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T Scire mt ^COpYRIGHT BYCHARL J CHAPTER I. Cousin Percy's Little Jokfc. I suppose every oue hns had the experience of waking in the middle of the night to find everything perfectly still and quiet and normal, and yet with the Impression persisting that there had been a tremendous crash of some sort Just before the waking senses were alive enough to realize it. It was some such razlug Jolt as this that was given me on the morning when t was called In, with the other I members of the family, to listen to the j reading of my grandfather's will. I But, first, however, to give some idea of the conditions precedent, as u lawyer would say. My father?good, easy-going, comfort-loving Dad!? never owned what Grandfather Dudley, pursing his thin lips and snapping the words out, ' ailed "the money ( sense." As an architect high In his Ty profession and with fine artistic feel.' Ing for the beaut! *ul in buildings, he earned a liberal income?and spent it; or so much of It that there was barely enough left after his denth to provide for my mother and sister, and to keep me going, as you might say. in an exceedingly modest manner. Without work, I mean. I may as well confess, at once, that I had never acquired the work habit. I was always "going to." but It was so fatally easy to keep on postponing the chilling plunge. T suppose I hnd been ready on at least half a dozen occasions to take n dive Into some pool with a salary attachment; hut always some good friend would ihob up to say. "Oh, come on. Stannle. old man; we're lacking Just one more to make up the hunch. Don't ho n clam. Time enough to settle down when you have to," and then It would be all ofT. 4} Besides, von see thorn wna niwnvu Grandfather Jasper In the background. He had money?lashings of It, so we all believed; and It had been a family understanding for years that he Intended splitting the hulk of It. fiftyfifty, between my cousin Percy and me. Before we go any farther, let me set It down that Cousin Perey was? and Is?all the seventeen different kinds of things that I am not, and never wished to be; smooth, neat, wellgroomed. a "grind" In college and a "perfect dear" with the girls, ambitious as the v?r.v devil, and measuring his friends by the amount of "pull" they might he able to exert In his behalf; there you hnve him from the crown of his well-hmshed little head to his patent-leather pumps. "You're a fright, Stannle," he would ay, lu his carefully polished diplomatic manner?he hud a billet in the Department of Stute at Washington, and was In training for the legation arvlce abroad?"you are a perfect fright. Three whole years out of college, and you haven't done a single, solitary useful thing yet. When are you going to begin? And, incidentally, how long are you going to keep Lisette waiting?" Oh, Lord!?right there was another knot In the tangle?Lisette. We had agreed to agree?Lisette and I?some six months or so In advance of Grandfather Jasper's death, and we were both perfectly well assured, and had assured each other u dozen times, that my Income from Dad's estate wasn't more than half big enough to marry on. You see, It was this way: Lisette was one of a family of four girls in a mighty expensive household, and there wasn't anything to lean on on that side of the fence. Though, of course, we never discussed It brutally In so many words, we were waiting for that jflfty-flfty look-In at the will which family tradition declared had already been #drawn up, signed, sealed, witnessed . and put away In cold storage; other \wine in ine snre-Keeping of Grandfather Jasper's family lawyer. All of whldi may serve to bring us tiack to that nightmare effect registered at the start. When the Dudley will was taken out of the icebox and ? rend to the assembled members of the family, there were at least two shocking surprises. Jusper hadn't been anywhere near as rich as we had all been thinking he was; that his modest nianner of living had been, perhaps, as much a matter of necessity as of choice. Bad Investments?of which the family had never heard so much as a whisper?had cut his fortune down to something leRS tlinn half a million, all told. That was shock Number One; and shock Number Two was strictly personal to me: Crandfather Jasper hud left me his love and best wishes, and had willed the money and property?all of It, mind you?to .Cousin Percy, giving as his reason -that he thought Percy would make r better use of It. Of' course, I had everybody's sympathy and condolence?even Percy's, for tthat matter. My mother wept; and, ill* I recall It, I.lsette managed to comtpnss a tear or so when 1 told her what lhfld happened; or rather what ha,* so I'gnonilnlously felled to hnopen. "Whatever win you do"/ she raitered. "I suppose you will really have to go to work now, won't you, Stanbur "Perish the thought I" 1 told her; then I gave the good reasons why there was no hope for us In that dl rection. "A fat chance I'd have to ?arn any real money. I can navigate yacht?a llttltft?drive a motor, ride 41 polo pony, and play a fair hand at *>r1dge and thf other great American igame. J think these are the mm total of my ahlolng accomplishment*. , Ton needn't return the Hog," I 1 -grinned, seeing that she was looking v.:: ' ?*<??W "> "- '-> in- ,111 ? e tDOGj *y c >.^j i LYND.E; ES^CRIBNI^'S^SONS'^* | "Yes; I suppose I could do thnt," he agreed ; and I'm blest If she didn't shift It to b finder Of the other hand right there nnd then! It was less than n week after this little fnde-out scene with Llsette thnt Percy's letter enme. This Is what It said: I "Dear Stnnnle: "I know Just about how you felt | last week when you heurd Orandfn' ther Jasper's will rend, nnd It Isn't . going to tnnke you feel any better now when I tell you thnt I knew of Its provisions more than a year ago. When the will was drawn, grandfather showed It to me. and gave me a sealed envelope, which I was to open after I Kl?. ntu..? ? . 11in iit-inii. iiiMi envelope. ns i Know nt the time, contained, among other things. n codicil to the will. By its provisions you nre to receive n legacy under certain conditions which were to he revealed to you nt such time as I might think host. "Your portion of Grandfather Jasper's property was worth, nt Its latest valuation, something like $4-10.000. It lies In a perfectly safe repository, situated between the 105th and 110th de greos of longitude west from Greenwich. and the 35th and 40th degrees north latitude. When you Had It. you will he nhle to Identify It by the presence of a girl with brown hair and blue eyes and small mole on her left shoulder, a piebald horse which the girl rides, and n dog with a split face ?half black and half white. Yon will be more than likely to find the three together: and If you make the acquaintance of the girl, you'll be on the trn'l of your legacy. "So there you are. Stnnnle. old bov; there's your fortune. All you've got to do Is to go to work and find It. Perhaps by that time you will have acquired the working habit?wldch Is what Grandfather Jasper hoped might prove to he the enso. "Whhing you great Joy In your search. I am. "Your nfTeotInnate cousin. I Npturally, I Imil a o t ot little laugh ' over this screed ol t\i?. o.king it j for a Joke; a poor joke a id .a rather , bad taste, I thought. In tli.,t mood I handed the letter to l.isctte lor her to read. She didn't laugh, hut she did ' look a bit scornful and put about, if you know what I mean. ! "I don't suppose the blue-eyed girl j wouid appeal to you." she said, { "though the horse and the dog might. When do you start?" I We discovered that .Meridian 10.1 west of Greenwich split the state of Colorado Just beyond Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo, and the huntingground plotted out for me took In three-fourths of the remainder of the state, a slice of Utah, n good hit bigger slice of New Mexico, with a bite out of the northeastern corner of Arizona, just for good measure. "Me for tne wiio and woolly!" I | brayed. "Don't you see me rigged out I In a nice, hairy_pair of 'shaps' and j riding neii-bent-for-leather?I believe ; that's the phrase?over the snowI capped peaks or the boundless prairies, I ns the case may he? But JURt Imagine ' Percy the Immaculate pulling a boneheud Joke like this!" "You are taking It for a Joke?" she questioned. "Sure 1 am; and It's a rather rotten one at that. I should say?considering the source." "Then you won't go to look for the blue-eyed girl with nut-brown hair and the cunn-lng little mole? Think of what you may he missing!" For Just one crazy minute I had a hunch, or a premonition, or whatever you like to call It, that the letter might not he a Joke. Grandfather Jasper had always been a hit eccentric?a rich man's privilege and 11 rich old man's Incontestable right. What If ho had actually done this thing to me??a thing scarcely less devastating than cutting me off without a penny? On the spur of the moment I said: "If I should go, would you wait for me, IdSette?" She took her time Ihout answering ?a good and sufficient plenty of it. "I think perhaps I'd better not change the ring hack, Stnnnle," she said, sort of wlntrlly. "If there Is rny money and you should hnppon to find It, yon would probably fling It ah away before you could get Imck to Boaton. Besides, there is the blue-eyed girl; If she should bring you a fortune, you'd have to marry her, wouldn't you? You are big and strong, and?well?er ?nice In h good many ways, Stnnnle, and much too good-looking for your own good; hut when you marry?If you do marry?you'd better he sure that the girl has money enough to buy her own hats. I haven't enough, as von linmv " J- " "I know only too well that tin* loveI In n-cottage hlen has never appealed , to you," I said, with the regretful stop , pulled all the way out In deference to the sentimental decencies. | "Not In the least, Htunnle, dear; not ; In the littlest least." | This appeared to bo the end of our rather lukewarm love-dreara, and to he really honest and aboveboard about It. I am obliged to confess that It didn't hreak as many bones for me as j I suppose ft should have. Anyway, a half-hour or so after I had said goodhy to Llsotte I met Jack Downing; and when he asked me If I didn't want to go with him and a bunch of the fellows for a little epln down the coaat , of MultWT In hla motor cruiser, I fell for the invitation so suddenly that he hadn't a ghost of a chance to beck oat, i"il ViiiTeaii'aiiiii at iiiiii " ' ' "'? may figure me, tf yon please, splnulng the wheel of one of the nuttiest little jol boats on the North shore, with n fresh foi nor'easter blowing and the sea getting evi op to give me the time of my young gol life to hold the Guinevere to her 1 course, nor' nor'east, half u point east, eoi as we lifted the Shouls on our i?ort . ' bow. | ' In such Jolly good company as we j cal i had aboard the stout ship Guinevere, ! I three full days elapsed before a i 1 i j thought of Percy or his Joke ever en- j ' | tered my head again; and It's a ten- >'<v j to-one shot thut 1 wouldn't have 1 ! thought of film, or It, during the re- ! mnlnder of the cruise If we hadn't i been obliged to tie up at Rocklaud for motor repairs. This, as I recall It, f was on the fourth dnv ?nri i? who ? I You Can Figure Me, if You Pteaae, Spinning the Wheel of One of the ^ * Nattiest Little Boats on the North s Shore. d|s dog that made me retneinher; a moil- lntt 11)11 grel cur that followed the motor re- . puirmnn down to the wharf; a moat ^ disreputable looking mongrel, ut that, but?by Jove! he had the muglc mark- " ^ Ings! Half of his fnee, measuring from a line drawn straight down over the j tip of Ids nose, was black, und the oth; er half was a dingy, dirty white. ^ us So then I did a little rapid figuring drj ; on train schedules. If l'ercy hud left n Washington as I knew he was plan- ri(, ; ning to, my diplomatic cousin should ? lmve been, at that figuring moment. I Just about due In San Francisco. That , I being the ease, or the likelihood, I todstr I died up to the telegraph odioe and sent ^ it message, addressing It in cure of the | ' captain of whatever might be the next ! steamer due to sull for ports in China. ifoi j All I said was: "Your letter was as ^ funny as an hour In a dentist's chair. v ' tor Bon voyage to you. Night found us still tied to the i Uockland wharf; and Just us we were *! j getting up from dinner in the yacht's n,u saloon, lure came n boy with a tele- n<" grhm. The wire was from Percy, and It said : Y* (]p| "Don't he a complete fool. It was , . no Joke at all. Asl uiy lawyer." ^ Kven then. I didn't go off at half- (Jrfl I cock, though 1 have often been called ?< an Impulsive Jackass. The thing was tmi j still too ridiculous to bite very hurd. ? But farther along In the evening, when mv I got to thinking It over, and more wj, 1 especlnVv when It was shoved In upon (,(1| I me that I really did owe It to I.isette |l)p i not to turn down even the tenth part i of a cliance to provide her with the po means of buying her future hats, the die was cast, us the play-writers say. ^ I made seme sort of a foolish excuse i to Jack Downing and the other fellows, caught a night train for Rosron, f,ut stopped off at the home stntlon long j enough to pack a couple of grips and *vr 1 to tell my mother and sister good-by. <lt and the thing was?oh. no; not done? ,,e ; nothing like that. It wqs only Just | begun. wai con CHAPTER II. . 1 tha A f-'ecdle In a Haystack. yo| Sti.M my happy hunting ground he- . gan In the middle of Colorado. 1 took a* n ticket to Denver by way of Chicago ^ and Ornuliu. As 1 recall it now it was tju. utter the train had passed North no, Platte that I lirst became sensibly cou- ..... ?u ' SCinUS. us vim itilfrlit ?i?v of t??? fixnt I ? W. ...V- ? , Hl)[ | that the man in the opposite section of WM ' the sleeping-car had a little I'ulliaau | R table set up in front of him, and was j studying maps?and blue-prints. He j f(l) was u rather etttclent-lnnking fellow of | fni maybe thirty-two or three* with (lark I hair and eyes, and what Lisette would 1 t(ll| have called a determined nose, and he ' jj)(| sported a beard uud mustaches, nut- I brown as to color, and neatly trimmed. ' S[(| j Farther along we met in the smoking Bor , room, iu u time when the stuffy little j ? I den had no other occupants. Mr. Op- i r ' posite Section's only cigar turned out 1 rj.(l| to have a broken wrapper, so 1 naturally tendered my own pocket-case. That j()| served to break the Ice and we talked, j dribbling along from one commonplace Nvit to another until finally Ilrown-beard m>( said: ! (tf "You don't by any chance happen to , be a mining engineer, <lo youV" ' "Far l>e It from me," I laughed; ' t "nothing so useful as that." t pP(| "I didn't know," lie hastened to say, 0 linlf apologetically. "I snw you study* <lMj lug mnps us we enme along." ' _OT1 Now, ordinarily I'm apt to talk a lot |?j, too much about my own affairs?I'll j ,. adfftlt it; but this was one time when ' Jm, I bad a sort of hunch not to. So I merely said: "I saw you doing the same thing." ' flU( "Sure you did," be admitted cheer* jju, fully. Then he told me Ids name? K(,(. which I got as Bultton, or Bulletin, or f| something like that?and said he was 1 <>X) a mining engineer, which was the ren- jnn son why he had asked me If I wasn't pnj ene. , Past thnt, the talk ran mostly upon |n his profession, and since the enyRterl- # f ous hunch waa still nudging me, I let , .. . him have the floor, no to speak, flgur- OUJ Ing chiefly myself a^pt good listener. ? "Tea; we do run across some ratber of queer propositions In our trade," tie EHgOTKg-v.: > Is like. "In my own experience, example, the only sure shot I have pr had?or possibly ever will huve? t nwuy from me." It was up to me to liite, and, of irsc, I did It. 'How was that?" 'The man died," he replied laconU iy. That sounded rather Interesting, so ;ave him another pinch. 'Tell me about It; If it won't bore i." le grinned good-natvredly?and ac Grinned Good-Naturedly and Accepted Another Cigar. >ted uuother cigar out of my pocket10. 'You'll be the one to be bored. It s this way: A little over a year > I was on my way to Chicago with eport that I had been making on no properties in the Cripple Creek trlct. In the Denver-Omaha I'ulln I fell In with a nice old gentleu who had been buying himself a d brick in the shape of a Hooded lie. The mine had at one time been producer,' though not by any means at you'll call a 'bonanza.' After a her extended dividend-paying period don't know just how long, though was some years?the luck changed. ^oiueiiiues uappeiis. 111 sinking and fting the operators had uncovered >ther vein which was exceedingly h. Dou't let me talk your arm off." 'Co ahead," said I. "Sly arms are urcd." 'Well, at about the time that they uck tills new underlying vein, they o struck water; so much of !t ns to d them to suspect that they had iped an underground lake. The old it Ionian wasn't exactly a woolly op?In the Wall Street sense of the m. lie had owned stock in the mine a long time, and It had been payhliu dividends, right along. So urally, after the new strike was anmeed, he was perfectly willing to ii more. 1 don't know what his Initment was, hut he gave me to mistand that it was something like f a million. In less than a month er the deal was elosed the mine was wind and went out of business." Still, 1 don't see your lost opporilty," I threw In. I'm coming to that. As It happens, spicinlty as an engineer Is the untcring of wet mines. The old gennan had maps and profiles with i: the records of a very careful and 'client topographical survey. I'm so'icV.y certain that I discovered n y In which that mine can be drained comparatively small expense. 1 toll Mm 1 thought I could do It; 1 didn't give my plan away, lund, 1 made him a proposition; ofed t J undertake the drainage job my own costs. If 1 should succeed. was to lli'l'H lllf? n fftlll-! I> Intui'oot 1" property. If I didn't succeed, it s to cost him nothing?sort of u itingcnt fee, us u luwyer would say." laughed. "You made an offer like t to n stranger? and on a mine that i had never seen?" le grinned good-naturedly and got k at me, quick. All business Is a taking of chances, the matter s*tood at that stage of game, I had everything to gain and hing to lose, nnvl the only chance I s taking was in the bet on my own lity as au engineer. The old man s a queer old codger In some n* cts; as secretive and cautious as old fox. For example: he had carely clipped the name of the mine m the blue-prints and other papers, 1 In all our talk lie never once let t name slip, and never even menued the name of the district In Ich the mine was located. Hut in te of all this caution he drew up a t of option agreement with me. We found a lawyer and had the cement drawn up in legal form. i? time limit was to he a year, and h of us was to put up a thousand . in v. iimnr nit- ll)tl t-1-lllt'III I.IIHIIf either of us should wish to hdraw within that time. he was at rtv to do so hy forfeiting his ante a thousand dollars to the other. If ther of us withdrew hy or before end of the year, I was to he at liby to go ahead with my drainage ijeet, and the agreement hound the aer to turn over n one-fourth inter In the property to me upon the npletion of the job nnd the umvnterof the mine. At the moment I was under engage nt to go to Peru for a Chicago syn ate, and I expected to he out of the ited States for at least six months. I maybe longer. As It turned out. South American Job was a lot big than I had anticipated, and for t reason the time limit of h year tired a week ago. on the day that I ded In New York. Yestenlny I led upon the Onirha banker, and he re me the cheering information that old man was dead?had died Just ew duys earlier." Still, I don't see how you have lost ,** 1 put In. v. 'Wait; here comes the funny part It. Mr. Banker telle me solemnly t 1 am remembered tn my old gen tt * I I'm to have the thousand dollars which I he put up as a forfeit. I took the prize j down aud spent some of It within the next few minutes wiring the old mini's home lawyer, v*Iioko name uud address ti e In.' ' or had gi\ m me. I briefed the situation for the lawyer, said I was ready to fullill my part of the contract. and asked him to wire tue the name and location <>f the mine. You'd never guess in u thousand years the kind of an answer I got." f shook my head. "No; prohahly not. What was tt?" "It vas a bolt from the blue, all right. Mr. Home I.awyer wired that his client luid never owned a share of mining stock in his life, that there was nothing in his natters or reenr?i? Ing upon the subject of my telegram, nnc! -that I must be either drunk or crazy. Of course, he didn't put it just tliat wry in his reply, hut that is wluit he meant." "Iiow do you sort it out?" I inquired. , "The lawyer's telegram? I put it up that my cautious, secretive old gentleman never told anybody at home about his mining investments; kept them in a separate pocket, so to speak. Quite possibly he didn't have any other excepting the one I've been telling you about, and the one he regarded as a dead cock In the pit. That would explain the situation nicely, don't you think?" The story had left me a hit fogged as to the present state and standing of the thing, and I said so. "Well. It stacks up about this way," said Brown-beard. "There Is a perfectly good mine somewhere west of us that is worth anywhere from a quarter to a half million, and at the present moment It Is kicking around without an owner. So far as I can see. I'm the only man on top of earth who I hus u claim on any part of It. Ami I have no more idea than the man in the moon where It is 'at.' No; I'm afraid my handsome fortune is a lost dog, so far as I'm concerned." His mention of a lost dog hit me right in the center of the solar plexus aud 1 laughed like a fool. "What struck your funny-bone?" he demanded, sort of dubiously, I fancied. "Nothing," 1 gurgled; "nothing worth mentioning?only I'm hunting [ for a lost dog, too." But I didn't tell him any more. After we'd smoked a while longer, and Brown-beard hud apologized for tnaki lug me listen to his rather longish tale j of woe, we took the porter's hint that ' he'd like to have (he smoking room for his nightly shoe-shine, nnd turned In. CHAPTER III. Waifs and Strays. When I crawled out of my berth nt the porter's call the next morning, my Pullman was standing In the Denver yard. While I was shaving in the washroom I asked the colored boy If my smoking-room chum of the night before was up yet. "Yas. sail; he done been up an' gone, for the longest." Of course, this was mere idle questioning on my part. Tracing the hrown-henrded mlnine ontrinnn. ...i. had us tI rap as n convenient dumping gronr. 1 'or his story was the least of my intention at the moment. For that matter, since we hndn't exchanged cams, and 1 wasn't even sure thai I'd heard his name straight, 1 couldn't have traced him If I had wanted to. Recalling the story In the garish light of another duy. It seemed u hit less credible than it had while I was listening to it, and I began to wonder If the teller of it might no* l>e a member of the deathless guild of smokeroom romancers. 1 burled the story umong the things to he smiled at and forgotten, alien I took a taxi for the hotel. After an excellent breakfast I made a few inquiries about tbe'merldian; the 105th. that the maps allowed as passing Just west of the city. The maps were right. The 105th meridian, which is the one from which mountain time is reckoned, ran a little west of the city proper, and, by consequence, west of flic two other principal cities | of the stute, Colorado Sittings and Pueblo. I found that the 105th meridian, tracing it north from Denver, stops | short against the 40th parallel of latitude Just south of a little town called Erie. Traced south, it tracks the D. A it. rt. railroad for about twenty mWes and then takes to the mountain, barely shutting out Manltou, and passing, of course, well to the westward of Pueblo. Tills simplified matters?a little, j Yet this business of wandering aim c-n^i.v irum posi to pillar, combing the face of nature for blue-eyed maidens and piehald horses and harlequin-faced dogs was already beginning to*strlke me as about the most fantastic thing a body could conceive of doing. To attempt It without a plan of some kind seemed worse than useless; so, for per haps the tirxt time in a pretty rattle brained life, I sat down to do some i ground-and-lofty head work, with Cousin Percy's letter for a sort of nexus. The third paragraph contained tin meat of the matter; "Your portion of Grandfather Jasper's property was worth, at its latest valuation, some thing like $440,000." What single piece of property outside of a large city , could be worth any such sum as that? I could think of nothing but a mine of some kind, unless it might he a cattle ranch, or u growth of standing timber; and in the area laid out for me, mines i would outvote isittle or timber abot\,t a | hundred to one, I thought, j Then there was that other phrase: j "It lies in a perfectly safe repository. . . . "Repository" implied a receptacle or container of some sort; a brick wall, or a luirbed-wire fence, or any inclosing thing you like to imagine, f Valid n mine be said to be a "repository"? As you.see, I kept coming bark to the mine idea, In spite of all I could do; and at last, without a word of , warning, and right out of a clear sky. ' as you may say, smack! a thing hit me squarely between the shoulderI blades?Brown-beard and his eccentric j old gentleman ! j After I got cooled off a bit I had to admit that there was something less { titan one chance in a thousand that, at ( the price of a couple of cigars given to a fellow traveler in distress, I had purchased anj real clue to my own puzzle. | Tat I couldn't get away from the Uliu'WMWiM * . .% * Auditor The Auditor's v.-dice will be open for the assessment of all classes of property, both real and personal, poll, road and dog tax, from January 1st to February the 20th, 1922. All ablebodied men between the ages of 21 and GO are required to return poll tax and those between the ages of 21 and 55 years are required to return road tax. Below li The Oath That la Sworn To 1 do solem all the Real and Personal Property, Indebtedness, Investments in Bondi otherwise, belonging to me, or uni as Husband, Parent, Guardian, Tru ceiver, Accounting Officer, Agent, A January, 1922, which are subject to have returned the same at what I h ami thsit thn oV-n..- " ?uv/vu nsi,, as iurmshed true and faithful return of all the ] to list; and futher, that I am. ... 1 liable to Road Tax. Sworn to and subscribed befor Auditor L. H. TROTH, Dental Surgeon Chesterfield, S. C. Office on second floor in Ross J. ARTHUR KNIGHT Attorn?y-el>Le? Office in Courthouse Jhc?terbeld, S. C. R. L. McMANUS Dentist Cheraw, S. C. At Chestereld, Monday A Pageland, Tuesday. At Mt. Croghan, Wednesday morning Ruby, Wednesday afternoon Society Hill, Thursday Cheraw, Friday and Saturday THE UNIVERSAL CAR CARS, TRUCKS, TRACTORS SERVICE I PARTS li ii/i t p i ?ita rn LUCAO AU1U IU. COUNTY TA State Ordinary County Roads Bridges Total I Cheraw I Marburg Orange Hill j Tuts Branch 1'ee Dee Stafford Bethel Center Point Chesterfield Parker . jpine Grove Ruby hiloh Snow Hill Stafford Vaughnn Wamble Ilill Black Creek Center Center Grove Cross Roads Mt. Crogban Ruby Wexford Winzo Zion Buffalo Dudley Five Forks Mangum 1'ageland Plains Zion Angelus Center Grove Clarks Jefferson Macedonia Plains Bay Springs Green llill . Leland Middendorf McBee Providence Sandy Run Union Bay Springs Bear Creek Bethcsda Juniper Middendorf Patrick Pats Branch Branch Shiloh Stafford White Uak Cat Pond Juniper Ousley 'Patrick _ ?.. ._ : . . .' ' Notice :'1f|l The law requires^, per cent, on all propert ^ for taxation on or be^v ' j. day of February, 1922. :' j 1 will be at th? followi' the dates named: Dudley, Jan. 26th, fr o'clock. .;-*JS Pageland, Jan. 27th are?? ^ Cheraw, Feb. 1st, 2d a^CE 10 to 3 o'clock each day. B? P.r.o. RUki., T.?> I nly swearn, that I hav? listed a Moneys, Credits, over and above i, Stocks, Joint Stock Companies, der my control as Manager, Holder ?. stee, Executor, Administrator, R? ttorney or Factor, on the 1st day ol the laws of this State, and that 1 fltlocf ltf a" 1 a1 1 * ? .ivuvij MVUCV e iu ue me marxec value, by me to the County Auditor, ig ? properly which I am required by lav liable to the Poll Tax, and that 1 ar e me, this day of .... If T. W. Eddins, Auditor^ State of South Carolina, Couny of Chesterfield, Court of Common Pleas. Bank of Chesterfield, plaintiff. ?' against John V. Brown, defendant. COPY SUMMONS FOR R?L To the Defendant above You are hereby summoned and quired to answer the complainV this action which is filed in the off< of the Clerk of Court of Commi Pleas, and to serve a copy of yo< ^ answer to the said Complaint on t subscriber at his office in Chesterfi' South Carolina, within twenty after the service hereof; e~ of the day ol vaetv v.rvice 1 -w * fail to answer the compIai^^wTl^jjH the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in i; this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint $>' M. J. Hough, Plaintiff's Attorney, To John V. Brown, the above named defendant: You will please take notice that the Summons, Complaint and all other papers in the above case are on ft" in the office of the Clerk of Cou* lor Chesterfield County, South Ca; ' lina. I M. J. Hough, Gt-8 Plaintiff's Atto' X LEVY 1921 >v 12 mills 6 mills 6 mills 1 mill * 28 mills ?.? in I - | <jj | i/j | r I *-i ST | 2 I 2. I ? I o I a ^ ~ ? I ? I g ? u ? ir e ? 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