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* ' M/ll Established 1544. The Press and Bannei ABBEVILLE, S. C. Wm. P. GREENE, Editor. Published Every Wednesday by The Press and Banner Co. Telephone No. 10. Entered as second-class mail mal of rv-?cr nflPiop in Ahhftville. S. C Terms of Subscription: One year $1.5 Six months .7 Three months .6 Payable invariably in advance. Wednesday, August 29. 1017 WE TOLD YOU SO. We told the people in the recer campaign on the bond issue, (nc good roads mind you, but bond issue that, if the bonds were issued, few miles of road in the count would be worked and all other road * ? * 1 1-1- -A Xl_ ^ negiectea, ana mat tne peupic gcuci ally would suffer while a few peopl with automobiles and tin-pan-nancie would occupy the "good roads" ai the while, limbering up the new pos sessions. ( We also published a news iter from The Piedmont in which it wa stated that on account of certaii roads in Greenville county being s< badly neglected, the county wa threatened with the loss of severa mail routes. The bond advocates had to explaii this, and in order to do so said tha this was a general statement whicl did not apply to one county mori than another, and that The Piedmon had erroneously applied it to Green ville county. Well, maybe so, but we assert tha the following clipping from Th< Honea Path Chronicle applies t< Greenville county in no uncertair terms, and it at the same time show; that our prediction as to what woulc happen in Abbeville county if th< bonds were voted, has already com< true in Greenville county, namelj that a few miles of roads would b( worked for the benefit of a few peo pie and that cross-roads and other: would be neglected. Here is wha The Chronicle says: "Through the efforts of Mr. C. E Harper about $80 was raised a fev days ago for the purpose of working certain roads leading to this place The roads to be worked are in Green . ville county, just beyond Saludi rivre. A bulk of the trade from tha section comes to Honea Path am many of the business men suoscrioec to this fund." If the people of Honea Path ar< taking up a collection for good road: in Greenville county within tw< years after the million dollar bom issue, what may we expect withir five years after the bonds have beei issued? , Does this clipping from The Chron icle bear us out in our prediction! and argument, or does it not? Perhaps if the Supervisor ? o: Greenville county had been at worl on his own roads instead of becom ing speech-maker before the five gallons-of-gas-and-free-lunch delega y tions from other counties, Honej Path might not be called upon t< take up a collection to work hi; roads. GOOD ROADS. Speaking of good roads, we are o! the opinion that much of the worl now being done on the public road; around Abbeville is positively detri mental to the roads. It is necessary no doubt, in the fall of the year t( clean out the ditches and have then in shape to take care of tha winte: rains, so as to keep the roads drain ed. But it is a great mistake to tak< the dirt out of the ditches and throv it, along with the grass which hai grown on the sides of the roads, in to the middle of the roads. Th< great clouds of dust which now fol low all kinds of vehicles passim over the roads which are so worked and the mud which this dirt vi! shortly ynake when the rains come warn us that the proper system o working the roads is not being adopt ed in this county. The surfaces o th" ro:-ds have boon hard all summe and the roads have been in fairl; cjood shape except for the holes. Ii snmp nlnrps t.hpse hnlps hr?vr> hppi wvr ? ~ x ? ? * - fillet? with chert and gravel, and th roads have thus been made good i; there places. Had the roads all o-e the county been thus worked, in stead of being worked as they hav beer about the city, we would hav l"id letter r orris row, and the road would have been in better shap? t take care of the winter travel. It is necessary in the spring t scrape me roaas r.rm levei uiem uj but we arc of the opinion that in th late summer and fall the only kin of work which pays is to have th holes filled in the roads, and th ' rough places made smooth, and p!ijp accumulation of dirt, as at ] ent. is only making trouble foifu tu re. - j " We expect very soon to offer i | suggestions on the matter of 'work in Abbeville county, and - | undertake to show the people we may have good roads in Abbe county without a dollar's worth I bonds or any increase in taxes. T I are sand clay roads all over " lower part of the state, and k j" the Sava!nnah River in Georgia, " 'none of these counties, so far a " know, are issuing or have is j bonds for building them. 0 i We only need intelligent work 5 on the roads of Abbeville coi 0 | ;>n intelligent expenditure of pi money now appropriated, less - : tics, and free labor, along with J co-operation of the people, to . us good roads without another jlar's outlay. We say this without intending criticise the present administra 't because we believe that with 't money at his command the pre ) Supervisor has done as well with a roads as any of his predecessors, y have done some good work and n S bad work. The work done by a them could be improved on in e judgment, and we will undertake s prove it. '"| > THE CITY SCHOOLS. n j The Board of Trustees at a m |ing held last week decided to c the fall session of the City Sch s on Sept 17th. The buildings I being repaired and put in pr< I shape for the work to commence J Prof. Riser is here ready to do j. best to make the schools a suc< Several of the old teachers will sjbe back for the coming session, t new teachers have been added to _ I teaching force an\i it is belie that the Abbeville schools will c t as good advantages as any of J schools in the state. If as many as five pupils wish j enter th^ eleventh grade the trus , have decided to have that grade c j mence work this year. This a 4 tional grade in the schools will * able pupils who wish to enter "7 colleges and universities to do 4 . without examination. "ISECOND SONG SERVICE s AT THE BAPTIST CHUF t: Several weeks ago "An Ever -; of Song" was rendered at the I { tist church before a large audie I which was met with such a kind enthusiastic reception that a sec service is announced for next ? 1;day night. The songs to be sung t those composed either in words ^ music or both'by Ira D. Sanke ^one of America's most famous h nists. The programme is as folk i Organ prelude. 3; Invocation. }; Song?"Shelter in the Time *i Storm," choir and congregation. 1J Story of Sankey's interesting II inspiring life?Pastor. Sankey's Songs in the Night. "Simply Trusting ?Congregat 31 "Under His Wings"?Mixed qi itette.?Mrs. Horton, Miss Elizal ^Edmunds, Allen King, Mr. Saund "Good Night",? Duet? Mi I Ruth and Vick Howie. j Sankey's Songs in the Day-Tim( I "The Model Church"?Solo?1 I Fannie Stark. "I Am Praying for You"?B 3 Quartette.?Allen King, E. C. Bi Hayes, Saunders. "When the Mists Have Ro Away"?Mixed Quartette.? 1 Swope, Miss Fannie Stark, A King, Leslie Swope. Sankey's Songs of Invitation. "The Ninety and Nine"?Sol Miss Fannie Stark. "Take Me as I Am"?Congr< tion. ! Benediction. Organ Pcstlude. "I Many thrilling and inspiring s ;ies relating to the songs will be "iby the pastor. The choir has b ; practicing for this service sev j weeks and a good time is assi: "Ifor all who come?a time when ' heart will be drawn nearer to Got ' GERMAN SPIES AND TRAIT( I ' \ I While we have a great many ( , man spies and traitors in this cc f try who are going to lend every - fort to disorganize our people, i f not confined to the Germans z ? gether. We have, we are sorrj V SiJ/, seen men who were born II reared in this country that sh< n st.-.nd for "America for America e that are much more sympathetic n are lending more aid to the Ka v by their talk and conduct than s i- of the Germans. The governm 0 in nnv min/l / mild /In nnfViinrr cr c er for this country than to put i 3 people as this to work, under gus o on farms to produce something eat for the army, or on the ro o to build good roads until the wa ), over, and then deport them to 1 e many and let them spend the rem d der of their life in that cour e America has no room for the lik e The Rock Hill Record. that AUSTRIANS UNABLE TO STOP | " fires- ADVANCE OF CADORNA'S MEN; the Terrific Battle on Carso Front?Ital>ome ian Airmen Lending Aid to Infanload trymen in New Drive. to how London, Aug. 26.?British troops iville today made an advance of half a mile of | along a mile front east of Margicourtj herej (north of St. Quentin,) storming andj the capturing strong points at Cologne ;ro3S ;.nd MalakofF farms, according to the and rfficial report from British heacquar3 we ters in France tonight. sued Berlin, Aug. 26. (via London.) ? ; up- Strong French forces made an attack mty, yesterday on the Verdun front east; iiblic I of the Meuse, near Hill 304. Thoi poli-1 German war office announces thai; the J they were repulsed in hand to hand give fighting. dol-! .| With the dominating height of r Monte Santo secrely in their possession s^on' ^ie Italians are continuing their | '! i iU ? A i i : the UI lve UJL Ulc ^ USLI^easiwaru uvei j ,senj. the Bainsizza plateau, notwithstand-; ^e'ing the violent resistance the enemy; ^lis offering with infantfv, machine! luch'?un anc* ^S^t artiliery. Here, and i U 0f alsp on the Carso front in proximity I J to'the sea, where the battle again j , has r.ssumed terriffic proportions af-| ter Saturday's slight lull, the Italian j airmen are still lending wonderful i aid to General Cadorna's forces, i dropping bombs or using their machine guns with telling effect on leet- troop concentrations behind the lines. >pen i 25,000 Prisoners. oolsj The daily number of prisoners taare ken by the Italians is mounting, the 5pw j latest report showing that 600 officers jand 23,000 men have definitely been 1 his | rendered noncombatants for the re:ess. jmainder of the war. In addition the not capture of war stores by the Italians but has been enormous, including guns of the all calibers and arms, ammunition, ived i horses and motor tractors. From the | supply depots abandoned by the enethe my in his fight the Italians now are jenaDiea to repienisn ttieir troops to fighting in the difficult country. tees! On both sides of the River Meuse om- in the Verdun sector the French ddi- troops continue their gains against en-;the forces of the German crown the prince, on the right bank having so captured positions over a front of jtwo and a half miles to a depth of j two-thirds of a mile, taking the Fosses and Beaumont wood, and reaching the environs of the village of Beaumont, and on the left bank having 1 l1"^ driven their advanced posts to the I ^outskirts of Bethincourt and along I? nee * ! the banks of the Forges rivulet. The Germans in counterattacks ~ , twice have endeavored to retrieve ca jlost ground on the heights of the in Meuse, but each time met with re- th or pulses and heavy losses. so I Aside from artillery duels, which se ^ _ ;have been especially severe east of tie t" Ypres and in the neighborhood of ho I Lombaertzyde, there have been little mi f1 activities on that part of the line in pii France and Belgium held by he Brit- wi , isn. Trench Raids Successful. qu Field Marshal Haig's ihen, however mi ;have carried out small trench raiding lig '10n* enterprises with success and repulsed po German counterattacks. cu Evidently the German advance to- w< Icrs * ward Riga, Russia's big port and nasses val base on the Baltic, has ceased, Pi for neither the German nor Russian Tc official communications mention op- ed 1SS erations in this region. To the south pr the Russian and Russo-Roumanian co a armies, respectively, around Vladi- tri ir ' mir-Volynski and in the Roumanian i theatre are keeping up their strong w.e Resistance against the Germans and ^'jthe Austrians. Near Vladimir-Volynen J ski German attacks have been repuljsed while on the Roumanian front 'attempts by the Teutonic allies to 0 advance have again been frustrated. An interesting report of the Ger?^a*'man chancellor's recent visit to grand headquarters, where he received permission to form a subI committee of the Reichsthg main th< l" committee to confer with the govern- i a ment on peace and foreign affairs, 1 pr ,ee" is that the chancellor also was given j th: era the power to transfarm Alsace-Lor-jpo llfd r;:ir.e into an independent federal th: state. iGc i. ! crl 'township chairmen b. )RS, OF women's council th; national defense cn jer>un Due West Township?Mrs. J. S. vv* ef- Moffatt. P? 4- Jo nnnoLlt. Tn?Fnol?'n Affve <3 C W tlto- Brown. . j of r to Diamond Hill Township? Mrs.jwi and Enoch McCarter. fr< Duld Lowndesville Township? Mrs. se ns'\! Henry Moseley. and Magnolia Township?Mrs. Frank pl< liser Lander. or ome: Lcr.jj Cane Township?Miss Surlie mi lent, Keller. Ri eat- Srnithville Township?Miss Emmie ar such P. Jones. lie irds, Cedar Springs Township?Miss ca to Nellie Pressley. er ads, The above named representative | he tr is women of Abbeville county have G< Ger- been appoinated Township Chairman, m; lain- of the Women's Council of National' Jtry. | Defense. An installment of printed [M e.? ici'.rds have been forwarded to each'st; J Chairman to use in taking a practi-|fo I Boss Q ?SB OlLr> The Boss i: never lazy, always rea licious me s them on tlu SOLI 11 STOVES ^RANGES 1 census of each and every woman NOTICE TC Abbeville county. Mr. Hoover, e man appointed by President Wiln to see to it that our women con-J Monday, ! rve all food and industrial capaci- in# a legal is of the home and nation. It is witnesses w ped that many of our young wo- September i en will accept training for Hospi-I A. M. J. tal nurses, for telegraphers andj reless duty. i GREAT IM Each townshij) chairman is re-j RAILW lested to name as many sub-chairen as she will need. Active, intel- Washingo ;ent colored women are to be ap-: Fairfax Ha] intd in every neighborhood to \se-i Railroads' re the signatures of every colored th'e followin )man from sixteen upward. "Reports The cards will be sent from The roads' War ess and Rannpr office Hirer?t. to! foi>vnn/4c >wnship Chairmen. Mr. Greene, operative efl itor of The Press and Banner, has try the grei inted five thousand cards free of freight serv St.. This itself is a substantial con- traordinary ibution to this patriotic enterprise, freight car s Yours for the cause. "These re (Mrs. W. 0.) Ella Cox Cromer, cess of unfi! County Chairman W. C. N. D. j idle cars, ox 7 inaccurately ?E.ASE COVETS * was only or TILLMAN'S POST Augurt lf ! The excess ml:h Carolinians Begin to Announce tions on Me for Primaries a Year in Ad- : June 1st it vance. it was 77,65 . o ;had been re Newberry, S. C., Aug. 27.?A1-; "This res; ough the Democratic primaries are!at a time wl year distant, announcements by plying from ospective candidates are coming cent more i ick and fast. Perhaps the most im- same numbe rtant near-announcement that has given this as far been made is that of former railroads hai >vernor Cole L. Blease for the Unit- dous increa: States Senate to succeed Senator and commer R. Tillman. Everybody agrees ment of car at, should these two master-politi- occuoicd th< ins lock horrs on the stump, there than 30,000 11 be fire a-plenty in the next cam- "There w ignt heavy dema: Congressman Fred H. Dominick, food produc Newberry, has announced that ho to and froir 11 be a candidate for re-election "The resi om the Tird District. He is now been accom rving his first term in Congress. with the rai Attorney General Thomas H. Pee- lating bodie; es will make the race for Govern- ly. This co . according to an announcement sible the int ado by him. It is probable that cars, promp lilroad Commissioner John G. Rich- nation of a ds, W. A. Stuckey and former So- essary pass( :itor Robert A. Cooper will also be an opporuni ndidatcs. Assistant Attorney Con- time to put al Claude N. Sapp announces that possible use i will run for the office of Attorney placed wher jneral. Other State officers will to prevent < ake the race for re-election. essary servi It is not known what Governor make the ei anning's plans are, but he has the United ated thf - he will not be a candidate possible tri r the United States Senate. .winning this il Air Sto I ' ' ?AID'STOVFC \ s never c never lai dy. It coc als and ; minute. D ONLY BY W HOME OUT ) JURORS iANOI v AND WITNESSES , I September 3rd, 1917, be-; holiday, all jurors and Comp ill report on Tuesday, er Ith, 1917 at 10 o'clock, L. Perin, Clerk of Court. ?- . j Wa PROVEMENTS IN i big Ic AY FREIGHT SERVICE was j ment. n, D. C., August 25.? | rrison, Chairman of the! Wa War Board, authorizes confid g: ernme .iust received by Rail-; ctnte Board show that the i Sec the country in their co- news Forts to give to the coun- gover: itest possible amount of view < ice, have effected an ex- instea improvement in the of pe: supply. been ports show that the ex- patch< lied car requisitions over "I what is ordinarily but sia as termed car shortage, for a ie fourth as great on eral." 917, as on May 1, 1917. litical of unfilled car requisi-1 This i ly 1st, was 148,627, on;more was 106,649, on July 1st have 1 52, and on August 1st it' Soc duced to 36,776. ' not a lit has been accomplished public len the railroads are sup- Russu fifteen to twenty per the n? freight service with the natur< r of cars than \yas being the pi time last year for the gec ndled in July a tremen- Q* CQ se in both government t rial traffic. The move- patch, ltonment supplies alone jast w 2 full services of more m. ine cars. , , ,. recom as also an extraordinary . . . , , , , missio nd for cars to transport ^ ^ ( ts as well as materials ^ ^ i munition factories. '. waj lit above achieved has . ' assists nlished bv cooperation '' lroads of shippers, regu- iilUl ^ 3 and the public general- *? re' operation has made pos- wa ensive loading of freight wa^ r ter unloading, the elimilarge amount of unnec- w^? v mger train service and niissio ty generally to utilize 1 each car to the greatest ca' los , to have empty cars e they are most needed, over-lapping and unnecce?in other words, to ^e, itire railroad system of States the most effective Longs ansportation agency in thorpe ; war." secont ?, 'V<6 I ICO m |;| ' ranky, te. It is m-~ '-4 )ks deserves . 1 } . '-;YA v I FITTERS , B "* rHER BIG LOAN * ' IS MADE TO RUSSIA BY UNITED STATES . % t lete Confidence in New Govi nmcnt is Expressed By the State Department. : 1. shington, Aug. 24.r?Another , >an of $100,000,000 to Russia made today by the governshington, Aug. 24.?Complete ence in the new Russian gov;nt was expressed today by the department. retarv Lansing denied that from Russia had caused this nment to take a pessimistic of the situation, declaring that t . p n it: _ ^ ^ 1 a 01 xnere prevailing a ieeimg ssimism quite the contrary had created by the confidential dis;s that tave been received.' regard uie government to Russtronger today than it has been < month," he said. " mean in genhe added, "but not from poand military points of view. ' apinion is bas^l upon reports or less confidential than we been getting." y retary Lansing, however, did Iter his decision not to make anv of the recent renorts from l. The position taken is that iws received from there is of a i that should "be given out by ovisional government. retary Lansing's flat expression nfidence is the first intimation . he opinfon that disquieting disjs have been received within the eek was not general. secretary pointed put that the mondations of the Root comn are being carried out.The na)f the recommendations or the [tended was not indicated, but > stated that further financial inno wniilel Iia fpnrlprpH flnH iompt measures would be taken ieve the railroad situation by [ rding of rolling stock and railnaterial. i. Gen. Scott, chief of staff, ' fas a member of the Root comn, said that capture of Petro?vould be only a slight strategics to the Russians. AT FT. OGLETHORPE.; lie McMillan and Furman hore left Sunday for Ft. Ogle>, where they have entered the 1 training camp.