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' > Established 1544. The Press and Banner ABBEVILLE, S. C. Wm. P. GREENE, Editor. {. ; 1 * " VkTT Published Jivery The Press and Banner Co. Telephone No. 10. Entered as second-class mail matter at- post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: One year $1.50 Six months^ ' .75 Three months .50 Payable invariably in advance. All checks, money orders, drafts, etc., should be drawn in favor of The Press and Banner Co. 1 Obituaries, cards of thanks, and other announcements of a purely personal character will be charged for. % ' Wednesday. August 30,1916 = LAW ENFORCEMENT. I ' 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. ? \ 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 i 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 * ? - ? 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 < i i 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 J . 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. / i f ... 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 . t 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 Now Pdd f ; No brighter, nomoi rise. He toot the 130,CCD overworked Draughon Coarse of tAccounl of the 1< and oui urn PIMP"! Tm . \ . y f s ?r . * *..H . I Shipment shapes, just i to end the Sui Pict I 8 1 ' r\ / El ? ^ I are now on &i | learn the styl I cent Pattern I ? Mrs. h "The Store of St I 1 - -J-. # *.4ri?fi -L1 ' ,c - .... . --L _ fVheat Market is Smashed By Action of Rumania / * 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. IGHON'S PRACTICAL BUSINI S P'.JW*., CR 1111 WiiiLu. & ; V 7" GO r v I / f I j ' of White Felt Hats in waived. Just th& Ha mmer and begin the F orial Revi 'Patterns FOR SEPTEMBER lie. Get a Fall Fashio es. Twenty-five cents 7ree. t ) is* S* ( yle and Quality" WILSON PAROLES GREENWOOD MAN ? 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 i ' ? i 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 J>at will take vcsout ( ? well paid circle. ivice to Young f^en, ESS COLLEGE -c s. c | nn<^ I - ' -V . ; / ???? V'" ==} W% I " . .: the popular it you need all with. 4 - -.& / ,;. > ' > 'j] ew . 2 -y y ':.y v i . vJ . ? / n Book and , and a 15 - R Cochran I Abbeville, S. C. I