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ppgppp?"-' -?? ' VP 9AXM MMAJWW WAY. Mr. Maldrow tefa Ik If ort* OmoEtoar Old Herald: ? It wema i| If dark clouds were overshod awing the tax payors and not the Tlstage of a silver lining to them can be seen, and when the old farmer realises the fact that there Is in eight twenty nine million bales of cotton that will not sell for cost of pro> duction and the length of time it will take to convert it into cloth and cheap hats as now the famous wool hat is no longer the correct headgear as thev nillflli 1W&T with th? Hnn Ran. Jam in R. and along with this the universities. colleges, military Institutions clamoring for more and larger appropriations that student boys may beoome more efficient as athletes. Baseball, foot ball and basket ball artists to be transported >from county to county and state to state that an admiring public may see them wallowing in the dirt. A new plan as to the proper way in teaching "The Toting idea how to shoot." And on this huge tax burden the boll weevils have come either as a curse or a blessing, time alone can solve the problem. And our solons entrusted with the power to enact wise laws for the betterment of the people they represent seem to be rather lavish with money that does not come out of their own pockets. Well perhaps at some future day a Moses will come to the front and lead the people back to peace and prosperity and also the liberties bequeathed to them by their forefathers that founded this great republic. Even in this old benighted town since our coon skin king, the mayor, out off his whiskers things have' grown from bad to worse. The hogs and cows no longer prembulate along the streets and eat up the daisies in the early spring but alas for them' they are now held in "durance vile,", nnH nnlv Too WnHHoll'. nld -'l" J and his faithful companion are allowed the freedom of the town. The only happy man we have met lately sports the name of Alexander Barns,, Esq. Late the Past summer when the honeysuckles were in full bloom and shedding their sweet fragrance, he captured a blooming beauty of a country lass, not quite sixteen. The nuptials were rather a private affair, but the katy dids and whipporwill did ample justice to the occasion in singing the wedding march. Mr. Barnes is rather an elderlyman and has many children and grandchildren to mourn his loss. He and his youthful bride live a short distance out of town on his farm, where Mr. Barnes ha8 turned out to be a Hogolist of the first water. He raises a cross bred, duroc and some other kind of hog, and his word for it, has butchered quite a lot of themi thiB winter. PiKS four mnnthn old I wefghed 200 pounds, 18 months old 470 and 480 pounds, and had yards and yards of sausage, liver puddings and chiterllns, hog head cheese, back boneB and spare ribs to give his neighbors, and further said when he laid himself down on his downey bed at night the crickets on his hearth would chirrup a sweet lulaby while *e snoozed the hours away. But as he promised the writer a few yards of chiterlins and did not fulfill his promise he is satisfied that if the root of his family tree were dug up It would show that old Ananias was hlB ancestor. Elihu Muldrow. o SAYS GROUNDHOG WRONG THIS YEAR. Dutch Weather Prophet Takes Issue With Animal. The State. The groundhog did not see his shadow when he came from his hole yesterday according to the Dutch Weather Prophet, who thinks this is one time the groundhog has been crossed up. He believes, however, that generally the little animal is right. "February 2 is to some extent as v Important an epochal period as the four regular quarterly periods in the calendar ? the annual equinox (March 20.) summer solstice, (June 21.) autumnal equinox (September 23), or the winter solstice (Decembes 22,) he said lost night. "Even a casual observation of the lengthening days will show that the sun has hegun to send its rays in increasing directness and find an entrance between wall8 and into windows where they have been absent since October. So Candlemas day (known as groundhog day) may be said to he the midwinter period. No doubt this period la affAftUH hv tho Akonna. ? " '- ?" ? ^j vuv vui?u5co ao ICill" perature Just a?? they occur at the dateg ?f the four seasons of the year. "Thus there are 1 indications now that the 'back of winter' is not broken even if the groundhog did not see his shadow at sunrise on "groundhog day' for sunshine after the sunrise period does not affect the groundhog as the tradition is understood," he said. "This connection of the groundhog tradition^ with the midwinter period is oniylmcidental," he continued. "In i 1S96 a French scientist made a mathematical demonstration of the effect produced by summer fogs upon wln*. ter precipitation. The Frenchman's < conclusions as based on the only ex- i act science in existence are identical- i ly the same on the sam? subject that the Oerman settlers of the Dutch Fork section of "Newberry and Lexington have handed down from one i generation to another, and which is labelled 'superstition' by even peoV pie who want everything provedhy i mathematics. Even the Romans JT1100 years ago knew that air currents changed every three days and In their variation gave multiplicity to changes in weather which occurred at reg- i ular periods after considerable time from their appearance. i "Thus the year 1911 will close the seven year period of 1914-11 which ,i has given forth many peculiar phenomena of a meteorological character," he said, "not to mention the great political and economic unheav- < al caused by the world war?among' IK which may be aaentloared the gren July (1916), the cetd weather of Ma: 1917, prolonged and extreme eok period of December, 1917, and Jan uary, 1918. as well as the peculiar ef feet of the sun on foliage of tree* and plants 1916-1920. The snow ant sleet storm of last week adds to thli list of phenomena. In sections nortl of Columbia It was both a 'wet' an< a 'dry' snoSr, while Columbia was th< center of the disturbance of sleet ant snow combined. "I made the forecast September SC that two snows would occur during the present winter south and east oi the Blue Ridge," he said.' "This fore cast has been rerifled. Likewise a year ago the forecast was made in The State that the fruit crop of 1930 would be abundant. Notwithstanding the facts that temperatures were below normal at frequent intervals with severe frost, during the closing periods of the winter and earl) spring, the forecast was also verified However, I am not prepared to predict an abundant fruit crop, especially peaches, for 1921. The indications are that the similar condition! as to tempergture and frost will prevail in 1921, but the relation of the elements which neutralise the effeel of temperatures and frost will be sc different as to caus^ serious damage to fruit. "Similar also to 1929 will be temperature and precipitation during the summer of 1921. Overflows in the rivers are Indicated and bottom land! will be affected thereby." o 97 a Year Fieui Pullet. On the Farm page of the News and Courier this morning will be found a story of what can be done in Charles ton with a small flock of hens. It ic a story worth reading. In a little per scarcely larger than a dining room table Mr. Herbert T. Mcintosh in the past year has gotten from ten pullets a total of 154 dozen eggs, worth at s conservative estimate something like 3108. The pullets cost him about $3{ to feed. Each pullet, therefore, earn ed during the ear about $7 above it8 keep.?News and Courier. o STATE HIDE INTERESTS IN CHOOSING PADMAPESTA QUEE? Twenty Eight Counties Now Con ducting Contests to Select Representative Young Women as Dele gates to Rig Social Gayety Weel in Columbia March 27th to Aprl 2nd. Which county in South Carolint will have the honor of supplying Pal masta (Palmetto State Festival) witl a queen? And who ever is choset will be a queen in. fact because sh< will be chosen from among forty five of the most attractive and poulai young women in the state, one fron each county, except Richland, wh< will assemble ln Columbia during the week of March 27 to April 2, ai special honor guests of Columbia and the Palmefesta association. During the big week a general election will be held to choose the queen fron among the many attractive candidate! and this election promise8 to be t most Interesting affair for everybodj in South Carolina. A photographic supplement containing the pictures ol all county delegates will be publish ed in the newspapers of Columblal and ballots will be Issued the general public, by means of which everybody will be given an opportunity to eXDress iheir chnlco fnr queen's grand prise will be a complete spring outfit of wearing apparel of her own selection to be furnished by the various specialty stores ir Columbia. The value of the grand prise has been set high enough to make it well worth competing for. Traveling expenses, hotel bills and entertainment for the county delegates will be borne by the Palmafesta association and ihe young ladies will be chaperoned by leading society folk of Columbia, including the wivee of state house officials. During the big week moving pictures of the Queen and her entire court will be taken and sent over the country by one of the leading film services. Palmafesta will be a week of many and varied attractions including the state wide automobile show exhibiting the late models of cars, trucks and tractors; the style show, featuring the latest Bpring fashion creations posed by professional models to bo imported from New York; daily band concerts by one of America's premier musical organizations; floral, trades, automobile and baby parades; fetes, dances, social events and special attractions at all theatres, with nightly exhibits of fireworks in which will be feautred specially designed set pieces depicting Important events in South Carolina History. The auto show, style show and fireworks display will be staged at the State Fair Grounds. Local contests to secure candidates for Queen of Palmafesta are now being conducted through the daily and weekly newspapers in the lowing counties; Allendale, Hampton, York, Lee, Georgetown, Union, Cherokee, Lexington, Camden, Saluda, Colleton, Sumter, Clarendon, Greenwood, Abbeville, Aiken, Darlington, Charleston, Pickens, Edgefield, Anderson, Fairfield, Williamsburg, Oconee, Calhoun, Horry, Dillon and Marlboro. Voting coupons will be printed in each issue of this newspaper up to and including the issue of March 12, at which time the votes will be counted and announcement of the winner made. There will be no restriction upon the number of votes each person may cast. Every coupon clipped luui in is newspaper is good for one vote, and a yearly, paid In advance subscription will count 10 votes. FASTEST. While we go on our humdrum ways a celestial runaway is dashing through the heavens at the fastest speed ever attained by any object in the universe. This bad boy among the stars com by the drab name of Nebula Drever No. 684, and his address is the Constellation of Cetus. The nebula. Is not visible to the eye. It flashes across the lower southern skies in the early evening and tilts erratic course hu been dlMovr ered by Dr. Y. M. Slipper of the Low* I ell Observatory. Flagstaff, Arts. As our bub, dragging the earth ami - the other planets with It, loafs along i at approximately 11 miles a second, L Nebula Dreyer No. 584 Is showing its i heels to th? rest of creation at the t rate of 1,242 miles. It? course is di1 rectly away from the earth. I No one knows where this nebula is L going, what it will hit, or whether, in all eternity, it will visit us again. It 1 has Just ene claim on the attention j of earth-dwellers. It is the superlaf tive in speed. And in these days, to - reach that pinnacle, it has to go i some. i o I DEAD CAME TO LIFE j Undertaker Sent for When Man Be* Heved Dead Revived. t Pronounced dead of heart disease . on a Pennsylvania train as it passed . through Elisabeth bound from New York for Atlantic City, and remov ed to a baggage car on a stretcher i after having narrowly' escaped being put in an ice box at Trenton, Joseph > Staub. sixty-eight, of No. 518 North t Michigan avenue, warmly greeted > members of his family at the railroad > station last week and waved away an Industrious undertaker who met the - train to claim his body, relates an > Atlantic, N. J. dispatch. i Staub had been absent from Amerlt ca twenty-eight years, most of the time in Hungary. He reached New York yesterday and started immediately for Atlantic City to Join his . Bons and daughters here. He was met in New York by a daughter, Mrs. 1 Yvette Limver. When the train left the Pennsylvania Station she took a ' seat in the day coach and her father 1 went into the smoker. 1 Just as the train passed out of ' Elizabeth station Staub half arose 1 from his seat, cried out hoarsely and L j fell back heavily. A physician on the train tried every means of resuscita' tion without avail and said the man was dead. A stretcher was obtaineli 5 and the supposed dead body was carried to the baggage car. A train telegram was sent to a Trenton under'taker to be on hand to receive the i body there, but just as the train reached that city the grief stricken . daughter got permission to bring the . body through to this city. The train had pulled out of Trenc ton only a few minutes when the bagI gage man thought he saw Stauh's right hand twitch. He called the physician again and with the applicaL tion of smelling salts a noticeable con. vulsion passed through the body. A t little later the "corpse" began to i kick. Then Staub sat up, looked about him and inquired what it was 51 all about. r! He was able to walk with the assistance of his daughter after he had ) I alighted from the train here, and callJed out to a waiting undertaker that 3 he was a bit premature. [\ Tonight Staub had fully recovered. . * Excitement due to joy in anticipation \ of meeting his family after such a t long separation was given by his phy,'sician as the cause of the heart-att tack. A. C. L. DISCONTINUES TRAINS * \ . oiuuug iii em is ttie Early Morning Train to Wilmington. Three trains in South Carolina are r to be discontinued by the Atlantic )j Coast Line railroad. The changes, . which have been approved by the .'railroad commission, will go into ef.'fect Sunday, February 6, the trains to t be taken off by the order largely dup. [ licating service, which will be carried > by other trains to make connections as usnal. [ Trains No. 68 and 69 between Co. lumbia and Sumter will be discontin( ued, the traffic normally handled by [ them to be cared for by train No. 54 and No. 55. No. 68 now leaves Coi lumbia at 7:45 o'clock in the morning , and reaches Sumter at 9:20, while , No. 69 leaves Sumter at 6:25 o'clock , at night and reaches Columbia at 8 r o'clock. No. 54, which will be continued on its present schedules, leaves Columbia at 5:40 o'clock in the morn, ing and reache8 Sumter at 7:15 J o'clock, while No. 55 leaves Sumter i at 9:25 o'clock at night to reach Columbia at 10:50 o"clock. Trains No. 66 and 67, operating , daily between Bennettsville and Fayetteville, N. C., will also be taken off. t No. 66 leaves Bennettsville at 8:28 , o'clock at night and reaches Fayette. ville at 10:35 o'clock, while No. 67 leaves Fayetteville at 7:10 o'clock in the morning and reaches Bennetts. ville at 9:25 o'clock. Trains 57 and 58 between Florence and Wilmington, N. C., will also be discontinued the traffic to be handled by the other trains now being operated between the two stations. No. 57 leaves Wilmington at 6:45 o'clock I in the afternoon to reach Florence i . i /ftucwY IIstrikeJ vu&tur/M CIGARETTE No cigarette has the same delicious flavor as Lucky Strike. Because Luoky Strike Is the toasted cigarette. ???!? L MMMV BMomro, rn*.u. ?t 10:SO o'clock at night, w\4e No SB leaves Florence at 5:SO o'clocl in the morning to arrive In Wllmlng ton at 9:45 o'clock. WATCH THE BIG 4 Stomach-Kidney e-Heart-Liver Keep the vital organs healthy by regularly taking the world's standard remedy lor kidney, liver, bladder and uric acid troubles COLD MEDAL Tba National Ramedy of Holland fot canturies and andorsad by Queen Wllbaltnina. At all druggists, three sixaa. Leak far tba u?>. CaU Mafd aa arary baa Mf aaoapt aa iiaitariaa 1921 TAX RETURNS To Be Made by School Districts Returns of personal property, new buildings, transfers of real estate, poll, road and dog tax are to be made at County Auditor's office from January 1st and February 20,1921 As required by law, a fifty percent penalty will be added to the taxes ol persons who fall to make their returns during this time. Make your return during Januarj and avoid the crowded condition tha will prevail during February. D. S. ALLEN County Auditor. Professional Cards. Surveying Drafting and Blue Printing W. M. ALLEN Dillon, S. C. Phone Ne. 11S L B. HAftELDO Attener at law DQIX)K, s. a Swv t? Lend mm First Mertpv Roal Eetat*. BB. f. . HAMM, JE Offlee oyer Peoples Beak. DR. It. F. DARWIN Dentist Office Over Bank of Dilloa JOE P. LANE' Attomey-at-Ijow Office Next to Bank of Dillon, Mala St. Dillon, 8. C A Few Bi of Good C Seed This MANY farmers have th< fine pedigreed seed t general use. The mo those that are mixed, run-out year we produce in quantity known varieties that were inti viously. Theses seed are gr careful conditions by our ex| and tested for germination, sold at such moderate pric afford to sacrifice the great product they will give. Our moderate PEDIGREED OAVIO It. COKER. Pi ?azzs? I'luifi TT- .1. . ~ urn it, i?n. Offloo ?t DUlom LIto Block Co'*. G Btokloo. ol . Offloo Pfcomo - 111 a] R?Oi?BH Fkooo .... CJ B. C. BBWMiBli, M. P. ^ jtoUolto rtttoA. Mm boon to 11 isl 1 to 4 th Broalac How* by lynliaMoL 1VJ GIBSON A MULL1R, r\ Attorny> 11 Office ever Malcolm Mercantile Co. BILLON, LO. . Practice in State and Federal Courts _ I. W. JOHNSON Attomej-et-Ia? H fmtiM la State and Federal Ceurte r . c. . 8\J L D. LEDI T% Attoraey-et-Uw n( MARION. S. C- h( th OTIS M. PAGE V Civil Engineer DILLON, S. C. t I Income 1 a i I Retu a ? [ ! t gj l am prepared to i gj your Income Returns g] had two years experie: g] a large number of reti ( ] has been no come bacl _ H ily explained without ? taxpayer; being loca ? am available to assist ? you may later be calle> g tion by the Governme El XT/\** Ij1 LZJ X^UII-XVCSIUCIIL ?JAJ. 51 you make your return - 51 to assist you in makin ffl later called on for one 51 gj I also have the ne< - ffl Inquiries mailed r ffl will receive my promp IS ' | C.G. Bi ? LATTA B mm [.A.1 ran m ran ran m rn m m i s2P igs Cotton ^<-^7 Will WefT Whole . Go< i mistaken idea that We have always rec ire too expensive for every planter place his t st expensive seed are Df our latest strains of or non-vital. Lvcry jng jor follov strains of our well- can ,]w k oduced one year pre own under the most standard of Staple and jerts and are graded cost. One bushel of o They are, however, should produce ampl es that you cannot twenty acre crop next er yield and better mium the lint brings w >t me seed. prices are within reach: of every planter? Wri SEED CO., i? Hart mM?t . H.J. M 1 . . 1 t / ? * - .? >4? mm * FINAL DISCHARGE NOIKB Notice ia hereby given that J. WL edbolt, administrator of the esfadr ' Sarah Godbolt, deceased, bee BMde ^plication unto me for final d|nlarge as administrator and tint rednesday, February 23rd, 10 - an. i the forenoon has been appoinUiH >r the hearing of the said petition* All persons holding claims agniimt le said etate are requested to flle >em with the administrator on ?rbore 10 a. m. in the forenoon on Fefciary 23rd, or this notice will t* ead in bar of their recovery. JOE CABELL DAVIS, Judge of Probate, 9 A At Hillnn mm w a v. JL/ltlVU NOTICE OF FINAL, DIKCHARCV Notic? is hereby given that S. Xethea, Executor of the estate ef J. Bass, deceased, has made appltsnon unto me for final discharge as ich executor, and that Friday, Fsblary 18th at 10 a. m. in the foreton has been appointed for tfcor sarins of the said petition. All persons holding claims against' ie said estate are requested to fllo icm with the executor on or beforo ) a. m. in the forenoon on Friday, ebruary 18th. or this notice will bo end in bar of their recovery. JOE CABELL DAVIS, Judge of Probate, 20 4t. Dillon County. ? 5113 5! SI? 13IS SIB ! Tax I b irns m ? issist you in making ^ for 1920. I have gj nee and have made gj irns and so far thprp m ?? which wasnoteas- ? ; further cost to the H ted in the county I jS in any case where ? d on for an explana- ? nt Agent. Is >erts who might help [3 s might not be here g} g an explanation if (3 ? pessary blanks. ? ne to Latta, S. C., g >t attention. g] RUCE, | , 5. C B m S S3 SI SI SI SI SI SI ST 5f MMMSMiMB VPMawwB*MMMaaaiBm Stock Your Farm With yd Seed For :XT YEAR A commended, however, that >rder ^ach year for enough seed to produce his plantking year. By doing thia > your seed to a verv hi?rh production, at a minimum >tir Deltatype cotton seed j e need for planting a year, and the staple proill far more than pay for lie us today. ? sville, S. C 'EBB EH, Qia. Mfft