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PAGE TWO Established 1844. THE PRESS AND BANK] ABBEVILLE, S. C. The Press and Banner Comp; Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Fric Entered as second-class matte ??? rn A V\Kovi1]o s fl pust unite hi ** Terms of Subscription: One Year . Six Months 5 \ r Three Months Foreign Advertising Represent AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIA1 MONDAY, MARCH 27, 192 THE WAY OF THE STRIKI Down in Columbia they have street car strike. Certain emplc of the street car company were charged by the company, and other employees arrogating to t selves the right to'tell the com whom it Should employ and should be allowed to run the pany's business, went out on st In time the Railroad Commi ordered the street car company commence the running of its and when an attempt was mac' comply with the order of the auunuriues, B UIUU, tumj/uacu izi at least of former employees oi company who were unwilling to at the price at which new men v take the jobs, attacked the crev cars and severely wounded two three men. The attackers have been arr< and are under (bond. If the c< shall not be impotent to disj justice they will receive sent* .which should teach them somet Meanwhile the Chamber of Comn and other bodies in Columbia severely condemned violence or nart of tfoe former employees, 1 the street carmen's union has ' ' L \ vised" its men not to resort to > lence. ' It has been said a long time . members of labor unions that the not corftenance violence in ord< n carry their points, but we are dering why. if they don't, they d< sometimes expel some of their r bers for resorting to violence. Ii man was thrown out of a labor u becauses he transgressed upoi rights and liberties of another by force, a few people migh lieve that unlawful force is not fact a weapon on which at lei large per* cent of union men When it is cut out, the heart o1 whole organization will have /?n* ?vn+ wo a to inrlinpf^ +r? t.hinl MORE ABOUT FARMING. At the expense of seeming too sistent in advising the farmers of beviJle County as to their fan operations for the present year Press and Banner calls attentio the fact that while we made eight millions of bales of cotton year, we had a carry over of i than nine millions of bales. If the consumption for the bal of the year shall keep pace witf consumption for the months have passed, we shall have a c over of about four millions of b Should the South make only < millions of bales of cotton this ; the carry over of four millions tales will not be sufficient to vent a cotton famine, and in event people might look for ' high prices for cotton this fall winter. But there is no certainty there will be a crop of only eigl even of only ten millions of bal< cotton. Year before last we i about fourteen millions of bale cotton. Georgia and South Car nade in that year we believe a three and one-half millions of b fo that the other Southern s made ten millions 'of bales or z Me more. The other states air had met the boll weevil, and they did year before last they wi able to do this year if the sez are favorable. If these other s produce ten millions of bales of ton and Georgia and South Car one and a half million bales, we liflVo a Prnn nf o1ovor> q r>rl r?n o million bales, which will be prj ally sufficient to supply the den upon us and that without taking consideration the four millions carried over. Already the news comes that 1 is planting the largest crop in ] years. A large part of it is all planted and with favorable season; ER much more will be planted. Othe states will do the same. We will hard ly have two years in succession ii any which Texas and the western state will have short crops. Therefore, w< l3y. may expect with reason a crop o: some eleven to twelve millions o t at bales. If a crop of that size is made, an< if farmers of Abbeville county pu all their eggs in one basket (a cottoi >2.00 nsket) as they have been doing, am 11.00 if the crop is cut to two or thre .50 bales to the plow, they may expec nothing short of disaster. The pric ative ?111 .4. Vs/i cnffioi'ont toVa AQro /> Will iivu uu the loss from a short crop, and th days of starvation will take the plac of the former days of plenty. , The times therefore demand^ w repeat DEMAND, that this count; make itself self sustaining by pro a ducing enough bread and meat an lyees enough feed crops to keep man an dis- beast alive without being forced t [ the buy these things from orther peoplf hem- if WE ARE LUCKY ENOUGH T( pany pR0DUCE THE THINGS WHICI who ARE IMPERATIVELY NEEDED 01 com- THE farms AND AT THE SAM] Tike.j TIME shall BE ABLE TO MAK] ssion TW0 QR three BALES OF COT to | TON TO THE PLOW, IN TH1 cars?| EVENT OF A SHORT CROP, W1 le t01 SHALL BE. ONLY THE RICHEE state ^ the MONEY COMING IN FROB part the COTTON WILL PUT US THA1" t the MUCH AHEAD OR ENABLE U! work | to PAY DEBTS WHILE TH1 rouM FOOD AND FEED CROPS WIL1 ,s of j ENABLE US TO. MAKE AN0THE1 or CROP WITHOUT GOING IN DEBT ~ __i. 3 COTTON LETTER. The statistical position of the cot ton market is steadily ' growinj stronger and the significance of thi is the greater when it is considers that the strike of textile workers ii i the _ , . hile England, now in its secon "ad 'mon^? ^as curtailed demand fror .^ithat quarter. All prelimiary pdica itions are against the idea that ther 'will be a crop measurably larger thi year than last. The final ginning fig sy do j ureg 0? government (bureau mak ** ,the crop last year 360,000 bales les won"| than the December 12 estimate o * n0* 8,340,000, but this report has don nem- uttie more than to further unsettl ?ne, confidence in the accuracy of govera inl0n ment figures. The March pption wi! 1 expire on the 24th and May is no^ C^X" j the active near month. Ultimatel f'jwe look for much higher prices fo in. cotton but believe in a conservativ lS* a (position for the present. The rea .rely' profits we expect to see in Octobe aurts )ense rnces hing. | lerce havej } and later deliveries and suggest thei ^een purchase on breaks, but we do no expect to see materially higher fig ures until after the passing of th May option. The excessive rains hav crop preparations but it is not to per- late for this handicap to be over : Ab-come?for it will be several week ming J before any {positive estimate can b , the made as to the acreage to be planted n to The earlier the planting, the less wil only,the boll weevil damage the crop. Th last j rains have been almost general, am more there have been frosts in Oklahomi and Texas between Fort Worth am ance Oklahoma City. The Mississippi ha 1 the been above flood stage around Mem that phis and the overfllow will be closel; :arry watched as its works its way towar< iales. the Gulf. Springs & Co. , eight jrea?, ORCHARD AND GARDEN NOTE! of pre- Clemson College.^?Give the as such J paragus bed a top-dressing of ni very trate of soda. and Plan to have enough of each kin< of vegetable you grow this year ti tVint hnv#> cpII tn irnnr noitrVi it orj bor. ;s of J Remember that there is a lonj nade list of vegetables that will stam is of. light frosts and do not hesitate t olina ; start gardening early. bout; If your early planting of sna; iales,; beans is threatene-d by frpt, cove tates J with straw or soil until the dange t lit- is past. eadyj If tomato plants ire proper! what toughened, you may set them tw ill be weeks earlier than usual. isonsi If you have never used a whe' tates plow, do so this year. It is the great ' cot- ( est labor-saving tool for the garden olina or. shall | Learn exactly when to spray you i-half ( fruit trees and vegetbles, what t ictic- spray for, and what spray to use. lands) Make up your mind that you wi into have a clean orchard and garde bales (this year?not only clean of gras and weeds but free of insects an Fexas diseases as well. Only by such pra< many tice can you expect to have firs eady class fruit and vegetables. i vy,vvv^vvvvvvvvv v \ V NEWS OF CITY SCHOOLS V V \ vuvuvvvvvvvvv The pupils of the tenth and eleventh grades were delighted with the splendid talk given them Friday during English period by Dr. W. S. Currell, president of the University of South Carolina. Dr. Currell talk ed on the benefits in general of the proper study of good literature and punctuated his address with apt il-! lustrations, many of which were humorous. , ' Abbeville teachers won quite a distinction for good looks at the re cent meeting of the State Teachers association when the leader in one department meeting in looking over jj her audience for a teacher to assist d her in some work called out for "the 0 pretty teacher on the second row ; with the green plume on her hat." Of course the pretty teacher with the green plume was one of our very _ own. * ?? ^ A few days ago the following let ter was received from a pupil in the seventh grade of the Allendale ZJ 3, school and was addressed to a pupil a , of our seventh grade for reply: 1 "To a pupil of the seventh grade: r "I go to school in Allendale. I am 5 writing you to please write me and 2 tell me all about your county. We L are studying geography of South I Carolina. I am in the seventh grade. '. "Yours respectfully, "Frampton Harper." ,And here is the reply to the letter: My dear friend: "I am writing you in reply to what you wrote me asking for in formation about Abbeville County. "I live and go to school in Abbe ville County. This is one of the old ast counties in the state and it was formed of the old Ninety Six Dis-' trice, and several counties have been made from this one. "The principal crop is cotton al though it Jias been damaged by the boll weevil. It now brings about 18c a pound. Other crops raised are corn, peas, beans, and hay. ' The principal industry is farming but there are a good many mills in the county. There is in Abbeville a large cotton mill, several gins, an oil mill and the shops of the S. A. L. railway. y. We have two large brick school buildings with eleven grades, and many other schools throughout the county. At Due West in this county are fViroo TiyrnVino P.nllecr'a Tho p. Theological Seminary pf the A. R. P e church, and the Due West Woman's e College. 0 The surface around Abbeville is - generally rolling, and the soil is s red. It makes fine farming land. e It was in Abbeville that the last |. meeting of the Confederate Cabinet 11 was held. e I will now close hoping that you 1 will find this information sufficient, a Yours truly, ' & John R. Harrison." We were all much surprised to read in Sunday's State of the marriage of one of our former high school teach ers, Miss Johnnie May Lynch, which took place at Fountain Inn Friday af ternoon. Miss Lynch was higlTscTiool English teacher in the Abbeville school for several years and is one of the most thorough English teachers^ in the state. Since leaving Abbeville' she has taught her subject onejses ion at Waynesville, N. C., and this session at Fountain Inn where D. R. Riser, formerly head of the Abbe Ilia cnlinnle ic All of the high school students and teachers ^ho knew Miss JL.ynch join in wishing for her a long life of hap piness and prosperity. We congratu late the groom, Mr. Ketllett, on win ning so fine a woman for his wife. y The first real game of baseball will 0 be played here Friday afternoon be tween Greenwood and Abbeville. These old rivals have blood in their eyes and the game Friday will be of Big League style. Admission 35c and 90r? pnllprl nt J. r o Little Sermon On Thrift. 11 A. W. Atwood, in the Saturday n Evening Post: "If all the employees >s of the United States Steel Corpora d tion should save $2 per week and put it into stock of the company, they t- would own controlling interest with in 10 years." IMPORTANT RECORDS IN POULTRY Every business requires some of records to be kept. This give owner himself a clear grasp o details of his business. Poultry ing is a matter of attention t tail, therefore, some simple re help in making the business efficient. The reasons for ke records have been outlined &i lows: 1st?pit lessens the strain on ory. 2nd?It is the only accurate ^ keep track of work previously 3rd?It furnishes data that be referred to at any future til 4th?Comparisons of records various times may make imj ment possible. 5th?In advertising, figures and to have speaking figures' must keep records. 6th?Records create a lo-v and a greater interest in the w( Begin your record keeping n< keeping a daily record of your production." At the end of month, total this daily record an out the average yield per hen that month. From month to i compare these records and not changes. Other simple records that yoi keep are: Feeding records; setting re< incubation records; brooding re and labor records. For further information coi ing these records any one intei may apply to Mrs. Alma C. Gil County Pome Demonstration J "Sergeant, Call Paul Rev^i In one of the last offensr Flanders an office*-, on his wj ward the front met a dark s! buck private headed full spe? the rear. "Halt," cried the officer. "Is a ibattle going , on up there?" "Yas suh," breathlessly ans Buck. . / "Well, what are you doing? And, without slowing up i least, Buck yelled over his sho "I's& spreadin' the news, &ul spreadin' th' news." ( STYLE PL CLOTH There is only on< style are nations Models designed guaranteed tailc ant parts. All tl clothes. Yet the makers ing, have taught ty can be produc THE GU/ "Piromi Stwlpnlns suit xjvvAjr the official Styleplus lal be all wool. Should any fail to give reasonable the retail merchant froi chased is authorized to : and satisfactory Stylep] PARI First mention of natural fas made in 1667 in a letter to the It Society of England. Whales have a thick layer of beneath the skin to keep fchem wi Oldest operated mine in the w is said to he in north Sweden. f : Reliab growe: six yes For mule i Hai R. E. COX, A. D.f KENN us 3 line of clothes in Ameri Lily endorsed although th< . by a leading designer. >ring unusually fine?hi lis costs money?it is the of Styleplus, by concent the American public that ] ed at moderate prices. GRANTEE and overcoat bearing 3el is guaranteed to Styleplus garment wear and satisfaction m whom it was pur replace it, with a new lus garment." It ISO al value Styleplus see the n $2 KER & was oyal Owen Marble and irm. orld ed sub-acid kind.) Beat the two eggs, add to apples lated sugar to taste. Serve tard or whipped cream. It is try it. Granite Co. DESIGNERS MANUFACTURERS ERECTORS The largest and bell meptal mills in the GEENWOOD, S. C. . _/ STytapliB A ciatim ca whose quality and 3 prices are moderate. Fabrics all-wool and *nd work in the import basis of high grade rating and standardiz > -i ?i i real styie ana reai quctn n this basis of exception that we have taken on ; Clothes. Come in and ew models. 1 $30 $35 REESE