The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1921-09-07
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SAYS AFFAIRS
IN fine SHAPE
x;naton County Senator
rses Brookland and Cayce
M 4opIe to Consider Well
roposed s'Cutoff. 70
TBle eoss Dispatch-News:

( RI Dent, has seen fit to publish that
s2ISefa win be reduction of mills in
sssSsir taxes and mills on a given num-
Ser Of school districts, saving the tax
l5ayers something near s40,000.00
q the county.
3 Your representative are due credit
i DR. this. and it would have been
naore, but we set aside 4 mills to
s meet past indebtedness, which was
8 not OF our making; besides, we add
ia IL mill for the help of poor
.sschbols, and without any further
EhsaYyS appropriations, we will once
7Isore. i'm the, not far distant future,
81 ssolir tax-ridden county out of debt.
3 S5ur county is now under the county
bill, passed at the past
session Of the legislature, being run
I Oh a more systematic, financial and
sbusinesslike plan and showing de-
fciffed reduction in expense account.
And our county board and supe.'-
Rispr are getting things in good shape
Ia greater mileage of road con-
afructden has been done and the
Z hooks ought to show, to every voter.
taxpayer, just exactly how our
Sseounty business star SIS. l want to- get
cont OF debt and stop paying so much
Interest. Then build more bridges.
The roads near New Brookland
& have nearly all been repaired and PIT
sE57s good shape, and other sections cf
Js$he coanty.-in their turn-will be
SdS1aes likewise and ere long we will
shaNe good roads in Lexington coupt?T.
40 Since the adjournment of the leg
stature / took the matter up with
highway Commission. and they
Ewave. me SIS, 100000 more for roads. !
s:ssSsxnFW ards went to Charleston and
|sssEss ||Ss2SSW tie chairman, Col. Rhett, and he
Ssonised to make it s5,000.00 more,
scent, and the road from New Brook
s Iand through Cayce, down to the
&3salhoun county line, and l have the
$assurance that the contract will be lei
G ssnon. but this can only be spent in
ezington county, as appropriation
WAS made to Lexington county.
81 This shows that we have done our
land and we have stood by them and
{ g Ipfepose to verify every promise made
GO them and more too. We have been
doing and have done more than ~e
have aheralded upon the house tops"
sst,r ssBlown horns to Show; but it
xakes time to accomplish anything.
1--WE are in position to give the good
Speople Of New Brookland and that
Aectior of Lexington county good
roads in shorter time than they
can get! them any other way that
they can be obtained, and let's not
have any sucker-sores: and all stay
and pull together.
In the event of ''cut off,, moth
ing can be definitely done until after
the next session of the general assem-
5ably and the matter will have to b.
fully confirmed there, etc. That will
therefore sure defer the matter for
at least one year before any definite
garrangelnents can be made. Hence
mo roads for that section and we now
have an arrangement, by which, they
: {the roads, will already have been
built and forgotten. Do you want 10
defer your road building? ..
Richland county has already gotten
her full prorata of government funds
for road purposes and the only way
you can expect help from them is by
direct taxation and you have enough
of. this.
The people of New Brookland have
ALREADY nelped Lexington county ~
pay our share of the free bridge at
Brookland and Richland county has
only Gas l am informed) paid the
interest on her bonds. Do you good
people Of New Brookland want to
help them now to pay their share Of
this bridge and other matters, etc?
There is no law. except for school
purposes, by which you can exempt
q portion Of county from taxation.
New Brookland. Besides, in the mat
ter of taxation, the levy is higher and
the assessed valuation is far higher in