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Abbeville Press and Banner ! ",|g Established 1844 $1.50 the Year ABBEVILLE, S. C., Wednesday, August 1,1917 Single Copies, Five Cents 76th Year :;| RED CROSS CHAPTER HilS 84 HERS A meeting of the citizens interested in the Red Cross Chapter was held in the city hall Friday aiternoon at 6 o'clock, when a perma? nent organization was had. The committee on organization had secured the necessary credentials, and Mrs. Gambrell reported that eighty-four members had already joined. the society. The following officers were elected: Chairman, Joel S. Morse; ViceChairman, Mrs. Frank B. Gary; Treasurer, Otto Bristow; Secretary, Mrs. C. C. Gambrell. Committees on Constitution and By-Laws, Member-1 ship and an Executive Committee will be appointed by these permanent officers. The officers are all interested in the Red Cross work. They are active1 and enthusiastic workers in whatever they undertake, and they will make a big success of the work which they have assumed. Already several branch chapters | have applied for membership through the Abbeville Chapter. Others will come in. We should have five thousand Red Cross workers in this coun-, ty, and we will when the leaders get busy. f A DELIGHTFUL HOUSE PARTY. I Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Bradley, of Union, are entertaining this weeki a delightful house party and they have as their guests the following young ladies from Abbeville: Misses Margaret and Mary Klugh, Miss Mabel Kennedy of Troy, Miss Edna Bradley and Miss Margie Bradley., A delightful reception was tendered the young folks on Tuesday night by Mr. and Mrs. Bradley and on ^ TIT < *?< E1 f nrliA ic CA JLnursuay iiignu axio. well known in Abbeville, will entertain complimentary to this party of charming young ladies. The house party will last about ten days and many pleasant attentions in the way of picnics and auto rides will be shown the young ladies. THINKS ABUTTING PROPERTY OWNERS SHOULD PAY THE INCREASED TAXES?DON'T LIKE PROPOSED BOND ISSUE i tt it* t ~ o n l XJLci niiuigc rami, uuwuucoviac, o. u. July 20th, 1917. j Editor The Press and Banner: Dear Sir:?I am very much inter-! ested in the issuing of the "$300,000 bonds," being, as a matter of course,1 a believer in good roads. If a few roads are built in Abbeville county, they will, no doubt, mean an improvement for it. But, who will pay this cost? that is, who will pay the increase of the taxes resulting from the building of the roads? Would it not be fair for the properties abutting on the proposed roads and destined to be their direct and main beneficiaries to pay a larger per centage of the increased taxes than the properties lying outside of the roads? It seems to me that such an assessment, far from being in inequality, ! iJ i u..i i~ wouiu ut; uut justice cinu mat an understanding about the matter should proceed the issue of the bonds Yours very truly, E. C. Meschine. DR. A. H. CHAFLIN OF PITTSBURG, HERE SUNDAY v A mass meeting at the mill village at 4 o'clock in the afternoon and a great mass meeting at the Opera House at 8.30 o'clock in the evening will feature next Sunday's devotions in Abbevile. Nearly all of the churches will not hold services at their own edifices, but will co-operate in this movement for righteousness. Christ's , sermons resounded with fiery denunciations of sin. The greatest nurser of vice in modern times is alcoholism. To strike it. and strike it hard, and strike until it is gone forever and backed by a sentiment that will keep it gone, si one of the supreme duties of the church of today. ? The anti-saloon league is nonpolitical. but altogether moral and righteous. The efforts are for righteousness. It has been the arm of the church which has achieved a thousand times more towards the abolition of the saloon than all other agencies combined. Dr. Claflin is one ot its most lamous ana oninant exponents. Great treats await those of our community who will throng the opera and attend the mill mass meeting. Farmers should make v special efforts to attend this meeting. It is safe to say the opera house will be crowded. Come early. GRAND CARNIVAL. [ For Benefit Service League For Sol-: diers, To Be Held on the Square Thursday, Aug. 2nd. The carnival promises to be the great event of Abbeville for the sum-' zr?i I mer. jno one can anoru iu mioo u. i admission of 25 cents will be charged; to get on the square for grown peo-j pie and ten cents for children. This! will admit to everything going on. All must come however prepared to spend all the money they can spare. All sorts of food products will be for sale, which you can take home! with you for future use. Chickens, | eggs, watermelons, vegetables, barbe-j cued hash, and every one is expected to eat his dinner early and be very hungry so that he may buy a large supper splendidly prepared by the committee in charge. Coca-Cola, ice cream cones, lemonade, tea and all sorts of eatables and drinks will be for sale, to be consumed on the grounds. Tables will be there to seat all who buy their suppers. Let us make this event the greatest ever held in Abbeville. See advertisement in this issue. IS IT HOT ENOUGH FOR YOU? The weather for the last two or three days has been just as hot as one wishes to see it. Sabbath morn;? ii-- a? ?t- ? ~?.3 j Hlg uitJ Llieniiuiuecei gut up uiau auu registered around eighty as early as seven in the morning. It registered as high as ninety in the afternoon, while Monday afternoon it registered ninety-four. THE BOOK CLUB. The regular meeting of the book club will be held with Mrs. Foster Barnwell at half past ten o'clock this morning. The members are requested to bring their list of books. A HOT WEATHER REST. During the month of August there. will be no night service in the As-; sociate Reformed Presbyterian! church. This will give both pastor and congregation a rest during the extremely hot weatiier. MISS BRICE RESIGNS. The many friends in Abbeville of Miss Julia Brice will regret to know that she has sent her resignation to the school board and will not be among the teachers in Abbeville next; session. Miss Brice was very popu-' lar here and she will be greatly missed. ON THE ROAD TO RECOVERY. Mr. Edgar Keller was taken to; Chester last week to Dr. Pryor's hos-; pital and has been seriously ill forj several days, but that he has taken j a turn for the better and is on the! road to recovery, will be of interest; to his home-people and his friends in and near the city. COMING HOME SOON. Miss Grace Smith is expected home, home soon from Atlanta, where she u***' fnr sometime under the! uao ww?. treatment of physicians. Her friendsj will be glad to have her home again and delighted that she is fully re-; stored to health. HOME FROM ST. LOUIS. Mr. M. T. Coleman is at home after his usual summer trip to St.: Louis. He reports a pleasant trip( and business booming. A SON OF DR. GRIER. W. M. Grier, of Bartow, Fla., has been secured to take charge of the! welfare work at tht Woodside mills! and will assume his duties August l.j He is in town now making arrange-! ments preparatory to moving his fam-: ily. He had charge of the schools j at Piedmont for a number of years j and so the work is not altoegther jnew to him. For the past few years1 j he has been in the newspaper business.?Greenville Piedmont. ! i I RESIGNS POSITION AT MILL Mr. J. M. Gambrell has resigned his position with the Abbeville Cotiton Mill, the resignation taking effect today. Mr. Gambrell has worked for the mill as book-keeper for the past six years and has filled this place competently and capably. He will devote his time with insurance work and is in Greenwood today attending the convention held there this week. Mr. Gambrell is succeeded at the mill by Julian Roche. MORE MEDIU] The Abbeville Medium fore last that the two hur dollar expert would show ty in its next issue that a i i r *ii _ l j nair muis wouia repay ness and interest in twen ures had been passed up< found correct. We have figures. We presume that them to the public, so we the people of the county t what they are talking aboi The taxable property o returned at a little mor seven hundred thousand c and treasurer will tell yoi with the best book-keepin property on which taxes a suiting each year in nulla i * ?r 11 i i you mat ir we coueci on i hundred thousand dollars A tax levy of four and amount will yield annuall; to find out whether a pay will retire the bonded ind< including interest in twen to work the matter out ac partial payments, ohtainii years balance at 4 1-2 per the annual payments of $ the $300,000 here are the Principal First years interest / Annual payment Balance 1st year Interest on balance Annual payment Balance end 2nd year Interest on balance Less payment Balance end 3rd year Interest for year Less annual payment Balance end 4th year Interest for year Less annual payment Balance end 5th year Interest for year Less annual payment Balance end 6th year Interest for 1 year Less annual payment Balance end 7th year Interest for year Less annual payment Balance end 8th year Less annual payment Balance end 9th year Interest far year Les annual payment Balance end 10th year Interest for year Less annual payment Balance end 11th year Interest tor year Less annual payment Balance end 12th year Interest for year Less annual payment Balance end 13th year Interest for year Less annual payment Balance end 14th year Interest for year if annual nnvmpnt Balance end 15th year Interest for year (Continued on I M FIGURES announced week be-i ldred and. seventy-five t^e people of 1:he counl levy of four and one- i the bonded indebted- , ty years; that the fig-> on by a banker, and|v been waiting for the J they are afraid to give * have decided to show * hat they do not know i Lit. s t < iii - !? >r Abbeville county is r e than four millions, |t ; t lolilars, but the; auditor t i that there are always,! J g, double entries and c are not collec ted, re- Ss bonas. They will tell ^ he four millions seven t , we will do well. one-half mills on this c y $21,150. If we want J nment of this amount k ibtedness of $?' $00,000, |! ty years, we have only!3 cording to the rule of h iig the interest on each \ cent,, and subtracting r ' r 121,150. Starting with figures: ' $300,000.00 ? 13,500.00 I $313,500.00 21,150.00 ! ?... 292,350.00 13,155.75 $305,505.75 21,150.00 284,350.75 12,795.78 $297,145.78 21,150.00 275,995.78 ? 12,419.76 | $288,415.54; ? 21,150.00 267,265.54 I 12,026.95 I '(279,292.50' 21,150.00 258,142.50 1 11,616.41 |j '1269,758.91 \ 21,150.00 'r 248,608.91 jl 11,187.40 $259,795.40 1 21,150.00 238,645.40 10,740.02 c $249,385.42 ] 21,150.00 . 1 i 228,235.42 \ 10.270.59 i $238,506.01 J 21,150.00 217,356.01 f -- 9,781.02 $227,137.03 ' 21,150.00 !t 205,987.03 \\ 9,269.41 jt $215,256.44 1 21,150.00 |s 194,105.44 ic 8,734.79 $202,841.24 | 21,150.00 U 181,691.24 t - 8,11715.10 !f $189,867.34 t 21,150.00 ,t 7,592.28 v |c $176,309.62; J 21,150.00 J, 155,159.62 x 6,982.18 < $162,141.80 ( 21,150.00 i 140,891.80 - 6,344.63 1 $147,336.43 ! 5age Eight) "There's a Timeh Now is Not the Taxes for E [*0 the Editor of The Press andipe Banner: |th On the 7th day of August, the'be roters of this county will by their A1 rote say, whether or not, they are'ru villing to place upon all the property j in n Abbeville county a debt of three m: lundred thousand dollars. This debt da vill be upon both personal property of md real estate. In other words, the th roters will be called upon on the 7th "I lay of August to either vote for, or on rote against the three hundred thou- se aid dollar bond issue. When this A1 >ond bill passed at the last session sa ?f the General Assembly, I voted wl igainst its passage, and in view of wl he fact that a few of my enemies, dc ake delight in going around over this th his county and misrepresenting me, ! feel that I should take this means au if informing the people of Abbeville te :ounty, why I am opposed to putting co it this time, a three hundred thou- to and dollar debt upon this county. la: I will say in the beginning, that of arp fill in fflvnr nf ornnrl rnafia I la: >ut there is a proper time for doing (e iverything. Our country is in the G( nidst of a world-wide war, no one j be an tell what may happen even in the th ourse of a few months. About fifty vi if our young men have already gonejr0 o the front to defend this country n this war and in a very short time, CQ ibout two hundred more of our roung men will be called to arms, CQ .nd should this war last one or two'^ rears, longer, at least seven or eight |_fl tundred of our young men will havelCfl o fight in Europe. Surely while'v. hese young men are standing in the nuddy and bloody trenches, we cenjvj >ut up with what roads we now:^ lave. L Viewed from a business stand- | >oint, this it not the proper time to ^ wamp this county in debt to build yc oads. What does it take to build ^ oads? First: it takes machinery,| ind anyone must admit that machinsry is much higher now, than during lormal times. Second: It takes la-jtr )orf and all will admit that labor is|tn ligher now and scarcer too, than th luring normal times. Every farmer in this county knows jju hat he is having a hard time now to i P* iecure enough labpr to run his farm, tP? ind he well knows, that should these ro >onds be voted that the roads will cc )e built by contract, and therefore, ta he labor in this county will be great-j in y demoralized, and this should notjth >ccur while our county is already in | th such an unsettled condition?due to.th ;he war. jdi And iagain, it will take food-stuffs; th ;o feed the laborers and mules used b? n building these roads?all will ad- th nit, that the food-stuffs of every to cind is more than double in price to dc vhat it is during normal times.! tii rherefore, taking all this extra ex-|w jense in consideration, I submit the pi ;hree thousand dollars will not build jut very little over one hundred ty niles of roads. During normal times, th t is estimated, that the three hun-|rc Ired thousand dollars will build about tv )ne hundred and fifty miles of roads, hf r? tVio fnce nf nil fViPSP fnrt.s. and in T1 'ace of the fact that taxes are too ju ligh now, can any one say that this le s the proper time to vote three hun-, d< Ired thousand dollars in bonds?'di Taxes are certainly too high now. re ind should the war last much longer 1 yf ;he people will be called upon to pay;tii nore taxes, then why take on a debt es >f three hundred thousand dollars ar hat we can avoid? To undertake to th juild roads with the three hundred hi ;housand dollars now, all the three af lundred thousand dollars will be sh spent so rapidly, that even the road be :ommissioners will wonder what be-,ro :ame of the money. Who is it that yc s pushing this bond question? Why! llQ Uiey nave IU gci a man wuu vyc?o <tv )orn in the North to come here to tr ;ell us what to do? Could they not I ind a road man in this State? Is A! his not a clean case of "bamboozle he he people." Why take crowds on m ;rips to visit the roads in Greenville, st; ounty? Does looking at the Green-th Mile roads remove the war clouds ev hat are hovering over our country? th Does looking at the Greenville roads fo educe the high cost of food-stuffs Vo >f every kind? Does looking at the wi jreenville roads make labor cheaper |]a md more plentiful? |ta Does looking at the Greenville; w] oads make our high taxes ^ny less?jed is it not a fact, that these trips, to tr< ook at the Greenville roads, is sim)ly another case of "bamboozle the )r Everything; | Time to Raise | Experiments" | ?J. HOWARD MOORE ' j 1-0 ft 1I7U +1, ? upie ; vv iiu die Hic ui , ese trips? It is some of the road ?nd advocates here in the city of bbeville who want good roads nning out of the city of Abbevile every direction for at least live iles, and who care nok a tinker* imn what condition the\ther roads I the county are in. Just look at e letter-heads that the so-called 'ublicity Campaign" are sending it, On these letter-heads you will e these words, "America First, bbeville Second." Not a word is * ^ id about the county of Abbeville; tiether it is first or second, but nen this three hundred .thousand liars is spent the people will find at Abbeville county is last. The road advocates who pilot these itomobile trips to Greenville will 11 you that the people of Greenville unty are delighted that they have rau ninA lmndrpd thousand Hoi rs to build roads?yet the people Greenville county by their vote 3t summer, repudiated everyone; "*3 sxcept one) of their delegation in sneral Assembly that voted these mds oh Greenville county. Does is look like the voters of Greenlie county are delighted with their ad bonds., Bonds were put on GreenvOJe unty before the war. I do not besve that the people of Greenville unty would vote bonds during war lies.. I can recall when the rural dice was first put on in Abbeville unty. Some of this same road>nd crowd here at Abbeville said was for the best interest of Abbelle county to have rufal police, yet e people at first chance voted out iral police by overwhelming marity. But rest assured these three indred thousand dollar bonds once >ted on, can never oe voted on, it must be paid by an increase in esent tax levy of six mills. Some of the road bond advocates y to make you believe that if ese road bonds are voted on, thai e Federal Government will give us large sum of money, this is false? st another case of "bamboozle the sopld." Why misrepresent the sople. I realize the fact that good ads will prove a benefit to any unty, but when we are already xed to the limit, and when we are the midst of a world-wide war, at may last for years, I do submit at the voters of this county should ink well before placing a three hun ed thousand dollar bond debt upon is county. Abbeville county will s about clear of debt at the close of is year and it will be a calamity place a three hundred thousand >llar debt upon this county at this me, especially when the object for hich this money will be spent may ove a failure after a few years. Greenville county is the only counr in the upper part of this state, at has built roads with bonds, her ads have been built only about ro yeprs. In two or three years, ?r roads may prove to be a failure, ben. is it net the part of business idgment on our part, to wait at ast till after the war before burning this county with a three him ed thousand dollar debt. I have presented this county for past eigfrt jars in the Legislature and at all Ties opposed increase in taxes and :travagance on part of the state, id I would certainly hate to sec is county swamped with a three mdred thousand dollar debt, and ter a year or two, have nothing to ow for it. For should these bonds . ! voted, who knows whether the ads will be any better after a few iars use, than they are now. Now, in conclusion, I am well vare that some of my enemies wfll y to misrepresent my motives, but am proud to say that the people of bbeville county believe that I am nest in my convictions, however uch they may differ with me. I and ready at all times to abide by e voice of the people, and I hope ery voter in this county will go to " -- ? ?a- Ti ?in n e pons ana vote, it wm ue wcu r everyone to think well before /ting to burden this small county ith a three hundred thousand dolr debt in this time of war, higli xes and high cost of living, and lile our young men are being callI to give up their lives in the enches of Europe. Very respectfully, J. Howard Moore.