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Plan* For Hallowe'en. Lugoff, S, C., Oct. IK.?The Lugoff school Improvement Association met PThursday, October 24, in the schoolhouse. I'lttjPji were made for a Hallowe'en entertainment to be given October 29th. After the business session a ahort program was carried out. TAX NOTIOK. " 7* Office of Treasurer Kershaw County, Camden, B. Sept. 12, 1920. Notice in hereby . given that the 4 books will In? opened for the collection of State county ami school taxes from October 15th, 1920, to March 15th, 1927. A penalty of 1 per cent will be added to all taxes unpaid January 1st, 1927, 2 per cent February 1st, 1927, and 7 per cent March 1, 1927. The rate per centum for Kershaw county is as follows: v" ' Mills. " State Taxes 5*4 i, i 6-0-1 School 1 School Taxes . 7 County Taxes 8% Hospital % , Constitutional School Tax 3 Deficiency School Tux % Total 29 Vi DeKalb Township Road llonds, . for DeKalb Township only 2V4 Dog tux $1.25, All dog owners are required to make a return of their dogs to* the County Treasurer, who is required to furnish a lincense tag.AU dogs caught without the license tag the owners will be subject to a fine of Twenty ($20.00) Dollars. The following -School Districts have special levies: School District. No. 1 18% School District No. 2 lH?/2 School District No, 3 19 School District No. 4 . . . 13% *: School District No. 5 1 School District No. 0 , 25 School District No. 7 -.. . 10 _ School District No. H 1 School District No. 9 1 School District No. 10 1 School District No. 11 8 School District No. 12 19 School District No. 13 1 School District No. 15 1 School District No, 10 l School District No. 19 . 1 School. District No. 20 1 School District No. 22 19 School District No. 23 1 School District No. 25 ?1? School District No. 27 1 ' School District No. 28 1 School District No. 29 7 School District No. 30 1 School District No. 31 8 School District No. 33 11 School District No. 37 1 School District No. 3K 1 School District No. 39 . 5 School District No. 40 1H School District No. 41 1 School District No. 42 1 School District No. 43 1 School District No 4(5 ........ 1 School District No. 47 1 ,y The Poll Tax is $1.00. All able bodied male persons from the agt' of twenty-one (21) to fifty (50) years, both inclusive, except residents in incorporated towns, shall pay $3.00 as a road tax except ministers or (he <iospel actually in charge of a i4$hgrcgation teachers employed in public schools .school trustees, and persons permanently disabled in the military service of the State and per-' sons \vho served in the . War Between the States .and all quarantine service of this State and all residents who may be attending school or college at the time when said road tax shall become due. Persons'claiming disabilities must present certificate from two j reputable physicians of this county. All information with reference *< > 1 taxes will he '"u-nhhed upon applied- i tion. (>. J. SM V 111,. County Treasurer!' 1 --?,w-, -11-' i. rTTTrnnh ^;;f.ii .* wwWPWffGW^ a to votk ITON TUGAL0O Proposed Amendment Would Mean Forfeit T|> Vnlunblf Property By Staff Correspondent Columbia, Oit, IX. That "the proposal to declare Tugaloo river not navigable simply in van a that South C arolina gives away a valuable piece of her territory to a water i>o\yer company,and thut "it likewiko means a possible shifting at sottto future date of the boundary lino be* lween South Carolina and Georgia, whereby this state will lone more territory to Geoigia through the indifference of the people of the State," is the opinion of some of those who have studied the question involved in the 28th proposed amendment to the Constitution of South Carolina, to be voted on in the general election of November 2. The proposed amendment would exempt the Tugaloo river from the provisions of Article 14, of Section 1, of the Constitution, which provides thut "hte state shall have concurrent jurisdiction on all rivers bordering on this state, so far as sueto rivers shall form a common boundary to this and any other state bounded by the same; and they, together with all navigable waters within the limits of the state, shall be common highway^ and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of this state as to the citizens of the I United States." At the last session of the general assembly u bill was introduced by Mr. Glymph, of Oconee, and was passed, declaring the Tugaloo to be a nonnavigable stream. The measure was vetoed by the govtrnqr on the ground that it was uncohstitutional. Then came the joint resolution proposing an amendment to the#Constitution, to exempt the Tugaloo from its provisions.! The joint resolution was ratified and signed by the governor, and the amendment goes before the people. * Th* Tugaloo, which is the boundary stream between South Carolina and Georgia along the western edge of portions of Oconee and Anderson counties has long been a subject of controversy in the courts between this state and Georgia. Mr. A. S. Salley, Jr., secretary of the Historical Com'i mission of South Carolina who has made a study of this controversy, along with his studies of everything else involving, the history of South Carolina, was asked, in view of the approaching vote upon this constitutional amendment, for a brief statement of the facts in the inter-state controversy, so far as it would throw any light upon the question now before the voters of the state. "The Tugaloo river was made a part of the -boundary line between South Carolina and Georgia .under the conventional agreement made at Beaufort in 1787," he says. "Under the common law, where a river is made the boundary line between an existing government and a new government formed from territory originally a part of the old, and no agreement is made, the original owner takes the stream. When the Crown . of England jnade the Savannah river the boundary between South Carolina and Georgia, which was then carved from South Carolina, South Carolina naturally took the fiver. Under the agreement of 1787 there appear* to have been no cession on the part of South Carolina to Georgia of half of the bottom of tjie Savannah river, One-half of the navigable waters of the river were conceded to Georgia; therefore it was still questionable whether the land over-which that water flowed was divided half and half between the two states. "The agreement did not nullify the order of the Crown giving Georgia the islands in the river, and the Codes of South Carolina up to that of 1922 claimed that when there were islands in the river the stream lying between an island and the South Carolina shore was all the property of South ^Carolina. That?was?the?position taken by Judge William Johnson, of the United States Supreme court, in a decision rendered in the circuit court in Savannah in 1821, and cited by James L. Petigru, who prepared our first code. "In 1852 Georgia set up a claim to the entire Savannah river, Tugaloo and all. lhe then attorney general of South Carolina, Isaac W. Hayne, gave the general assembly an opinion to the effect that the center of the I river, where there were no islands, j was the boundary line, and that the J center of the stream between the islands and the South Carolina shore, where there were islands, was the 1 line. The general assembly passed a resolution declaring that to be the law, and gave that to Geoigia as | South Carolina's answer to their claim. Several years ago Georgia again set up the claim to the entire Savannah river, but when Attorney General Wolfe showed a contempor| aneous record of the original order of the Crown, they promptly changed their claim to the center of the river J end cited the resolution of 1852. That ruined us. The supreme court of the United States accepted that as South ( arolina s position also, and declared, that the boundary line. "You sec," said Mr. Salley, "by that decision of 1852 we lost half of the stream. Now, if the Tugaloo I i\ 11 is declared by legislative enactment not navigable, it will mean that tin- ownPrs of land on the South Carolina sale of the stream will take title1 to the middle of the stream. Suppose) the same people owned the land on the Georgia aide of the stream. They j will then .own the entire bed of the j river in fee simple, and they will not hesitate to say to a citizen of South < arolina who wants to raft timber down the Tugaloo river or paddle a fishing boat down it: 'Keep off our land. You are a trespasser.' That is a small thing to contend for, but it is giving away the rights of our citizens." But if there are no Safeguards, what about the taxable values when the river is dammed?" Mr. Salley was asked. "Suppose," he replied, "the owners of the land on both sides of the river build a dam across it, and there is a bluff on the Georgia side of the river, it will spread the water over on the South Carolina side, and it would only be a matter of time when Georgia tax collectors would claim that, the cen-1 ter of the stream being the boundary! due. one-half of the impounded waterwould he on Georgia territory and! the other half on South Carolina's. I Suppose that the pond behind that! dam moved some very valuable! hydraulic plants. Would not the taxes on that property be very considerable? If Georgia claimed to the center of the stream it would likewise claim to the center of the dam,-and all betterments to the north of the center of the original stream and south of the now center of the stream nd dam would fall into the new tor o ritory thus acquired by Georgia. 7- 'There are those who look at the little river there now, with no improvements upon it, and regard it a* impossible that it should ever be of any appreciably greater value than it is at present; but if they will go out into the world and see what other communities have made out 6( the same sort of little rivers, and how many millions have been tied up in enterprises based on just , such streams, they can see the possibilities. By all means give the power company the right to build a dam and use the wuter, but don't give them the right to keep citizens of South Carolina from using the water, and don't givfc them the right to put a dam across the stream with no provision for a fishway so that one of the natural resources of the state by which a certain portion of its people may enjoy Hs natural products would be taken from them." ,WJien the people vote upon constitutional amendments, under the system prevalent in this rftate, unless they have the time and the opportunity to took Up each of the numerous proposals submitted every two years, they can only vote blindly, if they vote at all. Where the fundamental law is involved, it is an exceedingly haphazard manner of doing business. Upon a question affecting the boundary line betweenothis- state and Georgia, which latter state since it -was cut offf rom South Carolina has been trying "tot* encroach upon South Carolina territory, the people, befote they vote, are certainly entitled to a little more light than has heretofore been given them. It is estimated that 600,000 people crowded Broad street, Philadelphia, Tuesday when the American Legion pulled off its big street parade. GENTRY BROS. SHOWS Will Exhibit at Cafaden on Thursday, October 28th The billboards and walls about the * city are announcing that thp famous Gentry Bros. Shows arc to visit Camden Thursday, October 28. ? Great interest attaches to the event, "\ 7 particularly so because the big show is one of the few tented exhibitions offering an array of trained wild animals. The Gentry Bros. Shows for nearly half a century, to be exact, 4'3 : years, have stood at the top among 1 the high-class shows. * j Beginning as a small wagon show, each year has seen a steady growth, until today the mere announcement of the appearance of the Gentry Bros. Shows is synonymous with the fact | that the patrons will see a clean, (High-class entertainment, free from objectionable features, embodying all ^ that is great and entertaining in the realm of the "white tops." J A special train of double length here. The big show represents an! expenditure of more than $750,000. | There are upwards of 700 men, women j and horses with the show; almost ten acres of tents; a herd?of-?elephants; a caravan of camels; one of the most interesting traveling menageries; five bands of-, music, scores of curiosities ( and oddities from the four corners of the world. 1 There will be two performances, at I 2:00 and 8:00 p.m., the doors opening at 1:00 and 7:00 p.m. A concert of popular and operatic music will be given by Prof. John Griffin's military bapd an houi preceding each performance. An immense street parade will be seen on the downtown streets at noon on show day. T FINAL DISCHARGE . >.. . Notice is hereby given that one month from . this date, oh Saturday, November 13, 1^26, I will make to the Probate Court of Kershaw County my final return as Executor of the estate of Mina Team, deceased, and on the same date I will apply- to the said Court for a final,discharge as said Executor. JOHN. LAWHORN, Executor. Camden, S. C., Oct, 9, 1926, TRESPASS NOTICE. Trespassing, hunting or shooting, day or night, cutting or hauling wood or straw, cattle or hogs running at large, on lands .owned and posted by Mr Ralph Ellis, will be dealt with to the full extent of the lqw. L. A. Kirkland, Attorney. R. Storey, Agent. 27-37-pd TRESPASS NOTICE. Ail persons are hereby warned not to trespass upon the J. B.' Crocker place, at Lake view Terrace, or^the property of Henry Savage in the "city limits. Persons have been committing acts of vandalism on these premises and after this warning, if caught, will be dealt with to the fullest extent of the law. HENRY SAVAGE August 19, 1926. ... Good taste and good health demand sound teeth and sweet breath. The use of Wrigleys chewing gum after every meal takes care of this important item of personal hygiene in a delightful, j-efreshing way ? by clearing the teeth of foodP^articles and by helping the digestion. The result Is a sweet breath that hows care for one's self and consideration for others ? both marks of refinement. GI26 ! J* * *1* ** *5* | -1 Greatest Tire Values | .I- Ever Offered I X X I ftre$foi$e \ f GUMDIPPED TIRES 4 v A Who said local motorists didn't know tire values? Big cars? A little cars?all are l>eing equipped with the world-famous Fire- ^ JL stones at our greatest of all sale prices. Just note our special price on a 440-21 halloon. casing and rememl?er that we have I 4% :made substantial reductions on every other size and type. It t A will pay you to meet your tire requirements for six to nine J months to come with these exclusive' (ium-l)ipped Tires. ^4 I>rive in 4^4 A Real Cash Price ?|* j | Special ffl j| 20 I f- 440x21 Balloon # I t"- || X ^ X! | City Filling Station | ^ q Corner DelCalb and LyUleton Streets ? T.B.BRUCE Veterinarian Day Phone 30?Night Phone 114 CAMDEN, 5 C. | KERSHAW LODGE No. 29 A. F. M. (Regular communication of this lodge Is field on the first Tuesday in each month ut o p.m. visiting uretnren are welcomed. FRANK D. CAMPBELL, M. BILLINGS, Worshipful Master Secretary. 3-5-26-tf The Strength of This Bank The strength of this bank is in its depositors.^^^^p | S Our interests are mutual?your prosperity is ours* Our resources are at your command to aid in youj ||| I The First National Bank | Of Camden, South