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JOHN W. HOLMES
1840—1912.
B. P. DAVIES, Editor and Proprietor.
Entered at the post office at Barnwell,
S. C. f as second-class matter.
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1932
A MERRY CHRISTMAS!
transportation. . Hogs have no place
thereon.
The Snipes Case.
To every subscriber.
To every advertiser.
To the college girls and boys.
To the preachers of the county.
To the members of city council.
To all the school teachers of the
county.
To those who like us and to those
who don’t.
To Policemen George Peeples and
John Hogg.
To Governor Blackwood and other
State officials.
To the girls and boys in grammar
and high school.
To all the Magistrates in the county
and their constables.
To all of the members of the Barn
well County Bar Association.
To Representatives Solomon Blatt
and Winchester C. Smith, Jr.
To other members of the Fourth
Estate throughout South Carolina.
To Col. Edgar A. Brown, State
Senator, “Kingfish” and public bene
factor.
To the officers of the Barnwell
County Red Cross Chapter and their
willing helpers.
To the doctor's who prescribe for
the sick—and to the druggists who
fill their prescriptions.
To C. G. Fuller', Barnwell’s air-
minded Mayor, who is making good in
his new official capacity.
To President Hoover, who perhaps
after all wasn’t entirely and solely
responsible for the depression.
To the mothers and fathers who
are “carrying on’’ so bravely in the
face of adverse circumstances.
To the good friends in Blackville,
Williston, Elko, Hilda, Kline, Snelling,
Dunbarton, Meyer’s Mill and other
sections of the county.
To the grown-ups whose hearts are
always young—and to those Scrooge-
like folks whose hearts are not
touched by the Spirit of Christmas.
To all of the children everywhere—
and most especially those whom San
ta Claus, because of the stress of
present-day conditions, may not visit
this year.
To President-elect Franklin D.
Roosevelt and other s who will direct
the affairs of the United States for
the next four years.
To those who occasionally give us
those who delight in pointing out our
errors, typographical and otherwise.
To the members of the County
Board of Directors—J. W. Patterson,
Idis Brabhbam, W. D. Black, R. R.
Moore and Levy S. Still, and their
clerk, Perry B. Bush. *
To the merchants of Barnwell^-
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-those^ who advertise and those who
think that Their business sagacity is
greater than that of men who have
bulldtfd great fortunes with the aid of
printers* ink.
To all of the Court House officials—
County Treasurer J. J. Bell, Auditor
“Bill’’ Manning, Sheriff “Jack” Morris,
Judge John K. Snelling, Supt. B. S.
Moore, Jr., Clerk of Court “Bob”
Bronson, Master in Equity G. M.
Greene and Coroner James T. Still.
To the families of all whom we
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have mentioned.
To EVERYBODY EVERYWHERE!
Hogs on the Highways.
Last week a good friend made some
rather sarcastic remarks anent the
warning of the State highway depart
ment to owenrs of livestock that they
keep their hogs off the public high
ways. The warning, which was pub-
lised in these columns, pointed out
the danger to motorists if the prad*
tice were not stopped. Our friend be
lieved (or pretended to believe) that
it was just another instance of an
tutocrutic department of our St ite
government attempting to enforce its
will on “the poor farmer” in order
that town folk 8 may “burn the wind”
in their automobiles.
Saturday morning, a mother and
two daughters were instantly killed
when the car in which they were rid
ing hit a hog on the highway and over
turned into a'ditch. Such a tragedy
might easily happen in Barnwell
County, where hogs are allowed to
roam at large. ^
South Carolina’s highways have
been built at a cost of millions of
dollars, by the motorists themselves,
in order to provide safer and faster
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A short time ago, Mrs. Beatrice
Ferguson Snipes, a young white
woman of Columbia, was convicted by
a York County jury of the murder of
a highway patrolman. The* verdict
carried the penalty of death by elec
trocution. Because she is expected to
become a mother in January, the
presiding Judge sentenced her to be
put to death in April.
Usually in a case of this kind
maudlin sentiment prompts many
people to urge executive clemency.
An appeal is being taken to the Su
preme Court, the presiding Judge
having declined to grant a new trial.
If this appeal is not successful, we
hope that Governor Blackwood will
commute Mrs. Snipes’ sentence to a
term in prison,—not because she is a
woman and an expectant mother, but
because of a possible miscarriage of
justice.
We are not familiar with all of the
facts in the case, but published ac
counts stated that Mrs. Snipes killed
the patrolman during an argument
and scuffle that ensued after the of
ficer had stopped the car in which the
woman and her husband were riding
in order to search it for liquor. Mur
der, as we understand it, i s premedi
tated and planned with malice in one’s
heart. Manslaughter is committed
under the stress of “sudden heat and
passion,” and it seems to us that the
latter crime is more applicable to Mrs.
Snipes’ case. Of course, in the ab
sence of all of the facts in the case,
we may be totally wrong, but it is
also possible that the York County
jury was swayed by local feeling, and
that a new trial and a change of venue
may best serve the ends of justice.
Dr. Joseph A. Hartig has been
elected president and Dr. J. I. Fclk
vice-president of the newly formed
Fairfax chamber of commerce. These
two physicians should be able to pre
scribe a remedy “for what ails” most
small towns.
Nobody’s Business |
By Gee McGee.
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Signs of the Times.
When The Literary Digest is thin,
times are hard; when it is semi-thin,
conditions are improving, and when
it is thick, times are normal and folks
are advertising as usual.
W’hen politicians conduct a “cut the
budget reduce expenses” campaign get
ready for higher taxes. This is a sure
sign of burdens unheard of before.
(It took me 40 years to find out for
whom politicians work. Viz: them-
xetves an^ kinfolks;’of course^
It is a great picture to be here
tonight; it beats being home a right
smart, and I feel sure that you are
happy to have me as your principle]^Dear
speaker (Applause.)
My subject this evening is “What’s
What and Who Caused It.” We are
bounded on the north, east, south and
west by a depression, and it looks
like it will wind up in a panic before
it is over with.
Housewives do you know that the
railroad companies charge more for
it still costs you two days work in a
than the farmer gets for growing it?
Do you realize that a Minnesota pota
to grower is paid 30 cents a hundred
fdr his potatoes and railroads get 89
cent? a hundred for hauling them
down here for us to eat instead of
growing some ourselves ?
Men, have you ever thought that
it still costs you 2 days wory in a
cotton mill to talk to a friend over
the telephone 300 miles away, and
and then you must not talk but 3
minutes, which means that you can’t
afford to talk to women at all, as it
would cost you a month’s salary?
Children, did y°u ever stop to think
that your sister draws more money
as a she-nographer in a politician’s
office for one month’s work than your
daddy and five boys get for working
12 whole months on a farm? Well,
she do. '
Fellow Citizens, ddK$rou realize that
your land is assessed for taxes more
per acre than you can get. for it and
that you buy your own land back
every 8 years if you pay your taxes
at all? Do you know that it
takes 69 bales of strict middling cot
ton to pay a speed cop for 12 months?
Babies, have you ever thought that
it takes a bushel of corn and a gallon
of molasses for you to get a 65d meal
in a 2-dollai-a-day hotel tea-room?
Well, it do. Grandpas, are you sitting
around these days whitling and be
lieving down in your heart that over
15 percent of our politicians give a
darn about you having your house
and lot sold ior taxes? What they
want —is money to spend, use and
waste.
When a man buys a bunch of gro
ceries or borrows a dollar from you
with a positive promise that, “I will
pay you next week” you might as well
give him a receipt along with the
stuff. If he is trading with you on
credit, and suddenly stops trying to
“jew” you down on your prices* W
is getting ready to jump his bills.
Good payers always ask what mer
chandise is w’orth before it is wrapped
up.
When a man eats every third or
fourth meal down town, you just put
it on the front leaf of your note book
that his wife is ’a good bfidge player,
or that his mother-in-lawl is spending
a few days at his house, or he is
tired of spinach or his gas has been
cut off, or his family has gone south
for the winter or north for the Rum
mer, or probably he bought stocks on
margin in 1929 and lost his home.
When your neighbor begins to
count his wealth in equities, “in this
and that,” he’s broke, as there ain’t
any such animals as “equities” any
more. A second mortgage ain’t worth
the interest on a dime for 2 mihutes.
And when preferred goes to 20 and
common goes to 10, they are then in
a class with European War Debts.
When your friend Brown walks up
and says: “Hey, theje, Bill. You’re
looking fine this motning. That suit
you have on is a dandy, and your tie
matches to a tin whistle. Old bey,
I wish I had the brains you’ve got.”
He is getting ready to “touch” you for
a 5 or 10 or 20, or what have you?
The only good thing about such “tou
ches” is: the toucher rarely tries to
touch twice in the same place. Moral.
Pay him off and get rid of him for
life.
Speech Made by Gee McGee at\ the
Poor House Last Night.
Ladies, Gentlemen and FellowJlank*
rupta:
Breth-ren and sister-ren, do you
ever stop and think that you are
endorsers on all those war debts notes
over-seas? Well, darlings, you are.
If Europe fails to pay those debts,
why, you and I will have to pay them.
About 99 percent of all our troubles
is debt. This refers to individual,
personal, state, county, school dis
trict, city, town, government, church,
and Sabbath school debts. Time s will
be better when people can go to work
and make some money to spend, but
times can’t get any better till some
money is spent, so’s people can go
back to work. Which came first, the
hen or the egg? Answer: The roos-
ter. (No applause, as my listeners
had all gone to sleep.)
Dollars vs. Sense.
Since the government has reduced
it s operating expenses it requires the
money obtained from the sale of only
114,550 bales of cottcn to" run the
post Office “departmeht^foY 3 “days.
Due to the cut in payments to dis
abled, slightly disabled, imaginary
disabled and totally disabled World
War veterans, including retired offi
cers, with flat feet, the value of 165,-
900 bushels of wheat will trieet the
present demands from these spurces
for a period of 24 minutes.
On account of lopping off of use
less help in Washington—in the vari
ous* and sundry departments, such as
commerce, agriculture, fisheries, and
tadpoles, money derived fttom the
export of 250,000 bushels of oats will
pay the ballanee of the help (retain
ed) for practically 6 days.
about 1750,000,000,000 bushels of
corn (on the farm,) which is nearly
all that is grown in the United States.
Voter: Don’t worry; things
political have always * been thus and
might continue thua. so far x a s I
know.) ' sar --‘ • —
f« hy Helbx tiAiarmw 1
| HERE was sadness In the
Jordon’s cottage on Indian
Hill. Even the merriment
of an aprpoaching Christ
mas season could not super
sede the fact that Foster
Jordan was going blind.
J Blind!
That was bad enough. But Foster
Jordan, swathed in bandages from the
operation that had failed, knew that
Helen could never carry on alone. It
had been so expensive, that operation
that had only served to pronoudee his
doom more surely. AH their savings
were gone, and what could the most
faithful of wives do, with a baby in
arms, and a blind husbandT ^The cot
tage would go. too, and then—
He roused himself from these gloomy
forebodings at the sound of her step
at the door. And that she should not
think him grieving, he began to sing.
“Foster,” his wife called, as the
door opened, “who do you suppose Is
here? My old chum, Pauline West-
land! Tou know, the costume de
signer in New York? Paulina, this is
my husband, that I’ve written you so
much about.” /
“How do you do, Miss Westland.
Sorry I can’t—my eyes, you know—"
“Of course. I’m so glad to meet
you, Mr.—may I call you Foster?
Helen has told me so much about you.”
“And oh, Pauline," Helen Inter
rupted. "here Is our baby. Isn’t he
adorable?” Then In a whisper, “Do
look more cheerful, darling! If you
don’t I’ll cry and I mustn't do that!”
“The doctors give you no hope?”
“None whatever. But we’ll get
along—somehow—” Helen dabbed at
her eyes with her handkerchief. “Fos
ter. dear,” she said aloud, “you were
singing as we came in. Won’t you
sing for Pauline?’’
“Yes, please do." /k
"I’m afraid I can’t.”
"Yes. you can, dear. I'll play for
you.” And so he sang.
At last their guest rose to go. “1
can’t tell you how I’ve enjoyed your
songs," she said. “I'm so glad I
stopped off on my way home for the
holidays.”
"You must come again." Helen an
swered. “I’ve enjoyed seeing you so
much.”
“I’m pleased to have met you. Fos
ter, and 1 wish you both a blessed
Christmastide.”
Days passed, and it was Christmas.
Bright and early came a fecial de
livery letter.
Maxwell Brothers
Furniture
Special Values for
-Christmas Shopping
933 Broad St., Augusta, Ga.
Against Hunting, Fishing and Trapping
Any person or persons entering upon the lands hereinafter referred to
situate in Barnwell, Richland and Red Oak Townships, for the purpose of
hunting, fishing or trapping, will be prosecuted to the full extent of the
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J. M. Weathercbee 572
Estate of H. A. Patterson __ 2,000
Joseph E. Dicks 800
R. C. Holman 400
A. A. Richardson 1,000
Lemon Bros. 150
John K. Snelling - 100
J. P. Harley 150
L. W. Tilly - 160
John Newton 200
Tom Davis 400
B. L. Easterling 75
Terie Richardson 100
N. A. Patterson (Tanglew’ood
Place) 130
W. M. Cook 250
GEO. H. WALKER, Owner
ANGUS PATTERSON, Mgr.
Treasurer’s Tax Notice!
Mrs. Flossie Smith 1,000
Mrs. Kate M. Patterson 3,000
Duncannon Place 1,650
Sweet Water Place 500
B. L. Easterling Cave Place 200
Barnwell Turpentine Co.:
Simmons Place 450
Middleton Place j-- 300
Mose Holley 200
B. C. Norri s —- 125
J. W. Patterson’ __^T 100
L. Cohen—(Hay Place) 200
Dr. Allen Patterson 1,000
Brice Place 500
Harriett Houston ... 150
Mrs. B. H. Cave 250
The County Treasurer’s office will be open from October 1st, 1932,
to March 15th, 1933, for collecting 1932 taxes, which include real and
personal property, poll and road tax.
All taxe^ due and payable between October 1st and December 31st,
1932, will be collected without penalty. All taxes not paid as stated will be
subject to penalties as provided by Jaw.
"January 1st, 1933, one per cent, will be added.
February Lst, 1933, two percent, will be added.
March 1st to 15th, seven percent, will be added.
Executions will be placed in the hands of the Sheriff for collection af
ter March 15th, 1933. - -*•
When writing for amount of taxes, be sure and give school district
if property is in more than one school district.
All personal checks given for taxes will be subject to collection.
—“Dearest Helen," it began.—“! hare"
the grandest news for you! As soon
ns I got home I phoned to Jud Myers
in New York. He’s staging a new
show that I’m designing the costumes
for and lias been simply wild for some
act to put in the heart throbs.
"Well. I talked him into seeing that
a bling singer would go over big, and
raved about Foster’s voice, so It’s all
arranged. I am. enclosing his check
for $500. ’and if you can be ready
we’ll all go back to New York to
gether.
"With love for a Merry Christmas,
Pauline.”
©. 19S2. Western Newspaper Union.
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CARD OF THANKS.
Vincent Smalls, colored painter, of
Barnwell, wishes to thank all of his
white friends of Barnwell for their
patronage during the year 1932 and
wishes for them a Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year. They are
as follows:
The Bank of Barnwell, Mrs. Perry
A. Price, Mrs. L. A. Plexico, Mrs. J.
Julien Bush, Mrs. W. M. Harris, Mrs.
B. P Davies, Mr s Nellie Cave, Mrs.
Lizzie Cave, Mrs. Ben Hill Cave, Mrs.
A. A. McAllister, Mrs. Holly, Mrs. R.
By reason of magnificent manage- S. Dicks, Mrs. Norman Dicks, Mrs.
ment of the interstate commerce Angus Patterson, Mrs. Emma Holman,
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commission—by whose power and au
thority the railroads were forced to
increase their freight rates 2 percent
(emergency charge) and maintain the
war-time passenger and freight rates
—much to the joy and comfort of
competing truck, bus and dray-lines—
the railroads are losing only about
$2000,000.00—every 15 days—which
represents the value of only 200,000,-
000 pounds of Irish potatoes, includ
ing the freight charges on same, which
i s just twice the money the farmer
got for growing the said spuds.
Mrs. B. W. Sexton, Mrs. W. J. Lemon,
Mrs. H. A Gross, Mrs. R. L. Bronson,
Mrs Lessie Easterling, Mrs. E. D.
Peacock, Mrs. Solomon Brown, Mrs.
W. L. Molair, Mrs. J. N. Anderson,
Mrs. W. G. HilJ, Mrs. Ed Sanders,
all of Barnwell, and Mrs. R. A. Gyle?,
dlf Blackkvile.—Adv.
By being wise and wary, our last
congress put on extra taxes which
were supposed to raise the tenyweeny
sum of just $1,500,000,000.00 so’s
the republican administration could
balance the budget before it went
home (to stay,) and it will fall short
of the expectation of our leaden
INSURANCE
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PUBLIC LIABILHY
ACCIDENT - HEALTH
SURETY BONDS
AUTOMOBILE
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Calhoun and Co.
P. A. PBICli. Manager.
No. 24—Ashleigh
No. 33—Barbary Br’ch..
No. 45—Barnwell
No. 4—Big Fork
No. 19—Blackville
No. 35—Cedar Grove _.
No. 50—Diamond
No. 20—Double Pond__
No. 12—Dunbarton
No. 21—Edisto
No. 28—Elko'
No. 53—Ellenton
No. 11—Four Mile—r.
No. 39—Friendship
No. 16—Green’s
No. 10—Healing Spgs._-
No. 23—Hercules
No. 9—Hilda —- — --
No. 52—Joydte Branch._
No. 34—Kline
No. 32—Lee’s
No. 8—Long Branch.—a
No. 54—Meyer’s Mill—_
No. 42—Morris —
No. 14—Mt. Calvary,—
No. 25—New Forest
No. 38—Oak Grove
No. 43—Old Columbia.
No. 13—Pleasant Hill-
No. 7—Red Oak
No. 15—Reedy Branch-
No. 2—Seven Pines _ —
No. 40—Tinker's Creek-
No. 26—Upper Richland
No. 29—Williston
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The commutation road tax of $3.00 must be paid by all male citizer
between the ages of 21 and 55 years. All male citizens between the agt
of 21 and 60 years are liable to poll tax of $1.00.
Dog Taxes for 1932 will be paid at the same time other taxes are pai<
. .It is the duty of each school trustee in each school district to st
that this tax is collected or aid the Magistrate in the enforcement <
the provisions of this Act.
Checks will not be accepted for taxes under any circumstances e:
cept at the risk of the taxpayer.—(The County Treasurer reserves tl
right to hold all receipts paid by check until said checks have been paid
Tax receipts will be released only upon legal tender, postoffice mone
oilers, or certified checks. J. J. BELL, Co. Treag.
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