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The Press and Banner ABBEVILLE, S. C. Published Every Wednesday by THE PRESS AND BANNER CO. WM. P. (<RKE.\E, Editor WEDNESDAY. OCT. 13, 1915. Statement of the Ownership, Manage ment, Circulation, Etc., Required by the Act of August 24, 1912, of Abbeville Press and Banner, publish ed weekly at Abbeville, S. C., for October 1. 1915. Editor, Wm- P. Greene, Abbeville, S. C. Managing Editor. None. Business Manager, Win. P. Greene, Abbeville, S. C. Publisher, The Press and Banner Co., Abbeville, S. C. Owners: (If a corporation, give its name and the names and addresses of stockholders holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of stock. If not a corporation, give names and addresses of individual owners.) The Press and Banner Co. owner. Wm. P. Greene. Abbeville, S. C., W. W. Bradley, Abbeville, S. C., W. R. Bradley, Abbeville, S. C., stockholders. Known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders, holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities : (If there are none, so state.) The Merganthaler Linotype Co. Wm. P. Greene. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 29th day of Sept, 1915. ol -j W. F. Nickles, [Seal.J Notary Public for S. C. (My commission expires at will or me Governor.) CHARLESTON AND THE TIGERS. The same Grand Jury in Charleston that refused to indict persons guilty of violating the liquor laws of the state, saying to a circuit judge, in 1 utter contempt of his court, that y they refused to indict regardless of the evidence, has faced about and indicted about fifty citizens or residents of that city on this particular charge. And the petit jury of that city has convicted the first man placed on trial for this offense, with the result that nearly a score of the others accused have pleaded guilty.. . And the question of why naturally arises. The grand jury is the same. We might have thought that a better class of men had been drawn on the juries except for this fact; but we cannot explain the actions of the grand jury, unless like Saul, they have seen a great light. It is true that the newspapers of Charleston have been for several months urging the people of that city to consent to let the state enforce its own laws in that city. If they had done this twenty years ago, the people of the up-country would long ago have given Charleston what that city wanted. But the people of that city who should have demanded the v enforcement of the laws of the state in that city as elsewhere, have 'for years either encouraged the law's violations, or have been content to see the law violated "because this community does not like the law" and because "the law is particularly obnoxious to this community." We hope that the people of Charleston are really demanding due respect for the enforcement of the laws of th? state, whether obnoxious to that community, or not, but we doubt it. npi*A T i xi _ xiic slcilc nas passeu tne gauon-amonth Act; and the people of the state, "that community" excepted, have demanded by an overwhelming vote, that the state be dry. The majority cast by tke voters in the late election* is sufficiently large to demand of Charleston an observance of the laws of the state, and to enforce that observance, if it is not guaranteed by Jjju local authorities. So that Charleston has now arrived at the point where her blind tigers and their sympathizers must ask for something; and we predict now that the astute leaders in that city will be in Columbia when the legislature meets begging for dispensary, or any other kind of old liquor, just so it is "licker" for Charleston, and thai: one of the arguments that will be advanced is that Charleston >s now enforcing the dispensary law, and that' as Charleston cannot get,along without "licker," it is imperative that the state continue to allow Charleston to enforce that law, and that no other law can be enforced. If the legislature shall be convinced by the argument, possibly about forty blind tigers will plead guilty to the charge of storing at each term of the court, while the dance goes merrily on. We shall see. JUDGE "WILLCOX. Hon. F. L. Willcox, the presiding judge at this term of the Court of Common Pleas, by appointment ox Governor Manning, is a resident of Florence, and a member of the firn of Willcox & Willcox, one of the best known law firms in the pastern j part of the state. Judge Willcox is a young man, but he has already taken his stand as one of the leading lawyers of tho j state. Learned in the law, courte- 1 ous in his manner and address, a ' gentleman of standing at home and ' abroad, he fills well the responsible position to which he has been temporarily appointed. We should be glad to see men of his calibre appointed and elected as members of the judiciary of this state whenever vacancies are to be filled. They would live up to the high standard of the great judges of the state. GREENVILLE STREET AGAIN. It is not always clear just how things happen. Two years ago, it had never occurred to Mrs. Gait that she would become the bride of the President of the United States, though she was born in the state ' of Virginia, and played with Col. A. M. Stone as a child, in their native ' city of Wytheville. It is said that ' Miss Bones had something to do with making the match. We do not think j however that this fully accounts for the developments of the last few months in this White House.romance. We prefer to believe that it all came about from the fact that Mrs. Gait J as a school girl, had the good fortune ( to be the school-mate and room-mate j of a resident of Greenville street, Mrs. Frank B. Gary. GENERAL NEWS The first conference of the Upper 1 South Carolina Conference of the : Methodist church, will be held in ] Spartanburg Nov. 24th to 29th, with < t- - - n.iij T\ T amI- , I^.snop Collins uenuy, picsiunig. uooi year the Conference was divided and 1 thi* year there will be two meetings J of the Methodist preachers. Handits held up a train in West Vir 1 ginia last Friday and robbed the ex- ' press of something over a hundred thousand dollars. 1 The city of Greenville is preparing to make improvements in the city and is going to sell the old city hall. J. 1 W. Norwood has become the pur- \ chaser of the property, giving the 1 city the option of selling the hall ' again for more than thirty-five thous- ! ar.a dollars, the sum advanced by Mr j Norwood. 1 The canal zone has its first case ' of yellow fever in eight years, a ' young engineer named Mundy, of Kansas, dying on the fifth of October. ' The Fanners and Merchants Bank cf Anderson, had an application from 1 one of its clients to buy some of the : Anglo-French war bonds. St. Matthews had a ripple of excitement last week when a burglar 1 came to town, stole the sheriff's new bloodhounds, carried them a mile out of town, tied them to a tree, then came back and proceeded to break into the stores and help himself to just what he wanted. The town of Aiken has adopted the compulsory educaton in so far as the city employees are concerned, which law wil Tint-, spvpral sHHitinnnl children in the school. The books of the Spartanburg auditors show an increase in the value oi taxable property of over five hundred thousand dollars. The schools of the county from the constitutional tax of three mills, the special levies, and the dog tax, will receive one hundred and fifty nine thousand dollars. Governor Manning and a party of Clemson experts, will make a trip through the parts of Mississippi and Louisiana which have been affected by the boll weevil. The Governor warns to see for himself jur,t what <l:?mage has been done and what remedies can be applied. President Riggs, of Clemson, will be one of the ; paity and the trip will be made be- ' i-... . 4.U ? -I ClL 1 OAiL - -C J1 - 1 OVVC1I LUC JLVUl cUlU 6\J HI Ui uiis month. The boll weevil has done no damage in South Carolina yet. Mow Orleans reports that something over a billion of mosquitoes were-, killed by the strong winds in the recent hurricane in that city. 7 he. young people of the city are reported as enjoying their first porch Icve making of the summer. The cotton seed oil companies .of this section are this year getting four ?ente a pound for linters, the best price that has been paid since 1911 jr.d one of the highest ever given. Ammunition manufacturing concerns ?jre using these linters in the manu- i fact are of war munitions and are ; glad to get them at the abo^e stated t pr.cc. i I.inters are the short fibres which a comes off the cotton seed before they n?-e ground up in the manufacture of s cotton seed oil and hulls. TLis short g lint cannot be cut off in the gin and a LOCALS ABOUT THE WAR. *J # The only export article England alowt to pass to Germany unrestricted, !s Bibles sent by the Engli'ih Bible Society, which is sending thousands )f Bibles to all the warring countries. Since the beginning of the war the whiskey houses of Glasgow have cut down their hours for keeping open' Lo five and a half in the day. They j are not open in the morning when' dv:nking would unfit a man for work. | All treating is done away^with and d/iiiks cannot be carried away in bntties. Before this law went into eiTect, in one week in Glasgow, three hundred and thirty-five men and eighty-eight women were arrested for drunkenness. i All the German universities have been kept open during the war although with a much smaller attendance. In this years' summer school at the Berlin University thj attendance was two thousand three hundred a.'? against eight thousand last year. T*l_ _ l ? \ 1 .J ^J. 1 X- 1 ine total numoer 01 students anu professors killed in the war is said to be one thousand, two hundied. Mr. Selig Mendel has returned to Savannah after an absence of nine years in Germany and he has. many interesting things to say about that country. He says that the Germans have made a wonderful crop this year ar.d have plenty to eat. Ttie families of the men who are in the army or have been killed are provided for, the wives receiving at stated intervals ten dollars for themselves, and tw.o dollar*; and fifty cents additional for each child. The Red Cros^ is pioviding food for destitute people, collections being taken up every Monday morning. Mr. Mendel claims that the Germans have mote subma- . t ines now than when the war started. The English papers are protesting against the strict censorshiu carried 3Ut by the Government, claiming that the English people are entitled to know the news of their own troops, that is known to the enemy. Or. July 31 official 'figures showed that there were in the whole of Belgium 734,000 workless, including . both sexes, and thfis number has since been added to. In Brussels and its suburbs alone there were just over B8 COO without work, besides nearly 27,000 women and 42,000 children iit.der 15 years old receiving relief. Hundreds of the skilled workers have managed to leave the country to seek = voik elsewhere or to join the ranks of the army. IY One hundred and fifty artificial i I -1- " * ' icgs a wee*, are Deing manuxactured. for the British and French governments by 2tn American firm that has' factories in St. Louis, Washington, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Baltimore and Atlanta. Twenty-five legs a week are shipped from the St. L^uis factory. The total contract is worth $15,000,000. Th? British government is paying $85 for an artificial leg and the French government $100. The Zeppelin raids over London nave made the women buy dark curtains for their windows, in an endeavor to shut out all light. The English generals in the Boer war said that the women were a pest, many inexperienced society women offering their services as nurses. The same conditions prevail in this war but the soldiers have taken things "in their own hands and over many cots oi* the-wounded are posted notices say<ng "We are too sick to be nursj? ? vu 'uua), U. S. ASKS ENGLAND TO RELEASE MORE GOODS Washington, Oct. 7.?The State Department this afternoou cabled Ambassador Page at London to make informal representations again to the Fiitish foreign office to have the American-owned goods of German and Austrian origin, contracted for l-etween March 1 and March 15, released for shipment to this country. GIrent Britain previously had released ^oods paid for before March 1. The importers who bought goods eiore March 15 claim they sl.ould bo allowed to bring them through as the British orders in council were not communicated to this count1;/ until the latter date, jut in the cotton since it will lower he grade and it will not sell for as liuch. Sometimes the prices paid for his product is very low but owing; ;o the European war and the great '.emand for munitions the price has jorie up. Linters are used generally for the manufacture of cotton bating. It :< said also that this short ?int taken Tom the cotton seed is sometimes narie into absorbent cotton. It is :enr to Germany where it 'S treated vith acids and comes back in the hape of absorbent cotton after it has jone through a regular cleansing and Uj icid process. ,; __ | "A " Th< M I Yesterday Style was for tl | But to-day, Style for $17 i I thousands and thousands I are wearing Styleplus and I Style plus through-and-throi I Style plus perfect fit (for every E Stple plus economy (you save j I Style plus guaranteed wear I Styleplus.) 1 We are the only St PARKER fz===== = / I ? MRS. .IAS. i MILLINERY AND ABBEVIL % Dear Madam : This is to let you ceiving this week 50 ^e Flowers and Feathers. Our Suits are still SPE Next Saturday, and will sell all the Suits Season at $5.00 each--f These Suits are woi they must go. Get yours the Big Fair, November We have many other that time and space won tion here. Ycurs ver % k ; Triple Value >f Stvleplus JX s=Wear=Economy .V T and clothes which are as good as Clothes with the style and the t come from quality all through, phich fit the pocketkook as well as n. Styleplus clothes $17. issei in a suit of Styleplus is to m-to-the-second Style, Style that d Style that actually saves you ; Styleplus <M *7 Clothes.- <P ** The Maine Price the World over t ie man of unlimited purse. I is so much of a reality that J of well-dressed Americans . calling them "Great!" ugh quality (all wool fabrics.) man of every age and physique.) it least $3 to $8 on each suit) v (a written guarantee with every yleplus store here. & REESE | * , ji * \ 5. COCHRAN READY-TO-WEAR XE, S. C. October 13th, 1915. know that we are rew Coats, also New Hats, L the talk of the town. CIAL. it Pnr" nn n W a v nnltr wo J. w x v 11 v v-4.cu.jr wj.Au.jy if w ; carried over from last or the cash. 'th up to $20.00, but You will need it for 3, 4 and 5. new things to show you ' t allow us to meny truly, rs. Jas. S. Cochran. ?V