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ESTABLISHED 1844 The Press and Banner t ABBEVILLE, S. C. t t Wm. P. GREENE, Editor. j. The Press and Banner Co. \ Published Every Tuesday and Friday t Telephone No. 10. i , c Entered as second-class mail mat- j ter at post office in Abbeville, S. C. ? t i Terms of Subscription: 3 One year $2.00, * Six months 1.00 jr Three months .50 t Payable invariably in advance. r t TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1918 ' * t-T: t GOOD ROADS AGAIN. We agree with The Piedmont, of Greenville, that it is not agreeable to have one around who is always saying, "I told you so", when he p does so from no other cause than to a gratify his vanity or his spite. But * times come when it is worth while to c refer to?the transactions of the past, 1 in order that we may take lessons s lor the future. j 8 11 A little while ago we had a movement on in this county to vote a big issue of bonds for the purpose of . constructing so-called good roads. We opposed that issue on the ground that the roads proposed to be built had not yet proved to be good roads, and that it might pay us to be a little slow rather than spend a large sum of money for something which might prove a failure. Just at that time Greenville coUnty was constructing a system of good roads. A good many miles had already been constructed, and a great many people visited these roads, and were ^convinced that they were really good roads. The principal road traveled was the Augusta road referred to in the article from which we quote below. We said then that if these roads stood the test for five ' years, we would be in favor of t adopting the system for this county, j i)ut if they did not we would have t our money, and would have heen say?' ed from a bad investment. * The following extract from an edi-'^ torial in The Piedmont of last Tues-'r day afternoon will furnish interest ing reading to some of those who ^ were so impressed with the Augusta road that they were willing to saddle t a debt on Abbeville County which would have made the burdens of taxation in this county almost unbear- v able: j ^ "The condition of our big investment for good roads in this I county is very much like that of a man caught by a quicksand, . into which he has sunk up to his . armpits. If a man in that fix gets the right kind of help ^ promptly he ean be saved. Same thing as to our "improved" roads. If nothing be done before it can be done in accordance with some plan put through the legislature at its session next F year by our county delegation t there will be little or nothing a left to be saved. s The meeting at Pepper school- y house tomorrow afternoon is su- a premely important. Primarily it i< is called to consider plans to h save the Augusta road, which a by many who have to use it, is a considered in worse shape than v it was before one penny of the ii good roads bond issue was spent v upon it. Local relief is a good thing g for the locality relieved, but the fc condition complained of by us- a ers of the Augusta road is not n peculiar to that road but afflicts f practically the entire road sys- a tem of this county. The neces- * sity then is for a general plan ^ of relief and a plan that can .be r ; ^pplied without further delay; v If this winter's rains and snows and frosts and thaws are v allowed to work their own sweet h will with Greenville county's s roads, by spring there will be r precious little left to show for ^ our nine hundred thousand dol- r lar roads investment." J Now what are we to learn from ? this frank statement by a newspaper which was not opposed to the good e roads movement in Greenville coun- 1 ty, but which was impressed with the r fact that politics played a consider- g ble part in the building of the roads. ] It would not be entirely truthful j o say that this statement shows that; he money spent in Greenville couny has been entirely lost. The roads lave been graded and changed and >ermanent culverts have been built >y the county, and in this respect he county has something to show for ts investment. But the benefits seured in this regard are out of all >roportion to the vast sums of mon:y expended. The so-called top-soil s gone. It has disappeared in two rears, and it is now stated that uness immediate work is done the cads will be worse than before any vork at all was done We learn hen that the top-soil on these roads nust be replaced every two years, or hat work equivalent to this must be lone on the roads annually This neans a.charge of some two or three tundred dollars per mile annually or every mile of road in the'? unty, in expense which no county' in the tate can stand. We learn another th?ng The peo >le in the community were meeting | it Pepper schoolhouse for the purlose of organizing to work the roads if that community, and of putting hem in proper condition. That is omething we have advocated all ilong. If we are to have good r>ads he people in the different communiies should build them and keep them ip. We cannot build mads by bond ssues and assessments and keep hem up in the same way. We can lot afford to pay certain people :n ho different localities for every nail hat is driven in a bridge _or for ivery shovel-full of dirt thrown in he road. The people had as well learn that hey must pay for these 30-called rood roads. If they cannot spare ;he time, nor the money, to build hem locally and keep them up, they 1 U A- Al_ - -A aLmA A"L~.. inouia wase up to uie iaii tutu, nsr.jr :annot do so by taxation without >aying a rate of taxation which is :onfiscatory. We will have good oads when the people of the county md state are enough interested in ;hem to build them, but it will be die to spend money on so-called jood roads until the people are wiling to build them themselves, and o keep them up locally. Another thing we should learn is hat if we are going to spend money or the purpose of building good oads we should build roads that are n fact good roads. We will make a >etter investment to build forty niles of roads which will stand the est than to. build two hundred miles if roads which in two years are in rorse condition than before theyj irere worked upon. We can afford j o indulge in no experiments. We might remark also that it hasj ieen sometime since we heard from' ur old friend who came down from1 Jorth Carolina as an expert to puti he "movement"-over. We believe j fc was five hundred dollars that the1 Jity Council contributed to make his! tay in Abbeville pleasant. JACK BRADLEY AGAIN. . j Jack Bradley, who lives next toj 'urniture Kerr, has the misfortune! o get into more trouble unintention-: .lly than any boy on Greenville j treet. It has been only about a1 i ear sine Jack shot himself, a brief, ccount of which accident we chron-j :led at the time. Most boys would I ave had enough of a gun from this! ccident, and probably Jack would ,lso if it had not been for the war,! I vhich has produced the martial spir- J t among all the small boys every-j /here. Jack was to go hunting on Thanksriving with his father, and that bad! irother of his, "Hoodie", by name,! ind had invested some of his sum-i tier's earning in a full line of shells j L.'. ^ i. 1 A M 1 ur ius snutgun, put me ram spoiled j ill his plans. He had everything eady even to the loading of his gun,| vtoich he forgot'to. unload) After th?! ain came. So the gun was put away, vith the perfectly good'shell in it. j On Saturday night Jack's father, vas out visiting at Mrs. Klugh's. He tad been away for sometime and de-i ired to spend the evening with his nother and sister and others of the :indred. Jack and Hoodie and Jack's' nother were at home, but Billie, \ rack's big brother, was out visiting' it his aunt's Mrs. J. F. Bradley's. . Jack stayed around home all the} ivening, and after awhile he got onesome, so he went in the bed oom all alone, where his trusty shotrun was. He was not looking for I the gun, but he just saw it anyway, j J So he decided that he would take the L gun and go through the manual of( arms, as he expects to be a soldier, some day anyway. In order to do the job better, got in front of the big mirror, and was watching how well he could do all the tricks, which the soldier boys know how to do. He shouldered arms, stacked arms, and did all other kind of arms, then he right-about-faced, right-whirled forward marched, halted, "Karoed" back and had about got ready to put the gun up, when he suddenly remembered that he had not aimed and fired. So he got in front of the glass again, looked mean like a soldier about to meet his enemy in battle, gave the necessary orders to him self, cocked his gun and pulled down on the man in the big mirror in his mother's bed room, and his image looking so fierce, he let him have it by pulling the trigger, when to his great consternation the shell, which he until then had fogotten, fired, glass flew in every direction, and the boy in the glass gave up the fight and entirely disappeared. Being a boy of rare presence ofj mind, it occurred to Jack that some1.1. i - 1J 1- - J Ll_ uiuig wuuiu oe uuing snoruy as ev-j erybody had heard the "shot, so hei quickly set the gun outside the door and quietly got upstairs, when he walked down much excited to know who it was shootng in the house. By his time his mother had become greatly alarmed, thinking that someone from the outside must have really shot into the house, or that some daring robber was in the bed room, so she hastily phoned for Jack's father, Billie and the rest of and in a little while everybody from; that end of town turned out to catch the criminal. Everything was mysterious until Jack's father went into! the bedroom to collar the burglar j when he smelt the powder from; Jack's gun, and saw the shivered j glass in the mirror and the great j hole in the back where the shots had torn their way into the wall of the house. Stepping out the door, there sat the tell-tale gun, and a mystery was solved. And then "the panorama lit up," as Rev. John Reynolds would express, it. __-H? S MISS HANNAH CLARK PERR1N * - - , Miss Hannah Clark Perrin died at the home of her .nephew, Hon. Thos.| P. Cothran, Friday morning, at ,twoj o'clock, Dec. 6th, 1918, after a long'B period of failing health. |> Miss Perrin was the fifth child of]' Hon. Thomas Chiles Perrin and his ! wife Jane Eliza Wardlaw, and was; born May 11, 1836. In her youth she attended the , schools around Abbeville, being forL some years a pupil of old Dr. Turner.! a noted educator of his times. For a period she attended college ink Charleston. After the death of her | parents she made her home with her j sister, Mrs. James S. Cothran, and' , was a familiar figure in Abbeville.! | When the Cothrans moved to Green- j ville about twenty-five years ago,! Miss Perrin went with them and the; two sisters spent their declining | years happily together. Funeral services were held at Abbeville Saturday at eleven o'clock inj the Presbyterian church, being con-jJ ducted by Rev. H. W. Pratt, assisted!'1 by Dr. J. L. Martin. The interment : was at Long Cane cemetery, where! so many of her people sleep. Miss Perrin was always a member! of the Presbyterian church and was a woman firm in her convictions. She j liver a retiring life, always doing! good. She loved her home and her' own people and was greatly beloved: by a wide circle of nieces and nephews. Those who came from a distance! to attend the funeral were: Hon.j Thos. P. Cothran and W. C. Cothran,) of Greenville, Mrs. Wade R. Coth-jt ran and daughter. Thomas Harrison.! , ,, ,, rsaTr ~r? ? '""'i i Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. Foster Mc-! Kissick of Greenwood, Carlisle- Pej> i; rin of Union, James Perrin of Wil- ' mington, N. C., Misses Emma ' and j1 Clark Cothran and John Cothran and! < Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Smith, of Green- ' ville. Mrs. George White of Abbeville, j1 is a sister and sincere sympathy is felt for her. t Dr. Alexander Johnson will speak; ' in the Court House tomorrow, Wed-: J nesday, at eleven o'clock, in the in-, terest of the Christmas Red Cross; Roll Call. U EDIRON-REC Theme and Variations. (Pr< Hempel at the Metropolii of the Regiment." Ave Maria?Cavalleria R fromthe Intermezzo by M by Mary Zentay. Aloha Oe. (Queen Liliuokak ion Quartet. My Old Kentucky Home. Criterion Quartet. Emmet's Lullaby, (J. K. En erion Quartet. Long, Long Ago. (Bably.) < . . ? -X ^4'* 5TOVE5 AMD KMI iV VV VVV V vvvvv . \ ^ BETHIA NEWS. S. v S AVVVVV^VVVV^VV Bethia, Dec. 4.?Clinton Link, wh( las been in the camps for severa' nonths. has been mustered out from 1 rn 1 XT T ] ^anip layiur, n* ?i.y twiu lame iiuhk Sabbath day. We sure are glad t( see our boys begin to come back. Private Frank Woodhurst tool dinner with Willie Beauford Sabbatl day before returning to Camp Wadsworth. Willie Beauford, son of Mrs. M, E. Beauford of Bethia, happened t< in accident last Firday in the Troy ginnery. He caught in one of the shaftings and caught one of his leg! tearing his clothes all to pieces anc nashing his knee right bad. but we lope how soon it will be all right. Bethia Red Cross had a meeting yesterday afternoon but there were loi, very many present. Mr. R. H. Beauford went to Abbeville today with a fine load of Look>ut Mountain Irish potatoes and some fine chickens. That is what we jood farmers will have in the coun;ry. Give me the farm life. Mr. J. H. jj^ppe from Troy, was ip to see hisf^fcer, Mrs. M. E. Beau?ord, yftster-dif ioiirijflsiness.. ; On account of the rain * Sabbath ifternoon we did * not ' have any preaching at Bethia. We were sorry to hear of Mrs. Statia Bradley Wideman's death. We extend our sympathy to the bereaved family. Mrs. M. E. Beauford went up to ;own yesterday on business. Mrs. A. K. Woodhurst went to Abbeville yesterday shopping with VIrs. Luther Link. "A dollar in the Red Cross is vorth two in the bank." FRIEDA iJOINS EDI; ??, g 7e ^ ^ i N? EM PEL'S "Th? REATIONS so no 1 "XT _ , pei. ino 3ch). As sung by Miss ing ma< tan in 4 4 The Daughter ge^ q? ARe-Cre adaption [ascagni. Violin obligato be pla] ini.) Assisted by Criter- pr0perj If they (Foster.) Assisted by wjj0 se) res'earc omet.- Assisted by Crit-. make t< as we h ... i - son bef NGES mf HOME 0U1 I DR. ALEXANL >| Will Speak at tl '! ' " ; Wednesday > y December 11. *i j Dr. Johnson is a spc > utation and has done South Carolina. Every body invite j; Cross workers and c< , i country. j Abbeville AMERICAN ii BRITISH DEMAND m Dir ririiorc! Ill uiu i I Total of Eight Billion Pounds Sterling?French Much Larger. I 1 i London, Dec. 7.?Great Britain ^ will demand of Germany 8,000,000,000 pounds sterling for Great Brit- ( ain and her dominions in reparation j for the war, according to The Daily [Mail. The newspaper says it under-' j stands that David Lloyd George, the i premier, will make this anovncement' in a speech at Leeds today. This, The Daily Mail adds, is what j the war cost Great Britain and her ' 1 dominions and British tax payers will be relieved of 400,000,000 poundsi i per annum by the German payment.) ij The British claim, says The Daily: (Mail, has been prepared by a com-' 1EMPEL SON most richly endowed soprano in ' is what the critics call Mise of the Metropolitan Opera. A true ir ambition to have her voice pvti all its splendor outweighed all nsiderations. She has joined the joup of stars. Henceforth she for the only" instrument which >eate her superb voice. lempel heard Re-Creations of otkartists; noted their superiority to she'd ever heard before and de- jffl investigate. She went to the Rfl aboratories; made a Re-Creation; jm mitted it to the searching trial of test. She herself sang in direct on with the instrument. If you've MB rd her voice on talking machines HE conceive her joy in hearing it Re- fflj with such fidelity and perfection human ear could distinguish artist HI itrument.1 It was enough. There KH t she resolved that henceforth the MB nt for her voice was BH The I W EDISON Phonograph With A Soul" w you can hear Frieda Hem- H| t a mere imitation on a talkehine, but Miss Hempel her- H ill at our store and hear the HB ations listed on this page. H| m Re-Creations should not KB red and cannot be played ly on any other instrument. Hi could be, the manufacturers HH 3k to pront by Mr. Edison sHra h work would be able toBH one test comparisons, suchj^H ave made with the New Edi-Ha ore two million music loversBjf WW Cc, 'a&M rFITTERS 7/Sa(H iER JOHNSON I lie Court House Hi a n Hi Y Morning* , at 11 o'clockH jaker of national rep-BH s a great service toHM id, especially RedHK Dmmittees from thrBHi Chapter H RFH rRrrafll A 1.JUJUT mittee under Mr. Hughes, the tralian premier, and Baron former governor of the BanHRfH England, who is one of the prflHH members of the committee. that it is expected the report published Saturday. 88^^S| The Daily Mail iavs the ,'iaim for reparation wi" be [y larger than that of Great ORPHANS ADOPTED. HUH The following are the adopt^H^HB Abbeville County of fatherlea^mSH Iren'of France, to date. AlHMBE lions will be published. Mary and Bill Greene?A gir^HHH Sixth Grade Abbeville Schol? ahd a girl. Mrs. M. T. Coleman, ChairaHBHB