The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, November 20, 1924, Image 8
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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.
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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. #
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