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1 Established 1844. * h THE PRESS AND BANNER 1 }r ABBEVILLE, S. C. < < The Press and Banner Company ( f Published Tri-Weekly 1 Monday, Wednesday and Friday. t Entered as second iiass matter at I to?t office io Aoheville, S. C. ll Tenw of Subscription: j r r One Year $2.09L Six months $1.03.t j|- Three months .59.r Foreign Advertising Representative jj AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION j, I', 1 < . j * FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1921. j? r " LET'S GET "DODE." !] * S. ' Ir More and more each year athleti. j ics play a part in the success of the (^ schools and colleges of the state. A1 j r college without a baseball and foot- i f ball team is not a college. And so it is! r ? i 1_ *i,?! 1 becoming in tne cny scnouis u?? >*uc ( | state. The kind of work these schools j t f, are doing may in most instances be1 ( I judged by the record of the baseball j t [ and football teams. This is caused! rt partly by the fact that the boys who! [ take an interest in athletics become j p interested in all the activities of the: [! school they attend, and are thus in- J I duced to do better work in the school a rooms, and largely by the fact that t in order to cet a place on the team it t E' 7 * . . . f . is necessary to maintain a certain: t standard of scholarship in the' classes. The teams give the schools, "pep." i Just now we are making a forward i step in the matter of better schools. I The fact is that we have a school t i, oystem that is the equal of anything in the state. Last year the school did ? better work than previously has been , 2 done in Abbeville in twenty-five i years. And one of the most encourag- i ing things about our schools is that; j| ' the boys are becoming interested in: gp ' finishing their courses in the local! high school rather than deciding to; drop out or to seek the preparatory! training elsewhere. It is somthing> ? greatly to De aesirea xnat uiis con-1 e B' - tinue to be the case. That is true j largely because of the great expense necessary to send a boy to a prepara- j to?y school, and because on that account a great many boys cannot at_! tend these schools. A good prepara-j tory school at home which will' at- i tract all our boys and which they,! and the boys jn the surrounding coun- j try, will want to attend, will bej worth a great deal to the city. J No small part of the, increased attendance upon the high school last j year wis due to the fact that we put , out a good -football team and a good baseball team. We may still increase interest of the boys and their attendance upon the high school classby having a better football team and a better baseball team. And we have a plan whereby this may be accom- 0 plished. ; 0 % This is the plan. "Dode" Phillips, t] - the great football star and baseball a i player of Erskine College, has just. g finished his college course. We need s, a principal for the present high school j who could take charge of a. section \ of the seventh grade. Experience has n 1 shown that men do better work with ^ the seventh grade than do ladies, al-! s, though we have had some fine sev_ I jj epth grade teachers here among the f ladies. But it would greatly help if I s, we could have one man to teach lit (j-j the seventh grade and who could assume the principal's place in the pres- h ent high school when Mr. Daniel is i fc transferred to the new high school.'it tf we Can get a man who will serve Ci in this capacity and at the same time a act as director of athletics in the fo school much interest will be stimu- v lated amongst the boys who attend t the high school and many more will $ he brought into the. class rooms. And: e MDode" is the man. There are others " of course who can do the work but Is we all know "Dode." , o < t * Can we secure him? We do notjj know, but we can make the effort.! The chief obstacle to getting him or1 r 1 some other man to assume the work: r is the fact that we are short on fin- j s ances. The income of the District! c bdrely pays the present pay-roll. Our, ? plan is to supplement by private sub-j r scription the salary which the Board; % of Trustees is able to pay and get a! t man of this kind. We have placed the matter before the Superintendent j 1 of the schools, and he writes us that' i he believes it indispensable to the success of the schools that we have i such a man. In his letter to the edi- i tor of this paper, he states that he (i ias learned since reaching Columbia hat other schools have commenced ;his very thing. He is so much interisted in the matter that he writes the ?ditor to put him down for fifty dol. ars on a subscription list looking to ;he raising of the one thousand or ifteen hundred dollars necessary to ?et a man like this. The editor of the Press and Banner subscribes one rnndred dollars fov this purpose. Phere are others who, we believe, vill be interested and the subscripion should be voluntary. Will the nen of Abbeville, and the ladies too, :ome to the assistance of the superntendent and of the schools, in getting a man of this kind? There are ;nough men sending boys to the high ichool now who should be interested n the physical development of these, >oys to raise the money. We hope hat they will speak right out in the I neeting. We have been slow enough in Ab>eville. Let everybody think over this ( )roposit:on, and let us be alive inj ;chool matters and in every other natter. Perhaps the Chamber of Commerce may be induced to lead in he movement suggested. If not, some' )ther good citizen may be induced to !o so. But let the work proceed. GOOD ROADS. Supervisor Keller is doing so much tnd so good work on the public roads hat we hesitate to make a sugges-, ion to him for fear that he may h:nk the work he has already donej ind is doing is not appreciated. This I s not the case. But we are interested n seeing the roads made as good as1 jossible, and we venture to suggest, hat if the Supervisor could put the 'flying squadron" just oenma me craper forces, to smooth the roads ifter the scraper has done its work,] n a little while we would have as jood roads as anybody. ANOTHER LAWSUIT Judge McComb is trying to keep ip -with the hot weather and Thurslay started another 'lawsuit. As we aid before, it was not an action at aw, nor was it a bill in equity, but in old-fashioned lawsuit just like hey used to have. The lawsuit ruesday was, as stated, concerning >f a mule. The lawsuit Thursday was soncerning of some chickens. ? T- _ J 1? 7?,J? oavannan, it uubAy iuuMug iauj >n the plantation of Mr. George S. Vilson, lost six fine hens, four of hem red hens, one black game hen, md one gray or blue hen. Later his number of hens was found at. he home of Scott and Emma ['homas and Savannah swore that he hens which were in a coop were lers. Her principal witness was Marshall Gray. Marshall had passed iy the home of Savannah the night he chickens were stolen and told her e would "drap" back about 11 'clock. He declared that as he was n the return trip and was passing he hen-house somebody ran-out with 1- J-tl* _1 Tx ~ ^ sacK iuu 01 crucKciib. iv was sugested to Marshall that the man he aw might have been himself, but larshall didn't think so. He didn't eal with chickens, he swore, had ever eaten one and didn't know ow it tasted. He didn't say but he ought to make the impression that f he saw a chicken he would run ram it, while plaintiff's attorney ecmed to think he might run after Savannah said she saw three of er chickens at Scott's house and she new one of them was hers because ; had a top-knot, and another beauae it had a l'ing around its neck nd another because it was a little lack hen and they all came to her rhen she called them "D. D." (Docor of Divinity^ she thought this fmr SVw? said fthe had heard iher peapl^ call- chickens and say P. P," and "She-She" but nobody aid "D: D," in that country when ailing chickens except her own roper person. Scott and Emma had witnesses to rove that they had bought chickens esembling the ones in their possesion from other parties and that the hickens were not Savannah's. >cott also established through wit lesses, an alibi for the date on vhich the chickens were alleged, in he warrant, to have been stolen, Hit Savannah switched the night in ler testimony, and this caused con'usion. The upshot of the whole matter vas that the jury found Emma not guilty, 'but the jury was not agreed is to Scott and therefore a verdict was rendered as to Emma but no verdict as to Scott, the judge declaring a mistrial so far as he is concerned. At the conclusion of the case each of the parties, prosecutor and prosecuted, took charge of the box of chickens which she and he had brugt into court and departed for home to await a better day. The mule traders were not in evidence but there were more people hungry for fried chicken in evidence than at the mule trial. I A DOG TALE i There are fish tales and other kinds of tales, but what is so | rare as adog tale? Up Chester way, it is said, there are reports of a dog j tale what- is a tale. This dog, so the j friend of a friend of the owner reI ports, has, like the small boy, i mastered the technique of the automobile motor to such degree that whenever his master's Essex di'ives up the dog greets him hilariously. Or if the aforesaid Essex is away from j home the dog sits on the curbing (if they have cui"bing in Chester) and when a car of the same label passes, ! whether it bears his master, or not. ' sets out in pursuit, showing that this remarkable dog knows the hum of . the Essex motor. This frierd of the friend of the i owner of this educated pup did not say whether the canine also had mastered the rattle of other motor i orurines. but it is reasonable to sup-| pose that so intelligent an animal could not foe so narrow as to confine his perceptive powers only to the Essex motor. It is probable that this tale of a dog could as well be extendto the idenitfication of other cars, indicating, for example, the approach of a Franklin by holding up the right front foot) a Dodge by raising the right rear branch, and if a Maxwell should happen along he might wag ! his tail in a pleased~manner. Should i the princely Pierce-Arrow pass it is j reasonable to assume that this dog j would stand on his hind feet, with | head bowed, and proceed with the business of salaaming. Or if, perchance, the lowly Ford should "pass his master's cottage, this hummometer probably* sticks out his tongue in token' of derision and rolls carelessly in the dust. This last method of demonstrating his cyclopedic knowledge is what makes Bruno a dirty dog and makes this a muddy dog tale. THfc KJLLim* Vf A LAU The State. Some day or mother the people of South Carolina will he aroused about scandalous and criminal abuses of public highways and streets by motorcar speeders. The day will come when tragedies of the kind described in yesterday's dispatch from Greenville will be extraordinarily uncommon if not impossible. Already it has been suggested that mechanical governors be placed on motorcars that will limit their speed to 25 miles an hour , or les?, and when the moment arrives that the legislature concludes that the life of a child is of more value than the pleasure of scorching, a statute of that description will be enacted. Traffic accidents will occur even in the (best of circumstances and with completest enforcement of the best laws. For speeding no excuses can "be offered. If a man step into Main street and empty his pistol, it may be proved that he is insane or drunk. iHe is guilty of criminal carelessness and that is manslaughter, if through % he kill on^. If a man drive recklessI^Hhron^h iMfcin street and injury a.'feHoMfman tfnd then continue On his way in ^the "effort to escape arrest, the inference is that he was neither insane nor drunk, and was inuveu 'uy WlVftCU iiiani.c agaiuob J mankind. The indifference to law and to t*he t rights of men is more widespread j at this time than it has been in many i a long year. The people of South { Carolina are paying an enormous j price for it. Criminality is ram- | pant. An end will not be put to it | by leniency. It will go on so long as j | juries are soft-hearted. It will multi- I ply if punishments are not made to' I fit the crimes. It would be encour-(j aged by generous and loose exercise | cf tl>e parJonins and commuting j power. j Notice Of Election 1 i Notice is hereby given that, pur- j suant to a Petition filed with the ] Board of Trustees of Abbeville Pub- ' lie School District No. 22 of Abbe- I ville County, known as The School ] District of The Town of Abbeville, < hereinafter described, (a plat of s which is filed in the Office of the < Clerk of Court,) which petition is < signed by more than one-third of the < Resident Electors and more than : one-third of the Res:dent Freehold- ] ers of the said District, over the age of twenty-one years, and by virtue 1 of a resolution passed by the Board < of Trustees of said school District, 1 held at Abbeville, South Carolina, ! June 13, 1921, an election will be ! held at Abbeville Court House, South < Carolina, at the usual voting place in ] said District, in the City Hall, in the ! City of Abbeville within the hours : V,, 1?,? i.. iq - iqoi i JJIUVIUCU uy law f uuiic ??U) w . deterniine whether or not the said school district shall issue and sell bonds of the said district in a sum not exceeding One Hundred Thousand ($100,000.00) Dollars, payable twenty years from the date thereof, bearing interest at the rate of not exceeding six per cent per annum, payable semi-annually, at such dates and place as the Trustees may designate, the proceeds of said bonds to be used for the purpose of erecting buildings and .for equipment for maintaining public schools in said district. At such election all persons qualfied under the constitution and laws of the State of South Carolina as electors, will be allowed to vote. " The territory covered by said School District is that included*in the following lines: Commence at a point about two and one-half miles southeast of the town of Abbeville in road twentyfive yards Northwest of the fork of Cedar Springs and Verdery roads^ South of and near Lem Jackson's! house, run thence N31E, crossing! Norris' CreeB and Seaboard Air' Line Railroad, 150:33 to corner neari John Douglass' house in old road; thence N16.7W, crossing Greenwood road and road to Morton's Mill, a distance of 115 chains to corner on north end of W. F. McCord's house; < 5 ' 1 wti YV 11CI1 1 I 1 and the I a i 1 a a a a 3 I 1 ; a 3 a g 1 I YOUR PART VS. I DRUGGIST'S PARI 1 3 3 D 3 v D 3 D [ 5 D 3 D u 3 D | This Ding Store has t | are doing, and who h; | the above truths. 2J a a 1 s We al$o carry a cc 1 STATIONERY, NIJN N ALLY'S CANDIES | PARISIAN TOILET ARTICI | CIGARS, | CUT QLASS, For Wedding SI 1 I Austin-Pe I : ;hence N24.2W, 90:49 chains to corner in McCord's Creek, at old ford, ibout one-fifth of a mile South of Luther Clamp's house; thence N69:75W, 76:88 chains to corner in road :o Hodges, fifty yards South of Sam Burton's house; thence N78.5W, 56:61 chains to Walnut on North side of old Noble house; thence S69W crossing Due West reoad, 118:10 :hains to large Post Oak, near residence of George Mann; thence S38W, L4.97 chains to corner under W. D. Leslie's house; - thence S67:25W, i2:82 chaius to corner in road; whence S10E, crossing road 176:67 :hains to ooftier in road near Poor, nouse, at forks of road; thence Southeasterly along road crossing Seaboard Air Line Railroad, ' 85 chains to corner in road adjoining lands of L. C. Parker; thence S62:75W", 22:40 chains to stake corner, adjoining lands of S. C. Link; thence S30E, 10:84 chains to corner Free S To get the most pL your phonograph it si timed and adjusted. Beginning June 15 will inspect, clean, oi justments needed on make Phonograph 1 where there is no brc ^ placed. Tf there are broken we will make a small of parts. We want every ph take advantage of th whether you purchase from Us or not. THE 1 1 ? 0fgjgjgj[iijgjgfgjgjgj3jgjgjg|2j2jgjgf2jgj3j3jgfg/gfgjg >u Are 111: )octor Con You don't have a doctor unle you think something is wro; will relieve your ills, but hi operation if he he is to help / * \ And not only must-you coope fills the prescription must d must see that the ingredients called l'or. without substitu into the bottle or box. So, t what the man who KNOWS tl must go to a druggist whom <r wo licensed druggists w ave a standard of ethics c mplete line of the follow FINE SILVE LE8 PERFUMES 9 TALCUM Pi FINE SOAP Gifts. afumc run :rrin Drug ( Prescription Specialists. fS?a?a?2?2?2fS/5ESJ3I5?SiafS5?S/SS5 4> * in Mt.--Camel Road; thence N64.75E along Mt. Caimel Road, 21:81 chains to corner; thence S41E, 96:63 chain? to corner in old Snake Road; thence N77E, crossing branch and tributaries, 146 chains to beginning point. At such election those in favor of issuing and selling said bonds, shall vote a ballot, on which shall be written or printed, the words "For Bonds" and those opposed to issuing am/1 .i rt 11 ! n /? r-V* nil n /llr uuu selling uuiiua auaii vvvc a on which shall be written or printed the words, "Against Bonds." The following shall act as managers of such election: W. C. Sherard, J. C. Clark, and T. C. Seal. W. M. Barnwell, Chairman, J. C. Thomson, Secretary. 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