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Auditors Notice The Auditor's office will be opened for the assessment of Personal Property from January 1st, 1915, to February 20, 1915. All male citizens between the age of 21 and 60 years are deemed Taxable Polls, except those who are maimed or for other causes are incapable of earning a support. The law requires 50 per cent penalty added to taxes on property subject to taxes and not returned for assessment on or be_ fore the 20th of February, 1915. I will be in the Auditor's _ rf T - ? ? - / ~ omce januarv 4, 11, 10, zi, ZZ, 23, 29 and 30: February 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20, and at the following places on the dates named: Grant's Mill, Jan. 1 from 1 to 4 o'clock. Westfield Creek Church Jan. 2 from 10 to 12 o'clock. Patrick, Jan. 5, from into 3 o'clock. Cedar Creek Church, Jan. 6, from 10 to 3 o'clock. John C. Wallace's, Jan. 7 from 11 to 3 o'clock. Cashes, Jan. 8, from 11 to 2 o'clock. Angel us, Tan. 12, from 11 to 3 o'clock. Jefferson, Jan. 13 and 14 to 12 o'clock. Catarrh, at J. G. Holly's, Jan. 14 from 2 to 4 o'clock. Plains, Jan. 15 from 9 to 12 o'clock. Ruby, Jan. 18 from 11 to 3 o'clock. Mt. Croglian, Jan 19 from 10 to 4 o'clock. * Guess, Jan. 2o from 11 to 2 o'clock. Cross Roads, Jan. 21 from 11 to 3 o'clock. Pageland, Jan, 25th and 26th. Dudley, Jan, 27 from 9 to 12 o'clock. Middendorf, Feb. 1, from 10 to 4 o'clock. McBee, Feb. 2 and 3. Cheraw, Feb. 4 and 5. T. W. EDDINS, County Auditor. Wood's Seeds lir ?? *\ ... ? Tvooa s uescnptive catalog for 1915 ha&,been carefully prepared bo aB to enable our farmers and market growers to determine Intelligently as to the Ix'st and most profitable crops which they can undertake to grow. The present agricultural conditions make it very necessary to consider the question of diversified crops, and our catalog gives full information, both in regard to farm and Garden Seeds that caflt be planted to profit ofld advantage. Write for Descriptive Catalog: and prices of any Grass and Clover Seeds, Seed Grain or Seed Potatoes required. Catalog mailed on lequest. t. w. wood & sons, Seedsmen, - Richmond, V&. ? J Notice to Creditors The State of Sou th Carolina, county of Chesterfield. By M. J. Hough, Probate Judge: Whereas, W. C. Price, made suit to me to grant him Letters of Administration of the Estate and ? ^.4- ? t 117 A rV cnecis 01 w. /\. rrice, deceased, These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and Creditors of the said W. A. Price, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Chesterfield, S. C., on 23rd February, next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand this (>th day of February, Anno Domini 1915 M.J. Hough, hnlmtF Judge, PAYROLL OF CIVILIZATION MET BHARMER WANTS NO "DEADHEADS" ON LIST OF EMPLOYES. A CALL UPON THE LAW MAKERS TO PREVENT USELESS TAX UPON AGRICULTURE. By Peter Radford Lecturer National Farmers' Union Tho farmer is the paymaster of industry and as such he must meet the nation's payroll. When industry pays its bill it must make a sight draft upon agriculture for the amount, which the farmer is compelled to honor without protest. This check drawn upon agriculture may travel to and fro over the highways of commerce; may build cities; girdle tho globe with bands of steel; may search hidden treasures in the earth or traverse the skies, but in the end it will rest upon the soli. No dollar will remain suspended in midair; it is as certain to seek the earth's surface as an apple that falls from a tree. When a farmer buys a plow he pays the man who mined the metal, the woodman who felled the tree, the manufacturer who assembled the raw material and shaped it into an article of usefulness, the railroad that transported it and the dealer who sold him the goods. He pays the wages of labor and capital employed in the transaction as well as pays for the tools, machinery, buildings, etc., used in the construction of the commodity and the same applies to" all articles of use and diet of himself and those engaged in the subsidiary lines of industry. ? ? mete 10 no payroll in civilization that does not rest upon the back of the farmer He must pay the bills ?all of them. The total value of the nation's annual agricultural products is around $12,000,000,000, and it is safe to estimate that 95 cents on every dollar goes to meeting the expenses of subsidiary industries. The farmer does not work more than thirty minutes per day for himself; the remaining thirteen hours of the day's toil he devotes to meeting the payroll of the hired hands of agriculture, such as the manufacturer, railroad, commer-.| cial and other servants. The Farmer's Payroll and How He Meets It. The annual payroll of agriculture approximates $12,000,000,000. A portion of the amount is shifted to foreign countries in exports, but the total payroll of industries working for tne farmer divides substantially as follows: Railroads, $1,252,000,000; manufacturers, $4,305,000,000; mining, $655,000,000; banks, $200,000,000; mercantile $3,500,000,000, and a heavy miscellaneous payroll constitutes the remainder. It takeB the corn crop, the most valuable in agriculture, which sold last year for $1,602,000,000, to pay off the employes of the railroads; the money derived from our annua, sales of livestock of approximately $2,000,000,000, the yearly cotton crop, valued at $920,000,000; the wheat crop, which is worth $610,000,000, and the oat crop, that is worth $440,000,000, aro required to meet the annual payroll of the manufacturers. The money derived from the remaining staple crops is used in meeting the payroll of the bankers, merchants, etc. After these obligations aro paid, the farmer has only a few bunches of vegetables, some fruit and poultry which he can sell and call the proceeds his own. When the farmer pays off his help he has very little left and to meet these tremendous payrolls he has been forced to mortgage homes, work women in the field and increase tho hours of his labor. We are. therefore, compelled to call upon all industries dependent upon the farmers for subsistence to retrerch in their expenditures and to cut off all unnecessary expenses. This course is absolutely necessary in order to avoid a reduction in wages, and we want, if possible, to retain the present wago scale paid railroad and all other industrial employes We will devote this articlo to a discussion of unnecessary expenses and wlpeiher required by law or permitted by the managements of the concerns, is wholly immaterial. We want all waste labor and extrava gance, of whatever character, cut out. I We will mention the full crew bill as ' Pay Your Town Taxes The tax books for the town of Pageland are now open for the the collection of taxes tor the year 1914. Please call at once and settle. The levy is 5 mills 1 on the dollar. If you know the ] value of your property you can , figure your own taxes. i 0, M.Tucker. Clerk, \ > , BR " I" Illustrating the character of unneces* ** sary expenses to which we refer. Union Opposes "Full Crew" Bill. The Texas Farmers' Union regis* terecl Its opposition to this character of legislation at the last annual meet* ing held in Fort Worth, Tex., August 4, 1914, by resolution, which we quote, . as follows: I "The matter of prime Importance ' to the farmers of this state is an adequate and efficient marketing system; 1 and we recognize that such a system J is impossible without adequate rail* road facilities, embracing the greatest 1 amount of service at the leaBt pos* J sible cost. We further recognize that * the farmers and producers in the end pay approximately 95 per cent of the 4 expenses of operating the railroads, | and it is therefore to the interest of " the producers that the expenses of , the common carriers be as small as 4 is possible, consistent with good ser- " vice and safety. We, therefore, call upon our lawmakers, courts and 4 juries to bear the foregoing facts in \ mind when dealing with the common carriers of this state, and we do espe*. _ cially reaffirm the declarations of ^ the last annual convention of our State Union, opposing the passage of the so-called 'full-crew* bill before the thirty-third legislature of Texas." The farmers of Missouri in the last election, by an overwhelming majority, swept this law off the Btatute book of that state, and It should come off of all statute books where it appears and no legislature of this nation should pass such a law or . cimUni* lno-iclntlnti ***%_ (V^lOIUllUll M U1VU IC4UUCO UU" necessary expenditures. The same rule applies to all regulatory measures which increase the expenses of industry without giving corresponding benefits to the public. There is ofttlmes a body of men assembled at legislatures?and they have a right to be there?who, in their zeal for rendering their fellowassociates a service, sometimes favor an iMcrease in the expenses of industry without due regard for the men who bow their backs to the summer's sun to meet the payroll, but these committees, while making a record for themselves, rub the skin o* the shoulders of the farmer by urgiug the legislature to lay another burden upon his heavy load and under the lash of "be it enacted" goad him on to pull and surge at the traces of civilization, no matter how he may sweat, foam and gall at the task. When legislatures "cut a melon" for labor they hand the farmer a lemon. The farmers of the United States are not financially able to carry "dead heads" on their payrolls. Our own hired hands are not paid unless we have something for them to do and we are not willing to carry the hired help of dependent industries unless there is work for them. We must therefm^^^^^^^^themost rigid lull in business, we want all legislative bodies to take an Inventory of the statute books and wipe off all extravagant and useless laws. A good house-cleaning is needed and economies can be instituted here and there that will patch the clothes of indigent children, rest tired mothers and lift mortgages from despondent homes. Unnecessary workmen taken off and m useless expenses chopped down all *" along the line will add to the prosperity of the farmer and encourage him in his mighty effort to feed and clothe the world. If any of these industries have surplus employes we can use them on the farm. We have no regular schedule of wages, but we pay good farm hands on an average of $1.60 An.. n# iUI-in 1 jjui uajr tii unneeu nuurs wnen mey board themselves; work usually runs about nine months of the year und the three months dead time, they can do the chores for their board. It they prefer to farin on their own account, there are more than 14,000.000,000 acres of idle land on the earth's surface awaiting the magic touch of the plow. The compensation is easily obtainable from Federal Agricultural Department statistics. Tho total average annual sales of a farm In the continental United States amounts to $516.00; the cost of operation is $340.00; leaving tho farmer $176 per annum to live on and educate his tamiiy. Thero is no occasion for the legislatures muking a position for surplus employes of industry. Let them come "back to tho soil" and share with us i the prosperity of tho farm. ? i When honesty Is merely a good ? policy It is a poor virtue. Lazy farmers are just as useless as dead ones and take up more room. When the soul communes with the spirit of nature the buck to the farm movement prevails. 1 1 Thero are two kinds of farmers. One tries to tako all the advice he hears and the other won't take any at all. 1 1 Dr. R. L. McManus _ DENTIST j Pageland, S. C. Will be at Jefferson on Wed- q lesday and at Ruby Thursday VIt. Croghan Friday of each week, remainder of time at Page land. Office in rear of Joseph's [jew Store, Pagetond, 9? C pr : On Octob Pee Dee Iron W( under new manage need ANYTHING tha Ming Shop and rnt it will pay yoi about it. You a drop in and inspect when yon come to Pee Dee Iro Founders and 1 Cheraw, " '^Service* THE most relial farm use is the made of the best m; it is strong and d being heavy and aw It gives a clear, stron to light and rewick. out, won't leak, an< It is an expert-made in various styles and RAYO for every reqi STANDARD OIL CO f^MhlnXton,D.C. (New Jersey) < Richmond, Va. HALIlMOKt 1 Norfolk. Va. ? j * 7 LBS. Jutt dissolve a gun nf m? Ir, n . m pour this water into four poum s do BOlLiNQ at all. I And you will have .'.even pound A 50c. worth, and I only cost 5c., i % I am RED DE GET ME AT ANY GC SAVR MY U ONLY SPECIAL CLE Ve have arranged to give The Jo ? State at the following rates: 'be State, Daily and Sunday Tie Journal, Weekly - - - Both - - * % * 'he'State Daily, Except Sunday 'he Journal Both 'he State, Semi-weekly 'he Journal .... Both .... 'he Progressive Farmer, Weekly 'he Journal Both No premiums will be given i The Pafc ) \ i er 5th irks Opened up: iment. If you t a First-Class Foundry turns 11 to tell us re invited to our equipment Gheraw. IA7 1__ >ii Hums Machinists S. C. Strong ible, Safe. 3le lantern for 5 RAYO. It is iterials, so that urable without kward. g light Is easy It won't hlow i won't smoke, lantern. Made sizes. There is a uirement. uiAnn SliVn | J a '1 Charlotte, N. C. JDK Charleston. W. Va. Charleston. S. C. liMBI ^1 :er all right. -so QUICK! juart ot water. Now lS Is of malted Urease, Is of fine, hard soap, H a nickel, a half dime. M ViL LYE J )OD STORE \ DPI C> ? ONLY B OFFER urnal and the Columbia - - - $8.00 l-Oo $8.00 $6.00 1.00 $6.25 $1.00 1.00 1 CA .... 4>1.UV 1.00 1.00 Si. so ivith any of these clubs, eland Journal. Tax Notice The books will be open for the collection of taxes from the 15th day of October 1914 to December, 31st 1914. Tax levy for State 6 mills Constitutional School 3 " Ordinary County 5 1-2U Interests on R.R Bonds 1 1-2" Road and Bridges 2 " Total levy 18 mills School Bonds Cheraw School 3 mills 4 mills Marlburg 3 " Orange Hill 8 44 Pats Branch 4 44 Pec Dee 3 44 Stafford 4 44 2 1-2 44 Bethel 4 44 Center Point 4 44 Chesterfield 4 44 3 Special School 21-2 44 Parker 4 44 Pine Grove 3 44 Shiloh 3 44 5 Snow Hill 4 44 Ousley 7 44 Vaughn 3 44 2 44 Wamble Hill 3 44 White Oak 4 44 Center 4 44 Cross limrls A 44 Mt. Croghan 3 44 4 44 Special School 5 44 New Hope 7 " Ruby 5 44 1 1-2 44 Wexford 4 44 5 44 Buffalo 2 44 Dudley 3 44 Five Forks 2 44 Mangum 3 44 Pageland 6 44 5 44 Plains 2 44 Center Grove 5 *4 Friendship 3 44 Jefferson 5 44 4 44 Long Branch 4 44 Green Hill 4 44 Middendorf 3 44 McBee 8 44 4 1-2 44 Sandy Run 4 44 Union 4 44 Bay Springs 4 44 r* r* nt r>ear e^reeK z Bethcsda 2 " Juniper 3 44 Patrick 3 44 4 Cat Pond 2 44 Jewis S u v ralmetto 3 44 Wallace 3 44 Special road Cheraw Township 2 mills Special road Alligotor Township 5 mills Will Collect at Following Places. Cheraw Tuesday Nov 3 Cash's Wednesday Nov 4 Dudley Thursday Nov 5 Pageland Friday Nov 6 McBee Monday Nov 9 Plains Monday Nov 16 Jefferson Tuesday Nov 17 A 1 A1F- J 1- XT- < n rvuKtJius weunesuay inov is Cioss Roads Thursday Nov 19 Mt. Croghan Friday Nov 20 Middendorf Monday Nov 23 Cedar Creek Tuesday Nov 24 Sandy Davis' Wednesday " 25 Patrick Thursday Nov 26 John Wallace Nov 27 W. A. Douglass County Treasurer Sept. 15, 1914. 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