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Established 1844. $2.00 Year. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C., Friday, November 17, 1922 Single Copies, Five Cents. 78th Year. PLENTY OF WORK ,! FOR WINTER MONTHS SHORTAGE OF LABOR IS SEEN BY EXPERTS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE?MUCH BUILDING IN PROGRESS?DEMAND UNSKILLED LABOR. ?* *? vr.~... 1C TTnom fiasamgum, iiu?. xw.?~? , ployment this winter will be at its , lowest ebb since the war days, exports at the department of commerce and ithe labor department stated today on the basis of a national srarvey. Few people ^yho want work need go without a job, they stated. They foresee an acute labor shortage particularly in the unskilled labor in<histrieg early in the spring. This probable labor shortage and the lack of railroad equipment may put a brake on the expected business boom, it was held. Little unemployment exists today tha department claimed. Last year at this time, when the acute situation caused Fredidente Harcfcng to convene his famous unemployment conferetnce.^more than 13,000,000 workers were jobless. The tremendous building program of the past year, particularly during the spring and summer months provided places for hundreds of thousands of skilled and common laborers. The hundreds of millions of dollars worth of new equipment ordered by the railroads was ah * * * x? T _ other lactor in tne situation i^abor activity has been increasing in constantly widlranng' Ripples until now many cities mainly Pittsburgh and Philodelphia, are suffering for latk of workers in the basis industries. Clerical workers alono report a dearth of jobs. These men and waanen could find places in industry if they were willing to acccpt inferior jobs, the commerce department stated. Fear of a labor shortage, with its consequent reaction on prosperty, has resulted in a demand for lifting of the immigration restrictions. An effort may ^>e made at this session of congress to amend or throw out entirely the three per c-ant in. migration law which re-j rifcrifcts ti?* entrance of foreigners to three per cent of the nationals. STATE HAS SPACE TO CURE NEARLY MILLION BUSHELS OF POTATOES Spartanburg. , <Nov. 16.?Soutth Carolina has curing space for 780,-1 000 bushels of sweet potatoes at tbe present time according to F. . L. Harkey, chief of the division of markets in South Carolina whose headquarters are in Spartanburg who will issue an official report] shortly, 'Florence loads 'the individual counties in the normal ammount of curing space with 70,500 bushels capacity. York county has th? largest number of curing houses with 22: Orangeburg is second with 20 and Spartanburg i3 third with 18. The fii^t storage and * cuif.ng house in South Carolina was built is 1915. There are nearly 300 in the stato at the present time, 110 h*ring been built in 1922. r.ETS IT HONEST. Harris Patton, a young colored boy, keeps the floors of the Court Hfruse clean and in good condition. gets the habit of doing his work well honest. He says Harriet and John Patton were his "kin folks." long ago when Harriet Patton ironed a white lawn dress it was a work f art, and any of the old timers oan tell you when John Patton put his white apron and went behind McGettigaus bar and mix a drink, -wfoy the mnmovy it mnk'-s one l??k wi stful. NATIONAL LEADER I DELIVERS ADDRESS '** - ' "?? v:.:? r??,_ Uaugntert or nevoiuuuu ~w? pens Battlefield?Meeting Ended Wednesday. Spartanbcrg, Nov. 16.?A strong address by Mrs. George Maynard Minor, president general of the national Daughters of the American Revolution organization, featured tonight's session of the state confer ence being heJd here. Mrs. Miner declared that woman's primary place is in her home. Second to the homo, is the school, she said, in which a woman's influence is essential "if the 'best results in the education of boys and girls are obtained. The state conference will come to a close tomorrw night with a recaption at1 the home of Mrs. W. E. Burnett. The most interesting thing on the morning program will be the discussion of the silver service from the ( (battleship Blouth Carolina which is now in the hands of the state D. A. R. and disposition of this if^iven to tho organization by the state legislature, will likely 'be decided. The election of officers will take place at the afternoon session, which will be tlie last business ses# 1 sion. Visiting officials and delegates to the state conference of the Daughters of the American Revelution, as the guests of the Spartanburg United Daughters of the Confederacy, this afternoon were taken to the Cowpen3 battleground, in the edge of Cherokee county, about 15 miles from Spartanburg, where ceremonies incident to a move to secure fed eral aid for a monument and suitable markers on th? battleground, were held. Dr. D. D. Wallace, professor -.of history and (political science at Wofford colflege made the principal address which included a realistic description of the battle of Cowpems on January. 17, 1721. McCALLA BROS. GET CONTRACT - % I , To Build the Cherokee Road, Seven Miles in Length. The Abbeville County Highway Commission met Wednesday and let the Cherokee Road which is seven miles and a fraction over of road between Lowndesville and Cherokee. The contract Was awarded to McCalla Brothers of Lowndesville for $15,704.38. Eight contractors submitted bids as follows: W. C. Hill, Abbeville, $17,442.15. H. W. Garrison, Easley, $17,199.78 J. M. H. Ashley, Honea Path, $18,162.30. * McCalla Brothers, Lowndesville? $15,704.38. Newell Construction Co., Anderson?$18,227.07. C. C . Jordan, Anderson?$17,347.45. Oglesby & Starke, Elberton, Ga., ?$16,780.94. B. A. Havird & Company, Newberry?$16,539.62. LAST WORD IN STILLS. Necessity is the mother of invention as Constable Moseley Huckabee, of Lowndesville, can certify He brought to Abbeville this morning the last word in the way of home made stills captured on a small branch above ' Lowndesville. The still consisted of one three gallon oil can with a hole cut in the top, joined by two elbows and three feet of iron pipe to a one gallon syrup bucket. In this bucket was a p"nlvnni7;pr1 r>nnr1r>n?:r>r TIip r?r>r>friv-I ance was wiped with white rags and the whole affair soldered together with ordinary bread dough. The furnace wa?s several rocks placed under the oil can to hold it high enough from the ground to permit a ^fire being b'1'1* ui^mnnth. No arrests have b'-"*' / i i'T ' i1' - J~- Wv ji'. 1 . ' * " , SEES HARD FIGHT FOR PROHIBITION "MORE BITTER AND RELENT i rcc? tuan r\/rd ?t n< ***rtil JU, T falV A NOT SEE ANY WET TRIUMPH! DECLARES METHODIST LEAD ER IN CHICAGO. Chicago, Nov. 16.?"A more bil ter and relentless" wet and dr fighit is on than was waged whe prohibition was adopted, Dr. 'Clai ence True Wilson, of Washingtor D. C. secretary of the board o temperance, prohibition and publi morals of the Methodist Episcopj Church declared today in a siu vey of the result of the Novembe 7 elections issued from the Chicag office of the board. 'Prohibition has been weakley le betrayed in the house of its friend: sidetracked by those who ougl t.o haw piven it the main line, an the figh that we ought to hav avoided is now on and it will 'b imore bitter and relentless tha was the fighlting wheoi prohibitio was won," Dr. Wilson declared, H added, however in his opinion pre hibition would stand. After asserl ing that in Illinois where the wel won a referendum, prohibition wa "betrayed by the officers of th law," Dr. Wilson said. "Then wheti the wets had the in tiative petition scured an adverser vote by all the people instead o the leaders seeing in that a grea opportunity for a sweeping educs tional campaign that would carr the State of Illinois and but to s ence the false accusation9 of evil minded people, they spent thei time in fighting the taking of a expression of the people and whe over-ruled in the courts advise the dry not to vote at all on th subject and under that leadershi Methodist conference i have vote to advise their people not to vot Dr. Wilson said that the defes of Congressman A. J. Volstea< chairman of the ' House judiciar committee although defeated by "bone dry preacher" was a grez loss. 93,000 DEATHS FROM CANCER LAST YEA! Death Rate Higher in Northern Tha In Southern States.?South Carolina Lowest. Washington, Nov. 16.?Death due to cancer in the "United State during 1921 totalled 93,000 th census bureau estimated today, con posed with an estimate of 89,00 in 1920. The calculation for bot years was based on xeturns froi the bureau's death registration are which includes 34 states and th District of Columbia. The bureau's announcement, sai the. 1921 rate was higher than tha for any proceding year in 24 of th 34 states making reports. The rate for the registration area wa9 86 pe 100,000 in 1921, compared wit 83.4 for 1920. After adjusting the rates in v? rious states to make allowance fo differences in tho age and sex1 dis tribution of the population the br reau found that for 1921, Massach setts had tha highest rate?99.6 pe 1000,000?while South Carolina with 47.6 had the lowest. Summarizing its *compilation th bureau made this observation. "The adjusted rates show tha t-Vifk nn**fV?nm cf if ap VllVO PA1TIT19TJ1 WilC 1IU1 l/JIt J. II OliabVO UUIb ?*' VI tively high and the Southern state comparatively low cancer mortalit; while there is little difference be tween the adjusted cancer ratcs o the white and colored races of thi same states, in other words, th white* and colored raccs seem equal ly susceptible to cancer, but hot! -ncr,-? seem lers cUscptP-V Ah< s-u'h than in the north. CONSERVATIVES WIN 1 I OVERALL PARTIES - RESULTS OF BRITISH ELEC- O 3 TIONS YESTERDAY?LADY AS5 TOR AND JOHN JACOB ASTOR - BOTH ELECTED?VOTE NOT COMPLETE. . b< > London, Nov. 16.?With only 28 y constituences missing at 6:30 o'- ei n clock tonight the returns showed s< - the conservatives had elected 340 0 i, members of the house of commons c< >f or 33 more than a majority of the ^ c voting members. The Asquithian a il liberals had elected 59 members, ^ - labor 130, the Georgiete Liberate r 43\ others 15. o London, Nov. 16.?Prime Minister Bonaj Law had secured a major\ C) ^ 'ity of twelve over all the othe<r par? ties in the house of commons when . 5? .A _ the returns for 545 of the 615 diit , . . c vioi/inc Via/4 IKppti ruffplvcH late this d ? ? : if ? afternoon. There are three 1 none e e voting members including the speak ^ n er, thereby making the hundreds for c] a bare majority 307. The conservatives up to late this afternoon had e tl captured 319 teats. |? ' ^ This did not mean, however that a the prime minister already had ob- . */S tained a so-called working majority ^ as the support of some of the con- ? 6 servativea will 'be limited on many questions, but the conservatives p i- wero looking to the remaining 70 q y seats to swell their numbers and ^ f j increase their lead over the combin- q it i ed opposition. Thus far three mem- p l- bers of Mr. Bonar Law's governy j ment have been defeated, namely c i-1 Sir Arthur Griffith Boscawenr min- c Mfeter of health; W. A. Watson, c r, lord advocate and Lieutenant Col- ti n I onel George F. Stanley, under sec- ^ n I rotary of the home office. ii d | A feature of the election was the b e | number of seats gained by the la- si pibor party which enters the house d j with far the largest number of mem 1 embers in the party's history. With 70 h 4. seats yet to be heard from the lab- t orities had rolled up the big total of C ' 120 members as against the 76 they \ XT > J had in the last house. Their gams v 3 I were manly at the expense of the n conservatives and the Georgian liberals. ' t e DAN MURJPHY FOUND n R DEAD IN HIS CELL " t One of Most Unique Figures of the State Prison?Had Served I 25 Years. is Columbia, Nov. 16.?Dan Mur;s lphy one of the most unique figures t ie ever sentenced to prison in South n i- Carolina, was found de?ad in his cell 0 at the penitentiary here, ending 25 p h years incarceration. Apoplexy is be>- I n ieved to have been the cause. A <a year ago the state pardon board off- I ie ered him a pardon but he refused h to leave the prison. d Murphy was sentenced, from Lt Orangeburg county in 18^7 for the a e killing of County Treasurer Cope, z :g To the end he protested his inno * _i_ _ a r x cence claiming ne was in Augusm, h at the time of the killing. He is sur- C vived by his widow and a son who F live in Millen, Ga. Up to a year ago Murphy had nev- F er ridden in an automobile or seen a motion picture. A newspaper reporter discovered his history and ^ through special arrangements with b the prison officials the old man was ' j taken for a tour of Columbia and to L | a picture show. Shortly afterwards 6 Murphy was offered a pardon but| he sa'd that he was "too far behind ^ the times" and that he wanted to l" end his days in prison. n s h y FINE CORN SHOW. P b f or Toffnyrlc nf SnartanburET. a 2 passed through Abbeville yesterday e and stopped in to look the corn show * over. He expressed the opinion that ^ the corn show here will rank with ^ ?nv corn show erer put on in the ^ state. ' * / HE CORN SHOW A SPLENDID ONE vor 2,000 Eara of Corn on Exhibit at Planters Bank.?Be*t Show Ever Held in State. > ? me Abbeville County Uorn Show eing held in the Planters Bank toay and tomorrow is one of the fin3t corn exhibits ever held in the ;ate of South Carolina. There are eer 2,000 ears of corn on exhibit, imprising 207 exhibit numbers. Of lis lot 87 exhibits are by the boys rid girls of the County. The outanding fact of the show is that the oys and girls have cleaned, up the arth with their parents in the section of good seed corn. The purpose of the show is to eduate the people of the county in the election of better seed corn. County gent C. Lee Gowan, Supt. of Eduation P. H. Mann, often accompansd by Mr. Otto Bristow of the Plantrs Bank, visited everv school in the district and made talks to the school fiildTen. * I The lobby of the Planters Bank lis morning is packed and jammed ith exhibits. The exhibit boards re covered with green felt, and exsnd some eight or ten feet; in eight, showing off the corn to adantage. Judging will be done today by rof. C. P. Blackwell, of Clemson College, and Henry S. Johnson' of .iken. Dr. W. W. Long of Clemson lollege is also in the city lending his resence to the occasion. Many people from all parts of the lounty are attending and a large rowd is expected from adjoining ounties Saturday. It is a real educaion in corn and would be worth the rhile of the farmers of the surroundlg counties to make the trip to Abeville Saturday and take in this fiow. Saturday will be children's day. 'he whole of Lethe School has been ivited to town to see the "show, and ake in the "Bachelor Daddy" at the Ipera House as the guests of Mr. rerchot, and they will accept this initation if arrangements cpi be lade to get them to town. 'The Planters Bank is giving a free icket to all boys and girls having xhibits at the corn show to the matiee at the Opera House showing The Bachelor Daddy" Saturday afernoon. iONOR ROLL OF CAMPBELL SCHOOL The following is the honor roll of he Campbell school for the past icnth: 1st grade?James Hodge, Mahlon 'erguson, Mack Beatty, Jr., Mary 'ranees Simpson, Lilys Banister. 2nd grade?Glenn McCollough, Winn-no TVf pTVT /VHIO vv an. 4th grade?Margaret Campbell, Collie Mae Suber, Wilma Hill, Elizbeth Hill, Mack Voyles, Ethel Braeale. 5th grade?Gladys Beaty, Robert Campbell, Kistler Campbell, Lois Jann, Mildred McMahan, Katie Mae 'erguson, Mary Simpson. 6th grade?Annie Kate Campbell, 'auline Campbell, Sarah Simpson. 7th grade?Arlena McCollough. 8th grade?Mary Frances Beaty, innie Ruth Voyles, Bertha Camp-! ell. 9th grade?Parker Campbell, Vera ewis, Edna Mann, Mary Nance. FREE PICTURE SHOW Mrs. Alma C. Gibbons will give a ; ?: Cw Onora TTnnup loving" piULUlC III tilV vy ? | ere Nov. 25th to which all of the| eople of Abbeville are invited to e her guests. Club girls and boys re especially invited. BURLEY SMITH. Burley Smith is in jail charged) :t.h d;sw>sing of j*"?Perty underj :orfgage. EUGENE MEYER, JR., TALKS WITH PRESIDENT.?L1KEL Y i. gg THAT HARDING WILL TAKE ^ UP MATTER IN MESSAGE IN CONGRESS. )f Washington, Nov. lfy?Eugiem* Meyer, Jr., managing director ?f the War Finances Corporation, ferred with President Harding to- -4?M day and was understood to hav# ;>>nB discussed the situation. It Is believed xhat in his |sm^. .v^| sage to the regular session of Con- 9 gress in December, \Mr. Harding wow /li'oAtiefa 4-VIA wAcsaikiliffV iuajf uictuin iauc va wvvw? for legislation to provide perm*- : ^ nent financing in chioery for agricultural and live stock indua- ' ;v| tries of the country. ^ According to some of the Prein- '-'.rl dent'a advertises additional cogs i* the federal farm financing machint are .needed to plajce j agricultural credits on a firm 'basis, particular- ; ? ^ ly with respect libd cooperative marketing associations and furnish a permanently of aperation> denied :] -<S under the limited authority extend" ^|! ed to the war finance corporation the War Finance Corporation is l'\% | essentiary a tmeporary a?ency designed to meet an emergancy. %lf|j Propegid machinery advocated 5>y -|j| Mr. Meyer would take care of ' the i . ^ financingj of cooperation marked ^ ing association's through existing ,|?M financial machinery iby modify-*/^ the laws and regulation govern- ^M ing the eligibilty requirements, of the federal serve system and the ,>|gg financing of the live stock ?indus- ['jrji try iby amending tho national' '0 banking act so as to authorize the . *l'M creat:on of federal chartered loan companies operating with private' *'$1 capital, under the supervision of. ,V$| fKo /*Amntr^llnr nf fll* PITTTATl <*V the federal reserved system. ' ! "BOB" CLARK SICK ;M|| "Bob" Clark is very sick with a case of pneumonia at his home a- |jj bout two miles from Due Wetft. This will be sad news to his many friends over the state. "Bob" is an old-timer when it comee to gal baseball. He t was the Manager of the Abbeville team in the Carolina |j|j League last year; 'burt oeiore znat he was a star on the Carolina, team years ago, being a graduate from the University of South Carolina. Ho was at o.ie -time a member of .',Jl the Million Dollar League in Georgia, and is well known in the base ^jf ball world. Here ig- hoping he, will J? win out in his fight. OFFERS PRIZE. Mrs. Alma C. Gibbons ig offering . :'Jj a prize to the club that sends in the largest number of records of the years work done in the different J clubs. These reports should be in ;'i by the 20th, the very latest date -1 they will be eccepted by the County Agent is Nov. 25th. BABY OF 29 MONTHS JTO CAST BALLOT AT BARROW j| Londony'Nov. 16.?A baby 29 ^ months 'old will be carried to the . polls at Barrow today to cast a 1 ! vote in the. parliamentary elec- J tions. The infant was on? of many -j whose names appeared through error in the list of registered voters. j The baby will be taken to the poll- j ing place by its mother. j COTTON MARKET |j nl-- nnflu n n M -fnl* I JL IIU Jii^ncau ww? . __ on the local market today was 2 cents. Futures closed Dec. 26.61 Jan. 25.70 March 25.6X '/ | May ' 25.44 i July 25.14" . - 3 j6 ii