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FIFTH BUTTER SCORING Only One More Grading Before Awarding of Prixe?. Tomorrow at 1 o'clock the fifth butter scoring will take place in the court house, Miss Elizabeth Forney, dairy specialist, doing the grading Only one other contest will be held in the county this season previous to the awarding of prizes. There has been much interest in the butter contest during the summer and now that the season draws to a close, Mrs. Bel], home demonstration agent, hj-pos that all those who have taken an interest so far will make a special effort for these last two scorings. Special effort is being made to have many new entrants in the contest Saturday. The worried countenance of the bridegroom disturbed him. Tiptoeing up the aisle, he whispered: "What's the matter. Jack? Have you lost the ring?" . "No," blurted out the unhappy Jack, "the ring's safe eno.' But, mon, er, "Maybe it grew there."?Pipe ; Progress. SuddIv Ordinance To Rtite Supplies For the City Of Abbeville, S. C., For the Fi?cal Year, 1922. BE IT ORDAINED by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Abbeville, S. C., in Council assembled and by authority of the same, that a tax for the sums and in a manner hereinafter named shall be raised and paid into the treasury of the City Council for the uses and purposes for the fiscal year, 1922. NOTICE is hereby given that the cfHce of the City Treasurer of Ab> beville, S. C., will open for collection of taxes for the said fiscal year 1922, from Tuesday, November 1st, 1P21, until Saturday, December 31st, 1921, without penalty. Rstes per centum of taxation are ar follows: City taxes 5 mills. Waterworks tax (int. on bonds and rrr.king fund) 2 mills, "f?!cK:tric Light Tax, (int. on bond and sinking fund) 2 mills. Sewerage tax (int. on Bond and sinking fund) 2 mills. Paving Tax (int. on bonds ani sinking fund) 10 mills. That when the taxes and assess_ ments or any portion thereof charged against the property or party on the tax books of the City for tfie fiscal year 1922, shall not be paid on or before the first day of January, 1922, the City Treasurer shall proceed to add a penalty of one per eent. on the tax books and shall collect the same, and if the said taxes, assessments and penalties are not paid on or before the first day of February next, thereafter an additional penalty of one per centuni shall be added by the City Treasurer, ; and if said taxes, assessments and nwialties are not naid on or before " * ' the first day of March next, thereafter, an additional penalty of five per centum thereon shall be added by the City Treasurer, and be collected .. by him; and if the said taxes, assessments and penalties are not paid on or before the fifteenth day of March next thereafter, the said City Treas. nrer shall issue his Tax execution for said taxes, assessments and penalties against the property of the defaulting tax payers according to law. A Commutation Road Tax -will be - collected the same time as other taxes from all male citizens between I the ages of 18 and 55 years, except i those exempted' by law. This Commutation Tax is as fol-; lows: The sum of Two ($2.00) j Dollars, payable before March 31st,1 1922, the sum of Two and 50-100 (2.50) Dollars, if not paid until and during the month of April, 1922,; the sum of Three ($3.00) Dollars if not paid until and during the month of May, 1922. In lieu of this tax r!x days work upon the highways and fctreets of the City will be required under the street overseer. All persons failing or refusing to pay the Commutation Tax or to work the six full days shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than thirty dollars or imprisoned more than th:rty days. j Done and ratified in the City Council, this 16th day of September, 1921. I J. MOORE MARS, Mayor. \ G. C. DOUGLASS, City Clerk. ! MANY INDUSTRIES i TIED TOTODADDO Prohibition of Weed Would Mean Big Financial Loss to Allied Trades. WHO USES THE WATCH? The Smoker Mainly?Also Responsible for Sponding Hundreds of Millions Annually for Licorice, 8uo*r, Coal, Clflar Boxes, Tft? Foil, Etc. 1 By GARRET SMITH "Got a match?" How many times a day Is that question asked In these United States? How many more times Is the question unnecessary because most pockets are kept well supplied with the useful little article? Anyhow, Inasmuch as It Is estimated that there are 30.000.000 tobacco users In the country, we would guess that the answer to that Question would run Into the hundreds of millions. For If It weren't for the smoker* 1b these days of electric lights how many matches would be used? A pretty small proportion of the number ot these "sticks of blazes'' produced In the country every year. Abolish tobacco and the nHitch business would bs shot to pieces. But the match business is only one of a dozen 6r more allied Industries which derive large revenues directly or Indirectly from the tobacco trade and would suffer heavily If national-prohibition of tobacco were to go into effect as some of our reformers would have It. The annual sales of tobacco products, based on retail prices, Is estimated at $1,937,000,000. Of the cost of producing and selling this quantity of clears, cigarettes and other forms of the weed, dome hundreds of million J dollars are paid out for other things j than the raw tobacco and labor of, making It up. $25,000,000 a Year for Boxes For example, the tobacco trade consumes each year 45,000,000 pounds of licorice, 50,000,000 pounds of sugar, both used In flavoring tobacco, and : fi.r>0,000 tons of coal. It Is estimated ; that the value of wooden cigar boxes used Is $25,000,000 a year, quite an Item to the lumber business anfl to { manufacturers of the boxes. In making these boxes 550,000 pounds of nails are employed. Other large items used in making and preparing tobacco for sale are tin and lend foil, paper for bags and cigarette 1 wrappers, cloth for tobacco bags, la- : bels, coupons, etc., Involving the printing trade extensively. Then building con 1 motors and manu- ' facturers of machinery are largely in- i terested. Investments in plants and i machinery emploved in manufacturing tobacco aiv estimated at $102,000,000. Replacement, up-keep and inter I st on the Investment make no small sum annually. And let realty men note there are approximately 325.000 tobacco farms 1 In tlic country, with a total estimated valuation of $100/(00.000 Of further interest to real estate men is the fact that there are 700,000 retail establishments selling tobacco, Involving a total rental and up keep impossible to estimate. besides the large amount of office space occupied by administrative branches of the general business. The Insurance men. too, have their snare of the pickings. The tobacco bus'ness pays out annually $7,000,000 In premiums In the United Stales. f And there are the railroads who reap revenue from 2.1M0.O00 tons of tobacco products every year. As for the advertising business here again It Is Impossible to form any estimate of the enormous annual outlay. The prohibition of tobacco would also knock a good-sized hole in the receipts of the United States government The Internal revenue receipts from tobacco for the fiscal year 1920 amounted to $295,809,355.44. Customs duties provided an additional $25,000,000 In round figures, making the total revenue return to the government $320,000,000. Influence on Popular Sentiment Tt Is this Interlocking of the tobacco bus'ness with so many other Interests | and the vast amount of financial loss that would be Involved In the abolition of tobacco that is one of the most serious aspects of the proposal to pro hlhit the sale of tobacco, a proposal, however, which lias little support b? public sentiment if the newspaper editors of the country are correct In their estimate of that sentiment. In a poll of the editors made recently hy the Tobacco Merchants' Association of the United States, through the Press Service Company of New York Cit.v, per cent of t\ie 7.S4T editors who replied expressed the opinion that flu? people of their commun'tles were opposed to any law against tobacco. At those editors represent some 80.000.00J renders the results form a pretty general test ?f national opinion. In their remarks accompanying thplr replies many of the editors expressed It as their opinion that the oppos'tior of their communities to the abolition of tobacco was based to some extent ;i least on the damage such a change would do to the business Interests of rhe community. This was particularly true in the tobacco growing states anil centers where there were large tobacco plants. Hut when the extent of the business Involved In the allied Interests of the tobacco trade Is considered, as above briefly outlined. It is clear that there Is hardly a section of the country that would not be affected directly or ! - PEANUT DISEASES Information From Pathologists on Spots and Rusts. x * Clemson Colllege, Oct.?About this time of year the peanut is usually attacked by a leaf spot organism, which produces dark brown to black circular spots about one-fourth to three-eights of an inch in diameter on the leaves. The lower leaves are usually attacked first, and the younger greener ones later. The damage CnnS'Hpr- i UUltC vauco iiVMi ? able. Nothing can be done ordinarily to prevent the attack. It is known that the disease is not transmitted on the seed and that seed treatment is therefore of no value. Spraying, while it might help, is too expensive io use on a field crop. All that can be done is to give the best cultural conditions] in which case a good crop can usually be produced in spite of the fungus. Another disease, as yet unknown in this state but really more threatening to peanut growing, is peanut rust. In the winter of 1919, Dr. J. C. Arthur, the greatest American authority on rusts called attention to this fungus. It was then unknown in this country, and he warned against the danger that it would be introduced. In a very short time it was dis-' covered in Florida, first as an unimportant local infection, and later in another locality as a more serious trouble. Unless it has since been possible to stamp out the disease in these places of its first appearance, | it carries a very serious threat to peanut growing all over the south. It may be recognized by the presence on the leaves of yellow pustule? which resemble the pustules of beai' rust, wheat rust, etc. Leaves having; a suspicious appearance should bej sent to the Botany Division, Ulem-1 son College, S. C., for examination, j as it is very important to learn at once of ahy infections which may occur within the state. Imitation Too Real. | "My little girl is very clever," j said a woman to her guests. "She can imitate almost anyone." ! "She can indeed!" echoed the hus-jj band proudly. "Come, my dear, show!; us what yo:i can do. Pretend to be; I the housemaid." I The little girl bowed to one of the j J guests. i "Will you take any more chicken, |J ma'am, or a little more beef?" she'! asked politely. I Then she turned to another. |l "Shall I put the screen before your 11 chair, ma'am?" she inquired. "The |j fire is very fierce." I At this the guests were greatly .I amused. " I "Go on my dear," chuckled the;I proud father. ,| Backing away from her parents, j I she exclaimed in a terrified tone.! I "Sir, let me go! Don't touch me, sir!11 Give you a kiss, indeed! Supposing!j missus was to hear you?" - 'j Then the clever little darling was j suddenly bundled out of the room.? !j Pi+feKiivruk rikrr?ni/?lfi_Tfll nil ! ivtoiruigu vui viuv??- a v?V5a w^?i> I NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS j! MEETING. Notice is hereby given that a meet-1' ing of the stockholders of The Far-! 1 mers Warehouse Company, a corpor-jl ation with its principal place of bus- I iness at Abbeville in said State, is j called to meet at The Peoples Bank | building, in the city of Abbeville on i j the 27th day of Oct. 1921, at 10 j o"clock, A. M. to consider a resolu- [j tion adopted by the Directors of j I said corporation on the 29th day of j| September, 1921 whereby it was de-jj termined to increase the capital stock j | of said corporation to the sum of jj Fifty Thousand Dollars. j| The stockholders of said corpora-:j tion are notified to be present* at said 11 meeting either in person or by proxy j to vote upon the adoption of the said j, resolution by the directors. W. F. NICKLES, President, j! W. H. WHITE, Secretary. 9, 30-4t-lwk. ? : I W. A. HARRIS j FUNERAL SUPFLlbS EMBALMING I and ' Auto Hearse Service I PHONES | Day 395 Night 134 j Me-o-my, how you a pipe?? Before you're a day older you want to let the idea slip under your hat that this is the open season to start something with a joy'us jimmy pipe ? and some Prince Albert ! Because, a pipe packed with Prince Albert satisfies a man as he was never satisfied before?and keeps him satisfied! And, you can prove it! Why ? P. 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