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Dallas, Texas, Cispatch.
M. N. Baker, prominent Texas,
Oklahoma oil operator and
chairman of the Dallas Park
Board, has returned from Okla
homa alarmed over the decreased
oil production. He predicts
gasoline at 40 cents a gallon in
the near future and oil hv-nrod
ucts 35 to 50 per cent higher
than at any time in the history
of the United States.
"In other words, the United
States," he said, "and especially
Texas and the Southwest, faces
an oil famine. It is not coming,
it is already here."
Baker stated that oil wells in
Oklahoma and Texas have 1
slumped in production from 35 <
to 50 per cent. ^
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Tax M
The Tax Books will be open fc
15th October until 31st day of Dec
Tax levy for State
Ordinary County
Constitutional school
County Roads
Total levy
Special I
Cheraw Graded School .
Marburg:
Oranire Hill
Pat's Branch
_ Pee Dee
Stafford
Cheraw (Outside)
' * Shiloh
Snow Hill ?
Ruby
Vaughan
Womble Hill
White Oak
Black Creek
Cross Roads
Center
Mt. Croghan
New Hope
Wexford
Winzo
Zion
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Buffalo
Dudley
Five Forks
Mangum
Pageland
Plains
Center Grove
Friendship
Jefferson
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lvuug nrancn
Jefferson (Outside)
Green Hill
Middendorf
McBee
Sandy Run /
Union
Alieator (Outside)
Bay Springs
Bear Creek
Bethesda
Juniper
Patrick
Pot
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Lewis
Ou8ley
Palmetto
Wallace
Steer Pen
F6r Back Indebtedness and Ex
School: Chesterfield School Distr
mills, and Rub}', 5 mills.
Cheraw Township, special 1<
tor, 7 mills for Road Bonds.
All unpaid taxes will be subject
January, two per cent for Febuary
Aftef March 3lft executions will b
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Dr. R. L. McManu?
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Pageland. S. C.
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Jefferson Wednesday
Ruby Thursday
Mt. Croghan Friday
Remainder of time at
Pa gel and. O (lice in Bfttik
Building
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When you sec ihat head
:emember that I sell the
:hoicest meats for the right
price. 1 am ready to" serve
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you again, ah my oia customers
and many new ones
are invited to call and get
something for the table.
1 shall collect; each Monday,
as hats been the custom
of Mr. Smith
R. L RICHARDSON
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lUUCCt
>r the collection of taxes from
ember 1915.
7 mills
J 1-2 mills
3 mills
1-2 mills
18 mills
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let, 2 12 mills; Mt. Croghan, 5
evy of 2 mills for Roads; Aliea
to a penaltv of one per cent for
and seven per cent for March, '
e written for all unpaid taxes,
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Aunt Betty, who ia not really an
aunt at all, but only a very dear
friend of mother's, has made her
home with us for over twenty years.
She has been with us ever since she
lost her little boy and her husband in
a forest fire in Canada. We were very
fond of her In spite of her queer ways.
One of her ideas was that some dayher
son would come back, alive and
strong, and that he would marry Dorothy.
She kept the half of a coin that
had been hers since her courtship
unyu. ine oiner nan naa oeen ueo
round the neck of her husband, who
had vanished in the smoke. She would
fetch it out of its hiding place every
little while and fondle it, saying: "My
husband 1 shall never see again, but
my son will come and bring the other
half of this coin to Dorothy, Just as
his father brought it to me."
. Dorothy, who is my sister, took It
all in good part, and never let Aunt
Betty catch her Bmillng at me when
her future husband was mentioned. I
certainly was surprised when she took
It into her head?but I am going too
' fast.
One would have thought that Chadwick
was the last of people to cause
any disturbance in our qHlfet, well-ordered
life. He was an ideal chauffeur.
Until he came we were always
at the mercy of our chauffeur. When
Chadwlck came, however, everything
went smoothly, especially the car.
Chadwlck was a clean, upstanding
American of far above the average
intelligence. Dorothy liked him, she
said, because he had a perfectly
straight nose.
Either the nose or the fascination
for motoring made Dorothy sadly
neglect her horses for the sake of the
automobile. None of us thought any
thing of it until one day Dorothy said
she was going to see the Johnsons,
who lived about twenty miles away,
and went off with Chadwick in the
automobile. About half an hour later
Aunt Betty made up her mind that she
would like to go to the Johnsons' alBo.
I borrowed Tony Spencer's machine
and took her along. About ten miles
from home we came up with our own
caY standing empty In the road.
I pulled up and jumped out to find
whnt Wflfi tfiA moHur nnrl noma ?
scene I shall never forget until mydjlng
day. Dorothy and Chad^igJf^Sre
both JfinttiLPfl tt* fmrfrriTlTM had
msarm around her waist, and she had
a luncheon basket in her lap. She
was just putting a piece of chicken
into his mouth, and they were laugh*
lng about it.- Think of it! Adaughter
of the American republic; JMfejd|ga|
little sister Dorothy, feed|^^^H|
"Gpod heavens!" I cried.
They both looked up, and then, seeing
who it was, they scrambled to
their feht.
"Mercy sakes!" cried Aunt Betty,
who had followed me. After that
there was a silence which Dorothy
was ine nrst to break. "I don't care," j
she eald. "I love him." And with
that she fell sobbing on Aunt Bett^V
motherly breast. I was wild with
rage.
"What right have you to touch
her, to so much as look at her?" I
asked Chadwlck. "You?a greasy mechanic,
with your hands and clothes
slimy with the oil of machines. What
sort of a home could you give her?
A stucco dwelling in a back street,
with the neighbors' children clambering
over the front porch?the neigh
Dors' weekly wash flapping In the
backyard!" He heard me out without
flinching, though I could see every
word I uttered hurt. When 1 stopped
(or breath, he began to speak.
"My God, Miss Henderson! You
don't have to tell me that. But what
are we to do? We love each other. 1
swear *o you I meant no harm,
swear to you on the thing I hold moBi
sacred." He was tugging at his neck
as he spoke, and then he drew from
under his shirt the half of a coin exactly
like Aunt Betty's.
"Where did you get that?" screamed
Aunt Betty. Dorothy and I stood
open-mouthed.
"I've had It since I waB a boy. My
father put It round my neck just before
he died. I remember his saying,
'(Jo. take the old token to your mother,
lad.' I have been trying to find
iny mother ever since."
"My son, my son!" cried Aunt Betty,
and she fainted In his arms.
I shall never forget the expression
on my mother's face when I brought
Chadwlck down to dinner with me
and Introduced him as Aunt Betty's
son, and Dorothy's fiance.
The Jag Remedy.
"I noticed the soldiers In Europe
are using bath trains," remarked Mr.
Gadders.
"How interesting!" exclaimed Mrs.
Gadders. "Are there also Turkish
bath trains?"
"No, my dear. I think not. While
It Is true he gave a name to the
Turkish bath, being a strict teetotaler,
the Turk does not have to resort
to it <111it? (is oft*-11 as tli** Kng
nothing. Why, In one of our Ameiioflgj
museum* two the load pencil w^H
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Ajid now it was over, the five weeks
of jtravel through France and Normandy,
old Brittany and Holland. Phil
hardly heard what the count was Baying
as she leaned over the rail and
looked ahead at New York's skyline
of tall buildings shaping out of the
mnmlnir harfl Rho bnov norfnMlv
well that Auut Isabel was watching
them from her deck chair even while
she discussed custom troubles with
the commodore and Larry.
The whole situation had been explained
to Phil before she left her
stateroom.
"We've done everything we could
for you, Phillppa," Aunt Isabel had
said plaintively. "Here we have the
royal suite or bridal suite, or whatever
they call it, and everyone thinks,
of oourse, you are your uncle's heiress.
I haven't denied it, for it helps immensely,
and both the commodore and
myself are really quite fond of you.
You've been very sweet during the
trip and clothes have done wonders
for you, too, and there's no reason
mnrmr iV a nmint
nixjr /vu oui/uiuu x, man/ iuc wuuuv<
I have no doubt but what your uncle
would do the right thing by you,
though I do hope the castle is well
ventilated. He hates stuffy ruins, so
I'd never get him to visit you. I'm
sure your mother can't say but what
I've made you a success." *
"Yes, ma'am," P^il said mildly, turning
around on her little finger Larry's
boyish silver ring. Plain it was, Just
a band of silver worn thin, with hiB
monogram engraved on it, but it had
been on her hand since a certain evening
the third day out. She regarded
it thoughtfully. Larry had not been
definite. He had not made any sort
of a proper prosposal, as Aunt .Isabel
would have put it. He had only
slipped the ring from his own hand to
hers as It lay beside him on the railing,
and had tried to tell her how
much she meant to him, and how
some day when he had made a success
he would go to the commodore
and ask him to give her to him.
Larry had been the unkaown quantity
in Aunt Isabel's reckoning. The
commodore had met him in Paris,
stranded after trying to impress the
continent with the value of a certain
make of spark plugs. As a salesman
he was a failure, but the commodore
"U2|d made him private secretary, courier
and general major domo, and he
had won his regard and the surety of
w^rk in the big general offices out
feomehow there didn't seem to be
Javthing real excepting the little sll-JHl
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ore and even the string
com mature had given
ud Saw LArrj h uuohi ru<,
he did what Ted back
"Phil's trick." She
' "I'm awfully sorry," she told the
little, courteous count, giving him her
hand, "but I can't do as you wish.
I'm not the commodore's heiress, you
know. I'm just his niece by marriage,
and they had both been kind
. puough to give me this trip. I haven't
$100 of my very own. Won't you go
\and talk to Aunt Isabel, please, and
'forget all about me?"
"Mademoiselle. I?I honor vnu." h?
faltered over her hand. And Phil
knew he was grateful to her for her
franknesB. Then she turned to Larry,
and they leaned over the railing together
happily.
"You turned him down, didn't you?"
Larry said.
She nodded her head. "I told him
the real truth, and I want to tell you.
too, Larry." And she did?far more
completely than the count had heard
it.
"What are you going to do?" asked
Larry.
"Stay home and look after things
and mother. I'm the only one that
likes home life," she laughed. "Aunt
Isabel said the only home for me was
either to dross me un ?nH moVo ma ?,
social attraction, or else marry me off
to some l'JJ icent farmer. We haven't
any adjacent farmers down our way,
though, and I'm not a social success
a bit."
Larry's strong young hand closed
over hers. His face was close to her
fluffy windblown hair.
"Can I go and tell the commodore
he's got to raise my salary because
I'll have a wife to look after soon?
Can I, Phil? I know you care, sweetu
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ucau. iuure Diusning Hke fury. If
you don't quit it. I'm going to lenn
over and Hbs you before everybody.
C'un I tell him, Phil?"
"After wo dock," said Phil, contentedly.
"I don't want Aunt Isabel or the
little count to faint away just this minute.
They'll think we're perfectly
crazy, Larry."
"Who cares?" Larry retorted
promptly. "1 may not have any moldy
old castle or title to give you, but
i u matte you nappy, Clear, I know I
will."
Phil snuggled as close to his side as
she could get.
"I'll bet a cookie," she whispered,
"Cinderella Just loved real pumpkins
and mice. Crystal slippers pinch
awfully."
(Copyright. IfHR. by the McCluro Newspaper
Syndicate.)
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t The I ntted States department of
fcj^rlculturi' lias Issued a bulletin on
Jjhf of alcohol production from
^^0 pe;i?t?isw penatured alcohol is
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The time to gc
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than to deposit
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own condition.
Begin now. K
posits tothe'JBani
as hundreds or
done already.
r THE BANK OF
Auditors r
The Auditors' office will be opei
sonal property from January 1st 1916
All male citizens between the a
deemed Taxable polls, except those
causes are incapable of earning a sur
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i ne iv'dw requires nu per cent pe
ertv subject to taxes and not returnee
the 20lh of February 1916
I will be in the Auditor's office J
and 31: Feb., 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 1
the following places on the dales nai
Patrick Jan. 10 from 11 to 3 Pla
o'clock. Gu
Cedar Creek Church Jan. 11 c
from 11 to 3 o'clock. Mt.
lohn C. Wallaces* Jan. 12 from 4
11 to 3 o'clock. Du
Cashes' Jan. 13 from 11 to 2 o
o'clock. Paj
Grants Mill Jan. 14 from 9 to o
12 o'clock. Ru
Westfield Creek Jan. 15 from 10 o
to 12 o'clock, Mi(
Cross Roads Tan. 17 from 11 tn
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3 o clock. .
Jefferson Jan. 18 and 19 lo 12 n'
o'clock. 0
Catarrh Jan. 19 from 1 to 4 Mc
o'clock. Chi
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M. M. JOHNSON
ATTORNEY AT LAW W
ill be iu agclard Wednesday
Thursday and Friday of each week.
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gainst the diseases ?
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remedies "lor each ?
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Compare the
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PAGELAND
Notice.
led for the assessment of Perto
February 20th 1916.
ges of 21 and 60 years are
who are maimed or for oiher
>port.
nalty added to taxes on propl
for assessment on or before
an., 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, lr>, 29r
Allium ? ?
im i/( in, 17, ami zv, una ux
med:
ins Jan. 2(> from 9 to iZ
ess Jan. 21 from 11:30 to 2:30
>'clqck.
Croghan Jan. 24 from 11 to
o'clock.
dley Jan. 25 from 1 to 4
'clock.
(eland Jan. 26 and 27 to 12
'clock.
bv Jan. 28 from 11 to 3
'clock.
Idendorf Feb. 1 from 11 to 3
'clock.
gelus Feb. 2 from 11 to 3
'clock.
Bee Feb. J and 4.
iraw Feb. 8 and 9.
>unty Auditor
Monuments
I will pay you lo see me
ore you buy a Monument or
mbstone of any kind, if you
it to says money.
G, R. KNIGHT.