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DECREASE IN EARLY
COUNTY TAX RETURNS
Tax Receiver Weaver is sending off
this week to Comptroller General
Wright the 192:: tax digest of Early
county.
The consolidation shows that
there has been a falling off of $171,-
065.00 since 1922. The total returns
for 1922 aggregate $5,287,840 as
against $6,458,905.00.
Land values are practically the
same as last year, being only $lB,-
785.00 less. City and town property
show some decrease, also, but the
greatest single decrease is in the
bank returns. The Bank of Jakin
hate closed business and the board
decided that the other banks had
been bearing an unjust share of the
taxes in the past and scaled down
the returns for them. The net loss
from this source was $68,395.00.
There are only 2997 polls returned
this year as against 4755 in 1922.
This is due to the bait held out by
the legislature to the women ex
empting them from poll tax in case
they do not register and vote. Os
course all the negro women and a
large majority of the white women
took this bait.
The county revenues will be some
S3OOO less by reason of the decrease
in tax digest and the lowering of the
tax rate.
ELTEKAN BIBLE CLASS
HOLDS MEETING
The Eltekan Bible Class held their
regular monthly meeting at the home
of M’rs. P. 11. Fitzgerald with Mrs.
Carl Hobbs and Mrs. Fitzgerald as
joint hostesses.
Mrs. Blitch led the devotional,
after which Mrs. F. P. Davis read a
paper.
The business was then taken up
and the following committees were
appointed:
Relief Committee—Mrs. Carl Hobbs,
Mrs. J. B. Murdock and Mrs. J. G.
Skinner.
To Decorate Church: Aug. 26, Mrs.
W. O. Cox and Mrs. Chipstead
Grubbs; Sept. 2, Mrs. Battle and
M'rs. Ida Stone; Sept. 9, Mrs. Drew
Thompson and Mrs. Morrell Yar
brough.
Stewardesses: Circle 1, Mrs. J. B.
Tarver; Circle 2, Mrs. John Elder:
Circle 3, Mrs. C. L. Tabb.
Nominating Committee —Mrs. E.
B. Hamilton. Mrs. R. C. Singletary,
Mrs. H. Moye.
No further business, we were dis
missed. after which the hostesses
served delicious punch and sand
wiches.
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NAPIER GRASS CROP
WELL WORTH SEEING
Col. Walter Park has a small
patch of Napier grass on his Collier
lands three miles southeast of town
that is a wonderment to those who
have seen it. It is to be seen in all
stages of growth from the tender
sprouts to the mature stalk 12 feet
high.
It can he fed to stock and they
eat it ravenously at any stage of
growth. It is claimed for it that
it is even more nutritious than al
falfa and just as tenacious in grow
ing in dry weather as that noted
plant. When cured and ground up
into meal it is still enjoyed by the
livestock and the per acre is
so enormous as to amaze one.
The plant is a jointed one similar
to sorghum and other cane millets,
and can be propagated by merely
sticking cuttings into the ground.
Left to its own devices it spreads
from the roots and shoots up new
sprouts and “succors” abundantly.
(The dictionary doesn’t sanction the
word ‘succor’ nor ‘sucker’ as thus
used, but our farmer friends know
its meaning.) The second year’s
growth is greater than the first.
Col. Park is one of the few here
abouts that has stuck to his dairy
herd and is enjoying a neat monthly
income from the shipment of cream.
The all-cotton farmers should pay
this farm a visit and get a line on
how to whip the boll weevil.
TWO NEW HOMES GOING
UP ON RIVER STREET
Mr. and Mrs. Thad H. Wiseman
are building a pretty new bungalow
on River street on the site of the
former B. Chancy home.
The old Chancy building was
razed to make room for the new
structure. Thus another of Blakely’s
landmarks has been swept away, so
to speak. We know that “Dood” and
“Miss Hattie” must have witnessed
with keen regret the demolishing of
the old home.
The attractive new bungalow of
Mr. and Mrs. Alvan T. Fleming in
this same block is expected to be
ready for occupancy next week.
FOR SALE —Full blood Duroc sow
and eight two months old pigs. HAM
ILTON HARDWARE CO.
FOR RENT —House for rent on
River street, in front of Mrs. Wood
Davis. See I. D. FELDER. 2t
LOST— Crank to National automo
bile, between town and convict camp.
Suitable reward for return to News
office. ltp
EARLY COUNTY NEWS
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BABYEASE
A Safe Liquid Treatment For
Sick Frceful Babirs and Children
Bowel and Teething Troubles
No Opiates-No Dope-Sold bij Druggists
GET ONLY. ONE PER. CENT
OF REAL WHISKY. FOUR.
SOURCES OF SUPPLY.
“Rank poison” is what agents of
the prohibition bureau of the United
States say of the “boose” being im
bibed by the American people.
After analysis of 80,000 samples of
so-called whisky the bureau finds that
only one per cent of it was real stuff.
The rest was poison.
The liquor supply of this country
comes from four sources, agents say
The first and biggest supply is known
as ’’moonshine,” and which is made
one day and drank the next.
Distilled in thickets, fields and barns
the containers are seldom cleaned and
always have some poisonous matter
left in them, w r hich is brewed into
the next batch.
The second source of supply is the
redistilled denatured alcohol, always
containing a quanity of wood alcohol
The third are smuggled goods and
the fourth is liquor illegally with
drawn from bonded warehouses.
These two latter sources furnish the
minimun supply.
NOTICE OF ELECTION.
! _____ —
To the Registered Qualified Voters
of the Rock Hill Consolidted
School District;
i By virtue of the petition to the
i undersigned directed, and in pur
. suance of the law, we do hereby
. call an election for the Rock Hill
' Consolidated School District to be
held on the 15th day of September,
' 1923, at he Rock Hill School House
i in said District, between the hours
! prescribed for elections for State
Officers for the registered qualified
voters of said District, to determine
whether or not there shall be issued
’ by the Rock Hill Consolidated School
District bonds aggregating Thirty
Thousand Dolars ($30,000.00) to de
fray the expenses in building and
equipping a school-house for said
District. Said bonds shall be of the
denomination of five hundred dollars
($500.00) each, bearing interest from
the date of their validation by the
Superior Court of said county, at the
rate of five per cent, per annum,
payable annually on January Ist of
each year until all of said bonds ma
ture. Two of the bonds shall mature
on the first day of January of each
of the years 1925 to 1952 inclusive,
and four of said bonds shall mature
on the first day of January, 1953.
Those desiring to vote for the is
suance of said bonds shall have
written or printed on their ballots
“For School House;” those desiring
to vote against the issuance of said
bonds shall have written or printed
on their ballots “Against School
House.”
This August IC, 1923.
\V. A. SMITH
Chairman Board of Trustees for
Rock Hill Consolidated School
District.
Attest:
EUGENE MARTIN.
Sec. and Treas of the Board of
Trustees, Rock Hill Consolidated
School District.
PETITION FOR DIVORCE.
GEORGIA—EarIy County;
Lena M. Belisle vs. Eddie C. Belisle,
Petition for Divorce, Early Su
perior Court, April term, 1923.
To Eddie C. Belisle:
The plaintiff, Lena M. Belisle, hav
ing filed her petition for divorce
against Eddie C. Belisle, in this
court, returnable to the April term,
1923, thereof, and it being made to
appear that Eddie C. Belisle is not a
resident of said State and county,
and an order having been granted
for service on him, the said Eddie
C. Belisle, by publication, this, there
fore, is to notify you, Eddie C. Be
lisle, to be and appear at the next
term of the Early Superior court to
be held on the first Monday in Oc
tober, 1923, then and there to an
swer said complaint.
Witness the Honorable M. J. Yeo
mans, Judge of said Court, this the
23rd day of August, 1923.
R. W. ALEXANDER, Clerk.
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IN
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AND
Harold Lloyd Comedy
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t SATURDAY
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PEARL WHITE
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‘PLUNDER’
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MONDAY
Wallace Reid
IN
‘3O Days’
AND
Pathe Comedy
TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY
Bebe Daniels
IN
‘The
World’s
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