The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, July 25, 1935, Image 4
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BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH
TUBiniwUPwleSentUiei
JOHN W. HOLMES
% 1112.
B. P. DAVIES, Editor and Proprietor.
Entered at the post office at Barnwell,
S. C., as second-class matter. -
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Year $1.60
Six Months JH)
Three Months .60
(Strictly in Adraneo.)
THURSDAY, JULY 25TH, 1935.
Congratulations, Sheriff.
Sheriff J. B. Morris is to be com
mended for his war on th^ bootleggers
in Barnwell County, endl hit campagn
should be backed up by strenuous ef
forts on the part of municipal offi
cers in the varius towns of the county.
Citizens in Barnwell andl other towns
in the county have invested consider
able sums of money in the operation of
liquor stores. They have bought the
required licenses and ere aeHing
stamper liquor, all of which mean in
creased revenues for the State. Natur
ally, to allow bootleggers to operate
in competition with them is unfair and
unjust, for these law violators bay
neither licenses nor stamps and, more
often than not, peddle vile concoc
tions. Every effort should be madle to
stamp out their illicit business, there
by giving protection to the licensed
dealers and increasing the revenue of
the State, counties and towns.
A Situation That Should Be
Remedied.
COMMENTS
one place to do business
old
An<j then there is yet more travel.
| Now and again some one must gp to !
Recently there were a series of
copferenees at the State University on
theme g of public interest. Some dis
cussed taxation; some talked about
bringing in new industries^ some
others ^talked about th*. advantage of
the short ballot; while still others had
something to / say about consolidating
offices. }
As to Taxation: Our taxes are too
high. On land they are so high that
the taxes are a real burden, a burdten
that discourages the buying of a
home. Afterdating taxes, insurance
and repairs it is less expensive to be
a renter than an owner. That ig a pity,
for it creates too many footloose fami
lies and ihakes our towns more like
nice camps than permanent places.
We must have permanence in order to
have standards. Our old towns—those
where father, son, grandson—and all
others—still live acquire a tone that
is different from the little fly-by-
night places that grow up because of
boomlets. They are better places in
which to live.
flee they are “in conference”; in the
District office they are “in confer
ence”; in the Regional office, “in con
ference”;* in the National office, “in
conference!” Caesar’s Ghost! what
do they confer about? And what re-
suS'^ from the conferences? And
busy! They are so busy with confer
ences that there is no time for busi
ness! Just like an engine running ddle
and all hea^d up, standing at the
curb!
And they run from one end of the
County to the County seat “for con
ference”; and Vrom every County to
a District meetiiig “for conference”;
and from every County to the State
Capital “for conference”; andl from
every State Capital to a regional poin^l
“for conference”; and 411 crowd into
Washington “for conference!” It’s a
tourist enterprise—this E. R. A.—
with its conferences. They flit from
one conference to another, buying
changes of ffnen on the way, for
surely they don’t stay long enough in
New York, Chicago or Los Angelek to I
attend 7 lectures! In our innocence Ve '
thought giving a free-handout
simple business. Not 8 o! One must
go to attend special lectures so as to!
know whether a starving person shall |
be given bread or denied all aid and
sympathy. _After a few months -of
special training they learn that if peo
ple have no food they are v apt to get
hungry. __
It’s a great life if you don’t weaken!
Do you remember that people—men
and women—earnest, pious souls—
went about in late 1918 telling
the Country that the boys of the A.
E. F. were so “spiritualized” by their
deep and soulful experiences that the
churches in the good old U. S. A. would
have to revive their spiritual tone so
as to be good enough for the boys of
the. A. E. F? Were you in the A. E.
F? All the oldl bunk, wasn’t it? I
went all through the A. E. F. and the
dominant note was an urge to get to
Paris! Possibly for the spiritual life;
(CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT.)
Several days ago, the editor of The
People-Sentinel received a letter from
a relative in another State, saying
that he understood watermelons were
being sold by South Carolina farmers
at $40 per thousand, while up in
West Virginia wholesalers were sell
ing the same melons to retailers at
37 cents each, or $370 per thousand!
Granting that it costs 10 cents apiece
to transport watermelons from Barn
well County, S. C., to points in West
Virginia the net cost to wholesalers
would be only 14 cents each, or $140
per thousand, and vre aay without
fear of contradiction that a profit of
$230 per thousand, or 178 per cent,
is entirely too much.
Recently, The Bamberg Herald sug
gested that subscribers in northern
and eastern cities write the editor and
tell just how much they have to pay
f° r watermelons, cantaloupes, cucum
bers, etc.
The following letter was received
from O. F. Hunter, now of Washing
ton, D. C., and published in last week’s
issue of The Herald):
“Editor, The Bamberg Herald:—
Referring to your paragraph in last
.week’s Herald about the price of
melons, I wish to sky that water
melons are now selling at what we
consider a low price—from 35 to 50
cents each.
“I understand that about two weeks
the. farmers, were, selling cama-
loupek in Bamberg for 15 cents per
cr *t®* At that time, a citizen of
Bamberg sent me a crate of 36 canta
loupes, upon which the express was
52 cents. Allowing 10 cents for the
crate itfelf, the 36 cantaloupes cost
77 cents delivered in Washington, or
about 2 1-7 cents each. At the same
time, cantaloupes scarcely a s good as
those sent me were selling for 15
cents each.
I was in Bamberg the firs', week in
June and. saw farmers selling cucum-
ber s for 25 cents per crate. The
girls who packed them received 2
««rts per crate. The crates were
worth 12He each. When I reached
Washington on June 8, similar cucum
bers were selling at $5.00 per crate,
or 5c each.
It certainly seems that the farmer
is not geting enough for his produce
or we in the citie s are paying too
much, or both. They usee! to tell us
that it often takes all a carload of
melons brings to pay the freight, but
who gets the difference between the
2 l-7c (express included) for a canta
loupe, and the retail price of 15
cents?”
It .seems to u g that this is a situa
tion that should demand the attention
of the federal government, jit is fol
ly to lend money to farmers to pro
duce crops andl then leave them to the
tender mercy of unscrupulous com-
_ mission merchants i n the north and
east It i 8 not fair either to the
farmers or the consumers. While the
federal government is dishing out
money for hundreds of activities with
a lavish hand, why not use a small
part of it to improve marketing condi
tions of farm produce?
The People-Sentinel would welcome
letters from its subscribers in dis
tant States, telling whs they are pay-
for watermelons, cantaloupes, and
other perishable products.
It has been suggested that we make
a special drive for new business. We
might try to get a hundred new fac-j
tories during the four years of Gov
ernor Johnston. That sort of thing
can’t be done by ballyhoo. If we seek
new mills or new industries we must
offer some reason for the coming of
the plant s to this State. What induce
ment can we offer? Money? If they
need money we don’t need them, for
this is no charity. What advantages
have we? Steady labor, intelligent,
loyal men 2nd women—American
born? Climate? More sunshine—
therefore less expense for lighting and
heat? Nearness to the raw products,
like cotton, timber, lumber, etc., etc?
Just what talking points have we?
Good land s and easy taxes?
Do we really want new industries in
South Carolina ? "We might give some
thought to that. l g this a pet idea of
a few of us, or do we as a State want
to haVe new factories?
It is a queer thing, but those coun
ties which have big industries fre
quently elect men to the Legislature
who are distinctly hostile to the mills.
Why is that ? If the ipills should
shut down thousands of men and
women would be without food. All
business would dry up. What would
happen in Greenville, Spartanburg,
Anderson, Greenwood or Lancaster if
the mills dosed?
It seems that w4 ought to ask our
selves seriously, do we wish to build
up our State industrially?
QUARTERLY REPORT
OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY DIRECTORS FOR THE QUARTER
ENDING, JUNE 30. 1935.
G. W. MANVILLE, Clerk.
Board of County Directors.
Bernice Still, salary, chain gang $85.00
E. F. Woodward, chain gang 114.35
M. C. Kitchens, salary, magistrate 12.50
W. C. Kennedy, salary magistrate’s constable 13.95
B. F. Owens, contingent
Jessie J. Brohson, board of reg.
1 20.00
25.00
Our State government could be
operated much les s expensively. It
would not be fair to say that our
State is notoriously prodigal in ex
penditures; it is true, though, that a
carful study of fell our agencies would
prove that considerable saving might
be made through reorganizing the de
partments of governments There was
a proposal to have a Commission* of
nine to study the whole set-up with
recommendation^ for je-grouping the
different services. The plan died a-
borning. The members of the Legis
lature, in general, don’t know enough
about the set-up to do anything about
it. If anything is ev4r done it must
be done by specific recommendation of
the Governor.
A
Wouldn’t it be great if the State
had some one to look after the tax
payers’ interest? Doe? that seem
foolish? Not if you are a taxpayer.
Our whole State machine is geared to
the obligation
to get a dollar’s retufn for a dollar
spent. Spending is the idea—and it is
faithfully carried out. . ^
I db not mean that there is crook
edness. Our officials are as good* as
the rest of us, but I mean that we
ought to see a real urgent, vital need
for a thing before using public money
for it. Just because a few people
want something is no reason to saddle
it on the State as a thing to be paid
for with taxpayers’ money.
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798““ Jeff Hunt Road Machine Co., chain gaing. special—5,648:66
J. J. Bell, Treas., interest on bonds 1,503.75
Vickery Bros., chain gang 33.50
S. C. Power Co., jail and court house 21.02
J. J. Bell, Treas., court expense 687.80
Jennie P. Greene, rest room 8.33
The Williston Way, advertising 6.00
Idis Brabham, salary, board of director s ^ 1 16.66
Ryan R. Gyles, salary, co. bd. of directors i6.66
W. D. Black, salary, co, bd. of directors 1 16.66
L. S. Still, salary, co. bd of directors 16.66
R. R. Moore, salary, co. bd. of directors 16.66
J. W. Patterson, salary, supervisor 133.33
Henry Hartzog, salary, chain gang 75.00
Bernice Still, salary, chain gang ' 75.00
A. B. Patterson, salary, co. physician 33.33
Mrs. R. S. Dicks, demonstration expense - 10.00
The People-Sentinel, adv. and pitting I— 54.05
Commis!sionesr of Public Works, jail,.court house, co. home 26.35
Josh Patterson, janitor 1. 20.00
Paul H. Senders, salary, magistrate, 2 months 25.00
M. L. Collins, salary, constable, 2 months 25.00
J. M. Halfohl, board of registration
Sarah C. Pyi^ salary
J. J. Bell, salary, treas 63.89
R. L. Bronson, salary, clerk of court, postage, etc. 71.51
A. N. Black, board qf equalization *9.00
J. J. Bell, postage — — 2.00
G. S. Harley, salary, deputy sheriff .1 —__ 75.00
L. T. Claytor, county home 16.66
A. M. Anderson, salary, 6hain gang
G. R.'Peeples, salary, magistrate
D. W. Glover, salary, constable >
B. S. Moore, Jr., salary, co. supt. of ed.
J. B. Morris, salary and expense,
J. E. Lafn, board of equalization 12.00
L. Cohen, county home 369.13
L. Cohen, chain gang l.S.\ 6.52
E. F. Woodward, county Jiome — 20.00
-E. F. Woodward!, chain gang j—- 92.97
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115.00
191.66
J. B. Morris, court expense
126.60
Governor Johnston doe* well ,iir re
fusing to take seriously the sugges
tion of an extra session of the Legis
lature. We have some destitute peo
ple in every community but the desti
tution s not new. The poor have al
ways been with us and have always j
been.fed. The sooner we eaU off the;
“Social Workers” and the others the
sooner the country will try to do for
itself.
The paper s tell us that there ik (or
was) a conference in New Orleans and
that the E. R. A. chieftains andl braves
are there smoking the pipe of peace.
Now, aren’t these E. R. A.’s the
grandest litle conferees the world has
ever seen!? In the County office they
are “in cpnference”; in the State of-
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J. B. Morris, postage — 3.50
J. B. Morris, court house and jail 35.33
J. B. Morris, court expense 56.50
J. Br Morris, jail r—^
J. B. "Morris, dieting'prisoners 50.75
Margaret Me/Ulster, salary, sheriff’s clerk '—25.00
J. K. Snelling, salary, clerk and postage -V. 51.50
Barnwell Ins. Agency, premium on bond 6.00
-Jeff Black, salaiy, mag. constable 29.16
S. H. Ussery, county home 58.00
Lemon Bros., chain gang, jail, co. home, court house __ 84.62
Grubbs Chevrolet JLo., chain gang —6.20
Ghingold’s, county* home, jail and chain gang 20.45
T. M. Willis, board of equalization 15.00
O. H. Morris, board of equalization 9.00
A. M. Sanders, boaid of equalization. 12.00
W. S. Creech, board of equalization , 1 9.00
J. W. Folk, board of equalization 9.00
C. G. Youngblood', board of equalization 9.00
J. P. Chitty, board of equalization 9.00
F. H.'"Dicks, Sr., board of equalization' 12.00
E. D. Peacock, board of equalization 12^)0
A. D; Connor, Sr., board of equalization 12.00
D. C.^Bush, board of equalization 6.00
M. N. Ahl, boatd of equalization 9.00
865 B. F. Anderson, board of eqB<at&n '~^--js 9.00
M. W. Wise, board of equalization 9.00
J. Black, Jr., board of equalization 12.00
Victor Lewis, board of equalization 9.00
T. P. Mitchell, board of equalisation 9.00
, J. M. Walker, board of equalization 9.00
W. C. Kennedy, board of equalization 21.00
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672 C. M. Turner, board of equalization - 12.00
873 I. W. Rourttree, board of equalization 15-00
874 , R. R. Johnston, board of equalization — — 12.00
875 J. F. Swett, board equalization 12.00
16 E. G. Birt, board of equalization 15.00
17 J. W. Sanders, board of equalization 15.00
18 S. G. Lowe, et al., board of equalization — 39.00
79 H. Jeffff Hair, board of equalization 12.00
30 R. R. Mooie, board of equalization — 15.00
31 Standard Oil Co., chain gang L 115.57
32 G. M. Hogg, salary^ magistrate , 29.16
33 J. W. Cook, salary, magistrate — 25.00
34 J. W. Sanders, salary, magistrate, chain gang 15.50
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THURSDAY/ JULY 25TH, 1935,
C. S. Anderson, salary, magistrate 14.58
J. M. Hill, salary, magistrate 14.58
25.00
O. D. Hammond, salary, magistrate
W. F. Johnson, mag. constable ----- i9Kft
Charlie ♦ Morris, mag. constable 1{ . R ^
C. L. Hiers, mag. constable —
Thos. J. Hill, mag. constable —
G. O. Johnson, mag. constable and chain gang -
R. W.‘Price, public bldg s - - "
B. and ». Motors, chain gang ™ ™
D. W. Glover, chain gang ^ - ‘
Greene Lumber and Crate Co., county home ,-— 3.24
W. T. Riley, chain gang *
Jas. H. Lott, chain gang - C“
Monroe Rowell, chain gang - ^
Furmin Delk, chain gang
* P.-O. Beckj.. chain gang —-
C. F. Molair, chain gang and co. home 19-88
Cassels and Co., Inc., chain gang and co. home 140.61
Happ Bros. Co., chain gang - - 58 05
R. A. Deason Co., county home - 9 " 05
G. W. Manville? stamps - 2 - 0C>
Barnwell Turpentine Co., county, home — 27.22
' Farmers Union Merc. Co., county home 19.97
Farmer s Union Merc. Co., jail 1-^0
Jas. T. Still, county home 30.75
Walker, Evans and Coggswell Co., printing— 170.23
R. L. Bryan Co., printing - 140.14
W. H. Manning, salary, auditor 55.56
P. W. Price, board of equalization 15.00
The Childfren’s Burau, contingent - — 20.00
Service Garage-, chain gang — .r 1-75
B. F. Owens, contingent ^— 20.00
S. C. Pov&er Co., court house, jail — — 17.11
Beasley and Ussery, chain gang 18.10
T. W. Blackwood, chain gang _ ^——‘ — 8.00
Idis Brabham, salary, co. board directors — 16.66
922 W. D. Black, salary, co. board of direefors 16.66
923 R. R. Moore, salary, co. board of directors _— 16J56
924 ’ Ryan A. Gyles, salary, co. board of directors 16.66
L. S. Still, salary, co. board of directors — 16.66
J. W. Patterson, salary, supervisor 4 133.38
G. S. Harley, salary, (deputy sheriff 1. 75.00 .
H. «4L Hartzog, chain gang 75.00
A. M. Anderson, chain gang 65.00f
G. R. Peeples, salary, magistrate 29.16
D. W. Glover, salary, magistrate^ constable 29.16—
J. M. Hill, salary, magistrate ^— 14.58
Thos. J. Hill, salary, magistrate’s constable — 14.58
L. T. Claytor, county home — 16.66
Bernice Still, chain'gang ’ , ’ 75.00
*l5. W. Glover, chain gang — j —^13.00
J. B. Morris, salary and expense 191.66
L. Cohen, chain gang and county home ... 31.17’
R. L. Bryan Co., printing ... — 7.75
Standard Oil Co., chain gang , 126.88
E. F. Woodward, chain gang 111.92
E. F. Woodward, contingent 12.50
Walker, Evans and Cogswell Co., printing ,„>v 16.20-
D. A. Lubricant Co., chain gang 21.00
A. St. Clhir Price, contingent 1 50.00
Chas. Morris, contingent 12.50
W. F. Johnson, salary, constable and chain gang - 30.51
G, M. Hogg, salary, magistrate 29.16
M. L. Collins, magistrate’s constable ; 12.50
O. D. Hammond, salary, magistrate 25.00
G. O. Johnson, magistrate’s constable 27.91
G. W. Manville, salary and extra v --. 70.00
Margaret McAllister, salary, sheriff’s clerks t 25.00
H. J. Crouch, salary and 1 postage 118.38
W. H. Manning, salary, auditor 55.55
J. W. Sanders, salary, magistrate 12.50
J. W. Cook, salary and chain gang __ 26.00
Paul H. Sanders, salary, magistrate ' 12.50
Jeff Black, magistrate’s constable 29.16
C. L. Hiers, magistrate’s constable 15.83
J. K. Snelling, salary, clerk and postage 61.25
Josh Patteison, jaflitor, public^ building* 20.00
A. B. Patterson, county physician ....i 33.33
G. S. Harley, contingent ^ 126.60—
A. E. Hair, contingent —_ 4.00
Barnwell Ins. Agency, premium on bond _• 30.00
Com. Public Works, co^Jiome, jail and court house 20.35
R. L. Bionson, salary, clerk, postage, etc. 71.66
J". J. Bell, salary, treasurer 1 63.89
Sarah C. Price, salary, treas. clerk *- ,60.00
V. E. Fourehier, stationery, etc. 1 5.50
V. E. Fourchier, stationery, etc 5.00
W: F. Bates, equalization board .1.1 12.00
Grubbs Chevrolet Co., chain gang 6.55
Ghingold’s county home and chain gang 28.53
Lemon Bros., chain gang, jail, pub bldgs., co. home 77.59
Cassels Co., Inc, county home and chain gang ..^ 225.14
R. A. Deasoh Co., county home andl chain gang ....l^^ 3.75
H. 'Antopclsky, chain gang 19.10
Sxton’s Drug Store, chain gang, jail court house 12.85
B. T. Lott, chain gang 26.82
Vickery Bros., chain gang 62.60
T. W. Blackwood, chain gang 1 19 43
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“Jeff Hunt Road Machine Co., chain gang ^ 38.50
S. B. McMaster, chain gang 1.75
Barnwell Filling Station, chain gang 44.09
Marvin Holland, chain gang 23.00
Children’s— Buww~eqfftfngent - - - - - _ _ __ _ 20.00
J’. B. Morris, dieting prisoners 47.95
J. P. Greene, rest room ■nr-w--""— 8.33
J. B. Morris, contingent 14.87
J. B. Morris, postage 4.06
B. F. Owens, contingent 20.00
J. C. Rogers, public buildings ,8.73
Barnwell Ins. Agency, premium on bond 25.00
L. C. FoWke, equalization board 6.00
Sinking Fbnd Commission, contingent 7.03"
C. F. Molair, county home — 7.35
Gulf Refining Co., county , homa^. * 5r.4<^
Jennings A. Owens, county home 5.20
Mazursky’s, county home 1.25
Barnwell Ice and Fuel Co., county home 10.55
Unity Grocery .Co., county home 21.00
J. B. Morris, county home and jail —*. — 41.95
P. W. Price, public buildings 1 - - -- - - -—-117 12.50
1006 L. F. Randall, public buildings 2-50
1007 The People-Sentinel, stationery — 11.55
1008 J. T. Still, county home — 31.00
1009 C. S. Andlerson, salary, magistrate 14.58
1010 L. J. Baughman, co. bd. of education^ + 1 45.00
1011 R. R. Moore, contingent .i_ —- 5.00
1012 Idis Brabham, contingent 5.00
1013 Ryan A. Gyles, contingent j_. 5.00
1014 Bf. S. Moore, Jr., contingent .1 240.00
1015 J. J. Bell, treas., ret bonds, int, fee 2,803.00
1016 J. J, Bell, treas., ret. bonds, int., fee * 4^265.83)
1017 ^ S. C Power Co., Court House and jail T 15.87
1018 J. J. Bell, treas., qpurt expense s 190.30