Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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4 TWtBimwrtlwonder how the farmer manage* to town last week to get a bag of Red Japee Morgan and some of the other) BLACKVIL^E.—C. R. 1 «■—- live. * v Cro&s flour and while he wa* inside international bankers could slip, them C. Stome and K,E. Allen; /■ S. t JOHN W. HOLMES 1849—It12. a P. DAVIES, Editor and Proprietor. Entered at the post office at Barnwell, S. C., as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.50 Six Months .90 Three Months .60 (Strictly in Advance.) THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1932 Boylston, C. clerk, Lon- It really nie C. Creech; polling place, vacant stole his automobile and he had to amounts to fourteen billion dollars, store. tote his 24 pounds of “government and all of our Wall Street friends | DOUBLE PONDS.—A. H. Croft, proving, his worthiness, somebody out to the “Suckers.” i Nobody’s Business:: aid” nearly 6 miles. By Gee McGee. The “‘Dry’s are in a peck of trou ble. Unless Bishop Cannon runs for president, they won’t have anybody that they can support and save their morals. Upshaw is going to bust Facts and Figure*. have gotten rid of them, therefore we are no further interested. Signed: The G. 0. P. Owner. Protracted Meeting at Cave. The Rev. W. E. Wiggins, pastor of 1 work 2 days a week for Un- wide open unless he geta.some wring- the Barnwell Methodist Church will cle Saqn and Co. I work 3 days a jng wet to debate with. Ha’s .strong assist Rev. Peter Stokes, Jr., of the week for the instalment agents. I on*debate$ and believes that he can Appleton Charge, in a meeting next work 1 day a week for the gas and convince any opponent that whiskey week at Cave’s Church. The first electric company. I work 1 day a i 8 a sin and a shame. One thing you service will be held Monday night at week for the garage and John D., and ca n say of him, however—he ain’t 8:00 o’clock. The public is cordially Who remembers how to spell that I work 1 day for my^banker and doc- never changed his platform. YiddUh ■worry” ? word meaning “I should tor. But all I make the balance of id And then there were the political wise-acres who again predicted that former Senator Blease would be left out of the second race. And next Tuesday there will be a the time is my own—to spend as I please. Cotton Letter. New York, Sept. 8.—A slight sprin kle in Manchester and a small drizzle Bill Edgeworth thinks the gov- in Egypt and prospects of a shower ernment should pay the bonus in the in Texas forced December down 3 sum of'$33.33 per month, as that is points, but the boll weevil is still ae- exactly what the free-wheeling and tive here and there. The bears all swinging chassis guys are requiring' say that the government estimate is invited to attend these services. Legal Advertisements NOTICE OF ELECTION. An election for the purpose of elect ing a Mayor, six Aldermen and two total eclipse of certain candidates from the pay-while-you-ride folks, j 2,500,000 bales too low, but the bulls Commissioners of Public Works for that will far surpass the spectacle And all they’d have to do is endorse staged last week by Old Sol and the the checks to the credit companies, Moon. A lot of us are like Europe in the matter of war debts—we can’t pay and ride right on. Mr. Hoover waj terribly surpris ed a few weeks ago when that dele- what we borrowed but if our old ^jon ca n ed on him an<J told him debts were out of the way we d have | he had been re-nominated to carry on. lots of money to spend for something else. Oh, well, we might as well call off the November elections—The Literary Digest is preparing to hold another straw ballot for President. And here’s hoping it won’t elect another straw man. He hadn’t heard a word about it, nothing had been put in the paper that would cause him to suspect such a thing. He did not faint tho. Maybe it isn’t that government costs too much but that we have too much government, just as, a few years ago, it wasn’t so much the high cost of living as it was the cost of high living. say, “How do you know?” Sea Is- 1 the Town of Barnwell, S. C., is here- land and dog tails are being sold by ordered, to be hejd on Tuesday, .«hort while saddle blankets and see- September 20th, 1932. The said elec- saws are being straddled. This is tion shall be held as provided by law causing curtailment of denims and f°r the holding of general elections, petticoat cloths. Southern selling The polls will be opened at the Court and rotten politics will possibly hold House at 8:00 o’clock a. m. and closed January and March is at present Don’t sell America short. I saw a cute little boy yesterday with a nice Fontleroy suit on—which proves that his folks are rich or have been rich. He was four years old. He had pulled his lower jaw sideways. He says his mother taught Every American citizen is sup posed to have $45.56 in hu pocket or in his wife’s stocking. About 78,000,- 000 have less than $10.00 apiece while him to smoke cigarettes, but he 32 fellows have as much wealth as learnt to smoke cigar.? by himself. 121,543,555 of our people possess. But He is on his way. if you’ll notice, all of the rich folks got rich selling us poor folks some- at 4:00 o’clock *p. m. The following are hereby appointed managers of said election: G. W. Manville, A. P. Wooley and Willie O. Halford. B. W. SEXTON, Mayor. Notice of Application for Charter. __VThe railroads are offering some thing we didn’t have to have—and low fares to places, but ^ou have to that shows that we are extravagant.' come back before you get there; and in Barnwell, You can’t make a living fooling with if you sleep on the train, you have to general nature of the business which necessities. Notice is hereby given that ’ the undersigned intend to file with the Secretary of the State of South Caro lina on or after Monday, September 12th, 1932, Declaration for Charter for Sexton Drug Store, a corporation; to have its principal place of business South Carolina. The Here are a couple of safe bet?: 1. That the name of the next President of the United States will contain the letters “OOVER.” 2. That the initials of the next Sheriff of Barnwell County will be dovvn -J. B.” As we understand it, Candidate Blease will not agree^ to a resubmis- sicn of the 18th Amendment until waste.” the “vflhite Democrat?” of South pay the surcharge, and if you eat, you it purposes to do being, to buy, sell ycu are -till paying dear for your and dispense drugs and any and all .The recent 100-page book which ' riding. The railroads ought to have 1 ether kinds cf merchandise. The the department of agriculture got het dog stands every few miles, and Capital Stock will ba Four Thousand up on “Why the tadpole wiggles his let trains run into one another oc- | ($4,000.00) Dollars divided into forty tail sideways instead of up and casionally, all interspersed with a 1 (40) shares of one hundred ($100.00) is a remarkable edition. It puncture and a blow-out now and Dollars each. is in a class with "How to pick a then so’? the passengers would get pimple” and “How to grow eyebrows on canasies.” I think I will print a be ok.an “How-.taprevent government Carolina have voted for resubmission —which makes his position on the prohibition question about as clear as the plank in the Republican plat form. The next session of the South Carolina legislature should be able to qualify as a menagerie. J. E. Leppard was elected to the house from Chesterfield County and C. E. (“Mountain Lion”) Sloan wa-- far out in front in the Greenville race j dead anseforth. for the Senate. In the past some of the members have acted like “sons «of wild jackasse.v” How to Forecast the Weather. 1. When your rheumatism begins enough excitement. . -The TtiffeTTnre between the - re- Meeting of subscribers to Capital Stock of said corpoation will be held at ten o’clock a. m., September 12th, 1932, at fh6 offices if Brown and publican party and the democratic Bush, Barnwell, South Carolina, for party is, the former is in the saddle the purpose of organizzing said cor and the latter wants to put it out of poration, electing directors and trans- the saddle and get in the saddle it- | acting any and all other' business as to tisrfi with more vim and vivacity J self—while the former wants to stay may properly come before said meet than has been its u-ual habit, look in the saddle^- That’s all. ing. for lain. 2. When you come in late at night and find your wife wide awake, wor rying about where you have been and with whom you have been, local show ers are sure to follow—after she tells you that she wishes she was PUBLIC, SALE NOTICE V Closing Out Sale of the G. O. P. PARTY B. W. SEXTON, FLORIDE C. SEXTON. CITATION NOTICE. ** As cur lea s e with Uncle Sam will expire "on March 4th, 1933, and our titles to the political jack-pot will be transferred to “The Sons of Wild Jackasses” we have decided to hold The People-Sentinel has added more new subscribers to its mailing list recently than in the same length of time for many months. This is taken to mean that we are well on the way out of the depression or else * good many folks have dcided that they must have the newspaper that prints the interesting county news, hard times or not. 3. When your mother-in-law comes an auction sale on the White House up in the early spring and fetches at Lawn at Washington, D. C., on No least 4 trunks and 2 or 3 trunkets, get vember 8, 1932, and sell to the highest ready for fair and warmer weather an d much electricity and thunder claps. “The Farmers’ Rebellion.’ ia£‘.y Arthur Brisbane, the highest paid editorial write in the country, whose articles are syndicated in a number of aewap&pers, has the following to say hi reference to the farmers’ strike for higher pices in the Middle West: “The ’farmers’ rebellion’—that is what it amounts to—started vigor ously in Iowa and is spreading to other States—Nebraska and Wiscon- sim. “Iowa farmers got results, among otter things an increase of almost 100 per cent, in the wholesale price of milk. Even so, you wonder that the fanner can live. His new milk price it only a little more than two dollars a hundred pounds. “If striking, blocking highways, otc, will bring better prices, the ex- 4. When you come home for** din ner with home-brew on your breath and home-brew jn your stagger, look out for a cooler atmosphere till you sober up; then scotch yourself for a cyclone or something. 6. If the sun set^ behind a cloud, that is a sure sign that it has gone down, and “you may expect it to rise again the fallowing morning—just as^ it Jias always risen, also dry weather till it lightens in the north— which means heavy rain in 3 days or more, i bidder all of our political machinery and our entire stock of supplies now: on hand, to-wit: One political machine, 1921 model, badly in need of repair. Gan only be recognized by its whistle. * One moss .grown platform, with all of its farm planks broken. One large everbearing Melon vine with several branches badly frost bit ten, classified as frozen assets. ' One billion dollar crime wave made to order, old enough to wean, which was sired by the Volstead Act and damned by everybody. Fourteen million moonshine stills, all operating to fullest capacity Seven hundred rum-running vessels just learning to swim, but. knows all of the (dives. Twenty • one thousand miles of bread lines without a vacant space. One seat on the Board of Trade, The State cf South Carolina, County of Barnwell. By John K. Snelling, E^q., Probate Judge. WHEREAS, Mrs. Jennie B. Hagood, hath made suit to me to grant unto her Letters of Administration of the Estate and effects of M. B. Hagood. THESE ARE, THEREFORE, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditomrs of the said M. B. Hagood, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court ,of Probate, to be held at Barnwell*, S. C. , on Wednesday, Sept. 21 next after publication thereof, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administra tion should not be granted. Given under my hand this 31st day of Aug., A. D. 1932. JOHN K. SNELLING, Judge of Probate. Published on the 8th day of Sept., 1932, in The Barnwell People-Sentinel. NOTICE ELECTION. 6. If your pigs squeal at night or your rooster crows before midnight or your cow bawls ferquently, take your umbrella to the office with you good for any amount of wheat; no the next day—as it’s sure to be sul- profits guaranteed.’ try and warmer. The pigs alone will j Should the present prosperity con- post you on this—if you happen not tinue we reserve the right to sell un to own a cow or a rooster, but a car der the Hoover Moratorium plan, and a radio instead. 7. When your coal man refuses to send your coal and your instalment Pursuant to a resolution unani mously adopted at a meeting of the Barnwell County Democratic Execu tive Committee on Wednesday, Au gust 24th, 1932, a primary election for the offices of Sheriff and Coroner of Barnwell County is hereby ordered to be held at the various precincts Free lunch at noon — doughnuts in said county on Tuesday, September without holes will be served by the 13th, 1932, along with the regular farm board The Temperance Board, Prohibition second primary election to be held on that date, and it is further ordered agent has just re-possessed your win- Public Morals and Society of Reform that the names of all duly qualified mple will spread. It is the first im- ter suit and your wife’s fur coat, look will serve roast crow to the Wicker- jprttnt demonstration by farmers | for snow, sleet, hail and the sheriff— sham Committee.’ jjv. hitherto content with futile speech- making and routine voting.” Wa doubt whether or not the farm- era of the South would have struck far a hundred per cent, increase in the price of cotton had not a crop also look for the Salvation Army. 8. If your toe itches, that means formation at the lunch to assure Dol- fair weather; if it doesn’t itch, that ly her rightful place at the table, means something else, but if you If the Chief Executive arrives in candidates for the said offices of Sheriff and Coroner be printed on the The Army, Navy, Coast Guards and ballot? provided for said election, all available Stool Pigeons will be in Also, that a second primary for said two offices, if one be necassary, will be held two weeks thereafter. The same managers of election ap- boosted the price of the chance happens to be a rain frog, spectfully requested that all present same polling places are named for disaster fleecy staple from five cents a pound to approximately nine cents. The ottontot is a long-suffering varmint aad eeems satisfied, more or less, if can just grow cotton, regardless of the price. But even at the present princely a pound, Mr. Brisbane and ef readers might well have a frog in your throat and it by time to assist at the sale it is re- pointed for the first primary and the why, you may look for rain if you who have a hat, stand uncovered want to, as the frog won’t care. That’s while the band plays “God Help the all I know about it, meaning weather King.” fore-casting; but these signs are the TERMS OF SALE:—See your only signs used by the government banker before the sale. Positively no forecaster, evidently. foreign bonds will be accepted, al though they are O. K.’d by the State said election, as follows: BARNWELL.—Herman I. Mazurs- ky, Anus Patterson and G. W. Hal ford; clerk, Ira Fales; polling place, Court House. BENNETT SPRINGS. — W. F. Bates, W. D. Meyer and D. W. Glover; Stufl. Department The boys just put that' clerk, G. R. Peeples; polling place, *.—Johnnie Smith drove to Punk- O. K. on them so that Coon Lobe, 1 San Hill achol houae. S. P. Hartzog and J. L. Diamond; clerk, L. W. Hutto; polling place, Double Ponds school house. DUNBARTON.—F.‘ L. Eaves, C. H. Dicks and Bob Owens; clerk, J. M. Killingsworth; polling place, vacant store. ELKO.—C. J. Bates, R. R. John ston and L. L. Birt; clerk, L. P. Wil liams; polling place, school house. FOUR MILE.—C. M. Turner, B. L. Peeples and A. R. Dunbar; clerk, C. D. Youngblood; polling place, Muns Filling Station. y FRIENDSHIP.—G. W. Fail, Aaron Fail and Frank Sanders; clerk, H. E .Creech; polling place, Friendship Church. GREAT CYPRESS.—W. H. Moody, Jr., J. L. Bradley and B. M. Jenkins, Jr.; clerk, W. B. Bradley; polling place, Kline school house. HEALING SPRINGS.—B. F. Gard ner, Edward Wade and H. Jeff Hair; clerk, D. W. Heckle; polling place, Healing Springs school huse. HERCULES.—L. S. Still, W. Hayne Dyches and Farrell A. Creech; clerk, J. A. Morris; polling place, Demo cratic club house. HILDA.—S. F. Hutto, J. M. Rowell and M. L. Collins; clerk, A. N. Black; plolFng place, |A|tlantic Coast line depot. RED OAK.—H. M. Cook, O. D. Mcore and W. B. Parker; clerk, S. E. Moore; polling place, Moore’s store. REEDY BRANCH. —J. C. R. Grubbs, John G. Grubbs and Reynold? Still; clerk, J. B. Still; polling place, Reedy Branch school house. ROSEMARY.—M. S. Hair, Hoyt Rutland and R. S. Weather?bee; cirek, W. R. Bell; polling place, Pleasant Hill school house. SILOAM.—W. P. Morris, S. Towne and Belton Holly; clerk, J. W. Bate^; polling place, Siloan Church. W1LLISTON.—J. W. Johnson, F. T. Merritt and R. L. Hair; clerk, W. G. Thompson; polling place, Ford show room. Special attention is called to the following rules: 30. The managers shall open the polls at eight o’clock a. m., and close them at four o’clock p. m.; Provided, That in the cities of Charleston and Columbia the polls shall be open at eight o’clock a. m., and close at six o’ clock p. m. The managers shall then proceed publicly to count the votes. After tabulating the result the mana ger? shall certify same and forward the ballot box, containing the ballots, poll list and all other papers, except the club roll, relating to such election, by one cf their number to the chair man cf the county committee within 36 hours after the close of the polls. 35. The county committees shall ensemble at their respective court houses on the morning cf the second day after the election on or before 12 o’clock noon to tabulate the retuins and declare the result of the primary, so far as the same relates to members of the general assembly and county officers, and shall forward immediate ly to the chairman of the State com mittee .at Columbia, S. C., the result of thfe election in their ^raspective counties for United Stales senator, State officers, congressmen and solic itors. The State committee shall pro ceed to canva ; s the vote and declare the result. 36. The protests and contests for county officers and members of the general assembly fhall be filed within two days after the day of the declara tion by the county committee of the result of the election with chairman of the county committee and said county committee shall hear and de termine the same at its first meeting thereafter. Rule 45 Section 1. In every primary elec tion in this State there shall be pro vided at each polling precinct one booth for every 100 enrolled voters, or majority fraction thereof. The booth shall be made of wood, cheap metal, or any other suitable substance, shall not be less than 32 inches wide and 32 inches deep, and six feet, six iches High, shall be provided with a curtain hanging from the top in front to within three feet of the floor, and shall have a suitable shelf on which the voter can prepare his ticket. Provided, The provisions of this Act shall not apply to any precinct where there are less than fifty (50) voters enrolled on the club roll at such pre cinct. Section 2. The polling places shall be provided with a table for the man agers. The polls shall be provided with a guard rail, so that no one ex cept as hereinafter provided shall ap proach nearer than five feet of the booths in which the voters are prepar ing their ballots. 1 Section 3; The tickets shall be printed on clear white paper in the usual manner, but shall have a cou pon at the top perforated so as to be easily deteched. On 4he coupon shall be printed “Official Ballott. Club Ward - No. The numbers shall run seriatim for each club. There shall be 50 per cent, more ballots than there are voters en rolled at each voting place. Section 4. The managers shall be responsible for all ballots furnished. . When a voter presents himself he shall be given a ballot. The manager in charge of the poll list shall enter the number of the ballot next tho name of the voter. The voter shall forthwith retire alone to one of the booths, and without undue delay pre pare his ballot by scratching out the name of the candidate for.fhom he doe? NOT care to vote. No voter shall remain in the booth longer than „ five minutes. After preparing his bal lot, the voter shall present himself to the manager. His ballot must bt folded in such a way that the number can be seen and the coupon can be readily detached by the maager with out in any way revealing the printed portion of the ballot. If the voter is not challenged, and takeg the pre scribed oath, the manager shall tear off the coupon, put it on file, stamp the ballot, and the voter shal deposit his ticket in the box, and shall im mediately leave the polling place. If a voter shall mar or deface his bal lot, he may obtain one additional bal lot upon returning to the manager in charge of the ballots the ballot so marred or defaced, with the coupon attached. The manager in charge of the poll list shall change the number of the ballot on the poll list, and place the defaced ballot on file. No voter shall be given a second ballot until he has returned the first one with coupon attached. Section 5. No person shall be al lowed within the guard rail except as hereinafter provided. If a voter can not read or write, or is physically dis abled, and by reason thereof did not sign the enrolment book, he may ap peal to the managers for assistance, and the chairman of the manager.- shall appoint one of the manager? and a by-stander to be designated by the voter, to assist him in preparing his ballot: Provided, After the voter’- ballet has been prepared, the by stander so appointed shall immediate ly go behind the guard rail. Pro- vided further^ That in cities contain- ■ ing 55,000 inhabitants or more, the chairman of the manager? shall ap point two of the watchers represent ing the different factions to assist him in preparing the ballot; after the vo ter’s ballot has been prepared, the watchers so appointed ehall immed iately go behind the guard railing. Provided further, That if there be no such watchers available, the chairman may appoint two bystanders who are qualified to vote in such piimary to assist the voter in the preparation of his ballot. Section 6. From the time of the opening of the polls until the an nouncement of the result and the sign ing of the official returns no person shall be admitted to the polling place except the managers, duly authorized watchers and challengers, the chair man of the executive committee or member of the executive committee appointed in his stead to supervise the polling place? per.?bhs duly admitted for the purpose of voting, police of ficers admitted by the managers to preserve order or enforce law; Pro vided, however, That candidates for public office voted for at such polling place may be present at the canvase of the votes. Provided, canvass of the votes shall be open to the public. Section 7. If the watchers or of ficers of the law who are admitted to the polling place by the managers shall interfere with the managers or obstruct the voting, it shall be the duty of the managers to suspend the election until order is restored, or as may be provided by the rules of the party. No person shall be allowed to approach polling places within 25 feet while polls are open, other than the persons herein provided for. Section 8. Upon the close of the election, managers shall account to the executive committee for all ballots de livered to them, and make the follow ing return: (a) The number of of ficial ballots furnished to each polling precinct. (b) The number of offi cial ballots spoiled and returned by voters. (c) The number of official ballots actually voted. Copy of rule? will be mailed to man agers of each club with tickets. Each executive committeeman is hereby notified that he wi’.l be re quired to furnish the managers of election with two suitable boxes, one for tickets for candidates for State of fices and one for candidates for Con gressional and County offices. (Or dinary cigar boxes will do.) EDGAR A. BROWN, L „ County Chairman. B. P. DAVIES, I Secretary.