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The Press and Banner ABBEVILLE, 8. C. Published Every Wednesday by THE PRESS AND BANNER CO. WM. P. GREENE. Editor WEDNESDAY SEPT. 1, 1915. PROHIBITION. Wo predicted some weeks ago that the whiskey trust would not allow the election in this State to go by default. Their crowd has been busy for sometime trying to make the people believe that prohibition would have 3 walk-over in this State. The efKoon fjrst create in the 1U1 I XIAO WW.., ? minds of the prohibitionists of this State a feeling of security, and therefore a lethargy in their efforts, and, secondly, to arouse the entire liquor interests in the State, just prioi; to the election to go to the polls and carry the election by storm. As we haye said in these columns before, there are a great many people in this State, who will vote against prohibition because they do not believe in it.; We must respect the opinion of these people; though we cannot understand their position. But the prohibitionists may rest assured that these men are not spending their time in fighting for liquor. A great many men of this class do not drink; personally they care little whether ' liquor stays or goes. The people who are attempting to organize this State, and to keep it in the whiskey column, are the blind tigers and the whiskey trust, their employees and friends. The people of the Stat^ had as well realize it < No anti-prohibitionist in Abbeville county is going around hiring lawyers to fight prohibition, and the prohibi- 1 lion election; they are content here to vote against prohibition. They have no ulterior object to serve. The ; people who want prohibition defeated in this State are the people who want to sell liquor in the State. Selling liquor is their business, and you may rest assured that these people will x not see business taken away without L vAfoin if an enort uu tucn pan w avmmu They are busy, and they will keep busy until election day in an effort to reach the voters and to persuade them to go to the polls and vote for liquor. It is to the credit of even the liquor crowd that not a man in the State can be found who has the face to go around the State and speak for liquor. The time was iii South Carolina when men would not hesitate to do this; but that day has passed. But the liquor people shall try to reach the voters in other ways. They will spend money in advertising; they will present figures to prove that a State and a county and a man can get rich by spending all that the citizen can make for liquor. The figures of the liquor trust will prove whatever the liquor trust wants to prove, you may be sure of that. But we are not afraid that the people will be deceived by the money spent by these people in advertising and in other ways. ? We do fear, however, that the people of the State will allow themselves to be lulled into a state of security, and the people of the State will be taken unawares. It is time now for every man in Abbeville county to look up his registration and poll-tax and other tax receipts, and get ready for the fight. We must remember that this is a statewide election. Charleston and other counties will roll up a ncavy vutc against pruuiuiuuii, nu doubt. The people of this county must make the majority in this county so large as to nullify the result in some county on the other side. We can only win by every man putting his hand to the wheel. Get ready! THE RIGHTS OF NEUTRALS It seems at last that the German Government has decided that it is safer to respect the rights of the people of the Republic of the West than to continue a course of murder upon1 the open sea. It is now stated that Germany is ready to disavow the act of the commander of the submarine sinking the Arabic carrying American citizens, to promise punishment to the offending officer, and to make reparation for the loss of American lives. And^when Germany shall have done this, that government will have admitted the wanton murder of a thousand non-combatants, of whom more than a hundred were American citizens, in the sinking of the Lusitania; and it will be up to the Imperial German government to make such amends as are demanded by the Presi dent of this country for the wilful killing of American men, women ani children. A man never does what his wife expects him to do. > . * i lj.v- : v - r4?.>. i Editorial Brevities. When the Kaiser shall have taken water, and complied with the demands of the President thatsubmarine warfare cease, and that reparation be made for the loss of every American life caused thereby, there will perhaps be a breathing spell long enough for some of our pro-German enthusiasts to explain just where they now stand, and how it all happened. We presumed that when the people of this school district voted compulsory education upon the district, they did so because it was felt that a certain percentage of the population c.'tred little for the education of their off-spring, and that it was the duty of the officers of district to make such regulations as would guarantee these children an education. If the school trustees of the district expected to surrender their own judgment for the judgment of these parents in matters affecting the interest of these children, why have compulsory education at all? When we were at Due West attending school, Dr. Jesse Bell, now a dignified physician of that place, was our class-mate. We were studying Wordsworth. The doctor had gone down to the College for Women to call on one of. the teachers. The discussion turned to Wordsworth. The young teacher -asked the doctor whether he was of the opinion that Words worth meant what he suggested by a certain passage then being discussed. The doctor gave it as his opinion that he did not, that "Wordsworth just said that for poetical effect." Perhaps the trustees of this school district think the same as to the adop tion by this district of Compulsory education. If the Abbeville Cotton Mill insists t : rL i ' xi irin on naving a sqnoui on uih inui grounds, covering the same course of study as that covered by the schools uptown, to which all of the children of the town might go, thus lessening the expenses of operating the schools of the district, then the Abbeville Cot ton Mill should do the reasonable thing and build a school building upon its grounds, in which the children of that community might be prop erly taught. The people of the school district have erected comfortable and commodious buildings in this district, near enough the Abbeville Cotton Mill for each and every child there to attend and receive the bene-, fits of good teachers and good equipment. The Abbeville Cottoh Mill has no right to expect the public of this school district to waste money longer in operating an educational farce. Other mills in this section have built good buildings for. the people of their mill villages. Why hot Abbeville? The Abbeville Cotton Mill, and the people who live on its grounds, have no right to repeal the compulsory education law, and they shall not do it with our consent. General News . The Oakland Farm, Newberry County, of which Walter I. Herbert is proprietor has sold in the past w^ek ir. Newberry, forty eight bushels of stringless green beans at one dollar a bushel. The young son of Mr. Herbert has just finished grafting four hundred pecans on the farm. 77-1 - - p ii n i_ i i .ticnoes ox tne rranK lyncmng are still to be heard in Georgia. Three Northern firms have refused to make further shipments to Georgia until the lynchers are apprehended. In Rome last week fifteen different men, strangers to the town, and" who said they were laborers, were packed into a box car and sent out of town. In Columbia Saturday night there was a riot in Jewish quarters over one man showing a picture of Frank hanging from the tree on which he was lynched. Former Secretary of the Navy John D. Long died Saturday at his home in Hingman, Mass., and was buried with military honors Tuesday. He was a lawyer of prominence and was three times governor of Massachusetts. The orange crop for this year is said to be unusually large, seven mil lion and a half boxes for shipping having already been contracted for. The negroes of Chicago are holding an exposition celebrating a half century of freedom, which they call the Lincoln Jubilee. A little of every i.L! ' - 1 ' -f uung is ueing exniDiieu, irom wagons made in Industrial schools to plain needle work. North, the widely known French dress maker, is having to close up his London establishment, the women of London having formed a Dress Eco v.: A . \ nomy League, which is doing much to curtail business. The glazing mills of the American Powder Co., situated at Acton, Mass., were blown up last Saturday, the explosion causing shock and broken windows for a distance of forty miles Reports on the live stock situation coming to Clemson College indicate that South Carolina will feed more cotton seed meal and hulls this year than ever before in the State's history. Furthermore, there will be more winter pastures this year than in any previous year. The big grocery firms in various parts of England have sent circulars to their customers asking them to exercise the greatest possible economy in the use of loaf sugar, which is very popular in England for cook ing, canning and similar purposes. The grocers suggest the substitution of brown sugar for mo^t uses. Before the war the bulk of the loaf sugar used in England was imported from Austria, Germany and .'Belgium. Four families in Schleswig-Holstein can claim with full rights to have done their duty to the Fatherland. One family, a widow in Segeberg has nine sons and two sons-inlaws at the front; nine sons of a beer dealer in Schoenberg are with the army, as are eight sons and two sonsin-law of a family in Hellechen. The total is forty soldiers, for the four families. Hon. Cole L. Blease, former governor of the State, has announced again hifi intention of running against Governor Manning in the primaries* next summer. He states that he has endeavored to get some other candidate to assume the leadership of his faction, but that the people insist on Him as the proper person to make the .campaign, and that he will do so. Col. Alvin H. Dean, of Greenville, at leading lawyer of the Greenville Bar, am) a member of the finfr of Cothran, Dean $ Cothrar, former state senator from that county, and one of the most distinguished orators of the State, as well as one of the best men . in the state, announces that he will be in the race for the democratic nomination for'congress from the fourth district next summer, opposing Sam. J. Nichols, who has been nominated for the short term. NEED REFORMATORY FOR GIRL PRISONERS Greenville, Aug. 30?Albert S. Johnstone, secretary of the State board of charities and corrections, recently made inspections of the several penal and charitable institutions in Greenville county; At the city stockade, where the county prisoners are incarcerated pending the completion of the new county pail, Mr. Johnstone found three girls awaiting trial on various charges. The condition of1 the girls was pitiable. They were but scantily clad; there was no separation of the prisoners, and even the whites and blacks mingled in the stockade yard. This condition was caused by the fact that the city, through courtesy, is caring for the county's prisoners until the jail is completed and tne stockade is tnereiore crowded. Mr. Johnstone became interested in the girls and on one of the trips to the stockade he was accompanied by Judge Prince, who is now presiding over, the general sessions court in Greenville. Judge Prince and others interested the grand jury in the state of affairs and as a result that body made the following recommendation: "We would especially request the honorable court to present to the gov ernor for his consideration the urg ent need by our county of a State in stitution for the reformation of fe male prisoners who are so unfortu rate*as to violate our laws, thereby subjecting themselves to conditions which we believe encourages lawlessness and immorality. "That this recommendation is re quested of the court that the governor may present to i;he general assembly when next convened this State-wide need for uplifting of humanity." The need for a reformatory for women is especially noticeable in Green ville at this time when 'many women are being arrested for living immoral lives and when there is no place to send them where the bent of their lives will be changed for the better. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. True wit is always incidental?and often accidental. Married people make up a quarrel because they have to. And the beauty of a get rich scheme is also skin deep. Impatient men seldom accomplish anything of great importance. Not all women who are proud of their figures are good calculators. After accepting crumbs of comfort some people whine for the whole bakery. ... ''if - , - ii'. }' Notice of Election STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA County of Abbeville t Notice is hereby given that an elec- f tion will be held on the 14th day of ( September,-A. D., 1915, at the voting { precincts fixed by law in said county, ^ upon the question as to whether the f manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors and beverages shall be prohibit ' ed or continued in this State, as 1 provided by Act No. 76, to submit to I the qualified electors the question of | the prohibition of the manufacture ( and sale of alcoholic liquors and beverages in the State and to provide jfor the carrying of these provisions 1 into effect, approved the 16th day of 1 'February, A. D. 1915. I The qualifications for suffrage are | !as follows: , I Residence in State for two years, in the County one year, in the polling precinct in which the elector offers 1 to vote, four months, and the pay- 1 nrent six months before any election 1 of any poll tax then due and payable. ( I Provided, That ministers in charge of t an organized church and teachers of ( public schools shall be entitled to vote after six months' residence in 1 the State, otherwise qualified. 1 | Registration?Payment of all taxes, including poll tax, assessed and collectible during the previous year. The production of a certificate or the ? receipt of the officer authorized to col lect such tuxes shall be conclusive proof of the payment thereof. | Befo:re the hour fi.. J for opening the polls Managers and Clerks must take and subscribe to the Constitutionaliftatfi. lite Chairman of the Board of Iftmagcrs can administer the oath to the otfcorManagers and to the Clerk; a Notary Public must administer the oath to Chairman. The Managers elect their Chairman and Clerk. ' Polls at eacfi voting place must be opened at 7 o'clock a.m ., and closed at 4 o'clock p. m., except in the City of Charleston, where they shall be operted at 7 a. m., and closed at 6 p. m. ' v .? The Managers have the power to ' All <1 IKIAAflAtri ftlij 1 / ?AnA a/ ^lin \fnn mi o. fitsAuvf ^ miu u nunc ui buc iuau agers attend, the citizens" can appoint, from among the qualified vot- ers, the Managers, who, after being sworn, can conduct the election. At the close of the election, the Managers and Clerk must proceed to open ballot boxes and count the ballots therein, and continue without . adjournment until the same is completed, and sign the same. Within three days thereafter, the Chairman of the Board, or some one designated by the Board, must deliver to the Commissioners of Election the poll list,, the boxes containing the ballots and written statements of the results of the election. Managers of Election?The following Managers of Election have 1 been appointed to hold the election at the various precincts in thesaid 1 County: : . ABBEVILLE?T. C. Seal, A. F. 1 Calvert, J. L. Clark ' LOWNDESVILLE?J. M. Wright, 1 B. A. Bell, D. K. Cooley rl HAMPTON?J A MurdocK. J H Caldwell, W E McClain. j KEOWEE?E W Ashley, R 0 ' Branyon, Fred Ashley. I ANTREVILLE?Jno Gary, R 0 1 McAdams* A H Patterson. 1, LEVEL LAND?M. S. Ashley, Wal r ter W. Wilson, Frank E Ellis. '! ROCK SPRING?Jim Black, M J 1 Ashley, "S. J. Burts. DONALDS?J P Shannon, J. T. 1 Johnson, Wra. Mattison. ' j CALHOUN FALLS?H. W. Law: son, Fed Nance, Ed. Tucker. 1 j Mt CARMEL?Jno Tarrant, Brad ley Morrow, S D Wells. ' I WILLINGTON?W M Andrews W " D Morrah, Oscar Covin. ' YOUNG'S SCHOOL HOUSE?J A '; Brown, Tom Langley, R A Crawford. !| CLATWORTY X ROADS?W A Brown, Joe J Link, J L McCombs. LONG CANE?A 0 Calvert, D E Nickles, A R Robinson. BORDEAUX?Lee Edwards, W M Mcintosh, W J Richardson. McCORMICK?J B Dawsop, Tom Martin, J H Sanders. ABBEVILLE COTTON MILLS? Wm. Blanchett, Jim Falkner, Bob i Purdy. i DUE WEST?J T McDill, John Magill, J R McGee. The Managers at each precinct ' named above are requested to delegate one of their number to secure the boxes and blanks for the election. Manager will call on A. F. Calvert, Clerk, for Boxes, Tickets, and Instruc tions on Saturday, Sept 11th. J. E. JONES, JOHN BROWN, a n a t triptjt1 n. i t v/ixj v uiv jl. y vjiti rw Commissioners of State and County Electors for Abbeville County, S. C A man is never so poor that he isn't able to find some woman who is willing to sh^re his poverty. .fa I PALM UCI i | Cleaned and dj I 30 cei & v, | We haveboug | Press for. the I Try I 1 * | Abbeville Stear j| Phone 68 * . ! Cigars Speed's Dru Phone 1 Always 'Ready to . * x " - ?? Stationery % ' s''" *},' ' ' \ '?* , . " " , .. r -.- ? : '? j- ' . ' , LfOwRound 1 F0]$ EVERYBODY OFF Seaboard Air L, "The Progressive Rail\ San Francisco and San Diego, Calif tional Exposition, and Panama-( For specific rate, schedules 01 call oa Seaboard'Agents, 01 C. S. COMP^ON. T. P. A., S. A. L. By. Atlanta, Ga. f5JSJSJSJ3JSJSI3ISJ3J5I3JS13J3?SI3I5I5JSfSISI3ISI33I3IS/c CLEANL; -UP- VM 1 In fact Everything: in 10. A. Milford <5 Phone 3 ? 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