The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, February 20, 1919, Image 8
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NOTICE
of the. —
( 01 M V TKEASI RER
The Books of the County Treasurer
will be open for the collection of
State, County and Commutation Road
Taxes for fiscal year, 1918, at the
Treasurer’s office from October 15th
to December 31st, 1918. After Decem
ber 31st one per cent will be added.
After January 31st, two per cent will
be added, and after February 28th,
seven per cent will be added till the
15th day of March, 1919, when the
hooks will be closed.
All persons owning property in
more than one township are request
ed to call for receipts in each of the
several townships in which the pro-
TTrrty4s Aoeat^d. T his-4fv rmpor tantrA*-
additional cost and penalty may be
attached.
All able-bodied male citizens be
tween the ages of 21 and 60 years of
age arc liable to pay a poll tax of
$1.00, except old soldiers, who are
exempt at 50 years of age. Commuta
tion Roan Tax $1.50 in lieu of road
duty. J A11 men now in military ser
vice are exempt from '-oad tax.
The Tax Levy is as 'M'iows:
State Tax *. . ...814 mills
Ordinary County Tax .. ..4 nrills
Road and Bridge .. .. ., ..4 mills
Railroad Bond I mill
Road Bonds' 14 mill
Jail Bonds l^ mill
Constitutional School Tax ..3 mills
Total .. . .21 --roills
. Special School-
Laurens, No. 11
-Laurens' Township
,.1 Ojnills
THE LEGISLATURE
HAPPENING OF INTEREST IN
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
NORTH CAROLINA.
10 REMOVE THE STATE PRISON
Bill for Standard Scale of Weight!
to Be Used in' Selling Corn Meal’,
Grits and Corn Flour.
Raleigh.—The following is a brief
resume of business of a general na
ture, transacted during a week’s work
of the General Assembly of North
Carolina: ' .
Senate. ^
Feb. 7.—After strenuous debate in
the senate, the Scales-Stevens high
way bill with 16 amendments was
upon motion of the authors re-referred
to the public' roads committee to be
reported back as a special order. The
measure was taken up* for discussion
at the regular session and was again
Mate
ing of the General Assembly.
Opposition to consideration of the
Trinity-Rldgo T .'i-Tr-ftiirtif '6T the senate held since the conven-
Maddens No, - 4 mills, incr nf tu** cionnrui aoecmkiv
Narnie No. 3 .. .. 5 mills
Bailey No. 4 4 mills
Mltlv NTT:~3'~.-~~~""T: - .. .. 4 niiila
Oak Grove No. 6? 2 mills
Ora No. 12 8 mills
Special Schools -Youngs Township
Youngs No. 3 4 mills
Youngs No. 2 4 mills
Youngs No. 4 ..11*4 mills
Youngs No. 5 .. .. .. .. .. ..4 mills
Fountain Inn No. :*.B 14 mills
Lanford No. 10 .. ■ 6*4 mills
Ora No. 12 8 mills
Youngs No. 1 ... .. , ,3 mills
Central No. 6 ..2 mills
Youngs No. 7 8 mills
Special School—Dials Township
Green Pond No. 1 7 mills
Dials No. 2 8*4 mills
Shiloh No. 3 4 mills
TJray Court-Owlngs No. 5 ..12*/^ mills
Barksdale “No. 6 ..5 mills
Dials Church No. 7 4 mills
Fountain Inn No. 3B 14 mills
.Merna No. 8 r .2 mills
Dials No. 4 .. 4 mills
Special Schools—Sullivan Township
Mt. Bethel No. 2 5 mills
Princeton No. 1 8 mills
Poplar Springs No. 3 ’.4 mills
Hickory Tavern No. 17 8‘mills
B'-ewerton No. 7 4 mills
Sullivan Township R. R. Bonds 3 mills
Merna No. 8 .. .. .. 2 mills
Special Schools—Waterloo Township
Waterloo No. 14 4 mills
Mt. Gallagher No. 1 ..6 mills
Bethlehem No. 2 mills
Ekom No. 3 .. .. .. .. .. ..8 mills
Centerpoint No. 4 * .. ..4 mills
Oakville No. 5 8 mills
Mt. Pleasapt No. 6 4 mills
Mt. Olive No. 7 8*4 mills
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Special Schools—Cross Hill Township
Cross. Hill No. 1 . , . .. . .2 mills
Cross Hill No. 13 .. .. .. ..8 mills
Cross Hill No. 2 .. ..2 mills
Cross Hill No. 4 .. ..2 mills
Cross Hill No. 6 .. .. .. .. ..3 mills
Cross Hill No. 3 2 mills
Special Schouis—Hunter Township
Mountville No. 16 11 mills
Hunter No. 2
Hunter No. 3
Clinton No. 5 .. ..
11
Hunter No. 4
4
Hunter No/1- r~t~r
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Hunter No. 6
Special Schools—Jacks Township
Odells No. 6 .. .... 3 mills
Hurricane No. 15 3 mills
Shady Grove No. 2 ^ ..3 mills
Jacks No. 3 .. 5 mills
Jacks No. 4 . .3 mills
Special Schools, Scuffletown Township
Langston Church No. 3 .. .. . .3 mills
Scuffletown No. 1 ..2 mills
Lanford No. 10 6*4 mills
Ora No. 12 8 mills
Scuffletown No. 2 4 mills
Scuffletown No. 4 4 mills
those who wish to pay their taxes
through the mail bv check, money
der, etc.
Persons sending in lists of names
to be taken o? are requested to send
them early; and give the township of
> each, as the Treasurer is very busy
during the month of December.
ROSS D. YOUNG,
County Treasurer.
FEEMffiERABLE*
FROM TBAT'COLD?
Colds and coughs are Quickly
"sYed T ~ “ ^
New
relieved by Dr. King's
Discovery
Nobody should feel '‘perfectly mis*
er&ble" from a cold, cough or bronchial
attack for very lonjj. For it takes only
s little while to relieve c t and get back
on the road to recovery when Dr.
King's New Discovery is faithfully’
used. It
soon loosens the phlegm, re-
fieves Irritation, soothes
sore throat, brings comfort.
Half a century old and more popular
today than ever. At all druggists.
Make Tour Bowels Behave
Make them function with gratifying
edsion. If regulation of the diet
not relieve their torpidity Dr.
‘ New Life Pills wM. They ire
bowel trainers, desose the
surely, comfortably,
Centered around changing the form
of the Highway Commission ami re
suited in the sending in of an amend
ment last night to establish a com
mission composed of three members,'
one from the western, one from the
central and one from the eastern por
tion of the State.
’House.
Without a dissenting vote, the low
er house of the General Assembly
passed the Bryant-McCoin bill 'to re
move the State prison from Raleigh
to the Caledonia farm in Halifax coun
ty and turn the prison property over
to the State Hospital for the Insane.
Evidently, opposition was anticipat
ed, several Members speaking from
the force of striking convictions on
the subject. The house was deter
mined to put it through, however, for
Speaker Brummitt swapped the chair
for the floor and was ready to take a
hand in the debate- if opposition de
veloped. 'W
This occupied much of the Friday
session but in front and behind ’the
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passage of this measure the house
buckled down to work and cleared the
calendar of everything except the bud
get bill and a few minor measures on
which later action was requested.
$10. to $52 for license number and $5
each for duplicate numbers instead
of $1.
The new revenue bill, as hammered
into shape by the joint rtnanca com
mittee of- the Lglslalwre during the
past three weeks, was introduced in
the house by Chairman Doeghton, of
the house committee on ft nance, apd
is regarded* as the most notable
measure of the kind offered in the
legislature in years. »t increases the
State tax for schools frem 20 cents to
32 cents on the hundred dollars valu
ation and cuts the regular state tax
levy from 23 2-3 cents to 11 2-<J cenf
however, five per cent of the 23 2>»
cents levy heretofore has been set
aside as a State equalizing fund.
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Detroit Vapor Oil Stoves
THE KIND YOUR NEIGH
BOR IS TALKING ABOUT
Feb. 12.—The Doughton cdhstltu-
tional amendment for incomes and re
vising poll tax and franchise privi
leges, was threshed out and generally
agreed upon in a long argument on
the floor and then the bill was carried
over for some, changes as 4o wording
before it is Anally passed and sent to
the senate. It carries the general in
come tax provision, limits poll tax to
$3 with no county or municipal poll
tax, removes poll tax prerequisite for
voting and allows voters in the State
cne year’s residence instead of two
years.
The senate debated until 11 o’clock
the Stevens-Scales State highway bill
and the Stacy' substitute and in the
end adopted the Stacy substitute by a
stitute made it necessary for the
measure to go over for the second
reading, being a roll call measure.
The Stacy substitute imposes an
Senate.
Feb. 8.—The senate was in session
for an hour and ten minutes.
Some new bills introduced were:
S. B. 394: Thompson—To amend
section 83 of the Revisal in regard to
building and loan associations.
S. B. 395: Connor—To provide ways
and means for six months school term
in North Carolina!
S. B. 410: Price, by request—-To im
pose f license tax upon tobacco ware
houses.
House.
Passage of the Gray budget bill as
originally drawn and the introduction
by Representative Pharr of the Coon
school bill, endorsed by a number of
city superintendents, won the spot-
ijght in th5jQ!ser..hiWliL-QL..theJ
eral Assembly. , In the usual brief
Saturday session the calendar was
cleared of practically all local meas
ures. The following new bills were
introduced:
H. B. 478: Pharr—To provide ways
and means for a six months’ school
term.
11. B. 479: Gold—To amend the law
relative to printing for State depart
ments and State Board of Health.
Senate.
Feb. 11.—The senate passed the bill
by Long, of Halifax, providing an
amendment to the constitution to pay
members of the Genera) Assembly $10
a day,.jmd the presiding officers $15
a day.
The committee on roads agreed on
Its report of the Stevens-Scales high
way bill, which was referred to the
committee after the wholesale amend
ments offered during the special order
consideration. The committee chang
ed the tax on automobile dealers from
Agricultural Agants Meat. ,?
Extension activities for the coming
year were discussed by the men and
women agents of "the Agricultural Ex
tension Service at their conference.
Each agent was called upon by the
district men in charge to present his
plans for county work during the
coming year.
. The women agents met In separate
conference in the auditorium in the
basemgnt of the county courthouse,
the morning session having been
given over largely to a persentatioft
of plans for work during coming ynar.
automobile tax />f $10 and $15 and
truck taxes of $40 to $150 and pro
vides for $2,500,000 bond issues am
nually, the auto tax revenue to pay
interest and provide sinking fundr
The senate took up the special or
der. theTjill by Long, of Montgomery,
to increase the pay of members of
the General Assembly through consti
tutional amendment. It was explain
ed to provide through committee sub
stitute $10 a day for members and $15
a day for .the presiding officers.
Senator Glidewell thought the mem
bers were entitled to ample pay. He
had ho close kin here to help him re
duce his expenses. The argument
wagged on without much point until
Senator Gray moved the previous
question and closed the debate. The
vote was by roll call, and was 38 "to 4
for the measure. _Ihe third reading
was then had and the bill sent to the
house.
The house' was convened at S
o’clock by Speaker Brummitt.
New bills were introduced as fol
lows
Kelly—Amend the 1915 local laws
relating to working public roads.
Pharr—Require all banks to list
and pay their taxes where they do
business. .
Pharr, by request—Fix guilt of per
sons falsely representing themselves
as having physical defects. Amend
the 1905 act relating to eminent do
main Amend the law as to the right
qf the State to appeal in criminal
cases Relating to the penalty for
usuary. Make It a misdemeanor to
have carnal intercourse with a mar-
Hed woman khowtng her to he such.
Feb. 13.—A motion by Senator Bed-
dingfleld prevailed for the reconstruc
tion of the bill passed two days.ago
for sanitary privies, the State board
of health measure, and it again took
its place on the calendar.
Roll call bills passed Anal reading
in the senate as follows:
Re-enact the road law of 1917 for
county and State bonds.
Re-enactment to remedy defect in pas
sage two years ago whereby it passed
two readings on a single day. •
Brown—Provide for physical exam
inations of school children in the
State. Make 'superior court clerks
members of the county hoariT of
health. Amend the law for co-opera
tion in the development of rural sani
tation.
Connor—Amend the constitution to
grant equal suffrage to women.
Representative Sellars sent up a pe
tition from Robeson countv automo
bile owners against excessive tax.
New hillg ♦ere Introduced in the
house as follows:
Mull—Provide physical examination
of school children.
HeWltt—Submit location of county
buildings to popular vote. *
Amend the 1917 act as to public
welfare by providing for supervision
and inspection of private institutions,
orphanages and other chartered In
stitutions.
Pardon, Probably Deserved.
Governor Bick.ett pardoned Clifton
Donnkl, who was rpnvicted as a boy
of 1 fiyears old for selling cocaine,
served a part of his sentence, escap
ed, studied pharmacy at the Univer
sity of Michigan, and is now manag
ing a drug store ip the State of Maine.
1 Donnell Was convicted In Forsyth in
May, 1912, and was sentenced to eight
months in the county Jail. Seven
years after his father submits to Gov
ernor Blckett an affidavit setting forth
the history of his son following his
conviction and escape.
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THE DETROIT burns kerosene oil without the use of wicks or as-
1 bestos ring substitutes. The elimination of wicks saves bother,
expense and dissatisfaction, and entirely eliminates odor.
THE Kerosene oil is vaporized by heavy iron burners, directly un-
■ der the cooking utensil, generating more intense heat, and a
more even heat with about one-fourth less fuel than is possible with
wick stoves built on the lamp principle. f
double flue system, the oven having a double lining. All oven
liftings are made of aluminum fused steel, which is sanitary, durable
and rust-resisting-. The removaTtfiFt pan insures clearthn^ssT”™
THE DETROIT is simple—no complicated mechanism—every de-
■ tail understandable. There is nothing to get out of order, burn
out or need replacement/ They are the final word in simplicity.
We Have These Detroits Now in Two Sizes-Come in and See Them
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Galloway-Simpson Furniture Company
"The Home Makers" - Cfinton, S. C.
Indorse School Bill.
Having felled of an agreement In
a bill to Insure six months school In
all the counties, seven city superin
tendents met here and endorsed the 1
bill proposed by Superintendent Coon,
of Wilson. The Coon bill would |llow
no ^tate aid by equalisation fund to
the pauper counties until those coun
ties have levied a thirty cent special
tax In addition to the present tax.
The ..bill likewise would reouire the
State Tax Commission to certify to
hoard of education that the county
asking It has equalised its tax values
Some New Corporations.
, The following filed article* of In
corporation with secretary of state:
Banes-Duncan Company. Claytoh;
retail general store, authorized capi
tal $25,000. subscribed $2,000.
Newton Mills Co.. &ewt m; textile
manufacture; authorised ci pital .$400,•
000. subscribed $300.
Pegram Brothers Co.. ' Vlnaton-Sa-
lorn; real estate; author!;' id capital
$100,000. subscribed $1,000..
Batter/ Supply Company, AsheriUe;
aqto accessor’es; authori’. ed
$5,000; subscribed $2,0#t.
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as Silk Tricolettes, Mallinson’s Silks, Novelty Foulards, Colorful
Taffetas, Silk Georgettes—in many instances combinations of mater
ials are used to beautiful advantage.
No. 4379—The basque effect is revi
ved in this lovely Taffeta dress of a rich
Burgundy color. Note the particularly
attroctive collar with its narrow fluting
which also trims the sleeve cuffs. And
die peg top skirt which is so graceful on
slender girls. In Springtime' coldrs—
Crane. Dust, Belgian. Sizes 14 to 44.
- Pride $22.50
No. 4355—Navy Blue Foulard and
an overbodice and tunic of Navy blue
Georgette is responsible for. this unusu
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Georgette. Size 16 to 44; —
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