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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. The rate of State, County, School amd Special Tax including one dollar j Poll Tax, two dollars commutation! tax. In accordance with an act to raise' supplies for the fiscal year commenc ing January 1st, 1920, notice i3 here 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 pen alty. There will be added?a penalty of one per cent, on all taxes not paid on January 1st, 1921. I A penalty of two per cent, on all I taxes not paid on Feb. 1st, 1921. A penalty of seven per cent, on all taxes not paid on March 1st, 1921. Hates per cent, of taxation are as follows: State Tax 12 mills. County Tax _ " 8 mills. Good Roads Tax 3 thills. ^oi*Vir>ni tjjv __ 3 mills. . TOTAL 26 Mills. tax will be collected for school pur poses as follows: Abbeville City Shops Bonds 1 % mills | 1 Corner 2 mills j 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 i 21 Bethel 3 mills 22 Abbeville 14 mills 23 Warrenton ___ _____ 8 mills 84 Reeds ___ 8 mills 26 Brown lee ? 4 mills 26 Campbell i. 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 1 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 i mms 42 Fonville Jy . 3 mills 43 Eureka ___ 3 mills 44 Broadmouth 8 mills 45 Rock Springs ___ 2 "mills 54 Lebanon x; 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 dol lars 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 \ March, 1921, eight days work upon I, the public highways will be required I under an overseer, if so much be nec essary. Taxes are payable in gold and sil-' ver, United States currency, National | Bank notes and coupons of State bonds- which become payable during! the year 1920. At the same time as other taxes are [ collected a license of one dollar and 1 fivro merits will be collected on | 46 Ray 47 Winona 50 Cana 4 mills 8 mills 4 mills all dogs. A dog tag will be furnished j by the Treasurer to each owner pay ing liccnse. x Parties desiring information by mail in regard to their taxes will please write before Dec. 16th, stat ing 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. I Section 1. BE IT ENACTED by j the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, That froig 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 twen ty-five ($1.25) cents per head. Section 2. That upon the payment of said annual tax of one dollar and A * " rpnts bv the own er of any dog in the State, the Coun ty Treasurer shall issue to the said owner a receipt therefor and a met al tax marked "Dog Tax" and the year for which it is issued. Each County Treasurer shall keep a numer ical 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 lev ied and paid to the County Treasur er, as other taxes are paid: Provided, further,'That this tax shall be exclu sive of all other license taxes, either municipal or otherwise. Provided, That all such taxes collected here un der shall be credited to the schools of the School District from which it is collected, to be used in support of the schools of the District: Provide/d, 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 frlace the aforesaid dog tag upon the said collar. Except when such dog shall be used for the purpose of hunt ing, when such dog shall be upon a 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 xnereoi, suau uc nnw less than five ($5.00) dollars nor? more than twenty ($20.00) dollars, j one-half of which shall go to the per-1 son reporting said failure to pay said ! tax, and one-half to the public schoo. fund in which such derelict occurs. J. E. JONES, I County Treasurer. Oct. 27, 1920. PENNEY'S CREEK V V Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Myers and children, of Oakway, S. C., spent Thanksgiving with her mother, Mrs. 0. B. Rogers. Misses Bertha Bradberry and Ed na Prince, of Antreville, spent Thursday afternoon with Mrs. J. 0. Seal. Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Prince had as their guest Thanksgiving, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Prince and children, Mr. J.} W. Bradberry and family, and Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Bradberry. All en joyed the good turkey dinner which had been prepared for the occasion. Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Williams spent Thanksgiving with their daughters, i Mrs. J. F. and 0. L. Ellenburg. Mr. and Mrs. Ozey Ellenberg are receiving congratulations on the ar rival of their little son, Ozey, Jr., November 14, 1920. Mr. and Mrs. . R. R. Price and children spent Thursday afternoon with Mrs. 0. B. Rogers. Mr. and Mrs. J. 0. Seal spent sev eral'^days last week in Greenville. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Ellenburg spent Sunday with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. L. WiBiams. We are glad to say that the little children of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Wil Ijams are getting on fine with whooping cough and were able to spend Thanksgiving with : their grandmother, Mrs. Will Wilson, of the Nation. MK Ozey Ellenburg and mother, Mrs. S. S. Ellenburg and Chester El-' lenburg spent Thursday iri':Tignall, j Ga., with Mr. and Mrs. Willis Ellen-; burg. v > ... M. l/ Williams and J. 0. Seal . spent Monday in Antfevflle. .? I Mr. and Mrs. W. C; Rogers spent ; Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs.' M. L. Williams. ' > y I M. and Mrs. J. F. Rogers had as; theirg uest Friday, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Myers and children. Mr. S. S. Ellenburg spent Thurs day in Lowndesville with his daugh ter, Msr. George Hill. . Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ellis and | little daughter, Grace, spent j Thanksgiving in Lowndesville with Mr. ahd Mrs. Will Ellis." Mrs. J. P. Williams and sister,! Miss Julia Plexico, of Rock Hill,! spent Thursday afternoon with Miss Julia Rogers. Women bookmakers in London are said to handle thousands of dollars daily in race bets. Charlotte, N. C., requires a $500 ; bond to be put up by every taxi cab i driver in the city. FEDERAL RESERVE WILL BE AMENDED BY REPUBLICANS XT no ? wasmngwn, ixov. c.o.?v/jic ua the first acts of the incoming repub lican administration will be to amend the federal reserve law so that it will provide for greater gold reserve behind the issue of fed eral reserve notes, according to Ed ward N. Dingley, financial expert and a member of the republican na tional committee, today. "The operations of the federal re serve system are chiefly responsible for the tremendous inflation of prices" said Mr. Dingley, "and the Consequent depreciated purchasing power of money. "I am not condemning the feder al reserve system as a whole, but unfortunately some of the frame up were afflicted with the old and often recurring delusion that all we need to be rich is to have plenty of cheap money. "The feature of the fact that has caused such tremendous inflation ana wmcn xne republican aamim stration must remedy is that giving authority for an unlimited issue of federal reserve notes with a gold reserve of about thirty-five per cent. Such a provision is fundamen tally unsound and could not fail to result in a fifty cent dollar." A high treasury official today con ueiiiiieu :ui. a 1 as . "entirely fallacious." "The 'best financial minds of the 1 country," he said, "have collabora-' ted in the framing of the act. The federal reserve system may have I contributed in some slight extent toj the inflation of currency, but this | contribution is trifling and unimpor-j tant. The federal reserve system j is the first adequate protection we : have had for the panics which we! were afflicted with under a rigid j currency system, and paper money issued strictly on a gold basis." PLANT DISEASES COST MILLIONS Washington, Nov. 27.?Millions of bushels of grain, fruit and vege tables and a big. tonnage of cotton were lost to American farmers last year by plant diseases accord ing to figures compiled by the plant disease survey of the Department of Agriculture. The survey said that the statistics indicate that lack of prompt application of known meas ures of control was largely the cause of the loss. The plant disease survey estima ted the losses at 112,000,000 bu shels of wheat, 50,000,000 bushel of oats, 80,000,000 bushels of corn, 50,000,000 bushels of potatoes, 40, fifl/l nnn ^Knelinlc nf enrftot. nntjitrtPS. 185,000 'bales of cotton> 5,000,000 bushels of peaches and 16,000,000 bushels of apples. In spite of the great changes of government in Russia, the old Czar rouble is still in circulation. Nobody knows who has the plates, but the stuff is still being printed and is al ways welcomed by the peasant in pre ference to the new currencies, which he does not trust. ACCUSED WOMAN SEES NO CALLERS Mr*. Elmer Remains la Sedation at Jiit?Huibud Goes To Her Macon, Ga., Nov. 28.?Mrs. F. E. Elmer, wife of a Jacksonville physi ? ? i - xl. caan, wno was piacea in urc cuum> jail at 2 o'clock this morning on a charge of murder in connection with the death of her former hus band, Fred D. Shepard, known as the Georgia "Peach King," denied herself to callers today. Those whom, Mrs. Elmer summon ed to her cell, included the Rev. J. 0. Hart, rector of Christ Episcopal church, and the Rev. Father W. A. Wilkinson of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic church, and the stenograph er whom she employed on the pre ceding day for the inquest who said that Mrs. Elmer was in a highly nervous state. Attorney Charles M. Durrance of Jacksonville, who is representing the interests of Mrs. Elmer announced tonight that Dr. Elmer, who is com ing to Macon, is expected here dur ing the night. The attorney also de nied that Dr. Elmer is a' Mexican by birth, but said that he could speak the Spanish language fluently and added that at one time he was pri vate physician to a former president of Mexico, bedng forced to flee be cause of political difficulties. Only three arrests have been made in the Shepard case up to k late hour tonight, although, other arrests have been expected. The other two per sons arrested are Mrs. lone Henry, a sister of Mrs. Elmer, and Mrs. El mer's son by a former marriage, Ernest Hopson, ace under arrest at Twenty-Five Pei Off on all Goo< LINK ??? Here is a great cul and means a g: We offer every pair of Sho Women and Children. We offer every piece of U 5 Men and Women, at We offer every yard of Clc \ We offer every Trunk in 01 ! We offer every Hat in our | 9 We offer every Blanket anc We offer every Stove in ou We offer every Sewing Mac We offer every piece of Fu These prices are f( So. Public Square | Perry. Hopson's father is said to be in Akron, Ohio. When Mrs. Elmer arrived at the jail at 2 o'clock this morning from Port Bailey she threw herself on the bed in the hospital cell and became hysterical, according to jail attend ants. This morning she refused food and only sipped her coffee. She com plained of a violent headache. This afternoon she ate a hearty dinner and after the clergymen visi ted her she told her stenographer that she felt better. Hundreds of persons called at the At Your Call r Cent Js ait ! 'S t in prices of as good j t \ ' .. reat saving to every rr es in: our house for Men^ ? at nderwear in our house for th in our house at ir house at tiouse at i Comfort in our house, at. r house at hine in our house at rniture in our house at ... )r cash only and surel; dollar durin S. J. ] county jail in a vain effort to see the prisoner, but they were disap pointed. Mrs. Elmer was isolated from the rest of the jail her cell be ing reched by a private stairway. From Ferry came the information that Mrs. lone Henry has engaged Judge John P. Ross of this city as her leading counsel. There was no move to obtain an early preliminary bearing or to ob tain bail for any of the persons un der arrest, although Attorney Dur rance and Solicitor Gen. Charles H. O M MERCI A ORDE v inv q AXILVJ Greeting NOV and BANP Telephone No. 10 JUUUO ao VVClt CVW V lan, woman aed chili y means that 75c wi g this sale. LINK Garrett were closeted in a con ference for two hours. At the close of this conference Mr. Garrett said: "Mr. Durrance explained some of the features pertaining to the prop j erty interests involved in the case and gave some interesting sidelights. This may be of value in the final as certainment of the truth which is all that we are trying to get. The state is not trying to persecute anyone." Mrs. Alfred Shepard, mother of Fred D. Shepard ,is said to be in a sanitarium in Los Angeles. I Cards V ^RCQ. S. Carolina )rnHtafnu^ngrrgn3Tn3fr3ftgngft0fpWf0ft3raiaUraiffHpWianiWw^ij Is at Seventy-Five 3 on the Dollar at INK'S iffered in Abbevjfe \ A in this serrihn. fl ON THE! DOLLAR 11 do the work of a Abbeville, S. C.