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■ *■ . V .. . . • • * PAGE EIGHT THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, i, ■i' ASSESSOR’S NOTICE The County Auditor’s office at Lau rens will be open from the 1st day of January to the 20th day of Febru ary, ,1925, for the purpose of taking Tax returns for the ensuing year. For the convenience of Tax payers re turns can be made at the following S lices throughout the County on the ay specified. Please take advantage of this and make your returns and save a trip to Laurens through the cold and rain. Youngs Township—Miss Nan A. Jones—Monday, Feb. 2, 1925. Youngs Township—Lanfords—Mon day, Feb. 2, 1925. Waterloo Township—Jerry C. Mar tin store—Monday, Feb. 2, 1925. Waterloo Township—Dr. W. C. Thompson’s store—Monday, Feb. 2, 1925. - • Jacks Township—S. W. Dean s— Monday, Feb. 2, 1925. Jacks Township—Renno---Monday— Feb. 2, 1925. _ Youngs Township—Jno. B. Cook s —Tuesday, Feb. 3, 1925. Youngs Township—Youngs Store— Tuesday, Feb. 3, 1925. Dials Township—W. H. Bolt’s Store —Tuesday, Feb. 3, 1925. Sullivan Township—T. T. Wood— Tuesday, Feb. 3, 1925. Waterloo Township—W a t e r 1 o o Towo^Tufiada^^b^S, 1925 a Youngs Township—Pleasanf wmTna w —Wednesday,* Feb. 4, 1925. Dials Township—Gray Court—Wed- Sullivan Township - PrS^n l Wednesday, Feb. 4, '1925. Dials Township — Owings—Thurs day, Feb. 5, 1925. Sullivan Township—Hickory Tav ern—Thursday, Feb. 5, 1925. Dials Township—Thompson’s Store —Friday, Feb. 6, 1925. V Cross Hill Township—Cross ifill Town, Saturday, Feb. 7, 1925. Hunter Township — Mountville j— Monday, Feb. 9, 1925. Hunter Township—Clinton—Tues day, Feb. 10, 1925. t. Hunter Township—Clinton Cotton Mill—Wednesday, Feb. 11, 1925. Hunter Township—Lydia Cotton Mill—Thursday, Feb. 12, 1925. Hunter Township—Goldville Cotton Mill—Friday, Feb. 12, 1925. All personal property, poll and road Taxes must be returned on or by the 20th day of February, 1925. So please get busy and make your re turns in January and avoid the rush as it will be impossible to take all the returns during the week. Do not wait to the last day but make return early in January. J. WADDY THOMPSON, 12-12-lf ' County Auditor. STOCKHOLDERS MEETING PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a Special Meeting of the Stockholders of LYDIA COTTON MILLS will 'be held at the office of the Company, near Clinton, S. C., at 12 o’clock Noon, on the 30th day of December, 1924, for the purpose of considering and voting upon a refolution adopted by the Directors of the Company for the purpose of increasing . the Capital Stock of the Company to a maximum amount of Four Hundred Thousand Dollars ($400,000.00), divided into Four Thousand (4000) shares of the par value of One Hundred Dollars <$100.00) each, and for the transact ion of any other business which may properly come before the Company. M. S. BAILEY, President 12-18-4to LYDIA COTTON MILLS. NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING BOLL WEEVILS GO INTO HIBERNATION Indications Are That Supply Will Be Great Next Year 3ay 8 National > Control Association. _ •> * J' New Orleans, La., Dec. 16*—That there was a prolific development of boll weevils during the fall months to go into hibernation/for next year’s at tack on the cotton crop; is shown con clusively by reports to the National Boll Weevil Control Association. Re plies received to a questionnaire sent out to about 1,200 banks, chambers of commerce, county agents and local committees cooperating with the Na tional Boll Weevill Control Associa tion show that in about 55 per cent of the regions of heavy infestation in 1923 there was a heavy development of weevil during the month of October and the early part of November. Many farmers report the largest num ber of weevils ever observed in the whole history of the pest. The probability is that there was a heavy development in more regions than those reported because at the time the questionnaire was sent out all danger of injury to the cotton crop Y. DECEMBER 18, X»«4 a Bf Artfcpr QUEER DANGEROUS DAYS. ABOVE THE BANDITS. CHEAPER SUGAR, PLEASE. WORTH TEN MILLION. “ We live in queer, dangerous days. In Seattle the Government wants to dismantel an innocent looking broad casting station. Every evening a lady, a wife of the proprietor, sent through the air a beautiful bed-time story. What could be purer, more in nocent ? . The Government says MANY things : could be more innocent, for the bed- \ time story sent out contained code information for bootlegger^ Gifts Worth While Gifts of Furniture Are Gifts that last and take on the charm of pleasant memories with the passing of time. Nothing more enduring; nothing more useful or beautiful'could be given and nothing would be more treasured and appreciated. Gifts of Furniture stand as permanent symbols of the love and friendship that prompted their being given. . ■ That’s was past Tof‘ttir* slmpte reason-thaG Every week a firm on Long Island the squares then forming would not i mature and farmers were not much TfrJ, The annual meeting of the County Board of Oommissioners of Laurens County, S. C., will be holden at the Court House in the Supervisor’s of fice, bn Thursday after the first Mon day of January, 1925, being the 8th day of the month at the hour of ten The percentage of farmers practicing o’clock in the forenoon. this, method is not so large as the very careful observations. In a few instances reporting no development the association made further inquiries and found that there was on closer examination weevil development. Hence it is fair to say that in much more than half the cotton belt large broods of the pest have gone r. hibernation. How they will fare uu ing the winter remains to be seen tyit it/has been shown by 30 years of ex perience that even the severest win ter does not kill all of the weevils and even a light emergence next spring with favorable weather follow ing will develop a heavy infestation. The experience of 1924 is not to be taken as an index to weevil depreda tions hereafter. The weather of the past season was fortunately favorable to the growth of cotton and unfavor able to the development of weevil but as is shown by these reports the wee vil is not eradicated, its vigor is not diminished, and it is to be reckofted with hereafter as heretofore and is to' be combated only by approved methods of proper varieties, proper spacing, proper cultivation and , pois oning whenever the infestation ex ceeds 10 per cent. Reports to the National Boll Wee vil Control Association also reflect a very gratifying degree of improve ment in the methods of farming, par ticularly with reference to weevil control. In all the states there is an increase of the farming practices re commended by the United States de partment of agriculture and the ag ricultural colleges, particularly with reference to improved varieties, ferti lization and close cultivation. Rough ly speaking, three-fourth of the re ports to the questionnaire show that farmers are using these improived methods—not all farmers but a con siderable number in some regions as many as 90 per cent. The reports show also that there has been considerable progress in the practice of burying the cotton stalks well in advance of the cold weather in order to decrease the number of weevils going into hibernation and subsequently destroying the weeds and trash in order to kill those that have taken refuge for the winter. All persons holding claims or de mands of any kind against the coun ty, not previously presented, are here by notified and required to file the same with the clerk of the board on or before the first day of January so that they may he ordered Jo be paid at the annual meeting as provided by law. No claims against the County shall be valid and payable unless the same be presented to and filed with the County Board of Commissioners of Laurens County during the fiscal year in which It is contracted or the next thereafter and all claims not so pre sented and filed shall be barred. Done at Laurens Court House, S. C., this the 3rd day of December, 1924. J. D. MOCK, 12-12-4t Clerk. large percentage practicing improved cul tural methods but is much greater than it was two or three years ago when che scientists first advised that the burying of stalks and the winter clean up were the first steps in weevil control for the next year FLOGGED BY MEN YOUNG GIRL SAYS Forcwi * To Accompany Them To Thicket Near City. Identified By Victim. lea is by flying machine. ^THe id keep above the bandits. In due time bandits also will fcet flying machines, just as they got high-powered auto mobiles. P/e.-ident. Coolidge is considering he tariff on sugar. That tariff, so high, is a hardship on our friends in Cuba. Cuba complains that it is high er than it need be to give profit to sugar growers in the United States. Sugar is necessary to the health and growth of children, necessary, also, by the way, to those that obey the constitution and do their distill ing inside of their own bodies. The president undoubtedly will set tle the sugar question having in mind the needs of millions of American mothers. This story comes from Ann Arbor concerning the magnificent University of Michigan. Twenty years ago a mining property at Ligoma, Ontario, was deeded to the university. The giv ing of the mire was then looked upon as a joke; it hadn’t any value. But the Board of Regents of the university will soon give details of the discovery that the mine is worth ten million dollars. , That will do two things. It will put the ten million dollars, through the university, into the building of better brains. A good use for the money. It will give sharks that live on fools a text to use in the selling of worth less mining stock. Edison has his mind on flying. May it be many years before he starts his great flight. The helicopter will let men rise straight up from the earth. Eagles can’t do that. We shall fly at speed undreamed of now and the flying machine will revo lutionize civilization. All that he says is true and much more. But the revolution in civiliza tion will come in men’s brains, and come slowly. It won’t come ,through machinery, although that will help. Men invented machines that ought to have freed the slaves. But they fastened wage slaves to the machines. They invented flying machines, and their first real use was dropping T. N. T. and poison gas on other white men and on savages. Science moves swiftly, the brain moves slowly, and civilization moves slowly with it. GO RIGHT AT IT Friends and Neighbors in Clinton Will Show You a Way. Get at the 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. Thornwell St., Clinton, Says: “I had a great deal of trouble with my back, especially mornings. I felt tired and miserable and it was hard for me to stand. I became depressed and ev ery bit of energy seemed to leave me. I had dizzy headaches and often black specks appeared before my eyes a^ter getting up from a stoop ed position. My kidneys were in a weakened "state. All of these trou bles kept me in a nervous, irritable condition. I read about Doan’s Pills ■and thought I would try them. They were splendid and it was not long be fore they relieved me of this misery.’’ 60c, at all dealers. Foster-Milburn Go., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. • WHAT DO P. S. JEANS Atlanta, Dec. 16.—A story by Miss Bessie King, twenty-five, that she had been carried from her home by two men and rushed to a thicket on a lonely road near the city, where she was flogged, late today led to the arrest of Henry Pinson and L.* H. Pinson, brothers, automobile tire deal ers. Miss King, who was found in a semi-conscious condition on the road, identified the two mien and they were arrested on a charge of “disorderly conduct” and held in $5,000 bond. The girl charged that the two men came to her home this after noon and, with revolvers, forced her to accompany them to the spot where she was whipped. ' L. H. Pinson was said to have admitted he Was in the automobile which carried Miss King to the secluded spot. He denied any connection with the whipping. The other brother declined*to discuss the case. Miss King told officers she could offer no explanation of the affair, but added that she was under sus picion of having disturbed papers in the tire store. Her face was badly swollen and her body bleeding in several places when motorists discov ered her. Dr. D. E. Gcfrin, of France, on his way to America, should have as warm a welcome as we usually reserve for princes and others that never did a day’s work. / Dr. Gerin comes to demonstrate a new method of treating pneumonia, before the members of the New York State Physicians’ Organization. With this new method, six hundred cases of pneumonia were treated, without one 1 death. Dr. Gerin also treats perni cious anaemia without blood transfu sion. Of- Cigars for him who smokes. Smith’s Phar dot macy. May wheat has passed $1.64. It will sell higher. Farmers are rushing their grain to the market now, feeling that these prices will do. You will remember that this column predicted $1.50 wheat when the price was below $1.20. Unfortunately, gamblers have probably made more than farmers, al though the farmers, for whom this is written, have also profited—those that held their wheat. A first-claas gross business of six thousand million dollars a year for the big first-class railroads ought to make some profit possible, with rea sonable economy and modern methods. However, it is so much easier to raise freight and passenger rates than it is to economize or keep up to date, especially when you have no real com petition. i PIANOS for RENT 0’DANIEL & REID Harmony and Comfort in the Living Room The living room, naturally the center of attraction in the home, should have the most careful consideration in the matter of furnishings. It should please the eye and satisfy the need of rest and recreation. You will find here just such suites or odd pieces in such variety that every one may be satisfied, and at prices that you will admit, are most reasonable. Christmas offers everyone in the family an opportunity to gladden the hearts of others with Furniture Gifts that add a touch of comfort and beauty through out the home/ • COME AND MAKE YOUR SELECTIONS EARLY. S. M. £ E. A. 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