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Treasurer's Notice.
In accordance with an act to raise
supplies for the fiscal year 1921, beginning
January 1st, the treasurer's
office will open from October 15 to
December 31st for collection of taxes
without penalty.
After January 1st, 1922 the penalty
will be one per cent.; after February
1st, penalty two per cent; after
March 1st, penalty seven percent,
after March 15th, the unpaid taxes
will go into execution and will be
collected by the Sheriff.
One dollar Poll tax will be collected
from all male citizens between.
ages Ot ?1 ana ov years.
A two-dollar road tax on all malej
citizens between the ages of 18 and!
50 years.
A dog license of $1.25 must be |
paid on all dogs. This license is' in
lieu of all other taxes and licenses,
city or otherwise.
Rate of Taxation.
State Tax ,12 Mflls.
Ordinary County (current expenses)
5% Mills
By Co. BB. Com. (current
expenses) 1 Mill.
Special County (past indebtedness'
1 Mill.
Road Bonds.. 7% Mills
3 Mill School Tax ?. 3 Mills.
Repair Gang* (chaingang) 1 Mill.
. TOTAL 31 Mills.
In additon to the above the following
Special School Tax will be collected
on the following named school
districts:
School Districts and Numbers With
Rate of Special Tax
1?Corner 2 Millsj
2?Ridg e - 0 "
3?Lowndesville ? ? 13 Vz "
4?Rocky River 8 "
6?Fork 0
*6?Sextus 0
"3?Latimer ? 0 - "
8?Montere y 0 "
9?Calhoun Falls 6 "
10?Santuc ? ? 4 "
*17?Flatwoods 0 "
18?Bethia 8 "
20?Sharo n 8 "
21?Bethel 3 "
22?Abbevill e 13 "
23?Warrenton ? 8 "
24?Reed ?u 8 " \
25?Brownle e 4j "
26?Campbel l 15 "
27?Antrevili e '-^12 "
28?Unio n 0 "
29?Sunny Slope 8 "
80?Cold Spring 8 H
31?Long Cane 2 "
32?Smithville - 2 "
33?Promise Land 0 "
34?Centra l ?.? 8 "
35?Haga n 8 "
36?Parks Creek ' 3 "
37?Keowe e 14 "
38?Due West - IP '
39?Donald s 17 "
40?Pinevill e 6 "
41?Vermillio n 8 "
42?Fonvill e 3 . "
43?Eurek a 3 "
44?Broadmout h ... 8 "
45?Rock Spring 2 "
46?Ra y r 4 "
47?Wynon a 8
49?-Hal l 4 "
50?Can a 4 "
54?Lebanon - ? 4 " |
Taxes are payable only in gold or
silver coin, U. S. currency. National
bank notes, P. O. money orders and
Cashiers check on bank. If parties
desire to pay with personal checks
they must do so at their own risk and
mast pay the exchange if banks
charge same. Parties desiring infor'
nation about taxes will please write
before Dec. 15th, answers will be
promptly given to all communications
when postage for reply is included.
The Treasurer's office will close
promptly at 4 o'clock daily during
the time for collecting taxes in order
that the books may be balanced
daily.
Please inclose postage for anyi
reply desired when writing.
R. B. CHEATHAM,
Treasurer Abbeville County.
A Word ia Time.
fwo Scotchmen were on a raft
adrift on a stormy sea. Angus knelt
and 'began to pray. "O Lord," he
said, "I ken I've broken maist o'
Thy commandments. But, 0 Lord,
if I'm spared this time I promise?" j
Here Andrew interrupted him.
"I widn'a commit yoursel' ower
Jar, Angus," said he. *1 think I see
land."?Pipe Progress.
Those who called the Germans"
are being justified. Their waiters
are refusing tips.?Hie State.
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MANY INDUSTRIES |
TIED TO TOBACCC
Prohibition of Weed Would Mean
Big Financiaf Loss to
Allied Trades.
WHO USES THE MATCH7
The Smoker Mainly?Also Responsible
for Spending Hundreds of Millions
Annually for Licorice, 8ugar,
Coal, Cigar Boxes, Tin
Foil, Etc.
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 emokers 1b ^
these days of electric lights how many
matches would be used? A pretty
small proportion of the number of
these "sticks of blazes" produced In
the country every year. Abolish to
bacco and the match business would b?
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 cigars, cigarettes and other forms
of the weed, some hundreds of million
dollars are paid out for other things
than the raw tobacco and labor of
making it up.
$25,000,000 a Year for Boxes
For example, Hie tobacco trade consumes
each year 45,000,000 pounds of
licorice, 50,000,000 pounds of sugar,
both used In flavoring tobacco, and
650,000 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 and to
manufacturers of the boxes.
In making these boxes 550,000
pounds of nails are employed. Other
i.irge Items used In making and preparing
tobacco for sale are tin and
lead foil, paper for bags and cigarette
wrappers, cloth for tobacco bags, labels,
coupons, elf., involving the printing
trade extensively.
Then building contractors and manufacturers
of machinery are largely Interested.
Investments In plants and
machinery employed in manufacturing
tobacco are estimated at $102,000,000.
Replacement, up keep and Inter
est on the investment make no small <
sum annually.
And let realty men nots there are
approximately 325.000 tobacco farms
in the country, with a total estimated
valuation of $160,000,000. Of further in- '* ?
terest 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 estlbevfetoa
t** larft srnrnmi ??
flee space occupied by administrative
branches of the general business.
The Insurance men, too, have their
share of the pickings. The tobacct
bns'ness pays out annually $7,009,00d "
In premiums In the United States. ]
And there are the railroads who reap
revenue from 2,210,000 tons of tobacco
products every year. ^
As tor the advertising business ari
here again it Is impossible to form ma
any estimate of the enormous annual wa
oatlay' nu
The prohibition of tobacco would alse
knock a good-sized hole In the receipts &1"'
of the United States government, ou
The Internal revenue receipts from sa]
tobacco for the fiscal year 1920 amounted
to $299,809355.44. Customs duties ?
provided an additional $25,000,000 In e
round figures, making the total revenue ^
return to the government $320,000,000. of
Influtne* on Popular 8?ntim?nt by
It Is this interlocking of the tobacca
bua!nesa with so many other Interests
and the vast amount of financial losa f"
that would be involved in the abolition in
of tobacco that Is one of the most se is
rioua aspects of the proposal to pro m?
hlbit the sale of tobacco, a proposal,
however, which has little support by
public sentiment If the newspaper edl
tors of the country are, correct In their bo
estimate of that sentiment. en
In a poll of the editors made receAtV? :
by the Tobacco Merchants' Association
of the United States, through the Press
Service Company of New York City, 41
95 per cent of the 7,847 editors who
replied expressed the opinion that the
people of their communities were opposed
to any law against tobacco. As
these editors represent some 80,000,000 oli
readers the results form a pretty generaJ
test of national opinion. ..
In their remarks accompanying their
replies many of the editors expressed en
It as their opinion that tlve oppostion ou
of their communities to the abolition mi
of tobacco was based to some extent at
least on the damage such a change .
would do to the business Interests of Pn
the community. This was particularly cic
true in the tobacco growing states anil tjjj
eo*iters where there were large tobacco
plants. tni
But when the extent of the business ?r
Involved in the allied Interests of the 00
tobacco trade 13 considered, as above (lit
hrieflv outlined, it Is dear that there
0I|
!s h:\r Vr n section of the country that
would not he affected directly or lo
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BIRDS KILL MANY INSECTS
Mobilization of the wild birds, a
ny of the air that allies itself wit
,n to fight crop pests, nearly al
ys follows the presence of larg
mbers of insects that prey upo
>wing plants. Their aid instampin
t the menace is almostincalculabl
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what the birds have done are cite
the department, as follows:
On one Utah farm infested by th
'alfa weevil, English sparrows alon
one season fed to their young, i
estimated, 500,000 of the pest
ikingthe m about onethird of th
?t of the growing birds. Sixty-si
ids of birds feed on the cottor
11 weevil, the greatest feathere
emy of this pest being the orchi
iole. A single stomach of this kin
bird contained, upon examinatioi
boll weevils. The green bug c
leat aphis also?but let the deparl
snt tell the story:
"On a 200-acre farm in North Cai
na, where wheat, rye and oat
;re severely attacked by green bug
was found that the birds were ver
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tbreak was at is height during th
gration season of such birds as th
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0,000 a day, andon days when ac
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MASTER'S SALE
Iff TL? Qt.u .( C?.,?k C*rnli?a.
COUNTY OF.ABBEVILLE.
Court of Common Pleas.
COUNTY SAVINGS BANK,
2 . Plaintiff,
against
;d ELIZA DOUGHERTY, Et Al,
re Defendants.
a* By authority of a Decree of Sale
by the Court of Common Pleas for
s.
ln Abbeville County, in said State,
,s made in the above stated case, I will
[e offer for sale, at Public Outcry, at
Abbeville C. H., S. C., on Salesday
in November, A. D. 1921, within the
legal hours of sale the following des:h
cribed land, to wit: All that tract or
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l" parcel ot iana situate, lying ana oea?
ing in Abbeville County, in the State
ie aforesaid, containing One Hundred
ie (100) Acres, more or less, and bound;<*
ed by lands of Armstrong McDuffie,
re the Rosenberg Mercantile Company,
is W. J. Busby and the Lowndesville
Abbeville Road, and being land conveyed
to me by Thomas P. Baskin.
al TERMS OF SALE: CASH. Pur10
chaser to pay for papers and stamps,
s- THOS. P. TH0M80N,
i- Master a. C., S. C.
sejOct. 19, 3wks.
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MASTER'S SALE
T!? State of South Carolisa,
COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE,
Court of Common Pleas
W. F. NICKLES, Plaintiff
against
HATTIE SHUMATE, et al,
Defendants.
By authority of a Decree of Sale
by the Court of Common Pleas for
Abbeville County, in said State,
made in the above stated case, I will
offer for sale, at Public Outcry, at
Abbeville C. H., S. C., on Salesday
in November, A. D. 1921, within the
legal hours of sale the following des
crib-ed land, to wit: All that tract or
parcel of land situate, lying and being
in the city of Abbeville, in the
State aforesaid, facing Depot
Street, and running back to lot of
Hattie Shumate, and known as the
William McGowan lot, and being
the same lot conveyed to Wade Mitchell
by W. C. McGowan with the exception
of a lot conveyed to Hattie
Shumate by Wade Mitchell and being
bounded by Depot Street, and
Brooks Street, Hattie Shumate and
the Manuel Taggart lot.
TERMS OF SALE?CASH. Purchaser
to pay for stamps and papers.
THOS. P. THOMSON,
Oct 19, 3wks. Master A. C.. S. C.
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