley, county home 9.00 A. J. Owens, county heme J 40.65 Cornelia Butler, county home . .— 4.75 Preston Allen, county home . 10.00 Sarah Ray, county home ... 5.00 I. VV. Rountree and Son, county home 10.00 Lemon Bros., county home 6.70 Lemon Bros., county home . 111.53 L II. Lemoji,, beard cf regents .. 12.50 Vickery Bros., chain gang ... __j 143.79 E. F. Woodward, chain gang 63.80 Lemon Bro-.,~ chain gang and jail 65.55 A. V. Cullcm, chain gang : 24.44 • Libby Co., chain gang 76.12 H. B. Sanders, salary, constable : 12.50 W. K. Black, .salary, magistrate 12.50 H. M. Cock, salary, constable •_ 14.58 J. M. Hill, salary, magistrate 14.58 E. O. Moore, county home 1. 16.00 Bernice Still, chain gang 58.50 Marvin Holland, chain gang 14212 500 C. H. z<m special — 6.50 502 503 It. L*. BTVMKpn, printing S. C. Power Co., court house and jail F. S. Brown, jail, court house, county heme - 13.81 31.50 5.00 504 505 506 507 n. A. vi 1055, lunacy _ — — —— — 33.33 u. r. Lancaster, salary, cox oner - -- -- 43.33 A. d. ratterson* salary ana tunaty — - 104.72 Merritt Orcccry v^o.* cnam gang 7.25 cWO 509 C. r. Moiair, cnam gang 67.50 rienry nanzjg, cnam gang 58.50 51U Ak. M. Anaeiscn, enum gang — — - 67.50 oil 512 joe uaxiey, cnam gang — Bernice-Still, chain gang — — 58.50 0 I 478 The Peeple-Sentinel, stationery and "advertising 68.25 479 Mazursky’s, county home 18.54 480 Ice Baxley, chain gang 1.75 481 L. T. Claytcr, chain gang and salary ‘17.66 482 Barnwell Motor Co., chain gang 17.15 483 H. Ahtopolsky, county home and chain gang 20.97 484 John K. Snelling, salary and clerk . 45.83 485 R. R. Moore, equalization 3.00 486 J. W. Patterson, salary, supervisor 129.18 487 Perry B. Bu-h, salary, clerk 108.33 488 B. Still, chain gang 17.42 489 W. H. Manning, postage ' , 11.08 490 E. F. Woodward, chain gang 33.50 491 Mrs. R. S. Dicks, rent, demonstration office 10.00 492 Milledge Black, chain gang 24.00 493 H. M. Bodiford, contingent 16.00 494 J. J. Bell, court expense 273.30 495 Idis Brabham, salary, county director 12.50 496 W. D. Black, salary, county director 12.50 497 ‘ L. S. Still, salary, county director 12.50 498 George James, janitor 20.80 499 W. H. Manning, salary, auditor 56.55 { ^ — ... 513 ' 514 515 516 517 518 519 520 521 522 523 524 525 526 527 528 529 530 531 532 533 534 535 536 537 538 539 540 , 541 542 543 544 545 546 547 L. Cohen, chain gang 35 - 7 ^ Grubbs Chevrolet Co., chain gang HdHS B. F. Anderson, equalization 9.00 Victor Lewis, equalization -- 12.00 H. M. Bodiford, chain gang and salary i 29.91 D. W. Glover, salary, constable — - — 29.16 W. C. Kennedy, .‘alary, constable 27.91 W. S. Grubhg, salary, magistrate 25.00 M. C. Kitchings, salary, magistrate 25.00 G. R. Peeples, salary, magistrate 29.16 W. P. Sanders, salary, magistrate 29.16 J. M. Diamond, salary, constable 29.16 R. L. Bryan Co., printing -*£ - - — - - 137.62 T. D. Creighton, Jr. f county home J. F. Kneece, M. D., lunacy — 5.00 Gilmore Harley, salary, deputy sheriff 50.00 J. S. Still, salary, tax collector - 66.66 Jennie P. Greeny, rest room 8.33 Frank Sanders, board of registration 12.50 Mrs. R. S. Dick 8 , rent, demonstration office j, 10.00 Margaret McAllister, salary, clerk. 20.00 B. H. Dyches, salary, jail, etc.** 255.81 John K. Snelling pension distribution 100.00 John K. Snelling, salary, clerk and lunacy 75.83 B. H. Dyches, dieting prisoners 138.00 C. L. Hiets, salary, constable —- 15.83 C. S. Anderson, salary, magistrate _—: — 14.58 J. M. Hill, salary, magistrate 14.58 H. M. Cook, magistrate and chain gang 15.08 Kline Trading Co., county home 6.00 Farrell-O’Gorman, county home 56.00 J. C. Hoffman, county home 9-00 Lemon Bros., county home 13.20 Lemon Bos., county hom e —- - 96.71 R. A. Deason, county home, chain gang and jail 56.40 (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE.) State Theatre FRIDAY and SATURDAY July 15 and 16 A SPECIAL “Hell-Bound” with Lloyd Hughes Also Two Comedies. 10c and 25c. £how Starts at 8:45 --3 Though vacations scatter the family the Telephone keeps them together Vacation time is here aryl soon thousands of families will be scattering to various places to spend their vacations. Some will go to the seashore, others to the modfitains or on week-end motor trips; yet large numbers of these vacationists will keep in close touch with relatives and v friends back home by telephone. People are fast learning that it adds much to the plea sure of their vacations and the happiness of those left at home when they call back at regular intervals. The cost is small. To most places 25 miles away, the day station-to-station rate is about 25 cents; 75 miles, CO cents; 100 miles, 65 cents; 150 miles, $1.00. During the evening and night periods, rates are much lower. Souweri^t Telephone and Taleqraph t i Co. O i o (J