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COMMUNICATED Mr. Andrew 'Burgess, Auditor Clarendon County. bear Sir: I understand from run) ors that you have not taken road ta returns this year, thereby deprivinf Clareudon County of a revenu amounting to around $10,000. And I understand that you give a your' reason that some act of the -pas legislature would make it illegal t collect a road tax for the year of 191? Now Sor, if there was anythin past at the last session that woul bring about this condition wvill yo' please let us and the people of th county know what it is ? As I ar sure it was donie through ignoranc and not intentional. I can only speak for myself, but believe it will apply to all of th delegation, that I gave the count the same business attention that have always given to my own busi ness. Respectfully yours, W. W. Johnsor May 21st, 1917 Mr. W. W. Johnson, Alcolu, S. C. Dear Sir: I have your letter of the 19th inst with reference to the collection a Road Taxes in Clarendon County fo the year 1917. It seems that I have misconstrue a letter which T received from th Comptroller General on March 9th 1917, and after coming to Columbi today and consulting with the Comi: troller General and the Attorney Ger eral, I find that the Act signed b the Governor on the 13th Februar does not go into effect until 1918 This being the case, I will put on th $2.00 Road Tax for the fiscal yea 1917, the same as In past years. Nex year, 1918, the new law takes effec and I will keep a separate book fo Road Taxes, and everyone subject t the Road Tax at that time will b subject to the $3.00 Tax unless the optionally work the Roads, under th Act of February 13, 1917. Yours very truly, A. P. Burgess, Auditor of Clarendon County PRESIDENT AMERICAN POULTRY ASSOCIATIO] For fear that there may be a cr for bread in this blessed Unite States, let each of us do our bi 1 Snap Ha; iage in the Wear Order of the I ~omply with the ord 3 piece pure worstec and nobby patterns a 10.00 to $25.04 >f Cool Cloth and Palm I Patterns at 6.50, $7.50 an i HATS is very attractiv horns, plain and fancy St: R FEET COMF( four Palm Beach or WF1 D, $2.50 and S ised to have you call am in arnd Furnishiings. Yot ous treatment. T HE INNEL~ DRY GOODE A SAFE PLACE TO TRAD: .Phne 878. HAS STOPPW LOSING TIME [ROM HIS WORK. ratitude of Both IHusband and Wife Is Won. WIFE GIVES DETAILS rs. Finley Saye They Were En abid to Increase Happiness and Income. "Both my husband and myself think Tanlac is a very fine medicine, be cause .it did so much toward restor ing our health and strength," declar ed Mrs. A. 0. Finley, of Drayton, S. C., a suburb of Spartanburg, in a statement she gave on March 29th. "I suffered from a generally' weaken ed system and I was very nervous -when I began taking Tanlac. I was ktroubled a lot with sleeplessness, and my appetite had about left me. I felt tired all the time and I almost had to drive myself to do my house work. "My husband took Tanlac for indi gestion and a generally run down system. When he started taking Tanlac, he was almost past going and he did not eat anything at all hardly. I have seen him go to the table and turn sick at the sight of food. "The Tanlac gave us both excellent results. It quieted my nerves and gave me a fine appetite. I got stronger and began to feel fine in a short time, and the medicine regulat ed and strengthened my system. "My husband only took one bottle of Tanlac, and that got him in such fine shape he went back to work when the bottle was taken, and he yhad not been able to work for three weeks when he began taking it. It gave him a good appetite and stopped the indigestion and built up his sys tem. He took Tanlac last September and he has not lost a day's work i since." Tanlac, the Master Medicine, is sold by Dickson's Drug Store, Man ning; L. W. Nettles, Jordan; Shaw & Plowden, New Zion; Farmers' Sup ply Co., Silver; D. C. Rhame, Sum merton.-.Adv. It is quite safe to annex a June bride, brother-provided you are 31 or over. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTOR IA The Coc And the Cha] the To assist you to < Men's 2 and Also a nice selection< $5.00, 3 Ouir show of STRAV Leg FO We suggest a pair < $1.5 We shall be ples quirements in Clothii attention and courte Boy's Palm Beach and Cool Cloth Suits at $3.50, $4.00 and O'D( $4.50.U U 18 South Main St. K 9 t I TUE UTTLE LASEL' m WIT TE H ENN f 1111111111111111111 r Every citizen with a flock of poultr; in the back yard, every farmer wit] his flock of turkeys, ducks, geese o chickens, should continue his hatch ing during the months of May an June. We must . produce more poultr; meat than ever before to help suppl; the great shortage of food that seem inevitable. With poultry, we have means of supplying the most desir able-the cheapest and quickest men t product of any other source of mea r supply. The wonderful agricultural r sources of the United States in thes war times are going to be taxed t the uttermost, for in addition to sup plying our home demands, we shal be called upon to aid in supplyini food to millions of suffering humanit; in the world's torn and stricken wa zone. Remember our friends in th trenches. Let us each do our bit. -o CLEAR AWAY THE WASTE y Bowel regularity is the secret o d good health, bright eyes, clear com plexions, and Dr. King's New Lif s Passed -ing Apparel is )ay. er, we are offering I suits in neat t leach Suits in desirable d $8.50. e, including Panamas, aws. )R T ite Oxfords. Price 13.00. I see us5 for your re are assured of polite Underwear at the old price, S 50c. and $1.00 U s per Suit. . SUiMTERDS C.e ~ N M M cli W4 lfits fe y Pills are a mild and gentle laxative 1 that regulates the bowels and relieves r the congested intestii.es by removing - the accumulated wastes without grip 1 ing. Take a pill before retiring and that heavy head, that dull spring y fever feeling disappears. Get Dr. ' King's New Life Pills at your drug s gist, 25c.-adv. - PIRESIDENT RICHARDS' t CALL TO POULTRYMEN t Must Produce an Extra Pound of Poultry for Each Man, Woman, Child in Nation. Before another hatching season, the great United States will, no dout, be in the- deepest throes of the world's most cruel war and no one can fore r tell the counties thousands that may e be crying for bread. It is up .to the United States, the world's greatest, richest and most resourceful nation, to not only look after the welfare of her own citizens, but to give aid and assistance in supplying food to count less thousands of suffering humanity in the torn and stricken war zone. The great agricultural resources of America must prepare to assume this burden. Every one of us must do our bit. Every acre, every nook and cor ner must bear its share. It is lucky that in poultry we can produce the cheapest and most quickly produced meat of all the various sources of our meat supply. Ilere, we have an opportunity of producing an extra one hundred million pounds if the American farmers, the fanciers and breeders will give their attention to hatching during the months of May and June. It is a well known fact that the available supply of meat products is todlay the lowest in our country, per capita, in the history of the United States. In order to meet the ex tremely dang~erous condition, we have within ourselves a wondlerful oppor tunity of aidirig what may prove to be a world-wide cry for food. Let us all join enthusiastically in the propaganda of helping in the probable time- of needl, by putting forth now every effort to meet, in a measure, the demand that is sure to come for untold quantities of foodstuff's. Never in the history of the world will there be a greater demand than in the next twventy-four months that are to follow. F'or the past twenty- four months we hav'e been killing the goose that has been laying the golden egg, an-l with the hue and cry of costly feed, p~oultry andl all meat prodlucts have been soaring far above all the usual estimates as to the relative cost of prodluction andl the selling price. The margin of profit on the product ion of eggs andl poultry for meat is far in e(xcess of the p)ercentage of priofit in) normal times. Hut asiide from the question of profit, we Americans must look at the situation fromn a p~hilan There is more Catarrh in this sec tion of the country than all other diseases utt together, and for years it was sup~posedl to be incurable. D~oc tors prescribedl local remedlies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronouncedl It incurable. Catarrh is a local dlisease, greatly in fluenced by constitutional conditions andl therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Medicine, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Troledo,,Ohio, is a constitutional rew edly, is taken internally and acts thrn the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System. One Hundred D~ollars rewvard is offeredl for any case that Hlall's Catarrh Medicine fails to cure. Send for circulars andl testimonials. F. J. CH ENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills for constipa tion.-av )T PROMISE-BUT P Ake KEEP-KOOL Clothes the en and Boys the country ov p of the shears to the last s .EP-KOOL Suits are watche ide a life's work of fashion ar. Though reasonably price irked label defines ideals t etion in Style and Tailoring. )OL Label is to find the best i TJBBS E SUMTER. S -hropic and humanitarian standpoint utd each and every one "do his bit" Lo meet an exigency that seems in evitable. Let us all try to be a fac Lor in the production of an extra 100, 1)00,000 pounds of poultry meat, which is less than 1 pound additional for each man, woman and child in the United States. The United States Department of Agriculture has just issued an esti mate that upwards of $700,000,000 is the annual tribute paid by Americans to the garbage can. Why not convert this into feed to produce poultry and eggs. Every home can have a self-sup porting and profitable flock in the back yard by converting the offal from the table and kitchen into the very choicest of poultry feed. Why such an astounding waste, an utter extravagance that costs us nearly $7 for every man, woman and child in the United States? Let every home have a neat poultry house and a few well-kept, profitable fowls. The edi tor of this publication will be only too pleased to co-operate with every reader desiring any information. BIG I CE This THURSDAY, SATU May 24, Watch for pagje adver Sumter Item, or writ< SOME OF THE BIG I' 1,500 p~ounds Opeko Cot 200 p)ounfds Opeka Tea _. 1,000) Boxes Stationery: 500 JIars Cold Cr'eam 2 500 Boxes Face Powder 400 Bottles Toilet Water 500 Tubes Tooth Paste 1,000 Tooth Brushes. 1,000 Cakes Soap -. 200 Bottles Perfume - 250 pounds Candy - LOTS OF OTHEI Sibert's D Telephne 283 ERFORMANCE Summer Choice of er. From the first itch of the needle, d by men who've ing featherweight d--yet their trade hat stand for Per To find the KEEP. n Summer Clothes. 3ROS., C. It is not unusual for the fanciers to (uit hatching with April. Let me urge that hatching be continued dur ing the months of May and June and also during July in a large part of our country. Let the o1(1 hen (10 her part-fill up the incubators-keep them going through May and June -the results will e worth while. Let us be prepared to consume every bit of table and kitchen scraps and make them source of profit. )EN31AlK HAS LOST 150 SIIIPS DURING WAR London, May 22.-A Copenhagen dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company says that since the begin ning of the war Denmark has lost 150 ships through submarines or mines. The destruction of the ships has been accompanied by the deaths of 210 Danish seamen. The Quinine That Does Not Affect The Head Because of its tonic andi laxative effect. I.AXA TI VF, BROMO QUININrf is better than ordinary Quinine and does not cause nervousness nor ringing in head. Remember the full name and took for the signature of E. W. GROVE. 25c. NT SALE week! FRIDAY AND RDAY, 5 and 26. tisemenit in Tuesday's a or phIone for list. iTMNS IN TIlS SALE fee - -- 2 lbs. for 39c ---2%, lb. pkgs. 39c for 26c and 2 for 41c for 26c and 2 for 51c 2 for 26c and 2 for 51c -----------2for 76c -----------2 for 26c ------2 for 26c -- - 2 for 11c -------2 for76c ---.-2 lbs.for 61c t GOOD THINGS rug Store SUMTER, S. C.