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/ THURSDAY. JULY 20. 1932 THJB CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON, S. C. PAGE SEVEN } ' ... i Here’s How 4.2-Cent Processing Tax On Cotton Was Agreed Upon pupils, District No.~ Route No.-^. 4. Bids shall be opened in the of fice of *the County Superintendent of j Education, August 8, at two o’clock I in the afternoon. ^re- j The bids shall be opened and awards made by the County Hoard of cents ffject any and all bids and to readver- ti.se for new or additional bids. G. All contracts for transportation ■w* FINAL INSTALL.MENT —“Roxi- knew you better than T did," Neil saiJ .'lowly, “I guess that’s a set back for me,,all right ... I was so i Washington, July 15.—Here is howjw^s lOIl per cent of that in the Ahe farm administrators arrived at the! !manufacturing tax of 4.2 cents peri Thereupon, the figure 12.1 wa.<* in-'Education who shall have the right to ' j * creased three ner cent to 12 pound on cotton, announced today as ^ pound effective August 1. i difference between 8.7 and 12.77 The bureau of agricultural ec*onom-i equals 4.7. However, the 8.7 rent.s fig-i shall be awarded to the lowest respon- |ics reported that from May 15 to June.uro was based on cotton in the form ■'*^>16 bidder. j 15 the average farm price of cotton—.of bales. j\s a result, admini.strators| 7. Tbi.s notice'.shall not apply to j normally about a jrent below the mar-! determined that an allowance of .23, district.^ owping their own school ' ket price was 8.7 cents a pound and;cen{s a'pound should be made for the busses. ,that the pre-war, 190*3-1914, average j wrapping and wire of a bale and thatl Following list of bus.ses for farm price was 12.4 cents a pound. each pound of cotton in a bale would wh’ch bids may be received and any . , - . . , .... D 1 4. *• The farm act authorizes that a max- he reduced that amount by presence a all other routes de.signated by the .'ocond blow-the time you were] Ain.sworth - Roljert .\insworth! J i„,um tax on a farm commodity be the i of the covering. They added this to'County Board of Education: thrown from f ire Queen—as a sort oi j Joyce suddenly had an idea. Noil, j difference bt'tween the current think the medicos might explain that]what about this .\insworth?" mental snapping, due to the pitch i she said, “I think I see now ronc^ ot'iween me current aver- whatRob-,pge farm price and the “fair ex- bowled over by what you told me that you’d worked yourself up to.” !<?>t -Ainsworth felt that day! I think change" or “parity" price based on the day with that^in.sworth fellow that I Frills’ diary filled in most of the he must have fek ashamed of his part pre-war average. didn’t know what to believe. I beganjgtfps in the story that Neil had gra^'-jin the whole affair—1 think he must By a fair exchange or parity price to think I just imagined I’d been mar-• ually pieced out that day foi Joyce, have seen it all. have realized what a is meant a price, which, reckoned in rled at alii" .iFrom the scattered notes she learned splendid V'erson^you were, and have (connection with the cost of living to Jurt thtin Joyce .saw Ro.xie movingFrills had been conscious of hor|felt that he simply tWdn’A run off |fanuer.s, will give them the same pur- capabTy about the dining room, running to her, she flung her arms impul.'iveiy about the older woman. "Rcxu*. you darling!’’ she cried. me how wonderful you’ve and^^®^^ of memory, hut filled witl; the conviction that all at-once, some day lOid •it would-come to her Uvhere she came from- ‘of life. ‘ “Some with your w;fe!” . j chasing power for a j>ound of cotton Neil looked at her .sideways. “Sounds , sold today that it had in pre-war days. whom sne Was, like the bunk to me. What on earth -her whoL* place mmkes you think that?" Hurricane No. 15, Hurricane Route No. 1, Hurricane to Clinton. Mountville No. 16. Mountville Route No. 1. Li.sbon to Mounrtville. Route No. 2, Old Mountville to 4.07, giving them the figure 4.2"cents, which is the rate of fhe tax. This rate can be raised or lowered as the factors entering the computa tion change. Secretary Wallace, how ever, has expre.ssed the hope that the, Mountville. changes will be infrequent. The farm' Route Na 3. Rock to Mduntville. act protides that in the event it isr Sullivan No. 17, Hickory Tavern found the tax is tending to reduce con-i Route No. ^ 1, Merna to Hicko sumption of cotton, an investigation , deep instinct.” the diary said, “kepi me from telling anyone. I “Sa:r. been—’’ c- Ro:v ' beamed and i.ushed with ^ •*. . * ... , , ... . felt that I must discover it. must work pleasure. I didn t do nothing! she i.. . - „ J r n 44D 4 -44 , it out, for myself, said confu.'edly. But, my. its good) . j ..u i . ' 4 . ^ , u 1 1 J . . And then later, came an entry that to hav.* vou back, Mrs. Packard, we ve, , , . • . , . J I « J 1 1 made a very deep impression on >>yce. “I know I did wrong to marry Neil Packard without tilling h-im. He’s too never ,1. saw “Well, you see, kNtdl, 1 ^ him after that day in the woods, and i you lemcmber he Inhaved so queerly,| by his silence!" Joyce The bureau held that the cost of'and hearing can be conducted and that farm living from May 15 to June 15jafterwards the tax can he reduced. Tavern. ' Laurens No. 6. Oak drove Ronte No. 1, Oak Grove to I.auren.s. Youngs 5 and 7, Grays and Youngs Route No. 1, Gray.s and Youngs to Gray Gourt-Owings. 3 Dials No. 5. Gray C’ourt-Owings Neil, certain'y mi.ssed you! .And now do come 4n4o^4inner if yott and Mr. Neil are ready.’^_ —- . “Where’s^Dickie?" she a.sked when -hey were seated. “I seen him since I got back!" “Oh. that’s right—I must send for him. H you left Moped about me house so dismallv that we thought he was go ing t>> cash in, p6or chap. I couldn’t do anyrh.ng with him. He kept look-i good a man to.,be treated meanly, haven’t ^ couldn’t tell it! I couldn’t 1 tell him. .And I had to marry him—not • again in a lifetime am I likely’to meet emotion 'that-^^*ged over her at the memory, but she went quickly on. “I’d always'felt so sure that he was Route No. 1, F'riendship to Gray THE TODD REl’NION |who were present are: . The annual Todd reunion was held' Hadden Todd of Woodruff, rejectmK ^ ..by h.s M yrKo' < >>>'«: „n the fourth of Julv. «, L, yjstomarv. I M''- John C. Todd and. .Mrs. U‘. A. had to svyallowTlard to keep back the ,„t the ol.l Uncle Jt«. T,«ld home jdace '*0ole. in the Long Branch community. Those who still survive, but were! More than one hundred cousins of not present, are: .Mrs. Roln'rt Taylor ,, „ ... . an i^xalted being, someliody finer than j e!^joy rh^melo^iTaVlr""' ioutrNo. 3r‘'Yeargin’s the-rest ^f the worki. and for him to ■* r - T ' '( into just a cad seemed all 1 sisters and brothers of ''f "‘Sh for all these happiness,' , \— i rourt-Owings, • Route No. 2. Riddles Old Field to turn into—into just „ —.. - , ..e,v.vv. ^ wrong. I’d rather he able to think of ^^*'- Joseph Todd (“Uncle Joe") )iave |prosperity and many yiore reunions i (-^urt-Owings to Gray ourt-Owings. Route No. 4. New Harmony to Gray him 'vithout bitterness—and I do feel :P^*‘'‘'’od to- the- ht'yond many’ years been living with aSam since i® surely pos.sessing that which ,,ure I’m right, that he simply couldn’t , lienee, hut the cousins with their host j the'house SO'^ depeniied. In this crazy .world bring himself to take your wife | of family connections still enjoy as-‘ it’s something to know that loyalty away ..." j.semblipg together, as we did on thatj of that sort can be secured!" j Meil smiled. ".All right with me, ‘^“y*^od enjoying gossiping, laughing, j As the diary went on, the entries' darlii g; think anything you please, ps | *i'Osic, checkers, horseshoe throwing. as hrretofore. By One Present. NOTIUE ing what I’d a‘ !M* reproachfully, as if asking done with you. It gave the creep.'." “Funny little Dickie!" said Joyce. —Gonvef'ation lagged. Joyce did not walit to ask any questions covering khe time of her absence, thinking she* turn Neil’.s thoughts toward his mother, and cause him pain. She like wise ahou ing i.;ae: it now was ie.suming the7inreal»iy of a had dream, ami she" had n.> wi'h to revive the memories by talking ulfout it. So she ate silently. .Al! a* 'lice she was aware that Neil was nt'e-iiding her tlioughifully, with a hronl.pg stare unlike the niatter- .e‘r' " 'he reniemhered in him. *"Anyj| ug wrong, Neil*’” she a-kcf you don’t think of him too t-he bountiful dinner! Transportation of Pujiils which was spread on a table under the \became more and more excited. “I’m long as Ideating Neil!" Frills crie<l. He’s got, much!" !a right to a wife who’s more than just* Joyce regarded him tenderly. “Neil,”j ..... ^ a uiHt existing for the time being! I’ve j she said softly, “May 1 make a con-1 Many remarked that the past event was the very best in history, regard- stately oak trees on the lawn. Bids for the transportation of } ybo-ds ; Route No. 5, Dials to Gray Court j Owings. I Sullivan Route No. I Shoals. Sullivan No. 7, Brewerton Route No. 1, Brewerton to Ware No. 2. 1. Mt. Mt. Bethel Bethel to Ware ichildi-en of all school distrk-ts of Lau- jid not want to tell him anything, her life inL .San., Francisco dur ae: v>* nervoa-s! ♦ •V*. w’oni*' eajvi, was .just thinking huw .. it wa. to have vou back." “(di, .Nei!,< you mus^tn’4, say-Uung-'j) like th it to me! I know it’s «)nlv youn; sweet uess- and slie ^eft kin(*n**< , your natural Joyce’'* V .(V choked up the lal ; . Neil follo\Vod-ht*r into'fhe living VO,MU. “W'ed. w'e won’t go into that just now, Fnil'. if it bores you.” Joyce was al- >'U to remonstrate with him for hi.s mi.'', ntiuction of her words, when he went hastily on, “By the way. I found .'omething that'll probably in terest yo a diary kept by you—by Frills — lieginning about the time of our arrival home in .Manzanita after our marriage.” “Can I .see it, Neil?” “Sure, PI! get it, just a minute.” And he w ent rather wearily out of the ro'.in. Joyce was worried at the change in Neil. H ' 'Cemed to have lost all his enthu-'ii'iu. all his spirit. “I hope he’s not r 1 V ill,” she thought mi.serably. “Of c ) rse his mother’s death was an County who do not own their school 'busses are called for in accord less of the depression, which is grad- with an .Act passed by the (len- uatly being lifted. All of us realiz'ed jAs.semhty of I93t). To Authorize ‘this fact, consequently there was no Regulate Di.sbursement of Fund.^ need of feeling that such had ever Transportation of Pupils to and reunion one i»f our >a.'.-^e»l oyer -lbe been. Since the last fadhlul numhtu;^ rivt^r of life to the givaf lH*y«ind, ('. .\iken Todd. .Another. .Mrs. .Addle Todd, wile <>f P. Hadden Tnrld. pas.>sed away just a short w'hile following the last year’s reunion, .'^he was always faithful, with a cheerful '^mile for toeryoni*. .MI 'of Uncle loe Toiid*' su"viving children were present as follows: Mrs. George Cunningh.nm. .Mrs. \Ve.''.s"'+)oniian. .Mrs. Rol*«*rt Donnan of Greenville, and Mr. Reid 'Toild. The reiuaiiider of the fi I Hunter No. 3. Rock Rndge * Route .No. 1. Ri>ck Bridge to Mount ville. ■ J Hunter No. .5; R'oiite .No. 1. Lydia Mill to Clinton. By order of the County Board of from Public Schotds of South Carolina. Education. , , ‘ . I. Each bidder will make two bids.' BROOKS. — (1) ttf pni^ pupit-pm^S 3 ttre-^ - ~ of mile. ^ (2) t)n a basis of total number of children to be tians- . * ported. 2. Each hiilder will sub.nit his bid on till* basis of specificaUohs on fib* and available for insfiection in the of fice of the County .Su|>eriii‘en.lcnt «»f Education. 3. .All bids shall he ajldres.'cd t > the County Superintimdeiit of i'ei.ica- tion marked on outside of '-eah d en- t cousins i vel(»pe “Bids for transportation <*r WHAT no P. S. Jeanes DO? Rent that room by using a Waiit Ad in The Chronicle. ‘ g,*t to get back my memory! F’erhaps •Innk will do it. Bring on cups—I’ll try ’em.” “ . .'b Why do I take so^ much pleas ure in shocking people around here? .Maybe when I get back rtty memory Awfu! blow Her ir. 1 Perhap.s a little time was running along fession to you? CvVx fancietl myself .so wine sujierior to Frills, hat I wasn’t really nearly as—^"as keen, li’.s taken me a terribly long time to fimf out she knew all along . . . Neil, you’re the fine.st person I’ve . ni find 1 was a small-town schooC *** ^ ^ love ! teacher, or somebody who never had The Eml a chance to express herself! Well, Cm J — e.xpressing myself all right these' jdays! All I’ve got to do i^ think of '.something reckle.ss and wild, to iie .seized with an in.sane desire to do it! ;tire en(;ineers tell how to < .MAKE TIKE.S LAST IJJNGER! this 1.. •And then, all at once, “.Arthur Mait- T hate him , 7 Because the heavy summer driving 'season is well under way, careful mo- !toiist.s will he interested in knowing endui*e him around me i I flirt with him like a eomiiion street woman'—yet I love Neil! Why do I do it? Sometimes I feel as if it’s to try Neil’s jiatience, to see how much he really will stand from me. There iim! - W by do I -fjow to make their tires- last longer. T ? God knows!] More powerful motors, providing course '.vhen Neil came back “May 1 look at it vvith you?’’ he JAhd^ujifH, how a.sketl. ‘1 didn’t read much of it Someh'UW it seemed—not quite right I though* I’d put it away and read it with y >i—when you cam?'home.” He spoke '> quietly that Joyce barely caught hi'i 'Aords. _ __ “NeiL’—she said TTiiputstvely. pau.s-; .-'eems to be noifriiit to his affecTibn.s!’’^ ing before she opened the book, “1 »loi “ , f’ve gone almost the limit and feel at home hera!” fit’s done no good! What did 1 think it He -luiied, a sudden .sweet fla.sh would do? God knows! Nei! knows— that,warmed Joyce to the heart, and I can see from hi.s face that he knows gravely they opened the d'ury between there’s been too much to that affair them. (between .Arthur .Maitland and me. If' mih?. according to Goodyear engineers. It was neaily midnight when they he'd only knock me down — a 'blow,! In addition, th^y point out. hot dry laid the IniOk aaide. Fascinateil, they ,they say a blow will bring back one’s j road.s cause tires to wear faster than had read every word of the hold hand- i uieinory. But Neil won’t — he never writing tliat danced over its page.;, will. Pl! have to kill myself first. Per- and. fast-inated, they had suffered haps that horse, that surly brute Fire with ire curiour, lost spirit that had Queen. But I have a charmed life—a cried out her secret feai's in her jour- charmed and a damned one! How nal. I this thing going to end?” “Oh. Neil, it’s so terriWe!”- -criesD— .Apd the dart entry inrthe oho<»k, in Joyce. "I knew Frills had been a bad .spiawling, ’blotted characters: “I’ve iot. but T~neverrthoughtrt>f her as suf (flicker pickup and increase*! speed ^ cause tires to wear »)ut faster on pres ent modern automobiles. .At .59 luiles fM'r'houi', for instance, the rate of' tread .weai^!l.is twice as fast as at 35^ miles per hour. Furthernioi-e the de mand for low, speedy cars has re-, (juired ^manufacturers t*i use wheels with smaller diameters—and. natural, ly, the sniallei the wheel *!iameter, the mor^ times'*'it *nVust fPvotJe to the coo! damn 4-'--'- Engineers of the Gooil>var Tire am! Ruhbei company point out five thi.ng.s to watch to insure getting the full : mileage from tires. ■ Fir.St—Avoid overir.flati*»r, g4tting too much alfih tire'' Xehichihakes'the . _ 41. 4 I u .SOI-. 'Iriving wheel-i bounce and spin on the* been rotten over that baby of Sylvia s., . .. /• * » 1 * • • fering .sofnehow—, never thoffght of Of course Neil wants it brought on! her a.' doing al! these things deliber- here. But a child—w hy should I wreck M eriin„ enoug aii ately, in a sort of crazy effort to get a poor child’.s life as I’m wrecking . *^*^*f^ is causes su bftck her identity—to remember!” Neil’s? It’s better off where it i.s—' n w a . “Yes,” said Neil, “I don’t know i*,„ ^ lo.st .soul now.” I much about these things, but I should “Neil,” .saTd Joyce at last, “Neil, A TENSE STORY OF THE WEST. . .. By now .ill trace.s of man-made (hint's had vanished. ... On either side the desert lay—a sky-bound ocean of jjray-grreen and weathered brown. . . . The air, thin, unbelievably clear, wiis a thing of blinding; liti:ht and quiverinti: heat a parched thing which drew moisture from the lips. . . . Barbed wire cannot fence off the desperate drama which still stalks our western plains . . . as you will agree after reading; of this struggle for home and place. It is a story masterfully told in “Whi.spering Rock.” Renew Your Health By Purification Any physician will tell you thnt “Perfect Purification of the Systerj ig Nature’! Foundation of Perfect Health.” Why not rid youreelf of chronic, ailments that are mnde^. mining rour vitality? Purify yow entire system by taking a tkoro^ Course of Calotabs,—once or twice a week for several weeks—and see how Nature ^rewards you with health. ., , . Calotabs purify the blood by act^ eating the liver, kidneys, stomneh aad bowels. In 10 cts. and 35 eta All (AdVe) Second—Have rar w'hetl.s chetke^ at, least twice each year for misalign-: ment and other mechanical irregulari- Joesn t It help to know that Fnlks didj^. u 4 ..01. j j I » tie.s, .‘'O tn-e.s rule the road proiH^ny. cai-e about you? She did love you. * Neil did not reply to her question,! I and Joyce saw that he was trembling like a leaf. “Do you think — do you think, Joyce, that things might come out as mother hoped they would? Do you think you could feel that this was home? I shan’t bother you much my- selft but we might bring on I^awton’s child, and do our best with it. between us. ‘Oh, Neil, I feel as Frills said, that Third—Keep brakes in proper ad justment; avoid sudden stops, slow down gradually whenever possible. ' Fourth—Avoid starting the car up' too rapidly and drive al a moderate) rate of speed, around turns. Fifth—When you replace your tires with new ones^ alwaiys put in new tubes, too, because the old ones, worn, stretched and wrinkled, will cause pinching and chafing, resulting in in this crazy world it’s something toi, know‘that loyalty like yours exisU.j . . . Do you want me, now, knowing 1 all this? It’s been a sorry business, 1 and it seems to me you’ve been the leak.s or blqwout.s. NOTICE \ Why not keep your snoney gt home .by giving your .MagaziBe a*d Newa- ■hiiiriiiiroiH 'tir SUBSCRIBE 70 THE CHRONICLE “The Paper Everybody Reads'’ “So \ictim about it,” he said short- Jiy, “I nu'an—I do want you^if, well—j J.AMES \V. CALDWELL Call 38 ar 12:30 P. M. \ STARTING NEXT WEEK — IN Paper Everybody Reads”