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pJk€B EIGHT \ If NojncE Of sale . We will sel^ jki publie auction on sales day in November, 1934 (the same beinip the 5th day of November, 19S4) in fnmt of the courthouse door in 0*e city of Laurens, County of Lau- xsns,*S(ate of South -Carolina, during the legal hours of sale, on the terms specified below, the following, describ-. ed real estate to jrit: “All that tract' of land situate in I^urens County in said State, containing sixty acres, more or l<t;ss, and known as a part of the Mrs.- Charles A. Pulley place, " bounded on the north by landfe of J. W. Donnan, on th^e easti by ^ lands of T. P. l^ol, on the south ^ by lands of Geo^e F. Pulley, aUd^ THE CUNTOW CHBOJOCLE. CLPITOW. 8. C. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 2S, 1984 tudei^ Heaf James Hardvdck College T.' M. C. Arranges Spei^ial Meetings. ’Topira of Interest To Students. TAXES^Time To^ Halt I don’t know of any community, county , or state ip whic^ taxes have not gone up in the past two dr~th|;^ yea^s. Certainly there is none] in which taxes are not materially on the west-by lands of Mrs. An<- , higher than they were ten years ago. nre Davis and Mrs. Mag Little.” j I’ve .just got my tax, bills for 1934, Tei^ns of sale: Cash. Purchaser to anr perhaps I’m unduly cbnserned; pay for stamps, papers and recording j hut I can t help Coming back to the J.^NIE DONNAN,* [belief I have lonj?" cherished, that CORRIE BELL DONN.\N, ;so9ner or later we’ve got.to abandon As Executrices of the Est^.e ot\0^ tax on capital and fjnd other J. W. Donnan, Deceased. jsnd more equitable .ways df raising Dated October 12, 1934.—l l.l-3tco/ : :uoney with which to run'our vari- . i__ pus governments. The real estate property tax is a Ml James Hardwick,-'One of the most inspiring speakers to .visit, the P. C. campus in recent jyears, held a series of meetings in and'^round P. C. which, from all reports, seem to have been very-successful Mr. Hard wick arrived on the 14^ and was kept Demon Deacdi^ Down iiosemen Wake Forest - Defeats Presbyte rian By One Touchdown In ' Home-Coming Game. ^ The Presbyterian College Blue Hose lost to a powerful Wake Forest team that was doped to beat them, by a tre mendous score, 14 to 6, Safurday at Wake Forest. - • It wis a game Blue Hose leam that held the, Demon Deacons, conquerors . . .. ihf N. C. State, to a one-touchdown rushed until he left on the 17th. Aside Outweigh^ plenty, the Blue from his group work .fthe visitiPg fought unrelentingly but the superior COUNTRY TREASURER’S NOTICE p.,.. The books of the County Treasurer i jg^g anywhere else in the world, so • will be open for the collection of taxes,far as I_^ informed. It was ad- for the fiscal year, 1934, at the Treas- j opted in^^^erica in the urer’s office from October 15th to De cember 31, 1934. After December 31 one per cent will be added. After Jan uary 31st, two per cent will be added, and after February 29th, seven per cent will be added until the 15th day of March, .1935, when ^Ke books will be closed.:. ‘ All' persons owning property in more than one school district are re quested to call for receipts in each of the several school districts in which the property is located. This is impor tant, as additional cost and‘penalty may be attached. * ~A11 able-bodied male citizens be tween the ages of twenty-one (21) and sixty (60) .years of age are liable pione^ days when there wasn’t anything else, much, to tax exceptJand. I l>ke the English system much betteh^ There property is taxed on the basis of what it earn^—^the income tax carried down' to the income of everbody who owns a piece of . property that i.s rented. Of course, th^re are other taxes, but they do not constitute a lien on real prop erty. tion Road Tax $lt50 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 tru.stees, school teachers, min isters and students. Proper attention will be given those INCOMES—The Average The average income in the United States is said, by.Henry Wallace in his new book, to ,be about or under $1,500 a year. That includes every body who works for ;a livig—except speaker did a great deal of personal work among students, who, brought their problems to him in private con ference. Mr. Hardwick spoke at a special chapel hour on Mond&y, Tuesday, and Wednesday and at d special 'meeting on Tuesay night.' He discussed the following topics-; “H_onesty—Courage to Follow Our Convictions”; “Way in WhicH I’ve Exepriencejd God”; “Place of dirist in Human Life”; and “Boy ^d Girl Relation.” These messages were buried deep into the hearts of those present by the vivid and sincere delivery of th^ speaker. In commenting upon the heart of all his talks the visitor remarked that we live in an age of the aftermath of the world war in which the yoiing peo ple must spend the most formative years of their life. He pointed out that the man who follows the crowd is lost. He advis^ all young people that one “needs pur^jose and, ideals way beyond crowd if he is to make I’j’Shy real contribution to mankind or to society,” The speaker also pro phesied that things are moving to ward an upheavaL and cautioned that ^ - nn rr-— n - farmcrsu--He figufcs that,thc average to pay a poll tax of Jl.OO Commilta-]haa’boon cut down from about $1,300 a year to something like $500 a year. , Of course, Mr. Wallace is talking about cash* incomes. Out of his| $1,- 500 a year the industrial worker has to pay for food and lodging. If he has $600 a year Jeft he is either a who Wish to pay their taxoa through ^ W A <iM n « I I V • v strength df the North Ijoo grreat for them. t>u Ci arolinians Was fo'^to war, beginning next week wb*n they pky CAtaw^ here. With the de fensive power ihey showed in the Clem^, Mercer 'and Wake Forest games and th^ scoring ability, t^ey thretr agaiiist the Howard Bull Dogs, tile Blue Hose should be hard to beat by the opipooents they-will play from now until the season ends. . t The line-ups: ^ . P. C. Wake Forest Yearout le. Shore Tisdale It Swan riorne Ig ... Hurtt Plowden ........... Boggs T "i‘ rt_ .....g..../4wing t. Millsaps Forehand re ... ......^Smith Perrin ..liI. qb ..^tchin Higbe rh.: ........Ma: ’ Thompson L. Ih ..'.b.....She] Bolick fb P. C. substitutes: Waldrep, Ceilings, Shoemaker, Freeman, Quarterman, Holliday a^Wilbanks.- Score by periods:.^ Presbyterian .w. .... 0 Wake Forest .... 7 P. C. scoring: touchdown, Bolick; 6 d 0 0—6 7 0—14 Wake Forest ( Scoring: touchdowns: . c Hood I Stern and Martin. Points afteii touch- rg .u......'..Wagner*downs, l^dens (2), placements. -For- thty Wake Forest started early in the 'first period when the Deacons, led by Bill Martin, drove their way down to the P. C. five-yard line. Stem took the ball over for the score, ^ P. C.’/s only successful offensive came flate in the third quarter. After tile Blue Hose had driven Wake- e«t down in their own territory lost the ball on downs. The ball was punted to Robbie Higbe, who was standing ih mid-field. He caught the ball at full speed and headed toward town. -Higbe drove, and side-stepped his way to- Wake Forest’s three-yard-i mark before he was cau?ht from be hind by Edens. Captain Harry Bolick navigated the remaining three yardsi for P. C.’s only touchdown. Home failed to convert. The Deacons scored again in the third period by virtue of a leaping catch of Kitchen’s pass by Martin. The pass was goo<l for 24 yards and a touchdown. , ' -...'A The Blue Hose showed a lot of pow er and fight in the game Saturday. Wake Forest has a great team this WOMEN’S WEAR No work can be' too carefuUy done on women's fine silks, woolens, taffetas and crepes. That’s why we clean them expertly, without changing their shape or harm ing their delicate colors. Years of experience have developed our ser\'ice into the finest that carefi^L expert workmanship and modem equipment can .make it. So you save on the longer life of youY clothes,‘too! 1 CALL US TODAY! 3UGHANAN’S DRY CLEANERS AND LAUNDRY “THE OLD RELIABLE” PSone'^8 ‘ -A' we need, more moral fiber in the young i iu u va ; u . , . . u- !y<?ar and the Hose did a splendid job. As a conclusion to his re- ^ -ou o — . In the line.yShorty Home was th., mail-by check, money order, etc., farmer, out of hi.x $.500 ea..h ^ving napie of township and number of school district. The tax levy is as follows; income, has to pay taxes and, like as not, mortgage interest, to say noth- ling of insurance and other items he StA" Tax 6 m. ,, 7U r!bto»* w it i* l»"K- .... Vi The fallacy, it .seems to me, lies in , 'comparing the farmer with the wage- ■■■■■ ' lx [earner. The proper compari.son is be- tween the farmer and the business .people marks-ort -the'heart of hi.s me.ssapres Mr. Hardwick .said, “(’hrist is ade quate to pour out into life the spirit that will make possible the solution to all of our problems—but the real problem is to find channels for the Spirit in young men and women.” During hi.s brief stay Mr; Hardwick also spok^ at a union meeting of the young people .societies of Clinton, at Thornwell orphanage,'aCClinton High schooln*nd to the F. C. frKxtball squad. His subject to the younn people was. continuous thorn in ..the Deacon’s side.! Pudge Plowden and Son Tisdale alsoi were good. The entire^ line put up a' good fight, and showed the power that' has been^xiiected of them all .season. | Higbe’s long punt return in the sec ond quarter wa.s the most spectacular play of the game, but (*aptain Bolick and Bob,-Perrin also registei-etl some nice gains. P. C. made only four first [ downs. * I Lee Quai*terman'*s kicking did much. Ordinary County Tax Road Bonds .... !.... Past Indebtedness .... Weak Schools Constitutional School • X. * to keep the. score as low as it was.' F’rayer -whi e hts discussion to the' iir-iu i i i nn.*- u .^.,,Rex Wilbanks played well the timei ‘Place of Spirit: he was in the game. P. C.’s blocking! Total .... .... ... 25 mills Laurens School Districts No. 1, Trinity-Ridge 12mialls football .squad was .. K J „„„ [showed great improvement, and it was This outstanding speaker and per-'^^ u:,.k!»Ti^„.. .k-* u sonal worker~was secured by the P. C. Young^I Men’s' Chri.stia'n Associa- tioh and his work while here was also “■Ti,”"!:.’ * "'■.I arranged by the local ‘'Y.’’ Van M.' , . , capitalist, and subject to ^ u ,x/,the 13-yard line. This stopped ^ Arnold, president, was in charge of! Mr. Hardwick left man, owner of his^,bwn business. The farmer is a the risks that all capital is subject to.' . XT o 4 10 -11 That isn’t to say that he doesn’t,have|. ® u- i , , u, • r-u,. No. 2, Prospect .- .... 12 mills , trouble but at the worst he last talk in Clin- No. 3, Barksdale-Narnie .... 10 Vi mills danger of No. 4, Bailey ... 7 mills No. 6, Copeland-Fleming 8 mills No. 6, Oak Grove, .... 6 mills No. 7, Watts Mills .... 8 mills No. 11, Laurens ...y 20 jnill.s Youngs School Districts No. 4, Bethany .... 12 mills No. 5, Grays ... 17 mills i No.-6, Central ... 12'/i mills No. 7, Youngs ' . ' . No. 8, Warrior. Creek starvation as the unemployed indus trial worker. STAMPxS—For All Taxes I don’t know how many kinds of Internal Revenue stamps, there are, ibut it strikes me that the easiest and most painless way for any govern- 17Vi mills'*’*®*’^ collect taxes iS by making it 15 mills 1‘^**‘^* sell. anything that doesn’t No. 10. Lnnfoni j ills j bear a Government stamp. 1 know- No. 3-B, Fountain Irin .... 24 mills; that’s merely another way of s^ing •■Dials School District.s ' sales tax” which is a phrase that al- No. 1, Gi-eenpond .. . 10,mills "’akes politicians see reil. Nev- No 2 Eden 1‘) mills i most import- No! 5’, (iray cWrt-Owings/I 25 mills/"t of revenue are from the No. 3-B, Fountain Inn 24 mxlh^ Sullivan i^chooLDistricts No. 1, Princeton . .mills No. ‘2, Mt. Bethel .... , - No. 3, Poplar Springs , No..7, Brewerton No. 17, Hickory Tavern Raiirbad Taxi..*. . ...... ■ .4.,. There are revenue stamps on e^very bottle of liquor, every barrel of beer, 10 mills pack of playing cards, every 05 mills'pack of cigarettes or box of cigars 16 mills I Shares of stock carinot; be '•legally 24 ^iljg I transferred without sticking revenue ‘t mills i''^amps on them. Everyone -is fa- Waterloo School Districts gasoline. N0..I, Mt. Gallagher 8 mills why stamp or sme- No. 2, .Bethel Grove 7 mills’are not imposed upon flour, No. 4, Center Point 16 ; P»tatoi>iv-^s hats ami canned No. 5, Oakville . . : 8 millsthe politicians No. 6,’ Mount Pleasant 8 mills No. 7, Mt. Olive 21 mills No‘. 11, tVaUrlOo 8 mills Cross Hill School District No.. 13,*Cr6ss Hill .. 19 mills Hunter'-School Districts No., 3, Rock Bridge 6,inills No. 4, Wadsworth 10 mills No. &,-Clinton 18Vk mills No. 6, Goldville i's the fear :n power that the ordinary man would thus be fo’ced to realize that he i«v paying taxes, and would vote the jioli- tieians who imposed Ihem*^ out of of fice. There isn’t any other rea.son at all. . several So^th Carolina colleges before spending a week at the University of Georgia in Athens. - RFC 'To Ease Up On‘Collections Chairman Jesse Jones Says Five- Year Moratorium Will Be Gi\- en On Number of Loans. Washington, Oct'r, 15.—The Recon-“ struction corporation, acting to ease the burdemt of debtors and expand credit, today decreed a virtual five- year moratorium on the repayment to it of many loans. Laying down a policy that “len iency be granted to all borrowers,” Jesse H. Jone.s, RFC chairman, 'di rected that in cases w'here the cor poration’s security will not suffer and where such action is desired, “exten- as REALITIES—Are Few w Mqst of us live in a dri^am world, 13 miljs '*1 wl^ch we think that thei*e is some No. K-19, Kinards .... 8 mills^magic^Process, if only we could find sions” be granted for as much five years from next January 31. Jofies told newspapermen at a prcss‘ conference that repayments of RFC loans are proceeding at such a rate as to indicate a continuation of liqui dation. . “We should rather,’? he explained, “that debtors use some of their mon key for current purposes, and to that {-find-wa * shinll. .aiU j short term loans into five year paper.” j —•—r I on Higbe's long run that it functioned with the greatest'success. Boh Perrin leaped high into the uir to intercept a Wake Foreat pa.ss on .. a Dea con drive. With t'heir four toughest assijljn- ments oq^ of th6 way the Blue Hose Notice for Payment of City Taxes Notice is hereby given that Tov^’n Taxes for the Town of Clinton will be due and collectable between October 15th and November 30th, for the year 1934. The Tax^ Books will be opened for the collection'of taxes at the office of the Town Clerk on October l5th,-and will re main open each day thereafter, Sunday excepted, up to and-through Novemlier 30th. 1 A penalty of ten-(10) per cent will accrue on all taxes , not paid on or before Friday, November 30th, w'hich pen alty will be in force through Monday, December 31st, after which an additional five (5) per cent will accrue. The levy for current fi.scal year is thirtv-seven (37) mills; twelve. (12) mills for current operating expenses and twenty-five (25) mills for interest* and sinking fund ' on various Bond Issues outstanding. The foregoing notice is given pursuant to Ordinance passed by , the Town Council, October 1, 1934. " . • ; D'C. HEUSTESS,* DMed Oct. 1, 1934. i' > - Town Clerk. -‘4- ow Chevrolet adds the to its line 1 we ar<? not a wine-drinking people. The di'eam of sudden pnosperity' No. R-42, Re^erville :. 13 mills it, which would make us happy and i through repeal has proved merely a No. 16, Mountville ........... 21 mills ■ prosperous. M’hen something un-i dream. Hundreds of concerns that Jackg School Districts [pleasant happens we are prone to at-[got liquor licenses in New York, No. 1, No white school ........ 4' mills'tribute Jt to malicious fate, which can. thinking everybody was going to rush ‘No. 2, Shady Grove .............. 13 mills he overcome by finding some new to the bars, have abandoned them No. 2, Renno ; 10 mills'incantation which will work the right rather than pay the high-Jicense fee. No. 4, No white school .... .... 3 mills magic to set everything straight [Many liquor dealers have gone broke. No. 5 t-ir.2 mills’’*gain. , ’ I It took a’’hundred years of educa- No, 6, O’Dell’s . 10. mills I Few people arfe courageoq6> enough tion to arou.se public sentimerit No. 7, Garlington 5 mills to face realities. The realities of life* against the abuse of ajcohol. Now the No. 15, Hurricane ...., 6 mills «**« terrifying to those who have been effort seems to be all in the other di- Scuffletown S^ool Diatricta brought‘up to believe that “some- rection. Prohibition was unworkable No. 1, Long Branch .... 8 mills body” is always going to look out for as a national program. It will Uke No. 2, Musgrove .... :r. .... .... 10 mill.<v them. They are not-^t all frightfulTi couple o'f generations to bring us No. 3, Langston .... .... .... .... 6 mills f<> the few who relaize that nothing back^to a sane, balanced undorstand- NjO. 4, Sandy- Springs .... .... 6 mills in life is. essential to hapi#iness exc^t ing of the liquor question. Meantime, DSALEH AOVIPmSKMCNT This new' and unusual value in an ideal family car brings 4-deor Sedan owneirship within reach of new thousands - /> Chevrolet— thetvwid^s lowest-priced ,jUne of Sixes—now adds to th*t line the u^orid*8 lowest-priced inder 4-door Sedan, No. 12, Ora ..7. 12 mills ^ood rind, shelter. ' drunken drivers will kill off a growing Persona sending in lists of names! I try to be.^ tolerant of everybody percentage of sober folk to be taken pff are requested to send d^c’s foibles and frailties, but I get' them early and give the township and disguS^ with people who thihk thev school district of each as the Treas- ■re being badly u^d merely nrer is very busy during the month of they can*t have everything *’'oy desire Deeember. : at the moment t)i€y desire it. , ' D. ROY SIMPSON, '[ tf 4 County Treas. DRINKING — And Accidents ' Vermont Reports five times :!s many Some one neecb the of prohibition as in any year. P' c'^ou officials are r- thi^ or Vrai f-gw'i newspapers and oru^ic yuu liairc wiunanimous in,blaming tl veMi!*4’iAA Government collected $86,000, ••UVCs sL L.l|in taxee on distilled-liquors and $1( 1^1^ *pn beer in the year end IIIC MirOIlldC VfOUi.jaly 1> but only 14,000,000 on wines.; Ajl sviliimMI Batter wine4is made in the United! V^rmillUs 'States thafa ia Frianee or Italy, j,bat jquor. 000 ul60;- Lsng-Uied Lnatmi ^ be bought and und as needed ' to many, laaay y«nk HwahTrS to the xeUibiUty of Thedtodh Black-Draughtk puisriy yefttabli AmUy haattm* Mr. O. BatUff writes fhxn Hmton, W. Va.: wife and I have tised TbedfanTa Black-Drauidtt tblrty-flVe yeanfor constipatian,—tfaed fedlnc and beadaeha. I unit when I fed my qrstem needs deaastng. After w these I havmt fo^ 1^ thing better than Black-Dmight.* $ asMhi The richifiniah and trimly tailored lines of the Standard dnloor Sedan suggest a higher price. Rodmyand convenient, it is a quality car 'throughout, with Body by Fisher, Fisher No Draft ventilation, the List m’f^I^i^$540. JTkh bmmptn, ^»ars tin md - look, tbs pries is Ild.OfT' eddbimteL Prkm smhises as celebrated (Chevrolet valve4n-head engine, weather-proof, cable-con- trolled brakes, and |i host of other fine features. And being a (Chev rolet, it costs remarkably litde to operate and mmntain. “We invile you to see this latest evidence^* of (Chevrolet’s abilityrto ^ply America with "Economical Trans- portatiim,” today. / a p-,. t CHEVmOLET MOTOI GO.. Drrnnrr, Mtrw, Cw^iri CWrfw** Mmtd mHmt mmi *• A GmmniSUmnV^ma ONE RIDE IS WORTH A THOUSAnIFwORDS r GBJES CHEVROLET COMPANY CUNTON, S. C. ■ ■' t f- MiiMiliddksgisssm ■ .