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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, commenc ing January 1st, 1920, notice is here by given that the ?ffice of the County Treasurer for Abbeville County will be open for the collection of taxes for said fiscal year from Friday, Oct. 15, until Friday, Dec. 31st without pen alty.-' There will be added?a penany uj 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 26 Mills. Ux will be collected for school pur poses as follows: Abbeville City Shops Bonds 1 Vz mills 1 Corner 2 mills 3. Lowndesville 16 mills 4 Rocky River 2 mills 9 Calhoun Falls 6 mills 10 Santuc 4 mills 18 Bethia 8 mills 20 Sharon 8 mms 21 Bethel n 3 mills 22 Abbeville 14 mills 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 _1 2 mills 32 Smithville 2 mills 34 Central 8 mills . 35 Hagan 1 8 mills 36 Parks Creek 3 mills 37 Keowee 14 mills 38 Due West 12 milfs 39 Donalds 17 mills Jh Pinovillp _ 6 mills 41 Vermilion 42 Fonville _ 43 Eureka 4 mills 3 mills 3 mills 44 Broadmouth 8 mills 45 Rock Springs 2 mills 54 Lebanon 4 njills 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 dol lars 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 March, 1921, eight days work upon the public highways will be required under an overseer, if so much be nee-1 46 Ray 47 Winona ' 50 Cana 4 mills 8 mills 4 mills essary. Taxes are payable in gold and sil ver, United States currency, National Bank notes and coupons of State bonds which become payable during the year 1920. At the same time as other taxes are collected a license of one dollar and twentyMive cents will be collected on all dogs. A dog tag will be furnished by the Treasurer to each owner pay ing license. Parties desiring ' information b'y mail in regard to their taxes will please write before Dec. 16th, stat ing the location of their property and include postage for reply. AN ACT To Provide an Annual Dog Tax For The State of South Carolina anu < Penalty for Not Paying Said Tax. Section 1. BE IT ENACTED by .the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina. That from and after the passage of this Act there shall b? levied on all dogs, six months old ov older, in the State of South Carolina an annual tax of one dollar and twen ty-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 own er of any dog in the State, the Coun ty Treasurer shall issue to the said owner a receipt therefor and a met al tax marked "Dog Tax" and the year for which it is issued. Each County Treasurer shall keep a numer cal record of every dog taxed and ir addition thereto furnish to the ownei of each dog: such number stamped on the metal tag. Which tax shall be lev ied and paid to the County Treasur er, as other taxes are paid: Provided furthei>That this tax snan De excw i sive of all other license taxes, either | municipal or otherwise. Provided j That all such taxes collected here un der shall be credited to the schools of the School District from which it is collected, to be used in support of the schools of the District: Provided, fur th^r. 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 shall be used for the purpose of hunt ing, when such dog shall be upon a chase or hunt. " "i! * A ?" 1 mi*n i n <rr seciiun ?*. nuj Jjti ^uu 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 per son reporting said failure to pay saiH tax. and one-half to the public school fund in which such derelict occurs. J. E. JONES, County Treaturer. Oct. 27, 1920. PLANS INQUIRY FOR COAL PRICES Calder Calls for Full Investigation? New York Senator Says Evidence Has Been Given to Depart ment of Justice. Washington, Jan. 8.?Prices charg ed the war department for coal last summer and fall would be investigat ed by the department of justice under a recommendation which Senator Cal-' der of New York, chairman of the senate coaj investigating cuumuttcc announced had been submitted to the attorney general. Disclosures as to the committee's action came during general debate in the senate today on coal profiteering Senator Calder announcing that the evidence gathered by his ^committee as to the army's coal transactions had been turned over to departmj it of justice officials with recommen-? dation that action be taken. The committeie chairman's an nouncement was followed by a state ment from Senator Kenyon of Iowa, a member of the committee, that "if the American people were robbed as the war department wa3 robbed on coal last fall the robbery ran up to hundreds of million of dollars." Taking up the other side of ' the controversy as regards the high prices charged for coal, last year, Senator Sutherland republican West Vireinia. declared that "because bid ding against each other sent prices out of reason, coal 'operators who stood back had to take the money, though they were ashamed to do so." Inquiry from Senator Borah, Re publican, Idaho, as to other action contemplated by the committee brought the further announcement from Chairman Calder that legisla tion was being prepared to prevent a repetition of the situation which confronted consumers last year. Sen ator Kenyon gave an account of what the committee had found as to i the war department purchases, de-! daring that ^xcess profifts of $3, 500,000 werei taken on a supply of 900,000 tons. Senator ?moot, Republican, Utah requested the committee to investi gate retail coal distribution and Chairman Calder promised that an endeavor would be made to do so. Further inquiries, the chairman said, would be started next weeK. ATTEMPTED LYNCHING IN INDIANA LAST NIGHT, \ I Jeffersonville, Ind., Jan. 8.?Ru fus Jones, negro, alleged assailant of a white woman was taken from the Clark County jail early today to the Indiana State Reformatory, a few blocks distant for safe keeping after a mob of several hundred per-1 sons had gathered around the jail earlier in the night with the avowed i intention of lynching him. 4 j Members of the mob came from j Utica, a nearby village, where the' woman lived. It apparently lack a; leadeu and easily was dispersed by I deputy sheriffs. A little later Jones! who had slept throughout the de-'j monstration was taken in a police. machine to the reformatory. Jones is charged with entering the j woman's house early Wednesday] evening. She declares she first was I robbed of about $40 and then drag-! ged across the road to a secluded! spot, where she was subjected to in-j dignities. The city was quiet today. J ATTENDS FUNERAL OF LONG LOST BROTHER j i / After having lost sight of his: brother Howard for 15 years, C. Dewey Henderson, bookkeeper with the American Agricultural Chemical company, was notified recently by an undertaker of Bisbee, Ariz., of his! leath from an accident and has re- j turned to Columbia after having at tended the funeral of his brother at McCormick. Howard Henderson left his home in McCormick about 23 years ago, Dewey Henderson said yesterday and for the past 15 .years no word has :ome from him. He was a victim of wanderlust, it seems and loved! i change and many strange trails were lighted Dy his camp fires. Members of his family had long thought him dead and as the years passed and no word came they had almost relinquished hope of ever hearing any news what ever of the wanderer. The message from, the Arizona undertaker was to the effect that Howard Henderson had been killed Christmas morning by a fall in the Grand Canyon in Arizona. The body was brought to McCor-' CONFEDERATE POSTAL ENVELOPE AMONG RARE SPECIMENS SOLD Berlin, Jan. 10.?Philatelic ex perts from all parts of the world came to Berlin to attend the great stamp sale just held here, which it, is said, had a wider range than anyj ever'held in Europe. The number of lots was 5,387, and thf value at up- j set prices exceeded $250,000, but] the rarer specimens were not priced and for many there were no stan dards. v United States issues included the only known canceled copy of the 'Franklin Carriers," brown oran je error, of 1851; the Livingstone (Alabama) five-cent blue, of 1861, and three blocks of the ninety-cent and thirty-cent issues of 1869, with flags inserted. The gem of the American collec tion was a postal envelope of the Confederate States of America, bearing on the ri^ht hand a five-1 cent stamp in 'black, on the left a' Confederate seamen nailing the' Stars and BaTs to the mast, and in' the centre the official Post Office | poet's lyrical efforts as follows: On, on 'to the rescue, the vandals are coming, Go beat them with bayonet and sabre and spear, Drive them back to the desolate land they are leaving, Go, trust in God, you have noth-j . ing to fear. i LAURENS NATIONAL BANK IN EXCELLENT CONDITION Laurens, Jan. 8.?The Laurens National Bank, of which Dr. H. K. Aiken was " president, opened its doors following the funeral today and business^ is being transacted as usual, i A statement from the directors was' pinned to the door stating that they; had gone over the books with the bank examiner and found the bank to be in an excellent condition. As stated before in these dispatches the trouble temporarily unbalanced the deceased and caused him to end his life were more visionary than real. THE FIRST CANARY BIRDS i ' Philadelphia, Jan. 8??The firaft consignment of canaries since the i war reached Philadelphia today on! the steamship Kerlew, from Ham-! burg. The attendants told of a day and night battle to keep "cat sized" | rats away from the cages in which were the 2,000 birds. ARRANGE WITH BRITSH . FOR REMOVAL OF BODIES J Washington,' Jan. 8.?The warj department today announced that arrangements have been made with; the British government for removal J of bodies of American citizens who fell while fighting as parts of Bri tist units despite the British policy of leaving bodies on the soil on j which they fell. However, proof of j American citizenship must be furni shed before the removal will be per mitted. ALMOST HAD PREMATURE 1 BURIAL FOR PREACHER Valdosta, Ga., Jan. 8.?The Rev. R, P. Fain a well known preacher in South Georgia, fell into a state of unconsciousness while . attending a ministers' meeting at Hahira yester day and was pronounced dead. He was laid out In the church about fifteen minutes and his son, T71 Tl i rt Vi q onna fn in - WiiV 1VW ? -A?J JL/t A M4A4| ilMU ^ Vt?V VW form relatives of the, minister's death when another preacher, the Rev. John Stanford, entered the church and immediately pounced upon the "corpse" with his knees, at the same time working the arms violently. A short while- later Mr. Fain was restored sufficiently to re turn to his home, where it was stated he had suffered an attack of acute indigestion. Mr. Prank C. Warnsley was over from Elberton this week seeing his old friends. Mr. Warnsley once lived in Abbeville and helped run the Seaboard. mick and Dewey Henderson attend ed the funeral. Full details of the accident had not been received, Mr. Henderson said yesterday; he also said 'that the trunk and other pos sessions of his brother were en route from Arizona. Howard Henderson was not married; he was a son of the late Otway Henderson of McCormick and was about 46 years old-?The State. FIRE AT HOSPITAL Millidgeville, Ga., Jan. 8.?Nearly 300 patients, among whom were .75 shell shocked soldiers from the world war, were carried from the burning building when fire partially destroy ed the Allen Invalid Home this after noon. The institution is noted throughout the South for the treat ment of nervous and mental diseases. Not a life was lost. The property loss will exceed $100,000. MANY LIVES LOST. Paris, Jan. 8.?Dispatches from Albania indicate that the recent earthquake disaster in the Elbassan /Hefwrtf woo ^fi v m onwiAiio f non ?TO O uioi/iici/ woo iai iiiuxc ociivuo woo shown by earlier reports. The shock were especially heavy in' the area between Tepelini and Elbassan. The latter city was almost completely; razed. Near Tepelini which is about 50 miles south of Elbassan, mountains crumbled away. Six hundred persons are said to have been killed, 15 vil lages were destroyed and 10,000 per sons have been made homeless. * WILL LOMAX REPRIEVED 2 WEEKS BY GOVERNOR Columbia, Jan. 8.?Will Lomax scehduled to die today in chair re-! priered by Governor Cooper last i night for two weeks in order com petent court may determine his san ity effort in this direction being un der way. "BACONS WARHORSES" FOR MEXICO?COL. HESTER Another South Carolina product' is receiving international reputation Buyers are now coming to the state to secure fighting game cocks. Col. S. J. Hester of Hester, S. C., was in the city Friday and reports the sale of $2,100 worth of "Ba con's Wa/rhorses." If you don't hap pen to know what "Bacon's War horses" are you may be interested to know they are the high-class roos ters raised bv Col. Hester. Builders A Abbeville, I ! 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