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BARNWELL, 801^ CAROLINA, THURSDAY DECEMBER 26, 1935
Largest County Cirevlaifon.
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Snow Covers County
. v in Mantle of White
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Prospect for First “White Christmas”
in Years Results from Sunday's
Snowfall;
Snow, which began falling about
noon Sunday and continued throughout
the afternoon and-early evening gave
Barnwell and Barnwell County pros
pect for the first*“white Christmas” in
many yearg, although Tuesday's bright
sunshine caused the fleecy blanket to
begin to melt rapidly. \
v The snow whkfh at timet was mjxed
with sleet, began with a light flurry
about 1$ o’clock Sunday morning and
in a short while was coming down in
large flakes. Housetops, shrubbery
and 1 the ground were quickly covered
under a white mantle, which had
reached a depth of two inches or more
by nightfull. The skies cleared about
, nine o’clock Sunday night, but Monday
again cloudy, with the tempera
ture hovering just above the freezing
point throughout the dhy.
A force of workmen cleared the
snow from the streets and sidewalks
in the business section of Barnwell,
and the work was aided somewhat by
a < slight thaw. However, thermome
ters again registered below freezing
temperature^ Monday night and the
city still sported its white covering
on Christmas Eve . The day dawned
fair and under the warming influence
of the sun, the snow began to melt.^
It was believed, though, that enough
would remain for a “white Christmas.”
, Sunday’s snowfall was the heaviest
this section has seen in nearly 20
years, it being recalled that three
heavy snows fell here m the winter of
1917-18 Vithin a period of about 10
days.
CORN-HOG PAYMENTS RATE
SET ABOUT SAME AS 1935
Seen and Heard Here
During the Past Weds
A
Little Senile and Nonsense Abont
People Yon Know and Othera v
Yon Don't Know.
The rates of adjustment payments
to farmers cooperating in the 1936-
1937 corn-hog program will be (ap
proximately the same as those paid
in connection with tlm 1935 program,
County Agent Boyls^ says.
Farmers who comply fully with the
provisions of the two-year contract
will receive corn payments in 1936
at the rate of 35 cents a bushel on the
number of bushels obtained by multi
plying the appraised corn yield on
the farm by the number of adjusted
corn acres. The term “adjusted acres”
refer s to the land formerly planted to
corn but retired frbm, corn produc
tion under the new contract.
For example, Boylston explains, if
a farmer with a com base of 100 acres
and an appraised yield of 20 bushels
to the acre makes an adjustment of 20
per cent, or 20 acres, his .total com
payment will amount to $140 (35 cent s
times 20 bushels times 20 acres)—less
the pro rata share of the local ad L
ministrative expenses.
Hog adjustment payments will be
made at the rate of $1.25 a head on the
number of hogs in the market hog
base. In order to receive the maxi
mum payment, however, a contract
signer must produce a number of hogs
between one-half of his base and the
full base number. Deductions will be
made at the rate of $2.50 for each hog
he fails to produce up to 50 per cent,
of his base and of $5 for every hog
produced in excess of his base num
ber. '
- Under the 1935 contract, both com
and hog payments were made* m two
installments. Under the new con
tract, two com payments will be made
in 1936: the first, at the rate of 20
cents a bushel, about Aug. 1st or as
soon as possible after first compliance
is checked; and the second, at. the rate
of 15 cents a bushel ,about Dec. 31st.
Hog payments, under the “modified
current production payment plan/
however, will be made in one install
ment abotyt Dec. 31st, 1936, or as soon
as possible after final, compliance has
been checked and certifiedl As under
the previou s contracts, the expenses
for local administration of the pro
gram will be taken out of both the
com and hog payments.
Car Destroyed by Fire.
S. Y. Brown, local veterinarian, had
the misfortune to lose his Chrysler
sedan by fire Saturday night, while in
the.Red Oak section of the county.
Birth of a Daughter.
Mr. and-Mrs. Baynard Ellis, of this
city, are receiving congratulations
upon the arrival Saturday morning of
qa lovely 8 Vi-pound daughter.
College girls and boys lirriving
home for the Christmas holidays. .
. . The old home town also made
lively by the arrival qf other visitors.
. * . . Everybody shivering Sat
urday morning in the coldest weather
of the winter, local thermometers reg
istering only 20 degree above zero
early that morning and hovering
around the freezing point all day. .
. A card from Col. Harry D.
Caftioun, former Barnwell resident
who is now living at Bamberg, paying
The People-Sentinel the following nice
compliment: “Your Christmas Edi
tion i s perfectly beautiful and your en
terprise is to be commended.” _ Thanks,
Colonel, for “them kind word's.” <Most
of our other subscribers seemed to
take last week’s issue, on which the
force had spent considerable time and
effort, as a matter of course. . . ..
Turkeys and Christma 8 “spirits” be
ing sold through the medium of punch-
boards. . . . Brightly lighted
Christmas trees on the front porches
of a number of Barnwell residences.
. . . Everybody (including even the
owners off automobiles who are payiijg
for the highway system) interested
in the passage of special legislation
in the highway muddle, and a man
saying that it was remarkable how-
many non-owners of cars were backing
Governor Johnston in his fight against
the highway commission and for $3
license tags. . . . Col. Solomon
Blatt, member of the house of Rep
resentatives and Sneaker Pro Tem,
telling abobt the clash he had last
week with Representative Hendrix,
of Spartanburg County, during de
bate in the lower branch of the gen
eral assembly.
Lang Cave remarking that he does
n’t think Governor Johnston “has any
thing against Ben Sawyer,” and a
bystnder saying that If fhe happenings
of the past several months have just
been a little frieiidly pleasantry on the
Governor’s part he’d hate to see ■ the
Chief Executive get real peeved with
anybody. ... A negro woman,
who is a former resident of Barnwell,
losing control of the car she was driv
ing at theK corner of Main and Marl
boro Streets and crashing into the
concrete coping around the yard of
Mrs. J. A. Pprter’s home, and the
crowd that quickly gathered being
disgusted with her “Northern Accent,”
which she had acquired during a few
years residence in “Noo Yawk.”
Jarnwell, with its white blanket of
snow, looking like “a winter wonder-
and.” The fall delighted the young
folks and the older ones -who have not
grown old, but was looked upon with
disfavor by merchants. . And folks
walking “stiff-leggedV in their efforts
to retain their equilibrium on the slip
pery surface t)f the streets. . . .
erry Bush admitting to Harry Boyls
ton that there was ovk thing that
even he did not know, Xhich was that
it does not require /extremely hot
water to remove thft hair from a
butchered hog, and Harry replying
that ’most eveybody knows that the
temperature of the water should be
around 140 ctegrees. .... Post
master R. A. Deason receiving con
gratulations over his renomination by
Congressman H. P. Fulmer, which was
a fine Christmas present for the Post
master and his assistant, Ben Davies,
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Local Teachers Leave.*;
The Answer to-Virginia.
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(The most widely read editorial ever written, stated! the. Reader’s
Digest in it's December, 1935, edition, appeared 36 yean ago in the New
York Sun, has been reprinted by the Sun annually at Christmas time
ever since, and haa been quoetdl in a score of languages the world over.
This world-famous “Santa Claus editorial” was an answer to the fol
lowing^ letter: 3
Dear Editor: I am eight years old. Some of my little friends say
there i s no Santa Claus. Please tell me the truth.
—Virginia O’Hanlon.
The editorial writer who was assigned to reply to Virginia at.first
disdained the task as triva^, then found himself warming up to a real
opportunity, and finally wrote the words that millions ^since then have
warmed to readl The answer follows:)
Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by
the skepticism o^a skeptical age. They do not believe except they* see.
They think that nothing can be which is not, comprehensible by their
little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s
are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect in in
tellect, as compared-witfi the boundless world about him, as measured
by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole truth.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. ^He exists as certainly as
love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know‘that they a-
bound and 1 give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! How
dreary would be the world if there were po Santa Clus!. It would be
as dneary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no romance
to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, ex
cept in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the
world^would be extinguished.
- Not to believe in Santa Claus! You plight as well not believe in
faries. You ntight get your papa'to hire men to watch all the chim
neys* on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not
see Santa Claus coining down, whatjvoultd that prove? Nobody sees
Santa Claus, but—that is no'sign tfiete.is no Santa Claus.# The most
real things in the:w T orld arc those that neither children* nor men can
see. , ..
You tear apart the baby’s' rattle and seei what makes the noise'in
side, but there is veil covering the unseen world which not the strong
est men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry,
love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view the supernal beauty
beyond Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is
nothing else real and abiding. _
No Santo Claus? Thank God! he lives, and lives forever. A thousand
years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
Legislature Enacts I Acting Postmaster
Highway Control Act Has Been Nominated
Temperary Board ls Placed in Charge Congressman H. P. Fulmer Recom-
of Highway Departiient.— mends That President Roosevelt"
Special Session Adjourns. ’ | Appoint R. A. Deason. 4 v
Columbia, Dec. 21.—The Christmas j . Congressman H. P. Fulmer advised
spirit pervaded the Sduth Carolina I The People-Sentinel Monday that he
oapibol, scene of a fierce political hat- had requested the Hon. Howes,
tie, Unlay as Governor Olin D. John-1 First ^ Assistant Postmaster General,
ston signed a temporary highway con- to recommend to President Roosdvelt
trol act and the legislature that pass- the appointment of R. A. Deason as
ed it after a ten-day deadlock with postmaster at Barnwell. Mr. Deason
him, adjourned. has been acting in this capacity for
The act, principal product of a the past several years, succeeding W.
special session convened December 10, M. Harris, who resigned. -Since that
established an emergency adWinistra- time two examinations have been held
tion to operate-'the State highway de- to fill the vacancy and Congressman
partment after it had been bereft of Fulmer’s recommendation that the act-
its commission by executive action | ing postmaster be appointed to the
and buffeted about in litigation, legis
lative argument, and by nearly eight
weeks of military control.
Governor Johnston demobilized the
position meets with the approval of
a large majority of. the patrons of
the Barnwell post office.
Mr. Deason ranked first on the
national guardsmen yesterday, end- of three eligibles, the other two
ing ap unparalleled period in recent Charles O. Jones and W. J. Sexton.
South Carolina government, as a con
ciliatory move when a joint legisla
tive committee assented to setting up
the emergency board if the troops were
withdrawn.
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The lawmakers rushed through a
measure directing J. S. Williamson,
State highway engineer,, and O. P.
Bourllce, highway department secre
tary-treasurer, to operate the road
bureau temporarily under a supervis
ory board composed of State Treas-
In his letter to the first assistant
postmaster general, Congressman
Fulmer wrote as follows:
“I havd been giving serious thought
•to the appointment of Postmaster at
Barnwell, S. C., And from all of the
information that I have been able to
secure, it appears that the present
acting Postmaster, Mr. Deason, who is'
first on the Eligible List, has been
rendering efficient service, both to
the Government end the patrons of
New Deal Is Backed
Mainly by the South
Other Sections Tabulated- in Literary
Digest Poll Are Opposed to
. Rooseve^ Administraticn.
New York, Dec. 21.—The South is
almost solid for the New Deal, .but
all other sections of the nation rep
resented 1 so far in the Literary Digest’s
current straw/Vote are against thfe
present Democratic administnftion,
abulaticns indicate.
Representing 819,320 votes from 34
Slates, mainly in the South and West,
the poll shows 57.69 per cent, of
voters answering in the negative to
the controversial question: “Do you
now approve'the.acts and policies of
the Roosevelt Ne^ Deal to date?” A
week ago, the anti-New Deal percent
age was given as 57.24.
Eight States shown in the poH for
the first time were evenly divided, Ar
kansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, South
Carolina favored the New Deal. Wis
consin, New I^myshire, Washington
and Oregon were opposed.
Seven other Southern States favor
the New Deal. They are Virginia,
North Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky,
Tennessee, Alabama and Texas.’ Okla
homa and Florida have slight anti-New
Deal majorities. . .
Other States showing negative ma
jorities are California, Colorado, Con
necticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kan
sas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michi
gan, Minnessota, Missouri, Nebraska,
New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio,
Oregon, South Dakota, Washington,
-Wesb yirginia and Wisconsin.—
Young Lad Is Killed
in Shotgun Accident
Ray Sanders, Jr., of Olar, Shot
Through Head When Weapon
o
Fires in Own Hand.
Olar, Dec. 23.—Ray Sanders, Jr.,
nine and one-half years old, was Ac
cidentally killed at 11:30 this morn
ing with a shotgun that discharged in
his own hands. The lad had gone to
the home of Mrs. Ida Myers, a neigh
bor, to buy shells to shoot birds. He
was in a room by himself when the
fatal shot was fired. The load enter
ed his left cheek and came out tfie
back of his head
Ray was an orphan, the son of Mr.
and Mrs. A. Ray Sanders, both of
whom died a few years ago. follow
ing the death of his parents the small
children were adopted by friends and
relatives and Ray, Jr., was adopted
by Mrs. Ella Morris, of Olar. The
following brothers and sisters survive:
Mrs. Harold Beard 1 , C. B. Sanders.
Henry Sanders, Maggie Sanders, Bil
lie Sanders and Peggie Sanders, pll of
Olar, and Miss Ethel Sanders, of Co
lumbia.
FuneraJ and interment will be in
Friendship church near Olar Tuesday
at 2:30 o’clock.
urer E. P. Miller, Comptroller General j the office.
A. J. Beattie, uni F. C. Robinson, sink- “I fi^d, also, from correspondence
ing fund commission secretory. I k*d with the people of Barnwell in
Bcrrowing Possible. • connection with the appointment of a
It authorized the new board to bor- Postmaster that the appointment of
row necessary funds from the State Mr. Deason will be highly satisfactory
treasury to run the department, to the citizens of Barnwell and to the
whose functions had come almost to a J patrons of the Barnwell post office,
dead halt for lack pf money, while “I, therefore, request that you rec-
highway funds remained frozen by an ommend to the President of the United
injunction, | States the appointment of Robert A.
While no immediate steps were j Deason.”
token to have the injunction dissolved, J • » •
it was reported that the State supreme * *'* re at Lyadhurst.
court would be asked Monday to re-1
lease the funds, which include federal many friend, of Me. and Mrs.
money from which contractors on road Hay Gantt, of Lyndhurst, will regret
projects would be paid.. Federal I to laarn that their residence was totol-
road authorities at Washington ihdi- MY destroyed by fire Friday night, to-
cated they would recognise the new fisher with moat of their household
set-up and resume allotments of fed-1 and kitchen furniture,-Including sever-
eral road buildings funds.
The. act was ratified and signed by
the governor in less than an hour’s
time. By 1 p. m. the executive and
Buffet Super at Blackville.
Blackville, Dec. 21.—Among the
first of the Christmag social gather
ings was the buffet supper given Wed
nesday evening at the home of Dr. and
Mrs. Ov-U. Hammond. —_
The teachers of the local high school
left Friday to- spend the Christmas
holidays as follows: j
Miss Maria Neuffer to her home in
Abbeville.
Miss Margaret Ellis to Darlington
to visit friends.
Misses Elease Ray and Annie Mar
garet Zeigler to their respective homes
in Denmark.
Miss Grace League to her home in
Clinton.
Miss Sue Carter to her home in
Varnville. '
Miss Louise McCullough to Darling
ton to visit friendA.
Miss Mary China Stevenson* to Co
lumbia to visit relatives.
Miss Hallie MaA^McKeithan to her
home, in Flai
Mis# Delma Burges to her home in
Kingstree.i
Miss Ruth Dicks to her home in Dun
barton. x
Mr. and Mrs. George R. .Evans to
I Sandersville, Ga. ,to visit relatives.
The 34 States reported to date con
tain approximately three^-fourths of
the population of the nation and far
more than a majority of electoral col
lege votes.
The 23 States registering opposition
to the administration represent 265
electoral college votes, one vote less
than a majority. The eleven South
ern States shown favoring the New
Deal have 128 votes in the electoral
college, which names the president.
The 14 States yet unheard from rep
resent 138 votes.
Comparison of straw vote/figures
with the vote President Roorfevelt re
ceived in 1932 indicates he has lost
popularity in all States heard from,
except Kentucky, where a gain in New
Deal sentiment is shown.
Santa Clans Letter.
Deear Santo Clans:
Be ,ure and remember my little sis
ter, Peggy and me. Love to alL
Dallis Creighton, III.
Amid a seasonal atmosphere of
holly, mistletoe and poinsettias, the
guests assembled at 8 o’clock, and
were welcomed by Mrs. Hammond.
Supper was served. Individually mold
ed Christmas plum puddings with wine
sauce bearing a cherry Yule-tide
greeting in good old English fashion
were served to each guest
Miss Jane Hammond passed the tal
ly cards and partner, were sought
al valuable heiriooms. Mr. Gantt and
his family were attending a Christmas
tree party at the Lyndhurst • school
house when the alarm waa given and
e flames made such rapid progress
thk} only a part of the furniture waa
and the third special I removed from the burning building.
The loss is a heavy one, as Mr.
Gantt had. only recently remodeled
his residence. There was no insurance
on either the dwelling or the furni
ture..
general . assembly exchanged wishes'
for ^a very merry Christmas and a
happy newyear,”
session since the turn of the century
adjourned.,
The session was the first of its
kind called to fill a vacancy in the ad
ministration of a State department.
Two others, summoned by Governor
Cole L. Blese in 1914 and I. C. Black
wood in 1931, sought to peg. cotton
prices.
Road Law Not Changed.
Johnston convened the lawmakers
with a request that they enact “per
manent legislation” to replace a hold-
Wa, Old Landmark.
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Lyndhurst, Dec. 21.—The old Gantt
home at Boiling Springs, perhaps one
of the oldest houses in the county, vrs«
completely destroyed by \ fire • last
I evening.
The fsmily was away for a short
over highway commission he ousted I time, when it was suddenly seen to he
with troops October 28th snd by taveloped in flames. Someone in pass-
quasi—judicial proceedings Decern- ing gave the alarm, a> crowd from the
ber 6th when t£e courts reinstated it. neighborhood immediately ‘ gathered.
He asked enactment of a bill to but the flames had gained such head-
designate the sinking fund comm is- way that it was impossible to subdue
sion a, a temporary road board and them.
to name a new commission of 6 elect- The old house haa long been ond of
ed by the people. \ the landmarks of the village, having
The legislature refused to act while Utood here gince sometime previous to
troops held the road offices in disre- 1849, and was for many years a cen-
gard of a supreme court decision that of music and many pleasant social
their use by the governor was uncon- gatherings. For some years now it
stitutional. has been unoccupied until about a year
Sharp criticism of Johnston pre- ago renovation ofit was begun, and
domin*tod the speeches until a pact for some months it has been the home
was
made through a joint committee j of F. Gantt and family.
for contract. After several progres
sions, Mrs. W. R. Carroll was award-L4ixty days, until appeals to the courtg
ed hihest score prize, a poinsettia, fofj from the executive removal ]>roceed-
the.ladies, and Mr. G..F. Posey received 1 ings may be filed and heard or the
a (jhristmag box of shaving lotions for legislature, reconvening in regular
the men. Favors for the evening were ' session January $4, may pass a per-
headed by Senator Lide, of Marion,! It is thought that the fire started
and Representative Bennett, of Marl- from the remains of one kindled ear-
boro. Her; in the evening, and which was
The lawmakers recognized a legal thought to have been made safe be-
question as to the statug of thirteen fore leaving the house, but which in
holdover commissioners against Nvhoih some way spread to other parts of the
Johnston instituted removal proceed- room when the house was left alone,
ings on misconduct charges which the The passing of old hemes, like old
politically -hostile commission denied, friends, is much to be lamented, as
The legislative act established the | their places are not easily filled
temporary board for e maximum of
tiny bellg attached to the score cards.
The guests included Mr. and Mrs.
D. Stanley Brown, Mr. and Mrs. G.
F., Posey, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Buist,
Mr. and Mrs. Byron Wham, Mr. and
Mrs. Farrell O’Gorman, Mr. and Mrs.
manent reorganization bill.
Bills to Be Printed.
More than a dozen reorganization
measures, including one for popular
elections favored' by the governor,
three for election of commissioners
W. R. Carroll, Dr. and Mrs. Sem B. by legislative delegations, and others
Rush, Mrs. Herman Brown, Miss presenting combination plena, were
Charlotte Oswald and Mr. and Mrs. left with the house judiciary commit-
Lonnie Creech. • | tee. . I
McSweeney Suffers Stroke.
The Barnwell County friends of
Eugene B. McSweeney, of Allendale,
will learn with deep
suffered a severe gtr
while in Ridgeland off
last week. He is one of
known newspaper men in
part of the State, being the
of papers at Allendale, Hampton
Ridgeland. It hag also been l
here that one of his children is
ously ill with pneumonia. Their early
and complete recovery is
hoped for by their many friends.
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