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V PAGE EIGHT. THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL. BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, lf35. If/1- s mt- ' I t£r K TV X d? •41 K 1’ ■ 1 i a ft 4 t <* t .,1 IT mm ,'*« ! I U‘ I i i ft i :| I Barnwell 50 and 25 Years Ago. Interesting Items Gleaned From the File* of The Barnwell People. OCTOBER 1. 1885. t Mast?r J. Wyatt Browning, of George’s Creek is attending the Maryland Military and Naval Academy at Oxford, Md. "Cotton receipts up to Monday night: Bamberg, 2,999 bales; Midway, 1,300 bales, an increase of 616 bales over last year. ' Mr. S. J. Hartzog tells us that he cured., during the war, two cases of diphtheria by alternate doses of laud anum and sorghum whiskey. Capt. Dunn, who has been in Barn well three weeks, carried his harses and mules to Charleston on Monday. He will return soon with a fresh stock. Several weeks ago Miss Kate Can non, of Ellenton, went to visit a friend at Chester. She met and was intro duced to Dr. Sumter Davega, a promising young physician of that county. It was a case of mutual love at first sight. They soon became en gaged and! decided to be married at once. East Thursday af;ernoon, with a few friends, they tcok the south bound train at Chester for Winnsboro, where Dr. Casque, the Episcopal min ister, performed the ceremony. SEPTEMBER 29, 1910. S.enographef l£. A. Brown is at AJkgJi Court ,for three weeks. The field pea crop is reported to be one of too much vine and to little peas. Madame Rumor whispers the names of half a dozen candidates for the Sec-v end Circuit Solicitorship, while as many more are in a Barkis state of mind. Capt. J. E. H a rley wa s last week unanimously elected Colonel of the South Carolina regimeM, uniform rank Knights cf Pythias. C.apt. T. E. Cummings commands the Barnwell Company. Many cases are awaiting trial at the Winder term of the Court of General Sessions, as follows: Murder, 7, as sault and battei y, 4; assault and bat tery with intent to kill, 7; housebreak ing and larceny, 5. Local weather prophets predict killing frost for the last week in Oc tober.' Capt. Dunn has been detained in Kentucky by sickness but is expected to airive in Barnwell with a car of fine horses about October 1st. COMMENTS ON MEN AND NEWS By SPECTATOR. ' . So we have a “Constitution Day” amd sell tags—and all that fol-de-rol. What’s it all about? The Constitu tion? Well what is it and why is it and what is all the fuss about? We are becoming Constitution-minded 1 , as they talk now-a-days, and we’ll all,^ would not Unc,e Sa " 1 ’ s talk about it and swear eternal fealty —and what-not, but down at the hot- M here Shall Me Draw the Line? tom; what does the aveiage citizen | Where shall we draw the-Une? Or know about the Constitution? Can he is. there a line? Aren’t we crying for lines, many have contended that the nation is supreme. We ar^ a nation, rather' than a group of States. All the ERA workers and clients must band.” agree to this, and all the PWA and j tions. WPA and the AAA ad infinitum—or different) “The General Assembly shall hot grant pensions except for. military and navy service; nor retire any officer on pay or part* pay.” Of course we might all be given Com missions in the Militia or it might be said! that marriage is a "state of war and all engaged are veterans of a military ^enterprise. Just how we shall circumvent that after ouying a badge on Constitution Day we fai,n would see. Probably it will be called “re lief.” For how long, a term was the Chief Justice elected? And the Associate Justicfe? The Constitution insists (like a. hornet) “When a vacancy is filled by either appointment or elec tibn, the incumbent shall hold only for the unexpired term of hik predeces sor.” This refers specifically to the justices of the Supreme Court. Now, I ask you, does it mean that? Our towns and 1 counties, as well as the State, have fallen into the easy habit cf contributing public money to non-public activities. If violates the very principle % of public trusteeship. The Constitution of the State (which I quote only because of Constitution Day) says: “No debt shall be contract ed except for public purposes specified by law,” Yet we hear of towns mak ing contributions of the taxpayer’s money for all sorts of nice things. It may be that these things are net “debts.” An Extraorinary Departure. One of the most extraordinary de partures in tour State Government is the piactice of certain County delega tions to the Legislature to meet ever and) anon and to authorize expendi tures not included in the annual Sup ply Bill for the County. The papers tell us thaC the Richland delegation met recently and “voted five hundred dollars to help pay for new uniforms for the University of South Carolina This is open to two observa- In the first place, Richland Do You Know Your County? Ten Tested Rules for Preventing the Destructicn of One of Barnwell’s Natural Resources. v, 0 1. Care.—Be .sis carefyl with fire in 1 th* woods as you are with‘fire in your own home.-* 2. Marches.—Be sure your match is out. Put it in your pocket or break it in two before throwing it away. Make this a habit. 3. Tobacco.—Throw pipe ashes, cigar or cigarette stubs in the dust of .the foadr ahe 1 stamp or pinch out the fire before leaving them. Do not throw 'them into brush,leaves o* need- les. ,i 4. Location of Camp,—Select a spot as free as possible from inflam mable material, sheltered from the wind and 1 rear accessible water. _ 5. Camp Fires.—Never build a camp fire against a tree or log, in leaf mold, or in rotten wood. Build all fires away from overhanging branches and on earth or rock foun dation . Dig out all rotten woed or leaf mold 1 fiom the fire pit, and scrape away all inflammable material within radius of three to five feet. Make sure the fire cannct spread on or un der the ground or up the moss or bark of a tree while you are in camp, and that it is going to be easy to put cut when you are ready to leave camp. 6. Leaving Camp.—Never' leave a camp fire, even for a shoit time, with out completely extinguishing every spark with water cr earth free from moss or leaf mold. Do not throw char red cross-logs to one. sidfc, wherej'Ta smouldering spark, might catch. It is well to soak thoroughly all embers and charred pieces of wood, and then cover them with earth. Feel around ! the outer edge of the fire pit to make C-unty has a Senator and several rep- sure no fire is smouldering in charred, resentatives who are members of the | roots or leaf mold. Hundreds of fires General Assembly but have no legal blaze up again and escape each year, status as a “delegation.” Only the after campers have thought they were General Assembly can “vote" money and 1 even the General Assembly has no legal right to contribute the tax- be absolutely sure that in his ac?mira-j seed loan*, farm credits, housing tion for the noble document he isn’t money, swimming pools, cotton bene-1 payers’ money for" uniforms for a thinking of the Apostle Paul or fits, direct lelief—and all that? Don’t band. Nor is there any legal justifi- Shakespeare? Come on. now; be we beg for school money and money cation for using taxpayers’ money for frank?’ what do you know about the for the curb market and money for the j a Chamber of Commerce. All these Constitution? What is a Constitu- University? Aye, and money for the ( enterpiises command the support cf tion? Why have we such a docu-' Asylum? Of course, theie be men good citizenship—and deservedly—but ment? May be you think it is some-' so “hear less as to say that all the ^ they are not the services which the thing that only lawyers know all money should be given to the Asylum, taxpayers should be asked to support ab ut; or perchance legislators know for that’s where we are all headed, j with poblic money. Public oflfiJals are it, love it, and carry it graven on As said before, nobody cares m uch stewards ' trustees * and should not use | all tenants as to extinction of fires and their hearts. Well, reader. I’m just for the State Constitution. It has 'P ubl 'c money for other than strictly t care with fire in the woods, teasing you. Of course lawyers should only one important function and ihat it 0 ' ern mental needs. But who cares extinguished. 7. Put the Fire Out.—If you dis cover a forest file, put it out. If you need help, notify the property cwner. 8. When buining brush, pile it in small piles and burn only after a lain or late in the evening. Never burn during a high wind. 9. Construct firebreaks about your property and through it. 10. Advise ycui neighbors of your interest in fire protection and instruct know the Constituion, but when elect- is t > provide the lawyers with topics. ed t^Legislature, or Congress, they Any. man who can cite th? Constitu- forget it. There is something in the tion acquires a great reputation for atnjfigphere of a Legislature that supreme acumen — that intellectual causes forgetfulness. Of course gas sinuosity that ttansforms an ordinary might cause that, but there is no ex- lawyer int^ a statesman, or some- posure tti gas in a legislative hall, is thing. thete? Nay, nay—surely only a sweet smelling savor. Sometimes the wisest it would be too simple and even ordin- stitutioq. ary fellows could understand it. i—what is it? When you read a bit of th? State Con- have a Federal stitution, remember that whatever Interpretation of the Constitution. , , , . , . ,, ■. i The first rule of Constitutional in- and the best men forget about their . . .. . . .v ^ .... . , . , i terpretation is that the Constitution consti uents and vote money with a , . . . .. . ....... , . „ , . . does not mean what it says. If it did fiee hanc, very free hand. What Is the Constitution’ But the Constitution In this country we Constitution and each State has a Con-' you may think about it is wrong. Once stitution. All the row just now is convinced of that you can listen to the ab ut the Fedeial Constitution. No- lawyers and find out how two and two body cares much about a State Con- make five or seven, as the necessities . . * stitution and least of all we South of the condition require. If you Carolinians. We have kicked o^r should read that no bonds shall be State Constituti n around like a Mis- sold without a vote cf the people, etc., souri hound dog and no one has cried you know that it coukVt be as simple nay! Indeed not. When Senator as that. Of couise your understand- Fairey modestly inv iked tl«e State ing would be wr:ng. If you should Constitution many of his fellow Sena- read that “every Act shall relate to tors gazed on him with a pitying eye; ) but one subject” and think that every they couldn't tak. 1 it »eiiously. Al- Acts rhould relate to but one subject th ugh Mr. Fairey is a “Master rarm- y.u would be egregiously in error. It cr” in his own rigiu, a progressive, doesn’t mean any such thing, for the wide-awake man, an honor Carolina Legislature doesn’t hesitate to make graduate—and all that—he was re- an Act refer to many things, even en- garded almcst as a moss-back. Consti- tirely unrelated. If you should read tution, forsooth! that “No General Assembly shall In England, you know, the Constir ( have the pow’er to increase the per tution is not a written document. It ( diem of its own members you know it is a sort of crystalized tradition; but edesn’t mean that, for the Legislature un Act it. Parliament is supreme can set aside an Act of Parliament, 1 it says, you know, or the boys would nor will a Sovereign dare veto it. not take the extra pay! If you should N .w that may be a germ of the idea read that “No person shall be entitled which animates our Legislatuie. It to a seat in the General Assembly Perhaps badges. the lacMes who sold the State Mission Program. — —| » Pai Lament can supercede j does that. Now what it does mean I lament is supreme. No court ( don’t know; but it doesn’t mean what feels Supreme and doth defy the King and swallow the courts. while he holds any office or position of profit or trust under this State” Blackville, Oct. 1.—The following State Mission program was presented by Mrs. Lonnie Creech, W. M. S. pro- j gram leader, Weditesday evening in the prayer room of the Blackville Bap-' tist Church: Hymn, “What a Friend We Have in Jesus”; prayer, the Rev. L. G. Payne; Scripture lesson and talk on prayer, Mrs. Lonnie Creech; piano solo, Miss Louise Collum; State Mis sions in South Carolina, Mrs. Carl Buist and 1 Miss Mary High; prayer, Mrs. Luther Pender; hymn, “Loyalty to Christ”; pageant, “Pleading the Cause of Our State Work,” directed by Young People’s Director and G. A. Counselor, Miss Ruth Hoffman, and presented by the following G. A. mem bers: Mary Jane Ray, Announcer; Marie Still, Leader; Alice Hightower, Justice; Helen Cain, Honor; Davine Gray, Loyalty; Orie Smith, Love; Em ma Boylston, Obedience; Geneva Payne, Stewardship, and Louise Col lum, pianist; prayef; hymn, “More Love to Thee, O Christ.” The offering was taken by members of the local Royal Ambassador Chap ter, James Martin and Francis Fick- ling. FOR SALE 3—193() Ford Touring. 3—1930 Chevrolet Touring. 10—1929 F^-rd Pickups. 2—1928 Chevrolet Pickups • 1—1927 Chevrolet Fordor. 1—1929 Ford Coupe. 1—1929 Ford Truck. 1—1935 Ford Fordor—New. 1—1935 Ford Tudor—New. 1—1935 Ford Tudor—New. “High Speed.’ 1—1935 Ford Truck—New. Crouch Motor Co., Inc. WILLISTON, S. C. Heads Blackville D. A. R. The King of England recognized you know it doesn’t mean it. Oh, no! thirteen States—thirteen nations we were. We were not a Nation, but a federation or partnership of thirteen sovereign, jealous States. These in dependent States formed a partner ship and in forming a partnership they made a contract. That contract is the "Constitution. It was the clear intent the States to create a centtal gov ernment of limited) powers, to act -especially against a common foe and in certain matters of common con cern, as the establishment of a postal system and the regulation of the coin age of money.. The preamble to the Constitutipn is more or less a rhetor ical introduction, and not law. As the nation has grown, or, rather, <98 our interests have transcended State You may happen ta lead something like this “The General Assembly shall not authorize payment to any person of the salary of a deceased officer be yond the date cf his death.” Now that reads easy, eh? But it doesn’t mean what you think. It just can’t mean that, for the Legislature does author ize these payments and the Comp troller General does honor them. The Comptroller General aaya they are in The ginninK plant of BasiUonkins, piop.r orm . orm. Is it the : Kline, was totally destroyed by fire Blackville, Sept. 28.—The Blackville Joseph Roger chapter, D. A. R., has elected the following officers for the coming yegr: Regent, Mrs. T. O. Boland; first vice-regent, Mrs. E. H. Weissinger; second vice-regent, Mrs. P. B. Coggin; recordingt socretary, Mrs. B. F. Storne; corresponding secretary,. Mrs. L. C. Still; tieasurer, Mrs. Hal Still; registrar, Mrs. A. H. N)nestein; his torian, Mrs. Lonnie Creech; auditor, 1 Mrs. H. D. Leonard; pailiamentarian, Mrs. R. A. Gyles; publicity chairman, Mrs. L. C. Still. 1 Gin Destroyed by Fire. The Secret of The Success of your Fall hat lies in your coiffure. Curls turn forwartd 1 toward face for daytime and peep out under your new hat,, which means it’s time for an- other— PERMANENT WAVE. ' All waves guaranteed on our New and Up-to-Date Croquincle Machine. Prices, $3.00 to $7.00. form that govems, cr the law of the land? Old Age Pensions. Now what Shall we do about old- age pensions? The Constitution of the State says: (which of course, will be interpreted to mean something very about nine o’clock Monday night and several bales of cotton were either to tally consumed by the flames cr badly damaged. The loss ii partially cover ed by insurance on the ginning outfit, but there was no insurance on either the build jpg or the cotton, ii is said. FOR APPOINTMENTS PHONE NO. 43. ^ The Barnwell Beauty Shop, CHARITY—BY THE SPOOLFUL! Pictured here is the Ladies Aid Society of North Bennington, Vermont, quilting away at quilts made to order to sell for charity. “How do we charge? Why, so much for every spool of thread we use,” explains the chairman ( standing) “And we always use the same thread, for if we Vermont women know anything about quilts, it’s this: the quilts that have come down in our families for generations, and have stood up under the wear of time and washing were sewed with J. & P. Coats best 6-cord thread. We wouldn’t think of using any other.” Treasurer’s Tax Notice! 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 property, poll and road tax. All taxes due and payable between SeptembeV 15 and December 31, 1935, will be collected without penalty. AH 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. Maich 1st to 15th, 1936, seven per cent, will be addled. 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. All persons! checks given for taxes will be subject to collection. 1 & 'S. Ordinal y County m c g * ^ G 1/ O it J MM K c o c c i Q .t; x —» o 2: w Special Local TOTAL No. 21—Ashleigk .- 5 4 4 j 1 ..JL . - - 22- N . 33—Barbary Branch 5 4 4 1 3 17 37 No. 45—Barnwell 5 4 4 1 3 25 45 No. 4—Big Fork 5 4 4 1 3 21 j 41 No. 19—Blackville 5 4 4 1 3 20 40 No. 35—Cedar Grove * 5 i 4 1 3 28 48 No. 50—Diamond O "■ • ■ — 1 3 17 37 No. 20—Double Ponds 5 7 4 1 3 19 m N?. 12—Dunbarton 5 7 | 4 1 3 27 47 No. 21—Edisto 5 r* 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 50 No. 9—Hilda 5 7 4 1 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 i No. 43—Old Columbia 5 7 4 1 3 26 46 No. 13—Pleasant Hill 5 7 4 1 3 15 35 No. 7—Red) 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 6 7 4 1 3 17 37 No. 26—Upper Richland 5 7 4 1 3 26 46 No. 29—Willistcn 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 for taxes under any circumstances except at the risk of the taxpayer.—(The County Treasurer reserves the right to hold all receipts paid) by check until said checks have been paid.) Tax receipts will be released only upon legal tender, post office money order cr certified checks. J. J. BELL, County Treas. x Is Your Boy or Girl Going to College? IF SO, THEY WILL WANT the new s from home each week. Send them THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL—it will be a welcome visitor every Thursday during the college term. We offer a special rate to college students— ONLY $1.00 FROM DATE TO JUNE, 1936. ' ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Just send us $1.00 with the address of the student and the paper will go foiward at once. ADVERTISE IN THE PEOPLE-SENTINEL’ j—:—: