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TAG* TEN. THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, MAY 17TH, lt84. TUB»niwaU People-Sentinel JOHN W. HOLMES 1S4#—19IS. B. P. DAVIES, Editor and Proprietor. Entered at the post office-at Barnwell, S. C., as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.50 Six Months AO Three Months —.... .60 (Strictly In Advance.) THURSDAY, MAY 17TH, 1934. Prohibition and Homicides. For the eleven-month period end ing in February of 1933, Charleston County led the entire State in the number of homicides with a total of 28. Charleston i 8 generally recogniz ed as one of the “wettest” counties in the State. Naturally, one would assume that liquor played an import ant part in running up such an im pressive total and prohibitionists no doubt “point with apprehension” at this bloody record as forecasting what will happen if and when South Caro lina ceases to be a “different” State and legalizes the sale of whiskey. But— Greenville County, which registered a predominatingly “dry" vote last No vember, was a close second to Charles ton with 24 homicides in the same period while for the corresponding 11 months ending February, 1934, the standing of the two counties was re versed, Greenville taking the lead with 23 and Charleston falling into second place with 22. On the facd' of the latest returns, the “wets” are in a position to blame Greenville's crime record on prohibition. But— These two counties are among the largest in the State; there isn’t a great deal of difference in the total population of each (although Charles ton perhaps has a larger percentage of negroes); and one is wet and the other is allegedly dry. So what? On Making Errors. “To err i 8 human,” but it seems that the chances of making errors in typesetting are greater than in any other line of endeavor. In fact, the chances for mistakes in one column of print is 70,000 to 1, according to a statistician who has worked the thing out. In an ordinary newspaper column there are 10,000 letters; there are seven wrong position s that a letter may be put in; there are 70,000 chances to make an error, and mil lions of chances f6r tranpositions. In the short sentence “To be or not to be,” by transpositions alcne it is possible to make 2,758,009 errors, believe it or not. Just bear this in mind, dear reader, when you run across an error in these column* and just imagine what jumble there would h ave if our linotype operater had ntade eveiy er ror possible. From now on we have a perfect alibi. CAPTAIN JOE ALLEN, BARNWELL, ROMANTIC OF PLANTATION DAYS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.) slaves, belonging to the plantation, or music furnished by our own company within. “Are you fond of riding—here aie horses for the saddle or carriage. Are you more pleased with innocent play, here aie chess, cards and other games. “If you delight in reading, here are books and leisure with the green trees for a shade, and oaks, pines and cypress for companions, if you wish to hold communion only with your self, your author and nature. . . . I look out upon a garden of white and' yellow jessamines, and of roses interspersed with pomegranites, pet- tisporums, altheas, peach, orange, fig trees and what is most beautiful of all, upon long rows of deeply set and fully flowered Cape Jessamines. ,. . and the air is burdened with the odor df~lhe most fragrant flower fhat blooms. Such in a word or two, is a picture of the interior and exterior comforts of the dwelling of a South Carolina planter, and what is true of one is true of many.” Then the writer warms up to the subject of the purpose of his visit South. “My entertainer . . . wa s a nullifler, or States right$ man, but one, I have found, can be both, and be a true gentleman and a patriot. . . Nullification is neither a ghost nor ghoul, hobgoblin nor a very formid able devil, when you are permitted to face the monster and see him as he is. There is practical love of country at the bottom of all abstract theories about secession and nullification. A good many here by nature are of the irritable genus. The hot sun heats iljKir wits, as the frozen regions of the north cools ours. . , If men Siere stop to reason, to think, to hear, they find you, as you find them, not so unreasonable after all. I speak jmw from one of the many hot-beds 4oi what we call 'nullification' and ‘fire- bating,' in view of the old Barnwell «sort house, where, or in the neigh borhood of which, the federal govern-1 went hs c go often and so bitterly been 1 denounced—in a district where Cal houn, father and son, once bad a plan tation, which worshiped Calhoyn while he lived, and whose memory is sainted now that he is no more, which admired McDuffie as god or demi-god, which was long represented in both house g of congress by R. Barnwell Rhett, whom Henry Clay, in a not very qualified sense, in his seat in the senate during the compromise session, denounced as ‘a traitqJr.’ Loses AH of Property. “But this county of Barnwell would tomorrow raise as many volunteer* to defend the union from invasion as any district in the entire country. It did so during the Florida war. It did so during the war with Mexico, from which of a hundred healthy and brave men who went to the battlefield, but 15 returned alive. ... I can see no difference whatever, but what is the mere result of what we call Provi dence, or accident of birth, and of climate, between a Main Yankee, born on Casco Bay, or the Penobscot river, and a Carolinian or Georgian on the Savannah or Edisto. Politics, how ever, I find here, like the handle of a jug all on one side. . . But hard times fell upon the coun try and Captain Joe Allen, like the rest of his friends and countrymen, paid heavily. He lost all of his property after the war and there was left, after his death, not enough to buy the monument, which had given him concern for his own grave. Be-! fore his death, he sold his old home to his nephew, Governor Johnson Hagood, and it now belongs to the estate of CarroR Simms, son of the author, Gilmore simms. The territory about thi s old house is periodically the scene of digging. All of the Alien silver, which was re puted to have been particularly num erous and handsome, wa s buried somewhere on the gronds When it wag learned that Sherman was headed that way. Thi s silver was never found, it i s believed by the family that some of the slaves, who knew where it was buried, later dug it up and disposed it. , Captain Allen, although said to be a very profane man, gave Allen's Bap tist Chapel near Ulmers, and also a park in Btarnwell. The odd sundial has it s counterpart somewhere in Texas, and that is thought to be the only sundial like it. in the country Since Captain Allen owned a large plantation in Texas, it is supposed that rhis sundial .was also- -placed -there by. him. Although possessed ,of a fiery tem per, Captain Allen was also very wit ty. Someone once asked him how he made his money and he replied that he picked up fat lightwood kindling along the Savannah river, tied it in bundles and sold them. He died November 26, 1880, but in Barnwell there are still a few people left who remember Captain Joe Allen and chuckle, remembering. But a sigh follows the chuckle and pdrhaps a tear drop is furtively burshed f^om a dimming eye—because of the dear, dead past, which the memory of him conjures up. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the undersigned intend to file with the Secretary of State on or before May 19, 1934, a DecTttranon for Char ter for The Barnwell Ginnery, a cor poration to have its principal place of business in Barnwell, South Caro lina, the general nature of the busi ness" which ir proposes to do being to buy and sell cotton and cotton seed products, operate a ginnery of cotton, buy and sell fertilizer, buy, sell and deal in real estate and mortgages of of all kinds, to mortgage all real estate •JMW BRAND NEW MODEL ELEVEN PHILCO AUTO RADIO 0^ $39.95 installed to car aerial A genuine all-electric super heterodyne that outperforms auto radios at much higher prices! 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Mrs. Hugh Ryan, of Sumter, was the only out-of-town guest. JSWEElXEPgEiLELANTSi a limited quantity ofmee sweet pep per plants for sale, 30c per hundred. A large number of Iceberg Lettuce plants FREE to those who want them. —E. E. Goodson. \ I AM STILL BUYING Second Hand — Bicycles ^ Clyde Dunaway 215 Twelftth St. Phene 3936 AUGUSTA GA. NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR CHARTER. in its possession and ownership as may elect and to have power to do 411 things relative to such business. The Capital Stock will be $2,000.00, divided into 20 shares of $100.00 eac A meeting of the subscribers to said Capital S^ock of said corporation will be held at ten o'clock a. m.. May 18 1934, at the office of Brown and Bush, in the Town of Barnwell, for the pur pose- of onraaizing ‘fain ^ornnrat.inn. electing directors and transacting any other business as may properly come before said meeting. (Signed) G. B. HAGOOD, L. N. CONNOR. FORFEITED LAND COMMISSION SALE. State of South Carolina, County of Barnwell. Under and by virtue of the authori ty vested in us by an Act of the Gen eeral Assembly “of the Stale of South Carolina, entitled an “Act in Relation to Forfaited Lands, Delinquent Lands, and Collection of Taxes,” approved December 24, 1887, and Acts amenda- torv thereof, we, the undersigned For- feited Land Commission of Barnwell County, will sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, between the legal hours of sale, in front of the Court House at Barnwell, S. C., on Monday, the 4th day of June, 1934, this being saesday in said month, the following described real estate: One lot and one building 'in the Town of Blackville, bounded as fol lows: North by J. A. Maloney; East by J. A. Maloney; West by Lartigue Street and South-by Raliroad Avenue. Levied upon as the defaulted property of J. McB. Bean and sold to satisfy warrant and costs. —ALSO— One lot in the Town of Blackville, bounded as follows: North by Estate of D. P. Walsh; East by Miss Hattie Martin; West by Lartigue Street and South by Estate of Ed Hayes and J. E. Maloney. Levied upon as the defaulted property of J. McB. Bean and sold to satisfy warrant and costs. Terms of sales: Cash; purchaser f pay for papers and revenue stamps. IL L. BRONSON, Clerk of Court, / J. J. BELL, County Treasurer. r ■ ____ W. H. MANNING, County Auditor, • Forfeited Land Commission of Barnwell County. Barnwell, S. C., May 16, 1934. ants, I, the undersigned Master, will sell in front of the Coart House at Barnwell, S. C., during the legal hours of sale, on the 4th day of June, 1934, same being saleeday, to the highest fBELIEVE ME, THESE NEW NO-SCRU, FUL-VUE GLASSES HAVE SOLVED AfK PROBLEM]' I L ed premises: All right, title and inter est of H. B. Hair, which is one (1) undivided fourth in and to all that certain lot of land, with the im provements thereon, situate in the town of Blackville, Barnwell County, S. C., at the corher of Clarke and-Paa, callis Streets and bounded as follows: On the Norttf by Pascallis Street; on the East by what is known by Rail road lot; on the West b/Clark Street, and on the South by lot of B. L. Boylston. \ Terms of sale cash, purchaser / to pay for papers and Revenue stamps. And the successful bidder, except the plaintiff, or its attorney, and all other persons who may thereafter raise the bid, to make a cash deposit of 5 per cent.’of such' bid as earnest money for evidence of good faith in bidding. The deposit of the last highest bid der to be applied on the bid, shoul there be a compliance, if the person 7 making the highest bid fails to make such deposit immediately at the time of the acceptance of his bid, then the mortgaged premises shall be re sold at once on the same salesday, upon the same terms at the risk of such bidder, and so on from time to time thereafter until a compliance shall be secured. And that if the highest bidder ^ails to comply with out lawful excuse, then his deposit shall be retailed by the Master and for feited to the plaintiff as liquidated damages, and the mortgaged premises shall thereafter be resold on some sub- t salesday named by the plain tiff^ attorney, after similar advertise- ent, upon the same terms and cortdi- ttcrnr: G M. GREENE,^ - Master for Barnwell County. We can fit you too, with Rimless Glasses that will never bother you With loose screws or wobbling lenses. A Augusta Optical Comyany AUGUSTA, GA. 803° BROAD STREET WHITE AND INDIANA TRUCKS—PARTS—SERVICE Whitton Machine & Equipment Co. MACHINE, BLACKSMITH, ELECTRIC WELDING, BODY, FENDER, WOOD WORK, AUTO TOPS, n _ rEPHOLSTERING AN© GLASS SHOPS ^— CYLINDER GRINDING AND BORING, SEALED POWER, PISTONS, PINS AND RINGS. B-K VACUUM BRAKES, — FRUEHAUF TRAILERS. -V- PHONE1637 AUGUSTA, GA. CANDIDATES’ CARDS. For Congress. Columbians. C.. March It. 1934. I hereby announce my candidacy for election to Congress from the Secand bngressional UistncT,“pledging my self to abide by the rules of the Democratic party. GARY PASCHAL. 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 anj regulations of the Democratic primary election. HORACE J. CROUCH. For the House of Representatives Barnwell, April 30, 1934. I hereby announce myself a. candi date for reelection ,to the House of EYES EXAMINED GLASSES FITTED DR. J. C. TINLEY OPTOMETRIST :-: SPECIALIST REFRACTION AND MOTILITY OF THE EYE 1280 BROAD STREET AUGUSTA, GEORGIy ❖«:~x-:-x-;-x~:~x->->-x~x~:-x-x*<-> FEDERAL FARM MORTGAGE CORPORATION. 3^s DUE 1964 HOME OWNERS’ LOAN CORP. ’ 4s DUE 1951 , " BOUGHT — SOLD — QUOTED JOHNSON, LANE, SPACE & CO., Inc. ► - - i ' . / ' ’ / 733 BROAD STREET. PHONE 3586 Atlanta AUGUSTA, GA. Savannah -T Reduced Fares between stations via. NOTICE OF DISCHARGE. > Vrvy** - 'V ~ ^ - T Notice is hereby given that I will file my final account as Executrix of the Will of Mrs. Elizabeth S. Hair, deceased, with the Hon. John K. Snel- ling, Judge of the Probate Court for Barnwell County, State of South Caro lina on Monday, June 11, 1934, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, and petition the said Court for an Order of Dis charge and /Letters Dismissory. HEL IRENE HAIR, Executrix Estate of Lizzie Hair, May 12, 1934. deceased. MASTER’S SALE. Under and by virtue of a decree of the Court of Common Pleas for rnwell County, S. C. t in the case of iken Mortgage and Realty Com- » plaintiff, vs. H. B. Hair, and Herman Brown and Isadore Brown, co-partner s trading under the firm nanlc df Sir.un Brown’s S:ns, defend- RefrresentatiVes from Barnwell C'Oun-* ty, subject to the rules and reg^a- tion s of the Democratic primary elec tion. / SOLOMON BLATT. Wiliiston, April 30, 1934. I hereby announce myself a candi date for reelection to tl>€ House 6f Representatives from Barnwell Coun ty, subject to the rules and regula tions of the Democratic primary elec tion. WINCHESTER C. SMITH. JR. For Magistrate at Barnwell. Barnwell, S. C., April 17, 1934. I hereby anounce myself a candi date for the office of Magistrate at Barnwell, subject to the rules and regulations of the Democartic primary election. W. P. SANDERS. Magistrate for Bennett Springs and FqfiF'Mile iowjianips. I hereby announce myself a candi date for re-election to the office of Magistrate for Bennett Springs and Four Mile *Townshps, subject to the rule s and regulaton s of the Demo cratic primary election. G. R. PEEPLES. For Magistrate at Blackville. Blackville, April 23, 1934. I hereby announce myself a candi date for the office of Magistrate at Blackville, subject to the- rules and regulations of the Democratic primary election. , ' W. S. GRUBBS. 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, I hereby announce myself » candi date for the office of Magistrate at Hilda, subject to the rules and regula tions of the Democratic primary elec tion. • > PAUL H. SANDER^. Southern Railway System 1 Hr nrr Milr rnn, h TYavol V — A 72. v v! L 1* J11 v V/t-cIC il xi 3 v v IV 3c per Mile Pullman travel, one way. 2^c per Mile Pullman travel round'trip limit 30 day? 2c per Mile Pullman travel round trip limit 15 days PULLMAN FARE EXTRA. Sample one-way coach fares fiom BARNWELL, S. C. Birmingham, Ala. $7.18 WASHINGTON, D. C._. BALTIMORE, MD. ... 9.50 NEW YORK, N. Y £ 16.20 Savannah, Ga. 1.34 Louisville, Ky. 9.34 St. Louis, Mo. 12.80 Charlotte, N. C. 2.56 Raleigh, N. C. 4.26 Anderson, vS. C. 2.87 Greenville, S. C. 2.(54 Chattanooga, Tenn. ___ 6.73 Knoxville, Tenn. 5.35 Lynchburg, Va. 5.65 PHILADELPHIA, PA. Atlantal Ga. .... Lexington, Ky. New Orleans, La. Asheville, N. C. _/ Greensboro, N. C. Cincinnati, O. _ Columbia, S. C. Spartanburg, S/C. Johnson Oty./Tenn Memphis, Tenn. Richmond ,/Va. J. N. ANDERSON, Ticket Agent Southern Railway System g-Our SAVANNAH Home ■HOTEL SAVANNAH S AVAN NAM, CFORCfA.