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X* IVlL/n. 1 J iiv T JJ1U1/UAV V) AVatv Treasurer's Notice! OFFICE WILL BE OPEN FROM | FRIDAY, OCT. 15TH UNTIL j MARCH 15, 1921. Taxes Paid From Friday, October 15, j Until Friday, December 31st Without Penalty. I ' The rate of State, County, School' and Special Tax including one dollar I Poll Tax, two dollars commutation' tax. In accordance with an act to raise, supplies for the fiscal year commenc-j ing January 1st, 1920, notice is here-1 by given that the office 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 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 1 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. 1 Constitutional school tax __ 3 mills. ] < TOTAL 22 mills. In addition to the above a special ' tax 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 mills ' 21 Bethel 3 mills 1 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 1 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 j 38 Due west mine ] 39 Donalds 17 mills 40 Pineville 6 mills ' 41 Vermilion 4 mills t 42 Fonville __ 3 mills 43 Eureka 3 mills 44 Broadmouth 8 mills 1 45 Rock Springs 2 mills ( 46 Ray 4 mills 47 Winona 8 mills 1 50 Cana 4 mills t 54 Lebanon 4 mills j 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- t lars will be collected the same time as other taxes from pll male citizens 5 between the ages of 18 and 50 years, ^ except such as are exempt by law. f Unless said tax is paid by the 1st of March, 1921, eight days work upon the public highways will be required s under an overseer, if so much be nec- ^ essary. Taxes are payable in gold and sil- ? ver, United States currency, National i Bank notes and coupons of State 'a bonds which become payable during the year 1920. s At the same time as other taxes are r collected a license of one dollar and * seventy-five cents will be collected on all dogs. A dog tag will be furnished s by the Treasurer to each owner pay- c ing license. rlocirincr information bv mail in regard to their taxes wiil please write before Dec. 16th, stating the location of their property and include postage for reply. * c AN ACT f 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 2 the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, That from and after s the passage of this Act there shall be t levied on all dogs, six months old or j older, in the State of South Carolina an annual tax of one dollar and twen- e ty-five ($1.25) cents per head. s Section 2. That upon the payment of said annual tax of one dollar and twenty-five ($1.25) cents by the own- f er of any dog in the State, the Coun- , ty Treasurer shall issue to the said owner a receipt therefor and a met- s al tax marked "Dog Tax" and the ? year for which it is issued. Each County Treasurer shall keep a numer- c ical record of every dog taxed and in i addition thereto furnish to the owner * of each dog such number stamped on the metal tag. Which tax shall be lev- t ied and paid to the County Treasurer, as other taxes are paid: Provided, further, That this tax shall be exclu- 1 sive of all other license taxes, either municipal or otherwise. Provided, . That all such taxes collected here un- 1 der shall be credited to the schools of ( the School District from which it is ( collected, to be used in support of the cnVmnlc nf +V>o TKafcriot 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 shall be used for the purpose of hunting, 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, 1.-1* Tt.ViirtVi eVioll o-r> tn t.hp opr. * one-nan ui nuivii t? son reporting said failure to pay said tax, and one-half to the public school fund in which such derelict occurs. J. E. JONES, s County Treasurer. Oct. 27, 1920. 1 HARRIS RETURNS Jg FROM CONFERENCE1! I c Farmers Will Cooperate In Market-! ing.? Meet in Washington. j . Commissioner Harris returned to 1 * his office Monday fi'om Washington,1 where he had been attending a meeting of the joint agricultural) 3 conference at the headquarters of^ the national board of farm organizations. This meeting was attended by * 150 representatives of 30 or more c farm organizations from practically * every state in the union. "I have c r missed very few important meetings! of farmrs in the last 30 years,"!r ? - - - i C said Mr. Harris, and l consider uus about the most progressive and most J far reaching that I have ever at-| tended. "Each and every one who attended went for a definite purpose. It was the intention of this meeting to i see what was th cause of so much! dissatisfaction caused by the wierd kind of deflation that came upon ^ the country like a bolt of lightning Dut of the clear sky. It was the con. c sensus of opinion that there was no need for the deflation policy and | ^ svidence was brought out to show |. plainly that the farmers were being [ ^ discriminated against by the policy >f Secretary Houston. It was easy to; >ee that the farmer is not getting i t lis pro rata share of the currency ^ leeded to protect the great agri- ^ :ultural interests of the country. "The world may rest assured that , n the future the farmers are going ( ?o take a more positive stand for ^ ;heir just rights They have been isleep too long already and allow-;, ne themselves to be dictated to by jther people who have no other ob-! " iect but their own personal gains.1 [ am proud to say he is blaming no-j jody but himself. He is waking up J ;o a sense of his own duty and this :an only be done through organiza;ion and cooperation of the farmers )f the North, East, South and West,1 ? 6 >anded together in a great organiza- , ;ion They have found out 'who. hit Billy Patterson.' I o Politics Not Mentioned ! s, "I consider it remarkable that in j his gathering of 150 men from all'w arts of the United States, in the jj lational capital, just a few days be- n ore the presidential election poli- t,j ics was not even mentioned. It, ^ howed very conclusively to me that' p his body of men was there ferreting j >ut the great problems now hinder- J j ng the prosperity of the country? | ind hunting a remedy. As this was' uch a representative meeting and! i Si lot alone of Southern farmers. The! ollowing statement of the 'next | tep' committee that studied the * auses and suggested unanimously." S( d A great crisis exists in agriculure today which vitally affects s1 >oth farmers and the great mass of f P ity toilers dependent on farmers j2 or their food and clothing So seri-1 a ?us is the situation that the farm-, u rrs' organizatoins which speak for j c' igriculture have been repeatedly | ^ .ounding the warning, believing that. in/tn?t.rv and hnsiness of farm-1 ng are affected with a public inter-1 ;st and that the whole country si hould know the facts. f' Under the governmental urge to 11 eed the hunger stricken people of he world *our farmers, at enormous j g acrifices of both money and labor,; b sndeavored to produce adequate'g :rops this year. Despite this fact the a farmers have been forced to bear! o he brunt of a deflation policy insti- j b ,uted by the government, a policy i u 4-Vio Kocic nf t.ViA farmers' ' a rviuvu jo i/uv w- --- ? . present financial troubles. c The war debt, including interest j * vhen paid, will aggregate $40,000,-1 s 300,000. To repay this debt under j P :onditions of present prices and jc "arm products and wages for labor j o vill require two bushels of grain, * ;wo bales of cotton and two days' i P abor instead of one This is equiva- J s ent to doubling the amount of the s var debt, and the purchasing power 1 jf the billions of dollars made by | j] var profiteers. j n As a result of this deflation policy and the absence of the customary a "oreign markets, farmers today find t ,hemselves without remunerative t narket for their products and in r some instances without market at f my price. Producers The Sufferer# c Through the lack of credit, live r stock producers are being forced to b ,hrow unfinished live stock upon the | C narket, and producers of cotton,' p crain and fruits find it impossible to [ ealize even approximately the first J ost of production. ^ No such thing as orderly market- ( ng is now possible. All of these , acts have been repeatedly brought j ( o the attention of the high officials j if our government including the ecretary of the treasury and federal reserve board but without avail. We realize that considerable exension of credit has taken place luring the past 12 to 18 months but >elieve this to be largely the result >f the condition under which busiless had to be transacted and does ;ot necessarily reflect an unsound ondition in the country's finances. U all events no such drastic deflaion as has resulted was warranted, t is further believed that of the otal credit available the farmer has eceived but a pittance while appar;ntly those who traded in the farmts' products have been abundantly >rovided for. This distressing condition brings he farmer face to face with the fac I hat, without adequate sources of redit, and in view of his inability iow to secure over the cost of proluction, he will not be only unwillng, but totally unable to finance limself to produce next years' crop. !"he farmer thus is at once eliminatd as a customer for the products of he mills and factories of this counry which even now are closing lown throwing the workers out of mployment and bringing about Recommendation Made Therefore, dn view of the agriculural situation as recited above it is lear that farmers must receive at jast cost of production if they are o meet the nation's needs for feed nd clothing, and in order to accomplish this result, the agricultural epresentatives meetings in joint ession in Washington, October 28 0 29, 1920, do hereby recommend s follows: That all farmers at once join the xisting marketing organizations in heir respective communities, or, hould there be none, that they at nee form such organizations ?s best nit the needs of their localities. J That all farm commodities be larketed cooperatively in an orderr manner, i. e. throughout the 12 | lonths period from one harvest un- I 1 the next as the demand requires [ nown as the consumption year, [ lus a normal safety carryover. [ That the government take the E :ad in reopening foreign markets I nd in developing new ones and E 'here necessary to finance the [ ime. [ That the War Finance corporation I rhose authority and financial re- ? purees are unimpaired, be imme- \ iately reestablished. [ m That a standing committee be con- | tituted representative of and apointed by the various farm organiations for the purpose of bringing bout coordination of effort and nity of action between the various ommittees now working on the uestdon of marketing the great taple agricultural products. To Ask Congress That a standing committee be j imilarly appointed to consider and ormulate financial policies includ- >g: j (1) Recommendations to con- g ress to give the federal reserve ank power to classify loans, and to . ive the federal farm loan board the . uthority to issue and sell in the J pen market short time securities aspii on warehouses receipts issued I rider the federal warehouse act, nd to issue and sell short time seurities based on a proper pledge of arm inventories where it is necesary that the title remain with the roducer until his marketing proesses be completed, as in the case f the owner of hay, corn and cattle rho must produce meat and dairy roducts for public use. All of these ecurities to qualify for federal reerve investment or discounts. (2) Request congress to make an nvestigation of the subject of ioney and high interest rates. (3) Consider the advisability of in ugurating a great national agriculural bank, financed by the cooperaion of the nation, and with a diectorte chosen from all the great arm organizations of the nation. That a standing committee also be hosen to be known as the "public elations committee" on which shall e included representatives of the Consumer's league and the working eople. _ S MEETING OF D. A. R.'S The Andrew Hamilton Chapter D. R. will meet in the chapter room )n Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The members are urg?d to attend as this is an important neeting. TURKISH DOMESTIC*g BLEND m ^__c?2J?2?;LL?JL=:?l% *mm RfiffiEffiafyMyafiHafa | Get Youi I CO | Put it ii w ! We are now i five-l ! Rate 65c oer | bales; 55c pe | Not STARK IwifiifMSfSfKfwaiifiifiifia LONE HIGHWAYMAN HOLDS UP HIGHWAYMAN AND GETS $79 Perry, Ga., Nov. 2.?John Marrison, of Kisco, N. Y., en route to Florida by automobile, was held up It's dolk jfc. to dougl Hw no man e I cigarette /"^AMELS quali V/ of choice Tur tobaccos hand yoi: isfy every smoke c You will prefer ti kind smoked straif Camels mellow appeal to you. Tl that smoothnesi Go the limit wit tire your taste. Ai ant cigaretty after retty odorl Just compare - - J. A ? * _ J.1^ OTKsnv reue in ine wur KHHi* Camels are sold e^/y where i packages of 20 cigarettes; o I SB cigarettes) in a glassine pa I VB&flr We strongly recommend thii I MH or office supply or when y< R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO ( im )ut of the 1 n a State I AREHOUf ready to store 2, Dale lots and up^ bale per mont r bale for 100 b Charge For Gra< ; & WILLIA iwnrinwnnrinnnnr uUUUMUIJIJUUUUUli and robbed by a lone highwayman eleven miles out of Perry shortly before noon today. The robber secured $79 in cash and a $100 Liberty bond, but declined to take Marrison's watch. ITS tinuts? ;v6r smoked a better at any price! ty, and their expert blend kish and choice Domestic i a cigarette that will satlesire you ever expressed. lis Camel blend to either rht\ r-mildness will certainly le "body" is all there, and 5/ It's a delight 1 h Camels! They will not id, they leave no unpleastaste nor unpleasant ciga'rrji Camels with any cigaId at any price! , am n scientifically sealed flRH r ten packages (200 ^H per-covered carton. H| r carton for the home 1 3u travel. Ba K :0., Win?ton-Salem, N. C.^V H k tBll J I' P' ^ 1 / iKJiliiliiiJMiiiillillEJillM || .1 \XT J I! J Weather |j Sonded Si a ? ,000 bales, in jj ward i j l :h up to 100 :j ales or more j i I ij ling j j IffflAftT E ! I