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repokt of supervisor j (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2). 2S?. A. L. Aull. magistrate's salary 15.00 2S3. Jos. H. Adams, magis trate's salary 4.16 284. M. H. Wicker, constable's salary 15.00 285. S. B. T. & T. Co., county home 3.00 2S6. David Henderson, ferry.. 12.50 287. S. B. T. & T. Co., expenses public office 24.00 288. Miss Gertrude Walker, of fice expenses 4.71 289. J. W. Hipp, board of equal ization 10.00 290. W. H. Long, board f equalization 6.40 29!. Jmx D. Shealy, board of equalisation 9.60 292. Geo. A. Epting, board of equalization 8.60 298. j.. d. Nance, board of equalization 8.00 *94. Jno. B. Bedenbaugh, board of equalization 9.40 295. Dr. W. C. Brown, board of assessors 6.00 296. H. t. Fellers, board of as sessors 6.00 297. M. E. Abrams, board of as ror lour Rea< New Books by 1 $1.00 Copies for $1.25 Copies for Gilder & 1 << demonstn T r\nd Di< as. He was at Hunts1 his own responsibility calls for fifteen merd of several hundred mil "In less than one barrels of flour at a to than six dollars.' "Since then we he Distance Bell Telepho: our business with m( The service is fine, the and there is more satis / Distance Telephorta Ipftpr.Q " Every Bell Telephone is SOUTHERN BELL T! AND TELEGRAPH Willi . f t Car \ \ J sessors.. 29S. A. M. Miller, board of as sessors 299. P. N. Boozer, board of as sessors 300. Dr. C. T. Wyche. contin gent (vital statistics).. .. . . 6.50 301. Dr. Roy J. Johnson, con tingent (vital statistics).. .. SI.50 302. Mack Davenport, ferry .. 16.66 303. J. Sid Smith, chaingang.. 40.00 304. J. B. Mize, chaingang.. .. 35.00 305. E. B. Abrams, chaingang.. 35.00 306. B. F. Sample, chaingang.. 35.00 307. W. J. Miller, chaingang... 40.00 308. J. G. Miller, chaingang.. 40.00 309. J. A. Sease, rords and "bridges 17.34 oiu. l. f. mcnarasoa, roaus and bridges 10.00 311. C. T. Cromer, contingent (election expanses) 3.00 312. M. J Smith, county home 32.00 313. Herald & News Co., print ing. &c 13.50 Ol A Pa AAnnftr oxt. oummci uiuo. vuuuij home 88.93 315. Farmers Oil Mill, county home 304.90 31G. Johnson-McCrackin Co., county home 41.65 317. Newberry Hardware Co., county honue 6.90 318. The Hub Store, county Summer ling .eading Authors tn_ 65c iVeeks Co. One Experience Convinced Me of its Value One of our salesmen ited the-value of the stance Telephone to grille, Ala., and upon put in Long Distance lants within a radius les. hour he had sold 2100 tal cost to us of less tve applied the Long ne to every feature of 3st orofitable results. x" rates are reasonable faction in one Long lk than in half a dozen a Loner Distance Station ELEPHONE COMPANY sj4 High Grade complete ?mobile / CAROLOfA 1UT0 CO. PHO>E 172. PfBERRT, SOUTH CAROLINA home 4.5^ 319. G. V. Boozer, county home 26.00 320. Shealy & I^ng, roads .md bridges 11.12 321. W. A. Neal & Son, roads and bridges 225.00 322. J. T. Senn, roads and bridges 7.00 323. Ben Brown, roads and onuses 324. Jefferson Mfg Co., roacfc and bridges 33.50 325. Newberry Hardware Co.. roads and bridges 21.50 326. F. T. Summers, roads and bridges 13.55 327. Happ Bros. Co., chaingang 104.00 328. The Purcell Co., chaingang 530.7S 329. Newberry Hardware Co., chaingang 22.60 330. Johnson-McCracfciii Co., chaingang 164.87 331. Summer Bros. Co., office supplies 1.25 332. Farmers Oil Mill, public buildings 1.93 333. C. C. Schumpert, office supplies 8.78 334. H. W. Schumpert, supt., , Statement Showing: Exact Financial < Year 1917 as It Appeared at the Items. 1. Salaries county officers 2. County home, oaupers, pensioners 3. Roads, bridges, ferries 4. Thaingang 5. Repairs public buildings 6. Books, stationery, printing n OTT1PT1SPS ?Tld SUDDlieS i. V/UUUUfeUll, ? buildings and county offices.. 8. Board of equalization, &c 9. County board of education 10. Court expenses 11. Sheriff?dieting and other incider penses 12. Post mortems and lunatics .t 13. Interest on loans 14. Commutation tax K. Contingent and miscellaneous e*i L. Salaries rural police J. H. C. HOLLO WAY, Clerk. &e. Approved: J. B. HALFACRE, Couni PROPOSITION TO PAY THE SOUTH FOR ITS COTTON Taxed Unlawfully by Federal Govern meat la the 60s by Giving the Funds to Confederate Veterans, The following papers have been handed to The Herald ana isews ior publication. They refer to the cotton tax collected from Southern farmers by the federal government in the 03; which tax the United States supreme court has declared, in effect if not directly, was unconstitutional. After so many years it would be impossible to locate with any certainty the law ful claimants to this tax, and so it has been urged that the amount should be given to the surviving sol diers of the Southern Confederacy, or the widows of Confederate soldiers. This is a matter to which Capt. M. M. Euford, of this county, has devoted a good deal of thought and time, and it has been largely through his in fluence that the proposition has reach ed its present stage. The bill covering the proposition was introduced in the house of re presentatives May 3, 1917, by Jno. N. Tillman of Arkansas. At the recent; *? -c votoMne in I reunion ui ^uiucuci aic Washington a resolution was adopted unanimously endorsing Mr. Tillman's bill. The bill and the resolutions fol low: In the House of Representatives. May 3, 1917. Mr. Tillman introduced the follow ing bill; which was referred to the Committee on War Claims and or dered to be printed. A BILL To pay to Confederate soldiers and to the widows of Confederate sol riWc ssofl and $30 ner month dur ing the remainder of their lives. Whereas a large amount of money, approximating $100,000,000, was se cured and collected from the people of the South during the Civil war and the reconstruction period that followed from the following-named sources: First, from captured and abandoned property; second, from confiscated property; and, third, from the collection of the cotton tax from eighteen hundred and sixty three to eighteen hundred and sixty eight; and Whereas what is known as the "cot ton tax" was illegally collected;.and Whereas the Soutn prior 10 cue uvu war and since that time abundantly j proved .her loyalty to the union; | gamely lost without murmuring four million slaves valued at $2,000,000, i 000; gave to the country much in ! _ __ ^ J _ J 3 - _1_ I military scrvii/c auu auuvu territory by the genius and diplo macy of her statesmen; and Whereas fifty years after the unfor tunate struggle between the states there exists only a scattered rem nant of the gray chivalry that rare ly lost a battle, many of whom are maimed and unable to work; and Whereas it is desirable to destroy the last vestige of sectional feeling and emphasize the fraternal spirit that should obtain in a happily reunited country anu lu yciun ? BVuv. and a just government to recom pense, in part, the South for her losses not justified by the stern de mands of war; and Whereas it is practically impossible to restore the "cotton tax** illegally collected or other property con fiscated to the people from whom it was taken during and after the war: and Wliereas tne survivi ng suiuicio ui iu>/ Confederacy are conspicuous and deserving representatives of said section: Therefore Be it enacted by the senate and ouse representatives of the Tim public buildings 62.81 335. Farmers Oil .Mill, public buildings 62.23 336. Observer Printing Co.. printing, &c 12.50 337. Southern Chemical Pro ducts Co., public buildings.. 43.00 900 V Uorrlnrora P A *j?JO, i/ci i y iLAiuit ai ^ v u., public buildings 2.75 339. C. C. Schumpert, county treasurer?court expenses.. 5S.10 340. C. C. Schumpert. county treasurer?coroner's jurors.. 2.20 341. C. G. Blease, dieting.. .. 63.20 342. C. G. Blease. expense.. .. 42.48 343. I)r. F. K. Shealy, post mor tem 19.00 344. W. F. Ewart, lunacy.. .. 20.00 345. Dr. E. F. Taylor, .lunacy.. 5.00 346. S. W. Lake, commutation tax 5.00 347. R. E. Livingstone, contin gent 143.34 348. T. P. Richardson, roads and bridges 139.57 J. C. SAMPLE, County Supervisor. H. C. HOLLOW AY, Clerk. &c. Condition of Appropriations for the End of the Month of May, 1917. Appropriated. Paid. Balance. $10500.00 $3123.37 $7376.63 2900.00 1136.40 1763.80 10000.00 2260.04 7739.96 7500.00 4296.20 3203.80 3200.00 .591.37 2608.63 750.00 public 1280.00 450.00 50.00 2650.00 ital ex ' 1800.00 600.00 157.85 592.15 46.52 1233.48 126.50 323.50 50.00 885.55 1764.45 _ 511.21 128S.79 162.55 437.45 2000.00 1179.46 820.54 5.00 penses.. 2500.00 1166.52 1333.48 1800.00 600.00 1200.00 C. SAMPLE, County Supervisor. ty Auditor. ed States of America in congress as embled: That upon the passage of his act there shall be paid to each ;oldier who served in the Confederate irrny and to the widow of any Con ederate soldier the sum of $500, and hat in ad^' ^n to such payment such soldiers anu -oh widows shall be j i. +V./\ enm of nlpr I 03.1CL (.{UiU'lCn; Luc ouiu vi r.- j nonth each during the remainder of their lives. Sec. 2. That this act shall be ad-! ministered by the treasury department of the United States. Sec. 3. That to carry out the pro visions of this act the sum of $100, 000,000 be, and the same is hereby, ap propriated. Sec. 4. That this act shall be in force from and after its passage. Resolutions Adopted at Reunion of Confederate Veterans of South Carolina. On motion of M. M. Buford, of South Carolina, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: "Whereas the Hon. Jno. N. Tillman, of Arkansas, member of the national nf ronrpspnt^tivea. has intro UUUOV VI. * ? , duced a bill in the congress of the United States fox the purpose of re funding the cotton tax paid by the Southern states after the Civil var in the form of a payment to the Con federate soldiers; "And whereas Hon. B. R. Tillman, of South Carolina, member of the senate of the United States;, has in troduced a like measure in the senate of the United States; "And whpreas the passage of this bill, as well as the general bill in The F1SK ? ?the smile of tire sal This man has found tacturer ne inces to ac with, who fulfills all of what a concern s in its policy and The company that r stands back of ev dealer to see that e gets his full money's mileage and tire sai I I [ troduced by the Hon. John N. Till-: man for the payment of the Confed- j erate soldiers, v;ould be a recogni-! tion by the lawmaking branch of the ' United States not only of the services > of the Confederate soldier to the sol-1 dier in the blue and the pensions paid j by them since the war was ended, butj also a recognition of the distinguish ea services renaereu tor luueruw uuu victions; . "And whereas it would singularly i set forth the fact that the Civil war | was waged by neither side with crim-1 inal intent, but by both sides because of fidelity to inherited beliefs; "And whereas, by such recognition of those long neglected heroes, they} place tnose that wore the grey on! record, as well as those who wore the blue, for true and unblemished pa triotism and valor: j Therefore, be it resolved by the United Confederate Veterans assem-; bled at Washington, D. C., June, 1917, j that we heartily endorse the action ' 01 these two American representatives for their thoughtfulness and patrio-; cism in this service manifested by the | introduction of this measure in the i congress and senate of the United States to the needy Confederate sol aier ana their widows, and we hereby . tender to them our sincere thanks for j this service. Resolved, further, that & copy of; these resolutions be sent to each of the authors of these measures and we ask' that they secure, if possible, a read- j ing of ti is paper in the house of representatives and in the senate as j expressive of our appreciation of their, J pnnh fovArahlo ap- i iCllOn, clllU rtlJU \JL >)UVU l?i vtuviv tion as may be taken by the lawmak ing authority of America, as expres-j sion of our unanimous sentiment of i i ne general organization of Con fed-! arate veterans. CONTRACT AWAITED 1 FOR COLUMBIA CAMP, 7~~~ I Columbus, (Oa.) Firm to Erect Buila T>5*? PonfAn mon+ |q [ IVf i>l? t'OUIiVuutui * ? Columbia. By P. H. McGowan. Washington, June 11.?The war de-; partment today awarded the conract for the Columbia cantonment to the, Hardaway Construction company ofj Columbus, Ga., and that for Atlanta; to Arthur Tufts of Atlanta. These controcts call for houses of; both one and two stories in construe-; tion which will accomodate approx imately 30,000 men and must be com pleted in every war and ready for occupancy on September 1. The basis for remuneration which ti_e contractors win rwene mi* 1 8 per cent, on the aggregate of con-j struction, and as stated Here today j it is impossible to say at this time ; what this final cost will be. i The awarding of the Columbia con-; f tract now eliminates any element of1 | doubt that might possibly have been J lingering since the plans oi the war ! department for the various canton-j j ments were somewhat changed two I weeks ago. Immediately the construction com j r i 11 y ?vi.i foe i in its work of construc . tion near Columbia what in itself win oe a 500a sizeu cjxj ?uu thing will be rushed toward comple j tion. T-, PEOYOST MARSHALL AFTEB SLACKERS : I Says Period of Leniency Has Passed :ind Requests Governor to "Detect and Arrest" ' Columbia, June 11.?'The period of leniency has passed," says Provost Marshal General Crowder, in a tele gram to Governor Manning today, in regard to persons wno may Have ! failed to register on last Tuesday, j and in his telegram the provost mar-. : shal general requests of the governor Jmile isfaction. a manu \ nnsiness ^VUU-;?, ?. y.: ; his ideas hou!d be methods, nakes ZEE58P JSSP ery Fisk very user ; worth in tisfaction, "that every effort be now made to de tect and arrest persons subject to re gistration who have not registered, and to bring each. case promptly to the attention of the nearest representa tive of the Department of Justice." General G'rowder states that the Department of Justice has today sent similar advices to H'nited States atorneys and marshals, "with instruc tions to release on tneir own recog nizances all persons arrested by mar shals or deputy marshals, or by > (- ccuntv ani municipal police officer, and turned over to them, who promptly register under the terms of paragraph 40. registration regulations.'' Acting upon the orders contained In the telegram. Governor Manning tias instructed all peace officers in South Carolina to arrest immediately all who failed to register under the selective service act. The law will be vigorous ly enforced. The telegram from the provost marshal general to Governor Manning is as follows: "Quotas are to be assigned to the several states in proportion to their puymaLlUU <13 UCICI rniucu uy mv. LS JL reau of census and not in proportion to the registration. The result is that every person who has failed to regis ter is seriously increasing the bur den of those who have registered. Ample notice and every opportunity has now been given and tnere is no longer any argument upon wftlch the conduct of nonregistrants can t>e con doned. The period of leniency re ferred to in my No. 500 has now pased. Attention is invited to paragraph 16 of the regulations. It is requested that everv effort be now made to de tect and arrest persons subject to re gistration who have not registered and to bring each case promptly to the attention of the nearest represen tative of the Department of Justice. Wide publication should be given to the effect of the nonregistration in increasing the burden of those who have registered. Care should be ta ken that the lists prescribed in para 1 0/\ OTl/J oil giapn ?5y are {JXUUipLlJ' ^aaLCU, auu an registrants should be asked to assist in bringing nonregistrants to ttie at tention of the pilice. ''Summarization reports of registra tion from the various boards should be compared with estimates of census bureau, and effort should be concen trated on those districts where dis crepancy between registration and es seems greatest. In case of doubt as to age of persons who have not registered the tabulated record of local records should be consulted and data may be obtained from the bu reau of the census. "The purpose of this telegram is to inaugurate from tomorrow a vigor ous and aggressive and effective en forcement of tne penai clauses 01 me selective service law against all who have by failure or refusal to register brought themselves under those pro visions. "The Department of Justice is send ing: todav similar advices to the United I States attorneys and marshals, with instructions to release on their own recognizances all persons arrested by marshals or deputy marshals, or by state, county ond municipal police officers, and turned over to them, who promptly register under the terms of paragraph 40, registration regulations. The secretary of war construes seo tion 5 of the selective service law as requiring compulsory registration by the officer making the arrest of eaeh arrested person immediately upon his conviction. "Please give notice to all who have any duty enjoined upon them in con nection with the enforcement of the ruiTifli cIaiisac the law. and narticu larly to state, county anc municipal police named in paragraph 16 of the regulations.'* Subscribe to The Herald and News. ubber Company of N.Y. i: Chicopee Fall*, Mass. in More Than 125 Cities