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\ _ ESTABLISHED 1844 The Press and Banner ABBEVILLE, S. C. ' Wm. P. GREENE, Editor. fe ' ? "" The Press and Banner Co. Published Every Tuesday and Friday P' V ' ? Telephone No. 10. * ;? as co/?nnH-p1as<5 mail mat I ter at post office in Abbeville, S. C. ? ? Terms of Subscription: One year $2.00 Six months ' ? 1.00 Three months .50 > * Payable invariably in advance. I TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1919. ABOUT STREET BUILDING. tv"*" ' ; [v > The legislature has passed the necessary laws for the paving of the streets &nd the construction of sidewalks in this city. The streets and "sidewalks have been needed a long time. Whether this is the time when * we should actually commence work we are unable to say. Just now la ibor. is none too plentiful, but we believe that by the end of July there # will be va great deal of labor going idle unless there is wdrk of this kind ; \ to be done. Necessarily if there is considerable idle labor at that time, the price will be such that we might commence building the streets and sidewalks. But whether we commence the acv. tual construction of the streets and * sidewalks then or not, is not of so great importance as getting ready to commence the work when the time is ripe; There are many things to be done before the work can commence. The "first thing, and the all import- ! ant thing is to finance the building j|.' of these, streets and sidewalks. This . A can be. done only by the necessary bond issue. It will take time to circulate the petitions, time to order and hold the election, and time to find purchasers for the bonds. This is a matter which should receive im-' x ' v mediate attention from the uity Council. It will meet in a few days, we believe. Let them start the ciraf*;V , v culation of these petitions at once. If the people who pay taxes do not sign them, it will mean that these people do not want the- streets; if they want the streets they should hav$ an opportunity to say so. What Amount of Bonds? ?/>''/ ' . J Without having given the matter 1 full investigation we believe the city under the laws recently passed by the legislature may issue about one hun-j . dred thousand dollars in bonds. These .... 1 i i laws provide that the abutting property owners on each side shall each' pay one-fourth of the cost of these' streets and sidewalks. Making du? . . ... .. >r ? "'J allowance for cases where the amount j may not be collected, we should by! " issuing this amount have about the! sum of one hundred and seventy-five ^ thousand dollars for these'street im-| provements. If we build twenty, miles of sidewalk (and we are in fa-| vor of building a sidewalk at this > ,\. time on at least one side of every, v - street in the city) we will spend for ^ these sidewalks'perhapp fifty thou8-j and dollari. 0 ?shris will teavtf*one hundred and ^twenty-five thousand dollars to be exjfehded on the streets proper. , It will coat we imagine, about twentyfive thousand .dolllars to pave the public square. This will leave one hundred thousand dollars, with which we may build at this time about five miles of first class streets. With the \ improvement in property valites ? bound to follow this work, and , the ?'( --f it. _ . growwi ui Lilt; 1:1 ty WHICH 1a uujuiug, we may soon be able to add to these paved streets o^her miles of paved * streets and in the of a few years we should have ten miles of paved streets in the city. If we build at all, we are in favor of building on every ^ ! j street where the people will pay the necessary assessments, just as fast ? as may be done. mbHow Shall The Work Be Done? The most important thing which J> ' m will come before the City Council for decision is the manner of doing the work. With the experience we have had in building, limited though it has been, and with the observation of results obtained by the two sys x" * terns, we are decidedly of the opinion thai it is, better for the city to di the work;! oi t by contract In this way we are gg irinrl tdjuuk. f >j, mxmj ?npkj ? first cImi e? H . - * v R|< v - / " .v / * V . H ' S gineer to make the drawings and 1 other plans necessary, and may keep | him to do the actual work by paying j him either a straight salary, or a 1 commission on. the amount of the i work. By so doing there will be no i incentive for him to do unsatisfac- i tory work; there will be every incentive for him to do the right kind < I of work. > ' ? . We take it tnat tnere are men wnoi i J may be had on these terms. If we u ! are not mistaken Greenwood tried c ! this plan in building her streets, and ( ! with satisfactory results. It might \ I be worth while for a committee from: ( the City Council to visit Greenwood j t i and learn from the authorities there, c their experience in doing this work.! 1 Many valuable points could be gath- i ered in this way, no doubt. ? | We make no charges against en- c i gineers and contractors except to j ? I say that we do not want to build j tf j j anything else by contract where the 11 engineer, or architect, is to be the i i man to pass on the work. The party j s who does the paying is usually the j p innocent bystander who gets shot,! c sometimes rather seriously. It will] a be better to pay a little more and j x escape the combination. t Time to Get Busy. ' c I But the City Council will look af- t I ter these matters and will, no doubt, \ i have the interests of the city con- ii stant'y before its members. We are i: ; able to hope that no mistakes will be 1; , marl A Rnf lof 11c lnoo Tin fimo ' "Ac V. stated in the beginning, now^is the c time to get busy with this in^portant a work. It is up to the City Council. s " J"V i1 , THE BAD MAN OF BALTIMORE. s ! i> . F i Several years ago we were m a ^ party whose members were telling , tales of killing big game, and quite c naturally all kinds of fine shots, ^ which the individuals present had made in times past, came into the discussion. Among others, one of the ^ party told of the time when he killed two wild turkeys at one shot, (he only ^ had one left), and he was on the way home. As he walked 'down a narrow straight path two wild turkeys stepped into the path in front of him. He carried a rifle, and the question .? was how to get both turkeys at one 0 shot. He played for position, and ^ finally got the turkeys where by cutting the throat of the one, he was 0 enabled to shoot the right eye out of a the other one. ... . . a mat was some snooting to be sure, but the bead which the hunter put 0 on the turkeys was nothing to the ^ one Col. Marston of Baltimore, had S on the front door of the Express Office on Friday afternoon when we, ^ located him at the corner of the ^ Peoples' Bank Building, from which 11 position he was keeping a sharp lookout on Col. Furniture Kerr, who had ^ s n gone down to inquire whether anything in the way of flu medicine had ^ arrived* Cdi. MdfrsiSri haviflg suspected that h? wotlid be Biek shortly ^ after khis arrival, and Col. Kerr hav- n ing Suffered a relapse as soon as h? ^ heard that Col. Marston was coming; It would be a long sad tale to tell it * all,?it will be sufficient to say that c it wasn't there,?the statement of a r i - . . . i. u fact which brought sadness enough ?? ?? ? Q' into the furniture-.busJnesss for eone day, | f-r.* 'L ; But all the treatment* prescfltffcd c on a. former sickness, fiad not-been, exhausted, arid 6oi'^Stark'of Set- ? back College, sometimes known as S Uncle Jim, having himself felt a 0 . slight tinge of a cold when he found * j everybody else was sick, it was de- 8 : cided by all present to take a broken ' dose of the medicine then on hands. r All of which having been accomplished, it was further decided that it I 8 was time to take a ride. ?Col. Stark 'wanted the Bad Man of Baltimore, C g to see the new college which 'Col. ' Dick Wilson has built to teach Lewis C i Perrin and Dr. Nickles something of ' the elementary parts of speech coni nected with the game, while Col. | Furniture Kerr insisted that it would never do for him to return to Balti- ( more without having seen Col. Wil- \ son's chicken-hatchery and his rab- i bitory. Being an innocent by-stander it fell to the lot of a friend of the i three to do the driving. We learned j more about chickers and rabbits af- 1 ; ter having heard Col. Marston and I Col. Wilson discuss the suhiect for n , half hour than we knew was still not , torn oat of the book. Col. Stark said , that if it was rabbits he was looking i afrdijif Cok Wilgimthad ai-.jsjkny ] i rabbits as be thought he saw, he had |' .jpnwh tn n rqunrl fnl .Jfa&fa&p , had never seen anything like it b*-^; \ tore, he said though he has seen a food many "chickens," and never exjepted to see anything like it fcgain. ie wanted that statement put in vriting, he declared, sO he could sign t in the presence of subscribing witlesses. But to return to the medicine part )f the story. On Saturday after the vestibule had "ran" the "misery" irose with all the gentlemen 'again. ^ A PAtMrniAfliAftAW QfollinnfO. It 1/lllS unite x^uiiixiiiaoivncx >f the Southern Express was again sailed on, and it was found that there vas a "Rx" in stock, but it could >nly be taken out by a resident of ;he stat^ a taxpayer and the head >f a? family. Col. Kerr insisted thai l'e would call on Doctor Jones Miller md get an order for the prescription, is he said, now that the medicine was in hands, he was sicker than he had iver been when not full of pecans. 5o he called on Dr. Miller and got he order,' but C'ommissioner Stallngs turned him down cold as he aid he had* heard from several peo?le on Greenville street that the Colmel was not the head of his family, ind being a married man himself he vas prepared to believe it. It was hen suggested that Uncle Jim was ertainly the head of his family but he commissioner said. "No," that he rould not take any fnan's word for t that he was the head of the family f he was married and hisNarife still lying. However, the law was nought into play by Col.. Kerr, who onsulted Judge Hollingsworth, and ppeared with an opinion from him tating that he had phoned the Kerr lansion and as Mrs. Kerr was down treet and could not be gotten . at Ome on the telephone, this made 'urniture Kerr the Acting Head of he family in her absence. Owing to bis fortunate occurrence the mediine was finally extracted from the Ixpress Office.1 Hoping to keep anyone but sick eople from knowing that it was on andfi, and for fear that some few eople suffering with neuresthenia light imagine they were sick and rant a dose, when they were not, the1 entlemen in charge darted into the ewspaper office of Brother Horton, f the Baptist persuasion, took the utside cover off the package and rrapped it in a Medjum. But this idn't work. By the time^they came ut the back door, and passed up the lley next to Col. Barksdale's store. J facie Jim and "Old Hill" spied'them nd yelled out, "Hey, there!" and Id man McMillan of Dyson, S. C.,1 ras not long in coming up. It wasn't >ng in fact that it looked like one of park's Brothers young elephants' ad gotten loose and that all the lit-' e negro boys in town were follow-' ig it. I The last we saw of the procession had switched into the buggy busi-1 % | ess presided over by Uncle Jim. We; eard that Uncle Jim got lost among' le buggies and wagons piled up in' lat place of business against the j ext fire, while patients Kerr and ' [arston got lost ill some of the ra-j iniies of the rear part of the stable, ! ring South of the buggy business,! hiefly because when they would ? -* " ???+ain onfnor thev were1 IVC iXL a vaiu vv? ? ? ^ ----nable to tell whether they were' till a-coming,in, or a-going out, ** TV. :< . , ' ;081s.^IarSton ind Kerr attended, huifchrat sfcht, Presbyterian Church J iunday morning, each looking as lions' asr* Art elder, Of forty years tanding. Col. Marston did not get ut at night, but brother Kerr was here, nodding his head occasionally s jtf in agreement with what Mr. 'ratt was saying. At least, we have 10 doubt but that he would have conended that this was the cause if, in he hiatus between the first point ind the second point, and between ither points, he had not snored out ,o loud as to wake a deaf man on the ?ther side of the1 church. ! IN COLUMBIA. Mrs. R. L. Mabry went down to Columbia Sunday to be on hand vhen her son, Francis Mabry, arrives .rrom overseas. Miss Julia Mabry will return to \bbeville with her mother and will spend most of the summer season at lome. BEAUTY SPOTS. ??-A J- 1- XL. ins Q&nasome ,wistaria viua in uio jkr&XolJiBf. in full bloom and is beautiful to behold aa 'ft MnrtinPf icwiwinf I" F&rd at Dr. Ga*br*lT*. I A BIRTHDAY PARTY. n Little Mildred Warren celebrated ti her birthday Monday by inviting her e little friends to her party. The party was held at the home of her grand!< ..j&Mk ^ ^ \ AN^A CASE singing in dir,ect comparison wit' New Edison and proving that performance and that of the in ment are indistinguishable. descendants. The mei tion, you understand, spontaneous. For it h The NI ' "The Phono; * Model* 3 i : This means that it h; * perfectly and complel tist from instrument 1 this beyond question. A Ai"\ r*4-n r<^n t?r uuu giceit eu iiQus, isuiif comparison ?with their listener has been able Come into our store ; Edison. ^ ' SOLI l ..i ."/ Styleplua Wmtm&jmBi , ciotnes i ' ViHi i Fw?^\.ot R r K 4 lother, Mrs. R. D. Purdy, and the me was spent in playing games .and njoying the refreshments served. SEEING THE PARADE. Mrs. W. S. Cothran and Miss MarEDI E. A HUNDREE ^ The world will s g|i ty of Ann; I Yes, a centur; I new generation tive days of 19! fir, superb voice m. ences. Thanks to h her ' as A. Edison it 1 istru" and preserved ir n of to-morrow will hea but the voice itself?? n r* V\ a /\v% T> n Pv?An+/\/1 An as uccn ivc-\ji catcu \jii iW EDISON graph with a soul." % /' J41.00 tb $285.00. as been Re-Created wit] ;ely, that no human ear ?he famous Edison torn Before audiences total ; of Metropolitan Opera own voices on the instr to detect a shade of diff to-morrow and hear Ai ft.: vi a.; | < D ONLY BY " ..v *- > -.x # -H OUTFIT , Dressed fa the home I The well-dres his battle won ii it : His clothes he I ality across. jP Styleplus Clot r aji and a good app I Styleplus are |4 unique method | \ great volume. |g| In fabrics, sty | ; durable quality fc are a most attra W A wide range f els for your siel( F Snap for the ; Appropriate men. The right size % "Make your d< f fVn'c fi+vlpnllis S VilAk^ fw E R r' &.? ?R *mmvmmmm mm mmmm 0 \ garet Cothran went tjown to Coium- . bia this week to see the soldier boy* of the 118th, and take in the big parade on Monday. They made the trip through the country.: crw I UVll ) YEARS HENCE till revel in the beauf** 9 V a Case s voice. < I ' * :. \!i t ' - t. / " y sr y from now, when a refers to the primi- ? 19, the great diva's 11 . thrill vast audi. the genius of Thorrihas been Re Created i all its glory for our I r, not a mere imita- J iiivo VfliKWino1 onrl B 'WJ. Vj uun/uiuig uiivi ? i such fidelity; so can distinguish ar; tests have proved ingr more than 2,000have sung in direct ument And not one erence. ana Case on the New \ A; , ?; V; . ? ' *-'V & C&, ' TERS K%kGlL % \ ' f. * r action on rnnL... 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