a Good Salary Bright young women looking for unlimited opportunity to advance, wanted to learn telephone operating. , , ,• We teach you the business and pay you while learning. Your salary will be increased frequently. Ex tra pay for special work, Good ^chance to rise tp a good position without aincurring dditional expense to learn a special line. Surroundings excellent. Work is pleasant and clean, eight hours work per day and six days week. Employees well cared for. Sickness bene fits, life insurance and pension after stated periods „.jQf scx-vice^,-.:-^ - REFERENCE REQUIRED Apply in person to Chief Operator at the Tele phone Exchange. j«H’S RSI WONDERFUL SUCCESS SECURING ■HreWTVrEWBTERS OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA COTTON ASSN. WORK WAS PLEASANT AND EAS1 Addition to Enthusiasm and Unit) | of Purpose Was the Incentive of Local and County Pride. Farm for Sale 60 acres 2 miles of Clinton. 45 acres under cultivation. 15 acres in pasture. Good new 8 room house, good barn, good 4 room tenant house. * Buildings worth more than I ask for place. H. J. PITTS Columbia. A statement siren ont at headquar tors of the South Carolina Cotton As sociation says that from all ovei •South Carolina reports came telling ol the wonderful success of the tbrre« day campaign for members of the as sociation. Absolute confidence that the state’s quota of 50*000 members . "Would’"be reached was" expressed by officials of the association. The work of the canrassers is pleas 'ant and easy. I “Added to this enthusiasm and un^ ty of purpose of the indiridual citizens 'is the great inventive of county pride everywhere. In laudable zeal each county is determined to bo first to finish its complete organization. And South Carolina would like to set in this great work a shining example tc the other cotton states that under trained experts are equally as deter mined as she is to enroll as members of the association every eligible citi zen and corporation and to join with her in presenting one solid front in the struggle for the great and sure vic tory. increase, in Corporation Pees. Rut L. Osborne, comptroller general, has given out the following informa tion with regard to the corporatfon* license fees collected by his office for 1919: The fees collected to date from for^ eign and domestic corporations for 4919 show an increase of >5,188.12, aiiiuuut COllfecied being $107.667> 90 against $101,819.78 for 1918. The law requires every corporation doing business in the state to make a. report and secure a license from the comptroller general. The fee paid for this license is based upon the paid in capital, being one-half of 1 per cent on same, with a minimum fee of $5. There are between 4,000 and 5.- 000 corporations doing business in the state, the majority of these paying the minimum fee. Cotton mills, banks and foreign corporations pay approxi mately 55 per cent of the total amount collected. Since the enactment of the corpora tion law these fees have more than doubled. The amount collected in 1905, the first year, was $42,429.48. Corporations failing to make a report or pay the license fee to the comptrol ler general for collection u and Attor ney Gener&r'Wolfe^as made a special effort to collect those placed in his hands this year, and there remain very few now that have not complied with the law. Suit will be entejyd against those. CmCH^JJRSPILLS oUmt. 1 A.kfo*( D KKANl Salto, AhmytlH SOUnDRtntSISEVEnMBK Habitual la 14 to 21 Days •LAX-FOS WITH PEPSIN” is a prepared Syrup Tonic-Laxative for , Constipation. It relieves promptly but should be taken regularly for 14 to to induce regular action, h Regulates. Very Pleasant to per bottle. * /, niiwmT.rr™ Cotton, Crop Unpromising. A letter from Commissioner Harris, who has been out in Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas, leading the fight there for the organization of the American Cotton Association, states that he wilt be home during the present week. H* has found the crops in bad condition and will Issue a statement on his r» turn to Columbia. In the meantime he urges the peo pie to keep their new crop' of cotton out of the gins until it gets its growtl! and to.put no cotton at all on the mar iket. Mr. Harris’ statement recentlj | that cotton will grow after It Is picked and will take on weight as well ai length or staple n&t fcttFACTefi qnite i lot of attention. >fany farmers saj that they have observed this in theli experience. Mr. Harris says that if should be put in the barn four or five weeks before being ginned. c a packa&fe ■- before the war c a package during the war c a package ^ NOW THE FLAVOR LASTS SO DOES THE PRICE! Second Primary September 9. Returns, which are practically com plete, from the Sixth and Seventh Congressional Districts, bear out the early, indications that a second race would be necessary for each nomina tion. E. C. Mann of St. Matthews and George Bell Timmerman of Lexing ton run for the Democratic choice tc succeed Mr. Lever, and P. H. Stoll ol Kingstree and E. C. Sherwood of Con way make the race for the nomination to succeed the late J. Willard Rags dale. Mr.-Mclnnes Is, a very close third. Second, primaries will b« held in each district September 9. Good Investment Offered. The series of Series C-1920 treasury certificates of indebtedness hearing in terest at 4 4-2 per cent, dated Septem her 2. 1919, is announced. These der tifleates ara free from all State, coun ty, city and local taxes excepb estate or Inheritance taxe.v JWid frea from normal and federal income taxes. This security heirs a yield equiva lent to that derived from a 6 per cent and 7 per cent taxable‘security. It may be had in the denominations of $500. $1,000, $5,000, $10,000, $100,000. Souvenir for State. Governor Cooper has received a let ter from Pinckney W. H. Lee of Mar tin, Tennessee, in which letter the Tennesseean offers to send to the chief executive the skillet used by Gen. Francis Marion, South Carolina’* great Revolutionary war leader. Mr Lee was a member of the Union forces in the War Between the Sections and is now 4n his 80th year. 6m— for Civil Court Another chapter waa written in the case of the state of South Carolina against the Columbia Railway, Gas A Electric Company when a unanimous opinion was handed down, confirming the opinion of Judge Townsend in which a demurrer by the company wag denied. The force of the opinion is that the ca°*» to cause the canal prop erty to revert to the state because hf alleged failure to comply with condi tlpns under which tv property was •old must now go to tri-1 on it* merit before a Jury In the civil court. Debt of College Paid. Clemson College has repaid to the state the loan which it made in 1918, by payment of $40,000 under date of • Angust 16, to the Palmetto National Bank of Columbia. The total loan waa for $62,400. "he first payment of $21,644 was made during 1916, after which the legislature changed the term* of payment so that the college might have five years, if desired, In which to complete payment. Since 1916 tfcs college Has been putting aside every year $10,000 or more to* wards the final payment. - INSURANCE ■ , , . ^ —: « “It is better to have a policy and not need it, Than to need a policy and not have it.” , L : : SEE ME TODAY W. C. BAILEY, Clinton, S. C. - mm t ■ . i ; -_. . —■ ^ Bleate Will Not Run. % Cole L. Biease Issued a statement in which he said he would not be a can didate for congress in the Seventh istrict in the general election. He said he had not been nor would be a candidate. July 29 he announced his candidacy in the general election, issued his platform and called on his followers to stay away from the. primary that they might “not be bound” by the prim||y oeth. Major Peeples Traneferred. Washington.—(Special)—Thomas H. Peeples of South Carolina, who re ceived a commiaaion some time ago as major in the army and who is now on duty in this city, has bean transferred to the war board of appeals to handle claims growing out of the war'under the Dent bill. In this capacity Major Peebles will bs chief counsel. There are many claima of contractors which remain to be settled. His new duties will take him to va rious parts of the United States from time to time. Negro Enters Damage Suit John Castor, negro, has filed suit against R. E. Lee, member of the Co lumbia Railway, Gas A Electric Com pany. The officer and corporation are made defendants in a complaint al leging injuries and damages to the amount of $10,000 is asked for. The complaint alleges that on or about November 24. 1918, the plaintiff waa a passenger on a trolley car and that while being ejected he was shot several times. Permanent and serious Injuries are alleged. Taxes Collected in Full. Rut L. Osborne, comptroller genelral, has returned to Columbia after being absent witnessing annual settlements for the greater.pan. of the week. Mr. Osborne visited the counties of Ches ter, York, Lancaster, Kershaw and Chesterfield. The comptroller general reports that in Lancaster county all delinquent taxes had been collected on-June 30, and found no executions whatever in Sheriff Hunter’s hands, he having ocllected same and made a final re port to the county treasurer prior to June 30, Preparing to Fight Fluo. Dr. J. A. Hayno, state health officer, says that very soon plans will have been finished to meet any emergency should there be aa epidemic of influ- ensa in this or any ef the Southern states. At a recent meeting of the state health officers Dr. Ennlon G. Williams, state commisioner of health of Vir ginia, Dr. W| S. Rankin, state health officer of North Carolina, were ap pointed a committee to prepare plans to combat any epidemic of infiuenia should such occur. Securing Ceneua Facte. H. R. Dickens, special agent