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‘ JP 1 "'I I ' UJF- .'-- / /■ \ THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA mS vf' ‘ Barnwell 50 and 25 Years Ago. Interesting Items Gleaned From the Files of. The Barnwell People. turkey was found in Mr. R. R. John:. SEPT. 24, 1885. Cotton receipts up to Monday night: Blackville, 2,044; Barnwell, 953. There are eight prisoners in Jail and other early ai rivals are expected. Since Rev. R. D. Rice, colored, toolc^ 'charge of Smyrna Church, seven years ago, its"membership has grown from €0 to 200 and a new, comfortable church has been built. Six of its members are engaged in teaching in the public schools. , .. - Another Hcmicide. Gus Bradley; S £ Cn > s po y n r y i 0 t near Elko with its colored, was shot and killed' by Mr. head eaten off. That night a trap was J. B. Weaver while at the store of get rp^e next mdming’it was filled 1 Mr. S. A. Wood, a mile and a half an ^ t{ me ow j w hich measured from Allendale, on the 13th inst. Mr. f our anf j a h a ]f f ee t f rom tip to tip Weaver claims to have acted in self- j^ g w j n g s> The claw’s were an inch defense, ^n application for bail was | and a half refused by Judfee Presley at Beaufort Mr L p Sease of Morris Fordf and the prisoner remained to the h as a flock of young guineas about custody of the Sheriff. Col. L. B. 0-_throe months old. Sevoral weeks ago Bryan has been retained for the de- a f u jj g rowr j p ar tridge joiner the flock, fense. Agoing with them all c?ay and nesting Rev. Mr. Knight, of Red Oak, has une'er the mother hen at night, had THimerous applications for board 1 At times the guineas come into his for the winter months from residents piazza, and the partridge flies on the banister and whistles as the guineas cry “pctrack." The partridge is as tame as the guineas and appears per fectly happy in its new life and with its gentle a.ssociates. If dry dlays and heavy dews con tinue the field pea’ crop will be a record breaker. SEPT. 22, 1910. Early risers report seeing light frost on pea vines Saturday morning. The first subscription gold 1 we have handled in years was cleverly con tributed on Thursday by Mr. J. G. Davis. Mr. J. D. Whittle has a 300-acre cotton field at Blackville that-old con servative farmers say will make 500 bales. One morning last week a young panics and compel a reasonable rate ? vented. What more do we want ? If the rate I Most bird's are active in consuming is reasonable and yields a fair return the insects that attack the bark, stem to the company what more do we and leaves of trees. Probably the consumers want? Our Public Service J most interesting, however, is the Comrtiission and the investigating ( wcokpecker. He is the tree surgeon body just before it have spent at least of the bird family and has been called a hundred thousand dollars checking^Dr. Peckwood. He performs surgical up on the power companies. If they operations that save trees. There are haven’t all the information they ne^d jnany different kinds of woodpeckers —after all this expenditure and four and one of them at least, known as the years constant study—when, indeed, yellow-bellied woodpecker, sometimes will they have it? Yet we lay on the does a good bit of harm to seme taxes and cut the rates at the same , trees. But the harm done by birds time. That looks a little like crowd-. in the forest is more than outweighed ing the monkey, don’t you think? of the icy North. Miss Josephine Thompson, a bright and beautiful little lady of Williston, was in town on Tuesday, the guest of Miss Lillie Pechmann. She is probably the first native of Australia that has ever graced old Barnwell witli her presence. ^ There was a big pow wow in Man ning on the 7th, as the Clarendonians celebrated President Roosevelt’s ap proval of the great Santee project. The Governor did' not show up, being detained because of the Pelzer difficul ties, but Senator Byrnes and Chair man Maybank were'theriTand spoke. Senator Byrnes told Of the Presi dent’s ‘interest in the great develop ment which will accrue from the * by the good they do in consuming in- | sects. These birds are the friends of the forests and thereby the friends of men. (To Be Continued.) BUckville News Items. Blackville, Sept.t24.—^Miss Nona Story, of Ashland, Ky., has gone to Wilmington, N. C., after spending a few days with Miss Mildred Grubbs. Santee and then spoke at length- in i MiSS . S, ° r) 'J S 1 a t m T' >er ° f the WU - mmgton school faculty. explanation of the New Deal. The Senator made & fine speech and was wefl .received and applauded by about three thousand sturdy Carolinians. Burnett R. Maybank, youthful and dynamic Mayor of old Charleston, chairman of the Commission charged with the big undertaking, spoke hap pily cf the project and -was applaud ed’ frequently. ((COMMENTS ON MEN AND NEWS By SPECTATOR. We ought to have some sort of drive for new business in South Carolina. We need business to create business, to create markets and to lift us out of the mud. President Roosevelt has indicated that the business of the nation may *0 ahead without fear of .further dis- memory. And 1 so -it is! We are having conflicting state- tnrbing legislative projects. It is ments from the Governor and Mr The schools are open again and the poor old fathers (even if strapping young fellows) have their noses to the grindstone to get the money for school bocks. One man tells me that he has already spent. $25.00 for four childVen and Has something yet to buy. This is all wrong. It is foolish. a fact that his great program has ^ his statements on figures given him brought into the lime light a number by the State Auditor, says the Com- tirnely. ’However safe and capable j Hearor, chairman of the Highway^ It is burdensome. The State Board the Pitaident himself may be it is Commission. The~Govei nor, basing should be peremptorially forbiddfen to change text books for fivee years and this injunction should apply to every of theories whose presence and acti- mission has available mcney for a |"school distiict in South Carolina, vity were n t reassuiing. Nearly lot of construction and that he is not Even at the end of five years changes every project has been publicized and holding up construction by refusing should be gradual and only .when a press agented to the point of nausea, to saddle the taxpayers with two group of persons unconnected with This country did not become great and a half millions more of bonds—; the schools approves the recommen- thrnugh Government musing and it ^ bondk which will rest on the land and dation. Professional school people must recover through private initia- business of the State if this gasoline and easy-going citizens seeking a live pml the investment of capital. | revenue be not wisely used. Mr. name for being progressive shouldn’t Regulation in some cases by the Gov- ( Hear~n denies that and cites figures be allowed to have the final decision eminent may be desirable, but the by the treasurer of* the Highway De- in imposing these burdens cn the peo- sabstitution of the Government for partment. Now that’s a pretty ket- pie. s* *“ individual enterprise, or the harass- tie of fish, isn’t it? We had b„een Why these changes? Is it possible ment of business through drastic leg- taught to believe in the accuracy of that a group of professionals should isiation with hostile publicity will figures, having been solmenly admon- blunder so badly that the bocks adopt- result surely in such a state of fear ished in our youth that “figures den’t ed by them must be thrown on the as to prevent national recuperation, .lie.” But here we are with the same garbage heap in a year or two? Or set of figures meaning two different are the changes so vital that without (things—which proves to my minci these new’ books thes.children would Our State Supreme ( ourt has de-^hat the ancient and honorable arith- suffer? The books which we studied 'dared the Santee pioject ( ons.itu- metic has forsaken the straight and ten years ago would serve adequately tionsl. That is to say that the Act creating the Authority, etc., and au thorizing this creature of the State to issue bonds, borrow money, under take great works, etc., without charge to the State is Constitutional. In other words the State creates a cor poration cf its own, but is not any narr w way and has entered politics! _ for instruction today, supplemented at times by the teacher. The teacher Much has been said about'“Share-1 bocks, more books, new books. the-Wealth’’ and “Soak-the-Rich” plans of modern times. I have also heard something about what happened when they killed the goose that laid ., , , , . ^ the g-lden egg. Money at work pro- lesp nsvble for its deb:s than if . „ » ^ . ^ . , , . duces money. In the act of produc- it were a cotton mill, char tered by the . • • , k . mg—-cr earning—it gives employ- Stalc, and owned and onerated by pn- ment jt muIti p Heg itse , f and it multi .. by traditions, associations, predelic vale investors. The beauty «f this pljes employment When you « soak I tions, ambitions, vanity—or conceit. Seme of us outsidlers would do well to ing the wage-earner. He loses his *be bull by the horns and drag other books, to enlarge his intellec tual horizon; but the fathers of the childVen shouldn’t be called on to strain and pinch to buy new books. Reforms seldom are introduced from within; it is the outsider who brings them about because he is unf&tdred and anything it may lose is a debt on tke corporation but not on the State. If the corporation has anything it will be an asset and chargeable with the corporation’s obligations. In this cose the Authority will buy thousands of acres of land, create great lakes, 1 job. Beyond) all question a man of large wealth should pay for the pro tection of the law, just as he would for insurance. I have no sympathy to waste on those who have so much hat their yachts lie Idle at the docks and their palatial homes are untenant- him out of this lush pasture. build an enormous dam, etc. This will . , .... -rt-d for the debt, but the State as a ^ f;r . lhey can l ‘t m JU5tone housc State will not be unrifer any obligation' at » T'l but “ft* 1 °' , * ht rhatever n0t to lm P aire d and their income should 1 not be so greatly taxed as to discourage investment. That’s what Huey Long is dead! What a man! | wt* need—investment. Look about you. What a man! I regarded him as a The big buildings—and the small dangerous man and I am frank buildings, too, the lailroads and the <n»agb to say that I think the coun- factories—all of these things are in- try will be better for his leaving; but vestments. Somebody, or thousands this done net take from him the re- put savings there. We need more in spect I feel for superlative leader- ( vestmeqts if we would develop our csfcip. It may be saMf, of course, that country, but unless a man see a chance Do You Know Your County? Last week we discussed cne of Barnwell’s natural resources—trees. This week we shall consider the rela- ! tionship of the forests and birds. Birds are a natural resource. Trees, like men, are dependent upon each other and have certain friends. Among the living friend's of the for ests are the birds. Not onl are the for ests depend to a large extent upon the birds but the birds are dependent upon the forests. The trees furnish he was a dictator, not a leader. Even to make a profit will he invest? Of I ) * <>8sCms » an( I see ds which Put the use for food. The trees provide hiding places, nesting places and leafy shelter from sun and storms. jo; bow did he become a dictator? How ifid he soar to such dizzy heights that bnncJreds of thousands looked up to him; that a great State followed Mindly ? I never saw him; I did read much that he said; I am in no position to sit in quiet and calm \ on his career, but I marvel j „ • man who can impose his will Slate atvdl dominate it so com- Ihat bis mere whim became law; legislature met seven times in months to do his bidding, man! What value he was is another matter, but among men he was a giant, goes the way of all the earth! y he defied the President, vp the Senate, dictated the poli- Dfe and the lawmaking cf Louis- Today Huey Long is but a course not! Would ycu? question to yourself. ... In turn for this the hire's assist in cv. n * ° h; e . , * u f ratl0n8 ^.th^ fertilization cf tree blossoms and Share-the-Wealth that I knew i, that id in the distribution and planting of of our taxes as applted to the rail- tree see d s . B ut a far greater service' roads. Whenever a school d,strict j, „ ncV .d to the trees when the' flndb s piece of r.tlro.d wtthtn its birds hoId the v „ t inMct hordes in ™ t!, P . ,”7 T r T g the '»«*• Without the birds, in .11 . hooi „ shout solved Yet the t.ii- prob . bility , the inMcU wouid become' roads nearly collapsed under the bur- , 0 numerou , that few trees would * i" ,r * T‘! a ? ry * ble t0 withstand the effseta of their yet. Who wants their stock? Just The^iitu.* r t0y t0 PU)r With l tit-t hot* into tree, snd dig -the utilities, the power compsmes. 1 ont egg. beneath the bark are con- We have massed cur forces like a gen- ■iimaaA j u au »_• j asrasi i., j ! .. by the thousands by the birda ,h , , ,t W ‘ * re '»«•« >"« when egg. are hatch- r For • nd b0t !’ *■>« tiay grub. stsrt tLr work of tt, . F n J- ? p ■’ J 1 ' “ enou * h excavation inside the tree, it is the that our Public Service Commission is birds again upon which the tree must empowered t. legul.te these co». ^ ^damsge is ^ p”! Mr. and Mrs. 17 A. Dyches and chil- dien and Mrs. Ellen Grubbs have re turned to Wilmington, N. €., after at tending the funeral of C. H. Hutto. While in this section they were the guests of Franklin Grubbs and other relatives at Hilda. ■•Emory Giubbs, who has been visit ing his brother, Franklin Grubbs, and Mrs. Grubbs, will return in a few days to Bowling Green, Ky., to com plete his cor/rse of study. Services at Blackville Baptist Crurch. The Rev. L. G. Payne, pastor of the Blackville Baptist Church has an nounced the following as his subjects of discussion at his morning and even ing services next Sunday: Sunday morning at 11:00 o’clock— “The Backslider Saved.” Sunday Evening, 7:30 o’clock—“Am I a Presumptous Sinner?” The public is coitiially invited to attend beth of these services. He’ll milk the c w or draw the water. Or curl the hair of your wife and daughter, He’ll cut your wood or toast your bread, Or illuminate the old hay shed. “Whp air this fellow that’s so gol durn hot?” Why, Mr. Farmer, he’s Reddy Kilowatt. % “REDDY KILOWATT’, Yc«r Electrical Servant. South Carolina Power Co. J. W. RUFF, Local Manager. The Secret of The Success of your Fall hat lies in your coiffure. Curls turn forwaricD towaid face for daytime and peep out under your new hat, which means it’s time for an other— . PERMANENT WAVE. All waves guaranteed on o^r New and Up-to-Date Croquincle Machine. Prices, $3.00 to $7.00. FOR APPOINTMENTS PHONE NO. 43. r —* 'i * The Barnwell Beauty Shop T WINS IN SEWING SPEED CONTEST-Mrs. George Maxim, shown here receiving the blue ribbon in a recent sewing, machine race, reveals her secret, “Of course, I’ve been sewing a long time, and that gives you speed. But the real reason I won— and I may as well tell you—is that I was using J. & P. Coats best 6-cord thread, and it seldom breaks. You’d be surprised a 1 the time you can waste, because of a snapping thread!’ Furs Fashionably Remodeled Now U the time to have your furs made "**—•* ' - r ' over smartly for the coming season. We specialize in Remodeling, Cleaning and Glazing all kinds of Furs. We invite you to talk over your Fur problems with us. Southeastern Fur Co. 1046 Broad St. Augusta, Ga. Treasurer’s Tax Notice! i - '"I -n The County Treasurer’s office will be open from September 16, 1935, to March 15, 1936. for collecting 1935 taxes, which include real and per sonal pioperty, poll and road tax. All taxes due ahd payable between September 15 and December 31, 1935, 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, 1936, two per cent, will be added. March 1st to 15th, 1936, seven per cent, will be added. Executions will be placed in the hands of the Sheriff for collection after March 15th, 1936. When writing for amount of taxes, be sure and give school district if property, is in more than one school district. A 11 „ I a m A 1% A aa. all W A —^ A. _ — ft A* State Ordinary County Road and Bridjge Bonds Past Ind. Bonds Constitutional School Special Local TOTAL No. 24—Ashleigh 5 7 4 1 3 12 32 Nc. 33—Barbary Branch 5 7 4 1 3 17 37 No. 45—Barnwell 6 7 4 1 .. 3 25 45 No. 4—Big Fork 5 7 4 1 3 21 41 No. 19—Blackville 5 - 7 4 1 3 20 40 No. 35—Cedar Grove 7— 5 7 4 1 3 -28 48 No. 50—Diamond 5 7 4 1 3 I 7 37 No. 20—Double Ponds 5 7 4 1 3 19 | 39 No. 12—Dunbarton 5 7 4 1 3 27 47 Vo EHistn 5 7 4 1 3 9 29 No. 28 Elko 5 7 4 1 3 27 47 No. 53—Ellenton 5 7 4 1 3 11 31 No. 11—Four Mile 5 7 4 1 3 8 28 No. 39—Friendship 5 7 4 1 3 17 37 No. 16—Green’s Academy 5 7 4 1 3 , 20 40 No. 10—Healing Springs 5 7 4 1 3 20 40 No. 23—Hercules 5 7 4 1 3 30 60 nV 9—Hilda 5 7 4 1 r . 3 19 39 No. 52—Joyce Branch — 5 7 4 1 3 26 . 46 No. 34—Kline 5 7 4 1 3 21 41 No. 32—Lee’s 5 ■ 7 4 1 3 10 30 No. 8—Long Branch 5 7 4 1 3 15 35 No. 54—Meyer’s Mill 5 7 4 1 3 21 41 No. 42—Morris 5 7 4 1 3 15 35 No. 14—Mt. Calvary. 5 7 4 1 3 18 38 No.. 25—New Forest 5 7 4 1 3 18 38 No. 38—Oak Grove 5 7 4 1 3 19 39 No. 43—Old Columbia 5 7 4 1 3 26 46 No. 13—Pleasant Hill 5 7 4 1 3 15 35 No. n 7—Reo Oak 5 7 4 1 3 19 39 No. 15—Reedy Branch 5 7 - 4 1 3 17 37 No. 2—Seven Pines 5 7 4 1 3 12 32 No. 40—Tinker’s Creek 5 7 4 1 3 17 37 No. 26—Upper Richland 5 7 4 1 3 26 46 No. 29—Williston 5 7 4 1 3 32 52 The commutation - 'road tax of $3.00 must be paid by all male citizens -between the ages of 21 and 55 years: All male citizens between the ages of 21 and 60 years are liable to poll tax of $1.00. % Checks will not be accepted foy taxes under any circumstances except at the risk of the Uxpayer.—(The County Treasurer reserves the right to hold all receipts paid by check mtil said shacks have been paid.) Tax receipts will be released only upon* legs 1 tender, post office money order or certified checks. J. J. BELL, County Trees.