The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, October 12, 1933, Image 2
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JOHN W. HOLMES
1S4*—1911.
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 *—
Three Months .60
(Strictly In Adraaca.)
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1933.
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Wonder if Cuba is fighting a war
to end war?
We hope everything’s O. K., but
the way the Republicans are cooperat
ing in the New Deal looks mighty
suspicious.
Florida has her hurricanes and
California her earthquakes. A happy
medium is HT ole South Carolina,
whose “cawn likker” has the force of
a hurricane and the shock of an earth
quake.
There’s always something to be
thankful for. Editor W. W. Smoak,
of the Walterboro Press and Stand
ard, and Banker R. 0. Bowden, of
Hampton, have closed their news
paper controversy anent the repeal
of the 18th Amendment. And in
spite of their published verbiage, it is
safe to say that neither has changed
a single vote, pro or con. Nor does
it matter very much how South Caro
lina votes on repeal, so far as the ulti
mate outcome is concerned. The thing
that concerns South Carolinians is
the proper control of the liquor traf
fic when—not if—the 18th Amend
ment is repealed. Prohibition has
been weighed in the balancer of pub
lic opinion throughout the nation and
found woefully wanting, as shown by
the overwhelming majorities for
'repeal in the 32 States in which elec
tions have been held.
i| Nobody’s Business
By Gee McGee.
Goat Gettera.
Carelessness and buiness aie
bed-fellowg and twin brothers. But
careless people are not always lazy
people, but lazy pe pie are most al
ways caielesa. I am too critical and
ah< uld not try tJ judge. Carelessness
gets on my nctves quicker than a'l
other short-comings combined.
Petty carelessness in the home-
such as leaving the lights on, forget
ting to turn off the spigot in the
yard, permitting the gas to burn with
nothing over the burner, letting the
electric stove burn all night, keeping
the radio on and not listening to the
programs—keep a guy’s blood pres
sure up something terrible.
Your kids (possibly) and mine
without fail—leave their shoes and
dresses ami britches right in the mid
dle of the floor where they pull them
off; in the bath-room, bed-ro-m, front
veranda, and just anywhere—because
there’s generally a long-suffering
mother that will come along and
pick them up.
At the office—the janitor will
empty the waste basket and leave it
sitting in the hall outside; the room
will be swept with the typewriters and
adding machines uncovered; and all
of us will pile everything we use or
move or pick up or transfer right on
top of my desk or her desk or his desk
or somewhere else except where we
got it, or where it belongs.
The following alibig are used by
nearly all of u>: “I forgot; I never
heard you; I overlooked it; nobobdy
told me; how should I know; why, I
never heard of such a thing; I thought
it was 75 cents a dozen; John did that;
I thought; I guessed at it; I took it
for granted; I imagined it was the
same thing; It looked like a 5; I
thought he would handle that; I
meant to; I will attend to that to
morrow; I told him to tell you.
The Pesky Gnat.
September and October is gnat
season in many parts of the South.
Next to the housefly, the lowly gnat
is the most insulting and disturbing-
insect extant. Nobody so far has
found any reason for the gnat; he’s
just here and perfectly at home.
Gnats enjoy crawling through screen
wire into sitting rooms and sleeping
porches.
Gnats are more prolific around
saw mills, dog kennels and peoples’
eyes, ears and noses than anywhere
else. You can “shoo” a gnat away
from your left eye-ball 999 times per
minute and he will be right back try
ing to crawl into the said eye before
you can possibly “shoo” again.
Gnats are often mistaken for
pepper in pickles, salads, chicken pie,
ansoforth, and that is why so few
folks complain of them. Gnats don’t
taste like pepper, but unlike flies,
they are not poisonous. Gnats usual
ly travel in droves or sw’arms: there
are never less than 675 gnatj trying
to get in one’s ears, eyes, mouth and
nose at one time.
The County Treasurer’s office will be open from fP er r
to March 15th, 1934, for collecting 1933 taxes, which inc u e rea a pe. -
sonal property, poll and road tax. qi
, All taxes due and payable between September 15 and December 31
1933, will be collected without penalty. All. taxes no par as s
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 of taxes, be sure and give schoordistrict.
if property is in more than one school district.
All personal check s given for taxe s will be subject to collection.
Gnats a'e more at home with dogs
the majority of that also?
A.—Well, figure it out for your
self. The processing tax on cotton
adds about 20 cents to the cost of a
pair of overalls, an overall jacket and
a heavy workshirt.
Q.—That may be true, but don’t rich
folks wear clothes also?
A.—Yep, some of them wear a few
clothes while some of the others wear
thryi any other animal. If a dog j fewer clothes. . The percentage in-
would keep perfectly still for ten I crease occasioned by the cotton pro
minutes during the high gnat season, r cessing tax on a nice, whilte-collared
and net meve a foot or head or ear
or tail, over one billion gnats would
cover him knee deep. Gnats don’t
bite dogs—they only tickle them.
They tickle people also and bring
forth much profanity.
shirt is less than 3 percent. Folks
who wear heavy clo’hes pay more
taxes than people who wear light
(fine) clothes.
Q.—What would you say the pro
cessing tax amounts to on the com
plete wearing apparel of the average
-We wiuldn’t mind gnats so much ( ycU ng girl who goes to town evety-
if they’d only light so’s you could <i ay , including her underwear, if any,
“wink” them in your eye and kill and alt other garments required by
them; they just hover and hover and law?
hover and drop in occasionally. A| A.—The average* weight of clcthea
person would judge that the motive worn by the average girl (not nw,-
of a gnst in tront of the eye is to warily « flapper) is 24 ounces, or 1 1 ±
determine the color of the eye—er j p unds: Multiply that by 4.2c, and
count the eyebrows or eyelashes. y OU have 6.3c.
Surely there ain’t uny gnat t -<l m (J. Hut
E. C. Matthews, B. L. Boylston, Dr.
J. E. Molony and G. T. Still. The
new officers assumed office at a
meeting this evening at eight o’
clock.
a person s eye.
Bermuda’* Blue Law*
Gaming, dicing, even “merry songs"
were strictly prohibited on Bermuda
Sabbaths during the reign of the Pur
itan Cromwell in the little English
colony’s mother country. Plays weve
banned and swearing met with sum
mary treatment throughout the week.
A writer gives an account of the
measures taken to enforce virtue in
Bermuda during the Commonwealth.
"The Bermudian church wardens,
’upright, honest and sober in their
carriage,’ were instructed to look
Into the ‘lives and conversations' of
the people, and. on Sundays, after
the rending of the lesson, to leave
the church and having stopped any
one loitering in the churchyard, to
‘search the worst and most suspected
places' with the purpose of sending
to divine service all who were not
conqKdled by circuuudunces to be ab
sent."
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Ordinary Count
Road and
Bridge Bonds
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Constitutional
School
Special Local
TOTAL
No. 24—Ashleigh _
5
4
4
1
3
12
29
No. 33—Barbary Branch
5
4
4
1
3
30 _
47
No. 45—Barnw-ell
6
4
4
1
3
29
46
No. 4—Big Fork
5
4
4
1
31
18
36
No. 19—Blackviile
5
4
4
1
3
20
37"
No. 35—Cedar Grove
5
4
4
1
3
27
44
No. 50—Diamond
5
4
4
1
3
14
31
No. 20—Double Pcnj - -
5 -
4
4
1
3
19
36
No. 12—Dunbarton
5
4
4
1 l
3
27
\ 44
No. 21—Edisto it\
5
4
4
1
3
8
25
No. 28—Elko
5
4
4
1
3
26
43
No. 53—Ellenton --
5
4
4
.. 1
3
7
24
No. 11—Four Mile
5
4
4
1
3
25
No. 39—Friendship
5
4
4
1
3
14
31
No. 16—Green’g
5
4
4
1
3
19
36
No. 10—Healing Springs
5
4
4
1
3
20
37
No. 23—Hercule.- --
5
4
4
1
3
27
44
No. 9—Hilda -
5
4
4
, 1
3
35
52
No. 52—Joyce Bianch -
5
4
4
1
3
26
43
No. 34—Kline
gt
5
4
4
T
S
18
35
No. 32—Lee’s
5
4
4
1
3
10
27
No. 8—Long Branch
5
4
4
1
3
17
34
No. 54—Meyer’s Mill
5
4
4
| 1
3
21
i 38
No. 42—Morris
5
4
4
| 1
3
12
29
No. 14—Mt. Calvary
1 _
5
4
4
i i
3
27
44
No. 25—New Forest
| 5
4
4
I i
3
27
44
No. 38—Oak Gtove
5
4
4
1' i
1 3
19
j 36
No. 43 - Old Columbia
1 5
1 4
4
i
1 3
| 26
43
No. 13 PtMMBt Hill .
5
I 4
4
i
3
1 14
31
No. 7 IUd Oak
! 5
4
4
J i
3
16
Xi
No. 15—Reedy Branch
5
4
! 4
! i.
3
14
31
No. 2—Seven Pines
5
4
1 4
i
3
12
k 29
N . 40—T.nkt r’s ( ’reek *.
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4
4
i
3
16
St
No. Upper Richland .
5
| 4
4
i
1 3
26
It
No. 29 Willbton
5
1
4
i
• fe
31
48
A.—A working man u«ua ly wear*
::!»out 5 pounds f clothes and the
—There aie 4 distinct kinds °f j tax on his nakedne-'s-kivvering is
gnats, vizzly; the bothenome gnat, | 21c. Yep. friends—the processing tax
troublesome gnat, the detestable' on c „tt(,n is figured by the pound.
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gnat and the damnah'e gnat. The
Hark, Hark! the Scieatict!
Though one ran imagine nothing of
less consequence than a popular ten
denry to exaVgerate the duration of
the skylark's song, there Is always
somebody at liberty for every little
pinpricking jnh. One of South Shields,
average gnat can be inhaled
t England. Iwing intellectually hurt by
Q. - Do y u thsnk cotton wou.d got ,| ie nRS4 . r oon of unthinking person*
and up if the processing tax wet* temov-
wh/n 'hat takes place, you never j^d or paid from some other source? *
know whether y< u inhaled him ali the | A.—VVi'l a balloon go up if you
In the warehouse—the floor will
be swept and the broom will be
thrown tight in the middle of the
passage-way for the next man with
a hand-truck of merchandise to pick
up. The truck drivers will fetch in
salad dressing and unload it on a stack
of flour, or a sack jpf potatoes will be
returned and left in the canned goods
•department, et cetra and so forth ah(f
so on, day in and day out.
Our salesmen frequently sell
items that we have been out of three
weeks—and then wo all become buck-
passers; the warehouse-man didn’t
tell the buyer and the billing clerk
didn’t know that the stock-keeper had
told the order checkers that we had
no sugar or salt or baking powder, so
he went ahead and billed it so that
the invoice auditor would have to rub
out and fill in, and check short all
items the shipping cleik tried to load
hat found that we did not have in
Mock.
way down, or got him* cut of your
mouth just so. Anyway, one feels
that the gnat is still in hi* mouth the
next day, ami |>oss« bly he is. Believe
it or not, I am down on gnats. Wait
a minute till I get thU < ne oiii "f
my ear. Now— ?—c:!zz!.
release it from its mcorings ?
Who Ever Heard the Like?
Q.—Who pays the processing tax
of $1.40 per barrel on flour?
A.—The poor man pays most of it.
Q.—Explain yourself.
A.—Mr. Poor Man and his 6 chil
dren eat nothing much hut bread and
meat, mostly bread. (His family con
sists of 8 persons including his wife.)
Q. Dees Mr. Rich Man not eat
bread too?
A.—Not much. While
Man and his children are eating six
biscuits apiece, making 48 biscuits a
day, Mr. Rich Man and his family eat
ab> ut 2 pieces of toast each—at “2
meals a day, equal to about four bis
cuits a day.
New Motor Licenses
Must Be Bought Now
Licen«e Year Changed to Run From
Nov. 1 to Oct. 31 by New Law
Now in Effect.
Columbia, Oct. 10.—A change de
signed to expedite the handling if
the large volume of license plate
business and to make for mr,re ejono-
mic administration and service to the
pub/ic is now being inaugurated by
the State Highway Department.
Under this change the license year
Mr. Poor hereafter will be from November 1st
of each year to October 31st, of/tne
succeeding year instead of fr:;m
Januaiy 1st to December 31st.
The change in the license year is
a result of an act passed by the last
that skylarks often sung for half an
hour and sometimes tor as long as an
hour, went to the outskirts of South |
Shields and held a stop watch on
skylarks of the neighborhood. Ills
doing are recorded in Nature, the
British sclent Hie publication, which
Wings tlie astounding news that this
breaker of bubbles, ibis destroyer of
Illusions actually held the stop wateli
on rrlU.suugs and found their avenge
duration to be 2.22 minutes. The
greatest duration of any single song
was nineteen minutes.—New York S
Ant-Lion a Trapper
The ant-lion, as Its name suggests.
Is a ferocious Insect in the kingdom,
of comparative-sized inserts. It is the
larvae of a flying Insect common In
the United States. It derives its name
from its strong, cruel jaws and the
session of the General Assembly.
Q<—WRai^de^ yot* mean?—j This act, Nu.~ 5897 jiluvIdes In MTUn
substitutes has Mr.. Rich Man for
bread ?
A.—Oh, he eats a little bit of bread,
’tis true, but he fills himself up on
duck, planked steak, pineapple, codfish
balls and so forth, and naturally—he
requires very little cereal foad—ex
cept some oat meal or corn cereal.
Q.—How long will a barrel of flour,
costing $7.60 last the average poor-
man and his family of 8?
A.—About 3 weeks.
2, that “applications for licenses shall
be filed with the State Highway De
partment on or before the thirty-first
day of October of each license year,
ham and eggs, fried chicken, roast- and any person, firm or corporation
‘who shall fail to file such applications
before such date shall be subject to
the penalties now imposed by law
upon delinquent applications.”
Application forms to all motor ve
hicle owners have been sent out by
the highway department and the
motor vehicle division is operhting in
equally strong pincers at the ends
its front legs. When it is out feeding
it traps its victims by means of a
funnel-shai*ed hole which varies from
1 to 2 inches in diameter. Lying in a
gallery leading off from (lie bottom
of the tunnel, the ant-lion extends its
claws Into the base of the funnel and
waits. Ants and other insects falling
or crawling down into the holes are
placers of the ant-
lion and dinner is served forthwith.
Hereditary Weaknetse*
Many characters in man have proved
to be hereditary. Among the very in*
Q. How- long will a barrel of flour f u ]j Kear (0 sen( j ou t the license plates
last the average rich man and his ttJ . seon as th e applications are re
family of 8? -ceived.
A. Well, lemme see: They have j The department is expecting that
some waffles, some frittens, some hot ^e entire load of handling this im-
cakes, some pies, and a few lady fin- mense volume of business will be
gers. A barrel of flour will last Mr. completed in record time this year.
Rich Man, including the bakers bread
he uses for toast, about six months.
Q.—Is the poor man eating as much
wheat bread as he used to?
A.—No, not by a mill sight. He is
Gyles Elected Mayor.
Blackviile, Oct. 9.—In a town elec
tion for mayor and wardens held here
substituting corn meal (which costs, today, Dr. R. A. Gyles was named
him about $3.60 per barrel), cooking mayor over John O’Goiman by a veto
less wheat bread, enjoying cheaper !cf 162 to 124. Wardens were elected
fo-ods, such as potatoes, lye hominy, as follows: G. Frank Posey, who led
and so frrth. | the ticket; Louis Wengiow, J. S.
Q.—How about the processing tax Oreech and W. T. Hightower. Others
on cotton? Does the poor man pay who made the race for wardens were
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terestlng ones Is a tendency to exces
sive bleeding when the injury that
causes the hemorrhage to start is very
small. In such Individuals the abnor
mal condition, known as hemophilia,
la due to a chemical change in the
blood which prevents its clotting. This
condition, which Is very rare in wom
en, can be transmitted by an apparent
ly normal woman to approximately
one-half of her sons, This type
The commutatii n road tax of $3.00 must Ik* paid by til male citizens.
between the ages of 21 and nnycai-. All male citizens between the ages
of 21 and 60 years are liable t» poll jtax of $1.00.
I)o£ Tax.s for 1933 will Ik* pail at the same time < ther taxes are pa d.
Il is the duty uf each school trustee in each school district to see thsH
this tax is collected dr i;id the Magistrate in the enforcement <f the pro-
visiotu of thi. Act.
t’»u*<k s will not be accepted f r taxe* unuei any circumstances except
at the risk of the taxpayer.—(The County Treasurer reserves the right to
hi Id all roteipts paid by check until si-i.l checks have lK*en paid.)
Tax receipts wi'l he released oniy upon legal tender, |Mist oflVe money
orders or certified checks. J. J. HELL, County Treas.
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OUR PRIC ES are most rvas nabk*.
You will also fin ( | that we give
the* same GOOD CARE to your
WINTER CLOTES as we have*
during the .summer months.
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Trespass Notice
NOTICE is hereby given to all par
ties that they are forbihdden to hunt,
fish, haul wood or straw- or trespass
in any manner whaCoever on the
lands of the undersigned and a l so
lands of H. C. Youngblood and Cora
Rushton in W’illiston township.
Matthew Bolen
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