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THE BAKNWELL PEOPtE-SENTWEL. BARNWELL, BOOTH CASOLWa
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ThtBamwll People-Sentinel
JOHN W. HOLMES
1840—1912.
B. P. DAVIES, Editor and Proprietor.
Entered at the post office at Barnwell,
S. C., as second-class matter.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Year $1.60
Six Months .90
Three Months .60
(Strictly la Advance.)
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1933.
The esteemed News and Courier is
authority for the statement that “an
old woman” recently picked 900 pounds
of cotton in one day. Editor Bail has
been writing able and learned editor
ials on agricultural conditions. If
that statement is a fair example of
his knowledge of farming and of the
farmer’s plight all that he has said
may be safely discounted. Or per
haps the picker in question wag work
ing in a field of that 11-lock cotton
that The Bamberg Herald tells us
about.
Hard Times?
Eighteen thousand persons attend
ed the afternoon and night perform
ances of a circus showing in Colum
bia one day last week. Presumably,
they were all South Carolinians and
$26,000 is a conservative estimate of
the amount of money they spent.
The same circus was in Augusta the
following day and capacity crowds at
tended t wo performances. It is
safe to say that a fair sprinkling of
South Carolinians was in the audi
ences.
From all of which we gather that
this good old State j H staging a rapid
come-back from its reported condi
tion of a few short weeks ago, when
it wa s estimated that a fourth to a
half of the people were getting “gov
ernment relief.”
Hard times? Now you tell one.
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j; Nobody’s Business
| By Gee McGee.
Well, What Are W* Goini to lh»
About It?
Four months ago, a ba'e of cot
ton could be sold f° r $36.00, or 7c a
pound, and $3. r >.(M) would then buy 10
harrelft of flour. Today, a bale of
cotton can be sold for $46.00, and will
buy 6 barrels of flour.
the poorhouae or the j*il, one, beckon*
to me to enter. (Yep, Boy*—I'm a
farmer and > n debt, too.)
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Mike la Ready To Quit.
flat rock, a. C., sepp. 30, 1933.
hon. henry wallis,
Washington, d. C.
deer sir:—
plea g let me know at once what to
do with my farm, if you can furnish
some farm relief that will relieve me
of my farm, i will appreciate the
kindness, with cotton fetching c8 and
flour costing me 8$ per barrel, in
cluding the pretesting taxes anso-
forth, i have rote bradstreet that i
was dun, and i can’t make the grade.
i had a chance to swop my farm
and mule for a good possum dog and
a cl stamp last martch, but fool like,
i turned down the offer, thinking the
govverment would pull me out of the
hole, and now the man has backed
out. i tried to get him to take the
farm and give me the dog or the
postage stamp.
i suggest that you ask the govver
ment to do away wish it 9 jails and
penitentiaries and in the future^ sen
tence all criminals to the farm and
force them to grow cotton at c8 per
pound, that is the worst punishment
that can be add-ministered to a hum
an being or a mule.
after paying all of my detts this
year excepp 40$ for guanner, i will
have c9 and one old hickory shirt and
a set of whiskers left, we have been
able to get plenty of water to drink,
but cornbbread has made our thr^tes
so rough that stuff lodges in same and
we have to flush it like ycu do a sink.
we have henn infarfhed that we will
get some inflation in a few months,
hut it dont hepp none tu inflate a
corpse, after i have done sold both
of my bales of cotton, inflation wont
hepp me none, so {jlease keep the
r. f. c. in good >hape for Us agger-
cult urists; our only hope now is for
y< u to bored and cUthe us till we ran
grow another bi|{ crop—to give away.
A cotton mill operative who earn.*
$14.00 a week (and that is little
enough) is paid at the rate of 16 bale*
cf cotton per year—with no fertiliser
an,j no feed and plow-tools to buy—
which is nearly twice as much as a
farmei-family of 6 (ail working) can
make in a year.
A family of 5 working in a cot
ton mill at $14.00 per week will earn
enough to buy 75 bale, pf cotton in
12 months; the same family living on
bread and water and an occasional
slice cf fat back meat and a few sops
of gravy—on a farm, all working—
can possibly produce 10 bales of cot
ton, but must give half of it to the
landlotd a s rent arxl pay its living
expenses besides.
i useter think a feller ha 4 j to die
to go ‘down yonder** hut he don't, to
enjoy the warm breeie H cf fire and
brimstone, all you have got to do is-
work 12 months in the ^ear and go
ha'f naked and two-thirds hungry,
un ( ) grow cK cott n, and if that mint
h , there aint anny.
yores trulie,
mike Clark, rfd.
Cotton farmer.
The Joy of Joys.
“Going to town” was a yearly
event in my teen-agt life. We lived
26 miles from the county seat, the
only place near to us that had things
to sell. During late October or early
November every fall we would load 3
bales of cotton en our 2-mule wagon
and go to market.
Mother and father would never
tell u s 10 children 2 days in advance
of the coming tiip; they knew we
wouldn’t sleep another wink or have
a grain of sense till the wonderful ex
perience was over, so they kept it a
secret till the night before—for our
sake as well as their’s.
Along about 3 o’clock, we as
sembled all of our folks and goods
together in the wagon yard and got
ready to go home. We younguns had
the whole wagon body full of orange
peelings, old paste board and wood
boxes, thumb-papers and other junk.
We piled in drove out of town with
wild eyes starin K at everything but
we * soon went to sleep and Uncle
woke us up and took us in the house
at home about 11:30. We had some
thing to live for back then, viz: that
trip to town, an^ weie we happy?
I’m telling you. That’* all the buy
ing we did for 12 months, and no one
ever complained of what was bought
for them, fit or no fit, ravel or fade,
tear or rip, red or black; everything
wa« OK, because ma and pa bought
it for us, picked it out themselves
and they made no mistakes.
W. M. U. Meeting.
Attentii n is called to the meeting
in Blackvillg on the 11th inst., begin
ning it TO^O a. m., of the Southern
Divisional W. M. U. The following
women prominent in the work will be
present: Mrs. Mather, Mrs. Boatright
and others, who will bring inspira-
ti< nal messages to the members
Mrs. A. V. Coilum, president, urges
all churches to be represented at this
meeting. Lunch will be served at the
noon hour, the ladie* to carry a light
lunch a g heretofoie agreed upon.
The Raven and Crow Are
Sitters Under the Skin
Poe’* raven and America'* crow*,
like Rosie O'Grmly and the Colonel's
Lady, are sister* under the skin. While
the raven tupped doors, the crow taps
eggs of nesting birds—the baneful In
fluence of both the legendary emblem
of death andjhe pillager of cornfields
amounts to the same thing.
*‘!t Is doubtful." states a publication
of the United State* Department of
Agriculture, “whether any other bird
1* of as great economic importance to
the farmer us the crow. In food
hahlts it I* practically omnivorous; It
takes anything from the choicest poul
try and the lenderest shoots of sprout
ing grain to carrion and weed seeds.
The fact that no less than 666 Items
have been identified in its food gives
some Idea of the bird's resourceful-
pess.”
During the months when young
crows are being hatched and reared,
the parents are persistent hunters for
the young and eggs of wild birds and
poultry. The bureau of biological aur-
vey slates In s rvt«ort on crow damage
at a federal waterfowl sanctuary:
“The chief enemy of the ducks was
the crow. This bird destroyed 30 per
cent of the eggs,’*
There are four related species of
crows; The Florida crow, fish crow,
southern and western crow.
Trying to grow cotton at 8c per
pound under present conditions—with
high prices of necessities—i s enough
to run a Solomon eiazy in 10 days.
It is about like working George Van
derbilt, if theie be one by that name,
Hetty Green’s son, John, if his name
is John, at 5e per day splitting rails
and cutting cord wood.
Selling cottonseed at $12.00 per
ton and P*ying $140.00 per ton for
cotton seed oil shortning is very simi
lar to selling a fine Jersey cow for
her own horns. If something ain’t
done to help the cotton farmer get a
better price for hi 8 product, there will
be breadlines so long in the South
during the winter that the censu s tak
er can follow it and not miss but
very few farm families. Cotton mills
can’t run regularly unless the farmer
does a little buying himself, and he
will need some cash to do that with.
Cotton is all right at 8c if over
alls and work shirts were 40c instead
of $1.76 and $1.19, respectively. If
the farmer had the processing tax
(which he is now absorbing when he
•ellaTtis cotton, and paying it again
when he buy 8 coton goods) he could
possibly see daylight. The entire
cotton crop in my State (S. C.) for
1933 won’t sell for enough money to
poj quite one-third of the total taxes.
Wall, oar government ain’t going to
lit agriculture carry all of the bur-
4ns, so. I’m going to be hopeful till
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As soon as we youngun s heard
the glad news of “going to town,”
we l>ecame a dynamic bunch cf joy,
excitement, exbilliraticn and noise.
We began to wash feet, comb un
combed hair, get our Sunday duds out
of our respective cracker-box trunks,
and prepare for the day of days.
None of us could close our eyes
in sleep that night. We had to leave
home at midnight and oftentimes
earlier. A faithful old negro always
went with the wagon and drove the
mules. The 4 children that might
freeze to death on top cf 3 bales of
cotton were packed into the old bug
gy with mother and father; that
left only 6 boys and girls and old Un
cle Mose to ride the loaded wagon,
but frequently 7 or 8 of our little ne
gro playmates went along, too.
Dante, the Italian Poet,
Was Native of Florence
Dante, the celebrated Italian poet,
was born in Florence in the latter part
of May. 1266; the date |s uncertain.
His family was an old one. his father
an adherent of the Guelph party in the
long feud with the Ghlbellines.
At nine Dante first saw Beatrice
Portinarl, then only eight. The "Vita
Nuova" is practically a history of his
love for her. She enters also into the
Divine comedy. In 1287 she was mar
ried, but not to Dante, who expressed
no disappointment at her marriage.
She died soon afterward, at the age
of twenty-four. Dante himself mar
ried about tyro years later.
He became passionately absorbed in
the love of country, and at the age of
twenty-four fought on the side of the
Guelphs at the battle of Campaldino.
He was intrusted with several foreign
missions and became an Important fac
tor in the Florentine government.
Time modified his ardent partisanship,
and he was occupied with plans for
the reconciliation of the Guelphs and
Ghlbellines. In 1303 he abandoned his
public career and spent the remainder
of his life In wandering from one city
to another and In study. He died at
Ravenna September 14, 1321.
U. S. Owns Virgin LUada
The Virgin islands are owned by the
United States, which purchased them
from Denmark In 1917 fKr the sum of
$26,000.1*10. They had hetn known as
the Danish West Indies until that time
and consisted of the Islands of St.
Croix. St. John and St. Thomas. St
Thomas has the hear harbor to be
found In the Carihhonn sea.
We had our jeans suits and
lindsey dreSses, but no underwear. It
America B. C.
Whether the first* human creatures
roamed the wilds of Africa 20,000.000
had not been discovered at that time. • years ago or whether man first ap-
We drove thru mud and slush, cold! P eared in the Gobi desert or some
win d whipped our cheeks and froze region remains a puzzle on which
1 cronlnflriC'ta vv atwiw s>nrtc«A f/v
Trespass Notice
NOTICE is hereby given to ail par
ties that they are forbibdden to hunt,
fish, haul woed or straw or tsespa-ss
in any manner whatsoever cn the
lands of the undersigned and a l so the
lands of H. C. Youngblood and Cora
Rushton in Williston township.
Matthew Bolen
DR. HARTER’S
EYE LOTION
ON SALE jft
Deason’s Drug Store
Main Street, Barnwell.
Railway’s Pills
For Constipation
our bones, about tvery ten miles the
top bale of cotton would fall off, and
such a job as we did have re-loading
it. We usually got in sight of town
before daylight and built a fire and
warmed up.
We drove in and sold cotton (for
about 5 to 6 cents) as scon as possi
ble. What s town! Big white court
house with glass windows, folks every
where, stores full of goods, mother
and father picking out the cheapest
bregan shoe* aim calico cloth; hats
that ran to seed in a week; gallusaes,
geologists never cease to ponder, re
marks the New York Sun. The con
troversy on man’s first home does not
overshadow In interest a report on
ancient American culture presented by
a representative of the American Mu
seum of Natural History. Digging In
their native soil, anthropologists of
the United States turn up some of the
most fascinating puzzles known to stu
dents of prehistoric man. When a
quarry near Folsom, N. M., was ex
amined the remains of extinct buffalo
were found. Mounds lit Kentucky
have yielded skeletons and the re
mains of ancient dwellings believed to
mark the site of a town which thrived
1% tbs South In 1068 B. C
A mild
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reliable vegetable
What They Dot
el Ma and
wed dam to relieve tick
New Yeefc. N.Y.
ADVERTISE in Tho Peopla-Sentinal
Treasurer’s Tax Notice
The County Treasurer’s office will be open from September 15th, 1933,
to March 16th, 1934, for collecting 1933 taxes, which include real and per
sonal property, poll and road tax. v \
All taxes due and payable between September 15 and December 31,
1933, will be collected without penalty. All taxes not paid as stated will
be subject to penalties as provided by law.
January 1st, 1934, one per cent, will be added.
February 1st, 1934, two per cent, will be added.
March 1st to 15th, 1934, seven per cent, will be added.
Executions will be placed in the hands of the Sheriff for collection af
ter March 15th, 1934.
When writing for amount oi: taxes, be sure and give school district
if property is in more than one school district.
All personal check s given for taxe s will be subject to collection.
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The commutation road tax of $3.00 must be paid by til male citizens
between the ages of 21 and 55 ycais. All male citizens between the ages
of 21 and 60 years are liable to poll tax of $1.00.
Dojj Tuxes for 1933 will be paid at the same time ether taxes are paid.
It is the duty of each school trustee in eurh schiwl district to see that
this tax is collected or aid the Magistrate in the enforcement of the pro
visions of thig Act.
Check* will not be accepted far tuxe^ under any circumstances except
at the risk of the taxpayer.—(The County Treasurer reserves the right to
t held all receipts paid by check until said checks have been paid.)
Tax receipts will be released only upon legal tender, post office money
orders or certified checks. J. J. BELL, County Trea*.
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I LET US CLEAN YOUR 1
| BLANKETS and QUILTS t
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IF YOU DID NOT have your BLANKETS ami QUILTS J
JL Cleaned before packing them away last Spring—n. w is th*
time to let Us clean them for you.
OUR PRICES are most reasonable.
1 You will also finj that we give
^ the sarpe GOOD CARE to your
WINTER CLOTES as we havs
during the summer months.
YOUR PATRONAGE IS
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CITY DRY CLEANERS
Mrs. Harry Daley, Propr., Barnwell
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