The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, September 15, 1932, Image 2
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1932
;; Nobody’s Business
By Gee McGee.
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We Kept Up With the Jonese*.
It has been mighty hard on ns to
keep up with the 'Joneses, but by
Heck, we have done it—and the
Joneses are busted and so. are we,
but its their fault; they started this
high living thing.
The day after old man Jones
fetched that 7-tube, super-he f rod'ne,
ftoll-mesh, extra grid radio home, we
installed a set just like it and played
as loud as they did. They bought
a new car in 1929, and so dij we.
Ours had 4-wheel brakes too.
money out of chewing gum stock. I
sampled it too often. .When I finally
sold the entire shipment, I was ex
actly 60 cents short gnd all of the
gum was gone. It took half of ; my
cotton patch to finish paying for
stuff. My prize for selling 2 do
worth of gum was a pretty little
scarf pin—and I never had a scarf irt
my life. I had to return a shipment
of spavin cure for~horses once. Folks
didn’t worry about sick horses ‘way
back yonder—as they used mules
mostly.
I peddled rheumatism electric
rings for 2 months and won a pocket
knife that wouldn’t cut hot ice-cream.
My reward for selling £4 bottle of
“Herb Juice” for stomach ailments
was a pair of ear muffs that were big
enough for a wild jackass. I got a
spyglass (that would make a fly
twice her regular size at 6 inches
away) for working 6 months trying
to sell insect powders; nobody paid
any attention to insects back then—
they only “shoo-ed” them now and
then. All of that was fine experience,
and taught me patience, and how to
endure the pain of fooling with all
kinds of people. I still enjoy tackling
tough customers.
Mi's. Jones diddent get to wear
her 2-carat super ring but 3 days
till our family had one just like it.
They began painting their house on
Tuesday, so we borrowed some
money and started painting our hou.«e
on Thursday. We got done a day
ahead of them as our house is smaller.
Mrs. Jones and her family wont
to the seashore in June and me and
my family went to the seashore in
June. We borrowed money for that
also. Willie Jones went to college
in 1930, so our boy had to go to
college too. And we sent him on
credit. We had no idea of letting
any of the Joneses out do or out
shine us.
(K)Nights of Long Ago.
.—Settin’ up with the corpse used
to be a common thing but somehow
or other, that fad is disappearing in
.some communities. I always enjoyed
it until I got married, as I would try
to set up with every corpse in the
neighborhood where my sweetheart
would be present. I still think well
of this custom.
It never was nice for folks to set
up with a corpse if he or she hap
pened to be kinfolks; so, naturally,
a fellow didn’t have to feel so very
sad if the person in the coffin was
only a friend or an acquaintance. Me
and Susie would usually do our set
ting up on the back steps or in the
front piazza or mebbe upstairs.
Susie could always look mighty sad
when necessary.
The Joneses traded at the very
best stores in town, and so did we;
only they paid cash and we had a
charge account. The Joneses bought
some stocks outright, and we bought
some stocks on margin. Mrs. Jones
after hers was built, measures 20 by
30 feet; ours built the following week
after hers was biult, measures 20 by
30 feet. She has snails and salaman
ders in her pond and so have we.
The Joneses cook with hoik elec
tricity and ffas; we have 2 .«tov:s too.
They have an automatic refrigei ator;
oura is just like theirs, only ours
aint quite paid for yet, and so aint
our car and stoves and radoi. Old
man Jones ran for the legislature,
and so did ou r old man—and both of
os got beat.
We would make coffee or sassa
fras tea along about midnight. As
we did not care to ramble around
in the kitchen of strangers hunting
cream or sweetmilk to go in the
coffee, Susie and I generally were de
legated to go out to the barn an<
milk a few squirts from old “Bes. 5 .’
We hated to wake her up for so
small an accommodation, but she
never seemed to mind it very much
meaning the cow.
This is the only time in history
that the Joneses—who always set the
P*ce—got it in the neck. We are
hoth poor now and we borrow from
keep up with us and we aint trying to
up with and we aint trying to
keep up with them. Our families
are on good terms and we actually
vi«t one another very often and we
go to church on Sunday too. The
Joneses are nice folks.
I Learned to Sell Merchandise.
-—I am a merchant. I have been in
the mercantile business about half
of my life. I enjoy the game as
much in bad times as in good times;
what I like about it is the work, and
work is entertainment to me. Idle-
would kill me in a month.
When I was a kid, I was ali the
time selling something. I would “or
der or for pills and chewing gum
u®d other junk to sell for prizes.
Mickles and dimes were very scarce
and it took real “bucking down” to
Mil 24 boxes of pink pills for droopy
people at 26 cents per each, but I
illy succeeded in doing that stunt
in 60 or 90 days—and then got my
prise watch—which wouldn’t run.
—A sad experience overtook me
one winter. I had a medicine house
up in Maine send me 2 dozen boxes
of worm tablets that I agreed to dis-
poae of at 50 cents, per box, and when
I sent them their money, they would
mail me a fine air rifle. I peddled
worm food for 2 months and sold only
1 box. Two or three of my brothers
broke ino my cracker-box trunk one
night and ate every single worm tab
let I had. It took me 2 vears to ex
plain that to the company. The boys
got well alright, but were never again
Motchad eating worm candy.
had * tough time getting any
In the winter time, we frequent
ly popped some corn about 2:15 a. m
Roasting -ome potatoes # at 3:10 a. m
helped some. Nearly everybody hac
’simmon beer when 1 was the “set
ting up age.” and we drank that to
keep u< from getting too sleepy. Susie
was alway? very resourceful; she
occasionally slipped into the kitchen
around 4:11 a. m., and fetched forth
some cold biscuits and a chunk of
meat; we broiled the meat on the
coals in the fire-place and made a fat-
back sandwich with the bread. That’s
fine eating even to this day, if you
don’t know it.
The erosion problem, one of the
most serloos facing the farms of the
(United States, has been practically
solved in one section of Missouri
where the federal warnings have been
taken seriously. In this area steep
hillsides which for years had been
whshed by heavy rains, have been
planted in corn by the so-called ter
racing method. The results have
more than borne out the contentions
of the experts who have maintained
that this method is the only one
which will save the fertile top soli
which In unprotected regions has been
washed away either by sheet erosion
or by gullying.
To illustrate, accurate measure
ments on adjacent fields subject to
the same rainfall as the terraced
fields disclosed the soil washed away
last year at the rate of 140 tons per
acre. On the terraced fields the loss
showed an average of 2.3 tons per
acre with one particular development
with Just 85 pounds over a ton loss.
There are two methods of terrac
ing, one which provides a gentle slope
from one flat down toward the ter
race leading to the flat on the next
lower level, and one in which the
various flats are made as level as
possible. In the case of the level
areas, the loss was held to the mini
mum.
The amount of soil lost annually
through the erosion Is tremendous
and experts are endeavoring to bring
all farmers with fields subject to the
swift wash of heavy rainfall to a
realization of the danger to their fu
ture prosperity in the continued Ig
noring of the steady drain on their
capital involved in the loss of top
soil.
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Wonder What Party ^t
t Other End Was Saying!
Albert D. Lasker’s pet story of the
week is about the colored maid in
the home of a friend who answered
an imperative ring of the telephone.
“Yas’m,” her mistress heard her
say. And a second time:
“Yas’m.” Then she added:
“It sho is,” and hung up.
The telephone rang again imme
diately and -the girl made identically
the same replies, then disconnected.
"What kind of a conversation was
that. Lucy?” her mistress asked.
“What did they want?”
"Well, they asked if this was the
Blank house and l said Yas’m. and
then they asked if Mrs. Blank was
home and I told ’em yas,” the girl
answered. “Then they said. ‘Long
distance from Washington,’ and I said
TT - sho \vas7”—Chicago News.
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Candidates* Cards.
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Second Democratic
Primary Election
For Coroner.
I hereby announce myself a candi
date for election to the office of
Coroner for Barnwell County, subject
to the rules and regulations of the
Democratic primary election, pledg
ing myself to ijbide by the result of
the election and to support the nomi
nees of the party.
S. H. USSERY.
We commenced to thin out along
about 5:30 a. m. 1 walked home
with Susie nearly every time; if she
stayed over for breakfast, I’d have to
go home by myself, as I had to be
there in time to feed the mules and
shuck the oxen and slop the hogs and
make fires in the stove and wake up
my brothers and set the table and ring
the farm bell. Our 1'egular getting-
up time on the farm was just before
day-light, summer and winter.
Rat-Kangaroo Still Lives
The rat-kangaroo of Australia, long
thought extinct, has been rediscov
ered by IL H. Finlayson of Adelaide
university, that country. In a letter
in Nature, a scientific periodical pub
lished in London, he points out that
since 1843 it had been feared this
queer animal had become extinct.
The writer claims he has not only re
discovered the long lost desert in
habitant. but has obtained specimens
in all stages of development. They
live in the sandhill country between
the Diamantina and Coopers rivers.
They are marsupials and possess
pouches in which they carry their
young. 1
Lending for Protection
Hollywood thought a certain mo
tion picture star had gone crazy when
he began to lend money to certain of
his friends. To be sure, the amounts
were small, but the fact that he lent
any at all was cause for consternation
among the people who, knew him
real well.
"Don’t you worry,” grinned the
star, when it was pointedly suggested
that he needed a vacation and mental
relaxation. "I haven’t loaned a dol
lar more than I'm willing to pay to
feel certain that I’ll be left strictly
alone. No one comes near you when
they owe you money.”
Times have changed since I wa.*
a boy. Of course the death of a
friend or a kinsman has always been
a sad and sorrowful occasion, but the
older folks did most of the mourning
“back yonder',” and setting up with
the dead was not any great punish
ment to the younger folks of my gen
eration. And Susie liked to set up
too. She married Hiram Skates be
fore I got married.
The Magistrate’s Races.
Blackville.
Grubbs Hammond
Blackville 235
Double Ponds 32
Healing Springs __ 13
282
19
61
Totals 280
362
Great Cypress.
Harden Sanders
Great Cypress 65 s 98
Siloam 57 37
Totals :! 122
135
ADVERTISE IN
The People- Sentinel.
Brothers, but—
Tiie Grand Duke Alexander at a re
ception in Washington was recounting
some of the more horrible of the Bol
shevik murders when a prim-looking
man in spectacles said in a reproach
ful voice:
“The Bolsheviks are o^r brothers.”
"Yes,” said the grand duke, “the Bol
sheviks are our brothers, sure enough,
but remember that Abel had a
brother.” ^ -
Now Baby Cheats City
The birth of Anne Blaker on “leap
year day” cost the town Qf Brighton,
England, a fortune. Six years ago
Sir John Blaker, four times mayor,
died, bequeathing $1,500,000 to be di
vided between civic improvements and
funds for indigent widows, provided
his son and daughter remained child
less.
, No Mystery There
Story Teller—And while the little
boy was sitting in his chair all alone
he heard a horrible, horrible wall
right behind him. What do you sup
pose it was?
Modern Youngster—Static!
' Now Ho’s CuroJ
Alice—Your husband doesn’t talk
about his old sweetheart any more.
Joyce—No. He saw her the other
day—after 20 years.
Girls aud' Girls
“I like Eva. She’s the sort of girl
who stands out In a crowd.”
“I’m all for Molly. She alts oat I"
(Stockholm).
I hereby announce myself a candi
date for election to the office of
Coroner for Barnwell County, subject
to the rules and regulations of the
Democratic primary election, pledg
ing myself to abide by the result of
the election and to support the norm
nees of the party.
JAMES T. STILL.
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