The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, February 01, 1918, Page TWO, Image 2
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ABBEVILLE, S. C.
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Wm. P. GREENE, Editor.
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Friday, Feb. 1, 1918
A NEW JUDGE.
life
The General Assembly showed ifc
sanity again on yesterday, when i
' elevated Honorable W. H. Town
send, of Columbia, to the circuil
bench. Mr. Townsend is one of th?
v.- capable lawyers of the State. His
extensive and accurate legal learn
ing will make him one of the bes1
judges in the State. He will be wel;
* corned to the bench by the legal
1^' -. profession.
W \ ; STILL LEADING.
The Greenwood Index has been
; one of the most influential and newt;
sy papers in the state for a long
&F time. First, as a weekly, then as
a semi-weekly, and then as a tri?
weekly, it was distinctly a leading
7 nfewspaper in South Carolina in its
fine.
;V : t\ The patrons of the Ipdex were
jp* not satisfied, however, with anything
fey but a daily, and therefore it is now
l nn T-> 1 ? T_J T.? T5iiV>_
GfrV me juany ixiuca. iuc j,uuca a. ??/.
,. lishing Company, owned by Messrs.
tk-A;.' Joel S. Bailey and H. L. Watson, is
\K the publisher and they know how to
ajf/:-; give the pepole what they want in
fcJK a newspaper, and .they know too
how to get what they want?success.
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The Index will prove a success. It
is publishing the news, and the peo^ij.ple
are showing an appreciation of
the good paper. Mr. H. L. Watson
is one of the best writers in South
ys&j, * Carolina newspaperdom. as well as
one of the sanest men in the busi
ness, and he will make the influence
of The Index felt editorially.
We are glad that the daily has
*; eome. The big circulation which
has already been built at home
; means that the paper will grow
Ei"' away from home. We hope in the
y-V; very near future to see it sold on
y the streets of Abb'eville each afternoon?until
The Press and Banner
publishes a daily.
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if: Our foreman tells us. that it is an
ill winrl that blows nobody any wood.
! Sometimes John L. McLaurin almost
persuades us to be a Christian.
The legislature should be almost
ready to adjourn, having passed a
heifer law. >
We arise now to remark that the
Tax Commission has evidently seen
fee handwriting on the wall. The
order is rescinded.
One reason why we know the
Kaiser is going to be whipped is that
<&.. 4 Mexico is growing tired of German
'</, propaganda.
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Or was it the voices front the reJ|:
mote parts of the district that the
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mem dere 01 mc chvccwcu a ?a wu*
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mission heard?
?>; - Unless the gentlemen who are novi
members of the city council measure
themselves by the salaries thej
I draw they should immediately pass
an order that the janitor scour the
City Hall.
feThe
bunch of wire which was for
5'*, -
merly used to twist the mule's nos<
while Dr. O'Bryant gave tne muie i
dose of his latest medicine, is nos
used to pull open the door to th
Court Hou&e.
Is ' ?
If the members of the city coun
cil believe that the lawyers who oc
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cupy the offices in the City Hall ar
t
mmi .
I hogs they have a perfect right to
A | require them to be confined in a
| hog-pen, but the lawyers protest
against paying rent on the pen, and
desire to be fed.
Of course the five hundred lately
: invested by the city council of Ab1
beville in the top-soil argument
y j might have been invested in topj
soiling the street leading to the
_ I home of the Mayor. How shall the
_J police department be a paying in,
j vestment if the mayor cannot get to
his offices to collect the fines?
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i Speaking of policemen,' anyway,
0. does anybody know any reason why
5. we should have policemen? When
0: we were a small boy and came to
l town, Chief Riley, it seemed to us,
" j "policed" the whole town. There
iwere barrooms, and liquor, and ev:
??TrfVi In in 4-4-1* 4-Ur.^
; cn. jr tiling ill tuwii tllCIi. iWW , tllctt
-' the bar-rooms have been abolished j
I and the great moral institution has
' made us moral, and the town is i
J asleep, and everybody is happy and:
^1 contented, and nobody wants , to,
_1 fight anyway, and nobody can get
[. drunk, and on account of the high
, cost of living there is not enough j
j money to gamble with or fall out;
. about, why not allow the pleasant j
; gentlemen of the police department,
. as they are already accustomed to ]
[ wearing uniforms, join the war forces j
of the country, get them a farm
and assist Mr. Tom W. Wilson and j
j Mr. Herbert Hoover in feeding the ;
! army A word to the wise is suffi-;
I cient, or should be.
HONEY PATH.
The Spartanburg Journal certain-]
ly can use honeyed words in describing
a wedding. Here is a late
instance: "On Friday evening Mr.
Jackson Stone and Miss Eva Morris
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were quietly married. As sweetly
i as the blending of two light-beams
in the solemn hush that fell pver the
I little company of friends these two
souls melted into each other under
the mystic words of union spoken by
J the officiating clergyman."?Green!
ville News.
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jV SOCIAL NEWS. V
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Mrs. George Gambrell entertained;
her friends at a knitting party on!
j Tuesday afternoon. The occasion
j was very pleasant and considerable
! knitting was done for the soldiers.
| At the conclusion of theafternoon a ]
i delightful salad course with coffee
was served. Those present were:
Mesdames J. M. Anderson, J. C.
Hill, D. H. Hill, W. A. Harris, J.
Moore Mars, P. A. Cheatham, E. R.
Thompson, R. C. Philson, W. F.
Nickles. J. R. Nickles, Charlie Mc
Kenzie, C. C. Gambrell, G. W.
Swope, and Mrs. Youngblood, and.
Misk Mdry Hill and Miss Maggie
Latimer.
Mrs. W. A. Lee entertained at a
dance at her home on North Main
street last Saturday night. The
music was furnished by Mr. Glenn
Kay. About six couples were pres1
ent and enjoyed the dancing.
BITS OF INFORMATION.
!
j Glycerine is now made from suj
gar.
Pencils are now being made from
California incense cedar.
The Caproni triplane is 110 feet
from tip to tip of its planes.
Twenty couples at a ball at Duquoin,
111., danced for 1 hour and 20
minutes without stop.
Peru was the first country to add
instruction in aviation to its public
school curriculum.
A purple spring has been discovered
issuing from the side of hill
??Tod
Itctir uaiaiio, uiw,
U. S. Census Bureau estimates
the average death for males is 39.2
years, for females, 40.6.
European factories each week
make about 16,000,000 pounds of ar
tificial butter with cocoanut oil as
' a base.
i Lincoln highway beginning at
v New York city and ending at San
e Francisco, is about one-third finished.
Canners of the United States will
i- have to fill close to 70,000,000,000
tin cans in a year to feed our army
e and navy.
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RED CROSS MEMBERSHIP.
Bethel School District, L A. Jackson,
Manager.
L. A. Jackson,
A. A. Jackson
Mrs. William Conner
Dave Lawton
C. S. Turner
Elihu Finley.
Jim Willard
Robt. Murray
Esther Marshall
Robt. Norman
Cain Robinson
Francis Brown
Ben Walton
Jim Belcher (
Walter Willard
Robt. Daniels
J. T. Rouse
I
G. Rouse
W. M. Rouse
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George Sibert
Allen McBride
Will Haynie
"PnKf .QpaH
Will Mims
Cain Kennedy
William Wardlaw
Carrie Jordan
Lee Marshall
Tom Burton
Aaron Roche
Shepp Rafford
Lucy Wilson
Johnnie Moseley.
Lone Forrest School District, J. J.
i , Grant, Manager.
W. W. Wilson
W. D. Bell '
G. S. Lewis
H. E. Campbell
J. F. McMahan
J. R. Grant
It .Li. lirant
W. B. Mann
Mrs. Etta J. Young
Mrs. L. A. Hall
J. B. Hall
E. F. Campbell
F. W. Wright
J. M. Wright
Lewis Tucker
James Chiles
Malici Stacker ,
Wilson Cummings
Martha Nixon
Arthur Hunter .
Alex Hill . ,
J. J. Hunter
R. P. Tribble
Lindsay Robertson
W. R .Robertson
Frank Miller
G. Glean
A. L. Hunter
Eadie Harris
Rosa Danley.
Long Cane School District, J. R.J
Lomax and R. H. Stevenson, Mgr.
J. A. Stevenson
Miss Fannie May Stevenson
R. H. Stevenson
Mrs. R. H. Stevenson
Lewis Finley
A. T. Botts
Thomas Beaufort
T. L. Clamp
Solomon Coleman
Will Sloan
Jno. R. Lomax
Mrs. Jno. R. Lomax
Kathleen Lomax
Mrs. M. Pratt
Helen E. Pratt
Jim Rykard
S. W. Wharton /
J. V. and 0. W. Cromer (one)
E. F. Miller
J. D. Miller, Jr.
Jp.ne Anderson
? John Cosby
Will Johnson
John Adams
Ben Hughey
George Bakia
George Bakin, Jr.
John Eakin
R. W. Franklin.
SENATOR BRICE DEAD.
The many friends of Askbel G.
Brice of Chester, will regret to learn
of his sudden death at Chester, at
ten o'clock Wednesday night. Senator
Brice was a son of Rer. W. R.
Brice. His people have 'lived for
a number of years at Due West. Mr.
Brice was educated at Erskine College,
and has been one of the most
consistent friends of the college all
of his life. He was an elder of the
A. R. P. Church, of Chester, and
Treasurer of the Board of Horns
Missions in that Church. He married
Miss Sallie Miller of Camden,
Alabama, a sister of Judge John H.
Miller, who was formerly a professor
at Erskine College.
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LOWNDESVILLE'S OLDEST
INHABITANT PASSES AWAY
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Lowndesville, Jan. 30.?After a
short illness with Lag-rippe, Dr. A. J
Speer died at his home in Lowndesville,
January 24th, in the eightyfifth
year of his age. The funeral
services were conducted in the Meth
odist church by Rev. Fletcher An
derson, his pastor, and Rev. J. A
Clotfelter, the Presbyterian minis
ter. The body was in charge of the
Masons and he was buried with fraternal
rites. j
Dr. Spfeer was born at Cherokee
Heights on the Savannah river Dec.
1, 1833. He was twice married. In
his early manhood he married Miss
Sophia Vertlell, of Elbert County,
Georgia, his second marriage was to
Miss Fannie Hoyt. of Cornelia, Ga.j
By the former union he leaves the
following children: Messrs W. M.l
and G. V. Speer of Lowndesville;'
Rev. Foster Speer of Lexington, S.
C.; Mr. G. W. Speer bf Gaffney,
and Mrs; S. E. Sigmon, of Blackstock,
S. C. By the latter marriage
he leaves two children, Frances and
A. J. Speer, Jr., abo he is survived
by his widow.
Dr. Speer received his literary
of rto ^owiaiic
vuuvavivn uv uiiv j,(*uiuao t? mv*\?v^4
School, where so many noted South
Carolinians received their Academic
education. His medical education
was obtained at the Augusta Medical
College. For nearly half a century
he successfully practiced his
profession not only in Lowndes- j
ville, but tins surrounding counties.!
At one time he was very active in j
politics and represented his county;
in the Legislature for several terms
He was a prominent Mason and had
many honors conferred on him by
this order. 7 ^
When quite young Dr. Speer unit-,
ed with the Methodist church and
through all the long years of his use-:
ful life he wis a faithful and conse-."
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cated member.'He was a great read- J
er, a noted 3ible scholar, and had' *
few equals as a Sunday school teach-i-3
er. A few Sundays before his death;'
he remarked to his class (the older11
ladies' class) that he had been teach-j <
ing that same class for fifty years, j 1
but, beginning to feel the infirmi-j]
ties of age, so sensibly, he thought J
best for them to elect another teacher.
His last Sunday was spent in '
his accustomed way?lecturing to! 1
his class. ! J
He lived to see his generation ga- J <
tbered unto its fathers. Ouly a few j i
days before his demise he casually *
remarked, of all his boyhood friends 1
and school mates ,only one remain- J
ed?Mrs. M. E. Baker, of Lowndes- ^
yille. Daring" his last - illness his ^
memory was unusually strong' and
retentive. It .was remarkable to ]
hear him quote passage after pas- 1
sage of Scripture and inspiring to 1
listen to his feeble voice, uttering i
beautiful prayers, as he lingered on <
the borders of the Great Divide. 1
Th'S family has the sjmpathy of i
their many friends in the great be-)t
reavement, and yet, they have this! i
comforting assurance, "It is Weill]
With My Soul." 11
WILL HELP WIN THE WAR? ?
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( Bv Miss L. T. Meriwether.) \.
The Southern Ruralist.
"Without a garden, a farm is likej
having a plow and no horse to pull j
it. No vegetable for the table but!
canned vegetable is not countrylife.
If we want to win the war we
will have to raise food at home. I
have been gardening for fifteen
years and like the work more every
year?I learn more about gardening
and how to work it.
To start with I have my garden
bedded in early fall so the freezes
make the ground mellow. Just before
I am ready to plant my garden, I
have :my garden spot replowed and
in thisi way my ground is well plowed,
which makes the land easy to
work. I plant my English peas as
early as I can?about the first of j'
February if ground is not too wet 1
to plant. English peas do better '
planted early. Later on I plant my ^
other spring garden. In planting
early the ground is cold so in order
to get my seed to come up quickly,
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I take nay noe ana press tne uiru w i
the seeds and then sprinkle cow-pen 1
manure on top of the row, which 1 j
warms the soil. ]
I like to use cow-pen manure on! ]
account of its not burning my vege- j;
tables. I have a small place for a garden?about
a half acre, so to getM
t\L $5
|bH a/e artistic in desig
IfflM ment to any room
them as 700 would a
HgjM don't have to remove
ney or shade. Easil;
Designed to give the
BBsl bright, flicker less ligl
Jraj&l If your dealer doesn'
gB&ji write to our nearest e
The use of Aladdin 2
guarantees best result
I stoves and heaters.
I STANDARD OIL (
I (New Jerae
BALT1MORB.
rflMMB Washington, D. C. i
Norfolk. V?. Chj
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my garden planted I mix my seeds,;
such as radish and beets, for the|
radish is a fast grower and is gone
before the beets are Irage enough'
for use. I also plant my bush beans j
jn the sides of rows with othe? vege- j
cables and in this way keep young!
plants up in my garden all the summer.
To have early tomatoes I plant
some seeds in boxes in the house so
they can be set out in the open
ground as soon as cold weather is
jver. I never wait until I have a
row ready to set my plants in;, ,1
jet my plants in the rows with other
vegetables, such as turnips, lettuce
ind beets in one row. When these,
vegetables are out of the way my
:omatoes are there.
I never wait for a rain to set my,
jlants out. ' I take water and wet!
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;he dirt to the roots of the *plans,:
* J l ^ ?- ?? j n i
;nen taite my miners auu pwo ?,???; j
vet dirt to the plant, and. then pull j
iry dirt over the wet part to keep!
;he sun from baking the ground, ij
ilways set my plants out in the af-j
;ernoon. Early in the morning,, be-1
'ore the sun gets hot, I cover the!
jlants with old paper and cardboard
joxes.
My garden last year was made in'
m old cow pen and was very rich. |
Sverything grew very fast. I hadj
t well plowed to start with. I hadj
t plowed broadcast first for it hadj
3ermuda grass in it. I then had it
>ut in rows. With the help of my
;wo sisters we shook the grass out,!
vhich was the only way to get all,
;he grass out. I then had it replow-1
J ;x ? onrl in (rr\r\rf fnn
;U, SU JL waa win anu >u f
lition. This garden was plowed but!
>nce after the seed came up, on ac-j
:ount of the shortage of labor. How-!
iver, I cultivated it with a small
garden hoe, working close to the
jlants.
In this small place I made enough
vegetables to give my' neighbors
jome. We canned almost two hundred
quarts of vegetables, besides;
Slaving plenty for our table. I soldi
jome vegetables to help buy my seed j
No man worked this garden at all!
ifter it was broken. So, let us all
iave a garden and help win the war.
Mathews, Ala.
MRS. HODGES SICK.
Mrs. Myrtle Clinkscales was called |
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to Richmond on account of the serious
illness of her daughter, Mrs.
Lillian Hodges. Her friends will be
happy to learn that she is gradually;
improving, and as soon as she is able
to travel she will come to Abbeville
to recuperate.
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TOWNSEND NAMED
Columbian Elected Over Three Op-'
I. ponents by'Overwhelming1 Vote.
Eminently Qualified.
W,:H. Townsend of Columbia, was
yesterday ejected judge of ttye Fifth .
Circuit to succeed Mendel h. Smith, . i'
who recently resigned to accept a
commission inthe "United .States army
with the rank of major judge advocate..
Mr. Towpjsend wa^ elected ] v j
on ttye second ballot,. /getting 907oat
o?>'? total of 145 votes.cast.
5^$Oor names were jflaced before
the joint , assembly. W. T. Aycock
of Columbia was nominated by Sen- , 1
ator Spigner of Richland County;,
W. N. Graydon of Columbia,. . was
nominated by Senator Nickles JU* ;
beville; W. H. Townsend of 'Colombia
was nominated by
of Richland County; and T. J..Kirkland
of Kershaw was nominated bj.^
.Mr. Richards of .Kershaw. On the ;V'i ?0$
first ballot Mr. Aycock received 39
votes ;Mr. Graydon 21; Mr/Town- iV;"
send 67; and Mr. Kirkland 22. The
name of Mr. Graydon was withdraw*
by Mr. Nickles on the second ballot^ ^ >
the result of which was: Mr Aycoclp^
38; Mr. Kirkland 17; and Mr. Towasend,
90.
William Hay Townsend is a na7' ; |
tive of Barnwell. His boyhood dayis
were sp&nt in Aiken, whe^ his fa- I
ther, William Hutson Townsend, ire-?' ; |
moved on account of his health )'$$$
which had been impaired by exposure
while serving in the Beaufort '
Volunteer Artillery during th? Ifpjp
Between the Sections. Mr. Townsea^
read law under the direction of w yM
late James Aldrich and was admitted
to the bar at the age of 21. Soon
thereafter he became associated'witk ^7 ?
Cql. William Elliott, then a aem- *;
ber of congress, in the practice <jjT;
law in Beaufort. This was suceped^ fit:.
oH Kir n narfcnershin in Barnwell witk
the late G. Duncan Bellinger, whicjji
continued until after hi3 removal to
- 1 f iColumbia
in 1903, where he ha? u*
since practiced. He served one tent
as solicitor of the Second Circuit;
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and later as assistant attorney ge?eral.
As code commissioner he edit-' ' ,
ed the code of 1902. In 1914 1m
was appointed by the supreme court
as reporter, and has edited Vol- umes
97 to 107 of the State reports.
He has been for several years a director
of the Columbia Theological
Seminary, and a trustee of the Pres
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