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.if# »•' i f WW the OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER of BAKNWKLL CUUNTT.^a \ Barnwell People-Sentinel CmmIMiM In* L Ittt. > - m Juml Like a Member of the Family” VOLUME LVII. V BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 19. 1933. NUMBER 7. Asparagus Growers Name New President Barney R Owens, of Dunbarton, Elected at Eighteenth Annual Meeting of Association. Seen and Heard Here * During the Past Week A Little Sense and Nonsense About People You Know and Others You Don’t Know.—— By a vote of 61 to 56, Barney F. Owens, of Dunbarton, was elected over E. C. Matthew.?, of Blackville, as president of the South Carolina As paragus Growers Association at the 18th annual meeting of that organiza tion held here Thursday. Mr. Owens succeed? M. C. Kitchings, of Willis- ton, head of the. association for many years, who did not offer for re-elec tion. The meeting, which was held in the Barnwell Court House, was at tended by ab^ut 125 growers and their families. Mr. Matthews was then named as vice-president and L. C. Eidson was re-elected secretary and treasurer. At a meeting of the directors held later in the day, Mr. Eidson was also cho-en to succeed himself as manager. Fourteen directors, representing the various shipping points in the terri tory, were also elected. The meeting was called to order by the retiring president, Mr. Kitchings. A prayer was offered by the Rev. W. E. Wiggins, pastor cf the Barnwell Metsodist Church, after which the visiting members of the association "and their families were welcomed by Col. J. E. Harley. Mr. Kitchings then made his anual report. An attack ^cn the policy of the association in selling asparagus to the A. and P. stores thiough the At lantic Commission Co. was made by Q. A. Kennedy, Jr., of Williston, who jrave this as the reason for his father’s withdrawal from the organization last Spring. He took the position that his father, Q. A. Kennedy, Sr., wa* still a member of the association as he had been “expelled’’ without the matter having been acted upon at a called meeting of the directcr*. Mr. Kitch ings, however, ruled that it was not a question of “expulsion,’’ as Mr. Ken nedy had voluntarily severed his connection with the organization by withdrawing and shipping hi* aspara gus independently. It was contended by Mr. Kennedy that the selling policy of the A. and P. stores tends to lower the prices of a-paragus. Following the president's ruling on this matter, the election of officers was held, with the above result. On motion of B. F. Owens, Mr. Kennedy and four other growers were allowed to vote under protest, their eligibility to be finally decided by the directors. They ruled that the votes could not be counted. At this juncture, J. Jullen Bush, Eaq., a member of the firm of Brown and Bush, large growers cf aspara gus, introduced a resolution express ing confidence in the officers and di rectors cf the association and unqual ifiedly endorsing the excellent man ner in which they had handled sales and other business during the past season, which was adopted unani mously by the members. At two o’clock an old fashioned bar becue dinner was 8 erved at Fuller park, which was attended by 400 per-y. sons. A football game at three clock between the Bamberg and Barn- w'ell high school, football teams brought the entertainment feature of liie .occasion to a close. “Folks and Things.” The following paragraphs are taken from The Bamberg Herald’s column, “Foiks and ^Things,” under date cf October 12th: ^ “Here’s cne reminiscent of the ‘good old day?’: Twenty-five years ago the town of Barnwell wound up the year’s business with a cash bal ance in the treasury of $1,027.03. “And here’s one that ought to bring a smile of anticipated pleasure from all cotton grower?, even if it is chimerical: ‘Prediction Made for Twenty-G'ent Cotton.’ The Barnwell People-Sentinel is guilty of the head line. “The News an,d Courier, remarks that ‘it is only the man who owes money who can be assisted by infla tion,’ and one of our exchanges (The People-Sentinel) adds that that in cludes just about all of us. To which we can only add yea, brother. / , “And the Barnwell paper raps this same News and Gorier for quoting a statement that ‘an old woman picked 900 pounds of coton m one day.’ Well, it does sound sorter unreasonable, but the Barnwell exchange suggests may be she was picking some of that Bam berg 11-Icck cotton.” t *• Ed Woodward threatening to lead £he Clemson parade between halves at the game in Columbia today if that team is leading Carolina. . . And somebody wondering what Ed will do in the “sfyit-tail parade” after the game if Clemson win?. . . . And somebody else remarking that when Eld deck.? himself up with yards of ribbon in the Clemson colors he looks like a fan dancer or sumpin’. . . . And Ed and Harry Boylston, both ar dent Clemson supporters, very much elated over their team’s showing against G. Wash University. . . . And Periy Bush, Carolina fan, won dering just what sort of team G. Wash has anyway. . . . Kitty Plexico, attractive little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd A. Plexico, telling the editor that she put cne of last’week’s “Seen and Heard” items in her “Mem ory Book.” ... A welcome show er cf rain, the first that has fallen here in over a month. . . C. G. E’uller veiy much plahsed over the showing made by his nephew, Bob Johnson, in Friday’s C'aroiina-P. C. freshman game. . . Representa tives cf the Barnwell Baptist Church buying up deposit* in the defunct Bank of Western Carolina with which to effect a settlement on the church building. Sheriff J. B. Morri* remarking that he has collected over $12,000 in delin quent taxes in the past two months. . . A negro relief worker telling F. S. Brown, city clerk, that he doesn’t have any trouble paying his town taxes now that he gets “paid for pid dling." . . The song of a mocking bird. . . Piocra-tinating football fans having some difficulty in getting tickets for the Carolina-Clemson con test. . . Ed Woodward threatening to send Coach Billy Laval a stout piece of rope to use as a .-hoe string for the Clemson-Caiolina game today, Mr. Laval partly laying Carolina’s de feat at the hands of Temple to the fact that he occupied room 213 in a Philadelphia hotel and also broke a shoe lace while en route to the game. Ed doesn't want any Carolina alibis if Clenvon wins. *. Barnwell High Licks Light Bamberg Team Swamp Visitors 20 to 0 in One-sided Contest Here Thursday.— “Subs” Get Chance. “Courtesy Tickets” * Given by This Paper New Ways Sought to BafriWtell Tax Rate Boost Farm Prices Reduced Six Mills Mean Saving of 15 Cents Each on Agricultural Adjustment Efforts Fall Levy la Lowered from 36 to 30 Mills’ General Admission to’ Allen Bros. Wild West Shows,. Short of Expectations.—Quota tions Declining. CITADEL AND CAROLINA PLAY AT NOON THURSDAY Secretary J. M. Hughes of the Or angeburg E'air has just announced that the f:otball game between the University of South Carolina and The Citadel, which will be played at the Orangeburg Fair on Thursday, Octo ber 26, wiH begin at 12 o’clock noon, instead cf 2 p. m., as has been pre viously announced. This change in the hour has become necessary so that the University team can catch an af ternoon train fiom Orangeburg to Virginia, where they meet the V. P. I. team a few days later. The Orangeburg Fair begins this year on Tuesday, October 24, and ex tends through Fiiday night, October 27. Tuesday is Thrill Day and a Con gress of Daredevils has been assem bled to put on hair-raising stunts for that day only. Wednesday Ls school day and chilr (Iren ifrom Orangebdi'jj lini! Adjoining counties will be admitted free to the Barnwell high swamped Bamberg high on Fuller Field here Thursday afternoon, 20 to. 0, the game being played in connection with the annual meeting of the South Carolina As paragus Growers Association^ The locals outweighed the visitors several pounds to the man in the line, but the backfield was more evenly match ed. In spite of that handicap, how ever, the Bamberg boys fought game ly from fir^t to last. Three Barnwell fumbles in the first few minutes of play, all of which were recovered by Bamberg, probably cost the locals a touchdown. Bamberg ■ 9 succeeded in holding their heavier opponents scoreless until the second period, when two touchdowns were diiven over and the extra points con verted. The third score came early in the third quaiter, and then Coach Price began feeding his second and- third string players into the game. Bamberg’s most serious threat was in the fourth period when a blocked punt gave them the ball on Barnwell’s 30-yard line. Their only first down of the game was made immediately thereafter on two short passes. The ball then went over on downs and a team of substitutes drove deep into Bamberg territory as the game ended. Who Builds His Soil Succeeds in Farming Antkrson County Farmer* Find That Only Enriched Soils Make Profitable Yields.. Andeison, Oct. 14.—“From the one- horse farmer to the big-acreage op erator there are ecoies of Anderson County farmers proving the same sto ry: namely, that if you put humus and nitrogen into the soil you can glow crops—that the man who builds up his soil will succeed in farming," says a Clemson College extension worker after a recent tcur of Andei son farms. On this point i* an interesting state ment made by S. M. By a is, county faim agent, who has just resigned to engage in farm management work for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. “(her a period 'of years,” he says, “we have pushed a soil-building pto- gram coupled with a live-at-home program. In following this soil-build ing program we have been ordering each season around 20,000 pounds of Austiian winter |»eas and vetch, which gives us approximately 100,0<}0 acre winter cover. This takes no account of considerable use of other winter covers and laige general use of such summer cover crops as cowpogs and soybeans. The use of cover cr^ps is so well established that it would con tinue even without the a-sistance cf a county agent.” And then we have the testimony of pioneer land-builders like J. Wade Diake and J. P. Ivester and more recent converts like Hugh Moore, T. W. Johnson and others. J. Wad*-Brake* selected several year- ago as Anderson’s master farm Elsewhere in this issue of The Peo- Washington, Oct. 16.—Price lifting ple-Sentinel wil be found a special efforts of the agricultural adjustment “ocurtesy ticket,” by the use of which j administration have fallen short of readers* cf this paper may, upon pay-, what had been hoped for and official* ment of only 10 cents, attend per- '■ are casting about for other ways of formances of Allen Bros. Wild West Shows, which ccml to Barnwell for one day only, Friday, Oct. 20th. This is worth 15 cents, a- the general ad mission tc the Wild West Show is 25 cents to everybody from two years up. This ticket and only ten cents admits ond person to either the afternoon or evening performance. Arrangements for the use of this ticket were com pleted last weak with the management of the Wild West Show. pushing their attempt to improve farm commodity quotations. One plan being fatudied is for an extension of wheat an^J possibly other commodities to the crop loan plan now being applied to cotton. The Reconstruction Finance cor poration tonight allocated $250,000,000 to finance government loans on cot ton to the extent of ten cents a pound. Wheat btoke again today, dropping five cents, SvhiCh' is the limit under Allen Bros. Wild West Show? come! present trading restrictions. Decem- to Barnwell as being one of the larg est wild west shows on the read and present a very entertaining perform ance. Among the outstanding acts to ber wheat was within a cent of the low for the year and more than 60 cent* off from the July high, around $1.34. be seen ane the Loster Family, aj In a bold meve to halt the decline, truly great act and one that ha s been j an embargo on wheat shipments from with some of the laigest show* on the North Dakota was proclaimed by road, and “The Flying Crews,” an Governor William Langer. He said aerial act of outstanding peiCorm- he was asking governors of South Da- 61 *• , kota and Montana to take similar ac- The Cowboy String Band from vari- tion. ous parts of the West will entertain! Despite five months operations of you with their music and songs, the agricultural adjustment adminis- Mert Aldrich, champion roper, . will tration, farm prices are slumping catch with one rope four horses run- down tcwaid lows for the year. Since ning at break-neck speed, and Fred May 12 the AAA has made cash Mincey wilf icpe a horse standing on benefit payments of $119,200,000 to his head. ^aimers in return for crop restric- Ted Burgess and Fred Mincey are tions. But the results have not been two of the West’s gieatest bronco what was hoped for* The prime ob- riders and you will see them ride some jective of the administration, restora- of the buckingest broncos you have, tion of the purchasing power of the ever seen. Other well known cowboys farmer’s dollar appears little nearer and cowgirls to be seen are Dan; than it was a year ago. In Septem- Snyder, Walter Davis, Mildred Min-j ber, 1932, the value of the farmer’s cey, of Waco, Texas, Cassie Foster, of dollar in terms of what he buys stood Uvalde, Texas, Howard Lawton of at an index flguie of 56. Last July it Gold Creek, Mont., and Cowboy Jim went up to 71. Now it ia down to 60 Crewa, of Ponca City, Ok la. Ear! Weatherfcrd will entertain you with some teal tricks of magic and ticular commodity, is what causes the Andy E^tmore, the fire-eater, will lines in Secretary of Agriculture Wal gladly share hu lunch with you. lace’s broad brow to knit more deeply. Shorty Johnson with his troupe of| President Roosevelt launched his funny clown* will keep you laughing cotton loan plan when the Southern throughout the peiformance with some States complained that the acreage re- This general slump, rather than the day to day fluctuations in any par- on 1933 Taxes.—Installment Plan. Good news to the taxpayers of the city of Barnwell is the announcement that the tax rate on 1933 taxes has been reduced fromV36 to *30 mills, a saving of six mills as compared with previous years. This information ia contained in a tax notice that is being mailed out by P. S. Brown, city clerk. The instalment plan of payment, which was inaugurated last year, will be in effect gain. Under this plan, a discount of five per cent, will be aU lowed on all city taxes paid before October 25th. From ^October 26th to October 31st no penalty wiH be add ed, or the taxpayer may select, and act upon, not- later thaa December “ 31, 1933, one of two plans outlined iiT' the notice. Plan No. 1 provides for the pay ment on November L«t, 1933, of 12 per cent, of the full amount of taxes due, together with a penalty of one per cent. On December 1st another payment of 8 per cent, will be due, together with a penalty of two per cent. Elach Monthly payment there after will also be 8 per cent., with the penalty being increased one per cent, each month. Under Plan No. 2 the taxpayer may pay in quarterly installments, as follows: 25 per cent, cf full amount of taxes wit hpenalty of 1 per cent, on November 1st; 25 per cent, of taxes with 4 per cent, penalty February lat; 26 per cent, of taxes with 8 per cent, penalty May lat, and 26 per cent, of taxe* and 12 per cent, penalty Au gust 1st. The notice warn* taxpayers that “after selecting either plan and de fault is made on any payment, then the entire amount becomes due «Tut payable, and sixty days after said de fault execution will be issued said taxes and all coots. If the tax payer fails to select one of the plam ■hove by the 1st of December, execu tion will be issued and property ad vertised and sold to pay said tavna with all costs.” Under the installment plan of pay. special clown tiicks that are being; duction plan had failed to bring them in * Ux *» it i» understood that the city featured only in the Allen Bros. Wild a real upward aputt. He formed the West Show.*. There are several high j commodity ctedit corporation and jumping horses the leader of which authorized it to lend up to ten centa is Ski-High, a liberty horse, that a pound on cotton in return for is- jumps over a Buick auto without a 1 duction of next year's acreage. This rider. J figure ia slightly more than the price The People-Sentinel is glad to pro-' of cotton and the operation is in real- sent this .special courtesy ticket to ity a price-pegging maneuver. Sim- its readers and it i« suggested that ilar action may be applied to other you clip this ticket right now and commodities as the credit corpora- make your plans to attend the Allen tion, capitalized at $3,000,000, is em- Bra*. Wild V(est Shows. A limited | powered to extend ciedit on aH agri- number of extra copies of the paper cultural commodities, containing the courtesy ticket have been printed and they will be avail able at five cents a copy while they last. Seeking to raise prices by paying farmers fer reducing their output, the AAA has paid cotton farmer* $87,• 000,000 in cash benefits since May 12. In return, acreage was cut 25 per cent., but the total yield was almost as great as last year. Good weather and the fact that the boll weevil went on NRA reduced hours thwarted the This County Led the State Last Week! effcr t to cut the crop materially. The result has been to help cotton prices only fiactionally. In September last Barnwell Puts 215 Unemployed to Work in Total Number of Persons Re-employed. grounds with tickets that will be fur nished them by their teachers. Thursday is the Citadel-Carolina day and the teams from the-e colleges dents ficm both in-titutions wiH dents from bobth institutions will come to Orangeburg for this big day. Friday is negio day and the Fair grounds will be turned over to the col ored citizens of that *ecticn. I Barnwell Baptist Church Sunday School—Sunday morning at 10:30. “A place cf service for all.” Morning Worship—Sunday morning at 11:30. Subject: The Meaning of Missions to the Individual Christian. B. Y. P. U.—Sunday evening at 7:00. Evening Worship at 8:00. Midweek Prayer service—Wednes day evening at 7:30. Choir practice Wednesday evening at 8:15. The pastor leaves Sunday afternoon to conduct a revival in Beech Island. He -request* the prayers cf all. There will be no evening worship this Sun day. H. H. Stembridge, Pastor. er, first of all has shown himself a master soil-maker. He has remade gully-washed acres into productive -oil with legumes. Twenty years he has been a believer in vetch, and is now equally strong for Austrian peas. Just these figures to indicate result.* of his soil improvement: Last year from 151 acies in cottcn he gathered 158 bales. J. P. Ive ; ter, Belton, has built up a light, sandy soil |o where he is get ting profitable crops by the use of summer and winter legumes. Eveiy man who tried to opeiate this farm before Mr., Ivester had to leave it be came he could not make a living, but Mr. Ivester has built a good home and a profitable business. Hugh Moore on a 31-acre farm near Pendleton has used Austrian peas two year* after, cotton and then planted com this year, which is yielding twice that of a field across the road where the same fertilizer w as used plus three ton? of stable manure per'acre. Ni trate of soda had no effect on Moore’s com after the peas. Skeptical neigh bors are begining to follow Moore’s leed. T. W Jchnscn, Pe’zcr, in three - year, cotton farmer.* were receiving j 7.2 cents a pound. In September this "BarbweTI, with '215 unemployed pn‘ year they averaged 8.8 cental- New to work, led the other counties of the York quotations aie about 9H cents State in placement through the na- as against a high for the year of 11% tional re-empioyment service last cents in July. weel^ The hog situation i« equally dis- On all the counties 1,736 persons turbing. Hog raisers have received were placed in jobs, Thomas K. John- $32,000,000 in cash from the govern- stone, State director of the service, ment for turning in 6,000,000 pigs to ennounced today. This made a total ^ slaughtered. Hog prices in Sep- of 8,705. tember a year ago averaged $3.78 a Left on the service’s rolls were hundred. In September this year, the 39,616, of which 6,710 registered last farmers received an average of $3.73, week. The number cf applicants for according to government figure*, work has-ateadily increased since the' When President Roosevelt submit- service began operating approximate- ted his AAA plan to congress, he said ly two months ago. 1 it was an experiment and that if it Recovery program road projects be- failed, he would frankly say so. The ginning in Chester, Oconee, Laurens administration is not yet ready to ac- and other counties provided jobs for knowledge failure but it is bringing a number of perrons last week, along i n fifst aid to stimulate the patient. with navy yard work at Charleston. * * * Charleston County reported the Goyernor Extends Cleibency. second largest number of placements, i Clemency wa 3 extended by Gover- 191. Spartanburg had 168; Richland, nor Blackwood last week to Alex 161; Georgetown, 142; Darlington. Owens, convicted at Barnwell in Feb- 13'7; Chester, 120; Laurens, 53; Flor- ruaiy> 1932, of manslaughter and .?en- ence, 42; Oconee, 40; Anderson, 31, fenced to serve two and one-half and Greenville 11. ’years.- Owens had served about 20 z J months. The balance 1 of the sen- fathers have collected a large amount of delinquent taxes, some of which had been accumulating over a period of years. The /diacount of five per cent, will doubtless prove attractive to those who desire and art in a position to pay in advance, while the deferral payments make it easier for those not so fortunately situated. TREATING GRAIN SEED REDUCES SMUT LOSSES Clemson College, Oct. 7.—The large annual losses to South Carolina fann ers from the smuts of small grain are largely preventable by the disinfection of seed at a small cost of treatment with a great increase of sound grain. Seed treatment given by entomolo gists U simple and effective. For loose and covered smuts of oats it is advisable to disinfect the seed with fc rmaldehyde, they state. This material is applied at the rate of one pint to 50 bushels of grain and is di luted with ten to forty gallons of water at the option of the operator; The cost of material i» only about 1ft cents -for each bushel of grain. Prom ising results have been obtained by disinfection with organic mercury dust* and with formaldehyde dusts, but the cost is’ somewhat higher. Stinking smut or bunt of wheat ia effectively fcnd cheaply controlled by dusting with copper carbonate in a closed mi&jng chamber. Since the copper dust is poisonous a dust mask or wet handkerchief should be wore over the nose and mouth during the process of mixing. Undiluted copper carbonate is used at the rate of two ounces for each bushel of wheat, at a cost of three to four cents per bushel. The treated seed can bo sown immediately or it may be stored ! for several weeks and will be practi cally immune to insect attack. Aiken Flower Show. years has inciea^ed hi* yield more tence was suspended during good be- than 100 per cent by the use of sum- havior. mer and winter legumes—especially 1 * astran peas. ADVERTISE in The People-Sentinel Aiken’s Annual Flower Show and Festival will be held at the Highhuti i Park Hotel in that city on Friday, November 3rd, at 3:00 p. ra n under the auspices of the Aiken Civic League. Supper will be served be ginning at 5:30 p. m n and will be enj yed from 7:00 p. tel IBteflte#