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'■w t* x TZ , 1 5 '.W ' • *;. . v . ;. - Rfl IMMi PAGE EIGHT THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON. S. C. ?.♦ k. 4 I; U ISDAY, DEC 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 places throughout the County on the Jay 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. FORWARD OR BACKWARD By J. F. JACOBS, Mayor of Clinton The heading to this article indicates the bond issue. Either we go forward J with a splendid swing in company the problem to be settled at the bond election December 30th.^ If the bond election carries, the city will improve its street paving, its water system, its lighting and its fire protection. If the bond issuer fails, even though the Mayor was elected on a progressive platform, the town will necessarily go backward, because for some time past —upwards of two years—it has been spending more than its income, and . , _ in order to balance the budget it will Thompson’s store—Monday, Feb. 2, ^ necessar y to reduce expenses in all 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 Town—Tuesday; Feb. 1924k- • ss= Youngs Township—Pleasant Mound —Wednesday, Feh 4, 1925. Dials Township-*-Gray Court—Wed nesday, Feb. 4, 1925i Sullivan Township — Princeton — Wednesday, Feb. 4, 1925.. Dials Township — Owings—Thurs day, Feb. 5, 1925. Sullivan Township—hickory Tav ern—Thursday, Feb. 5, 1925. directions. This means curtailment of street maintenance. It will mean dirtier streets, poorer street surfaces, fewer improvements in new streets, elimination of new grading, curbing and sidewalk paving. It will mean that the new school building being erected cannot be supplied with sewer service, and with water mains of pro per size to give fire protection. Ex tension of electric lighting, water and sewer will have to be restricted to a -minimum. Otherwise the-town will Trcarffiorstand stittr^lf it does noth have to go deeper in debt and carry a larger floating debt at a higher rate of interest than the bonds would ca/ry. ♦ If the bonds are voted, 1925 will be a busy year in the way of city im provements, adding much to the busi ness prosperity of the town by the Dialls" Township--Thomp7on’s Store ' expenditures; enhancing the value of Friday, Feh. 6, 1925. «r I real estate many times the cost of the ing, it will go backward. There is nothing more deadly to a town than a majority of ultra-conservatives,' or reactionaries. They should rather be Ailed retrogressives. Whenever a town gets a majority of reactionaries it ceases to grow and begins to de cline. Heretofore, Clinton has been sufficiently broadminded and pro- f gressive to support its city adminis- Cross Hill Township—Cross Hill improvements; reducing the cost cf trations and give them what they ask with our neighbor towns of Newberry, Laurens, Union, and Greenwood, or else we drop back into the class of little villages which cannot keep the pace. If we stop growing, property values will decline; business will de cline; the people will find the paying of taxes a burden. If we go forward, spending the necessary money to keep the municipal affairs at pace with other public improvements, we will increase in population and in volume of business and in capacity to pay the taxes necessary. The increase in tax ation will be insignificant as compar ed with the economies resulting, and hardly worth consideration as com pared with the advantages to be ulti mately derived from having the town’s facilities brought up to date and kept apace with its progress otherwise. It is therefore up to the voters to determine on December 30th whether Clinton goes forward or backward. Town, Saturday, Feb. 7, 1925 Hunter Township — Mountville — Monday, Feb. 9, 1925. Bunter Township-Clinton-Tuea. f |lumi „ ation . a modern and day, Feb. 10, 1925. 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-tf County Auditor. NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING The annual meeting of the County Board of Commissioners of Laurens County, S. C., will be holden at the Court House in the Supervisor’s of fice, on Thursday after the first Mon day of January, 1925, being the 8th day of the month at the hour of ten o’clock in the forenoon. All persons holding claims or de mands of any kind against the coun ty, not previously presented, are here by notined and required to file the aame with the derk of the board on or before the first dav of January so that they may be ordered to be paid at the annual meeting as provided by law. No claims against the County shall operation of automobiles and trucks £ cr jf ^ continues this policy, Clin- by almost as much each year as the ^ on vvill continue to grow. If it re paving will cost; affording greater verses^ the policy, Clinton will start backward—an experience which it has not up to this time had. There is nothing more certain than that we cannot atract population and increase land values and volume of business unless we give to the citizens who up-to-date town from the standpoint of illumination, paving, sanitation and water supply. The estimates on which the $100,- 000.00 bond issue recently brought out were based, did not include complete j move here the facilities which other water system for the whole town, nor j towns of similar size afford... Nor can complete sewer system for all streets. It did not provide sufficient funds to take care of the sedimentation basin, we expect people to move from paved towns to an unpaved town; from a beautifully lighted town to a town in enlargement of power plant building • darkness; from towns amply supplied to accomodate additional pumps, nor the purchase of those pumps, made necessary by shutting down the steam with fire protection and low insur ance rates to a town where the firt protection is inadequate and the in pumps. The original contract for the ' surance rates all but impossible. The pumping station and filter plant was only about $35,000.00. Revisions were administration is proposing a busi ness proposition involving economy made by the previous administration and progress, but it is up to the peo- which brought the total cost up to I pie to say whether we shall go for- about $40,000.00, and the building of the house over the filter raised the figure to about $42,000.00. This necessarily encroached on the water main and hydrant estimate, and either forces its reduction or forces the is sue of 4£L-additianal set of bonds to complete the water system. The ^present administration has recommended a minimum quantity of bonds to be issued. The recommenda tion would better have been $25,000.00 to $30,000.00 larger. Every possible economy is being worked except that of sacrificing the quality of the work ward or whether we shall go back ward. Uncle Jahn With the glad New Year in front of us, we all endorse the plan, to shake hands with it fearlessly, an’ which is being done. The engineer, treat it like a man! No use to dodge be valid and payable unless the same ^ nicn De,n * uo " e - ine engineer,--- be presented to and filed with the h »s made a complete survey for a; truckle when there’s nothin’ mean x_ i * • • i? 4.L.^ 4. : in icrV>t xvc* mov Viovro nfViov* -Toilin^o County Board of Commissioners of Laurens County during the fiscal year in which it is contracted or the next thereafter and all claims nqt 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. NOTICE OF FINAL DISCHARGE State of South Carolina,’ County of Laurens. > . v Re: Estate of Charles McCauley Hoy, deceased. Notice is hereby given that I will on the 23 day of January, 1925, ren der my final return to O. G. Thomp son, Judge of Probate of Laurens County, giving statement of my acts and doings as administrator of the estate of Charles McCauley Hoy, de- i a,, « ou,,,t ceased; and will on the 23 day of' work w,n be done watcr and January, 1925, apply to said Court for final discharge. , WM. E. HOY, JR., l-22-6tc Administrator. -^4* — NOTICE TO CREDITORS , State of South Carolina, County of Laurens. Re: Estate of Chas. McCauley Hoy, deceased. All persons having claims against the estate of Chas. McCauley Hoy, de ceased, will present the same, duly verified, to R. W. Wade, attorney, at Clinton, S. C., on or before the 19th day of December, 1924, or be fortever barred. water system throughout the town j in sjght—we may have other failin’s and for complete sewer system, in-1 bnt— we ain’t afeard to fight. To eluding an additional septic tank, sedi- face a savage bull-dog ain’t a thing mentation basin for the water plant, I desired—but to look him square-* the enlargement of the power plant! iy * n the eye is all the bluff required, building to accomodate the new pumps ' The chief reward of battle is in com- recently purchased by council, being j in’ out alive—so may we celebrate the one gasoline driven pump, and one, scra P ^i ne ^ een *Twenty-five! electric driven pump, each of 1,0001 . Th is New Year thing is simply an gallons per minute capacity for eleva- imaginary line, that really ain’t as ting water into the standpipe. j hefty as a strand of wrappin’-twine; The engineer has been extremely i no h°dy s ever saw' it in the shore-an - busy. His surveys have been com-j ? ert ^ in wa y.» anc * ^e clock ticks out pleted, blue prints made and approved I j 18 boundaries same as any other by the Mayor, and the material order- j f a ^‘ ^ ** weren t fer little, moral ed. Ten or twelve car loads of the! ‘ aws , ^at we have learnt to scoff, material have already been received. I ^ere d be no Armageddons like the Work is proceeding with a small day of swearin ’ off - O f course we do force, which will shortly be enlarged. All of the work promised by the old administration and some additional sewer main, extension if the bonds carry. If they do not* carry, then not even all the work originally promised can be carried out because the funds are not ample thereto. The present administration inherit ed a floating debt in accounts and bills payable and matured contracts amounting to about $56,000.00. This handicap makes progress impossible unless taken care of as proposed by resolvin' in the best of faith, perhaps —but Human Natur’ is inclined to suffer a relapse! «■ GIFTS THAT I-AST J. B. FRONTIS JEWELER CLINTON, 8. C. 12-18 WM. E. HOY, JR., Administrator. WHOOPING COUGH PROBLEM SOLVED \ BY TAKING “WHOOP-NOT” DR. TURNER’S WHOOPING COUGH REMEDY. “WHOOP-NOT” is a prescription that used successfully for years by a noted English Physician. It con tains no Alcohol, Narcotics nor injur- iens drugs. Very pleasant to take and sold on *a positive guarantee to give relief or your money cheerfully refunded. FOR SALE BY YOUR DRUGGIST PRICE $140 WHAT DO Xs P. & JEANS DO? OllSYm cantnrtt TAN PAR yplorirte ■ , - ptf,- % Merry Christmas TO OUR FRIENDS AND PATRONS: • j Again we are in the midst of the Season of Santa Claus, Good Cheer and Good Fellowship-and we want to take this opportunity to wish you 4 very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. • j We’re always glad when Christmas Time comes x- 'round. It gives us an opportunity to send you the many good wishes been.storing up for 864 days t and to say ‘Thank You” for the many favors so kindly sent our way during the year. i These favors—and your patroriage-—have been sin cerely appreciated, and with the coming of the New Year we hope to again have the pleasure of numbering you as a friend and customer. / ! * * j i So here’s hoping this will be the most Joyously Happy Christmas you have ever spent—and our sincerest wish will not come true unless 1925 brings Happiness to you. Sincerely yours, E. W. FERGUSON FORD DEALER Clinton, South i,.- Carolina A Merry Christ With gratitude in our hearts for the blessiigs that the old year has brought; with hope in the profise the New Year brings, we cannot but face it with a&eeling of joy and gladness befitting the occasion. Resolved—-as we stand upon the threshold o^ a New Year, to strive -earnestly and in every way tlit lies within our power for bigger, better work and ervice, and with new enthuisasm and unbounded faiit in the future do our full share in making the year J25 the biggest and best in our history. j ‘ With the coming of the New Year our thought turn to the friends that the present year has reveale* to us, and we are taking this opportunity to thank ym for your confidence and patronage during 1924, to Extend you every good wish for a Happy Christmas ^nda New Year filled with prosperity and happiness. | Filled with the true “Spirit of Service”, tais institu- ton pledges itself during the year 1925 to serve a little better, to make friendships a little stronger, and to prove itself a helpful and constructive factoi in the up building of this community and the happines and suc cess of the people. To this end, we ask ytjar earnest co-operation, as we WISH FOR YOU AND YOURS A FULL MEASURE OF GLADNESS* The First Nationa “CLINTON’S STRONGEST BANK” fc'U ■ t Avt* fc 3L m. Wi «* J.4L