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— III II 4 * » s 4 ► ► V s \' ' \ COUNTY SELLS $150,000 OF ROAD BONDS _ . Building of Permanent Roads to Begin at Onqe. ■. * ' ■ * , /■ ■ ' " ■ , The (Laurens County Highway Commission, in session Tuesday, sold $150,000 of the county bonds voted t^vo years ago for permanent road improvement and an nouncement is made that work will soon begin. Follow ing the meeting of the^commission, it was also announced that the county will secure iederal aid this year to the extent of $100,000. This»progressive step means that the building of per manent roads in the county will begin at once. Approxi mately 100 miles of road has been mapped out by the commission to be built this year and the proposed line covers practically the entire county. The lines to be built first are: * From Kinards to Fountain Inn through Clinton and Laurens. * Laurens to Ware Shoals. Clinton to Musgrove Mill. Waterloo to Cross Hi 11. Gray Court to Woodruff Bridge on.Enoree river. Owings to Reeves store. Other lines will be decided upon later by the commis sion and when the first intallment of the bond issue has been expended, another lot of $150,000 will be offered for sale in order to carry on the work without interruption. The commission will employ expert surveyors imme diately to begin the survey on the Piedmont highway. The work will be pushed as rapidly as is practicable. With the securing of a competent highway engineer, work will go ahead on the proposed routes as announced Tuesday. Mr. Geo. M, Wright of this city, one of the livest good road Enthusiasts in the State, is secretary of the county commission and expressed himself yesterday to a representative of the Chronicle as highly gratified at the progressive step just taken by the county. No. 8041 REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE First National Bank At Clinton, in the State of S. C\, at the clo»e of business on Mar. 4th 1919; r - RESOURCES: Loans and discounts >473,057.43 Notes and bills rediscounted 97,640.45 X , 375,410.98 Overdrafts unsecured .‘ 7.344.08 U. S. Bonds deposited to secure circulation (par value) >50,000.00 U. S. Bonds and certificates of indebtedness pledged as collateral for State or other deposits or bills payable. .6,000.00 Premium on U. S. bonds 56,000.000 Liberty Loan Bonds 3 1.2, 4, and 4 1-2 per ct, unpledged 2,500.00 Liberty Loan Bonds pledged to secure State or other deposits or bills payable i.. 22,700.00 25,200.00 2,250.00 1,000.00 27,281.31 Stock of Federal Reserve bank (50 per cent of subscription) Furniture and fixtures Lawful Reserve with Federal Reserve bank .v v . ■ ■ T-BUD III VRUIt RT1 u Tl eta IT 1 u u n ts trtt tr iruiii iiaviuiiai tjairBrs Net amounts Uue from banks and bankers........;..... 11,173.08 Total of Items ...: 59,069.84 Checks on banks located outside of city or town as reporting bank 93.54 Redemption fund with U. »S. treasurer 2,500.00 Total LIABILITIES: Capital stock paid in.... ... , Surplus fund v . Undivided profits (5,563.81 Less current expenses, Interest and taxes paid 4,150.03 Interest and discount collected or credited in advance of matur- i™ ity and not earned ^-^-.-.-. j-j , . .. ■ •, • • ■ ..y • • • • - Amount reserved for all interest accrued Circulating notes outstanding • Net amounts due to national banks Cashier’s checks on own bank outstanding Individual deposits subject to check Total demand deposits subject to reserve >213,209.98 Certificates of deposit (other than for money borrowed) Total of time deposits subject to reserve 122,036.76 U. M. Bonds borrowed, i^pludlng Liberty Loan and certificates of indebtedness without collateral furnished 5,200.00 Bills payable, other than with Federal Reserve bank, including all obligations representing money borrowed Bills payable with Federal Reserve Bank f ... >556.149.75 >50,000.00 35,000.00 2,413.78 5,500.00 3.500.00 50,000.00 9,268.93 4,020.30 213.209.98 122,030.76 5.200.00 30.000.00 26,000.00 Total >556,119.75 97,640.45 jaabilities Tor rediscounts, including those with Iederal Reserve ban k State of South Carolina, County of Laurens, ss: I, Geo W. Copeland, Cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statemenl'is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. Geo. W. Copeland, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 11th day of Mar., 1919 L. D. McCrary, Notary Public Correct—attest: Geo. A. Copeland, R, Z. Wright, L. H. Davidson. Directors. JUST ARRIVED A full lot Beardless Seed Barley, Sow now. M. S. Bailey £ Sons Piles Cored in 6 to 14 Days Drottfate rvfond money If PAZO OINTMENT !Wh to care Itching. Blind. Bleeding or Protroding PU-i. Inmantly relieve. Itching Pile*, and you can get xeatAiiuNP after the Ant application. PticoWc. Colds Cease Grip and Influenza < LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets raaaova tha cause. There is only one >, BromoQeiai»e.’' E.W. GROVE’S signature on the box. Me.~N. M MMDS BACK Chicago, March 8.—Early return of the railroads to operation by the com panies which own them and the pas sage of constructive legislation to enable private ownership to be made successful were advocated .by Howard Elliott, president of the Northern Pacific Railway in an address before the Commercial Club of Chicago to night Mr. Elliott presented some data of contrasts between the situation of the railways under private and under gov ernment operation. “The Pennsylvania system,’’ he. said, “furnished 12.2 per cent of the total ton mileage and 14 1-2 per cent of the total passenger mileage of the steam roads of this country. On December 21,1917, that system had 233,660 em ployees, and on December 31, 1918, It had 273,101 employees. Altogether the ton mileage handled in 1918 was less than in 1917 (the railways being in the year 1917 under private control), nearly 40,000 more employes were re quired to handle the smaller volume of business. “These statements are not made in criticism of the railroad administra PURE BRED POULTRY \ > What Qemson’s Poultry Dhr- sion is Doing. Clemson a . College. — Improvements are being constantly made in the poul try plant operated by the Division of Poultry Husbandry of Clemson Col lege. The main object in establishing this plant was to enable the students taking the poultry course at the Col- lege'to study and handle typical speci mens' in the popular breeds of poul try, and also to supply breeding stock of high quality to the farmers of the State and to others who wish to im prove the breed of chickens kept at home. • The following breeds are represent ed: Barred Plymouth Rocks, in which both the cockerel-bred and pullet-bred lines of breeding are being carried on separately; Single Comb Rhode Island Reds, White Wyandottes, Single Comb Buff Orpingtons, Dark Cornish (Indian Game), Black Langshans and Single Comb White Leghorns. Every specimen in these breeding pens has been personally selected, and many State Champiens, blue ribbon winners, and fowls of exceptional merit can be found therein. For ex ample, the cock heading the first pen of Rhode Island Reds is a brother of the State Champion Male; the cock at The Economy Shop “Next Door tcfScaife’s Book Store” announce their tion or of members of it, but simply to emphasize the point that the sys tem of government operation is not productive of the best results. With the. same railroads a •little better equipment in 1918 than in 1917, and the same officers and men but with dif ferent organization and direction, gov ernment control had the effect of re ducing that tireless rtrergy ahd indi vidual initiative so important to the success of an enthusiastic operation of the railroads less than in 1917 and was very much more costly to the country. “I can not believe that human nature and the art of government have de veloped sufficiently to make govern ment ownership anc( operation suc cessful today. I do not believe that em barking on the sea of government ownership and operation involves a risk of shipwreck. "The railway executives do not be lieve In the regional plan under which all the railroads in a given territory are to be merged into one system. They believe our geographical economic and social conditions are so different from those existing in foreign countries we must solve our problem in our own way and not adopt a plan because some other nation may have experimented with It. “Small, unsuccessful and ‘weakli- ness’ dependent upon their connec tions with the great trunk lines, must gradually be absorbed and become a part of- the-larger- systems.—— “Regulated competition .especially as to service, should be continued be tween the great systems. “What is called the labor question is, of course, one of the most serious and difficult confronting the whole world, the railroads in"partlcular and there must be a broad view of it and a spirit or give and lake by all classes of people. All good citizens;.desire to see wages and living conditions im proved but there is a limit to what com merce and industry can pay and sur vive. It is surely better to have rea sonable wages and continuous employ ment rather than to force wages so high that industry languishes, for then the wage earners themselves will suf fer most of all. « “Some have suggested that the gov ernment guarantee a fixed return upon railroad property. The railroad ex executives believe a guarantee would tend to reduce initiative and retard efficient management and they do not ask for it. Thy believe with ade quate rates, reasonable liberty to act, and good management, roads that have been wisely planned, honestly financed and well managed can sus tain themselves.- “One administrative step that might be taken In the not distant future would pave the \yay to return to pri vate ownership and operation is this suggestion and I believe it would help' the situation: “Let the president continue the cen tral organization in Washington un der a director general who with his staff, will supervise the whole situav tion, direct policies and make those adjustment, /with the railroads that will be required after governmental control ceases. Thi' 1 central organiza tion should direct the o^m-ation of the # roads through the con.ir'ies them selves rather than through a system of regional directors. In other words, say to the board of directors and ex ecutive officers of each company that, from and after a given date they ere to take charge of their properties and lahTrgC; maintain anff-operate them for the account of the .AIniied~fita and as may be ordered by the presi- • * dent through the central organiza tion.” the head of the Barred Plymouth Rock pen for producing exhibition cock erels came froth Judge Cosh in New Jersey at- a large outlay; the dark Cornish pen contains females that were never beaten In the shows of South Carolina. For four years Clemson College bred the Tom Barron strain of heavy laying Single Comb White Leghorns. The stock and eggs of this strain have been distributed over the State and the females are certainly heavy egg producers. However, there is one ob jection to this strain of White-Leg- -horns and that is their unfitness for exhibition purposes. Since every other breed of poultry kept at the College is of the highest quality, the Tom Bar ron White Leghorns with their big combs, high tails and sometimes brassy plumage looked entirely out of place . - —— —— r This year a breeding pen of the best exhibition strain of Single Comb White Leghorns has Just been ob tained from the leading breeder of Il linois. The male won second at the recent Chicago Show in a class of over three hundred Leghorns, while the females are of the same high quality. As many chicks as possible will be reared from this pen so that the flock of White Leghorns will be built up to ite former number. While it is not the intention of the Division of Poultry Husbandry to grow stock for sale or to sell eggs for hatching, it frequently happens that fine breeding and exhibition birds can be obtained and also a few sittings of eggs from some of these high class breeding pens. That the farmers and breeders of the State are availing themselves of this opportunity to ob tain the best breeding stock and eggs is shown by the fact that the demand Tar exceeds the supply. Further information can be obtain ed from the Division of Poultry Hus bandry, Extension Service, Clemson College, S. C. if Opening of Spring Millinery ' . / . -» Wednesday, March, 19th. Everybody is Cordially Invited.. Statement of the Condition of the Commercial Bank Located at Clinton, S. C., at the close ' .Statement of the Condition of The Bell-Workman Bank Located at Clinton, S. C., at the close of,business March 4, 15)19. RESO LUCES Loans and Discounts $124,227.15) Overdrafts % 9,778.33 Ronds and Stocks owned by t he bank ■ 3.041.17 Due from Rks and Rankers 2.29(1.80 Currency' 898,00 Silver and Other Coin 1G3.22 Checks and Cash Items ( . 207.46 Total -i $141,172.17 LIABILITIES . Capital Stock Paid In $ 1 o.000.00 Surplus Fund 1,000.00 Undivided Profits Less Cur- rejut Expenses Taxes Paid 1,602.10 Individual Deposits Subject to Check Time Certificate of Deposit v Cashier’s Checks ‘8.442.91 9,282.05 \ \ 'V 2,345.11 V - - : 90,070.07 Notes & Bills Rediscounted 2,000.00 Bills Payable, including ^ Certificates for Money Borrowed 31.500.00 Total $141,172.17 of business'Mar. 4 1919. RESOURCES Loans and Discounts $281,639.52 Overdrafts 5,576.33 Bonds and Stocks owned by the bank 12,350.00 Furniture and Fixtures 2,996.00 Banking Ilo’use 0.00 Other Real Estate owned 0.00 Duo from Banks and Bank- ers 19,408.71 Currency (i,294.00 Gold 32.50 Silver and Other Coin 685.82 Checks and Cash Items 747.94 Exchanges for the Clearing . House 0.00 Other Resources 0.00 Total $329,-730.82 LIABILITIES Capital Stock Paid In, $35,000.00 Surplus Fund 12,500.00 Undivided Profits, less C ur- rent Expenses and Taxes Paid . 8,099.55 Due to Banks & Bankers— 0.00 Dividends Unpaid 12.7)0 Individual Dejiosits Sub- • ^ject to Check 139.069.68 Savings Deposits 3,045.65 Time Certificates of De- | HIS it 85.231.10 Certified Checks 13.00 Cashier's Checks 1,245.86 Notes and Bills Redis- counted > 8.000.00 Statement of the Condition of M. S. Bailey & Son, Bankers Located at Clinton, S. C., at the close of business March 4, 1919. RESOURCES' M ** / -I Loans and Discounts $279,896.44 Overdrafts - 35,706.36 Other Real Estate Owned 328.82 Due from Banks and Bankers Currency Cold • Silver & Other Minor Coin Checks and ('ash Items * Total 31,790.74 2.774.00 5.00 1,391.04 725.98 $352,618.38 LIABILITIES Capital Stock Paid In $20,201.40 Undivided Profits, less Current Expenses and Taxes Paid 2,162.59- Due to Banks & Bankers 155.60 Individual Deposits sub ject to Check 224,106.27 \ Time Certificates of Deposit 105,689.08 Cashier’s ('hecks 303.44 . ’ 330,098.79 * Bills Payable, including Cer- nrowc Total NONE Bills payable including Cer tificates for Money Bor rowed k Other Liabilities f 37,500.00 13.48 Total $329,730.82 State of South Carolina. County of Laurens, ss: Before me came F. M. Boland, Cash ier of the above named baiTk, who, l>e- ing duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement is a true con dition of said bank, as shown by the Ixxiks of said bank. F. M. BOLAND. Sworn to and subscribed liefore me his 11th day of Mar. 1919. J; H. Donnan Notary Public Correct Attest; J. I. Copeland, L. II. Davidson, II. I). Henry. See the* Detroit Vapor Oil Stove. It burns gas made from oil—no wicks, more heat, absolutely safe. _ S. M. & E. H. WILKES & CO. State of Soutli Carolina. County of Laurens, ss Before me came C. C. Wallace. Cash ier of the above named bank, who, be ing duly sworn, .says that the aliove and foregoing statement is a true con dition” of said bank, as shown by the nooks of said bank. Sworn to hnd subscribed before me this 11th day of March, 1919. . Jodie A. Chandler. Notary Public for S. C. Correct Attest: Jf. D. Bell, C. R. Workman, *> S. G. Dillard, Directors.- Th# Strong Withstand tbo Wintar - Cold Better Than tb* Wank You must have Health, Strength and En durance to fi^ht Colds, Grip and InfluaMg. When your blood is not in a haalthy condition and does not circulate properly, your system is unable to withstand the Winter cold. ' - GROVE’S TASTELESS Chill TONIC Fortifies the System Against Colds, Grip and Influenza by Purifying and Enriching the Blood. It contains the well-known tonic prop erties of Quinine and Iron In a form acceptable to the most delicate stomach, and Is pleasant to take. Youcaneoon feel its Strengthening, Invigorating EfflicL 60c. LOST—One autofn o b i 1 e crank handle.. Finder return toD: E. TRIBBLE. 352,618.38 County of Laurens. Before me came M. S. Bailey, Presi dent the above named liank. who, be ing duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement is a true con dition o! said bank, as shown by the liooks of said bank. r Al. S. BAILEY Sworn to and subscribed liefore me this lllh day of March 1919. • W. C. Bailey, Notary Public. Correct Attest: M. S, Bailev ... W. J. Bailey W. C. Bailev OF DANCER TD IliE HEART I Eggs for Hatching—Shepard’s strain, S. C. Comb Ancona Eggs, $1.50, $2. and $2.50 per setting of 15. One fine cock just received from Shepard. C. C. Bailey, Glinton, S. C. New Perfected Tablets, Called Aspitone, Free From Heart Depressing Effects. Do Not Upset Stomach. Physicians amt druggists are very enthusiastic over the new and imprvoed aspirin tablets, called Aspitone, which are slightly stimulating instead of de pressing to the heart and should be used especially for headache, neural gia, rheumatism and other heart weak ening diseases,*such as influenza, severe colds and threatened pneumonia. Many physicians are substituting As pitone for aspirin in all of their prac tice on the theory that even if the pa tient’s heart is strong, there is no reas on' to give a heart depressing remedy when the same effects may be had from the new Aspitone without^ the heart depressing effect. Druggists _report a large demand for Aspitone tablets on account of the prev alence of coldrf and-influenzu. They say that the ideal treatment fox colds is a laxative at bed time with one or two Aspitone tablets to control the pain, fever, inflammation and tendency to ward congestion and pneumonia. As pitone may be had at aH of the leading drug stores' everywhere in sealed pack ages. Price thirty-five cents. It is* sold locally by T. E. Rhames, Sadler- Owens, The City Pharmacy, aad Young’s Pharmacy. w