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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 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 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. ' nf There will be anaea?a peuai^ 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 26 Mills. tax wijl 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 22 Abbeville 14 mills ? -Ml. 23 Warrenton 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 46 Ray __ __ __ 4 mills * ? 8 mills 47 Winona - 50 Cana 4 mills 54 Lebanon 4 mills i 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. i Unless said tax is paid by the 1st of March, 1921, eight days work upon) the public highways will be required under an overseer, if so much be nec essary. Taxes are payable in gold and sil v ' 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 twenty-five cents will be collected on all dogs. A dog tag will be furnished by the Treasurer to each owner pay ing license. Parties desiring information \>v mail in regard to their taxes will please write before Dec. 16th, stat 4.u? KxaHnn of their DroDerty and Illg C11C WVwvtv.. - - ^ 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 General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, 'That from and after' the passage of this Act there shall be i levied on all dogs, six months old o/j older, in the State of South Carolina I an annual tax of one dollar and twen-1 ty-five ($1.25) cents per head. Section 2. That upon the payment' of said annual tax of one dqllar and j twenty-five ($1.25) cents by the own-j er of any dog in the State, the Coun- i ty Treasurer shall issue to the said i owner a receipt therefor and a met- j al tax marked "Dog Tax" and the 1 year for which it is issued. Each bounty Treasurer shall keep a numer cal record of every dog taxed and in j addition thereto furnish to the owner, of each dog such number stamped on j 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 j municipal or otherwise. Provided. That all such taxes collected here un-, der shall be credited to the schools of j the School District from which it is rAlWtPfl. to be used in support of the j schools of the District: Provided, fur- j ther, That said tax shall become due i and payable at the same time State and County taxes become due and j payable. Section 3. That every owner of a; dog shall be required to collar and j place the aforesaid dog tag upon the j 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 perso'n owning.: harboring or maintaining a dog.; failing or refusing to return and pay | the tax aforesaid, shall he deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon I 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 reporting said failure to pay said J tax, and one-half to the public school, fund in which such derelict occurs. J. E. JONES, County Treasurer. Oct. 27, 1920. PHONE IS POPULAR * IN NEW ZEALAND One Phone To Every Sixteen In habitants?Experts Coming ing Here to Study New Zealand is giving the rest of the world a good race in the per fection of its telephone and tele graph systems, said E. A. Shrimp ton, M. I. E. E. chief engineer of the telegraph and telephone depart ment on the island dominion in an interview at the general offices of the Western Electrical Company, 195 Broadway. The concern has | 85,000 telephones in use in New Zealand, an average of one to every sixteen inhabitants. Subscribers to the phone system have ne^er been solicited, a fact which makes liie figures more to be wondered at. The little island outpost of the British Empire takes particular pride in the face hat It iia> develop ed its lines of communication to such an extent while the British Isles can only boast of one tele phone to about every forty-seven persons. Telephon? ' ate? in .Vow Zealand have been increased this year without in any way decreasing the demands of new subscribers. Mr. Shrimpton told of the devel opment of the lines of communica tion in New Zealand. "Our first telephone exchahge was erected at Christ Church only in 1880," he stated, "yet today we 'have 400 exchanges in a country of only 1,100,000 people. There is not a section in New Zealand where the pedestrians cannot find a telephone line. We have installed a line to "The Hermitage" at the peak of our loftiest mountain." The twenty-five subscribers to the original system in 1880 were not attracted by the low cost of their new convenience. The rate at that time was $125 a year. New Zealand has sent Mr. Shrimp u n to the Un. ted Statds to investi gate the latest developments in telephone apparatus. Irj 1911 the new automatic exchange system was introduced into his department. Since the war twenty-three Western Electric rotary automatic exchanges have been or will be put into use in New Zealand. "We New Zealanders are the greatest telegraph users in the world," Mr. Shrimptori remarked. "During 1910 our telegraph lines carried more than 14,000,000 mes sages, a far higher average than, I believe, prevailed in the United States. We never think of sending Christmas post cards?all our good wishes and short business communi cations are sent by wire. At present New Zealand has su pervision over all the British wire less stations in the Pacific. In addi tion to five in its own territory Mr. Shrimpton's department controls the stations at Chatham Island, Apia and Raratonga. Before the war the station at Apia belonged to Germany. It is more than 1,800 miles away fryom headquarters at New Zealand.?New Yo^k Sun. "I am surprised to find how many Americans believe New Zealand and Australia are next door neighbors," Mr. Shrimpton sid: "We are at least j 1,250 miles away from our sister | Dominion." Although no white man j touched our shores until Capt. Cook j appeared in 1769, only seven years| hefore vour Declaration of Inde-1 pendence, more than 75 per cent of our citizens are native born. Of these only 50,000 are Maoris, the oiginal inhabitants of our island. They are one of the greatest races on the earth." PREPAREDNESS From The Saturday Evening Post. On a dozen occasions within six months the old fellow had absented himself from the shop to attend funerals. .Finally the foreman re monstrated with him, not wishing to see the man discharged. "What's the idea of eroinp: to all those funerals Dennis when the peo- . pie are not even distantly related to you? Your absence from work is ; getting you in bad with the superin- >. tendent." "O'm an ould man, sor, a very ould man," he replied earnestly. (Ji must look out for meself, sor. If yez doan't go to other folks funeral how can yez expect thim to go to yourn? Since the end of the World War 13,100 homes have been rebuilt in 'France, 178,500 repaired and 46, 570 other houses in use temporarily. MERIDIAN LAWYER HACKED TO PIECES IN PRESENCE OF WIFE Horrible Crime Last Night By Tw*> Unknown Men.?Taken From Bed. Meridian, Miss., Jan. 14.?Moody Price, member of the Meridian bar, and unail recently U. S. commission er for this division was dragged from his bed by two unknown men shortly after 1 o'clock this morning, and literally hacked to pieces with an axe. Mrs. Price, sleeping in the same bed, was aroused by the disturbance and fainted when she saw the attack upon her husband. Price lingered in an unconscious condition for ahnut two hours and died without making a statement. His wife is still unable to make a statement. City and county authorities have been unable thus far to obtain a clue to the asailants or to develop a theory for the killing. When neighbors reached the Price home, after hearing a disturb ance, they found the lights on and Price's body resting in a pool of blood by the side of his bed. Investigation revealed ten ax Wade cuts in the lawyer's head and numerous deep wounds about the body. A bloody ax was found on the front norch of the home. A tele phone wire had been cut that was ?lading to the house and the attack carefully planned officers said. When Mrs. Price rallied several hours after her hushand was slain, she told officers that she was awak ened by the flashing of a flashlight and leaped from her bed. She was knocked down by one of the assail ants, who then switched on the lights in the room and joined the other man in the attack on her hus band. I COTTON PRICES SOON TO ADVANCE New York Review of Business Con ditions State Higher Prices Due Cotton has gone below a reason able decline and is due for a reac tion which will send the price up, is the belief expressed by the New York, Commercial, a paper devoted to financial matters. The review this responsible paper has made is reassuring to all busi ness interests of the country. Speak ing of the general business condi tion the report says: The most encouraging feature of the general business situation is the undercurrent of optimism which is showing forth in so many directions. The statements of business leaders that the upturn has actually set in in business is having its effect on the minds of the general public. These statements, coming from many diverse sources, show a unani mity of opinion that is convincing. Reports of resumption of operations are increasing not only in the auto mobile industry, but in textiles as as well. , The fact that a beginning has been made is of itself an important fac tor, the significance of which cannot be overlooked. With fatoories shut ting down and employes being thrown out of work the effect is bound to be discouraging to say the least. No one knows just what the end will be. On the other hand, when factories are resuming and unemployment' is decreasing, it be comes a matter of definite know ledge that improvement has set in. In the matter of the stock market, the decline has been so drastic that about everything unfavorable, short of actual disaster has been aiscountea ana wixn iew exceptions the same can be said or most com modity prices. Some items, as cotton for instancej have gone far beyond a reasonable decline and are due for a reaction just as soon as there ark some signs of a resumption of ac tivity in the manufacturing field. The one thing that the public has to be convinced is that prices have actually touched bottom and that it is safe to go ahead and buy. This is a pretty generally accepted fact, so far as wholesale prices are concern ed, but is not as yet wholly true of the retail prices. The end of the month, however, will probably see 4-U*m rt O VV i r\ A tiu^> icaujuoimciii v^aiuwu viu vu^ut although it may take a little longer than anticipated. The main thing is to instill confidence into buyers, for there is undoubtedly a considerable potential buying power !n dsTerred demand held in check until prices have become stabilized. The outlook seems to be improving every day. { OVER 3 MILLIONS < WORTH OF LIQUOR 1 REPORTED STOLEN 1 h Chicago, Jan. 15.?Check of; liquors seized by dry enforcement j operatives in the past year, and . ' held at a government warehouse, disclosed that more than $3,000,000 \ worth of whiskey is missing, Frank \ D. Richardson, prohibition commis- = sioner announced today. The whiskey evidently was stolen \ several months before he took office,! f Mr. Richardson said. He added that he hopes to have a number of for mer prohibition officials indicted and prosecuted as a result of his investi gation. Mr. Richardson says he has learn-' ea tnatat one time euu Darreis 01 | whiskey were removed from the warehouse in day light and that the day before he assumed office^ thir teen truck loads were hauled out. J <i)n that night he asserts there was a driving rain and the prohibition agents supposed to be on guard were inside the warehouse playing cards. > The missing whiskey totals more than 400,000 gallons. i * ji THREE. AIRMEN AT HOME AGAIN Balloonist* Now in United States? Praise For Farrell Toronto, J6n. 15.?The last leg of the American balloonists' home-. ward journey from the frozen north | where they were lost four days' when their balloon descended near J Moose Factory, December 14, was' begun when they left at 6:25 o'-j clock tonight for New York. They are due in New York at 40:30 o' clock tomorrow morning. City and aero club officials met the balloonists upon their arrival in this city, and escorted them to the ' Old Colony club, where they were dinner guests. , In a statement here, Lieutenant Hinton declared: "Farrell is the he ro. He bore the brunt of the adven ture. He broke the trail and did the hardest work. We were all nearly 1 J* -1 - - J At, )f swollen feet caused by our un- [ familiarity with snow shoes. I am J ;hankful it is over. It seems to me fiow but a terrible nightmare" Seeming in jolly spirits the home awrd bound officers chatted and Increase the Yiel Corn, cotton, truck, barley, wh crops will pay well if a little at fertilizer for your soil. Planters ] to the needs of Southern soils, You cannot raise a 100% crop unless yo &. matter of balanced conditions of the at Potash must be present in the propei be raised. PLANTERSF DOUBLES y because it contains available Phosphori tight proportions. Every bag is stamped with our Giant 1 for your protection, and better place yoi avoid delayed delivery. Ask our agent in your town for infonx us direct. Planters Fertilizer MANUFA4 CHARLESTON, S CO " ALL KINDS]OF lildin? Mated and SUPPLIES ' Supply G , H. JACKSON, Mgi smiled while exposing themselves to numerous yards, of motion picture film. Lieutenan-; Hinton and Farrell clasped hands before the cameras, apparently on the best of terms af ter their altercation at Mattice." / d of Farm Crops eat, oats?these, and all other tention is given to the proper Fertilizers are especially suited u have a 100 % soil. Fertility is largely >iL Phosphoric Acid, Ammonia, and proportions U bumper crop* are to IRTIUZER OUR VIElLD ompany S. Carolina