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PAGE EIGHT THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, & C. COUNTY TREASURER'S NOTICE 1924 The books of the County Treasurer will be open for the ^collection of Tzixes for the fiscal year, 1924, at the Treasurer's office from October 15th to December 31st, 1924. After De cember 31st one per cent will be ad ded. After January 31st two per cent will be added, and after February 28th v seven per cert will be added until the 15th day of March, 1925, when the books will be closed. AH persons owning property in more than one township are request- <*| to call for receipts in each of the several townships in which the pro perty 14 located. This is important, as additional cost and penalty may be attached. All aide-bodied male citizens be tween the ages of twenty-one (21) and sixty. (GO) 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 duly. All able- bodied men between the ajies of 21 and 55 are liable to road duty except those in military service, school trus tees, school teachers, ministers, and students. Dog Tax $1.25, which must be paid not later than January 31st, 1924. Proper attention will be fciven those who wish to pay their taxes* through the mail by check, money order, etc. The tax levy is as follows State Tax Ordinary Coin Railroad Bond Jail Bonds mill Road Bunds 8Va nulls Past Indeht<*dnoss 14 null Statewide School (G-0-1) 4 nulls Weak Schools ........ 14 mill Constitutional School 5 mill? Total 36 mill.* Laurens School Districts 6 mills Taj : ?-Vv mills .gsaMWr* • 1 mil! No. 1 . No. 2 No. 3 . No. 4 No. 5 No. 6 . No. 7 . No. H 13 1 * mills 8 null- 16 mills 7 mills 13 mills G mills . 8 nulls 22 mills EARLY SCHOOLS OF COUNTY By F. P. MjcGOWAN, Esq. TEXT—Then Jeaun said unto them. Mt|f Urn# Is not yt coins; hut your tln.e Is always ready.—John 7.6. When time has ripened It may be harvested but not before. Just as It Is unwise to brush the earth away, to see whether the seeds are sprouting, so for the ripeness of time we must wait. Said a fa ther: “1 would give a thousand doHiirs to the man who would ask my son. now grown tip, sit the proper moment. Just this simple question: ‘What value do you place upon being brought up in a.home of prayer?* and 1 would be willing to sweep the streets to earn ate money.” Our l.er l’a appeal to the leaders in ismel was concerning one of time's 'Trent birth-throes. There was au ^ilre.-q^xeli^nmi^ .oiilil_.,.w.^1 see It Hut fit saw it.,They saw clouds, j actions by said trustees for the re l ey heard winds, but they could not ' covery of the said lands. In the see the cloud of glory nor hear the j course of time, the trustees lost much rushing of the mighty wind." 1 hey ] 0 f the said lands by reason of the long aeat tl wottK* they did not distinguish j leases, the want of identification and rhe voice o! the speaker. "llu\» is it. j the presumption of a grant from the 'iiith lie, that you do not discern this ! State after twenty years adverse lime? It is hard for deafness to ] p OSsess j on 0 f the lands. Some years isteu to the message of truth. Men ejrr.mnd themselves with a material Rcv.H.Ostrom.D.D On September 14th, 1799, Thomas Wadsworth, of Charleston, South Carolina, made his will in which he devised his land situate in the upper part of the State to H. W. DeSaus- sure, John Hunter, and John C. Cal houn as Trustees for the sole purpose and use of maintaining and support ing a free school for poor children in Laurens county, living within the bounds of Major Dunlap’s Battalion of the Saluda Regiment of the Ninety- Six District, and five trustees of saicl school should be elected every two years by the white voters of the said bounds for the government and direct- tion of sH’d school. In 1805 the Legislature of the State passed an Act creating the school trustees a” corporation known as the Wadsworthville Poor School. The legal title of the testamentary trus tees devolved upon the elective trus tees. The will directed that the said lands should not be sold, but that the income thereof should be used for the support of the said school. The said trustees made leases of the most of said lands for long terms ranging from fifty to one t^indred years. In 1 'Id the Legislature of the‘State passed an Act that the Statute of li truths can pene eii, when rhe King the ago the Legislature authorized the Youngs School Districts No. 1 ... No. 2 No. 3 . No. 1 ... No. 5 ... No. 6 No. 7 No. 8 ... No. 10 . 3 mills 8 mills 8 mills 1G mills ... 17 mills 11 mills 17 mills . 13 mills "22h; rnTTIs Dials School Districts No. 1 .... 8 mills No. 2 12V4 mills No. 3 12 mills No. 4 .... 8 mills No. 5 20^4 mills No. 7 .... 8 mills No. 8 l.. 12 mills No. 3B 24 mills Sulliv«n-School Districts No. 1 17 mills No. 2 8 mills No. 3 r 20 mills No. 7 16 mills No. 17 16 mills Railroad Tax 3 mills Waterloo School Districts No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 No". 6 No. 7 No. 11 12 mills 9 mills 19 mills 14 mills 8 mills 12 mills 15 mills 8 mills Cross Hill School Districts No. 1 4 mills No. 2 ... 8 mirlls No. 3 6 mills No. 13 ... 15 mills Hunter School Districts No. 3 C mills No. 4 8 mills No. 5 .... 26 mills No. 6 .... 4 mills No. 7 - .... 5 mills No. K9 y.. 8 mills No. R42 13 mills No. 16 1514 mills Jacks School Districts No. 2 7 mills No. 3 .... :... ‘ 16 nulls No. 4 3 mills No. 6 8 mills No. 7 3 mills No. 15 6 mills Scuffletown School Districts No. 1 .... 8 mills No. 2 .... !?.. 8 .mills No. 3 3 mills No. 4 „ .— v 4 mills No. 12 ...'.. . : im mills Persons sending In lists of names to be taken'off are requested tWerid them early and give the township of each, as the Treasurer is very busy •luring the month of December. ROSS D. YOUNG, County Treasurer. AUTO LIVERY CARS FOR Hfp.F DM*ve^¥ourseIf TOURING CARS BY TI4.S MILE OR HOUR ELLIS MOTOR CO. Stic (i;r. which no truths ra't*. 8<j il.t‘st* me hun w its offered, did not discern actual King. An* n >1 '!.<• great epochs dearly mml.e l offY I >0 they not tell ol a , ri gian* that needs n * revision, even : l ie pio"ram oj the living (Jod? Can iliey tali under any such delusions as .uck. or i.aiyhap? In Calatians 4:4. we read: “In llu* fullness ot time, hrisi came made of a woman." How many Jewish doubters, think you. back in the days between Maiachi, the .!.*ry prophet and John the Baptist— ‘The Voice"-- asked if they would ever again hear the voice of a prophet m eimli? four hundred years of sT- >nce uuisi have tested those disobed- **ni gmierations. You can picture one lew saying lo another: "Have you weard from the heavens?" only to get the answer: “No." and repeated many fitnes by different men during those four (vniurits. “When we were without sttvnglh, n due time. Christ died for the un godly.” Mark that, it was in due time. Why was it not at the time when Adam and Eve were turned ouf of the garden of Eden? Why was it not at the Uin^* when David's heart aroke in the cry of the tlfty-Hrst Psalm? Why? At least there was me lesson to lie learned. It was this: "l’> tlo* deeds .of the law shall no flesh he Just Hied.” Man's first effort to deal with sin. was to |r\ He has heeii trying ever since. Aprons of tig leaves were the utmost attempt. Men ! have thought that tluy could be seif | savefs. and tii.it thought appears to tie more pronoiinevd today than ever f*.\‘ literature and public• address an ! toilsome organized effort it render- ;he tnultriudex stone deaf te the only hofie. namely : that "(.'hrist died for the ungodly." And thus thnnighou' that reaeli of time the lesson thpt nun cannot save himsell was taught and repealed until, the utmost lessons having been given—none tot* few, and since Hod's mercy Is so great, nope 100 m.irw- tbe time was due. and (’hrisi dh*d for tbe ungodly observe wlm stands at the arrow point of these great crises. It is Christ. It ta Christ as King, and Christ as Savior. How serious then the offense If, after rhe «i‘e| tea ting of the lesson so often and so long until the “due time,” men persist in the delusion that they may be self-wtvers. Hearing shout the Gospel from childhood, yet they are not conscious of the crisis. If they hat saw tliar from tbe hour of the death of Jesus on the (Toss until this bottr all men yyhp live long enough-to lie acemin: able are met with this crisis, this "due time.” if they but saw ttiat all has been exemplified and threshed out and “settled in heaveti.*' that by the law is the knowledge of sin and not the cure of It, that men can be saved b/ grace, not of works." bow they would then cry: "Thou, Oh Christ, art alt 1 want.*' The dock ha> s(r#‘k. h it all una .van* they are waiting for the hour to puss. They ire still trying what has been abso- n*ely tried out to its dismal failure. How could the cor.|Uest over death be real to men who declared It “an Idle tale"? .suVely they required-more * Ught and they got it. Ah. that old vanity-tilled noise at tbe first prevent ed their “tuning In." and the truth .lid not penetrate. Who then can hear, who will be persuaded that In .Jesus' words. “It- is finished.*' there !s tije death-knell to their guilt before (iod? They who are willing to admit ilie need and allow the Holy Spirit'’ to “tune them In"; for “God resisteth the proud, hut giveth grace to the lowly.** The time for this uiomewtous event is N O W. “Behold N-O W U the accepted time.” Fur our suhutlou lb* time is ripe. said trustees to sell in fee simple such lands of the trust estate as they thought best to sell and in invest the proceeds of sale and use the income ’ for the support of schools within the j said bounds. The present trustees are! Messrs. M. B. Crisp, A. R. Holmes, S. j H. Goggans, J. J. Young, and R. A.! Austin. 'the hounds of Major Dunlap’s Bat talion embrace an area about 10 miles s.juaie in the lower part of Laurens county on the waters of Bush, Little and Saluda riverfc. This school for a number of years has been located near Hopewell church in Hunter town ship and it is supported as a public s; lio-il by the ptrbhc fund^ of the comr- ty aided by the Wadsworth Trustees ' from the trust fund. The said trus tees appropriate the income from the said trust fund to all schools Within the said bqunds. From Reasons above stated the income from the said trust fund has been considerably reduced. The Cross Hill Academy Prior to 1850 a school was main tained at Cross Hill neai^the Liberty Spring Church and the old school house is within the memory of men now living. Among the names of the students who attended this school at the old site are Colonel Beaufort T. Watts, Minister to Russia under Presi dent Pierce, and General Samuel Mc Gowan. In 1850 James Carter con veyed to Dr. J. P. Watts, Dr. R. E. Campbell, William Linsay and Rev. E. F. Hyde, as Trustees for the Saluda Educational Association, two separate lots of land a short distance west of the orignal site upon which two large brick buildings were erected, one known as the male and the other as tho Female Academy. The Calhoun Highway which is now being con structed, passes these tyvo sites and the Female Academy is ‘standing and is being used at present as a dwelling house! Some of the students who at tended these academies are Colonel B. W. Ball, Captain Homer L. Mc- iGow,- M'iji’nTifrmramMii Baxter Captain Zack Pullman. Cross Hill had a reputation for education and stu dents from other counties attended those academies. Some of the teach ers were the father and mother of Rev. S. L. Morris, Simon Peter Boo zer, Thos. J. Grffin, Captain D. P. Goggans, Colonel John W. Ferguson, M. T. Simpson, Rev. J. L. Me Lees, John C. Cook, Miss Pelote, Miss Mary McGregor, Miss Mary Carter, Mrs. Hettie McSwain. Austin, and Mrs. Su san Y. Simpson. About fifteen years ago these two academy lots were sold and the pro ceeds of sale were used in erecting a graded school bulding near the de pot of the S. A. L. Ry. at Cross Hill so as to roach the center of the popu lation. A public school with ten grades and six teachers is maintained there now. Of the teachers during and since the Confederate war, Boo- zeer, Goggans and Griffin were either graduates or hafl been students at the South Carolina College: and M. T. Sinipsan was educated at the Cita del. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1|2< The Laurens Male Aeademy 1 Forty yean ago the Male Academy house and lot ware sold to Senator N. B. Dial by authority of the Legis lature and his dwelling house is locat ed now* on the old site. The proceeds of sale were used in buying the Lau- rensville Female College lot and build ing, which were subsequently convert ed into a Public Graded School. Later the last named property was sold and the proceeds of sale were used in buy ing the superb site known as the Dr. .John A. Barksdale Home Place and earlier as the Dr. John Wells Simpson Home Plate. On this lot one main school building and . one extensive tpinex—now under construction—have been erected at a cost of $250,000, both structures being up to date in every respect. The school maintained there now has eleven grades with a teaching force numbering twenty- three, and 800 pupils in attendance this year. Prof. H. W. G:wque, a graduate of the University of South Carolina, is and has been the superin tendent of this school—now known as j the Laurens City Schools—for the ( past five years. * Among the teachers of the old male I academy may be found the names of * Captain Homer L. McGowan, Colonel James W. Hance, Mr. Harris, Charlie LaMotte, and since the Confederate war, Judge Allen Barksdale of La., | Rev. Mr. .Glasgow. Col. J. W. Fergu- ; son, Thos. J. Griffin, Dr. Frank Ev il re how living. ' The Laurensville Female College About one hundred years ago Miss Dorothy Young and her sister, Miss Florella Y'oung, daughters of Abner ; Young, established a female school at j Laurens which they taught for a number of years. They were educa- ! ted at the Moravian school located at ; Winston-Salem, N. C. Thomas Ed ward Herbert married Miss Dorothy I Young and they lived on the lot in the city of Laurens where the-Pres byterian church now stands. Miss Florella Young married Adison Posey and Colonel Hilary Herbert, Secretary of the Navy of th8 United States yn- der President Cleveland, wa^s born in the boarding house of this school. This house was torn down thirty-two years ago. The Herberts and Poseys moved to Birmingham, Ala.; where Hilary* Herbert served, as.a member of Congress for twenty years before he w-as appointed Secretary of the Navy. The Herbert School was suc- College in 1856. Some of the presi dents of this college were Dr. E. T. Bulat, Dr. John A. Leland, Dr. J.^ Ferdinand Jacobs, Br. John R. Riley, Colonel James Farrow, Prof. J. D. An derson, J. R. Milner and Capt. R. W. McCaslan. About 1900 the property of this college was converted into a public school and the college was, ■therefore, discontinued. The schools at Cross Hill and Laurens by reason of their efficient teachers, were always adequate to prepare stu dents for college, in addition to the primary work. . The Laurens Graded School teaches the eleventh grade in which ’ students are taught business* courses of book-keeping, stenography and typewriting. # i : — GO RIGHT AT IT. Friends and Neighbors in Clinton Will Show You a Way. Get at<4he root of the trouble. Rubbing an aching back may re lieve^ it. But won’t cure it if the kidneys are weak You must reach the root of it—the kidneys., Doan’s Pills go right a itt; Reach the cause; attack the pain. Are recommended by many Clinton people. Ask your neighbor! Mrs. T. R. Simpson, rear of 19 S. 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