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C ALOMEL IS MERO! ACTS ON LJVl ..Dodson's Liver Togs" Starts Your LH* Bitter Twa Calomel and Doesn't Salivate or Make You Sick. Listen to me !. Take no more sick ening, salivating calomel when bilious or constipated. UiWl'l lose a day's work! Calomel it mercury or quicksilver wi i ifli cauws necrosis of tim bones. Calomel, when it c?mcs Into contact with sour biie crashes into, it. breakii.^ it up. ' This is when you feel that awful nausea and cramping. If you aro slug gish and "all knocked oat," If your liver in torpid and Inwcls constipVtcd or you h#*;i rcadachsj dizziness, co a wed tongue, if wreath i?'l>ad or Gtoinach sour just, tnke a spoonful of harmless Dod son's Liver Tone cn ujy guarantee. We Caa Raise Your Salary! Tliat is<-by making yow money go farther in the pur chase of good meats. We cot meat and we are abo cutting the prices; road these prices. Loin Steak, per pound. 20c Best Roast, xper pound 15c Pork, per pound 1 Sc and 20c as AO others in proportion, and 16 ounces to. the pound. G. P. FOWLER Phone 755. NOTICE OF COUNTY TBEASULEB j The hooks cf the County Treasurer : will bo opened for tbe collection of J State1,' County ?nd Behool taxes for 1 the Fiscal Year 1914. and Commuter J . tlon Road tax for the year 1915 at. the 1 County Treasurer's office ?rom Oe- i tober 15th to December 31st, 1914. 1 After December Sist, one per cent < penalty will be added; and after. Feb. ruary 28tb, seven per cent penalty-will bo pdded, till the 16th day of March.]! 1915, when the books will be closed, I1 All persons .owning property In. i more than ono township or Behool dis-) ' trict, are requested to call for receipts in EACH TOWNSHIP OR SCHOOL 1 ' DISTRICT, in which the property-isl* located/^a account of having sp many schcol districts this request is very Important to the taxpayers and will to a largo extent eliminate extra cost and Densities. - LOW PRICES Vor High Gracie F? J?ash Only Beet Bibs.. .. .. ,.Sc Neck Roast or Bleak..10c Chuchjloaafc or Steak.. .. 12 l-2e Sho?Tjjb steak or Roast.. ..Ide T-Loln Silak'or Roast .. ..17 l-2c Heart Round Steak or Roast ?Oe All good mixed Pork and Beef Sausage .. ,.12 l-2c AU Pork Sausage, country Btyle 20c Pork Hams or ?Shoulder, whole Ito PbrV Loin Roast..17 l-2e Pork Chops," or Steak.18e Full Cream Cheese, per pound 20c Beef Liver.12 1-te Cured Hams, whole. .29e Best Norfolk Oyster, pei' qt ..45c Fish ot different assortments, aa low as the lowest Dressing freo when tine will permit ns. W. J. Msness 185 North Main St. Phone ft% sw PIEDMONT INSURi See Mc Antr sse INSURE C. E. TR?BBL Brown B Here's my guarantee-Go te any drug store and get a r><> cent bottle of Dod son's Liver Tone. Take a spoonful to night and !f it doesn't straighten, yov j right up and mako you feel fine and j vigorous by morning I vant you to-gc I ack to tlie ?toro and get your money. Dodson's Liver Tone is debt roving tlu sale of calomel because it is. real I;vcr medicine; entirely vegetable, therefore it can not salivate or make you ?lek. I guarantee that one spoonful of Dod "son's Liver Tone will put your sluggish liver to work and clean your bowels of that sour bile and constipated waste which is clogging your system and mak ing you feel miserable. I guarantee tbat a bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone will kppp your entire family feeling fine for mouths. Give it to your children, lt is harmless-, doesn't gripe and they like itt pleasant taste. The rate of levy ls as follows:' State Taxes.6 Mills Constitutional School Tax ..3 Mills Ordinary County Purposes 3 1-2 Mills Past Indebtedness ...1 mill Roads and Bridges ........ 1 Mill Public Roads .. ...1 Mill Total.15 1-2 Mills The following are the additional levies for Spec' 1 School Districts: ? Dist No. Special, Total Levy Levy Mills Mills Anderson -.1? ft 21% Airy Springs.64 . 4 19% Barker Creek ...6? 4 19% U<; var dam .56 4 ?9% Belton._12 3 18% Bethel .65 2 17% Bishop Branch .28 4 19% Broyles .57 4 ^ 19% Calhoun . 29 2 17% Cedar Grove _30 4 19% Centerville .6 4 19% Central .68 4 19% Cleveland .36 4 19% Concrete .19 4 19% Corner .13 4 ? 19% Double Springs ..68 6 21% Ebenezer .45 2 17% Eureka .25 2 17% Fairview .63 4 19% Friendship .35 4 19% Gantt .34 6% 21 G en o rs t co .61 4 19% Good Hope.43 2. 17%. Oreen Pond.69 8 23% Grove....G5 3 18% Hammond . 3 6 21% Honea Path _16 4 19% Hopewell ,.7 4 - 19% Hunter ..........24 7 22% Iva .44 7 22% Lebanon .'.. 7 4 .19% Long Branch ... 3 4 19% Martin ... .15 4 19% ?elton .51 '4 19% Mt. Creek .70 2, 17% Mt View ........18 4 19% Mc Elmoylle ....50 6 21% Mc Leese .62 4 U34 Neats Crook .....60 3 18% Oak Grove _..:<9 f i<% Pendleton .2 j V?1* PlercetoWn .64 3 ls% Hock Mills .6 4 19% Rocky River _59 2 17% Saluda ...26 2 17% Savannah.9 S 18% Simpson ville ....41 S 18% Starr .37 7 22% 3t. Pani .'.4 4 19% rhree ft Twenty 32 4 19% roamville .40 8 1 ?1% [Inion.21 4 19% ?Vest Pelzer. 8 8 23% ?Vhlto Plains ....48 4 19% ?Vllltamatou .SO 5 20% Willlford .62 4 19% Sion .53 6 21% 3tralght . 16% The State Constitution requires all nala persons between the ages ot 21 vafi 60 years, except those incapable >f earning a support from being malm id or other causes, and those who lerved in the War between the States, o pay a poll tax of one dollar. All nate persons between the ages ot 21 md 60 years who are able to work >ublic roads or cause them to be rrorked except preachers who have ?barga of a congregation and persons vho .served m the War between the States, school teachers and trustees, vho are exempted from road duty, nay in lieu of work pay a tax of one lol lar to bo collected at tba same Imo other taxes are collected, r Prompt attention* will be given a?! .orson* who, wish to pay? their tsnes brough the ??L by check, mor,,? or. er, etc W. A: TRIPP, * . Conn ty Treasurer. WCE AGENCY > For sd Ali kWCE. .E, Manager, Commen?ai -z Stocks and Bonds, NEW YORK, Dec. 22.-That the sup ply of aecuritiea continues lp excess of the demand was again demonstrat ed by the heavy course of today's dull movement op the stock exchange. Many of the better known and season ed issues of less importance, includ ing priced coppers, were quoted at bottom figures. #'.! ?a Untied States Steel as3umed its old position as leader, falling in the early dealings to 48 3-4 ; from which it rose fractionally, only to decline again in the final hour. Support of this stock was rather indifferent and the closing was weak. In early trading Reading and Lehigh Valley had not evaded the anti-trust .laws in Its relations with some of its subsidiaries. Bethlehem Steel preferred was an other ? ?nstsnc??? of strength partially as a result of a rumor to the effect that the company had secured more large orders from abroad. Among the minor specialties. Central Leather rose on the Increase of its dividend from 2 to 3 per cent. Announcement that "the Virginia Carolina preferred dividend had been deferred because of the state of the cotton industry occa sioned no surprise and failed to bring out any of the stock. Latest war news was productive of a more cheerful feeling in London, where reposts ot a re-opening of the exchange * early in the coming year were revised. - Bonds were irregular with free sell ing of the active group. Total sales, par value, were 81,575,000. United States government coupon 3'3 advanced 3-4 per cent, on call. New York Cotton NEW YOLK, Dec. 22.-There was a further broadening of trade and in vcatemnt buying in the cotton market today and prices made new high ground for the movement with the | close firm'at a net gain of from 15 to 17 points. The market opened steady nt an ad vance of 2 to 5 points, with aotlve months selling 4 to 9 points net high er shortly after the call. There was heavy realizing at this advance for over the holidays.' Reactions of 4 or 5 points followed but houses with con tinental conniptions were active buy ers, while there was no indication of Southern hedge selling, and the mar ket soon rallied. The scattering demand through wire and commission houses became more active than* at any time since the reopening of the market, and all months made new high ground for the dav. In the late trading July sold at R.09; or 68. points above the recent low level. Final fluctuations were some what irregular under realising, but there waa a good- demand' up to the close and last prices were at practi cally the beet point. - . ' It ia reported that German Interests have bee hheavy buyers on futures here during the past two weeks and have also been heavy buyers of snot cotton, which ls heine stored at the bort? and larger interior town* while awaiting better-shinning fatuities. Cotton, spot, quiet: mtfidllng up lands 7.65. Sales 200 bales. Futures closed firm'. . Open. htsh. low. close January .. .. 7.40 7.KO 7.40 7.R5 March. 7.59 7.74 7.R? 7.73 Mav .. '.. .. 7.78 7.'94 7.7? 7.9? Tulv.7.96 8.0<? 7.HS 8.09 October .. .. 8.23 8.36 ?.21 8.84 New Orleans Cotton NEV,". ORLEANS, ' Dec 22.-Heavy buying- Of cotton forced the market to lay te- an advance of almost a dollar i bale for the most active months. It was tba largest.advance since ? '.e re sumption of business. Not only was 'rosh buying of importance, but ner vous short* were in the market for :ov?rs and their demand added io the lrm tone. At the highest of ihe day kc Hst stood 18 to 19 points over yes terday's last quotations The close ?vas eteady at a net gain of 13 to IS joints. Buying was stimulate dby the export lituatlon. The> day's exports'were 46, ?03 bales. There also were stories of teary bookings of* ocean room by cot on, shippers In the South, and the arge number of vessels listed to sall rom gulf ports during thia month and markets generally were very (toady and higher. It waa reported], rom several States that owing to bed odds shorts were enable to transport { mrchaaea made at. small Interior tointa and were being forrad Into the arger marketa in order to cover com al tment*. In connection with this pectsl interest waa taken In the claim hat kp sedan Importers wero heavy ?yera at the larg?J shipping pofsta a Texas. Spot cotton firm. Sales on the spot 75 balsa: to arrive 2.560. Cotton futures closing: January 7.28: March 7.61; May 7.69; uly 7.90; October S.U. Liverpool Cotton LIVERPOOL, Dec 22.-Cotton, spoL? air business; prices firm: American addling fair 5.33.: good middling 4.71: riddling 4.47; lbw middling 4.00; good rdlnary 2.38; ordinary 2.93; sales n AAA lulu t~~.l-.Ai_ik oAft ?-. , - - - __._", ...... v?...B vr*mv r*u.?> ?WM. nd 2,500 for speculation and export. Receipts 31,000 bales, Including 30,7.00 merlcan. Futuran closed very steady. May ana .4.28: Jane-July 4,611-2; Juty urtuat 4.361-2: . August-September ,88 1-2; September-October 4.42; Oe lber-November 4.47: November-De ems ber 4.49; December-January 4.M: aa uar y 3>brp.ary 4.52 1-2 ; February tarah 4.^51-2. ind Financial Dry Goods . NEW Y?RK, Dec. 22.~Cotton gooda markets were steady today with a moderate business passing. The de mand for wool products for War pur poses was actlte. The Bilk market was steadier and broadened. Export cotton goods markets showed a slight gain. Cottonseed Oil NEW YORK, Dec. 22.-After start ing higher, cottonseed oil eased off un der prc-hollday liquidation., but the list Armed up again near the elote in sympathy with the strength in lard and cotton and light crude offerings. Final prices were 1 to G points net higher. Sales 4,900 barrels. The market closed firm. Spot $5.70 6)5.95; December $5.7065.90; January $5.*?'~ '.8f>; February $5.97 fi 5.99 ; March $6.086 6.10; April $ti.l??fj G.21; May $6.36$ 6.37; June $6.476G.49; July $6.5706.58. Live Stock CHICAGO. Dec. 22.-Hogs strong. Bulk $7.05@?,20; light $6.806; 720; mixed $6.90@)7.2?; heavy $6.8567.25; rough $f5.85??7; pigB $5.80?7.10. Cattle strong. Native steers $5.306 10; western $5@7.?0; cows and heif ers *3.iQ@8.15; calves $6.5069.25. Sheep Arm. . Sheep $5.4066.25; yearlings $6.5067.40; lambs $6.25{? 3.50 " Chicago Grain CHICAGO, Dec 22.-Immense, ex port sales made after a break In prices, rallied the wheat market today sending December and cai:h deliverier. ilgher than at any previous time this year. Closing quotations were strong it 1 5-8 to 21-8 net advance. Other leading staples, too, all wound up with ?ains, corn 3-8 to 3-4. oats 1-463-8 Lo 3-8, and provisions 5 to 15c! . Grain'and provisions closing: Wheat : December.$1.26-5-8 Way "..< ... 1.28 7-8 Corn: , December. 65 Way.i. 71 1-2 Oats: December.' 48 3-4 Way. 52 7-8 Cash grain: Wheat, No 2 red. $1.23 1-46 1.20 l-l; No. li hard, $1.24@1.27 Corn, No. 2 yellow, 65 1-263-4. Oats, standard, 4961-2. The Christmas Victrola is right, there with dance music With a .Victrola tn your ho ?ne 'Hu can entertain your friend? to >erfection. They will welcome the chance o dance and they'll thoroughly mjby all the new dances with the tuperu music furnished by the Victrola. Come in and hear some of the atest dance numbers. We'll gladly play them for you on the /ictrola ($15 to 5200) or Victor ($10 o $100) and explain ?ur system cf onsy erma. Bleckley r .sT rOflBe ounga Island, S. C., NOT. 23. 1914. To get started with you we mako )u the following 'offer. Send us $1.50 ir 11,000 Frost Proof Cabbage Plants, rown ia the open air and will stand eesfng, grown from tho Celebrated ?ed ot Boigiha & Son and Thorbom Co.; and I wili send yon 1,000 Csb tge Plahts additional FREE, anf; you in repeat the order as many , times |Mgjjr like. I will give you special icca. DB' Potato See? and potato lente Ister. We want the accounts close buyers, large and small. We ?a supply all. Vt?antic Coast [ant Co. IVA NOTES o o o oooooooooooooooo Mr. and Mra. Edward B. Swan ot Boston and Mr. Horton of New York on their return trip from Cuba stop ped in Greenville and came over to Iva on last Thursday and spent a few hours visiting the Jackson Mills. Mess's. Swan and Horton are con nected with the A. J. Tower Co.. of Boston, well known makers of oiled clotthing and other cotton fabrics and have been large purchasers and users of the Jackson mills product for sev eral years and these gentlemen wanted to see the making of this cloth in all its processes from the raw cotton to the finishing and packing. They were well pleased with their visit and their hearty approval of the jackson milis and its workings was expressed with out stint. Mr. J. T. Bowman of Lowndesville was here a few hours Monday on busi ness. Miss Lulu Finley, who has been attending the Sacred Heart Academy of Greenville, is home for the holidays. Dr. J. K. Land and J. B. Leverett of Starr were hero a few hours Saturday on business. Tho Missionary and Aid Society of ?be First Baptist church met on last Friday afternoon with Mr?. Marshall .Tones at her home on Main strr*e*L There was a splendid attendance andi the afternoon was spent in readings from* Mis* Nancy Pearson. Miss Cor *?? Howell. Mrs. Cliff D. Coleman, Mrs. Bill Schrimp, Mrs. B. A. Watt, Mrs. Henry Wakefield and MIBB Selma Simpson. During tho social part, Mrs. Jones served a sweet course. M?BS Essie Cook was hostess at a party at her home on Friday evening to the members of the Iva high school. The occasion was a pleasant one and the young folks enjoyed themselves to tho fullest extent. Mrs. Preston Adams of Latimer was among the visitors here Saturday. Mrs. E. B. Willis who has been vis iting her Bister. Mrs! J. F. McDonald af Anderson has returned home. Mr. E. C. Williamson of Abbeville incnt n few days here last week on business. Mr. Feaster Jones of Starr was among the visitors here Saturday. Mr. Clem McGee of Anderson aoent the week-end with his mother, Mrs. Jane McGee. Miss Sarah Gilliland. a student or \nderson Collesre, came homo Satur lav for the holidays. Fnv. T. C. O'Dall. nresldina- ' elder >f the Anderson district, preached In he Methodist church here Sunday norning from the text. "Remember hem that are in bonds as bound vltb them; and them which suffer art 'erscltv. as being yoursolves niuo In he body." On account of tho inclem mey of tho weather* the congregation va? .small. > -. Mr. Joe Sherard was in Anderson ifondar on business. Mr. James Watt of r?ue Weat H on . vlstt; to his brother. Mr. Pees? Watt. Tuc ?'ii ii RI nea class of the Presby erian church will meet at the home of ifiss Georgia Peile Buskin Tuesday, b? 29th. at 3 o'clock. Mr. Swift Maret, who, is n student ?i the A. and M. Institute at,Athen?, la., ls home for tho holidays. oooooooooooooooooo e SEWS FROM ST A BB. o ? . ?. . o Oooooooooooooooooo STARR, Dec. 22.-Mrs. Claude Jones nd Mrs. Feaster Jones entertained he Stephen D. Lee chapter, U. D. C., n lost Saturday afternoon at the home f the former. Although the weather ran so bad there was a good number f the members with some visitors resent to enjoy this unusually pieas nt meeting. Mrs. Jones' beautiful ew. home with lt* bright Christmas ecoratioas anti- glowing grates prc ented a. striking contrast to the wind nd rain without. After a few items f bualuess were disposed ot an inter Btlns program was carried out. A election. "The First Christmas After Yeedom," was read by Miss Annie hirley and a paper, "Is the Christmas ipirit Dying Out," bzy Mrs. A. 13. lowie. Two duets were well render d by Misses Annie Halford and Mabel ones and were very much appreciat d and enjoyed. A chorus, "The Homespun Dress." ras sung by a number of the ladies, cd ibis completed the program. The en lal hostesses served a delightful sled course during the social hour. Crs. L. O. McCall* will entertain the haptor in January. Misses Jessie and Nele Smith, Be lia McMehan and Rossie Cll^kscale* r Lfmestotne College are at borne to pend the Chrlstmaa holidays. Dr. and Mrs. 8. C. Dean and little arey lett yesterday for a visit of two reeks in Louisiana. Miss Mildred Goode left Saturday >r Shelby. N. C., to spend the 1?on ay s with her parents. Mrs. Emily Davis Clark of Detroit, Heb., is visiting her sifters here, Mrs. I. H. .Hodges and Mrs. Will Carlisle. Miss Annie Halford has gone to her ome in Blackville to spend Chrlstmaa Uh her parents. Miss Lelia Stuart received a. tele ram on last Saturday bringing the id intelligence of her father's death t Fountain Ian end she left Immed itely for her home. The . Rev. J. Andrew Smith, synodl ?1 evangelist of South Carolina, ccrn aeted a ten dave meeting here which ioeed on last Tuesday night. Mr. Mi th is a strong and forceful speak r and ii WM at rare treat and aa ta >traUou to hear him. The Starr high school- will giro aa iterxalnment on next Tuesday evon ig beginning st 7:30 o'clock. The nail admission fee of 15 cents will * saked the proceeds to go to the rhooi, Imtrrovement Association. Misses Lula Dean and Jessie Smith ill be tho supnly teachers iu the high bent during the absence of Misses ofio and stuart. Timely and Appropriate Christmas Suggestions Though today and tomorrow are the only days left in which to buy "her" that present, you will find us amply able to care for your wants in the jewelry line, hoirie, you will find a nice selec tion awaiting you. I A VALIERE? LR Vall.irei msde of 10 and 14 karat gold set rtth diamonds, pearls, etc. The latest dcslgus and finest work manship, 83.00 up. BRA ("KLKT WATCHES An Ideal gift. It looks well on the arm. and ls the only convenient way to carry a watch. $10 to $30. CAMEO JEWELRY Beautifully carved Cameo Jewelry In Onyx. Coral and shell. Broochns mounted, plain and engraved, also with seed pearls and black enamel. Seo them to appreciate them. VANITY CASKS AND MESH BAUS * Thp newest designs' in vanity cases can be fouud hero, handsomely en graved and engine turned. In Ster ling Silver $8.00 to $25.00. ? Mesh Bags In Sterling and Orman Silver, sohlercd, reversed mesh, plain and engrnved mounting. JOHN M. HUBBARD & CO. 234 "The worst insurance is that which is never taken; the best insurance is that which ts done,-dorie, not talked about." ?': -Juni iniKii.ii i ?.?III?.iiiMi III.a.-, , i "in iMnyj in nu i i III i MUTUAL BENEFIT LIFE INSURANCE C M. M. j^ATTS3^, General Agent { C/W.'WEBB. Strict Agent J. J. TROWBRIPG?, Special Agent