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LEVY OF SEVEN V FORj Legislature Fixes Expenditur a Good Sized Decrease Year. Some of Items. The State, Marel 13. Ioth houses of tihe legislature yes terday afternoon adolpted the lree con- I forence report on tihe ;iene ral appro priation hill and a. finally 1passed by the legislature t he hill carries a total of $5.31,10t.01 : lid a levy not to ex ceed se-on mill as comn parled with a total appropriationm of $6,539, l)6.i and i 12 mill levy in i!921. The bill is a decrease of $695319.7. ovei the 1921 appropriation and tlie lev is five milis below the fiure for 3:wt year. t'nder tile hill a.. pased by thel hoite t the appropriiatins were $5.".(1' .% tund th' levy ..a . live m1ills and under the meausnure a L.;is h the in'te A TO N IC Grovo's Tasteless chill Tonic restores: Energy and Vitality by Purifying and Enriching the Blood. When you feel its strengtheing, 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 inl 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, Invigor ating Etfeet. 60c. ASPIRIN Name "Bayer" on Genuine A IAY[EA 'Bewaro! Unless you see the name 'J3ayer" on Iackage or on tablets yot (r not getting genuine Aspirin pre . ii dby physicians orf twenty-one years and prov-ed safo by millions. Take Aspirin only as told in the Bayer package for Colds. Iheadache, Neural gia, Rheumatism, Narache, Toothache, Lumbago and for Pain. Handy tin boxes of twelve Bayer Tablets of As 'pirin cost few eents. Druggists also spil larger packages. Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester of Valicylicalid. . THIN, FLAT HAIR GROWS LONG, THICK AND ABUNDANT; "D)anderine" e o a I a only 35 ents at bottli'. One appilication ends all (dandirulT, stops itch ing and falling hair, and, in a few moments, ~ you have doubled the / beauty of your hair. ' It i 1 appear a Imass, so soft, lustrous, and easy, to do up. Butt what will please you most will lbe after a few weeks use, when you see new hir fine and)( downy at first yes-but really new hair '' growving all oveor the scalp. "D~anderine" is to the hiair w~hat fresh showers of rain and sunishine are to vegetation. It "oes right to the rootbs invigorates andi itreng'thens them. TIns delightful, stimulating tonic heclps thin, lifeless, faded hauir to girow long, thick, heavy and~ liuxuia nt. You Can't Trust Calomel at All It is Mercury, Quicksilver, Sali vates, causes Rheumatism - and Bone Decay The next dlose of calomel you take may salivate youi. It may shock your liver or start bone necrosis. Calomel is .d'angerous. 'It is mercury, quicksilver. 16 crashes into srour bile like dynamite, cr'am ping andl siekening you. Calomiel attacksthe hones amid "should never be pu~t into your systemi. Xi you feel bilious, hecadachy, consti peted and all knocked out, just go to yppr druggist and get a bottle of Dod sen's Liver Tono for a few cents which is: a huarmiless vegetable substitute for ditngerous calomel. Take a spoonful and iff it doesn't start your liver and straighten you up better and quicker tham nasty calomel and without mnaking you sick, you just go back and get your monev. Don't take calom~l I It can not he trusted any more than a leopard or a willd-cat. Take Dodson's Liver Tont wbleh straightens you rIght up and ,n es you feel fine, No salIts necesr . Give .t to the children because It - s p 1eotly harmless and can not salivate. IILLS APPROPRIATIONS es for 1922 at $5,839,106.04, From the Amount of Last he bill 4'rovided for a total appropria ion of $-005,909.09 and the free con Orees Increased the amount to $5,839, Oti,0 i as tle final total. Some of the changes made by the lonferees were highly important, in ,luding the reductiona In amounts and he increasing of other amounts. The Aliller aiendment not to allow iny institution or school teaching tho )arwinism theory to draw imoney ap iropriated under the terums of' tle bill vas rejected 1.y tie free conference. Sone of the major ehanges made by he confer s may be' listed as follows: An incra.-e in the salary of the ioutse chaplain Irom $125 to $200. An incr e:nse in the Salary of 'the re 'od ing clerk in the governor's ollice >y $:'0O an1d the resto ratIon of the tenographer's salary of $1.500 that va.. A lminated by hoti houses. .\1i0ti1 of the corporation clerk in .% rar.y of state's office whici h.n aholi'lmhd by the oise and uK8;fl l tempary election eirik for ma yt 11: the nate. 'rac icall y all chief r s' lalties : -n ,:I ' i with one or tso ex The . nate amndment providin. 11i111Vi ' 11 f(( a V~ tV VO~ti~ 1111 ITCP %0 IdI ', lut~ an a . n~PfedcroIte vet erani receiv ing in a nn in o Ia I meonic of $1 .()00I oIr over thall not reeive a pension except $1 vas adopted with a ftithe. amendment szt.rikiaig out the $1 andleavingall - uci' vete ans on the honor roll. ilte salary of the bond clerk in the treasurer's o1lice was raised to $2,025. The national guard fund for the adjutant general was cut fron3 $27,000: to $IS.500. An increase from $193,000 to $206,. 000 was allowed the university. The 'Groviso allowing the Citadd board of visitors to borrow $90,00( Was redlced to mtiake the amotunt no 0overl $7.7.o0t). In the board of pliblie welfare ont field agent that had been abolishet wa.; restored and several salaries wer< slightly increased. Salary cuts were made in the de partment of health and the $17,500 foi a water supply antd building at thu Palmetto sanitarium as added by th senate was retained. In the tax commission the salary o the chairman was ralsel from $3,60 to $1.~00 and several other addition were made to the tax commission forcei. A Proviso Was also adopte allowing the commission to expen $25,000 out of the income tax law t Legislative department ........ .. Gove-rnor's office.. Judicial department ............ Secretary of State.. Comptroller General . ... . Attorney General ........ State Treasturer ......... Adjutant General......... University .... .......... CItadel................ Clemson College ........ Winthrop College........ MedIcal College ........ Confederate H-ome College. State Negro College...... Deo Ia Howe School ......... D~eaf and BlInd School ...... D)epartment of Edutcat,ion...... Historical CommIssion..... ... . State Library...............,,. Confederate Museum..........., Relic Room..... ............... State Iiospital ......... .....,...., Penitentiary ..................,. Welfare Board ..... ..........,... Pardon Board ......... ......... . Feeble-MInded Schtool........... Boys' Indusqtrial School..... .... Girls' Industrial School..... .... Negro <Reformatory..... .....,,,, Catawba Indians............... . Deaf and Blind Committee . TLaw Enforcement ............... Board of Health................ Tax CommissIon........... ..,.. Tax 'Review Board .............. . Insurance Department....,...... Bank Examiner...........,.... Railrc-ad Commission........... Ganme Warden ......... .........., M\edical Examiiners ........,...... Law Examiners..............,,.. Boardl of Fisheries......,,,......, Board of Conciliation..... ..... Printing 'Committee .... ..,,...... Agricultuiral I)epartment ......... Warmehouse Commissioner ..... .... Public 'Service Commission . Pharmaceutical Board..... ..... Sta~te ElectricIan.......... ... . Ilighway Department ......... Sinking Fund Commission . Confederate InfIrimary .... .... Confederate Veterans........... State .House and Grounds . Contingent Fund ..... .......... Abproved Claims...... .... ...,.. State Fair Society .... . ... . Budget Commission .............. Miscellaneous ..... ....... ~rndr Total.......... collect the tax, this being in addition to the stlpulated amount. In the railroad commission $5,000 was added to the amount for investi gations, A proviso was added to the chief game warden's figure so as to allow him to buy a $6,000 boat. Several raises in salaries, including those of the cashier and marketing cleric, were allowed for the department of agriculture. An additional $1,500 was also added for the market bul letin. lly a proviso the state electrician is authorized to make contracts for lighting. In the highway departnent the $8.000 to pay the Santee -bridge comn mission for services nwas stricken out and another cut of $5,000 made. A wroviso was added to the sinking fund commission section -so as to al low the sinking iunld commission to borrow, if necessary, money to cover ime outstanding loans owed by the uni versity, Winthrop and the State hos pital, amounting to $236,853.2-1. The con tingent fund was raised 1rm $68,000 to $98.000. Senator Pearce and liepre.entative Sapp both made statistical statements oi the floor of the two houses show in how the ioiey would be raised this year iuderI the appropria tion bill. Their s;taenient follomvs . The aIppropriatioll lill as agreed to by the free conference committee, Car ries a total appro"-riation of $5,839P, 106.01 or in rouid no mhers a reduc ion of $1.000,000 below the ap propriation of 1921. Thi reduction I reprseits a cut of approxi mately 15 inld 1-2 per ceit below the amount ap propriated last year. The levy has als) been redticed from 12 to seven mills-a net reduction ini the levy of five mills. Tie free conference could and would have reduced this alppro priation still further, except for the fact that it was compelled to make an appropriation of $30,000 for the ipaymncit of a Judgment against the state of South Carolina in re the Sandel case (contingent upon the re silt of an appeal now before the su preme court) and for the additional arlropriations required for the tax commission to carry out the povisions of the revenue laws passed by this sessioll of the general assembly." inder the terms of the bill the statement of Senator Pearce and Rep resentative Sapp shows that the bill will be fInanced as follows: Corporation taxes and fees $ .170,000 l)epartment inspections, etc. 330,000 Inistitutional operations . . . . 170,000 FrGasoline tax........... 350,000 Additional corporation taxes 125,000 Income taxes .........,.1,000.000 s Property tax (seven mills).. 3,179,0'00 i The appiropriations carried In the 1 1922 bill as compared mwith the ),amounts granted last year follow: 1921 1922 .. .... .... . $ 119,155.00 $ 123,088.00 21,400.00 19,569.24 .... .... 157,698.66 157,698.66 11,675.00 10,010.00 . .. .. ..749,970.34 723,856.34 . .. . . .. 20,000.00 14,331.25 ........258,212.27 258,068.62 . .. .. .. 35,817.50 47,396.50 . .. .. .. . 243,355.00, 206,203.7o , .. . . ... 252,315.00 150,039.86 . .. .. ..226,147.15 242,862.85 , .. .. ..398,6394.60 :173,130.96 . .. .. ..100,117.50 85,153.00 .,.. .. 4,000.00 4,000.00 . .. . . .. 63,005.21 70,4i50.00 . .. .. .. . 57,418.00 56,702.041 . .. . . .. 161,333.33 104,620.00 .. .. .. .. ...1,528,930.00 1,321,540.00 . ... ... 1 ,760.00 4,258.30 . ... .. 4,1 15.00 41,220.00 .... .. 100.00 100.00 ,... .. 1,000.00 1,120.00 . .. .. ..784,123.94 631,559.40 ........103,093.08 100,000.00 . .. .. .. 29,666.00 29,574.50 .,.. .. 300.00 400.00 , .. .. .. 45,000.00 47,3412.00 . .. .. .,126,270.70 70,786.23 ..... ... 20,015.00 15,979.50 . .. .. .. 46,077.00 28,532.00 .... .. 7,700.00 7,700.00 ,...3.. 00.00 200.40 ........ 28,400.00 28,100.00 . .. .. ..199,255.00 177,265.00 ... .... ......6,200.00 59,600.00 .... ... 1,500.00 550.00 . .. .. .. 20,7415.00 22,826.25 .. . .. . ...u. 24,525.80 24,025.80 , .. .. .. . 20,1 41.20 39,1147.20 ...... .... 11,125.00 11t,125.00 .... ... 3,000.00 3,000.00 ......1 50.00 4150.00 ,...... .... 10,500.00 10,500.00 .... ... 1,000.00 1,000.00 ..... .. 00,445.00 76,851.00 ........ 82,743.40 83,570.70 . .. .. .. 50,720,00 58,705.00 ... .. . .... 2,000.00 . . . . . . , .. .. ., 1,500.00 2,000.00 . .. .. .. 66,195.00 34,245.00 . . .... . . .... 130,590.00 103,315.q5 ... .. .. 18,192.50 9,252.50 ... .. ... . 62,000.00 31,012.64 .. ... .. 1,500.00 1,500.00 . .. .. .. , 7,1'25.00 5,835.00 ... .. .. . 75,000.00 98,000.00 ... .. .,,. 7,2-38.69 19,421.19 .... .... ...., 5,000.00 6,000.00 ....8.. ,750.00 ." 8,600.00 .. . .. . ...,.... ...,15,252,6 .... .. . ...$,534,925.82 $5,839,100.04 /- f A7 SWHENI GROW UP il .LL SHOUT FOM HI SPEND YOUR MC THAT WILL HEL ofou 0 i ! II .MC.NERKR LES! The above lesson is one of whic ested, It is a lesson of co-oper an appeal to our community spii A little less Latin and mc education through taxation of th shown the folly of sending mon< 1-and that feeds them and to hor buying away from their home tc MORAL:---A lesson lei R. W. Willis Furnituto of All Kinds Musical Instruments We Invite Your Inspection Laurens Drug Co. Pure Drugs, Toilet Articles, Stationery ' "The Rexall Store" Switzer Company Ready-to-Wear - Dry Goods, Shoes, Notions - Your Patronage Solicited S. M. & E. H. Wilkes & Company House Furnishers Furniture, Steves, Chinaware, Tinware BVERYTHING FOR THE HOME Minter Company Cash Department Store DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, SHOES, MILLINERY Advertiser Printing Company Printers and Publishers Read The Advertiser and Keep Up With the Home News J. C. Burns & Co. Home of RED IRON RACKET Mere Goods for Same Money, Same Goods for Less Money Laurens Coca Cola Bottling Co. Quench the Thirst With a Bottle of b~elcious Coca Cola - Buy It ,By the Cra'to Wells Clardy Co. 'T~o Big Stores Dry Goods, Clothing, Shoes, Notions CARRYTERIA OROCERIES Quality High Prices Low Oin the une HOME k4D EARN APAY~,YO GHEST TOWER: iIEY IN AWAY P THIS TOWN RS. SO DOES t4 FATHER AND YOU BET I WILLTOO LATIN AND MORE OF T hevery man, woman and child in thi aition betw.een the home merchant, r -it --- a plea for us to "get together." ,re civic pride should be taught Our c e home merchant and citizen. So th ,y away from their home town. Tea kor the town that contributes to thei wn is a menace to the growth of the irred early in life is never lost. H1. L. Roper & Co. Lumber, Doors, Bash Blinds We Can Furnish Your Entire Bill for Your House. Wharto n Clothing Co. The Man's Store Cash Clothiers --Suits Me Grebr' r HymeIN N MOREy D1evry Goo, woan andothiln Ri-ap eay- sto-Wgetaoete. eLoeearnsn ctiraen Soh Bya ayrter hompaon.y e Willard tontatcteributesnd thrvic Hrmp Landpr Co.reu evc Eat Laurnsh YorEtiroe Bill Exh an'seStore Ca pltiers $100,000.00 FRESOLEW PBANE OWposit iTy Presden H meFuniture Co Laniuretos, StrgeCok Bat-omte ComPurniser Willia ateisoanomonic "Qualty and Cortceo Sermvie Peole LnMyson." W. A. HOUGHPrsien "rSCete Home t urnisers Wathesade Jewelr Rpe Doomon .Ramunte Seou tieof Sae el BUY IN LAURENS DONE,.JOMNI 3 GROW UP DONT !ET TO BOOST YOUR .TOWN AND SPEND R MONE.Y HERE YPATHCR SPENDS HIS MONEY IN HIS HOiCEOW 5 W HIS -commuinity should be inter anufacturer and consumer hildren. They receive their ey are never too young to be ch your children to respect the r welfare. Teach them that community in which they live. BENCHOFF'S 5 & 10'Ceilts Store "Buy it i Laurens" WEST SIDE PUELIC SQUARE Davis-Roper Co. Department Store "Laurens Best Store-Quality L ae ns No.na JJ.AA ,Prsdnt co.nt HoBldKeY inter hTde herceive Theare N or chlnl orspmect teo comirsin whhtereBusine.or TEBEST HOTOPLYS FRST IEOLSUARE Asoerula Coa prten Statoer "LPurE Be& StoreOLUPPliy J. a.dSel it Sompan EaTeFiy Moer C. DogeVegotes Moto Seas Poe 20Drgc Cmandyt Drus ndBaicnkso l fd Caitola and Vtrpu $100ord.0 OneJ-TADAMSr Haredaeto HardwaHe LAgrcLturas.ime Thetsncesl Thgle ate tOnly, frAmueenotngt fodr