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THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA
THURSDAY, JUNE 18TH, 1936.
The Barnwell People-Sentinel
JOHN W. HOLMES
1840—1912.
B. P. DAVIES, Editor and Proprietor.
Entered at the post office at Barnwell,
S. C 7j- as second-class matter.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Year $1.50
Six Months .90
Three Months .60
(Strictly in Adranee.)
THURSDAY, JUNE 18TH, 1936.
"Many Thanks, Brother Davies.
We pay $4.00 every Saturday on
our refrigerator. Every other Fri
day, we pay $2.00 on our radio. We
pay $0.00 every thit'd Monday on
our electric range, andi the same af
ternoon, we give the collector $5.00 on
our new bedroom suite, twin beds,
dresser and eveiything. Nothing else
comes up till the following Thursday;
our car dealer drops around pleasant
ly for hi s 25 dollars on the 4-door we
traded in 3 months ago.
Our electric toaster is the most
useful thing; we owe only 4 more
payments on it of $1.00 each, that
we pay for monthly, and they never
bother us for weekly payments. The
carpet-sweeper is the handiest thing
we ever installed. The old lady pays
Under the above—caption, the every other Tuesday out of her
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the following reference to a recent P 81< * ^ or > n November. (We keep our
editorial in The People-Sentinel:
“The ed'itor of The Press an d Stand
ard wishes to express appreciation,
both for what Editor Davies says in
the last issue of The Barnwell People-
Sentinel, and for what Correspondent
Aull said in his new s story. It is
such kind words as these that com
pensate somewhat for efforts made in
the performance of duties devolving
upon one in official position. We sin
cerely appreciate the above coming
landlord fairly well satisfied; we never
stay more than 4 months behind with
our rent.)
The crib for dear little Willie
cost only $14.00, with only $1,00
down. We pay the Furniture exchange
every Thursday. He happen 8 to be
passing by on his way to see some
body else, and drops in casually and
gets his 50 cents. Willie will be able
to walk and sleep in hi s big bed when
from those who are 8 o discriminating P a y men t is made next De-
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in their estimate of values."
Deserved to Win.
We don’t know what thi^-man was
applying for, but he should .have it.
It is not often so wise an answer can
be given to so fool a question.
The Wall Street Journal is our au
thority:
cember, at which time we will ex
change it for k baby bed
We are getting slightly behind
with our grocery and doctor bills, but
we don’t ever try to owe any one per
son or firm too much, so we change
our trading place every few weeks and
are trying a new doctor every time
little Willie sneeztes; we think it
is nice to know all of the doctors. We
the time of day down pat, lo and be
hold, it is changed again back to sen
sible time. It’s a pity Mr. A. Nutt
never knew what pain and consterna
tion he caused 1 millions of innocent
people.
Case Dismissed.
During my "short (?) life, I have
ran a steam engine, cutting all of the
wood to fire it myself; I have pulled
fadder in August; I have toted lum
ber and slab? away from a saw mill;
I have ditched in mud knee-deep; I
have pulled a cross-cut saw all day and
done many other laborious tasks, but
none of them are as tough as lying in
bed sick day after day.
1 believe I wuldl have got well by
the third day if the doctor had not
had an interest in a drug store. He
can write more prescriptions per hour
than any fellow I ever saw. I took
Blue and pink and white medicine the
first day of my illness. He changed
me to brown and red stuff the second
day. When the third day rolled a-
round, I w’as taking black powders,
green capsules and! purple doses in a
jelly glass.
mmmm—mmrn
1 lay in bed qnd counted the spots
on the window curtains (my wife
calls them draperies); I chased im
aginary rivers up and down the plas
tered walls and ceiling. I thought of
every booty who owed me . r .in 8
hours . . . and then in ?> hours I
thought over everybody I owed . .
x . and couldn’t pay either. To make
worse matters badder, the doctor call
ed twice a day, but he never did! say
what for.
A none-too-well-prepared applicant,
for a civil 8 ervice appointment found i don,t S° to church now at all i ,itlle
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the following question on his examina
tion paper:
“How near is the moon to the
earth ?”
He replied: “Not near enough to
bother me in my work, if I get this
job."—The State.
Willie cut s up so bad—we go over to
mother’s house and spend Sunday with
her. It’s only 84 miles there and
back
_-__Y?s we aie all o/k. now. No
more sleepless nights. We have got
Which reminds us of really bright' our P a y men ts scattered very badly
answers that an applicant, standing and none °f them come due at the
an examination for a government job,
made to silly questions formulated by
a would-be braintruster. They were:
‘Q. How long i s a string? A
same hour of any day; that makes it
easier on us. We are having to pay
cash for gas end oil; we traded! on
credit a good while, but after going
Twice the distance from the middle rounds, we found that, they had
to either end. I P u k us on a cas B basis. They were
“Q. How far can a dog run into a ' m '8Bty nice to us as long as our
woods? A. Half way; after that he cre< ^t lasted
is running out.’
Candidates* Assessments.
There has been criticism in the
past—and more recently—of the al
legedly high assessments on candi
dates for office in Barnwell County,
and for the information of those who
take this view it may be well to quote
fhe assessments being levied this
summer in Georgetown County, which
compares favorably with Barnwell
County in area and population. The
assessments, a s published in a George
town dispatch to the News and Cour
ier a few day s ago, are as follows:
Sheriff, $300; clerk of couit, $240;
treasurer, $180; auditor, $180; State
senate, $150; house of representatives,
$00; magistrate at Geoigetown, $30;
other magistrates, $12, and coroner,
$12.
Assessments in Barnwell County
thi s year are; Sheriff, $200; clerk of
couit, $200; master in equity, $50;
State senate, $150; house of represen
tatives, $75; magistrate' at Barnwell,
Our last suit of
clothes and the dress for her will be
paid for sooner or later,, by the week,
as usual. Were it not for installment
buying, we couldn’t get along at all.
Gee McGee.
Sensible Time vs. Daylight Saving
Time.
Mr. A. Nutt, the gentleman who
thought up and worked out the pres
ent “daylight saving time" died in
an insane asylum in New York last
week at the age of 70. He was an
inmate of the asylum at the time he
got the idea into hi s head about try
ing to save daylinght.
Mr. Nutt discovered this great
“daylight saving scheme by a
certain masipulation of a silver 'dol
lar he had in his pocket. He found
that if he took his dollar out of his
left britches pocket and put it in his
right britches pocket that he had* a
dollar in hi s right britches pocket.
_-__I began to count the years of my
sojourn on thi s old earth on the morn
ing of the 4th day of my in-bed-ne?s.
I realized that rheumatism and possi
bly paralysis were liable to strike a
guy at my age, and then I began to
hurt in my hips and I felt my left
side get numb one night, but I never
got beyond being able to wiggle
my toes; I kept them wiggling all the
time for safety.
This is my 7th day. I am sitting
up, or rather—sitting down in a chair
out of bed. Food tastes very good
this morning, thank you. My eyes
aie watery, but I aint worrying about
not being able to see. My throat has
healed up, as far as the doctor can
sCe and tell. My liver is hitting on all
4, my heart i s piddling along at about
82, my blood pressure i s only 165 over
95, and my bank balance is down to
$0.05 .The doctor found that out yes-
terday and dismissed me today. It’s
mighty fine to be well again.
Gee McGee.
Strange As It May Seem—
All in the world he would have to
do is to imagine that he still had his
$15; other magistrate
and coroner, $10.
Two years ago the assessments for
treasurer and auditor in Barnwell
( ounty were $100 each, as compared
with $180 in Georgetown County.
We learn further ftvm the dispatch
that “the pay for the manager s at the
polls was raised fiom $1.50 to $2 a
day,” whereas manager s in Barnwell
County have been paid $3 per day
for a number of years.
Down in Charleston County the as
sessments run as high a s $2,000, which
is levied 1 on candidates for sheriff.
"When all the fact s are known, the as-
jsecsment s in Barnwell County will
compare favorably with those in other
sections of the State, and critics of
the county executive committee should
be fair enough to acquaint themselves
with all the facts before making
statements that it may be impossi
ble to substantiate
$10 and 1 $15’, dodar in his britches pocket, so he
worked it on his clock. He wanted to
get up every morning an hour earlier
so’s he would have more time to spend
in the asylum, so he turned his clock
forward an hour, and presto he saved
that hour. (This scheme has abso
lutely ruined the usefulness of radios).-
He got up every morning at 8
o’clock' by the clock, and it wasn’t,
very long till he had forgot all about
it ever being really 7 o’clock, and
after lots of figuring, he observed
that he had saved from 30 to 31 hrs.
every month. He never found any.
use for the time he saved, but miser-'
like, he just kept on saving daylight.
Nobody’s Business f
Mr. Nutt got a few other crazy
people to practice his daylight saving
plan, and 1 then lots of socalled sensible
people took it up on the outside, and
now it is a whole world affected just
like the ouija board used to be. It
gives a fellow a chance to eat break
fast and dinner and supper earlier; in
^ fact, he eats supper so early, he has
’* to eat another meal before night to
keep fiom starving to death.
By Gee McGee. |
Bark to Normal at Last.
Well, we have all of our install
ment accounts in good running or
der at last. Our income, including
salary, drawing account, and 2 dbzen
eggs a week from our 7 hens, and a
mess of surplus vegetables ever now
and then, amounts to exactly 16 do
Jars per week.
It has been a mighty fine thing
for the watch-makers. People who-live
away from places that have no better
sense than to follow this daylingt sav
ing time bug have to wear 2 watches
when they visit where this foolishness
*s practiced. Nobody even there ever
getsjused to it, and only one engage-
rnpit ou\of 23 is kept punctually.
"omen ne^n keep them. By the
time the natives think they have got
Or Believe It or Not, we learn from
last week’s issue of the Walterboro
Press and Standard, edited by that
militant prohibitionist, Brother W. W.
Smoak, dubbed the “Bishop of Colle
ton" by Editor Dreher, of The Cal
houn Times, that Walterboro has been
tentatively selected 1 as the site for a
liquor distillery. In fact, the city
fathers have gone so far a s to name
a price for an old factory building to
the promoters.
Sticking te his gun s and prohibi
tion principles, Edito: Smoak has fired
a broadside at the proposed new in
dustry and we learn further from his
excellent newspaper that he has the
backing of ministers and other influen
tial citizen s in his effort to shoo the
proposed new birthplace of Demon
Rum from fair Walterboro. Hampton
County, just across the Saltkehatchie
swamp from Colleton, has long been
noted for the excellence of its rye
“llkkjsr” and if memory serves us
right Banker Bowers once made a
loan on a bootlegger’s still. Perhaps
the proper encouiagement can be
fouid a there.—Barnwell People-Sen
tinel.
True, Brother Davies, the atmos
phere in Walterboro will not allure
capital seeking investment in liquor
distilleries, nor do we believe it well
for any small community, like ours,
or even the Hampton satrapy, to look
longingly upon inducements of wealth
and pay rolls for such purposes. We
shall, gladly, however, refer distillery
location hunters to Banker Bowers, or
to that other hotbed of liquor adhe
rents which has furnished the chair
man of the Judiciary committee of the
House of Representatives, which com
mittee never ha s been known to return
any but “favorable reports" on liquor
bills seeking enactment. Even Barn
well County might offer certain “in
ducements" of enticing nature, or does
the editor of The Barnwell People-
Sentinel prefer to “try it out on the
dog" * first?—Walterboro Press and
Standard.
1934 FDftD V-8 TUDOR. Good clean
job. Reduced to the low price of—
1935 FORD V-8 TUDOR. In/Ckcel-
lent condition, both mechanically and
in appearance. An unusual car for—
1931 MODEL “A" FORD COACH. A
1/ real bargain. This car is in fine
1931
real
shape for only-
$250
1930 CHEVROLET COACH, Reduced
to—
$175
1929 CHEVROLET COACH. Has had
the best of care, and is cheap at—
$160
1930 HUDSON SEDAN, 6 WHEEL.
Jf you want a heavier car than Chev
rolet or Ford, see this for only—
$300
1929*FORD COUPE. Just the thing
to run around in. Can’t be beat at—
$135
1929 FORD COACH. An excellent
cai at—
$135
We have other Used Cars of different makes and types from $100
up. See us before you buy and save money.
All Cars Offered Subject to Prior Sale.
Grubbs Chevrolet Company
. Barnwell, S. C.
sometimes duck and dodge, we are
strongly tempted to dKab him “Stone
wall" instead of “Bishop” Smoak. We
do not alway s agree with his views,
but he i s the bravest solon in the
State House. There is never any
trouble to locate him, and when he
takes his stand, no cyclone can blow
him from his position. With liquor
everywhere, and in a considerable
town, he is fighting the establishment
of a booze distillery in Walterbofft,
with hammer and tongs. Such speci
mens are so rare in politics, that his
case is unique. The fact is they are
scarce in any line. Nothing dis
courages him, nothing daunts Stone
wall Smoak.—Calhoun Times.
BARNWELL FARMERS GET
SUBSIDY OF $46,168,955
Standing by His Principles.
Again we join The Barnwell People
Sentinel in bedecking the brow
legislator and editor Smoak for hia
courage and consistency. Aa “Bishops’*
of
Theie has been reveived for farmers
1,081 checks for $46,168.95, represent
ing the subsidy or difference in cotton
price payments. We still have about
five hundred checks to receive which
are expected within the near future.
Farmers are making every effort'to
get a s many cow .peas and velvet
beans planted as possible, so that the'y’'
may take full advantage of the bene
fits of the soil conservation program.
Many have not gotten stands of cot
ton until recently and will divert full
35 per cent, of base cotton acreage to
other crops.
Three applications of sweetened
poison to cotton to kill old weevils will,
no doubt, help give it .. much better
chance of making some cotton.—H. G.
Boylston, Co. Agent.
DR. HENRY J. GODIN
Sight Specialist
offices 956 Broad St.
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