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Treasurer's Notice! OFFICE WILL BE OPEN FROM FRIDAY, OCT. 15TH UNTIL MARCH 15, 1921. Taxe* Paid From Friday, October IS, Until Friday, December 31st Without Penalty. 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 commenc ing January 1st, 1920, notice is here by given that the affice 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 nn nn taxes not paid on one pei kcuu v.. 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 26 Mills. tax will be collected for school pur poses as follows: Abbeville City Shops Bonds 1 % mills 1 Corner 2 mills 3. Lowndesville 16 mills 4 Rocky River 2 mills S> Calhoun Falls 6 millB 1? Santuc 4 mills 18 Bethia 8 mills . '20 Sharon 8 mills 21 Bethel 3 mills 22 Abbeville 14 mills 28 Warrenton 8 mills 24 Reeds 8 mills 2& Brownlee 4 mills ^A f!nmnbell 15 mills - ? %* _ 24 Antrevtfle 12 ranis 29 Sunny Slope 8 mills 30 Cold Springs 4 mills 81 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 49 Pineville 6 mills I 41 Vermilion 4 mills | 42 Fonville 3 mills 43 Eureka 3 mills 44 Broadmouth 8 mills 45 Rock Springs 2 mills 46 Ray 4 mills 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 dol lars will be collected the same time as other taxes from all male citizens hot~aro<m the aires of 18 and 50 years, except such as are exempt by law.j Unless said tax is paid by the 1st of j March, 1921, eight days work upon J the public highways will be required' under an overseer, if so much be nec essary. j 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 I twenty-five cents will be collected on j all dogs. A dog tag will be furnished ' by the Treasurer to each owner pay-1 ing license. 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 Forj The State of South Carolina and a : Penalty for Not Paying Said Tax. j Section 1. BE IT ENACTED by j the General 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 i an annual tax of one dollar and twen-1 Aim cents Der head. \ T / . Section 2. That upon the payment J of said annual tax of one dollar and i twenty-five ($1.25) cents by 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 Tounty Treasurer shall keep a numer cal 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 I the School District from which it..is! collected, to be used in support of the 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 doc: shall be required to collar and place the aforesaid dog tag upon me said collar. Except when such dog shall be used for the purpose of Jiunt-1 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 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 per son reportii% said failure to pay said tax, and one-half to the public school fund in which such derelict occurs. J. E. JONES, C .unty Treasurer. I Oct. 27, 1920. BANKING SCHEME WELL UNDER WAY International Company May Now Proceed? Permit From Poard Washington, Jan. 1.?Approval of the articles of association of the Federal International Banking Com pny of New Orleans was announced today by the federal board. The corporation has a capital of $7,000, I 000 and is organized under the pro visons of the Edge act for the pur pose of financing foreign trade. The new company, which is the sec , and Edge Act corporation approved . by the board, was formed to finance shipments of cotton, and tobacco from the foreign countries but it is " * ? ?ill J expect tnat tne corporation wm un vote itself principally to cotton with the view of relieving the situation facing the growers. Pending the is sue of a financial permit the board said thee orporation has authority to exercise only those powers which are incident and preliminary to its organization. New Orleas, Jan. 1.?Issuance of the tmeporary permit to the Feder al International Banking company today places everything in readiness for the organization meeting of the glillSlliSliUafilliJEIiUiiiaii' !i THIS 15 11 . How do f? stores nnli !| !i stores unl con u,uu which Watch y ness?he money w fore the j Y( T eleph on and gl; The riwpinnnnripipirinni uuuuuuuuyu i j i j i j ! new $7,000,000 concern which will beheld in this city on January 7. At the meeting of the stockhold ers here on that date a board of di rectors will be elected after which the directors will meet and elect of ficers to tak e charge of the cor poration. tl is expected that as soon a sthe organization is perfected everything will be in readiness for the bank to begin to function at once. Temporary officers for the new corporation haveb en opened in this city and are in charge of Haynes McFadden, of Atlanta, and A. F. Jennigs, of New York. Both of these bankers haveb een closely identified with the preliminary organization nlans. New York, Jan. i?The New York clearing house association, which comprises 53 of the largest bank and trust companies of this city, these in turn having world-wide ramifications reported record operations for the calendar year. Exchanges mounted to the colossal total of $243,135,013,364 against $235,802,887 in 1919 and $178,533 248,782 in 1918. Balances totalled $25,075,320,338 as compared with $21,973,388,003 in 1919 and $18, 257,013,610 in 1918. > raiararaiaiamziaiaiaBiii :rci > THE SL you expect ess you put OPeop The Press ; our neighboi knows a gc hprp it nave Deople?whe: 3U W ie number t( adly assist yo : Press ^ ENGLAND IN GRIP OF DRUG TRAFFIC London, Jan. 1.?While fighting for her life during the war, "Eng land seems to have been sell-shocked into an ever-increasing use of drugs. In Limehouse district, which is London's Chinatown drug traffic has grown to such an extent that Chinamen will take long chances at smuggling?and they are shipping in drugs in great quantities. Recently a Chinaman arrived on a ship from the Orient, wearing' shoes with higher heels than usual. He was searched. In each heel was found a spring door, inside of which was found two ounces of opium. Several white men were haled be fore police court charged with hav ing 92 ounces of morphia, enough to kill 92,000 persons. Others ar rested were charged with having hundreds of tubes of cocaine and other narcotics. Authorities are convinced there is a center for drug traffic located in Belgium or France. In a suticase a man, staying at,a fashionable ho tel, tHey found a letter which said in part: "It needs five or six very dis creet and vety sober intermedaries [iiiafiUiUiiiafgfEJEnuaigm mm ACK SEA to keep tr< your offers 1 in the i and Banner 1 I : who adver )od investme dividends. ? n they need iKE TI m aLd our u in the pre k Banne to handle the peddling part of the business. A fool, a chatterer, a drunkard, a gannbler, or a user of it are not good fellow workers. They must be chosen for silence, rapidity of thought, action and their know- < ledge of bona fide users. 'i "The youngster written about yesterday is a very bright London street Arab. He has worked in al most every restaurant and hotel in London and knows all the reputed j users of the stuff, both men and wo- ; men." Another letter emphasized that, j "as the cocaine supply is coming di-' rect from the manufacturer, it is most important to organize sales in small packets weighing about 15 grains. This means that 3 grains of pure cocaine can be added to 12 grains of impure." There is probably no place on earth where tobacco is more univer sal! vnssd than here. Theatres, res taurants and subways allow it with both men and women. In the old days the English rail roads labeled the coaches in which smoking wa3 allowed. Now they label those in which it is NOT al lowed. The women teachers in the sehool of Port William, Ont., have won their "strike" for increased pay. aSHRRHHEBRfiSaai SON ide booming before the ej 000H Enters Tri-\^ tises?he's dc :nt and is pi Ceep your bu anything in -IE SAI representative paration of 4 4 sr Comp HARDING KEEPS EIGHT STENOGRAPHERS BUST Marion, 0., Jan. 1.?President elect Harding is keeping eight sten ographers busy on correpondenee bo find out what the nation is think ing about. Telegrams and letters pour in oe him every day by the hundreds. Some of the best ideas the pres ident-elect has received have come from voluntary correspondents. Lately farmers have predominat ed as letter-writers. The slump is prices of farm products has alarmed them. They are trying to intereA the incoming administation in reme dial legislation. Practically all of Harding's wak iner hours, except those devoted t? conferences with "best minds," meals and exercising, are spent with his secretaries and stenograph ers. The presidentelect ^requenfly works on correspondence until mid night. A letter signed "WaTren G. Hard ing" is genuine. The next president hasn't yet delegated to a secretaiy { the signing of his name. ' The next congress of the Inter national Woman Suffrage Affiance will be held in Pa-ris in 1922. II in vour / es of the ^eekly I s )ing busi- ] | Litting his smess be your line j: i will call 11 copy" J y s iiwwri nrinwnpiwwF n3i3i7i7i3i3i3iaooaoi