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Wednesday. August 30,1916
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LAW ENFORCEMENT.
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Some days ago we were engaged
in conversation with a number of
gentlemen, at the political forum in
front of Stark's stables, when Col.
Kerr joined in. One gentleman suggested
that most of the negroes pardoned
by an ex-govern or* should have
been pardoned, and that a sentence
of four or five years was about
enough to impose on one negro for
killing another in a sudden affray,
under which circumstances most of
the negro homcides occur.
Col. Kerr did not agree with this
view. He was in favor of the enf-o-f-c-e-ment
0f the law in all its
rigors, with the "r" rolled completely
over several times. He believed
that the guilty should be punished,
and that no mercy should be shpwn,
and was for a strict administration
of the criminal statutes, "in which no
guilty man should escape just punishment
and a little the rise of it.
That was on Friday. Monday
morning there was p case in the
Mayor's court demanding a jury. A
citizen was accused of offending
against one of the ordinances of the
,city and was present for trial. He
was entitled to a speedy and fair
trial, and so was the city. Everything
was ready for the enforcement
of the law?everything except the
presence of one of the juryfnan?
Col. Kerr. He had befen duly summoned
but had sent word to the
Mayor that he was about to sell "a
sixth of a dozen chairs" to a bride
who was going to house-keeping, and
that one of his salesmen was sick,
another on a vacation, and the other
one gone to get a drink of ice water,
and he couldn't get off to assist in
enforcing the law. Not having shown
the Mayor the courtesy of appearing,
two policemen wpre sent up to
wait on the law enforcer in an en
deavor to induce him to attend court.
After delaying the enforcement of
the law for something like an hour,
r' . the colonel put in his appearance,
C'.-: wearing his new Manhattan shirt,
and asked all parties to let him off,
which they did. ' . 1 "s *.
And the next time a case is tried
, in the courts, and the verdict does
not suit the public, somebody ' will
curse the judge, and the lawyers, and
v the jury, and the state of the country
in general.
And it pays to advertise.
AIKEN CHASTISES
A NEGRO CLERK
Congetsman Makes Statement Regarding
the. Mater.
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Washington, August, 25.?There
has been a good deal of comment
not at all unfavorable, in regaTd to
an encounter between Congressman
Wyatt Aiken of South Carolina and
a negro clerk in the office of Congressman
Bowers of West Virginia.
Mr. Bowers is a Republican, and has
but recently entered congress, having
been elected to fill a vacancy.
Mr. Aiken tried to keep the incident
out of the papers, but since
there has been considerable talk
about it he consented to make a
statement in order to get the facts
straight. Mr. Aiken said:
"Mr. Bowers' office is across the
hall from mine and two doors above.
I had noticed two negroes working at
desks in his office, one working a
typewriter and the other sending out
public documents. One day one of
these negroes, wearing glasses and
having a pen behind his eada, came
bursting into my office and in a rather
curt manner requested the loan
of some public documents. His tone
was haughty?almost that of a de/
mand. I told him I had no documents
to loan him, and he went out. I did
not think very much of it at the time,
but within a minute after he had
gone I began to get mad. I walked
across the hall into Mr. Bowers' office,
caught the negro in the collar
and bumped his head against the
wall several times and told him never
to come about my office again. As I
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was leaving Mr. Bowers, Jr., came
in and said to me he had not asked
the negro to come into my office foi
the documents. I told him that die
not make any difference, and used
some other hasty language whicf
need not be repeated here. Friends
tell me that the two negroes left Mr
Bowers' office within an hour, anc
have not been there since. Mans
members of congress have tlymket
me for cleaning out the corrido]
on which our offices are located. Re
publicans as well as Democrats, hav<
thanked me."
Letter From
A. F. McKissicl
Greenwood, S. C., Aug. 24th.
Mr. W. P. Greene, Abbeville, S. C.
Dear Mr. Greene:?
I Article I. Section 1.?I haven'
any favors to ask, and this is not fo:
publication; so relieve your mind.
My wife and I read the Press an<
Banner regularly every week, espe
cially the editorials and your refer
ences to the 'young set.'
In these days of candidates I ad
mit that the above remark looks ver:
suspicious, but I still repeat that
haven't any favors to ask.
I do enjoy your paper very much.
I have been erading closely thi
last two or three issues of your pa
per to find out if Bill Greene, Jr.
succeeded in catching an eel when hj
made his visit into the country.
also read with much interest the no
tice you gave Mrs. Gambrell's fron
yard ,and especially did I note you:
statement that would lead one to be
lieve that you go to church ever:
Sabbath. I read the notice to som<
of your friends here, and they sa:
A,"'X fVlO f in
LriUt you mttuc a uiiomivv buuv ***
stead of being "every Sabbath," i
should have been "one Sabbath."
What brought about this letter i
that I have read your editorial ji
yesterday's paper on "Better Homes'
in which I fully concur. We have ii
our mill villages about .4 of an acr<
for each home, but these houses ari
not fenced in. I, however, havi
been thinking about fencing them in
I was down at Ninety Six an Tues
day afternoon, when Dr. Fouche vol
unteered the remark to me, in th<
presence of several men. that th<
cleanest part of Ninety Six was th<
Ninety ,Six Cotton Mill village. H<
id that we had very little sickness
at any time, and that the only cas<
of typhoid fever we had had recently
was a party who had moved in fron
the country, and that as soon as w<
found that there was sickness w<
had everything disinfected.
There is one statement I want t(
make that I wish you would grasp
and this is: In the villages of Gren
del Mills No. 1, Grendel Mills No. 2
the Greenwood Cotton Mills, the Pa
nola Cotton Mills, and the Ninety
Six Cotton Mill, there is not a singh
surface well. Near each Mill ha!
been due deep well 6" in diameter
This well goes through solid rock
and a steel casing is driven into thii
rock, and the water from this wel
is pumped by means of a deep wel
pump and motor to each floor of th<
Mill, so that the operatives get fresh
cool water out of sanitary drinking
fountains. You cannot devi^e/i
better scheme.
This water is piped, also, after ii
goes through the Mill, to a tani
which feeds the village, and hy
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Grants are located cunveiuennj. vi?
objection to this water is that while
it is alright for cooking and foi
washing, it is very warm in summei
time to drink,?So that in each mill
village you will find numbers ofvdeej
wells all bored through solid ro<?l
and all with steel casings driven into
the solid rock, and the water from
these wells is pumped byv means 01
hand pumps; and as a consequence
no ice is sold in the villages. W?
have had thee wells for six or sever
years, and it is the best thing w?
have ever done for our operathres
As a result of this, the health of oui
villages is good.
In addition to this, we use plenty
of disinfectant iiKour villages, anc
plenty of kerosene oil sprinkled or
all nonds and damn, wet places, foi
the purpose of eliminating mosqui
toes.
With kindest regards, I am
Yours truly,
A. F. McKissick.
P. S.?60.3 per cent of the Stoci
of the Ninety Six Cotton Mill is helc
in Greenwood county, and every Di
rector is a native South Carolinian
living now in the State.
Catarrh Cannot B6 Cured
with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they
cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh
is a blood or constitutional disease,
and In order'to cure it you mmt take Internal
remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is
taken Internally, and acts directly upon
the blood and mucous surface. Hall's
Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicine. It
was prescribed by one of the best physicians
in this country for years and Is
a regular prescription. It Is composed of
the best tonics known, combined with the
best blood purifiers, acting directly on the
mucous surfaces. The perfect combination
of the two ingredients is what pro
duces sucn wonaenui results in cunug
catarrh. Send for testimonials, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists. price 7Gc.
Take Hall's Famll; Pills tor constipation.
MRS. BENTON HAS PARTY
FOR ATTRACTIVE VISITORS
At her lovely home on Magazim
street, Mrs. H. A. Benton entertainec
very delightfully at a rook partj
Saturday afternoon in honor ol
Misses Mary and Pat Benton, oi
Monroe, N. C., who have been he)
charming guests for.the past week
Several rubbers of Progressive rool
were played, after which the hostess
assisted by Mrs. W. F. Benton, serv
ed a dainty salad course to the fol
lowing young ladies: Mrs. A. L
Harvin, Mrs. J. M. Morgan, Misses
Brinkley, Martin, Caroline Reese
Janie Morse, Susie Mabry, Marj
Smith, Amelia Anderson, Rutt
TTnnria fothap HravHnn Annie Hill
Antoinette Thompson, Louise McDill
Mary Aiken, Sara Perrin, Margaret
Perrin, Annie Roche.
; Should Name 1
the Streets and
i Number Them <
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5 Abbeville, S. C., Aug. 28, 1916. j
Inasmuch as I have been a citizen ,
1 of Abbeville but two months, I ,
j write this communication with con- <
^ siderable hesitancy. The urgency of
r the matter involved and the manifest J
} importance of the same are the impelling
causes actuating the present :
correspondence.
In advocating the marking of the
streets and the numbering of the '
houses, and in urging a heal thy pub- ^
lie sentiment tnereior wmcn, i nope, (
will speedily result in councilmanic .
action, I am urging measures which ]
* will be, inexpensive to the munici- ]
r pality and, at the same time, will t
1 advance the civic life. This last ]
- statement I predicate on the assump- (
* tion that a city's life is affected not ]
alone by the inclusion of exclusion
7 of places of vice, but also by the ,
I very appearance of the community, ;
composed, in part, by the lay of the (
streets, the lighting, the water sup
_ ply, etc. j
, In making visits in our town I
s have found people who have lived .
* on streets here for years and who did ]
^ not know the name of the streets on i
r which they lived. I have been di- s
- rected to home around the next cor- (
? ner, just across a vacant lot and near ;
5 a cotton natch, etc. The location of
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each home has to be carried in memt
ory, and just whak vacant lot it lies
beyond; then, what about the lo?
cation when the cotton has been ^
1 i gathered and the stalks destroyed. ,
1 Suppose all along Main street, at
? each corner, there was placed a
- near post with the streets marked, '
2 and on each house there was placed j
" the number for that street, the town
. would assume city appearance and
i the location of home would not de5
pend on cotton patches nor vacant
1 lots. And it would not cost much!
3 I appeal for councilmanic action. >
2 Respectfully,
f Geo. W. Swope.
; HERE7 FOR THE WEDDING.
j Mrs. James H. Bartles of Union,
, arrived in the city Monday and will
- spend the week with Mrs. E. M. An'
derson and be present at the mar~
riage of Miss Amelia Anderson and
s Mr. J. H. Simpson, which happy
3 event takes place this afternoon at
half past six o'clock.
| Miss Belle Martin came ^ down
I .from Greneville last Friday and Miss
II T.noilo Simncnn And the haDDV _
5 groom arrived in the city Tuesday.
; The wedding this afternoon will
[ be a charming affair, a bevy'of pretty
young people taking part in the
t ceremony, and about two hundred
: guests being invited to the wedding.
! MASTER PAUL SWOPE
HAS RETURNED TO CITY
Master Paul Swope has returned
. to Abbeville after a month's ab.
sence spent in New York Slate on
i a concert tour which afforded him
: the opportunity of visiting the great
; /metropolis, Lake Ontario, the Erie
[ Canal, Niagara Falls, and other
i places of interest. He was every
where as noted from newspaper
clippings, greeted with enthusiasm,
r and has been invited to return to
[ tnat suite iur lutuic wuuucn wvia.
t He will leave in about three weeks
for Norfolk, Va.t where he will con"
tinue his vocal and instrumental
work under the famous teacher, Prof.
J. J. Miller, A. 0. G. Next Sunday
night he will sing in the Abbeville
| Baptist church the favorite song of
Chas. Gounod, "Jerusalem." Prof.
t Miller has repeatedly stated in writing
and otherwise that he considers
that Master Swope has no superior I
in this country as a boy soprano. I
The public is invited. I
MASTER'S SALE. I
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,*
County of Abbeville.
-Court of Common Pleas.
The Bank of McCormick, Plaintiff,
against
Perry' McKinney and J. M. McGrath,
late partners under the firm
name of McKinney & McGrath,
and others. Defendants. By
authority of a Decree of Sale by
the Court of Common Pleas for Ab
beville County, in said State, made
in the above stated case, I/wQl offer
; for sale at Public Outcry, at Abbe;
ville C. H., S. C., on Salesday in
1 September, A. p., 1916, within the
r legarhours of sale, the following def
scribed land, to wit: All that tract
I or parcel of land, situate, lying ana
being in the town of WiUington, in
. McCormick County, in the State
; aforesaid, known as the lot of land
5 purchased from R. F. Morris, bound.
ed by lot of A. B. Albea on the
. South, by Main Street on the West
. and by lots of R. F. Morris on North
3 and East, containing twenty feet
front and eighty feet deep more or
\ less, which lot has on it a brick store
. house.
) TERMS OF SALE?CASH. Purchaser
to pay for papers and stamps,
t R. E. HILL,
Master A. C., S. C.
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OEATH OF MR. W. M. McKENZIE. \
Mr. Wm. McKenzie, of the Sharon
jection, departed this life on Wednesday
morning, August 23, 1916,
ifter a lingering illness of more than
three months. The funeral services
were held at Lebanon church Thurs- c
day afternoon at five o'clock, con- n
iucted by Rev. Mr. Isom, asisted by e
Rev. J. B. Hillhouse, and was laid to t<
rest by his wife, who preceded him d
to the grave two years ago, in the $
presence of a large concourse of sor- $
rowing relatives and friends. v
On December 24, 1874, Mr. McKenzie
and Miss Lou Cowan were v
happily married, and to this union' o
were born ten children, all of whom t
Survive, and were at his bedside ex-|
lept Mrs. 0. L. Jackson, who could b
not come on account of illness in i
tier home. Mr. and Mrs. McKenzie p
lived a long and useful life together v
and the McKenzie home was always p
known as a very happy one, and was
:onsidered one of the most hospita- <]
ble homes in the county. r
The sympathy of the entire com- B
munity is extended to the family, j
Messrs John McDill, Lamar Link,
Chas. Evans, John Williams, Jim s
Williams and Marion Link acted as Q
pall bearers.
Mr. McKenzie's children are as ^
follows: Mrs. Joe Johnson, Mrs. j
Essie Nickles, Mrs. 0. L. Jackson, j
Mrs. F. B. Jones, Misses Belle, Marie Q
and Margaret McKenzie and Messr^ c
Charles, Rayford and Robert Mc- r
Kenzie. ^
THE ORGAN IS COMING. it
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The pipe organ recently ordered S
by the Seceder congregation, has
been shipped and will be put in be- t
for the middle of September. The a
organ will be built by the Mohlex d
people and will be a greatv addition t
to the church. . , f o
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fVheat Market
is Smashed By
Action of Rumania
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Chicago, Aug. 28.?Romania's delaration
of war smashed the wheal
larket. Opening prices today showd
a faill in some cases amounting
3 b 3-1 cents a Dusnei. septemDei
elivery, which closed Saturday al
1.51 3-4, started today at $1.46 tc
1.48 1-2. Other options also broke
rildly.
General rushes to sqll took place
rtiich were increased by the chance:
f a general railway strike in th(
United States.
Before the descent of prices coulc
e checked losses that reached to i
-2c a bushel were shown for th<
rincipal trading month, December
rhich sold as low as 145 1-2 as com
tared with 154 at Saturday's finish.
Notwithstanding that the tremen
lous pressure to unload holdings c^r
ied away for awhile all other con
iderations the extraordinary breal
n values proved too tempting foi
myers to resist, and the marke
howed the consequence in rallie
f S to 3 1-4 from the lowest level.
Bear traders generally took th<
iew that the action of Rumania wai
ikely to prove a big factor in fore
ng a more speedy end of bostuitae
ir would at least tend to hurry th<
ipening of the Dardanelles and s<
elease huge Russian shipments o:
srheat.,
In the late dealings weakness agaii
lecame acute. Prices tumbled lowe:
han before and closed demoralized
I 8-8 to 111-4 lower.
News that actual fighting betweei
he Rumanians and the Teutons hat
ilready begun accompanied the fina
[own turn in prices, and made thi
rading at the finish a frantic whir
if excitement. ' of
T/hctEe Kaows ^
np capable than you, but determined to /
easy atep provided by Drauchon's.
I,'underpaid youn~ men and women in !8:
Business Training in Bookkeeping, St<
ring, Commercial Law, etc., and their am
enormous dividends in higher positions
Drqaghon Training ie the helping hand t
ang-hour, short-pay class into the select,'
i us TCDAY for our book of Bankers' Ai
CATALOG.
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WILSON PAROLES
GREENWOOD MAN
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1, Greenville, Aug. 28.?J. J. Smith,
a white' man convicted in February,
1fi. At fhe fireonwood term of the
United States district court for the
' western district of South Carolina,
' and sentenced to a year and a day
: for white slavery, arrived in Green
ville yesterday, having been paroled
5 by President Wilson. Smith is said
i to be a married maa with a wife and
i child living at Greenwood. The tes- '
timony showed that he in company
> with a girl went to North Carolina '
i and there lived with her as man and
> wife. They are alleged to have left
Honea Path together on a train, and \
l after a time went into North Carolina
} to Kinopolis, where for a time they
? stopped. Smith pleaded guilty , in
, the charge preferred against him. -j
NOTICE OF STOCK.1
HOLDERS MEEtlNG ,
"i Notice is hereby given that a meet'
ing of the Stockholders of The An
treville Oil Mill will be held atrftatre- J
c ville, South Carolina, on Thursday,
r' August 31st, 1916, at 8 o'clock P. M.,
l for the purpose of considering., a resolution
then to be presented, that
8 the said corporation be dissolved, go -**j
I into liquidation, and wind up its af%
UAh and to elect trustees or direc3
tors thereof for that purpose, or to 1
; take such other action as may be nec"
essary therefor, the said directors ,
s or trustees to have the power to seD '
3 the plant, property, goods and chat- :
j tela of the said corporation, and to i
. pay the debts of the corporation, and
r to divide the surplus, if any, among j
{the stockholders according to seci
tions 2812 to 2816 of the Civil Code ~ J
r of South Carolina.
| All stockholders are urged to be.
? present and to vote at saia meeting. .*,;J
C. E. HARPER, President
l1 July 26th, 1916. 4-26-7
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l1 Col. "BUI" Wilson returned Sungl
day from the Northern markets,
J where he has been purchasing the
best and prettiest line of goods that V ;s
has ever been brought to Abbeville.
vwivuiuavc uiuui m . ?
snography, Banking, - /
all investments have
and BIGGER PAY. : / - - A
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well paid circle.
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