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ifc 1 u ~"~ -■ •age bight. ~7' ', . ■ ~ ' ; • ]R? THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, BOtifH CAROLINA THURSDAY, SEPT! 1M9S4 BjtOmIUGm. For Sale: One Nice Wife. Sat rock, a. C. sepp 7, 1984. Soar mr. edditor:— i aaw by the paperr a fdw.diyi *go where • man up in brookfyn had sold his wife on the mitallment plan for 700|. i would litre to have some more Information on this subject, so plese Eet the particulars anj rite or foam me at oncer -- is. ■ If there is a firm which buys wives for cash or on the instalment plan, kindly give me his name by return male, and allso have him say if he can use one a little bit over 60, but who can cook and sow and dam and wash as well as she could 25 yr. ago. 1 will not call no names at present. dogs and 8 cats, along with her and whoever buys her will get att of these things throwed in for nothing, her mother is a verry good worker, but a heavy eater, the dogs and cats and children are unexcelled, for fine bab bits, ketching rabbits, mouses, pos sums and squirrels, anny reasonable offer for cash will be giveh favorable digestion, have them get in touch m / - with the under-signed at once. yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd. .Thirty-Five Years Ago. 1. Women were*&s much cotton in their bustles es they wear in an en tire ensemble today, plus about 3 pounds. 2. Only about 2 percent of the rural population had ever seen or tasted- lightbread. Nearly all of them eat it now—’cause their women folks ar€ too tired or two lazy to cook biscuits. m- the party i have in mind mought aell his wife for a right smart less than 700$ for cash, and if insallments waa desired for, say 200$, you can just say that anny reasonable arrange ments will be o. k. she is in fine health and the only thing in the world that you could object to is—she has _to wear 2 pairs of specks. 3. A young lady felt eternally dis graced if she became the victim of an accident that permitted even the lower edges of her knees to be seen by a man. Today modesty extends to a point barely within the law. The fewer and thinner be her clothes, the finer she is dressed. r .Mi Mat. I CLAIM THE MOST POWER i if 700$ seems too high for yore agency, i will go into negotiations with them, but at this time, i can’t tell them who it is that dsires to dis pose of his help-mate, she is verry gentle, sleeps well, eats whatever is pet befoar her. attends church, and ia sattisfied with ordinary clothes, but ms stated above, i can’t give you the name of the man who wants to sell hia wife. she is 5 feet 6, wears a no. 7 shoe, weigh 83 pounds, stands erect, no warts anywhere’s on her excepp her nose and the back of her nake, black hair, blue eyes, sunburnt complexion, small ears, and is uaeter going with out stockings, but wears year-hobs all of the time, she is easy to get along with if you let her have her way all of the time and don’t talk hack to her. —*—*— —■— the lady i have im Blind that is for sail will want to take her mother and 8 children by her first husband, 4 4. If a man failed to pay a bank note on the day of its maturity, he was counted undependable by his fel low-men. Today if he pays them at all, he waits a few days; and some times—he- forgets them entirely—and thus becomes a rather shrewd business man, so he thinks-. I CLAIM THE MOST/ SPEED/ THE MOST MILEAGE/' “J can't help thinking," says the owl, “When / hear claim-alls yap and yowl, — That It would certainly behoove 'em Not to make claims 'til they can.prove 'em!" THAT/ V" / 5. It was customary and generally necessary for the son to get permis sion from the father to use old “Pete* and the buggy once a week. Now dear old father has to beg darling son ny with tears in his eyes if he gets to ride 2 or 3 miles a week in his own car. 6. A young damsel who saw fit to paint her cheeks and powder her nose (and incidentally wear a split skirt) was locked down upon, and shunmii by everybody except the other girl who* went with her and a few bad boys who sneaked around oc- caeionally in the night-time. Now- let a girl risk getting out of her ow-n boudoir without being painted, plas- We could make sweeping claims tor Essolene without stretching the truth in the least. However, we prefer to let Essolene, itself, testify to its merits. And it-jrilU-if you*!! fust give it the chance. Test it out in your car. Let it demonstrate exactly what we mean when we say that Essolene guarantees smoother performance. lEstoiube Motor Oil In the crankcase enables Essolene to do Its best] AT RIOULAR m •ASOLINI PRICE SUV AT Ties MAN Treasurer’s Tax Notice! Smoother Parformanca s^nsTcrcr STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF NEW JERSEY The County Treaeurer’i office will be open from September f5th, 1934, ta Much 15th, 1986, for collecting 1984 taxec, which Include real and per sonal property, poll and road tax. All taxes due and payable between September 15 and December 31, 1984, will be collected without penalty. All taxes not paid as stated will be subject to penalties as provided by law. January 1st, 1936, one per cent, will be added. February 1st, 1935, two per cent, will be added. March 1st to 15th, 1935, seven per cent, wiil be- added-. - - •* Executions will l>e placed in the hands of the Sheriff for col'.ectbn after March 15th, 1935. When writing for amount of taxes, be sure and give school district if property is in more than one school district. All persenal checks given for taxes will he subject to collection. tered and dyed from Dan to Beershe- head do not swim, so it could not be ha. Why, she wouldn’t think of such his llwer. mrs. perkins thinks hia a thing. complaint is altagether in his brains, if he has anny. No. 24—Ashleigh No, 33—Barbary Branch No. 45—Barnwell f No, 4—Big Fork No. 19—Blackville No. 35—Cedar Grove No. 60—Diamond No. 20—'Double Ponds No. 12—Dunbarton No. 21—Edisto No. 28—Elko No. 68—Ellenton No. 11—Four Mile No. 39-r-Friendshij> No. 16—Green’s Academy Np, 10—Healing Springs No. 28—Hercules No. 9—Hilda No. 52—Joyce Branch No. 34—Kline No. 32—Let’s No. 8—Long Branch No. 64—Meyer’s Mill No. 42—Morris No. 14—Mt. Calvary No. 26—New Forest No. 38—Oak Grove No. 43—Old Columbia No. 18—Pleasant Hill No. 7—Red Oak No. 16—Reedy Branch No. 2—Seven Pines No. 40—Tinker’s Creek No. 26-Upper Richland .... £ as S. ~T". - +* C 9 O 0 2 1 o 1 c 3 a 1 3, 3 "o x c as cc •v- C O as -a c * «■ A X a c o II !« O $ u a> a cr, 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 !: 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 -r 12 33 25 21 20 28 17 19 27 9 27 11 8 17 20 < fr O fr- 30 51 43 39 38 46 35 37 45 27 45 29 26 35 38 "sir 7. Neighbors and kinfolks visited I one another and were welcome. A corpse never had a chance to get lonesome, as friends of the family sat up with him or her all night. Doc tors carried their soda and pills and calomel with them, and drug stores had to sell something for a living. It .was safe to loan a fellow a dollar. Nobody knew how to drive a car or answer a te ephone or talk over the radio. Yep, folks—times were like that 35 years ago, but they are much better today—because they have changed. — A New Contagious Disease Has Broken Out in Flat Rock, flat rock, s. C., sepp 10, 1934. deer mr. edditor:— hubbert pirkins, a native of our nice little town, has ketched a new disease, and noboddy, including dr. green, has benn able to dog-nose it correctly, mrs. perkins sayk it has benn a-grewing on him for nigh 2 yr. hubbert has took up 25$ worth of patent medison with a heavy alcohail content, but it has dene him no good, he says he will newer call on The fera or the ewa or the rfd or anny other goverment agency as long as his wife is able to support him endur ing his illness as she has done for the past 26 months when it struck him in the fielfC^ is hubbert’s nahers say that he afflicted with “lazy-uitis,” and “no^ countitis” of the limbs/ and they would like to subscribe * nice leather strop for his anatomy, but he says it is pute sickness and nothing else. yores tru’ie, mike Clark, rfd,' corry spondent. PAID SPECIAL 2 Gallons t «98c| Auto Part*-Accessories Carolina Parts Stores Blackville, S. C. Phone No. 64 6 6 6 ADVERTISE IN The People- Sentinel. Liquid, Tablets, Salve, Nose Drops Checks Malaria in 3 days. Colds first day. Headaches or Neursigis in 30 minutes. FINE LAXATIVE AND TONIC Most Speedy Remedies Known. INSURANCE FIRE r .WINDSTORM PUBLIC LIABILITY ACCIDENT - HEALTH SURETY BONDS AUTOMOBILE THEFT Calhoun and Co. it seems that hubbert has a normal appetite when it come to eating, and everything he can get agrees with him and he is fond of all kinds of meats and veggertables, so his tnibble is not in his stummTct] Braxil Rain-Drenched in One Part; Dry in Other Geographically, Brazil is divided Into two great sections—the plateau coun try in tho East, which Includes nearly one-third of its territory, and the great interior tropical plains,, drained by the Amazon system and In a smaller de gree by the Rio de la Plata tribu taries. The country lies almost en- V AN INVESTMENT in Fine Footwear Men who select Uptown shoes get a world ^ of personal satisfaction i^ their fine qual- commutation road tax of $8.00 must be paid by all male citizens hetwaen the ages of 21 and 56 years. All male citizens between the ages «f 21 and 60 years are liable to poll tsx of $1.00. Check* will not be accepted for taxes under any circumstances except *c n*k the taxpayer.—(The County Treasurer reserves the right to leceipta paid ^7 cheek until said checks have been paid.) mm be released only upon legal tender, poet office • J. JL BELL, . mrs. iperkins says that he ftfceps all right, but his disease keeps him from wanting to get out of bed ever morning, and if he gets out and eats, he goes back and takes another long nap till dinner, he is neYver able to do no manuel labor, if ,he is asked to fetch in some stove-wood, a pain ketches him in the j»ack. * : * —■'/ '■ * . , after linned ever day he is able to hobble up to the citty hall and set down in a soft chair till supper time, he is verry forgetful and never fetch es any groceries home that mrs. pir kins asks him to buy. tobacker and aeegars agree with him when he can get holt of same, but he is not able to work in the garden or yard. long ai he ia setting still in a chair where he can chaw tobacker and spH over the baa- nistera, he doee not suffer a-tall, and paina don't strike him until some- buddy asks him to move over sob she 1 W * »■»«*<■»» Urely-nrw forFIiT zone, observes a writer in the Kansas City Star. In general It la a tropical country, subtropical and temperate areas in the South and In the central plateau re gion. The forest-covered lowland val ley of the Amazon is a region of high temperatures which vary little through out the year. There Is no appredabl change of season except in the va ation of rainfall. The coastal plains lying between the plateaus and the sea are subject to high temperatures and humidity as far south as Santo*. The varied rainfalls are on$ of the peculiarities of the climate of torrid Brazil. Whereas three years may pass in the northern state of Gears without rain, other sections are drenched for months with tropical downpours. The country is fortunate In being free from the earthquakes and hurricanes so common along the great Cordillera from Chile to Mexico and in the Carib bean countries. Coffee Is found chiefly in the tem perate plateau regions aad la southern Bra*a This Is the principal source of BrasU’s wealth, with tho states of 8ao Paulo anfl Matte loading la pro- duettom The latter has an arsfl of «0.0Q0 sguaro mOea aad ls-ths prin cipal cattle statu of Brasil, ity, easy-going comfort aad correct style. Considering the longer life of Uptowns your dollars go further in the end. The style illustrated Is a marvelous value at " Uptown Shoes for tho moo oboul tows ix !! m GHINi A'- S.C at-