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M y f HIGHER RAILROAD RATES FORECAST Rail Official Predicts Increase of 25 Per Cent When Owners Get Roads Back. i Washington, Aug. 25—A 25 per cent increase in railroad rates must follow return of the railroads to pri vate ownership, Howard Elliott, presi dent of the Northern Pacific railroad, committee tdday. This estimate, he added, was made on the assumption that there would be no more wage in crease or advances in material costs. “Would 25 per cent increase solve the problem for the whole country?” asked Representative, Sims, Democrat, Tennessee. “I think it would,” resonded Mr. Elliott, adding that he preferred the rate increase to the continued pay ment of the government guaranteed compensation. Asked if a 25 per cent Increase of rates -would hamper business or in crease the cost of living, Mr. Elliott replied that the effect in his opinion had been exaggerated, but he did not want to give the impression that it would have no effect on living cost generally. In advocating wage legislation, Mr. Elliott said, “let the wives of the men vote on the strike; they are the most affected.” The great majority of railroad employes, he said, did not want to strike, and he urged some legislation for the adjustment of dis putes. He suggested that labor unions be required to incorporate and file re ports, like business corporations, and that employes be compelled to serve notice before quitting work. Alba B. Johnson, of Philadelphia, former president of the Baldwin Lo comotive Works, urged the preserva tion of the Interstate Commerce Com mission as a judicial body. He ap peared -before the committee as spokesman of the railway business association, an organization of manu facturers of railway supplies. Mr. Johnson advocated creation of -body to certl- fy the commission the amount of rev enue necessary in the public interest. He predicted that if authority over the amount of revenue were left to the commission, it would bring on govern ment ownership in ten years, if not in five. “The Natural Law” is daily drawing large audiences at the Empire this week. The lines are brilliant and a powerful education. Lessons may be drawn from them. From a dramatic standpoint, th: piece is one of the host ever keen here.—Salem (Mass.), News— FOR SALE—Two , good Jersey milch'cows with young calves, and one Red Role Hull. LEWIS BRIGTTK. on T. W. Weathers plaee R. F. 1). 1. SIXTEEN MORE ARMY TRUCKS TO BE DISTRIBUTED AMONG SEVERAL COUNTIES. X Quite a ARE TO BE SHIPPED DIRECI i Two Hundred Thousand Pounds T. N. T. Is Also Shipped From Capital For Us# in Various Counties. Mr. T. W; Blakely of Aiken, has returned home after visiting friends and relatives. INSURANCE “It is better to have a policy and not need it, Than to need a policy and not have it.” SEE ME TODAY W. C. BAILEY, Clinton, S. C. **■ ' Wri . ■ Not over fifteen couples in Clinton have lived together over thirty years. Many of these have accumulated a competence but have failed to enjoy life while in their productive age. Their c married early and a lonely life is before them. » — The time to get the most out of- life is while your children are with you. Music is the surest and the most refined of pleasures and at the same time the least expensive. -*> We have in stock, the celebra- ted York Player Pianos, The Matchless Pathephone, with its sapphire needle and a variety of small instruments. Come and look them over Columbia. Sixteen truck*. In addition to those already allocated to the State high way commission by the United States war department, are being sent to South Carolina at the present time from Streater. 111., according to infor mation recently received by Capt. Roy Pennell, highway engineer. These trucks will be sent to eight counties direct. Tney will not be dis tributed from Columbia, but will go direct to the county seats from the shipping point in Illinois. The high way department has received, all told. 60 trucks from the government for use In highway construction over the state. Three carloads of T. N. T.. a power ful explosive, have been shipped from Washington to the highway depart ment for use in removing stumps and making excavations in road building in the state. The explosive will, be sent to different counties as the need arises. T. N. T. is not considered quite so dangerous to handle as is dynamite in that it is ^harder to de tonate. The three cars will bring 200,000 pounds of the explosive into the state. ! ! Money left at this bank never takes a vacation, but the one who leaves it can, • v ' — • ^ as money deposited in this bank’s sav ings department draws four per cent in terest. Make your money work for you, so that you can take an occasional rest. Get the savings habit. It will grow on you. Once you see your Checking School Accounts. The office of the state superinten dent of education is busy checking the annual reports from the several coun ty superintendents covering the schol astic year 1918-19. These reports sup ply most of the strtlstical data com piled annually by the state superin tendent for the general assembly. Immediately after the annual settle ment in July among the county offi cials of any county, the school report may be completed, certified and for warded to the state superintendent This has been done in 28 counties. The 16 missing counties must report by September 1. ~" Th« law also requires a report from state aided high schools and state aided rural graded schools. These two groups comprise nearly 1,000 commu nities. The trustees of some 200 of these districts are in danger of losing state aid during the scholastic year 1919-’0. because their teachers have so far failed to furnish the legal r* port for 1918-19. Promoted Law and Order. Probably traceable to the meeting held July 16 for the promotion of law and order by the sheriff, solicitors and foremen of the grand juries in the governor’s office many requests are coming to the office of the governor for the enforcement in Iav~ Parficu-' larly is this true in respect to the re quest to root out all illicit liquor stills. Information concerning the whereabouts of stills of the suspected whereabout are sent in by those who are interested In seeing ‘the laws en forced. This is taken to he a healthy sign and betoken a spirit on the part of the people to support Governor Cooper, in hbu endeavor tg make the state free from many evils. - „ money adding to itself through payment of interest, you are going to make special . jefforts to increase^cour savings deposits . so as to further increase your interests earnings. And, then, first thing you know you have sufficient funds with which to takd advantage of an oppor tunity when it presents itself to you. Successful men got their start by saving. Yon can do the same thing. The First National Bank CLINTON’S STRONGEST BANK >5 Some New Enterprise*. —— W. Banks Dove^ secretary of state, issued the following charters and com missions: A commission to the People’s Whole sale Grocery Company of Nichols, with a proposed capital of 225.000. It will sell at wholesale groceries, fer tilizers a'nd farm products. A commission to the' Hercules Warehouse Company of Hartsville with a proposed capital stock of $1,000. It will buy and sell real estate, warehouses and to store cotton, cotton ■eed and other materisls. Mr. J. M. Blakely of Klenton. has been visiting his sister Mrs. J. ('.■ Wilson. Messrs. Lowry and Leonil Bass spent the week end in Roebuck. NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS - A meeting of the Stockholders of the First National Bank of Clinton, S. C., will be held September 9, 1919, at 4 o’clock p. m., in the Directors’ room, to decide upon an increase of the Capital Stock, and to transact such business as may come before the meeting. Yours very truly, B. H. BOYD, President. CHICHESTER S PILLS We are opening a new business in Clinton oil West Main Street in ware house formally owned by the J. W. Copeland Co. and will appreciate the patronage given us. We will make every effort to give satisfactory service. To carry a complete line of the following: Feed for Stock and Poultry. Fuel both Coal and Wood. Thejbest grade of Coal. Wood sa wed and dry^ ready Tor the stove and fire place. Fertilizer and Soda, Cotton man kaowa m BmI. SOLD BY EVERYWHERE Seed and Grain for both Feed and Planting. Oils and Greases for lubricating all machinery. f We will buy in CAR LOAD lots and sell for CASH thereby giving better prices than we could otherwise K Our stock is arriving daily and we will be glad to give you prices. !?. ^ ■■ . . ... — ' v We will make every effort to please with courteous treatment. Prompt deliveries. • * « - , N Quality and Price of Merchandise considered, we sliould receive your patronage. - ■ ’ . • ” ..J.*... -r - Y Let us prove these things to you when you need anything in the above line. * Our stock is not yet complete but we hope to have by Sept 1st. < §*/ ^ x . nr' Clinton Ferizor £ Fuel Go. J. W. COPELAND, JR., Manager V 1 I I “ ■: TO THE PUBLIC