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.iOVERNMENT DEBT - TO BE REFUNDED Mellon Gives Plan to Meet Ohligations. Large Sum Involved. NVashington, May 1.-Plans of the $(treasury for refunding the govern nent's short -term debt, Including the Victory notes, Into treasury certiff cates of indebtedness maturiing ).. tween- 1925 and 1928 are outlined by Secretary Mellon in a letter tonight to Chairman Fordney of the house ways and means committee. Including the Victory notes, 'ap iproximately $7,500,000,00'0. in govern E ment, securities fall due1 Within the next 30 months. These, Mr. mellon re gards as a lump, and his program con templates the issue "from time tot tilie as market conditions are favor able" of certiflieates of indebtedness carrying over the retiriement of such as are necessary to the date of ma turity of the third Liberty loan. "This program,' the treasury head adds, "will make the short datcd debt more mamnaigeeabl and facilitate the refunding operations which will be necessary in connection with the maturity of the Victory notes." The Teasurty can exieCt to reduceP the outstanding short term debt about $1,000,000,000 before the whole amount matures, ir. Mellon says. He adds that substantial progress has already been made in that direction tihrpotigh i application of salvage receiptsa and minor surmplus tax rates, but any pro grai for retiring the debt must pre (pare the way for larger o)eratiois than have been the rule in tle past. No change in the treasury's pol icy of issii ug certil ficates of indebtcidlers to meet curreint require(ienIts is an ticipated, the secretary. says, adding that. he proposes to sandwich inl be tween the revuialar issues such offer Ings of certillcates as the market will Ibsor-b ii incarrying out the refund ing operations. Tle government debt in both lon g and short term securities amounted .to $23,365,510,000 March 1, a state ment accompanying the letter says. Of this $4,100,000,000 .was In Victory notes and $2,7515,8.11,000 in the form of short term certilcates of indebted ness which it is proposed to consoli (late i one great refunding arrange menolt. Citation for Letters of AdinistratIon The tSate of South Carolina, County of Laurens. By 0. G. Thompson, Probate .Judgeg Whereas S. Ii. Coker made suit to me to girant hIin Letters of Adminzistia tion of the Estate and effects of Pleas ant Young. 'lhese arie, therefore, to cite and ad-, ulon ish all and singular the kindred and creditors of tle said Pleasant Young, decerased, thap they ho and ap pear before me, in the Court of Prio bate, to be held ;4 -Laurens Court ouse, Laurens, S. C., on the ith day of May, 1921 next, after publication hereof, at ii o'clock In the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the sald Administration should not be granted.. Gi I ven un der my hand this 0th. day of April Anno D~omini 1921. 0. G. THI*OMPSON, 42-2t-A .J. P f,. C. C c c V%~i th 7 Ssem Of Fiire~and burglar proof val ths United States Federal money safe when We shall be glad to have noss with us. When you a in and consult us. It will We add 4 per Make OUJR bar The Enterprise . N. B. DIAL, President. JOHN ROBINSON 'CLAIMED. BY DEATh Former Circust Owner Victim of Bron. chitis. Dies at M1iamiii Hom1e. Miami, Fla., April 30... John F. Rob in1son1, retire.dl circus owner, died at his winter homo this evenin'g of chronic b)rolcilitis. He0 was 77 years of age. Mr. Robinson had been subject to bronchitis for a number of years. The last attack overtook -tlim about two years ago. ie failed rapidly and his advanced age .proved a barrier to re COvery. John Robinson, Jr., his sonl, arriver yesterday frolm Cincinnati and with _Mrs. ii. ,. Stevens, a daughloter, was at the bedside when death came. 'The body will be sent to Cinciinati tomor ow mlorni ng. The funeral will be conducted there. Mr'. tobinson was horn November -, 1813, in Linden, Ala., not two hun dred yards from his father's iiow. At the age of IS months 'Ie entered the sawdust ring on a career as performer which uli timately mnylde hint one of the largest cilcuts owners in the world. At IS years he had accuuluiated enough with the aid of his father to I'tart oil the road witli a circus or hi., own. This expanded until after the Conftederate war it became so cumbinher Somne to transport about the rough country III wNagols that Ntobinson con - (eived the idea of carryin'g it by I rain. It was the first tinic a circus had travelcd in cars Today the .John Rob insoln eirtus is travol'sing the country aind reiuires ~8 cars to carry it. itring the (otn fedetate war Mr. Robinson was an oflieer in the Fed eral navy. Ile spent Inleih tile and monevy in the yaars that followed in rebuilding the devakted sections. \ir. itobinson was one of foitur men who organized the United States Play ill Card corporation of Cincitn nati, of iich ho was a director at his death. Il also vas. a director of the United States Lithographing Company of CiI cinnat i. *1 * * * * * *, * * *t *C * * * * * W.'i"l'S MiLLS NliEW1S * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Watts AIils, 'iay 2.--The Wat ts Mills band Went to Greenville last 'Th11 rsday and played for tile openi it. of the baseball Season. On Sunday eveinlug Rev. II. C. Iartin admnii1stered tie ordinance of haptisilm, after which he delivered a wonderful sermon to an attentive congrega tioi. Oi Slllday, May Ist, at about noon, the death aigel visited the 1101110 of Mr. and Mrs. 1R. A. Gillespie anid took froml their midst little Vernon, aged 2 1-2 years, whito haks been suffering a very painful Illness for several weeks. The funeral service will be ieid here today, conducted by Rev. 11. C. Martin, after vichIfe1 the remains will he laid in tile cemetery at this place. Mr. and Mrs. Gillespie have a host of' friends andI relatives who dheeply symnpathize Withl themn itn their' sad bereavemnit. 1. I" /) Ilts and stacks of gold in Reserve Banks re'ke your it is in our bank, you come in and talk busi vant financial advice come >e a pleasure to serve you. cent. interest. k YOUR hank. National Bank C. H. ROPER, CashMer "BILL SIKES' HOUSE" MUST 00 Lcovated In -District Mado Famous by Dickens, - amd Stando in Way of improvements. The house from whose roof 11111 Sikes I red to lower himself by it rope to esenIpI tle m1ob that had tracked lim to .acob's Island is to Ite torn down. 1ill, you. remeiber, maile it illisstep IS lie tried to Swilig clear of the roof, and the loose fit the end of the rope enught him and'inngod him, wherent his dog, (tying to lenp from the roof to Ills shoiiflder, misse'd( his ohn ti(nd fell into tie ditch at the base of the holtse, dashing out his' brains on a stone. Jneoh's island is in iledtnondsey, near St. Savior's dlocks. The ditches or ennils whilch sepnirited it from lie ninlnd~ mid which iatrIed water from1 tihe Thamnes to the 11il11 and tani neries In the disrlet, long siice dis nypllred. 111ll Sikes' houseo was- idenl tilled som1e ltile ago by the discoverv of Jn old 111111 of the district, On whilh its lonat Ion was 10nil1y Imil enft ed. It Is in the refir of i 11ous1e in E10kett Nmtret, and 14 tsel as i stable. Thle Loindon coun-ty coulnell plans to Inprove the entire distrtict, so tho region 11111le not1orlot by "Oil vor' v'Ist" must go. iiie nm of thle 4xte.mnth Century Jnowho had a lirge h1ou1se anid garden on the Island, bfore it beenime fill Induslial district, 18 still preseved in the Ileaby Jlacolb Mt reet .-ltlit News. BUILT 'FOR HIGH ALTITUDES Frenchman Has Designed Airbus That Can Carry Passengers-Com partment to Be Airtight. Wh'ly not use- "nerinla subma~jrInes," for lit ,ght In the 11pper air--tiat is, Inlelosedl vars, Ili which :dr at atmos pheirle pressure ('n he Inilltained? lisks the Selentifle Americln Monthly. (1ly by some such m1eani11 will any bit at very few highly trsilned pilots 'ver h1 aible to attain to great alti tiles, necording to Dr. (Gugliellinetti, president of the section of physiology of the IIIternatioinal Aer'ioniaiite e('xIo sttion, ind Dr. (h1rsltux of the technl enl section of peronnutiels at the St. Cyr AMilitary academty, France. Louis Bireguet, the builder of air plnes, hIs designtied ni alrhus for use ot high altitlldes. It ha11s a wing stIrend of 85 feet and a mtetl fuselage In (losing pilot. tiotor and passengers in an airtigllt elgar-shiped cnse. It In enpl)lo of earrying twenty-seven paSisengers, ach with 88 pounds of haggage, i diistance of 020 iniles, or i ilot, two lchailelalls, 1 , 100 pounids (if provisions andi 10,1M) pominas ()I vasoiflin nt distuneo or 4:,039 1nle3s at 106 miles an hour. No oxygen taliks aire Ileodod. Old Coach Travel Expensive. In Englaild, too, railwaty fares nre ahout to lie ratisiEl, it even a i higher percentage than in this eountf-y, re marks ft writor in tih New York Times. Whether tie consequent grum bling is higher there than hero it is lipossible to deelde. A-4 fni intended help in stilling it, tile nowspapers are pui Ishing th prices for transporta tion that travelers alid to pny in pro railway days, Thus, for the tourney from London to Olasgow till' "Inside" passenger of '1812 h1ad1 to ilaty nhlout $5Z. Oolng no farthe1r1 than Newenistle fromn London Cost the( man1 inisiie tile coneh01 s011 tiling like $28. In adiion(11 there wa'fs tihe (Iutlhly for 111ents onI tile ronll andi for the long list ot' expec'tedl tips to guairds, coachmen, etIc. "Tommles" 'talk French. One0 (hetects thle Infltluence1 of thle wa'r in the villaige inns1of IIInlgilnd todny, 81ny8 n co1rresporn~lient wh hill 118Julst re turned&'t Cro1 i a waliking tourW. Th'ie ''1nd1s ofi the village'' aire home nigin, andil 1::nthor, 11s of yore, in t ho harl 18ntrIEr to dils< uss8 the l'venlts of the diay; bult t ini' Is a marked ifference1~~ In theilr volnlarylhl. Suchranc .ifte Ihnge tak I oane thei fr ih for iw 111 repenting nn ord1r3 -1fl t "linI i o' t ke,''pie ()velui til11re'tnized mthei of'lihtn Accongreunal or ikat. - th chis(ifein he.ity *Notleing tha lit i~i3 youmn feelk dng taled.'' srelabu o e had rd in aurset uant.laue shre ~hadno Is)e'In' for oreun yours ho* w~PO1ih her'- -NOt a11s they1 11r.ach b eralp Built fur Freak ~. "I Never Knew You Could- Keep Rats Out of a Butcher Shop." What Ralph Watkins says: "Fig ured rats around store had enough to feed on; wouldn't touch anything sui 1lious. heard about RAT-sNAPI, gave it a trial. Results wero wonder ful. Cleaned all rats out In ton days. Dogs about store night and day never touch RAT-SNAP." Three sizes, 35c, 5c, $1.23. Sold and guaranteed by Laurens I[ardware Co., Putnaml Drug Storo,'and C. H. Kennedy & Son. Colds Cause Grip and Influenza LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets removo the cause. Thero In only eon "Dromo Qtlnuiie." E. W. 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It does the work. filth in the outhouse, in the toilet, .re the.places where flies thrive... ys thern in the egg...withers them nd where it goes, foul odors stop! est naow h -timie. for r2tnnt likse without ' s frreatest uybhr -t NIS OVA1 handy