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; w ' « ■4* t*GE FOUR. '■^Tv y ■ **:!\l. ■ * V ^ v-. ' '. ' ‘ '• \ IBB BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARN* ELL. SOUTH CAROUNA THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1933. Barnwell 50 and 25 Years Ago. IntereHtinsc Item* Gleaned From the File* of The Barnwell People. aahinffton and to blow up it a public Great White Fathei*.” They were buildings. En route to the capital, Lincoln left Harrisburg, Pa.,\ secretly at night on a special train, traveled through hos- which took place at 2:47 in the mom- headed by the erstwhile'terror of the ing in the lamp-lighted sitting roont southwest, chieftain. Geronimo, the Apache MARCH 1, 1883. Fruit trees have put on their spring clothes too hastily. Rev. Mr. Barnwell, the new rector of the Epl-copal Church, ha s arrived in Barnwell and will preach cn next Sunday. A sneak thief entered Major Brab ham’s residene last Thursday night, stole a valuable silver watch and made good his escape. At the Elko municipal election on the 21st the “dry ticket” was elected. It 8 member.' are: Intcndant, L. A. Thomson; Wardens, J. R. Hair, W. T. Cave, P. B. Sellers and G. A. Clark, colored. Governor Hagood is now in the Piedmont section of the State in the interest of the Carolina, Cumberland Gap and Chicago Railroad. He made speeches last week at Williamston and Belton and was enthu.-iastically re ceived. That road will be built. Three thousand eggs were shipped from Williston last week. They were the surplus from portions of Rose mary and Williston Townships and netted the nice sum of four hundred and eighty dollars to the shippers. Col. W. W. Willis will build a cotton seed mill near Elko this summer. If there are any guarantees of success in such a good head of water as Spur Branch affords or such a good head for business as 'the Colonel carrier *on hi 9 .'houiders the enterprise will be splendidly successful. An unfortunate difficulty at Allen dale on la«t Saturday resulted in the death of Mr. Lawrence Best. He was killed by a blow from a policeman’s dub, inflicted by Mr. Dupuis, the town marshall, who, according to all account' we have received, wa s act ing strictly in seif defense. Married at Williston, on the 2. r >th inst., by Rev. Dove Tiller, Mr. Warren Royal and Miss Annie, eldest daugh ter of Mr. Joseph Dicks. FEBRUARY 27, 1908. Col. W. R. Owens wa s in town on Tue. day, handsfcmaly improved in health. Hard times have sent many bad men from the North to the South. Watch all suspicious strangers, but don’t shoot until sure. According to the old sign of the seven Mar.' there is plenty cf cold yet ahead. Believes in them as weather prophets say that frost never comes until the seven star 3 are visi ble in the Ea t about dark, and tha^ it does not cease until they set in the West about dark. They are still high in the sky. ^ The severe and very seriou g iJlness of Cel. L. W. Youmans ha' been a source of sincere and heartfelt anxiety to all that know his high worth and exalted character. It is given to few men to have so full a measure of public confidence and honor as he ha s so well earned, so generously given. Judge J. O. Patter.'on was a mem ber of the Congressional committee to attend the burial on Friday cf Sena tor Latimer at Belton and took ad vantage of the opportunity to spend j a couple of days at home. Bemj? paired with a Republican Congress man he could very well spare the time. Barnwell County boys generally make good wherever they go. The Brunswick, Ga., New s of the 19th inst. say.' that the American Tie and Timber Company, of which Col. Mike Brown’s sons, Simon, New York, and Kline of Brunswick, are President and Vice President, secured the govern ment contract to deliver about 3200 long .leaf yellow pine logs for piling it Colon, Panama, for the pretty sum of $30,000. The contract was won in competition with bidder.' from the Pacific, Atlantic and Gulf States. Judge George E. Price, of Ander son, will preside at the March term of Court. tile Baltimore with a shawl around his head as a disguise and slipped quietly into Washington at 6:05 in the morn ing. V When Lincoln rode from Willard’s hotel to the capitol to swear that he would preserve the union, his carriage was surrounded by soldiers, while expert riflemen on the roofs of houses trained their guns on Pennsylvania avenue prepared to repel any threat of attack on him. Great Inaugurations of Past Recalled in Present Program Washington, Feb. 20—Franklin D. Rocsevelt will take his place in the procession of the ipresident* as the twenty-ninth man to he inaugurated chief executive in Washington. Jeffer-on’s inauguration was the first to be held in this city. Washing ton was inducted into ffiee in New York and in Philadu'^hia, while John Adams also was inaugurated in the old Quaker metropolis. Chester Ar thur, who wa s viecHprcsIdcnfc wtis elevated to the pro. idency after Car- field’s assassination, to k the oath in his New York home. Riding down Pennsylvania avenue fiom the White House to the capitol for the induction ceremony, President elect R osevelt will be going over a route haUow'ed in the nation’e history. For a century and a half the e'ect and the elite, president.', potentates and world heroe* have passed that way in the pageant of the republic’s progress from Washington to Lincoln, to Roosevelt, to Wilson, to Hoover and now, to another Roosevelt. The avenue has echoed to the tramp ■cf soldiers of the Revolution, the Mexican, Civ 1, Spanish and World wars. Silk-stockinged statesmen of the Colonial period marched in its dust and mud; so too did frontiersmen wf the Daniel Boone and Sam Houston era.-, and rugged individuals of the McKinley "full dinner pail" period. The whoop of Indians, the yip-yip of cowboys, the cheers < f California “forty-niners” and of boys who were to die “over there” have reverberated from 'the buildings that flank Ameri ca’s Appian Way. Thomas Jefferson’s inauguration was one of the simple.-t. Escoited by: a company of Virginia riflemen, he walked from his boarding house across a stump-studded clearing to the capitol where carpenters had stop ped work for the day. After the inauguration, he returned to the hoarding hous^ to remain for jnearly throe week s bgfore e'tablish- ing residence an the “half-fiijished o’ emtive mansion nearly a mile away 1’ >'■ swamp.” Jeffervon, “friend of the masses,’’ was loath to leave his Jboarding hou'-e. Expi Mtrc M.’y Have Caused Death. Exposure to inclement weather dur ing inaugura:d ceremonies, which has imperiled the health of many Presi dents, probably caused the death of one. William Henry Harrison, the oldest President to be inaugurated, died of :nia said to have been superin duced in laige measure by the rigors of his inauguration. Hatless and without an overcoat, the 68-year old veteran of the Indian wars rode his white charger from the White House to the capitol on a win try day and stood bareheaded for more than an hour in a caw wind as he delivered his inaugural address. Returning to the White Hou-e, the President stood in a reception line at the White Hi use all afternoon and then polished "tf the day by attending 'hico inaugural balls. For the next few weeks he was deluged by office seekers. Finally he was stricken with pneumonia, dying exactly one month after his inauguration. Prevalent Polk stood for an hour on the portico of the capitol a s he read his inaugural address to what was descrjbgd as “the greatest display of umbrellas the capital had witnessed up to hi- time.” Most significant happening at ,the P Ik inaugut ation, however, was the sending from Washington to Balti more of the first telegraphic news of a president’s induction, with Profes sor S. F. B. Morse at the key. Millard Fillmore, of New York, wa.' said to have been the handsomest ■ 1< . man ever inaugurated Piesident. a Martin Van Buren, another New Yetker, lode to the capitol in a phae ton built of word from the famous frigate Constitution. Window room on Pennsylvania The Grant inaugural parade pro vided one of the greatest military dis play; Washington ever witnessed. Many famous civil wai^ regiments, a company of Mexican war veterans and 30 soldiers of the war of 1812 were in the procession. The old warriors cf 1812 rode in a lavishly decorated om nibus drawn by six white horse.'. Spectator’s paid from $25 to $50 for single windows overlooking the line of procession and one gentleman ; having a fine balcony in front of his i residence declined $150 for it s use, preferring to retain it for hi' family and friends. Current musical hits were a feature of the old inaugural parade...Presi- dent-alect Hayes rode in General Grant’s “four-in-hand” with the Marine band playing “Darling, I am Growing Old,” and another band send ing forth the strains of “Little Sweet heart, Come and Kis s Me.” Two dominating and sharply con tra.-ting figures stood out in the im- augurai! pageantry of a century a^o. They were Dolly Madison, first ^ady for two terms and social queen of Washington during four administra- tiens, and Andrew Jackson, the Ten nessee frontiersman who was the idol of the ma.-ses in the west. The personality cf the vivacious Dolly eclipsed that of her quiet little husband at all social functions. She was a stunning figure at the inaugural ball as she danced with Thomas Jef ferson, the retiring president. She ware a costume of buff velvet with a long train and her headdress sent fnm Paris wa s made of the same velvet trimmed with white satin and two bird of Paradise plumes. Piesident Madi'on was in black with ruffles at his throat. His stock ings were silk and his shoes were ornamented with silver buckles. Pre.'ident-elect Jackson’s journey to Washington on horseback from his Tennessee home, the Hermitage, was a march of triumph. After the inauguiation ceremony at the capitol, “Old Hick >ry” mounted his horse and set out for the White House followed by the cheering multi tude. At the executive mansion, they staged a demon.-tration so wild that the rugged old warrior himself was forced to flee to his hotel to escape injury in the rush of admirers. Gallons of orange punch and ice cream had been provided at the White House for the visiting ladies and gentlemen, but there were no police arrangements to maintain or der. “The rabble iu.-hed in to the man sion, fell upon the refreshments, jostl ing waiters and breaking china and glass,” said a contemporary account. “They^ stood in muddy boots on damask-covered chairs, spoiled the carpets and caused such a press that it was no longer possible for those inside to escape by the doors. “Windows weie usdd for exits for the suffering masses, women fainted and men were seen withJd ody noses.” Needs "Roo'ev^lt Luck.” If Franklin D. ha s the proverbial “Roosevelt luck” that Teddy enjoyed, the weather for his inaugural cere monies will be just about made-to- order. The inauguration of the first Roose velt to be elected president was one of the most spectacular of all national pageant;. More than 200,000 people came to the capital fbr the event, 35,- participating in an inaugural Last in line was a contingent of •Harvard underggp^uate.; in cap and gown giving the long drawn Harvard yell. The president leaned over the railing of his box in the reviewing stand fl nd shook hands with their cheer leader. Cleveland’s first inauguration was one of the most colorful. As several companies of the Grand Army of the Republic marched to the roll of the drum.', the rebel yell floated down Pennsylvania avenue. Then came at the head of the proud columns of Virginia. Wilson Exits. One of the most dramatic episodes in the parade of the presidents from Washington to Franklin D. Roosevelt was the tragic exit from the preri- dency of Woodrow Wilson at the in auguration of Warren G. Hai ding 12 years ago. Broken in health, his ambition to lead the United States into a concert of nations frustrated, I he waitime pres ident was a pathetically courageous figure invoking murmur g cf sympathy, a' he rode from the White House to the capitol beside his vigorous-looking successor. Wilson, descen/.ng the White House stepg for the last time, wa' ’assisted by secret service men who placed his feet on each step and then on the running board of the automo bile. At the suggestion of Harding, who took particular pains to show his consideration for the retiring execu tive, the parade was the shortest in inaugural histpry. At the capitol, Mr. Wilson was as sisted into the president’s room where he signed some bills and chatted with attempted gaiety. Then in response to pleas of his friends, he decided not to undergo further the erdea! of the ceremonies. He clasped hands with Harding, who said: “Mr. President, I know you are glad to be relieved of your burden and worries.” Yet, strangely enough, Harding was the first of the two to die. As Wilson walked with faltering footsteps to his car, he remarked o Senator Knox of Pennsylvania, “The senate has thrown me down but I am not going to fall -down.” Highly dramatic also was the fir.-t inauguration o^/Calvin Coolidge of the Vermont farm house where he was born. Called from his sleep by a message telling of the death- of President Harding, he walked down the stairway cf his boyhood days and took the oath of office administered by his father. It was a simple ceremony compared to that cne which in 1928 inaugurated his successor, Herbert Hoover, who on March 4th will yield the high office to Franklin D. Roosevelt. TAX BURDEN OF THE FARMS. They Bear Two-Thirds of Property Tax, Comptroller’s Report Says. With bonds and stocks, money in bank and loaned at interest, and hun dreds millions of other property assets not even assessed in South Carolina farm property begins ap proximately two-thirds of the State property tax burden a s compared with urban property, the annual report of Comptroller General A. J. Beattie discloses. A total 1932 State tax of $609,000 was charged against farm property, the report sets forth, $471,311 of it on lands and the remaining $137,695 on farm buildings. City property had a 1932 tax of $443,518 imposed on it. City lots bore $164,648 of the levy and buildings $278,869, the report shows. The combined rural, and urban property tax for the State amounts to $1,052,525, originally payable January 1, but now under discussion in the senate for postponement to June 1 with a 2 per cent, penalty. Personal property carried almost as large an amount in 1932 State taxes a s real estate, Beattie shewed in his report. The personal property tax, imposed on horses, mules, cattle, ve hicles, and valuables, amounted to $933,082. One-half of the total property tax of $1,935,607 will be applied to retire ment cf the State deficit, and the re mainder to .general appropriations, Beattie said. The tax was predicated upon a total real and personal property assessment of $397,121,407, he set fprth in the re port. Farm lands' were assessed at $94,262,307 and city lets at $32,329,759. The average assessment on farm lands was $5 an acre, on the basis of figures in the report, and the average city lot carried a tax of approximately $160. Why the Difference. 4* j* tm» that in West Virginia school text books are sold at aheut half the price asked for the same texts used in South Carolina and that in Canada the same texts can be had fo? about half the price asked in West Virginia ? The Index-Journal does not know. It is asking the question. If, as it has been charged the prices charged in South Carolina arc far in excess 6f prices charged else where,What has the State department of education to say about it? What are the duties of the State department of education anyway.— Greenwood Index-Journal. How Doctors Treat Golds and Coughs To break up a cold overnight and re lieve the congestron that makes you cough, thousands of physicians are now recommending Calotabs, the nausealess calomel compound tablets that give you the effects of calomel and salts without the unpleasant effects of either. One or two Calotabs at bedtime with a glass of sweet milk or. water. Next morn ing yonr cold has vaHfshcd, your system is thoroughly purified and you are feeling fine with a hearty appetite for breakfast. Eat what you wish,—no danger. Calotabs are sold in 10c and 35c pack ages nt drui: stores. (Adv) FERTILIZERS I have very attractive prices on all grade- of fertilizers, seda and am monia and will deliver to farm free of charge in lots of five tons or more. Have now in stock Soda, Am monia anj grades fertilizer^. See me before buying. C. F. RIZER OLAR, S. C. PROBAK- shop shoWno comfort at home (PROBAK BLADE) T T T f f f ❖ ❖ t f T V The Barnwell Theatre PROGRAM FOR MARCH 1 to 9, INCLUSIVE I Wednesday & Thursday . MARCH 1 and 2 American Madness AND COMEDY Wednesday & Thursday + MARCH 8 and 9 DECEPTION with Leon Carrillo T avenue sold for “$5 a head” and the ioufs of houses were covered withj-QOO cheering spectators at the inaugural | parade that President Rocsevelt re- parade of Zackery Taylor, hero of the viewed for thwee and a half hours. Mexican war. For' the Taylor inauguration, Wil liam Dibblee, a Broadwayite of the •pre-eivil war era, set up a beauty parlor cn Pennsylvania avenue to do “ladie;’ hair dressing for the inaugural ball.” In the procession were civil and Spanish-American war veterans, West Point cadets, midshipmen, cowpuneh- _ r ers, Indians, governors, generals, col lege students, laborers, iPcrto Ricans grand; and Philipinos. A band of cowboys riding broncos Greatest Problems Since Lincoln. | galloped up Pennsylvania avenue to When Franklin D. Roosevelt rides the reviewing stand, waving their down Pennsylvania avenue to the capi tol March 4th for his inauguration as President he will be facing problems perhaps as grave as tho.se of any pre decessor excepting Abraham Lincoln. When ^Lincoln came to the capitol for his inauguration, already seven States had left the union, the nation was on the brink of civil war and a heavy pall of anxiety hung ever Wash ington. Perhapg three-fourths of the city’s inhabitants regarded the in coming chief executive ms an enemy. There were rumors of plot# to as sassinate jthe President-elect, to seize s ombreia? and cheering wildly fer the Rough Rider who had been elevated to the presidency. Colonel Rcosevelt flashed them a smile which “showed h?s teeth from ear to ear.” A contemporary newspaper account said: “One giant on a fleabitten roan put spurs to his steed, raced up under the 'president’s very nose, spun his bronco around on its haunches and swept the pavement with his som brero.” The president greeted with Rcose- veltian effectiveness a group of Indian cheifs who had come to hail “the Friday and Saturday MARCH 3 and 4 Tiger Shark AND NEWS REEL Coming Next Week Tom MIX • y y y y y y Y Y X Monday and Tuesday MARCH 6 and 7 Ruth Chatterton in THE CRASH -in X My Pal The King ? y y T y y y y t y t f V f ? y y y Y T ? y T T y y ? T T T y y T T t T T i \ S' Admission: 10c and 20c, Plus Tax Two Shows Each Night at 7 and 9 O'clock.