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TAX INCREASE ORDERED S ON FLORENCE FARM LAND.. State Tax Commission Serves Notice of Raise on Board of Equalization. The South Carolina tax commission ha> officially ordered the Florence county board of equalization to increase the assessments on farm lands in Florence county, J. D. Daniel, of Lake City, chairman of the iocal board, announced Saturday. The increase will be from 87.17 to 88.60 per acre, equivalent to nearly 20 per cent, advance. A board was at once appointed to appear before the commission and protest the order. This committee has asked for a hearing in Columbia at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon, June 2. Members of the board of equalization were surprised when they received the order of the state tax commission,which generally is admitted to have the authority to make such an order and to enforce it. The order is written by Walter (1. Query, chairman of the state tax board. It is ao ivuvttn. "It appears from the report of the Cou.ity Auditor of the action of the County Hoard of Equalization of Floience county that the average assessed value of farm lands in said county has been assessed at $7.17 per acre; and it further appearing that such*Valuation is too low for the purpose of putting said property on an equality with similar property in! other counties of the state; and it. further appearing that the average ( assessed value of land in said county should be $8.60 per acre. "Now under authority of Section 12 of an act of the legislature creati the Tax Commission, as amended in .1916, conferring power upon the Tax Commission to equalize all classes of property throughout the state. "It is ordered that the assessment of lands be increased from $7.17 per acre to $8.60 per acre; and that a copy of this order be served upon the Chairman of the County Board of Equalization of said county and County Auditor. o nniH) WORK IN WILLIAMSBURG. What a Good Home Demonstration Agent Can Accomplish. A summary of the past three months work by County Home Demonstration Agent, Miss Hattie McMurray, is very interesting and shows that her time has been well spent. She has 10 girl's clubs with an enrollment of 113 ami eight women's clubs with an enrollment of 65. All of these clubs have selected courses of study and are holding regular monthly meetings. Miss McMurray has held 74 meetings with an attend- j ance of 1,088. Visited 19 schools and 132 club members. Traveled 1,891 miles in the interest of the work. She writes as follows in regard to the various lines of work she is carrying on: "The people have shown more interest in poultry than ever before. A day never passes without somebody calling or writing to find where a market can be found for chickens or where they can sell them. I think the fact that we have been able to find a good market for the poultry through our county home demonstration agent in Charleston has stimulated interest in poultry raising. During this year I have shipped 350 hers and 100 friers which has amount j *i itcn (wi uo ????]_ i CQ IU Iliurc man v/.uu. axic yvui- ? try clubs are talyng more interest anil more of them are getting good i eggs. | "The ladies who have joined the i Home Producers Association are get- j ting everything in readiness for can-! ning. I have ordered three Burpee sealers, three steam pressure cookers and am getting prices on tin cans. We expect to order 5,000 for the ladies who have signed contracts in 1 the association. The Community clubs ! are new developments in this county, i The people are coming together in a wonderful way, the crowds grow larger each time we meet. "The meetings have been interesting and helpful and the programs full j of instruction. "The girls are all doing some gar-1 dei.ing work and expect to sell vege-1 tables through the Truckers associa- j tion. "I expect to take up butter work with the clubs. There are only a few good cows in the :ounty, but more are being bought ai.d peopiv are bsgu ming to want to make butter for home use and to sell. "The Farm Women's Council meets : regularly at stated dates during tin* year and the meetings are full of instruction. These women are promoting all county wide projects." MRS. S. 0. PLOWDEN, j District Agent, i I Letter From Miss Hannah Plowden to a Friend in Williamsburg County. (Published by request.) Shanghai College, Shanghai, China, April 20, 1922. My Dear Friend: Thank you so much for your nice letter written a short time before Christmas, and I certainly had no idea of waiting so long to answer it but somehow the days have been such busy ones that I never could get at it, although I often thought of writing you?I appreciated the message on your Christmas card. I still have all of my Christmas cards and greetings?There must have been a hundred or more, but I'm going to give them to a little primary school in a village near here. The college boys? The Christians?are running that .school for the poor children who otherwise would have no opportunity of getting an education. They rent the building and pay the teacher the magnificent sum of $12.00 a month ($12.00 Mexican silver) which is only $6.00 American gold. A fairly wealthy Chineseman has become interested in the school, although he is not a Christian, and has given the college a piece of land for a primary school and the money to put up a good building1. They have 45 pupils now, 40 boys and 5 little girls. They arc just adorable and have the loveliest manners you ever saw. They will value the Christmas cauls anil they have already given me so much pleasure. So I'll pass them on. I'm glad you have read my letters to my father. You know something of my life out here?It really is delightfully interesting. Before I came I had a deep-rooted fear that 1 would not love the Chinese as individuals but some of them are as personally attractive as any students I have ever taught. The same is true of the Chinese teachers. At the college we have forty-five teachers, a little over half of whom are foreign. So you see there are a good many of them Chinese. Almost half of them are returned students from America, where they did post-graduate work. They were A. B. graduates before going. One of them has a Ph. D. A good proportion of our faculty has Ph. D's. They are given much more attention and consideration in this generally ignorant country than they are at home. Rather paradoxical isn't it? I have twenty-one hours of English work and two hours physical training with the women students. I'm teaching them games and folk dances. Then I am advisor of Junior Academy, English Literary Society and Religious life. We are working on our spring Evangelistic campaign now. It is refreshing and beautiful to see these boys hard at work, on the Lord's work, and to hear them pray and not know a word they say! It makes you realize God's greatness and infinite goodness, and that He knows the needs of every human heart. You can feel that after all: there are real race distinctions, He is Father of us all, we are all His children, therefore brothers. Now, it is true most of them do not know all that. Besides their abiding hatred of Japan, they are having war?civil war that is costing dearly. You cannot imagine how glad I would be if you would come across here this summer?you could get some English teaching work for a school term and spend the summer before and after, travelling?and the holidays during that year too. You asked about expenses, and I asked at the steamship office to see ? ' 111- XT 1J wnat xney wouia oe. iou couiu gu from Charleston, S. C., to Seattle for something less than $150.00 and from Seattle to Shanghai for a little less than $350.00?$500.00 would be more than enough to land you at our college. There are several South Carolina missionaries coming out this summer and I'm sure there will be the following summer also. The largest proportion of the teaching in high schools and colleges, government as well as mission is being done in English. So it isn't so hard to get along without a knowledge of the language. Of course I'm going to learn it as quickly as I can for II don't expect to be in school work after this year. Please write to me again and tell me about my parents. Sincerely yours, Hannah Plowden. o Move to Reclaim Swamp Lands. Washington, May 29.?There are 80,000,000 acres of unreclaimed swamp lands and 50,000,000 acres of cut off lands in the south. ??Iuch of these lands is potentially the richest domain in the United States. These swamps are like a buriea pot of gold to the people who own them. They consti lute the soil conspiration 01 centuries but their reclamation is a task of such magnitude that only the national government can undertake it. Till now in land reclamation the government has directed its energies and spent the people's money only in the irrigation of arid lards of the west. It has reclaimed 100,000,000 acres of these desert wastes and settled on them 100,000 people who have built prosperous farms and teeming cities. But at this session of congress southern members have persuaded the house committee on irrigation of lands t 11 to include, in its bill the drainage of \ i the swamp lands of the south. The 1 ; bill has been reported out by the com- ^ i mittee and it is expected that it will ( be brought up very soon for consideration on the floor of the house. !' Representative Philip H. Stoll is one of the southern members who is pushing the bill for in his district j there is a great deal of such swamp lands as the bill is designed to re1 claim, liefore the bill was reported ' cut of the committee Mr. Stoll made ! a speech on the floor of the house i! in which he strongly advocated the project of draining these swamps and ,! leclaiming cut off lands. The arguI ments he presented for the drainage of these swamp lands were a factor ; in convincing the committee of the need of providing for this work in its bill. He showed that the drainage of the swamp lands of the south is a better agricultural proposition in dollars and cents than the irrigation of the arid lands of the west where ?8o0,000,000 of farm pioducts are i annually produced. He also showed ; that it costs only $6.64 to drain an ' acre of swamp land whereas it costs $26.80 to irrigate an acre of arid land. The bill asks congress to authorize j an advance, over a period of years, of $350,000,000 which is to be appropriated from time to time upon estiI ' - ?- L? it. 4. maies r.iaue uy ine seciciu*y ui mc Interior. This fund is to constitute : a capital for the building of reclama! tion works. ; The bill contemplates that the secj retary of the Interior shall contract j with a reclamation district, organized j under state laws and having the auj thority to issue bonds with which to ' pay for reclamation works, the bonds to be a general charge upon all the ( lands in the district One half of the expenses of all investigations for reclamation projects is to be borne by the district and one half by the government. The government undertakes to feasible project when the district deposits its bonds in a farm ' loan bank in ample amount to cover J the cost of the project, the bonds to bear not exceeding 5 per cent, interest and to run for a period not ex ceeding 40 years. When the proper ty in the district amouats in value to twice that of the outstanding bonds they are to be sold ani the proceeds are to be used to discharge the contract between the government and the district. Mr. Stoll said the great merit of the proposition is that it is not paternalistic. It simply helps people j to help themselves. He said that un- j der the plan the people in his dis!.?...?/ c,..oyv,v. on/1 /?,if nff lartfls ^ tlit't iUlVlIl^ OWOliJ]/ UIU VUW V?4 could in a very short time pay for ! the cost of reclamation and their j property would be advanced 100 fold j in value. ! Reduced Rates to Sunday School Con- j ~~ vention. j Spartanburg, May 29.?Reduced railroad rates of one and one-half fare for the round trip have been granted for the State Sunday School Convention to be held in Columbia, June 20-21-22. This rate is given on the certificate plan and in order to get the benefit of it the official certificate signed by Leon C. Palmer, general superintendent,-will have to be presented to the agent when purchasing ticket. These certificates can be j co/tiirn/l -fvno nn rAnilAst. hv aHrfrPSS- j ing the South Carolina Sunday School Association, 714 Andrews-Law Bldg., j Spartanburg, S. C. I Card of Thanks. Mrs. A. E. Hill and family wish to express their appreciation for the kindness and sympathy shown to them by their friends and neighbors during the illness and death of their father and husband. Hemingway,, May 28, 1922. CANDIDATES FOR CONGRESS. To the Democratic Voters of the Sixth Congressional District: I hereby announce myself a candidate for Congress from the Sixth Congressional District, subject to the rules of the Democratic party. J. F. PATE. I hereby announce myself a candidate for reelection to congress from the sixth congressional district subject to the rules of th? Democratic primary. PHILIP H. STOLL. W. R. BARRINGER Florence, S. C. CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS 6TH DISTRICT FOR STATE SENATOR. I am a candidate for the State Sen : ate, subject to the rules and the regulations of the Democratic primary. I believe that I can render real ; service to the County and State in the matters of taxation and of education. WM. W. BODDIE. FOR THE LEGISLATURE. In response to the urgent appeals of a number of my friends throughI out the county I hereby announce myi' self a candidate for the House of , Representatives, subject to the rules '! of the Democratic primary. !? WILLIAM R. SCOTT. I Insure your bam and tobacco I against fire with a set of close fitting i tobacco bam flues made and sold by Kingstree Hardware Co.?Adv 6-l-2t. T UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CARO- [ UNA ENTRANCE EXAMINA". I . HONS. I 1 c] Entrance examinations to the University of South Carolina will be held by the County Superintendent of Edu- i ^ cation at the county court house Friday, July 14, 1922. tj The University offers varied courses of study in science, literature, history, law and business. The expenses are moderate and many opportunities for self-support are afforded. Schol- ^ arships are available. , For full particular write to 1 PRESIDENT W. S. CURRELL, ! University of South Carolina, J Columbia, S. C. 1 6-l-15-29-3t. ! Subscribe now for The Record. . CHURCH SERVICES 1! Kingstree, S. C. !! i i'.uptist Church:?Frank C. Hawkins, Pastor. .! Sundav School?10:00 a. m. !! Preaching?11:00 a. m. ? Lilly Sunday Ciuo?3:30 p. m. B. Y. P. U.?7:00 p. r.i. ; Evening Service?8:00 Weekly Prayer service?Friday 8:00 ! p. m. J Presbyterian Church, J. W. Davis, ? Pastor. ! Sunday School?10:00 a. m. ] Preaching?11:15 a. m. ? Christian Endeavor?7:00 p. m. ! Evening service?8:00 J Weekly Prayer service?Wednesday ? 8:00 p. m. !! Methodist Church, J. P. Inabinet, Pas- J J tor. Rev. C. C. Derrick, Presiding ?j Elder, Kingstree District. <! Sunday School?10:00 a. m. | J teaching?11:15 a. m. 1 Prayer Meeting?Wednesday 8:00 p. .. m. \ | Epworth League meets?7:00 p. m. ?1 Evening service?8:00 ?. 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