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Xo. 2r4ieth<l G^pve 9 mills
No. 3, Ekom .... 20 mills
No. 4, Center Point
No. 5, Oakville
No. 6, Mount Pleasant ....
No. 7, Mt. Plive
No. 14, Waterloo
Cross Hill School Districts
No.* Up.Cross Hill .... 21% mills
Hunter School Districts
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TH E COTTON VVAGONS
'By Edison R. Waite
That business concerns help their
customers, as well as themselves,
when they advertise.
That any man w’ho has a business
andsref-uses to advertise has no busi-
1 ness worth mentioning.
That -some concerns do not adver
tise because they are- incapable of liv :
ing up to the standards demanded by
an advertised'business.
That any worth vvhile^ business
must advertise to keep worth while.
The fall season sets in motion lines an( l the cheapest and best way to ad-
of wagons in which cotton is being vertise is through local newspapers,
carried to the gins. There is such a That in order to get business nowa-
thing. as reading between these lines, days it is necessary to hit the line
jus* as in connection with all forms hard. ADVERTISE!
of activity there are hopes, motives That the trade territory of the av-
and various kinds of history which erage cUy is limited only to the en-
form a background for what we do. terprise of her business men.
Th» re is much more to the wagons That to be a success
men in the Bible whose,, eyes are de
scribed? ?
3. Who is the only woman klepto
maniac (!) mentioned in the Bible?
4. Who are the only women count- No. 3,
ed among the seventy who went down ! No. 4,
into Egypt?
^ 5. 'What woman gave birth to a son
that was red and hairy?
6. Who are the only four women
named in the first 2,013 years of hu
man history? t
7: Where are girls spoken of as
playing in the streets?
What 400 girls were forced to
mar^y young fellows they had never
seen ?
9. What 200 glfls were captured as
brides on a festive occasion?
10. What female god is mentioned
in the Old Testament and which in
the New?
11. What woman, a stranger, stir
red GhYist's compassion by her utter No. 1, Long Branch
desolation ?
12. What pert girl caused an apos
tle to commit a great sin??
13. What woman was the most gen
erous person of her time ? .
14. What woman became lastingly
famous because of a generous gift?
15. What woman seems to have had
no fear of snakes?
14 milU
8 mills 1 ^
13 njjlls
rtT mills
8 mills
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 192
6 mills
in business >
which convev cotton than the turning means a business concern must, be
of tne wheels, the efforts'of the mules, constantly on (he alert. Their goods
the sn'wy Maple and the sunburned must be well bought, well displayed,
faces aid calloused hands of those who fair priced and well advertised,
labor n the fields that this product That the shoppers shop where they
mav add to the comfort and progress can get what they want; they read the
of the world. ads f to find out where and don t lose
The wagons of cotton represent a time,
hazardous venture in which men The careful housewife is always!
measure their strength and ingenuity alert and grasps £very opportunity to
against the weather, the weevil, flue- save- money; long ago she found that
tuation in price, and the productivity she could save by buying advertised
of the soil. The burdens which these S 00 ^?:
wagons carry are made up not only of « ^ '
so' many pounds of seed cotton but also GUM CONSUMPTION
of the often forlorn hopes of those
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS IN
the Issue of nov. 10.
1. Sarah, Genesis 16:21.
2. His sisters, Matthew 13:56.
3. Lot’s daughters, Genesis 19.
4. Deborah, Judges 4.
See Luke 7.
Wadsworth 8 mills
No. 5, Clinton 22 mills
No. 6, Goldville 4 mills
No. 6, Goldville 4 ’mills
No. 7. Belfast .... 5 mills
No. K-9, Kinards .... .... 8 mills
No. R-42, Reederville 13 mills
No. 16, Mountville 16 mills
Jacks School Districts
No. 1, No white school 4 mills
No. 2, Shady Grove ' 11 mills
No. ..3, Renno 16 mills
No. 4, No white school .... 3 mills
No. 6, Odell’s .... .... 8 mills
i No. 7, Garlington 3 mills
No. 15, Hurricane .... t . 16 mills
Scuffletown School Districts
.... .... 8 mills
No. 2, Musgrove 8 mills 1
No. .3, Langston 3 mills
No. 4, Sandy Springs 4 mills
No. 10, Lanford 22% mills i
No. 12, Ora 11% mills
Persons sending in lists of names
to be taken off are requested to send
them early and give the township and
schobl district of each, as the Treas-
| ufrer is very busy during the month
i of December.
ROSS D. YOUNG,
If County Treasurer.
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OPTOMETRISTS
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will be here. W,e can furnish every-
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There’s a certain Certainty that your
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6. Jeroboam’s wife, 1 Kings 14.
who have toiled through rain araUgun-
skine in the' expectation of a profit
when the crop is harvested. The
cargo of such wagons mean to n^any
the promise of food and raiment and
45,009 TONS A YEAR
Annual Output of Distinctly American
Industry Valued at Fifty
Million Dollars.
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Restless jaws — consuming 45,000
have
an American industry with
with which to go on with the economic an annual output valued at $50,000,-
battles of the future. 000.
The wagons which carry cotton are Chewing gum is distinctly Amevi-
7. The little sister in Solomon’s
Song 8.
8. Shallum’s daughters, Nehemiah
3:12.
9. Esther, Esth. 5. .
10. Dinah, Genesis 34.
11. Sarah, Genesis 18,
12. Tamar, Genesis 38.
13. Mother of Jabez, 1 Chron. 4.
14. Rebecca, Genesis 27.
15. Manoah’s wife, Judges 13,
Elizabeth, Luke 1.
16. SeeT!xodus 38:8.
SPECIALISTS
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CI^NTON. S. C.
Laboratory for Prompt Repair Service
and
SEED GRAINS OF
ALL KINDS
ALL PRESCRIPTIONS FILLED
BY LICENSED PHARMACISTS
CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED PROMPTLY
O'
SADLER-OWENS PHARMACY
“At Union Station”
Phones 377 and 400 Phones 377 and 400
other bare necessities of life. It is
the hope of education for their chil- tons of chewing gum yearly-
dren and of some measure of Capital built up an American industry
COUNTY TREASURER’S NOTICE
1927
The books of the County Treasurer
will be open for the collection of y°0*
See us for what you need. W$,
are offering Barley, Rye, Seed
Wheat, Texas, Apeler and 100 to
1 Oats. We invite all farmers to
call and see us and let us serve
Our prices are right and
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a symbol, in many sections, of the last can, like horn rimmed glasses and ice taxes f or t j,e fiscal year, 1927, at the your business will be appreclat
line of defense where the farmer is cream soda. America u’se^s about JS Treasurer’s office from October 15th
making an uncertain stand against the per cent of the total output. t0 December 31, 1927. After Decem-
encroachment of a new era in agri- However, the gum chewing ^ ankee k er Qne p er cen ^ w j|j jj e added. Af- j
culture. W h£n the wagons become soldiers carried the idea to I ranee and j er January 31st, two per cent will be
fewer and their car^o lighter and the England during the war, and since added, and after Peb. 28th, seven per
pathway to gin becomes a less beaten 1918 exports to those two countries cent w jji be a( jded, until the 15th day-
one it is a prophesy of a day when have doubled and tripled. of March, 1928, when the books will 1
diversification :.will enable the ability In spite of aill the British jokes be c i ose d
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Farmers 7 Exchange
T. J. BLALOCK, Prop.
Clinton, S. C.
D. HENRY
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F. M. BOLAND
H. D. Henry & Company
insurance
STOCKS - BONDS - REAL ESTATE
LOANS NEGOTIATED
and energy of the toiler and the qual- against the American habit, approxi-
ities of the soil to banish such forms mately 4,000,000 pounds of .chewing
of financial slavery as now exist- in gum were exported to England last
connection with agriculture. It is the year, the department of commerce re
last stand in many communities of ports. /
tr «ir-.g!e money crop, the failure of France appa/ently did ndt take to
which cannot but bring widespread the habit as readily as the British,
disaster in its train. Present condi- French import ition of American gum
lions are such that the road to the totaled but 141 000 pounds for 1926.
gin leads to a land of promise only American to irists also aided in the
in so far as the road is so rough that spreading of me habit to the remote
it -.vjjl turn us from a hope in one crop comers of the world. Not a nation on
to an “assurance in many. the globe has escaped.
: - ;i - Chosen, formerly Korea, uses 62
pounds yearly; Japan imports 107,000
pounds; Turkey 386 pounds; Barba-
THERF’S TOO MUCH CONCEN
TRATION AT TIMES
Dr. Frank Crane Says— ;doa l0 pounds and even Asiatic Rus
sia uses approximately 35 pounds of
chewing gum a year.
Denmark has adopted the habit to
Sir Oliver Lodge the other day said: j the tuJ)e of an annual consumption
Srence pursues a narrow road * n 0 f 230^00 pounds. What they do with
search of truth, looking neither to the io,000 pounds of chewing gum yearly
r.ght nor the left. Well, it will soon j n A r abi a the land of the- sheik, is
off. The!
ha\ e to take its blinkers
n ads are not the whole universe.; f jg ure ou t
There i* a good deal of ground in be
tween. It looks at present like a jun- . _ -. ,
pie and thicket-uncivilized. Well, we P ort aPTfoximately 31,000 pounds
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. - ' *
All able-bodied male citizens be
tween the ages of twenty-one (21)
and fifty-five (55) years of age are,I
liable to pay a poll tax of $1.00, ex-
cept-trtd soldiers, who are exempt at
fifty (50) years of age. Commutation
Road Tax $1.50 in lieu of road duty.
All able-bodied men between, the ages
of 21 and 55 are liable to road duty;,
except those in military service, school
trustees, school teachers, .ministers, |
and students. Dog Tax $1.25, which
must be paid not later than January I
31, 1928.
Proper attention will be given those
who wish to pay their taxes through
the mail by check, money order, etc., I
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Christmas
more than th^iepactment experts can giving name of township and number
of school district.
The Malay straits settlements im-
will have to civilize. it.”
The fault to which Sir Oliver refers
is not confined to scientists, although
it is' common among them. A man
may look so intently at that thing up
on which his attention is fixed that
he fails to'see important things about
him to which he gives no heed.
Some of the most important things
of life come unexpectedly. Some of
our most vital events are not those to
ward which we labored.
A man should keep his eyes and be
able’ to see things “out of the tail of
his eye.”
The best things that ever happened
to us have not been those things that
year from the United States! Scotland
uses 175,000 pounds, while the Irish
chew but 10,000 pounds every year.
Rumania is content with 75 pounds.
British South Africa Vieeds 28,000
pounds to fill the yearly demands.
When Thomas Adams became fas-
The tax levy is as follows:
State Tax .... 5% mills j|
Ordinary County Tax 5% mills
Road and Bridge 5% mills
Railroad'Bond 1 mill J
Jail Bonds .... .... .... % mill
Road Bonds .... j: :... 11 mills
Past Indebtedness 2 mills.
Statewide School (6-0-1) .... 4 mills
W’eak and High Schools % mill '
3 mills i I
: cinated over a piece of chewing gum
handed him in 1866 by the Mexican, Constitiltipnal School
general Santa Anna he little dreamed
his discovery of chicle and sugar Total .... .... ....' 38 mills j
would eventually set the jaws of the . Laurens School Districts
world to work. No. 1, Trinity Ridge 16% mills!
The chewing gum industry has No. 2, Prospect 16 mills
grown to such an extfcntrth^t the sap- No. 3, Barksdale-Narnie .... 16% mills;
we so arduously searched for, but 1 product of the wild rubber tree in the
things which have, bumped into us un- Dutch Indies, is being used to a great
expectedly. extent as a substitute for chicle.
It is all right to pursue one subject Followers of the habit do not real-
with concentration, but we should not ize how neaf^ they came to being de
concentrate
odilla, or chewing gum tree, is becom- No. 4, Bailey .... .... 7 mills
ing rapidly exhausted. Jelutong, a j No. 5 ( Copeland-Fleming 8 mills
No. 6, Oak Grove .... ! ,.
No. 7, Watst Mills ....
.... 6 mills
8 mills
No. 11, Laurens ... 22 mills
No. 12, Ora 11% mills
Youngs School District
see
entrate so much that we do not prived of chewing gum. Only the fact! ^°' friendship 20 mills
other things. that chicle failed to make good rub- Jj 0 ' t’ Bf tha ny' m ! 8
Many a man has been so busy with ber turned it into the present industry. L 0, £’ p ra ^ S . " ' ..y/ “J!,*
his trade or calling that he has failed Mexico and Central America provide! Vq 7* Youngs 17% mills
Ih/rseWes uponhta" 11163 U “*'* hn “ t : *•* £•»***:•««? ° f . the ! No. 8, Warrior Creek - 15 milla
memseives upon mm. g Um base. The best chicle comes from vr lft r nn f nr j - . 0014
pi^Twith SS 8t that irhas°^e U J Y r UCata ^,r here plantation8 ! No’. 3B, Fountain Inn' "..""... 24 mills
pied with his faith that he has taken G f sa podilla trees have been developed r»i«la «rhnni nutrirta
m none of the indubitable facts that by African planters. Last year ap- ^ Sch0O, D,StnCU
surround him.
proximately 10,000 pounds of crude
So, also, some scientists pursue their chicle were imported from Mexico. !
No. 1, Greenpond 8 mills
No. 2, Eden 12% mills!
,S“ t . hey **«• to . TI Britoh Honduras'" prevideV 2£JMKW j % Grey Coortowm*. Il 20 mills
pounds and Guatemala 1,000,000 No Barksdale-Narnie.16% mills
pounds.
Today the American chewing gum
industry is carried, on in 41 plants with
2,180 employees.
the spiritual realities that occur about
them.
A concentrated mind is a good
gibing, but it shinild also be an alert
mwUKMVe should press forward to
ward the goal in view, but we should
be ready to jump at prizes that lie by
the roadside. /
There is jsuch a thing as too much
concentration.
Men centering all their attentions
upon the pursuit of i ealth do no‘t see
What Do
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Do?
No. .8, Merna *. 12 mills’
No. 3-B, Fountain Inn 24 mills i|
Sullivan School Districts
No. 1, Princeton 18 mills
No. 2, Mt. Bethel 8 mills j
No. 3, Po]jlar Springs 20 mills;
No. 7, Brewertdn 16 mills
No. 17, Hickory Tavern ......... 16'mills
ilroad Tax .... •.... 3 mills,
Waterloo School Districts ,
o. 1, Mt. Gftllagher 12 mills!!
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