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ULb 4L,DITC-P. Entered at the Postoffice at New lirry, S. C., as second class matter. Friday, December 15, 1905 GIVE US TWO TRAINS. According to reliable reports, the Atlantic Coast Line railway company, which controls, the Char leston and Western Carolina, the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens, and a number of other lines in this state, is preparing to make a bid for local passenger traffic more extensive than anything yet at tempted by,. transportation compan ies hereabout. The passenger trains running straight through from Charleston to Greenville, the only direct service connecting the two cities, are to be replaced with vestibuled coaches operated on a faster schedule. Such an arrangement would be the next thing to providing a lim ited train service between the Pied mont section and the tidewater, something that has long been. need ed. 7 It is also said that the Charles ton and Western Carolina railway will put on another train between Spartanburg and Augusta, giving two trains a day each way instead of only one. If this is to be done, 'why not do the same thing for the people living between Greenville and Columbia? The short train between Laurens and Greenville put on several months ago, has proved a success. The improved Sservice to Columbia would also ibe appreciated. It would not be a bad '.-ilan to use the new vestibuled coaches for the longer haul and use the old ones in doubling up the 'number of trains operated during the day. A good train service goes a long sway toward making pas *senger business.-Greenville News. This change would be a- great ac commodation to the traveling pub lic and we believe would pay the road. We. have for a long time favored a passenger train from Greenville to Columbia' in the morning, returnipg in the after noon. It would be a great thing for Columbia in a business way for it would give the people from Greenville all the way down an op portunity to go to Columbia and *attend to business and return home the same day. The C., N. & L. now has a mixed train from Laur ens to.Columbia and return and it does a fairly good passenger busi ness.. If the train started from .Greenville and was run as a pas *senger and mail train it would do a great deal more business. It ought to pass here about 9 o'clock *going down and leave Columbia about 4 o'clock returning. That would give between five and six hours in Columbii. We remember some years ago the citizens along the Southern railway held a meeting to petition that railroad to put on an ~early morning train from Columbia to Greenville and the railroa.d argued that it would not pay below Pros perity, but finally it was put on and that train now does more bus iness than the midday train and the travel on the midday train is heav ier than it was before the morning train was put on. The same would be th'e case if the Atlantic Coast Line would put on the train suggested. The more opportunity you give people to travel the more they will take ad vantage of it. If the towns from Greenville to Columbia including these two would get together and unanimous ly ask the officials to give us this increased service we believe there 1 would be little trouble 'in securing it. Certainly the effort to secure could hurt no one and would not i cost anything., Assessment and Taxation. Our friend, T. J. W., like most other p'eople who discuss the as sessment of property, misunder stands, apparently, the difference between the assessment and the levy. The greatest trouble and the greastest injustice with our tax system is the inequality in the valu ation of property for the pur pose of taxation. We tried to ex plain that matter in our editorial on the subject, as we have endeavored to explain it on several occasions when engaged in the county caili paign. Of course, if the asess ment was increased this next year, and the legislature did not reduce the levy, we would raise more mon ey, but the matter of levying the tax is with the legislature, and a one mill tax on a valuation of $200 will raise the same amount of mon ey as a two mill tax, if the valua tion were only $ioo and if all the property in the state could be as sessed for taxation for its actual value, we would then have about $4oo,ooo,ooo worth of property on the books instead of $2o0,ooo,ooo, and the levy for state purposes could be reduced from 5 1-2 mills to 2 3-4 mills, and the same amount of money raised. The advantage of getting all property assessed at its actual value would be to have an equality of as sessment, and likewise, make the burden of taxation bear equally among the counties. At present some of the counties are assessed as low as 40 per 'cent of value, Good Things Ii If you want things that will bri your homes and make your chilt mas holidays and afterwards, I h best in the city I have added tc within the past month, about, fi' new goods, many of them spec holiday presents,'and that will sts Good Old Christmas Times have opening up with all of its pleasui Among the special things just op Men's and Boys' Overcoats, inci men. older men and boys, ran $20..C0. Suits for men, boys andl Special things in Prince Albert from $1.00 to $5.00 a pair, all ti have the advantage of getting th< wear them be'ore the New Yeat stock of Gloves, Handkerchiefs, derwear, Hosiery, Neckwear. C Colored Dress Shirts in the cour fogtto tell you about the line Robes, Night Robes and Pajams such asscrtment has ever been Shoe stock. My store in the las over the coun ty for good Shoes, anything I have ever had to offe haven't advanced the price on a and today I have to pay a consid buy. I have secured the best m have, if I know it, anything but t have Banister line for men, us $5 00, R alsten H ealth Shoes $f line from $2.00 to $4 00, Harr women and children, from 50c. t rrost attractive line I have addet Ladies' Misses and Children, mi best makers of fine Shoes, and a ~you atlower prices than you w~ Come and see me often. Wi Christmas and a happy New Ye SALESMEN -W. F. Ewart, lams, Win M. Garlington. vhile others are assessed as high as 75 or So per cent of the value ol the )rotrty. and, therefore. th( )urden of taxation for state pur p)oses bears unevenly. So far a4 :ur own county is concerned, i nakes little difference what the as .essment is or what the rate of tax ition is. because we have to raise :ertain amount of money anyway ind if the vauation is high, the levi imay be reduced, and if the valua ion is low, the levy will have to b< lncreased. As to the amount of taxes whict the individual taxpayer has to pay the thing which most concerns hin nd which he should guard mos :arefully. is the machinery whicl expends his money. That is th place where economy may be prac ticed to the advantage of the ta> payers. If at any time we shoulk et a surplus in the county treas iry, it will be a very easy matte te reduce the levy. The comptroller general had meeting of the county auditors oi Wednesday and it was decided t< mndeaver to get the property assess d at its actual value. lotice of Final Settlement and Discharge Notice is hereby given that th< indersigned will make a final set tlement as administrators on tho !state of Mrs. E. A. Scott in th< robate court for Newberry coun :y on the 15th day of January, 1906 it i i o'clock, A. M., and immedi. itely thereafter apply for lettern lismissory as such administrators Mrs. Mary S. Martin, Mrs. Emily West, Administrators. Senator Latimer introduced bill on'December'i2th authorizing ?75,ooo .to be appropriated for th< arection of "a pti'blic building a 3reenwood, Chester and Anderson ir Chrisinas. ng good cheer and comfort tt iren happy during the Chri:t ave got them for you, and the the large stock 1 had already ie thousand dollars worth o ally suited for Christmas ant y with you to remind you wher gone anid the- New Year it -es for you and your friend~ ened up is an elegant line o ding some fine coats for young ging in Drice from $5.00 t( children from $1.50 to $25.00 Coats and Vests, new Pante a new things in Hats. Yot. new Spring Styles now anc -.Then I have the greatesi Silk Mufflers, Suspenders, Un ollars and Cuffs, White an< try for you, and I had almos of Smoking Jackets, Bati Ls that I bought for you. NC kepthere, and ihen our grea t year has grown famous al md my present stock surpasse r, and what is remarkable, half dozen things in the line erable advance on every pair. akes. I don't want, nor will he best for my customers. ~ualy sold at $6.C0, my price 00. W. L. Douglas & Co iton Brown & Co. line for men o $3.50, and the last but the is the Ututyz & Dunn line fo: ide at Rochester, N. Y., by the Ii of these things are here fo ill find them anywhere else shing you and yours a merr: ar. I am your frier d, W B. Wallace. T. 0. Wil 35er On The Prettiest CLOAKSAN C. & G. S. Mower tnow offering thei Ladies' and Chi and Ladies' Skirt par Cent Reducti opportunity for t section tobuythebe Quality, 0 Low Prices, The Excha: Capital - - - Accounts of Stock C tions, Firms and In Favocrable Termna Deposit accounts received si at 4 per cent, in Savings departn ally, January and July. Open dial welccme extended to visitor J.. D. DAVENPORT, R C. CA] - President. Vice- Pre GEO. B. CROM1 THE COMME] NEWBERF SCapita! . -Surplus . , . . De'iosits Almost I -3 "'To morrow" is a poor n IBy opening an accounti at4 per ~CALL ON OEO. 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