The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, June 07, 1916, Page Four, Image 4
Established 1844.
The Press and Banner
ABBEVILLE, S. C.
Wm. P. GREENE, Editor.
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Wednesday, June 7, 1916
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"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
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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.
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[ 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
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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.
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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
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SUMMER j
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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
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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
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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 &
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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
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COAT SUITS.
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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."
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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." '
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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
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