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jga * "FS - , -J f , T .. ?■ PAGE EIGHT COUNTY TREASURER’S NOTICE 1926 THE CLINTON CHRONIC*-K CLINTON, 8. C. Bj Arthur The books of the County Treasurer will be open for the collection of Tax es for the fiscal year, 1926, at the Treasurer’s office from October 15th to December 31, 1926. After Decem ber 31 one per cent will be added. After January 31, two per cent will be added, and after Feb. 28th, seven per cent will be added until the 15th day of March, 1927, when the books will be closed. All persons owning: property in more than one township are requested to call 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. I AH able-badied male citizens be tween the ages of twenty-one (21) and fifty-five (55) years of age are liable to pay a poll tax of 31.00, except old soldiers, who are exempt at fifty (50) years of age. Commutation Road Tax $1.50 in lieu of road duty. All able- really a prosperous country we bodied men between the ages of 21: ii ve j n> an< i the prosperity has only and 55 are liable to road duty except commenced. The Chronicle does not necessarily endorse or commend all of Mr. Bris bane’s views and conclusions. His ed itorials are publisher as expressions of opinions of the world’s highest sal aried editor. PRESIDENT SEES GOOD PROSPECTS GOOD NEWS CAN ALS, CROPS. PROSPERITY. WE ARE HOMOGENOUS ALL ALIKE I cumaienceu. Arthur Reynolds, able those in military service, school trus-J Chicago banker, says our prosperity tees, school teachers, ministers, and) w jji i ast through 1927. It will also depression resulting from low cotton Coolidge Is Confident Nation Faces Another Twelve Months of Un broken Prosperity. By Robert Fuller Special to The Chronicle. President Coolidge believes 1927 will be a banner year and that busi ness of the country is fundamentally sound. His information, coming from gov ernment sources, leads him to see con tinued prosperity durnig the coming year. All the signs, as he reads them, are favorable. Among the things leading him to this viewpoint are the increase in em ployment recently reported in New York, Pennsylvania and some of the I industrial states, the plentiful supply of capital for manufacturing enter prises and the low surplus of manufac tured articles. At present prosperity exists in all parts of the country except the wheat(f and cotton sections, the President finds, and he believes the South will be able to emerge from the present students. Dog Tax $1.25, which must be paid not later than January 31, 1927. Proper attention wiU be given those who wish to pay their taxes through the mail by check, money order, etc. The tax levy is as follows: State Tax ..i. .... 5% mills ^Ordinary County Tax 5V4 mills Road and Bridge ., 5% mills Railroad Bond 1 mill Jail Bonds L. V4 mill Road Bonds 10^4 mills Past Indebtedness 2 mills Statewide School (6-0-1) 4 mills Weak and High Schools Vs mill Constitutional School 3 mills Total - ..... 38 mills Laurens School Districts I No. 1 16% mills No. 2 .: 16 mills No. 3 16% mills No. 4 v 7 mills 5 «•»•• »mmm •••• d uirIIb No. 6 6 mills No. 7 8 mills No. 11 .... 22 mills No. 12 11% mills last through 1927 and beyond, if we | pnces. give it a chance, reaUy, work and do i Work in general is plentiful, the not cheat each other too much. President understands, and the peo ple are receiving high wages which are being spent generously so that Revised government reports on , . . . . . crops put corn for this year at 2,645,- Paction 13 being stimulated. 000,000 bushels, wheat at 832,305,000 bushels—and 40,000,000 bushels of rye, 41,000,000 bushesl of rice, 18,618,- 000 bales of cotton, 33,900,000 boxes of oranges, etc., and you have a slight idea of what prosperity means. Railroads are in good condition, he thinks, and contracts for new equip ment next year will aid business. Manufacturing, the President is in formed, is producing at far better than the average rate. But the President recalls that dire And unlike oil, those crops are not Predictions of business depression exhausted, but go on forever, increas- ma ^ e by some at the beginning of mg. Land in France planted to wheat for centuries produces more bushels per acre now than it did 200 years ago. The pity is that when farmers have big crops they get small prices. Com bination sales and voting could help that, but farmers do not yet know how. ■ -- Youngs School Districts No. 2 ™ 8 mills No. 4 16 mills No. 5 .... — 17 mills No. 6 10% mills No. 7 r .. 17% mills No. 8 1 16 mills No. If — .... 22% mills No. 3B .... 24 mills Dials School Districts No. 1 8 mills No. 2 12% mills No. 3 12 mills No. 5 20 mills No. L-3 16% mills No. 8 12 mills No. SB .... 24 mills Sullivan School Districts No. 1 18 mills No. 2 —. 8 mills No. 3 .... 20 miUs No. 7 16 mills No. 8.... 12 mills No. 17 .... 16 miUs Railroad Tax Waterloo School Districts ' Other good news for all Americans is this: “The lake cities will be con nected with the Mississippi, the Gulf and all ports of the world by navigable waterways through legislation that should pass this winter. And a canal from the lakes to the Atlantic also seems probable if an agreement can be made with Canada for joint use of ithe St. Lawrence. 1926 were never realized and points to this as proof that predictions do not always materialize. But the signs, as he sees them, point to continued good business in 1927. FIRST ACCOUNTING OF DUKE’S ESTATE Petition Filed In New Jersey Court. Legacies and Taxes Paid. Estate Amounted To $89,704459. Somerville, N. J., Jan. 4.—A peti tion for the first accounting of the estate of James B. Duke, tobacco mag nate, who died October 10, 1925, filed in surrogate court here today, disclos ed the estate amounted to $89,704,359 at the time of his death. The right plan would be an all- The executors, Manaline M. Duke, American waterway from the lakes bis widow; George G. Allen and Wil- through New York State, and that will bam R. Perkins, have paid out in come. But it would cost five or six trusts and legacies $26, 295,369 and I 1 0 1 a a a a a a a a a i hundred millions more than the low cost of the St. Lawrence canal, which probably will come first. Farmers are deeply interested in these canal projects, for which Secre tary Hoover deserves greatest praise. He Is a. worker. The canals will cut an average of twelve cents from the in other expenditures $9,947,710. The expenses included $6,560,081 paid to the federal government and $2,581,366 to the state government in inheritance taxes. The total of expenditures and legacies reduced the estate to $53,451,- 776. The will left $7,000,000 to a trust freight on export wheat and add fund for Duke university in North twelve cents to the farmers’ price. Carolina, formerly Trinity college. A year before his death, Mr. Duke es- Hamessing the Colorado river seems tablished a trust fund of $46,000,000 not far away, thanks to a number of f° r educational, charitable and reli- 3 mills e*™* 8 * men, including Senator Hiram K* ous purposes. Johnson, Secretaries Work and Hoover No.' 1 — .. No. 2 .... No. 3 ... No. 4 No. 5 ! No. 6 Jr. No. 7 .„. No. 14 . . C 12 miUs , 9 mills 20 mills 14 mills — 8 mills — 13 mills ..., # .... 16 mills ... .... .... .... .... .... '8 mills Hill School Districts .... 21% lu’Tls 16 mills School Districts 6 mills 8 mills 22 mills . 4 mills 5 mills 8 mills 13 mills .... ^ 16 miUs Jacks School Districts No. 1 No. 2 X -- No. 3 .... ~. .No. 1$ .... .... .... .... ... '** 'i kin. 14 .... . Hunter Schoo o« 3 - v*** •••• “•« N*4 »>. 5 ... . No. 6 No. 7 .... . No. K-9 .. No. R-42 Nos 18 ... »— - .... .... and others. The remaining difficulty seems to be arranging an agreement between California and Arizona. The dam would be in Arizona, a great part of the power and irrigation would be used in California. The prosperity of one state is reflected in all states. California cannot thrive without ben- efitting Florida and Maine. Arizona, the great state of copper, cotton, citrus climate and the Colora do, will prove itself the state of broth erly conciliation is to use the country’s wealth, "water and power, especially, and thus build up the entire nation. Arizona will not unwisely withhould from develop ment and use that which, at the mo ment she herself cannot use. GreenyiUe Senator Discusses Problems This is written on the writer’s elev enth trip across the continent in four- teen months. The oftener you cross, 4 mills the more uniformity of life and man- 11 mills 16 mills 3 mills 8 mills 3 mills 15 mills if.- : No: 6 No. Scaffletown School Districts No. 1 8 mills N«t2'_.. — - - 8 mills No. I ... ... ... ... 3 mills No. r.'.t ... ... .... 4 mills No. 19>i.. X .., r... — .... 22% mills ' No. 12 x ... 11% mills Persons sending in lists of names to Ar taken off are requested to send early and give the township of as the Treasurer is very busy during the month of December. ROSS D. YOUNG, County Treasurer. (Continued from Page One) the state must be changed. “Let us provide adequately for all the building requirements of our col leges by a bond issue and then grad ually withdraw state support. Why should a state college not be main tained by endowment and tuition just The thing designed j as our denominational schools are ? If the state should cut its college main tenance fund one-tenth in each year beginning- in 1930, I feel certain that the friends of the various institutions would take care of their needs by con tributions and endowments. “Some time ago a very wealthy man in South Carolina told me that should the state adopt such a policy, he would be willing to give a large portion of his estate to one of the state coUeges (which he named) as a permanent en dowment. There are no doubt many wealthy men of the state who would do likewise. “The same amount of effort ners in America amazes you. The young man in semi-balloon trousers, left in New York, you find again in Chicago, Kansas City, Tope ka, Gallup, Albuquerque, Barstow and tens of thousands of him in Los An- forth by the friends of the various geles. Travel a short distance from the shores of Brittany lo i th$ r mountains of Auvergne, in France, and you find language and clothes changed com-Heve us pletely, also interests, habits and man- den.” ners. Here, from Miami to Portland, we all know the same baseball and foot ball scores, see the same moving pic tures, wear the same clothes, get about the same wages. state institutions in securing endow ments, as is exerted by them in get ting appropriations from the legisla ture, would produce more tasting re sults and at the same time would re- of a considerable tax bur- MASONS NAME Christinas Music To Be Repeated NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS The regular annual meeting of Stoctholden of the Commercial Bank of Clinton, S. C-, will be held Tuesday, tilth, 1927, at 4:30 o’clock p. In the office of the bank, to elect for ensuing year, and to inch other business as may before the meeting. H. D. HENRY, President. In response to numerous requests, the choir of the First Presbyterian church, directed by Mrs: J. F. Jacobs, 1927 OFFICERS Jr., will repeat on next Sunday some of the most beautiful selections of the Christmas contata rendered two weeks ago. The special music* will be an added feature of the evening service to which the public is cordially invited. Ralph R.i Blakely Heads Lodge As Worshipful Master and Other Officers Are Named. Campbell Lodge No. 44, A. F. M., has recently elected and installed the following officers for the year 1927: Ralph R. Blakely, W. M. C. F. Wirm. S. W. J. F. Whitmire, J. W. F. M. Boland, Treas. V. P. Adair, Secretary. O. T. La wing, S. D. S. A. Pitts, J. D. M. W. Adams, R. P. Chapman, Stew ards. i • R. P. Adair, TyWr. L. R. Stone, Acting Tyler. NOTICE TO STOCKHOLpERS The annual meeting of the stock holders of the First National Bank of Clinton, S. C^ will be held in the Di rectors’ room of the Bank at CHnton, S. 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