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? __ , i aiiMMMiUMBMMaMf^ '"" The Abbeville Press and Banner. r BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1895. ESTABLISHED 1844 j f The Mos 3 WHY? In order to reduc such prices as will ast that my Store is the 1) ' ( To give some idea < ' Win I still have a very opportunity to get a ni invited to come and WHITE U; Winter. CARPE1 Brussells and Ingrain < Yon can buy a SI Any one in need of an; All other kinds of S i every one that it^ wil 1 1 t "Wish to th during SPRT ever seen in this sectioi GOODS, etc. Nothing ? WE WILL ALWAYS * Corner Stori POOE LOCAL BUSINESS. Tl ? is a to 8 The Bewt Place* in Our .\enN|mpcr<t x<" Given lo Patent Medicine*? Loenl AdvertlHer* Driven to Obncure for- is I m>? iiera. Uer Our able and enterprising neighbor, the coll Newberry Hemic! anil News, ban an Interest ad. log article on newspapers and newspaper ad- met vertlsing, calling attention to the excellent f?ul or the newspapers and to the limited adver sail lislng which ih dune by the merchants oi and Newberry. by i The fact Is, the Herald and News gives ev- cut, ery evidence ol belugau excellent live news- by paper, UUt WUUFD |<uui>atliuu umir I' HI a J?? r.tlirond lank, or In ihe middle of h town thai eve Is pium d-ad. .Willi very lew luneral Uivna- *><>" Hons sent out. [nal Wtiile tbe editorial, tbe typography, and the press work Is most excellent, yet the make-up o! the forms may have (something to do with ibe lack of home patronage. Let us l" take the paper, page by page,and *liow where- of r In tbe newspaper Itself may be at fault for the mir limited home patronage. nn<| Tlu first i*a<;e. by At top of coiumn?th? most conspicuous J"'1' place In the paper?io to be found an ugly pat- . * ent medicine advertloemeut. In among the co.. reading matter, on the name puge, antl ap- ma pearing without advertlclug maras, are to he Jv* found advertisements, which, to put in mild- JJ.i, )y, are of doubtful character. No local ad on ?u, this page, the very best piace lu tbe paper. seVj t>nli THE SECOND OR EDITORIAL PAGE. | After furnishing three and n hall column* of nio*t readable mutter, th? editorials <>i which we are speaking, 1? followed by an ad X vtttlnemeut of a medicine Then at the t..p ha ot the tilth aod sixth column* are to be lounu in * tw<> double column ails from lar-oft' peopl?*. but lieoeath these In the filth columu In a life in- ma; Mirxtice ?id for an Edgefield man. Tin* we columu Iti filled out with a small local ad. ties Tnen loliows a medical ad with >? picture v ma oiHlattieful to the eye a* to demand itfexch - slot nlon irom the paper This column has oniy .. edii tea line :ocai ad Nuw, we huveonly thre< pap column*. Newberry merchant" come it> It below "lie New York ad?. On the Hevt-rr' a ci I'uiuiuut) uie local ?uv> riiscru uir i ctiucked away out of sight, with scarcely ? rli living cbauce. t Attrad Lb. rffjattse 5 e my Stock of WIX onish all BUYERS, est place to find whf jET IT 1 irrlk rn^- T\r? 'inn /ini LM. ll<ll U<ll ter Di attractive assortmei ice black dress for v supply themselves 1 iGCHVPr>i:U nn?l liT / 'lk7>Jl.iUUXlXiU CIUVI 3.9X-AL ! CAR] Carpets. Such as ai I? 4 I V VJHU JIT or ail OVERCOJ fthing* in Clothing w TAPLE and FANCY I J- ^ 1 - lit? t'U IIIJS i?iiere?i IU nralW ank the trad the past; an \<j i \M J l. Have just lecelv ivesus more pleasur* BE LOWER." =5. !R,osftnhere>' 7 O THE THIRD OU I.OfAf. I'AliE. lie first thins.' to app~ar on the local page n ugly cul, which we would harilly expect i ee in as nice a paper as Hie Herald and i v. With a very few exceptions all the te- i inlerof 'hat column is made up of adver- I ng reudini! notices. On thesecondcolunin ihIt column of locals. Nearly all the re- i luderof that column Is ads, with a local i n ??r two sand wicned. The third and fourth i imun headed bv a double column foreign The third column is about hali-and-hitlf i ileal or advertising notices and locals. The) rib column is tilled somewhat after the' i" lashlon. The tilth column I* all right, I so is the sixth, nut the seventli is headed i medical cu'. and is finished by a similar , The eighth and last column is headed a foreign ad. [.ocal advertisers on this e. as <ui Hie others, get no space whatr, except whatever spare space there is at lorn of column, or a way from reading Iter, and below foreign ads THK FOURTH OR I,AST i'AOE. gly medical cut gets place In first, column eating mallei M-dlcil a I gets place in d coiuin i belo.v reading matter Fourth | I tilth column beaded t>y medical ad. it m dicai advorti-einent is lollowed t one news Hem, wnich in turn. Is I owed by medical notice, and ugly cut of j sign advertiser. I .oca I ads put in ill bottom III out Some reading m ?tier below double | nun foreign ad at top of fifth column. He I inder of column filled out with medic-il ' . Fifth column, about half reading matter., :n follows reading medi<-al notice, and big j of patent medicine. About one-third o| enthand eighth columns filled with double ltnu patent medicine ads. Balance of imns in Railroad time tables. FINIHNO SO FAULT. ow, we wish it to he distinctly understood j t we are finding no faulL with the manner j vliicli the H'*raid and X-'W* doe* basin- ss. >; aw that paper, by i:s editorial utterance, 11 V lie construed to have invitedsu.KUftloiis | < have spoken, mid will speak, with kinii-;i s, hoping Hint, if we say nothing which') y lie profitable, we may tie the oooi- j < i of hi* developing in his own mind rem. j i as for some of the evils from which that j i >er complains. Ii 1 the tir-t place, there Is no eflee' without I iuse. i ?ur neighbor will ai-cpt Ihi-Ih ory.ji lie d >?*-, then where Is the cau*e which ugs about the underslrable result from j | < i # tive Place V8Z", SUCH GOOD ? TER GOODS to make r Such an opportunity t it you want and to THE L i 1)0 had, I would state *ess Gc it in this line. I will ery little money. 1 Ju before all tlie best barg* LNKETS. It will pay ; PETS ! O^L: re have at COST. But lT cheaper than ever v ill make a great mistato DRY GOODS at greatly do business with me. Vi i ing populace o: d as we have b on sale the 11 )ltv ed a line of Kai Ki and e than serving our man s Block wh'ch our neighbor suffers? We ourself admitting asserting that the Newberry Herald and News in first-class in Its editorials, f r ?nd granting tlie fact of its enterprise and i.,..) iblllty lor publishing the latest and most im- . Dortant news, vet we claim that tbe face of _i.T. ihc paper, mid the editorial ol last week, how and acknowledge that tlie paper is not ,im neeiing with the business or linanclal sue- t.Pri :ess that its ability and application to buBi- ln* less deserve. L.OCA I. ADVKKTISKKS DO NOT (IKT A J'A I It | cojj| SIIOWTNC. SlHl torj We have no desire to uive advice to our met leiahbor, but we venture to sungest ihat local h'd( idvortlKers do not have fa if play or nufTii-lent. as d neon raiment tn the matter ot position, and 11 lial the value of file newspaper itselt Is In- N>v ureil by the prominence which Is given to elfe< latent medicines. The ads and the reading lollces or these tnediclnes pollute not only ;verv paire. but nearly every column of the paper. For reasons which need not here je slated, the editor of the I'ress and l'auner ii the years th-it are cone tiy felt more or lets PrJ" ii teres I. In the local attain* of Newnerry. We l'rl" pad the locals of the newspapers of that town utjn with iin>re interest than the locals of ??ny ft,l> newspaper which was received at this office choi Knt si 'ice the medical notices have taken Che iin<* [ilace of locals we do. not read the local page HD" it till, for I he simple reason of the make-up ler 1 >f the pau" Is such that we cannot distinguish ad? from legitimate news until we have read a considerable portion of an article. VW seldom read a line of that jHge. We inter troni our own experience, fron hat whatever destroyed the value of t tie page cust o uh, might have a similar effect on others. any1 job [.OCA J, AnVKItTISERS GRT OlSSCfltK POSITIONS. Wan t>ha| Take the H?ral<l and News of last week, as n itid not a single local advertiser ha* an ad- our' tranlageousor a conspicuous place In the pa-(cust ... r \ .1 II... >.l....n^ t l* I I I. (\ 11 I uvooilliltn Ms W ire given to lorHgii p"ople, wlilie the home t??d i?ls are relegated lo tne rear, or to nbs> ur wist jorners in Ihe paper. Foreign ad* always ?p- All Ht tim front and In the same place, see I Ives il)i- paper a bad look, and deal* unjustly loca ivi I it home people, who as a rule, are willing <idvi i nay mo't lor good service than we have who jver heeu ottered to publish medical ails "at llsli op of column next, to reading mat ;er." mo'i With a I It I ie taet. all home advertisers an b* with (it-used. Tney can't ail get I tit* same ilucc. It tut they can alternate, or get others p'aces ?*r e< ust as good as in now given to patent inedi- wet :ines. cept > of Busii 1ARGAINS IN 00111 for SPRING and SI o seceure bargains is n ;OWE8T P that I will sell all >ods at also sell all BLACK DB ive a splendid line of a] ains are taken. 1 wil irAn ir Tjlnii IrAfo mi j uu tu ujaiuvrim uii RPETS ! ! now I coine to speak o DE ( ras known before. I a :e not to see the bar gar reduced prices. I sli i LTV LAI I f Abbeville and een unable to c lost magnificei riAAT UUU1 India Silks from 39 y friends, and we guars JAS. MUCX'KSS OUT OF TIIK QUESTION. I of the I miirKS i the Herald and News will throw into the What box nil the old cuts that now distluure with al conspicuous places In the paper, and then of mac j homefollcs a chance to come to the front best pla venture to say that it will Dot be a lung to kill? e before the good business men of New- Vnuc y will find out the advantages of advert is- per and in a local paper which will treat them don't pi ly. , w? find ie Press and Banner does not believe the our sub iblned talent mid enenry o/ the entire a fool si :e Press Association could bring satisfae' results to a newspaper which sticks Ileal ads in all the good places and istiomeft'lsln the out-of-the-way places, I toes the Herald and News. I 1, ie loss ol local t>uslness in the Herald and i t's map be largely attributed to legitimate I Jtof the make-up of forms. I Death ert ARBITRARY RUt.KS. | <|>eB 10 many printers expect the public to con itself to the arbitrary rules of a little The h ting ofIIoe, which too otten requires Job | at this I iting and advertising to he sent in at an Mr. Jc asouably early time. Our idea is, that Karm irom the editor to the lad who does the ; nothing -<-N, are in the business to serve the public,' Cutting ihut we should accept business gratefully ^ the day thank fully Whenever we cun gel it. Bet-| Dr. A. ale than never jd?y, ttji burled ii \VB SIIOIJI.D l'l.F.ASK ri'STOMKRS. I about 8U 1 Dr. W 10 many editors refuse reasonable requests i store of i their customers Our idea Is, to please | K. I.Ste omers. without Interposing objection to . Air. JS. thing they want doue. It they waoFa jallonnf printed In any particular way, or If they j Mrs. 1 t ihelr adverilsetnent In any special 1 writing. >e then It Is our business to do the work j Tins si early as possible In the manner In which t'alviu I customer wants it. Never talk back at a j |H In a fli diner. Let hi in have his own way. That Mr. J. hut we are here for?to serve the public, i with pn not to control or to guldeour customers 1 month ii les. ! The sc ikln-r up its torins as it does, we do not: ny M'ss iow the Herald and News could serve a o. Marti I iiemaou for any considerable amount of Thefli rtlslug. The p*per seems to be nearly or ' Andersc 11 v tflven up to medical ads, and If to pub-1 of Cook' ,-uch ads i? the tunblllon of that paper It j j. ci b neiiriy succeeds than auy paper of! tli's rict i ;h wt- h-?ve am knowl?>di{e. I ferenee, ;i.l/,lii|i Ui>' d'tnunr ol spt'aking Id a broth-; business litor, or of exchanging a woril with htm, a. cou lave violated our rule of Mlence and ac- j and loot ud, for this once, the implied invitation j less Ncn HI1 ALL LINE! t JMMER GOODS, for irely offered. On] OSSIBLl Prim LESS GOODS ill the 11 wool BLACK SEE 1 also sell at COST these terms even i Don't forget the C f the greatest bargi ]L0T im offering: my enti ns I am offering in all spare no pains 1 L. VH L vicinity for Lispose of on it line of >S ai to SO Cents, mtee "NO MATTEI , DAI i Ilerald and News to make some reon the subject of his recent editorial. , we have said, however, will apply m jout equal force to the suicidal policy I ly other papers In reserving all the ices for medical ads, which act is sure jut local business. an examine the patent side of this pa- | there find patent medicine ads. We *lnt that side, but we have to take it as it, very much In the same way thai scribers get the paper. Consistency's ametlines. W ?? ?? el NKLINGS FROM IVA, "I . rh of Dr. Cook?Sickness of Rob i^, m<IaI # ? PAiinlur Mf>hAAl fin clier*?Conference. j Iva.S.C.. Feb. 18.181*3. H ealth of this comrauuily Is very good m, Lime. 1 >hnson Hall is very III. ers In this community have done much towards ron.klng another crop, wood and making fires Is the order of ? G. Cook died at this place W'ednesb l-'tlh Inst., with dropsy. He was lextday at Cienerostee church. He was year old. burton has moved his drugs from the ' Mr. T. C. Jackson to the store of Mr.1 (11 wart. u H. Simpson bus his saw mill in operiw. Robert Burdett is very sick at this rtjool at this place is taught by Rev. Jre?hly, assisted by Miss Bleckley. It TJ ourlshing condition. *-* H. Willis, who has been suffering iralysla for sometime, fell about a | igo and got hurt hool at Liberty school house, taught Helma McCaslan, assisted by Miss T. n, Is making good headway. st Quarterly Conference of the South iu circuit convened at Bethel oliurzh ! s station. January 20.18ft?. The Hev. i lyde, Presiding Elder of Ure?*uville Of was on hand and in the chair for Con- of i and proceeded to the transaction of o . siderable snow Is on the around now , is like It Is going to snow more. .lack Bit. I w is the 37 JB. S ARE TO B1 the next SIXTY DAY! y a call is necessary t< * C PRICE." same way. Now this GES and HENRIETTA all BLACK and COLOR f you should not need % arpets. A very desii ains yet. I refer to HIN( re Stock of CLOTHING this line. ;o please, and am sure r. Wl their liberal r _ J_.r store, we sha id SB Also a beautiful line < I WHAT PRICES QUO Jl as WE ARE HERE FOI 18! TO MEET THE WANTS ' Our customers will please take note ol this We will keep as usual, a good stock of DRV GO ARE. STAPLE NOTIONS. FARMING IA1PLE& ven to GROCERIES. When to need of FLOU) AY, BRAN. LARD, MOLASSES, SI'GAIC, COFFJ V. Be sure and call on us. >ne car best New Orleaus Molasses to ar- j W 'c IUIP* wcvh, V/iui iurry up aud get your Spring Oates, and get R< e seed for sowing from us. We have a very I mle le variety and at low figures. shir *ure Mountain Buckwheat. Call and sup- W 7 yourself before It Is al I gone. gpt IV. Joel Smith & Sons Is the place togetflrst W ality granulated and light brown sugars. ohei ran. 31, 1895, tf W. JOE uhyikub s EO. WHITE, Prop. CJPRTATri K ESIDES OUR REGULAR LINE OF STAPL will have In stock a full line of LADIES' DR"! Of all Kinds with Trim] WILL Al,SO ADD A SUMMER SUIT GOOD* all kinds. Also a line 01' Ladies' Fine Shoes, we < Shoes, Hardware and Tinware. Our Line of Fancy and Stapl WWe ask a chance to show our goods. Store of 1 * j 3 FOUND. 3 I will sell Goods at 9 convince every one . St. s is certainly a great S. The Ladies are ED SILKS, RED and them before another * ' \ r-m ' > Z5 i*eable Stock of both If 1 1 : :I r. - - m - 'vfe at and below COST, a call will convince ute. I " v :'W '/a ' i m i - Y_ - latronage ill put % I (> US J [)f WOOLEN DRESS TED ELSEWHERE, CO. "1 it THE YEAR >5, OF THE PEOPLE. rant, and also the public generally. OD. CLOTHING, SHOES, HATS, HARDIN ETS, <fco. Our special attention will be R. CORN, OATS. MEAL, BACON, SALT. EE or FANCY GROCERIES in any quane are offering great bargains in Blankets, :hi?e. Underwear and all Woolen Goods. jmember, that we Alone sell the "Elghand that it is the only perfect fitting t in the world. 'eare headquarters for Slioefi, Don't forthis when you need a pair. e will sell you the "Dixie Boy" plow aper than ever before. L SMITH & SONS. wwwm m* W, D. BAEKSDALE, Mang. , 1895. K AND DOMESTIC DRV GOODS, WE I GOODS inings to Match. LINE OF 3 AND NOTIONS i>H'er at very much reduced prices. A lot e Groceries Complete. V W. D. BARKSDALE, A i Pi