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JOHN W. B. P. DAVIES, Editor and Proprietor. Entered at the post office at Barnwell, S. C., as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: .One Year -— $1A0 Six Months 1 JW Three Months AO (Strictly In Advance.) By Gee McGee. Anricultural Dcpe. Fertilizer season Tisi arrived, that is—in the South. Bunny thing about a farmer; he might become too poor to buy meat and bread and shoes and clothing, but he always gets enough cash to pay for as much guano as he wants, plus plenty of chawing and spitting tobacco. Fertilizer, commonly called gu ano,.is in the throes of the NRA and the Code. Everybody' Who makes it and everybody who handles it are in the same boat as to prices, terms, time of delivery, methods of pay ment, and how it smells. no prayer-meetings have benn hell in the church since the trubble first brewed; and the ladies mission-nerry society has not met allso. the y. p. u. and the sunbeams and the moonbeams have had a meeting at priwate homes, they are all so young they do not know how to quarrel yet. the teen agers and the little soldiers and the dew drops are split up and have jined each other’s ma’i Ud ih the squabble, i will rite or foam in more news about this day after tomorrow. yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd. t. corry spondent. m: X The Code schedule is something like thia: 1—If you pay cash before you get it and haul it yourself, you may de+ duct 1 per cent, from the March price, and 67 cents per ton for the use of your wagon or buggy or truck, as the caae might be. 2—If you don’t pay fbr your staff before midnight on April 15th, the price is 1 per cent, higher than it was the night before. The cash price on '8-3-3, for instance, is 20 percent off the time price, but nobody sells on time, meaning—on credit, yet the Code names such a price. 3—To arrive at the June 1st price you multiply the “fall price” by the number of times your heart beats per minute, deduct the size of your hat, add the length of your gallusses, if you wear gny, divide the result by your bust measure, and run the figure 4 thru number of acres rented to the government, and there you are. of rehober church last satturday night and left them in front graveyard so’s a feller can elimb over the fence without opening the gate, that is blamed on faction no. 4 who wants a no-hell preecher for a pas ture. two window glasses have benn broke out of the winder behind the pull pit by rocks. the Browsing Around With Upper Ten. 1 was invited out the other even ing. Nothing but swell-company was {ain't come yet eligible. Tam still trying to figger out how me and my wife got on the preferred list, but we were there ok, and on time. She is very fond of high society. -.--.The folk who gave the dinner— that’s what they called it, and the clock had already struck 8 p. m., when w# eat down—were and still are the big shots of the city in which this occasion happened t° he occas ioned. They are not connected with no ban or nothing like that. V — — 1 never saw so much “dog” put on in all my life as was “on stage” that night. Dresses were ripped far below the waist line in the back and almost as dangerous in the front. Jim swingers and high hats were plentiful. I felt out of place as I didn’t have on anything but regular clothes. 4—To determine what ingred ients compose your formula, sift half of the sand out of a 200-pound bag of mixed goods, pick out the 2 pieces of fish scrap, dust off the 3 ounces of ammonia that is found sticking to the dissolve the acid phosphorous in a pint of cold water, put the sand back into the bag, and weigh the re mainder on a set of post office scales, and you will then know exactly what you knew before the undertaking. The frisky little intellectual who sat next to me was as prissy and as kittishy as a jennie wren. She evi dently wanted to impress me with her grey matter—which was supposed to contain knowledge of the distant past, ancient histoiy, noted musicians, mar velous writers and play-right, and so forth. She was at least 45 and mar ried, but was playing 24 and single. dering-off.” I went around and took orders for goods from white folks, colored folks, and everybody, else who had as much as 3 cents to spend. I waudn’t fool with an order for less than 3 cents. Sending off and re ceiving mail was the most, thrilling thing I ever did up to that time or since. 1 recall that the first thing I sent for was a little rose-bud., pin for -my sweetheart; later on—I ordered a fine sterling silver finger-ring for 8 cts. She appreciated those presents very much indeed. The most fun I ever had was with my lapel bouquet (6 cts.) which would squirt water in people’s faces when they would try to smell it. each approved bode to which he is subject and that the United States shall have the right to cancel any contract for failure to comply and make open market purchases at the expense'of the contractor. (d) No agency of the United States government shall accept or purchase for the performance of any contracts or enter into any subcon tracts for any articles, materials, or supplies furnished by any person who shall not have certified that he is com- plying with and will continue to com ply with each code to which he is sub jects — r—r^h —Just as soon an l wojdd mail a letter which contained the money and my order, I would begin asking for mail at the post office. It would a l~ ways require a week for my stv^ff to come, but the second day was a very long wait for me, and 1 the post-mas ter got so’s he would say when he saw jne coming: “No, Gee; your things 1 ordered off for the fist bottle of cologne I ever saw and I smelt every boy in the community out of his girl. My, How good that stuff must have felt in the noses of the envious. My first green spects came thru the mail. Little velvet ear-muffs (4 cents) rag ed in my community for several months, all because I got 'em started. This “ordering-off” habit is a bad one. Folks right in my own town order, thousands of dollars worth jof merchandise from mail-order houses every week that can be bought within h..±o .10 blocks of their own homes at the same (or lower) prices, and fre quently, on credit. ThereVa strange thing about “ordering-off” for stuff: no matter how sorry and worthless it is, it is always satisfactojy to the guy who ordered it. Such is not th^ case with home-bought merchandise. — .She said many things, but I re call only a few of-them, as follows: “Oh, Mr. Gee—arn’t you just wild about Shaks Speer?” 1 told her that I had never met “Shaks,”* but knew Tom and Bill Speer very well indeed. She talked so much about Hamlet, I decided that Td like to meet him. but found out later from her that he was dead. ——* We advise the farmers to grow too much cotton and corn and wheat tins year so’s there will be such a large surplus that ‘the government most keep on feeding nearly every body. Use all the guano you can buy and borrow, kijl every boll weevil and wheat fiy and com borer you can find, and do everything else in your power to defeat the efforts of Mr. Roosevelt to help you, and we guarantee that the depression will last longer than you will. (Selah.) •s The Trouble Pot Still Boil* in Flat Rock. flat rock, s. C., martch 27, 1934. deer nor. edditor:— .please allow me space in yore val- inble paper to say (hat everything is twtxr a calf a little bit quiter thi* week in the rehober church ranks and it now looks like it mought be possible to calm down the trubbled waiters. — factions nos. 2 and 4 have consoli dated, and 1 all they have got to do now' is get factions nos. 1 and 3 to jine hands with them, it seems that the 2 and 4 crowd is willing to call a pas ture at once with the old sallery of rev. hnbbert green g&rranteed to him at the end of the year. factions nos. 1 and 3 don’t want no pasture of anny kind until times get ftetter; that is—unless the ewa or the rfe will pay his entire sallery, which watt he at least 12$ per month, which wifli go .to the mission-nerry society k.; m Us: veeve smith, the organ- wist, has quit faction no 2 and lined np with faction no 1; they have prom- hwd to pot a planner tit the church ami. take out the organ and let her plag same and will pay bar 1$ per toanih in advance for bar playing, dhe is verry line on the ivories in She asked me how I ,‘liked Vol taire and Beet-hoven. I explained to her that I had never met Vol or Beet either, and couldn’t say that 1 liked them at all. She kept on raving about Vess Puciuus and Cleo Patra while I was drinking my tomato juice and rubbing the grapefruit fire out of my eyes. She didn’t have on over 14 ounces of clothing, counting everything she might of had on that she might not have had on. She knew everything about evrybody that I had never heard of, and didn’t know anything about anything at all, far as 1 could ascertain. 1 never want to hear so much “high” conversation again. The two songs the young girl and the young man sung sounded like bellowing ana a pig squealing. The lady who pecked on the piano far 45 minutes never did get in a mile of a tune. 1 had a very Fox Huntsmen Use Autos to Reach Scene of Sporl In the early days of fox-hunting. the huatsbaan usually aross early in the morning and rode' his favorite mount to the spot appointed for the chase to begin. Now. however, ob serves a writer in the Washington Post, in most Instances trainers take the master's mount to the starting place fbr the hunt and the huntsmen arrive by auto to the tune of the bay ing of I he pack ready and pulling at thetr leashes for the start of the^day*s chase. With the dogs in the lead and a whipperin on eHher side of them, the chase begins. In recent years it has not been Infrequent for the huntsmen and hounds to jump a fox within a •few minutes after the chase is under way—and then the fun begins. The fox is known for his craftiness in the thickets and woodlands. Once pursued by the bounds, he will go to any end to throw the enemy off his trail. With baying hounds closing In on him, the fox often makes for a nearby stream in which he has been known to wade for hundreds of yards before leaving from the opposite bank in his effort to throw the pack from his trail. Many a fox hat escaped by using his wits, but the hounds are also artfully trained for a long chase and unless the fox happens to be close by a den, he is usually pursued for hours and finally brought down. With the pack closing in on its quarry, the fox puts up a vigorous fight, but the dogs know how to handle their victim and coming in on him as a unit sel dom fall to down the fox. Close on the heels of the hounds are the hunts men who endeavor to bag the fox alive, if possible, but in many cases the pack has finished its work before a crosfctie^ tbe-rlders-come up. and (e) The foregoing provisions shall likewise apply to all contracts or purchase orders authorized by any State, municipal corporation, local subdivision, person or corporation in connection with projects carried out or to be carried out wholly or in part with funds loaned or'granted by any agency of the United States. 2. Any person falsely certifying as to compliance as aforesaid, who submits any such proposal, bid, con tract or subcontract, may be punished as provided 4n Section-1^ A of the N. I. Ijt. A. by a fine not to exceed $500.00 or imprisonment not to exceed six months, or both, and in event of any such false certification, any such proposal or bid may be cancelled b^ the other party thereto and the un finished portion completed at the ex pense of the person guilty of such false certification and his sureties. —&—Whenever a dispute- arises be- tween any v agency of the United States and any -bidder, contractor or supplier, as to compliance with any ^ode or with any agreement with the President in connection with any pro posal, bid, contract, subcontract or or der, the Administrator for Industrial Recovery, or such agency as he shall designate shall decide such dispute and for the purposes gf action under this order, such decision shall be final and conclusive. CANDIDATES’ CARDS. For Congress. Columbia, S. C., March 14, 1934. I hereby announce my candidacy for election to Congress from the Secand Congressional District, pledging my self to abide by the rules of the Democratic party. GARY PASCHAL. so evening. I got the old man cornered off in the breakfast room, and he and I discussed bird dogs, the gold stand ard, inch cqtton, processing tax on wheat and rotten politics. He sat whefe he could spit his tobacco juice out of the window. But it was a great party, so the newspapers said in 3 columns the next day. BniMelt Griffon CalOT the Comedian of Dogdom The Brussels Griffon Is just as mu£b good time the last 2 hours of thef a (tog as any of tbe toy breeds. 'tjutr Are You Afflicted With the Qrdering- Off Disease, s iWhen I was just budding into long britches, I contracted the “or dering-off” habit—that is—everytime I got hold of as much as 26 cents, and that wasn’t very often, I “order- ed-off” for things. m There was • firm in New York City that sold more trash for the money than any other Arm I have ever heard of since. And, by the way, the first time I went to New ^ I Y;ak, I looked up that very house and Detroit Newa I unfortunately, not quite as popular. Very little is heard of this bizarre- appearing pet, for its acceptance as a standard breed has been slow and confined almost entirely to those who- are always seeking the unusual in dogs. ■ Considerable doubt surrounds its origin. Some claim It is a Belgian production; others believe the coal mining districts of England gave to the world. Only one thing is tain, it appeared In both countries about the same time, more thao half a century ago. The fringed beard, which Imparts a touch of the comedian to the ani mal, ia an outstanding characteristic. Abroad it is popular as a household pet, displaying at all times alertneas, wisdom and uncanny intelligence. The standard for the Brussels Grif fon haa been set by the Societe Roy- ala Salnt-Bnbert of Belgium and calls for an animal not exceeding six or ••van pounds In weighty reddish brown coat, dart whiskers and everything is to go ahead just as It was before.— County Superintendent of Education. Elko, S. C., Feb. 27, 1934. I hereby announce my candidacy for the office of County Superintend- ent of Education, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democratic HORACE J. CROUCH. NOTICE! 1 THE TIME FOR PAYING 1933 STATE AND COUNTY TAXES HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO ~ May 1934 THE PRESENT TWO PER CENT. PENALTY APPLIES TO ALL TAXES PAID IN MARCH; ONE PER CENT AD- -TWTIONAL WILL BE ADDED FROM » * April 1 st to May 1 st MAKING A TOTAL OF THREE PER ^ ALL UNPAID TAXES WILL BE PUT IN EXECUTION WITH PENALTIES AND COSTS AS PROVIDED BY LAW. J. J. BELL TREASURER, BARNWELL COUNTY i .a. .a. .a. .a. For Magistrate at Hilda. I hereby announce‘myself as a can didate for the office of Magistrate at Hilda, subject to the rule s and regula tions of the Democratic primary elec tion. N. A. HIERS. —— Hilda, March 17, 1934. I' hereby announce myself a candi date for the office of Magistrate at Hilda, subject to the rules and regula tions of the Democratic primary elec tion. PAUL H. 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