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THE SUN, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 17, 191 Published Every Thursday by The Sun Printing Company R. . PRICE, Editor L. D. MILLER, Manager Entered at Postoffice, Rutherford ton, N. C, as Second-Class Mail Matter. One Year $1.50 Six Months .75 Four Months .50 Notice To Our Patrons All advertisements, news letters and communications for the current issue of The Sun must positively be in the office not later than Tuesday at noon to insure publication. We cannot wait until the last day of publication. This no tice is final and we hope all will govern themselves ac cordingly. L. D. MILLER, Manager. a sin to tell a lie about your taxes and property. We urge all of our readers to face the new tax proposi tion with fairness and truthfulness. It must be faced. Progress and ad vanced civilization demand it. Jus tice and equality demand it. It must come. It is here, i. e. the day of a better system of taxation. MRS. HUGHES PASSES Misses Carpenters Entertain- Societies To Meet TAXATION AND TRUTH FULNESS The Biblical Injunction, "I said in my haste, all men are liars" seems to be true when applied to the way most of us give in our taxes. We take a solemn oath to tell the truth and nothing but the truth and yet how many of us do? Why? Mostly, because our neighbor did not tell the truth. If a man has a piece of land worth $50 per acre and gives it in at six, what has he told? If he has $500 worth of per sonal property and gives it in at $125, has he told a lie? Why not? The new tax assessing system on real estate inaugurated by the last Legislature seeks to help cure the sore on the back of taxation. It's a big job for there is no one thing in our country as badly misrepresented as our taxes. We wish that every tax payer in this county could see the tax books just after taxes are listed. How many would want the records published? The questionaires that are being mailed out in this county are not to be mailed to the officials, but wait until the supervisor or his assistants call for them. Have them filled out ready to the best of your ability. If you cannot fill it out they will help you. Study the questions carefully and answer them as near correct as is possible for you so do. The people must co-operate with the officials in seeing the right thing is done. They will do their best. That is what they are employed for. They are not trying to make your taxes higher, but lower and more equal with the other fellow's. It is not right for you to pay taxes on your land assessed at $15 per acre and your next door neighbor's assessed at $5 when they are worth $75. We are glad somebody else besides the owner sets the value of our real es tate from now on. Our tax values should be raised and our rate lower ed. Only four counties in the State in 1916 had a higher tax rate than Rutherford. Why is this? Because our property was listed so low that the rate had to be raised very high or we had no public funds. Is this fair? Gentle reader don't get scar ed when the assessor comes around and think that he is going to take all that you have got to pay your taxes. Not at all. He is your best friend and is trying to get a more equal distribution of the tax burden. A recent study of the tax books in one township in one of the middle counties by some tax students at the University of North Carolina discov ered the following facts. How would they apply to our county, or your township? Two-thirds of the entire popula tion paid no taxes at all. One tenth paid poll tax only. Half of the prop erty tax payers owned land, or town lots, or both. Seventy three listed tax values from $5,000 to $500,000 and yet the wealthiest private tax payer in the township listed his household goods and utensils, work stock, vehicles, money, jewelry, and all personal property except solvent credits at $216, another at $125. No doubt there are similar cases to the above in our county. In 1913 there was over one billion dollars worth of property not even on the tax books in North Carolina. If it is a sin to tell a lie, it surely is MAKING PROGRESS Work on the Memorial and Pro gressive edition of The Sun is mov ing along in a very satisfactory manner. Much interest is being a roused throughout the county, and expressed in favor of having a com plete and splendid showing of the resources and possibilities of grand old Rutherford. The publicity to be given these matters cannot fail to divert capital and population in our direction from less favored localities. An eight page section of the edi tion, under the title of Progressive Supplement, will be beautifully il lustrated and printed on the finest quality of book paper, and it is hop ed confidently that the co-operation and contributions of those intrested in our county's development will justify the expense attached to a first class production. Several of our leading citizens have already rendered substantial support, but there are many more to be seen and their public spirit appealed to. We expect to have all the towns in the county represented, thus making the edition as complete as possible. PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE The Sun is running President Wilson's message to the Senate last Thursday in full. If you have not already read it, do so. It is worth preserving. It is one of the great est human documents in history. The peace conference of 1919 set a new pace in human affairs. Every lan guage and tongue was represented. Every race and religion had an en voy there. President Wilson truly told the Senate that, "It would break the heart of the world for America to reject the treaty of peace." NEGRO MINSTREL Interesting Program Saturday Night Children's Day (Special to The Sun). FOREST CITY, R-3, July 15. The boys of the Woodrow Wilson Literary Society will give a negro minstrel at Pleasant Grove school house Saturday night the 19th. The object of the play is to raise money to buy text books, and other neces sary literature for the society. It is a worthy cause, and the boys will appreciate a full house. The program is as follows: Song, "We Hope You brought Your Smiles Along. The great turkey-stealing trial of watermillion country. De clamation, Uncle Bill at the Vaude ville. Song, Jolly Picaninnies." Play, Coon Creek Courtship. Song, "Now Aren't You Glad You Came." Ev eryone is cordially invited to be pres ent except "grouches" and others, whose "funny bones" are out of joint. We promise vou an evening of innocent fun. So come nreDared to smile, then laugh until the laugh becomes a roar. The exercises will open at 8:30 (standard time). Ad mission fee, 15c for adults, 10 cents for children. Don't forget the time and place. Mr. and Mrs. Van McMahan, and children, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Harrill and children, spent the wek end vis iting relatives in Cliffside. Miss Kate Trout, invited her friends for a social evening at her home Saturday evening. Ice cream was served. All present enjoyed inemseives very much. Misses hmma Sloan, Alma and Ruth Clemmer Roberson. are the at tractive guests of their uncle, Mr. A. M. Smith. The children's day exercises will be held at Pleasant Grove church Sunday p. m. at 3 o'clock. The pub lie is cordially invited. Mr. Charlie .Trammel, visited in me rog JLevel section Sunday. Quite a number of the young folks visited at the home of Mr. A. P. Gross Sunday night in honor of the Misses Robersons. Prof. W. R. Hill, met with the committee at the school house last Monday in regard to adding another room to the building. Work will commence on the new room in the near future. We certainly can re joice with the children, and predict for this community a school for this year second to none. We understand that three teachers have been em ployed. All of them being up-to-date, efficient teachers. (Special to The Sun). CLIFFSIDE, July 15. Mr. Jesse Padgett returned Saturday from Charlotte where he spent a rew days at St. Peters Hospital for treatment. He is improving now and we hope for him a speedy recovery. Dr. Amos Duncan of Richmond, Va., formerly of Ellenboro, has lo cated here for the present and is working with Dr. J. R. Shull. We hope he will locate here permanent ly. The Cliffside Mills Drug Store is installing a large new soda fountain which will add to the appearance of the store. Miss Minnie Carpenter who has been attending the summer school at Union Mills returned home Sunday. She was accompanied home by Miss es Clara Morris of Union Mills and Mary Sue Nanney of Jefferson, Tennessee. Mrs. Sarah Hughes, wife of Mr. L. A. Hughes died here at the home of her son, Cr. C. D. Hughes on Se cond Avenue Sunday about noon. Mrs. Hughes has been in ill health for some time and the end was not unexpected. She was the last of her family, having no brothers or sisters living. She leaves a husband, Mr. L. A. Hughes who at one time was superintendent of the Cliffside Mills and a son, Mr. Clarence D. Hughes. Mrs. Hughes joined the M. E. church South in early life and has lived an exemplary Christian life. The fun eral was conducted from the home at two-thirty by her pastor, Rev. J. A. Burrus and Rev. D. J. Hunt, after which the mortal remains were laid to rest in the family plot in the Cliffside cemetery. The many beau ful floral designs that covered her grave testified to the high esteem in which she was held by her many friends. We deeply sympathize with the bereaved ones. Dr. J. C. McCall who recently moved here from Georgia, now oc cupies the dental offices over the Cliffside Mills Store and is prepared to serve the public in efficient and up-to-date manner. We are glad to welcome Dr. McCall to our town. Misses Willie and Minnie Carpen ter entertained a number of friends Monday night in honor of their guests, Misses Sue Nanney of Jef ferson, Tenn., and Clara Morris of Union Mills. Among the out-of-town guests were Misses Jessie and 'Edith Jenkins of Henrietta, Miss Clara Morris of Union Mills, Miss Mary Sue Nanney, of Jefferson, Tenn., Misses Mattie Logan and Rose Freeman of Logan, Miss ' Aquila Lovelace of Boiling Springs, Miss Ruby Dobbins of Greensboro. Messrs. Will Logan and Ernest Giles of Logan. Music was one of the features of the evening, Misses Mary Sue Nan ney and Aquila Lovelace rendered a number of piano solos. The Misses Carpenter had planned a picnic at Ferry, but on account of rain the picnic supper was served in the din ing room. Fine watermelons were served also during the evening. The Ladies' Missionary and Aid Society of the M. E. church will meet July 21st at eight o'clock with Mrs. T. D. Rudisill at her home on North Main Street. Miss Carrie Hill has resigned her position with the Cliffside Mills Store and has returned to her home at Rutherfordton. Miss Hill has made many friends during her stay here who wdl regret her going. Mr. Landrum R. Roach arrived home from rFance last Saturday and will visit his brother B. E. Roach here this week. Mrs. Clemmie Blanton, our effi cient telephone operator is spending some time in Lexington, N. C, with her sister, Mrs. Gray Freeman. Wr. Allhands and family are ex pected home soon from a trip to Chicago and other places in Illinois, and Indiana. Mrs. B. P. Caldwell and little daughter "Beth" returned Monday trom Charlotte where little Beth has been under treatment. The choir of the Baptist church will sing at Mt. Vernon next Sun day afternoon at 3 p. m. Good music is in store for those who go. Misses Winnie and Carrie McCraw of Gaffney, S. C, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Tate. On Thursday evening Miss Ollie Tate gave a lawn party in honor of her cousins, Misses Carrie and Win nie McCraw. After the man v cram es were enjoyed, little Misses Gav- nell Thigpen and Jennie Hawkins served ice cream and cake. Mr. W. Garland Hamrick. of Un ion, S. C, spent the week end in town with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Tate motored to Shelby Saturday. Miss Sarah Fears has been serious ly ill, but !s rapidly recovering. Miss Eugenia Wilson has return ed to her home in Gastonia. For The Auto Boy Scouts Here Eighteen Boy Scouts from Gas tonia were here Monday on their way to Chimney Roek and Bat Cave tor a week's outing. They came on the train and intended to hike to the mountains but owing to the intense heat they went up in a truck. The boys seemed well trained and gave a tew stunts at drill while here. LIFT OFF CORNS! Apply few drops then lift sore, touchy corns off with fingers nil V Doesn't hurt a bit! Dtop a little Freezone on an aching corn, instantly that corn stops hurting, then you lift it right out. Yes, magic! i A tiny bottle of Freezone coats but a few cents at any drug store, but is suffi cient to remove every hard corn, soft corn, or corn between the toes, and the calluses, without soreness or irritation. Freezone is the sensational discovery of a Cincinnati genius It is wonderful. NOTICE OF SERVICE BY PUBLI CATION North Carolina In Superior Court Rutherford county Before the Clerk rw m k en . Zi. i. mills, administrator, Hugh Mills, Eliza Morris. Nancv MilW Lee Hampton, Lillie McCraw, Mar tha Black, Mamie Carpenter, Docie Miller, Charity Davis, Lus ter Carpenter, Lossie Ernest, Mag gie Davis, Libby Deck, Lonnie Stepp, Ruth Mclntyre, Ola Mcln tyre, AND Eliza Mclntyre, minor, Lady Kate Mclntyre, minor, Hood Simpson, minor, and Jake Simp son, minor, by their next friend, Z. T. Mills, and Jessie Simpson, -vs- Lewis Mills, Jake Mills, George Mills, Clem Mills, Lola Gross, Tom Mclntyre, Willie Mc lntyre, John H. Simpson, Clem Simpson, AND John H. Mclntyre, minor, by his guardian ad litem, Hugh Mills, and the heirs at law law of Charity Forney whose names and addresses are unknown. The defendants take notice that an action entitled as above has been commenced in the Superior Court of Rutlierfn ty, North Carolina, to subject a por tion of the Droceeds nf tho the real estate belonging to the es tate of Jane Mills, deceased, to the payment of the outstanding indebt edness against said estate. The defendants will further take notice that they are required to ap pear before the clerk of the Super ior Court of said county at 10 o'clock a. m. on Tuesdav. Aiicnst Krh iqiq at the court house in said state and' county and answer or demur to the complaint or netitinn filer) am.tA - a v v oaiu proceeding or the plaintiff will apply to the court for the relief demanded in said petition. This July 5,th 1919 u. is. JuriiNsiurM, Clerk Sup erior Court. RuthpHW m4-.r M. L. EDWARDS, Atty. for Pltffs.' BirildADisfincfive 7 We would like to show you the new inspected standardized RITE-6RADE Red Cedar Shingles They are guaranteed as to thick ness, grain, grade and selection. Your roof and walls, covered with Bite-Grade Bed Cedar S lung-les, if properly laid with pure iron or zinc covered nails, will last fifty years or more. SPINDALE SUPPLY CO. C. P. LINEBERGER, Manager Brick, Lime And Cement Owner We have in stock at all times a com plete line of Genuine Ford Parts. We al so carry Tires, Tubes, Chains, Chain Ad justers, Bumpers, Hassler Shock Absorb ers, Ford Auto Locks, Auto Jacks, Pumps, Horns, Air Gauges, Blow-Out Patches, Monkey Grip Tire Patches, Head and Dash Light Bulbs, Spark Plugs, Oils, Grease, Auto Soap, Sementol for leaky Radiator. In fact most everything in Auto Accessories. Thermal Belt GoLfeLge Co Rutherfordton, N. C. Bargain Sale of Shoes For July Far Below Present Wholesale Prices 28 Pairs Queen Quality Patent Leather, Tan, and Kid, Sizes 3 to 4, $3.00 to $4.50. 100 Pairs Seby's, Goodmans, and other brands, sizes 2 1-2 to 4, $1.50 to $3.00 LOOK OUR LINE OVER WE HAVE MANY BARGAINS R. P. Geer & Son Rutherfordton, N. C. Highest Prices For Country Produce We buy and sell all kinds of country produce and pay the highest prices for same. We carry a full line of heavy and fancy groceries. We have a full line of feeds, meal, hulls, shorts and brand. We can supply your wants in feed and grocery lines. Clean, honest and prompt service is our motto. Call And See Us And You Will Be Pleased With The Results Jones Grocery Co. FOREST CITY, N. C. Pay For a Farm With Rents Cholera Infantum Can Be Prevented. Do not allow your baby to suffer when DR. FAHRNEY'S TEETHING SYRUP Will absolutely prevent it. A boon for every baby. Cures Colic in ten onUdaSv nfndr tee.lhin tin?e f and eas7- Ca" iven to U one day old. Keep ihe bowels healthy. 25 cents at druggists. Trial bottle free if you mention this paper. ir,al Made only by DRS. D. FAHRNEV & SON, Hacmstow, Mo Several small, productive, well located farms for sale. One-fourth cash, balance in six annual payments. Dr. C. F. GOLD Ellenboro, - NC
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