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r Abbeville Press and Banner EalqLIishcd 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. C., Wednesday, January 14, 1920. Single Copies, Five Cents. 76th Year. HOSPITALIOM= ~ $8,000 By MCII Loan Made To Tide Managcmen Over Present Emergency and Will I Not Relieve People of hinal Responsibility in Matter. Street Sweeper Bought. At a meeting of the Cifv Counci Tuesday night $8,000 was loaned i< the Abbeville County Memoria * Hospital to ai l the management complete the building and fin1'?] buying equipment. The Rev. Louis .1 Bristow, Dr. G. A. Neuffer, Dr. J. C Hill and D. H. Hill appeared befor the aldermen and argued the ca5: v for the hospital. It was pointed ou that the hospital would have to b abandoned unless financial aid wa forthcoming immediately; the neei * ' ' ' *n ?? -1 ^ Ot ADOevuie anu /iuucvuic ty, the plans of the hospital an< what had already been accomplishes was discussed and without a dis senting vote Council voted to len the hospital $8,000 at 7 per ceni taking a first mortgage as securitj It was made perfectly clear t the members of Council that' th management of the hospital woul not let down in its effort to raise b subscription from the people of thi city and county the funds necessar to build and maintain the hospita and to liquidate the debt to the cit at the earliest possible date. The loan made by the city enable II the management of the hospital t * push the work at the hospital to coir pletion and it is hoped by eavl Spring to be able to receive natient: V . City Buys Sweeper. P" The City Council ir.vested in *. ? street sweeper last night at th monthly meeting of that body. Th machine will cost $650 and will con sist of sprinkler and sweeper an will be drawn by the city's mules Thus Abbeville is promised a partial at least, allayment of the dust on it newly paved streets. The sweeper was bought from th Austin Western Road Machiner Co., Chicago, through C. M. Scotl agent, Charlotte. ENROLLMENT GROWING. I The superintendent's report for th f first week of school in this yea shows a decided irrcrease in enrol ment over that of December. Th total enrolment of whites in school i G45, with 105 in the high scho( grades. This is a larger attendanc than that of any previous session fc which reports are available. It has become necessary to pui chase fifty new desks to seat the ne-< pupils and practically every room i taxed for space to place seats. At th present rate of increase in enrol ment it will be inevitable that add tions be made to the present schoc i-fJ! ? -i? - v Ipuuaing^ or eise a. new uuuumg u erected. It- has been impossible to secure suitable teacher for the second grad in the mill school as yet, and Mis Ruth Calvert has kindly consented t substitute until the superintenden can find a permanent teacher. ILLUSTRATED LECTURE AT BAPTIST CHURCI IV The Rev. Eugene R . Pendleton Pendleton, S. C., formerly connectei with the Y. M. C. A. in France, an< T. B. Lanham, State Y. . M. C. A Secretary, Columbia, arrived in Ab beville last night. The former wil give an illustrated lecture at th' Baptist Church tonight, using store Ioptican views of scenes on the bat tlefields of France. The lecture wil be a discourse on the speaker' actual experience in France, whei serving with the Y. M. C. A. Mr Pendleton is accompanying Mr Lanham on a lecture tour in the in terest of the Y. M. C. A. The lectur ft free and there will be a musics program accompanying the evening' program. GLASS WARNS OF NEW LOAN IF MORE EXBENSE3 ARE MADE BY CONGRESS I ' ! Washington, Jan. 12.?Anothei liberty loan will be ncccssary if con gress embarks on "new fields oJ | large expenditure or reduces the ag 1 : 1 ~-P " Caevnrov 1 igregaie vuiumv: vi taAt-o, I Glass declared in a statement last night, setting forth in detail the government's financial condition. If !the present tax level is retained and |new expenditures are kept down, l^the turn has come in the tide ol o government financing, the secretary ,1 asserted. o Barring llie congressional action iij mentioned, Mr. Glass believed the treasury would * be able to pay its '.. own way from tax and war salvage e'receipts. Although further issues of e treasury certificates of indebtness t may be expected, they will be ree( deemed from cash ^n hand rather s than through the sa;e of new issue? d of certificates for the first time i-'since late in 1917. The treasury d secretary directed attention to stated ments made early "in September in which he expressed the opinion that d the strain had lessened and that after January 1 the government's fi\ naneial problem would be more easi0 ly solved. e Indicative of the progress made d by the treasury, in solution of these y problems, Sir. Glass pointed to res ductions between September 1 and v January 1 in the nation's gross debt I, and in the two cla?ses of certificates 7 t y of indebtness outstanding. ' The gross debt which on . September 1 sjwas $20,596,701,648 was $2o,S37,o 078,807 on January 1. Reduction ir i- the floating debt unmatured treasy ury certificates of indebtness ot $622,653,230 has been made since i September 1, leaving the total out'standing obligations of this nature at $3,-078,385,800 on January 1. A re auction oi ^b?D,' zo,t>uu was reported fo rthe same period in the out^; standing so-called loan certificates, ! leaving $1,326,061,000 of these yet I to be funded. S; TRAVELING MEN TO ej RUSH HOTEL LAW i y j 1 '? Columbia, Jan. 6.?In order tc I profit *by the experiences which other states have gained in their efforts to standardize and santitate hotels within their borders, the joint ! committee from the T. P. A. and U, 16 C. T. which is engaged in drafting ir i i the hotel bill which wil be introjduced early in the approaching ses6 jsion of general assembly, has re18 iceived copies of hotel laws, and will uiendeavor to incorporate their good e i points in the measure for South 'r; Carolina.. While some of the features ] of hotel laws in other states are not r":applicable to conditions in this state. still hotels have much in common in 13. all states, and many valuable suggestions will be received by careful |"i perusal of laws of other states, 'j "The draft of the bill is not yet (complete, it was announced yesterIday, but steady progress is being ! made 'in its preparation, and it will I be ready for introduction into the 6 ' 'general assembly soon after it coniS ivenes. The main features of the bill ?iwill have to do with Adequate sanita1 tion, clean lines, screens, fite escapes, individual cakes of soap, and such like items which, though small in themselves, perhaps, contribute in the aggregate largely to the comfort or discomfort. '> j "There will be 1 no attempt whatever to legislate as to whether or not d j hotel/shall be operated on the Amer ! ican or European plans, it was said -1 yesterday. Nor will there be any at1; tempt to say what prices should be e I charged. The whole subject of the - measure is to standardize and sani tate the hotels in South Carolina by 1'. providing euests with protection j * 3 against disease and by furnishing ijthem with cleanly articles." Preach at Cckesbury. 1 The Rev. J. L. Martin, 1). D., will < preach at Cokesbury Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. MANY REAL ESTATE L TRANSFERS RECORDED i| IN CLERK'S OFFICE' I ! ri The County Clerk's office is busy, -jat this time recording deeds, andj^ f' mortgages of real estate. More pa-1? pers x)f this character have been re-js [corded in the last thirty days thanjv ; J ever before in the history of thee ?! county. The li?t of real estate trans-]i : fers follows: ' ( jl lj J. A. Moo.re to Neta Simmons, 't . three lots in Lowndesville, $100. :a Mrs. L. C. Agnew 'to Joe Young,: lot in Due West, $75.00. v 1 o i Thomas Heard to I. 0. Simmons, in l - x . i i : 11 . c.1 nn iv lots in i*fUWHuesviii39 piuw. I 0. Z. Campbell to H. T. Taylor, ' '157 acres Diamond Hill Township,'^ !! $1,320.00 :! E ,j W. J. E. Scott to W. S. Martin,; ^ 129 acres Cedar Springs Township, -j. \\ $4,000. !c P. A. Roche to L. C. Parker 88. 1 { , acres, Magnolia township, $800.00. ? -i C. L. Drennan to W. F. Nicklesi . 70 aci'es, Long Cane township $550.-!j ,00.. jc Gertrude Thomson to Jos. Jackson s .! 18 acres, Magnolia township $286.-..00. js .! P. L. Blanchett. to J. E. Hunter 4\ 1-2 acres Abbeville township $286.-; > 00' i 'l ; " H. ^ and' M. L. Ellis two-thirds c interest in 131 acres Long Cane townshio to J. A. Ellis SI,975.00 r J. A. Ell;s to above, one-third in- . tcrest in 158 acres Long Cane town-! ship $1,756.00. T. S. Eilis to Roddy S. Ellis 18 i. acres Due West township $2,000. i, j Same to Ralph C. Ellis, 12 acres;" |Due West township $3,700. .| J. H. Kill and L. W. Rice 56 acres' i Diamond Hill township $1,400. j\ i Julia Envin to T. H. Finley 47 iC feet Walnut Street, Abbeville $550.-1? > ' if j M. P. McCalla to J. W. McCalla j 100 acres, Lowndesville township! "'$6,000. > i( 1 ! TT7 r\ r~? i_. i.i . i . i t-? /-i I I vv. l>. .DarKsuaie xo a. r. uamp-1 ' i bell lot in Abbeville, $900.00 J. A. Smith to W. C. Presher, 85 iacre^ Lowndesville^ township, $2,- r i 103.00 jc ; Mrs. Eunice Agnew to W. M. Ag-|i !new lot in Donalds, $1,000. |a ,j Willnam Thomas to Neat Simmons j( L(2 lots in Lowndesville, $75.00. S. J. Wakefield to J. C. Camp-jv j J bell, 85 acres, Diamond Hill Town- c jsnip, $zi.,ouu,uuu. !p ! J. B. Ashley to S. W. McLain, 92 2 ' acres, Abbeville township, $2,086.- I |oo. "* t J Same to G. A. McCain, 44 acres if j$l, 210.00. I j J. E. Moore -to Isaac Ellis 3 acres c [|in Due West, $150.00. js II Jas. T. Baskin to J. C. Rampey, j { j 1100 acres, Lowndesville township, ^ ; $5,000. W. C. Prince to J. J. (Want, 41, acres, Diamond Hill. $1,680.00. S. H. Adams to G. W. Syfan 1-21 I acre in Abbeville $475.00. J. A. Smith to D. J. Banister, 36 ,c iacres Diamond Hill, township $2.- v 1750. J. A. Smith to W. D. Wilkinson, N. 0 S. Swetenburg, R. E. Cox and C. [Pennell, 60 acres, Cedar Springs j* township, $1,500. |n J. E. McClinton to Ike Pruitt 2 j lots in Due West $65.00. |a J. C. Campbell to L. M. Patterson ja j 94 acres, Diamond Hill township, js j $10,000.00. J. A. Smith to J. R. Presher, 80, jacres $3,000. v T. L. Ferguson to W. T. Campbell I I . , i '70 acres. Diamond Hill township!! j $4,800.OU. j | I B. L. Smith to J. H. Hopper, 1-4 j c acre, Abbeville, $550.00. j i J. W. Latimer to 0. Y. and W. L.! ; i jErownlee, 79 acres, Due West town-! jshhip, $5 and other consideration. jr> I \V. J. Bryson to J'. W. Latimer,. 7') acres, Due West township, $2,-ii 750.00. A. S. Kennedy to W. L. Brown Ice |a lot in Due West, $2,300. Mre. M. Kennedy to J. E. and, II ' W. A. Hunter, 200 acres Cedar (o Springs township, $1,500. ! R. E. Hill to W. J. Lomax, 1 acrejh Abbeville, S>250. S J. Wakefie!! to J. I'. Anderson, li I acres. Diamond Hill township, SI,-,? \SKS LEGISLATION FOR i*LCj-A,?viiii'JG SOUTH'S SWAMPS Washington, Jan. 1'2.?Legislation luthorizing an appropriation of >250,000,000 for use in reclaiming iwarnp, overflow and 'irrigable lands, vas proposed today by D. W. Ross, >f Louisiana, at a conference of rep'esentatives of southern governors, lehl here under the joint auspices of he Southern House of Governors! md Southern Commercial congress. This capital sum, the plan proiJed, would be repaid over a period if twenty-five years through a sink-' ng fund created by the sale of colateral bonds issued 011 the reclaimed unds by the federal farm ioan board. Che amount is one-half of the ap-i >ropriation authorized for reclama-j ion projects of the Smoot-Mondell >ill introduced at the last session of, ongreis. While the plan was designed to ?e national in its scope, Mr. Ross loclarcd it to be of special interest n the south, in that about 70,000,)00 of the 80,000-,000 acres of wamp and overflow land in the Jr.itcd States are located in the ( outhern states. "The south now contains the na-j ion's great reserve of1 agricultural ands," Mr. Ro.;s said. "The hunIreds of millions of acres of free igricultui-al land of our western donajn has all been appropriated and s today worth from SI50 to $500 >er acre. The great western fronicr, the development of which dur-, ng the past fifty years has estabished our national wealth and pow-j r, is no longor a frontier. The fron-; ier has shifted to the south." In the settlement of the lands un!er the proposal of ?.Ir. Ross, pref- j rence would be given those who vi vuu in ine military and naval, orces during1 the war. :lothing prices to advance again j Chicago, Jan. 13.?Clothing prices! icxt spring will be from 23 to 40 peri ent higher than at present, accord-] ng to H. R. King of Seattle, whoj iddressed the National Retail1 Clothiers association today. Mr. King said that the increase vouK come from a complexity of ausc:, chief of which was increased >ay o workers. l:.'>or had gone up !75 per cent since 1014, he said. Mr. Cing also cited the decrease of Ausralian wool prices from $1.15 a >ound in 1914 to $4.10. "The coming year will be a ern ial one for clothing merchants," he aid. "It will not so much be a quesion of making money as to keep he business from going to rocks." COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS \ I Marion, Jan. 13.?Special: The| ounty superintendents of the State j >'il hold a conference in Columbia on; anuary 20 to consider school legis5 the State. A meeting of this kind as always proven to be benefici?! j o the county superintendents in | iany ways. The officers of the association | re: S. J. Wall, of Marion, president; nd H. H. McCarley, of Charleston, ocrotary. Play Ground Money Mrs. Frank Welsh who has been' piling sandwiches and chocolate to' he school children, turned over; '5.00 to the play ground fund last i reek. i 00. J. R. Glenn lo J. S. Bowie, 2 stores j : Abbeville, $10,000.. .J. A. Smith to Drayton Nance, lj ere Abbeville township, $.100. Kittie Bonner and others to L. A. j litchie, lot in Abbeville, $10 and! ther consideration. F. D. Sorrow to J. H. Fin ley, lot i i Abbeville $850.00. Mary M. Gambrell to J. T. Ch^t-! am, Jr., house and lot in Abbeville,' o.ono. 1 DESCENT OF VICTORIA FALLS iS MADE BY i 2 DARiNG AMERICANS i i Victoria Falls, South Africa?; I Two daring Americans have periformed a world-beating feat?the descent of Victoria Falls! I Scaling a precipice of 369 feet with a rope, they accomplished a hazardous climb down the remaining i rocks to the waters' edge at the extreme bottom of the great pit?a total of more than 400 feet?and'stood where no human foot has ever trod. First to penetrate the pit were Pliny W. Horne and William Stowell both of Los Angeles. Horne is a camera man and Sto- i well a film director. They are mem- < bei.j Oi ihe Smithsonian African ex-,; pedition, a party of scientists and motion picture men touring Africa. Never in history, since the missionary-explorer Dr. Livingston discovered Victoria falls in 1855, has]1 any living thing been at the bottom i1 of tiip chasm, save baboons and' birds. 1 Hole With One Outlet To apreciatc what the Americans did: Imagine a cleft in the earth 400 feet deep and 6f a width varying'i fro/n 250 to 400 feet; sheer, perpendicular cliffs, absolutely without foot holds; the chasm at right angles to| the Zambesi river, which cascades over iiic one long side of the narrow, longitudinal pit, leaving the opposite cliif bare, mist-bathed and for bidding; imagine the chasm a hole in the earth, with only one narrow outlet near one end, a gateway with rocky sides falling vertically into a swirling pool of water, a mael-n strom aptly called the Boiling Pot. m Had the ropebroken there would have been no escape for Stowell or Home from the bottom of the pit. ' They couldn't scale the sides. They couldn't swim the whirlpool current.,' There was just a narrow ledge to!' stand on, no path along the bottom's \ edge to the gateway from the chasm .' into the gorge. And Stowell and Horne made not one descent?but two. Previous to penetrating the full distance, they i first went over the cliff of Cataract'. IJ Island to the bottom of Devil's Cata-s 11 ract, the most westerly cascade of Victoria Falls, a distance of 260 feet, f '< ANOTHER BRIDGE ACROSS SAVANNAH!, , ! It is stated on good authority that plans originating in South Caro-j| lina for the erection of a toll bridge j1 across Savannah river, at Sanders, Ferry, in Gaines district, are rapidly maturing. It is said the necessary ' one hundred, thousand dollars has been subscribed by people living on the South Carolina side, and that the stock is considered worth more than , Dar. The buildine of the bridee is! not considered in the light of the | public benefaction, but more as a | private snap.?Elberton Star. |l STORMY SCENE OVER 1 WAR DECORATIONS t I Washington, Jan. 13.?The move- ( ment for congressional investigation * into awards of army decorations produced a stormy scene in the House!f today during which a resolution byh Representative Gallivan, Democrat, v Massachusetts, calling on Secretary !* Baker for a report on the awards, * was adopted. i * The fight centered largely about | Mr. Gallivan's attack on Gen. March, |n chief of staff, and other officers;0 assigned to duty in Washington * during the war. The chief of staff! and other officers attacked were de-! 1 fended by other members. : > ~ " > Paving Greenville Street i ^ _ i """i Work preparatory to paving has j1 begyn on Greenville street, the hands j being: busy shaving: down the em-j ^ bankmcnt in'front of the high school, p The road way will be elevated abou! j Li foot and a half. I i PROSPEROUS YEAR FOR LOCI BANKS Two New Banks in 1919?All Of the Banks Have Large Increase m Deposits?Stockholders and Directors Meetings Are Held. The year 1919 was a most successtul one for the banks of the city. Two new banks, the I lanters and the County Savings, were organized and arc now doing business and both new banks have ^liown a wonderful increase in deposits since the first clay's business. The older institutions also show a marked' increase in business, i The National Bank The National Bank held its annual stockholders meeting Tuesday and re-elected the same board of directors, J. Allen Smith, ?r.. W. M. Barfhvell, A. M. Smith, .J. S. Morse and Lewis Perrin. The deposits of this bank at the close of business December 31, 1918 were $3S0,129.- 5 97 and on December 31, 'SIT, the deposits were $537,507.02, an increase of ?156,377.05. The directors of the National Bank will meet in the next few days to elect officers. TIlP At a meeting of the stockholders of the Farmers Bank held at noon today the following: board cf directors were re-elected: Dr. F. E. Harrison, B. Speed, J. Foster Barnwell, S. D. Brown, James F. Clinkscales, W. H. White and Dr. C. C. Gambrell. At a meeting of the directors, which followed, the same officers of the bank were re-elected. The directors also passed a motion, raising the salaries of the officers and employes of the bank from 15 to 25 per cent. The deposits of the Farmers Bank December 31, 1918, ivere $281,719.00 and December 31, 1919, were $449,489.00, an increase of $167,770.00. Peoples Bank. The Peoples Bank will hold its stockholders meeting sometime in the spring. An inspection of the books of this bank show that on December 31. 1918. the ivere $385,442.32, and- on December 31, 1919, were $674,912.79, an in:rease of $289,470.49. Planters Bank. The Planters Bank has been opened since October 31. At the close of business on the first day this bank had on deposit $36,715.66 and today the deposits were $223,325.97, an Increase of $186,610.31. County Savings Bank. The County Savings Bank had oa ieposit at the end of the first day oa ;vhich it opened for business $37,356.42. Today the deposits of this Dank were close to $100,000. STUDENTS FAVOR LEAGUE OF NATIONS New York, Jan. 13.?Ratification >f the peace treaty by compromise soiled the heaviest vote in 32 colI eges and universities throughout he country which had reported compete returns tonight in the inter:ollegiate referendum voted upon oday by the student bodies of 400 nstitutions of higher learning. In he U2 colleges, which included the freat eastern universities of Harrard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania, a total of 29,910 votes vere cast. Of these 11,182 were in avor of ratification bv compromise m the next highest vote cast. 9,002, ^a^ for ratification without re ervaions or amendments. k.VVVVVVVVS.VVVV^V COTTON MARKET. V , V ^ January 14. V w Spot Cotton 40.50 V \ ^ January 37.85 V * March 35.92 K May 34.25 ^ t .. i.. on on k N *1 Ul.v O-.OU \ iVuobcr 30.2-1 V. AWWVvVWWVVS