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NEW FISCAL YEAR VOTED THIS FALL Comptroller General to Audit County Books?Reports to Be Made cn Fees. ?ru- State. Voters throughout the state next Funimer wiil vote on the question of changing: the liscal year from July 1 to June .SO each year instead of from January 1 to December 31, the general assembly having passed a resolution submitting in referendum the amendment to the state constitution. The proposed change was recommended by Governor Cooper and -strongly urged by Iiut L. Osborne, comptroller general. Arguments are wholly in favor of ? the change. Principal among these is ii.~n.Tv / ftnefihitinn now VUaC HiV vv?tww*?w??v*. officials have to keep their books open until the very last day of the year, which almost precludes the possibility cf preparation of annual reports in Vma to submit them to the general assembly. Another reason for the desired change is that the- appropriations each year are1 made only for that year and all state offices, departments and institutions must operate the first two months of the year without funds until the general appropriation bill is passed. This measure is not completed until the very last night of the general assembly and there is necessarily much embarrassment because of lack -of funds. Of equal import to the above meas* ure is that empowering the comptrol ler general to, audit annually the books of all county officers, and an appropriation of $15,000 to carry this act into effect. Heretofore the comptroller general's office has had only limited authority or funds on which to proceed, and many of the books have not been fully audited for ten years. It is believed such pro- j cedure will not only protect county officers, but will mean much toward j < orrectiug many errors that have un- j wittingly crept into the state tax books. ? ..1 - 1 J: 4.1.. | A imru mtusui t* uiictu^ m nuc, -with the above procedure is that by J JMr. Gary of- Spartanburg which re-' quires a report of all county officers! as to the amount of fees taken in by j each county official. One year ago I the measure was passed through the | house by an overwhelming vote.! When it reached the senate pressure was brought against the measure by j county officials who do not receive a j iixed salary, and the bill was held up j one year. Some of these officers, it j is contended, receive often as much j o 1 f\ nori nv> <19 nnn n vPiir from I *p 1 V<|WV VI % ?> ?- ? ? - ? ? fees, while officers whose salaries are j designated get around $2,000, but i who have just as many duties to per-! form. In its final form the Gray measure Jeaves the report to the majority of the county delegation. Should the majority of the delegation vote to al-1 low the people to know how much j .the county officers take in, the people -will then be informed. > _ SOUTH CAROLINA WELL ORGANIZED j American Legion Continues Growth I in State. The State, 12th. The American Legion yesterday j passed its goal of 70 posts in South j Carolina when applications from j Chappelts ami Newberry college were I approved by state headquarters. < Some time ago the state organizing j authorities announced that they ex- j pected to organize at least 70 posts *- 4 ^ * ...Lily* \T/\nfl\AWif ? nciorc +\pvn 1 whmc uic j college post will be chartered as post j &?. 72. With several other towns! now in the process of organization j the legion will now probably reach a i total largely in excess of its expected j -"quota/* South Carolina legion au-1 thorities only permit the organization j of one chapter in each town, the only j exception being the authorization of college and university posts. So that \ practically 70 towns and cities in the j state now have units of the organ- i ization ir. a flourishing condition, j making the state the most thoroughly \ 0VG1T(J Sliiit." ti uuu.u. The Chappells post was organized by \V. D. Allen working in conjunc-1 tion with Hal Kohn, organizer for j Newberry county. The Newberry col-! lege unit was also organized by Mr. i Kohn. These two additional chapters make Newberry county the best organized county in the state with a total of six posts at Newberry, Whitmire, Little Mountain. Prosperity, Chappells and Newberry college. The Last Word. Louisville Courier-Journal. "Pearls have gone up." "The pearl necklace that cost $1,000 four years , ago now costs $5,000 or more/' "There, now, John. You see what you missed by not buying me one then." Rub-My-Tism is a great pain killer. It relieves pain and soreness caused by Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sprains, etc. l-13-10t ? ' BROADWAY FINDS ' "KICK" IN JAZZ i ! Prohibition Fails to Dim White Lights. Karens City Star. Xew York.?As if to prove that Broadway can take its liquor or leave it alone, New York ana his girl are crowding the temples of the great < .trod, jazz, in larger numbers than ever before. Prohibition has made no more impression on the amusement industry than a split pea shot against the armor of a battleship. Tonight we'er promised a "posi-! tive sensation, direct from the sul| tan's harem," when Fatima, expo1 nent of "daring Oriental dances," will ' - * ?...? , ? A- it- - 1 J ; do her ntrie turn at uie guiuezi igrlades. From all advance accounts it ? | ! seems that harem girls have a shim-, ! me number that makes the gyrations j of the old-time girl* in pink resemble the pi9us gestures of a religious re Icluse. New York and his girl will {have to see Fatima. i ! j Generally speaking, the cabaret has , ! developed into a very pretentious en-! j tertainment called "revue" for lack of a more pact name. Dance halls jare blossoming out in her tinsel j glories and the young people are j i swarming to them because there are j j no waiters to tip, and an evening's J ! fun may not come to more than $4 j | or $5. j j Reisenweber's cafe, which has three J I floors, is crowded nearly every night, J ! suporting a revue company of 45 ! j singers and dancers by means of a j 1 - r r?f\ i-~ rpu:? ! j cover cnarge 01 ou cems. nus aiuci-i ! nocn a new company of girls was re-! j hearsing the numbers of a show that! ! is to break loose on the amusement; | hungry people of New York next j j Monday night. New Crop of "Wit." i The star song of the act, to the j tune of "Torreadoro," goes something J jlike this: | "Torreadoro rambled on the scene; j | "Three Spanish onions hit him on the j | bean." j i I I j j, The producer, Max Rogers, who < i 1 # ? ^ ^ 4-U A U Afolfl | ' I supplies similar snuws iu uic i < i in a half dozen big cities, explained jthat the new songs are wittier than 'the old crop. In the past the people i | were more tolerant of inane dialogue 1 becaus. they anaesthetize themselves ; with liquor, he sa.a. < I Within a couple of blocks of one another three great dance halls are ' booming. Roseland, Jazzland and 1 'the Broadway Gardens draw thous- i ! ands of dancers every night, and Sat- 1 i urday night the traffic is so heavy j i that boys and girls form a long line 1 extending down Broadway, waiting to get into Roseland. < Jazzland and the Broadway Gar- 1 dens are in basements. Like Wilson's ! < academy. Jazzland is for men only? {< that is, the house supplies the partners, who are called "instructresses." i Roseland has 175 house partners < ready to whirl with unaccompanied 1 customers, 125 being girls and fifty 1 men. ' Such dance halls are restoring the nickel and dime to the status of money, the average price of a dance J being five cents in addition to the i ''gatev of 75 cents. Upstairs over N r Rector's which has just closed, a ten j cent dance hall is about to open. A month ago Rector's was charging $1.35 for a bottle of ginger aie. The cabaret "tea dance" seems to be just about through. It just has been discontinued at Churchill's ^ which, with Rector's, still ran that sort of entertainment. Five profesional "partners" are reported to have struck for more | money'at Churchill's. Churchill says he "threw them out" and cut oat the tea fights in favor of a business men's lunch. At night he runs revue and dancing. The little club advertises "Dance J Until Dawn" and, like Reisenweber's attracts a crowd of people who appar-; n _ i ently don't have to stana reveme. i Prices Slumping Little. Advancing: prices seem to have J slumped a little all along the line ex- ( cept in the regular theaters. With! the best seats in the hands of scalpers,! j who demand from $"> to S8 for a tick-. et marked 50 cents, it is compara-; tively inexpensive to go to a restau- j i rant for dinner and a show at a total j I cost of $<> or $7 for two. About 20 i I ~io,.oc advertising: table d'hote j . piav.v.^ i** ^ V7 (dinner at $1.50 now, with a cover! ' charge of 50 cents where there is re-j vue. ! The old "regular" Broadwayite is J still crabbing about prohibition, but ! Broadway is his workshop and he isj distinct from the class of people who j flock where there is revue.* t j Having ascertained what the traffic f will stand in the matter of prices now ;that liquor is gone, the amusement! J people remain ever willing to take . money if one insists on spending wre- j jgardless and reckless." i j For such there is "near-chamj pagne," which comes in .a silver cooler, wrapped in a napkin, with I ] tinfoil around the neck. The cork} pops?and everything. Price $4 a quart. At soda fountains the same stuff selis as cider for a dime. They're In Every Town. The following bit of sarcasm now groinjr the rounds of the press is said to have appeared in a Kansas paper: What we need in every community is more fellows who will attend to other people's business. 1 he other people are too careless of their business, and overlook tco many points. Besides, they don't Know anything about their 9vvn business affairs, anyhow. The fellows who devote most of their time to other people's business are more efficient, and can handle the other man's business better than he can handle it himself. They admit that fact, so it must be so. The fellows who never had a bank account can give the bank president all kinds of pointers on how to improve his business. Then there is the man who can tell the minister just how to preach and manage his flock. Very few editors know how to run their papers but the fellow who has been in a printing office but three times in his life knows all about it. All towns would be better if they had more buttinskys 011 the job. Just because a man is successful is no sign he knows how to run his own business. It is a paying job, too?this thing of running other people's business." Convalescence From Flu. Edgefield Chronicle. There are just two bad tlrngs about the flu, getting it and getting rid of it. Having the flu is a comparatively easy pastime. I wrote you in my last letter a few of the simple symptoms of this disease which everybody is having these days. When you develop these symptoms, if you will go to bed and do what the doctors tells you to do you will get along fairly well. In a few days the doctor will dismiss your case and you will think that all is .veil. But yoi^will have another think coming. You don't really begin to feel bad with the flu until the doctor dismis-! ses your case and you are supposed to be well. It's the only illness I know of where a fellow feels worse j after he gets well than he felt when 1 the disease was at its climax. J When a fellow has the flu he's i afraid he's going to e and for the j first two or three days after he's up. and getting over it he's sorry he I didn't. And weak, my, it makes you weak!) rhree days of the flu is worse than a j ivhole month of typhoid fever. There j is as much strength in a fellow's sys-! tem after three days of flu as there ! is whiskey in1 a bottle late in the af- j ternoon on a fishing trip. j Whv I knew one fellow who had; - i awfully curly hair when he tooK tne i flu and he got so weak that his hair j Jidn't have strength enough to stay j 2urled. And I was so weak that I couldn't ;uck hard enough to get the .Chero Cola from the bottle to my mouth ;hrough a straw. I had to lie on my back and let 'em feed it to me with a spoon. Yours, ^ BILL. Confusion. One of Booth Lowrey's "Crazy roems. The sunflower rose *n the kindling east And the day broke all to smash, rhe star fish faded before the dawn Where the waves of see-saw dash. [ saw the butter fly through the air And the plank walk over the lawn, And I knew the dog wood soon be there When the horn snake blew for the dawn. , i The cat bird's kittens were whining, low Where the stair steps on the floor,' \nd the window sash was tied in a ; bow Round the waist of a bell on the j door. I 1 I I saw the chimney sweep through the j hall | And the broom stick its nose straight up, I heard the corn stalk round the house, And the dog fennel whine for its pup. So I sat with a stove pipe, in my mouth, On a toad stool close by the fire. And smoked till the night fell heels over head, And?this tale has a punctured tire! Perverse Man. Mrs. A.?I notice that your husband doesn't smoke. Is it be-eause you object to it? Mrs. B.?Oh, dear, no! If I objected to it he'd smoke.?Boston Transcript. Electric traction has been applied to one of Spain's most important mineral carrying: railroads. Canada's estimated population is now about 8,500,000. FARM HAND'S "BATON." Many Land Owners Once Were Agricultural Laborers. London Telegraph. The number cf men now engaged in the agricultural industry who have risen from the ranks is far greatei than is generally realized. Mo industry, probably, can show as large u proportion of employed who have developed into employers. The agricultural laborer carries the "marshal's baton'* in his basket, at the soldier does in his knapsack. Many of our most successful farmers are either the sons of laborers 01 themselves started life as wage earners. i Men of this'type not only are train ed and experienced, they have alsc proved their tendency of purpose and force of character. bowel disorj m. ders ? Diarrhoea, S p Cholera Morbus, etc. S| j|c Be prepared to check and |0 i Qfc relieve such troubles by jjg i Jl? keer'ing in the family ? medicine chest a'bottle of ag flg Dr. Thacher's JB i Ife Diarrhoea Mixture 13 ? In use for half a century. 23? HE At all drug stores; 35c. ig Phoney Eack if no benefit. 3S w Thacher Medicine Co. w Jfc Chattanooga, Tenn., C. S. A. |8| | ESTATE NOTICE. All#persons holding claims against ! the es'tate of Mary E. Bushardt, de ceased, will present same, duly attest! ed, to me or my attorneys, Hunt, ' Hunt and Hunter, Newberry, S. C., ' on or before the 7th day of April, ! 1090 . of the last Will and Testament of O. 13. Cannon, as Executor of the last Will and Testament of Mary E. Bushardt, deceased. I March 12th, 1920. 3-12-3t-ltaw NOTICE MEETING STOCKHOLDERS OF LITTLE MOUNTAIN | OIL MILL AND FERTILIZER COMPANY. ! Notice is hereby given that there i- r ?i. 1.1 1 J I win ce a meeting 01 tne siwumiuiucis of Little Mountain Oil .Mill and Fertilizer company, at the office of said company, at Little Mountain, in the State of South Carolina, on the Oth day of April, 1920, at two o'clock p. m., for the purpose of adopting a resolution to dissolve the Charter of the said corporation and to do whatever else is necessary for the dissolution of the said charter and in order to close up the affairs of same in accordance with the provisions of law. Little Mountain Oil Mill and Fertilizer Company, Per J. C. Epting, Jr., President. TAX NOTICE. The time for the payment of both property and road tax will expire on Monday, March 15th. For the convenience of those who have not paid their taxes I will be in office from 8:30 o'clock in the morning* until 7 o'clock in the after * * i - -i i.i noon unti^ rne dooks ciose, mua giving: all an opportunity to pay their taxes before goine into execution. C. C. SCHUMPERT, Treasurer Newberry County. March 8th, 1920. ? 3-9-2t EVERY BLEMISH REMOVED IN A FEW DAYS / By a New Method, and Thin, Pale People Increase Weight Quickly by Simply Using a Fed 5-Grain Ar go-Phosphate ablets. They Act Like Magic. Even in many stubbeorn cases that have baffled physicians and beauty specialists for years. You have never in your life heard of anything - :i T"* /?nmr>lov. : llKe 11. 1 IIC4\ litanc iiiuum y i ions, pimples, eruptions, red spots, ! blackheads vanish quickly. Your j complexionVcan be clear and you can i have a beautifulr. ounded figure. I Your face, hands, arms and should, ers can be made beautiful beyond I your fondest dreams in a few days by this wonderful new discovery v.*hkh pho^phntlves the system. Its effect many claim is marvelous, this treatment is absolutely harmless to the most delicate person and pleasant to use. SPECIAL NOTICE?Ladies wishing to increase bust development should secure one or two ounces of Rosetone from their druggist and apply once or twice daily. This is a ? v.^mo/1'T ort/l nprfppflv must CllCtUVC icwitvjj u?u J, ~ * .J harmless when used in connection with argo-phosphate. It will round out your form and increase youi weight like magic; unless you desire to increase your weight do not use argo-phosphate. Dispensed by Gilder & Weeks Co. ' 8 Rub-My-Tism is a powerful antiseptic; it kills the poison caused from infected cuts, cures old sores, tetter, etc. l-13-10t 666 has proven it will cure Malaria, Chills and Fever, Bilious Fever Colds and LaGrippe. l-13-10t Subscribe to The Herald and News, $2.00 a year. I Peas W i maMBBmBMwasassEsaEBwmm We pay hig ket prices. > See us be?or< ! Summer fi i < r I I ! i ?????_ i j 1 Southern Auto | New Garage West Near Union 1 Prepared to do all r< make of car with care Expert mechanics, cai j your needs and real ser j| in business to do. Distributors for Oak want a real car let us Oakland. 1 W?? ??? ? ?? I 1 Southern Auto West Friend St. I nanaHMMjMMMHMi The Aspirin | Don't Be Deceived by Aspirin advertisemc ! who seek to discredit al those made by them. The Facts are that we regularly hand] pirin U. D. Co. Tablets and Genuine. They ar class chemists and are ] very highest standing, pany of Boston. 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