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1 I \ gy THE OFTICIAL NEWSPAPER OF BARNWELL COUNTY.* •< / \ V Barnwell V V Cvnselldated J«M i, 1*26. VOLUME LVL C. G. Fuller Directs * Activities in County Seen and Heard Here During the Past Week 'Ju*( Like a Member of the Family” ... ■ tr„ BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1932. TO COLLECT CITY TAXES ON INSTALLMENT PLAN Barnwell Mayor Has Complete Charge A Little Sense and Nonsense About of County Organization for I Roosevelt-Gamer. '<!<. V Columbia,' Oct. 17.—The. South Carolina division of the National Democratic campaign committee’s of fice is working day and night com pleting a State-wide organization, Senator R. M. Cooper, Jr., finance director for South Carolina, said to day. Headquarters has been estab- IDhe in rooms, 802, 804 and 805 of the Carolina Life Building, decorated with American flags, and ten stenog raphers are keeping the typewriters humming, assisting the county or ganizations. Every county in the State has been organized. The Hon. C. G. Fuller, of Barnwell, is directing activities in Barnwell County, and will have com plete charge of the county organiza tion for the Roosevelt-Gamer cam paign. * The plan of organization is that they are opening up a headquarters on main streets in well located store rooms, which are being decorated with American flags and each precinct in the county is being organized. Mr. Fuller is appointing various or ganization and individual workers to canvass every available Democrat in the county. Sale of medallions has already passed 5,000 and Hon John McKay, director of Dillon County, sold his first 100 immediately and telephoned for 500 more. Mrs. William Randolph Hearst is ♦ ffering $10,000 in cash prizes to the women who sell medallions to aid the party. South Carolina’s quota is $25,000. and Senator Cooper said he thought “we will be able to reach it." Every county is holding a Demo cratic rally, where they are having street parades and public speakings to create Democratic' enthusiasm. Hon. Clint T. Graydon, of Colum bia, has been appointed by Hon. Jas. A. Farley, national chairman, to or ganize the lawyers of South Carolina into an organization which is national and headed by Hon. John W. Davis. Telegram from Hon. R. H. Gore, national director of finance, insists that the county chaitman forward-im- mediately the names of every worker in the sale of medallions, that their names might be on a national "Roll tf Honor." National headquarters wired that Governor Roosevelt want? the week of October 24th set aside as special “Medallion Week" and asks every Democrat to buy and wear a medallion until after election. A number of prizes will be offered for those making the best showing. Hon. Claud N. Sapp, chairman of the Democratic party for South Carolina, is .-eliding out peisdhal letters to 2,*- 000 Democrats, whom he has selected a- leaders of the party, and is asking them to contribute ;i; liberally as pos sible .so that South Carolina may get its quota. National headquarters has sent Mr. David B. Traxler to assLt Senator Ccoper in a State-wide organization. Teachers to Meet at Williston Oct. 22nd Annual Meeting of South Carolina Education Assn, for 2nd District to Be Held. The annuual meeting of the South Carolina Education Association for th? teachers of the second district— Edgefield, Saluda, Aiken, Barnwell, Bamberg, Allendale, Hampton, Jas per and Beaufort Counties—will be held at Williston on the 22nd of October'. Departmental meetings will begin at 10:30 and the general meeting will open at 11:15. The discussion? in the departmental meeting will be led by some of our leading supervisors. Speakers for the general meeting will be John G. Kel ly, State High School Supervisor; J. H. Hope, State Superintendent of Ed ucation; J. P. Coats, Secretary, South Carolina Education Association; W. H. Ward, President, South Carolina Education Association; and Senator John F. Williams, of Aiken. Lunch will be served by the Wil liston School Improvement Associa tion at 35 cents. Carlisle School and Bailey Military Academy will play football at three o’clock. People You Know and Others You Don’t Know. — B. S. Moore, Jr., county superin tendent cf education^ telling about the capture of a wounded deer while he and a party of friends were on a fishing trip at Bluffton last week. The animal jumped into the river and the fishermen gave chase in a row boat. . . A local man remarking that he will be glad when the "bo-lo” craze subsides, as his eye-glasses are in imminent danger every time he steps out on the street. . . Caro lina football fans disappointed at the alleged poor showing of the Game cocks against Wofford last week and predicting a Clemson victory today, which some folks profess to believe is a thinly veiled attempt to inveigle Clemson supporters into making rash bets, or else is a scheme to defeat Bleaee, or sumpin’. . . A wagon with a lopsided wheel which gave the vehicle the appearance of a rowboat in a choppy sea. . . Lloyd Plexico building a “sister boat” to “Old Rock in’ Chair," which was badly damaged in a recent motorboat race. . . C. G. Fuller’s plane coming in about dark one evening with wing and tail lights burning. . . Work progress ing rapidly on .the Main Street resi dence of Dr. and Mrs. Martin C. Best. . . And the Lancaster block of buildings nearing completion. . . . Rain and overcast skies, but every body confident that “Big Thursday” at the State Fair will dawn clear. Twins of Blackville Prove Quite a Puzzle Professors and Students Started Wor rying When They Registered at Tulane University. When Hettie and Etta Mathis, of Blackville, registered in the Tulane university graduate school Monday, professors and students alike started worrying. It was beginning to look like a difficult year on the campus. But Hettie and Etta, twins and identical in appearance, piomptly al layed all fears. They are also insep arable, they ha.-tened to explain, and no one need address either of them singly. “Just follow the lead set by our friends at Agnes Scott college, where we were graduated la-t June,” they admonished. “We answered to the joint name of “Hety-Et” there. That name was devised to place every one on the safe side when they spoke to either of U’ * 1 ”. In fact, since their birth 21 years ago, these girls have lived similar lives. They talk, act and dres.- ex actly *plike, not because they deliber ately plan it, but because their tastes are identical. At Agneis Scott* college they were jointly pre-ident at the Chemistry club, and they shared the job of sec retary-treasurer cf the freshman class. During their fifteen years in school their teachers never have seen them separately, because they have/always taken the same course under the same teachers at the same time. More incredibly, they have made ex actly the same marks in every sub- ject. They caught diptheria at the same time, as well as the measles, and re mained in bed on both occasions for the same period.. To date, their weight ha- never varied more than three pounds. When one is indisposed or doesn’t care for a paiticuU? “date” or en gagement, the other subs. But that hadn’t happened often, apparently, because they say they’ve never been apart for more than three hours. That was when they shopped at dif ferent stores. But that’s enough of that. A recital of their other identical experiences would soon become commonplace, be cause it reads like the biography of one person. To '^ring the joint history up to date, ““Hetty-Et” registered in the Tulane graduate school to major in chemistry and to minor in physics, hoping to get an M. S. degree next June. They expect to do technical work in chemistry after their gradua tion. “But in any case,” they chorused, “we are going to stick together.”— New Orleans Times-Picayune. Economies Effect * Savings of $3,000 Reductions in Salaries, Wages and Consumption of Current Made by City Fathers. According to a statement made to a representative of The People-Sen tinel Monday morning by Mayor C. G. Fuller, the members of the new city council, since assuming office a short time ago, have effected econo mies in the administration of the municipal government that will result in savings of approximately $3,000 a year to the taxpayers of Barnwell. A part of this saving has been effect ed by reductions in salaries and wages paid to city employes and $1,200 a year will result in a reduction in the amount of electrict current used i n street lighting. Heretofore, the city has been pay ing $177 a month to the South Caro lina Power Company for street lights and under a recent agreement made with the company, whereby the white way on Main Street and one-half of the other street lights will be dis pensed with, the monthly bill will be reduced to $77, or a saving of $100 each month. While the town will not % be quite as well lighted as in the past, the Mayor and Aldermen are determined to operate the local muni cipal government within its income in an effort to put the city on a cash basis and ultimately effect a reduc tion in the tax levy. If and when conditions warrant, more lights will be added. A more determined effort will also be made to collect delinquent and current taxes, to the end that savings may be effected in the matter of in terest on borrowed mosey. It is also understood that Brown and Bush, city attorneys, have agreed to make no charge for their services during the ensuing two year's. This means an other saving of $200 a year, which, together with the mayor’s annual salary of $200 that Mayor Fuller will turn back into the treasury, to tals $400 per year on these two it ems. It is presmumed that this amount is included in the $3,000 men- » tioncd above. HOPOCATRUC By G.‘Chalmers McDermid. » PAYMENTS TO BE EXTENDED OVER 12 MONTHS. New Officials Find Outstanding ObIi< gations of $8,500 and Delinquent Taxes of $11,000. Crippled Local Team Puts Up Good Fight Holds Aggressive Allendale Aggrega tion to 0-0 Score in Friday’s Contest. Hope you are attending the State Fair this week the same as I am do ing. This fair has always been an attraction to me, and I haven’t missed one in years. There’s always some thing new in the way of crops, ma chinery and general Jd^eas that one can pick up. Then,‘Ico, the Cat olina-Clemsori football game is always a feature that we have'' to talk about for a whole year. No matter which team wins, it is a real topic of conversa tion. And.next week comes th/Orange burg County Fair, which is one of the best in the State. If you had forgotten these fairs, let this be a reminder . If you hadn’t intended going to them, let this be an “urge” to you to go and pick up some new ideas. You owe yourself a few days relaxation, and this is one of the best ways to get it. And if you want to get a real laugh, a real honest to goodness laugh, net connected with fairs, tune in on Thursday night to that well known cigarette program at 10 o’ clock and hear Bartm Munchausen I tell a few of his little tales.« Most of you have probably heard him, but those who haven’t will get some of the best stomach chuckles you have had in years. And remember, everyone who smokeg those cigarettes, helps to sell just that much more South Carolina to bacco. And the cigars they advertise on the same program, are made in Charleston. . - I don’t know how your dahlias are, but mine are the beat I’v had in a good while. They took a lot of pun ishment in the dry weather this spring and summer, but since the cool days have started, they are the biggest and showiest flowers I have had in many a day. , I guess, after all, that dahliaa are cool weather plants, and I wonder if you dahlia growers have had the same experience that I have had this fall. Faced with outstanding obligations of approximately *8,500 and delin quent taxes in the amount of some $11,000, the members of the local city council have worked out a plan of in stallment paying whereby as little\ excellent playing of the hardship as possible will be worked on the taxpayers while the town is collecting past due and current taxes. In fact, there are two plans, one for monthly payments and the other for quarterly installments. Under the monthly payment plan, the taxpayer pays 12 per cent, of the full amount due on Nov. 1st, plus a penalty of 1 per cent.; on December 1st he will pay* 8 per cent, of the full amount, plus a penalty of 2 per cent., and so cn until the entire amount has been paid. Under the quarterly payment plan, he will be required to pay 25 per cent of the full amount due, plus a penalty of 1 per cent., on November 1st; 25 per cent of the total amount due, plus a penalty of 4 per cent., on February 1st, 1933, and so on. The penalty increases 1 per dent, a month until it leaches a total of 12 per cent., which is said to be at the rate of about 6 per cent for the full year. The above plans will apply to the payment of both delinquent and cur rent taxes, as the city fathers say it i s necessary to collect all taxes due in order to opeiate the municipal gov ernment. The following letter has been mail ed by Mayor C. G. Fuller to all tax payers of the town of Barnwell: “When the present Council took charge Sept. 20th, 1932, we found that the town had outstanding obli gations amounting to approximately $8,500. This included interest due on bonds, salaries of police, clerk, etc., note for money borrowed and ac counts payable. However, this does not include any cf the bonded in debtedness. “Delinquent taxes amounted to approximately $11,000. Ninety-five per cent, of this amount was for the years 1930- and 1931. There was very little for the years piior to 1930. “In order to meet these obligations, as well as the interest coming due on bonds, we are forced to collect all delinquent taxes, and also to collect taxes coming due for' the year 1932. “In order that as little hardship as possible be put on the taxpayers a plan has been worked out by Council, as shown on the accofnpanying letter, that will give the taxpayers an op portunity of t paying these taxes, both delinquent, and current, monthly or quarterly. Taxpayers may also avail themselves of the privilege of saving five per cent, on CURRENT taxes by paying same on or before October 25th, 1932. “It is the earnest desire of Council to put the town on a cash basis with out inflicting any hardship on the taxpayers Handicapped by the loss of R. Lemon, speedy quarterback, who was injured in the Carlisle game the week before, Barnwell put up^a game fight again-t the aggressive Allen dale aggregation on the latter’s field Friday afternoon, the final score be ing 0-0. For that day at least Al lendale showed marked superiority. Without in any way belittling the Allendale boys, it might be said that they were aided to some extent by penalties at critical times—one of 15 yards and several of 5 yards each, the latter oe- ing for alleged eff-side. In one or two instances, an off-side penalty was imposed on Barnwell after Allen dale had been thrown for a substan tial loss. There were also rumors of ineligible players, but that is neither here nor there. , Allendale was able to make good gains in midfield with end runs be hind beautiful interference and also with short forward passes, but when their goal was seriously threatened the Barnwell boys stiffened their de fense and took the ball on downs. The superiority of the Allendale of fense is shown by the fact that they made ten first downs while Barnwell chalked up only one. Barnwell lost a chance to score when a punt was blocked deep in Allendale territory. A Barnwell player fell on the ball in stead of running it for a touchdown. The ball then went over when a nicely executed lateral pas s failed by inches to make first down in the shadow of the goal posts. Most of the game was played in Barnwell’s territory, but Allendale lacked the necessary punch to score against a team that looked entirely different from the one that played so well against the much heavier Car lisle outfit. Blackville Plays Here Friday. The Blackville football team will meet the Barnwell high school aggre gation on the local field tomorrow (Friday) afternoon at 3:30 o’clock. It i s understood that Coach W. R. Price has agreed to allow Blackville to use several former members of the Blackville team, who have been grad uated from high school, to play with the visitors in order to make the game more interesting, as the regular high school eelven is composed for the most part of small boys. Local fans hope that thi s will not result in a defeat for the Barnwell boys. NUMBER 8. Thieves at Bamberg Get Money and Rings Iron Safe in Gulf Refining Company's Office Is Battered to Pieces ^ and Robbed Bambeffr Oct. 17.-fVhen L. C. Smoak, thi s morning opened the of fice of the Gulf Refinm^ company, operated by the firm of J. J. and *L. C. Smoak, a mass of debris confront ed him. Some time between Satur day night and this morning robbers had battered the iron safe to pieces and extracted therefrom all cash, representing the Saturday gasoline sales, several hundred dollars, and two diamond rinr» of Mrs. Smoak, which had been placed in there for safe keeping. The robbers entered the office by breaking open a side window. A sledge and a piece of iron had ap-* parently been used to beat off the combination of the safe, releasing the lock, and then the same instruments had been used to beat down all of the inside partitions, until the draw- erg containing the cash had been re leased. About the same time the tool house of the B. E and W. railroad was broken intp^ A sledge hammer and the piece of iron found in the Gulf office were stolen, and at the same time about twenty gallon g of gaso line. It is supposed that the ham mer was used in the Gulf robbery. That the robbers were discriminat ing i s shown by the fact that Mr. Smoak had a dozen or more of de fective coins in the money box, which had accumulated for some time past. The robbers carefully selected all these coins and put them to one side. Books and records of the partner ship were piled on the table and were not molested. The safe wa s a com plete wreck. A fingerprint expert has been sent for in an effort to get photographs of prints from the safe. The two rings of Mrs. Smoak had been worn so thin that she had to cease wearing them, and they were put in the safe. \ Burglary insurance had previously been carried by the oil firm, but had lapsed, it i 8 stated. Sign Large Contract for Gasoline and Oil a C. G. Fuller Construction Co. to Use 300,000 Gallons of Gasoline During Year. f Aiken Defeats Williston. Aiken, Oct. 13.—The Aiken insti tute Jay Birds, displayed great su periority, this afternoon defeated the Williston high football team by 12 to 0 on the Kalmia polo field. The locals outplayed the visitors in all departments, outgaining Williston 140 yards to 11 in rushing. The Jay Birds scored first oh straight foot ball and climaxed by a shoit pass over the line for the touchdown. A The plan shown is the j blocked punt led to the other core. result of our efforts, and we ask the full co-cperation of all the people in putting the town on a cash basis.” Clyde Barnhill and George Durban, local backs, made several long gains. The defensive star for Williston was C. Youngblood, whose vicious tackling was outstanding. Ballots Are Ordered. » Columbia, Oct. 17.—The South By the way, one of the best dahlia shows in the South isrthe one which they stage at the State Fair in Col umbia. And this is good weather for set ting those strawberiy plants you Carolina Democratic party today pro- have been premising yourself. If you' ceeded with plans to print a separate get them in now, you will get a much ballot for their candidates in the gen- largei spring crop, than if you wait^ral election November, 8th with liti- until later in the winter. Pecan harvest is with us again. What is perhaps the largest con* trtict ever signal in South Carolina by anybody other than a tank-car dealer wag made here recently b- tween C. G. Fuller, president of the C. G. Fuller Construction Co., and the Standard Oil Co., represented by H. J. Phillips of this city. The contract calls for a total of 300,000 gallons of gasoline, 10,000 .gallons .of Esolube (motor oil) and 5,000 pounds at grease, which are to be used on Mr. Fuller’s various road projects in this State during the coming year. Contracts for the bituminous sur facing of more than 100 miles of highways in South Carolina were recently awarded to Mr. Fuller’s company and gasoline, oil and grease play an important part in their con- stiuction, as a large fleet of trucks and improver machinery are used. L. G. Richardson Passes. In gation to force the lisling of Demo cratic and •- Republican candidates’ gathering your cro;f look over thej nam eg cn the same ballot still pend- yields of the tree which you fertilized | jng in the state supreme court. as I recommended last spring, and see if you haven’t a much better crop cn them this year. Drop me a line about your yields from those trees. I’m very much in terested and one of te ways I get in formation is for you to give it to me. I travel about a whole lot, but natur ally I can’t get much information on J. Wilson Gibbes, secretary of tne State Democratic party, announced that he ordered ballotg for the general election today as usual. Mr. Gibbes said he estimates that 166,000 s ets of the paper slips will be needed this year. , Democratic nominees for the United States ’ senate and house, and presi- yields, so just drop me a line telling dential electors will be named on one me how your crop came out where ballot, Mr. Gibbes raid, and party you used the 8-3-10 fertilizer. Maybe nominees for the State legislature and I can help you sell some of the nuts. Advertising them in the newspa pers will sell many a Christmas pack age of nuts that would never be sold otherwise. Give the newspapers a chance to ?how you. county offices on another. The State Democratic party is doing the entire work of printing. ♦ ♦ ♦ Col. Edgar A. Brown spent Monday in Augusta on professional business. The many friends of L. G. Rich ardson, veteran insurance man, of this city, were grieved to hear, of his death, which occurred at seven o’clock Wednesday evening, October 12th, at the home of his son-in-law and daughter. Colonel and Mrs. J. E. Harley, after several months of fail ing health. Funeral services were conducted Thursday afternoon at the residence by the Rev. W. E. Wiggins, pastor of the Barnwell Methodist Church, and interment followed in the city ceme tery. Mr. Richardson, who was 79 years of age, is survived by three daugh ters and one son, Mrs. J. E. Harley and Mrs. O. H. Best, Jr., of this city; Mrs. A. C. Matthews, of New berry, and L. G. Richardson, Jr., of Washington, D. C., and one slater. Mrs. Hamp Woodward of the Willis ton section, who have the siaeara sympathy of many friends » their bereavement ADVERTISE in The