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Established 1844. The Press and Banner ABBEVILLE, S. C. Wm. P. GREENE, Editor. Published Every Wednesday by The Press and Banner Co. JT ? . Telephone No. 10. KEntered as second-class mail mat ter at post office in Abbeville, S. C ? . Term* of Subscription: One yea.- $1.5( Six months .71 Three months .5< Payable invariably in advance. All checks, money orders, drafts % * Tl,, etc., snouia De arawn m jluw* ui xu< Press and Banner Co. , Obituaries, cards of thanks, an< other announcements of a purely per sonal character will be charged for Wednesday, June 7, 1916 filf:--'.'V.'-' , "CONNECT UP." As they say, in.railroad parlance the time has come for the people o . Abbeville coi^nty to "connect up1 r: . with the balance of the country, am to be a box car in the train of pros perity, which is operating betweei all other points in the state. We ar< dead and don't know it. We missed the electric railway but this will prove a blessing in dis guise. We can connect up other wise. The fact that the Due Wes rT?> .... Railway, a few days ago, was com pelled to put on an automobile t< haul its passengers between Du< West and Donalds, shows that rail roads as carriers of passengers, 01 short trip1?, are relics of the past And so it will be with the hauling o) freight when we have good roads r . and that is what we are coming to. The eour.ty of Abbeville must hav< fifty to seventy-five miles of con crete or asphalt roads. We warn no sand or clay roads, but permaneni highways which will stand any kinc of traffic and not need eternal atten || tion. How may we have these roads' The answer is simple. Build then and pay for them. Asphalt may be laid for $1.39 per square yard bj contract, we are informed. Wit! the county furnishing all the labor which we can do with the convicts this cost can be greatly reduced / % m 'Ka mnrp thai 1I1C5C X VAUCT I1VV/U uvw WV ? . fifteen feet wide, leaving the re mainder of the road surface for per sons who desire to use the dirt sur face. The cost per running yarc by contract would be $7.00. Usinj the convicts the cost could be re duced to five dollars per ,i runninj yard, perhaps four dqllars. ' Fifty miles of this kind of a roac would cost therefore about $350,000 Bonds for that amount can be sole at four and one-half per cent, anc the v bonds may be made payable ir - fifty years. The interest on these bonds woulc be $15,750 per year, and in addi tion to this an amount should be levied sufficient with accumulated interest to pay the bonds at the enc ' of the time, say $3,500 per year making a total of $19,250 to be paid each year by the county. For seventy-five miles of road, this estimate ' 1 1? !?? .?<! flftw nor Pflnt. WOUld UK liwicaacu um.*j r Where should the roads be built ? ' and how? By a commission of business men who would agree to serve the county without salary. And the roads should be built out from Abbeville in every direction. One road should go to Lowndesville, one to Donalds by way of Due West, and one to the Anderson line on condi< tion that it connect with a like road, one from Antreville to the Lowndesville road, one to the Greenwood line, on condition that Greenwood build a connecting road oi equaj class, one to the McCormick line, or the same condition, one to Calhour Fals, and on to the Savanah on condition that the Georgia authorities would connect with it on like terms. These roads may be built with nc .? J additional taxes if the present ta> assessment be spent in the future for public purposes only, and if the neighborhoods of the county will open and work neighborhood roadj as the cities work their streets, leaving the county chargeable only witli maintaining the public highways. Other moneys might be saved the county in various ways. With a small county like we have at presenl we have entirely too many officers The offices of Treasurer and Auditoi should be combined in one office Taxes are assessed in the spring anc collected in the fall, and the employment of two men to do the worl which might be done by one is ? waste of public funds under authori ty of law. There is no need ir this county for a Coroner, nor for s Superintendent of Education. As matters are now transacted, and as they have been transacted for s great number of years, the Superin tendent of Education is a clerica man, working about four hours s week in his office. We criticise no particular man for this state of affairs. The same is true all over the state so iar as we know. The convicts of the county should be put in one squad and one foreman and one set of guards should take care of them, or els?, we should give them away as a Christmas present to some unsuspecting county. The enormous expenses of this pet institution should be lowered, espe) cially since the county has been reduced in size. ) We have entirely too many magis> trates in the county and too many ) constables. One magistrate at Calhoun Falls, one at Lowndesville, one - at Due West, and one at Abbeville !? are all that are necessary. Offices 8 should be abolished. We need a . not to be filled by political workers j however deserving, and where these . offices have been created without suf . ficient necessity therefor, and where * the necessity no longer exists, they should be abolished. We need a few legislators, ^vho are willing to rectify mistakes regardless of whether they will be re-elected or ndt. In fact a man should not be sent to the legislature if he wants ^ the office. The public should dei, mand service of him, and nobody 2 should take the candidate's word for it that he is running because a great I rnnnv nenrtJe want him in the office. * In other ways the expenses of the county may be greatly reduced, and the public may be better served by ' expending the public money for the benefit of the public and not for pert p'etUating useless offices. The people in the rural sections of the county who want good roads, and who are entitled to them, and who will gain by having them, should get ^ behind the good-roads movement in this county and ask the delegation to be electcd to do something when they are elected. ' Shall we sleep on? IN OUR NEW QUARTERS. t t The Press and Banner has moved j to its new home, the store .building belonging to Abbeville Realty Company and formerly occupied by the > post office officials. The building j has been put in fine shape for lis by } having a cement floor laid, and other r improvements made to add to our j comfort. ; * v We have installed a new Whitlock Press large enough to print our paper and do all other work handled x in the office. With the No. 8 Linotype and a full complement of job presses, and other printer's machin. ery, we are ready to handle all kinds I of business on short notice. r Mr. W. W. Matthews continues as ' foreman in the mechanical departr ment, where he is making necessary changes, and making the paper sucl ceed. Miss Carrie Cochran is operating the Linotype^ and our new j book-keeper, Miss Prances Arrington, I is on the job. John Hughes is asl sisting Mr. Matthews and Fraser McDill is still acting as devil having j ousted Charley Lyon from that posi. tion some time ago. 5 The Press and Banner invites its, [ friends and patrons to make a visit I to the office. It is worth a trip to t see the big linotype in operation, to [ say nothing of seeing Misses Cochran . and Arrington, the pretty girls who > will greet you at the door. We can show you something about printing j that you don't know, and want to . learn. . The .latch string is on the outside . all day. So come along. [ THE COST OF WAR. ) [ Prices in printing supplies of all . kinds are soaring. Newspaper stock , is now selling for four cents per pound. It formerly sold for two j and one half cents. The finer grades; of paper are much higher, and it is imposible to get some of the colors 1 in Qnr Vinrl nonar The oirflroera I AAA UllJ UillU V* A ilV U * VI Ug V i- advance is raised one hundred per . cent.. ; For these reasons parties are being compelled to pay more for station-! > ery, etc. They are raising trouble ; : with the printers about it, but the j s people who are to blame are the! > warring nations of Europe. See I them. 5 THE OVATION. 1 We had overlooked the statement i in the newspapers of the great ovai tion the governor received at the ; Jones school picnic. But we notice . from the Laurens paper that it was : not such an ovation after all for Mr. . Manning. Only the other day we had I r letter from a Laurens man m wmcn he says: : "I never heard a more exaggerated i pccount of a picnic in my life. It was : really a very small affair and Man- | i ning must have been pretty hard up i for somewhere to speak, or else he ! 5 wouldn't have been making that J sparsely settled section. The crowd i i was small?much smaller than what was actually expected, and smaller I than in previous years. You saw what i they had to say about that ovation, well, if they call that, an ovation, I don't know what an ovation is. The band played for each of the speakers, but that was all they got Manning will positively run the poorest "third" in the Piedmont section this summer that ever you thought about. He positively won't do anythng in this county." And that is the way it goes. Our opinion is that we all know very little about what the result will be.? Herald and News. "THE PROMINENT FARMER." For the benefit of the Abbeville Press and Banner we desire to saj in justice to the Newberry farmer, who gave out the interview in Columbia for the Record, that we have no idea he intended , it for publication, but was just talking to the governor end his secretary, as you say, to help Ihem "keep their courage up." We do r.ot know who the man from Newberry people do not like to make an$ be.Cy people do not like to make any one feel bad. It sounded too good tc the ears of the governor and the secretary however and so they gave it to the reporter. We do not speak with authority, but somehow, we just feel ie fho wav it. nil hannened. In our opinion it was just intended for the ears of the governor to make him feel ?ood, end with no intention of doing any one harm. No doubt next time this prominent Newberry farmer will be a little more careful. Let 'em feel good awhile.?Newberry T-Iert.ld and News. A BEAM AND A MOTE. The Columbia Record is crying because some bad papers are saying things about Governor Manning. It asserts that none of the Governor's friends are saying anything against Mr. Cooper. How about the statement that Cooper will receive 15,000 votes in the State? How about the publication of that is a news item? How about the statement that Cooper would get no votes in the Jones section where he was "born and bred?" And the publication thereof? How about the attempt to make the people believe the race is between Manning and Blease? It makes some difference whether Norris Exquisite Candies j J Waterman's Fountain Pens 1 n Hudnut's Toilet Articles [ ! Knoxville Ice Cream I McMurray's Fount Drinks [ ' (Kodak Dept.) | j SUMMER j TIME? I KODAK [ TIME j Nothing tells the story I j of a vacation trip better Jj j than the pictures of the j people you meet and g ] places you go. ( j The cost ia very small, I j Kodaks in stock from ! 1 $1.00 |] $20.00 | Films from 15c to 40c ? J per half dozen expos- r 1 ures. [ J Cost to develop and E i print one dozen pic- J j tures, J ] 30c j] 85c l! Come and let us tell you more about them. McMURRAY VKUli UU. | the ox which is gored belongs to "our set," . ^ Brethren, if you can't win sitting down, stand up and deal, and if you can't win then, die game. Let's not have atiT sniffline in the nit. SOME MULE TALK. Mr. Edgar Blanchett, one of the young farmers of the county, who is buying and paying for a home on the Antreville road, and who in consequence is a hustler, and whose mules do not sleep in daylight, came , to town last Wednesday. He had i one of his tenants to driye a pair of r mules hitched to a two-horse wagon , in order to carry home some "ra> The driyer made a sad mistake. He i tions" for the laborers on the farm. , drove the team down on Trinity ' street and left it standing there. The > two black mules hitched to the was iron soon saw that they were in a bad atmosphere. r Said one of the mules to the other r mule, "Do you see anything going ) wrong?" Said the other mule to the first one, i 'I have been watching*that man over i in the garage look at a pipe, he is [ thinking, of working on, for three i hoars and I believe he is asleep and charging by the hour." i Said the first mule, "Have you ! seen a man up ahead of us looking ; at the end a wire Since we got to town early this morning: I mean the ; fat man with the cigar "duck" in his mouth, which he wakes up and lights every other hour, what do you suppose the gentleman is looking for on the end of the wire?" Said the second little black mule, > "He is looking to see whether the electricity On the wire is galloping, ; loping, pacings ampere-ing, cycling, or r.p. mring, and is working by the hour?" Says the first little mule, "Have , you seen that man on top of that new building with the brick in his hand, what is he doing?" , \ Says the second ljttle mule, "He is getting ready to lay it tomorrow." Says the first little mule, "What was that passed us so fast you could hardly see it?" Says the second little mule, 'That is Mr. Morse, the only thing awake i on this street. We must get out of here or alecp will overtake us." Says the first little mule, "Let's wake up this end of town, how can we do it?" Says the second little mule, "Let's run away." ' And away they ran towards the | public square, crossing at Philson & jjg ! ! i ! i ! I' - I N : < PALM E 'r Summer ] Crepe Cloth $8.50. Alsc bigreductio Best valu< market. A few wo will need on j can buy one This deps Hats coming we will app | i , i. i * | Mrs. * "The Store of S i !lk= Henry's corner, without going into low gear, blowing a wfaiatle or ringing1 a bell; and they were . quickly followed by all the little negro boys in town, while Trinity street turned over and charged for another hoar. Reaching the square, the first little mole says to the second little mule, "Where shall we go?" Says the second little mule, "Let's'. ffo by Gene Johnson's and show him that the way to run away in business is to advertise," and around by the Eastern side of the square they fairly flew, with the little negro boys closed ly following. ( Says the first little mule, "Where shall we go now?" Says the second little mule, "Let's run over an automobile and smash it up, it is ruining our standing in the community." And away they ran towards the nearest automobile until they saw the name on it. When they saw it, the first little mule says to the second little mule, "Never tackle anything by that name," (Cole.) Says the second little mule to the first little mule, "Let's knock down the equestrian statue erected by the city council in front of the opera house to the memory of the police force?the bay one with hairs on it, always hitched to the ball, and with a buggy hitched to it" "As good as done,", says the first little mule. And away they went towards the statue, which just them same to life 1 PROLONG LI1 1 A H armless V eg( | with no Inju I DOES AWAY WITH i G rigsby's Li v-V* ' Recommended 1 fiather S| I T {EACH SUITS, $5.00 TC I * % Dresses in Muslin, Lawn, , white and colors. Pric ) some Silk Dresses to clc n in price. SHIRT WAISTS. e in ,50c. waists ever she COAT SUITS. ol Coat Suits for Spring e when you go to the mou here at one-third off for t MILLINERY. irtment is still in full bl ? in every week. Give us reciate it and guarantee s Yours for more business as. S. ( ityle and Quality" . / and tried to bit* the two little male* as they passed. > And then the mules stopped and got hitched up again. ^ And the plumbers, and the carpen ters and the brick-layers, and - the ' if electricians, and the automobile doctors on Trinity street woke jnp Ion* enough to charge for another fcotor. And the little black mules went home. That night after they went to bed they talked abont what happened, and what they saw in town / ^ until they were ready to go to deep. And then the first little mole asked, '' ~y "Is the dog tied?" And the other black mule said,? w "Yes, good-night." "Good-night." - . yz We have not been advised of any further appointments for services I among tne sweet water Baptists Dy candidates for Governor or otherwise. Red Hill has also entered on a state of "innocuous desuetude." ' ; , ' Governor Manning went up to ) > > Spartanburg Saturday and rode around the country with the Herald's editor, carrying cotton mills as ,he pused A.jusurf, he wa. "much pleased." , >V IMaria or Chill? & Fever Pre?cription No. 188 b preperafetpedslly for MALAAIA or CHILLS 4 FCVCR. Fhre or abc dotes will bra* say case, end if taken then at a tonic the Few will not return. It acta on the Hver better than Calomel tad doea not gripe or aickea* 2Sc PE BY USING j jtable Compound 1 rious Effects. the USE of CALOMEL | mvL?x Sold and | by All I)rii??i8ttt j ==il - r . lecials! /v * : v 1 " ' ' < * i 'f&i - - f f ?$| . ; ' r>r ?$8.50. Voile and :e $1.50 to ' >se out at a i 1^1 iwn in this . . f:\iM ' 1 Wv,, 1CJLU JL VU ntains. You he CASH. * ast. New your order, atisfaction. i V >> .. / !ochran " ' 1 y~