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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. ! Telephone No. 10. Entered as second-class mail matter at post office in Abbeville, S. C. Term* of Subscription: One year $1.50 Six months .75 Three months .50 Paydbie invariably in advance. All checks, ::noney orders, drafts, etc., should be L.'awn in favor of The Press and Banner Co. ! Obituaries, cards of thanks, and other announcements of a purely personal character will be charged for. Wednesday, July 19, 1916. " LET EVERYBODY ENROLL. The Democratic party has decreed that all democrats shall enroll for the democratic primaries. We believe the rule a wise one; you may not so believe. But our differences on that subject should not prevent you from doing your duty and prenarincr vourself to cast a ballot for the candidates of your choice. Public office is a public trust only when the offices are filled by men who can be trusted. If you refuse to enroll and unworthy men are iy elected to office, you and others like you will be to blame. The trouble it takes to enroll amounts to nothing and you cannot refuse to enroll on that account. One good democrat in the upper 5r part of the county says that he fought through the war and has lived in Abbeville county all his life, paid his debts and treated his neighbors as they should be treated, that he has never been accused of anything dishonest, of dishonorable, and that he does not care to vote if he must go to the trouble to enroll, and if the state has so little confidence in his integrity as to make this requirement The trouble is that the re^ quirement was not passed for the good citizen, but for the man who j would kill the honest vote of the i ? good citizen when he is not entitled ' ? to do so. We must go to trouble ourselves to keep from being imposed on. We must lock the door to keep the thief from stealing, not ourselves. ^. And you should enroll today. According to notices already given the time for so doing expires on next Tuesday. The worst thing a man can do in anything, except a lawsuit, is / to put off what is to be done until the last day. Enroll today and put yourself in position to record an honest ballot for the candidates of your choice, and to. serve your ' I country as you should do. The ^ State needs a full and free vote on the men offering for office. frv I GOOD ROADS. ? . I The roads of the county will be in bed shape after the rains we have ! ' had unless they are dragged as they j ( begin to dry. The supervisor of the n - I county snouia arrange to ao as mucn dragging as possible, but is evident that he cannot do it all. A little money spent with people who will do , the work properly just at the proper 1 time will mean a large saving in J the future and will make the roads ! passable when they might not other- ; wise be so. / Supervisor Stevenson has done some excellent work on the roads in ' | the last twelve months. It would be 1 a pity to lose the benefits of this 1 work by a failure to have the roads ' looked after at a time like this. A fund should be provided for use ' J I / 111 urtlgglllg U1C l uauo aivvi auwi rains as we have had. No person in the county who owns and operates . an automobile would object to paying a license fee to be so used, we feel sure, as it would prove a saving to automobile owners in the long m \ run. AN APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE. In his fight to be elected Governor of South Carolina, the candidacy of Robert A. Cooper should appeal i to those people who believe that the people, themselves, should Tule, because he has passed by the politicians and the political workers and gone to the people themselves. You have not heard of Cooper visiting Court House towns and hobnobbing with politicians. -He has. carried his message direct to the people in every section of the counties where he has visited, and laid his claims before them in person arid directly. He vis ited every section of Anderson County last week, and every section of Greenville county, speaking to some ten thousand people. On Friday he invaded Spartanburg county, making twenty speeches in that county, and K ENROLL, DEMOCF In order to vote in the comn tion, it is necessary that every I enrollment of two years ago was < It will be worth nothing for this In order to enroll it is nece of the State for two years, of th for six months, and of the town sixty days. t-i hj i rru . i l .1 _ iUnron toaay. ?ne dookh cio primary. Do not wait. giving every man who expects to k vote in the democratic primaries a chance to see and hear what kind of a man he is, and to know what he jjj stands for. "" ? We believe the time has come p when the people are looking for a s; man who is willing to trust them, and one who is willing to make the fight Q for office on his own merits and who a does not depend on the efforts of ii office-holders and office-seekers to c boost him in the race. N V And if we are not mistaken, you s may look for a landslide to Cooper on August 29th. P _ . _ ?o BAD LUCK. Col. Ebb Hughes, of Fort Pickens, ^ brings us the sad intelligence that 0 last week he failed to get either The e Press and Banner, the Anderson Tri- J bune, or t;ho Kansas City Star. rj If this happens again we promise t a rigid investigation of the manner h in which important mail is handled in a these parts. "A word to the wise is F sufficient." g THE NEW JUSTICE. I t Judge John H. Clarke, of Ohio, has t been appointed to the vacancy on the t United States Supreme Court, caused ^ by the resignation of Mr. Justice ? Hughes, the Republican nominee for g the Presidency. Nobody seems to v know very much about the new mem- 1< ber of our most exalted tribunal, t save that he is a Federal district judge h and that he was highly recommended t by his fellow-townsman, Secretary of ii War Baker. He was the Democratic t candidate for the United States Sen- k ate in 1903 against the old Mark b Hanna. Ohio, it m&y be noted, is al- P ways one of the doubtful States in a a Presidential election, failing in 1912 F to give its electoral votes to that dis- n tinguished Ohioan, William H. Taft. It became necessary for President Taft to appoint five members of the t Supreme Court, a most unusual situ- v ation, but, if Mr. Wilson is continued c for a second term, he may surpass e that record, for he has already ap- a pointed three Justices, McReynolds, P Brandeis and Clarke. , Chief Justice 8 White and Justices McKenna, Holmes ^ and Day cannot, by reason of their P age, he expected to serve for a great ^ while longer. The court is now 0 rom nosed of five ReDublicans and ^ four Democrats. , a The appointments of Justices McReynolds and Clarke have not been " impressive. It strikes us that the ? President could have secured men of ~ far more ability and far greater reputation _at the bar, yet it may be re- P called that so excellent a President jf as Mr. Cleveland selected as Chief , Justice of the court an unknown col- ! lection lawyer in Chicago by the 11 name of Melville W. Fuller. The e Chief Justice-nominate was playing ? pool in a "billiard parlor" in Chicago b when he received notification for se- ,c lection. The appointment was wide- n ly criticised, but Fuller left behind q him a record of honorable service. " When another vacancy came, Presi- ? dent Cleveland appointed perhaps the most eminent member of the New E York bar, William B. Hornblower, ^ but the Senate refused confirmation. . Unquestionably Mr. Wilson does ' not exercise that care in the choice \ of judges that was so characteristic c of Mr Taft, who considered such * appointments of prime importance, 4 giving more attention to them than t to anything else before him for de- J liberation. He investigated possibili- \ ties himself and did not lake any- a body else's word for it He did not ? rely upon the reports of the attorney t greneral. When E. W. Hughes, of * Charleston, wa$ so prominently and J strongly urged upon President Taft c for appointment to the Federal dis- * trict judgeship for South Carolina,' he appointed H. A. M. Smith of ^har-1 leston, writing to one of his close personal friends who had been un-' tiring in his advocaey of Mr. Hughes, I 'I am sorry to disappoint you, my, dear fellow, but when it'comes to the., s< appointment of judges, I leave the H personal equation out of the mat- , S J-A* ' " riraAntnllA Monro I m WVI \M A CVii T iilV iivnui JU ti SHIP EARNS $875,000 ci BY DOING NOTHING C 01 tl New York, July 18.?After lying at anchor off Stapleton, S. I., since oi September, 1914, the German iron a sailing ship Indra has been towed up to Erie Basin to unload her cargo c,' of nitrate. When she arrived in port ci the cargo was worth about $125,000, ? * ?! 1 .1 1 but on account 01 tne great aemanu a ofr this chemical, in the manufacture of explosives, through the war in Eu- s< rope, its value has increased to $1,- t< 000.000. o The Indra was bound from Taitai, si Chile, to Dunkirk, and was half way si across the Atlantic when Captain Karstadt was informed by a passing d freighter that Germany and England v were at war. This made him uneasy, II and next day he signaled a French si ttrliAPn /?QT\foin fa!^ V?Jm fn ctf\ fn fi y niivov vuywiu WViVt ****** vw few WW v> Dunkirk with his cargo, as war was a not declared. Six hours later an American liner was sighted, and her fi commander told the captain of the b Indra that the war was on, in time is for him to reach safely here. c! / ATS! ENROLL! ig Democratic primary elec- ] o rvoirt nn,? p /umv/uiai cxiivn again. -l 11^ , only for that year's elections, j year's elections. ? ssary that you be a resident , e county in which you enroll ship in which you enroll for se thirty days before the first :eek out monkey wrenches The following article taken from he Monroe (N. C.) Journal is pubshed upon the request of Mr. W. M. tarnwell, who states that it applies eculiarly to the Abbeville telephone ystem. "I see." said Mr. W. H. Norwood, lanager of the Monroe Telephone lystem, "that you put it in the paper bout the man who wanted to go fishng because that was the only way he ould get no one end of a line that ?as not busy at the other end. That iras some what funny, but there is ome more to it. "In nine cases out of ten when the ublic has any complaint against a elephone the fault is due to some ther part of the public who are dong and which hinders the work of he operators. "'Take the matter of talking to perators, for instance. People, specially women, call up to ask all :inds of questions of the operators hat they have no business asking, i^hey continue to talk and take up ime and this puts the operators beiind with the calls. The operators ,re too polite to cut them off and the ?ersons who have this habit seem iever to understand that they are :iving trouble, hindering the work, ,nd keeping somebody else waiting. ?eople ought to have too much sense o do this, especially after their attention has been called to it. But hey seem not to. They ask for all :inds of frivolous information. They ,sk for the time of day, when they ught to look at their own clocks or Tiess at it. Our operators have no /ay of telling the time except by coking at a little dinkey nickel clock hey have and which may be wrong >alf the time/ But they seem to ?i _ 1 1 funk that we are tne special guaruins of the time o' day, and just have o ask us. We often hand them any :ind of old time, but it is the best we ave and our operators, trained in oliteness and good manners as they re, do the best they can and are too olite to tell them that they are anoying. "Then, people complain when we ell them the line is busy. They seem o think that the operators just don't rant to give them their number. Of ourse it i3 harder for an operator to xplain that the line is busy and then nswer another call than it is to give he number called for. If they would top to think they would know this, tut there is something peculiar about eople when they pick up a telephone ransmitter. It seems to make them ften lose their good sense and their tioughtfulness and good manners all t once. "You may say that it is a pleasure 0 us to serve the public and that is ur business. It is not our business 9 run a foolish question box, and noughtful people ought not to exect it. There are some fifteen hunred or two thousand telephones in fie county, any one of which is like7 to call this central at any time, and 1 fact some of them are calling evry minute in the day. You can imginc that this keeps our operators usy and that every time some pne alio ?r linMc flio lino lnncer than e should, or asks an unnecessary uestion, he is simply throwing a lonkey wrench into the machinery, f folks will just keep out the money wrenches, we will give a service lat can't be beaten in the United tates." Catarrh Cannot Be Cured vlth LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they annot reach the seat of the disease. Ca arrh is a blood or constitutional disease, md in order to cure it you mi:3t tcfke inernal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is aken interhally, and acts directly upon he blood Vn<l mucous surluce. Hairs Catarrh Cute is not a quaclc medicine. It vas prescribed by one of the best phyIcians in this country for years and is i regular prescription. It is composed of he best tonics known, combined with the est blood purifiers, acting directly on the nucous surfaces. Th? perfect combinalon of the two ingredients is what proluces such wonderful results in curing atnrrh. Send for testimonials, free. \ J. CHENEF & CO.. Props., Toledo, .0. Sold by Druggists, price 75c. Take Hall's Family rills for constipation. INFANTILE PARALYSIS. The State Board of Health has ;nt out notices to the Boards of health in the towns and cities of the > i? . xi 4.^ uite, requiring uicui tu marvc imlediate report'of any cases of Infanle Paralysis occuring in their vinity. The doctors of Abbeville ounty are requested to report at nee any suspicious cases to the end lat it may be properly looked after. An epidemic of this disease broke ut in New York some two weeks ago nd hundreds of cases have been reorted from that city. For awhile le disease was confined to that loality but during the past week ases have been reported from varius cities of the country. A report rom Greers indicates that there is probable case in this State. The State Board of Health has jnt Dr. F. A. Coward to New York ) make a study of the disease in rder to be able to cope with it if it iould become prevalent in this bate. If treated in the early stages the isease yields readily but in adanced stages it is more or less fatal, t is important, therefore, that all uspected cases be reported at once ) a physician and that an immedite examination be made. The disease is not confined to inants, as the name would indicate, ut attacks children in the teens and ? as fatal with them as with small hildren. BROWNLEE. Brownlee, July 17.?Mr. Oscar Hammond from the city of Abbeirille, is visiting Mrs. Mattie Taylor. ai He has been having a fine time, at Oscar spent Wednesday with Guy pj and James Ferguson. Mrs. Emma King of Anderson, is spending a while with her sister, Mrs P W. W. Wilson. Misses Hilda and Bennie Bryan are k spending a lew days wun tneir aunt, Mrs. Jim Ferguson. Born?to Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Shr.rpe, a son. ^ Mr. Marcus Winn has been in a ^ very critical condition for sometime. l( Mrs. Nina Prince spent the day E with her sister, Mrs. Will Bell Sun- _ day. p Mr. and Mrs. Ebbin Campbell u spent Saturday and Sunday with ?( relatives in Abbeville. Mrs. Arthur Campbell and son, i S. A., Mrs. Hoyt Campbell and daughters, Mary Macie Lee and Annie, spent Tuesday with Mrs. Jim e] Ferguson. ^ Misses Lydia Ferguson, Hilda and Bennie Bryan spent the afternoon Monday with little Miss Addie Hill. The Quarterly Meeting will be . held at Bells church Saturday and J Sunday. Protracting meeting will aho begin Sunday. I'm mighty glad when spring comes So I can shed my shoes. But then, this washin' feet job Just gives a boy the blues, My! ain't it fun to jump and run, Go wadin' in the creek, An' soak your feet and wiggle toes In mud that's deep and slick. But when night comes I'm so tired, All in, and just dead beat So I go creeping up the stairs, Then near, "come wasn your ieet." Sometimes I do not heed the call But crawl right intb bed; Then mother comes and speaks right sharp, i "Son, you heard what I said." 1 Now when my mother calls me "son" I know I'd better mind; 1 An' down I go to wash my feet, 1 So sleepy, I'm most blind. j I'd rather camp out in the woods With nothin' much to eat, 2 If I could only tumble in 2 And not have to wash my feet. I This poem makes me think the hoys must dread washing feet these last two weeks as we have had so 2 much rain and mud. 2 2 NEW TELEPHONE DIRECTORY 2 3 Manager Barnwell of the Abbe- ^ ville Telephone company, is very 3 busily engaged these days compiling 3 the annual telephone directory for Abbeville city and county. The new directory will be delivered to the subscribers shortly after the first of August, and will be a decided im- & provement over the one now in use, both in convenience and appearance. Several new phones have been in- st stalled recently and Mr. Barnwell anticipates many more applications within the next few days. The job c printing department of The Press and Banner will print the directory. I Disc I You should These goods a .50 Shirt \ $1.00 Shirt \ $1.25 Shirt \ $1.25 Dresses $1.25 Gowns 4 $1.00 Gowns 1.50 Gowns $1.00 Kimons $1.25 Kimoni p $1.25 Boys H f\J $1.00 Boys H .50 Boys Hi | ^25_Boys H ICUAT SUIT: COATS These Pric< I Mrs. J< I "The Store of St \ ANTREVILLE | Antreville, July 17.?The Misaiony conference for women was held | First Creek church Thursday and riday. Many delegates and visitors ere present. Most interesting prorams were carried out each day. Misses Jbtnei Anaerson ana Aitnea ? eaton, spent Monday with Miss ayme Bowen. / Miss Pet Hawthorne of Latimer, spending a few weeks with her ster, Mrs. S. J. Wakefield. The American Bible Society will be | eld at Shiloh church Thursday. , very member is urged to be present ] ew members will be appreciated. | ifty cents a year is the only money 3 > be paid, which is not very much < jr this great cause. t Mr. and Mrs.\Hude Prince and c lildren, spent Stinday with Mr. and 3 [rs. Joe Princt. All the tomato and domestic scitice club girls are getting ready for le Short Course at Abbeville , 1 This section has had plenty of tfo. 3421. t Report of Com NATIONAL BANK A i ALL ill. !? it. - Ot.i. _ f fi / nuuiyuw, ih iuo jiaic or jouiq v I June 30 . . RESOUR 1. a Loans and discounts (except those showi Total loarft ?. 2. Overdrafts, secured, $2,009.18; unsecured, 1 3. V. S. BONDS: A'U. S. bonds deposited to secure circulation Total U. S. bonds 5. Stocks, other than Federal Reserve Bank sto 6. a Subscription" to stock of Federal Reserve b L^s amount unpaid 7. a Value of banking house (if unencumberei b Equity in banking house 9. Real estate owned other than banking hou 0. Net amount due form Federal Reserve Bank 1. a Net amount due from approved reserve af Chicago, and St. Lo&ii -? b Net amount due from approved reserve age 2. Net amount due from banks and bankers (ot 5. a Outside checks and other cash items b Fractional currency, nickels, and oents .. <?. Notes of other national banks ? 9. Coin and certificates 0. Legal-tender notes ?......... '? 1. Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer and < Total LIABILIT 5. Capital stock paid in * 6. Sulcus fund ? A 7. Undivided poflts .............................................. t Less current expenses, interest, and taxes A nin>nl>tlnir nntM nntltundin? 2. Dividends unpaid .? . ... DEMAND DEPOSITS: 3. Individual deposits subject to check 4. Certificates of deposit due in less than 30 d? 6. Cashier's checks outstanding ? Total demand deposits, Items 38, 34, 35, ! 40 (This amount not to be extended) Total / ITATE OF 80UTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OP ABBEVILLE: I, H. G. Smith, Cashier of the above.nami ;ate:nent is true to the be.st of my knowledge and Subscribed and sworn to before me this 12th obrect?Attest: Wm. M. Babnwxll, A. M. Smith, J. S. Mount, Directors. SSi _\ UUlll I I take advantage of the Lre all fresh, seasonable a Waists ..i Waists Waists . : 18 BtS A 4-A ai* ats : Bits at* - .... 5 58 are for CASH strictly. is. S. C yle and Quality" j9 - ain, altho we needed the tain, we ear we have had too much. Good Looks are Easy witk A k Magnolia JEST i Balm. t -ook as good aj your city cousins. No natter if you do T?.n or Freckle Magnolia 3aim will su-ely clear your skin initantly. "leals SunLi rn, too. Just put a little oa rour face and rub it off again before drr. jimple and auric to please. Try a bottle o-day end bepin the improvement at >nce. White, Fink and Rose-Red Colors. '5 cents at Druggiits or by mail dire<a. SAMPLE FREE. .YON MFG. CO.. 40 So. 8tk St. Bveddya. N.Y. v x ition of the OF ABBEVILLE . .$${ Carolina, at the Close of Business, ^ , 1916. CES: 1 on b) $241,070.69 : 1241,070.69 5403.25 2,412.4# (par value) ?r....$18,750.00 .......... 18,750.00 . ck 500.00 Bank.. J$6,800.00 t 3,150.00 8,150.00 i) .$5,000.00 5,000.00 se 6,877.84 9,200.00 ,r. jents in New York, 4 8,481.68 nta in other reserve 0,018.85 17,445,48 her than included in 10 or 11) 1,185.OS 4 5,021.60 122.20 6,048.89 ; 2,485.00 0,081.50 ? 2,61-5.00 In* from U. S. Treasurer 987.50 C $824,668.41 'IES: $ 75,000.00 i* - 80,000.00 .$4,862.43 ;] paid 4.862.48 : ZZZZ 18,750.00 8,000.00 # v* h 166,804.21 ! & iys ; i. 26,065.00 . 1,281.77 36, 87, 88, 80 and $105,050.80 .., $826,668.41 sd bank, do solemnly swear that the above belief. . t ' "> H. G. Surra, Cashier. day of July, 1016. W. H. White, Notary Public. I . . Sale I I pip ll skis ' . ' - p se prices. nd stylish. 40 80 t ! AA *1.W $1.00 $1.00 * ....... .80 .40 .80 i ....$1.00 r 75 : IS 65 i 40 15 1.3 OFF. 1-3 OFF. I # * N V *? * ochran I Lbbeville, S..O. I . . . -V.