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NOTICE OF COUNTY TH?ASUB?B The books bf tbc County Treasurer will bo opened for tho collection o? State, County, and School taxes tor the Fiscal Year 1914,"and Commuta tion Road tax for tho.year 1?15 at tho County Treasurer's office fr?m^?c*1 tober 16th to December 31st, 1914. After December ' 31st, ona - per v cent penalty will be added; and after Feb ruary 28ih. seven per cent penalty will bc added. Hil the 16th day of March, 1916, when the books will bo closed. All persons owning property ra moro than one township or school dis trict, aro requested to call for receipts In EACH TOWNSHIP OR SCHOOL DISTRICT, in which the property Is located. Ou account of having: BO m?ny school, districts this request ia very important to the taxpayers and will to a largo ?it?nt eliminate extra cost'and penalties.'' The rate of levy ia Ss follows: ( ... State Taxes ..'.'. .V... ... .6 Mills Constitutional School, Tax ..3 Mills Ordinary "County Purposes' 3 1-2 Mills Past Indebtedness. 1 mill Road a and Bridges .. .... .. 1 Mill Public Roads .. ... .. .. ....1 Mill Total .. ...... .. ....16 1-2 Mills Thc following oro.. tho. additional levien Tor Special.School. Districts:1, (v. Dist , No. Special Total Levy. Levy . Mills' iltiur Anderson .17 '6 . 21% Airy Springs... ..Gs 4 19% Barker Creek ...C7 4 10% Bevardam .66 :. 4 19% Belton 1.12 3 . 18% Bethel ..........t6 '8 17% Bi6hopvD~-meh.:;28 . , 19% Broylos ..;'..,. ^5? ll 19% Calhoun ........ ?9 '2 1T% C?dnr ?r?vo ....30 4 19% centcrvllle _., 6 . ".'* 19% Central ........ :68, 4 19% Cl eve hind ........ 36 4 19% Concrete ........19 . .4 ??9%i Cornef ,..v.,18 ?] 4 .19% Do ubi o Springs ..CS 6 21% Ebeneser . :.46' 2 17% Eureka ...26 2 17% Fairview.....63 ,4,. 19% Friendship ^.....85 . il'Jy'.- 10%. Gabtt..84 o% 21 Conorstee..61. :4 19% Good Hope......43 2 17% Green Pond ... ; . .69 . g - 23% Grove . .*? ...".. .65 . 3 18% Hammond ....... 3 6 21% Honea Path ..i.lS i ?S$? Hopewell1........ 7 4 19% Hunter ..........24 7 23%' Ivb' .........V...44 * 7 22% LebahOn ........27 -4 19% Loni?l-Bronch .. : ;8S : 4 Jfttti Maftlfi'.16 , 4 ?*H Moiton ........ .". ul -Vi - 1*5? MtVerse*^ .Vv.^>7tJ ; -' -2\ . : 17% Mt.. Vlo^r ... .. .. .18 ;4 18% M6 "Ennoyll? ....60 8 21%l Mc Leese ...... v. 63 4 19%! Neals Crook 60 3 18% Oak Grove ... .C.S9 2 17%^ Pendleton .....^ 2*. . 4 19% Flercetowa 64 ,3 1$% Rockr\Mti?s ;.:.Vv6 4 i9% Rooky'.'Rlvor ..,";?69,-;. .'. 2 N' 17% Saluda ...... v.. ;26 Va 17%' Savannah .... v.. 9 3 18% Slhipsohville ....41 8 18% Starr v37 7 22% flt. Paul .?v.^..'i'Y4' ' ' 4 .. ? 1?% Three, & Twenty'22 . 4 ? 19% Tdwriy?re1 i?..i.\40 6 ' *1%| Union'iii . . . ?rr.il : -4- ?..19%i West Pelter . . . .; 8 8 ?ji? White Plaina ....48 4 19% WilUantstori 6 M2?%! WilUford ...-.M- 4 - lt? . Zion -.v.;8 . auf. Straight .-.:?V?-?4^iv:-V.<?'' ' #f??j ' The Sfa^.'Constimiiob'reaulres alt nmje^|^ eorvod In the War bV-Woeb tho 8lates to p4y s:^iie.W?;^ malo person's l)etWoeh,the ages ot r? -7 >-!;y.J?*. V.'?" J'I.? p, *rne Friends. Did you ever think* how transitory raoul of tho .friendships bf? life are (row very Blight the tte that binds ua: of ea to th?ae whose?com pa.ny we' *p Joy, and whose pleasure we would promote,. How easily charge of place or eli cum stance crowds out the did occupants \jf the heart r.nd welcome's dew ones in! We are BUY rounded with pleasant people, their society fills a largo place in our lives, their res pect and esteem is highly valued;'we ate glad to receive and render fav ors ; hut let tita*be removed from them but a short distance. Just so that the ayes of our daily life do not interest oach other, 'and somehow they fade imperceptibly, hut surely away,, lust aa the mist fades or the .closing day 1 urke n s. And j the death-they ; whoso, '.ives, while living, seemed a necessity Sq our own, and.whose death was like an eclipse of all our ' joyous , beiag-r how easily wo become accustomed to their absenco, abd dally : duties and new-found loves bridge over the. aw ful chasm1 and fill tho gloomy chaps which thoir departure 'made. But some friendships live; some love t?kea such deep hold upon the leart that- . % Time but the impression stronger , makes, .As Streams their, channels deeper . . wear: ..i v . '. Did you ever go into some dear old home, where the walls' wero hung with glowing masterpieces of nature vnd . life-grandeur to owe the soul, and beauty to delight the eye, and where the collings were illumined by .he hand of genius and radiant with' ?bo .-very smile and triumpa of irtt These ploturea may be znovct* some UmcB for, otliers; but tho frescoed ail racle s %of art stay steadfast In theil placo. No chango disturbs them, but 'there they remain, growing ripe bud mollow with age. JuBt so lt is with Jie heart. Many .pleasant occupations ?orne and go, but thero are those who 3tay, like the frescoes on the waihi iud are ab integral portion of; the heart itself. He who has such friends -whose, memory, is a picture gallery, wh?r? in frescoed beauty smile. the faces of .unfading love-r-is: sich, In-* leed,: rich in gb ods that cannot ; be purchased In tho market, and;whose valuo does , not, fluctuate . with the brice:^]'i<M;--.Thvt. yob and: I,.'dear reader, may baye such friends abd lesorvo them, ls the wish? of Uncle TJ?V?. A few days ago. Jdst aa the,aub waa rising, in the SUUnoss Of the beautiful {norning we .heard the rumble* and roar or i a great, train leaving the de ft TUicnlhg opr eves that way, w? md the 'train, itself concealed from sw? but its progress ; was marked the great hursts of smoke which constantly mao rrom the engine, biak* ;he tho cbtnpring position and prbg ?: through the i clear thin air of. irbatr.an?rbi Rolling out in great 1 [black t?Ubw?,i ife wbuld -widen aoOil whiten, unroll abd spread; and pile upi 'tn' fantastic shapes,/ only to unroll I * ' and tako on other shapes mot Mc .^.^?ulh.|rM^^a'^B1??!^w^. growing moro, impalpable and ?li We can rise by meanc of tali. Ami, departing, leave behind bs Footprints on'Uro now turned noll. . Some '.oiks think j HO much about what ihey are going to do. next .that they can't give the right sort of at tentlon to what they are doing now. Somo folks kick the preachers who Ore too great cowards to kick any body else, Some people And fault with me bo 1 cauBe I don't suit them. That makes me laugh. I never started out espe* cially to suit them. I never found but One person in my life whom I seemed to suit very well, That person is my wife, I and I sometimes discover that I do bot suit her just exactly. The bu siness of life ls to do our part in it lust the beat -ve know how, and let all those who whine because they are not suited with us Just go on whin ing if they want to. . ' 7 '.. -- Keep on smiling whether you have anything to etude about or not, and ' you aire sure to run across something to justify tho pleased expression lie fer 0 long. -UNCLE DAVE. .A Flight In an Airship. V As I had learned.to manage an air ship very well I was in" tho service of ,Uncle Sam,, a prominent man of I Atlanta offered me tho best machine made'if I would enter tho race in the flight around, the world. A 1 studied lt out and decided that L. could fly around the world if it was possible . On .April the first my wire less- operator and I started from San Francisco. I waa to,get provisions at cities', which had been mapped , oat There:, were many 'men lu tbe. rac?, Most of us got to the Atlantic Ocean hil right, but crossing, the Atlantic Ono man, whoso, ship wen.t to a.watery jjrove, went with, it, and , three whose ships sank wcro saved by a ship. Aa tho Airships .carried a wireless outfit, tho Englishmen knew we were com ing, but the other dations were ighor rint ut us. ?s t was *aasmg over Paris 1 waa shot at soyerol times but wasn't hit I wah also shot at going over Bel gium and t?erm?ny. : While passing over Russia ? ' sixteen-pound shot toro off Ono Of my propellors, and WO floated to the gTob?d. I bad j already .boon given my passes, but thsy -said they deedod my operator and wireless apparatus; and were determined to nave; them, so I left without them. As l stopped to get sffiho proviBles= in Tokio, some officers arrested me. as ? spy.They were fighting Germany, and said I was a German., Having the necessary tools; as I was to be shot the next morning at sunrise, I thought I had better ?oave. They ahot at me WoV-??m&-- SfeOtt*-?-tkc-ssaad. harely scraping ;ffeho^cst of the voyage ?as ^thout . M. L. Bonham* Jr. (Continued from Last .Week.), Early next morning we left' Lau-, s?nne and followed the Tthine Talley to Simpl?n tunnel. Boon we were In the plana of Lombardy s*xd rah for miles along the shore Oi J.ike Mag gi ore. with DHOW-co ve red Alps in the background. Haring two hours to wait in Milan, aa it waa Saturday and my change was running low, I decided to cash a check, so with phrase, hook and dic tionary I spent two . brocks framing up a beautiful (?) Italian sentence, asking for directions to the Cr?dito Italiano. Soon I 'saw a pleasaut-looic ing Italian gentleman,. So fired my sentence at him.- He looked amused and said In English, "If you have.a piece or paper, I'll draw you a dia gram." '. 1 . After going through more than 67 varieties of tunnels, we reached Ge noa.in the afternoon. It ia beautifully located on a crescent of hills sur rounding Gie. gulf... But Gie streets are narrow, dingy and dirty; as a rule. Next morning we hunted up NO. 37 Vico Dritte di Pohticello, the houso in which Columbus was born. lt Is about 12 feet wide, sind four -stories high, situated In a narrow,. dingy alley. It bears the following Inscription (ask Prof. Scotti: "Nullus donut's titulo dlgnior bole paterbin la. ?editas Chris tophorous Columbus -pueritiam1 prl mamquo luventam trahssglt" That afternoon we Wen> on to Pisa and took a stroll along .the Arno io rorc supper. We had. the. pleasure of bearing a splendid military band dis course operatic. muslo - in ono of the public squares. Wo also admired thc Sunday uniforms of the Italion police men, who look as gorgeous as the L. S. U. drum-major at Mardi Gras. Next morning* we visited, "the?.? famous ca thedral, the cemetery,.-with twenty shiploads ol earth from Palestine. I,The courtyard 1B surrounded by clois ters containing rich frescoes and stat uary. The baptistery, < ja circular, I domed edifice, has a wonderful echo, which sounds like a pipe organ. From the top of the leaning tower the plane of Lombardy look' like Sa checker board. " ? I : July 6 found ?B in. Rome, and any j ono ? desirous o ? hearing all that we saw and did in tho next eleven, days ls urged to register.; for HlBtory J.j "d." Perhaps -'-the" most, impressive [sight was the Colosseum' "by moon light Unlike Lausanne, Rome is not a "spotless town," and., tho ancient ? sewer, the Cloaca Maxima, . emeilt better than most of tho streets of thc ?Eternal Caty. ? v. ,. A - } -Florence ;was '.our ? next step, ' abc tnere ? got'tbe only.half-way decent cup pf ;coffee-I had had since leaving Louisiana. The Plttl attd?Uffizl pal ?eos, the monastery where Savonarola lived, &e . Ponte >yecoblb?Ifllled witt Shops,-.-nave been so often and sb wei described that lishan't attftmpi it; th< .'?ss?s'; la." trso ...bi^-? campanile ' and tho baptistery witt Ghiberti's . wondrous r.bwmse- do^rs Among other places wo vijpitedf.weis r EUROPE -'. --s-i-. ?the royal atables. A. young American who happened there'at the same, limo, looking at one of the stalls, said: "I wish I had a bedroom half us good as this." Wo arrived in Venice Just in time to see a beautiful, pageant That night we took a gondola and went to tho Grand 'Canal, Where a bargo, beauti fully lighted and containing a splen did band, was being towed about'tho canal. Hundreds ot gondolas followed, and the hotels and public, buildings Iilqng the canal were splendidly 11 un-.luatcd. i lu Venice'we saw luce-maid rc g and glass-blowing abd spinning. Not only arc there vases and beads, etc., made ot glass, .but we saw. Bpuh-glass af-, grottos, ' woven and plaited glass' bolts, etc. At one of the furnaces a Workman made for Mrs. -B. a piccolo eade (little dog) bf glass. She wrap ped lt lo cotton and carried it across the Alps, through France and Eng land, across the Atlantic in very stormy weather, through Canada, and on tv? Nev/ York, without a mishap. In unpacking him, she broke off his (ail,;after having brought him safely about ten thousand miles. ! Leaving Venice, wo stopped a night and morning in Milan, to . see .'the splendid cathedral and Da Vinci's ?gr?at painting, ''Tho Last Supper." (To Be Continued.) OQO?C OQOOOOOOOOOO lo RIDGEWAY ITEMS o o '-O o O O O O O O O O ? O O, O. O O o o Tho farmers of this section are busy picking cotton 'and .sowing grain. But the biggest portion ot the cotton ls al ready .picked. MIES Elise Rainey has been very sick but Is Improving rapidly. " Mrs. Ti h. and J. H, Balney visited Mrs. Dean Hall Thursday. . . Several of the people of this com mu- j nity attended the Wild West Show. ..Tho teachers and part ot-.tho'pupils attended the Hallowe'en party at Starr High Behool: . Revenue Versus. Welfare. ? V"Any revenue which la derived by onV government, from sources which tend to degenerate and degrade any portion of .the people ia .bad. Evory source of information, medical, socio logical and economical,.tends to prove that, the consumption of liquor ls dan gerous and that it depreciates the physical' vitality ot the consumer, hts mob tai c?pacity and his economic .ef ficiency. This being tr1, -y it follows thai our gbvernm?n?at ?v?nuo from tho liquor traffic should oe cut off' - Prot Franklin H?ckborn Ot tho Unl yorai?y of aiifprnla. I FROM, NOVEMBER 1ST- TO NOV EMBER . . 3?TH, WALLACE WILL Sr-*S t?^?OED HATSS . ON PHO *?GUA:PH3 TO AVOID CHRISTMAS ! ^lail^ftT?pI? 2 DOORS BELOW BEBi'mva:^ '. . ::i - .. . . ' : 0000000000400000 io o o STARR, NEWS o o 6 ooo?oooooooooooo STARR, Nov. 3.-Tho Hallowe'en party on last Friday night "?n thoj school building was a success^ ;every' particular. Tho children enjoyed to \ the fullest seeing the witches and shoat*. p."d .especially tho ..old lady with 100 pockets, all filled with deli cious candies and luscious fruits. The patrons and friends of , tho school hero, are sincerely urged to come out to tho school building. thia evening at 8 o'clock to hear Miss Mag gie Carlington. Rev. W. B. Hawkins with bia child ren; Albert, Charlie 'and Margaret, and Misses Konnerly and Galloway, ail Ot Townvllle, visited in Starr on last Saturday. . t Mi us Annie Shirley spent tbe week end in Anderson with her parents, Mr, and Mrs. JameB Shirley. Messrs. T. B. Jones-and Frank Hawkins with Miss Nell Kellett of Townvllle spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Jones. ' Mrs. C. C. Smith. wiUi her little daughter, Cecil and Raymond Bodsou spent part of tho paslf '. week hero with relatives. Miss Annie Mae, Master Dean, and little Miss Elizabeth Russell of An derson, spent the week-end with their I uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Luther Dean. I 1 Mr. Clyde Shirley ot the South Caro I lina",visited friends here Ute past [week. Mr. Hess of Pittsburg, Penn., has ! located here and oponed up a b??ber' shop over,the band building. I TOWN VILLE SCHOOL NEWS* ? j Our school building has und ergon o I a vast improvement Bince the oponlbg of cchool. , Th? wallr, have been made attrac-1 live .by new pictures,'Gio blackboards; i havo had chalk holders attachrj to them, a teachers' doak has been placed, in each room; a flower and newspaper stand has been placed in [the vestibule and' numerous other,lit-; ' tie improvements have been made.' \ Oh the outside of the building a number of Improvements havo been made also. Swings for' tho' pleasure of tho girls, jumping, apparatus and other things for the days; . 'Another improvement is: Old Glory floating over tho building. --?.Tais work has boon don* by. the boys of .our. school. The older boys superintended it ' and also helped to ?5? Gie real work. i V i Hs Ob;. Monday, October 20, thc, c?sss ! Officers Were el ec ted. ; For senior, 'cjasii. President Paul Smith; vice president, Sam Earle; secretary and treasurer, /Miss ' Ruby Reeves. SV?" IJunt?T cla?sV^pr?sident, Otis Bolt; vlc?-pr?ald?nt, .Miss Mae Shirley; sec &t?ry 'ftf?d tr^sb'r?ri1 *?L*a bettar.: ? ' ' * " (MISS) WINNIE GRUBBS, Cor.-See. il PAL CROCERp .../ll... IDEAL PRICES Pancake flour, two packagps s; for. ... .... ... ,2$c I Buckwheat flour,, two pa?k .ag.es for.. .. j..?5c Malaga gripes jit, per. pound.Y.20c Fla. Oranges, at 20c and 25c Kalamazoo celery at 10c, 3 for 25c. Sweet potatoes at, a peck . ..35c Kingans Reliable hams and breakfast bacon, Just the thing for breakfast now. New IUKS of cerials just in. Okra ar?d tomatoes at, a can.... ...... 1 Oe Pie peaches at, a can. .toe ' New lines of cereals just in. Blackberries, at i bc and 15c a can. lied Raspberries, while they last-regular 35c can at.. .20c White "Royal Anne" Cher ries^-regular 35c value at. .. ... .3oc., Don't fail to includs with your order three cana of tho famous,. . and.. delightful , "Golden.. Glow,f \ coffee;; Satisfaction gurtfanteedo California peaches 2 for 25c Cooking apples, peck . . 25c : Black walnuts, quart ... ,5c .! Mine? meat; package . .IOC Bring your coupons; here j i. for "Clean Easy" so.ap.: We ; will gl?clty redeem them for you. ^jffe*?'* P^e a. Ko ii?9 We8t Be??on Sfr??t io the publk an?Y0U ave fedi?l?y ^e Purchase of a 1P?ano or organ, or not, we wish yo? to ?all ^ if yS"^* .* iSPS?! j?6 ??tend you ? Spe?i?d invitation to call, see and heair these ?You Are Most- Cordially invited To Come. fl yv;:? I MI M. P?T^?RSO^f, Manager. N?.^ao West Benson Street