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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.
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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 commencing
January 1st, 1920, notice is hereby
given that the office of the County
Treasurer for Abbeville County will
be open for the collection 01 taxes ior i
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
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 ...I^Mills.
. tax will be collected for school pur'
poses as follows: ^ t
Abbeville City Shops Bonds mills!
1 Corner 2- mills
3. Lowndesville . Ifi giil)s
4 Rocky River 2mills
9 Calhoun Falls 6 mills
10 -Santuc 4 mills
18 Bethia _1_ 8 mills
20 Sharon 8 mills
' 21 Bethel 3 mills
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
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
38 Due West 12 mills
39 Donalds 17 mills
40 Pineville _ 6 mills
41 Vermilion 4 mills
42 Fonville 3 mills
43 Eureka 3 mills
44 Broadmouth 8 mills
45 Rock Springs 2 mills
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46 Ray * mms
47 Winona 8 mills
50 Cana 4 mills
54 Lebanon __ 4 mills
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 dollars
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
Marth, 1921, eight days work upon
tVio nnhlir hichwavs will be required
under an overseer, if so much be necessary.
Taxes are payable in gold and silver,
United States currency, National
Bank notes and coupons of State
bonds whi.ch become payable during
the year 1920.
At the same time as other taxes are
collected a license of one dollar and
twenty-five cents will be collected on
all dogs. A dog tag will be furnished
by the Tf-easurer to each owner paying
license.
Parties desiring information by
mail in regard to their taxes will
please write before Dec. 16th, stating
the location of their property and
include postage for reply.
AN ACT
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
the Genera] Assembly of the State of
South Carolina, That from and after
the passage of this Act there shall be
levied on all dogs, six months old or
older, in the State of South Carolina
an annual tax of one dollar and twenty-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 owner
of any dog in the State, the County
Treasurer shall issue to the said
owner a receipt therefor and a metal
tax marked "Dog Tax" and the
year for which it is issued. Each
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FAIL IN ATTEMPT
TO ROB EXPRESS
Two White Men Lose Safe Contain
ing $16,00?Leave Their Booty
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To lose a safe containing $16,000 '
in cold cash and then to have it re']
turned again with a few hours, intact
and with its contents unmolested,
was the very unusual experience
of the American Railway Express
company yesterday morning.
The safe was on Southern passen- 11
ger train No. 36 wjiich leaves Columbia
for points north at 5:10 a. m.
Near Killians, two white men entered
the swiftly moving train through
ft
the side, door, according to express
officials, held up the ^messenger, R.,
W. Peterman of Columbia, tied his
hands behind his back and then rolled
the big combination safe, weigning
about 1,200 pounds and containing
$16,000 out of the door. They then
search?d the messenger, secured his
keys and opened his small safe from
which they removed three packages
one containing $321 in currency. The
contents of the other two packages
had not been definitely Ascertained
last night, though | one is supposed
to have contained jewelry.
The two men jumped from the
train after it had proceeded about
one and one-half miles from the!
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point where the safe was rolled out.
The messenger says he mounted a
barrel in the express coach and
stooping over managed to reach the
signal cord and stoppedthe train.
When the, conductor learned what
had happened, he at once backed
the train to the point where he supposed
the safe to have been thrown
out but saw no traces of it. The
train then proceeded to Blythewood
where it met a treignt tram, in
charge of conductor D. H. Plott,
coming south. The crew was informed
of the robbery and was requested
to keep a-sharp lookout for
the safe. The freight train at'once
proceeded toward Columbia and Conductor
Plott saw the safe lying beside
the track about a half mile
south of Sharpe. The freight was
stopped, the safe loaded on the engine
and it was brought to Columbia.
From its appearance, railway and
express officials are of the opinion
that it was not molested after it was
thrown from ther train, and it is sup
County Treasurer snan Keep a numerical
record of every dog taxed and in
addition thereto furnish to the oWner
of each dog such number stamped on
the metal tag.. Which tax shall be levied
and paid to the County Treasurer,
as other taxes are paid: Provided,
further, That this tax shall be exclusive
of all other license taxes, either
municipal or otherwise. Provided,
That all such taxes collected here under
shall be credited to the schools of j
the School District from which it is
collected, to be used in support of the j
schools of the District: 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
shqll be used for the purpose of hunt-!
ing, 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,
one-half of which shall go to the person
reporting said failure to pay said
tax, and one-half to the public school
fund in which such derelict occurs, j
J. E. JONES,
County Treasurer. j
Oct. 27, 1920.
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ROBBERS THROW SAFE
FROM TRAIN NO. 36
Columbia, Nov. 11.?The express
messenger's safe on train 'number
36, Charlotte division of the Southern
railway was thrown off at
Sharpe, a station about fifteen miles
Prom Columbia today by train robbers,
who held up the messenger.
The safe contained about $16,000.
Before the .bandits could get back to
the place where thes afe was thrown
off, the crew of freight train, passing
the spot recovered the safe.
SWEET POTATOES SELL
IN MACON AT 50c BU,
Macon, Ga., Nov. 11.?Sweet po
UtLUCS, OU1U tuuajf VIA wilt. Ol/i tVKJ VA
Macon for 50 cents per bushel, have
dropped far below any price quoted
since 1914 and to a mark below
which the price has seldom evei
gone. An unusually large crop togetther
with the general decline lr
prices of farm products is given as
the reason.
In 1918 the same grade of potatoes
retailed here for as high aj
$5.50 per bushel.
A HUMMING BIRD BRINGS
HOME THE BAGON
Santa Ana, Calif, Nov. 11.?A
bride weighing 725 pounds was
brought home today by John H. Ham
ilton who weighs 155.
The bride, formerly Miss Ainu
Emily of Venice, Calif., was attend
ed at the wedding by her sister, Mrs
L. C. Kring, who weighs 420.
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posed the robbers took alarm wher
the passenger train backed and tha'
they did not have time to blow th<
sae open before the freight arrivet
and carriecj it off. Except for th<
$321 and the two packages, on<
probably containing cancelled checki
the robbers were none the better of
for their bold attempt.?The State.
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IRISH HOME RULE BILL
PASSES THE HOUSE OF
COMMONS BL 183 TO 52
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London, Nov. 11.?The Irish home
rule bill passed the House o? Com;
mons on its thifd reading tonight af;
ter a potion for rejection of the meas
iii-n rn-ftnnoo/1 Kw William O. AHnm.
son, the Opposition leader, had been
defeated'by 183 to 52.
1 The measure passed without any
noteworthy incident-in a rather tame
' debate. The Liberal and Labor members,
who have boycotted it through
most of its stages as a sign of their
conviction of its hopefulness as a
' sign of their conviction of its hopelessness
as a settlement of the Irish
problem, were again absent today.
' The final stage was reached in a small
* and rather listness gathering of menv
I bers of the House.
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HUNTING POSSUMS
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i that people hunted possums, but!
possums have now become the hyit-|
. ers. On account of the'low price of,
j cotton, and the green persimmons, J
resulting from the late fall, the pos-,
sums are leaving the country and
homing to town, where we fear they,
' will find only sad merchants, empty.
flour barrels, very little persimmon |
. beer, and none of anty other kind |
barring Savannah River white lightning
and the "Tonjk" a little while
t ago dispensed by Mike.
Anyway a large possum was
3 found on^ day not so long ago in
one of the big trees in the yard of
- Mrs. Russell, on Main Street. Yesi
terday, a possum, having read the
[; advertisements of the Rosenberg
i Mercantile Company in the Press
I' and Banner and seeing from them
i that this enterprising firm had
? everything else at low prices, des
cided to call on old man Sol himf
self and "pitch a lien." But, some of
. the hungry clerks would not allow
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will be only a small .reduction in the | quoted
price of clothing for the spring and special
that the Associated Press is not fair, he say
to business in publishing reports of the ye
special fall price reductions as indi- the re
cations of general lowering of and th
prices, Thomas M. Watts, secretary selling
and treasurer of the South Carolina The C
Retail Clothiers Association, today clothes
issued a statement here, in-^hicK he associi
declares that there will be a gradual of nex
decline in clothing, prices, but no slightl
sudden drop is possible, and the "to- prices,
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Mr. Possum to carry out his intent, clothit
Instead they jumped on him and The n
when next heard from he will be return
"et." Brer Possum just now is about buildii
as badly handicapped as Charley
Gray's yellow cow with her dozen's : A
of mortgages covering her unselfish club <
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