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Cotton Mills Pay Dividends Spartanburg, Dec. 31.-Sparta lurg county cotton mills are payi; out $838,170 in semi-annual dh dends today as follows: Arcadia mills, 3 1-2 per cent, i $200,000 preferred, $7,000. Arcadia mills, 5 per cent, on $201 ^ 000 common, $10,000. Arkwright mills, 5 per cent.. < $200,000 common, $10,000. ' Beaumont Manufacturing Coi pany, 3 per cent, on $90,000 prefe Ted, $2,700. Beaumont Manufacturing Coi pany, 5 per cent, on $310,000 coi mon, $15,500. Chesnee mills, 5 per cent, on $39 900 common, $19,745. Clifton Manufacturing comp?n 6 per cent, on $1,000,000 commo $120,000. V \ Cowpens mills, 3 per cent, c $100,000 preferred, $4,000. Cowpens mills, 3 per cent, c $400,000 common $12,000. - D. E. Converse company, 4 pi ' cent, on $1,000,000 common, $4C OOO. Drayton mills, 10 1-2 per cent, c $350,000 preferred, $40,700. Enoree mills, 3 1-2 per cent, c $130,000' perferred, $4,550. Inman mills, 3 1-2 per cent, c $150,000 preferred, $5,250.: Inman mills, 3 1-2 pen cent, o $600,000 common,. $21,000. Pacolet Manufacturing compan; 3 1-2 per cent, on $2,000,000^1^: red, $70,000. Pacolet Manufacturing compan; 10 per cent, on $2,000,000 commoi . $200,000. I .. Saxon mills, 4 per cent on $900 OOO common, $36,000. Spartan mills, 4 per cent on $2 000,000 common, $80,000. Tucapau mills, 5 per cent, o $807,000 common, $40,000. Victor-Monaghan company, 3 1 per cent, on preferred, estimate $18,975. "Whitney Manufacturing company ~~5 per cent, on $350,000 commor $17,500. Woodruff Cotton mills, 10 per cen on $525,000 common, $2,500. W. S. Gray Cotton mills, 4 pe cent, on $260,000 preferred, $10, 400. Twenty-one cotton mills in Spar .tanburg county,' having a total capi .tal stock of $8,908,900 January 1 have paid stock dividends amountin] . t4|?~,058,0fl? ,and; caoh dividend --^-aSfonting W'$2,099,949, a totalHI $8^57^949 during the year en din] -today according to figures compilei "by A. M. Law & Co. Included in th cash dividends is the sum of $838, 170 being paid in semi-annual divi dends today, but the totals do not in elude dividends paid during the yea ay mills in adjacent counties, th< -managements of which are locatei here. The combined stock and casi ?dividends paid by the mills of thi -county during the yea** lack bu $850,900 of equalling the combin?e capitalization of the mills at the be ginning of the year. , The stock dividends represent foi the most part profits accumulatet during the era of high prices pre vailing since 1915, but which wen not distributed until after the Unit ed States Kipreme court d?clar?e early last summer that stock divi dends were not taxable. All the mills it is said, have good surplus account! left after paying their dividends. * Since the deflation of prices be gan several months ago there has 1>e?n little curtailment of output bj -the mills of the county. All are run ning on practically full time now and expect to continue jdoing so. There las been a reduction in wages during recent weeks averaging 20 per cent.? ?which has been accepted in good spirit, it is said, by the operatives, who seem to realize, that the reduc tion was necessary under changed conditions. The mill men report more in quiries for goods during the past -week than for sometime previously, iiand they say they are expecting a .brisk demand a little, later on. Sev eral substantial orders have been filled during the past ten days. One Tnill this week sold 50 cases of goods at a net loss of $1.50 per case. The cloth, however, was made months ago .from high priced cotton and under -the wage scale then prevailing. The same goods, manufactured now from . present priced raw cotton and with the present wage scale, would show a substantial profit. Local. mill men . without exception say they look for ^tisfactpr^tfusiness during the year. When You Are Billious. To' promote a healthy action of the .fiver and correct the disorders caused '-by biliousness Chamberlain's Tab lets are excellent. Try them and see low quickly they give you a relish ior your food and banish that dull, ;jirtupid feeling. Contempt Sentence for Ge: eral Harris. Washington, Dec-31.-A contera sentence of ten days in jail was ii posed today on Maj. Gen. Peter Harris, adjutant general of the arra by Justice Siddons of the district s preme court for his refusal to pr duce certain records in connects with the selective service act whii were sought in Ohio divorce procee ings. An appeal from the ruling of tl court that such records should 1 produced was immediately noted 1 counsel for General Harris and tl contempt sentence automatical was suspended pending disposition i the appeal. General Harris said that he had h "field equipment" ready and was pr pared to serve out the sentence necessary but added that he did ni expect to have to go to jail. Justice Siddons in entering the r der adjudging the general in co: tempt directed that should he deck to produce the records sought b fore the expiration of the ten da: hewas to be released. The war di partment, however, is to make a te of the status of draft records. The record which Justice Siddoi ordered the general to produce wi an affidavit made by Mrs. Mary I Walsh in behalf of her husband, Her ry H. Walsh, before Walsh's loo board. Walsh is now suing his wii for divorce and his counsel obtaine ah order for the production of the a: fidavit in connection with these pr< ceedings. General Harris contended th? President Wilson in the order pr< mulgating the selective service ac promised that certain information i connection with the questionnaire would never be made public and tha among this information was the phj sical condition of the men examinee matters relating to dependents an additional matter of affidavits tha might be filed. In view of this the general con tended that he was stopped fror making the information public no only by the law itself but also b the president's order which consti tuted a "moral promise" to the wive and other relatives of'men called t .service that information furnished b; the men would be kept from the pub lie. ! bjr the 'secretary of state", for - 192i reached a total of $78,621.56, a compared with $37,312.76 for 1919 according to figures in the annual re port of W. Banks Dove, secretar; of state, obtained yesterday. The receipts for the year closing yesterday at noon more than doubl?e the receipts of 1919. This increasi came earlier in the year as for th? past.three months the business hai been exceptionally dull. During December of 1920 the fee: collected amounted to $5,567.50 This amount includes the money tak en in yesterday. The report of Mr. Dove shows thai his office has had a very, successfu year. The charter fees brought ir $65,747.55 while dissolutions ol charters,, amendments and othei items of this nature netted the office $5,779.01. 'A total, of 871 charters were issued, 78 eleemosynary insti tutions were chartered, 270 declara tions were filed, 768 notaries public were commissioned and a large num ber of foreign companies were grant ed domestication papers during the year.-The State. Attorney General Asked to Frame Act. Attorney General Wolfe was yes terday asked to frame a bill to be known as the employers' liability act or the workmen's compensation act to be introduced at the approach ing session of the general assembly. Mr. Wolfe was asked to frame such a bill by Senators Frank C. Robinson of McCormick and W.. F. Lightfoot of Hampton, who propose to introduce the bill soon after the meeting of the assembly in January. The bill will be introduced with a view to making railroads and all other corporations liable for injuries sustained by their employees while the employes are in the service of the corporations. Attorney G?nerai Wolfe said yes terday the proposed act would be in keeping with the federal act along this line. It is understood that Mr. Robinson and Mr. Lightsey favor a bill similar to the New Jersey or Ohio act. . Mr.- Wolfe, said that his office would frame the bill and have it in readiness by the convening of the general assembly or soon thereafter. -The State. j j The Scarecrow By RALPH HAMILTON (GD, 1920, Western Newspaper Union.) It.seemed to Miss Mary Burton that she bad reached the very height of earthly felicity when she became the sole owner of a home of lier own. For fifteen years she had taught school, carefully saved her. money and now at thirty-five with a paid up annuity pol icy bringing her forty dollars a month she had settled dowu amid beauty and comfort The house was very pleasantly arr ranged and there was a. two-acre ga^ den. This latter had been neglected I-and Miss Burton had great Ideas of Improving it as she accumulated the money to do so. An orphan niece, My ra Davis, had come to live with her, bringing the furnishings of two rooms, inherited from her mother. The ar rangement was that Myra should as sist about tte house, and If they could get a little fancy work to do they would join in this feature of increas ing their Income. "The first thing we must do is to^et that old chicken yard In order," Aid Myra. "It will take about fifty ydrds of poultry netting to patch up the^old fence and a new gate must be i^ade for lt. There's laying boxes to get for the chickens, too, and the inside shed dught to be whitewashed. You'll leave all that to me, won't you, Aunty?" Miss Burton was fully agreeable to this arrangement. Her own hobby about the place was a cherry tree that occupied the center of the garden^ "It bore for the first, time last year," a neighbors tell me," she said to Myra. "There was only a/little fruit then, but this will be a good year for it All my life I've longed te be able to put up fruit raised by my' own hands." ^ So Miss Burton sprayed the tree and watched the buds grow Into little green globes and cleaned and polished some Old fruit jars and made great prepara tions for the harvesting of ber treas ures. Meantime Myra lived in a sort of elysium of delight Her forte was mak ing things spick and span and keeping them so. She was trying to straighten, stretch and attach a roll of poultry wire to posts one afternoon -when - a young man of about twenty-two came along. He was rolling a lawn mower and had a small canvas bag, evidently containing tools. "Just let me save you time and trouble, young lady," he spoke briskly. "You've got too pretty fingers to scratch and mush up with such rougn work. Using nails? Ob, that won't do ! Here's what you need for tacking and holding wire," and he took from his kit a box cantainii^|&abaj)?Sd:| rad?. .. ??RSM ! Myra liked' his face ?h?^-maa^ _ anybody would, for, tie^wa? aU'?mlles ,] and good'' nature. 'He looked as if ho would feel hurt if she declined his help, but she said, "We are doing most of the work around here, Aunty and myself. We haven't got much money." "Ob, that won't be work for me," de clared the young man. "I've got a lit tle leisure. Now then, you take this awl and hold the wire true while I nail. That's it. Famous 1 Just getting ready to make a farm of the place, eh? I'm picking up a sort of tempo nry living staying here for a week or two. I know something about garden work and if you don't mind I'll drop around once in a while and give you some. points." "Oh, If you would !" exclaimed Myra, and in her ingenuous way told of Miss Burton's agricultural ambitions. It led to her interested visitor telling her something about himself. His was a Curious story. He gave her his name as Archie Lull, and related that he had come from another state where he had been In charge of a grain ele vator for a wealthy relative. One day a maudlin produce buyer had quar reled with his wife In the elevator office and had struck her. All the man hood of Lull resented the brutality. He had given the man the trouncing of his life. The latter was influential and threatened to prosecute Lull to the limit. "It was cowardly to run away," con fessed Lull, "but I was tired of the monotonous Job anyway, so I've sort of made myself scarce." He was a tireless worker, well in formed, agreeable and accomodatlng and he made many new friends. He won the heartiest appreciation of Miss Burton by putting up a scarecrow to keep away the robins and blackbirds from her precious cherries and cur-, rants. In making the scarecrow Lull had used "anNold coat of no value," he de clared, "too loud to wear on the street-Just used it Inside the eleva tor office." It was conspicuous and did Its work well. One day a man motor ing by halted and came up to the fence. "Young lady," he spoke to Myra, "ex cm e me, but that coat on your scare-; crow strikes me as familiar. Wou1: you tell me something of Its owner?" and then, as Lull appeared, he extend ed his hand with heartiness and the words : "Lucky I've found you. There's lot to tell you." What the attorney told Archie Lull was that his relative, dying, had left him one of the heirs to a considerable amount Miss Burton looked disap pointed and Myra sad at losing the companionship of their cheery, helpful friend. "But Tm coming bael:," declared Archie, and he did. It was to court the winsome Myra, and with her later settle down on Miss Burton's minia ture farm as the dearest spot on ear JJ, County Treasurer's Notice. The County Treasurer's office will be open for the purpose of receiving taxes from the 15th day of October, 1920 to the 15th day of March, 1921. All taxes shall be due and payable between the 15th day $f October, 1920 and December 31st, 1920. That when taxes charged shall not be paid by December 31st, 1920 the County Auditor shall proceed to add a penalty of one per cent, for Janu !ary, and if taxes are not paid on or before February 1st 1921, the Coun ty Auditor will proceed to add two per cent, and five per cent addition al, from the 1st of March to the 15th of March, after which time all un paid taxes will be collected by the Sheriff. The tax levies for the year 1920 are as follows: , Mills For State purposes_ 12 For Ordinary County_ 8 For Past Indebtedness_2% ?For Special, Good Roads_ For Constitutional School Tax For Antioch_:_ For Bacon School District_ For Blocker_ For Blocker-Limestone _ For Colliers_ For Flat Rock_ For Oak Grove _ For Red Hill _ For Edgefield_ 10 For Elmwood No. 8_ For Elmwood No. 9_ Fer Elmwood No. 30_ For Elmwood L. C.-_ For Hibler ____ For Harmony -;- 3, For Johnston _ 15 For Meriwether (Gregg)- 2 For. Moss- 3 For Brunson School- 4 For Ropers-1- 2 For Shaw_ 4 For Sweetwater_:- 4 For Talbert_ 8 For Trenton _11% For Wards J_ For Wards No. 33_. For Blocker R. R. (portion - For Elmwood R. . (portion - For Johnston R. R. For Pickens R. R. I For Wise R. R. For Corporation _30% All the male citizens between the ages of 21 years and 60 years, ex cept those exempt by law, are liable to a poll tax of One Dollar each. A capital tax of 50 cents each is to be paid on all dogs. The law prescribes that all male citizens between the ages of 18 and 55 years must pay $4.00 commuta tion tax or work 4 days on the public roads. No commutation is included in the property tax. So ask for road tax receipt when you desire to pay road tax. Time for paying road tax will expire March 15, 1921. j. L. PRINCE, ... .... .Co" Treas. E. C. COLDS SH??fcD BE CARED FOR As soon as a cold is contracted the system becomes disordered. This may develop into any one of several serious diseases. You can't afford to take the m ? chance.of incurring asevere pen- 9 $ alty for neglect. s For years physicians have pre- - scribed medicine containing hore hound, mullein and tar. Com pounded with a\ few. other ele- % 9 ments you have ja medicine that will check a cold immediately. To satisfy the demand for this 8prescription in quickly obtainable form, Dr. Murray has his chem j? is ts prepare quantities and sup 9 ply druggists. Ask your drug g gist for MURRAY'S HOR?HOUND . MULLEIN AND TAR Children enjoy taking it. Your H druggist will refund your money if your satisfaction is not com plete. Colds and Influenza are success fully treated by using Dr. Hil ton's Life in conjunction with ? Murray's Horehound Mullein and Tar. Manufactured by Murray Drug Company COLUMBIA, S. C. Lombard Foundry, Machine, Boiler Work, ind Mill Supply House ! AUGUSTA GEORGIA Cotton Oil, Gin, Saw, Grist, Cane, Shingle Mill, Machinery Supplies and Repairs, Shafting, Pulleys, Hangers, Grate Bara, Pumps, Pipe, Valves and Fittings, Injectors, Belting, Packing Hose, etc. Cast every day. GASOLINE AND KEROSENE , ENGINES Pumping, Wood Sawing and Feed Grinding Outfits. Eyes scientifically examined and glasses properly fitted. GEO. F. MIMS, Optometrist-Optician, Edgefield, S. C. Notice to Builders! We have Beaver Board, Beaver Board Strips, Sash, Doors, Blinds, Ceiling, Siding, Flooring, Mantels, Store Fixtures and all kinds of high-class mill work. 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