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The Press and Banner
ABBEVILLE, S. C.
Published Every Wednesday by
THE PRESS AND BANNER CO.
WX. P. GREENE, Editor
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1915
SHALL THE PEOPLE RULE? .
As will be noted "on another page
of this paper, the Supreme Court of
this State, sitting en banc has refused
the petition of John Henry Chappell,
in which petition an injunction was
sought against holding an election in
this state, next month, on the subject
of prohibition.
Mr. Chappell has every reason to
be disappointed. He is a prohibi
tionist himself, and expects to vote
for prohibition if the election is
held, (he so states in his petition),
but he evidently hates to do so, else
he would not have hired two highpriced
lawyers, like a former governor
and a Southern Railroad lawyer,
to keep him and others from
doing so. Mr. Chappell would make
some money by going around and exhibiting
himself. A man who wants
to vote for prohibition, and yet
epends his money to get himself enjoined
from doing so, should attract
a crowd of eager lookers anywhere.
And the great champion, the odly
real champion of the rights of the
people in this state, has deserted the
people, and applied to the courts for
Tkot nrroof ofnmn nr?fr?r w'hn
went over the state some years ago
abusing- the supreme' court, and
carrying his fight to the people, has
he become afraid of the people and
resorted to the court he abused? He
has. But the court found that he had
as little law, as he had love for the
rights of the people. So that he and
the counsel for the Southern Railway,
his associate, and the members
of the trade, their employees, and
their friers, must take their medicine.
THE PEOPLE will talk on
election day, and their champion of
the past will take orders, not give
them. Liquor will be enjoined and
not the election.
, GOOD ROADS
Supervisor Stevenson is a reader
ox the Press and Banner, and knows
good advice when he hears it given.
He has commenced the dragging of
the roads on the main thoroughfares
leading into the city. Saturday
morning, we went out the Cambridge
road and inspected some of
lthe excellent results he is getting out
there. Where the roads are wide,
and properly dragged they have the
appearance of a paved street in a
city.
_ We suggest now that the delegation
amend the road law*by providing
that the road tax in this county
be two dollars per year, and that the
amount collected from each township
be neia Dy. tne treasurer to pay ior
dragging the roads in that township.
Persons liable to'road duty should be
allowed to* work five days instead of
paying the tax, if they desire. With
the money collected and the labor
available, the over-seer in each township
should call out a certain number
of men in rotation after each rain
and require that'the roads be dragged
in that township. A sufficient
number of drags should be provided
by the Supervisor^ A man should
follow the drags to fill up holes and
remove rocks and rubbish from the
roadways.
And in order to supplement the
fuhds necessary for this work, a license
tax should be imposed on all
owners of automobiles, the proceeds
to be used in the townships where
the owners reside.
If this is done the Supervisor need
not work the roads so often. He
can widen the roads and keep the
ditches open; the drags will do the
rest.
Editorial Brevities.
The joke is on John Kenry Chappell,
of Newberry County. He is a
prohibitionist, but in order to keep
from voting for prohibition, which he
says he will do, he hires two lawyers
to enjoin himself from so doing, but
the lawyers fall down on the job, and
now he must vote according to his
preference and the dictates of his
conscience. This is a precarious position
for a man from Newberry.
We are convinced that John Henry
Chappell, of Newberry County has
been practicing the Biblical injunction
of not letting his left hand know
what his right hand was doing.
While his right hand was getting
ready to vote for prohibition, his left
hand, in ignorance of the intention
of its neighbor, employed two lawyers
to enjoin the acts about to be
performed by the other hand. We
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suggest a consultation between the
two hands next time.
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Perhaps the whole trouble is that
John Henry has been drinking grapejuice
all summer.
If one of the speakers here a few
days ago had used the name of the
Maker less frequently than he did in
his address, he might have convinced
more people that the Maker was
really interested in his movement.
Ex-Governor Cole L. Blease, in
his argument before the Supreme
i Court on last Saturday, stated that
he could have received*a salary greater
than that paid the Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court, if he had taken
the stump on the liquor question
during July and August. Have the
prohibitionists been trying to employ
the ex-governor? or has someone
else been making him an offer?
Was it John Henry Chappell who was
willing to pay this salary in order to
get the ex-governor to stump the
state? '
And because of his great love of
the people of the state, and because
he desires ta see the right prevail,
although he will vote for prohibition,
John Henry Chappell, of Newberry
County, through his attorneys announces
that if the people of this
state vote for prohibition at the election
about to be held the matter will
be taken into the Federal Courts.
John Henry and his attorneys are evidently
of the opinion that the people
of this state should not have the right
to say what they want, nor to get
what they want after they have voted
fbr it. \ ;
If Col. Kerr and party drove, all
the time they were away, at the same
rate at which they came into town
Saturdav nieht. we understand how
they got back so soon; they want
around.
If some of the prospective candidates
for congress in this district
keep on running at the rate they are
now going; their tongues will be
hanging out pf their mouths before
the real race opens.
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General News r
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Dr. D. B. Johnson, President of
Winthrop College, has just been
elected President of the National
Teachers' Association. This is the
highest honor which may. be conferred
by the teachers of America. His
opponent was Miss Grace Stachan,
of New York, who resigned as a mem
ber of the Association after die was
defeated. ' '\V
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The Southern Railway has given
an order for the printing of one hundred
thousand calenders of twelve
pages eachj to the Peace Printing Co,
of Greenville. Each calendar will
have a wooden strip at the top and
this will require thirty eight miles
of strips. Six hundred and eightythree
miles of paper will be required
to print the calendars.
The people of Williamston are agitating
a new county, made up of
parts of Greenville and Anderson
with the spring town as the county
seat. Enthusiastic meetings have
been held.
The will of the late Edmund Deas,
of Darlington, negro state chairman
of the Republican party for many
VAQre VlQC Koon i+o
J uvvil VUH WUi JL?jr tU3
terms all of his personal property is
left to his wife, and after her death
it is to be sold and the proceeds used
for the building of a hospital in Darlington
for negroes. Deas left an
estate worth probably $25,000 or
$30,000. He has no children surviving
him. i N
Munich breweries, aside from their
regular out-put, are delivering weekly
to the Bavarian soldiers, one hundred
and forty carloads of /beer in
kegs and sixty carloads of beer in
bottles. One thousand,, three hundred
and twenty gallons in the keg
is an estimated carload.
The "Home'ard bounder" is the
pennant hoisted by the warship when
she gets orders to return from a foreign
port. The cruiser -Denver in
iyuy new one aou teet long on the
voyage in from a three-year Eastern
cruise.
According to the report of the
state dispensary auditor made public
today, the total sales of all the dispensaries
of the fifteen counties of
the state for July amounted to $245,516.99
and the operating expenses
were $16,133.17.
The Food Supplies Committee of
the English Government will plow
up four million acres of pasture land
and plant grain and potatoes.
Cuba is counting on a four million
ton crop of sugar this year. This
enormous crop is causing the building
of new sugar mills all over the
island. ^ ^
A young girl was bitten by a'
poisonous snake in Spartanburg last
week and drank three pints of whiskey
to counteract the poison. She
suffered no bad results from the
whiskey or the snake bite.
Over forty thousand testaments
have been distributed to the German
, soldiers by' the World Sunday School
Association. This Association hopes
to distribute a million among the different
nations.
A new eleven cent stamp, the first
of this denomination, is soon to be
distributed by the government. This
is made necessary by . the parcel post,
many packages requiring such a
stamp. The stamp will be green, and
will bear a Franklin profile.
The Kaiser, who is said to be the
third richest person in the German
Empire, is reported as having lost in
private fortune something like twenty-civ
millinno nf Hftllorc cinco fhe hp.
ginning of the war. He is said to
be a heavy holder in the HamburgAmerican
Steamship line and in the
Krupp Works.
Germany's shipment of Canary
birds has ceased since the war and
Holland now has the trade in the
pretty songsters.
A petition asking the governor
of Georgia to to pardon Dr. W. J.
McNaughton, was circulated in Camden
last week. Dr. McNaughton id
a native of Camden and recently
has been much in the eyes of the pub
lie; being the first man to reach Leo
i? rank'alter nis tnroat was cut. ?ie
was mainly instrumental in saving
Frank's life.
The wheat crop, estimated the largest
ever grown in any country, will
reach the billion bushel mark. Three
and a half billion bushels of corn is
the estimated crop of corn.
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Over a hundred barber shops have
been closed in Berlin on account of
the war. This is a heavy shutting off
of gossip.
CYCLONE.
A cyclone struck the school-house
at Little Mountain church last Friday
afternoon. The building was
blown from the foundations and left
in an. inclined .position about eight
feet^ from its former position, lit
tie damage was done to the building
otherwise.
Several large trees in the adjoining
church-yard were Unrooted, or
twisted off. It is believed that this is
the same as the cyclone which passed
above Donalds and visited Greenville
on the same afternoon. In
Greenville, one negro was killed and
property damaged to the amount of
forty thousand dollars.
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GOES TO THE MOUNTAINS
AND RETURNS
As everyone in town knows, Col.
J. D. Kerr has been going to the
mountains since July 1st. He didn't
get off until last Wednesday, however.
Tiring of selling so much furniture
at Alliance prices, he left his
furniture emporium in charge of Sam
McCuen and Roy Power, chartered
Col. W. W. Bradley and his automobile,
his son Billy, his brother Jim,
and his cousin Renwiclc, and "headed"
towards the great Blue Ridge.
He "paused" long enough in Anderson,
as Lark Wilson would put it, to
get his name in the paperj and from
there he proceeded to Pickens, where
he did not get his name in the paper.
After looking at the mountains
from Pickens, and consulting his
guides as to the probability of sliding
down a mountain in case they tried
to go up, and thinking again of
Uncle Jim, the Colonel turned his face
towards another Sunday dinner at
Uncle Jim's table.
No one was expecting the party
back so soon. Accordingly there was
some dispute at our house as to who
it was that walked up Col. Bradley's
front walk Sunday morning. One
Saul if. was WiH#> n-mt.lipr tVint. it
must be Charley Lyon, but our son
Bill solved it. He got up to the window
and said, after taking a look,?
"It is Mr. Kerr. I can tell by his
stomach."
THE PICTURE SHOW
Manager Goldstein is giving the
public some good pictures these days
at the Grand Opera House The
matinees are good and will have better
attendance when the little folks
have to start to school. Last Friday
night the feature picture was excellent
and was enjoyed by a full house.
Thursday night a good, clean lunny
picture gave the audience a half hour
of genuine amusement. To depict
life in other countries and different
walks of life, to amuse and create
laughter, is the mission of the motion
pictures and in every respect Manager
Goldstein is filling the bill. ,
COHON DECLARED .
FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENT IS ^
MADE OF ABSOLUTE BAN i|
ON SOUTH'S STAPLE a
Will Take Necessary Steps to Sup- %f
port Market and Prevent Abnor- fl
mal Depression. France to Take /|
Similar Action.
London, Aug. 21?Cotton has been ^
declared absolute contraband by
Great Britain, according to a state- fl
ment issued by the foreign office this H
afternoon. ft
The statement declares that the jik
government proposes tp initiate 2
measures to relieve depression which \!
might temporarily disturb the cotton *1
market because of. the contraband
order. A
It was learned upon inquiry at the A
foreign office that the French govern- ju
ment will issue a similar notice early J
tomorrow. ^ J
The announcement,follows:
"His majesty's government has 9\
declared cotlion absolute contraband. (
While the circumstances might have
justified such action at an earlier
period^ his majesty's government are
glad to think that local conditions of
American interests likely to be affected
are more favorable for such a
step than they were a year ago, and,
moreover, his. majesty's government
contemplate initiation of measures to
relieve as far as possible any abnormal
depression ^whiich might temporarily
disturb market conditions."
The declaration is effective from
today.
A royal proclamation > concerning
the action was published in a supple- ,
ment of the London Gazette issued
tonight. It is verv brief. After a
preamble citing previous proclamations
concerning contraband, it Bays:
"Now, therefore, we do hereby declare,
by and with the advice of our
privy, council/- that during the continuance
of the war, or until we do
give further public notice, the. fol- =
lowing articles will be treated as abso
lute contraband in addition to those -i
set .out in our royal proclamation J
aforementioned:
"Raw cotton, cotton linters, cotton
waste and cotton yarn.
"And we do hereby further declare ?
that this, our- royal proclamation,
shtftl take effect from the date of its ,
publication in the London Gazette."
{ The proclamation was signed yesterday
by King George.
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T. G. GREER, LAYS ALL NIGHT |
WITH THROAT SLASHED?? |
CHANCE FOR RECOVERY
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Mr. T. C. Greer, of Eastover, S. C., a
said to be a telegraph operator, appa- |j
rently 55 years old, was found on the |j
Bailey lot, near to The Star office, a
early Friday morning with a horrible g
gash cut across his throat. Near by g
was a razor which he had purchased ia
the day before from Nock's China a
Store, direcely s.cross the squar^ g
from where he was lying over a black g
pool of his own blood. He was first ^
seen by Mr, J. E. Itice and .soon sev- [f
eral people gathered around him. He S
was very weak from loss of blood and a
from the nieht's exDosure on the wet ft
ground, Greer said that he cut his _
own throat with the razor; that he
did it because he had lived long
enough; that he thought he had
made a good job of it at first, but
lated finding out that:he hadn't he
tried a second time; that he had no
people who thought anything of him;
and thg.t he didn't desire to live; that
he cut his own throat at 8 o'clock on
Thursday night. He evidently had
lain unconscious on the , grass all
night from which he was aroused by
the drizzling rain in the early morning.
He was removed in an automobile
to the station house bv Chief of
Police Irvin, and medical aid given
him by City Physician L.' P. Eberhardt.
It is thought he will get well.
Mr. Qreer was dressed in a neat,
blue serge suit. He spent Thursday
in Elberton and during the day tried
to buy laudanum from the Cleveland
Drug Co. This led to the belief that
he was a dope fiend, but after investi
gation it seems this was incorrect,
and that Greer wanted the laudnum
to kill himself with. His people and
acquaintances in South Carolina have
been communicated with, and he will
probably be carried back to them today
or tomorrow, if he is physically
able to stand the trip.
A number of members of the Masonic
lodge have interested themselves
in taking care of him and getting
him back to his family and his
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