Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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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. r C 0?L?^.kVa, lanai 01 guuiviiyuwi One year $1.60 Six months ? .75 Three months .50 Payable invariably in advance. ? / WEDNESDAY, DEC. 20, 1916. PLAIN STEALING. I The easy money game goes on in the matter of appropriations for "weak" schools in other counties. According to a report just published the people of every school district in Abbeville county are being taxed to run schools in Greenwood and Anderson counties, (to say nothing of tirreenville and Spartanburg. Are the people in Greenwood and Anderson, Greenville aftd , Spartanburg counties able to to pay for educating their own children? ' We have understood all along: 'that Anderson and Greenville and Spartan- j burg were among the rich counties j VI UUO BMlOt TT C IUIVTT MU>w Uivcir wood county is one of the rich coun ties of the state. It has a fine county seat, and the wide acres in that county will compare favorably in fertility and production with those of any other county of the state, v Why then are we taxed to run f? schools in Greenwood county? 1 Of course they tell you that it is for the poor schools in the sparcely settled communities that this appropriation is made. - Does * anybody know of any sparcely settled community in Greenwood county, wh&e a, tax of three mills, with a supplemental tax of two mffls, honestly levied, collected and spent, will hot Iff. / run a school for five months* if the same kind of teachers are employed that we are forced to employ? If Ifhe people of Greenwood bounty are seeing that the property of. these f4 school districts is being assessed on ? i a proper basis as compared with Abbeville county, and if there is no ! slight of hand methods in school matters, then every school district in , !(!? that county which is being fightErr 1 fully; governed is able to pay its own IT" ' school ^expenses, and if it is not, the , county of Greenwood should bear; its own gardens. And there is Mariooro. Has any1 body ever heard of Marlboro? We i think we have heard that it has lands : . worth three hundred dollars per ' acre, and that they raise two bales of cotton to the acre?but that the lands are returned for taxation at a very low figure. And what is the result? The same old result?every nan, woman and child in Abbeville county who has a dollar's worth of > property is being taxed to support < schools in Marlboro county, thanks to a crowd of incompetent and illadvised legislators, who are led around by a body of long-haired, rattle-brained, hungry-looking, wellmeaning, but impractical men constituting the State Board of Educa. tion of South Carolina. We put the representatives of this county on notice now that if this | . good stealing goes on in the Iegisla- ' | tore for another year, they had better be prepared to show that they I voted when the measures came up, I and voted against them unless they I expect the light of reason and comB;. mon sense to be turned on their I official acts when they again offer ( their services to a long-suffering, constituency. I THE CHRISTMAS-TIDE. w ? Monday is Christmas and there will be many happy children in Abbeville at the break of the day on Monday morning. We would not have it otherwise because the children ' must be happy. "Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven." L And it will be a day of good cheer everywhere, and it should be because it is the birthday of our Savior. It is not a day for feasting, though we make it such. It is not a day for fine and expensive gifts and for frolic and the frivolities of life. rm.? anrrAW XUC uav 1U1 noo a liiun vju ???>. and acquainted with grief." He did j|Y ' .not sorrow for himself, and he was ndt a man who grieved for himself. He was a man of sorrow and acquainted with grief because he came into the world to bear other people's > sorrows and to help them bear the heartaches and burdens of life. His life work 'pertained to the downtrodden in this world. He went about doing good. And Christmas should be a season with us when we stop in the midst of life's activities, pause a little while in our labors to help ourselves, and look about us for those who sorrow, and those who grieve. It is a great? time to help others, not those who do not need help, but those bowad down with the cares of life, and those who look to the coming year, not joyfully, but resignedly?sorrowfully maybe. P.Vitnof-moc wnulri he a ereat sea son if only the people were Christlike. PAPER AND SUBSCRIPTIONS . I The price of paper shows no disposition to go down. We are sorry because the exorbitant prices ' now being demanded make it hard for the country weeklies to succeed.. A , great many of them are being forced , to the wall because they have not , been able to meet the increased cost of. turning out their product It is stated that some eight hundred have . gone out of business on this account. Another thing which is hampering these papers is the fact that so many suoscnuera are inuiug wj pay . up. In almost every paper we see fhere is a call to subscribers to pay up. They are begged, threatened ' and cajoled, in an effort to get . money. J The brethren have our sympathy, i and we will give them our remedy. ' The day for begging and entreatirig . has passed. When a man does not . pay, after you have sent your bill, . stop his paper, jugt as the grocer j stops sending a mah his wants when the bills are not met. The Press and j Banner commenced^ this plan more than a year ago. We did not like f I to do it, but we are running a busi- ( ness for profit to ourselves and not 1 as a favor to the other fellow. A ( man who gets a pj^per and who does i not pay for it has.a right to .. think ; that it is not worth anything. We had to lose several hundred subscribers in the operation, but we have gotten most of them back.. in people who pay in advance, and we are keeping these, and they are the kind we want We will riot beg nor threaten. . We are glad to have any ] man's business if our wares are a proper return for his money, but vfe 1 will not ask him for charity. ^ - ! j IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE. r I : " ' C i The Press and Banner is waking i things up around ^Abbeville. We 1 have already taught such staid insti- * tutions as the National Bank and t rhe Farmers Bank that "it pays to I advertise;" We have known it a Jong t time, and they are finding itonk ^ They would have found it out a great" < while ago, but one of the men wno , came out of the Ark and settled ' in 1 Abbeville said that he did not believe thai it paid, and they took his word ( for it Now ^he ancient gentleman j I 1 Window Display IT WOULDN'T SEE1 MAS UNLESS YOU SOME . / '' , i. We have the in Abbeville north window % colored boxe ; ready to sen< The L W. W1 . Haberdashers' ; was perfectly honest, and believed he was speaking the truth, and he was, if only he had been talking in Noah's time, but he wasn't, and that is why he made a mistake. ? Now the National Bank has been advertising in these columns for several weeks and it now has more money in its vaults than ever before in its history. / And the Farmers Bank is not slow to see which way the cat is jumping, and that institufirtn tnhnvs totis Rti advertisement in this paper, because it wants to get before the people in a more general way and to let the people know that it wants their business. f Some people do not know it, bjit a bank is like any other business enterprise, and if it is to succeed it must let the pepole know that it wants business, and if yop know one that is not advertising it is because it has all the business it wants, and does' not appreciate yours. You like to do business with a man who appreciates your business, don't you? Well, then go to the man wno asKs for it in the only accepted way?ad rertising. ' The bankers in Abbeville are ampng the foremost citizens of the city. They are far and away superior in business qualifications to many men w{io have established reputations as bankers in other communities, and they have not done their full part for Abbeville because they have not reached out for business, sfad have not been willing to tell the people that they were hunting business, and were not to be iiunted. The National Bank and The Farmers Bank are now making a jtart to help Abbeville grow, belause a town will, not grow unless the financial men,, of the town blaze the way. We hope that they will keep up the gobd work. Much depends on the bankers MASTER'S SALE. The State of South Carolina, County of Abbeville. Hnnrt of Common Pleas. 1 0. C. Crawford Plaintiff, against Louise Chiley,,et al, Defendants. By authority of a Decree of Sale >y the Court of Common Pleas for Abbeville County, in said State, aade in the above stated case, I will iffer for sale, at Public Outcry, at Abbeville C. H., S. C., on Salesday n January A. D., 1917, within the egal hours of sale, the following described land, to wit: All that tract >r parcel of land situate, lying and >eing in Abbeville V County, in the aforesaid, ' containing Fiftyftrtf'and two-third (52 2-3) Acres, nore or less, and bounded on . the ttoVth.by P. Rosenberg, on the South by lands of the BradleyEstate >n the East by P. Rosenberg and on ie West by lands of Joe McClinton. TERMS OP SALE?CASH. Purshaser'to pay for papers. R. E. HILL, 1-18-12. Master A. C., S./C. Today #*. . ^ ' m like christI. ' gave a tie to :one. I prettiest assortment . / . , on display in our n. Fancy Holly leaf is with each tie, ali. lit* a r Amnomr uic uiiupaiijf Department. I . V ? VUVVVVVVVVVVVVVV 1 V BROADMOUTH. V i V 'V VVVVVVVVVWVV^VVV 5 1 Mrs. Ellis Latimer spent Thursday in Greenville. a Messsrs. Rob Jameson and John I Latimer, spent Thursday afternoon in Donalds. 1 Sheriff and Mrs. R. M. Burts, of c Abbeville, Prof, and Mrs. Clyde t Burts and daughter of Rock Hill, i mora wppV.ptiH visitors of Rev. R W Burts. t Mr. and Mrs. R.P. Janyesofa, Mr. t Rob Jameson* Miss Melle Whitlock, Rev. A. J. Foster, Mr. and Mrs. Lat- i imer Burts spent Sunday with Mr. I and Mrs. S. J. Burts. Mrs. Eva Latimer has returne4 I from Greenville, where she under- I went a slight operation on Thursday, I She will go to Greenville again Sat- 1 urday and have her tonsils removed. Mrs. Lillian Greer, Miss Melle THE ABBEVILLE BOTTILNG WORKJ .. : , I , 1 9 / * / 1 ' ' : ? ' i . v Wishes you all joys of Merry Chr mas and Hap Hew Year t. ... . ' a .. . * ' r ; , ' . h . ' . ./ : Pi ifwaiti . > .v ' ' > I - .. u...< - sj ", > v" ' ?- , jr| i { . , < ' , . i < < . ? greetings ' | .. . II .-V-.-S I "'.IV,.' I i . I i " - 1 : . 13 V ' . ' ; < . ' 1 > \ A Make it a .* .J Jj' ' i - "A. Merrv Ch V / . , N . f ' ' . Start your be ACCOUNT .to him for a amount is riei Even though him somethii You will not gift but you^ tiori for his s | Come in toda i t . * THE Ft i F. E. HARRISON, President Vhitlock, Messrs. Johnnie Latimer md Bob Jameson attended the play n Honea Path Thursday night. Miss Eva Black entertained the ruong people of this community on ast Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Wells of Greenwood pent Saturday night with Mr. and ilrs. B. H. Carpenter. ' Bev. A. J. Foster has resigned as iastor of the Broadmouth 'Baptist itinivtVi Wo ore aniru fn trivo him ip, but we wish him .much success n his new work. On Monday evening, December 25, here will be a box party given at he old Broadmonth school building.' Malaria or Chills & Fever 'reacriptfcm No. 688 ia prepared especially * MALARIAorCHH.L8 A FEVER, or tit doVca wfll break may caaarand f taken (ban aa a tonic the Paver win not store. It acta oo the Hrer better thai' \ .-.v- ' \ fiiiflrll'if Jm* Bi ffi^KTll Amm J ,. . . " ,: ( - '- v " ~* ^ , I ^ ^ ^rt-- ..... Real r , i ' ristmas " f ' , . \ J * , . / i / >y on die right track. Sta for him?then give the Christmasj present. A cessary to open an accoui s* 4 v yj):; ' v i you have already plant * * j *- 'i * ig else?wny not give ni: only be giving him & red rill incidentally be laying uccesi \ - ~ tt % 1 . , y?now?while you thin] VKmtK^ \BBEVILLE, S. C. J. C. THOMSON, Caihier OTTO MrirutNuiMnimfiiiiimjMiiiuiujiyittiiiiniiiiiuiiiiiinitiiiiitiiiitiiiKtiiiiiiuumuiiitmnutmmtf hwiuui Abbeville-Greenwood A MUTUAL ilNSUMN^ifl - . . . , . ?W??W Property Izuared, $l,8f0,000. September 1, 1915. __ - - .. k.r; .. ., - ! Write to or call on the undersigned ir the Director of your Townihip lor any information yon may de?ire rbout our plan of Insurance. We insure your property egainit lestruction by ^ '*4 FIRE, WINDSTORM OK LIGHTNING, md do so cheaper Huuii any ineunmea Company in exigence. Dwemn? ^nrered with metaJ roofs iro^to^yoQ that ow iHSlfil ind cheapest plan of taiurane* mown. "V c-Sr \ '. ir v%- ;/*?' vA\ :v, ?- ??Vv.'r % ' X It BLAKE. Cm. A#?V : ' AkWrfUO. C. . J. FRASER LYON, Pm, . AfcWtffi* Jfc C. I 1 ' ' ' : ' ' y. wfl L A. Keller * > >? 10. Grant llZII H*cn4U* ?>R?^=~Sg L Lj Hasor Walnat^Gror? M tHs *&?'* ";: ' u - ' ^; -?' - . sp , ; ; ' : v. . " ' -' . I I i . ' i m A rt a BANK Baiik Book very small r ,s' \cd to give rCbrbtmu . ' the foundar " " . . { of it. V* V V " " v -V . ) *V v . BANK i ; BRISTOW, Assistant Cashier "