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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
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T. A. Holland, chain gang $86.55
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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
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u. r. Lancaster, salary, cox oner - -- --
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A. d. ratterson* salary ana tunaty — -
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Merritt Orcccry v^o.* cnam gang
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C. r. Moiair, cnam gang
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rienry nanzjg, cnam gang
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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
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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
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