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I
LOOKING TOWARD 1940
Pageant Progresses
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Everybody who has made even a
superficial study of political history
knows that it is not' the personality
of the candidate which determines
Presidential elections, but the issues
and principles for which he and his
party stand.
It la true that the orator whose
voice can star the emotions often
seems to have an advantage over his
opponent with a less persuasive plat
form or radio presence; but Presiden
tial issues are not decided by such
personal differences.
Mr. Lincoln was one of the lesat
attractove public speakers of his time
and those who believed that the
voters of the nation would be swayed
by mellifluous words rather than by
principles did not concede him a
chance for election in 1860. And in
more recent times, there had never
been such an orator as William Jen
nings Bryan, none could stir crowds
to such a frenzy of emotional en
thusiasm as he. But Mr. Bryan fail
ed in each of his attempts to win the
Presidential election.
Those suggestions are dropped for
the consideration of people who are
beginning to think about Presiden
tial election of 1940, as everybody
is who is interested in politics—and
that includes almost every American
citizen.
It will make little difference what
particular individual is nominated
by either of the great parties. The
result will be determined by other
considerations than that.
The standards of character of the
men who have become Presidential
candidates of the great parties have
been uniformly high. No man can
climb so high on the political ladder
without having had every phase of
hie character subjected to the most
intensive scrutiny.
REST
The long bitter winter has past and
spring is here. Nature has made
the trees burst into leaves, the flow
ers to bloom and the green soft
grass invites one to rest. And let
me say that rest is not idleness.
To lie on the grass, under the
trees, or near a babbling brook, lis
tening to the ceaseless, soul-quieting
murmur 0 f the rushing waters, and
gaze up at the fluffy clouds as they
drift across that inverted bowl we
call the sky, is better than all the
medicine in the drug store and will
do one more good than can be mea
sured in any terms.
There is nothing better for the
soul and body of man than to put
the cares of life aside for a time
and to let the mind lay down its
burdens.
Some well versed authorities at
tribute the long life and robust con
stitutions of primitive peoples to the
fact that they Hve in the open,
breathe fresh air, exercise daily, keep
close to nature and spend much
of their time in complete relaxation.
I recall meeting in Russia an old
physician who told me that he at
tributed the heartmeas and longevity
of the peasants to the fact that they
spent much time in resting and
while doing so never talked, but re
mained absolutely quiet. In the sum
mer they reclined beneath tree.i
upon the grass in the shade and in
winter upon large (platforms built
over their ovens, all talking at these
rest periods being rigorously flor-
bidden.
Most of us instinctively fear old
age and make desperate efforts to
prevent its approach, when the right
thing to do is to accept with a smile
the inevitable—for there are no
drugs that can prevent the oncoming
years from taking their toll.
But the average individual can do
much to grow old and still preserve
the much desired youthful looks for
ten or twenty years longer. One
does not have to grow old at fifty,
especially if he has led a sane life
during the preceding years.
Too much food, too much stimula
tion, too much exercise and too little
fresh air, too little sunshine, hasten
the coming of old age. If you live
as much as possible in the open, eat
good food, well' chewed, cooperate
with nature, do not drink alcohol,
tea, or coffee to excess, avoid other
The shaping-up and training of
sections of the big cast to take part
in the “Calvacade of Progress” pa
geant is well under way. The
pageant, biggest feature of the ses-
qui-centennial celebration will be
given at the college stadium on May
1st, 3rd, and 4fth. Rehearsals are be
ing held almost daily with some of
the groups and everything is shap
ing up nicely, according to Director
McDowell.
A partial list of those who will be
seen in the pageant follows.
Jackies’ Drill
Bessie Newberry, Harriet Bowers,
Frances Warner, Sophie Way, Atlee
Davis, Brooksie Hutchinson, Frances
Hunt, Mary Sybil Evans, Mary Ale-
wine, Evelyn McCrackin, Kitty
Smith, Lucy Smith, Rebecca Pettit,
Edith Jones, Katherine Duncan,
Grace Senn, Margaret Senn, Mary
Betchman, Kathleen Kirby, Polly
Counts, Geraldine Longshore, Helen
Wilhite, Carilee Wilhite, Frances Bo-
die, Helen Shealy, Mary Layton,
Margaret Davis, Clara Layton, Doris
Sligh, Clara Danielson, Myrtle
Hughes, Mildred Jones, Katherine
Adams.
Ballet
Virginia Hayes, Marie Fellers,
Catherine Dickert, Virginia Dufford,
Edna Louise Bowers, Rosemary Bo
wers, Carrie Lee MeSwain, Sara
Frances Sutton, Elizabeth Harrison,
Mary Margaret Pope, Sara Linda
Goggans, Bill Elam, Barbara Elam,
Mabel Summer, Jean Copeland, Jano
Summer, Caroline Mayes, Mary Birge
Kohn, Eulalia Buford, Mary Louise
Wells, Dot Thornton, Dot Ross, Grace
Mower, Amnia Margaret Lominack,
Dorothy Berley, Leah June Vigod-
sky, Elizabeth Blease Baker, Rose
mary King, Margaret Paysinger,
Elizabeth Haye®, Marian Reese, An-
tionette Sease, Elizabeth Mower,
Mary Lou Wertz, Gloria Simmer,
Bebe Purcell, Betty Jo Counts, Mary
Helen Carpenter, Gladys Nichols,
Edith Poole, Doris Smith-
Nation’s Girls
Virginia Dehihns, Doris Oswald,
Margaret Reeves, Katie Ptearl Shealy,
Dorothy Senn, Nina Wood, Martha
Creekmore, Dorothy Harmon, Eliza
beth Riser, Betty Jean Gatlin, Jean
Carroll, Ida Mae Smith, Sadie Hum
phries, Rosalie Bodie, Lula Mae
Brock, Mary Ellen Boland, Mary Lou
ise Porter, Christine Wertz, Grace
Attaway, Dorothy Davis, Doris Mar
tin, Lillian Boland, Frances Bannis
ter, Margaret Evans, Martha John
stone, Margaret Bledsoe, Martha
Mayer, Vera Delle Driggers, Ernes
tine Gibson, Vomie Griffin, Isabelle
Nelson, Muriel Mayo, Florence Dav
enport, Elizabeth Keisler, Becky
Nell Stewart, Nancy Summer, Doro
thy Mae Thompson, Edna Stone, Nbr-
ma Long, Virginia Booth, Louise
Purcell, Mary Ann Davis, Anna Hart,
Billie Elam, Pauline Duncan, Allie
Lou Clary, Margaret Welbom, Mil-
dred Derrick.
excesses, mental, physical and emo
tional, sleep at least eight hours a
day, relax, and by that I mean com
pletely relax at least one day a
week, old age will be robbed of much
of its fears.
Do not brood. Worry adds to ones
years rapidly. Abraham Lincoln,
who was unquestionably confronted
with grave problems during his years
in the White House, and was burden
ed with a nation’s sorrows, always
smiled and had a story for everyone
which would bring a laugh.
President Roosevelt, who at 39
years of age lost the use of both
lees through infantile paralysis, for
got uis troubles, sought and found
other interests and is remarkable,
despite his official cares, because of
his cheery smile. Push worry aside
and you actually add to the length
of your day* and incidently make
your life more worth while.
WHITMAN-SMITH
Miss Ludie Margaret Whitman
and Mr. Curtis Pet Smith were mar
ried on April 16, 1939 at the resi
dence of the officiating minister, the
Rev. J. B. Harman, in the presence
of several relatives and friends.
Mrs. Smith is the youngest daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Whit
man of the St. Lukes church com
munity near Prosperity, and is a
graduate of the Stoney Hill high
school of the class of 1938.
Mr. Smith is a son of Mr. and Mrs.
Linzy D. Smith of Newberry, R. F.
D. No. 4, and is a graduate of the
Batesburg-Leesville high school of
the class of 1935.
They will make their home in
Charleston.
Their many friendls extend con
gratulations and best wishes.
Spectator
COMMENTS
Vice-president Gamer seems to be
in the lead for the Democratic nom
ination for the presidency. South
Carolina will probably not be strong
ly New Deal, judging by the State
Democratic Convention of 1938. Poli
ticians may not know it, but the New
Deal tie-up with negroes and Catho
lics, and its lukewarmness to the
farmer as compared with its exuber
ant enthusiasm for the WPA and
various other pet extravagances, will
not make the New Deal platform
strong one to stand on next year.
BUM
FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1939
Even hard-t jaded successful farmers,
when electee to the Legislature, fall
under the s >ell of Columbia and
plunge the $tate riotously in debt as
the most pkodigal of the Golden
Spenders. ^
The problem is to carry the homely
virtues and! commensense from the
farms and Small towns to the Legis
lature.
So Congress grants a hundred
million more for WPA and thinks it
has saved the country fifty millions!
think the hundred million of new
money was every cent of it too much.
The Congressmen in Washington are
too timid to put up a real fight. Sen
ator Smith deserves recognition for
telling the Senators that the whole
thing is a vote-getting affair.
I had Ijbped Governor Maybank
would say to the Legislature and
people something like this: Gentle
men, I don’t know all the details «I
each public service; I don’t know
where you can trim with the least
friction, but I know one thing clearly,
and it stands out like a sore thumb,
a we are spending about forty-nine
million dollars, and that is too much.
Cut where you please, but reduce
this enormous total.
Is the liquor revenue of any real
benefit? When the question of li
quor revenue was under consideration
so much was expected that I had
a sort of sneaking notion that all
taxes would be wiped off and that
the sheriffs would pay a cash divi
dend to each citizen. Well, well;
haven’t seen my dividend yet. In
fact, instead of relief, we are spend
ing more and more, all liquor revenue
notwithstanding.
To men with faith in righteousness
the question is: “Is It right to sell
liquor?” If not, then the State
should not dignify it or degrade it
self by legalizing a bad thing. Now,
then, even if revenue should accrue
from the sale of liquors will it finally
be helpful?
Just consider our State: All the
liquor money has not brought relief-
Of course there is the so-called prac
tical man who says a dollar is < t
dollar regardless of the source. But
the Apostle Paul says wHh a larger
spiritual horizon: “Let not your
faith stand in the wisdom of men, but
in the power of God.” Yea, verily,
(The greatest event in the history
of mankind was EASTER. It lifted
the veil and revealed the new path
after ibis road is blocked. The great
worry of all the ages was that of
dissolution. The dark and gloomy
grave fills us with horror. Then
came the Son of God, lighting the way
to immortality. All our faith, all
our hope, rest on the resurrection of
Jesus.
“Why should it be a thing incredi
ble with you that God should raise
the dead?” asks Paul. If God he
the source of life, the rekindling of
that spark or the transfer of the
vital current is no problem for Him.
If we deny this we challenge the
power of God; and if we doubt that
we reject the very idea of a God.
A few days ago I looked out upon
the stark, naked trees. How dead
they seemed! Nature stripped them
for the cold winter; but now the
trees are revived and clothed again,
redolent of spring, but somewhat ty
pifying the new life and new body,
the celestial body, assured us by the
resurrection of the Savior.
If you live long enough you will
learn many things. All my life
have fought shy of calomel, quinine
—and all such, but recently a man
came to see me about my pecan trees
Guess what he proposed? Well, if
he had recommended cottonseed meal
could have followed his reasoning;
if he had indicated a need for appli
cations of potash or acid—well, as a
farmer I could have grasped that.
In fact, if he had told me of the vir
tues of nitrate of soda or sulphate of
amonia—all well and good. But say,
what do you suppose this man want
ed to put into or around or about my
nut trees? Calomel and quinine!
expected him every minute to call the
drug store for a little ipecac or even
nux vomica. I held a box of aspirin
tablets so as to revive the trees if
they should develop a headache and
I kept a bottle of ammonia near at
hand for a swoon on the part of the
trees.
I hope the tree doctor doesn’t re
quire me to give a cold “dope” to
each tree every day during the warm
weather.
Is there any danger, I wonder, of
trees requiring hamburgers, hot
dogs or ham sandwiches?
• • *
A momument should ie^erected to
Representative L. W.' *Busbee. He
had the bravery to stand up in the
House and declarge himself in favor
of reducing the expenditures of the
State. So far the House has seem
ed to be under a spell. Mr. Busbee,
like Horatius at the bridge, stood
against the rush of the foe. Specta
tor will gladly ebon tribute a dollar
toward the fund for the monument
of unexampled heroism. Strength to
him! May his tribe increase!
Income tax f 893,000
Corporation license fees 430,000
Beer and Wine permits .. 30,000
Beer and wine tax 525,000
Liquor tax 1,175,000
Vocational education
funds 100,000
Additional appropriation
needed for State 4,460,102
So you would do something to this
bill? Why do you think we have all
those beautiful teachers coming
(7,000 ladifes) to Columbia for noth
ing?
Well, when you boil it all down
you are face to face with the ines
capable conclusion: Our State is a
camp of partisans. One is for
Clemson, though the farmers them
selves be sunk in debt; another is
for the public schools, frills and
foolishness and everything else tho
a certain place freezes into blocks
of solid ice; yet another is for the
University or The Citadel at what
ever cost. Few, mighty few, are re
solutely, vigorously and resource
fully working for you and me. Our
institutions have swallowed us.
We are becoming Highway and
Anti-Highway partisans. It cannot
be denied that the Highway Depart
ment has become over-zealous for
great projects. Some of the pro
jects are soundly conceived as public
enterprises but we would be wiser
to spend money where it is most
needed instead of on grandiose un
dertakings. The present political ac
tivity, on behalf of the Highway De
partment may result in victory, but
in disastrous victory like winning
lawsuit.
I admit that ethically and logi
cally the Highway money should be
devoted to the roads exclusively, but
I am compelled to admit that money
is not always used wisely. While
hundreds and thousands of men are
paying—and have paid for years—a
high gasoline tax they are still in
the mud. Yet all sorts of roads have
been straightened; and this, that
and the other have been done that
did not help that man who drives
over dirt roads. Moreover, I don’t
see anything for him until all the
splendid avenues and boulevards
shall have adorned the approaches
to the cities.
REVIEW
of NEW BOOKS
PAUL B. CLARK, PH. D.
1735 Woodburn Ave.
Covington, Ky.
N. A. Coward, editor of the Bel
ton Times, left us recently for the
life everlasting.
I first knew Mr. Coward when he
came to Columbia as a member of
the famous Economy House. He was
a serious-minded, purposeful man,
one whom 1 esteemed and cherished
as a friend.
The same day of the passing of
my brother Coward I lost two other
friends, one In the city of Anderson
and the other in the town of Man
ning. My old friend of long ago,
Godfrey H. Geiger, affectionately re
membered as “Chancellor Geiger,”
one of the brothers whom I have long
valued as friends, even from the
time when the memory of man run
neth not to the contrary, as the
lawyers say.
The Chancellor was a fine man, as
steady as a clock, steadfast, immov
able, yet with a dry wit that was
captivating.
The third friend was my neighbor,
Joseph E. Davis, a genial, likable
spirit, friendly with everybody, neigh
borly, warm-hearted.
What’s wrong with our state gov
ernment? The answer is: “DEAM-
ERS!!”
At bottom our greatest difficulty is
to find men who recognize in private
buiness that 2 plus 2 equal 4 but
who in legislature either forget to
add or how to add. The State is com
mitted to every scheme which some
dreamers muse over in their som
nolent hours. When they wake
they mistake their dreams for visions
and regard themselves as crusaders
of righteousness.
In private life we have gumption
enough to recognize that we cannot
do all the good things that may occur
to ns; we know that we cannot buy
Packard cars with Ford incomes; we
cannot buy $100 suits of clothes
with $15 incomes; we are even wise
enough in private life to know that if
we have a Ford income we can’t af
ford a Cadillac 16 cylinder limousine
even if we could get it by matching
for it 50-60. But in public life our
people don’t recognize these facts.
We act as though the State were en
tirely apart from the taxpayers.
What’s wrong with our State
finances? It is all as clear as day;
we are spending more than our in
come. What, then, is the remedy?
We should spend less. That’s the
whole thing in a nut shell.
No great genius ie necessary to
correct our trouble. A little common
sense would take care of the diffi-
cutly. Aye, there’s the rub! That
common sense is the rarest of all
senses.
Can the State reduce its expendi
tures? It should be as easy as fall
ing off a log; but is R? Well, no,
To tell the truth it is very, very dif
ficult. Let us see how difficult it is.
Would you reduce the University?
Years ago it turned out its greatest
men when it received Only twenty-
five or thirty thousand dollars a
year. Now it requests for the next
fiscal year $568,580. It has grown
enormously. I am not attacking it.
But if you propose a cut there you
will have us alumni all over you for
we be numerous and all around the
State. Woodman, spare that tree!
Then if you think of touching the
Citadel—well, every man who ever
went there will draw his sword and
advance upon you. The Citadel now
wants $187,777.79 and General Sum-
meral will show exactly how the last
ounce of gunpowder was used. And
if it be Clemson! Well, now there’s
the greatest pilitical tie-up in the
State. While genial and lovable Dr.
Sikes give* everybody the glad hand
on the hill Clemson has her men as
County Agents and Assistant County
Agents and assistants to the assist
ants and as triple A men and helpers
to the triple A men, both in Columbia
and every county seat. Nay, my
brother; don’t bother Clemson. It
started out as a school for the far
mers’ boys; then it branched out to
teach the farmers’ boys’ fathers how
to produce more, but now it is over
whelmingly dedicated to the effort to
show him how to curtail—but you
mustn’t annoy Clemson. They asked
for $201,(111 for collegiate work and
$410,479.36 for “public service acti
vities”. Well, perhaps you as a leg
islator would take Winthrop in hand,
eh? Well, if you lay an impious hand
on that cherished institution ten
thousand women, nine thousand hus
bands, nine thousand fathers-in-law,
thirty thousand school trustees—and
other thousands, too, will ask the
reason why.
So what? Would you reduce the
school bill ? The amount requested
is $5,455,238 23—but that is not all.
Nay, nay. The total amount from
the State is nearly eight millions.
And the authorities estimate that
the schools will spend during the
present fiscal year, $9,606,891.33. Of
course that doesn’t include heavy
special district taxes nor certain
general county-wide taxes.
Do you know where this money
comes from? Well here’s the esti
mated school revenue from the State
for next year: All this is over and
above district taxes:
TESTAMENT OF FAITH. By P.
S. Hop wood. Macmillan Co. New
York City. Pages xii-215. Price $2.00.
A fine book by a noted English
thinker, a graduate of London, Ox
ford and Glasgow, minister of the
Oak Street Congregational church,
Accrington, England, and author of
‘The Religious , Experience of the
Primitive Church.” This splendid
book is a valuable asset to the series
to which it belongs, GREAT ISSUES
OF LIFE, edited by Rufus M. Jones
who wrote the introduction for this
volume and whose name alone car
ries weight for all who know him or
read after him. The recital of the
chapter headings of this book is not
as forceful a way to show the power
of the book as is usually the case.
Dr. Hopwood is interested in ground
ing his testament of faith in meta
physics, not in reciting texts, telling
anecdotes and jumping to conclu
sions. He points out clearly the
failure of the materialistic view of
the universe, page 20, how the mind
and experience go together, even re
ligious experience it may have—ra
tional, aesthetic, moral and religious.
Kant made the religious experience
link on to the moral, practically out
of the moral; Hopwood makes it an
additional experience in its own
right in revealing the nature of
reality, page 82. This book is as
fine an insight on metaphysics as we
have seen in many a day; it is oppo
site to humanism. Science and the
scientific theory are useful but they
do not go far enough; they are limit
ed and yet they use faith in a fine
way so far as they can. The point of
the whole book seems to be this:
Faith carries within itself its own at
testation, in the four major realms of
human experience at least.
Boil it down: the thing to do is
to put every dollar in one appropria
tion bill—and cut the whole -tiling
fifteen per cent!
As to Welfare—let the maximum
be one million dollars, with fifty
thousand dollars for administration.
Prune and purge the present list and
stop sending people into every nook
and comer to to hunt up “clients” for
relief.
cn/nd
HO
hj S.DcKpu
REGARDING COTTON
ALLOTMENTS
Acting County Agent J. L. King
has just received from Washington
through Mr. R. W. Hamilton, State
Administrative Officer, the following
telegram:
“Notify all county officers immed
iately that 1939 Conservation Pro
gram amended by omitting the pro
vision for computing payment on 125
per cent of planted acreage where
less than 80 per cent of cotton, wheat,
rice, vegetable, or potato allotments
planted and failure to plant not due
to food or drought. Payment will be
computed on basis of allotment ir
respective of acreage planted for
harvest in 1939 if it is determined
that normal farming operations are
carried out."
Mr. King points out that tb- tele
gram must not be interpreted to
mean that payment will be made to
farms where the acreage allotments
is exceeded. Previous regulations
will govern payments to farms over
planting acreage allotments. In
short, states Mr. King, the Washing
ton message should be interpreted to
mean that it will no longer be nec
essary to plant 80 per cent of the
cotton acreage allotment in order to
receive 106 per cent payment. If a
farm has received a cotton acreage
allotment and no cotton is planted on
the farm, payment will be made pro
vided the farm is not classified as an
idle or abandoned farm.
Author of Sister Miry's Kitche
After mature thought I am forced
to 'the conclusion that .we are all
crazy. Perhaps the war caused it.
is,
What a nice man Uncle Sam
really. A few years ago he was
shylock, a skinflint—and all that,
hypocrite, too, he was. Now the old
boy is all right. Well, well. How
nice it would be foij England and
France to make some friendly little
gesture about paying some of that
money they borrowed and reneged
about, eh?
Morally wrong, dangerously wrong
are Germany and Japan and Italy.
But old shylock needn’t throw away
any more of his money or precious
lives. Unless or until we are our
selves hurt we have nothing to do
with Europe.
IThe proposed new and increased
taxes have one merit: they do not
impose additional property taxes, or
a general sales tax on ordinary
household groceries. If the Finance
Committee of the Senate had a man
date to suggest new sources of re
venue it has avoided several pitfalls
but if the Legislature should adopt
the proposals it would commit our
State to more than four million dol
lars of new spending, while taking
care of a million and a half of cur
rent deficit.
We probably have become benumb
ed or callous about rising expendi
tures. The Idea of doing every good
thing in a day has become so popu
lar that the cost is not regarded as
a deterrent. We simply must have
all these newfangled things and we
must do all that has become popular.
At bottom the spending habit has
swollen like a dropsical man because
the big taxpayers are in the minority
and the rest of us are being stung
to death without knowing what its
all about.
This new five millions means that
our State commits itself to a pro
gram of fity-five million dollars for
the next fiscal year. We must not
delude ourselves into believing that
an appropriation bill for fifteen
millions represents what the State is
spending. We are now spending
about forty-nine millions and now we
are to add five and a half millions
to that. Every effort to put all ex
penditures in one bill has been resist
ed. Why? Why should the Legisla
ture hide from us what it is spend
ing? ,
Some of the suggested taxes do
not bear on important business;
others are open to objection.
State, County, and municipal taxes
in South Carolina will total nearly a
hundred million dollars!!
WANTED—Fat cows and veals. FOR
SALE—fresh hog lard, country
hams, and middling meat. Will deliver
in Newberry. A. Cecil Quattiehaum,
Prosperity, S. C. 10-#tp
When our men-folk work in the
garden they can wear any old
clothes and get away with it on the
plea of comfort, but it’s quite a dif
ferent story when we women want
to do a bit of gardening. Even the
woman with the hoe must keep up
appearances. Despite the bending
and stooping and digging and weed
ing a woman must do in the garden
she must always look charming and
attractive.
Therefore consider your gardening
togs and accessories just as seriously
as you do your house dresses. Study
low-heeled shoes, heavy gloves, broad-
brimmed hat and a dress that gives
plenty of freedom will keep you com
fortable and presentable. Don’t for
get to invest in a kneeling pad of
some dampproof material to protect
your knees when weeding and trans
planting.
• • •
Large meshed chicken wire can
be used to fit any size and shape
flower holder. The large mesh wire
is more flexible and easily handled
than a wire of smaller mesh. You
may need to make a small, loose
ball of the wire for the center of a
particularly large bowl and cover
the entire top with wire, too. So
if you have a supply of chicken wire
on hand you needn’t hesitate to use
unusual and odd-shaped bowls for
flowers.
• • •
House work and gardening both
are enemies of spotless nails. Dust
ing, dish-washing, and weeding dry
out the natural oil in you nails and
make them dry and brittle.
Try using manicure preparations
containing oil and rub your nails
with olive oil every night before go
ing to bed. When you work any
ointment around the cuticle work
from the center of the nail base out
and up toward the nail tip, follow
ing the direction of thfe nail. Work
ing in the opposite direction is
“against the grain” and tends to
form hangnails.
• • •
Shoes and bags of alligator and
lizard-skin are smarter than ever
this spring. You can keep them
looking like new if you go over them
with vaseline to which a few drops
of glycerine have been added. Then
wipe with dry .clean cloth.
• • •
Roses are greedy things, you
know, so don’t neglect to feed them
the first thing when you can work
the ground. Use well-rotted manure
or some well balanced garden ferti
lizer. Cultivate it well into the
ground around the bushes.
TREASURER’S TAX NOTICE
The Tax books win be open for the
collection of 1938 taxes on and after
November 1, 1988.
The following is ths general levy
for all except special Tvarpoeea:
• Mills
Ordinary County > 11
Bonds and Notes 7
Int. on Bonds & Notes 8%
Roads & Bridges 2
Hospital . K
Con. School ... t
County School i... 6%
County Board Ed 16
Total v .' 28
The following are the authorised
special levies for tbe various school
districts of the county:
No. District Milk
1. Newberry. .: 17
2. Mt. Bethel-Garmany 4
3. Maybinton i 2
4. Long Lane t
5. McCullough i $
6. Cromer 0
8. Reagin ... .i $
9. Deadfall 8
10. Utopia $
11. Hartford i •
12. Johnstone 8
13. Stoney Hill S
14. Prosperity ..> 1$
15. O’Neal! 8
18. Fairview : 4
19. Midway 4
21. Central i 4
22. St. Philips 8
28. Rutherford 4
24. Broad Rlv>*r 4
26. New Hope-Zion 4
26. Poranria 11
27. Red KnoU > «
28. Helena i.... 28
29. Mt. Pleaaant . 4
30. Little Mountain 1616
31. Wheel and i 8
Union 4
Jolly Street 1 8
34. St. Pauls 0
36. Peak i 4
37. Mudlic 8
38. Vaughnville '. 8
39. Chappells 6
40. Old Town i 8
41. Dominick 8
42. Reedersvills 16V6
43 Bush River 1016
44. Smyrna 1 1016
45. Trinity 8
46. Burton > 8
47. Tnmwood 10V6
48. Jalapa . 8
49. Kimirds 2
50. Tabernacle i.... 8
51. Trilby 4
52. Whitmire i 12
63. Mollohon 4
54. Beth-Eden i 8
55. Pork 8
67. Belfast ' 6
58. Silverstreet 12
59. Preesley 4
60. St. Johns *
There will be a 1 per cent discount
on general County Tax daring Nov-
On and after January 1, 1989. tbe
penalties preecribed by law will be
imposed on unpaid taxes.
Those who had their dogs vaccin
ated for rabies during the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1988 by one
authorized by law, and expect to be
exempted from dog tax will please
bring their certificates of vaccination
when appearing to play taxes.
You are requested to call for your
taxes by school districts in which
property is located. The Treasurer
is not responsible for unpaid taxes,
not called for by districts.
J. c. broo:
Treasurer Newberry
REV. HARMAN IMPROVING
Reports from the Newberry coun
ty hospital, where Rev. J. B. Harman
underwent a minor operation this
week, are to the effect that he is im
proving nicely.
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