The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, December 09, 1926, Image 9
SALESDAY AS MSHTUTiON
Vanishing from laurens
First Monday In December Formerly Was High
Spot' Now Merely Routine and
Attracts Little Interest
Laurens, Dec. 5.—Salesday in Lau-
tbf first Monday of each month
of the year, is a local institution as
old as the county itself and formerly
an important day on the calfen«
r, politically, pORi-
UstkaBy and socially. A companion
^institution” equally as popular and
oftthaes more attracthre to the crowds
that (adhered for the monthly semi*
holiday, was the “bone-yard” or horse-
swappers’ bailiwick.
- But the whirligig of time has
brought changes in the system. Of
course, the legal salesday comes and
goes, with a number of public auc
tions by the sheriff, clerk of court and
probate judge; but the whole thing
is merely routine and perfunctory.
Likewise, the Aorse-traders’ quarters
down town oif the spacious depot lot
has retrograded from its former pop
ularity knd prestige, Although it is
still intact.
In the years or had roads, five-cent
cotton, barrooms and dispensary; in
the days of no automobiles when ev
ery had a good horse and buggy,
or a spanking double team, or still
better, a saddle nag that could follow
the bypaths and thus shun the impas-
very few mail' order houses,rural
mail delivery and rural police, no ca
fes and movies; yet everybody was
reasonably happy and contented to
stay at home and work aix days in
the week and spend the Sabbath with
his family at ’church and at home.
Cotton ginners were willing to run all
night in order to favor m customer
who had to meet a bank note due the
next day; men and boys wore boots
and. women and children high-top
dhoes. So, when December salesday
came around, all the mem hands, hors
es, and dogs found their way to the
courthouse. First Monday in Decem
ber wqs a bigger event than court
week—next thing to a circus or a
county political campaign meeting.
But the glory of all such simplicity
as a horseback ride to the courthouse
once or twice a year, particularly for
a public salesday in December, has
long since departed, and horse trading
has lost its art, the craft that now
holds forth on the “boneyard” having
dwindled to a mere handfull.
As salesdays go nowadays, next
Monday promises only a dull repeti
tion of its predecessors during the
past dozen years or more
Some pretty stories have been treas-
muddy roads in the winter sea- ured and passed^along in connection RoqfL
salesday brought the crowds to.with horse-swappers’ paradise, its tra- Past ]
town—for business—and, incidentally, 1 ditional fortunes, misfits, nothing left,
for a little fun and fr&lic on the part but the saddle and the bridle and so
cf many.
The first Monday ia December was
the “red letter” day, usually in the
“good old times” before the new era.perhaps. The principal and benefici-
of Progress strode across the country! ary who evolved the scheme is author-
on. It was on a salesday in December
that one of the best stunts of “bone-
yard” production was ever staged.
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and put banks in every town, took
mule teams out of the mud, bonded
school districts, municipalities, coun
ties and states to the limit, placed
mortgages on every conceivable thing,
from a Ford to a church edifice; built
new courthouses and jails, schoolhous-
es in every district, constructed paved
highways, bought limousines and em
ployed speed cops.
i.
ity for the tale.
Early in the morning he joined the
crowd on the depot lot, bought a plug
horse, saddle and all at a nominal
price. Before he could get into the
game of trading, he was called to the
courthouse for jury duty. The animal
was hitched to a post, and to the post
was nailed a little box on which this
banter was scrawled: “If you like
The books of the County Treasurer
will be open for the collection of Tax
es for the fiscal year, 1926, jst dm
Treasurer's office from October 16th
to December 91, 1926. After Decem
ber 81 bne per cent will be qdded.
After January 81, two per cent will
be added, and after Feb. 28th, seven
per cent will be added until the 16th
day of March, 1927, when the books
will be closed. "
All persons owning property in
more than one township are requested
to csH for receipts in each of the sev-
eral townships In which the property
is located. This is important, as ad
ditional cost and penalty may be at
tached. . '
All able-badied male citizens be
tween the ages 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 dut^. All able-
bodied men between the *qges 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 31,
1927.
Proper attention will be given thoee
who wish to pay their taxes through
the mail by check, money order, etc.
The tax levy is as follows:
State Tax — — — 5^4 mills
Ordinary County Tax — 5^4 mills
Road and Bridge — 6% mills
Railroad Bond — — 1 mill
Jail Bonds 14 mill
Bonds - 10% mills
Indebtedness — — 2 mills
SUtewide School (6-0-1) 4 mills
Weak and High Schools 14 mill
Constitutional School 3 mills
Salesday in December in ye olden my horse better than yours by the dif-
days, as stated, was the premier fes
tive day as it was, also in large meas
ure, settling time—the squaring of ac
counts, paying taxes and trading
for another year. The crops had been
harvested, bog-killing time was on in
full flower and the grain crop had
been sown—the close of the year was
approaching and a big Christmas was
at hand. There were no marri-
and automobile licenses to buy;
no tax executions, no duns in the mail,
ference of a dollar, you’ve traded
And the “silent swapper” did a land
office business, for when the owner
returned to the yard late in the after
noon he found the same horse at the
rack and 40 silver dollars in the im
provised depository, showing that two.
score exchanges had been made and
that the last owner of the popular
Total .... 38 mills
Laurens School Districts
No. 1 — 1614 mills'
No. 2 16 mills
No. 3 1614 mills
No. 4 7 mills
No^ 5 8 mills
No. 6 6 mills
No. 7 .... * :... 8 mills
No. 11 -.. — 22 mills
No. 12 11% mills
Youngs School Districts
No. 2 ... 8 mills
No. ^ 16 mills
No. 5 17 m>Us
No. 6 10% mills
No, 7 17% mills
No. 8 15 mills
No. 10 .... 22% mills
No. 3B 24 mills
Dials School Districts
No. 1 8 mills
No. 2 .... 12% mills
plug probably decided he wanted a
safer saddler on which to take his
jag home in the night.
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CHRISTMAS GIFTS
THAT COUNT MOST
Tfck EXRY came home from U'vrn the
day 'before Christina* and
handed Mrs. White a putkage.
saying with a grin:
“Grandma Cook sent you a Christ
mas present.”
“Why. bless her dear old heart,”
lira White cried, “what in the worM
is «tr
•Well." answered Henry, “she said
she had made some soap, and that
the batch turned out so well she wast
ed you to have some; she said It made
a flue suds, and that she wished you a
Murry Christmas."
And sure enough, when Mrs. White
unwrapped the clumsily tied package,
a brick' of home-made yel-
soap, smelling strongly of snssa
gaudy red and green paper, put on
with many ■ glaring stitch and smear
of gtoe. It contained several piece? No. 1
No. 3 ,... .... 12 mills
No. 5 20 mills
No. L-3 16% mills
No. 8 — 12 mills
No. SB 484 mills
Sullivan School Districts
18 mill*
of hard, striped candy, a home-muie
yarn ball, some broken nut meats, la
borloualy picked out with paOeut little
fingers, and a broken blade d jackknife,
doubtless his most cherished posses
sion.—Frank Heritert Sweet
UEk 192t. Wrrt< r» Newspaper Datoa.)
friend of the family who was
it was Inclined to take the mat-
ter a* a joke.
•What a funny thing,” she laughed.
“1 didn't suppose anyone nwtde soap
at hoebe. nowadays."
But the blur of aromatic cleanser
meant more te Mrs. White than a
mere piece of soap. It stood fOr
friendship. It was a symbol of serv
ice gladly given. Grandma Cook’s
nap was a real gift, something she
thought was extra nice and therefore
ited to share with one she liked.
Oh. when will we get away from the
gifts must represent money, tfiri
we caunot give unless we have rh*
wherewith to purchase the glittering
wares displayed in the window and
aa the counter, during the holiday sea-
ara? Last Christmas a friend hap
te look out of a window and
a neighbor’s little boy comint
In the gate: hi* secretive air and care
fh! tiptoeing op the walk made the
friend step behind a curtain, where he
cocld see without b^ng seen. Cau
tiously the boy crept upon the porch
■ad, hts little face breaking into
deposited a newspaper
bundle at the door, then still
be hurried down the walk
and oat cf the gate.
Waiting aatH he was out af sight,
so as uot to spoil the “surprise,” my
flrirad opened the doer and,
the parcel, ftrautf a
af cardboard and covered with ,
NATURE’S GIFTS
N ATURE, Is busy at Christ
mas time getting ready her
presents. Sometimes she Is de
layed a little, again she is ahead
of time, but invariably she be
stows exquisite gifts upon peo
ple.
There are the trees and the
fields, bare, bleak and ugly after
the radiance of autumn has left
them. Nature garbs them for
Christmas as part of her lavish
gift* to human kind.
The trees ore covered with
«now, and - icicles of crystal
beauty ornament led :es. eaves
and,r»*ek*. Sometimes the trees
are glittering with nature's ar
tistic blending of snow and rain
and ice so that they gleam as
»jj jewels upon the winter scene.
Fields are <*overed with snow
which rests softly and kindly
ujmn their great, brown surfaces
and many colors dance In spar
kling reflection between the
sun’s n>ys and the white snow.
Nature wishes us a Merry
Christmas In so lovely a way!—
Mary Graham Bonner.
ft 1924. WcMtera Srwrpuv+r Union.)
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No. 2 8 mills
No. 3 20 mills
No. 7 16 mills
No. 8 .... 12 mills
No. 17 16 mills
Railroad Tax 3 mills
Waterloo School Districts
No. 1 12 mills
No. 2 .... 9 mills
No. 3 20 mills
No. 4 — 14 mills
No. 5 8 mills
No. 6 13 mills
No. 7 16 mills
No. 14 8 mills
Cross Hill School Districts
' No. 13 21% njlls
I No. 16 — 16 mills
Hunter School Districts
6 mills
8 mills
22 mills
No. 3 ....
No. 4 ....
No. 5
No. 6 ....
iNo. 7 ....
' No. K-9
No. R-42
No. 16 ...
Jacks School Districts
4 mills
5 mills
8 mills
13 mills
16 mills
No. 1 ....
4 mills
No. 2 ....
11 mills
No. 3:...
No. 4 ....
•••• - - a— «••• - -- — Buk
No. ff
8 mills
No. 7 ....
No. 15 ...
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Wrap Gifts Attractively
A great deal of the charm of a
ChrisFnms gift Is In the way It I*
wrapped up, and this year there an
any number of new and attipcflvi
boxes, palters and ribbons. Quite th«
most unusual way of giving silk stock
tags Is to enclose three pairs of cbif
for hose In a box of !g?qoer in a shadt
of Chinese red^ eld gold or black
The* am Bed. with- hsight^oiored ot
gold cord and the elfrct is delightful
Scuffletown School Districts
No. 1 .... — 8 mills
No. 2 8 mills
No. 3 3 mills
No. 4 .... — 4 mills
No. 10 i - 22% mills
No. 12 11% mills
Persons sending in lists of names
to be taken off are requested to send
them early and give the township of
each, as the Treasurer is very busy
’."j C*""'*
during the month of December. .
ROSS D. YOUNG,
County
Expert phonograph re
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Gifts long remembered
Think! wm the gifts
you give
soon be gone
and forgotten?
If they are beautiful Hotpoint gifts, they
will be reminders of the giver every day
through long years cf usefulness
S OME gifts you might give loved
ones at Christmas would last
several happy days. Some would
become old, or worn out and for*,
gotten, in a few months.
But Hotpoint gifts are permanent.
When they are treasured heirlooms
they will still be beautiful and
useful.
Yet Hotpoint gifts may be quite
economical. There are suitable Hot*
point girts for as little as $2.95 —
or as much as $455.00. Each is an
unequaled value at its price and of
a quality famous for over a genera
tion. Each will be a token of your
affection not alone on Christmas
day, but every day for long years of
enduring beauty and usefulness.
A few popular Hotpoint gifts are
bhown below. Wc have many others
on display. Come in early while our
stock is complete.
Parrott-Electric
Phone 33$
rkthomt
GIFTS
$1050to 836^0
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