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Established 1841. The Press and Banner ABBEVILLE, S. C. Wm. P. GREENE, Editor. jr ? i ? 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. T"?rm? of Subscription: One year .. $1.50 Six months .76 Three months .50 Payable invariably in advance. r Wednesday, Nov. 1, 1916 TWO WEEKS IN EDGEFIELD. We had the pleasure of spendinj the greater part of the last two week! in the historic and quaint old towi of Edgefield. And to say that w< enjoyed the stay among the gooc people of that town would be bu mildly stating the facts. We have heard of Edgefield sinc< the days when we were a boy. Ther< were brave me* in that town anc county in those days, and they weri not afraid to strike a blow for liber ty and civilization. Whether right fully or wrongfully, we would no say, the men of the county in thos< days gained the reputation of beinf men of courage, always ready t< settle differences, too r^fcdy some times, at the point where the differ ences arose, and without awaiting the slow intervention of courts ant , judges and juries. These men ha< just come out of a great war?th< most terrible war of all times, then? and they had been taught in that se vere school that might is right. Edgefield of Today. But in these later days the people of Edgefield are as free from per sonal encounters as the people oi any other county in the state we be lieve. And we do not wonder thai this is true. If you will go to Edge field and meet the men of the count; you will understand why. They hav< no influx of people from other sec tions. They are the descendents o: the men who came to America t< seek homes and who settled in thai section, and who have an interest ir making the hones or tneir iatnen and their own the best in the land. We saw a great many men fron the county duriag our stay there We met the Mea of the town, anc the farmers from the distant points in the county. We saw not a single man in that tow* under the influence of liquor. We saw no man seeking trouble, but oa tke other hand, we met a kindly, courteous, neighborly gentlemanly set of men, who were looking for the better things in life. The Fertile Land*. And we had thought too that Edge field county made up of red hiDf and sandy plaias and that lands ir that county west begging, and the people lived easily and did not allov business to interfere with pleasure But we found we were mistaken. The farmers of the county ride to" the court bouse lm die Dest mases 01 automobiles, wear fine clothes, and beai all the mark* *1 being prosperous On one of the i?ries in the courl then in sessiMi were three farmers stated to me to be worth more than fifty thousasi A*liars each, several college men, Mi the others representative citizen*, fee owners of theii own homes ami evidently in prosperous circumstaaNG. We rode wit Senator Nicholson from Edgefield to Trenton and passed through facut lands making a bale of cottos to the acre. We asked the Senator if the lands would sell for a hundred dollars per acre and he c+o+oil +r? no that fwn hnnHivH Hn]. lars per acre would not buy many farms in that section. The testimony of witnesses ia the court satisfied me that the lands ia the county, in other parts and in every part, are valuable and that a man who buys them generally pays a good price. Ia the City. The stores in the town may not look quite as up-to-date from the outside as the stores in some of the newer towns, but they are rapidly putting on city airs, and many of them now have modern fronts. Inside the stores you find all the latest goods, merchandise, clothing, etc., and as General Hemphill was wont to say, you conclude pretty soon* that a merchant ia Edgefield is "no slouch." But it is in the pretty homes, in the large lots shaded with oaks of the original forest, that Edgefield excels. There are many pretty places, so many that we would not ] attempt to name them. { We were interested in the fine i home of Editor J. L. Mims, of the < Advertiser; the old Gary Home, once j occupied by Gen. Mart Gary and now \ the home of his sister, Mrs. Evans, j the mother of Hon. John Gary Evans; ( in the stately mansion of Governor Sheppard; the old home of General ^ Butler, now owned by Senator Nich- , olson; the modern colonial residence , of George Evans, and many others. It makes a man mad that he is poor i ? pftrto rvloooo lilro fliOQP TllA VY11CU OWtU ^/lavvu **?v vuwwv. Catholic Church, which stands in front of the present hotel, is one of the finest church buildings we have seen. It is built of solid granite, . covered with slate. It was built some seventy-five years ago, by contributions from people all over this f country and in Europe. It is one of 3 the buildings of which the people are ! proud and justly so. , The Court Officer*. 1 Edgefield has a fine Sheriff and a t good Clerk of Court. The Sheriff told us that no prisoner had been ? taken from him since he had held the 3 office he now holds, and we predict 1 when one is taken, that the funeral ? of Sheriff Swearingen will be held . the next day. He is a man of cool . courage, and the set of his under jaw I shows that he means business?not > that he looks fierce and ugly, because f he is the reverse, but determination j is written in his face. The Clerk of . Court is an obliging gentleman in . every way. He handles the business r of the court in fine style and looks I after every loody and everything. He j likes good things to eat, and we are j prepared to swear that he has them at his house. Mr. Anderson, the stenographer of that circuit, resides in Edgefield and is one of the best and most obliging in the State, j The Lawyers. Edgefield has a strong array of I legal talent Governor Sheppard stands at the head of the legal prot fession, but he is not more highly Vila laco nrofonfiAiia m XbgaiU^U V&*?*AA *0 *VUVJ yAVWUVkVWW r brother, Hon. Orlando Sheppard, who 5 like my old partner, Hon. W. H. Par. ker, never felt better than when, sitl ting up all night long, calculating in, tferest or writing a decree in equity, I and like Mr. Parker, Mr. Sheppard j always has them right?and ready. 5 Then there is Hon. J. Wm. Thurmond, one of the strongest advocates we L have heard. He is learned in the law, but his fort is in marshalling i facts before the jury, and he does it j as well as any man we have hea^d. ? George Evans is also a prominent 5 lawyer there. The people of Abbe, ville are interested in him, and will , be glad to know that he is prospering in old Edgefield. Then there is S. } McGowan Simkins, polite, affable, and always a dangerous man before the jury, when he is against you. He . is named for one of the really big , men of South Carolina. Col. Ar- , t thur Tompkins, Mr. Folk, Mr. Smith, i > Mr. Wells and Mr. Mayson, with | j Senator Nicholson, make up the complete roll of the lawyers. They are i all men of standing in the communi- . 5 ty, and are meeting with success at . the great profession of the law. Sen- , . ator Nicholson is one of the young , est men at the bar, but he is taking ; a fine stand there. He knows the 5 law, there is no uncertainty about it l with him, and he handles his cases [ well. He argues thoroughly his pro. positions, and he is sincere in his manner, and convincing in his con. elusions. Besides these lawyers, a number , of other distinguished members of ; . the bar were at Edgefield, chief ; i among them, Hon. Boykin Wright, [ one of the big lawyers of the great | 1 state of Georgia, his handsome son, , s Boykin Wright, Jr., just graduated . from Harvard, and as Mr. Thurmond - said, already carrying off honors 1 r which men fifty years of age cannot ' i do. There was R. Beverly Herbert, . of Columbia. Dolite. eentle as a wo- < I man, but a lawyer of great' ability, 1 . a good cross-examiner, and one of ] the best of the corporation lawyers 1 we have heard. He does not soar, ] ; he argues the facts, and he does so convincingly. Some Funny Things. ; There are many things I would 1 ' like to say about the stay in Edge- ] field which I cannot say. But there < ; is one good thing I must say. i In the trial of one of the cases { against the Georgia Carolina Power 1 Company, Mrs. John Scott, of Merri- < wether, was a witness, and was se- f verely scoring the health conditions 1 on Stevens' Creek since the building I of the dam. She drew our attention 1 when she said she had a daughter t living in Abbeville, Mrs. Tom Klugh. i Mr. Herbert in a most polite way an suggested to Mrs. Scott that she B< would probably have some trouble in th :onvincing the jury that she lived in nc i sickly community, when she came of into court looking so young and hap- he py and care-free, when too she was, aid eiiough to have grand-children. TJ As quickly as it can be told she retorted, "Well, Mr. Herbert, powder and paint make us women what we' ain't." Mr. Herbert subsided. - - - - t se Shack Shackeitora, 01 some sucn , name, took the stand as an expert fisherman. Mr. Herbert inquired particularly about his name, and jn when he had nnally learned it, asked al if the name was an African name, u] to which Shack promptly replied, pi "No, Sir, Hebrew." c( Seeing the Senator. a While I was in Edgefield I was indebted to Senator Nicholson for a trip to Trenton, where I wanted to ^ go to see my old school-mates, George gl and Wallace Wise, neither of whom I had seen for twenty-five years. s\ George is a prominent merchant e< there, and Wallace is a cotton buyer = and is the magistrate at that point. Time had dealt gently with both of them, or their wives have taken good care of them. We found Senator Tillman in his garden setting out lettuce plants. He had just been up to Greenwood to see his new granddaughter, at the home of his son, Hon. H. C. Tillman, and he had come home, as a Chester lawyer once wrote, "feeling his oats" and carrying a basket full of lettuce plants, which some industrious parties were planting out, while the Senator gave the directions "with variations." Mrs. Tillman was there, and she took great pleasure in showing us about the place. She is really pretty, if we might call a lady of her age pretty?nothing else expresses it. She was as happy as a girl sixteen years old, and as care-free in her manners. We understand why the Senator has succeeded so well in life, he has followed Mrs. Tillman's advice, we know, though we would gamble on the fact that he would not admit it. At any rate, we vere glad to see him again, and his old friends in Abbeville will be glad to know that he is still Ben Tillman, and that he is a live wire yet. "Pink" Wood. One of the big men in "that section1 of the state is Pink Wood. He was born and reared at Johnson, in Edgefield county. His father died when he was a small'boy, leaving the family in straightened circumstances. Pink had no education and there was little apparently in the future for him. But he grew to manhood, and he dreamed dreams, and he awoke to put them into execution. He paid off the debts incurred by his father in a lingering last illness. He enlisted in the battle of life, and he fought well. He saw millions of dollars being lost in the wasted power of the Savannah sweeping on to the sea, and he decided as Mr. Wright so well expressed it "to harness' the ! great river, and he did harness it, and he is driving it today. He is the head of the great three million dollar company which has spanned the river with a twenty-eight foot dam, and he is making it a power for progress in that section. The people all love him. The very people who are suing his company, come to court, hunt him up, shake hands with him, take dinner with him, and love him the same as the others. He is a leading business man in Augusta, where the people all know him to respect him. He represents the hopes and the possibilities of the boys of America, and his career which is just beginning, shows what brains and character and work can accomplish. The Newspapers. 1? ^ A ViQn fitfA r\-f fVo V\onf rv-f XJUgVU^lU UOQ V TT V/ VX UX the county weeklies in the State? rhe Advertiser, presided over by Mr. J. L. Mims,' and the Chronicle, the aid paper of Col. Bacon, now edited by his nephew, Col. Wigfall Cheatham. We went through their plants where we found everything looking prosperous. Abbeville to the Front. As it is in most towns, wherever pou go, you find Abbeville people at the head of affairs, in Edgefield, Major Thomas J. Lyon, is the head >f the City Schools. He is an Abbe rille buj'. The principal of the High I School is James Neel Bonner of Ab- I jeville county. The engineer and I :onductor on the train into Edge- I ield are Abbeville men, Chalmers I 3ughes is the engineer and Capt. fl tfoore, a brother of Editor G. E. H Hoore, of Honea Path, is the conduc- H or. The agent is Mr. Townsend, H 'ormerly of Due West, who married ^ t Abbeville county girl, Miss Annie >wie, while John G. Edwards is e biggest man in Edgefield (we are >t talking of fat men). He is Mayor the town, a leading physician, and : runs things. HE LYNCHING AT ABBEVILLE Charleston News and Courier) Crawford, the negro who was AVi^avillo nn Rnfiir/1#1T ems to have been the type of negro ho is most offensive to certain eleents of the white people. He was itting rich, for a negro, and he was solent along with it. It is not prob)le that the crowd which first set pon him intended to do more than mish him well for his abuse of the >tton seed buyer with whom he had igaged in a dispute. _ But it is seldom left for those who ike matters of this sort into their to hands to say what the end will 2. The ultimate consequences of ich a procedure are nearly always ir- reaching. Sometimes they are vift and terrible. That is what provi true in this instance. When the "IS \?r I (mm bjjl He ELECTRIC Lie * ?I H Starts, stops, ^ools and lubr ply turn on lights and use them, churns, fans, sewing machines, Write today for illustrated G. L. FLV crowd set upon Crawford for a second time, after his release on bond, following his initial rescue by the police, he resisted, striking one of his assailants with a sledge hammer and inflicting a very serious wound. This naturally excited the crowd still further. Crawford would probably have been done for on the spot had not ' officers of the law intervened. They lodged the negro in jail but the blood lust was up by this time, and in t&e glare of mid-afternoon Crawford was taken from his cell, dragged to {he edge of the town, strung to a tree and riddled with bullets. It was a dreadful affair and one which ought to have been prevented and which could have been prevented if the right sort of effort had been put forth. Those who did the thing will defend it to themselves, of course ( on the ground that negroes like Crawford have got to be kept in their , places and that his fate will be a wraning to others of his type. But j those who talk this way will know , better in their hearts. They know that however offensive Crawford had made himself this was not the way , ar? 5#? * "Ten D< / But the shrinks) fl'L J concern your co m L handed with s Per IP" It stands for pr *Jp weather changes y when the furnace 1 i those little fall ct P pensive to cope w p Warms bedroom, hi carry it anywhere; ax ? good-looking. 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Where, as appears to have been the case at Abbeville, nothing is done to prevent an angry crowd from degenerating into a law- y less mob, the work of the mob must stand as an indictment, not only of its members, but also of those who * might have saved the mob from itself but who failed to do so. Mrs. J. B. Holm an is visiting Mrp. . J. Allen Smith. ' ' ' ^ agrees Down!" ge of the mercury doesn't mfort if you've been forefection Smokeless Oil Heater. % ' eparedness against sadden , Gives comfort insurance has an off day. Drives away tills that a coal fire's too exith. ' ,'2 '' ithroom, and library., You can , > . id it's always clean, durable, and : . I - v users are its endorsement. Ask tore, furniture or hardware man. enritj Oil?for be?t naulta ID OIL COMPANY (NtwJmer) . ? BALTIMORE Richmond, Va. Charleston, W-Va. Ebarlotta, N. C Cbarlpatoa, 8. C. 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