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THURSDAY. FEB. 17. 1921.
Work of Highway Commission.
There will be difference of opinion
of course respecting the action of the
house of representatives in adopting
in the general appropriation bill the
section setting aside for this year collection
of the two mill levy for road
purposes. If the senate agrees to the
section, the tax burden of the people
will bo lightened approximately a
million dollars for the year 1921.
So far as York county is concerned,
it would seem that the taxpayers
would welcome the suspension of this
levy. In 1920 the county paid about
130,000 as its part of the tax and it
is Interesting to note what our people
got In return for this sum. The State
highway commission took over and
agreed to maintain the road between
Rock Hill and York and the concretemacadam
section of the rond between
Stock Hill and Catawba river. The
Rock Hill-York road was plowed up
last fall under the direction of the
highway commission and left in that
condition. Since'then the roud has
been impassable for the greater part
of the time. On the Rock Hlll-rlvor
road a number of barrels of binder
material and a quantity of rock were
nlncod for rennlr tunrlt fnllnurlr?o- Oto
storm of Inst August. This road has
not been repaired.
. Last week In the house of representatives
a bill designed to take the
control of the public highways of the
State out of the hands of the State
highway commission and place it
with the county authorities fell
short of passage by only t\Vo votes.
One is on safe ground therefore in
concluding that the days of the highway
commission aN it is now operating
are numbered. The representatives
oT the people do not intend that
their respective counties he given
practically no voice in saying where
the money they pay under the two
mill levy for the Improvement and
maintenance of the public roads
shall be expended. Perhaps a majority
of the members of the house
of representatives are of the opinion
that the General Assembly has never
created a more cxtravngant, arbitrary
body than the State highway commission
and that Its methods and accomplishments
do not Justify Its existence
as the present law provides.
And taking note of the lire It has
beeen under In the house of representatives
for the last month, the highway
commission Is now busying itself
circulating propaganda through the
columns of dally papers In the form
of alleged news articles telling of the
great work It claims to have done
during the Inst year In building new
roads and Improving old ones. The
informed man will take these articles
for what they are worth, and that is
precious little. In our opinion they
contain so much virtue as Is wrapped
up In the recital of not what the
highway commission has done but
what it should have done.
llack to the Farm.
The steady Increase of town and
city population at the expense of the
rural districts, as shown in? went
cinsiiB figures. 1b not cause for alarm.
In seeking the cause of this migration
such things as the desire for city
conveniences, better educational adM.ntugos
and wider social opportunities
are usually enumerated. And
these aro, no doubt, the principal
causes for desertion of the farm. Hut
In recent years thes? advantages have
been minimised In lurge degree by
the coming of goood roads, tho nutoir.cblle
and the building of comfortable
homes In the country. With
still gTcater Improvement In means of
communication and the Introduction
of city conveniences In the rural
home, It may he expected that there
will he a decline in the number of
persons who move each year from
the farm to the town.
Tho Ideal agricultural condition is
said by economists to be the greatest
posiblo production per man, rather
than tho largest yield from an acre.
To serve this condition there must be
available as much land as each person
can cultivate. The moving away
from the farm of numbers of individuals
makes available more land for
those who remnln and ought to cause
an increase in production of that
community. Socalled intensive farming,
where the largest possible yield
per acre Is sought, is only desirable
ot necessary In thickly settled localities
where land Is scarce and prices
of products are high. Intensive cultl1
vatlon of small areas has been found
I too expensve for the usual crops
^ grown In this State and has only been
1 profitable in the case of truck crops,
J melons, asparagus and a few other.-*
/ that supply special demands at high
prices. For extensive farming, then,
as found to he most profitable in this
Htnte, the migration of population
Vfrom country to town Is not alarming
* go long as the present ratio is maintained.
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mm suuuiion, nowovcr, there
appears to bo one disturbing fact,
that too large a percentage of the
young people who go to the colleges
do not return to the farm. Whether
the colleges themselves are responsl.
l>le for this fact we do not know.
Put It Is a fact, we believe, that not
more than 26 per cent of the college
trained boys and girls return to their
hordes In the country. They take up
various petty occupations In the eltTeo
and towns where they receive
only the merest pittance of salary,
while the old farm back home suffers
tor their help. When'the farm
and the farm home shall be made so
attractive that these young people
. will want to make agriculture their
' occupation, the trend In population
will be away from the elty and back
tc the oountry. m .
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OOCNtl TAX LEVY CUT.
Buppply Bill tor Yew Stem Half
Mill Lea Tbaa tor 1M0.
Thai coudty supply bill u pawed
loaf week by the house of represent*'
tlvea for the government of York
county during 1111 carries a levy of
one-half mill less than was carried In
the bill last year. The bill Is now In
the senate and likely will pass that
body and become an act by the latter
part of the week. Last year the gov- ,
ernment of York county cost the tax
payers for ordinary purposes $107,295.
This year the supply bill provides for
tho expenditure of $95,267, or a 6
mill levy, as against a 6 1-2 mill levy
fcr 1920. The various purposes for
which the money is to be used is as
follows:
For ordinary county purposes, 6
mills, and a levy of 2 mills for
road purposes as provided by law.
and in EbOnezer township a special
levy of 3-4 of one mill; and in Catowba
township a special levy of
1 mill; and in York township a
special levy of 2 1-2 mills to pay
tho Interest on bonds Issued by said
townships in aid of the Charleston.
Cincinnati & Chicago rnllroad, and
on bonds refunding same; also In
said townships of Rbonezer, Catawba
and York a sneclal low of i-? "
mill as a sinking fund to retire said
bonds. The treasurer of York county,
for collecting and disbursing this
special levy, shall be allowed the
commission as now provided by law.
l'"or pnylng Interest on court house
bonds and to provide a sinking fund
for same, a spcclnl levy of 1-2 of a
mill, as now provided by law. A spcclnl
levy of 1 mill Is hereby levied to
ropny loan for building bridge across
Catawba river, uetween Kock Hill
and Fort Mill, as provided for in the
act of 1917: a special levy of 1-2 mill
Is hereby levied to repay loan to
build bridge across Catawba river
between York and Mecklenburg
county as provided for in aot of 1919.
The county supervisor Is hereby authorized
to draw his warrant upon
the county treasurer for the amounts
for the purposes herein staled. If so
much be necessary, for the tlseal year
beginning January 1, 1921:
Bond* nod Bridges?Cross
roods $20,000; convicts and
maintenance of road working
organization $19,000;
countv engineer $800 . . . $ 39,800
Salaries ? Clerk of court
$300; sheriff $1,600; deputy
sheriff $1,600; treasurer
$800; clerk of treasurer
$:,r?00; auditor $800; clerk
t i auditor $1,600; superin
tendent of education $2,400;
nltorney $200; physician
$1,000; coroner $100; Janlto
to court house $780; supervisor
$2,000; two county
commissioners $600; clerk
to board of county conimissoiners
$600; judge of probate
$200; magistrates and
c instablcs $7,000 23,080
County Boards?Board of
education $100; board of
canalization $60o 700
Jail expenses. Including
dieting of prisoners 2.000
Jurors nnd witnesses 6,000
County home, poorhonse
nnd poor 5.000
F< st mortems, inquests nnd
lunacy 1 500
Public buildings, including
water, light and insurance. 8,000
Printing, postage nnd stationery
2,000
Miscellaneous Contingent:
Vital statistics $512; telegraph
nnd telephone $4 00:
sheriff, rnnvovlncr r?r to
$4 01); magistrates and constn
files, for conveying prisoners
$100 1,400
Military Companies?Ttook
lliii military company $250;
Fort Mill military company
$250 r,?o
Demonstration W o r It?
Home demonstration work
$1,200: county farm demonstration
$500; pension commission
$100 . 1,800
Interest on County Indebtedness?Interest
on current
loans in anticipation of collection
of taxes $875; Interest
on court house
hinds and to sinking fund
fci retirement of bonds.
$4.6?0 5,475
Total $95,267
For ordinary county purposes the
board of county commissioners of
York are hereby authorized and empowered
to borrow a sum of money
not exceeding $30,000, if so much be
necessary, at a rate of Interest not
exceeding 6 per cent, and to pledge
the ordinary county tax levy to secure
the same. It shall be the duty
of the county supervisor and county
commissioners to purchase all implements
and supplies for the chaingang
and the county home, in such quantities
and on such terms as will guarni
tee the lowest price and be most
advantageous to the county. And
for this purpose the county supervisor
and county commissioners, in
their discretion, mny contract upon
competitive bids each quarter with
the lowest responsible bidder for all
implements and supplies for the
chaingang and the county home, after
advertisement one time, for at
least one week, in not more than two
newspapers published in the county,
ptrvious to letting such contracts:
Provided, That the county supervisor
and county commissioners shall have
the right to reject any and all bids.
The supervisor anil county commissioners
are hereby required to keep a
book, called '"File Hook of Claims."
and in it shall be entered all claims
presented for payment. This book
shall he kept so as to show: Claim
number, date of filing, whom claim
belonKs to. nature of claim, amount
of claim, amount nllowed, on what
account. This book shall be open
for Inspection by the grand Jury and
the public; and it shall he the duty
of the supervisor, within two weeks
after the first day of July and January,
respectively, to publish, one
time in some newspaper, published
In the county, nnd whlc\j will give the
largest publicity thereto, at a cost of
not exceeding $60, an itemized statement
of all claims allowed during the
preceding six months, and it shall be
that which is done in strict conformity
to the law governing same. The |
county treasurer Is herehy authorized
to transfer any unexpended balance
of the several funds on hand at
the end of the fiscal year 1920, not
otherwise appropriated, to the year
1921 to be used for ordinary purposes.
port mn.b people should
take advantage op the opportunity
to hear the great
violinist, albert kpaulding,
at w1nthrop college friday
evening at 8 o'clock. reserved
seats fl.
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FORT MUX MAN MASTER SHOT.
Ttwaau K. Lee World ClaipiW Witt*
Rifle and PWoL
Fort Mill la the old heme town of
the world's champion rifle end ,?H*ol
shot and his name Is Thomas K. Lee.
son of Mr. and Mr?. D. A- Lee of Fort
Mill. He left here about 12 years
ago ond Is now located in Birmingham.
Ala., as treasurer of a coal mining
company. As a lad on his father's
farm near Fort Mill Mr. Lee
acquired a local reputation as a
marksman, but at that, time neither
he nor hi* fi lends thought that ho
would eventually become the master
shot of the country. But that's what
he Is now, thanks to hard, consistent
practice and e'ean living.
Mr. Lee Is now 32 years old. When
his father moved to town 13 years
ago he had just attained his majority
and wns ready to strike out in the
word for himself. A course at a
business college tlltted him to acept a
commercial position In Georgia and
he went to that State to work. Seven
or eight years ago he moved to Birmingham
and has nlnr>? rnmlo
home In that city. There he has acquired
the reputation which hat
made him famous as the possessor of
the most perfect trigger finger In the
world. Mr. Lee has the reputation of
shooting one firearm about as welt as
another. The rifle, pistol, revolver
and shotgun?they are all alike to
him.
A recent issue of the Blrmirghatii
News contains the following story of
Mr. I*ee's wonderful shooting ability:
"Birmingham has one champion
she never gets tired of telling the
universe about in Thomas K. Lee. the
greatest living allround shot In tho
wcrld. l.ee. the master mnrtcvmsn
of the century, holds 31 world's records,
with pistol, and 17 world's records
with rifle. Rvery one of Lee's
records was made In official competition.
Since 1913 Lee has won 31 national
championships with rlflo, pistol
and revolver and one International
title. He has won so many .local.
State nnd other matches than national
that he has lost count of them.
"Lee's record for shooting would
fill the Congressional library. ITe
holds the record for smallest group
of shots made with rifle at 25 yards,
every shot being fired Ins'.dc a quarter
Inch ring. A half dollar covered
nm snois at too yards, while a small
envelope covered the tat get at S00
yards. He has made posslblo scores
at every rnnge from 200 to 1.000
yards with army rifle, having- made
11 consecutive possibilities at 200
yards, rapid re. He has scored 27
bulls-eyes out of 3 5 shots In 52 seconds
with army rifle at 200 yards
"Fans can still recall how Tackho'e
Ree astonished audiences at the Jefferson
theater with his daring marksmanship.
shooting objects, the slse of
a quarter, from hip wife's lingers,
hend. mouth and shoulders, while
holding rifles In various difficult position*..
"I-.ee wins so often at the traps cf
the Birmingham Hun club at the Alabama
State fair grounds that It has
become monotonous. He has held
the doubles championship of Alabama
f? r two years In succession nr.d was >
runner-up one year in the singles.
His longest runs with shotgun are
137, 151 and 224. He has shot 50
and 100 straight over a hundred
different times.
"Reo Is a teetotaler. He doosn't
use Intoxlennts, smoke or eat hlghty I
seasoned foods. He has a wonderfully
developed physique and marvelous
control of his nerves.
" 'A pistol shooter's arm doesn't
have to he so strong,' said Champion
Ree In commenting on his arm. 'but
so much practice has made mine so
anyway. -? good deal of my physical
development I owe to my work as
physical director some years back. I
used to play hnsehnll on my school
teams and I have always had a g-eneial
liking for things athletic and
outdoor sports.' "
The Illuo Buckle cotton mill at
Bock Hill resumed operations Monday
with a day force of 500 vorkers
and It was announced that a nlgnt
shift of 500 soon will he put to work. I
NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND
CREDITORS.
All persons holilng claims against
Estate of William H. Wlndle will
present same forthwith to one of the
undersigned, duly attested; and all
persons indebted to said Estate will
make Immediate settlement.
Oracle L. Wlndle and
J. S. Brlce, Executors
nt w u i~
J. S. Brlce, Attorney,
York, S. C.
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TAX NOTICE?1020-21
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County.
Notloe Wi hereby given that the
Tax Books for York County will be
opened on Friday, the 15th day of
October, 1920, and remain open until
the 31st day of December, 19 20, for
the collection of State, County.
School and Local Taxes, for the fiscal
year, without penalty, after which
day One Per Cent Penalty will be added
to all payments made In the month
of January, 1921, and Two Per Cent
Penaty for all payments made In the
month of February, 1921, and Seven
Per Cent Penalty will he added to all
payments made from the 1st day of
March, 1921, to the 15th day of
March, 1921, and after this date all
unpaid taxes will go into execution
and all unpaid single polls will be
turned over to the several Magistrates
for proeecution In accordance with
law.
All of the banks of the county will
offer their accommodations and facilities
to taxpayers who may desire to
make use of the same, and I shall
take pleasure In giving prompt atten.
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or townships in which their property
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Treasurer of York County.
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