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I \ ? A. ML CHAPMAN SPOKE TO < FARMERS OF McCORMICK ' ; ' \ I ' McCermick, Dec. 25.?The boll , weevil campaign which ia being waged in this section of the state by the I Department of Agriculture, cooper- i ating with Clemson College, held its , second meeting in this county Sat- ] urday at Mount Carmel. At the first meeting, held last Thursday at Buf falo church, a number of represen- j tative farmers were present. Farm ] Ttamnnofrofinn A nort Mnnrp from Laurens county, spoke first on "Cov- ] er crops and their relation to soil * building as a factor in the prepara- ( i tion for the boll weevil." A. H Chapman of Greenville counl ty, spoke on Live Stock and its re- , lation to soil building and as an in- ( diroct means for marketing farm products." Mr. Chapman also em- ] f pha sized the fact that live stock pro- ^ !. ducts could be marketed through ' > ! packing houses to be established in ] Greenville and in Orangeburg. " S. M. Byars, of Anderson county, ( ' " " ??? - * ?i?J?: . " iormeny 01 iuisaissippi, uukusscu ^ [, the effect of the boll weevil on the j A business of a newly infested state. V Mr. Byars emphasized that $he chief , W weapon of defense for any newly in- < t ' *" fested territory would be self sus- , j taining homes, with cotton as a sur- j plus money crop. Mr. Byars gave instances where communities in his own state were temporarily paralyzed by the boll weevil. j * NO INAUGURAL BALL. New York Times. ^ President Wilson has again shown ' the inauguration ceremonies of that gray old humbug, the so-called inaug- ] ural ball. With a record of two in- ( augurations freed from the presence r of this hoary imposter, it may be ? reasonably hoped that its absence has y settled into a precedent which Mr. ] Wilson's successor will follow as a < < matter of course. Innocent outsiders imagined that the thing1 was a part i of the official ceremonies, conducted j X by the national government; the mis- < leading adjective "inaugural" helped i along the delusion. It was not an ] ' inaugural ball at all; it was a ball ] fceJd in Wasmgton at inauguration \ t?tao. which is a different thing. It < .was a ball like any other ball, got- j V ten up for profit by private citizens j of Washington; there was nothing j r governmental about it, except that \ Vie government regularly lent one of ; its buildings to the money-getters 1 . who conducted the thing. Anybody ( VlUl CUlr t) Veiling VUOVUUIO va uib ?>/ ?- j ' ty to hire one, and some small bills j in his pocket to pay the admission ] price, coald get in, just as he could < at any other public dance held in ] Washington or any other city, and i then go home and amaze the neigh- 1 bors. It was to tickle this human ] failing, and to make money out of \ 1 it, tbat the Washington business men i 1 ran the lance and plastered the word < : "inaugural" on it. I i '' It was all a lamentable bit of shod- j . din ess, exploiting tne bounaensm ' - that is one of the least admirable elements in the national character. It touched its highest point of vulgarity in making the president of the .\ > United States pass under the yoke of money-making; for, to give the ? thing some air or officiality, and to prevent the ticket purchasers from ; suspecting the real nature of it, the h- men who sold the tickets and got the government to save them the rent of a hall used to wheedle the incoming ^president into coming into the place for a few minutes and letting the so-called "guests" have a . > look at him. President Wilson was * * 1- . i i ii. tne nrac president wno naa me cour- t P* age to 'set his foot on the whole j wretched fraud and squash it, regard } less of the feelings and the profits \ of the ticketydealers. His reputation ] v now of that act probably seals the c 'x fate of an unregretted inaugural z : : ! ball. g KING OF SPAIN ORDERS FOUR ! MORE WILLYS-KNIGHT CARS c ?:? t A highest compliment to Ameri- I can manufacturing supremacy was paid recently by Alphonso, King of I Spain, when he ordered four WillysKnight cars,?two touring cars and I two limousines?through the European headquarters of The WillysKnight Overland Company, of Toledo, Ohio. This order is all the more notable because of the fact that King Alfonso ordered one Willys-Knight I * * * - 5 xl "L. L:- I touring car last spring tnrougu nis , ambassador at Washington. This * car, especially equipped with wire ? wheels, was forwarded to him last ? April. J Reports from Madrid after the car , had been delivered, indicated that j his Spanish Majesty was highly pleased with his new purchase. i Yet no official word was received ? until the arrival the other day of the . m cablegram from the European head- j qarters of the company, ordering r four more four-cylinder WillysKnights, to be dispatched at the t very earliest opportunity. j A This roval endorsement of the _ r Knight-motored car, manufactured ^ by The VWillys-Overland Company, j, can be taken as a supreme triumph v for American builders of Knight- t sleeve motors. Such a large single 0 order means, without doubt, that 0 King Alfonso considers the Knight- fj motored car, a smade in Toledo, 0., c at least the equal in accomplishments ? of the renowned Daimler, Panhard, sj Mercedes, Minerva and various other ? European Knight cars that sell from n $4,000 to $8,000. g J STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, K 1 County of Abbeville. 9 Probate Court. ( B ^ Notice to Debtor* and Creditors: I la the matter of the Estate of J. G. I Smith, Deceased. r All persons indebted to said es- t I tate must present them properly at- r 8 those holding claims against the es- n I tate must present htem properly at- r tested to ROY C. GILMER, r m 2-27-12. Administrator, p y . Some people never find out which a wBW side of their bread is buttered until d I ' V| McCORMICK V i V WWVWWWWWW i McCormick, Dec. 10.?Mr. L. W. ' Harris has been appointed United States Commissioner for the Western 1 district of South Craolina, by Judge i J. B. Johnson. i A widow. Mrs. Lenoir, of Jackson. 1 is now night operator at the depot iere, her hours being from 12 i D'clock at night until 8 o'clock A. 1 M. i The High and Graded school will 1 ilose on next Wednesday for the i holidays. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt Chamberlain a were visitors in Augusta, several 1 jays last week. i The family of Mr. W. J. Hines i left last Tuesday morning to make 1 their home at Merriwether. Mrs. ] Witt and family now occupy the ] ipuse vacated by Mr. Hines. y Mr. W. E. Rankin attended the s 5rand Masonic meeting in Charles- < x>n last week, being a delegate from : :his lodge. < The little folks sewing club met ' vith little Miss Isabel Sanders Fri- 1 lay alternon. Alter an nour 01 work the little folks were served fruit which they enjoyed very much. LA CANDEUR LODGE. V Prof. Bacot Recall* When the French Element Was Strong Here. To the Editor of The News and Courier: I note in your paper of Saturday, December 9, an account of a banquet of La Candeur Lodge of Masons. This article gives an interesting sketch of the lodge, stating that it vas founded in 1812 and used the French language for over half - a jentury. Members and friends of the or- . janization may be interested to ; enow that its existence dates back iven earlier. In The City Gazette (of Charleston) there appeared on December 22, 1796, an announcenent both in French and English, ;hat the Frenh lodge "La Candeur" >f Masons is arranging to keep the , festival day of St. John the Evangel* , st by a procession and other festivi- j aes. How long this lodge existed be- j fore 1796 I do not know. During the administration of , Washington and Adams, Charleston , :ontained a lrage French element of j population, many being refugees . from San Domingo after the ^insurrection in that island. '' There were >ne or more newspapers in the v city published in French. Also the regu- j lar paper frequently published articles and advertisements in that 1 langage. Furthermore, sympathy for j the French revolutionists was v^ry /ery strong. A French Patriotic Sojiety and a Frenh Jacobin Society flourished. The Frenfch minister, Genet, fitted out privateers t)o prey up3n English commerce and endeavor- J 3d to raise troops to attack Spanish Florida and Louisiana. French and Snglish sailors fought each other in ;he streets. And South Carolinians ' " ' Ao/tVi rv+Vior lengniea in uuuicemums ?avu vr VMV* I is "citizen" and "citizeness,', after he fashion of the followers of Robespierre, Danton and Marat. ( Here is a clipping from a writer of 1 die time, the Duke de Rochefoucault, vho states in his "Travels in North America" of 1796: "Charleston is full of Frenchmen , from St. Domingo, and of command- ] irs of privateers. Some of the for- 1 ner have brought money with them: j it least they have not all spent their fortunes; and many earn a liveli- ^ lood by letting negroes, whom they r >rought from St Domingo. The ^ rrench differ widely in their political l pinions; but tlie love of gaming } econciles them all, and in the French j faming houses, which are very num- . srous in Charleston, aristocrats and ans-culottes mix in friendly interourse, and indiscriminately surround f he tables. It is asserted that they J (lay very high.' ' D. Huerer Bacot, Jr. >rofessor of History, the Temple 1 University, Philadelphia, Pa. Jecember 10, 1916.?News and Cou- 1 rier, ' , ERA OF GOOD FEELING. 8 3 s The true idea of life is to be hap- e ty even if we cannot have our way. I )f course, there are circumstances hat ?re cruel and pull us down, like wamps and cliffs that confront a c raveler. But out in the open, where aen are coming and going, the blue . kies are smiling, the flowers are iiAnmino. the moon is shinincr, the J logs are barking, the autos are peeding, and everything is on a I evel, it is positively unmanly and I nhuman for a person to be growling ,nd grunting because his neighbor loes not think and act as he does. *oise and kindness draw the victorious battle line of life. We sat one ime with a great naval hero on the leek of a warship, and at first we rere scared by his awful presence, ^ iut he told us an anecdote that we iad told a score of times ourself and j re laughed so heartily over it that he mere telling constituted a bond f sympathy that made us beat as n ne. The great deeds he had done ^ itted admirably with the insignifi- a ant things we had done, and his 0 reatness was a benediction to us. ?he incident only discloses the fact c n1i4^/\n V?1 rl nnf]l Qn_ . Iiat jpcx ovxiauu^o wiwuu n*wu Mil ^ ther's life, when good feeling and j incerity rule the event.?Ohio State j. ournal. , ( "HE GREATEST ROAD PROBLEM ] By B. H. Piepmeir, Maintenance, a Engineer, Illinois Highway De? f, partment.) ,w; The greatest road problem, pafcCo icularly that of the township yyej oad district, it to construct 9fe hi laintain properly the existing ewist y oads. About 90 per cent of-yPubl oads in Illinois are earth an?fel6 ii robably remain such for &bn the ears. In view of the trenWre quire mount of earth road workJfl lone and of money to be s?r i every effort should beW along lines leading to the best re-1.; salts. If the grades, cross-section and drainage of earth roads are pro- i perly established, they will not need alteration when the roadways are l provided with a more durable wear- i ing surface at a later date. For < this reason a large part of the work I done on a good earth road is per- ] tnanent, and'is just as important as i more expensive methods of construc- < tion. 1 Tim r?TQo+ocrf rmatfllrp in most town- 1 }hip road construction today is that the money is spread annually over ill the roads in the township. Very few roads receive enough time and money to be put in first class condition. Most of the money id spent in in endeavor to maintain earth roads that are not in a suitable condition for maintenance. Many earth roads ire wore after improper working than they were before it, for a large part of tiie best soil in them is exposed so that the first heavy rains vash it away. Most townships have juffiqient funds to maintain their sartji roads by dragging and oiling ifter they have been put in proper :ondition for effective maintenance, rhe most economic work that can 3e undertaken by such townships is jo finance some scheme for grading md draining its earth roads and conitructing permanent culverts and iridges. The main work to be done to obtain efficient earth roads is to drain ;hem well and then to maintain them rhere is no\road material so easily iffected by improper drainage as 11 * ?? * ? ' ?mi : AI >arcn. wnen ary, it will carry xne ileaviest loads imposed by traffic, bat vhen thoroughly saturated with wa?r it will not support the lightest' oad. Hence it is necessary to utilze all methods of keeping the earth road dry. This can best be done by training away the underground wa;er and preventing the surface water from standing on the road. All surface water is removed by giving to the road grades and crossMOTHER SUPERIOR Says Vinol Creates Stresgtfi * Rosary Hill Home, Hawthorne, N. 7. ?"I have used Vinol for many rundown, weak or emaciated patients with benefit. One young woman was so weak and ill Bhe could hardly creep to my door for aid. I supplied Vinol to ner liberally and in a month I hardly recognized her. She was strong, her color churning and her cheeks rounded out."?Moth kk M. Alphonsa Lathbop, 0. S. D. We guarantee Vinol to sharpen the . appetite, aid digestion, enrich the blood ana create strength.. P. B. Speed, Druggist, Abbeville, S C. Also at the leading drug store In all South Carolina towns. NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS For the Purpose of Accommodating the Public in the Matter of Making Their Return*, I Will Visif the Place* Mentioned Below on the Dates Indicated in Schedule. ALL RETURNS must be made under oath of personal property returned at its market value. Persons not making their returns between January 1, 1917, and February 20, 1917, are liable to a penalty of 50 per cent This penalty will be enforced against delinquents: for the failure to enforce it heretofore aas put on neglect of the law. The returns of those who conform | io the law are placed before the | rownship and County Boards, while ;hose who disregard the law come in < ifter the meeting of the Boards a$d j return to ifuit themselves. The en- ? 'orcement of this 50 per cent, penal-J^ it urill oAiTocf. this evil. j Employers are requested to retard i ill of their employers after notifying hem and getting a statement heir property. Pre?a Returns will not be taken by Wht M inless they are sworn to by Fire < ome proper officer. All imm U tab nenta or any transfer of realty ?fnni nust be reported to the Audigy -*100 All tax returns must be m#up chool districts. So please,/0f rour jjlats and find the nu0aigO icres in each school distr imount of personal propfe,. DAY! Ay Appointments Are a*/ ^6. Calhoun Falls, Tuesdaj Thurs 1? owndesville, WednesdiT II lay, Jan. 17th and 18tttgnesday, H Donalds, Tuesday an/ U Ian. 23rd and 24th. IIA Friday. ffl Due West, Thursday jl ran. 25th and 26th. *ffreturns at H E. A. Paterson wflfriison, at ffl Intreville, and Wff H jevel Land. JlEY, 9 RICHARD J(le County* I Auditor ? H d CAROLINA, | Pr?r? of AdminU tratio^yt, Esg., Judge of H Prober M. Clinkscales hath H WHERJ?, to grant him Let- B nade suictration of the Estate B ers of Afe. L. Clinkscales, late B ,nd effftCounty, deceased. B f AbbftE THEREFORE, to B TILBnonish all and singular ite irand creditors of the said he kecales, deceased, that they ] 5. Ejpear before me, in the ^eJiProbate, to be held at Ab^oiburt House, on Wednesday, Kt >V, 1917, after publication The ?at 11 o'clock in the forenoon over 0 r cause, if any tney have, why . d Administration should not be , ,.n j lest He EN under my hand and seal of sions. urt, this 20th day of Dec. in everyw ir of our Lord one thousand a . mdred and sixteen and in the ' ear of American Independence atfe* ished on the 27th day of Dec. i The Press and Banner and J Court House door for the time d by law. J. F. MILLER, Judge of Probaie- TRC sections which will afford the necei sary outlet to the natural wate courses. The grade line should pre vide for cutting down the hills an filling the hollows, so there' will b a roadbed which will not requir change for further improvemenl n i -xj. u -1 ? i i ? i i special attention snouia De paia t providing side ditches which will re move all surface water rapidly. Sid iitches on long, steep grades shottl be protected against serious erosioi by riprap, transverse timbers o >ther means. Culverts and bridge should be of ample size and be buil is permanent structures. Drain til should be laid to carry off undei ground water. Side ditches whicl ire kept clean and have sufficien slope to lead the water away an lsually preferable to tile drainage jut the latter is necessary in sorn 3 laces. Good earth roads can be construct id at a very low cost; however, the; equire constant maintenance, whicl nay be expensive where the trave s heavy. A well built and properl; naintained earth r6ad will serv lome sections as well as the mos jxpensive types of hard surface! oads will ' serve other sections inhere this fact is realized mbre at ?ntion will be paid to earth road ind the money spent on them wil lot be regarded as lost. It is neglec vhich makes earth roads bad, ani equires. two dollars to be spen vhere one dollar invested earlie vould have done the work. Ever; awnship should arrange for a pa xol system of. maintenance, or it RUB OUT PAIN / with good oil liniment Thatll die surerft way to stop therH |The best rubbing liniment* # MUST Alt LINIME4T ? Good far the Ailmf ?f / II Horses. Mules, CEtc. I Good for your owdches,^ Pains, Rheumatiti Sprazn*, Cuts, Bum?*?* j 25c. 50c. $1. /anPeAwi fiwWjt *bd Ha?ilng?Catebgue Tells Y? Ab?ut It ?nft? -ether yu term on ft laSe ?<S?e o^ly Plfit ^tables largei scaie or -~ay you need Hartinea* $ Bead Catalog. It'B Hastings 19 fcYe a copy foP v^ ohflXt y trdfi y?tt a8* tor It, you absolut y of thi8 paper, menttpiring* jawing you about all j * vegetables, farm 1 the varl^_ j flower peeds, this grf8.8' c.li? W' you can get free five ,?Eiari?8 of easily grown, yet vp with which to beaubeautlr* ? surroundings. B8f almost every kind Go^?^is season, and you can't < a^e s.&e chances In your se^d ! & Iv /stln^8' Seeds are depend- j Bv, a'Ji ktod you can always * 5bl' JThaving "good luck" with. ' fSr golng to garden or fann Jig. Why not insure success .n ?ra P?B0lble by starting with !?Mt seed? Don't take chances do not have to. ' nf e today' for Hastings' 1917 Ihg. It's free and will both Inter* fad help you to succeed In 1917. ? Q. HA8TINQ8 CO* 8eedamen, nta, Qa.?Advt aria or Chills & Fever option No. 669 is prepared especially ALARIA or CHILLS & FEVKR. x si* doses will break aajr case, sad a then as a tonic die Perer will ooC It acts on the Krer better than lelaaddoaa not gripe or rickeo. 25e A . " i Dixie Powerlight, -IGHT*S ONLY COMPETITOR v ' MAKES ITS OWN GAS v ] FROM r] lROSENE OR GASOLINE ? | DIXIE POWERLIGHT ha. J j ne quarter million of satisfied thuaiastic users in the Humb- I >mes and in Millionaires Man- | It is fast becoming a necessity F I here. It is one of the greatest f J jst useful inventions of the J l\ W. BARKER. E! Lighting Expert Jfl >Y, SOUTH CAROLINA. QfJ v- equivalent, under which a^meon^rfl <r give his entire time to k section of >- roads and be responsible for their d condition. / e Earth roads should be maintained e by keeping a good crown on the fc. road, the surface smooth and the o side ditches open. In this way the *11 LA ATTAM r travel win uc uuuuxucu v?w* uig e roadway and water will be drained d away rapidly. The systematic use a of tie road drag Trill give better rer suits for the money spent than any 8 other method of maintaining an t earth road, and costs from $10 to e ? 15. per mile per year in Illinois, - provided the road has been properly li built 0 NEGRO IS GRANTED >, $42,800 DAMAGES Memphis/ Tenn., Dec. 28.?Up'f holding th/ contention that "a man's 7 home is bp castle and he has a right II I ^I II 1 II . * ? l smm ' i Are You Going -4 "? If you are, let us figurue on sash, doors, blinds, moldings, n need. We have recently furnish ber of nice houses in Abbeville, /^CU XT 1- J TfT A TT * vntrtuuaHi ? ana w. a. Harris7 nishing material for D. H. Hill; amine the material in these and BUILDERS' SOI HIIFPUUIAAII unccnnuuu, IfiWfiffifiifiSlfiifiifiSSfitfi McCaQ emphasized in his charge, g''-Y-$ jury in federal court here today awarded Matthew Harris, a negro* A $22,600 compesatory, and $20,0#Dunitive damncrAa in Viia mu ?j John A. Reichmari, TSSS of Shelby bounty and m?mbdrn of a sheriffs posse. . , Harris, who sued for $100,000, Waft seriously injured when his home was dynamited in an attempt to dialodse him after he fired on the pone which was searching for one of his * I relatives. Harris testified that he was not OVUM Af+1<A tJ/t.Ui- .4 iL. ? ?niMV vxuiv MVUUijr ux uie pot* semen when he resisted their effort! to search his home. . < Reichman was exempted from the erdict for punitive damages as it Z was shown that he was not actually a member ofthe posse. Some men would growl about the | weather if it rained silver dollars. .1 - i i i ??mm ern-CnlaT "In a eBottIe 1 Through a Straw" j DRINK j llSs?f| ngpQESWNG. J wr mm NO i A?> AFTER EFFECK Always served in the original .bottle with the label on it ' V ' ' v ^ T? a Book ^ Through ^ 6 aSttanf* ^^ yi j * ?| "* '7 ^". I T I :a^I Hpp^^?* j ^ j inuerararaigraiBraraia : to Build? {! . the dressed material, [ J lantels, etc., you will I j cu ULiaientU xur U LILLLLL- IK , the last being J. B. j | , and we are now fur- j | 's new residence. Ex- ! | see if it suits you. I I pply co. j! S.C. [j IflEUiEiEiPinnnm