The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, February 17, 1915, Image 4
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
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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&.
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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, \
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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
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Cheraw,
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being heavy and aw
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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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