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?- 1 V1 " TAX NOTICE. I The books will be open for the col- | lection of taxes for fiscal year 1920, from October 15th to December 31st, 1920, without penalty. Payable during January with 1 per cent, penalty; during February 1 per cent, additional, and 5 per cent, ad- I ditional for March, making a total of 7 per cent, from March 1st to 15th, at which time the books will close. ItEGU.LAR TAX LEVY The regular tax levy tor 1920 is as j follows: J Mills , State ta^ 12 Constitutional school tax 3 J Ordinary county purposes 9 Township road fund 2 J Total 26 1 For Bucks, Conway, Dog Bluff, * Bayboro, Galivants Ferry, Greeo Sea, ( Little River and Dogwood Neck townships an extra levy of two mills 1 (2) for township road fund, and for Flodys Township an extra levy of 1 five mills (5) for township road fund. J An additional levy to pay special j taxes voted for school purposes in i certain districts is as follows: Districts . Mills j No. 1 Port Harrelson S i No. 2 Ever Green 10 < No. 3 Dog Bluff 8 ] No. 4 BayDoro 8 ] No. 5 Sandy Plain Si] No. 6 Athens 8 1 No. 7 Green Sea 36 < No. 8 Bear Bay 4 No. 9 Little Rivor irt . No. 10 Dogwood Neck 8 \ No. 11 Socastee 12 | No. 12 Collins Creek 8 ( No. 13 Withers 8 ] No. 14 Savannah Bluff 12 No. 15 Haw Branch 6 No. 16 Pine Grove 8 >jo. 17 Wannaniaker ? 12 No. 18 I,oris 20 No. 19 Burroughs 16 No. 20 Mt. Olive 16 No. 21 White Oak 8 No. 22 Burcol .T 8 No. 23 Good Hopo 3 No. 24 Cedar Grove 8 No. 25 Gurley 8 No. 26 Cool Spring 8 No. 27 Zion 8 No. 28 Chapel Hill ..... 8 No. 29 Powell 8 No. 30 Princeville 8 No. 31 Sidney 8 No. 32 Hickory Grove 8 No. 33 Finklea 11 No. 34 Oak Grove 8 No. 35 Howard 8 No. 36 Grassy Bay 24 No. 37 Midway - - 8 No. 38 Hickory Hill 16 No. 39 Simpson Creek 8 No. 40 Joyner Swamn 8 No. 41 Daisy 8 No. 42 Hughes Mill 8 No. 43 Hulls Island 8 No. 44 Deep Branch 8 No. 45 Tilly Swamp 8 No. 46 Oakland 10 No. 47 Red Hill S No. 47 Eight Mile No. 48 Eight Mile 30 No. 49 Red Bluff 8 No. 50 Floyds 16 No. 51 Floyds X Roads 8 No. 52 Popular Hill 8 No. 53 Allen 8 No. 54 Valley Forge 8 No. 55 Knotty Branch 8 No. 56 Sanford 8 No. 57 Sweet Home 16 No. 58 Johnson 8 No. 59 High Point 8 No. 61 Warn pee 12 No. 63 Rehoboth - 8 No. 64 Enterprise .....11 No. 67 Mt. Pisgah "8 No. 68 Homewood 8 No. 68 Maple - - ;8 No. 70 Poplar 8 No. 71 Shell - 8 No. 72 Leon 8 No. 73 Mt. Herman 8 No. 74 Four Mile 8 No. 75 Virgo 2 No. 76 Toddvilie 8 No. 77 Strawfield , 3 No. 78 Ebenezer 8 No. 80 Spring Branch 14 No. 81 Salem 8 No. 82 Mill Swamp 8 No. 83 Red Hill 8 No. 84 Brunson 8 No. 85 Watts 8 No. 87 Norton 8 No. 88 Waccamaw 8 JNo. 89 Seven Mile 8 No. 90 Pauley Swamp 8 No. 79 Bucksport No. 92 Vaughts '4 No. 94 Oak Grove 8 No. 95 Twelve Mile 8 No. 96 Eldorado 8 No. 97 Carolina 8 No. 98 Kington 16 No- 99 Aynor 16 No. 101 Pleasant Grove 12 SCHOOL HOUSE BOND TAX. An additional levy of the two mills (2) in Districts Nos. 19 and 80, and 5n District No. 61 an additional levy of one mill is made to pay interest on the school house bonds, and to create a sinking fund for their final retirement. CAPITATION TAX. A poll tax of one dollar, for school purposes, is levied upon every male citizen between the ages of 21 and 60 years, able to earn a living, except Confederate veterans over 50 years old. capitation dog tax. A capitation tax of one dollar is levied upon each dog m the county. commutation road tax. Road tax for 1921 is $12.00 and payable from January 1st to March 15th, 1921. fish?:ry stamps. Fishery stamps can be obtained at the county treasurer's office at any time. Those who write for statement of taxes will please state whother or not their property is all in one school district. Not yet having received the tax books for the collection of taxes, i find that i shall not be able to write up the books after i get them in time to make the trip over the county for the collection of taxes, therefore : all collections 'will be made at the office in Conway. W. L. BELLAMY, Adv.|12|9|4t County Treasurer. MAKES REPORT ON I PALESTINE VISIT; I Engineer Says Its Natural R3-! sources Greater Than Southern California. New York.?The natural resources >f Palestine are greater than those :>f Southern California ?pd are able ;o support decently about 4,000,000 people, Harry Thomas Cory, former director general of foreign relief for ;he American Red Cross, declared in i report to the Zionist organization >f Americ^i made public here. M r flnrv n. ralifnrnio oncrino.iv .vent to Palestine recently at the invitation of Justice Brandeis, honorry president of the international American Zionist organization. He lad just investigated the Nile rivet irrigation project in Egypt. Mr. Cory said his findings after % short survey of the Holy Land Yvere in complete accord with those sf Sir William "Wilcox, head of the Nile projects commission of the Egyptian government, and Pi of. R. H. Forbes, of the University of Nebraska and an American student of [lerert irrigtion. "The western slope of Palestine is naturally better than ti e South California region in and about Los Angeles, which lias made possible that city's enormously rapid development." Mr. Cory said. "The onfiguration is strikingly similiar. and I was therefore not surprised to !earn that it was planned to irrigate 150,000 acres of this coa t land in relatively small units, largely by pumps. "The soil of western Palestine is better in all essential particulars, more fertile and more favorable fo:* entensive development. In the low regions there is no danger from frost. Nowhere in Southern California is there a frost proof area. "Tho greater quantity and better, distribution of the rainfall renders dry farming easier and safer in Palestine regions. "The valley of the Jordan is am entirely different matter as to cl;- I matic conditions and many oth^r features. However, Sir William, Professor Forbes and I are in complete agreement as to the feasibility of irrigating at least 5,000,00. acres there. Sir William anu r are entirely satisfied as to the *oihty to economically develop 50,000 horse power in hydro-electric plants. "The 500,000 acres are much more comparable to the irrigated lands in the Imperial Valley, the southeastem earner of California overlapping into "Mexico, "The future of Palestine is entirely dependent upon the human element. In that iregard I was greatly surprised and impressed by the fiact that probably th<* Zionists will be able to secure very quickly own- , ership of over half the land in that! country. Further, the ls?nd wV>icv 1 can be secured is appartnely typical of the region as a whole. j "The one outstanding element in the human phase of the situation is the extraordinary morale which 1 found among the Zionists of all grades in Palestine. I was impressed vith the exuberant spirit of en thusiasm and sacrifice for a cause." ?o The Quinine That Docs Not Affect the Heed Because of ita tonic and laxative etfect, LAXA. Tl"K BROMO QUININK Is better than ordinary Qu'.une and dot* not cause nervousness not 'iu?ing in head. Remember ihe lull nemc and iooit lor the nature cf E. **V. GROVIt 30c r t Church Directory * ***************** First Baptist Church, Myron W. Gordon, Pastor. Services every Sunday. Sunday School Exercises 10 a. m. Morning worship and preaching 11:15 a. m. Evening worship and preaching 7 p. m. Prayer meeting services every Tuesday 7:30 p. m. Strangers and visitors cordially welcomed to all these services. Kingston Presbyterian Church, J. M. Lemmon, Pastor. Services every Sunday morning. Sunday School at 10 a. m. Morning worship and preaching at 11:15 a. ir.. Prayer meeting services Tuesday 7:30 p. m. 4 We welcome one and all to our services. Conway Mcthcdist Church, J. C. Atkinson, Pastor. Services every Sunday. Departmental Church School 10 a. m. Bible Class for men only 10 a. m. Morning worship and preaching 11:15 a. m. Evening worship 7 p. m. Prayer meeting services Wednesday PVPnimr 7 r?V1/?r?lr ' Welcome extended to everybody to attend all services. o To Stop a Cough Quick take HAYES' HEALING HONEY, a cough medicine which stops the cough by ! healing the inflamed and> irritated tissues. | A box of GROVES O-PEN-TRATE SALVE for Chest Colds, Head Colds and j Croup is enclosed with every bottle of HAYES* HEALING HONEY. The salve should be rubbed on the chest and throat of children suffering from a Cold or Croup. The healing effect of Hayes' Healing Honey Insido the throat combined with the healing effect of Grove's O-Pen-Trato Salve through the pores of the skin soon stops a cough. Both remedies are packed in one carton and the cost of the combined treatment is 35c. Just ask your druggist for HAYES' HEALING HONEY. o Good letter heads and other job work at the Herald oli'ice. PEOPLE OF OUR TOWN <l | (SjaQLeB ' f-mimKSZfffifihvjqW arrm g _j /r/77zvz> ?77777. 3hBB This Poor Burdock all Worked Up, for there's a Stranger in town and he doesn't Know her Name, nor Where she's From, nor Why she Came, nor How Long she's Going to Stay, and the Suspense is Killing Him. The Only Explanation for the Volunteer Detective is that he Must have been dropped on his Bean wheu a Babe. WHAT INSPECTION OF MEAT mm <w m aiiHiai IIILflTI ?I 11? Great Quantity is Consumed by People of This Country CONDEMNED MEAT IS NEVER WANTED But it Is Used for Making Other Things That Are | Very Useful. People in the United States ar<? eating meat <it the rate of half '+ pound a day each, mo that in a yeai they consume over fifteen billion pounds. Two-thirds of this is inspect ed by Bureau of Animal Industry employees, while the remainder should be inspcted by state or municipal men, but, unfortunately, this is true only to a small extent. Modern meat inspection in this country dates from 1906. Congress had made but timid inspection laws. About that time President Roosevelt became interested in newspaper reports about activities in "packing I town," and he sent two committees to Chicago to investigate. Their reports convinced him that the thing needed in the law was teeth. Alter much sensational argument, everyone seemed to agree, so congress put on the books the stringent act of 190fi. r* j complete, efTective, model measure ' that has worked every hour since for the protection of the public against unwholesome food as well sa for the development of the nation's live stock industry in removing the prejudices of foreign countries against our meat exports. Must Bear Stamp. Fundamentally the law is based or. the principle of interstate transportation. It says that no meat can 1 cross a state line unless it bears the ! legend, "U. S-. Inspected and Passed." To get this m/irk the animal musi have been examined twice by federal scientists?first alive, then after killing when it lies skinned, headiess am! disembowled, with every toll-tale i membrane, muscle and gland open to I pitiless scrutiny. Then, if it was J pickled or smoked or went into a can or casing, it must have been prepared 'without any preservatives, ant the can must have been truthfully labeled. Morover, the slaughterhouse must have been light, clean and sanitary, the packing rooms like kitchens, and every man or woman who touches the meat must have been clean and healthy and dressed in clean clothing. I ?n/lnv fliio !?? 1-~A ll- - 1 vouui viuo iaw, uim year 1110 DUreau operated at 800 houses in 1(>0 cities scattered over the country, chiefly in the Middle W?st but extending to Boston, San Francisco and New Orelans. It inspected more than 56,000,000 animals and watched the preparation of 8,000,000,000 pound* of meat products. Of these it threw out 228,999 diseased whole carcasses, 750,000 parts of carcasses, and IX,000,000 pounds of protects. It did this with 2,500 employees, two-fifths being professional veterinarians and the remainder practically meat-curing men. At seven centers over the country it had the assistance of its laboratories, where skilled chemist, probed into the problems of preserve tives, spices, waters and other ingre dients. It maintained also a corps <>f highly trained men who traveled i from place to place, giving each station an inspection so as to keep the men up to the mark and to muke the | whole system uniform throughout the ! country. condemned Carcasses Not Wasted. No, this ought not add to the cost of the meat. Carcasses and part condemned for disease are not entirely waste. They are cooked in tankf under high steam pressure and tlu resulting product used for fireaso ii. soap and tallow and in fertilizeThe real loss is only a fraction of : I cent per pound, and that is more th:.n I offset by the efficiency of motion j factory conditions brought about bj the requirements of the law. 1 NEW METHOD MAY CHANGE INDUSTRY i Making Fertilizers by Extracting Phosphoric Acid From Rocks PHOSPHATE ROCK MOSTLY FROM FLA. Has Solved Problem of World Wide Interest to Farmers and Business Men. i 1 What may prove to he a revolution- j ary development in the fertilizer industry of the world has been reached! by the Bureau of Soils, United States) Deparement of Agriculture, Which has just solved the problem of ex-1 tracting phosphoric acid from phos- J phate rock by heating mixtures of i this mineral, sand and coke to a| smelting temperature in a fuel-fed i furnace. The new process has been worked out on an approximate commercial basis at the department's ex- j peri mental station at Arlington, Va. i Comes Largely From Florida. The phosphate used for fertilizer j in the United States comes largely i form the deposits of rock in Florida. There arc al o large deposits in Tennessee and a number of beds in South | Carolina, where the rock was first I exploited for this purpose. The established method for producing soluble phosphate has consisted in treating the rock with sulphuric acid. In practice, a quantity of sulphuric equal to the quantity of rock is used, and the resulting product, which is known as acid phosphate, contains only onehalf the percentage of phosphoric acid contained in the rock from which it was derived. Commercial acid phosphate, for instance, made from a 32 per cent rock contains only lfi per cent of nho. nhorir firid Tim ol<ihnv- I ate washing and screening process now used in preparing the phosphate rock for treatment with sulphuric acid often results in the loss of two j thirds of the rock, and it is with a view of saving this immense of waste of phosphate that the ne\y process was evolved. The United States Department of Agriculture has been experimenting for some time along the lines of freeing the phosphoric acid by means of a high degree of heat. It was the firsts to adopt the Cottrell precipitator to the collection of phosphoric acid, the apparatus having been previously devised by Dr. Cottrell to abate the smoke nuisance and to recover sulphuric acid from smelting operations. The first work was done in an electric furnace which was thought to be required to generate the high degree of heat necessary, about 1,G00 degrees C. or 2,900 degrees F. At this temperature rock, sand and coke were reduced to a molten slag which was dipped off at in tervais, the phosphoric acid escaping in the form of. fumes which were afterwards collected in a liquid or solid form. It soon became evident that this process would be prohibitively expensive with an electric furnace, except in localities where electric power could be obtained at a very low cost, about $25 per housepower per year, and the department therefore turned its attention to the possibilities of using crude oil, the cheapest fuel obtainable in the vicinity of the large phosphate rock deposits of Florida. The efforts have recently met with success, and figures kept on the experimental runs at Arlington indicate that phosphoric acid can be extracted more cheaply in an oil-burning furnace than by the old sulphuric-acid process. One problem which department scientists have worked out is that of keeping the fuel in direct contact with the rock material until the reaction is well started. For this purpose, and for convenience in handling, the material is briqueted with coke and sand. Briqueting keeps the coke fuel within the mass and retains it until the reaction is well started. Sand or silica is necessary to bring about the chemical reactions and this sand is largely present as an impurity in the Florida uhosnhato do posits, together with a clayey ingredient which acts as an excellent binder in making the briquettes. Thus the very impurities which make rock objectionable under the old process are turned into an asset. Economics Effected. The practical value of the new development is indicated by the fact that in the experimental runs at Arlington the department chemists were rihle to recover a 64 per cent phosphoric acid, as against the 10 per cent product ordinarily obtained by the sulphuric acid process. By passing ammonia gas into this phosphoric acid, solid ammonium phosphate, a very concentrated material containing two valuable fertilizer ingredients, results. This material can stand heavy transportation and handling charges. It is also practicable to mix the phosphoric acid with phosphate. rock in such proportions as to give a product containing r>0 per cent of soluble phosphoric acid. This proI /lii/?4- ? '? ^ 1 ^ ? "? *A uukb m ai11111ur in us properties to ordinary 1T> per cent acid phos phate, is convenient to handle, and may be used by an intelligent farmer who has the technical knowledge to reduce the quantity placed upon the soil, and to guard against direct contact with the seed. It also will permit a material saving in freight to central plants where the product may be diluted or mixed with other ingredients for shorter hauls. The difference between a 50 per cent product and a 10 per cent product means an immense saving in the freight charges, and the 1 release of large quantities of rolling stock and vessel tonnage now engaged in the transportation of phosphate and phosphate rock. While the actual cost of the new : process in a large industrial plant is difficult to estimate with accuracy in ! the work thus far done, 'even on a small scale, it was found that the fuel consumption was only about 15 per cent of the value of the product, while with the sulphuric acid process the cost of the acid used seldom runs below 22 per ccnt. This factor, together with the reduction of treight charges, justifies the assumption that the new process will be of utmost importance to the fertilizer industry and to the farmers who are compelled to u^e a constantly increasing amount of commercial fertilizer. o A TONIC Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic restores Energy and Vitality by Purifying and Enriching the Blood. When you feel its strengthening, invigorating effect, see how it brings color to the cheeks and how it improves the appetite, you will then appreciate its true tonic value. Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is simply Iron and Quinine suspended in syrup. So pleasant even children like it. The blood needs QUININE to Purify it and IRON to Enrich it. Destroys Malarial germs and Grip germs by its Strengthening, Invigorating Effect. 60c. JUST AN OLI) FRIEND I NDi:it ANOTHKK NAME At frequent intervals in recent years promoters have resorted to ex travagant advertising of the meritr of the jack bean. One of the latei;' efforts in this direction that h*?? oovne to the notice of the Unit<*? States Department of Agrricvslt .?ve i> unusually extreme in its praise o? this crop: "Mr. Farmer. $8 invested in American coffee beans and planted on one acre will bring- you in foir months $100." I Turns Out to He an "Old Friend." The American coffee bean is our old friend, the jack bean, says the department. Ever so often it is exploited as a wonderful new crop. Long ago it was advertised as "ParI son bean" and "Wonder bean." In 1013 one advertiser called it Waiaka. | or Giant Pod Stock bean, claming it would yield <100 bushels per acre. Last spring it came out as the South American coffee bean, with the information that it would yield 300 tc GOO bushels per acre. This fall it appears as the American coffee bean, and the seed is offered at $25 a bushel. The extravagance of this price is offset by the promise that each acre of the bean will yield in four months time a crop worth $400 The jack bean is at most a crop of very small value. \t will yield a fairly large crop of green herbage, but this is so extremly bitter that it is very difficult to get animals to eat it, either green or as hay. Possibly it may be better as silage. The seed crop varies from 20 to 35 bushels per acre. The beans are not relished by animals, and cattle do not make much V!\ i II whpn fr?vr?rwl ?" -' ~A n .. ..vl. w\i n/ uuk ii, an ut'iri ' mined by the work of the Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station. The bean is to a .slight extent used as food by Mexicans and others but the flavor is very strong and in some cases serious digestive disturbances have been reported. The seeds contain much grease, a substance used in medicine, but a few tons of jack beans supply the world's annual demand for this substance. All the evidence available indicates that the jack bean is not likely to become of much value to American agriculture. Full information concerning it is contained in the United States Department of Agriculture Circular No. 1)2. which can be secured 1 free on request of the department at Washington, D. C. RUB - MY - TISM Is a powerful Antiseptic and Pain killer, cures infected cuts, old sores, tetter, etc. Relieves Sprains, Neuralgia, Rheumatism.?12-13. SAYSlAISHEART WORLDS BUSINESS Annual Report of Director Of Foreign and Domestic Commerce Bureau Washington.?The United States has been made the heart of the world's business by the westward trend of commercial affairs and has reached the stage of its industrial and commercial development where the maintenance of foreign outlets is necessary to continued domestic prosperity, Director R. S. MacElwee, of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce of the department of commerce, announces in his annual report. Declaring that the present stagnation in the business world was only a passing phase insofar as this country was concerned, Director Mac 101 wee urged that the development of for| eign markets l>c taken up with re-J newed vigor. ?< /~\ < ;? i-- ' vyin iiuei^ii iraue m mo f iscal i TINS ONLY I AT youa GROCERS P4MCWEU. HOUSE j COFFEE w g HORRY COUNTY g g TRUST COMPANY | m Real Estate m L. D. Mag-rath 32S Manager. &3 ^ Real Estate Loans Si 53 Bonds 5 *3 Insurance ra year of 1920. with a total value of $13,349,661,401, was larger than in any previous year," he said. "It exceeded by $3,000,000,000 the former high record in 1 ?> 10, and was more than three times the value of the combined imports end exports in 11)14, the last year before* the war. "Many people are more interested now than they were a year ago in foreign commerce. There were a few firms who had the foresight to take out life insurance while they were in good health. Others now wish they hr.d done so. The only, real insurance that will spread the risk- of depression between the crests of the waves of domestic demand is the alloting; of a substantial ??uota of the firms product for foreign commerce and the building: up in the world's markets of a selling organir-ation and clientele that will not necessarily fluctuate with the . ovc': demuvd "t home, \ Depression After War. "A depression repularly follows a "Teat wpv. and its time of occurence i>ay be estimated, from historical nalogii-*. as about two to three oars aftc* the c!o?.o of hostilities. Wo ?m-"> rat p">i?wy t'* h^ve a nrr'c the United States, but we certainly ut: nit- kiiui 01 reaenon trial the surgeons c:iM shock after an operation." To meet the increased demands of busker's and carry on tho work of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce $1,403,270 was asked of Congress for the next fiscal year. That is an increase of more than half a million dollar over the present year's appropriations. Of the total for next year $1,100,000 would be spent for commercial attaches abroad mid for the prc~cticn of commerce. It is proposed to double the number of commercial attaches making 24, and to increase the number of trade commissioners abroad by 17, making a total of 56, while commercial agents would be tripled with a total of .??3. ^ Estimates include ijWOO,000 for commercial attaches, $?>00,000 for promoting commerce in general, $150,000 for promoting commerce in Central and South America and $150,000 for promoting commerce in the Far East. The increased appropriations would permit greatly intensified development of markets for American goods in l?a tin-America and the Far East, which are considered the most promising fields for American commercial efforts at this time, the report stated. Traces Center. 1 Going back three thousand years, Director MaeElwpo trnon.l - ^ VIIV veil Wl of commercial supremacy from Proenicia westward to London, where it had been since between 1651 and 1700 and said the last, war had moved the ccnter of commerce westward again, the predominant interests at the present time being on the Pacific in addition to t.b.o Atlantic. Analyses show, lie said, the reason for the rise of nations that successfully dominated the world's commerce to be that they v.-ere situated in the world's crossroads of transportation; that they developed their merchant marine and a navy t.?> protect it: that they possessed the raw materials needed to supply the wants of man and developed the artesinns to shape these raw materials into the form in which man could use them. f "We are spread out across the paths of the westerly movements in the destiny of commerce, Director MacElwee said. "As to natural resources ant 1 the skill of our artesians, these need no comment. Despite high waj*es, Yankee ingenuity and American ability to organize mass production with improved labor-saving machinery have made it possible for us, for many years, to dominate the would's commerce in such articles as harvesting machinery, sewing machines, cash registers, typewriters, office supplies, automobiles and many other kinds of gor>ds. o rne mMiciie ot last week was much warmer than it had been. On Wednesday there were showers of rain. CAN USE MATS. The Herald is now listed, or will be right soon, among the papers using mat*- where adve/tiscrs send out their advertising copy in that form. The making of mats is cheap and easy, while making nnd mounting electrotypos on wood bases for printing is a cost'y process1, ?nd :\gain the wood bases with metal facings take a large I amount o!' postage to get them to the | offices of the m^ity new papers v.-here they are used. (Kitinirn; V (Tablets or Granules) I f?l indigestion I With or without water; I pleasant to take. I QUICK RELIEF! I Prico, 3n r?0 7S^ 3 MADt: riY SCOIT ft oow.ve g MAKERS OF " SCOTT'S r.Mt.JLSION 11 & i