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COMMUNICATION ftlOM mi MR. EDITOR? In your issue of August 14th I notice your editorial under the head ing "la It Fair?" I have read and considered it very carefully and in the name of justice to the people of the county, the county officers and the general welfare of the county, I deem a reply expedient to be made by some one, who has the beet interest of the county at heart and one who is in favor of good county government, and one who has at aU times tried to up hold and promote the best interests of the whole county and its people to the best of his ability as he saw it Now in the offset, let me say thai I heartily agree with your assertion in your first pragraph. "That "There is Something Rotten in Denmark." I note that upon looking over the Ahoskie tax books that you found property that is worth two to three times as much as it is listed and thai you also found propery listed foi more than it is worth and cite severs] illustrations. You also say that the county officers say there is no remedy for it, and that a Oremedy should be made, of course tliat is a direct thrust at the County Commissioners. Let me, as a member of that Board say that at the present time there is no remedy nor will there be until the new assessment year of 1924 arrives. There was a remedy offered last year to all the people of the county, but the people themselves let the limit of time for reviewing slip and certainly they have no one to blame but them selves. The people of your township ought to have informed the Commis sioner from your township of all un der valuations that they knew of and again they should have complained to him of all over valuations. It was clearly the duty of the Commissioner from your township to have carefully looked over your Tax Book in an effort to discover all such under valua tions as well as over valuations as you speak of and brought it, or caused it to be brought to the attention of the Commissioners. I did that very thing with my Township Tax Books and no such conditions exist over here and I have not heard of such in any other part of the county. Now as to the remedy referred to above. Let me refer you to the Reve nue Act, Public Laws of 1921, chap ter 38, section 28, 28a, 28b, 28c, 28d, 28e, 28f and 28 }. I wish every tax payer of the county would read the whole chapter; at least I earnestly entreat every citisen of our county to read or have read to him the above references. "There is something rotten in Den mark." Yes, there is and to the case, let's see if we can find the trouble. Please refer to chapter 84, section 8, Public Laws of 1819, creating the County Supervisor or one man county list taker, also chapter 88, section 15, Public Laws of 1921. We Jiave no need for such an officer, for several reasons; two of the most prominent are, first, there is not a man in our county who is well enough informed to place a just and fair valuation on all of either the real or personal prop erty throughout the county. Thai ?ery thing is responsible for the un necessary work, worry and confusior in the Commissioners' office for th< last two years, and is today responsi ble for the variations from justici that you say exist in your Township Now I believe the 1920 superviso or assessor who begun the work, am also his successor, honestly tried t administer justice to all, without fda or favor, and that they both did th work as well as any other two mei that could have been selected; bu as stated above, it was impossible fa lack of information. What do know about placing a just valuatio on the property of your Township And what do you know about a jui valuation for the property of m Township? Second. The system too expensive, the 1920 re-valuatio cost about five times what it real! would have cost under the old systen consisting of two freeholders and list taker for each township, who ai in personal touch with all of the pro; erty in their township year in ar year out. 'Again in off years the office ( supervisor is not needed. He lu practically nothing to do, is governs by the list takers who do the wori It seems to me that about all he has t do is to All the office and collect h salary and that the county does ni get value received. The Supervisor last year cost tl bounty $125.00; the Supervisor t* the present year cost $100.00 I hai mo kick against either of the gentl men, both are as good men as coul have been found for the office in tl county, but as above stated, they hi nothing to do in return for the salai received. If the list was taken at better than it would have been take had it been left entirely with the s list takers who did the work, it hi not cowie to my observation. I too Mr. Editor want to see a ju and fair valuation placed on ever body's property and everybody pay taxes according to what she or he is worth. The one and only remedy I see is to ask our next representative to have repealed all of that part of the law referring to the supervisor or assessor end to back to the old system of township yaluaiion by the list taker and two fair and impartial freehold era, who are residents of each town ship, to assist him every fourth year in placing a valuation on the real estate of each respective township. This, if dene, will be much cheaper, more satisfactory and eliminate to a minimum, the complaints flowing into the Commissioners' office ' every day 1 they meet No one knows except the members of the Board of *Commis ' sioners what a burden it has been 1 to them all of the last two years, and | the end seems not yet to be in sight. Respectfully, 1 J. C. TAYLOR. 1 V ! North Carolina Superior Court ' Hertford County Boforo The Clork Will Lowe vs. Janie Lowe?NOTICE 1 The defendant above named will 1 take notice that an action entitled aa above has been commenced in the 1 Superior Court of Hertford County, : North Carolina, to obtain a divorce, "A, VINCULO MATRIMONII," and said defendant will further take notice that she is required to appear before the Clerk of the Superior Court of Hertford County, at his office in the Courthouse in Winton, N. C., on thd 11th day of September, 1922, and answer or demur, to the complaint in said action, or the plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in said complaint. This the 15th day of August, 1922. D. R. McGLOHON, Clerk of Superior Court. C. W. JONES, Atty. for the Plaintiff. 8-18-4L .T 0 Send your job printing to the HERALD, Ahoskie, N. C. A mkn in .li&idon triad to hu| himself. -He was a poor hand at it, bnt he died just the same. The doc tor testified that there was no sign of death by strangulation, so the Cor oners duly brought in a verdict of ^"suicide by auto-etfggestion," the first of its kind on record. The theory is that the man believed he was hanging himself, because he had a handker chief looped over a bed-post and about his neck, and that the conviction that he was being strangled succeeded in killing him. It is not thought that killing one's self by thinking one is dead will become popular! London also is responsible for the story of William Skinner, a sailor, who lost his life in the battle of Jut land. When his body was recovered the usual brass identification klisc was taken from his neck. On Unreverse of it, in words so fine they require a microscope for reading, if his will, leaving his all to his wife. This, the smallest and most unique will in the annals of law, has just been admitted to probate in the London courts. The first aerial stowaway has safely I made his flight. One Mike Stone, of Detroit, concealed himself in the mail dompartment of the aeromarine eleven-passenger plane flying Regu larly from Detroit to Cleveland, went to sleep, and woke up when the motors roared. He couldn't make his pre 'sence known until the motors stopped, across the lake in Cleveland. In Northern Montana, near Glacier National Park, is a colony of a million marmots. These little animals make a curios noise, something between a yelp and a whistle. It is proposed to broadcast their chorus via Tadio, that wireless "fans" of America may hear the largest aggregation of animal voices in the world tuning up in a nat ural symphony. _ # ?o Subscribe to the Herald; do it now. DELINQUENT TAX SALE The land listed below will be sold for taxes on the first Monday in September, 1922. Sale will be held at the Court HouSe door in Winton, N. C. WHITE J. T. Earley, 110 acres, Earless, SO acres, Newsome 134.96 V. B. Garrett, 3 1-2 acres, McKeel, taxes, balance 44.68 J. I. Godwin, 35 acres, Godwin, taxes 19.00 O. L. Joyner, 28 acres, Kiddiek, 48 acres Miller, taxes, balance 77.34 M. Laasiter, 87 acres, old home Sessoms and T. Newsome taxes 91.30 J. W. Moore, heirs, 750 acres, Moore, taxes ? 202.66 J. C. Newsome, 8 acres, A. C. L. R. R., taxes 10.98 R. L. Phelps, 90 acres, Brown, taxes 79.81 COLORED Wm. Butler, 1 lot, Garrett, taxes 4.95 Flora Everette, 1 vacant lot, taxes .63 Lewd en Harrell, 45 acres, home, taxes, balance 7.42 W. F. Helson, 1 lot Maple Street, taxes 9.50 Wm. Holloman, 50 acres, home, taxes 19.30 John D. Jenkins, home, taxes _ - 5.28 Delia Mitchell, 2 acres, home, taxes 4.75 J. W. Moore, 1 vacant lot, taxes - I 3.28 J. R. Scott 1 lot Lawrence, taxes 6.96 John Sanders, 120 acres, home, taxes ? 33.05 C. E. Vanghan, 1 lot Garrett, taxes 7.42 Lonnie Wheeler, 1 acre Ed. Peoples, taxes :? 3.93 Willie B. Whitley, 1 lot Garrett, taxes 3.16 C. it. Whitefield, 6 acres home, taxes 1.62 Bettie Williford, 30 acres, Sanders, taxes ' ? 5.38 ? D. C. Powell, 1 1-4 acres, store - ....... 9.90 Regula# per cent will be charged on above taxes. ? S. E. VAUGHN, Tax Collector, > Ahoekie Township. i - : MURFREESBORO TOWNSHIP s James Vinson, home $ 46.34 i. H. V. Buck, home 1 - 10.80 r F. B. Griffith, town lot 33.85 1 S. L. Griffith, home anfl farm ... 79.46 0 J. S. Lawrence, home 124.02 r Bridge Barnes, 54 acres, Scott j 22.35 e R. B. Garris, 36 acres . 34.62 n Paul Lee, Williams land - 9.67 it Mag. Majette, 66 acres . 4.06 r Mariah Vaughan 5.80 1 Rob Gatling, 7 acres 3.50 n James Thomas, 66 acres - 28.20 ? Ben Watford, town lot 5.17 it T. T. PARKER, Tax Collector, Murfreesboro Township, y , is n CANCERS SUCCESSFULLY TREATED AT THE KELLAM HOSPITAL [y The Kellam Hospital treats successfully Concern, Tumors, Ulcers ^ X-Ray Burns, and Chronic Sores without the use of the knife, X-Ray ?e Radium, Acids or Semnm, and we hare treated over 90 per cent of the man: p hundreds of sufferers treated during the past twenty-three years. >d KELLAM HOSPITAL, lac. 1617 West Mala Street. Richmond, Va 5 SAVE MONEY BY MAKING YOUR OWN SOAP it. to Her* U the way to make 10 pound* of good toap IS i 3t Every housewife should know how to make this pure soap. All ie that is needed is one can of Red >r Seal Lye, 5'/i pounds of waste re grease and a little water. This will make twenty cakes of powar ful cleansing soap, enough for all cleaning and scouring purposes to le last several months. Full instruc 1(1 tions in the can. 17 Another important uit iy for Red Seal Lye it keep- j n, ing the drain pipea free. J ix If the drain runt slowly, fl ? shake a little Red Seal Lye M into the pipee and it will ' t ' deaf things out in a jiffy. When scrubbing the bathroom floor, s teaspoonful of Red Seal Lye in the water will kill all the germs and mala the water soft, thereby saving soap, tithe and tabor. Make a solution of Red Seal Ljre and sprinkle about the cellar ?it will immediately kill all un pleasant odors and make your cellar clean and sweet smelling. Ask ^our dealer for the L old original granulated ft Red Seal Lye, and take no ? substitute. Send us a postal V for the Red Seal Booklet Y which will be mailed you free. Send for it today. y-| P. C. T0M30N * CO, Soathwurk P. O., FUUMphU, Pa. BIG BARBECUE I *. *? ? . ,? ? K ? ? .? ? i ,, =?=at= , * ? Colerain Pleasure Beach Thursday, August 24, ' ' ' ft " ? ??? ' TO r* - V'j, ' ' , ' '' ALL DAY - - - RAIN OR SHINE . .-.U : - - : ? - , . ' - - I I ?? < I ' Ball Game at 4:00 P. M. J . ? -- ? - - - -.V- ' v-_ 'l - - _ . -I:" RYLAND vs. COLERA1N Game will be played up town I You Will Enjoy Spending the Day With Us. 1? . - , , ... , ,, , * 1 A ft I __ Bsh* Warehouse Opened Thursday, August 17th. For the SALE of LEAF TOBACCO at AUCTION Under die Management of J. W. EMERSON & CO., Of Greenville, Tennesee. OUR SALES MANAGER, MR. R. C. EMERSON OWNS AND OPERATES TWO WAREHOUSES AT GREENVILLE, AND HAS BEEN VERY SUCCESS FUL IN GETTING THE FARMERS THE HIGHEST PRICES OF ANY OF THE HOUSES OF THAT TOWN. WE FEEL SURE IF YOU WILL TRY US WITH ONE LOAD, YOU WILL LET US SELL THE REST OF YOUR CROP, AS THIS MAN HAS HAD 35 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN THIS BUSINESS ; AND KNOWS HOW TO GET YOU THE HIGH DOLLAR. AS WE ONLY RENTED THIS HOUSE THIS WEEK, WE ARE SORRY TO SAY THAT WE HAVE NOT HAD THE TIME TO CALL ON THE FARMERS OF THIS SEC TION, BUT EXPECT TO DO SO SOON. BRING US A LOAD OF TOBACCO, AND WE GUARANTEE TO SEND YOU BACK HOME WELL SATISFIED Help Us To Make Ahoskie A Big Market Basnight Warehouse J. W. EMERSON & CO., Proprietors. AHOSKIE, N. C. . , ... - ....... )[ I ????? * ?mmmm#
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