The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, February 07, 1924, Image 12
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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, SOUTH CAROLINA
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1924
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NOTICE
The books of the County Treasurer
will be open for the collection of
Taxes for the fiscal year, 1923, at the
Treasurer’s office from October 15th
to Deceipber 31, 1923: After Decem»
Bef^T “
ter January
added, and after Feb. 28th, seven per
of March, 1924, when the books wi
be closed.
All persons owning: property in
more than one township are requested
to call for receipts in each of the
several townships in which the pro
perty is located. This is important, as
additional cost and penalty may be
attached.
All able-bodied male citizens be
tween the aces of twenty-one (21)
and sixty (60) years of age are liable
to pay a poll tax of $1.00, except old
soldiers, who are exempt at fifty (50)
years of age. Commutation Road Tax
$1.50 in lieu of road duty. All able-
bodied men between the ages of 21
and 55 are liable to road duty except
those in military service, school
trustees, school teachers, ministers,
and students. Dog Tax $1.25, which
must be paid not later than January
31, 1923.
Proper attention will be given, those
who wish to pay their taes through
the mail by check, money order, etc.
The tax levy is as follows:
State Tax ...^ 6 mills
Ordinary County Tax 514 mills
Road and Bridge .... 4 mills
Railroad Bond 1 mill
Road bonds .... .... 714 mills
Past indebtedness 14 mill
Jail Bonds 14 mill
Constitutional School 3 mills
Physicians Predicted
Grim Reaper Would
Cut Wilson Down
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authority that some of these oppon
ents examined these signatures with
the aid of a microscopy, compared
them with signatures on other papers
signed in Mr. Wilson’s health and
were undecided whether they had
been signed by Mr. Wilson or Mr.
Tumulty.
Meantime, there had been no meet
ings of the cabinet. Some of the
members who were not in accord
with the polity of secrecy determin
ed to force things a little. Secretary
Lansing, then at the head of the
state, called a meeting of the cab
inet and quitsed E)r. Grayson and
Secretary Tumultv about the presi
dent’s condition. Mr. Lansing, how
ever, was not supported by some
other cabinet members as he prob
ably had reason to expect he would
be, and the attempt to get some in
formation failed. This incident un-
doubtedlv was the principal factor
in Mr. Wilson’s abrupt dismissal of
Mr. Lansing later when he learned
of it. although it was not acknowl-
• n_~-^!uTruirfnuL ZWijT Iffr edged :m--any^.of. -the, .mihlishe^ cor.
ofiFpSr^ftt Win be ad*,* Af- re ^ ndence ^ contributing to the
iuary '31st, two per cent will be gyp,,*
event.
Vice President Marshall’s^ attitude
Ig^n-TttWt.- tryxnr tm*r- was ^mbshell
nonton nnnn nPincr POnSttlC- • . L _ » v
Total 28 mill*
Special Schools Dials Township
Greenpond No. 1 .... 8 mills
Eden No. 2 12^4 mills
Shiloh No. 3 12 mills
New Harmony No. 4 4 mills
Gray Court-Owings No. 5 20Mi mills
Barksdale No. 6 Consolidated 10 mills
Dials Church No. 7 .... 8 mills
Merna No. 8 12 mills
Fountain Inn No. 3B 24 mllla
Special Schools SulUvaa Township
Pnnceton No. 1 17 mills
ML Bethel No. 2 8 miHs
Poplar Springs No. 3 .„. 20 mills
Brewerton No. 7 16 mills
Merna No. 8 12 mills
Hickory Tavern No. 17 .... 16 mills
Local R. R. Bonds 3 mills
Special Schools Waterloo ToWnihlTr"
Bethlehem No. 2 4 mills
Ekom No. 3 17 mills
Center Point No. 4 14 mills
Oakville No. 5' .... 8 mils
ML Pleasant No. 6 .... 12-mills
ML Olive No. 7 .... 15 mi Is
Waterloo Town No. 14 - 8 mills
Special Schools Laurens Township
Laurens City .... 13^ mills
Trinity Ridge No. 1 .... 16V4 mills
Prospect No. 2 8 mills
Laurens No. 3 .... 16 mills
Watts Mills No. 7 t 8 mills
Bailey No. 4 7 mills
Copeland-Fleming No. 5 .... 13 mills
Oak Grove No. 6 .... 6 mills
Oxa No. 12 .... 11H mills
Special Schools Youngs Township
Ebenezer-Patton 3 mills
Friendship No. 2 8 mills
Warrior Creek R. Old Field 8 mills
Bethel No. 4 11’/4 mills
Gray’s No. 5 17 mills
Central No. 6 11 mills
Youngs No. T ; 16 mills
Lanford No. 10 16 mills
Fountain Inn No. 3B 24 mills
Special School Jacks Township
Shady Grove No. 2 7 mills
Renno No. 3 16 mills
Hatton No. 4 3 mills
O'dell School No. 6 8 mills
Garlington No. 7 3 mills
Hurricane No. 15 .... 6 mills
Special Schools Scuffletown Township
Long Branch No. 1 .... 8 mills
Byrd’s-Musgrove No. 2 .... .... 8 mills
Langston No. 3 3 mills
Sandy Springs No. 4 4 mills
Lanford No. 10 16 mills
Ora No. 12 14 V4 mills
Special Schools Cross Hill Township
commented upon as being conspic
uously correct. He held himself apart
from it all as Vice President Arthv r
did during the prolonged illness of
Garfield.
- But the agitation in Congress final
ly came to a head and it was de
termined to “find out whether we
have a president or not,” as one po
litical leader expressed it. The Mexi
can situation furnished the occasion
for passing a resolution which the
senate decided warranted a confer
ence of the foreign relations com
mittee with the president.
Senator Fall, of New Mexico, a Re
publican, and administration policy
opponent, was named as one mem
ber of a special committee to go to
the White House, and Senator Hitch
cock. of Nebraska, a Democrat, a po
litical friend and League of Nations
supporter, was named as the other.
Much to their surprise, the sen
ators were ushered into the sick
room, where the president shook
hands, with his right hand fumbled
with aome documents with his left
and discussed the Mexican situation
with marked mental ability.
That demonstration exploded the
rumors that Mr. Wilson was a ma
niac. unconscious, a prisoner, or so
disabled that he was unable to talk
business. It demonstrated, however,
that he was still a sick man. show-
ng a remarkable display of sand.
Senator Fall said publicly after the
conference that Mr. Wilson was “men
tally alert and mentally able to cone
with any question with which he
might have to deal.”
Sanator Hitchcock and his Demo
cratic colleagues on Capitol Hill
merely grinned with satisfaction.
Mr. Fall observed, however, that
he could not tell whether Mr. Wil
son could move his legs, and some
Democrat countered with the obser
vation that “Mr. Wilson didn’t deal
with the Mexican situation with his
legs, anyway.”
The inside of the matter was that
remarkable will power, careful
auraing and, skilful medical attention
2 mills
. 8 mills
. 6 mills
10 mills
15 mills
Cross Hill No. 1
Cross Hill No. 2
Spring Grove No. 3
Ow Mountville No. 6 ....
Cross Hill Town No. 13
....Special Schools Hunter Township
Lisbon No. 1 12 mills
Rock No. 2 8 mills
Rock Bridge No. 3 6 mills
Wadsworth No. 4 ..„ 8 mills
Reederville (part of No. 4) 13 mills
Clinton No. 5 20 1 4 mills
GoMville No. 6 4 mills
ELinards No. 49 (part of No. 6) 8 mills
Belfast No. 7 5 mills
Hurricane No. 15 .... 6 mills
Mountville No. 16 15^4 mills
Persons sending in lists of names
to be taken off are reouested to send
them early and give the townshib of
each, as the Treasurer is very ouay
during the month of December.
ROSS D. YOUNG,
County Treasurer.
thousand dollars in savings well in
vested. His salary as an educator
never was large and his pay as gover
nor was also small. He had been
raising a family of girls, and al
though he had written many books
his royalties were desultory; When
he came into a salary of $75,000 a
year—the largest he ever had receiv
ed—years of thrift asserted them
selves and he saved money. Royal
ties from his writings jumped sud
denly and tremendously because his
books came into great demand. So
cial activities at the White House
were discontinued because of the war,
and he saved a great part of his
salary. It was estimated that when
he left the White House, Woodrow
Wilson was worth more than a quar
ter.of a million dollars. Mrs. Wil
son had a modest fortune of her own
before her marriage.
Nobody ever knew completely what
his feelings were for politics dur
ing his retirement. He took no active
part, but there were some times in
dications that those close about him
were urging him to do so. He once
asked his medical advisers if they
thought he could undertake a cam
paign and was advised that a politi
cal melee surely would kill him. Ap
parently he gave up the thought if
indeed he had any, and contented
himself -with--expr-ess»qar--hi<nCT4f -on-
political questions when asked by
some correspondent. He never lost,
haweyer- arL_0PBQitunitx_tq drop a
ning for re-election, who had failed to
o Mppo r + his policies while he was in
the White House.
. On some few occasions he ac
knowledged the ploudits of admirers
what gathered in the street in front
of his home and once or twice de
livered addresses by raido but he
made few public appearances.
The most notable of the latter were
at the funeral of the unknown sol
dier and at President Harding’s fun
eral ceremonies.
Besieged to write his memoirs or
his own account of the peace treaty
fight or anything else for that mat
ter. Mr. Wilson always declined ex
cept in one or two instances. He
spent a good deal of time writing,
propped up in bed, after the habit
of Mark Twain, but it never was what
publishers were asking for. All his
material on the peace treaty he gave
to Ray Stannard Baker with permis
sion to write what he would.
“Write what you will,” he told
Baker. “I’ll answer any questions
you ask but it will be your book,
and I don’t ever want to see what
you write.”
had been showing their effects. XTT
these served to prolong the sick man’s
life. They enabled him to walk again
with the aid of a cane, which he
^hereafter facetiouslv referred to as
his “third leg,” and they enabled him
'o use h’s left hand and arm to some
extent although when he appeared in -
public Mr, Wilson generally hooked
his left thumb in a bottom pocket of
his coat and supported his disabled
nrm in that manner. His disability
: n walking he later referred to as his
“lameness.”
After many weary months in bed,
Mr. Wilson got back strength enough
f o sit at his desk, dictate letters, pre
side at an occasional cabinet, meet-
ingrand go motor riding, but the con
stitutional breakdown left its marks
upon hinf' and made him almost a
shadow of his former self.
He left the White House an inva
lid whom doctors said might live
“five minutes, five months or five
vears,” and despite the fact that he
had his ups and downs his tenacious
hold on life was the marvel of all
the specialists who attended him.
Washington, Feb. 3.—After Wood-
row Wilson left the White House in
1921 he took to the life of a retired
man of letters, which he continued
until death. He lived alone with his
wife in a comparatively modest home
for a man/>f his place and maintained
a modest establishment of three ser
vants and a used car.
His daily routine was modelled on
the eight-hour day which he once
told congress was “adjudged by the
thought and experience of recent
years, the thing upon which society
is justified in insisting as in the in
terest of health, efficiency and con
tentment.”
He always said grace before meals,
even in the days when life was at
a low ebb and he had to steady him
self on the back of his dining-chair
and whisper the words. He never
failed before closing his eyes for
what he knew always might be the
last time, to read aloud a few verses
from the Bible, which lay upon the
reading table at his bedside.
Fighting for life day by day Wood
Messags Carried
By News Boys
President Learns of the Death of Mr.
Wilson While At Church.
Washington, Feb. 3.—Newsboys
crying extras carried the first word
of former President Wilson’s death
to President Coolidge, who with Mrs.
Coolidge was attending services at
the First Congregational Church.
It was at 12:10, just as the pastor
the Rev. Dr. Jason Noble Pierce, who
had delivered a sermon on Mr. Wil
son, was about to offer benediction,
that the. shrill voices of the little |
newsboys pierced the stillness of the,
church with the news, “Wilson dead.”
President Coolidge, sitting well up
front, was visibly affected, according
to Dr. Pierce.
The minister herfltateq. In the ser-
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vice to call attention to the news
boys’ cries. Within another moment
a church attendant, who had gone out i
to confirm the sad news the lads were
shouting, walked to the pulpit and
whispered to the pastor, and Dr.
Pieroe formally announced that I the
war Executive had entered into eter-
pal peace.
President and Mrs. Coolidge then
led the congregation in standing for
a moment in silent prayer, suggested
by the minister, who said:
“Thank God for such a life.”
At the conclusion of the services
a few minutes later, Dr. Pierce walk
ed with the President and Mrs. Cool
idge from the church. The minister
sa : d:
“It is a great thing to know that
a man had the universaF love and.
sympathy of all the people. I
glad he is peacefully at rest.”
The President replied:
“I am glad, too, since Mr. Wilson
could nojt recover from his illness,
that his life has ended so peacefully.
In his sermon delivered before
hearing that the end had come to
the former President, Dr. Pierce said:
“Because Christ had power among
men, because he brought to me sanity,
strength, love and the recognition
that human life was the most valued
thing in the world. And it was irr
those qualities that Mr. Wilson had
leadership. Insofar as he saw truth,
and made men sane; insofar as be
effected cooperation increasing their
strength; insofar as he revealed and
compelled love and the recognition
that life was of supreme value, Mr.
Wilson followed in the footsteps of
Christ as the leader of men.”
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Senator Overman Refers to Wilson’s
De*th.
Washington, Feb. 3.—Senator Lee
S. Overman of North Carolina makes
the following statement on the death
of Woodrow Wilson:
_ “The gre'ht lion, a martyr to the
row Wilson realized that he lived in!cause of civilization, peace and liber-
the presence of death. A man of
his aged, stricken with a similar ail
ment—paralysis and general break
down—seldom lives long. The best
medical skill, careful nursing and the
constant attention of a devoted wife,
however, lengthened his span of life
toward the three score and ten as
even his most ardent well wishers had
not dared to hope.
Mr. Wilson took a modest fortune
with him from the White House and
although he never earned any money
during his retirement, he was able
to live comfortably but carefully on
ty after four years of intense suf
fering has at last succumbed to the
inevitable, and the vile tongue of the
slanderer will now hang silent.
“His place in history is fixed and
his greatness will grow greater and
greater as the years come and go his
name will shine with golden glory as
one of the four greatest men this
country has produced. He carried
on.his shoulders a heavier load than
was ever carried by man before, and
bore' it with patience and sublime
courage. Men in the days to come
will erect shrines to his memory. It
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f err tha vo^emorship of New died on the field of honor in the
• Jersey he brought with him a few cause of his country.”