University of South Carolina Libraries
MUnUAl, 11U VJJiuuuu ivxv nr. Anywhere j W. D. W1LKINSI Treasurer's Notice! .OFFICE WILL BE OPEN FROM FRIDAY, OCT. 15TH UNTIL MARCH 15, 1921. Taxes Paid From Friday, October 15, Until Friday, December 31st Without Penalty. * The rate of State, County, School and Special Tax including one dollar Poll Tax, two dollars commutation tax. ( , In accordance with an act to raise supplies for the fiscal year commencing January 1st, 1920, notice is hereby given that the office of the County Treasurer for Abbeville County will be open for the collection 01 taxes ior i said fiscal year from Friday, Oct. 15, | until Friday, Dec. 31st without penalty. There will be added?a penalty of one per cent, on all taxes not paid on January 1st, 1921. A penalty of two per cent, on all taxes not paid on Feb. 1st, 1921. A penalty of seven per cent, on all taxes not paid on March 1st, 1921. Rates per cent, of taxation are as follows: State Tax 12 mills. County Tax 8 mills. Good Roads Tax ' 3 mills. Constitutional school tax __ 3 mills. ;'. TOTAL ...I^Mills. . tax will be collected for school pur' poses as follows: ^ t Abbeville City Shops Bonds mills! 1 Corner 2- mills 3. Lowndesville . Ifi giil)s 4 Rocky River 2mills 9 Calhoun Falls 6 mills 10 -Santuc 4 mills 18 Bethia _1_ 8 mills 20 Sharon 8 mills ' 21 Bethel 3 mills 22 Abbeville 14 mills i -23 Warrenton 8 mills 24 Reeds 8 mills 25 Brownlee 4 mills . 26 Campbell 15 mills 24 Antreville 12 mills 29 Sunny Slope 8 mills 30 Cold Springs 4 mills 31 Long Cane 2 mills 32 Smithville 2 mills 34 Central 8 mills 35 Hagan 8 mills 36 Parks Creek 3 mills (37 Keowee 14 mills 38 Due West 12 mills 39 Donalds 17 mills 40 Pineville _ 6 mills 41 Vermilion 4 mills 42 Fonville 3 mills 43 Eureka 3 mills 44 Broadmouth 8 mills 45 Rock Springs 2 mills * ?:n? 46 Ray * mms 47 Winona 8 mills 50 Cana 4 mills 54 Lebanon __ 4 mills A poll tax of one dollar per capita ^ { on all male citizens between the ages of 21 and 60 years, except such as are exempt by law, will be collected. A commutation road tax of two dollars will be collected the same time as other taxes from all male citizens between the ages of 18 and 50 years, except such as are exempt by law. Unless said tax is paid by the 1st of Marth, 1921, eight days work upon tVio nnhlir hichwavs will be required under an overseer, if so much be necessary. Taxes are payable in gold and silver, United States currency, National Bank notes and coupons of State bonds whi.ch become payable during the year 1920. At the same time as other taxes are collected a license of one dollar and twenty-five cents will be collected on all dogs. A dog tag will be furnished by the Tf-easurer to each owner paying license. Parties desiring information by mail in regard to their taxes will please write before Dec. 16th, stating the location of their property and include postage for reply. AN ACT To Provide an Annual Dog Tax For The State of South Carolina and a Penalty for Not Paying Said Tax. Section 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Genera] Assembly of the State of South Carolina, That from and after the passage of this Act there shall be levied on all dogs, six months old or older, in the State of South Carolina an annual tax of one dollar and twenty-five ($1.25) cents per head. Section 2. That upon the payment of said annual tax of one dollar and twenty-five ($1.25) cents by the owner of any dog in the State, the County Treasurer shall issue to the said owner a receipt therefor and a metal tax marked "Dog Tax" and the year for which it is issued. Each % \ c Insn MB Citizens I DN, Manager FAIL IN ATTEMPT TO ROB EXPRESS Two White Men Lose Safe Contain ing $16,00?Leave Their Booty H?i Qiil* Railrnad. I ' I To lose a safe containing $16,000 ' in cold cash and then to have it re'] turned again with a few hours, intact and with its contents unmolested, was the very unusual experience of the American Railway Express company yesterday morning. The safe was on Southern passen- 11 ger train No. 36 wjiich leaves Columbia for points north at 5:10 a. m. Near Killians, two white men entered the swiftly moving train through ft the side, door, according to express officials, held up the ^messenger, R., W. Peterman of Columbia, tied his hands behind his back and then rolled the big combination safe, weigning about 1,200 pounds and containing $16,000 out of the door. They then search?d the messenger, secured his keys and opened his small safe from which they removed three packages one containing $321 in currency. The contents of the other two packages had not been definitely Ascertained last night, though | one is supposed to have contained jewelry. The two men jumped from the train after it had proceeded about one and one-half miles from the! i point where the safe was rolled out. The messenger says he mounted a barrel in the express coach and stooping over managed to reach the signal cord and stoppedthe train. When the, conductor learned what had happened, he at once backed the train to the point where he supposed the safe to have been thrown out but saw no traces of it. The train then proceeded to Blythewood where it met a treignt tram, in charge of conductor D. H. Plott, coming south. The crew was informed of the robbery and was requested to keep a-sharp lookout for the safe. The freight train at'once proceeded toward Columbia and Conductor Plott saw the safe lying beside the track about a half mile south of Sharpe. The freight was stopped, the safe loaded on the engine and it was brought to Columbia. From its appearance, railway and express officials are of the opinion that it was not molested after it was thrown from ther train, and it is sup County Treasurer snan Keep a numerical record of every dog taxed and in addition thereto furnish to the oWner of each dog such number stamped on the metal tag.. Which tax shall be levied and paid to the County Treasurer, as other taxes are paid: Provided, further, That this tax shall be exclusive of all other license taxes, either municipal or otherwise. Provided, That all such taxes collected here under shall be credited to the schools of j the School District from which it is collected, to be used in support of the j schools of the District: Provided, fur-; ther, That said tax shall become due and payable at the same time State and County taxes become due and payable. Section 3. That every owner of a dog shall be required to collar and place the aforesaid dog tag upon the said collar. Except when such dog shqll be used for the purpose of hunt-! ing, when such dog shall be upon aj chase or hunt. ? !; Section 4. Any person owning, harboring or maintaining a dog, failing or refusing to return and pay the tax aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than five ($5.00) dollars nor more than twenty ($20.00) dollars, one-half of which shall go to the person reporting said failure to pay said tax, and one-half to the public school fund in which such derelict occurs, j J. E. JONES, County Treasurer. j Oct. 27, 1920. I ire 1 Any Ti; nsurance ROBBERS THROW SAFE FROM TRAIN NO. 36 Columbia, Nov. 11.?The express messenger's safe on train 'number 36, Charlotte division of the Southern railway was thrown off at Sharpe, a station about fifteen miles Prom Columbia today by train robbers, who held up the messenger. The safe contained about $16,000. Before the .bandits could get back to the place where thes afe was thrown off, the crew of freight train, passing the spot recovered the safe. SWEET POTATOES SELL IN MACON AT 50c BU, Macon, Ga., Nov. 11.?Sweet po UtLUCS, OU1U tuuajf VIA wilt. Ol/i tVKJ VA Macon for 50 cents per bushel, have dropped far below any price quoted since 1914 and to a mark below which the price has seldom evei gone. An unusually large crop togetther with the general decline lr prices of farm products is given as the reason. In 1918 the same grade of potatoes retailed here for as high aj $5.50 per bushel. A HUMMING BIRD BRINGS HOME THE BAGON Santa Ana, Calif, Nov. 11.?A bride weighing 725 pounds was brought home today by John H. Ham ilton who weighs 155. The bride, formerly Miss Ainu Emily of Venice, Calif., was attend ed at the wedding by her sister, Mrs L. C. Kring, who weighs 420. % ? posed the robbers took alarm wher the passenger train backed and tha' they did not have time to blow th< sae open before the freight arrivet and carriecj it off. Except for th< $321 and the two packages, on< probably containing cancelled checki the robbers were none the better of for their bold attempt.?The State. % .V i INfcW , | "THE ATLANTA' MING : . V | SEAB ' C ffoffJiro NJmrc ;>? I^IU^viitv iiwf* | Leave Atlanta Arrive Birminghai Leave Birmingham | Arrive Atlanta .... $ Sleepers and Coach | occupancy at 9:00 i | For Pullman reservi | call on I J. D. MILLER, A R. E. Camp, T. P. A | FRED GEISSL J I * I ' four me :::v & Trust i i IRISH HOME RULE BILL PASSES THE HOUSE OF COMMONS BL 183 TO 52 I , * London, Nov. 11.?The Irish home rule bill passed the House o? Com; mons on its thifd reading tonight af; ter a potion for rejection of the meas iii-n rn-ftnnoo/1 Kw William O. AHnm. son, the Opposition leader, had been defeated'by 183 to 52. 1 The measure passed without any noteworthy incident-in a rather tame ' debate. The Liberal and Labor members, who have boycotted it through most of its stages as a sign of their conviction of its hopefulness as a ' sign of their conviction of its hopelessness as a settlement of the Irish problem, were again absent today. ' The final stage was reached in a small * and rather listness gathering of menv I bers of the House. / r ____________ > HUNTING POSSUMS \ i It "used to be," as the saying is i that people hunted possums, but! possums have now become the hyit-| . ers. On account of the'low price of, j cotton, and the green persimmons, J resulting from the late fall, the pos-, sums are leaving the country and homing to town, where we fear they, ' will find only sad merchants, empty. flour barrels, very little persimmon | . beer, and none of anty other kind | barring Savannah River white lightning and the "Tonjk" a little while t ago dispensed by Mike. Anyway a large possum was 3 found on^ day not so long ago in one of the big trees in the yard of - Mrs. Russell, on Main Street. Yesi terday, a possum, having read the [; advertisements of the Rosenberg i Mercantile Company in the Press I' and Banner and seeing from them i that this enterprising firm had ? everything else at low prices, des cided to call on old man Sol himf self and "pitch a lien." But, some of . the hungry clerks would not allow rRAINS I / 1 !; ' and "THE BIR- 1 .HAM" : | T A ..J' 1A -jr OARD j f ' i|! >mber 28, 1920. in 1:00 a.m. i: n '7:50 a.m. 1 a 1:00 a. m. 1 7:3-0 a. m.' j: es. Sleepers open for | >. m. | ations or information | igt. Abbeville, S. C. ij: Atlanta, Ga. ER, Asst, G. P. A. iji Atlanta, Ga. ij: P Aft VU 11 Reasonabl Company ABBE v . . ? tv == A ' South < op^ I ' Fresh and Cur Fish and Oy: ll ' if ' t Prompt Pelivery all 1 '' Moore Br Telephone Double u ynmmiUiHiHHiniiiHimninumiMiitiMMmiw?umiafH?nmMMmw<iiMW>mwMitnwinmHMiim>miami>iiimniiw?wiM???i I '? ONLY SMALL CUT itf boggar SPRING CLOTHING spoken 1 J clares Columbia, Nov. 13.?That there such u I will be only a small .reduction in the | quoted price of clothing for the spring and special that the Associated Press is not fair, he say to business in publishing reports of the ye special fall price reductions as indi- the re cations of general lowering of and th prices, Thomas M. Watts, secretary selling and treasurer of the South Carolina The C Retail Clothiers Association, today clothes issued a statement here, in-^hicK he associi declares that there will be a gradual of nex decline in clothing, prices, but no slightl sudden drop is possible, and the "to- prices, nr\c Mr. Possum to carry out his intent, clothit Instead they jumped on him and The n when next heard from he will be return "et." Brer Possum just now is about buildii as badly handicapped as Charley Gray's yellow cow with her dozen's : A of mortgages covering her unselfish club < fcody, - ' J early . | BIGGER \ J TO THE . FOR every crop you plan to sow, th especially designed to increase t soil. .For prize crops of cotton, Fertilizer. 90 to 95 bushels of corn? acre are records established through u: izer on Southern farms. They have b success throughout the South for yeai has used them and he will say: PLANTERS FEI DOUBLES YOU For many years Planters Fertilizer ha the South s most successful farmers, be sible to produce bigger, better crops, this year-GET RESULTS THAT Consult our Agent for Free Advice, Inf write us direct?TODAY. It means d . Planters Fertilizer & I MANUFACTURE* Charleston - - * - Soul / . O il | e Rates I ??? i ; ;^j| VILLE, S. C. , |S ITY tRKET | Main Street ^ % ' Fire Station ': 1 ed Meats sters . ' ' -lours of Day v'Jj others -Two-One ( , 1 slide" in prices, so oftea of. is Tnere mvth. He de that the only goods on which musually low prices are being are the "shoddy" goods and job lots, such as are always s, to be found at this seaon of ar. Mr., Watts declares that y; tailer is losing .money today j tat few clothing merchants are reliable goods a? a profit lolumbia retailers are selling i at cost, and yet the clothiere. ition declares that the prices :t year's clothes can be but y lower than this year's Labor, one of the chief items t, says the secretary of the ;rs association, is not reduced, lanufacturers do not want to t? -J i to the "sweat snop" pian 01 , , ag clothing. , regularly organized women's | jxisted in New York City as 1747, ? - ' ' >*vS ? II. ,ml i m III mmm^L \ _, rIELDS| I ACRE J y iere's a Planters Fertilizer he productiveness of your corn, truck?use Planters 1 to 2 bales of cotton per ie of this reputable ferttteen used with unvarying rs. Ask the farmer who * UTILIZER M YIELD s been the preference of koonco If li'it? mIf r\/\r. .uuuov- it, jicio iiiauv< 1 l jjuo" Make every acre count WILL PLEASE YOU. ormation and Prices?or ollars to you. 3hosphate Co. !S :h Carolina