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, \ ■ / 4 , "•'V* ’ Pagt Two THE CLINTON CHRONICLE -V • ... Thursday, March 23, 1950 » County Gas Tax Given As $7,017 For This Month Special to Tie Chronicle. Columbia, March 22—The gasoline lax distribution to the counties of Soutn Carolina this month Will total $331,821, according to State Treasur er Jeff Bates. Qf the tfttal, Laurens county-s allotment will come to $7,- P17. ’ ' The distribution made from the etate tax on gasoline is allocated on ti monthly basis, according to the ■proceeds from the tax during the jireceeding month. The counties of the state receive five eents^of the nx cent state gasoline tax, and the (distribution is made on the basis of the number of m^tor vehicle licen- /cs sold in each county for Uie year. The remaining one cent of the six /eh: gasoline tax imposed by the jtate retained by the S. C. State Highway" Department. ' ! to the report. Sixteen of the white schools in Laurens county are two-, teacher schools, and there are 12, Negro two-teacher schools in the county. The county has three white and one Negro three-teacher schools, and one white and two Negro four- teacher schools. Seven of the white schools in Laurens county and four of the Negro schools have more than four teachers. Annual Report Shows Ninety-One Schools fn Laurens County —— Special to The Chronicle. Columbia. March 22—There are a total of 91 schools in the 49 school districts in Laurens county, accord ing to the eighty-first annual report ad the State Superintendent of Ed ucation, which has just been issued. Thirty-six of the Laurens county *choo!s are white schools and 55 ale Negro .whools. ' . There are iTiife white one-tedcher «chool.-- in Laurens county ^nd 36 Negr v i ni -teacher schools, according Mrs. W. 0. Pruitt Writing Book On County Families Mrs. W. O. Pruitt, of Washington, D. C., the former Miss Janie Gar- lington, of Laurens, visited in Lau rens and Clinton the post week gath ering data for her new book, “Pio neer Families of Laurens County,” which she is now' w-riting. > Mrs. Pruitt is a member of the National League of American Pen Women and has previously written two books which gained wide circu- lation The titles of those books were “Revolutionary Pensioners of South Carolina” and the first volume of "Migration of South Carolinians” 1 which is to be followed by another volume. Mrs. Pruitt is the daughter of the late Charles and Lizzie Sullivan Gar- lington of this county. For a number of years she taught in the Rock Bridge school near here and made her home with the Davis familv. ses last week at the office of Pro bate Judge J. Hewlette Wasson: The fotlow'ing were given licenses: ,4 Horace Lever Martin, 20, of Gray- Court and Peggy Mae Oglesby, 18, of Laurens; Howard Williams, 40, and Hattie Lee Cleveland, 28, both of Laurens; Clarence Harold Nelson, 18, and Betty Irene Robertson, 15, both, of Enoree; Robert Patrick Stutts, 28, of Rock Hill and Mozella McClure, 19, of Clinton; William Emahuel Buchanan, 23, of Clinton, and Mella Rae Tucker, 23, of Joanna. Also, Duff Bryson, 21, and Laura Lee Bary, 16, both of Cross Hill; Wafgm Murphy, Jr., 25, of Enoree j and Catherine Elizabeth Reynolds,' 19| of Pacolet Mills; Newt Foggy, 30; and Kozie Barker, 26, both of Gray Court; Thomas Phue Fortner, 21, and Myrtle Joyce Lambert, 18, both of Woodruff and Willie Anthony Davis, 52, and Clara Kennedy, 66, > both of Gray Court. — :. 1. Call 74 1 FOR OFTICE SUPPLIES CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. 10 Couples Ask For Marriage Licenses Two '. >ca! couples were among the ; ersotts' applying for-marriage licen- 1 omorrow at 8:30 A. 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