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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 mat- j1 tor at post office in Abbeville, S. C. < !: I '' '" 11 J Terms of Subscription: j( ' " One year $1.50 , Six months .76 Three months .50 1 , Payable invariably in advance. : Wednesday, Dec. 6, 1916. j f;- '' A MAN'S A MAN. j' The report of the Baptist Hospital j for the year just ending is of interi, . est to the people of Abbeville chiefly bctause the manager is one of the 1 moot beloved men and preachers whe ever lived in our midst. He took ( charge of the Hospital when it was . all bet a failure, and he has brought enki oat of eonfusion, and made 7 i several blades of grass to grow where before there was only waste laad. | Bat we are not surprised, we are omly delighted that Mr. Bristew was gives an opportunity to show what t, > mam ean do after he has been an 0 Abbeville citixen. He came here and 0 fouad handful of members, none s f whoa had ever taken much exer- ? cim im the art of giving, he built s the handsome new Baptist church/ which is an ornament to the city, an! ? th. of all the Baptists herea boat Ee built a handsome par- I *' Bonage, and he had Just gotten to |i; . the place -where he might enjoy the resetas of his own work, when the * caQ eame to take up the work eise% i where on irhich others had failed. s He Aid not falter, he went at it with v a wifl, and we are glad for the r . < cause, for. th$. great denomination, ? I. for Mr. Bristow that he has ^ ajraia shown us the results ef his , JuwSrttL : . | THJi SELL-A-BALE MOVEMENT. '1 We endorse every word of the wise suggestion of the Anderson Daily ? Mail that it is now up to the farmers d to kelp out the towns by selling* to every salaried man in the towns a I bale ef cotton for ten eenta per j pound. Two years ago the salaried | mflB in. town, in. order to help the j farmers out of the difficulties under j whiekyiey labored, or thought they | labored, and to keep many of them : from bankruptcy, as it was Stated, i joined the movement to buy a bale J of eotton at ten cents per pound, wh?B it was worth only about seven. T\e tables have noVr turned, and th? salaried man is pressed to the waH, and his wife and children are juai where the farmer's wife and chikbea were two years ago. They ae?d help. In this crisis the Daily Mail suggests that the farmers sell , , one baje of cotton to dach of these salaried men who helped them in ,theit difficulties at ten cents per poumV so that the salaried men may sell 1m same for a good profit and v get ea .their feet We have in the Press and Banner oflWe four men working on salaries, and tore of the prettiest girls in Abbeville eounty, or anywhere for that | J oil vnllififf fn I XUVVVMi OX1U WiC^f tuc ?** | take 4 bale just now at ten cents, j th? ftrst farmer who delivers the goods will be decorated with the iron cross, and be given a year's subscription to The Press and Banner. : i . BACK UP AND COUPLE. /! " , >.-? The daily papers printed in t the Georgia capital tell us that application has been made to the Secretary ? of State of Georgia for a charter i for the trolley line to be built from K t Anderson to Atlanta. The road will cross the Savannah at Brown's Ferry, eight miles beyond Antreville. Now Abbeville county has been cut to the minimum. The whole of the lower part of the county has gone from us, but we have been left t&& I:: r4 . +' *'i ^ K fertile farming lands of the upper part of the county, which under the constitution cannot be taken from us. t But these lands are worth nothing to the city of Abbeville if the prodace of these farms is not exposed for sale on our market, and if the J*. people of this section do their bank ing and trading in Anderson and s Greenville and Greenwood. A|id Abbeville is connected with none of these sections. Lowndes ville is joined to Anderson by a rail road, and Due West and Donald* are in easy reach of Anderson and Greenwood, and the people of thes< places more often visit these citiei than they do Abbeville. But Antreville is joined to no plac< as yet. And it has been the drebro of the Antreville people to get bettei connections with some railway town and they will get it sooner or later, do not forget that fact. A community whose farming lands now sell foi one hundred dollars per acre, anc whose crops are worth so manj thousands of dollars annually, wili not always be left out in the cold. Therefore, we believe that the people of this city should undertake to build some kind of a highway either a trolley line, or a steam railroad, or a forty-foot public highway *?* il- - A 11_? ;o as to connect witn me troueji line at the nearest point beyond An;reville, and thus bring the Antrerclle people in close touch with us md with the great Seaboard system >f railways, and at the same time :onnect ourselves with the fine farmng lands and the good people on >oth sides of the river. We are firm believers in the moor driven vehicles now growing in ise so fast. We shall have ten and wenty ton trucks on our public 'oads very soon, just as soon as the oads will furnish them the means * j-:? ?1. l -?? xi n. uumg uic wuia iui wuivu uicj ore lesigned. And for that reason we hould prefer a forty foot road to ;nd beyond Antreville to either a team road or a trolley system. A forty foot road with twenty feet f cement in the middle for the leavy traffic and with space for ighter vehicles on either side would ie the greatest feeder we have ever tad. It might be kept up in many rays. Of course it would cost somehing to build it and it would cost omething to maintain it, but it .*ould be worth the price. The members of the General Asembly from Abbeville County if they rant to do something worth while or this section, might put their leads together "and seek to put some >lan in operation whereby this great >oon might be brought to Abbeville ind Antreville and way stations. t A man who can lose all his money ind still retain his friends is a wonler rliBBBBIMBBiai A WRITTEN I ] Just like putting moi 1 1 bank when you buy ! 1 I StyleplHs d j Clolthes s ! J I 1 Yah erpf pvprv nn>?i [ | ance.. Ah establish* E! throughout the nati I* ti ; ] Price known to be I [ 1 everywhere. Style I! tlie conception of a i | signer sands out. j j known to be all woe V 1 [ j erally hand tailor 11 show how Stylepli Si friw ?i *7 I ?w* yii i utcijt SUll coat guaranteed. PARK iiEfEnugfgfgigfiiiiiiaiEfiir THE NEW AWAKENING. } 7 T [ That a new day is come to the i farmers of the South we all see. ) Nothing is doing more to help along matters than the interest of the government in improved methods oi l farming. The hundreds of demon stration agents, located in the sever nl counties and nolitical divisions oi , the South, are doing a good work. But we believe a great deal more r could be done with fewer agents, I (better equipped for the work, than r(with agents in every county as we [ now have them. Without undertaking to discount the work done by i any particular employee of the gov) ernment, we make the statement that ,|the success of a farmer Jike Bob Hodges, of Hodges, who has concerted the sandy waste lands around r Hodges into the most fertile acres in 'all this section, is worth more'to the - county than all the book-farmers in i the state. | And we do not mean to say that i Bob Hodges has not the theory, and that he does not read and study his subject as much as does Secretary | Houston. What we do say is that he J not only does this, but he has put his knowledge to a practical test, and he has made good. He has taught the farmers in his section that the fertilizers which they have been buying are indigenous to the soil which | they work, and if only they will use 'their thinking apparatus to turn tba 'fertilizers loose, they may be made 'available. With erimson elover he |is doing the work, which the high grade fertilizers, imported for the most part from abroad, formerly did for all the farmers. And there are other men who are doing the same. There is Major W. H. Long, 'who in three years has converted a rocky hill-side, abandoned lands, into cotton lands producing & bale of cotton to the acre. And there is S. I J. Wakefield, of Antreville, who has done and who is doing the same thing. The one day of investigation made I by the farmers of Abbeville and I Greenwood counties, and adjoining (counties, on the farm of M r. Hodges during this summer, has been worth more, we believe, in praetieaJ results than has the work of all tbie demonstration agents in this congressional district, It made men ace the posaiGUARANTEE IN i ley in the \ jl7 M ed record |B M Jk|1 the same in which great deFabrics. 1 >1 and lib- A ed. Let's M is excels fij and over- T H E pRI( BEEf CD ft 1 LI\ <X I aiiiiiifiiBiannmimiiiim bilities of intelligent work, ba< up by intelligent thought and in i tigation. And this leads us to say tha ; would be better to have one den stration agent in a congress* : district with a salary of fire tn and dollars, if thereby we might > a man like Mr. Hodges, or M; : Long , or Mr. Wakefield to take position, than underpaid men in > ery county of the state. The 1 , who are just out of the Agrieult i Colleges may know a good deal al i farming, in a theoretical way, w the average farmer does not ki - and he may be able to advance advocate good ideas, which if fol' ; ed would be worth while, but ti agents do not commend themse to a farmer, who when he quest! the agent, finds that the agent never successfully planted eii corn or cotton, oats or wheat, v< or crimson clover, and who kn ilkama /*am KaaVo auuuw wucxu van/ xiviu ?uv vwm< It may be the idea of the Dep ment of Agriculture to get tl agents in the counties first, and t undertake to secure better men advancing the pay, and the plan i work out in the end. 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