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of the
COUNTY TREASURER.
The Books of the County Treasurer
will be open for the collection of
snate, County and Commutation Road
Tases for the fiscal year, 1919, at the
Ti easufer r s Ofnce from October 16th
to 'December 31st, 1919. After Decem
ber 31st one per cent will be added.
After January 31st, two per cent will
be added, and after February 28th,
Fc.en per cent will be added till the
15th day of March. 1920, when the
books twill be closed.
All persons owning property " 'in
more than one township are requested
to call for receipts in each of the
several townships in which the pro
perty is located. This is important, as
additional cost and penalty may be
attached.
All able-bodied male citizens be
tween the ages of 21 and 60 years of
are are liable to pay a poll tax of
$1.00,, except old soldiers, who are
exempt at 50 years of age. Commuta
tion Road Tax $1.50 in lieu of road
duty. All men now in military ser
vice are exempt from road tax.
The Tax Levy is as follows:
State Tax .. .... .. ..9 mills
Ordinary County Tax-'*.: • T4 “ mitts'
Road and Bridge 4 mills
“i^d^Bor^s ^ - ^ . • • I % mW*
Jail Bdnds t . •• % mill
Constitutional School Tax ..3 mills
P< nnanent road and bridges 2 Vi mills
Total 25 H mills
Special Schools—Laurens Township.
Laurens No. 11 .10% mills
Trilfity-Ridge No. 1 8% mms
.Maddens No. 2 -..4 mills
Narnie No. 3 5 mills
Bailey No. 4 . .4 mills
Mills No. 5 4 mills
Oak Grove No. 6 2 mills
Ora No. 12 8 mills
MPORTAKT NEWS
THE WORIO OVER
IMPORTANT MAPPCNINOS OP TMIO
AND OTHCR NATIONS POP
S1V1N DAYS QIVtN
THE HEWS THE SOOTH
Wfcat (a Taking Place In The SaNMh
land Will ■« Pound la
Foreign
Representative* of Prance, Rag
land, Italy, Belgium, Swltseriand, Hol
land, Sweden. Uorway. Portugal. Po
land. Greece, China and Japan will
meet In Brussels on December 1 to
discuss the adoption of the measures
and suggestions for the establish
meut and - functioning of the leagm
of nations.
Notwithstanding opposition by tb<
Grove Camp Meeting association, died
a>aaama^Qfc^..ftaroaa»Ma41flLn»l Payhr^N. wPer a tenfr4M»
Special Schools—Youngs Township.
Youngs No. 3 4 mills
Youngs No. 2 ..8 mills
Yeungs No. 4 .. 11% mills
Youngs No. 5 8 mills
Fountain Inn No. 3B 20 mills
Lanford No. 10 10% mills
Ora No. 12 8 mills
Yeungs No. 1 ..3 mills
Central No. 6 2 mills
Youngs No. 7 8 mills
Special Schools—Dials Township.
Green Pond No. 1 ^ mills
Dials No. 2 8% mills
Shiloh No. 3 12mlll8
Gray Court-Owings No. 5 ; . 12% mills
Barksdale No. 6 5 mills
Dials Church No. 7 4 mills
Fountain Inn No. SB 20 mills
Merna No. 8 10 mills
Dials No. 4 4 mills
Special Schools—Sullivan Township.
Mt. Bethel No. 2 8 mills
PrincetoiFNo. 1 ..12% mills
Poplar Springs No. 3 .12 mills
Hickory Tavern No. 17 .. ..8% mills
Brewerton No. 7 4 mills
Sullivan Township R. R. bonds 3 mills
Merna No. 8 2 mills
Special Schools—Waterloo Township.
Waterloo No. 14 4 mills
Mt. Gallagher No. 1 8 mills
Bethlehem No. 2 4 mills
Ekom No. 3 .. 8 mills
Centerpoint No. 4 4 mills
Oakville No. 5 8 mills
Mt. Pleasant No. 6 4 mills
ML Olive No. 7 8% mills
Specie 1 Schools—Cross Hill Township
Cross Hill No. 13 10% mills
Cross Hill No. 1 2 mills
Cross Hill No. 2 . . .2 mills
Cross Hill No. 4 2 mills
Cross Hill No. 6 3 mills
Cross Hill No. 3 .. . • . .2 mills
Special Schools—Hunter Township
Mountville No. 16 H mills
Hunter No. 2 .. ..4 mills
Hunter No. 3 .. .. .. .. .. ..6 mills
Clinton No. 5 H mills
Hunter No. 4 4 mills
Hunter No. 1 2 mills
Hunter No. 6 •• ••4 mills
Special Schools—Jacks Township.
Odell’s No. 6 3 mills
Hurricane No. 15 3 mills
Shady Grove No. 2 3 mills
Jacks No. 3 o mills
Jacks No. 4 ,3 mills
ty, the national assembly has passed
the property levy bill through Its
third reading.
French occupational troops have
entered Marash, Aintab and Curfa, the
principal centers of the Aleppo dia
trict, in Turkey.
Lady Aetor, American born wife
of Viscount Astor. was elected to par
liament from the Sutton division ol
Plymouth, England, in the balloting
of November 15.
Gen. Felipe Angeles, Mexican revo
lutionary leader and famed throughout
the world as a military genius, was
executed by a Carranza firing squad
here, following his conviction with
two companions on charges of rebel
lion against the Mexican government.
King Victor Emmanuel, of Italy, will
come to the United States next sum
mer, and also will visit South Amer
ica, especially the republics of Brazil,
Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and Peru,
unless the political situation prevents
him from carrying out his desire.
Teelgrame received my the Serbi
an bureau at Berne from Belgrade,
Zara and Spalato, convey the impres
sion that only prompt interference by
the allies can prevent war over the
Adriatic situation, aa the Jugo-Slavs
are said to have lost patience and
to be ready to fight the Italians.
Dispatches confirming reports from
Geneva that the situation along the
eastern shore of the Adriatic ia criti
cal, are issued by the Jugo-Slav bu
reau in Paris.
A semi-oficial communication receiv
ed in Belgrade, says that a signifi
cant movement has been noted among
the Italians in the northern occupied
sone. An Italian legion has been
formed at Sebenlco. It is composed
of newly arived troops equipped with
ammunition and other supplies by the
Italian army.
The British gdvernment expects the
trial of former Emperor William oi
Germany to begin in London early in
the new year, and is completing all
Thanksgiving Day wan observed
generally in Washington with govern*
ment departments closed and many
officials absent.
Secretary Lane, at a Thanksgiving
Day service here, spoke for a pledge
to Americanism and counseled taking
"the American Way at each turn of
the fB*d
Five conventions brought before the
International labor conference by the
drafting committee have been adopted
and will be eubmitted to the various
governments represented.
Indications that large numbers of
Liberty bond holders are trading their,
government securities for stock in
fraudulent ventures prompted Secre
tary Glass to renew his recent warn
ing to bond holders against being per*
evaded into such exchangee.
Domestic
Persistent rumors of the hatching of
a plot by Villa elements in the State
of Chihuahua, following the execution
of Gen. Felipe Angeles, noted rebel
leader at Chihuahua City, reached the
border.
Dr. Aaron E. Ballard, president and
ne of the*founders~TJT tbw Ocean
ness.
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Special Schools, Scuffletown Township
Langston Church No. 3 3 mills
Scuffletown No. 1 8 mills
Lanford No. 10 10% mills
Ora No. 12 8 mills
Scuffletown No. 2 .. .. 4 mills
Scuffletown No. 4 4 mills
Prompt attention will be given
those who wish to pay their taxes
through the mail by check, money or
der, etc.
Persons sending in lists of names
to be taken off are requested to send
them early; and give the township of
each, as the Treasurer is very busy
during the month of December.
ROSS D. YOUNG, ,
' County Treasurer.
DARTING, PIERCING
SCIATIC PAINS
Give way before the pene
trating effects of Sloan’s
Liniment
So do those rheumatic twinges and
the loin-aches of lumbago, the nerve-
inflammation of neuritis, the wry neck,
the joint wrench, the ligament sprain,
the muscle strain, and the throbbing
bruise.
The ease of applying, the quickness
of relief, the positive results, the clean
liness, and the economy of Sloan’s
Liniment make it universally preferred.
35c, 70c, $1.40.
Sloan's
He was 98 years old.
Thanksgiving in New Orleans, La
was decidedly •‘wet,” with many of the
former saloons selling the strong
drinks of anti-prohibition days, follow
ing the granting of an injunction by
Rufus E. Foster, judge of the United
States district court, restraining fed
eral officials from preventing the sale
of liquors on the ground that the re
cent prohibition act of congress was
unconstitutional, because the war had
ended. _
Revised estimates of the lose caused
by the fire which wrecked three of
the group of buildings in the center
of Baltimore formerly occupied by
Johns Houkini university and damag
ed about a score of residences and
stores in the vicinity placed the
amount at approximately seven hun
dred thousand dollars. The loss to the
university alone may reach five hun
dred thousand dollars.
The Charleston, S. C., city Demo
cratic executive committee declared
Hon. John P. Grace the party’s nom
inee for mayor of Charleston over
Tristram T. Hyde, incumbent, by a
partisan vote, the 12 Hyde supporters
on the committee not voting. In sub
stance the committee confirmed its
action in declaring that Grace was
the nominee when the„ results were
canvassed August 22.
Interest payments on American
loans to the allies may be deferred
“until the war reaction passes,” it is
said at the treasury. Negotiations to
this end are now being conducted at
the request of the allies, but officials
explain that the latest advices from
the treasury's representatives at Paris
did not indicate* an early conclusion.
Officials in Washington say that the
United States government is not seek
ing the new arrangement.
Enforcement of constitutional prohi
bition will be placed squarely up to
the state and municipal authorities
and the federal machinery wil not in
tervene unless obvious inefficiency on
The season prompts us to express.
to you our appreciation of that intan-
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gible and invaluable asset, GOOD
WILL, that yoir have soskindly be-:
stowed on us during the T past year
and which we freely reciprocate.
We extend to you all the compli-
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ments of the season, wishing you a
Merry Christmas and a Happy, Pros-
perious New Year.
Natioial
CLINTON’S STRONGEST BANK”
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The withdrawal of the American
troops {pm Coblenz. Germany, is uot
considered in American peace confer
ence circles as necessary. It is con
tended that the United States is still
one of the ailed and associated pow
ere, and that the postponement of the
action necessary.
Reports received at the Republican
South Dakota headquarters from the
county proposal convention held in
South Dakota, November 18, show that
Gen. Leonard Wood will receive the
endrosement of the state proposal con
ventlon at Pierre, December 2, for the
final action on the Treaty does not Republican nomination for president,
change its relation to either the asso
ciated powers or to Germany.
The 15,000 American dead in France
must be left in the graves they now
occupy until tho-French are ready to
exhume their own dead, which, it ia
hoped, will bs before January 1, 1922
The foreign office had promised to
consider the last request of the Unit
ed States government for the return
of its fallen soldiers, but later decided
that the alies who fell together foi
the same cause should remain together
in death until circumstances permit ol
the returning of the bodies to the
families for whom they sacrificed
themselves.
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irt j . / fioit'fy
Washington
ers by Commissioner Roper of the in
ternal revenue bureau that those who
have falsified or made lucorrett. re
turns may expect to “be called upou
any day for an accounting.”
Another American murdered in Mex
ico, close on the imprisonment of
Consular Agent Jenkins, coupled with
reports of revolution in Mexico City,
with Carranza in flight to Queretaro,
though these reports were denied, are
adding complexities that seem to force
the already tense Mexican situation
toward the' long expected breaking
point.
The state department has given out
this sUtemnet anent the murder of
James Wallace: "The department has
been Informed as s result of an in
vestigation that a mule on which Wal
lace was riding to the place of his
employment shied at a machine gun,
overturning the gun. The soldier im
mediately shot Wallace, the bullet
striking him in the neck and killing
him instantly.”
The international labor conference
provided for equal representation by
the European countries and the new
countries on a commission to consider
regulations for workers migrating
from one state to another and the pro
tection of interests of wage-earners re
siding outside of their nsjive state.
A wage increase of 14 per cent for
ail mine workers, maintenance of gov
eminent control over coal prices, and
no increase in prfees at this time were
the conclusions of Fuel Administrator
Qarflstfi announced to the operators
and miners wai.e scale committees.
and that Gov. Frank O. Lowden of Il
linois will be given the dissenting oi
minority endorsement
Soft coal mine owners made “shock-
lug and indefensible” profits in 1917
and there is “grave doubt” that they
are entitled to increned prices be
cause of the proposed 31.per cent in
crease in mjners’ wages. William G.
McAdoo, former secretary of the treas
ury says that mine owners' profits, aa
shown by their income tax returns ex
amined by him when he was secretary
of the treasury, warrant the increases
asked by the miners, and they “are
just and reasonable.” '
Chicago is Infested with murderers,
robbers, safeblowers and automobila
thieves, and the police force is direct
ing its attention to their apprehension.
Medical reports indicate that the
sone where men are found most heal
thy runs through the center of the
country from north to south.
The unprecedented increase in the
number of major and minor crimes in
Chicago over the week-end was caus
ed by curtailment of street lighting
due to the efforts of the municipal
lighting plant to conserve on coal, ac
cording to the opinion of the Chicago
chief of police.
' A new wage and working agreement
has been signed between the railroad
administration and officials of the Bro
therhood of Maintenance of Way Em
ployees and Railway Shop Laborers.
The demands of the union were not
fully met, but the eUfrt-hour basic day
is established for track laborers and
others of that classificatiop and time
and a half pay after that hour is pro
vided. Most of the other employees
will receive tim* and a half overtime
pay after ten hoars.
Readjustment of export freight
rates affecting the thousands of ship
pers, and. said to be of prime import*
ance to Southern ports and the Mis
sissippi valley, has been announced at
the general offices the Southern rail
road at Louisville. Ky. The new tar
iffs. which, in effect, will grant the
same rates to Southern ports ae those
enjoyed by New York from territory
north of the Ohio river from the Ohio-
Pennsylvania state line to the Missla-
nippi rtrer, ge into effect, to south
Atlantifl ports Decembef 1 sad to gull
porta Docemtor 21;
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