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fflEWlJlMlRitfi * s THE FLORENCE DAILY TIMES TUESDAY AFTERNOON. MARCH 2!). 1921. Audits rnvestigatlons Geo. B. Wilson & Co. BEN II. ELY, Mgr. Consulting and Uranticing Accountants P. O. Box 285 Income Tax Systematizing PRITCHETT BROS. Watchmakers and Jewelers All Repairs Delivered Promptly. 15 East £vans St C. G. COBLE COMPANY Contractor^, Painters and Decorators We use pure paint and first- class, mechanics Our aim is to satisfy Headquarters: ware Co. IVicCown Hard- Phone 32t. Florence, S. C. n Dr. Miles W. Maloney Optometrist Sulzbachers Upstairs v Florence, S. C. While in Town see us for all interior cleceratinn. We have the latest designs in wall pa per. VVe do all kinds of paint ing, inside decorating and wax ing flocrc. HAMILTON BROS., DECORA TIVE CO. Of'ice over McCown Hdw. Co. Florcnr;, S. C. Phone 9o3-.l. mm W iOTHER WOMAN ESCAPES rkCamber Avoided a Serious praUort by Taking Lydia E. akham^s Vegetable Com pound in Time ktown, IH. —“After my first born I suffered so with my left side that I could not walk across the floor unless I was all humped over, hold ing to my side. I doc tored with several doctors but found no relief and they said I would hi ve to have an operaiion. My mother insisted on my taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegeta ble Compound and I ! rfelief. Now I can do all my and it is the Vegetable Com- t.has saved me from an opera- annot praise your medicine too 11 tell all of my friends and I what the Compound did for Irs. Mawiaret McCumber, |er St., Georgetown, Illinois. Jumber is one of the unnum- usands of housewives who I keep about their daily tasks, ping from ailments peculiar nth backache, sideaches, caring-down pains and ner- and if every such woman i by her experience and give ipkham’s Vegetable Com* [they would get well. TO THE CITIZENS OF FLORENCE! On Thursday, March 31st, we will vote upon the question of Issuing bonds of tho City of Florence to the amount of $225,000, for the purpose of paying off the floating debt of the City and extending the water ami sewer lines to some sections of the City which do not have them at present. In order that every citizen may be fully informed, so as to be able to vote intelligently upon this question, I de sire to state that tho present floating debt of the city is $197,801.46. Of this amount $82,900.00 was inherited from the previous administration, and $114,- 961.16 has accumulated during the past four years. Every dolllar of this last amount is represented by neces sary permanent improvements. The •argest item is $75,910.92 expended for improving tho water plant. The old steam plant which had been in opera tion since 1902 was about worn out md we were depending upon only me well for our water supply and had but one reservoir for storage, the •apacity of which was about one day’s supply. We have drilled two aam- Uonal wells and equipped them with he best type of air lift and have aiia iquinped the old well with the same apparatus. We have built a new steel eservoir with a capacity of three- inarter million gallons. We have in stalled two of the latest type electric Iriven air compressors, two 750-gallon "ervice pumps, one 100)-gallon fire aump and one MOO-gallon fire pump, nil electric drive, in fact we have built a new water p'ant. The opera- ion of this plant will show a clear profit for the City. The old plant lost money, the cost of operation being enormous on account of the -high cost of coal and labor which is eliminated by the use of electricity. In addition to the improvements at the plant, we have made numerous ex- •ensions amounting to 14,000 feet, vith the addition of 600 new meters. With the exception cf 13 small con nections the system is now metered hroughouL We owe for these exten dons $22,461.16. We have put down 7000 feet of sanitary sewer at a cost of $7,839.38. We have eliminated the horse ’rawn apparatus in the fire depart ment and put in its place a 750 gallon motor-driven pumper at a cost of '•8.750.00 which costs less to maintain and is far more efficient than the >orse drawn equipment. The above items constitute the to ol of $114,961.46. the amount of in- ’ebtedness accumulated by the pres- nt administration. This amount is 'eing carried by various hanks at 7 nd 3 per cent. A considerable sav- mg c?n he effected by converting hese notes into bonds .and beside; - ve will have a balance uTiich can be used for extending the sewer and wa- 2r lines where they are now badly needed. For the information of the citizens. would say we have not gone in debt «ll the permanent improvements which have been made. For instance. >e nave put in storm drainage to the mount of $9,758.20 which has been paid for, also water extensions in ad- lition to those mentioned above to he amount of $14,950.89 which have Iso been paid for. We have also paid $4,944.32 for work done on the Jheves Street underpass These hree items total $26,865.65 in perma- :ent improvements which have been paid for. With the above information we be- ieve the citizens of Florence will se.e he advisability of voting these bonds. H. K. GILLi.dr, Mayor. Capitol Decorations ITALIAN SCULPTORS AND PAINT- 1 ERS WORKED ON NATION’S | SEAT AT WASHINGTON 1 The Home Garden. NEW FASHIONS FOR MEN. Two Color Raincoats Is Latest Edict From London. London, March 29.—A marked drop, n some cases amounting to 50 per jent, in the cost of men’s clothing is ndicated at the second annual exhi bition by clothing outfitters and the woolen trade. Among the interesting features is what is obviously a deter mination of the manufacturers to break away from somber coloring in raincoats and two-c»or waterproofs vill soon be worn here, the collar and •uffs being of a color different from that of the coat itsslf. The death knell of the shirt with dlk front is sounded in the exhibi- ion. Such shirts always nave caused ■onsiderable trouble to laundries be muse of the amount of wastung neces sary, for the non-silk portion of them lestroyed the silk. Men’s outfitters find a large demand for silk .pajamas, the price of them having dropped 50 per cent recently. A pajama coat without a collar is the : atest thing. Most of the decorations on the Cap itol at Washington are the work of the Italian artists, according to an article by rror. Enrico Sartorio, in the January issue of Carroccio, an Ital ian magazine published in New YorK. The dome was decorated by a young Italian painter, Pietro Banani, who hau previously worked in Rome and Carrara, and who Hied in 1819, shortly after the completion of his work in Washington. The cast of the Statue of Liberty was done by Oausici, who died before he could pul it into mar ble, unu tbe spreau <.ugie under the statue was carved by another Italian, Valaperti. 'As the Hall of Representatives neared completion, in 1806, Giuseppe Prauzoni and Viovanui Andrei, sculp tors, were brought over from Italy. The former was skilled in figures, ana the latter in decorative sculpture, hut their work was destroyed when the Capitol was burned by the British during the War of 1812. When work was resumed, Andrei was sent to Italy to engage sculptors proficient in modeling figures, and it was probably then that Francisco lardella and Car lo Franzoni, brother of Siuseppi, were engaged. The clock in Statuary Hall was begun by Franzout and complet ed by lardella. As the Capitol neared completion, a larger number of artists was needed, and most of them were brought over from Italy. It was then, in 1823, that Enrico Cousici and Antonio Capel- iano, tfupils of Canova, arrived. The leigh, Cabot, and La Salle, and the groups representing the landing of the Pilgrims, Pocahontas rescuing Cap tain John Smith, and some others are by them. Valaperti, who was a man of some prominence in his profession, also came over at infs time. Jn 18^6, Luigi Persico arrived in Washington. The large allegorical group in the portico of the rotunda is 1ns, and also the statutes of War ami Peace on either side of the door way. At the foot of ttie west stair way there is a bronze bust of a Chip pewa chief by Viucenti. There are aiso many frescoes by Constantino Brumidi, and some by Castigini, the two having been employed together on the large fresco ou the rotunda, il lustrating in the pseudo-relief the pe riods in the history of the continent. Brumidi, who panned many of the trescoes in the Vatican at Home, as well as in the Capitol in Washington, came to America in 18>». In 1853 he became a citizen, am.- i;« J.G69 he was entrusted with the decoration of the Capitol. FUNERAL OF MRS. GREGG ROLLINS The funeral of Mrs. Gregg Rollins, whose death occurred last week, was neiu Loin the Baptist church on Thursday morning, Rev. W. It. Smitn officiating, assisted by Kcv. W. A. Beckham. The lloial offerings were numerous and exceedingly beautiful. The remarKs of Pastor Smith won. well gave and all hearts responueu to his eulogy to her beautiful life anu character. She was known as an un usually good woman, full of charity, and with a happy cheerful spirit, un dergoing all the ills of life without a murmur. She had been an invalid for a long while and at times suffered greatly, but no one heard her com plain. Her life was a benediction to those with whom she was thrown in contact and many a lesson in patience and endurance has been learned at her bedside. t She leaves to mourn their loss the following: Miss Addle Rollins, Mr. Fred Rollins and Mr. James Rollins, Lake City; Mr. John Rollins, of Wood ruff; Dr. Furman Martin, her brother, who is pastor of the First Baptist church in Florence and many other relatives and friends.—Lake City News. In Italy it is not uncommon for a criminal to receive full sentence upon each of a number of separate convic tions. In Sicily, for instance, a man named Lupo Salvatore was found guil ty of sixty-three different acts of fraud. He was condemned to three years’ imprisonment on each of the sixty-three counts, bringing the total length of his sentence to one hundred and eighty-nine years. i Certain human expressionss, such as the baring of the teeth in rage and the bristling of the hair under extreme fear, have been put forward by scien tists as proofs of man’s descent from animals. Tattooing is forbiddden lo the Jews. WHAT AND WHY IS A LEGUME- Modern gardening literature ^ias a great deal to say about lertilizing by legumes and the advisability of plant ing legumes so that they appear fiom time to time in every portion of the garden. Just what is a legume? A legume, strictly speaking, is g seed, pod of certain form. The pea and bean produce them. The pea, the bean, the clovers, and many other plants belong to a family known as ihc pulse family and one of their chai acteristics is that they bear their seeds in legumes so the term legume is applied to any member qf the fam ily. The wistaria and the white lo cust tree are legumes, so is the sweet pea and the white clover. They all have butterfly shape or two-winged (lowers. But the remarkable thing about the legume is that it has always possessed a secret for which scientists have striven lor years and' which only to some degree was discovered during the war under stress of dire necessity that of taking nitrogen from the air and making it into nitrates. Each legume is a miniature nitrate factory, and it does its work secretly and underground, it is the only fam ily of plants possessing this charac tcristic. Pull up a pea or bean or dir up a clover and look at the roots. You will find them covered with little knots or bumps which the botanists call nodules. These are the nitrate factories. They are caused by a smal' organism, a bacteria or bacteroid which has the faculty of grabbing th<" nitrogen and storing it. Where n le gume grows some of these nitrogen gathering bacteria are left in the soil It is now possible to inoculate the soil with them through cultures very cheaply procurable at seed stores. Plowing under the legumes is now recognized as a scientific wav of ma nuring. The dying roots filled with nitrates provide the nitrogen in prop er form for the plants besides adding to the texture of the sail. Stock Market Shows Improvemen; New York, March 26.—Despite ex tensive profit taking further substan tial recoveries were recorded on the stock market this week. A marked improvement in steel and textile in dustries was reported and commodity markets are mere stable. BARE ARMS OUTLAWYED Buenos Aires, March 29.—Bare arms and low-necked dresses have bean outlawed hy tha* ecclesiastic governor of Argentina. A notice has been posted in the doorways of ail the Catholic churches rending: “iWer Sunday, Marta 27, no priest for any reason will be permitted to admirister holy c>.:nmunion to any married woman, girl or child who r.p- proachss the altar without having completely covered the breast, shoul ders and arms with material -that is not transparent.” YOUNG CARROTS. Young carrots are a comparatively new vegetable in popular ure, the car rot having been an object of nrejndie' for many years as “cow fodder.” New recipes for cooking the carrot came in to vogue through foreign chefs and they have achieved a popular place in the green grocer’s display for the greater part of the year. A NEW TOMATO. It would seem that all there war left to he invented in the tomato line would he a worthless one, but thi.-- year two distinct novelties are offered the most striking of which is a whiL tomato. It is the counterpart in aP respects of the ordinary tomato ex cept Its color, which is a brilliam (.ream white; John Baer seems the most striking of the new red varietie- because of the orefusion of its yieh' and the uniformity of the fruity whicl are of the round .salad variety. It h not quite so early as E-iriiana. but i much h-'nvier bearer, it will b: found a winner. v STARTED IN FUN A REAL GRAY HAIR RESTORER DISCOVERED AT LAST! MILDREDINA HAIR REMEDY brings your gray hairs back to their natural color and makes the hair clean, fluffy, abundant and beautiful. Delicately perfumed, clean to use, without oil or stickiness, will not rub off or stain the scalp. Once the hair has returned to its original color it is easily kept so, and can be washed without affecting the color.' Augustus F. Moyer, 22 Godfrey St., Taunton, Mass.,—“Enclosed find 60c 'or bottle of Miidredina Hair Remedy. The trial satisfied me of its results. Airs. Amelia Eddy, 57 Phelps St., Hartford, Conn.—'T have used your hair remedy and think it is wonderful, f now have a beatuiful head of hair 60 inches long from us»:i?. Miidredina. Will gladly recommend it to all my friends.” J. Manson, Jr.. Lincoln. Calif —'T have tried a great number of hair tonics, but find Mlldredma the best I have ever used.” Accept no nubstitues. They are all inferior articles. Sample by mail lOe. Mildred Louise Co., Boston, Mass. Out- of-town customers supplied hy parcel lost. For sale by Palace Drug Co. rib,—, 1 Wh *"1 •’HONEY’’ GRADY It all started in fun, hut the result is that '“Honey” Grady is now right halfback of a girls’ football team at Twin Falls, Idaho. They staged an indoor game as part of an athletic car nival for the high school. Now. they p’nn to train during suinun. 1 for th? football season. ** + + **4> + + + + + »r * PLANT PEANUTS « + + + *♦ + *♦ + + + 44 Suffolk, Va., March 16, 1921. The conditions now existing in th world of business, farming as well a manufacturing, cannot be cured now hy further waiting for some great change to take place. Every mar must do his part, and the farmer, the balance-wheel of the world of Indus try, cannot hope to see business re turn to its normal basis until he set; to work to perform ills imporiar. - task, and the sooner he realizes thP the sooner will business be on thr upward march. One o fthe most im portatit questions now confronting tin agriculturist is "What shall I plant that will with reasonable certainty' bring me in the greatest revenue” P is a matter that should be given care ful consideration. Let us, for a mo ment. consider that with the over production of cotton an dthe enor mous surplus carried over for the p^is' two seasons, there is little that coni' he expected from this source durhif the year 1921. Therefore, it woulc' seem to me, that the safest course tc pursue at this time would be to turr attention largely o peanuts, as then is certainly less probability of suffer fng loss on peanuts as they can be utilized for so many and varied pur noses; and besides, if they are proper ly harvested, they will keep for a Ion? time in good condition. . T t is perfectl; natural for the farmers throughout the south to me somewhat undecided on ac-count of the low prices that have prevailed on the 1920 crop, as tc whether it will he for their best in terest to plant peanuts to any great extent this season. It is the opinion of a great many farmers in this sec tioh that even if the prices are low, the peanut crop is a greater revenue producer than some of the other sta pie crops, such as cotton and tobacco I would not advise growing peanuts only, as it is always safer to diversify the crops; hut I do aevlse that pea nuts play a large part in the diversifi cation where the soil is adapted tc their growth. The heavy importation of peanuts from the Orient during 1920 was the most potent factor in the declire in prices; but with the almost absolute certainty of a prohibitive tariff or peanuts and peanu: on, t:ie»e is every reason to believe that the 1921 corp will he in good demand, and at reason- ablv good prices. Surely the peanut market is not permanently crippled, for the valu able properties contained in peanuts, both as a food product for human con- rumption and as feed for stock, are too well known for But demand tc cease. Furthermore .vast and varied experiments Rave revealed the fact that the peanut contains properties yet to be discovered, as each experi ment brings to light some new and hidden properties before unknown. I unhesitatingly say—Plant Peanuts. —!J. A. B. In former times the aldermen and councillors of the City of London in- eluded many snuff-tnkors, and in tho library of the Guildhall free snuff is| still supplied to members. It is placed in an ornnte snuff-hnx. w-ith magnlil- ■ent Jewelled lid and handle. , 'VI Get Out the Old Ones Look behind the door, in the closet or in some other corner and gather up your last summer low shoes. Bring them to us—‘nuf scd.’ All work guaranteed. Florence Goodyear Shoe Shop Phone 163 At Florence Shoe Store Subscribe to The Florence Daily Times LEST YOU FORGET Florence Dept. Store Pre-War Price Sale IS NOW GOING ON The bargains we offered must have appealed to i * the people from the way our store was crowded both days Friday and Saturday. These are the goods we offered at the following prices and there are hundreds of other bargains which we are unable to list. Fruit of the Loom Bleaching, yd. 21c « Berkley ‘60’ Lonsdale Cambric, yd. 21c 9-4 Bleached Sheeting, yd. . . 48c Utility best grade Dress Gingham, yd. 19c 36 inch Cambric finish Percale, yd. 18c 36 inch Curtain Scrim, yd. . . . Boys’ Overalls, sizes 6 to 15, pair Men’s Pepperell Bleached Elastic Seam Drawers, pair .... 48c Where is the store in Florence or out of Florence that offers you such bargains—yes, show us where. Ask your mer chant what he sells 33 inch Indian Head for, then make a rush for it here. Very Special WED., MARCH 30TH From 4 to 5 P. M. we will sell 33 in. Indian Head 6 yards for NONE SOLD TO CHILDREN Florence Dept. Store 21-23 Dargan St. Florence, S. C.