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# ' * i'W f AGB FOUB. THB BABWWBLL PBOFLB^BNTPfEL, BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY. DECEMBER 14. 1*S€ Tbs Barnwell People-Sen tins JOHN W. HOLMES 1S44—Itll. B. P. DAVIES. Editor and Proprietor. ■ | " ^ - ——^ Entered at the post office at Barnwell, S. C., as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES; One Year H-M Six Months Three Months — AO (Strictly hi Adraoca.) THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1936 MERRY CHRISTMAS! Once affain we extend the old—but ever new—greeting to our friends: “Merry Christmas!” And it is our sincere wish that it may be—in fact as well as in name—the very merriest that you have spent in many years. To the little children of Barnwell County—and to little children every where—we express the sincere hope that Santa Claus, their patron saint, will fulfill every wish that they may have this Happy Yuletide, to the end that each little stocking, “hunK by the fireside with care,” will be filled to overflowing. A wholesome measure of prosperity has returned to this depression-strick en land of ours and there is more reason for rejoicing and merry-mak ing than in a number of recent years. Most of you will be surrounded by your loved ones as you gather around the family hearth this Christmas Eve and recall the age-old story of the coming of the Christ-Child. Bright eyes in smiling childish faces will grow eager with anticipation as you recount the coming, witali ^ few hours, of Old Saint Nicholas hia sleigh-load of dolls and toys. May you an<f they enjoy the full measure of happiness and contentment! But Christmas may be a sad as well as a glsd season. Grown-up children who live miles from the old roof-tree will be hurrying homeward to spend Christmas with the old folks. Don't let that happy journey be turned in to stark tragedy on the highway! Kaemse more than the usual amount of rautioo in driving this week. Only a few days ago, over in Atlan ta, a widowed mother, who had skimp ed and saved a few pennies from her scanty relief dole in order that her litule tots might know some of the delights of Santa Claus that other children enjoy on thnstaaaa morning, was struck down by a passing auto mobile as she stepped from a street car. Those who rushed to her as sistance found broken and twisted toys Hatched in her deed hands—pa thetic proof that her last thougts and efforts were devoted to the now or Mike CHkfce Epreaaea Himself Quite Sym pathetically. gov. a. m. landon, topeky, kan. deer gov:— •* v plese do not take it to heart about getting beat, i offer my sympathy in yore loss, i, too, asspired to offis in my own county enduring the month of august, we had a hot campane. i was asking the deer peeple for the offis of kurriner, but i got beat onner count of a slate. ~ • yon made a fine run in 2 states and that is something to be proud of. i headed the ticket myself for kurriner in the first race, and it looked like i was going to be eleckted in spite of my manny friends and a sound fissical boddy, but the secont race left me out in the cold. art square, a citien of flat rock, and a verry deer friend of yores befoar the poles were hell, has made a public statement that he do not believe that hon. al smith hope yore cause when he turned the empire state anO hisself over to the g. o. p. crowd, they seem ed afeared that he mought turn back to the dimmercrats as soon as he got what he wanted. it now looks like the fine help that dupont and hon. rass cobb gave you went for naught, as that is about all you got out of dellyware. it seems the public could not visualize roseyvelt tearing up the constertution and turn ing our country over to russia and jappan. but they will find out in time what it was all about. you have made a good public ser vant in yore state and you have some thing to fall back on besides the re publicans. won’t you kindly ask yore department of agger-culture to plese aen<> me some sunflower seeds. The few fellers you had down here didden't have none of same to wear; that mought of hurt allso. we all hope the new add-ministra tion will get doom to brass tax, cut out waiat, keep the farmers on their feeta, including the kanaas farmers, too, as in the paat, and work in harmony with big bisnesa aa well aa little bitneaa and make arrangements for the ritch man. who owns non-tax- able bonds, to help ua pore folks pay the taxes, after all. us consumers are toting the loud, kind regards to yeu and col. knocks. yores as ever, mike Clark, rfd. How 1 Lent My Four Kneuda. The average man has so few fneads it's a pity that he must deal with them occasionally and run the risk of losing them. A real friend la the wMweiae w w■ w vow v aeew sww ana - , - pk.^1 htu. brood No Morry Cbriot- ./•" ow " h<> 0 ”* •» Voi-ot dob. mas in that orphaned home! May all of you be spared the sad ness of Christmas time and know only its gladness and joy, and so once again we say— “MERRY CHRISTMAS!” and la always glad to though he caa' pay you. you even Slim Wilkins end I were school mates; both raised in the tame pine thicket; went in a-washing together for years; hunted lizards and straak- fields during the viper season; but I endorsed a note for him and had to pay it about 25 years ago, and he's still cussing me about something. By Gee McGee. Ancient History. 1— Literary Digest straw voting. 2— The Liberty League. 3— Al Smith. 4— The Sunflower Emblem. 5— As goes Maine— 6— Doc Townsend and Co. 7— Father Coughlin. . 8— Rev. J. K. L. Smith. > 9—Gene Talmadge. 10— DuPont’s $750,000.00 (to defeat FDR). 11— The war debts. 12— Hearst’s Prophesies. 13— The Gold Standard. > J4—The “Old Guard” Republican. 15— Bill Murray. 16— John Raskob. 17— Fear, “He’s a Communist.” 18— Around the Corner. *' 19— Share the Wealth. ' 20— Mr. Vandenberg. f 21— Low Taxes. 22— Free-wheeling. 23— Toronto’s Baby Derby. 24— Hon. Reed. 26—Home Cooking. 26— The Unpainted Lip. 27— Knock-Knock. 28— Knox. 29— The Yo-yo. 30— Six-cent Cotton. 31— Forty-cent Wheat. 32— Highway Safety. 33— All Political Promises. 34— The Brown Derby. 35— Hoover’s “Economic Ruin.” 36— Mrs. Simpson (?) 37— Joe Louis. 38— That Florida CanaL 39— Quoddy. * ’ 40— Peace and Quiet 41— G. O. P. Leaders. Mias Wilma Weeka, of Brookavillc, Fla., ta spending several days her* with friends. Mrs. Caroline B. Reynolds. Columbia, Dec. 22.—Mrs. Caroline B. Reynolds, of 1045 Marion Street, died at her home at 4:30 yesterday morning after an illness of only a few hours. Mrs. Reynolds was the widow of William Telford Reynolds and was the former Miss Caroline Owens, of Barnwell. Surviving her are three daughters, Mrs. Robert King and Miss Lois Reynolds, of Columbia, and Mrs. Al vin A. Singlev, of Statesboro, Ga.; three grandsons, Robert King, Jr., James Paterson King and Marion Johnson King, and one granddaugh ter, Alva Caroline Singley. Mrs, Reynolds’ death brings much sadness to her many friends over the State. She was a woman of fine Christian character and was greatly admired by tohse who knew her. Mrs. Reynolds’ oldest and only son growing to maturity, Charles Rey nolds, died shortly after the World war from illness which came about during his services overseas. An other son died when only a child. She was a woman of great patriotism. On a number of occasions Mrs. Reynolds wrote poetry which was published in Columbia, newspapers and other publications. Funeral services will be held from the First Baptist church at Green wood at 2:30 this afternoon, con ducted by the Rev. John W. Webb, D. D., of Columbia, and the Rev. Chas. F. Sims, of Greenwood. Interment will be in Magnolia cemetery. A House Built Christmas Day • • • by • • • Frances Grinstcad The Music Club met with Mrs. W. M. Jones on Friday of last week. Miss Dorothy Richardson, ofWssh- ington, D. C., will arrive this week to spend the holidays with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Terie Richardson. as* A HOME that was built on a Christmas day stood for a long tuna on the old Santa Pa trail where it passed near Ar row Rock. Mo , on the Missouri river. Though not quits completed in a single day, with the help oi his neighbors on thaVV’holiday" about a hundred year* s|<> Hesrfy Nava got his cabin rebdV tof his family and the day afteV Christ mas took them into his shellqr ^S. Of course the house was built o> undressed lumbar, feliad right on his farm. Whan ha had salactad the location this pioneer cut down round poles for the walla, rafters and joists—the framework Mr. Nava had found soma larga, flat stones, and in the afternoon they dragged these into place tor the hearth Then of other suitable rocks, by much puffing and pulling they bu^t a fireplace—one of thoee great practical ones which served to heat the home and to cook ven ison. buffalo meat, corn pone and other “victuals.” The exterior of this fireplace was wood, the stones providing a fireproof Hning. The mortar to bind the atones mas chiefly mud; to obtain even this simple ingredient it was nec essary to build a fire in the middle I have lost friends st a cost of 50 cents to $300. Jule Hsllworth stayed out of my retail store for 5 years because he owed me 35 cents. 1 managed to slip up on him one night in the dark and tell hhn that he was mistaken; he didn't owe me a cent. After that, he traded some with me on cash terms. I loaned Zack Jinkinson 75 cents to finish paying for a bottle of medicine for his wife in 1911. He never spoke to me again till a mad-dog bit him in 1928. I cculd never get close en ough to him to prove to him that I wasn't thinking about 75 cents—till I went over to his house to find out how the dog was gettingalong. It died; Zack got w^ A human being is indeed a peculiar animal. He’s the only varmint in the world that was created absolutely without instinct. I have credited men who wouldn’t pay me; after the debt got so old it became out of date, I’d turn right around and credit the guy again. If I had been possessed of in stinct, I would have made him pay cash or else, mostly else. ■>Were it not for money matters, this old globe of ours would be over-run ning with friendship and brotherly love. You can trace nearly every neighborhood or community row to gossip caused by somebody owing some body else a dollar or two who refused to pay it. Of course, school fusses and church quarrels lead everywhere, but dollars and cents come at least third in producing mental and physi cal disturbances. While the Little Nave Children Wished for Things. of the half-constructed cabin and thaw the ground. But, writes this hardy woodsman, “It was not many days until we were living snugly in our cabin and in good health and with fine j appetites.” Holidays among our ancestors were made occasions for such cel ebrations as this, but they never witnessed the cessation from la bor ours afford. There was always need for immediate shelter, crop harvesting, or game killing. Hence log-raisings, corn-huskings, and gun-shoots were made social oc casions. But do you suppose we ever have more fun than Henry Nave’s family and friends had building a house on Christmas day? ® Weitern .\c»spai*r Union. ,i « i THE R1TZ THEATRE BARNWELL, S. C. Monday-Tuesday, Dec. 28-39 MIRIAM HOPKINS, MERLE O’BERON, JOEL McCREA in “These Three” ALSO SELECTED SHORTS. , MATINEE BOTH DAYS Wednesday, Dec. 30.—Bargain Day JOAN CRAWFORD, CLARK GABLE, FRED ASTAIRE and T^P HEALY’S STOOGES in ‘Dancing Lady’ Thursday-Friday, Dec. 31. Jan 1 WALLACE BERRY in “Old Hutch” MATINEE BOTH DAYS. SATURDAY ONLY—JAN. 2 MATINEE and NIGHT CHESTER MORRIS in They Met in a Taxi COAL I KEEP A SUPPLY OF THE Very Best Coal ON HAND AT ALL TIMES. AND CAN MAKE DEUVERY ON SHORT NOTICE! Jennings Owens BARNWELL I What’s the use of thinking up A greeting that is new— When just the same good old Christmas wish Is what is meant for you MERRY CHRISTMAS! The Barnwell Beauty Shop ADVERTISE IN The People- Sentinel. Auditor’s Notice. I will be at the following places for thie purpose of taking tax returns for the year 1937. Only personal proper ty to be returned this year. Ten per cent, penalty will be added for failure to make returpfr'on or before Febru ary 28th, 1957: Blackville, (Shamrock Hotel) Jan. 6. Dunbarton, January 7th. Elko, January 8th. Hilda, January 11th. — Kline, January 12th. Leigh, January 13th. Meyer’s Mill, January 14th. Snelling, January 15th. Williston (Kennedy’s Store) Jan. 18. Respectfully yours, W. H. MANNING, Auditor, Barnwell County. For SMOOTH, balanced flavor,.. aged slowly in glass-lined tanks to the very peak of mellowness insist upon '■>1 a • • iini * * ' + m NOTICE! _ Against Hunting, Fishing and Trapping Any person or persons entering upon the lands hereinafter referred to situate in Banwell, Richland and Red Oak Townships, for the purpose of hunting, fishing or trapping, will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law: Mrs. Flossie Smith 1,000 Mrs. Kate Patterson 3,000 Duncannon Place 1 1,650 Sweetwater Place 500 B. L. Easterling, Cave Place 200 Barnell Turpentine Co: Simmons Place 450 Middleton Place 300 Mose Holly 200 B. C. Norris 400 J. W. Patterson .... .... 100 L. Cohen—(Hay Place) .... 200 Dr. Allen Patterson 1,000 Bruce Place .......... 500 Harriett Houston .... 150 Mrs. B. H. Cav# 500 Sue Ford ............ .. 120 L. Cohen—I On tty Place) .. 200 C. P. Molair (Big^avsnnah Pond) 400 J. M. Weathersbee 572 Est. of H. A. Patterson ... 2,000 Joseph E. Dicks 800 R. C. Holman 400 A. A. Richardson 1,000 Lemon Bros. .... 150 John K. Snelling ... ... 100 J. P. Harley ........ 150 L. W. Tilly 160 John Newton ..... ..... 200 Tom Davis 400 Terie Richardson ......... 100 N. A. Patterson (Tanglewood Place) 130 Billy Jenkins ............. 50 Jerry Scott ..... 75 Krrep Place ... 175 Andrew Jessie ........... 60 Mrs. J. A. Porter ......... 600 GEO. H. WALKER. Owner. ANGUS PATTERSON. Mgr Treasurer’s Tax Notice! County Treasurer's office will be open from September 15, 1936. ta April 16, 1937, for collecting 1936 taxes, which include real and personal property, poll end rood tax. All taxes due and payable between September 15 and December 31, 1936, will be'collected without penalty. All taxes not paid as stated will be subject to penalties aa provided by law. January 1st. 1937, one per cent, will be added. February 1st. 1337, two per cent, will be added. March 1st. 1937, three per cent, will be added. April let to April 15th. 1937, seven per rent, will be added. Executions will be placed in the hands of the Sheriff for collection af ter April 15th, 1937. When writing for amount of taxes, be sure and give school district if property is in more than one school district. All personal checks given for taxes aril! be subject to collection. S 3 09 Ordinary County “1 TJ ? & *! ■ Paat Ind. Bonds Constitutional School Special Local TOTAL No. 24—Ashleigh — 5 7 4 1 3 13 33 No. 33—Barbary Branch 5 7 4 1 3 17 37 No. 45—Barnwell 5 7 4 1 3 25 45 No. 4—Big Fork — 5 7 4 1 3 21 41 No. 19—Blackville 5 7 4 1 1 3 25 45 No. 35—Cedar Grove 5 7 4 1» 3 28 •48 No. 50—Diamond 5 - 7 4 1 3 17 37 No. 20—Double Ponds 5 7 4 1 3 20 40 No. 12—Dunbarton — 5 7 4 1 3 27 47 No. 21—Edisto - 5 7 4 3 9 29 No. 28—Elko — 5 7 4 l\ 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 n O 20 40 No. 10—Healing Springs — 5 7 4 1 3 21 ' 41 No. 23—Hercules 5 7 4 1 3 30 50 No. 9—Hilda — 5 7 4 1 3 25 45 No. 52—Joyce Branch — 5 7 4 1 3 26 46 Nr» M4 TClinp 5 7 4 !✓"* 3 17 37 No. 32—Lee’s 5 7 4 1 3 11 31 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 25 45 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 1 13 33 No. 40—Tinker’s CVeek —i— 5 7 4 1 3 ! 17 37 No. 26—Upper Richland 5 7 4 1 h 3 26 46 No. 29—Williston 5 7 4 1 3 32 52 Tne commutation roaa tax ui eo.w must oe paid oy 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 wilt be released only upon legal tender, post office money order or certified checks. J. J. BELL, County Treaa. ADVERTISE IN THE PEOPLE-SENTINEL