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' y \ Abbeville Press and Banner Established^1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. C. Monday, Dec. 6, 1920 Single Copies,'Five Cents. 77th Year. MEETING OF ABBEVILLE COUN TY TEACHERS ASSOCIATION HELD IN COURT HOUSE SAT URDAY.?PLANS MADE FOR POST HOLIDAY MEETING.? SPLENDID SPIRIT SHOWN BY THOSE PRESENT-NEXT MEET ING JAN. 15, 1921. The December meeting of the Ab beville County Teachers Association was held in the court house at 11 o'elock Saturday morning. A goodly number of the teachers of the coun ?* moaHnc and ty was present at wu ?.vw....D each one was interested in making plans for some really v/onderful meetings after the holiday season is ovei. Supt. J. D. Pulp of thrf Abbeville City schools, president, called the meeting to order and static! that there were several matters of business to come before the meeting. The secre tary, Miss Annie Gantt, having left the state and the treasurer, Miss Al lie Evans, having left the county, these two offices were declared va cant and the first business completed was the election of a new secretary and a new treasurer. Miss Mittie Cathcart, principal of the Antreville school was unanimously elected sec retary and Miss Rebecca Jones of the Abbeville schools was likewise elect ed treasurer. The executive committee retired from the general meeting and held a caucus regarding the amount of dues recommended to be assessed each member of the association and to rec ommend the time and place of the next meeting. Prof. J. M. Daniel, chairman of the executive committee reported that the committee unani mously recommended that the an nual dues of the association be fixed at $1.00 and that the next meeting of the association be held in the ? J-J ViiJi/Uno" in Abbeville grttueu otuuui viNw.0 at 12:30 p. m. Saturday, January 115th. Both these recommendations , of the executive committee were adopted after some discussion. Mrs. Charles Gilliam of the Warrenton school, Miss Mcllwain of the Long Cane school and Miss Genevieve An derson of the Antreville school were appointed new members of the exe cutive committee by President Fulp. Misses May Robertson, Esther Todd and Mrs. J. D; Wilson were appointed a committee to arrange the program for the January meeting. Following the transaction of the the business part of the program an excellent address of 15 minutes dur ation was made tfie teachers present by Rev. L. J. Bristow, pastor of the Baptist church, who was present by reauest. The shortness of Mr. Bris tow's timely remarks detracted from J an otherwise helpful address and the J teachers hope that Bro. Bristow will next time he weets with them at least double the length of his part of the program. To Go After Teachers. A valuable suggestion was made by Mr. Bristow which was placed before the teachers and which has been re ferred to the secretary of the Abbe ville County Chamber of Commerce. This is that some half dozen automo biles be secured to bemused January 15 to transport teachers from the^ rural schools to the next meeting of +v?o aear.rintinn. Some of the rural teachers have no means of convey ance and especially those living at Due West and Donalds and in these neighborhoods cannot attend the meetings of the associations by rail without starting early and a?e unable to return until after dark. Any teach ers who wish transportation to the January meeting are requested to nntifw t>i(? nresident. Sunt. J. D. 1 Pulp, at Abbeville not later than Jan. 12 and efforts will be made to bring them in and take thfem home. "Feed the Brutes" Dinner will be served the teach ers at the January meeting and the program will be divided, the lun cheon being served during the in termission. Especially are the tea MR. A. L. GARRISON PASSES AWAY TODAY Veteran Engineer of S. A. L. Passes Away While He Slept.?Funeral this Afternoon at Residence. Burial in North Carolina Death called Absalom Leonidas Gar rison this morning while he slept. He passed away quietly and evidently I without pain and suffering. Mr. Gar- 1 rison has not been in the best of 1 health since about a year ago, but the past few weeks he has seemed to be in better health, and he was feeling ? better until about a week ago when i he suffered an attack of acute indi- ( gestion. He seemed to rally from this attack and while he had not been out his physician and friends were . not anxious about him, as there was noth-* ing in his condition to cause alarm. His death which came early this morning was therefore not expected and it caused profound sorrow in the city where Mr. Garrison had so many friends. Mr. Garrison was bora at Burling ton, N. C., sixty years ago. He was a son of Joseph and Rachel Garrison. As a young man he turned to the calling of a locomotive engineer. Serving first as fireman and then as t engineer on the Carolina Central, Mr. c Garrison about 1882 was assigned to 1 duties on-the Georgia Carolina and 1 Northern Railway, now the Seaboard Aii? T,in?? ran the encine which i t placed the rails from Monroe, N. C. s to Chester, and was the first engineer t to bring, a train into Abbeville. All. ] his life since that time he has given t to this railroad. And a conscientious ] and faithful worker for those whom c he served he always proved himself r to be. ? In 1885 Mr. Garrison was married i to Miss Henrietta Gray, of North t Carolina. For the last twenty-five 1 years Mr. and Mrs. Garrison have is made their home in Abbeville, And t here they have made many friends. ? Mrs. Garrison survives her husband. & They have no children. The deceased t is also survived by his brother, Mr. c Jotyi P. Garrison, of this city. Funeral services will be conducted i at the residence of Mrs. Minshall thi* Y afternoon at 4 o'clock by Rev. A. J. r Derbyshire of the Episcopal Church. 1 of which Mr. Garrison had been a 1 member for a great number of years. ? Tonight the body will be taken over t the Seaboard to Peachland, N. C. \ where it will be laid to rest irt' the c cemetery with Mrs. Garrison's people, i A number of friends will accompany the body to its last resting place. j And thus passes a quiet unassum- j ing gentleman. I chers urged to bring in at least one of their trustees and all of them if they can persuade them to come. Mr. Paul H. Mann, county super- c intendent-elect has been invited to > .1. address the teachers at tneir nexx > meeting and there will also be talks i by other local men of note in the i educational field. The members of the association wish to thank Capt. J. L. Perrin for the use of the court house and for his successful efforts to make them i comfortable during the meeting. i GEORGE DETHRONED George Pritchard, who was King of Cotton Row for a good little space of time way back yonder be fore people took the blues, has not been among the sorrowful for some time. Saturday morning, however, he nut in his aDpeaance long enough | to say that he is no longer King, but just now feels a little like the Jack of Coton Row, and if things don't , soon imprare he expects to be the . Deuce. However, he says he is game \ and he believes things will come ^ around all right, and if they don't he won't cry. ' CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS The City School* will close on Friday, Dec. 17th for the Chirst mai holidays, and will open again on Jan. 3rd, /thus giving the teachers and pupils two full weeks holiday. MISS McMURTRV COMES FROM IRELAND Visits Her Cousins in Honea Path and In Abbeville?Talis of Sinn Fein ers?Has Right Idea About America?Leaves Soon For Home. Miss Sarah McMurtry returned < Sunday afternoon to Honea Path af- : ter a pleasant visit of several days to 1 her many relatives in Abbeville. ? Miss McMurtry is a native of Bel- 1 fast, Ireland, and came to America 1 six weeks ago to visit her relatives, 1 the Erwins of Honea Path. She is a daughter of Rev. David McMurtry who during his life was a prominent Presbyterian preacher of Belfast, < whose sister married an Erwm and i lived in Honea Path for many years. < Miss McMurtry is a cousin of Mrs. 1 Francis Henry, and the late Mrs. I Dox and Hon. R. E. Hill. She is a < middle-aged woman, of high bred ap- j pearance, and of soft and pleasing 11 /oice. She finds many differences be- < rween the Americans and ?he Irish. 1 People here tell her they are "mighty i jlad to meet her" while among the 1 English one would be "pleased." She i ;hinks the Americans eat too mucn 1 md cannot see how a Southerner 1 :an stand hot biscuits as often as they 1 lave them. Instead of biscuit the ( 'rish have "soda cakes" and "farls." ^ Miss McMurtry has no sympathy vith the Sinn Fein movement and 1 lays it is a fight for supremacy be- i ween th? Catholics and Protestants, t rhe Catholics are the hiajority by s hree fourths, but the one-fourth c Protestants will prevail for the min- 1 >rity is made up of the educated and i nonied people. When asked what was 1 xpected of America Miss McMurtry 1 eplied "to stay at home and mind t heir own business." She thinks Sir { * jmt . j?un _^nd ? ays that every gift in the power of i Hp ffnvommcnt K*_s been offered him' 1 md that he can always travel with a ipecial guard of honor. Miss McMur ry thinks a King will always reign iver the British Empire. Miss McMurtry had much difficulty j n securing passports and passage < laving to be guaranteed by her local J sinister and being on the waiting 1 ist since August. She traveled alone c eaving a sister in Ireland, the Gov- ( irnment having given notice that if > >oth sisters left and closed their ? louse, the government would take it >ver and place a family in it, hous- f ng room being so scarce in Belfast, t The relations in Abbeville have en- ^ oyed the Irish cousins visit and many < >leasant dinner parties and teas were 4 riven her. AMONG THE "SHRINERS" Mr. Tom Calhoun was inadver tently left out of our list of those xrho attended the big Shrine Con tention in Greenville last week. He vas right there and shrined along wjth the balance of the boys. MAX IN TOWN Col. Max Below, of Lowndesville vho has a habit of coming W town ind cleaning up his friend Jim Stark in a trade show now and then, ivas here today. Mrs. Below has >een reading in the Press and Ban ian oKmi* Vip-rcAins which the J I I < } \ 1 ] 1 < < ( I * V* MI/VWW VtIV WV>?QV... merchants in Abbeville are offer ing ,and she came along which kept Max from working his rabbit foot :his trip. He says he just wants to jet "one more swipe at Jim." t ERROR CORRECTED ' I Through error it was announced i in the last issue that Mr. and Mrs. I M. B. Davis had bought Mr. Kyle < McAdam's house on Main Street 1 when it should have been the house just opposite owned by Mr. A. H. i Bamett. I ANDREW HILL HURT Andrew Hill is at home from Clemson College. In a Company < game of football Saturday, Mr. Hill suffered a fracture of the bone i of his jaw. He comes home for rest 1 until the injury is healed. < AVIATOR VISITS CITY Flies Over City This Morning at 11 O'clock While Buyers Are Look ing at Cotton and S&lesd&y Crowd?Will Be Here Several Days. Mr. C. H. Siebenhausen, an aviator, of Columbia, came to Abbeville today from Greenwood, flying over in a Custis Machine. His coming was un announced but well timed, because he ucvr uvci wuc puuxiv. 04uaic juow the cotton was being offered on the market and when the salesday crowd was gathered to see and he?r what tvas happening. The flyer had evidently heard that :otton was going up, so he was up at a considerable altitude so as not to :ome in contact with the top prices being offered on this market. He landed in the filed between the forks >f the Mt. Carmel and Snake roads just this side of the residence of Mr. W. A. Stevenson. When he stepped >ut of the machine, Col. E. F. Arnold, ;he Ford expert, who started the flyer From Greenwood, drove up in "the ittle old Ford" and brought the avi itor into the city where he had din ler at the Eureka. After dinner he felt so well that he went back out to lis machine and circled the city sev eral times as the children were on the vay from school. It is understood that the flyer will emain in the city for some little time ind that all the prominent men about ;own will have an opportunity to get lome fresh air. Corp. Kerr, it i? un lerstood, is booked to go up, so that le can take in the Emporium from a i high altitude and see which is the >iggest, his furniture business or the i>utch Kolone. Bill Wilson is also >ooked for a fly. He does not want to jo up, but this is the only way he ??? mnoir frnm tha ru>nr\lp wKfl *CO W A* V4M VMV rv*r.V .. ? ire trying to explain why he has >ought -a new safe. COTTON GOES UP After closing at' an advance of 30 >oints Saturday, the cotton market :ontinued strong today, the closing figures in the future market in New fork being fron> 45 to 50 points tbove the previous close. In New )rleans both futures and spots ad vanced, the spot market closing- at >0 points advance. The local market showed the ef 'ect of the growing demand for cot ,on and as much as 16 1-2 cents vas paid for good cotton, one buy ?r stating that fancy cotton would i )ring 17 cents. The National Ginners estimate of , 12,450,000 bales for this crop was innounced, and its figures on gin ling to November 30 were an >unced at 10,050,000. These figures , vere smaller than expected and vere in part rqpponsible for the ad vance. The general feeling In the cotton narket is that the bottom has been reached, the crisis passed, and that ,he market will make steady ad vances, though no great advance is jxpected before the Christmas holi Jays. COTTON BURNS AT GREENWOOD MILL Fire of Unknown Origin Destroy* 350 Bale* Amounting to Loss Of Approximately $20,000. Greenwood, Dec. 4.?Fire of an jnknown origin this morning about six o'clock was discovered in the cot ton piled on the platform of one of ;he warehouses at the Greenwood Mill ind before it was extinguished had burned about 350 bales amounting to a loss of approximately $20,000 fully covered by insurance. Three trucks of the fire depart ment answered the call and were kept pumping until nine o'clock. The fire originated in the cotton on the platform but spread to the cotton in side the warehouse. Firemen say flames were carried through a win dow. It is thought that the fire pro bably started from the sparks from a shifting engine, although the cotton on the platform was covered with canvas. I DEATH RATE HERE SHOWS SLIGHT INCREASE Figures For Abbeville County Seven teen More in 1920 Than in 1919 Figures from Other Counties. The death rate for Abbeville coun ty during 1920, according to the Bu reau 01 vital fctatistics, has Deen sev enteen more than during the preced ing year. The figures are 47 for 1919 and 64 for 1920. Figures for various cities of the State follow: 1919 Abbeville 47 Aiken 76 Anderson 167 Bennettsville v 46 . Camden 53 Charleston 1, 114 Cheraw 39 ' Chester 84 Clinton 355 Columbia ' 1,026 \ Darlington 45 Easley 49 Florence 213 303 Gaffney __ 70 101 Georgetown 92 103 Greenville ... 231 288 Greenwood _ 100 87 Laurens 55 69 Marion 41 18 Newberry ___ 50 66 Orangeburg _ . 63 118 Rock Hill 136 114 Spartanburg _ 298 306 Sumter 145 148 TOTAL ... 4,337 5004 DIXIE LAND COMPANY MAKES LARGE SALE Sale of several farms, amounting to a total of $127,000, was consum mated yesterday by the Dixie Land Company. This sale includes Tom Goree place at Ninety Six, contain ing 61 1-f acres, the old Smith place4 located about 4 miles west of Green wood, containing 106 acres, house and lot located on North Main street in Abbeville known as the W. T. Cason house. The old Moore place located about 2 miles south of Ab beville was bought by the Dixie Land Company and sold to Mr. J. A. Shands. Mr. Shands will move there on January 1st. Mr. Con Harris takes the Mayor place located near New Market and will move there on January 1st. The total sales amount ing to -$127,500.?Index-Journal 5th. MRS. RUNDY IMPROVES Friends in Abbeville of Mrs. Elizabeth Barksdale Biwidy, of Monroe, will be glad to know that she is improving steadily after a se rious operation at the Mercy Hospi tal at Charlotte. Mrs. Bundy has been in bad health for some time and it is hoped that she will be quite well from now on. LITTLE GIRL FALLS IN WELL} DROWNED Rotten Plank Costs Life of Vivian Hiott, Daughter of Mr and u? r? u:.tt irxrs. i/. Anderson, Dec. 5.?A tragedy happened Friday afternoon when lit tle Vivian Hiott fell into a well and was drowned. The little girl was on ly three years old, and was playing around the well, and stepped on a plank which was rotten and it gave way with her. The mother hearing the screams of the child, and seeing what had hppened, ran to the field for the father, and he came as quick ly as he could . The rope was not strong enough to bear his weight, so a young man went down and suc ceeded in getting the child and bring ing her nearly to the top of the well. The father tried to catch her but in som# way the hold was loosened and she fell back into the well. The young man ws again lowered, and in K-rTn eri n Ct fViA lit.tlp hr?r?v up again, but life was gone when he got to the top of the well. The child's parents are Mr. and Mrs. D. Hiot+-, and they live in the White Plains section. The funeral was held in Wil liamston Saturday afternoon. PROPOSED CONVENTION BE TWEEN GREAT POWERS DRAWN UP BY INTERNATION-* AL CONFERENCE NOW IN SESSION IN WASHINGTON WILL PROBABLY BE ATTACK ED BY AMERICAN COMMER CIAL COMPANIES Washington, Dec. 5.?A proposed telegraph convention between the. great powers drawn up by the Inter national Communications conference now in^ session here is understood to meet with vigorous opposition from the American commercial telegraph companies who are said to profess to see in it the virtual extension of the war time powers exercised by the United States over the telegraph rand a step towards eventual govern ment control. " > The American commisisoners to the conference have approved the proposed convention with reserva tions, thfe exact nature of Which has / ^ J not been disclosed. The convention / is included in a general one govern ing the international use of cable, radio and telegraph and the whole must be approved by a general com munications conference to be/ held later and then by the various gov ernments before it can become ef fective, In the case of the United States, action by congress will be necessary. The United States hitherto has re frained consistently from entering of the telegraph conventions, offi cials here say, on the ground that the conditions governing the tele graph in most states where this means of communication is govern ment owned made participation of the United States inadvisable. Particular clauses of the proposed convention to which the American commercial telegraph companies are yv said to take especial exception and against which they are reported to plan an attack,should the convention be presented to congress, includes ' provisions which give the various countries's * governments virtually the right of censorship in peace > ' times. These articles include four, seven and eight, which read as xoijows: "Each government undertakes to devote to the international telegraph service special wrres, sufficiently numerous to insure the rapid trans mission of telegrams. These wires shall be established and worked in the most efficient manner indicated by experience of the service. PHYSICIANS PERFORM . UNUSUAL OPERATION j Anderson, ec. 6.?An unusual op I eration according to local physicians I consisting in the removal of poison ed veins is restoring the health to W. J. Sloan of this city, who was bitten by a cat in September while rescuing the animal from a bull dog. Mr. Sloan's condition became serious af ter the bite. Physicians advised re moval of the teeth, and this was done, but the patient did not im prove. Later upon medical advice his tonsils were taken out. He still did not improve and finally an oper ation was performed at a local hos pital to remove the poisoned veins wmcn was iouowea oy uibuuvju im provement. DINING M. and Mrs. Frank Welsh enter tained Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Durst, Mrs. Mary Payne and John Durst Payne and Mr. W. D. Barksdale at dinner Sunday. The visitors came over from Greenwood in the morn ing. Miss Victoria Howie was a week end visitor from Agnes Scott. She came home Saturday and spent Sun day at home, returning Monday morning. She- was at her old place at ( Vip Rairfcist Church Sundav night. playing the organ for the evening services. Her friends were glad to see her looking so well.